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Nancy Kress
is the author of twenty-three books: three fantasy novels, eleven SF novels, two thrillers, three collections of short stories, one YA novel, and three books on writing fiction. She is perhaps best known for the "Sleepless" trilogy that began with Beggars in Spain. The novel was based on a Nebula- and Hugo-winning novella of the same name; the series then continued with Beggars and Choosers and Beggars Ride. The trilogy explores questions of genetic engineering, social structure, and what society's "haves" owe its "have-nots." In 2008 three Kress books will appear: a collection of short stories, Nano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories (Golden Gryphon Press), and two novels, Steal Across the Sky (Tor) and Dogs (Tachyon).
Kress's short fiction has won three Nebulas and a Hugo, and her novel Probability Space won the 2003 John W. Campbell Award. Her work has been translated into eighteen languages. She lives in Rochester, New York, with the world's most spoiled toy poodle.
Author, performer and radio personality Ellen Kushner
hosts and writes the national public radio series Sound & Spirit. Her newest novel, The Privilege of the Sword, won the 2007 Locus Award for Best Fantasy novel, and was nominated for the Nebula and the World Fantasy Awards, as well as being a Tiptree Honor Book. Her first novel, Swordspoint: A Melodrama of Manners, was hailed as the progenitor of the "Mannerpunk" school of fantasy. Her second novel, Thomas the Rhymer, won both the 1991 World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award. With Delia Sherman she co-wrote The Fall of the Kings. Her short fiction has appeared frequently in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror.
Her spoken word performances include Esther: the Feast of Masks, and The Golden Dreydl: a Klezmer 'Nutcracker' for Chanukah (with Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, on Rykodisc CD), which was published as a children's book by Charlesbridge in 2007.
She has also taught at the Clarion Workshop, the Cape Cod Writers' Workshop,and the American Book Center in Amsterdam. She is an active member of the Endicott Studio of Mythic Arts and a founding member of the Interstitial Arts movement. She lives in New York City.
Delia Sherman
was born in Tokyo, Japan, and brought up in New York City. She spent much of her early life at one end of a classroom or another, at Brown University where she earned a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies in 1981 and at Boston University and Northeastern, where she taught Freshman Composition and Fantasy. Her first novel, Through a Brazen Mirror (Ace, 1989), was an Ace Fantasy Special. In 1990, she was nominated for the Campbell Award for Best New SF Writer. Her second novel, The Porcelain Dove (Dutton, 1993; Plume, 1994), won the Mythopoeic Award. Her short fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award. She made her debut in the world of children's literature with short stories in The Green Man and Faery Reel (edited by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow) and Firebirds (Viking, 2003). Her first novel for children is the urban fantasy Changeling (Viking, 2006).
Delia has been a judge for the Crawford Award for Best First Fantasy Novel, served on the Motherboard of the James Tiptree Jr. Award, and is a founding member of the Interstitial Arts Foundation.
As an editor of books and anthologies, Delia's continuing quest is to get more of the kind of fantasy she likes out to readers. She has been a contributing editor for Tor Books and has co-edited, with Ellen Kushner and Don Keller, the fantasy anthology The Horns of Elfland (Roc) as well as the Bordertown punk-elf anthology The Essential Bordertown with Terri Windling. With Theodora Goss, she edited Interficitons: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing (Small Beer Press, 2007). She teaches SF and Fantasy writing whenever she can at Odyssey, Clarion, and workshops at regional and national science fiction conventions.
Delia lives with fellow author and fantasist Ellen Kushner in a rambling apartment in New York City. She is a social rather than a solitary writer and can work anywhere, which is a good thing because she loves to travel, and if she couldn't write on airplanes, she'd never get anything done.
James Maxey
is the author of the Dragon Age trilogy published by Solaris Books. Set on a world ruled by dragons where humans are little more than slaves, pets, or prey, the Dragon Age trilogy tells the overarching story of mankind's struggle for freedom from the rule of dragons, though each novel stands alone as a complete story. The first book of the trilogy, Bitterwood (2007), tells the story of the eponymous dragon-slayer and the consequences that follow his murder of the dragon-king's beloved son. The second book, Dragon Forge (2008), explores an epic tale of love set against the backdrop of a kingdom in violent turmoil. The final book, Dragon Road (2009) follows the adventures of a band of unlikely heroes as they struggle to save the world as the Dragon Age draws to a close.
James Maxey first broke into the publishing world in 2002 when he won a Phobos Award for his short story "Empire of Dreams and Miracles." Phobos Books later published James's debut novel, the cult-classic superhero tale Nobody Gets the Girl. His short stories have since appeared in Asimov's, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and numerous anthologies.
James is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 1998, where he studied with writer-in-residence Harlan Ellison. In 2001, he attended Orson Scott Card's Writers Boot Camp.
Craig Shaw Gardner
has published over thirty novels ranging from his first, A Malady of Magics, to the Changeling War fantasy trilogy, written by "Peter Garrison," to the horror novel Dark Whispers, written by "Chris Blaine." Along the way, he's done a number of media tie-ins, one of which--the novelization of Batman--became a New York Times bestseller. He's also the author of more than forty short horror and fantasy stories, which have mostly appeared in original anthologies. Gardner has also served as both President and Trustee for the Horror Writers Association.
Barry B. Longyear
is the first writer to win the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in the same year (may still be the only one for all he knows). In addition to his acclaimed Enemy Mine series, from which the motion picture of the same name was derived, his works include numerous short stories, the Circus World series, Infinity Hold series, a mainstream recovery novel Saint Mary Blue, Yesterday's Tomorrow: Recovery Meditations For Hard Cases, and science fiction and fantasy novels ranging from Sea Of Glass to The God Box. His more recent works include The Write Stuff, his online how-to-write seminar, and the omnibus editions: The Enemy Papers (Enemy Mine, The Tomorrow Testament, The Last Enemy, and The Talman), and Infinity Hold\3 (Infinity Hold, Kill All The Lawyers, and Keep The Law). He has completed training in becoming a private investigator, and is applying this knowledge in his award-winning Jaggers and Shad SF mystery series currently appearing in Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine.
Jenny Rappaport
is a literary agent at the L. Perkins Agency. She joined the agency in 2006 and specializes in science fiction, fantasy, and horror, as well as women's fiction, especially paranormal romance, historical romance, and chick lit. She was previously an associate agent at Folio Literary Management. Jenny attended Carnegie Mellon University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing. She is a 2002 graduate of Orson Scott Card's Literary Boot Camp. She is currently the author of an anime review column, Far East Alchemy, for Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, as well a publishing blog.


