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Sharp, Blackhawks rebound vs. Sharksby Brian Hedger
CHICAGO -- Twenty-four hours after being embarrassed by the Nashville Predators, the Chicago Blackhawks were highly motivated when they took the ice against the San Jose Sharks on Sunday night.
It showed.
Led by a strong defensive performance in front of goalie Corey Crawford (23 saves) plus a three-point game by Patrick Sharp (two goals), the Blackhawks bounced back strong with a 5-1 victory at United Center.
"We wanted to prove to ourselves that last night wasn't good enough," Sharp said. "We were all embarrassed, and thankfully we had a short turnaround to get back out there and play again. I was really happy with the way we all responded and had a great start to the first quarter [of the season]."
The loss was just the third in regulation for the Sharks (13-3-5), who came into the game with 31 points, one more than Chicago.
Sharp scored in the second period and then capped off the scoring with a penalty shot late in the third to put the icing on the win, his first successful penalty shot in five tries with the Blackhawks. Sharp combined with Kris Versteeg (one goal, one assist) and Brandon Saad (two assists) to lead the way offensively for Chicago.
The Blackhawks (14-3-4) also got goals from Jonathan Toews and rookie Brandon Pirri, who scored for the third straight game and notched a point for the fourth straight contest.
It was also a good night for the home team in the defensive zone. The Blackhawks blocked 14 shots and were credited with 10 takeaways on the scoresheet.
"We're happy with the way we responded," defenseman Duncan Keith said. "Nobody was happy about the way things ended up [Saturday] night, but we moved on and did a good job regrouping. I thought we got better as the game went along and used our speed to our advantage."
As happy as the Blackhawks were about their bounce-back win, Sharks coach Todd McLellan was equally unhappy with his team's play, even if it was the last stop of a five-game road trip. Most disappointing to McLellan was what he felt was sloppy play.
The San Jose coach thought his team looked a little lethargic, even though it was Chicago, not the Sharks, that played back-to-back nights.
"When I look at the game, we lacked a lot of energy that we needed to play in this type of game," McLellan said. "And when you don't have energy, you'd better be sharp mentally, and we may have been really poor in that area."
It showed in the number of times the Sharks coughed up the puck and failed to win battles for possession in all three zones.
"If their [defensemen] get to move the puck up ice with their eyes up instead of turning, their counterpunch is incredible and we learned that lesson again," McLellan said. "We either didn't want to hear it or didn't want to listen to it or we didn't want to buy into it. I don't know what it was, but we certainly played into their hands."
Joe Pavelski scored the lone goal for San Jose, and former Blackhawks goalie Antti Niemi took the loss.
Chicago improved to 12-0-3 when scoring first. The Blackhawks took a 1-0 lead at 16:34 of an evenly played first period on Pirri's goal. It was the rookie center's fourth goal in his past six games and fifth of the season.
The goal was created by Kane's shot from the right circle, which was blocked by Scott Hannan in front of the net. The deflected puck landed right near Pirri's stick in the left circle and he buried it. The assists went to Versteeg and Kane, who has at least a point in seven straight games (four goals, five assists).
It was Versteeg's first game back at United Center in a Blackhawks uniform since being traded shortly after the team won the Stanley Cup in 2010. After being reacquired last week in a trade with the Florida Panthers, the big win almost made up for a sour debut in Nashville the night before.
"It was emotional coming back," he said. "[Saturday] night definitely wasn't the way I saw coming back in my head, but tonight was very exciting. The guys put in a big effort, and obviously we've got to keep that going [heading] into a big road trip."
It took almost half of the second period, but Pavelski got the Sharks even at 1-1 8:16 into the middle period. He scored his eighth goal in unconventional fashion, firing a shot from the slot that Crawford had trouble gloving and wound up knocking into his own net.
Four minutes later, Sharp's sixth goal of the season gave the Blackhawks a 2-1 lead. The one-time blast from the left circle came after a perfect cross-ice feed by Marcus Kruger. Sharp also played a role in Toews' 10th goal of the season, picking up a secondary assist when the Blackhawks captain followed up his own shot to make it 3-1 at 3:39 of the third.
Versteeg scored at 15:10 to put Chicago up 4-1. Sharp then beat Niemi on the penalty shot with a pretty backhand-forehand move before lifting it into the top right corner to close out the scoring.
Chicago will now embark on a seven-game road trip, and will play eight of its next nine games on the road.
The Sharks return to San Jose for a five-game homestand knowing they need to be better than what they showed in the Windy City.
"You just have to get it back past their [defense]," San Jose captain Joe Thornton said. "That's the key. A couple of their goals, we didn't do that and then it's game over. It's a long trip, and we're going to be glad to get home."


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Oklahoma Sooners Defensive News Conference (Transcripts)
On his initial impression of Johnny Manziel: "He doesn't try to be anybody he is not. He plays to his strengths extremely well and to whom he is as a football player. He uses his gifts to help them win and that is what any great quarterback or player does. He knows exactly what he can and can't do. His ability to extend and create plays, there's not a defense created to defend against that."
On the youth of Johnny Manziel: "Sometimes it's better when you don't know and have no expectations. You can go in there and fly by the seat of your pants and do what is instinctually instinctive. Those instincts usually as for a football player are the most important qualities you can have."
On stopping Johnny Manziel: "I don't think you stop him. Nobody has been able to stop him. I think you try to contain him and try to limit his big plays. Being able to keep him in the pocket is easier said than done. They do a great job creating run plays for him to get him into open space. People don't realize, but the offensive line does a great job of creating space for him."
On the impact of both offensive tackles for Texas A&M: "Those two guys, they can keep people from closing in. They both do a great job of keeping people in front of them and make space around them. As a unit on their football team, their offensive line is probably their greatest strength. It all starts up front on any football team."
On deciding factor to head to the NFL: "The main thing is just finding out everything I need to know. There are still a few things that I am unsure about as far as what they want and what they need."
On Johnny Manziel and how similar he is to Robert Griffin III: "I would say in some ways they are similar. They both a great a creating plays when there are no plays. They both find a way to win. They both do great things and that is why they both won the Heisman Trophy."
On the familiarity of Texas A&M: "It is a good thing because you know what they like to do. We know what to expect when we go out there. We know the great players they have and who they are. Being able to play them the past few years, it will be good to see them again this week."
On being able to rattle Johnny Manziel: "I think we can and I know we will have the opportunity to do it. It will come down to us being disciplined and doing our assignments."
On facing someone similar to Johnny Manziel: "I would say Robert Griffin. I don't think he was as elusive as Johnny as far as running the ball, but you deal with them in similar ways."
On who should have won the Heisman Trophy: "I think Johnny deserved it. For a defensive guy, you don't see that happen often even though I was rooting for Tao."
On Texas A&M being an old foe: "You know, it's a ballgame. I think whether we are playing Texas A&M or anyone else, our goal is to win the game. We are going to go out there on Friday and compete."
On waiting to play: "That is the worst part. You sit around and you're watching all the other bowl games happen, you say, "Man, I wish our bowl game was today." However, I understand that we have to wait for a reason and when the time comes we will be ready to play."
On his confidence in the Oklahoma offense: "They have been good all year. Landry does a good job of leading those guys. I'm comfortable in them and what they can do. We see them every day; we know what they can bring to the table."
On the Oklahoma offensive line: "I think our offensive line has been great at adapting to who they go against. They're not the biggest or the most intimidating guys, but they have a way of flowing together and making the plays. They are fast flowing for an offensive line and I think that is an advantage they have over other people."
On all the talk about Johnny: "The talk is getting old and I'm sure it is getting old for him too. I think we all want to get to the game and stop all the talk. I'm ready for it and I am sure he is ready for that too."
On how tough it is to defend against a scramble quarterback: "It is extremely tough. The extension of the play makes you have to cover and defend longer than you are accustomed to. A big part of defending that will be the guys upfront not allowing him get away and keep him in front of them. It is easier said than done. It does make it difficult though because that entire offense is worked around him.

