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Ribbon Cut on New Radio System

Buncombe County Government in partnership with Cassidian Communications held a special ceremony to announce the completion of the County's enhanced public safety communications and response system.

Covering Buncombe's 656 square-miles, the new, 12-site network enables secure, reliable radio communication for the county’s first responders, as well as government and public works users.

“We wanted a radio communications solution that would give us maximum flexibility to build the best network, with the best equipment, at the best price,” said Jerry VeHaun, EMS Director.  This system does all that and delivers the increased capacity, enhanced coverage and interoperability our public safety responders need.”

Sheriff Duncan said, "This network system will evolve with us as our needs change, keeping the county safely on the front edge of mission critical communications.”

Sheriff Duncan and Mr. VeHaun demonstrated the radio system during the ceremony by holding a call out to personnel stationed at two locations along the outer edges of the County, Sandy Mush and Broad River.  Both were heard clearly from areas that were dead zones for communication in the past.


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Stocks Gain, Dow Reaches Fresh Record High

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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- U.S. stocks rose Tuesday, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average posted a new closing high on prospects companies will post first-quarter earnings that meet or beat expectations.

Stock were buoyed early in the day by data showing that China's inflation rate slowed more than forecast, making it more likely the world's second-largest economy won't raise interest rates.

Herbalife resumed trading after the nutritional-supplements maker said KPMG would resign as its auditor. Shares closed off 3.75% at $36.95.

Elsewhere, J.C. Penney tumbled 12.2% to $13.93 a day after the struggling retailer fired Ron Johnson as CEO and hired former chief Mike Ullman. Shares were poised for their lowest close in 12 years.

The S&P 500 rose 0.35% to close at 1,568.61.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.41% to close at 14,673.46, a record closing high for the blue-chip index. The Nasdaq gained 0.48% to 3,237.86.

"Expectations are low as reflected in the ... companies lowering forward earnings guidance, but I have said for the last four quarters, 'I think earnings will still surprise to the upside;' and, they have!," Jeffrey Saut, managing director at Raymond James Equity Research in St. Petersburg, Fla. said in a note about first quarter earnings season. "Certainly, the equity markets believe that because every time we are set up for a downside 'hit,' buyers show up."

JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo report their earnings on Friday and are expected to set the tone for big money-center banks in the first-quarter earnings season.

China's National Bureau of Statistics said Tuesday that annual consumer inflation in the country eased in March as food prices retreated from nine-month highs and producer price deflation worsened, stoking hopes that China still has room for easy monetary policy programs to stimulate the economic recovery.

The lighter-than-expected inflation reading "helped reinforce easier rather than combative monetary policy heading forward," Andrew Wilkinson, chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak & Co. in New York, wrote in a note.

Aluminum producer Alcoa kicked off earnings season Monday, coming up short on revenue but beating analysts' profit expectations.

Alcoa finished lower by 0.12% to $8.38 Tuesday.

Overall the first-quarter earnings among Standard & Poor's 500 companies are expected to increase 1.6% from last year, according to Thomson Reuters.

The Census Bureau reported that wholesale inventories dropped 0.3% in February against a downwardly-revised 0.8% increase in January, leading to expectations of a lowering in first-quarter GDP estimates.

Gold for June delivery surged $14.20 to $1,586.70 an ounce.

May crude oil futures closed up 84 to $94.20 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Mining company Cliffs Natural Resources was a top S&P 500 gainer, popped 8.83% to $20.45 as it traced gains in the European stocks and commodity prices.

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Fed Should Do Less, Not More, to Avert Another Calamity

NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- It's time for the Federal Reserve to do less to prop up the recovery and jobs creation.

The economy suffers from too little demand. Simply, the huge trade deficit with China and on oil sends too many consumer dollars abroad that don't return to buy U.S. exports, goods and services.

During the Bush years, Americans artificially boosted demand by spending more than they earned, borrowing recklessly against their homes, on credit cards and for college educations that proved poor to be investments. Ultimately, failing loans sank financial markets.

Meanwhile, other problems festered. Health care costs and university tuition rocketed, longer life expectancies undermined Social Security, and states borrowed too much.

When the president campaigned in 2008, he promised to get tough with China on trade and produce more oil. He has done little about the former, and in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, he punished an entire industry for BP's (BP) sins by curbing drilling offshore and in Alaska.

He dramatically increased federal spending on entitlements, made student loans even more accessible and eschewed the recommendations of the Simpson-Bowles Commission to raise the retirement age.

With federal deficits exceeding $1 trillion for five years, Mr. Obama faces the same skeptical bond rating agencies that downgraded European government debt.

The Congress shares blame in its unwilling to address honestly trade, energy, health care and education.

The Federal Reserve became an enabler of Presidential and Congressional inaction by keeping interest rates artificially low for five years, and now by printing money to buy U.S. bonds and mortgage-backed securities at a $1 trillion annual pace.

Record low interest rates are propping up weak consumer demand but sowing the seeds of another financial crisis.

Easy money is again pushing to unsustainable prices for real estate in prime urban areas and boom towns, agricultural land and the bonds of weaker corporations. And cheap borrowing rates help banks push student debt to more than $1 trillion, even though one in six loans is in default, and permit California, Illinois and other states to avoid reforming pension systems and issue debt they never will repay.

Inevitably, all that money will push up inflation, and then the Fed will be compelled to stop buying bonds and let interest rates rise to levels the federal and state governments can't bear easily.

The federal and state governments will be forced into draconian spending cuts in the manner of Italy or Spain, corporations and state governments will default on many of their lower-grade securities, and higher mortgage rates will drive down real estate and agricultural land values, creating a new round of mortgage defaults. Former students overburdened with debt won't be able to manage daily living expenses and simply will default.


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10 rules Andrew Carnegie used to become one of the world’s richest men

Andrew Carnegie arrived in the U.S. in 1848 with barely a dollar to his name. By 1901, he was the richest man in the world.

At the height of his power, he was approached by a young journalist named Napoleon Hill who was interested in telling the stories of successful people.

Carnegie saw a special drive in Hill and in 1908 decided that Hill would document all of the strategies that made him a legendary businessman and philanthropist.

Together, they helped pioneer the self-help genre, and Hill’s 1937 book “Think and Grow Rich” has gone on to become one of the top-selling books of all time.

When Hill began his career writing about success, Carnegie gave him his “10 Rules of Success” that provided a foundation for much of Hill’s work. Here’s a synopsis of the rules, which appear in the forthcoming collection The Science of Success“:

1. Define your purpose.

Create a plan of action and start working toward it immediately.

2. Create a “master-mind alliance.”

Contact and work with people “who have what you haven’t,” Hill says.

3. Go the extra mile.

“Doing more than you have to do is the only thing that justifies raises or promotions, and puts people under an obligation to you,” writes Hill.

4. Practice “applied faith.”

Believe in yourself and your purpose so fully that you act with complete confidence.

5. Have personal initiative.

Do what you have to without being told.

6. Indulge your imagination.

Dare to think beyond what’s already been done.

7. Exert enthusiasm.

A positive attitude sets you up for success and wins the respect of others.

8. Think accurately.

In Hill’s words, accurate thinking is “the ability to separate facts from fiction and to use those pertinent to your own concerns or problems.”

9. Concentrate your effort.

Don’t become distracted from the most important task you are currently facing.

10. Profit from adversity.

Remember that “there is an equivalent benefit for every setback,” Hill writes.

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Will the Global Economy Tumble Off America’s Fiscal Cliff?

If the U.S. can’t resolve its looming budget problems, the fallout could plunge the entire world economy into a chasm

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European Central Bank President Mario Draghi speaks during the Economy Day 2012 in Frankfurt Nov. 7, 2012. The European Central Bank's new bond-buying programme allows for unlimited interventions in sovereign debt markets and should dispel concerns about a euro zone break-up, Draghi said on Wednesday.

Forget all of the talk about the rise of China and the shift of economic power from West to East. The U.S. economy remains the largest and most important in the world, and what happens in America still determines what happens to the global economy.

