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Racism hangs over Europa League resumption
The specter of racism hangs over the resumption of the Europa League on Thursday, with Liverpool expressing its "major concern'' that the last-32 match against Zenit St. Petersburg will be marred by racist abuse from the Russian team's fans.
Liverpool officials are concerned about the welfare of the club's players in light of a document published by a section of Zenit supporters in December, urging the team not to sign black or gay players.
Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre has written to UEFA and Zenit to detail his concerns, and said players will be briefed about how to respond in the event they suffer abuse.
"The most we can do is make our feelings clear ahead of the game, and hope that we get an adequate response and adequate support on the night,'' Ayre said. "That's about the most we can do at this stage.
"I'm certainly hopeful that the right people will take the right action to ensure it's a game where we don't have that type of incident.''
Zenit coach Luciano Spalletti distanced himself from the document Wednesday, saying the judgment of those particular fans had been "erratic.''
"For me, skin has no color,'' Spalletti said. "The document, published on the internet, expresses the judgment of a separate group of fans but not of all supporters of Zenit and citizens of St. Petersburg.''
Zenit are among a raft of eastern European teams in the last 32 who have yet to resume their domestic league campaigns after the winter break, likely leaving them rusty and struggling for match sharpness.
Sparta Prague faces the same problem ahead of its match against Chelsea, the European champion which dropped into the Europa League after finishing third in its Champions League group.
The London club is expected to take the competition seriously as it is one of only two realistic opportunities for silverware this season.
"It is true the Europa League is not the same as the Champions League because that is the top, but the Europa League is a big competition, an important competition, and now we have the chance to win it,'' Chelsea defender Cesar Azpilicueta said.
"Never in the history of Chelsea have we won this cup and we are going to try to do it.''
Chelsea captain John Terry has traveled to the Czech Republic despite missing the 4-1 league win over Wigan on Saturday with a knee injury, while goalkeeper Petr Cech has a hairline fracture to his little finger on his left hand but should still play against his former club.
"For them, it will be the biggest game of their careers,'' Cech said on Wednesday, "so that's a danger because they will want to show they can do well against us.''
In other high-profile matches, Tottenham hosts Lyon, Ajax is at home to Steaua Bucharest in a match between two former European champions, and Rubin Kazan visits Atletico Madrid, the defending champion bidding to become only the third team to retain the trophy.
Like Chelsea, Liverpool is expected to field a strong team for a first leg set to be played in sub-zero temperatures in Russia, with the Europa League the only remaining trophy available to the five-time European champions.
A disappointing 2-0 home loss to West Bromwich Albion on Monday dropped Liverpool to ninth place in the Premier League, meaning the team is unlikely to qualify for Europe next season unless it wins the Europa League.
"We've got to get the disappointment out of our mind and refocus on our next game,'' Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers said.
Lyon won more points - 16 - than any other team in the group stage and is preparing to welcome back to the Stade Gerland former goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, who joined Tottenham in August.
"It's not easy for me because I have a good relationship with all my ex-teammates but that is football,'' said the France captain, who has established himself as first-choice goalkeeper at Tottenham but will be on the bench for the first leg. "That is the life. On the pitch there are no friends. We play for our team and give all the best for our team.''
In winger Gareth Bale, Tottenham has arguably the form player in the Premier League and the Wales winger will be looking to score in a fifth straight game in all competitions.
As well as Chelsea and Zenit, the other teams to drop into the Europa League from the Champions League are Dynamo Kiev, Olympiakos, Ajax, Benfica, BATE Borisov and Cluj.


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These images of a couple having sex in their back garden form part of the evidence used to send disgraced PC Adrian Pogmore to prison for 12 months, for abusing his position to use a South Yorkshire Police helicopter to make seedy videos of civilians.
Ex-police officer, Adrian Pogmore, was in tears as he received the sentence at Sheffield Crown Court yesterday for filming the married couple as well as five other people who were sunbathing naked in the county.
Pogmore, 51, of Guilthwaite Crescent, Whiston, Rotherham, admitted to four counts of misconduct relating to four recordings taken using the force aicraft between 2007 and 2012.
Two serving police officers and two helicopter pilots were tried and cleared of the same offence after telling a jury that they had no idea what Pogmore was doing with the high-powered camera on board the aircraft. Pogmore made an 11-minute long video of the couple, that was shown in evidence to jurors.
The court was told that the couple were part of the South Yorkshire swinging scene along with Pogmore, and were aware that they were being observed by Pogmore in the police helicopter as they had sex in a variety of different positions on the patio of their property.
However, the couple said while they were aware they were being observed, they did not know, or consent, to being filmed. The couple, who are not being named for legal reasons, said they became involved with swinging after visiting a Sheffield sex club.
Pogmore gave the couple a copy of the video, which they kept until they decided to turn their backs on the swinging scene a number of years ago. The photograph stills used in this article were taken from footage released by the Crown Prosecution Service this afternoon, following the conclusion of the case.
The other videos taken by Pogmore showed a mum sunbathing naked alongside her bikini clad-daughters in her Rotherham garden, and of two couples sunbathing on private land in Rotherham and Doncaster.
The case has provided further humiliation for the South Yorkshire force which is still reeling from its failures in the Rotherham child abuse scandal, the continued controversy over the 1989 Hillsborough disaster and the conduct of its investigation into Sir Cliff Richard.
Last year, prosecutors announced Sir Cliff would face no charges and the star is now suing the force and the BBC over the filming of a South Yorkshire Police raid on his home. This is not the first time a police helicopter crew has found itself under scrutiny for alleged breaches of privacy.
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She's jointed with buttons so her little arms and legs move.
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On this forum I see a lot of discussion concerning how one can be sure about who or what to put faith behind. It would seem that, since the many branches of science have become so vast and complex, no one person—no matter how bright and well educated—can possibly know all they need to know with independently-derived certainty. For instance, no one really questions basics such as the sun being approximately 93,000,000 miles from Earth. At least no one I know has ever decided to take it upon themselves to become conversant with every branch of science that would enable them to verify the distance between Earth and the sun. Maybe my example isn't very good, but the point is that it's essential that we take many claims on faith.
From polls I've heard about—if I take the reports of their results on good faith—it would appear that the majority of Americans consider the Bible to be a collection of God-inspired tracts. For instance, according to a recent article written by Bill Moyers (Minneapolis Star Tribune, 1-30-05), ". . .59% of Americans believe that the prophecies found in the book of Revelations are going to come true."
Of course, these same Americans also take plenty of scientific claims as being true when they're asserted with proper authority. It would appear that many people hold conflicting positions in their heads as being "true," without losing any sleep over it. As much as the word "truth" is thrown around these days, few people seem to care excessively about actually discovering it, in a literal sense. I know I don't. I understand that a theory can be validated or invalidated but never properly known as "truth" in much of a literal sense. This was Popper's stance, as I read him.
As to who or what one can put faith behind, I'd say that America—or at least certain geographical regions of America—seems to slightly prefer putting faith behind the local pastor over the local scientist. Why? It's probably a matter of salesmanship.
I choose to put my faith behind scientists' claims, generally speaking, over religion instructors'. Why? Because I don't trust salesmen. I trust historians over pastors, who often ignore history. I trust in the methodologies and self-correcting world of science to the point that I don't even care if theories cannot be proven with absolute certainty. They are useful because they allow us to set up data-collection frameworks designed to predict and manipulate nature. Among other things, they allow our technology to function with reliability.
The strength of scientific theory is its tentativeness. Most pastors I've come across (but not all) are anything but tentative. Jerry Falwell doesn't often use words such as "it appears that," or "I may be wrong here," or I really don't know the answer." But scientists—the smartest ones at least—don't hesitate to use such words when a tentative approach is called for.
I sent the above essay to a friend of mine, who e-mailed me with his Christian point of view. He chooses not to get eaten alive by posting on this board, but I thought his response was nevertheless worthwhile, and he gave me his permission to put it up here -Dave.
