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A bit late for the Saturday Scraplift, but I just had to try using a large focal photo... that was outta the box enough for me! I decided not to put y'all thru the pain of me trying to do an extraction! LOL
I just love these 'hashtags' of Ali's... so fun! And, of course, I had to make stickers again! *grin* This was the first game of the season for Shannon who is now a member of the University of Minnesota women's club soccer team! The photo came from their opponent's website and I ordered a 5x7... the photo quality wasn't that good so I got brave (haha) and blended it with Katie's textured cardstock. I think it helped... LOL!
The U's club team is pretty good and very competitive. They've now played four games (3 wins, 1 tie) against strong NCAA Division III schools.... this particular opponent, College of St. Benedict's, is currently ranked #21 in the nation for D3 women's soccer. It's been a wonderful experience for Shannon to be able to continue playing soccer at a competitive level, while juggling a new collegiate environment far from home.
And, yes... be prepared for more soccer pages! Jana and her daughters went to Shannon's game on Sunday and she's sending me a CD with a gazillion photos on it! WooHoo!
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And, it was good... you played your first game today as a member of the University of Minnesota women's club soccer team. And, by all accounts, ya done good... *smiley* The team pulled out a 1-1 tie vs. St. Benedict's College, St. Joseph, MN | Sept. 13, 2013
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Yesterday, Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski broke the news that the Detroit Pistons had fired head coach Mo Cheeks. But Woj didn't just break the news to the NBA fans of the world, he also broke it to at least two Pistons players.
And now, a tale of organizational incompetence, in three tweets:
Dammit, Pistons.

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NAIROBI, Kenya, July 9 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch said the Ugandan militant group, the Lord's Resistance Army, was likely tied to the death of 13 gold miners in the Central African Republic.
Ida Sawyer, a researcher on African affairs at Human Rights Watch, said the LRA was likely behind a series of abductions and slayings in the Central African Republic. Sawyer said 13 employees with the Swedish-owned Central African Wildlife Adventures were apparently arrested for the incident instead.
U.S. President Barack Obama in late 2011 deployed 100 military advisers to the CAR to help military forces take on the LRA. Sawyer said many were stationed in areas far away from the site of the recent attacks in the center of the country.
"The presence of U.S. military advisers and regional forces in the area would enhance information-gathering needed to capture the LRA's leaders and improve protection for civilians," said Sawyer in a statement from Kenya.
LRA leader Joseph Kony is the target of a 2005 arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court. His militant group is suspected of conscripting child soldiers and using girls as sex slaves.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a June report, said international backing was needed for a coordinated strategy to address the LRA threat.


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Left Hand's uber-Colorado fest: craft beer, snow and bluegrass
Left Hand Brewing is hosting a beer festival Saturday that combines the best of Colorado: craft beer, snow and bluegrass.
It's called Hops and Handrails. The Longmont event will feature 150 beers from 60 breweries. A snowboard rail jam competition. And this year, Left Hand is upping the ante with music headliner and mandolin extraordinaire Sam Bush. The ticketed event is a benefit for a handful of charities.
Event Manager Josh Goldberg puts it succinctly: "Craft beer and snowboarding is a match made in Colorado heaven! It's a stellar event and brings together two outstanding Colorado industries."
The 2016 Hops and Handrails opens its doors at 11 a.m. and the event starts at noon. (Ticket details.) Here's a breakdown:


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This book begins with a deeply thoughtful reflection on the nature of truth—in the face of relativism, absolutism, and fanaticism—showing Jesus Christ as the logic and love that undergirds and unites the universe. Part 2 is a journey through the landscape of Orthodox teaching, with a solid explanation of how it comes down to us today. Sweeter than Honey provides indispensable insight into Orthodox Christian thinking."...addresses important questions in a powerful way, with the courage to engage in the real world."
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Johnson City, Tenn. - East Tennessee State senior catcher Ed Sparks went 8-9 with three RBIs and two runs scored to lead the Bucs in a doubleheader sweep (6-5, 4-0) of Southern Conference rival College of Charleston at ETSU's Cardinal Park. Junior third baseman Ryan McKinney belted his first two career home runs, extending his hit streak to five games.
The Bucs (5-11, 3-5 SoCon) used outstanding pitching performances from sophomore Reid Casey (8.2 innings, five runs) in game one and from senior Matt Baber (complete game, four-hit shutout) in game two to win its first two home games of the spring.
In the series opener, ETSU jumped out to a 4-0 lead, highlighted by senior left fielder Chuck Dewald's second home run of the season, in the second inning. Charleston (10-11-1, 5-2-1 SoCon) scored two in the fourth and two in the sixth to close the lead to 6-4.
With two outs and runners at second and third in the top of the ninth, ETSU sophomore Jackson Simerly entered the game and earned his first save of the season, getting Charleston's Josh Edgeworth to pop-up to second base. Sparks went 4-4 with two doubles and two RBIs. The Cougars' offense was led by first baseman Karl Morris who went 4-5 with one RBI and two runs scored.
Baber was the story in the second game, recording the Bucs' first complete-game shutout of the season. Baber allowed just four hits while throwing only one walk. Sparks once again led the offense, going 4-5 with one RBI and one run scored.
Junior Nathan Copeland (three hits) and McKinney (two hits) also contributed at the plate. Charleston pitcher Charlie Wentzky scattered 11 hits and allowed four runs in seven innings.
ETSU and the College of Charleston will complete their three-game series at 1 p.m. on Sunday, March 19 at Cardinal Park.


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At Precision Recruitment UK Ltd we have been users of the Broadbean AdCourier & Aplitrak software now for the past 12 months and are delighted to be one of the early users of the new version 4 system. After being tasked with streamlining the time spent advertising with various job boards I approached Broadbean who had a package and system that would change the way we do things forever. As an Independent Recruitment Consultancy, losing consultants for up to an hour at a time for advertising roles was proving to be the least efficient use of their time, when added to following the response of these candidates individually our consultants were giving away even more of the week to administration.
Then up stepped Broadbean, at the click of a button our consultants could advertise their positions freely across the chosen boards, this simple step gave each consultant an estimated 5 hours per week back to them, we thought this was great...more productive staff, we are very happy. This didn't end there, added to our AdCourier we had Aplitrak, this allowed our consultants to respond to each and every candidate successful or unsuccessful in a matter of minutes...this made us even happier because we had less candidates complaining we didn't get back to them and more successful candidates arriving for interview as we immediately got hold of them.
