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When the candy is ready, turn off the heat, remove the thermometer, and stir in the baking soda and salt with a heat-resistant spatula. Stir in the peanuts too, then scrape onto the prepared baking sheet and spread into a roughly 12-by-8-inch layer. Cool to room temperature, about 1 hour (prior to that the brittle will...
Chop or break the brittle into 2-inch pieces; there’s something cathartic about whacking it with a kitchen mallet. In an airtight container, peanut brittle will keep for about a month at room temperature, or up to 6 months in the freezer.
As a child, she tried to make Moravian sugar cookies at home. That didn't go so well.
Google I/O might be a developer’s conference, but for the last few years the event’s epic keynotes have been Google’s biggest public-facing spectacles. Who could forget the action-packed Google Glass parachute stunt of 2012?
Our Google press contacts have signaled that this year’s I/O really will be much more developed-focused than what we observed in 2012 and 2013. We’ll see fewer product announcements, and more emphasis on developer tools for improving the design and distribution of apps.
Still, we remain confident that Wednesday’s keynote—streamed live on YouTube—will be as exciting as ever, showcasing upcoming innovations in Google’s operating systems and services, with a strong emphasis on wearables, home connectivity, and even automobiles.
Read on for our specific predictions on what to expect from I/O’s 2014 keynote, and follow Greenbot throughout the conference for reports on how Google’s plans will affect you.
Google has an established tradition of announcing new Android releases at Google I/O. In keeping with the “sweets named in alphabetical order” theme, the next version should be something that starts with “L.” (The current Android version, 4.4, is called KitKat—the first update to carry a commercial brand name).
There are plenty of fun naming options available for Google, from “Lemon Drop” to “Liquorice” to “Lemon Meringue.” But our money is on “Lollipop.” The bigger question is whether Google will call it Android 4.5 or 5.0. It’s high time for a major version revision.
Names are just branding exercises, of course. Users are more interested in features, and Google has been moving toward introducing new features not in Android itself, but in individual apps, their associated APIs, and in Google Play Services. This ensures that users can play with the latest, greatest features without h...
It’s time to quit eating KitKats and move on to... probably lollipops.
That said, a major Android revision might finally make the newer “Android RunTime” (ART) compiler for apps the default, replacing the aging “Dalvik” just-in-time compiler. This could help apps run more efficiently and launch more quickly, and have a positive impact on battery life. In the past, a handful of apps haven’...
It’s also possible that we might see an update to OpenGL ES, which is the 3D programming interface for Android. Google needs an answer to Microsoft’s DirectX 12 and Apple’s Metal—that is, a lower-level graphics programming language that allows more efficient use of graphics hardware for enthusiast games. Indeed, if the...
All of today’s popular Android phones use chips based on the ARMv7 instruction set—but there are processors on the way that will be based on ARMv8. This major overhaul provides a bunch of improvements to the set of instructions and features upon which all those Snapdragons, Exynoses, Tegras, and OMAPs are based. (Apple...
Of course, any new Android version would have to include a handful of other features, like factory-reset protection to make smartphone theft less of a problem. But, frankly, most of the really interesting improvements to Google’s mobile platform are finding their way into the apps and the Google Play Services infrastru...
With Apple’s HealthKit coming in iOS8, and Android Wear-powered smartwatches hitting shelves this year, we fully expect Google to bring a unified health-tracking feature to Android, complete with APIs for partners like Fitbit and Strava to hook into. The rumor mill says this will be called Google Fit, or perhaps Google...
There will probably be an associated fitness app from Google with basic features like step-tracking, but the real benefit will be in aggregating data from any fitness app that ties into the API. We’d be shocked if the Google execs left the I/O stage without announcing this.
It’s likely that Glass will have a much bigger presence on the faces of attendees than on the stage of Moscone West. Google has issued a series of Glass announcements over the last few months, culminating in last week’s news about its first Glass at Work partners. This program reinforces the role of Glass in doctor’s o...
Augmedix is a Glass at Work partner that’s building a platform for Glass in medical offices.
But Google’s wearable story is shifting to Android Wear—at least for this I/O—so it would be surprising for any big Glass revelations to break this week. There are a number of Glass-focused workshops on the I/O schedule, but short of an announcement about Glass’ consumer release (and this would be a longshot), don’t ex...
Google’s smartwatch operating system will be a major topic of discussion at this year’s conference, as so many developer sessions focus on wearables in general or Android Wear specifically. In fact, we expect some type of Android Wear watch to be given away to all I/O attendees. Until last week, the smart money said th...
In recent weeks, Google has released titillating nuggets about Android Wear, ranging from a blog post about what it’s like to design for the system, to a near-6-minute video evangelizing the platform’s tools for elegantly exposing information to users. At the Wednesday keynote, you should expect to see a live, on-stage...
