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A teen girl who is the only known survivor of a Yemeni jetliner crash spent a terrifying 13 hours clinging to plane wreckage in choppy ocean waters as she listened to the voices of victims in complete darkness, her father said.
"She's a very timid girl, I never thought she would escape like that," the girl's father, Kassim Bakari, said. "It is a true miracle."
Thirteen-year-old Bahia, who could barely swim, managed to hold on long enough for rescuers to find her bobbing in the water amid bodies and wreckage after a Yemenia Airbus 310 jet carrying 153 people crashed into the Indian Ocean early Tuesday as it attempted to land in the dark in howling winds.
"She said, 'Daddy, I don't know what happened, but the plane fell into the water and I found myself in the water ... surrounded by darkness. I couldn't see anymore,'" her father said.
Bakari said he spoke with his oldest daughter by phone after Tuesday's crash. Bahia had left Paris on Monday night with her mother to see family in the Comoros.
"She couldn't feel anything, and found herself in the water," the girl's father, Kassim Bakari, told France's RTL radio. "She heard people speaking around her but she couldn't see anyone in the darkness."
Said Mohammed, a nurse at El Mararouf hospital in the Comoros capital of Moroni, said the girl was doing well and doctors would release more on her condition later Wednesday.
A French government minister backed off claims Wednesday that the plane's black boxes — flight data and cockpit voice recorders — were found.
Sgt. Said Abdilai told Europe 1 radio that he rescued the girl after she was found bobbing in the water. She couldn't grasp the life ring rescuers threw to her, so he jumped into the sea, Abdilai said. He said rescuers gave the trembling girl warm water with sugar.
The crash a few miles off this island nation came two years after aviation officials reported equipment faults with the plane, an aging Airbus 310 flying the last leg of a Yemenia airlines flight from Paris and Marseille to the Comoros, with a stop in Yemen to change planes.
Most of the passengers were from the Comoros, a former French colony. Sixty-six on board were French nationals.
Turbulence was believed to be a factor in the crash, Yemen's embassy in Washington said.
Alain Joyandet, the French minister for cooperation, told i-Tele television that "it appears that the black boxes of the plane have been recovered." Joyandet gave no other details about recorders, which could provide key clues as to what happened.
Boats plied the waters Wednesday, trying to find other survivors. Yemen's embassy said five bodies had been found so far.
"The search is continuing," Joyandet said. "No other survivors have been found for the moment."
Both France and Airbus sent experts to the Comoros to aid in the investigation.
The tragedy — and dwindling hopes that anyone else made it out alive — prompted an outcry in Comoros, where residents have long complained of a lack of seat belts on Yemenia flights and planes so overcrowded that passengers had to stand in the aisles.
The Comoros, a former French colony of 700,000 people, is an archipelago of three main islands situated 1,800 miles south of Yemen, between Africa's southeastern coast and the island of Madagascar.
Gen. Bruno de Bourdoncle de Saint-Salvy, the senior commander for French forces in the southern Indian Ocean, said the Airbus 310 crashed in deep waters about nine miles north of the Comoran coast and 21 miles from the Moroni airport. Searchers encountered an oil slick at the site, the Yemeni Embassy statement said.
French aviation inspectors found a "number of faults" in the plane's equipment during a 2007 inspection, French Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau said.
European Union Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani said the airline had previously met EU safety checks and was not on the bloc's blacklist. But he said a full investigation was now being started amid questions why passengers were put on another jet in the Yemeni capital of San'a.
The vice president of Comoros criticized French officials for not telling his nation about any suspected problems.
"We wish the French could have informed us of any irregularity or any problems with that plane," Idi Nadhoim said Wednesday on France-24 television.
"Most if not all of the planes of Yemenia are Airbus," he said. "They are supposed to be serviced by Airbus."
"We trust the civil aviation authorities of the countries we are working with," he added, suggesting that French authorities discriminated against "those French who are left by themselves to fly this type of plane" — French citizens from former French colonies.
Airbus said the plane that crashed went into service 19 years ago, in 1990, and had accumulated 51,900 flight hours. It has been operated by Yemenia since 1999.


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Pam and Mitch Myers were applauded Wednesday as they were presented an award for volunteer service in the Share the Warmth program that provides overnight shelter during the winter to Adrian's homeless.
"It is such a great honor for me to present the resolution," said Lenawee County Commissioner K.Z. Bolton at Wednesday's commission session.
Pam Myers said she recalled being "scared to death" the first night she volunteered at the shelter three years ago. The experience kept her coming back and taking on a lead role in the organization with her husband.
"I'm just so proud of Pam for her tireless and relentless work," Mitch Myers said. He also credited a list of organizations that help run the program.
"It's their award," he said.
Last winter, Share the Warmth reported it sheltered 74 different people during 150 consecutive nights it was open at the Salvation Army building on West Church Street. They were served a hot supper and breakfast with the help of more than 400 volunteers.
The Lenawee Continuum of Care selected the Myers for its annual Norma Dell Courage to Care Award for their work in keeping the shelter program a successful operation. The county commission's resolution recognized the honor.
"People in Lenawee County who have no other place to call home can have a nutritious meal and lay their heads down safely to sleep on the cold winter nights because of the organizational skills and compassion that Pam and Mitch Myers provide," said the resolution.
By engaging new volunteers, the Myers have allowed the program to offer more weeks of sheltering, it said.
The resolution stated Pam Myers leads Share the Warmth board meetings and keeps track of volunteer schedules. She and her husband also volunteer to serve many nights at the shelter, despite both having full-time jobs.
"Pam and Mitch Myers are a couple with compassion for those less fortunate and when they decide to do something, they give their whole heart," the commission's resolution stated.
