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Pandas Honey walnut shrimp
Panda Honey Walnut Shrimp has to be one of my all time favorite foods and I am constantly on the lookout for tasty new shrimp dishes. A while ago I came across a really interesting one for honey and walnut shrimp on Rasa Malaysia. The name drew me in at first as I like both honey and walnuts in addition to the shrimp and then I saw that it also included mayonnaise and sweetened condensed milk. I would never have thought about a honey, mayonnaise and sweetened condensed milk combo for shrimp and I was really intrigued. The fun does not stop there though as the shrimp are deep fried with a crispy cornstarch coating and the walnuts are candied! There was no way that I could pass up on trying this dish even if it did not sound all that healthy. The honey and walnut shrimp were pretty easy to make with the only challenge being the deep frying. I was not really sure what to expect from this flavour combination but it worked out surprisingly well. The savoury mayonnaise and the tart lemon juice balance the sweet honey and condensed milk and they tasted great together. The crispy coating on the prawns added a nice texture and provided a great surface for the sauce to cling to. This recipe is definitely a keeper.
Pandas Honey Walnut Shrimp
(makes 4 servings)
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup walnut halves
oil for frying
1 pound shrimp (peeled and deviened)
1 egg white
1/2 cup corn starch
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 tablespoon honey
1/2 tablespoon sweetened condensed milk
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Honey walnut shrimp Directions:
1. Bring the water to a boil and stir in the sugar.
2. When the sugar water turns golden add the walnuts and boil for 2 minutes.
3. Strain the walnuts and set them on parchment paper to cool.
4. Heat the oil in a pan.
5. Dip the shrimp into the egg and then into the corn starch.
6. Fry the shrimp in the oil until golden brown
7. Mix the mayonnaise, honey, sweetened condensed milk and lemon juice in a bowl.
8. Add the shrimp and toss to coat.
9. Serve the shrimp garnished with the walnuts.


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Market never an obstacle for adept Jocketty
"This is how we have to do it," he said.
How's that, Walter?
"We don't have the resources to compete for a lot of free agents," he said, "so trades become our free agency."
Actually, that quote is almost a year old. Jocketty said it after trading seven players, including some first-rate prospects, to the Cubs and Padres to get starter Mat Latos and reliever Sean Marshall.
And in 2012, the Reds won the second-most regular-season games in all of baseball (97) with the 17th-highest payroll ($82 million).
Actually, player development is Jocketty's free agency. As long as the Reds draft smartly and continue to produce young players that other teams want, they'll do just fine competing with the big-spending teams.
The Reds, Indians and D-backs made a fascinating nine-player trade Tuesday evening. Every team gave up something of value, but every team ended up with something of value.
Arizona got its shortstop, 22-year-old Didi Gregorius, one of the crown jewels of the Cincinnati system. The Indians got a potential No. 1 starter from the D-backs in 21-year-old Trevor Bauer.
And the Reds got their leadoff hitter from the Indians: Shin-Soo Choo.
As Jocketty accomplished his offseason goals -- signing free-agent reliever Jonathan Broxton, thus allowing Aroldis Chapman to move to the rotation; and re-signing outfielder Ryan Ludwick -- he knew the toughest part of the job remained.
"We still need a leadoff hitter," Jocketty said last week, "and those aren't easy to find."
Boy, did he ever need a leadoff hitter.
Cincinnati leadoff hitters had a .254 on-base percentage in 2012, lowest among 30 Major League clubs.
With all that offensive firepower in the lineup, Jocketty believed he could elevate a mediocre offense -- 669 runs, ninth most in the National League -- into a really good one.
Jocketty talked about perhaps giving his top prospect, Billy Hamilton -- who stole 155 bases in the Minors in 2012 -- a shot at the job in Spring Training. In his heart, he didn't believe Hamilton was ready after playing just 50 games above Class A. From the beginning, it was Choo he had his eye on.
Choo has a career .381 on-base percentage, including .419 when leading off an inning. He has played mostly right field, but Jocketty believes he has the athleticism to replace Drew Stubbs, who went to the Indians, in center.
Choo will not block Hamilton, either. He's 29 years old and headed for free agency after the 2013 season. His agent, Scott Boras, will almost certainly take him to the open market to maximize his value.
That's fine with Jocketty, who hopes that Hamilton, the most exciting prospect the Reds have had in years, will be ready for Opening Day 2014.
Choo made $4.9 million in 2012 and is headed for a large raise via arbitration. But the Indians threw $3.5 million into the trade to help Jocketty cover the costs.
That $3.5 million speaks volumes about how much the Indians wanted Bauer and the other pieces they obtained in the deal. The Indians knew they would not have Choo after the 2013 season, so general manager Chris Antonetti flipped him for Bauer, who has less than a year of Major League experience.
As for Jocketty and the Reds, the heavy lifting is done 112 days before Opening Day. The Reds are attempting to win the NL Central for the third time in four years, which is a nice little run of success.
When Jocketty arrived in Cincinnati five years ago, the Reds had missed the postseason for a dozen consecutive seasons. He built the franchise one brick at a time, just as he did in St. Louis.
Now he has fully restored the Reds. He has done it the old-fashioned way, with scouting and player development and with smart trades. Baseball is better when an iconic franchise like the Reds wins, and thanks to Jocketty, that has again become the norm.
Richard Justice has been a reporter for MLB.com since 2011. Read his columns and follow him on Twitter at @RichardJustice.

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Revision [9022]
This is an old revision of GRUB made by coolpup on 2010-08-25 06:04:22.
