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Budino is Italian for "pudding."
- Yield
- Makes 6 servings
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
- 3 large eggs, separated
- 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup fresh Meyer lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons fresh regular lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons finely grated Meyer lemon peel
- 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons whole milk
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Whipped cream (optional)
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter six 3/4-cup custard cups or ramekins. Combine 1/2 cup sugar, egg yolks, flour, lemon juice, and lemon peel in large bowl; whisk until well blended. Whisk in milk.
- Using electric mixer, beat egg whites and salt in medium bowl until frothy. Gradually add remaining 2 tablespoons sugar and beat until soft peaks form. Fold beaten egg whites into lemon mixture in 2 additions. Divide mixture among prepared custard cups. Place custard cups in roasting pan. Pour enough hot water into roasting pan to come halfway up sides of custard cups. Bake puddings until tops are golden and spring back when lightly touched, about 30 minutes. Remove cups from water. Serve warm or cold with whipped cream, if desired.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories161
- Carbohydrates28 g(9%)
- Fat4 g(6%)
- Protein5 g(10%)
- Saturated Fat1 g(7%)
- Sodium148 mg(6%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber0 g(2%)
- Monounsaturated Fat1 g
- Cholesterol97 mg(32%)


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MARIETTA, Ga. – It was a day full of emotions for the Austin Banditos, who came into Day 6 of the 2013 15u WWBA National Championship desperate for a bit of luck and good play on the field. With their backs to the wall, the Banditos hacked and hurled their way into the Round of 16 tomorrow.
"We had to have a couple teams lose and, to be honest, we had some bad luck," said head coach Josh Ford. "We hit a lot of balls hard this week and not many of them fell, so it was great to get some luck on our side."
"It was great to see that the baseball gods were truly looking out for us today," said catcher Kragen Kechely.
After starting their morning off with a 3-0 win, all they could do was wait and see if luck was on their side today. "We needed the Black Mambas (Black Mamba Baseball Club) and the Fury (Fury Legion 15u) to lose," said pitcher Ryland Cox. "Me and two of my friends were at Subway watching Gamechanger the whole time they were playing."
Luck was with the Banditos today. Black Mamba Baseball Club and Fury Legion 15u both fell 2-1 in their final pool play matchups, giving the Banditos a spot in the Round of 24.
Austin met the Evoshield Canes Central 15u later in the day in a playoff game that had everyone on edge for seven innings.
Ryland Cox pitched six spectacular innings, giving up only one hit, which didn't come until the bottom of the fifth. Cox considered his performance far from spectacular, and he's probably the only one who thought so.
"I think I should have done better," he said. "I told my friend I'm gonna throw a no-no."
Well, one hit is as close as they come from throwing a no-hitter, and his teammates and coaches were very appreciative of Cox's efforts.
"I can't say enough about Ryland," said Ford. "He threw a great game."
"Ryland pounded the zone most of the game and got tons of ground balls and we played really good defense behind him," Cox's battery mate, Kechely, said.
The bats finally came alive in the top of the fourth inning when Chase Basham hit an RBI double to right field to plate the first run of the ball game. Later in the inning, Kechely hit a double that one-hopped off the left field fence to drive in the final run of the game.
"It was probably the farthest ball I've ever hit in my life, so it was pretty awesome," Kechely said. "I got a fastball right down the middle and didn't miss it."
The Austin Banditos run into one of the best travel teams in the country tomorrow, the East Cobb Astros 15u. The Banditos hope to have the baseball gods in their dugout again tomorrow.
"I think we have enough pitching to do it," Cox said about a tournament run. "I think we need to liven up our bats a little more to keep going."
"We've played really great baseball," Ford said. "We've done a lot of the little things right."
It's the little things that will make the biggest difference when playing a team as fundamentally sound as the East Cobb Astros 15u team, but don't count out the underdogs.
The Banditos have become accustomed to fighting out of corners in this tournament and will come out confident they can take down Goliath.

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How to Choose a Low-Glycemic-Friendly Restaurant
Adopting a low-glycemic diet doesn't mean you'll never go to a restaurant again. Eating out when you're choosing a low-glycemic diet means you need to pay a little more attention to what a low-glycemic-friendly restaurant has on the menu. Such establishments tend to
Offer a wide variety of menu options
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Serve side vegetables or salad entrees
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Png Kueh Print
Reminisce your good ol' childhood memories with artofchris' prints.
Illustrated by Chris Chew, emerging artist/illustrator, these prints make good gifts too!
Dress up your room or workspace with this series of prints by artof.chris. Consisting of various childhood favorites, from food to games, these prints are perfect as gifts for your childhood friends to send a greeting or share a memory of the past with them.
