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It's like Christmas in the fall for Apple fans: not only did we have a media event in September to introduce the new iPhone 5 (as well as new iPods and iOS 6), we now have a second media event to show us... "a little more," according to Apple.
Could that "little" thing be the long-rumored "iPad mini?" The device is expected to sport a 7.85" screen—smaller than the full-sized iPad's nearly 10" screen—and be positioned more against e-readers like the Kindle than generalized tablet computing devices. In fact, some recent rumors say Apple plans to put a heavy focus on iBooks during this event, increasing speculation that Apple wants a bigger chunk of the e-reader market.
But that's not all! Though Apple doesn't often mix iOS device announcements with Mac announcements, there have been plenty of signs pointing to the company doing just that on October 23. A 13" version of Apple's Retina MacBook Pro may make its first appearance, with updated iMacs and Mac minis supposedly bringing up the rear. And, although Apple first announced a newly made-over version of iTunes in September, we may finally see the release (or at least a release date) this time around.
We'll be covering the event live from the California Theater in San Jose, California. Through our liveblog, we'll bring you the announcements as they happen in both text and photo form, along with additional reporting on the product announcements. The whole thing is set to begin at 10am PDT (GMT-7) on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 (see it in your timezone).


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NEW YORK >> As far as catfights go, this is a doozy.
Barbie, long the reigning queen in the doll world, has suddenly been thrust into the battle of her life.
But Barbie's competitors look nothing like the blue-eyed, blond-haired, long-legged fashion icon. And they don't have the same old standards of beauty as the aging diva either.
Monster High dolls, vampy teens that are patterned after the offspring of monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein, have neon pink and green streaks in their hair. They wear platform heels and mini-skirts with skulls on them. And the dolls that go by names like Draculaura and Ick Abbey Bominable are gaining on Barbie.
In the Maddux household in Portage, Wis., for instance, Olivia, 10, has been playing with Barbie for six or seven years. But she added Monster High dolls to the mix a year ago.
"I look at Olivia and some of her friends and see they're growing out of Barbies," says Olivia's mom, Lisa Maddux, 42, a freelance writer.
That Barbie is losing her edge is no surprise. Since debuting in 1959 as the world's first fashion doll, Barbie has long been a lightning rod for controversy and competitors.
To be sure, Barbie is still No. 1 in the doll market, and the Mattel franchise has an estimated $1.3 billion in annual sales. But Barbie's sales have slipped for four straight quarters, even while the overall doll category is up 6 percent year-to-date, according to the researcher NPD Group.
Meanwhile, Monster High, which is also made by Mattel, has become the No. 2 doll brand in just three years, with more than $500 million in annual sales, says BMO Capital Markets Gerrick Johnson.
In addition to the competition from Monster High, Barbie has had to contend with increasing criticism of her impossibly proportioned body. While the 54-year-old doll has over the years graduated from pin-up girl to a range of characters that include astronauts, engineers and princesses, detractors continue to dismiss the 11.5-inch doll's frame as impossibly top-heavy and tiny-waisted.
Barbie's measurements equate to about a 39-inch bust, 18-inch waist and 33-inch hips on a life-size woman. The average American woman, by comparison, is about a size 14.
Artist Nickolay Lamm on Monday posted pictures of what the doll would look like if it had the average measurements of a 19-year-old, revealing a much more meaty physique. The pictures were featured on Web sites from CNN to Time and renewed controversy over the doll's effect on girls' body image.
Monster High dolls, on the other hand, although still pretty slim, have a punk rock look that's intended to send the message that being different is OK. And they're aimed at slightly older children — adding to their appeal — while Barbie's increasingly young audience is hurting sales. After all, no child wants to play with anything seen as a baby toy.
Barbie marketed to children that are between age 3 and 9, but over the past 15 years or so, the range has shrunk to around 3 to 6, says Timetoplaymage.com toy analyst Jim Silver. This has happened because older children are likely gravitating toward electronic devices or dolls like Monster High, which are aimed at kids 6 to 13, Silver says.
It's a trickle-down effect: The same reason why 5-year-olds who belted out "The Wheels on the Bus," 25 years ago would today be more interested One Direction boy band pop songs, he says.
"Kids are growing up much faster younger," Silver says. "A 6-year-old is looking for something a little edgier. That's the reason why Monster High has had so much success."
Kim Blake's daughter Sarah, 7, used to be a Barbie fan, but she's moved beyond that. She's getting ready to donate her 3-foot tall Barbie dream house and about half of her 20 Barbie dolls to charity.
Now, she's more into playing outside or taking Taekwondo martial arts classes and less into dolls in general. That's a switch from her mother, 35, who played with Barbie dolls until she was 13.
"Her girlfriends don't play with them any more either," says Blake, a store manager in Renton, Wash. "They've actually said the word 'babyish' talking about them."
The last time Barbie wasn't feeling the love was about 12 years ago when, after years of little competition, pouty-lipped Bratz dolls became wildly successful. They sent squeaky clean Barbie into a sales spiral.
Bratz dolls were edgy. They wore low-rise jeans, had heavy makeup and exposed navels. And they were sultrier than Barbies. But the Bratz fad faded in 2005, and Barbie slowly regained sales ground.
The same may happen with Monster High dolls. Industry experts say it will take a lot to dethrone the Barbie. "It's still one of the strongest brands in industry," says Needham & Co. toy analyst Sean McGowan.
In a call with investors on Wednesday, Mattel CEO Bryan Stockton admitted that the success of Monster High and its other doll brands might be causing some of Barbie's sales dip. But he points out that Barbie's sales are higher now than when Monster High dolls were launched in 2010. He said the competition is energizing the entire doll sector.
In general, "hot toys" have a cyclical nature, usually with a 5-year time span, says BMO Capital's Johnson. This ensures that no toy stays on top forever. Even evergreen brands that endure for decades, like Barbie, have highs and lows in popularity.
"It happens with everything — name a toy, and it's had its ups and downs," Johnson says. "At some point the day comes when a kid says, 'Nah, I'm tired of this.'"
That day isn't completely here for Olivia Maddux yet. Her mom, Lisa, believes her new love affair with the Monster High dolls may have in fact extended the life of Barbie dolls.
"I think the addition of Monster High dolls, aimed at a little different demographic, kept Barbies alive in our place, since she plays with them together," she says.
That may be true. In Olivia's world, the two — Barbie and Monster High — peacefully coexist. Well, sort of.
"The Monster High dolls are like the Barbie's servants," Olivia says.

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FORK(2) BSD System Calls Manual FORK(2) NAME fork -- create a new process LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> pid_t fork(void); DESCRIPTION Fork() causes creation of a new process. The new process (child process) is an exact copy of the calling process (parent process) except for the following: o The child process has a unique process ID. o The child process has a different parent process ID (i.e., the process ID of the parent process). o The child process has its own copy of the parent's descriptors. These descriptors reference the same underlying objects, so that, for instance, file pointers in file objects are shared between the child and the parent, so that an lseek(2) on a de- scriptor in the child process can affect a subsequent read(2) or write(2) by the parent. This descriptor copying is also used by the shell to establish standard input and output for newly created processes as well as to set up pipes. o The child process' resource utilizations are set to 0; see setrlimit(2). o All interval timers are cleared; see setitimer(2). RETURN VALUES Upon successful completion, fork() returns a value of 0 to the child process and returns the process ID of the child process to the parent process. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned to the parent process, no child process is created, and the global variable errno is set to indi- cate the error. ERRORS Fork() will fail and no child process will be created if: [EAGAIN] The system-imposed limit on the total number of pro- cesses under execution would be exceeded. The limit is given by the sysctl(3) MIB variable KERN_MAXPROC. (The limit is actually one less than this except for the super user). [EAGAIN] The user is not the super user, and the system-imposed limit on the total number of processes under execution by a single user would be exceeded. The limit is given by the sysctl(3) MIB variable KERN_MAXPROCPERUID. [EAGAIN] The user is not the super user, and the soft resource limit corresponding to the resource parameter RLIMIT_NPROC would be exceeded (see getrlimit(2)). [ENOMEM] There is insufficient swap space for the new process. SEE ALSO execve(2), rfork(2), setitimer(2), setrlimit(2), vfork(2), wait(2) HISTORY A fork() function call appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. BSD June 4, 1993 BSD
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Cat reports record sales, revenue
Caterpillar Inc. has announced record 2012 sales and revenues of $65.8 billion, an increase of 10 percent from $60.1 billion in 2011. Profit per share of $8.48 was also an all-time record.
