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Traditional Madeleines
This week's recipe was chosen by Tara of Smells Like Home. I was so excited to see that Madeleines were chosen, as I have been wanting to try them for some time now. After a quick trip to Williams Sonoma to get my pan, I was all set to whip up these delicate, French tea cookies. I found these to be incredibly easy to make – the batter was a cinch to whip together, then a chill in the fridge and filling the pan mold, and into the oven for a short 11 minutes.
If I'm being honest, I didn't love these. While the texture was very nice, spongey and light, I am not a fan of lemon so I wasn't thrilled with the overall taste and my overall feeling was just "eh". All in all, this is a nice delicate cookie, but I would opt for a muffin, scone or biscotti to pair with my hot beverage of choice. Even though Dorie states that these are best eaten the day that they are made (and even, warm from the oven), I would have to respectfully disagree. I thought they were significantly better after a night's rest in an airtight container.
Traditional Madeleines
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
¾ teaspoon baking powder
Pinch of salt
½ cup sugar
Grated zest of 1 lemon
2 large eggs, at room temperature
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
¾ stick (6 tablespoons) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
Confectioners' sugar, for dusting
1. Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt.
2. Working in a mixer bowl, or in a large bowl, rub the sugar and lemon zest together with your fingertips until the sugar is moist and fragrant. Add the eggs to the bowl. Working with the whisk attachment, or with a hand mixer, beat the eggs and sugar together on medium-high speed until pale, thick and light, 2 to 3 minutes. Beat in the vanilla. With a rubber spatula, very gently fold in the dry ingredients, followed by the melted butter. Press a piece of plastic wrap against the surface of the batter and refrigerate it for at least 3 hours, or for up to 2 days. This long chill period will help the batter form the hump that is characteristic of madeleines. (For convenience, you can spoon the batter into the madeleine molds, cover and refrigerate, then bake the cookies directly from the fridge; see below for instructions on prepping the pans.)
3. Center a rack in the oven and preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Butter 12 full-size madeleine molds, or up to 36 mini madeleine molds, dust the insides with flour and tap out the excess. Or, if you have a nonstick pan (or pans), give it a light coating of vegetable cooking spray. If you have a silicone pan, no prep is needed. (my silicone needed the prep) Place the pan(s) on a baking sheet.
4. Spoon the batter into the molds, filling each one almost to the top. Don't worry about spreading the batter evenly, the oven's heat will take care of that. Bake large madeleines for 11 to 13 minutes, and minis for 8 to 10 minutes, or until they are golden and the tops spring back when touched. Remove the pan(s) from the oven and release the madeleines from the molds by rapping the edge of the pan against the counter. Gently pry any recalcitrant madeleines from the pan using your fingers or a butter knife. Transfer the cookies to a rack to cool to just warm or to room temperature.
5. If you are making minis and have more batter, bake the next batch(es), making certain that you cool, then properly prepare the pan(s) before baking.
6. Just before serving, dust the madeleines with confectioners' sugar.
Serving: Serve the cookies when they are only slightly warm or when they reach room temperature, with tea or espresso.
Storing: Although the batter can be kept in the refrigerator for up to 2 days, the madeleines should be eaten soon after they are made. You can keep them overnight in a sealed container, but they really are better on day 1. If you must store them, wrap them airtight and freeze them; they'll keep for up to 2 months.
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(Source: Dorie Greenspan "Baking: From My Home to Yours" pages 166-168)
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Atlhough the two had been platonic friends, Kate Middleton first grabbed Prince William's romantic attention when she modeled lingerie in a school fashion show at the University of St. Andrews in 2002. (Landov)
Kate and Will started dating soon after that 2002 fashion show, and the couple graduated St. Andrews in 2005. They broke up briefly in 2007, but reunited a few months later. (Courtesy of The Middleton Family)
After dating for more than seven years, Prince William proposed on vacation in Kenya. The couple announced their engagement in November 2010. (FameFlyNet)
The royal couple tied the knot in an elaborate London ceremony on April 29, 2011. Nearly 23 million Americans tuned in for the nuptials. (FameFlynet)
The couple wanted to start a family soon after marriage, but waited until after the Queen's 2012 diamond jubilee celebration to start trying so as not to take attention away from The Queen. (Getty Images)
After Kate was hospitalized for a severe morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidarum, the couple was forced to announce their pregnancy a few weeks early on Dec. 3, 2012. (Landov)
After being released from the hospital, Kate made her first public appearance on Dec. 16 at the BBC sports awards show. (Courtesy of BBC)
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Burdastyle Asymetric Jacket
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I loved this design when I first saw it in the magazine a few months ago and had it on my to make list. I decided to make it as a work jacket, as I only had one suit jacket! The construction was fine, but I did need to make quite a few adjustments to the back. I made the 38 and usually I am spot on with the size. However I found the back was about 5cm too wide. I adjusted the princess seamlines to take out the excess and accentuate the waist a little more. The trickiest part was making the bound buttonholes look great from both sides. I didn't add a sleeve placket/ vent and opted instead for full sleeve. I also used a more traditional lining rather than using a contrast fabric.
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Mike Mizanin understands the whole Wrestlemania moment thing.
He's watched and soaked up some of the finest Mania matches ... the ironman match between Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart, Michaels vs. The Undertaker twice; and Michaels vs. Ric Flair ("it wasn't even the match, it was the emotion and the finish was incredible.")
But the 30-year-old Mizanin who has risen to the top of the WWE ranks as The Miz, and yep, he is pretty awesome, wants that moment to be about him.
"This really is a dream come true," he says, just a couple of days before Wrestlemania's circus of the stars erupts in Atlanta. "As a kid, I watched Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant. It was larger than life. And now, I'm on that same stage.
"I don't think it's left my mind since Monday's RAW. I'm in there with The Rock and John Cena -- two icons. And I'm going to show them that the torch needs to be passed to me, the up-and-comer."
It's not like The Miz, who puts his WWE championship on the line against Cena, should have anything to prove. But he feels like he's always under the microscope, with others waiting for him to fail.
"It's been that way my entire career," he says. "People told me I wouldn't make Real World. When I started with WWE, people told me I would get fired in the first three months. And when I won the tag titles, they said I didn't deserve it. When I won the U.S. title, they said I wasn't worthy. When I won the Money in the Bank, they said I would lose. And they said I would never win the WWE championship.
"People have always said I couldn't do it ... yadda, yadda, yadda.
"(As for Sunday against Cena) everybody says I'm going to lose. Well, ladies and gentleman, here you go. I'm going to prove you wrong again.
"I am the biggest WWE star you will ever see. And if I've become the best, I want to get better than that."
The Miz has his sights set high.
"I always say you're only as good as your last time on TV. If I have an off-day, that's not good. With wrestlers like (Hogan, Triple H, Flair, and Michaels), they didn't have off-days. I just can't remember them flubbing anything. All I remember is their iconic status.
"I'm the most must-see WWE champ. Every time you see me, you're going to see something special."
He's OK with The Rock, not so long ago The People's Champ, sharing some of this weekend's spotlight.
"The Rock keeps cutting into my stuff," says The Miz. "But if he can bring in more people to watch the pay-per-view, those people will see me. And the next time, they will pay to see me in a pay-per-view."
The Miz can't wait for that moment on Sunday, that time when he gets to do his thing. He knows he might be a bit nervous, but that would be a good thing.
"When I'm ready to go out, I'm back in the gorilla position (near the entrance)," he says. "I'm always a nervous wreck, pacing back and forth with butterflies in my stomach.
"Once that music hits, it all goes away and turns into energy, adrenaline.
Then, nothing can take me down. I'm Superman."
Now all John Cena needs to do is find some kryptonite.


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Without Warning
you're traveling
a highway, the only road
you've ever known,
and wham! A semi
comes from nowhere
and rolls right over you.
you don't wake up.
But if you happen
to, you know things
will never be
the same.
that's not
so bad.
lives intersect,
no rhyme, no reason,
except, perhaps,
for a passing semi.
separate highways
intersect at a place
no reasonable person
would ever want to go.
lives that would have
been cut short, if not
for hasty interventions
by loved ones. Or Fate.
people, with nothing
at all in common
except age, proximity,
and a wish to die.
tapestries, tattered
at the edges and come
unwoven to reveal
a single mutual thread.
The Thread
The Thread
you could turn off
the questions, turn
off the voices,
turn off all sound.
to close out
the ugliness, close
out the filthiness,
close out all light.
to cast away
yesterday, cast
away memory,
cast away all jeopardy.
you could somehow stop
the uncertainty, somehow
stop the loathing,
somehow stop the pain.