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Year in Review
It's the year in review! Below are my favorites from 2012, just because. I did this last year too (2011's version):
Book – The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Movie – Iron Sky
Band – The Album Leaf
Song – "This is How It Ends" by Devotchka
Serious Technology – Nexus 7 tablet
Less Serious Technology – stainless steel pet water fountain
Conference – Internet Librarian in Monterey
Fan Girl Squee Moment – dancing with David J (from Bauhaus and Love and Rockets) at a club and having him ask me for book recommendations
New Service for Libraries – Geek the Library
Personal Accomplishment – finishing my ginormous, very black back tattoo without crying
Professional Accomplishment – being hired as Director for the San Rafael Public Library
Library Innovation – sea dragons (I don't think any libraries actually have these, but I want sea dragons in my library so there)
Indoor Event – Ghost Ship
Outdoor Event – Folsom Street Fair
Support for a DRM-free Future – Humble Bundle eBooks
Bar – The Pint Size (San Rafael)
Treat – vegan peanut butter cups from Sjaak's
Photo of me that you will never see – shoveling powdered-sugar-covered funnel cake in my face at the Marin County Fair
Meme – Grumpy Cat


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Mi Xao Mem Recipes
Garlic Noodles
Little Aria's favorite dish of the moment is a good noodle stir fry. It's super easy to prepare and I'll show you how to master this dish using 3 main flavorings: garlic, green onions and some chiles.
The secret is to fry the garlic first. You have to make sure you don't burn it or the noodles will have an acrid taste, which could be very unpleasant. If this is the case, simply throw the garlic away, wash the pan and start over. The other key is stir fry the noodles over high heat; you could also add a dollop of butter at the end for extra richness, if you like.
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Mi Xao Chay Recipe (Vegetarian Soft Egg Noodle Stir Fry)
I love making noodle stir fry. It may seem a little complicated but if you're methodical, you'll be able to master this dish in no time. What makes this noodle dish special is the use of pineapple both as an ingredient and as a seasoning for the noodles themselves.
First, I prepared the green bean and tofu stir fry and set it aside. The next step is boiling the fresh egg noodles, then cooking the pineapple (trái khóm in Vietnamese) in a thick sweet and sour sauce. Finally, all you need is to toss the noodles in the sauce and add the tofu and green beans.
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Mi Xao Mem Recipe (Vietnamese Egg Noodles)
Mì xào mềm, as opposed to mì xào dòn (crispy egg noodles) is the Vietnamese version of Chinese chow mein. This dish appears in almost every Vietnamese fast food joint. It usually comes with chicken and seafood such as baby squid and shrimp, but I wanted to make sure the entire family would enjoy the dish as well (half of my family is vegetarian). So this time, I mixed the soft egg noodles with rolled tofu skin and several vegetables.
Living in the Bay Area, we're lucky enough that Asian markets carry a wide variety of fresh egg noodles. I always look for the thin kinds. If you can't find any, you could always boil angel hair pasta. The flavor will be slightly different but still delicious!
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|Oct 1st, 2012 01:29 PM
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|Mar 24th, 2011 06:47 PM
|I know a place down in texas called the staley cemetary. So appearantly,there was an indian burial ground and they built the cemetary right on top of it.Every so often, there is a blue light that can be seen flying over the place at night. The only problem is that the police are patrolling it 24/7...
|Dec 20th, 2008 01:02 PM
|Well one time I was working at a haunted house and I was in one of these halls of mirrors by myself waiting for people to get to this room. So I was sitting there waiting, I walked by one of the mirrors, no reflection. I assure you these mirrors were perfectly normal and were supposed to reflect. I go to the next one, no reflection. Then I heared rushing waster like it was in the room with me. For those who are curious it was Knotts berry Farms halloween haunt. In this maze called Killer Clown Kollege which is located near Xcelerator and pretty close to perilous plunge. Someone died on perilous plunge a while back, I thoght it had something to do with that, not exactly sure though. After a while the water stops and people start pouring in. I was following some people through the mirror hall and I saw 1 reflection of a person who wasn't even there. It was like some obese lady (which is kind of like the person who fell of perilous plunge). All and all I am not sure...The fog and lighting and darkness all may have been playing tricks on me. Either way, that was a night that scared me.
|Dec 7th, 2008 03:32 PM
If you ever travel down to Mexico, go see the Mummy Museum in Guanajuato
Guanajuato is a wee bit far down to travel, but the museum is super creepy, as you can see from the first link. Basically all the mummies there were all residents of the town at some point from the colonial era.
Not for the squeamish, since there are mummy children Dx
Also, there is a seperate hallway of just random oddities, such as a guillotine, a "vampire skeleton", and a coffin with spikes.
The best part are the caramel mummies as souvenirs. Delicious!
|Nov 23rd, 2008 10:58 PM
|Heres one for you on the east coast, a bit of a hike for you guys, but deffinatly worth it; Spider's Gate Cemetary. Accroding to legend entering each one the supposed gates to the cemetary (mind you you hear alot of "The 6th gate is between that rock and that dumpster" )but still has a really nice, creepy feel too it. Heres a link with more: http://www.strangene.com/cemeteries/spidergate.htm
|Nov 12th, 2008 01:58 AM
|I'm thinking of visiting Centralia in full Stormtrooper regalia. I'll post pics when/if I do. Great article though.
|Nov 6th, 2008 06:08 AM
Great article, that town has seemed facinating since I first heard about it! Shame they keep tearing it down.