". . .59% of Americans believe that the prophecies found in the book of Revelations are going to come true." Of course, these same Americans also take plenty of scientific claims as being true when they're asserted with proper authority. It would appear that many people hold conflicting positions in their heads as being "true," without losing any sleep over it.
You seem to think that one must choose between religion and science. An "us versus them" mentality if you will. Many people in the various scientific disciplines choose to see it that way as well.
There is no conflict between science and Christianity as long as people keep the limits of science in perspective. Science is an excellent system of investigation in the physical realm. It works a lot better than trial and error. Science is limited, however, to the physical realm only. It can not be used to test spiritual issues because science is limited to that which can be measured by some physical device. There are a great many Christians who are educated in, and make use of the sciences.
Science has been siezed upon by some who don't want to believe in God. They try to use science to prove more than it is capable of.
Example: I get a grin every time I hear somebody say with great authority that carbon dating has put the date of some item in this or that particular age. Using scientific methods, the ratios of the carbon isotopes can be measured with extreme accuracy. From this a guess can be made as to the age, but no certain knowledge can be produced.
The reason that it is a guess is that nobody knows what the carbon isotope ratios were when the item in question was buried in the ground. As an expediency, carbon daters ASSUME (that would be a leap of faith) that the ratios have always been the same as they are now in living creatures. They will give you a song and dance about background galactic radiation, solar output, Van Allen's Belt and a bunch of other stuff that supposedly "proves" that their assumptions are valid.
The fact is that nobody has been making accurate measurements of background radiation for more than about eighty years. Nobody has been making any measurements for more than maybe a hundred and fifty years (I can't remeber when the first guy started playing with his charged particles.) But the relevant point is that NOBODY on this planet knows what radiation levels or the carbon isotope ratios were prior to the twentieth century. This does not stop them from speaking about such issues with great authority.
As much as the word "truth" is thrown around these days, few people seem to care excessively about actually discovering it, in a literal sense.
That was prophesied in 2 Timothy 4:3-4. Unfortunately, it applies to a great many members of religious clubs just as much as it does to the rest of the world.
I know I don't. I understand that a theory can be validated or invalidated but never properly known as "truth" in much of a literal sense. This was Popper's stance, as I read him.
As to who or what one can put faith behind, I'd say that America—or at least certain geographical regions of America—seems to slightly prefer putting faith behind the local pastor over the local scientist. Why? It's
probably a matter of salesmanship.
Here you are assuming that "faith" is all in the mind of the believer and there is no external influence like the existence of God.
I would also have to say that you must not know many pastors if you think they are using salesmanship to maintain their club membership. I know that ninety percent of the members in my local religious club would be gone in a matter of two or three weeks if the pastor turned to those methods. The membership here have joined, and stay, because they know that God exists.
I choose to put my faith behind scientists' claims, generally speaking, over religion instructors'. Why? Because I don't trust salesmen. I trust historians over pastors, who often ignore history.
If you think historians pay any attention to historical truth, try reading a history book from any public school. Prove to me out of a school book that there was a holocaust or that General Washington ever said a prayer. Revisionist history is the order of the day in America. Do you really trust them?
Next: Some pastors ignore history - But you draw an incorrect conclusion.
The fact that some pastors ignore history, lie through their teeth, steel money, abuse their following, etcetera, proves nothing one way or the other about the existence of God or validity of the Bible. God said in His Bible that ALL men are full of evil and rush toward sin. Pastors are a subset of the group called "men" (beleive it ir not, "men" is a gender free word). You see pastors and other people doing evil things and then conclude that you can't believe in God or the Bible because you see people doing exactly what God said they would do. Something here does not compute.
I trust in the methodologies and self-correcting world of science to the point that I don't even care if theories cannot be proven with absolute certainty. They are useful because they allow us to set up data-collection frameworks designed to predict and manipulate nature. Among other things, they allow our technology to function with reliability.
You are making the assumption that you have been trained to make. When you write "They are useful because they allow us to set up data-collection frameworks designed to predict and manipulate nature" you are recognizing the essence of what I wrote above about science being useful for measuring and describing the physical realm. But you are (perhaps unconsciously) making a transfer of validity. Because science is so good at addressing the physical world, you assume that it can be used to justify a position on spiritual matters. It cannot. Spiritual matters are beyond the grasp of science. You have a better chance of grabbing a hand full of fog than science does of producing useful facts about any spiritual matter.
The strength of scientific theory is its tentativeness. Most pastors I've come across (but not all) are anything but tentative. Jerry Falwell doesn't often use words such as "it appears that," or "I may be wrong here," or I really don't know the answer." But scientists—the smartest ones at least—don't hesitate to use such words when a tentative approach is called for.
Most scientists I've come across (but not all) are anything but tentative. (Insert professor's name) doesn't often use words such as "it appears that," or "I may be wrong here," or "I really don't know the answer." But pastors—the smartest ones at least—don't hesitate to use such words when a tentative approach is called for.
See? I can make that claim too.
You are observing human nature and selectively ascribing characteristics by profession as is convenient for your point of view.
A large share of the scientists and the pastors who are proud to have a little knowledge in their respective fields speak as if there is no possibility of error. Those who are truly educated, whether it is in science or Christianity, will recognize the fact that their own understanding is limited and plainly state that they do not know it all. Humility goes with true understanding in any field of endeavor.
There are some truths which are immutable. No matter what you do, how loud you yell, or how much money you offer, the sun will continue to rise in the east and set in the west, just as it has already done for your entire life. You can't change that. Neither can any other man, or all men working in concert.
In the same fashion, God will continue to exist no matter how hard you work at disbelieving in Him. He does not need your permission to exist. A pastor who tells you bluntly that God exists is not being arrogant, he is telling you the truth. The place where a pastor gets onto iffy ground is when he starts telling you what God meant instead of what God said.
Now we have an attack on both carbon dating and historical texts.
First, carbon dating. There is some truth to what this person says, but in the reverse order. For example, I once researched what turned out to be a legitimate 9th century BC series of documents which, when carbon dated, came up with a future date. The cause: they'd been heavily contaminated by molds which had been deposited during a period of nuclear bomb testing. This kind of thing happens pretty often. Modern materials such as molds which have attacked old objects will throw off the dates. You have to understand why you're getting the kind of date you get.
The accuracy of carbon dating itself has been verified by plenty of other kinds of dating methods. For example, there is an extensive record of tree ring data that reaches, by now, far back into historical time and is a very accurate method of dating. Obviously, testing small bits of this tree ring material can verify carbon dating. Also, archaeological materials from excavations invariably have other kinds of materials which can be dated by various other kinds of dating methods found in the same layer. Carbon dating merely confirms the other methods of dating. It's those stray objects that turn up without any other archaeological evidence, often because they were looted or stolen from grave sites, that need to be carbon dated to determine whether they're the "real thing." As for bones and other kinds of carbon based materials, which is probably what the writer is attacking using carbon dating to date, there is always the well-established geological data of various levels to verify the carbon dating. The argument being used is false. A fine example of wishful thinking.
Then there is the attack on historical textbooks used to discredit historical research in general. I find this argument beyond belief, considering that it's the religious fanatics who are insisting on falsified historical textbooks being used in the schools in the first place! Good grief!
Imagine two people sitting on a porch in front of a road in rural Texas. There is a telephone repair truck sitting in front of the porch, but the telephone repairman is nowhere to be seen.
Suddenly, a car, with California license plates, crashes into the back of the telephone repair truck at roughly sixty miles per hour.
The crash is spectacular, but, somehow, the driver of the car manages to survive with only minor apparent injuries. Unfortunately, the driver has no memory of anything before the crash, and seems to be quite confused.
Shortly thereafter, the telephone repairman returns, and wants to know what happened.
One of the people sitting on the porch asserts that the car (and driver) materialized out of thin air, and crashed into the telephone truck.
The other person says that the first account is hogwash, and that it would appear that some foolish Californian crashed into the back of the truck, and is very lucky to be alive and only suffering amnesia. They go on to speculate that the driver may have fallen asleep at the wheel, especially given the rumpled state of their clothes, which suggests that they may have been driving, more or less non-stop, from California.