The 2012 profit per share of $8.48 was up 15 percent from $7.40 in 2011.
Profit was $5.6 billion, an increase of 15 percent from $4.9 billion in 2011.
Fourth-quarter 2012 sales and revenues were $16.1 billion, down $1.1 billion from $17.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Fourth-quarter 2012 profit was $697 million compared with $1.5 billion in the fourth quarter of
2011. Profit was $1.04 per share in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared with profit per share of $2.32 in the fourth quarter of 2011.
The company stated that its fourth-quarter profit was negatively impacted by a charge of $580 million, or $0.87 per share, to cover an accounting error for a Chinese firm acquired by Caterpillar last year.
Lower sales and revenues and the cost impact from sharply lower production and the $2 billion decline in Caterpillar inventory also had a negative impact on fourth-quarter profit, according to the company statement.


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New 2023 BMW330i
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- Interior Color
- Cognac
- Body/Seating
- Sedan/5 seats
- Fuel Economy
- 25/34 MPG City/Hwy
- Transmission
- Drivetrain
- Rear-Wheel Drive
- Engine
- I-4 cyl
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- Navigation system
- Automatic temperature control
- Emergency communication system
- Power moonroof
- Wireless phone connectivity
- Parking sensors
- Exterior parking camera rear
- Front dual zone A/C
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- 1-touch down
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- Air conditioning
- Auto-dimming rearview mirror
- Automatic temperature control
- Driver door bin
- Driver vanity mirror
- Emergency communication system: BMW Assist eCall
- Front beverage holders
- Front dual zone A/C
- Garage door transmitter
- Illuminated entry
- Memory seat
- Moonroof sunshade: manual
- Navigation system
- Passenger door bin
- Passenger vanity mirror
- Power moonroof
- Power windows
- Proximity key: doors and push button start
- Rear air conditioning
- Rear beverage holders
- Rear door bins
- Remote keyless entry
- Residual heat recirculation
- Speed control
- Telescoping steering wheel
- Tilt steering wheel
- Alloy wheels
- Four wheel independent suspension
- Front anti-roll bar
- Front tires: 225/40HR19.0
- Power steering
- Rear anti-roll bar
- Rear tires: 225/40HR19.0
- Speed-sensing steering
- Wheel size: 19"
- 1st row LCD monitors: 2
- AM/FM radio: SiriusXM
- Diversity antenna
- Primary LCD size: 14.9"
- Radio data system
- Satellite radio trial duration with new vehicle purchase (months): 12
- Smart device integration: Apple CarPlay Compatibility
- Speakers: 10
- Steering wheel mounted audio controls
- Wireless phone connectivity: Enhanced Bluetooth
- Basic warranty: 48 months/50,000miles
- Corrosion perforation warranty: 144 months/ unlimited distance
- Maintenance warranty: 36 months/36,000miles
- Powertrain warranty: 48 months/50,000miles
- Roadside assistance coverage: 48 months/ unlimited distance
- Front center armrest
- Front seats: bucket
- Genuine wood console insert
- Genuine wood dashboard insert
- Heated front seats
- Leather shift knob
- Leather steering wheel
- Max seating capacity: 5
- Power 4-way driver lumbar support
- Power driver seat
- Power passenger seat
- Rear seat center armrest
- Rear seats: bench
- Rear seats Folding position: fold forward seatback
- Seat Upholstery: leatherette SensaTec
- Split folding rear seat
- Sport steering wheel
- Compressor: intercooled turbo
- Cylinder configuration: I-4
- Drive type: rear-wheel
- Engine liters: 2.0L
- Engine location: front
- Fuel economy city: 25mpg
- Fuel economy combined: 29mpg
- Fuel economy highway: 34mpg
- Fuel tank capacity: 15.6gal.
- Horsepower: 255hp @ 5,000RPM
- Hybrid traction battery type: none
- Manual-shift auto: STEPTRONIC
- Mode select transmission
- Number of valves: 16
- Recommended fuel: Premium Unleaded
- Standard fuel economy fuel type: gasoline
- Torque: 295 lb.-ft. @ 1,500RPM
- Transmission: 8 speed automatic
- Variable intake manifold
- Variable valve control
- Auto-dimming door mirrors
- Bumpers: body-color
- Door mirrors: body-color
- Heated door mirrors
- Power door mirrors
- Rear cargo: trunk
- Tailpipe finisher: chrome
- Turn signal indicator mirrors
- Compression ratio: 10.20 to 1
- Curb weight: 1,625kg (3,582lbs)
- Engine bore x stroke: 82.0mm x 94.6mm (3.23" x 3.72")
- Engine displacement: 2.0 L
- Engine horsepower: 255hp @ 5,000RPM
- Engine torque: 295 lb.-ft. @ 1,500RPM
- Exterior body width: 1,826mm (71.9")
- Exterior height: 1,443mm (56.8")
- Exterior length: 4,717mm (185.7")
- Front headroom: 983mm (38.7")
- Front legroom: 1,067mm (42.0")
- Front shoulder room: 1,422mm (56.0")
- GVWR: 2,076kg (4,576lbs)
- Interior cargo volume: 481 L (17 cu.ft.)
- Interior maximum cargo volume: 481 L (17 cu.ft.)
- Payload: 374kg (825lbs)
- Rear headroom: 955mm (37.6")
- Rear legroom: 894mm (35.2")
- Rear shoulder room: 1,387mm (54.6")
- Turning radius: 5.7m (18.7')
- Wheelbase: 2,850mm (112.2")
- Appearance: digital/analog
- Auto high-beam headlights
- Compass
- Configurable
- Delay-off headlights
- Exterior parking camera rear
- Front reading lights
- Fully automatic headlights
- Low tire pressure warning
- Outside temperature display
- Parking sensors: Park Distance Control front and rear
- Rain sensing wipers
- Rear reading lights
- Rear window defroster
- Speed sensitive wipers
- Tachometer
- Trip computer
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- 4 wheel disc brakes
- ABS brakes
- Adjustable head restraints: driver and passenger w/tilt
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- Electronic stability
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- Knee airbag
- Occupant sensing airbag
- Overhead airbag
- Panic alarm
- Pedestrian detection: prevention
- Perimeter/approach lights
- Security system
- Tracker system
- Traction control
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By Drew on Sunday, September 01, 2019This is my 3rd BMW; I had a 2007 E90 generation and a 2015 F30 generation car. The 2007 was an amazing car with excellent handling and power. The 2015, however, was a huge disappointment with its lethargic turbo engine, imprecise and light steering, and a bouncy suspension that felt more like a Lexus ES. Fortunately, the 2019 G20 BMW 3 series feels a lot more like the 2007 than the 2015. The standard suspension feels taut, but not too firm. The 330i's engine is more refined, even though it's still a turbo 4-cylinder. The power delivery feels more consistent with no perceivable lag, just like a non-turbo 6-cylinder engine of decades past. The steering is still a bit too light for my taste, but is definitely more precise and transmits decent road feel. Also, the car does feel bigger than my old 2007 and perhaps not as "tossable" in curves. But for a bigger car, it's still a competent sports sedan. Finally, I love the interior design, quality and materials of the 2019. Absolutely improved over the past BMWs and makes the car feel luxurious now and worth the price point. The exterior design, on the other hand, is perhaps a downside. But that's very subjective. The tech is amazing too. iDrive is a huge improvement in the 2019, with your choice of both touchscreen or knob interfaces. The larger touchscreen is very handy when used with Apple CarPlay, while the knob can also come in handy to zoom a map while driving. The digital gauges does take a bit getting used to, and I do hope BMW will implement an ability to change the gauge design from the odd shape it is now to more traditional circular gauges. The only big complaint I have with this car is the driving aid tools, which can be a bit intrusive. Lane keep assist in particular has been extremely annoying and inaccurate. I had to turn Lane Keep Assist off.