Check out the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpikes.
|Oct 28th, 2008 05:44 PM
|I grew up within a few miles of the Danvers State Mental Hospital in Danvers MA. Back in the late 80's we used to be able to drive around the grounds at night for a pretty good freak out. But that was when it was still open and functioning. Little by little it was closed down and all the residents redistributed around the area, which definitely added to its creepiness; the emptier it got, the darker it would get at night. Eventually it was closed down and as of right now I've no idea what still remains of it. But if just exploring the grounds at night was spooky (and keeping an eye out for cops and security once they chained the access roads off), actually going inside, at night, with flashlights would have been something I'd have paid good money to have been able to do. Check out the film Session 9 for more of what would have (or still would, if any of it is left) made creeping around inside Danvers State Mental Hospital the perfect thing to do around the Halloween season.
|Oct 28th, 2008 11:56 AM
|Looks like an ideal location for a remake of: "Motel Hell", "Phantasm", "Night of the Creeps", "Return of the Living Dead" or maybe "My Bloody Valentine"
|Oct 28th, 2008 06:13 AM
|Rebel Without a Sauce
|It's hard to trust a city called Centralia... it's the worst kind of portmantea! ...ONE THAT MAKES SENSE.
|Oct 28th, 2008 05:06 AM
I live in WV and in defense of it's "creepiness" factor it is only scary to people who live in the city or highly populated areas. If houses with big-assed yards in the middle of the woods=creepy then I guess we are then. I mean I live less than a mile from "slaughterhouse hollow" and it isn't the least bit crepy here. Unless you are afraid of the dark that is.
You want to be creeped out, try going to the old prison here. Apparently they have started to run a spook house in it during october. I haven't went yet, but the prison itself is scary enough without the doctoring, so I can only imagine.
|Oct 28th, 2008 01:16 AM
As for creepy locations, up and around my hometown (Erie, or as it goes around this time of year, Eerie, PA) we've got Axe Murderer Hollow and a few other supposedly haunted spots. Never been to any of them myself, so I can't vouch for the coolness factor of them, but we do have a Horror Festival every year, with movies and horror actors and the like. Nothing A-list (I'd say, unless you're a horror fan) like the one Rog went to, but it's a good time. Might want to check it out next year (or, y'know, whenever *laughs*)
|Oct 28th, 2008 12:40 AM
http://www.offroaders.com/album/cent...re-history.htm a slight history on Centralia is in the link I posted here. It's sad that you couldn't get any pics you'd dee worthy for the site.
On another note, the orbs in the creepy tree, they're basically supposed to be ghosts... Did you lose power to your digital cameras at any point around that church?
Also, if you ever take a trip up to Canada, check out Newfoundland, it's where I'm from, and there are plenty of ghost stories around this area, from suicide, to a man getting lost in a small wooded area for 10 days and coming out traumatized and mentally destroyed. He was perfectly sane when he went in to them. If you want to hear more Newfoundland stories, or for me to go deeper in to telling you the one mentioned, feel free to contact me some way.
|Oct 28th, 2008 12:26 AM
Commanderraf: Thanks for the tip, but that's probably a little far out of my range at this point. Who knows, though--maybe Roger could make it down there sometime!
MS-DOS4: I don't know. The GPS belongs to my friend Dave (Sarcastro, who posted below). He didn't really lead us astray so much as the area just isn't well mapped though.
Mister Tea: I agree, and I'm sure there's probably a slightly more credible version of the story that involves demonic possession or something instead of the aneurysm. You know how these stories go though, they get told over and over and details change over the years. I just recounted how I remember it being told to me.
Military Messiah: Dude! You didn't think that was worth mentioning while we were there? The noise you heard up in the church? That's kind of a creepy little detail there.
Ozzie: Oh man, that must have been freaky as hell. I envy you for that. I've been out ghost hunting to graveyards and Civil War battlefields many times, but never have I experienced anything like that!
fugmunky: I don't doubt that you're right about that. Unfortunately we only had so much time and we wanted to check out Egg Hill too...
SlimJim: Holy SHIT that place sounds AWESOME! I'm definitely putting that on my list of places to see. And the great thing is that it's easily reachable for me in a day. The only thing that concerns me is that website mentions that it's "being rennovated"...I'd be afraid I'd get there and it would be like arriving after the party's over.
Brunbb: That actually makes some kind of sense.
And to those of you who suggested "haunted hayride" kind of attractions, those can be fun, and I appreciate the suggestions, but I'm looking for things that are a little more genuine, you know?
|Oct 27th, 2008 11:24 PM
|Centralia was an inspiration for the movie, not the game. The game had all that fog because of the graphical limitations of the PlayStation.
|Oct 27th, 2008 10:46 PM
If you guys are ever near the Louisville KY area, you really should check out a place called the Waverly Hills Sanatorium. From our friends @ Wikipedia:
A sanatorium (also sanitorium, sanitarium) is a medical facility for long-term illness, typically tuberculosis.