The first person is now very irritated, and begins protesting, at great volume, that since nobody witnessed the car prior to the accident, there is no reason to believe that the car did anything but materialize from thin air.
The second person now asks the first how he can possibly believe something as preposterous as a car and driver materializing from nowhere. The first fires back, accusing the second of believing in a long chain of events (the trip from California) for which there is no direct knowledge, which seems more complex than a car appearing from mid-air.
The repairman says that he needs to file a report, and he would really like to know if the car appeared from thin air, because that would be an act of God, and would affect the insurance claim. The skeptical porch sitter wonders if an analysis of the car might help support the claim that it had not materialized from thin air. Upon inspecting the car, he finds that the gas tank is nearly full (and luckily unruptured). Knowing that there is only one gas station anywhere near, in the direction the car seemed to be traveling in, he calls the gas station (using the repairman's cell phone, because the land line is still down) to see if they saw the car. The gas station attendant says that a car matching the description of the crashed car, and bearing out of state plates, was in no more than 45 minutes ago, and left heading the right direction.
The skeptic is now quite confident, but the first porch sitter quickly dismisses this evidence, noting that there is nothing to conclusively tie the two cars together, and that it could be a coincidence, and that he suspects the gas station attendant of being a dope fiend, and thus his testimony is of questionable reliability.
The skeptic, reluctantly admitting that the attendant could conceivably be wrong (although maintaining that it is highly unlikely), decides to look for more evidence. He searches the driver this time, and finds a California drivers license. He calls information (still using the repairman's cell phone) and asks for the town listed on the license, and then gives the operator the name. After a few rings, a woman answers the phone, and after a brief conversation, in which she says that her husband went missing a couple days prior, asks to talk to the driver. She talks to the driver for a while, and then the driver hands the phone back to the skeptic. The woman says that the voice does indeed sound like her husband, but that he does not seem to recognize her. The skeptic tells her that the driver appears to be suffering from amnesia, so that is not altogether surprising. The woman procedes to get worried, and asks the skeptic to call an ambulance, and get her husband to the hospital, in case he has internal bleeding or something.
The skeptic hangs up, and calls emergency services. As he starts to request an ambulance, the first porch sitter angrily snatches the phone from his hand, and hangs up. The skeptic is now shocked beyond belief, and declares that the driver should be deliverd to a hospital ASAP. The first porch sitter informs the skeptic, that while he has been on the phone, he has been talking to the driver, and the driver apparently is seeing a variety of colorful patterns and other phenomena which nobody else can see. This, the first porch sitter asserts, is proof that the driver and car appeared from mid air, and furthermore, the best way to learn more about this appearance is to question the driver about his visions, and attempt to interpret them.
The skeptic is now furious, and begins, with no shortage of harsh languague, to demand that the the driver be sent to the hospital as quickly as possible. The first porch sitter is unshaken, however, and points out that there are plenty of holes in the trip theory. For instance, it should not take 45 minutes to get from the gas station to their porch, if traveling at sixty miles an hour. The skeptic throws up his hands in exasperation, and asks the repairman for help, claiming that, although he might not know every last detail, he is certain, beyond all reasonable doubt, that the driver and car did not appear out of thin air, and that if they don't get the driver to a hospital soon, he might die or suffer permanent injury.
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Ok, so maybe I shouldn't give up my day job to become a parable writer. Still, I think the point is obvious. Given the crime scene that is our corner of the universe, some of us keep trying to construct an image of what happened that fits the observable facts. As our observations change, we revise our theories. Others, however, are sticking to a timeline that was established thousands of years ago. When new facts arise which might cast doubts on this story, they spend their time looking for possible flaws in the evidence gathering methods, or in the interpretation of the evidence.
The stakes are high here, but let's cut the crap. The car didn't materialize from thin air, and even though we don't know every last stop it made, we do know that it came from California.
Thanks for your excellent responses, folks. By the way, if you'd been born back when parables were currently popular, you'd be on the top of the game, Matt.


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Daybreakers's vampire protagonist has a close encounter of the human kind. A Thor rumor gets quashed, and we get updates on the Inglourious Basterds prequel and 30 Days of Night sequel. Plus, spoilers from True Blood, Lost, Dollhouse, and Chuck.
We get a human-vamp encounter in a new clip. [via CinemaBlend]
Apparently, there was a rumor that Jude Law was going to be in the movie. He's not. [MTV]
Inglourious Basterds Prequel
Quentin Tarantino has written 40 pages of the prequel to his history-shattering slaughterfest, but he's working on a "less epic" picture first. [MTV]
30 Days of Night: Dark Days
Producer JR Young talked about the sequel to the vamps-in-Alaska adaptation, which takes the widowed Stella Olemaun to Los Angeles to try to expose vampires to the world:
I think the second film definitely stays within the world of the first film and it stays true to the second graphic novel in the series for those fans out there. The story is within that world but there are differences and a lot of that is due to the graphic novel. The first film is very much a survival film and this next one is all about revenge. There's an action component. The last one is a western, this one is more of a war movie. It's taking the battle to the vampires.
True Blood
Alan Ball has confirmed that he's looking at a Latino actor in his 30s to play Lafayette's boyfriend. [EW]
Apparently, one of the following spoilers is false, and the other is true:
* We find out John Locke is related to C*****s *id**re [Charles Widmore] and J*** ***ph*** [Jack Shepherd] in a way you would never ever expect-yes, "related" as in by blood!
* Terry O'Quinn does something bat-poop insane involving a character we have known since the very first episode of Lost's first season, then says: "I'm sorry you had to see me like that."
Eliza Dushku's real-life boyfriend Rick Fox will have a brief cameo in the January 8th episode. He'll be one of dozens of Dolls imprinted with their original personalities and then released from the Dollhouse. We'll also Summer Glau return during that episode. [EW]
We've mentioned that Fringe is filling some of its second season gap with an unaired episode from season one. That episode, "Unearthed," features a girl who, after being pronounced dead, is taken off life support only to wake up and star screaming alphanumeric code. And, for those who miss Charlie, Kirk Acevedo will be in the episode. [MTV]
And here's a promo that appears to contain footage from the episode. [via Spoiler TV]
After "Unearthed," the next two episodes will be titled "Edina City Limits" and "Jacksonville." [Spoiler TV]
Michael Ausiello has seen the first three episodes of the season and says they're phenomenal — and there's nary a Subway sandwich to be seen. The first episode picks up six or ten months after last season's finale, and we'll see a recurring character die. We'll also find out that a recurring character is secretly a fan of Wilson Phillips. And we'll get a look at Morgan's huge collection of something. We'll be seeing lots of Awesome in the third episode — and his bare chest will apparently guest star. [EW]
Zachary Levi explains Chuck's connection with Kristin Kreuk's chracter Hannah:
They're both tech geeks. They're both into that world where they know how to reboot servers off of backup script.
Kreuk has filmed three episodes so far, but may be back for more. [Fancast]
The latest promo focuses on Chuck's choice between being a spy and being with Sarah. [via ChuckTV]
According to Deanne Bray's Facebook account, Emma will appear in at least five more episodes, including the January fourth winter premiere. [Spoiler TV]
The puzzle pieces fall together in a trailer for the January return. [via Spoiler TV]


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Vancouver Whitecaps FC currently sit in fourth place in the Western Conference and are in a good position to challenge for a playoff spot this season. The team has seen a number of roster changes in the last month as head coach Martin Rennie looks to shape up his team into a strong playoff contender this year, and for many years to come. When being interviewed before the season started coach Rennie said he wanted to bring in character players that the fans could relate too, while continuing to add quality to the squad. So far he's accomplished this job!
In the first 23 games of the season, our Vancouver Whitecaps FC have tied seven of them and they have won seven games by one goal. Another of Rennie's goals was to build a team that was hard to beat, and to make BC Place a home that Major League Soccer teams would not look forward to visiting. Early on in the season as our 'Caps were wining these close games or fighting to get draws, the fans were happy with the results and the effort the team was putting out on the field. Even in a couple of games that they did not play well in, like good teams do, they found a way to win or tie and get a positive result.
