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Monday, June 8, 2009
Books still available directly from the author!
If you are still interested in getting a copy of 'Elemental Magic' directly from me, I still have a box full, so feel free to drop me a line, and I will personally deliver you a signed copy for the marked down price of $45! Just name the time and place!
6 comments:
- Andy J. Latham said...
If I lived in the US, I would! lol
- June 8, 2009 at 11:35 AM
- John David Thornton said...
I would like to get my hands on a copy! I sent email at your first announcement but it must have gotten lost in the shuffle. So I'm just here "checking in" again. You should have my email, if not, drop a comment on my blog & I'll send it. I think I have your correct email.
- June 10, 2009 at 6:21 PM
- carlo guillot said...
I've received our book last friday, AND I've read it from cover to cover yesterday.
It's really amazing, entertaning and valuable stuff, I've learned a lot.
I'm into character animation, but I'm sure all of your advices will help me a lot.
Well, I hope you get to see PONYO, cause the water is really really magical and a character by itself, as in many other Miyasaki's films (like the wind in Nausicaa and the fire in Howl's)
Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and CONGRATS for your book (It's been almost a year since you write your final words).
Best Regards,
Carlo Guillot
- August 31, 2009 at 10:22 AM
- carlo guillot said...
Hey, I've just found this video, it's really amazing,and now that I've read your book, I look at it in a different way.
- September 1, 2009 at 1:05 PM
- davidmaas said...
Yes! I want one. Need one for myself now that my term with the Akademie is ending.
I'll mail you privately?
- October 14, 2009 at 1:35 AM
- Marissa Krupen said...
I saw your presentation in Ottawa and have been scrambling for a book since! Is it still possible to get a signed copy from you? It looks incredible, and I can't wait to read it!
- December 7, 2009 at 7:36 AM

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Gadagkar needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 248 designs submitted by 45 freelance designers.
Idonea Solutions
Idonea solutions is a start-up company involved in acquiring medical device technology licenses from universities or sub-licensing technology from medical device manufacturers. The net result is an ensemble of closely related hardware and software applications for primary care and specialty physicians.
Primary care and specialty physicians.
The company logo can either reflect the meaning of the name Idonea.
Idonea means,
- suitable, appropriate, adequate OR
- having the right qualities
It is necessary to include the company name "Idonea Solutions" (or only "Idonea") along with the logo so the everything blends in quite well together.
The idea is to find a logo that is not disease/disorder or body part or gender specific.
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We have all been in a position where we have needed a tool and the odds are that tool would only ever be used ONCE.
So this club has the answer to that, we will as finances allow, build up a tool kit to cover this.
To make use of this service, all you need to be is a member, you will need to pay a deposit and make a donation to the club, an amount of your choice.
you will also need to pay delivery both ways. we will, Deposit will be refunded once the tool is returned to us, if you are local, you can always collect in person and leave the deposit with me, donation must be made through the club system, If any one has any tools they would like to donate to the club tool box then please do so
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dara2806 needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 13 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
This is a local government site that is needed to help keep the local business community informed and connected - we need a design that is very clean, simple, web 2.0 style, but still trustworthy and authoritative. Layered PSDs only. No code.
1/ A logo and some published material already exists for the project but we need a website.
2/ The website will be using our content management system as the backend which requires some design considerations.
3/ Some samples of EXISTING sites based on our content management system are as follows:
- http://www.mitchellbusiness.com.au/…Splash.asp
- http://www.bizmaroondah.com.au/Pub/pSplash.asp
- http://www.manninghambusiness.com.a…pStart.asp
- http://smartplaycg.intuitus-x.com/Pub/pStart.asp
4/ A sample of the logo & printed styles can be downloaded from:
5/ The parent site is available at:
6/ The new website should have a similar header to the Banyule parent website (i.e. rectangular format with a photo and the logo). Although the colours should reflect the parent site, how they are used can be different (e.g. the background of the logo may have a red background - see corporate style manual in the attached documents).
1/ The website should be pretty easy to follow and should use a top/horizontal main menu system (similar to http://www.manninghambusiness.com.au).
2/ The menu system will have the option of multiple submenus (ie, line, drop down, popout, etc)
3/ The menu structure for the site is listed below:
(submenu - level 1)
- Latest News
- Subscribe to our Newsletter
(submenu - level 1)
- Business Awards
- Event Partners
Business Directory
(submenu - level 1)
- Find a business
- Register your business
- Update your entry
- Forgotten your password
- Food guide
Business Support
(submenu - level 1)
- Business Advisor Service
- Victorian Business Information
- Victorian Business Centre
- Green Business Initiative
- Graffiti Removal
- Tourism & Arts
- Permits & Regulations
(submenu - level 2)
- Health Department
- Footpath Trading
- Planning/Building Department
Shopping in Banyule
(submenu - level 1)
- Business Associations
- Bell St Mall
- Eaglemont
- East Ivanhoe
- Greensborough
- Heidelberg
- Ivanhoe
- Lower Plenty
- Macleod
- Montmorency
- Rosanna
- Watsonia
Useful Links/Information
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- ID Profile (Community)
- Publications & Resources
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- Business Plans
- Economic Profile
Contact Us
5/ The main entry page of the site (what we call the "splash" page) needs to display the following items:
- Photo of the Week (+ link to photo competition page)
- Scrolling news items
- A listing of current events
- A simple poll
Please refer to the simple wireframe (dr-20090220-BanyuleWireframe.png) provided in the download package above
6/ We are looking for a clean, simple web 2.0 look and feel for business site.
- White Space - Colours to complement the logos/branding as attached. - Image in the banner - Clean navigation / easy to find info - Web 2.0 - but not a design that looks like lots of other websites!
- Busy design - Too many colors, cluttered or messy - Disorganized - Not too many fonts, color


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Diane Schuur (b. 1953) is a blind jazz vocalist who appeared on Sesame Street in Season 28 (1996) singing "From Your Head" with Elmo.
This sketch can be seen in the direct-to-DVD special What's the Name of That Song? and the track was released on the Songs from the Street boxed set.


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Introduction to the special issue: Posttraumatic stress related to pediatric illness and injury." J Pediatr Psychol. 2006;31(4):337-42."
The latent structure of Acute Stress Disorder symptoms in trauma-exposed children and adolescents." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2016;57(11):1308-1316."
Looking beyond the physical injury: posttraumatic stress disorder in children and parents after pediatric traffic injury." Pediatrics. 1999;104(6):1293-9."
Mental health aspects of emergency medical services for children: summary of a consensus conference." J Pediatr Psychol. 2001;26(8):491-502."
A New Method for Assessing Content Validity in Model-Based Creation and Iteration of eHealth Interventions." J. Med. Internet Res.. 2015;17(4):e95."
A Novel Adaptation of a Parent–Child Observational Assessment Tool for Appraisals and Coping in Children Exposed to Acute Trauma." European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 2016;7."
Nurses' Views and Current Practice of Trauma-Informed Pediatric Nursing Care." J Pediatr Nurs. 2014."
Parent-child agreement regarding children's acute stress: the role of parent acute stress reactions." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2006;45(12):1485-93."
Perceived support at work after critical incidents and its relation to psychological distress: a survey among prehospital providers." Emerg Med J. 2017."
Persistence of posttraumatic stress in violently injured youth seen in the emergency department." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2002;156(8):836-40."
A pilot randomized controlled trial assessing secondary prevention of traumatic stress integrated into pediatric trauma care." J Trauma Stress. 2011;24(3):252-9."
Posttraumatic stress disorder and injury." Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine. 2003;4(2):148-155."
Posttraumatic stress disorder symptom structure in injured children: functional impairment and depression symptoms in a confirmatory factor analysis." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2010;49(6):616-25, 625.e1-4."
Posttraumatic Stress Following Acute Medical Trauma in Children: A Proposed Model of Bio-Psycho-Social Processes During the Peri-Trauma Period." Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev. 2014."
Predicting child PTSD: the relationship between acute stress disorder and PTSD in injured children." J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2004;43(4):403-11."
The premature graduation of children from child restraints to vehicle seat belts. United States Government Printing Office: Traffic Tech; 2001.
Prevention and public health approaches to trauma and traumatic stress: a rationale and a call to action." Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2016;7(3):29715."
A Qualitative Analysis of Children's Emotional Reactions During Hospitalization Following Injury." J Trauma Nurs. 2016;23(4):194-201."
Screening for risk of persistent posttraumatic stress in injured children and their parents." JAMA. 2003;290(5):643-9."
Systematic, theoretically-grounded development and feasibility testing of an innovative, preventive web-based game for children exposed to acute trauma." Clin Pract Pediatr Psychol. 2015;3(1):12-24."
Trauma Exposure, Service Utilization, Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Children With and Without Medical Problems Seeking Trauma-Related Mental Health Services." J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2015."
Trauma-informed Care for Children in the Ambulance: International Survey Among Pre-hospital Providers." European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 2017;8(1)."
Traumatic Stress, Depression, and Recovery: Child and Parent Responses After Emergency Medical Care for Unintentional Injury." Pediatr Emerg Care. 2015;31(11):737-42."
Youth's Strategies for Staying Safe and Coping with the Stress of Living in Violent Communities." J Community Psychol. 2010;38(7):874-885."


