When I worked in the restaurant business, if you happened to walk in during staff meal, you could always tell who were the pastry people: we were the ones dousing our food with vinegar and salt. That is, when we had time to sit down and eat. I like sweets, but I like them tempered with something not-necessarily sweet, which is why sometimes you’ll see a squeeze of lemon juice added to a fruit ice cream base or bakers like me include a pinch of salt in batter, to balance things out.

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Salted Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, This past week we got to experience something that hasn’t happened around here in years. Years, I tell you. Unfortunately that something was every blessed day the high temperature was in the 90’s — 95, 97, 98, 96, 96, 92, 96 through yesterday to be exact

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Dear Friends and Gardeners August 16, 2010

In late 2009, we posted about problems at a Genzyme plant that manufactured some fabulously expensive drugs, e.g. Cerezyme whose cost to patients approximated $160,000 a year. We thought then that for a drug costing that much, the company ought to have figured out a conservative process to provide pure and unadulterated product.

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A Golden Parachute for Making Contaminated Drugs?

As I get set up and prepared to start podcasting professionally, which will include video podcasts in addition to audio, a brand new free report just happened to cross my screen. The title: Rapid Video Blogging by Gideon Shalwick. Perfect timing! I should tell you now that Gideon is giving away 3 iPads – because there is only ONE left

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New -Awesome- Free Video Marketing Guide

As Jim said in his email today: “The Deficit Commission is the most dangerous threat Social Security has ever faced. Republicans stacked the bipartisan commission with right-wingers who’ve spent their careers trying to kill Social Security — and Congress has promised to fast-track the Commission’s recommendations.

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Republicans are at it again

Every once and a while I like to take a look back at my marketing initiatives to see what can be improved or simply get a good laugh. This morning I was going through some of my old files and found a marketing piece that I created over a dozen years ago.

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Marketing Faux Pas

There's been so much interesting news lately that it's hard to keep up with it all. These are the stories I've personally found most interesting: 7/28/2010 – from WIRED: Google, CIA Invest in “Future” of Web Monitoring “The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come.

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Recent news of interest

iHealthBeat reports that West Virginia Medicaid along with five other states will receive federal matching funds from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)to help implement electronic health record (EHR) incentive programs. West Virginia Medicaid will receive $945,000 in federal matching funds. The CMS press release indicates that West Virginia will use the funds for planning activities that include conducting a comprehensive analysis to determine the current status of HIT activities in the state.

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CMS Awards WV Medicaid $945K Federal Matching Funds for EHR Incentive Programs

However, it’s a good news for his fans and admirers that the actor has been contacted to work with ‘DID L’il Masters ‘ once again. Jay will be joining the original host of the show Manish Paul. According to a source, the grand finale of …

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Jay Bhanushali Would Host The Finale Of 'DID L'il Masters'

As is traditional, Microsoft ‘s latest version of its hugely successful Office productivity suite hit the Mac platform a year after it hit Microsoft’s own Windows. But Mac users get a bonus Windows users don’t: a huge price cut.

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Microsoft Office for Mac Sees Major Price Cuts: Fear of Google?

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – News and notes from training camp plus a special birthday interview with new Cardinal Kerry Rhodes.

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News from Cardinal camp, plus a Kerry Rhodes birthday quiz

“Real Time Brand Management” is the buzz word these days. Customers love to complain on Facebook, Twitter, you name it

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Brand Management: New WordPress Plugin Protects Your Name!

A short article published by the AP today notes that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating Amazon and Apple for possible anti-competitive measures taken to restrict the e-book market. Blumenthal notes that Amazon and Apple have “most favored nation” (MFN) agreements with the five major publishers, which aim to deter those publishers from giving discounts to other retailers

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Connecticut AG Investigating Anti-Competitive E-Book Pricing at Amazon, Apple

Listen to the Audio In other news Monday, a car bomb went of in a market area and killed six children in Afghanistan. Also, the Netherlands became the first NATO country to pull troops out of the Afghan war. HARI SREENIVASAN: Six children died in a suicide car bombing in Southern Afghanistan today.

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News Wrap: Six Children Killed in Afghan Car Bombing

Some foods are fun to eat, and watermelon is definitely one of them. That triangular wedge of bright red, white, green with sweet juiciness forbids us to take life too seriously and shouts, “SUMMER!!!” As if that weren’t enough, watermelon is packed full of nutrition, it hydrates, and it’s low-fat

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Surprising health benefits of watermelon

At the Summit at Stanford, sponsored by AlwaysOn & STVP, AlwaysOn founder Tony Perkins talks to “You Are Not a Gadget” author Jaron Lanier about Facebook, and why teenagers may start shunning the social-media platform.