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My freshman year in college was at a small school of just 700 students in Wisconsin, and I worked as a breakfast cook from almost my first day on campus. Making breakfast for 700 students is a big deal, especially since we didn't take a lot of shortcuts in the kitchen. Hundreds of eggs needed to be cracked and whisked, buckets of pancake batter mixed up and measured onto the griddle and flipped, mounds of potatoes peeled and fried, and everything else readied in the dining room – bins of cereal filled, endless gallons of coffee made, massive dispensers for milk filled, the waffle iron heated with a bowl of waffle batter nearby.
I never once made myself a waffle there, although I wish I had. In college, I wasn't very into breakfast, usually just drinking a cup or two of coffee and waiting for lunch. After getting up at 3:30 or 4:00 am and cooking breakfast, then mopping the floors and cleaning everything up, as well as prepping a few things in the kitchen for lunch, I went to class, already completely exhausted and wanting nothing more than to take a nap. It's no wonder that I believed for years that breakfast wasn't worth getting up for.
I've been on a mission for the past year to find a waffle recipe that yields really crispy waffles, and I have to say that I have yet to make the perfect waffle. I've made plenty of waffles that are good – after all, I don't post recipes I don't believe in – but just not the ultimate, amazing, perfectly crisp waffle I keep hoping for. I do have one more recipe that I saw in a book I read this summer that I'm crossing my fingers for, though…
I still like my homemade waffle recipes, and always freeze the leftovers to toast later. And that is when they're actually perfect, emerging from the toaster all golden brown and crisp. I like to spread peanut butter on them, and the peanut butter gets all warm and melts into the crevices of the hot waffle.
For something different, I decided to try making buttermilk waffles with brown rice flour instead of all-purpose, thinking that maybe the graininess would contribute to a crispier waffle. To be honest, it really didn't seem to make a difference, although I did enjoy the chewy texture it added, and they also just happen to be gluten-free for those of you who need that option.
In addition to swapping white flour for brown rice flour, I boosted the protein in these with more eggs than I would normally use in waffle batter, yielding a filling and satisfying waffle that wasn't too sweet.
In addition to swapping white flour for brown rice flour, I boosted the protein in these with more eggs than I would normally use in waffle batter, yielding a filling and satisfying waffle that wasn't too sweet.
An apple cider compote - tart Granny Smith apples, spices and cider, simmered until thick and syrupy - was a wonderful Autumn finish to our breakfast of waffles.
Spiced Buttermilk Waffles with Apple Cider Compote
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- 2 cups apple cider
- 2 tart apples, peeled, cored and diced
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 6 eggs
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 2 cups brown rice flour (or all-purpose flour)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ginger
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon cloves
Pour the apple cider into a saucepan. Add the apples, cinnamon, brown sugar and butter. Bring to a simmer over medium low heat and simmer until thick and the apples are softened and caramelized.
When the compote is nearly ready, preheat your waffle iron. In a bowl, whisk together the eggs, oil, buttermilk, vanilla and sugar. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves. Whisk dry ingredients into the wet and whisk until smooth.
Pour batter into waffle iron and cook according to the manufacturer's instructions. Serve with the apple cider compote.
Yields 10 waffles, depending on the size of your waffle maker.
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Common Mistakes Do When Diets
Here are some mutual do inwards the fast diet that truly tin lavatory move detrimental to your health:
If yous wishing to lose weight , one-half to 1 kilogram per calendar week is salubrious weight is recommended for removal .
Sudden changes inwards diet to lose weight chop-chop conduct chances making yous experience wellness problems. Unhealthy endeavour also does non permit a sustainable lifestyle changes that aim to keep a stable salubrious weight inwards the long term
Sudden changes inwards diet to lose weight chop-chop conduct chances making yous experience wellness problems. Unhealthy endeavour also does non permit a sustainable lifestyle changes that aim to keep a stable salubrious weight inwards the long term
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Fast Diet Risks
Rapid weight loss probable volition non final long. Moreover , people who lose weight volition chop-chop move at conduct chances for wellness problems:
Fast Diet Risks
Rapid weight loss probable volition non final long. Moreover , people who lose weight volition chop-chop move at conduct chances for wellness problems:
- Body weakness in addition to fatigue
Generally , people who wishing to lose weight chop-chop move eaten inwards smaller portions or fifty-fifty forcefulness myself to non eat. This status makes the trunk is deprived of calories hence slow limp in addition to tired. The productivity of the someone would move decreased.
- Less nutrients
The trunk requires carbohydrates , vitamins , minerals , fats , in addition to proteins inwards the ideal number inwards gild to utilisation properly. But when yous wishing the weight correct downwards , yous volition tend to trim or fifty-fifty eliminate some nutrients such every bit carbohydrates in addition to fats. In fact , your trunk needs all the elements to proceed the trunk salubrious in addition to non prone to diseases.
- Weight chop-chop climbed back
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- Breakdown of musculus tissue
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Healthy Diet Plan Vs Fast Weight Loss
- Disruption of the body
Some diseases that tin lavatory assail for a fast diet side effects include headache , constipation , pilus loss , in addition to irregular periods.
- Serious diseases that may occur
Diet chop-chop performed continuously move at conduct chances of serious illness brings , amid others:
- Gallstones: occurs inwards 1-2 of the 10 people who lost large amounts of weight inwards a few months.
- Electrolyte imbalance inwards the body.
- Dehydration.
Common Mistakes Do When Diets
Here are some mutual do inwards the fast diet that truly tin lavatory move detrimental to your health:
- Skip primary meals
Research shows that people who regularly eat morning time , noon , in addition to black is to a greater extent than able to keep a salubrious weight. The breakfast containing enough of fiber in addition to poly peptide volition proceed yous feeling total until luncheon fourth dimension arrives. But skip the primary repast makes yous tend to eat a lot of snacks inwards betwixt primary meals.
- Minimizing the content of snacks
Have yous noticed to a greater extent than or less how many calories are contained inwards 2 pieces of fried nutrient , a handbag of spud chips , in addition to a slice of cake? The total could overstep the calories yous should consume. Check the nutrition label on nutrient packaging tin lavatory assistance yous justice the number of calories consumed.
- Did non eat snacks
Eating high-calorie snacks is risky to brand diets fail. But patently if that's the sort of snacks that are salubrious in addition to low-calorie truly makes people far away from hunger in addition to to a greater extent than able to keep a salubrious weight. Protein-rich snacks such every bit almonds tin lavatory proceed your metabolism to proceed working optimally.
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- Weighed every day
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- Setting a target unrealistic
In improver to frustrating because wishing is non achieved , the target to lose weight upward to five kilograms a calendar week tin lavatory brand yous intend to do everything possible , including unhealthy ways to accomplish it. Stress targets missed because it tin lavatory trigger yous to eat more.
How a Healthy Diet
Basically , a salubrious diet is close managing diet , including choosing the type of nutrient that should move consumed. H5N1 salubrious diet is when all the nutrients your trunk needs tin lavatory move met.
