text:
Rush Limbaugh is the latest pundit to rush to the defense of Neil Munro, the Irish born journalist who interrupted President Obama's speech at the White House on Friday by yelling 'Why do you favor foreigners over American workers?'
Munro, the White House correspondent for the right-leaning Daily Caller, was denounced by members of the media for shouting out his question while the president was still in the middle of his speech on immigration reform.
But now Limbaugh is defending the Irishman's right to speak and blasting Munro's critics for suggesting that the reporter felt emboldened to interrupt President Obama because of his race.
On his radio show on Monday Limbaugh argued that Munro was simply doing his job as a journalist. 'Imagine heckling the president by asking him a question!' he scoffed. Limbaugh went on to say he was mystified by the nations focus on the reporter's tactic.
ABC's Sam Donaldson, who took offense when he was compared to Munro by the Daily Caller's chief Tucker Carlson, countered that he believed Obama's race was a factor in Munro's behavior and Limbaugh's opposition to the president.
Donaldson told The Huffington Post this week that many oppose the president 'for who he is, an African American' and he singled out Limbaugh out for encouraging a climate of 'disrespect.'
In an email over the weekend, Limbaugh took issue with Donaldson's claims.
'How utterly ignorant of these supposed great minds to suggest that any of this has anything to do with Obama's skin color cause I'm gonna tell you it doesn't. As far as I'm concerned, I got over his skin color before he was elected,' Limbaugh wrote, adding that he objected to Obama's 'ideas' and 'policies.'
'I couldn't care less about this guy's skin color and for these guys to run around and make this kind of accusation, it is cheap, it is predictable, it is cliched, it is ignorant and it is wrong,' Limbaugh blustered.
Limbaugh has famously referred to Obama as a 'Halfrican,' 'a Chicago street thug,' 'a half-minority' and even 'the little black man-child.'