No wonder, then, that investors from Hong Kong to London have become fixated on the looming “fiscal cliff” facing the U.S. government. If re-elected President Barack Obama can’t reach a new deal with Republican Party Congressmen in the House of Representatives on closing the country’s trillion-dollar budget deficit, a slate of deep spending cuts and tax hikes will automatically come into effect next year that will in all likelihood derail the slow-moving U.S. recovery from the 2008 financial crisis. That would without doubt do some serious damage to growth globally. Rating agency Fitch proclaimed that “the U.S. fiscal cliff represents the single biggest near-term threat to a global economic recovery.”

A U.S. plunge off the fiscal cliff would hit the global economy at an especially fragile moment. The news just about everywhere has already been bad. Fears that Japan might slip into (yet another) recession rose on Monday when the world’s third-largest economy reported its GDP shrank by an annualized 3.5% in the quarter ending September. The euro zone is expected to contract in 2012 as well. On November 7, Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, warned  that even powerhouse Germany is starting to suffer the ill effects of the debt crisis. “Germany has so far been largely insulated from some of the difficulties elsewhere in the euro area,” Draghi said. “But the latest data suggest that these developments are now starting to affect the German economy.”

European leaders and the IMF continue to bicker over the bailout of Greece, leaving open the possibility that the country could still get forced from the monetary union. Even emerging markets are struggling. China and India are experiencing their worst slowdowns in many years and both have major reform challenges to confront. No wonder the IMF in October lowered its forecast for global GDP growth to 3.3% in 2012.

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Next year was supposed to be a bit better. But that depends on the U.S. We’ve already witnessed the drastic impact that rapid fiscal retrenchment is having on some of the weaker economies in Europe, such as Spain. The U.S. would likely face similar turmoil. If the economy takes a full-on dive off the fiscal cliff, it would probably land in another recession. The Congressional Budget Office figures that such a sharp fiscal shock “will lead to economic conditions in 2013 that will probably be considered a recession, with real GDP declining by 0.5 percent between the fourth quarter of 2012 and the fourth quarter of 2013 and the unemployment rate rising to about 9 percent in the second half of calendar year 2013.” Simply put, it would be ugly.

And not just for Americans. A U.S. leap off the fiscal cliff “would push the country into a recession with large international spillovers,” the IMF warned the G-20 recently. “Even if the fiscal cliff were quickly unwound, the damage to the economy could be substantial.” Fitch calculated that the dramatic fiscal tightening could possibly toss the entire global economy into recession. “While the world economy would still grow 1.3% in 2013, this is just half our baseline forecast of 2.6%,” Fitch said.

The fiscal cliff would transfer to the rest of the world through many channels. The tax hikes and spending cuts would take cash out of the pockets of both companies and consumers, curtailing purchases of everything from German industrial equipment to Chinese-made blue jeans. A U.S. slowdown would also dampen commodity prices, hurting raw material exporters like Brazil and Russia. The jitters created by the uncertainty over U.S. fiscal policy would ripple through global financial markets as well.

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Right now most economists are operating on the assumption that the U.S. will avoid falling off the cliff. The general consensus is that the two political parties will reach a compromise and put in place a more measured, long-term plan to reduce the budget deficit without producing a nasty recession in the process. But as my colleague Massimo Calabresi warned, don’t hold your breath that the parties’ differences will be narrowed and compromise reached. However the politics play out, the U.S. is facing a new era of fiscal austerity that will have a dampening effect on the economy. The issue is not if the U.S. will implement spending cuts and tax increases, but what the mix will be, and how deep they will go. There is pressure on American politicians to finally draw up a firm plan to bring its national finances back under control. Rating agency Moody’s threatened to downgrade the government’s credit rating if Washington can’t get its act together. The current top rating would be maintained only if “negotiations lead to specific policies that produce a stabilization and then downward trend in the ratio of federal debt to GDP over the medium term,” Moody’s said.

So whatever happens in Congress, the world economy is going to have to get accustomed to an American government that doesn’t spend as much as before. A healthier U.S. is good news for the global economy over the long term, but getting there may be painful in the short term.

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See indonesia will be Dead soon.

They destroy their own economics their own income resources.

All investors experts factories also their money quit out indonesia.

The rupiah will be nothing just a failed currency after indonesia is separated to be the new 7 countries.

I think the first few sentences aren't true anymore............

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Yeah but the banks are seeing the best returns ever! Of course we are going into another recession, it is designed that way. The Federal Reserve gets to jack up the interest rates thus increasing their profits and everyone gets to borrow more money thus further increasing the debt. Duh! China, Japan, India, and Europe Central are all doing the exact same things, rich people are getting richer. *drops microphone*

It can be worth like in Spain with unemployment 29%. But if you want to recover you have accept pain.

Our Congress is so inept. Just the other day Schumer (D) and Graham (R) said they will work together to get comprehensive immigration reform accomplished. WTF is that ? Isn't our fiscal problems bigger than immigration reform? What a Congress of boneheads.


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Business Roundtable today released its recommendations to boost economic growth, "It's Time to Act for America's Future." BRT President John Engler briefed reporters on the policy document (audio of opening statement), and the follow-up questions ranged far and wide on topics of the day. News coverage ...

Roll Call, "Business Roundtable Head Says CEOs Will be Visible Lobbyists":

John Engler, president of the CEO lobby Business Roundtable, on Thursday offered his group’s 2013 policy priorities, which he said could boost the economy. The roundtable will marshal its lobbying and communications resources to push its agenda, which includes a lower corporate tax rate, comprehensive immigration legislation and changes to entitlement programs, among other matters.

“If Congress and the administration embrace growth, we stand poised to not only revive the U.S. economy but to lead a global recovery,” the former Michigan governor said.

Bloomberg, "Congressional Parents Protective of Tax Exemption ‘Kids,’ Engler Says":

John Engler, president of the Business Roundtable and a Republican former governor of Michigan, says he thinks Congress can find a way to lower the corporate tax rate to 25 percent without sacrificing revenue.

The problem: Getting members of Congress to let go of their ‘kids.”

Every tax deduction “has got a father or a mother over there in the Congress looking after their child,” Engler said at a lunch today in Washington, where the association of chief executives of large corporations is based. “You’ve got to go round up all the kids here and see if there’s enough to pay for it.”

U.S. News and World Report, "Still Missing From Obama's Cabinet: Business Leaders"

"If we can talk to the guy who talks to the president, that's what is required," says John Engler, president of the Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs. "And there's a heckuva lot of communication going on right now."

On the issue of territorial taxation, Engler was responding to question on the President's views on comprehensive tax reform, discussed when Obama spoke to BRT CEOs in December:

Reporter: Did you hear anything from the administration in your contacts with them that would give you reason … ?

Engler: I would say the president impressed people on that in December, because he reaffirmed his support for corporate tax reform, and he was acknowledging the importance of dealing with the territorial system, which I think had been a little bit of a question as to where exactly they were. There were no specifics, but a favorable impression was left by the President on the comprehensive tax reform topic.

The White House sent an e-mail to Politico Pro afteward:

The president is eager to pursue corporate tax reform that lowers the rate, broadens the base, and incentivizes investment here at home, but does not believe that a pure territorial system is the best way to achieve this goal. The President looks forward to working with the business community, Democrats and Republicans to reform our corporate tax structure in a way that best helps American businesses compete globally.

OK, that's positive. At the same time, the Reuters story notes this:

Pam Olson, assistant treasury for tax policy under Republican President George W. Bush and now chief of PricewaterhouseCooper's Washington tax practice, said Obama's plan carefully opposed a "pure" territorial tax system, but left the door open for hybrid systems that might, for instance, exempt some but not all offshore profits from U.S. taxation.

"The use of the term 'pure' I think, was a signal that they were willing to consider it," Olson said.

Engler also appeared on CNBC's Street Signs programs to discuss the economic plan.

UPDATE (10:10 a.m. Friday): Valuable update from Politico Pro:

MORNING TAX FACTS OF LIFE: NO ONE WANTS A PURE SYSTEM. And there is a lot of room in that White House statement. Morning Tax’s eyebrows are raised, as no one, not House Ways and Means Chairman David Camp or Senate Finance Ranking Member Orrin Hatch wants a purely territorial tax system. Are we seeing a change in the president’s position? Maybe. Obama railed against a territorial tax system as recently as last year, but Business Roundtable President John Engler said the president acknowledged “the importance of dealing with the territorial system” in a December meeting with the business group. Another tipster — a K Street lobbyist working on tax issues — said in meetings with Treasury folks, they see a growing support for exempting most foreign-earned income from U.S. taxes. The main difference between the Republican proposal and the administration’s position is numbers, our source said.


