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My daughter Chase is 17 months old, which is an age I personally love, because you can get kids that age to answer questions they don't fully understand. That's 90 percent of why I wanted children in the first place.
Case in point: Several nights ago I realized that Chase has become such a daddy's girl that, when given the choice of "mommy" or "daddy" in any given situation, she will choose daddy. At first my feelings were a little hurt, but soon enough I found a bright side. Chase, her brother Jake, my husband Brian and I were hanging out at the house, and it was almost time for the kids to go to bed.
Me: Chase, who do you want to read you a bedtime story tonight, mommy or daddy?
Chase: Da-dee!
(Brian beams, clearly happy to be the favorite.)
Me: Chase, who do love more, mommy or daddy?
Chase: Da-dee!
(Brian sits there, looking smug.)
Me: If one of your parents were to die in a fire, would you rather it be mommy or daddy?
Chase: Da-dee!
(Brian looks as if he's about to object, but I quickly fire off another question.)
Me: Who would you rather see get intestinal cancer, mommy or daddy?
Chase: Da-dee!
Me: In the event of a divorce, who would you rather see only one weekend a month and two weeks during the summers, mommy or daddy?
Chase: Da-dee!
Me: If the judge called you to the stand and asked you to tell him who had given you that bruise on your arm, would you tell him "mommy" or "daddy?"
Chase: Da-dee!
I find this line of questioning to be so entertaining that I spend inordinate chunks of my day dreaming up new questions to ask her that would result in a humorous payoff in the event of the inevitable answer "daddy." If you can think of any to add to my list, please submit now. Hurry, she's about to wake up from her nap and I want to be ready.
I write stuff here and you read it. You roll your eyes. I try to think of stuff that will elicit more eye rolling. The end.
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
If cuteness could cure cancer, this would do it.
Sunday, November 09, 2008
I thank you, and my liver thanks you
Last night we hired a sitter. This is a crazy concept in our household, because we are incredibly cheap people who believe money should be spent wisely on things like booze and plastic surgery, not frittered away on babysitters. Luckily for us, Brian's parents live nearby and cheerfully watch our children free of charge almost any time we need them to, and as far as we know they don't even molest or abuse them--not that those would be deal breakers at the low price of "free."
But last night they were off watching some boring football game in Austin, and because there is no bartender in my house to make martinis for me, we were forced to actually open our wallets and hire a sitter so that we could go to a bar. Actually, we wanted to attend a surprise 30th birthday party for a friend of ours at a bar in downtown Fort Worth, which meant we couldn't use our standard Plan B.
But last night they were off watching some boring football game in Austin, and because there is no bartender in my house to make martinis for me, we were forced to actually open our wallets and hire a sitter so that we could go to a bar. Actually, we wanted to attend a surprise 30th birthday party for a friend of ours at a bar in downtown Fort Worth, which meant we couldn't use our standard Plan B.
Plan A, of course, is using the free babysitting services of Brian's parents. Plan B is hiring a random, reasonably-responsible 16-year old to come to our house after the kids have gone to bed at 8, and get paid to watch TV and see that the house doesn't burn down until we get home--which means, of course, that we can't go out til 8ish--usually not a problem. Plan C, used last night for the first time, involves a little more thinking, since it requires finding someone to come to the house when the kids are still awake so that we can get to our destination at a certain time.
Jake, the 3-year-old, is an agreeable and easy child who would be fine with literally anyone coming over to play with him for an hour and then put him to bed. 16-month-old Chase, on the other hand, is the wild card in any situation. She sometimes likes a person upon meeting them for the first time, hovering at knee-level and grinning maniacally at them until they pick her up. Other times she will lay eyes on a new person and run immediately to throw her arms around my legs, casting furtive glances over her shoulder every few seconds to make sure they're not pulling a baby-chopping axe out of their back pocket and leaping at her. Other times she likes a person well enough while I'm in the room, but as soon as I step out she begins screeching like a badger caught in a trap, stopping only upon my return. I'm not sure what makes her so different from the agreeable Jake, but I can only assume my husband's DNA is somehow to blame.
We picked someone Chase knows and loves, the chick who runs the kid's club at my gym. Chase spends a couple of hours a day with her three times a week when I teach there, so she's totally used to her, and we love her as well. She showed up at 7, as requested, and allowed Jake to drag her from room to room for thirty minutes as he performed the very important task of showing her every single thing in our house. "This is the wivving room!" "This is the dime-ing room!" "This is Cow!" "We have three TVs [pronounced "tee-dees"]--one in the bedwoom, one in the wivving room, one in the pway room!" The kind of stuff that little kids find fascinating, and that make most adults want to wrench little kids' necks. Chase followed behind happily.
We left with only about half an hour or so til bedtime, went to our soiree, drank and ate and socialized with grownups, which is not something we're used to--but it was nice. Not once did any of them demand that we do a "puzzo" with them, or burst into frustrated tears at their inability to put on a discarded pair of our shoes, nor did any of them try to put their hands in the toilet or eat something found in the trash. So it was an unusual but enjoyable evening.
We got home at around 10:30 to find Chase still awake; in a good enough mood, but exhausted. The sitter had tried several times to put her to bed after reading a book in the rocking chair, but Chase stood in her crib and wailed hysterically each time til the sitter was forced to finally give up and just let her stay awake. Naturally, when I took her into her room and sat with her in the rocking chair for a minute, then put her into her crib, she rolled peacefully over onto her belly, hiked her diapered butt into the air and went to sleep willingly. Why couldn't she have done that for the sitter? My guess is she was trying to appear so completely unable to function without my presence that I would be touched by her sweet neediness and vow to give in to her every whim from now until the end of my life. However, the child overestimates me. In truth, my reaction will be the opposite: I've got to get rid of this kid now before her neediness further cuts into my drinking time.
Who wants her? Leave your name here, and I will consider all applicants before finally sending her to whichever one of you is closest, to cut down on shipping costs. Hurry, because there's a party I want to go to next Saturday.
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months ago, no tablet has been able to come near surpassing the Apple iPad.
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The Best Tablet 2011 category is one of the most intriguing in the entire
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and Asus have been playing catch up.
The iPad certainly has its faults. No expandable memory, a
closed eco-system and a relatively high price means that it just won't be for
everyone. However it has proved hugely popular with the general public and reviewers alike.
This year we have seen a number of genuine contenders for
Apple's crown. The first was the Asus Eee Pad Transformer which, when combined
with its dock, can operate as a laptop – albeit one running Android software.
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Jumping Off the Walls from a One-Game Playoff
I like the extra wild card playoff. Obviously. My team (the reigning WORLD CHAMPIONS) are in because of it. But I am not a fan of the umpteen ulcers currently destroying my insides as we face a do or die situation against Kris Medlen and the Atlanta Braves.
To prove it, I was going to post a picture of myself suffering from said anxiety before I realized that doing so would drive people away rather than draw them in, so instead I give you a wet and bouncy Michelle Jenneke.
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The Soul of the World
"The soul of the world!" Not a phrase we'll hear in election speeches, not one that comes up in talk about our ongoing wars. But the writers, teachers, poets and prophets gathered in this book are remembering that soul.
The essays in Transforming Terror turn our manipulated understanding of terrorism inside out. What stares from these pages is terror, a thing belonging not to those who inflict it or those who retaliate, but to those who feel it.
One path the essays take is personal, psychological—how the victim experiences terror and what may be done to "heal" it—and ultimately reassuring to us as people who think our hearts are in the right place. A task, the giant task of improvement, is repeatedly imagined for us, and we're seen as up to it. In this country, liberal impulses often act as their own gratification, but in the hands of Susan Griffin, who co-edited the book, the concern with healing moves far beyond liberalism and into a radical protectiveness of all life.