We are happy to see Broadbean grow as they have over the past year, they have provided us with a valuable system that has most definitely improved the way we do things and I would be more than happy to recommend their system to any Recruitment Consultancy, whether they employ 2 consultants or 200 consultants. In this day and age where 'Time is of the Essence' Broadbean has enabled us to spend more time delivering our service to clients and candidates alike.
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Winter Themed New Yorker Magazine Cover Puzzles
The New Yorker magazine debuted in February of 1925 when Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant (a reporter for the New York Times) wanted to create a sophisticated humor magazine. Now, although the magazine still boasts elements of humor, it is more well-known for its publication of serious fiction.
There is at least one short story in every issue, as well as literary reviews, journalism on politics and social issues, and many single-panel cartoons. The magazine is also very well-known for its illustrated and often topical covers. Because of this, several covers have been turned into beautiful jigsaw puzzles. We have 19 New Yorker cover jigsaw puzzles that are very fun and popular. Not only is the art charming, these covers are a little piece of history.
You can see how things have changed through time. For instance, in the beginning, the magazine cost just 15 cents. As you go through the years, you can see it jumps up to 20 cents, then $1.50... eventually landing at $5.99. Check out these New Yorker winter-themed magazine covers that we offer. Make a night of doing one of these puzzles and reading some works by some of the very famous authors that had stories published in one of the issues (from John Cheever to Roald Dahl to Haruki Murakami to J.D. Salinger) for a very cultured night in!
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A couple's New Year's Eve celebration came to a halt after making a grisly discovery in a bag of Safeway-brand Spanish peanuts.
A human tooth.
That is the claim made by Michaela Epp after her boyfriend, Graham Calder, accidentally bit down and realized he wasn't eating a peanut.
"He spit it out and looked at it, and it was a tooth," she said. "So he started feeling around to make sure it wasn't his."
Broken up into three parts, with the root exposed, Epp said it appeared that a human tooth had been pulled right from someone's gum.
"It definitely didn't look like someone's tooth had just broken off," she said.
Epp called it an astounding way to ring in the New Year.
"It happened about 15 minutes after midnight, my boyfriend looked me and said, 'That's one way to start things,'" she said.
Both students, Calder, 18, was visiting Winnipeg while on break from school at the University of Lethbridge. His girlfriend, Epp, also 18, is a student at the University of Manitoba.
The brand of Spanish peanuts is distributed by Safeway Inc., which operates out of Calgary. According to the product label, the peanuts are processed in Canada. Epp said they purchased the sealed bag of peanuts at the Osborne Village Safeway location.
A spokeswoman for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said they have received the complaint and will be following up.
Epp said a representative from the CFIA will be picking up the mysterious item on Monday for testing.
The incident will be looked into fully by Safeway once the CFIA has the results of the testing, said Betty Kellsey, a spokeswoman for the company.
"Safeway is committed to industry leading food safety standards and we will cooperate fully with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in their investigation," Kellsey said in an email statement from the company.
For Epp and Calder, they just want answers to what was inside that bag of peanuts.
"I personally just want them to look at it and see that this problem gets solved," she said.
A sampling of odd and awful things found in food products over the years
• In 2006, an Illinois man sued after he allegedly bit into an animal tooth in a container of Planter's peanuts.
• It turns out, finding a knife in Subway sandwich bread isn't a once-in-a-lifetime thing. In 2008, a Queens, N.Y., man found a seven-inch blade in the bread of his sandwich. That same year, a couple in the UK found a four-inch knife in one of their sandwiches from the popular chain.
• In Bloomington, Ill., in 2008, a man found an intact lizard in his salad at Applebee's.
• In 2012, an Atlanta woman found a nose ring in her daughter's breakfast burrito at McDonald's.
• In 2011, a man in Michigan claimed he found a mouse in a bag of packaged salad.
• A woman in Texas claimed to have eaten half a BLT and fries at a Cracker Barrel in Houston before finding human blood on the fries and plate.
• A teen in Salt Lake City, Utah was hospitalized in 2011 after biting into a green pill found in trail mix.
• A man found a dead mouse baked into a loaf of bread in England in 2010.
• During the Beijing Olympics in 2008, it came to light that paper clips were found in muffins being consumed by Olympians.
• In 2012, a Manhattan man found a bandage cooked into his meal at Chinese restaurant, Friend House.
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The average speed enforcement system installed on the M4 at Port Talbot in the 50mph section adjacent Junctions 40 and 41 was commissioned by the Welsh Government. The scheme is one of the measures being taken forward as part of the study into improving traffic flows on the M4 through Port Talbot. The trial closure of Junction 41 west-bound on-slip on a part time basis is part of the same study*. However, the Average Speed Enforcement system is not dependant on the outcome of the trial closure and will be a permanent installation.
The cameras have been installed to improve overall journey times and manage traffic flow along the M4 between Junctions 40 and 41 which in turn will reduce collisions along this stretch of road. Average speed enforcement was selected as the preferred solution for speed management by the Welsh Government. This type of enforcement system has a proven record of managing speeds effectively, ensuring maximum compliance levels and minimising the number of offenders. Average Speed enforcement is an efficient speed enforcement method leading to reductions in speeds across entire sections of roads and reductions in the number of RTIs (Road Traffic Incidents) and casualties**
GoSafe is currently working closely with the media, local businesses and other groups to actively reduce the number of offenders at this location.
GoSafe, the police or any other partners within GoSafe do NOT make any profit from speed and red light fines. All fine revenue is passed to the Treasury. GoSafe is funded by a grant from the Welsh Government and ACPO (Cymru). This means there is no incentive for GoSafe to place cameras anywhere other than where they are needed to improve road safety.
