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There's nothing worse than a friend trying to convince their nearest and dearest to do something that they simply don't have any inclination of doing. If you are chilling in front of the TV with the latest box set and an awesome tub of gelato, there's no way you'll be saying yes to that pal who turns up at your door lycra-laden wanting you to whip on your gym gear and attend the advanced spin class with them. While you may have a friend who could do with a health overhaul, it's not up to you to force them to face their fitness demons. They have to want it for themselves. And even then, you can't be all guns blazing everytime you see them, trying to coax them to a boxercise session, head to the latest raw food vegan restaurant or stop them from buying a donut like an overbearing mother. Take a look at how you can help a friend in need of fitness without alienating them in the process.
It's all too easy to take an authoritarian approach when trying to help a friend in need. You need to be more relaxed and remember why you are friends in the first place. Go out, have fun, partake in a few drinks, meet up over dinner and don't look perturbed if and when they order dessert. You need to be a pal and lead by example. If you have recently quit smoking and your bestie is interested in your latest e-liquid, consider purchasing them a vape kit to help them give the nicotine the heave-ho. If you've both been known to enjoy a bottle of wine or two or three on a night out, go teetotal for a little while. The chances are your friend will join you to support you, not realizing that it is you turning the tables on them. Sneaky and sly, but also caring and supportive!
Gym Buddies
Forget about turning up their doorstep unannounced and making them attend a workout with you. Instead, ask your friend if they wouldn't mind heading to the gym with you once or twice a week to help you train for a 5k run, a hike or a cycle ride. As a pal, they'll be more than willing to do this. As you have more fun down at the gym, you will both be more eager to attend classes, try new exercises and have a go on more of the equipment. This will aid your friend's fitness levels, help them lose weight and ensure that they lower their risk of developing diabetes and high blood pressure.
Rather than heading out for dinner, why not encourage dinner parties amongst your friendship group. Every week you could take turns to cook up a culinary extravaganza. You could challenge yourself to invent a three-course dinner party menu for under 800 calories. By doing this you are taking on a shared responsibility and it will prevent your friend from feeling so alone in their fitness quest.
Being a good friend isn't about showing tough love. By doing this, you run the risk of your pal not returning your calls for a while or even losing your relationship altogether. Lead by example, talk lots and simply be a listening ear. When ready, you can embark upon a health journey together and be the ultimate supportive friend.


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Pat Symcox was born in Kimberley on 14th April 1960. Well known as someone who is prepared to speak his mind, Pat Symcox made his International Cricket debut in 1993 when South Africa played against Sri Lanka. Pat Symcox became a fixture in the National Squad, primarily for his ability as a limited-overs player. A tall off-spinner, Pat maintained an exceptional economy rate of just over 3.5 runs an over in international matches. Pat Symcox worked hard on his fitness and agility in order to keep up with his younger colleagues in the field. His determination to stop everything within reach surprised more than one batsman running between the wickets. As a senior player in the modern era of South African cricket, Pat Symcox was involved in forming the strategy on which the Protea's often followed.
Since retiring from all cricket in 1999, Pat Symcox now owns a website that specialises in school sport and is a commentator for Supersport. His son Russell is now at theKZNCricketAcademy and plays forNatal 'B'.
Pat's hobbies include fishing, collecting cricket memorabilia, restoring furniture, playing guitar and losing golf balls!

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The good economic news just keeps on coming and the White House Press Secretary is reveling in the news and making sure that people know about it, that somehow the tax reform hasn't resulted in millions of people dying and Armageddon as the Democrats like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed.
In addition to the tax cuts, President Donald Trump has also been taking an ax to regulations to help make the United States a business-friendly place for people, companies and governments to invest in again.
And that's having an affect on wage growth, something that has been stagnant for awhile.
Now, instead of government artificially forcing companies to raise wages, it's happening naturally as an outgrowth of the better economy, as had been predicted, at least by conservatives.
As the AP noted, "U.S. employers added a robust 200,000 jobs in January, and wages rose at the fastest pace in more than eight years."
And Sanders let Democrats know it, tweeting about the AP article.
"Lower taxes and higher wages under @POTUS vs. higher taxes and lower wages under Democrats. This isn't rocket science."
Sanders followed up her great tweet with more information showing yet another company delivering bonuses to American workers noting that 100,000 Best Buy employees were going to get Trump tax cut bonuses "or as Nancy Pelosi likes to call them: 'crumbs'"
A perfect knockout punch to Democrats and their withering hopes for 2018.
This didn't make liberals happy. They were basically speechless on the point, unable to come up with actual coherent responses to the actual point which was not arguable. They were reduced to personally insulting her.
Yeah, because how dare she talk about lower taxes and higher wages for American workers? The evil hag!
But the first with actual wage growth. Under Obama, wages were stagnant. And that's the point. Now wages are free to climb naturally.
But you know, basic economics.
Not rocket science…
[Note: This post was written by Nick Arama]


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Aetna Springs
In its heyday the resort at Aetna Springs was called an "Edenic Mecca," a little slice of heaven on earth where the sick were healed and generations of Northern Californian's came to while away long summer days in beautiful landscape. The headline from an 1879 pamphlet described it as: "a sky as bright as Italy's best – a climate as charming as San Diego – the fountain of youth – equal to the best in the world." Today the resort lies mostly in ruins.
The story of Aetna Springs did not begin with the healing waters that made it famous, however; it began with a mine. Cinnabar the mineral from which mercury is derived was discovered in the area in 1861. For most of that decade miners toiled mining for quicksilver in that section of bucolic Pope Valley. From the start they met obstacles. Hot water and gasses issuing from the mine made work difficult and dangerous. Seven Chinese miners were killed in an underground explosion triggered by escaping gasses. In 1867 the mines closed, but water continued to flow out of the underground springs.
By the early 1870s the site was being used as an informal health spa where those seeking the curative waters of the hot springs camped or holed up in abandoned miners' cabins. The site on the land of leading Napa politician Chancellor Hartson's land became known as Aetna Springs. With the growth in the popularity of the springs Hartson decided to develop the land into a public resort. Many travelers made the trip traveling up the Napa Valley by rail, then riding over the mountains on a special Wells Fargo stagecoach that served Aetna Springs.
At same time Hartson began to promote Aetna Springs ceaselessly. Weekly columns appeared in the Napa County Reporter waxing eloquently about the health giving properties of the springs. Doctors were hired to analyze the waters and enumerate the cures to be had from bathing in the pools at Aetna Springs. These early analyses compared Hartson's mineral springs to the then famous German hot springs resort at Ems, one of Europe's most popular resorts. The Napa County Reporter encouraged visitors to quit "doctor's and drugs for a month and come and bathe in the royal baths, and more regal morning sunshine, and gloat upon the wondrous mountain scenery." The waters at Aetna Springs were said to be an effective cure for rheumatism, certain forms of paralysis, and just about every kind of nervous disorder.
One of the early visitors was Len Owens who claimed to be at death's door before visiting Hartson's springs. He claimed to be cured of all his ails by taking the waters at Aetna Springs. Owens' recovery or perhaps the whiff of a great business opportunity spurred him to purchase the resort from Harton's widow in 1891 for the sum of $35,000. Like Hartson, Owens was a ruthless promoter of Aetna Springs. He used his own backstory, his supposed recovery by use of its hot springs, to build a successful resort community in Pope Valley.
It is said that Owens hired famed Arts and Crafts architect Bernard Maybeck to design showpiece buildings for the resort including the clubhouse. Owens expansions of Aetna Springs included guest cabins, a golf course, swimming pools, and a bottling plant. Visitors to the springs could eat, bathe, play tennis, hike, horseback ride, play games, fish and hunt. The water at Aetna Springs, however, still remained the central attraction. The water from its springs was a commodity more valuable than even wine. A case of the water sold for as much as $12. To launch his new bottling operation Owens held a grand ball on May 19, 1893. The waters won the gold at Seattle's Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition in 1906. However, the fad for bottled mineral waters faded bottling was discontinued in 1932.
When an illness mostly deflated the marketing phenomenon Len Owens had created based on his own health, he sold the resort to George and Ruth Heibel in 1945. Aetna Springs continued to be a prime summer vacation spot for many wealthy and powerful California families. Ronald Reagan even declared his candidacy for governor on the steps of the resort's dining hall in 1966. By the 1970s, however, the resorts fortunes had begun to wane due to the fact that it was not cost-effective to operate the springs as a summer only resort.
Aetna Springs closed in 1973 and the Heibel's drafted lofty development plans for 982 condominiums on the land. This proposal was shot down by the Napa County Board of Supervisors, a political body which has become increasingly concerned about the tide of development replacing agricultural land in Napa County. A reduced proposal was submitted and still rejected by the board. Aetna Springs ended up held in bankruptcy court in 1976 when a mysterious educational foundation swooped in and made the purchase.
The new owners, New Education Development Systems (NEDS) seemed innocuous enough at first, but the press quickly tied the foundation to Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, a group colloquially known as the Moonies. The group known to draw in wayward youth and runaways and for its large scale arranged marriage ceremonies intended to use the resort as a spiritual retreat and religious education center. Hearings on this proposal before the planning commission lasted three years, and included charged testimony from former church members, local officials and community members. The eventual result was the rejection of the proposal because the resort area was not zoned for education uses. But was not nearly end of the battle between the county of Napa and NEDS. Suits and countersuits raged on for seven years, including a lawsuit by NEDS claiming religious discrimination by the County. Meanwhile NEDS has continued to use the resort as a weekend indoctrination retreat for Northern California youth. $800,000 and miles of frayed nerves later the two parties settled out of court. NEDS was allowed to continue with its weekend retreats but could not expand its operations further.
Since NEDS ceased Unification Church operations at the camp in 1997 a series of developers have tried and failed to return the resort to its former glory. These dreams have included luxury homes and expanded golf courses. However, plans have been dampened by more court battles and even a failed ballot initiative to change the site's zoning. In 2006 a new clubhouse for the golf course was opened, but so far no one has made good on their vision to bring back one of California's most notable resorts. Today its historic buildings continue to languish as a memory of the good times once had in Pope Valley's summer sun.