A synopsis of the place:
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|Oct 27th, 2008 10:39 PM
|JJ the Jetplane
I've only been to one Halloween based "event". It's the Homer Mill, in Michigan, and it's pretty amazing. It's actually Alice Coopers favorite haunted house attraction in the country. I've gone the past two years with a couple of my bodies, and it was really fun both times. The first time i went was last year, and when me and my buddies got there, we were really really early (it was like 5 pm, and still light out) and we thought it wasn't going to be very scary at all. But, since we got there so early, we were the only people there, which seemed to make everything 10 times worse than normal. The scares were actually so frequent one of my friends started getting angry at the workers and yelling at them whenever he got startled, which was funny in retrospect, but we were to busy shitting ourselves to laugh at the time. The weird thing about it though, was that the first few rooms weren't even remotely frightening. They were actually just plain silly. But everything got WAY worse the further in we got. And we discovered that apparently, my friend Steven is afraid of clowns , and I'm afraid of heights. It was really fun and i was psyched to get the chance to go again earlier this year. When we got there this year though, it was later in the night (about 8 or 9) and there were a lot of people in line. When we finally got in, it wasn't even all that scary. Hearing the people in front and behind you screaming just ruined the experience and spoiled all the scares. Plus, since it was so much later, the workers seemed tired, and not really into what they were doing.It was still fun, but in a more "laughing at all the stupid people behind you screaming" kind of fun. So yeah, if anyone ever gets the chance to go, try and go early, before anybody else shows up. Going through that haunted house with only a few friends makes everythinga lot better, and the fact that it's light outside is barely even noticeable once you get inside the house. It's really dark in most of the rooms in the house.
(P.S.) If anybody does check it out, make sure to stick with your group in the room with all the curtains and the strobe lights. I circled around that room for 10 minutes trying to find the way out of that room, the strobe lights were blinding me, and no matter how many times i heard that woman in the middle of the room scream, it still scared the crap out of me. (Sadly, the woman wasn't screaming when i went through this year)
(P.P.S.) The restaraunt in the Homer Mill is also pretty good. :^D
|Oct 27th, 2008 08:57 PM
|o yeah and rizzo - goddamn right about knoebels!!! ride the phoenix forever!!!
|Oct 27th, 2008 08:55 PM
if anybody wants the TRUE Centralia experience, may I recommend the weather to be cold and rainy...and it must be at night. The last time me and some of my friends went it was a spittin image of the smokey dreariness of Silent Hill. The only thing that would have made it better is the distant howling of a air raid siren in the distance.
PS the ground at Centralia in certain spots is extremely weak, so one wrong misstep could send you hurtling to the bowels of coal fire hell...
|Oct 27th, 2008 08:12 PM
I once went with a group of friends to check out a graveyard that was supposedly haunted by the spirit of an Indian chief ( I live in Minnesota, so it seemed fairly feasible)
Upon reaching the graveyard, we were disappointed to not only not see any ghosts, but that the graveyard was maybe 50 square feet big and full of French-Canadian immigrants, which would make them probably the least frightening type of zombie I could imagine.
As we're walking back to the cars, I start to hear this faint children's music, like from a music box or something. It was faint, but loud enough to know that it couldn't be coming from the "nearby" buildings (The closest being more than 100 yards away) and of course, I just think I'm imagining it and scaring myself, so I turn to my friend to tell him and laugh it off. His eyes are the size of fucking dinner plates as he's saying "Please fucking tell me you can hear that too" before I have a chance to speak.
Actually scared now, I nod to him and we both run back to our car ahead of the rest of the group, claiming to them we were merely just cold and not wusses.
|Oct 27th, 2008 07:26 PM
Commanderraf: Remember that a lot of spooky people also go to Real de Catorce for nothing more than some peyote.
Protoclown:Those red lights are simply scary. I look at them and I truly believe it is some demonic entity lurking around.
|Oct 27th, 2008 07:17 PM
|While we are on the subject of creepy places a buddy of mine works nights at a hotel here in Michigan. It used to be a big mob hangout. Al Capone had stayed there a couple of times and everything. A mab boss actually got shot in the hotel bar. There is a newspaper framed on the wall talking about it and everything. Since my friend works at night there isnt any other employees and sometimes you can hear a vacum running in an empty room. Or you can hear footsteps in empty hallways. Even the ice on the fountain pop machine will come out by itself.
|Oct 27th, 2008 04:34 PM
|Yeah, we're pretty bad with posting what the speed limit actually is in PA...sorry about that. You missed the best part of central PA besides State College, though, and you were really close to it too: Goddamn Knoebels Amusement Park. It's the only amusement park left anymore that's not just after every single penny of your dough, plus the food kicks ass. Check it out the next time you're up this way.
|Oct 27th, 2008 04:25 PM
|I must defend Mr. T from the vile accusations leveled upon him, here. When I was entering the destination, we didn't have a precise address to give. So instead of putting in a street address, I put in a zip code and an interstate that Lauren had reckoned was the right one. So yes, Mr. T did in fact lead us away from Egg Hill, but that was only because the destination he'd been given to find was not exactly Egg Hill.
|Oct 27th, 2008 03:52 PM
You should have gone to southwestern PA and gone to Fright Farm. It's not creepy, it's just a big haunted house and hayride attraction. Also, Laurel Caverns. No spooky shit but Laurel Caverns is great.
And yeah, lots of rural places can be scary at night. Western PA, western VA, West Virginia, and other places in the region are good for that. Tiny little towns that consist of nothing more than a gas station and a creepy bridge.
