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PureDWTS Season 19 – Partner Switch Spoiler??? *Court Plays P.I.*
Random fact about Court: I'm actually really, REALLY good at doing internet sleuthing. Case in point? I found out my father got remarried when one day, out of morbid curiosity, I decided to see if he had a marriage license on file at the Palm Beach County Clerk's Office. That revelation sure made for an interesting phone call. I also once located the divorce decree of an ex I had that claimed he had never been married. Lesson learned: do not lie to Court, because Court will go digging for the truth. But I digress…
…so I started hearing murmurings last night about Derek being spotted at the Dallas-Ft. Worth airport. Some fans were wondering if he had to travel to meet up with his switch partner. So I thought to myself, "Why not see if we can figure this out using just the internet?" So armed only with my iPhone, I set about the mission of finding out just who Derek's partner is for the switch.
Based on Sadie's instagram post yesterday, I knew she was going to be home in West Monroe, Louisiana for the week. So my obvious question: was Derek flying to West Monroe to meet up with Sadie? This contradicted the data Heidi & I collected from Topsy, which clearly had Lea in the lead to partner with Derek. So I decided to see if the evidence was there to support Derek actually being paired with Sadie. Enter Twitter: at about 8:56 EST last night (7:55 CST, which is the time zone Dallas-Ft. Worth is in), a girl named Betsy tweeted a cute picture of her dad on a plane with Derek:
And according to my GateGuru app (which is amazeballs, you should totally download it if you fly at all – if for no other reason than to find the Cinnabon in any airport), there was a flight from Dallas-Ft. Worth to Monroe Regional airport last night, departing at 7:55 PM:
So the timeline fits: Betsy's dad could have spotted Derek across the aisle after boarding, said "Hey man, my daughter digs ya. Mind if I get a pic?" before they even started taxiing, sent it to his daughter before putting his phone in airplane mode, and she could have posted it to Twitter by the time the plane was in the air. Now I know some of you hardcore naysayers will say "I'm sure there were lots of flights departing DFW around 8 pm, Courtney. How do you know he was headed to Monroe???" Well, without getting to stalker-y, one of the other pics Betsy posted to her Twitter timeline was her in her cheerleading uniform. Not gonna post it here, but her t-shirt (fairly) clearly says "West Monroe Rebels":
Now, what are the odds that Derek would be at DFW, on a plane around 7:55 PM, seated across the aisle from a guy from West Monroe, at the same time that a flight was leaving that airport for Monroe, LA, and NOT ACTUALLY BE HEADED TO MONROE, LA? Infinitesimal. If the truth comes out that he wasn't headed to Monroe last night and Sadie is not his switch partner, I, Courtney, will post a picture of Maksyl in their most schmaltzy, fauxmantic pose as my Twitter profile picture for an entire week. That's how confident I am in my research. You can call me Swagnum, P.I. 😎
So now bears the question: if all of our research pointed to Derek getting Lea, then why is he with Sadie? Here's a few explanations Heidi & I came up with:
Possibility #1: A lot of the #DWTSLeaDerek tweeting was spam, and whatever method TPTB are using to count the tweets managed to weed it out.
Because we here at Pure are not made of moola, we can't afford the fancy schmancy tech that can recognize and dismiss spam Tweets – but it's entirely possible that DWTS can afford it and utilize it. And believe you me, there was A LOT of spamming going on, across the board on all partnership combinations. There's a reason why I only tweeted for the switch once per day, and I tried to switch up the wording each time.
Possibility #2: Those who were using the ABC website to vote for the switch were voting a LOT differently than those manually tweeting out their picks.
I tend to think this one isn't as plausible, because there would have to be some REALLY incongruous voting going on in order to negate some of the massive tweet totals we were seeing.
Possibility #3: Val was unable to travel to Monroe to rehearse with Sadie this week.
Similar to the same scuzzlebutt that may have prevented us from seeing Meryl & Derek do the Argentine tango last season, perhaps Val just wasn't able to rehearse out-of-town this week. Can't imagine why, but dammit PTB – if this was the case, it should have been communicated up front. Just like last season.