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European shares rebounded strongly from the previous session's steep losses on Friday, with positive results from Commerzbank and a rally in oil prices helping banks and commodity-related stocks to regain ground.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 was up 2 percent at 1,218.97, having closed down 3.7 percent on Thursday, when a slump in banks and resource-related stocks pushed the index to a 2-1/2 year low.
Banks were in favour with Commerzbank up 14 percent after it returned to profit in the fourth quarter. Provisions for bad loans fell, allowing the bank to draw a line under a six-year restructuring by announcing it was closing its 'bad bank' comprising non-core assets.
In all, the STOXX 600 Banks index rose 3.8 percent.
"There's a sense of relief. There's so much nervousness in the market at the moment that even slightly good news out of a bank like Commerzbank is taken very well," said Mark Priest, sales trader at ETX Capital.
"The German banking sector has been pretty battered, and it's got to a point where there may be value there, so long as global economic factors start to calm down.
Germany's DAX was up 1.4 percent. Traders said that growth data from Germany, which showed growth was steady and in line with expectations, provided reassurance after economic fears had pegged back markets this week.
The FTSEurofirst 300 nonetheless remains down 5 percent this week, with banks still down around 7.5 percent on the week, hit by concerns over profitability in a low growth, low interest rate environment.
Caution over exposure to default from the energy sector has also hindered bank stocks. On Friday, the oil and gas sector rose 3.1 percent after a rally in oil which left crude prices up over 3 percent.
Growth sensitive mining stocks also rallied, up over 3 percent.
In other corporate news, Rolls Royce rallied 11.9 percent after its results, its biggest one-day rise since November 2008. It stuck to its 2016 guidance, despite being forced to cut its dividend following three profit warnings last year. It said there would be no need for a rights issue.
"It has… been able to leave guidance unchanged, breaking away from that slew of profit warnings we've seen of late," said Tony Cross, market analyst at Trustnet Direct, who added that the dividend cut was a "bold" move.
"This really does have the feel that management is attempting to draw a line under recent events."
Gold on Friday clung to sharp overnight gains that pushed the metal to a one-year high, and looked set to post its best week in over four years as stock market turmoil stoked safe-haven demand.
Bullion jumped 4 percent on Thursday, its biggest single-day percentage rally since 2013, and analysts and traders see more gains ahead if the weakness in equities persists.
While European shares gained today, Asian shares slid as mounting concerns about the health of European banks further threatened a global economic outlook. MSCI's global stock index closed more than 20 percent below its all-time high.
Safe-haven assets shone across the board. U.S. 10-year Treasury yields hit their lowest since 2012 and the Japanese yen climbed to its highest in 15 months against the dollar, while money continued to flow into gold-backed exchange traded funds.
Spot gold rose to as high as $1,260.60 an ounce on Thursday, its highest since February last year. It retreated only modestly on Friday, trading down 0.3 percent at $1,242.63 by 0712 GMT.
"We are seeing a flight to quality," said a Sydney-based trader. "ETFs have been accumulating the metal for some time now. They are one of the main drivers (of the gold rally) along with the equity markets which are extremely soft."
For the week, spot gold is up almost 6 percent, the biggest such gain since October 2011.
U.S. gold futures have risen more than 7 percent for the week, the sharpest jump since 2008.
Assets in SPDR Gold Trust, the world's top gold exchange-traded fund (ETF), rose 2 percent on Thursday, the biggest inflow in two months.
Total holdings of the top eight gold ETFs have risen by 3.8 million ounces so far this year, after three straight years of decline.
The risk-off sentiment has made gold the best performing commodity in 2016, investment bank ANZ said. Others predicted further gains.
"$1,300 would be possible if stocks don't stop falling," said Yuichi Ikemizu at Standard Bank in Tokyo.
Jeffrey Gundlach, co-founder and chief executive officer of DoubleLine Capital, said gold is likely to reach $1,400 as investors lose faith in central banks.
Also helping gold were dovish comments this week from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, who stressed that the U.S. central bank was not on a "pre-set" path to return policy to "normal" amid a worsening meltdown in global stock markets.
Though Yellen said she still expects the Fed to gradually raise rates this year, federal funds rate futures have almost completely priced out the chance of a rate hike.
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Hello, everyone! Winter calls for warm, filling dishes and I think legumes are the perfect food for this time of year! So today we are cooking another lentil dish using the great Yoleni's products. Lentil potato bake! An aromatic dish packed with taste and nutrients! Our non vegan friends can top this hearty meal with this delicious spicy cheese!
Have a lovely day, my dear friends!
Ingredients (serves 2-3):
1 cup Terra Ferea fine lentils, cooked al dente
4 potatoes
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 onion. sliced
2+3 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil Eli
juice of 1 orange
«Threpsi» sea salt and flakes
Cretan Herbs green peppercorn
Cretan Herbs organic blend for salads
hartwort leaves, finely chopped
10 fresh sage leaves
100 gr. Proikas Rakovo cheese, diced
Wash and brush thoroughly the potatoes. (I did not peel them.) Cut them in medium pieces and place them in a bowl. Add garlic, onion, sage leaves. Combine orange juice with 2 Tbsp olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Pour this sauce over the potatoes and coat well with your fingers. Place them in a baking pan lined with parchment paper and bake in preheated oven at 200C for 45-50 minutes. Allow to cool. Season the cooked lentils with salt, pepper and the organic blend. Add 3 Tbsp olive oil. Then toss them in the potato bake and mix well. Top with cheese and hartwort leaves. Serve and enjoy!


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Established in 1875 and based in Wembley and Harrow, Greater London, G Saville & Son Funeral Directors, is an independent family-run funeral business.
These high standards were highlighted when Susan Saville was named the National President for the NAFD, and both Graham and Susan Saville were named presidents of the LAFD.
The third, fourth and now fifth generations of the family continue to run the business to this day and have maintained the high standards and traditional values initiated by the founder. These standards and values have always been paramount to the way in which the business itself has been managed.
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Since the day G Saville & Son was established, it has helped tens of thousands of people arrange funerals of all sizes and embracing all religions and cultures. We provide a unique, personal service to every one of our clients and ensure their particular situation, religion or cultural values are adhered to throughout all aspects of our work.
Our mission statement reflects our intentions to promote high standards not only within the business but also within the funeral profession and these are also identified within the company objectives.
"We intend to continue to be leaders in our profession, providing a complete, quality funeral service to our families both local and nation-wide. To continue to uphold the standards of professionalism and the traditions established by the founder five generations ago is of paramount importance."
We are proud to live by this statement and will continue to improve and extend our funeral services for the decades to come.


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Claude Watson has two lunch periods daily. The first lunch is from 11:45 - 12:30 and the second lunch is from 12:30 - 1:15. The vast majority of students at Claude Watson stay for lunch. Daily a number of students participate in The Lunch Lady Program.
Specific details on the CWSA Lunch Lady Program can be found here.
Several times a year we will post the new Lunch Lady menu on this site.


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Name: Gloria
Age: 29
Gig: Cuts Hair
Lives in: San Francisco
Last thing watched / read / listened to / seen: I watched this French movie, I think it was called, Counter Investigation
How was it?
Good (we love brevity here at BotS)
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Brands on the Street:
I think I have Levi's and Vans. I don't know if anything else is really branded. They are probably either Target or Goodwill
Why these brands?
Vans are really comfortable and squishy, something to stand on all day. Levi's I always think of as durable, but I don't actually think of this pair as that durable. I was hoping to get four or five years out of them (apparently, that is not the case with this pair).
Do Either Have a Positive Impact on Society?
Probably not. Like, Levi's used to be super conscious about the way they do business, but I don't think they are anymore, from what I heard. I know that they like, moved all of their warehouses to Malaysia or something like that. I think that is a sketchy place to do business, there are poor working conditions. I don't really know much about Vans, how they make their shoes or anything.
You know I normally prefer to buy my stuff used. But it is hard to find good Levi's in a thrift store.
Does shared value drive any other of your purchasing decisions?
No, and you mentioned Tom's and Warby Parker earlier. I know that Warby Parker and Tom's shoes give something away every time you buy them, but I never really thought of them as companies that are conscious of their impact on the world.
Would shared value make you change your mind about the products you buy?
Maybe. If I was in a store and I knew that an eight-year-old made my jeans and the other pair was made by someone who gets a good wage; if they were the same quality it would definitely change my decision.
Aside from purchasing decisions, is there any way you personally try to do good in the world?


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You have studied dozens of ancient texts on martial arts that only the Society possesses, and are more learned in these arts than most.
Benefit: You increase your ki pool by 1 point.
Something Missing?
This previously had a requirement or prerequisite of citizenship of a specific nation or membership in a specific faction. We are not legally allowed to reference these nations or factions. GMs should consider whether such requirements suit their campaign or not. If you wish to see the original wording it is probably available on our sister site pathfindercommunity.net.
PCh:FG. Copyright 2010, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Authors: Joshua J. Frost, Jason Nelson, and Sean K Reynolds.


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Why is General Electric (NYSE:GE) selling $7 billion in bonds? Fool.com analyst Brendan Byrnes answers this question in the video above, explaining why this move actually makes perfect sense for GE in terms of today's low interest rate environment and the company's offshore cash holdings. Click play for all of the details.
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Mon., March 6, 2006
P.S. — A New Comment Feature to Block Spam
Huckleberries Online has been getting cluster spammed today, by a tenacious creep pushing gambling. In a move to block this jackal and other spammers, the SR online tech team has added a step for commenters. It's simple. But it still means another click or so. Now, when you post, you will be required to fill in the e-mail box below your name. Don't worry. It is solely to confirm that a legitimate user is trying to post. Your e-mail address won't appear on your posted copy. Next, you'll need to go to your computer e-mail where you'll find a message from the SR confirming your post. Click on the link, and your comment will be posted. Finally, you can see the posted comment by clicking on the "see your post" link at the bottom. Sorry, we have to do this. But I've had as many as 100 spams in a half hour period today. Let me know if you encounter any problems.


