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Was he parked in a fire lane? Because some of the guys I work with here on the Fire Department will block a car in on purpose EVERY TIME they see one parked and unattended in the fire lane. And on the off chance it's a working fire, that car might be there for a few hours...
- January 31, 2012 at 2:22 PM
- Dharmagirl said...
Happens all the time in England.One guy I know has been threatened with bodily injury if he didn't move his ambulance, and the police being called to scenes because things get out of hand is par for the course. It's not a new thing, either; I vividly recall my dad having an MI in '84 and the paramedics having to call the police and stay inside our house because someone was threatening to beat the snot out of them for blocking the road.
Some people lack an empathy chip - until it's THEIR relative or friend, then it's a totally different matter.
- January 31, 2012 at 2:30 PM
It IS Brentwood, TN after all. I can totally believe it. Like saying Beverly Hills, CA. Rules apply to the rest of us folks, not them.
- January 31, 2012 at 2:53 PM
Taking it a bit farther than deliberatly blocking a car in a fire lane I remember seeing a picture of a car parked next to a fire hydrant where the FD ran a hose line -through- the car.
Hose lines do leak a bit and often are dragged through dirt etc...
Bet that driver thought twice before blocking a hydrant again.
- January 31, 2012 at 5:24 PM
I was in working in North London myself one afternoon, when the bus driver heard the ambulance siren, and stayed parked at the bus stop. Only the road, par for London, was only 3 cars wide (2 if you're a bus), and so, with opposing traffic on one side, and the bus on the other, the ambulance had to sit there for several minutes, until some bright spark in the opposing lane noticed this, and stopped far enough back to let the ambulance through. Bus driver was oblivious to this all, I'm sure.
- January 31, 2012 at 7:16 PM
- February 1, 2012 at 7:32 AM
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@Francine, the douchebags take offense to being lumped in with him.
- February 1, 2012 at 9:32 AM
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Related story from the other side:
My 70-year-old aunt had a heart attack on Thursday but didn't go to the hospital until Monday because she had promised to bake something for a church supper on Friday.
We were all very angry with her when we found out. She said she just thought it was a bad case of indigestion and she'd had worse pain before. She also said how could it be a heart attack when she eats right and exercises and her husband doesn't do any of those things?
She's fine now and back to walking 3 miles a night.
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Bar Refaeli achieves life-long dream with Super Bowl advert
The Israeli beauty locks lips with a chubby-faced, bespectacled nerd, played by commercials actor Jesse Heiman, in a sensational commercial for GoDaddy.com, and while many viewers have been left turned off by the leaked clip, Refaeli admits it was one of her most memorable experiences and she's thankful to the online company for giving her the opportunity to shoot the project.
She tells U.S. breakfast show Today, "It's a funny thing because I actually have this very strange dream that all my friends know about it. I always wanted to go to a club, or somewhere filled with people, look around, choose the one guy that's most unlikely that I'll ever kiss or pay attention to and go and kiss him in front of everyone, so he will be happy and will remember it for the rest of the week... For me, it was almost like Go Daddy made my dream come true."
The commercial, which will air during the big game on Sunday (03Jan13), has already been censored by the CBS TV network due to its explicit content, but Refaeli insists she has no hard feelings about the executives' decision to show a tamer version of her sloppy make-out session with Heiman.
She adds, "I would've been very much fine (sic) with the second one airing, and not the tamer one... I just feel like if you do something like that and it's filled with a lot of humour... then go all the way, but I trust the people that know better than me."
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It's hard to see this here, but what these brands had in common then were their importer, who took out this ad. Julius Wile Sons & Company was a renowned name in wine importing. In 1995, the New York Times spoke with Julius Wile–not the one who founded the company, but his grandson who shared his name.


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US: New Law to Cut Down on Cruise Ship Waste
The cruise industry has gotten so big that all its ships
together could hold each of Miami's 360,000 residents with room to
spare. And just like cities, cruise lines have to deal with a nasty
problem: the millions of gallons of sewage those people produce.
While the industry is installing equipment that one executive
says makes sewage and other wastewater almost as "clean as Perrier,"
environmentalists, state officials and some members of Congress are
pushing to toughen what they call outdated marine pollution standards.
They have worked on the Clean Cruise Ship Act with two
environmental groups, the Bluewater Network and Oceana. Alaska,
California and Maine have already passed stronger laws.
But the cruise industry argues the new standards aren't based
on science and that most water pollution comes from sources on land.
The industry is waiting for federal Environmental Protection Agency
data due in a few months that will show how well the new treatment
systems worked on wastewater dumped in Alaska.
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industry group that represents companies like Carnival Corp. and Royal
Caribbean Cruises Ltd. He said complying with the bill would cost
billions of dollars.
Currently, the federal Clean Water Act from the 1970s lets
cruise ships dump raw sewage anywhere outside of a three-nautical mile
limit from U.S. shores. Inside that territorial water boundary, cruise
ships can release sewage only after reducing its content of fecal
coliform, a harmful bacteria found in human feces.
The industry group has voluntarily agreed to exceed those
rules. It says member lines treat all sewage and discharge it only when
ships are at least four nautical miles from shore (12 miles for Royal
Caribbean) and moving at least 6 knots to better disperse it. The same
distances are used for the "gray water" drained from showers, sinks and
washing machines. Each ship generates up to 1 million gallons of waste
water per week.
Environmentalists argue that self-imposed rules aren't enough, calling the monitoring for compliance spotty, at best.
U.S. Rep. Sam Farr, D-Calif., and Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill.,
plan to reintroduce their bill Thursday in Congress, where it died last
year after receiving little support. It would apply to cruise ships
able to carry at least 250 passengers.
Under the act, cruise ships from 12 to 200 nautical miles from
U.S. coasts could discharge sewage, bilge water or other wastewater
only if they are treated to reduce levels of fecal coliform and other
pollutants to meet standards much stricter than current law.
Ships within 12 nautical miles of U.S. shores couldn't release
any treated or untreated wastewater. Cruise companies would have three
years to meet the standards. By 2015, all pollutants would have to be
eliminated from wastewater before dumping. The Coast Guard would test
wastewater samples for compliance.
The cruise industry isn't alone in its opposition to the bill.
While the EPA appreciates the attempt, it's premature to establish new
national standards without the Alaska data, said Benjamin Grumbles,
assistant administrator of the EPA's Office of Water.
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I've long been an activist on the American Psychological Association (APA) torture issue and a member of Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR). This led to an invitation to participate in a session chaired by Chris Crandall at the 2009 Society for Experimental Social Psychology conference in Portland, Maine. The session involved presentations of several excellent studies related to U.S. torture and interrogation. My role was to act as a discussant and to suggest what other areas, as an activist, I thought should be studied empirically.
For several decades, the horrors of WWII and the racism that led to the civil rights movement inspired the work of U.S. social and personality psychologists. As several participants mentioned at the session in Portland, the Global War on Terror (GWOT) and Guantanamo can have similar influences on the discipline in the years ahead. I agree. From my perspective as an activist, here are 10 questions I would love social and personality researchers to help answer:


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly released emails show a former IRS official at the center of the agency's tea party controversy calling right-wing Republicans "crazies" and more.
