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Oh, all looks so delicious and enticing, I wished I could order in a serving of everything!ReplyDelete
You really never had chocolate cake with crème fraîche? You then must try to get ahold of a scoop of crème fraîche ice cream!Replies
OMG I want it now!!!Delete
Another fabulous day in the Parisian life of Carol! That all looks so delicious. A lovely seasonal menu. I saw a very similar brussells sprout recipe a couple of days ago, it looks fantastic. As does that dessert. I can't believe you're new to creme fraiche, but glad that you've found it now, and taken to it with gusto.ReplyDelete
After this cooking class, does this mean you will be cooking Christmas dinner for all your friends ?? I was also surprised to see olive oil labels I recognised, just goes to show the myth behind these chefs.ReplyDeleteReplies
It goes to show the Big guys can get quality too when they want itDelete
My only conclusion is that I will never dare cook for you again! Never to have known creme fraiche before? Ah, life is now worth living...ReplyDelete
I want a chocolate lesson. Most US chocolate has lecithin. I would love to find some without it. Why do they put soybeans in chocolate anyway?ReplyDelete
I just posted about making my own crème Fraîche. It is scrumptious. It is going own my new crêpe recipe next week.
You really have a fun job. Is there a nice way to say I envy you?
you can also buy crème fraiche bulk from the fromageries - they sell it from big bowls, alongside the fromage blanc. We use it for sour cream, mix it with fruit, or use it to thicken sauces (add it to the braising liquid from a lapin à la moutarde.) So yummy. Don't understand why it's so rare/expensive in North America.ReplyDeleteReplies
I did buy some at MOF Laurent Dubois...so thick I wanted to use it on my skin at night!Delete
Bonsoir ma chère !ReplyDelete
Je crois qu'il faut absolument que j'abandonne l'idée de quelconque régime à cause de toi !... Comment résister quand une avalanche de bonnes nourritures déferle sous mes yeux ?!...
De regarder tes merveilleuses photos, mes papilles gustatives rejoignent mes cellules olfactives... Tous mes sens sont maintenant en éveil et je jouis de ce plaisir !
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une avalanche de bonnes nourritures'Delete
You are a poet Martine!!!
I've been trying to master duck! How long did she bake it. I tried a slow bake that was recommended, and the duck was done long before the time they indicated. Fie!ReplyDeleteReplies
Sear the duck breast in a dry pan skin side down and then the other side.Delete
Remove to an oven tray and finish cooking in a 400 oven.
10 minutes for rare, 12 minutes for medium.
Oh my! Love the look of that chocolate fondant (chocolate is, after all, my favourite food group) and the Roquefort souffle. Miam. And I can't wait to hear from Bear - I've been wondering what he's been up to.ReplyDelete
- Lynn C9:14 PM
Enjoyed very much ....I took many classes in Bay Area from fabulous chefs, and still watch food network so I knew much of this...and I am obsessed by butter..I used to buy butter from France and got good at naming the area where it came from....but I enjoy your blog so much..lots of fun watching you discover wonderful Paris finds...ReplyDeleteReplies
A butter-namer!!!Delete
I wish I could do that...i used to keep a stick in the freezer for 6+ months
Hardly touched the stuff.
Now i should stay in the pool all day just to keep up.
Who could have guessed Paris would turn Bear into such a domestique?ReplyDelete
And are you harboring any other unlikely secrets…similar to your announcement about creme fraiche?Replies
Well I have tried Rattlesnake chips at an all game dinner. Does that count?Delete


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New Global HIV Treatment Guidelines Aren't Just About Starting Early, Top Expert Warns (Video)
July 17, 2013
"We can't focus entirely on public health at the expense of individuals," says Joel Gallant, M.D. In this interview with Fred Schaich of the International Foundation for Alternative Research in AIDS (IFARA) at IAS 2013, Gallant discusses what the newly updated World Health Organization HIV treatment guidelines mean for the future of antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited parts of the world. He focuses in particular on the idea that HIV treatment in poorer areas should not merely be about getting people on antiretrovirals, but about ensuring overarching quality of care for patients beyond providing medications.
Gallant also reflects on some of the key takeaway messages from IAS 2013, including new reflections on the extremely long-term effects of HIV infection among patients on treatment and the realities of day-to-day HIV clinical care in the U.S.
The video above has been posted on TheBodyPRO.com with permission from our partners at the International Foundation for Alternative Research in AIDS (IFARA). Visit IFARA's website or YouTube channel to watch more video interviews from the conference, as well as earlier meetings.
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Southern California is long overdue for a water coaster.
For the uninitiated, a water coaster is a water park slide that mimics the ups and downs of a traditional roller coaster with the help of conveyor belts, water jets or magnetic propulsion.
Photos: Top 10 water coasters in the United States
I rode my first water coaster last summer and instantly fell in love. Now I'm desperate to get one within 300 miles of Southern California.
My family and I experienced our first water coaster during a cross-country theme park trip last August. Splashin' Safari water park at Indiana's Holiday World has two slides powered by linear induction motors that zip riders over undulating courses combining the thrills of a coaster with the spills of a water slide. The result was a series of exhilarating ascents and disorienting descents that left us wanting to get right back in line to ride the Wildebeest and Mammoth water coasters again and again. My whole family left Holiday World wondering the same exact thing: How is it possible that we don't have a water coaster in our own backyard?
While the water coaster concept remains a rarity west of the Rockies, the thrill slide has been around for nearly two decades.
Walt Disney World's Typhoon Lagoon in Orlando, Fla., the most visited water park in the world, opened the Crush 'n' Gusher water coaster in 2005.
Debuting in 1994, the Master Blaster at Schlitterbahn in New Braunfels, Texas, was the world's first water coaster and winner of Amusement Today's Golden Ticket award for best water ride for a decade.
Water coaster manufacturing in North America is dominated by two Canadian companies: Ontario's ProSlide, which makes the linear induction-powered HydroMagnetic slides, and British Columbia's WhiteWater West, which builds the water jet-propelled Master Blaster rides.
This year, Tennessee's Dollywood and New York's Splish Splash will add HydroMagnetic slides; South Korea's Lotte World and Australia's Wet 'n Wild will introduce Master Blasters (built by a licensee).
RiverRush is set to open at Dollywood in May with four-person toboggan-style rafts that zip over hills, through tunnels and around hairpin curves along a 1,175-foot course. Debuting Memorial Day weekend, Bootlegger's Run at Splish Splash will feature a similar set up beginning with a 45-degree drop.
Around the world, water coasters are spreading rapidly with installations in China, Singapore, Ukraine, South Korea, Australia, England and the United Arab Emirates. Wild Wadi water park in Dubai features eight (yes, eight) Master Blaster water coasters.
In the United States, there are still only about two dozen water coasters at water parks big and small in places like Massachusetts, Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin and Kansas.
The closest water coasters to Southern California are still a day's drive away in Colorado (Water World), Arizona (Wet 'n Wild) and Northern California (Golfland SunSplash). The newest of those, the $4.5 million Mile High Flyer by ProSlide, opened at Denver's Water World in 2012.
It's still pretty hard to believe that after all this time we don't have a water coaster in Southern California. Fortunately, there are plenty of chances to rectify the oversight in the near future.
The new Wild Rivers in Irvine is expected to debut in 2014 with a WhiteWater West Master Blaster. There's no word yet on the slide inventory planned for Wild Rivers' upcoming sister park in Temecula.
