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Happy Earth Day everyone! This day was inaugurated 45 years ago today, just at the height of what would come to be the environmental revolution. So how far have we come since the 1960s and 70s? The answer. Far! Reductions in outdoor air pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, ozone, and lead represent some of the greatest advances. Those who lived in populated cities such as Los Angeles 30 years ago can attest to the improvements in visibility alone. Water quality, hazardous waste management, and wildlife protection similarly made tremendous gains in the ensuing decades.
Concerns for public health and the environment, however, are far from resolved. In fact, today we are facing what is quite realistically our greatest obstacle to date. That is, climate change. The ramifications of inaction on this single issue are so overwhelmingly as to shadow many of the other issues myself and other health advocates are passionate about. It appears, at least, that governments are finally overcoming the private lobbies that have previously casted doubt on this issue, and have begun pledging and passing legislation to minimize carbon emissions. The recent U.S./China bilateral announcement of carbon dioxide reduction goals is the most prime example of this. However, Hurricane Catrina, Hurricane Sandy, the California drought, and Boston's 2014-15 snowiest winter on record all indicate that current actions are too little too late to completely avoid harm. And these are just examples in the United States. This does not mean that all is lost. Continued greenhouse gas emissions are projected to only make such events more extreme and more frequent, which is why it's more important than ever to mobilize international efforts towards continued emissions reductions. This where YOU and I come in!
If left to government action, change will simply not come soon enough. Fortunately, we can act independently to curb emissions. Carbon dioxide emission mostly come from three different sectors. Namely, transportation, industry, and residential/commercial building energy use. In the United States and European Union, the buildings sector accounts for approximately 40% of energy consumption! In the U.S., residential buildings account for the majority (54%) of this, producing 21% of the nation's emissions. In other words, by making our homes more energy efficient, we as individuals can have an enormous impact on carbon emissions and help stabilize the climate. Below are a number of tips I put together as part of a climate action project for the Harvard Law School earlier this year. An official version will be published soon that you can print out as a brochure and pass around. In the meantime, making some of these simple changes in your home or apartment will not only reduce carbon emissions and other air pollutants, but will also save you money by reducing your monthly energy bill.
Easy Tips for Lower Energy Bills
Washer & Dryer
· Wait for full load before running washer or dryer
· Use cold or warm (not hot) water when doing laundry
· Put heavy loads through spin cycle twice before drying. This removes more water and shortens drying time. Or, put only clothes in the dryer while letting blankets/towels air dry.
· Instead of using dryer, allow laundry to air dry by hanging
· Clean lint filter from dryer after each load so machine doesn't work as hard to circulate air
· Use CFL or LED lightbulbs
· Turn off lights in empty rooms
· Unplug electronics not being used. Or, plug devices into power strip, which can be switched off. For instance, even when turned off, devices that are plugged are estimated to account for up to 15% of your monthly electricity bill!
· When phone is done charging, unplug charger. It's better for the charger & saves energy!
· Adjust computer settings to energy-saving mode
· Lower computer screen brightness
· Purchase electronics with an Energy Star® label, this means they are energy efficient.
· Take showers, not baths. 3-min showers use half the water of baths & reduce hot water waste
· Keep showers short
· Take lower temp showers on warm days
· Turn off tap while shaving/brushing teeth
· Use low-flow showerheads
· Ensure full load (but not overloaded) before running washer
· Use shortest water cycle that still cleans dishes properly
· Turn off drying cycle on washer & open washer door to air dry dishes
· If hand washing, fill sink with water & use stopper rather than washing under running water
· Put lid on pot to boil water. It will boil faster and use less energy
· Prepare meals in slow cooker or microwave when possible
· Let frozen meats thaw before cooking
Heating & Cooling
· Turn down thermostat when leaving for work/school, & turn it lower when leaving for vacation
· Buy another blanket instead of running your heater higher at night, this will quickly pay you back in saved heating expenses.
· Use a fan instead of an AC unit
· Water heaters are factory set to ~140°F, which is costly and higher than needed. Reset to 120°F, and turn lower before vacation.
· Seal cracks around walls & windows where outdoor air seeps in. Can be easily done with store-bought calking/insulation tape.
· Ideal temp for your refrigerator is 38-40 °F, don't overcool it.
· If home is poorly insulated, consider splitting cost of weatherization with landlord. You will save on energy bills & be more comfortable overall.
· Propose green lease with your landlord
· If you use a Brita filter, store it outside of refrigerator. Cooling water takes a lot of energy!
· Close heating/cooling vents in rooms that are infrequently used
For More Info
· Energy Rebate Opportunities: www.masssave.com (for MA residents)
· Discounted Energy Efficient Appliances: www.energystar.gov
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The new Whitehall heads face change and disruption on a huge scale. Will they be able to cope?
Who would want to be in government now? It is not just politicians, facing defeat in elections, as in Denmark and Spain, or replacement by technocrats, as in Greece and Italy. It is also civil servants, who face unprecedented challenges in managing the state.
The new duumvirate at the top of Whitehall – Sir Jeremy Heywood, the new Cabinet Secretary, and Sir Bob Kerslake, the new Head of the Civil Service – are operating in the trickiest environment since the mid-to-late 1970s. That was when their predecessors agonised over whether Britain was ungovernable in the face of rapidly rising inflation and strikes.
The economic and political environment now is different, but no less demanding. First, on the economy, even if the worst should be over later this year as inflation comes down, Britain faces a period of sluggish growth. Gloom about the outlook is reinforced by the continuing upheavals in the eurozone, with or without a Greek default. This is leaving aside a possible threat to natural gas supplies from a confrontation with Iran.
The economy is now 10%–15% smaller than we thought just a few years ago when annual growth of 2%–3% was assumed as a norm. This lost output is likely to be permanent. It also has profound implications at a time when all parties agree on the need to reduce the size of debt, even if they disagree about the speed of adjustment. The squeeze on public spending will carry on, not just until 2014/15 but well into the next Parliament. This means that public sector pay will continue to be held down, and there is likely to be further pressure on the number of jobs in the public sector. Making far-reaching reforms to the NHS, criminal justice, welfare payments and immigration with 25%–30% fewer resources is very hard.
Rather like what happened two years into the life of the Blair Government in 1999, there is pressure on the new civil service leadership from ministers for implementation (the updated term for delivery) but with more activities provided locally and from the private and voluntary sectors. The challenge for Heywood and Kerslake is to improve the civil service's skills and ability to commission work from external providers and manage big projects, not just to tighten belts.
Second, the politics of austerity creates awkward social challenges. The danger is not just a repetition of the inner-city riots or anti-cuts protests but a growing disaffection among the rising numbers of young unemployed, an erosion of aspiration.
Third, the banking crisis and its aftermath have produced a deeper soul-searching over the model of free-market capitalism that has prevailed for the past 30 years. The Occupy movement can be dismissed as largely self-indulgent and contradictory – the mirror image of the Tea Party protests in the US. But the debate over executive pay and growing inequalities – let alone the behaviour of bankers – has now embraced Conservative politicians. The rethinking of capitalism will change the role of the state and its relations with business.
Fourth, the constitutional integrity of the UK is under question both in the debate over Scotland's place in the Union and from the abrasive relationship between the Conservative members of the coalition and most of the rest of the European Union. Whitehall has suddenly woken up to these constitutional challenges, which will require deft political manoeuvring.
