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Last night's TNA show centered around who exactly would face world champion Jeff Jarrett for the title inside the steel cage. After a lengthy build up, Chris Harris defeated Raven to get his shot at Double-J inside the steel cage. It was not to be however, as an assault by Raven took him out, and the rest of the night was spent debating who would replace him.
The show kicks off with Monty Brown threatening to hunt you down if you steal cable.
The show kicked off with a great video package leading up to the big main event, inside a steel cage between NWA Champion Jeff Jarrett and Chris Harris and the tag match with Monty Brown & Abyss facing Sabu & Raven.
Match 1 - Monty Brown & Abyss vs. Raven and Sabu.
And speak of the devil, as the Alpha Male heads down to the ring to team with Abyss, Tenay immediately gets into whether or not they will get along. Abyss� mystery girl doesn�t go to the ring with the masked man. Raven was nowhere to be found as Sabu gets double-teamed. The crowd chants Sabu but it doesn�t help him not get beat up. This whole dynamic confuses me, Brown and Sabu are faces, and Abyss and Raven are heels, yet they are on opposite sides? Sabu finally takes advantage of a miscommunication with Brown and Abyss and introduces Abyss� head to a chair. Brown gets the same and a triple-jump moonsault for a two-count. Arabian facebuster on Abyss also gets two. Abyss and Brown come back and the falling torture rack by Abyss ended the match, no sign of Raven. Goodie, another recycled ECW feud.
Winners: Monty Brown and Abyss.
Speaking of Raven, camera cut to the back where he and Chris Harris were brawling. Raven worked on the left shoulder with chairs and the barricade, putting his title opportunity in doubt. Finally Storm came to the rescue.
Jeremy Borash subs for Scott Hudson (who was in a car accident earlier this week) and interviews X-division champion Frankie Kazarian. They talk about Sonjay Dutt vs. Amazing Red in a best of three matches to get a title shot. Frankie is apparently the king of hip, I can see that on a T-shirt as we speak. David Young rambles as well.
Match 2 - David Young vs. Sharkboy.
Sharkboy makes his long-awaited return to TNA. Screen-within-screen shows an ambulance arriving at the Asylum. The dull match features Tenay and West talking about the greatest losers of all time. Sharkboy teases a Deep-Sea Driver, Young fights back for a superplex, gets shoved off but Shark�s splash misses. I know it�s going to come as a shocker with the entire match focusing on Young�s losing streak, but Shark gets a small package for the win.
Winner: Sharkboy
3 Live Kru heads to the ring in fatigues. Konnan rants about people getting shots based on ass kissing instead of ability. Um, pot calling kettle black there buddy. B-Jizzle rants and says that Raven sucks in the ring. I swear these guys are cutting promos while looking in a mirror. Debate starts to rage about who gets into the cage instead of the Wildcat. 3LK demand that Killings gets the shot.
Harris, Russo and Storm are at the ambulance. A morose looking Harris with separated shoulder tells Russo �I�ve come this far, do one thing for me. Put Storm in the match.� Russo walks off.
Match 3 - Gilberti & Swinger vs. Siaki & Diamond.
Sorry but those names just don�t gel like �Simon and Swinger.� Diamond is not happy about his robe being shredded by his former partner. Siaki dominates Gilberti in the early moments, including hitting the CHART BUSTER!! Using his own former finisher! Swinger drags Glen out so Diamond brings his former partner in with a suplex and dominates. The two sides brawl on the arena floor Siaki pulls the steps away from the corner and uses them as a launching pad to clothesline Gilberti. Diamond & Siaki actually work pretty well together and have some good teamwork. The Italians come back and work over Diamond. Simon finally tags in Siaki who starts wrestling like The Rock, go figure. Siakilypse is broken up by Gilberti. Trinity shoves her former boy Siaki off the top and a double-underhook DDT gives Swinger the win. Desire makes her return after nearly a year and gets into it with Trinity. Desire and Siaki hug.
Winners: Gilberti & Swinger.
Jeremy Borash asks Vince Russo his decision. Russo asks for suggestions, and AJ Styles throws his name in the hat. The two air their dirty laundry, apparently Russo has been stalking Styles for six weeks.
A video package reviews the problems in the Franchise to promote Christopher Daniels vs. Michael Shane. Daniels� promo is simply awesome, pointing out a scar caused by Shane.
Match 4 � Winner joins Team TNA in the X-Cup - Michael Shane vs. Christopher Daniels
Match starts off fast and furious as expected from two guys of this caliber. Daniels ducks a slap and smacks Shane across the face. Douglas on commentary suggests that he could win the belt and throw it in the garbage again, in reference to him doing that exact thing with the NWA belt while in ECW in 1993. Things slow down as Shane takes over and locks Daniels in a abdominal stretch and assistance from Traci Brooks. Daniels gets a brief comeback before a belly-to-belly suplex swings the momentum back to Shane. The Fallen Angel finally rallies back with a t-bone suplex and a modified powerbomb for a close two count. Shane heads up top and sends Shane straddling the rope in a nasty drop. Douglas tries to rally Shane and pushes Shane out of the way, taking a split-legged moonsault instead. Shane shoves him out of the way as he goes after Daniels. Best Moonsault Ever only gets a two count. Douglas has a chain. A superkick takes Daniels head off for two. Daniels set up the last rites, Douglas hit him with the chain. Shane refused to take the pin with help and wound up for a superkick. Daniels side steps the kick and hits the STO for the win.
Winner: Christopher Daniels.
Lynn, Skipper & Sabin welcome Daniels to the team, and I have to welcome him too, because Daniels in the X-Cups = TNA gets my money. Daniels vs. Johnny Devine = Jason Clevett jumping up and down in joy.
Douglas and Shane argue and Shane slaps Shane (Guess which did which, hehe). Douglas starts disrobing and belts Michael ... literally. The whipping ensues until Shane hits a few rights, but the evil veteran pokes him in the eyes. Traci turns on Douglas and chokes him with the belt, allowing M. Shane to hit a superkick and end that relationship. Black shirts finally break it up.
The drama continues as Borash again asks a stressed Vince Russo who gets the shot in the cage. Abyss shows up with Goldylocks in a wig who, um, does the worst Spanish talk ever. Lets pretend that didn�t happen.
Recap of the Tag Title Situation in TNA
Match 5 - NWA Tag Team Titles - D-Lo Brown & Apollo (champions) vs. Kid Kash & Dallas (Challengers.)
Kash & Dallas were champions for all of a week, when Dallas cost them the belts via DQ. Apparently the title can change hands that way, which confused not only Dallas but half the viewership as well.
Kash & Dallas attack from behind but the champs come back. Apollo presses Kash and tosses him onto his partner, who catches him and sets him down. D-Lo flies, taking them out and then Apollo flies!!! Holy crap he�s huge too! The champs dominate Kash until he tags Dallas who matches up better to Apollo size wise. I can�t help but wonder if Dallas is Test with a dye job. Kash seems off tonight and is taking bumps badly, including a spinning uranage that takes out the referee. Dallas brings in the pipe, Apollo grabs it and surprise surprise, the referee catches them and again new tag champs.
Winners: By DQ and new tag champions: Kid Kash & Dallas.
It�s time! We need to know who gets the title shot! Raven comes in and Vince blows his top at him. There�s potentially 40 minutes left in the show for the cage. Depending on who it is this could be a great match. Raven argues his case, that if the goal is to take the belt off of Jarrett, Raven is the man to do it. �I am the lesser of two evils.� Russo makes his decision and shakes Raven�s hand making it evident it won�t be Raven.
X-Cup video promo for May 26. All the teams will be involved, 5 different matches ... including ULTIMATE X 3! The possibilities of what guys like Jack Evans, Teddy Hart, Jerry Lynn, Aguilla, Daniels, Johnny Devine, heck just about anyone on the teams in that match makes me salivate. That will be a must-see show.