GRUB (Grand Unified Bootloader)Within Puppy Linux GRUB may be installed onto any partition, e.g. H.D.D. or U.S.B. flash drive, using:
Menu > System > Grub
menu.lst examples
# For booting GNU/Linux on dev/sda1 (H.D.D. primary partition) title Puppy Linux rootnotify (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz pmedia=idehd initrd (hd0,0)/initrd.gz
# For booting GNU/Linux on U.S.B. flash drive title Puppy Linux rootnotify (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash initrd (hd0,0)/initrd.gz
AppendixWhen the GRUB menu comes up, press 'c' to go to a command line.
Type 'find /vmlinuz' and 'find /initrd.gz'
This will tell you where GRUB thinks the files are.
GRUB GRand Unified Bootloader, a multiboot bootloader that is easy to install and configure. It can boot from the Master Boot Record on a hard drive or from a CD. Especially easy to set up for Puppy. http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/GRUB
To learn about the GNU GRUB project, please see: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
The manual for "legacy" GRUB, including 0.96 installable from Puppy installer, please see: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/
GRUB (short for GRand Unified Boot Loader) is a boot loader, similar in overall function to LILO. It is the standard way to boot into an operating system (or several) used by most recent Linux distributions, but capable of being loaded on any Linux distro.
Go here for a comparison of Lilo & Grub, written by Laurence Bonney (IBM).
From TheBabbs - I run Puppy Linux 1.0.6 (soon to be 1.0.7) and Fedora Core 3 on the same desktop machine. Each has its own partition on different drives. When I first added Puppy Linux to this system, I had the hardest time configuring the GRUB install which Fedora had previously installed. It was not until someone provided me a sample configuration that I was able to hack "/boot/grub/grub.conf" to add an option to choose which Linux I wanted to use. In light of that, here is what I presently have in my grub.conf file:
# grub.conf
password --md5 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
title Puppy Linux (1.0.6)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.35_FC3)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.35_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.35_FC3.img
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.35_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.35_FC3.img
MBR Solving problems with
if grub is more or less working, you should be able to boot Win XP by booting, press C to get a grub command line interface, then type:
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
you should be able to fix the mbr by booting the Win XP installation cd, getting the recovery console interface, then typing
but your Windows cd may not have a recovery console
i'm not sure, but i think you can install any standard mbr ... all the mbr should need to do is transfer control to the boot sector of the partition that Windows is installed on
one way to install a standard mbr from Puppy is to download mbr.bin and type:
dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/hda
see: pclinuxos wiki
i think this should work without overwriting your partition table, because mbr.bin is 446 bytes
if it were to over write the entire 512 bytes of the mbr, your partition table would be gone, and everything on your drive would be lost ... you should be able to backup the entire mbr sector first by typing something like:
dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.save bs=512 count=1
you should be able to restore it by typing:
dd if=mbr.save of=/dev/hda bs=512
you should be able to burn a bootable floppy or floppy image to a cd using any burning program, so if you don't have a floppy drive but you do have a cd drive, it should not be a problem
Ultimate Boot CD should be able to install a standard mbr:
Booting Puppy using the Grub bootloader
Ian's Page
This is a series of pages from the Puppy HowTo forum giving you a simple guide to setting up the Grub bootloader to boot Puppy from the' Master Boot Record' on your hard drive or creating a CD that will allow you to boot Puppy and Windows if you have Puppy installed in a Windows partition.
Grub - Windows - Linux Partition naming conventions
This is an introduction for beginners to Grub and how it works with Windows and Linux.
First we must introduce the idea of hard drives and partitions for those of you who know a little or nothing about the subject.
A hard drive is composed of platters stacked inside a case and accessed through what are called heads. These platters resemble CDs to a certain extent but differ in that both sides are written to and read from and the way they are divided into sections is different to a CD.
Hard drives are divided into sections called sectors and the sectors are arranged into what are refered to as cylinders, the combination of sectors and cylinders makes up the total of the hard drive.
Hard drives can by divided into partitions which are separate from each other and the divisions are defined by cylinder numbers starting at number1 and continuing on to the end of the hard drive as desired. For example on a 4.1G hard drive you could have one big partition that takes up all the space on the hard drive and it might look like this:
Start of partition = cyl no. 1
End of partition = cyl no. 525
Total size = 4.2G
In Windows this partition would be called C drive ( C: ) as this is how Windows describes partitions.
If you decided to create two partitions on your hard drive Windows would call the second one D drive
( D: ) so you would have:
on your hard drive as displayed in Windows, this all applies to DOS but I will just use Windows to cover all Microsoft operating systems, so for every extra partition you create Windows just uses the next letter in the alphabet. You will notice it does the same with CD drives as well.
Linux on the other hand uses a different naming convention, first it names the hard drive as hd and starting with the first hard drive it too uses letters of the alphabet so that the first hard drive on your system, the master hard drive, is named hda. The partitions are numbered starting at number 1.
So your C: drive in Windows would be named hda1 in Linux and subsequent partitions would be, hda2, hda3, and so on. If you had a second hard drive, a slave hard drive, under Linux it would become hdb and the partitions would become hdb1, hdb2.....
Grub starts it's notation from zero, 0, it also uses the hd convention but does things slightly different.
For the first hard drive Grub shows hd0, for the second, hd1 etc.
Partitions also start at zero, so first hard drive - first partition is hd0,0 . For Grub to recognize this it must be enclosed in brackets i.e. (hd0,0).
At the beginning of the hard drive is a small section that never shows up in Windows or most operating systems called the Master Boot Record which is accessed by the BIOS in your computer to boot operating systems. This is where Grub is installed if you do a complete installation to a hard drive otherwise Grub can be set up on a CD and used to boot operating systems.
When Grub boots it looks for a boot directory with a grub directory inside it containing a configuration file, this is the file that you edit to allow your operating system/systems to start. Depending on what version of Linux you are using this file may be named menu.ls, grub.conconf or somthing similar but they all use the same terminology to describe what and how Grub should boot.