The glass doors swing open,
in perfect sync, precisely
timed so you don't have
to think. Just stroll right in.
I doubt it's quite as easy
to turn around and walk
back outside, retreat to
unstable ground. Home turf.
An orderly escorts me down
spit-shined corridors, past
tinted Plexiglas and closed,
unmarked doors. Mysteries.
One foot in front of the other,
counting tiles on the floor so
I don't have to focus the blur
of painted smiles, fake faces.
A mannequin in a tight blue
suit, with a too-short skirt
(and legs that can wear it),
in a Betty Boop voice halts us.
I'm Dr. Boston. Welcome to
Aspen Springs. I'll give you
the tour. Paul, please take his
things to the Redwood Room.
Aspen Springs. Redwood Room.
As if this place were a five-star
resort, instead of a lockdown
where crazies pace. Waiting.
At Least
At Least
It doesn't have a hospital
stink. Oh yes, it's all very
clean, from cafeteria chairs
to the bathroom sink. Spotless.
But the clean comes minus
the gag-me smell, steeping
every inch of that antiseptic
hell where they excised
the damnable bullet. I
wonder what Dad said when
he heard I tried to put myself
six feet under -- and failed.
I should have put the gun
to my head, worried less
about brain damage, more
about getting dead. Finis.
Instead, I decided a shot
through the heart would
make it stop beating, rip
it apart to bleed me out.
I couldn't even do that
right. The bullet hit bone,
left my heart in one piece.
In hindsight, luck wasn't
with me that day. Mom
found me too soon, or my
pitiful life might have ebbed
to the ground in arterial flow.
I thought she might die too,
at the sight of so much blood
and the thought of it staining
her white Armani blouse.
Conner, what have you done?
she said. Tell me this was just
an accident. She never heard
my reply, never shed a tear.
I Don't Remember
I Don't Remember
Much after that, except
for speed. Ghostly red lights,
spinning faster and faster,
as I began to recede from
consciousness. Floating
through the ER doors,
frenzied motion. A needle's
sting. But I do remember,
just before the black hole
swallowed me, seeing Mom's
face. Her furious eyes
followed me down into sleep.
It's a curious place, the
Land of Blood Loss and
Anesthesia, floating through it
like swimming in sand. Taxing.
After a while, you think you
should reach for the shimmering
surface. You can't hold your
breath, and even if you could,
it's dark and deep and bitter
cold, where nightmares and truth
collide, and you wonder if death
could unfold fear so real. Palpable.
So you grope your way up into
the light, to find you can't
move, with your arms strapped
tight and overflowing tubes.
And everything hits you like
a train at full speed. Voices.
Strange faces. A witches' stewpot
of smells. Pain. Most of all,
Tony Just Saw
Just Saw
A new guy check in. Tall,
built, with a way fine face,
and acting too tough to tumble.
He's a nutshell asking to crack.
Wonder if he's ever let a guy
touch that pumped-up bod.
They gave him the Redwood
Room. It's right across
from mine -- the Pacific
Room. Pretty peaceful in
here most of the time, long
as my meds are on time.
Ha. Get it? Most of the time
if my meds are on time. If you
don't get it, you've never
been in a place like this,
never hung tough from one
med call till the next.
Wasted. That's the only way
to get by in this "treatment
center." Nice name for a loony
bin. Everyone in here is crazy
one way or another. Everyone.
Even the so-called doctors.
Most of 'em are druggies.
Fucking loser meth freaks.
I mean, if you're gonna
purposely lose your mind,
you want to get it back some
day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.
I Lost My Mind
I Lost My Mind
A long time ago, but it
wasn't exactly my idea.
Shit happens, as they say,
and my shit literally hit
the fan. But enough sappy
crap. We were talking drugs.
I won't tell you I never tried
crystal, but it really wasn't
my thing. I saw enough
people, all wound up, drop
over the edge, that I guess
I decided not to take that leap.
I always preferred creeping
into a giant, deep hole where
no bad feelings could follow.
At least till I had to come up
for air. I diddled with pot first, but
that tasty green weed couldn't drag
me low enough. Which mostly
left downers, "borrowed" from
medicine cabinets and kitchen
cabinets and nightstands.
Wherever I could find them.
And once in a while -- not often,
because it was pricey and tough
to score -- once in a while, I
tumbled way low, took a ride
on the H train. Oh yeah,
that's what I'm talking about.
A hot shot clear to hell.
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GRANTHAM, PA – The York College men's lacrosse team battled the elements and the Messiah College Falcons on Saturday and the Green and White emerged victorious as the Spartans notched a 16-10 non-conference win in the wet and blustery conditions in Grantham, Pa. The Spartans, who snap a two-game losing skid, improve to 2-4 while the Falcons fall to 0-3.
The Spartans jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead less than six minutes into the game. Junior Josh Gamble (Easton, Md./Easton) tallied two goals as his two scores sandwiched a B.J. Blaker (West Chester, Pa./Henderson) giving York the early lead. The Falcons scored three of the final four goals of the quarter as the Spartans led 4-3 after one.
York seized control of the game in the second quarter as the Green and White ripped off four goals to take an 8-3 lead with 3:11 left before the half. Ryan McNicholas (Fallston, Md./Fallston), Gamble, Jamie Low (Monrovia, Md./Urbana), and Blaker scored in the period as the Spartans picked up their four goals on just nine shots. Messiah scored at the 2:37 mark as the guests took an 8-4 lead to the break.
The Spartans opened the third quarter by scoring four of the first five goals of the second half as the lead grew to 12-5 with 6:27 left in the third. Adam Cooper (Bel Air, Md./Bel Air) and Kevin Topper (Marriottsville, Md./Liberty) each had man advantage goals in the period. Messiah scored the next three goals covering the final minutes of the third quarter and open moments of the fourth as the Falcons trimmed the York lead to four at 12-8. The Spartans put the game away with four of the next five goals, increasing the lead to 16-9 with 4:59 left. Cooper and Gamble each scored man advantage goals for York to close out the Spartan scoring. Messiah scored inside the last minute of the game to provide for the final six-goal Spartan advantage.
The Spartans were fantastic on the man advantage as they went 6-for-12 while they were penalized just four times in the contest. Messiah went 0-for-4 in their man advantage situations. The Spartans entered the game having converted just 28% (10-of-35) of their man advantage opportunities this year.
Gamble was huge in the win as he poured in seven points on five goals and a pair of assists. He scored his goals on nine shots in the game with seven of those shots being on target. Lowe and Cooper each had four points with Cooper getting three goals and an assist while Lowe had two goals and two assists. McNicholas chipped in with three points on a pair of goals and one helper. Blaker was the final Spartan with multiple points as he notched a pair of goals.
Phil Wendt led the Falcons with three goals while J.J. Miller added two. Messiah had scored just three goals in their previous two games this season.
The Spartans outshot the Falcons 50-27 while Messiah held a 35-23 advantage in ground balls. The Falcons won 18 of the 29 face offs in the game while the Spartans failed on just three clears as they were successful on 26 of their 29 clears.
Chris Collins (Westminster, Md./Westminster) earned the win in goal for York as he made seven saves for the Green and White. Josh Stewart took the loss as he allowed all 16 Spartan goals in his 57:54 of work. Steve Kozuhowski recorded one save in his 2:06 between the pipes for Messiah.
York returns to action on Tuesday afternoon when they host Dickinson College in a non-conference contest. Game time at Kinsley Field is set for 3:30 pm.


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Serving the community, leadership skills and instilling moral and ethical values are all part of being a Scout.
The Greater Niagara Frontier Council Boy Scouts of America hopes to continue those traditions with its annual "Fire and Ice" gala fundraiser. The event will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 14, at Templeton Landing, 2 Templeton Terrace, Buffalo (near the Erie Basin Marina).
Eagle Scout and injury attorney William Mattar has been named chair of this year's event.
"For more than 100 years the Boy Scouts of America have been an important part of the fabric of Western New York," Mattar said.
Currently there are about 10,000 youth members that are involved with Scouting in Western New York.
Much like last year, the "Fire and Ice" event will feature music, entertainment and a variety of food that follows the fire and ice theme.
"The menu has become more creative this year," Mattar said. "There are more unique items that the chef has come up with, so it's more creative.
"We try to stick to a fire and ice theme, so we're pairing something cool and something spicy."
Michael Meyers, president of the GNFC board of directors, said that Nitro Magic will provide one of the new menu items.
"They make ice cream from cream and nitrogen, and they make it right in front of you," he said.
There will be an open bar and a variety of themed food stations and hors d'oeuvres, such as beef on weck and mini Monte Cristos.