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Release Date: 2011 |
Album Rating: 3.5Album stream:
After multiple listening sessions, the first half of the record is a perfect 4/5, the second half is merely a 3/5, hence the 3.5.
As this was released today, i would like a feature if possible, as i think the review is well written.
Constructive criticism is more than welcome.
Album Rating: 4.0thanks for reviewing this. Album is sick. Pos'd.
Album Rating: 3.5Yeah, i think if they use those atmospheric melodies more proficiently in the future, their next record will be a true blast.
Album Rating: 2.5
thanks for reviewing this. Album is sick. Pos'd.
Album Rating: 3.0djent
Album Rating: 3.5no it isn't
The first half is quite something, after that the quality takes a huge dive down...
hehe, close but not quite.
Album Rating: 3.0[ Edit ]
also I pos'd
Album Rating: 4.5Awesome album, Pos'd.
Album Rating: 3.5It could be awesome, but it isn't,
I wanted it too to be suberb, but...
i dont like this
Great review as always Voivod.
It seems I've been a little too focused on BM this year...
Cause I didn't notice Decapitated released a new album haha. Pos'd.
gotta hear this in full
Album Rating: 4.0Listened to the entire album. Awesome album but the vocals are kind weird.
still a fan of vogg's guitar playing, so i guess i kinda liked this. vocals are awful, and everything else is just okay, but yeah. vogg
Album Rating: 3.0didn't notice Decapacitated released a new album
Digging: Blue Noise - Everyone Goes Away Eventually
I wish i could get into death and black metal, but I don't know where to start.
Album Rating: 2.5the previews of the songs sounded alright to me, even though I knew that 4 minutes of each song wouldn't sound good, the vocals were meh, and the drumming could've been better.
voivod take out those video links, Nuclear Blast had them taken off
Album Rating: 4.0Yeah vocals are really similar to organic halucinosis, i.e. not good, especially compared to the kickass vox on their other cds. and the drumming criticism is obvious but really what did you expect?
Album Rating: 2.5nothing like Vitek duh, but there should've been more to the new drummer's arsenal
I'm going to buy this.
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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Zentangle pendants.
Those of you who are following my blog will will know already that I had some original zentangle drawings made into decals. I have been using them to make zentangle mugs, plates and boxes so far, but now I'm making zentangle pendants in porcelain, and glass.
These pendants are in my Etsy shop
The porcelain heart pendants have zentangles on both sides so by flipping the bail they are reversible.
Also glass zen doodle pendants, the red zentangle pendant is dichroic glass and the blue zen pendant is opal glass, I shall be adding this new range to my Dichroic Glass Pendants shop soon. or visit Kiln Fired Art on Etsy


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I'm back…in the ruins of articulation
by Michelle
Ok, I know, I know, I've been neglectful, dismissive, avoidant, and haven't blogged for two months. Most of that time was spent during a Writers' retreat in Scotland. I had no wish to write a travelogue/blog, or use this space for thoughtless nonsense; maybe a photomontage might be nice. But here's a photograph taken at Hawthornden Castle where I was a Fellow with Kenneth Stevens, Liz Almond, River Wolton and Donna Stonecipher (Hamish Robinson, a poet and resident Castle scholar, was the Director). It was a really incredible time and I certainly got some writing done from my room, Boswell, which overlooked a pine forest and the ruins of the original curtain wall.
What strikes one in the UK, is the cultural domination of Europe; its subject positioning. How distant and insignificant Australia seems, the penal colony, the Pacific outpost, a poor copy stranded in the Indian Ocean. I think this altered my appreciation of our cultural cringe, the search for nationalism in our literatures, the chiselling away at language by poets like Wallace-Crabbe, who sculpts a lyric vernacular; or Peter Porter's and AD Hope's perspectives.
En-route back to Sydney, via the Arabian Sea, I attended an absolutely awesome conference to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Goa. The Portuguese described it as 'invasion', when in December 1961 Indian troops entered Panjim signalling the end of almost 450 years of colonial occupation and the beginning of the end of the empire in Angola, Mozambique, Brazil. The anti-colonial movement was also a struggle for democracy, against the policially repressive Salazar regime. Among the 160 delegates from around the world there was much scholarship and creative work to share. The dialogues and company were fantastic with polyphonies of Portuguese, Konkani, Hindi, English. The vibrant, postutopian luso-colonial ambience of Goa, drew me towards thoughts of forgotten histories, biographies, fictions. I visited my grandfather's ancestral home in Asagoa, north of Panjim; brought home books, photographs, music and a Konkani primer.
I keep thinking about Spivak's essay on the subaltern. In Portuguese the subaltern could be described as the desterrado, oppressed by political domination, economic exploitation and cultural erasure. Sound familiar? And I keep thinking too, of Bhabha's "mimic" man and wonder how the subaltern can speak, how language can be refreshed, renewed, deterritorialised. More on this another day. Suffice to say that Bhabha considers mimicry to be destabilising and ambivalent to colonial discourse, a kind of " double vision."
So today, when I came across this video remix of Homi Bhabha and Kate Perry, I couldn't resist posting, if just to say Hello there, saffron-antipodean-luso-colonial world, I'm back, in the ruins of articulation…


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The lovely people at Frog have compiled a great Tech Trends for 2014 in which you can vote for which entries you believe are likely to feature. This is one of many forecast and trend documents popping up online this time of the year. I love it!! Paging through the various forcasts makes me so excited, imagining that the world of early 20th Century sci-fi authors will finally come true (….in truth may may just get more of the same, with slight changes and incremental developments). I suggest giving yourself over to dreaming about where we can go in 2014….even if it is just for a few minutes!
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Did you get the memo? Band tees are in, and if you're as cool as Gigi Hadid, you've got a pile of Metallica tees waiting to be worn. Street style stars alike, including yours truly, are rocking rocker t-shirts for the win. From vintage styles to new stock, you can now shop from an array of music merch from your favorite band. If you're lucky, maybe you can just swipe one from your boyfriend. Make sure to get one for me, too! Keep scrolling to get more style inspo and shop for t-shirts of your own.[/columns] [columns size="1/2″ last="true"][/columns]
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5 Ways To Work Smarter
In fact, odds are good that the quality of their work is lower because they work in long, uninterrupted sessions that are a big drain on their brains' mental energy. As the quality of their work drops, so do their productivity and their morale – resulting in one overworked, unhappy worker. r