The oft-delayed Great Wolf Lodge, planned about a mile from Disneyland in Garden Grove, is expected to be the largest property in the chain of indoor water park resorts. While the California location has yet to divulge a full slide list, a Great Wolf Lodge next to Kings Island amusement park in Ohio features a water coaster.
SeaWorld San Diego, which purchased Knott's Soak City in Chula Vista, plans to reopen the water park under the Aquatica name this summer. Aquatica water parks in Orlando, Fla., and San Antonio don't include water coasters but anything could happen in California. Though a water coaster at Aquatica certainly seems unlikely for this summer, there is plenty of room to grow at the San Diego location.
Other possibilities include Valencia's Six Flags Magic Mountain (whose sister park in Massachusetts features a water coaster) and Anaheim's Golfland (whose Northern California sister park is home to the state's only water coaster). But even I know these are both long shots.
Likewise, I have no good reason to believe the water parks at Legoland California, Knott's Berry Farm or Raging Waters will add a water coaster anytime soon.
Speaking of pipe dreams, I continue to hold out hope Schlitterbahn will someday open a Southern California outpost or Disneyland will turn the unused "third gate" into a Typhoon Lagoon-style water park (or at least a Marvel theme park).
So since it's a little far to travel to Roseville, Wisconsin or the Middle East for a water park, I'll make this plea: We need a water coaster in Southern California.
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As promised, AMD posts disappointing financial results
And don't get your hopes up for next quarter, either
AMD has released its financial results for its second quarter 2012, and as they had warned earlier this month, revenues dipped by 11 per cent from the previous quarter, hitting $1.41bn.
"Overall weakness in the global economy, softer consumer spending and lower channel demand for our desktop processors in China and Europe made the closing weeks of the quarter challenging," said AMD president and CEO Rory Read when announcing the numbers.
The disappointing results don't merely reflect a quarter-to-quarter decline. Revenues were also down by 10 per cent when compared to the second quarter of 2011, which saw revenues of $1.57bn.
Net income for the just-completed quarter stood at $37m, resulting in a earnings per share of a mere 5¢. That also compares unfavorably with the same quarter of last year, which saw net income of $61m and an EPS of 8¢.
Undaunted – well, that's what he's paid to be – Read put a favorable spin on AMD's prospects. "We remain optimistic about our core businesses as well as future opportunities with our competitively differentiated next-generation Accelerated Processor Units (APUs)," he said. "Our recently launched Trinity APU continues to gain traction with customers."
Don't expect things to turn around for Intel's li'l competitor. As Read warned, "We expect headwinds will continue in the third quarter." ®


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OMAK The 28th Okanogan Valley Soroptimist Club Sharing Tree will be in place and ready for donors Nov. 22.
The group is starting earlier than usual because Thanksgiving falls so late this year, Soroptimist member B.J. Bleakney said. Normally, the tree goes up after Thanksgiving.
The state Department of Social and Health Services is providing the club with Christmas wishes of young clients. Names are not included.
Those wishes will be written on ornaments made by East Omak Elementary School students in Mary Boyd, Janet McKee, Alicia O'Dell and Annelise Franklin's classes.
A donor can take an ornament, buy one or more gifts on the wish list, and return the gift and ornament to the tree at North Cascades Bank, 721 Okoma Drive.
Bleakney said 305 children's wish lists will be on the tree, and the requests often are for practical things instead of frivolous ones.
One boy, age 17, requested towels, pillowcases and a blanket.
"That just made me want to cry," Bleakney said.
Last year's Sharing Tree helped more than 200 children.
The tree is one of several gift-giving opportunities in the area each holiday season.
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just one moreFriday, September 28, 2007
Once I start, I just can't stop. Most of this fabric was purchased from Leslie at good-ness. It came all the way from Japan.
The tuturial for these tissue holders is from tutti fruiti. Really, you won't be able to stop with just one.
Have a wonderful weekend!
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Ooo, thanks for the tutorial! I'm really into my sewing machine right now too.ReplyDelete
Have a great weekend!
I love the colors and fabrics that you chose for these. they are fun...the more you make the better, right? I had fun making a bunch of these awhile back.ReplyDelete
Those are so great! You are making me want to pull out my sewing machine!! And what wonderful gifts!!ReplyDelete
you can never have too many!!!!ReplyDelete
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Super cute! I absolutely love the fabric:)ReplyDelete
I love these!! I really like that you personalized it with the sewn in tag. I must do a swap with you one of these days. Thanks for the link to these too.ReplyDelete
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Lloyd Kaufman and Troma Studios spring to life as they have signed Hollywood scribe Collyn McCoy to pen "Toxic Avenger 5: The Toxic Twins".
Dane Cook is going to dip his toes in the genre pool with a new horror comedy, "Detention". Maybe we'll get lucky some day and Dane will team up with the Wayans Brothers for a new super-horror comedy!
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Troma Studios has announced that it is entering the digital download arena by making many of their classic and out of print movies available for digital download through the Troma store.


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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – When Yoko Battista was asked to help with the White Plains Cherry Blossom Festival over 13 years ago, it was a small event that drew a few hundred visitors. She became the lead organizer shortly afterwards, and now the annual spring rite draws more than 5,000 visitors.
Battista, a Realtor with Better Homes and Gardens Randy Realty , helped move the event to a safer location and added additional attractions to support it's growth. The festival has helped White Plains beautify its parks, and this year its 100th tree will be planted. "White Plains has been very gracious to us,'' Battista said. Westchester County, with the help of Arts Westchester, has also helped the festival flourish.
"Jane Mercaldi asked me to help out and that was the start of it,'' Battista said. "She was busy in her other job and this event became overwhelming for her, and that's when I took over. At the time it was very small. I asked the city if we could move it to a different location. It just gets better every year."
Cherry Blossoms have had significance in Japanese culture for hundreds of years. In Japan, due to the nature of their blooming, cherry blossoms represent both the beauty and fleeting fragility of life.
Many citizens of Japan celebrate hanami (cherry blossom viewing) during the height of the blooming by having picnics under the trees. That tradition extends to Battista's festival.
"The festival is like a rebirth of the culture and a family reunion,'' Battista said. "We'll have a special Japanese picnic for everyone who attends the event."
Battista said the growth of the festival surprised her. "It's just overwhelming how much it has grown,'' she said. "We're all volunteers and we're running around like crazy. I feel like it's important for me to do it, though. The United States has given me so much. It's time to re-pay it."
Battista, the mother of three adult sons and the grandmother to four, also volunteers with a Japanese Taiko drum team that performs about 10 times a year. The team includes drummers ages 6-60 and has about 20 members. The team performs at many community events, including the Cherry Blossom festival.
"When I started I didn't have any experience,'' Battista said. "Now I love it, the team is very good team. And the people really enjoy them. It's a hard instrument to learn, but it's something I've really learned to enjoy."
This year's White Plains Cherry Blossom Festival will be held on Sunday, April 27 from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Turnure Park in White Plains.


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NASHVILLE, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Dale Weise scored the only goal Friday and Roberto Luongo posted his second shutout of the season to bring Vancouver a 1-0 win over Nashville.
The goal by Weise came midway through the third period and finally broke up a tremendous goaltending duel between Luongo and Pekka Rinne.