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Kristen as Joan Jett?

According to Hollywood Reporter , Kristen Stewart of Twilight fame has been pegged to play rocker Joan Jett in the Runaways movie. She's already working on her bad reputation (heh-sorry) so we'll see how she does, it's not a bad choice actually. We were speculating back in June that it should be Ellen Page or Olivia Thirby.  What do you think? I personally love the Runaways, so am excited to see it, apparently Joan is a producer as well.

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Women Take Care of Everyone But Themselves, Study Says

How are you feeling? A recent study revealed that 53 percent of women say their overall health is in poor shape, so it might be safe to assume you're not feeling so hot.

A study called A Fragile Nation in Poor Health conducted by the health communications firm TeleVox, recently polled 1,015 American across the country about how they feel about their health.  More than half of the women polled say they feel unhealthy and one in five nationwide say they are struggling to be healthy.

Why might women feel this way? The study chalks it up to the fact that most women are the caretakers of their family. They have to make sure the kids get to school on time, make sure dinner’s on the table, all while also working a job outside the home. And now it is even more common that women will be taking care of aging parents or other family members. They take care of everyone but themselves. This “all about everyone else” lifestyle is one reason that obesity, smoking and chronic diseases — including depression — are steadily increasing in women.

The Women’s Heart Foundation reports that 8.6 million women worldwide die from heart disease each year, and that 8 million women in the U.S. are living with heart disease. According to a 2007 study conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 60 percent of women in the U.S. are obese. The worst part is, a lot of these conditions on the rise are preventable, but 8 out of 10 women admit they don’t follow treatment plans they’ve been given by their physician exactly as prescribed.

But while women are so busy helping everyone around them, all they want is a little help themselves. Women said if they were given reminders via email or phone from their doctors they would be able to keep better track of their health. A friendly reminder or two might not be such a bad thing, especially since 52 percent of men surveyed think they’re in good shape and we now know how much they rely on us ladies. The study though simply states men are living in denial and should also take better care of themselves. Is it better to live in a fantasy world? The survey says, not when it comes to your health.

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My content, my readers, my numbers, damnit

Hey, My Yahoo, Google Reader, Pluck, Newsgator Enterprise and other RSS readers: Hand over my numbers. You are taking my RSS feed and caching it to serve more efficiently, which would be fine if only you told me how many times you are doing that. But you’re not.

Brad Feld is much more polite than I am about this. He complains that My Yahoo just stopped reporting how many subscribers a feed gets there and Google Reader never did report and many others, including those I list above, don’t report subscribers, even though there is an easy and automated way to do that.

That’s theft. If you took a song and cached it and fed it out to lots of people these days without reporting back to the owner, you’d get sued or slapped in jail.

Well, all I ask that you do for caching my feed is to report back the number of subscribers. Not much to ask. And not doing that is tantamount to theft.

Why do I care? Because I have an ego. Because I want to see how much RSS I serve and learn about it. Because I want to see how efficient my advertising is. And just because. Damnit.

RSS is becoming a ever-more-important transport mechanism but without metrics, some will refuse to be transported by it. My Yahoo and Google Reader are making hay including RSS in their new products. They should practice good citizenship and share the data those feeds generate with their creators.

I can’t go to the Syndicate conference this time, because it’s in California, but if I were there, I’d wear a T-shirt and carry a picket sign to all the players listed here and in my Feedburner report:

: LATER: I should add that I’m not against caching because it saves on my server load. But I do want to maintain a relationship with readers who subscribed to my blatherings and the barest way to do that is to get statistics. I also am not crazy about services changing feeds without my permission; some cut my full-text feed back to just headlines. Do newsstands refuse to tell you how many copies of your publication they sell? Do they cut out pages and give you only covers? No. Online distributors should operate by similar rules of the road.

: UPDATE: Jeremy Zawodny, of Yahoo, reports in the comments that the Yahoo counts will be back; it’s a bug to be fixed. Bravo. Now how about you, Google?

: LATER: See a followup post on a fundamental principle, above.

: LATER CONFIRMATION: I also just heard from a Yahoo exec who confirms that, indeed, something got broken in an upgrade and that they will feed back stats on feeds. Once again, thanks, Yahoo.

: LATER STILL: (Repeating this from the post above): Matt Cutts of Google says in the comments here that he will mention this to the guys at Google Reader and believes there’s no reason not to build it into a next version of that new product. Bravo again.

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  • John Furrier

    Try iTunes …the podcasts are cached there too

  • Robert Feinman

    I don’t know about your RSS feed, but most I’ve seen only give a headline or slightly more, so the reader needs to click through to see the story. If this is true for you then you would see the traffic at your site as well as a refer (sic) field telling you where they came from.

    If your RSS extract is so insightful that nobody need to click through then you shouldn’t be putting so much up, or perhaps the headline is enough to get the gist.

    You should also see the numbe of times your RSS page is fetched in your log as well.

  • Jeremy Zawodny

    The My Yahoo numbers will be back. A bug caused them to go out of wack, so they disabled it for a bit until the fix can go out.

  • Brad Feld

    I’m 99% sure NewsGator Enterprise is reporting subscribers via user agent. All the other NewsGator products do – I’ll double check on this one. Yes – I’m more polite, but just as annoyed .

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  • Melissa (oddharmonic)

    LiveJournal’s syndication feature offers full-text of your RSS feed, so I only click over to read comments here on one in every ten to twelve posts.

    LJ offers a userinfo page for every syndicated account — that is, every RSS feed a user has requested to be able to view from their LiveJournal Friends view. Yours indicates that you have ten readers there.

  • paul

    My Feed pops up all over the place next to other peoples ads!

    I like to think of it as a Radio Transmitter amplifying my signal….

  • Louis

    The popularly accepted spelling is “dammit”.

  • Anonymous

    There are sites like this where feeds are just republished as web pages (with ads). There’s no way count readers when sites are doing this.

  • Darrell Haight-Jackson

    Listen, websites have had to deal with this problem for far longer than bloggers. Many, many ISPs (like AOL) heavily cache site content, and thus make it difficult to identify the real number of visitors to a site.

    To see a similar thing happen to blogs only means that their particular type of content is now large enough for delivery effiiciency to trump fine-grained usage statistics.

    So? Get over it.

  • Paul Montgomery

    Theft is a strong word, Jeff. They’re providing you a service, and because they are not providing you another service as well you accuse them of theft? Bloggers accuse Google of arrogance all the time, but it doesn’t help when bloggers display it themselves while criticising Google.

  • Jeff Jarvis

    Darrell, and major websites, including ones I worked with, objected strongly and got around that by serving redirects and invisible gifs. But RSS doesn’t enable that as consistently.

  • John Dowdell

    Jeff, it’s not “theft”, because you didn’t provide a contract agreement for your XML version upfront — you just put a resource out into the universe, free for anyone to use. It’s not surprising it gets reused in ways you may not have imagined.

    I think that what you’re asking for is reasonable, but it’s harder to demand such a contract after the fact.

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  • John

    Embed a tiny image hosted on your site and grep your log. That’ll be more accurate than anything else.

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  • Jay Currie

    I agree that having stats is a good thing. But there is no reason why your RSS feed should be sending more than a headline and a sentence. It is easy to set it up so this is exactly what it does and, from an aggregation perspective it is way easier.

    I have a small aggregator in Canada at One of the banes of my existence are people who post long and whose RSS feeds are full post.

    (By the way…the big bucks are a tiny bit elusive in the aggregator world. If I see ten cents a day, admittely US, I crack open the bottled water.)

  • Jeff Clavier

    Rojo used to have the same issue (reporting one pull down of the feed irregardless of the number of suscribers), and they came around to fixing it. I see my numbers dropping hundreds of readers sometimes, just because of an API call issue.
    I guess that all these services will report their detailed numbers eventually.

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  • daudder

    So, will you pay for the cache-ing? You wnat the benefits bit not the costs.

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  • d.w.

    The web is (aggressively) cached. Deal.