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Precious: Based On The Novel 'Push' By Sapphire – One of the most praised films of '09, this one was up for Best Picture, plus a bunch of acting nominations. One of the worst movie titles ever, though.
Up In The Air – George Clooney stars in the newest film from Jason Reitman (Juno, Thank You For Smoking). Also a Best Picture nom.
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Gaming PCs are like snowflakes: Sometimes they melt. Also, no two are exactly the same. We already know that our readers generally prefer NVIDIA graphics cards to AMD, but I'm curious about more specifics.
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A JDBC data view enables you to make a relational database accessible to LDAP client applications. The following configuration objects are required to set up a JDBC data view:
JDBC data source. Defined for each relational database. Currently, only one JDBC data source is supported per JDBC data view.
JDBC data source pool. Defined for each JDBC data source.
JDBC data view. Aggregates JDBC object classes into a single data view accessible by LDAP client applications.
JDBC object class. Maps one or more JDBC tables to an LDAP object class.
JDBC table. Defined for each relational database table.
JDBC attribute. Defines an LDAP attribute from a specified column in a JDBC table.
The following diagram shows how an LDAP client application is able to view an Oracle database in the format of an LDAP DIT, through the configuration of the JDBC objects described previously. These objects are discussed in more detail in the following sections.
An LDAP client application can also bind to a JDBC data view, or to a join data view that includes a JDBC data view. In this case Directory Proxy Server obtains the password from the JDBC database to do the password check. The password can be obtained in clear, SHA, or SSHA.
A JDBC data source is defined for each relational database. The properties of a JDBC data source include the name and location of the relational database, and the user name and password required to access the database. For a complete list of the properties that can be set for a JDBC data source, run the following command:
$ dpconf get-jdbc-data-source-prop -h myHost -p 2389 -d "cn=Proxy Manager"\ jdbc-data-source-name
Currently, only one JDBC data source is supported for each JDBC data view. In other words, you cannot load balance across JDBC data sources.
Like LDAP data sources, JDBC data sources are organized into data source pools. The properties of a JDBC data source pool are similar to those of an LDAP data source pool. For more information about LDAP data source pools see LDAP Data Source Pools.
Directory Proxy Server relies on metadata retrieved from the relational database. This metadata is read when Directory Proxy Server starts, or when a new JDBC data view is added. The metadata is not reread each time Directory Proxy Server processes a request. If you change the metadata in the relational database, you must restart Directory Proxy Server to take the changes into account.
The metadata is changed when any of the following changes are made:
Changes to the structure of the database (adding or removing tables, rows, or columns)
Changes to the case sensitivity of any column in a table
A JDBC object class maps an LDAP object class to one or more relational database tables. A JDBC object class works in a similar way to a join data view (see Join Data Views). Just as a join data view has primary and secondary source data views, a JDBC object class can obtain its information from more than one table. One table must be defined as the primary table, and additional tables, if they exist, are defined as secondary tables. The primary table controls the list of entries and additional information on these entries is extracted from the secondary tables.
When you define a JDBC object class, you must specify the following operands:
The name of the JDBC data view to which this object class is attached.
The name of the JDBC object class.
The primary JDBC table from which the object class will obtain its list of entries.
A DN pattern that controls how DNs are constructed in the data view.
Optionally, one or more secondary JDBC tables.
A JDBC table must be created for each relational database table that will be used in the JDBC data view. When you create a JDBC table you specify the name of the table in the relational database, and the name you want to assign to this table in the JDBC data view.
The following properties apply to JDBC tables:
SQL table. (sql-table) Specifies the name of the relational database table.
This value must be specified when you create the JDBC table but can be changed if the SQL table name changes.
Single row table. (is-single-row-table) Specifies that an LDAP entry has only one matching row in the relational database table.
Generally, performance is improved if this property is set to true because there is no ordering in the SQL request.
Shared entries. (contains-shared-entries) This property determines what should be done if a row in a secondary table is used by more than one entry in the primary table.
Imagine for example, that the primary table contains a list of user details and the secondary table contains department numbers. A single department number in the secondary table might apply to more than one user in the primary table. If a user is deleted, you do not necessarily want that user's department number to be deleted from the secondary table.
The contains-shared-entries property is set on secondary tables only. If this property is set to TRUE, deleting an LDAP entry will result in deletion of the user in the primary table but not in the deletion of the corresponding row in the secondary table.
Filter join rule. (filter-join-rule) A filter join rule defines the relationship between primary and secondary tables.
A filter join rule is mandatory on secondary tables, and indicates how an entry should be retrieved from the secondary table based on something in the primary table.
Only one filter join rule can be configured on each secondary table. A filter join rule takes the form of a filter that is used to construct an LDAP attribute.
For example, the following command creates a filter join on the secondary phone table. This rule stipulates that an entry be retrieved from the phone table if the user_id field in that table matches the id field in the employee table.
$ dpconf set-jdbc-table-prop -h myHost -p 2389 -d "cn=Proxy Manager" \ phone filter-join-rule:user_id=\${employee.id}
JDBC attributes map LDAP attributes to entries in relational database tables. The definition of a JDBC attribute includes the name of the LDAP attribute, and the table and column in which the corresponding information is located.
For example, the following command maps the employeeNumber attribute to the ID field of the EMPLOYEE table.
$ dpconf add-jdbc-attr -h myHost -p 2389 -d "cn=Proxy Manager" \ EMPLOYEE employeeNumber ID
The following properties apply to JDBC attributes:
LDAP syntax. (ldap-syntax) This property defines the syntax used to construct the LDAP attribute from an entry in the relational database table.
Changes to JDBC attribute syntax require a server restart before they are taken into account.
SQL column. (sql-column) The column in the relational database table from which the LDAP attribute is obtained.
SQL syntax. (sql-syntax) This property defines the syntax used to construct an entry in the relational database table from an LDAP entry.
In some cases, the LDAP attribute might be case insensitive, while the corresponding column in the relational database is case sensitive. Directory Proxy Server handles this by adding an UPPER keyword to equality and substring indexes. This can have serious performance implications. If the relational database requires case-sensitivity, you should therefore create specific indexes on the upper case values.