Tenay and West continue to kill time while the cage is set up by running down matches for next week.
Interview with Jarrett. It�s been almost a year since Raven�s challenge to Jarrett was one of the most anticipated matches in TNA. No, I am not kidding -- the heat for that match was incredible, and it was a hell of a match. The match featured a run in with Sabu, Justin Credible and Perry Saturn. Amazing how things change in one year.
Video package of Jarrett�s run since defeating Styles on Oct 22, 2003, including footage of him attacking Hulk Hogan to set up that miserable failure, as well as footage of him in Mexico and Australia.
Match 6: No DQ Steel Cage NWA Championship Match == Jeff Jarrett vs. ??
Jarrett makes his entrance with no official word to the challenger. I start a �AJ� chant in my living room. It�s now 25 minutes till the end of possible air, so about 15 minutes for the match. Russo makes his entrance�and says that Chris Harris will get a title match when he is healthy. Raven is shown warming up, and things continue to get dragged out ... this is like American Idol where they keep making you go �for gods sake say it!� It�s not Storm, it�s not Abyss, and it�s not Truth despite the crowd chanting his name. Vince uses Raven�s real name of Scott Levy. Vince Russo has seen the light, which means that Vince Russo will not make a deal with the devil -- Raven -- so, after reaching down into his heart he announces ... AJ STYLES!!
The two wrestlers circle and try and get at each other right away before starting off with mat wrestling before having a shoving match. The crowd heat for the match is off the charts, with fans chanting Styles� name and �Jarrett sucks� throughout. Styles drops down, high leapfrog and connects with a dropkick, everything Styles does gets a huge pop from the rabid Asylum crowd. The cage didn�t play into the match until Styles attempted his springboard moonsault and was caught and driven headfirst into the cage, followed by being rammed into the cage twice more. A superplex attempt is blocked but Styles misses a top rope dropkick and Jarrett locks on a sharpshooter. Why not, it worked for the defending champion on Sunday. Styles does a unique reversal, rolling it over and applying one himself, but neither wrestler really applied it well. Jarrett didn�t catch Styles properly during a second attempt at the moonsault DDT, so Styles pulled him up and then dropped him. Jarrett ducked a discus lariat, allowing Jarrett to toss powder in his eyes and hit a backslide for a two. While the referee is checking on Styles Jarrett pulls a chain out of his boots and nails Styles for another two. AJ elbows out of the stroke but is booted and set up for his own finisher, the Styles Clash. AJ reverses into a hurricanrana and rolls back into his own Styles clash as the crowd explodes and counts one ... two... and Jarrett�s shoulder shoots up. AJ climbed to the top of the cage but Jarrett shoved the referee into the cage, causing the entire audience to groan as Styles fell on to the top and hung by his arms before flying back to earth by Jarrett running into the cage. The crowd chants �Holy S***� and rightfully so.
There has to be a winner so the cage is unlocked and Jarrett drags Styles and his guitar into the cage. Vince Russo us outside the cage trying to climb in and prevent Jarrett from using the guitar. Jarrett swings and Styles nails a enziguri to the guitar and shatters it. Jarrett looks stunned, swings the remains and is trapped in a crucifix for the three count!
Winner: And NEW NWA Champion: AJ Styles.
The crowd goes insane as Styles becomes a two-time NWA champion. Russo offers his hand outside the ring, Styles slaps it away and hugs Russo as Raven looks on in disgust to end the show.
Fans will be critical of the win, wondering if it is just an attempt to placate Styles and fans for pulling him and other talent off of Ring of Honor shows. Regardless, Styles� first run as champion was tainted by constant interference despite him having some great matches. Hopefully this run as a face will result in more fantastic matches, and better booking for him as champion.
Jason Clevett is from Calgary, Alberta and a huge AJ Styles fan. He spent last night partying on 17th Avenue and whooping up Styles� championship win with thousands of other fans.


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srp6977 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 18 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
We are rolling out a new product and have come up with a name and an acronym and now need to start building a logo.
T.A.G. Target-Automate-Grow
We are a full service printer and marketing agency. We specialize in direct mail and online print collateral web portals.
We are launching a new product called TAG-Target-Automate-Grow.
How the program works:
We go to companies and provide their sales force with a targeted and automated system that allows them to quickly and easily connect with their prospects.
By creating a web portal where the sales rep can go and input a prospect that they recently met with it will automatically trigger a pre-set direct mail campaign to that specific prospect. it insures that the prospect is being "touched" with that companies information as much as possible during the initial sales process.
Here is a blurb from one of the brochures we are putting together:
Making sales calls demands a lot of expense and time – averaging $392 per call and 5.1 calls to close a sale, according to a study by Reed Business Information. Our TAG program is designed to help you and your sales force shortcut the expense and time of in-person visits, while making the personal, consistent communication sales prospecting requires.
TAG is a system of 10 touches over 10 weeks, targeting an individual or group. During the 10 weeks, eight eye-catching postcards and two personal phone calls will keep you top of mind and build lasting recognition as the professional of choice.
Compared with other marketing techniques, TAG stands out for its incredible return on investment (ROI) and ability to target specific individuals. TAG creates personal contact with the specific prospects you know you need to touch, something mass advertising can't offer.
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- no computer clip art
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Firstly find out what you have done wrong on your website. Google does not like spamming, cloaking, link building and similar "not so good" tactics.
But what to you do when your site has been penalized or banned from Google. The only thing you need and can do is to clean up your web-site, go to Google and ask for mercy. Thats it!


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Download the authoritative guide: Cloud Computing 2019: Using the Cloud for Competitive Advantage
Last week, Broadcom introduced its first single-chip 802.11n solution, the Intensi-fi BCM4322, which uses 65-nanometer process technology to minimize both the chips size and its power consumption. The BCM4322 combines the MAC, baseband, power amplifiers and radios on a single die.
The companys previous-generation 802.11n product was a two-chip solution using 130-nanometer and 180-nanometer technology, notes Broadcom senior product line manager Kevin Mukai so the shift to 65-nanometer tech is significant. What were able to do with this solution is cut our bill of materials and the actual real estate footprint by almost half, he says.
Looking at the needs of the market for 802.11n, Mukai says, size matters for everything from smaller laptops to smaller USB dongles to PCI Express Mini Cards. Going to this small size allows vendors and customers to pack more wireless technologies into a platform, he says.
Still, its about a lot more than just size. On the new chip, Mukai says, power consumption is cut in half from the companys previous 802.11n offering along with a 40 percent cost savings.
Mukai says the most tangible result of all of this is likely to be more widespread use of 802.11n for home entertainment applications like music and video streaming. Need some examples? With a throughput of more than 200 Mbps, the company says, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest on HD can be transferred in 3.5 minutes over 802.11n, as opposed to 47 minutes over 802.11g and Bob Dylans entire collection of 414 MP3s would take 36 seconds over 802.11n, compared to 35 minutes over 802.11b.
The cost and the form factor really start making 11n viable for the consumer electronics space, Mukai says. The primary driver of that is distribution of media for instance, high definition content, video and music throughout the home. Thats been one of the promises of 11n itself, and driving the cost down will allow us to actually start servicing those types of applications in a major way. Its been out there for a while in a nascent way, but with the 4322, we can really start to enable that market.
ABI Research agrees a recent report from the research firm entitled Wi-Fi in Consumer Electronics predicts that 15.4 million 802.11n-enabled consumer devices will ship next year, an increase of nearly 500 percent over this years total of 3.2 million. Single-chip 802.11n solutions are critical to enabling 802.11n consumer electronics devices for the home, says ABI analyst Philip Solis.