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Welcome to the Heart of Asia!! A vibrant city which is a pot pourrie of cultures and has something for everyone!! The dynamic city-state is a short flight away from all major cities in India. A heady combination of Chinese, Indian, Malay and Western influences, Singapore is truly a cultural melting pot. Delicious food, high street shopping, contemporary arts – find all this and more. Upon arrival in Singapore you will be welcomed by our representative and then proceed to enjoy the Night Safari tour. Hope onboard the tram and psyche yourself for a round journey of wild animal encounters! Journey from the Himalayan foothills to wild Equatorial Africa, this tram ride offers live commentary. And be sure not to miss the Creatures of the Night Show, which feature a half hour of non-stop action. Watch animal stars demonstrate and amaze you with their predatory and survival instincts.
Today after breakfast at the hotel, proceed to spend the entire day at the Universal Studios. Step into the fantastic world of movie magic; fight villains, catch the celebrities and revel in the glamour of showbiz as you jump into the screen and "ride the movies" on roller coasters and other movie themed attractions. Exciting loops, sudden turns, breath-taking drops and thrilling near collisions will make you scream your heart out. In the night, enjoy a delicious dinner.
Today after breakfast, enjoy a City Tour of this fascinating city. Your orientation tour of Singapore begins with a drive around the Civic District past the Padang, Cricket Club, Parliament House, Supreme Court.
After the city tour discover the endless fun and surprises at Sentosa from alluring attractions, pristine beaches, action-packed activities and lush rainforests. Discover the awe-inspiring world of life in the ocean under the world's and immerse yourself in a magical marine world seen through our planet's and to see the famous SONG OF SEA SHOW.
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In case you missed it, Instagram recently announced a huge change that will soon affect what you see on your home feed.
On March 15, the company shared on their blog that they will shortly roll out a new algorithm that will determine a user's newsfeed in a non-chronological manner. Meaning, gone are the days when you see the latest posted photos at the top of your feed.
Instagram says the order of photos will soon be based around three key things:
- The likelihood you'll be interested in the content
- Your relationship with the person posting
- The timeliness of the post
What it means for influencers
For influencers who create sponsored content, this means that engagement is more important than ever before because Instagram will rank photos based on what's receiving the most interaction.
This could mean there are now new opportunities for your post to be seen if the content becomes popular with your followers first. The change could also provide the opportunity to build a stronger community within your engaged followers, because the algorithm will ensure your most loyal followers will never miss a post from you.
Consequently, the algorithm feed could have the opposite effect and may cause a user's content to drop to the bottom of a news feed. But Instagram ensures that posts will not suddenly disappear; they will simply be arranged in a different order.
What it means for brands
The upcoming change is good news for brands willing to pay for their posts to rank higher in a user's newsfeed. It allows Instagram to monetize more posts and increase their ad dollars, while giving brands the opportunity to boost their posts. This is huge for the brands with large marketing budgets, but will likely hurt smaller brands not able to pay up.
The arrival of boosted posts will encourage brands to dish out more money into sponsored content with influencers, because there is now an opportunity of getting a post seen by more people than ever, rather than just being restricted to a brand's following.
And if bigger brands begin to pay to boost their posts, smaller brands may need to turn to influencer marketing in order to compete and use the audience of influencers to be seen.
Users are already familiar with seeing photos based on what the app thinks we like on the Explore page, so the opportunity to bring the same concept to the home feed is huge for companies willing to pay up.
Depending on what you use Instagram for, your feelings on the announcement may vary. You may be more interested in seeing what your friends and people you know are posting rather than big popular accounts. But until the new algorithm rolls out all we can do is speculate on whether we approve or not.
But one thing's for sure, the news will only push influencers, brands, and businesses to evolve their strategy on Instagram and post better content.
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this is my favorite part of the holidays! wrapping up gifts to make them look all pretty. the gifts inside….meh, but the wrapping? the best.
just kidding, the inside's good, too. but after you spent all that time looking for or making that special gift for that special someone, you want the presentation to stand up to the goods. if you're looking for loads of good ideas, check out my pinterest board dedicated to the wrapping of loveliness. and while you're on pinterest, check out the other great ideas!
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Given the proximity to the European championships, to be held in the same venue next week, the Irish National Championships has a distinctly international feel. Sailors from as far afield as San Diego in the US, Denmark, Sweden, Italy and the UK are racing in the Irish Nationals as preparation for the European Championships next week.
Dennis CONNER (USA), one of the worlds best known and most successful sailors, is sailing on these shores for the first time. CONNER is one of the most successful Americas Cup helms ever, and a keen Etchell sailor. He went into the first day's racing as one of the strong favourites for overall victory.
Tight racing was the order of the day in a closely matched field. Nils RAZMILOVIC (GBR), of the Royal Sweden Yacht Club, is the clear leader overnight on nine points with Jarvis TILLY (GBR) from the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club in second, and Nils' brother Ante RAZMILOVIC (GBR) from the Royal Thames Yacht Club in third.
First Irish boat is Galert, sailed by Dan O'GRADY, Gerard BESHOFF and Ben O'DONOGHUE. They are lying sixth overall and only one place behind Dennis CONNER in fifth. The Galert crew won the second race after commiting to the right hand side on the first beat. They rounded the first mark second but an excellant downwind leg earned them the lead, which they maintained to the finish. One of the favoured Irish contenders , William LACY (IRL) didn't even get to start racing today, after another competing boat collided with them ten minutes before the first start, leaving a two foot hole in the bow and a damaged foredeck.


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Gnocchi is one of those things which I just love to make. It's pretty easy, it's pretty messy and it's just all round good fun! This is a particularly tasty and easy gnocchi recipe, which not only passed the S test of tastiness, but has been fed to others with similar results! Great with a nice big and bold red wine.
You'll need 6-8 largeish potatoes (for four big serves). If you have the time, bake your potatoes from the start, otherwise steam or boil until almost cooked through, then bake them off at the end, throw in a few garlic cloves when you put your potatoes in the oven. When they're ready, mash the potatoes really, really well before adding a small amount of Nuttelex, a pinch of ground sage, 2 or 3 cloves of roasted garlic and a few heaped tablespoons of all purpose flour and kneed it all together. The most important thing with gnocchi, I think, is to rely on your instincts! If you think your gnocchi dough needs more flour, add more. If you think it needs some liquid, throw in some rice milk. Once you're happy with your dough you can either roll it out into a long snake, and cut off equal parts or you can shape your gnocchi separately. I like big, square gnocchi, so I generally shape them.
Bring a large saucepan of water to a rolling boil and lower a few of the gnocchi in at a time. As soon as each one rises to the surface, pull them out and straight into a colander, and then onto a clean tea towel. Go through until they're all cooked and on the towel.
While the gnocchi is drying out a bit, throw a chunk of Nuttelex into a frying pan and, once its melted down, throw in some fresh sage. Once the Nuttelex has melted down, put the gnocchi squares in and just throw them around a little bit. I like to mainly crisp the gnocchi up on two or three sides, rather than the whole thing – but you can do whatever you feel like!
Plate up with a few bits of gnocchi, some fresh sage, and pour some of the Nuttelex/sage over each plate. Large glass of red wine (last night we were drinking a brilliant '04 Cab Sauv.)


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After receiving PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) status at a national level in 2015, extra virgin olive oil from the peninsular region of Istria in Croatia is now awaiting the same recognition in the EU.
The application for PDO status for Istrian extra virgin olive oil was submitted to the European Commission on July 30, 2015. In accordance with official procedures, the application was examined for "receivability" and then published in the Official Journal on March 23, 2016.
I expect Istrian extra virgin olive oil will receive PDO status at the EU level in the second half of the year.
Ivan Jakovčić, a Croatian Member of European Parliament and former political head of the Istrian Region for more than a decade, played an important role in the development of Istria as an olive-growing region, and has more recently been advocating for measures supporting and promoting the European olive sector. He has also played an active role in the preparation for this application for PDO status. "As a president of the Region of Istria, and, since 2014, MEP and member of the Committee on Agriculture, I've been in close contact with a team managing this project and helping them to a successful end," he told Olive Oil Times.
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"Acting for more than a decade as a president of the Region of Istria, I have been strongly supporting the development of olive growing in Istria, taking advantage of its soil and climate characteristics recognized as far back as Ancient Roman times. Istrian extra virgin olive oil is prized for and distinguished by its high quality, physico-chemical and organoleptic characteristics. Thanks to support and investments by our regional government, production has increased significantly and olive oil from Istria is gaining increasing international recognition. After gaining national PDO status in 2015, the next step was the application for the PDO status at the European level."
Croatian olive oils won 9 awards among 16 submitted entries at this year's New York International Olive Oil Competition.
Under the EU's product certification system there are three different existing designations for agricultural products and foodstuffs:
- PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) designates a product or foodstuff which is produced, processed and prepared in a certain geographical area using recognized know-how.
- PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) refers to a product or foodstuff that is closely linked to a certain geographical area, with at least one stage of production, processing or preparation taking place in this area.
- TSG (Traditional Speciality Guaranteed) vouches for the traditional character of a product, referring to either its composition or means of production.
Extra virgin olive oil produced in Istria qualifies for the highest designation because all stages of its production take place in the region, from the growing of olive trees to the pressing and processing of the olives for oil, and its bottling and packaging. Once PDO status is granted, bottles of Istrian extra virgin olive oil will be labelled with the designation "Istarsko extra djevičansko maslinovo ulje" (Istrian extra virgin olive oil) and bear a specially designed logo.
Not only does a product certification designation like PDO reinforce trust among consumers that they are buying an authentic, quality product originating in a specific geographical region, it also gives local producers a competitive advantage. "By labeling their products with the symbol and stamp, local producers will gain a better position in European and global markets," confirmed Jakovčić. "PDO status will boost the development of olive growing in Istria. Furthermore, the Istrian EVOO label will ensure a higher quality and a more competitive product, guaranteeing high quality and authenticity for consumers. At the same time, local producers in Istria will be better protected against olive oil fraud."
While the process for PDO certification took five years at the national level, it is hoped that this will go faster for the EU designation. In accordance with European Commission procedures, a six-month objection period is observed following the publication of an application in the Official Journal, during which time any statements of objection can be received and examined. Jakovčić is confident that there will be no objections and that Istrian extra virgin olive oil will receive the official recognition it deserves quickly: "I do not expect any objections to be tabled within the six-month period after the publication. Consequently, I expect Istrian extra virgin olive oil will receive PDO status at the EU level in the second half of the year."
Extra virgin olive oil from the Croatian island of Cres already enjoys PDO status at the EU level since 2015, while other applications are also pending for olive oils from the islands of Krk, Korčula and Šolta.