To sum up we will compare the partition naming conventions.
Windows c:/
Linux: /dev/hda1
Grub: (hd0,0)
When partitioning a hard drive there are certain rules that apply to Windows and Linux.
In Windows you are only allowed one Primary partition on your hard drive, to have extra partitions you must create an extended partition which does not hold data as it is only a receptacal for more partitions called Logical drives.
In Linux you can have four Primary partitions on your hard drive.
I hope this will help you understand the way drives and partitions are named and the way Grub sees things. This should help when it comes to editing the Grub configuration file.
Set up Grub on a single HDD Puppy installation.
If you have done the same as me and installed Puppy as a standalone OS in its own ex2fs partition on a hard drive and are still using a floppy to boot with, here is a quick and easy way to set up a bootloader.
I used Grub and set it up manually, it doesn't have a pretty splashscreen but it boots quicker than using the floppy.
Grub requires just four files plus the vmlinuz of your current installation.
The Grub files are:
e2fs_stage1_5 (If you use a different filesystem you must select the appropiate stage1_5 file to suit. )
These are available from the Puppy forum here.
If you download the 'grub_files.tar.gz' tarball from the forum save it to /root/my-applications. To unpack it, open a terminal, click on rxvt on the desktop and type in,
#tar zxvf /root/my-applications/grub_files.tar.gz
this will place a folder called 'Grub_files' in my-applications.
To boot from Grub you must have a boot directory.containing a grub directory to hold the required files. As I had only one partition on my hard drive I just created a boot directory under the main tree /.
Open rxvt and type:
# mkdir -p /boot/grub
Now you need vmlinuz installed in the boot directory, ( I copied mine from the Puppy boot floppy made during the hard drive install)
Insert the boot floppy and using Start / File managers / Mount/unmount drives mount the floppy.
Go to /mnt/floppy and either drag or copy vmlinuz to /boot.
# cp /mnt/floppy/vmlinuz /boot
Next copy stage1 stage2 menu.lst and e2fs_stage1_5 (or whatever) to /boot/grub.
#cp /root/my-applications/Grub_files/stage1 stage2 menu.lst e2fs_stage1_5 /boot/grub
Now copy stage1 and stage2 to a floppy:
# cd /boot/grub
Insert floppy and type
# dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1Now stage2
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
# dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1Next you need to reboot from the Grub floppy and when it comes to the grub prompt 'grub> ' you have to set Grub's 'root device' to the partition containing the boot directory.
153+1 records in
153+1 records out
153+1 records in
153+1 records out
Grub uses different conventions to those used in Linux when naming partitions:
The master boot record on the hard drive in named (hd0) and each partition follows on from this i.e.
If you have just one partition, /hda1 in Linux or C: in Windows, it becomes (hd0) + 0 partition instead of no.1 or C.
The next partition would be 1, the next 2, and so on therefore Grub sees hda1 or C: as (hd0,0), that is 'hard drive zero commer zero 'and always enclosed in brackets.
So to set the 'root device':
grub> root (hd0,0) This sets /hda1 as hd0,0
Now run the setup command.
grub> setup (hd0)
This installs the boot loader into the Master Boot Record at the beginning of the hard drive. Then quit Grub.
grub> quit
There is only one thing left to do, you must give the boot loader instructions on how and what to boot, this requires a file named menu.lst which is a menu list for the boot loader.
A simple configuration for this is :
default 0
#By default boot the first entry.
timeout 30
# Boot automatically after 30 secs
title=Puppy Linux
# Display this as the Operating System to be booted
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz /root=/dev/hda1
# Where the Operating System is located
This file can be edited using 'Beaver' the text editor on the desktop.
If your setup is the same as the one described here do not worry about editing the menu.lst file.
When you reboot you will be presented with a text based menu, hit enter and Puppy will proceed to boot.
This has been put together mainly from the Grub instructions if you wish to multi-boot or have other setups than this you would do best to read the original Grub files.
To dual boot Puppy and Windows, read on.
Booting Puppy in Windows from a Grub CD
To create a bootable Grub CD to boot Puppy in Windows.
This is for everyone who is not sure how to go about creating a bootable CD.
Table of Contents
Creating the image file
Error messages
Finishing up
Some issues to look at
Error messages
Finishing up
Some issues to look at
Creating the image file
Install Puppy in Windows9x using the wizard and a live CD.
During the installation of Puppy you will be required to make a floppy boot disk, you will need this later on.
Boot Puppy from the floppy.
Get the stage2_eltorito file and copy it into my-applications, it is included in the grub_files.tar.gz which you can download here.
In Puppy use TkZip archiver in Start/Utilities to open the grub_files.tar.gz file or go to the directory where you downloaded the file by opening rox on the desktop and then right click on the directory and select Xterm here and type in tar -zxvf grub_files.tar.gz.
Open a terminal by clicking on rxvt.
Using Puppy create a directory called iso, this is best done in my-applications so change to that directory.
# cd my-applications
Make the iso directory.
# mkdir iso
Make a boot directory and a directory in iso for GRUB.
# mkd -p iso/boot/grub
Copy the stage2_eltoito file to grub
# cp stage2_eltorito iso/boot/grub
Insert the floppy disk in the floppy drive and using Start/File managers/Mount/unmount drives, mount the floppy.
This will open a Rox window displaying the contents of the boot floppy.
Right click on autoexe.bat and read the entries, you will need these for the configuration file.
You will have to make a decision about the order you want things to boot in i.e. Windows first or Puppy first.
Make the menu.lst configuration file.