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We're excited about our first concert in Croatia and delighted that we had the opportunity to walk around the wonderful city of Zagreb.
Source: INmusic festival
We're excited about our first concert in Croatia and delighted that we had the opportunity to walk around the wonderful city of Zagreb.
Source: INmusic festival
Thank you for one of the best hotel experience ever. The rooms were extraordinary, the staff was great, and every moment was beautiful. And Zagreb... magical! All the best!
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If we leave out the hills in one part of the town, Zagreb is a perfect town for cycling. vid Byrne (Talking Heads) on releasing his book Cycling Diaries
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I was very looking forward to coming to Zagreb, especially because my mother travelled with me. My people found out everything about it, so that we could see the main stuff in the city!
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The location of the festival and Zagreb, where we spent a pleasant morning, are wonderful.
Source: INmusic festival
Big thanks on behalf of the PIXIES for another wonderful day in Zagreb! This is a great festival and a wonderful audience (less rain next time, please!). See you.
Source: INmusic festival
Jesse Eisenberg (actor) spent the autumn in Zagreb in 2007: Zagreb is an incredible town. I enjoyed sightseeing the old parts of the town, and at night I went to clubs. I was thrilled that it was near Austria and Italy, so I visited Venice, Milan, Ljubljana, Graz, Split... over the weekends.
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Alex Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand) wrote about Zagreb on his blog: http://bit.ly/nO3yin
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Everything is great here, the girls are beautifull, the service is exceptional. What more can I ask from the town?
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The Washington Nationals returned to town Friday night for a short homestand of interleague play against the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals, sandwiched at either end with starts by rookie pitcher Stephen Strasburg.
President Barack Obama joined the sellout crowd on Friday to see his beloved White Sox take on the Nationals new main attraction, and unlike his previous visit to Nationals Park, he stayed until the 9th inning, and got to witness his first Nationals presidents race.
Chicago White Sox mascot Southpaw has joined the team in DC for the weekend series, and surprised the crowd by emerging alone out of the gate for the beginning of the 4th-inning presidents race.
Just as the crowd was wondering where the presidents were, they emerged in centerfield aboard Segway personal transporters, with Thomas Jefferson at the front of the pack, and
Teddy sadly lagging far behind.
As they passed Southpaw and approached the finish line, Jefferson appeared to lose control, and Abe Lincoln passed him to claim the victory. As he broke the tape, Illinois' favorite son pointed up to Obama's box along the third base line.
The racing presidents were sporting brand new red running shoes to kick off the homestand, but as it turned out, they had no need for them at all.


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As we bid adieu to Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700–1915, we have one more noteworthy tribute to the sleeper hit of the Resnick Pavilion inaugural season. Jean Claude Wouters, a dancer and artist—whose wife, a fashion journalist, covered the show for the French press—once took part in a ballet in Brussels in which he wore a crinoline very much like those that give structure to some of the garments in our exhibition. Exhibition curators Sharon Takeda and Kaye Spilker invited Wouters to revisit the crinoline and its relationship to the body in a series of exploratory movements, performed in the Resnick Pavilion and documented here.
Jean Claude talked about the experience:
I performed with a crinoline when I was 24. Thirty years later, you can imagine! The body, everything changed.
The crinoline being round creates a trajectory like that of the orbital lines of the planets. I moved first to the east, then the west, then the north, then the south.
I was blindfolded. I didn't want for the people to see my face, it is like a mask. I wanted to be like a sign in a space, my body and the crinoline – it's not about the human expression. At the same time being blindfolded, I had to feel the space with my skin and body. It's like letting yourself fall into the water, to be totally immersed in the space.
I had two black Japanese pebbles in each hand. The sound you hear is the pebbles. That's why I make certain gestures with my hands. I was making my own music, through the reverberation of the sound in that huge space of the Resnick Pavilion.
I am no longer a dancer and I do not pretend to be one. It had to be very honest and of course human, clumsy, a normal person in a particular situation. At the same time, it felt daring, being a fifty year-old man, in a crinoline, barefoot in a museum, in front of someone filming. It's something you would not do! But what is a crinoline, how do you move with a crinoline, impose movement on the crinoline? For sure, I wanted to do something with no thought. If I was one of my friends who is a dancer or choreographer by profession, it would have been organized and well-conceived in advance. Me, I came like a crazy wild madman; I have no craziness in me, but it was this kind of thing, like Antonin Artaud, or like Tatsumi Hijikata (initiator of Japanese butoh).
There is a phrase from Wittgenstein that I like very much – I translate it this way: "The human body is the most accurate image we can have of the human soul."
I also think of this story: in a colloquium on religion, there was a Shinto priest. An American professor asked him, "But ultimately, what is your theology?" The Shinto priest thought about it for a moment, then said, "I think we don't have theology; we dance." Dance is a way of being alive, moving, being aware of your surroundings. We all dance all day in this way.
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Families that plan have chaos-free mornings
Its 7 a.m. You are half awake. Your daughter wants to debate about her clothes while you are scrambling to find your briefcase and keys.
You barely make it out of the door with both shoes on, traffic seems endless as you break a sweat before even getting to work.
It's the type of morning many suffer through often.
And spending a morning like that is a sure-fire way to ruin your day, said Standolyn Robertson, founder of Things In Place, a personal organizing business.
"It is hard to have a good day if it is started on the wrong foot," she said. "If you are overwhelmed from the beginning, everything else can seem more frustrating throughout the day."
Set A Routine
Robertson said making a morning routine with your family and working together to stick to it can greatly reduce your daily stress.
She said to take time and specifically plan how your morning will go, asking each family member what his or her ideal morning routine would be.
Amy Allen Clark, founder of MomAdvice.com, said actually writing this routine down and hanging it on the refrigerator can ensure everyone is aware of it.
And Clark said to make sure to keep the children involved.
"Children love routines and they love to know what to expect out of their day," Clark said. "It is much easier on the entire family if everyone knows what they need to accomplish for that day."
The Night Before
Both Robertson and Clark said the best way to have a stress-free morning is to prepare the night before.
"You should wake up to nice relaxing morning where things are already done," Robertson said. "You don't want to be doing any business in the morning."
Robertson said all dried goods should be placed in lunches. Add refrigerated items quickly in the mornings.
Backpacks and briefcases should be by the front door with all homework done, papers signed and ready to go.
Any family discussion should also be had the night before, Robertson said.
"Children should not be trying to sell their parents wrapping paper for a fundraiser on the way to school," she said.
Clark said everyone should have their clothes picked out and set to go before they go to bed. This saves times and prevents arguments.
Clark said a great way to avoid those morning clothing arguments is to get an organizer that has spots for each day of the week. Children can pick out their clothes for the week and you can review them together.
"Doing this on a Saturday afternoon is a lot less stressful than doing it during a weekday morning," she said. "Get in the routine of doing this with your child and it will save you both a lot of hassle and heartache."
