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Fascinating and sensible article about facilitating behavioural change via effective communication published yesterday. Too often, the 'boomerang effect' means that undesirable behaviours are reinforced –
[…] the problem with appeals based on social norms is that they often contain a hidden message.
So, for example, an environmental campaign that focuses on the fact that too many people drive cars with large engines contains two messages — that driving cars with large engines is bad for the environment, and that lots of people are driving cars with large engines. This second message makes it unlikely that the campaign will work. Worse, it might even make it counterproductive: by conveying how common the undesirable behaviour is, it can give those who do not currently engage in that behaviour a perverse incentive to do so. Everyone else is doing it, so why shouldn't I?
The nub of the matter? Castigating undesirable behaviour needs to be connected with praise for those who are doing the right thing.
Fortunately, there is a way of harnessing the power of social norms, so that the dreaded "boomerang effect" doesn't occur.
In a recent experiment, psychologists examined the influence of social norms on the household energy consumption of residents of California. The researchers, led by Wesley Schultz, picked houses at random and then divided them into groups depending on whether their energy consumption was higher or lower than the average for that area. Some low-energy-use households received only information about average energy usage — thereby setting the social norm.
A second group of low-energy households had a positive "emoticon" (happy face) positioned next to their personal energy figure, conveying approval of their energy footprint. A third group of over-consuming households were shown their energy usage coupled with a negative emoticon (sad face), intended to convey disapproval of their higher-than-average footprint.
The researchers then measured energy consumption in the following months. As one might expect, the over-consuming households used the social norm as a motivation to reduce their energy use, but under-consuming households that had received only the social norm information increased their energy use.
Crucially, though, the under-consuming households that had received positive feedback did not show this boomerang effect: the addition of a smiley face next to their energy usage made all the difference. Despite the simplicity of the feedback, households that felt their under-consumption was socially approved (rather than a reason to relax), maintained their small energy footprint. This suggests that using social norms can be effective — but only if they are used in the right way.
Castigating the "majority" of people for driving cars with large engines, without simultaneously praising those who have chosen smaller models could spectacularly backfire. Environmental campaigns using social norms will have to be supplemented with information targeted at specific groups about the desirability of their particular behaviours. If people are doing something positive, they need to know about it.


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Goldring Travel caters to both consumers and business customers looking to book high-end, upscale travel. The company's business clients are unique in that they are just as likely to jet off to to an overseas business meeting as they are to take colleagues on a personalized safari. Email marketing is an important part of Goldring's overall marketing strategy. Over the three years the company has had its email program in place, Eric Goldring, the Colts Neck, N.J.-based company's CEO, has learned a lot about what gets people to open and click through to the company's website or blog. One of the most interesting, he said, is that while his email metrics are high—open rates hover around 75%—customers rarely purchase what's featured in the emails. "They will see my emails and then call me up asking for something completely different," he said. "The content of the emails is definitely not the hook or the bait. It's the little splash in the water that attracts their attention." Below, Goldring details four other email tactics that he uses to entice and interest his business customers.
- Take advantage of multimedia options. Goldring Travel belongs to the Ensemble Travel Group, a member-owned organization of more than 850 travel agencies across the U.S. and Canada. As part of that, Goldring gets access to an e-newsletter populated with video and images related to destinations, cruise lines and other travel-related collateral. It's that content, Goldring said, that gets people excited about traveling, even on mundane business trips. "I know which offers are in the emails and can target users depending on past travel and destinations," he said. "Twice a month is the max that I am touching my clients, so something that's exciting and visually appealing really inspires them."
- Use triggered emails to support sales, and not just before you make a sale. Most companies use triggered emails to remind people when their subscriptions are almost up or when new products are released. Goldring, however, uses triggered emails post-sale with good results. A week before clients leave, an automatic email is sent to remind them of the trip. Customers get another email soon after they return. "It gives them a way to tell me if they had a great trip or had any problems," he said. "I want to reach out to them before they reach out to me." It also presents a perfect way to inquire about future travel needs, he said.
- Employ humor to boost interest. Humor is a big part of Goldring Travel's email marketing program. For instance, once a month a welcome email goes out to new subscribers. It includes a survey designed to gauge the type and frequency of travel that new subscribers are interested in. "I've got funky things in there as answers," Goldring said. "Like, "Complete this survey and you might win something—not really.' I use humor to project my personality, but it also makes people remember the company. I always get comments about it when I get people on the phone to book travel."
- Treat business clients like consumers. Although his business clients get emails that consumers do not, they also receive everything that goes out to his b-to-c clients, Goldring said. "Business clients do leisure travel, too," he said. "The consumer emails remind them that I am there for them no matter when they need something."


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HEBER SPRINGS — Greers Ferry Dam and its decades-long impact on Arkansas' economy stand as a testament to achievements possible when political leaders work through their differences, former President Bill Clinton said Thursday at a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's dedication of the mammoth facility.
HEBER SPRINGS — Greers Ferry Dam and its decades-long impact on Arkansas' economy stand as a testament to achievements possible when political leaders work through their differences, former President Bill Clinton said Thursday at a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's dedication of the mammoth facility.
More than 5,000 people attended the ceremony at the dam, which was conceived and built over several years spanning the 1950s and early 1960s. Clinton said the project could not have succeeded without cooperation among state leaders, members of Arkansas' congressional delegation at the time and presidential administrations with which they sometimes had vast differences.
"They were trying to figure out how to make things work. They never, with all the fights they had going on, would have let the government shut down or let the country default on its debt and hurt us in the face of the rest of the world," the former president said, an obvious reference to the current government shutdown over funding the federal health care overhaul and a political battle looming later this month on raising the federal debt limit.
During his 20 minute speech, Clinton recalled meeting Kennedy in 1963 as a teenager while in Washington for Boys Nation. The brief encounter occurred about 10 weeks before Kennedy traveled to Arkansas to dedicate the dam. The dedication ceremony on Oct. 3, 1963, would one of the last major public appearances by Kennedy before his assassination less than two months later in Dallas.
Standing on the same platform were Kennedy stood 50 years ago, and using the same lectern, Clinton discussed Kennedy's belief that the dam would bring tourism and economic development to the region. He also discussed the legacy of the slain president.
"John Kennedy died one month and 19 days after his left this podium," Clinton told the crowd. "He could not have known that he just had that long to live. He gave an enormous amount of thought to what he wanted to do when he was my age and even older, but it was not to be because his life was claimed too soon."
Clinton said that "in death (Kennedy) became for all the rest of us … the symbol of the eternal future, the symbol of what we always have to become and that America was always going to be, a country on the move, always becoming, always redefining itself."
Clinton also noted U.S. Rep. Wilbur Mills' important role in helping to make sure there was funding for the dam, and the respect Kennedy had for the Arkansas congressman.
About 2,900 of those who attended event were students from across the region, but some in attendance Thursday also attended the first dedication ceremony 50 years ago.
One of those was 98-year-old Carl Garner, who was chief engineer on the Greers Ferry Dam project. He also was chief engineer Bull Shoals and Table Rock dam during his 58 years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Garner, who attended Thursday's event with his wife, Jean, said he remembers riding with Kennedy after the dedication back to a waiting helicopter.
