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Torrential rain - sufficient to wipe away caravan parks and cause a severe weather warning in June across the south east - is perhaps not the best weather in which to test a new 280hp front-drive hot hatch.
Yet that's what we're faced with to try out the new second generation Vauxhall Astra VXR (most of these pics were taken during Vauxhall's much sunnier recce of the route a couple of weeks ago). But such tough conditions are maybe appropriate, because this car, in the tradition of the best Hollywood sequels, is 'Astra VXR II: This Time it's Serious'.
Serious hardware
The last Astra VXR (and indeed
) was certainly a rapid old Hector, but it rather lacked the manners to put its power down effectively. The new VXR, however, aims to redress that shortcoming. Yes, it has 17 per cent more power than before (280hp plays 240hp) and a chunky 25 per cent more torque (it's up to 295lb ft now), but that's partly to keep up with or slightly ahead of a group of rivals that now set 250-300hp as a hot hatch benchmark, rather than the 200-225hp of a few years back.
No, what you sense is really important to Opel and Vauxhall engineers this time around is that they come up with a dynamically polished car. They've deployed quite a lot of kit to achieve this, too. There's the Drexler limited-slip diff from the Corsa Nurburgring, while the HiPer Strut suspension from the GTC is accompanied by Vauxhall's Flex-Ride adaptive damping system. The springs have been stiffened by 30 per cent, too, and the ZF Sachs dampers get bespoke settings on the VXR.
The Astra VXR also uses a thoroughly clever 'floating disc' brake system. This involves A cast iron rotor, but mounted on an aluminium disc bell. This reduces heat build-up under heavy use and, crucially, cuts 2.8kg per caliper compared with the item in the GTC and 4.2kg per disc. The result is an impressive 7kg drop in unsprung weight per corner over the GTC.
Can they tame the beast?
The big question is whether this all translates into a car capable of taming all that power. The bumpy, sodden, puddle-strewn roads of Northamptonshire and Leicestershire will certainly challenge that. Early signs are good. I'm hardly going to be able to give you the definitive line on the VXR's dry-weather grip, but it is amazing how effective the differential proves itself in putting the considerable power down both out of corners and in a straight line on a road that's a chequerboard of bumps and puddles.
The hard work that's gone into the rest of the chassis is evident, too. The Astra VXR turns in sharply and with authority, the ride is controlled without being crashy or over-firm (in normal mode, at least; put it into sport or 'VXR' settings and it all gets a bit too uncomfortable and over-firm).
It's still not the most subtle of machines, however. There's clearly traction, grip and composure aplenty, but it misses out on the ever-elusive sensation of 'flow' - it just doesn't breathe with the road in the way that the very best performance cars do.
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Of course, you might not see that as a bad thing - the way it kind of beats the road up as opposed to working with it is really the dynamic manifestation of the VXR's traditionally slightly brutish MO, and traditional VXR buyers love that. It is worth mentioning, too, that the car we tried gets the £995 Aero Pack which includes, as well as side skirts, a bi-plane rear spoiler, 20-inch wheels as opposed to 19s, so perhaps those would help it to 'flow' more effectively. Mind you, 85 per cent of Astra VXR customers are expected to tick the Aero Pack option, so perhaps that's a bit of a moot point.
The essence of hooligan is definitely still there in the drivetrain, too. There's full boost from the turbo at 1,500rpm, and the full 295lb ft of torque from 2,500rpm all the way to 4,500rpm. It makes for a fearsomely accelerative car (although that 5.9-second sprint to 62mph is as much to with long gearing as it is pure power - it'll do it in second gear), and the experience is accompanied by a whooshing form the bespoke Remus exhaust that sounds like Darth Vader undergoing an alcohol breath test.
Inside, the cabin is typical modern Vauxhall, which seems to mean plenty of kit, but a slightly awkward and fiddly layout. The bits that are unique to the VXR are nice enough, though. The seats (developed in-house as opposed to with Recaro) for instance are good-looking, firm and supportive, with electrically adjustable side bolsters, and the extra-small steering wheel is a pleasure to use. Although the gearlever feels a bit awkward in the hand - though that's perhaps just me, as I've never got on with Vauxhall gearlevers. Still, the shift itself is sweet enough, if not the easiest to use.
At £26,995 the new Astra VXR isn't exactly a bargain (especially considering the new Focus ST pitches in at £21,995 in its most basic form), but it's competing in a market that's generally grown up in price power and capability over the past few years. And it acquits itself well. It's still not the most sophisticated hatch out there, but VXR buyers like a bit of bite to their cars. The wild child VXR has been tamed, but it hasn't lost its teeth.
Engine:1,998cc 4-cyl, turbocharged
Transmission: 6-speed manual, front-wheel drive
Power (hp):280@5,500rpm
Torque (lb ft):295@2,400-4,500rpm
0-62mph: 5.9 sec
Top speed: 155mph
Weight: 1,475kg
MPG: 34.9mpg
CO2: 189g/km
Price: £26,995


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PBF promotes responsible dog ownership, and certainly a big part of that is responsible health care for your animals. Please remember that advice and opinions given here do NOT replace diagnoses from an actual qualified veterinary professional who has given your dog a thorough, hands-on examination.
Strangers over the internet can make guesses, tell anecdotes about their own experiences, and suggest dietary/grooming options that may be helpful, but they simply cannot reliably diagnose an injury or illness without direct contact with your animal, nor should they (or PBF) be held responsible for your choice to follow or ignore their suggestions. Please remember this and do not make any decisions about your pets' health care based exclusively on internet posts.
