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INDIANAPOLIS, April 26, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bell Industries, Inc. (Pink Sheets:BLLI) today reported financial results for the year ended December 31, 2010.

Revenues from continuing operations for the 2010 year were $112.2 million, up 11.5% from $100.6 million a year ago, with a $4.0 million increase in revenues related to the company's Recreation Products Group segment and a $7.6 million increase in revenues related to the company's Bell Techlogix business.  The company had net income of $0.3 million, or $0.68 per share, for the 2010 year, an improvement over the 2009 year net loss of $1.9 million.

The company's Recreational Products Group reported revenues of $38.4 million for 2010, compared with $34.4 million in 2009.  The 11.6% increase in revenues was attributed primarily to increased sales of marine and RV product lines as the overall industry continued to recover from the recessionary levels of 2009.  As a result of this increase in revenue, RPG's operating income for the 2010 year increased by $0.6 million to $1.8 million from the operating income of $1.2 million for the 2009 year.

The Bell Techlogix business reported revenues of $73.7 million for 2010, compared with $66.1 million in 2009.  This 11.5% increase was attributed to growth in product sales and revenue from both new and existing managed service engagements.  As a result of this increase in revenue, Bell Techlogix's operating income for the 2010 year increased by $1.3 million to $2.9 million from the operating income of $1.6 million for the 2009 year.

Bell's corporate holding company costs for 2010 totaled $3.2 million, a 10% decrease from the prior year.  The decrease in costs was primarily related to reductions in headcount and the related costs.  The corporate holding company costs have declined as the company continues to transfer the administrative functions previously performed by the holding company to the business units, which generally operate independently of each other.

On March 21, 2011 Bell completed a 1-for-20 reverse stock split of its shares, the result of which allowed Bell to then file with the Securities and Exchange Commission to terminate its registration and cease its periodic reporting obligations as a publicly registered company. This change in registration status will allow Bell to further reduce the corporate holding company costs by foregoing many of the expenses associated with SEC regulatory filings and Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements.

About Bell Industries, Inc.

Bell Industries is a holding company for two operating businesses, Bell Techlogix and the Recreational Products Group.  Bell Techlogix is a provider of integrated technology product and service solutions for organizations throughout the United States.  The Recreational Products Group is a wholesale distributor of replacement parts and accessories for recreational vehicles and other leisure-related vehicles, including boats, snowmobiles, motorcycles, all terrain vehicles and utility vehicles.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements, including, but not limited to closely managing costs and making investments in our business to drive profitable growth, are based upon current expectations and speak only as of the date hereof. Actual results may differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statements as a result of various factors and uncertainties, including uncertainties as to the nature of the company's industry, including changing customer demand, the impact of competitive products and pricing, dependence on existing management and general economic conditions. The company undertakes no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason.

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Bell Industries, Inc.
Consolidated Statements of Operations
(Dollars in thousands)
  Year Ended December 31,
  2010 2009
Net revenues:
Products  $ 83,739  $ 74,325
Services  28,432  26,252
Total net revenues  112,171  100,577
Costs and expenses:
Cost of products sold  68,695  60,770
Cost of services provided  20,198  19,011
Selling, general and administratives  21,870  21,580
Gain on sale of assets  (34)  --
Operating income (loss)  1,442  (784)
Interest expense, net  1,108  1,093
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes  334  (1,877)
Income tax provision (benefit)  65  (7)
Net income (loss) from continuing operations  269  (1,870)
Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax  27  (36)
Net income (loss)  $ 296  $ (1,906)
Net revenues:
Bell Techlogix
Products  $ 45,307  $ 39,882
Services  28,432  26,252
Total Bell Techlogix  73,739  66,134
Recreational Products Group  38,432  34,443
Total net revenues  $112,171  $ 100,577
Operating income (loss):
Bell Techlogix  $ 2,850  $ 1,558
Recreational Products Group  1,750  1,191
Corporate costs  (3,192)  (3,533)
Gain on sale of assets  34  --
Total operating income (loss)  1,442  (784)
Interest expense, net  1,108  1,093
Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes  $ 334  $ (1,877)
Bell Industries, Inc.
Consolidated Balance Sheets
Years ended December 21, 2010 and 2009
(Dollars in thousands)
  2010 2009
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents  $ 2,723  $ 2,608
Accounts receivable, net  10,116  9,256
Inventories, net  7,303  8,012
Notes receivable  --   300
Prepaid expenses and other current assets  1,053  800
Total current assets  21,195  20,976
Fixed assets, net  709  802
Other assets  733  775
Total assets  $22,637  $22,553
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable  $ 5,346  $ 5,382
Accrued payroll  2,290  1,882
Other accrued liabilities  1,899  2,440
Total current liabilities  9,535  9,704
Convertible note  11,851  11,345
Other long-term liabilities  3,009  3,592
Total liabilities  24,395  24,641
Shareholders' deficit  (1,758)  (2,088)
Total liabilities and shareholders' deficit  $22,637  $22,553
CONTACT:  Bell Industries, Inc.
          Clinton Coleman, Chief Executive Officer

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KENNEWICK, Wash. - Kennewick Police said the man that was shot and killed by a Kennewick Officer had an extensive criminal history.

There was a special press conference Sunday afternoon to discuss the events that unfolded at 916 West Kennewick Avenue the day before.

Kennewick Chief Ken Hohenberg said 24-year-old Marlon St. Mark German was pronounced dead at Our Lady of Lourdes in Pasco Saturday night.

Police said he was shot once in the head.

Benton County Coroner Rick Corson said it appeared that German died as a result of the shooting but an official announcement will be made after an autopsy is done and toxicology results come back with in the next few weeks.

Police were called to 916 West Kennewick Avenue Sunday afternoon for a welfare check.  Police said when they arrived a friend of the victim told police 31-year-old Abigail Alongi was being assaulted in the back room of the house.

Police said they entered the room and German was on top of the victim, cutting her with a knife. Authorities said everything unfolded in less than a minute from the time officers entered the bedroom until the bullet was fired.

Police said they used pepper spray and physical restraints on German but feared he was going to fatally stab Alongi.

Police said Alongi was treated for stab wounds in the neck and abdomen.

German had court orders to stay away from Alongi.  He was arrested early Saturday morning for harassing her over the phone.  Police said his has a history of domestic violence, drug offenses and burglary convictions.

Chief Hohenberg said the officers needed to use lethal force for fear the German was going to kill Alongi with the knife.

Benton County Sheriff's are working on the criminal investigation.  Kennewick Police are conducting their own internal investigation, which is standard procedure when lethal force is used. The two officers involved in the shooting are on administrative leave.


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The aroma that hits you when you open the door and enter the Jive Jerky store is a delectable dance of smokiness, dried meats, and spices that are interwoven into a whole equaling a lot more than the sum total of the individual parts.

The aroma that hits you when you open the door and enter the Jive Jerky store is a delectable dance of smokiness, dried meats, and spices that are interwoven into a whole equaling a lot more than the sum total of the individual parts.

The countertop is lined with jars of freshly cured jerky in flavors like teriyaki, spicy garlic, and buffalo wing sauce, and ranging in degrees of spiciness from the completely unseasoned "Plain Jane" to "You Pay Twice," an ultra-hot flavor only for the most daring customers.

Behind the counter are four large dehydrators filled with the latest batches of pork and beef jerky, and standing in front of them you'll see Tim O'Grady, the mastermind and chef responsible for what is quite possibly the tastiest jerky you'll ever have the chance to eat.