"We were riding to the helicopter and the World Series was going on and (Kennedy) said, 'turn the radio on and see what the World Series score is,'" Garner said, adding that before they got to the helicopter Kennedy had the car stopped so he could shake hands with Arkansas National Guard officers who were standing on the side of the road.
Heber Springs Mayor Jackie McPherson described Garner as "the father of of Greers Ferry Lake."
Maggie Douglas, whose grandmother was first cousin of Bud Greer, who owned and operated the ferry and the man the dam was named after, said she was teaching in the Hoxie School District in 1963 and decided to drive to Heber Springs hoping to get a glimpse of Kennedy.
She said she got within about 15 feet of the president.
"He was very much at ease," she said. "I thought he had a very majestic air about him, that he knew what he was doing, knew what he was talking about."
Jerry Choate, who also attended Thursday's ceremony, said she was in high school 50 years ago and got to see Kennedy at the Little Rock fairgrounds after he arrived by helicopter from the dam dedication.
Choate said "hundreds and hundreds of people" were standing behind a fence hoping to see Kennedy when he got out of the helicopter and she climbed a seven-foot-tall chain link fence to get a better view.
"I climbed the chain link fence and put my arms over the top of it and, low and behold, he was walking through the crowd," Choate said. "He was right below, shaking hands and smiling … and I was screaming, 'President Kennedy, President Kennedy.'"
The president stopped right in front of her, "and he looked at me and just remember how suddenly his auburn hair was just glistening, and his smile and his eyes," she said, adding Kennedy reached up and grabbed her hands and said, "hello.'"
"It still gives me goose bumps and that moment has forever been special," Choate said.
Mills' granddaughter, Becky Yates, also came to Thursday's ceremony from her home in New Jersey.
The Greers Ferry Dam was constructed on the Little Red River between 1959 and 1962.
The dam's primary function is flood control, but the facility also serves as a hydroelectric power plant. Greers Ferry Lake, created as a result of the dam, is a popular recreational destination and a major contributor to Arkansas' tourism industry.
Greers Ferry Dam measures 1,704 feet in length and stands 243 feet above the stream bed of the Little Red River. It cost $46.5 million and created a reservoir of between 30,000 and 40,000 acres, depending on water level, and over 340 miles of shoreline in Cleburne and Van Buren counties, according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture.


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Jimmy Fallonushered in a new era of The Tonight Show, and welcomed the show back to New York for the first time in more than four decades on Monday. Although the former Late Night host was broadcasting from the same ...
Jimmy Fallon ushered in a new era of The Tonight Show, and welcomed the show back to New York for the first time in more than four decades on Monday. Although the former Late Night host was broadcasting from the same studio, with the same band and the same announcer, the historical impact of The Tonight Show's return to the Big Apple was not lost on anyone. In addition to bandleader Questlove's "I heart NY" bow tie, The Tonight Show's new opening credits included historical landmarks such as Lincoln Center, the New York City Public Library and Radio City Music Hall - all shot by famed New York native Spike Lee. "This is the first Tonight Show broadcast from New York in over 40 years," Fallon told the crowd. "I'm Jimmy Fallon and I'll be your host ... for now."
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After giving nods to previous hosts Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien (and Leno, again), a surprisingly emotional Fallon thanked his wife, his daughter and his parents (who were in the audience). A slightly choked-up Fallon went so far as to leave the stage and re-enter to do his monologue. However, things didn't go back to normal for long. When Fallon sat down at his desk, he told his "buddy" who had bet $100 that Fallon would never become host of The Tonight Show that Fallon was now owed that money. Moments later, a cavalcade of A-list celebrities and New York City figureheads, including Robert De Niro, Tina Fey, Joe Namath, Rudy Giuliani, Mariah Carey, Tracy Morgan, Joan Rivers, Kim Kardashian, Seth Rogen, Lindsay Lohan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Mike Tyson and Lady Gaga, came out one at a time and each threw a $100 bill on Fallon's desk. Well, everyone except for Stephen Colbert, who brought out a bucket of pennies and poured them all over Fallon's desk and directly down his back. "Welcome to 11:30, b----," Colbert yelled, right after he took a selfie with Fallon.
Fallon's first guest, Will Smith, helped show new viewers just what Fallon does best. Before he sat down for his sit-down interview, Fallon and Smith donned denim overalls and T-shirts for a sketch called "The Evolution of Hip-Hop" which featured the two busting out dance moves like the cabbage patch, the pop and lock and, yes, the Carlton. During his interview, Fallon asked Smith advice in dealing with the media pressure. "I was watching all the people that came to support you tonight and people are coming for you," Smith told him. "The Tonight Show is big and historic ... but people are coming because of your heart."
Inaugural musical guest U2 then performed their latest single, "Invisible," with support from the nearby Rutgers marching band, from the picturesque top of 30 Rockefeller Center. U2 also sat down for an interview, during which Bono presented him an electric guitar, and the rock group wrapped with an acoustic performance of their Oscar-nominated song, "Ordinary Love" from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom for the studio audience. "Thank you for watching," Fallon concluded. "I'll see you tomorrow!"
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Were you recently sick? If so, newly published research says you're more likely to be repelled by "disfigured" faces like the one up top. The findings provide the very first evidence of how a biological immune response can actually give rise to a psychological immune reaction — and this backs up recent research that points to an adaptive interaction between our psychological and biological systems.
Every relatively healthy person has their very own biological immune system (BIO). You know: T-cells, B-cells, all that good stuff. But you've also got what scientists refer to as a "behavioral immune system" (BEH). Your BEH is what tells you to step away when you see that your toddler cousin is about to wipe snot all over your face, or to turn and run when you see a zombie lurching your way.
Recently, scientists have shown that activation of your BEH can lead to heightened levels of biological immune response (for example, the observation of skin lesions on another person can lead to an increase in your own production of B-cells).
Now, University of Kentucky psychologist Saul Miller has teamed up with Florida State University's Jon K. Maner to demonstrate for the first time that the opposite cause and effect — wherein the activation of your BIO system leads to activation of your BEH system — can also occur.
In one experiment, volunteers were shown a series of faces, some disfigured (e.g. lesioned, or distorted in a pre-sneeze grimace) and some normal, on a screen. Following the appearance of each face, a circle or square would appear, and the test participant would have to indicate which shape had appeared as quickly as possible by pressing a button corresponding to the shape. A longer delay between the time it took for the volunteer to shift attention to the shape and select the corresponding button meant the participant had paid closer attention to the face.
After the face/shape test, volunteers were asked whether they had been ill recently. The researchers found that the more recently a volunteer had been ill, the more likely he or she was to pay more attention to disfigured faces than to normal faces. Those who had not been ill reacted just as quickly after seeing a disfigured face as they did after seeing a normal one.
In a second experiment, volunteers were shown a disfigured face or a normal face, and asked to respond by pushing a joystick in response to the type of face that appeared; participants were instructed to push the joystick away from them (indicating avoidance) in response to disfigured face, and pull towards them (indicating approach) in response to a normal face.
While all the volunteers tended to push the joystick away faster than they pulled, recently sick volunteers were shown to do so significantly faster than the recently healthy. Moreover, the researchers observed that the sicker a volunteer had been, the faster they tended to push.