Grilled oysters, Cajun chicken skewers, bruschetta, blackened scallops, and teriyaki beef skewers are just a few of the items that will be offered at the stations. Following the theme of the event, Sitting Pretty will have a fire and ice candy buffet.
The evening will also feature different auctions. Meyers said the big highlight is the cake auction.
"We get different high-end bakeries from around the area. They all make their own unique creations for our event," he said.
The GNFC is still accepting items for the silent auction.
"If people would like to support the event, they can attend the event and or make monetary donations or donate items for auction," Mattar said.
Last year, the event raised $48,000 to benefit the Boys Scouts of America.
"We rent out the entire restaurant for the event," Meyers said. "For the three hours that you're there, it's a real fun party."
Designated Drivers of Buffalo will be available to ensure partygoers get home safely.
Tickets for the event cost $175 per person or $295 per couple. For tickets, or to donate to the auction or place a program ad, call 716-512-6202. Tickets also can be purchased online at http://www.wnyscouting.org/events. The deadline to register for the event is Sunday, March 10.


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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/26/cyberfud/Rumours that the Internet would witness a sustained and devastating cyber-attack by Islamic "cyber-terrorists" today have turned out to be completely baseless.
The non-story kicked off earlier this week when Kaspersky Labs execs referred to reports on unspecified Arab websites that Islamic hackers had declared 26 August as a day of "electronic jihad" against Israel. The comments were picked up in the Russian media, resulting in a number of alarmist articles on the supposed threat. "Terrorists will paralyse the Internet on 26 August," reported MosMews.
Vmyths editor Rob Rosenberger was quick to dismiss the reports as "baseless hysteria" pointing out that the latest prediction of cyber-apocalyse are nothing new. Previous "cyber-wars" have resulted in nothing beyond a few defaced websites. Rosenberger's predictions have been borne out by a notable absence of carnage of the information cyber-highway this morning.
Meanwhile Kaspersky Labs is distancing itself from the story. It seems the Russian media put a sensationalist spin on off the cuff remarks by company founder Eugene Kaspersky.
In a statement, it said: "Kaspersky Labs do not believe that anything serious will occur [on 26 August], although obviously it will be prepared accordingly. However, Kaspersky Labs is concerned of the use of the term 'electronic jihad' for the first time, implying that Arab hackers are thinking about a more aggressive attack." ®
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http://software.silicon.com/security...9123500,00.htmSecurity experts have downplayed media reports that an 'electronic jihad' aimed at Israeli websites will start on Thursday.
The reports came after the Russian news service RIA Novosti published comments made by Eugene Kaspersky, a noted antivirus researcher, saying that several websites had posted a call to arms for mass web defacements to occur on 26 August.
Security researchers stressed that calls for internet attacks have become a staple of extremist sites and usually amount to little.
Jose Nazario, attack researcher for security company Arbor Networks, said: "There has been a lot of occasions of people saying, 'hey, let's have a party and deface a lot of websites', and not much has come from it."
According to Nazario, security researchers frequently see increased online activity when attack preparations have started. There are no indications that such preparations are happening now, Nazario said Wednesday. "We honestly haven't heard anything," he said. "There have been no precursors to a large-scale attack."
Kaspersky's own company played down the portrayal of the statements of its founder on Wednesday. Antivirus-software maker Kaspersky Labs said the reports focused on what was otherwise "brief comments made yesterday at a press conference which was dedicated to cybercrime and the problems of spam."
The antivirus researcher's rebuttal to the articles and criticism from security experts appeared on VirusList.com, a site owned by Kaspersky Labs.
"We don't know who is behind these statements" calling for attack, Kaspersky said in the statement on VirusList.com. He stressed that the trustworthiness of the digital call to arms could not be established. "It's not the first time the term 'electronic jihad' has been used. We've seen this before, with the focus being on sending racist emails, and defacing and hacking Israeli websites."
I wasn't holding my breath. If its going to happen... you're not even going to know it until it does happen. IMO its going to hit hard and fast... with little or no warning.
I've been looking at logs and internet reports all day... and I saw nothing out of the ordinary...
FUD... isn't it great!?


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The Bachelorette: Ashley is Engaged!
Bachelor Spoiler Alert!
According to Bachelorette spoilers, Ashley Hebert is engaged. According to Life & Style Magazine, Bentley returns this Monday night but Ashley is over him. "Ashley's elated," an insider reveals to the celebrity gossip publication. "She's engaged to the winner and is now wearing her engagement ring.""I'm happy with the way things turned out for me," Ashley says. This is no Brad-Emily situation, either. Weeks after filming has wrapped, "she's definitely still in the relationship," confirms a Bachelorette insider. "She says she's really happy." Read the full story here!
Bachelor Spoiler: Who is Ashley engaged to?
Rumor has it she chooses J.P Rosenbaum, the 34 year old construction worker from New York.
12 comments:
- Stefanie said...
YES! I so hope that's true! Good for you Ashley!! :)
- June 20, 2011 at 8:44 AM
- Anonymous said...
I think Ashley is the worse bachelorette ever...
- June 20, 2011 at 6:21 PM
- Brittney said...
YES! You go girl! JP is the one for you <3
- June 20, 2011 at 8:45 PM
- Anonymous said...
i also think ashley is the worst bachelorette ever and would love to know who ever though of that horrible boxing idea. it was not only STUPID but why would you want those guys FIGHTING? what for??? HER?????? let her go to bentley and let him BURN her, she deserves him. she's wasting all the other guys time!!!!! so inconsiderant!!!!!!!
- June 20, 2011 at 8:58 PM
- Anonymous said...
Yeah she sucks has Plotinus taste in men and can't tell a good guy from a bad one! Ames is the best
- June 21, 2011 at 4:38 PM
- Anonymous said...
Ashley is annoying and boring. She has no self esteem and deserves a loser. Feel sorry for the guy she selects. The only good thing I can say is that she is one of the best dressed bachelorettes. She needs to put her dots dots dots on her forehead and get over the annoying Bentley.
- June 21, 2011 at 7:27 PM
- Anonymous said...
Hopefully Ashley takes off the rose colored glasses in which she see's only bently...she is about to lose a chance of a life time to find true love ...and what the hell is up with letting the guy's that leave the show come back on , its B.s call a spade a spade lay your cards on the table and if the jerks gets caught playing a bluff hand ....then bye bye loser DOT DOT DOT...games is over see yah
- June 22, 2011 at 9:48 AM
- Anonymous said...
To whoever he is, RUN!! NOW!! Escape while you can! ...
- June 22, 2011 at 1:45 PM
- Anonymous said...
Ashely honey, wake up and smell the roes that u are giving out every week girl. I say this out of kindness Bentley is trash. LOSER!!!!!! And if u dont let him go and move on u will be missing out on the best thing that ever happened to u. Your prince is there dont miss your fairytale. Dreams do come true. Mine did!
- June 22, 2011 at 10:45 PM
- Anonymous said...
I am so tired of Bentley this Bentley that I have stopped recording the show and feel the bachlore and bachlorette is a waste of time. Come on already last years Emily & Brad and this year blubbering, whiney Ashley. DONE
- June 26, 2011 at 4:27 PM
- Anonymous said...
I wonder how many times Ashley said "Bently" this season?
- June 28, 2011 at 2:12 AM
- Anonymous said...
Ashley is the worst bachlorette in the history of the show. The REAL winners are the men she has dumped.
- July 30, 2011 at 10:37 PM


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"A cold wind blew across the prairie when the last buffalo fell ... a deathwind for my people," said Chief Sitting Bull. And, indeed, the buffalo's near extinction ranks as one of American history's most shameful tales.
Bison facts: There was a time when the powerful beasts ranged from Virginia to California, from Canada to Florida, and down into Mexico. Indeed, it's been (conservatively) estimated that when Europeans first arrived on these shores there were over 60 million bison in existence, amounting to probably the greatest aggregation of large animals ever known to civilized Homo sapiens. Even as recently as the last century a herd could contain a million individuals, so that "the country was one robe" and "the plains were black and appeared as if in motion."
However, as men and women from the eastern cities moved westward, the situation changed dramatically. The worst of such people wantonly butchered the marvelous creatures, taking just the hides—or sometimes only tongues—and leaving the carcasses to rot until the bone harvesters could collect their share. Few people realize that this senseless slaughter caused much of the hostility that the Plains Indians—many of whom relied upon the bison for food, shelter, and more—came to feel toward the settlers!
By 1890, only a few small herds remained. More recently, however, as a result of the efforts of conservationists and ranchers who recognized the animals' value, buffaloes once again began to dot the American countryside. Today, there are an estimated 30,000 head—divided among about 400 herds—in the U.S. and Canada. (Although a couple of the groups number over 1,000, most are much smaller.) What's more, bison are, when properly raised, proving to be both enjoyable and highly profitable livestock animals!