And with the Wi-Fi Alliance getting behind Draft N products with a certification program and a corresponding logo, Mukai says, any concerns about standardization have been allayed.
In fact, Mukai says the Wi-Fi Alliance certification attracted a whole new market of corporate users to 802.11n over the past few months. Enterprises have really started to see the need, and have started to shift a lot of their products to adopt an 11n strategy its truly been a galvanizing force in the industry, he says.
Still, Mukai says the real strength of the new chipset comes back to the consumer electronics space, for everything from televisions to set-top boxes to camcorders. One of the key reasons we developed this technology was to enable the wireless ecosystem in the home Thats a key application for this technology and for this product, he says.
The BCM4322 is sampling now, with production quantities expected to ship in Q1 2008.
This article was first published on WiFiPlanet.com.
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Applications these days are constantly moving and migrating to the Web for one very simple reason -- the Web is a widely accepted platform and easily accessible to almost anyone. This is why Web applications are some of the most significant ways to promote content across wide audiences.
Web application design at its core focuses on the functionality of the Web application that you want to make. It needs to be simple and must offer an intuitive and responsive layout. Here are some techniques you can employ for an app. If all these requirements are met, then you'll end up with a good Web application interface.
Interface Elements:
Simplicity is the key. The more content or buttons you show to your users, the more time he or she will spend in learning what each button does, and how it relates to what they want. To avoid this, start with a few basic buttons -- it's more effective.
Nowadays you can have the functionality to give your users the freedom to determine whether they are basic or advanced users. You can walk basic users through everything, while advanced users have the option to just decide what works for them.
Special Controls or Widgets:
Special controls are widgets such as calendar, date picker, automatic form fill, sign in using Facebook etc. They are there to speed up the process for the user and for them to get to the good part right away, which is your actual content. This is not only efficient for the user though, but even for you as the content creator, since you will have everything organized in one place.
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Embedded Video:
While pictures and text are great ways to communicate with your users, videos and screencasts just move you up one notch. They allow your users to sit back and learn what you have to offer. This will not only answer most of their questions, but will also allow you to express easily what you are offering.
Existing APIs:
As the competition rises, so does the library of resources out there. Using existing APIs in your Web application will save you both money and time in development. Existing APIs that have been tested provide a clear picture of how everything is working. It's a very easy way to enter the market without having to start everything from scratch.
Remember to focus on your interface elements, be consistent in your designs, use email clients, try to make used of embedded videos or screencasts, and last but not the least, use APIs. Apply these techniques and you'll see the difference soon enough.


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DRT told to pack up possessions at Alamo
One of the oldest and largest chapters of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas was told recently to remove its furniture and other privately owned items from the Alamo grounds, concluding a tumultuous year for the group that included losing custodianship of the state-owned shrine and accusations of failures, oversights and improprieties.
The Texas General Land Office, after a yearlong inventory, determined the DRT's Alamo Mission Chapter "could no longer store private belongings on state property, or continue to enjoy free, exclusive, long-term use of state property for private chapter business."
"This was a benefit not available to any other DRT chapter or private organization," the Land Office said Friday in a release.
The move from Alamo Hall comes on the heels of a troubled year for the DRT that saw the Land Office fully assume custodianship of the shrine under a 2011 state law.
And last month, the Texas attorney general's office released a scathing report that accused the DRT of numerous oversights and improprieties, including misappropriation of state funds and failure to preserve the shrine's mission-era structures.
The chapter also came under scrutiny last month when San Antonio police investigated a reported theft of a copy of the Texas Declaration of Independence from the chapter's office in Alamo Hall.
Although a police report said the locks of a filing cabinet the document had been stored in were "tampered with," police said they could not determine whether a crime had occurred.
Chapter President Sharon Skrobarcek said the Land Office told her the order to relocate "had to do with the attorney general's report." The Land Office release, however, didn't mention the report.
"The decision to draw a clear line between state and chapter property is in no way a reflection of any ill will or lack of appreciation for (the DRT's) long service to the Alamo and the people of Texas," the release stated.
The 106-year-old chapter recently removed chandeliers, crystal sconces, drapes and other furniture and décor from Alamo Hall, a building on the grounds, and will "pack up our office and the kitchen" after New Year's, Skrobarcek told members.
"We will begin meeting to decide where we will set up for now and how we will approach the future," she wrote in an email.
Other items that the chapter stored in the hall — a former 1922 city fire station — include a baby grand piano and a painting of Clara Driscoll, one of the chapter's founders.
The Land Office also has said the DRT must reduce costs for the DRT Library at the Alamo, or begin paying the state to store items there that belong to the Daughters.
The chapter was planning to remove its items from Alamo Hall, which will serve as a temporary gift shop while the Alamo Sales Museum is renovated in January as a private vendor, Event Network, takes over operations.
However, the Land Office asked the Daughters "to permanently move from Alamo Hall," Skrobarcek wrote. In her email, sent Thursday, Skrobarcek assured members that the chapter "will continue and prevail."
"While this is a sad time for us, please remember who we are! We have a purpose, history, dedication and love of our grand state," she wrote.
The chapter has an agreement "to remove all chapter property from state grounds through an orderly and organized transition," the Land Office said.
Since the DRT provides daily operations of the Alamo complex, the chapter and others in the DRT still can use the hall for meetings at no charge. The Land Office, which pays the DRT $10,000 per month to run the site, has said it will likely renew its operations contract with the DRT next year, possibly for a five-year period.
Tammie Smith, a former member of the DRT's statewide board, said the well-funded chapter, with some 500 members, had the power to call on DRT leaders to address issues of structural preservation, financial management and self-governance.
She said the order to relocate its belongings is a price the chapter is paying for not listening to members' concerns.
"I'm sad that it happened, but I fully expected it," Smith said. "It's a shame it came to this."
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Anyway, that was yesterday. Today I did the Coastal Trail Runs Montara State Park Half-Marathon. The route is all up and down: from San Pedro Valley Park we set off on a semi-loop, semi-out-and-back up to North Peak, then back to the start area for the "10 km" loop to the east.
The official course profile is here:
Here's my Strava data. Interestingly, shortly after beginning my descent from the North Peak the altitude froze in the mid-400 meter range. The Edge 500 relies on an air pressure sensor getting access to the ambient air, and if the holes, which are on the back of the unit get plugged with water, then the pressure gets stuck at what it was when the holes got plugged. Most of the run was in cool rain, and I was fairly wet. I had the Edge strapped onto my sleeve with a Forerunner wrist strap. This works nicely, but the plastic strap combined with the 2-ounce computer is uncomfortable on my skin, so I like to strap it around long sleeves if I'm wearing them. The wet clothing likely plugged the air holes.
Garmin Edge 500 air holes, courtesy of DC Rainmaker
The run went well, considering how little training I've been doing. No acute pain, just fatigue. My biggest problem was descending from the North Peak, where the wet, rocky trail caused me to become very conservative about my footing with my light New Balance trail running shoes and a generally low level of confidence in my agility. In places I walked slower downhill than I'd climbed uphill earlier.
But even on the gentle, nontechnical downhills of the 10 km loop I was too slow. Toward the end of the race I passed Cara, who was hiking the 10 km event. She said I wasn't gliding like the fast runners, instead braking with each foot stroke. This is normally considered an issue with heel striking, but I try to keep my foot from getting ahead of my body, so don't think that's my problem. Rather I may simply be slamming my foot into the ground too hard. I don't know: I just need to practice more. Today was my first extended downhill running in a year.
The uphills I find easier. I don't really run them but rather do more of a power-walk. This seems to work really well. While guys like Gary Gellin or Leor Pantalot make me look like I'm standing still, I'm still competitive in these events on the climbs.
