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Textbooks are a thing of the past, says the common wisdom. Well, the common wisdom of the Technorati maybe. The problem with that thinking is that the number one publisher in the world is Pearson, a textbook publisher, who brought in $7.75 billion in 2009.
Pearson, as Tim Carmody noted in a January Wired article, owns 50 percent of the Financial Times, as well as the number two trade house: Penguin. The second largest textbook publisher, McGraw-Hill, owns Standard and Poor's. To say textbooks are big business is like saying bullets are ouchie.
So writing the obituary for textbooks would be putting the cart before the horse. But pretending like they are not changing their shape, if not their nature, is to proclaim, from one's buggy, that automobiles are a passing fad.
Once upon a time, and a very good time it was
Once upon a time, teachers imparted their knowledge through talking. Socrates famously used dialogue to inspire proprietary conclusions and correct misapprehension in his students. Socrates' student Plato taught in the Akadameia, an erstwhile olive grove outside Athens. An entire school of philosophers grew up around the walk-and-talk, the peripatetics.
Even as texts grew in importance, with the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Hebrews, talking still took precedence. Writing became more important but was restricted to a stick and some sand. With the Romans, it was a stylus on a wax tablet.
However, when printing took off in the 17th century—and was then followed by compulsory education in the nation states of the 18th—the textbook as we knew it was born.
Fast on the heels of that birth, the herd of educational cranks, publishing pimps, and politicians thundered into the room, and they've yet to leave. Textbooks became an industry, sometimes connected, often utterly unrelated, to education and to that waste product of education, the student.
The ecstasy of technophilia
A visit to a college classroom showed me the disconnect between the ecstasy of technophilia and what life actually looks like for students.
In Prof. Frances Cogan's freshman and sophomore research methodologies class at the University of Oregon's Clark Honors College, the most prominent tech was the spiral notebook. This was partially due to Cogan's resistance to the distraction of the technology.
"If I bring a laptop to class, I tend to get lost in Facebook," admitted Becky Hatch. But that's not the only issue.
"It's really hard to set up your laptop on those little tables," said Maggie Whitt, talking about the tablet chairs that still make up most university seating.
Some students, like Naomi Wright, still value the tactility of writing.
"I'm synthesizing a thing when I write it down," she said. "When I type it's like, in one ear, out the fingers."
Certainly there are students that bring technology to today's college classes, but there are fewer of them—and less tech—than you might think.
For one thing, the devices that would be easier to use both in class and out are expensive.
"An iPad would be good," said Megan Mandell, "but I can't afford one." And those who do use either e-readers or e-reading programs on tablets to carry the texts for a class often find them to be less than optimal, despite all the advertising to the contrary. Among other faults, the students said they find the ability to highlight and to make margin notes, acts they feel essential to their process of absorbing the information in the texts, is insufficient. Online texts are often difficult to navigate and have poor search functions.
So the purchase of old-fashioned physical textbooks continues apace—and at a high cost. One student spent $600 on her first term's books before she realized she could buy them, copy and make notes, read the assignments before the course had even started, and then return them for full price.
Navigating a changing environment while avoiding getting stung is part and parcel of how today's students relate to textbooks. Not just students, but instructors as well. "Professors have become much more sensitive to the cost of textbooks," said Whitt. "One professor went on a 20-minute rant on textbook expenses. He scanned all the texts for his class and put them all online."
Isn't that illegal?
"Yes!" the students chorused emphatically. But one insulation against possible lawsuits when copying, whether electronically or on paper, is to be scrupulous in including the citation page. Who wrote it, when, who published it, where.
What is illegal, Cogan clarified, "depends on what you consider 'scholarly use.'"
Another way some students avoid the debilitating cost of required textbooks? Torrents. By general acclamation, you can find any basic lower division textbook via unofficial, and illegal, online download services. (Torrenting is not just for music and movies anymore!) The more specialized texts, they said, probably not, but all the basics, certainly. "Our generation is kind of in flux with the tangible stuff of electronics," said Kaela Thomas.
"Children starting out learning on electronic sources may utilize it better," agreed Hatch, "but for people now, they grew up with pen and paper and book."
This generational flux is not thought of by these students as a revolution or a revelation, but as a development.
Cole Lendrum sees the textbooks of the future as being "more and more personalized." The textbooks that will be available to their kids will offer "more personalized formats."