The other path, more likely to shame than reassure us, is political, factual, shocking, and visionary. Vision is not optimism. It is scalding, in pieces by Wendell Berry ("rogue" violence excuses our own, while a systematic, violent overreaching wipes out lives, economies, and the land), Vandana Shiva (industrial devastation of villages is terrorism), Eqbal Ahmad (the label "terrorist" shifts with the political winds), Daniel Ellsberg (our own repeated threats of nuclear first-use are terrorism). It is somber, in Congresswoman Barbara Lee's speech opposing force after 9/11. It is humbling, in Michael Nagler's eloquent essay on the risks Gandhi's followers accepted along with the beauty and practicality of satyagraha.
The one-by-one approach of the more psychological pieces, relying on personal transformation, may be out of scale with the sweep of Berry's manifesto, or Susan Sontag's tribute to activist martyrs, or even Amos Oz's suggestion—the only funny one in the book—of a university department of Comparative Fanaticism. Yet the goal the psychologists set here is more than the familiar American one of selfhood. They believe we can mine our natures not for more satisfactions but for a hidden ore of goodness. They take seriously the idea of a world-soul, and use a kind of chaos theory to make the claim that private changes of heart can set off a swell of peacemaking in the world.
—from Susan Sontag's essay "On Courage and Resistance"
A wonderful effect of this book is to put us in the presence of heroes: Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave, the Israeli refuseniks, the extraordinary Marla Ruzicka, killed in Iraq while working to publicize the terror the invasion unleashed on civilians. Rebecca Solnit's enlivening essay "Hope in the Dark," under no illusions but never resigned, shows us how the two paths of Transforming Terror might actually converge, bringing forth new heroes. "Where there is danger," the poet Hölderlin wrote, "The saving powers grow too."
In the midst of the information-storm—already bringing us, from think tanks, the idea that leftist South American regimes foster terrorism—is enlightenment still possible? Yes. If our elected officials can't find it, we can send them this passionate collection. We can also look past them, stop conjuring a circle of fanatics sitting on a rug, summon some passion of our own, and get to work. As Susan Sontag wrote, "The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting." To take with us, we have this book of radical good will.
On the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Jesuit Priest Bill Bichsel talks about why he went to prison for a future without nuclear weapons.
- Presidential declarations and filmmakers' scare tactics get the attention—meanwhile, powerful grassroots movements build on 60 years of effort.
For decades, School of the Americas Watch founder Father Roy Bourgeois has argued that embracing militarism will never bring us the security we seek. But he thinks he knows what will.


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Kristen Philipkoski of GIZMODO.com called us to talk about the plaid shirt last week. She says, "Plaid shirts will always represent for me Kurt Cobain, riot grrrls and grunge music. That's because I'm self-centered and lived my twenties in the '90s. But today when I see my husband putting on a plaid shirt, it inspires entirely different connotations. He couldn't be less grunge, but he is a certified geek. And it suits him perfectly." She covers the history of plaid from tartans to Kurt Cobain, including Pendleton's part of the story.
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The Associated Press Announces Streamworks as Partner for AP Video Hub Live News Service
By: Press Release | Streamworks
LONDON – The Associated Press (AP) has announced Streamworks International, the specialist in live breaking news, as the streaming collaborator for its AP Video Hub 24/7 live news service.
AP Video Hub is a new state-of-the-art platform providing broadcast-quality world news, entertainment, SNTV (sport) and lifestyle video news for digital publishers. The new 24/7 live news stream gives customers access to breaking news events as they happen, anywhere in the world. Customers also have the ability to book and schedule live coverage of planned news events on an ad-hoc basis.
Streamworks have been working with AP since September 2011 delivering AP Direct – AP's raw, unedited news feed, via a live stream to online publishers. The new deal cements and extends the relationship to deliver this content via the AP Video Hub platform.
Recent events available live have included the 2012 London Olympics, breaking news from the Syrian civil war and the Norway trial of Anders Breivik. AP's live video service uses incoming material from AP's fixed and mobile links around the world to deliver unedited breaking news video to broadcast customers via satellite, and online customers via the AP Video Hub platform.
Ray Mia, CEO, Streamworks, said: "The way video news is curated, commercialised and consumed is changing significantly. AP has demonstrated that it is prepared to make the changes needed to meet these demands. AP Video Hub allows publishers to take content which they can build commercial sales against, and pre-scheduled political events. They can also be the first to get the widest selection of live breaking news from around the world.
Streamworks' system has been designed to deliver this exact requirement; it is unique and with the best content and the best delivery, is changing the way digital video news is distributed. To be the only business working with AP for all video content underscores our determination to be the leading supplier of digital video news to web-enabled devices."
The AP Video Hub has been linked to Streamworks proprietary software and global delivery network, from multiple ingest sites to ensure geo-redundancy, along with the ability to route signals into any OVP (open video player) or CDN (content delivery network). Sue Brooks, AP director of video transformation, said: "Streamworks has proved to be as forward-thinking as we are, in their ambitions for the live news space. We trust them, which is no small compliment, and they deliver our content in as near real-time as possible. AP Video Hub is already proving itself as an indispensable tool for online news providers. The addition of live content will enable our customers to create even richer storytelling experiences for their customers."
Additional information on AP Video Hub The interface design is simple and intuitive for users, making accessing content easy. Unique functionality includes a "follow" stories feature that alerts users via Twitter as new content on a followed story arrives. Additional features include curated topic pages, quick video previews, one-click download direct to desktop and real-time search content filters. Curators select and promote breaking news content together with relevant footage from AP's historic archive, allowing the development of richer online storytelling for customers who until now have lacked easy access to this kind of content.
The website for AP Video Hub is at https://www.apvideohub.com.
About The Associated Press
The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. Founded in 1846, AP today is the most trusted source of independent news and information. On any given day, more than half the world's population sees news from AP. On the Net: https://www.apvideohub.com and www.ap.org
About Streamworks
Streamworks is a trusted specialist in delivering frontline breaking news. We capture decisive moments in video faster and more accurately than anyone else, and our clients rely on us to deliver content in as near to real-time as is possible – to any device, anywhere at anytime.
Recent highlights from the list of news content delivered around the world by Streamworks include the capture of Ghadafi, events surrounding the Arab Spring (including the Tunisian, Egyptian, Libyan, Bahrainian and Syrian uprisings), the Japanese tsunami, the Leveson enquiry, Hurricane Irene, Whitney Houston's funeral, the UK riots, the anniversary of 9/11, the UN General Assembly, the Queen's Jubilee and the UK Royal Wedding.
Our proprietary technology allows us to provide real-time video at a reduced bandwidth of up to 30%.
Streamworks clients include AP, UN, YouTube, The Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, The Axel Springer Group, MSN,Ekstra Bladet, Nelonen, Dwango, WRC, LTA, MLG and The Metropolitan Police. For more information visit www.streamworksint.com.


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Sponsored by HIE, a series of workshops are being held which will give charities, social enterprises, community enterprises, advisers and intermediaries an overview of how social investment can enable greater growth, sustainability and social impact.
The workshops, delivered by Social Investment Scotland, in conjunction with Community Shares Scotland and Firstport, will consider how social investment can be used to start, grow or develop community and social enterprises. Full of tips and advice on raising finance, we will look at what it means to be 'investment ready' and give participants a greater understanding of risk, rates and appropriateness of the different ways of raising money.
Following on from an interactive and informative morning session, we take a very practical and fun approach as you become the lender….Will you invest?
If you, your colleagues or your community want to know more about social investment, register now and spread the word.
All events are free to attend and include lunch.
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Mark Leibovich, QuestLove and Jen Lin-Liu belong on your summer reading list
Yesterday, I shared four new fiction titles I think belong on your midsummer reading list. Today, I offer four nonfiction titles. Something for everyone!
