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Title: A Season for Tending
Author : Cindy Woodsmall
Category: Fiction – Amish & Mennonite
Old Order Amish Rhoda Byler's unusual gift and her remarkable abilities to grow herbs and berries have caused many to think her odd. As rumors mount that Rhoda's "gift" is a detriment to the community, she chooses isolation, spending her time in her fruit garden and on her thriving canning business.
Miles away in Harvest Mills, Samuel King struggles to keep his family's apple orchard profitable. As the eldest son, Samuel farms with his brothers, the irrepressible Jacob and brash Eli, while his longtime girlfriend Catherine remains hopeful that Samuel will marry her when he feels financially stable.
Meanwhile, Samuel's younger sister Leah is testing all the boundaries during her rumschpringe (adolescence), and finds herself far from home in Rhoda's garden after a night of partying gone badly. But Leah's poor choices serve as a bridge between Rhoda and the King family when a tragic mistake in the orchard leaves Samuel searching for solutions.
Rhoda's expertise in canning could be the answer, but she struggles with guilt over the tragic death of her sister and doesn't trust herself outside her garden walls. As the lines between business, love, and family begin to blur, can Rhoda finally open up to a new life? And what effect will this odd, amazing woman have on the entire King family?
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I am always fascinated to read about the Amish life and I'm glad to have been able to get a new look at it through Cindy Woodsmall's 'A Season for Tending'.
The book had enough drama, romance and suspense to keep me interested until the end. It had a good dose of humour as well. I also appreciated that the characters were real people who struggled to resolve issues within themselves and in life.
I would definitely like to read the rest of the series.
I received this book from Blogging For Books and was not required to give a positive review.


text: We live in a society that is toxic highly, and it is getting even worse with each passing day. And once you do develop malignancy, doctors aren't allowed to prescribe any alternative treatments for you personally. They are only permitted to offer you the treatments that the system tells them that they need to offer. One of these is chemotherapy. It really is an absolutely nightmarish treatment that frequently kills the individual before it kills the cancer. The following is how one girl described her experience with chemo[10]. This toxic fluid was being injected into my veins highly. The nurse administering it had been wearing protective gloves because it would burn off her skin if just a tiny drip arrived to connection with it. I couldn't help requesting myself If such precautions are would have to be taken on the outside, the facts doing to me inside? From 7 pm that night, I vomited solidly for just two and a half days.When it comes to teeth-staining holiday indulgences like burgandy or merlot wine, coffee and chocolate, 91 per cent of Canadians say they don't avoid them this year, said Courtroom Elliott, Communications Manager, Philips Canada. Using Philips Sonicare brand-new HealthyWhite power toothbrush for two minutes per day might help achieve whiter tooth in just fourteen days and keep that vacation smile bright. It also makes an excellent holiday gift.

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Earlier this year, Din Of Ecstasy released Traditional Dark the ninth album from songwriter Jinder available on CD and download from all good retailers.
Traditional Dark is a stark, stunning and concise album, showcasing Jinder's unique brand of dark, storytelling songwriting. The critically acclaimed first single from the album, Boil The World was released in December 2014, and was followed by second single Stations In The Valley in March 2015.
Jinder is a solo artist the former frontman of Sony BMG artists The Mercurymen. His previous release, 2012's Crumbs Of Comfort'(Universal) saw his music reach a wider audience than ever before, primarily due to major artists such as Aled Jones, Henry Priestman and Lotte Mullan covering Jinder's songs and label Universal pushing Jinder's profile into national press.
Since leaving Universal in late 2012, Jinder started his own label, Din Of Ecstasy, and filled a remote Westcountry cottage with analogue recording equipment, recording and producing new album Traditional Dark in 2014 alone and largely by night, the only outside contribution being from drummer Ryan Halsey. The intimacy of these sessions is evident in the dark, emotional and spiritual delivery of songs such as New Maps Of Hell, Stations In The Valley, Song For Jackie Leven and Gathering My Children Home.


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After I got my laptop setup with ubuntu, my desktop started having issues. The main partition quit booting up Windows 2000, so I replaced it with a fresh install of Windows XP. After installing 16 essential security updates, Service Pack 2, 86 MORE security updates, then 2 more security updates, it was time to install Eclipse.
On my laptop, it took me forever to get the correct pieces installed to get some plug-ins I hadn't used before. Whenever one plug-in relied on some other piece, it would just give an error message that "xyz relies on a.b.c.d". (I had the worst time trying to install Subclipse.)
One thing I love about the ubuntu package manager is that if you wanted something that relied on something else, it would give a list of what else it needed to install: "Is this OK? [Ok / Cancel] Why can't Eclipse work like that?
Anyway, rather than hunt down the list of packages again, I figured I'd just copy down the list of Remote Sites I had from the Linux install.
Help > Software Updates > Find and Install > Search for new features to install > Next
With 20 sites, I wasn't looking forward to it until I noticed the "Export sites" button.
Here's the current list of plug-ins I have installed in Eclipse 3.3 (Europa). Just copy this to a file named "eclipse_bookmarks.xml" and import it the next time you have to install from scratch.
I'm putting this here for my own reference, but I figured it might help someone else too. I'll try and keep it updated as I add more plug-ins.


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By Crystal Colwell / April 17th, 2014
Have you ever watched Evangelion and wished you had your very own SDAT audio player like Shinji Ikari? Japanese fans are going to get just that! Sony has updated the available information, and we now know the Evangelion-brand Walkman music players will be available starting April 24th. There are three different models to choose from, and the price varies depending on which model is purchased. These audio players have FLAC, HE-ACC, MP3, MWA, L-PCM and AAC format support and will of course work with Sony Music Unlimited. For those of you interested, they are being sold here.
Available Models
- ¥43,000
- This version features one of three Rebuild of Evangelion soundtrack albums installed
- ¥51,000
- All three albums are installed
NW-F887/EVA3 With Special Earphone
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- The Hi-Res Audio-compatible inner ear receiver XBA-H3 is also included
I spent most of my time with the series complaining about Shinji being a bit too whiny (though I'll admit that's an SFW version of my thoughts) to pay too much attention to his audio player. However, after looking closely at it, I can see why fans of the series would like to get their hands on something like this!
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Photo: Harland Quarrington/MOD [see page for license], via Wikimedia Commons, © Crown copyright 2012
One of my company newsletter articles in EMPFasis, a monthly Navy deliverable from the Electronics Manufacturing Productivity Facility or EMPF, was reprinted in the April 2010 issue of "Printed Circuit Design & Fab / Circuits Assembly".
Other articles that I wrote have covered:
- Problems related to surface finish quality that lead to solderability issues.
- Cleanliness and corrosion mitigation in electronics bare boards and assemblies (the one reprinted in Circuits Assembly).
- Non-destructive test methods that are used to analyze a variety of characteristics of interest in electronics.
- Five types of conformal coatings used to protect electronics assemblies.
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Book Notes - Judith Kitchen "Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate"
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, David Peace, Myla Goldberg, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others.
Judith Kitchen's Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate is much more than a memoir. Kitchens traces the history of both her family and her own life through a collection of snapshots, each reflected upon by the author both lyrically and with great insight.
Publishers Weekly wrote of the book:
"'Written over a ten-year period,' this prose poem, masking itself as essays, rewards a leisurely reading, with not only, as Kitchen promises, 'patterns of American immigration and opportunities,' but an experience that may open the eyes to the treasure chest of the American experience found among those stepchildren of the arts—the snapshots. Kitchen's book lets you know what a keen eye coupled with an alert and sensitive intelligence can see."
Stream a Spotify playlist of these tunes. If you don't have Spotify yet, sign up for the free service.