If it would be helpful, perhaps we can contribute here a list of symptoms that would require vet treatment, and what would require emergency vet care?
For example - I would probably wait less than 24 hours to take my dog to the vet if he was limping, but I would not likely rush him to the e-vet without obvious swelling, bleeding, pain when the leg was touched, or some other symptoms besides the limp.
I would rush my dog to the e-vet if he appeared to have difficulty breathing at all.
What are your thoughts?
Why does PBF have a "Health Issues" section?
Talk about diets, exercise, and disease.
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I have a rectal thermometer for the dogs. If they have a temp, I'm calling the vet. If it's 104 or more, we're headed to the e-vet, if my regular vet isn't available.
Re: Why does PBF have a "Health Issues" section?
Bloat requires immediate veterinary care & surgery.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloat
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloat
Symptoms are not necessarily distinguishable from other kinds of distress. A dog might stand uncomfortably and seem to be in extreme discomfort for no apparent reason. Other possible symptoms include firm distension of the abdomen, weakness, depression, difficulty breathing, hypersalivation, and retching without vomiting. A high rate of dogs with bloat have cardiac arrhythmias (40 percent in one study)
Bloat is an emergency medical condition: having the animal examined by a veterinarian is imperative. Bloat can become fatal within a matter of minutes.
First Aid
At the first signs of bloat (restlessness and inability to sit or lay down comfortably) a dog owner can adminster 1-2 tablets of Famotidine also known commercially as Pepcid down the dogs throat. Some dog owners advise giving Simethicone during the early signs of a bloat emergency.
In addition to administering Pepcid or Simethicone a dog owner can massage an acupressure point on the hind leg which is known to release the gas build-up in the belly.
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New Jersey is trying to become the first state to legalize Internet gambling, according to this Press of Atlantic City story.
A proposed bill would allow operators of brick-and-mortar casinos in the state to operate web sites that offer games such as poker. Apparently, California is considering similar legislation.
Internet gambling took a major hit in 2006 after Congress passed a bill that prohibited U.S. banks and credit-card companies from processing transactions for gambling websites. Several popular poker sites operated internationally, including PartyPoker, stopped taking bets from U.S. residents.
Despite the federal crackdown, we've continued to see ads in the U.S. for PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and other online gambling sites because they refer to the companies' .net home pages, which are billed as educational tools that allow users to play poker with chips that don't have monetary value. The .com sites are the actual gambling sites. Indeed, countless U.S. residents are still illegally gambling on those sites, and that revenue generated for operators remains untaxed.
Proponents say regulating online gambling would help bolster state revenues at a time when many are struggling with budget shortfalls. Opponents say it would create more problems for pathological gamblers and open the door for underage gambling.
Separately,the Colorado Supreme Court may be asked to rule on whether poker is gambling or a game of skill. We're still waiting for an appeal to be filed by Kevin Raley, the defendant in the case, with help from the Poker Players Alliance.
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MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia's world famous soccer star George Weah has produced a song to raise awareness about Ebola, the deadly disease ravaging West Africa.
Weah said he hopes the song will help stop the spread of Ebola, which has so far killed 961 in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. Nearly 2,000 people have been infected with the disease, and health officials have said they are struggling to contain it.
"Let us all arise and come together to fight Ebola; Ebola is real," the lyrics of the song exhort. Experts say fear and misunderstanding of Ebola have led many to ignore medical advice, fueling the disease's spread. Some even doubt the disease's existence.
Liberian authorities have tried several ways to get the message across that the disease is real and that people with symptoms must seek medical care. Everyone has been encouraged to their wash hands frequently, avoid contact with the sick and to suspend traditional burial practices that involve touching the corpse.
Weah, who before he retired was once named FIFA's player of the year, is now a politician and singer; he has run for president twice.
He said Liberia's Health Ministry asked him to join their efforts to raise awareness, so he worked with the Ghanaian musician, Sidney, to record the song. Proceeds from sales will go to the Liberian Health Ministry.
During a performance Sunday night, Weah said he feared that if nothing is done the disease will spread beyond the four countries.
"I know Africa will be affected if we don't take it seriously," he said.


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Day's Worst: An "Angry Trayvon" app
There's always someone sick out there looking to make a buck, but this idea was really sick.
A company named TradeDigital was selling a game app for $1.99 called "Angry Trayvon" that featured a main character wearing a hoodie and attacking other characters with a baseball bat.
The character was obviously based off of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old boy shot and killed last year in Sanford, Fla., during an altercation with neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, whose trial for second-degree murder is underway at the moment. Zimmerman has claimed the shooting was self-defense, and even if a jury finds that claim to be true, exploiting the death of a 17-year-old boy for financial gain is disgusting.


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The cloud mining service CexIO has introduced new interesting feature on their mining pool GHash.io, namely multipool mining with automatic switching to mine the most profitable crypto coin. The Multi Pool Pro as the service calls its new feature uses the integration with the other services and features such as Bitcoin cloud mining and trading and all goes under a single account. This new feature will be drawing some users for sure as the policy of 0% mining fee for the pool is something that is attractive for many miners. Since the service is still very new the hasrate at the Multipool is not that high, though it is already past 1.5 GHS and continues to grow.
