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Campaigns begin 1 year from abortion referendum
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Anti-abortion rights activists are planning a high-dollar fundraiser next week to kick off their campaign for a constitutional amendment next fall that would give lawmakers more power to restrict access to abortions.
Republican state Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey is hosting a reception and dinner at a Nashville hotel Monday to support the proposed amendment, which seeks to void a 2000 state Supreme Court ruling. The court threw out mandatory 48-hour waiting periods for abortions, along with requirements that clinics provide detailed information about the procedure and that all but first-term abortions be performed in hospitals.
The ruling prevented lawmakers from re-enacting those laws and from passing other restrictions. For example, Republican lawmakers this year considered a bill to require ultrasounds before abortions, but the proposal was delayed pending the outcome of next year's referendum. One of that measure's main sponsors, Republican state Sen. Jim Tracy of Shelbyville, is running for Congress this year.
In an invitation to the fundraiser, Ramsey urges supporters to pay between $1,000 for two tickets and up to $50,000 to be named chairman of the effort to stop Tennessee from being what he called an "abortion destination" for people from neighboring states. Organizers said they have already raised more than $250,000.
"The passage of this amendment will restore the constitutional silence on abortion that was usurped by liberal judges and allow Tennessee to place reasonable, common sense restrictions on the abhorrent practice of abortion," Ramsey said in an email to The Associated Press.
Jeff Teague, president of Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee, said abortion rights advocates will also mount a vigorous campaign against the amendment.
"It's absolutely going to be a fight," he said in a phone interview. "It's been our experience that when people find out about it they get very concerned. They get concerned about privacy rights and an attack on women's rights"
The full language of the proposed constitutional amendment reads: "Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion.
"The people retain the right through their elected state representatives and state senators to enact, amend, or repeal statutes regarding abortion, including, but not limited to, circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest or when necessary to save the life of the mother."
Teague called the language of the proposed amendment "deliberately confusing people to think there are exceptions."
Brian Harris, president of Tennessee Right to Life, said his group will work to counter any opposition to the amendment.
"We're going to work very hard that every pro-life Tennessean is turned out on election day and that we give everyone who's undecided on the issue every reason to vote in support of amendment," he said.
The campaigns surrounding the abortion referendum come at the same time as a legal fight over restrictions enacted by Texas lawmakers this year.
A federal judge ruled Monday that key elements of the Texas law place an unconstitutional burden on women seeking to end a pregnancy. They include a provision requiring abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital less than 30 miles away. It would have led to about one-third of the state's 38 clinics that perform abortions to close.
Federal judges in Wisconsin, Kansas, Mississippi and Alabama also have found problems with state laws prohibiting doctors from conducting abortions if they lack hospital admitting privileges.
Tennessee lawmakers last year enacted a requirement for physicians performing abortions to hold hospital privileges in either the home county of the woman seeking an abortion or an adjacent county.
"It's obvious it has the same intended purpose, which is to put some unnecessary restrictions on abortion providers," Teague said.
The law has caused clinics providing abortion services to close in Knoxville and Memphis, though no legal challenge has been filed in the state, Teague said.
Ramsey, the Senate speaker, disagreed, calling the law a "common sense regulation most rational people on both sides of the abortion issue accept as necessary and proper."


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The following was posted here on TCB 10/24/13, I feel with the traffic it has been garnering that it should be reposted at the top of the cue for the time being. It is worth comment and questions…
The post below is from Matt Chaney's Blog, re-posted (in part) here with his permission. We are posting it here not as an endorsement, rather as an opposing view that is worth the read. Our commentary on this article by Chaney will be below this post. We encourage everyone to see the entire post on his blog. You can view it by clicking on the hotlink, it is titled; 'Heads Up Football': Truth, Tales and Legal Consequences. *Chaney has moved his blog and we are efforting the current link of his original article. However, he does read the comments from time to time so if you have question leave it here and he may get to it.
By Matt Chaney
Posted Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Peter King posits bogus hitting technique as Safer Football in Sports Illustrated
—geezuz, the further we go in this latest football crisis, the worse many people become, willingly, on behalf of the sexy blood sport… and so Peter King of SI skips along, telling us bona fide prevention is possible for football's irreversible head-ramming… a new post by the Hall of Fame football scribe portrays Heads Up 'proper contact' as legitimate; King purports this theoretical headless hitting can be instilled by coaches, enforced by referees, adopted by players… I'd like to see King demonstrate on a football field, suited-up himself for forward collisions governed by physics and bullet-head helmets; he'd ram, too, or get his ass kicked… look, folks, players cannot govern or stop ramming on a football field; rather, forces of the crazy game dictate human behavior… forget talk and trust your eyesight, especially naïve parents and kids, to understand Heads Up 'technique' is invalid, unreliable, a lie, nothing new: it's mere rehash of musty old 'head up' form hitting, proven invalid since the 1960s… here's King, introducing his discussion:
What's been eye-opening to discover is the trickle-down effect from the NFL to youth football. As the pro league emphasizes safety more and more, so do high schools around America. … Coaches are concerned; 41 of 49 polled [by SI] said they have modified training techniques because of increased education about concussions and head trauma.
—sure, trickle-down effect will reform football danger, once again… solution for brain trauma in the collision game is just around the corner… like trickle-down 'steroid awareness' for football's immense problem with anabolic substances… King continues:
Several high school coaches emphasized the NFL teaching new tackling techniques, such as "Heads Up Football," which teaches coaches to train kids to tackle with heads up—instead of using the helmet as a battering ram. Said Middlebury Union (Vt.) coach Dennis Smith: "In any drills we're doing—whether it be fundamental drills at the beginning of practices, especially defensive practices—we're always stressing head up. You have to be able to see what you're tackling." … Said Brandon (Miss.) coach Brad Peterson: "We always start the year, whether spring or fall, with walking through the proper techniques of tackling." … The coach of E.O. Smith High in Storrs, Conn., Jody Minotti, said he knows he can't prevent every concussion, but he trains his players to minimize the risks. "We do less contact throughout the week and we teach proper tackling," said Minotti. "We preach in practice all of the time, 'Bite the ball. Bite the ball.' That means keep your head up and don't ever lead with your helmet. We film tackling, we talk about tackling whenever we're watching film."
—huh, these coaches don't address the facemask dilemma, the prime fault of football rules behind the charade of Heads Up, 'proper contact,' 'head up technique,' 'anti-butting' or whatever term… this toothless policy and language have been a football mandate since 1976, for high schools and the NCAA… the rules specifically ban not only the helmet shell or 'crown' for use at initial impact but likewise forbid the facemask… and that's impossible for modern tackle football with shatterproof headgear… but these coaches surely know that, the vast majority having played themselves amid the goofball technique and rules, as did Peter King and NFL commissioner Dollar Roger Goodell… yet they all parrot and push this dangerous junk theory, Heads Up… fact is, any kid who trusts this method and runs straight up on a football field, head back, thrusting chest to meet traffic, only gets hammered by opponents' strikes with helmets and facemasks… or parents trust the talk only to see their young players learn to ram, anyway, for negotiating brutal football reality… leading to lawsuits versus individuals and public institutions… so thank you now, Roxanne Jones, former ESPN executive, for rebuking the NFL on point in your commentary for CNN.com:
Stop endlessly denying the findings of medical science that say playing football can cause permanent brain damage. End the lies. Just admit we have a problem. That is the first step. Stop the slick marketing campaigns to keep telling our children all they need is to learn a "safe way to hit in football," while denying each hit comes with a dire consequence.
This relationship is toxic. If my beloved NFL continues to lie and deny while men and boys are suffering and dying, then it's time for this fan to say good-bye.
Said 'head up' contact causes brain bleeds and broken necks
—a provocative communication dynamic envelops tackle football in litigious America, 2013, and that's the official talk, or doublespeak, surrounding critical casualties of collisions, those players lethally injured by football… every year between fifty and a hundred such cases emerge in my Google searches, mostly news reports, of life-threatening wounds and conditions for football damage to central nervous system, internal organs and extremities [i.e. the latter for blood clots, artery rupture]… thus far in 2013, at least five high-school football players have died of collision injuries nationwide, with a sixth case possible, pending an autopsy conclusion in California… the fatality numbers are typically single digits for collision deaths since the 1970s in American football, a marked reduction thanks primarily to trauma care's widespread establishment in American society since the 1980s, with an assist from skull-preserving helmets, and thanks for nothing from alleged 'proper tackling,' that stupid myth masquerading as mortality prevention… anyway, in most cases anymore of grave injury and death by impact, officials disclaim involvement of illicit hitting; instead, they say, the contact was 'routine,' 'head up,' 'proper' [or they blame the injured player]… last spring in Louisiana, for example, prep running back Jaleel Gipson died of a broken neck sustained during an 'Oklahoma Drill,' the notoriously head-on practice setup where initial contact by one player's helmet or facemask, at least, is virtually guaranteed… yet the school principal says Gipson ran 'head up' into the onrushing tackler, who came 'with his shoulder as textbook' for legal contact… on and on goes the story, 'clean hitting,' same spin around intensive-care casualties of tackle football… meanwhile, video of the incidents is hardly ever available…
[…continued in full HERE…]
Chaney brings up great points and highlights the misnomers of changing technique. You can hear it on the TV or radio if you choose to listen to NFL pundits – notably former players like Mark Schlereth. The biggest of which is that the head is part of the game of football, it always has been and always will be when making tackles.
Is there a safer way to tackle? Certainly, when there is a "kill shot" available to the players, instead of lowering head like a battering ram and launching into the player; the "head across the bow and wrap" should in most cases suffice. However, in that "safer" technique the head is still leading the player to the tackle. It will always get in the way and it will always have risk associated with it. As Chaney notes above, if a player does all he can to remove his head from the play when attempting a tackle, most likely they will be steamrolled by the ball carrier. If not by their head, their shoulder. A full on chest tackle by the defender will be met with – at best – a shoulder. In this case the ball carrier is lower and will win that battle. Sure the player may make the tackle but at the cost of yards, precious yards in situations.
I am all for eliminating the spearing and effectively using the helmet as a weapon, it's a safety "thing" for both parties involved in a one-on-one tackle. I also agree there is no need to target any player above the shoulders to which I think we are all in agreement.
I believe that by trying to change the narrative from what is truly the problem here with concussions we are doing the injury and those that have had the injury a massive disservice.
The massive issue is not the injury of concussion, that is going to happen, folks. The elephant in the room is how the injury is being managed from the identification all the way to return to play.
Maturity of the skeletal and muscular system, along with full understanding of the risks involved with collision sports need to be addressed (see above as Chaney tells us that there have been FIVE fatalities already this year). It should be noted that the brain continues to develop until late teens and early 20′s in human beings. Seeing that we only receive one brain and modern medicine has yet to find a way to repair a brain – where as we can fix broken bones and torn ligaments – we should listen to all sides in this evolving issue.
One thing I do not want to see happen is the removal of this sport all together. I still hold out hope that football as we know it can continue for adolescents through adults. However not grasping the issue at hand will only delay the conclusions of Matt Chaney. Football can continue, but we must at least acknowledge the stylings and opinions of people like Chaney or we will all fail in seeing the other side.