In her own words, here is Judith Kitchen's Book Notes music playlist for her memoir, Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate:
What? He wants a list of songs? For a book full of pictures? Photos to provoke memory. But then I remember that music is part and parcel of the moment remembered. So a quick look at the pieces in Half in Shade reveals to me what I had not noted—not in any visceral way—that I, too, had tracked sound. Since I like to write in complete silence, I had thought of this as a silent book. Simply visual. But "from out of the past," its opening thrums to seven years old and those "thundering hoofbeats of the great horse, Silver." It seems to me, now, the music of childhood, the excitement of discovery.
William Tell Overture—opening bars for The Lone Ranger
It's not long, though, before the photos are haunted by French nightclubs and music halls of the 1930s and 40s, the female voices lost in longing, and then muted by the clacking footsteps of the marching German soldiers. Here is where history rears its head. Piaf, discovered in 1935, has her own history with the war. So follow my father's family back into time, back into silence. Then listen to my grandfather as he struggles with another kind of music in the scratchy old-man's voice of Robert Frost, the enigmatic tone that somehow did not carry over into his plain midwestern barbed wire:
Edith Piaf—Hymne à l'Amour
Frost—"Mending Wall"
Or follow my father forward, to the house on the River Road, time hanging golden, each day a globe of light. 1945, and already the mood of the country has shifted. Already a new day is coming. Though it will be some time before it finds a voice—"Day, me say day, me say day, me say day."
Then there's my mother crossing the ocean, dancing to the "blarey" old Victrola, the age of the flapper nearly over. Slowly swaying in what I laughingly call her posthumous romance. Why not? No one will know. All we have left is her life on the page. All we have left is the pure notes she heard.
Gene Austin—"Girl of My Dreams"
How do I find her again, the woman who sang in an off-key voice? Who made us listen to opera on Sunday afternoons until we rebelled. So play that tenor—the one from her era, the one from your own. And the music? It picks its way through the long-lost elms, settling in the tops of the trees, swooping in, like starlings, then sticking around. She winds the handle, and it rises again, lifting raucous from branches to fill the sky. It is summer in Italy, summer in his voice.
Those lives in the album are part of your own. They carry you into your own junior prom. The jukebox. The sock hop. The sheer bright glint of it all. Jitterbug, Rock 'n' roll, Pop. Country with its twang of vinyl regret. The dusky flip side of "Heartbreak Hotel." Roy Orbison's answering lament. The Platters, winding down your memories (Deepening shadows gather splendor) as swish . . . the spinning needle . . . swish . . . brushes away a lifetime . . . swish . . .
Elvis Presley—"I Was the One"
Roy Orbison—"Only the Lonely"
The photos hold us there, locked in our old-fashioned clothes, our out-of-date hairdos. Time intrudes and there's a piano pushing its way up from the past. Gone, now, and I am left with background music, watching Loië Fuller dancing her "Night Winds," the music mere accompaniment as she flares, motion in motion, tornado of silk.
"Night Winds" dance, from "Roman Sketches"—music by Charles Griffes
Judith Kitchen and Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate links:
The Brooklyn Rail review
Coffee House Press interview with the author
Kirkus Reviews review
TriQuarterly review
No Such Thing As Was interview with the author
also at Largehearted Boy:
other Book Notes playlists (authors create music playlists for their book)
my 11 favorite Book Notes playlists
100 Online Sources for Free and Legal Music Downloads
52 Books, 52 Weeks (weekly book reviews)
Antiheroines (interviews with up and coming female comics artists)
Atomic Books Comics Preview (weekly comics highlights)
Daily Downloads (free and legal daily mp3 downloads)
guest book reviews
Largehearted Word (weekly new book highlights)
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Shorties (daily music, literature, and pop culture links)
Soundtracked (composers and directors discuss their film's soundtracks)
Try It Before You Buy It (mp3s and full album streams from the week's CD releases)
weekly music & DVD release lists


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WevQuery – A scalable system for testing hypotheses about web interaction patterns. Remotely stored user interaction logs give access to a wealth of data generated by large numbers of users which can be used to understand if interactive systems meet the expectations of designers. Unfortunately, detailed insight into users' interaction behaviour still requires a high degree of expertise. WevQuery allows designers to test their hypotheses about users' behaviour by using a graphical notation to define the interaction patterns designers are seeking. WevQuery is scalable as the queries can then be executed against large user interaction datasets by employing the MapReduce paradigm. This way WevQuery provides designers effortless access to harvest users' interaction patterns, removing the burden of low-level interaction data analysis. You can find more information regarding the system and download it under: https://github.com/aapaolaza/WevQuery
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Interactive online demo with audio and video analysis results in lecture and non-lecture videos. CERTH released an interactive online demo linking lecture videos, using general purpose concepts that were produced from textual analysis of their transcripts, with non-lecture videos, using their visual analysis results such as automatically detected shots, scenes, and visual concepts. You can access the demo at: http://multimedia2.iti.gr/moving-project/lecture-video-linking-demo/results.html (best viewed with Firefox).
Scientific Paper Recommendation using Sparse Title Data. The system delivers recommended scientific papers in economics based on what a social media user tweeted. It profiles papers as well as tweets using our novel method HCF-IDF (Hierarchical Concept Frequency Inverse Document Frequency). HCF-IDF extracts semantic concepts from texts and applies spreading activation based on a hierarchical thesaurus, which is freely available in many different domains. Spreading activation enables to extract relevant semantic concepts which are not mentioned in texts and mitigates shortness and sparseness of texts. The novel method HCF-IDF demonstrated the best performance in a larger user experiment published at JCDL'16. In this demo, you may compare the two different configurations, HCF-IDF using only titles of papers and HCF-IDF using both titles and full-texts of papers. Different from the traditional methods, HCF-IDF can provide competitive recommendations already using only titles.
Support Vector Machine with Gaussian Sample Uncertainty (SVM-GSU). SVM-GSU is a maximum margin classifier that deals with uncertainty in data input. More specifically, the SVM framework is reformulated such that each training example can be modeled by a multi-dimensional Gaussian distribution described by its mean vector and its covariance matrix – the latter modeling the uncertainty. We address the classification problem and define a cost function that is the expected value of the classical SVM cost when data samples are drawn from the multi-dimensional Gaussian distributions that form the set of the training examples. Our formulation approximates the classical SVM formulation when the training examples are isotropic Gaussians with variance tending to zero. We arrive at a convex optimization problem, which we solve efficiently in the primal form using a stochastic gradient descent approach. The resulting classifier, which we name SVM with Gaussian Sample Uncertainty (SVM-GSU), is tested on synthetic data and five publicly available and popular datasets; namely, the MNIST, WDBC, DEAP, TV News Channel Commercial Detection, and TRECVID MED datasets. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Tzelepis, V. Mezaris, I. Patras, "Linear Maximum Margin Classifier for Learning from Uncertain Data", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, accepted for publication. DOI:10.1109/TPAMI.2017.2772235. An alternate preprint version is available here.
Code available at: https://github.com/chi0tzp/svm-gsu
Related tools and demos by the MOVING partners
Text Extraction from Scholarly Figures. Scholarly figures are data or visualizations like bar charts, pie charts, line graphs, maps, scatter plots or similar figures. Text extraction from scholarly figures is useful in many application scenarios, since text in scholarly figures often contains information that is not present in the surrounding text. We derived a generic pipeline for text extraction from the analysis of the wide research area on text extraction from figures and implemented in total over 20 methods for the six sequential steps of the pipeline.
Interactive on-line video analysis service lets you upload videos via a web interface, and it performs shot/scene segmentation and visual concept detection (several times faster than real-time; uses our new concept detection engine). Results are displayed in an interactive user interface, which allows navigating through the video structure (shots, scenes), viewing the concept detection results for each shot, and searching by concepts within the video. Try this service now!


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An amazingly attractive heirloom lettuce with tender leaves that are green at the base and ruby-red at the top. Forms a crinkly, flower-like rosette. A fast-maturing butter-head lettuce with a fine flavour and tender texture, the Marvel of Four Seasons is hardy almost all year around and is slow to bolt.