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    […] If you just see it as an egoistical usage, please go on and blog about it or give a comment. It helps me to get to know you, because in the world I am living in, those numbers matter. Not to pimp my ego, not to go around and talk about them, but as information for myself if you appreciate the work I am doing here or if there is room for improvement. […]

  • seth

    These services are doing Jeff a favor? Does Jeff pay for caching? Please. It’s a two-way deal: RSS publishers get broader readership and lower bandwidth bills and the services get a business model (they hope). Jeff (and all other RSS publishers) make these businesses possible and it’s neither unreasonable nor arrogant to ask for some basic statistics in return.

  • Jon Lester

    I don’t think you really need much of an ego to care about your content, which is your intellectual property.

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  • Adam

    I’m a blogger, too, and I agree that the lack of decent numbers is — at least — an annoyance. But with that said, I find your sense of entitlement to be even more annoying… not to mention your obnoxiously hyperbolic use of “theft” to describe the issue. What next…? Should folks scream at the NYT when they don’t get to know how many folks read a letter to the editor they got posted there?

    As I commented on Threadwatch, I think many of us bloggers need to put things in perspective and, quite frankly, get a life.

  • Matt Cutts

    Jeff, that’s a good suggestion. Google Reader is a pretty recent product, so I’m sure that the team has a lot of things that they’re working on, but I’ll mention this as a request. I’m guessing that no one is opposed to this at Google, but that they just have to prioritize and that they’ll get to this at some point down the road.

  • Greg Reinacker

    NewsGator Enterprise Server definitely reports subscriber statistics – here’s an example from my blog’s server log:

    However…this can be turned off by the enterprise administrator. Some companies do not want to release subscriber information to external sources (investment banks are an example), so they have the option to turn it off.

  • Adam

    Whoa… did someone throw a switch somewhere? My Feedburner RSS numbers increased by 20% yesterday after holding steady for a long time. Not complaining, but still…. :D

  • Bob

    For someone who preaches to stop thinking like old media, comparing your RSS feed to selling magazines and theft of photographs is off-the-mark.

    But I do want to maintain a relationship with readers who subscribed to my blatherings and the barest way to do that is to get statistics.
    The barest way to do that, Jeff, is to write well. You have readers because of what you say, not because of the number of folks who read your pieces.

    I am surprised by your outrage over this. Eventually, all that is new is old again . . .

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    FeedLounge has reported subscriber numbers in the User Agent from near day one.

    The question I have is the aggregation of these numbers. Does FeedBurner read FeedLounge’s User Agent to know that FeedLounge is more than one subscriber? This is where it gets interesting…

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Outdoor Recreation Equipment

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Reserving the Rec House or Underground

The Rec House is available for groups and organizations on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Reservation Form: Click Here
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Reserving the Rec House for Graduation

The Rec House is available for students to hold their graduation parties. It is reserved on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please contact Trevor Berneking at bernekingt@bvu.edu to see if the house is available. Once you get confirmation that it is available for you day and time then you need to fill out the forms and return to Trevor.

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Camping Gear

Sleeping Bags
Sleeping Pads

Water Gear

Kayak Paddles
Kayak Skirts
Canoe Paddles
PFD's (life jackets)

Bike Gear

Winter Gear

Snow Shoes
Cross Country Ski Sets
X Country Ski Boot Sizes

  1. One 37 (4.5 men's, 5.5 women's, 6 kids)
  2. One 39 (6 men's, 7 women's, 8 kids)
  3. Two 41 (8 men's, 9 women's)
  4. Two 43 (9.5 men's, 10.5 women's)
  5. One 44 (10 men's, 11 women's)

Ice Skates
Sizes (The skates we have should fit 1.5-2 sizes down from your regular shoe size. Example if you wear an 8 shoe then you should try a 6 or 7 skate!)

  1. 1 pair of 4's (Fit's 5.5-6 shoe)
  2. 1 pair of 5's (Fit's 6.5-7 shoe)
  3. 4 pair's of 6's (Fit's 7.5-8 shoe)
  4. 3 pair's of 7's (Fit's 8.5-9 shoe)
  5. 5 pair's of 8's (Fit's 9.5-10 shoe)
  6. 3 pairs of 9's (Fit's 10.5-11 shoe)
  7. 4 pairs of 10's (Fit's 11.5-12 shoe)
  8. 4 pairs of 11's (Fit's 12.5-13 shoe)
  9. 3 pair's of 12's (Fit's 13.5-14 shoe)

Sports Balls

Soccer balls

Golf Clubs for Lawn Golf
Hula Hoops
Disc Golf

Outdoor Recreation Equipment

  1. Equipment is available only to those individuals who hold a University membership or identification card.
  2. University Members may bring one (1) guest to use the equipment but must be with the guest at all times.
  3. Use of the equipment is free and checked out on a first-come, first-served basis
  4. Reservations for equipment may be made one (1) month in advance by contacting the Director of Recreation Services.
  5. All checked out equipment must be returned in its original rented condition: neatly packed, undamaged and complete. There is a $10 fee for unclean equipment per item.
  6. Failure to return the equipment back on time will result in a $10/day/item charge.
  7. The Director of Recreation Services has the authority to revoke equipment privileges for individuals who display inappropriate behavior and/or failure to follow the rules.

Water Equipment

  1. This includes canoes, kayaks, paddleboats, paddles, oars, and PFDs.
  2. The water equipment may only be used during published hours and when a Recreation House Attendant is on duty.
  3. A Boater Safety Clinic is required for each university member and guest before use of a kayak or canoe. Good for all four years in school or as long as you are employed at BVU.
  4. Equipment may only be used on Storm Lake.
  5. Equipment must be returned the same day it was checked out.

Land Equipment

  1. This includes tents, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, bikes, ice skates, snow shoes, cross country skies, bean bag toss, volleyball, basketball, football, racquetball, tennis, lawn golf.
  2. Equipment may be checked out for a 24 hour period.


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Heart Bubble

I claim the copyright to this tutorial.  You are free to do whatever you please with what you make, but please do not take my tutorial.  Do not send the tutorial through email.  Only share my link.

This tutorial was created for some friends of mine who wanted to begin learning more about PSP.  It is intended for high beginners to intermediates to learn how to make a globe bauble.  If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

To do this tutorial you will also need Paint Shop Pro.  I used Paint Shop Pro 7, but the steps used may also be done in Version 8 or 6.  You may download a free trial at Jasc.

Remember to save as a psp file often!

Before we begin, you might want to study the PSP tool bars.  I have labeled the tools on another page.  Click on the link and it will open a new page.  You may want to keep this page open while you work on the tutorial, to refer to the names now and then.  PSP Tools

Now that you have studied the tools, let's begin!

You will need a heart preset shape.  If you do not have one, try making your own with this Heart Preset Shape tutorial.  It's easy!
(Please note:  This tutorial may be done with any shape *s*)

1.  Click New File in the top menu bar.  Enter these settings:  width=400, Height=400, Resolution=72.000 pixels/inch, Background color=transparent, image type=16.7 Million Colors (24 Bits).

2. In the Left tool menu, click on the preset shapes tool.  In the tool box find the Heart preset shape that you made or want to use.

3.  Once the heart shape is selected, check antialias.  Do NOT check create as a vector.  The line width does not matter.

4.  Set the foreground color to null, and the background color to the color you want to use for your background.  I chose a blue.

5. With the preset shape tool (set to heart shape), draw a large heart.  See pic.  Apply any plugin you want.  I applied a texture (Effects > Texture Effects > Texture)

6.  Select the magic wand from the left tool menu.  Click on the outside of the heart to select the transparent area.

7.  In top menu, click on Selections > Invert.  Now the heart is selected.

8.  Open up the tube or graphic that you want to use in your bubble.  In top menu, click Edit > Copy.

9.  click back on the heart image.  In top menu  click on Edit > Paste  > Into Selection.

10.  Your image should look like this.  It's ok if it seems a little warped. Glass reflections really do that!

11.  With the magic wand, click on the outside of the heart again.  Then in top menu click on Selections > Invert.  Now the heart is selected again.

12.  In Layer Palette, right-click on the layer and choose Add new Raster Layer.  Name this layer Globe

13.  Still Selected, In top menu, click on Effects > 3D Effects > Cutout.  Apply the setting below.  For the color choose a darker shade of the background color.  I chose a dark blue.