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"Skype's new release, Skype 5.0, came with Facebook integration, meaning you can access your Facebook account directly from the new Skype application interface," writes Nadeem Unuth on his VoIP blog.
"Are also integrated several features that favor unified communications. You can for instance make calls to your Facebook contacts directly from your Skype application if they have their phone numbers in their profiles, using your SkypeOut credit. You can make free calls if your buddies have a Skype account and are receiving the calls from within their Skype application on the other end. You can do things the other way round too, i.e. sign in your Skype account on Facebook," Unuth writes.
Click the link below to read the full posting:
Accessing Facebook Directly From Skype, and Vice-Versa


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by Barry Chamish
In part one, I wrote about the close ties of Prime Minister Netanyahu and Mitt Romney, and the amazing acquittal of the previous prime minister Ehud Olmert of deep corruption charges. If you missed the article, just go to my website to catch up.
In this, part two of the saga, we discover that the last two prime ministers of Israel owe their power to murder: Netanyahu blackmailed the Rabin murderer, Shimon Peres, on the road to takeover, while Olmert finished off Sharon.
As fantastic as some of you may view these claims, I ask you to consider my evidence for a few moments without your unjustified prejudices: Of Netanyahu, do I have a personal tale to tell:
I was on court, front and center, for the rigging of the 1996 Israeli elections by Netanyahu. Now follow closely, I rarely have the opportunity to be nostalgic.
On April 3, 1997, I was supposed to lecture at Hebrew University on Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin, organized by my still formidable friend, Brian Bunn. As it turned out, the Labor Party led by Knesset member Eitan Cabel, and the secret service, Shabak, organized a violent rally against me that turned me into front page news. The intent was to humiliate me, the result was to start my new career as a political crimes writer. Not that I'm thanking them. They didn't mean to and it's an insecure life. Not that there aren't rewards, like you reading this.
The morning after the riot, I received a phone call from Yaacov Mor. He introduced himself as, "The economist for the Minister of Welfare And Social Affairs, Eli Yishai." Today Yishai is the leader of the Shas Party. Mor continued, "But I previously worked for the Shabak. What I want to know is what you have that made the Shabak try to bury you."
So I invited Mor to my home to see my evidence. Back then I had some 80 documents, not the 2500 I ended up with, but they were devastating in proving Yigal Amir did not shoot Rabin. I had the police ballistics results showing that Rabin was shot at point blank, something Amir could not have physically done, and I had the hospital reports declaring that Rabin was shot 3 times, and once from the front, neither of which Amir was responsible for.
Yaacov was a naturally sympathetic fellow, and without hesitation I handed him my evidence collection, which he read in silence over the next half hour. When he finished, he put his right index finger vertically over his lips and used his left hand to guide me outside. When we reached the street, he said, "I'm not talking in your house. You have to be thoroughly bugged. Do you know those documents are authentic?"
I said I did.
"Then why didn't you get a job in Nepal or have an 'accident?' Do you know how high up this murder had to go?"
I answered that I did know how high up it had to go.
"I'll tell my Minister what I saw and I'm sure he'll contact you."
The next morning Eli Yishai's secretary called me. "Minister Yishai would like to have your documents and in return, will give you the most important story of the Rabin assassination. Do you agree?"
Indeed I did. In fact, I would have given the documents anyway, that's how much I still believed in the inherent honesty of the political system. That would change for good in the next two days.
Bright and chipper, Yaacov picked me up for the cheery ride to building Kirya 3, opposite the Knesset, and home to Eli Yishai's office. I made a little error, giving my documents to the secretary before I closed the deal. She guided me into a small office, closed the door, and I heard a vigorous conversation in the hall outside. Finally, the Shas Spokesman, Yisrael Sudri, then 24 or so, and today I believe he holds the same job, came in, shut the door behind him and sat down.
"The Minister could not attend the meeting," he announced, "But he wants you to know that he backs every claim I will make."
A bit of a comedown but I accepted the arrangement, like I really had a choice.
"It's about the 1996 elections…Netanyahu didn't win. Peres won by 3% just like all the polls had it. But the Likud had documents, and we think you've collected some of them. We're sure of it, actually. In February of '96, the leaders of the Likud met the leaders of Labor for a frank discussion of the elections. The Likud presented the documents, then someone, we think Netanyahu, held a few in his hand and said, 'If you bring up the name of Yitzhak Rabin even once in your campaign, we'll release these to the media." Netanyahu lifted another bundle of documents and said, 'If Peres wins our tv debate, we'll release these." Finally, he takes all the documents and says, "And if Peres wins the elections, we'll release them all."
"Now, I don't have to remind you that Rabin's name was not mentioned once in Labor's campaign and that Peres looked like a scary monster on the tv debate. But how could the election results be faked? We are going to leave you the name and phone number of a Tel Aviv law school PhD candidate. His thesis is on the '96 elections. He'll tell you."
I arranged to meet the PhD lawyer-to-be at a very empty and remote Tel Aviv restaurant. We sat in the remotest table and he made his voice inaudible at a range of five meters, in fact he almost whispered the whole meeting. It turns out, it didn't help.
"This Labor-Likud partnership destroyed over 160,000 votes for Peres, and replaced them with spoiled ballots."
Back to the present. That's almost 5% of the vote spoiled. In the 2001 elections, there was a highly publicized campaign to deliberately spoil votes as a protest, and 'only' 61,000 were spoiled.
"Think back to the election night. Peres is declared the winner by all the polls but refused to address and thank his crowd in Tel Aviv. But at midnight, a smiling Netanyahu addressed a half empty rally in Jerusalem promising them that by morning he will be Prime Minister. Then at 2 AM, the revolution in vote change appears out of nowhere. By the morning, Netanyahu wins. He knew the results were fixed."
I added an obvious thought. "So the Likud's documents proved Peres murdered Rabin?"
He gazed at the table and answered, "Is there another possibility?"
The lawyer-to-be added, "I trust you. I have strong proof that the vote destruction was organized by Interior Minister Chaim Ramon. Contact me tomorrow and we'll meet again to see my thesis."
The next day, he called me. "I got a phone call. We can't meet." I asked, "Do you mean today?" He replied, "I mean ever." He banged down for good and I don't recall his name.
But I told his story to audiences whenever I felt it was appropriate. The usual reaction was, "So why didn't Netanyahu use the documents to get rid of Peres and Labor for good?" The answer is Labor and Peres have enough information on Netanyahu to have made this a one election deal. That'll do until and if the whole story is ever told by someone who was there.
Then, in Bet Shemesh in 2001, I told the story to a crowd of over 80 and one response hit the jackpot. The man added, "I was an election poll supervisor and when the polls closed, we took votes for Peres out of the boxes and burnt them out back. We replaced them with spoiled votes and resealed the boxes. I never understood who allowed this to happen, but I didn't want Peres elected so I played ball."
As for story back-up, my Bet Shemesh organizer was David Morris. Another 80 people heard the truth about this man's polling station at the lecture. As for Sudri, I chose to expose him after he appeared at Peres' 80th birthday bash. I was protesting outside when he appeared. I told him, "How could you celebrate Peres? I know what you told me." He
walked by, then turned around and shouted, "You're ruining the country."
Now we turn to Olmert and the end of Ariel Sharon:
Dec. 19 Prime Minister Sharon shares drinks with Shimon Peres in the Knesset. Within half an hour, Sharon is driven to hospital unconscious. It took him a day before he could even spell his own name. He was brought into the hospital by his bodyguard, Yoram Rubin. As a good chunk of Israel knows today, it was the Peres-Rubin team that murdered Yitzhak Rabin. When Rubin was shown on television news accompanying Sharon's stretcher, suspicions spread throughout the country.
For two days, Sharon remained in hospital where he underwent intensive tests. We may ask, how did they miss the blood clot that struck Sharon barely two weeks later?
Just to let you know, the very strange circumstances of Sharon's end were gaining midstream attention. I was planning a new book on this murderous conspiracy, but as Sharon faded, I suffered nearly deadly incidents that drove me from Israel and away from the evidence. Look how AP reported his suspicious demise:
The Associated Press
Friday, January 13, 2006; 8:39 AM
JERUSALEM — Ariel Sharon's doctors faced new criticism Thursday for failing to divulge a brain disease discovered after the prime minister's initial stroke and for prescribing blood thinners that may have contributed to a massive second stroke.
The criticism added to a growing chorus of questions about Sharon's treatment.
After Sharon, 77, suffered an initial, minor stroke Dec. 18, doctors put him on Clexane, an anticoagulant. At a news conference a few days later, doctors acknowledged blood thinners increased the risk of brain hemorrhage, but said the fear of a clot leading to another stroke was greater in this case.
The debate gained momentum after the Haaretz daily revealed that Sharon also suffered from cerebral amyloid angiopathy, known as CAA, a disease common in the elderly that weakens the blood vessels in the brain and increases the risk of hemorrhage.
Doctors confirmed they knew about the disease after the first stroke, but prescribed the blood thinners anyway, a move outside experts criticized Thursday.
"If someone has a disease that caused bleeding, that causes bleeding, that could cause bleeding in the future, giving anticoagulants … is certainly an undesirable situation," said Amos Korczyn, head of the Tel Aviv University Medical School's neurology department.
Doctors were prescribing the Clexane until they could seal a small hole in Sharon's heart they said caused Sharon's first stroke. Clexane, or enoxaparin, is sold as Lovenox in the United States. But some experts questioned that theory and said the initial stroke was more likely caused by Sharon's brain condition. Sharon suffered his massive stroke a day before he was to undergo the procedure to seal the hole in his heart. "The likelihood is that the hole in the heart was of no relevance," said Dr. Anthony Rudd, a stroke specialist at London's St. Thomas' Hospital. He said CAA could have caused the first stroke.
Ariel Sharon was murdered and the murderers took over the country. On Dec. 18 he shared tea with Shimon Peres in the Knesset and was wheeled into the hospital a half hour later by the murderer of Yitzhak Rabin, the bodyguard, Yoram Rubin.
There, Sharon was poisoned. Though he suffered from CAA, or weak brain blood vessels, he was diagnosed with a mild stroke and sent to his Negev home with blood thinners. On Jan. 3, Ehud Olmert was the last person to see him alive. Sharon granted Olmert three hours the next morning to be prime minister while he was in Hadassah Hospital and then Olmert applied the poison. Barely two hours later, Sharon, the prime minister, was not Medivaced to Jerusalem, a fifteen minute flight, nor was he rushed to nearby Soroka Hospital. Nope, he suffered a two hour ambulance ride with Rabin's shooter Yoram Rubin by his side. When Sharon arrived at Hadassah, who greeted the him first but Shimon Peres? And Israel was stuck with a new prime minister because of a finely worded contract to name Olmert as such for as long as Sharon stayed in hospital. He is still there, alive and hopeful, awaiting a brain transplant.
So that's the situation. Olmert, who was never even Likud member number 40 is now number one in Kadima and Peres in number two. They have plastered together a party of political criminals, all of whom will join together to destroy Judea and Samaria when the new government it leads begins to function. The damage began on Jan. 11, "when Olmert announced that Shimon Peres would be the first invited to sit in his new cabinet."
And then, voila, Olmert became a peacemaker:
http://www.jnewswire.com/library/article.php?articleid=945Reports Thursday said that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has
invited Olmert to visit Washington DC, probably sometime next month.
And on Wednesday evening Bush called Olmert by telephone and told him
that he intended to make sure the vision he and Sharon shared of
Israel surrendering more land for the sake of peace became a
reality. Olmert responded that if elected, he would be working side by side
with the American to realize the birth of a Palestinian Arab state on
the ancient Jewish lands of Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
And that's the situation today. Netanyahu, complicit in the Rabin murder coverup, is prime minister, while the planner of Rabin and Sharon's demise, Shimon Peres is president. Meanwhile, Olmert, a prime suspect in Sharon's coup de grace, is released from severe corruption charges. I am in America, against my will, while they all enjoy ultimate power over my country.
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Sounds like James Bond could be getting even moodier than his last brooding outing in Solace: The latest writer on Bond 23 is known for his heavy dramatic work, but we're hoping he ushers in the return of Brioni days.
MGM has just announced that screenwriter Peter Morgan, who penned The Queen, The Last King of Scotland and Frost/Nixon, is joining up with past Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade for the 23rd film in this franchise.
Producer's Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli commented via release:
"Peter, Neal and Robert are extraordinarily talented and we're looking forward to working with the three of them."
Morgan is a great writer, and we have full confidence that he can take Bond's quips to an elegant and biting word-play high. He's also known for his serious dramas, so let's hope he can help out balancing the action with interesting character development. Also, we're hoping for a little style to be injected back into our mystery man and — fingers crossed — Morgan can elevate the dialog from the last film (He's Bond for goodness sakes! He doesn't just steer women into the bedroom with a nod like cattle). This is a good score for the movie... It all hinges on the choice of director now.
Daniel Craig is confirmed for the picture, but they have yet to set a production date.