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[60 days] Dating back to the 1800's, the Marvel of Four Seasons is a butter-head lettuce that is as tasty as it is beautiful. It sports a bibb-style rosette with an array of beautiful colours ranging in gold, bronze, red and green, depending on the season it's grown in. (The darker colours develop more fully in cooler climates). The rosettes are 16-24cm (8"-12") in diameter, tender, and thrive in a range of climates.
Marvel of Four Seasons is fast maturing, slow to bolt, and tolerant of both high and low temperatures.
Starting out
Lettuce is a cool season crop that prefers a rich, well-drained soil and a pH above 6.5. It germinates best at temperatures from 4-16°C (40-60°F). Germination rates decline above 20°C (68°F).
Direct Seed: Sow at a seed depth of 6 to 12mm (¼ to ½") in short rows about 30cm (12") apart. Cover lightly, as the seeds need light to germinate (7-14 days). Thin to a spacing of 15 to 20cm (6-8") once the seedlings are 2cm (1") tall. For a continual harvest, make successional sowings every two weeks from spring to mid-summer.
Although most lettuce prefers growing temperatures from 16-18°C (60-65°F), Marvel of Four Seasons is slow to bolt, so there is a longer window of opportunity for both sowing and harvesting.
Keep lettuce plants consistently moist (but not water logged), particularly when the plants are around 2 weeks away from harvesting. Dry soil at this point will cause the plants to bolt, turning the leaves bitter. Applying mulch (grass clippings, straw, leaves, etc.) will help both to suppress weeds and keep the soil moist and cool.
The tastiest lettuce comes from rapid growth, but since lettuce has very shallow roots, it does best with a side dressing of compost a week or so after seedlings appear. Applying compost tea every few weeks will also help to give it its best flavour.
If the head of the lettuce is firm when gently pressed, it is ready to harvest. (The earlier the harvest, the more tender the crop will be.) Cut the heads off at 2" above ground level; new leaves will grow from the center. Make sure to harvest the head before the central stem begins to form. Once this happens the lettuce is going to seed and the leaves will become bitter. Alternatively, pick individual leaves before the head begins to form for a continual supply.
For maximum flavour and freshness, pick early in the morning and then refrigerate until use the same day.
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It was a toss up between Silver Peak and Red Mountain, but glad we settled on the latter. But no matter where you had ended up, the views would have been gorgeous everywhere.
We mostly followed direction of the summer trail from the trailhead to bottom of the southwest ridge around 4,000', which also marked the beginning of the aggressive elevation gain. The slope got even steeper at around 5,000' and with a mixture of ice and crust. I personally brought crampons and they probably would have better served the purpose. But we all managed to get to the summit with just snowshoes and spikes. Ice axes were our best friends getting through sketchy sections both going up and coming down.
Some cornices on the north face, so we all stayed close to the south rim of the summit. The exposed rocks provided a safe and solid place to rest our burning thighs and calves. Clear views all around with barely any clouds in the sky, even the distant Adams was visible.
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A 3 piece charms set with Alice in Wonderland themed designs. The images are under domed glass and set into vintage brass connector charms.
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Series: Immortal Game #1
Author: Ann Aguirre
Edition: Paperback (international Edition)
Publication: Feiwel and Friends / August 5, 2014
Source: Finished copy sent by the publisher
Pages: 374
Genre: Mystery, Paranormal
Trailer: Not available.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
In Ann Aguirre's Mortal Danger, Edie Kramer has a score to settle with the beautiful people at Blackbriar Academy. Their cruelty drove her to the brink of despair, and four months ago, she couldn't imagine being strong enough to face her senior year. But thanks to a Faustian compact with the enigmatic Kian, she has the power to make the bullies pay. She's not supposed to think about Kian once the deal is done, but devastating pain burns behind his unearthly beauty, and he's impossible to forget.
In one short summer, her entire life changes and she sweeps through Blackbriar, prepped to take the beautiful people down from the inside. A whisper here, a look there, and suddenly . . . bad things are happening. It's a head rush, seeing her tormentors get what they deserve, but things that seem too good to be true usually are, and soon, the pranks and payback turns from delicious to deadly. Edie is alone in a world teeming with secrets and fiends lurking in the shadows. In this murky morass of devil's bargains, she isn't sure who—or what—she can trust. Not even her own mind.
Erin was bullied until she was broken. She reached a point where checking out was her best option. Her parents couldn't be relied on that much because they were scholarly enough and their expectations of her were high, she didn't have friends and she felt so ugly that the only best thing she thought she has was her grades. She was about to jump off a bridge when Kian stopped her and gave her an alluring option - revenge. She was offered 3 wishes though she's not sure what the catch would be. She took it and let Kian guide her through the game. Her first wish was to be beautiful (ugh). After Kian worked on her using I don't know what (magic? science?), eerie and dangerous things started happening. And I felt like she was about to be broken the second time around.
Mortal Danger started strong. I liked how Aguirre planted the root of every decision Erin would make in my head. In the beginning, I was transported to the life of a bullied high schooler and seeing it from her perspective intrigued me. Erin was supposed to be successful in her attempt to check out but Kian stopped her. The book claimed Kian was no longer human but that I truly didn't understand. But the concept of someone as mysterious as Kian offering you 3 wishes made me hopeful. I used to wish for it when I was little. I pegged that a Genie in a Bottle or something is just out there waiting for me to make my wishes. BUT THEN when Erin wished for her makeover, everything went down the drain for me. YOU COULD HAVE EASILY GONE TO THE GYM, SALON THEN SHOPPED FOR CLOTHES! That wish changed how I looked at Erin and at the book. DO YOU REALLY HAVE TO USE BEAUTY AS A SCALE TO MAKE YOURSELF FEEL BETTER? WORTHY? CONFIDENT? COME ON. Then the second wish absolutely made me hate her but the last wish kind of redeemed her from my impending anger. At least for a bit.
Honestly, I didn't know much about Kian in the book. Only bits and pieces were shared and I wanted to know more about him not just his favorite color or movie. I wanted to understand his relationship with Raoul, how he ended up working for that creepy company and why was he ready to leave everything behind for Erin! I wanted to understand how it all works but my brain couldn't wrap it up.
What really, REALLY threw me off (aside from the fact that the book talked so much about how being beautiful can make life better) was the genre. It started from contemporary to sci-fi then to paranormal to horror to mystery. There's also a little bit of mythology and fantasy. It would have been a very intriguing one but I guess I got confused and I didn't enjoy shifting from one kind of genre to a bunch of others. It would have been a thoroughly enjoyable one if one genre shone brighter than the others. But that's just me, okay?
Mortal Danger can be summed up in one word: dangerous. A game no one knows how to win, Mortal Danger leaves you gambling for answers and striving for survival.
Thank you Pan Macmillan Asia for the review copy!
"Hateful words had a way of worming beneath the skin, until they became the unbearable echo in your head."
"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."
"Neither of us is unbreakable. We shattered, but we put the pieces back together and I love the way your fractures shines."
"He was the only star in my firmament, shining in darkest night, so I could always find the path."


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Security for mobile banking
It looks like the Accredited Standards Committee X9, the group that makes American National Standards for the financial services industry, is soon going to start work on its ANS X9.112 Part 3, Wireless Management and Security Part 3: Mobile Banking, even though work on Part 2: ATM and POS hasn't even started yet. The sudden interest in mobile banking security is apparently due to the introduction of vans that go to events like fairs and other festivals. These vans act like a mobile bank and have a wireless connection back to a brick-and-mortar bank. These banks-in-a-van use commonly accepted protocols like SSL to protect transactions that are sent over wireless connections, but that's not good enough for the more security-conscious banks.