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Author James Patterson giving $1M to independent bookstores
NEW YORK (AP) — Best-selling author James Patterson is giving away $1 million of his own money to independent bookstores.
On Wednesday, Patterson announced the first round of 55 stores to receive over $267,000 in funds. The remaining $750,000 will be given out in stages throughout the year.
Patterson's publisher, Hachette Book Group, released a statement saying the author feels that bookstores are vital to communities and that they leave a lasting love of reading in children and adults.
The bookstores can do whatever they want with the grants, which range from $2,000 to $15,000.
Patterson's books have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide, making him among the world's most prolific and popular writers.
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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** Update – We have just been given a Staff Pick on Vimeo. Amazing, thanks so much Vimeo Team! : https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/70975460 **
The Olympians is now live! This is an expanded cut of the original art concept piece that we created last year. We liked it so much that we decided to extend it to a full (short) film and release it in time for the upcoming Anniversary Olympics event this weekend in London. This blog also has a few weeds growing due to a year of neglect, so it provides us with an excuse to update the blog too. So let the games begin! (again).
If you are would like to get in touch or just say hi you can here. or follow at @mastersofpie.
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Please keep an eye on this page for news updates as we will be submitting the film into various festivals etc and please let us know what you think in the comments.


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GOP preps plan for health law ruling
House Republican leaders are quietly hatching a plan of attack as they await a historic Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama's health care law.
If the law is upheld, Republicans will take to the floor to tear out its most controversial pieces, such as the individual mandate and requirements that employers provide insurance or face fines.
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If the law is partially or fully overturned they'll draw up bills to keep the popular, consumer-friendly portions in place — like allowing adult children to remain on parents' health care plans until age 26, and forcing insurance companies to provide coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. Ripping these provisions from law is too politically risky, Republicans say.
The post-Supreme Court plan — a ruling should come in June — has long been whispered about inside House leadership circles and among the House's elected physicians but is now being discussed with a larger groups of lawmakers, showing that Republicans are aggressively preparing for a big-time health care debate in the heat of an election-year summer.
( Also on POLITICO: Immigration a health policy challenge)
On Tuesday, the major options were discussed during a small closed meeting of House Republican leaders, according to several sources present.
Then on Wednesday, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) gave the entire House Republican Conference a preview of where the party is heading. His message: "When the court rules, we'll be ready."
But Boehner warned that they'll relegislate the issue in smaller, bite sizes, rather than putting together an unwieldy new health care bill.
"If all or part of the law is struck down, we are not going to repeat the Democrats' mistakes," Boehner said, according to several sources present. "We have better ideas on health care — lots of them. We have solutions, of course, for patients with pre-existing conditions and other challenges."
The plan represents an aggressive posture from House Republicans. It seeks to shelter them from criticism from the left that they're leaving uninsured Americans out to dry. Aides caution the plans could still be changed — but this outline, confirmed by several sources with direct knowledge of the planning, represents the broad sketch of what's likely to come this summer.
The court is expected to issue its ruling on the mandate and the future of the health law in late June. The ruling is all but sure to be the most controversial of the term, sending health care back into the headlines and making it a major talking point on the campaign trail.
Opening the legislative can of worms on health care after such an emotional Supreme Court ruling would be tricky — and would come with major risks.
First, if the law's popular insurance provisions are struck, Republicans know Democrats are going to blame them for "putting insurance companies back in charge" — a refrain Obama has already used on the campaign trail.


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GOP leaders stumble on Day One
The Steve Scalise era is off to an embarrassing start.
The Louisiana Republican, who boasted of his deep ties to red-state GOP lawmakers in his recent bid to become majority whip, received a very public drubbing on his first day in the No. 3 slot when his colleagues abandoned leadership's plans to pass a border security bill.
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With their eyes fixed on August recess, GOP leaders were forced to pull the bill Thursday afternoon after rank-and-file lawmakers flipped from "yes" votes to "no" votes, as the chamber descended into chaos just hours before a monthlong recess was supposed to kick off.
( Also on POLITICO: House GOP in disarray: Border fight delays recess)
The meltdown unfolded just hours after Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) gave his last floor speech as majority leader, ushering in an era of new leadership that pledged to be more efficient. But reality quickly set in that, new leadership aside, conservatives continue to hold enough clout to upend the House agenda — just as they have since Republicans took power in 2011.
Thursday's setback, however, could be fleeting. Scalise will have an unusually quick chance for redemption because the House is sticking around Friday to try to chart a path forward. Scalise and Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), chief deputy majority whip, were huddling with members Thursday evening to try to pick up votes. Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) — who has taken a tough line during the internal Republican negotiations over the border security package — and Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) were helping the whip operation. GOP sources are hopeful small changes to the legislation could garner enough backing to pass it.
Leadership is privately ruling out any drastic changes to the legislation.
( Also on POLITICO: House GOP in border-crisis chaos)
The House Rules Committee met Thursday evening to pass a "martial law" bill that would allow same-day consideration of any legislative package.
Yet it's unclear how long Republican leadership will keep lawmakers in town. Leadership aides said it could stretch through the weekend if necessary.
After the $659 million bill was yanked from the House floor, Scalise joked that he was "having fun."
"What a way to start things out," Scalise deadpanned.
( Also on POLITICO: CIA sorry for Senate snooping)
To turn a potential loss into a victory, Scalise, Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy are going to have to pick up a lot of votes in a short period of time — it's not clear they will be able to do it. GOP sources said they would need to close a double-digit gap in order to pass the bill. Democrats are unlikely to support anything unless there are enough Republican votes required to pass a bill.
It wasn't supposed to be this way with Scalise at the leadership table. GOP lawmakers and aides — including Scalise — were very confident on Wednesday that they could pass the bill. Scalise even predicted victory in the media.
But less than 24 hours later, lawmakers from Alabama and Mississippi — two bastions of the Old South — peeled away from the bill, said multiple GOP lawmakers and aides. Some conservatives claimed that the legislation didn't go far enough in preventing illegal immigration or barring President Barack Obama from giving "amnesty" to undocumented immigrants already in the country. The leadership's whip count deteriorated as the vote loomed closer, and Republican leaders were forced into a humiliating retreat.
After pulling the bill, Boehner was swarmed on the floor by fellow Republicans who supported it and said they wanted another chance to pass something — anything — before leaving town. Several Republicans directly asked Boehner and McCarthy to gather Republicans for a closed conference meeting in the Capitol.


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Share Tompkins featured in The Center for a New American Dream's "Guide to Sharing"
The Center for a New American Dream "helps Americans to reduce and shift their consumption to improve quality of life, protect the environment, and promote social justice." Sounds like a great mission to us!
They have collaborated with one of our favorite sites, Shareable.net, to create a free PDF "Guide to Sharing" that you can download from their site. The guide is full of great tips and resources and even includes a couple of shout-outs to Share Tompkins on page 2.