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Delphi user and Kylix enthusiast Simon Kissel (Kissel is the author of CrossKylix) has written a sharp critique of Borland's developer tool strategy.
He says few are buying Borland's .NET tools. They buy Delphi for its native code compiler, and need new features like Unicode and Win64 support. Borland (or DevCo) by contrast is focusing on .NET, but is failing because it cannot keep pace with Microsoft.
I am about 75% in agreement with Kissel. In addition, the splitting of DevCo from Borland, presuming it eventually completes, changes the dynamics in favour of native code. If you put ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) at the centre of your strategy, that pushes you towards .NET, which is great for Enterprise development. If you split off the pure development tools from the ALM side, that gives more voice to the non-Enterprise developers, where .NET has less appeal.
However, a key issue not covered by Kissel is that Win32 development is in decline. That decline will accelerate once Vista and .NET Framework 3.0 become widely deployed (admittedly that will take a couple of years at least). Another factor is the continuing growth in web applications and rich internet (or "smart client") applications, for which Win32 is ill-suited. It would be tough for Borland to bet its future on a declining market.
Further, Kissel makes too much of how "The other big market player in native RAD Land, Microsoft, has just left the fields." That's true only up to a point. Microsoft has abandoned native code VB, but then again VB was never close to Delphi as a native RAD development tool; it did eventually get a native code compiler but always had big runtime dependencies and difficulty in making full use of the Windows API. In addition, Microsoft still has Visual FoxPro (more RAD than native) and Visual C++ (more native than RAD), so it hasn't altogether abandoned the field.
What's clear though is that Borland can't continue with a .NET strategy based on supporting .NET features a year later than Microsoft. And it has to make more of its native code tools – though it actually took a big step in that direction with Delphi 2006, which is excellent for Win32 work.
I feel a little bad here. I said some years ago that Borland should embrace .NET. Still, I did also say this:
However, and it is a big hesitation, to prosper with .Net Borland needs to do more than simply build a Delphi for .Net at its own rather leisurely pace. To succeed the company needs to capture and pursue a vision of what .Net can do; RAD for the Enterprise, .Net beyond Windows; or whatever.
At the time I was hoping Borland would get 100% behind Mono and come up with elegant cross-platform .NET tools. That has never happened; though perhaps it still could.


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I write poetry as a mode of inquiry, of response, of sounding out, of feeling out, of thinking through, of joining in; I write poetry to communicate and not to communicate—for as D.W. Winnicott wrote, "it is joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found." I write poetry because "I have wasted my life" (James Wright). I write poetry because, as Mahmoud Darwish said, as Valéry said, a rhythm seizes me. I write poetry and write about poetry to transmit this seizure to you. I write poetry because I mainly don't write music and definitely don't write philosophy; I write poetry because others wrote poetry. I write about poetry because I write poetry. I write poetry because it's useless. I write poetry to remember I am alive, that we are alive, and to feel the air around us: "My purpose here is to advance into/ the sense of the weather" (Lisa Robertson). I write poetry "since/ our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown" (Elizabeth Bishop). I write poetry because my friends dead and alive wrote poetry and because, as Wordsworth wrote, "The immortal Mind craves objects that endure." Whether any poem I have written will endure, whether any of the contemporary poets whose work I admire will endure, whether any traces or hopes of any of us will long endure, only futures beyond our knowing will know. For now, following Emily Dickinson, let's "sing to use the Waiting."
Maureen N. McLane is the author of World Enough: poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) and Same Life: poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008). Her book of experimental prose, My Poets, is forthcoming from FSG in June.


