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Symantec outlines potential smartphone fraud schemes targeting Android users
Malware and other attack techniques targeting Google Android smartphones are unlikely until cybercriminals figure out how to monetize attacks, according to Symantec.
A number of schemes designed to defraud users of Google Android smartphones exist, but until attackers find a way to carry them out on a massive scale, the threat of mobile malware and other attack techniques remains low, according to a new report.
The desktop is still far greater an attractive target for these attackers than the mobile space at this point.
Vikram Thakur, principle security response manager, Symantec Corp.
The Symantec Corp. report, "Motivations of Recent Android Malware," outlines several ways attackers have made money by targeting users of Android smartphones. Premium rate number billing schemes, spyware and pay-per-click monetization schemes have been carried out against a small subset of users, but until attackers can maximize profits, the potential threat to most users remains low, said Vikram Thakur, Symantec's principle security response manager.
"There's no better motivation than money," Thakur said in an interview with SearchSecurity.com. "The desktop is still far greater an attractive target for these attackers than the mobile space at this point."
The Mountain View, Calif.-based security vendor said an increase in mobile malware is dependent on three factors: an open platform, a ubiquitous platform and attacker motivation. So far, Google Android is gaining traction, surpassing Apple iOS in users, according to market share estimates. Remaining unclear is how Microsoft's late entry into the mobile market takes away from the Android or iPhone user base. Also standing in the way of cybercriminals is the fragmented mobile phone market. Thousands of mobile network operators and different handset models often result in different versions of the Android operating system on phones.
Smartphone platforms are built differently than desktop operating systems. Sandboxing technology used in Android and iOS helps isolate attacks to specific applications, making it more difficult for attackers to tap into the critical processes needed to gain complete control of the smartphone.
Symantec outlined a premium rate number billing scheme in which an application taps into the smartphones SMS application to send text messages to premium rate numbers. Mobile network operators charge up to $50 per text message. The attacker receives 30-70% of the premium rate charge depending on the carrier, amount charged per message, and number of messages received, Symantec said.
Thakur said its very likely in the next several years that attacks designed for the desktop, from search engine poisoning to rogue antivirus schemes, can be applied to mobile platforms. Most smartphones rely on cloud-based services and the browser to tap into data, increasing the potential for Web-based attacks.
"There is a lot more real estate that the desktop malware authors have at their disposal, so the desktop will remain the most lucrative for years to come," Thakur said. "Even though we've seen a surge in the number of financial transactions being performed on the phone, mobile users are still falling way short of similar transactions performed on the desktop."
However, mobile platforms are rapidly becoming more attractive targets. Attackers are also busy designing malicious applications that can track and monitor all communications sent and received by a victim's smartphone. Current spyware applications typically require physical access to the phone. Several malicious applications can be purchased on the black market for as much as $400. The threat potential exists for more sophisticated malware that can be installed remotely and is designed to steal sensitive data, Thakur said.
The mobile technology landscape is rapidly evolving. Near-field communication (NFC), a communications protocol that would enable a person to use the smartphone to pay for goods and services, could increase the threat potential, according to Symantec. While adoption of the technology could be up to two years away, once highly sensitive data, such as credit card data, is stored on the device, attackers could pounce, Thakur said.
"Consumers might be quick to adapt to new features on their phone, but vendors need to adapt to technology as well, and that's going to take a long time," Thakur said. "A smartphone may soon have the ability to make a payment at a gas station, but the gas station must support the technology; it takes far longer to achieve that on a large scale."


text: Publication Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity Released: January 11, 2017 Report at a Glance Report Highlights (PDF) Recommendations (PDF) Social Media Toolkit (HTML) Committee's Conceptual Model (PDF) Digital sector brief: Anchor institutions (HTML) Print sector brief: Business (PDF, HTML) Print sector brief: Civil Rights Strategies (HTML) Digital sector brief: Civil Rights Strategies (HTML) Print sector brief: Communities (HTML) Digital sector brief: Communities (HTML) Print sector brief: Education (HTML) Digital sector brief: Education (HTML) Print sector brief: Exploring the Root Causes of Health Inequity (PDF, HTML) Print sector brief: Faith-based Organizations (HTML) Digital sector brief: Faith-based organizations (HTML) Print sector brief: Government (HTML) Print sector brief: Hospitals and Health Systems (HTML) Print sector brief: Land Use and Housing (HTML) Digital sector brief: Philanthropy (, HTML) Print sector brief: Philanthropy (HTML) Print sector brief: Public health (HTML) Print sector brief: Researchers (HTML) Print sector brief: Transportation (HTML) Digital sector brief: Transportation (HTML) Print sector brief: Universities (HTML) Comic Book (PDF) Press-Release (HTML) Spanish Print sector brief: Root Causes (HTML) Spanish Print sector brief: Communities (HTML) Spanish Print sector brief: Land Use (HTML) Spanish Print sector brief: Faith-based organizations (HTML) Spanish Print sector brief: Civil rights (HTML) Spanish Print sector brief: Education (HTML) Download the cover image and citation slide >> Health equity is the state in which everyone has the opportunity to attain full health potential and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or any other socially defined circumstance. Currently in the United States, the burdens of disease and poor health and the benefits of well-being and good health are inequitably distributed with negative consequences for the nation's wellbeing, prosperity, and economic competitiveness. Although some aspects of a person's health status depend on individual behaviors and choice, health is also shaped by community-wide factors, and research shows that problems like poverty, unemployment, low educational attainment, inadequate housing, lack of public transportation, exposure to violence, and neighborhood deterioration (social or physical) shape health and contribute to health inequities. With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened an ad hoc, expert committee to consider solutions that could be identified, developed, and implemented at the local or community level to advance health equity. In the resulting report, Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity, the committee identifies the major elements of effective or promising solutions and their key levers, policies, stakeholders, and other elements needed to be successful. The National Academy of Medicine is continuing to work on this topic through its Culture of Health initiative. Click here to learn more.

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I am a Seattle, Washington based musician, producer and effect builder. I own and operate a recording studio called the Recovery Room located in the Greenwood district of Seattle.
My current music projects, the Animals at Night, Dead Ship Sailing, and solo work can be found in the "My Music" section. The Recovery Room recording studio, my work for freelance producing, engineering, and scoring can be found in the "Studio" section. Recovery Effects pedals and gadgets can be found in the "Effects" section.