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subelsky needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 56 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
Veteran Artist Program
VAP is an organization that bridges both the Veteran and Artistic communities by highlighting talented veterans and partnering them with existing professional artists. The organization focuses on professional, high quality art, pursued by those who have served in the US armed forces. You can get the gist of what we're about by visiting our prototype web page at http://www.veteranartistprogram.org…/Home.html
Our group is just getting off the ground so the logo is aimed at people whose help or involvement we are trying to attract. The audience includes prospective donors and sponsors, potential artist volunteers, and potential veteran clients. It needs to convey professionalism and creativity.
We are looking for a logo that is contemporary, professional, and unique. The logo should include the letters "VAP" and the theme should include the soldier to artist transition. Theme words: collaboration, intentional, stage. This product will be used for both webpage and document building, and will also be used on our twitter account and facebook page.
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Hey, I'm wondering if someone could give me a list of good places to get visual basic/other programming stuff. Thanks.
Will you stop screaming at us!
Or do you have a visual problem that makes you write large print in order to see your own words?
P.S. just in case you can't read small print I suggest you try to google!
Here are a couple of sites that you might want to check out :
[1]About Visual Basic
[2]Programmers' Heaven
Hope that those help you out ....
P.S. Next time you post it would help if you could be a little bit more specific ...
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For such stuff, Google can help you a lot ..... Since you are not asking for a specific thing ....
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Trip down the memory lane: chicken liver pâté
Chicken liver featured pretty often in our kitchen when I was younger. One of my aunties worked in a chicken factory (abattoir?), and was able to smuggle us various cheap chicken bits and pieces during the food-poor and rationed last years of the Soviet era. Some of these chicken parts I hated, some I didn't mind, some I rather liked. Chicken necks will remain my pet hate until I die (my mum used them in soups); chicken wings haven't got enough meat on them, however juicy and flavoursome it is; chicken gizzards and chicken liver - in stews and patés, respectively - I find rather good.
Ever since I saw the recipe and pictures for paté ai fetatini over at Delicious Days few months ago, I've been longing to have some home-made chicken liver pâté again. The opportunity came when I spotted some chicken livers at Edinburgh Farmers' Market. I will try paté ai fetatini recipe soon, but first I had to try my Mum's version..
Chicken liver pâté
500 grams chicken liver, cleaned
100 grams butter, at room temperature
1 onion, finely chopped
finely crushed black pepper
2-3 Tbsp brandy or cognac
3-4 Tbsp chicken stock
Melt about 25 grams of butter on a frying pan, add the chopped onion and fry gently for 5-10 minutes, until the onion softens a little.
Add the chopped chicken liver and fry on medium heat, turning regularly, for about 5 minutes, until the liver is cooked & no longer pink inside, but is still on the soft side. Let it cool.
If you have an old-fashioned mincer, then mince the fried livers twice (gives a smoother paté). Alternatively, mince the fried livers and onions in a food processor, add soft butter, seasoning and brandy and process until smooth. If the mixture is too dry, then add a bit of chicken stock.
Keeps for a few days in the fridge, covered. To serve, either spread on toast or form into small balls with a warm teaspoon and roll in grated hard cheese - this is a popular way of serving any liver pâté back home.
Now - next time I must ask for some chicken gizzards then..
PS For a slightly fancier take on the chicken liver pâté you can also check out Becks&Posh's recipe for chicken liver crostini, or pictures of it over at Spittoon Extra.
3 comments:
- Antti said...
Have you tried roasted and salted chicken livers on a skewer? A staple in Argentinian churrascarias, and really good, at least in small doses.
- 10:50 pm, April 11, 2006
- Anna said...
Liver paté is one of those things that makes me instahomesick... thanks for sharing this.
- 5:14 pm, April 12, 2006
- Pille said...
Antti - nope, I haven't tried salted & roasted chicken livers, but it surely sounds like something definitely worth trying - thanks for the tip!
Anna - I guess our culinary background is quite similar despite the 80 kilometres and the Iron Curtain;)
- 12:56 pm, April 13, 2006
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I'm a software developer, as many of you know. A few months ago, a friend of mine took me to lunch a few times to talk about a web-based game he was interested in producing. It didn't pan out, but it was interesting to have a design discussion with someone who has a lot of business experience but is something of a rookie where web games are concerned.
Ultimately the game idea has been tabled, but without getting into any detail, part of the design was intended to allow people to upload multiple pictures to be used as character avatars. The assumption was that it would be clip art or cartoon doodles, stuff like that.
Being a practical type when it comes to gathering requirements, I asked him: "Have you thought about what safeguards you will put in place to keep people from uploading objectionable content?"
My friend was surprised that I thought this would happen. So I told him about the sordid history of Chat Roulette. Chat Roulette was envisioned as a randomized video chat. You hit a button and get automatically matched with somebody else online, and have a conversation.
And apparently one in eight times, you would find yourself having a conversation with somebody's ***k, because that's what dudes point the camera at when there are no rules.
So eventually Chat Roulette wound up with a terrible reputation and became a huge joke. For more details you can check out Wikipedia and The Daily Show.
Now, my friend considered this and said, "Well, I don't want to CENSOR people. If they want to upload pictures of their ***ks, then they should be allowed to, because that's just the free market at work."
So I said, "Maybe you're not understanding this from a business point of view. If your game becomes known as 'that game with all the ***ks' then… first of all, kids can't play it."
He said "So we say the game is for mature audiences."
I said, "Yeah right, that's an ironic use of the word 'mature.' Because second of all, many people who are not kids may like the idea of your game, but they will be a bit put off when they log in and see a screen full of ***ks. Ergo, you can EITHER let the ***k uploaders run wild and have their freedom… OR, you can have a game that is welcoming to kids and non-crotch obsessed adults. But you can't have both. Now you tell me… which one is a bigger customer base?"
I am reminded of this conversation when I hear people complaining about the moderation policy in the chat room during the TV show. The chat room used to be unmoderated, and a lot worse than it is now. When we started moderating it, most weeks we would kick out dozens of people. Afterwards, we would hear about it in email. Some people say they were confused about the rules, and promise not to do it again. Those people are usually allowed to return. More often, they get angry at being kicked out for rules transgressions, curse us out, call us "big brother" or whatever, and then vow that they'll never watch our dumb show again.
On the other hand, in recent times we've had some shows where almost nobody has been banned at all. People follow the rules, and they have productive discussions, and they don't miss the people who have been banned for bad behavior or left because of the impositions on their freedom. In metaphorical terms, we've gotten rid of all the ***ks so that the chat room can be more inclusive for everyone else.
It may seem paradoxical, and it's surely part of the growing pains for every social group that goes beyond a certain number of members. But when you regulate people with destructive behavior, you become more inclusive. If you create social consequences for slurs against women, gays, and racial minorities, you anger a lot of misogynists, homophobes, and racists, and you invite claims that you're oppressing them. Or perhaps #FTBullying them. But frankly, I'd rather have the people who stick around and welcome the more friendly environment that is left.
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Liberty University School of Law and Liberty Counsel are hosting the 2008 TeenPact Judicial (TPJ) program this week on the Liberty University campus. TeenPact is an organization that allows students to learn the principles of law from those who know it best — practitioners and professors of law. This is the 11th year the TeenPact Judicial program has been presented at a national law school and is the first time Liberty University School of Law and Liberty Counsel have hosted this program.
David Barber, Program Director for TeenPact, describes the week-long conference as "a hands-on, on-site program that teaches high-school students about law and the judicial system from a distinctly Biblical worldview. Throughout the week students participate in presentations from expert professors at Liberty University School of Law and attorneys from Liberty Counsel as they prepare oral arguments for a moot court tournament at the end of the week.
The program includes lectures on a broad range of legal subjects, including Foundations of Law, Property, Contracts, Civil Procedure, Family Law, Legal Writing and Oral Advocacy, and the court system. Many of the topics presented not only provide the students a good introduction to these areas of law, but many of these topics are core legal topics tested on many state bar exams.
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Zac Brown Band, 'The Wind' – Lyrics Uncovered
Zac Brown Band's songs come together in an unusual way, but they always seem to work, as is the case with their current single. 'The Wind' lyrics just seemed to blow together, in a sense, the song's co-writers explained to Taste of Country.
"One of the things Zac and I do a lot is we take pieces and parts of songs [and put them into different songs we are working on]," says Wyatt Durrette, who penned the tune along with Brown and Levi Lowrey.
"The chorus of that song [came to me when] I was laying in bed," he continues. "[I] had just woken up, and my son had crawled in bed with me earlier that night. He was laying next to me. I kind of opened my eyes and there was his face. I wrote it about just looking at him and never feeling a love like that in my entire life, is what that's about."
"Where the wind blows / Babe you can bet / I'll be ridin' high with it / Holdin' on for my dear life / Just like I always did / Close your eyes, babe / Take a breath / Say my name and I'll be there / My love will find you anywhere / Anywhere my love," he wrote in the chorus lyrics to Zac Brown Band's 'The Wind.'
"Levi Lowrey and I — on a completely different note and a completely different song — wrote the verses to a song," Durrette recalls. "The song was about a woman and getting home to a woman. The chorus of that song is now the bridge to 'The Wind.' Basically what we did was just put it all together. It worked perfectly. It's a great song."
"'The Wind' is a marriage of two good songs," Levi Lowrey adds. "The offspring got the genius gene that skipped over the previous generation. I'm just happy to be a part of the amalgamation."
"So I'll fly all night / Our memory's my lullaby that love won't lie / If it's love done right / You'll be waiting on the other side / Arms open wide / If love don't lie / Lie / We can fly," they wrote in the lyrics to their other idea.
"It's the same kind of sentiment, just used on somebody else," Durrette explains. "No matter what, I love you and will always be there for you if you need me, no matter what happens."
"'The Wind' was a collaborative effort," adds Lowrey. "I'm just happy that I was able to play my little part."
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Mike-berlin necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 252 diseños de 46 diseñadores freelance.
Our client wants to start a new model portal agency.
Exclusive / premium Models in Europe (for application), model agencies, model agents, brand names for booking.
CSS Design (coding is nice to have, but no must)
Homepage and Detail page (setcard for models with 3-5 pictures, some parameters like height, weight, haircolour, eyes, city, age, price, jobs, experience etc.)
Searchbox on every page
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About 300-500 words of text on homepage and detail pages for information, specials etc.
Client wants to have an overview of about 20 models on the Homepage.
Classical text navigation on the left for about 10 countries with submenue - imagemap and cities of the left clicked countries on the right column.
So, if i click on the left eg. Spain, the imagemap and the cities in the right column should show the possible cities, where the models are present or bookable.
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Thanks to art teacher Ed Saulk and media specialist Jack Betancourt, we got to spend nearly a full school day at Gregory Drive Elementary teaching six sessions of Zine Machine classes to 3rd – 5th graders. The all day Arts Festival event they put on was amazing and we were very glad to be a part of it.
Some classes got inspired by Chris Van Dusen's "If I Built a Car" before designing a car of their own, while other classes reviewed the elements of superheroes and villains before designing one of their own. They even had our "Read Zines" poster up in the media center!
The material the kids created will be used for the next 5 issues of Zine Machine, available next month in the Main Library's Children's Department. The library at Gregory Drive was also very excited about cataloging the new issues for it's students to check out. The kids were also very enthusiastic about coming to the public library and checking out the zine they contributed too. Everyone wins!