Luongo has 62 shutouts in his 13-year career, the last seven of which have been spent with the Canucks. He stopped 23 shots.
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This past spring I participated in several events with Microsoft and EMC where we met with IT professionals from many different types of businesses. We discussed a number of topics revolving around the evolution of the data center, including virtualization and the advent of cloud computing. Virtualization is clearly a mainstream technology that almost everyone is using. However, in spite of the deluge of cloud computing marketing messages from all the cloud vendors, most of the IT professionals in attendance viewed the cloud as a future technology that's still on the horizon. In spite of what the vendors of various cloud offerings might want you to think, these IT pros were not clamoring for cloud solutions.
Don't get me wrong. There was a lot of interest in the cloud and in the different types of cloud solutions that are available. However, for the most part the cloud is still clearly an exploratory technology, not one that IT pros are ready to jump into with both feet. The main interest was in learning about how to take better advantage of virtualization both in regard to server consolidation as well as how to move into application virtualization. For the cloud, the interest was mostly about trying to define what the cloud is and then to gauge the benefits that are offered by the different types of cloud solutions.
I see a number of factors that make real customers reticent about cloud computing. First, this reluctance, no doubt, is in part due to the fact that most companies have already made very significant investments in their on-premises infrastructure. Sure, there will always be new start-ups and perhaps for them the cloud might hold greater appeal. But the fact is that by and large today's corporate IT infrastructure is already established—and it works. Today's cloud offerings aren't providing these businesses with any essential functionality that they don't already have. Moving incrementally to the cloud is a possibility, but that approach involves the unknown and risk, both of which are factors IT pros like to avoid.
Next, in spite of all the hype, every single major cloud vendor has had high profile outages in the last year. Everyone has heard of these outages and although cloud proponents quickly downplay these failures, most IT professionals believe the public cloud is an immature technology and anything that's based on the Internet is going to experience downtime.
Finally, there are the questions of performance and security. Even if the public cloud is up, it's a shared solution and it might not perform as well as dedicated servers. Putting vital corporate assets into a publicly accessible location such as the cloud is definitely a concern for IT pros I talked to.
However, although IT pros had concerns about the public cloud, two scenarios in particular were seen as viable options: Office 365 and other immediately usable Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions, and the private cloud tools. Office 365 and other SaaS solutions hold appeal because they are ready-to-use solutions. In the case of Office 365, the application isn't seen as mission critical. In other words, it's OK if it doesn't work part of the time. Cloud availability issues aren't a showstopper. Next, businesses know they are struggling with ways to keep desktop Office installations updated. Many are using older versions of Office, and upgrading to each subsequent newer version involves a lot of cost and effort. Finally, the concept of using these types of services for applications really isn't anything new. Many businesses already use web-based software applications such as SalesForce.com.
Unlike the public cloud, which is an entity shrouded in mystery and not just a little bit of confusion, the private cloud was perceived to be a much more appealing and approachable possibility with the IT pros I talked to. Because the private cloud is built on top of your own infrastructure using technologies such as virtualization that are already in widespread use, there's a much higher degree of confidence in the private cloud. Concerns about public access, Internet outages, and security also go away. The private cloud is comprised of collections of virtual machines. Pools of similarly configured virtual machines can be managed as a single service. Technologies such as Hyper-V Live Migration or VMware VMotion are used for dynamic workload balancing and power management. The private cloud is the next step in the evolution of the data center and products such as VMware's vCloud Director and Microsoft's upcoming Virtual Machine Manager 2012 enable you to create and manage a private cloud that's built on top of your existing IT infrastructure.
SaaS and private cloud options require less risk from the IT pro and are likely to be adopted before we see major migrations to the public cloud.


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"Datability at CeBIT is all about the ability to use large volumes of data sustainably and responsibly, "says Oliver Frese, the new head of CeBIT at Deutsche Messe AG. This is precisely what the start-up
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The standard features of the Chevrolet Volt LT include Voltec 1.5L I-4 149hp hybrid gas engine, 1-speed automatic transmission, 4-wheel anti-lock brakes (ABS), side seat mounted airbags, curtain 1st and 2nd row overhead airbags, rear side-impact airbag, driver and passenger knee airbag, airbag occupancy sensor, automatic air conditioning, 17" aluminum wheels, cruise control, ABS and driveline traction control, StabiliTrak electronic stability.
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The electric Volt not only keeps up with traffic in the city and suburbia, it zooms around it. On and off the freeway for short trips. There is a mode that reduces the juice in order to extend the range, but even in that mode the Volt stays quick and smooth. And unlike some plug-in hybrids, the engine delivers full power from a low speed. Standing start to 30 mph is impressive.
The Volt lost a couple hundred pounds with this generation, but it's still far from lithe. It feels heavy for its size, however the center of gravity is low so it corners flat. The feel of the electric power steering is decent.
It's lively, and enjoyable on twisty roads, but it's not sporty, it's simply easy to drive, making it calming.
The powertrain allows both motors to power the front wheels together, or one motor to drive the car while the other recharges the battery; sensors tell it to do what's needed, or what's most efficient, so smoothly that the driver can't feel it and never knows, unless he checks the power-flow diagram on the display screen.
Another thing you can barely feel is the regenerative braking, which is really good. With some electric cars and plug-in hybrids it's so strong it's intrusive.
Volt is low, crisp and rakish, with character lines that accent the edges. The sharp nose sweeps back through the headlamps and fenders to the steep windshield and rising window line. The Volt looks like it's striking, or zapping, or whatever a volt does.
The rear window is also steep, so the wedge isn't chopped. The rear deck is high but not flat, while the liftgate has a single glass panel.
There's not an actual grille, rather a two-panel design to look like one, using a diagram-like pattern that doesn't offer much distinction from the entry-level Chevy Cruze.
There no gimmicks on the instrument panel to amuse you or try to persuade you that electric cars are cool. The first gen Volt was like that, good riddance, Volt owners agree. So this Volt has come back to Earth after its taste of being a spaceship.
The twin cockpit is accented in black and silver with some elegance, while two-tone interiors are available. The quality of the materials is high, and the touch is soft.
The gauges and instruments are easy to read, while the switches and controls are intuitive. Knobs for audio and climate control are conventional Chevy hardware. The eight-inch touchscreen in the center of the dash is easy to view, with crisp resolution. One exception to what we said about no gimmicks is the screen's power flow diagram, which satisfies initial curiosity but then you stop looking at it.
The front seats are low but the side window deepens at the windshield pillar, giving the effect of a higher seating position. The seats have good bolstering and were comfortable for us after a long day driving.
Headroom and legroom in the rear is okay if not generous, but the side glass narrows back there to accommodate the roofline, making the rear feel tighter than it is. The outboard rear seats are separate and reasonably comfortable buckets. This car is in practical terms a four-seater. The center rear seat is compromised by the battery pack underneath. It's mostly just a padded cushion with shoulder belt, and the passenger there has to spread his or her feet and straddle the battery tunnel.
Rearward visibility for the driver isn't very good, especially over the shoulder, and also in the rearview mirror, as the sloped single-panel rear window reveals much of the rear deck, which blocks the space immediately behind the car. It's unnerving to be tailgated, and in the rearview mirror you can't see the front of the tailgating car, only the face and eyes of the driver. It makes it feel like the tailgating car is much closer than it is.