Banking information security standards are fairly strict, particularly when it comes to the use of cryptography, and there are X9 standards that define in great detail how encryption and key management need to be done if it's to be considered good enough to protect financial transactions. The use of SSL in off-the-shelf web servers doesn't even come close to the level of care required by X9's key management standards, and the ANS X9.112 Part 3 will try to correct that.
Creating an SSL server certificate is relatively easy with most web servers, but the process isn't done in a way that meets the level of security that security-conscious banks want to see. They're used to the careful key management processes that are used to generate and install the keys that are used to protect ATMs, for example, and these are much stricter that what controls that a web server can provide. They require the generation of keys in secure hardware devices instead of in software, and require careful protection of the keys throughout their life. Most commercial web servers don't provide a way to do key management that carefully, but that's what ANS X9.112 Part 3 wants to require.
There's probably a fairly small market for web servers that are secure enough to keep security-conscious banks happy, but security-conscious banks may be willing to pay a fairly high price for products that meet their needs. It will be interesting to see how the ANS X9.112 Part 3 standard evolves and how widely it's implemented.


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LA-LB Terminals that Teamed with Truckers Scored Best Turn Times
Marine terminals in Los Angeles-Long Beach that have collaborated with cargo interests and truckers on creative programs such as dray-offs and free-flow of containers recorded the best gate turn times in January, according to data published by the Harbor Trucking Association. But even those gains weren't able to speed overall truck turn times much at the top U.S. container port complex.
The HTA each month collects turn-time data from hundreds of trucks equipped with GPS devices as part of its on-going truck mobility project. The association reports turn-time data for all 13 container terminals in the harbor. Time is measured from when the truck arrives in the queue outside the gate until the truck leaves through the exit gate.
Overall turn times appear to be in a rut. The average truck visit in January was 91 minutes. Average visit times have ranged between 88 and 91 minutes since April 2015. That's when the ports were returning to normal following the congestion that accompanied the coastwide longshore contract negotiations of 2014-15.
Although average turn times have been stuck in the 90-minute range, some terminals in the largest U.S. port complex have noticeably better turn times, but others have much longer turn times than the average. Weston LaBar, executive director of the HTA, said it is becoming apparent that those terminals that work closely with cargo interests and truckers to speed trucks through their facilities outperform the others.
"The terminals with the best turn times are the ones that have a lot of dialogue with the truckers, rather than trying to do it alone," he said.
SSA Marine operates three terminals in Long Beach, Matson, Pacific Container Terminal and Pier A. The average truck-visit time at those terminals is much shorter than at most of the other terminals in Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor.
SSA for the past decade has been draying imported containers from the terminals to a near-dock yard it operates as soon as the containers are discharged from the vessels. Ed DeNike, chief operating officer, said SSA works with truckers and cargo interests in a number of areas, but dray-offs are "95 percent" of the reason why its turn times are shorter than those at most terminals.
The average turn time at the terminal that SSA operates with Matson Navigation Co. was 33 minutes, by far the best in the harbor. Matson is a special case because it is a single-user terminal served by smaller ships in a closed loop arrangement. However, PCT, with an average turn time of 72 minutes, and Pier A, at 62 minutes, are the same as other terminals in the harbor. They are served by mega-ships carrying the containers of multiple lines operating in vessel-sharing alliances.
Similarly, another program initiated last year known as free flow, or peel off, is beginning to produce results. Free flow is somewhat more complex than dray-offs because multiple importers must work closely with the trucking company and terminal operator in order to generate a critical mass of inbound containers."When you have to pick and choose from a pile, you will have problems," said Mike DiBernardo, deputy executive director of marketing and customer relations at the Port of Los Angeles.
Since the operations at PCT and Pier A are as complex as those at other terminals, it appears that draying inbound containers immediately upon discharge to a near-dock site, without regard to destination or consignee, is driving cargo velocity at the terminals. This operation is much different than at more traditional terminals where truck drivers arrive at the facilities to pick up specific containers, which seem invariably to be located at the bottom of a stack of containers.
The program began when West Basin Container Terminal in Los Angeles worked with TTSI to recruit the trucking company's beneficial cargo owners to participate. When the containers of participating BCOs are discharged from the vessel, they are segregated in a pile. The BCOs and the trucking company are notified that the containers are available for pickup. When the truckers arrive at the terminal, they are directed to the peel-off pile and they are immediately given a container without regard to destination. The containers are drayed to a near-dock yard for pickup and delivery to the destination.
John Cushing, president of PierPass Inc., which manages the extended gates program in Los Angeles-Long Beach on behalf of the terminal operators, said the past year's experience with free-flow has helped the participants to improve the program so that the critical mass needed to trigger a free-flow operation has been reduced to about 50 containers, down from 72 to 80 when the program began.
"Most of the terminals are doing peel off now," Cushing said. The average visit time at West Basin in January was 75 minutes. He noted that PierPass' January numbers for in-terminal visit times at the 13 container facilities show trucks spent an average of 45.5 minutes from gate-in to gate-out during the day shifts and 49 minutes during the night shifts. That was the best day-shift performance since last April, he said.
The ports and terminal operators want to further expand participation in free flow, but in order to do so they must locate additional properties for near-dock dray-off yards. Vacant land is not easy to find in a harbor that last year handled more than 15 million 20-foot container units, but the ports are cobbling together available parcels. DiBernardo said Los Angeles is engaged in an environmental impact study on the site of a former coal-transfer facility that it hopes to turn into a peel-off yard.
An even higher level of performance is anticipated at the two automated terminals, TraPac in Los Angeles and Middle Harbor in Long Beach, as those facilities work with truckers to adjust to the new processes that are involved in an automated terminal. Anthony Otto, president of the terminal operator, told an HTA meeting last week that Middle Harbor should have the fastest turn times in the harbor as the terminal and trucking community adjust to the new system this summer.
Automation is considered the ultimate remedy for turn-time delays because it separates street truck traffic from vessel traffic, said Larry Nye, vice president of port planning at Moffatt & Nichol. Container stacks run perpendicular between the vessel and the terminal gate, unlike a conventional facility where the stacks are parallel. Therefore, trucks travel only a short distance when they enter the gate to the landside head of the stack. They remain separated from the dozens of yard tractors that are shuttling containers from the vessel to the waterside of the stacks.
Also, Nye noted, each stack has a mixture of loaded inbound containers, export containers and empties, allowing most truckers to drop off an export container or empty and to pick up an imported container at the same stack. Drivers engaging in a dual transaction at the same location in the terminal have much faster turn times than the conventional method of dropping off an outbound container or empty at one stack and then proceeding to another location to receive the inbound load.
Some terminals in Los Angeles-Long Beach in January continued to struggle, due in most cases to construction programs that hampered truck access or to unusually high container volumes. Long Beach Container Terminal has been under constant construction as it works toward the April opening of Middle Harbor, and its average turn time was 103 minutes. APM Terminals' Pier 400 was processing large container surges from the 15,000-TEU Maersk Edmonton and the 18,000-TEU CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin that arrived over the Christmas holidays and had average turn times of 125 minutes in January.
The port and trucking communities expect average turn times throughout the harbor to improve in the coming year as terminal operators expand their free-flow programs, implement mandatory trucker appointment systems to manage traffic flow and share other best practices with each other. "The terminals should integrate the best practices from the good terminals," LaBar said. "All of the terminals should want to do a good job because at the end of the day they all benefit," he said.


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August 6, 1945. The day the United States became the first and only country to use a nuclear weapon. We detonated a second just 3 days later on August 9. Two cities were flattened, and more than 200,000 people were killed using 2 nuclear weapons.
Today, the U.S. has around 4,500 of those weapons in the military stockpile. And despite nuclear weapons being irrelevant to 21st century security needs, current U.S. nuclear policy leaves the option of nuclear weapon use on the table "in extreme circumstances" to defend "vital interests," an ambiguous policy that could permit nuclear weapon use in retaliation for a conventional, biological, or chemical attack on the U.S. or its allies.