Possibility #4: Somebody put their foot down and said "No way!" to a Val-Sadie partnership.
Probably the most controversial explanation, but it's one I could see happening. As we have all seen, Sadie comes from a very conservative family – and Mark has done a fantastic job of not overstepping any boundaries of propriety with Sadie so far this season. Ditto for Derek and Bethany – the two pros with underage partners know how to toe the line. Now Val, on the other hand – we've seen the fauxmancing and handsy-ness with Janel, and Sadie has actually said that she's "intimidated" by Val. Now remember, this was the family that was totally ready to walk out on a multimillion-dollar contract with A&E when they threatened to pull Phil from the cast of Duck Dynasty – you really think they would have any qualms with pulling Sadie out of a celebrity dancing show if they felt strongly enough about her NOT being paired with someone they didn't feel was appropriate? And judging from the main demographic of DWTS (middle-aged, conservative-leaning women), do you really think DWTS wants to risk losing viewers if Sadie walks? Plus, Sadie's actually a decent dancer, and her name & Alfonso's are the two I see mentioned the most on social media. So I guess the point I'm getting at is – if Mama & Papa Robertson didn't want Sadie dancing with Val, then I doubt TPTB would be dumb enough to push the issue…and would probably happily accommodate their desire for her to have a different partner.
Possibility #5: TPTB don't give a sh*t about the voting and are doing as they please.
So what does that mean for the rest of the partnerships? I'm guessing that Bethany is still with Mark, because that was the highest vote-getting combo of all (not that it matters to the PTB, who ignored the truly highest vote-getting combo of last season); that leaves Artem with Janel and Val with Lea. Keeping it "all in the fam", y'all. Lord knows what's going on with the female pro/male celeb partnerships – doesn't Antonio rehearse in Memphis? Anyone see Witney, Emma, Peta, or Allison at the Memphis airport? 😛
Well, all will be revealed in 12 hours, anyway – be sure to watch Pure tomorrow morning as Heidi will be live-blogging the announcement of the switch pairings, starting at 8 AM EST. I'll be manning the PureDWTS twitter account, and Vogue will be holding down the fort over at PDH and the PDH Twitter account. Happy happy happy 😀


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Hi Matt,
It is Andrew Smith here. What you are doing wrong is that
you are not loading the QB library. If you try at the command prompt:
qb /l it will load the library (/l) and the program will work.
Hope it helps,
Matthew Gross
If you have a link of Qbasic in Win95 (say on the desktop), just right-click
and choose properties. Then for the shorcut instead of qb.exe, make
it qb.exe /l because then it will always load the library.
The only prob I was wondering was when you compile it, will it add the library functions?
Anyway, like to be of assistance,
The QB45 IDE has the 'Make EXE' option from the Run menu. If you use this to make an EXE, the .LIB versions of any QuickLibrary you specified on the command line to QB will automatically be included in the link, provided that the .LIB is available. In the case of CALL ABSOLUTE, it means that you will need QB.QLB to you run your program from the interpreter, and QB.LIB if you decide to compile. This works the same for any QLB/LIB you want to include (you can use the /l switch to include other libraries as well, but you will need to declare any subs/functions you use from QB. Note that this is another way you can use routines from another programming language, provided that you use the PASCAL calling convention and the MEDIUM memory model).
One small question from me: Does any of you know how QuickBasic represents its strings? I would like to know for when I need to create routines in another language that require a string as parameter. Thanks, and I hope my information was useful.
Happy programming
NOTE: QB doesent have call absolute,
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file containing the ABSOLUTE function
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Re: Trouble understanding vaults? Read this!
I noticed a couple of things reading the documentation:
- Reading paragraphs and paragraphs of text in notepad is not pleasant
- I would definitely have appreciated a tiles version of the example temple vault (the one with plants, stones and butterflies)
- Having not designed a vault before, I had no clue where to start trying out vaults - it would be nice for them to give an example - something like "Try creating a vault that has a long corridor full of dart traps and doors with a small pile of gold at the end" (or a list of several such ideas), though not a good vault, would have given me something to start with to see if I could do it.