Bring your own technology
Dr. Tim Clark, instructional technology specialist for the Forsyth County school district in Georgia, oversees one of the few primary school districts in the country that runs a BYOT program—bring your own tech.
This program turns students' smuggling various electronic devices into their classrooms inside out. Instead of being policed and suppressed, it is required, or at least encouraged openly. The proliferation of these devices has resulted in Forsyth's primary schools operating more like a university's upper division classes. Instead of required texts from a central source, pedagogical materials are assembled and formed around the needs of the specific classroom and its students.
"In most of our classes," Clark told Ars, "the textbooks we do have are left on the shelves, and we have reduced our spending on textbooks. The teachers are mainly bringing in content from materials available on the Internet, the teachers and students are producing their own content, and we provide some district-wide subscriptions to additional online content. Students and teachers are wanting relevant materials that are provided just in time rather than static textbooks."
The future Clark sees growing out of the experiences and expectations of his students is one of contribution, community, and collaboration.
"Student engagement and collaboration have increased in classrooms. The students work more in groups to participate in projects and activities. Even in our high schools, teachers are beginning to incorporate more group assignments and projects because either not everyone brings a device, or the devices are so different. This differentiation encourages collaboration. There is a stronger sense of community in the classroom."
"I think that the students [in the future] will be more accustomed to contributing to the body of knowledge within their classes rather than just being consumers of information."
Far, far away
When we think about anything technologically, we tend to default to our own area and our own experience. So when we think about the future of higher education, we tend to center on North America and Europe. It is far from the whole story.
Founded by former Amazon VP David Risher, Worldreader is a non-profit group that has spent several years testing the idea that e-readers can create a quantifiable improvement in literacy in the developing world. Starting with a pilot project in a Ghanan village, they expanded to a large project in Ghana's capital, Accra, then to Kenya, and, most recently, to Uganda. The e-reader projects have resulted in a verifiable increase in literacy in the communities targeted. Above all, this is a result of access.
Brian Schartz, who taught mathematics in a Botswanan village for several years, recalled the difficulty of getting books delivered to what stood for his school's library. You had to buy the books in the capital, then take the time and suffer the expense of having them delivered by truck through rugged territory.
What Worldreader's e-readers have proven is that you can deliver one box of e-readers and you've delivered an entire library to each student. Given the deals the organization has struck with both Western and African publishers to provide the texts free of cost to the students, the plan is cost-effective. Whether it is scalable is another question.
"I see a huge demand in the developing world for textbooks to be delivered electronically," Elizabeth Wood, director of digital publishing for Worldreader, told Ars. "We're working with our partner BinU to deliver the entire CK-12 series of textbooks on our app to meet the enormous need. We're also working with all our African publishers to digitize local textbooks as well. The fact that leisure books don't make it to the developing world is an awful problem that we're trying to solve, but textbooks? They're essential."
Wood believes the potential for e-textbooks to make a difference in the developing world's higher education landscape is enormous. The organization is currently working to develop partnerships with open source textbook developers, including OpenStax College, "to be able to make relevant materials available electronically to students all over the world."
And away we go
In much the same way that the classroom of the future is evolving away from the unidirectional transmission of knowledge via lecture and toward dialogue and project-based learning, the textbook is responding to the same strains. Like the classroom, the textbook is likely to become more collaborative and customizable.
The notion of the bound text being replaced by the e-book is not one that many people seem to be excited about. The limitations of the e-readers outweigh many of their benefits in the industrialized world, at least for now. In the developing world, however, the benefits may outweigh the drawbacks sooner than in the West.
It's not so much that the textbook is transmogrifying from lines of text on paper to lines of pixels on screens as it is undergoing a change of definition. A more exacting way to put it might be to say that textbooks are being replaced not by e-textbooks, but by curated collections of course-specific materials, some online, some on paper. In some cases, such as the Forsyth schools, the students themselves are building them.
The key overall, however—what makes the future of the textbook exciting—is someone, somehow, seems to have kicked the door off the hinges. We're on the verge of "anything goes." There is likely to be a lot of dross as a result, but the joy of discovery has energized something that is so often apprehended with a dull dread—the "textbook."


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Oak Duke: Mid-winter is the time to trim wild apple trees
Last year was a great year for apples, the best year in quite a while. Many of the older apple trees covered the ground with apples to the delight of wildlife, and a joy to those of us who like to walk through the woods in the fall and sample apples from the different trees.