"When people have been recently sick, and therefore recently activated their physiological immune systems, they are more likely to pay attention to and display avoidance of disfigured faces" said Miller, who hypothesizes that the recently ill likely interpret these visual cues as a sign of contagion.
The researchers write:
The current findings provide important insight into the ways in which humans evolved to overcome disease threats. Combined with recent findings indicating that BEH system activation facilitates BIO system activation, the current findings suggest a bi-directional and compensatory relationship between the BIO and BEH systems. This relationship likely exists to provide maximal protection against infection when disease threats are most threatening; if one system fails (e.g., the BIO system is weakened), the other system provides an alternative solution (e.g., avoiding potential sources of contagion). Thus, the current findings illuminate a potentially adaptive interaction between psychological and biological systems.
The researchers' findings will appear in this month's Psychological Science; a direct link to the study will be made available when the article goes live.
Thanks to Dr. Saul Miller for the advance copy of the research paper
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To select someone or something entirely at random. I don't understand why our company is being targeted. It's as if the IRS pulled us out of a hat to scrutinize! It doesn't really matter who gets promoted to assistant manager—just pull a name out of a hat for all I care!
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This is a 2001 paper by Eric Brewer summarizing the lessons he learned from designing and developing giant-scale internet services (see Inktomi) between 1995-2001. This paper does not mention the CAP theorem at all! This is very surpising given that CAP theorem is what Brewer is famous to most people in the internet services domain. (CAP theorem is very famous and has been very influential for the design of Internet services and cloud computing systems. CAP theorem was first mentioned in publication in 1998 paper, and then presented in PODC'00 keynote by Brewer. See these two posts for a detailed treatment of the CAP theorem.)
Instead this paper is all about DQ principle as a design guideline for internet services. The paper mentions Harvest and Yield which may be seen as finer granularity versions of Consistency and Availability respectively, and may connect back to the CAP theorem. I discuss that connection at the end.
DQ principle
In the web services model, clients make read queries to the servers and servers return data to reply those queries. The DQ principle is simple:
data_per_query * queries_per_second == constant
The intuition behind this principle is that the system's overall capacity tends to have a particular physical bottleneck, such as total I/O bandwidth of all disks in the system, which is tied to data movement. The DQ value is the total amount of data that has to be moved per second on average, and it is thus bounded by the underlying physical limitation. At the high utilization level typical of giant-scale systems, the DQ value approaches this limitation.
DQ is hopefully not network-bound or CPU-bound (e.g., not bound by the load manager's performance). If so, you should fix the problem by throwing more resources at it, so you can provide a large-scale web service. Web services are generally data intensive so DQ model is a good fit for most web-services.
DQ is configuration specific. DQ increases with node additions (that is provided that network bandwidth limit is not reached), and DQ decreases with node failures. So failures may force your system to become over capacity. (You may also consider a sudden increase in query traffic over system capacity also as a failure model. This reduces to the same problem when looking at the reverse perspective.)
Yield and Harvest
Yield is the probability of completing a request, and harvest measures the completeness of the answer to the query. More formally:
yield= queries_completed / queries_offered
harvest = data_available / complete_data
Yield provides a better metric of availability than simply uptime. Being down for one second at peak and off-peak times generates the same uptime, but vastly different yields because there might be an order-of-magnitude difference in load between the peak second and the minimum-load second. Harvest provides a metric for consistency, of how much of the database is reflected in the response.
Due to faults or saturation DQ will be reached sooner or later, and the system will have to make a choice between reducing yield (i.e., stop answering requests) and reducing harvest (i.e., giving answers based on incomplete data). The key insight here is that we can influence whether faults impact yield, harvest, or both. Here is how yield and harvest relate to DQ: When DQ is reached, we can either limit Q (capacity) to maintain D, or we can reduce D and increase Q. We can focus on harvest through admission control (AC), which reduces Q, or on yield through dynamic database reduction, which reduces D, or we can use a combination of the two.
Replication vs. Partitioning
Replicated systems tend to map faults to reduced capacity (and to reduced yield at high utilizations), while partitioned systems tend to map faults to reduced harvest, as parts of the database temporarily disappear, but the capacity in queries per second remains the same. Consider a two-node cluster: The replicated version has traditionally been viewed as "better" because it maintains 100 percent harvest under a fault, whereas the partitioned version drops to 50 percent harvest. Dual analysis shows that the replicated version drops to 50 percent yield, while the partitioned version remains at 100 percent yield. Furthermore, both versions have the same initial DQ value and lose 50 percent of it under one fault: Replicas maintain D and reduce Q (and thus yield), while partitions keep Q constant and reduce D (and thus harvest).
Although you need more copies of the data with replication, the real cost is in the DQ bottleneck rather than storage space. Moreover, replication on disk is cheap, and only accessing the replicated data requires DQ points. According to these principles, you should always use replicas above some specified throughput. With no DQ difference, it sense to replicate the data once the partitions are a convenient size. You will enjoy more control over harvest and support for disaster recovery, and it is easier to grow systems via replication than by repartitioning onto more nodes.
We can vary the replication according to the data's importance, and generally control which data is lost in the presence of a fault. For example, for the cost of some extra disk space we can replicate key data in a partitioned system. Alternatively, we can exploit randomization to make our lost harvest a random subset of the data, (as well as to avoid hot spots in partitions). Many of the load-balancing switches can use a (pseudo-random) hash function to partition the data, for example. This makes the average and worst-case losses the same because we lose a random subset of "average" value. The Inktomi search engine uses partial replication; e-mail systems use full replication; and clustered Web caches use no replication. All three use randomization.
Graceful degradation
Graceful degradation is simply the explicit process for managing the effect of saturation on availability; that is, we explicitly decide how saturation should affect uptime, harvest, and quality of service. The paper gives the following graceful degradation examples taken from real systems:
Cost-based AC. Inktomi can perform AC based on the estimated query cost (measured in DQ). This reduces the average data required per query, and thus increases Q. Note that the AC policy affects both D and Q. Denying one expensive query could thus enable several inexpensive ones, giving us a net gain in harvest and yield. (AC could also be done probabilistically — perhaps in the style of lottery scheduling, so that retrying hard queries eventually works.)
Priority- or value-based AC. Datek handles stock trade requests differently from other queries and guarantees that they will be executed within 60 seconds, or the user pays no commission. The idea is to reduce the required DQ by dropping low-value queries, independently of their DQ cost.
Reduced data freshness. Under saturation, a financial site can make stock quotes expire less frequently. This reduces freshness but also reduces the work per query, and thus increases yield at the expense of harvest. (The cached queries don't reflect the current database and thus have lower harvest.)
Concluding remarks
Based on its usefulness in design of large-scale systems, I wonder why we have not been hearing about DQ principle as much as the CAP theorem. Maybe the principle is famous under a different term?
As I mentioned in the beginning, harvest and yield may be seen as finer granularity versions of consistency and availability respectively. So, does this harvest-yield tradeoff relate to the CAP theorem's consistency-availability tradeoff? I am not sure. The harvest-yield tradeoff mentioned in this paper stems from a capacity limitation, whereas the consistency-availability tradeoff in the CAP theorem stemmed from the partition (lack of communication) problem. I think this harvest-yield tradeoff may be more related to the consistency-lowlatency tradeoff mentioned in the PACELC model. If the system insists on providing full harvest, its yield will suffer as it will be able to complete less of the queries by unit time, and hence its latency will increase.