The award is named for Dell, an Adrian Dominican sister and a former director of the Lenawee Emergency and Affordable Housing Corp.
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Pam and Mitch Myers were applauded Wednesday as they were presented an award for volunteer service in the Share the Warmth program that provides overnight shelter during the winter to Adrian's homeless.


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Here's How L.A. Clubs & Cops Are Preparing For Cardi B After Death Threats
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We previously reported that Cardi B was getting death threats after she insulted a gang in an Instagram post.
This mentioned IG picture showed the rapper in a furry blue coat with the caption, "I hate wearing Flue but this coat was too poppin." Cardi intentionally used the word "Flue" instead of "blue," which is the color that the Crips rep, and that was taken as a diss. That's when she started receiving death threats about the next time she comes to Cali, where the Crips were formed.
One IG user commented under the post, "@iamcardib this will not be accepted #DONTCOMETOLA." Another person wrote, "Now why you go and do this f**k s**t Cardi. This is literally WestCoast Suicide .... b**ch betta get #neutral."
Cardi is hosting at three L.A. clubs next weekend. So, security at these establishments are gearing up in case she runs into any trouble because they know about the threats the rapper is getting. "Murano, Penthouse and Ace of Diamonds -- are tripling the number of armed security guards they'd normally hire," TMZ claims. "They've also put off-duty cops on the payroll, who'll be in uniform at the clubs."
The news outlet goes on to say that the owner of the three clubs held an emergency meeting on Wednesday (Feb. 7) to discuss security for the rapper and how guards should be ready if anything dangerous pops off.
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Resident Evil 7: Biohazard in this gameplay video we continue playing as Mia, we know where Ethan is but in order to reach him we must clear way of Eviline and her Muld friends, along the way we know how Eveline controls people and what they feel once she has control, we need to reach Eveline and stop her from being a bad girl.
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You shouldn't have to towel off your dishes after cleaning them in your dishwasher.
But you also shouldn't write off rinse aid because you think it's just made to prevent water spots on your dishes.
Dishwashers are actually designed to use the rinse aid to sheet off the water on dishes to assist in the drying process. So without it, you're handicapping your dishwasher's drying performance.
I've read blog posts about using vinegar and stuff like that in place of rinse aid, but if that actually works for you in terms of helping dry your dishes, I stand corrected (and you can hang me in the comments).
Buy a bottle of rinse aid, and I betcha that's the missing link. Keep your reservoir full, checking it every few weeks. Your (dry) dishtowels will thank you.
Other tips:
- If you have a new, plastic tub dishwasher, be patient. It's drying performance will improve over time as the tub "seasons." Don't prewash your dishes, as this impedes the seasoning process, manufacturers say.
- Run the tap next to your dishwasher until the water is hot, ensuring that the water entering the dishwasher can get as hot as possible. I do this without fail, because it's an all-around boost to your dishwasher's perfomance.
- Limit the amount of plastic items. Plastic doesn't retain heat as well as say, ceramic, which is why you'll notice that it's generally the wettest of all your wet dishes. Because it doesn't retain heat, it doesn't condensate the water.


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Model of the Week: Karolina Kurkova
Model of the Week: Karolina Kurkova
Welcome to the fifth installment of Model of the Week. I've written a five question interview that I have conducted with several models to share with you. The questions are both fun and beauty related and will always stay the same. To see the rest of the Model of the Week posts click here.
Here's a little history about Karolina Kurkova. She was born on February 28, 1984 in Decín, Czech Republic. She was discovered when an admiring friend sent some pictures of her to a modeling agency in Prague. She immediately booked a runway show, a commercial, an ad campaign and then traveled to Milan to explore the international world of fashion.
It was in Milan where she met Miuccia Prada who signed her to a Prada contract at the tender age of 15. She then met Vogue editors in NY, where she now lives.
Karolina has signed deals with: Yves Saint Laurent, Victoria's Secret, Tommy, Valentino, Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta and Balenciaga.
She is one of the most renowned models in the world. In 2001, she graced the cover of Vogue and in 2002 she was granted the "Model of the Year" title at the 2002 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards.
She is quite accustomed to fame though. Her Dad is Josef Kurka - a former star basketball player. There is a reason this beauty has become a shining star. She is sweet, down to earth, driven and extremely articulate. Best of luck to you Karolina!
To read the interview that was conducted at Victoria's Secret in NY on her birthday,
BELLA: What is your secret to beautiful skin and hair?
KK: I have a steam shower in my apartment, so I steam my face everyday. For my hair, I swear by Victoria's Secret So Sexy Nourishing Shampoo for Dry/Damaged Hair, $9.50, and Victoria's Secret So Sexy Nourishing Conditioner for Dry/Damaged hair, $9.50. It smells so good and it gives my thin hair a lot of volume.
BELLA: What is the one product you can't live without?
KK: Victoria's Secret Very Sexy Makeup - Perfect Lipstick in Whisper, $12. It's a pinkish brown color - I love it.
BELLA: What is your guilty pleasure?
KK: Sweets. I really like chocolate and One Lucky Duck RAW Ice Cream in chocolate, strawberry or vanilla. It's dairy free, made from cashews and coconut meat - so it doesn't upset my stomach and it tastes delicious.
BELLA: What is your favorite drugstore product?
KK: Zip lock bags. If I don't have them in my house, I go nuts. I like to be organized and those zip locks really keep me organized; especially when I travel. I keep my makeup, jewelry, lingerie...everything in them!
BELLA: Happiness is...
KK: Being healthy, being alive! I feel really lucky to have family and friends - so it makes me happy to spend my time with them.