Leaving the door open to a nuclear first strike is an outdated strategy. That is why we are calling on President Obama to announce the adoption of a "no-first-use" policy -- stating that the sole purpose of U.S. nuclear weapons is to deter nuclear weapon use by adversaries against the U.S. and its allies. In other words, the United States will not be the first to use nuclear weapons.
This is not new territory for nuclear weapons countries: China and India both have declared no-first-use policies. If the U.S. adopts no-first-use, it would be the biggest change to U.S. nuclear strategy in 50 years. Or, as Vice President Joe Biden might put it, a Big F'in Deal.
Why is that? Glad you asked!
A no-first-use policy makes us dramatically safer by decreasing the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. security strategy, giving the president more space to avoid using nuclear weapons. There is no plausible circumstance in which the current option of nuclear first use would be in the national security interest of the United States or its allies. Any use of nuclear weapons -- whether one or 1,000 -- would serve only to destroy, to kill thousands if not tens or hundreds of thousands of civilians, and could damage the environment for over a decade. Nuclear first use would also ensure the destruction of the U.S. by nuclear forces launched in retaliation and risk international political isolation.
Nuclear weapons are dangerous, outdated relics of the Cold War that have no relevance in combating current day threats such as cyber warfare and terrorism by non-state actors. Advances in U.S. conventional forces are more than enough to retaliate against realistic threats to national security, including those by state and non-state actors. U.S. national security strategy should reflect that.
It provides a dramatic first step in making nuclear weapons irrelevant on the international stage.
It will serve to exert political pressure on other nuclear weapons countries -- Russia, France, Pakistan, the UK -- to adopt their own no-first-use policies, reinforcing the principle that nuclear wars can never be won and must never be fought.
It would cement President Obama's nuclear legacy and live up to the Prague vision he laid out seven years ago to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.
In short, the adoption of a no-first-use policy would make the world safer, strengthen strategic and crisis stability, and give the president more space to avoid using nuclear weapons.
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Question about Audio Players & Recorders
Posted by Sunnyyobo on
My e260 is a 8 GB model and doesn't have the hold switch just the lock/unlock switch. The sample music that came with the MP3 player shows the image from the CD.
I have a Sansa e280 MP3 player with 8GB capacity. I wrote the wrong model, a mental lapse on my part. I apologize for my mistake which makes it harder for you to figure out how to help me with my problem.
My MP3 player is actually a Sansa e280 model which I'm unable to transfer the image of the CD cover along with the music from my computer which has Windows XP. I'm ripping the music to my computer from my CDs and then transferring from the music file to my e280.
My MP3 player is actually a Sansa e280 model which I'm unable to transfer the image of the CD cover along with the music from my computer which has Windows XP. I'm ripping the music to my computer from my CDs and then transferring from the music file to my e280.
Look for a firmware update
Posted on Mar 21, 2008
Hello Sunnyyobo ,
Are u talking about the album art ??? which u can see wen u play songs on ur computer ???
Posted on Mar 21, 2008
If u want the cd cover image on ur sansa ... Please download musicmatch player , then import the songs to the payer which u want to transfer to ur sansa ... edit file info by right clicking on the song ... and click on album art and import thecd cover image and set it and then save it !! then u transfer the song to sansa it will work!!!
download musicmatch from here
Dear Sunnyyobo,
your player may just have encountered some corruption or system errors. Not to worry. Try and see if this would help:
Switch your Sansa E260 to its Recovery Mode:
1. Make sure the player is powered off
2. Enable the "Hold" switch (located on the top of the player). You would know it's enabled when you see the "orange-colored" surface
3. Press the "Record" button. Make sure you keep it pressed while pressing on the "Menu" button.
4. keep your fingers pressed on these 2 buttons until the E260 LCD screen displays "Welcome to Recovery Mode"
5. Connect your E260 to your computer. (Just a reminder: The minimum Operating System requirements for a Sansa E200 player is Windows XP and above)
6. Double-click on "My Computer" and you would see your Sansa E260 appear as a "16 MB" drive. Note: If you do not see that "16 MB" drive/partition, please repeat steps 1-6.
Next, Apply the firmware for the E260 (your player should be connected to your PC at this time):
Step 1:
Use this link to download the firmware for your Sansa E260 (for better results, please save this file on your "Desktop":
Step 2:
Double left-click on the downloaded file, and follow the on-screen prompts. The file will automatically re-flash your player and format it as well, thereby clearing all possible file/system corruptions that may have occurred.
Step 3:
When the process is complete, unplug your E260 from your computer, and please make sure you disable the "Hold" switch
Step 4:
Power up your E260 and 90-99% of the time, it would boot up successfully.
Step 5:
Enjoy using your Sansa E260,
Cheerup and Be Happy always
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Superior Iron Man #1 (Preview)
- Story by
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Be Superior! How much would you pay for perfection? Beauty? Immortality? Tony Stark knows, and he's ready to give it to you in SUPERIOR IRON MAN #1! But at a terrible price. Spinning out of Avengers & X-Men: AXIS, the old Tony Stark is back, only this time he's SUPERIOR! More stylish, more confident, and more cunning than ever before. And he's ready to lead you into the future! San Francisco is about to become the prototype for his new world concept. The first step? Release Extremis upon the entire city! Only Daredevil isn't down with Stark's new vision of the future. Does the Man Without Fear have a place in the city of tomorrow? A bold new direction for the Armored Avenger begins this November from the all-new creative team of Tom Taylor (Injustice: Gods Among Us, Earth 2) and Yildray Cinar (Supergirl)!
NEW CREATIVE TEAM TOM (INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US/EARTH 2) Taylor AND YILDIRAY (SUPERGIRL) ÇINAR START AN ALL-NEW SERIES SPINNING OUT OF AXIS!
• How much would you pay for perfection, beauty…immortality? TONY STARK is going to find out.
• The AXIS EFFECT has changed IRON MAN
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March 04, 2015 11:41 ET
TOMS RIVER, NJ--(Marketwired - Mar 4, 2015) - Location-focused digital advertising company, Yashi, has been named one of the Best Places to Work in New Jersey for 2014 by NJBIZ. NJBIZ's annual award program identifies, recognizes, and honors the top employers in New Jersey which benefit the state's economy, its workforce, and businesses.
Companies from across the state were evaluated to determine the 100 Best Places to Work in New Jersey based on workplace policies, practices, philosophy, systems, demographics and the employee experience.
"We are incredibly proud of our New Jersey roots, and couldn't be more thrilled to be recognized for this award," states Jay Gould, Yashi Co-Founder and President. "This honor is a testament to our dynamic team, whose hard work and innovation continues to fuel Yashi's success thereby contributing to the rapid growth of New Jersey's tech industry."
Yashi, which was recently acquired by Nexstar Broadcasting Group (NASDAQ: NXST), was co-founded by Jay and Caitlin Gould in 2007. It has since grown to over 30 employees and continues to expand. For current job openings please visit www.yashi.com/careers.
NJBIZ, program sponsors, and partners will honor this year's 100 Best Places to Work and announce their ranking during an awards reception and ceremony on Thursday, April 30, 2015 at the Hilton East Brunswick.
About Yashi:
Yashi is an award winning location focused video advertising platform that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nexstar. The company's platform analyzes tens of billions of video ads in real time on a monthly basis across thousands of websites. To learn more about Yashi and the company's leadership role in programmatic video advertising, please visit www.yashi.com
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Original Music by Setnor's DiCosimo Featured in Documentary "David Falk: Agent of Change"
William DiCosimo, assistant professor of music and entertainment industries in the Setnor School of Music, composed original music for the documentary "David Falk: Agent of Change," which will premiere on Friday, Oct. 23, as part of a day of celebration to commemorate the opening of the new home of Syracuse University's David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. The documentary will be shown at 3:15 p.m. in Grant Auditorium.