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No one bothered to bid on the Watergate Hotel during an auction last month, but now it looks like there is interest in the infamous landmark after all.
Six hotel chains are looking into the property that went on the bidding block at $25 million, according to the hotel's owners PB Capital, DCist reports.
The interested parties' execs are currently touring the Watergate to determine how much it would cost to renovate the property, said Kurt Sachs, senior managing director at PB Capital.
PB Capital, which owns a $40 million note on the Watergate, bought the hotel at the July auction after foreclosing on its debt-ridden owners Monument Realty.
In addition to the price tag, a few reports have put at least a $100 million price tag on renovations to make the hotel's 251 odd rooms habitable.
Either way, the first person who gives PB Capital a check gets the hotel, Sachs says.
The Watergate complex became famous after a 1972 burglary there led to the resignation of then-President Richard Nixon.


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Hello everyone!on October 16, 2012 at 1:17 am
So NY Comic Con is over, and I'm back to normal life again. Work starts up again on Tuesday, and in the mean time I've been kicking back and doing some writing. You'll all be happy to hear that the reception our upcoming comic, Ode, has been really positive, and lots of people have already seen some of the art for it online (including Brian Lee O'Malley, which is amazing!).
But you're not here for Ode, despite my writing it. You're here for H&tW, and I don't want to disappoint you!
I've been sneaking notes on the reboot as I've been writing Ode (both share some pretty heavy concepts that I've yet to introduce, mainly the Fade, which is a name I've decided to call the world between worlds in which the Library exists), and I have to say, I believe I have a final layout for the story of the first book of H&tW.
Most of the elements are exactly the same, with, as I've said, a few small changes that will end up majorly impacting the story. But don't fear, it has everything the original had and more: Magic, adventure, the Library, time travel, dream travel, gypsies, the city of Khem, other worlds, and more. And have no fear, Divi continues to be a major part of the story, as is her ties with both Oliver and Abigail. I'm super excited to start writing, and I hope you are too!
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Terrance Henry's three-point play with 8.2 seconds remaining lifted Ole Miss to a 77-75 win over Arkansas on Tuesday night.
Henry finished with 19 points to lead the Rebels, who trailed by as many as 15 points in the second half before rallying. It was the second straight win for Ole Miss (17-12, 7-8 Southeastern) after a three-game losing streak.
Jarvis Summers added 17 points, scoring 16 in the second half, and Murphy Holloway had 16 points and 16 rebounds for the Rebels.
The Razorbacks (18-12, 6-9) led 55-40 midway through the second half before faltering and falling to 17-3 at Bud Walton Arena this season. The loss was Arkansas' third in a row at home after opening the season 17-0.
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The Camera Raw team recently provided a release candidate of the Camera Raw 6.4 plug-in and the DNG Converter 6.4 application. For those not familiar with the DNG Converter it's a free, standalone application that is able to convert over 300 proprietary raw formats to the openly documented DNG file format. When a new proprietary raw file format is released, essentially every new camera model with raw capability, we need to update the DNG Converter so that it's able to convert that proprietary format to the DNG format.
The PowerPC(PPC) Mac systems, commonly referred to as G4 or G5 systems, represent a significantly different platform than the Intel-based solutions Apple started offering in January of 2006. Due to the differences in software development environments, Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3 both dropped support for PowerPC systems in 2010. However, we've extended PowerPC support for the DNG Converter into 2011 in order to ensure that customers who are still utilizing PowerPC Macs and are unable to upgrade to the latest version of Photoshop and Lightroom would be able to read raw files from the most recent camera models by converting the proprietary file to DNG and opening the DNG file in a previous version of Photoshop or Lightroom. However, there is increasing overhead required to support the PowerPC code base in the DNG Converter so the final DNG Converter 6.4 update will be the last update to support PowerPC systems.
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There have been a few predictions for what is going to happen with the Internet in 2006. My favorite is by Jason Calacanis:
1. Someone will do the Wikipedia version of Weblogs, Inc. and and it will fail because it never reaches critical mass.
2. 30 of the 50 blog networks will fizzle out and/or die. Only one or two (other than Gawker) will break 20M pages a month. The blog network space is just way too crowded, and if you can't go big at this point you're gonna have a real hard time doing a *real* network (say 20 blogs or more). Now, you'll do just fine if you stay focused on a narrow niche that you can own.
3. Metblogs and Gothamist will both raise venture or seed capital.
4. DIGG will be bought by CNET.
5. CNET will be bought by Yahoo or Fox Interactive/Newscorp.
It's very interesting to see what an important roll that blogging will play on the Internet in 2006. And if, as many are predicting, there will be another huge terrorist or natural diaster, blogging will become even more critical as a resource for news and information, especially for those with access to the Internet not dependent upon cable, electricity, or city infrastructures.
Personally, my only prediction is that wireless and mobile technologies will boom as will all attempts to make money with wireless networks (stupid stupid stupid). Oh, and that fascination with blogging will continue.
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Apple has hired Musa Tariq, the former social media executive for Nike and Burberry, according to reports.
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Actress Neve Campbell has opened up about the birth of her first child, revealing she refused to name the baby until she held him in her arms.
The star revealed she was pregnant with her first child with her actor partner J.J. Feild earlier this year, but stayed mum about the summer birth.
Campbell and Feild were photographed cooing over an infant while enjoying a day at the beach in August, prompting rumors she had become a mom, and now the actress has confirmed she's the mother of a five month old son.
Campbell reveals she struggled to name the boy – because she wanted him to have a unique name.
She tells the show "The Talk," "I like having a unique name – it's (my mom's) maiden name, Neve – and not a lot of people have it. It's nice having something special and different and so I wanted something like that for our son… We looked through a lot of books and… we decided that we'd wait and see and meet him and then decide."
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Yes, i often sound insane, but the difference is, Beloved Visitors, being the Queen of Darkness is merely eccentricity – and being the Antichrist was just a lucky break. (The real Antichrist met with an Unfortunate Accident and is still in a coma.) However, every so often, i run into the genuinely loopy on Twitter or around the traps.
Not to worry, i know what to do. This usually involves getting away from them quickly. One does not engage with those escaped from asylums. What, did you think i'd hang around? Feck, i really do have better things to do, even if it's scratching my arse.
No sense wasting one's time with the truly hopeless: those who enjoy and promote their victimhood, ("Come watch me cut myself on cam!") or are so paranoid they can't even hear what you say to them. Better just to block.
However, the other night i wasn't expecting insanity, i wasn't even online. I was watching the actor Robson Green, on his show "Extreme Fishing". He's completely huge in Britain, where i lived for a while, I'm not sure about the rest of the world. His show is airing here on Lifestyle on pay-tv, not either Discovery or National Geographic. Fitting for a man known as the "housewives' favourite".
Probably need to say here that I don't have a problem with either fishing or hunting (even on tv) – however, i do have a teensy problem with gratuitous cruelty.