O'Grady, who was born in Milwaukee but has lived in the Poconos since his early teens, opened his shop on the corner of Main and Church Streets in Moscow in early June, and said that the business is doing even better than he had anticipated.

O'Grady began making jerky at home for his own consumption when he was in his early 20's, but his work as a musician and a corporate consultant for entertainment companies didn't leave much time for developing recipes. When being out on the road for work became tiresome, O'Grady decided to return to the Poconos and to focus on making jerky full-time.

Jive Jerky starts with high quality Angus beef and cuts of pork from Schiff's. O'Grady cuts the meat into strips by hand, discarding as much fat as possible.

The strips of meat are then marinated in seasoning for one to two days depending on the flavors used. The marinated meat is placed on racks in the dehydrators where it dehydrates at 165 degrees for a day or so with the exact drying time determined by the flavor and type of marinade that was used.

The three day process reduces one hundred pounds of wet meat into forty pounds of savory jerky.

O'Grady's website ( discusses the process and ingredients used to make most commercial brands of jerky products and contrasts it with the way his product is made.

"A lot more care is put into Jive Jerky than other brands. When you go into a gas station and buy jerky there are silica gel packets in with the meat. I think it's a real turn-off to have a poisonous substance in the same package as my food," he remarked.

O'Grady continued, "All our meat is hand cut. There is a lot of time put into it. And when you buy jerky from a gas station or some other stores, who knows how long it's been sitting around. Everything here is very fresh and has been on the shelf for 72 hours at most."

O'Grady pointed out that commercial brands of jerky come in only a few standard flavors, but Jive Jerky offers both the standard favorites and many unique flavors.

He said, "We make about 20 different flavors of jerky and usually have twelve or fifteen in stock. We swap the flavors in and out so there are different kinds on different days."

Among the best-selling flavors are steak seasoning, teriyaki, the super-spicy "You Pay It Twice," and "Swinesational" maple pork.

"Everyone has their favorites, but they all sell. I can't make them fast enough, actually. I wish there were more hours in the day!" O'Grady stated.

Jive Jerky is sold in the store in three ounce packets or in bulk, and online in three-ounce packets. The website points out that one ounce of jerky provides 20 percent of an adult's daily protein requirement, as well as half of the necessary amount of B vitamins and 1.5 mg of iron.

Also available online and in the store are all-natural fruit leathers made by O'Grady's girlfriend, Fawn Dellavalle. The fruit leathers contain only two ingredients, pureed fruit and agave syrup, and are made at the shop in flavors like strawberry, banana, and kiwi.

O'Grady recently began selling Tail Waggers Jerky for Dogs, which he makes from the meat trimmings left behind during the first step of the jerky-making process.

O'Grady explained, "I take the scraps of what we're making, grind it up, and dehydrate it. There's no seasoning in it. I have a diabetic dog so I have to watch what he eats, and Tail Waggers is just 100 percent meat and won't upset his diet."

With four dogs in his household and a family tradition of involvement with service animals, O'Grady has committed to donating a portion of Jive Jerky's sales to America's VetDogs, an organization that provides service dogs to disabled veterans. O'Grady's parents, Dennis and Kay, foster dogs in their home and socialize them to become service animals and guide dogs.

Jive Jerky in specially marked packages is available at the local American Legion and other venues, and a portion of the proceeds is donated to American's VetDogs.

Jive Jerky is located at 100 South Main Street in Moscow. The store is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., but O'Grady said, "I'm generally here later, so if you see me in the building, then I'm open." Parking is available behind the store or across the street in the municipal lot. For more information, visit the website, call 236-5957, or visit the Facebook page.


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The limited edition 7-disc set of the beloved Nickelodeon series contains all 20 episodes from Book 1, and brand new special features including behind-the-scenes looks, commentary, featurettes, a documentary, and an exclusive book that provides an insider’s view of the designs, storyboards, animation and more!

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To Venantius, Bishop.

Gregory to Venantius, Bishop of Luna (in Etruria).

It has reached us by the report of many that Christian slaves are detained in servitude by Jews living in the city of Luna ; which thing has seemed to us by so much the more offensive as the sufferance of it by your Fraternity annoys us. For it was your duty, in respect of your place, and in your regard for the Christian religion, to leave no occasion for simple souls to serve Jewish superstition not through persuasion, but, in a manner, by right of authority. Wherefore we exhort your Fraternity that, according to the course laid down by the most pious laws, no Jew be allowed to retain a Christian slave in his possession. But, if any are found in their power, let liberty be secured to them by protection under the sanction of law. But as to any that are on the property of Jews, though they be themselves free from legal obligation, yet, since they have long been attached to the cultivation of their lands as bound by the condition of their tenure, let them continue to cultivate the farms they have been accustomed to do, rendering their payments to the aforesaid persons, and performing all things that the laws require of husbandmen or natives, except that no farther burden be imposed on them. But, whether any one of these should wish to remain in his servitude, or any to migrate to another place, let the latter consider with himself that he will have lost his rights as a husbandman by his own rashness, though he has got rid of his servitude by force of law. In all these things, then, we desire you to exert yourself so wisely that neither may thou be a guilty pastor of a dismembered flock, nor may your too little zeal render you reprehensible before us.

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To Eulogius, Patriarch of Alexandria.

Gregory to Eulogius, Bishop of Alexandria.

A conversation having arisen one day between me and my familiar friends about the customs of churches, one who had studied the art of medicine in the great city of Alexandria told us that he had a fellow-student attending the same lectures, a boy of extreme depravity, who, he said, had been suddenly ordained a deacon. And he added that he had procured ordination by bribes and gifts; for he acknowledged that this custom had prevailed in the holy Alexandrine Church. On hearing this I was amazed, and exceedingly surprised that the tongue of the most holy and blessed man the lord Eulogius, which recalls so many heretics to the Catholic faith, has not extirpated simoniacal heresy from the holy Alexandrine Church. And who will there be whose exhortation or correction will be able to amend this, if his great and admirable teaching shall have left it without amendment?

Wherefore, for the absolution of your soul, for the increase of your reward, that your works may be in all respects perfect before the eyes of the tremendous Judge, you ought to make haste utterly to pull up and eradicate simoniacal heresy, which was the first to arise in the Church, from your most holy See, which is ours .

For on this account it comes to pass that the holiness of ecclesiastical orders falls away from very many, because persons are promoted to these orders, not for their life and deeds, but for bribes. But if meritorious character, and not bribes, be sought after, unworthy persons will not come to ordination. And by so much the more will reward begin to accrue to you as any good men who have been promoted to sacred orders shall have devoted themselves to the care of winning souls.

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Terence Coventry - 3D & 2D Works The sculptural work of Terence Coventry is rooted in a strong figurative tradition, and his distinctive works explore a fundamental relationship with his environment and the familiar forms of his life on the rural Lizard Peninsula.

Trained at the Royal College of Art in the late 1950s, Coventry later trned his back on the art world and spent a quarter of a century farming near Coverack in West Cornwall before returning to sculpture in 1985. Regarded as one of the country's foremost contemporary sculptors, he exhibits regularly at Gallery Pangolin, London and as far away as New York.

Constructed variously in steel, Cor-ten steel and bronze, both the material and subject of Coventry's sculpture are expressive of the agricultural history of both our past and present, and are a reminder of the precious relationship we hold with each other, our fellow creatures and our rural environments.