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Today I ate a perfect plum - the first plum of the season. Plums signify summer to me. When I was growing up, my friends had a plum tree next to their pool. Wearing our matching Snoopy bathing suits, all four of us, 2 sets of sisters, would eat plums while in the pool, the juice trickling down our tan arms and ending up in the pool. No need for napkins. Plums are my favorite fruit probably due to those memories!
I am hoping to read some great books from Yalsa's Teens Top Ten nominees, but also I want to read books for adults. I want to spruce up this site and the one I have for my students. I am thinking of starting another blog too! I want to get better at using Jing, Skype, WebNotes and a few other tools I probably haven't even heard of yet!
But I also want to exercise, ponder, cook, garden, organize my closets, and that is just in my free time, while my kids are at day-camp! I am always excited to be a stay-at-home mom for the summer. In June the summer seems so long, but my mid July (when this year I will be in the Outer Banks with my husband and children) I realize I have to whittle down my expectations of what I will accomplish. And I wonder, will feeling that I accomplished something or learned a new gadget be like those plums I ate in the pool? I don't think so.What will be the plum, the sweetest memory, of this summer? And how can I make time to relax and just let it happen? How do you get away during those fabulous months off from work and make time to discover the plums?
Have a wonderful summer everyone! Take time for yourself and your family. And enjoy the plums!


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Body Of Missing, Gay Florida College Student Found
The body of a missing, gay Florida State University student was found in a vacant building on Tuesday.
Ryan Uhre was 23-years-old and had been last seen at a Tallahassee bar on Feb. 2 watching the Super Bowl with friends. He was reported missing on Feb. 5.
From Tallahassee.com:
"It is with a heavy heart that TPD announces that the body that we have discovered in the building belongs to Ryan Uhre," Officer David Northway, TPD spokesman, said Tuesday morning.
As Northway made the announcement, Friends of Uhre who had started gathering around the scene, broke down in tears, many sobbing uncontrollably at the news.
Police have no evidence to suggest foul play was involved with Uhre's death, the cause of which is still under investigation.
"At this time we have no indication of foul play, but again, every crime scene is an evolving crime scene," Northway said. Police treat all unattended deaths as homicides until it's proven otherwise.
"Our forensic techs are taking evidence, as you can see our forensics van is there, but at this very moment we have no indication of foul play, but again we will continue to work it as an open and active investigation and we will not stop until we determine what actually is the cause of death," Northway said.
Very sad. We'll update you with any noteworthy developments in this case, Instincters.
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I've heard that he climbed onto the roof of the adjoining building and over a barrier to a broken second story window and went in. Unfortunately, the second story floor was missing and he fell to the bottom. Why he did all this is the question. He had just graduated FSU in December and was looking to go to law school. A Democratic congressman hired him as an aide a few weeks before. He had credit cards, etc. on him. This is the mystery police will have to figure out. Also, police have released a photo of a man seen in the alley near Ryan at the time of his disappearance and want to question him.
No, they say they have no evidence to suggest foul play...but that doesn't mean that it wasn't foul play...just that they can't prove that it is and won't say so until they can find evidence to suggest that is is foul play.
Still, very sad and I feel sad for his friends and family. Glad they found his body though. It's worse when folks really just vanish and there is no proper closure...
If you read more clearly, he is saying they can't claim foul play was involved because they have not found evidence yet. However they only started investigation so evidence has yet to be processed and discovered. However, even so, they are treating the case as homocide and investigating diligently


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Suco needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
2 winners were selected from 103 designs submitted by 30 freelance designers.
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Hi all,
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What North Korea's Leader Wants for 2013
Dictator Kim Jong Eun delivers North Korea's New Year's message with a speech to his citizens, reviving a tradition that seemingly died with his grandfather. The WSJ's Evan Ramstad explains the significance of the new leader's public address.
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I ... the only tech chance on me and has delivered the country's annual New Year's message ... and to find out what the secretive state had to say we're now joined by reporter Evan Ramstad in Seoul ... and then and this is an annual insurance for the leader she did have a dress to the country and at the beginning of each year so what is Jinjiang and have to say this year ... well he said pretty much the same thing that ... they always say ... that it's it's a it's a calm and molested by the government ... um it's been a aam pink eighty in newspapers ... during the regime of Kim Sun Il Kim said his father ... and ... so it was significant in a change for content and to come out and deliver the message himself ... he's doing that in the way that his grandfather did ... before Kindle song did this for many many years The was the kind of a tradition in North Korea to wake up on new years morning ... and put on good clothes ... and then go to a common sign it sometimes the political on a school or something ... and watch TV as Kindle son gave this new year's message ... and then as I said during the continuing euro and the missus was painted instead of delivery ... and now yesterday that once again ... returned to the ... deliberate on ... radio and TV broadcasts ... mainland and hear that came down and is a sharing in public ... more so than his father did that in at the beginning of ... his that ... leadership me we were seeing and then use impacts them out of balance ... back in and Pyongyang is so could this all be part and I'm you know forming a new news in age for the leader ... separately a hammer ... appearing to ... be more approachable ... and be working on behalf of the people ... you know it's really focused on ... building a ... base of support and legitimacy for continuing the family regime in continuing the ... rule of the family into a third generation ... than she said that he's spoken in public that several times he has on and things that ... you know kind of more informally as you mention going to amusement parks even talk about amusement parks ... in a speech on yesterday ... and and most significantly I would say is that he started showing up in public with the woman who they later repealed Adidas why ... and that the most recent pictures of her of course ... that make it look like she's pregnant so ... that's the ... news that a lot to people ... who watch the Kim family regime are now watching for next ... a lot and that message is that come from the data may include a lot of anti US rhetoric one of this time along that amount in ... 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North Korea ... but they did not ... ever mention United States directly ... and yesterday's message was no exception to that it didn't mention ... the United States record it didn't keep up this narrative go of a country ... that is under siege ... that is challenge day and that isn't a struggle ... and and then ... you know much of the statements are ... made to encourage this is this I have ... no the camaraderie and then rallied together ... aam to work for a common good ... and then work for a better economy foreign stance and a stronger military et-cetera ... it's all in one of the regimes constant message a mean that ... when the siege ... and between regime are protecting you and we need you all the people to kind of work to support us to protect ourselves from ... outsiders to me this um not well ... again emphasizing the economy and in in in a country that is to shut off from the rest of the world did he give any hints ... as to which direction on North Korea would be headed ... in terms of its economy ... well he does think that it saw written and exclaimed and ... I encourage people to do more for the economy it's the same message that they say every year ... 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Using models based on the networking of websites and the transmission of digital cellphone signals, researchers are gaining new insights into the way lung cancer spreads in the body.