A Hardy Breed
The buffalo has one distinct advantage over most domestic cattle: its incredible hardiness. With a rough hide and thick covering of wool-like hair, a bison (even when very young) can easily tolerate the harsh, frigid winters of the upper prairie states and can weather blizzards that would likely kill entire herds of beef animals.
Thriving on grasses alone, the native livestock can range and forage far and wide, and even root out food from beneath deep snow. In fact, some commercial buffalo herds are simply left to forage year ground, although most are fed a little hay during the cold months. (Our Kansas Fish and Game Department's herd is given 1 1/2 pounds of 18% protein pellets, per animal, throughout the winter, as well as and supplemental hay when there's a ground cover of snow.)
In addition to being thrifty to feed, the beasts are relatively disease-free. A few cases of brucellosis, however, have recently been reported in bison herds, and—since the disease can affect humans and cattle, as well as other domestic animals—it's an illness that every potential buffalo buyer needs to be wary of. Some folks say that bison tend to develop their own resistance to brucellosis, and in states where they're still considered wild animals, testing for the disease isn't required. But for your own safety and that of all your barnyard critters, I'd recommend that, when purchasing a buffalo, you buy only one that's had a recent negative brucellosis blood test performed.
For What They're Worth
Since bison have thrived for thousands of years without human help, it's a pretty safe bet that the animals won't need much from you. In return for the little care it will require, your herd will reward you in a number of ways. Buffalo meat, for example, is delicious, relatively fat-free, and highly marketable; the hides can be used for anything from robes to tipis; bison "wool" can be spun and woven into garments; the creatures' mounted heads are considered valuable by some folks; and, if a bison rancher were to follow the example set by the Plains Indians of 200 years ago, he or she could probably learn how to utilize the sinews, bladders, "buffalo chips," and almost every other part of the animals that were once known as "the Indians' commissary."
Buffalo meat is the major source of income from a commercial bison herd. A mature cow will weigh about 800 to 1,200 pounds, while a large bull can tip the scales at more than a ton and stand six feet tall at the shoulder. Of this poundage, 40 to 50% will be usable meat (it works out to about the same dressing percentage as a steer) and can provide virtually the same cuts you expect of beefsteaks, roasts, ground meat, etc.—or be made into summer sausage and jerky. Bison tastes very similar to lean beef ... and the key word here is lean! Buffalo steaks, you see, average less than 10% fat (one study reports only 4% for range-fed buffalo) as compared to beef, which will contain from 20 to 40% fat. Bison burgers are, therefore, valuable in weight- and cholesterol-watchers' diets. For just that reason, a number of hospital kitchens now serve buffalo instead of beef.
The animals' hides are also valuable, since bison leather is stronger and more pliable than that from cattle and is in demand for any job where superior material is needed. A tanned "prime" specimen will bring about $10 per square foot, which works out to between $200 and $500 per skin. "Prime" refers to the toughened, more durable pelts that are harvested during January and February. After that, the critters' long hair begins to fall out and their coats become "ratty" looking, but even summer hides will often bring in from $100 to $400!
The shaggy wool-like hair itself can be collected and spun into buffalo yarn. Unfortunately, it isn't practical to bring your buffalo "flock" together each spring for a fun-filled, buffalo-shearing day ... they're far from being as gentle as lambs!
Instead, you will have to collect the wool from places where the animals have rubbed it off in their wallows or on their scratching posts. Bison are avid scratchers, rubbing their skin blissfully on a chosen fencepost, tree, or rock. In fact, many of our early western telegraph poles were downed when over-enthusiastic buffaloes selected them as backscratchers! And, in the summertime, bison will roll in wet areas to give themselves mud coats for fly protection.
The majestic good looks of a bull buffalo open up yet another potential market for the bison herder. The mounted head of a large bull with an impressive set of horns (cows have horns, too, but those on a bull's more massive head are generally larger) will sometimes bring from $500 to $1,000, although it will cost about $400 to $800 to have the "trophy" processed by an experienced taxidermist.
And, as is the case with any animal enterprise, the sale of good breeding stock can provide an important part of the overall income from a buffalo herd. Bison for breeding are sold by the head—not by the pound—and prices, of course, vary greatly from area to area, and from animal to animal, but a buyer can figure on paying $200 to $700 for a calf or yearling, while a mature bull may run several thousand dollars.
Buffalo "Hunts"
Yet another potential moneymaker is available to the bison breeder. It may not appeal to many folks, but when carefully controlled can provide a legitimate source of income.
There are, you see, plenty of men and women out there who seem to fancy themselves latter-day "Buffalo Bills." Such individuals are quite willing to pay a large fee for the privilege of hunting down (read that as "walking into the pasture") and shooting a trophy bull.
Depending on your point of view, this idea may sound either abhorrent or ludicrous, but using this method to replace standard butchering practices can have some advantages:
[1] A well-placed bullet is as humane a way to butcher an animal as any (it's hard to be sure, though, that your hunters-to-be are well-qualified marksmen who won't make poor, crippling shots).
[2] Large bulls can be nigh onto impossible to drive out of the range or lure into a corral, and on-the-range butchering is often the only practical thing to do.
[3] There's nothing a buffalo likes less than a fenced-in corral. A one- to two-ton bull will crash through all but the sturdiest of holding pens, and if your corral fence isn't strong enough, you could find yourself chasing a to-be-butchered bull and his harem all across the prairie.
[4] Some folks believe that an animal's fear or stress reaction causes chemical changes that affect meat flavor and possibly even make it less wholesome. And—in watching the buffalo roundup at the Kansas Fish and Game Department's annual sale—it seemed to me that the adult bulls were much more easily spooked than were the cows. Because of their intense fear of holding pens, you might be able to produce better meat by butchering mature bulls out on the range, thus avoiding the drive to a corral and inevitable trauma.
Considering the foregoing points, some buffalo ranchers argue that, if people are willing to pay to make the kill for you, why not let them? (Of course, the price you charge the "mighty hunters" will depend upon what parts of the animal, if any, they may want to keep.)
Buffalo Husbandry
Bison are grazing ruminants that feed on natural prairie grasses or planted pastures with equal enthusiasm. Some folks claim that it's possible to maintain three adult buffaloes on the same range where two cows could be kept, but most experienced herders will tell you to figure about the same amount of pasture for each bison as you'd give a cow of the same weight. (The size of the per-animal area, of course, will depend entirely on how good your grassland is. A buffalo cow and her calf might need only one acre of lush pasture, while it'd take five to ten acres to support the same animals in my part of Kansas. In near-desert regions where the grass is very sparse, a cow and calf—bovine or buffalo—would require as much as 20 to 40 acres.)
Bison breed in the late summer or early fall, and a female's gestation period—like that of a cow—is approximately 275 days (nine months). Most calves are born between April 15 and June 15 (though some stragglers may not arrive until September), and the whole herd will assume the responsibility of protecting the babies. When the young first appear, they have tawny red coats, which are lost in about four months. The calves begin to graze very early, although they may still nurse when they're yearlings.
Both bison bulls and heifers reach sexual maturity in the third or fourth summer. But bulls in herds that already have established sires may not become effective breeders until they're six to eight years old, since the newcomers will be unable to compete for mating privileges until they've gained the strength and experience to earn positions within the herd. Don't let this working out of the social order bother you, though. Such "battles of the bulls" are short, and seldom result in serious harm to the participants.
Though some buffalo breeders maintain a one-to-one ratio of bulls to cows, most keep only one male for every ten females. With a one-to-ten ratio, you can figure on an 80 to 90% calf crop each year. You can also expect your buffalo to continue producing young for a long time, since bison in captivity may live to be 30 to 40 years old. (You can easily spot the old codgers, because—with advancing age—their horns will become rough, increase in curvature and diameter, begin to splinter, and generally look worn.)
A Wonderful Wild Streak
Keeping bison "home on the range" can prove to be difficult. Provided they have adequate room to roam, buffaloes do tend to respect a fence more than cows do. Rather than push against it or crane their necks through it for that always greener grass beyond, the beasts will contentedly munch on their own side of a barrier ... but this tolerance goes only so far: A frightened herd can stampede through or over almost anything in its way. Buffaloes can outrun most horses; jump a fence better than deer; muscle their way through a barrier in bulldozer fashion; and move so quickly that, when a panicked animal begins to bounce from one side of a corral to the other, it can look a lot like a monstrous handball flying about a giant court.