Some unproblematic steps that tin lavatory move a guide:
Basically , a salubrious diet is close managing diet , including choosing the type of nutrient that should move consumed. H5N1 salubrious diet is when all the nutrients your trunk needs tin lavatory move met.
Some unproblematic steps that tin lavatory move a guide:
- Determine the target of salubrious each week.
Targets modest in addition to unproblematic pregnant value every bit a footstep towards sustainable lifestyle changes. In improver , ready a realistic target routinely in addition to successfully hits volition brand yous experience positive. For event , if yous similar to eat fried nutrient every twenty-four sixty minutes catamenia , targeted to non eat them inside a week. Instead , eat a salubrious distraction such every bit dried fruit.
- Actively engaged.
As a commencement footstep , yous do non bespeak to exercise regularly to proceed her inwards shape. Do something that yous similar hence that such activity tin lavatory move carried out repeatedly every bit playing futsal amongst coworkers or biking amongst the family. Scheduling if the trunk inwards the morning time earlier starting the movement is the best agency for those who detect it hard to accept fourth dimension every bit well. Try to exercise at to the lowest degree 2-3 hours per week.
- Reduce nutrient packaging.
Limit consumption of packaged nutrient , fast nutrient in addition to fried food. The grouping of these foods incorporate a lot of calories , preservatives , in addition to salt.
- Choose foods that are processed inwards a sure enough way.
Better eating foods that are processed yesteryear steaming or boiling inwards H2O than deep-fried inwards hot oil. The nutrient is steamed or boiled inwards a fourth dimension non also long to receive got a to a greater extent than consummate nutrient content compared to fried food. Meanwhile , fried foods incorporate calories in addition to high inwards saturated fat.
- Reset the contents of your plate.
Fill one-third of nutrient on the plate amongst lean meat , fish , or poultry. Try to reproduce portions of fruits , vegetables , in addition to nuts. Choose the type of beginning of salubrious carbohydrates such every bit chocolate-brown rice or potatoes. Eating fruits that are non also sugariness similar apples , tomatoes in addition to avocados.
- Starting in addition to continuing the skillful habits.
The next unproblematic habits tin lavatory pick out huge benefits if done consistently in addition to inwards the long term:
- Consuming mineral H2O amongst sufficient in addition to regular.
- Do non skip the primary meal.
- Increase consumption of vegetables hence that yous experience total longer.
- Avoid buying or storing high-calorie snacks inwards the house.
- Discipline your gym time.
- Eat quietly field sitting at the dinner tabular array in addition to non field working.

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Google yanked two malicious apps masquerading as popular video games.
The two affected apps were passing themselves off as versions of "Super Mario Bros." and "GTA 3 Moscow City," according to InformationWeek.
Symantec first noticed the affected apps and contacted Google, but not before they were downloaded more than 50,000 times since they showed up in late June. The malware was a Trojan app know as Dropdialer, which once installed, downloads software which allows it to "send messages to premium-rate SMS numbers in Eastern Europe," or also known as toll fraud.
Local news from across Southern California
"What is most interesting about this Trojan is the fact that the threat managed to stay on Google Play for such a long time, clocking up some serious download figures before being discovered," Symantec security researcher Irfan Asrar wrote in a blog post. "Our suspicion is that this was probably due to the remote payload employed by this Trojan."
The app made it through Google's security by hiding its secret payload.
The InformationWeek report then took a big swig of the Apple Kool-Aid and stated that Apple's App Store was a much safer prospect than Google Play. Apparently they haven't been reading the same things we have about Apple's allegedly safer downloads.


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Attachment, Create, Cycles, happiness, Heart, Heart & Soul, Jane Powell, Know, Lack, Patterns, Scarcity, Soul, Struggle, thoughts, Trust, Work
Do you pay attention to your thoughts, to what you perceive as true, and what you believe to be your reality? How have they shaped your life? Do you see yourself living the life you'd always wanted? Or, are you living the life you were told was more realistic?
I see most people realizing they are unhappy later on in their life after they've met the expectations placed upon them in earlier years. They've checked off the boxes on the script of society's version of how life should run versus following their Heart. The importance to follow our Heart is highly misunderstood and ignored in our society meanwhile, it is the Heart which will never lead you astray!
To truly appreciate this, you have to consider that just because a job or career path makes sense versus supporting your passion ~ allowing your Spirit to Soar and your Heart to Sing, doesn't mean it will yield the same results to acquire that which you desire. In fact, if you are just working a non-fulfilling job to sustain you, you will always find yourself in LACK, also known as scarcity! Lack in whatever you do to fulfill your Heart & Soul is LACK overall! Lack cannot attain, sustain, or maintain.
What might have made sense simply because "it's just what you DO! Because that's what my father did, & his father's father, & his father's father… has always done… Nothing comes without Struggle & Hard Work!" will only result in a life of misery.
Does this ring a bell with anyone? I know for myself, I had many interests and passions growing up but I followed what was promoted to me as being the secure and safe path. I was conditioned to believe it a much wiser way to pursue the American Dream yet, all the while, I found myself living a life lacking something and I was unsure at the time. I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Not until many years later did it occur to me. My Heart spoke and all the things I did as a child have come back to remind me. In fact, had I listened to my heart instead of my head, I probably would have stayed with a special someone I had felt deep love for and equally felt loved by.
The other day, I came across this post from Jane Powell's Meditations for Women:
"The best career is one with meaning"
To be truly happy in your career you need to find the right kind of work for you. Not something you think you should do or something somebody else wants you to do.
Some women like to lead, others prefer to follow, some are independent and others prefer to be part of a team. There is no right or wrong. Ask yourself, "What feels right for me?" "How can I use my unique and natural talents?" "How can I bring out the best in myself and provide it to others as a service?"
Dare to take the steps toward finding your own true path by answering the questions above. You'll discover what comes naturally and what activities make you the happiest.
Best of all, you'll feel genuine satisfaction and pride when you spend your days doing something you value.
©Jane Powell – Meditations for Women
Today's Affirmation: I spend my days doing what I value.
Do you want to get back on track with what fuels your deepest desires ~ the ones your Heart knows and not your head? It's never too late! So, what can you do to turn your life around? At any given moment, you can choose to change the course of your life. You can start at anytime and in small steps.
Gandhi once said,
The enemy is fear. We think it is hate, but it is fear.
Do only what you love!
For what you desire to appreciate in love must satisfy your Heart & Soul!
Doing something that brings you joy appreciates in all you do!
Follow your dreams!
The child within you knows the answer!
Remember that doing something just to fulfill what you want without pleasure will never satisfy you because it lacks passion to bring unity ~ this results in there being no flow within the Infinity!
Taking yourself from a place of Lack and Scarcity to Unlimited Abundance and Resources requires a reprogramming of your Thoughts, Beliefs, and Behaviors! Everyone is worthy of Love ~ Especially YOU!
Be Patient, Be Kind, & BE Love To YOU!
~ Lana A. LaBonte
Sometimes it takes time to re~identify the path we once knew as children but that's the first step that must be made to get out of an unhappy situation! Be patient, sit in silence, write in a journal, trace back events, ASK your Heart to guide you, and over time, it will become crystal clear.