Cara, by the way, had a really good day. Her report is here. A few blisters but otherwise she did great given she's coming back from back and knee problems. We both agreed on the rainy day Coastal Trail Runs had gotten us outside when otherwise we'd have been huddling indoors waiting for the rain to subside.


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For the second time in four nights, the Revs see a two-goal lead slip away as the Crew escapes Gillette Stadium with a valuable point | Highlights >> | Postgame >> | RevsWrap >>
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Pat Phelan and Shalrie Joseph both scored their second goals of the season to stake the New England Revolution a 2-0 lead, but second-half goals from Steven Lenhart and Guillermo Barros Schelotto pulled the visitors level as the Revs and Columbus Crew battled to a 2-2 draw on Saturday night at Gillette Stadium.
It was the second straight game in which the Revs (7-14-5, 26 pts.) saw a two-goal lead slip away in the second half, as FC Dallas similarly erased a 2-0 deficit on Wednesday night at Pizza Hut Park en route to a 2-2 draw. The draw did keep the Revolution mathematically alive in the postseason race, while it also prevented Columbus (13-7-6, 45 pts.) from clinching a playoff spot until at least next weekend.
Phelan scored the Revolution's earliest goal of the season in the second minute to give the hosts an instant lead, while Joseph converted New England's first penalty kick of 2010 in the 56th minute to make it 2-0. Lenhart bundled home a header in the 62nd minute to cut the deficit in half, however, and Schelotto slotted home a penalty kick in the 80th minute to provide the final score line.
There was one change to the Revolution side which took the field Wednesday night in Dallas, as Chris Tierney (L knee soreness) was a late scratch from the starting lineup, meaning Seth Sinovic took over at left back.
Joseph gave the Revs a fifth-minute lead in that midweek draw in Dallas, but Phelan one-upped the captain by putting the hosts ahead in the second minute on Saturday night. Marko Perovic was the provider, delivering a curling free kick from the left wing toward the near post. Phelan eluded his marker and cut across the box before sliding into an acrobatic finish with the outside of his right foot.
Columbus responded well and almost leveled the score in the seventh minute when Eddie Gaven burst into right side of the box, but the Crew midfielder dragged his shot wide of the left post. Gaven was involved again 10 minutes later when he delivered a left-wing cross for Lenhart, but the powerful forward's first-time shot was straight at Revolution goalkeeper Matt Reis.
Kenny Mansally had a pair of half-chances at the other end of the field in the 30th and 31st minutes as the Revs began to work themselves back into the game, but both of his long-distance shots bounced wide without troubling Crew goalkeeper William Hesmer.
The Crew went close again in the 41st minute when Phelan accidentally sent a glancing header toward his own goal from Schelotto's free kick, but Reis was alert and made a fantastic leaping save to tip the ball over the bar and maintain the Revolution's 1-0 advantage into the halftime break.
It didn't take long for New England to double its lead after the interval, as Joseph buried the Revolution's first penalty kick of the season to make it 2-0 in the 56th minute. Ilija Stolica drew the foul when he was chopped down by Andy Iro following a scramble in the box, and Joseph made no mistake from the spot as he drilled his effort into the upper left corner.
Columbus responded to cut the deficit in half just six minutes later, however, when Lenhart and Cory Gibbs challenged for Shaun Francis' bouncing left-wing cross at the near post. Lenhart provided the decisive touch with an opportunistic header as the ball beat Reis inside the near post.
Schelotto then made it 2-2 in the 80th minute with his team-leading eighth goal of the season, converting from the spot after Joseph was adjudged to have handled the ball in the box. The Argentine stepped up and drilled his effort into the right side of the net as Reis dove the wrong way.
After knotting the score, the Crew fell into a defensive shell in hopes of securing a valuable point on the road. When Perovic's long-distance free kick in the 89th minute sailed harmlessly over the bar, the visitors did just that as they left Gillette Stadium with at least one point for the fifth straight time.
The Revs will return to action on Saturday, Oct. 2, when they'll host defending MLS Cup champion Real Salt Lake. Kickoff from Gillette Stadium is set for 7:30 p.m.
New England Revolution (7-14-5 26 pts.) vs. Columbus Crew (13-7-6 45 pts.)
September 25, 2010 – Gillette Stadium (Foxborough, Mass.)
Scoring Summary:
NE – Pat Phelan (Marko Perovic) 2
NE – Shalrie Joseph (penalty kick) 56
CLB – Steven Lenhart (Shaun Francis) 62
CLB – Guillermo Barros Schelotto (penalty kick) 80
New England: Matt Reis (GK), Seth Sinovic (Zack Schilawski86), Darrius Barnes, Cory Gibbs, Kevin Alston (Emmanuel Osei 34), Kenny Mansally, Pat Phelan, Shalrie Joseph ©, Sainey Nyassi, Marko Perovic, Ilija Stolica (Khano Smith 70)
Substitutes Not Used: Bobby Shuttleworth, Kheli Dube, Jason Griffiths, Seth Sinovic
STATS: Shots 11; Shots on Goal 5; Saves 4; Fouls 11; Corners 1; Offsides 2
Columbus: William Hesmer, Frankie Hejduk©, Eric Brunner, Andy Iro, Shaun Francis, Brian Carroll, Kevin Burns, Eddie Gaven, Emmanuel Ekpo (Andres Mendoza 73), Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Steven Lenhart (Adam Moffat 87)
Substitutes Not Used: Andy Gruenebaum, Duncan Oughton, Jason Garey, Dilly Duka, Leandre Griffit,
STATS: Shots 12; Shots on Goal 5; Saves 3; Fouls 20; Corners 5; Offsides 1
Misconduct Summary:
NE- Marko Perovic (caution) 37
CLB – William Hesmer (caution) 56
CLB – Shaun Francis (caution) 72
CLB – Kevin Burns (caution) 88
NE – Pat Phelan (caution) 94+
Referee: Paul Ward
Assistant Referees: Cameron Blair, James Conlee
Fourth Official: Jorge Gonzalez
Weather: Partly Cloudy and 74 degrees
Attendance: 13,533


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I was thinking about what would make the list, and I couldn't come up with a complete list of topics, and two of those topics -- sorting and searching -- are a kind of black magic. Quicksort is a marvelously simple algorithm, but it's so easy to get wrong that the standard approach is to use a library implementation, or, in a worst case scenario, copy code out of a good textbook (ideally Knuth). Writing a
quicksort function from memory is almost certainly a way to introduce bugs into a program. Searching a sorted binary tree is less error prone, but still one of those algorithms that's best to reuse or copy instead of writing from memory.
Why is this? Why are there fundamental ideas in computing that are best reused from a library or copied out of a textbook?
I'm not a chemist, nor am I a physicist, but I still remember a great deal from my high school chemistry and physics classes. Certain parts of the periodic table are deeply imprinted in my brain, as are Newton's laws of motion (and the calculus that relates position to velocity to acceleration). Yet there is something so complicated about quicksort and binary search that it's best not to write it down on a cocktail napkin.
Something is wrong here. The basic ideas in a profession should be so, um, basic that any professional should be able to recite them from memory on demand.
The problem isn't so much that these ideas are so arcane that they should come from a textbook whenever they are used. The problem is that our expression of these simple ideas is overly complex.
Here is a simple expression of C.A.R. Hoare's quicksort that's simple and easy to understand (optimized for clarity):
Or, optimized for terseness:qsort [] = []
qsort (x:xs) = (qsort lesser) ++ [x] ++ (qsort greater)
lesser = filter (< x) xs
greater = filter (>= x) xs
The problem with quicksort isn't that it's a fundamentally difficult algorithm to understand. As expressed here, the algorithm is quite simple (and fits on a cocktail napkin). As it is typically expressed in a language like C, it is optimized to have an additional property: it sorts the array in place. The typical Haskell version doesn't offer this property, but at least it highlights the algorithm, not the mechanics needed to support the typical optimization.qsort [] = []
qsort (x:xs) = qsort [y | y <- xs, y < x]
++ [x]
++ qsort [y | y <- xs, y >= x]
For more details, see the discussion on the Haskell wiki, which includes a canonical implementation in C for comparison.