What Works For You
When it comes to getting out of bed and facing the day, everyone is different.
Robertson said acknowledging that and working around it can help with everyone's morning moods, creating for an easier routine.
"People need to wake up in a way that works for them, no matter what their age," she said. "Matching what you need so that you wake up and feel good about that morning is essential."
She said each person should have their own alarm clock, suited to their needs. Those who wake up slow may prefer an alarm with a light that comes on gradually, while others may prefer to wake up to their favorite CD.
Robertson said it is also important that each person figures out his or her own time to rise. While some people can get ready quickly and rush out the door, others like to take it more slowly. Each member of the family should figure out which wake-up time works best for them without interfering with other people's schedule.
If one person is feeling rushed and stressed, Robertson suggested trying waking up earlier in 15-minute increments until the have enough time to have an easy morning.
"People should have just as much time as they need to get out of the door without feeling stressed," she said.
Clark said all of the breakfast supplies should be all spread out. Cereal bowls can be set out and batches of waffles and pancakes can be made in advance and refrigerated or frozen.
"Anything that you can do ahead of time will aid in creating that ideal morning," Clark said.
Robertson said because kids have different school schedules and parents have to be at work at different times, eating breakfast together is not the easiest of things.
In fact, she said, it's not essential.
"I would much rather see families get out of house without a hitch and have a lovely dinner together," she said.
She said to focus more on creating healthy easy-to-assemble breakfasts such as smoothies and yogurt with granola. She also recommends a coffee maker with a timer to save a few extra minutes.
With a little preparation you can have quick, healthy breakfasts prepared, she said.
"There should be no reason to swing by fast-food places last minute," she said.
Shower Schedule
Having a shower schedule down pat is also great for avoiding morning chaos.
Robertson said to start with figuring out how long each family needs in the bathroom. If there is a major time issue, she said, have some family members blow dry their hair or put on makeup in their bedroom.
Clark said that some people could shower in the evening, instead. She said picking the person who usually takes the longest in the bathroom is best.
If there is a fight between siblings about who should take a shower in the evening, Clark said to alternate days so that the new schedule is fair to everyone.
3, 2, 1 — Launch
Once you are ready to head out the door, Robertson said having what she calls a launch pad could help you leave nothing behind.
This is a place for charging cell phones and keeping keys, book bags and anything that needs to go out of the door with you.
"The launch pad in your home is where you come and go from," she said.
Robertson said figuring out a peaceful and organized way to do your morning routine can significantly affect your day.
And, Clark said, if one morning does go bad, don't let it carry over into the next.
"It is important to remember that just because your morning doesn't go smoothly one day, doesn't mean that it has to be that way for the rest of the week," she said.


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Dr. Murray Feingold: The facts about suicide
Suicide is a common occurrence. It is the 10th-leading cause of death in the United States and the fifth-leading cause of death in adolescents and young adults.
Even though suicide occurs quite often, there is still a great deal the medical profession doesn't know about it. This is unfortunate because frequently, there is an existing relationship between individuals who commit suicide and their physicians. One study showed that nearly 40 percent of adults, one month prior to committing suicide, visited their primary care physician.
The United States Preventative Services Task Force recently updated its position on the subject of suicide. They concluded that certain segments of the population are at greater risk of committing suicide. The highest suicide rates are present in Native Americans and Alaskan natives.
Also at a higher risk are those who have post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse and depression.
Social factors also play a role, including having a difficult childhood, being unemployed or socially isolated or having a family history of suicide.
Certain military personnel are also at increased risk. Those who have post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injuries or were recently discharged from military service.
Various screening tests are available to help identify individuals who are at increased risk of committing suicide. But, how accurate are such tests? The task force concluded that there is not enough evidence available to either recommend or not recommend such testing for adolescents or young adults in primary care settings.
The National Center for Injury Prevention also has some interesting facts about suicide. Of every 25 suicide attempts, only one is successful. The medical and work-loss costs of unsuccessful suicides are estimated to be about $6.5 billion each year.
Four times more men than women commit suicide. The use of firearms is the most common method of suicide in men; in women, it is poison.
Statistics are of interest but what they don't reveal is the turmoil, angst and anguish that people with suicidal ideation endure. And, when suicides do take place, family members and close friends are also severely affected.
Therefore, it is essential that more research be done to determine better ways to prevent suicides from occurring in the first place.
Massachusetts-based Dr. Murray Feingold is the physician in chief of The Feingold Center for Children, medical editor of WBZ-TV and WBZ radio, and president of the Genesis Fund. The Genesis Fund is a nonprofit organization that funds the care of children born with birth defects, mental retardation and genetic diseases.


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At an outdoor concert featuring Aaron Neville in San Francisco's Stern Grove yesterday, I was taken back to being 11 or 12 years old when my sister Ellen-Marie asked me to pick up Neville's first hit, "Tell it Like it Is," from the neighborhood record store. My friend Rosalyn and I were headed there for our own 45s, probably something along the lines of the Marvelettes or the Supremes. (Rosalyn and I were part of our own junior girl group called the Trangualettes – don't ask – and we lip-synced a mean "Don't Mess with Bill.")
Rosalyn and I were barely out of elementary school. Ellen was in high school. And even though WAMO, the one black radio station in all of Pittsburgh, played everything from R&B to blues to jazz — the white radio stations didn't play black music back then — we didn't really have our ears tuned to Aaron Neville . . . yet.
On Sunday, as I listened to Neville's still silky rendition of that 1967 ballad, I searched my memory for all of Ellen's teenage crushes and suitors. I wondered who she might have been thinking about as she played that record. It could have been that she simply knew then what we'd all come to know, Neville's capacity to make us swoon.
Romance aside, I suspect that song spoke to Ellen-Marie because it got to the core of who she was — direct and honest. Aggravatingly so. Sometimes brutally so. And not only did she take truth-telling seriously, she did not understand why others were incapable of doing the same.
Our mother, who was often given to being coy and indirect, used to drive Ellen-Marie crazy. I'm sure I did too, as I have a tendency to bury my ledes. Editorial writing was good training for getting to the point.
Ebenezer, on the other hand, was not one to mince words. Here are some gems I've found so far. All are excerpts from his "Dottings of a Paragrapher" column in the New York Age.
Dec. 22, 1934: "When the white man 'lifts his foot off the neck' of Negroes and when the Negro in turn lifts his own tiny foot off his own neck, when a Negro reporter, writer, cartoonist, or etc. can go to the News office and apply for a job with the assurance that he has the same chance as his white brother, his color regardless, then it will matter whether he is called colored, Negro, or Aframerican."
June 1, 1935: "Although time often permitted, I have never availed myself of the opportunity to attend the hearings of the Mayor's Commission on Conditions in Harlem, firstly because I could never clearly see why five white men should be appointed on such a committee when it is highly improbable that even one Negro would be appointed to any committee to inquire into conditions in any white community." [Note: The 14-member commission, appointed by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia following a 1935 race riot in Harlem, included several prominent blacks.]
May 30, 1936: "On a recent evening, what was scheduled to be an 'all-star artist recital' turned out to be just a parade of the ambitious, plus a little stardust.
How a promoter of this affair ever got together such a mixture is beyond imagination. It was little short of capital offense to associate the beautifully voiced Doris Trotman-Earle and Constance Berksteiner White with some of the other untutored apologies for singers. It was little short of a capital offense to place one sartorial blunder, in particular, on any program. He murdered 'Then You'll Remember Me' — and all who had to listen to him certainly will.
Liberal applause followed all the efforts. It must have been admiration for their 'nerve' — or maybe the audience was made up mainly of relatives."
Ouch! Ellen-Marie got it honest.