Fifth, there is profound disillusionment with the political class. That is partly the fault of politicians in raising expectations beyond where they can be fulfilled. But the results are corrosive and make it harder for governments to mobilise consent for necessary changes.
Any of these difficulties on their own would be demanding but together – and combined with the continuing terrorist threat – they underline the scale of the problems facing both politicians and the new civil service leadership.
Peter Riddell is the new director of the Institute for Government, which will shortly be producing an open letter to Sir Jeremy Heywood and Sir Bob Kerslake on the challenges facing the civil service

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Living with the constant itch of eczema often affects a child's mood. A baby or young child who has eczema can be:
Some children learn that scratching gets their parents' attention. When this happens, scratching can become a habit.
Studies show that teenagers with eczema can develop anxiety and depression. This risk appears highest in those who have eczema that never completely stops flaring or flares frequently.
Some teens with eczema have said that their eczema makes them think about committing suicide.
Research shows that easing your child's discomfort often improves the child's mood. You can help your child by:
When should I talk with my child's dermatologist? Stress: Is it a common eczema trigger? References Eichenfield LF, Tom WL et al. "Guidelines of care for the management of atopic dermatitis. Section 1: Diagnosis and assessment of atopic dermatitis." J Am Acad Dermatol 2014 Feb;70(2):338-51.
Fried RG, Gupta MA, et al. "Depression and skin disease." Dermatol Clin. 2005 Oct;23(4):657-64.
Halvorsen JA, Lien L, et al. "Suicidal ideation, mental health problems, and social function in adolescents with eczema: A population-based study." J Invest Dermatol. 2014 Jul;134(7):1847-54.


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Out of Africa
There is always a certain novelty in the preparation leading up to a big trip. Making sure you have the right equipment, mapping out your journey, and reading travel guide after travel guide in the singular hope that it will capture a sense of reality to where ever it is that you are going.
The preparation leading up to a big trip alone, however, is another experience entirely. True, embarking on a solo endeavour can be daunting, but traveling alone as a woman can be one of the most rewarding, challenging and character building experiences that you could ever do for yourself. So, before I left my sunburnt country that I am so fondly attached to, nothing could prepare me for what I was about to undergo.
Volunteering abroad. A concept that has swiftly gained the interest of new and seasoned travellers alike. This notion was something that I was no stranger to, in fact, volunteering had always far surpassed any other way of traveling. Though the programs I selected this time around were somewhat different. They were not as physically strenuous as my recent adventures, but instead were more demanding on me as a person. Which is exactly why I packed up, waved goodbye to the familiar and boarded a plane to Africa.
"Are you mad?" people would tell me with gaping mouths and wide eyed disbelief. "Yes" my subconscious would mutter imploring me to reconsider. My mouth on the other hand had practiced reciting that travelling to some of the most rural and culturally demanding areas of Africa, alone, would be good for me. I wanted to experience something that perhaps a young woman my age needed to. I booked the trip for 2 months and with that, opportunities presented themselves in unprecedented ways.
I worked with women and children living with HIV in Kenya, I dived with sharks and surveyed fish in Madagascar, I taught on the Tanzanian border, I spoke with young girls who had fallen victim to sexual violence in Central Eastern Africa, I beheld the aftermath of ivory poaching in South Africa and most importantly, I understood how truly lucky I was to be a young woman living in Australia.
Africa. A word that will forever tug at my heartstrings. Old habits would die easily for me here. I wouldn't reach for my phone to check social media, instead it was the only solid connection to home. My news didn't come from 'The Australian' App but instead from 'The Star' written in Kiswahili in Kenya. As much as I had readied myself, nothing could prepare the uninitiated for the riot of noise and colour. Initially, you're overwhelmed by everything, for me, it was how the people I grew closest to were living in grinding poverty.
I arrived in Mlolongo, a bustling town outside Nairobi that was the centrefold of HIV in Kenya. There, I worked with women, my age, living with HIV. This here was the part no amount of reading could prepare me for. I stood in front of these young girls and had to somehow empower them as women, when in fact they had the unwavering ability to empower me in more ways than I could have comprehended.
The stigma behind HIV in Africa is tenfold to any other country. Women here experience social rejection on unfathomable levels. Remarkably, these women became my friends, treating me as one of their own. Countries, cultures and circumstances apart, we bonded as young women wanting something more for ourselves. We worked together to generate sustainable income by selling crafted goods the women had produced. This placed thing into perspective. These women not only cope, but also thrive. Something that I think many of us as women hope to achieve in our lifetime.
Before my mind had the opportunity to comprehend the notion of leaving Kenya, my body was 40 meters down in the depths of the Indian Ocean in Madagascar. Studying the effects of climate change on a remote island was something that I could have never predicted. Nor could I have imagined the lifestyle change from the one I had grown accustomed to on mainland Africa. Nosy Komba, a small – 25km2- island located north off of Madagascar presented no homily comforts. With no roads, the only way to get around the island was by foot. With no electricity, running water or internet, Madagascar welcomed me with open arms. My job? Memorising all 362 species of fish so I could survey their activity. I dove twice a day, hiked more kilometres daily than I do in a week, and in my free time, I read. Madagascar was so unique to anywhere I had ever travelled before, something that wouldn't have occurred without my volunteer efforts. With 80% of the wildlife endemic to the country, everything was untameably wild and alien.
Volunteering always seemed uncomplicated to me. It presents the rare opportunity to do something far bigger than yourself, for others. You work and live alongside the communities and its people, giving you a once in a lifetime authentic experience. Coupling this, by traveling solo is unique, and you return home both a conqueror and a better person by doing so.
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"The second Belador urban fantasy is an
exciting thriller..."
NOTE: Publisher has raised the price on the ebook and print to a much higher cost than the others. Look below for other options for acquiring this book at a lower price or no cost. If you can't find the print book internationally, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
In this explosive new world of betrayals and shaky alliances, the only Alterant not incarcerated faces an impossible task -- recapture three dangerous, escaped creatures before they slaughter more humans…or her.
Evalle thought saving mankind from total destruction would have cleared her name, but no. When words uttered in the heat of combat are twisted against her, she's blamed for the prison break of three dangerous Alterants and is forced to recapture the escapees. Deals with gods and goddesses are tricky at best, and now the lives of all Beladors, and the safety of innocent humans, rides on Evalle's success.
The only person she can ask for help is the one man who wants to see her dead.
"With a tight, fast-moving plot, unforgettable complex characters and a solid story, ALTERANT propels the series forward. A must read for fans."
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PLEASE NOTE: The ebook price on ALTERANT recently doubled! (Blood Trinity, The Curse and Rise of The Gryphon have not changed, yet.) The publisher sets the price on books 1-4, but Dianna sets the price on everything from Demon Storm on, so no worries there. Not sure if/when this will be fixed. In the meantime - there are other ways to read this book for free or a reasonable cost:
* Look for the book in your local library by using the WorldCat search engine (this will link straight to Alterant in World Catalog for libraries).
* Check online retailers for resale of used books at these locations: Amazon (this will link you straight to Alterant resales)
* The audio download price is only $3.49 right now (no idea if/when that will change) at Amazon/Audible.
* You can also find the print books at Thrift Books. (this will link you straight to Alterant resales)
Thanks for reading the Belador series!