The list of currently supported crypto currencies for the multipool feature include: LTC, MEC, DGB, AUR, WDC, FTC, SXC, DOGE, 42 and CAT. And since the CexIO account balance is being used not all of these coins are supported and you need to use the auto conversion features that allows you to get the mined coins automatically converted to either BTC or LTC. There is also an option to not autoconvert LTC, DOGE, FTC and AUR as you have wallets available for these cryptos inside the service already available.
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The Hagiography of Heroism: Desire as Motivation of Performative Identity for Non-State Actors
Presented at ISA 2006, March 24, 2006, San Diego CA (USA)
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Presented at ISA 2006, March 24, 2006, San Diego CA (USA)
Work in Progress. Comments Welcome.
"You desire what you see," is the cryptic clue handed by Dr. Hannibal Lecter to Agent Clarice Starling in the 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs. The psychologically astute serial killer's statement encapsulates the underlying premise of the creation, perpetuation and satisfaction of human desire. Given the information-rich contemporary culture that constantly and consistently bombards us with images, sounds and ideas, we often overlook the ways that our desires are constantly being formed and transformed, often to reflect, refract and repeat millennial traditions – of love, jealousy, envy, hate. In a world with a surfeit of mass media, we ignore Lecter's warning at our own peril – if we desire what we see, we desire what we see most often – commodities, heroes and ideals. We need not rely on Dr. Lecter's word for it – much of mimetic theory covers similar ground. Other theoretician have debated the merits and functioning of this mechanism (Girard 1965. See also Auerbach, 1953, Bauml, 1984, Gerard, 1989)
Of more importance, for the purpose of this presentation is the question – given that we desire what we see, what precisely do we see in the new millennium? This question forms the crux of understanding how popular media constructs new ideological and idealist edifices of desires, often building on past structures, but always finding new material to re-enforce the foundations.
Let me first place some qualifiers to the answer however: Beyond the confines of the world of the Sopranos and Desperate Housewives, or even the sanitized polygamous world of Big Love, the world still turns to millennial stories – from the Bible, Koran, Ramayana for a start, but also from other treasure troves of tales that define and explain our lives and worlds. And this world is not necessarily reflected, re-created or re-presented in technologically archaic forms of oral or even print storytelling. From Gaza to northern Nigeria, or the banks of the Amazon to Bombay, storytelling in the 21st millennium is done with the moving image – celluloid, television, digital camera are all required. And they throw up interesting possibilities – to enjoy, admire, desire and imitate. Even in markets that Hollywood dominates, the images refer to and build upon earlier archetypes, endlessly recreating, distorting and transforming earlier ideals in a constant mimesis of the past, contemporary realities and possible futures. However, let us work with primarily Western examples for this section – not for the lack of material from non-Western audiovisual industries, but for the assumption that most material referred to would less familiar to a primarily Western audience. Please note, however, that the paper shall refer to historical and contemporary non-Western cultural products when necessary, either for comparison or for elaborating a point.
For the new millennium, one well known product is the Peter – trilogy based the eponymous novel by J.R.R. Tolkein, The Lord of the Rings. This paper uses the novel to delineate some ideas, without necessarily separate reference to the film-trilogy. The reason for this conflation is not to avoid discussions on the merits of the Oscar-winning film or its filmic pleasures and discontent. Indeed, a discussion of the film trilogy would open a can of worms, not only on the issues of (mis)representations and imperialist agendas implicit and far more pronounced and complex in the film adaptation than the original literary text, but also on the possible meanings of director's recent oeuvre which shows a marked tendency toward reviving some of the more noxious works of colonialist and racialist discourse.
The attempt to discuss Tolkein's novel and simply referring to the films as necessary and only as apparently faithful re-presentations of the events described in the novel is intended to retain focus on the idealist and ideological content of the same. Moreover, the novel written in mid-20th century presents us with a neatly fragmented tryptich of heroic archetypes. These archetypes occur in older works of course, often embodied in the same hero. In Tolkein's own fragmented contentious modernity, they no longer overlap and bleed into each other, fortuitously for us, allowing us to draw three clear models.
Tolkein's novel provides an interesting case for mimesis, referring to, reflecting and recreating ideas long embodied by a range of texts, including the Old and New Testaments, Norse mythology and Greco-Roman legends. This paper considers mimetic theory in its adapted, transformed contemporary state, and refers to Girard's idea as a base but not a doctrine. "Mimesis is a complex, multifaceted process of re-presentation and re-creation, in the course of which new works come into being via the misconstruction and transformation of models." (Gebauer and Wulf, 1995). Since the early writings by Girard, mimetic theory has itself been misconstructed and transformed to include the phenomenon of constant inter-reference between art and society that mutually re-enforce, contradict and subvert each other. This plurality of referentialities reminds us that "To restrict mimesis to the mere reproduction of existing model thus falls far short of a satisfactory conception. We shall get farther in our efforts by attempting to conceive this process of re-presentation as a process of recreative transformation." (Gebauer and Wulf, 1995).