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Breon O'Casey was a leading figure of 20th century art in Cornwall. Hugely influenced by his contemporaries Denis Mitchell, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Bernard Leach, O'Casey's work draws on the simple, rhythmic forms of nature, applied across a multi-disciplined body of work which constantly walked the line between figurative and abstract, never quite committing to one or the other. His talent as a jeweller, painter, weaver, printmaker, engraver and sculptor have marked him out as one of the world's most original and prolific artist. His distinctive motifs have become synonymous with the art of St Ives.
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Click-and-collect e-commerce programs have been highly successful for brick-and-mortar retailers, and customers are pleased they can shop at home but not pay shipping fees, an IRI survey found.

A new survey revealed click-and-collect shopping programs, in which shoppers can place orders online and pick up their items at a nearby retail location, are a core driver of growth in e-commerce purchases of consumer packaged goods (CPG), according to a new IRI survey.

Customer response and adoption has been overwhelmingly positive, and major retailers have found success with such programs, the survey found.

While e-commerce currently represents only a small portion of total CPG purchasing, it is expected to make up approximately 11 percent of CPG sales by 2022, hitting nearly $88 billion in revenue — $6.6 billion of which IRI expects to be from click-and-collect programs. Click-and-collect combines the convenience of shopping online without the fees or delays of delivery and integrates a retailer’s e-commerce and brick-and-mortar platforms into one shopping experience.

While only 8 percent of U.S. shoppers have purchased products using a click-and-collect program, 82 percent of shoppers who have used the service would “definitely” or “probably” use it again.

“IRI’s survey proves that the click-and-collect service offers shoppers exactly what they are looking for — the ability to shop online, while saving time and money associated with shipping,” said Robert I. Tomei, president of Consumer and Shopper Marketing for IRI. “While some retailers are rapidly expanding their click-and-collect offering, many have yet to make the service available to the majority of their shoppers. IRI’s survey results represent an immediate opportunity for retailers to appeal to the hearts of many shoppers who are demanding and embracing convenient shopping options and seeking out retailers that provide the best opportunities.”

Some of the key insights include:

  •     High satisfaction: Sixty-eight percent of click-and-collect shoppers said they would “definitely” use the service again, while 23 percent would “probably” use the service again for everyday items.
  •     Meeting shopper needs: Nearly seven in 10 shoppers (69 percent) use click-and-collect services to avoid charges for shipping, the most frequently cited reason for using the service. Furthermore, half of all users cite the time savings click-and-collect affords as a motivation to use the service.
  •     Cross-selling opportunities: Sixty-nine percent of shoppers who went in-store to pick up their orders ended up buying additional items. This was an important finding uncovered in the IRI research, because many retailers and manufacturers need to understand the impact and opportunities of impulse purchasing when shoppers leverage click-and-collect.
  •     Significant sales opportunity: IRI expects that click-and-collect will total more than $6.6 billion in sales in 2020.

Personalization is key as e-commerce services expand

As click-and-collect and broader e-commerce purchasing becomes more critical, retailers and manufacturers are concerned about a negative effect on impulse purchase behaviors and the loss of value created by the in-store experience, explained Sam Gagliardi, e-commerce practice leader for IRI.

“It is still possible to encourage impulse purchasing in an online environment, but the mechanism is shifting from in-store endcap and register displays to suggested-purchase options as shoppers fill their online carts,” said Gagliardi. “Developing and implementing highly targeted digital campaigns based on real customer shopping data will be the key to driving those unplanned purchases.”

IRI’s expertise in targeting and personalization tools for manufacturers and retailers will help manage the seismic shift from in-store to e-commerce shopping. The high demand for click-and-collect among early adopters is symptomatic of larger industry trends that are keeping shoppers from browsing the aisles.

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    This graphic depicts stained slides of ovarian cancer tissue sections that were analyzed using custom software to extract form and shape features of many cells rapidly. The distribution of the features is then correlated with clinical outcomes, such as survival, drug response and drug resistance.

Newswise — Storing music and photos on distant computers via “cloud” technology is nothing new. But Johns Hopkins researchers are now using this tactic to collect detailed information from thousands of cancer cell samples. The goal is to help doctors make better predictions about how a patient’s illness will progress and what type of treatment will be most effective.

The project, supported by a new $3.75 million National Cancer Institute grant, was launched because researchers now realize that cancer cells affecting the same type of tissue can behave differently in different patients. Prostate cancers may grow rapidly in one patient, but expand at a glacial pace in another. A drug that kills a tumor in one patient may be useless or even harmful in the next patient.

To help doctors prepare a more personalized medical prognosis and treatment plan, Johns Hopkins has assembled experts in cancer and engineering, led by Denis Wirtz, associate director of the university’s Institute for NanoBioTechnology. The team has begun characterizing and storing cancer data collected through a process called high-throughput cell phenotyping.

“We use scanning microscopy to take pictures of the size and shape of cancer cells,” said Wirtz, who also directs the Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences-Oncology Center. “We also extract information about what is happening inside the cells and at the genetic level. We make notes of the age and gender of the patient and any treatment received. Looked at as a whole, this information can help us identify a ‘signature’ for a certain type of cancer.

That gives us a better idea of how it spreads and how it responds to certain drugs.”He added, “The long-range goal is to make this data available through the Internet to physicians who are diagnosing and treating cancer patients around the world.”

Wirtz, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the university’s Whiting School of Engineering, has been working with School of Medicine researchers Ralph Hruban and Anirban Maitra to begin the database with material from the files of thousands of cancer patients who have been evaluated and treated at Johns Hopkins. The patients’ personal information has been deleted, but the remaining medical case data allows the researchers to trace the course of the disease from initial testing through treatment and outcome.

“This technology may provide a way to centralize specimen data, images and analysis in a way that hasn't been done before,” said Maitra, a professor of pathology and oncology, “and we'll be using the information now to find better ways to treat disease.”

The Johns Hopkins team will soon collect similar data from other major U.S. cancer research centers that are also supported by the National Institutes of Health. The initial focus will be pancreatic cancer, which is particularly aggressive and lethal.

“We may be able to correlate DNA changes that occur in individual pancreatic cancer cells with the appearance of these cells at the cellular level," said Hruban, a professor of pathology and oncology and director of the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center. "The potential for this approach to provide insight into the fundamental biology of pancreatic cancer is significant, as are the potential clinical applications in predicting a patient’s prognosis and in guiding therapy.”

Other types of the disease, including breast and prostate cancer, will be addressed in the near future. Early data is being stored on computers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory under an arrangement funded by the NIH.

According to Wirtz, the details recorded in the online database will differ from those produced in traditional biopsy evaluations. Typically, information about a patient’s disease is obtained by averaging the results from trillions of cells that have been blended together.

With the new scanning system, however, the Johns Hopkins researchers will obtain views of individual cells retrieved from individual patients, even from different parts of the same organ.

This ability to examine single cells is important, Wirtz said, because scientists have discovered that even cells that possess the identical genetic makeup can vary in other small ways that affect the behavior of cancer. For example, these tiny variations in genetically identical cells can cause some to be vulnerable to a particular cancer drug.

“We’ve come to realize that it is the heterogeneity -- the diversity of cells that have different characteristics -- that is important in evaluating a cancer case,” Wirtz said. “In the end, what matters is the cell properties. That’s what we measure.”

Researchers will begin their studies on clinical samples collected at Johns Hopkins to determine how well the technology works and validate it's potential before it can be used to aid clinical decision-making.