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HUD Section 184 Process
The HUD Section 184 Process for the HUD Section 184 Home loan for Native Americans to purchase program was created by the federal government to encourage the private market to help this underserved community. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) does this by providing loan guarantees to private lenders who loan money to Native American citizens to purchase or refinance homes in the contiguous United States.
Here is a general outline of HUD Section 184 Process to purchase a home using the government insured HUD Section 184 Native American Mortgage program.
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HUD Section 184 Process
Step 1: Get Prequalified for your home loan
- Contact Today Lending at 918-582-7283 or Apply Now! for HUD Section 184. A section 184 loan officer will contact you to discuss your goals and develop a loan that will fit HUD Section 184 Process. He will ask you what total monthly home payment will fit your budget, and how much of a down payment you want to make. The minimum down payment for section 184 is 2.25% of the purchase price for loans over $50,000 and 1.25% down for loans under $50,000. You can make a larger down payment if you want. Many Tribes offer Down Payment Assistance too. We will consult with your Tribal Housing Authority to see if you qualify for it. Your down payment can also be a Gift from a family member. One of the great advantages of the Section 184 loan is that no monthly mortgage insurance is required. For example, an FHA loan for $150,000 will have mortgage insurance of $154.94 per month, for the entire life of the loan. As a Native American, or spouse you can buy an $184,000 home for the same payment. Native American Loans increase your purchasing power so you get more home for less money. That is a big reason why our customers love the American Indian loan program.
- The loan officer will check your credit report. There is no minimum credit score requirement but you do have to have a clean file so you can't have any 30 day late payments in the last 12 months or recent unpaid collections. Small medical collections or other minor credit dings usually are not a problem.
- We will need you to send some documents. It is pretty easy stuff.
- Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood card.
- Tribal Enrollment card.
- Driver's licenses for all borrowers
- Social Security cards for all borrowers.
- Last 2 Years of Income tax returns with W-2's and 1099's, etc.
- Last 2 month of bank statements with all pages.
- One month of pay stub for all borrowers.
- If all of your documents look good, you will be Preapproved and ready for the next step!
Step 2: Start shopping for your new home.
If you don't have a realtor, we can help you find a good one. We recommend that you have a realtor who represents you only. You want someone who will be loyal to you and not to the seller at the same time.
Frame built homes, most Condominiums and some Doublewides are eligible for Native American loans.
The home generally has to be in pretty good shape, so no peeling paint, or visible wood rot is allowed and if the hot water tank is in the garage, it has to be 18 inches above the floor to prevent accidental fires.
If you find a foreclosure or other home that is not quite move in ready, we have Purchase Rehab feature that will allow you to finance and make repairs after closing. Ask your loan officer for details.
Doublewides are eligible if they have the correct kind of foundation; concrete runners with steel tie downs. You must pay for a structural engineers report to verify the foundation is correct. The cost of the report varies. Please have your realtor consult the County property tax records. If the doublewide has ever had an FHA loan on it, then it will probably have the correct foundation. It is also a good idea to crawl under the home check it yourself before you pay for the structural engineer report.
The doublewide must have been built after 1978 and it must be in the original location where it was installed directly from the factory. If the home has been moved from the original location, it will not qualify for a Section 184 loan. Brand new doublewides are eligible but we will need to consult with the dealer about the process. Please provide us with the dealer's name and phone number if you want a brand new doublewide.
This is very important: Call your loan officer to discuss the terms BEFORE you make an offer on any home. He will update your file with current interest rates and closing costs based upon the proposed purchase price and estimate your monthly payment and down payment requirement. Our estimates are very accurate.
The seller can pay up to 6% of the purchase price for your closing costs but you have to ask for this in the initial offer. This allows you to keep more money in your pocket for moving expenses or little improvements.
Do you want a Home Warranty? Those cost about $400 – $500. If the major appliances, furnace and AC unit are old, then a home warranty could be a good deal for you.
Once this is worked out, your loan officer will prepare your Preapproval letter and it will exactly match your offer. This shows you are serious about doing business.
You and the realtors will negotiate the purchase terms: Price, closing date, amount of closing costs paid by the seller, any repairs and other details. It takes about 30-40 days to close a standard purchase. Then you will sign a contract and pay an Earnest Money deposit on the contract. It is usually $500 to $1,000.
Step 3: Inspections and Underwriting.
Now that you have a contract, it is time to have the home inspected. A termite inspection is always required for HUD Section 184. Those cost about $100. We strongly recommend an Electrical, Mechanical and Plumbing systems Inspection also. Those about $300 to $500 and often include the termite inspection too. A structural inspection will be required for doublewide. Those cost about $250 to $500. Ask your realtor who she recommends for inspections.
After the inspection, if any repairs need to be made, these will be arranged by the realtors. If you are buying a home that is For Sale By Owner, your loan officer will help you with this.
At the same time you are doing inspections, our HUD Section 184 underwriter will review the loan file to make sure all of the information is accurate. Then she will assign an appraiser to go out to see the home and verify that it meets minimum property standards and that the market supports the purchase price.
Next the section 184 underwriter will then give us a list of documents she needs to approve the loan. These are called, "Loan Conditions." This is usually a more recent paystub and bank statement with proof the Earnest Money check has been processed by the bank, clear title to home including title insurance and some other items. We will call you to discuss this and gather the documents.
Step 4: Closing
The big day is here! After we the get Final HUD Section 184 Process for the loan, the Settlement Statement and final loan documents will be prepared. We will review these with you to make sure everything is correct. After you are satisfied, you will send money to the title company. This is done by wire transfer from your bank account or cashiers check. You will have the utilities activated in your name and do a final walk through of the home to ma
ke sure everything is still acceptable. The last step is to go to the title company and sign papers for about an hour.
Congratulations Section 184 Loans borrowers, you are now a Home Owner!
Is it really this easy? Yes, if you have a good lender like Today Lending.
We work very hard in the beginning to make the process as smooth as possible. Of course, sometimes unexpected things happen. All of our loan officers have at least 10 years of experience so we have already seen and solved more problems that we can count.
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It is often necessary and desirable to study flammability, reactivity, and/or thermal instability of materials under actual process/reaction conditions. Small scale testing can produce screening-level results and can be conducted, for most materials, in standard laboratory facilities. However, as the experimental sample size increases or the experiment needs to be conducted under adverse conditions (high pressure and temperature), standard facilities will often prove less than adequate. NFPA 45, "Standard for Fire Protection for Laboratories using Chemicals", specifies that experiments with TNT explosion potential exceeding 1.0 gram should not be carried out in routine laboratory hoods and that those exceeding 2.0 grams TNT-equivalent should only be conducted in specialized, explosion-protected facilities. (1.0 gram of TNT energy release is approximately 1100 cal.). Although the danger from laboratory-scale explosions will drop off quickly with distance from the explosion, the near field, within the laboratory, could expose technicians to blast overpressure and missiles.
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Studies to determine the flammability properties and reaction kinetics of so-called "reactive chemicals" must take place in experimental facilities that are adequately protected from unexpected energetic events. These can result in the explosive failure of test equipment and threaten technicians and test facilities.
The new DEKRA testing and research facilities include four "barricade cells" for the study/testing of energetic systems. The barricade cells are equipped with steam, water, electricity, and gas as well as the capability to monitor the system control parameters from a safe control room area. Blast and missile resistant widows allow direct observation of the experiment. Each cell measures approximately 10'x10'x12'h and is totally contained except for the outer wall. The three walls, ceiling and floor are constructed of heavy reinforced concrete designed to protect technicians should the unexpected occur. The outer wall is designed to relieve explosion over-pressure and direct missiles to a safe area. A 13′ high reinforced concrete retention wall located approximately 12′ in front of the outer walls of the cells ensures shrapnel and missile containment.