This is why we are left considering how images shape society and vice versa. The much celebrated Lord of the Rings trilogy – regardless of its unthinking ethnocentricity – threw up earlier and highly resonant archetypes which deserve more than a cursory look. The trilogy recreates the ideal heroes, referring back to Tolkein's pseudo-epic, written in a simpler age when despite the ravages of the WW2, the ideals of the benign empire could be cherished. The book draws on a plethora of archetypes – using both pre-Christian and Biblical strands to create its heroic narrative. From the Biblical standpoint, where "the meek shall inherit the earth," Frodo Baggins is given a burden greater than he can bear – to carry the ring to the fiery mountains and destroy it. The apparently weak, disadvantages race of the Hobbits take on distinctly Biblical tints of the "chosen people," in somehow selflessly saving the world. It is the Hobbits – specifically Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, along with their companions – who are capable of "great deeds" regardless of their abilities, strengths or talents. Any similarity to heroes of the Old Testament was entirely understandable – I suppose - from the standpoint of the author.


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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) BJ Young's late 3-pointer in double overtime and Marshawn Powell's 28 points helped Arkansas hold on to secure an 88-80 win over Auburn on Wednesday night.
The win was the second straight for the Razorbacks, who survived the hot-shooting Tigers and guard Frankie Sullivan's five second-half 3-pointers.
Young added 22 points and Mardracus Wade had 12 for Arkansas (11-5, 2-1 Southeastern), which now has won seven of its last eight games. Powell had 21 points in the second half and overtimes, finishing with his second-highest point total of the season.
Sullivan led Auburn (8-8, 2-1) with 26 points, 23 of them after halftime. He was 5 of 11 on 3-pointers, and the Tigers were 11 of 25 overall from behind the arc.


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Retailers appeal swipe fee settlement with Visa/Mastercard
Yesterday, the National Retail Federation filed an appeal of last month's announced settlement order in an antitrust case involving price-fixing by Visa and Mastercard. In September, attorneys for U.S. PIRG and a senior official of Consumer Reports/Consumers Union had joined lawyers for NRF and numerous other retail associations in opposition to the settlement at a fairness hearing before the court. Unfortunately, the judge ruled against us.
U.S. PIRG backs the merchants because non-negotiable swipe, or interchange, fees force all consumers, including cash customers, to pay more at the store and more at the pump because most merchants embed the fees in their prices. Our opposition to this settlement is generally summarized here.
Although the settlement order nominally grants merchants the right to surcharge for credit, which previously had been nearly impossible under Visa/Mastercard rules and under some state laws, and provides for a modest one-time payment to members of the merchant class, it allows Visa and Mastercard to continue to raise fees with no limit and also will virtually prevent any future lawsuits over payment systems pricing, even in new, as yet unenvisioned, payment schemes.
The fight over swipe fees paid by merchants has been long and complex and this appeal shows that it is not over. The merchants did win a large cash settlement in the mid-2000s in a case that focused on unfair "honor all cards" rules but that settlement did not end all unfair practices. Merchant studies have documented that swipe fees continue to rise, despite technological advances. Federal Reserve economists (not to be confused with Federal Reserve lawyers or policymakers) have also documented that swipe fees are regressive. The Fed economists found that swipe fees transfer benefits to affluent rewards card customers from lower-income cash customers.
During the 2010 battle for Wall Street reform, merchants appeared to win a minor victory as an amendment by Senator Dick Durbin (IL) succeeded in limiting the swipe fees imposed by big banks on debit cards only, but the Federal Reserve has fiercely resisted full implementation of the Durbin amendment.
Among the many burdensome provisions of Visa/Mastercard contracts has been the difficulty merchants face in offering (legal everywhere) discounts for cash or surcharging for credit where it is not banned by state law. The Durbin amendment helped provide some clarity, but, under the recent settlement, while surcharging is a ballyhooed benefit to merchants, it still would not be easy. First, the settlement only allows surcharging where it is legal. In the 1980s-1990s, attorneys for Visa and Mastercard had convinced ten states (with 40% of the population) to ban surcharging. But, historically, the contracts had made it virtually impossible to surcharge anywhere at all while the threat of massive monetary penalties for illegal surcharging had largely forestalled legal discounting for cash (the banks claimed the discounts were actually illegal surcharges).
Two recent developments may slightly ameliorate merchant concerns:
- In October, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff struck down New York's anti-surcharge law, which had subjected violators to criminal penalties. Judge Rakoff said that in establishing speech rules allowing discounts but prohibiting surcharges, the law made a "virtually incomprehensible distinction between what a vendor can and cannot tell its customers" in violation of the First Amendment.
- While the settlement order conditions surcharging rights not only on whether they are legal in a state, it also includes conditions requiring merchants to treat all competing cards the same way. This had been impossible, due to American Express rules, until a separate December decision that may assist merchants desiring to surcharge. In that case, that third card network, American Express, dropped its own restrictions on surcharging in its own court settlement (ABC.com explains).
As we have previously argued, I doubt many big merchants will surcharge or discount, since they do not want to inconvenience their customers. Yet surcharging or discounting will likely be experimented with by smaller merchants with simpler product lines-- antique stores, car dealers, etc. This may aid in price discovery by consumers and help them to choose lower cost payment mechanisms, or even encourage them to haggle for even better deals.
Our bigger concern with the Visa/Mastercard settlement is that it contains sweeping restrictions on future lawsuits over anti-competitive practices in payment systems. It virtually immunizes Visa and Mastercard from future complaints. One warning sign of illegal practices is that prices continue to go up even when technology lowers costs. In the U.S., unlike the rest of the world, swipe fees have continued to increase even as new, better payment technologies have rolled out.
Finally, in a statement attacking the National Retail Federation's lawsuit appeal, American Bankers Association card czar Ken Clayton claimed that interchange pays for anti-fraud mechanisms and solely blamed Target, a merchant, for its recent breach.