14.  In the Layer Palette, right-click on the globe layer and choose New Raster Layer.  Name this layer highlight.

15.  From the left tool menu, choose the airbrush.  Set the Tool Options box to the settings below:

16.  Airbrush some highlights onto the new layer.  See pic below.

17.  In top menu, choose Effects > Blur > Gaussian Blur.  set at a radius of 4.

18.  Your graphic should look like this:

19.  In top menu, click on Layers > Merge > Merge Visible.

20.  Now save the image as bubble.psp (so you can use it later to make an animated globe!)

21.  If you want to use the bubble as is on a web page, then you must save it in GIF format.  In top Menu, click on File > Export > GIF Optimizer.  Follow the commands and save.

This completes the Heart Bubble tutorial.  If you want to make it animated, or turn it into a globe, click on one of the links below:

Make the Bubble Animated by using layers

Make the bubble animated by using frames

Turn the Bubble into an animated globe

Tutorial Index

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This role will support the implementation of technology solutions in support of the transformation program for Brands. This role will support the implementation of LBL business processes and tools.

Deliver formal training courses to end users. Update and maintain training content, incorporating feedback from users on learning requirements
Supports users of the systems and tools through mentoring and training.
Collaborate with Loblaw Learning Centre to create training content and ensure it meets corporate standards
Create communication and instructional material for vendors and internal users
Support resolution of user and technical issues
Conduct structured user workshops as required
Analyze processes and system usage to ensure that efficient use of the systems is occurring
Work with IT Solution Delivery Group, internal users, and external vendor community to facilitate requirements definition and execution of business systems
Performs user acceptance testing for systems enhancements
Prepare communication and training content for vendors and internal users.
Write and maintain documentation, procedures and instructions.
Understand how the existing tool-set supports the different segments of the product development process.
Analyze, specify, and assist in the design of all business applications.

Role Requirements:

University or College degree in Business Administration, Marketing or Computer Science or related discipline
3-5 years’ experience in a related role
Previous experience in project management a definite asset
Superior organization and planning skills
Ability to define and scope unstructured work
Readiness to learn and apply out-of-the-box thinking
Good time-management skills
Strong technical skills (Excel, Word, Access. etc)
Team Player
Ability to deal professionally with all levels of company and external partners

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Sharing in the growth of Loblaw with our Employee Share Ownership Plan.
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Helping you help others with our Volunteer Grant Program.

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Here’s a video of a talk that George Selgin recently delivered in DC on the origins of the Fed [4].

Steve Landsburg poses to Uwe Reinhardt some taxing questions [5].

Free The Pill! [6]

To Tad DeHaven’s question, I answer “Yes!” [7]

One of my son’s favorite books is Ender’s Game.  I’m relieved that it isn’t porn [8].

Speaking of good reads, George Will rightly describes [9] Virginia Postrel’s 1998 book The Future and Its Enemies [10] as “the best book for rescuing the country from a ruinous itch for tidiness.”  (I should read Virginia’s book again, for it made a huge – and positive – impact on me [11] when I read it soon after its release.)

Finally, the always-insightful Bob Higgs [12].


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A DIFFERENT kind of Wedding Cake

My brother-in-law insisted upon having the top tier of his wedding cake made into a hamburger. My sister-in-law and I designed the bottom three tiers, so as to have a “rutic yet elegant” wedding cake that fit right in with her whole wedding theme. Especially since they were serving gourmet hamburgers as the main course! The hamburger is all cake, and the fries and trimmings (and the plate as well) are all made of gumpaste or fondant.

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Maple walnut cake

It’s fall.  The air has turned crisper.  It’s still dark at 6.30am.  The leaves hang suspended in the air, as though awaiting their fate.  Some have turned yellow.  Some will turn into a bright red.  In past years, I’ve bundled my entire family into the car and we’ve set off to look at the changing landscape.  Whenever we’ve thought about moving to a warmer, sunnier climate, I’ve thought to myself “but what about fall?”  The trees appear so dressed up, so bedecked, as though for the grandest ball of the year, that I almost cannot bear to miss seeing them.  Each tree looks different.  When I look upon a hill, the blanket green having given way to individual reds, yellows, oranges that spring up in relief, I wonder how I would never have been able to see that tree and that tree had it not been for the changing colors of the leaves.  Then there are apples, pumpkins and winter squashes of all types.  I love sugar pumpkins and butternut squash.  This year prettily patterned carnival squash and sweet, deep-orange and meaty kabocha have made appearances in my pappu charu, pulusu and aloo kaddu.

This year we will be home for all of October.  I’m terribly nostalgic for the years past.  I’ve therefore decided to write out, briefly, three of my favorite fall day trips below.

I also want to share a recipe for an easy maple-walnut cake that I have *invented.*  It tastes so good, that it’s very difficult to not want to eat it all in one sitting.  If you have a jug of maple syrup sitting in your fridge from a spring maple syrup trip, walnuts lying around for the healthy snack that they make and some good quality vanilla extract, then this cake will be easy to whip up in moments.  This cake has taken a few tries to get perfect – and I’m particularly proud of how moist, walnut-y, vanilla-maple-toffee in flavor it is.

Two hour drives north of the New York city area:

1. Kent, CT: Take the Taconic State Parkway, which will be particularly beautiful at this time of the year, to reach Kent in the Connecticut Berkshires.  Drive across the antique covered Bull’s Bridge to Route 7 that becomes Main Street.  Kent is full of treasures: the House of Books with a lovely children’s reading room, a charming toy store, Belgique Patisserie that offers a fabulous selection of pastries and chocolate.   Further north on Route 7, stop to take the brief hike up to breathtaking Kent Falls before reaching Ellsworth Hill Orchards to pick apples and pumpkins.

2. New Paltz, NY: The I-87 will bring you to New Paltz, which offers beautiful views of the Shawagunk Mountains.  Enjoy a leisurely lunch at the quaint Village Tea Room with its excellent baked goods and local food, before heading over to Minnewaska State Park for stunning views of Lake Minnewaska or a hike to Lake Awosting, time permitting.  Spend some time picking apples at Stone Ridge Orchards.  Before heading home, shop for local dairy and produce at the High Falls Co-op.

3. Woodstock, NY: Woodstock, nestled at the base of the Catskill Mountains, is an upbeat little town.  Eat lunch in Oriole9’s light-filled dining room, with its lovingly crafted food made with local and seasonal ingredients.  Bread Alone Cafe makes delicious sandwiches.  Spend some time browsing the stores along Woodstock’s main street, including the fascinating Tinker Toys Too.  Drive to the little village of Phoenicia, for fabulous views along the way with a mandatory stop at Sweet Sue’s for their famous plate-sized berry pancakes or a fresh-baked fruit muffin.  The Woodstock Inn offers accommodation a block behind Main Street, right next to a stream that cascades into a waterfall.  When driving back to the city, eat lunch at Love Bites Cafe in Saugerties for thoughtfully put together sandwiches, salads and soups, and hearty oatmeal cookies.  For children: The Woodstock Animal Sanctuary, The Woodstock Wonderworks playground, Andy Lee Fields (a short walk from the center of Woodstock).

Maple Walnut Cake

Dry ingredients

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/8 tsp kosher salt

1 cup walnuts

Wet ingredients (all at room temperature)

1/2 cup maple syrup, the best quality real stuff that you can find, preferably Grade B

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup or 1 stick butter

2 eggs

1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 cup whole milk

1.  Heat the oven to 350F.  Whisk the flour and baking powder and keep aside.  Butter and flour a 9 x 5 loaf  pan.

2. Toast the walnuts over a low flame in a small skillet until a faint aroma of walnuts is released.  Remove and allow to cool.  Crush coarsely on a flat surface with a rolling pin.  Now collect the walnuts in a bowl and rub a little flour into the walnuts.  This will help them to stay suspended in the batter while baking.

3. With an electric mixer on the lowest setting, cream the butter, sugar and maple syrup for about a minute.  Add the eggs one by one until fully incorporated.  Add the vanilla essence.

4.  Now gently mix in the flour in two parts, alternating with the milk.  Don’t over-stir.  Fold in the walnuts and pour the mixture in the baking pan.  Bake for 30 minutes or so until the cake turns a deep golden brown on top and the sides pull away (the edges will be darker).  A tester poked into the middle of the cake should come out clean.  Remove from the oven, allow to cool for 10 minutes, run a knife around the edges and then upturn.