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Each winter, an international agricultural equipment exposition – the World Ag Expo – comes to California's bread basket – the San Joaquin Valley and in Tulare in particular. WAE draws people from all corners of the globe. Like some of the equipment on display, this three-day extravaganza is huge. I have been there but once. WAE in 2014 will take place from Feb. 11th to Feb. 13th.
With an event as big as this one, what could possibly be missing? One attraction I could see on site is a tractor compactor. Seriously!
The process could be made simple: Any used, polluting tractor could be brought in to be crushed and, in exchange a voucher to go toward the purchase of a new, cleaner-burning or zero-emissions model (if there is such a thing) could be awarded.
Too far-fetched of an idea? I don't think so.
To provide some background, remember in the previous post I mentioned that I have a cordless electric lawn mower? Well, I came to acquire this through a San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District-sponsored exchange program. All that was required was that I bring my existing gasoline-powered lawn mower to a specified drop-off site (an area scrap yard in this case), pick up a voucher in exchange (also on site) and then mail the voucher to the participating electric-mower manufacturer and, in return, sent to my home would be the electric mower of my choosing – a very straightforward process if I do say so myself. When all was said and done, I believe the money I spent for the mower was half what this model mower would normally cost if purchased without it being part of this particular exchange program. Without the incentivization aspect, I'm not sure I would have gone this route.
So, I'm thinking if this type of program is applicable to lawn mowers, why not carry that one step farther – tractors? It so happens there was just such a tractor exchange event held on Sept. 24th in Fresno.
"It's a voluntary program involving $100 million in government funding to help farmers replace old tractors," Mark Grossi on The Fresno Bee's "Earth Log" wrote. "The more than 3,200 farmers who have gotten involved in the last four years typically get tractors that run 75% cleaner.
The event held at Bruno's Iron and Metal of Fresno drew federal, state and local officials including U.S. Congressman Jim Costa (D) of Fresno. Representatives from the California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board, Natural Resources Conservation Service, San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, were also on hand, according to Grossi.
"But the star of this show was the 1989 tractor and [farmer Will] Scott, who grows black-eyed peas, okra, corn, tomatoes, cabbage and broccoli.
"'I think it shows we are all working together,' he said. 'There are a tremendous amount of small farmers here, and we are part of the solution, too," Grossi wrote in citing Scott, Jr.
According to Grossi, the per-year nitrogen oxides (NOx) reduction rate due to the tractor replacement initiative is 3,400 tons or the equivalent of removing from California roadways one million motor vehicles.


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|Grand Rapids, Mich.
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2018-19: Recorded season-best scores in the 1 meter dive (180.22) and the 3 meter dive (171.30) against Miami...
2017-18: Posted a season-best score in the 1-meter dive against Marshall totaling 216 points to place second overall… Secured another second-place finish against Buffalo in the 3-meter dive with a season-best score of 235.65.
2016-17: Competed in four meets… Best score in the one-meter dive was 205.20 at the Buffalo Invite… Best score in the three-meter dive was 238.13 against Denison University and was good enough for fourth place.
Prior to Ohio: Dove two years at San Juan Hills (Calif.) High School and two years Forest Hills Northern (Mich.) High School… Competed in diving for Mission Viejo Nadadores and Grand Rapids Dive Club for seven years… Was involved in DECA.
Personal: Daughter of Bryan and April Littlejohn… Has one brother, Grant, and one sister, Hunter… Hobbies include camping, running, and healthy eating.


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This a very popular Chinesefood, most of Chinese like this dish.
1 ¼ lbs. pork spareribs
3 green onions
4 Tablespoons soysauce
4 Tablespoons sugar
3 Tablespoons brown vinegar
5 Tablespoons cold water
½ Tablespoons rice wine
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon sesame oil
6 cups cooking oil
- Cut the spareribs into 1" square pieces, then marinate with rice wine and soys auce for about 30 minutes. Keep the sauce in the bowl, since this will become the seasoning sauce later.
- Heat 6 cups of cooking oil in a wok on high setting. Deep fry the spareribs for about 2 minutes, and take them out. Heat the cooking oil again, then deep fry once more until spareribs for about 15 more seconds or until they turn very brown. Remove the spareribs and drain off the cooking oil from the wok.
- Add sugar, vinegar, water, cornstarch, sesame oil and shredded green onion to the bowl used for marinating the spareribs. This is now the seasoning sauce.
- Heat one teaspoon of cooking oil in the wok, pour in the seasoning sauce, boil and stir until it is thickened and heated thoroughly. Then add the spareribs and stir well. Place the spareribs on a plate to serve.


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Our annual awards banquet and May meeting will be Saturday, May 19, 2018 at Wildwood Recreation Area in Welches, OR. The Club will provide main dishes (pulled pork and salmon) - please bring a side dish. Club members, check your email for details.
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Shakespeare and Tolerance, by B. J. Sokol
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- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/2/2010
Shakespeare's remarkable ability to detect and express important new currents and moods in his culture often led him to dramatise human interactions based on the presence or absence of tolerance. Differences of religion, gender, nationality and what is now called 'race' are important in most of Shakespeare's plays, and varied ways of bridging these differences by means of sympathy and understanding are often depicted. The full development of a tolerant society is still incomplete, and this study demonstrates how the perceptions Shakespeare showed in relation to its earlier development are still instructive and valuable today. Many recent studies of Shakespeare's work have focussed on reflections of the oppression or containment of minority, deviant or non-dominant groups or outlooks. This book reverses that trend and examines how Shakespeare was fascinated by the desires that underlie tolerance, including religion, race and sexuality, through close analysis of many Shakespearian plays, passages and themes.


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2nd Sunday of Month:
Anglican Holy Communion at 11.00am
Contact Vicar: Damon Plimmer
The Vicarage 186 Brownston Street, Wanaka
Phone (03) 443 2440, Mobile 027 216 5165
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Local Anglican convenor: Spin Lucas (03) 445 2885
Situated on a four acre site, on a hill surrounded by splendid evergreen trees, the Tarras Church is a facility the community is proud of. It was shortly after the First World War that a move was made amongst the people of the district to have a permanent place of worship erected. This was to be an inter-denominational church, and donations for the building were freely forthcoming from all sections of the community. Construction work commenced in 1920, and the Opening was celebrated with a inter-denominational service on 13th March 1921.
In 1958, a joint Presbyterian & Anglican Committee was formed to oversee and care for the maintenance of the church and grounds. The guide-lines for operation and use of the church were set in place at that time, and have been carefully preserved ever since.
Since the early 1980's, combined services have been held for the whole community, with the Second Sunday of the Month being the occasion of an Anglican Eucharist, while the Presbyterian have their Worship Service on the Fourth Sunday. The Tarras Church is still a focal point of meeting for local community Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals.