"It doesn't surprise us, on the heels of a big-box retailer breach that put 40 million consumer accounts at risk, that the retail lobby once again puts its pocketbook above the interests of consumers. Interchange, among other things, supports anti-breach efforts"
Certainly, Target faces much, but not all, of the responsibity for its breach. But remember, among those "other things," the vast bulk of interchange goes to either bank profits or cardholder rewards-- just a teeny percentage goes to fraud prevention. As for the claim that fraud is all the merchant's fault, remember that the bank networks, as an oligopoly, have continued to use obsolete magnetic stripe technology forty years after it was first rolled out. Why? Because they can. That's what oligopolists do. They raise prices and resist technological advances as long as they can.
U.S. PIRG will likely continue our opposition to this settlement that serves the card network oligopolies at the expense of consumers, merchants and markets. It perpetuates unfair practices that force us all to pay more at the store and more at the pump.
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People always say "Make hay while the sun shines", in my case a more appropriate saying would be "bake cake before the sun sets" (so that my photos won't be dull and dreary), or "bake cake before the baby cries". :)
It's a struggle to bake cake nowadays with a 2 month-old baby wailing every few minutes for feeding, for burping, for nappy change, and for lack of company. She doesn't allow me to leave her for a single second, not even to go to the toilet, seriously. If I disappear just 1 metre outside her radar, the alarm will go off, wahhhhh, and she will cry as if there is no tomorrow. :S
Anyway, yesterday was a relatively quiet day for me, my little princess was snoring, so I assumed that she wouldn't wake up so easily and I thought of baking a special cake, one that I have never done before. Now this is my maiden attempt at baking a mousse cake and also my very first strawberry cake. So two double firsts. I was on my way to Delhaize for my annual stockup on cheap orchids. I saw strawberries on discount there so I bought half a kilo at 1.99 euro. What a steal! Later I realised that there was a newspaper promotion for strawberries at Delhaize, one pack of 500g cost 1.50 euro each if you buy at least 2 packs. Being the "kiasu" Singaporean, I was itching to go back and grab a few kilos but then I realised that strawberries don't keep very well. So let me first finish up these strawberries, and see how it goes. :)
Here is my berry easy strawberry mousse cake, not too bad, isn't it? I left it in the fridge overnight as the sun had already set and I could only take pictures the next day (now you know why I only bake while the sun shines). But actually it only requires 3-4 hours in the fridge for the mousse to set.
The sponge cake recipe is from Alex Goh's Baking Code and the strawberry mousse recipe is from Aunty Yochana's blog. Adaptations have been made to suit a 8 inch round cake pan.
This sponge cake recipe uses 5 egg yolks and 5 egg whites and is originally intended for a 23 cm (9 inch) round cake pan. But I used a 20 cm (8 inch) round cake pan instead to achieve a higher height. This is a very good sponge cake recipe, a fail-proof and a very forgiving one. I don't say that without a reason. You know what, I actually forgot to add in the flour before adding in the corn oil, when the baby started crying all of a sudden. It was only when the sponge cake was already in the oven for 2 minutes, that I turned my back and saw the bowl of flour sitting pretty on the table. Luckily I managed to salvage the cake in time. I quickly took the batter out of the cake pan, pour it into a mixing bowl, fold in the flour, pour it back into the cake pan and put it back into the oven. Phew!!!
So here is the adapted recipe:
Ingredients A
5 egg yolks + 20g sugar + 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
Ingredients B
5 egg whites
Ingredients C
120g sugar
Ingredients D
110 flour
Ingredients E
60g corn oil
1. Using a cake-mixer, whip ingredients A (egg yolks, sugar and vanilla essence) until light and fluffy.
2. Using a cake-mixer, whip ingredients B (egg whites) until soft peak. Add in ingredients C (120g sugar) and continue whipping until stiff peak.
3. Mix the egg-white mixture with the egg-yolk mixture until well-blended. You should scoop 1/3 of the egg-white mixture into the egg-yolk mixture, mix it gently using a spatula, then pour the combined batter into the rest of the egg-white mixture and mix it well.
4. Using a spatula, fold in ingredients D (flour) , mix well until well-combined. Add in ingredients E (corn oil) and use a spatula to mix until well-incorporated.
5. Pour it into a greased and lined round mould (8 inch springform).
6. Bake at 180 degrees celsius for about 30 min. Remove the cake and quickly invert it on a cooling rack to let it cool. Then use a sharp serrate knife to loosen the sides and unmould the cake.
The original recipe is meant for a 9-inch round cake pan but I have reduced the ingredients proportionately by 3/4 to suit a 8-inch round cake pan.
300ml whipping cream (whipped using cake-mixer)
280 to 300g fresh strawberry puree (blended in a food blender)
90g fine sugar
**4 tsp gelatine powder mixed with 70g water
1. If you buy 500g of strawberries, you should use 300g to be blended into puree and set aside 200g for decoration later.
2. Add strawberry puree and sugar into a saucepan and warm it over low heat to melt the sugar. Add in the gelatine solution and mix it well. Remove from heat and allow to cool before adding the whipped cream (otherwise the whipped cream will melt in the next step).
3. Fold in the whipped cream using a spatula and divide the strawberry mousse into 2 portions.
**Note that according to the instructions of the gelatine powder, we should use 3 tsp of gelatine powder for every 500ml of liquid to be set.