This Town
Mark Leibovich (Blue Rider Press)
Talk about walking on the edge – Leibovich, the chief national correspondent for the New York Times Magazine, pretty much puts all his access at risk with "This Town," a scathing portrait of media-obsessed Washington, where everyone's in someone's pocket, or trying to be. He starts with a rendering of journalist Tim Russert's funeral in 2008, where big guns from both parties – McCain, Obama, Bush, Clinton – jockey for prominence at what's sure to be the photo op of the week. "Relationships are to Washington what computer chips are to Silicon Valley (or casino chips are to Vegas)," Leibovich writes about the town where the idea of "public service" is little more than lip service. It'd all be hilarious, if our lives weren't in the balance. A rollicking, if disconcerting, read.


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How to Create Educational Comics with Comic Life iPad App
Comic Life iPad app allows younger students to explore creative storytelling by creating comics. Using Comic Life for iPad, students can create comics that challenge their creativity, imagination, and language skills. Incorporate comics into your curriculum by having students relate a story, express their feelings, or discuss a historical event.
Creating your own comic is simple and requires just a few steps. To make your own comic, open the Comic Life app by tapping its icon on your iPad's home screen. Then follow these steps:
1Tap the + icon on the opening screen, and select Create a New Comic.
The screen switches to show you templates. Swipe through the previews to see all the options; a blank template enables you to create your own style.
2Tap the template of your choice.
Now you can choose a title for your comic, plus captions, images, word bubbles, and more.
3Edit placeholder objects.
If you selected a pre-styled template, your page will be arranged with customizable placeholders for the title, images, and text captions. Double-tap any object to edit it. You can also tap and drag any object to move it to a different part of your page.
4(Optional) Add panels for more images.
Panels are the primary objects for adding and placing images in your comics. To add a panel, drag the panel icon from the Element Tray at the bottom of the screen to any part of your page. See that little photo button in the center of your empty panel? Tap it to add an image from your photo library or take a picture with the built-in camera.
5(Optional) Add more titles, captions, and bubbles
The Element Tray at the bottom of the screen has additional objects that you can add to your page. Tap or drag one onto your page to add; then tap again to edit it.
6(Optional) Change styles with the Panel Inspector
Experiment and give your comic a personal touch by playing with styles and effects in the Panel Inspector. Tap any object on your page to select it and then tap the Panel Inspector icon on the top toolbar to change the look and feel of it.
For example, change the color and shape of your panels, the style of your titles and captions, or select an image and apply an effect to it.
7(Optional) Add, reorder, and remove pages
Tap the Page icon in the top toolbar, and you'll see three tabs. The Comic tab shows you thumbnails of the different pages in your comic. Tap any page to make it the current editing page, and tap the empty page with the + icon to add a new page.
Tap the selected page, and a pop-up menu gives you options to duplicate or delete it. Tap and drag any page to change the order of where it appears.
The Template tab enables you to browse the predefined pages included in the template you've chosen. Tap any thumbnail to add it to your comic after the current page. The Layout tab contains predefined pages with different arrangements of panel layouts. Tap one to add it to your comic.
8Tap the My Comics button to return to the screen with all your comics.
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Thanks to Oloriel of MindLoveMisery's Menagerie for hosting last week's prompt on doing something for the first time.
When I was in university my friends and I enjoyed going to country bars often. If you ask many woman they will tell you how country singers, male or female, have a kind of talent you can't fake. They have genuinely wonderful voices as most of them can sing with nothing but a guitar. Moreover, a country song is the best song to dance too whether it's an upbeat tune or a tear-jerker ballad to slowly dance along with. I was and am also a big fan of line dancing, it's a lot easier to catch onto than two stepping for me.
I have always had trouble two-stepping because I find it difficult to keep in time — despite playing piano for ten years. Several times I remover thinking I finally understood the rhythm of two-stepping and than the next time my friends and I went out, I'd find I could no longer do the correct steps. Maybe I had to be drunk too do it? I'm not sure but usually I faked it as best as I could. I can do some basic two stepping moves — some simple steps, turns, and twists but I always ended up messing up the rhythm and stepping on my partners feet. My biggest fear was being pulled onto the dance floor alone with a guy, forced to two step in front of a crowd as some of my girl friends had had happen quite a few times. Not surprisingly, however, the best two-steppers can make a terrible dancer appear as a decent one.
On one occasion I was out at a country bar with a bunch of girl friends and the night was winding down. The last energetic set of songs were being played by the DJ and a hot bartender who had been giving me eye all night , pulled me onto the dance floor twisting and turning me, even picking me up and making me squeal. I was embarrassed because I knew I sucked at two stepping. Had it been a slow song at least I could have gotten by with a simple waltz and faked two-stepping.
Instead, I was at the center of attention in the bar being thrown into the air, swished off the dance floor, spun, and turned by this bartender who was an amazing dancer and always kept us moving to the right rhythm. We remained dancing for about three songs and even though I kept messing up, the bartender only laughed and kept moving me in such a way that my mistakes were not obvious. It was exhilarating and dizzying as we moved speedily from one end of the dance floor to another, back and forth, than again.
Finally I had enough as the upbeat songs became slow dance songs and the bar was emptying out as last call had passed much earlier. Everyone around the dance floor clapped as the bartender escorted me to the place he was tending bar. He winked at me and poured me a drink before we clinked glasses. A minute later the bartender was called away and I slipped out cabbing home with my friends who teased me knowing I hate being the centre of attention when I'm clueless. It might have been nice to talk more with the bartender, but we had all drunk a lot and were falling asleep in the early morning hours.
Having to do something like that in front of a crowd, something I was terrible at, was a first for me. But a sexy bartender and his amazing two stepping skills saved my inept dancing in front of a lot of people. As it was, I'm pretty sure most of the crowd was too drunk to note my missed steps and my high heels on the bartenders poor feet.
"We Were Us" – Keith Urban featuring Miranda Lambert
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Egypt Court Sentences 529 Morsi Supporters to Death
Those Convicted Were Arrested After Violent Protests in Response to Police Crackdown
CAIRO—An Egyptian court convicted 529 alleged supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood on charges of murdering a police commander and sentenced them to death, in one of the harshest verdicts ever imposed in the nation's modern history.
Legal experts said the verdicts, handed down Monday on only the trial's second day, are likely to be overturned on appeal. Still, they underscored the determination of Egypt's military-backed regime and a sympathetic judiciary to eradicate the once politically powerful movement....


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High Country Baking: An all-purpose pastry: Almond cookie-cake
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As the days get busy and the house gets full, I try to have an all-purpose pastry on hand – one I can serve for dessert and, again, at breakfast, or with coffee during the day. This almond cookie-cake is a good example. Two layers of rich almond shortbread enfold a soft almond filling and the contrast between the crisp crusts and the moist center, both with a haunting almond flavor, give it wide appeal. Serve it with whipped cream and a glass of amaretto after dinner and plain, with a non-alcoholic beverage, during the day.
The cookie-cake is the essence of refined simplicity. The recipe, reminiscent of old-world Scandinavian baking, is wholesome and unpretentious. All that's required for success are high-quality ingredients, accurate measurements and gentle handling of the dough.
Unfamiliar with almond meal/flour? It's packaged ground almonds and the Bob's Red Mill brand is available in most of our mountain grocery stores. I keep one in my freezer and use it whenever a recipe calls for ground or finely chopped almonds.
Vera Dawson, chef instructor with CMC's Culinary Institute, lives in Summit County, where she bakes almost every day. Her recipes have been tested in her home kitchen and, whenever necessary, altered until they work at our altitude. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com
Make in a 10-inch springform pan;
Recipe can be halved for an 8-inch springform pan
2 2/3 cups of flour
1 1/3 cups of granulated sugar, preferable Baker's
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 1/3 cups of cold unsalted butter
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon of almond extract
1 egg
1 cup of finely chopped almonds or almond meal/flour
1/2 cup of granulated sugar, preferably Baker's
1 teaspoon of grated lemon peel
1/4 teaspoon of almond extract
3 whole almonds
01 Preheat the oven to 325 degrees, with a rack in the center position and a cookie sheet on the rack. (The cookie sheet will catch leakage from the springform pan; the cookie-cake will bake faster if the sheet is preheated.) Open the springform pan and flip over the bottom so the side with a lip on it is face down (this will make cutting the pastry easier). Grease and flour the springform pan or spray it with a vegetable oil-flour mixture and set it aside.