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** A review of average speed camera effectiveness at a number of sites throughout the UK showed a positive impact on injury reduction (ETSC 2009)


text: The National Aquarium is pleased to announce Steven Schindler has been named the organization's new Chief Marketing Officer. In this role, Schindler will oversee all of the National Aquarium's marketing initiatives for both the Baltimore and Washington, DC venues. Schindler will champion the National Aquarium's mission to inspire conservation of the world's aquatic treasures. "I welcome Steve's strategic approach and collaborative management style to the National Aquarium team," said John C. Racanelli, CEO of the National Aquarium. "His executive experience at leading successful teams and delivering measureable results strengthen each initiative he undertakes and influences growth for the organizations he represents. Steve's experience in the digital realm, superb credentials, and career-long dedication to championing brand are welcome additions." Schindler brings to the Aquarium more than 20 years of experience developing marketing programs. He has held key marketing positions with Bally's Las Vegas and Contiki Holidays, where he worked on assignment in London, England developing U.S. inbound tour programs. He also developed advertising programs for destination marketing organizations, attractions and hotels and resorts with San Diego and San Francisco Bay Area advertising agencies. In 1992, he founded his own California-based marketing firm, Schindler Marketing Group, Inc., and served as president and creative director for 16 years before focusing his communications and marketing skills in the digital world. In 2006, Schindler co-founded Sasa Technologies, where he launched two online businesses and spearheaded digital commerce transactions that strengthen business-to-business relationship development, led negotiations with content and distribution partners, and directed online search engine initiatives that optimize online presence and marketing opportunities. Most recently, he was the vice president of marketing of Local.com Corporation, a leading online media company that connects small and medium businesses and national advertisers with more than 25 million monthly unique visitors. He led that organization's successful online relaunch; launched the corporation's daily deals site, Spreebird.com; and led all strategic marketing planning and communications for its diverse consumer and digital businesses. Schindler earned his Bachelor of Science Marketing and Public Relations Degrees from San Diego State University and studied International Business at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Categories:


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If you've been paying attention to the PTR patch notes, you've probably noticed that there's a big change coming in 5.4. I'm not talking about the change to Grand Crusader, which is mostly irrelevant to how we gear and spec. I'm talking about the 30% nerf to Sacred Shield and the 40% buff to Eternal Flame.
The nerf to Sacred Shield is understandable – it's been head and shoulders above our other level 45 talents, and it scales very well with the extreme amounts of haste we've been stacking. Blizzard probably didn't anticipate the level of haste-stacking we'd be doing (though to be fair, neither did most of the community), which explains why they have to dial it back a bit to keep it in line. The buff to Eternal Flame was less expected, but makes the tier much more interesting again. We've mostly ignored Eternal Flame in previous patches because it couldn't keep up with the raw mitigation of Sacred Shield.
What many people don't realize that Eternal Flame has interacted with Bastion of Glory (BoG) since around patch 5.1 via an undocumented change. The 100% buff when self-cast in 5.2 was another fairly large buff in addition to the BoG interaction. In patch 5.2 and 5.3, Eternal Flame's HoT produced a little more healing than Sacred Shield provided in absorption. But as I said at the time, the healing would have to be significantly larger than the absorb effect to offset the opportunity cost of having to spend holy power, and thus, sacrifice Shield of the Righteous uptime.
The 5.4 changes move the goalposts, though. First, let's note that the sheer size of these buffs and nerfs are pretty huge. This isn't a minor rebalancing; Sacred Shield is getting slashed by nearly a third, while Eternal Flame is growing substantially. When casting EF with 5 stacks of BoG, each EF tick will be almost twice as large as a Sacred Shield absorption bubble. And remember, you'll get two EF ticks in the same time period it takes to generate one Sacred Shield bubble. So the EF HoT has about 3-4 times the throughput of the Sacred Shield absorb. We're no longer comparing equal amounts of healing and absorption.
The second change that comes into play is the Tier 16 4-piece set bonus, which removes the opportunity cost of Word of Glory and Eternal Flame if we have 3+ stacks of Bastion of Glory. That's a big deal. Sacrificing a SotR for a WoG is a tough trade when it comes to smoothness, and that's traditionally kept Eternal Flame from contending. But being able to use EF without sacrificing SotR uptime – and even increasing SotR uptime if Divine Purpose is talented – is a game-changer.
Either one of these effects may have been enough to make EF a contender in 5.4. Together, it's hard to imagine even speccing into Sacred Shield. But we can do better than speculation; we can fire up SimC and see exactly how much of an effect these changes will have.
A Note on Overhealing
If you ask a random paladin why Sacred Shield was stronger than Eternal Flame during most of Mists of Pandaria, one of the most likely answers you'll get is some variation on "because absorption is better than healing" or "preventing damage is better than taking it and healing it up." Traditionally, this mindset has been ingrained in tanks and tank theorycrafting for the better part of the game's life cycle.
Meloree summarizes most of these points rather well in this forum post, but in short, absorption effects tend to be more efficiently utilized than healing. Absorbs aren't used up on avoided attacks and partial absorbs can apply to subsequent attacks, while partial overheals are "wasted." And of course, since absorbs apply before the damage is dealt, they act as a first line of defense that often makes subsequent healing unnecessary.
But Mel will be the first person to tell you that there's a hidden assumption in there – all of those conditions apply when the absorption and healing is roughly the same magnitude. Absorbs are better than healing point for point, because they tend to do a better job of being there when you need them, but a really large heal can still do more for your survivability than a weak absorb.
Also, if we're rigorously analyzing the situation there are a lot of external effects that we need to consider. For example, do those absorbs affect how your healer plays, or would they be tossing a heal on you with that global cooldown anyway? If the latter, then it's tough to say whether your absorb was really "efficiently utilized." As far as World of Logs is concerned, your absorb applied first, so it was very efficient. But if it just creates larger overhealing for your healer, was it really a significant survivability gain? If you have several HoT ticks that overheal because of a full Sacred Shield absorb, is it really fair to say that the absorb was 100% efficient and the HoT ticks were 100% overheal?
In practice, Sacred Shield's efficiency is a bit overstated due to the way logging works, which is related to how absorption effects are consumed. It's often reported as highly efficient because the overheal it creates is shifted into other heals. But it's probably fairer to recognize that a good chunk of Sacred Shield ticks are irrelevant, and share some overheal burden with the healing effects that they preempt.
Further, there's a general attitude that overhealing is a bad thing and should be avoided – that those heals were "wasted." While mana and/or GCD efficiency ties into that argument, I think it's not fair to toss them aside so casually. To illustrate that idea, if you had a Lay-on-Hands-esque HoT that healed you for half of your health every 3 seconds, it would probably generate an awful lot of overhealing – possibly 70% to 80%. Would that make it a bad ability? Of course not, it would still be massively overpowered. While the majority might be overhealing, the fact that you effectively received a Lay on Hands during every 6-second period would also make you damn near invincible. Any sudden spike would automatically be countered with a Lay on Hands, without any effort on your part!