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The One True Constant – Change
Earlier this year, NASBA, along with the AICPA and Prometric announced CBT-e (Computer-Based Testing evolution) which ushered in major changes to the 2011 U.S. CPA Examination (CPA Exam). In fact, once implemented – in January of this year – many within the profession recognized this as the largest transformation experienced since the exam was computerized in 2004, when it shifted completely from a "paper and pencil" exam to an electronic solution. Made up of four parts, Auditing & Attestation (AUD), Financial Accounting & Reporting (FAR), Regulation (REG), and Business Environment & Concepts (BEC), this year's CPA Exam changes impacted both the exam's structure and functionality and were widely covered in accounting-specific media, as well as through social media channels of both NASBA and the AICPA.
This July, a second set of changes to the content specification outlines (CSOs) for CBT-e is slated to take effect. It is important to note that these changes only affect CSO references, and the technical content and weight allocations remain unchanged. NASBA and AICPA shared this information with the CPA Exam community, and circulated the information below.
Those preparing to take the CPA Exam should note the reference changes that went into effect July 1, 2011 are as follows:
Summary of Changes (effective: July 1, 2011):
> Read the full details on changes effective July 1, 2011
January 1, 2011 changes to the exam included:
These changes were implemented not only to reflect changes to the profession, but also to facilitate an accelerated score release timeline. However, in order to release scores more quickly, data from the first three testing windows must undergo additional analysis. . This ensures that questions are verified and accurately captures candidate performance. Scores for the first three testing windows of 2011 have been scheduled to be released by AICPA to NASBA after the close of the testing window. the analysis during the first three windows will enable scores to be released faster and more predictably starting with the fourth testing window of 2011.
Quick overview of score release schedule for 2011:
From a candidate's perspective the most visible differences in CBT-e are changes to section length, content weights/distribution, and migration of all written communication to the BEC section.
> Read the full details on changes effective January 1, 2011
Portions of this article are from the Uniform CPA Examination Alert. Click here to read the March 2011 edition.
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Urgently Required
SMP Progresif Bumi Shalawat Sidoarjo needs high motivated and dedicated candidates to fulfill the position of teacher of :
- Mathematics
- English
- Social studies (History and Geography)
- Guidance and Counseling (BK)
- Indonesian Language
- Physical Exercise Teacher
Requirements :
- Hold S1/S2 degree with related subject
- Male is prefered
- Have ability to operate computer (MS. Office and internet) actively
- Have good health condition and free from drugs
- Have high creativity, motivation and ready to work hard with the team
- Having a good spiritual quotient and morality is a must
Other requirement :
- Have some experiences in teaching, especialy in junior high school level
- Can communicate in english both spoken and written
- Have other skills (such as pramuka, martial art, sport, art, etc)
Send your aplication before 17th April 2014 to :
Front Office of SMP Progresif Bumi Shalawat Sidoarjo
Jl. Kiai Dasuki No. 1, Lebo, Sidoarjo.


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Nevada – MPP Last update: July 17, 2017
On November 8, 2016, 55% of Nevada voters approved Question 2, which legalizes, taxes, and regulates marijuana for adults 21 and older. The Marijuana Policy Project played a leading role in the campaign, which faced well-financed opposition, including $3.5 million from casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. Many thanks to everyone who volunteered, donated, talked to friends and family, and voted! We couldn't have done it without you.
Las Vegas Marijuana Trimming Service
Adults 21 and older with a valid ID canpurchase up to one ounce of marijuana or one-eighth of an ounce of marijuana-infused edibles or concentrates from licensed marijuana retail outlets. Retail marijuana sales aresubject to a 10 percent sales tax, which state officials estimate will generate more than $60 million in the first two years.
Supply has been short due to the great demand from patrons of dispensaries, which has led to some empty shelves. In an effort to bolster stock, Gov. Sandoval approved emergency measures to increase the movement of marijuana to the state's 47 licensed retail outlets, some of which have had lines out the door since legal pot was made available on July 1.
Additionally, the state's Tax Commission discussed expediting the issuance of more licenses, and regulators announced they would issue the first two marijuana distribution licenses.
Marijuana Trimmers in Las Vegas
Question 2 required the state to initiate adult sales byJanuary 1, 2018, but theNevadaTax Commission adopted temporary regulations allowing sales to begin six months earlier through existing licensed medical marijuana outlets. Marijuana possession has been legal for adults 21 and older since Question 2 took effect on January 1, 2017.
Medical marijuana program continues to grow
The state's medical marijuana program continues its rapid growth. As of October 2016, about 23,375patients were registered in the program — a figure that has well more than doubled since mid-2015. State officials attribute the growth to the availability of regulated dispensaries, many of which started operations in 2015 and earlier this year.
How domedical marijuana patients visiting Nevada get access while in the state?
One of the positive features of Nevada's medical marijuana law is that the state recognizes the patient status of non-residents who are qualified under their state government's laws. Current rules require out-of-state visiting patients to visit a Nevada dispensary to sign an affidavit and receive instructions from dispensary staff in order to be protected. At that point, state law will protect qualified visitors who make purchases at state-licensed stores.
For updates on the status of the department's roll out including news and valuable links, visit the Department of Health and Human Services Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health's website. Agency rules adopted in April can be found here.
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Read Charlotte Canelli's column in the November 9, 2012 edition of the Norwood Transcript and Bulletin.
Last week when Hurricane Sandy pounded Norwood and the rest of the Eastern seaboard, I spent the day at home cooking comfort food. I was tempting fate but I also knew that I had a gas range and oven to fall back on. In any event, I started preparing early in the day: a braid of bread, macaroni and cheese, and a potato-leek soup.
Thanks to Norwood Light, our home and the rest of the town were both blessed with continuous power. We stayed toasty and warm and constant whiffs of baking bread, bubbling cheese and simmering vegetables accompanied our furtive glances outdoors as the trees blew and bent and the leaves swirled at our doorstep.
Comfort food might seem to be a relatively recent phrase but it's apparently an ancient concept. Comfort food is usually high in sugars, fats and carbs and often reminds us of our grandparents, families or times of security and contentment. It certainly can't be considered the healthiest of food; note that my menu above had an overwhelming scarcity of the green stuff. Who exactly craves broccoli or kale under stress?
American comfort foods include a host of sweet, fatty, carb-rich foods like chocolate chip cookies, mashed potatoes, apple and pumpkin pies, banana pudding, and macaroni and cheese. Certainly there is plenty of nourishment to be found among the unhealthy calories and some comfort foods like chicken soup and lean chili can actually have medicinal qualities during times of illness.
But, let's face it. The soft and creamy, warm and hearty foods are the ones many of us reach for when we are dealing with stress.
Pasta-type recipes mixed with cheese can be found in many cultural cuisines. Thomas Jefferson returned from Paris and Italy and the American palate was forever changed with the addition of macaroni pie. Layers of pasta and cheese sauce, baked in the oven until bubbly, became a household standard in this country over a century ago.
"Mac & Cheese: More than 80 Classic and Creative Versions of the Ultimate Comfort Food" by Ellen Brown (2012) was recently published in September. It is full of classic and exotic versions, all of which are full of comfort and calories. Whether you like the standard dish with an abundance of cheese or want to try something a bit different with crab or lobster, Brown has all the choices. The book also includes a few decadent and caloric desserts such as orzo pudding made with Grand Marnier or macaroni with a rich and nutty Mascarpone sauce.
Laura Werlin is an authority on cheese and she has written several books ("The New American Cheese" and "Laura Werlin's Cheese Essentials") and she adds her cheese expertise to "Mac & Cheese, Please!: 50 Super Cheesy Recipes" (2012). The book includes fun and quirky recipes like Porky Mac & Cheese and Breakfast for Dinner Mac & Cheese. And if you're looking for double the comfort (tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches), Werlin wrote "Grilled Cheese, Please!" in 2011 with gobs of deliciousness melted between slices of focaccia, bacon, onions and croissants.
The Brass sisters, Marilyn and Sheila, are hometown girls from Boston with over 114 years of cooking between them. They've written several cookbooks with traditional foods as a familiar theme and "Heirloom Cooking with the Brass Sisters, Queens of Comfort Food: Recipes You Remember and Love" (2008) is just one of them. The Brass sisters have collected best-loved recipes over the years and this book might take you down the memory lane your own family walks.
Comfort food isn't only a New England invention and proof of that is books like "Southern Plate: Classic Comfort Food That Makes Everyone Feel Like Family" (2010) by Christy Jordan and "Emeril's Potluck: Comfort Food with a Kicked-Up Attitude" (2004) by Emeril Lagasse. Christy compiled her recipes from her Alabama family of cooks, especially those of her grandmother. Emeril does his cooking up big, as usual, and most of the recipes in his book serve just less than a dozen people. Crowds love comfort, of course, and his book includes plenty of it in the form of soups and casseroles.
Paula Deen wrote the introduction to David Venable's "In the Kitchen with David: QVC's Resident Foodie Presents Comfort Foods That Take You Home" (2012) and there should be no surprise that the book is full of recipes like Scrumptious Hush Puppies or Banana Cream Cheesecake. It's no surprise, either, that David Venable loves bacon and other calorie-laden comfort foods that reside in his roots of a South Carolina childhood.
Further afield, of course, is "Saveur: The New Comfort Food: Home Cooking from around the World" (2011) edited by James Oseland. Americans don't corner the market on comfort; bowls of noodles and huevos rancheros are examples from other cultures. Saveur is an international magazine and there are a hundred yummy examples from around the world.
So, now you're afraid you've gained a few ounces just reading this column? Take heart. You can rely on "Cooking Light Comfort Food: Home Cooked, Delicious Classics Made Light" (2011) by the editors of Cooking Light Magazine and "Comfort Food Fix: Feel-Good Favorites Made Healthy" (2011) by Ellie Krieger. The Cooking Light editors help transform some favorite comforting recipes into healthier versions while keeping some of the best flavor. Imagine! A heart-healthy version of sweet potato casserole and mashed potatoes. Beyond that, there are improved versions of fried chicken and brownies. Ellie Krieger includes tricks to make favorite recipes like meatloaf and lasagna with less calories and saturated fat without taking away the flavor and good feelings of sustenance.
Comfort food can also be gluten-free. "Paleo Comfort Foods: Homestyle Cooking for a Gluten-Free Kitchen" by Julie and Charles Mayfield and "The Gluten Free Gourmet Cooks Comfort Foods: More Than 200 Recipes for Creating Old Favorites with New Flours" (2004) by Bette Hagman are proof that "healthy and comfort can co-exist." Healthy versions of chicken pie and banana pudding? You'll find them here.
If you would like to reserve any of the titles above please call the Reference or Information desks of the library, 781-769-0200, or visit the Minuteman Library Network catalog online to reserve them.