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Vittoria Corsa SR: new tyres with ISOGrip super-grippy rubber
Tyre maker Vittoria is claiming a breakthrough in grip with its new Corsa SR clincher and tubular tyres that feature the company's new rubber compound, ISOGrip.
Through 2011 and 2012 Vittoria has been investing in research and development, devoting an entire factory in Thailand to producing the new tread rubber.
Vittoria claims: "In wet or dry conditions, ISOGrip lets you go over the limit: a level of adherence to the ground never felt before, no increase in rolling resistance and a maximum grip and speed on race tyres."
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The new compound will feature on all Vittoria tyres that have a cotton carcass, such as the Corsa CX and Pave CG, plus a new tyre, the Crsa SR.
There will be clincher and tubular versions of the Corsa SR with a 320tpi cotton casing and 24mm cross-section (probably - the announcement is written in lovely 'Campagnolo Spoken Here' Italglish.)
Vittoria says: "The Corsa SR meets the needs of the most sensitive cyclists. All parameters of this rubber are designed to ensure the maximum performance: the grip and smoothness of Corsa SR will always excel. In wet or dry conditions, on uneven or smooth grounds, uphill or downhill, Corsa SR always brings you over the limit."
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FSA launches video channel
Component make Full Speed Ahead (best known by the TLA FSA) has always been keen on using video to tell the world about its cranks, wheels, aerobars and more.
A new channel, FSA TV, gathers it all into a one-stop-shop to satisfy all your FSA moving pictures needs.
FSA's Gloria Radaelli said: "On FSA TV you can find video ranging from sponsored teams behind the scenes at major races, to technical instructions on different bike components, to events we visit around the world... and more! We will add new content regularly."
Want a taste? Course you do. Here's Vaconsoleil's Gustav Larsen taking delivery of a monster 58-tooth chainring and explaining why he wants it. (We'd show you it here, but FSA's embed codes don't seem to work...)
Comtat Cycling opens London showroom
Up-and-coming high-end bike company Comtat Cycling has opened a new appointment-only showroom within EnergyLab, in Scrutton St, Shoreditch.
Founded in 2009, Comtat produces handmade, Italian, carbon road-bikes with, it says here, a focus on performance and style.
Comtat owner and founder, Adam Roberts says: "We've had an internet presence for some three year now and whilst that was doing well in terms of components, when it comes to our bikes, you really need to be able to see them in the flesh and pick them up to really appreciate them."
The new showroom offers a lot more than just a chance to fondle some lovingly-assembled composites, though. You can discuss your bike requirements, get a professional bike-fit, have a VO2 max test, view the other bikes on offer, such as the Formigli range or just have a coffee (Italian-style, natch) and a chat.
For your more personal needs EnergyLab offers a triathlon coach and personal trainer, an osteopath and sports massage expert. There's even a spinning studio, BOOM! Cycle downstairs. We're getting tired just thinking about it all.
Roberts says: "We wanted to create a complete cycling destination. Somewhere cyclists could come and receive the VIP treatment in stylish and comfortable surroundings.
"In a lot of bike shops it can be noisy, busy and distracting. We wanted to create something more peaceful and minimalist where we can take the time to really listen to our customers and offer them bespoke solutions to their needs, the cycling equivalent to a Savile Row Tailor. With the Comtat Showroom I think we've achieved this."
Comtat also offers a bike box hie service, so if you're taking a your bike overseas but don't have your own bike box, you can choose from Polaris Eva Pod, Polaris Pro Pod and Bike Box Alan boxes.
To make an appointment, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 0845 299 6103.
The Comtat showroom is housed in EnergyLab, 2-8 Scrutton St London, Greater London EC2A 4RT.
New lids from Halfords
High Street bike shop chain Halfords has announced a bunch of new helmets (a crash? a crunch? a cushion? what's the collective noun here anyway?) under the Boardman and HardnutZ labels.
The Boardman Team lid features a single-handed RC5 fit system with a soft matt finish and a yellow and reflective rear panel. The universal fit makes it suitable for most riders with adjustment from 56 to 61.5cm. Available in stores from August it will cost £49.99.
The ProC features an extra strong, lightweight carbon fibre internal structure and 22 vents to help to increase air flow and ventilation. A detachable visor makes this helmet suitable for both road and mountain use. It's available now for £69.99.
For riders on a tighter budget, the new HardnutZ range includes the movie-influenced design called The Dogz ("Let's go work") and quirky farmyard animal themed Old Macdonald at £29.99 each. And if a shiny 'pot' style helmet is your style (or, let's be honest about the road.cc demographic, your kids'), there's the Chrome Finish Street Bike Helmet at £39.99.
HardnutZ also includes regular helmets, with and without peaks for off-road and road riding, though confusingly Halfords calls them all road bike helmets. Patterns include the Tuitty Fruity design or the Rock Hard black and white pattern, both £49.99.
For Autumn winter an extended HardnutZ range of high visibility reflective helmets will be launched, including, pink, silver and even matt and gloss blacks. The yellow high viz landing in selected stores ready for the clocks going back.