The software and hardware used in the high-throughput cell phenotyping process is protected by patents obtained through the Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer office. The $3.75 million National Cancer Institute grant (CA174388) will be disbursed to the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology over a five-year period. The funds were allocated through the National Institutes of Health’s Common Fund Single Cell Analysis Program.

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    Banana Splitters are an indulgent, convenient treat with a full serving of fruit in nine bite-size pieces.

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    Team member Sabrina Hannah's son Blaise was a willing participant when it came to trying out a Banana Splitter.

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    Bananas are sliced, cored, flash frozen, filled with three flavors of frozen yogurt, and enrobed in dark chocolate. The individual images are available.

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    Virginia Tech Food Science and Technology Product Development Team Govindaraj Dev Kumar, John Koontz, Denise Gardner, Kevin Holland, Sabrina Hannah, Annie Aigster at the Institute of Food Technologists annual meeting and food expo in New Orleans.

Newswise — Who doesn't like a banana split? Fresh fruit, three flavors of ice cream and chocolate syrup. Yum.

That vision was the subjective basis for a new product developed by a team of Virginia Tech students " frozen bite-sized slices of banana filled with creamy chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry non-fat frozen yogurt and enrobed in dark chocolate. Called "Banana Splitters," the new confection is packaged as nine individual pieces " three of each flavor " in a sleeve, six sleeves in a package to be available next to the ice cream and other frozen goodies. And, get this, an entire sleeve is a serving.

The students would also like to see their award-winning decadent dessert available from fast-food restaurants, nine pieces to be packaged in a banana-shaped container.

The 13-member Virginia Tech Food Science and Technology Product Development Team created Banana Splitters as their entry in the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Product Development Competition, sponsored by Mars Inc., and was one of six finalist teams to receive a travel grant to the IFT Annual Meeting and Food Expo in New Orleans in June.

"We wanted a product that would meet current market trend, including convenience, bite-sized pieces, and portion control," said Sabrina Hannah of Elverson, Pa., a Ph.D. candidate in food science and technology. "We also wanted the product to stand out in the market, which is why we designed it to have a full serving of fruit per serving."

"We briefly considered slices of cream cheese packaged in an edible film," said John Koontz of Falls Church, Va., a recent Ph.D. graduate in food science and technology. "But people spread different thicknesses of cream cheese on their bagels."

Besides, the Banana Splitters were wildly popular in the students' product development class, said Denise Gardner of Reading, Pa., a master's degree student in food science and technology. "And we thought this was more fun," she admits.

Persistently practical, Govindaraj Dev Kumar of Chennai, India, a master's degree student in food science and technology, points out that non-fat yogurt is a healthy alternative to ice cream. "The judges liked that there are two different ways to sell it," he said.

A sensory panel liked the product too, giving it an average rating of 7.6 on a scale of 9. "That is between 'likes moderately' and 'likes very much'," said Annie Aigster of Valencia, Venezuela, a Ph.D. candidate in human nutrition, foods, and exercise.

In addition to tests of popularity, the students did a number of other tests in preparing their product. They tested for safety and shelf life. Even though the individual packaging would make consumer abuse unlikely, they tested quality and safety of the product, including under thoughtless handling, such as handling the product without proper hand washing and leaving a container out for as long as 30 minutes then refreezing it. Banana Splitters demonstrated no significant safety concerns.

The team members prepared the product in pilot plant conditions using the food processing lab, dairy processing lab, and sensory kitchen of Virginia Tech's Department of Food Science and Technology. They purchased the bananas locally, using color as an indicator of ripeness and selecting for size and shape. Following slicing and coring, they solved the issue of bananas' tendency to brown with a solution of dextrose, ascorbic acid, and citric acid. The slices were then flash frozen and the frozen yogurt was piped into the centers of the slices.

There was discussion and some enjoyable testing to determine what kind of chocolate would be used " thick, thin; dark, milk. A product with the proper thickness was selected from commercial providers and a decision was made to go with the dark chocolate because it is currently popular.

The students also designed the scale up to a commercial manufacturer. Changes from the pilot-level process would include measuring sugar content to determine ripeness, for instance. And banana peels, size-rejected slices, and cores could be used in extracts and purees.

The team's market study found that the delicious, convenient treat with a healthy twist appeals to people of all ages.

When the team sent their entry to IFT, they also sent the report to Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc., which has applied for a patent on the students' behalf.

Members of the team in addition to Aigster, Gardner, Hannah, Kumar, and Koontz, are food science and technology students Gerard Alcantara of Lorton, Va., a senior; Emma Buck of Columbus, Ohio, a Ph.D. candidate; Daniel Crum of Barnesville, Ohio, a senior; Rebecca Dain-Baker of Chesapeake, Va., a recent master's degree graduate; Kevin Holland of Bradford, Pa., a Ph.D. candidate; Robert Moore of Floyd, Va., a master's degree student; Katie Robbins of Syracuse, NY, a recent bachelor's degree graduate; Julie McKinney of Radford, Va., a recent Ph.D. graduate; and Carla Tyler of Troy, NY, a master's degree student. The team is advised by Sean O'Keefe, associate professor of food science and technology.

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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

camogli...the most gorgeous italian fishing village you've never heard of

Nestled on the edge of the Italian Riviera is the small fishing village of Camogli. Overshadowed by its more popular neighbours of Portofino and further south, Cinque Terra, Camogli is where Italians outnumber tourists, where an espresso dopio costs only 2€, and the array of colour amidst rock and waves astound.

Not for nothing is this area of northern Italy called the 'Golfo Paradiso'. Just 45 minutes south of Genoa, by train or car, Camogli is the perfect inexpensive day trip or a destination to relax, rejuvenate and hike from for a week or two or more.

In its heyday Camogli was home to hundreds of tall ships, and with over 500 registered ship captains it was a thriving seaport.

Castello della Dragona

Perched on the edge of the black pebbled beach is Castello della Dragona, a fascinating setting to let your imagination run wild with images of Napoleon's ships at anchor in the cove, warring factions of Italy's five maritime superpowers during the Middle Ages, and

centuries of fishing boats streaming out at dawn in search of their daily catch.

The fishing method still used in Canogli is called Tonnarella - a 17th century system of netting fish while not killing them directly, so that all the fish caught which can't be sold that day are released. Nets, made of coconut fibres, are lowered and raised three times a day.

The backdrop of the town is definitely colour. Russet, pink and mustard-coloured buildings guide you along the small fishing harbour, and through the town's main street and high up into the hills.

With a sprinkling of love in the air it was "amore a prima vista" for me.

Laundry, consisting of cute Italian clothes (do they have any other kind?) and bed sheets, covers the delicately painted faux facades around every corner...and I couldn't get enough of it!

On my next visit (and there will be one!) I will make sure to hike from Camogli, along the cove's coast to San Rocco church which is perched high above the town. If you keep going along the waterline or through the national park to the hidden gem of San Fruttuoso you will find its Benedictine Monastery and magical cove, which is only accessible by foot or ferry.

Then, I might just keep on wandering to Portofino...all apparently doable in a great day of walking. If you're interested in doing this too check out the trail site at Portofino Trek, which I will be doing the next time I visit!

But at the end of the day, traveling and these words continue to inspire me...
Stay curious, keep learning, love deeply...and most of all, be kind.

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Just 45 minutes by train/car from Genoa, it's an easy and inexpensive day trip.

Monday, January 29, 2018

the charm of the easy daytrip from london!

