Norway's got a major corpse problem that isn't going away anytime soon. Literally—they won't rot. What's the culprit behind this profusion of bodies that refuse to take their place in the circle of life? The same thing that's also working to keep your sandwich fresh: plastic wrap.
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"Weekend Productivity" Mozzarella and Homemade Pesto BLT
"Weekend Productivity" Mozzarella and Homemade Pesto BLT
What makes a guy put a ring on it? New York Post reporter Stephanie Smith hopes 300 sandwiches will be her answer.
It all started after one particularly tasty turkey sandwich she made for her boyfriend. Smith says that the sandwich was so good, he said, "You're, like, 300 sandwiches away from an engagement ring."
So Smith got cookin' and is sharing her journey of food and love through her blog, 300sandwiches.com. It features a daily gourmet sandwich recipe.
Critics have taken to social media, blasting her for twisting herself into a pretzel to please her man.
Host Michel Martin spoke with Smith about her blog, the criticism she's been receiving, and why she hasn't proposed.
Why Sandwiches
We had been dating for over a year and he had cooked many of the meals in our house and I just wasn't that strong in the kitchen. But the running joke between us was, the only thing he wanted was for me to make him sandwiches. So one day, I did.
On The Criticism
I encourage [critics] to read the blog, and read all of the stories that have taken us from sandwich one to now 179. ... It's not just a girl making all this food to earn a man's love. This is a journey between the two of us as we continue on towards engagement. And I don't think I'm less of a woman or a hard-charging career woman because I want to do something nice for my boyfriend.
'Make Me A Sandwich'
I've gotten so many great stories from people who have also bonded with loved ones, children or parents through food or particularly sandwiches. ...We use the phrase "make me a sandwich." It's like a euphemism for, you know, "give me a kiss," or "show me some lovin'" and I think people can start to use that in the same way.
Sandwich #130 - "Weekend Productivity" Mozzarella and Homemade Pesto BLT (from 300sandwiches.com)
2 buns or baguettes, cut into sandwich sized pieces (about 5" long)
2 cups fresh basil
1/3 cup grated Parmesan or Pecorino Romano cheese
2/3 cup olive oil
1/4 cup pine nuts
salt and pepper to taste
2 cloves garlic
1 squeeze lemon wedge
1/2 ball mozzarella, sliced
1/2 tomato, sliced
5-6 strips bacon
1 bunch arugula
2 more tablespoons olive oil (to dress arugula)
Make the pesto: in a food processor, combine basil, pine nuts, garlic, cheese, salt and pepper. Slowly add the olive oil as you blend the ingredients on medium speed in processor. Add juice from squeeze of lemon wedge and give pesto one last pulse to make sure lemon juice is evenly blended.
Fry bacon to desired crispness in a non-stick skillet on medium low heat. Remove from heat and drain grease from bacon on paper towel-lined plate. Toast baguette. Remove from heat and lay out on cutting board or plate. Dress arugula in a tablespoon of olive oil and salt and pepper.
Slather on pesto, then layer on arugula, tomato, then mozzarella, then a leaf or two of basil, then bacon. Top with a small dollop of pesto, then top with other slice of bread. Smush gently and serve. Makes two 5" BLTs.
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ContinuityX takes advantage of Cologix platform to on-ramp customer demand from data centers in 151 Front Street in Toronto and 1950 North Stemmons in Dallas.
Denver, Colorado ? October 23, 2012 ? Cologix?, a network neutral interconnection and colocation company, announced today that ContinuityX Solutions, Inc. (CUSX), a unique provider of business continuity and disaster recovery services, has selected Cologix to expand their service offering in Toronto and Dallas.? ContinuityX will add nodes in Cologix?s 151 Front Street data center in Toronto and in Cologix?s new expansion facility at 1950 North Stemmons in Dallas to their North American network.? With this deployment, ContinuityX becomes a significant platform customer of Cologix.
?We are committed to continually supporting our customer?s application and infrastructure growth in strategic network locations,? stated Kathy Godwin, senior vice president-operations for ContinuityX.? ?Our presence with Cologix in Toronto and Dallas expands our network breadth, including a presence in Canada, which provides additional robustness to our portfolio and enables access to a new set of customers looking for a consultative approach to continuity services.?
ContinuityX provides consulting services and management of business continuity, virtual/cloud hosting, managed equipment and storage, monitoring, VoIP and voice needs. Their mission is to provide clients with business continuity and disaster recovery solutions faster, more efficiently, and more cost effectively through their unique consultative approach.
?As the demand for cloud based solutions continues to grow, Cologix is committed to offering a stable, scalable, network neutral environment for our customers,? stated Rob Devita, General Manager, Cologix Dallas.? ?We welcome the opportunity to support ContinuityX across our North American platform.? Our customers will value the presence of ContinuityX in our facilities, including the broad range of carriers in our Meet-Me-Rooms as an on-ramp to their cloud services.?
Cologix operates data centers in the carrier hotels in both Toronto and Dallas.? Cologix has recently announced Tier 3 expansions in each market which will be operational in the coming months, bringing total footprints to well over 40K SQF in each market.? With data centers in Dallas, Minneapolis, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, Cologix provides one of North America?s largest neutral marketplaces where network operators and network buyers interconnect.? Cologix offers over 300 network choices, manages thousands of interconnections and has over 550 customers that utilize Cologix colocation and interconnection services in order to grow their networks rapidly and cost-effectively.