I watched a bit of "Extreme Fishing" last week, enjoyed Green's obvious pleasure and excitement, but was left uneasy, as it didn't appear he was killing any of the fish after catching them. This week he was in the Deep South of the USA. We thought we'd give it another go, but it was hard, as fish after fish was pulled out of water in various ways, before being dropped somewhere to die slowly.
One memorable sequence was bow-fishing: a large fish was reeled in with an arrow through the belly, then the arrow yanked out. Green holds the fish up, saying his piece to camera. The fish gasps, over and over, trying to breathe, sides heaving. Look how beautiful it is, the man says, his tone loving. The camera pans along the body, we see the fish's mouth moving silently. Look at those colours, Green exhorts us.
We can't help seeing the way it's gasping desperately for air, and the bloody hole in its side that I could fit a finger through. Green sings the praises of the fish as he slings it, still gasping, into a box with other dead and dying fish. The cameraman moves, to make sure we see it in the box, and the lid closes on the slowly-dying fish. Pan to grinning Robson Green.
Tip: fish will taste better if you kill it immediately, and don't stress it unnecessarily. It's already been through being caught. If it's badly wounded, you have to kill it now. Otherwise, if it's just been hooked, put it in water until you're ready to kill it.
It wasn't Robson Green's casual cruelty that did for us. In a different segment, we were treated to the sight of another member of the party, (a self-proclaimed hunter and killer) shooting at a waterfowl (a duck?) with a rifle from thirty feet.
The bird was an easy target, still on the water. The American missed, shot again, winged the bird, and shot again, possibly killing it, but the camera cut away. Too gory even for "Extreme Fishing"? Gawd.
We switched over. You don't shoot sitting ducks. Birds are shot on the wing, and with a shotgun. For those who don't know, no sports shooter would ever shoot a bird on the water – aside from being unsporting, you can't eat anything that's been shot a rifle, you destroy the meat.
The supposed experts accompanying Mr Green weren't fishermen or hunters, they were just brutal and sickeningly inefficient killers. Not only that, but the supposed bow-fishing experts didn't even know basic bow skills: how to draw a bow; or about forearm guards, so the bowstring won't snap against your skin.
This isn't just one woman's opinion, by the way. Mr Whatsit is a happy hunter (with bow and rifle) and fisherman, but he couldn't watch it either. "Knock it on the head!" he kept shouting at the tv.
I found the Twitter account of the show @extreme_fishing while this was going on. All the @extreme_fishing tweets and the name are in italics from here on, and my @stinginthetail nick and tweets are in ordinary text.
Note – if the post says stinginthetail @extreme_fishing – it means it's me, talking to them. I had no idea it was actually Robson Green tweeting. I figured I would phrase it as if i was talking to him, in case they passed it on – and of course, on Twitter, one has only 140 characters to make one's point…
stinginthetail @extreme_fishing ffs, put the fish down, mate – whack on the head, kill it, don' t throw live into cooler. Disgusting leaving them to die.
It wasn't abusive, was it? I did say ffs (for fuck's sake), but i didn't call him names. I wanted to make clear that I didn't mind fishing, but humane kill, please.
The "mate" is an Aussie thing – especially when we're trying to appeal to the reason of a supposed adult – i didn't really think about using it, just did. A little bit later – after the duck incident when we turned off for good, i tweeted again, this time so my followers would see it…
stinginthetail had to switch off @extreme_fishing – letting live fish die slowly – and birds. Partner who is hunter couldn't watch either. Sickening.
I was surprised the next morning when I received a reply from someone claiming to be Robson Green – i'm still not sure if he read both tweets from me – but according to the tweet stream, the account is managed by the actor himself, not any production company. I didn't have time to be starstruck…
extreme_fishing @stinginthetail Remember Im observing and not imposing or projecting an opinion. The war in iraq…That's sickening! Get fucking a life!
This seemed a little over the top, but it occurred to me he hadn't seen the first tweet, only the second – besides from the number of exclamation marks I guessed i'd caught him at a bad time. So i replied politely, as some of my best friends have been people where we've got off on completely the wrong foot, but being reasonable adults, we've found common ground…
stinginthetail @extreme_fishing letting fish die is still sickening – i like fishing, but kill the fish, don't leave to die. Whack it on the head. Simple.
I was a bit taken aback by his attitude, and figured some of my followers might find the exchange entertaining, so i said…
stinginthetail i'm surprised at the actor Robson Green, didn't think was rude RT @extreme_fishing The war in iraq…That's sickening! Get fucking a life!
Provocative? Possibly, but i was being flamed, and i felt like company. Then i read his tweet again, and was struck by something…
stinginthetail @extreme_fishing btw you're not an observer, yr shooting & hooking then happily throwing in ice chest to die slowly – that's involved.
I still couldn't understand why he was so against hitting a fish on the head when he was quite happy to shoot it in the belly. His next reply shed no light but showed the over-punctuation was no fluke…
extreme_fishing @stinginthetail You have a remote control? use it! But thanks for the debate!
Erm – debate involves exchanging opinions, and defending one's position or point of view.
stinginthetail @extreme_fishing it's not debate when you can't justify your cruelty to animals, mate – and thanks, i used the remote last night.
I figured that was it. I was so wrong. That time, i used "mate" a bit snappily, he'd been steadily rude.
extreme_fishing @stinginthetail Would love 2 take you 2 Ginae Bissau Africa so you can impose your uninformed rhetoric to starving children. Im not yr mate
I burst out laughing. This couldn't be real. Was he taking the piss? Where was Ginae Bissau? Google said i meant Guinea Bissau – one of the poorest countries in Africa. Was it even Robson Green? Had i missed something? Was it a joke profile? I've been fooled by those before. However, if it was him…
stinginthetail @extreme_fishing lmao – starving kids, iraq war? are you nuts? what else wld u like to defend yr cruelty with? not as bad as the holocaust?
The reply was educational, as he gave up on some punctuation and took up CAPS….
extreme_fishing @stinginthetail Taking a fish out of its enviroment is like placing a polythene bag over a marathon runners head. You need to STOP fishing!
Huh? Marathon runners, starving children and the war in Iraq? Had he completely confused my tweets with someone else's? I checked who was tweeting at him. I was pondering again if he thought i was anti-fishing, and if this was all some kind of misunderstanding.
I'm not really into flame wars. If someone's totally against me and can't discuss the matter without shouting, what's the point? I don't have a penis i need to wave around, so frankly all that wannabe alpha male posturing is a bit pointless.
Yeah, sure, I talk about killing (when i'm premenstrual), but have I ever done it? You're still alive. See? And if i did kill you, I would make it quick. Though after this, for Mr Green i'm prepared to make an exception.
Still figuring to give him the benefit of the doubt, though not sure why by now. I decided that humane killing was an important concept to grasp, especially for someone whose fishing series is showing all over the world. After all, it's not like he's from a country where they have no animal rights. The British care more about animals than they do about children.
Again, as he still showed no sign of actually reading my tweets, I tweeted, repeating what i'd said, so politely it astonishes me when i read it now…
stinginthetail @extreme_fishing before u go completely troppo, you're missing the point – i am not anti fishing – i suggested you kill after catching.