In a career spanning five decades, Falk set the market for how all future sports stars would be compensated. His family's generosity has endowed Falk College at Syracuse University and the Falk Academy for Management and Entrepreneurship at George Washington University Law School. This biographical documentary is narrated by Newhouse alumnus Mike Tirico '88, ESPN play-by-play commentator. The film was written, produced and directed by Falk sport management professor of practice Dennis Deninger.
For more information about the dedication and documentary, contact the Falk College Dean's Office at 315-443-2027.


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Mentoring of CTSI Scholars
Recognizing the importance of effective mentoring teams in scholar career development, in addition to their primary mentor, each K Scholar is assigned a mentor from within the Mentoring and Career Development Advisory Panel (MCDAP). The MCDAP mentor is a senior faculty member with broad institutional knowledge who serves as a "second set of eyes" on the career development of the scholar. MCDAP mentors meet a minimum of twice a year with their scholars to review their biannual progress reports. Mentors also assist scholars with the formation of new collaborations and serve as a sounding board for topics ranging from research design, research programs and professional development.
Research Mentor Workshops:
Through a partnership with educators at the University of Rochester Clinical and Translational Science Institute, mentors participate in a course for research mentoring. The course is available to anyone at Penn State including mentors of KL2 and TL1 Scholars. KL2 Scholars also participate in the course to augment their skills as they begin to serve in mentorship roles as junior faculty.


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STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - The European Parliament passed a new draft law on air pollution on Wednesday that the European Commission and several members of parliament (MEPs) said was not enough to cut emissions to World Health Organization standards.
The law, which has taken almost three years to get through parliament, aims to halve the number of premature deaths caused by air pollution from more than 400,000, and targets the many EU states already in breach of existing air pollution limits.
A European Environment Agency (EEA) report published on Wednesday showed that member states across the bloc far exceed annual limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emissions and at least 10 states breached limits on other pollutants in 2014.
The recent scandal over Volkswagen cheating on nitrogen oxide emissions (NOx) rules highlighted the problems caused by toxins in the air, including respiratory illness and some forms of cancer.
"Air pollution is the number one environmental cause of death in the EU," conservative MEP Julie Girling, who shepherded the bill through parliament, told the plenary session in Strasbourg. "It's not a perfect solution but it will go a long way to making important health improvements for our citizens."
Following a political agreement reached with EU nations in June, the plenary session adopted the limits on air toxins estimated to reduce health hazards by 49.6 percent, compared with the Commission's target in its 2013 proposal of 52 percent.
The bill, which still needs the endorsement of member states in the Council, sets national limits until 2030 on major pollutants, including dust, NOx and sulfur dioxide.
After opposition from the farming lobby, enteric methane emitted by ruminant animals was excluded from the bill.
"We were faced ultimately with a choice: either have a watered-down agreement that fell short of what the parliament would have liked or to have no agreement," said Italian deputy Giovanni La Via, who chairs parliament's Environment Committee.
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Book clubs are supposedly to people in their mid-30s what hallucinogenic love drug emporiums are to the over-75s.
But while they may be the most fashionable places to congregate and exchange tips on humus preparation in between arguing whether Mel Gibson or Kenneth Branagh was a better Hamlet, are these people truly interested in literature or are they simply seeking engagement with other human beings?
If this gadget is not banned, it may replace the theatre, cinema, the knitting circle and the bullfight as the pastime of choice in Wales.
Participants sit in a circle, each holding a metal handset connected to a base unit with a red light on it. When this flashes green everyone must press his or her button. The last person to react to the change in colour will violently recoil when they receive a jabbing electric shock. Intimacy, action, suspense and drama all blend together in a moment of intensity not even the most exciting moment of Bergerac can equal. Had Shakespeare had access to one of these, would he have ever lifted a quill?
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The Swiss Army Knife is the Citizen Kane of gadgets. But just as great films can be the subject of remakes, so this invention gives the famous implement a brand new cutting edge.
Shaped like a credit card, this rigid plastic envelope contains a letter opener, small scissors, a pin, a toothpick, a ballpoint pen, a ruler, tweezers, a quadruple screwdriver, a magnifying glass and - in a true sign of modernity - an LED light. As you slip this into your coat pocket and feel a rush of comfort knowing you can now survive 73.2% of calamities, the 21st century will seem a truly great time to be alive.
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Video games these days are simulators of unbridled original sin. In the world of electronic entertainment you may find yourself using with chainsaws, golf clubs and halibut in ways which you would never have contemplated in real life.
How horrific then is the thought that your oldest son might indulge in such virtual vice and consider it normality?
Steer him away from ardent criminality by ensuring that in his imagination he lives on the right side of the law. When he sits in this police, burning away any obesity-causing calories with his ferocious pedalling, in his mind he will be a force for good in a crazy world. He will identity himself with an unyielding and muscular virtue, capable of sweeping away decadence and delinquency with the force of a Tsunami.
Of course, there is the slight danger that if you give this to him as an 18th birthday present he will go and steal a car for himself. To ensure he does not disgrace your family traditions of good taste at all times, leave some photographs of vintage Ferraris by his bed.
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Popular Tv Hostess, Miinnie Dlamini The star took to Instagram on Monday to announce her engagement, by posting a picture of her flashy ring with the caption: "I said yes".
Speaking to TshisaLIVE on Monday, Minnie's publicist, Jarred Doyle confirmed the good news and said that "she's very happy".
He was shy to share any more details on the engagement, including who the lucky guy was.
Minnie has previously been linked to cameraman Quinton Jones.
Speaking to Anele Mdoda on RealTalk in August, Minnie opened up about her man and said that he took great care of her.
"He sees a lot less domesticated Minnie because I'm very spoilt. He spoils me a lot, he cooks for me, he brings me breakfast in bed and does cute things for me. From my perspective, it's nice to be taken care of for the first time in a long time," Minnie said.


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I have an excellent memory for birthdays. If it's your birthday and I know you, you can be sure that I've bought you a birthday card and maybe even a thoughtful gift if we've known each other long enough. But you may not get the card and gift on your actual birthday. I'm normally so pleased with them that I keep them for a few days (or weeks) so I can admire them and think: "Yes, X really will like that."
Which is why, a month after Sister Number 1's birthday, we were in Camberwell and I was handing over the slightly dusty presents I'd been showcasing on a shelf in my bedroom for a few weeks. We met at The Tiger, a pub phoenix rising from the very fighty ashes of The Silver Buckle on Camberwell Green.
SN1 had a glass of wine (which came in a teeny carafe), I had a half of Doom Bar and the barmaid had a mini panic attack. I don't think she'd pulled too many pints before and was hoping to deal with wines and spirits only. The heart-sinking disappointment she felt, having landed two lady customers only to have one of them order beer, was written all over her horrified face.
Still, she managed to get beer out of the pumps and although the lights around us occasionally went out, hinting at wiring problems yet to be sworn over, the pub seemed to be finding its feet. But it hasn't opened its kitchen yet, so we left the comfy sofa and went to the only place British people want to go after the pub: a kebab shop. It was 8pm.
But describing FM Mangal as a kebab shop is doing it a disservice. It may look like your average purveyor of cheap meat and grease from the outside, but inside there's an ocakbasi restaurant to treasure.
The last time we went in the summer, we sat upstairs and sweated in the rising heat of the charcoal grill. This time, in the shivering depths of pre-spring March, we sat in the downstairs section, admiring the giant glass window and artfully lit tree behind it and trembling as the cold poured through the glass. I have to start remembering the upstairs/winter, downstairs/summer rule for FM Mangal.
We started with a free bowl of warm flat bread and a chargrilled onion lounging in a sweet-sharp pomegranate dressing. I would come to FM Mangal just to eat these. The bread is dusted with a magic powder that makes it extra tasty and the onion is proof of the deliciousness of cancer-giving char.