With poor rearward visibility, it's important the Volt's standard rearview camera is so excellent. The crisp image, displayed on the 8.0-inch center screen, the best we've seen in a compact car.
Thanks to the sleek aerodynamics there's very little wind noise. However the silence of the rest of the car allows the tire noise to be heard; and tires on a high-mileage car can be louder because the rubber is harder for low rolling resistance. It's an engineering challenge facing electric-car builders and tire-makers. Next invention will be a miracle tire.
The Volt is smooth, powerful, and handsome. Shows its chops as a plug-in hybrid. Fun to drive, though not much room in the rear. With its all-electric range of 53 miles, and government and marketing incentives, the cost-per-mile numbers might work.
Sam Moses contributed to this review, with staff reports.
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How to Organize Important Documents
Creating a plan now can help caregivers make better decisions during a crisis
En español | Caregiving often starts with a crisis: A loved one suffers a fall or receives a serious diagnosis, and you are suddenly forced to respond and make decisions quickly — in some cases without even knowing his or her wishes. The good news is that much of this uncertainty can be avoided by simple planning.
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One of the first and most important things to do when devising a caregiving plan is to identify and organize important documents. Here's a primer on how to get your loved one's papers in order and come up with a caregiving plan.
3 steps to assemble important documents:
1. Discovery: It sounds simple, but the first thing to do is ask your parents where they store important papers. It may be in a file cabinet at home, or in a safety deposit box or with an attorney. You can't get organized if you can't find anything, so come up with a checklist to write down where everything is. Documents that should be assembled and accounted for might include:
- birth certificate
- marriage certificate
- death certificate (for deceased spouse)
- divorce papers
- military records
- driver's license/organ donor card
- passport/citizen papers
- will
- living will
- durable power of attorney
- health care power of attorney
- trust
- letter of instruction — with funeral arrangements, important contact information such as insurance agent or broker.
- insurance policies (life, disability, long-term care)
- information about safety deposit boxes (e.g., location, number, key)
2. Review: Once you've identified where those important papers are located, sit down as a family to review all the documents.
3. Storage: It's smart to keep the important documents in a safe, accessible place such as a secure file cabinet. Copies should be made for the person who is designated as a health care agent, and you should consider copying the files onto a thumb drive that can be stored at another location.
Making a caregiving plan:
Once the important papers are securely stored, you can confidently begin to plan for caregiving. Cast a wide net: Consult with all family members, friends and neighbors whom you think might be willing to help. Think about the present and the future, and draft a plan that will meet your loved one's immediate and long-term needs.
It's helpful to make a chart that displays: your loved one's goals and requirements; the steps required to provide them; the person responsible for each task; and a timeline for completion. For example, if your parents are considering a move, one person is designated to help research housing options. Another could be tasked to help sort through and prepare their belongings for an eventual move.
The plan should revolve around your loved ones' wishes. Keep them at the center. For instance, let them choose the person who they would like to handle their finances or accompany them to the doctor. Don't take decisions out of their hands. As long as they are able to do so, let them steer their caregiving ship.
Finally, after a caregiving plan has been finalized, share a written summary with everyone involved. Set up a communications system that keeps everyone in the loop. And remember that the plan is fluid — as your loved one's circumstances change, the caregiving plan will evolve.
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Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) designs and produces high-performance analog, mixed-signal, and digital signal processing integrated circuits (ICs). The company's products can be classified into two categories: analog products and digital signal processing (DSP) products. Analog's products are used in a variety of products ranging from automobiles to digital cameras.[1]
Since 2007, Analog Devices has divested away from certain product lines to focus more on high performance signaling processing, something that the company believes will have benefits in the long run. The company faces fierce competition in the rapidly changing semiconductor industry but also possesses growth opportunities in product niches. In 2009 the company had a down year as net income and net sales fell 68% and 22% respectively.[2]
Electrical signals fall into two categories, digital or analog. Analog signals (sometimes known as linear signals) represent real-world phenomena such as temperature, pressure, speed, sound, and motion. Analog sensors measure and collect information on these happenings by generating continuous voltages or currents. These signals are then processed using analog methods such as amplification, filtering, and shaping. For example, an electric guitar and its amplifier uses analog signal processing. The electric current generated by the guitar is filtered, amplified, and then sent to the speaker. Analog Devices produces high-performance analog signal processing ICs that generally support 10-bits of accuracy and a minimum of 50 MHz of speed [3].
These analog signals are sometimes then converted into digital signals, in a process known as digital signal processing. Digital signals differ from analog signals in that they are valued at fixed time intervals and not continuously. Many modern devices use digital signals because they cooperate well with computers; such devices include cell phones, music players, video recorders, and digital cameras. Digital signal processors (DSP) that Analog Devices produce are optimized in high-speed numeric calculations, which are essential in the processing of digital data (analog to digital signal conversion). Analog Devices produces both general-purpose and application-specific DSP ICs.
Analog products represent 91% of the company's revenue. These analog products are divided into four different categories:
1) Converters (48% of net sales): Includes A/D (analog to digital) and D/A (digital to analog) converters. A/D converters, for example, transform unreadable analog signals to readable digital signals that can be processed by digital devices. This technology is used in a variety of applications such as music recording and TV tuners.
2) Amplifiers(25% of net sales): Analog Devices offers many amplifiers including audio, video, current sense, instrumentation, isolation, log, and RF/IF amplifiers. Electronic amplifiers for example, covert an audio signal with a low amount of energy into a signal with a high amount of energy. In the case of sound, the output is substantially greater in magnitude.
3) Power Management & Reference (6% of net sales): The product line includes battery chargers, fan controllers, LED drivers, and power supply controllers. Many electronic devices are in need of products that provide power management to regulate the amount of energy supplied to different parts of the product at any given time. For example, when a computer goes to sleep, a lower power state, a device is needed to trigger the change.
4) Other Analog (13% of net sales): Which includes advanced IC technology such as micro-electromechanical system (MEMS). MEMS along with signal conditioning allows devices to sense position and acceleration. Currently Analog Devices provides Nintendo (NTDOY) with the MEMS needed in the popular Wii game system controller
DSP products represent 10% of the company's revenue. DSP products are categorized as:
1) General Purpose DSP (8% of net sales): Analog Devices offers four different families of DSP ranging from 16 to 32-bit. As discussed earlier, DSP is the process in which analog signals are converted to digital signals. Analog Devices creates products that allow for this processing to be done at different speeds and different amounts of information.
2) Other DSP (0% of net sales): This category previously included wireless baseband chipsets.
Industrial: The industrial market is composed of four major areas:
Communications: Communications technology requires the acquisition of analog signals that are converted from analog to digital and then digital to analog during transmission. Analog Devices provides products that make these transmissions occur at a higher speed and at reduced power. The company's products are used in audio, data, image, and video communication.
Consumer: Digital entertainment systems and high quality music, movies, and photos require the use of high-performance ICs. Such products include digital cameras, home theater systems, LCD and plasma televisions, and high-definition DVD players.
Computer: Analog Devices produces products in this market under the brand name SoundMAX. These products are used in laptops, desktops, printers, and scanners.
The semiconductor industry consistently moves in cycles. This highly cyclical industry can be illustrated by rapid changes in technology, rapid obsolescence in products, and evolving technological standards. High fluctuations in the industry are directly connected to maturing products, new product introductions, and the general economic conditions at the time. For Analog Devices this means periods of high downturns and high upturns [6].