text:
Christian Creative Writers
Search Query
Display results as :
Advanced Search
Log in
Christian Creative Writers
Memoirs, Autobiographies, & Biographies
Rock and Roll and the Western Soul
Carl Halling
WRITER (51-100 posts)
Join date
Greater London Urban Area, England
Subject: Rock and Roll and the Western Soul
Sat Apr 20, 2013 4:41 am
The Burgeoning Generation of Love
The highpoint of Patrick Halling's early Pop career was undoubtedly his leadership of the string section for the Beatles'
All You Need Is Love
, transmitted live at the height of the so-called Summer of Love on July 25th 1967.
The programme, entitled
Our World
, was the first satellite broadcast in history, and it secured an audience of 350 million, which was unprecedented at that time. And among those taking part were such legendary figures of the swinging sixties as Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Eric Clapton, Keith Moon, Marianne Faithful and Donovan.
But this was not Pat's first involvement with the burgeoning Underground or Progressive Rock movement. For the previous year of '66, he'd taken part in the recording of Donovan's Museum, destined to see the light of day on the
Mellow Yellow
album, which reached the number 14 position on the Billboard Hot 100. Although it failed to secure a UK release due to contractual complications.
Also involved with the
Mellow Yellow
sessions were close friends Mickie Most, who produced; and John Cameron, who did most of the arrangements. As well as session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan, and future Led Zeppelin members, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones.
A year later, he worked on a project that was as much a concept album as any of the Beatles' records of the same period, Ken Moule's superb
Adam's Rib Suite
, which fused elements of Jazz, Pop and Classical music to recount the history of womankind from Eve to Cleo Laine.
Needless to say, though, it was infinitely less successful than any comparable record within the Rock genre, Rock being at the vanguard of popular culture in a way that Jazz had once been, but no longer was. However, by the turn of the decade, a reconciliation between the two alienated factions was well under way, with Jazz-Fusion coming from one camp and the more populist Jazz-Rock from the other.
In '75, Pat served as leader for Mike Gibbs'
The Only Chrome Waterfall Orchestra
, an unsung early example of British Jazz fusion, which was finally released on CD in 1997.
Adam's Rib
followed it on CD exactly ten years later.
By the time of his involvement with
Adam's Rib
, Pat had already moved into the worlds of film and television. And his early career included solos for the 1960 movie,
, produced and directed by Otto Preminger, with music by Ernest Gold, as well as for much treasured British sitcom,
Steptoe and Son
(1969-'74), whose incidental music was composed by his close friend Ron Grainer.
He also served as concertmaster for the great Johnny Green on Carol Reed's version of Lionel Bart's
in 1968, and for John Williams on three movies beginning with the musical version of James Hilton's
Goodbye Mr Chips
And going on to include
Jane Eyre
(1970), directed by Delbert Mann, and
Fiddler on the Roof
(1971), by Norman Jewison.
Directed by Herbert Ross in 1969, Chips featured a screenplay by no less a luminary of British literature than Terence Rattigan. And as he was the author of such quintessentially English tragedies as
The Browning Version
The Winslow Boy
, both centring on the English private school system, he was the perfect choice.
Sadly though, for all its virtues, including a lovely score by Leslie Bricusse, it was not a critical success, although it was nominated for several major awards, and has gone on to enjoy something of a following on the internet.
Also in '69, he worked on David Lean's
Ryan's Daughter
, a visually beautiful epic set in rural Ireland during the First World War, which was another film that has grown in stature since its initial release. Written by playwright and screenwriter Robert Bolt, with music by Maurice Jarre, it was poorly received by the critics (while being a modest box office success), although today, its considered by many to be among Lean's finest works.
In addition to Williams, Green and Jarre, he's served as concertmaster for a panoply of major 20th Century musical figures working within the media of film and television, including Dimitri Tiomkin, Nelson Riddle, Georges Delerue, Wilfred Josephs and Christopher Gunning.
But to return the world of Pop, which mutated into Rock, possibly some time towards the end of the late 1960s, while retaining a Pop subsidiary; and became known as such to many of its devotees, presumably as a means of investing it with some respectability as an art form:
As the '60s ceded to the '70s, Pat's close friend Mickie Most was poised to enter the second phase of his glittering Pop career, having been briefly involved with the nascent Rock movement through his management of the Jeff Beck Group. And yet, even at that, he'd sought to turn guitar virtuoso Beck into a major Pop star...while apparently remaining impervious to the star quality of his one-time front man, Rod Stewart.
And it fell to business partner Peter Grant to prosper within Rock music, first as co-manager of the Yardbirds with Most; then as sole manager of Led Zeppelin, who went on to become the ultimate Rock band; and second only to the Rolling Stones in terms of legendary darkness and mystery.
And by the time of the Zeppelin's conquest of America, the face of Western society had been altered almost beyond recognition by the Rock and Roll revolution. Yet, in all good conscience, responsibility for this transformation can't be laid exclusively at the feet of Rock. For, after all, tendencies hostile to the Judeo-Christian fabric of the West can be traced at least as far back as the Enlightenment of the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Much of the groundwork had already been done in other words, and that's especially true of the forties and fifties.
It was in these two immediate post-war decades that the Existentialists and the Beats became international icons of revolt, while lesser groups such as the Lettrists of Paris served as scandal-sowing forerunners of the Situationists, believed to have played a major role in fomenting the Paris riots of May '68.
At the same time, Britain's first major youth cult surfaced in the shape of the Teddy Boys, and a cinema of youthful discontent flourished as never before.
Movies such as Stanley Kramer's
The Wild One
and Nicholas Ray's
Rebel Without a Cause
fostered a desire among millions of young Americans to be identified as rebels themselves, reacting against the widespread conformity of Eisenhower era America.
For all that, though, none of these phenomena enjoyed a tithe of the influence of Rock in terms of its effect on the Western soul.
Glam and the Gender Revolution
My Pangbourne years coincided with the rise of Rock, which was Pop transmuted into an art form, while somehow including Pop as its less intellectual counterpart. And the music we listened to as self-styled lads had "lad value"; and we called it Underground for its shadowy exclusivity, while at some point it became known as Progressive.
But as I recall...it included both Hard Rock and Soft Rock, and the sophisticated Art Rock of acts and artists as diverse as the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Doors. And for me, there was no real difference between the experimental Hard Rock of Deep Purple, and the out and out Prog of Yes or Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
For Rock was split into two categories...Underground and Commercial...a term we tended to spit out like some kind of curse, as this was pure Pop, whose domain was the despised hit parade featured weekly on the long-running British TV programme,
Top of the Pops
The Underground, on the other hand, was composed of acts and artists who made music largely for the growing album market. And there were those among them, such as Led Zeppelin, who never graced the singles chart despite earning fortunes through concerts and album sales. And from about '69, the Zep constituted one of my prime facilitators into the turbid depths of the Underground.
But by the time I quit Pangbourne in 1972, a new Rock revolution was underway in the shape of a heterogeneous mix of Rock and Pop allied to an outrageous androgynous image...and known as Glam.
Glam had begun to infiltrate the British charts as early as '71, while making little impact on the US, despite the fact that many of its pioneers were American. While its true roots were to be found in the Blues and early Rock and Roll, more of which later.
But it had been carried into the mainstream by one Marc Bolan, born Mark Feld in 1947 into a Jewish family of working class origins, who had been featured in 1962 in a magazine called
, as one of the Faces, or leading Mods of Stamford Hill in East London. Although by then he'd moved with his family to a council house in Summerstown in West London.
He went on to achieve major success as one half of the acoustic duo, Tyrannosaurus Rex; the other being multi-instrumentalist Steve Peregrin Took who, like Bolan, was a leading figure of London's Hippie Underground centred on Ladbroke Grove.
But In 1970, Took was replaced by percussionist Mickey Finn, who shared Bolan's love of old-time Rock and Roll. And as T. Rex, they had their first top 5 hit in the shape of Ride a White Swan.
And by the time of their first number one the following year, T. Rex were a four-piece band, with Bolan the biggest British teen sensation since the Beatles. While the Bolan phenomenon was dubbed T. Rextasy by the British press...and all throughout the land, bedroom walls were adorned with Bolan's fascinating elfin face.
However, for the true roots of Glam one must return to the very earliest days of Rock and Roll. And specifically to a certain Rhythm and Blues shouter by the name of Little Richard.
As a boy, Richard had attended the New Hope Baptist Church in his native Macon, Georgia, and sung Gospel songs with his family as The Penniman Singers. And aged just 13, he joined Gospel legend Sister Rosetta Tharp onstage in Macon after she heard him singing before the concert. And he had serious ambitions of becoming a full-time minister of the Gospel, while demonstrating extraordinary gifts as a boy preacher.
By 1951, however, the world had begun to beckon, and he won a talent contest in Atlanta that led to a recording contract with RCA Victor, but the four records he subsequently released all flopped. While around about the same time, he came under the sway of an outrageous Rhythm and Blues musician by the name of Esquerita, who shaped his unique piano style.
Esquerita is also believed to have influenced his increasingly flamboyant image, although self-styled King of the Blues Billy Wright, who piled his pomaded hair high on his head and wore eye liner and face powder, was also an influence in this respect.
Real success came for Richard in 1955 with
Tutti Frutti
, which has been cited as the true starting point for the Rock and Roll revolution; but within two years, he'd quit the business and returned to his faith. And as a Christian myself, I can only hope that for all his struggles, the good Reverend Penniman is a saved Christian man, and there is a good deal of evidence he is. For few Rock stars have been as vocal in their condemnation of Rock and Roll as he has been.
Yet, in his wake, androgyny went on to become one of its major features; and this was true of several of its earliest pioneers. And that includes the single most influential phenomenon in Rock and Roll history with the possible exception of the Beatles, the boy who once worshipped as part of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God for whom fame turned out to be such a mixed blessing: Elvis Aaron Presley.
And the mantle was taken up in the mid to late sixties by such pioneers of Glam as the Kinks, Barrett era Pink Floyd, early Soft Machine, the Rolling Stones, and Alice Cooper. But the decade as a whole witnessed an extraordinary explosion of androgyny on the part of the Western male, which served to pave for the way for the '70s.
And Glam swept a host of musicians who'd been striving for major success since the early '60s to fresh levels of stardom in the UK and elsewhere. Such as David Bowie, Elton John and Rod Stewart. For all three had first appeared on record as part of the British Blues Boom...Bowie and Stewart in '64, and John in '65; and despite being idolised at the height of Glam, they continued to be admired as serious album artists.
For there were two major strands of Glam in its heyday of 1971-'74, one being allied to the consciously artistic tradition of Progressive Rock, the other, to the purest pure Pop. And among those acts and artists affiliated to the former were David Bowie, Roxy Music, Mott the Hoople and the Sensational Alex Harvey Band; while the latter embraced T. Rex, the Sweet, Gary Glitter, Slade and Wizzard. While there were many more who either flirted with the genre from within the confines of Prog, such as the Strawbs, or existed on its fringes, such as Silverhead.
As to stateside Glam, pioneered primarily by Alice Cooper, it went on to include such cult icons as Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, the New York Dolls, Jobriath and Brett Smiley; as well as singer-songwriter, Todd Rundgren, a serious candidate for the most gifted Rock artist of all time. While several major acts were briefly touched by it; such as Aerosmith and Kiss, but it would not be until the 1980s that Glam entered the mainstream in the shape of Glam Metal.
Also among those part of the first wave of Glam was the band that effectively invented the genre, the Rolling Stones. Although they didn't adopt its more flagrant trappings until around 1972, the year they released the album which is widely considered to be their masterpiece,
Exile on Main Street
Initial sessions took place in the basement of the Villa Nellcote, a 19th century mansion on the waterfront of Villefranche-sur-Mer in France's Cote d'Azur, which had been leased to Keith Richards in the summer of '71. However, several tracks had already been recorded at Mick Jagger's country estate, as well as at West London's legendary Olympic Studios.
Originally a theatre, then a film studio, Olympic was converted into a recording studio by the architect Robertson Grant, while his son Keith Grant - a very close friend of Pat Halling's - completed the acoustics in tandem with Russel Pettinger. It went on to become the virtual nerve centre of the British Rock movement.
Much has been written of the Exile sessions, which saw various icons of the Counterculture passing through Nellcote as if to lay blessings on the decadent antics taking place therein, which stand today as the very quintessence of the benighted Rock and Roll lifestyle. While less than a decade had passed since Rock's true inception at the hands of the clean-cut Beatles, Western society had already been altered almost beyond recognition within that short space of time.
Yet, responsibility for this transformation can't in all good conscience be laid exclusively at the feet of Rock, given that tendencies inimical to the West's moral fabric can be traced at least as far back as the Enlightenment of the 16th and 17th Centuries. So, how had society come to be so successfully and swiftly revolutionised by Rock?
Part of the answer lies in its sheer popularity, itself arguably born of its extraordinary eclecticism. And among bands embodying this quality during Rock's first golden age of the mid-1960s were the Rolling Stones. And this thanks significantly to the sheer musical brilliance of founder member Brian Jones, who plausibly helped to sow the seeds of the Progressive movement to come, but buttressed by the considerable song writing gifts of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. However, in the late 1960s, with Progressive Rock in the ascent, the Stones seemed to make a conscious effort to return to their Blues origins, as well as embracing other forms of roots music, such as Country and Western, and this process could be said to have reached an apogee with
Exile on Main Street
in 1972.
In that selfsame year, Pat Halling was involved with an album that was greeted with little of the ballyhoo of Exile. This being
, by the great Irish actor Richard Harris, who'd launched a Pop career on the back of Jimmy Webb's 7 minute Pop tour de force,
MacArthur Park
In 2005, it was released on CD with
My Boy
, receiving very high ratings from Amazon reviewers both in Britain and the US.
However, as the '70s progressed, Pat became involved with several far more successful projects on the fringes of Glam, more of which later.
Rock and Roll and the Western Soul
When such Glam acts and artists as David Bowie and the Sweet had first appeared on British television in full make up around 1972, there were those undilutedly masculine British males who were doubtless moved to revulsion and rage. Yet by about '74, Glam could be said to have shed much of its revolutionary potency.
But by the time it had done so, it had effectuated a minor sexual upheaval by making male androgyny more acceptable than ever before. And it did so in defiance of the Bible's strict delineation of the sexual roles, and prohibition of any form of cross dressing.
And one can only wonder what effect it had on the psychological development of young men such as myself, who'd already been weaned on the ferocious rebel sounds of Rock, only to swoon at the feet of the gorgeous androgynes of Glam.
But while it had entered the mainstream as Teenybop Pop, an avant-garde form persisted in the shape of an apparent nostalgic love affair with Europe's immediate past - and especially its decadent cabaret culture - on the part of acts and artists as diverse as Bowie and Roxy Music; as well as critically acclaimed newcomers Cockney Rebel. And the persona Bowie adopted in 1976, and which he enigmatically dubbed The Thin White Duke could be said to have been the apotheosis of this romantic Europhilia.
But little of this was in evidence in the happy world of Pop which continued to mine the Glam Rock craze for all it was worth, propelling a multitude of entertainers into the charts in the process. Such as one David Cook, a startlingly handsome young cockney Londoner of Irish Traveller extraction who as David Essex became a major star on the fringes of Glam.
But rather than Rock or Teenybop Pop, he did so largely through acting. And it was his own song
Rock On
that really put him on the map as a major heart throb in 1974, when it became a major hit on both sides of the Atlantic, due in no small part to its distinctive string arrangement, featuring one Pat Halling as concertmaster.
Its follow-up,
, was the title of the hit movie of the same name, a salutary tale of a young Londoner who achieves his dreams of superstardom, only to end up holed up in some Spanish castle as a drug-addicted recluse.
Like its predecessor, it had been produced by New Yorker Jeff Wayne, with whom Pat worked both on
Rock On
and his own
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
, widely viewed today as a masterpiece.
That same year of '74 saw the release of Cilla Black's
In My Life
, produced by David Mackay, and
The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
by Rod Edwards and Roger Hand from an original book by William Plomer; both with orchestra led by Pat.
While he was still a close colleague of Mickie Most, who was enjoying the second phase of his glittering Pop career. For as previously stated, Most had been briefly involved with the burgeoning Rock movement in the shape of the Jeff Beck Group, which had been formed in early '67.
But in time, he bequeathed the band to his friend and business partner, Peter Grant, and under Grant's aegis, they went on to enormous success in the US. And by so doing, they anticipated the mega-glory of another Grant-managed band led by a one-time member of the Yardbirds.
I'm referring of course to Led Zeppelin, a band perhaps second only to the Rolling Stones in terms of legendary darkness and mystery, if you'll excuse the leitmotiv.
While Grant went on to take the US by storm with Led Zep, Mickie set about turning RAK, which they'd formed together in 1969, into one the key Pop record labels of the '70s and home to several classic Glam, Pop and Teenybop acts.
These included Disco-Poppers Hot Chocolate which had been formed as early as 1969, and former Detroit native Suzi Quatro, both of whom Pat worked with on several occasions with Mickie at the helm; as well as Mud, Arrows, Kenny, Smokie and Racey.
Quatro benefited from the brilliance of songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, who also wrote for the Sweet, Mud, Arrows, Smokie and Racey, and for a time was one of the few female stars of the Glam-Glitter genre. But Pat's work in the mid 1970s was by no means restricted to the purest pure Pop, far from it.
There was a major movie project in the shape of
The Day of the Jackal
, directed by the great Fred Zinnemann, whom I have always admired enormously.
I was fortunate enough to be introduced to him by Pat. And he was the second of two legends of the cinema I met around about that time, the first having been the great Charles Chaplin, and they were both quite delectably charming to me.
Pat was the concertmaster, serving under the Frenchman Georges Delerue - whom I also met - who both composed and conducted the music.
In terms of recorded music, Pat became caught up in the final stages of the Prog Rock boom when he served as leader for Jethro Tull, for despite himself, he'd been part of the growing Rock movement from the outset.
And notably through his association with the Beatles, who by '67 were at the forefront of the Rock revolution; although their Rock was ever replete with beautiful Pop melodies. But the same could also be said of Tull, one of the most purely artistic bands of the genre, which yet achieved both commercial and critical success on both sides of the Atlantic. And the first of these projects, War Child from 1974, could be said to be the quintessence of Rock as an art form, whose earliest expression was the aforesaid Prog.
For by fusing elements of Classical, Folk and Rock, the Prog phenomenon created a music that at times amounted to high art, as in the case of Tull.
But it was Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention who effectively birthed the genre; although the notion of Rock as art had evolved by degrees in both Britain and America, with both the Beatles and Bob Dylan being especially influential in this respect.
Yet while both Britain and America served as the cradles of Art Rock, Prog was characteristically British, with King Crimson, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Yes, Gentle Giant and Genesis serving as early exemplars. And in keeping with its position within the rebel music of Rock, its lyrics often inclined to a darkness of tone which was characteristic of much of the musical Underground of the late 1960s.
Speaking of which...from about '73, it could be said that Progressive Rock set about a return to the Underground whence it had emerged. And from there, took to informing a vast variety of musical genres...including Glam Rock, Jazz Rock, New Wave, Post-Punk, Alt Rock and Indie. In fact, one might go so far as to say its been ubiquitous ever since, so that as things stand, several of the most successful acts in the world could be said to be Progressive in varying degrees.
But by '73, pure Prog was already starting to look stale in comparison to the Art Rock of figures such as Todd Rundgren and David Bowie, who were operating as progressives within the Glam Rock genre.
And in that selfsame year, Pat worked on two concept albums that were nowhere nears as commercial as anything by these two innovators, namely
Cosmic Wheels
by Donovan; and Johnny Harris'
All To Bring You Morning
, for which he led the strings. And which featured no less than three one-time members of Yes, who just happened to be recording next door at the time as Johnny and friends, and were great admirers of his work.
He went on to work on a series of Art Rock projects which while not as successful as international best-sellers by the likes of Tull have received fresh critical acclaim through the internet.
They include
(1975) by Steve Howe,
(1976) by Barclay James Harvest,
Perilous Journey
(1976/'7) by Gordon Giltrap,
(1977) by Donovan, and
Woman in the Wings
(1978) by Steeleye Span lead singer Maddie Prior. While a very early Progressive project of Pat's was
Definitely What
(1969) by Brian Auger and the Trinity.
But for Pat, involvement in the rebel music of Rock and Roll was ever but a means of earning the amounts of money necessary to support a home and family. While in my case, it was entirely voluntary, and one after the other I immersed myself in its messages of revolt.
Which is not to say that all Rock music is overtly dark or iconoclastic, far from it. For much of it is relatively innocuous, and there is much beauty to be found in all forms of Rock, both musically and lyrically, as I've already made clear. Yet from a historical perspective, it could be said that few art forms have been quite so effective in challenging the Judeo-Christian foundations of Western culture as Rock.
And for a time, it was as if a civil war was being fought for the hearts and minds of the young. And that's especially true of the '60s, where in both Britain and America, the conflict was quite extraordinarily fierce...and this persisted into the '70s. With the result that the British Punk insurrection provoked a reaction from ordinary members of the public which would be inconceivable today in a West that has become so utterly inured to outrage.
While by the '80s it could be said to have started to wane, as the values of the Counterculture started percolating the mainstream. And while this was concurrent with a famous conservative backlash, the latter hardly constituted a wholesale return to traditional values. For these were still in terminal recession, and fighting desperately for their very existence. And the backlash was but an expression of this desperation as I see it.
And to those who disagree, I can only say they have failed to realise just how deeply embedded into our society these values once were.
While today, they are merely the province of a minority, and a relatively powerless one at that. So for the time being, it could be said that the culture wars of the past half century or so have been won...and that Rock and Roll stands tall among its victors.
Rock and Roll and the Western Soul
Share this topic...
Link this topic
Permissions in this forum:
reply to topics in this forum
Christian Creative Writers
Memoirs, Autobiographies, & Biographies
Christian Creative Writers
Memoirs, Autobiographies, & Biographies
Create a forum on Forumotion
Free forum support
Report an abuse
Book Store
Writer's Spotlight
Christian Writer's Forum
Bible Studies & Sermons
Children's Literature
Music Lyrics
Prayer Requests
Christian Slam Poetry
Salvation Stories
Signs of the Times, Current Events, & Politics
Theological Discussion
Christian Writer's Resources
Grammar & Punctuation
Publishing Tips
Story Starters
Writing Tips
General Discussion Forum
Books, Movies, & Music
Family Life
Ministry & Outreach