For more information, check out www.halfords.com
Pragmasis launches Shed Shackle for metal sheds & new website
The bike security gurus at Pragmasis have just revamped their website and launched, among other things, a new reinforcement kit aimed at owners of metal bike sheds and a fitting kit for mounting their Torc ground anchor to a block wall.
We have to admit a huge geek-crush on Pragmasis. Making great security products sounds mundane, but the Pragmasis site is full of straight-talking sound advice, and the locks, chains and ground anchors on offer flat-out work without costing the earth.
Our favourite lock-busting experts, whom we'll call Fingers and Smash because they work for Another Publishing Company, always come away defeated from Pragmasis gear till they break out the angle-grinding big guns. Even then it takes them longer to get through a Pragmasis chain than just about anything else.
So without further ado, we recommend you get over to SecurityForBikes.com and take a look.
Still here? All right then, we'll tell you more.
As we said earlier, new gear on offer from Pragmasis includes an internal reinforcement system for steel bike sheds. It turns out some of these can be breached quite easily even if you use good locks, so Pragmasis has developed a version of the Shed Shackle (originally intended to boost security of wooden sheds) specifically for them.
There's also a new new Block Wall fitting kit for the Pragmasis Torc ground anchor. Stephen Briggs of Pragmasis says this is "the only 8-bolt-fixing ground anchor on the market and means you can get a much higher level of security if you have no choice but to use a blockwork wall in your garage."
If you're able to dig a hole and pour some fresh concrete, Pragmasis has also come up with a base for the Torc anchor that extends into it.
Finally, Pragmasis 11mm and 13mm chains are now available in a 'noose chain' option with a larger, round link at one end. This allows you to make a short loop of chain to secure an object and then attach it to something a distance away without using a heavy, expensive huge single loop of chain.
Cyclefit partners with Enfield's Stephen James Cycles
Bike fit specialist CycleFit has expanded its network of partner stores with the addition of Stephen James Cycles in Enfield.
The shop's fitter, James Hewitt is a former elite rider who used to ride for a continental development team in France and held an elite amateur license.
Cyclefit director Phil Cavell says: "James uniquely combines his elite-racing history and sports-science degree with his recent high-level training at Cyclefit to provide his customers exceptional levels of service and insight.
"James' combination of skills and experience, as well as his passion has driven him to the very top echelons of the fitting community in relatively short time. He is a real talent in our industry."
Moa the green balm treats cuts and scrapes with yarrow
Human beings have been using the herb yaoow for literally tens of thousands of years. It was one of the plants identified at Shanidar IV, a Neanderthal flower burial in northern Iraq, dated circa 60,000 ago.
More recently it had a reputation as an aid to healing wounds, an was supposedly carried by the Greek hero Achilles who is said to have used it to treat his wounded soldiers on the battlegrounds of Troy. That's where it gets its Latin name, achillea millefolium.
The manufacturers of Moa the green balm reckon that putting it in a soothing ointment is an easier way to use yarrow than keeping a bunch of the leaves to hand. It comes in a pocket sized pot and it contains other natural ingredients such as tea tree, coconut oil, sweet almond oil and beeswax. It can be used to soothe, nourish and renew dry skin, bumps, bites, grazes and minor burns.
Could be just the thing if you're one of those riders who always seems to pick up mysterious scrapes and bumps, Moa the green balm could be just the thing.
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|Mar 31st, 2010 12:19 AM
|I enjoyed the whole series. It definitely starts to fall flat towards the end, though.
|Mar 28th, 2010 07:28 PM
|Someones butthurt. However you are not very memorable and I doubt you ever will be.
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|Oh, hey, where's Tadao? I'm sure he would be in here making fun of all the people who read this and then go to jerk off to pictures of bunnies.
|Mar 26th, 2010 03:46 AM
|I considered this my favourite manga until the vampires showed up at which point I lost interest pretty quickly. It still makes me sad.
|Mar 22nd, 2010 10:49 AM
|I loved it in the beginning but it really starts to be silly after the first 10 books or so. Maybe because it is way too over the top then in the bad japanese way and/or it is getting tedious (Dragon Ball syndrome).
|Mar 18th, 2010 11:57 PM
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In responce to what boogie says about Kei... He's defidently alittle annoying during the first few missions. I can't vouch for the manga as I haven't read it, but in the anime Kei becomes cool over time (I assume they're similar in this aspect). There are four missions- during the first he's a jackass. During the end of the second and the third, he does some awesome things, driven purely by the will to survive. By the end he's driven by the will to save others (though to a lesser extent than Kato). He's actually pretty well developed, like Kato describe Kei during his teenage years as brave and heroic, and Kei slowly (emphasis on slowly here) become that again. It shows that he was corrupted as he grew up, which makes him alittle more interesting.
|Mar 18th, 2010 11:47 PM
|I've seen the anime many times, but I've yet to read the Manga. It sounds different enough from the anime that I may go read it. I'm glad you gave it a good review, the anime is one of my favorites.
|Mar 15th, 2010 05:15 PM
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I know that there is a pretty ok abridged series on youtube for this series, a lot of the jokes fall flat, but its alright.
|Mar 15th, 2010 03:07 AM
|You made this sound so bad ass that I had to look it up and read it for myself. Thanks!