My adventures with milk

When I visited Ronnybrook Farm last summer, it was out of curiosity to see a big natural dairy brand.  They had a store in the Chelsea Market, a presence in the Union Square Greenmarket, and their products were even available at Sobsey’s in Hoboken.  Ronnybrook’s “beyond organic” milk was sold in quaint, impractical one liter glass bottles that seemed to hark from a bygone era.  A good friend had worked at Ronnybrook for a few months.  “Maybe Ronny will give me a tour if I say that I’m a friend of his apprentice,” I thought.

When we arrived in Ancramdale and followed the winding road across the fields dotted with grazing cows, Ronny’s farm seemed less and less like the huge factory operation that I had imagined.  Ronny showed us his airy cow barn, the bottling operation, the butter churning machine, the yogurt making area. We spent some time discussing pasteurization processes, the homogenization of milk and glass bottles.  Ronny’s views registered on me rather faintly.  We played with Ronny’s calves that morning.  Agastya, then three, and Vasisht, five months old, frolicked in the grass.  We ate a pint of ice-cream and bought every flavor of ice-cream and yogurt to take home with us.  Milk too, but I thought I was drinking very good quality milk already: Organic Valley, ultra pasteurized, homogenized, very “fresh” milk that usually lasted two months from the date of purchase.

In the fall, I met my husband’s friend who said that she found raw milk from her neighboring farm in Vermont easier to digest.  I stared at her, having never met anyone who actually drank raw milk.  We found neatly lined bottles of raw milk in the cooler at Cricket Creek Farm in Williamstown on a fall leaf-peeping trip.  I bought the milk but gazed at it with trepidation for the days that it sat in my fridge.  By this summer though, I had grown bolder.  I brought raw milk back from the Hawthorne Valley Farm in Ghent, NY, and proceeded to make delicious chai from it every day.  But raw milk was nearly impossible to find unless I visited a farm that sold it.

More recently I spotted nymilk and milk from Battenkill Valley Creamery at Eataly .  These new brands made me curious.  I found a write-up on nymilk at Serious Eats, that explained pasteurization methods.  There was also a local New York milk taste test on Serious Eats where Ronnybrook and Battenkill had topped the charts.  I was intrigued.

Then a friend sent me a blog post about how the best milk for human beings to drink, if they were to drink milk at all, would be raw whole milk that wasn’t ultra pasteurized or homogenized and that came from free-roaming, organic, grass-fed cows that were raised without artificial hormones or non-therapeutic antibiotics.  Not all of this immediately appeared to be based on scientific fact, but it made me think of those black and white cows grazing contentedly at Ronnybrook Farm.  Of Ronny’s minimally pasteurized and non-homogenized milk.  Of the taste tests that the milk seemed to be winning.  Of that hard-to-find raw milk from Hawthorne Valley and Cricket Creek Farm.

I marched over to Sobsey’s and confronted the kindly proprietor.  “I’ve been reading that ultra pasteurized milk isn’t really that great for you,” I began.  “I thought the Organic Valley milk was better because it lasts longer.”

“The only milk I drink is from Ronnybrook Farm,” he replied.  “In the days when we didn’t have a van, I would carry back the heavy glass bottles in the train for the store.  High heat pasteurization kills everything in the milk, although it does help the milk to last longer.”

I brought home several bottles of Ronnybrook milk that afternoon and stockpiled them in my refrigerator.  The milk tasted absolutely delicious: creamy, cold and straight from the bottle, with a lick of cream at the top.  I hadn’t had a whole glass of milk since I escaped my mother in my late teens.  Ronnybrook milk felt like an indulgence even though the milk tasted perhaps just as real milk should taste.  The kind of milk that my Indian ancestors must have imbibed and loved.  Enough to make them worship cows.  The kind of milk that I’d like my children to drink.  To make dollops of aromatic yellow ghee and creamy, food-for-gods desserts such as kheer.

Here is a recipe for kheer.  It’s basically a sweet rice pudding that’s fragrant with cardamom and basmati rice, but those words sound too mundane for such a soul-filling bowl of goodness.  This is Indian comfort food at its best.

Kheer (picture to come)

Serves 10

1 gallon of milk

1 cup of aromatic, long-grain rice like basmati, if possible from a recent harvest

2 cups, or less of turbinado or white sugar, according to taste

1 tbsp of ground cardamom seeds, preferably crushed by hand in a mortar and pestle

Optional: slivered almonds, a few strands of saffron,  raisins, cashewnuts

1.  Bring the milk to a rolling boil in a large, heavy-bottomed pan. Wash the rice and add to the milk.  Stir frequently to prevent the milk from coating the bottom of the pan.  Keep cooking, stirring occasionally, allowing the milk to boil until it reduces to about half of its original volume.  The rice will be fully cooked by now.

2.  Add the sugar to taste at this point.  Since the sugar releases water, the kheer will need to cook down further.  Allow the milk to boil down to about 1/3 the original volume.  The kheer should have a thick consistency but should still be liquid enough to pour.  Taste liberally along the way.

3.  Remove from the flame and stir in the cardamom.  Decorate with chopped nuts and saffron.

Eat as you like – hot, cold or at room temperature.

Pineapple upside-down cake

Just the thought of a pineapple-anything brings up faint, early morning memories of my family’s pineapple patch in Assam and of the tins and tins of luscious, golden home-canned pineapple that lined our pantry shelves in Calcutta at the end of pineapple season.  My mother often made pineapple trifle — a simple but delicious concoction of layers of chocolate bourbon biscuit dipped in pineapple juice alternating with whipped heavy cream that was studded with bits of fresh pineapple.  My grandmother’s single concession to Western style dessert was bite sized swiss rolls.  These were soft pinwheels of yellow sponge cake layered with strawberry jam that were topped with a cloud of whipped cream with bits of fresh pineapple and garnished with a sprinkle of chopped green pistachios.  I asked for pineapple upside-down cake to be served at my wedding in Jamaica.  In the excitement of the evening, I forgot to taste it.

That missed pineapple cake put me on a perpetual hunt for a good pineapple upside down cake recipe.  I watched Giada using boxed white cake mix and cooked fresh pineapple puree on television.  David Lebovitz’s upside-down cake recipe was primarily for apricots and nectarines, but I decided to do pineapples instead.  A few attempts with a whole pineapple, then with a half pineapple, one with sliced pineapple and the next with diced pineapple, led to this recipe.   Slicing created big heavy chunks of pineapple that didn’t cook down well, and also made the cake difficult to cut.  So I diced the pineapple instead, and used less, a half pineapple instead of a whole one.  I think Giada’s puree would have worked well too.

For this recipe, I begin by shopping for a ripe Costa Rican pineapple, which looks beautiful and ornamental in my shopping basket and while sitting on the kitchen counter.  The smell of ripe pineapple fills my nostrils as I slice off the top and bottom and firmly run my knife down the sides to remove the rough outer peel.  I remove as many brown “eyes” as I can while peeling.  The pineapple gets quartered, lengthwise, and I remove the hard spine down its middle.  Next, chopping and dicing.  All the while, my hands grow stickier with pineapple juice.  I cannot help but pop pieces of pineapple into my mouth as I work.  The yellow pineapple is sweet and tangy, and intense with tropical flavor. It has a pleasing bite, not too much fiber.  Bits of pineapple come apart in my mouth as I chew.

David’s recipe calls for a 10-inch cast iron skillet, and this is one of the many pleasures of this cake.  The black cast iron pan is heavy and rustic, and all the cooking gets done in this one pan.  At first, I melt butter and brown sugar, until the sugar becomes smooth and bubbly.  The mixture smells wonderful as it cooks, giving off aromas of butterscotch and caramel.  I set the pan aside to cool while I start on my cake batter.  It is very simple – cream soft butter and sugar, add the eggs one by one and then the vanilla.  Next, the dry ingredient mixture – flour, salt and baking powder – alternated with milk.  Voila!  the cake is ready to assemble.  The pineapples go evenly on top of the butterscotch and then the fluffy golden batter is poured in.  Into the oven, and then the smell.  oh the smell.  Of cooking pineapple, caramel and vanilla.  When the cake emerges, it oozes with caramel and pineapple.

