To the press alone, checkered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the
triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and
oppression. James Madison, Report on the
Virginia Resolutions, 1798 http://www.marksquotes.com/Founding-Fathers/Madison/index5.htm
Air fryers are convection ovens in a
bucket, meaning that
like a regular oven, they have a heating element and like a slightly fancier
oven with a convection feature, they have a fan that circulates the hot air,
keeping the temperature consistent throughout the cooking area. Thanks to faster-than-a-normal-oven heat
transfer capabilities from that rapidly circulating air, convection ovens can
shorten the cooking time of some foods, potentially giving them a crispier
exterior that brand-conscious marketeers seem to consider to be similar to
fried food. These things take up a lot of counter space—pretty much the
footprint of a five-gallon bucket, and two-thirds the height. The fan that that runs whenever it's on is
loud, effectively sucking the conversation or ambient music right up into the
ether. Another thing was how ridiculously
tiny the cooking basket is; at nine inches by nine inches by two and
three-quarter inches high, two large potatoes effectively maxed out its
capacity. They're loud, even the big ones have a surprisingly small capacity,
they don't do anything significantly better than an oven and you probably have
an oven anyway. They'd also require
bumping your toaster and coffeemaker onto a storage shelf. Instead, if you're into the air-frying idea,
save the potentially significant amount of money you'd spend on one (high-end
models can cost $400 or more) and upgrade to a convection feature the next time
your real oven croaks. Joe Ray Read about the pros and cons of air fryers at
https://www.wired.com/story/air-fryers/
Avocado + Coconut Noodles with Edamame Beans, Lime and Ginger by
Jessica Elliott Dennison
Find recipe and suggested
substitute ingredients at https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/avocado-coconut-noodles-with-edamame-beans-lime-and-ginger?utm_campaign=TST_WNK_20180815&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sfmc_Newsletter&utm_content=The%20Weeknight%20Kitchen:%20Avocado%20+%20Coconut%20Noodles
Recipe
excerpted with permission from Salad
Feasts by Jessica Elliott Dennison, published by Hardie Grant
Books July 2018.
Author Debbie Macomber's name is
pronounced MAY-cumber
https://www.bookbrowse.com/authors/author_pronunciations/detail/index.cfm/author_number/1956/debbie-macomber Debbie Macomber is a #1 New York
Times bestselling author and one of today’s most popular writers with more
than 200 million copies of her books in print worldwide. Macomber’s novels have spent over 1,000 weeks
on the New York Times bestseller list. Thirteen
of these novels hit the number one spot.
Link to her blog and sign up for her newsletter at https://debbiemacomber.com/about
Mox nix! – From the German phrase, "Es macht nichts!" Often
used by U.S. servicemen to mean "It doesn't matter" or "It's not
important". stein or beer
stein – A beer mug made of stoneware or earthenware. The term is derived from German Steinzeug,
"stoneware," a material that went out of fashion for beer mugs at the
end of the 19th century and was replaced by glass. Find other phrases from German at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pseudo-German_words_adapted_to_English
Moxie is a brand of carbonated beverage that was among the
first mass-produced soft drinks in the United
States. It continues to be
regionally popular today. It is produced
by the Moxie Beverage Company of Bedford, New Hampshire, which, through
several levels of wholly owned subsidiaries, is part of the Kirin
Holdings Company of Tokyo, Japan. As a result of
widespread brand advertising, the brand name has become the word "moxie"
in the English language, meaning "courage, daring, or spirit". Moxie's flavor is unique, as it is not as
sweet as most modern soft drinks and is described by some as bitter. Moxie is flavored with gentian root
extract, an extremely bitter substance that was reputed to possess
medicinal properties. It originated
around 1876 as a patent medicine called "Moxie Nerve
Food". Moxie is closely associated
with the state of Maine and was designated the official soft drink of Maine
on May 10, 2005. Its creator, Dr. Augustin
Thompson, was born in Union,
Maine, but Moxie was created and first produced in Lowell, Massachusetts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie
Find a
list of state beverages as designated by the various states at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_beverages
The first known usage of declaring a specific beverage a "state
beverage" within the US began in 1965 with Ohio designating tomato juice
as their official beverage. The most
popular choice for state beverage designation is milk (or a flavored milk) with
21 out of the 28 states (26 states and 2 territories with official beverages)
making milk their official beverage, while Rhode Island chose coffee-flavored
milk. Alabama and Virginia are the only two U.S. states to have alcoholic beverages as their state beverages.
Turmeric is a spice that comes from the turmeric plant.