Dianna will continue asking to bring the price of this ebook back down, but the rest of the books are still at the original cost. :) Dianna sets the price on books from Demon Storm on, which will remain reasonable.
What's a girl to wear to spend eternity in prison?
Evalle Kincaid would rather fight a pack of demons alone than face the Tribunal at midnight.
Seventy-two minutes from now.
She might walk free tonight...if the Tribunal took into account that she'd spent the last forty-eight hours protecting humans from an eight-hundred-year-old warlord instead of mounting her defense.
Like it was her fault she'd been born a half-breed Belador? An Alterant. The only one not dead or caged. The others had killed humans. Taking the Belador oath at eighteen had kept her free of persecution...until now.
One thing at a time, like getting dressed. She had to show up in more than a bra and panties.
She pulled out her favorite cotton shirt, a vintage piece, from her antique chest of drawers. Stepping into jeans and boots, she shoved a couple of lug nuts in her pocket and froze.
Her apartment was too silent.
Not a lot of noise reached two levels beneath downtown Atlanta when you lived in the equivalent of a concrete bunker.
But this stillness was a something-must-be-up quiet.
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Fifth Biennial Farming Our Future conference set for Feb. 23
CRARYVILLE - The Fifth Biennial Farming Our Future Conference will take place 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Feb. 23, 2019 at Taconic Hills Central School's Performing Arts Center in Craryville. The theme, "Enhancing Agricultural Literacy in the Community," will address the importance of knowing where our food comes from and emphasize sustainability, best management practices, community engagement, land use and farming techniques.
While Columbia County and the Mid-Hudson Valley have a rich farming heritage, it is incumbent upon all of us to do what we can to preserve and strengthen our agricultural landscape so it is here for generations to come. Jessica Ziehm, Executive Director of the New York Agriculture Animal Coalition, is the keynote speaker.
Attendees will be able to attend a concurrent workshop session, visit with a variety of agriculture-related vendors and network with other participants. The conference is designed to attract a diverse audience from the community including established farmers, beginning farmers, interested non-farmers, suppliers, educators, community officials, industry leaders, and students. A nominal registration fee will cover the cost of providing breakfast, lunch and refreshments.
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So you've received your master's in human resource management—or you're currently pursuing your master's in human resources—and you're standing at an HR crossroads: human resource generalist or human resource specialist?
But what's the difference between a human resource generalist and a human resource specialist? And what's the best HR career path for you?
We've broken each position down so you can follow your passions and put your human resource management degree to work.
HR generalists have a broad spectrum of responsibilities that will require you to draw upon everything you learned in your master's in human resources program. As its name suggests, duties are comprehensive and diverse and may include:
If you enjoy job diversity—and you like the idea of using everything you learned in your human resource management degree program—a career as a human resource generalist may be the perfect fit for you. Every day will be different, as your duties will change with daily needs.
Large organizations require specialists with skills in specific areas of human resource management.
What kinds of jobs are available as a human resource specialist? Here's just a sampling:
If you like the idea of becoming an expert in a certain area, a position as a human resource specialist may be ideal for you. These jobs require tremendous attention to detail, and you'll be viewed as an authority in a particular field.
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After receiving a human resource management degree, many human resource graduates begin their careers as human resource generalists, discover an area that's particularly interesting to them, and then pursue it as a human resource specialist.
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Introducing the 2017 Nissan Pathfinder Platinum Midnight edition, limited edition in celebration of 30 years of Pathfinder in Canada. Carefully designed to maintain an athletic appeal while providing an improved aerodynamic performance.
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TaxJar Now Shows Where FBA Orders Cause Sales Tax Nexus
US sales tax calculation and filing tool TaxJar now shows where sales tax nexus is created by having orders fulfilled by Amazon's FBA service.
Until the new feature was added, TaxJar helped identify where sellers might have nexus by showing the states where Amazon has fulfillment centers.
Now by connecting to Amazon Seller Central, TaxJar determines which states actually ship orders and accurately shows where nexus has been created.
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The Hyundai group is moving forward at a frantic pace these days, with the Koreans now readying a replacement for the Azera sedan, also known as the Grandeur in markets outside North America.
Captured here by a member of Bobaedream forums, is a prototype of what we believe to be the redesigned Korean market Azera. While one could be tempted to think it's the KDM Hyundai Genesis that was re-launched in Detroit as the Genesis G80, there are several c(l)ues that say otherwise.
Among these are the headlamps (notice the shape of the light fixtures) on the fascia, and the different tail lamps, exhaust tips and bumper detailing on the tail.
From what we can decipher, the new Azera will have a more dynamic appearance than the current car, especially up front, though, we must say, it doesn't sound like a wise choice for Hyundai to continue sharing similar faces and grilles with their Genesis lineup.
Last year, Autonews reported that Hyundai will discontinue the Azera in the USA because of low sales and the fact that the gap between the Sonata and the then, Hyundai-branded, Genesis sedan was "awfully small". While the sales factor remains, there's clearly room for the Azera in their lineup now that the Koreans reassigned the Genesis sedan to their newly launched standalone luxury brand, as the G80, so we'll have to wait and see if it will get another chance in life in the States.
In its current form, the 2016 Azera uses a 293hp 3.3-liter V6, but its replacement may employ one of Hyundai's newer V6s with over 300hp paired to an 8-speed automatic.


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Annual meteor shower lights up night skies through Aug. 24
There's not a lot of fireworks to look forward to after the Fourth of July, but there's still plenty of reasons to look to the night sky — possibly 90 an hour for a few nights over the coming weeks.
The Perseid meteor shower, an annual astronomical phenomenon, began on July 17 and is expected to last until August 24. A brighter moon might get in the way of seeing the faintest meteors this summer but shouldn't obscure them all.
The shower starts each summer in mid-July and lasts until mid-August as Earth travels through the path of the Swift-Tuttle comet.
Lou Coban, manager of the Allegheny Observatory, said you can think of comets as giant snowballs loosely held together by gravity. Bits and pieces that flake off of Swift-Tuttle linger in space and are visible.
"You can trace them all back to the constellation of Perseus," Coban said. "That's where they get their name."
Two to five meteors an hour can be spotted any given night, under the right conditions, Coban said.
During the Perseids, as many as 90 meteors can be seen an hour.
"The problem is, the moon is going to be between full- and last-quarter (phases), which means the moon will actually interfere with seeing a good percentage of the faint meteors," said Tom Reiland, director of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh.
A meteor streaks through a bare patch of sky above Gainesville, Fla., during the annual Perseid meteor shower on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015.
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Activity should be highest overnight Aug. 11-12, though plenty of meteors will pass before and after.
"On a good night," Reiland said, "the meteor showers are best to watch after midnight."
Less humid nights are preferable, as air moisture can amplify the effects of light pollution, like what occurs when high beams on a car are turned on in the fog.
In this early morning, Aug. 13, 2013 file photo, a meteor streaks past the faint band of the Milky Way galaxy above the Wyoming countryside north of Cheyenne, Wyo., during a Perseids meteor shower.
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"The best way to view any meteor shower is to get far away from city lights and get as much sky as you possibly can," Coban said.
Great views from Pittsburgh aren't likely, he said. Instead, he suggests traveling to Ligonier or Latrobe. The Amateur Astronomers will host a stargazing party Aug. 11 at Mingo Observatory in Finleyville, Washington County.
For those feeling more adventurous, Dennis Hill of Kiski Astronomers recommends a trip to Cherry Springs State Park in Potter County.