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Over the past week, Google has been called out for bypassing default privacy settings in both Safari and Internet Explorer in order to serve up advertising cookies. The two cases were quite different. With Safari, Google acknowledged the problem and said it was an accident. With Internet Explorer, Google said it was using the best available workaround for an outdated browser privacy technology that limits the capabilities of modern websites—and noted that thousands of other websites do much the same thing to get past IE's privacy policy.
Despite the differences, each case demonstrates one thing that may be troubling to Web users: privacy settings in browsers can be easily circumvented. There are few technological barriers preventing companies like Google and Facebook from tracking users to serve up personalized ads, and there are few legal barriers as well.
To dig into these issues, Ars spoke with Lorrie Faith Cranor, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University and director of the institution's Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory. Protecting user privacy on the Web is an ongoing struggle, and one that is not going well, she said.
"Every time we come up with a technical solution that protects privacy, the websites come up with something they want to do that is broken by this privacy protection, and so they find a workaround for it and they basically break the privacy protection," she said.
Cranor played a central role in developing the privacy standard used by Internet Explorer, which is called the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project, or P3P. P3P was built in 2002 by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), with Cranor serving as chairperson of the P3P working group. She also authored a book on P3P that same year.
The usefulness of P3P was put under the microscope this past week. Microsoft, the only major browser vendor to use P3P, notes that it blocks third-party cookies unless presented with a Compact Policy Statement (CP) promising not to use the cookie to track the user. Microsoft accused Google of circumventing this requirement with a fake policy that says "This is not a P3P policy" and a link to a Google page describing the company's opposition to P3P.
Google fired back that it is "impractical to comply with Microsoft's request while providing modern web functionality," such as signing into websites using one's Google account, or using Facebook's "Like" button. To prove its point, Google pointed to Cranor's own research showing that about a third of 33,000 studied sites were circumventing P3P in Internet Explorer.
Is P3P outdated?
Cranor acknowledges that standards work on P3P has been nonexistent in recent years, and that it is only implemented by Internet Explorer. That said, IE is still the world's most widely used browser, and "there is nothing about P3P that goes bad. It doesn't have a sell by date. The standard we put out in 2002 is still a perfectly good standard."
Cranor is also skeptical of the claim that Google can't devise functionality that doesn't also comply with P3P, saying "It's not obvious to me there's any fundamental reason why a proper P3P compact policy wouldn't work in that scenario."
Google noted that Cranor's research called out Microsoft's own msn.com and live.com for providing invalid P3P policy statements, and notes that the research (from 2010) also showed that "Microsoft's support website recommends the use of invalid CPs as a work-around for a problem in IE."
The report, Cranor explains, discovered several methods for circumventing P3P policy. One method is submitting a CP statement "that is clearly not a P3P policy, and that's what Google and Facebook and at one point Amazon did," she said. Other offenders had "P3P policies that were almost right but not quite," and it was unclear whether the violations were purposeful or accidental. That's the category Microsoft fell into.
But the more puzzling accusation that a Microsoft support website provided advice recommending the use of invalid P3P statements is true, Cranor said.
Microsoft had received a question from a website developer about cookies breaking website content, and the answer Microsoft provided "was put the P3P compact policy on your website, and [Microsoft] gave an example of a P3P compact policy with no mention that you should write one that matches your website and not just blindly copy this one," Cranor said. The sample policy was invalid, yet "we found that thousands of websites just copied that string and it fixed the problem on their website."
Microsoft deleted that advice shortly after the report from Cranor and her Carnegie Mellon colleagues came out in 2010, although it apparently still existed on a Spanish language version of the site as of a few days ago, she said.
Privacy tools lack teeth
While the Google said/Microsoft said battles can be occasionally entertaining, the real problem is the lack of privacy standards that are both difficult to circumvent and enforceable through legal processes. Whether there would be a legal obligation to comply with P3P is a question that "came up a lot" during the standards process a decade ago, Cranor said.
"We asked regulators from the US, Europe, Canada, Australia, lots of places this question and their response was always the same: 'To the extent that I have the authority to enforce privacy policies written in human-readable languages, English, French, German, whatever, we can use that authority to enforce computer-readable policies like P3P.' So based on that statement, we concluded that the Federal Trade Commission [in the US] can go after companies who say deceptive things in their privacy policies and they had even more authority in some of the other countries."
Cranor has argued that Microsoft hasn't done a good job implementing P3P. But Google's use of the text "This is not a P3P policy," while understandable to a human, is clearly deceptive because it's "tricking the Internet Explorer Web browser that cant read those words and treats it as a P3P policy and unblocks the cookie," Cranor said.
Still, Google is not the only company doing this by a long shot, and in the ten years since P3P was implemented, Cranor said, "I don't know of any regulator that has gone after a company for P3P violations."
"It's both a technical problem and a legal problem," Cranor further said. "The technical ways these things are being enforced are rather brittle. If we had good legal enforcement that would make up for the fact that the technology is brittle, because then if somebody goes ahead and breaks the technology you would have the law come swooping in to go after them. But as it is they're both brittle."
Amazon actually faced a lawsuit over its use of invalid P3P policies to trick Internet Explorer into accepting cookies. Amazon now uses a valid policy, but the lawsuit was dismissed in December.
Google is facing complaints to the FTC and a class-action lawsuit over its cookie circumvention in Safari. An advocacy group that complained to the FTC said Google's bypassing of Safari's privacy protections—which Google has now stopped—violated a previous privacy agreement with the FTC.
The FTC is the more promising venue for privacy rights advocates, Cranor says. Lawsuits filed by individuals have to show some tangible monetary harm, but the FTC isn't held to that burden.
"In the US, the lawsuits are a much more difficult way to go than having the FTC or state attorneys general handle it," Cranor said. "We don't have much in the way of privacy laws in the US."
Can Do Not Track save the day?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argued that Google's Safari trick proves the need for so-called "Do Not Track" technology. The likes of Firefox and Internet Explorer have implemented such functionality, and Google Chrome has a similar option called "Keep My Opt-Outs."
The idea is fairly simple: give users a button to press, having the browser send a header to all websites informing them that the user who pressed the button is not to be tracked. Do Not Track could potentially replace P3P as a standard.
But Cranor, despite serving on the EFF board, is skeptical. There are problematic questions, including what it means to track and what it means to not track. Google could argue that setting advertising-related cookies is OK because the cookies don't collect any personal information, and Facebook could say technology used to customize content for signed-in users shouldn't be subject to new restrictions, either.
Today's implementations rely on websites essentially following the honor system, and making Do Not Track a standard wouldn't necessarily change that, Cranor said.
"Like P3P, this would just be a standard and it would be in the same boat P3P was in," she said. "If the industry agrees on a standard and we find out some companies are ignoring this and tracking you anyway, could the FTC do anything about it? I don't know. I think they'd be in an even worse position than they are with P3P, because the companies will claim 'we never even signed on to this. We didn't send any 'do not track' header, we just ignored the one you sent us.'"
Finding the right balance between privacy and functionality will be difficult, she said. Cranor noted that Microsoft's Tracking Protection Lists for IE9 are quite good at stopping websites from placing tracking cookies, preventing the kind of circumvention Google and Facebook practice. But the implementation can break functionality users want, she noted.
Chrome and Firefox also have options for blocking cookies. Some third-party companies are building browser add-ons, such as Abine and Evidon, the usability of which Cranor and colleagues examined in a recent report. Generally the tools tend to just block everything, although some vendors are working toward a more nuanced solution, she said. Cranor and her colleagues found "serious usability flaws" in all nine tools they evaluated.
"Having been involved in privacy technology now for about 15 years, I"m not optimistic that technology alone here is going to solve the problem," she said.