They say there are over 7,500 different cultivars of apples (2,500 here in the U.S.), and judging by the variety on our hills, I believe it.
Some old apple trees, even now in mid-winter, are still carrying their fruit, though now soft, brown and partially fermented. They fall sporadically and attract whitetails, grouse and other critters that clean them up quickly.
"As American as apple pie ..."
Actually, apples are not indigenous to America any more than we are.
The only native apple tree is the crab apple.
Before the European colonists and missionaries put their black boots down on the New England rocks, there was not a single apple, not one apple along the North American coast, the entire continent or even the Western Hemisphere for that matter.
Now, 300 years later, there are over 2,500 different varieties growing from "sea to shining sea."
Apples, perhaps the most ubiquitous fruit, originated in Kazakhstan, halfway around the world. Kazakhstan is one of the "new" countries, south of Russia and north of Iran, geographically determined after the fracturing of the USSR.
So apples came here as immigrants, just like all our ancestors, and at the same time. Apples migrated here in pockets, bags, packs and hands, in the bottom of barrels and in ship's holds. That's what makes them so peculiarly American. Just like us.
Many trees were meticulously and carefully planted, the seeds given to certain indigenous tribes with an agrarian interest. And those trees were carefully planted and groomed. Indeed, evolving into huge orchards, such as in the case of the Seneca Iroquois in the Genesee River Valley, coming from the French missionaries.
And as we all know, after eating, the handy fruit's fertile seeds, packed into the core, are often chucked off the side of a path.
Talk about a successful strategy for seed dispersal!
Indigenous wildlife - whitetail, grouse, raccoons, bear and squirrels - all relish apples.
Apple trees increased their variety and population, sprouting and spreading their limbs as farms and settlements reached across the United States, in part in Western New York and Ohio by John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed). However, apple trees do not do well in the warmer climates in the Southern U.S., especially the subtropical zone states such as Florida and southern Louisiana, as they need cooler weather to thrive.
As the woodlands and trees slowly reclaimed old family farms and cleared lands, these same apple trees which once stood young and vigorous next to a barn or farmhouse are now slowly being choked within second-growth woodlots.
The farm's outbuildings slowly crumble, discarded machinery rusts into the ground. But the apple trees get bigger and older and increasingly more shaded by the younger trees' faster growth and expanding canopies.
Shade is bad for apples. They don't like it.
Late winter is a good time to get out and literally give these old trees a hand. This wintertime work will literally bear fruit and help wildlife. As a bonus, whitetails munch the pruned twigs and limbs down to a pencil-sized diameter. January and February are ideal times to prune and train neglected apple trees, not only for better fruit and the overall appearance of the landscape, but for the health of the tree.
First, trim out competing trees and brush when starting out to help one of these old neglected malus.
Seems like a heavily flowering apple tree in May can give pause to even the hardest heart, most preoccupied mind, obsessed turkey hunter or focused fisherman.
Trees should be pruned and trained while dormant in the dead of winter. And once their competition is removed, the tree's own limbs need to be worked on because it actually shades itself.
There are rules and aphorisms about pruning apple trees. One of my favorites is: "You know an apple tree is pruned just right if you can throw a cat through the branches."
But a general, oft-quoted rule is the "rule of thirds." And that is prune back a third of the tree each year for three years.
One of the first things to attack with the pruning cutters and bow saw are dead branches. Old branches, especially broken by snow, wind, ice, or even a bumper crop of apples in a prior year, give pathways and entrance to all sorts of debilitating critters from bacteria to fungal colonists, all looking for a home and a place to set up shop.
The real key to good apple production, throughout the entire tree, is for it to have even sunlight distribution.
We've all seen old apple trees with all the fruit on one side, or in a couple places on the tree.
This is a potential disaster for the tree just waiting to happen. Sometimes, the weight of the fruit breaks the limb!
All that needs to be done is a bit of judicious pruning, first to the competition (other nearby trees and bushes) and then to the tree, itself.
Apple trees should be pruned, starting at the top first. There, they are often excessively vigorous and produce few apples, being overly concerned with leaf and wood growth. Apples there are big, soft and sparse.
At the bottom of the tree, in the lowest layers, it's just the opposite; usually, they are smaller, hard and bunched. Branches are overly dense and shade each other too much there. The best apples are most often found in between the two extremes.
Oak Duke is an outdoors columnist based in upstate New York.