The revelation is fueling GOP claims of a political conspiracy at the IRS to target conservative groups.
The official, Lois Lerner, headed the IRS division that handles applications for tax-exempt status. In a series of emails with an associate in November 2012, Lerner made two disparaging remarks about some members of the GOP. One of the remarks was vulgar.
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Influenza kills somewhere between 3,000 to 40,000 Americans annually. According to the Centers for Disease Control " from the 1976-1977 season to the 2006-2007 flu season, flu-associated deaths ranged from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 people." with an average of about 25,000 deaths per year.
So far this year, there have been 18 pediatric deaths. It's very early in the season. Last year there were 34. The year before that, 122, and the year before that, 282. That might appear to be a downward trend, but it really reflects that influenza strains are highly variable from year to year, and there is an ebb and flow of deaths.
282 child deaths is how many Newtown massacres?
figure from above link,
The fact is, every person who has influenza is a vector for others to catch it. The vaccine is not 100% effective, but it's the best thing we have to reduce epidemic impact and save lives. It's not about someone with a few aches and pains, fever and a chance to watch old movies and wear pajamas. It's about reducing the # of tragedies. All of those hundreds of children who died in the past 4 years had parents who grieved just as much as Newtown parents grieved.
It's hard to predict, butthis season looks like it could be a doozy. I hope not. Of course there are flawed predictions. It's an inexact science.
So that's the context for why this nurse pisses me off. She wants to continue working in a hospital, where she could contract influenza, and potentially infect many others before developing symptoms herself. It's not that easy to differentiate flu from bronchitis from cold, in the early stages.
Plus, it's being taken as a case for religious freedom: "
'I feel like in my personal faith walk, I have felt instructed not to get a flu vaccination, but it's also the whole matter of the right to choose what I put in my body..."
Sue Schrock, a hospice nurse, said she has not had a flu vaccine for 30 years as a result of a choice she made because of her Christian faith."
Alan Phillips, who represented several nurses at the hospital, says his clients had the right to refuse their flu shots under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits religious discrimination of employees. Religion is legally broad under the First Amendment, so it could include any strongly held belief, he said, adding that the belief flu shots are bad should suffice.
I don't know how the "rights" aspect will turn out. If a hospital worker claimed they couldn't wear mask or gloves in surgery because of their religion, how would that go over? But they won't, so that's a moot point.
All I know is it pisses me off and sets a bad example.
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Rights in a court case are balanced against each other.
The nurses in question might have the religious right to refuse a vaccine, but that has to be balanced against the public's right not to be infected.
I suspect should this actually go to court, they will lose.
This will go the same way as people whose religion bars paying social security taxes. The government said they were A-OK with that. The people just couldn't work. HA!
They also have a right to find another job.
I agree - she is in the wrong profession.
Absolutely. And not just a different job in the hospital, in administration as others suggest. That displaces someone who might be better qualified, better suited, trained, etc, in favor of someone who gives her religion, if that is really the case, priority over public health and health of the patient.
I wonder if her religion is really the issue - I don't think Jesus had much to say about influenza vaccines, and Leviticus is mute on the topic as well.
No matter your stance on vaccination, a vaccination is an invasive medical procedure, doesn't a U.S. citizen have the right to refuse them?
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Not if they work in the public health sector
Now that I think about it. Anyone who actually wants to be around a lot people, like school kids, should have to vaccinated. Kids shouldn't be dying just because somebody doesn't want to be vaccinated. Which is why kids entering school have mandatory vaccinations.
Also ditto from me. It's reasonable to expect that people, who work among those especially vulnerable to influenza, have taken precautions in the interest of safety for children and hospital patients.
I guess the expression "invasive procedure" needs some definition. If a simple shot - or in some cases, a nose spray - is invasive, then how do we define colonoscopy? Open heart surgery? I don't think a shot is invasive.
Around here schools require that employees either be vaccination, or that they have blood tests to verify immunity.
What would happen if some kids contracted influenza and one or more died (as happens) and it was shown that their un-immunized teacher had influenza and exposed the kids? In addition to parental grief, would there be a lawsuit? Similar for patients in hospital - if RN caring for patients had influenza, and was not immunized, and patients died as a result - same thing?
I don't know the answers to those. But as far as ethics goes, I think every person in healthcare or child care should be vaccinated.
I wasn't soliciting opinions as to whether the other posters believed that forced vaccinations should or should not be legal in the U.S., I was asking if anyone knew whether a U.S. citizen has the right to refuse a vaccination.
Of course, I always refuse the flu vaccine.
This is a very touchy subject. I am still torn on this issue. It is easy to say that a medical worker doesn't have the right to refuse. But, I am just looking at taking that right away from someone else. As a patient I would not want that worker treating me if I didn't have the vaccination. It wouldn't make any difference to me if I was already vaccinated. As an employer I wouldn't want to cover the expected sick days of the unvaccinated employee (especially one that has a higher exposure to pathogens).
The religious excuse turns me off. But what about personal freedom.
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As the FCC develops plans for rolling out national broadband — 100 Mbps access for at least one third of the nation — we started thinking about how we could make use of it.
1. Real-time access to medical records
Let's say 100 Mbps access becomes ubiquitous. And, let's say health care becomes commonplace even for those who are out of work or self-employed. With the more prevalent access, it's easy to envision a day when your health records are easy to access from anywhere, even on your smartphone. And, when you visit the doctor, with this pervasive kind of access available, you could visit the doctor and then see the results of a blood test or read through a diagnosis on your smartphone.
2. No more over-the-air television
100 Mbps access is fast enough to download an episode of Lost in about 30 seconds. With that speed, there's not a good reason why over-the-air broadcasts would even be necessarily any more, given the on-demand nature of fast downloads. Widespread national broadband would negate the need for most over-the-air broadcasts, including digital television and even FM radio stations.
3. Vehicle downloads
If the FCC establishes a 100Mps wired and wireless infrastructure for every US citizen, the next inevitable conclusion is that cars would become better equipped to access this rich bandwidth as well. The Chrysler Grand Caravan already uses a service called UConnect Web for accessing 3G cellular networks for the Internet, which you can share in the car. The upcoming Ford Edge uses the MyTouch service that lets you plug in a USB WWAN card to access the Web as well. The next step: cars would be equipped to access the fast national broadband as well for TV, radio, and in-car downloads.
4. More realistic, location-based gaming
If every neighbor on your block has a fast broadband connection, location-based gaming could become more common. The idea is more than just "everyone in Philadelphia forms a clan" but allows gamers to find people in their local area – say, one high school competing against another. And, with faster access, latency becomes a non-issue for more realistic multiplayer matches. Your movements will be mapped faster into the game, and one low-speed connection won't spoil the fun.
5. Say goodbye to physical libraries
Once every citizen is connected to the Internet, and e-readers become as common as real books, the public library will change dramatically — it will not be a physical building, but instead a warehouse for e-books you can check out. Of course, with the Epub format, this is already becoming a reality. But the need for a physical library will lessen when cities know that every resident has access.