One might imagine that entering a town that is brushed an overwhelmingly uniform shade of taupe would lack in something, but let me tell you that Stow-on-the-Wold has an abundance of colour oozing out of its rich history and character.

Sweet, curious cottages are the first thing I notice. They hang out on seemingly every corner. An imposing market cross stands at attention in the middle of the square - erected in the middle ages as a constant reminder for the sheep traders to remain fair and honest in their dealings.

Pubs abound, like they do England, everywhere. But, Stow-on-the-Wold is also internationally reknowed for its antiques...therefore you'll find no shortage of galeries and shops here.

Charming, charismatic, and in an 'Outlander'-type way (although I know that the TV series is filmed in Scotland) are inadequate words I would use to describe this town and its surrounding romantic hills.

Sitting atop the highest 'wold' in the Cotswolds, Stow-on-the-Wold's medieval church spire can be seen from miles away. This area, deeply affected and infected by the remnants of Henry VIII and the Tudor reign, the bloodshed of the first English Civil War, and Britain's obsession for the best wool to be had, makes a visit here feel like stepping back in time.

During the civil war, Stow remained fiercely loyal to the crown, which is evidenced by plaques to the fallen and buildings still proudly bearing royal names, such as the King's Arms in the market square; a 500-year-old former coaching inn. Coming here by train is the perfect day trip from London, but on my next visit I will definitely stay the night in a quaint and cozy inn, like the King's Arms, for a quick and easy break from the city.

Stow-on-the-Wold, one of many incredibly cute and picturesque market towns of the southern midlands, located in the northern Cotswolds, held for centuries the largest livestock market in Britain.

Long, narrow lanes, called "chures", run upwards to the market square from the large holding pens below, where the sheep were driven through and counted as they came to the square to be sold on market days.  Upwards of 20,000 sheep were sold on good days!

The middle ages was an incredibly prosperous time for Stow due to the high demand across the country for the special, long-haired, woolly Cotswold sheep, still a precious breed today.

The entire Cotswolds region is a maze of lovely walking trails through the high and lowlands...

among fields of sheep and horses, which connect towns with low-lying stone walls and tree-lined paths.

Just a mile from Stow is the former sheep estate called Maugersbury, which once upon a time supplied the vast amount of animals for Stow's successful market days.

Now a hamlet, it is home to the cutest stone cottages nestled among what look to be high-end, grey-stoned villas.

The architecture style of the area became known as Cotswold Vernacular, stemming from the original building method, which was wood with wattle and daub, until wood became scarce and the area's limestone was put into use. This resulted in everything from homes and foundations, to roof tiles and fences covered in coursed rubble walls.

Some of the original methods can still be found in Stow, including Tudor House on Sheep Street, dating back to the 1500's.

The town also boasts "England's Oldest Inn" according to the Guinness Book of Records. The Royalist Inn, along with The Porch House, on Digbeth Street dates all the way back to 947 AD. Isn't this the perfect place to have a pint?

The Cotswolds are England's largest Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) stretching from Stratford Upon Avon down to Bath. Personally, I can't wait to get back so that I can spend much more time hitting the region's meandering footpaths and combing through the treasures of its stone-walled villages.

Trust me, if you're looking for a different kind of High Street - a quieter, more peaceful one - then the Cotswolds are a perfect break from London.

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From London's Paddington Station trains run every hour to Moreton-on-March (a 1.5 hour journey). From Moreton's train station take a 20-minute bus ride to Stow-on-the-Wold.

Travel by train at 'super, non-peak' hours to get the best deal on tickets ( which are very easy to book ahead online.

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Dearest Mama,

I have been wanting to talk for days now, which you must know because you’ve found me again and again in dreams. I am back in NYC, back in Brooklyn. You would love it here. Some days it feels just like the home we wanted together. The studio space, the art, the food.

There is so much I want to say and I have no clue where to begin. Coming home was like jumping on a moving train. Everything constantly moving forward, moving steadily. It is like surfing in that way. Catching my balance and moving forward. Aaron told me about this dream he had, or maybe in a meditation, where you came to him and told him to tell me to stop carrying you around. That weight of your passing. I haven’t been able to figure out how that would be possible but I think it finally happen. Mourning has come and gone and grief comes and goes but you’re always here. I have you, always. With that has come a flood of creative endeavors much like ones you would tell me about. Always thinking and creating. Dreaming and creating. That is who we are. We are creators.

Your book is finished and looks beautiful. I think the world is about to be blown wide open with this work. It is immense.

I was hypnotized and sent to this river beneath the tallest redwoods you could ever imagine. Funny, I wound up in a river. Something healed. Everyday my heart is healing and getting blown open, back to that place where I once resided. Back to that time we stood on the roof of my first apartment and Indra came. We watched the sunset over the city and then ordered indian food and drank wine on my rickety floor. My heart feels young like that…open, inspired, ready. From here I’ve been finding you. I’ve been finding all of us and Terry, everywhere.

It is incredible. The lessons that you continue to bring even once you’re gone. Thank you for all of them. We are well. The kids are well. We are coming back together, stronger than ever.

There are matters of the heart that I wish to discuss but perhaps I’ll save them for later.

I love you mama.

Go see Lily…the holidays are rough.

Nina aka SweetPea.

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It was just that kind of day. Walking all day, from one side of Brooklyn to the other. Just walking walking walking and talking to myself, mostly. Mostly myself. I noticed today words just came tumbling out while headed to the bank, hand motions and all, explaining or having figured something out. Laughing after making a hysterical joke. Walking. There is no reason why really but not for one second could my brain stop. So I let it go and kept walking. Noticing the thoughts jumping from sex, to holidays, to trying to remember, to writing, wood, food, dates, family, pasta, swiffers, mama, letters and then finally coffee. So I land on coffee which gets me to the coffee shop, where I couldn’t be bothered to not talk to myself. So I did, right there. I had a conversation that I am pretty sure the barista thought was with her but in fact I was just talking. Saying things about my day or an idea for a christmas card. I thanked her, smiled kindly and walked out the door to photosynthesize. Yes, eat the sun. Just stand there against that pretty little brick wall on top of a piece of wood to drink my coffee in the warmth of that fireball in the sky.

Backyard, California

MeowHowl. I don’t remember now how it happen but it did and its the most perfect expression. You can meowhowl anywhere, anytime. I have stopped sleeping again. Well, mostly. I fall asleep early, sleep for a few hours and then wake up around 130am and there my day begins. Today that is what happened. There is this strange solace in my nights. All the frustration from not sleeping falls away, worries about tomorrow cease to exist…I like it. Now my eyes are glazed over like I am high. My eyes misread texts as proposals, words fall out of my mouth without sound consenting. Sweet California air. It’s hot. It’s November. Soak it up. Meowhowl. My phone thinks it is a word now. It’s the answer to most questions people ask. Meowhowl agrees, always. Meowhowl bites and stares. I don’t know why it does these things but it does. It will likely be my response to most of everything over the next few days. Tequila is knocking. I can smell it coming. Shot heard ’round the world. Oh mama, see you at 10am. Tequila is traditional but you can have whatever you’d like I guess. 10am because it’s a full day of cooking and we are together. 10am we howl. We will phone in relatives and friends from both coasts. Then it begins…music, dancing, cooking, tasting, rain, tequila, laughing, hugging, howling, disagreeing, games, pile of wolves, flowers, love, wine, tequila. Maybe meow because sometimes it is nice to be a feline. Sometimes we have to meow because it just feels good. Because that person feels you. Because that wine opens your lungs and you just want to meow. It is a great feeling. It is an alive feeling. It is what makes feeling worth feeling. Every sense ignites and you howl. You scream. Just fucking scream. With pleasure drink that tequila and perhaps cough or maybe you just let it sink in. You let it remind you of your human, the most animal of animal. Meowhowl kind of animal. Hello, nice to meet you.