Ha. What kind of fool am i? It seems there is no such thing as reason where Mr Green is concerned. Though he showed an interest in the etymology of language. This is actually something that fascinates us (me, Her Majesty, and the voices)…
extreme_fishing @stinginthetail No, you are a hypocrit as soon as a fish takes it is in trauma! FACT. SO SURELY THAT'S CRUEL.? Troppo is that Australian?
Takes it? The bait, i assumed. He was over-punctuating bad, and the CAPS were multiplying, never a good sign. Good Lord, what does he think entering an abattoir does to a cow? I'm not a hypocrite over meat – I know it's not always produced in the most humane ways, but when it's down to just me, i'll do my damnedest to be humane.
Weirdly, i didn't feel like pausing to explain to the joys of 'English as she is spoke in Orstraylyah' to my new cobber, but that didn't stop the tirade….
extreme_fishing @stinginthetail Would love to take you people who dislike the show on my next trip to Japan. That will REALLY float your boat.x
I liked the show – up until he tweeted me, i even liked him. I couldn't stand the fish and the duck being tortured. (Want to make absolutely clear, it wasn't Robson Green shooting the duck, or whatever that bird was, it was one of the people he was touting as 'experts'.)
So he's looking forward to Japan again so he can be really cruel to animals? Is he going to participate in that annual dolphin massacre? Go whaling? And what was the x on the end? It looked sinister. A kiss? Like the Mafia do? A typo? And "you people"?
If this was a normal person with capitals and lots of punctuation, (and not an actor), what would i do? I replied to the tweet about fish and marathon runners in plastic bags (i was behind by that time) and bowed out…
stinginthetail @extreme_fishing all the more reason to make its end quick? This isn't debate, this is u shouting inanities. And this is me blocking you.
The question mark was because i was still at that stage trying to decode the tweet, (or any of them), and was guessing at what he meant. When i went to his profile to block him, he was still going on…
extreme_fishing @stinginthetail It was about fresh fish flesh 4 people who have no fridges. As u know as soon as the fish is killed the meat starts to turn
Erm, what century was he now in? Did he think the South had no electricity? With some trepidation, a couple of hours later, i looked to see if he'd stopped shouting….
extreme_fishing @stinginthetail Ive just come back from filming Guinae Bissau after supplying a village with fresh fish so they could EAT! You fucking Moron
I'm a fucking moron, because he didn't read my tweets, was abusive, and committed several crimes against English whilst shouting at me, a total stranger, on Twitter? I suppose it makes perfect sense, if he has a persecution complex. You can see where we're heading, right? However, thanks so much, Mr Green.
If you're going to call me a fucking moron in a public forum, then on my blog i could call you a stupid twat, or maybe even a conceited wanker. That seems fair. Nasty little git with a chip on your shoulder and delusions of grandeur?
Still, at least i finally figured out what the "starving kids in Africa" reference was about.
(of sorts – warning, based on Robson Green's tweets and the Lolcat Bible in a very vague way – it's only short, you'll live through a little lolspeak.)
An actor called Robson Green thinks he's Bono from U2 Bob Geldof Baby Jebus!
He duz fishez for the multitudes, and they iz tugging forelocks saying, "U gave us fud. We iz your grateful disciples nao, we can haz worship of u, Baby Jebus?"
Even Basement Cat iz impressed, because Jesus Robson Green had totally pwned him. Even when Jesus Robson Green wuz tempted, and offered lobster by Basement Cat, he was like, no want!
Ceiling Cat was all, "Woa, u iz so kewl, mah son. Much respect. Can haz crucifixion!"
Take your hat off, you in the back, show some fucking respect for the Messiah! (Yes, i'm going to stop referring to Ceiling Cat, it's alright.)
Meanwhile, in true Queen of Darkness style, *shines fingernails* I've blocked the Messiah on Twitter. A meal for some starving Africans, how sweet of him. He tries so hard. I don't suppose it occurred to him that they might need feeding more often than when he happens to drop in on a fishing trip.
Poor Jesus always was behind the times. We're talking about a man whose own father abandoned his mother, then wouldn't get him a lawyer, so he has major issues. Jesus, of course, not Robson Green. Seriously.
I did some research, and found that Jesus made assertions on UK breakfast tv that "90% of fish caught by coarse anglers in Britain die", which the coarse anglers are a trifle miffed over (they let their catches go, and if all of the releases died, Britain would literally have no fish at all). Wait, no that was actually Robson Green.
So every angling organisation in the UK (and anywhere else) is probably encouraging its members to boycott his fishing show – the British Angling Trust is. Other folk i saw online had criticised his less-than-humane methods, and of course, he said there were more of 'you people'.
I'm guessing they don't know Mr Green is the Messiah, and that not watching the show is like handing your soul over to Satan. Believe in Robson Green, and lo, ye shall be saved… or get a fish dinner.
So i guess i walked into someone else's argument there.
In case you're reading this, Mr Green, (or your lawyers are) 'troppo' is an Australianism and means someone's gone nuts from some aspect of the tropics: the heat, the cicadas, the rainy season, etc. "He's gone troppo" would be correct usage. It dates from when Australian troops were fighting in the Pacific during World War Two.
I suppose in your case it might just be the messiah complex making you look as if you've gone troppo. When it comes to nailing yourself to the cross – having watched a few people do it – here's a tip.
Have someone standing by to do the last nail, it's a bugger. Or course, i'd be happy to lend a hand, one with a hammer in it. Or we could set fire to you, i love the scent of burning martyr.
Come on, it will be fun!
In my research, i discovered Jesus Christ's Robson Green's middle name is Golightly. Wow, imagine being named after Audrey Hepburn (Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"), and growing up in the north of England in the 60's and 70's?
Oh, in case, in his hysteria, Robson Green thinks i'm serious,
and accuses me of actually making death threats, this note is for the Feds.
It's a joke. I am not really that interested in the guy.
I just reckon he's behaved like a twat, and i'm allowed to say so.


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La Toya Jackson Reveals Mind-Blowing Michael Jackson Pact + Announces Engagement With Huge Ring [VIDEO]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
La Toya Jackson dropped bombshell after bombshell in an interview that aired on 'Good Morning America' this morning, June 4.
First, she revealed that she got engaged to her longtime boyfriend (and business manager), Jeffre Phillips — last August!
"I'm engaged and I'm excited about it. Yes, I'm very much engaged … and it's wonderful," Jackson revealed, later telling PEOPLE that her answer "wasn't a fast yes" as she was caught off-guard by the proposal.
After being trapped in an abusive marriage over 20 years ago, Jackson explained that it was a struggle for her to trust and be open to letting men in her life again.
"I felt that I didn't want to have anything to do with men or that they would control me," she said (quote via ABC.) "But things have changed. And now I'm open."
And Jackson not only found love and a lifetime of commitment with Phillips — but also an enormous ring, as he popped the question with a gigantic 17.5 carat sparkler, which she showed off on 'GMA' (and you can peep below.) Talk about a rock!
But it wasn't just marriage that Jackson has on her mind — it is also motherhood, and she revealed a mind-blowing pact that she, family friend Kathy Hilton and her late brother Michael Jackson all made when they were children.
"Whoever gets the first born, you name them Paris," she explained of the pact. "Kathy was first [with] Paris Hilton, and then of course Michael had his Paris," she said, referring to the King of Pop's second-born, Paris Jackson. Whoa — that is one revelation we were not expecting!