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After a two month hiatus, the Color Grading Breakdown Series is back! Meet Adrien in the 6th shot of the series:
Color Grading Breakdown
Adrien is a web series I wrote last year. My team and I applied for a major grant here in Canada and made it to the last stage of the selection… but we unfortunately didn't get the funds. You can view the teasers we did that got us this far in the selection process here.
The teasers were shot with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera in raw .DNG files. The files were converted to Prores using Davinci Resolve. Before converting the files, I applied a Rec 709 Lut because at the time I wanted to have natural looking images for editing. It took much more time that I estimated to edit the teasers and I had to do the grading in a hurry. I saw the deadline approaching way too fast and I realized that I didn't have the time to go back to Davinci to transcode the source files. This meant that I had to grade the Prores files without the raw range. It's not the ideal workflow, but it proves one thing: You don't necessarily need RAW Log files with a huge amount fo data to get decent results. I started serious grading with DV footage and managed to get good results back in the days. Never limit yourself because of a camera… just start grading and see what happens! Anyways, enough rambling… here's the steps! Grading done in AE:
Step 01
Color Curves to balance the image in order to get a more neutral image. I also slightly lowered the contrast.
Step 02
A soft vignette around the actor to darken the background using Color Curves. This is the first of many vignettes I used for this shot.
Step 03
Using the same vignette, I lowered the highlights of the actor.
Step 04
Another vignette. This time a very large one to darken the edges of the frame and also the actor a little bit.
Step 05
Using a yellow/orange color solid with a low opacity and the soft light blending mode, I warmed up the overall image to mimic the incandescent lighting ambiance provided by the lightbulbs around the edge of the mirror.
Step 06
It still felt a bit to bright. I lowered the exposure using a Color Curve. The mids and the shadows were took down a notch without affecting the highlights. This brought back a nice amount of contrast too.
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A diamond shaped vignette around the face of the actor, not too soft, to mimic even more the incandescent lighting ambiance.
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Another vignette on the actor's face to brighten him.
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A simple tint adjustment to remove a tiny amount of saturation on the overall image.
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Missed the previous shots from the Color Grading Breakdown Series? Catch up right here!
Visit Adrien's website here.
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Hello, I'm Dr. Johnson Kirk. Welcome to my Anchorage cosmetic dentistry blog. Today's article focuses on the difference between general dentistry and cosmetic dentistry.
General dentists in Anchorage are dedicated to preventing and treating oral disease such as cavities and gum disease. When a problem is diagnosed, let's say, a cavity between two teeth, a general dentist will assess the best way to restore the tooth involved.
Anchorage cosmetic dentists perform elective dental procedures that make a smile more attractive. Cosmetic dentistry procedures available at Excellence In Dentistry in Anchorage include teeth whitening, tooth-colored fillings, dental bonding, veneers, inlays, onlays, and dental crowns.
Some Anchorage dentists, like myself, offer both general and cosmetic dentistry procedures. In some cases, there is a cosmetic component to restorative procedures. For example, if a Anchorage dental patient comes in after receiving an injury that chipped a front tooth, the tooth needs to be restored to prevent decay. The tooth is also less structurally sound, so it is vulnerable to further damage. In addition, the tooth affects the overall appearance of the smile. Depending on the specifics of the damage, there are several of restorative options. Dental bonding, porcelain veneers, and crowns are all used to repair a damaged tooth.
As you can see, there is not always a definitive line between general and cosmetic dentistry. At Excellence In Dentistry, my caring team provides the full spectrum of preventative, restorative, and cosmetic dental procedures.
If you are looking for a full-service dental practice in the Anchorage area, I invite you to come into Excellence In Dentistry in Anchorage. We are located at 1000 Omalley Rd, Ste 101. To schedule an oral examination or smile makeover consultation, call (907) 349-0022.
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Heart disease is a blanket term that encapsulates several heart conditions. In the US, the most common type of heart disease is coronary artery disease or CAD. CAD is a condition where the arteries supplying blood to the heart muscle become hardened and narrowed through plaque buildup. The buildup of plaque along artery walls is called atherosclerosis. The plaque itself is composed of a mixture of fat, cholesterol, and other lipids. An excess of plaque causes reduced blood flow to the heart, which in turn reduces oxygen to the heart muscle pumping the blood, and in some cases could lead to a heart attack.
Some pre-existing personal conditions, as well as certain lifestyle choices, can contribute to your level of risk for heart disease. High blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, cigarette smoking, diabetes, and obesity can all increase a person's risk of heart disease.
There are several lifestyle choices a person can take to reduce their risk of heart disease. Refraining from tobacco use, maintaining a healthy and nutritious diet, and moderate physical activity can all help make a person less vulnerable to heart disease. Persons being treated for heart disease should follow the guidance of their health care providers for what steps are best for them.
Aspirin has been proven to help prevent the recurrence of a heart attack in people at high risk. However, patients should not start aspirin therapy without first talking with their doctor. People who take aspirin regularly should not drink alcohol.
Research has shown that getting an aspirin early in the treatment of a heart attack caused by a blood clot, along with Emergency medical treatment, can significantly improve your chances of survival. However, taking aspirin isn't advised during a stroke, because not all strokes are caused by blood clots. Some strokes are caused by ruptured blood vessels, in which case aspirin would make bleeding more severe. Your doctor can tell you what the best steps for you to take in the event of a heart attack.
If you suspect that you or someone you know is having a heart attack, you should call 911 immediately.The National Heart Attack Alert Program notes these major symptoms of a heart attack:
Sudden cardiac death occurs when the heart abruptly stops beating. Unlike a heart attack, which is usually caused by a blocked artery, sudden cardiac death happens for unknown reasons and may even occur when heart disease is not present.
Congestive heart failure is a type of heart disease, commonly affecting the elderly. Often it is a result of another type of heart condition when the heart is unable to pump enough blood from its chambers to supply the body's needs. Sometimes this condition occurs when a person's heart chambers become stiff and do not relax to absorb blood.
An arrhythmia is an irregular heartbeat differing from the normally steady beat of the heart. The heart may seem to skip a beat or beat either very quickly or very slowly. There are several different types of arrhythmias, which can originate in various areas of the heart tissue. Some arrhythmias may cause more severe symptoms than others. You should contact your physician about any symptoms you may be experiencing.
Arrhythmias occur commonly in middle-aged adults. Often, there is no recognizable cause. Heart disease, stress, caffeine, tobacco, diet pills, and cough or cold medicines can all cause arrhythmias.
Hypertension is most commonly referred to as high blood pressure. This term describes a condition in which a person's blood pressure is chronically elevated. Persistent hypertension is one of the risk factors for strokes, heart attacks, heart failure, and arterial aneurysm, and is a leading cause of chronic renal failure. Hypertension is classified as when someone's systolic blood pressure is consistently 140 mmHg or greater, and/or when their diastolic blood pressure is consistently 90 mmHg or greater.
Interventional cardiology uses catheter-based treatment of structural heart diseases. Many different heart procedures can be performed using catheterization, which most often involves the insertion of a sheath into the femoral artery and cannulating the heart under X-ray visualization. Examples of interventional cardiology procedures include angioplasty and valvuloplasty.
The likelihood of having a heart attack drops almost immediately after you put down that last cigarette. Quitting now, no matter what age you are will greatly improve your odds. Furthermore, in three years time, no matter how long you have smoked, the likelihood of a heart attack falls to nearly the same level as if you had never smoked at all. It is never too late to quit smoking.
Angioplasty is the mechanical widening of a narrowed or completely obstructed blood vessel, most commonly caused by plaque buildup. Cardiac catheterization involves inserting a thin plastic tube called a catheter, into an artery or vein. It can be advanced into the chambers of the heart or into the coronary arteries. The catheters used in coronal angioplasty have a balloon on the tip.Stents are wire mesh tubes used to prop open an artery during an angioplasty. The stent is collapsed to a small diameter and put over a balloon catheter and moved into place. The stent expands to a larger diameter when inflated, where it stays permanently in the heart to help restore normal blood flow. In a few weeks, the inside lining of the artery grows over the stent.