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Looks like Margot Robbie is coming back to the big screen as Harley Quinn really soon!
It's been announced that Margot is returning for Gotham City Sirens, a spinoff of the popular Suicide Squad, which will feature the top female villains from DC Comics! The project will be directed by David Ayer, who also took the lead for Suicide Squad, so you definitely don't want to miss this one!
Though it hasn't been confirmed what female villains (and possibly heroes) may be included in the spinoff, Sirens was an actual comic series from DC. In the series, other ladies featured were Catwoman and Poison Ivy, so we should see them in this new film! There's no release date yet, but it's reportedly "on the fast track," so we'll see.
With the success of Suicide Squad (which grossed over $745.6 million worldwide), it's no wonder that the franchise is expanding. In fact, in addition to this new project, another spinoff may be in the works for Deadshot, the assassin character played by Will Smith.
I'm definitely trying to see this project! For one, an all-female supervillain cast would be amazing. Two, Margot killed her role as Harley, so it would be great to see her in that role again.
Are you interested in a Harley Quinn spinoff, or should Suicide Squad be left alone?


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The mission of the Butte County Public Health Department (BCPHD) is to protect the public through promoting individual, community, and environmental health.
To search for a lost animal, please visit: www.campfirerescuedanimals.com. If you have questions about a specific lost animal, please contact the shelter where they are located, which is listed under the animal's photo. A resource page for animals affected by the Camp Fire has been created on the www.buttecountyrecovers.org/animals website. This page will give you information about how to find lost pets, adoptions of lost Camp Fire animals and how to handle the remains of deceased pets and livestock.
The mission of Butte County Animal Control (BCAC) is to protect, promote and enhance the health, safety and quality of life for the County's animals and citizens. We do this through education, community collaboration and the enforcement of animal related laws and ordinances.
BCAC is closed weekends and holidays, however you can leave a message after-hours in the case of an emergency. Officers are on call to respond to emergency calls only from 8:00am to 4:00 pm on these days.
All dogs four (4) months of age or older must be licensed in Butte County. Licensing is required by County Code and State Law. Licensing indicates your dog is vaccinated for rabies and it also helps Animal Control get the dog back to you should it get lost.
Learn the importance of rabies vaccination, locate veterinarians and access county code relating to kennels and exotic animals.
In the event of a disaster or emergency, Butte County Animal Control, Butte County Public Health Department and the North Valley Animal Disaster Group have established a animal disaster plan. Evacuation services and animal sheltering may be available for families who are unable to return to their homes or are temporarily unable to provide for their animals in the midst of a disaster.
Butte County Animal Services
Phone: 530.552.3888
Fax: 530.538.6329
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Pet Insurance: Is it worth it?
COLUMBIA — Roughly 62 percent of Americans own at least one pet and our animals have been elevated to full-fledged family members.
Pet insurance has only been available in the U.S. since 1982, when the first policy was sold to Lassie.
This year, the North American pet insurance market is projected to hit more than one billion dollars in sales.
When it comes to pet insurance, there are big differences in what's covered… what's excluded… how much it cost… and how claims are paid.
If you're thinking about insuring your pet, compare rates and plans in your area at PetInsuranceQuotes.com, which lists coverage details, customer reviews and expert ratings.
When shopping, pay special attention to the following:
Read the fine print.
Pick a policy with simple, percentage-based payouts. Skip the policies that rely on judgments of what's "reasonable," those rarely will go in your pet's favor.
Know what's excluded.
Chronic diseases generally aren't covered, and insurers usually won't pay for known defects among certain breeds, like hip dysplasia in labradors. And a pre-existing conditions in your pet won't be covered.
Skip the riders.
Riders are add-ons to a policy that give you additional coverage for an additional cost. Consumer Reports deemed all "riders" as "generally not worth the price".
As with all insurance, take the highest deductible that makes sense.
A higher deductible will usually result in lower monthly premiums.
Local vets were quick to point out policies can differ drastically, meaning premiums can too. Ranging anywhere from about 10 dollars a month for an accident-only pet insurance plan to 75 dollars a month for an everything-under-the-sun-type policy.
So also watch out for premium increases. Insurers raise rates based on the age of your pet, veterinary cost inflation and the types of potential treatment.
Consumer Reports has, in the past, found pet insurance is not necessarily a wise investment unless your pet is older and goes to the vet more than a few times a year.
If you have younger animals, it's recommended to put what you would pay for pet insurance into a savings account for future use.
Most companies won't offer you a policy at all if you have a dog breed the industry has deemed too dangerous.
These are the most blacklisted breeds:
- Pit Bulls & Staffordshire Terriers
- Doberman Pinschers
- Rottweilers
- Chows
- Great Danes
- Presa Canarios
- Akitas
- Alaskan Malamutes
- German Shepherds
- Siberian Huskies
- Wolf-hybrids
Dog bites reportedly accounted for more than one-third of all homeowners insurance liability claim dollars paid out in 2015, costing more than $570 million. The average cost paid out for dog bite claims nationwide was $37,214 in 2015.
When considering a new dog, here's a breakdown of expenses from the pet-sitting website Rover.com, which puts the annual cost of getting a dog at $2,858.
Medical costs for pets can add up quickly, here are a few money-saving options:
Search for a nearby accredited veterinary school at the American Veterinary Medical Association's website.
Otherwise, look into Petco's popular and cheap Vetco clinic, which provides 70 percent savings on vaccinations and microchip implantation and more. Since operating hours are limited and no appointments are offered, you should expect a wait. However, the small inconvenience of standing in line is often worth the savings. Check out the Vetco's price list here.
If you can't come up with the money to cover a necessary surgery and life-saving treatment for your pet, inquire about financial assistance. Several nonprofit organizations have been established to support pet owners with limited incomes. For example, the Brown Dog Foundation is a public charity that provides funding to families who can't afford veterinary care.
Get more information online at the Humane Society's website for a list of other national organizations that provide financial support to pet owners in need.
The average fee to neuter a cat ranges from $50 to $100 while the same procedure for a dog costs as much as $300. Meanwhile, fees for spaying are even higher, ranging anywhere from $100 to $200. On top of these costs, you may be looking at additional fees like pre-anesthesia blood work and pain medication. Before you head to a local veterinary office, look for free or low-cost programs in your community. You can find a comprehensive database of affordable options in your area by using this locator tool on the ASPCA website.
Also, mark your calendar for the annual World Spay Day held every February as many organizations host free spay and neuter programs in an effort to raise awareness about the lifesaving power of this procedure.