Martin Rennie would like his team to win every game playing an attractive style of soccer, but that is not realistic. But what is attainable is to try and put in a performance every single match, to try and outwork the other team and give the fans a team they can be proud of.
The most exciting thing about this team is its going from strength to strength. After five games on the road our 'Caps faced two of the form teams in MLS – LA Galaxy and the San Jose Earthquakes at home, followed by back to back games against Real Salt Lake. I for one was concerned with how we would perform in this tough part of the schedule, and how many points we could acquire. There was no need for me to worry as Vancouver played some of their best soccer of the season in tying LA 2-2 and beating San Jose 2-1, and although they lost to Real Salt Lake 2-1, the team created enough chances to win the game by a couple of goals.
The new Whitecaps FC signings came into an already good team and made their impact on the fans at BC Place. Dane Richards scored his first goal and excited the crowd with his exciting wing play. Barry Robson scored a couple of goals and thrilled the crowds with his none stop action. Even Kenny Miller got in on the act by making a substitute appearance and nearly scoring with his first touch of the match.
Now Vancouver Whitecaps FC have added another key player in Andy Obrien, a central defender with lots of experience. He's a player who has been a leader on most teams he has played for. There has been a buzz regarding this team for most of the season, as they established themselves to be one of the teams to watch in Major League soccer this year. Now with the additions that have been made it's scary to think how good this team can be as the MLS season moves into its final third of the season.
One thing is for sure, this team has shown its going to be hard to beat them at home or on the road. And the fans in Vancouver have a team they can be truly proud of.


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Master of Science in Health Care Informatics
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asalim brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 39 Designs von 18 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Original logo needed for conference website and any future promotional material.
We are in need of a logo to be used for our website and any future promotional material. The company, CUSEC (Canadian University Software Engineering Conference) is a non-profit organization which runs a student organized conference every January for Software Engineering students. Every year, CUSEC has a theme, which is used by presenters in their talks. For 2009, the theme is 'software (r)evolutions'. Below is a blurb about the theme.
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Revolutions such as social software, virtualization, and software as a service have opened up new approaches and techniques to explore. We evolve our knowledge within these new spaces until we reach limits, precipitating the next revolution. Can we combine what we know about past trends with observations about today's challenges to predict where we'll take technology next?
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The logo should predominantly portray the theme and it's link to software engineering. The colours for the logo must reflect the site layout which has already been completed (see http://sandbox.cusec.net). The current colours are:
Dark Brown: #594c2a / RGB(89,76,42)
Dark Gray: #333333 / RGB(51,51,51)
Turquoise: #6ccce2 / RGB(108,204,226)
Tanish: #a8927b / RGB(164,146,123)
For past logos and examples, see http://2007.cusec.net (theme = designing for the future) and http://2008.cusec.net (theme = making it fun).
- original artwork and design
- the theme name and the words cusec 2009 or cusec '09 must appear in the logo
- CUSEC must be in all upper case or lower case (cusec) since it is an acronym
- the theme name must be in all lower case as in [ software (e)evolutions ] or in all caps [ SOFTWARE (R)EVOLUTIONS ] and must include the rounded brackets as shown
- the colours must be similar to the current site layout (brown, dark gray, turquoise, tan), but alterations in shades can be made as needed
- a maximum of 3 colours can be used for the logo, not counting the background colour
- final submitted design must be 300dpi or more and in PSD format
- a text only logo
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Bitrix24 - ['bɪtrɪks] 24 - is an initiative of Bitrix, Inc., a privately-owned company owned and managed by its founders. The Bitrix24 service is the final evolutionary stage of Bitrix Intranet and Extranet solutions (Bitrix, Inc. products) and was launched as a beta cloud-based service in April, 2012. Bitrix takes pride in serving customers ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small organizations, including well-known enterprises like Xerox, Samsung, Volkswagen, KIA, Gazprom, Vogue and PC Magazine.
Sergey Rizhikov, CEO, Co-Founder
Dmitry Valyanov, President, Co-Founder
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Paul Lamere, the man who brought us the Infinite Jukebox, Bohemian Rhapsichord, Bangarang Boomerang, and other fun stuff is at it again with Boil the Frog, a free web app that's a little bit like "six degrees of separation."
Boil the Frog is a curiosity — a conversation piece of sorts, but it's also a new way to listen to music. To try it, simply go here and enter the names of two bands that are ideally quite dissimilar to each other. The app instantly puts together a playlist of Rdio music, fading as gently as possible from the first artist to the second artist, from song to song. Get it? This is sort of what happens when you boil a frog, starting with lukewarm water. The water gets hotter, but the frog doesn't notice, and you can probably piece together the rest.
Anyway, here's what happens if I try to get from my brother's and cousin's band (Javelin) to one of my favorite bands (The Fall). It takes just 13 steps, and it's great listening.
The app runs atop Rdio's web API as part of that company's budding app strategy. If you subscribe, you'll hear full versions of the songs; if not, you'll hear 30-second samples. Either way, it's good fun.
How does Boil the Frog (from Paul Lamere, director of developer platform for The Echo Nest, publisher of Evolver.fm) work, anyway? The short story: It's as complicated underneath as it is simple on the surface. I'll let him explain:
To create this app, The Echo Nest artist similarity info is used to build an artist similarity graph of about 100,000 of the most popular artists. Each artist in the graph is connected to it's most similar neighbors according to the Echo Nest artist similarity algorithm.
When a playlist between two artists is created, the graph is used to find the path between the two artists. The path isn't necessarily the shortest path through the graph. Instead, priority is given to paths that travel through artists of similar popularity. If you start and end with a popular artist, you are more likely to find a path that takes you though other popular artists, and if you start with a long-tail artist you will likely find a path through other long-tail artists.
Once the path of artists is found, we need to select the best songs for the playlist. To do this, we pick a well-known song for each artist that minimizes the difference in energy between this song, the previous song and the next song.
Once we have selected the best songs, we build a playlist using Rdio's nifty web API.
And there you have it. If you're bored of music, or you think you've heard it all, or you're just looking to have some fun, Boil the Frog warrants a bit of attention. If you like what you hear, you can save it directly as a playlist in Rdio. And just like that, you'll have not only a great playlist (assuming you like both of the bands you enter), but one that takes you from one state to another… without you ever noticing.
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Super thrilled that Pepy of Indonesia Eats agreed to do my first ever guest post here. I can't even recall when was it first that I came across her fantastic site but ever since I've been having an ongoing dialogue with her about her home country's fascinating cuisine.
Pepy is thorough and educated in her research and is a fountain of culinary knowledge. Always has incredible suggestions for substitutions due to dietary restrictions. In her recent post she suggested I use katsuobushi, a Japanese smoked fish flakes, made from skipjack tuna, instead of ground dried shrimp asked for in her most recent Palembangese Stuffed Fish Cake With Green Papaya post.
But let me take few steps back, I do have much respect for the content on Pepy's site but what grabbed me first was her sense of style. Among so many talented photographers and food stylists her unique photographic vision sets her apart. Pepy's site transforms you to exotic yet accessible culinary world. So it won't come as a surprise to you that she was one of the inspiring Asian food sites in my Blog Awards and Happy Year of the Rabbit post.
When she emailed me the introduction my heart was filled with warmth. This recipe was especially developed for me and this site, I am honored. Make your holiday extra special and go and pick up frozen shredded Cassava (Yuca) at the Asian grocery store or fresh Yuca at the Hispanic/Mexican supermarket. Shredded fresh Yuca works just as well and I have seen the root at main stream area supermarkets as well. Without further ado let me introduce to you, Pepy!
My fourth guest post for other bloggers. Shulie of Food Wanderings, is such a sweetheart who loves learning other cultures' dishes. Both of us have been tweeting along for quite some time now. I still recalled the day when she told me that she finally found fresh turmeric and how she loves the distinct flavour of fresh one compare to the powder ones.