1. First cut the sponge cake into 2 layers using a sharp serrated knife. Place the bottom layer of the sponge cake into a cake ring or the springform cake pan that you used to bake the cake (must be cleaned and greased with oil). Cut strawberries into halves and arrange them side by side around the sides of the cake pan.
2. Pour in the first 1/2 of the strawberry mousse and level the surface using a spatula. Make sure the sides of the cake are also filled with the mousse.
3. Place the top layer of the sponge cake on top of the mousse layer.
4. Pour in the second 1/2 of the strawberry mousse and again level the surface using a spatula.
5. Leave the finished cake in the fridge for about 3 to 4 hours to allow the mousse to set. Tie any itchy hands with a rope and DO NOT touch the cake until the mousse layer is firm!!!
6. Once the mousse is set, remove from the fridge and use a sharp serrated knife to run through and loosen the sides of the cake pan, then slowly (and steadily) open the springform or the cake ring.
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AVG built a name for itself by offering free security software at a time when most others were charging.
The company is trying to do the same in mobile, where it has managed to get some 70 million downloads for its free Android security product, and is growing its active user base by about two million people each month.
"That's very much the heritage of where we came from," COO John Giamatteo said in an interview.
Things are a little different in mobile, of course. First of all, AVG faces competition not only from traditional security players but from such mobile-centric companies as Lookout and NQ Mobile.
The other big question is how to make money in mobile. Traditionally, security vendors offer a basic product for free and then try to upsell consumers on a paid or subscription product with added features.
Giamatteo said that AVG and others are certainly doing that, but added that making money in mobile probably means thinking of other areas, such as advertising or serving up ad recommendations.
As others in the space have done, AVG is also moving beyond malware protection. It has a new "tune-up" product that helps customers monitor things such as battery drain, storage space and data use; additional privacy products are slated for introduction this quarter.
While AVG's primary approach is still to get users to download its products from Google Play, it has dipped its toe into distribution deals. A pact with Samsung sees its software preloaded on some phones in the United Kingdom, and another arrangement with Qualcomm has AVG as the preferred partner on the reference designs put out by the chipmaker.
It may have taken the traditional PC security vendors a while to recognize the opportunities in mobile, Giamatteo said. But with the PC market flattening, the industry knows that it had better have products that span the desktop to tablets and phones.


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Tartan junior forward CJ Acker (44) takes it to the net, one of 17 saves by St. Thomas Academy's Atticus Kelly. The Titans fell to the Cadets, 3-0, at home Jan.30. (Linda Baumeister/Reivew)
From left, free safety Alex Hallman, and linebackers Andrew Allen and Hugh Burke, all seniors on the St. Thomas Academy Cadets team, block an offensive approach by the North St. Paul Polars during the Class 5A quarterfinal state tournament game Friday, Oct. 30. St. Thomas went on to win in the 7-0 game. (Linda Baumeister/Review)
Game was scoreless until final 2 minutes
St. Thomas 7 - North 0
After winning eight consecutive football games, the highly successful North High Polars were handed a last-minute, season-ending loss by the St. Thomas Academy Cadets in the Class 5A quarterfinal state tournament game Friday, Oct. 30.
St. Thomas 35 - North 14
Trailing at halftime, the St. Thomas Academy Cadets decided to make some adjustments in the second half of their Red Division football game Friday, Aug. 28, against the North High Polars.
Tartan High School sophomore Haden Kolberg battled in his 160 weight class to a loss by decision in overtime to Cam Cashin.
The Titans won at home in Oakdale 40-33 over Saint Thomas Academy, a Mendota Heights college preparatory school. (Linda Baumeister photos/Review)
The Hill-Murray Pioneers took their number one state ranking and 6-0 Classic Suburban Conference leading—14-2 overall—boys' hockey records into the St. Thomas ice arena Jan. 23.
When a couple of hours elapsed and they emerged for the ride back home, Hill-Murray no longer was all alone atop the CSC.
St. Thomas had inflicted them with a 4-2 defeat that left them tied with the Cadets with identical 6-1 records.
Linda Baumeister/Review
Odds of 3-to-1 are never good when they're not in your favor.
Such was the case for the Tartan Titans Saturday, Oct. 26, when the St. Thomas Academy Cadets came to Oakdale for a football confrontation in Section 5AAAAA.
St. Thomas utilized three running backs against the Titans' ace Keenen Bellaphant and came out on top of a 35-14 win.
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Childbirth is one of those amazing things in life that's nothing short of a miracle and leaves me in awe. Whether it's reflecting on the birth of my children, hearing about a friend's birth or reading the birth story of a total stranger, it simply amazes me.
Animal births are just as amazing, perhaps even more so, because they follow their animal instincts and simply. give. birth.
A week ago I received a text from my friend Michelle, who has a small farm, letting me know that her Nigerian Dwarf goat Truffles was in labor. I knew of the impending labor and had been
hounding asking her daily for a week if the babies had come yet and was beginning to feel like the annoying friend of a pregnant lady — "Are you in labor yet? Did you have your baby yet? Are you getting close? Any news on baby?" Eventually I told her as long as she promised to tell me when they were born, I would stop harassing her.
I expected a text after they'd been born, so I was both surprised and elated when she was kind enough to text me to let me know the babies were coming…imminently.
I hadn't given it any prior thought, but when Michelle said Truffles was in labor and it was only 7 p.m. on a Tuesday night, I thought maybe, just maybe I could hang out at her farm and actually be there FOR the birth — you know, like a goat doula! I didn't want to impose, but I had to ask.