It is commonly used in Asian food.
You probably know turmeric as the main spice in curry. It has a warm, bitter taste and is frequently
used to flavor or color curry powders, mustards, butters, and cheeses. But the root of turmeric is also used widely
to make medicine. It contains a
yellow-colored chemical called curcumin, which is often used to color foods and
cosmetics. Find uses for turmeric at https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-662/turmeric
Turmeric in desserts
Turmeric and Coconut Cake https://www.hownutrition.info/diy-turmeric-coconut-cake/ Semolina Turmeric Cake (Sfoof) https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/8244/semolina-turmeric-cake-sfoof/ No-Bake Turmeric Coconut Balls https://runningonrealfood.com/no-bake-turmeric-coconut-balls/#tasty-recipes-13372
August 24, 2018 A
109-year-old Montana woman once again celebrated her birthday at the
popular Big
Sky Country restaurant
chain, Montana Club. Helen Self was
once again dining at the Montana Club to take advantage of their generous
birthday discount. So generous, in fact,
that they pay her to
eat there. The Montana Club has a unique
birthday special. Whatever your age is,
that’s the percentage you get off your bill. By the
birthday laws of Montana Club, Self, who was born in 1909, gets 109% off of her
tab. In other words, she gets money back
for dining there. Rob Fox See picture at https://rare.us/rare-life/food-and-drink/100-year-old-birthday-discount/
September 6, 2018 Experts
use a combination of language use, statistics and computer science to help
figure out who wrote documents that are anonymous or possibly plagiarized. They’ve even solved crimes and historical
mysteries that way. Some call the field
forensic linguistics, others call it stylometry or simply doing “author
attribution.” The field is suddenly at
center stage after an unidentified “senior administration official” wrote in
the Times that he or she was part of a “resistance” movement working from
within the administration to curb Trump’s most dangerous impulses. “My phone has been ringing off the hook with
requests to do that analysis and I just don’t have the time,” says Duquesne
University computer and language scientist Patrick Juola. “Language
is a set of choices. What to say, how to
say and when to say it,”Juola says. “And
there’s a lot of different options.” One
of the favorite techniques of Juola and other experts is to look at what’s
called “function words.” These are words
people use all the time but that are hard to define because they more provide
function than meaning. Some examples are
“of,” ”with,” ”the,” ”a,” ”over” and “and.”
“We all use them but we don’t use them in the same way,” Juola says. “We don’t use them in the same frequency.” Same goes with apostrophes and other punctuation.
For example, do you say “different from”
or “different than?” asks computer science and data expert Shlomo Argamon of
the Illinois Institute of Technology. Women
tend to use first- and second-person pronouns more—“I,” ”me” and “you”—and more
present tense, Argamon says. Men use
“the,” ”of,” ”this” and “that” more often, he says. But he is less optimistic that the Trump
opinion piece case will be cracked for various reasons, including the New York
Times’ editing for style and possible efforts to fool language detectives with
words that someone else likes to use such as “lodestar.” Mostly, he’s
pessimistic because to do a proper comparison, samples from all suspects have
to be gathered and have to be similar, such as all opinion columns as opposed
to novels, speeches or magazine stories.
Juola testified in about 15 trials and handled even more cases that
never made it to court. His biggest case
was in 2013, when a British newspaper got a tip that the book “The Cuckoo’s
Calling” by Robert Galbraith was really written by Harry Potter author J.K.
Rowling. In about an hour, Juola fed two
Rowling books, “The Cuckoo’s Calling” and six other novels into his computer,
analyzed the language patterns with four different systems and concluded that
Rowling did it. A couple of days later,
Rowling confessed. It was far from the
first time that language use fingered the real culprit. The Unabomber’s brother identified him because
of of his distinctive writing style. Field pioneers helped find a kidnapper who
used the unique term “devil strip” for the grassy area between the sidewalk and
road. The phrase is only used in parts
of Ohio. Even in politics, words are
poker tells. In 1996, the novel “Primary
Colors” about a Clintonesque presidential candidate set Washington abuzz trying
to figure out who was the anonymous author. An analysis by a Vassar professor and other
work pointed to Newsweek’s Joe Klein and he finally admitted it. But the literary sleuthing goes back to the
founding of the republic. Historians had
a hard time figuring out which specific Federalist Papers were written by
Alexander Hamilton and which were by James Madison. A 1963 statistical analysis figured it out: One of the many clues came down to usage of
the words “while” and “whilst.” Madison
used “whilst”; Hamilton preferred “while.”
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1948
September 7, 2018
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