|Mar 14th, 2010 02:11 PM
|This book is badass. And it only gets better the further you go.
|Mar 13th, 2010 07:44 PM
|Gantz rules. The only fault is that the author clearly makes up a lot as he goes along. Sometimes he'll get bored and be like "Hey look, vampires!" and then forget about them for several chapters. A great read though.
|Mar 13th, 2010 02:05 PM
|And the guy who plays L in the death note films is going to be Masaru katou in the Gantz films.
|Mar 13th, 2010 11:02 AM
|they make a live action out of every manga and/or anime...case in point Death Note..But Gantz is awsome,it just gets better and better
|Mar 12th, 2010 04:05 PM
I love Gantz. I've read all of it so far, and it just gets more and more intense and gruesome as it goes. Stay away from the anime though.
They're also making a live action adaptation about this.
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Russian giants add yet another title to their collection by winning gold at 2013 EuroVolley
With this success, Russia also got the right to represent Europe at the FIVB Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup scheduled for this coming November in Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan.
Mauro Berruto, head coach of Italy, said after the game: "We had two good teams in action today but when Russia plays like that they are very difficult to control and they started the match in a very impressive way with their serves and blocks. When Russia plays like that they are the best team in the world. They had a small moment where they gave us an opportunity and we got it in the set that we won, but we must say that they deserved the win and we have to understand where the most important difference is so that we can try to fill it. We are very proud and this is the fourth medal I win but still we have to try to get the color that we wish for."
Russian libero Aexey Verbov: "It's an unbelievable feeling and we are just happy, having fun and enjoying it. It is very difficult to go to this level and we gave everything for this medal. We don't sleep, we don't eat and we work hard. The last four months we have all been together and worked very hard and I'm so lucky that we have come to this level. We are just happy that we did it. We were very nervous because everyone expected this medal from us and today I think we beat Russia not Italy today, but ourselves today. After we lost to Germany we have been through six very difficult matches and step by step we did it, every ball and every match is hard. For three months I have not eaten junk food to be in my maximum condition, so now I just want to eat everything and I will go to McDonald's tomorrow!"
After a very slow start in the tournament, Serbia completed their comeback to win bronze at Parken stadium on the last day of the 2013 CEV VELUX EuroVolley. The young group captained by Dragan Stankovic did cruise to a straight victory (25-22, 32-30, and 27-25) over Bulgaria to follow up on the gold medal some members of the team had won two years ago in Vienna. Serbia won their tenth medal at the EuroVolley – by counting also those claimed by the former Yugoslavia and by the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2005 – to confirm its position among the real heavyweights of the sport in Europe. Aleksandar Atanasijevic – the real inheritor of former team captain Ivan Miljkovic – was once more the best player winning the duel with Bulgaria opposite Tsvetan Sokolov before these guys get to cross their ways once more later this season as they are both set to compete in the Italian national league.
Aleksandar Atanasijevic said: "We are very happy to win a medal again. We won the gold two years ago but this is a new team with a lot of young players and this is our maximum at the moment. This bronze medal is for us like gold and we played against a very strong Bulgarian team with maybe the best opposite in the world in Sokolov, so we knew that we had to give more 100 % if we wanted to win this match at the end we can be happy. Yesterday Russia was better so we have no reason to be sad and we go back to Serbia with a bronze medal and a smile on our faces".
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Barton played collegiate soccer at Shippensburg University from 1994-1997 and earned both a Bachelors degree in psychology and a Masters degree in Secondary Education counseling.
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Blues surge, beat Blue Jackets for third straight win
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Now that David Backes has made it through the worst drought of his career, the St. Louis Blues captain has found his scoring touch again.
Backes, who went 15 games without a goal, scored for the second straight game to help the Blues beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-1 on Friday night.
This one didn't earn Backes any style points, as he swatted home what proved to be the winning goal while lying on his back in the slot.
SUMMARY:Blues 3, Blue Jackets 1
But he will take it.
"I just find the puck on my back and I said, 'Hey, I might as well whack this toward the net somewhere.'" Backes said. "I've had enough blind luck where I'm hitting posts or crossbars or missing the net.
"I'm due for a few that will go in that maybe shouldn't. We'll take it any way we can right now."
The Blues have won three in a row after a three-game skid. St. Louis entered the night in eighth place in the Western Conference.
"It's not the ideal win, but we'll take it," said Blues forward Chris Stewart, who scored his team-leading 16th goal. "They don't give up much. This time of the year you're going to have to score the ugly ones, and that's what we did."
The Blues are 15-2-1 when Stewart has at least a point.
St. Louis has won all three meetings with Columbus this season and 10 of 11 overall. The Blue Jackets failed to earn a point for only the third time in 19 games.
Columbus coach Brad Richards said he had no complaints with his team's effort.
"I don't know if we were less sharp, less crisp," Richards said. "I thought effort-wise and things we wanted to accomplish in the game, we were executing."
Backes, who broke his goal drought in Chicago on Thursday, has nearly doubled his goal total in two days. He has five goals this season.
Patrik Berglund added an empty-netter with less than a second remaining.