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Minka Kelly on 'Friday Night Lights' Movie Talk: 'I'm Waiting For That Script'
We were first introduced to Minka Kelly in 2006 as Lyla Garrity, the wholesome cheerleader who lit up Friday Night Lights. Since then, Kelly has gone on to costar with Leighton Meester in the college horror flick The Roommate, had a stint in the short-lived TV revival of Charlie's Angels, and dated A-listers like Derek Jeter and most recently, Captain America star Chris Evans.
Her latest challenge? Sharing the screening with legends like Oprah, Alan Rickman, and Robin Williams in The Butler, where she plays Jackie Kennedy opposite James Marsden's JFK. The actress calls the experience "humbling. I didn't feel worthy of their company."
Last night, Kelly, 32, helped kick off New York Fashion Week by walking in the Heart Truth Red Dress fashion show in an Oscar de la Renta gown, along with celebrities such as Gabby Douglas, Jillian Michaels, and Wendy Williams. (See photos of all the stars in their dresses!) The event benefits the National Institutes of Health's campaign to raise awareness on women's heart health, an important issue to Kelly. "Heart disease is the number one killer of women in America, and I want to use whatever voice I have to inspire women of any age, because you're never too young or too old, to take of their hearts," she says. As for her: "I want to be around to see my grandchildren."
The Friday Night Lights star talked to Parade.com about plans for Valentine's Day, taking on the role of Jackie Kennedy, and her fitness secrets.
On her ideal Valentine's Day.
"At home. I think if you're going to have any sort of romance, I don't want to share it with a restaurant full of people I don't know."
On whether she has any Valentine's Day traditions.
"Not yet, no. Still trying to find it!"
On how she keeps her heart and body healthy.
"I just love working up a sweat. I try to do it every single day. Even if you only have twenty minutes, I think that's better than nothing. I work with a trainer three days a week, and on the days I don't have my trainer, I hike or do yoga, and even if I can't get out and do something as active as that, I dance in my apartment. I put music on, dance around, and just try to keep it moving. I think if you don't move it, you lose it."
On what music motivates her to exercise.
"It's usually Beyonce that gets me moving. If she comes on, no matter where I am or what I'm doing, I have to bust a move."
Kelly at the 2012 Art of Elysium gala in her favorite red carpet gown
On what she looks for in red carpet gowns.
"I try to be comfortable. I look for something that fits properly so I don't have to be pulling on it or fidgeting with it all night. I've worn dresses where that's the case, and I just decided it's more important to be comfortable, because if you're not comfortable, then you're not confident, and that shows. I want to feel like myself, and know that I'm wearing the dress and the dress isn't wearing me."
On her favorite red carpet dress she's ever worn.
"It was another Oscar de la Renta dress. It was the lime green, fluorescent yellow dress I wore to the Art of Elysium event last year. That's probably one of my favorite dresses I've worn."
On her usual personal style.
"I just like being comfortable. I try to wear high heels as often as I can, but I usually end up in a flat, flip flop or sneaker. I love t-shirts and jeans, but I love an excuse to dress up. I'm a tomboy, but I love to be girly too."
On taking on the role of Jackie Kennedy.
"It was an incredible honor to play such a wonderful woman. I did a lot of research. I worked with a dialect coach. I worked really hard to do it as much justice as I could. I just hope that I make her family proud, and I hope I make all the people that loved her proud. It was the most challenging role I've ever played and definitely my favorite."
On the possibility of a Friday Night Lights movie.
"If the script makes sense, and it was a good story, it would be great. I think it would also be fine left where it is. I have heard from a lot of people that they would love the movie, and if it made sense, and it was the right story, and everyone wanted to do it, then I think that would be great. I think [executive producer] Jason Katims needs to find the time to write the script, and he's a very busy guy these days. I'm just waiting around for that script."
On whether she's kept in touch with FNL cast mates.
"No, over the last few years, I've sort of lost touch with all those guys. Every so often, we will check in with each other and make sure we're all doing okay, and I think we all support each other in what we're doing now. I just ran into Adrianne Palicki, and there's a certain bond that we all have. That was such a special experience, and for a lot of us, our first experience in this business, so I think we're all sort of connected forever."