~*♥*~ May you find Clarity, Peace, & Abundance from that place deep within your Heart & Soul! ~*♥*~
~ ♥ Lana A. LaBonte ♥ ~


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American International Group, Bear Stearns, Collateralized debt obligation, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street
My, how quickly we've forgotten the lessons of the financial crisis. Even though the debt markets have once again mispriced risk — when junk bonds yield a mere 5 percent, you can be sure serious trouble is brewing — I am referring instead to the fact that what caused the financial crisis remains unheeded.
For instance, the Financial Times recently made a big deal of how bankers at Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co. tried, and failed, to put together the first synthetic collateralized debt obligation since the onset of the 2008 crisis. The deal fell apart because there wasn't enough investor demand for various tranches of the security.
Fair enough, but any deal can go bust before it's completed (or afterward). The implication in the Financial Times, though, was that synthetic CDOs exacerbated the financial crisis, so the attempted revival of the product was a bad thing.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Just because an innovative financial product might have played a role in a serious market disruption doesn't mean that the product itself is flawed. It more likely means that the rewards bankers received for putting these deals together led them to create more and more of them with lower and lower credit standards.
Familiar Pattern
It's a familiar pattern of behavior on Wall Street: A financial innovation introduced by one firm reaps huge financial rewards, which leads to manic efforts by competitors to offer their own versions. That is followed by a mad rush to cash in by flooding the market with more of that product — and fewer quality controls.
Think junk bonds in the 1980s, Internet stock offerings in the 1990s and mortgage-backed securities in the 2000s. These innovations were quantum leaps forward in the democratization of capital — that is, making capital available at a lower cost to people and companies that wouldn't otherwise have access to it. That's a good thing, as Martha Stewart would say.
The synthetic CDO was a similar, albeit more complex, innovation, which allowed sophisticated investors to choose precisely the amount and kind of financial risks they wanted to take. Thanks to a lawsuit brought against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in April 2010, we are familiar with the most infamous synthetic CDO of all time: Abacus 2007-AC1. In that deal, for a $15 million fee, Goldman arranged for hedge-fund manager John Paulson to bet $1 billion that a bunch of mortgage-backed securities would default. At the same time, several European banks –including ABN Amro Bank NV (now part of Royal Bank of Scotland Plc) and IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG — made the opposite bet that the underlying securities would keep paying the contracted rate of high interest.
Paulson was looking for a way to short the mortgage market, and the European banks were looking for a way to find a higher-yielding security. What's wrong with an investment bank arranging a deal to provide willing, sophisticated customers with the risks they want to take? Nothing.
It's only when things don't work out that people look for someone to blame. But in every trade, there is a winner and a loser. When you buy a share of General Electric Co. stock — betting that it will go up in price — the seller hopes its price has peaked and that there is no more upside to be had.
Abacus Deal
Sure, Paulson ended up making $1 billion on the Abacus deal, while RBS and IKB lost about $900 million on their bad bets. (Goldman lost the remaining $100 million because it got stuck with some of the long side of Abacus.) But so what? This happens all day, every day. This is the nature of markets.
As we approach the fifth anniversary of the September 2008 panic, it is worth remembering that financial innovation didn't cause the problem. Of course, the crisis had no single cause — many things went wrong nearly simultaneously — yet some provocations rise above the others.
Chief among them was, and remains, an incentive system on Wall Street that rewards bankers and traders who take asynchronous risks (heads, they win; tails, you lose) with other people's money. When you are rewarded with a multi-million-dollar bonus for packaging shoddy mortgages into securities and selling them to investors around the world, that's exactly what you are going to do until the market tells you it can no longer be done.
Bankers and traders did just that on Wall Street in 2005 and 2006. The music stopped in the summer of 2007 when, after the collapse of the two Bear Stearns Cos. hedge funds that were chock-full of CDOs and mortgage-backed securities, the market shut down like a power switch.
By then, Wall Street banks had billions of these unsellable securities on their own balance sheets. Then they made another fateful, but perhaps inevitable, mistake: They used these increasingly risky securities as collateral for the short-term financing they needed to run their businesses on a daily basis.
In March 2008, and again that September, the short-term lenders decided they no longer wanted CDOs and mortgage-backed securities as collateral for overnight loans. The Wall Street firms — namely, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., Morgan Stanley and American International Group Inc. — that had miscalculated the risks of these securities found themselves bankrupt or almost so. As we know, some of them were rescued and some of them weren't.
But they all suffered from the same affliction, which had nothing to do with financial innovation: poor risk management and the wrong reward system. So long live the synthetic CDO. The truth is, five years on, Wall Street still suffers from inadequate risk management (see: Whale, London) and improper incentives. Until these problems are fixed, the next financial crisis is inevitable.
(William D. Cohan, the author of "Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World," is a Bloomberg View columnist. He was formerly an investment banker at Lazard Freres, Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan Chase.)
Related articles
- Wall Street Is Pushing Risk Again (wallstreetpit.com)
- CDS and Synthetic CDOs Explained (ritholtz.com)
- The Resolution Law Group: Synthetic CDOs Are Once Again In Demand Among Investors (theresolutionlawgroup.wordpress.com)
- HSBC Hit with Foreclosure Suit; FHA's $115 Billion Loss Scenario; Return of the Synthetic CDO? (americanbanker.com)
- Banks tiptoe back into risky pre-financial-crisis debt deals (blogs.marketwatch.com)
- The Return of CDOs – Do We Need Dynamic Elements in Financial Regulation? (wulfkaal.com)
- CDO: Instrument of destruction? (bankrate.com)
- Banks Return to the Same (Poisoned) Well (lunaticoutpost.com)
- Goldman and "hope" (ritholtz.com)
- DeLong Smackdown Watch: Sources of Social Surplus from Finance Edition (delong.typepad.com)


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The Music Festival Stuttgart is an exciting extravaganza of events ranging from concerts and master classes to a varied literary program. The International Bach Academy invites internationally renowned artists, ensembles, lecturers and scientists from around the world. By offering a broad range of themes encompassing every type of event, visitors are able to experience the musical works which form the focus of the Festival with particular intensity. The Festival, which was founded in 1985, has been held every year since 2000 for a period of two weeks around the end of August to the beginning of September.
Dates in 2018: 25 august to 9 september
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With the conclusion of the thrilling NASCAR Winston Cup season, AutoRacing1 grades the driver's performances in 2000. Check to see the report card of your favorite driver in alphabetical order. Part 2 includes drivers Gordon through Mayfield.
The AutoRacing1.com Report Card grading system is based on a number of factors. In addition to the general guidelines below, there are other factors that can influence the grade such as injuries, personnel changes, sponsorship difficulties, rookie status, DNQ's, DNF's and other intangibles. Drivers who competed in a minimum of 28 races have been assigned a report card for 2000.