02 Make the crust: To make it in a food processor: Add the flour, sugar, and salt to the processor bowl and pulse to combine well. Cut the butter into pieces, add them to the processor, and pulse until the mixture looks like meal. Add the egg and almond extract and pulse until large, moist curds are formed. Turn the dough out and gently knead until it comes together. To make with a mixer: Cut the butter into pieces and let them soften to room temperature. Beat the butter, salt, and sugar until well combined; add the egg and almond extract and beat until combined. On low speed, add the flour and mix only until a dough is formed.
03 Divide the dough in half and form each half into a large disc. Refrigerate one disc. (If the dough is hard to work with, refrigerate both discs until they firm up). Place the other disc in the bottom of the greased springform pan. Start in the center of the disc and, gently, push the dough out toward the pan sides, making a smooth, even bottom crust. Place the pan in the refrigerator while you make the filling.
04 Make the filling: In a small bowl, lightly beat the egg. Put the finely chopped almonds or the almond meal, sugar, and lemon peel in another bowl and stir until well combined. Add the egg and the almond extract and blend well. Take the pan out of the refrigerator and spread the filling over the crust to within a half an inch of the sides of the pan. Take the second disc of dough out of the refrigerator and roll it (I do this between two sheets of waxed paper) to an approximate 10-inch circle. Set the pan on the dough to imprint its exact outline. Cut the dough just inside the imprinted circle and place it over the filling, it should fit precisely. Use a fork or your index finger to press all around the edges of the dough, so that the bottom and top crusts are sealed. Arrange the whole almonds decoratively on the top.
05 Place the pan on the preheated cookie sheet and bake until the top is a light golden brown. This takes from about 65 to 75 minutes in my oven. Transfer the pan to a rack, let it cool about 15 minutes, then remove the pan sides, and let the cookie-cake cool completely. Cut it into thin slivers and serve them slightly warm (our favorite) or at room temperature. Store, covered, in the refrigerator.
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Smoking was the act of igniting a substance in order to taste or inhale the by-products of the thermal and chemical reaction to fire released in smoke. Some narcotic chemicals and medicines could be inhaled in this manner. On Earth, it was the traditional way of consuming tobacco, a practice that can be traced back to the peace pipe rituals of some Native American groups.
While once a popular and dangerous habit on Earth, the smoking of tobacco had decreased by the time of Starfleet and may have been abandoned completely by Humans by the 2370s.
In 1893, Samuel Clemens was smoking a Havana cigar at the literary reception for Guinan in San Francisco. (TNG: "Time's Arrow")
In 1957, a cigarette machine was located in the Pine Tree Bar and Grill in Carbon Creek. (ENT: "Carbon Creek")
In 1944 of an alternate timeline created by multiple temporal incursions by various factions of the Temporal Cold War, Carmine discovered a communications device while with Alicia Travers for treatment. He explained that he had been searching her jacket for a cigarette. (ENT: "Storm Front, Part II")
After traveling back in time to Earth in July 1947, Quark, Rom, and Nog were baffled that Humans of the time would inhale poison in this way. Quark was especially excited, stating that if Humans bought poison, they'd buy anything. (DS9: "Little Green Men")
Smoking was still prominent in the 1980s. In 1986, a DeSoto Cab advertised Carlton cigarettes to pedestrians and motorists and Dr. Nichols, plant manager of Plexicorp, wore a pin on his sweater that read "I quit smoking". (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
In 2004, Loomis, nervous about Xindi-Reptilians finding out he was helping Jonathan Archer find out more about them, starting smoking to calm himself. T'Pol, however, was disgusted by him smoking and asked him to put it out. When he told her to open the window in his car, she promptly put a phase-pistol to his head and he put out the cigarette. (ENT: "Carpenter Street")
In 2153, some of the patrons of a saloon on a Skagaran colony were smoking. (ENT: "North Star")
The practice of smoking appears to be among the many Human practices adopted by the imitative denizens of Sigma Iotia II, as attested by the presence of a cigar humidor (as well as an ashtray) on the desk of Bela Okmyx. (TOS: "A Piece of the Action")
According to signs posted in the transporter room of the USS Enterprise in the 2280s, smoking was prohibited in that area. Smoking was also prohibited in the Mark IV bridge simulator. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
St. John Talbot, the Federation representative at the "Planet of Galactic Peace," Nimbus III, was a smoker at the time of Sybok's occupation of Paradise City. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier)
Inmates on Rura Penthe smoked cigars to keep warm, although it wasn't clear what form of matter was being smoked. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
When Q appeared to the crew of the Enterprise-D as a USMC captain he was holding a cigarette. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint")
In the artificial recreation of the novel Hotel Royale on Theta III, characters were smoking various types of cigars and cigarettes. (TNG: "The Royale")
Some members of the Banea smoked. When Tom Paris saw Lidell Ren smoking in 2371, he made the ethnocentric statement: "Smoking is a bad habit. My species gave it up centuries ago when we finally got it into our heads it was killing us". (VOY: "Ex Post Facto")
In the holoprogram Julian Bashir, Secret Agent, the characters of Duchamps, Hippocrates Noah, and Anastasia Komananov all smoked cigars. (DS9: "Our Man Bashir") In another of Bashir's holoprograms, Bashir 62, the character Lola Chrystal, a facsimile of Kira Nerys, lit a cigarette and blew the smoke flirtatiously at Odo. (DS9: "His Way")
Fictional characters of the Dixon Hill novels and stories also smoked. When Jean-Luc Picard played the role of Hill in the holoprogram version, he was offered a cigarette on at least two occasions. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye", "Manhunt") Nicky the Nose was another character seen smoking as well as several nightclub patrons. (Star Trek: First Contact)
Guinan, who appeared as Gloria in the Dixon Hill program, smoked a cigarette when she entered the program in 2367. (TNG: "Clues")
Also in the holodeck, Deanna Troi smoked a cigar while in character as Durango, the mysterious stranger who comes to Sheriff Worf's aid in the town of Deadwood, (TNG: "A Fistful of Datas") and Data occasionally smoked a pipe in the role of Sherlock Holmes. (TNG: "Lonely Among Us", "Elementary, Dear Data", "Ship in a Bottle")
In a vision of 1953 New York City sent by Prophets to Captain Benjamin Sisko in 2374, both Julius Eaton and Roy Ritterhouse were smokers (Eaton smoked cigarettes, Albert smoked a pipe, Ritterhouse cigars). (DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars")
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During the making of Star Trek: The Original Series, Gene Roddenberry and others associated with the production fought NBC and Desilu so that cigarettes were omitted from the series. "Even with the heaviest smokers, including myself, I fought for it," Roddenberry recalled. "In the end, it paid off for everyone; I think everyone now agrees that the original episodes would not be rerunning so successful if we had yielded to advertising pressure and put a 'twenty-third century cigarette' into the mouth of Kirk and others." (The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, p. 43)
In the "Outtakes" section of ENT Season 1 DVD, a scene appears in which Scott Bakula should have entered the set for T'Pol's quarters but unlike in the episode, he waited behind the door to the set with two drinks and was smoking a cigarette, causing T'Pol actress Jolene Blalock to laugh.
Among the items which were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay was a cigar traveler humidor which stood in for a set dressing container in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. The original tag of the container says "Cigar Traveler Co., Carson City, Nevada". [1]
According to the novel Pathways by author Jeri Taylor, Rhuludian crystals are smoked.


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WASHINGTON — When the swearing-in is over, the Bibles put away, the speeches concluded, then the fun begins for the second inauguration Monday of Barack Obama, with a powerhouse lineup of performers ranging from A — Alicia Keys — to W — Stevie Wonder — and with Beyoncé, Jennifer Hudson and the Glee cast thrown in for good measure.