Slap. Pow. Bam.

There use to be all this fear. I did not know it but I was afraid of everything.
Afraid to move. I felt paralyzed. I’ve been paralyzed for the past year. Going
through the motions blind. Waves of freedom have hit my body and the
rush would get me through weeks. The adrenaline making me work and talk
and function. Maybe that was denial. Denial and adrenaline are friends I think.
Work through the pain, work through the heartbreak, work. Something changed
and fell away. Something is different now. I am not afraid. My heart isn’t broken.
I am not broken. The freedom I thought I understood was just the beginning.
After my mama passed there was this sense of freedom because I was living
my greatest fear. She was gone. There was a mess of me and all I could feel
was this carelessness. Life, death, love – the big ones just one big blur. It felt
like freedom because I didn’t care and only now do I know it’s been fear. I’ve
been terrified to keep going because I don’t want more of my mama to disappear.
I haven’t wanted to do amazing things because she isn’t here to tell them to.
She would slap me across the face for saying that, for thinking that. I’d do it
myself if I could. So I’ve been quiet these past days. I’ve been listening to the
millions of thoughts zipping around and settling on the same few things.
I am not afraid to be happy and I am not afraid to be wildly successful. I am not afraid to
fall in love. I am not afraid to be selfish and say no. I am not afraid to live. This
is it. This is the beginning. This is freedom.

4 November 2013

Santa Cruz, California

I haven’t felt much like writing. I haven’t known what to write about and when it has come it has quickly fled. It has been my own frustration curbing inspiration, curbing, passion. Stuck in the doldrums of my mind and the dizzy drunkenness of chemicals. Fall has hit Santa Cruz. Fall is here, it is cold and the red tree I use to wake up to is naked. I thought I’d missed fall, but here it is chasing me down the block. Here it is opening cupboards full of whiskey while I stand in my socks and underwear staring.

I’ve been thinking about this thing called true love. I’ve been thinking about it because around every corner my closest friends and family are falling into it. It’s like quicksand this true love. At first you might not even know it is happening. Its slow but then you’re stuck and soon realize that there isn’t any escaping. Yet, you will wiggle and chest pounds and try to tell yourselves there is a way out. It feels a little suffocating until you settle into it. Every muscle begins to relax. You get cozy and comfortable, then sucked in a little more and begin to hear your heart beating in your ears. You are swimming in it. True love has eaten you.

Santa Cruz, California

Waiting. We just sit and wait. Wake early and wait. Coffee and wait.
Today for more tests, rush to wait. We just wait. I just wait. Wait until
tomorrow when maybe some photography on DVD’s will show my brain
with either large masses or not. Either something to remove or not. These
images will show the same mass we’ve seen already and give us more
information as to what the F to do with it. So, we wait. Rush to wait.
Hyped up on drugs that the docs give you to make “mistakes” in the brain
more visible. These drugs that I am brought out of a tube to be shot with.
Without vision, within this chest to face mask.
My sister squeezing my ankle.
Needle goes in, some intruder to my body…extra fluid.
I am High.
Yes, I took some anti anxiety to reduce the risk of another panic attack.
Yes, I felt good about it.
No, I felt nothing before I went in.
This is it, so now we wait.
Tomorrow is tomorrow. Today is today.
The fireplace is roaring. Joe (the tiger cat) is fast
asleep in front of the heat.
Couch filled with family and wine.
Phone lighting up with support and humor.
The word that is tomorrow is unknown. It is decided.
It has all been decided already.
Whether the answer is good or bad I am ready.
Whether this is surgery or not, I am ready.
Whether this is long term disease I am ready. .
Friends, I will have my right side back. I will be more myself
again. I will fight despite the outcome.
I will play despite the outcome.
I will love and fall in love.
Life will not be similar but we will have an answer. This won’t have
an absolute but we will have something more, tomorrow.

Bike of Bees

Santa Cruz, California

I could day dream my way back to Brooklyn.
A fire escape, my plants.
Wall of plants.
Plant hanging like an octopus.
Day dream my way through the beach fog
back to you.
Smell of mulching leaves and trash.
Dear friend truck, awake at dawn to make
your mail truck deliveries. (Or so I imagine, not
actually sure what you’re coming and going
with.) So early, to say hello
through open windows.
To my hardwood floors that hold no furniture
but a stool and desk, the place we can sit
for hours.
Sweet little drafting table, I miss you too.
Holding glasses of sherry and toasting one
another on our great successes.
Darling bed, waiting up until I stumble through
the door. Staying awake just for me. Staying
warm just for us. Wrapping yourself around me
like I am your cub.
Push me out of your arms once morning
comes. It is time to begin again. Saying hello to
my mother, saying hello to the books and giving
myself a shrug in the mirror.
This is it, here we go.
Neighbors yelling, friends shouting
from their bikes. Like bees we swarm
too find the honey.
All complaining when the city caves in
but craving more. This addiction,
hotel of vagabonds.
I’ll make us dinner tonight.
A dinner with all our friends
at a long table, with stools that
swing out. Candles, wine and
bourbon afterwards.

Coven coming for us.
Day yawning
from behind buildings and bridges
stretching for our cabs to race across.
This city that breathes us. Falling in love
outside of you again, falling in love with
all of you all over again.
Facilitating tattoos. Corazon across
my chest,
Flores down my bicep,
upon this wrist.
I love you.
Color me however you’d like.
Splatter painted by you written in black.
I am going to come home.
I’ll see you soon. You’ll feel me

22 October 2013

Santa Cruz, CA

Make a plan, set a goal, work for it.

Waking up. Falling in love. Absolutes that find themselves in our laps before we realize they are there. Absolutes that don’t slip away, days that fall upon us. Absolutes that cause us to take a minute… or more often that do not give us a minute to decide, they are too quick.

Just like this. Words coming from my mouth. Small things that make no difference really. Words that are just words. Words that mean nothing until we are in person. Words that are just words. Books of them. Pages. Pages from all the millions of writers out there writing. Words, getting stuck on food and in blurred coffee rings. Words smeared by lefty’s doing their best. Words.

Love letters thrown in the trash or off a building. Letters lost. Letters of death and life. Certificates pronouncing both. Words that somehow find there way into our veins and mean everything and nothing. First words, last words, I love you I hate you words. Songs we play and play and play until our ear drums have swallowed every note, every lyric.

Now all these actions falling into place, chasing words until there is nothing left of them. Actions replacing someday with now, ousting fear. Actions absolutely positive that who knows what will be or not be tomorrow. I would like the simplicity of all the rhyme and reason to shine through the haze. This world that has somehow become blurry and all the stuff in it rather insignificant. Not humans, just the noise. Actions chasing noise into silence.

Sex or something…

Santa Cruz, California

Not sure where to begin with this today. Holes in all of my clothes. In some ways its all that I feel like I can control. What I am putting on my body. Surrounded by everyones opinion and input and suggestion. What will be best. What is best, what I should do, how it should be done. In my best interest. How does anyone know what is best, what is best for any of us?

Can I just go raw? Can we not pretend like anyone has a better suggestion? Can that be okay today? Can I talk about something that I usually don’t spread for the vast majority of humans to read? Sex.