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Cologix, Inc. is a network neutral interconnection and colocation company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, that provides massively scalable interconnection services and secure, reliable colocation services in densely connected, strategically located facilities in Dallas, Minneapolis, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.? With more than 300 network choices and eleven prime interconnection locations, Cologix currently serves over 550 carrier, managed services, cloud, media, content, financial services and enterprise customers. The company?s experienced team of communications infrastructure professionals is committed to providing its customers the highest standard of local customer support.
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The vacant property next door to Chicago resident Mae Campbell has cast a pall over her neighborhood of Austin for more than five years. The home, which she said was owned by Bank of America until very recently, has overgrown grass, water damage and boarded-up windows.
"We bought locks to chain it up to keep squatters out," Campbell said, referring to her and her neighbors' efforts to secure the home. "All of the pipe and wiring was taken out [by looters], all of the plumbing."
Campbell, who is black, lives in a minority neighborhood, and her tale of troubles with Bank of America-owned properties that have fallen into disrepair typifies a much wider problem facing minority communities across the country, according to the National Fair Housing Alliance.
The NFHA announced Tuesday that it has filed a third complaint with the Department of Housing and Urban Development against Bank of America, charging that the bank neglects its properties in minority neighborhoods while paying special attention to maintaining its homes in predominantly white neighborhoods.
The group's new complaint amends a previous one to add Chicago, Milwaukee and Indianapolis to a list of areas where the bank has allegedly discriminated against minorities through its management of bank-owned properties (an example one such home is pictured above). Two previous complaints identified California, Michigan, the East Coast, Orlando, Fla., and Charleston, S.C., as places with disparities in the way BofA maintained its foreclosures.
"Bank of America has an obligation -- a duty under federal law -- not to discriminate," Peter Romer-Friedman, counsel to the National Fair Housing Alliance, said at a press conference Tuesday. "Unfortunately, our investigation has revealed Bank of America has woefully failed to take care of its fair housing obligations ... when it comes to the maintenance and marketing of REO properties."
Bank of America did not respond to a request for comment.
The NFHA's amended complaint further expands an even wider anti-discrimination campaign that the group is waging against other major mortgage lenders, including Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank.
'The Banks Are Back -- Our Neighborhoods Are Not'
NFHA's allegations stem from an investigation that found that bank-owned homes (also known as real estate owned properties or REOs) in minority communities were much more likely to have maintenance or marketing deficiencies, such as broken windows, water damage, unkempt lawns and no for-sale signs.
"REO properties in communities of color generally appeared vacant, abandoned, blighted and unappealing to real estate agents who might market the unit to homebuyers," according to the NFHA report on the investigation, titled "The Banks Are Back -- Our Neighborhoods Are Not." "On the other hand, REOs in white communities generally appeared inhabited, well-maintained and attractive to real estate agents and homebuyers."
In Chicago, an REO in a minority neighborhood is twice as likely to have trash on its lawn, twice as likely to have dead grass on more than 50 percent of its lot, nearly five times as likely to have damaged steps or handrails, and 12 times as likely to have damaged windows, according to Anne Houghtaling, executive director of the HOPE Fair Housing Center, which participated in the NFHA investigation.
On top of that, 80 percent of REOs in those neighborhoods also did not have for-sale signs, making it harder for them to attract possible buyers, she said.
It's easy to identify an REO in a minority neighborhood because "from a block away, you see the trash," Houghtaling said. "In the white communities, the only way you might know [that the home is a foreclosed property] is when you see a for-sale sign."
Much More Than Just an Eyesore
Campbell is well aware of how such neglect can drag down a neighborhood. She said that the property next to hers isn't just an eyesore, it has also damaged the value of her home and caused her homeowner's insurance to rise.
A report released Wednesday by the Center for Responsible Lending underscored the unfair penalty homeowners like Campbell pay for living next to foreclosures.
The study found that foreclosures' negative effect on neighboring homes' property values disproportionately impacts minorities. Minority-owned homes have lost $1 trillion in value since 2007 due to neighboring foreclosures, the report found, half of the total property value lost to such "foreclosure spillover costs."
"I, as a person that lived in the community, was denied the right to purchase it," she said. "I got nothing but the runaround."
And investors snapping up foreclosures is not always a good thing.
"Investors don't necessarily care about neighborhood vitality. A person who lives next door is more likely to care," Douglas Robinson, a spokesperson for NeighborWorks America, told AOL Real Estate. NeighborWorks rehabs foreclosures and then sells or rents them to low-income Americans.
Banks' failure to adequately market REOs makes it more likely that investors, who are more attractive buyers to banks because they pay cash, will purchase them at steep discounts.
"[Purchasing a foreclosure] takes wealth that was built up over generations" for minorities, said NFHA president Shanna L. Smith at Tuesday's news conference, "and redistributes it to investment firms."
An Expanding Campaign
The NFHA filed similar complaints against U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo before targeting Bank of America, partly because Bank of America had first initiated discussions with the NFHA aimed at heading off the possibility of a lawsuit.
But "Bank of America did not step up to the plate ... in maintaining and marketing REO properties," an NFHA spokesperson told AOL Real Estate. "When discussions break down, we take action."
The NFHA said that, to settle the complaints, banks must end their discriminatory management of REOs, provide relief to minority communities impacted by REOs and compensate the NFHA for their investigation.
See also:
Vacant Homes Plague Neighbors as Lenders Drag Feet
RealtyTrac Election Housing Report Finds Housing Market Worse Off than in 2008
Loan Officer Lifts the Lid on Deceptive Lending in 'The Liar and His Loans'
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