Another classic algorithm is a search within a sorted binary tree. Binary trees are another foundation in computing that are frequently more complicated than they should be. Here is a definition that is simple, obvious and easy to remember:
That is, a tree is a node with a value and two sub-trees, or it is an empty node. Let's assume that the contents of a tree are always in sorted order. That is, the left subtree contains nodes that are strictly smaller than the current node, and the right subtree contains nodes that are strictly greater than (or equal to) the current node.
data Tree a = Empty | Node (Tree a) a (Tree a)
Performing a binary search on this structure should be simple, and it is:
A quick google turned up a gem from Ralf Hinze: Functional Pearl: A fresh look at binary search trees (JFP, November 2002). Ralf's paper also discusses the other necessary algorithms for dealing with binary trees: insertion, deletion, and balancing.bsearch _ Empty = False
bsearch p (Node l a r)
| p < a = bsearch p l
| p == a = True
| p > a = bsearch p r
Snippets like this are one of the reasons why I like Haskell so much. As I was driving around today, I wondered how I would write a binary search, when I visualized these two snippets of Haskell pretty much as you see them here. This is certainly something I would never do if I were still thinking in C, because the pointer manipulation and memory management issues obscure the intent behind a binary search as to render it unrecognizable.
Now I'm wondering how many fundamental, yet "complex and error prone" concepts can be expressed with a screenful of Haskell.


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So the local money league I commission had our draft last night. I'm the defending champion and ended up drawing the #3 pick this year. Here's what I ended up with. Looks like I'm well on my way to a repeat.
QB: Donovan McNabb (rd. 4), Trent Edwards (rd. 10)
RB: Maurice Jones-Drew (rd. 1), Pierre Thomas (rd. 3), Knowshon Moreno (rd. 6), Donald Brown (rd. 9), Julius Jones (rd. 13)
WR: Andre Johnson (rd. 2), T.J. Houshmandzadeh (rd. 5), Braylon Edwards (rd. 8 ), Lance Moore (rd. 12)
TE: Tony Gonzalez (rd. 7), Dustin Keller (rd. 11)
PK: Nate Keading (rd. 15)
DE: Tennessee (rd. 14)


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American History Lecture Seven
We will have our midterm exam next week, which covers everything through Reconstruction. That means Lectures One through Six. Our multiple choice exam will consist of 15 questions.
There are three ingredients to success on any exam:
- how much time you spend studying (rather than, for example, wasting time on unproductive activities like television)
- how effective your method of studying is
- how effective your test-taking techniques are during the exam itself (see, for example, the techniques mentioned earlier in this course)
Master all three aspects of exam preparation listed above and you will maximize your score. For some, that will mean scoring at the top of our class; for others, it will mean improving what your score would have been otherwise.
View an exam as a fun challenge, like participating in a contest. Your performance in the race or game depends on your time spent preparing, how effectively you prepared, and how effectively you tried during the contest itself.
If this were a sporting event, then everyone would recognize and honor the winners, just as we do in the Olympics, the World Series, and the Super Bowl. We will also honor the winners (top scorers) with special recognition. At the end of our course we will also recognize the most improved students. This friendly competition is intended to bring out the best in everyone, and motivate all to do better than we might otherwise.
Do not think it is impossible to know every event in the list at the end of this Lecture; we will likely see top scorers on next week's exam who are able to learn nearly every event.
Success in life is due almost entirely to "perspiration" (work) rather than inborn traits like IQ. Be one of the students who wins recognition for scoring among the highest in the class.
Midterm Exam
Because several students will probably take the CLEP exam, and because it is the best of the College Board exams, we will follow its format. The CLEP exam divides American history into two periods. The first CLEP American History exam covers through Reconstruction (Lectures One through Six), just like our midterm exam. Our midterm exam will follow the CLEP's subject matter breakdown for questions:
- 35% of questions are on politics, such as the President, Congress and government policy
- 25% on social developments, such as slavery, Utopian communities, religious and reform movements
- 15% on intellectual and cultural developments, such as books and inventions
- 15% on foreign policy, such as foreign wars, treaties and diplomacy
- 10% on economics, such as inflation, taxes, and protective tariffs
In terms of the time period, only 30% of the first CLEP exam (through Reconstruction) is devoted to the beginning of time to 1789. So do not start with that period and burn out before you study the period of 1790 to 1877, where 70% of the questions are from. Do not waste too much time studying exploration, settlement and colonial America! Perhaps only 10% of the CLEP exam (and our exam) will cover that period. Students often make a big mistake in preparation by not allocating their study time properly. Avoid that mistake and spend your study time wisely.
Preparation and Test-Taking Tips
"Time is money" is a famous, and true, saying. The time you spend not making money could have been better spent making money. Wasted time is lost opportunity to make money, or do something else useful, such as charity or prayer. Also, wasted time is often less enjoyable than time spent working on something you believe in.
A concept similar to "time is money" applies to studying for exams. You will spend a certain amount of time preparing for the midterm exam. Call that total amount of time "x". How you allocate that time to different areas of the overall time period (1500-1877) will make a difference on how well you do on the exam. If you spend 90% of "x" on the period between 1500 and 1700, then you will do poorly on 90% of the questions, because they will be from the period 1700 to 1877. You would have done far better to spend the 90% of "x" on the time period that will have 90% of the questions.
How hard you try while taking the exam will also count towards your score. It helps immensely to identify the time period of a history question before trying to answer it. In doing this, it helps to know which presidents served when. You can memorize a list of presidents if you prefer.[1] Or maybe you can figure it out from what you learned in the lectures. Test yourself: who was president in 1842?[2] Who was the president in 1826?[3]
There will be a political cartoon on the exam. Realize that cartoons are a way for someone to describe facts with a point of view, in order to make a political statement. The cartoonist uses caricatures and draws situations in order to express a point of view. The key to deciphering cartoons is to pay close attention to detail, to pick up all the clues.
Many students make the mistake of answering a cartoon question too quickly. A cartoon is a mystery, like an unsolved crime. As soon as a cop arrives on a crime scene, he does not jump to a conclusion about who committed the crime. He gathers all the evidence. He considers possibilities. He wants an explanation that fits all the facts. He looks for a motive. Approach cartoons the same way.
More generally, look for a purpose to every question. Develop a sense or "ear" for historical purpose in these exams. Prefer an answer choice that adds historical meaning and purpose to a question.
Often there are maps to read on history exams, and here is a tip for them: before the Civil War there was no West Virginia. If you see West Virginia on a map, then it was after the Civil War started.
Above all, understand a question before trying to answer it!
Tip on Organizing the Material
We have covered a great deal of material spanning hundreds of years. We need to try to organize all these facts in our minds somehow. Develop a frame of reference to do this. You can choose whatever frame of reference you like. For me, my frame of reference in remembering each president is to think about how conservative he was. Every few decades we have a conservative president:
1788 – George Washington
1816 – James Monroe
1884 – Grover Cleveland (a conservative Democrat who was pro-gold, anti-union, and anti-government-spending)
1920 – Warren Harding
1980 – Ronald Reagan
Then I fill in the other presidents in between, with reasons why they were not so conservative.
For example, Thomas Jefferson was not particularly conservative because he was slightly opposed to religion in government; unsuccessfully fought the Tripoli War; continued some of Alexander Hamilton's big government programs (like a national bank); and imposed the Embargo Act against trade with Europe. You may find this approach helpful in organizing and remembering all of American History since George Washington. Or perhaps you have your own approach for keeping the presidents straight, and organizing historical events. The point is to find something that works for you, and then use it to master the material.