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Brennan: Drone strikes used only for major threats
WASHINGTON — Nominated to head the CIA, John Brennan told a protest-disrupted Senate confirmation hearing Thursday the United States employs drone strikes only as a deterrent against imminent terrorist threats, not as punishment for previous attacks, firmly defending the controversial attacks that have targeted Americans as well as foreigners overseas.
"Nothing could be further from the truth," he said of the idea that the U.S. uses the strikes by unmanned aircraft as retaliation.
On another thorny topic, under sometimes-combative questioning from senators, he conceded that after years of intelligence work he is uncertain whether the use of waterboarding in interrogations has yielded valuable information.
He declined several times to say whether waterboarding is torture, but he did say it is "something that is reprehensible and should never be done again."
In hours of questioning from the Senate Intelligence Committee, Brennan made repeated general pledges to increase the flow of information to members of the panel, but he was less specific when it came to individual cases. Asked at one point whether he would provide a list of countries where the CIA has used lethal authority, he replied, "It would be my intention to do everything possible" to comply.
At another point, he said he had no second thoughts about having opposed a planned strike against Osama bin Laden in 1998, a few months before the bombings of two U.S. embassies. The plan was not "well-grounded," he said, adding that other intelligence officials also recommended against proceeding. Brennan was at the CIA at the time.
Brennan is a veteran of more than three decades in intelligence work, and is currently serving as Obama's top counter-terrorism adviser in the White House. Any thought he had of becoming CIA director four years ago vanished amid questions about the role he played at the CIA when the Bush administration approved waterboarding and other forms of "enhanced interrogation" of suspected terrorists.
In a statement at the beginning of Thursday's session, Brennan said the United States remains at war with al-Qaida and other terrorists and is under "daily cyberattack" by foreign countries and others.
He said historic transformations continue sweeping through the Middle East and North Africa, with "major implications for our interests, Israel's security, our Arab partners and the prospects for peace and stability throughout the region." Additionally, he said that Iran and North Korea "remain bent on pursuing nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missile delivery systems."
The hearing was interrupted repeatedly — once before it began and then several times before Brennan had completed his preliminary remarks. At one point, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the panel's chairman, briefly ordered the proceedings halted and the room cleared so those re-entering could be screened to block obvious protesters.
The shouted protests centered on CIA drone strikes that have killed three American citizens and an unknown number of foreigners overseas.
It was a topic very much on the mind of the committee members who eventually will vote on Brennan's confirmation.
In the hours before the hearing began, President Barack Obama ordered that a classified paper outlining the legal rationale for striking at U.S. citizens abroad be made available for members of the House and Senate intelligence panels to read.
It was an attempt to clear the way for Brennan's approval, given hints from some lawmakers that they might hold up confirmation unless they had access to the material.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Wednesday the White House is making "extraordinary accommodation" in allowing lawmakers to view classified Justice Department legal advice on drone strikes against Americans. Carney said the White House does not plan to send the Justice memos to lawmakers beyond those on the House and Senate intelligence committees.
Responding to the assurances from the administration, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said he was encouraged when Obama called him on the telephone to inform him of his decision.
However, Wyden said that after he went to read the material he became concerned the Department of Justice "is not following through" on the commitment. He asked Brennan to look into the matter, and the CIA nomine said he would.
Despite the sometimes-combative questioning, Brennan's confirmation seemed a foregone conclusion as he appeared before the committee. "I look forward to working with you," said Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo.
Wyden made the drone strikes the main focus of his time to question Brennan, asking at one point what could be done "so that the American people are brought into this debate and have a full understanding of what rules" are for their use.
Brennan said the day's hearings were part of that effort, and said he backs speeches by officials as a way to explain counter-terrorism programs. He said there is a "misimpression by the American people' who believe drone strikes are aimed at suspects in past attacks. Instead, he said, "we only take such actions as a last resort to save lives" when there is no other alternative in what officials believe is an imminent threat.
Aides have portrayed Brennan as cautious in the use of drones, restraining others at the CIA or military who seek to use them more often. At the same time, as the White House's counterterror adviser, he has presided over an explosion of drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
Fewer than 50 strikes took place during the Bush administration, while more than 360 strikes have been launched under Obama, according to the website The Long War Journal, which tracks the operations.
Administration officials say Brennan would further limit the use of drones by the CIA and leave the majority of strikes to the military. Brennan signaled in his written answers that he would not seek to expand the CIA's paramilitary operations. In written responses to questions from the committee in advance of the hearing, Brennan wrote, "While the CIA needs to maintain a paramilitary capability ... the CIA should not be used, in my view, to carry out traditional military activities."
The CIA's drone strikes primarily focus on al-Qaida and Taliban targets in the tribal regions of Pakistan. The agency also carries out strikes in Yemen, where three American citizens with al-Qaida connections have been killed: Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old-son and Samir Khan.
On the question of waterboarding, Brennan said that while serving as a deputy manager at the CIA during the Bush administration, he was told such interrogation methods produced "valuable information." Now, after reading a 300-page summary of a 6,000-page report on CIA interrogation and detention policies, he said he does "not know what the truth is."
In his opening statement, he said U.S. computer systems are under daily attack by "nation states, international criminal organizations, subnational groups and individual hackers."
Associated Press writers Julie Pace, Lara Jakes, Donna Cassata and David Espo contributed to this report.


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Yesterday I talked about the basics of making a budget. For today's urban homestead boot camp, I wanted to give you my best tips for saving money on your food bill while still eating well. Some things, to really save money, do take some investment up front, but the pay off in the long run is well worth it. Other things are simpler, they can be started right away. But first let me share what I think eating well means.
By "eating well" what I mean is eating real food. Food that doesn't come out of a box, that was raised and prepared with care. Top Ramen is not eating well. To me, sustainability is important, as is cost. Eating sustainably means different things to different people. To some, it means eating all organic, even if your bananas came half way around the world. To others, local is most important. And I know what it's like when you have really limited funds. Sometimes whatever is cheapest starts to look appealing. For me, the most sustainable means locally grown without chemicals and pesticides. An organic certification is optional.
So, how to get those things while not breaking the bank?
Things that take some investment upfront:
A freezer. This is a tool that can save your bacon. And beans. And everything else. You can freeze most things. If you find a really great deal on some chicken, it makes sense to buy a little extra and put what you're not going to use right away into the deep freeze for another day. Freezers are pretty inexpensive and run more efficiently than most refrigerators. Check craigslist or freecycle. You can get a great deal. Even our chest freezer from the 80's runs more efficiently than our fridge did. We have two. Both were given to us; hand me downs from relatives.
Joining a CSA. Community Supported Agriculture, where you buy a "share" of a farm's predicted crop before it is even planted. You and the other CSA members front money for a farmer to plant and then, along with the farmer, share in the risks and rewards of the weather. In my experience, this is an incredible investment. The farm we've been with for the last five years has never had a bad year. Of course you are betting on nature, a crop might be totally wrecked by hail. But you are also sharing in the reward when things are good. Some are bumper years for bell peppers or corn, while the beans didn't make it. But we always get WAY more than we paid for. Local and organic. Our CSA also sells optional shares of fruit, honey, eggs and meat.
Oh, and when you are getting way more than you can eat in a week, you can put the surplus in your freezer for the winter. January is the time to call CSA farms. Farms are filling memberships as I type this, so check around. Some farmers will even work out a payment schedule with you if the fee is too much for you to pay all at once.
Hunting or buying meat in bulk. Both of these methods do the same thing; receiving a whole animal at one time. You better have a freezer first. When we bought a hog a couple years ago we paid about $400 for the whole animal. This worked out to about $1.33 a pound for bacon, hams, pork chops, shoulder roasts, pork loin, lard, everything.