- It took me ages to find out that the keywords were available in the syntax.txt file - I was looking in section C that listed the .des files since it seemed to list all the files I'd need to start vaulting. I remembered I'd read about a file that would tell me what the commands did, but not where in the document the location of that file was given. Perhaps a note at the bottom of the document that says "Now you've read this, get started! Go to docs/develop/levels/syntax.txt for syntax info, dat/des/variable/entry/entry_simple.des for some example entry vaults, or dat/des/variable/entry/entry.des for information about creating new entry vaults" (probably in the form of a list I guess)
- I loved that syntax.txt has information about the behavior/properties of each of the items in the list at the top (eg which walls are diggable, which walls reflect cold and fire, which walls can be melted, what can be seen through and what can't).
- Syntax.txt refers to "dummy" vaults, which I had no idea what they are until reading further along in the file. Explaining what they are earlier, or even saying (see TAGS section of this document) would've reassured me that I hadn't missed reading something.
- Syntax.txt is so full of things and explanations and everything that I didn't read through all of it, I just looked for the headings you asked me to include and learned about each in term. I think a list giving a quick overview of what each command does, preferably divided by complexity, would be kind of neat.
- The instructions say that no matter how rare you make something, it will still be seen by tons of people and/or piss them off. In one of my vaults I wanted to make it produce a randart 1% of the time, but decided not to do that just in case that would be far too much. A ballpark figure for how often randarts should be generated in vaults (even if it's never!) owuld be great.
- I wasn't sure which file to place non-entry vaults into (ended up using float.des but I'm not even sure if that's the right place)
To answer your specific questions:
1. NSUBST and SHUFFLE were a little bit hard to figure out, but with shuffle I got there without too much trouble. I understand the basics of NSUBST but my eyes sort of glazed over when it came to the more advanced parts of NSUBST.
2. Very easy to create the vaults and put PLACE:1 on them, saw them in the game! Wizmode even let me put my vault in tons of times on the same level, which was great for figuring if SHUFFLE was moving the founts of water/blood around correctly.
Here's my trap corridor, it doesn't fit your rules but I wanted to make something that I could see . On that note, holy crap, I made a little tunnel and it appeared in the dungeon and my demonspawn dude walked through it! This is the happiest day of my life!
Here's my vault which I'm going to name Sigmund's House.
I picture Sigmund as having a pet rat named Fluffy, okay?
Slightly off-topic, but I want to say my favourite entry vault ever was one I got a few days ago - I was on one tile surrounded by lava. "What? Am I going to have to quit?!" I said to myself, and started searching for secret doors. Then a kobold came from around a corner and hit me with a dart of blinking! What a cool idea that one was
Hope that was helpful for you, it was fun to do!
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Net::Whois::Raw -- Get Whois information for domains
use Net::Whois::Raw; $dominfo = whois('perl.com'); ($dominfo, $whois_server) = whois('funet.fi'); $reginfo = whois('REGRU-REG-RIPN', 'whois.ripn.net'); $arrayref = get_whois('yahoo.co.uk', undef, 'QRY_ALL'); $text = get_whois('yahoo.co.uk', undef, 'QRY_LAST'); ($text, $srv) = get_whois('yahoo.co.uk', undef, 'QRY_FIRST'); $Net::Whois::Raw::OMIT_MSG = 1; # This will attempt to strip several known copyright # messages and disclaimers sorted by servers. # Default is to give the whole response. $Net::Whois::Raw::CHECK_FAIL = 1; # This will return undef if the response matches # one of the known patterns for a failed search, # sorted by servers. # Default is to give the textual response. $Net::Whois::Raw::CHECK_EXCEED = 1; # When this option is set, "die" will be called # if connection rate to specific whois server have been # exceeded $Net::Whois::Raw::CACHE_DIR = "/var/spool/pwhois/"; # Whois information will be # cached in this directory. Default is no cache. $Net::Whois::Raw::CACHE_TIME = 60; # Cache files will be cleared after not accessed # for a specific number of minutes. Documents will not be # cleared if they keep get requested for, independent # of disk space. $Net::Whois::Raw::TIMEOUT = 10; # Cancel the request if connection is not made within # a specific number of seconds. @Net::Whois::Raw::SRC_IPS = (220.127.116.11); # List of local IP addresses to # use for WHOIS queries. Addresses will be used used # successively in the successive queries $Net::Whois::Raw::POSTPROCESS{whois.crsnic.net} = \&my_func; # Call to a user-defined subroutine on whois result, # depending on whois-server. # Above is equil to: # ($text, $srv) = whois('example.com'); # $text = my_func($text) if $srv eq 'whois.crsnic.net';
Net::Whois::Raw queries WHOIS servers about domains. The module supports recursive WHOIS queries. Also queries via HTTP is supported for some TLDs. Setting the variables $OMIT_MSG and $CHECK_FAIL will match the results against a set of known patterns. The first flag will try to omit the copyright message/disclaimer, the second will attempt to determine if the search failed and return undef in such a case. IMPORTANT: these checks merely use pattern matching; they will work on several servers but certainly not on all of them.