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An ongoing problem for research organizations is the ability to accurately and easily identify and link researchers and scholars with their professional activities. Who are the experts? How can we accurately benchmark our research strengths and impact? How can we systematically identify the intellectual outputs produced by faculty? How do we keep our repository up to date? How can we efficiently comply with the myriad of record keeping requirements from funders and accreditors? Even if organizations implement local faculty profile or research information systems, these require ongoing (and frequently manual) updates, and the information does not travel with a researcher as they move between organizations or even departments.
ORCID solves both of these problems. ORCID provides individual researchers and scholars with a persistent unique identifier. ORCID also provides a mobile record for managing research activities. Further, ORCID is working with a range of stakeholders to integrate ORCID identifiers into research workflows such as manuscript and grant submissions, and to provide system-to-system processes for updating activity records


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Joaquin Miller Park has its own nursery, run by the Friends of Sausal Creek. The east side of the nursery is cut into a hillside of pure serpentinite. That probably keeps the weeds down, but nothing can be grown in it either.
Volunteer there, and you can experience California's state rock yourself at close range. Or join the Butters Canyon Conservancy and see some there.
I just got back from a week in New York. They have a little serpentinite in the state, on Staten Island mostly, but where I was the land is limestone, sandstone and black shale in broad, level beds. Some of it is a little bluish. But this stuff, with its unearthly color, tectonic significance and weird habitat, is pure California to me.
Earth Science Week starts tomorrow. Take a closer look at and underneath your land.


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Pressure cookers are great in a pinch, they let you braise or stew at the last minute on busy weeknights and most dishes are done in under an hour from start to finish. On the other hand, slow cookers do the dirty work for you, braising all day, allowing you to come home to a fully cooked meal. But when it comes to time, texture, and taste, which vessel prepares a superior dish? To find out, we cooked identical batches of beef stew in a pressure cooker and a slow cooker, then compared the results.
Time: Both vessels required the same amount of prep time for chopping veggies and browning beef. The slow cooker was set to low and cooked 8 hours, during which time nobody had to tend to it. The pressure cooker was done in about 50 minutes, taking 15 minutes to come to pressure, 16 minutes to cook, and about 20 minutes for the pressure to drop naturally, but someone had to stay nearby the entire time.
Texture: Cubed beef emerged from the pressure cooker moist and tender while the slow cooker meat tasted dried out and overcooked. Veggies were a different story however. Carrots from the pressure cooker came out soft and mushy while those from the slow cooker maintained their shape, even bordering on being too crisp. Small white potatoes came out tender but not overcooked from both.
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Taste: For overall taste, the pressure cooker was the hands-down winner. Beef, carrots, and potatoes all retained their rich flavors. After 8 hours in the slow cooker, they emerged bland and seemed to need salt. However, the gravy from the slow cooker was much richer and tastier than that the gravy from the pressure cooker.
The Verdict: While the pressure cooker prepared a superior tasting dish, it all comes down to how you want to spend your time. The slow cooker is great for hands off cooking. The pressure cooker is fast and provides a better result, but you need to be in the kitchen the entire time it's on the stove.


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Senator Roger Wicker to Speak at Grand Opening of MSU Science and Technology Center
October 9, 2012
STARKVILLE, Miss.--U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker will be the keynote speaker at the grand opening ceremony for the new Mississippi State University Science and Technology Center at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County.
The ceremony will take place Oct. 16 at 10 a.m.
The $9-million research facility funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the new home for the university-led Northern Gulf Institute and researchers from MSU's Geosystems Research Institute.
Other tenants include NOAA's National Coastal Data Development Center and an Engineering Branch of NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service.
Science and technology conducted at the center focuses on critical processes in the northern Gulf of Mexico including measurement and monitoring, physical and biological assessments, and impacts on the social and economics of coastal communities. Additional capabilities exist to evaluate watershed processes, hazards such as floods and storm surges, and impacts on food production associated with harmful fungi.
In addition to Wicker, the program will also include MSU President Mark E. Keenum and David Shaw, vice president for research and economic development, along with officials from NASA and NOAA.
Shaw says the 38,000-square-foot building has enhanced the abilities of MSU in addressing the pressing needs of this region.
"The research and educational programs developed at the MSU Science and Technology Center are nationally acclaimed, and the commitment to this new facility by NOAA and MSU is a strong example of our plans for continuing and expanding these efforts," Shaw said.
Computer resources and support are provided for the center by MSU's High Performance Computing Collaboratory. According to HPC2 director of computing Trey Breckenridge, computer resources and technical support are the lifeblood of the new NOAA Exploration Command Center located in the MSU Science and Technology Center.
"The new ECC at our MSU Stennis location is one of only seven in the world and provides a two-way communication system that allows scientists on research vessels at sea to collaborate with scientists on shore as they all view live, high-definition video streams from remotely operated underwater vehicles exploring Earth's oceans," Breckenridge said.
EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: Contact Sheila Ashley at 228-688-4218 for additional information and assistance with security clearance at the Stennis Space Center.


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First Details On The Walking Dead: 400 Days
Telltale Games has been teasing the release of its 400 Days DLC, which it's calling a special episode. Today at E3, the team showcased one of the character's stories.
Telltale decided to give fans 400 Days to provide "connective tissue" between seasons one and two. You must already have season one to play the DLC. Telltale also recommends you don't jump into 400 Days without playing any of The Walking Dead, since the decisions you made in season one have an effect on 400 Days, and your choices in 400 Days impact season two. The DLC features five different character stories and provides their viewpoints of the zombie apocalypse. All stories start on different days and will cover the ground from day one all the way to 400, and you can also play the stories in any order and discover interesting ways in how each of these stories impact one another.
The Georgia highway is a key place where all the action occurs, but you also slowly watch the world fall apart in the progression of the different days. For instance, a diner may look perfectly normal in one scenario, but then in another the windows are all boarded up for protection against the vicious zombies outside. Also, as the apocalypse unfolds, expect different mental states of characters to reflect the situation at hand.
This morning, Telltale demoed Vince's story, which starts on day two. From the start, the atmosphere is tense with somebody begging Vince for their life as he shakily holds a gun. Vince shoots and runs away. We don't get to see him get captured, but next thing you know Vince is on a bus in a orange suit, clearly now a convict. Great dialogue ensues as Vince chats with two of the other prisoners, whose legs are also in shackles connected with one another. The natural dialogue stands out, as the prisoners start off joking, but then begin to discuss their crimes. Both characters challenge Vince's morality and values, asking him questions about his crime. Depending on how you answer for Vince, the now iconic "Danny noticed that" message comes up on the corner of the screen. You have options to flat-out lie or boast about your circumstances along the way.
Soon enough, the prisoners' conversation is broken up by a fight on the bus as a convict attempts to strangle another. The tense feeling of someone's life in your hands – the pull that The Walking Dead is known for – is right here in this DLC. As Vince, will you step up? What can you do shackled in the moment? As a character screams at Vince to take action, saying, "Where's your empathy, man!?" The dialogue questions you.
More harsh lessons are learned and dealt as the demo goes on, abrupt gun fire and deaths keeps the shock value high. Then you're forced to make some tough choices between characters you've only known for a few moments. Who will you sacrifice and who do you want at your side? The way you build alliances and being forced to make in the moment decisions is Telltale's bread and butter, and the company is capitalizing on it wonderfully in Vince's story.
For now, Telltale said some characters may or may not show up in season two depending on how you play this special episode. But everything you know and love from about Telltale's The Walking Dead is right here again. Waiting to toy with your emotions and forcing you to make unattractive choices just to stay alive seems just as unnerving. This early peek proves Telltale knows its fans and what's at the heart of The Walking Dead.
The DLC releases in July for $4.99. However, those planning on picking up the Vita bundle will have to wait until August.
This preview was originally published on June 11, 2013.


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By Marty Graham
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Several thousand suburban San Diego residents forced to flee a wildfire threatening their community were allowed to return home on Friday as firefighters gained ground against a swarm of blazes burning in and around California's second-largest city.
The conflagrations, which marked an intense, early start to California's wildfire season, have scorched more than 30 square miles or nearly 20,000 acres of drought-parched brush this week across San Diego County, leaving dozens of homes damaged or destroyed.
A burned human corpse was found Thursday at a homeless encampment overrun by flames in the coastal town of Carlsbad, although officials said they had yet to confirm whether the individual was killed by the fire.
Two teenagers were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of setting two small fires that bystanders quickly extinguished. But police said they had no immediate reason to link the youths to any of nearly a dozen larger brush fires that raged throughout the county this week.
By morning, fire crews had managed to carve containment lines around 10 percent of the fiercest of the blazes, which has blackened some 3,000 acres since erupting on Wednesday near the town of San Marcos, north of San Diego, fire officials said.
The latest containment figure was double the 5 percent reported on Thursday amidst an unseasonable mix of record triple-digit temperatures, low humidity and hot, dry Santa Ana winds blowing in from the desert.
"We haven't seen this in 25 years, where we're fighting wind-driven fires in May," said Mike Mohler, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Firefighters benefited from a break in the weather, as Santa Ana winds gave way to a cooler, moister and calmer flow of air from the coast, officials said. A further cooling trend forecast for the weekend was expected to help tame the blazes.
A U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman said fire crews had gained "a pretty good handle" on most of the fires, which forced as many as 125,000 people from their homes during the week.
One of the most damaging of those fires, in Carlsbad, was 85 percent contained on Friday. But it left property losses estimated at up to $15 million, including eight houses gutted, an 18-unit apartment building destroyed and an adjoining apartment house heavily damaged, city officials said.
Three more houses were confirmed as destroyed in San Marcos, where evacuation orders were lifted Friday for some 4,600 people in two neighborhoods but remained in effect for the bulk of homes threatened by that blaze, officials said.
Authorities were investigating how so many fires started about the same time and whether any were intentionally set.
"We all have suspicions, like the public does, when you have ... fires that started all over the county," San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said.
A series of four fires at Camp Pendleton Marine Base north of San Diego prompted evacuations of several outposts within the installation and led commanders to send non-essential personnel home on Friday.
(Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Cynthia Johnston, Bernard Orr)
[Image: Firefighters drag hoses as the Las Pulgas Fire approaches military structures on Camp Pendleton, California in this May 16, 2014 handout photo from the USMC. REUTERS/Cpl. Sarah Wolff/USMC/Handout via Reuters]