Analog Devices is very dependent on international sales to generate revenue. In 2009, international sales represented 80% of total sales compared to the 20% of sales in the United States. As foreign countries continue to develop economically and technologically, the need and want for high-performance products is going to rise. For example, sales in China, the world's fastest economic growing country, have increased from 9% of Analog Devices' total sales in 2005 to 19% in 2009[7]. The continued growth and development of China and other foreign countries will have positive effects on the company.
Being in the semiconductor industry, Analog Devices faces fierce competition on all fronts. The company is forced to invest a large portion of their money into R&D in order produce new and innovative products to stay ahead of and even with competition. Failure to keep up with the rapidly changing and advancing industry, will have severe negative impacts for the company.
Analog Devices has shown multiple ways it is keeping up with the competitive industry. The company has available general purpose core products that it sells to customers; these general purpose products can be made and distributed quickly. Additionally, if a buyer needs a more specific product from Analog Devices to fit a certain product, the company can devote more time to the development and design of application specific products. The company has also been able to form good relationships with customers in some of their growing product lines such as MEMS (ie. the relationship with Nintendo).
However the company faces many challenges in its DSP product line. Texas Instruments is the world leader in DSP production and controls a large portion of the market share. Due to its size, resources, and brand name popularity, TI has been able to form relationships with many customers who are looking for quality products at low prices. Analog Devices faces the challenge of competing and outperforming an industry giant.
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Dorthea (Mong) Cook, 88, passed away Monday, March 31, 2014, at her home in Matlacha.
She was born Feb. 7, 1926, in Greenville, Ohio, and was the daughter of Chester and Gennieve Mong.a
She is survived by nephews, Mikel Byrne, Middlesboro, Ky., Ronald Mong of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, John Stockslager, Harold Stockslager, both of Greenville, Ohio, Phillip Stockslager of Nashville, Tenn.; and a niece, Janet Hunley of Indianapolis.
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She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Oliver Ray Cook; brothers, LaDon Mong and Morris Mong; sisters, Jennetta Stockslager and Catherine Byrne; and nephew, Donnie Mong.
Services were held at the Oliver-Floyd Funeral Home in Greenville, Ohio, Monday, April 5, with Dorthea's great-nephew, the Rev. Tony Hunley officiating.
Burial followed in the Greenville Cemetery. Condolences may be left for the family at www.coralridgefuneralhome.com.


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FERNDALE — A national animal rights group has again taken aim at two Sullivan County farms that produce most of the nation's foie gras.
FERNDALE — A national animal rights group has again taken aim at two Sullivan County farms that produce most of the nation's foie gras.
The Animal Legal Defense Fund, a California-based organization, has filed a lawsuit in state Supreme Court in Albany that revives a claim that the duck-liver delicacy is a diseased and adulterated food product.
The lawsuit names the state Department of Agriculture and Markets, Commissioner Darrel J. Aubertine, Hudson Valley Foie Gras, Bella Poultry and La Belle Farms. Hudson Valley Foie Gras is the nation's largest producer. Bella Poultry and La Belle Farms are affiliated with each other.
The Humane Society of the United States, Farm Sanctuary and other individuals tried to shut down the Ferndale farms in 2006, but a judge later dismissed the case on grounds the plaintiffs lacked standing to bring the lawsuit because no evidence was introduced suggesting that foie gras was harmful to humans.
Foie gras is made from swollen livers of force-fed ducks or geese. The liver is whipped into a pate or seared and served in the best restaurants. Animal rights groups say the birds live a short, painful existence; are force-fed three times a day until their livers swell to up to 10 times the normal size. Some countries have banned the practice. In July, California began enforcing a ban on the sales of products produced by force-feeding birds. The Animal Legal Defense Fund also has a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It is petitioning the FDA to put warning labels on foie gras products as "derived from diseased birds."
John Melia, a lawyer for the Animal Legal Defense Fund, said new evidence has come to light since the 2006 case that foie gras consumption can be dangerous to humans. "The court didn't get a good opportunity to delve into the case," Melia said. "We thought the facts back then were compelling."
Bella Poultry/La Belle Farms didn't return calls. Ag & Markets spokesman Joe Morrissey said the agency was served Sept. 27 and had no comment. Hudson Valley Foie Gras operations manager, Marcus Henley, said the company was served on Monday. "I would guess it is a publicity issue," Henley said of the lawsuit.
"Foie gras has been an agriculture product for 5,000 years and foie gras is produced under U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection, which inspects every bird for wholesomeness. Their premise is that it is adulterated or diseased. Our government doesn't agree with it, nor do the governments of Canada and France."


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Winter is here. It is the season for shopping, bright lights, happy family gatherings and snowmen. Winter not only brings cold weather, but also can give us snow, ice and possibly some harsh blizzards.
Winter is here. It is the season for shopping, bright lights, happy family gatherings and snowmen. Winter not only brings cold weather, but also can give us snow, ice and possibly some harsh blizzards.
These winter conditions not only can curtail normal activities at times, but can also cause SAD — not only sadness but Seasonal Affective Disorder.
What is SAD? Seasonal affective disorder is a type of depression that occurs during the same season each year. If you get depressed in the winter but feel much better in spring and summer, you may have SAD.
Anyone can get SAD, but it is more common in:
Women People between the ages of 15 and 55. The risk of getting SAD for the first time goes down as you age. People who have a close relative with SAD People who live in places with long winter nights are at greater risk for SAD.
What causes SAD?
The reduced level of sunlight in fall and winter may disrupt your body's internal clock. Lack of light:
may upset your sleep-wake cycle cause a drop in serotonin (a brain chemical that affects mood) disrupt the balance of the natural hormone melatonin (affects both sleep patterns and mood).
Symptoms include:
Feeling sad, grumpy, moody or anxious Loss of interest in your usual activities Eating more in general and craving simple carbs like bread and pasta Gaining weight Sleeping more and still feeling drowsy during the daytime A feeling of hopelessness Less energy and ability to concentrate Sluggish movements Social withdrawal
Symptoms come and go at about the same time each year and usually build up slowly in the late autumn and early winter months.
SAD can become long-term depression. Bipolar disorder or thoughts of suicide also are possible.
Depression medications and talk therapy can be effective. Light therapy boxes that mimic outdoor light are sometimes used. Also try to follow good health practices such as:
Getting enough sleep Eating a healthy diet Exercising more often. Look for activities that make you happy. Practicing good sleep habits.
If you find yourself feeling sad or depressed for more than a week or two with no apparent reason, you may be suffering from SAD. Talk to your doctor for suggestions on ways to cope.
Natasha Keizer is a student at East Stroudsburg University and intern for PrimeTime Health.


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Turner to come off DL, rejoin rotation Saturday
MIAMI -- The beard has been shaved off, and a clean-shaven Jacob Turner is ready to get back into the rotation.
The Marlins also are eager for the 22-year-old right-hander to return, and he will do so on Saturday night.View Full Game Coverage
MIAMI -- The beard has been shaved off, and a clean-shaven Jacob Turner is ready to get back into the rotation.
The Marlins also are eager for the 22-year-old right-hander to return, and he will do so on Saturday night.View Full Game Coverage
Miami manager Mike Redmond on Tuesday announced that Turner is set to be reinstated from the disabled list, and start in the second game of the three-game series this weekend against the Dodgers at Marlins Park.