whois( DOMAIN [, SRV [, WHICH_WHOIS]] ) Returns Whois information for "DOMAIN". Without "SRV" argument default Whois server for specified domain name zone will be used. Use 'www_whois' as server name to force WHOIS querying via HTTP (only few TLDs are supported in HTTP queries). Caching is supported: if $CACHE_DIR variable is set and there is cached entry for that domain - information from the cache will be used. "WHICH_WHOIS" argument - look get_whois docs below. get_whois( DOMAIN [, SRV [, WHICH_WHOIS]] ) Lower-level function to query Whois information for "DOMAIN". Caching IS NOT supported (caching is implemented only in higher-level "whois" function). Without "SRV" argument default Whois server for specified domain name zone will be used. "WHICH_WHOIS" argument is used to access a results if recursive queries; possible values: 'QRY_FIRST' - returns results of the first query. Non't make recursive queries. In scalar context returns just whois text. In list context returns two values: whois text and whois server which was used to make query). 'QRY_LAST' - returns results of the last query. In scalar context returns just whois text. In list context returns two values: whois text and whois server which was used to make query). This is the default option. 'QRY_ALL' - returns results of the all queries of the recursive chain. Reference to array of references to hashes is returned. Hash keys: "text" - result of whois query, "srv" - whois server which was used to make query.
whois_query_sockparams( DOMAIN, SRV ) You can set your own IO::Socket::INET params like this: *Net::Whois::Raw::whois_query_sockparams = sub { my $class = shift; my $domain = shift; my $name = shift; return ( PeerAddr => $name, PeerPort => 43, # LocalHost => , # LocalPort => ); }; whois_query_socket( DOMAIN, SRV ) You can set your own IO::Socket::INET like this: *Net::Whois::Raw::whois_query_socket = sub { my $class = shift; my $domain = shift; my $name = shift; $name .= ':43'; return IO::Socket::INET->new(); }; whois_query_ua( DOMAIN, SRV ) You can set your own LWP::UserAgent like this: *Net::Whois::Raw::whois_query_ua = sub { my $class = shift; my $domain = shift; return LWP::UserAgent->new(); };
Original author Ariel Brosh firstname.lastname@example.com, Inspired by jwhois.pl available on the net. Since Ariel has passed away in September 2002: Past maintainers Gabor Szabo email@example.com, Corris Randall firstname.lastname@example.com Current Maintainer: Walery Studennikov email@example.com
See file "Changes" in the distribution for the complete list of contributors.
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Copyright 2000--2002 Ariel Brosh. Copyright 2003--2003 Gabor Szabo. Copyright 2003--2003 Corris Randall. Copyright 2003--now() Walery Studennikov. This package is free software. You may redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. I apologize for any misunderstandings caused by the lack of a clear licence in previous versions.
Not available anymore.
Notice that registrars forbid querying their whois servers as a part of a search engine, or querying for a lot of domains by script. Also, omitting the copyright information (that was requested by users of this module) is forbidden by the registrars.