And for some, the real fun begins: Chattering, tweeting and kibitzing about what first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia, 14, and Sasha, 11, are wearing. Will the stylish Mrs. O, sporting a youthful new hairstyle with bangs, choose her second inaugural gown from her archive of designers? Or someone entirely new?
Alexis Bryan Morgan, fashion executive director for Lucky magazine, predicts she will wear something with color and texture, and with an America-based label; don't expect her to be dull. "She's continuing to take risks, continuing to evolve," Morgan says. "It's in her DNA."
As a second inauguration in a struggling economy, this will be a smaller, more low-key affair than four years ago, but the energy level still will be high, say inaugural planners.
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"It's going to be a lot of fun, people are really excited about the future, and it's going to be a really good party," says Duff Goldman (Ace of Cakes) of the Baltimore bakery Charm City Cakes. His team of four spent three days making the official six-tier confection of red velvet, lemon poppyseed, pineapple coconut and pumpkin chocolate chip layered with Swiss butter cream for one of the inaugural balls. Wait — what about Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign? "Everything in moderation," he jokes.
Naturally, much attention will be paid to the president's second inaugural address , but leave it to historians to parse his words. Everybody else wants to boogie with Wonder, who will perform at the Inaugural Ball, the larger of the two events Monday night at the Washington Convention Center. Wonder's Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) is on the official playlist for the party.
Meanwhile, Jennifer Hudson and Keys will be shaking the rafters at the Commander-in-Chief's Ball ( members of the military will get to sample Goldman's cake) nearby. The Glee kids, Brad Paisley, Marc Anthony, Smokey Robinson, Katy Perry, John Legend and Usher are among those on the bill at either the military ball or the Inaugural Ball or both.
The balls will be the focus of two big reveals: The first lady's gown and the identity of the diva/divo who will sing for the presidential couple's first dance. In 2009, it was Beyoncé but she's singing the national anthem at the swearing-in ceremony.
"There's huge anticipation around the (FLOTUS) gown in the fashion world," says Morgan. "We love the idea of her wearing an unknown designer or one not as established, and someone not in her usual stable. It can completely launch a career, as happened in 2009 with Jason Wu, and it's such a cool thing."
Among the under-the-radar names she floated: Suno; Wes Gordon; and Bibu Mohapatra. More established names include Prabal Gurung and Tory Burch. "She does have advice but she's going to make the decision," says Morgan. "She is true to her own sense, which is what gives her great style."
Presidential inaugural balls tend to be chaotic cattle calls with overwhelming security. The better parties tend to be the unofficial balls hosted by individual states, lobbyists and associations. "They can get pretty wild," says Goldman.
So the Creative Coalition Ball, the party on Monday in the Washington arts district thrown by liberal Hollywood, will be celebrity central, with the Goo Goo Dolls headlining and an long-as-your-arm list of notables as guests, including David Arquette, Kirsten Dunst, Eric Stonestreet, Connie Britton, Melissa Leo, Paula Abdul, Omar Epps, Marlon Wayans. Matt Bomer and Alfre Woodard.


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Through-out the web site that speaks to the injustice you can click on bold black underlined wording to link to and view the actual material evidence that is now established in the record. Please remember as you click to review the material evidence the greater majority of documents were established by the court and adversary attorneys themselves. This is the public record.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: I am not an attorney. This website expresses my opinions. This web site does not provide legal advice. I do not provide legal advice. I do not practice law. The website is to publish corruption and provide a venue to effect positive change. Anyone with legal questions should consult a attorney.
During my professional career I have worked with and known many law firms whose practices I found to be ethical, moral and professional. I am also certain there are a greater majority of judicial officers nationwide whose practices are exemplary and above reproach. However, since my harsh introduction in 2002 to the downside of the legal profession, and the malicious misconduct, meant to destroy, there has been sufficient evidence, pointed to within this web-site, that there are attorneys and judicial officers who by their own actions provide the appearance and material facts of not being ethical, moral, or professional.
The information on this site is not "legal advice." If you seek an outcome rather than to take a principled position or reform the system, you should consult a lawyer.
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Voices are rallying as world web sites alert us to a deteriorating American legal system. We are not "left or right wing"; we are ordinary working Americans. Browse the links we provide here at Breached Justice and then search the internet for the key words corruption, citizens against corruption, judicial transparency, and judicial watch. You will find out very quickly that the public is not ambivalent about this subject, and growing concerns about our legal and judicial system are not unwarranted.
Whenever possible we must speak up and speak out in order to heighten public awareness and law enforcement officials of fraud and corruption perpetrated by a select few attorneys and certain officers of the court, while hiding beneath the cloak of the legal profession. These officers of the court should be held to a higher standard of judicial conduct.
We concerned citizens can make a difference, and bring to the forefront the moral – legal abuse, corruption and breached justice which is undermining our judicial system. Any system that offers protection to attorneys who deliberately betray trust, rob, and destroy lives and families, leaving a documented paper trail of indiscretions and unprofessional conduct, simply because they have a law degree and unlimited resources to do so is not the system we want.
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If you love playing in and on the water, be assured that not all cruise line shore excursions take place on dry land. Swimming, snorkeling and scuba diving excursions are popular in the Caribbean and other warm-weather destinations. However, water-based excursions are not limited to tropical climates: even when the waters are chilly, you could try out a kayak, go fishing or watch whales from the deck of an excursion boat.
On a cruise of Alaska, you could experience the lifestyle of the crab fishermen who work in the Bering Sea. Some ships that call on Ketchikan offer excursions to Coon Cove and the Dungeness Crab Fishery, where you can help pull up the crab pots, then enjoy a feast – featuring delicious Dungeness crab, of course – at George Inlet Lodge.
On the gorgeous Hawaiian Island of Kauai, you can experience a tubing adventure. On the former Lihue Sugar Plantation, ditches and tunnels that were dug by hand in the 1870s now provide an exhilarating ride for visitors aboard sturdy inner tubes. After enjoying the fresh air and lush scenery, you'll be ready for a picnic lunch.
Dubrovnik, Croatia, has lovely, pebble-covered beaches on the Adriatic Sea. To find a sandy beach, hop on an excursion boat for a scenic ride to Lopud, one of the Elaphite Islands just off the coast. At the sandy beach on Sunj Bay, you can relax, swim and snorkel. If you're adventurous, ask to join the locals in a Croatian version of water volleyball, called picigin, which is played in shallow water with a ball about the size of an egg.
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Copa Libertadores: Gremio eye commanding gap
Gremio could open up a handy lead in Group 6 of the Copa Libertadores if they can overcome Argentina's Newell's Old Boys on Wednesday.
The Brazilian club lead their group by three points heading into the fourth matchday of the South American continental competition and could stretch that to six with a win in Argentina, if Colombia's Atletico Nacional also lose to Nacional in Uruguay.
But Gremio will know they face a tough task in overcoming Argentina's reigning Torneo Final champions, as Newell's held the Porto Alegre club to a 0-0 draw in Brazil last week.
Enderson Moreira's Gremio top Group 6 with seven points, three ahead of Newell's and Atletico Nacional, while Nacional have just one point.
Gremio have not conceded in the Copa Libertadores group stage so far but also failed to score against Newell's on matchday three.
After a fairly even first half, Gremio pushed hard after the break but Ze Roberto, Hernan Barcos and Para were all unable to beat Newell's goalkeeper Nahuel Guzman.
Moreira will no doubt want more from Ramiro when his side travels to Argentina as the 20-year-old attacking midfielder was Gremio's best player in their opening two matches.
Ramiro set up Gremio's winner in their 1-0 victory at Nacional, while he also registered a goal and an assist in his team's 3-0 triumph over Atletico Nacional on matchday two.
Top spot will be on the line in Group 1 this week with leaders The Strongest travelling to second-placed Velez Sarsfield on Tuesday.