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Jaguar engineers have developed a more streamlined design for the second-generation Jaguar XF to maximize efficiency and performance.
Jaguar is giving the 2016 XF more than just a facelift this year thanks to an innovative new design and optimized performance capabilities. Dedicated to truly improving each vehicle with every new model, Jaguar has substantially upgraded the performance, refinement, and technology of this already stunning vehicle.
Harnessing the Strength of Simplicity
Early performance reviews and expectations for the 2016 Jaguar XF are very positive due to the evolutionary design changes that have been implemented. The key to the main improvements of the Jaguar XF is the updated aluminum-intensive construction. This is part of a brand-wide effort to feature lightweight aluminum construction in all new Jaguar models. An aluminum frame provides durability and strength but shaves off considerable weight to maximize power and fuel efficiency. The 2016 Jaguar XF experienced a design overhaul as engineers worked from square one again to truly maximize each aspect of the luxury sedan. The new model's streamlined design is spacious yet more progressive and efficient. According to the XF engineering team, simplicity was the focus of the design. Nothing was added just for show and every aspect has a clear purpose and plays a necessary part in the driving experience. The result is a car that projects a confident sense of strength and refinement.
Some of the notable updates for the 2016 XF include:
- A 2inch wheelbase extension
- A shorter front overhang that emphasizes the rear-wheel drive stance
- A vertical mesh grille to reduce drag
- Aerodynamic front bumper vents
- One-piece aluminum body side pressings
- Improved visibility with rear quarter windows
Improved Performance
With so many innovative design advancements, it is no wonder the Jaguar XF is expected to have strongly improved performance stats. The 2016 Jaguar XF will be powered by a 3.0 liter supercharged V6 engine featuring 340hp and 332lb-ft of torque. A second engine option includes a 380hp version of the V6 with an eight speed automatic transmission capable of racing from 0-60mph in a brief 5.1 seconds. Powerful, efficient, and sleeker than ever before, the 2016 Jaguar XF is a definite upgrade from the previous model.
To learn more about the advanced design, performance, and technology featured in the 2016 Jaguar XF, drivers can contact an experienced sales representative at Jaguar Santa Barbara. The model is expected to be released later this year at a MSRP base price of $51,170.
About Jaguar Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara Auto group is proud to be an authorized Jaguar dealer located just off the 101 and S Hope Ave. The Jaguar team at Santa Barbara Auto Group is strongly committed to delivering an exceptional buying experience. The sale staff offers many years of experience satisfying customers' needs. Furthermore, the Santa Barbara Auto Group offers a wide array of new and pre-owned Jaguar vehicles which customers may view online or on-site at the dealership.
The Santa Barbara Auto Group is dedicated to providing the best sales and service experience in Southern California. To learn more about any of the popular Jaguar models including the new Jaguar XE or Jaguar F-TYPE, feel free to call, email, or stop by for friendly personal service.
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PBHT107: The Freddy Edition (ft. Freddy Moojen)
Tristan D'Amours and Alex Perez welcome CS Mont-Royal Outremont Griffons striker and member of the Canadian Arena Soccer national team Freddy Moojen to the show. Moojen talks about the new Canadian Arena Soccer initiative, a Major Arena Soccer League franchise to Toronto, the potential for an MASL franchise in Montreal and his chase for a 100th goal with the Griffons in the Première Ligue de Soccer du Québec.
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"Daredevil" #24 from Mark Waid and Chris Samnee is an issue that feels like it could represent the Waid/Samnee era perfectly. It is very much another issue in the midst of a relatively large storyline, so there are threads at play, but it's the "middle act" feel that makes it indicative of this "Daredevil" creative team. Waid has spent this entire run keeping balls up in the air. There is little room for Matt Murdock to take pause and this now seems to be a part of the plan for the big bad nearly revealed here. This issue is a great piece of periodical entertainment as it progresses the story, but leaves enough hooks that there are many reasons to keep coming back.
It finally took until this issue for me to truly realize how much Waid has made this book -- or this run on it -- his own. Matt continues to struggle against Foggy's health situation because it's a foe he can't chase or beat into submission. This new dichotomy between Matt and his best friend is poised to yield plenty of great drama and test our lead to his very core. On the other side of relationships, Waid and Samnee present more of Kirsten McDuffie and she gets to play a new nuanced love of Matt's life. The way she carries herself shows a character with strength and understanding of her own agency. Both of these situations are new to Matt and he needs to work harder to sustain his head above water.
Another new relationship has been the sneaky way Waid has made Hank Pym a supporting character in the book. There is something about the way these two men converse that works. Waid writes Hank as just a smart man who Matt trusts. He doesn't rely on the crutches of Hank's prior problems or hang-ups, and just presents him as a superhero friend to another superhero. I am warming to Hank's presence in these pages and it's always nice to see Waid have another science toy to play with, even just within conversational scenes.
This issue is really more a series of set pieces rather than a fully crafted narrative to stand on its own. This book leads readers from #23 and on to #25 and does a grand job of it. It's not a perfect issue of any high caliber but it is superb at doing what it needs to do. Waid isn't trying to craft a masterpiece each month, at least not always, but his aim is to fill a landscape over time that becomes something readers can stand back and appreciate for it's intellect and precision. There is nothing wrong with this approach and for me it means the overall run will be stronger for it.
Chris Samnee's work is so light and fun that readers can't help but feel betrayed when something tragic occurs and your heart suddenly aches. Whenever Matt or Daredevil is flipping around the page, it's tough not to get caught up in the fun of it all. Even when a crate full of angry dogs comes attacking, the pace and tone still feels like high adventure and not morbidly morose noir. Yet, Samnee can then turn it all around when emotion is present and absolutely nail it. Javier Rodriguez's smooth palette helps the tone and the letters from Joe Caramagna can complement any scene.
"Daredevil" #24 is an issue that shows Waid and Samnee know exactly what they're doing. They are controlled, well metered and precise with every scene. This issue covers the many layers of the world, whether it's old school bromance, superhero buddies, possibly unrequited love or high stakes action. "Daredevil" is a book that does not let go of its readers.


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Don't miss this terrific site on modern physics from the University of Colorado. Physics 2000 makes extensive use of interactive applets, so you can change variables and see the results. You can investigate the quantum atom, lasers, interference, and more.
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There is no way to skirt around bad news. You can only wait for it to go away. Then you struggle with the next bad news. (Not that we're pessimistic or live with an "other shoe will drop" mentality. We are not, but we are biblicist residing in a fallen world: bad stuff happens to people.)
On November 1st the bad news came; Lucia has cancer. A week or so later we learned she had an 85% chance of full recovery. The cancer "bad news" slowly mitigated, and a new bad news supplanted it. The new bad news is the mastectomy. That has been the hardest bad news to process throughout this journey.
Granted, if her chances of a full recovery go down, the cancer will replace the mastectomy as the worst bad news. That has not happened yet, and we're not projecting a change in the current bad news.
So we're stuck with our current and most troubling bad news, which is the mastectomy. That has been a hard pill to swallow. I have personally hurt (from the sidelines) as we often chat about the upcoming surgery.
I can't hurt the way she hurts, but I can hurt like a husband should. The closest approximation illustration, which is not entirely accurate, is phantom pain. It's not that, but it reminds me of that as I hurt for her. My soul cringes when I think about the mastectomy, which helps me to enter into this challenging season with her.
She has tried to figure out ways to get out of this, but she knows there's nearly no way for that to happen. The issue here is not about vanity. Lucia is not a body-image-vain-person. She has never been that person.
How to pray
Because what we're going through is not primarily about cancer, hearing about breast cancer survivor stories don't help. Maybe I can say it this way: It's like a guy who loses his arm surgically, and someone says he's doing great today; he's recovered fully.
Well, not really.
Yes, the one-arm man survived the disease, but he lost his arm. It stopped being about the disease for him. It's about losing a body part. I'm glad he survived the disease, and would never want to minimize that great outcome, but there is this other thing hanging out there. Or, in his case, not hanging out there at all.
If Lucia's cancer has a second coming and there have to be more surgeries to get rid of it, the survivor stories will probably be a form of encouragement…at that time. But for this season, those "cancer success stories" do not discourage or encourage. We quietly dismiss them as we focus on the main thing. It's that blooming mastectomy.
We're okay with what we're going through as much as one can be all right with losing a body part. We know how to run errant thoughts down and bring them under the obedience of Christ. Honestly, we're not struggling in a way that incapacitates us spiritually or relationally. We're doing quite well, but there are those thoughts we have to submit to Christ a few times during the day. Pretty much every day. It's the thing we talk about more than cancer.
You can pray our good LORD will continue to provide the persevering grace that enables us to get after those thoughts when they seek to captivate our thought life. That is where focused praying helps the most.
And I suspect there will be a slightly altered iteration of those errant thoughts after the surgery. They may be worse. If so, I will let you know.
Thank you for actively and practically loving us. That is what helps most of all. Experiencing the care of the body of Christ in tangible ways cannot be overstated.