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STOCKTON - You'd think the dead would be a conservative, unchanging bunch given that they are, well, dead.
STOCKTON - You'd think the dead would be a conservative, unchanging bunch given that they are, well, dead.
But the Day of the Dead, the Mexican holiday in which the living throw parties and erect shrines honoring the dead, is anything but dull and unchanging. Not only are there those dancing skeletons with the big goofy grins that have been coming to the party forever, but there are also many new elements added each year to reflect the losses and fears of the past 12 months.
That evolution in Dia de los Muertos, as the holiday is known in Spanish, is particularly visible right now at the Mexican Heritage Center in downtown Stockton.
Thanks to a Stockton Arts Commission grant, dancer and artist Angelique Grijalva assembled a series of classes that began in September to allow community members to learn traditional art forms such as face painting, puppet making, casting skulls from sugar, and building "ofrendas," or small shrines honoring the dead.
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"Kohl Open School made a political statement with theirs," Grijalva said of the ofrenda made for the dying Delta.
Another ofrenda remembers the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting last December in Connecticut, and yet another has rows of pink crosses in memory of the many women who have gone missing or been found dead across North America, including the most famous cluster of cases in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Yet the new face of death is only part of what is happening this year at the Mexican Heritage Center. Much of the training digs into the deep past of Dia de los Muertos, including the pre-Christian Aztec traditions that help give the holiday its distinctive flavor.
"It's not just feathers. It's what you really feel," dance instructor Jonathan Sanchez said on a recent Wednesday night as he taught a series of moves to a half dozen students.
"This dance is called fuego," Sanchez said. "What does that mean?"
Maya Selnes, 9, raised her hand.
"Fire," she said.
All the course work in costuming and dance will climax Saturday, when participants gather for a parade and performance at the Mexican Heritage Center.
"We're going to have skull masks," Grijalva said.
Children will also be decked out with papier-mache skeletons, she said. "They will be like living puppets."
In addition to the scene presented by children who have attended the past two months of courses, there will also be performances by adult ensembles such as the Ocelotl Aztec dance group that Sanchez is part of and Stockton's New Dance Company.
While the event will be a visual spectacle and a lively party, the main motive for the holiday is simply to come to terms with death, say those familiar with the observance.
Maya, the 9-year-old dance student, explained it this way.
"Say your grandma died," Maya said. "On Dia de los Muertos, you remember her."
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Check out the home of Brunei's sultan at Istana Nurul Iman. See the fantastic displays of the Royal Regalia Museum. Stop by the Tiang Yun Dian Chinese Temple. Go on a food trip around Brunei, and taste amazing food like the treats at the Gadong night markets.
Hop on a water taxi and explore the water village of Kampong Ayer. If you're travelling with your little ones, your family will love spending a day at Muara Beach and the amusement park at Jerudong Park Playground.
Fall in love with nature at the Ulu Temburong National Park. Have a unique eco-tourism adventure at the Ulu Ulu National Park Resort. Have a ripper time with some waterfall trekking, canopy walk, night jungle walk, kayaking, tubing, and more!
Enjoy the scenery of the peaceful Luagan Lalak Recreation Park. And for the best beach in Brunei, head straight to Pantai Seri Kenangan.
Check out this quick guide to Brunei Darussalam and start planning your adventure in this beautiful country.
When to visit Brunei - Darussalam
The best time to visit Brunei Darussalam is from January to May for the best weather to explore the country. February and March is when you can experience the least amount of rain in Brunei. Although it can be hot during the months of June to August, the festivities around the country can charm you and other travellers to visit during this time too.
But the great news is that Australians like you can fly to Brunei Darussalam any time you want, because you can get a visa on arrival to travel around the country. Check if your passport is valid for at least six months on the date of your return to Australia. Visit the High Commission of Brunei Darussalam in Canberra, Australia website and Smartraveller for more travel info.