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Supercars on the grid
September 03, 2009
Microsoft and V8 Supercars Australia yesterday announced a partnership that will see eight V8 Supercars appear in upcoming driving simulation Forza Motorsport 3.
The game will feature four Holden VE Commodores and four Ford FG Falcons, adding to the already impressive garage of over 400 customisable vehicles from over 50 manufacturers.
All cars feature accurately rendered interiors as well as externals that can extensively damaged in collisions and rollovers.
Forza 3, an Xbox 360 exclusive developed by Microsoft's Turn 10 studio, features 100 tracks including both real-world circuits such as Suzuka, Nurburgring Nordschleife and the Sebring International Raceway as well as fictional courses.
But unfortunately, the game does not feature the likes of Bathurst's Mount Panorama to complement the inclusion of Falcons and Commodores.
Content director John Wendl says the much larger selection of exotic fictional courses was included to counter the criticism that Forza 2 was sterile and to make a driving experience that was more "exciting and thrilling".
Many of the courses have also been designed to create drama and give a greater sense of speed, with Turn 10 noting that most real-world tracks are designed to be safe and functional rather than beautiful, spectacular or thrilling.
Mr Wendl says that better lighting helps give the game more depth and richness, and crowds and other animations also help make the racer feel more "alive" than its predecessor. The developer is also proud of the game's tyre physics, which see the rubber deforming when under cornering pressure.
Turn 10's goal when starting work on the game was to make a driving simulation with wide appeal that was a "celebration of cars".
Features added to make the game more accessible for beginners include a rewind feature, automatic breaking, traction and stability control and a real-time driving line indicator.
Meanwhile, a new calendar system guides players through the single-player experience to encourage them to keep playing and sample new cars and tracks.
V8 Supercars Australia chairman Tony Cochrane boasted that V8 Supercars "is recognised globally as the best touring car championship on the planet, and being included in the internationally acclaimed Forza 3 is testament to that."
Supercars champion Mark Skaife, who has a long association with the Xbox brand, says he is "extremely impressed with the polish of Forza Motorsport 3 and excited about the exposure it will bring to our great sport internationally".
"Aussie Holden and Ford fans can now battle head-to-head everyday of the week, and get up-close and personal with the power and precision of V8 Supercars," adds Skaife.
"With 20 million people connected to Xbox Live, Australian Forza Motorsport 3 fans will never be short of competition online. (And) as racers the world over realise the potential of the V8 Supercars, the Holden vs Ford rivalry will most certainly swell beyond our shores."
While the news yesterday is a fillip for Microsoft, fortunately for gamers it is not an exclusive deal. The door is still open for Gran Turismo 5 to also feature Australian vehicles, or we could see a dedicated V8 Supercars game from another developer like the hugely popular Codemasters games in the Xbox and PlayStation 2 era.
Forza Motorsport 3 will be released in Australia on October 23.
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- Blahzy
- September 03, 2009
The V8 Supercars is good news, I know a few people on my friends list who will pick this game up just so they can race the Holden and Fords.
Does anyone know if there will be a Bugatti Veyron in this game?
- Gatesy
- September 03, 2009
What only 400 cars?
- barrymoves
- September 03, 2009
If it were even possible, Forza 3 just got better.
- Symon
- September 03, 2009
Cars? I came to work expecting an Arkham Asylum article...booo...
not even a batmobile mention. :(
- death to nerds
- September 03, 2009
Racing games that are not mario kart lol
- Misty
- September 03, 2009
I would totally buy Forza 3 if it had the batmobile as a playable car...just saying ;)
P.S. Max Damage~!
- Dustyps3
- September 03, 2009
Thats great news on the v8 supercars and has me hanging out even more for this game
Having more than 400 cars sounds really nice but in reality most of the extra 600 or so cars are bound to be filler in GT5 and out of that 1000 or so touted
Cars only a handful will have full damage models
Welcome to 2009 Polyphony
- Shingeki
- September 03, 2009
Looks awesome I'll be picking this up. Good to see the Aussie series getting some more international exposure.
- Cannon
- September 03, 2009
Ummmmm,who is driving those cars?
- Rathbone
- September 03, 2009
Doesn't the PSP GT have more tracks and cars than this game?
Look out for the downloadable version of the Bathurst track that will cost a mint through the overpriced Xbox live.
- September 03, 2009
"Features added to make the game more accessible for beginners include a rewind feature, automatic breaking..."
Automatic "breaking"? Isn't that intrinsic to the 360 console? Or is Forza 3 aimed at breaking even more of them? ;-)
Seriosuly though - I'm a PS3 fanboy and I'm considering buying an Xbox just for this game. Although GT5 may be visually prettier (but Forza still looks awesome!), I doubt GT5 will come close to the value-add elements that Forza is promising (eg. damage on all cars; livery editor; persistent skid marks; etc).
- tehkellays
- September 03, 2009
I hope it's better than the old Codemasters V8 Supercars for PS :)
- Falooza
- September 03, 2009
Wasn't it announced that V8 Supercars were going to be added to Race Driver: Grid via download.
Did I miss something or did that not happen?
I remember there being a Screenplay Blog about it.
- Deusexmachina
- September 03, 2009
What's the point of having V8 Supercars without Mt Panorama!!!
- Mongey
- September 03, 2009
yeah they were doing something yesterday at the lambo delearship on william st kings cross . I work just accross the road and they had a ford and holden supercar backing in on my way to work and a bunch of 360's set up with driving wheels. I wanted to go check what was going on at lunch but I was just too busy .
Hope I didnt miss achance to play Forza 3 !
- Joka
- September 03, 2009
@ Deusex
What's the point of V8 Supercars...
- Butch Walker
- September 03, 2009
The news of this game just keeps getting better and better.
@ Rathbone
Mate, the psp is rubbish. Especially for driving games. What Sony fanboys like yourself never seem to understand is that firstly, GT5 may have 1,000,000 cars but it is an arcade game compared to Forza and one other little problem is that IT DOESN'T EVEN EXIST!! LOL.
Finally, historically, for about $6.25 or so Forza 2 downloads have been packed with heaps of cars or tracks... some packs were even free! (Sony don't even know that word). So while I realise that to someone like you $6.25 is "a mint", those of us that are actually employed dont mind considering that by the time we've paid for every single download, we still haven't spent as much as the purchase price of a PS3 game with no add-ons :)
Facts are facts and the fact is that the PS3 is a huge failure when it comes to racing games.
"Oooo that's gotta hurt Mean Gene"
- InstinctSage
- September 03, 2009
It's nice and all, but I can really only get excited by Rally. Maybe it has something to do with all that "safe, functional" tracks thing. Bring on Dirt 2.
- Nikki Sixx
- September 03, 2009
@ Rathbone
mate the jealousy is obvious in your post. why do you get upset? just get rid of your ps3 and buy a 360? simple. then you wont have to make up excuses for sony not releasing gt5 instead of playing the dam game.
dont you realise that while ps3 owners whine about how much better (lol) gt5 is going to be, x360 owners are actually playing forza 2 and soon forza 3. no matter which way you look at it forza is the king of this genre with no competition. how much of a fanboi do you have to be to still defend sony after they treat you like crap? pathetic. if you like that sort of stuff, pay me a thousand bucks and instead of buying a ps4, i'll just kick you in the nuts for 3 or 4 years just like sony are doing to you now.
- Darryn
- September 03, 2009
Seriously excited about Forza 3, particularly the shake up of the single player campaign structure.
There is and has been no other driving simulation experience quite like Forza IMO (though not being a huge fan of the genre).
Can you believe they still make racing games that dont use the triggers as accelerator & brake? its obsurd...
- barrymoves
- September 04, 2009
@ Darryn
Have you seen that there is going to be super duper expert simulation mode, with a clutch!! (using LB or RB IIRC). So now there is going to be:
Manual (w/ auto clutch)
Full manual
And full manual will enable you to change gears quicker apparently (obviously as a direct challenge to the semi-auto double clutch systems [for e.g. PDK - Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe] which can apparently change quicker than a manual box...) and get faster lap times.
Freaking sweet!
- John
- September 04, 2009
@ Nikki Sixx
... if you like that sort of stuff, pay me a thousand bucks and instead of buying a ps4, i'll just kick you in the nuts for 3 or 4 years just like sony are doing to you now.
Also snorted out my lunch - nice ... very nice ... round of applause
- Nikki Sixx
- September 04, 2009
@ John
Been there, done that. It's better when you laugh out loud in a quiet office and everyone turns to look so you have to make up an excuse.
Also I think I peed my pants a little once but it had nothing to do with reading funny things, I just felt that toilets were too conformist so I marked my territory like a wolf!!!!
- John
- September 04, 2009
Sure you're not taking the piss?
Even made myself go 'oh god that's terrible'. Then again it's Friday afternoon - I'll live dangerously.
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Our program focuses on providing support to the Karen refugee community in Syracuse, New York by providing English as a New Language (ENL) support. Most importantly, our program is designed to build the child and parent bond by encouraging them to learn at home, as well as in the classroom. Parents and their children learn English at the same time with a coordinated curriculum. Thanks to Literacy Champions grant from the Onondaga Literacy Coalition! This program is supported by Dolly Parton's Imagination Books Initiative.
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The fame of the Cinque Terre is due also to its products, the dry white wine, simply called 'Cinque Terre' and the 'Sciacchetra", a prized dessert wine made from prime grapes dried to the point of holding only a few drops of sweet juice.
A colorful addition to the Cinque Terre products is 'limoncino'; a dessert wine made from steeping lemon peels in pure alcohol and then adding sugar and water to make a fragrant and fresh liquor.
The lemons, another famous product of the Cinque Terre are prominently on display in the many 'limoneti' (lemon groves) and at the annual Lemon Festival held each year in Monterosso during the season of Pentecost.
The Sentieri dell'Uva (Grape Routes) are still as they once were, with fig trees planted in strategic positions to give shade during breaks from work, agaves planted to mark boundaries, to line the footpaths along steep, stony steps and to indicate the rail terminals of the recently installed monorails which are the only vertical structures emerging from this seemingly completely, horizontal landscape. Many dry stone walls support this terraced landscape.
The large wicker baskets of grapes (corbe) are arranged along the "pose" (little walls, as wide as tables, built solely for this purpose). These include Albarola (Trebbiana), Biancorotto, Bruciapagliaio, Piccabon (Pizzamosca). To make white table wines the following varieties are used: Fiore di Bosco, Rappolungo, Fogiaccia, Ruspara, and Sesagra. Baskets full of Magnagra (Albarola), from which the famous Black Sciacchetra' is made, are handled with extreme care and set aside.
The Cinque Terre grape tracks reach down to the sea. In the past, people used to anchor small fishing boats called "gozzi" immediately below the terraced vineyards. Baskets laden with grapes were then lowered from above into these small boats which then sailed round to the otherwise inaccessible village.
Nowadays this method is nothing but a distant memory, but by visiting the Cinque Terre you are still able to sample some of the most prized wines of the world that have been created by centuries of backbreaking experience.
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The Newly Weds Trip to the Beach
Posted by Matt at 5:23 PM