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Google Apps Sparks Spontaneous InnovationBy David F. Carr | Posted 2007-11-26 Print
Capgemini sought cost savings by being among the first to deploy the enterprise software as a service productivity package. What it got were users who invented efficient ways of using the software to communicate with each other.
What happens when you give users a flexible, easy-to-use software productivity package that's delivered as a service? As Capgemini discovered: spontaneous innovation.
Following its deal to support its Google Apps Premium Edition, Capgemini decided to become one of the first companies to deploy the software as a service. It chose GAPE over Microsoft Office for its new 165-seat call center in Junction City, Kan.
The GAPE bundle includes Google Docs (word processor) and Spreadsheet, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk (instant messenger) and Start Page (customizable homepage). The cost savings for the deployment was significant: $50 per user per year as opposed to several hundred dollars per seat for the Microsoft package.
"When I heard about this, that spreadsheet of costs was the first thing that came into my mind," says Robert Brillhart, global practice lead for customer care and intelligence in Capgemini's Business Process Outsourcing Services division.
The deployment made sense from another perspective: practicality. Capgemini had recently struck a deal to provide enterprise support for GAPE. Under the support deal, Capgemini would provide enterprise users of Google's productivity software with dedicated support and services, something they couldn't get through Google's self-service support system.
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Although it was the initial cost savings that got his attention, Brillhart said that the collaboration features of Google Apps may prove more valuable in the long run.
The Junction City call center, which opened in September, is dedicated to one of Capgemini's telecommunications customers. However, there are plans to expand the center and support more customers. Because it's inherently a networked application, GAPE makes it easy for agents to create shared documents and spreadsheets. For the past couple of months, they've been using those shared documents to communicate tips and alerts that don't fit neatly into the form fields of their CRM (customer relationship management) application.
GAPE's collaboration capabilities initially raised some concerns for the customer care unit's knowledge management team, Brillhart said, "because from a knowledge management perspective, they don't want you using two different tools for the same data."
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In practice, much of the knowledge sharing conducted through GAPE is more ephemeral, such as shared notes on trends in call volume within a given dayitems previously tracked mostly on paper, with limited sharing among agents, Brillhart said. As some of the more inventive agents used to apply this tool in a productive way, he arranged to have them train the rest of the staff.
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DES MOINES, Iowa, and GUANAJUATO, Mexico, Aug. 16, 2011 – DuPont and LANGEBIO, the Mexico National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity and a unit of CINVESTAV, have entered into a collaboration to increase understanding of plant reproductive biology and genetic diversity. This research will further scientific advances -- including not-for-profit and humanitarian purposes in developing countries -- that improve farmer productivity and help meet the demands of a growing population.
Under the agreement, DuPont business Pioneer Hi-Bred and LANGEBIO will work together in multiple projects to gain new insights into the biological and genetic mechanisms that control plant productivity. Specific terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
"The world's population is growing at an astonishing rate. We put a lot of resources toward improving plant productivity and realize continued research into the reproductive biology of plants is key to develop and deliver products to farmers around the world," said John Bedbrook, DuPont vice president, agriculture biotechnology. "LANGEBIO is a leading research institution and our work together will deliver products that will help meet the world's challenges."
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Watch This Trailer for New Indie Horror Game The Visitor: Dark Space Chronicles
Indie game studio Waves and Blaze have their work cut out for them with their upcoming game The Visitor: Dark Space Chronicles. But that's to be expected, since they are diving into a genre that's usually the realm of bigger studios. From Dead Space, to F.E.A.R., to System Shock, the space/horror genre is not something that many associate with small indie game developers.
But rather than focus on big action, Waves and Blaze instead want to focus on putting adventure elements into The Visitor. Players begin the game after landing on an abandoned space station. Not exactly the friendliest place in the world. It's not long before the player discovers that the station isn't as abandoned as they hoped it would be.
Further investigation will lead to clues as to what happened to the crew and what they were up to in the first place. In terms of gameplay, you will be able to upgrade your character to be either proficient in fighting or stealth.
If the main character, based what's shown in the trailer, happens to be female, we are kind of excited at the idea of recreating some of that classic, claustrophobic terror that poor 'ol Ripley had to endure in the first Alien movie.
As of now, there is no official date for a release of this game. But we'll be sure to let you know when it's headed on its way to the App Store.
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Just a few minutes before 5:30 a.m. Friday, in 42-degree weather, five residents pull into Estancia High School.
One by one, they park their cars in the lot next to the campus tennis courts. It's still dark outside. Quiet. Most of the people who use nearby Placentia Avenue are still asleep.
Mayor Pro Tem Steve Mensinger gets there first. He's the organizer and creator of the relatively new activity, which they're calling the Costa Mayberry Walking Club.
They like to substitute the "Mesa" with "Mayberry," the fictional 1960s town of "Andy Griffith Show" lore. Mike Bargas, a fellow walker Friday and Estancia's football coach, coined the name during the last election season. It seems to have stuck.
It's permanently imprinted on the club's T-shirts, which Mensinger bought. Andy Griffith is on the back. "Our own little Mayberry" lines the bottom.
They've got punch cards too — a tracker of sorts of those early-morning miles. Walkers can get holes punched in their cards each time they participate.
"Walk your city. Know your city. Walk for health," the card reads.
Mensinger has talked about the club publicly during council meetings. Members regularly meet at 5:30 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and sometimes on the weekends. Councilwoman Sandy Genis and city CEO Tom Hatch have also participated.
It's about seeing the streets of Costa Mesa — all of them, Mensinger says. Exercise is an added bonus for the mayor pro tem, who says he wants to lose a little weight.
"Let's just say we're making good progress," Mensinger says of himself. The longtime youth sports enthusiast wears an Estancia football booster jacket and hat.
Mayor Jim Righeimer pulls into the lot last, wearing a hat and sweater with "Costa Mesa 1953" — the year the city incorporated. It's his third time walking with the club.
But why so early? Why walk before the sun rises?
For one thing, the early time is good for Bargas, who usually gets the walking in before opening his classroom doors at Estancia at about 7:30 a.m.
And Mensinger? "It's good to see the sun go up."
Keeping a steady pace
The five walkers — Mensinger, Righeimer, Bargas, and residents Tim Sweet and Kristen Kirk — head down Placentia toward Joann Street in the Westside.
Mensinger starts his own personal clock on his iPhone. Using the "Walkmeter" app, he'll track the traveling distance, time walked, average speed and calories burned. Afterward, he'll post the results on his Facebook page.
Friday is Kirk's first jaunt with the Mayberry club. The 27-year resident is a fan of the council.
"I've been here a long time and haven't been all that active, City Council-wise," she says while walking down Placentia in a USC sweatshirt. She and Mensinger met when they were both students at Southern Cal.
"And with Steve running, I got more involved and started going to council meetings," she adds. "I'm proud of our city, and these guys are doing a great job."
Mensinger maintains a steady pace. Bargas and Sweet usually stay in the back.
Bargas, who's been feeling sick, is taking his time. Mensinger checks up on him periodically.