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In general, databases can be divided into two categories: single-user databases and database servers.
Databases included with Real Studio
SQLite (aka RealSQLDatabase) is the single-user database engine included with Real Studio. SQLite is a public domain database and is used by all kinds of software from browsers such as Firefox to programming tools such as Real Studio and frameworks such as CoreData.
PostgreSQL is a full-blown database server. It is open-source and free, available for use for just about any purpose. It can be a bit tricky to install, but is powerful and fast.
PostgreSQL is cross-platform and works on Linux, OS X and Windows.
With Real Studio you use the PostgreSQLDatabase class to connect to a PostgreSQL database server.
Now owned by Oracle, MySQL is also an open-source database server, but has less comprehensible licensing. Real Studio is able to connect to the Community (free) edition of MySQL, but this edition usually requires you to open source software that connects to it (due to its GPL license). MySQL is very easy to install and is often available by default on many web servers. If you choose to use it, be sure you understand its licensing.
MySQL is cross-platform and works on Linux, OS X and Windows.
Use the MySQLCommunityServer class to connect to MySQL.
Oracle Databasehttp://www.oracle.com
Oracle Database is one of the most powerful database servers around. It is often used for enterprise software and by larger companies. Oracle Database has a reputation for being a beast to manage and configure, but is also known to be fast. It can also be rather expensive. It runs on Windows and Linux and used to be available for OS X, but it does not look like that is an option any longer.
There is also a free Oracle Database Express Edition.
The OracleDatabase class is used to connect to Oracle database.
Microsoft SQL Serverhttp://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver
Microsoft SQL Server is a database server that runs only on Microsoft Windows. It is generally easy to use. Both paid and free versions are available.
The MSSQLServerDatabase class is used to connect to Microsoft SQL Server. It can only be used with Windows applications.
ODBC is not a database, but rather a standard for connecting to databases. It stands for Open DataBase Connectivity. Originally created by Microsoft in the 1990s, it is now an industry standard. Using Real Studio's ODBC plugin, you can connect to any database for which you have a driver. Driver availability varies by platform, but I have successfully used ODBC to connect to Microsoft Access, FoxPro and even IBM DB/2 mainframes.
Use the ODBCDatabase class to connect to any database for which you have an ODBC driver.
Other Databases that work with Real StudioThese databases are provided by 3rd party developers and all easily work with Real Studio.
CubeSQL is a database server that uses SQLite as the database back-end. It is fast and extremely easy to configure. CubeSQL is cross-platform, running on Linux, OS X and Windows.
To use cubeSQL with Real Studio, you install its plugin and use the CubeSQLServer class to connect.
OpenBase SQL
OpenBase SQL is a database server that was originally created for OpenStep. It works on OS X, Windows and Linux.
OpenBase SQL comes with a custom library (written in Real Studio itself) to connect to the database.
FrontBase is a database server. It is freely available for Linux, OS X and Windows. A native plugin for Real Studio is available from FrontBase, but it is Carbon-only.
Valentina is both a single-user database and a database server. It is cross-platform for Linux, OS X and Windows and uses a native plugin for Real Studio. Valentina is a "columnar" database and has a reputation for speed.
Studio Stable Databasehttp://www.studiostable.com/database
Studio Stable Database is a database server that is built on top of SQLite. It is intended to be a simple way to bring multi-user support to your SQLite applications. SSD uses a library (written in Real Studio) to connect to the database and is available for free.
MBS SQL and JDBC Pluginshttp://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugin-sql.shtml
If you need to connect to a database that is not listed here, be sure to check out the SQL Plugin from MonkeyBread which has support for Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, Informix, Interbase/Firebird, Centura SQLBase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC and SQLite.
In addition, the JDBC plugin (Java DataBase Connectivity) is particularly useful, allowing you to connect to any database for which there is a JDBC driver.
Database UsageOther than SQLite, databases that use the Real Studio database API require Real Studio Professional, Web or Enterprise. When Real Studio 2012 Release 2 is available, databases that use the database API will need a Database Access license in order to use them in your built apps.
The following databases work with Real Studio Personal and will not require a database license for Real Studio 2012 Release 2 (mostly because they do not use the standard Real Studio database API):
- SQLite (standard API)
- OpenBase (proprietary class library)
- Valentina (plugin with proprietary API, standard API is also available but not required)
- Studio Stable Database (proprietary class library)
- MBS (proprietary API)
All other databases connect to the database using our standard database API and require Real Studio Professional, Web or Enterprise for now and a Database license starting with Real Studio 2012 Release 2.


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I'm in the kitchen a lot. Whether creating an elaborate meal inspired by one of my travel adventures or rushing out the door and needing to whip up a quick and easy breakfast, the kitchen is my domain. It is a place where I feel safe and truly look forward to cooking and baking. I think that people are most intimidated by cooking because of the amount of different tools and kitchen gadgets involved. However, you do not need fancy immersion blenders, egg separators, or butter slicers to cook a meal. Although there are a bunch of expensive and even silly kitchen gadgets there are really only a few essential tools you absolutely need in your kitchen "toolbox".
1. Metal Spatula
This is a must in every kitchen. A metal spatula is so useful. Whether frying eggs, flipping pancakes, or checking on pot stickers, the ability to flip and transport ingredients is priceless. Although I have worked with rubber spatulas in the past, those tend to be very flimsy. A metal surface allows for stability and support and really allows you to "get under" the food. I prefer the ones that are slotted-especially when working with foods in oil or other liquids. Amazon: $8.99
2. Whisk
Besides being the most whimsical named kitchen tool, a whisk is fundamental for any baker. Whisks are ideal for beating eggs, blending salad dressings, and dissolving solids in liquids. A whisk allows air to be beaten into a liquid and is also a great easy tool for getting out lumps. The upper arm muscle is just a plus. Amazon: $4
3. Good Knife
I didn't realize the importance of a sharp knife until after I moved away from home. Having a sharp knife that is comfortable in your hand, and one of good quality is very imperative. Being able to chop, dice, Julienne, cube, and cut ingredients to their correct size is a main component to many different food preparations. Investing in at least one high quality knife will make a world of difference in your cooking adventures and one that you will use over and over again. Amazon: $9
4. Wooden Spoon
This may seem like a no brainer, but a wooden spoon is very useful and one of my most used kitchen tool. It is so versatile. Whether stirring a brownie batter, stirring stir-fry'd veggies, or retrieving pasta from boiling water, a wooden spoon will be necessary to any cook. Amazon: $6
5. Measurements
Although it is easy to guess or estimate specific amounts of ingredients, having the right and proper measurement can decide the fate of how your food will turn out. Following a recipe is imperative when cooking and especially baking. The best part is that you can really never measure wrong as long as your ingredients are level. Having a good set of dry cups, liquid, and a teaspoon/tablespoon set is a prerequisite before getting into the kitchen. Cup and Measuring spoon set Amazon: $9 and Glass liquid measuring Amazon: $12


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Linux Library: Unix and Linux system automation basics
Automating standard system administration on Linux distributions or Unix nodes is worth the effort say authors Nate Campi and Kirk Bauer. It can save time, provide consistency, and ensure expert configuration, regulatory compliance, and reliability of your system.
SearchEnterpriseLinux.com is offering a free download of Chapter 1 of Automating Unix and Linux System Administration, second edition, "Introducing the Basics of Automation," by Nate Campi and Kirk Bauer.
Automating standard system administration on Linux distributions or Unix nodes can save time, provide consistency throughout your system, and ensure expert configuration, regulatory compliance, and reliability of your system. Nate Campi and Kirk Bauer have updated their book Automating Unix and Linux System Administration, second edition to help you reduce headaches and workloads. Take advantage of our free download of Chapter 1, "Introducing the Basics of Automation."
The authors prefer cfengine for task automation, and warn those in the Unix world familiar with cron jobs to "think of cfengine as a next-generation cron daemon." By building your network using cfengine, the network build will work without user intervention on any hardware you prefer.
The book's focus is how to make your job as a system administrator easier and more efficient, and is targeted at both new and seasoned professionals. The authors suggest that the automated system administration will work in large and medium-sized businesses, application service providers, Web server farms, and Beowulf clusters as well as with Unix-based network appliances. System administrators will attain a thorough grasp of cfengine, kickstart and shell scripting for automation. After reading all chapters and following the exercises in this book, the reader will be able to set up anything from a Linux data center to a small office network.
Read the SearchEnterpriseLinux.com Q&A with Nate Campi and Kirk Bauer.
Click here to buy the book.
About the Authors:
Nate Campi is a Unix and Linux system administrator by trade, and is currently working as a Unix operations manager in San Francisco. His system administration experience is almost entirely with companies with large-scale Web operations based on open source software.
Kirk Bauer is a systems engineer with F5 Networks, and has been involved in computer programming since 1985. He has used and administered Unix systems since 1994. Although his personal favorite Unix variant is Linux, he has administered and developed on everything from FreeBSD to Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. He is the author of various open source products, including Logwatch. Bauer has been involved with software development and system/network administration since his first year at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has done work for the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and DHL. In 2000, Bauer was a founder and the chief technology officer of TogetherWeb, which was purchased in 2003 by Proficient Systems.