subset: commoncrawl


text:
It's hard to remember how old I was—and I'm not going to date myself by trying—but I was lost in a computer game. The title was Duke Nukem 3D, and every day I'd rush home from school, dial into a friend's computer, and we'd play against each other for hours on end. The weapons and tactics were fiendish: placing laser trip mines into the teleporter so my opponent would blindly warp into them, placing pipe bombs in elevators and waiting for him to get in before triggering them, finding clever places to put the holographic Duke and then swoop in the for the kill.
We dreamed of the true, proper sequel for the PC. We put up with dumb Nintendo 64 games. We snubbed the PlayStation attempts. We watched as Duke went from a well-loved hero to a beaten-up, nearly forgotten caricature. We knew he would come back, and be as large and impressive as he once was. We celebrated when Duken Nukem 3D was rereleased on the Xbox Live Arcade. Here was the Duke we remembered, and the gameplay was just as good as the rose-colored glasses had suggested. It turns out that wasn't a warm hug between old friends—it very well could have been a curt wave as Duke left us forever.
For a game that has been in development for so long, and in an economy where no publishing or development house has many luxuries when it comes to a budget, the gaming world is taking the reports of 3D Realms hard. Fans are wailing, gamers are gnashing their teeth. The first report came from Shacknews, and then Apogee sent out an ill-timed release stating that "Deep Silver and Apogee Software are not affected by the situation at 3D Realms. Development on the Duke Nukem Trilogy is continuing as planned." We ran the story last night, hoping to wake up in a world where there was another press release, or maybe even a comforting phone call from George Broussard saying it was all a big misunderstanding, that it was still safe to bet on Duke. That he was here to chew bubble gum and find more funding, and he was all out of bubble gum.
Joe Siegler is the webmaster for 3D Realms, and when someone brought up an interview he had taken part in just the day before, he responded with words that seemed to further confirm the news. "When I recorded that, I didn't know," he wrote. "It's not a marketing thing. It's true. I have nothing further to say at this time."
There is still no official confirmation, and no news of what is going to happen to Duke Nukem Forever. That's what gamers can't seem to wrap their heads around: the idea that there is a strong possibility that they'll never get to play Duke Nukem Forever. The jokes, the vapor-ware awards, the derision... it might have stung 3D Realms through the years, but almost every gamer worth his or her salt was still more than willing to line up to play the damn thing.
This story is sadly in need of an ending, and the fact that there still hasn't been any official announcement makes the whole thing seem much more like a whimper than a bang. Will the company maintain silence a day for every year of development time? Was this all part of some sick joke to keep gamers from having any sense of closure at all? Will Ars Technica have the only existing review of the game on record?
You have to wonder what's going on in the offices of 3D Realms right now. Are they reading the forums, wishing that even these small drips of information would stop? Do they have a plan of action to keep the gaming moving along? We live in a world where anyone can go to a record store and buy Chinese Democracy; surely there is room for Duke Nukem Forever. Even if you were disappointed that Axl Rose's vanity project ended up as nothing more than a collection of mediocre rock songs, you have to understand that even those who ride unicorns quickly find out that the animal is nothing more than a pretty horse with a growth on its head.... but it does make for a hell of a story.
We're praying for you, Duke.


text:
These d-c triggered multivibrators feature output pulse-duration control by three methods. The basic pulse time is programmed by selection of external resistance and capacitance values (see typical application data). The '122 and 'LS122 have internal timing resistors that allow the circuits to be used with only an external capacitor, if so desired. Once triggered, the basic pulse duration may be extended by retriggering the gated low-level-active (A) or high-level-active (B) inputs, or be reduced by use of the overriding clear. Figure 1 illustrates pulse control by retriggering and early clear.
The 'LS122 and 'LS123 are provided enough Schmitt hysteresis to ensure jitter-free triggering from the B input with transition rates as slow as 0.1 millivolt per nanosecond.
The Rint is nominally 10 k for '122 and 'LS122.


text:
Science Friday® is produced by the Science Friday Initiative, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Science Friday® and SciFri® are registered service marks of Science Friday, Inc. Site design by Pentagram; engineering by Mediapolis.
|Rather than filling your home landscape with exotic plants from the local nursery or home center, why not plant species that should be in your landscape naturally? The idea of planting 'native plants' has received plenty of attention, especially in arid parts of the country. The approach has more to offer than just water savings, however. We'll talk about why growing plants that are native to your area can encourage healthier ecosystems, from insects to birds.