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Here at The Situationist, we love babies (see here) and we love fairness (see here), and when you put the two together it's like an apple pie baked inside a cake (see here) . . . or, well, this new article by Stephanie Sloane, Renée Baillargeon, and David Premack:
Two experiments examined infants' expectations about how an experimenter should distribute resources and rewards to other individuals. In Experiment 1, 19-month-olds expected an experimenter to divide two items equally, as opposed to unequally, between two individuals. The infants held no particular expectation when the individuals were replaced with inanimate objects, or when the experimenter simply removed covers in front of the individuals to reveal the items (instead of distributing them). In Experiment 2, 21-month-olds expected an experimenter to give a reward to each of two individuals when both had worked to complete an assigned chore, but not when one of the individuals had done all the work while the other played. The infants held this expectation only when the experimenter could determine through visual inspection who had worked and who had not. Together, these results provide converging evidence that infants in the 2nd year of life already possess context-sensitive expectations relevant to fairness.
As Sloane explained to ScienceDaily, "We think children are born with a skeleton of general expectations about fairness, and these principles and concepts get shaped in different ways depending on the culture and the environment they're brought up in. . . . [H]elping children behave more morally may not be as hard as it would be if they didn't have that skeleton of expectations."
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PRETORIA, South Africa -- Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee sprinter dubbed the Blade Runner, was charged Thursday in the Valentine's Day slaying of his girlfriend at his upscale home in South Africa, a shocking twist to one of the feel-good stories of last summer's Olympics.
Pistorius buried his face in the hood of his workout jacket as officers escorted him from a police station after his arrest in the shooting death of Reeva Steenkamp, a 30-year-old model who had spoken out on Twitter against rape and abuse of women.
Police said she was shot four times in the pre-dawn hours at Pistorius' villa in a gated community in the capital, Pretoria. Officers found a 9 mm pistol inside the home and arrested Pistorius on a murder charge.
What sparked the shooting remained unclear, but police said they had received calls in the past about domestic altercations at the home of the 26-year-old athlete, who has spoken publicly about his love of firearms.
A police spokeswoman, Brigadier Denise Beukes, said the incidents included "allegations of a domestic nature."
"I'm not going to elaborate on it, but there have been incidents," Beukes said. She said Pistorius was home at the time of Steenkamp's death and "there is no other suspect involved."
Pistorius made history in the London Games when he became the first double-amputee track athlete to compete in the Olympics. He didn't win a medal but did make the semifinals of the 400 meters and became an international star.
Thursday, companies quickly removed billboards and advertising featuring Pistorius, a national hero in South Africa who also inspired fans worldwide with the image of his high-tech carbon-fiber blades whipping through the air.
Kenny Oldwage, Pistorius' lawyer, told reporters the athlete was "emotional" after his arrest, "but he is keeping up." He said he planned to seek bail for Pistorius at a preliminary hearing Friday.
Pistorius has had troubles in the past in his personal life, which often featured fast cars, cage fighters and women.
In February 2009, he crashed a speedboat on South Africa's Vaal River, breaking his nose, jaw and several ribs and damaging an eye socket. He required 180 stitches to his face. Witnesses said he had been drinking, and officers found alcoholic beverages in the wreckage, though they did not do blood tests.
In November, Pistorius was involved in an altercation over a woman with a local coal mining millionaire, South African media reported. The two men involved the South African Police Service's elite Hawks investigative unit before settling the matter.
Pistorius' father, Henke Pistorius, said Thursday: "We all pray for guidance and strength for Oscar and the lady's parents."
A spokeswoman for Pistorius at Fast Track, an international sports marketing agency in London, said the athlete was assisting with the investigation and there would be no further comment "until matters become clearer."
The sprinter's former coach, Andrea Giannini, said he hoped the shooting was "just a tragic accident."
"No matter how bad the situation was, Oscar always stayed calm and positive," Giannini told The Associated Press in Italy. "Whenever he was tired or nervous, he was still extremely nice to people. I never saw him violent."
Firearms captivated Pistorius, the subject of an online Nike advertisement that featured him with the caption: "I am a bullet in the chamber." In November 2011, he posted a photograph on Twitter of himself at a shooting range, bragging about his score. "Had a 96% headshot over 300m from 50shots! Bam!" he wrote.
Linked to a number of women by the South African media, Pistorius and Steenkamp were first seen together publicly in November. She was named one of the world's 100 Sexiest Women for two years running by the men's magazine FHM.
The leggy blonde with a law degree also appeared in international and South African ads and was a celebrity contestant on "Tropika Island of Treasure," a South African reality show filmed in Jamaica.
While known for her bikini-clad, vamping photo spreads, she tweeted messages urging women to stand up against rape. Her tweets also focused on Pistorius, with one of her last messages noting her excitement over Valentine's Day.