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Bontrager Ion 800 R
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Powerful enough to light every journey, the award-winning Ion 800 R packs the power of light into a sleek design for use at home or on any road, mountain, or town bike. Bright and compact, the Ion 800 R is powered by a CREE LED that lights up the road or trail with 5 modes and an adjustable sync bracket for easy mounting.
- See with Bontrager's focused optics and over 270 degrees of visibility
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- Fully charges in 6 hours through sealed Micro USB port
- Includes 20 degree +/- adjustable Sync bracket that fits bars from 22.2-35.0mm
- Blendr compatible, secure bar mount available
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After looking at some of the other reviews, maybe there was a bad run in manufacturing. As I have had mine for three years and has performed flawlessly. Why not five stars? After year one I lost the rubber cover for the charge port. Even so, I've had no issues. I use this light daily for over an hour on high with no loss of power. As winter comes on, I use it on my morning ride, on my commute to work, and commute home. It is small, compact. Sure there are brighter lights for twice the money, but this does the job.
Powerful light in a small package. easy to use, fast recharge, and offers decent light pattern. Only about 1.5 hours on high, but cant expect much more than that in such a small concealed package.
This look like a great idea but the execution is terrible. The push button is poorly designed and failed after 10 uses. Stay away.
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I had an Ion 700 light last year and somehow it got lost during the off season, replaced it with this light and have been using it for 8 months now with no problems, it recharges easily, it is very bright, and doesn't take up much room on my bars. Love this light. I just got one of these for my riding partner as I am tired of his light running out of charge mid-ride.
It is a bright light thats for sure, however 1st one failed within a week and the replacement failed on last nights ride - 6 months old and used about 10 times for an hr at a time.
Use it for day and night. Gotten a lot of cold and muddy use of the light, too.
At first was great. After 6 months, started flickering on and off when going over bumps. Now will work only when upside down. NOT reliable at all, and pricey on top of it.