text:
Amy's News
News articles related to our company and products.
Good-for-You Goodies
November 2009 >>Source: Fitness
Good-for-You Goodies
Dessert doesn't have to be off-limits. A recent study shows that you absorb as much calcium from a serving of fortified ice cream as you get from a glass of milk. "You can satisfy craving and get some nutrition at the same time." says FITNESS advisory board member Lisa Young, Ph.D., R.D., author of The Portion Teller. Here, a few more tasty picks.
Amy's Organic Orange Cakes.
All natural with no trans or saturated fat and only 180 calories per thick slice, this pound cake won't pack on pounds. —Sarah D'Angelo
Print Page


text:
You have no items in your shopping bag
2-pack PME Legend boxershorts with navy branded waistband.
95% cotton - 5% elasthan
Use the size chart below to determine the correct size of your PME Legend jacket. Note: these dimensions are only guidelines and may vary per article. Is your size just in between? Choose the smaller size for a more fitting fit or the larger size for a relaxed, loose fit. If you have any questions about the right size, please contact our customer service.
Measure your full chest on the widest part below your armpits.
Measure at the back, from shoulder seam to shoulder seam.
Measure from the middle of the neck to the end of the sleeve.
Profit from free delivery! Ordered on Monday - Saturday before 9PM and on Sunday before 1PM, delivered: next working day (Netherlands) or withing two working days (Germany, Austria, Belgium). Shipping by DHL.
You can easily return your order for free via a DHL Parcel shop. Find more detailed information about returns in our FAQ.
We accept numerous payment methods: iDeal, PayPal, VISA and Mastercard. All of our payments are secured by a Secure connection guaranteed by Comodo.
Our webshop service team is here to help you, we are open on Monday – Friday from 08:00 - 22:00 and on Saturday and Sunday from 09.00 - 21.00hrs. You can contact our team via phone +31 (0)88 05 30 550 or send an e-mail:
PME Legend inspiration, giveways, sale and events in your inbox?
Sign up now!
Thank you for signing up! You will shortly receive an email to confirm your subscription.


text:
In the realm of normalcy, certain things just tend to be. If you're over the age of 80 and napping on a surfboard, generally speaking, bad things can happen. But if you're over 80 and napping on a surfboard, and you're Dick Van Dyke and used to flying cars and magical nannies, then you're absitively posolutely fine. Magic is on your side, and animals -- especially of the aquatic persuasion -- will come at your beck and call.
Dick Van Dyke was adrift at sea until he was saved by porpoises, The Guardian reports. While snoozing on a surfboard at a local beach, Van Dyke reportedly drifted out to sea and lost sight of land. "I started paddling with the swells and I start seeing fins swimming around me, and I thought, 'I'm dead'" the "Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang Star" told Craig Ferguson on his show Wednesday night.
But Van Dyke still had a porpoise -- er, purpose that kept him going.
"They turned out to be porpoises," he explained, and friendly ones at that. "They pushed me all the way to shore."
Van Dyke is well known for his comedy, playing a fictionalized version of himself in "The Dick Van Dyke Show," as well as the fast-stepping, Cockney-drawling chimney sweep Bert in the Disney classic "Mary Poppins."
"I'm not kidding," Van Dyke added.
It goes to show that all of those movies where mermaids save princes and dolphins are the aquatic Lassie's aren't far-fetched ideas. But even so, the story would have been so much better if one of those porpoises sang a peppy jazz number, or volunteered to step in time.


text:
Building expert systems
Addison-Wesley, 1983 - Computers - 444 pages
Building expert systems; Evaluating an expert system; Expert system tools; A typical problem for expert systems; Transcripts ilustrating the operation of prototype expert systems for the spill crisis-management application.
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
What Are Expert Systems?
Basic Concepts for Building Expert Systems
The Architecture of Expert Systems
11 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abstraction acid analysis antecedent application appropriate Artificial Intelligence assumptions backtracking basic behavior blackboard building expert systems chapter chemical components concepts configuration constraints containment context control structure data base DENDRAL determine diagnosis domain expert drain drainage basin element EMYCIN evaluation example execution expert sys expert systems expertise explanation facilities factors flow formal framework function goals Hayes-Roth hazardous HEARSAY-III heuristic human experts hypothesis identify implementation important inference engine interaction INTERLISP interpretation involved knowl knowledge acquisition knowledge base knowledge engineer knowledge representation knowledge sources language Lenat LISP MACSYMA manhole metaknowledge metarules methods OPS5 ORNL performance pollutant possible predicate problem-solving procedure production rules prototype reasoning represented ROSIE search space semantic slot solution solve specific spill material spill problem spill source stage strategy subproblems symbolic task TEIRESIAS Teknowledge tion tool
References to this book
Fuzzy Set Theory—and Its Applications
Hans-J�rgen Zimmermann
Limited preview - 2001
All Book Search results »
Human Values and the Design of Computer Technology
Batya Friedman
Limited preview - 1997


text:
Welcome to the Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol! After undergoing a multi-million dollar overhaul, our hotel offers newly designed guest rooms with HDTVs, updated lobby and meeting spaces, and an Link@Sheraton experienced with Microsoft, an inviting spot in which to reconnect with old friends or meet new ones.
Featuring distinctively modern architecture and majestic views of downtown Austin, we combine the warm, friendly service with a prime location. A landmark situated in the cultural heart of Austin, Texas, we are next door to the famed Capitol and just steps from the University of Texas, the allure of the Sixth Street/Warehouse District, and Austin's burgeoning business district. Coming to town for a meeting? We offer over 17,000 square feet of flexible space as well as High Speed Internet Access for a great, memorable experience. Enjoy the comfort of the Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol and connect with our friendly team, turning our familiar location into your future destination.
361 Room Hotel


text:
Liege Wafels to Die For!
Hi Folks,
This is my first post... Here it goes!
I'll Have better quality images next time! Sorry
I've been following all of your postings for about a month now and loved every bit of what I have read. I too have the same passion, though I turned my obsession into a career.
My latest yeast born obsession was triggered by Bobby Flay's "Throw Down" with Wafels and Digges of Manhattan
http://www.wafelsanddinges.com/), Then I found this: http://vendr.tv/video/wafels-and-dinges/.
Never having heard of, nor ever tasted a Liege Wafel (Gaufres de Liege or Belgian Sugar Wafel), I found my self with a new mission in life... I did a little research and found that most of the formulas for Liege Wafels (my version to follow) were about the same. King Arthur Flour's formula is the one that was the most original. And to be truly honest, to date I have not as yet made the King Arthur version because I truly love what I've come up with and I can't seem to find it online again!
The dough is basically a Brioche dough with an attitude (imbedded with pearl sugar). Here are a few basic guidelines:
- Start the dough with a soft sponge (rest at room temp for about one hour) or even better with a Poolish!
- Use a dough whisk or paddle attachment to fully develop the dough before adding the fat
- *Add room temperature fat (Unsalted Butter is BEST!) in about ten parts being sure to incorporate fat thoroughly before the next addition.
Recipe yields about 5-7 nice wafels:
1/3 cup warm water
1/4 oz. Active Dry or the appropriate amount of instant yeast (although I prefer compressed)
1 1/2 Tbs. Sugar
2 cups Bread or Patent Flour
1/8 tsp. Salt
3ea. Eggs, room temperature
1 tsp. Vanilla
**Zest from one lemon
8oz. *Unsalted Butter, room temperature.
*In my lab I only use butter, for my daughter who is lactose intolerant I use a lactose free margarine
** Cinnamon can be used in place of the lemon zest. Mmmm!
Make a sponge (or poolish) from the water, yeast, sugar and a little of the flour. Allow to mature for a minimum of one hour before blending in the remaining flour, eggs, lemon zest, salt and vanilla. Be sure to develop dough fully. As for a beurre blanc sauce preparation, the fat should be added in nuggets while agitating vigorously. Be sure to blend-in the fat until you form a smooooooth batter-like consistency! Allow the batter to rest for an additional hour at room temp. If desired it can be given one or two folds during this period.
After portioning into the desire size, I find that it easiest to round them on the counter with a Baker's plastic scrapper. Place them on an oiled tray and lightly oil their tops as to avoid having them stick to the plastic wrap. Wrap, then refrigerate until firm (about 30-45 min.). They may be retarded for up to 24 hour.
Preheat your Belgian Waffler (non-stick is best and you'll need to fidget around with the temperature setting of your machine to find the best setting. I suggest somewhere in the mid-range will work best). With all of the fat in this formula, I do not find it necessary to coat the griddle with anything.
*Note: This wafel does form caramel deposits on your waffler and does require a little extra effort cleaning when done! But well worth it!!
Pearl Sugar: Lars Own Swedish Pearl Sugar can be purchased from King Arthur Flour, but I find it is less expensive to get it from my local Ikea (in the food court/market place area) for under $4 for a 10oz. package. It's made from beet sugar and looks a lot like pretzel salt
I find that most recipes for Liege Wafels say to add the sugar into the batter during the mixing process, but I find the sugar does dissolve into the dough after a time. In my experience it is best to stretch the unit into an oval then press it into the pearl sugar just before grilling.
Place the sugared dough onto the preheated waffle iron and cook to the desired degree of caramelization.
Caution!!! Caramel is VERY HOT!
ENJOY as is or topped with all of your favorites.
Please let me know what you all think.


text: British journo Piers Morgan will start his takeover of Larry King's CNN show in October, sources tell Page Six. The former newspaper editor has a deal to host an hourlong interview program which will start in the fall four days a week as CNN phases King out. He's also negotiated with NBC to stay on the "America's Got Talent" judging panel, but is quitting the UK's "Britain's Got Talent." One source said, "Morgan's UK interview shows, including one where former Prime Minister Gordon Brown broke down in tears, impressed CNN bosses. Morgan's show will be prerecorded in New York so he can work 'round his other TV commitments." CNN said in a statement: "We don't comment on speculation. Rumors that we are close to signing a deal for a Larry King replacement are untrue . . . Larry is a beloved member of the team, and he will continue to be part of the CNN family into the future."