"What do you have up your sleeve for your love tomorrow?" she wrote. "It should be a day of love for everyone."
Police have not publicly named Steenkamp as the victim, saying only that a 30-year-old woman was killed. Steenkamp's publicist, however, confirmed in a statement that the model had died.
"Everyone is simply devastated," the publicist, Sarit Tomlinson, said. "She was the kindest, sweetest human being; an angel on earth and will be sorely missed."
Police arrived at Pistorius' home after 3 a.m., and paramedics tried unsuccessfully to revive Steenkamp, police spokeswoman Lt. Col. Katlego Mogale said.
Officers later took Pistorius to a hospital so doctors could collect samples for DNA testing and check his blood alcohol content.
Pistorius had both legs amputated below the knee before his first birthday because of a congenital condition, and campaigned for years to be allowed to compete against able-bodied athletes.
He was initially banned because of his carbon fiber blades -- which critics said gave him an unfair advantage -- before being cleared by sport's highest court in 2008.
He was a last-minute selection to South Africa's Olympic team, competing in the 400 meters and the 4x400 relay. He later retained his Paralympic title in the 400 meters.
South Africa's Sports Confederation, its Olympic committee and the International Paralympic Committee all had no comment on the shooting.
Shock rippled across South Africa, a nation of 50 million where nearly 50 people are killed each day, one of the world's highest murder rates. U.N. statistics say South Africa also has the second highest rate of shooting deaths in the world, behind only Colombia.
"The question is: Why does this story make the news? Yes, because they are both celebrities, but this is happening on every single day in South Africa," said Adele Kirsten, a member of Gun Free South Africa.
"We have thousands of people killed annually by gun violence in our country. So the anger is about that it is preventable."


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SAN DIEGO -- Authorities in California say the voice actor who portrayed Charlie Brown in many "Peanuts" shows was arrested on charges that include stalking.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman Angelica de Cima said Peter Robbins was arrested Sunday at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. She told U-T San Diego that a background check yielded a warrant against Robbins from the San Diego County sheriff's department.
A sheriff's spokeswoman said she did not have details about the warrant.
The 56-year-old is set to be arraigned Wednesday on counts of making a threat to cause death or great bodily injury and of stalking. His manager has declined to comment.
Robbins was the voice of Charlie Brown for TV specials, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown."


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Makes About 12 filled Cakelets:
2/3 cup Jeanne's all purpose gluten free flour mix or all purpose flour
3 tablespoons cornstarch
zest of a lemon
1/4 cup sugar
4 egg whites
Preheat oven to 350F and position a rack in the middle.
Sift together the flour mix or all purpose flour, cornstarch, lemon zest and sugar together.
In a stand mixer fitter with the wire whisk attachment, beat the egg whites until soft peaks.
Add the flour mix to the egg white and fold gently with a large spoon.
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2 tablespoon sugar
1/2 vanilla bean
In a large bowl, whip the heavy cream and sugar until soft peaks. Cut the half vanilla bean in half lengthwise and scrape the seeds out with the back of a pairing knife. Add the seeds to the cream mixture and continue to whip until firmer peaks form.
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6 large egg yolks
1/4 cup (60ml) honey
1/2 cup (125ml) whole milk
1 cup (250ml) heavy cream
6 oz (180gr) bittersweet chocolate
1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
Garnish: chopped pistachios & extra virgin olive oil
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College Football Week 2 Preview: Match-ups and Upset Picks
By Steven Lassan (@AthlonSteven on Twitter)
10 Key Storylines to Watch for Week 2
1. It's only Week 2 of the college football season, but the South Carolina-Georgia matchup could go a long way toward deciding the SEC East title. Florida will have something to say too, but this matchup is critical for both teams. The Gamecocks have the edge in playmakers, but this game will be won or lost in the trenches. Georgia's offensive line gave up six sacks in the opener against Boise State, while the Gamecocks have one of the best defensive lines in the nation. The Bulldogs have to protect quarterback Aaron Murray if they want to have any shot at winning this game.
2. Utah opens up Pac-12 play with a matchup at USC. The Utes beat Montana State in the opener, but it was far from an impressive performance. Quarterback Jordan Wynn is returning from offseason shoulder surgery and threw for only 101 yards and two scores. The Utes need a better performance from Wynn against USC to win their Pac-12 opener. Four new starters have stepped into the Utah secondary, which figures to be under attack from USC quarterback Matt Barkley and receiver Robert Woods.