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Thousand Island Dressing is that tasty "special sauce" that elevates salads and burgers and Reubens everywhere. And guess what? Homemade Thousand Island Dressing is super easy to make.
In fact, it is so easy to make thousand island dressing that I'm sort of kicking myself for ever buying it ready-made. Five minutes and a little chilling time in the fridge, and you've got a tangy, zesty, "secret" sauce that's equally at home on a piled-high burger as it is atop a nice, simple bed of greens.
It's far less expensive than store-bought and it tastes, well, 1000 times better.
In this Article
- Thousand Island Dressing Ingredients
- How to Make Thousand Island Dressing
- Frequently Asked Questions about Thousand Island Dressing
- Jump to Full, Printable Recipe
- Recipe Reviews & Comments
Thousand Island Dressing Ingredients
What's in Thousand Island Dressing? My recipe calls for ketchup, mayo, and relish; along with some finely minced onion and garlic. Then a bit of vinegar, salt, a dash of hot sauce if you like, and bam. Homemade Thousand Island.
How to Make Thousand Island Dressing
Just mix the ingredients together in a small bowl – yup, that's it! The flavor develops when you refrigerate it, so it's even better when you can make it in advance.
Frequently Asked Questions about Thousand Island Dressing
Why is it called Thousand Island Dressing?
When I first shared this recipe, I didn't know why! But some research turned up that "the name presumably comes from the Thousand Islands between the United States and Canada in the St. Lawrence River. In the Thousand Islands area, one common version of the dressing's origins says that a fishing guide's wife, Sophia LaLonde, made the condiment as part of her husband George's shore dinner." (source)
Reader CJ shared, "They call it Thousand Islands Dressing – originally known as Sophia's Sauce because the recipe originated in the Thousand Islands. This unique and once the play ground of the very rich during the gilded age was and is a fisherman's paradise. Today, although and nonetheless beautiful, and still a vacation destination, like most of upstate New York, the evidence of poverty can not be denied … I have a copy of the original, hand written recipe …"
Reader Kathy also shared, "Just wanted to let you know that Thousand Island dressing comes from the Thousand Island area of up state NY. Where are over a thousand island in Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. Fishing guides would take them out to fish and then cook them a 'shore dinner' One of there wives came up with the recipe. They lived in Clayton NY and who can still go there and get the original dressing..I grew up there and when I moved I realized most of the country had no idea that's how it originated."
Scroll down to read the comments for even more interesting information about the origin of Thousand Island Dressing.
How can I pep up this Thousand Island Dressing recipe?
- Many people like to add a finely diced hard boiled egg to the recipe, in fact, the original recipe (mentioned above) apparently included that. The egg adds a nice rich texture.
- Worcestershire sauce adds some nice flavor. One reader adds that and a pinch of ground cloves! Sounds delicious.
- Others like to use tomato sauce or tomato paste instead of the ketchup – the tomato paste would add a nice concentrated tomato element along with a bit of that coveted umami flavor.
- Many readers like to add some horseradish for a nice bit of zip. Others add a bit of cocktail sauce or even substitute the ketchup completely with cocktail sauce.
- To spice it up, add a dash of Tabasco as the recipe suggests. One reader adds chili-garlic sauce; another loves Sriracha. Yum!
So many ideas to make it your own!
If I don't have sweet relish, can I use a different type of relish?
Yes! Dill relish is also delicious, or you could even finely chop some sweet or dill pickles and add them to the mix. We had a reader report using a spicy zucchini relish with success too! Make it your own.
Can I use onion powder instead of fresh onion?
Absolutely! I have not yet tried it this way personally, but a reader reported 1/4 teaspoon onion powder worked well.
Does Thousand Island Dressing have dairy?
No, this recipe is dairy-free.
Does Thousand Island Dressing have eggs?
Mayonnaise has eggs, so, yep! But you can use a vegan mayonnaise to omit the eggs.
Is Thousand Island Dressing vegan?
No, it is not, because the mayonnaise has eggs. But it's a really easy swap – just use Vegenaise or another fave vegan mayonnaise instead of the classic mayo. Done!
Homemade Thousand Island Dressing
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons ketchup
- 2 tablespoons sweet pickle relish
- 2 teaspoons finely diced onion (I use red onion but yellow or white would work just fine)
- 1/4 teaspoon finely minced garlic (about half of a small clove)
- 1 teaspoon white vinegar
- 1/8 teaspoon kosher salt plus more to taste
- 2-3 dashes Tabasco sauce (optional)
- Add all ingredients to a small bowl and mix well. Taste and add additional salt if desired. Refrigerate for at least an hour to allow the flavors to meld. Serve.
- Keeps refrigerated for up to a week.


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The help commands to get information about a key sequence are
C-h c (
describe-key-briefly) and C-h k
C-h c key displays in the echo area the name of the command that key is bound to. For example, C-h c C-f displays 'forward-char'.
C-h k key is similar but gives more information: it displays a help buffer containing the command's documentation string, which describes exactly what the command does.
C-h K key displays the section of the Emacs manual that describes the command corresponding to key.
C-h c, C-h k and C-h K work for any sort of key sequences, including function keys, menus, and mouse events (except that C-h c ignores mouse movement events). For instance, after C-h k you can select a menu item from the menu bar, to view the documentation string of the command it runs.
C-h w command <RET> lists the keys that are bound to
command. It displays the list in the echo area. If it says the
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I got this very interesting question from a colleague who prefers to remain anonymous due to the nature of the question:
Dear Erin,
You being from the Left Coast (California) and all, and being well-versed in the mechanics of our fine industry...have you heard of this practice? A filmmaker (director/writer), collaborates with actors to write a film of any length, featuring said actors with characters based on their types. The director then collects money from the actors, in proportion to their screen-time -- leads pay the most, day players the least -- hires a professional crew and goes about shooting, editing, and finalizing the film for festival submissions.
I'm told this is all the rage in Los Angeles.
How say you?
- Eager on the East Coast.
Howdy! What a contentious topic. I can see why you'd prefer to present the question in "Dear Abby" format! I have heard of this... it is very similar to theater "membership" companies who charge actors a monthly fee in exchange for having stage time. The actor's membership dues pay for the actual production of their shows, and often pay for the salaries/stipends of the producers and crew members.
The practice of paying to create work is not a new one- in the best cases it is called "self producing." But the problem with what you are describing is that actors are not being brought on as producers- they are paying for the "privilege" of having a role to perform. Without a producing credit, the actors have no authority over the script, over the direction, over the editing, or over the final product. And, yet, the actors are the ones making the production financially possible. For that reason, I think that this practice of charging actors is deplorable.
From a fellow actor's perspective, it is frustrating to think that a "professional crew" would be hired, but the actors are expected to shell out money to work. Why is the actor's role valued so little? In part, it is because producers know that there are more actors than parts available, and actors will do almost anything for their "big break." So, in effect, many actors allow themselves to be marginalized. But there's also another side to this - crew members almost never work for free. While many actors will bend over backwards to volunteer their time (or even pay for the possibility of work), most crew members refuse to take on jobs without compensation. The producers you mentioned know they need a "professional crew" in order to make the film happen and, thus, they are willing to offer paying work. Added bonus- they know they can find actors who will pay to be a part of the project. One hand feeds the other, and the producers get their film made.
In my opinion, the lesson here is less about the producer's actions (which, again, I think are deplorable) - it's more about actors standing up for themselves and commanding respect. Sure, every actor starts out needing to take as many roles as they can get (even non-paying ones) in order to build up their experience and skill set. But when other members of the team are being paid for their time, the actor needs to take a step back and ask, "Why not me, too?"
That all being said, if the actor is still willing to "pay to play," I think it is a good idea to request an actual producing credit, or at least have some say in the final product. For example, script approval or "final cut" authorization might be some of the things negotiated by actors who are contributing money to the project, or a percentage of net profits down the line. The more actors speak up and negotiate for what they feel they are due, the easier it will be to raise the standard of conduct toward them.
Erin Cronican's career as a professional actor and career coach has spanned the last 25 years in New York City, Los Angeles and San Diego. She has appeared in major feature films and on television, and has done national tours of plays and musicals. She has worked in the advertising & marketing departments of major corporations, film production companies, theater magazines, and non-profit acting organizations. To learn more, check out http://www.theactorsenterprise.org.