One day, she sent me a DM. . She asked me if I can be her guest blog post. Being a reader of Shulie's tweets on a daily basis, I was kinda grabbing the basic of Shulie's blog. To be safe, I asked her if she needs any special diet for this post. I was a former cook by trade for a commercial kitchen so I'm aware for some different dietary restrictions. This cassava fritter is especially made for Shulie.
There are 3 different names that I know for this cassava fritters stuffed with coconut sugar. Javanese knows as jemblem while Sundanese (West Javanese) calls it misro (amis di jero - meaning sweet inside) and the Balinese calls it pulung-pulung ubi.
Cassava (Manihot esculenta), also called yuca or manioc, is a woody shrub of the Euphorbiaceae (spurge family) native to South America. There are two names for cassava in bahasa Indonesia, singkong and ubi kayu.
Based on my late grandmom's story, back when Indonesia was still occupied by the Dutch, cassava was an Indonesia's main carbohydrate source and staple food instead of rice because it was affordable. In fact, the Indonesians today will say that they haven't had any meal yet if they haven't eaten any rice.
Nowdays, we steam, boil, deep fry, or bake cassava as a snack. I love eating steam cassava with a bit grated coconut or just sugar and salt or my late mom made it a bit fancy by adding cheese and baked.
Thank you Shulie for giving me this opportunity. I decided to share a vegan sweet snack that is popular in two islands in Indonesia, Java and Bali. Enjoy these fritters with a glass of warm jasmine tea with no sugar added or kopi tubruk (Indonesian black coffee).
How to make these easy peasy cassava fritters which only need 4 ingredients? Upps in this case, I did cheat by using frozen grated cassava. So, no need to peel and grate it. ================================================================
Jemblem/Misro/Pulung-Pulung Ubi
(Indonesian Cassava Fritters Stuffed with Coconut Sugar)
1 pack (about 454 grams or 1 lb) frozen grated cassava, thawed
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
75 grams coconut sugar (I used palm sugar)*
cooking oil for deep frying
Combine grated cassava with salt. Take 2 tablespoons of cassava mixture. Shape into balls, flatten, and place 1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon coconut sugar on the middle. Re-form into balls with filling in the centre to an oblong shape.
Deep fry on medium heat until golden brown and done. Drain excess oil and serve warm. I like using brown paper bag to absorb the oil.
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• I often tell my readers to substitute coconut sugar for palm sugar. I did substitute due to short of coconut sugar in my pantry. However, in this recipe, if you use palm sugar, it will be too sweet and darker. You probably need to reduce the amount of palm sugar in case you substitute it. No coconut sugar? No palm sugar? Don't worry use regular brown sugar.
Indonesian food on Food Wanderings: Padang Fish Curry (West Sumatra, Indonesia) & the 411 on Fresh Turmeric post here.


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Bob Marley and the Wailers
|Bob Marley and the Wailers
Bob Marley and the Wailers performing at Crystal Palace, London (1980)
|Background information
|Also known as
|The Teenagers, The Wailing Rudeboys, The Wailing Wailers, The Wailers
|Kingston, Jamaica
|Reggae, ska, rocksteady, R&B
|Years active
|Studio One, Wail'n Soul'm, Tuff Gong, Beverley's, Upsetter, Island
|Associated acts
|Bob Marley, The Upsetters, I Threes, Word, Sound and Power, The Wailers Band, The Original Wailers
|Past members
|Bob Marley
Peter Tosh
Bunny Wailer
Junior Braithwaite
Cherry Smith
Beverley Kelso
Constantine Walker
Aston Barrett
Carlton Barrett
Earl Lindo
Tyrone Downie
Rita Marley
Marcia Griffiths
Judy Mowatt
Al Anderson
Alvin Patterson
Earl "Chinna" Smith
Donald Kinsey
Junior Marvin
Bob Marley and the Wailers were a Jamaican reggae band and, earlier, a ska vocalist group created by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer. The ska vocalist group Wailers were formed when self-taught musician Hubert Winston McIntosh (Peter Tosh) met the singers Neville Livingston (Bunny Wailer), and Robert Nesta Marley (Bob Marley) in 1963. By late 1963 singers Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, and Cherry Smith had joined the Wailers, who was comped by music studio bands. In early 70s Bob and Bunny had learned to play some instruments and brothers Carlton Barrett and Aston "Family Man" Barrett on drums and bass had joined the reggae band. After Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh left the band in 1974, Bob Marley began touring with new band members. His new backing band included Barrett brothers, Junior Marvin and Al Anderson on lead guitar, Tyrone Downie and Earl "Wya" Lindo on keyboards, and Alvin "Seeco" Patterson on percussion. The "I Threes", consisting of Judy Mowatt, Marcia Griffiths, and Marley's wife, Rita, provided backing vocals.
Early years
The lineup was known variously as the Teenagers, the Wailing Rudeboys, the Wailing Wailers and finally the Wailers. The original lineup featured Junior Braithwaite on vocals, Bob Marley on guitar, Peter Tosh on keyboard, Neville Livingston (a.k.a. Bunny Wailer) on drums, and Cherry Smith and Beverley Kelso on backing vocals. By 1966 Braithwaite, Kelso and Smith had left the band, which then consisted of the trio Livingston, Marley and Tosh.
Some of the Wailers' most notable songs were recorded with Lee "Scratch" Perry and his studio band the Upsetters. In 1964, the Wailers topped the Jamaican charts with Simmer Down. During the early 1970s the Upsetters members Aston "Family Man" Barrett and his brother Carlton (Carlie) Barrett,[1] formed the Wailers Band, providing instrumental backing for The Wailers. The Wailers recorded groundbreaking ska and reggae songs such as "Simmer Down", "Trenchtown Rock", "Nice Time", "War", "Stir It Up" and "Get Up, Stand Up". An attempt at creating a full overview of all the music made by The Wailers prior to their signing to Island Records was made by the Roots Reggae Library.[2]
Line-up changes
The original Wailers line-up disbanded in 1974 due to Tosh and Livingston's refusal to tour. Bob Marley formed Bob Marley and the Wailers with himself as guitarist, songwriter and main singer, the Wailers Band as the backing band, and the I Threes as backup vocalists. The Wailers Band included the brothers Carlton Barrett and "Family Man" Barrett on drums and bass respectively, Junior Marvin and Al Anderson playing lead guitar, Tyrone Downie and Earl "Wya" Lindo playing keyboard, and Alvin "Seeco" Patterson playing percussion. The I Threes consisted of Bob Marley's wife Rita Marley, Judy Mowatt and Marcia Griffiths.
Livingston believed that producer Chris Blackwell, whom he called "Chris Whiteworst", was responsible for the bad relationship between the band members, as he thought Blackwell released their albums under "Bob Marley and the Wailers" instead of "the Wailers" since 1969, which tested their friendship. Perry released two compilation albums for Trojan Records in 1974, Rasta Revolution and African Herbsman, which contained songs from Soul Rebels and Soul Revolution, respectively, and he was the copyright holder of several songs from these albums.[3] These changes caused a major dispute between Marley and Perry, when the former saw the albums, six months after their publication, in the Half Way Road in England.[4]
Later years
Bob Marley and the Wailers, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer all enjoyed considerable success as reggae music continued to gain popularity during the 1970s and 1980s. One of the last performances that included Marley was in 1980 at Madison Square Garden. Several of the group's members have died subsequent to Marley's death in 1981: Carlton Barrett and Tosh in 1987, Braithwaite in 1999, and Smith in 2008.[5] Bunny Wailer and Beverley Kelso are the only surviving members of the group's original line-up.
A sample of the band's 1964 single "Simmer Down".