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04-01-2012 05:13 AM - last edited on 02-26-2013 12:19 AM by andyP
please download the bootable ISO file of "Onekey Recovery 7.0 Engineering" from here Moderator Note; link removed
its a size of 785 MB so you need to burn this on a DVD. just boot from this DVD and Chose for an Option 2 in your case. further when prompted for language selection please select your preferred language. 5 is for US English. It will create the LENOVO_PART partition of the factory default size of 14.26 GB (15000 MB) and will shut down. Now your OKR (NOVO) button of your laptop is fully functional. since this LENOVO_PART parition is newly created so at present this does not have any recovery OS. but as soon as you press your NOVO button first time after creation of this partition, it will start backing up of your present OS which is installed on C Drive and will be saved automatically in this OEM reserved partition. when finished your OKR or NOVO button has every option as it had when you bought from factory. please remember each time your boot from this DVD and chose for option 2 it will recreate a fresh lenovo-part partition formating the earlier one and on first press of novo button it will backup your installed OS and everything with that OS to this LENOVO_PART partition.
this DVD has three option. namely 1. Install OKR 7.0 (Clean Partition), 2. Install OKR 7.0 (Not clean Partition), 3. Fix ASD.
all three option has different function. option 1 will delete your entire HDD and will recreate partiton C and D and one OEM reserved (LENOVO_PART) partition . C drive will be primary partition while D drive will be logical partiton. it does not make 100 MB of system reserved parition. but you can customize you visible partition using Windows 7 DVD while installing it as under OKR option 1 your HDD has no OS installed. so delete the C and D drive using windows 7 DVD and Create partiton of C and D with one automatically creatred 100 MB system reserved partiton. now your both C and D drive are of primary parition. ( I prefer primary parition over logical one). install your prefered version of windows7 and all your required software, antivirus and make it complete. but remember that your C drive should be filled with less then 30 GB preferebly.
Now once again boot from OKR DVD and this thime chosee for option 2 and let it complete and shut down. now press the NOVO button under shu down state. it will start to backup your entire C drive to this OEM reserved partiton. let it complete.
now you have fully functional novo button with the OS recovery of your choice. factory come has many unwanted blotware.
OKR option 3. (fix ASD) : when your HDD has this oem reserved parition of lenovo_part but still your novo (OKR) buuton is not working then boot from this OKR DVD and chose for option 3 and your novo button will start working.
hope this guide will save a lot of lenovo users who accidentely did wrong with this OEM reserved parition.
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04-01-2012 06:21 AM - last edited on 04-01-2012 12:03 PM by andyP
hello bodmas thnx for ur help just i need some info regarding this if i did this things as specified by you can i recover my system without backup disks (DVD's) and 1more thing if i did this thing should i again download one key recovery program or driver from lenovo site? waiting for ur reply ..... thnx in advance
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04-01-2012 08:11 AM - edited 04-23-2012 01:49 AM
hello krypton,
this OKR system install does not have operating system. Hope you have windows 7 DVD. this OKR engineering software installs and make the OEM reserved parition (LENOVO_PART) and making system recovery of your own customised operating system.
yes once you have booted from OKR DVD and chosen for option 2 it will create oem reserved partition and will shut down. and after shut down when you press the novo button of your laptop it will create backup of your system recovery.
and after this you do not need any recovery DVD. just shutdown your system and press the novo button. it will start booting OKR from this OEM reserved parition and a screen will be prompted before you if you want to restore your C drive from initial backup. it will restore your system parition as it was when you backed-up it.
downloading OKR program from lenovo site has nothing to do with it. I mean offcourse you can download it. further why restricted to lenovo only when it is availabe on many sites. just google it and many links.
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04-01-2012 10:19 AM - edited 04-01-2012 10:21 AM
thnx bodmas for the best program and yes i have windows 7 ultimate 64x.
a small doubt again after using this can i install 64 bit edition of my windows 7 and can i create 3 partitions with my space requirement or is it restricted to only 2 partitions?
yes krypton, you can install 64 bits edition of windows 7. in fact you will surely need to install windows 7 using your windows 7 x64 DVD.
further, it supports only 4 partitions. OEM reserved partition (LENOVO_PART) is must. so you have option to create 3 partitions. if you create one the 100 MB system reserved partition then you are left with only 2 partitions in your hand to use for storage. but if you do not create 100 MB system reserved partitions then you can create three visible partitions C, D and E . it is up to you. Remember Windows 7 DVD will always create a 100 mb system reserved partition if you do not know trick. (but you are advised to create this system reserved partition pof 100 MB) otherwise please use any third party partitoning tool to create three visible partitions. best one is Vista DVD, it does not create 100 MB system reserved partition while creating partitions os you can easily create C, D and E paritrions for you use. C for your windows 7 ultimate x64 bits OS.
hope everything is clear now.
have a nice day.
hey bodmas a small help used one key recovery and now i have fully functional key presently my c drive is filled with 22.8gb and i used novo and backed up the data my doubt is the recovery partition is around 14 gb then will it backup the entire data of 22.8gb? plzzz reply soon
04-08-2012 07:13 AM - edited 04-08-2012 07:17 AM
Dear krypton,
Sorry for late reply,
Backup process uses compression and in my case it compressed 28 GB used space of my C drive to 10 GB approx saved in the LENOVO_PART(OEM Reserved parition).
so in your case 22.8 GB will be compressed to 8 GB around. so just go ahead, no problem at all.
have a nice day.
Hi all,
So if I want to resize my partitions AND keep the recovery functionallity with the factory settings (don't have CD of Windows), are these below steps enough ? :
1) Restore with OKR to factory configuration
2) Install Acronis True image (is there a way to make an image with Acronis without installling it ? / portable version ?)
3) Create Acronis bootable media
4) Make image of your C drive with Acronis - store on external HDD
4) Resize partitions C and D (fdisk ?)
5) Restore with the image created previously with Acronis on C (use Acronis bootable media)
6) Use the OKR Lenovo tool to recreate all the partitions needed by OKR (select option 2) - will create backup of C drive aka factory configuration + Acronis
7) Done ?
Have a nice day !
Frederic W.


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Author(s): Michael Rosen
Picture Storybooks | BABY SHOWER GIFT GUIDE
For brave hunters and bear lovers, the classic chant-aloud by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury is now available in a delightful puzzle book edition.
Imagine the fun of going on a bear hunt -- through tall, wavy grass (swishy swishy swishy! ), swampy mud (squelch squelch squelch! ), and a swirling whirling snowstorm (hoooo woooo! ) -- only to find a "real" bear waiting at the end of the trail! The perfect gift for a preschooler, this exciting novelty edition includes seven press-out puzzles featuring Helen Oxenbury's lively art.
Winner of Smarties Book Prize Overall Winner 1989 and Smarties Book Prize 0-5 Category 1989.