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By Jorge Amselle
The mainstream media, and left wing journalists and websites in particular, are acting like a kid with an early Christmas present over the recent kerfuffle at NRA over the issue of open carry. At issue are the political activities of a group which supports openly carrying firearms in public, Open Carry Texas. Despite the Lone Star State's reputation for cowboy antics it is illegal to openly carry a handgun down there. It is however legal to openly carry a rifle or shotgun. Open Carry Texas wants to change so that folks can carry handguns openly and organizes demonstrations, protest, public gatherings, etc. where their members show up carrying a variety of long guns.
I have written on this topic before in these "pages" expressing my disagreement with their tactics while at the same time supporting their efforts. This view is in fact the consensus opinion among most gun owners and trainers, at least judging anecdotally form my FaceBook messages. It turns out I am not wrong. A post (no longer available but you can get the gist here) on the website for NRA-ILA, the NRA's legislative arm, echoes these same sentiments.
The undisclosed writer of these comments makes the very clear headed case that this approach has the tendency to frighten onlookers and to make otherwise gun friendly businesses less so. Indeed, similar efforts in California resulted in an outright ban on unloaded open carry altogether. Unfortunately the anonymous author of this editorial also wrote that these protests/demonstrations were both "weird" and "scary." Guess where the media focused?
News outlets rushed to broadcast these unfortunate words and congratulate NRA and even express surprise at the reasonableness of the NRA and its willingness to take on it "most extreme elements." There was an immediate backlash from aggrieved gun owners against NRA and an almost just as fast retraction of the statement and apology from NRA-ILA head Chris Cox. Looks like Christmas came early twice this year for left wing media because they then used the retraction as proof that NRA is full of insane people with no modicum of rational moderation.
But did the NRA really cave in and change their position under pressure from extremists? The answer to anyone who follows gun politics is an obvious "no." Among and within the majority of gun rights groups, NRA included, there has always been disagreement on tactics. This is the case with any organization, political or otherwise. The goals however always remain the same, to advance the rights of all gun owners. Chris Cox was 100 percent correct in his clarification that it is not the role of the NRA to criticize the lawful activities of other gun owners. This has been the NRA policy for a very long time and it does not represent a "cave" or change. The author of the since redacted opinion piece had indeed overstepped and expressed a personal opinion where it did not belong.
The "controversy" over this incident is no different than that over so called "assault-weapons." There are obviously gun owners who are traditionalists and who don't care for modern firearms. Some have gone so far as to publically call for their regulation. The gun owning community is not monolithic in their views and opinions or tastes but we have reached a broad consensus that an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. The notion that if we don't stick together and defend one another then our opponents will simply take us down one at a time is not a new one.
A disagreement over tactics is not a disagreement over policy and no one should be fooled by the spin the media is placing on this issue.
Jorge Amselle is a certified firearms instructor and writer covering all aspects of the industry from military and law enforcement firearms and training to the shooting sports. His youtube channel is http://www.youtube.com/amselle.


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Lil Wayne took to Twitter this weekend to let off some steam about his current label situation with Birdman. In a series of three cryptic tweets the NOLA native hinted at retirement but told his fans that he's still good. While this sent fans and rap lovers alike scrambling and sharing their fondest memories of Wayne and what he's given to the culture, some of the biggest artists in the world reached out for support.
The like of Chance The Rapper, Rich Homie Quan and Drake showed their support. But one of the most interesting responses came from Rick Ross as many urged the MMG boss to buy out Wayne's contract from Birdman. While we don't think Wayne will be done for good, we hope that his label issues are resolved quickly so we can have more Weezy knocking out of our speakers. Look through the tweets and Instagram posts below.
get Birdman on the phone. https://t.co/pYr0WIeaYY
— Yung Rénzél (@rickyrozay) September 3, 2016
Dear @LilTunechi I just wanna remind you that absolutely nothing and no one in this world can defeat you. Tell them devils back back.
— Lil Chano From 79th (@chancetherapper) September 3, 2016
Wayne you can't leave
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The boss @liltunechi. We are fighting until you get yours. Freedom to drop music and peace of mind. I don't know what these other weirdos are on with all the side talks but I know you gave me a shot and all I can ever do with the rest of my life is return the favor. YOUNG MONEY FOREVER
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Borders Reivers Polo Club is very busy in the Summer. With lessons, pony club days and of course our fabulous tournaments.
April Events1st April - 30th April
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This month the ponies come back in to work after their long Winter holiday. With lots of work to do to get the ponies fit and tidy again, the yard is very busy!
May Events1st May - 31st May
29th May 2015
Junior Training Day
This year we are organising a coaching day for youngsters with a HPA qualified coach. The cost of the day, to cover his coaching fee, is £30 per child. He can also provide suitable ponies for hire, at £100 for the whole day. Alternatively, just bring your pony, 4 leg bandages and tape for the tail, and we'll teach the pony too. Please contact email@example.com for more information or to book.
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The Train Like A Champion Program is a long-term player development program that creates an extensive learning and training environment. It is a comprehensive coaching program for Junior golfers who are playing competitive golf and want to seriously compete at the high school, collegiate level and beyond. (This program is also available for adults)
Consists of:
- Initial Swing Assessment
- Short Game Assessment
- Monthly one on one Private Coaching Sessions
- Unlimited supervised coaching sessions (group practice sessions)
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I have been a nature photographer since I was first handed a 1970's vintage Vivitar point-and-shoot. According to my mom, it was a camera with a PhD ("Push here Dummy"). Despite its quality (ahem), I later migrated to a Pentax K1000, a wonderful little 35mm manual film camera that I'd still recommend for those with a learner's permit. Finding my favorite film is now an art in itself, and I have transitioned to digital cameras, but if you catch me off-guard, I'll tell you that I still secretly like film.
My formal training? Music (Interlochen), theoretical math (Harvard), and geophysics (University of Colorado). Informal training? Hard knocks, stand in the rain and fog, freeze your fingers in the arctic, dunk-your-camera-in-the-water kind of training. (Twice. Geez. You'd think I'd learn.)
I'm a pianist of sorts: jazz and classical. Ok, so don't look for me at Carnegie Hall, but I do perform now and then, and it's my favorite way to relax. My parents are musicians, I attended Interlochen Arts Academy for two years, played French horn for 20 years, and generally steeped myself in the musical scene.
I'm also a mountain climber, with (at one time anyway) an unofficial record for the coldest ascent of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. 125 degrees below zero with wind chill. (Ok, now I'm just convincing you that photographers have loose screws.)
I've climbed Kilimanjaro, and I've climbed and skied various peaks in Alaska and around the world. I have skied across Greenland, spent a summer on the Agassiz Ice Cap (Ellesmere Island near the North Pole), and accumulated waaaay too much time (months) living in a tent on the Worthington Glacier near Valdez, Alaska. What can I say, I like snow.
If I'm not backpacking, kayaking, or lost in the wilderness, then I'm probably skiing. I'm a former extreme skier. Yeah, I was only stupid for a few years, and it was back in the days before big air was a requirement, but I used to drop the gnarliest couloirs I could find. Got hurt. Don't recommend it. So now I ski bumps, trees, summits, and not-quite-so-extreme couloirs whenever I can. It's a great way to get to those out-of-the-way shots.
I'm a Guest Professor at Regis University and affiliate faculty at the University of Colorado. For many years I was a tenured "Chair of the Department", a thankless bureaucratic nightmare from which I've escaped back into the wilds to focus full time on art rather than paperwork.
You've probably guessed that I am happiest when traveling inaccessible corners of the globe. Deep down, I think it's akin to wishing I could move to the metaphorical "wild west." Yeah, I should have been an 18th century explorer, but somehow I got trapped by 20th-century explorations of art, physics, and math, which is a good thing because I really like modern abstractions. At any rate, this intense desire to explore certainly fuels my larger landscapes and abstracts. And those long childhood walks in the woods with the Vivitar kindled my interest in the smaller more intimate side of nature, as seen in my close-ups of flowers, textures, and wildlife.
I am an award winning artist focusing on both nature and mixed-media photography. My artwork is frequently seen in major museums such as the Smithsonian and can also be seen in National Parks and in exhibits at notable galleries such as The Dairy Center, Rembrandt Yard, The Canvas, and the Hartman Gallery. My art has been highlighted in many magazines and popular calendars including Nature's Best Photography, the National Wildlife Federation, and Defenders of Wildlife. I have been the Artist in Residence at Glacier Bay National Park, received a Windland Smith Rice International Photography Award (one of photography's highest honors), been the Boulder County Open Space Artist in Residence at Caribou Ranch, and been a Defenders of Wildlife Photography Contest winner. Following degrees from Harvard and the University of Colorado, I moved to the mountains west of Boulder where I have happily lived and photographed for many years.
Dave, at work in the Caribbean. (Photo: Michelle Miller)
|Some Awards, Etc.
|2014-2016 Artwork on display in Smithsonian
|2014-2015 Artwork in Anchorage Museum, AK
|2015 Defenders of Wildlife, honorable mention
|2014 Defenders of Wildlife, honorable mention
|2013 Artist in Residence, Glacier Bay National Park
|2013-2014 Artist in Res., Boulder County Open Space
|2012 Artwork on display in Smithsonian, Wash. DC.
|2011 Windland Smith Rice Int'l Photography Award
|2011 Apogee Award
|2011-2016 Juried into Boulder Open Studios
|2010 Defenders of Wildlife Photo Contest Winner
|2010-2015 Solo and group exhibitions in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, The Dairy Center, Rembrandt Yard, Hartman Gallery, The Canvas Gallery, Sitka National Historical Park, Anchorage Museum, Morris Thompson Cultural Center, Tongass Historical Museum, Boulder County Courthouse, Glacier Bay National Park, and many additional venues.
|Eagle by David Bahr in the Smithsonian Museum, DC. (Photo: Charles Bahr, 2015)
|Tequila Sunrise, 40 by 60 inches, at the Rembrandt Gallery, Boulder.