The lesson here is that steady-state overheal measurements are about as useful as steady-state damage intake measurements – that is to say, not very useful at all. Overhealing is only part of the assessment; we also need to consider throughput, and more importantly when that throughput occurs. I'd easily take the Lay on Hands HoT over a weaker absorption effect because even though it's high overheal, it's also high throughput during a spike event. It doesn't matter if the absorption effect is 100% efficient, because it does less for me during those dangerous spikes than the overpowered HoT.
And that's essentially the choice we're making between Sacred Shield and Eternal Flame. Sacred Shield is the steady, efficient absorption effect. Eternal Flame is the overpowered HoT. The only question is whether the magnitude of difference is great enough to make us prefer Eternal Flame over Sacred Shield.
TMI to the Rescue
Luckily, theorycrafting has come a long way this expansion. In previous expansions, we might have to estimate an amount of overhealing for EF and do some hand-waving math to figure out whether that's more effective. In fact, we've had to do similar things earlier this expansion with the MATLAB code. But those times are behind us, because we have TMI.
While it may not be immediately apparent, TMI essentially ignores gratuitous overhealing. Why? Well, consider what happens if you avoid a bunch of attacks in a row. Your damage taken during that period is essentially zero, but you have lots of HoTs or healing effects happening. When you perform the TMI calculation, you take the moving average and get a negative number. Then you subtract one to get an even more negative number. Then you raise 3 to that negative number and get a really small value, which you add to your TMI collector. So events where you have a lot of overhealing contribute very little to your overall TMI.
On the other hand, if you take a lot of damage, such that even after those HoTs and healing effects the moving average is near 100% of your health or larger, that exponentiation generates a very large number. In fact, the bulk of your TMI score is likely due to exactly these sorts of events: a handful of 6- to 10-second segments of each iteration where you experienced a spike. Throwing extra healing at these spike periods makes a big difference in your TMI. But the rest of the iteration produces a nearly-negligible background that doesn't change much no matter what amount of overhealing you throw at it.
So in some ways, TMI is the ideal metric through which to filter overhealing. It basically ignores the overhealing that occurs during safe times, but properly counts the healing that occurs during a spike event. An ability that generates 90% overhealing will still perform well in a TMI measurement if it's really good at saving you from or preventing spikes.
"Dumb" EF Usage
First, let's consider some results I generated a few weeks ago. I call this section "Dumb" EF usage because in these sims I've made no attempt to tailor EF's usage to incoming damage. We want to compare a player keeping Sacred Shield active to a player that uses Eternal Flame as a similar maintenance HoT, and blindly refreshes that HoT when it's near expiration.
For these sims I used the trunk build of Simcraft, which should now be equivalent to v530-7. The build I used had all of the 5.4 changes implemented through PTR build 17116.
I used the following action priority list:
which is just the SimC default with a line appended to maintain Eternal Flame, but only recasts if we have 4+ stacks of BoG. I used Slootbag's character as our test subject and pitted him against the T15H25 boss. The only thing I changed is which L45 talent he had selected (EF or SS).
Here are the links to the html output in case anyone wants to pick through them with a fine-toothed comb:
Sloot – EF – 5.3
Sloot – SS – 5.3
Sloot – EF – 5.4
Sloot – SS – 5.4
Sloot – EF – 5.4 w/ 2T16
Sloot – SS – 5.4 w/ 2T16
Sloot – EF – 5.4 w/ 4T16
Sloot – SS – 5.4 w/ 4T16
For those who want the TLDR summary, here it is.
5.3 Results, 4T15:
5.4 Results, 4T15:
Note that this is with his current gear, i.e. without 4T16 (but with both T15 set bonuses), so it's a simulation of what will more accurately reflect the first week or two of progression. Also note that due to how SimC does its HPS accounting, the Sacred Shield absorption is being included in the HPS value while also reducing DTPS.
The buff to EF and nerf to SS clearly shift the balance in favor of EF by a fairly large margin, even without the effects of 4T16. It's also worth noting that Sloot's EF uptime in these sims is 97% or better. Since we're only casting EF if we have 4+ stacks of BoG, this means he's got enough haste to generate 4+ stacks every 30 seconds (more on that later).
We can artificially disable T15 set bonuses and enable T16 set bonuses using the code:
Doing that, we get:
5.4 Results, 2T16:
5.4 Results, 4T16:
Note that TMI goes up by disabling the T15 bonuses, moreso for the EF setup since it's getting a significant benefit from the 2-piece (~45% uptime). It looks like EF is stronger even without the 4-piece, but the 4-piece clearly makes it a lot stronger while having no effect on SS.
However, this action priority list doesn't include any line to simulate emergency WoG usage, so the comparison isn't entirely fair. We can do a little better.
"Smart" EF Usage
We could try and include emergency WoG usage with a line like
Which would fire off a WoG if you took over 80% of your health in damage in the last 5 seconds. The idea is that this simulates emergency WoG usage as well as possible within the confines of the simulation. While we can't accurately model healer reactions to your health bar or your own go/no-go decision making based on incoming healing bars, in both cases because we don't have a healer in these sims, we can at least try to minimize TMI by burning a self-WoG whenever we're in the midst of a spike.
This also should help simulate the penalty we pay by not having those BoG stacks banked for emergency heals. When we refresh Eternal Flame, we're putting ourselves in a position where we don't have a large emergency heal banked for the next 10-20 seconds, and that should have some sort of associated opportunity cost in terms of TMI. In theory, we'll be able to see that with this sort of conditional added.
If we put that line directly after Eternal Flame in the action priority list, we get results that look like this. I didn't have the simc file from the first set of tests handy, so I ran two baseline sims without that line for comparison. The setup should be relatively similar to the first, though.
Sloot2 – EF – 5.4 PTR
Sloot2 – SS – 5.4 PTR
Sloot2 – EF – 5.4 PTR – emergency WoG
Sloot2 – SS – 5.4 PTR – emergency WoG
It looks like including those emergency WoGs has helped narrowed the gap between the two results, even accounting for the Divine Protection "squish." Eternal Flame's TMI actually went up here because we're casting it more often, sometimes with only 4 stacks of BoG, and thus negating some of the efficiency we had before. But Eternal Flame is still coming out ahead, even without the T16 4-piece effect. It seems like the loss of our ability to emergency heal is more than offset by the sheer throughput we have in the EF HoT. Being able to throw off a 500k WoG in an emergency isn't as big of a deal when you're getting 300k or more of that through a HoT.