"They have some of the darkest skies east of the Mississippi River," he said.
Matthew Guerry is a Tribune-Review staff writer. Reach him at 724-850-2122, [email protected] or via Twitter at @MattGuerry.


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'The Laird's Right-Hand Lady,' a contemporary romance, set in the Scottish Highlands, is newly-published on Amazon and currently available on Kindle Unlimited:
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Tuesday, 2 September 2014
Easy Vegan Bacon Garnish
I am juuuust back home from having spent my Summer holiday with my family in Norway, and thus there might just be a post in the near future about it - just maybe *winks*. After ten days away, I have climbed mountains, eaten ice cream o'plenty and topped up on my favourite dish - raspeballer. I have attended a poetry slam in the heart of Bergen, seen some celebrities - and.....I just heard back from the people from my course and I have become a nutritional advisor, how about that? Needless to say I am really happy I made it, not to mention surprised and relieved!
I have seen several recipes for vegan coconut bacon, and most recipes call for the sliced coconut. I however, happened to have no such thing in my flat and thus settled for using dessicated coconut and just use it for garnish instead, and I was mighty surprised how something vegan can taste so beautifully....smokey - as if straight from the barbecue, mmmm!
I composed this recipe based on the main component in the other ones I have seen, and also just using whatever I had at hand. I think the liquid smoke is the key though, and you can find it in some Mexican food shops, as well as some normal food shops.
I might have used tamarind instead of tamari, which was somewhat a foolish thing to do, but thankfully it tasted really nice! Don't worry though, I corrected it in the recipe below for you *smiles*
Easy Vegan Bacon Garnish
(Makes 1 cup)
1 cup dessicated coconut
1/2 tsp smoked paprika
1/3 tsp liquid smoke (it's seriously strong stuff!)
1 tbsp tamari + 2 tbsp water
1-2 tsp maple syrup (can use honey for vegetarian)
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp coconut oil
- Simply start by combining the dessicated coconut with smoked paprika and salt, stir well to combine.
- Add the liquid smoke, syrup, tamari and water and stir, stir, stir some more!
- Heat coconut oil in a small frying pan on medium-low heat, and add the "bacon" mix. Stir frequently, and once it starts to char slightly, after about 5-10 minutes, it's done! Either use as garnish straight away or cool completely before storing in an airtight container or a jar for up to 1-2 weeks.
Have you ever tried to make vegan bacon before?
Recipe by yours truly, with a little help from the iWebs!
- Jules
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First of all, congratulations on being a full-fledged Nutritional Advisor now!! WOOHOO!! Well done, Jules!!ReplyDelete
Also, I'm glad to hear you had a fabulous vacation! Which celebrities did you see?! I'm curious!!
As for the vegan bacon... YUM!! I tried this stuff while I was in San Francisco and really liked it! I always wondered how they had flavored it -- now I know (and will have to try it!!)
Beautifully presented, too!! Thanks for an awesome post :)Replies
Rose <3 Hello there you ;)Delete
Thank you so so much for the lovely comment, I'm sitting here with a silly grin on my face :P As for the celebrities, it was "only" Norwegian ones, one of the most famous ones being Jon Arne Riise the footballer, it's just weird, cause walking around town I almost felt as if I was walking inside a TV with all these known faces :P
Vegan bacon is really good, and I think it's the liquid smoke that holds the magic flavour for most part :) Next time I might try with coconut shavings! Ah, I wanna go to San Fran, I've heard it's quite something ^ ^
I hope you're well m'dear :) xx
Woho, gratulerer!!! Så fantastisk! Og dagene dine i Norge hørtes veldig veldig bra ut også.ReplyDelete
Og dette!!! Nam! Jeg har så lyst til å lage 'bacon' jeg også og jeg liker ideen med å lage det som strø.
God kveld til deg Julie :)Replies
Tusen tusen takk Ragnhild! Er jo litt stas og få godkjent da :) Det var godt med en liten ferie ^ ^Delete
Du kan også gjerne bruke skivet kokos for en mer "bacon"-aktig topping, men dette ga iallefall god smak :) Stor klem! x
Oh Jules! Very well done and congrats :)ReplyDelete
Awk thanks Kat! ^ ^ I hope you're well :) xDelete
Hmmm spennende :) Jeg pleier å lage av sopp eller tofu, med paprikakrydder og liquid smoke.ReplyDeleteReplies
Nam! Det hørtes vel så godt ut :D xDelete


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Although, I have to say, as paranoid as I am of getting a foodborne illness I've never once worried about eating raw cookie dough or brownie batter. Not ummm, like I do it all that often.
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Innovation and Big Data: A Roadmap
The bleeding edge of data and insight innovation is around next generation digital consumer experience. Consumer behaviors are rapidly evolving….always connected, always sharing, always aware. Obviously new technology like Big Data drives and transforms consumer behavior and empowerment.
With the influx of money, attention and entrepreneurial energy, there is a massive amount of innovation taking place to solve data centric problems (such as the high cost of collecting, cleaning, curating, analyzing, maintaining, predicting) in new ways.
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With either pattern the managerial challenge is moving from big picture strategy to day-to-day execution. Execution of big data or data-driven decision making requires a multi-year evolving roadmap around toolset, skillset, dataset, and mindset.
Airline loyalty programs are a great example of multi-year evolving competitive roadmaps. Let's look at BA's Know Me project.
British Airways "Know Me" Project
British Airways (BA) has focused on competitiveness via customer insight. It has petabytes of customer information from its Executive Club loyalty program and its website. BA decided to put customer big data to work in its Know Me program. The goal of the program is to understand customers better than any other airline, and leverage customer insight accumulated across billions of touch points to work.
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- Service excellence and recovery—BA will track the service it provides to its customers and aim to keep it at a high level. Given air travel constant problems and disruptions, BA wants to understand what problems its customers experience, and do its best to recover a positive overall result
- Offers that inspire and motivate—BA's best customers are business travelers who don't have time for irrelevant offers, so Know Me program analyzes customer data to construct relevant and targeted "next best offers" for their consideration.
The information to support these objectives is integrated across a variety of systems, and applied in real-time customer interactions at check-in locations and lounges. Even on BA planes, service personnel have iPads that display customer situations and authorized offers. Some aspects of the Know Me program have already been rolled out, while others are still under development.
The Need for New Data Roadmaps
New IT paradigms (cloud resident apps, mobile apps, multi-channel, always-on etc.) are creating more and more complex integration landscapes with live, "right-now" and real-time data. With data increasingly critical to business strategy, the problems of poor quality data, fragmentation, and lack of lineage are also taking center stage.
The big change taking place in the application landscape: application owners of the past expected to own their data. However, applications of the future will leverage data – a profound change that is driving the data-centric enterprise. The applications of the future need one "logical" place to go that provides the business view of the data to enable agile assembly.
Established and startup vendors are racing to fill this new information management void. The establish vendors are expanding on this current enterprise footprint by adding more features and capabilities. For example, the Oracle BI stack (hardware – databases – platform – prebuilt content) illustrates the data landscape changes taking place from hardware to mobile BI apps. Similar stack evolution is being followed by SAP AG, IBM, Teradata and others. The startup vendors typically are building around disruptive technology or niche point solutions.