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INDIANAPOLIS — Hedo Turkoglu played with a broken face.
Stan Van Gundy coached with an injury-riddled lineup that was both undersized and overmatched.
And Dwight Howard was somewhere in L.A. rehabbing a bad back.
INDIANAPOLIS — Hedo Turkoglu played with a broken face.
Stan Van Gundy coached with an injury-riddled lineup that was both undersized and overmatched.
And Dwight Howard was somewhere in L.A. rehabbing a bad back.
And somehow, someway, the Orlando Walking Wounded still found a way to shock the heavily favored Indiana Pacers 81-77 in Game1 of their playoff series Saturday night. Unbelievably, they did it on the road against one of the hottest teams in the league. Inconceivably, they did with guts and grit in the fourth quarter, scoring the final 11 points and sending the sellout crowd of 18,165 fans to the exits in stunned silence.
Admit it: You didn't think they could do it, did you? Ever since Dwight went down with a herniated disk, nobody gave the Magic a snowball's chance in South Beach of winning this series. Not locally. Not nationally.
Locally, sports-radio personality The Shot Doctor said the Magic had "no hope" of beating the Pacers, while WKMG-Channel6 sports anchor David Pingalore predicted an Indy sweep. Nationally, TNT analyst Chris Webber said of the Magic, "I think they have no chance."
"We don't care what other people believe," said Magic point guard Jameer Nelson, who scored 17 points and hit two critical free throws to give the Magic a 3-point lead with 24 seconds left. "We have a bunch of guys who believe in this team and have each other's backs."
The Orlando Magic's playoff motto heading into these playoffs is "We All We Got" from that 1991 Wesley Snipes movie "New Jack City."
Judging by the Magic's injury report Saturday night, the mantra probably should have come from another movie: "The Hurt Locker."
Or maybe even the old horror classic "Night of the Living Dead."
After all, Turkoglu looked like he stepped right out of a monster movie when he took the court wearing a hard plastic mask to protect the surgically repaired bone in his cheek that was broken three weeks ago. Van Gundy said the injury usually takes six to eight weeks to heal, but, of course, the Magic don't have six to eight weeks.
"Turk could have very easily taken the playoffs off, and nobody would have had anything to say based on his injury," Van Gundy said.
Who would have ever thought it would be Turk who manned up during the playoffs and played with a broken face? Let's face it, he has always been considered a "finesse" player. Nobody has ever accused him of being the NBA's version of Jack Youngblood, the Orlando resident who once played in the Super Bowl with a broken leg.
Why did Youngblood do it? "Because it was Sunday," he once said, "and that was the day I went to work. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done."
Just ask Turkoglu and Davis, two players who have been criticized for much of this season but on Saturday night proved to be the ultimate team players. Broken facial bones and swollen ankle tendons weren't about to keep these guys out of the lineup. It's the playoffs — a time when you tape it up, shoot it up and do whatever you have to do in order to play. That's what Turkoglu did with his broken face. It's what Davis did by playing a team-high 40 minutes on his badly swollen ankle.
"You play through pain at this time of year," Davis said.
Added Turkoglu, who is playing in his 12th season: "I only have a few more years left. I don't want to miss these opportunities to be in the playoffs. … I can't promise anything to anybody, but I can promise … I'm going to do whatever it takes to help this team win."
He did just that Saturday night. And so did Davis. And J-Rich. And Jameer. And Earl Clark. And Van Gundy. And everybody else up and down the Magic bench.
"We all we got."
The team huddled together after the game and chanted their new mantra.
It is a line from "New Jack City."
But this team is starting to remind Magic fans of another old movie.
One of their favorites.
It's called "Heart and Hustle."
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
My New Favourite Brownie
Maybe some may start question - "a good brownie? with no chocolate? Is that possible?!" Well it is indeed! I love this brownie recipe to bits! I hate to admit, but I think that the best brownie texture comes from Betty Crocker's brownie mix - it has the chewy, semi-crispy crust that I associate with perfect brownies - but a) call me a food snob, but I never bake with mixes and b) brownies from box mix have near to no chocolate flavour at all, just a bland crumb coloured brown that is not appealing at all.
But oh my, this brownies hit all the right criteria for the brownie I'm searching for. It has that delicate crust on top, and the crumb is not cakey but not too fudgy and cloying either - it was just...perfect. The chocolate flavour was right there, and I cut down some sugar so the sweetness was just right. I really can't believe that humble cocoa powder can give such great results -another reassurance that I don't need to spend a fortune on good chocolate for good brownies and I don't need to turn to box mix to get that perfect brownie texture! Since they are so easy and take so little time (probably shorter than time spent writing this post) and equipment to make, I'm seriously considering that I bake these once every few weeks to share at school or something - everyone loves brownies and I'm sure it's bound to put a smile on their face if you share!
Regarding printable recipes: it seems that the file is very blurry, but if you click 'Download' or Print' on the top left corner, you can save/pring the actual file which is perfectly readable.
Cocoa Brownies
Adapted from Alice Medrich's Bittersweet, via Smitten Kitchen and Lemonpi
Printable Version
Makes 16 or 25 brownies, depending on size you cut them
10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks, 5 ounces or 141 grams) unsalted butter
1 1/4 cups (9 7/8 ounces, 280 grams) sugar (I cut this down to 200g – 1 cup/ 7oz)
3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons (2 7/8 ounces, 82 grams) unsweetened cocoa powder (natural or Dutch-process; I used Valrhona)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs, cold
1/2 cup (66 grams, 2 3/8 ounces) all-purpose flour
2/3 cup walnut or pecan pieces (optional)
I also added in around two tablespoons of mini chocolate chips I wanted to use up
1. Position a rack in the lower third of the oven and preheat the oven to 325°F/160°C.
2. Line the bottom and sides of an 8×8-inch square baking pan with parchment paper or foil, leaving an overhang on two opposite sides.
3. Combine the butter, sugar, cocoa, and salt in a medium heatproof bowl and set the bowl in a wide skillet of barely simmering water. Stir from time to time until the butter is melted and the mixture is smooth and hot enough that you want to remove your finger fairly quickly after dipping it in to test.
4. Remove the bowl from the skillet and set aside briefly until the mixture is only warm, not hot. (It will look somewhat gritty or lumpy, it's fine)
5. Stir in the vanilla with a wooden spoon. Add the eggs one at a time, stirring vigorously after each one.
6. When the batter looks thick, shiny, and well blended, add the flour and stir until you cannot see it any longer, then beat vigorously for 40 strokes with the wooden spoon or a rubber spatula. Stir in the nuts, if using. Spread evenly in the lined pan.
7. Bake until a toothpick plunged into the centre emerges slightly moist with batter, around 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool completely on a rack.
8. Lift up the ends of the parchment or foil liner, and transfer the brownies to a cutting board. Cut into 16 or 25 squares.
5 Responses to "My New Favourite Brownie"
WOO first comment! (Haha I'm so sad).
These were DE.LI.CIOUS.
That is all.
hi! i've been reading your blog for a while but never commented. i love your photography and these brownies look amazing! with the flaky crust and all. i'll definitely give these a try one day (:
They look good. But coca brownies are just too much chocolate for me. I like making them...just can't eat them.
love your recipes... tried the stain glass cookies last week, they were beautiful!
want to try these yummy-looking (and no doubt yummy-tasting) brownies too...
does the brand of coca powder make a difference?
i only got cadbury's :S
I'm glad you like the cookies!
The brand of cocoa powder does make a difference, because the brownies have no chocolate in them, the cocoa makes all the difference between brownies with a bland chocolate flavour and a rich flavour!


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Reid threatens to nuke filibuster
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Democrats will take the unprecedented step of changing filibuster rules on a party-line vote if Republicans don't agree to a bipartisan deal this week.
Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell met Tuesday on a proposal to pare back the use of the potent stalling tactic, but the Nevada Democrat then publicly threatened to change the filibuster rules with 51 votes, rather than 67 votes, if a deal can't be reached soon, a tactic critics warn could fundamentally transform the Senate away from a body meant to protect minority party rights.
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"I hope in the next 24 to 36 hours we can get something that we agree on," Reid told reporters after lunching with Democratic senators. "If not, we will move forward on what I think needs to be done. My caucus will support me on that."
There are 55 members of the Democratic Caucus, and younger senators in particular have pushed for action to water down the power of filibusters, which take 60 votes and days to overcome.
As part of any deal, McConnell wants to ensure he has a guaranteed number of amendments if Reid chooses to speed debate, GOP senators said Tuesday. Senators said Reid and McConnell were also weighing elements of an alternative plan led by Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) that would guarantee Republicans at least two amendments while preventing them from filibustering in a handful of situations.
Reid is proposing a series of more modest changes that he believes would allow him to streamline the legislative process. He wants to eliminate filibusters used to prevent debate on legislation from starting. He also wants to end filibusters to prevent the Senate from entering talks with the House. And he'd like to pare back the use of filibusters on certain presidential nominations, particularly district court judicial nominees.
He's also considering requiring 41 senators to vote to sustain a filibuster, a subtle shift from the current practice that requires 60 votes to break the stalling tactic. The proposed approach would shift the burden on the opposing party and force the opponents to ensure all their votes are present. Several Republican senators were cool on that idea on Tuesday.
Once a filibuster is defeated, the Senate immediately moves into 30 hours of debate, under current rules. Reid is now weighing whether to make senators actually hold the floor and speak for those 30 hours if they refuse to speed the debate.