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I'm feeling pretty discouraged about my state and my country these days.
I'll start with my state. North Carolina has always been known as one of the more enlightened states in the South, with good schools, good social programs, good people. But what is going on in our legislature is not just random changes in our laws; it is a shift in the kind of state we are deciding to be. And it is disheartening and embarrassing.
I know that all the changes that folks in Raleigh are trying to bring about are happening under the guise of fiscal responsibility—a noble banner to carry in a Recession—but, when things are as tough as they are right now, maybe that's when we should remember most that there are things to consider that are just as important as the bottom line.
Maybe now, when the chips are down and people are most fearful, it's most critical for us to remember that children raised in poverty have trouble ever getting out of poverty and that the first two to three years of a child's life are the most critical in that child's brain development and that if we don't want our streets and prisons of the future overcrowded with angry, poorly educated, frustrated people, maybe it's time to take a stand.
Maybe it's time to stand up, for instance, for quality child care, for every child in North Carolina. After all, when more families are living in poverty in our state, and families are desperately trying to work their way out of poverty, isn't it time for all of us to join together to help those families with more subsidies, more high-quality programs? Isn't it time to fight for tax reform that puts the greatest burden on those people most able to bear it instead of, once again, on poor people who don't have the money or the time to fight for themselves? Why do we always consider raising the sales tax first?—because it's the easiest to get away with.
I am disheartened by what I see happening in Raleigh, but I also draw encouragement from the wonderful protestors in Raleigh!
And I'm disheartened by what's happening in Washington, the capital of my country, the country that, after all, elected Obama on a platform of change and hope—and possibility.
As we tighten and tighten our national social program belt, while leaving our military budget virtually intact, what choices are we making for our future? As we fight and fight over power in our House and Senate, while poor children stand hungry at the door, what kind of a people are we deciding to be?
It seems to me that if we do not start investing real money into the things that can really make a difference for this country, like good education for everyone, affordable health care for everyone, and real measures to decrease global warming, we are making some pretty bleak choices for the future of our children and our children's children.
I would like to ask each legislator in Raleigh and Washington to take a minute before voting on any new bill to ask themselves two questions:
1) On my deathbed, will I be proud of my vote on this bill? And 2) If the people most affected by this bill were my children or my grandchildren, would I vote the same way right now?
Maybe I should put it this way: if I really walked in my neighbor's shoes for one day, would I vote the same way?
Some of you tea party folks are always talking about bringing Christianity back into politics. Well, damn it, if nothing else will work to get people to come back to thinking of other people as their brothers and sisters, then let's do it! Let's redefine our political agenda based on an even stronger Christian basis. Maybe then, when it comes our turn to vote on education reform/immigration reform/environmental protection/using drones to bomb innocent people/and, yes, gay marriage, we might actually stop, take a breath, and ask ourselves:
"What would Jesus do, really?" And, for once, we might have the guts to listen to the truth that we can hear better with our hearts than our brains– and act accordingly!


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Solid. build quality. Bright, sharp screen. Good size for reading. Tons of Amazon streaming content.
Very little internal storage, with no memory card slot. Sometimes laggy. Mediocre battery life. Lacks Mayday button for instant help.
Bottom Line
The Amazon Fire HD 6 is a well-built, reliable small-screen tablet for under $100, but it really suffers from a lack of storage.
The Amazon Fire HD 6 ($99, 8GB) is the first under-$100 tablet we feel comfortable recommending, but not without reservations. If you're looking for a kid's tablet or something to browse Amazon content on, it's a good deal. But its very limited storage and restricted OS prevent it from becoming more.
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I don't know if you've ever heard of Chromo, Dragon Touch, Neutab, or Prontotec, but they all come up on the first page of an Amazon.com search for tablets. They're companies making inexpensive, poorly designed, often painful-to-use Android tablets that cost about $50, and we don't recommend any of them.
Amazon said it's been selling a lot of these inexpensive tablets, and getting a lot of them back, so the company decided to make one that people wouldn't want to return. That's a little disingenuous, because like all prior Kindle Fires, the Fire HD 6 is a very different experience than a generic Android tablet. It's much more curated, but much less open; much easier to use and more child-friendly, but better for browsing Amazon's content than your own.
The Amazon Fire HD 6 and HD 7 (at right in the photo below, along with the new Fire HDX) are the same tablet in two sizes. We'll cover most of the details here in this HD 6 review, because it's the more important tablet (coming in at that sub-$100 price point) and the one we more highly recommend.
The $99 base model of the HD 6 has 5.07GB of free storage and comes with ads on the lock screen. You can add another 8GB of storage for $20 and get rid of the ads for $15, but the tricked-out version now costs $134, which gets really close to the price of more powerful tablets like the Asus Memo Pad 7 and the LG G Pad 7.0. So while we usually suggest amping up the memory, we're going to look at the sub-$100 model here.
Physical Features and Battery Life
The Fire HD 6 is a chunky, solid tablet at 6.7 by 4.1 by 0.4 inches (HWD) and a surprisingly heavy 10.1 ounces. It comes in black, blue, pink, white, or yellow, and has an angled back with just enough design to make it not look generic. The matte plastic back doesn't quite wrap around, but there's a sturdy-looking plastic bumper around the edge.
The 252ppi, 1,280-by-800 screen is brighter and more even than you'd expect in a sub-$100 tablet, and thanks to the small screen size, it looks pretty tight. There's a large black bezel around the screen, but that's fine at this price point. The size makes the HD 6 perfect as a color ebook reader, especially for kids' books and comics; it's easy to hold in one hand, although it's pretty heavy.
There's Wi-Fi, but only at 2.4GHz. Even on the 2.4GHz band, Wi-Fi performance falls well behind cutting-edge devices like the Apple iPad Air and iPhone 6, but of course, that's not what we're really competing with. Tested against our Meraki MR16 router connected to a fast corporate network, we managed to pull at least 8Mbps down at distances up to 50 feet. That's important, because 8Mbps is what Netflix recommends for 1080p, HD streaming. So while Wi-Fi speeds won't lead here, they'll get the job done.
We got 5 hours, 47 minutes of video playback time at maximum brightness with the Fire HD 6. While that's decent, it fell short of the aforementioned Asus tablet's 6 hours, 49 minutes and the LG tablet's 8 hours and 2 minutes.
OS, Processor, and Apps
The HD 6 uses a MediaTek MT8135 processor, a quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 design with two cores running at 1.2GHz and two at 1.5GHz. It scored well for a low-cost tablet on the Geekbench benchmarks in our tests, coming out between the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 and Dell Venue 8. On the GFXBench graphics benchmarks, it also scored better than the Galaxy Tab 4, but disturbingly kept running out of memory; both lack of operational RAM and lack of storage came up over and over again in my testing.
Browser benchmarks were enhanced by Amazon's Silk browser, which uses tricks like server-side pre-caching to deliver performance above the norm for an inexpensive tablet. That said, it still feels laggy, with delays when you're scrolling down pages. Par for the course at this price point.
The tablet runs Amazon's Fire OS 4.1 Sangria, which is based on Android 4.4.2. This version brings multiple profiles for different family members, but keeps the simple carousel-based interface. One critical difference between Amazon's tablet OS and other Android tablets is the focus on the cloud, something that becomes very important with an 8GB tablet. By default, the tablet doesn't differentiate between apps and content stored in Amazon's cloud and material physically on your device. (There's a switch to see device-only content.) If you always use your tablet on a Wi-Fi network, that can be liberating; if you're frequently disconnected, that can be confusing.
As always, Amazon's OS puts content first: books, music, videos, and magazines get pride of place in a menu across the top of the screen. Tap on one of those categories, and you'll see the content you can download or stream from Amazon; drill down to find non-Amazon content. Apps come, of course, from Amazon's app store.
If you can't find an Android app in Amazon's store, you can port it over using a PC and sites like GoodEReader.com. That way, I installed Marvel Unlimited on the tablet and found it a much better experience than Amazon's own sluggish and laggy ComiXology app. If you're looking for a great, affordable little comics reader, the Fire HD 6 with Marvel Unlimited or the PerfectViewer CBR reader app might just be the ticket.
I'm disappointed to see that the HD 6 lacks Mayday, Amazon's customer-service app. During my review, I wanted to use Mayday three times, mostly to find things buried in the settings. The basic on-device help didn't help, and I had to do Web searches for the answers.