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IBM summarize this wave of innovation in this Investor Day slide:
Data Infrastructure Innovation
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What is a "Hadoop"? Explaining Big Data to the C-Suite
Keep hearing about Big Data and Hadoop? Having a hard time explaining what is behind the curtain?
The term "big data" comes from computational sciences to describe scenarios where the volume of the data outstrips the tools to store it or process it.
Three reasons why we are generating data faster than ever: (1) Processes are increasingly automated; (2) Systems are increasingly interconnected; (3) People are increasingly "living" online.
As huge data sets invaded the corporate world there are new tools to help process big data. Corporations have to run analysis on massive data sets to separate the signal from the noisy data. Hadoop is an emerging framework for Web 2.0 and enterprise businesses who are dealing with data deluge challenges – store, process, index, and analyze large amounts of data as part of their business requirements.
So what's the big deal? The first phase of e-commerce was primarily about cost and enabling transactions. So everyone got really good at this. Then we saw differentiation around convenience… fulfillment excellence (e.g., Amazon Prime) , or relevant recommendations (if you bought this and then you may like this – next best offer).
Then the game shifted as new data mashups became possible based on… seeing who is talking to who in your social network, seeing who you are transacting with via credit-card data, looking at what you are visiting via clickstreams, influenced by ad clickthru, ability to leverage where you are standing via mobile GPS location data and so on.
The differentiation is shifting to turning volumes of data into useful insights to sell more effectively. For instance, E-bay apparently has 9 petabytes of data in their Hadoop and Teradata cluster. With 97 million active buyers and sellers they have 2 Billion page view and 75 billion database calls each day. E-bay like others is racing to put in the analytics infrastructure to (1) collect real-time data; (2) process data as it flows; (3) explore and visualize. Read more
Analytics-as-a-Service: Understanding how Amazon.com is changing the rules
"By 2014, 30% of analytic applications will use proactive, predictive and forecasting capabilities" Gartner Forecast
"More firms will adopt Amazon EC2 or EMR or Google App Engine platforms for data analytics. Put in a credit card, by an hour or months worth of compute and storage data. Charge for what you use. No sign up period or fee. Ability to fire up complex analytic systems. Can be a small or large player" Ravi Kalakota's forecast
Big data Analytics = Technologies and techniques for working productively with data, at any scale.
Analytics-as-a-Service is cloud based… Elastic and highly scalable, No upfront capital expense. Only pay for what you use, Available on-demand
The combination of the two is the emerging new trend. Why? Many organizations are starting to think about "analytics-as-a-service" as they struggle to cope with the problem of analyzing massive amounts of data to find patterns, extract signals from background noise and make predictions. In our discussions with CIOs and others, we are increasingly talking about leveraging the private or public cloud computing to build an analytics-as-a-service model.
Analytics-as-a-Service is an umbrella term I am using to encapsulate "Data-as-a-Service" and "Hadoop-as-a-Service" strategies. It is more sexy 🙂
The strategic goal is to harness data to drive insights and better decisions faster than competition as a core competency. Executing this goal requires developing state-of-the-art capabilities around three facets: algorithms, platform building blocks, and infrastructure.
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New Tools for New Times – Primer on Big Data, Hadoop and "In-memory" Data Clouds
Data growth curve: Terabytes -> Petabytes -> Exabytes -> Zettabytes -> Yottabytes -> Brontobytes -> Geopbytes. It is getting more interesting.
Analytical Infrastructure curve: Databases -> Datamarts -> Operational Data Stores (ODS) -> Enterprise Data Warehouses -> Data Appliances -> In-Memory Appliances -> NoSQL Databases -> Hadoop Clusters
In most enterprises, whether it's a public or private enterprise, there is typically a mountain of data, structured and unstructured data, that contains potential insights about how to serve their customers better, how to engage with customers better and make the processes run more efficiently. Consider this:
- Online firms–including Facebook, Visa, Zynga–use Big Data technologies like Hadoop to analyze massive amounts of business transactions, machine generated and application data.
- Wall street investment banks, hedge funds, algorithmic and low latency traders are leveraging data appliances such as EMC Greenplum hardware with Hadoop software to do advanced analytics in a "massively scalable" architecture
- Retailers use HP Vertica or Cloudera analyze massive amounts of data simply, quickly and reliably, resulting in "just-in-time" business intelligence.
- New public and private "data cloud" software startups capable of handling petascale problems are emerging to create a new category – Cloudera, Hortonworks, Northscale, Splunk, Palantir, Factual, Datameer, Aster Data, TellApart.
Data is seen as a resource that can be extracted and refined and turned into something powerful. It takes a certain amount of computing power to analyze the data and pull out and use those insights. That where the new tools like Hadoop, NoSQL, In-memory analytics and other enablers come in.
What business problems are being targeted?
Why are some companies in retail, insurance, financial services and healthcare racing to position themselves in Big Data, in-memory data clouds while others don't seem to care?
World-class companies are targeting a new set of business problems that were hard to solve before – Modeling true risk, customer churn analysis, flexible supply chains, loyalty pricing, recommendation engines, ad targeting, precision targeting, PoS transaction analysis, threat analysis, trade surveillance, search quality fine tuning, and mashups such as location + ad targeting.
To address these petascale problems an elastic/adaptive infrastructure for data warehousing and analytics capable of three things is converging:
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- low-latency in-memory or Solid State Devices (SSD) for super high volume web and real-time apps
- Scale out with low cost commodity hardware; distribute processing and workloads
As a result, a new BI and Analytics framework is emerging to support public and private cloud deployments.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said on Wednesday he intends to call former Paul Manafort, former campaign manager for President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential bid, to testify before the panel, an Iowa newspaper reported.
Grassley, an Iowa Republican, said Manafort would be subpoenaed if necessary and could be questioned on anything including his presence in a June 2016 meeting in New York involving the president's son, Donald Trump Jr., and a Russian lawyer, the Des Moines Register said.
"We're working very close on this and we've already agreed that we're going to bring Manafort before our committee," the paper quoted Grassley as saying in a call with reporters, describing his cooperation with Senator Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the committee.
Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Writing by Washington Newsroom; Editing by Eric Walsh


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Ti'ak Lodge
For more than 90 years, the Order of the Arrow (OA) has recognized Scouts and Scouters who best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law in their daily lives. This recognition provides encouragement for others to live these ideals as well. Arrowmen are known for maintaining camping traditions and spirit, promoting year-round and long term resident camping, and providing cheerful service to others. OA service, activities, adventures, and training for youth and adults are models of quality leadership development and programming that enrich and help to extend Scouting to America's youth.
The Ti'ak lodge provides service to our local camp, Camp Tiak, by helping out with camp improvement projects, conservation projects, Summer Camp Staff, providing help
with Cub Scout Family Camping Weekends, and service to our local communities.
We are unique in the fact that we are a youth led organization. The young men are in charge of planning and running events with minimal adult help. Our adults are some of the best Scouters we have, and provide excellent leadership, mentorship, and guidance to our youth members.
Lodge History
Our lodge was chartered in 1948, and our first ordeal was held December 4, 1948 with some 64 Scouts and Scouters in attendance at then council camp, Camp Towanda. During that weekend, the Ordeal Candidates were installed by an induction team from Sebooney Okasucca Lodge from the Andrew Jackson Council. Throughout the years we have had many Chapters within the lodge, but currently there are 6: Ayupka (Chickasawhay District), Hommo Hishi (Tall Pine District), Ittibapishili (Spanish Trail District), Machkeu
Wiechcheu (Poplarville area of Tung Belt District), Wuelensin Achtu (Tung Belt Districtmins Poplarville), and Woapalanne (Singing River District). These chapters form Ti'ak Lodge which provides service to Camp Tiak, the districts that they belong to, their units, and many council wide events.