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A special Peanut Seminar is planned at the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show.
Baltz Feed Company and the Clint Williams Company will conduct the seminar Saturday, March 2, at 1:30 p.m. on the mezzanine level of the Cook Convention Center.
"The seminar will feature a diverse range of topics covering all aspects of the peanut industry, including information from the perspective of growers, peanut buyers, and shellers," says Tim Price, show manager. "There will also be an industry forecast for 2013, including the recent developments in the Chinese export market."
Speakers include Howard Thielemier, peanut grower, Pocahontas Ark.; Jeremy Baltz, AGHQ Peanuts; Gordon Drennan, Clint Williams Company; and Kyle Baltz, National Peanut Board. Each speaker will participate in a question and answer session at the end of his presentation.
For more information, contact Tim Price, at 901-494-6977.


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NWSB Insider and Seattle Supersonics Blogger Peter Edlund wraps up his top five moments in time for the Sonics. Edlund recaps tales told by his grandparents about the 1979 championship team. He also remembers watching the 1996 championship team, which included franchise greats Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton. The team couldn't take down Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, but that doesn't stop him from adding it to the list.
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Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week kicks off its fifth season at Lincoln Center where models dressed in designs fresh from the drawing board are hitting the runway.
Thousands of fashion editors, buyers, and industry insiders will descend upon New York during the next week to see more than 80 of fashion's most well-respected and emerging designers present their collections for the upcoming spring season. Fashion trend forecasters expect collections to include elements of simplicity, with a greater emphasis on pants this season.
Getting trends right is crucial for designers who hope to land on department store racks for the upcoming season. Just last week, retail executives said they would be entering the crucial holiday season cautiously — a tip-toe attitude that could impact buyers' plans for spring and summer inventories.
Click ahead for some highlights from the New York Spring 2013 fashion show.
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text: England's first female monarch, Mary I (1516-1558) ruled for just five years. The only surviving child of Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, Mary took the throne after the brief reign of her half-brother, Edward VI. She sought to return England to the Catholic Church and stirred rebellions by marrying a Spanish Habsburg prince. But she is most remembered for burning nearly 300 English Protestants at the stake for heresy, which earned her the nickname "Bloody Mary."


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WASHINGTON (AP) – The Federal Reserve's super-low interest-rate policies have inflated a slew of dangerous asset bubbles. Or so critics say.
They say stocks are at unsustainable prices. California homes are fetching frothy sums. Same with farmland, Bitcoins and rare Scotch.
Under Chairman Ben Bernanke, the Fed has aggressively bought bonds to try to cut borrowing rates and accelerate spending, investing and hiring. Its supporters say low rates have helped nourish the still-modest economic rebound.
Yet some say the Fed-engineered rates have produced an economic sugar high that risks triggering a crash akin to the tech-stock swoon in 2000 and the housing bust in 2006.
On the eve of the Fed's latest policy meeting today and Wednesday, here's why – or why not – these two assets might be in a bubble:
The last housing bubble ignited the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression. Home prices became inflated in part from an influx of cash and low rates driven by the Fed and other central banks. And in recent months, prices have again soared in some hot U.S. markets.
Why it's a bubble:
It depends on location, location, location. All-cash sales, low rates and tight supplies have lifted prices in areas like New York City and Washington, D.C. Fitch Ratings estimated in November that a worrisome 17 percent of the U.S. home market is overvalued, a risk because much of the buying is tied to investments and house-flipping.
Coastal California is "approaching bubble-year peaks," with Bay Area prices nearing the "environment in 2003," Fitch said. Some leading forecasters have also warned of bubbles in London and areas of Canada and Norway.
New York University economist Nouriel Roubini worries about bubbles in Switzerland, France, India, Indonesia, Turkey, Israel and Brazil. These countries have accelerating prices, rising price-to-income ratios and huge proportions of mortgage debt as a share of total household debt.
Why it isn't:
At least in the United States, some safety valves are in place that didn't exist during the previous housing bubble, Roubini wrote this month. Lending standards are tighter. Banks are cushioned from possible losses from greater capital in reserve. And homeowners have more home equity this time.
Over the past 5 years, the cost of Iowa farmland has rocketed 118 percent to $8,400 an acre, according to the Agriculture Department. Prices have more than doubled, too, in Kansas, Nebraska and North Dakota. The prices recall a 1970s-era boom. That ended with a bust that put many family farms into foreclosure, leading musicians such as Willie Nelson to start the Farm Aid benefit concerts.
Why it's a bubble:
The Fed's low-rate policies have encouraged farmers to expand their holdings over the past five years. Ethanol subsidies led them to plant more corn as prices for that crop rose during the past three years. "The bubble has been climbing," said Dan Muhlbauer, a grain farmer who's also a Democratic representative in the Iowa House. One ominous sign: The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed cutting ethanol blending requirements.
Why it isn't:
Unlike during the 1970s bubble, farmers haven't become "over-leveraged" with debt, Esther George, president of the Kansas City Fed, noted last summer. The percentage of farmers' assets financed with borrowed money has dropped from 22 percent in 1985 to less than 11 percent. This decline in debt should protect many farmers if the value of cropland plunges.
Critics fear that the Fed's low rates are undermining the dollar's value. For some, the hot new choice is an Internet-based currency called Bitcoin. Because there's a finite supply of 21 million Bitcoins, devotees say the currency will continue to appreciate. The value of a Bitcoin relative to the U.S. dollar has surged at an average pace of 292 percent a year, according to a Bank of America analysis.
Why it's a bubble:
Prices are insanely volatile. They jumped 50 percent on Nov. 18 after regulators signaled that digital currencies could be acceptable. They plunged 30 percent on Dec. 5 after China's central bank banned Bitcoins as currency, according to the online exchange Mt.Gox. And the volatility suggests that Bitcoins are highly speculative. Bank of America said this month that Bitcoin is "at risk" of bubble status.
Why it isn't:
Bitcoin may become a useful commodity in the future economy. Its digital nature could make it easier for immigrants to send money back home. It could charge lower transaction fees than credit cards, saving retailers money. Eli Dourado, an economics research fellow at George Mason University, says bubbles occur when assets are priced above their fundamental value, "but we don't know the fundamental value of a Bitcoin yet."
Rare decades-old Scotch could give investors a terrible hangover. Over the past five years, prices have shot up 170 percent, according to an index of auctions and sales by the Scotland-based firm Whisky Highland. It's among the investments that have grown more alluring as interest rates have fallen. The buyers aren't just tycoons with tweed blazers, empty snifters and money to burn. Auctions are fetching bids from Chinese nationals, while firms such as Whisky Highland offer guidelines for investing. There's "a perception that this is a good area of investment at a time when more traditional investments are producing low rates of return," says Martin Green, a whisky specialist for the auction house Bonhams.
Why it's a bubble:
Regardless of how high someone bids, Scotch still tastes the same. It generates returns by appreciating in price, not producing income as stocks, bonds or real estate can. By definition, whisky, wine and fine art are speculative and can abruptly lose favor with investors. Not to mention: The $41,077 spent on a 60-year old Macallan — which sold last month at a Hong Kong auction — can literally be poured down the drain.
Why it isn't:
What inflates bubbles beyond rationality is greed. Green says most buyers acquire Scotch for other reasons: "the mystical allure of the taste," the thrill of the chase, the pursuit of status. "One of the motives for Chinese buyers is social aspiration," he says.