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Not sure where to to begin with researching your assignment? In this workshop you will learn how to:
- search efficiently for academic sources for your assignments
- identify key databases and collections in your subject area
- identify different types of sources and how best to use them.
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START Conference Manager
Developing and Evaluating a Reliable Measure of User Engagement
Heather L. O'Brien, Elaine G. Toms, E. Kevin Kelloway and Elizabeth Kelley
ASIS&T 2008 Annual Meeting (AM08 2008)
Columbus, Ohio, October 24-29, 2008
Increased emphasis on user experiences with technology demonstrates that systems must be not only usable, but engaging. Past research identifies engagement as a process characterized by aesthetic appeal, novelty, perceived challenge, feedback and control, attention, motivation, and affect. Recognizing the multidimensionality of engagement, we developed a scale to measure this construct. We administered the instrument to online shoppers (n=440) to evaluate its reliability and construct validity. Exploratory factor analysis revealed that engagement is comprised of six reliable factors: perceived usability, aesthetics, flow, involvement, novelty, and endurability. Results indicate that engaging user experiences are comprised of user, system, and task variables and confirm that systems must not be merely usable, but fun, aesthetically appealing, and enjoyable.
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Bobbleheads, by definition, are somewhat creepy. The oversized head, the bobbing, the nodding, the incessant clamoring for vindication over your enemies; they really can't be trusted. That's why I have to question why anyone would create a hand-crafted Steve Jobs bobblehead and attach it to an iPhone dock. One individual, citing his admiration for the CEO as his inspiration, took the idea and did just that with a large amount of free time.
Surprisingly, this is anatomically correct.
Details are scarce, but the doll, along with the base and area where the actual iPhone dock sits, appears to be made out of plasticine. The plasticine was probably just fired in a run-of-the-mill traditional oven and then painted with acrylic paint. Despite the common materials, the sculpture and subsequent paint job are quite masterful. It looks, for the most part, like a commercial product.
The finished product
One would think a piece this creepy and this masterfully made could not have a monetary value assigned to it, but that person would be wrong. The creator has put four of the novelty items on eBay, starting at just $89.00, two of which have a Buy It Now price of $129 (keep in mind the dock alone retails for $49.00). Of course, like all eBay auctions these days, shipping and handling is a bit high. It's a flat fee of $69.99 for delivery to anywhere in the world from Hong Kong.


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Medianet at ASIS – Plugfest!
It was a very fruitful week at the ASIS, and we wish to thank all our IP Surveillance Camera partners for taking the time and interest to work with us on interoperability verification testing of their products with Cisco Medianet. Plugfest has indeed triggered interest in all our partners, and they have been as excited as we are on this partnership. The concept of the network being a fundamental platform for rolling out various services that facilitate deployment and management of rich media networks has been very well received. Partners have shared how important this could be for them, especially in terms of making their solutions more deployable and with regard to customers seeing improved value in their products. Hence, the stage is very well set for building on two key priorities for Cisco: the Network as a Platform vision and Video.
It was a busy and very interesting week as well: we tested with close to 11 partners, generating very positive results. This has not just been a testimony of how MSP works with various vendors, but also of how much vendors have been compliant to standards based protocols in the Surveillance world. We are analyzing the test results in greater detail to figure out the gaps and improvements, and will be taking this engagement forward by working with our partners on CDN and solution improvements. We picked up a lot of good lessons on what's important to the IP Surveillance folks, what key problems they would like to see solved, and how to get various types of IP cameras operational. Apart from sharing the benefits of Plugfest and MSP with partners and explaining what they need to do to work with us, the live testing that we did with the 11 vendors at the booth saved a lot of time for both us and our partners, and gave us invaluable information on different cameras that will help in solidifying the solution.
We are looking forward to future advances with all our partners (we look forward to your support, much the same way as we have received so far!) and to build on the momentum we have built at the ASIS!
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Latest News
U.S. economy faces likely slowdown, big year-end decisions
Between now and the November elections, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will heartily promise that under their stewardship, the economy will get much better.
Don't bet on it, economists warn.
Rather than a breakout surge in economic growth, mainstream forecasters say, Americans should expect the U.S. economy to slog forward for another couple of years.
The economy grew at a subpar annual rate of 1.7 percent last year, down from 3 percent the year before. The consensus forecast for this year now is for growth of 2 to 2.5 percent.
The U.S. economy is expected to slow later this year, dragged down by slowing global growth, rising anxiety about the elections and the specter of gridlock in Washington over urgent tax, spending and debt deadlines. The Bush-era tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 and the payroll tax cut of the past two years expire at year's end, when last year's debt deal also will force across-the-board cuts in federal spending unless Congress and the president strike new deals, but there's no consensus on that.
A spate of recent indicators punctuated fears that the economy is stalling. March delivered only 120,000 new jobs, and the latest manufacturing and real estate data softened. Some economists say the economy's strong six-month run through March might not be sustainable.
"If we're right and growth was overstated in the first quarter and we see payback in the second and third quarters of this year, then it's going to raise a lot of questions of just how much progress we've made over the past few years," said Mark Vitner, a senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities in Charlotte, N.C.
Vitner projects an annual growth rate of 3.1 percent for the first three months of this years; the Bureau of Economic Analysis will release its official data Friday. Then Vitner expects a slowdown; he projects that growth for the whole year will average only 2.3 percent. That's better than last year, but it's below historical standards and certainly weak for an economy that officially exited recession in June 2009.
The expected two-year slog ahead rises from several roots. Chief among them is that growth is slowing in much of the world. China's long-torrid pace is decelerating to single digits. South American giant Brazil is struggling to spark new growth. And parts of Europe are already in recession as the region's debt crisis lumbers along.
Recent U.S. data have been discouraging for what remains the world's largest economy.
In the two weeks after the April 6 release of the weak March employment numbers, first-time jobless claims rose. The Labor Department said last Thursday that the four-week average for unemployment claims stood at 374,750 _ the highest since January.
Additionally, the job placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported earlier this month that employers announced 9.4 percent more layoffs in the first three months of this year than the same period last year. Last year's numbers, however, were the smallest number of layoffs since 1995.
It all points to slower hiring.
"Were we on the verge of a breakout? I think the answer is no," said Kevin Logan, the chief U.S. economist for the global bank HSBC.
Noting that the economy is adding jobs in a monthly range of 100,000 to 200,000, Logan expects hiring to bump along the bottom. "The next few months, we'll fall back into this slower pattern," he said, adding that several drivers of the U.S. economy remain impaired.
Chief among them is the moribund housing market, which remains mired in a foreclosure crisis. What little housing is moving in many major U.S. cities is foreclosure sales and short-sales, dragging down home prices and erasing the potential wealth of neighbors.
Sales of existing homes in March slumped 2.6 percent from the previous month, the National Association of Realtors reported last Thursday. Even so, the number represented improvement over March 2011.
"The recovery is happening, though not at a breakout pace, but we have seen nine consecutive months of year-over-year sales increases," Lawrence Yun, the association's chief economist, said in a statement.
The sluggish housing sector affects construction and manufacturing, industries that feed into home sales through everything from bathroom remodeling to lawn mowers and wood for decks.
Not all economists are glum, however.
Mark Zandi, the chief economist for forecaster Moody's Analytics, thinks the U.S. economy is poised for a breakout performance _ IF political hurdles in Washington are cleared by next spring.
Those hurdles include what to do about the expiring tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. They're slated to revert to 1990s tax rates at year's end. The payroll tax cut of the past two years, which has helped American family finances, also expires then.
And, on Dec. 31, absent some compromise, the federal debt limit will be breached, triggering broad across-the-board cuts to federal spending.
If Washington fails to dispel those year-end clouds, the lack of resolution could shave U.S. growth next year by 3 percentage points, enough to push us back into recession, as the economy is expected to be growing more slowly than that.
"That's going to be pretty hard for the economy to digest early next year," Zandi said. "I think the next president has to make some pretty big decisions and come to terms with the next Congress pretty fast."
It'll get done, Zandi suggested, because the consequences of failure are too great.
"I think if the next president can nail those two things down, the prospects (for the economy) are quite good," he said.
Until then, however, the specter of unresolved politics will weigh heavily on the economy.
"As we move closer to the election, a lot of decisions are going to be put on hold. Hiring is going to slow; business spending is going to slow," Vitner said. "It's not just the election. As we get closer to what happens with taxes, the temporary Social Security tax cut, does it get extended? What happens with health care? There is a lot of uncertainty."