Our lodge totem is the Pine Burr or pine cone. It represents long leaf pine trees of the southern Mississippi Pine Belt where we reside. Our Lodge name also is a source of area pride as our name Ti'ak (pronounced tee-ock) means "Tall Pine" in the Choctaw language.
Lodge Officers
Lodge Chief
Anthony Goretski
1st Vice Chief
Beau Garrard
2nd Vice Chief
Jerrod Bates
Jacob Wiggins
Luke Sauls
Hommi Hishi Chapter Chief
Ayupka Chapter Chief
Victor Harris
Ittibapishili Chapter Chief
Bryan Oramous
Woapalanne Chapter Chief
William Clark
Wulensin Achtu Chapter Chief
Wyatt Wood
Machkeu Wiechcheu Chapter Chief
Gabe Entrekin
Lodge Advisor
Steve "Spider" Schneider
Lodge Staff Advisor
Josh Donaldson
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Stephen King is the writer who, unknowingly of course, had the biggest influence on my choice of career. He is one of four writers who turned me into the voracious reader that I am. The other three are Thomas Harris, Peter Straub and John Irving. There were, and still are, others of course but these four were the start of a reading frenzy, when I was 14 (close to 15), that is still going on 30 years later.
In the summer of 1981, I was finally authorised to read any books I wanted from the public library. Having read all of my father's books by George Simenon, Agatha Christie, some by Henri Vernes, Gaston Leroux, Maurice Leblanc, and most of the ones by Edgar Allan Poe (translated in French by none other than Charles Baudelaire) I was now ready for something else. My mother took me to the Cowansville Public Library, serving a population of barely 12,000 in what is now known as "Louise Penny Country", in Quebec's Eastern Townships. The library's inventory was scattered on a few bookshelves, half of which were filled by illustrated books for kids and most of the other half filled by romance novels. That left only a few shelves for other genre novels and some 'real' literature.
I didn't know about not judging a book by its cover, so I went for the ones that caught my eye, at first barely reading the back covers to get an idea of the contents. At the time, I wasn't bilingual enough to be able to read novels in English, but even though the translations were a year or so behind the originals, during that summer I discovered Stephen King (only seven years after the publication of his first book) and his already impressive backlist that consisted of Carrie, 'Salem's Lot, The Shining, Night Shift, The Stand, and The Dead Zone. I don't remember in which order I went through these titles but they filled my summer days whenever I wasn't playing baseball or soccer, or pedalling around town on my bike. I read every evening --sometimes deep into the night. And man, did I have many nightmares!
Between some of these books, I also read Thomas Harris's Black Sunday, and Peter Straub's Ghost Story, which had just come out in French. When fall came, and with it high school and the hockey season, instead of picking up other books, I just re-read King's. In 1982, I was spoiled again with the publication of Red Dragon and The World According to Garp, both published in French; the former is still one of my all-time favourites along with Ghost Story, Dennis Lehane's Mystic River, Michael Connelly's Angel's Flight, Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, and King's Different Seasons and The Dead Zone.
I never stopped reading, of course, although I was only confident enough to start reading books in English in 1989. The first one was King's "The Tommyknockers" (which I'd already read in French) and it was followed by Jim Morrison's first bio "No One Here Gets Out Alive". Here I am now, into my 6th year working as a sales rep for Canadian independent publishers (after 5 years as manager in a bookstore), running a blogsite (or weblog), writing the occasional review for the great website Crime Fiction Lover, co-founder of the QuebeCrime Writers Festival, and writing a crime novel (in French). All of this because of Stephen King, in a public library, in the summer of '81.
So, to celebrate my 30 years of reading Stephen King, how about a contest for a chance to win his brand-new book "11/22/63"! The contest is open to residents of the US and Canada only (it's an 850-page book, so I can't afford to ship it very far!). As usual, you need to be 18 or older, but you have to work a little: I want you to tell me your favourite King character, book and movie. That's it. Send your answers to: firstname.lastname@example.com
Contest runs until December 7th (12/7) at 12:07 pm (because 12+7 =19... King's Constant Readers will know what I'm talking about). Bonne chance!
A huge thankee-sai to Simon & Schuster Canada for making this contest possible!


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Bienvenue ! Vous vous rappelez les blogs ? A une époque, ce site en était un. Maintenant, c'est surtout une archive de mes multiples comptes Twitter.
Oh, there you go. I wouldn't have hated the beginning of Bloodborne so much if the game had told me I should pick the cane.
I finally figured out what the Model 3 front looks like. [pic.twitter.com]
Ah mais les deux jeans que j'avais achetés déteignent de partout, sur les chaussures et les meubles. Qui peut bien… oh. FUCKING HIPSTERS.
Our entire concept of what a "Car" looks like is predicated on the need for cooling a block of metal trapping exploding dinosaur juice.
How hard can it be to sync timers and alarms between the Watch and iPhone? Give them a UUID so both devices can recognize them, poof, done.
Oh, Apple Developer Program is an automatic renewal now — on a credit card. So many accounts are gonna disappear because the card expired.
Look how instinctively, the mother croc carries the baby in its mouth. Nature is beautiful. [pic.twitter.com]
April Fools Day is like the Razzies: It was relevant when our entire lives weren't about ironic detachment.
This day only comes once a year (Joke via Reddit) [pic.twitter.com]
I'd really love to know more about the demographics of who the fuck pays to subscribe to Twitch streamers. The very idea boggles me.
When you're chill with everyone [pic.twitter.com]
Je veux pas être à cheval sur les marques mais quand on en arrive au "vodka-red bull" qui sent la pisse on a un peu dépassé une limite.
Next time a vendor screws around on pricing, remind them SpaceX's website has how much they charge to SEND A SATELLITE INTO SPACE.
J'ai trouvé l'homme de ma vie en boîte hier. Manque de pot il était sur scène et il est mannequin-danseur brésilien.
Can't deny that the most fun aspect of Bloodborne is getting stuck on scenery you can't see while trying to dodge a boss.
Studio sculpts giant coin, photographs it alongside normal objects to make them look tiny
Today's xkcd unjustly favors people who keep dozens of tabs open at all times. I don't normally have a browser window always open.
- Papa, Maman, C'est décidé, j'arrête de tondre des pelouses. Je me lance dans le cinéma
- Mais pour quoi faire ?
Je marche vers l'ouest pour synthétiser de la chlorophylle. Je vous enverrai une carte postale de Versailles.
DayOne or TextExpander content is by nature sensitive. But sure roll your own sync servers, put it behind https and call it "secure".
I tried explaining Soylent to my mom and she was like, oh you mean Slimfast? I was like yes but now made by and for men, so we call it tech
I'm scping 25gb of data from 1 computer on my network to another so my network is saturated and I can't turn on my lights. #InternetOfThings
The tracking is THAT good. [pic.twitter.com]
"Huawei P9 uses dual-lens camera to refocus"
I wanna see that in action. How can it work with one sensor being B&W?