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- The Wailing Wailers (1965)
- Soul Rebels (1970)
- Soul Revolution (1971)
- The Best of The Wailers (1971)
- Catch a Fire (1973)
- Burnin' (1973)
- Natty Dread (1974)
- Rastaman Vibration (1976)
- Exodus (1977)
- Kaya (1978)
- Survival (1979)
- Uprising (1980)
- Confrontation (1983)
- Apr–Jul 1973: Catch a Fire Tour (England, USA)
- Oct–Nov 1973: Burnin' Tour (USA, England)
- Jun–Jul 1975: Natty Dread Tour (USA, Canada, England)
- Apr–Jul 1976: Rastaman Vibration Tour (USA, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, France, England, Wales)
- May–Jun 1977: Exodus Tour (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, England)
- May–Aug 1978: Kaya Tour (USA, Canada, England, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium)
- Apr–May 1979: Babylon by Bus Tour (Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Hawaii)
- Oct 1979–Jan 1980: Survival Tour (USA, Canada, Trinidad/Tobago, Bahamas, Gabon, Zimbabwe)
- May–Sep 1980: Uprising Tour (Switzerland, Germany, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, USA)
See also
- ↑ Lee Scratch Perry Interview, New Musical Express, 17 November 1984
- ↑ de Vries, Anton E. (2013). "The Wailers". roots-reggae-library.com. Retrieved 8 January 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Timothy White (2 May 2006). Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley. Henry Holt. pp. 222–223. Retrieved 17 May 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Timothy White (2 May 2006). Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley. Henry Holt. p. 224. Retrieved 17 May 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Palm Beach Post - Ermine Cherry Dempsey-Barker, former member of the Wailers, dies (12 October 2008)
Further reading
- Masouri, John (2007) Wailing Blues: The Story of Bob Marley's "Wailers" Wise Publications ISBN 1-84609-689-8
- Farley, Christopher (2007). Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley, Amistad Press ISBN 0-06-053992-5
- Goldman, Vivien (2007) The Book of Exodus: The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers' Album of the Century Three Rivers Press ISBN 1-4000-5286-6
- Colin Grant (2011) The Natural Mystics : Marley, Tosh, Wailer, Jonathan Cape 978-0-224-08608-0 (U.K.), W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 978-0-393-08117-6 (U.S.)
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It appears Colorado State defensive end Cory Macon will not return for his senior season. CSU coach Steve Fairchild confirmed Macon, who missed much of the spring, has academic eligibility issues, the result of some personal problems.
Macon, a rare recruit from Alaska, started nine games last season. He missed much of spring ball tending to personal matters.
Fairchild also said running back Leonard Mason, CSU's leading rusher in 2009 as a junior college transfer, had tweaked a hamstring but didn't think it was a serious injury.
CSU was picked to finish seventh in the annual MWC preseason media poll.


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Made in Canada!
After recreating the jigsaw puzzle industry in 1991 and capturing the imagination of millions everywhere, the story of Wrebbit 3D puzzles continues, thus continuing and producing the dream of Wrebbit's pioneering creator and 3D puzzle inventor Paul E. Gallant.
Early on over 30 million puzzle units designed and developed by Wrebbit's original team were sold around the world, generating retail sales of over 1 billion dollars from 1991 through 2005. A phenomenal success, that has delighted millions of consumers in over 60 nations.
What sets Wrebbit apart from the rest:
No other company is designing and producing comparable 3D puzzles. Wrebbit's team is looking forward to building a tradition of surprising puzzlers everywhere in the world with their innovative ideas and highest possible quality 3D puzzles.
The most serious of 3D puzzle fans already know that Wrebbit is the best choice available. They offer the greatest possible challenge with the highest quality design and workmanship.
Use the filters to the left or simply scroll down to begin viewing all pages.
Copyright © 2008-2020, Puzzle Warehouse, All rights reserved.
Puzzle Warehouse recycles everything it can to save the environment and to keep costs and prices low.
We are Hiring! Please fill out the employment form or send your resume to email@example.com.


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Secure Information and Communication Technologies
The "Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communication" (IAIK) of the Graz University of Technology has established the "Stiftung Secure Information and Communication Technologies" (SIC) to encourage independent scientific research, development as well as teaching and knowledge transfer in the fields of applied information processing, communication and information security. Stiftung SIC is also responsible for continued development, support and sales of the Crypto Toolkits for the Java™ platform that were originally developed by IAIK.
The IAIK Provider for the Java™ Cryptography Extension (IAIK-JCE) is a set of APIs and implementations of cryptographic functionality, including hash functions, message authentication codes, symmetric, asymmetric, stream, and block encryption, key and certificate management. It supplements the security functionality of the default JDK.
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A short guide to the world of cryptography. Download our brochure containing comprehensive information about our products and an introduction into cryptography now!


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Academic Users Only: This product allows for personal use on a single machine, not for use on shared workstations. You must be a student at an academic institution to qualify for purchase.
For an overview of OriginPro features, please visit: https://www.originlab.com/origin
To learn about new features in version 2020, please visit: https://www.originlab.com/2020


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My two previous columns on Exchange Server virtualization generated a lot of thought-provoking feedback (see "Exchange Server Virtualization: Microsoft's Support," April 17, 2008, and "Exchange Server Virtualization: Hyper-V Possibilities," April 24, 2008). So I decided to address it in one more column (but probably with more to follow after Microsoft releases Hyper-V and clarifies its support position on virtualizing Exchange Server 2007). First, let me reiterate that Microsoft does not officially support non-Microsoft virtualization software for Exchange 2007 or Exchange Server 2003, so consider the rest of this column in light of how you'd get support if you choose to use such virtualization in those environments.
One frequent question people have about virtualization is what you can productively virtualize. Lab and demo environments are an obvious choice. Whenever I do presentations, I use a virtualized environment that includes a Windows Server 2003 domain controller (DC); an Exchange 2007 SP1 server with the Mailbox, Hub Transport, Client Access, and Unified Messaging (UM) server roles; a Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Standard Edition server; and a Microsoft Office Communicator Web Access server. This setup gives me a stable, reusable environment that I can quickly return to a known state.
If you're thinking about virtualizing production servers, you should consider which roles make good virtualization candidates. Technically, any Exchange 2007 role and any Exchange 2003 server (front end or back end) can be virtualized. As a practical matter, the best candidates for virtualization are the roles that don't store persistent data. For example, the Hub Transport and Client Access roles are good candidates in Exchange 2007 because—unlike the Mailbox server role—they don't store much unique data (except in the transport dumpster on Client Access servers) and can thus be quickly and easily replaced or moved to another physical host. I don't recommend virtualizing the UM server role because its audio quality depends directly on having adequate RAM and processing power. For very small environments, or those with only a few concurrent UM calls, you might be able to get away with virtualizing the UM role.
I'm not enthusiastic about virtualizing mailbox servers for several reasons. First, capacity planning and sizing are tricky. You won't find much good public data about mailbox server sizing in virtualized environments, especially for Exchange 2007. The proper allocation of physical and virtual CPUs and RAM is critical to getting good performance, so you should plan on doing extensive performance testing with Microsoft Exchange Load Simulator (LoadSim) or Exchange Load Generator (LoadGen) to validate the configuration.
There are many potential surprises lurking in this area. For example, Dell and VMware jointly published a paper, "Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Performance on VMware ESX Server 3," that contains performance and sizing data from a variety of configurations, showing that two virtual machines (VMs), each with a single virtual CPU, provide better performance than a single VM with two virtual CPUs. However, if you take the same physical hardware that was running the VMs and run Exchange directly on it, you'll get significantly better performance, which means you must counterbalance the benefits of virtualization against the performance difference between physical and virtual hardware. If you're using VMs that connect to SAN storage, you might potentially have to deal with bottlenecks on the VMs themselves, on the SANs, or on the physical hosts that hold the VMs.
As a result of my last two columns, I have a unique opportunity: The Microsoft team that owns Exchange virtualization reached out to me to help connect them with people who are currently using virtualization in their production environment. They're eager to talk to real-world customers, so if you're interested in sharing your Exchange virtualization experiences, drop me a note at [email protected].


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Screening and Testing
There's a whole world of testing that goes along with taking care of your breasts. Although medical tests can be nerve-wracking — especially when it comes to waiting for results — they are essential in keeping your breasts healthy and getting you proper care if you develop breast cancer.