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upper_deck needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 54 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
I'd like a unique look for our softball team's jerseys. We have a team name but I don't want to use any of the clip art designs you get at most jersey printing places.
The team name is Upper Deckers. I've looked through some online resources and was really not happy with the clip art designs and the layout knowledge needed to create something decent. Ideally, I'd like the design to be clean and modern, but with a humorous tone. I just want this to be something everyone on my team will be proud to wear for years to come.
- Small logo with team name on front pocket
- Back of jersey should have a large number and tie into the front logo design in some way
- Alternatively, the jersey front could be the name across the entire width in script format, with the logo incorporated into it or near it in some way.
- This is for a men's softball team so darker colors are preferred. Dark Blue, Black or Grey are preferable as the primary color. Highlight colors can be brighter colors.
- THIS REQUIREMENT IS NOW OPTIONAL - The team name is a bit of a double entendre so I'd like to see a toilet incorporated in some way. I know, classy huh?
- Also, it would preferrable to limit the number of colors in the design. 2 colors would be best up to a maximum of 4 to save on printing costs.
- No pinstripes


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Brähler: A name that stands for sophisticated conferences and
events from technology to technical support
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Coonan .357 Magnum Silver Bullet Keychain
Does not turn blue when cold
- "Silver Bullet" key chain
- Actual .357 magnum bullet, coated in silver
- This is not usable ammo! No powder or primer
silver bullet noun
: something that very quickly and easily solves a serious problem :
Are you trying to defeat a werewolf? Is a pesky supposedly "unkillable" witch plaguing you? Are you the Lone Ranger? You need a silver bullet, friends. It is, metaphorically, the perfect solution to each of your problems. This silver bullet keychain may not technically address "all" of those obstacles life throws your way, but it is really, really great at helping you keep track of your keys!
This is a Coonan .357 magnum bullet, jacketed in 99% pure silver, is housed in a handy keychain case. The gunpowder and primer have been removed, and the primer seat of the ammo has been drilled out, so it can never be used in a firearm. Don't actually try to kill a werewolf with this bullet. Call a professional werewolf hunter. They're in the phone book.
Why a dummy round? Live ammo has quite a few shipping and locational carry restrictions so we had the nice folks at Coonan make a version that keeps everything safe and simple.
Product Specifications
- Silver bullet (dummy round) with key chain carrier
- For apocalypse planners, werewolf hunters, and anyone looking for answers
- Coonan .357 bullet with silver coating
- Contains no gun powder or primer and the primer seat has been drilled out: cannot be used in a firearm


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Housing squeeze: Baby boomers moving to mum's retirement village
Rob and June Elbourne are moving house. It's not surprising that Rob, 60, and June, 70, are downsizing. What's more surprising is that they are moving into the same retirement village as Rob's mother Flo, 88.
"It's not moving in with Mum," Rob Elbourne hastens to clarify. "We're going to be around the corner."
June is just as clear on that point.
"She's fantastic but I wouldn't live with her," she laughs.
Their story reflects a situation facing many downsizing baby boomers: the lack of suitable housing stock.
The 53 per cent jump in the past two years in the share price of Lifestyle Communities shows the appetite for companies that can offer affordable housing product to the growing generation of retirees.
Other companies are also benefiting. Shares in rival Ingenia Communities Group have surged 163 per cent in the past 24 months.
Rob and June first stumbled across the development, about an hour southeast of Melbourne, in November while on a drive. They liked the master-planned community of 142 homes but didn't think about it seriously for a couple of months. When they did, so did others.
"We sort of started talking about this more," Rob says.
"We had visitors and we spoke to them about it. We showed June's sister, showed my Mum and another set of friends. And bugger me dead, all of them wanted to move into it, so we all did!"
June's sister Barbara and her husband John are also moving in. Their friends John and Lynette Batty moved into the community earlier this month.
Not such a gadabout lifestyle
In contrast to the general perception of boomers as cash-rich gadabouts, the reality for many is different.
With their wealth tied up in the family home, the majority in fact, depend on trading down to realise cash that will see them through their retirement.
But without a suitable and suitably priced dwelling for them to trade down into, many are unable to access that wealth.
The government-funded Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute says people are retiring with more mortgage debt than ever, as a result of dwelling purchases later in life and a greater number of singles.
That's not just a problem for an increasingly elderly couple stuck in a too-large house that they can't afford to maintain.
It also keeps housing stock off a market that wants to buy it.
Rob and June paid $345,000 for the furnished two-bedroom house with study in the Hastings development.
They had a small mortgage on the house they sold at Blind Bight on Western Port Bay. Pocketing the difference means "we'll be quite comfortable", Rob says.
They are lucky. If he and June hadn't stumbled across the Hastings village last year, it's not clear what they would have moved to.
"We'd probably stay here in our own house a little bit longer," June says. "I never thought of it."
The two only thought about moving seriously in the aftermath of a road accident that left Rob, a contractor driver, in a coma for more than a week in December.
"After the accident, the thought of mowing the lawns and doing the garden and everything. June's getting older and . . . we just thought we'd downsize," Rob says.
While still off work, post-accident, Rob is champing at the bit to start working again. He bristles at the description that he is moving into a retirement village.
"This is a lifestyle village," he says. "There's heaps of stuff that goes on. You name it, it goes on there. There's a boat, they have fish and chip nights. June's looking forward to doing a bit of swimming and a bit of water aerobics."
And it doesn't bother him that his Mum will be just around the corner.
"I'll be able to keep my eye on her or she can keep her eye on me!" he says.


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Eighty embossed tiles with a flowerpot in a central box with five offshooting blossoms. Medieval text around all four edges. Maltese cross in top left corner. "X" in top right and bottom corners.
To MFA, 1975, gift of Miss Aimée and Miss Rosamond Lamb.
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Aimée and Miss Rosamond Lamb
American, Designed about 1900
- Henry Chapman Mercer, American, 1856–1930
- Moravian Pottery and Tile Works, 1898–present
Object Place
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Legacy dimension: H: 3 3/4", W: 3 3/4", D: 1/2"
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Ah, the holidays. A time to bond with loved ones and eat copious amounts of chocolate. As this article I wrote for the January issue of Women's Health discusses, the latter is definitely not a bad thing. The best thing about writing this article was the bonding time chocolate and I had in the kitchen developing the sweet and savory recipes to accompany the article such as these chocolate covered almond balls with a perfect touch of fleur de sel.
The coffee chocolate cake with cashew ganache was not too shabby either.


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IBM announced partnerships with interactive digital agencies Rosetta and eCommerce@Ogilvy, Ogilvy & Mather's (O&M) global eCommerce practice, for those organizations to sell IBM's Smarter Commerce software to their clients.
O&M has already brought several IBM solutions into client engagements over the past several years most specifically its Unica interactive software company that is being used globally by such clients as Kimberly-Clark and others, the company said.
The partnership follows IBM's three year and $3 billion investment in its Smarter Commerce initiative that includes a series of acquisitions expanding its software capabilities in customer analytics and focus on helping CMO's and CIO's collaborate in new ways to engage today's increasingly selective and digitally empowered consumer. In addition to the analytics and cloud technology that IBM offers, the partnership will incorporate the CRM, insight-driven and shopper centric capabilities that eCommerce@Ogilvy provides.
Indeed, O&M has already built a multi-million dollar global e-commerce practice. The agency plans to build revenues from eCommerce@Ogilvy to exceed $100 million in three to four years and will continue to invest in building its offering.
Further reading
eCommerce@Ogilvy brings together the analytics and CRM capabilities of OgilvyOne with the retail and shopper marketing of OgilvyAction, to build enhanced consumer retail and cross industry ecosystems. Its work for clients over the past several years incorporates the new realities of the interconnected digital and store shopping experiences, the company said. O&M's growing eCommerce practice works on behalf of such clients as Louis Vuitton, British Airways, Kimberly-Clark, Nike, Nestle, Ciaro and others. It has offices in New York, London, Paris, Melbourne, Sao Paulo, Taiwan, Singapore, China and Korea with plans to expand.
"We've already built an extensive network of offices and capabilities that add value to our clients' businesses and has proven to be in keeping with our model to add new offerings that leverage changes in our industry such as consulting, performance marketing, sustainability and more," said Miles Young, worldwide chairman and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, in a statement. "IBM's technology solutions in this space are unequaled and will add to the solutions eCommerce@Ogilvy delivers. At the same time, we will also provide IBM with an expanded base of potential clients."
eCommerce@Ogilvy has already developed and implemented multichannel digital customer experience offerings including online retail and mobile applications for Louis Vuitton, growing CRM user experience platforms for Nestle, and the redesign of one of the leading cable television operators platform and portal to add e-commerce, small business development and channel line-ups.
In a statement, Carl Hartman, who assumed leadership of eCommerce@Ogilvy in January said, "E-commerce engagements are complex and require multiple types of vertical expertise, to meet that client need. The IBM/O&M partnership will include joint training and education sessions, new collaborative service options and a one-stop solution for clients to power and simplify their e-commerce engagement. We are optimistic this partnership will help clients on both sides and will benefit from the shared understanding between O&M and IBM based on our 17-year working relationship and the success of that partnership in driving results for IBM."
Meanwhile, IBM and Rosetta have been working together for 12 years. Rosetta, which operates as an independent brand in the Publicis Groupe of global agencies, achieved full Smarter Commerce certification by IBM last year.
"Rosetta's rich understanding of the consumer coupled with our deep technological prowess allows us to unleash the power contained within the IBM suite of products right along the customer lifecycle and, critically, at each of the 'moments that matter,'" said Mark Taylor, Rosetta's chief marketing operations officer. "We are immensely proud to be the first agency in the world to be fully Smarter Commerce certified by IBM."
Rosetta has more than 100 WebSphere Commerce implementations with its clients and more than 300 practitioners capable of delivering WebSphere Commerce expertise, the company said.