Our conversation that evening went like this:
I was so excited! I was going to get to attend a birth. 🙂
It wasn't more than 20 minutes later that she texted,
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It was then that I threw on some warmer clothes, jumped in my car and headed to her farm which is thankfully only about 5 minutes away.
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I hightailed it to the barn out back where Michelle, her husband and their two boys were oohing and aahing over the first of the babies (or kids if you want to be technical) – a doeling. She was tiny and dark and beautiful and precious.
Truffles took a break then before birthing babies # 2, 3, and yes 4! Smart mama. 🙂 Perhaps she knew she still had a lot of work ahead of her.
I took on video and flashlight duty while Truffles birthed baby #2 and 3. Then, as Truffles birthed baby #4, Michelle called me into the pen with them to help and I got to fulfill my role as a goat doula. 🙂 I helped dry off the new babies, keep them all straight (it gets confusing with 4 babies), help them nurse and of course, love on them. It was the perfect way to get a birth and baby fix.
And that's how I became a goat doula. I wonder if there's a market for that?? 😉
Here I am loving on one of the sweet babes.
Truffles ended up with three girls (doelings) and one boy (buckling). Michelle was very pleased.
The video below is of Truffles birthing the third doeling (which came out breech). I don't know if it needs a warning. It's not excessively graphic, but it is a birth so, you know… If you don't want to watch the birth, scroll down for pics (that my friend Sara from Walk Slowly, Live Wildly) of the little sweeties when they were two days old.
Here's mama Truffles with some of her kids when they were two days old:
Mama Truffles and all four of her kids:
A close up of one of the adorable kids – the buckling:
A chicken keeps watch over Truffles and her kids:
Now that the kids are a little over a week old I really want to go back for a visit. Michelle tells me they are adorable as can be and bouncing all over the place, even on top of their mama! Who can pass on that kind of cuteness?! I hope to head that way for some more goat snuggles soon.
Photo credit: Big thanks to my friend Sara (who blogs at Walk Slowly, Live Wildly) for letting me use her photos (the bottom four) in my post. Sara is embarking on a new farm adventure of her own soon (and blogging about it) and is just as smitten by Michelle's goaties as I am! 🙂
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This warbler can be found hopping on the floor of Wisconsin's mature forests--those that are usually dry with deciduous trees, but you can also find them in wet areas or in northern coniferous forests. They like areas with little or no underbrush. The term "oven" bird comes from the shape of their ground nests which look like a little oven. Don't think they spend all of their time in Wisconsin though. These are special birds called "neotropical migrants" which means they migrate south to the tropics. In the case of the ovenbird, they migrate to Nicaragua. Can you find Nicaragua on the map? This means that they fly about 2,300 miles to reach their winter home! Biologists think they migrate along the Mississippi River or "Mississippi Flyway," the path that many waterfowl take to fly south. They're not on this journey in the daytime, though. Ovenbirds migrate at night at approximately 64 kilometers per hour to reach their Spanish speaking summer home. They are one of the few birds that nest in the forest and spend their winters in the forest as well.
Ovenbirds measure only 6 inches and are well hidden in the trees by their olive-brown coloring on their backside. You might see the large orange stripe on their head that reaches from the beak to the back of their head. They've also got black strips on either side of the orange patch. You might catch a glimpse of their white chest with black lines leading from the chin to their belly. They're not always easy to see, but they're often easy to hear. Listen for their "t-cher, t-cher, t-cher, t-cher" call that gets louder as they sing. They eat insects wherever they go, Wisconsin or Nicaragua, and help keep some pest insects under control. Ovenbirds live in most of Canada and 2/3 of the lower United States including the Midwestern and eastern states.


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Guest Blog: Lee Thompson Discusses Ways to Measure Your Success (Plus a Giveaway)
A Texas Senator and his wife go missing… On the same day, their son is slaughtered by an enigmatic killer on the lawn of ex-Governor Edward Wood's residence. Sammy, Wood's drug dealing son, suspects his father of the crime. After all, his old man snapped once before and crippled his wife with a lead pipe. But there's something more to these events…something deeper and festering just beneath the surface…
In direct opposition to Homicide Detective Jim Thompson, Sammy begins an investigation of his own, searching for the truth in a labyrinth of lies, deception, depravity and violence that drags him deeper into darkness and mayhem with each step. And in doing so, brings them all into the sights of an elusive and horrifying killer who may not be what he seems.
A brutal killer on a rampage of carnage…a hardened detective on the brink…an antihero from the shadows…a terrifying mystery that could destroy them all…
Welcome to Lee Thompson's A Beautiful Madness blog tour!
This stop is a special one since I love Shock Totem magazine and the people who have made it such a monumental success, which strangely enough is what this post is about. They're beautiful people over at ST, and so are the stories they publish, and the covers that grace their issues.
Since I've been in two issues, in addition to one person winning a paperback copy of my novel, I'll also be giving away two copies of Shock Totem! Issue #4, which featured my story "Beneath the Weeping Willow," and issue #6, where I have a story called "The River" and was interviewed by K. Allen Wood (the publisher and sexy beast). Very neat, yes? To win, make sure you leave a comment and share the link on Shock Totem's website, lovelies.
(Note: We will also be adding a hardcover copy (19 of 150) of Lee's limited edition Delirium Books novella Down Here in the Dark.)