A four- to five-foot barrier, with five strands of wire, is considered minimum fencing by most owners. And a corral needs to be built of 8- to 10-foot-high iron or 2 X 10 boards mounted inside 8 - to 10-inch-thick posts.
The fact is that bison haven't changed much over the years, no matter how hard folks have tried to "civilize" the beasts. These proud animals always have been and still are wild creatures. Domestication may seem to work for a while, but eventually nature will reassert itself, and a ton of "tame" buffalo that suddenly reverts to crazy-eyed ferocity can wreak havoc on fences, other critters, or the nearest human in a matter of seconds.
However, most buffalo herders admire the animals for their permanent wildness. While such men and women never forget the potentially destructive force that lurks beneath the creatures' usually placid behavior, they feel that raising the once abused beasts combines the preservation of an important part of the Old West with a modern approach to earning an income.
If you agree—and if you have the necessary rangeland, the fences, and the good sense to maintain a healthy respect (and admiration) for the buffalo's tremendous strength—keeping a bison herd might be just the livestock operation for you.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Further information about bison as livestock may be obtained from the National Bison Association.


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Apple May Slip the DoJ's Noose
Apr 13, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Odds are Apple will beat the antitrust lawsuit filed Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) against the iPad maker and a half dozen publishers.
Three of the publishers named in the lawsuit -- Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster -- settled with the DoJ immediately. However, the other defendants -- MacMillan, the Penguin Group, the Penguin Group USA and Apple -- have vowed to grapple with the feds in court.
The DoJ alleges that Apple and the publishers conspired to raise retail e-book prices and otherwise limit competition in the e-book market.
"It appears to me that they have a stronger conspiracy claim and price-fixing claim between the publishing houses than they do against Apple," David Vance Lucas, an attorney with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, told MacNewsWorld.
Apple declined to comment for this story.
Market Maker, Not Breaker
In its complaint in the antitrust case, the DoJ alleges that Apple teamed up with the publishers to restrain retail price competition for e-books.
"The case against Apple will be more difficult to prove given that Apple was a new competitive entrant into that market and was trying to find a way to compete with a dominant market player, Amazon," Lucas explained.
Far from being an anticompetitive player in the market, he said, "Apple's attempt to enter the market actually was pro-competitive, long term."
He added that the DoJ will have difficulty showing Apple's market role impaired competition for e-books when "even to this day, Amazon still commands a predominate market position in the delivery of e-books."
Proximity to Conspiracy
"The liability of the publishers is much clearer than the liability of Apple with respect to this behavior," observed Joseph P. Bauer, a law professor at Notre Dame Law School.
That's because the publishes are all in the same business and compete with each other so their alleged fixing of price policy and structure goes to the heart of federal antitrust law, he explained.
If Apple arranged or orchestrated the fixing scheme, it would share the liability with the publishers, he continued.
However, "If Apple came in afterwards -- say the publishers got wind of what Apple would like, but Apple was not directly involved -- then Apple's liability would be diminished," he said.
Hub of Fixing Scheme
Geoffrey Manne, executive director of the International Center for Law and Economics, agrees that the case against the publishers is stronger than the one against Apple.
The allegations in the DoJ's complaint, if proven true, would mean that the publishers were engaged in naked price fixing, he explained. But if Apple acted as a hub for that price fixing, he said, "then Apple has got a problem as well."
The DoJ alleges that Apple was key in implementing the price-fixing scheme of the publishers. "That's a story that requires a lot more argumentation to demonstrate, which is why the DoJ's case against Apple is more tenuous," Manne argued.
"If everything in the complaint pans out, turns out to be true and is believed by a court -- which never happens -- Apple would be in trouble," he added.
Settlement Likely
But the party with the biggest problem may be the DoJ.
"The DoJ knows its case is not a slam dunk so, all things being equal, might very well prefer not to go to court so you would expect there to be continued discussions between the hold-out publishers, Apple and the DoJ over terms of settlement they could all accept," Manne said.
It's somewhat ironic that Apple and the publishers may have been acting in monopolistic way against a competitor, Amazon, which has a quasi-monopoly of the retail book market, with the intent of increasing competition.
"Does Amazon's large market power permit other members of the industry to act in ways that are clearly anticompetitive?" asked Bauer. "If price-fixing is clearly anticompetitive, then the answer has to be no."


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Obama nominates Kerry for State
President Barack Obama on Friday called Sen. John Kerry "a perfect choice" to lead American diplomacy forward as he nominated the Massachusetts Democrat to be the next secretary of state.
"He is not going to need a lot of on-the-job training," Obama said in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, with Kerry by his side. "He has earned the respect and trust of his Senate colleagues, Democrats and Republicans. I think it's fair to say few individuals know as many presidents and prime ministers or grasp our policies as firmly as John Kerry."
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If confirmed by the Senate, Kerry would replace Hillary Clinton, who led the State Department for Obama's first term. Clinton, who has been ill, was not at the event, but Obama said he had spoken with her and she had conveyed that "she could not be more excited about the announcement that I'm making."
Obama told the longtime senator that he knows "it won't be easy to leave the Senate that you love," but that he knows Kerry will be "outstanding" in his new position.
Kerry is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and would have overseen confirmations hearings for anyone other than himself. "I guess you won't be able to actually appear and preside at the same time, so we'll have to figure out how that works," Obama said.
Kerry did not speak at the announcement.
Kerry's Republican colleagues have indicated that the confirmation process will be smooth — far easier than the one United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice would have faced had Obama nominated her. Rice withdrew her name from contention last week. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Friday that he thinks "most people are going to have a favorable impression" of Kerry during the process.
( PHOTOS: Who's talking about Hillary 2016?)
Friday's announcement did not include a replacement for Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta. Former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, the most-discussed option, has come under increasing fire from supporters of Israel and some Republicans. Seeking to calm some criticism, he issued an apology to POLITICO Friday for referring to a U.S. ambassador as "openly aggressively gay" in a 1998 interview.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — who along with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) was most vocal in opposing Rice — jokingly referred to Kerry as "Mr. Secretary" during a recent press conference.
McCain said Friday he has "confidence in John Kerry's ability to carry out the job … but the hearings and votes are what really matters." Graham described Kerry as "a very solid choice by the president" who has extensive experience in foreign policy.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) indicated Friday that he's likely to support Kerry's nomination.
"I don't see any reason right now why I would oppose Sen. Kerry's nomination. I'm likely to support it. I look forward to the hearing. I guess we ought to go through the hearing," Cornyn told POLITICO.
The nomination of Kerry, the senior senator from Massachusetts, sets off a scramble to fill his seat — first for a temporary nominee and then for candidates in a special election. Ted Kennedy Jr., a son of the late senator, has been discussed as a possible replacement, as has Kennedy's widow, Vicki Kennedy, who could be a "placeholder" appointment. Former Gov. Michael Dukakis has also been discussed as a possible placeholder. Retiring Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) told POLITICO this week that he wouldn't say no to an appointment.


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Member Blogs > Words In The WindA Little Bit About Altered Books
Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:30:14 Permalink
Now and then I am confronted by someone who does not understand how I can participate in activity that involves destroying books. But yes I do, and without qualms.
Georgia O'Keefe homage, for "Divine Women" altered book
I explain to them that hundreds of thousands of unwanted books are shredded or sent to the landfill every year. Its hard to swallow, if you love books, but not every printed volume is precious. Book alterers try to repurpose these unwanted books into works of art. Others use old books to create shelves, accessories such as handbags, even furniture.
"Henge" foldout for Spiritual Places altered book
Some of us just enjoy creating art in them. That can involve carving niches, gluing things into them, painting pages, and whatever creative approaches one can devise.
Others created by carving. I cant imagine the patience it takes for Su Blackwell to do what she does, but the results are fantastically beautiful. Su Blackwell's fabulous book sculptures.
Brian Dettmer is no less amazing with his revealed image carving.
Brian Dettmer's intriguing book carvings.
And no, I dont even try to emulate these artists. I just have fun with a group of local friends who participate in round robins. Each member starts a book on a theme, and then the books are passed from member to member so that each can created in each book. At the end the books wind up back with the person who started them, but now stuffed with the artwork of other members.
"I Killed the Bird" for Literary Cats altered book
Well, what are they good for? people then ask. What is any artwork good for? To enjoy to look at again and again to share with visitors (many of whom become so intrigued that they want to participate). Each book becomes a virtual art gallery. Since the members of each round robin tend to change from one session to another (each person has three to four weeks to complete a minimum number of pages, the length of time and number of pages depending on the number of participating members) there are always new approaches and styles. There are usually 8-12 participants, so one round robin per year is about the limit for most of us. Other groups participate by mail, or they exchange pages to be inserted in the books.