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Anonymous on 11/24/2015
This apartment is disgusting along with the people who live in it. I moved into this apartment thinking it would be a great apartment by the beach and close to the Redline. The apartment looked flawless when I viewed it (prior to signing my lease).
After moving in - I noticed several problems right off the top. The tenants in this building are EXTREMELY dirty. Sometimes there are homeless people wandering around the building as well. I've seen dead mice, cockroaches, rats since I moved into t
he apartment. Have you ever seen meat packets thrown around the hallways? Cause I have.
There are multiple holes in the building as well where all of these lovely critters can come in. STAY CLEAR OF THIS HORRIBLE BUILDING. Management sucks as well. They blame it on you when you report vermin.
1040 W Hollywood on 03/02/2012
This place is absolutely infested with bedbugs. I have seen as many as 5 at a time on my bed and well as caught them on my body. This is completely out of hand and no matter what you say to these 2 lawyer they are just rude and inconsiderate. They are cheap and won't help you. All they ever say is ASK MICHEAL! So I'm moving hands down. I have losted soooooo much sleep and became depressed. DO NOT RENT FROM HERE!!!!
Anonymous on 10/19/2011
I just moved into 1040 w Hollywood the last week in September and discovered my unit has bedbugs. It's very depressing. I'm going to contact the owners first thing to see what they do I have too many other health problems and can't live like this
Anonymous on 09/10/2011
I just moved into this building and had no problem while I was cleaning it for a week (it was nasty). Then, when I asked for the carpets in the closets to be removed, bedbugs started appearing. I've seen 3 or 4 so far, sprayed the place down 4 times. I'm trying to get WW properties to exterminate them, but I haven't gotten a hold of them so far.
Anonymous on 08/23/2011
I had been living here for a year, and even thought many neighbors complained and advised me of the bedbug situation in the building, I had not seen anything in my apartment. Until the beginning of August, I had some friends over to my apartment and one of them was biten by those bastards. I had to throw away my mattress, sold the furniture, and I'm so glad to be moving out by the end of the month; although, I haven't slept well, only like two hours because I'm afraid of the bed bugs showing up
of nowhere. It's so weird because my boyfriend sleeps there and he hasn't been biten by bed bugs only me. I totally hate this place. Please don't rent here.
Anonymous on 06/09/2011
@ Kenny
What you fail to realize is that bedbugs affects everyone from the cleanest to the richest of people. (Example: NYC). All those bedbugs need is warm, moist places to hide like those dirty old carpets this building probably still has and corners to live and breed. It takes extensive exterminating of all of the apartments at the same time to get them in control, not the roach and mice sprays the exterminators that those cheap lawyers use to allegedly use to get rid of them. Those lawyers
are not going to spend the money to place the tenants somewhere else temporarily to exterminate the entire building properly. I hope for your sake that you don't have to deal with bedbugs but something tells me, you might end up seeing one sooner or later.
kenny. on 04/16/2011
01/01/11.As a matter of fact,am just a new to this building and seems suprise to all this report about Bed Bugs in the apartment because i never witnessed it.If the managements of the building has been neglecting their duties by putting the lives of their tenants to risk,from what i know,there has been a great changes now. From de time i came,a lot of things has been putten in place. A kind of renovations going on in the building right now. I also know that cleanliness is also next to Godlyness.
I guess new tenants are welcome. We should also try and help ourselves,dirtyness leads to roaches,bedbugs and even mouse. Am not trying to speak to the favor of the Lawyers but am just being honest here. The owners of the building should continue what they are doing to see that the building is in Good condition. Lastly,my suggestion is that they should also consider fixing Door men to the bulding,that will also add more security to peoples mail boxes.We also consider your reputation and property being condenmed but there is always challanges in everything in life. Do all u can to give the building a new name. I pray not to witness the bedbug because is not a good thing.
Put it in writing.. Bedbugs on 02/02/2011
I move into this building this past summer. The first night I stayed here I had shower and was sitting in the living room with my bare feet on the carpet, when my feet started to itch, I really didn't think much about it at that time I just made sure to wear horseshoe when I'am in the apt. But a few weeks later my boyfriend call me and the room to show me that there was something in our bed so I look and saw this bug in the bed. I didn't know what kind of bug it was so I ask my guy what kind of
bug is that he told it was a bedbug so I google bedbug in found all I needed to know. and this is why my feet was itching I was piss so I call the office about this problem and I wanted to know why I was not inform about this before I sign my contract. Anyway they sent this man to spay my apt it seem like it help. But a few weeks later we would find one or two more on our walls or in the bed in this is after he sprayed. A lady whom lived here tried to till me there are bedbugs here when I was moving in I didn't know what they were so I just brush it off ,thinking whatever they were it would be taking care of my the owner. I really wish I would have listen to her, the hallways always stink and people are smoking weed in drinking in the lobby some nights I just don't feel safe here. I want be renewing my lease. P.S. Don't rent here because the owner really does not care about you or you're family that has to live with there BedBugs.
FUCK WITH THE WRONG TENANT on 12/30/2010
I currently stay at 1040 w hollywood and THERE IS BEDBUGS IN THIS BUILDING. I moved in about 2 months ago and after me staying here for 3 weeks they were biting me and my infant daughter after talking to the landlord, I called the city on them. You can't keep renting out these apartments and think that is okay,we don't know who the hell these bugs bite before us and what that person is caring. They have a person that stay's in the building to come spray your apartment but he's not a real extermi
Anonymous on 12/03/2010
Living in this building and talking to the owners about this issue has made me realized that they dont care about no ones well being in the building. I am putting an end to this once and for all. If ANYONE want to comment on there sitution so that i can take to city hall and with me to court please respond to this. This building and the owners need to be stopped and taken car of. I can only do so much for my family as well for others who are suffering with this issue at 1040 w hollywood. So ther
efore if you feel you want to help by responding to what happened to you in the building feel free t do so. REMEMBER BED BUGS BITE EVERYONE EVEN THOSE WHO MAY CARRY AN ILLNESS!
Anonymous on 12/02/2010
I was a tenant there and i know for SURE that there is bedbugs. When my fiance and i moved in the 1040 w hollywood building back in february 2009 we spent the night there the day before moving our things in. the next day when we woke up we felt really itchy but didnt think much of it. While we were moving in we people were telling us stories about the issue. after a while the bedbugs got worse and i made a complaint to the owners. they told me there was nothing they can do about it and that they
are not gonna hire an exterminator. i have took pictires of the bedbugs and recorded my conversation with the owner to proove that they refuse to do anything. I even have a bedbug petition for the buliding which i getting noterized. Im putting an end to this and im sueing!!!!!
PLorena on 08/01/2010
There are bedbugs in the building and have been since I moved into the building a little over a year ago. Initially, I would wake up itching but didn't see anything. However, after I lived in the building for three or four months, I saw bedbugs. I did not bring them with me, because there were no bedbugs where I previously lived.
In response to I. Osari, bedbugs are not caused by dirt; they are either in an apartment when the tenant moves in or the tenant brings them from another location. On
ce they are in a location, it is difficult to get rid of them. Sprays will not do it; the building needs to be thoroughly steamed, because the heat will get rid of them. The landlord would have to have all tenants vacate the apartment building temporarily while the building is steamed.