This cake tastes particularly delicious when eaten warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Pineapple upside down cake

Inspired by David Lebovitz

Serves 10

1/ 2 a ripe pineapple, diced, about 3 cups

For the caramel:

3 tbsp of unsalted butter

3/4 cup packed light brown sugar

For the cake:

Dry ingredients, whisk together :

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/2 tsp baking powder, aluminum free

1/4 tsp salt

Wet ingredients:

8 tbsp butter, at room temperature

3/4 cup granulated sugar

2 eggs, at room temperature

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 cup whole milk, at room temperature

1. Caramel: Heat the oven to 350F.  In a 10-inch cast iron pan, melt the butter, and add the sugar.  Cook until the sugar melts and begins to bubble.  Remove from flame and keep aside.  Allow to cool, then spread the chopped pineapple evenly over the caramel.

2.  Cake: Meanwhile, with an electric mixer on the lowest setting, begin beating the sugar and butter, until fluffy, about two minutes.  Add the eggs, one by one, until each is fully incorporated into the batter.  Add the vanilla.  Now, slowly and gently fold in the dry ingredient mixture in two parts, alternating with the milk.  Pour this batter over the fruit and smooth out.

3.  Baking: Bake for about 30-45 minutes, until a tester or knife inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.  The cake will have pulled away from the sides and will look firm in the  center.  Allow to cool for 15 minutes or so, and the flip over to serve.

Note: to serve warm, can later reheat in the pan or for a brief time in the microwave.

Grilled eggplant, three ways

Grilled eggplant chutney, Andhra style

How much do I love thee, eggplant?  Let me count the ways…

Alright, in too many ways.  I am beginning with one technique, that of grilling whole eggplant.

Now that the summer is at an end and those big baskets full of shiny eggplant are going to disappear from the farmer’s market, I am already feeling a keen sense of loss.  I wait months for luscious eggplant, that I can buy in armfuls and tote home as though I’m carrying not one but several precious newborns.  “You have the best eggplant,” I’ll say to the tall, white haired, mustachioed farmer from Union Hill Farms.  He smiles, having heard this from me each week.  When buying eggplant, I look for bright, shiny skin, no blemishes and fruit that is light for its size, which means that the eggplant has fewer seeds and is less bitter.

There are two ways to grill eggplant in the kitchen.  The best way is to place the eggplant directly on a gas flame and turn it occasionally, until the skin gets burnt and charred and the entire eggplant becomes tender and very soft.  Line the stove with foil to minimize clean up as the eggplant will shed bits of black charred skin as you turn it with tongs.  Remove from the flame when you are easily able to slide a knife inside the eggplant, and clean off all the bits of skin.  The grilling takes a little while and your home fills with the smell of roasting eggplant, but the result is a very succulent eggplant, buttery, sweet and full of rich, smoky “bhuna” flavor that needs very little else.  Although you can also roast the whole eggplant in the oven at 450F, turning occasionally, for similar results, the bhuna flavor cannot be obtained in any other way.   Note: make sure the eggplant is very well grilled — eggplant that is even a little raw is not edible.  But overcooking in the oven can dry out your eggplant, leaving nothing but an empty shell.

Ways of using the grilled eggplant:

(1) Whole: Recently, my mother-in-law laid out several freshly grilled Italian eggplants with their heads on in a big flat dish.  She drizzled melted butter and sprinkled a generous quantity of red chilli powder and salt over the eggplant.  We ate the eggplant with hot basmati rice and a simple tomato dal. It was easy to eat three or four of these smoky eggplants each.  (pictured below)

(2) As a sweet-sour relish, called vankaya chutney:  This was a surprise discovery from my mother-in-law’s Andhra cooking repertoire.  A surprise, because I couldn’t believe how much I loved the sweet-sour-spicy-bhuna-yet fresh-umami flavor of the dish.  Mash up the eggplant flesh with your fingers.  Dress up the eggplant with strained raw tamarind extract, some grated gur or jaggery and salt.  Add bits of chopped onion, coriander leaves and sputter a tarka of mustard seeds, green chillies, and a dried red chilli in hot oil.  Mix well.  Serve with hot rice or eat it as I do, straight from the bowl with my fingers. (pictured above)

(3) Baingan bhurta: This is a North Indian style eggplant preparation, where the grilled eggplant is cooked with fried onions, ginger, garlic and tomatoes.

Fry in 2-3 tbsps of oil, about one cup of chopped onions per two cups of mashed, grilled eggplant, along with two or three cloves of chopped garlic, a thumb of chopped ginger and one or two green chillies.  The onions should be cooked slowly on medium heat until they turn dark brown.  At this point add one cup of chopped, fresh tomato and the eggplant, and cook, until the dish releases oil.  Add two teaspoons of coriander powder, one tsp of cumin powder, a 1/2  tsp of turmeric powder, 1/2 tsp of garam masala and salt to taste.  The addition of a little red chilli powder is optional. Cook a little longer and remove from flame.  Garnish well with chopped coriander leaves.  Serve hot with rotis or parathas.

Grilled whole eggplant dressed with butter, chilli powder and salt


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Sherri Nicholls was killed when a fire ripped through her home on Vauxhall Crescent N.W. on Wednesday morning.

Her son Danny escaped from the house and her husband Dave and 23-year-old daughter Sam weren’t at home at the time of the fire.

Sam was at the hospital getting ready for a bone marrow transplant to treat her leukemia.

The family held a press conference at the Varsity Community centre on Friday to update the community on how they are doing.

Kevin Handcock, Sam Nicholls' boyfriend, gave a statement saying that the family has suffered a terrible lost this week.

"We will always remember how Sherri loved to laugh and get together with family and friends," said Handcock.

Handcock says they are overwhelmed by the show of support and generosity.

"There's been so many wonderful people who have donated so much and we are sincerely thankful for all of it," said Handcock.

Handcock says Sam is in stable health and the family's basic needs have been taken care of.

"Thank you so much to everybody for all their generosity and all the love that they've offered us," said Sam Nicholls.

The Varsity Community Association is accepting donations on behalf of the family and a trust fund will be set up at RBC by Monday.

A facebook page has also been started to collect basic necessities. The page lists the items they need and what has been donated so far.

The home will have to be torn down and Investigators are still at the scene working to determine the cause.


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Q-Suite 5.7 Enhances SIP Phone Auto-Provisioning

Fredericton, Canada, Dec 31, 2012 ( via COMTEX) -- Indosoft Inc., developers of Q-Suite 5.7, the industry leading Contact Center Software for Asterisk telephony, has expanded its auto-provisioning capability of SIP phones with the inclusion of Polycom and Linksys (Cisco) IP phones. Large and distributed contact center deployments using a variety of hard and soft IP phones will benefit from the ease of phone registration and management using Q-Suite's auto-provisioning. Home and remote agents now have a greater choice in selecting a preferred SIP phone.

Q-Suite 5.7 is a powerful multi-channel software for setting up medium and large contact center operations using Asterisk as the telephony platform. This feature-rich ACD offers out-of-the-box, skills based routing, full-feature queue setup, over-flow management and advanced call routing. It comes with an elegant and powerful GUI tool for building IVR, call-flows and Dialplans. Q-Suite collects cradle to grave data for building real-time and historical reports while providing supervisor dashboards and wallboards for efficient call center management.

Contact center ACD agents within Q-Suite can work with either on-hook or off-hook phone designations. Home agents, remote agents and supervisors might prefer to work in on-hook mode, where the phone will ring for every call. High volume contact center operations prefer off-hook mode for regular agent phones, where the phone stays connected to the phone system controlled by the call center ACD, receiving every call with a beep preceding its arrival. This reduces the average caller wait-time in queues by minimizing the time taken for handing calls over to the agents.

"Auto-provisioning with phone registration management is a must for large call center setup. We are constantly expanding SIP auto-provisioning within our call center software to include more phone manufacturers. This will provide Q-Suite based contact centers a wider choice of IP phones" said James Terhune, Chief Technology Officer at Indosoft. "While working as an ACD agent in on-hook mode, supervisors and remote at-home agents can now take advantage of multi-channel phones with advanced features." About Indosoft Inc.

Indosoft Inc. is the developer of Q-Suite, the leading multi-tenant call center ACD and Dialer software suite for Asterisk. It has been providing turn-key contact center solutions to medium and large call centers around the world for over ten years. Q-Suite ACD with .NET and socket library is also available for licensing, to enterprises building Asterisk based products. Indosoft has been providing Q-Suite based private label contact center technology solutions, for hosted managed service providers.