text:
Simply the finest offshore sailing yacht available-easily handled by a couple, powerful enough to cross oceans, comfortable enough to live aboard, beautiful enough to bring tears to your eyes. Ta-Yang doesn't just promise - they deliver! Tayana interiors are famous throughout the world. They feature the finest hardwoods and are built to the very highest standards. In fact, Ta-Yang is the industry standard for fine joinery. Once you have seen a Tayana interior, everything else tends to look common. Custom interiors are available and can be constructed to suit individual requirements.
** ALL OF THE PICTURES ARE OF PREVIOUSLY BUILT TAYANA MODELS. YOUR TAYANA WILL BE CUSTOM BUILT TO YOUR SPECIFICATIONS! **Click here to see more boats for sale
5060 North Harbor Drive
Suite 155
San Diego, CA 92106
United States


text:
Actually listening to what he likes about Xbox revealed a lot about him--and me.
I came to terms with the fact my husband likes to play Xbox. I resisted this for a long time and finally accepted it's something he enjoys. He often tells me about the games he plays - and I listen. Well, actually, I really don't listen.
We were having dinner at our favorite restaurant last week and my husband was talking to me about a game he'd played earlier, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. His enthusiasm was palpable and I was, to be honest, totally uninterested in what he was saying. I sat there, sipping my wine and pretending to listen. You know, the occasional head nod and "um-hum" that we seem to think passes as listening. As I'm pretending to listen the voices in my head are saying: "you are a hypocrite…you preach that if you are really listening to another and being curious there isn't any topic you won't find interesting."
"Honey," I said. "I want to apologize to you--I'm not really listening to you and I'm sorry."
"It's no big deal," he replied. "It's not like it's an important topic, it's just about a game."
"That may very well be," I said back, "And, I love you and this is something you enjoy and I don't want to disregard something that brings you enjoyment."
In that moment, I committed myself to listening with intention to what he had to say and that is when things got really fascinating.
I wasn't curious about the mechanics of the game he was playing. What I was interested in knowing was what it was about the game that he enjoyed so much. Now I was really listening. My husband started to talk about the game in a totally animated and different way that caused me to lean in and be even more curious. Eventually our server (also male) joined the conversation, and then a second server. I watched as these three men talked about what they enjoyed so much about Xbox. Their vigorous exchange included:
- I can be me - there is no judgment of who I really am
- Online it doesn't matter who I am – I have absolute anonymity
- It's competitive and I get to track my statistics and of course I want to win but I'm not exposed if I loose
- It's like a release; I get to step back from reality. It's a fictitious drama. It's straightforward and I know no matter what happens I'm not really going to die
- You may not know the people you are playing with but it's still a team and you have a common mission
Listening to these comments helped me understand that perhaps at a deeper level, Xbox represents the opportunity for people (yes, I would say men more so than women) to act out innate needs all in a space of absolute and total anonymity. I also realized that when I committed myself to listening to something that I had previously found uninteresting, all the sudden it became really "juicy."
Authentic listening is generated from curiosity. Pretending to listen – especially to someone for whom we care – is a disservice. When we make listening a gift of our attention, and not a tactic, our conversations become exponentially richer.
The tips below can help you check for when you are actually listening or really being listened to:
You Know You Are Being Listened To When:
- You are able to finish your sentences without being interrupted.
- You feel a sense of calm because the other is not competing with you for airtime.
- All the sudden you say to the other: "oh, enough about me…how about you?"
- You have this profound sense of aliveness and being cared for. Listening is a gift and fundamentally we cannot listen to another if we don't care about what they have to say.
- You know when you are really being listened to because all the sudden a sense of guilt overcomes you; guilt for allowing someone else to make you the focus of his or her attention.
You Know You Are Listening When:
- You don't get bored.
- No matter what the person is saying, you find it interesting; you are curious about what they are saying.
- You are not forming your next "me too-ism" or thinking about what you are going to say next.
- You become somewhat unaware of time because you are focused on the listening.
- The person to whom you are listening stops being the label you created them to be and suddenly becomes more human to you.
What tips do you use to catch yourself when you are not listening?
(Image via Wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock.com)


text:
Welcome to the Iota Beta chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha's official website! Located at Lycoming College, our chapter is one of the oldest in Lambda Chi Alpha's history since it's foundation in 1953. It's been a particularly busy year for Iota Beta.
As we look into the future, we are excited about becoming even more involved with the local community and reaching out, and helping create new traditions in our new residence while still protecting the old ones. If you haven't gotten it already, stay tuned for a Fall 2014 Alumni Newsletter. Stay tuned in 2014 for more updates about the activities of Iota Beta.
We ask for help from Alumni, friends and family to help support one or two members of Iota Beta to visit the 55th General Assembly this year in Phoenix, Arizona. The event will be held July 24-27, Please help us meet our goal


text:
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Revamped Brown Rice
It's that time of year! We all try to tighten the belt so to speak (yes, me included), at least for a little bit, to try and knock off some of those seasonal pounds we seem to pick up between Thanksgiving and New Year celebrations. So many wonderful treats - it's really hard not to! Being a food blogger only makes it worse, and combine that with a food blog about southern food and well, y'all can imagine. So, I'll be posting a few of my favorite lower carb, lower fat, lighter recipes in between the usual classic southern favorites.
Brown rice is one of my favorites because not only is it healthier nutritionally speaking than white rice, but it also has a nice nutty flavor and a chewier texture that seem to make it more satisifying. Alone though, it can be, well, a little dull. So while this is really a non-recipe recipe, I thought I'd share with you one of my favorite ways to bring brown rice up a notch.
Since brown rice takes longer to cook than white rice, generally I prefer to make a big batch in my rice cooker all at once and then keep some of it in the fridge to add to a lunch wrap, or for a side dish at dinnertime with another veggie, and then I often freeze portions of it.
For this dish, you simply saute some onion and green and red bell peppers in a bit of olive oil. Once that is nicely softened, stir in the cooked brown rice, season it with a bit of salt, pepper and one of my favorite ingredients, red curry powder and just let it cook, stirring occasionally, until it is mixed well and warmed through. You can really experiment with some of your own favorite seasonings - I often add a dash or three of my favorite Slap Ya Mama Cajun seasoning just to give it a bit of punch.
Voila.. jazzed up brown rice. Pretty darned good if I don't say so myself! Enjoy.
Leave a Comment
15 comments:
Hey Mary,ReplyDelete
I just love rice and this looks so delicious.......hope I can find some red curry powder...never used it before...Happy New Year to ya.....Take care and keep those wonderful recipes comin.....Joyce
I love brown rice but sometimes have to include a little sausage in mine. Love the red peppers in there, how colorful.ReplyDelete
I'm a big fan of brown rice. I agree with you, I like the texture and the nutty taste. Can't wait to try your recipe!ReplyDelete
I love brown rice also but always forget to prepare it. Thanks for sharing. I enjoy so many of your tasty recipes.ReplyDelete
I prefer brown rice to white also. This sounds delicious and you've provided some good ideas for applications for a big batch brown rice. I've never thought of freezing prepared rice. I'll have to add some to my grocery list.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Mary!
Ohhhh... Slap yo mama... great stuff to add to riceReplyDelete
Hey Mary, I didn't know that brown rice can be frozen. How do you re-heat, micro or stovetop?ReplyDelete
What a great idea to cook the brown rice and then keep it in the fridge to fancy up as you please.ReplyDelete
Yep, I freeze both white and brown rice all the time! It's just easier to make a batch ahead and then have it on hand.ReplyDelete
The easiest way to warm it is to put it in a large bowl, sprinkle it with a bit of water so that it creates a bit of steam, and cover it tightly with plastic wrap or with a lid. Microwave for a couple of minutes until the rice steams and is warmed through. Fluff it up and you're good to go!
I love rice and this looks quite yummy..thanks!ReplyDelete
Thanks Mary, I'm definitely gonna do this... I'm always "late" starting dinner during the week and this will be most helpful.ReplyDelete
Where is the recipe? cannot see itReplyDeleteReplies
Hi! I actually didn't write it in a recipe format. When I make brown rice I tend to make a big batch since it takes so long and put it in the fridge, so I was just sharing what I did to vamp up some of the plain brown rice in a post. No recipe at this point, but I'll try to write one up in the future!Delete
oh my goodness, this is such an amazing brown rice recipe. The additions of the onion, red pepper and the green pepper seems to just make the rice pop with flavors, I did not have any red curry powder, don't think I know what is it, but I did not need it.ReplyDeleteReplies
Just a little way to jazz it up - glad you enjoyed it Kathy!Delete
Thanks for taking the time to comment - I love hearing from readers and I read every single comment and try to respond to them right here on the site, so stop back by!
From time to time, anonymous restrictions and/or comment moderation may be activated due to comment spam. I also reserve the right to edit, delete or otherwise exercise total editorial discretion over any comments left on this blog. If your comment serves only to be snarky, mean-spirited or argumentative, it will be deleted. Please mind your manners.
Click for additional information.


text:
The secrecy surrounding government surveillance is a constant source of frustration to privacy activists and scholars: It's hard to have a serious discussion about policy when it's like pulling teeth to get the most elementary statistics about the scope of state information gathering, let alone any more detailed information. Even when reporting is statutorily required, government agencies tend to drag their heels making statistics available to Congress – and it can take even longer to make the information more widely accessible. Phone and Internet companies, even when they join the fight against excessive demands for information, are typically just as reluctant to talk publicly about just how much of their customers' information they're required to disclose. That's why I'm so pleased at the news that Google has launched their Government Requests transparency tool. It shows a global map on which users can see how many governmental demands for user information or content removal have been made to Google's ever-growing empire of sites – now including Blogger, YouTube, and Gmail – starting with the last six months.
So far, the information up there is both somewhat limited and lacking context. For instance, it might seem odd that Brazil tops the list of governmental information hounds until you bear in mind that Google's Orkut social network, while little-used by Americans, is the Brazilian equivalent of Facebook.
There are also huge gaps in the data: The United States comes in second with 3,580 requests from law enforcement at all levels, but that doesn't include intelligence requests, so National Security Letters (tens of thousands of which are issued every year) and FISA warrants or "metadata" orders (which dwarf ordinary federal wiretaps in number) aren't part of the tally. And since China considers all such government information requests to be state secrets – whether for criminal or intelligence investigations – no data from the People's Republic is included.
Neither is there any detail about the requests they have counted – how many are demands for basic subscriber information, how many for communications metadata, and how many for actual e-mail or chat contents. The data on censorship is similarly limited: They're counting governmental but not civil requests, such as takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
For all those limits – and the company will be striving to provide some more detail, within the limits of the law – this is a great step toward bringing vital transparency to the shadowy world of government surveillance, and some nourishment to the data-starved wretches who seek to study it. We cannot have a meaningful conversation about whether censorship or invasion of privacy in the name of security have gone too far if we do not know, at a minimum, what the government is doing. So, for a bit of perspective, we know that U.S. courts reported a combined total of 1,793 (criminal, not intel) wiretaps sought by both federal and state authorities. Almost none of these (less than 1 percent) were for electronic interception.
This may sound surprising, unless you keep in mind that federal law establishes a very high standard for the "live" interception of communications over a wire, but makes it substantially easier – under some circumstances rather terrifyingly easy – to get stored communications records. So there's very little reason for police to jump through all the hoops imposed on wiretap orders when they want to read a target's e-mails.
If and when Google were to break down that information about requests – to show how many were "full content" as opposed to metadata requests – we would begin to have a far more accurate picture of the true scope of governmental spying. Should other major players like Yahoo and Facebook be inspired to follow Google's admirable lead here, it would be better still. Already, though, that one data point from a single company – showing more than twice as many data requests as the total number of phone wiretaps reported for the entire country – suggests that there is vastly more actual surveillance going on than one might infer from official wiretap numbers.