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Must be on account of the endless, unrelenting grey of recent days but I can't stop making this brilliant green sauce: 100g of green leaves (preferably edible), blanched, blended, creamed and lightly thickened with cornflour – the sauce takes about 9 minutes from start to finish. Serve with pasta, or chicken breasts or the kind of pearly white fish that subsides delectably into flakes (skrei or fresh haddock are good, turbot would be the bee's knees). If you've used wild garlic, try it with a rack of lamb pinkly roasted and splayed out over the sauce.
GREEN SAUCE (Makes about 2 cups/500ml)
The key to this sauce is in the title: it must be GREEN. None of your sludgy Land Rover stuff, I'm talking spring green, bright, sprightlyand positively verdant. The keys to achieving this are 1) boil the water before you put the greeneryin the pan, 2) don't let the sauce boil too long once creamed, thickened and blended and 3) don't cover the pan at any time. Don't ask me why, but Harold McGee gives this as one reason for the oxidation of sauces and subsequent loss of colour. The sauce freezes well.
Makes about 2 cups of sauce
a good handful of greenery, about 100g, stalks removed: wild garlic, spinach watercress or flat-leaf parsley
250ml whipping cream (crème fraîche fluide/Schlagrahm)
2 teaspoons cornflour/starch (Maizena)
salt and freshly ground white pepper
- Boil 1 cup of water in a pan with a pinch of salt
- Add trimmed greenery and boil 5 minutes
- Sprinkle cornflour onto 2 tablespoons of water in a cup and stir till smooth
- Remove pan from the heat, add slaked cornflour and cream and blend till smooth with a hand-held blender (or tip sauce into blender and blend till smooth)
- Bring sauce to a boil, stirring with a wire whisk – it must boil, otherwise it won't thicken, but not too long or it will lose its lovely green colour
- Season with salt and freshly ground white pepper
Et voilà!
Some serving ideas (variations are endless)
At yesterday's spring veggie workshop we did a tiny starter of linguine rolled up into nests set over the sauce, topped with quail's eggs and scattered with smoked salmon strips.
For a more subsantial lunch or supper, I use full-sized eggs (soft-boiled for 7 minutes so they're still runny in the middle) and scatter with tiny strips of crisp-fried bacon/lardons instead of smoked salmon.
Nice with scallops too, and a smattering of teeny lardons…
Or pour a puddle of sauce on a plate and set on top a beautiful piece of grilled white fish, or a slab of salmon cooked on a bed of salt à l'unilatérale (skin side only, about 12 minutes depending on thickness of salmon)


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In the last several years, a number of books have appeared on the subject of how to talk through difficult issues with others. The titles say it all: Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time by Susan Scott; Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most by Douglas Stone; and Crucial Confrontations by Kerry Patterson. The focus of these books is, for the most part, on interpersonal communication with friends, family members and co-workers. But these book titles capture an important quality of effective strategic planning practice. The planning process needs to be designed and conducted in such a way that leaders are able to articulate the most critical issues, choices and challenges facing their organizations, then engage in the "fierce conversations", "difficult conversations" and "crucial confrontations" to thoroughly discuss these critical issues, choices and challenges and finally come to agreement on how the organization will respond to them.
In an issues based approach to strategic planning, the selection of issues is very important because it determines the range of decisions and choices the nonprofit will consider in the future. In some instances, leaders are already aware of some of the critical issues that the strategic planning process must help them address. In most situations, the planning process participants discern critical strategic issues as they examine the data gathered through external, market and internal assessment conducted earlier in the planning process. I like to challenge people to express their critical issues in the form of questions. The rest of the planning process then constitutes the work of constructing the big answers to these big questions. Identifying the critical issues and choices then becomes the watershed event in the planning process. If we have correctly identified the real issues, we know what we need to have the fierce conversations about. The resulting strategic plan will be relevant. If we fail to identify the real issues, the resulting plan will be useless – answers that may look good but answers to the wrong questions.
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Thank God for another day.
Good News...Good News.....
I just received my confirmation for Photo Credentials for the Roy Jones Jr. vs. Joe Calzaghe fight next week at Madison Square Garden.
I will also be attending a workout open to the Press.
This will be my 2nd Roy Jones Jr. fight.
I'm Doin It Y'all!!!!!!(thank God)
Quote for the day comes from me:
Never, ever give up on your dreams.
Keep believing ,pressing and praying.
You can be next.....
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"It's wonderful how they trust you," said the sport horse judge to the owner-handler, as our country-mouse fillies were introduced to the big outside world at Murieta Equine Center. (It was not all experience: Crystal Naiah (Najih x English Crystal by Abu Malacar) placed first in the filly class and reserve champion sport horse prospect in hand.) We take this as symbolic of our responsibility for the horses: both their individual well-being and their continued existence as a breeding group.
The New Albion program began to take its current shape here in northern California in the fall of 1980, growing out of Arabian horse ownership from the early 1960s. We typified each of the once-traditional pathways toward Arabian breeding: the Bowling horses in Maryland reflected my experiences with a sterling purebred gelding, while the Trommershausens' Colorado program began with a half-Arab mare. Bellatrix and the Babera family are long gone, but the riding horse goals and the pedigree elements which produced them still are basic to the New Albion program. We chose outside sires specifically to complement the foundation mares, and our own dam lines have produced four of our senior stallions; the exceptions, Trilogy and *Seffer, came from Craver Farms and the Worth Stud in England—programs we have been studying and following for decades.
The New Albion motto of "Beautiful Riding Horses" has been validated repeatedly, by in-hand winners and by companion riding horses and successful competitors in a range of disciplines. We are particularly well pleased at the acceptance of New Albion Arabians in sport horse and endurance circles. Our "Jewel in the Crown" is Judy Reen's Najih gelding Benjih, who topped an already distinguished record by winning the 2000 Tevis Cup for first place finish in the oldest and still most prestigious of the hundred miles in one day endurance rides. Benjih still is competing successfully—earning 15th individually at the Pan Am ride in 2004—along with Jezireh (Bobby and Maria Wallis) and San Ffrancisco (2002 Tevis completion with Jill Putnam; AERC reserve national championship, fourth place Tevis 2005, with Dennis Tracey).
At New Albion we emphasize the mare lines, and we actively seek out reinforcements of the dynastic matrons. We also work to accumulate multiple sources of any important influence, rather than continually seeking to add new elements—we see as particularly harmful what we have come to call "the cult of the sire" where all breeding decisions are cast in terms of some "sire of the moment." We are producing and succeeding with horses as much as six generations from our own foundation mares. My first filly was five generations from Skowronek, which makes a comparison to conjure with.
We are a few miles out of the university town of Davis, California, convenient to I-5 and I-80, and just 30 minutes from Sacramento International Airport. It's always fun to see how visitors and our horses appreciate one another.
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On this Wordless Wednesday we share some pie fun! The Professional Dairy Producer's Foundation raised $22,525.00 earlier this month with an epic pie eating contest. Former White House Chef, Walter Scheib (pictured third from the left), participated. How fun!
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A Home at the End of the World
This is one of my favorite movies. I can't remember when I first saw it or who introduced me to it but I fell in love with Bobby just like everyone else. The movie isn't just an excuse to see a (semi) nude Colin Farrell ...it's a movie to show you to be open to love in all shapes and forms... that you don't have to be blood to be family... that home is where you make it.