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California residents know that they must be ever aware of the dangers associated with driving, riding a bike or even walking along the often busy streets in California. While often times a danger or a risk comes in the form of another vehicle there are some instances in which passengers can be in harm's way due to the actions and choices of the people driving the cars they themselves are riding in.
This is precisely the situation in which two people were in recently although it is not known if one of those people even ever had the chance to know it. A crash occurred when a vehicle with a driver and two passengers that was travelling northbound on Clark Avenue hit a utility pole. The timing of events is not exactly known but when officers arrived on the scene, the driver was not there. He had reportedly left on foot and was eventually found by police not far from the crash site.
One of the people found with the crashed vehicle died while the other was taken to Long Beach Memorial Medical Center with a broken leg. The driver has since been charged with felony driving under the influence and hit and run charges as well as vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. It is not known if any civil action has or will be initiated.
Discussing a situation like this with a lawyer may be wise for California residents involved in these incidents so that they can learn how to seek compensation.
Source: Los Angeles Times, "Passenger killed in suspected drunk driving crash in Long Beach, police say," Soumya Karlamangla, May 21, 2017


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One of our strongest human needs is to fit in. This drives so much behaviour, particularly in our teenage years. Do you remember feeling that everyone else was cool, confident and charismatic, while you didn't even fit inside your own skin? I don't think things are any different for Generation X, Y or Z:
Feels like everyone else's got the answers
You got shadows, they got light
You just got a heap of questions
While they got everything right
Written by Chrissie Keighery, and published by Hardie Grant Egmont (2009), outside IN is definitely a YA novella worth reading. I think girls will love this book, but don't dismiss it as girly. It's not gritty either. It's a realistic novel about teens and the problems they deal with. Jordan, Jack, Meredith, Lee, Cecilia, Sam … and the watcher, Renee. Each one copes or doesn't cope in their own way, concealing or sharing their secrets, and exploring the nature of growing up.
Friendship is an important theme in the book. These kids are real – we hear their thoughts and share their impatience, their loyalty and their drive to belong. Keighery has the knack of speaking in both an authentic boy voice and an authentic girl voice. I love the way she shows us the action, and commentary on the action, from each different character's perspective. If this isn't done well, it can result in a novel feeling fragmented or disjointed. Keighery weaves the different threads into a satisfying tapestry. She also tailors vocabulary and sentence structure to suit each character, strengthening their point of view, increasing our emotional involvement with them.
outside IN would make a great text for high school students to read. There are many discussion opportunities, and teens will relate to themes of body image, divorce, and friendship. Keighery's writing expertise also makes it an excellent model for young writers. I am sure they will enjoy the fragments of poetry, the lyrical text and the three-dimensional, likable characters as much as I did.
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The #122 theme challenge for this week over at Hand Stamped Sentiments is to showcase a peacock or bird. Not having a SU! peacock image I went with the new bird from Betsy's Blossoms. This card is a no fuss clean and simple card which features several images from Betsy's Blossoms and a few pieces of Comfort Cafe DSP.
I started with a Soft Suede card stock panel which I stamped a few leaves in Soft Suede. On Very Vanilla I stamped with large circular blossom image with Summer Starfruit and Soft Suede. I punched out the image using the 2 1/2" Circle Punch. The Summer Starfruit flower is punched with the 1" Circle Punch and the bird was "fussy cut." For the "for you" greeting I used the Bitty Banners Framelits--so cool. The mini garland is circles folded in half over a piece of Early Espresso Bakers Twine.


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Typically, Buffalo chicken isn't the healthiest option, since it's usually breaded and fried. This slow cooker version is a delicious alternative! Blue cheese dressing or ranch dressing can be used to top a wrap or salad
|Maple Leaf Prime Naturally® Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts
|1 cup
|no salt added chicken broth
|small red onion, chopped
|garlic cloves, minced
|Black pepper
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|or 1/2 cup Buffalo wing sauce (1/4 cup for mild heat, 1/2 cup for medium)
|Romaine lettuce
|for wraps
|Whole wheat tortillas
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|Blue cheese dressing
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Sprinkle diced onions and minced garlic in slow cooker pot and place chicken breasts over top. Pour chicken broth over chicken breasts and season with black pepper. Put the lid on and set to high heat for 4 hours.
With 30 minutes remaining, remove the lid, and break the chicken pieces apart using a wooden spoon so they are shredded. Add hot sauce and replace the lid. Cook for remaining 30 minutes.
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Out of all the major studios that were present at San Diego Comic-Con 2014, it surprisingly wasn't Marvel or Warner Bros. that had the most new announcements, but Legendary. Godzilla 2 got officially confirmed with a video message from director Gareth Edwards and a teaser trailer showing grainy old footage with the vague shapes of Mothra, Rodan and Ghidorah, and King-Kong prequel movie Skull Island was also announced via teaser that, at first, looked deceptively like Jurassic World footage.
These two announcements bookended a presentation packed with trailers for other upcoming Legendary movies, including Michael Mann's hacker thriller Black Hat and Duncan Jones' Warcraft. The horror genre also got its moment in the spotlight as John and Drew Dowdle discussed the trailer for their new movie As Above, So Below (unfortunately the trailer itself was nothing new) and Guillermo Del Toro came to the stage to present the very first trailer for his upcoming gothic horror Crimson Peak.
The set for Crimson Peak was a three-storey Victorian house that was built from the ground up according to the director's design (the Gothic Gallery at Comic-Con's preview night offered a small taste of it), with an insane amount of attention to detail that included words and illustrations carefully hidden in the woodwork and wallpaper. This definitely seemed to have paid off in the trailer, in which the film's central location looked as oppressive as it did sumptuous.
The trailer was narrated by Tom Hiddleston's character, Sir Thomas Sharpe, and opened with the ominous lines, "A house as old as this one becomes, in time, a living thing... Sitting here all alone, it can go slowly mad." The trailer itself didn't give away too much about the plot of Crimson Peak, but was comprised of a series of chilling images that hinted at a supremely creepy tale with more than a few drops of gore. The sound design and music were fantastic and added an extra layer of tension to the happenings on screen, in particular the final shot of Mia Wasikowska's character, Edith, sobbing in terror in a bed as a horrible pitch black hand (reminiscent of the Wendigo from Hannibal) crept over her shoulder.
Del Toro (who dismissed Hall H's no profanity rule with a cheery "f**k that!") was clearly a favorite among the gathered audience, and got a particularly huge round of applause when he explained that he wanted to make a movie where the lead female character was more than just a love interest for the male lead. It sounds like Edith will take over much of the driving force behind the film's narrative.
Del Toro concluded his time in Hall H with an impromptu Q&A that included only two questions, asked by Del Toro himself and directed towards the audience. The first question was "Hellboy 3?", which generated a huge reaction of cheers and applause, and the second was "At the Mountains of Madness?", which got a slightly more muted response (but only slightly).
As a gothic horror film from the director of Pan's Labyrinth, Crimson Peak was never going to be a movie to skip over, but the excellent trailer certainly cements its place as one of the must-see horror films of next year.
Crimson Peak hits theaters October 16, 2015.


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Web Scraping with Ruby
Monday 19 January 2015
Update Jan 22: Check out the next post in this series: Advanced web scraping with Mechanize.
Scraping the web with Ruby is easier than you might think. Let's start with a simple example, I want to get a nicely formatted JSON array of objects representing all the showings for my local independent cinema.
First we need a way to download the html page that has all the listings on it. Ruby comes with an http client,
Net::HTTP, and it also comes with a nice wrapper around it,
open-uri 1. So the first thing we do is grab the html from the remote server.
Great, so we've got the page that we want to scrape, now we need to extract some information from it. The best tool for this job is Nokogiri. So we create a new Nokogiri instance using the html we just scraped.
Nokogiri is great because it allows us to query the html using CSS selectors, which, in my opinion, is much simpler than using xpath.
Ok, now we've got a document that we can query for the cinema listings. Each individual listing's html structure is something like the following.
Processing the html
Each showing has the class
.showing, so we can select all the showings on the page and loop over them, processing each one in turn.
Lets break down the code above and see what each part is doing.
First we get the showing's unique id, which is helpfully exposed as part of the html id attribute in the markup. Using square brackets allows us to access attributes of the element, so using the html above as an example the return value of
showing['id'] would be
"event_7557". We're only interested in the integer id, so we split the resulting string on the underscore,
.split('_') and then take the last element from that array and convert it to an integer,
Here we find all the tags for a showing by using the
.css method, which returns an array of matching elements. We then map these elements and take the text content and strip it of any excess whitespace. For the html above this would return
["comedy", "dvd", "film"].
The code to get the title is a bit more involved because the title element in the html contains some extra spans with a prefix and a suffix. First we get the title element using
.at_css, which returns a single matching element. Then we loop over the children of the title element and remove any spans. Finally with the spans gone we get the text of the title element and strip out any excess whitespace.
This is the code for getting the date and time of a showing. It's a bit involved because a showing can be on multiple days, and sometimes there is also pricing information in the same element. We're mapping the dates that we find to
DateTime.parse so that the result is an array of ruby
DateTime objects.
Getting the description is quite straightforward, the only real processing we have to do is remove the
[more...] text using
With all the bits of the showing that we want in variables we can now push a hash representing the showing into our array of showings.
Output JSON
Now we've processed each showing and we've got an array of showings we can convert the result to JSON.
This prints out the JSON encoded version of the showings, when running the script the output can be redirected to a file, or piped into another program for further processing.
Putting it all together
With all the pieces in place we can now put the full version of the script together.
If you save the above into a file called
scraper.rb and run it with
ruby scraper.rb then you should see the JSON representation of the events printed to stdout. It will look something like the following.
And that's it! This is just a basic example of scraping. Things get a bit more complicated if the site you're scraping requires you to login first, for those instances I recommend looking into mechanize, which builds on top of Nokogiri.
Hopefully this introduction to scraping has given you some ideas for data that you want to turn into a more structured format using the scraping techniques described above.
While good for basic tasks like this, open-uri has some issues which mean you may want to look elsewhere for an http client to use in production. ↩