In respect of the rights of my fellow artists, I wont post examples of their work, but herein I have offered a few of my own.
Copper embossed frog for "Frog" altered book


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At Sakura Media, my co-worker and I pumped out a site called Tiny Memorial, a website for creating online memorials for pets or people. We built the project relatively quickly. We started work a Thursday afternoon and launched the product on the following Wednesday afternoon.
The application was fairly simple to design because there are other online sites out there. The difference between the other sites and Tiny Memorial is that this site was "bootstrapped" by using a panoply of technologies and we have some social networking features that the other guys don't.
Django 1.4 — Bleeding-edge Django tech. We were working on a RC candidate version and 1.4 became stable a few days after we launched.
Django socialauth — Allows visitors to login/join with Twitter or Facebook.
Twitter Bootstrap 2 — I really like working with Bootstrap. The engineer did an amazing job of making making the CSS really flexible. I aspire to achieve this level of CSS modularity/reusability. Visually, Bootstrap out-of-the-box is also great. All the UI elements and buttons are just there and I barely messed with them at all. In fact the ugly greenish yellow gradient for the header is all my choosing.
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morganm wrote:Thanks for the heads up on free shipping!
Just the excuse I was looking for to go spend $57 on Brick Warrior awesomeness =^.^=
Hope the convention goes well!
Thanks for ordering! The convention went great...now we're back and have to ship all these orders!
samuelzz10 wrote:do you ship directly to saber scorpian? or does he resell without permission? (if yes, why doesn't he have more stuff?)
Yes, Saber Scorpion is an authorized reseller. As with all resellers, he just picks and chooses what he thinks visitors to his site will like most.
mercury19 wrote:I think your stuff is amazing. I'm to broke to buy anything, but I have an ass of exactly what I want.
One question though: why don't you make all of you're pieces in all of the colors?
EDIT: also, which of your colors matches Lego's pearl dark gray the best?
Thanks! I wish I could have all our pieces available in all the colors, but it would cost too much to order that much inventory and require too much room to store all of it. Hopefully some day we will be able to!
Steel is probably our closest match to Lego Pearl Dark Gray, but Charcoal is close too.
Zupponn wrote:Will there ever be stuff in Trans-Green?
Yes, I've been thinking about doing trans colored pieces for a while now. I just have to figure out which mold I want to run and which color (or if I want to create an entirely new mold devoted to items that look best in trans colors).


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What are the different methods of surgery?
With technical advances today, surgery does not necessarily mean large incisions, as in the past. Depending on the type of surgery, there are several surgery methods that may be performed:
Open surgery--an "open" surgery means the cutting of skin and tissues so that the surgeon has a full view of the structures or organs involved.
Minimally invasive surgery--minimally invasive surgery is any technique involved in surgery that does not require a large incision. This relatively new approach allows the patient to recuperate faster with less pain. Not all conditions are suitable for minimally invasive surgery. Many surgery techniques now fall under minimally invasive surgery:
Laparoscopy--a test that uses a tube with a light and a camera lens at the end (laparoscope) to examine organs and check for abnormalities. Laparoscopy is often used during surgery to look inside the body and avoid making large incisions. Tissue samples may also be taken for examination and testing.
Endoscopy--a test that uses a small, flexible tube with a light and a camera lens at the end (endoscope) to examine the inside of the hollow organs of the digestive tract. Tissue samples from inside the digestive tract may also be taken for examination and testing.
Arthroscopy--with the use of an endoscope, surgeons can look at the interior of a joint. This technique is most often used to inspect the inside of the knee joint.
Bronchoscopy--the examination of the bronchi (the main airways of the lungs) using a flexible tube (bronchoscope). Bronchoscopy helps to evaluate and diagnose lung problems, assess blockages, obtain samples of tissue and/or fluid, and/or to help remove a foreign body.
Cystoscopy--inserting a viewing tube up the urethra to examine the urethra and bladder cavity.
Gastroscopy--examining the lining of the esophagus, stomach, and the first part of the small intestine with a long viewing tube.
Hysteroscopy--a visual inspection of the cervical canal and uterine cavity with an endoscope.
Laryngoscopy--inspecting the larynx (voice box) with a mirror or viewing tube.
Sigmoidoscopy--examination of the rectum and sigmoid colon with a viewing tube.


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The Chiefs appear to be at full strength offensively for this Sunday's matchup with the Bills.
Running back Jamaal Charles and wide receiver Dwayne Bowe have each been listed as probable for the game after a week of practice affected by injuries. Charles, who leads the NFL in touches through the first eight weeks of the season, missed practice on Wednesday because of a knee injury. He returned to work on Thursday, however, and he looks set for his customary workload in Buffalo.
Bowe went from a full practice on Wednesday to a limited practice on Thursday, but the Chiefs likely just wanted to limit his workload. Bowe played through the groin injury last weekend and he'll do it again this weekend as the Chiefs try to improve to 9-0.
The Chiefs are healthy across the board for the date with their former AFL rivals with only defensive end Mike Catapano listed as anything but probable. Catapano will miss the game with an ankle injury.


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Two weeks after the evacuation of 98 of its 111 crew, the 344-foot fish-processing ship Athena was still standing off Falmouth, England, while salvors hosed down hot spots from a fire that had raced through 350,000 cardboard packing boxes.
The fire broke out on the processing deck about 6 a.m. Oct. 27, 230 miles southwest of the Scilly Isles. Nonessential crew abandoned Athena, climbing down ladders into 11 life rafts and leaving 13 on board to guide the ship to Cornwall while its sprinkler system knocked down the fire in the sealed processing area.In a dramatic rescue operation, the Jamaica-bound container ship Vega - diverted to Athena by the Falmouth Coastguard - dropped ladders over the side so crew in the life rafts could climb up to safety. The Coastguard says the rescue came off without injury despite 5-foot swells and 25- to 30-mph winds.
On Oct. 28, a helicopter brought a team of marine firefighters from the Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service to the ship to assess the fire and the ship's stability. Cardboard boxes on two decks still were ablaze.
Later in the day, the fire intensified, sending thick smoke through the ship and rupturing a refrigeration pipe that spewed ammonia into the air. That, along with dangerously high readings of carbon monoxide, triggered a second evacuation just off the Port of Falmouth. A lifeboat from the volunteer Royal National Lifeboat Institution and a military training ship, the Valonia, removed the fire equipment and the remaining crew and firefighters - 28 in all - while the Coastguard tug Anglian Princess towed Athena to a more protected location five miles off Falmouth.
As of Nov. 8, a consortium of salvors - the Dutch firm Smit International and the British JP Knights - had put a team aboard Athena to put out the last of the fire and develop a plan to salvage the ship. Registered in Denmark's Faroe Islands, Athena is owned by Thor Ltd., a Faroese oil and fisheries service company.http://www.soundingsonline.com/news/dispatches/652-nov-24-2010/270682-111-taken-off-burning-boat
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If I were to tally up all the people I've shot throughout the host of single player first-person shooter campaigns I've played I'd be shocked. Outside of the games where the antagonists are super natural or not of this world, most of the humans were foreigners, people who already feel alien to me and more easily identifiable as "enemies." This allows for a sense of detachment that's a bit disturbing.
I don't know what it says about me that playing Spec Ops: The Line bothers me in a totally different way. Sent in to hunt for survivors of a horrific sandstorm in Dubai, my squad and I quickly get wrapped up in a battle with "rogue" American soldiers. Defying orders, one General and a battalion of Americans stayed behind to help with the evacuation, and in the days since the sandstorm, all hell has broken loose. Americans are killing civilians, acting like kids ruling a deserted island, but it's unclear if some of them are still loyal. Moments into my time in Dubai, though, one thing's apparent: they're going to shoot at me, and I have to kill them if I want to live.
Moments like these in Spec Ops give me pause. I grew up on a military base, and have plenty of friends who joined the Marines and Army right out of high school; I can't help but think of them as Spec Ops directs me to gun down Americans. Yes, they are an in-game threat, and yes, I must do it in order to progress with what is ultimately a video game, but I can't detach in the same way.
That's part of the intent in Spec Ops, though; the developers want players to consider the morality of what you're doing. Indeed, the characters in your squad grapple with the consequences, crying out about shooting their own, only to have your character, their leader, tell them 'it's them or us'. The issue that comes up is how plausible it all feels. The destruction of Dubai remains a bit far-fetched, but I've had friends and news outlets tell me enough tales of soldiers misbehaving that I could see something like this happening. Putting guns in the hands of people barely old enough to qualify as adults and giving them extreme power over others makes for a scary proposition when you think about it, and Spec Ops hints at a possible outcome when they're put under extreme duress.