My Rise of the Tomb Raider game save (at 18%) triggers a crash to the Xbox's home screen. Here's to one less game I feel obligated to play that I don't enjoy.
That Final Fantasy demo is awful, right? It's certainly dispelled any curiosity, let alone interest, I could have for the game.
Here we see a wild heard of excavators devour their pray in a single night. [pic.twitter.com]
Ihr kennt eine Rolltreppe? Ihr habt einen VLC Player aus Plastik?
Ihr habt einen Auftrag. [pic.twitter.com]
Oh, une invitation à un Pacs et un anniversaire de quelqu'un dont je n'ai jamais eu de nouvelles depuis.
Dingue quand même qu'il ait fallu quarante ans pour avoir une side-story dans l'univers Star Wars (au cinéma).
Disney Crossy Road is rather ugly — they should have dropped the voxel look altogether instead of this bastardization.
Why would isFirstPartyHideableApp be necessary for App Store apps when by definition they're all deletable? Is Apple going to uncouple first-party app updates from OS updates? (That makes sense for Android because OS updates are poorly applied, but not for iOS where Apple pushes updates so aggressively.)
Les délais sur deepart.io sont descendus de 24h à 60 minutes. Que vais-je devenir s'ils ferment le site par manque de succès ?
Happy 2²/2³/2⁴ everybody!
Là je regrette un peu que mon éducation m'ait poussé à acheter ce paquet de biscuits après l'avoir fait tomber par terre dans le magasin.
If the NYT Crossword app had any social functionality I'd get my friends hooked to the mini until they upgrade to a paid sub. Just saying.
Une piste de la taille du Gibus mais où tout le monde danse. J'ai dû sortir de Paris sans m'en apercevoir.
Never mind, j'ai changé d'emplacement dans la salle et je suis revenu à Paris. C'était une illusion d'optique.
N'empêche que dans un monde juste je me ferais draguer parce que je danse trop mieux que les autres, c'est une évidence.
Moi : "Au pire si je me fais chier j'irai sur Grindr, je serai dans le centre."
Grindr : "Connecting."
The original patent from 1891 for a toilet paper roll shows the correct rolling direction, in case you ever doubted. [pic.twitter.com]
Lytro's making a 4K movie camera
(Sadly it looks too big for a steadicam, where post-prod focus pulling would be most useful.)
The leaked new Kindle's battery handhold is a good idea but the rest of the design is damn ugly — which sadly makes the leak feel credible.
"2016 Apple Watch will be internal 's' upgrade"
"Upgrade so your apps actually work!" should go over well.
Because, unless the price goes down another 50% (at least), I'm pretty sure the market is mostly people who already bought the first model.
"No Man's Sky: 21 Minutes of New Gameplay"
Don't like the survival. Hate "you'll google where to find resources."
I know game designers today feel obligated to incorporate the internet, but I want to forget all about the outside world while playing this.
Juodasis vaiduoklis (The Black Ghost) sculpture is located in Klaipėda, Lithuania [pic.twitter.com]
Here we are in the future [pic.twitter.com]
The 3 month old Eurasian Eagle-owl chicks like watching baby animal videos at work as much as the rest of us do! [pic.twitter.com]
C'est honteux d'avoir vendu The Voices comme une comédie. Pas facile à promouvoir, faut dire — quoi que ça veuille vraiment être, ce n'est ni intéressant ni réussi.
"What the Hell Are Superdelegates?"
Je vais partager du Samantha Bee chaque semaine, puisqu'il n'y en a que pour John Oliver sur les réseaux sociaux alors que son show n'a plus qu'une seule blague à son répertoire, l'analogie hors-sujet (et je n'étais même pas ceux qui se plaignaient des sempiternels faux flashbacks de Family Guy).
"I love stateless systems"
"Don't they have drawbacks?"
"Don't what have drawbacks?"
(credit to deleted @qntm tweet)
I have this theory that using video for learning/tutorials drives away programmers (who think in text) and fast learners (who hate fluff).
Found a buyer for my 12" iPad Pro. Ostensibly to buy a 9" Pro instead, but it would be redundant with my Mini and I love the Mini so much…
Wow, I just sent 50 photos from my iPad to my Mac with AirDrop in the blink of an eye. (AirDrop has been so shitty before, I feel it's worth pointing out.)
"Apple Is Ending iTunes Allowances, but Why?"
I'd never heard of them, but they do sound like a great idea for everyone involved?
I'm watching a Gears of War 4 video and, hey, I'd completely forgotten how much I'd enjoyed that series.
I love that the copilot's barks take a calm "when we eventually get there" tone in Dirt Rally while you're doing a U-turn after a spin.
I get the feeling that what the Dirt Rally team actually want to do is a Dakar sim — as a survival game.
So many developers had been clamoring "Schiller is preparing an App Store overhaul" as if the outcome was gonna be positive.
Why did this leak?
- is it wrong
- leaked by someone trying to kill it
- intentionally leaked to set expectations
To be clear I don't care whether it comes to pass or not — if that's really where their thinking is right now, it just shows how screwed we are.
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem think, 'I know, I'll use threads'
and then two they hav erpoblesm.
I've understood wealth too casually.
1 million seconds = just over 11 days.
1 billion seconds = nearly 32 years.
If I could have a superpower, it'd be falling asleep without first analyzing every social interaction I've ever had.
If it's MacOS instead of macOS like all the other OSes I'm selling all of my Apple hardware. Gotta know when to put your foot down.
2 birds, 1 stone: Allow unlisted apps with less nitpicky review process. We get freedom, users learn to look for App Store links on the web.
ENGLISH: hello!
SPANISH: ¡hola!
ENGLISH: how are you?
SPANISH: ¿cómo estás?
ENGLISH: im happy🙂
SPANISH: 🙃estoy feliz🙂
Reporter asks Canada's Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau to explain Quantum Computing: [pic.twitter.com]
Until Dawn's main reveals are a bit lame and clumsily delivered but I absolutely love everything else in this game.
Killed Gascoigne on the second try after finding out you need to roll into the attack. I wish the game made an effort to teach that stuff.
But I'm tempted to give up on Bloodborne and move to Dark Souls 3 because at least Souls doesn't respawn you without health packs.
Sign of a great redesign is when the original, however iconic, looks fussy and over-designed by comparison. [pic.twitter.com]
Ma timeline Facebook nargue agressivement mon manque de motivation pour me lever et sortir danser à midi.
Instagram's blank-search view does better discovery than anything Twitter offers. Is it so much easier for photos or does Twitter just suck?
Ahahahah <3 [pic.twitter.com]
Je regarderais Julia Louis-Dreyfus lire le bottin ou jouer dans Saturday Night Live. (Mais j'aurais préféré le bottin.)
baby pangolins always look like they're waiting to nervously ask you to prom [pic.twitter.com]
Why can't I write </div id="myid"> and get a warning in the console if it ends up closing a <div id="anotherid">? ("XML doesn't do attributes in closing tags" is not a valid answer.)
Sources have confirmed for us the specs of the upcoming "PS4.5," which has the codename NEO: [giantbomb.com]
Basically,if the Neo results in a $250 PS4, and Sony keeps games running smooth on both models, this sounds like an Everybody Wins scenario.
Majestic… bulldozer mating rituals in their natural habitat [youtube.com]
The Watch needs a Wet Mode that uses 3D Touch to distinguish intentional presses from water droplets.