A: 1st-10th place finish in points; or an improvement of 15 places or more from the previous year.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
When Bad Publicity Shines
If you haven't heard about the confusion surrounding nominations for SHINE by Lauren Myracle and CHIME by Franny Billingsley, you can read about it in Publisher's Weekly, Vanity Fair or the Los Angeles Times. When I received the email announcement from the NBF, it included both books. Yes, it seemed odd to have two YA books with similar titles. Yes, I wondered why the category had six nominees instead of the usual five. Yesterday, under pressure from the NBF, Lauren Myracle bowed out of the nomination, after it was revealed that her book had been put forward by mistake.
I don't know about you, but if it was me, I'd have been devastated. To have the thrill of being nominated followed soon after by the knowledge that your book wasn't supposed to be there? To have the world publicly debating whether your book deserved the honor? We writers are already neurotic. What a nightmare to have to go through.
Lauren Myracle is used to being in the midst of a firestorm. Her books have been regularly banned and I'm sure she's used to a certain degree of public scrutiny. But no one should have had to endure the week she's been through. Despite her disappointment, she handled herself with grace, encouraging the NBF to donate to the Matthew Shepard Foundation.
To be perfectly honest, this book was not on my radar. I'd seen her earlier novels, ttyl and the others in that series. But after hearing about the whole debacle over the past week, I'm more than curious about SHINE. And I doubt that I'm the only one. All the publicity surrounding the Foundation's mistake has pushed this book to the forefront, in a way that simply being nominated for the award could not have done.
Maybe in the end, Lauren Myracle will have the last laugh, showing the world that not only is her book deserving of the title, so is she.
21 comments:
- Anne Gallagher said...
Libba Bray wrote a fantastic article about the whole debacle, which I read yesterday. She knows Lauren and gave some of her reaction. (Sorry I don't have the link.)
However, I think this flub by the NBA will only give Lauren that much more attention and entirely more readers, because now, we're all curious. So bad on the NBA, go Lauren.
Publicity is publicity. Although, I can't imagine this.
- October 19, 2011 at 5:02 AM
- Beth Kephart said...
This has been heartbreaking for Lauren, but absolutely: It is her book out of the six that is being talked about, bought, etc. That doesn't in any way compensate for what has happened here. It has hurt Lauren. It has hurt the other authors. And it has hurt those of us who believe in the NBA. I chaired that jury years ago. It is impossible, in my mind, to imagine how this happened.
- October 19, 2011 at 5:16 AM
- Laura Pauling said...
I did follow that. I think she did the right thing. Would we really want an award that was a mistake? I wouldn't. And I hope the renewed publicity brings her more sales. I did read this book and it was well written.
I just hope this doesn't take away from CHIME, which I absolutely loved!
- October 19, 2011 at 5:30 AM
- Janet Johnson said...
Funny how that works sometimes. But good for Lauren. Sounds like she's taking the high road. :)
- October 19, 2011 at 8:36 AM
- Karen Jones Gowen said...
By far this is the best bad publicity ever.
- October 19, 2011 at 8:46 AM
- Susan Kaye Quinn said...
Yesterday, under pressure from the NBF, Lauren Myracle bowed out of the nomination, I just can't imagine how awful that was.
I SO hope she has the last laugh. In fact, I'm thinking I need to put that on my TBR, eventhough it's not the kind of thing I normally read.
- October 19, 2011 at 9:21 AM
- Sherrie Petersen said...
Anne: I saw Libba Bray's post and I agree, it was fantastic. Here's the link for anyone who wants to read it: libba-bray.livejournal.com/62266.html
Beth: You're right that Lauren isn't the only one hurt by what has happened. I hope they put in place some safeguards so that something like this doesn't ever happen again.
Laura: She did do the right thing, by all means. But I'm glad all the talk has given the book more attention because it sounds like the story itself is deserving.
Janet: She has taken the high road. And I love that she was able to highlight the Matthew Shepard Foundation as well.
Karen: I've heard it said that there's no such thing as bad publicity. I think for SHINE that may be true. For the Foundation, I'm not so sure.
Susan: Like you, I read a lot more SF/F than realistic fiction, but the topic of this novel is one that's important to me. So I'm glad this mixup made me aware of it.
- October 19, 2011 at 10:45 AM
- Kelly Polark said...
Oh, wow. I did not know about this. What a disappointment for her. But I sincerely hope she gets LOTS of sales because of this!
- October 19, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- Dianne K. Salerni said...
Yes, I was thinking that in spite of the disappointment and embarrassment, she might very well do better in sales than the book actually nominated.
And I'm sorry. It makes the National Book Foundation look pretty un-classy.
- October 19, 2011 at 2:36 PM
- Krispy said...
It really sucks what happened, and I think Lauren handled it with such class. She turned a mistake into something productive and beneficial. I'd heard about Shine before, but I haven't read it yet.
- October 19, 2011 at 3:12 PM
- Tricia J. O'Brien said...
I cringe just imagining what that would feel like. Nobody deserves that, and any shame is on the NBF not the author. But I am encouraged that money is being given to the Matthew Shephard Foundation--there is some good coming out of this.
- October 19, 2011 at 4:44 PM
- Kristan Hoffman said...
Absolutely love how she handled the situation. I will read her book for that alone, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. As you said, some good has come out of this (attention for her book, and a donation to the Matthew Shepard Foundation) so there's a silver lining. I imagine it's a small consolation for Lauren, but she's obviously a class act, so I have no doubt she and her career will continue to (pardon my pun) SHINE in the future.
- October 19, 2011 at 5:27 PM
- Sherrie Petersen said...
Kelly: I hope she gets a lot of sales, too. I can't imagine how disappointing this had to be.
Dianne: It does make the NBF look bad. I'm kind of shocked at the way they handled it.
Krispy: I'm totally impressed with how she turned it into something beneficial. Truly classy.
Tricia: I cringe every time I think about it, too. But yes, some good has come out of it thanks to her response.
Kristan: I think the way she handled the situation has won her a lot of new fans, myself included.
- October 19, 2011 at 7:36 PM
- Melissa Sugar said...
I love the catchy title of your post. I have read a few articles about the embarrassing error made by the NBF & it is my opinion that they should have lived with THEIR gross negligence & not compounded THEIR error by announcing the mistake. This should have been handled differently by the NBF. In contrast, Ms. Myracle handled this horrific situation with the grace and class not shown to her by the NBF. I admit that her book was not even on my radar, but I am dying to read it now. Her sales will go up by one from this reader & most assuredly by an enormous amount of other curious readers. The publicity surrounding the NBF's mistake was enough to make me want to purchase SHINE, but the graceful way that the author handled the situation has me wanting to read more of her work.
I hope that their mistake pays off in a big way for her. The added sales & publicity resulting from the NBF's error is not however, enough to make up for the pain, anxiety & devastation that the NBF caused Lauren Myracle.
- October 20, 2011 at 9:01 AM
- Lydia Kang said...
Myracle handled it very gracefully and as a result, has a new bunch of supporters and readers. Good for her, and I wish Billingsly all the luck with her book!
- October 20, 2011 at 11:53 AM
- Unknown said...
Unimaginably devastating, but quite likely she in now the most memorable title in the lot and will do better in sales because of it.
- October 20, 2011 at 7:09 PM
- Unknown said...