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On Monday March 12, my friend Cory Ehlers and co-worker was killed by her husband and now her four children are left without any parents. Thomas Richards Charity in conjunction with the family started a GoFundMe to create a trust for these four children. They have a long road ahead of them, to recover from something so tragic.
To support these children, donation boxes to support Cory's Children were placed at the following local businesses:
Sylvan Glen Golf Course, Chateau De Vin & Auburn Sportsmens Bar
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If you have hypertension (systolic blood pressure of 140 mmHg or more and diastolic blood pressure of 90 mmHg or more) it should be adequately treated with approved drugs/medications and by dietary modifications and lifestyle changes. If yo have pre-hypertension (systolic blood pressure of 121-139 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure of 81-89 mmHg) it is time you adopt healthy lifestyle and healthy eating habits to prevent pre-hypertension from becoming a hypertension.
Generally goal of treatment of hypertension is to bring blood pressure to 120/80 mmHg if you have no complication and you are healthy. The goal of treatment of hypertension may be different for different individuals, e.g. if you are an elderly person the target blood pressure may be much higher than 120/80 mmHg (i.e. 140/90 mmHg).
For all patients of hypertension, lifestyle changes and dietary changes are essential for optimal management. Without lifestyle and dietary changes towards healthier side, the management of hypertension may be incomplete.
Medications form the mainstay of management of hypertension, because with lifestyle changes and dietary changes it may not be possible to bring blood pressure to the target level.
Commonly used anti-hypertensive drugs:
1. Thiazide diuretics:
Diuretics (commonly known as water pills) are commonly used for treatment of hypertension. Hydrochlorothiazide is most commonly used for this purpose. It is one of the first line medications for treatment of hypertension. These drugs reduce water and sodium content and improves elasticity of blood vessels.
2. Beta-blockers:
These drugs reduce workload of heart by reducing heart rate and force of contraction of heart. They also reduce sympathetic activity thereby reduce workload of heart. Examples of beta-blockers are atenolol, metoprolol, bisoprolol etc. If used alone they may not work well in blacks and should be combined with diuretics (Hydrochlorothiazide).
3. Calcium channel blockers:
These drugs helps in relaxing the muscles of blood vessels (arteries mainly) and thereby reduce blood pressure. Some of these drugs reduce heart rate also. Examples of calcium channel blockers are amlodipine, nifedipine, verapamil, diltiazem etc.
4. ACE (Angiotensin-converting enzyme) inhibitors:
These drugs relax blood vessels by inhibiting natural chemical that constricts blood vessels, i.e. angiotensin-II. Examples of ACE inhibitors are enalapril, lisinopril, parindopril, ramipril, captopril etc.
5. Angiotensin receptor blockers:
These drugs act by blocking the action of angiotensin-II (constriction of blood vessels) at receptor level. Examples of Angiotensin receptor blockers are losartan, telmisartan etc.
There are also other anti-hypertensive drugs which are used for treatment of hypertension in special situations such as pregnancy, hypertensive emergencies (severe rise in blood pressure, e.g. systolic pressure of over 200 mmHg and need immediate medical intervention to reduce blood pressure) etc.
Centrally acting agents:
These agents prevent signals from brain that cause heart rate to increase and blood vessels to contract, e.g. methyledopa, which is commonly used to treat hypertension during pregnancy.
These drugs cause dilatation of blood vessels thereby reduce blood pressure. These agents are used for treating hypertensive emergencies. Example is sodium nitropruside.
These agents cause dilatation of blood vessels by reducing nerve impulse to blood vessels. Examples of alpha-blockers is prazosin, terazosin etc.
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On February 22nd, Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani, both engineers at Garmin, were shot in a bar in Kansas. Ian Grillot intervened valiantly and was also shot. Unfortunately Srinivas was killed, but both Alok and Ian are recovering. For more details, see this article.
There's no doubt in my mind that this was a hate crime made all the worse by alcohol and our current political climate. No one should ever be in danger of any harm simply because they are from a different place, worship differently, or look in any way different. Our differences make us stronger, not weaker, and they should be celebrated.
I applaud Ian Grillot for standing up for these two individuals who were singled out because someone thought they were Middle Eastern (they were from India). Although the fact that anyone was harmed (and that Srinivas didn't survive) is sad, it is incredibly heartening to know that there are still individuals who will do the right thing and stand up to this kind of hate. Truly, Ian is an American Hero.
The GoFundMe's for Srinivas' family and for Alok Madasani are now closed, but Ian's is still up. If you can spare a few dollars, please, help him out.
Women in Tech
Women are vitally important to tech, and yet, as the following two posts illustrate, we must do so much better. To those companies and individuals who are embracing diversity and rejecting hate in all its forms, thank you.
Reflecting On One Very, Very Strange Year At Uber by Susan J. Fowler.
I am an Uber survivor. by (not) Amy Vertino. (read the article; you'll understand the "not").
Cordova / PhoneGap
Just a reminder, but PhoneGap Day EU 2017 (May 18 and 19, Amsterdam) is fast approaching! Be sure to get your tickets now, and I hope to see you there!
Holly Schinsky and Jesse MacFadyen posted their slides for a presentation they did a few days back named PhoneGap Plugins: End to End. Everyone who develops using Cordova and PhoneGap should take a look!
Hybrid app & web development
Need to work with the iOS Simulator a lot? Have trouble figuring out which sim has your apps, and what data is present in each? Need a quick way to reset the content and settings? You might want to try SimPholders.
It's easy to imagine that touch devices are small, but not so fast! We're getting large touch devices as well, and so this artical by Andres Galanta on CSS-Tricks is definitely worth a read.
If you use flexbox layout, or are considering using it, check out Scott Domes' Even more about how Flexbox works — explained in big, colorful, animated gifs (via FrontEnd Focus)
Responsive CSS Patters without Media Queries by Andy Kirk is well worth the read! (via Mobile Web Weekly)
Peter-Paul Koch, as always, has some great (and perhaps painful) information regarding toolbars, keyboards, and the viewports across browsers. (via Mobile Web Weekly)
Like Framework7? Like React? Then you'll love framework7-react! (via Mobile Web Weekly)
- Writing CLI's? Caporal.js might be worth a look!
Cool Tech
- I don't know about you, but this e-Ink tablet by reMarkable looks, well, remarkably interesting. It'll be interesting to see if it works as well as claimed.
- Senator Bernie Sanders and Bill Nye sat down to have a frank discussion about climate change. The video is just over 30 minutes, and well worth your time to check out.