"No man left behind," he quips.
The group makes a left onto the Joann Street Bicycle Trail, a paved pathway between the Costa Mesa Golf Course and Joann Street.
The group finds some graffiti, which, according to Mensinger, wasn't there a few days ago. He immediately calls it in to the city.
These walks are chances to spot those kinds of things, Mensinger says.
Sweet, a former city maintenance department employee, shines a flashlight ahead of the group. It's still dark, but the bicycle trail is partially lit. Sweet is a Costa Mesa native through and through. And proud of it.
"I'm one of the sons of the city, so to speak," he says.
He stays warm in a black beanie and black gloves, but he jokes that he doesn't want to give off the wrong impression to passersby.
"I could use a different color, probably, walking along the street," Sweet says with a laugh.
The group hits a one-mile mark when the bike trail reaches Harbor Boulevard, making a right toward the Costa Mesa Motor Inn.
'Beginning to transform itself'
The 236-room motel requires a disproportionate amount of the Police Department's attention, Mensinger says. It gets hundreds of police calls.
Harbor is noticeably nosier, thanks to passing cars. The sun is starting to rise.
A man walks out of the Motor Inn and toward the Wilson Street crossing.
"Good morning," Mensinger says, one of the group's many greetings to passersby during the walk.
"I hope it's gonna be a good one," the man replies.
His group heads down Harbor and makes a right onto Victoria Street until it hits Placentia. Mensinger sees trees missing along the Victoria thoroughfare — a "market window" street that thousands see when they enter the city, he says — and mentions a goal to plant a thousand trees for Arbor Day.
He says he sees people usually out by 6:30. During his campaign, he says, most people were friendly. He only got one door shut on him. Others stood there, listened, but didn't always agree.
"No major issues. Knock on concrete," Mensinger says.
Righeimer, whose background is in real estate development, talks of projects in the area he saw as a planning commissioner, of "subprime borrowers buying subprime properties. You're gonna have a sewer leak. And they want to convert these things all to condos?"
Mensinger says before the walks, he never saw much of the Westside after living in College Park and Mesa Verde.
"All the rhetoric you hear about the Westside, it doesn't pan out with what you see," he says. "I mean, it's an older community, but you can see it's beginning to transform itself."
But it's not all swell in Costa Mayberry. Righeimer points to the 7-Eleven lot at Placentia and Victoria. All concrete.
"What happened here? Where's all the plants that used to be here?" he asks. "It's supposed to have, you know, decorative planting out in front here. It's all gone."
It could've been taken out for street widening, Righeimer says.
'Velcro Valley'
Mensinger and Righeimer call Placentia Avenue, a light industrial area, the city's "Velcro Valley" that's home of profitable clothing brands like Hurley. Paul Frank and Billabong used to call the street home. Volcom is on nearby Monrovia Avenue.
At one point, Mensinger, a sports coach, chides Righeimer: "At the halfway mark of the walk, we do push-ups."
"Yeah, yeah," replies Righeimer. Apparently the walks used to be more improvised; now they're planned, more regimented.
"Walkmeter" tells Mensinger that at West 19th Street and Placentia, it's been 2.8 miles. There's more to go.
Bargas is keeping up, still recovering from feeling under the weather.
"The timing's right," he says of the pre-dawn activity. "It's really busy during the day. When you get done with work or school during the day, you don't want to do exercise."
Some memorable aspects of the walks? "You appreciate the city a little more, its diversity … you're walking five or six miles an hour, you get to appreciate some things."
It's a mixed bag of housing types around here, he says. Next to a home that is not well-kept may be one looking like it belongs in Newport Beach's Dover Shores or Linda Isle, he says.
"We're not just hitting the nice parts of Costa Mesa," Bargas adds while heading down West 19th Street toward Monrovia. "We're sticking our elbows deep in this thing. We walk some of the surlier streets that people think are the worst in the city. It's not so bad, walking around here."
Bargas has been a Costa Mayberry Walking Club regular. He doesn't like missing a session.
"You make this part of your routine," Bargas says, "and you feel like you're cheating on your wife or something when you don't do it."
No more Newport Beach landfill
After taking Monrovia to Arbor Street, the group heads past a playground and into the hilliest part of an otherwise flat mesa: Canyon Park.
"It's a gorgeous park," Mensinger says, pointing to the grasses and sandstone cliffs. "It's got some beautiful little houses around it … if you were trying to build this, you couldn't replicate it."
It's quiet, with the sounds of ducks and other birds replacing the 19th Street traffic just up the hill.
Mensinger says his football teams have participated in the "Battle of the Brush" here, cutting branches and spreading mulch to help out.
It was Kirk's first time seeing Canyon Park.
"This is an educational walk for me," she says.
A small area nearby is within the Newport Beach city limits. That sliver, Mensinger notes, used to be a tucked-away landfill for Newport, but not anymore.
After stopping by a retention basin in the park that's more reminiscent of a Louisiana swamp than it is of Orange County, Mensinger talks to Jonathan Schiesel, a resident he often sees during these walks. Schiesel has a morning routine as well: picking up trash as he walks about the area.
"There's a lot of people out there, just doing the right thing. Nobody's looking," Mensinger says.
The group exits the park, heads down Victoria toward the Santa Ana River and passes through a fence near Victoria Pond — another one of Mayberry's hidden jewels, Mensinger says.
"They said walk, not hike!" exclaims Kirk, later saying with a smile, "It's all good."
They head north along the Talbert Nature Reserve, a county-run park that, while well-maintained, isn't easily accessible by car.
The 40-some benches there and relatively isolated grassy space would be perfect for Scouts, Righeimer says: "They could get their camping merit badges."
The snow-capped mountain ranges of the Southland can be seen in the distance along the riverside trail.
After snapping a photo of an empty horse corral on his phone, Mensinger and the group tread up the hill into Fairview Park and past its newly unveiled Wetlands & Riparian Habitat.
After walking through Estancia's fields and past Jim Scott Stadium, the group is back in the parking lot, 950 calories burned, 2 hours and 17 minutes later and 6.5 miles traveled, according to "Walkmeter."
"It doesn't seem like two-and-a-half hours," Kirk remarks, to which Mensinger replies, "Never does."
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"I am very skeptical," says Ron Heck, ASA president. "Just because it's a law in Brazil doesn't mean that there will be any enforcement. Growers have been illegally planting pirated Roundup Ready soybean seed right under the government's nose for more than six years."
While the Brazilian government appears to be acknowledging that there has been almost exponential growth in the illegal planting of Roundup Ready soybean varieties over the last six planting seasons, and that glyphosate-tolerant seed will again be planted over an increasing area of Brazil, the government's measure is only temporary and puts many decisions off until next year, the commodity group says.
Speaking on behalf of the American Soybean Association's 25,000 members, Heck, a producer from Perry, Iowa, says, "At best, this is only a small step in the right direction if it ultimately leads to a long-term strategy for biotechnology, and adequate enforcement of intellectual property rights for seed technologies in Brazil."