A key part of success on an exam -- and in life -- is learning how to motivate yourself. The top scores on the midterm exam will probably not be by students who like history the most. It will likely be by students who motivate themselves the most in order to succeed.
We saw an example of motivation in connection with the original Jamestown settlement in 1607. At first, nobody wanted to work, and the settlement was failing. Grown men were spending the afternoons playing games of bowling rather than working.
Then John Smith arrived, and he had a simple means of motivation: those who do not work, do not eat. Do you think people started working then? Of course. And they were much happier and healthier for it.
Sometimes adults still use that motivation of putting off meals until work is finished. There are also other effective motivational techniques. Take something you enjoy, such as watching a sports game, and deprive yourself of it until you finish your work first. You will enjoy the game better that way. Set goals, and then strive to achieve them.
Key Terms Through Reconstruction
Listed below are the key terms for the first half of American history (through Reconstruction). The highlighted terms are the most important, and the ones for students to focus on first.
Any of these terms may appear on the exams in this course. Several of our students are already planning to take the CLEP exam, and anyone doing that should know as many of these terms as possible.
This list is not as daunting as it appears. Homeschoolers who win the spelling bees memorize the entire dictionary, which is tens of thousands of words. This list is only about 321 terms. A homeschooler like Abraham Lincoln or Thomas Edison would diligently memorize and know the meaning of all the terms on this list, not because they are smarter, but because they believed in trying their best. You can try your best -- everyone can -- and you can find lots of time for this that is otherwise wasted.
The list below can be used effectively to quiz yourself. Pick out any term, and try to identify its time period and who was President. Does the term refer to foreign policy (e.g., dealings with a foreign country) or domestic policy (e.g., an issue internal to the United States)? Even if you don't recall immediately the meaning of the term, try to figure it out based on what you do know.
Quizzing yourself in this manner will both improve your test-taking skills, and identify for yourself what you need to study more.
As in baseball and in sales in business, simply try to improve your percentages. If you know only 10% of the terms below, try to improve that to 40%. If you know 50%, then try to improve that to 75%. If you know 70%, then strive for 90%. Just as a batter in baseball should not be discouraged by failing 2 out of 3 times at bat, you should not be discouraged by low initial percentages on this key term list. Try to improve your percentages. With effort, you'll amaze yourself at how much better you can become. Your classmates will be working hard on this, and do not let them pass you up!
One approach to improving your knowledge of these key terms is to type or write out short descriptions of each one. There are only 321 terms. If you took 2 minutes for each one that you did not know, then it would take you only 1 hour to complete 30. In one day you could cover nearly the entire list, and you would not likely forget them for a long, long time. Typing or writing out the meaning of something in one's own words has the effect of really burning it into one's memory. I still recall lines from Shakespeare that I wrote out by hand when I was in the eighth grade! You can use the term list description handout to help you.
Our first through sixth Lectures should have covered all of of the following terms, except the Lectures did overlook the Newburgh Conspiracy (or Address). That was a plot among officers of the Continental Army (the colonial Patriots fighting in the Revolutionary War) to hold a military coup and establish martial law in order to obtain back pay that was owed to them by Congress for their military service. The plot came to a climax when they angrily met on March 15, 1783, and were surprised by an unexpected appearance by George Washington. He gave a short speech, but the officers were still still angry, and lacking in the respect that they usually gave to their esteemed leader. Washington then pulled a letter from his pocket from a member of the Second Continental Congress. But Washington was unable to read the letter without his reading glasses, and in a miraculous moment of powerful emotion, he declared, "Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country." Many of the officers were suddenly moved to tears in the realization that Washington, like themselves, had sacrificed much for the country. Washington then read the letter from Congress, and the officers subsequently abided by Congress's own timetable for paying them.
The Newburgh Conspiracy is a good story. In addition to enjoying a story in history, also recognize its historical significance. Why is this particular story important in the history in our nation? Because this event confirmed civilian authority over the military. Congress, a civilian authority, decides if and when to pay the soldiers. The soldiers have the guns, but they must submit to the civilian authority of Congress.
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|Thomas Paine/Common Sense
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|Women's Rights/Seneca Falls
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|Declaration of Independence
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|Liberty Party
|St. Augustine, Florida
|Northwest Ordinance of 1787
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|Sir Humphrey Gilbert
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Zombie Neurology: Diagnosing the Walking Dead
Zombies are among the most gruesome of Halloween monsters. But what's going on inside their brain? Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and author of "The Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse" Dr. Steve Schlozman joins the News Hub. Photo: AP.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Former Chinley pathfinder Bob Stoodley will be honoured with a medal for his involvement in the D-Day landings during a ceremony in Normandy today (Friday).
The 90-year-old, who was one of the first soldiers to land on the French coast on June 6, 1944, will be presented with the Legion of Honour, the highest decoration in France.
The war veteran and his wife, Joyce, will be attending a memorial at the site of the landings to mark the 70th anniversary, as well as visiting the museum and meeting the prime minister and Prince of Wales.
On that fateful night, Bob, who represented the 22nd Independent Pathfinder Company of the 6th British Airborne Division, was tasked with parachuting in to set up beacons to guide in the aircraft transporting the paratroopers.
He said: "That night our radar brought in a third of the parachute landings, 2,000 soldiers. Altogether 6,000 landed that night and 2,000 the following day."
Together with his friend Paddy O'Sullivan, he was among the first Allied soldiers to land.
"We ran into trouble almost straight away," recalled Bob, of Maynestone Road. "I was wounded and I was a prisoner in a German hospital."
Until the end of the war Bob remained at the Stalag 4B medical unit before he was eventually liberated by Russian forces and returned to England.
He regularly returns to Normandy to remember and pay his respects at the graves of his comrades, including Paddy who was killed in the village of Touffreville not far from the company's landing zone.
"He was a good mate," said Bob. "Out of the 60 of us we lost 11 on that night."
After the war, he became a mechanical engineer and a successful businessman.
Bob also found time to be involved in two expeditions to Everest in 1973 and 1975.


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Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman announced the Bush administration is providing 200,000 metric tons of wheat to Iraq with another 400,000 metric tons to be made available as needed.
The initial offering will come from the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust. A portion of the wheat will be exchanged for rice so that a combination of grains will be available to feed the Iraqi people.
"President Bush has assured the people of Iraq that they will have the food and medicine they need," Veneman said. "Today's action is part of a closely coordinated U.S. effort to prepare for the humanitarian consequences of conflict and to ensure that the Iraqi people have the help they need to attain freedom and prosperity in a liberated nation."
"The United States is committed to ensuring that there is minimal disruption to the Iraqi food distribution system," said Andrew S. Natsios, Agency for International Development administrator. "Today's donation will go a long way to ensuring that the people of Iraq continue to have access to food."
The first shipment of wheat was expected to begin moving in late March, and more wheat and rice will follow over the next several weeks, said Veneman.
USA Rice Federation representatives said the exact tonnage of rice is unknown, "due to the somewhat complex method to be used by the U.S. government to procure it. However, the time frame reportedly will be as fast as possible with tenders going out from USDA's Kansas City office as early as Friday, March 21."
They said a portion of the initial 200,000 tons of wheat will be sold in the United States and the proceeds used to buy rice, which will then be shipped to Iraq. A portion of the subsequent 400,000 tons of wheat will also be sold and swapped for rice, they said.
"We are gratified that the U.S. rice industry can help the people of Iraq during this difficult period," said John Mentis, the USA Rice Federation's vice president of domestic and international promotion. "And we appreciate that the Bush administration has recognized the validity of our arguments that rice is a perfect for food aid wherever there is a need."