Blues goalie Jake Allen (9-3-1) made 26 saves. He gave up just a late second-period goal to Artem Anisimov. Marian Gaborik had an assist, giving him three points in his first two games with Columbus after being acquired from the New York Rangers on Wednesday.
Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 16 shots for the Blue Jackets.
Stewart broke a scoreless tie at 15:58 of the second period with a power-play goal. He took a centering pass from Alex Pietrangelo and backhanded a shot past Bobrovsky from the slot.
Anisimov appeared to give the Blue Jackets momentum when he skated in front from behind the net and beat Allen with 1:24 left in the second, but just 11 seconds later, Backes finished a rush and scored from the slot while lying on his back to give the Blues the lead again.
"That's sports," Columbus defenseman Jack Johnson said. "Sometimes goals like that go in. Nine out of 10 times that doesn't go in. But it did tonight."
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A couple of years ago, I implemented a technology that makes iPhones, iPads and Android smartphones and tablets more secure by giving us access control, encryption, passwords and remote-wipe capability. Since then, at a time when smartphone usage at my company was booming, we haven't had any data security breaches related to smartphones and tablets. Although some of those devices have been lost or stolen, such occurrences have never led to a breach, thanks to the ability to remotely wipe those devices. I've loved the peace of mind that has given me.
But now my peace of mind has been shattered.
As the use of mobile devices has grown at my company, our smartphones and tablets of choice have been Android-based phones. They are so much cheaper than Apple products, it has been hard to justify spending a lot more for iPads and iPhones. And our security record with the Android devices has been so good that there was no reason to second-guess that decision.
Until now.
Lately, the Android platform has come under attack. Serious vulnerabilities have been found in the Android operating system that can compromise devices and the data on them, regardless of any security software that may be running. For example, Google recently released a security update to fix a vulnerability in the Android security model that can be used to plant Trojan horse malware in regular applications, which an attacker can use to break into the device and steal data. Known as the "master key" vulnerability, this particular security hole has been lurking around undetected for the last four years. Google's fix isn't permanent, though. And now a second master key vulnerability has been discovered.
If the underlying operating system isn't secure, the security software running on it can be bypassed or compromised, so there's no longer any guarantee that data on Android-based smartphones can be protected. This comes as some surprise, because open-source operating systems like Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD have historically been more secure than proprietary operating systems like those made by Apple, because there is a significant amount of review that happens for every line of code in the operating system, as well as the entire architecture and security model. But this doesn't seem to be the case with Android. And the apps themselves are not controlled or tracked, so attackers can put malware-laced software on the Android Market with impunity. And I don't have a very effective way to control what apps my users download. If people download malicious apps from the Android Market, my company's data might be put at risk.
In addition to the risks posed by the attack surface of the Android operating system and the apps that can be downloaded from the Android Market, we have to worry about malware as well. Malware attacks on Android devices are on the rise. As a result, antivirus software is now a necessity on Android devices. And my experience with antivirus software has not been good. On many occasions, I have experienced zero-day infections on Windows systems on my company's network that the antivirus software was not able to contain. So I've built a complex array of network-based and host-based security products for a multilayered defensive strategy to compensate for the shortcomings of antivirus software. I don't have the same options on Android platforms.
So what do I do now? My company has already invested a substantial amount of money in Android-based smartphones, so I have to decide what position to take on those pre-existing devices. And as each day passes and more security problems are found with the Android platform, I'm beginning to think my position is going to have to be against Android. If that turns out to be the case, then not only will I lose face by reversing my earlier position supporting the use of Android smartphones and tablets on my company's network, but I'll also incur a significant cost to replace those Android devices by switching to Apple. And that's a real dilemma.
This week's journal is written by a real security manager, "J.F. Rice," whose name and employer have been disguised for obvious reasons. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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It seems everyone is thinking of new and creative ways to show their loved ones how much they care this holiday season. Do something for your family that will not only bring them joy, but also help them live a healthier life. This holiday season why not give your family the gift of a clean home?
Between parties and out of town guests, there are more than enough reasons to get the house clean and ready for the Holiday Festivities and the New Year that are just around the corner! But no reason is more important than your own family. They'll love you for it!
Clean out your closets. Not only is it good to get rid of clutter, but you can take what you don't want and donate it to Good Will or any other charity organization. You may care that your sweater is "last season" but someone in need won't.
Polish your silver. If you plan on hosting any parties or dinners, make sure your table service is spotless. This is a good task for the little ones to help out too.
Get those carpets clean. Between opening presents, playing games and having children over to the house, your floors get a lot of action throughout the holidays. If it's been awhile since you last had your carpets professionally cleaned (6-12 months), perhaps it's time you schedule a cleaning to remove all the dirt, dust mites and debris that have collected in the past year. Clean carpets are paramount for a clean, healthy home.
Clean your air ducts. Cleaning your air ducts works for you in two ways: it helps you save you money on your heating bill and it dramatically improves the indoor air quality in your home, imperative for any allergy sufferers.
Clean your window treatments. Drapes are similar to carpet in that they spend all year collecting dirt and dust mites and should be professionally cleaned about once a year. Since it's getting colder, you're more likely to keep the house closed off, trapping all that dust and dirt inside the house.
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