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USC Holds Grand Opening For Uytengsu Aquatics Center
Feb. 21, 2014
Images of USC's new Uytengsu Aquatics Center / UAC Grand Opening Video
Less than a year and half after its groundbreaking, USC held the grand opening of the Uytengsu Aquatics Center on Friday (Feb. 21) and celebrated the historic day with the first competition at the new facility, a six-event abbreviated meet against Utah to be followed by a full schedule Saturday at noon.
Fred Uytengsu, the former Trojan walk-on swimmer and 1983 swim captain whose $8 million lead gift for the UAC was the largest ever by a former USC student-athlete, was on hand to deliver remarks along with USC Athletic Director Pat Haden, USC Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Elizabeth Garrett and senior co-captain Chase Bloch.
Making up the close to 1,000 in attendance were many former swimmers, divers and water polo players, including former NCAA title winners and Olympic gold medalists Rebecca Soni, Kaitlin Sandeno and Lenny Krayzelburg.
The Trojans won the first ever event raced in the new center as juniors Luca Spinazzola and Sergio Lujan Rivera, sophomore Maclin Davis and senior Dimitri Colupaev won the 400y medley relay in 3:10.34, just 0.45 off the pool record set in 2006. Spinazzola's leadoff 100y back of 46.64 came within 0.09 of the pool record set in 2002.
The only event that will count toward the scoring of Saturday's dual meet with the Utes was the 1000y free, which was captured by sophomore Ted Singley in 9:04.09. He edged Utah's Bence Kiraly (9:05.52) while Trojan junior Cary Wright took third (9:13.07).
Trojan freshman Dylan Carter took the first of three sprints as he touched first in the 50y fly in 21.37 while sophomore Morten Klarskov was second (21.95). Junior Kevin Carroll won the 50y back (23.21) with sophomore Kevin Khojasteh second (23.30) while sophomore Ridge Altman (25.47) junior Andrew Malone (25.54) took 1-2 in the 50y breast.
USC closed the first date of competition at the UAC with a win in the 200y free relay as freshman Santo Condorelli, Carter and seniors Jack Wagner and Cristian Quintero won in 1:19.32.


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Siri has transformed the way iPhone users get answers to everyday questions, using voice commands to hear driving directions or listen to weather reports. Now, an enterprising Seattle startup is bringing that same type of functionality to bible verses.
eBible, led by former Google engineer Colin Wong and backed by Seattle angel investors Andy Liu, John Cunningham and others, just introduced a free Android application that it describes as the "world's first voice-enabled bible." Like Siri, users simply speak into the app, saying verses such as "John 3:16" or "Matthew 6:33." Then, a male voice — at least in the examples I've heard — says the verse out loud.
"We believe this will totally change the way people access the Bible on their mobile devices, especially for folks on the road," Wong tells GeekWire.
How does it work technically? Wong said it is similar to Siri.
"We encoded intelligence into the voice recognition and tied it back to scripture location and then pulling the appropriate audio from the English Standard Version Bible translation," says Wong, noting that an iPhone version of the app is in the works.
You can see the app in action below or listen to a clip here:
Previously on GeekWire: A match made in heaven: ooBible buys eBible.com


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By Lisa Respers France, CNN
(CNN) -- "Losers" or victims of a framing?
With officials seeking possible motives for the men who stand accused of the Boston marathon bombings, a picture is emerging from those who should have known Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and his brother, 19-year-old Dzhokar, best -- their family members.
As a nation grieves over the three people killed in the bombings, the scores injured and a police officer who lost his life during the search for suspects, members of the Tsarnaev family have gone on record to express their feelings about the possible guilt or innocence of the pair. This is what they had to say:
The mother
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva says it is "impossible, impossible" for her sons to have committed such a crime.
Speaking from the Russian region of Dagestan, she expressed support for her children and said she believes they have been the victims of a setup.
"You tell me, my son never would keep it in secret," she said. "... If there is anyone who would be knowing it would be me. (Tamerlan) never would hide it from me."
The family matriarch also said no one talked about terrorism in their household. Her oldest son had had contact with the FBI before, she said.
"They knew what my son was doing, what actions and what sites (on) the Internet he was going," she said. "How could this happen?"
The father
"Someone framed them," Anzor Tsarnaev said while the manhunt was being conducted. "I don't know who exactly did it, but someone did."
He said he had spoken with his sons on Thursday and they told him, "Everything is good, Daddy. Everything is very good."
After being told by ABC News on Friday that his youngest son had been captured alive, the elder Tsarnaev reportedly began to weep and had this message for his child: "Tell police everything. Everything. Just be honest."
On Saturday, he told CNN's Nick Paton Walsh that he planned to travel to the United States.
"My kids never did anything -- that's it," he said.
The sister
Alina Tsarnaeva told The (Newark, New Jersey) Star-Ledger that she had not seen her brothers "in a long time" but spoke lovingly of Tamerlan.
"He was a great person," she said. "I thought I knew him. I never would have expected that from him. He is a kind and loving man. The cops took his life away just the same way he took others' lives away, if that's even true. At the end of the day, no one knows the truth."
An uncle
After the death of Tamerlan and as authorities continued to hunt his younger brother, their uncle Ruslan Tsarni spoke passionately at a news conference Friday outside his Montgomery County, Maryland, home.
"Being losers, hatred to those who were able to settle themselves -- these are the only reasons I can imagine," Tsarni said when asked to speculate on a possible motive. "Anything else, anything else to do with religion, with Islam, is a fraud, is a fake."
The uncle admonished the pair for putting "a shame on our entire family -- the Tsarnaev family -- and you put a shame on the entire Chechen ethnicity."
By Saturday, he appeared to have a bit of a change of heart, telling NBC's "Today" show that he was angry when he spoke Friday. He expressed happiness that his younger nephew had been captured alive and said his elder nephew had fallen prey to outside influences, according to a family acquaintance.
"(The acquaintance) said there is someone who brainwashed him, some new convert to Islam,'' Tsarni said. "I would like to stress (the acquaintance was) of Armenian descent.''
An unidentified relative in Dagestan told ABC News that Tamerlan had worried family members a year ago during a trip there and had been asked to leave an uncle's home because of his "increasingly extremist views."
An aunt
Tsarni was not the only one who passionately spoke about the Tsarnaev brothers.
Maret Tsarnaev said she believed the picture of the bombing suspects that purportedly helped lead authorities to her nephews was "staged."
"If somebody wants to convince me, show me evidence," she said, telling reporters Friday she is studying to become a lawyer. "Evidence! Evidence!"
At times seeming almost combative during a press conference, she said it would take much more than photos to convince her that her nephews had committed such a crime. "What I'm saying is, why FBI does not give me more?"
The wife
Katherine Russell is the 24-year-old reported wife of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and mother of their 3-year-old daughter, Zahara. Approached by Britain's Daily Mail at her family's home in New Hampshire, she declined to comment. Her family released the following statement Friday:
"Our daughter has lost her husband today, the father of her child. We cannot begin to comprehend how this horrible tragedy occurred. In the aftermath of the Patriots' Day horror, we know that we never really knew Tamerlane Tsarnaev. Our hearts are sickened by the knowledge of the horror he has inflicted. Please respect our family's privacy in this difficult time."