The commodities will be provided through P.L. 480, Title II, the U.S. government's major humanitarian food aid program administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development. AID has pre-positioned water, blankets, shelters, medical kits and other relief supplies to be sent to Iraq.
The United States is working in close partnership with international institutions and other nations as well as private voluntary organizations to ensure the rapid delivery of humanitarian relief for Iraq.
The Emerson Trust, named for the late congressman from the Missouri Bootheel, is an emergency reserve administered under the authority of the secretary of agriculture. It is available for humanitarian relief in developing countries, allowing the United States to respond to unanticipated food crises.
U.S. food aid programs under Title II are currently fully allocated this fiscal year, and use of the reserve will help ensure that sufficient commodities are available to respond to needs in Iraq without affecting U.S. food aid commitments elsewhere in the world.
The reserve was reauthorized through 2007 by the 2002 farm bill.
U.S. rice organizations have been hopeful that developments in the Middle East could help restore what was once a major market for U.S. rice exports in Iraq. Officials with Stuttgart, Ark.-based Riceland Foods said earlier that American rice would have already had to be in the Middle East to be available for Iraq on a short-term basis.


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Saturday, June 04, 2011
Strawberry and Almond Cake
Picture taken in July 2008
Do you use strawberries for anything else but various _cold and uncooked_ desserts and puddings?
I realised that I _almost_ never cook strawberries, especially sun-ripened local ones. They're just too luscious and delicious as they are, and I usually run out of them before I manage to start thinking about including them in a cake (and in any case, my repeated attempts to include strawberries in a clafoutis have ended with a disaster). However, there is one baked strawberry cake that I've been making again and again over the years. The recipe is from an old issue of BBC Good Food, bylined by their previous editor Orlando Murrin. I've simplified the recipe a little over the years, and it's been on my early summer table at least one every year. It's delicious both warm or cold (I love it warm with a scoop of good vanilla ice cream).
I think I'll be baking one later tonight :Pc
Almond and Strawberry Cake
Serves eight
175 g ground almonds
175 g unsalted butter, softened
175 g caster sugar
175 g all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 eggs, whisked
400 g strawberries
icing sugar/confectioner's sugar, for dusting
Preheat the oven to 180C. Line the base of a loose-bottomed 24 cm cake tin with greaseproof paper and butter the sides.
Mix almonds, butter, sugar, flour, cinnamon, baking powder and eggs in a food processor just until the ingredients are evenly combined.
Spread half the mixture over the base of the tin in a smooth layer. Lay the sliced strawberries on top. Spread the remaining cake mixture over the strawberries.
Bake for 45-50 minutes, until slightly risen and dark golden brown when cooked.
Cool in the tin slightly, then loosen the edges with a knife and remove from the tin.
Transfer onto a serving plate and dust with icing sugar.
4 comments:
- Meatloaf Recipe said...
What a delicious looking almond Cake! I want to eat this :) Thanks a lot for the recipe.
- 2:03 pm, June 08, 2011
- Cooking Courses said...
This cake looks wonderful. We have guests for lunch this weekend and I'm going to make this for afternoon tea! Thanks
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I was thinking the same thing...There is a range from one to a million. Whoever gets closest, wins my vote. Aras picks 4. Danielle could have picked any number from 5 to 1,000,000 and she would have won. Thats a big chance.I would have said 500,000 - right in the middle.
I loved the advice Jeff gave Aras last night during the reunion. "Pay your taxes". Obviously a zing to Richard Hatch. I laughed so hard.
Eh, in the words of Shane, "neither one on you deserve it, and since I can't abstain, pick a number between one and a million"In that case, I think Danielle might have won.Aras and Terry would have voted DanielleCirie would have voted DanielleSo, she most likely would have taken it.
being a freaking yoga instructor I thought Aras would have won the final challenge
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by Pete Mazzaccaro
It's been a while since we've had a story quite like last week's report of the termination of Father Jim St. George from Chestnut Hill College. The story was the first to produce a veritable flood of commentary in the online comments section of chestnuthilllocal.com since we switched over to the new website.
In the week since that story ran with my commentary on the matter [Chestnut hill College and the struggle for equal rights"], I've found myself in some interesting religious discussions with several readers who have tried to explain to me the fine points Catholic dogma and asserted that my own position – that the church is fundamentally wrong on homosexuality and that gay workers at religious institutions should be protected – is repressive of religious freedom.
(It's important to point out here that the Catholic Church is by no means a standout on homosexuality. The Vatican has been in many ways more moderate than representatives of other Christian denominations.)
First, the readers who disagree with me have been surprisingly gracious. This is the kind of debate that can easily descend into a flurry of name-calling. But that hasn't happened. It's nice to know we can have a public debate on a subject on which the disagreements run as deep as personal faith.
Second, it's interesting to me that a defense of doctrine that makes sinners of citizens – that we should love them but not "what they do" – is that any move by a civil society to protect gay people from the sort of employment discrimination that is now permissible by law in far too many parts of our nation, including the state of Pennsylvania, is somehow a "politically correct" form of state censure of religion.
Our country is founded on the principle of religious freedom. The first colonists of North America came here to escape religious persecution. And, as recently as the Supreme Court's ruling in favor of the virulently homophobic Westboro Baptist Church's rights to picket military funerals, we know that religious groups certainly have the freedom to express their views.
But we also don't allow legal exemptions based on religious beliefs. An extreme example is the enforcement of laws preventing conservative Mormons to practice polygamy. It is not out of the question for the law to curb religious practice.
I think we can all agree that religious institutions should be allowed to practice what they preach. But when those religious entities extend their reach beyond the church and run large institutions that employ many different people, including those who are gay, it is essential that they treat those employees in a way that conforms to civil law, not to religious practice.
It is not Political Correctness run amok. Nor is it an attempt by the "thought police" to correct social attitudes that do not conform to progressive principles. It is instead, again, the very basic guarantee of equal rights for all members of our community and of our society. It is a way to be sure that all can live the lives they want and do so without fear that those choices might get them fired, regardless of where they work.


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History Arguments Advanced in Supreme Court Cases
Over the past few years, the display of the Ten Commandments has become what some consider a focal point of a new culture war. In early March the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the two most recent controversial cases that focus on the display of the Ten Commandments on government property. Interestingly, "history" was at the core of arguments presented by both sides.
The first case, Van Orden v. Perry (03-1500) focuses on the issue whether a six-foot high stone monument displaying the Ten Commandments on the Texas State Capitol grounds (between the Capitol and the state supreme court) violates the First Amendment; the second, McCreary County v. ACLU (03-1693) considers whether a local courthouse in Kentucky can exhibit the Ten Commandments in a public display along with other historical documents.
In the Supreme Court room itself, there is a frieze dedicated to history's great lawgivers. Justices can look up from their seats and view an image showing Moses and Confucius sitting beside John Marshall. The frieze served as a catalyst for arguments from lawyers representing both sides. The lawyer representing an opponent of the Texas monument, for example, told the Court that the Court's frieze is constitutional because it places the commandments in a secular, historical context. But then, "so does the Texas monument," argued the attorney general of Texas—it is part of a "park-like" area doted with monuments to veterans, pioneers, and other "historical influences" that have helped to shape the state of Texas, he stated.
For several hours opponents of the granite Ten Commandments monument in Texas argued that its presence on public property amounts to a governmental imposition of monotheism; proponents of the monument claimed it was nothing more than a public recognition of the role of Judeo-Christian influences on Western civilization and the founding of the United States. In the Kentucky case proponents also argued the "historical nature" of their "exhibit" which includes not just the display of the commandments, but other documents such as the Magna Carta and the lyrics to the national anthem. Opponents argued that the "secular purpose" of the displays are "a sham." In the end, all agreed that, bottom line, "context mattered."