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After successfully installed SSL into my WordPress managed account it is showing error like this: Parts of this page are not secure (such as images) - Connection is not secure. Here is my website link: https://www.fresherslworld.com/
Any suggestions to solve the issue?
Koti Reddy
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This can happen if you include links/references to files that do not use HTTPS. You would need to review the scripting of your site and ensure images and other files are using HTTPS.
I had the same issue. I could never find the problem and spent way too much time trying to. I called GoDaddy live and it took the guy under 3 minutes total to locate the problem--solved! Seems it stemmed from a badge I downloaded from one of my vendors--there was a little code within it's file that had to be changed. Sometimes the simplest things can be the most troublesome. Good Luck!


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True Tori has hit the airwaves on the Lifetime network. It begins with Tori getting ready to pick up Dean from his stint in rehab for sex addiction. Filming began April 1st and the show premiered on April 22. This woman has a story to tell, and I think the plan is to make her look good and make Dean look bad. The next part of the episode flashed back to when Dean was in rehab, but not yet ready to leave.
Tori Spelling opened the episode by saying that she and Dean have been married for seven years and she doesn't know how to feel about bringing him back from rehab - she misses him but of course feels betrayed. She said she felt like they had a fairy tale life and it all got ruined in a moment. Keep in mind that Tori and Dean met while cheating on their spouses, but I guess she thought that he wouldn't cheat on her.
When Tori confronted Dean about his cheating, he denied it, but she could tell from his body language that he was lying. Tori told him the mistress' name (she'd learned it from her publicist), and Dean admitted seeing Emily, but said they'd just kissed. Tori, again, knew this was a lie. And that a week after that discussion, Emily's story would hit a tabloid. Eventually, Dean told Tori the whole story. She didn't want to cry because that would show how hurt she was. Dean immediately went into treatment for his problem.
Tori told the camera that she knows Dean is the love of her life, but he also broke her heart.
The next section of the show featured Tori meeting with some friends. Nothing of consequence occurred until Tori received a text from Dean stating that he's having trouble looking at someone whose name we don't learn. Tori and her friends tried to figure out what it meant. Tori said there's no way Dean can have sex with someone while in rehab, but her friends insisted that she's too trusting.
Later, we got more details - the text was meant for someone else. It seemed innocent enough, in Tori's mind, but she's on high alert.
Tori went to visit Dean, who didn't look like he was doing too well. We found out that Dean was suffering from things like depression and addiction, and had created an alter ego for himself named Deano. Dean said he was done lying, and admitted that he cheated and lied to Tori. Tori and Dean discussed the patterns Dean has had throughout their marriage that bothered Tori, showing us that their 'perfect' marriage was all a facade. Still, Dean said that he missed his family and wanted to come home. They talked on and on for a while, and it kind of droned until I couldn't pay attention any longer.
After talking about hurt she was, Tori said she had to go and pick up her kids. Tori was conflicted - she wanted Dean to come home to help her with the kids, but she didn't feel they were ready to be together again.
Tori talked to her friends about her meeting with Dean, and they all seemed to agree that he did her wrong. Tori said she felt stuck and she doesn't know what to do - she doesn't want to raise four kids alone. Some tears were shed, and Tori told the confessional how she'd allowed herself to love Dean unconditionally, but the future is in question.
My verdict on True Tori is that it's not that interesting. We do get to see raw emotion, but the show is full of fillers and is basically a sob story for Tori Spelling. I can't imagine that it'll get better as the season progresses.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
True Tori: Season Premiere
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ASC 280 — Segment Reporting
Below is an overview of FASB Accounting Standards Codification Topic 280, Segment Reporting, as well as a list of FASB Accounting Standards Updates (ASUs) and proposed ASUs related to this Topic.
ASC 280-10 notes the following:
This Subtopic provides guidance to public business entities (referred to as public entities throughout this Subtopic) on how to report certain information about operating segments in complete sets of financial statements of the public entity and in condensed financial statements of interim periods issued to shareholders. It also requires that public entities report certain information about their products and services, the geographic areas in which they operate, and their major customers.
A public entity could provide complete sets of financial statements that are disaggregated in several different ways, for example, by products and services, by geography, by legal entity, or by type of customer. However, it is not feasible to provide all of that information in every set of financial statements. The guidance in this Subtopic requires that general-purpose financial statements include selected information reported on a single basis of segmentation. The method for determining what information to report is referred to as the management approach. The management approach is based on the way that management organizes the segments within the public entity for making operating decisions and assessing performance. Consequently, the segments are evident from the structure of the public entity's internal organization, and financial statement preparers should be able to provide the required information in a cost-effective and timely manner.
The management approach facilitates consistent descriptions of a public entity in its annual report and various other published information. It focuses on financial information that a public entity's decision makers use to make decisions about the public entity's operating matters. The components that management establishes for that purpose are called operating segments.
To provide some comparability between public entities, this Subtopic requires that an entity report certain information about the revenues that it derives from each of its products and services (or groups of similar products and services) and about the countries in which it earns revenues and holds assets, regardless of how the entity is organized. As a consequence, some entities are likely to be required to provide limited information that may not be used for making operating decisions and assessing performance.
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The following ASUs amended the guidance in this Topic:
- ASU 2014-09, Revenue From Contracts With Customers (issued May 2014; effective December 15, 2016, for public entities).
- ASU 2010-07, Not-for-Profit Entities (Topic 958): Not-for-Profit Entities: Mergers and Acquisitions (issued January 2010; effective December 15, 2009).
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Regardless of any system, film editing remains "a process that is exhilirating, puzzling, annoying and magical."
Recent films (for trailers click here)
Over the years Patrick edited feature documentaries by acclaimed directors such as Jos de Putter, Heddy Honigmann, Hany Abu-Assad, Aliona van der Horst and Masha Novikova. Novikova's Sweet smoke of the fatherland was nominated Best Feature Documentary at the Dutch Film Festival 2012. Beneath the surface by Alex Debreczeni was nominated Best Feature Documentary for an Ensor (Flemish Film Awards).
Fiction features he edited include Eugenie Jansen's Calimucho (Dutch Film Critic Award, the Lambertz Euregio Filmpreis) and Men who save the world (aka Lelaki Harapan Dunia) by Malaysian director Liew Seng Tat that won several awards around the world.


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The newest office building rising along Ayala Avenue is being developed by Nova Group, Biz Buzz has learned. This column was informed that NEX Tower will be offered primarily to corporate clients, many of which have been clamoring for more "grade A" office space in the central business district.
Led by businessman and real estate developer Ricardo Cuerva, NEX Tower is a 28-storey office building rising on one of the last two vacant properties along Ayala Avenue. The building is designed by SOM, the New York-based architecture firm behind 1 World Trade Center in Manhattan and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
Incidentally, Cuerva carries three decades of prime construction experience. He is well-known as the builder of the first project to be completed in Bonifacio Global City, the luxury residential condominium Essensa.
According to the firm, NEX Tower "aims to redefine Ayala Avenue as the premier commercial hub of Metro Manila."
The developer is currently in negotiations with several blue-chip multinational corporations that seek to establish their headquarters in the heart of Makati. In addition to the state-of-the-art office floors, the retail podium at ground level will have a selection of premium locators such as a specialty cafe and a modern bistro.
"The new development seeks to engage the business and residential community around it and reenergize Ayala Avenue," he said. "The country's premier business address is lined with a number of aging buildings that are ripe for redevelopment. NEX Tower seeks to spark a renaissance in Makati and reestablish it as the foremost central business district of the nation."