(Remember this is menu 'dot ell st' not menu 'dot one st')
You can do this using Beaver just open Beaver and either click 'File/New' or click on the 'Create a new document' Icon. Put these entries in the new document:
default 0
timeout 30
title Win98
title Win98
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
chainloader +1
title Puppy Linux
rootnoverify (hd0,0)kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PFILE=pup1 -none-524288
initrd /image.gz
Save this as iso/boot/grub/menu.lst
Now to make the iso filesystem type in:
# mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o grub.iso iso
This is typed all on one line.
Hit 'Enter' and this will create a file named 'grub.iso'.
Error Messages
If you get any error messages check these things first:
Did you create the iso/boot/grub file in my-applications.
Are you in the my-applications directory, check this by typing pwd at the command line this should return /root/my-applications.
Check the syntax of the command to create the iso file, spelling and spaces.
Finishing up
If you are successful in creating the grub.iso file the next thing to do is burn it to a CD, I use rewritable CDs in case something goes wrong as it is just a matter of erasing and starting from scratch,( In my case a lot of scratching). Using whatever burning program you have, create a new CD from the grub.iso image file.
Reboot your computer and set the Bios to boot from a CDROM first then insert the CD in the drive and reboot the machine.
If all is well you will be presented with a boot menu use the up/down keys to select the OS of your choice, hit enter and let Grub take over.
This HOWTO describes how to set up Grub on a CD to boot Windows and Puppy in that order, if you wish to boot Puppy first just swap them around.
The next section looks at some things that need addressing.
Some issues to look at
There are some things that I encountered during the creation of a bootable CD that I wish to address here.
Firstly I installed Puppy 0.9.8 in a fat32 partition that is running Windows 98, a standard installation, one partition taking up the whole hard drive. To do this I used a live CD.
Now when you boot off a live CD it looks for a file named pup001, or something like that, and if it can't find one it creates one if it can, this depends on the filesystem as Puppy doesn't writ to the NT filesystem.
This file is used to store things in, settings, data, etc, for the live CD so when you install Puppy in a Windows partition it creates a pup file also.
Instead of examining the Windows C: drive to see what Puppy had done I just ploughed ahead with the Puppy install which left me with two files, pup1 and pup001 which made things a little difficult.
By looking at the contents of the autoexe.bat file on the boot floppy that was created during the installation I discovered the following:
tiny.exe c:\vmlinuz c:\image.gz root=/dev/ram0 PFILE=pup1-none-524288 PHOME=hda1
so I determined that the floppy was booting the file pup1.
On the hard drive I found the files, vmlinuz, image.gz
That led me to the entry in menu.ls:
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 PFILE=pup1-none-524288 PHOME=hda1
initrd /image.gz
I set this up as Puppy Linux 1 and used the same entry with the slight change pup001 for Puppy Linux 001. This along with the entry for Windows98 now gave me three boot options that worked.
I would suggest that if you wish to install Puppy in a Windows98 or ME partition, after booting from a live CD, examine the hard drive and if you find a pupsomething file delete it and continue with the install to the Win partition using the Wizard.
You may have to also unmount the partition you are trying to install to.
In conclusion I hope this document will be of some use to those of you who are not experienced in the use of Linux and associated programs.
This document was compiled from many sources and by the use of practical work if you have any queries or suggestions please post them on the Puppy forum or the Wiki when it is in full use.


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. Yes, they run on different operating systems, but in most other respects, they're quite similar high specs phones with 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPUs, 5 megapixel autofocus cameras, 3G HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and the usual trio of Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS. The HD2 is a bit cheaper in the US without a contract ($449 vs. $529 for the Nexus One) but the Nexus One is $20 cheaper with a T-Mobile contract (not that $20 is enough money to sway most folks' decisions).
I've owned a Nexus One since early January 2010 when it was first available. I've also been lucky enough to own the Euro version of the HTC HD2 since Nov. 2009. I'm not a stranger to either, and the Nexus One has been my daily driver since it arrived. The HD2 might have been were it not for the lack of 3G on my import model. Now that T-Mobile US has a 3G version, the decision is indeed very difficult.
What sets the HTC HD2 apart is the 4.3" capacitive multi-touch display-- currently the largest capacitive display that can be mass manufactured. It makes for a truly amazing experience when watching videos and viewing photos, web pages, eBooks and Office documents. The Nexus One's 3.7" display suddenly looks kinda small. The Nexus One has more saturated colors thanks to the AMOLED display technology but the human eye perceives sharpness much better than color, so the HD2's display actually looks clearer and sharper. While both phones are large, that huge display means that the HD2 is even bigger than the Nexus One in width and height. Thickness is about the same. If you have small hands, non-limber fingers and are into one-handed operation, the HD2 is probably too wide (in fact, the Nexus One might be as well).
Above: CNN.com on the HTC HD2.
Below: CNN.com on the Nexus One
Smackpoint: HTC HD2 wins
Operating systems... hmmm, that's the big hurt. Android is all new and shiny. It's easy to customize and there are tens of thousands of apps available in the Android Market. Windows Mobile gets bashed on these days-- it's a fashionable target in an industry where being snarky and jaded is the norm. And honestly, there's no way you could get me to use a bone stock, vanilla Windows Mobile device anymore. I loved it 5 years ago but now it's just too old fashioned and un-finger-friendly. But, big but here, HTC's Sense UI (the latest evolution of TouchFLO 3D) has nearly completely replaced the Windows Mobile UI. And it's fast, fun, useful and efficient. If you've used a 2 generations old TouchFLO 3D Windows Mobile phone, this is much, much faster and even more useful. Crazy beatiful weather, a home screen that tells you what you need to know (appointments, calls, shorcuts to apps, weather and time), Twitter, music player, stocks-- lots of good stuff here. You can select which tabs and types of data you want shown and you can add the app shortcuts of your choice, but you can't go beyond HTC's selection of tabs to add something new.