Come July, the Court will render a decision and the nation will learn to what extent history-based arguments prevailed in swaying the justices. Surely, when it renders judgment, the Court will have no paucity of historical arguments to bolster both the majority and minority position.
—Bruce Craig is director of the National Coalition for History. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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- 1 International font laws
- 2 Rules to remember
- 3 Allowed font licenses
- 4 Disclaimer
International font laws
Copyright and patent laws concerning fonts vary greatly from country to country. In some countries font data is copyrightable but font designs aren't. In other countries font designs are copyrightable, but font data not. Because Fedora is an international project, fonts distributed with Fedora need to respect a wider set of legal protections than those of any one country.
The following attempts to briefly summarize the situation for the use of people interested in getting fonts included into Fedora.
Various forms of protection exist for fonts:
- Font names can be trademarked throughout most of the world. While a few names, such as Courier are in the public domain, most of the familiar font names such as Arial or Helvetica are the trademarks of one company or another.
- The computerized data making up the font is subject to copyright in the United States and some other countries. This protection continues through automated conversion to a different format. (The design of text fonts itself is not subject to copyright in the US. In the US, if the design of a font is not otherwise protected, it's legal to print out a large image of the font then retrace it. However, proving that the new outlines were not generated from the computerized original data may be difficult.)
- Type designs themselves have protections in some countries. In the UK, font designs have been subject to copyright since 1989. France and Germany are other countries with protection for typeface designs.
- In the US "design patents" can be granted for fonts, though this is relatively rare. (About 150 design patents for fonts have been granted in total by the USPTO.) A design patent lasts 14 years from date of grant. Originality of the design is required.
- Font designs can be protected by "design registration" in some countries. The terms of this vary between countries. In the UK, for example, a design registration can be extended in 5 year increments up to 25 years.
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Rules to remember
Most often, a font creator won't be a software developer, but someone with an artist background. He won't select his license from the pool of software licenses you're familiar with, but choose a text reflecting his priorities.
Font licenses try to protect the font design
Font designers feel their creation is a very personal work of art, and they will often forbid modification (or only allow extension of the font without changing its original core). It has been argued in the past since fonts are content, or art, we needn't apply our strict freedom checks to them.
Fonts however are not just art. They're functional art. The core purpose of a font is to permit representing text humans can read, in a changing technical context[1]. Like any other technical component of Fedora, fonts are subject to bug-fixing, enhancement, adaptation to new technical rules.
Nowadays, we require font licenses to be as permissive as software licenses, and in particular to allow modification.
A license that requires using another font name if the font is modified, however, is acceptable and can be used to accommodate font designer feelings.
Font licenses often forbid standalone distribution
Because fonts are OS-agnostic, do not weight a lot, are highly desirable by most computer users, fonts have been an early victim of widespread illegal digital copying. While font designers may be sympathetic to FLOSS software, and turn a blind eye to home copiers, they absolutely loathe the freeloaders that collect illegally huge numbers of fonts and sell them by the CD/DVD.
When a font designer liberates a font he will usually try to forbid its inclusion in such a collection. If the license is well written it will not be a problem for Fedora — we distribute fonts in packages, in conjunction with lots of other non-font elements.
Good font licenses allow embedding
Because everyone does not have the same fonts installed on his system, common digital document formats like PDF allow embedding fonts. If the license of those fonts is a vanilla GPL, the legal status of such a document is subject to interpretation. While Fedora will not reject GPLed fonts, vanilla GPL is not a good font license.
For this reason the FSF has published an embedding exception text , but many font projects forget to add it to their licensing.
Font licenses can be a mess
Also, font designers are (unfortunately) not lawyers. They will tend to use one-of-a-kind licenses with badly understood legal effects. This license proliferation will in turn make the mix and matching, deriving and merging FLOSS projects (including font projects) are so fond of mightily hard.
When you're convincing a designer or a foundry to liberate a font, please choose our preferred license . It's been carefully worded to protect the interests of everyone, and many people have reviewed it.
The data of a font must be original
It is never appropriate to start with data from a proprietary font and incorporate it into your own font, no matter what conversion process is in-between. An obvious exception to this is if the license of the original allows modifications. For example, the URW fonts included with Fedora are licensed under the GPL and data from them can be used in other GPL fonts. If you copy data from another font, you must also include the original copyright notice and license in your font.
Careless font hobbyists will often copy and adapt glyphs from existing "free" fonts, without checking their license is actually compatible, or the source they've taken their "free" font from is legitimate[2]. When importing a font in Fedora, the packager & reviewer must make sure (via data analysis or by checking twice with the font designer) the font has not been tainted in such a way.
Beware of font clones
Along with legal issues, there are also ethical issues. A new type design with genuine innovation is a major creative work. Even if is legal to create an exact curve-by-curve clone of Palatino or Comic Sans, is it really appropriate to do so? Lettering has been done for thousands of years, printing for hundreds of years. If you don't have the skill to come with a new type design on your own, that's no reason to rip off last year's hot font.
Restrict yourself to cloning nice old fonts, from old paper samples.
Allowed font licenses
These are the Font Licenses that we're aware of. If your license is not in this list, and you'd like to know if it is appropriate for Fedora, please email the details to firstname.lastname@example.com (note that this list is moderated, only members may directly post).
The GPL is also a valid though not ideal license for fonts. Refer to the Software Licensing table for the correct short name identifiers.
Preferred License
Early attempts to liberate fonts showed font designers didn't like FLOSS licenses, and that besides FLOSS licenses didn't apply so well to fonts. Existing font licenses were overly restrictive and free at best in the monetary sense. The liberation of Bitstream Vera by the GNOME Foundation proved compromise was possible. However the Vera license itself is less than ideal and no one wants to generalize it.
Nowadays, to avoid the license proliferation mess which is just as problematic in the free/libre/open ecosystem as in the software one, the Fedora project joins other free/libre/open actors, and recommends new font projects choose the OFL, and existing projects consider relicensing.
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I really liked the story because the illustrations were pretty. I really like Ellie's dress. I really liked the character of Ellie's mom because she was nice but she made Ellie sad sometimes when she changed her name.
I reccomend that everyone read this book because it makes you happy. It is hard to read but it is worth it because it is so good. I think that everyone would enjoy the illustrations because they are pretty.


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sunnyhill needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 163 designs submitted by 60 freelance designers.
We want to revolutionize the solar industry by making solar energy an affordable and mainstream source of energy for all. We are a solar financing provider - we help people who don't have money purchase a solar system for their home. Your effort will make a difference in our ability to earn people's trust, help them switch to solar, and ultimately make the world a better place. No kidding :)
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Our logo should have the following elements:
- sun
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- sophisticatedOur business is a blend of finance (stable, conservative) and solar marketing (friendly, green, approachable). The core values of our business are:
- save money
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- help the economyWe currently have a temp logo, which is amateur. If you see our website, it does NOT reflect our colors or what we want, it is only temporary. PLEASE do not be influened by our existing website.
Some businesses in our space who have good logos are: solarcity, 1bog.org, suntech, kyocera, alteris, aee solar, borrego solar, mistubishi, sun edison, tioga energy, alter systems, pge, calfornia solar, celeres, connecticut clean energy fund, cooler planet, renewzle.
We want a badge plus great typography. We would like to use this logo for many years without having to redesign it.
Colors - sun colors, and green colors, maybe blue. Since we're a financial company, medium to dark blue is probably good. We're open.
NOTE: the winner will have an opportunity to work with us to produce a heck of a lot of collateral, including web design, UI, brochures, etc... Although the contest prize is relatively low, the amount of work you can get out of it will be tremendous. We are looking for a great logo, and we are also looking for a long term designer.
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