Over the weekend Ashley and I spent some much needed time at the beach. I usually do not mind going with ashley and doing what the girls call "Laying Out". I usually bring a book and my ipod to pass the time. This weekend we stayed for 3 hours!!!! I read a few chapters and listened to some music for awhile, but that was all the "laying out" I could handle. I walked around for awhile, went from one end of the beach to the other. I come back and ashley has yet to move. How do women sit still for so long? They could lay there forever. I told ashley that we needed to have some sort of activity that we played during these "laying out" sessions. I saw some couples playing volleyball, frisbee, and paddle ball. I think I will convince her to try paddle ball or whatever its called. I am a guy and I need some form of sport to play or game to keep my interest levels high. So what about you all, any other people out there experience this? I understand you all do not have access to the beach, but I am sure you have similar experiences.
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- Anonymous said...
Dude, I feel you on this one. Laying out is cool for about an hour or so, but much more than that and I go insane. It's SOOOOO boring. I just usually leave and let Girl Ninja bask in the sun til her heart is content.
- May 10, 2010 at 11:53 PM
- Matt said...
Haha...That is why I was hoping you would stop by and hang out for awhile.
- May 11, 2010 at 7:14 PM
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As NewsBusters previously reported, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Monday shamefully mocked Ann Romney for riding horses to combat her multiple sclerosis.
On Wednesday, Fox News's Neil Cavuto, an MS sufferer himself, took on all the insensitive anchors and commentators at MSNBC that have participated in this attack on Mrs. Romney rightly calling them "horses' asses" (videos follow with transcripts and commentary):
Cavuto teased the final segment of Your World by saying, "Lean Forward, bend over. You've got a disease in your name. Maybe you should stop calling names. I'll explain."
For those unfamiliar, "Lean Forward" is MSNBC's motto.
After a commercial break, Cavuto elaborated:
NEIL CAVUTO: Finally, you know I promised myself, I promised myself, Neil, do not get involved in this one. Neil, just butt out. That defending Ann Romney on the latest attack and her riding horses to deal with the multiple sclerosis would look too self-serving. That because I have MS, my comments might be taken with a big grain of pity salt and more than a hint of sympathy bias. Well, guilty as charged, but sorry, I'm just charging in because I've had enough. Enough of condescending commentators at another news channel whose incredible ignorance of illness I know all too well risks being accepted by an audience that might not know the facts that well.
So, here are the facts. Ann Romney has multiple sclerosis. I have multiple sclerosis. Ann does not need your sympathy. I don't need your sympathy, that is unless it makes you feel sorry enough for me that you want to watch my show at 8PM Eastern Time on Fox Business Network. At least I'm up against a guy who is not physically ill, Bill O'Reilly.
But enough of me. Back to me and this crucial point. Ann Romney deals with her MS riding horses. It's called hippotherapy, some call it dressage, but at its core for MS patients, it refers to the use of horseback riding as a treatment for medical conditions namely for treating walking difficulties. Neurologists have long debated whether riding around on horses is a cure for MS, but many firmly believe it helps relieve some of the very real symptoms of MS.
As their industry bible "Neurology Care" noted last year, and other studies have found that, and I quote here, "…some people treated with riding therapy exhibited improvement in balance, emotional functioning, pain and muscle stiffness." Other studies have pointed to improved mood and walking ability. Still others, more energy.
My point is that this is a legitimate therapy. Now, do I use this equine therapy? No. But that's only because I'm generally bigger than the horses and I don't want to hurt them. Ann is not, so there is no such risk.
But seriously, let's get serious. Ann Romney doesn't need my defense but her critics need to use common sense here. Just because you might find such therapy strange, trust me when I tell you this disease it helps treat is a lot more strange and a lot more cruel.
So go ahead and have a good stupid laugh over Ann and her horses and whether they had anything to do with her illness. Ignore the fact she got really into this big-time about the time she was diagnosed with this illness. You might want to look that up. It just seems odd to me that a network with the very letters "MS" in its name wouldn't resist making fun of someone who has to live with MS every day.
Ann Romney doesn't need their pity, just their accuracy. She's got a lot of money, but it clearly has not bought her a path from a lot of hell, has it?
Take it from me, I'm not horsing around. These guys taking pot shots at Ann Romney are horse's asses.
Take it from the Multiple Sclerosis Society, the American Academy of Neurology, the European Neurological Society, the MS Research Center, the Child Neurology Society, and so many others who devote so much to an illness that is so bad and chronicle the very real benefit of horseback riding that they all report has a proven history of doing some good.
Hippotherapy, dressage, working with horses, whatever the hell you want to call it. You don't have to lean forward to appreciate it. Just check your facts before you joke about it, because right about now, you condescending, sanctimonious twits who are allegedly healthy, you have proven you do not know the benefits of horseback riding one bit. But you sure are good at piling on the lies and shoveling what amounts to unadulterated horse -- well, stuff.
Alright, I just had to say that. Again, I don't want your sympathy, but do remember what I said about 8PM against, anyway, FBN.
Sorry, I just had to say that because sometimes you know you repeat lies often enough, some impressionable good people they're fooled. You can lie to them and they're descent enough to believe it. I'm just telling you, don't. I just gave you the facts.
And ask yourself this: if they're that egregious at lying on that issue, what else are they lying about?
After breaking this story Tuesday, I have received countless email messages from folks all around the country that have either successfully used hippotherapy themselves or for a loved one.
The response has been extraordinary.
Despite all the attention that has been brought to this issue, I have yet to see anyone at MSNBC, in particular O'Donnell, apologize for their behavior.
But it's not just the folks at MSNBC. Others in the media have similarly mocked Mrs. Romney about this issue.
We at NewsBusters often talk about the depths the Obama-loving press are willing to go to get their beloved Messiah reelected.
You would have thought ridiculing the wife of a presidential candidate for how she deals with a very serious illness was too low for so-called "journalists" to go even in an election year.
Apparently not.
Thank you, Neil, for not butting out.
And to the rest of the media that still think this is funny, shame on you. Shame on you all.
(HT Bill Hobbs)
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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Bad behaviour on low power
From: Oliver (oliver.online_at_schweiz.ch)
Date: 2003-12-23
Hello everyone,
I have a JBR20 with Rockbox 7-Dec-2003 (short after V2.1).
Finally I solved it by booting the Archos firmware and charging
I guess the reason is my "Deep Dischange=Yes" and "Resume=Yes".
So if I am right and if someone works on a central concept for
Merry X-Mas & happy new 2004!
+++ Oliver
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The expression "Little Aussie Bleeder" comes from the Australian TV comic persona Norman Gunston who referred to himself as "The Little Aussie Bleeder" which is a play on the expression "Little Aussie Battler". Norman was usually seen on his TV show with bits of toilet paper over his face where supposedly he had cut himself shaving.
Having explained the term I must now mention Jan spent the morning cooking the plums we picked late yesterday.
Once cooked all the stones had to be removed by hand
Jan – "The Little Aussie Bleeder"
Of course it is no use having cooked plums if you don't do anything with them. The obvious choice is jam but before that could be done Jan needed to empty some of the old jam from a few of the jars. There is no point in wasting the old jam and she therefore made a steamed pudding in the slow cooker.
What a pity Jan doesn't like steamed pudding. Looks like I have it all to myself for the next few days!
Meanwhile Richard arrived today with the front exterior doors. He had taken them away to a dust free environment where they were given three coats of gloss varnish. I assisted him to make the window beading and fit the glass panes before he reassembled all the door hardware and hung them for the second time.
The doors fit perfectly and are a tribute to his skill. The ventilation grills need to be fitted into the lower doors and they still require hooks to hold them open. Tomorrow I'll give the doorframe a final light sand and then start applying three coats of gloss varnish.
Richard then went on to fit all the chute bolts on the inside. My draughty temporary door (last 6 months) is now redundant. No longer will we shiver in our sleep with the wind whistling through the gaps in the door!
Darren has returned from his weekend painting course which was conducted by Phil Speight. He is looking at Waiouru with new eyes. However we have decided not to rub her back to bare metal and start again! Actually Darren told me he showed Phil some of the photos he had taken of Waiouru and Phil asked him "Why are you here?"
He has reached the stage where there are lots of minor painting tasks. First it was the stern where the white tunnel band received its first coat of gloss. Then Darren painted the first red undercoat on the dollies (anchor points for the mooring ropes).
At the bow he gave the lower section its first coat of light grey gloss and then painted the false heads of the rivets on the water hatch hinges. A first top coat of off-white gloss was applied to the sides of the bow. We still haven't decided on the pattern that will go in this area. Should it be a series of different coloured diamonds or a sole circle? The final job was to paint red undercoat on the 'T' anchor point.
Andy gave me the contact details for the sign writer so we can liaise with him about what we should have on the rear panels.
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Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a simple complex Lie algebra, and $\mathfrak{h}\subset\mathfrak{g}$ a Cartan subalgebra with Weyl group $W$. Consider the fibre product $\mathfrak{h}\times_{\mathfrak{g}} N$, where $N\subset \mathfrak{g}$ is the nilpotent cone. It is a zero-dimensional affine $\mathbb{C}$-scheme with coordinate ring $S/(S_{+}^{W})$, where $S=\mathbb{C}[\mathfrak{h}^{\ast}]$ is the coordinate ring of $\mathfrak{h}^{\ast}$ and $(S_{+}^{W})$ is the ideal generated by the $W$-invariants in $\mathbb{C}[\mathfrak{h}^{\ast}]$ with no constant term: the ring $S/(S_{+}^{W})$ is known as the algebra of coinvariants; it is a finite dimensional $W$-module. In fact, it is isomorphic (as a graded $W$-module) to the cohomology of the flag variety.
Now, let $\lambda$ be a dominant weight lying in the root lattice. Then, the corresponding finite dimensional $\mathfrak{g}$-module $L(\lambda)$ admits a zero weight space $L(\lambda)[0]$; moreover, since $W$ permutes weight spaces we have that this zero weight space is $W$-invariant, hence a $W$-module. Now set $S=\text{Sym}(L(\lambda)[0])$, the symmetric algebra of $L(\lambda)[0]$ and define $S_{+}^{W}$ to be the set of $W$-invariants without constant term. Then, $R_{\lambda} \stackrel{def}{=}S/(S_{+}^{W})$ is a finite dimensional $W$-module (since this is the coordinate ring of the scheme theoretic fibre of the image of $0$ in the quotient $L(\lambda)[0]^{\ast}//W$). Hence, to each dominant root lattice element $\lambda$ of $\mathfrak{g}$ we have associated a finite dimensional $W$-module $R_{\lambda}$.
Question(s): What is known about these $W$-modules $R_{\lambda}$? Do they arise 'naturally' anywhere? (eg, if $\lambda$ is the highest root of $\mathfrak{g}$ then $R_{\lambda}$ is the cohomology of the flag variety).
Any references or pointers to what's 'really' going on would be much appreciated.
I should also point out that in type $A_{n}$ it is known that when
$$\lambda=(\mu_{1}-\mu_{2})\omega_{1}+ (\mu_{2}-\mu_{3})\omega_{2}+\ldots + \mu_{n}\omega_{n}$$
and $\mu_{1}+\ldots + \mu_{n}=n+1$ then $L(\lambda)[0]$ is the simple $S_{n+1}$-module $V^{\mu'}$, where $\mu'$ is the dual partition of $\mu: \mu_{1}\geq \mu_{2} \geq \ldots \mu_{n}\geq 0$.