A second bowl of bread was bought over with our starters: houmous and grilled aubergine with yogurt. The houmous was houmous. I suspect houmous is the sort of thing you only notice when it's wrong. This had the familiar nutty, sesame and lemon flavours and the scoopable baby food texture that makes it so easy to swallow down.
The aubergine had been grilled tender, but the blackened skin proved tough. Every mouthful of melting aubergine flesh was spoilt by an unchewable slither of skin. A grilled aubergine dip full of smokiness and free from cindered outer bits will be my choice next time.
For mains, SN1 had grilled salmon and I had grilled sea bass. The meals at FM Mangal are absolutely huge and I came close to regretting eating that second basket of bread. I had to opt out of one section of my meal and unusually for me, I mostly ignored the chips (standard fried frozen fare) in favour of the fish and salad.
My sea bass bore a passing resemblance to a run over pigeon (no really, look at it. Doesn't it look a bit like a flattened bird?). It had been mostly deboned and the head left on for anyone annoying enough to want to poke around the eyes and jaw and loudly insist that they're the best bits. A spice rub akin to the magic powder that hangs around the bread had been rubbed into the exposed flesh.
The salads were plain carrot, citrus dressed chopped lettuce and earthy red cabbage, with a pickle on the side for some vinegary snap. I felt virtuous as I ate them.
Our waitress, who had been powered by pure perkiness all evening, came to our table with "some lovely, lovely Turkish delight and your lovely, lovely bill." It was quite lovely – £27.30, including a Diet Coke and a pineapple juice but not including service. Like Silk Road opposite it, FM Mangal offers enormous amounts of good food at stupidly reasonable prices. Another reason to be happy to be a South East Londoner.
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I know I should be happy with Mien Tay, and believe me I do count my blessings, but you guys in Camberwell are spoiled. And I am jealous.
Your just going to have to move to Camberwell, Chris. Everyone is happier in Camberwell.
I always stuff myself silly on the starters; silly really, but I can't help it. Hurrah for South East London!
I always eat too much of the bread. It's so tasty. South East London rules OK!
Ever been to Mangal 1 in Stoke Newington? The quail is killer. As far as grilled meat goes they are king in my mind. Unfortunately I get a nose bleed if I venture too far south but that fish looks pretty tasty.
I saw an ocakbasi in Haringey on Green Lanes which looked pretty interesting by virtue of the fact that it had two ladies in the windo making bread. It was called Hala nr Chesterfield Road every been?
For a benighted year I did live in Stoke Newington and would occasionally get fantastic kebabs from the ocakbasi place at the end of our road, whose name I never learned. For various reasons I didn't get to try many eating out options, to my eternal regret. And now I am afraid of crossing the river.
Hmm shame you missed out on quail – Mangal is on Arcola Street if that rings any bells
Good to see the North South divide is still in evidence although you'll be back for Sedap! 🙂
Well, anyone would cross the river for Sedap.
Are all the Mangal's connected in someway or is this just my ignorance of the Turkish language. I have Best Mangal I and II in Fulham. My visit to the former was underwhelming. Let me just say I consumed more grease with my lunch-time kebab roll than I had in the prior year.
I am pretty sure Mangal is just the Turkish name for the BBQ
I think Gav is right, although I'd love to be the person that owns all the Mangals in London! A quick bit of internet research has turned up a translation of mangal as a brazier or metal pan containing charcoal, so maybe it just refers to the big charcoal pit? http://www.balashon.com/2008/05/mangal.html
I hate to be annoying (no, actually, who am I kidding, I LOVE to be annoying) but the cheek really is a very very good bit of a fish. I haven't quite convinced myself eyes are a good idea though….
The cheek is sometimes a good part of the fish, but not on sea bass, surely? There's nothing there. I don't mind fish eyes either, but in spite of assurances, I still don't think they come close to be being the best bit. More slightly interesting bit.
I need to go back. Been distracted by all the other lovely places Camberwell has to offer recently, but need to return to my favourite takeaway. They always give me tea and never need to take my order unless I say otherwise.
I know, Camberwell has so much choice these days. Who knew we'd ever be able to say that?


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I would guess that any reader who has spent a significant period of time studying the life and work of Virginia Woolf must have his or her own "version" of her. In my mind, I have an idea of how she stood, how she walked, the way she moved her head, all culled from photographs and from the many anecdotes and reminiscences I've read about her over the last ten years. There is no film footage of her in motion, and only one surviving recording of her voice, reading an essay called "Craftsmanship" on the BBC in the 1930s: her voice sounds upper-crust, snooty, nineteenth-century, not a bit, in other words, like the fiercely modern voice in her books. While the photographic record is large, it is all those of us who are in love with Woolf (and there is no other phrase which comes close to describing how I feel about her) have in order to create a moving, living portrait in the brain. Thus, each of us must have a personal Woolf, and would probably willingly argue with others about her qualities: "She would never say that!" Or, "She wouldn't wear that kind of dress." This goes a long way towards explaining the problems so many Woolf scholars had with Nicole Kidman's portrayal of Woolf in The Hours--she was simply not their Woolf (nor was she mine, exactly), and so both the performance and the film were dismissed out of hand.
I've seen dozens of interviews with living writers like Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood, and thus I have some sense of them (however misguided) as people. I can read their books and hear their physical voices in my head; I can see the way they laugh and move. But with Woolf--and indeed with any writer who predates motion pictures--my sense of her exists, for the most part, solely on the page. Perhaps that's where writers should exist most--Lessing certainly thinks so, when she bemoans the interviews and publicity that contemporary publishing demands. The lack of a solid image of Woolf, a voice that can talk in your brain, makes the occasional firsthand account of her all the more valuable. Levenger, the Florida-based company that sells wildly expensive fountain pens, briefcases, stationery, and other "tools for serious readers," recently republished Richard Kennedy's slim 1972 memoir A Boy at the Hogarth Press. As I've been revisiting my dissertation on Woolf's diary in order to expand it into a book, I felt that rereading Kennedy's book was in order, so that I could regain that imaginative grasp of Woolf herself that had begun to elude me in these last months of a very hectic college term.
Kennedy arrived to work at the Hogarth Press, located in the basement of the Woolf's house at 52, Tavistock Square, in 1928, at the age of sixteen, through the auspices of his uncle George, a friend of Leonard Woolf's. At first, he was given odd jobs, but gradually moved up enough in Leonard's esteem (no mean feat!) to begin dealing directly with buyers, "shopping" the books to booksellers in the English hinterlands, etc. A Boy at the Hogarth Press presents itself as a sort of edited diary about his years there, until he leaves after infuriating Leonard by ordering the wrong size of paper for the Uniform Edition of Virginia's novels. In the face of Leonard's wrath, Kennedy quits and enrolls in journalism school, apparently on the sole basis of seeing three attractive young women at University College: "Three pairs of breasts and three laughing faces. They looked so happy and carefree. I thought of that basement prison, and acting on the spur of the moment, I sought out the authorities and learnt that there was a course in journalism starting in the autumn." Despite Kennedy's frequent depictions of Leonard's intolerance and miserliness (he complains about having to shell out money for toilet paper for the office), he maintains that Leonard was in fact a surrogate father for him, and that he learned a great deal in his tenure at the Press.