It wasn't on my radar either, but I picked it up at the library today, and another of her books caught my attention. If I like Shine, then I'll be buying her other one (which isn't available at the library). (The book is more for research than anything).
- October 21, 2011 at 7:39 PM
- Christina Lee said...
That lady showed such class!! I'd been meaning to read SHINE forever and now I AM (so I hope her book sales SOAR)!!!!
- October 22, 2011 at 5:39 PM
- Dawn Simon said...
It really was unfortunate. Well, as you said, maybe all this publicity will help in the long run! :)
- October 24, 2011 at 9:22 AM
- Sharon K. Mayhew said...
I'll look for her book when I go to B & N tomorrow... Hopefully she will have an increase in sales that will get her book on another list. :D
- October 24, 2011 at 7:42 PM
- Elana Johnson said...
I've been following it, and this is a great post for sure.
- October 25, 2011 at 12:38 PM


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A few of Church parade at Monzie, unsure of year 1912?
Sorry not been here for a while. Here's another from the Wylie collection. I think (not certain) that this is Major? William Haig. A cousin of Sir Douglas Haig.
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Another group of officers at Bedford April 1915. Major Wylie second from left.
Edit 21:43 27/4/2017 Not sure of rank but if the officer to the right of Major Wylie is a Colonel, it's Colonel MacDowell.
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Fiastro said there was a sentiment among county party leaders that the national GOP needs new leadership in the wake of its election setbacks, which included President Barack Obama's win over Mitt Romney and the loss of seats in the U.S. Senate. Despite the reverses, Priebus has said he will seek to stay as head of the Republican National Committee.
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The ampao, bocarillo, chicharron, inasal – these foodstuffs now lord over all the rest that the town also produces, except maybe its shoes.
The French, universally recognized for their meticulous regard for the elements of cuisine (see, even a French word), in the field of baking, even separated bread- from pastry-making as specializations, and had different terms for both — boulangerie and pâtisserie.
Carcar does not go so far as to claim such compartmentalization and so, let's pay tribute to the master bakers of our town instead: the bakery most famous for the variety of bread and pastries was that of Inday Epang (Josefa Noel-Lakandazon). She and her husband, Brigido (Maestro Bindoy), had no children of their own, but it's a glorious heritage that her family or some other should take up the slack of—pastel de leche, hojaldres, bizcocho, the all-time favorite pan initlogan (egg bread), etc. — Spanish-named, meaning these were not American-period dough-mixing. In that long-ago time, across the small street from Inday Epang's was Inday Ipyon's (Concepcion Alcoseba-Sandiego) bakery,too.
Grandnephew Alan Noel tried to revive the bakery in Inday Epang's house itself but the enterprise could not wait long enough for word of the bakery's re-launching to snowball. Dulce Alerre-Escobido is trying it on at present as a home industry.
Romana Alpis-Ybañez, Omag, in her home in Cogon, was the most famous torta-baker for a long time. Maxima (Imac) Canasa-Rayla, in Sta. Catalina st. meanwhile, did the most sought-after polvoron.
The histories and recipes of these delicacies are certainly worth preserving.
As a grader at St. Catherine's my daily recess fare was 5- or was it two for 5-centavo ensaimadas chased downed by water at the drinking fountain. I wonder who baked those ensaimadas—were they Carcar-made? After class, we went straight to the vendors outside the school to try out the tira-tira, coconut candy and the rice or taro mash with peanut filling, the masi (much like the Japanese mochi).
But Carcar's fiesta menu is something else: fresh lumpia, empanada (called pastelitos in Carcar), torta, humba, jamonada, dugo-dugo, barbacoa, tripillas, adobo (especially the face and jaw), chicken estofado, caldereta (de cabra) —the names, all either native, Chinese, Spanish or American, is a Philippine history lesson–we all pine for this cuisine when we're far from Carcar. Carcar made a chicken stew with eggs, a little Mallorca liqueur, later substituted by some with 7-Up, ginger (if you like), onions, garlic. We call it perdiz, but since perdiz means partridge, so the chicken itself may have been a fowl substitute, I mean, a substitute fowl thought of by our resourceful cooks of old. I did not see this dish in other towns in my fiesta-going days. Our salsado chicken was the best I swore until I tasted in Manila something like it but laced with a bit of wine and slices of Bilbao and Hungarian sausages mixed with the obligatory potatoes and carrots, plus green and red bell pepper not only for the taste but for the appearance—wow! Remember you heard that first here. Carcar also led in beef jerky we call casajos, a term we obviously murdered from the Spanish tasajos. I learned we also now do it with carabao beef.
Meanwhile, other towns had to content themselves with bragging rights as to who could import Carcar cooks for their own fiestas–that's how sought-after was Carcar cuisine and culinary talents.
My grandmother, Dolores Rodecindo de Veyra-Aleonar, was a master at extended family-sized feasts. Guests at our table still swear to this day at her versions of the fresh lumpia, pastelitos (empanada), the pastries and suspiros (but actually caramelized peanut brittle) and a crunchy bite-size dough mix she called gorgorias. She preserved paho (small mango) and jars of it lined up the dining room cabinet. But to us, the most-loved by her own family was the chorizo filling that she did not put into skins, just fried it. Mama Loleng also did an out-of-this-world linarang nga baó (turtle): opened up the shell, chopped the meat to smaller than chicken-size cuts, Chinese fermented black beans, tamarind leaves, ginger. The turtle liver is the best liver in the world.
Pancit is everyday fare but for special occasions we raise our standards and call on a special pancit, the bam-i. That would be bâ-mi in Chinese, or meat and noodle. For meat, our bam-i uses chicken and pork strips and and mix canton or fresh noodles with sotanghon. If having two kinds of noodles alone does not make the dish extra special, what with the shrimps and dried mushrooms and bukni also thrown in?
In Cebu City markets, hawkers call all their pusô as Carcar pusô because buyers specify them.
And while we're at this recalling mode: what was the difference between achal and achara, morcon and embutido, dinuldog and binignit, chorizo and longaniza? We once called a dish menudo, and then it became ginamay, and now it's called everywhere in the town as inatayan. But it had always had liver in it.
A note on chicharron: In Cebu, it was the volume of Carcar's market that ensured the adequate supply of pork rinds for our makers, which volume other towns did not have and thus could never compete with. Even so, for a long time, the chicharron makers were meat dealers themselves as only they had the supply of rinds to begin with. But for some years now, imported pork skin cuts have inundated the Philippines and it will just be a matter of time before some place else will be able to duplicate or even improve upon our chicharron recipe, if they haven't already. I dread thinking about some enterprising Cebu City kitchen will finally be able to whip up the same taste, and folks will no longer motor 40 kilometers just to get ours. Except if the whole population of Cebu dies out on the industry from hypertension and heart disease.
Whatever the commercial fate of chicharron, our makers can always make a healthy (?) profit from the by-product pork oil which is always in demand by bakeries.