Hunting requires a skill set, equipment, time and licenses. It's not complicated, but you will need to attend a hunter's safety course and get access to land (and a gun) in the fall. The cost is slightly harder to figure, but not counting the gun my husband already owns to hunt with, we spent about $360 on licenses and gasoline for various hunting trips. We have an entire elk in the freezer to show for it. Roughly $1.44 per pound of lean red meat, said and done. Some years, it's much less expensive, depending on success rates. And some years, we've gotten nothing.
For either meat option, now is a good time to look into it. Local farmers and ranchers are taking orders, and you need to buy hunting licenses in advance (April here in Colorado).
While I'm talking about buying in bulk, I'd also like to mention that once a year we drive to an orchard to pick peaches. It's a far drive, to the western slope, so we make it count. We spend about $400 on 300 pounds of peaches, including gas. We race home with the A/C blasting and then spend the next week slicing and preserving peaches. The majority of them get frozen, though we jam and can some too. But these peaches last us a whole year. So investigate local U-Pick farms. We do the same on a smaller scale for berries and cherries.
Things that everyone can do now:
Make a meal plan for the week. I used to plan a month's worth of meals at a time, but that can be daunting, and over time I've realized that weekly works better for us.
Plan meals that are in season. This is easy with a CSA. Apples are least expensive in the fall, strawberries are cheapest in the spring. If you want asparagus in August, you're going to pay a lot for it at the market (and it won't taste all that great). This puts us eating things that are in season the majority of the time. In season means relatively inexpensive. We pretty much don't eat bananas.
Use up what you have. Until you get into the habit, it's easy to keep ignoring the beans in the back of the pantry or the sausage in the bottom of the freezer. Get into the habit of planning meals the use what you've already purchased. You'll spend less at the grocery if you aren't buying what you already have.
Plan to eat less meat. Meat costs more than other forms of protein. Use meat more like a side dish. Try adding one more vegetarian meal to your menu per week than you normally make. Try making chili with black beans or stir fry with eggs. Over the last few years we went from eating meat at dinner every night to eating meat only three – four times a week.
From your meal plan, make a grocery list. And stick to it. This keeps me from impulse buying. Also, it cuts down on incidental/emergency trips to the store which end up costing a lot more over time.
If the store that I'm going to has a double ad day, I'll go on that day, but I don't usually plan my meals around the ads. I just figure if I go on that day I double my chances of finding things on sale.
I don't use coupons at all. There are never any coupons for bulk rice or apples or pork loin. I can't recall seeing one for milk. Coupons usually make me feel compelled to buy things that I would not normally put on my list. They are always for things in boxes or bags, things with weird ingredients. Things that are processed and full of chemicals…
Buy whole foods. Processed foods are expensive. Potato chips cost more than potatoes. Rice-a-Roni costs more than rice. Pasta and milk is cheaper than a package of noodles with a powdered sauce. Not to mention a billion times better for you.
Buy foods from the bulk bins. When you buy a pound of rice or oatmeal in a box or bag, guess what. You care paying for that box. And for the marketing of that box. It's much less expensive to buy oats from the bulk bin. There is no packaging to pay for. No labels, no marketing, and no weird ingredients. And if you buy or make your own reusable bags, there is no waste either.
There you have it. Those are my big tips for saving money on food. Between the meat in the freezer, the vegetables from the garden and the CSA, and eggs from the chickens, there are times I can spend $30 at the store for the week. All I'm buying at that point is dairy and grains. But it takes time to get to that point. And I've already invested money up front.
What does your family do?


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Galva wins FFA Olympics
The Midwest Agricultural Museum and Black Hawk College East Campus hosted the 2013 FFA Olympics and Tractor Show Saturday, Feb. 16 in the East Campus ag arena kicking off National FFA Week.
FFA members competed in a variety of activities including stacking straw bales, back hoe operator challenge, nuts and bolts timed event, Minute to Win It cookie challenge, teamwork ski race, NASCAR relay race, and an agricultural written exam.
Galva's team placed first and also took the prize of most participants and visitors in attendance. Placing second was the Princeton FFA with Sherrard and Annawan finishing third and fourth, respectively.
High school students from the AlWood, Annawan, Cambridge, Galva, Orion, Princeton, Sherrard, and Wethersfield school districts competed in the FFA Olympic events.
In the antique tractor show, Best of Show was awarded to Anthony Strand of rural Kewanee for his 1942 International I-6, an industrial tractor made during World War II and used in the war effort.
Second Best of Show was Bennett Kuster, also of rural Kewanee, with a 1937 Farmall F-30.


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Still basking in the glow from Wednesday's historic victory, Nationals mascot Teddy Roosevelt participated in a live online chat Friday with The Washington Post, and gave an emphatic denial to rumors of his retirement.
"Retirement? RETIREMENT?," the mascot wrote. "Let me make this clear, I will NOT be retiring anytime soon! The best is YET to come!"
Nats broadcast F.P. Santangelo had speculated about a night of boozing it up on the town in celebration Wednesday, but Teddy tried to put that to bed as well.
"To tell ya the truth, I went home and got some much needed rest.," he wrote. "…I want to make sure I am ready to go when the Nats come home for NLDS Game 3!"
On his relationships with George, Tom, and Abe:
"We don't really talk about the racing much. On the field, we are all fierce competitors, but off the field we are good friends."
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What is One-Minute Book Reviews?
One-Minute Book Reviews is an independent blog devoted to short reviews of new, evergreen, and forthcoming books. Its editor-in-chief is Janice Harayda, who has been the book columnist for Glamour, book editor and critic for The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, and vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle. The site is also the home of the Delete Key Awards for the year's worst writing in books, published annually on March 15 https://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/03/15, and the Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guides. You can find all the guides by clicking on "Totally Unauthorized Reading Group Guides" in the "Categories" column at right.
Why have a blog just for short book reviews?
In the past few years, the number of Web sites and blogs about publishing news, trends, and gossip has surged. There are far fewer independent sites or blogs just for reviews. I wanted to help to close the gap with sophisticated and witty reviews, including artful and persuasive takedowns of overrated books and appreciations of underrated books.
Can you really read any review on this site in a minute?
You can read my one-sentence summaries of each book in less than a minute — maybe two or three seconds. You can find the summaries by clicking on the "Books in a Sentence" category. I also try to keep the regular reviews short enough so that you can read them in a minute or so. But I include extra text for people who have more time. At the bottom of each review, you'll find my choices for the best and worst lines in the book. You can skip these and the other extra material.
What kinds of books do you review?
All kinds. That includes new and older fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and books typically bypassed by the review sections of newspapers, such as self-help manuals. Nothing is off limits.
How often do you post reviews?
As often as possible. On days when I don't post a review, I often post a quote on a literary topic, usually from a book. Reviews of books for children and teenagers appear on Saturdays.
Why do you post readers' guides, too?
Publishers haven't created guides for many books that groups might love. For example, they often don't publish guides for new hardcover nonfiction or for classic works of fiction. The guides they do post are part of a marketing plan intended to sell books. They may appear to be objective, but they are far from it. Publishers' guides do not quote unfavorable reviews or, in most cases, encourage you to compare a book to others or suggest that you are reading anything other than a flawless work. On that level, they don't promote the lively debate about the merits of books that most book clubs enjoy.
How can publicists and others submit books to you for review?
They can't. I don't accept books or promotional materials from editors, publishers, literary agents or book publicists.
Why don't you accept free books from publishers?
I agree with that pillar of newsroom ethics that says that journalists shouldn't just avoid conflicts of interest — they should avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest. If I accepted free books from publishers, how would you know that the reviews on these pages hadn't been influenced by the freebies? As the restaurant critic Gael Greene said in an article in the New York Times: "It's basic, a critic must always pay the bill" www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/dining/26gael.html?_r=1.
If you don't accept books from publishers, where do you get them?