In that the story makes me feel something Spec Ops is already a success. The team has talked about the choices you have to make throughout the campaign, and how they want the player to feel whatever emotion comes to them through the campaign. When I had to make a choice to save civilians or a CIA Agent, aka save an American or a group of foreigners I had no connection to, I had to think about it. Sure, it's a binary choice, but either way someone had to die, this wasn't the whole "are you a jerk or not" morality of, say, Infamous.
The problem with offering players options and expecting them to feel something about their choice is that it breaks the experience when said choices and their effects illicit the wrong response. The demo of Spec Ops ended with my squad and me rolling up to an enemy encampment. We can see what looks like a hundred or so American soldiers, working out, talking – doing all the things soldiers do in their downtime. We need to get past them, but my squad of three is vastly outnumbered. But then I see a launcher and some white phosphorus rounds nearby, a highly contentious ammunition that kills people by burning them alive. One squad member remarks that this would clean them up easily, but the other one says that I don't have to do it, that "there's always a choice."
But he's wrong. While I tried to stand up and start shooting them with my rifle (something a Producer on hand said I was the only one to try), ultimately I asked and learned that players must use the phosphorus rounds. Relenting, I walked over to the computer and dropped round after round onto Americans, my character's reflection on the screen reminding me that I am the instrument of death.
In the aftermath I walked through the dead and dying soldiers, putting bullets in the suffering. I was angry and a bit horrified, sure, but also bothered by the fact that I didn't have a choice. Imagine, then, my shock when the demo ends with a burnt American soldier telling me that they were only trying to help. The implication is there – not all of the Americans have gone rogue. But my gung-ho, strike first strategy – my increasing ease of associating American uniforms as that of the enemy -- has made me kill good people. My people.
Telling a story from a perspective of someone that's wielding a gun and shooting people in the name of "fun" is a challenge. But Spec Ops: The Line certainly does its darndest to make sure you feel something. When it comes to market this Spring, I don't know that I'll play through it, but if nothing else I'm thankful to have experienced a game that actually makes me reflect on the things I've done.
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Lord McNair asked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to their Written Answer of 8th March concerning trials to test the efficacy of electric shock treatment (ECT) in the treatment of depression (col. WA 40), and in the light of an independent survey carried out by the UK Advocacy Network on 308 recipients of ECT, which found that 35.1 per cent. of the respondents considered it to have been "damaging", whether they will commission an independent study of this treatment by non-psychiatric medical doctors.Baroness Cumberlege: We do not consider it necessary to commission an independent study into the use of ECT.
Lord McNair asked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to their Written Answer of 8th March which stated that there is "no evidence that ECT is disproportionately risky in older people" (col. WA 40), whether they consider that electroshock treatment (ECT) is under-reported as a cause of death, and whether they will, as a matter of urgency, find out how many people are dying following ECT.Baroness Cumberlege: Unexpected deaths of patients in psychiatric hospitals will normally be subject to critical incident enquiries. Certification of death by the certifying doctor will depend on enquiries though the local coroner, who will order an inquest if this is judged to be necessary.
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In an unusual televised address for the new year, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called to defuse tensions with South Korea and boost the economy of his impoverished nation.
"An important issue in putting an end to the division of the country and achieving its reunification is to remove confrontations between the north and the south," Kim declared.
Almost anything emerging from the isolated North Korean regime is bound to be parsed by analysts seeking clues to its next steps, but it is striking that Kim gave such a speech at all.
His father, Kim Jong Il, rarely spoke in public and signaled his annual plans through state newspaper editorials; the younger Kim has cultivated a more accessible style since taking power, showing up in public with his young wife and repeatedly addressing the North Korean people on television. Such gestures seem reminiscent of his grandfather, national founder Kim Il Sung, who routinely spoke on the new year.


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Previously I took this definition of an XML document tree from xml-light and asked how we could annotate nodes with extra data.
type xml =
| Element of (string * (string * string) list * xml list)
| PCData of string
If you "think outside the box", or in this case literally outside the structure, you might see that you can add annotations using a hash table. The idea is that we'll hash the addresses of nodes to the annotated data.
Let's have a concrete example to make this all a bit clearer. Start with this simple document tree:
Camltastic!
which is written in OCaml as:
let str = PCData "Camltastic!"
let doc = Element ("a",
["href", "http://camltastic.blogspot.com/"],
There are two nodes here (
str and
doc) and both have type
A simple, and wrong, way to use a hash table to annotate these nodes is like this:
let h = Hashtbl.create 13
let add_annot node data = Hashtbl.add h node data
let get_annot node =
try Some (Hashtbl.find h node)
with Not_found -> None
It seems to work:
# add_annot doc "doc is annotated with this string" ;;
- : unit = ()
# get_annot doc ;;
- : string option = Some "doc is annotated with this string"
# get_annot str ;;
- : string option = None
But there are some subtle and not-so-subtle problems with this approach.
The first problem is that Hashtbl, by default, uses structural equality to hash nodes. If you had a document like
LinkLink then there is no way to attach different data to the two links, because both links appear to be equal (they are equal, structurally). Attaching data to one link attaches the data to both.
The two other problems with this are garbage collection and copying. Garbage collection is defeated because the hash table maintains a permanent pointer to any annotated nodes. What we would like to happen is that if a node becomes garbage, the collector frees the node and any annotations on the node. In fact this never happens: the permanent pointer held by the hash table prevents any node from becoming garbage. The copying problem is that when the main program copies a node, the annotations aren't copied across.
Enter the Weak Hash Table
OCaml has a rarely-used but rather elegant module in the standard library called
Weak. This module implements weak pointers. A weak pointer is like an ordinary pointer, but it doesn't "count" towards garbage collection. In other words if a value on the heap is only pointed at by weak pointers, then the garbage collector may free that value as if nothing was pointing to it.
A weak hash table uses weak pointers to avoid the garbage collection problem above. Instead of storing a permanent pointer to the keys or values, a weak hash table stores only a weak pointer, allowing the garbage collector to free nodes as normal.
It probably isn't immediately obvious, but there are 3 variants of the weak hash table, to do with whether the key, the value or both are weak. (The fourth "variant", where both key and value are strong, is just an ordinary Hashtbl). Thus the OCaml standard library "weak hash table" has only weak values. The Hweak library has weak keys and values. And the WeakMetadata library (weakMetadata.ml, weakMetadata.mli) is a version of Hweak modified by me which has only weak keys.
Which sort of weak hash table do we need? If you look at the Hashtbl implementation above you'll see that the key corresponds to the xml node and the value corresponds to the metadata attached to nodes. We assume that the main program holds onto a pointer to the xml tree until it is no longer needed, whereupon it should be collected. So we definitely need weak keys. How about the values (annotations)? The main program probably isn't holding any references to the annotations - it expects to annotate a node and then forget about the annotation until it is needed later. So values should not be weak (otherwise our annotation library will be rather "forgetful"). You'll therefore need to use my modified WeakMetadata library to get around the garbage collection problem.
Using WeakMetadata you can annotate immutable data structures, as this test program shows. Although we have solved the garbage collection problem, the other two problems I mentioned remain. Namely, it's still using structural equality, and if the main program copies a node, then the annotations don't get copied too.
However there are some rather more insidious problems that remain with this whole approach, which are down to how weak pointers are actually implemented inside the OCaml garbage collector. I wrote about them in this posting on the OCaml mailing list which also includes some analysis of the performance and memory usage of annotating XML document nodes.
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hi all archers,
yesterday, after a few months off, i decided to re-give a try to systemd readahead.
surprise!! time ago does not gave any benefit, now will not even start!
the service stop with this log message:
systemd-readahead-collect[xxx]: Failed to read event: Value too large for defined data type
this, the service status:
systemd-readahead-collect.service - Collect Read-Ahead Data
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-readahead-collect.service; enabled)
Active: active (exited) (Result: exit-code) since Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:08:24 +0200; 42min ago
Process: 158 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-readahead-collect (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Status: "Collecting readahead data"
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/systemd-readahead-collect.service
googling i've seen many of this errors but always related to different software/packages
the older ones tipically involved 32bit and missing LARGEFILE* libraries/functions
the most recent seems to be all on x86_64 systems and EOVERFLOW buffer overflow protection kernel bug or compilation related bug.
my system is a fully updated (26/06/2012) ArchLinux x68_64
standard core repo kernel
full systemd inited, sysvinit replaced/removed
intel hw (asus p5q-e with a q9550)
i personally compiled systemd with no luck
anyone with a similar config and error?
today it works...
yesterday my /.readahead file was that:
systemd-readahead-collect immediately exits at first read event
is it likely that the reading order at boot is the same as yesterday?
if yes,
my old (yes yesterday i've, as usual, browsed samba shares) brlock.tdb gave the EOVERFLOW reading error. actual one no! was it to big?
naaa, it's modern code largefile awared and I doubt the file could even reach the gigabyte
if no,
i'll never know
p.s.: why read samba cache first to boot????
forget it
error is back again
same error here, did you find a solution in the meantime?