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Pulled Pork in the Oven (or Slow Cooker)
Three weeks ago we hosted a family reunion for my cousins. With about 25 people attending, I decided to make it a potluck party. I made Pulled Pork in the Oven, a recipe that I had found on the Eating Well website. One of my cousins brought more than enough fantastic chocolate cupcakes for dessert, and everyone else brought a wonderful assortment of appetizers, salads, side dishes, and wine. It was one of the easiest parties ever, and we all had a great time visiting and catching up with each other!
The original Pulled Pork in the Oven recipe makes 12 (3-ounce) servings. I could have gotten away with doubling it, but I wanted to be sure to have enough food, so I tripled it. We had more than enough, and plenty for leftovers.
I bought slider rolls, which turned out to be the perfect size to use when you have a lot of other great dishes to sample at a party.
What I love about this recipe is that it is so easy! Once you get the sauce made, it just does its own thing in the oven. You don't have to fuss over a barbecue for hours. Pulled Pork in the Oven is a great recipe if you ever have a crowd to feed.
One more thought….if you're a fan of slow cookers, I don't see why this couldn't be done in one. Just prepare the sauce as directed on the stove, then put the sauce and the roast in the slow cooker and cook on low for 8 – 10 hours. I haven't tried it, but I think I just might sometime.
Pulled Pork in the Oven
(Adapted from a recipe from Eating Well)
This is the original recipe; it makes 12 (3-ounce) servings. Double or triple the ingredients to serve more people.
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 large onion, diced
2 tablespoons chili powder
1 tablespoon cumin
2 teaspoons paprika (I used hot paprika)
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
12 ounces beer, preferably lager (1½ cups)
¾ cup ketchup (I substituted ¾ cup unsweetened ketchup plus 1/3 cup maple sugar)
¾ cup cider vinegar
½ cup Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 canned chipotle pepper in adobo sauce, minced, plus 1 tablespoon adobo sauce
1 (4–5 pound) pork shoulder roast (I found that bone-in and boneless both worked.)
Slider buns or bread of your choice
Pork shoulder roast, sometimes called Boston butt
1. Preheat the oven to 300˚.
2. Heat the oil in a large oven-proof pot over medium-low heat.
3. Add the onion, and cook, stirring occasionally, until the onion is quite soft. This will take about 20 minutes.
4. Increase the heat to medium. Add the chili powder, cumin, paprika, and cayenne. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute.
hot paprika
5. Add the beer, ketchup, vinegar, mustard, tomato paste, chipotle pepper, and the adobo sauce.
6. Bring the sauce to a boil; reduce the heat and simmer until it has thickened slightly, about 10 minutes.
This photo shows my simmering sauce when I tripled it. It filled an 8-quart pot.
7. Trim the visible fat from the pork while the sauce is simmering.
8. Add the pork roast to the pot of sauce, spoon the sauce over the pork, and put a cover on the pot.
(If you're doubling or tripling the recipe and you can't put the pork in the pot, put the pork roasts in a roasting pan. Pour the sauce over them, and cover with heavy duty foil.)
3 pork roasts in a roasting pan
9. Put the pork in the preheated oven and bake for 1½ hours.
10. Turn the roasts over; cover and bake for 1½ more hours.
11. Remove the cover and continue to bake until it is fork-tender, or for 1 – 2 more hours.
12. Take the pork out of the pan and put it in a large bowl.
13. Let the sauce cool a bit, and then skim off some of the fat. Cook the sauce over medium heat so it can thicken and reduce a bit.
14. While the sauce is cooking, pull the pork into shreds using two forks.
15. Add some of the sauce to the pork and stir it together. You'll probably have more sauce than you need to blend with the pork. Extra sauce can be served on the side for those who want more.
16. Serve hot on slider buns, or the bread of your choice.
August 26, 2011 2:17 pm
Glad I have a few crockpots-makes pulled pork a cinch. Your recipe here does look flavorful-thanks for sharing.
August 26, 2011 4:25 pm
My bf would love this. I love how you can just throw stuff in the slower cooker and it does all the cooking itself. Super easy!
August 26, 2011 5:45 pm
Oh, I bet the house smells amazing while this is cooking! Looks marvelous!
August 27, 2011 4:19 am
Great spice mixture. I really like setting this type of thing in my slow cooker and going out for the day and returning to a great aroma.
August 27, 2011 6:42 am
What a great way to feed a crowd. 250 people!!!!!!!! Cudos to you for pulling it off. I can't wait to try this. Might even do it this weekend. I bet we could slow roast it on our smoker.
August 27, 2011 7:38 am
Buzzed it! 🙂
August 30, 2011 4:16 pm
I always cook pulled pork in a slow cooker – EASY! I like your mix of seasonings, though. I may have to try them next time.
September 12, 2011 10:44 am
This looks delicious! The sauce ingredients sound amazing and I'm sure they are. Quick question, if you use a slow cooker on the part where you have to remove the lid and continue to bake for 1-2 hours. Would you actually do that or just throw everything in and let it go until tender?
Andrew Vine permalinkNovember 3, 2012 2:11 am
This a fantastic recipe- we have tried adding more sauce for additional dipping which worked well too, especially next day!!! We have a party tonight for 30+ people and this is the main meal!
Thanks! Andy
Beverly permalinkFebruary 26, 2016 9:52 am
Feeding a house full of Japanese Exchange Students tomorrow night and so grateful to find this recipe! Thank you Kath!!!!


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Usually it takes years to judge when the Supreme Court gets something very wrong. Think of Justice Kennedy's opinion for the court in the 2010 campaign-finance case, Citizens United, freeing corporations to spend money on elections. He wrote that the "appearance of [corporate] influence or access will not cause the electorate to lose faith in our democracy," a point that remains hotly debated even as the amount of money in federal elections skyrockets.
But the conservative justices' decision this past June in Shelby County v. Holder, striking down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, has already unleashed in North Carolina the most restrictive voting law we've seen since the 1965 enactment of the VRA. Texas is restoring its voter ID law which had been blocked (pursuant to the VRA) by the federal government. And more is to come in other states dominated by Republican legislatures.
Substituting their own judgment for that of Congress, the five justices in the Shelby County majority expressed confidence that the act's "preclearance" provision was no longer necessary, and that there would be ample other tools to fight discrimination in voting. That the conservative justices have already been proven wrong a few scant weeks after the decision came down offers little solace for the voters of North Carolina, who ironically will have to try to fix the problem using the very mechanism of voting—which the North Carolina legislature is inhibiting.
Back in 2009, the court considered whether to strike down Congress' renewal of the rule requiring jurisdictions with a history of racial discrimination in voting to get federal approval before making changes in their voting laws. The feds had to withhold approval unless the covered jurisdictions demonstrated the law would not make minority voters worse off and was not motivated by an intention to do so.
During oral arguments in that 2009 case (which ultimately ducked the constitutional question), Chief Justice Roberts judged the law unnecessary, analogizing the federal approval requirement to an "elephant whistle." "You know, I have this whistle to keep away the elephants. You know, well, that's silly. Well, there are no elephants, so it must work."
Similarly, during arguments in the Shelby County case, Justice Kennedy opined that other provisions of the Voting Rights Act, especially Section 2, would still protect minority voters. The Shelby County opinion itself declared that "Our decision in no way affects the permanent, nationwide ban on racial discrimination in voting found in §2."
Congress, of course, had made a different judgment about the continuing deterrent effect of the need to obtain federal preclearance, and Justice Ginsburg's dissent in Shelby County analogized chucking the preclearance regime to "throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet." In a sense, the empirical question can be said to be whether the elephant whistle was never necessary; or the umbrella was working the whole time. It took only months to ascertain that the umbrella was probably working.
Within two hours of the Supreme Court's issuance of its decision in Shelby County, formerly covered state Texas announced that it would now enforce its voter identification law (concealed weapons permit OK; student ID not), which had been blocked by both the Department of Justice and a federal court in Washington, D.C.
But the North Carolina legislature with a new united Republican legislature and governor, went further and passed the mother of all voter suppression bills. Aside from enacting a strict voter ID law like Texas', the bill also cut a week off early voting in the state (used by up to 70 percent of African-American voters in 2012) and barred local election boards from keeping the polls open on the final Saturday before the election after 1 pm. It eliminated same-day voter registration. It opened up the precincts to "challengers" who can gum up the works at polling places and dissuade voters from showing up in the first place. It banned paying voter registration card circulators by the piece. It eliminated pre-registration of 16- and 17-year-olds in the high schools. And it said that a voter who votes in the wrong precinct (perhaps because of a poll worker's error) will have her whole ballot thrown out—earlier law had allowed such ballots to count for those races in which the voter was eligible to vote.
Forty of North Carolina's counties were covered by the preclearance requirement before Shelby County, and a draconian law like this would never have made it past the Justice Department. Nor would a whole bunch of local shenanigans deployed just last week in suppressing student and other voting. The Associated Press reported that "The Pasquotank County Board of Elections on Tuesday barred an Elizabeth City State University senior from running for city council, ruling his on-campus address couldn't be used to establish local residency. Following the decision, the head of the county's Republican Party said he plans to challenge the voter registrations of more students at the historically black university ahead of upcoming elections."
Pasquotank County used to be a covered jurisdiction.
It turns out the elephant whistle was really keeping away elephants, in the form of local Republican election officials on election boards, as Rachel Maddow's recent report shows. No problem, the Shelby County Justices might say, just use all those other tools to fight racial discrimination in voting.
But not so fast. It turns out that thanks to the Supreme Court's ruling in various cases, these other tools are unlikely to work to challenge most provisions of the new North Carolina law. To begin with, if North Carolina can demonstrate that it is motivated in its election laws by an intent to discriminate against Democrats rather than on the basis of race (despite the high correlation between the two), many constitutional claims will fail for lack of proof of intentional racial discrimination. Texas has already made this argument in defending its redistricting that a federal court found to be the product of intentional race discrimination: "DOJ's accusations of racial discrimination are baseless. In 2011, both houses of the Texas Legislature were controlled by large Republican majorities, and their redistricting decisions were designed to increase the Republican Party's electoral prospects at the expense of the Democrats. It is perfectly constitutional for a Republican-controlled legislature to make partisan districting decisions, even if there are incidental effects on minority voters who support Democratic candidates."
Further, the court has held that voter identification laws are generally constitutional, with a possible exception for voters who can demonstrate that the law imposes special burdens on them, despite a lack of evidence of impersonation fraud which could justify the law. As for Section 2, the other part of the Voting Rights Act that Justice Kennedy touted as a good substitute for the end of preclearance: there hasn't been a successful Section 2 challenge to voter id laws, and outside of redistricting cases the courts have read Section 2 very narrowly. And the chances are slim that the Department of Justice can prove enough intentional discrimination by North Carolina to get it "bailed in" to preclearance under another provision of the Voting Rights Act.
To be sure, some of these provisions likely will be found to violate the Constitution. Students have a constitutional right to register and vote where they go to school. The 6th Circuit has held that it is unconstitutional for Ohio to disenfranchise voters casting provisional ballots if they were sent to the wrong precinct because of voter error. A few other provisions are likely to fall too, maybe in state courts under the state constitution.
But the main fight over these laws is going to have to be political, not legal. Dave Weigel and Ari Berman have been considering whether there will be enough political backlash to overcome these North Carolina shenanigans. But thanks to these very laws, it will take a lot of effort to get people to the polls casting valid votes to go against the laws. And that's part of the point.
It's enough to make one wonder whether the Justices in the Shelby County majority actually thought minority voters would still have effective tools to fight discrimination after the Justices struck Section 5, or if they suspected all along that a stampede of elephants was right around the corner.