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Trump-Netanyahu Meeting Shatters 'Palestine First' Worldview
by Ben Cohen / JNS.org
JNS.org – The morning after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's first official meeting with President Donald Trump, multiple headlines proclaimed that the two-state solution — whereby an independent, sovereign Palestinian state would be created alongside the state of Israel within agreed upon and final borders — was, if not quite dead, fast approaching death's door.
I want to suggest that those who subscribe to this view should dig a little deeper. What's really being overturned is what we might call the "Palestine First" strategy of regional peacemaking. But that doesn't have to mean that a solution involving Palestinian sovereignty has been extinguished.
The idea of "Palestine First" traces its origins to the mid-1960s, just before the Six-Day War, when Yasser Arafat and his comrades in the Fatah movement took over the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Until that point, the PLO had been an instrument of the Arab League. By asserting Palestinian independence from Arab collective decision-making, Arafat set the stage for a violent struggle against Israel in the name of Palestinian "return," and full sovereignty from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River.
It took thousands of deaths and several bitter wars for Arafat to realize that his armed struggle was doomed to failure. In 1990, the "Palestine First" strategy took a heavy blow when Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime invaded Kuwait, because an intra-Arab dispute suddenly toppled the Palestinian issue in the hierarchy of Arab priorities.
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Following the First Gulf War, Israel's representatives met face to face with the Arab states and the PLO in Madrid, launching a lengthy, inconclusive peace process.
But the "Palestine First" strategy was resurrected when the Norwegian government opened a secret channel between the Israelis and the PLO, resulting in the 1994 Gaza-Jericho Agreement — a follow-up treaty to the 1993 Oslo Accords — which created the Palestinian Authority (PA) and was designed to set the Palestinians on the road to full statehood. More than 20 years and one brutal civil war later, the Palestinians are still ruled by a divided leadership, and have no unified state.
That period includes, of course, the eight years that President Barack Obama was in office. In marked contrast to his predecessor George W. Bush, Obama elevated the Palestinian issue to the center of Middle East politics. Obama further antagonized Israel by legitimizing Iran, which explicitly seeks the elimination of the Jewish State. But neither Obama, nor his Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, could deliver on Palestinian statehood, and the Palestinian leadership embarked on an international campaign to seek unilateral recognition of their independence.
That embittered and failed strategy, which saw Palestinian representatives verbally assaulting the historical and religious connections of the Jewish people to Jerusalem and the land of Israel, served only to deepen Israeli fears of Palestinian eliminationism. This fear is only deepened by the rabid incitement and hatred found in Palestinian school textbooks, on Palestinian TV and across the internet.
This is the environment that Trump walked into when he became president. Were Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio or Hillary Clinton in the White House, I'd wager that they would all conclude — as Trump has — that the "Palestine First" playbook should be tossed aside.
"Palestine First" never meant simply that the Palestinians should rank at the top of the Middle East's myriad national and religious struggles. It also described the view that the lack of a Palestinian state, and the unfulfilled demand for the "return" of all the Arab refugees of the 1948 war and their descendants, lay at the heart of the region's ills. It is that assumption that was so dramatically exploded by the meeting between Trump and Netanyahu.
The Middle East has gone through several extraordinary transformations in the last 20 years, whose cumulative effect has been to question whether the the region as we know it can even survive. Nobody can seriously make the argument that creating a Palestinian state in this context would be a boon for peace. Nobody (except, perhaps, a racist) could argue that the Palestinian birthrate poses a greater threat to Israel's existence than does Iran and Hezbollah. Nobody can make the moral or strategic case that resolving the question of Palestinian independence is of greater import than, say, that of Kurdish independence, or the profound lack of religious freedom in the region, or the crying need to generate economic and educational opportunities for the youth of the Arab world.
The regional approach to peacemaking outlined by Trump and Netanyahu, grounded in a partnership between Israel and the Sunni Arab states, is foremost a recognition that there are grave problems that run across the borders created in the aftermath of World War I. If Israel is to achieve peace with the Palestinians, and if the Palestinians are to finally turn their 'Authority' into something resembling a functional, accountable state, then those Arab states that are yet to make their own peace with Israel have to lead the way. Doing so will finally unravel the illusion that, just by existing, Israel is the source of the region's problems. Should that moment arrive, I hope that everyone — Arabs and Jews alike — will find it liberating.
Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.org & The Tower Magazine, writes a weekly column for JNS.org on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics. His writings have been published in Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. He is the author of "Some of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism"(Edition Critic, 2014).


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