As many of you know, there aren't as many Windows Mobile apps. If you're a software junky that's a major bummer. Windows Mobile Marketplace has less than a thousand apps from my casual count. But WinMo was around long before the on-device marketplace became the norm, and there are many great apps that aren't on the Marketplace. If you're an experienced Windows Mobile user, you probably have your favorites lined up and know where to get more. But for novices, Android is much, much easier. Having used Windows Mobile for years, I have apps for all my needs. And there's crossover for popular apps like Netflix, Weatherbug and Facebook-- get it on the Android Market or get it on the Windows Mobile Marketplace. But I've also come to realize that I need a set of core apps and beyond that, I have about 20 apps I downloaded but rarely use on my iPhone and Nexus One.
What about that non-existent upgrade to Windows Phone 7? I don't think this is a deal breaker. WP7, from what's been shown so far, is a very different animal that seems in many ways more like iPhone OS. It looks like more of a closed ecosystem and those who like WinMo appreciate that it has a file manager, microSD card slot support and it's easy to get your files (all sorts) onto the device.
One advantage WinMo has over Android is the built-in MS Office Mobile suite that can read, write and edit Office files, superb MS Exchange support (no kidding, MS makes both products) and very fast and robust networking. Yet Android wins because of all those apps and because Windows Mobile 6.5, at some point a year or two from now, will be a dead end (MS will continue to offer 6.x and 7 phones for some time, so WM6.x won't disappear come the end of 2010 when Windows Phone 7 is due to debut).
Smackpoint: Nexus One
Speed: they're both fast with plenty of CPU power and RAM. Both bog down occasionally, but if you vet your 3rd party software, each is stable and doesn't slog down too often.
Smackpoint: tie.
Android isn't known for its killer multimedia capabilities, but Android OS 2.1 addresses that somewhat. The HD2 ships with the Transformers movie in 800 x 480 resolution, MPEG4 format with high quality stereo audio. The file is 1.5 gigs. We put that movie on the Nexus One and played it with Gallery, the built-in media player. It handled the movie as well as the HD2. But the Nexus One has a pitiful speaker while the HD2 rocked us with sound. The larger HD2 screen meant small details weren't too tiny to notice; a definite score. Both phones did well using headphones, though the HD2 was a bit louder and fuller.
HTC's music player and video player on the HD2 are quite good and help keep you away from the antiquated Windows Media Player Mobile. They're definitely slicker than the stock Android media apps. The HD2 is the first phone to come with Blockbuster's mobile application for buying and renting movies. Very nice for those who travel and need entertainment on the road. But Blockbuster uses DRM and so it's handled by Windows Media Player Mobile. A bland interface but the movies look fine.
Smackpoint: HD2
Tethering is a popular feature for the road warrior. That means using your phone as a high speed wireless modem over Bluetooth, USB or WiFi. Android and the Nexus don't do tethering unless you want to root your phone. The HD2 has Internet Connection Sharing over USB and Bluetooth. The Euro version has sharing over WiFi too (it works like a Verizon MiFi or the same feature on the Palm Pre), but not the T-Mobile US version. But install MortScript and 1 app from XDA-Developers and you've got 3G connection sharing over WiFi. I've tested it using a notebook and our review HD2 and it works very well.
Smackpoint: HTC HD2 wins.
Call quality is important, as is reception, even for these devices that are more pocket computers than phones. The Nexus One's Achilles heel is recpetion. It ain't great and if you hold the phone to your head with your hand covering the lower half of the phone it drops a few bars of reception. Mine drops 3G for EDGE every time I hold the phone to my head. The HD2 hasn't done this so far. Using Field Trial on the HTC HD2 and the Status applet on the Nexus One, the HD2 gets about -8db stronger signal than the Nexus on 3G HSDPA, and that's a significant improvement. That said, the HD2 still isn't an RF demon like the
Nokia N900
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Call quality is better on the HTC HD2, particularly outgoing call quality. Our call recipients swear we're on a land line. Bluetooth headsets also offer better call quality with the HD2 for outgoing audio.
Smackpoint: HTC HD2
Build quality and looks should be tops on expensive phones, and both the HTC HD2 and Nexus One are solid, well made phones with rigid plastics and metal. Though both are large phones, the curvy and slightly smaller Nexus One is easier to hold in the hand and operate one-handed.
Smackpoint: Nexus One.
Both phone's cameras look similar on paper. They're both 5 megapixel autofocus and both phones are made by HTC. The HD2 had a dual LED flash that's bright enough to blind a mugger in a dark allway while the Nexus One has a wimpy single LED flash. The Nexus One's photos aren't verry good in terms of sharpness, exposure and color accuracy. The HD2 feels like next generation hardware with a touch focus option (touch the area you want to be the center of focus), fast shot times, VGA video recording and it yieds much sharper images with natural colors and good exposure. The T-Mobile HD2 takes better photos than the import HD2 (HTC has had 5 months to improve things after all).
Smackpoint: HTC HD2
Based on these criteria, the HTC HD2 smacks down the Nexus One. Looking at the big picture, a brand new OS and lots of apps does carry lots of weight, even though it comprises just one comparison point. And in reality, it is a hard choice. Either way you get a great phone and pocket computer.
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As it turns out I am one of those people who like one-handed operation (and my hands are plenty big enough for any phone and too big for some).
Any suggestions for one-handed operation these days, perhaps in a Windows Mobile phone? (I'm also one of those people with Windows Mobile ups all lined up.)
I just hate to give up one handed operation but it looks like that's the way the market has gone (past tense already?)
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The 4.3" display models like the HD2 and HTC Evo are obviously the widest and thus the hardest to one-hand. But if you have quite large hands, you might have few problems. I have large hands for a woman with very long fingers and I use the HD2 one-handed without a problem. I lay the phone in my palm across the fingers and my thumb can reach anywhere on the display.