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QUEBEC CITY, May 8, 2013 /CNW/ - Medicago Inc. (TSX: MDG; OTCQX: MDCGF), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing highly effective and competitive vaccines based on proprietary manufacturing technologies and Virus-Like Particles (VLPs), today announced that it has successfully produced a new VLP vaccine candidate for the H7N9 virus that is responsible for the current influenza outbreak in China.
"To our knowledge, Medicago is the first to produce a VLP vaccine candidate against this potential pandemic strain demonstrating our ability to be a first responder in a pandemic scenario," said Andy Sheldon, President and CEO of Medicago. "Current influenza egg based vaccine manufacturers can take up to six months to produce a vaccine for any new strain, we have proven once again that we can cut this development time drastically.This combined with our vaccine production capacity at our pilot facility in Canada and our commercial facility in North Carolina and our best-in-class efficacy results for our H5N1 vaccine, strongly positions Medicago as a key player in addressing a potential pandemic."
In order to produce an influenza vaccine, Medicago only requires the genetic sequence of the viral strain, dramatically limiting the delays that occur using traditional manufacturing systems. Medicago's H7 VLP is currently being purified in preparation for immunogenicity studies in animal models.
The hemagglutinin (HA) sequence used for the development of the H7 VLP vaccine was obtained from the GISAID EpiFlu™ Database. Medicago would like to thank Dr. Jun Li and the Hangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China), respectively author and originating and submitting laboratory for the sequence of HA of the isolate A/Hangzhou/1/2013 (sequence ID EPI_ISL_138977).
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- The initiation of a U.S. Phase IIa clinical trial for a quadrivalent seasonal flu vaccine with interim data expected in summer of 2013;
- GMP process development for a rabies vaccine are ongoing; ;
- In addition to vaccines, Medicago is conducting research and development in the area of biosimilar products.
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Medicago is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel vaccines and therapeutic proteins to address a broad range of infectious diseases worldwide. The Company is committed to providing highly effective and competitive vaccines and therapeutic proteins based on its proprietary VLP and manufacturing technologies. Medicago is a worldwide leader in the development of VLP vaccines using a transient expression system which produces recombinant vaccine antigens in plants. This technology has potential to offer more potent vaccines with speed and cost advantages over competitive technologies, enabling the development of a vaccine for testing in approximately one month after the identification and reception of genetic sequences from a pandemic strain. This production time frame has the potential to allow vaccination of the population before the first wave of a pandemic, and supply large volumes of vaccine antigens to the world market. Medicago also intends to expand development into other areas such as biosimilars and biodefense products where the benefits of our technologies can make a significant difference. Additional information about Medicago is available at www.medicago.com.
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With the launch of the new M&M Edition and game system, now would be a great time to create the ruleset, and sell it both here, and linked from the Fantasy Grounds site.
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Would you believe me if I told you that this filling almost didn't make it to the pie? I came this close to eating it all out of the pan. Oh my goodness.
For this month's You Want Pie With That? event, Anne of Anne Strawberry chose the theme, Holiday Songs. Just match a pie to your favorite holiday song, that's all. Not any easy task for me, at any rate, because my taste in holiday songs is a bit eclectic. But, the other day, I had on one of my favorite Christmas CDs (Sing We Noel),
humming and singing away, when inspiration struck. Here I was, singing about Christmas Pie. Was there really such a thing? Inquiring minds . . . .
As is the case with many investigations, one follows the Rabbit Trail. My song is called The Gloucestershire Wassail Song, and the verse is as follows --
Pray God send our master a good Christmas pie,
And a good Christmas pie that we may all see;
With our wassailing bowl we'll drink to thee.
What's in wassail, you ask?
All sorts of delicious goodies -- apples, cranberries, oranges, lemons, spices. Why, that just might make a decent pie.
And so it did.
As best as I can recall, the recipe went something like this:
2 pounds of apples, peeled and sliced (I used Braeburns)
1 cup or so of fresh cranberries (it was approximate)
1 ounce of butter
3 ounces of sugar
2 ounces of water
1 ounce of cornstarch
3.5 ounces of sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cloves
2 teaspoons orange zest
2 teaspoons lemon zest
2 teaspoons lemon juice
.25 ounce of butter
Saute the apples and cranberries in the 1 ounce of butter until slightly softened. Add the 3 ounces of sugar while the fruit is cooking.
Mix the water and cornstarch together until smooth. Add to the hot fruit mixture and cook until the liquid is thick and clear. Remove from heat.
Add the remaining ingredients, stirring gently until the sugar is dissolved and the butter is melted.
Cool completely.
Fill either a pie shell or make a rustic/country-style pie, like a crostada. Dot with extra butter if desired. Bake at 425 degrees F (220 degrees C) until golden, about 30-40 minutes. Be sure and bake it on a parchment lined sheet pan so the juices don't spill into the oven.
Try to let cool before eating. (I dare you.)
So, this Wassail Christmas Pie is my entry for this month's You Want Pies With That? I bet there will be many other delicious pies showing up in the next few days!
And if you are interested, here are the verses to the Gloucestershire Wassail Song.
1. Wassail! wassail! all over the town,
Our toast it is white and our ale it is brown;
Our bowl it is made of the white maple tree;
With the wassailing bowl, we'll drink to thee.
2. Here's to our horse, and to his right ear,
God send our master a happy new year:
A happy new year as e'er he did see,
With my wassailing bowl I drink to thee.
3. So here is to Cherry and to his right cheek
Pray God send our master a good piece of beef
And a good piece of beef that may we all see
With the wassailing bowl, we'll drink to thee.
4. And here is to Dobbin and to his right eye,
Pray God send our master a good Christmas pie,
And a good Christmas pie that we may all see;
With our wassailing bowl we'll drink to thee.
5. So here is to Broad Mary and to her broad horn
May God send our master a good crop of corn
And a good crop of corn that may we all see
With the wassailing bowl, we'll drink to thee.
6. And here is to Fillpail and to her left ear
Pray God send our master a happy New Year
And a happy New Year as e'er he did see
With the wassailing bowl, we'll drink to thee.
7. Here's to our cow, and to her long tail,
God send our master us never may fail
Of a cup of good beer. I pray you draw near,
And our jolly wassail it's then you shall hear.
8. Come butler, come fill us a bowl of the best
Then we hope that your soul in heaven may rest
But if you do draw us a bowl of the small
Then down shall go butler, bowl and all.
9. Be here any maids? I suppose here be some;
Sure they will not let young men stand on the cold stone!
Sing hey O, maids! come trole back the pin,
And the fairest maid in the house let us all in.
10. Then here's to the maid in the lily white smock
Who tripped to the door and slipped back the lock
Who tripped to the door and pulled back the pin
For to let these jolly wassailers in.