Travelling to and around Brunei - Darussalam
You will be welcomed in the country through the Brunei International Airport. Start travelling around Brunei Darussalam by taxi, bus, water taxi, or by booking your own tours.
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04 September 2011
Crash Protection
Crash Protection from RuntimeCompiledC++ on Vimeo.
We felt that for RCC++ to be really practical, it had to have a form of crash protection. After all, it would be a frustrating experience if you could avoid quitting, recompiling, reloading only until your first simple mistake, when a null pointer forces you to close it all down and start over.
We looked at two main approaches to achieving this - using a separate process and structured exception handling.
Google Chrome uses the process approach for each of its tabs, allowing one to crash without affecting any of the others. This is a very robust approach, but unless your engine's architecture has this in mind, it may result in a very large number of interprocess function calls which would have severe performance impact. We wanted an approach that would be easy to drop into existing projects.
Using SEH it is quite easy to catch an error and carry straight on. In our case, the key place for this is around the update calls on our game objects. When an update fails, we disable it until the code has been runtime-recompiled, when we try again. As you can see in the video, the rest of the application - rendering, GUI, logging - all keep running in the meantime.
But actually, you don't want to handle a crash silently - you'd really like to find out what caused it first! You could add code to produce a stack trace. However, debuggers like that in Visual Studio already provide a really ideal interface when crashes occur, allowing you to inspect state easily. So really, we would like to crash, but then continue.
In fact, this is exactly what we do - we first allow the crash to proceed as normal so we can use Visual Studio to debug it, after which the user can hit the "continue" button in the IDE. Usually this is quite useless but in our case we catch the crash on the second attempt - and proceed with execution. We get the best of both.
Without crash protection, rapid changes to live C++ might just let you shoot yourself in the foot faster. But now this isn't a fatal injury, you might as well select full automatic.
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Chicken Makhani
Member recipe by stephaniecave
ServingsServes 2
This is a cheat's version, fabulously flavoursome, extremely easy and quick and very low in fat!
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- 230g tin of chopped tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon tomato puree
- 2-3 cm piece grated root ginger
- 2 or 3 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1-2 green chillis, deseeded (or leave them in if you like it hot!)
- 200ml chicken stock
- 15g ground almonds
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 200g pack of cooked chicken tikka fillets (i use tesco)
- 1 tbsp reduced fat butter
- 1 tsp garam masala
- bunch fresh coriander
- Place chopped tomatoes, tomato puree, ginger, garlic, chillis, chicken stock in a saucepan and simmer fairly briskly, uncovered, for about 10 minutes, until the sauce has thickened and reduced.
- Stir in the ground almonds, sugar and chicken pieces, heating through gently for about 7 minutes.
- Stir in the butter, garam masala and coriander. Serve straightaway, with some plain boiled rice or a naan bread.
- Enjoy!
Comments, questions and tips
1st Jul, 2020
This was really tasty and sooo easy to make. I used tandoori chicken skewers from Iceland - popped them in the oven while I prepared the other bits then the chunks slid off easily - perfect amount for two people. I'll double the butter next time. Really impressed with the flavour of this given how quick and simple it is to make!
23rd Mar, 2015
Loved the taste of this recipe. Although I have to say it didn't taste like any Makhani I've had. It needs some form of cream or yogurt I think to be a Makhani. Put in a tablespoon of garam massala by accident but it still tasted good - as good as a takeaway curry. Marinated our own chicken for a tikka feel (simply marinade small chicken chunks in Greek yogurt, chilli powder and tumeric) - we marinaded for an hour. Next time I will try overnight. Oven cooked it chicken prior to making the rest of the curry.
16th Nov, 2012
Stumbled across this recipe by accident and it turned out to be a healthy one too! Love this curry, I must have made it over 10 times! It's easy to make and doesn't take too long. I had 6 friends over and all the plates were cleared up which is great for someone that's usually a rubbish cook! Once you've purchased the ingredients the first time they last for months and so doesn't cost much to make after the 1st go, just chicken and a 9p ginger and 3p chillies!