According to Heck, Brazil's acting President Jose Alencar has signed a presidential decree authorizing the planting of genetically modified soybeans in all of Brazil for the 2003-2004 growing season.
"It is our understanding," he says, "that the decree also allows for sales of the crop coming from the biotech-enhanced seeds until Dec. 31, 2004. Farmers planting and commercializing biotech seed between now and Dec. 31, 2004 will have to sign a document pledging to not buy seeds of untraced origin in the future."
ASA says that because Brazilian growers are obtaining their glyphosate-tolerant seed illegally, they are gaining a $9.30- to $15.50-per-acre competitive advantage over U.S. growers from by failing to pay the royalties for patented seed technology as U.S. growers must.
The Brazilian decree reportedly does not allow for the sale of new biotech seed, but rather allows farmers to plant the illegal seed they now have on hand, and would allow the Brazilian Agriculture Minister to extend the cutoff date for commercializing biotech seeds in Brazil, under condition that the farmer can demonstrate the origin of those soybeans.
"I'd like to know how the farmers are going to prove the origin of the soybeans when the seed they are planting was obtained illegally," Heck says. "On the other head, one potentially positive result of this action is that Brazilian farmers and traders will no longer be able to give international customers the illusion that all Brazilian soybeans are 'non-GMO.'"
"We strongly support a farmer's access to legally obtained biotech-enhanced seed," Heck says. "It seems obvious that Brazilian growers appreciate the benefits of biotechnology just like producers in the United States, as witnessed by the widespread use of the technology in Brazil. The big difference right now is that Brazilian growers aren't paying for it."
About 80 percent of the soybeans in the United States were grown from transgenic seed this year. Nearly 99 percent of the soybeans soon to be planted in Argentina, 70 to 90 percent of the soybeans to be planted in Southern Brazil and 30 to 40 percent nationwide will be transgenic varieties, the American Soybean Association reports.
Collectively, these three countries produce more than 90 percent of the world's soybean exports.


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The custom R9's have arrived
Subject: Graphics Cards | October 10, 2013 - 03:29 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: radeon, r9 270x, GCN, sapphire, toxic edition, factory overclocked
We saw the release of the reference R9s yesterday and today we get to see the custom models such as the Sapphire TOXIC R9 270X which Legit Reviews just finished benchmarking. The TOXIC sports a 100MHz overclock on both GPU and RAM as well as a custom cooler with three fans. While it remains a two slot GPU it is longer than the reference model and requires a full foot of clearance inside the case. Read on to see what kind of performance boost you can expect and how much further you can push this card.
"When it comes to discrete graphics, the $199 price point is known as the gamer's sweet spot by both AMD and NVIDIA. This is arguably the front line in the battle for your money when it coming to gaming graphics cards. The AMD Radeon R9 270X is AMD's offering to gamers at this competitive price point. Read on to see how it performs!"
Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X WindForce OC 2GB @ eTeknix
- ASUS Radeon R9 270X Direct CU II TOP 2GB @ eTeknix
- MSI Radeon R9 270X Hawk Edition Video Card Review @HiTech Legion
- Gigabyte R9 270X Windforce @ LanOC Reviews
- Sapphire R9 280X Toxic Edition OC 3GB @ Kitguru
- MSI Radeon R9 270X GAMING 2GB @ Benchmark Reviews
- AMD Radeon R9 280X / R9 270X from ASUS and MSI @ Hardware.info
- ASUS R9 270X Direct CU II TOP @ Kitguru
- Gigabyte Radeon R9 270X OC 2GB Video Card Review @ HiTech Legion
- ASUS R9 280X Matrix Platinum @ Kitguru
- Will it Crossfire? R9 280X & HD 7970 Scaling Tested @ Hardware Canucks
- AMD Radeon R9 280X Graphics Card Review @ Techgage
- AMD Radeon R7 260X Versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost @ Legit Reviews
Sapphire Launches 6GB TOXIC 7970 Graphics Card
Subject: Graphics Cards | July 17, 2012 - 12:02 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: toxic edition, sapphire, radeon, overclocked GPU, gpu, 7970 ghz edition
GPU add-in-board partner Sapphire Technology has launched a new factory overclocked graphics card based on the AMD 7970 GHz Edition GPU (which we did a live video review of recently). That particular chip is built on the 28nm Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture and brings several improvements over the initial (non GHz Edition) 7970 GPU. The main difference between the two is that the GHz variant is a higher binned part that also features a new GPU boost technology similar to NVIDIA's dynamic overclocking function. The new Sapphire Toxic card takes that chip and pushes it to the max with two levels of factory overclocked settings.
Packing the company's custom dual 90mm fan and heatpipe-equipped Vapor-X cooler, the HD 7970 TOXIC Edition features 6GB of GDDR5 memory, 2,048 stream processors, and a 7970 GHz Edition GPU. Out of the box, the card has a base GPU clockspeed of 1050 MHz and a boost speed of 1100 MHz. On the memory side of things, it runs the GDDR5 at 6,000 MHz (effective). When you press a button – which the company calls the Lethal Boost Button – the base clockspeed becomes 1100 MHz and the boost speed becomes 1200 MHz. The Lethal Boost also overclocks the memory to 6400 MHz (effective).
The card also includes a 12 layer black PCB with a new eight phase power design package for the GPU and an additional power phase for the VDDCI and MVDD along with other high-end goodies to deliver the stable voltage necessary for the high factory overclocks. Rear IO on the graphics card includes two DVI ports – one dual link and one single link – one mini-DisplayPort, and one full-sized HDMI port. In all, it is a dual slot card and measures 275mm in length, and 115mm wide. You will be able to purchase the Toxic edition card for $680. It looks like a really good card, but it's not cheap.


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Tweed Council places a 20 year moratorium on any dam proposal at Byrrill Creek effective from 15 May 2012.
The Save Byrrill Creek Campaign does not endorse the raising of the dam wall height of the Clarrie Hall dam as an alternative to building a new dam at Byrrill Creek. We are opposed to both dam options and any further erosion of the Tweeds bio diversity, further loss of habitat for threatened species, flooding of Aboriginal sites, fragmentation of wildlife corridors, destruction of endangered ecological communities and the inundation of lowland rainforest in Mebbin National Park which also includes the loss of the access to the National Park for tourists. We are also concerned for the spiritual integrity of the whole Mt Warning complex and the web of Songlines.
Currently the Tweed is allocated 27,000ML of water under the current water sharing plan with the present population consuming between 12 and15,000ML of water annually. There is no threat to water supply and availability. What is of concern is the approval of the mega size greenfield developments on the Tweed coast which are not required to be fitted with a dual reticulation recycled water system, large rain water tanks or any stormwater harvesting system. The rain that falls on the roofs and roads of these developments does not percolate into the ground to replenish groundwater supplies but will flow in drains, uncollected and unfiltered into estuaries and rivers that are already polluted with too much runoff. With no water saving measures except for those outlined in the antiquated BASIX requirements [ low flush toilets and low flow shower heads ] and a target population for 2036 that is unsustainable we are being manipulated into believing that the conservation of our natural resources is an impediment to progress. If we allow our iconic koalas and platypus to decline not to mention all the other species on the edge of extinction, cripple our eco tourist potential and devalue our Tweed Caldera landscape for the sake of expanding the population beyond sustainable limits then what do we have left if we destroy everything that makes the Tweed unique?