And of course, if we artificially enable the T16 bonuses and disable the T15 ones, EF continues its dominance:
We could try to optimize this even further by constraining EF to only be cast immediately after we take a melee hit, ensuring that it's applying the base heal effectively. In my limited testing, I wasn't able to produce a strong TMI change with that (essentially adding an "incoming_damage_1s>health.max*0.4″ conditional and extending the allowed refresh period). I think I could produce some improvement with finer tuning of the two parameters, but probably not enough to be too significant.
But this also highlights a major difference between the sim and real raiding. Since we don't have a healer, it hurts a little more to delay EF until a big spike, because it deprives us of that passive HoT ticking during some of the smaller spikes (or creates smaller spikes because the HoT isn't there to counter them, depending on how you want to think about it). In a real raiding situation, you have other HoTs and healing sources to cover that damage, so we should get a little more effectiveness out of sitting on EF and using it to instantly respond to the next melee attack. In other words, delay it for a second or two (or longer if you get a string of avoids) to make sure that the base heal is efficiently used, which may save your healer some GCDs over the course of an encounter.
In any event, it's looking like EF is going to be stronger than SS in most situations in 5.4
I do want to mention that there's a minor caveat here: in all of these simulations, Slootbag had enough haste to ensure that he had another 4- or 5-stack of BoG with which to refresh Eternal Flame before the time came to refresh it. If he didn't have that much haste, one would assume that EF loses some potency.
However, in my simulations that didn't really seem to be the case. While lowering Sloot's haste artificially, both TMI values went up, and Eternal Flame uptime fluctuated within the 90% decade. But Eternal Flame was still consistently beating Sacred Shield by a large margin even as low as 24% melee haste. It's hard to imagine having less haste than that, since you can already exceed that value with full stamina gemming/gearing. So there may be a relevant haste threshold beneath which Sacred Shield becomes preferable, but it's not likely to be relevant to anyone stepping into normal- or heroic-mode T16 content on day 1.
Note also that all of these sims were with Divine Purpose talented; it's entirely possible that DP is what keeps EF afloat at 24% haste, and that speccing Holy Avenger or Sanctified Wrath will reverse the paradigm. I just didn't have time to test all of those permutations thoroughly.
The simulations I've run here seem to be strong evidence that Eternal Flame is the new hotness, and Sacred Shield will merely be an also-ran in 5.4. While that's a fairly accurate statement for the bosses modeled here, it's worth noting that real bosses vary. In particular, effects that test your instantaneous effective health will tend to reward absorption effects more than healing, because those absorption effects are a temporary effective health boost.
For example, one-shot effects like Talon Rake and Decapitate may still lead you to prefer Sacred Shield. There's a reasonable chance you'll be topped off before the effect, and the extra absorption may just be enough to survive an otherwise-fatal blow.
What we've generally modeled with TMI bosses is slower trickle-down deaths from successive melees, which tends to favor the raw throughput of 5.4's version of EF, as we've seen. And while I think that's a more reasonable model of tank death for most progression tanks, it may not match your most common death scenarios.
As always, your mileage may vary. You'll have to make the decision about which talent to take based on fight mechanics; obviously, if there's a mechanic that strongly favors SS, don't hesitate to take it. It's not terrible in 5.4, it's just nowhere near as good as it is on live servers currently.
There doesn't seem to be any meaningful haste threshold at which EF eclipses SS, at least when Divine Purpose talented. I'm sure that we'll revisit that topic down the road, though the T16 4-piece interacts so strongly with Divine Purpose that we may see most progression raiders taking it anyway.
One thought that keeps coming to mind as I review these results is just how far ahead EF seems to be. It feels like the 30% Sacred Shield nerf or the 40% Eternal Flame buff would have been sufficient to make the two equally valid choices in that talent tier. But the combination of both effects seems to just swap the two; rather than Sacred Shield being the hands-down, no-brainer choice that all paladins take, 5.4 just puts Eternal Flame in that spot.
It's sort of disappointing in that sense. While it's nice to have a new mechanic to fool around with in the last tier, the ideal goal of the talent system is to make all three choices viable (or at least in this case, EF and SS, since we generally ignore Selfless Healer). But rather than having an interesting choice between EF and SS, the 5.4 changes spin the wheel too far in the other direction. We still don't have equally valid and interesting choices in that tier.
Although I'm not sure we'll ever see that happen due to the nature of the three talents in that tier. I could imagine balancing Eternal Flame and Selfless Healer, because they both provide different ways to produce extra healing. But balancing either with Sacred Shield is tougher, because it's an absorb. Even if they all produced identical TMI values, we'd probably lean towards Sacred Shield – it's an absorb, essentially passive, generally higher DPS, less reliant on perfect play. It's just safer than the other options if they produce similar results. I still hold out hope that next expansion, Sacred Shield will become baseline for Protection and we'll get a third healing option in that tier. I think that we have a much better chance of getting three interesting and equally viable options in that situation.


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Trig in 2012!
Remember, one of the reasons The Wasilla Whiz Kid bailed out of her job, was that the Lefty Communist Socialist Media was picking on her children, and, that they needed to "quit makin' things up".
John Amato, over on Crooks and Liars, hits it good;
Sarah Palin says Obama's health care will kill her Down Syndrome baby
I've heard a lot of disgusting stuff coming out of the mouths of the Zombie Plumbers, but Sarah Palin has become the Zombie Queen with this one. She sure likes her FaceBook page.
The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
Okay, here's what is going to come down;
The PartyofNoicans (what is left of them, after the great 2011 ethnic-style-cleansing by Michelle Malkin's, Glen Beck's, and Sean Hannity's Flying Monkeys - or maybe, just Chuck Norris) nominate Trig in 2012 (They will ignore, and relentlessly beat down anyone who complains, the 35-year-old minimum age), who chooses his mother as running mate ... Trig wins in a landslide (thanks to the armed patrols of Limbaugh, O'Reilly and Beck listeners, supported by the Arizona Minutemen, ringing the polling sites) and the first order of business is to pass legislation, making it a Federal Crime to mention him, or any of his brothers and sisters, punishable by instant death (Malkin, Beck, all of Faux News, Little Billy Kristol and NR, Townhall, Hugh Hewitt and the Cheeseburger That Sweats [H/T Barry Crimmins] are all grandfathered in as exemptions).