It is true that the market is moving toward multi-touch and away from one-handed operation. Among Windows Mobile HTC Sense phones (generally my top picks), they're all on the large side.
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Brief Itinerarygo to detailDay 1: Arrival in Ulaanbaatar, Tour of the City
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Arrive in Ulaanbaatar, meet at the airport and transfer to the hotel. The city tour of Ulaanbaatar takes you through some of the principal sights of this unique city. You visit the Gandan Monastery, Genghis Khan monument on the Sukhbaatar square and the Museum of National History. Centrally located excellent hotel 3* L
Today, we'll hike to Mt. Tsetsee Gun, which is the highest peak of the Bogd Khaan Mountain range in Bogd Khaan National Park. It'll take 2.3 half hours to hike to the peak Tsetsee Gun in one way normally. View the some panoramic views of Ulaanbaatar city. Rest of the day is spent at the ger camp in the evening, optional horse riding etc. Ger camp B+L+D
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DUBLIN, Ireland (July 15, 2009) – Oklahoma Christian University head cross-country coach Mark Thompson is competing in a series of races across Europe during the month of July.
On Wednesday, Thompson won the mile run at the famous Morton Mile in Dublin, Ireland, with a personal-best time of 4:01.20. Thompson was one of three Americans in the field and he edged Canada's Geoff Martinson (4:01.65) for top honors.
"I felt tremendous, and it was definitely a sub-four (minute) day for me if the race had called for it. The Irish were so excited and appreciative of the effort, and I felt like royalty the rest of the evening. It was the biggest win of my career, and it felt relatively easy. I've got another sub-four shot in 10 days, so I plan to leave everything on the track then. In running your identity is your time, and I'd like to carry 3:59 with me the rest of my life," Thompson said.
Earlier on the trip, Thompson clocked a personal-best time 7:59.01 in the 3,000 meters at the Leon Buyle in Belgium, a time which ranks in the top-40 3,000-meter performances in the United States. Thompson also set a personal best in the 1,500 meters where he ran 3:42.57 in Belgium.
OC assistant cross-country and track and field coach Sam Dech is also competing with Thompson in Europe. Dech set a personal mark with a 1:50.39 in the 800 meters at a high-performance series race in Indianapolis, Ind., earlier this month.
Thompson – who serves as an assistant track and field coach – helped two Oklahoma Christian athletes win NAIA national championships on the track this season. Senior Josh Wayland won the indoor 1,000 meters and sophomore Silas Kisorio was the national champ in the outdoor 800 meters.
The 29-year-old Thompson was a nine-time state champion runner in track and cross country at Edmond Memorial High School in the mid 1990s before running on two national-championship teams at the University of Arkansas. He was named OC's head cross-country coach in December 2008.
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So Clover is still really itchy. She is always biting at the side of her belly by the top of her leg or scratching. She seems very uncomfortable. I've been checking for flea's, haven't seen any since she was treated. I feel by now the bites should be going away. I don't feel Zeke is near as itchy. I've been giving them both allergy meds for about 3-4 days now. I hate seeing her uncomfortable. Could it be something else? Should I do something else? I don't want to give her a bath since she was treated with Advantage recently. Is it normal to still be sooo itchy? She was never itchy like this before I found the flea.
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So the dogs have been pretty itchy lately. Zeke is always itchy. He has a skin thing. So I didn't think much of it. But Clover has also been itchy the last few days. I didn't think much of it. I thought maybe dry skin or something. Her leg would go crazy whenever I scratched her so I thought maybe I'll look for fleas or bites.
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Pleassse tell me this isn't a flea D: I've never had fleas on my dogs before so this is pretty gross!
Urg. So what do I do to get rid of them? How do they get them in winter? Wouldn't being outside be too cold? Will they live in my sheets? Clover's been sleeping on my bed...I'm thinking of them crawling on my when I sleep. Will just a plain wash get rid of them? (they don't live on ppl do they?)
How long will it take for them to die? I found some Advantage in my cupboard. I have no idea how old it is. It doesn't seem to have an expiration date. Could be a year old? Could be more or less? Can I still use it? I'll get more stuff tomorrow. Should I bath/flea collar them or will the advantage be enough?
Sorry for the all the questions. I feel so bad for the dogs not looking into this sooner! They have never been a problem. Can they jump from person to person? My nieces cats apparently have them pretty bad. I never saw her or the cat recently but I did see my sister over the holidays (who had been to see the cats)
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Changing the Economics and Experience of IT
Utilizing the right IT solutions can help reduce complexities by automating and proactively managing previously time-consuming processes, enabling IT pros to focus on value-added activities that can help bring business improvements. This white paper discusses the IBM PureSystems family of products, which was designed to change both the economics and the experience of IT. Read on to find out how utilization of these solutions will enable you to focus on higher-value business transformation services rather than IT infrastructure tasks.


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Radiation Therapy—External
(Ionizing Radiation; Radiotherapy)
Radiation therapy is a treatment for cancer and other diseases. It uses high-energy particles to damage the genetic code (DNA) in the cancer cells. This makes the cells unable to grow or divide.
There are 2 main types of radiation therapy:
- External—radiation is delivered by a machine that shoots particles at the cells from outside the body
- Internal—radioactive materials are placed in the body near the cancer cells (also called implant radiation or brachytherapy)
In certain cases, your doctor may recommend a combination of these. Radiation is often used with other types of treatment, such as surgery, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy (stimulates the immune system to fight infection).
This fact sheet will focus on external radiation therapy.