Both clubs have six points from three games, as do third-placed Atletico Paranaense of Brazil, who host Peru's Universitario on Thursday.
The Strongest defeated Velez 2-0 last week with a brace from Pablo Escobar but the Bolivian outfit will undoubtedly find it more difficult in Argentina as they do not travel well traditionally.
Halfway through the group stage, Group 2 is the tightest with all four clubs within a point of each other.
Bottom club Union Espanola of Chile have three points from three draws but could move top of the group if they win their home game over Argentina's San Lorenzo on Thursday.
San Lorenzo have four points after being held 1-1 at home by Union last week but the Argentine club only trail Brazil's Botafogo and Independiente del Valle of Ecuador on goal difference.
Botafogo lost 2-1 in Ecuador last week but could get their revenge on Tuesday when they welcome Independiente to Rio de Janeiro.
In Group 3, leaders Deportivo Cali travel to Lanus and Cerro Porteno host O'Higgins, while in Group 4 Santa Fe welcome Zamora to Colombia and Atletico Mineiro face Nacional Asuncion.
Real Garcilaso will hope to bounce back from two straight defeats in Group 5 when they travel to Universidad de Chile, while Cruzeiro will take on leaders Defensor Sporting, as Bolivar clash with Flamengo and Leon host Emelec in Group 7.
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In the spirit of Black History month, we take time to salute A. Ronald Berryman whose zeal for education makes history with each student who is assured a brighter future one scholarship at a time.
Berryman was raised in South Central Los Angeles by a single parent and became the first in his family to graduate from college when, in 1962, he received a B.S. degree from Pepperdine College on Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles. In addition, he takes pride in being the first African American to graduate from Pepperdine's inaugural MBA program in 1967. "Dr. Donald Sime, head of the business division at that time, called to inform me that they were starting an MBA program and invited me to be part of the flagship class," said Berryman. "Helen Pepperdine, the wife of George Pepperdine, founder of the college, also encouraged me along the way.
Berryman attributes his success to his Pepperdine education. "Pepperdine prepared me to excel in the private sector," said Berryman. He worked full-time while in business school and over the years secured several management positions with major corporations, including the National Broadcasting Company (Administrator of Business Affairs and Television Production) and Computer Sciences Corporation (Chief of Financial Planning). In 1968, he became one of three partners in what would become one of the largest minority-owned management consulting firms in the United States. Cunningham, Short, Berryman and Associates Inc. was based in Los Angeles with offices in Washington, DC, and Omaha, Nebraska.
Berryman currently holds several distinguishing professional designations and continues his practice as a certified management consultant with more than 40 years of experience. Since 1980, he has supervised more than 400 client engagements as principal of Berryman and Company, a consulting firm in the financial and management areas. The firm serves clients in the public sector, including Federal, State and Local governments, as well as Fortune 500 companies. He has also served as past president of the Institute of Management Consultants, Southern California, which is the certifying body for the management consulting profession.
Despite his demanding practice and unforgiving schedule, however, Berryman still finds time for service. His spare time is spent serving on policy making and advisory boards, including past Chairman of the Board of Directors for the March of Dimes, Los Angeles Division and the Los Angeles Executive Advisory Council for the United Negro College Fund. He currently sits on the Pepperdine University Board, the Graziadio School of Business and Management Board of Visitors and was a founding member of the Pepperdine University Alumni Leadership Council.
Now Chairman Emeritus, Berryman was the first Chairman of the Pepperdine Black Alumni Council (BAC) that he organized in 2010. The primary purpose of the BAC is to provide scholarships, advocacy, support and networking opportunities for black students and alumni. He remains active in the council and committed to raising funds to help minority and low-income students through college. He not only mentors students and helps them get accepted into college, but he and his wife Jacqueline Berryman funded the A. Ronald Berryman Endowed Scholarship for African American students at Pepperdine University. The endowment is $100,000 and provides financial support to students that are pursuing an MBA Degree at Pepperdine.
"I felt the need to give back to Pepperdine by helping minority students achieve their dreams and educational pursuits," said Berryman. "I think it's important for all African Americans who have made it or achieved their educational and professional pursuits to give back so that other African Americans may have an opportunity."
While Pepperdine holds a special place in Berryman's heart, he demonstrates a strong commitment to enhancing educational opportunities for today's youth by supporting several other charitable programs, as well. He provides scholarships to the Kappa League of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. He is a supporter of the Mount Carmel Foundation, the Delta Sigma Pi Foundation, the Kappa Foundation, the Crespi Carmelite Educational Fund, and the Boule Foundation where he is a William B. Dubois Fellow.
In recognition of his leadership and other achievements, Berryman has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Pepperdine University and the Institute of Management Consultants Leadership Award. He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Business and Finance.
He also graduated from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Executive Program on Pension Funds and Investment Management in 1999. He has served as an Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Pepperdine University, and, for more than ten years, he was an adjunct faculty member at the University of Redlands where he taught in the Undergraduate and Graduate Business and Management Degree programs.
Berryman advises our future leaders to be consistent, dedicated and diligent in whatever their profession. "We see a lot of progress for minority executives," said Berryman. "African Americans are in the C-Suites, so that should serve as motivation for minority students to be focused on fulfilling their dreams."
He resides in San Dimas with his wife Jacqueline and their four children.


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You can reduce the amount of money you spend in all kinds of ways, and many of these expense cutbacks don't require that you reduce your standard of living — only that you make more deliberate decisions about what's important to you and what you need. For example, consider the following:
Can you change your phone package to eliminate the services you don't use and the fees associated with them?
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Step into a wide standing posture. Plant your back foot at a 45-degree angle and your front heel in line with your back arch. Put weight on the outside of your back foot, and pull your belly back as you center your weight. Let your front knee come directly over your ankle. Your palms can either face each other high over your head, or you can extend your arms out to the side with your palms face up. Keep your spine and arms very straight, facing your hips forward. Look forward and breathe deeply for five or more breaths. You may lift your chest a bit higher and come into a slight, comfortable back bend. Move slowly to repeat on the other side.
This posture opens your torso and shoulders, expanding room for your lungs. It also stretches your hips, legs, and side body, reducing tension and increasing circulation. Extensions like this are great for strength building, waking up your mind and body, and energizing.
If you have a chair or bench, you can do this modified posture instead of starting on the floor.
Place a folding chair against the wall. Square your palms on the edge of the chair and slide your hips back as you come into a downward dog position with the chair. (This means your hips shift back, making an "L" position at your hips.) Take a deep breath and enjoy. Then, shift your hands to grasp the outside edges of the chair and lift your chest as you allow your hips to come forward. Let your face open up and keep your neck relaxed and softly open (it should feel like you're resting your head back into a headrest). All lifting should come from your lifted chest and the strength of your straight arms. Your hips can sink open while keeping straight and strong legs.
Engage your abdomen firmly. Keep your shoulder blades on your back, and breathe very deeply for five or more breaths. To come out of it, switch your hips back into downward dog (still with the chair) for several breaths.
Sit on a chair squarely, and reach your arms back and clasp them together. (Use a sock or a strap if you can't quite reach them.) Extend your spine and open your shoulders as you lean forward toward your thighs. Turn your chest to face right and look over your right shoulder as you keep lengthening your spine very long. As you look, lengthen your neck and tuck your chin to avoid strain. Keep your sit bones planted firmly. Breathe deeply for five or more breaths, and enjoy. Repeat on your other side. Each time you practice, switch which side you start on.
Another twist, this move also helps stretch and relax muscles in your back, abdomen, and shoulders; improve digestion; and release tension held in your chest, abdomen, back, neck, and shoulders. This posture is also a forward bend, which amplifies many of these twisting benefits.
Press your feet into the wall and lift your hips away from the floor so that your torso becomes 90 degrees to the floor. Do not strain your neck, and do not turn your head. You can bring your hands up to support your back, and use your abdominal muscles to try to lift your hips higher. If you feel any neck strain at all, come down and put a thicker cushion under your shoulders before practicing it again. Breathe deeply and slowly for five or more breaths. Come down gently, and enjoy several breaths with your legs up on the wall after this posture.