A new study, performed by a team including San Diego researchers, merges the seemingly disparate fields of biology and communication theory, and may lead to better treatment plans for patients.
Researchers analyzed records from lung cancer patients by adapting technology originally developed by Google and Qualcomm co-founder Andrew Viterbi.
Some parts of the body were found to be "spreaders" of metastatic lung cancer cells. Others, called "sponges," receive cancer cells but don't spread them as readily. This means some locations for metastasis are more dangerous than others.
The study was published in the journal Cancer Research on Monday. Researchers from The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Clinic Medical Group, UCSD Moores Cancer Center, the Viterbi School of Engineering at USC and other institutions took part.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of death from cancer in the United States, according to the American Lung Association. An estimated 160,000 Americans died of lung cancer last year. Once the disease spreads, the prognosis is poor.
"Generally in lung cancer, there's been a feeling that once it becomes metastatic, the seed is there, and that you don't do many localized therapies, except for palliation," said Dr. Karen Reckamp, co-director of the Lung Cancer and Thoracic Oncology Program at City of Hope in Duarte.
"This (study) means there might be reasons to do localized therapy at a metastatic site," Reckamp said.
Certain types of lung cancers are known to metastasize disproportionately, Reckamp said. The study indicates this may be true of all lung cancers, and may even be a general characteristic of metastasis, she said.
A follow-up study is examining whether the "spreader" and "sponge" finding is valid for colon cancer, said Kelly Bethel, a pathologist at Scripps Clinic Medical Group who took part in the study.
The study shows the benefits of bringing in knowledge from distant fields that appears unrelated on the surface, Bethel said.
Google's PageRank algorithm predicts which websites are most likely to contain pertinent information by examining the density of links between sites. The Viterbi Algorithm predicts the most likely path of digital wireless signals through a cellphone network. Invented by Andrew Viterbi in 1966, it is used for error correction in Qualcomm's digital wireless technology.
Paul K. Newton of USC's Viterbi School of Engineering was first author of the study, funded by the National Cancer Institute and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Peter Kuhn of TSRI was senior author.
Newton supplied insights from PageRank and the Viterbi Algorithm for the study, Bethel said. The study analyzed records of 3,827 deaths of untreated cancer patients between 1914 and 1943, including 163 lung cancer patients. This was before widespread use of radiation and chemotherapy for lung cancer. Since the patients were untreated, their records indicated the natural progression of the disease.
"We began by trying to understand the path that cancer takes as it metastasizes through the body," Bethel said. "When you die with metastatic lung cancer, you end with metastases in multiple locations throughout the body. But not everybody gets metastases in the same place. So we're trying to understand the pathways that cancer takes."
Adrenal glands are "spreaders," the study found. They are 1.91 times as likely to spread lung cancer cells as to receive them, and kidneys were 2.86 times as likely. Bone metastases were called "sponges." They are 0.75 times as likely to spread lung cancer as to receive it, meaning they are net recipients of the cells.
The study explains the spread of resistant cancer cells that have mutated to evade cancer drugs, said John Heymach, chair of the Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology program at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Metastasis had long been assumed to be a "unidirectional" process from the cancer's place of origin to more distant parts of the body, Heymach said. But the mutant cells didn't follow that pattern.
"These mutations often show up not just at one tumor, as we would expect if it occurred randomly, but at several tumors at once," Heymach said. "This (study) explains that observation. The metastases can be seeding other metastases or even reseeding the primary tumor.
"The reason this is relevant is that as we develop drugs that target specific mutations, we may have to take this into account." Heymach said. "As resistance emerges, resistance can spread from tumor to tumor. So if resistance emerges, it may be emerging from a distant tumor that is reseeding the primary."
Viterbi, one of the paper's reviewers, said it was "satisfying" to find his research spreading into the life sciences.
"It's very exciting to see mathematics being applied in all sorts of ways," Viterbi said. "For decades, it was mostly in physics or physical phenomena. Now it's being used in software and even in biology. It isn't just this, it was much more effectively used in DNA sequence analysis where you've got lots and lots of bits."


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Well, once again, in our super-sized world, where only hand held personal devices need to be micro-sized, we have, this September, another ginormous mezuzah. It is yet the newest contender in a series, donated by philanthropist Shmuel Flato-Sharon. The sofer commissioned was Rav Zalman Michaelshvilli, and the ultra-modern design is said to be influenced by […]
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A Passion... for Pyrex!
10 comments:
- Janey Ellis said...
I totally understand!! I keep my collection fairly limited to turquoise, but that set of ramekins is INSANE! Congrats on that score!
- 17 April 2012 at 23:41
- Tasha @ By gum, by golly! said...
Love love love it! I have both the snowflake baking dish and 2 Gooseberry Cinderella bowls, though pink. If I had the space for it, I'd totally have a wall of gorgeous Pyrex! But alas most of it is relegated to the cupboards. ;) Have fun, it's an addicting thing to collect!!