In this section, you'll learn about the different types of breast cancer tests, such as mammogram, breast MRI, and biopsy. You can learn about getting your test results and keeping track of your medical records. Also featured are the pros and cons of genetic testing and what those results might mean for you.
- Breast Cancer Tests: Screening, Diagnosis, and Monitoring
- Test Results and Medical Records
- Genetic Testing
The medical experts for Screening and Testing are:
- Susan Greenstein Orel, M.D., professor of radiology, the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Emily Conant, M.D., chief of breast imaging, the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Marisa Weiss, M.D., chief medical officer of Breastcancer.org; breast radiation oncologist, Lankenau Medical Center, part of Main Line Health, a five-hospital health system in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA
These experts are members of the Breastcancer.org Professional Advisory Board, including more than 70 medical experts in breast cancer-related fields.


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Bob the Builder
Bob the Builder and his machine team are ready to tackle any project. As they hammer out the solutions that lead to a job well done, Bob and the Can-Do Crew demonstrate the power of positive-thinking, problem-solving, teamwork and follow-through. Most importantly, from start to finish, the team always shows that The Fun Is In Getting It Done!
Bob the Builder was created in the UK in 1998 and made its US television debut in 2001. The show currently airs in over 240 territories and in 45 languages. It can be seen daily in the US on PBS and PBS KIDS Sprout.


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The interview was held successfully under the supervision of our editor in chief Mr. Hatef Mokhtar who had gone and conducted this exclusive interview session with the honorable Ambassador. It was a 40 minutes session of questions and answers.
Various issues and concerns were raised during this interview that range from simple economics to the concerning issues like of human rights and democratic transition.
The best part and most vocal message which The Oslo Times got from Mr. Jeszenszky was that he has been an open critique of Communism which he defines it as a long date of the world politics.
The interview session has clearly put across the most vital and strategic point across on the position of Hungary towards global politics, economic crises in Europe, situation of democracy / human rights / media in the erstwhile Communist states that are now progressing towards a major shift to democratic framework in particular Hungary which is experiencing the great leap forward towards the integration with the rest of Europe and the world at large.
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Will that issue every go away? Will there ever be a time when they don't need (said in appropriate combination tone of whining and pleading) new clothing? Will they always have "nothing to wear"? Does "everybody else" really have it and is ours the only deprived child, or is their sense of grievance exaggerated (impossible) and just endemic to adolescence? And is "going to the mall" really meant to be an activity?
These are the questions that have plagued the mothers of adolescent girls since time immemorial.
We live in a world where people are judged by their external appearance. We live in a world where clothing is powerful, where we "dress for success" and magazines promote the 10 Best-Dressed Men and Women (and humiliate the 10 Worst-Dressed). We live in a world where people don't just put on clothing; they make a "fashion statement." A world where our sense of self-worth is intimately connected to the clothing we wear.
This destructive trend peaks at adolescence and is responsible for the harassed look we see on their mothers' faces.
How can we remove this stressor from our relationship with our kids? How can we teach them to limit their material desires?
1. It starts with us. If we pore over fashion magazines, if we focus on the latest trends, if our closets are full of new clothing, then our lectures about restraint ring hollow. If we spend our free time shopping, if we are frequently "just running out to the mall," then the lesson is clear. If we are meeting our friends there to go shopping, why can't they? In every area, at every stage of parenting, the same thing rings true over and over again. We teach what we model. That should give us all pause.
2. If it's really true (and it rarely is) that "everyone else has it," it's not always possible or even appropriate to make our child feel like an outcast. One of my teachers once confided that he had erred with his own daughters. In his efforts to teach them to diminish their material wants, he had been very restrictive about their purchases. The result, he felt, was some serious damage to their self-esteem. It's a delicate balance. And all parents need to work together.
3. We don't want this issue to destroy or negatively impact our relationship with our daughters. With some of our academically-challenged offspring, the relationship may become disastrously limited to struggling over homework. With our teenage daughters, we risk deterioration into fighting over clothing -- the amount, the appropriateness, the cost. This should not be a power struggle but rather an opportunity for discussion about such serious issues as the value of money, limits on our material desires and the power of clothing to convey a message to others about who we are and what we value.
4. There are many important life lessons involved here, a particular one being the need to distinguish between wants and needs. Can we teach our daughters the difference between ensuring that all their needs are satisfied but not all their wants? Can we explain the value of setting some limits on our appetites? How crucial it is to learn self-control?
5. On a practical level, I have heard (and even tried) other solutions. One of my friends has resolved this issue by giving her adolescent daughters a clothing allowance. Twice a year, she gives her children a specified amount (reasonable but not excessive by her standards, sorely lacking by theirs) and says, "This is for the next six months. Use it at your discretion."
Not only does it make her daughters more responsible (and more thoughtful before they purchase yet another blouse), but it takes that whole area out of the parent-child relationship, freeing them up to struggle over other issues instead!
Another friend suggested a family project. For a year they sacrificed all the extras, the "wants" and purchased only the "needs". They put aside the "wants" money for their summer trip to Israel. In this clever fashion (no pun intended), everyone in the family learned to distinguish between desire and necessity – and also received a great reward.
It is impossible to establish objective criteria. Financial circumstances differ among families. Needs differ among friends. Desires differ even among siblings. But we can begin the discussion and model the desired behavior. After that, as with everything in life and most particularly with teenagers, there's always prayer!


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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Char Siu (Roast Pork Chinese Style)
Char Siu literally means "fork burn or roast" .Char being fork (both noun and verb) and siu being burn/roast) after the traditional cooking method for the dish:that have long strips of seasoned boneless pork are skewered with long forks and placed in a covered oven or over a fire.Char siu is a very popular Chinese dish that every Chinese or Chinese speaking community loves it dearly.We can easily get char siu in any authentic Chinese restaurant in Chinatown in States.If you don't live near Chinatown or don't have any authentic restaurant nearby,don't worry!! Making Char siu at home is easy and simple as long as you have oven or grill.You don't need to be rocket science to make this simple and yet delicious meat at home!! Furthermore, the ingredients used for this roast pork is very basic ingredients that any Chinese household will have it in their kitchen!
5 lbs shoulder cut pork or pork rump
1 tsp five spices powder
1/2 cup sugar,or more if you prefer sweeter
1 tbsp caramel soy sauce(thick sauce)
3-5 tbsp Hua Diao Jiu or rice wine
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp oyster sauce
2-3 tbsp honey or maltose for brushing
1:Combine all the ingredients except maltose or honey and pork in a large container and marinate overnight in the fridge.
2:Preheat oven to 375 .Prepare a thick aluminum foil over 12x6 baking sheet,place marinated pork on it.Bake in oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until charred.Remove from oven, broil for 5 minutes before basting with honey or maltose to get the shinny and tangy sweetness texture.
Posted by My Asian Kitchen at Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Labels: Appetizer , Bake , Broiled , Chinese Food , Main Dish , Meat , Pork , Roast , Simple Meal
6 comments :
- Little Corner of Mine said...
Lovely char siew! I haven't had it for a while. ;)
- May 19, 2011 at 11:44 AM
- Melissa said...
Yummy!!U still so semangat to cook Asian food since u're going home really soon. If it was me I would wait and feast when I get home. Will Mishu miss western food when she goes home?
- May 19, 2011 at 5:39 PM
- noobcook said...
wah home-made char siu! yours look delicious and lean.
- May 19, 2011 at 11:51 PM
- mycookinghut said...
This is always my favourite to eat with rice or noodles, even on its own!
- May 22, 2011 at 8:17 AM
- My Asian Kitchen said...
Thank you dear ☺
aiyor....still have to cook ma...still a month to go b4 can go home...I can't tahan eat pizza and pasta everyday!! as for Mishu she dosn't care what type of food,as long as IT"S a FOOD she ok..
thank you ☺
high 5!!