3. Much of the intrigue for the season opener between Alabama and Penn State centered on the quarterback position. After one week, not much has changed. Things seem to be more clear at Alabama, where AJ McCarron outperformed Phillip Sims against Kent State last Saturday. McCarron completed 14 of 23 passes for 226 yards one touchdown and two interceptions, while Sims went 7 of 14 for 73 yards and two picks. The Nittany Lions have more uncertainty about their quarterbacks, as Rob Bolden started, but completed 6 of 12 for only 37 yards. Matt McGloin fared a little better, completing 6 of 8 passes for 77 yards. Alabama has a huge edge in the trenches, and unless Penn State can get consistent quarterback play from Bolden or McGloin, the Crimson Tide will win easily.
4. A new era began at West Virginia and Pittsburgh last week with mixed results. New Pittsburgh coach Todd Graham promised a high-octane offense, but as last week's game against Buffalo showed, it's going to take some time to work out the kinks. West Virginia managed 34 points, but struggled to establish a rushing attack and to protect Geno Smith in the pocket. Both teams will get better as the year goes along and should have an offensive display on Saturday, as Pittsburgh takes on Maine, while West Virginia hosts Norfolk State.
5. A team that stood out to me from Week 1 was California. New quarterback Zach Maynard threw for 266 yards and two scores, while adding 52 yards on the ground. The Buffalo transfer needs to improve his accuracy (16 of 35), but could provide coach Jeff Tedford with the missing piece on offense. California has had some solid rushing attacks over the last couple of seasons, but has struggled to get consistent play from its quarterbacks. Maynard will face Colorado this Saturday in a game that is crucial for both teams. The Buffaloes are trying to build some momentum under new coach Jon Embree, while the Golden Bears want to see Maynard continue to get better and get California off to a 2-0 start.
6. After last week's defensive disaster, you can bet there were some long nights at the office for TCU coach Gary Patterson. The Horned Frogs allowed 564 yards and 50 points to Baylor – a far cry from finishing No. 1 in the nation in total and scoring defense last season. This Saturday presents a different challenge for Patterson and his defense, as they try to stop Air Force's option attack. The Falcons were held in check in last season's matchup against TCU, rushing for only 184 yards and managing seven points. Patterson will have this defense playing better, but preparing for Air Force's option attack is a difficult task. An 0-2 start for TCU isn't out of the question.
7. Saturday night's matchup between Notre Dame and Michigan will be the first night game in the history of Michigan Stadium. But that's not the only interesting storyline surrounding this game. The Fighting Irish look to bounce back after a disappointing Week 1 loss, outgaining South Florida 508 to 254. So far, so good for Brady Hoke at Michigan. In Hoke's first game as Michigan's head coach, the Wolverines got off to a good start, defeating Western Michigan 34-10. The Wolverines showed improvement on defense against the Broncos, but will that continue against Notre Dame's offense? Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson torched the Irish for 502 yards last season, but Notre Dame's defense is a much-improved group since that game. With all of the offensive playmakers on the field, this matchup will likely come down to whichever defense makes the most plays.
8. Considering the rumors surrounding the future of the Big 12 and potential expansion, maybe BYU-Texas will be a conference game in the future. For now, it's a non-conference matchup between two teams looking to get off to a 2-0 start. BYU knocked off Ole Miss last week, while Texas handled Rice 34-9. Could this game mean more to Texas? Sure, this isn't a Big 12 game or a matchup against Oklahoma, but BYU will provide a better gauge for how much the Longhorns have improved since last season. Is Garrett Gilbert an improved passer? BYU's defense held Ole Miss to 208 yards last week, so the Longhorns' offense won't have an easy task on Saturday night.
9. Auburn needed a last-minute rally to defeat Utah State last Saturday and the schedule won't get any easier this week. The Tigers host Mississippi State, who beat Memphis 59-14 in Week 1 and is a team on the rise under third-year coach Dan Mullen. The Bulldogs have to be licking their chops for an opportunity to face Auburn's rush defense, especially after allowing 227 yards to the Aggies last week. Quarterback Chris Relf continues to improve as a passer, while the one-two punch of Vick Ballard and LaDarius Perkins at running back is an underrated duo in the SEC. If the Tigers don't show any improvement on defense, it could be a long day for the defending national champs.