This posture is an inversion, but also brings wonderful stretches to your neck and shoulders and strengthens your abdomen. As an inversion, it flushes your body with fresh blood, improving circulation. It relieves stress, energizes your body, and stretches and relaxes many muscles.
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It seemed to us that we were always looking for a way to have all the external resources we use often, at our fingertips. And there were all sorts of cool tools that seemed to be in different places that kept moving and disappearing as people moved around the net, from company to company. So we decided to build a website, capable of being used by any browser, with minimal color and minimal resolution, for internal use, that had all those resources. And we decided to assign a couple of people to keeping it current, so that when something moved/died, we updated it.
Then friends started to use it.
So we thought we'd make it available to any engineer (or even clueful non-engineer) who might want to use it.
So here it is. Use it, but don't abuse it. And if you can think of ways to improve it, tell us. We don't promise to use your suggestions, but we will look at them.
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There is some small controversy about gaining access to FamilySearch.org's Family Tree program. First of all, the program is live and not a Beta test. It is well on its way to replacing New.FamilySearch.org with many features in New.FamilySearch.org being "turned off" and the functions moved to Family Tree. Second, it has been the stated policy of FamilySearch since Family Tree's introduction at RootsTech 2012, that the program is open to everyone, both those and those who are not members of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Church).
Both presently and during the past few months, there continue to be statements made by FamilySearch employees about the "formal introduction" of the program when the program will be made available "to everyone." These statements raise issues with the access to the program. Many people who already use New.FamilySearch.org believe that they need to wait until the program is formally introduced to begin using the program. In conjunction with teaching classes on Family Tree every week, week after week, I get this question regularly. I have been using the program for almost a year now and I urge all of those who continue to experience frustration and problems with New.FamilySearch.org to move to using Family Tree. Almost always, the problems they express in using New.FamilySearch.org disappear (and they get a whole set of new problems, but that is another post and another time).
It is my present experience that anyone, whether or not they are members of the Church, can gain access to the program. But both those who are members and those who are not can experience difficulty in gaining access to the program caused by a whole variety of variable issues. So how do you go about gaining access to the program?
There is a document, freely available on the FamilySearch.org website explaining how to gain access in detail. It is available through the Help menu on the startup page for FamilySearch.org. Here is a screen shot showing the location of the Help page link:
Clicking on the link brings up a list of Help documents, including one appropriately named "Gaining Access to the FamilySearch Family Tree." This short PDF document has an explanation of one of the ways you can gain access to the program. However, the document is way out-of-date since it dates back to 27 March 2012. However, if you following the instructions, most of the time, you will be successful in gaining access to the program.
Currently however, there is a simpler way of gaining access. All you have to do is Register with either an LDS or FamilySearch Account and sign into FamilySearch.org. The link to Family Tree should then immediately appear in the top menu bar next to the logo. All access to FamilySearch.org is entirely free. You do not have to register to use most of the resources available on the website. However, there are some of the Historical Record Collections documents that require registration and signing in to see the actual documents. This is due to agreements with the document providers. You do have to register and sign in to see and use Family Tree. One of the main reasons for this is the need to have a recorded and available email address so that those using the program can be contacted by other users and by the program itself.
You register for FamilySearch.org by clicking on the "Sign In" link. Here is a screen shot with an arrow showing the link:
When you click on the link, you get the following page:
If you have not already registered, you click on the link that says "Create New Account." As a matter of note, if you have previously registered but lost your registration information such as your login and pass word, you can recover those by trying to re-register.
Once you have registered and sign in to FamilySearch.org, you should automatically see the link to Family Tree appear in the menu bar. Here is a screen shot showing the link to Family Tree:
Now, what happens if you go through this process and the link does not appear. First, go back to the Gaining Access document and try that. Most of the time, this cures the problem and the link appears. Finally, if that does not work either, you will have to call FamilySearch Support and ask for help. The Help number is available on links from the Help Center from the "Help" link I show above. On the Help page you will see a box with a list of Help services. These services include links to local Family History Consultants in your area, FamilySearch Centers in your area, an outdated link to Forums that no longer exist, and finally ways to contact FamilySearch directly including a telephone call center.
Just a word of advice, the people who answer the phone are all volunteers. They vary to some degree in their experience and knowledge. Be patient and polite. If you do not get a satisfactory answer, ask to talk to another representative with more experience. Just like the website with outdated links, some of the information retained by the support volunteers may also be outdated.
Now, if you are presently using New.FamilySearch.org, you might have noticed that there are several links to Family Tree from that program. Clicking on those links, if you are already signed in, will take you directly to Family Tree. The problem is that once you are in Family Tree the program does not let you know that you have moved to a new website and once you have left the program you may not realize that you were on the FamilySearch.org website. Once you have gained access to Family Tree through New.FamilySearch.org you should see the link on the FamilySearch.org website when you log in, otherwise, you may have to go through the process outlined above.
Our experience is that anyone who is persistent can presently gain access to Family Tree. But, of course, that is just the beginning of the story. One of the most common problems experienced by new users is the issue of connecting with existing information. But that is also the subject of another post.
Monday, January 21, 2013
Gaining Access to FamilySearch Family Tree
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I signed into Familysearch.org using my existing account but it didn't immediately bring up the Tree menu option. I also tried signing in at https://familysearch.org/tree it just kept refreshing the screen. However next morning all was fine. I put it down to a momentary glitch or possibly some overnight registration processReplyDelete
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Hi !
My doubt is on InterruptedException in java .
I am asking my doubt based on sleep method in java.
When we call interrupt on a thread which is in sleep state then InterruptedException is thrown.
Below are my doubts:
1)Imagine that we have called interrupt method on a thread named Thread1,which has come out from a sleep.
Then will Thread1 throws InterruptedException?
2)Imagine that we have called interrupt method on a thread named Thread2,which will go to sleep.
That means now Thread2 is not in sleep state.
Then will Thread2 throws Interrupted exception?


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Let it all out no matter what. And no bringing anyone else down. The one rule here (besides the SJF rules) Is help people fell better. Try to help out each other. <.< and yes i know My spelling Sux. But I've been working on it Alot
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Seattle Seahawks
A few Seattle Seahawks helped roster status with their play against San Diego Chargers
Terrelle Pryor, Robert Turbin, O'Brien Schofield stated convincing cases on the field.
Off it? They all deferred.
They are the Seahawks who have helped their roster status the most entering this week's third exhibition game against Chicago. Yet they aren't claiming anything.
And rightly so, since nothing is conclusive through two preseason games.
Entering after Russell Wilson's near-perfect first half Friday night against the San Diego Chargers, Pryor ran for a 44-yard touchdown on a bootleg play.
The former Oakland Raiders starting quarterback had a chance at an impressive third-down completion deep in San Diego territory on his other full drive in Seattle's 41-14 victory, but tight end Cooper Helfet dropped his pass. Pryor showed better patience and downfield awareness of secondary receivers while scrambling than he did in the preseason opener at Denver.
The Seahawks' second- and third-team offense has produced 16 points and 6.6 yards per play in the six full drives Pryor has led this month. He's played far more than veteran Tarvaris Jackson, who did not appear in Friday's game. Jackson has led just two drives — for three points —in two games.
But coach Pete Carroll and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell know what they have in the incumbent backup to Wilson.
They are trying to find out what they have in Pryor.
Carroll has kept two quarterbacks on his regular-season rosters in recent seasons. He's preferred to use an extra spot on the 53-man team for backups elsewhere than on a No. 3 quarterback that will be inactive each game day.
"We were going to put Tarvaris in there," Carroll said Friday when the Seahawks took a 24-0 lead by the middle of the second quarter because of Wilson's mastery. "But then we thought the way the game was going we wanted to get B.J. (Daniels, the fourth quarterback on the roster) a chance if we could.