Trig then resigns (tests later show, it's in the DNA), handing the reigns over to Ms. Ya'Bet'cha, who picks Michelle Bachmann for VP, and we begin the 2+-year purge of all the Communists and Socialists in Congress, and, the entire deficit is wiped out by selling all our borders to Lou Dobbs..
The First Amendment is tossed away, and the 2nd Amendment, with loads of revisions, becomes the 1st Amendment.
Remarkably, Palin sits for the eight-years, and is succeeded, not by Bachmann, but by Governor Gaucho's new Argentinian wife (the Birthers shift gears, and produce thousands of birth certificates to show Maria Belen Chapur was born in the USA)
Any Independent, or Democrat (and some moderate Republicans), that haven't been killed off, are exiled, and shipped to France.
Oh yeah, and Freedom Fries are brought back.
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The average number of remote controls per household worldwide continues to increase. Even a basic setup with a television, cable box, and DVD player already requires three remote controls. Add an audio system, video game console, and internet-streaming box, and the number of remote controls quickly becomes overbearing. According to a recent study, 9 out of 10 Americans believe their home-entertainment experience would be more enjoyable if they could just push a single button to enjoy the content they want.
A cross-disciplinary senior design team from Stevens Institute of Technology students has developed a low-cost device that allows any mobile phone or computer to function as an advanced remote control for any number of media devices, making controlling media devices simple. Electrical Engineering majors John Martelle and Jake Thibault and Computer Engineer Salvatore Amato combined their skills and expertise to create the Total Control Remote Control, a user-friendly solution that can turn any smartphone into a universal remote control.
Essentially, a remote control is a transmitter that sends instructions to other devices. In the case of most consumer audio/visual devices, the transmitter passes instructions in the form of binary codes over infrared light.
Although there are commercially available products that allow smart phones to act as a remote control, most require an external attachment, or dongle, to connect an infrared emitter to the phone. "In addition to being an inconvenience, using a dongle also has other limitations, such as requiring line-of-sight, and requiring a specific phone model to fit properly," says Salvatore.
The team created an innovated design that houses the infrared emitter in a base station that is placed near the electronics. Using a custom universal remote app on an Android or iOS phone, the user can connect to the base station either through WiFi or Bluetooth. The base station transmits instructions entered from the mobile app through its two infrared LEDs to the desired entertainment device.
"We've also added the ability to control media devices through any web browser," says John, who worked on the web browser interface. "This increases the number of devices that can be used as a universal remote control, such as non-Android or iOS phones and tablets and computers."
The group hopes to continue expanding the functionality of the Total Control Remote Control. "Our design can utilize the processing power of smartphones, which is far more advanced than any commercially available stand-alone remote control," says Jake. "The extra power allows for advanced functions, such as fully programmable macros that can launch a series of instructions for devices to automate frequent tasks."
The team was advised by Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Bruce McNair. "These seniors have designed and built a fully functional device that the general public would love to have," says Professor McNair. "I am excited to see where this project goes in the future."
The Total Control Remote Control will demonstrate their prototype at the Stevens Innovation Expo on April 24th from 1-4 PM alongside hundreds of other innovative technologies, products, services and businesses across a wide range of. For more information, visit www.stevens.edu/expo.
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SEOUL: North Korea has moved a long-range rocket to its northwestern launch site in preparation for a launch next month, South Korean officials said on Sunday, as Pyongyang pushes ahead with plans that Washington says are a cover for testing long-range missile systems.
South Korean defense ministry and Joint chiefs of staff officials said on Sunday that the information comes from the South Korean and US militaries. They provided no further details and spoke on condition of anonymity citing department rules.
North Korea says it will launch a satellite into space on a long-range rocket around the April 15 celebration of the centennial of North Korea founder Kim Il Sun. Pyongyang says the launch is part of a peaceful space program.
The United States has warned that the launch could jeopardize a recent deal that would ship US food aid to the North in exchange for a moratorium on missile and nuclear tests.
Washington says North Korea uses such launches as cover for testing missile systems for nuclear weapons that could target Alaska and beyond.
Pyongyang's launch plans are expected to dominate sideline discussions by the US President, Mr Barack Obama and other world leaders gathering in Seoul for a nuclear security summit. Mr Obama visited the tense border separating the Koreas on Sunday.
The UN security council condemned North Korea's last long-range rocket launch, in 2009. Pyongyang, which said it was testing satellite technology for peaceful purposes, abandoned six-nation nuclear disarmament talks and, weeks later, carried out a second nuclear test.


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Last week the newly formed IKF, which is closely related to KPWT, has published a press release, claiming to be the new governing body for kiteboarding. While the backgrounds of this formation are quite obvious, this changes nothing on the fact that the only world wide governing body for any kind of sailing, including kiteboarding, is the International Sailing Federation (ISAF), as such recognized by the International Olympic Committee.
The IKA as an ISAF international class is managing the affairs of the kiteboarding class, which makes another organisation unneccessary and divisive.
The International Kiteboarding Association is representing national kiteboarding associations from almost 20 countries world wide, covering 5 continents, of which each is recognized by their national government, olympic committee or sailing association. IKA has sanctioned world wide tours like PKRA as well as regional tours in Asia and Europe, all of them contributing towards the world wide unified rankings.


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kcannone necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 49 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
Im looking to spruce up one of my websites with a new header, and side navigation or content tables. We have numerous sites and if the work is good we can keep you busy.
Im considering tweaking the look of my site. Our site is one of the leading information sites for back pain and other related conditions. Im not looking for a totally new color scheme, many of our images are based off of the maroon on our site. So im looking to see if you can create a header that is less dark, less maroon and maybe find another color that will work with the maroon.
We would also like one or two sample tables that would go in the side bar of the site, that would look nice with the header (dont have to be exact match)
Our logo is in black and blue so the logo may have to be adjusted unless you can find a way to make the colors work.
In the header should include example navigation tabs / mouse over ideas
- Item 1... The header must have our logo, our taglline, and phone number 800 216 4908
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- It should look medical and professional
- For size lets say 875 w x no more than 150 hHere are a few examples of medical sites in this field.
We prefer rounded corners for the top of the header as well as the side tables. The side tables are intended to stand out a little but not necessarily be so in your face like they currently are on our site.