Anyway, the market will, in time, dictate how these commercial foodstuffs will ultimately fare. Although the demand does not appear to be waning for now, but to ensure its continued good graces, Carcar should exercise strict quality control measures. We must be able to convince our buyers that they are buying vouched quality when they buy Carcar.


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Dear All,
Greetings! I am back in St. Louis now getting ready for the academic year. I hope you are enjoying what is left of the summer. If you have written recently, do please give me a few days to reply. I am getting back into the swing of things and have tackled the piled-up mail and e-mail only recently.
It is good to be back and to send you one of the regular large windows, Window on Iran – 35. So, let's get started without much ado:
The Best in the World
Iranian Americans of all backgrounds and political persuasions take a
lot of pride in educational achievements in Iran. The latest clip of
film (one minute) circulating in the community quotes the chair of the
department of electrical engineering at Stanford as describing the
department of electrical engineering in Sharif University in Tehran to
be the best in the world! http://youtube.com/watch?v=s957W6jomBc
Iran's Role in Afghanistan
In an interview broadcast Sunday on CNN, President Hamid Karzai of
Afghanistan, in a feat of courage unprecedented for US-supported local
leaders, contradicted the US claims that Iranian arms were helping to
erode the security situation in Afghanistan. He described Iran as "a
helper and a solution:"
"Iran has been a supporter of Afghanistan, in the peace process that
we have and the fight against terror, and the fight against narcotics
in Afghanistan," Karzai said in the interview conducted Saturday. He
went on to say that Afghanistan and Iran had "very, very good, very,
very close relations. … We will continue to have good relations with
Iran. We will continue to resolve issues, if there are any, to arise."
Here is a brief commentary: If you have wondered why President Karzai
should be so ungrateful as to make such embarrassing comments about
his American friends, the simple explanation is that he is the one who
has to face the Taliban and the al-Qa'ideh on the ground. He knows who
in the region will come to his help. Furthermore, Iran rushes to
Karzai's help in facing these extremist groups because they are its
sworn enemies as well. If that is not enough, they infest the region
with their narcotic trade. Iran loses about 300 soldiers annually
preventing drug dealers from crossing into the country. Finally,
instability in Afghanistan is not good for Iran which has ethnic
populations close to the border, and which would love to see economic
ties (rather than ethnic uprisings) on the two sides of the border.
All right, call this one the happy window! I have more good news:
Americans Wage Peace on Iran
* It is unfortunate that we hear a lot more about war-mongers than those
who wage peace. The truth is a large number of peace loving Americans
are devoting their time and life precisely to that, chief among them
CodePink. When Leslie Angeline of CodePink started her fast to get the
attention of Senator Lieberman who had promoted a war with Iran,
little did she know that she would be unleashing a new campaign to
stop the next war now. But that's precisely what has happened. Click
on the link below to read about CodePink's Cities for Peace in Iran:
* Also, the Virginia Anti-War (VAWN) and the Richmond Defender Newspaper
organized a People's Peace Delegation to Iran in response to a
suggestion by the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention
in Iran (CASMII). The five member delegation traveled over 1,750
kilometers during its 12 day trip in Iran and returned to the U.S. on
July 31. Here it is a picture and more details:
The Nuclear Issue — a correction and some comments
* A dear friend who shared window 32 with his friends has brought a
couple of queries to my attention. Since they pertain to the nuclear
issue, I thought of sharing them – and my responses – with you. In
that window, I contrasted the U.S. and three other countries
(Pakistan, Israel and India) with Iran in that they have not become
members of the NPT (Non Proliferation Treaty). The critic pointed out
that this is partially incorrect, the U.S. is a signatory to the
treaty. S/he is right. This is a mistake on my part, and it must have
occurred because of the abundance of discussions on the ways in which
the U.S. is in breech of that treaty. Here is the latest example of
that from N.Y. Times:
Nevertheless, the fact remains that the U.S. is officially a signatory
of the NPT. I'd like to correct the mistake.
* The same reader asks if we can be certain that the Iranians do not
have a weapon's program. My answer is that our only means of gaining
that certainty is to ask countries to become members of the NPT and
stay open to surprise inspection. Iran has done that and no evidence
has been found. If our reaction to that is going to be "You have done
what is required but we still do not believe you because you are
Iran," we are proposing to dismantle international organizations and
regulations and act on instinct. Others will do the same and the
result will be chaos. The way out is to examine uncertain situations
and to think of additional ways to get guarantees. This can be
achieved by staying at the negotiation table. Iran is still offering
to do this. Their only condition is "no pre-conditions." The Iranian
chief negotiator Ali Larijani has said repeatedly that even enrichment
is open to negotiation.
* Third, I had said that "Iranian nuclear facilities are spread out in
the country. It is impossible to target them without horrific civilian
casualties." The reader asks if this is not something that the Iranian
government should worry about? The problems with this view, in my
opinion, are:
1. these facilites were built over the years (some of them encouraged
by the U.S. government).
2. they were not built by one Iranian government and not during a time
of military tension. In other words, they cannot all be viewed as
President Ahmadinejad's way of shielding weapons behind people.
* Even if we make that assumption, to say that it is all right to
endanger millions of Iranian lives because their government has used
them as shields would amount to accepting genocide (in the hope of
preventing a future genocide for which we do not have any evidence
besides our mistrust of the other side).
* I draw the attention of this reader to the fact that in many places in
the world, people have a different perception of Iran. Examples? Take
another look at what the President of Iran's troubled neighboring
country, Afghanistan, has had to say yesterday.
* Before we leave this subject, I would like to clarify and reiterate
the points that I made in window 32 concerning Iran's nuclear
1. Iran has no history of military aggression against its neighbors in
the past two centuries (in the Iran-Iraq war, Iran was attacked and
stopped at the old borders once the invaders were pushed out).
2. Iran is a signatory to the NPT (Non Proliferation Treaty) which means
its nuclear facilities are open to surprise inspections. That is why
El Baradei insists that Iran should be talked to, not threatened.
Please note that there are countries such as Pakistan, Israel, and
India which have not agreed to become members of NPT.
3. Surprise inspections have not yielded any evidence of a nuclear
weapon's program in Iran to date.
4. Iran has repeated, time and again, that if the pre-condition of
suspending enrichment is removed, it will negotiate everything
(including suspension of enrichment).
5. Iranian nuclear facilities – which were built over a period of time
starting before the 1979 revolution – are spread out in the country.
It is impossible to target them without horrific civilian causalities.
Continued Military Threat Against Iran
* The Cheney camp pushes for war with Iran. Once more, the Iranian
government's offer of its willingness to hold a higher level dialogue
with the American government gets rejected:
* More on the defense authorization bill that mentions Iran:
Iranian Women in Sports — American women athletes in Iran!
Believe it or not, as you read this window, the American women's softball team is in Iran preparing for a competition with Iranian women softball players. Shirzanan, the Iranian women's sports weekly which reported the news provided no pictures (unfortunately). I have another sports picture for you, though. Click on the link below and, even if you don't read Persian, scroll down for images of Iranian women volleyball players: http://www.shirzanan.com/spip.php?article375
Visual Delight
I won't give you a painting show this time either. This window has simply grown too large. Instead I'll attach a slide show of Tehran that a dear friend has forwarded. It is different from all the previous shows in that it combines some really old and some very recent pictures of Tehran. The combination is quite fascinating. Just click here: Tehran, A Modern Metropolis.