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Finding your passion is a lot of trial and error. It comes and goes and is frequently questioned when something interferes with it. It took me a while to find my true passion in life going through a series of activities that I tried to like but just wasn't getting into. There are a number of things I'm truly passionate about but keeping myself interested in these things and not giving up takes some dedication. I have to continue being inspired to grow and learn new things. It's when I get caught in a rut that the passion starts to die.
I thought I was passionate about cooking and food in general but it turns out that it was just a phase and to be honest I don't have much opportunity to practice my skills because of having such a small kitchen and limited supplies I took two years of culinary training and absolutely loved the experience and getting to know so many faces. Everyday in the class was a breath of fresh air and excitement, mostly because of the Cushman factor, a guy who was always so happy and energetic (maybe a little too much) and became a great friend of mine, uplifting my spirits everyday. But sadly, after it was over, and I was out of that ever stimulating environment, the fire was gone and other things in life popped up, like starting this whole social media experience of mine. I do kind of miss learning how to be a chef and running all of the stations, and to put on the white coat again would bring back so many nostalgic feelings and maybe a true sense of purpose and goals. I would feel so strong and driven, knowing that I have a solid path to go upon.
I was passionate about learning to play guitar and this has been an on and off thing for a number of years. Everytime I pick up my old acoustic, a feeling comes back to me, like meeting an old friend again and I have no trouble remembering the basic chords and strumming patterns. I wouldn't say I'm an expert player but I know more about music than I did before I decided to buy a guitar nearly six years ago, just to know that I owned an actual instrument.
I've always had a mild fascination with taking pictures, mostly from the amateur perspective, and that is what led me to eventually start blogging. Preserving the world through the art of photography is a valuable skill. Life's fleeting moments deserve to be shared with others.
More often that not, a passion comes by through impulses, acting with your gut feeling, just winging it and seeing what happens. Eventually you like it so much that you can't stop thinking about becoming great at it. And that is where you start to have a vision – and anyone with a vision is destined for great things.
Something that you are truly passionate about burns likes a candle, and it is up to you to keep that fire burning. Keep nurturing that fire until you see the big image of what you want to achieve. Don't stop until all of your energy put into making those flames dance and thrive is exhausted.


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REPOSTRecord reached Billboards Top 40 on August 28, 1961.
One of my favourite oldies...
"A Little Bit of Soap", written by Bert Berns (aka Bert Russell), was a song, first sung in a bluesy soul style by The Jarmels, who reached #12 with it in September 1961.Bertrand Russell Berns (8 November 1929 – 30 December 1967), most commonly known as Bert Berns as well as Bert Russell and (occasionally) Russell Byrd, was an American songwriter and record producer of the 1960s. A pioneer of sixties rock and soul, Berns made several notable contributions to popular music, including "Here Comes the Night", "Piece of My Heart", "Hang on Sloopy", and "Twist and Shout". He died of heart failure at age 38.The Jarmels are an American doo wop/rhythm and blues group officially formed in 1959 in Richmond, Virginia. They were composed of Nathaniel Ruff (1939 - 1990s), Paul Burnett (1946 - March 23, 2001), Ray Smith (born 1941), Earl Christian (1940 - 1960s), and Tom Eldridge (1941 - June 19, 2000). They are best known for their only hit single, "A Little Bit of Soap".
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My fridge has been full of figs, so I wanted to put them to good use before they expired. Last week I shared a Fig & Serrano Jam and this week, I'm sharing a fun way to use the jam, besides pairing it with stinky cheeses and breads. I decided to make a Fig Jam and Goat Cheese Pizza with arugula and caramelized onions. Yum, right?
Balance the Flavors
Pizza is so fun to make at home. The only rule is to make sure your oven or grill is nice and hot and the rest is up to you. You can use whatever ingredients you'd like.
What I didn't take into consideration with my flavor combination was that I was adding more sweetness (caramelized onions) and an already semi-sweet jam to my pizza.
In my previous post, I mentioned the importance of keeping the flavors of the jam balanced. And, if you're pairing the jam with non-sweet things like cheese and bread, it works. However, when I used the jam on the pizza, I lost the spice when I added the sweet caramelized onions. The flavor was delicious, but just a little too sweet for me.
Spice Tames Sweetness
I decided to add a couple slices of jalapeño to my individual pieces. It cut through the sweetness beautifully and the flavor balance leveled out. It's nice how adding one extra ingredient can come to the rescue like that without having to start from scratch.
What are some of your favorite ingredient combinations on a pizza?
You should also check out my Tomato Ricotta Pizza.
- 10-12 ounces fresh pizza dough
- 3 medium sweet onions, sliced
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons goat cheese, crumbled
- 2 cups fresh arugula
- 5-6 fresh figs, sliced
- Olive oil
- Kosher salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- Fig & Serrano Jam (see recipe)
- 1 jalapeño, sliced, if desired
- Place a pizza stone on the middle rack in the oven.
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F and let pizza stone warm for 1 hour.
- Roll pizza dough into a 10-12 inch circle, or shape of your choice and pierce with a fork.
- Place dough on a sheet of parchment paper. This helps with transferring the pizza on and off of the pizza stone.
- Place butter and onions in a cast iron skillet over medium heat.
- Stir the onions every 5-10 minutes to be sure they are cooking evenly and not getting burned. They will start to soften and become translucent.
- After 30 minutes, the onions will start turning light brown and will start to caramelize. Continue checking the onions and stirring for about 50 minutes to an hour until onions are caramelized.
- Remove the onions from the heat.
- Spread Fig & Serrano Jam over the pizza dough.
- Next, scatter the caramelized onions over the pizza dough.
- Add 1-2 tablespoons of goat cheese sprinkled over the pizza dough.
- Bake in the oven for 10 minutes or until the crust is crisp.
- Remove from oven and let cool for 5 minutes.
- Toss the arugula with olive oil, salt and pepper and sprinkle over the pizza.
- Add sliced figs and sprinkle with additional goat cheese, if desired.
If pizza is too sweet, add additional slices of jalapeño.
Did you make this recipe?
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All images ©Regan Baroni 2017.