21st Oct, 2012
Gorgeous curry and low fat what more could you want?!!! Instead of tikka fillets, I marinate chicken breast in Pataks Balti Paste then cook slowly in a baking dish covered with foil. Follow the recipe exactly, I don't put the butter in as I don't think it needs it. Have made this several times and everyone has loved it and asked for the recipe. Was also unsure about adding the almonds but it definitely works. Can't believe you can make such a fantastic curry with so few ingredients, all the others i've made have had to add that many different spices and nothing tastes as good as this recipe. Thankyou Steph its a winner!!!
11th Apr, 2012
I made this last night and my wife and I were really impressed. I consider myself a bit of a curry 'expert' and have been a bit bored with my own concoctions which, even though I follow authentic recipes, tend to end up tasting the same to me. This was so different, and tasty. And no onions!.Basically using what I had to hand. I used leftover cooked chicken, marinated in Pataks madras paste overnight. Used a whole red chilli (scotch bonnet type). Had no ground almonds, and forgot to add tomato paste. No worries, absolutely brilliant! Eaten with Rachels homemade chapatis. I will most definitely be making this one again. Thankyou Steph.


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This month, for Adopt A Gluten-Free Blogger (a fantastic event, initiated by Sea at Book of Yum, where gluten-free bloggers "adopt" one another, cook one or more of their recipes, and share them with the world, in the interest of becoming more acquainted with one another and enjoying one another's recipes), I adopted Kelly of The Spunky Coconut. The Spunky Coconut is a relatively "new to me" blog; one I've only been frequenting for the past few months. I discovered it around the same time I was given her latest book , Grain-Free Baked Goods and Desserts as a gift. I was immediately hooked – the recipes are nutrient-dense, simple, and delicious. I've made her vanilla bean cake and her coffee cake, both in the blog and in her book. I loved them so much, I purchased her first book as well – The Spunky Coconut Cookbook. I knew I wanted to adopt her, just as an excuse to try more recipes. So I did.
But what to make? There are so many choices! I did have a lot of raw nuts lying around, so I first opted to soak and dehydrate them, just so I'd have some yummy snacks (or potential nut butter beginnings!). Kelly outlines some easy instructions on how to do this.
All you really need is time (and a dehydrator – although I've also done this before on the lowest setting in my oven, in my pre-dehydrator days). Mine took around 24 hours to dry in the dehydrator at 115 degrees. The nuts were tasty and crunchy – perfect for snacking.
And then this morning, I turned my attention to cinnamon rolls. Grain-Free Baked Goods and Desserts has a lovely cinnamon roll recipe – and it's completely dairy-free, grain-free, and refined sugar-free. The only change I made was that I added some raisins (about 1/4 cup) to the filling. They came out full of cinnamon-y flavor, but not overly sweet or sticky. They were a lovely "grown-up" breakfast treat, perfect with coffee.
These two recipes are just the tip of the iceberg of The Spunky Coconut. I encourage you to go. Visit. Browse around a bit. You might decide you want to try a vegan, raw-inspired caesar dressing for your salad. Or grain-free tortilla wraps (which are next on my list!). Or as it warms up outside, how about a chilled chia coffee drink? The recipes here are endlessly creative – I know they've opened up my mind to a lot of amazing possibilities in the kitchen!


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5G Technology stands for 5th Generation Mobile technology. 5G technologies will change the way most high-bandwidth users access their phones. With 5G pushed over a VOIP-enabled device, people will experience a level of call volume and data transmission never experienced before.5G technology is offering the services in Product Engineering, Documentation, supporting electronic transactions (e-Payments, e-transactions) etc. As the customer becomes more and more aware of the mobile phone technology, he or she will look for a decent package all together, including all the advanced features a cellular phone can have. Hence the search for new technology is always the main motive of the leading cell phone giants to out innovate their competitors. Recently apple has produced shivers all around the electronic world by launching its new handset, the I-phone. Features that are getting embedded in such a small piece of electronics are huge.