The apartments that do not currently have bedbugs will have them if other tenants have them, because they do travel. I am sure the landlord wants to get rid of the bedbugs, but he may not want to spend the enormous amount of money it would take to do so. Recently, major department stores in the city of New York had to close down because of bedbug infestations; it is happending everywhere.
Maddy on 07/17/2010
Go to the "Alderman's office" and tell your story. They will inform you about your rights as a tenant and they will help you. They helped me get out of my lease once I found out the building I just moved into was infested with bedbugs.
Quintin on 07/17/2010
I moved in the apt in October of last year and I am constantly having to spray for bed bugs recently I saw a mouse run through my apartment and I am not a dirty person at all... I recently I just went trhough two bottles of bed bug spray within a week and I still have an issue at night while I sleep I wake to see them on my ceiling and walls..we also have an a/c unit prblem though my apartment came with a a/c unit, when summer came I found that my studio a/c unit is broken when ask to fix they t
old me I would have to replace it and they only would help put the new unit in..so what happens when I move? The bed bugs I beleive is out of control due to the heating issue of the apartment and now it's even worse I literally feel as though I can't sleep in my apartment because every time I close my eyes with a matter of seconds there coming out of the walls and ceilings as soon as I reopen my eyes...someone please help...And for those that say there is not an issue or you brought them in it's a complete LIE it's in the building already and I feel helpless in fixingit by myself.
Anyonomous on 05/20/2010
I am moving into the building and am confident that my apartment will be clear of troubling insect problems. Bed bugs do not travel through walls or on the floor. They come in mattresses or clothing when people move in/ or are coming in from another country or hotel where there are bedbugs. After reading the below, if I plqn to go out of the country, I will want to make sure that I am staying at a reputable hotel or place that is clean. If I think that I am returning from a country or place in t
he US or abroad that might have bedbugs or other insects - I'm going to make sure my clothes are cleaned or even thrown out before unpacking.
Unknown on 05/20/2010
1040 West Hollywood
This building is clean and treated for the bedbugs when notified. There are routinely scheduled exterminations by a reputable extermination procedure and which treats anything they find. It is very difficult to avoid pest problems when there are tenants with reported dirty apartments, with many tenants living here, however we deal with what comes up and always keep the building very clean including stairwells and even mopping the garbage chutes to avoid pest problems, h
owever we can only deal with what others have brought in AFTER we have found out they have brought them in... We certainly don't bring pests in ourselves, however we do treat the building for any pests brought in. Once again, this building is constantly treated for all pests and bed bugs, however, and we continue to exterminate regardless of whether bedbugs are present or not . New problems can occur when bed bugs are brought in by new tenants.
We will continue to treat as requested for bedbugs .
I . Oasari on 05/19/2010
I am a tenant who knows that a clean apartment is the answer. A man came and made sure my apartment was taken care of. The only ones with bed bugs are dirty and never cleaned.
If you clean your apartment , you will not have a problem.
Also, I know two of my neighbors who said they owes money said he called to complain to get discount.
Anonymous on 03/12/2010
Irate tenant I have live in this building for a long time we have had three fire but one really bad fire in march 2 2009 we were never compensate for our lost of our stuff we lost all they was worried about was the rent money. The bedbugs is out of hand I have lost a lot of thing me and my family have bite all on us from the bedbugs they have mice in the building and they are not doing any thing about it they need to tear it down and start back over againg and pay the tenants back they mone
y they lost because of all this I thank god for him taken care of me and my family because if it was not for I donot know where we would be or what we be doing.
Anonymous on 08/19/2009
I have invested more money in the past few months in bed bug spray, mattresses and other furniture and just when you think you can get a good night sleep they come back! My doctor thought that I had acute hives and told me that I maybe I was stressed about something. I never knew that I was getting bit until I saw them in my bed one night. My son was also complaining he had been itching and he couldn\'t sleep. Also I have been told that I brought them here.
rurich on 07/02/2009
Thornridge is probably the landlord. This building had a huge problem with bedbugs and as I see, still does.
A. Thornridge on 07/01/2009
No one else is complaining . just cleaned our apartments and no problems.
Anonymous on 05/22/2009
The "irate tenant" probably owes rent
Irate Tenant on 04/30/2009
My address is 1040 W. Hollywood. i have lived in this build since April 2007. The building is invested with Roaches and Bed Bugs. I noticed large bumps on my skin when i awoke in the morning. they would itch horribly. When I brought my new norn child home from the hospital a bed bug was on her mattress. i was so upset and called the Management immediately. the Secretary that answer the phones, tried to say it was my fault, just like the other angry tenant on here. She tried to say that they com
e from outside, they don\'t travel (like roahes) and it\'s not there fault. She sprayed my unit once and then said that the next visit I would have to pay for it and they will not handle it. the building was recently ina fire in March and there were no wqorking fire detectors and they had a pad lock on the exit door on the East side of the building. I am tired of these so called Lawyers located in the loop of Chicago. The carpets are filthy, the halls keep garbage in them. I even witness human feces in the laundry room. the bed bugs are horrible and they want do a thing about them. Someone needs to help. we should not have to live like this.
Senior Senior on 11/12/2008
I have been a tenant at this building for many, many years and have been through a few owners/ management groups. I do not have this bed bug issue and talking other people on my floor, they don't either. I have had the exterminator out for roaches in the past and for the most part, they have gone away....they remind me (and I am sure everyone else) that you need to have a clean space. Talking to some other people in the building, they say that the ones who have had the problem were moved out of
their apartments to other buidlings managed by this management group. I live on the westside of the building and I certainly hope I don't get this problem in my apartment, from what I have heard it hasnt made its way here. The exterminator says that it was most likely brought in by someone who took something off the street, by the garbage, and brought it into their apartment.. YUCK!!! I am always directed to the extermnator when talking to the manager and I dont have to pay fo the visits.
MIKO on 10/15/2008
this is getting out of hand. i spoke to several tenant and they have the same problem. Please dont rent here it will cause you more pain than anything in your life.The entire building, carpet is very nasty.I regret ever moving in her.I have never cook or enjoyed my apt as a home.Lawyer whatever your names are clean your building.BEDBUGS OCCUPY S 98% OF BUILDING
ANGRY TENANT on 10/12/2008
There has been bed bugs in this building forever. I've noticed other tenants continue to complain about this ongoing issue. I called the office to have them send an exterminator. I want everyone in this building to know that the exterminators are only spraying for roaches and not bed bugs. In order to get rid of this problem the exterminator must spray all rooms, around all beds, all couches in every unit. I don't understand why that we live in a building owned by 2 lawyers that can not fol
low the law. I want everyone to know that Landlords must rid every unit of bed bugs. Its the LAW.
rurich! on 10/07/2008
On September 30, I was noticing for the 3rd day irritating bumps on my skin. Something told me it was bedbugs. I looked to the left side of my futon to discover bedbugs with their eggs hidden in the crevaces of the mattress. Immediately I called management. Management is trying to make it like I was the one that brought them in. I talked to two of my neighbors to find out that the last person that lived in my apartment also had bed bugs plus that same tenant was dirty. The management never bothe
red to clean my apartment when I first moved in.
The management contacted the exterminator and they arrived the next day to control the problem. I'm just upset that the management company are acting like just because they exterminate every 2 months that bedbugs automatically go way.
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