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Oracle Performance Tuning is a big subject, as anyone will appreciate who has read any of a number of books that set out to help you to understand what problem you are trying to solve, what factors may affect the performance you are seeing, what strategies are available to the query optimizer, and so on.
While Cary Millsap's Optimizing Oracle Performance focusses on finding, tracing and prioritising specific problems in the face of vague reports that the system seems a bit slow this week, and Jonathan Lewis' Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals takes us on a tour of the CBO to help answer such questions as Why isn't my EXISTS query using an index? (and why isn't it faster than the IN version?) a poster on OraFAQ has an approach we've not seen before:
The following is a problem I need help with and I am willing to pay for help if necessary. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Two tables in a database:
Table1 contains a list of phone numbers
Table2 contains a list of phone numbers as well
I would like to create a Table3, in which Table3 contains all numbers from Table1 that is not in Table2. I am looking for the shortest runtime possible, keeping in mind that you can use whatever method(s) you deem necessary.
Table1 contains 30 Million rows,
Table2 contains 2000 rows.
given a regular SQL expression, it will yield Big O(m*n)
Where m = rowcount of Table1
and n = rowcount of Table2
Generate for me, a method in which, runtime will yield Big O (m log2 n).
I don't need code, I want to hear your logic. Table1 is customers, Table2 is a list of prepaid phone numbers. Table3 is list of people to bill.
As usual no database version is given. The first suggestion, as you might expect, is the quite reasonable:
select phone_no from table1 minus select phone_no from table2;
accompanied by a comment that it doesn't seem like a great piece of schema design to have two tables in the first place. However, the reply comes back:
The guy who wrote this problem just told me that this answer is incorrect.
His response to me was:
it's not too simplistic, but it is incorrect. This will still yield a big O(m*n).
Give it one more try, you are thinking too much in terms of DB.
Ask yourself, what are the only structures that would yield BigO(nlog2n)? Answer that, and you will get your answer.
Any ideas?
Resident mathematician Ross Leishman tried to explain to me what Big O (m log2n) means, and I can confirm that it is not after all a When Harry Met Sally reference as most of us would probably assume. Apparently the version with an EXISTS subquery was what was wanted, which seemed odd to me on a number of levels, not least that an IN subquery would probably produce the same plan, especially in 10g where the new HASH JOIN RIGHT ANTI allows the database to build its hash table from the 2,000-row table2 rather than the 30 million-row table1. But of course we don't know the database version, do we? Or whether the columns are nullable, unique or indexed, or how values are distributed, or really anything about the actual environment that would help in solving a real-world performance problem. I can see where I'm going wrong though. I am thinking too much in terms of DB.


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Molnár, Ferenc
Molnár, Ferenc fĕ´rĕnts môl´när [key], 1878–1952, Hungarian dramatist and novelist. He studied law in Budapest and Geneva and was for some time a journalist in Budapest. He was a prolific author of plays, novels, stories, sketches, dialogues, and war reports. His best-known works are the plays Liliom (1909, tr. 1921), which was made into the musical comedy Carousel; The Guardsman (1910, tr. 1924); and The Swan (1920, tr. 1922). His plays exhibit masterful technique, sophisticated dialogue, and a satirical edge that is tempered by genuine sentiment. Although technically of high caliber, his plays rely upon superficial theatrical special effects. Molnár emigrated to the United States during the Nazi regime; he wrote film scripts and was famed as a wit.
See his autobiography (1950).
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The UK's one-year lung cancer survival lags behind Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway and Sweden according to a new international study* published today (Monday).
One-year survival from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) – the most common form of the disease – ranged from 30 per cent in the UK to 46 per cent in Sweden. Survival was also relatively low in Denmark (34 per cent).
The research – carried out by the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP) – included more than 57,000 lung cancer patients diagnosed in 2004-07 and looked at the proportion of them who lived for longer than one year and at their stage at diagnosis.
The stage of a cancer indicates how big it is and how far it has spread.
UK survival figures were amongst the lowest at all stages compared to the other countries. This suggests lung cancer patients in the UK may not be getting the best available treatment, whatever the stage of their disease at diagnosis.
The proportion of patients diagnosed at an early stage of disease was slightly lower in the UK and Denmark than in the other four countries, suggesting that delayed diagnosis is playing a role.
In Denmark and the UK only one in seven patients with NSCLC were diagnosed at the earliest stage of disease (Stage 1**), compared with one in five in Sweden and Canada. One-year survival for patients with the earliest stage disease in the UK was 72.5 per cent, 16 per cent lower than in Sweden.
For small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), which is less common but more aggressive than NSCLC, the UK also had lower survival overall, and at each stage of diagnosis – except those patients where stage was unknown – than the other countries.
The comparisons used routinely collected population-based data. This allows a more accurate picture of lung cancer survival than is gathered from clinical trials. But international comparisons are complex because countries differ in how they collect information on stage at diagnosis, how fit the patients are and which diagnostic tests and treatments are available. All of these things could be contributing to the differences in lung cancer survival.
Dr Sarah Walters, lead author from the Cancer Research UK Cancer Survival Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: "This is the first international population-based study of lung cancer survival by stage at diagnosis, and it includes nearly 60,000 patients. We've shown that wide international inequalities in lung cancer survival occur, even between patients who were diagnosed at the same stage of disease. This indicates that the quality of stage-specific treatment may differ even between these six wealthy countries with universal access to health care.
"It is clearly important to include stage at diagnosis in future international studies of cancer survival. Such comparisons would be easier if stage data were systematically recorded in the medical records, and coded in the cancer registries using international standard classifications."
Sara Hiom, director of early diagnosis at Cancer Research UK, said: "This study and the ongoing work of the ICBP are hugely important. We're learning more about the differences in cancer survival between countries and what might explain them. We need this information if we're to help improve the outcome for cancer patients.
"This research should remind us that while great progress is being made in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the UK, we mustn't be complacent. Around 35,000 people still die from lung cancer each year in the UK and that's far too many. We would like to see ongoing improvements in data collection and the use of uniform systems for data on stage, in order to improve the accuracy of global comparisons."
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* Walters, S et al. Lung cancer survival and stage at diagnosis in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom: a population-based study, 2004-2007. Thorax 2013.
Norway and Denmark contributed national data and regional data were used from the other countries, as follows: Australia: New South Wales; Canada: Alberta and Manitoba; Sweden: Uppsala-Örebro and Stockholm-Gotland health regions; United Kingdom: West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit (WMCIU), Eastern Cancer Registration and Information Centre (ECRIC) in England, and Northern Ireland.
** The stage of a cancer indicates how big it is and how far it has spread. The most widely used international system to classify cancer stage is called TNM. This indicates the size and position of the tumour (T), whether cancer cells have spread into the lymph nodes (N) and whether the tumour has spread anywhere else in the body – secondary cancer or metastases (M).
In order to produce the survival comparisons, the authors consolidated the stage data from the six countries because not all countries used the same classification system. They also had to predict the stage where it was missing.
About the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP):
The International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP) is a unique and innovative global partnership of clinicians, academics and policymakers. The ICBP is funded by the UK Department of Health and Cancer Research UK. www.icbp.org.uk