- 17 April 2012 at 23:53
I just started a year ago. I love it only wish it were a bit cheaper. I was sort of surprised at how expensive it was already. Love yours!
- 18 April 2012 at 00:10
I love your new collection! Looking forward to seeing it 'grow'. Sam xox
- 18 April 2012 at 01:37
An idea for the ramekins is to make individual jell-os, puddings in them. :) Makes it a lot easier to eat than using one large bowl and scooping from there. They're also good for prep work when you cook.
- 18 April 2012 at 02:24
- A.J.A. said...
I have a smallish collection of vintage Pyrex that I use constantly- mostly because I do not store or heat food in plastic. I use the ramekins a lot for sauces, condiments, and snacks- a bit of peanut butter and a handful of pretzels in a ramekin so I won't eat half the bag! :) Nice finds!
- 18 April 2012 at 05:04
what a mad little collection you have there:P x
- 18 April 2012 at 08:22
- Sabrina said...
Your collection is off to a beautiful start! The ramekins would be good for dips/condiments, especially when you have guests. My mom has a full set of mixing bowls (I'm assuming from the late 1970s-early 1980s when my parents got married), in a standard beige with blue flowery scrolls, that I absolutely LOVE to bake with. The handles on the sides are so, um, handy. They make good pouring spouts for batters. :)
- 18 April 2012 at 19:32
Wow! I love it! I think I need to start racing you to the pyrex :)
By the way, I fixed my link! http://www.etsy.com/shop/KissMeKateVintage
Kate xx
- 18 April 2012 at 21:13
- Sarah Gilbert said...
Just glorious!
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While most of America was watching the Broncos and Ravens battle it out in overtime, the Packers got a perfect start to their playoff game in San Francisco.
As 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick dropped back to pass on his second drive on the 49ers' opening possession, he didn't see Packers defensive back Sam Shields. And Shields stepped in front of Kaepernick's pass, sprinted downfield, and raced 52 yards for a touchdown.
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Can Technology Make Customs Entry Easier?
Long lines at U.S. entry points represent potential lost revenue for U.S. businesses. One group is taking to the web to spread their message that U.S. Customs and Border Protection needs an overhaul. Patricia Rojas-Ungar, vice president at the U.S. Travel Association, joins digits.
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... I ... or ... Digits I'm Simon Constable along the lines I knew as entry points to represent a lot of potential lost revenue the U S businesses ... one group is taking to the way to spread that message by U S Customs and Border patrol me that we think the way ... they ... have made millions of visitors each year to the US ... joining us from our Washington bureau to explain this a spurt Rachelle Rowe up ... progress on top of vice president of relations for us fellas attention thank you very much for being map for Tricia ... I am I happy be here ... so what ... did I know what it's like to to going through that both the U S lines in the Yemen on U S lines ... and entry points to the US what can the government do to make about a ... there's really so much that the company ... in ... the first and foremost we hafta had enough CDP personnel ... at passport control to process the International Business Claire really customers to the U S ... 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CVTI district doing the job ... were happy that keeping the nation secure ... at the end of the day ... when there are fifty days at home for the attendance half its needs huge hassle and frustration for international visitors ... thousands are standing in line ... and or stand being ... an hour or up to three hours in line after getting off a six hour flight or worse yet at twenty two hour flight from Asia ... not to let me say that we want to offer international business that ... is that anyone in the technology could be used to help speed speed this process up I mean I've ... you know I'd I note that of a lot of what goes on matters manual it's it's ... it's beauty of getting checked into security when you get on the plan when you get off the being ... checked by ... border security agents are not in a manual white Toomey use ... technology to solve this problem ... absolutely and I thinks this to the government's credit he's at it ... they're trying to do some of that ... there's a program called Local and see ... what all was well when she does is allows us this and ... had to sign out ... in this it hadn't been in the sea with the CVT Oster ... the code Raytheon ... 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This morning, a friend emailed me a link to this story at the Daily Mail, which contains a number of beautiful maps on America's infrastructure networks. Go check it out; I'll wait here while you spend fifteen minutes going "ooh!" and "ahh!" at all the images.
While they are beautiful, they are not without problems. Lovely visuals, deep conceptual errors. Let's start with the one that stuck out to me, the visualization of job losses. At least, I assume it's job losses. The caption at the Daily Mail reads, "Unemployment: The number of job losses in the U.S. chronicled in this stunning image." Unemployment is different than job losses, so I'm not sure which is being mapped, but I suspect the latter.
(EDIT: I've lately found the video that these maps come from. This is actually a map showing the distribution of manufacturing jobs in the 1990s. In the video, the dots wink out — turn black — to show the decline of the manufacturing sector. Seen at about 12 min, 50 sec in the video here: http://www.pbs.org/america-revealed/episode/4/)
A dot density map is approximately the worst way to look at a data set like this. The author(s) took the number of jobs lost in each state, converted that to a certain number of dots, and then scattered those dots all throughout the state. The result is misleading in several ways. First off, this is really a map of job loss density. The brightest areas are where the dots are clustered, which means a lot of jobs were lost in a tight space. Texas lost a lot of jobs, probably as many as Ohio or Illinois (I'm not going to count every dot, but they probably have similar numbers). But the latter two states look worse off, because they have about the same number of dots crammed into a smaller physical area. Actually, it's not even a map of job loss density, because the areas of the states are distorted due to curvature of the Earth in this view. Washington, for example, is a lot smaller than if we were looking at it from directly above, and its unemployment picture therefore looks worse. So, this isn't really a map of "job losses" so much as it's a map of "job losses divided by the size of each state, if you distort the sizes of the states a lot."