text:
IRS demanded names of high school, college students
Feds demanded list of everyone conservative group had ever trained, or planned to train
(London Daily Mail) When a Tennessee lawyer asked the IRS for tax-exempt status for a mentoring group that trained high school and college students about conservative political philosophy, the agency responded with a list of 95 questions in 31 parts, including an ultimatum for a list of everyone the group had trained, or planned to train.
'Provide details regarding all training you have provided or will provide,' the IRS demanded. 'Indicate who has received or will receive the training and submit copies of the training material.'
That question was part of the tax collection agency's February 14, 2012 letter to Kevin Kookogey. founder of the group Linchpins of Liberty. He had submitted his application 13 months earlier.
'Can you imagine my responsibility to parents if I disclosed the names of their children to the IRS?' he asked MailOnline.


text:
Experts Exchange Solution brought to you by
"The solutions and answers provided on Experts Exchange have been extremely helpful to me over the last few years. I wear a lot of hats - Developer, Database Administrator, Help Desk, etc., so I know a lot of things but not a lot about one thing. Experts Exchange gives me answers from people who do know a lot about one thing, in a easy to use platform." -Todd S.
Experts Exchange Solution brought to you by
Facing a tech roadblock? Get the help and guidance you need from experienced professionals who care. Ask your question anytime, anywhere, with no hassle.Start your 7-day free trial
Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim test As String
On Error Resume Next
test = Target.Validation.Type
If Err.Number = 1004 Then
ActiveWindow.Zoom = 100
ActiveWindow.Zoom = 200
End If
End Sub
From novice to tech pro — start learning today.
Experts Exchange Solution brought to you by


text:
Inhabitants of the Universe
The BrikVerse is a really big place, filled with an ever expanding and motley collection of not only ideas made manifest but also the diverse personalities that make them so. Scattered across the space of a billion worlds and the infinite expanse of alternate dimensions and nether regions, they appear to give voice to the conceptual thoughts that, in turn, give rise to the incredible realities that collectively help shape the future of BrikWars.
Legends and Leaders
These are the creators of the BrikVerse, the leading voices that shape its reality, and the celebrities of the Far-Ums.
- Rayhawk
- 501stCadians
- Almighty Benny
- Arkbrik
- BFenix
- Bonn-o-Tron
- Blitzen
- BrickSyd
- Butthurt Mod
- Colette
- Dr. X
- Elmagnifico
- fredde
- Hoboman
- IVhorseman
- Killer Karetsu
- Moronstudios
- Natalya
- Olothontor
- OneEye589
- piltogg
- Pesgores
- Pwnerade
- Rev. Sylvanus
- Ross_Varn
- Silent-Sigfig
- Tarren
- Timedude
- The Shadowscythe
- Thesson
- Tuefish
- Tzan
- Warhead
- warman45
- White Nun
- Zahru II
BrikWarriors of Renown
For good or ill, these are the crowd favorites of the Far-Ums, the faces and heels of the BrikVerse. Their opinions and thoughts hold weight and influence. Or, at the very least, they don't get ignored. Regardless of their fame, all have contributed in some significant fashion to the BrikWars canon or community.
- aoffan23
- Apollyon
- Ben-Jammin
- birdman
- Bragallot
- Cpt. Zipps
- dilanski
- enders_shadow
- Ham701
- james+burgundy
- Keldoclock
- lrdofbricks
- Magic Soap
- Massam
- mgb519
- Muffinman42
- Nitewatchman
- Predator
- Quantumsurfer
- razgriz 25th inf.
- Robot Monkey
- Rody
- RunsWithLegos
- Scratch
- Silverdream
- Sjosten
- Semaj Nagirrac
- SnakeMittens
- solvess
- tahthing
- Theblackdog
- Whiteagle
- Zupponn
BrikWarriors in the Universe
A BrikWarrior is a Human player of BrikWars. They have the option of participating in the Far-Ums, the BrikWars Chat, and the BrikWars BrikWiki.
These are the Humans that have been excluded from any of the above categories by the community or the leaders of the community.


text:
A list of all the two- and three-letter words that can legally be played.
"Knowing which words are acceptable - even if you have no idea of their definitions - is a perfectly legitimate strategy, and all expert players have memorized all the two-letter words and often the three-letter words as well."
It is perfectly legitimate but totally lame.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)


text:
Language Policy and Conflict Prevention conference: Oslo
Oslo/Rome [ENA] Global migration, digitalization and the role of women present modern challenges and opportunities to effective and balanced language policies, agreed participants at the close of a high-level conference on language policy and conflict prevention held on 31st May in Oslo. The Conference commemorated the 20th anniversary of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities' (HCNM) Oslo Recommendations.
Reviewing the situation of developments during the past 20 years since the launch of the Oslo Recommendations, former HCNM and former Norwegian Foreign Minister Knut Vollebaek said that the Recommendations, as "soft law", aided to improve diversity management in Europe and that national legislation on minority rights has been adopted in many of European states. Language policy can promote stability. For many individuals and groups, language is a key factor of identity, and threats to it can raise tensions. Respect for linguistic rights, at the same time as considering a state's need to maintain cohesion, lessens conflict potential.
The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities promotes functional solutions to such contentious issues, and the Oslo Recommendations concerning the Linguistic Rights of National Minorities tackle these challenges. The components of a balanced legal and policy framework on language use have a view to preventing conflict. "To respond to these new challenges is essential for effective conflict prevention," highlighted the OSCE High Commissioner Lamberto Zannier, while noting that he observes a "renewed urgency" for States to engage in the issues of language policy and linguistic rights.
Zannier thanked "the many high-level representatives of the OSCE participating States for contributing to the debate by sharing national best practices and lessons learned in the implementation of language-related policies." Referring to the current challenge presented by migration, Audun Halvorsen, Norway's State Secretary to Minister of Foreign Affairs alluded to "breaches of fundamental freedoms, discrimination against minorities, diminishing respect for the rule of law, increasing nationalism and populism – all of which can lead to conflict. We are living in challenging times, and the need for tools to prevent conflict is great."
UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Fernand de Varennes talked about the increasing co-operation between his office and the HCNM, the Council of Europe and other actors, and recommended a "united front with other international actors and the use of joint letters, statements and specialized high-level conferences to address modern language rights challenges."Ambassador of Italy to Norway and Representative of the Italian 2018 OSCE Chairmanship Alberto Colella reiterated that national minority issues feature high on the agenda of the Italian OSCE Chairmanship.


text:
Find hotels & motels in Bowmansville using the list below. Find cheap and/or discounted hotel rates in or near Bowmansville, NY for your upcoming individual or group travel. We provide the best Bowmansville New York hotel/motel rooms. Review the Bowmansville hotel list below to find the perfect lodging. We also have a map of the Bowmansville hotels. Need 5+ Rooms? Secure Bowmansville Group Hotel Rates
The Bowmansville center is approximately 2 miles southeast of Erie Community College North and 2 miles east of Buffalo Niagara International Airport.
How should we direct your call?


text:
Skip to Content
Jump to Main Navigation
Skip to Search
Stop image animation
You Are Here: Startpage
To Portal Page
Bürgerforum and university film studio invite you to enjoy a free movie on the forecourt of the Kármán-Auditorium at Templergraben Street.
Morezu: RWTH Open Air
RWTH Aachen University has achieved success in the Excellence Strategy Competition with its proposal titled "The Interdisciplinary Integrated University of Science and Technology."
Morezu: RWTH – Excellent!
How visions are creating the future – RWTH THEMEN magazine highlights how the Materials Science and Engineering – MatSE profile area, funded by the Excellence Initiative, is making this happen.
Morezu: Materials – Drivers of Technology
The Aachen artist is currently exhibiting his works in the foyer of Aachener Verfahrenstechnik.
Morezu: Käpten Nobbi in the AVT Foyer
RWTH scientist Francisco Gutiérrez Guzman honored for his outstanding research on damage mechanisms in rolling bearings.
Morezu: 2019 Umbrella Award
The new issue of RWTHinsight presents research, art, and culture, as well as newly appointed professors.
Morezu: Center for Graphene
The 2019 Charlemagne Prize recipient, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, visits RWTH Aachen University.
Morezu: Guterres meets Students
Astronauts in Aachen practiced mounting the cooling system in space. The system was developed by RWTH physicists.
Morezu: Fantastic Experiment
The Swiss agency has accredited RWTH Aachen University's quality management system.
Morezu: A Culture of Quality in Learning and Teaching
First-year students will find all the tips and tricks they need to get started at RWTH in this portal.
more...zu: New to the University?
RWTH professor Stefan Hecht has been appointed as the new director of the DWI – Leibniz Institute of Interactive Materials.
more...zu: New Director at DWI