If someone would be kind enough to tell me how to upload the logo I will do so.
- Item 1... No cheezy stock photos, in fact no photos at all unless you can figure out a way to subtly work in a spine image. The goal of the header in this case is not to draw too much attention.


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Well the other day as I was thinking about this article I found out something I did not know about on the site www.Tripadvisor.com. The site has a section that will help you decide where you want to take your next trip and then you can see pictures, read reviews, and make your reservations. Basically the whole nine yards. Why would you need anything else?
I decided to look into an adventure trip. I love adventure trips of course I also think that any trip is an adventure because you are finding out about how others live. I selected adventure and then the United States which took me to some of these ideas.
How would you like to hike or bike to something like this. See a video about this at http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g60724-Moab_Utah-Vacations.html#25911121.
At the Tripadvisor site you can find rafting, hiking, climbing and just about any other type of trip you can think of. As much as I love adventure trips there is another type of trip that you can plan there which may even be more fun than adventure. And that is a SHOPPING TRIP. Now who wouldn't just love to do something like that?
So when I found this I decided to look into a shopping trip to Los Angeles. I have always wanted to go to the garment district but keep hearing that it is so hard to do. Actually I think I was there one time (at least we think we found the garment district) and if that is where we were it was very disappointing. Well below is a map of the garment district. You can get tons of info on shopping here from this site.
http://lafashiondistrict.blogspot.com/2012/06/map-guide-to-fashion-district.html. Before you go there check out this site. And after looking at this site (which is where I found the map) I was never at the garment district and can't wait to get there.
Anyway I guess I got a little off topic but you could combine these 2 types of adventure trips into one. First take a rafting or biking adventure then a shopping adventure and plan it all on Tripadvisor.
Now that I have found the site above I will soon be going to the garment district.


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When it came to her latest acting role, "The View's" Sherri Shepherd didn't do this one for the money: she did it for the love.
Shepherd plays the streetwise – if style-impaired – streetwalker Lula opposite Katherine Heigl's Stephanie Plum in "One For The Money," the film adaptation of the first installment ofJanet Evanovich's bestselling novel series, and she tells PopcornBiz that the gig was definitely not for the paycheck. It's a part she's been dreaming of playing for the past seven years.
How was getting back to acting after spending so much time as yourself on camera over the past few years?
I love it. I love doing 'The View' – that's a dream come true – but it's nice to be able to play all sides of the coin, especially doing film and playing this character, because I've been a fan of Janet Evanovich for over seven years and I've read her books. So when I first read 'One For the Money,' over seven years ago, I said, 'Lord, if they ever make this into a movie please, please I beg of you let me play Lula,' and I put it on my vision board. That's something that was always on my vision board and someone tweeted me, a fan. She said 'They're casting for this movie.' I was like, 'Oh my gosh! WWLD – What Would Lula Do?' So I ran into the dressing room and I found a miniskirt and an electric blue tube top and I put those on with my hooker heels and my long wig and I ran across town in New York to this audition. When I got into the room I said to the casting directors, 'I have read these books. I know Lula. I love Lula,' and I got the job. I got the job! I did the audition and they called me back and I booked it.
Did you get nervous after you got the job – because then you had to pull it off?
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Yeah. I did get nervous because fans of Janet Evanovich are diehard fans. There are blog sites about who should play Ranger, Morelli, Lula and my name was always bandied about. So there was pressure because she writes so beautifully that everyone had in their head how Lula and these other characters were supposed to be, act, talk. So that's a lot of pressure, because Janet Evanovich has written 18 books that were bestsellers before they even hit the shelves. I was just like 'I don't want to let anybody down,' because Lula is a character that's physically bigger than me. She's a large woman. I think that Janet Evanovich wrote of her that she's busting out of her clothes. I just hope that my acting, that the fans will go, 'She's such a great actress that she pulls this off.' So I did this with a lot of love and a lot of joy and I hope that they receive that.
How comfortable were you with the way-out-there wardrobe?
Oh my gosh. I told them: I said, 'Ya'll don't need a good body double. I'm bringing my own back fat. It's in my suitcase. Give it to me. Slap it on here. Slap it on me.' This was the best role. I'm going to tell you why: because I didn't have to hold my stomach in. There were no Spanx allowed. On my trailer I said, 'No Spanx.' I said to them when we met, when I consulted with wardrobe, I said, 'Lula is the type of person that walks into a store, something would have been on clearance for three years and she'd go, "Why didn't anybody snap this up?"' Nothing was too over the top. I said, 'I just feel like Lula, on a Tuesday, she'd have blonde hair. On a Wednesday she'd have blue hair.' They let me go with it.
How did your own style evolve when you started making some real spending money to indulge yourself?
When I was a legal secretary I worked right around the corner here [from the Four Seasons Hotel near Beverly Hills]. So you get to see things that you've seen in magazines and you said, 'Okay, this is not in my budget,' and then you get that first paycheck and you're like, 'Okay, I can go get it.' I got my first pair of Christian Louboutins. I'd always see these red-bottom shoes and I was like, 'Oh my gosh, I want these shoes!' And I got them. I was like, 'Why did I get these damn shoes?' They hurt my feet. They were tight, but I always wanted a pair. So I got them.
Like Lula, you started in one place and then ended up in a better place, but you still seem so connected to who you were then. Can you talk about keeping that sense of perspective and remembering that girl who dreamed of the things that you have now?
I guess it's because I struggled for so long. I've been doing standing up comedy, I started with Jamie Foxx and Chris Tucker back in the early '90's. I got evicted more times than I can count and would take the bus because I went downstairs and made a repo of my car. Three times my car got repo'd and I went to jail for eight days because I had traffic warrants. I remember that like it was yesterday, and like I said, I worked around the corner at that law firm, Wilshire & Canon, for about six years. I would take the bus, and so I still keep in touch with all of the secretaries. They all came to my wedding, both weddings and as a matter of fact on my break I'm going over there to say hey. I call the girls all the time at the law firm and we get to kind of like scream together about the things that I'm doing. I called them when I was on the set and I said, 'Oh, my gosh, I'm in Daniel Sunjata's room.' They were all in the conference room, in the lawyer's room. They had me on the phone. They were like, 'Girl, what's in his trailer?' I said, 'I'm going to take a picture with my camera phone. Here's his clothes.' Someone was like, 'Sniff his clothes!' I mean, these are my girlfriends. So, I get excited because for me it's a dream come true and if I pinch myself I'm going to wake up and there's going to be a lawyer going, 'Get those documents! Stop dreaming!' That's what it feels like. It feels like a big dream, like, I'm going to wake up and go, 'I dreamed I was a talk show host and an actress in films. Okay, let me type your documents.'