- May 23, 2011 at 1:53 PM
- LittleAsianGirl BigAppetite said...
yum, i love char siu along with roast duck :)
- June 6, 2011 at 3:40 PM
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This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross, back with more of our mini series featuring interviews with some of this week's Emmy winners. Up next, Louis C.K., who's commonly acknowledged as one of the greatest comics of his generation. He's the creator, writer, director and star of the FX comedy series "Louie." He plays a comic named Louie who, like Louis C.K., is the divorced father of two girls and shares custody with their mother. He won the Emmy for outstanding writing in a comedy series for an episode of the "Louie" called "So Did The Fat Lady." We talked about that episode in May.
GROSS: This is an episode in which you've been trying to go out with one of the waitresses in the comedy club where you work, but she keeps turning you down. But another waitress keeps asking you to hang out, and she seems smart and really funny, but she's also heavy. She's, you know, somewhere between chubby and fat, depending on the word you want to use.
And you keep coming up with excuses about why you're busy, and finally you agree to spend some time with her. You're walking with her along the river, and she starts talking about how difficult it is to be a fat girl and single, and then you try to reassure her that she's not fat. Her name is Vanessa in the show, and she's played by Sarah Baker.
LOUIS C.K.: (As Louie) You know, Vanessa, you're a very, really beautiful...
SARAH BAKER: (As Vanessa) Come on. If I was a very, really beautiful, then you would've said yes when I asked you out. I mean come on, Louie, be honest here. You know what's funny? I flirt with guys all the time, and I mean the great looking ones, like, the really high-caliber studs, they flirt right back, no problem, because they know their status will never be questioned. But guys like you never flirt with me because you get scared that maybe you should be with a girl like me. And why not? You know, if you were standing over there looking at us, you know what you'd see?
C.K.: (As Louie) What?
BAKER: (As Vanessa) That we totally match. We're actually a great couple together.
GROSS: That's a scene from Louis C.K.'s show, "Louie." I think that's a terrific scene. There's a lot more of it. We just played a short excerpt. And I think there's so much truth in what she's saying about how certain men will only be comfortable hanging out with attractive women and certainly will only date a really attractive woman, even if they're not attractive themselves. Do you know what I mean?
C.K.: Yeah.
GROSS: And the way you've written your character in this, he's just, like, totally pigged out. (Laughter).
C.K.: Yeah.
GROSS: You know, he's had like two meals - two full meals back to back with a really fat friend of his - a male friend. And so it's like - you know, it's so hypocritical that he'd be uncomfortable walking with a fat girl when, you know, one of his good friends is, like, super-overweight and...
C.K.: Yeah, yeah, and he's also - him and his friend - that's my brother, actually, on the show, Bobby - we're looking over at women on the street, you know, like we're looking at candy through a window, like, though they're very untouchable to us, you know? So it's a weird pecking order.
GROSS: So how did you start thinking about writing that part for the role of Vanessa? Had you had a similar conversation with somebody? Was somebody you know telling you her point of view? Did you just kind of figure this out yourself?
C.K.: I actually had a conversation many, many years ago with a guy who was heavy and kind of - you know, big eyebrows and - a guy somebody might, you know, describe as a troll. And he just said - and you're not used to hearing people talk like this - he said it's not fair that people aren't attracted to me and that I'm just excluded from certain basic human joys that everybody else partakes in.
And it's true. I mean, there's always - everybody's in that position somewhere relatively - not everybody. Some people just seem to be universally attractive, but, I mean, I know what that feels like too. I've been several weights in my life, and I know what it feels like to just feel like you're in the outside looking in of the real party in life, you know?
GROSS: So at what point in your life did you arrive at the point of thinking the kinds of things that you just said? Is that a recent realization, or have you been thinking that for a long time?
C.K.: I've always thought about it because in school you're confronted with kids saying stuff to you. I was heavy for parts of my school life, or awkward at least. You know, at least in high school kids make fun of you. After high school, you're just alone.
C.K.: Like there's just no people. You just get left alone. So I know what it feels to feel that way. I'm certainly not as heavy as some people, but I've been heavy, and I went bald at, like, 24. So I've always thought about it.
GROSS: So, but now that you're so well-known for being really funny - now that your show is so good - now that a lot of people talk about you, rightfully so, as perhaps the best comic of your generation, are you much sexier?
C.K.: Jeez, I don't know. I mean, I don't - I'm not out being single like I used to be. So I never had a heyday, sexually. I mean, I've, you know - I've always been somewhat confident even though I've been awkward and lumpy. I mean, when I was in junior high school, I used to ask every - I asked every girl out, every girl in the school.
And in high school, too - the cheerleaders, everybody. It never bothered me to get rejected. So I would go up to the cutest girl in school...
GROSS: Good preparation for being a comic. (Laughter).
C.K.: Yeah, exactly. What's so bad? You go up to a very attractive girl who's like a queen bee - just ask her out. And I was nobody, but I'd be like, hey, you want to go out with me? And you'd always get at least one second of sympathy and kind of, oh, that's - no, no, definitely not, but wow, you came up and asked me.
So I don't know, it never bothered me. And so, you know, I was married, and I've had girlfriends and, casual sex - all kinds of stuff. And I'm in a relationship now. So I'm not out - you know, I don't know how sexy I am in the marketplace. I'm not testing it right now.
GROSS: (Laughter). Your character is always either getting picked up by a woman or, you know, trying to hit on a woman, and he's always winding up with women who are such trouble. Even if they're beautiful, there's something kind of mentally unstable about them. Why is that?
C.K.: You know, I don't know. It sort of became a trend after a couple of seasons. I think the thing to me - what's fun to do with this guy on the show is just put stuff in front of him that he can't resist. You know what I mean? Here's a beautiful woman, and she doesn't seem like a good choice for you, but there you go. If you're intimate with a total stranger, it's a reckless thing to do. You know, getting into bed with somebody who you don't know simply because you like their body or because they came on to you - these always lead to bad choices.
So I like showing a guy deal with bad choices. To me the show wouldn't be very interesting if I was confronted with all very well-balanced women, and then we go and have coffee and everything works out well, and maybe we kiss, and that's the end of the episode. That's not that funny to me.
So I've been playing that game over and over again for a while 'cause it's still fun for me. That's why I'm still telling that story. It certainly doesn't represent to me that that's what women are like. To me it's funny when people want a show to be an ideal of this is what we all feel is the best version of a woman and a man. I'm looking for weaknesses on both sides. It's fun.
But this season I sort of try to fall in love for real and try to have a more real relationship. So...
GROSS: At the risk of getting too personal, have you had your share of experiences where you wake up in the morning in a stranger's bed and think what have I done? Why am I here?
C.K.: Yeah, oh, sure. I usually don't make it to the morning in situations like that.
GROSS: (Laughter).
C.K.: I usually find a way to get the hell out of there, yeah. It's usually right after the act. I'm like wait, this is such a bad idea for both of us. I'm upset for myself and her. Almost every single time I've had sex with somebody for the first time, I should've waited.
You get two benefits. One is you realize you didn't want to after all, and there's something about her that, you know, you didn't want to get that intimate. Or you get more fond of each other, and there's more to connect about if you wait.
GROSS: Part of what you just said sounds like a rehearsal for when your daughters get just a little bit older.
GROSS: Like, take it from me, you should wait.
C.K.: Yeah, exactly. Well, I do think we should tell our kids when they start making these choices - tell them the real thing. Like don't tell them hocus pocus, you know, spooky stories - you know, you're going to get - someone's going to kill you. Jesus is going to hate you if you do this. Tell them the truth, which is you're going to feel crappy if you do this.
C.K.: You're going to feel - it's not worth it. Just wait. It's a very big deal to be naked in a room with a human being - to be naked in a bed with another person. That is so intimate. That's such a big deal. And when you don't treat it like a big deal, you get confronted with how big a deal it is as a surprise when you're - you know, when that urge is over that got you there. So yeah, it took me, you know, about a thousand repetitions of the mistake to sort of start to think of it as one, which I think is probably pretty common.
GROSS: Louis C.K., recorded in May - this week he won the Emmy for outstanding writing in a comedy series for the episode "So Did The Fat Lady" in his series, "Louie." He's touring with Funny or Die's Oddball Comedy Festival. So is the next Emmy winner we'll here from, Sarah Silverman. That's after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
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