Reasons for Procedure
This procedure may be done to:
- Control the growth or spread of cancer
- Attempt to cure cancer
- Reduce pain or other symptoms caused by cancer—palliative radiation
Radiation therapy is commonly used to treat:
- Solid tumors, such as prostate cancer, breast cancer, and head and neck cancers
- Lymphomas and leukemia
Possible Complications
External radiation does not cause your body to become radioactive. It can cause side effects, as the radiation damages your own healthy cells as well as the cancer cells. Common side effects of radiation include, but are not limited to:
- Fatigue
- Skin changes (redness, irritation)
- Reduced white blood cell count
- Hair loss
- Nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea
- Appetite loss
Discuss the specific side effects that you may have with your doctor.
Factors that may increase the risk of complications include:
- Previous radiation therapy
- A personal history of systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma , or dermatomyositis
A woman who is pregnant or could be pregnant should avoid exposure to radiation. It could harm a developing fetus.
What to Expect
Prior to Procedure
You will go through a process called simulation. This takes between 30 minutes and 2 hours.
- You will lie on an exam table. A CT scan will be used to define the exact place(s) where radiation will be directed. The exact area on your skin may be marked with colored ink. You may also have a small tattoo (or several) placed on your skin. This is as a permanent mark to help aim the radiation beam.
- Depending on the type of treatment required, you may also be measured for devices like braces that will help you stay still during treatment.
Description of the Procedure
You will be positioned on the treatment table or chair. The radiation therapist will leave the room and enter a control room. The machine will deliver radiation to certain areas of your body. The most common sources of radiation are x-rays, electron beams, and cobalt-60 gamma rays.
You must be still during treatment. The therapist can see you on a screen. You can talk with the therapist if you feel uncomfortable or sick.
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How Long Will It Take?
The treatment takes 1-5 minutes. You should allow at least 30 minutes for each session. Most treatments last 2-8 weeks. They are given once a day, 5 days per week. In some cases, you may be treated twice daily or only 3 times a week. Treatment schedules will depend on different factors. Talk to your radiation oncologist about the schedule planned for you.
Will It Hurt?
Average Hospital Stay
There is no hospital stay. External radiation is typically done at an office visit.
Post-procedure Care
During treatment, your doctor will want to see you at least once a week. You may have routine blood tests to check for the effects of radiation on your blood cells.
After treatment is completed, you will have regular visits to monitor healing and to make sure the treatment affected the disease as planned. Follow-up care will vary for each person. Care may include further testing, medications, or rehabilitative treatment.
Call Your Doctor
After arriving home, contact your doctor if any of the following occur:
- Signs of infection, including fever and chills
- Diarrhea or loss of appetite
- Unexplained weight loss
- Frequent urination, particularly if it is associated with pain or burning sensation
- New or unusual swelling or lumps
- Nausea and/or vomiting that you cannot control with the medications you were given
- Pain that does not go away
- Unusual changes in skin, including bruises, rashes, discharge, or bleeding
- Cough, shortness of breath, or chest pain
- Any other symptom your nurse or doctor told you to look for
- Any new or unexpected symptoms
If you think you have an emergency, call for emergency medical services right away.
American Cancer Society
National Cancer Institute
Canadian Cancer Society
Cancer Care Ontario
Radiation. Oncolink, University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center website. Available at: http://www.oncolink.org/treatment/treatment.cfm?c=5. Accessed February 24, 2015.
Radiation therapy for cancer. National Cancer Institute website. Available at: http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/radiation-therapy/radiation-fact-sheet. Accessed February 24, 2015.
Revision Information
- Reviewer: EBSCO Medical Review Board Mohei Abouzied, MD
- Review Date: 03/2017
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The use of estrogen to supplement that which is no longer being produced by the body, and hormone therapy (HT), in which estrogen and progestin (a synthetic progesterone) are used in combination, have been the subject of great controversy over the years.
To learn more about women's health, and specifically hormone therapy, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in 1991. The study consisted of clinical trials and an observational study, which together involved more than 161,808 generally healthy postmenopausal women.
The clinical trials were designed to test the effects of postmenopausal hormone therapy, diet modification, and calcium and vitamin D supplements on heart disease, fractures, and breast and colorectal cancer.
The hormone trial had two studies: the estrogen-plus-progestin study of women with a uterus and the estrogen-alone study of women without a uterus. Women with a uterus were given progestin in combination with estrogen, a practice known to prevent endometrial cancer. In both hormone therapy studies, women were randomly assigned to either the hormone medication being studied or to placebo (inactive substance). Compared with placebo, the estrogen plus progestin treatment resulted in:
Compared with placebo, treatment with estrogen alone resulted in:
The WHI recommends that women follow the FDA advice on hormone (estrogen-alone or estrogen-plus-progestin) therapy. It states that hormone therapy should not be taken to prevent heart disease.
These products are approved therapies for relief from moderate to severe hot flashes and symptoms of vulvar and vaginal atrophy. Although hormone therapy may be effective for the prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosis, it should only be considered for women at significant risk of osteoporosis who cannot take non-estrogen medications. The FDA recommends that hormone therapy be used at the lowest doses for the shortest duration needed to achieve treatment goals. Postmenopausal women who use or are considering using hormone therapy should discuss the possible benefits and risks to them with their health care providers.
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute offers the following suggestions for women who are deciding whether or not to use hormone therapy:
Always consult your health care provider for more information.
As a woman approaches menopause, the production of estrogen and progesterone fluctuates and then decreases significantly. Symptoms such as hot flashes often result from the changing hormone levels. After a woman's last menstrual period, when her ovaries make much less estrogen and progesterone, some symptoms might disappear, but others may continue.
To help relieve these symptoms, some women use hormones. This is called menopausal hormone therapy (MHT). This approach used to be called hormone replacement therapy or HRT. MHT describes several different hormone combinations available in a variety of forms and doses.