"So Tarvaris will go with the twos (this) week, and we'll get a good dose of him playing football."
Asked if he has a feel on how this is going to play out by the final NFL preseason cut-down date of Aug. 30, Pryor shrugged.
"No, I just go out and play ball every day. Have fun," he said. "That's out of my control."
Helfet, a standout the previous week at Denver, dropped Pryor's most telling pass in two games in Friday's third quarter. On a third-and-3, Pryor rolled left, away from pressure and instead of running as he could have — and did in Denver — the quarterback did what Bevell said he wanted to see more of. Pryor kept his eyes focused downfield on receivers during his scramble and found Helfet at the sidelines near the Chargers 20.
The pass was on the tight end's hands, then clanged off them.
Instead of a possible touchdown drive, the Seahawks settled for Steven Hauschka's 55-yard field goal and a 27-7 lead.
"Coach Carroll and Coach Bevell preached to me, 'Hey, I want to see you when you get open running and you see someone on the sidelines, I want you to take that throw,'" Pryor said. "I missed two guys on that in Denver. I think that's improvement in that.
"I'm just trying to do what the coaches want me to do."
So what kind of impression does Pryor feel he's made through two games of his new NFL life in Seattle?
"Honestly, I don't know. You've got to ask those guys," he said of his coaches. "I just know when I'm in there, I'm going to make some plays and be a great teammate. That's all I can really control. I don't really know — and I can't even think about — what they are thinking.
"I don't know, I really don't. I'm sorry. I just really like playing the game. I really don't think too far into what the coaches think."
Turbin sped to 80 yards rushing by early in the second quarter. He got 47 of those yards on a sharp cut-back run from the Seattle 7 across midfield behind a crash-down block by rookie right tackle Justin Britt and a deft, peel-back block by tight end Zach Miller. Turbin finished that big play, which came moments after his 1-yard touchdown run, with a stiff arm that dragged San Diego's Marcus Gilchrist 10 yards before they both fell to the turf.
"It was a hell of a play," Carroll said.
The 5-foot-10, 222-pound, third-year back from Utah State with legs like the trunks of redwoods finished with 12 carries for 81 yards against San Diego. He appears to be in the best shape of his career. This offseason Turbin had his knee, in Carroll's words "cleaned up," and he looks stronger.
He's sure running that way. Plus, his competitor for the No. 2 running-back job behind Marshawn Lynch, second-year man Christine Michael, fumbled for the second time in an eight-carry span.
Yet Turbin isn't claiming any ground in his roster battle, either.
"I just want to get better," he said. "Whether I am getting four carries in one game (as he did in Denver) or a different amount the next game I just want to do my best to take advantage of all of that — and use all of that as a tool to get better."
Schofield, acquired just before training camp last summer from Arizona, is in a tight competition with second-year defensive end Benson Mayowa for a situational pass-rushing job. Schofield consistently sped past Chargers blockers on the inside, looping line stunts and straight bull rushes. He had a sack and four hits on San Diego quarterbacks Philip Rivers and Kellen Clemens, along with three tackles.
"He was all over the place," a pleased Carroll said. "He's competing his tail off to make this football team and make his mark here. ... I'm really fired up for him."
Yet Schofield is veteran enough after four other NFL seasons to realize the final evaluations on who gets what job this season with the defending Super Bowl champions are yet to come.
"I just came out and played as hard as I could, just showed my teammates that whatever game it is, anytime I'm out there I'm going to give 100-percent effort," he said. "I love the game so much, it's the least I can do."
The Seahawks are taking Saturday and Sunday off. They return to practice Monday for Friday's home exhibition against the Bears. ... Expect the starters to play into the second half this week. Coaches like to give leading players one practice experience of getting halftime adjustments and then applying them for at least one drive before exiting the third exhibition game. ... The fourth and final tune-up, Aug. 28 at Oakland, will likely be devoted almost exclusively to players fighting for roster spots.


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Ann Curry sparks 26 Acts of Kindness Movement
Ann Curry, NBC News correspondent asked herself, after the tragic massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, what
she could do. And she thought performing 26 acts of kindness, one act for each child and teacher who lost their life that day, would be a small gesture to honor the victims.
Ann then invited everyone to join her by sharing the idea on social media. Within a few days the hashtag "#26acts" was trending on Twitter and a "26 Acts of Kindness" Facebook page began to grow. People began to tweet Curry with photos and descriptions of their acts of kindness such as paying for parking meters, tolls and leaving larger than usual tips.
Curry wrote on the NBC News website that the movement is a way to "help heal us all."


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Posted by S. Ryan on June 11, 2003
In Reply to: Hindsight is 20/20 posted by masakim on June 02, 2003
: : : : Am I saying it correctly?
: : : : What does it mean? and it's origin?
: : : : Thanks
: : : The saying sound right, although I don't think I've ever heard it. It means that it's very easy to be wise/knowledgeable after events have happened. The 20/20 is a way of medically recording perfect vision.
If more women in these parts had hindsight, they wouldn't wear tight pants...
may you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to see where you're going and the insight to know when you're going too far...
: : It's a common saying in the U.S. and you're exactly right about its meaning. Here's a similar saying:
: : MONDAY-MORNING QUARTERBACK - "...The term refers to the after-the-fact football spectator who 'knows' just how the quarterback could have won the game of the past weekend, or win with a higher score. An Americanism, the term originated about 1940 and soon was transferred to other examples of twenty-twenty (20/20) hindsight. However, it is interesting to note that the 1911 edition of Ambrose Bierce's 'The Devil's Dictionary' defined Monday as 'In Christian countries, the day after the baseball games.'" "Southpaws & Sunday Punches and other Sporting Expressions" by Christine Ammer (Penguin Books, New York, 1993). Another source says the phrase dates back to 1932. "Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, H-O" by J.E. Lighter, Random House, New York, 1994.
: twenty-twenty or 20/20 adj: having the normal visual acuity of
the human eye that according to one common scale can distinguish
at a distance of 20 feet characters one-third inch in diameter
: From _Webster's Third New International Dictionary_
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: twenty-twenty vision n. [20C] perfect vision, in a fig. sense; thus _twenty-twenty insight_, a fig. perfect understanding or appreciation of what has already been seen. [ophthalmic jargon _20/20_, perfect vision]
: From Cassell's Dictionary of Slang by Jonathon Green
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: _A Streetcar Named Desire_: Tennessee William's [sic] prize-winning drama remodelled for screen with 20-20 insighht by Director Elia Kazan and unexcelled cast.... (_Saturday Review of Literature_, September 22, 1951)


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The proliferation of dash cams on Eastern European cars has provided a great — and terrifying — insight into how their road system works.
A tipster sent us this video, which appears to be a normal day on the roads in a possible former-Soviet nation.
However, at 0:19, something goes very wrong. We don't want to spoil the ending for you, but this is one video that is very worth watching.
Check it out (via YouTube):


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Maps tell the story in Denver elections
(update: fixed the link for District 5)
Denver Clerk Debra Johnson has posted some pretty interesting precinct-by-precinct election result maps for Denver.
Here's the map for the District 1 school board race between Anne Rowe and Emily Sirota. Sirota only won three precincts in the entire school board district.
Here's the map for the District 5 school board race between Arturo Jimenez and Jennifer Draper-Carson. Interesting to me how in many cases their support seemed to vary sharply by precinct.
Here's the map for how Prop 103, which would have temporarily raised taxes to support school, fared in Denver.
And, finally, here's the map for Initiative 300, the sick leave question.
Props to Johnson, who took office in July, for making these available online so quickly.


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Boston Mayor Tom Menino should probably just stop talking about sports in public.
The same guy who once lauded Celtics stars "KJ and Hondo" and fondly recalled the time "Varitek" split the uprights, has struck again. This latest gaffe isn't quite as egregious as his last two, but the inclusion of the phrase "rootin' hahhhd" makes it just as funny.