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Four tantalizing new mysteries to keep you inside this winter
Mysteries up and down the East Coast: an unexpected Russian spy in D.C., drifters in Delaware, a magical survivor in the Adirondacks, and best friends in New York City bound by lies. Novelist Charles Finch takes you through some of the most intriguing suspense fiction of the season.
By Laura Lippman
William Morrow, 304 pp.
★★★½ out of four
It was a little easier to keep secrets in 1995. When two good-looking strangers arrive separately in a tiny Delaware town that summer in Laura Lippman's seductive and gripping new novel Sunburn, everyone wonders who they are, but nobody can pop out a smartphone to check. That makes Sunburn something akin to a locked-room mystery: The book slowly metes out the truth of why Polly and Adam, the new arrivals, are lying low, as they circle each other and wonder the same. Lippman excels in the minutiae of trouble — insurance scams, sketchy arson investigations, getting paid in cash — and Sunburn, after a slow first 50 pages, is one of her most compulsive books, an atmospheric two-hander worthy of Raymond Chandler or Alfred Hitchcock.
The Storm King
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Ballantine, 400 pp.
It's always a good sign when a novelist is up to something weird. Brendan Duffy's second book mingles horror, historical fiction, supernatural suspense and old-fashioned murder mystery, the rare phantasmagoria whose pieces click into a satisfying resolution. Set in the Adirondacks, it's about Nate, the sole survivor of a childhood car crash. Far from home, he's assembled a happy life, career, wife, daughter, but when he returns for the funeral of a high school friend, all of his ghosts await him. The Storm King could be a cleaner book — Duffy's multiple plot lines sometimes get snarled, and his writing is full of bad habits. ("There was a menagerie of suffering in the cages of Nate's soul.") But this is a gutsy, intricate, evocative piece of mischief, much closer than anyone usually gets to that particular spell cast by Stephen King.
Grist Mill Road
By Christopher J. Yates
Picador, 352 pp.
The list of authors whose books I read automatically is very short, and loses more names than it adds most years. Now, the British writer Christopher J. Yates is on it, thanks to this truly superb second novel, a dark, roving psychological thriller as powerful as anything by Tana French. It takes place in 1982 and 2008: In the earlier timeline, two boys are responsible for a horrific incident in which a girl named Hannah is tied to a tree and shot dozens of times with an air rifle, then left for dead. In the second, Hannah is married to one of them. That's a hell of a setup. But Grist Mill Road is irresistibly readable for the ways it pulls that initial incident in unexpected directions, rounding out the trio's histories, reappraising their roles in their awful story. A one-dimensional New York cop and a slightly forced ending drag the book back just slightly, but make no mistake: Yates is the real deal.
Need to Know
By Karen Cleveland
Ballantine, 304 pp.
There's a threatening tone to the blurbs for Need to Know, which solemnly vow that you will not be able to stop reading it. Lee Child, for instance: "You'll miss dinner, stay up far too late, and feel tired at work tomorrow." Yikes! Well, its premise is smart —– Vivian Miller, a CIA analyst (as author Karen Cleveland once was), discovers that her boring old husband is a Russian agent. He swears that she and their children have changed his priorities since he went undercover, and as proof convinces her to turn him in to save herself. Will she? Unfortunately, the question never seems urgent. Cleveland's debut flows nicely and has one wicked, delightful twist, promising signs for her chances of a good career. But the work as a whole is an inexpert and implausible affair, weighed down by Vivian's unintelligible choices and ridiculous escapes from notice. You'll feel fine at work tomorrow.
Charles Finch is author of the Charles Lenox mystery series. The latest, The Woman in the Water, will be published this month.


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No-Bake Peanut Butter-Chocolate Bars
No-Bake Peanut Butter-Chocolate Bars
- Crust:
- 24 chocolate wafer cookies
- 3 Tablespoons of unsalted butted, melted
- 4 ounces semisweet chocolate morsels, melted
- Filling:
- 4 Ounces reduced-fat cream cheese
- 1/2 cup creamy all-natural peanut butter
- 1/2 cup 2-percent greek yogurt
- 2/3 cup confectioners' sugar
- Topping:
- 1/4 cup chopped roasted unsalted peanuts
- Kosher Salt
Line an 6-inch square pan with foil so it overhangs on two sides and lightly coat with cooking spray
Process the cookies in a food processor until finely ground.
Add the melted butter and process again until the crumbs are coated with butter
Add melted chocolate and process again until the mixture is the texture of very wet sand.
Using an offset spatula, press the mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan, cover and refrigerate while preparing the filling.
Filling & Topping:
Add the cream cheese, peanut butter, yogurt and sugar into the bowl of the food processor and process until smooth and combined.
Pour the mixture over the crust and sooth with a spatula.
Top with the peanuts and sprinkle the 1/4 teaspoon salt.
Cover and refrigerate until set slightly looser tun cream cheese (anywhere from 4 hours to overnight)
Run a knife around the edges of the mixture to loosen, use the foil handles to lift it out and cut into 12 bars and serve chilled


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Secrecy over international relations trumps transparency of EU-Turkey deal
Madrid, 8 February 2018 - The General Court of the European Union has ruled that the public does not have the right to access the European Commission's legal advice on the March 2016 EU-Turkey agreement on returning migrants and asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey. The Commission had applied a series of exceptions to documents requested by Access Info Europe,
The documents in dispute: The European Commission's legal advice on the EU-Turkey deal
From 7 March 2016, the day when a pre-agreement with Turkey was reached, to 12 April 2016, when the deal was already under implementation, the European Commission consulted with its legal services on a wide range of issues related to the legality of the EU-Turkey agreement. These consultations resulted in a total of 11 documents – sometimes produced at late
Disclosed documents reveal that EU training of Libyan Coast Guard makes negligible reference to human rights protection
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General Court of the European Union hears arguments for transparency of EU-Turkey Deal
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EU-Turkey agreement, one year later: lack of information blockading accountability
Madrid, 18 March 2017 – On the first anniversary of the EU-Turkey deal, Access Info called for greater transparency of the decision making process of the agreement and condemned the inadequate record keeping and misleading statements. One year after concluding the agreement, stranded asylum seekers, human rights and humanitarian organisations, and the general public, are still denied even the most
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Cricket's bosses have reversed a decision that effectively handed control of the sport to India, England and Australia.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) decided in 2014 that the 'Big Three' should have more powers over how the game is run and its financial split.
But at a meeting in Dubai, the ICC board voted to pass a new financial model and governance structure.
The changes will have to be ratified by the ICC full council in June.
The 2014 changes had angered other large cricketing nations such as South Africa and Pakistan.
However, the reversal is likely to upset India which has been demanding a $570m (£442m) cut from ICC revenues but will now receive $293m (£227m).
The board voted 13 to one in favour of the financial changes and local media have reported that India was the only dissenting voice.
Based on forecast revenues and costs, the England and Wales Cricket Board will receive $143m (£111m) across the same period (2016-2023), Zimbabwe will get $94m (£73m) and the remaining seven Full Member nations $132m (£102m) each.
Constitutional changes made by the board – including paving the way for more Test cricket nations and the introduction of an independent female director – were agreed by a vote of 12 to two.
ICC chairman Shashank Manohar, who announced in March that he was stepping down, said: "This is another step forward for world cricket and I look forward to concluding the work at the annual conference.
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• Changes to the women's game including a separate rankings system for Women's ODI and T20I cricket
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• Development of a detailed strategy for the growth of cricket in China.


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A Gay Man & His Gun: Shoot it with Justin!
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Aaron Eriksson wrote:I don't mean to be negative but I am frustrated. I pulled in both the Website box plugin and the video plugin, in the effort to display a full size youtube video. The moment I try to set the hotspot button of a video camer icon the project crashes.
Folks. Please get this program fixed. Overall it is great but there are still basic bugs that have not been resolved. Especially the program not keeping the cursor in the point of view settings.
So how can I display a video for a site using the GUII and not coding it in?
Aaron Eriksson wrote:Right. So I am using a custom graphic as the link. the steps I am taking.
1 import the icon into my library.
2. under the style tab, and viewers tab I activate either the webvideo box plub in or the website viewer box plug in.
Fine so far no crashing.
Then I take the actions on the graphic to activate the respective plugin. That is the moment it crashes. The only way it doesn't crash is when I use a basic "open a website" action which is NOT what I want to do. I used to be able to do this, but now can't. I do have the latest updated version.
Aaron Eriksson wrote:Right I just tried your shots. Crashed.
Aaron Eriksson wrote:Do you want to see my screen? I can do a join.me for you.
Aaron Eriksson wrote:Windows 8.1 home
Yes it is a tour fresh with latest version. Previous version did the same.
Aaron Eriksson wrote:No Problem. I know you volunteer. But I need a tech to email me back or help me get through this asap. Do you know if there is a ticket I can report?
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