The Moto 360 is a confirmed Android Wear smartwatch, but it’s unlikely to be the freebie given away to I/O attendees.
It’s also worth noting that the current Android Wear SDK is just a “developer preview.” It's intended to familiarize coders with the system’s interface and capabilities, and allows developers to customize their existing Android notifications. I/O would be the perfect venue to release the full SDK, which will allow deve...
And if the world is really lucky, we’ll learn some specifics on prices and release dates for Android Wear watches. LG and Motorola are confirmed watch makers, but HTC, Samsung and Asus have also been listed as Android Wear partners. It remains unclear if the rest of these brands are actually making watches, or simply s...
Google already dove deeply into Project Ara’s objectives earlier this year at an official Ara developer’s conference, so it’s unlikely that Google will spend a hefty amount of time detailing its modular smartphone concept at I/O. It’s too soon to have real Project Ara phones to show off for consumers, and developers ju...
Hi-ho silver! Rumor has it that Google plans to replace, or perhaps augment, its Nexus line of “flagship” phones and tablets with a line of high-end devices under a program called Android Silver. Prolific leak tweeter EVleaks and The Information both reported that LG will be the first to debut a premium Android Silver ...
So what is Android Silver? The idea, so the rumors say, is to sell premium phones running “pure” unskinned Android at brick-and-mortar retail locations—the very places where people actually buy phones. (Google Play Edition and Nexus phones are primarily sold online through the Play Store.) Google would work with retail...
As recently detailed on Android Police, Quantum Paper is Google’s initiative to help developers deliver a consistent user interface across apps and platforms. Consider it a set of tools and guidelines that reinforce uniform user experiences throughout all of Google’s consumer-facing products and services.
These purported images of a coming Gmail overhaul may be our first look at the design behind Quantum Paper.
Whether or not Quantum is mentioned at I/O, it suggests Google is headed in a much more controlled design direction. “Quantum Paper is a hugely ambitious project, looking to unify and codify paradigms for visual, motion, and interaction design across all platforms, including web, Android, and iOS,” wrote Android Police...
Still, it’s difficult to see Quantum Paper having a major impact when all the Android device makers imbue both their operating systems and apps with custom interfaces. Indeed, why push a unified design scheme when Samsung is going to go do its own thing anyway? Perhaps Google will use the I/O conference as a starting p...
It looks like Google is taking another stab at the set-top box streaming market. Again. After the colossal failure of Google TV, the company appears ready to give it another go with Android TV. Information leaked in early April suggests Android TV will be a platform, not a device, though maybe Google will kick things o...
From what we’ve seen in leaked screenshots, the current features deliver most of what we already get from other streaming-media services: It streams video from Google’s own Play Store and plenty of other streaming apps (Netflix, et al.), and it plays games, too.
Android TV’s big innovation could be an interface that aids users in quickly finding and watching content—but one could easily say that about Roku, Fire TV, or Apple TV as well. Maybe Google has a neat trick up its sleeve that will make a box powered by Android TV the must-have streaming solution. If so, Google I/O wil...
It’s been a long time since we’ve seen any significant updates to Google’s Nexus tablets. The Nexus 7 that arrived last summer is quite similar to the one introduced the year before, and the Samsung-manufactured Nexus 10 is nearing its two-year birthday. Google either needs new Nexus tablets, or should abandon Nexus en...
The latest rumor points to a 9-inch Nexus tablet made by HTC, featuring aluminum construction and a 64-bit Tegra K1 processor. Said tablet would arrive near the end of the year, making it unlikely to appear at I/O this week. But it's also a more expensive, larger, premium tablet—leaving room for Google to announce some...
Google’s been busy working its way into your car. It already provides Google Earth data to the navigation systems of Audi cars, making all other in-car mapping systems look cartoonish. The company also announced its Open Automotive Alliance at CES 2014, with Audi, General Motors and Honda signing on to develop new ways...
We expect to see news from that alliance roll out at I/O. Specifically, look for details on infotainment-system compatibility that will let you easily use your Android phone with a car’s built-in display. Google needs to catch up here, because Apple’s CarPlay interface is already poised to roll out this year in Volvo, ...
Google needs more car apps, and we expect some of them will work with Glass, like this one demo’d by Hyundai at CES 2014.
Kia has made the deepest commitment to Android so far: Its 2014 Soul uses an Android-based infotainment system called Uvo. But auto companies work at a glacial pace. Uvo runs on the 2011-era Android Gingerbread. Another company or two might announce Android-based infotainment systems at I/O, but any such systems will h...
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There is never a shortage of great brews at Starry Eyed Brewing. When you stop in for a pint there is always plenty of different beer styles from which to choose. If you are unfortunate and do not have the time to go to Little Falls and stop in at the brewery, their beers now can be picked up at your local beer store i...