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[UPDATE] Southern Literature and the 1930s - MLA 2009

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We are looking for a third panelist for a proposed MLA special session organized around the response of Southern writers to the dislocations that the South experienced in the 1930s as a result of the Great Depression. Judged “the Nation’s No. 1 economic problem” by the National Emergency Council’s Report on Southern Economic Conditions in the South, the South’s under-developed, agricultural economy posed a serious obstacle for the country’s overall economic recovery. However, even as tropes of the South’s economic backwardness were employed to generate support for economic reform and development, Southern intellectuals - notably the Fugitive Agrarians - resisted such efforts. Appealing to an image of the South as a holistic, organic society, the Agrarians valorized the region’s agrarian economic base and sought to maintain the South’s communal forms of affiliation as a bulwark against the threat of encroaching industrialization.

Possible paper topics could include how Southern writers responded to: the New Deal, the erosion of a regional identity, the plight of sharecroppers and tenant farmers, etc.

Please send 500 word abstracts and a brief bio to bgordon@uci.edu by March 30.

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It’s no surprise that updated homes sell faster and for a higher price. However, it’s difficult to know which home improvements will give you the best bang for your buck. In general, you should start with any structural, mechanical or electrical issues.

Beyond that, focus on aesthetic touches that have broad appeal. Light or neutral-toned paint and new carpet go a long way toward helping potential homeowners feel at home. Replace fluorescent bulbs with 60-watt clear light bulbs. The super-bright bulbs makes rooms appear more spacious.Finally, one of the least expensive things you can do is clear the clutter. Store everything but your nicest furniture and belongings while listing your home. This will help your home look more spacious and has a remarkable overall effect.

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New Free Platform Aims To Ease Sharing of Digital Collections

A new Web platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online got a nod of fame last week when it was referenced in The Washington Times profile of George Mason University's Center for History and New Media, which the paper called "at the forefront of the new wave of collecting history." The free, open-source platform is named Omeka, a Swahili word meaning "to display or lay out goods or wares; to speak out; to spread out; to unpack."

The goals of the development effort are to create a platform that lets users publish Web content with a system that is low-cost and easy to use; to provide a standards-based, interoperable system that allows users to share and use digital content in multiple ways; and to facilitate the building of communities around objects and primary sources.

Omeka, which is currently undergoing private beta testing, includes the following features:

  • A metadata structure and standards-based design that is accessible and interoperable.
  • Professional-looking exhibit sites that showcase collections without hiring outside designers.
  • Theme-switching for changing the look and feel of an exhibit in a few clicks.
  • Plugins for geolocation and bi-lingual sites.
  • Tagging to enable users to add keywords to items in a collection or exhibit.
  • Blogging to allow the site to keep in touch with users through timely postings about collections and events.
  • Syndicating to keep users updated about content with RSS feeds.

The Center is working with the Minnesota Historical Society to plan, design, test, evaluate and disseminate Omeka in four phases through September 2010. It will be released under General Public License, version 2.

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Education Dept. Names 23 i3 Grant Recipients

Twenty-three colleges, universities, K-12 districts, and other organizations are one step closer to receiving a portion of $150 million to be awarded by the United States Department of Education through the Investing in Innovation (i3) program.

The program will distribute scale-up grants of up to $25 million to projects that show strong indicators of success. Validation grants of up to $15 million will be awarded to schools and nonprofits that show moderate levels of evidence for success. And up to $3 million in development grants will be provided for untested concepts with high levels of potential.

These applicants, chosen from the original group of 600, are now required to find 5 percent in private funding for the scale-up grant category, 10 percent for validation grants, and 15 percent for development. The deadline is Dec. 9, and awards will be presented in mid- to late September.

The 23 winning applicants are:

Competition requirements called for applicants to develop project proposals with the following priorities:

  • Promoting science, technology, engineering, and math education;
  • Improving graduation rates at rural high schools;
  • Creating high standards and assessments;
  • Supporting teachers and administrators who show promise for improving student achievement; or
  • Improving performance at underperforming schools.

Consideration was also given to applicants whose projects showed support for spiking early learning outcomes, improving college access, and addressing needs of disabled students. In addition, applicants who aimed to focus on students with limited English skills, and enhancing productivity or technology, were looked at.

"With just 25 percent of the funding available in round one, i3's 2011 competition attracted hundreds of innovators from schools, districts and nonprofits across the country, addressing many of the most persistent challenges in education," said Jim Shelton, assistant deputy secretary for the Office of Innovation and Improvement. "In just a few short years, i3 has the potential to provide educators with a rich catalogue of practical solutions that they can confidently use to help advance student achievement at every level--not just increase proficiency."

The Investing in Innovation Fund is provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and provides monies for supporting schools, consortiums of schools, and nonprofit organizations that work in partnership with schools.

President Barack Obama's proposed fiscal year 2012 budget includes $300 million for a third round of grants.

Additional details can be found on the U.S. Department of Education Web site.

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Tim Sohn is a 10-year veteran of the news business, having served in capacities from reporter to editor-in-chief of a variety of publications including Web sites, daily and weekly newspapers, consumer and trade magazines, and wire services. He can be reached at timothyjsohn@gmail.com and followed on Twitter @editortim.

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March 18/10 10:46 am - Fun Times for Track Athletes: On and Off the Bike

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The Canadian team is spending 2-3 hours at the Omnisport Velodrome as they taper leading in to next weeks World Championships.  So what do the athletes do for the rest of the day to pass time?Tara W

Travis Smith and Zach Bell are seasoned roommates and keep coming up with new ways to entertain themselves.  “This trip Zach came with his new iTouch and we downloaded the new Monopoly App.”  According to Travis, “this has been good since we are not walking distance to town and are conserving energy leading in to Copenhagen.  We have spent lots of time rolling the dice and trying to figure out how to keep our apples synced.”

Several members of the team travelled the 4 km in to the town centre for a change of scenery and to explore more of Apeldoorn.  For Team Pursuit rider Laura Brown it is her first time ever in Europe and the quaint town has made a strong impression.  “There are beautiful old buildings and trees and people on bikes everywhere. I could see myself living here!”

Travis Smith and his team sprint teammates Stephane Cossette and Joseph Veloce will be doing a mock team sprint tomorrow in their full race kit and newly altered skinsuits.  “I’m really looking forward to getting on the track the next two days and actually doing some work rather than just recovering from travel.”

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The CCA is pleased to make available the Event of the Year Survey now available on Survey Monkey. The survey is open from now until October 17th at Midnight.

For any questions or if there are any technical difficulties please feel free to contact Bryan Cook HP Coordinator at bryan.cook@canadian-cycling.com.

To access the survey please click on the link below. Thanks for your help in determining the best event of the year.

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June 9/12 12:04 pm - Cycling BC Hires Four Club Coaches

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Cycling BC is pleased to announce the hiring of four club coaches for BMX clubs.  The newly appointed coaches will be working with the clubs to recruit more members, run Learn 2 race Clinics and work with club riders on development.  Each of the coaches have been NCCP trained and will be working towards NCCP Certification through out the season.  The coaches will be working closely with BC Provincial and Canadian National team coaches as part of continuous development.  These positions will be full time for the BMX season, starting immediately.

“BMX is a critical element of the Cycling BC rider development model. We’re committed to ongoing development that will support riders at each stage from learning to ride, to an international podium. The Club Coaches will work closely in NCCP development with our provincial and national team coaches, to bring the best training and greatest opportunities for success to BMX in British Columbia.” – Conan Cooper, Director of Development

We would like to congratulate the following coaches to be working with the clubs.

Mischa Partridge – Abbotsford BMX
Ryan Murphy – Action BMX
James Palmer – North Shore BMX
Thomas Donnelly – Ridge Meadows BMX

“I think that club coaching has been a missing link in our sport for a long time.  It is great to see this program put in place and I’m excited to be a part of it” – Mischa Partridge.

“This is win-win for the athletes, the coaches and the clubs. We will be able to develop better athletes, coaches and clubs all in one.   I have seen how a club coach has helped athletes push to the next level in Europe and can’t wait to see the results our athletes and coaches will have in the future” – Adam Muys BMX Director

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