It is also worth noting that the largest housing estate that the Tweed has ever seen costing $3 billion at Cobaki is going ahead without dual reticulation recycling or stormwater harvesting and recycling or large rainwater water tanks. Because no water saving initiaves are being employed, some Tweed Councillors are still pursuing a dam at Byrrill Creek.
Where is Byrrill Creek ?
TWEED COUNCIL MEETING 10th DECEMBER 2015
At last night's Council meeting we resolved on a negotiated position to address Tweed's future Water Supply.
The following Mayoral Minute was passed on the casting vote of the Mayor Katie Milne.
Councilors supporting the motion were K Milne, G Bagnell and B Longland.
Mayoral Minute Water Supply Augmentation
1. Based on the information currently available, Council adopts the raising of the wall of the CHD as the preferred option for future water security and proceeds with the planning approval & land acquisitions phase for the project.
The rescision motion to remove the 20 year Moratorium on a dam at Byrrill Creek was defeated by the withdrawal of support for this motion by Councilor Longland and with the Mayors casting vote.
Councilor Byrne withdrew her proposal to approve preliminary plans to move forward on both Byrrill Creek Dam & the raising of Clarrie Hall Dam Agenda Item 32 Page 213
Media release: 11 December 2015: Dr John Kaye NSW Greens
The decision by Tweed Shire Council to abandon plans to lift the moratorium on building a dam on Byrrill Creek is a great victory for households, the community and the environment, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Dr Kaye said: "A Byrrill Creek dam would have been the very worst option.
"It would have been both economically and environmentally irresponsible to push ahead with it.
"A lot of hard work clearly went into negotiating a very constructive outcome.
"The Tweed population has been well served by those who showed the flexibility and depth of understanding to step away from the Byrrill Creek option and to push ahead with an independent review of the options.
"Raising Clarrie Hall Dam would be a far less damaging project than the Byrrill Creek proposal.
"However it should still be assessed against other less damaging water management options before any money is committed to it.
"Tweed households should not have to pay for any dam they don't need. When there are lower cost alternatives, they should be fully developed before any money is spent on large-scale construction.
"The review is likely to achieve a much more credible and lasting outcome with the reconvened Community Working Group playing a key role in developing the terms of reference and the selection criteria for the consultants.
"It's a great testament to the Tweed community and their political and campaigning skills that they can turn around what looked like a certain loss into a big step forward for water planning in Northern NSW.
Council Meeting Thursday 10 December 2015 Agenda Item 31 Page 212
Byrrill Creek Dam Site
Councillor C Byrne, B Longland and W Polglase hereby give notice that at the next Ordinary meeting of Council we will move that the resolution from the meeting held on 15th May 2012 at Minute No 314 Item No 49 title Cr D Holdom] Byrrill Creek Dam Site
Moratorium being:
"that Council places a moratorium on any dam proposal at Byrrill Creek for a period of the next twenty (20) years, effective from 15 May 2012. " be rescinded.
COUNCIL MEETING 19th NOVEMBER 2015
Tweed Council Staff Report recommending the Adoption of the Raising of Clarrie Hall Dam as the preferred Water Augmentation.
Its item 24 on the Agenda Staff Report:
Result of Council Meeting
The Council defers the decision until the February 2016 Meeting.
A copy of a presentation to Council at Community Access on Nov 19th by Joanna Gardner is available here
Environmental Effects of the proposed Dam
The area in the vicinity of the proposed dam is comprised of Myrtaceous Riparian Low Closed Forest to Woodland which is classified within a Rainforest category & occurs as a Riparian Community. It comprises a low closed riparian forest to woodland community found in a relatively narrow band fringing creeks or in gully sites within sclerophyll forests. Tweed Veg Management Strategy allocated it a High Conservation Status 2, which is considered rare, comprising less than 0.7% of all bushland, with most of the best examples within Byrrill Creek.
In the Tweed Riparian Restoration Prioritisation Report, of the 6 subcatchments of the Tweed, 86 sites were surveyed & ranked. Byrrill Creek ranked the highest Conservation Value, with an average 70% and Diversity, 79%. Within the top 30 high priority sites,10 are in the BCk catchment. Most of these sites (except Cedar Creek sites) will be affected by the proposed dam site. Of particular concern is Site Rank 4 (BYBY2), which is within the proposed dam wall construction site & runs 300metres upstream of the dam site. Another site, (BYBY4), ranked as number 1 priority within the Tweed, is approx 800 mts downstream of the dam wall and would be severely affected by reduced water flows of the dam upstream. Further sites downstream would not be as severely affected as Cedar Creek would provide extra water flow. Be that as it may the whole riverine eco system of Byrrill Creek would be affected by the proposed dam. The dam wall site is at the northern end of a beautiful natural lagoon, where daily sightings of platypus occur. The entire length of Byrrill Creek is a prime habitat for platypus.
Impacts would fall into different categories:
Aboriginal Heritage Sites within the Catchment Area
There are several sites of Aboriginal Cultural significance on the Council land, which would be inundated. Sites include: a ceremonial site, camp site & burial stes. It is interesting to note that when Boodjeragali', an Aboriginal Organisation, applied to Council to look for cultural artefacts on their land in 2002 they were denied access.
The Bigger Picture
The Byrrill Creek area is geologically part of the inner dyke complex of the Mt Warning Massif. As a World Heritage listed area, scenically beautiful, it comprises the southern side of Wollumbin, a spiritually significant site to the boriginal people and to residents who live in its shadow. Residents & tourists could no longer travel in a scenic circuit around Mt Warning as there would probably be no access. A dam would destroy the integrity of the whole mountain complex'.
Toxicity within the Catchment
There are 2 abandoned Dip sites within the proposed catchment area. The Byrrill Creek Dip at the eastern end of the Council land and the Maybeirne Dip at the western end. Toxic chemicals (many banned these days) may have leached into the surrounding soil and ultimately pollute the water quality if the dam is approved. Uncle Harry Boyd was concerned about the Dips at the Uki Water Options Meeting.
Spraying of Groundsel & other weeds
For many years from 1984 council commissioned their land to be sprayed with 24D and 245T, the active constituents of Agent Orange, which would have residual effects in the soil, and affect water quality.
Impact of a Dam on Byrrill Creek
Impacts would fall into several categories:
Hydrological changes and inundation associated with a dam obviously have profound impacts on the ecology of a waterway both upstream and downstream of the wall. All aquatic and riparian organisms are adapted to the flow regime within which they are found, as flow predominantly defines the habitat type. This statement applies as much to a small aquatic invertebrate living on the underside of a rock as it does to platypus or the type of trees lining the banks of the stream. Some organisms have a broad range of tolerance, that means, they can live almost anywhere, but others are very specific. In high conservation value environments with high biodiversity, like Byrrill Creek, it is common to find a large number of organisms with very specific habitat requirements.