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Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks to reporters outside his office at the Capitol in Springfield on Dec. 2, 2015.
Half a year into its deepening budget crisis, the state of Illinois is sitting on at least $4 billion in cash.
An Associated Press analysis of state records finds the money in 531 separate accounts set up for special — and specific — purposes, but precedent shows that lawmakers and governors in less anxious times have dipped into those accounts to pay regular state expenses and stave off financial distress.
Two weeks ago, Democratic lawmakers agreed with Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner on tapping a total of $3 billion from 112 of the special state funds — albeit to finance those funds' intended purposes. The short-term spending plan sent more than $1 billion owed to cities and counties in tax revenue from income, fuel, gambl...
Debate on the plan resurrected the often-pejorative term "fund sweeps" among Capitol chatter. It's a practice of taking money for one purpose to pay for something else which gained notoriety during the tenure of former Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who took office in 2003 amid budget woes that continue to linger.
As recently as March, Democrats and Rauner agreed on $1.3 billion in sweeps to fill a hole in last fiscal year's budget that opened when Rauner insisted that a temporary income-tax hike be rolled back as planned. It was the largest of such "sweeps" conducted in Illinois since 2003.
The special funds cover varied, sometimes obscure, areas of interest. As of Dec. 15, the date of the state comptroller's data the AP analyzed, there was $29 million in various "whistleblower" accounts raised from citizen lawsuits over bureaucratic skullduggery. There also was $205 million in a fund to complement regula...
House Speaker Michael Madigan didn't show up for a Thursday meeting with Gov. Bruce Rauner and legislative leaders, the latest sign that the budget impasse that's consumed state government for nearly six months is headed into 2016.
No one has suggested sweeps as a means of breaking the continuing logjam Rauner and lawmakers have over a spending plan that should have taken effect July 1.
One lawmaker has suggested the opposite. GOP Rep. David Harris of Arlington Heights is pushing legislation to free up the untouched billions not for general expenses, but for their intended targets. For example, one of the funds helps counties pay the salaries of state's attorneys; Williamson County in southern Illinoi...
The No. 2 House Democrat, Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie, sponsored the stopgap plan that was approved this month. During debate, she uttered the contentious term, pointing out that Rauner had initially opposed the idea and speculated that he might be eyeing the funds for an old-fashioned sweep. Rauner spokeswoma...
Gov. Bruce Rauner said Friday he does not expect to meet again with legislative leaders until early January, a day after House Speaker Michael Madigan skipped out on such a meeting because of an unexplained scheduling conflict.
Currie is amenable if it's done judiciously, paid out from funds that won't suffer distress and is part of a larger budget deal. But it's not optimal, she said.
"You create the special funds to serve special purposes, and once you begin saying, 'Open, Sesame' — we can just take whatever we like — that's not a good way to run things in part because it raises expectations that you have resources that you don't have next year," she said Thursday.
All told, the AP analysis found at least 745 funds with a $6 billion balance as of early last week. But $469 million is from the federal government and has strings attached. Another $1.4 billion needs no legislative approval to be spent, so they're immune to being rerouted, according to Charles Wheeler III, a professor...
Wheeler, who has watched Illinois budget-making for 45 years, isn't a fan, calling the sweeps practice "misleading, at best, and downright deceptive" at worst. For example, someone who, through an income-tax checkoff, contributes to the preservation of non-game wildlife (a fund with $1.5 million last week) might object...
Harris said Rauner's office asked him to hold off on his bill, but noted that he'll pick up the campaign again next month, when lawmakers return to session. But he knows political winds shift quickly, particularly with $4 billion or more in the mix.
"That's a significant amount of money that would be tempting for anybody looking at a budget problem," he said.
A Wanderlust instructor leads a slacklining class on Thursday. Wanderlust Aspen/Snowmass is in Snowmass Village through Sunday.
During the first pose of my first class at Wanderlust in Snowmass, I started laughing out loud.
Normally that wouldn’t be considered appropriate for a yoga class, but this was no ordinary practice — not only were we outside, but we were floating above ice-cold water on paddleboards. What had I gotten myself into?
For the first few minutes, even my downward-facing dog was shaky as I adjusted to the feeling of the rocking beneath me. It didn’t take long for me to realize that this class was going to require me to have better form than I’d ever had before.
But I was up for the challenge. I might not have done a handstand Thursday, but I did manage a shoulder stand, a plow pose and a few minutes of dangling my feet in the water. Not only was stand-up paddleboard yoga a unique, new challenge, it was really fun.
The class, held in the pond at the top of the Elk Camp Gondola, was taught by Sarah Tiefenthaler, who owns a company specializing in the activity in California. Tiefenthaler travels to all of Wanderlust’s festivals, which in addition to Snowmass are in other resort areas such as Squaw Valley, California, and Oahu, Hawa...