text:
In the early 1980's, scientists in China began to study the medical benefits claimed for qigong. Since then, research on hundreds of medical applications of qigong have been reported in the Chinese literature. Of special interest for the present article are clinical reports of the medical benefits of qigong that claim to retard or reverse some diseases associated with aging.
Most of the original research was reported in Chinese, but access in English to most of this material is possible by reference to the proceedings of international conferences of qigong. Since 1986, ten such proceedings contain about 840 abstracts of talks given at the conferences, more than half of which are in English. These abstracts, along with about 160 abstracts of articles in the scientific literature, have been organized as a computerized database. The database enables searches and development of bibliographies across this entire body of information by using any key word. The clinical outcomes reported in this article are partly based on material in the database and partly on the author's person contacts with researchers.
The word qigong is a combination of two ideas: qi the vital energy of the body, and gong the skill of working of the qi. Medical qigong for health and healing consists primarily of meditation, physical movements, and breathing exercises. Qigong practitioners develop an awareness of qi sensations in their bodies and use their mind, i.e., intention, to guide the qi in the body. The benefits of qigong are said to extend beyond health and healing to enhance spiritual life and even special abilities, such as psychic powers.
Medical qigong is divided into two parts: internal and external. Internal qi is developed by individual practice of qigong exercises. When qigong practitioners have sufficiently mastered the skill, they can "emit" qi (external qi or waiqi in Chinese) for the purpose of healing another person. There are many scientific reports of the medical existence and efficacy of emitted qi. The present article focuses mainly on internal qi because almost everyone can learn qigong exercises for maintaining health and for self-healing, whereas, there are a limited number of skilled qigong masters available for healing.
There are numerous reports of the effects of emitted qi on living systems and the functions and organs of the human body. The present author reviewed some examples of medical applications of qigong and emitted qi on humans, animals, cell cultures, and plants, and he also published some of his experimental research on physiological effects of qigong. He discussed some clinical and experimental evidence showing that qigong exercise and external qi affects various functions and organs of the body. A short list of some of the functions and organs affected by qigong, and the measurement techniques employed (in parentheses), include: the brain (EEG and magnetometer); blood flow (thermography, sphygmography, and rheoencephalography); heart functions (blood pressure, EKG, and UCG); kidney (urinary albumin assay); biophysical (enzyme activity, immune function, sex hormone levels (laboratory analysis); eyesight (clinical); and tumor size in mice.
Clinical studies indicating the anti-aging benefits of qigong
Several clinical studies will be described to illustrate the scope of research on medical applications of qigong to treat chronic medical conditions that may affect the aging process. Some details may be omitted because of space limitations. The critical evaluation of the research studies will be left to medical specialists.
1) Therapeutic balancing of the meridians and functions of the body by qigong
The profound effect that internal qigong practice may have on balancing the energies of the organs and functions of the body is illustrated by measurements using Electroacupuncture According to Voll (EAV). In EAV the electrical conductance of the skin above individual acupuncture points is measured using low voltage and low current. Diagnosis depends on measuring the relative electrical conductance and its time dependence. An important diagnostic criterion of degeneration of an organ is an "indicator drop" that may occur during the measurement when the conductance reaches an apparent maximum value but then decreases before leveling off.
Measurements were made at 24 acupuncture points at the ends of the 12 meridians in the fingers and toes of subjects and were made by the same operator and equipment. The subjects were asked to perform a qigong exercise of their choosing for 10 to 15 minutes, for example, sitting or standing meditation or moving qigong. Two series of EAV measurements were made before and after healthy subjects practiced qigong.
In the first series, four subjects were examined by EAV before and after they practiced qigong. Qigong exercise decreased the average of the EAV measured values of the four subjects in the range of -19 to -31% (p<0.004). Qigong eliminated almost all the indicator drops.
In the second series, each of seven subjects was examined by EAV three times in a blind protocol so that the operator did not know whether a subject had practiced qigong before the second or third examination. The results showed that qigong exercise changed the average EAV measured values in the range of -17 to -35% for four subjects and in the range of 4 to 15% for three subjects. Indicator drops again were markedly decreased.
These preliminary results show that internal qigong practice can make significant changes in the therapeutic balancing of the meridian and organ systems.
In a similar type of study, the electric current at acupuncture points on 14 meridians was measured using a single square wave voltage pulse technique. Both a qigong master, who emitted qi, and a qi-receiver were measured simultaneously and continuously. The results show that internal and external qigong produce different values in some measurement parameters, and also some synchronous behavior was observed between the sender and receiver.
2) Clinical studies of effects of qigong on hypertensive patients
Several groups in China have investigated the effects of qigong on hypertension (i.e., high blood pressure). The research of Wang, Xu and coworkers of the Shanghai Institute of Hypertension was selected for discussion because it serves as a model for the many different effects that qigong may have on organs and functions of the body. For these studies, the patients practiced "Yan Jing Yi Shen Gong" for 30 minutes twice a day. This qigong is claimed to be especially valuable for therapeutic purposes and delaying senility. The qigong exercise consists of a combination of sitting meditation and gentle physical movements that emphasizes a calm mind, relaxed body, and regular respiration.
In 1991, the Shanghai group reported a 20-year controlled study of the anti-aging effects of qigong on 204 hypertensive patients. Subsequently, they reported a 30-year follow-up on 242 hypertensive patients, and more recently, the researchers reported an 18-22 year study of 536 patients. The patients were randomly assigned to the two groups. To control blood pressure, the patients were given the same hypotensive drug and in the same hospital. None of the patients smoked.
a. Blood Pressure
The effect of qigong exercise on blood pressure is shown graphically in Fig. 1. The blood pressure (systolic and diastolic) in millimeters mercury is plotted as a function of time over 20 years for the group consisting of 242 patients, 122 in the qigong group and 120 in the control group. During the first two months, the blood pressure of all patients dropped in response to the hypotensive drug. Subsequently, and over the period of 20 years, the blood pressures of the qigong group stabilized while that of the control group increased. Remarkably, during this period the drug dosage for the qigong group could be decreased, while the dosage for the control group had to be increased.
b. Mortality and Stroke
The incidences of mortality and stroke for the 30-year study are shown in Fig. 2. These results show that qigong exercise decreased by about 50 percent the incidence of total mortality, mortality due to stroke, and morbidity due to stroke. At the end of 30 years, 86 patients survived in the qigong group and 68 in the control group. These results clearly show that qigong has significant potential for preventing strokes and extending life.
c. Improvements in heart function and mircrocirculation
Aged hypertensive patients usually are found to have a deficiency of Heart-energy, which often leads to a weakened function of the left ventricle and a disturbance of microcirculation. The researchers evaluated the effects of qigong for120 aged patients by using ultrasonic cardiography (UCG) and indices of microcirculation.
Experiments showed that the left ventricular function (LVF) in the hypertensive aged group (80 cases) was lower than that in the aged normal blood pressure group (40 cases), while the LVF in the deficiency of Heart-energy hypertensive patients (46 cases) was lower than in the non-deficiency Heart-energy hypertensive patients (34 cases).
After practicing qigong for one year, cardiac output was increased, the total peripheral resistance decreased, and the ejection fraction mitral valve diastolic closing velocity and the mean velocity of circumferential fiber shortening tended to be increased. Significant changes did not occur in the group without Heart-energy deficiency.
Quantitative evaluation of nailfold disturbances in microcirculation was made on the above groups by observing 10 indices of abnormal conditions: configuration of micrangium, micrangium tension, condition of blood flow, slowdown of blood flow, thinner afferent limb, efferent limb and afferent limb ratio, color of blood, hemorrhage, and petechia. The results showed that hypertension had an accelerating effect on the disturbance of microcirculation. The incidence of disturbance of microcirculation disturbance was 73.9% in the deficiency of Heart-energy hypertensive patients. After a year of qigong practice, the incident of disturbance was 39.1% (p<0.01).
The results suggest that qigong exercise has beneficial effects on Heart-energy and regulation of the blood channel, and qigong seems to have improved abnormal conditions of blood circulation.
d. Improvement in sex hormone levels
One consequence of aging is that the levels of sex hormones change in unfavorable directions. For example, female sex hormone (estrogen) levels tend to increase in men and decrease in women. Three studies indicate that qigong exercise can reverse this trend. The effect of qigong exercise on plasma sex hormone levels was determine for hypertensive men and women. The sex hormones levels were measured before and after qigong practice for one year.
Seventy male patients with essential hypertension (ages 40 to 69; disease stage II) were divided into two groups. For the qigong group (n=42), which practice qigong for one year, the estradiol level (E2) decreased from 70.1 to 47.7 pg/ml, a decrease of 32% (p<0.01), while no significant changes occurred in the control group (n=20). The testosterone levels (T) of both groups decreased about 7%. The value of E2 for the qigong group (47.7 pg/ml) approached that of healthy men (42.2±5.8 pg/ml) of the same age but without hypertension or cardiovascular, pulmonary, hepatic, renal, or endocrine diseases (p<0.05).
For women (ages 51 to 67, the number in the group is not available), the aging process was associated with failure of ovarian function manifested by decreased E2 and increased T levels. Qigong practiced one year resulted in an increase of E2 from 40.9±.3.5 to 51.6±3.5 pg/ml, a value about equal to that of normal menopausal controls without hypertension or cardiovascular, pulmonary, hepatic, renal, or endocrine diseases. The value of T was also increased by qigong from 25.5±2.2 to 37.2±2.2 ng/dl.