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Hormel Pursues Green-Building LEED Certification for Plant
For a new shelf-stable meals plant, Hormel will pursue green-building LEED certification. Well follow the plant throughout the process.
"Ten years ago, when we didn't even know what sustainability meant, being efficient was just a matter of doing what's appropriate and what made financial sense in terms of energy savings," says Larry Pfeil. Today, the 36-year veteran of Hormel Foods (www.hormelfoods.com), Austin, Minn., and vice president of engineering heads a team building one of the most efficient, eco-friendly plants in the food industry.
The plant, which broke ground July 25 in Dubuque, Iowa, is designed to gain certification under the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program (www.usgbc.org), which establishes guidelines for sustainable, environmentally friendly buildings.
Targeted for completion in November 2009, the $89-million, 342,000-sq.-ft. facility will add needed capacity for the company's Compleats shelf-stable, microwavable meals as well as for future expansion. Operated by Hormel through a wholly owned subsidiary, it may become the first USDA-inspected food production plant to gain a LEED silver, gold or platinum designation based upon the total credits or points it earns for its "green" practices in six areas:
- Materials and resources (13 points)
- Indoor environmental quality (15 points)
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Silver, gold and platinum point levels are set at 33, 39 and 52 respectively upon project completion. To maintain certification, the plant also must maintain and document follow-up practices.
Officials from Hormel, Gleeson Constructors and city of Dubuque, Iowa, broke ground July 25 on the $89-million, 342,000-sq.-ft. plant, which should open in November 2009.
To date, few food and beverage facilities have gained LEED certification, and fewer still — only two are on-record — are processing facilities: a PepsiCo Gatorade bottling plant in Virginia and Kettle Foods' potato chip factory in Wisconsin, which Hormel engineers visited for early fact-finding (see sidebar,"Early LEED adopters"). Distribution centers and warehouses are easier to get LEED-certified.
Lacking a directly applicable plant whose example they could follow, Hormel's top management gave engineering the green light and a blank sheet of paper to blaze a trail consistent with its corporate sustainability goals.
To get their plans on paper, Pfeil and Chad Sayles, supervising staff engineer, turned to longtime partner, design-build firm Gleeson Constructors LLC (www.gleesonllc.com), Sioux City, Iowa, and worked alongside Ron Rens, Gleeson executive vice president, and Tyler Manker, project manager. This is the first LEED project for both Hormel and Gleeson; both Hormel's Sayles and Gleeson's Manker studied and obtained LEED Accredited Professional status.
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If LEED were a roadmap, it would include major highways and points of interest but not the local streets. The program has a few different rating systems for specific applications such as residential building, commercial and schools, but there are no specific guidelines for manufacturing and none for food.
"Figuring out how to apply LEED to our project was one of the biggest challenges," Sayles says. For example, in areas dealing with energy optimization, point levels are benchmarked against standards set by ASHRAE, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning, which doesn't always apply to food processing.
"For most of the energy and most of the water consumed in our facility, there is no baseline published in a standard," says Sayles. "You can't look under 'R' for retort to find a design standard that will let us say, 'Our retort is 15 percent more efficient,' so we can get the LEED points for that improvement." It's unlikely there will ever be such standards for retorts, fillers and other specialized machinery and process equipment, especially since many are customized models.
"It would be nice if LEED had a modified rating system for manufacturing plants the way it does for office buildings or schools," Rens adds. "But we look at it this way: The cost of energy isn't likely to come down. And whatever you can do to reduce your energy use is just good business, whether or not you get a LEED point for it."
Overcoming the challenges of early adoption entails both risks and rewards. There are, however some mechanisms in the LEED program that mitigate that risk. A "credit interpretation request" process may allow Hormel to work with program administrators to devise an appropriate rating where no benchmark exists. Additionally, the Innovation & Design Process area of LEED leaves open opportunities to earn Innovation in Design points when a project demonstrates a "substantial, environmental-friendly design practice that goes above and beyond the standard criteria," Manker says.
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Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
Although I'm not related in any way, I've been unofficially adopted into my best friends' families. Which makes me pretty well connected. Mention nearly anyone's name from my hometown, and chances are Dani is related somehow. It seems like half the town is her cousin. While Kelli's family tree doesn't branch out quite as much as Dani's, she's still got a plethora of relations to add to the mix. (I'm jealous of the amount of girl cousins she got to play with growing up.) As an adopted member of each clan, I get invited to all the family functions. It's almost assumed that I'll be showing up to nearly all of Kelli's family picnics and parties—with enough desserts to warrant my own table. And Dani's family has been known to make her get up from Thanksgiving dinner to drive me over to celebrate with them (even though I was already stuffed from my own dinner!). So when Kelli threw a going away party for her brother, Jason, who was moving to Florida, of course I was there—cookies in hand.
I made peanut butter cookies because Jason doesn't like chocolate (which is just utter crazy-talk if you ask me. Who doesn't like chocolate?). I made these once before a long time ago (pre-blog era), and have been meaning to make them again. The dough turned out a bit softer than I remembered, but once I started rolling it out, it was alright. Just make sure to use a spatula to transfer them to the baking sheets, or they'll totally lose their shape! Also, the filling was a little too light and fluffy for my liking. It tasted great, but the first bite sent it squishing out the sides. Next time, I might not add as much heavy cream. Or add a bit more confectioners' sugar to stiffen it up a bit. All in all, the cookies were a hit. They're the perfect sandy texture, and have a big peanut butter taste without being over the top. They'd also be great to fill with chocolate ganache or spread with your favorite jam for a PB&J cookie, perfect for the lunchbox.
Adapted from Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook
Makes about 3 dozen cookies
2 cups all purpose flour
½ teaspoons baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
¾ cup (1 ½ sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
¾ cup smooth peanut butter
½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup packed light brown sugar
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Peanut Butter Filling:
6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
¾ cup confectioners' sugar
¾ cup smooth peanut butter
3 tablespoons heavy cream
1. In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream together butter, peanut butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar, beating on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla, beating to combine, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture, beating until just combined, about 1 minute.
2. Divide dough in half and shape into two flattened disks. Cover disks with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 30 minutes or up to overnight.
3. Preheat the oven to 325F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats; set aside. (If refrigerated overnight, let dough stand for about a half an hour at room temperature to soften slightly.) On a clean, lightly floured work surface, roll out dough to about ¼-inch thickness. Using a 1 ½-inch square or circle cutter, or just a sharp knife, cut out dough. Transfer shapes to prepared baking sheets, placing 1 inch apart. Reroll scraps as needed. (My dough was really soft, even after refrigerating, but it held together enough to roll out and cut fairly well. I had to use an offset spatula to transfer my squares to the baking sheets though.) Using the tines of a fork, press a cross hatch pattern into the squares. Refrigerate baking sheets until dough is firm, about 15 minutes.
4. Bake, rotating sheets halfway through, until squares are lightly golden brown around the edges and firm in the center, about 15 minutes. All to cool on cookie sheets for about 2 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
5. While cookies are cooling, make filling: In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat together butter and peanut butter until smooth and creamy. Add confectioners' sugar and beat until smooth and fluffy, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed. Add heavy cream, a tablespoon at a time, until filling is thick and fluffy.