Of course, this also begs the question: Will La Toya have a Paris of her own?
"There possibly could be!" she said excitedly. "I don't know for sure yet — we'll just have to wait and see!"
Watch La Toya Jackson's 'GMA' interview above, and check out her mind-boggling engagement ring below!


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Wednesday, March 30
Feel Like You're at Fenway Park with a Sausage and Peppers Sandwich
Major League Baseball's opening day is today. For Red Sox and Yankee fans, however, the real opening day occurs on April 8th, when the Sox and Yankees go head-to-head for the first time of the season.
Whether you like to admit it or not, the Red Sox-Yankees decades-long rivalry is the biggest draw for Major League Baseball. Plus, there are the hotties (Derek Jeter), lovable sluggers (Big Papi), fierce pitchers (Josh Beckett, Mariano Rivera) and, most importantly, killer food. I'm not talking about Cracker Jacks and hot dogs. I'm talking about sausages.
Outside of Fenway Park, there are over a dozen food carts manned by loud, beefy Boston food vendors hawking sandwiches filled with everything from kielbasa to steak tips. It's the humble Sausage and Pepper Sandwich, or "sangwich" as it's often called, that is the most beloved of all. Sweet or spicy Italian sausage links are grilled or sauteed until glistening and crisp then tucked inside of a crusty Italian roll and smothered with tender cooked onions and bell peppers.
You can get a Sausage and Pepper Sandwich from a number of places, but for the purest Fenway experience, go to the The Sausage Guy, also known as David Littlefield. Over the last decade The Sausage Guy has sold millions of his sandwiches and has become a local celebrity and bona fide tourist attraction.
Like most of you, I won't be at the Red Sox-Yankees game, but that doesn't mean we can't be there in spirit. So do what I plan on doing. Make yourself a Sausage and Pepper Sandwich, or as many New Englanders say, "a soss-age n' peppiz." Crack open a cold one. Watch the game. Realize that, yes, life is good.
The Encyclopedia of Sandwiches shares recipes, history, and trivia for over 100 beloved meals between sliced bread. Each sandwich, as you can see from the images here, is accompanied by a full-color, gorgeous photo beautifully styled by Adam C. Pearson and photographed by Matt Armendariz. You can pre-order your copy today!
Sausage and Peppers Sandwich from my new book, The Encyclopedia of Sandwiches
Makes 4 sandwiches
Printable recipe.
2 tablespoons olive oil
4 Italian links (about 1 1/4 pounds total), preferably hot Italians sausage with fennel seeds
1 small green bell pepper, cut into thin strips
1 red bell pepper, cut into thin strips
1 medium yellow onion, thinly sliced
Salt, to taste
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
3 to 4 tablespoons red wine or water
4 sub rolls or crusty Italian rolls, split lengthwise
1. Place oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add sausage links and cook, turning until browned all over, about 5 minutes. Ad bell peppers, onion, salt, and crushed red pepper flakes. Reduce heat to medium-low and saute, turning occasionally, about 5 minutes. Add wine or water and cook until most of the liquid has evaporated, about 2 to 3 minutes. The meat should be thoroughly cooked and the vegetables tender.
2. Brush rolls with olive oil and broil 1 to 2 minutes, or until golden and crisp.
3. Open 1 roll. Place 1 sausage link firmly inside. Smother with a quarter of the peppers and onions. Repeat with remaining sandwiches. Eat immediately.
You might also enjoy these porky foods:
Pork Tenderloin Sandwich recipe from Food Blogga
Fennel Sausage and Rapini Pizza recipe from Food Blogga
Grilled Sausage Sandwiches with Pickled Red Cabbage recipe from Sippity Sup
Sausage, Peppers and Smoked Mozzarella Panini recipe from Panini Happy
Chicken Sausage, Onion, and Broccoli Rabe Pizza recipe from Revel and Feast
Veal Cutlet Sandwich with Garlicky Greens, Smoked Mozzarellas and Prosciutto recipe from Food Blogga
14 comments:
- Jennifer B said...
Oh wow, that looks great! I received your book in the mail to review and so far, I LOVE it! I plan on making some this weekend to try out!
- March 30, 2011 at 10:10 AM
- Nico said...
as a displaced east coaster (from New York) living on the west coast (Portland), I love seeing you (a Californian) writing about the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. This just made my morning!
- March 30, 2011 at 10:22 AM
- Gwen said...
Aw man, these are my weekness. Well these together with an ice cold beer cuz who can eat a loaded dog w/out a cold beer? I gain like 5 pounds every Spring Training Season. *sigh
- March 30, 2011 at 1:16 PM
- KJ said...
My grandfather cooked sausage and peppers during the summers and put it on crusty white Italian bread. That was what I missed most when I gave up red meat. Thank goodness I can now get turkey or chicken sausage and this old favorite is back on my menu.
- March 30, 2011 at 4:58 PM
- Joanne said...
Oh you are making me miss boston WAY too much with this post and this sandwich! My review copy of the book just came in the mail and I can't decide what to make! Everything looks delicious!
- March 30, 2011 at 5:02 PM
- Lindsay Beck Photography said...
oh my gosh. i have been craving hotdogs for a month now. (and i'm usually "vegetarian"...) i'm going to make this on Friday yumyumyum.
- March 30, 2011 at 8:29 PM
- Liz the Chef said...
Go Sox!
- March 31, 2011 at 8:59 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
jennb-Yay! I'm so glad you like it.
nico-That makes me smile. :)
healthymama-It's not hard to do!
KJ-I'm glad you found delicious alternatives.
joanne-Having difficulty choosing one is a good problem to have. :)
lindsay-These taste much better than soy sausages!
liz-Go Sox!
- March 31, 2011 at 1:55 PM
- We Are Not Martha said...
Fabulous-looking book!! :) I live right near Fenway, but when I don't feel like battling the crowds, this looks perfect! :)
- April 1, 2011 at 9:44 AM
- The Manly Housewife said...
Ah opening night Rangers 9 Red Sox 5 oh wait you were talking about the Yankees. Great article Can't wit to read that cookbook
- April 2, 2011 at 8:06 AM
- cindy said...
we just got home early this morning from a trip to boston which included a tour of fenway! these look just marvelous!
- April 3, 2011 at 9:20 AM
- AllThingsYummy said...
Just made your Breakfast Biscuit Sandwich and blogged about it. So yummy.
- April 3, 2011 at 1:07 PM
- The Food Hunter said...
Your new book sounds great. Will need to get a copy.
- April 4, 2011 at 9:36 AM
- kellypea said...
I've been to Fenway on one muggy simmer visit to Boston, and our memories of those sausage sangwiches have come up so many times in conversation over the years. The combo has also morphed into pasta dishes, omelets, rice dishes..you name it, we've made it. Pure heaven. And congrats on yet another book! You're a writing machine!
- April 5, 2011 at 6:41 AM


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Selena Gomez, 'Come + Get It' – Song Review
Selena Gomez has hyped 'Come + Get It' to the high heavens, releasing teasers, snippets and cover art for weeks now -- but does it live up to her promotion?