Have a great week!
Fatemeh Keshavarz, Professor and Chair
Dept. of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
Washington University in St. Louis
Tel: (314) 935-5156
Fax: (314) 935-4399


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Like mysteries and sci-fi, the literary genre known as the California state budget is best classified as fiction, albeit fiction inspired by real events. Most years, as a matter of practice if not law, the legislature and governor close budget agreements by putting in cuts or borrowing or taxes that they know are illegal and are likely to be thrown out of the courts. - just to make the numbers add up. This isn't good. It's how things are.
Democratic legislative leaders, in introducing a new budget proposal, say they want to end this "cynical borrowing."
Reaction: you should be cynical about that promise.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
It's not that lawmakers' intentions aren't good. The borrowing -- or accounting gimmickry, as it's often called in the press -- is not a good thing. It means that budgets aren't really balanced. It creates hidden costs for the state, in terms of additional short-term borrowing for cash flow that's required to make up these gaps that everyone knows are being created (but can't be acknowledged).
No, the problem with ending "cynical borrowing" is that, given the restrictions on legislators in California ratchet-style system of spending shackles and tax chains, it's virtually impossible to create a balanced budget without some cheating.
To blame lawmakers for using such cynical manuevers is not unlike blaming fish for swimming, birds for chirping, or Lady Gaga for attention-seeking.
Cynical budget manuevering is what legislators do.


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In any case, I pulled this costume off, last minute, with things I already owned. (I have a bit suitcase full of costume items at my apartment.) In case you can't tell, I'm supposed to be a Catholic School Girl cat. ^_^ Figured it was kind of mangaesque.
Sadly, in this photo, you can't see my tail. But check out my Skelanimals skirt! I LOVE the skelanimals!! The hat is something I bought handmade from last year's New York Comic Con. Label says "Boshi-Basiik". It's sooo cute, huh? The shirt belongs to Jacob, as do the rosary beads, from his days in Catholic school.
What did you guys dress up as?
Happy Halloween!!


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In this, our second podcast from the AAA Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, we speak to Marcel Babin about using satellite images to measure the amount of organisms, such as phytoplankton, in the Arctic ocean and studies how this changing biological diversity can both indicate, and impact on, climate change.
From flattening the Earth to dining with the jellyfish, Plus chats about our first day at the AAAS meeting in Vancouver, Canada.
What's a multiverse? What's the future for intelligent life? And what happened 380,000 after the Big Bang. Find out in these interviews with the physicists David Spergel and Raphael Bousso, who we spoke to during Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday conference.
This is one of our podcasts from Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday conference, which took place in January 2012 in Cambridge. Rachel Thomas talks to Renata Kallosh from Stanford University about a theory that promises to unite the physics of the very small — quantum physics — and the physics of the very large — Einstein's theory of gravity.
"Astronomers are used to large numbers, but few are as large as the odds I'd have given this celebration today," is how Astronomer Royal Martin Rees started his presentation at Stephen Hawking's birthday symposium yesterday. He was talking about the 1960s when he first met Hawking who was then already suffering motor neurone disease. But Rees' prediction has been proved wrong. Hawking turned 70 yesterday and since the time of their first meeting he has made enormous contributions to cosmology and physics.
This podcast featuring Paul Davies, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University and Director of BEYOND: Centre for Fundamental Concepts in Science, explores this difficult question and accompanies our What is time article.
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Last month leading researchers in sports technology met at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London to demonstrate just how far their field has come over recent years. The changes they make to athletes' equipment and clothes may only make a tiny difference to their performance, but once they're added up they can mean the difference between gold and silver. In this podcast we talk to some leading sport engineers.


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WASHINGTON - The two best hotels in Canada are located in Vancouver, according to U.S. News & World Report, ranking the Fairmont Pacific Rim at No. 1 and the Rosewood Hotel Georgia No. 2.
In the publisher's inaugural ranking of Canada's luxury hotels, half of the top 10 were in British Columbia. Toronto and Montreal each had two hotels on the list and Quebec City had one.
No. 3 was the Ritz-Carlton in Montreal, followed by the Hastings House Country House Hotel on B.C.'s Salt Spring Island and Auberge Saint-Antoine in Quebec City.
The rest of the top 10: Ritz-Carlton and Trump International Hotel and Tower, both in Toronto; Four Seasons Resort and Residences in Whistler, B.C.; Loden Hotel, Vancouver; and Hotel Le St-James, Montreal.
The Fairmont Pacific Rim's central location, versatile amenities and "outstanding service" helped it reach the No. 1 spot, said U.S. News & World Report.
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by rick olivares photo by nonoy lacza
Thinking of this year's first meeting between Ateneo and the University of the Philippines, I couldn't help that perhaps more than ever, it's like a sibling rivalry.
Consider how the bloodlines have intertwined.
There are four Ateneans on the Fighting Maroons team: Miggy Maniego, Mike Gamboa, Martin Pascual, and Paolo Romero. Team manager Bert Mendoza and their team trainer are from the grade and high schools of Loyola as well.
Conversely, UP head coach Ricky Dandan and assistant Joey Mendoza have worked with the Ateneo Basketball School as well as the Lady Eagles for a number of years having come over along with former Maroons and Eagles coach Joe Lipa during the late 90s Ateneo basketball renaissance.
While the ties are there, I expected no quarter to be given between the two teams. And with the Fighting Maroons fielding three sparkplugs like Jett Manuel, Jelo Montecastro, and Maniego, I expected them to play with a lot of spunk and hustle. As for Romero, new to the rivalry but for the first time on the other side of the fence, the forward showed plenty of emotion after making a stop and a shot.
On the other hand, I expected Ateneo to come out like firing. Instead, it was as if they were strolling around nearby Gateway Mall. And the crowd, fattened by a three-peat, only got up (and riled up) when Maroons forward Carlo Gomez tried some rough stuff with Kirk Long and when he threw a punch at Nico Salva for which he got caught and suspended for UP's next match against Far Eastern University. Oh, I also heard that since I had missed the last three Ateneo games that the crowd only got up when Kiefer Ravena dunked the ball against the University of the East Red Warriors who hung around for long stretches.
As bored as Ateneo looked on the floor – perhaps save for Long who always has abundant reserves of energy and Ravena – they stayed close to UP.
I thought that the Blue Eagles' spacing on the floor made it difficult to throw double teams at Greg Slaughter as Emman Monfort and Ravena hit them with several hand-offs and a backdoor cut.
With fewer than three to play in the first quarter and Ateneo's second unit in, they held the Maroons but were unable to put points on the board. As good as the Blue Eagles' starting unit is, the bench has yet to produce consistently. I thought that Greg Slaughter gave the blue and white a presence in the middle, it has stalled the development of Justin Chua who had a breakout year in Season 73.