Sex. What a beautiful word and a wonderful thing. The moment you realize you want to take that persons clothing off. That moment when they are speaking and all the sudden their shirt is sliding off their shoulders and the words coming from their mouth must be, “Let’s go fuck.” (Or something more romantic) Without any attachment or thoughts. Without any feeling except raw passion. Some beautiful chemical reaction that makes you want to throw someones body against a wall. When it is just sex. When it is more than sex. Before it is sex. All the moments leading up to sex when your body is pulsing and hearts are racing and hands are discovering a whole new world. Lights coming in from the outside, sheets, tastes, sounds, the air is thick, breath tastes sweet. It is all happening fast and nothing outside of your faces matter. The world outside is obsolete. It is just a bed covered in white sheets sitting upon terra-cotta floors, windows open and the two of us.

Just live a little. Be thrown around. Be sweet. Let go. Be devoured.
Take someone because they stared a little too long across the room.
Do not leave that room until tomorrow comes. Until you’ve exhausted each other.
Today I am feeling a little raw.

Living the Dream

Santa Cruz, California

I’ve given some updates to those of you who have asked and here is just a little more.

Last Thursday I had my consult with a new doctor at UCSF. He was wonderful. After reviewing my scan it looks like I have to get more tests. MRI with contrast of my brain and of my cervical spine as well as a CT scan. Given all of my symptoms he seems to think that yes, it is neurological but what we had previously thought was causing this couldn’t possibly be doing it all. There were mentions of MS a few times through out the consult but we will only figure that out as we continue on with the tests.

Yesterday I had an interview with Healthy San Francisco and was accepted to SF Path. This is just like any low income insurance. I can be seen at SF General but not UCSF. Still I am trying for insurance so I can go to UCSF because it felt right, it felt good there.

How am I? I look forward to things like coffee in the morning and these moments when I get to write. I look forward to sleep because for whatever reason I’ve been dreaming of my mama a lot. She was there all last night. We were sitting with my pop and a friend of mine, all planning out or picking trips from a menu that looked like a map of the world. Decided where to go. They were going someplace else but we were all deciding together. She was there the entire night. We went to the market with Lily and picked out cheese and crackers, wine and some other odds and ins. We all went back to this apartment where we were staying, not our home but someplace we could be together. The whole pack of kids were there, Terry too. Then I wake up. My brain weaves in and out of her being here and knowing it was a dream.


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Adrian Gonzalez Asks Dodgers For Extra Time Off - RealGM Wiretap
Adrian Gonzalez had extra time off this weekend after requesting a break from Dave Roberts.

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1. Lining Things Up

2. Using Variation

3. Giving Breathing Room

4. Using the Grid

5. The Golden Section

6. Lining Things Up

Things that line up look nice. Things that are all over the place don't look nice. Of course, one must know rules to know which ones to break, so these rules are only guidelines. In general though, straight orsmooth lines are appealing. Jagged and inconsistent lines are less likely to be appealing. A design with many elements lining up and a few elements that don't can create nice contrast, yet starting with things that line up is a nice easy rule for beginners.

To support these statements, lets look at examples of man-made objects. Roads, desks, walls, buildings, orange juice containers. The forms of all these objects are straight or consistent and any deviation from this norm is considered mildly repulsive. On roads, the matter is quite important to health. There is a merge under construction from the 60 East (that's how we identify freeways here in California) to the 215 South Wholesale Jerseys Cheap , where the turn starts at one size circumstance then abruptly veers a few degrees tighter to another sized circumstance. This slight change in curvature results in a driver having to adjust for this change with a slight, and apparently unexpected, turn of the wheel. I say apparently because road barriers prevent a driver from seeing the whole turn going into it and there are a bunch of tire marks etched up the construction barrier right at the point of the change in curvature.

Lets look at desks. Obviously straight and even desks are good for writing, fit against straight walls well and look nice, at least to me. Buildings, like desks are convenient shapes for space efficiency, map drawing, road creation, furniture and room modularity. Sure, curved buildings are beautiful too, yet the curves are often very even, and more often than not, the curve is accompanied by a straight line in another dimension.

OK, orange juice - very nice to ship little square boxes. Long rectangles make a nice canvas for marketing. If the straight lines are not straight, but crumpled or dented, chances are you won't buy that carton.

All of these are man-made objects that benefit in usability from straight or evenly curved lines. Lets take a look at nature. Trees are basically straight lines. The trunks of a redwood forest all go in one direction with remarkable consistency. (That direction is up, by the way, unless you are on the opposite side of the Earth, in which case it would be down.) Again, this is usability for the tree - a competition in height to get to the sun. Leaves - straight veins out to the tips - same idea Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping , get some (light). Curvature of the earth - smoother than the curvature of an 8 ball. Something to do with gravity which, for existence as we know it, is quite useful.

OK, OK, but how does this apply to my intelligent ___________ (fill in the blank - web site, ad, package design, solar electric car, hair)? For your designs, line up your stuff in straight lines. Line up images so that image edges are lined up with image edges and lines, text with text, and other elements inline with other elements. This is a fundamental design principle yet, some websites are all over the place with every image and section of text every which way.

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Protect your money: 2016 investment markets analysis

April 5, 2016

By Dr. Harold Wong
Sound Money

The first two weeks opening in the U.S. stock market was considered the worst opening two weeks ever.

This negative performance also occurred in other stock markets in Europe and Asia. On Jan. 12, 2016, the Royal Bank of Scotland said, “Sell everything except high-grade bonds.” Now that we have passed Feb. 15, 2016, many stock markets around the world have dropped 10 percent to 20 percent in value.

Many individual stocks, including Apple, have dropped 30 percent to 40 percent from their previous 52-week highs. After almost a 6.5-year bull market in U.S. stocks (with the low in the Dow-Jones Index  March 9, 2009), the stock market started wobbling August 2015 over concerns about China’s slower economic growth. On Aug. 24, 2015, the Dow-Jones Index opening dropped by 1,089 points (the largest ever in history) and ended the day down 588 points, the worst decline since August 2011. After a brief recovery at the end of 2015, many investors have changed their sentiment and are no longer optimistic about stock market returns for 2016.

Robert Shiller, a professor of economics at Yale, won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2013. He developed the CAPE Index, where price earnings ratios are adjusted earnings over a 10-year period. Corrupt top management of a company can manipulate or fraudulently report profits for a short-term period, perhaps even a few years, to get unwarranted huge annual bonuses. However, even a company like Enron can’t fool investors for 10 years before accounting fraud is discovered.

The CAPE Index was 27 on Aug. 30, 2015, versus the average ratio of 17 from 1881-2015. This ratio of 27 had only been exceeded three previous times: 1929 (before the October stock market crash that triggered to Great Depression); 2000 (the peak of the dot-com boom); and 2007 (just before the 2008 stock market crash). Shiller predicted the 2008 crash. Although Shiller never claims to have an exact crystal ball, when the CAPE index gets too high, it has historically been followed by a substantial downturn or crash in stock market prices.

Another major concern by financial and economic experts is that the U.S. (and the rest of the world) has very slow economic growth and collapsing commodity prices. Let’s suppose that we enter a period of either actual deflation (prices drop) or no inflation (prices don’t go up). What would make sense for investors?