The mission of the festivals is to help people find their “True North,” a phrase Wanderlust uses that encompasses someone’s passion and direction in life, said Kim Small, Wanderlust director of publicity.
It’s easy to see that, when you consider that stand-up paddleboard yoga is just one example of the diverse activities offered just at Wanderlust Aspen/Snowmass. There’s hula-hoop workouts, group hikes, rafting trips, a “Beauty Bar” and slacklining, as well as yoga classes with various focuses.
And those are just the physical activities. Vendors offer everything from clothing and jewelry to samples of juice drinks, and snack bars dot the Snowmass Mall and Base Village. Speakers add to the internal benefit that the festival provides. Small is most looking forward to a talk Saturday by Army Maj. Daniel Caffarel...
And in honor of America’s independence, Wanderlust will host a barbecue before Moby’s performance.
Wanderlust is expecting about 2,500 individual ticket holders over the course of the festival, Small said. Day and weekend passes are still available online at http://www.wanderlust.com/festivals/aspen-snowmass.
It’s pretty easy to paralyze America’s oil infrastructure. All Emily Johnston and Annette Klapstein needed was a set of 3-foot-long green-and-red bolt cutters. And a willingness to go to jail for years.
By “their,” she meant policymakers and oil companies (and, by extension, you and me). Johnston, now 52, is a poet and cofounder of the Seattle chapter of climate action group 350.org. For years, she’d done all the things law-abiding climate change activists do: filed petitions, lobbied legislators, hosted speakers, wro...
It was a cold morning, aspens shaking their dull gold under heavy skies. A fellow activist, Ben Joldersma, livestreamed to Facebook as the two women cut the chains around fenced enclosures containing large shut-off valves for two oil pipelines owned by the Canadian multinational Enbridge. The pipes carry crude oil from...
Dean Kuipers writes about the environment, politics, and the arts and is the author, most recently, of a forthcoming memoir, The Deer Camp.
Enbridge was well aware they were there: About 15 minutes before they cut their way in, an activist named Jay O’Hara with the Climate Disobedience Center in Seattle had talked to Enbridge staff on the phone and warned them that protesters were going to be closing the valves on Line 67 and Line 4, each of which hum with...
What only a handful of people knew, however, was that Johnston and Klapstein were part of a nationwide action dubbed #ShutItDown that would also choke off pipelines at three other locations in North Dakota, Montana, and Washington State that day, moving east to west. They referred to themselves as the Valve Turners, an...
Even as Johnston and Klapstein entered the enclosures, they could see and hear that Enbridge was already closing one of the valves remotely: A tall plunger or screw device was dropping as a gate shut in the underground pipe. On the other valve, they cut the lock on a large steel wheel that allowed for manual shut-off a...
“This was what I needed to be doing, here in this time, facing this massive emergency," says Annette Klapstein, right, with fellow activist Emily Johnston. "That I was doing everything in my power to ensure that my children had a future."
Getting arrested was part of the plan.
It took almost an hour for Clearwater County sheriff Darin Halverson to show up with some deputies. When he did, according to Johnston, he said, “Well, you don’t look too dangerous to me,” and arrested everyone, including videographer Steve Liptay, who was also present but whose charges were later dropped. No one was e...
Getting arrested was part of the plan. Across the country, the Valve Turners and their support teams had closed the valves in the hope of getting into court to present to a jury what is called a “necessity defense,” arguing that their crime was an act of civil disobedience meant to prevent a greater harm—in this case, ...
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it’s also the child of desperation. The Valve Turners knew the pipelines would be turned back on in just a few hours. They needed to get into the courts, convince a jury, and prove to policymakers that people wanted real change. The point was to turn acts of necessity into ...
How would that happen? Johnston likes to cite a book by Mark and Paul Engler called This Is an Uprising, in which they describe how years of slow and patient work suddenly coalesce and unleash the “moment of the whirlwind.” She hoped to start it spinning.
Joldersma was less calm. A tall, thin CTO of a Seattle tech firm called Maven who has formerly worked at Microsoft and Google, he was a relative newcomer to direct action. He also had three young children. “I had a lot of fear of going up against the fossil fuel state power complex,” he says.
And yet, Clearwater County district judge Robert Tiffany shocked just about everyone in October 2017 when he issued a short memorandum granting a necessity defense to the Minnesota Valve Turners. The defense had been used by anti-nuclear-weapon and antiabortion defendants, but it was the first time such a defense would...
To that end, Regan and her co-counsels, Kelsey Skaggs of the Climate Defense Project and Minneapolis attorney Tim Phillips, spent months lining up a dream team of expert witnesses. These included James Hansen, former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, whose 1988 testimony before Congress first brou...
Their job was to convince a jury that our government has taken so little action to reduce the use of fossil fuels—even under Barack Obama—that concerned citizens have no choice but to intervene.

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