According to the American Medical Association, hormone therapy can be administered in a variety of methods, including the following:
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|Estrogen pills can either be taken every day or for 25 days each month. Women who have had a hysterectomy can take estrogen alone, while those who have not may take a combination pill (estrogen and progestin).
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The cyclic method involves taking estrogen and progestin separately - with estrogen taken either every day or daily for 25 days of the month and progestin taken for 10 to 14 days of the month. This may cause monthly "withdrawal" bleeding.
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|Using this method, a patch is applied to the skin of the abdomen or buttocks for 3 ½ or 7 days. The patch is then discarded and a new one is applied. The patch can be left on at all times, even while swimming or bathing, and either the estrogen, or estrogen/progestin combination is delivered through the skin into the bloodstream. Progestin can be taken in a pill form with the patch. The patches may cause monthly bleeding.
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|Estrogen cream is inserted into the vagina or used locally around the vulva to help with vaginal dryness and urinary problems.
|Raloxifene is an estrogen-like drug (sometimes called "designer estrogen") that is part of a new class of drugs called selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs).
For women who are appropriate candidates, this type of therapy can often be customized to provide the most benefits with the least side effects. It is important for women to talk with their health care providers about any discomfort or menstrual symptoms experienced with hormone treatment, as treatment approaches and dosages can be adjusted.
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A California man claims he was detained by federal agents after not flushing the toilet during a cross-country flight.
Salvatore Bevivino, 52, was greeted by uniformed officers after his Virgin America flight from Philadelphia to his hometown of San Francisco touched down on April 28, 2012, the New York Daily News reported.
Crew members had reported him for "using profanities and not listening to instructions from the flight," according to The Smoking Gun.
They also accused him of not flushing the toilet on board correctly.
Bevivino was eventually released without charges and is now suing Virgin America for $500,000.
In the lawsuit, he claims the incident had caused him embarrassment, humiliation, mortification, mental anguish and emotional distress, and damage to his professional reputation.
The litigation accuses Virgin America of violating Bevivino's civil rights through false imprisonment, discrimination and denial of equal rights, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.


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The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, passed by Congress at the eleventh hour and counting, preserved the charitable deduction, much to the relief of the philanthropic and nonprofit sector.
A number of organizations claimed some credit for educating legislators about the importance of charitable giving in the lead-up to the vote. But the Council on Foundations noted that the legislation was only a first step toward more comprehensive tax reform.
"Your voice will be critical in 2013 as the 113th Congress considers comprehensive tax reform that could include alterations to the charitable deduction," the organization told its members in a statement after the bill passed.
For now, the good news for the sector is that the bill placed no cap on charitable deductions. These will continue to be coupled with an individual's or household's corresponding tax rate.
The bill also extended the IRA charitable rollover through Dec. 31. This provision permits tax-free distributions to an eligible charity from an IRA held by someone 70½ or older of up to $100,000 per taxpayer, per taxable year.
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- Donors can make distributions directly to eligible charities before Feb. 1, and elect to have such distributions treated as qualified charitable distributions in 2012. The council said this change may in particular benefit donors who want to take advantage of the rollover in both 2012 and 2013.
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Neon pink, geometric shapes at Preen's London show
09/15/2013 4:14amGeometric shapes, neon pink and clean white: Preen set the tone for its new spring collection on Sunday right from the start, even before the first outfits were displayed.
After delay, Italy loans Israel Botticelli work
09/15/2013 6:42amAn aide to Israel's culture minister says Italy will loan a Botticelli masterpiece to Israel as scheduled, after delaying the loan over worries about Syria.
Sweden's king celebrates 40 years on the throne
09/15/2013 6:50amKing Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden is celebrating 40 years on the throne by throwing a dance party in the Stockholm Palace courtyard.
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09/15/2013 7:59amTo Elisabeth Hasselbeck, the "Fox & Friends" morning show felt like home long before she actually got to work there.
V&A Museum buys working gun made on 3-D printer
09/15/2013 8:59amBritain's Victoria & Albert Museum says it has bought a working gun made on a 3-D printer, which sparked alarm among anti-firearms campaigners when it was unveiled in the United States.
Village north of NYC has deal for the right chef
09/15/2013 10:34amLocals looking to land a buzz-worthy, foodie-friendly restaurant in this Hudson River village are offering the right chef a novel deal: Come to Catskill with a killer concept _ maybe farm-to-table, gastro-pub or vegetarian _ and get space on Main Street rent free for a year.
Rose-tinted romanticism at Temperley London show
09/15/2013 1:14pmRomantic escapism has never looked more enticing than on Temperley London's new spring catwalk.
Music producer killed by gun shots in Jamaica
09/15/2013 2:23pmA Jamaican music producer who worked with top dancehall reggae acts has been found shot to death in his car in Jamaica's capital.
Westwood, Temperley headline London catwalk shows
09/15/2013 3:58pmLondon Fashion Week saw its busiest day so far Sunday, with editors and buyers rushing across the city for back-to-back spring womenswear preview shows. With so much to see, what was memorable?
'12 Years a Slave' voted fan favorite in Toronto
09/15/2013 4:40pm"12 Years a Slave," has won the audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival, building Oscar momentum for Steve McQueen's unblinking portrait of slavery in 1840s America.
Phylicia Rashad takes on directing role
09/15/2013 4:57pmPhylicia Rashad is best known for starring roles on stage and television, but as a director she decided to commemorate a historic moment that helped spur the civil rights movement.
Carlos Santana escapes unharmed in Vegas accident
09/15/2013 7:06pmPolice say Carlos Santana drove into an unoccupied parked car near an upscale area of Las Vegas, but escaped injury.
10 semi-finalists chosen in Miss America pageant
09/15/2013 8:41pmThe field of contestants in the Miss America pageant is down to 10.
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