Ways to Measure Your Success (Expect and Accept Change)
There's not much worse than for five years to go by and for you to look back over those years and feel that nothing has changed. Especially since it's our responsibility to learn, adapt, and change things. No one else makes our choices for us once we're an adult. But did you know what you wanted back then? Did you have a clear, specific goal? Did you have steps to carry yourself to that goal, or did you keep doing the things you were doing and expect to conjure such success from thin air?
If so, you're not alone. But where have you succeeded? There has to be some area, doesn't there? Look deep, look back, be objective. If you haven't made strides, it might be time to start from scratch and rethink the way you're approaching your writing career. You're going to have to change for the better.
Expecting to succeed—to sell your first novel or first pro short story, or to get interviewed in the paper, or whatever—without studying the craft and just winging it, is like a guy swinging a golf club and expecting to be a pro golfer in five years. He can be doing a dozen things wrong in his swing and practice those wrong techniques ten thousand times, but only hurting himself.
A great way to measure your success is to pay a pro for feedback. (Tom Piccirilli offers an editing service.) Look at their feedback and go through it one point at a time, through your whole book, looking for the places they've marked as red flags and learn to understand why those things hurt your story instead of help it.
You can measure your success by comparing yourself to your peers. But it's a trap filled with frustration. They can only write what they write and you can only write what you write. You might be a better networker but they might write better stories, or vice versa. They might be getting what appears constant praise while you can barely get someone to review your first novel. They might be single like me and have very few distractions while you might have a job and a family to dole out time and energy. There are too many variables, and comparing yourself to your peers isn't very healthy. If you find yourself in this trap, it wouldn't hurt to slap some sense into yourself.
You can measure your success by reviews. Reviewers read a lot of books so they can usually spot big flaws and what doesn't work for them pretty quickly. They're also passionate about the genre they're reviewing. I like measuring my success this way. If someone loves reading they're going to offer something useful I can use to improve.
You can measure your success by word count. I've never worried about this, but it seems to be a popular thing among writers. It seems a double-edged sword, though, telling yourself you have to hit a certain number, shifting, at least in the back of your mind, from writing a quality story to worrying about how many individual words you finished today. And then there is a lot of guilt in this approach too. I've seen tons of writers cry and beat themselves up because they fell behind on their word count that day or week or month. It's a distraction, if you ask me, that doesn't have many benefits. If you ignore the word count altogether and just write the story with as much passion and skill as you can, it will end up whatever length it needs to be.
You can measure your success by the project. Each novel you write will be different in critical ways. I like to experiment and break rules. When I began brainstorming A Beautiful Madness I knew I was going to break one of the big rules, and I did it, and knew it would and did work. The challenge each novel creates is fun to face. If you're testing yourself on each individual story, to try new characters, new storylines, new ways to manage the POV shifts, and searching your heart for the little details that make the story familiar but fresh, there is a lot of satisfaction in that.
You can measure success by hitting deadlines. I like to set myself a deadline and have been doing so for years. (You'll have to start doing that to be a professional writer, so why not start now?) I usually take a week to brainstorm the characters and the major beats of the novel and then write down the date I want to finish the first draft. Normally I have two deadlines. I set a high goal of six weeks. And then I set a more relaxed deadline of three months. Usually I hit somewhere around two months for a first draft but have finished some novels in two weeks. They're all different.
You can measure success by copies sold. I'm setting a goal of moving 10,000 copies of A Beautiful Madness in the first year of its release, mostly because I want to gain a hefty new fan base and secure myself a position as a Crime writer to go to for a certain type of story.
With three years of publishing history, I can tell you that book sales spike and plummet if you have a small audience (there will be more on this in another guest post). Since there are such peaks and valleys, I'm shooting for the yearly goal of copies moved instead of a monthly one. If I'm six months into it and have only sold a quarter of what I want to get out there in readers' hands, then I will have to get creative and up my game to hit my goal. It's nice motivation. I think it's doable too, with the publisher I have, and the fans I've gained over the last three years. And since A Beautiful Madness is my first Crime novel, it will always have a special place in my heart no matter how it's received.
You can measure success by reader feedback. I've got awesome fans. They're so warm and intelligent and funny. I wouldn't move any copies if it wasn't for them and my publisher because I'd rather be writing and reading than spending time online trying to pimp myself. A lot of them have become friends over the last three years too, although at one time they were complete strangers, opening one of my novels or novellas for the first time. It's pretty cool. I measure my success in this way a lot, because it's tangible, and if you ever feel down there are always people there shooting you an email saying they just finished your book and loved it and recommended it to their friends. They thank you, which is weird, but I get it because every time I read a great book I want to thank the author for taking the time to write it too.
You can measure success by professional feedback. I was fortunate the last four years to receive feedback from professional editors and agents and writers. I think it was important for me to have those people tell me I had talent and imagination and energy, but needed to work on characterization. Listening to them is what helped me start selling fiction.
You can adapt an attitude of I-don't-give-a-fuck. Readers, editors, reviewers, some will love your work, some will hate it, some will never be more than lukewarm about it. You can just write for yourself if you want, like you probably did when you first started and you were thrilled by simply writing and finishing something. There's no pressure in that. And it's your life. Do what you want, what you feel is right, for you and your work.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Austin Hollins hit five 3-pointers during an impressive three-minute stretch in the second half, finishing with 19 points and sparking ninth-ranked Minnesota to a 69-51 victory over Northwestern on Sunday night.
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