(I've been trying to keep my Watch under the shower lately because the NATO strap is too cumbersome to take off and put back on.)
Hrm, I could probably replace my MacBook Pro with a MacBook One, a big Mac Mini and a huge 4K TV for the same price.
Oh but I could stick to my old Mini for desktop use and get a gaming PC with the remainder and oh god I need to offload my MacBook Pro now.
It sounds stupid, but really, the "Store closed" sign worked a hell of a lot better than "The page you're looking for can't be found."
It's a good thing some people were actually willing to "reinvent the wheel". [pic.twitter.com]
How the Void's VR ride cheats to make space feel bigger than it is
I'm amazed it works.
The article also makes a very good point that Apple must be much more interested in HoloLens-like stuff than full-on VR.
A bash script that moves the given thing into the Trash. I use it instead of `rm -rf` [gist.github.com]
Reading Saint-Exupéry's autobiographical stories, imagining the game one could make — like Desert Bus, but with danger and suspense.
Mettre un blouson renforcé et me jeter sur le chemin de tous les vélos qui prennent le trottoir pour une autoroute.
La folie : un joueur de KSP a publié 5 ans de constructions sur imgur.
88 images.
My friend and I were pretending to mine In Dark Souls 3. Then we got invaded and he joined us. I love this game. [pic.twitter.com]
Hannibal gag reels are pretty special. [youtu.be] .
Non mixité: l'agressivité des agressées [crepegeorgette.com] de @valerieCG
Question about preferred size of a #Scrum team made me visualize this today: "Why BIG teams fail!!1!" :) #agile [pic.twitter.com]
Idly wondering how MacOS X would look if they brought back 10.0-style Aqua on today's Retina screens.
Admit it, it'd probably look awesome!
"what kind of job do you want?"
A (very) brief Prince and Bowie thought: we've lost two artists who acted as reminders that there's no one right way to be a man.
Is there a sane workflow for using my iPad Pro to quickly annotate an image that's on my Mac? Can't seem to find one and that's ridiculous.
Ended up doing the annotation on a white background in Adobe Sketch and sending it to Photoshop for compositing. Because the future is bullshit.
This is what snow leopard parkour looks like [nerdist.com] [pic.twitter.com]
Après deux heures à comater : "oh mais le paracétamol avait bien marché hier, et si j'en reprenais ?"
Il y avait "leg warmers" dans ma grille de mots croisés et j'ai eu des images de Dead Like Me en tête tout le long 💜
Si j'avais su que c'était aujourd'hui, la Formule E, je serais allé voir. Je ne pensais pas que Twitter s'était scandalisé à si court terme.
"A Clinical Trial Is Exploring How MDMA Could Help People With Autism"
Ca ne fait jamais qu'un siècle qu'elle existe
When I grow up I wanna become a psychopath and not have my enjoyment of a party depend on everyone else's.
L'article d'hier me fait réaliser que les gens arrivent à visualiser un visage dans leur esprit ? Moi, comme il dit, "I have a hash table" (i.e., les images dans mon imagination sont toujours floues, mais je pensais que c'était juste pour aller avec ma myopie).
I'm not bitter, but there's no goddamn reason for the second question you ask a guy you just kissed in a club to be "how old are you?"
Comparing Apple Watch and iPhone's first years as a defense for Apple Watch doesn't work. Everyone loved their iPhones.
Will my watch turn on when I look at it? Will Siri get me? Will 3D touching this do anything? Every new Apple interaction is a minefield. 🤔
Get up on stage and entertain the crowd in Stage Presence, a new #VR title from tinyBuilds: [bit.ly] [pic.twitter.com]
The concept of playing Stage Presence online feels a lot to me like "if you die in the game, you die in real life."
Pokémon Go gameplay video and an explanation of combat mechanics (wasn't clear from the video that there were any).
I never really got into Ingress, and the video makes it look more annoying than anything, but who knows.
Tinder teste le chat de groupe.
"VReal: Twitch for VR, on Steroids"
Sounds awesome, but Twitch would have to screw up badly for anyone else to have a shot.
All I had to do was turn on my Xbox to download the Gears of War beta and somehow I missed any mention of it on the places I follow?
je veux vivre là dedans !
"The Floating Seahorse, la première villa sous-marine est sortie de l'eau" [superyachts.fr]
The new Philips Hue app clearly shows a change of focus away from color bulbs. I'll be pissed off if/when they stop updating the old app.
Just found out that the text clipping I'd created a month ago by dragging a sentence out of Mail was truncated after a few words \o/
Roomba long exposure shots… [pic.twitter.com]
"This writer isn't just bad at world-building, they hate it."
(More of this essential Mass Effect retrospective.)
I've analyzed the Silicon Valley Bot Startup trend and created a handy venn diagram to help explain it. [pic.twitter.com]
Dark Souls 3 is dealing with its cheating problem by punishing its biggest fans. It's bullshit. [kotaku.com]
All of my "technical" designer friends have gotten into VR development in the last few months. All of them!
Ah, right, it's about cooldowns. So Dreadnought is MMO combat in 3D? And here I thought MMO combat was meant to be tolerated, not emulated.
Generative brutalist architecture by @dbtwr [flickr.com] [pic.twitter.com]
I keep forgetting about El Cap's Split View and now I've just changed my life by having iTunes and Spotify share the same full-screen view.
Forty years later, is Soylent Green's final reveal still horrifying or does the movie just encourage eco-conscious protein recycling?
Fullest House is a recurrent neural network trained on every Full House episode, making a new script every day. [fullest.house]
Hello! Here's in-game footage of 1666 Amsterdam, unreleased for Xbox 360 and PS3. [youtube.com]
Guess my Forza Horizon save was deleted to make some room, so it's been downloading for ten minutes now. Fuck everything about the Xbox One.
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FTC: Spammers Responsible For Millions Of 'Free Gift Card' Text Messages To Pay $2.5M
Twelve defendants that allegedly operated websites enticing consumers with bogus offers of "free $1,000 gift cards" for major retailers have agreed to pay $2.5 million, the Federal Trade Commission announced Tuesday.
The South Carolina- and California-based defendants allegedly hired marketers to send more than 180 millions spam text messages notifying consumers they had won a free gift card. When in reality, the messages were used as a way to gather and then sell consumers' personal information to third-party marketers.
According to the complaint, which was first filed in March 2013, when consumers clicked on the link provided in the text message they would be taken to a page to register for the free prize. During the registration process the marketers collected personal information about the consumer to be sold to third parties, the FTC said in a statement.
"This case halts a nationwide operation that took in millions of dollars by promising consumers free gift cards that it never delivered," Jessica Rich, Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement. "We're pleased to stop these unwanted messages and protect consumers' personal information."
Under the settlement All Square Marketing, LLC; Threadpoint, LLC; PC Global Investments, LLC; Slash 20, LLC; Matthew Cook, Robert Nicolosi, Christopher McVeigh, and Michael Mazzella are required to pay $1,320,000, while SubscriberBASE Holdings, Inc.; SubscriberBASE, Inc.; Jeffery French and Jason Liester are required to pay $1,180,000.
As part of the settlement, the corporate defendants are banned from being involved in the distribution of unwanted span text messages, as well as from misrepresenting whether a good or service is "free".
Operators of Phony 'Free $1,000 Gift Card' Websites Will Pay $2.5 Million in FTC Settlement [Federal Trade Commission]
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