Of course, the season is hardly at its halfway point and even with the Blue Eagles' current win streak, it's still too early to draw sweeping conclusions. But the one thing I will stand by is how the boys at times seem to coast. (I see Greg Slaughter conserving himself on both ends of the floor though). It's as if they have been served the same unappetizing appetizer and they're juts waiting for the entrée that is the Final Four so they can kick in the afterburners.
Okay, I missed the La Salle match where they showed the Taft foes that what happens in the pre-season stays in the pre-season. So far they have been waylaying foes on the court and maybe the problem is more mental than anything but I'd still like them to be razor sharp.
As seemingly dull as Ateneo's sword was after 20 minutes, they connected on 50% of their field goals while holding UP scoreless for over four minutes to take control of the game. If Alinko Mbah gave UP a fleeting lead to close out the first period, Ravena answered with a lay up at the buzzer to close out the half. The score was 42-31 in favor of the boys in blue and white.
Instead of going for the kill, Ateneo lapsed into its longer dry spell in the tournament thus far after going scoreless from the five-minute mark of the third quarter all the way to 6:47 of the final frame.
The Maroons scored eight straight points before Emman Monfort had enough. Monfort's shot on Gamboa finally woke Ateneo from its siesta as Slaughter followed it up with an and-one and Long's triple that broke the Maroons. The match ended 77-57 for Ateneo's fifth straight win. For the first time all season long, all five Blue Eagle starters were in double digits as they pounded their Diliman counterparts 66-35.
Post-match, Ateneo head boss Norman Black talked about the defense holding when the well hit dry. At first, the Maroons were whipping the ball around and finding the open man. Once the defense got in the face of UP's perimeter shooters while closing the driving lanes, the Maroons struggled to buy a shot.
When asked how he is able to generate some offense while playing lockdown on opposing scorers, Long acknowledged that it was always good to have a seven-footer guarding the lane because he could always funnel his man towards him. And besides, it takes the five men on the floor (as well as the bench) to win basketball games.
So warts and all as well as treys for daggers, I'll enjoy number five.
Ateneo 77 – Ravena 15, Slaughter 14, Long 14, Monfort 13, Salva 10, Gonzaga 6, Golla 2, Chua 2, Tiongson 1, Pessumal 0, Cipriano 0, Capacio 0, Erram 0, Sumalinog 0, Austria 0.
UP 57 – Silungan 8, Manuel 8, Gamboa 8, Mbah 7, Maniego 7, Romero 6, Montecastro 6, Gomez 5, Pascual 2, Wierzba 0, Fortu 0, Juruena 0.
My only other Ateneo Blue Eagles piece so far this Season 74: 29.
My only other Ateneo Blue Eagles piece so far this Season 74: 29.


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(b) An anatomical gift by a person authorized by section nine of this article may be amended or revoked orally or in writing by any member of a prior class who is reasonably available. If more than one member of the prior class is reasonably available, the gift made by the authorized person may be revoked only if a majority of the members of the same class are opposed to the anatomical gift. In the event of a tie vote, a health care surrogate shall be appointed to decide whether to honor, amend or revoke the anatomical gift of the decedent's body or part.
(c) A revocation under subsection (b) of this section is effective only if, before an incision has been made to remove a part from the donor's body or before invasive procedures have begun to prepare the recipient, the procurement organization, transplant hospital or physician or technician knows of the revocation.


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This Program is intended as a means of stabilizing property values and overall quality of life in targeted neighborhoods throughout the County. The major objective is to increase the supply of affordable housing for low and moderate income families. The goal of this program is to help Gloucester County residents achieve their dream of homeownership.
By providing assistance with down payment and closing costs, Gloucester County enables low-income applicants to qualify for a mortgage in addition to:
Eligible Borrowers:
Any low-moderate income household may be considered for this program that does not exceed 80% the median income adjusted for family size at the time of purchase. A household are all persons living in the home regardless of blood relation, marriage or other circumstance. See link below for current income limits.
Eligible Properties:
HOME funds may be used for one-to-four-unit properties that are previously or publicly owned. A variety of housing types are eligible, including:
Assistance through this program provides zero percent (0%) deferred payment loans up to $10,000 that will be applied first to closing costs and the balance to down-payment assistance. A mortgage will be placed on the acquired property. The present restriction on affordability is as follows:
5 year affordability period requiring full payment of the County funds should the household sell, transfer, refinance, obtain a reverse mortgage or utilize any vehicle to obtain cash against the equity of the property within the first 5 years. There is an extended period of affordability where 1/5 of the affordability subsidy will be forgiven for the next 4 year period. The County will require 1/5 repayment should the owner transfer, sell, refinance obtain a reverse mortgage or utilize any vehicle to obtain cash against the equity of the property.
Further explanation of these criteria are outlined in the application.
FY 2017 Household Income Limits
Down-payment Assistance Application
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For more information:
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Gazprom and Eni discuss Final Investment Decision on South Stream
The Gazprom headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company's Management Committee and Paolo Scaroni, Chief Executive Officer of Eni.
The meeting focused on the progress with the South Stream gas pipeline construction project. The parties discussed the issues of preparation for the Final Investment Decision to be made by the joint project company in relation to the offshore gas pipeline section.
As a result of the talks, Alexey Miller and Paolo Scaroni confirmed their interest in continuing the dialogue on the main thrusts of bilateral cooperation as part of joint projects between Gazprom and Eni in Russia and in third countries.
Italy is the second largest importer of Russian gas in the European Union after Germany. Gazprom and Eni are connected by a long-standing partnership.
In 2011 the amount of gas supplied by Gazprom to Italy equaled some 17.1 billion cubic meters.
In November 2006 Gazprom and Eni entered into the Strategic Partnership Agreement. Under the Agreement, the existing contracts for Russian gas supplies to Italy were extended until 2035 and Gazprom began to directly supply the Italian market with natural gas in the amount of up to 3 billion cubic meters a year and was entitled to acquire stakes in Eni's international assets.
For the purpose of diversifying natural gas export routes Gazprom is constructing a gas pipeline across the Black Sea to Southern and Central Europe – the South Stream project. The design capacity of the offshore gas pipeline section will amount to 63 billion cubic meters a year.
Intergovernmental agreements were signed with Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Greece, Slovenia, Croatia and Austria in order to implement the onshore gas pipeline section.
On September 16, 2011 the South Stream Transport Shareholders Agreement was signed for implementation of the offshore gas pipeline section. As a result, Gazprom acquired a 50 per cent stake in the project, Eni – a 20 per cent stake, Wintershall Holding and EDF – 15 per cent stakes each.
In the third quarter of 2011, the Consolidated Feasibility Study of South Stream was finalized and included the feasibility study of the offshore section and feasibility studies of the respective gas pipelines in the host countries of Southern and Central Europe.
On December 30, 2011 Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation authorized Gazprom to speed up the launch of the South Stream project and to start its construction in 2012.
On January 20, 2012 Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee held a meeting to approve the detailed action plan ensuring the South Stream gas pipeline construction launch in December 2012.
First gas supplies via the gas pipeline are scheduled for late 2015.