First, lock in as much guaranteed retirement income that you can. Almost everyone takes Social Security at 62. For older baby boomers, full retirement age is 66. If their Social Security benefit was $2,000 a month at 66, it would only be $1,500 a month at 62 and would be $2,640 a month at 70. Only 5 percent of men wait until age 66 to take Social Security and only 1.2 percent wait until age 70, where they would get 76 percent more than if they took it at age 62 (See my series on SS strategies, found at Second, work 5-10 years longer to create more retirement savings. This will also allow some pensions to increase your benefits.

Third, look at the private pension concept. In July 2014, a nurse (age 62) deposited $250,000 in a private pension fund. She will wait until age 70 to trigger the income and will be guaranteed $25,000 every year for the rest of her life. By combining all three concepts, she will retire at age 70 with a higher total net retirement income than the income she had while working. She will be able to enjoy her retirement years and not have to constantly worry about money.

If we are in a period of slow economic growth, stagnant wages, declining commodity prices, and the end of the stock market boom, preservation of capital and guaranteed income should be more important than taking major risks with your life savings. © Harold Wong 2016

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Recently Noise In My Head and Butter Sessions collaborated on Domestic Documents Vol 1, the first 2LP in an ongoing series which surveys independent artists who are living and producing Electronic abstractions in Australia. Frequent visitors will recognise a few of the participants (Daze, Lucy Cliche, Mic Mills) but our main intention of the comp was to shine an overdue light to the lesser knowns. I was definitely intrigued when Sleep D flicked over the soundcloud link for Italy via Melbourne producer Chiara Kickdrum, but it was her masterful contribution – the lucid, anti-gravity and deeply psychedelic ‘Liquid Visions’ – that REALLY blew me away. The mind trips continue with her guest mix this week.

hype williams – rolling
ngly – strange expression
mic mills and furious frank – bess is on acid
samo dj – lkf
the maghreban – the wrong move
girls on pills – vhelade (open space update)
musicology – telefone 529
dj sotofett – philip sherburne, your word should be worth more than the ignorance of pitchfork (generic mix)
odopt – chaba waltz
trevino – the hop
willie burns – checking your heart rate
microworld – your techno toy

**chiara kickdrum mix**

lucy - meetings with remarkable entities
lucy - a millennia old adversary
lowtec - untitled a1
gemini - we are the future
the it - somebody somewhere
dmx krew - dance to the beat
tin man, josef k & winter son - fates unknown (erika remix)
cio d’or - ur (salz remix)
ligovskoi - labiate (abdulla rashim remix)
ron trent - love
zadig - quiet orbit around gladia
tm404 - 202/303/303/303/808 (svreca remix)
autechre - nth dafuseder.b
ligovskoi - labiate (original mix)
house of dad - water diviner

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November 10, 2011

Perry defenders puzzle me.

On Twitter after the debate last night, there were a lot of people defending Rick Perry because he forgot his third department that he would abolish.  I understand supporting your guy.  I understand deflecting the problem by pointing out a bunch of Obama flubs in 2008.  I understand that it doesn't disqualify his ideas.  But I don't understand running down Cain on the allegations he faces as a way of deflecting criticism or just doing tit-for-tat.

What's worse, I don't understand how those who defend Rick Perry think that a bad debate performance doesn't matter.

It clearly does.  Losing a debate in the primaries is one thing, but an absolute brain cramp against Obama in a debate is not something a GOP candidate can recover from.  Consider;

  1. A lot of people won't pay attention to the race until the late 2012 debates.  They will in large part decide on those debates.
  2. If they don't decide on the debates, they'll decide on the media reporting of the debates.  Conservatives know what media spin will be before it happens.  An Obama flub will be minor, a GOP flub is gotcha material.  The press will once again be fully Obama-compliant.
  3. The 2012 election will be closer than conservatives like to think.  The swing states are still the same and the math makes an Obama win quite possible.
  4. Obama will have a dollar advantage.
  5. There is therefore no room for error on the debate front.
  6. The GOP needs a candidate who can run circles around Obama in the debates and make him look silly. Winning the debates against Obama isn't enough, he has to be beaten badly in order to move the voter dial.
  7. Given that need, Perry is just not ready to face Obama in a debate.
Imagine a Perry flub like the one last night in an Obama debate?  It would be game over GOP.  That means 4 more years of liberal policy.  It means at least two more liberal judicial appointments to the Supreme Court, it means far more debt, it means the entrenchment of Obamacare.  It is just not the time to let Obama win.

I don't believe Perry is the guy who can beat Obama.  That is not to say he could not govern effectively.  Perry might make a great president.  I can see him being very effective.  But that doesn't matter if he can't win.
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Belfry Wine Tasting Extravaganza

Belfry Wine Tasting Extravaganza

The Belfry to Host “Wine Tasting Extravaganza” Fundraiser

by Pastor Jocelyn Hughes

The Belfry (the Lutheran Episcopal Campus Ministry to UC Davis), will hold a wine tasting event on Sunday, April 29, 2012 from 4:30-6:30 pm at Monticello (630 G Street, Davis). Ten wines will be sampled: five from local wineries, and five similar wines from European wineries. Wine experts Michael Chandler, a sommelier, and Susan Leonardi, wine columnist for the Davis Enterprise, have carefully selected the wines, and will be on hand to pour and talk about each one. Local winemakers will also be there to feature their wines. Attendees will then be able to vote on their favorites and in the process, enter to win a raffle prize.

Appetizers by Monticello will be provided, and a quartet from the Camellia Symphony Orchestra will be on hand for live music. There will also be a silent auction, and the opportunity to purchase wine at the event.

Space is limited and tickets will go fast. You can reserve yours by calling 530.756.1550, or emailing your request to: Tickets are $75 each and all proceeds will benefit The Belfry.

The Belfry is a progressive Christian campus ministry to UC Davis, provided jointly by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Episcopal Church for over 50 years. This fall, they will launch LEVN: the Lutheran Episcopal Volunteer Network, an Episcopal Service Corps program. To learn more about The Belfry please visit: or To learn more about LEVN please visit or The Reverend Jocelynn Hughes can be reached at 530.756.1550 or by e-mail:

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When: Sunday, April 29, 2012 from 4:30-6:30 pm
Where: Monticello, 630 G Street, Davis (map)
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Helping the NHS stay fit and well for years to come

People in North East Lincolnshire are being invited to work with the local NHS to help tackle some of the big challenges facing health and care services.

The Accord Annual Meeting takes place on Thursday September 14th from 10am until 12.30pm at Centre4, Wootton Road, Grimsby.

Accord is the community arm of NHS North East Lincolnshire CCG that lets members have a say in how NHS and adult social care money is spent.

However, you do not need to be a member to come along to the meeting which will focus on important issues in local health and care which are currently facing unprecedented challenges.

People will get the chance to listen to the Trust that runs Grimsby Hospital and have their say about the recent temporary changes on safety grounds to some parts of the Urology and Ear, Nose and Throat services and help develop plans for the future of those and other hospital services.

There will be an update from the CCG and a session focussing on Adult Social Care funding priorities. All sessions will be interactive with the audience able to ask questions as well as give their views using voting machines.

“As a patient or carer, it sometimes feels like change is something that happens to you,” said Trevor Brooks, chair of the Accord Steering Group. “Here in North East Lincolnshire we have the opportunity to be a part of shaping that change and doing our bit to ensure the NHS stays fit and well for future generations.”

The meeting will be followed by the CCG AGM.

If you are keen to be involved, but are unable to make this meeting, then a bite size evening session will be held on 19th September from 6pm to 8pm also at Centre4.

For more information about the meeting or about Accord and to book your place please ring 0300 3000 567 or email

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