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"We knew when we played our first few shows," says Dillon the band's lead vocalist "that everyone would dance their butts off, so we wanted a name with party vibes. Chris looked at all of us and was like 'how about Pardigras' I was like 'what dude?' and he goes...'It's like Mardi Gras, with more Party!' We all laughed, but it stuck."
And stick it did...in the heads of droves and droves of devoted Pardigras fans addicted to their danceable brand of electro pop tunes (head to their Myspace and listen to "perfect 10" to know what we're talking about!). Speaking of addiction, PG fans aren't the only one's who believe this band is on to something. Pardigras is already generating tons of industry buzz and have turned down several label deals in order to maintain control over their product (and more importantly enable us to feature them on Unsigned Finds!). Without any label support the boys have already had their tunes spun on major stations such as KISS FM and have developed a strong fan base overseas in Japan. They've shared the stage with mega band Brand New and indie fan favorite band Rookie of the Year.
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Though they're billed as a party band, for these boys, song inspiration comes from a place deeper than your average Saturday night out. "Most of our songs are inspired by personal experiences with relationships we had, long time girlfriends, hot flings and new acquaintances." Delving even deeper into the emotional side of these self-proclaimed party boys, they even describe, "Some of the songs are about where we aspire to be in the future and about our dreams."
Though it might be easy to assume that these Pardigras "dreams' are laden with fantasies of stardom and celebrity, these dudes have more pressing items on their agenda...like putting on a killer live show for their fans. Ask any female Pardigras groupie and they'll tell you that you'll never leave a PG show with your hair in tact or your makeup still perfectly applied. The band admits it too -- "be prepared to sweat when you come to our shows," says Chris "because you can't help but dance to our music. I don't know that I've ever been to a show quite like ours. Every time we play somewhere different, in a different city, different crowd it inevitably transforms into a giant dance party."
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On Dec. 10, Randy Schekman, a UC Berkeley professor, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The day before, he published an op-ed in London's Guardian, titled "How journals like Nature, Cell, and Science are damaging science," in which he announced that he will henceforth refuse to send manuscripts for peer-reviewed consideration to these prestigious science journals.
Schekman's accusation is that these journals are distorting science by being biased towards the "flashiest" research, i.e. papers that generate headlines such as "Global Warming Will Kill Billions, Scientist Finds," rather than the best research.
This matters more than one might think, because governments and universities disproportionately make their award and funding decisions based on the research published in the prestige journals.
So, if Science and Nature differentially publish flashy research, and publishing there will deliver funding and tenure, scientists are naturally going to gravitate toward trendy topics and produce flashy research. It's a cycle that perpetuates Armageddon-style headlines that compel politicians to disburse more money, for more research, ultimately buying a beach house for the doom-saying scientists.
This leads to the question: do the journals' propensity for flashy research result in biased research?
Unfortunately, yes; especially when it comes to climate science.
Just take a look at Science's "Perspectives" pieces, which are really opinion pieces posing as literature reviews. Despite the fact that global warming has been prominent for about 25 years now, Science has yet to publish one Perspectives piece summarizing the body of refereed science indicating that far too much warming may have been predicted.
That should not be the case, because every new forecast of climate change should have an equal probability of producing a more or less dire result. That's what happens with weather forecast models as new information comes in. Once it has been established that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide should raise surface temperature a certain amount, each new piece of information should either raise or lower the forecast.
But scientists aren't incentivized to look under the less-flashy rock. In fact, they threaten their own well-being if they do.
If scientists aren't doing their due diligence, is Schekman right that the journals aren't doing theirs either? It's easy to find out. I reviewed 13 months of both Science and Nature, and sorted every article or story about climate change or its impact into three piles: worse, better, or neutral compared with previous studies.
Of the 115 entries, 23 made the "neutral" pile, 83 were in the "worse" stack, and nine were in the "better." The probability of the journals not having a bias is as likely as a coin being flipped 92 times and showing heads or tails fewer than nine times.
The number is: 100,000,000,000,000,000.
You can look this up in a binomial probability table, which shows the average number of times you have to flip a coin 92 times to get this result.
The obvious "publication bias" by these two journals is very troubling, because the resultant public funding and tenure could have some pretty nasty consequences.
This creates horrific effects, especially when the issues are policy-related. Summaries of the scientific literature are used to guide policymakers, but if the published research is biased, then so must be the summaries; leaving policymakers no option – not being scientists themselves – but to embrace what is inevitably touted as "the best science."
Recently, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its fifth "Scientific Assessment" of climate change, which is, in effect, a massive literature review. Since the most prestigious journals carry the most weight, the literature that is reviewed is itself biased. The result? Even the most accurate and comprehensive review must create a biased picture.
The result is very bad policy: cap-and-trade schemes, carbon taxes, and ugly windmill and solar arrays that produce little power but appeal to the politician's need to "do something." All ultimately driven by scientists behaving rationally, but badly.
Patrick J. Michaels is Director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute.


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Be on guard against phone calls from con artists who target seniors. A common scam involves an imposter pretending to be a relative in trouble. (My wallet was stolen or Im in jail.) These callers do enough homework to mention the name of the relative or other people the senior citizen knows. And by crying, it is difficult to recognize the voice. The scammer usually pleads for money to be sent immediately by wire transfer (see Dont Get Taken by Wire Transfer Scams), and to not tell any family members for fear of upsetting them. In one variation, the caller may instead claim to be a lawyer, police officer or someone else trying to help your relative.
Many older individuals will immediately jump to the assistance of a relative, without asking questions that would verify the callers identity, said Marybeth Bannon, an FDIC Consumer Affairs Specialist. In this situation, always check with another family member about whether your relative actually is in trouble and needs money, and only wire money to people you know. Dont wire money to strangers who claim they are helping your family.
For more information about scams targeting the elderly, see How Older Adults Can Steer Clear of Scam Artists
Understand the potential pitfalls of co-signing a loan for a relative. Its tempting to help a loved one borrow money for that first car, credit card or student loan, but by doing so you will be liable for the full amount of the debt, plus interest, if he or she doesnt pay whats due.
Even though co-signing is a well-intended gesture, a defaulted loan could be difficult to repay especially on a fixed income and it can be costly and stressful in terms of the possibility of damaging your credit history and dealing with a debt collector, said FDIC Supervisory Consumer Affairs Specialist Kirk Daniels.
Although creditors are required to provide a notice to a co-signer about the debt obligation, Daniels said the FDIC occasionally hears from older co-signers who didnt fully understand what they were agreeing to in terms of payment responsibilities. Remember, when you co-sign a loan or otherwise sign up as a guarantor, you are agreeing to become just as liable to pay the loan as the other borrower.
For more information about what risks you are taking and ways you can reduce your risks when you co-sign a loan, see tips from the Federal Trade Commission at www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0215-co-signing-loan.
Talk with your younger relatives about how to manage money and use banking services responsibly. Research indicates that parents or other family members regularly talking with a child about basic financial concepts starting early and into adulthood is an effective and lasting way to help develop sound money-management skills, said Luke W. Reynolds, Chief of the FDICs Outreach and Program Development Section. Teaching self-control, the ability to delay gratification, and basic math skills early on can lay a foundation for years later, when you are teaching the youngster concepts such as the benefits of saving money for a sizable purchase, perhaps a car or bicycle, and how to wisely manage credit.
Explore ways to save money for a child. If you want to help pay for a younger relatives education expenses, such as tuition for college, you may want to open a tax-advantaged 529 Account or Coverdell Education Savings Account. As long as all funds are used for qualified educational purposes, the money earned will not be taxed. Another aspect of 529 accounts is that you determine how the funds are spent.


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French Fridays with Dorie: Sweet and Spicy Cocktail NutsDecember 31, 2010 at 3:51 pm | Posted in french fridays w dorie, groups, other savory, savory things | 8 Comments
OK, I know it is New Year's Eve afternoon already, and maybe I've missed the boat on telling you about this….but if you happen to be ringing in 2011 by having people over for cocktails, or if you are going to someone else's place and looking for something to bring, I have just the thing. Dorie's Sweet and Spicy Cocktail Nuts are fast and easy (provided you have a stash of nuts in your fridge or cupboard), and trust me, they will be gobbled up.
The technique is simple: take a couple cups of your favorite nuts (a mix is best), coat them lightly in a frothed-up egg white and then toss them in a mix of sugar, salt and spices. Bake for half an hour at 300°, making sure they are in a single layer so they don't stick together. Let cool and enjoy with wine or bubbly.
For the exact recipe, see Around my French Table by Dorie Greenspan. Don't forget to check out my fellow francophiles' posts (not all of us are doing the recipe this week). Happy 2011, and I'll see you next year!
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Loved these! Made them twice and gifted them to the guys this Christmas. 🙂 Happy New Year, Steph!
Comment by Jessica of My Baking Heart— December 31, 2010 #
I absolutely loved the chili powder version! (I made 5 different flavor combinations for my week!) Have a Happy New Year!
Comment by yummychunklet— December 31, 2010 #
I loved these too, made several combos, but liked the chili powder too. Though a little added chipotle was a close second. Happy New Year!!
Comment by Candy— January 1, 2011 #
We really enjoyed these too. I think I will make them again in the New year!! I like the picture!
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