Sometimes from the library. Those of us who live in New Jersey get a fantastic benefit for our tax dollars. You can walk into almost any public library, fill out a card asking the staff to buy a book, and get your wish as long as you want a title that would enhance the collection or appeal to others. If I can't get a book from the library, I may try to borrow it from a friend or buy it online or elsewhere at half price.
How can people bring books to your attention if they can't send them directly?
They can't. Getting reviewed on One-Minute Book Reviews is a little like winning a MacArthur Foundation grant. You can't apply. You just have to get lucky.
You can find out more about the blog by reading the "About One-Minute Book Reviews" page on the site.
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Now that Sandy has moved on, and some of us are lucky enough to have power and be getting back to "normal life", I'm finally writing to recap what happened with the coastal flooding and how the forecasts compared to the observed flood.
Coastal water levels in New York Harbor were the highest in all ~300 years of New York City (and New Amsterdam) history. The water level at The Battery was 13.9 ft above the average daily low tide level (MLLW) at 9:24 pm EDT, with a peak storm surge of ~9.2 ft coming close to high tide. This storm tide (water level) of 13.9 ft MLLW is about 5.5 ft above many of the area's lowest sea walls.
Sandy's storm tide beat that of Irene by 4.5 ft, the (80 year) tide gauge record of Hurricane Donna (1960), and the estimated all-time record of about ~13.3 ft from the Hurricane of 1821. (though some estimate it to be more like 11.2 ft).
The flood elevation at Kings Point (Western Long Island Sound) was ~14 ft a few hours later, with a peak storm surge of ~12.3 ft coming near LOW tide – fortunate!
Our NYHOPS/SSWS webpage is offline due to the power loss in Hoboken, but the last graphical forecast of flood elevations that I have on my laptop (Monday at 10:30 am, posted on this blog) at Battery was low by 22%, and our forecast for Kings Point was low by 10%. Other forecast models also under-estimated the central forecast, likely in part due to the unusual nature of Sandy (aka "Frankenstorm") and its surprising strengthening on the last day. The other models include P-Surge, ET-Surge (also shown here), and Stony Brook). Some other things we will examine as possible factors with our model's underestimation of the final storm tide are summarized in a recent paper we published on Irene's storm tide, and include the "sea surface drag coefficient" that helps represent how well momentum from wind is transferred to the ocean, and the high-bias of the NAM atmospheric model in forecasting a tropical cyclone's low central pressure (thus causing our model to underestimate the inverse barometer effect).
The forecast range given by NOAA's National Hurricane Center was very valuable for decision-makers and the public, as they have a probability-oriented product that gives percent-likelihood exceedance levels. They used those results to predict a storm surge 6-11 ft, and the surge was 9.3 ft at The Battery and 12.0 ft at Kings Point. Stevens Institute doesn't make probabilistic surge forecasts, but we've had preliminary signs that we've secured funding with a recent proposal to develop such a product.


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10 Frugal Christmas Gift Ideas
For those of us on a budget this holiday season, finding the right gifts can take some creative thinking. Here are 10 frugal Christmas gift ideas to get you started.
1. Baked Goods
From cookies to breads and pastries, baked goods are a great frugal gift idea for the holidays. Pick up some inexpensive gift wrap or cookie tins at the dollar store to complete your gift.
2. Custom Calendar
A personalized calendar with photos of your loved ones is a great frugal gift. You can get help from your neighborhood photo booth at Walgreens or even make them at home using Microsoft Word and your home printer.
3. Painted Glasses
Pick up an inexpensive set of glasses and paint from your dollar store and make custom painted glasses. Use stencils to help create your design if you're not the best artist.
4. Netflix Subscription
A 3 month subscription to Netflix streaming is less than $25.
5. DIY Gift Basket
Instead of spending $100 on a nice gift basket, why not make your own? You can pick up a basket at your local craft store for less than $10 and fill it with your loved one's favorite items.
6. Handmade Christmas Ornaments
Make your own Christmas tree ornaments for your friends and family. If you're not the most creative, there are kits available at your local craft store.
7. Truffles
Chocolate truffles are always a hit and they're an intermediate recipe with a good price. Check out Alton Brown's Chocolate Truffle recipe.
8. Coupon Book
This is a classic gift from kids, but you can put your own spin on it for a frugal gift. Think about what you can offer your friends and family they'll really appreciate.
9. Personalized Photo Frames
Pick up some wooden picture frames at your local craft store and decorate each one for a different person. Finish it up with a nice photo for a great frugal gift.
10. DIY Gourmet Spice Set
This one is for all the amateur chefs on your list. Instead of purchasing a set from the store, pick up a variety of gourmet spices and place them in cute, decorative jars.


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Supremes reunion possible
Someday they'll be together — well, maybe.
Mary Wilson, the longest-reigning member of the original Supremes, is open to a reunion tour with the legendary pop trio's best-known member, Diana Ross.
Ross, Wilson and Florence Ballard made up the first successful configuration of the group. Cindy Birdsong replaced Ballard in 1967. With 12 No. 1 singles from 1964-70, The Supremes (later, Diana Ross & The Supremes) became the biggest female vocal group in chart history.
"People always ask if we will ever reunite," Wilson said in an interview in a Hollywood recording studio. "But that's very difficult, because Florence passed away (in 1976). And, unfortunately, Cindy is having a few illness problems. And I think Diane is into her own stardom. She is a diva, a superstar. Sometimes it's hard to go back."
But reflections were no problem for the 70-year-old Wilson, who reminisced on a major milestone — the 50th anniversary of the Supremes first No. 1, million-selling song, "Where Did Our Love Go," released June 17, 1964.
The Associated Press: What did you think when you first heard the song?
Wilson: I don't think we liked it at all. ... So, I remember Eddie (Holland, the song's co-writer) saying, "Trust me. This is going to be a smash."
AP: You were touring during that period. When did you realize The Supremes finally had a smash?
Wilson: I remember that instead of going home on the bus, we flew. That was our first plane ride. We flew home. We had really hit big.
AP: It would be the first of five consecutive No. 1s — still the most in a row for a female vocal group.
Wilson: After we did that, the music became more sophisticated. It wasn't as bubblegum as "Where Did Our Love Go" or "Baby Love."
AP: You became the longest-reigning original Supreme, staying with the group until it was officially disbanded by Motown in 1977.
Wilson: I recall when we first got together, when I met Diane, Flo, Betty (McGlown) — the fourth member, when we were The Primettes — I absolutely felt complete. I absolutely never had another thought of doing anything else in my life.
AP: Still, it wasn't always easy being a Supreme.
Wilson: It's not easy for girls to stay together. We're different than guys. Guys can be on a team, fighting, and then they go out and have a beer together. Girls cannot do that. We hold on to it for a long time.
AP: When last did you see Diana?
Wilson: At the Broadway musical ("Motown: The Musical," which premiered April 2013), which was beautiful. ... Everyone was there and we all embraced: Berry (Gordy, Motown's founder), me, Diane.
AP: Has the musical revived interest in The Supremes?
Wilson: Just like when the movie and the Broadway play "Dreamgirls" was out. I tell everyone, "It's not about The Supremes," because I know, because I didn't get paid. (Laughs.) But, still, it did bring a different demographic to that era.
AP: Girls groups have been in and out since the record business began. Right now, there aren't so many.
Wilson: (The music business) is a male world. It's women who listen to and love male singers. That's why males are more constant in the arena.
AP: What do you think the impact of The Supremes has been on today's female artists?
Wilson: I think that they really leaned a lot from the past. They come out as real women, saying, "This is who we are." So, you've got this movement where women are in charge of their lives, in charge of everything.
AP: Do you talk to Diana?
Wilson: Yes, we do talk, but not as often as I would like to. We do. And we are. The hearts are there. We're like sisters. I love Flo and Diane to this day, almost as much as I love my own sister.


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