The rotation for Los Angeles shapes up with Tom Koehler going on Friday night, Turner on Saturday and Jose Fernandez on Sunday.
"[Turner] said he shaved off his DL beard, and he was ready to go," Redmond said.
Entering the season, Turner was Miami's No. 4 starter, but he has been on the disabled list since April 9, retroactive to April 4, with a right shoulder sprain.
It was a fluke injury.
On April 7, the day before he was set to pitch at Washington, he took batting practice in the cages with the pitchers. During one round, he felt discomfort in the back of his throwing shoulder after taking a swing.
When Turner went on the disabled list, Brad Hand and Kevin Slowey each made two starts to fill the rotation spot.
"The rotation, overall, has been throwing well," Redmond said. "I think we scrambled there initially when we had some spot starts, and trying to find guys to fill that role while Jacob was gone.
"I think overall guys have stepped up, and hopefully, settled in. That's the biggest part, not only our starters but our bullpen. I saw glimpses of that over the weekend."
Turner made two rehab assignment starts at Class A Jupiter. On Monday night, he was dominant in seven innings, allowing one run while striking out seven.
"I felt good," Turner said. "The ball was coming out fine. Most importantly, I was able to get up and down seven times. That's probably the most important thing I was able to take away from it.
"I feel like I'm ready to compete."
The Marlins have a young, but gifted rotation. Turner won't turn 23 until May 21. The ace of the staff is Fernandez, who is 21.
"Our starters are going to be the key to our success," Redmond said. "Going out there, eating up innings, giving us a chance to win ballgames. At the same time, too, they're young. It's a young rotation, no doubt. There are going to be some ups and downs with those guys, but in the process, this experience is invaluable to them."
Joe Frisaro is a reporter for MLB.com. He writes a blog, called The Fish Pond. Follow him on Twitter Miami Marlins, Jacob Turner


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Market pros call it the Great Rotation. That's the long-awaited scenario when investors take their money out of bonds and sink it into stocks.
It was the buzzword this month when the Dow Jones industrial average reached a record high. The idea was that investors were confident enough in the economy to shed their financial crisis fears and leave the safety of bonds.
But it's not happening.
Money keeps flowing into bonds. Industry consultant Strategic Insight says U.S. bond mutual funds have attracted $64 billion in cash in the first two months of the year, just below last year's pace of $68 billion over the same period.
Stock mutual funds had net deposits of $76 billion through February, according to the consultancy. While that is up sharply from $14 billion a year earlier, the cash for stocks is not coming at the expense of bonds, according to more recent snapshots of investment flows.
Instead, investors are withdrawing from money-market funds, which are often used as a parking spot for cash, according to EPFR Global.
"The expectations of a big exodus from bonds are way overblown," says David Santschi, CEO of TrimTabs Investment Research, a fund-tracking firm.
A stock market crash and recession have made bonds especially appealing since 2008, when the nation was in the throes of the financial crisis. The abundance of buyers has pushed bond prices up and sent yields lower, reducing interest payments to investors.
Even with low yields, bonds will continue to attract retiring baby boomers and others who want reliable income for daily expenses. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note — a benchmark — is hovering under 2 percent. Other types offer higher yields. Investment-grade corporate bonds yield 3 percent and riskier "junk" bonds yield just under 6 percent.
Money-market funds, meanwhile, yield 0.02 percent.
Still, the Dow's record surge is drawing more attention to stocks.
The blue-chip index broke through its all-time high March 5 and kept climbing. It's up nearly 11 percent this year and 122 percent from its bottom in March 2009. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index is up 9 percent and is close to breaking its own record.
Investors added $8 billion to U.S. stock funds and exchange-traded funds in February. And they're putting in more cash this month, as $12 billion flowed into stock funds and ETFs through Tuesday, according to EPFR Global.
Bond funds, including ETFs, have pulled in nearly $8 billion this month.
Much of the money flowing into stocks and bonds has come out of money-market funds. About $32 billion has been pulled out of money funds this month, according to EPFR Global.
Withdrawals that didn't go directly into stock or bond mutual funds could have gone into bank accounts, covered daily expenses or been used for other needs. Investors also could have used the money to buys stocks or bonds directly rather than through funds.
If the money keeps flowing, this would be the first year since 2006 that more cash was invested in U.S. stock funds than withdrawn from them, according to Strategic Insight
Pension funds, 401(k) plans and other institutional investors are typically the largest contributors to daily stock fund flows. But individuals also have been moving in recently, according to EPFR Global.
The market's gains over the past four years could have been larger, had individuals been investing more in stock mutual funds. In the run-up, much of the buying has come from companies repurchasing their own stock. Companies in the S&P 500 have bought $1.5 trillion since the Great Recession began in December 2007. Hedge funds, foreign investors and others who don't own mutual funds bought as well. ETFs have also attracted cash, helping to support the rising market.
There is more fuel for stocks to continue soaring. Dividend payments are headed for a record year and companies keep buying back stock. Boards approved $118 billion in buybacks last month, the largest single-month total ever, according to research firm Birinyi Associates.
Richard Peterson, a psychiatrist and founder of MarketPsych, which advises banks and big money managers, says news coverage of the Dow's run is likely luring people who had remained wary of stocks since the financial crisis in 2008. One fear gets replaced with another.
"It's the fear of missing out on a good thing," he says. "People are watching it go up without them."
David Savage, a 52-year-old manager of a demolition equipment company, is being cautious about stocks.
Savage, who lives in Naugatuck, Connecticut, makes regular contributions to an investment portfolio that includes stocks and bonds as well as real estate.
He believes the Dow could pass 15,000 by the end of the year — that's about 3.4 percent above its Friday level of 14,512. But he plans to see where the market is in June or July before significantly changing his stock holdings.
"If I still have that warm fuzzy feeling then, my investments will stay put," he says. "If not, I'll move to less volatile stock positions."
Matthew Lemieux, an analyst with fund tracker Lipper Inc., warns that the increased investment in stock mutual funds doesn't mean the Great Rotation is coming.
At the beginning of 2011, stock funds attracted cash four months in a row, the strongest start to a year since 2006. But the cash began to dry up in the spring and summer. Investors worried about the debt crisis in Europe and a fight between Congress and the White House over raising the government's borrowing limit.
Stocks have pulled back slightly over the past week amid renewed concerns about Europe and the possibility of bankruptcy in the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus.
At home, Congress and the White House continue to clash, unable to reach broad agreement to head off automatic spending cuts.
That's a key reason why Richard Shortt of Somerville, Mass., is sitting tight with the stocks he owns rather than buying more.
"Rather than jumping in, I'm prepared to start jumping out," says Shortt, a 68-year-old retired small business consultant. "I've learned through the last two major downturns that you don't buy at highs and you don't sell at lows."
Justin Beal, a 39-year-old municipal fire inspector from Clovis, Calif., believes the stock market will continue to remain at or near record levels in the coming months. But that's partly due to the Federal Reserve's policy of maintaining historically low interest rates through its bond-buying program, he thinks. The program will have to be pulled back or ended at some point, potentially ending the stock market's surge.
"The records don't really mean a lot," Beal says. "The average guy needs to understand that you can't be jumping on the bandwagon at the end of the rally, when it's greed that's driving the market."