How much room do you have to act, given that you're working constantly on 'The View,' hosting the new "Newlywed Game" and then being a newlywed yourself?
I don't get to do a lot, because I'm in New York and so many things take place in L.A., but I'm so thankful that I got a woman named Tina Fey who says, 'We'll work around "The View's" schedule,' and I get to do '30 Rock.' Then with 'One For The Money' I got to fly out and Barbara Walters let me take off to do it. 'The Newlywed Game,' they moved that to New York so that I could host it. So I've been very blessed in that respect.
How's married life?
I'm loving it. I liken it to us being two imperfect people trying to fit our issues into one bag. It's my second marriage and I'm doing things a little differently. It's going good. We've only been married since August so I can't give no marriage advice. I don't like when people go, 'What's some good advice?' I just got married. Hell, I don't know.
Once that anticipation is over, when the rings are on and the wedding's all said and done do you feel different since you were already so close before?
I keep saying to myself that I feel like we're still dating. It feels differently because he's got such a great relationship with my son and that develops and watching that get stronger…it feels differently when I order pizza and they ask what my name is and I go, 'Sherri Shepherd.' He goes, 'Who?' I go, 'Oh, Sherri Sally. That's right. My name is Sherri Sally.'
Having starred in that brilliant episode of "30 Rock" playing Angie Jordan in her reality series "Queen of Jordan," have you ever been approached to do a reality show?
Yes. But I don't think that you need to see that much of me. I miss the days of when we had movie stars and we didn't know so much about everyone's private life. On 'The View' I have to give a lot of my private life, but I think when you give so much of your private life you really open the door for people to give their opinion and know things about you. So, I kind of cherish that thing that I get to take home and it's just Jeffrey and Sal and I. So, I'm not keen on doing a reality show because I think you finish it and you look back and go, 'Oh, God. I can't believe I put that out there.'
"One For the Money" is in theaters everywhere this Friday, January 27th. "30 Rock" airs Thursdays at 8 PM ET on NBC


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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
weekend cooking - Chola Chawal
,this weekend i thought of preparing the same for lunch ,
recipe is inspired from Nita Mehtas book paired the curry with plain rice ,onion and pickle.
Recipe source Nita Mehta Cookbook
preparation time half hour
cooking time half hour
Ingredeint for boiling chickpea
overnight soaked and drained Chickpeas 350gm
salt one tsp
soda bi carb one tsp
tea bags two
black cardamom five
cinnamon two pieces
Presure cook chickpeas with the above ingredient
once done ,drain and reseve the liquid
remove the teabags,
and the keep the chickpeas aside.
Ingredient for the curry
onion four chopped finely
tomato three chopped finely
ginger half inch chopped finely
dried red chili four
pomegranate seeds one tbsp powdered
oil to cook
red chili powder one and a half tsp
coriander powder one tsp
garam masala one tbsp
heat oil in non stick wok ,add onions
keep frying till the onions turn brown
add pomegranate seeds and keep stirring
followed by dried red chili,tomato and ginger
add salt and the powdered masala
keep stirring till oil is seen along the sides
add drained chickpea and mix everything together
add the reserved liquid and let it simmer for five minutes
serve warm with rice,onion and lashoda pickle.
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15 comments:
- Kavi said...
nice recipe. do go through my event rules & link there too, if u can
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- November 15, 2011 at 5:20 PM
- Finla said...
Reminds me of my lunch bow, mom gave sometimes this combo but then kerla channa recipe, i didn't know this was a famous street food, looks super yumm.
- November 15, 2011 at 5:38 PM
- Priya Suresh said...
Yumm, super delicious chola chawal..Makes me drool..
- November 15, 2011 at 6:27 PM
- Saraswathi Iyer said...
Looks delicious punjabi chole.
- November 15, 2011 at 6:28 PM
oh my gosh.. looks super yummm...
- November 15, 2011 at 7:41 PM
- Puja said...
Absolutely love this combo. super comfy n homey it looks!
- November 15, 2011 at 10:08 PM
- divya said...
Super looking chola chawal,quite addictive and tempting.
- November 16, 2011 at 4:53 AM
- Cham said...
Sounds like a comfy food in roadside! Tasty and delicious with rice!
- November 16, 2011 at 6:03 AM
- Sudha said...
I love chola chawal and my Mom made it quite often and served with hot parathas.It does tasty good with rice,but for me - it tasted heavenly with parathas:)Loved the dish and thanks a bunch for the recipe.Will try this out sometime:)
- November 17, 2011 at 1:06 AM
- Prathima Rao said...
Droolworthy & so tempting chola chawal!!!
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- November 18, 2011 at 6:06 PM
oh..I love these black chola spicy and yummy. perfect for lunch
- November 19, 2011 at 6:11 AM
- Sushma Mallya said...
Lovely and comforting food...simply at it's best!
- November 19, 2011 at 7:37 AM
- Unknown said...
yummy recipe and delicious combo,love it...
- November 20, 2011 at 7:02 PM
- Aarthi said...
delicious dear..U have made it perfectly..Love to make this..New follower here..
Do visit my blog too
- November 21, 2011 at 1:30 AM
- Chitra said...
New to me. looks nice !!
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What is so magical about the piano that almost everyone, musician or non-musician alike, is drawn to it? Its appearance might be a factor. Picture yourself looking at a beautiful concert grand piano—no other instrument looks as impressive as it does. And with that distinctive sound, there's no mistaking any other instrument for it. Last but not least, it's one of the very few musical instruments where you can play 10 notes at once with all your fingers. It sounds rich and complete on its own.
It wasn't only classical composers who were interested in the piano. The jazz world was just as keen. Think of these pianists and composers in the 20th century—George Gershwin, Fats Waller, Errol Garner, Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, the list is endless. Pop stars joined in too—Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, Bruce Hornsby, Alicia Keys, Vanessa Carlton; again a long stream of players and composers. Although many musicians got caught up with other keyboard instruments in the 70's and 80's (particularly the electronic organ and synthesizer) the piano never really left. It just waited in the background. And now it's back with a vengeance.
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