6. Pipe or spread frosting onto the bottom part of one cookie. Top with a second cookie.
5 comments:
- sarahe said...
these look wonderful! and i understand about the lack of family thing...i mean, i have two siblings who are within 5 years of my age, but we were never close, and i only have one cousin who is eleven years younger and lives in texas (and i'm in ky)! hubs family is busting w/kids though--8 between his 2 sisters! if we have kids there will be no lack of family around!
- March 9, 2011 at 10:22 PM
- Kiesha said...
Big families can be a nightmare sometimes. I've got about 50 first cousins and who knows how many second cousins. I wouldn't be able to identify all my cousins by sight.
- March 9, 2011 at 10:56 PM
- Heather said...
these look amazing. i'm making these. TODAY!!
- March 10, 2011 at 12:20 PM
- Heavenly Housewife said...
Peanut butter sandwich cookies are my favorite cookies in the world (specifically nutter butters). This recipe is also on Martha Stewart's ipad app. I have to make them.
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- March 11, 2011 at 4:00 PM
- Lisa said...
I love chocolate, but peanut butter is right up there as well on my list of faves. Your sandwich cookies look totally tasty. I have a sweet treat linky party going on at my blog and I'd like to invite you to stop by and link your cookies up. http://sweet-as-sugar-cookies.blogspot.com/2011/03/sweets-for-saturday-8.html
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It's time for your DVR to get as smart as your iPad. If designers get it right, energy use from household electronics will stay under control without sacrifices in features.
By necessity, mobile devices, such as tablets and smart phones, need to be clever about power, just like an efficient hybrid car uses many tricks, such as turning the engine off when idle, to sip less gas.
By contrast, always-on electronics devices, such as set-top boxes, DVRs or often game consoles, operate as if they were going top speed at all times. As more devices in the home, such as thermostats and security cameras, get connected to home networks, this always-on power is poised to push electricity bills up.
But the solution isn't to just turn stuff off, say experts. Similarly, fixating on cutting stand-by power to TVs and PCs, while significant, doesn't fully address the bigger problem of always-on, networked gear.
Instead, plug loads need to take a cue from the mobile world and learn how to slip from "wide awake" to sleep mode gracefully. And rather than have your Xbox or Playstation game console operate at full blast when it's playing a DVD, electronics should scale their power to what's needed for the task, say experts.
"Off is a very 20th century idea," said Bruce Nordman, a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who works on electronics and efficiency.
Nordman is a fan of adding a sleep mode to more items, whether they be cable modems or TVs. Cutting the power altogether on these devices, which many people are unlikely to do anyway, sacrifices functionality at a time when more devices are getting connected.
"As things become more networked to each other, there are reasons why you want to stay networked so they keep working. For example, a front door security camera needs to wake up the TV to show who's at the front door," he said.
Also, turning some items off with a remote doesn't necessarily decrease the power consumption significantly. In many cases, turning DVRs off simply turns the indicator light off, but the machine's innards continue to operate at nearly full steam, said Chris Calwell, research fellow at Ecova, a company which does testing and research on energy efficiency.
Using power strips to shut off power will completely shut down devices and smart power strips have different plugs, allowing a person to have one device, such as a TV, maintain stand-by power but cut stand-by to peripherals. But in some cases, waiting for a lengthy boot up can be impractical, said Nordman.
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Not surprisingly, power use from electronics is on an upward trajectory. That's the opposite of large appliances that are consuming less and less energy due to regulations and increased labeling.
PCs, TVs, and related electronic equipment now consume between 10 and 15 percent of household energy on average, or roughly as much as refrigerators and dishwashers.
With more devices entering our lives and getting connected to home networks, power use from electronics is projected to be one of the fastest-growing categories in the years ahead, according to the Energy Information Administration.
There has been significant progress in making electronics thriftier with energy. Electronics "leak" less power than they did a few years ago when power supplies would draw as much as 10 watts even when they were idle. Now, because of mandatory efficiency standards and voluntary labels, such as EnergyStar, power supplies in most parts of the world are efficient, said Calwell.
PCs and displays have also gotten more energy efficient over the past years and have power management settings that improve energy efficiency. In the corporate world, standards such as Energy Efficient Ethernet mean that compliant devices will ramp up power usage based on their workload, or how much data they are sending.
"Power scaling," or having power use match workload, needs to now come to other plug loads in the home, such as home routers, Calwell said. So instead of having your gaming PC draw hundreds of watts as if it were maxing its processor, the PC should only use a fraction of that power when sending e-mails or browsing the Web.
"That's the revolution that hasn't come yet. Devices are not smart enough to shut off things that they are not doing and make power use proportional to how much work they are doing," Calwell said.
This happens routinely in the mobile world where processing cores on smartphones are dedicated to certain tasks and turn off when idle to save battery life.
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San Bernardino >> Police Officer Gabriel Garcia's condition remained critical Sunday at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, while his colleagues planned a prayer service this evening.
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Today and Tuesday the two men who were arrested after the early Friday shootout are expected to appear in San Bernardino Superior Court.
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Orlando Cruz, 24, was also taken into custody after the shooting, but his arrest is unrelated to the shooting incident.
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"There is no change in Officer Garcia's status at this time," Lt. Rich Lawhead, spokesman for the San Bernardino Police Department, said Sunday morning.
The man who shot Garcia was shot and killed by a trainee police officer during the gun battle. The trainee's name has not been released.
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Otwin Kandolf said the brown trout he caught recently in New Zealand looked like a submarine because it was so long and abnormally fat. The behemoth, caught in a canal near a salmon farm, weighed 42 pounds, 1 ounce. It's the heaviest brown trout ever caught in New Zealand and could land Kandolf in the book of world records.
The weigh-in can be viewed here, via Channel 3 News.
"I just couldn't believe it. It looked to me like a submarine," Kandolf told the news station. "Very ugly, small head, big belly … Just amazing."
The Channel 3 News report states that the fish is three pounds short of the world record. However, that report is erroneous as the International Game Fish Association, which keeps world records, lists a 41-pound, 8-ounce brown trout as the all-tackle world record.
That specimen was pulled from Lake Michigan in 2010.
If Kandolf submits his catch to the IGFA, and it's approved, Kandolf will be recognized as the world-record holder.
[Related: The biggest fish ever caught from a kayak.]
The trout measured 36.6 inches long and 10.6 inches wide. Apparently it got so plump, and heavy, by feeding on pellets that drifted downstream from the salmon farm.
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Laguna Beach's 4th annual World Hunger Bowl event on Saturday raised money for the city's homeless alternative sleeping location. The event raised about $10,000, according to founder and volunteer Faye Chapman.
During the three-hour fundraiser at Aliso Creek Inn and Golf Course, attendees sampled five soups from local restaurants, and they took home a bowl made by local students. Entertainment was provided by the Jamie Browning Band. The event was sponsored by the city's Housing and Human Services Committee.


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