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Wales tour of Australia
Wales hit by Faletau injury blow
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June 10, 2012
Toby Faletau will fly home due to a hand injury © Getty Images
Wales have suffered a major injury blow prior to their second Test against Australia, with No.8 Toby Faletau set to fly home due to a hand injury.
The Dragons back-row - an ever present during their march to a Six Nations Grand Slam earlier this year - broke a bone in his hand during Wales' 27-19 loss to the Wallabies in Brisbane on Saturday.
Acting head coach Rob Howley has called up Gareth Delve - skipper of the Melbourne Rebels Super Rugby franchise - as cover and the former Gloucester No.8 has been named on the bench for Tuesday's tour match against the Brumbies in Canberra.
George North (haematoma) and Scott Williams (facial laceration) will also receive treatment this week, although the Wales management remain optimistic that both will feature next weekend.
Howley has named a strong side to face the Brumbies, with Luke Charteris, Alun-Wyn Jones and James Hook all backing up after playing roles in Saturday's Test loss. Jones skippers the side, which also contains Harry Robinson on the wing, Ashley Beck in the centres and Justin Tipuric at openside.
Ospreys lock Ian Evans has also been named among the replacements after joining the tour party late following his wedding.
"We are a game down, but we still have all to play for in this series and Tuesday night is the perfect opportunity for this squad of players to move on," Howley said.
"We have one or two bumps and bruises and we are expecting players to 'back-up' after playing a tough Test match and go out there 72 hours later and play for their country. But that is exactly what touring is all about. It will be a test of character for the likes of Luke, James and Alun-Wyn, who all made significant contributions on Saturday."
Brumbies boss Jake White has included a number of front-line players in his side for the game, with Robbie Coleman at fullback and Ita Vaea, Colby Faingaa and Peter Kimlin comprising the back-row. Wallabies squad member Jesse Mogg starts from the bench.
Wales: L Williams (Scarlets); H Robinson (Cardiff Blues), A Bishop (Ospreys), A Beck (Ospreys), A Brew (Biarritz), J Hook (Perpignan), R Webb (Ospreys); P James (Bath), R Hibbard (Ospreys), R Jones (Scarlets), AW Jones (Ospreys, capt), L Charteris (Perpignan), R Turnbull (Scarlets), J Tipuric (Ospreys), A Shingler (Scarlets)
Replacements: K Owens (Scarlets), R Gill (Saracens), I Evans (Ospreys), G Delve (Melbourne Rebels), L Williams (Cardiff Blues), R Priestland (Scarlets), A Cuthbert (Cardiff Blues)
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A fire at a seniors' home in a small Quebec town left five elderly residents dead, and about 30 were still missing on Friday.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned that the death toll from the fire in L'Isle-Verte's Residence du Havre is expected to increase. Many of the 30 missing seniors were dependent upon walkers and wheelchairs, raising concerns that they did not survive the fire.


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Mark Sommer is an explorer, storyteller, and award-winning public radio and print journalist focused on advocacy and narratives of social, political, and environmental change and positive action. In Washington, D.C., Sommer found himself on hand for some of the 1960s pivotal moments, where he was involved with the Liberation News Service and the New Left think tank, the Institute for Policy Studies. Sommer moved to California in 1969 to explore the counterculture, spending several years journeying – spiritually, psychedelically, and physically between communes, farms, and wilderness homesteads along the western coast – before he and his wife built a self-reliant organic homestead in the deep woods of northern CA, where they lived from the 1970s to the 1990s. The resilience of nature deeply impacted Sommer's outlook and work as a writer and journalist, driving his interest in the human capacity for overcoming adversity. Sommer founded and directed the Mainstream Media Project, a nonprofit media placement service scheduling leading edge thinkers and social innovators for extensive radio interviews, and Sommer served as host and executive producer of the internationally syndicated and award winning, one-hour weekly radio program, A World of Possibilities. Sommer is the author of three books (Beyond the Bomb, The Conquest of War, and Living in Freedom), and hundreds of op-eds in major newspapers worldwide. Current projects include short and movie length videos crafted from his photographs, films, interviews, and experiences.
Chronicling over five decades of creative and journalistic output of a life-long explorer and progressive advocate, the Mark Sommer Papers are an extensive collection, covering Sommer's entire career and personal life from the late 1960s to the present. Writings include personal and multiple travel journals (including a unique trip to North Vietnam in 1968), correspondence, student essays, op-eds, articles, project and grant plans, memoirs, and book manuscripts. Additional journals exist in audio format, along with radio interviews where Sommer served as a guest. Slides, photographs, and movies cover Sommer's family and home life to his wide-ranging travels and interests. Some main topics of coverage include foreign policy and international politics, progressivism, peace and conflict studies, the anti-nuclear and disarmament movements, wilderness and back-to-the-land experiences, and later in life fatherhood. Materials from Mainstream Media Project have been separated into the Mainstream Media Project Records.
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Today's Meditation
Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received.
-1 Peter 4:10 (NRSV)
I'm not a highly-educated theologian, but I have the love of Christ in my heart, and occasionally I have some spare time. God calls on us to serve others whenever possible. So I volunteer at my church, giving clothes to the needy and food to the hungry. I feel good knowing that I am serving a vital purpose in our church community.
When we love and serve our neighbors, we show our devotion to God. Good deeds may or may not require much time. In a short time, we can be good and faithful servants. A seemingly small act may stay in the heart and mind of another person for years to come. Even more important, when we extend a hand to someone who needs help, we do the work God calls us to do.
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Prayer: Lord, thank you for the blessings you have given each of us. Let us open our hearts and turn to our neighbors, passing along the blessings you have given us. We give glory to you, Lord Jesus and pray as you taught us, "Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen."*
Thought for the Day: In an average week, how much time do I give to God's work?
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Kevin Hart Celebrates 33rd Birthday With Chris Paul, The Game, and More
Funnymany Kevin Hart has had a huge week. He turned 33 years old, and his new movie Let Me Explain was a smash hit over July 4 weekend.
Hart celebrated his birthday and his success with Hennessy at Hollywood's Greystone Manor, along with girlfriend Eniko Parrish and friends like Damien Dante Wayans, DeRay Davis, The Game, Clippers baller Chris Paul, Terrance J, and more.
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LAKE BUTLER, Fla. (AP) — Investigators in a north Florida town say they're working to determine what led a trucking company employee to go on a shooting spree that left himself, his former boss and a former coworker dead — and two others wounded.
Authorities say Hubert Allen Jr., 72, drove to locations Florida's Union County, including the headquarters for Pritchett Trucking Inc. and shot the men Saturday.
Authorities say Allen first shot and killed 28-year-old former coworker Rolando Gonzalez-Delgado. They added he then went a short distance and fatally shot his 80-year-old former employer, Marvin Pritchett. Later, authorities say, Allen shot and wounded another former co-worker before heading to company headquarters where he shot and wounded another man before going home and killing himself.
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Always Hit On the Wingman
I'm just guessing here, but if you're reading this, you're probably interested in men. And you're probably, on occasion, confused by men. On behalf of all guys, let me say: We're sorry. Men are confusing. How do I know? I once made a living trying to explain them to millions of women. I learned a lot—and what I know, you should too. It's criminal you don't already! But let me explain.