What is perhaps best about A Boy at the Hogarth Press, at least to my Virginia-obsessed eye, is the light it sheds on Virginia Woolf herself. I've read every biography of Woolf, and am therefore used to having her center-stage. It is always something of a shock to read a biography of one of her relatives or her acquaintances, and see her ambling in from--as Michael Cunningham would put it--her own story. One of things I like most about Frances Spalding's excellent biography of Virginia's sister Vanessa Bell is that Virginia herself is a peripheral figure, and being on the periphery somehow, oddly, makes her come into sharper focus for me. The same is true in Kennedy's memoir. Virginia is glimpsed writing in the back storage room at the Press, setting type, opening packages, and performing other mundane, Press-related activities. During a Bloomsbury evening she is observed in a the corner knitting, "a new occupation for her." One morning she is in a good mood because she spent the previous evening out at a nightclub, and describes "how marvellous it was inventing new foxtrot steps," to Leonard's apparent disapproval. She rolls foul-smelling shag cigarettes that very nearly choke an American lady. Virginia is always "Mrs W" in Kennedy's memoir; she usually calls him "Mr Kennedy." Kennedy appears to have regarded her with a certain degree of awe: by this point she had written Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, and during Kennedy's tenure there she published Orlando, which was a huge success--Kennedy remarks frequently about their inability to keep the book in stock. We revere Virginia Woolf for her writing, for what she did alone in a room with pen and paper, and naturally many biographies (most notably Julia Briggs' recent Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life) focus on her intellectual and creative life, despite her immersion in the Bloomsbury Group, whose sexcapades have, on the flip side, received an enormous amount of attention. In Kennedy's memoir, it is precisely his record of her attention to the minutiae of the Press that brings her into sharper focus.
Adding to the appeal of Kennedy's book are his own incredible drawings of Leonard, Virginia, and the other characters who drifted in and out of the Press offices. Virginia never allowed herself to be photographed with her glasses on, and Kennedy's drawings of her, bespectacled, typing and smoking, convey the essence of the woman perhaps better than any photograph. Kennedy became quite well known as an illustrator in later years, and his skill at evoking character and personality through a few mere strokes of pen and ink is stunning. These images, converted in my mind into flesh and blood, add immeasurably to my understanding of how Virginia Woolf simply inhabited a room--an understanding that will undoubtedly help guide my continued work on her diary.
If you're interested in Kennedy's book, you needn't buy Levenger's fancy edition (though it is gorgeous)--Penguin published a mass-market paperback edition, including all of the illustrations, some years back. It is currently out of print, but is available used.
As I get more immersed in my own Woolf project, you can expect more postings on books related to her life and work. I am nothing if not single-minded.


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Join Todd Perkins for an in-depth discussion in this video Setting the calculator to add or subtract, part of Programming for Non-Programmers with iOS 8.
- Now we're going to handle what happens when you tap the plus or minus buttons. Inside of those buttons, which we're going to call mode buttons, we're going to run the set mode method. That way, setMode can support both the plus and the minus button. So inset of tappedPlus, we're going to call self.setMode . Then we'll send in for the parameter, a one. For tapped minus, we're going to do the same thing, except for, instead of one, we'll send in negative one.
If mode is one, that means we're working with the plus operator, and if mode is negative one, then we're working with the minus operator. Let's handle setMode. Inset of setMode, the first thing we're going to do, is make sure the user actually tapped some numeric buttons before pressing setMode. So we're going to check to see if total is equal to zero. So we'll put that inside of an if statement, with the parentheses and the curly braces and everything.
If total is zero, that means the user hasn't tapped any numeric buttons. If that's the case, we don't want to run any more code inside of setMode, so we'll call the command that does that, which is return. Below the if statement, we're going to set the value of our mode variable equal to m. Remember that m is the parameter that is passed into setMode. Again, that's what's going to be one, if they tap the plus button, and negative one, if they tap the minus button.
So mode should, here, either be negative one or positive one. Then we want to set the value of lastButtonWasMode. Because, of course, the last button was mode when this method is called. Because it's triggered by either the plus or the minus button. So we'll set this to true, and then on the next line, we're going to set the total to the value that's inside of the label, or the value string. Because both of those values should be the same. So, total, which is an integer, equals valueString, and remember to convert a string to an integer, we use .toint .
Remember, since int has that question mark after it, it's an optional value, so we need to unwrap the value, using an exclamation point. In addition to handling setMode here, we need to handle the mode button in another place. If we scroll up into tappedNumber, we want to check to see if the last button pressed was the mode button. The reason why we want to do that, is because, at this point, we're going to start working with two sets of numbers.
The set of numbers the user presses before pressing plus or minus, and the set of numbers the user presses, after pressing plus or minus. So, right below the existing if statement, we're going to create a new if statement that checks to see if last button was mode. So, if the last button pressed was plus or minus, before pressing the number that was just pressed, that triggered this method, we're going to set lastButtonWasMode equal to false. Then we're going to set the value string to be an empty string, so just two quotes.
That way, the user types in the first set of numbers, presses the plus button, for example, and then when they press a number again, the text field is cleared and replaced with whatever new number the user pressed. And finally, the value that sets the total, here, is no longer sufficient. That's because we want to have the total save only the first set of numbers that are pressed. To do that, we need to wrap this line of code, on line 45 in my code, inside of an if statement.
So, we're only going to set total to the number in the value string, if total is equal to zero. So, if, in parenthesis total, is equal to zero, then we're going to put an open curly brace above total = valueSting.toInt , and then below it, we'll put a closed curly brace. Now, the reason for this is, when we tap the mode button, we want to save the total. So we save that numeric value that's in the value string. Then as we press numbers after we press plus or minus, we don't want to mess with total.
We want to save that, so that we can add or subtract from it when the user presses the equals button. So, if we test the app in the simulator, the only thing you're going to notice, is that after you tap the first set of numbers, and then press either the plus or minus button, you can start tapping the second set of numbers, and those replace the first set. So, with all of this set up, we're ready to start finishing the application by setting what happens when we press the equals button.
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Alright, I hope no one finds the title offensive because I'm referring to myself! I'm now in charge of putting together a slideshow for my family reunion at the end of the month and I've quickly learned that not all the photos are great picture quality. Some because my family is dumb, and some are just poorly photographed.
Some of this can be fixed through simple cropping. There are so many fixes you can make without trying very hard, and I want to share some of what I've learned with you!
All I'm using for everything is iPhoto on my macbook. That's it. Super simple. Note that all my "instructions" will refer to iPhoto features, but I'm sure most other programs will have similar features.
Part of this is just to show off some of the great old photos of my family. :P
First fix: Stains on old pictures
If it's a B&W photo like this, click on "effects" and choose B&W. It's that simple. I also cropped it a bit, which I'll get into in just a bit!
Second Fix: Cropping
There are several reasons to crop your photos. Sometimes there are undesirable things in them (someone's nose in the corner, etc) or there might be no focal point to the picture, and the list goes on.
A good guideline to pictures is the rule of thirds. There are so many people more knowledgeable about this stuff than me, so I'll leave the explaining to them (google it). But iPhoto makes it super simple because when you go to crop a photo they automatically put the grid on your picture.
Generally, you want to place the focus of your image on one of the lines that divides your picture into thirds. This can either be horizontal, or vertical. This is where people's attention is drawn to first. Through careful placement, you can guide your viewer through your picture to see what you want them to see.
EX: In this picture, there's a terrible shadow of the photographer. AND it stands out because it just so happens to fall on the right hand "third line"
Through a little bit of cropping, I can adjust where those lines of thirds are, and now the shadow isn't quite as apparent as it was in the above picture. It's not perfect, but it helps.
Remember that the "rule of thirds" is only a guideline! Don't be silly and crop off the top of someone's head just to make the picture conform to the rule. It's not really a rule, it's a guideline.
Third Fix: Play
After: Not perfect, but at least you can see faces a bit better, and it's not the eye sore it started as.
Okay, so this isn't really a fix, but it's good advice. Play with different features until you see something you like. The more you do it, the more comfortable you will become playing around with a picture until you like the look of it.
For a really great blog with tips on photo taking (and I'd argue that these are also extremely applicable to photo editing!) check out The Anatomy of a Snapshot on Tatertots and Jello. (I linked to the last post, but you can find the other parts of these series at the bottom in the "You might also like" part)
And now just a few of my favorite photos:
I'm the one on the left in the red dress.... I don't look very happy!!