So, reading the dot concentrations will simply mislead us. But what about the number of dots? If we painstakingly counted them, we could certainly find out at least how many jobs were lost in a state without having to worry about this density issue. Well, the second big problem is that these data aren't normalized to population. There are a lot more dots in Illinois than in Wyoming. This is because Illinois is a very populous state, whereas no one lives in Wyoming. No account was taken, seemingly, of population differences. Some states are being hit harder by the recession than others, but all you can tell from this map is that places that had more people lost more jobs. I quickly found this table prepared last year and it points out that Nevada has been hammered by the downturn, losing 8% of its jobs. Ohio, on the other hand, lost only 2.6%. But when you look at the map, which state looks worse off?
Lastly, jobs weren't lost evenly throughout each state, so why scatter the dots evenly? Probably because the author(s) only had state-based data, but making some account for population locations would be nice. Why show a sea of lost jobs in eastern California, which is mostly desert, mountains, and unpopulated forests? The exact locations of the dots are meaningless anyway, since they've been distributed randomly in each state.
This map should have been a choropleth of job losses per state divided by population. It's not nearly as sexy, but it's also not seriously misleading.
(EDIT: As said, this critique was based on an inaccurate description of what this map is about, and I apologize for not doing my research. Much of the critique still stands — showing dots still seems odd for this data set. It's a map of "manufacturing jobs divided by the size of each state, if you distort the sizes of the states." The need for normalization is probably less, as well, though it couldn't hurt.)
The dot density map was what galled me. On the other hand, my friend Chris, who sent me the link, was bothered by the map of wireless access towers:
I can't say for certain without hearing the accompanying narration (EDIT — see below), but the author(s) very likely received a data set which had point locations for towers and broadcast power, and simply made circles proportional to the power. That's all quite reasonable, but the map very much looks like it's trying to portray the actual signal coverage areas, and that's a very different thing. Most any electromagnetic signal coming from a tower is not going to move in a perfect, even circle away from the transmission point. It gets distorted by a lot of things — buildings get in the way, so do mountains and other terrain features, and the Earth's magnetic field also affects it. And if it's been broadcast by a directional antenna, the signal starts out stronger in some directions than others. Presenting these transmissions as circles is an overly idealized view of how they work. Even if the authors were only using circles as a symbol for power, rather than suggesting these are areas of coverage, a lot of people are going to misunderstand this as the latter. Every reader brings their own interpretations to the map, and it's not always the one the author wants. The best you can do is try and head them off.
(EDIT: Again, I've now looked up the relevant section in the video to figure out what they map is actually of. It's found at 40:20 in this video: http://www.pbs.org/america-revealed/episode/4/ — the narrator doesn't actually say what the map is of; it just shows while he talks about how your wireless signal is bounced between towers, so I'd say the critique above stands as is. If anything, I'd say my point about misunderstanding the map is even stronger, because the program really does leave it up to you to figure out what's going on.).
All the maps on this site have a pseudo-realistic appearance, and they're even discussed as though you're "seeing what the nation looks like from the skies." My colleague Marty Elmer pointed out to me that this realism means an increased expectation of accuracy. If you're telling me that I'm floating above the US, really seeing the job losses or broadcast signals, I'm likely to believe that this is really how things are distributed on the ground. That the signals really are circles, or the jobs really were lost in the woods of northern Michigan. I'm less likely to take the thematic data as an abstraction because the base map, with its fancy lighting effects and clouds, doesn't look very abstracted. Generalization is not just about redrawing your linework to the right scale; it's about credulity. This was one of the biggest points I would emphasize to my students back when I lectured on the subject. Visual abstraction needs to match data abstraction. Readers seeing a highly simplified visualization will assume the data are likewise telling a highly simplified story. If they see a very realistic and detailed basemap, they're likely to assume that the data have been treated similarly.
In the end, we're left with beautiful, but potentially (or sometimes outright) misleading images, and that's a travesty. These are for a television special, and besides going in front of millions of eyes on PBS, these works will very likely go around the Internet to millions more. The maps are lovely to look at, and this means they'll get a chance to misinform many, many more people. It's a shame, because it's a squandered opportunity to inform people about actual facts. Imagine pairing quality visuals with well-thought-out data treatment and map concepts, and how far that would go. But infotainment isn't about the substance, just the style. See the headline to that Daily Mail link, for example — "Secret corpse flights," as though this transport of bodies were illicit, rather than a routine movement of your loved ones to their desired resting place. It makes a good story, even if it's not true.
Also: poor Alaska and Hawaii. They remain, as ever, second-class states.
One Nice Thing: I could go on for a long time about how excellent these look. Maps need to be beautiful if you want people to look at them and spend the time to learn something off them. I'd love to see the author(s) continue to do this great work, just with better data and ideas for portraying it.


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Today at Facebook's F8 developer conference, the social networking giant unveiled a new initiative to make it easier to share data between mobile apps and the web: App Links. The open source service is meant to make it easy for developers to expose and integrate deep links into their app and into other apps with just a few lines of code.
App Links is designed to be cross platform, with support for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. App Links works not just between apps, but also from the web to mobile apps.
Currently developers have to code in each app to which they want to link. While there are a few standards meant to make that linking easier, there's nothing truly universal, let alone comprehensive in scope. App Links aims to solve that by making it possible to build in links to any appropriate apps on a mobile device without having to code in each one.
Part of the App Links system will be the Facebook Index API, which will serve as the central index of apps that support App Links.
In developing App Links, Facebook worked with a number of notable app developers that have already built-in the service, including Endomondo, Flixster, Hulu, Pinterest, and Spotify. Facebook has committed to building App Links into their own apps, but hasn't yet released an update with such support.
Integrating, centralizing, and simplifying the app-to-app sharing experience is a move that we welcome from Facebook. It's been nice to have a few apps working together here or there, but having a big company like Facebook pushing an initiative like this can't hurt.