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The race bike has been busy. It spent the day with Chad the fookin' man Wolfe last week and now has new head bearings, suspension set up for my fat ass, and countless other goodies that his meticulous nature fixed. I'd start a thread to give him the praise he is deserving, but the site is still sending out error codes
As for today, I had some alone time with the race bike. Had to change the oil, re-do the safety wiring (that's always fun), got the DZus fasteners to fit right, and other little things that have been put off for >insert any reason here<.
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Valve's Comprehensive Strategy Shows How To Go From Fee To Free... And Increase Revenue Twelve-fold
from the nicely-done deptWe've writen about Valve's approach to the market many times before. The company believes strongly that "piracy" is a service problem not a legal problem. It knows that it can easily compete with piracy by offering a better service, something that it regularly succeeds in doing. However, On The Media calls our attention to an absolutely fantastic case study found on Gamasutra, not (directly) about how Valve competed with infringement, but how it turned Team Fortress 2 from a fee-based game to a free-to-play game and increased revenue twelve-fold.
Of course, over the years, we've covered other online games going from fee-based to free and making more money for it, inspiring more and more other games to do the same. But what's most interesting here is the level of detail. In the case of TF2, it's clearly not about "give it away and pray," but a careful strategy that really does seem focused on connecting with fans and being awesome while giving fans a good reason to buy.
For example, the team at Valve connected with fans in a really cool way. It put out "teaser trailers" with product updates, and then scoured feedback to come up with ideas that fans might like in the game:
[Valve's Joe] Ludwig showed TF2's Sniper-focused update as an example. Each content update started with a teaser trailer that hinted at several possible new items or features, and Valve developers would monitor the community reaction in the forums to determine which aspects caught the players' attention. "We found people in the forums talking about how cool it would be if the Pyro could light the sniper's arrows on fire. To be honest, we hadn't considered it, but we were able to implement it by the time the update shipped," Ludwig said.Separately, Valve was very careful and deliberate about how they "went free" and moved to offering in-game purchases. Recognizing that there's an unfortunate incentive to then make in-game purchases make the actual gameplay worse (such as by making it "pay to win") the team made very strategic choices about how they would have in-game purchases, such that they were never required to play the game how you wanted:
In another instance, players picked up on a blueprint displayed in passing within the teaser trailer for the Engineer-focused update of a mechanical hand item. Ludwig explained that "[The players] didn't realize it, but they were indirectly voting on the content of the update. When the update shipped, it included that robot hand."
Once Valve rolled out the in-game item system, it needed to get the players used to the idea of paying for them. "This wasn't a change we made lightly, but it was something we had to do to get our game into the free-to-play business model," Ludwig said.In other words, this was entirely designed around the idea of giving people a good reason to buy rather than a negative reason that makes them feel forced to buy. Too many companies (hello most newspaper paywalls!) seem to think that "forcing" people to pay is a "reason to buy." It's not. It may get some people to pay, but it pisses off lots of people. Valve carefully structured its business model here to make people want to buy.
"They had never paid for an item in TF2 at any point in the past, and we weren't sure how willing they'd be to pay now."
Ludwig outlined the players' possible objections to the item store, the first of which was TF2 turning into a "pay-to-win" game:
"We dealt with the pay to win concern in a few ways. The first was to make items involve tradeoffs, so there's no clear winner between two items. But by far the biggest thing we did to change this perception was to make all the items that change the game free. You can get them from item drops, or from the crafting system. It might be a little easier to buy them in the store, but you can get them without paying. The only items we sell exclusive to the store are cosmetic or items optional to gameplay."
But the real key here is just how much this effort increased revenue. Many people have assumed that taking a fee-based game and going free-to-play is really an "end of life" strategy to try to squeeze the last remnants of revenue out of a game, but Valve is showing it's not that at all. It was a strategic choice to maximize revenue. This is the same point we've made for well over a decade in talking about how to use free as a part of a business model to increase your market. When properly applied (which is not just "give it away and pray"), free becomes a revenue multiplier, and Valve's example of TF2 is really a perfect case study of how to do it right.
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I managed to complete this to help me from the depression of Sharia law being accepted as part of UK law..
3D Manipulation art to be a reference for my next oil painting, as well as a new desktop wallpaper for my computer, yes its been a while since I done one of these. Very a great exersize to to stretch the imagination using defualt 3D models and manipulate them, It works perfectly while playing psytrance in the background..
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Very nice, alien psychedelic jungle.
Post your painting when you're finished.
Someone needs to awaken the UK from their Muslim stupor.
This pic is amazing. I wish I had 1/1,000th of your artistic talents.
I was scouring it in closeup, because I'm simply amazed by the detail, when I came upon the crotch area of the two succubi/vampires/demigods/whatever, and I saw something that made me curious - so I thought I'd ask.
In the highlighted area below, is that male genitalia? I understand that the creatures are otherworldly/mythical, but I was just curious if a) these two beings are from a specific myth or religion, and b) if so is being hermaphroditic a part of the mythology?
In any case, it's still my main monitor's desktop wallpaper, and I am blown away by your talent.
Thanks for sharing it, and I'm with Ed - I would love to see the painting when you've completed it.
Thanks , the painting is almost complete ^_^ and already is showing some differences. I agree, the prime murderer of the united kingdom seems to support religion, and whishes to force people to follow faith rather than understanding, reason, consciousness and sense.
They are extraterrestrial rainbow elf like beings, and they are hermaphrodite, the male parts or connected in the female parts. I tried to keep mythology out of the image and make it as a realistic science fiction/ fantasy work, but focusing more on an extraterrestrial people and culture in a galaxy far far away. They are in an organic space craft, and the beings and their plants
(with the irony and da ja vue of earth astronaughts deciding to grow plants on the ISS at this time, kind of like a weird prediction a few days ahead before its time, adding to the realism of the need of plants on board space craft, or I already know it from extraterrestrials ? hmm)
and animals live symbiotically with the space ship, which is a living being itself, which they have bio engineered and look like space jellyfish. It does have an oriental appeal to them due to the style of the jewelry they wear.
I share an update on the painting since there has been much interest in this piece of work. ^_^


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