10. The Rutgers-North Carolina matchup is off the national radar, but is one to keep an eye on. The Scarlet Knights gave up 61 sacks last year, but did not allow one in the opener against North Carolina Central. However, that group has a bigger test ahead of it on Saturday, as it takes on one of the top 10 defensive lines in college football. Ends Quinton Coples and Donte Paige-Moss and tackle Tydreke Powell will likely be in high demand from the NFL at the end of the year. If the Scarlet Knights can go on the road and beat the Tar Heels, it will be a huge win for coach Greg Schiano, while giving this team the confidence to contend for a finish in the top half of the Big East.
Saturday's Picks
Athlon editor Mitch Light predicts the 10 biggest games for Week 2 – here's my take on how some of the top games will play out.
Arizona State 27, Missouri 24
Notre Dame 34, Michigan 27
Alabama 31, Penn State 13
Georgia 20, South Carolina 17
Iowa 27, Iowa State 17
North Carolina 27, Rutgers 13
USC 31, Utah 24
Texas 27, BYU 20
TCU 27, Air Force 24
Mississippi State 34, Auburn 27
Tennessee 31, Cincinnati 27
Virginia Tech 45, East Carolina 20
Upset Watch
Looking for a few upsets? Keep a close watch on these games.
FIU at Louisville (Friday)
Cardinals did not impress in the opener against Murray State. The Golden Panthers are expected to be one of the top teams in the Sun Belt and held their own in four matchups against BCS foes last year.
Hawaii at Washington
The Huskies gave up 473 passing yards to Eastern Washington last week. Hawaii quarterback Bryant Moniz (5,040 yards last year) should give the Washington secondary problems once again.
Purdue at Rice
The Boilermakers weren't exactly impressive in last week's win over MTSU. The Owls have a dangerous offense and will give Purdue all they can handle.
NC State at Wake Forest
Demon Deacons looked like a much-improved team against Syracuse last week. New Wolfpack quarterback Mike Glennon still needs some time to get adjusted into the starting role.
Around the Web: College Football's Must Read Articles to Prepare for Week 2
LSU wide receiver Russell Shepard violated NCAA rules and is suspended for three games. The junior will return for LSU's road trip to West Virginia on Sept. 24.
San Diego State coach Rocky Long calls the option offense "the best offense that has ever been designed." The Aztecs travel to West Point to play Army on Saturday.
West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen was not pleased with the play of his offensive line in the opener against Marshall.
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Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly wasn't happy with the performance of his team in Saturday's loss to South Florida. Maybe there's a reason for him to yell at his players.
Miami is off this week, but coach Al Golden made a big announcement regarding the team's quarterback situation.
SMU has decided to switch quarterbacks this week, going with J.J. McDermott as the starter. Kyle Padron threw two interceptions early against Texas A&M, but is expected to play some.
Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald is hopeful quarterback Dan Persa will return for Saturday's game against Eastern Illinois. However, considering the opponent, Kain Colter will likely get the start.
Oregon State freshman running back Malcolm Agnew was the nation's leading rusher last week, posting 223 yards and three scores against Sacramento State. However, the Beavers will likely be without Agnew for Saturday's matchup against Wisconsin.
Georgia is looking for playmakers to step up for Saturday's game against South Carolina.
Ole Miss will turn to Zack Stoudt at quarterback. Barry Brunetti started the opener, but Stoudt played significant time in the second half. Randall Mackey has rejoined the team after a suspension and will play on Saturday.
USC would like to rotate two running backs for Saturday's game against Utah.
Speaking of the Utes, they are eager to show they belong in the Pac-12.


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The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians Board of Directors will hold a regular meeting Tuesday, Feb. 5, at 6 p.m. at the Sault Kewadin Casino & Convention Center in Sault Ste. Marie. The meeting will be preceded by Matters from the Membership at 5 p.m.
The board will consider the following resolutions: Tribal Non-Profit Entity; City of Sault Ste. Marie - Water Operations; Waiver of Sovereign Immunity - City of Sault Ste. Marie; Amending Tribal Code Ch. 60: Land Ordinance; 2013 Low Income Tax Credit Funding; and Budget Modifications: Emerald Ash Borer, Kellogg Grant, ACFS - Community Service Block Grants, ACFS - Child Care Development, Tribal Court - Youth Program, DeMawating Development and IRR Roads Planning.
Under New Business, the board will hear committee requests and address meeting date changes.


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