That depends. If you were expecting or hoping for something close to 'Love You Like a Love Song' or danceable like 'Rule the World,' you're probably going to be a little disappointed. The song has EDM influences in the hook, but the beat is generally midtempo, and she was right about the "tribal" influences -- there are chants in the background.
The song is about an up-and-down, on-off relationship. The roller coaster it chronicles, however, is a strong contrast to Gomez's vocals, which fall sadly flat, even when she ad libs.
However, the track is a change and a shift, and it was a risk. Gomez may win new fans with the song since it's pretty far outside of her usual bubblegum Disney box, and her loyal Selenators will likely eat it up regardless. However, for fans of pure pop, they may want to stick with her ex boyfriend.
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Ohad Naharin's Anaphaza. Photo by Gadi Dagon.
Two weeks ago, the distinctive sound of dancers drumming on enormous water cooler bottles flooded the courtyard of the Suzanne Dellal Center as the Batsheva Dance Company rehearsed Ohad Naharin's Anaphaza. But last week, the studios were eerily silent. Why? Batsheva took Anaphaza, water bottles and all, down to the Arava desert for Phaza Morgana 2009. From October 22-25, the usually placid Timna Park overflowed with audiences and energy as Batsheva and the Idan Raichel Project put on three spectacular shows.
My preview of Phaza Morgana was originally published as "Dance in the Desert" in the Jerusalem Post.
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Dance in the Desert
This weekend, the desert won't be so deserted. Crowds of eager spectators are flocking to scenic Timna Park, twenty-five kilometers north of Eilat, for Isrotel Phaza Morgana 2009. Nestled among the park's striking rock formations at the foot of the magnificent Solomon's Pillars, a 3,000 seat amphitheater will host three spectacular programs designed to entice the senses and enliven the spirit.
The world-renowned Batsheva Dance Company has partnered with the Israeli hotel chain Isrotel to present Phaza Morgana on five previous occasions, but this year's festival promises to be the most sensational event yet. As in previous seasons, the dance troupe's large-scale production of Anaphaza forms Phaza Morgana's centerpiece and maintains a magical appeal.


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By Catherine Saillant
Moving quickly to assemble his own team, Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday asked the top managers of 35 city agencies and departments to reapply for their jobs.
Executives overseeing parks, libraries, airports and a host of other city-run services are being told they will have to demonstrate how their agencies will become more nimble, technologically savvy and responsive to Los Angeles residents or risk losing their jobs, Garcetti said at a City Hall news conference. Some managers probably won't be rehired, he said before heading into a private meeting with the department heads. The request fulfills a promise Garcetti made during the campaign and in his recent inaugural speech.
"You've got to be able to take on some of the entrenched culture and bureaucracy," Garcetti told reporters. "I want people to have a sense of excitement. If they don't have a sense of excitement about this place, they probably shouldn't be here."
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Garcetti wants the department leaders to present him with numeric goals for their agencies during one-on-one interviews he will conduct over the next two months. Among the goals, he said, will be revitalizing the economy, making better use of technology, improving customer service and operating in a more environmentally sustainable manner, the mayor said.
"I want the people of L.A. to be able to assess my job performance, and people can't assess my job performance if I can't assess the people under me," he said. Former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa instituted a metrics-based performance standard for managers, but Garcetti suggested his would be "more robust."
He said he doesn't have a "secret list" of managers he wants gone. But he repeated an earlier statement that he would look particularly hard at the leadership of the Department of Water and Power and the Fire Department. He also cited concerns about the Department of Recreation and Parks, and in the past he has voiced discontent with the city's library system and information technology operations.
Garcetti's office initially said that all 37 general managers would undergo scrutiny. But Garcetti spokesman Yusef Robb later clarified that two executives, the chief legislative analyst and the head of the Ethics Commission, do not answer directly to the mayor.
Garcetti also cannot unilaterally hire or fire the city's police chief or its Housing Authority head, both of whom are appointed by commissions in consultation with the mayor. The City Council could reinstate any general manager by a two-thirds vote, Garcetti acknowledged.
Ron Nichols, executive director of the Department of Water and Power, has defended his record, citing advances in the use of renewable energy and the planned elimination of coal-fired energy. On Monday, he declined to comment. Fire Chief Brian Cummings could not be reached for comment.
John Mukri, the general manager of the Department of Recreation and Parks, said Garcetti's approach will create uncertainty, but that's a good thing.
"When the ship changes course, it causes a little bit of confusion," said Mukri, 63, who came to the city after a career in the Navy. "Some turn rapidly with the ship, some swim around in circles and some get lost."
"I'm not afraid," he said. "This is great for the citizens."
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Did you know that Samford Commons has enabled the Samford Community Library 'Stage One' to be ready to welcome borrowers!
Because of the community's generosity, they can now share books, DVDs, CDs, magazines and puzzles. Borrow (5 items for any person at a time) for a small yearly subscription of $5 for an individual or $10 for a family!
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NASA has announced completion of thermal vacuum testing on its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which will map landing sites on the Moon for America's planned new wave of manned space exploration. Launching next year, the LRO will orbit the Moon just 30 miles up, allowing it to scan the surface with great precision.
The tests completed today subjected the fully-assembled spacecraft to the rigours it will face in space, including vacuum, extreme heat and terrible cold.
"We have cooked LRO, frozen it, shaken it, and blasted it with electromagnetic waves, and still it operates," said NASA engineer Dave Everett.
The tests were done in NASA's Thermal Vacuum Chamber at the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland. The space survey machine will be shipped to Cape Canaveral early next year, ready for launch aboard an Atlas V rocket in April. The LRO will share its ride with another Moon mission, an impact probe called the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite.
Once at the Moon, the LRO will take up a polar orbit, so covering the whole lunar surface as time goes by. It will be able to orbit safely just 30 miles up, owing to the lack of any atmosphere.
NASA planners are particularly keen to have accurate maps of potential landing sites, so as to avoid any mishaps to the manned landers they intend to send to the Moon from 2020. Back in 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had to take manual control of their Apollo 11 module just 400 feet up, as it was taking them down into a crater strewn with massive boulders. When they set down safely beyond the crater, they had just 30 seconds of fuel left.
The space agency would like to avoid this sort of thing in future. However, they are also very keen to make "hairy landings on a crater rim" if at all possible.
The reason for this is solar power. NASA aims to establish long-term bases when it goes back to the Moon, and in space the usual source of power is solar panels. But most of the Moon is subject to nights lasting two weeks, making solar power a troublesome option.
But at the lunar poles, sunlight can be almost constant - especially on crater lips and mountaintops.
"Solar energy could be the main source of power because the sun is almost always above the horizon," according to Goddard boffin Richard Vondrak.
"There may even be areas on crater rims and mountains where the sun hasn't set for eons, called Permanently Illuminated Regions (PIRs)."
Thus the LRO will be giving the polar regions a particularly hard stare as it passes over. A base in a PIR might be able to largely do without nuclear power, which would otherwise be necessary for any longterm presence.
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Onto LunarNET upgrade number six: the "Magical School Lunar!" section is now completely redone! This is the most extensive overhaul yet. We have more character info, plenty more artwork, music from the entire game, a few movies, and even a story synopsis (for those of you who likely won't get around to playing the game itself). All this is worth looking through no matter how much you may think you know about this installment of the series.
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