text:
Produced in cooperation with
For more information about ETFs, mutual funds and the broad array of services from Standard & Poor's, please visit MarketScopeAdvisor.com or call 877-219-1247 for a free trial.
If there is one defining characteristic of the financial markets over the past two decades, it would have to be the ultra-low interest rate environment. For the benchmark U.S.10-year Treasury note, you have to go back to April 1995 to find a time when it consistently paid more than 7%.
This month, the yield on the 10-year dropped below 2% for the first time ever, which delivered both a welcome rise in price for those fortunate enough to own it already as well as an unwelcome dose of frustration for those looking to buy something that offers a reasonable yield.
With ultra-safe assets like Treasury bonds paying next to nothing, stock market volatility nearing historic highs, and gold trading at previously undreamed of prices, there is no obvious choice for investors seeking to put money to work, especially those who want current yield.
One asset class, though, offers a compelling blend of decent current yield and future price appreciation that merits the attention of exasperated, yield-hungry investors: real estate investment trusts (REITs).
To be sure, REITs suffered during the economic downturn of 2008 and 2009 as rents on properties they owned plunged. As a plodding but nevertheless real recovery develops, their fortunes have improved, says S&P Equity Analyst Royal Shepard.
"The gradual economic recovery is helping to stabilize cash flows in most commercial real estate sectors," he says. "Moreover, a depressed level of commercial-construction activity has constrained new supply while generally serving to increase occupancy levels in existing facilities. We think many REITs, also bolstered by newly raised capital, are taking advantage of the better operating environment."
There are more than 100 REITs listed on U.S. exchanges, and they own a wide variety of real estate-related assets. In general, there are two types or REITs: those that own actual real estate and those that own mortgages.
As of March, 2010, the largest real estate category owned by REITs was regional shopping malls, which comprised about 14% of REIT assets, according to the industry's trade group NAREIT. Apartments, health care facilities, and office buildings also each accounted for more than 10% of REIT assets. Mortgage REITs accounted for 8.4% of the total.
Similarly, there is a great deal of variation in the level of risk individual REITs carry. While many are managed fairly conservatively, others are highly leveraged, and some have recently been paying out more than they take in.
REIT Strategies
Among individual REITs, the highest yielding issue for which S&P Equity Research has a "buy" rank is Medical Property Trust (MPW), an Alabama-based owner of health care-facilities focused on acute care and inpatient rehabilitation hospitals. It currently yields 7.9%. The company is less leveraged than many of its peers, with a long-term debt to capitalization ratio of about 29%.
For those willing to live with leverage in order to obtain yields reminiscent of the glory days of junk bonds, mortgage REITs may be attractive. These REITs offer investors the tantalizing opportunity to turn the low-interest rate environment to their advantage, as they borrow at miniscule short-term rates to fund a portfolio of high-yielding mortgages.
Annaly Capital Management, the only mortgage REIT covered by S&P Equity Research and one of the oldest and largest mortgage REITs, currently yields a breathtaking 14.9%. It accomplishes this seemingly impossible feat by financing almost 90% of its portfolio with debt, a typical strategy employed by mortgage REITs.
Those seeking a more diversified exposure to mortgage REITs may want to look at Van Eck's Market Vector Mortgage Income REIT ETF (MORT), which launched in August 2011 and has about $3.5 million in assets.
Annaly is the fund's largest holding, accounting for about 21.5% of assets. It has an indicated yield of about 14% as well.
Mortgage REITs have come under regulatory scrutiny recently due to their use of leverage, which could be restricted in the future.
There are dozens of real-estate focused mutual funds, though most have delivered only tepid performance over the past five years. One option is Fidelity Real Estate Income Fund (FRIFX), with an annualized five-year total return of 3.5%, though it does not invest exclusively in REITs. It currently yields 3.6%, and it has more than half its $1.5 billion in assets invested in fixed income securities.
S&P Senior Editorial Manager Vaughan Scully can be reached at email@example.com. Send him your ideas for ETF or mutual fund stories.


text:
Welcome visitor you can login or create an account.
Your shopping cart is empty!
Fresh Apricot flavored taffy makes you think your eating the real thing!
Approx. 64 Pieces per Pound.
* Weight:
* Rating:
* Your Name:
* Enter the code in the box below:
* Your Review:
Powered By OpenCart Balboa Candy © 2019


text:
Friday, March 04, 2011
Blueberry and Lemon Friands
Ever heard of friands? These are the Australian "cousin" of the famous French financiers, the little moist egg-white cakes. Both are excellent for using up all those egg whites in the kitchen if you're tired of making Pavlovas and meringues! There are some differences, however. Whereas the financiers tend to use browned butter and are plain, the friands are made with melted butter and usually with the addition of fruit or berries. Another difference is the shape - the financiers are (traditionally) baked in oblong rectangular forms (to look like gold bars, apparently), the friands are usually baked in small oval tins (though you can use regular muffin tins or even tiny fluted tins like this talented Estonian food photographer did). Dorie Greenspan has written more about those two pastries.
I've adapted a recipe from BBC Good Food magazine. Note that I used ground whole almonds - hence the slightly darker colour of the cakes. The texture has more, well, bite to it as well, but you can obviously also use ground blanched almonds.
Blueberry and Lemon Friands
(Mustika ja sidruni friandid)
Makes 8 friands, suitable for freezing
100 g unsalted butter, melted
125 g icing sugar/confectioner's sugar
30 g plain flour/all-purpose flour (50 ml or 3 Tbsp + 1 tsp)
80 g finely ground almonds
3 medium-sized egg whites
finely grated zest of one lemon
a generous handful of blueberries or bilberries
Preheat the oven to 200C. Generously butter eight non-stick friand or muffin tins.
Sift the icing sugar and flour into a bowl, add the almonds and mix.
Whisk the egg whites in another bowl until they form a light, floppy foam.
Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients, pour in the egg whites and lemon rind, then lightly stir in the butter to form a soft batter.
Divide the batter among the tins. Sprinkle some berries over each cake.
Bake in the middle of a pre-heated 200 C oven for about 20 minutes, until just firm to the touch and golden brown on top.
Cool in the tins for 5 minutes, then turn out and cool on a wire rack. To serve, dust lightly with icing sugar.
7 comments:
Tänan, see on mu tänase unistuse täitumine! Sattusin More kohvikus imehead friandi sööma ning imestasin, kuidas mina sellisest prantsuse keeksikesest midagi ei tea. Tuleb välja, et ei olegi prantslaste oma, tore. Ühtlasi sain viite fantastilise toidufotograafi lehele - kuidas ma varem märganud ei ole?
- 1:58 pm, March 04, 2011
- dining room table said...
I miss making something out of blueberries. It would be really nice to make something again. Thanks for the reminder.
- 7:41 am, March 05, 2011
- Grammy T. said...
Hi Nami-Nami,
I found you when I was looking up a sauerkraut recipe. You have a wonderful site. And I don't have a bloggie friend from Estonia.
Grammy T.
- 9:58 pm, March 06, 2011
- ChichaJo said...
Love these little cakes...have made a chocolate version care of Donna Hay :)
- 3:25 am, March 08, 2011
- Pille said...
Kadri - no vaata kui tore! Ma olen nüüd juba kolm korda erinevaid friande teinud, nii mõnusad on. Ja tavalised muffinivormid sobivad ka muidugi. (Nõus - Zapxpxau toidupildid on i-m-e-l-i-s-e-d!)
DiningRoomTable - can you get blueberries where you live? I actually used locally picked bilberries, but they're very similar.
Grammy T - welcome to Nami-Nami!!! Did you find the sauerkraut recipe you needed?
ChichaJo - hope you have the recipe on your blog? I'd love to make a chocolate version!
- 9:17 am, March 16, 2011
- Sara said...
Financiers are my "go to" recipe whenever I need to use up egg whites. I will have to add friands to the repertoire. I had never heard of these before so I am absolutely bookmarking this post!
- 9:51 pm, March 22, 2011
- Valerie said...
Oh, I have blueberries right now! I might get time to make these.
- 7:31 pm, March 06, 2015


text:
Sounders Insider
Michael Seamon on DL, out for the season
Seattle Sounders FC announced today that midfielder Michael Seamon has been placed on the disabled list due to a lateral ankle tendon injury.
As a result, Seamon, 23, will miss the remainder of the season. In his only competitive appearance this season, he started and played 85 minutes in the third round of the U.S. Open Cup. He also started all eight Major League Soccer Reserve League games, logging 719 minutes, the most of any field player.
Seamon made eight appearances with three starts in MLS last season. His last league appearance was September 9, 2010. This is Seamon's second MLS season with Sounders FC.
Seattle travels to Costa Rica for a CONCACAF Champions League group stage match against CS Herediano at 7 p.m. PT on Wednesday night. Sounders FC then returns home for an MLS match against D.C. United on Saturday night. First kick is 6 p.m. PT on the Xbox Pitch at CenturyLink Field.


text:
European migration experts in uae
european pr consultants in uae
European immigration consultants in UAE
Best european immigration consultants in UAE
Family migration consultants of Europe in UAE
We consistently build value. The MJM GROUP and Management is consisting of persons who have hands-on experience for a decade and more in the field of Europe migration, HR consultancy / Manpower supply and specialty in giving counseling and advice in Business set up in UAE and European Union. Also, the business consultancy to improve your business competitiveness, new market reach and take advantage of new digital marketing on the internet to improve reach, effectiveness, and contact. Call us to understand more.We make it a priority to fully understand the complexities within your businesses' maintenance needs. Because of this, our facility managers are focused on identifying opportunities to improve performance to ensure our services are best in class. With our strengths in sourcing the best blue-collar talent, comprehensive training, quality control systems and benchmarking global standards, we offer a one-stop-shop, hassle-free service to our clients. At MJM GROUP Facilities Management, we understand that organizations are looking for facility managers that will offer excellent service consistently and that's why we focus so much on training. Our tailor-made training courses focus just as much on personal development as we do professionally.We inspire our teams to have an introspective approach which means the people within our business will not only be productive and professional but also happy to work for you.


text:
I had Predictive in my list of Emacs packages to try out and review, but Mathias Dahl has saved me the trouble by writing a nice tutorial on using Predictive, complete with screenshots and all. In a nutshell,
Predictive is a package for the GNU Emacs Editor that helps you write text faster. It does this by trying to predict what you are going to write by looking at the first few characters of each word you type, looking into a dictionary for matching words, and suggesting words from this dictionary.
Mathias goes on providing all the details you need to get stated with Predictive. Although i have not yet used it, looks pretty interesting.
Oh, as an aside, i recommend taking a look at Tony 'Qubit' Cubitt's site for more Emacs (and non-Emacs) goodies, or just to enjoy a beautiful website.