I took up the "Jake" mantle a decade ago, for three enlightening cocktail-infused, blind-date-laden years. Even before I became Jake, though, I knew who he was. The famous pseudonym masks a guy who writes about how men think in Glamour. But I had no idea that by taking the job I'd come to see women, dating and myself in a whole new way.
Two years or so into my life as Jake, you see, I started dating a woman I code-named Orange Blossoms (due to her insanely intoxicating perfume). We were nuts about each other, but she pushed hard for commitment, and I felt trapped. Much to the horror of my readers (and they were very vocal), I broke up with her. Months later I bumped into Blossoms at a real estate open house, and I realized she had changed. Whether consciously or not, she had tapped into some secret reservoir of power. "I thought you were responsible for making me happy and responsible for when I wasn't," she told me. "That wasn't fair." I'd never seen her so strong, and suddenly I wanted nothing more than to be with her, to make her happy.
That's when it hit me: Every month, all those cute, desirable, frustrated-in-love women who wrote me letters asking me how to get men to notice them, to love them, to commit? They would never get anywhere trying to change their boyfriends. What they needed to change was their own attitude.
This is what Jake has been trying to tell women for 56 years, and it's what I'm saying to you now: Women, you have no freaking idea how powerful you really are.
The truth was shockingly clear: While some men are, of course, irredeemable and not worth one ounce of any woman's energy, the rest of us average guys jerk you around mostly because you let us. Because you give up the power. But secretly, those of us who want a real, exciting, fulfilling relationship (and that's most men) are dying for you to turn the tables on us. Because the less you sit around waiting for us and resenting us, the hotter you are to us. And as you grow more independent and unclingy, and love every inch of yourself, you get even hotter. It's that simple, really. Men like confident women. Blossoms had found her secret powerful self, and I'd found the woman I wanted to marry.
So how do you convey confidence within minutes of meeting a guy you're interested in? You hit on the wingman. Just like this...
The year was 2000. I was with my friend Mark at a house party. We were feeling self-conscious, the way men tend to when they roll into a place together. You know what I'm talking about: Two guys enter a bar or a party like some kind of lady-molesting team. They try to appear laid-back as they awkwardly suck down their drinks, ogle women and don't talk to each other. These lame and transparent characters are called wingmen. Some people think the wingman is the second fiddle. Not true. If two single straight guys are out together, they're both wingmen.
Anyway, Mark was my wingman on this night, and I was his. I came back from the bathroom and saw a gorgeous woman chatting him up. I'd noticed her when she walked in, but I had quickly become distracted by another woman at the party whom I'd slept with once before—and never called after. Should I try to do it again and hate myself? Not try to do it again and hate myself? I was too absorbed in this internal debate to actually put all that aside and approach someone new.
Ms. Gorgeous had blond, almost freakishly long hair. If you were a hair fetishist and you saw her, you'd have had some kind of aneurysm. "She's from Delaware," Mark filled me in when I joined them.
"You don't say," I replied.
"Look at that hair!" Mark said. "Wouldn't you think she should be from Sweden or something? Or at least Minnesota?" Ms. Gorgeous laughed and put a hand on Mark's arm. With that little brush of her long fingers, she became at once more desirable and more unattainable. I figured that since she was after Mark, I would at least try to make her laugh. I spent the next half hour in the attempt, and eventually, when I went to the bar area to get another drink, Ms. Gorgeous said she'd come with me. Yes! I got her! Little did I know it was she who'd gotten me.
Flash-forward three months to my bedroom: Ms. Gorgeous and I are a couple and will be for another glorious and tumultuous six months. We are lying naked in bed, eating take-out sushi and talking about the night we met. "You know, I never wanted to talk to Mark in the first place," she says. "I was just trying to get to you."
"Shut the f*ck up!" I say.
"Are you kidding? You didn't know that?"
"All these months I thought you were harboring some unresolved attraction to Mark!" I say. "And I've felt guilty around him."
"It's one of the greatest tricks of all time," says Ms. Gorgeous. "Always hit on the wingman." And she was right: It was so simple, so perfectly tailored to men's innate competitiveness, so...genius! Here are four reasons it works:
1. Flirting goes best when it feels effortless.
There's a truism that you always do your best on the interview for the job you don't want. Flirting is the same way. Have you ever noticed how cute you are when you're talking to someone you're not attracted to? How you're always getting the wrong guy to eat out of your hand? The best part of the Wingman Technique is that you get to be cute and confident and relaxed in front of the guy you actually like. Hitting on the wingman is like interviewing for the job you're not after, with a recruiter for your dream job right there, very impressed. Big caveat: There's a difference between flirting and coming on like a starved velociraptor. I bet you can guess which side of the fence to stay on.
2. Men crave what they don't have.
I like to call this one the Cheeseburger Principle. When a guy sees his friend eating a cheeseburger, he instantly becomes hungry for one. Even if he just ate. Even if he's trying really hard to be a vegetarian. Watching a woman flirt with his friend can have the same effect. It makes a guy realize she is—no, not a piece of meat, but—yummy-looking and worth getting hungry for.
3. Competition makes the heart beat harder.
This point is an extension of the Cheeseburger Principle: If men think something is too easily attained, we worry we may be too good for it. More enlightened dudes may be above this way of thinking, but most men aren't there yet. So let your crush see you as a challenge to win over.
4. And you never know: The wingman could actually be your man.
Sometimes the guy who doesn't knock your socks off at first is the real catch, as anyone who's seen the last 10 minutes of a romantic comedy from the past decade can appreciate.
Bottom line? This isn't really about the wingman. It's about power. When you hit on the wingman, you're in control. You're also giving yourself a break, making the seduction game a little less intimidating. And you're being playful, toying with men in a lighthearted way. (If you don't already know, we like to be teased a little.)
But here's the best part: You can use the Wingman Technique for the rest of your life—even after you know your crush is interested in you, hell, even after you have a kid with your crush! This is hugely important. I wish I could add a line to the marriage vows: Both man and wife promise to keep doing the stuff that made things work at the beginning, forever and ever. Because it's not just important to show a guy your most powerful self during that nascent, "all I can think about is getting into your pants" stage—it's important for every stage of a relationship.
So let's say you've met the guy you think you'd like to be with for the long haul. Say you're no longer nervous that you're going to break up over the weekend, and you know that your next vacation will be together. You should still hit on the wingman, but now it's subtler. Next time you're at a dinner party with your boyfriend, sit next to someone else. Or have a long, intense conversation with his coworker when you stop by his office. Don't do anything that makes him question your feelings, but mix things up a bit. Flirting a little or cultivating male friendships shows your guy that he should never take you for granted. It reminds him what drew him to you in the first place. And in the early days, it tells him you are not the thing many men fear most: clingy.
Done in the right spirit, hitting on the wingman is a no-fail way to get the guy or, if you've got him already, to inject the relationship with a shot of energy. If you're still not convinced, turn the tables: When is a guy most attractive to you—when you're getting an up-close look at his pores or when you stand back 10 feet and watch him wash his car, or wrestle with his nephew, or charm your great aunt? That's what I thought. So if you're into someone, give him that little bit of distance to watch you too. Foster male friendships; flex your independent muscles. Just take a few steps back now and then, and do your thing.
—from Always Hit On the Wingman...and 9 Other Secret Rules for Getting the Love Life You Want (Hyperion), by Jake, out January 24