Developers can go ahead and check it out everything the need to know about App Links at the source link below.
Source: App Links


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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
SaaS: degrees of multi-tenancy
Phil Wainewright has a good discussion on the various architectures underlying today's software-as-a-service (SaaS) products, such as Salesforce.com.
I've commented in the past regarding the superiority of a multi-tenant architecture (many customers supported on a single hosted system instance) versus the tradition single-tenant architecture (a separate hosted system instance for each customer). Salesforce.com is an example of a SaaS provider building on a multi-tenant architecture, whereas Oracle's On-Demand offering of its E-Business Suite is an example of a single-tenant architecture. The economics of the multi-tenant architecture are so much more attractive in that each new customer involves minimal marginal cost to the provider, allowing the provider to offer attractive pricing.
Except for protestations by the single-tenant providers, there is little debate about the superiority of the multi-tenant model. Wainewright, however, points out that there are in fact different flavors of the multi-tenant architecture. He lists three main variations:
- First-degree multi-tenancy (e.g. Salesforce.com). Here, "all customers are served from a single infrastructure in which every component is shared, all the way down to the tables in the database" This purist approach is often called "shared schema multi-tenancy because the database structure is defined by the schema and if everyone's data is stored inside that structure then by definition, everyone is sharing the same schema."
- Second-degree multi-tenancy (e.g. Intacct, a financial systems SaaS provider). This approach is similar to first-degree, but it "uses replication much more broadly than Salesforce.com to distribute its shared-schema instances across large numbers of server clusters." A key advantage of this approach is that it can use low-cost hardware (e.g. Linux on Intel) rather than large Unix or Linux servers with massive databases. It also allows customers to operate on different versions of the system, based on which cluster thay reside upon, giving some flexibility on when they upgrade to newer versions.
Debates about the advantages and disadvantages of the first versus second degree multi-tenancy approach are a bit too much "inside baseball" for most buyers. Selection of an architecture, in my opinion, should be driven by the requirements of the application. I can see where a high volume, small footprint, departmental application might benefit from the first-degree approach, where the economies of scale drive down the price per user, allowing the app to reach a larger number of users. I can also see where a larger, more complex application might be deployed more cost effectively, and with greater flexibility, using the second-degree approach. And applications requiring the greatest flexibility for the customer might be driven to the third category, though, as I pointed out, this approach loses much of the economic rationale of the first two.
- Lesser-degree multi-tenancy (e.g. Oracle, and others). There are many variations of this type, with the shared services primarily involving shared server infrastructure. Each customer has a separate database instance. This approach provides maximum flexibility to the customer but gives up much of the scalability and economic advantages of multi-tenancy. It appears that SAP's greenfield SaaS offering for small business, Business ByDesign, is taking this approach.
Read Wainewright's entire post for a fuller discussion.
Update: Wainewright has a follow-up post where he refines his definitions and provides additional insights on Intacct's architecture. If SaaS platform decisions are important to you, you should read Wainewright's follow-up post.
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Dell acquires SaaS platform Everdreamby Frank Scavo, 6/18/2008 12:52:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Vendor maintenance fees: just say no
A journalist contacted me last week on the subject of vendor maintenance and support contracts. Maybe Spectator readers can help him out.
He wanted to know if I had seen evidence of a trend for companies to "essentially forego support and maintenance contracts for enterprise applications, hardware, or networking infrastructure, electing, instead, to have internal IT support the products." He also wanted to know if I had an opinion on what types of IT products are good candidates for abandoning vendor support.
His inquiry got me thinking on this subject.
"Going naked"
The practice of just saying no to support contracts has been going on as long as software vendors have been charging for maintenance and support. It may sound crazy, but it may make sense to abandon vendor support if an organization (a) has highly modified the software, or (b) is running on an older release no longer supported, or (c) intends never to upgrade, or (d) plans to migrate from the system in the near future.
I think that any software package for which vendors charge maintenance for is a potential target for a "go naked" strategy. Systems that have frequent regulatory updates (think, payroll, or sales tax compliance) have a stronger business case for staying on maintenance. But systems that have maintenance/support contracts only for bug fixes, or help desk, or access to future enhancements have a weaker business case for vendor support contracts.
An alternative to "going naked" (as this practice is sometimes called) is to buy a maintenance/support contract from a third-party service organization, such as TomorrowNow or Rimini Street.
My own opinion is that the trend has increased toward going naked, or signing up for third-party support, as software vendors have increased their fees for maintenance to the point where they may not be justified in a larger percentage of cases.
Good idea or risky tactic?
Vendors love their maintenance and support businesses. They provide recurring income and often carry the highest profit margins of any revenue source. But do maintenance contracts always make sense for the buyer?
Now I'm looking for examples. Do you work for an organization that has dropped its maintenance contract for an existing system? Was this the right decision? Leave a comment on this post or email me with details.
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High software maintenance fees and what to do about themby Frank Scavo, 6/17/2008 08:08:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
Legal basis for third-party ERP support industry
Some interesting information continues to dribble out of the Oracle vs. SAP/TomorrowNow lawsuit. Oracle filed the lawsuit last year alleging that SAP's TomorrowNow (TN) unit perpetuated massive theft of Oracle's intellectual property in delivering maintenance and support services to Oracle customers.
As part of the proceedings, SAP has released a 2002 letter from TN to PeopleSoft, in response to a previous letter from PeopleSoft alleging that TN's provision of third-party support was illegal.
The letter provides a good overview of the basis for third-party support. The letter takes particular exception to PeopleSoft's claim that TN is misleading customers about its ability to perform PeopleSoft upgrades and claims that it cannot provide such services because it is not "a certified member of PeopleSoft's alliance network."