I am getting similar error.
[(a number increasing during the boot process)]Failed to read event: Value too large for defined data type
no solution here
I still have regularly that log error
Do you use a swap file? I have the same problem and I think it's because. hash swapfile entry in the /etc/fstab temporarily solved the problem.
Do people with swapfile could confirm bug?
systemctl enable systemd-readahead-collect systemd-readahead-replay
and looked at
dmesg | grep systemd-readahead
if the bug "systemd-readahead[155]: Failed to read event: Value too large for defined data type" occurs?
then hash swapfile entry in the /etc/fstab, reboot and and again look at the dmesg output.
systemctl disable systemd-readahead-collect systemd-readahead-replay
disables service and get an earlier state. Sorry for my english
PS possible that the swap file larger than 2GB
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sorry for my english. {Arch Linux, Debian} User
@kelloco2 - yes!! i use a swap file and it's >2Gib. maybe this is the right way but...
1) it's also true, for me, that not always my readahead service fails. seems to be nearly random. 7-8/10 times it fails.
2) /.readhaed never contains paths to swapfile. why readahead collect needs to cache swapfile?
I do not know exactly why this is so. I reported upsteram bug and I report bug to systemd's bug reports and i hope they repair it.. I do not want to give up swapfile. swap partition temporary solved the problem.
sorry for my english. {Arch Linux, Debian} User
I have the same problem and I have a 2GB swapfile. Does anybody have any news about this bug?
Hey guys. I solved the bug decreasing file dimension down to 1.5GB. Now it seems to work.


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Eastview beat Eagan 4-1 on Thursday to win the Section 2AA championship and qualify for the state tournament for the first time since 2001. Photo by Loren Nelson
The problem with Zach Driscoll is he practices the way he plays.
Which is to say Eastview's sophomore goaltender would rather juggle flaming porcupines than allow a goal.
OK, so that's not really a problem. But it's true that shooting on Driscoll day after day can be damaging to the ego. It's nice, after all, to score a goal every once in a while.
"The worst thing about it is we don't gain any confidence in practice because he is so flippin' good," Eastview coach Drey Bradley said with a grin after Dricscoll's latest command performance, a 37-save masterpiece in the Lightning's 4-1 upset of Eagan in the Section 2AA championship on Thursday, Feb. 28, at the State Fairgrounds Coliseum in St. Paul.
Driscoll, who didn't become Eastview's starter until late December, had recorded shutouts over Rosemount and Apple Valley in the first two rounds of this year's playoffs. Eagan didn't crack the Driscoll Code until Mr. Hockey candidate Zach Glienke scored with 4:28 left in the third.
"He just played unreal this whole entire section tournament," said Eastview junior John Snodgrass, who scored twice against the Wildcats. "Two shutouts and one goal in what, 40 shots out there?"
Driscoll has a ridiculous .988 save percentage and 0.33 goals-against average in three postseason games. Toss out a 7-1 loss to Eagan on Feb. 12, and Driscoll has allowed two goals in his last six games dating back to a 2-0 triumph over Lakeville South on Feb. 5.
Eagan sophomore Zach Driscoll has allowed one goal in three playoff games. Photo by Loren Nelson
A first-period save on a Glienke breakaway only served to reinforce the fact the top-seeded and No. 4-ranked Wildcats were running up against a hot goalie. Glienke deked Driscoll out of position, but was unable to slide the puck into the open net as Driscoll reached back for the puck with his stick.
How did he manage to stop that one?
"I'll be honest, I don't know," Driscoll said. "I think I got lucky and he whiffed a little bit. I don't know if my stick caught it or what happened, but it stayed out of the net, and that's all that matters. "
Driscoll moves with quickness and a smoothness that makes every save look as simple and routine as taking a swig out of a water bottle. Rebounds? Driscoll doesn't allow any rebounds. Or, at least, it's rare when he does.
"I think he is very good," Eagan coach Mike Taylor said. "It's tough to get second looks on him. That's what you need in a goaltender."
In the third period Driscoll made a save that ended with the puck in his catching glove and his catching glove behind his back.
A behind-the-back save? Yeah, Driscoll is technically sound, but there's some Dominik Hasek influence in him, too. That means Driscoll will make a save by any means necessary.
He can take a hit, too. Cullen Willox plowed into Driscoll late in the second period. Willox got a goaltender interference penalty, Driscoll got his bell rung.
"How do you get a goalie off his game?" Bradley said. "You put a little pressure on him. We kind of expect some of those things to go on. We've just got to keep our composure."
Eastview goaltender Zach Driscoll.
In 20 games this season counting playoffs Driscoll has a 15-4-1 record, .945 save percentage and 1.65 goals-against average.
"For a sophomore?" Bradley said. "That's pretty good.
"He practices the same way he plays, So he comes out and competes every night in practice."
Meanwhile, for guys like Snodgrass, the ego takes hit after hit.
"He thinks its funny," Snodgrass said about Driscoll's ability to shut his teammates down. "We don't."
Now it's on to the biggest stage of them all for Driscoll and the Lightning, who haven't reached the state Class 2A tournament since 2001. Eastview does have plenty of state tournament experience, however, as members of the schools' state championship lacrosse, baseball and soccer teams from the last calendar year are sprinkled throughout the roster.
"These guys have played in big games," Bradley said. "And it just made it easier this season with the kind of character you have from a state champion."
Driscoll isn't one of those champions. At least not yet. He plays golf and was on the Lightning's sophomore football team last fall.
"I'm on top of the world right now," Driscoll said. "I can't even put it into words. I've been going to the state tournament every year with (teammate) Keith Muehlbauer and our dads.
"And now it's us. It's our turn."
-- Loren Nelson, MN Hockey Hub editor
Eastview's Jake McGlocklin beats Eagan goaltender Andrew Lindgren for a second-period goal. Photo by Loren Nelson
John Snodgrass
Junior forward John Snodgrass scored twice, and sophomore goaltender Zach Driscoll made 37 saves as No. 3-seeded Eastview stunned top-seeded Eagan 4-1 in the Section 3AA championship game on Thursday, Feb. 28, at the State Fairgrounds Coliseum in St Paul.
Pierce Erickson added two assists, and Jake McGlockin and Cole Cooper had a goal and an assist each to help the Lightning (18-9-1) reach the state tournament for the first time since 2001.
Zach Glienke scored the lone goal for No.4-ranked Eagan, the two time defending section champion which was repeatedly frustrated by the stellar play of Driscoll.
After Snodgrass put the Lightning up just 7 minutes, 11 seconds into the game, the Wildcats had plenty of chances to tie the score, including a breakway by Mr. Hockey finalist Zach Glienke. Driscoll made a sprawling save to stop what appeared would be an easy goal for Glienke, who had a mostly open net in front of him after a deke got Driscoll out of position.
Cooper scored the eventual game-winner at the 12:02 mark of the opening period to help the Lightning shock the Wildcats (23-4-1).
Eagan netminder Andrew Lindgren had 30 saves, but it wasn't enough as he struggled early with his rebound control.
Snodgrass put Eastview ahead 4-0 with a breakaway goal with 6:54 remaining.
Cullen Willox had an assist on Glienke's third-period goal that made the score 4-1 and ended Driscoll's playoff shutout streak at 106 minutes, 28 seconds.
Driscoll, who became Eastview's full-time starter in December, entered the game with consecutive shutouts against Rosemount and Apple Valley in sectional play.
-- Ben Bakker, MN Hockey Hub staff
Eastview's John Snodgrass.
1. John Snodgrass, Eastview
The junior forward got the Lightning on the board midway through the first period, punching home a rebound goal. He scored again on a third-period breakaway despite being at the end of a long and exhausting shift. Snodgrass also had an assist.
2. Zach Driscoll, Eastview
The sophomore goaltender was his usual stellar self, stopping 37 of 38 shots against a high-powered Eagan offense that had only a handful of rebound chances. Driscoll's best save might have come in the first period when he somehow reached behind his back to stop a breakaway shot by Eagan Mr. Hockey candidate Zach Glienke.
3. Cole Cooper, Eastview
He scored what proved to be the game-winner in the first period and added an assist on the first Lightning goal.
-- Ben Bakker, MN Hockey Hub staff
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