This last claim attacks the very basis for a third-party support industry. So, TN took dead aim to counter that claim. The letter states,..you are undoubtedly aware, or certainly should be aware, that(a) there is no requirement that a service provider join or be affiliated with any PeopleSoft-controlled alliance before servicing a customer's PeopleSoft software
(b) the tools for physically upgrading releases are built into the PeopleSoft software release itself and licensed with the software product to customers,
(c) customers who pay PeopleSoft for annual support services have rights to access and use PeoleSoft upgrade documentation and instructions made generally available to PeopleSoft's annual support services customers regardless of whether a customer chooses to hire PeopleSoft, a third-party, or internally and independently performs the upgrade process,
(d) many software upgrades are performed by customers without fee-based consulting assistance from either PeopleSoft or its certified alliance network members, and
(e) many software upgrades are performed by customers without their internal project staff of employees and/or contractors receiving any full education or training equivalent to PeopleSoft's "Consultant Certification" curriculum used by PeopleSoft internally for its fee-based consultants or the curriculum used for the fee-based consultants of its certified alliance network members.Apparently, the letter had its intended effect, as PeopleSoft appears to have not pursued any further action toward TN after receiving this letter--that is, until Oracle (PeopleSoft's new owner) took action last year.
Oracle's current complaint against SAP (TN's new owner) and TN alleges conduct that goes far beyond the points in the 2002 letter. To my view, Oracle is not alleging that TN had no right to offer the services it offered. Only that it did so by misappropriating Oracle's intellectual property.
Whether that is true is a matter now for the court to decide.
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TomorrowNow and the future of third-party support providersby Frank Scavo, 6/12/2008 11:31:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Mike, it did not look distorted when I looked at the link to the webpage.
Quote from: Jon Mello on December 03, 2013, 12:00:38 AMMike, it did not look distorted when I looked at the link to the webpage.Great pics. I live very close to where that dealer used to be. Too bad it is long gone now.
I thought I recognized the picture in the Mander Super Huger Camaro ad. The car is wearing the custom bolt on accessories that were available from the AMT Corporation Speed and Custom Division through Chevy dealers. A member named BLUETOPPACE posted the entire catalog over at the Camaro Pace Car site. See all of the pics on pages 2 and 3 here: http://camaropacecars.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/2510094833/m/2330062215/p/2 Not sure if Mander used the parts on their own Super Hugger or they just used a stock photo for their ad suggesting what a custom built car could look like.By the way, that thread also has pictures and info on some very rare and unique Mod Topped Camaros. Someone named "Jon/1967Z28" posted a cool picture and some info on the Mod Topped 25th 1967 Z28 on pages 7 and 8 of this old thread. Jon Mello were these your contributions? If so, I never made the connection. LOL! The Check out the whole thing if you are intertested.


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The National Confectioners Association has declared February 19th as National Chocolate Mint Day.
Chocolate Mint is simply chocolate (milk, dark, or white) with mint flavoring added (peppermint, spearmint, or creme de menthe).
Now, you can call them chocolate mints or you can call them mint chocolates ~ I like to call them yummy! I am a huge fan of anything of the chocolate mint variety. I like York Peppermint Patties, Junior Mints, Chocolate Starlight Mints, Chocolate Mint Nougats, Andes Mints, and I love these little Chocolate Dutch Mints!
You've heard of a mint plant, but did you know that there is also a chocolate mint plant? It is a hybrid plant that actually smells like chocolate and mint. I'd love to have that growing in my yard!
Here are some mouth watering recipes from around the web for chocolate mint creations. I hope you'll give one of them a try.
- Chocolate Mint Ice Cream Pie
- Chocolate Mint Krinkles w/Mint Truffle Kisses
- Mint Oreo Brownies
- Layered Mint Candies
- Chocolate Mint Icebox Dessert
- Chocolate Mint Divinity
- Chocolate Mint Layer Bars
- Layered Mint Chocolate Fudge
- Chocolate Mint Pie
- Andes Chocolate Chip Cookies
Image: Chocolate Mint Parfait Originally uploaded by Daniel Y. Go


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Gig Harbor, Wash. — January 2012, Gig Harbor Wash — Beautiful Gig Harbor bay will be the location for the first annual Gig Harbor Paddlers Cup and Expo April 28th and 29th, 2012. The inaugural event will feature competitive paddle racing for kayaks, canoes and SUP (stand up paddle boards), to benefit the Gig Harbor Kayak Club and Surfrider Foundation.
The Gig Harbor Paddlers Cup will be based at Skansie Brothers Park and Jerisich Dock in the heart of historic downtown Gig Harbor with event races for all three categories taking place inside the harbor. Race schedule will be:
|Saturday April 28th
|10AM SUP Races begin
10:05AM Sea Kayak and Canoe Races begin
10:10AM Sprint Canoe and Kayak Races begin.
Time to be determined – Para Canoe Race
|Sunday April 29th
|9:00AM Sprint races begin, all categories
Time to be determined — Para Canoe Race
Each day the event will run throughout the day with vendors and booths set up in the park while the races are taking place. The Expo in the park is an opportunity to try out equipment, view new boats and learn more about paddling sports.
To see more information on the course for both the distance and sprint races visit the website at www.gigharborpaddlerscup.com
Registration is now available for both competitors and vendors on line at www.gigharborpaddlerscup.com
Special rates are available at Gig Harbor area hotels for participants. Rooms are limited so booking early is encouraged. http://gigharborpaddlercup.wordpress.com/lodging/
For additional information about the Gig Harbor Paddlers Cup please contact event organizer Missy Hill at (253) 230-3631 or Coach Alan Anderson (253) 208-6365.
Gig Harbor — Washington's Maritime Village. www.gigharborguide.com