The 5G technologies include all type of advanced features which makes 5G mobile technology most powerful and in huge demand in near future. The gigantic array of innovative technology being built into new cell phones is stunning. 5G technology which is on hand held phone offering more power and features than at least 1000 lunar modules. A user can also hook their 5G technology cell phone with their Laptop to get broadband internet access. 5G technology including camera, MP3 recording, video player, large phone memory, dialing speed, audio player and much more you never imagine. For children rocking fun Bluetooth technology and Piconets has become in market.
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Vegetarian: Hearty Winter Minestrone with Chili Oil, Lemon Zest and Parmesan
I came of age in the glory days of food television, back when Food Network stars like David Rosengarten and a significantly less bam-tastic Emeril Lagasse calmly and straightforwardly instructed viewers how to cook. I was positively addicted to the channel growing up, and am convinced that my culinary know-how is about 75% the result of the teachings of my mother (an excellent cook) and about 25% my absorption of TV knowledge.
But by the time I reached high school, the Food Network started to be dominated by preternaturally cheery women who seemed more interested in taking shortcuts in the kitchen, and less interested in imparting real knowledge (I'm sure you can imagine who I might be talking about). Even worse than these personalities was the sudden proliferation of contest-style shows, on which competitors vied for titles such as most spectacular cupcake (alright, fine), diviest dive (huh?), angriest chef (seriously?) and restaurant most in need of rescue (ugh). For a child of the 90s, this madness was akin to the slow decline of MTV, another once-stellar channel, a few years earlier.
I learned to seek solace in the familiar embrace of PBS, which, on Sunday afternoons, aired episode after episode of still-fantastic cooking shows, both classic and new, from Jacques and Julia to America's Test Kitchen. My personal favorite host, however, was Lidia Bastianich, the Italian-American maven at the helm of such New York City restaurants as Felidia and Esca. Lidia always had a quiet, rational manner, her recipes always looked delicious, and at the end of her show she usually brought on her adorable grandchildren or her (equally adorable) Italian mother to help her eat.
I haven't kept up with my Sunday afternoon blocks of PBS as I've gotten older—I guess I'm just not as cool as I was in high school—but last Sunday, I found myself with some extra time around 4 p.m. I switched on PBS and who was there to greet me but my dearest Lidia!
Ever conscious of seasonality, she had devoted her show to a lineup of filling winter soups, one of which was a minestrone absolutely loaded with vegetables. It looked fantastic, but I thought it could use a few flourishes. So I adapted Lidia's recipe to create this vegetable soup that's full of flavor from all the vegetables used to make it, plus given a kick with hot chili oil, bright lemon zest, and nutty Parmesan cheese. I guess you could say, per circa-2000 Emeril, that I kicked it up a notch.
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The National Benchmark Tests NBTs
The National Benchmark Tests (NBTs) were commissioned by Universities South Africa (formerly: Higher Education South Africa: HESA) with the task of assessing academic readiness of first year university students as a supplement to secondary school reports on learning achieved in content specific courses.
The NBTs assess the ability to combine aspects of prior learning in competency areas – Academic Literacy (AL), Quantitative Literacy (QL) and Mathematics (MAT) – that directly impact on success of first year university students. AL and QL are combined in the AQL test and written in a three hour morning session; the MAT is written in a three hour afternoon session. Both are administered under standardized testing conditions at sites across South Africa on designated 'national' test dates.
The NBTP reports results on a scale of 10-99 and by Benchmarks to better inform learners and universities about the level of academic support that may be required for successful completion of programmes. Results are also used by universities in course development, programme planning and placement decisions.


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What's with the two chalkboards outside Anthology Book Co.?
And what about the flowchart in the entrance to the downtown bookstore and coffee shop?
The chalkboards — where passers-by can use colored chalk to write out their fears and curiosities — and the flowchart for compiling the writings are the starting point for creating a phone app.
This app, which is in the visioning stage, will connect people in the community according to their interests and desires for learning and doing.
"It's going to allow people to understand what the app would do," said Monika Hardy, facilitator of the be lab, an unschooled community supported by Thompson School District. "It's living out what the technology does first."
The be lab, previously called the Innovation Lab, is calling Anthology its home base, a move supported by the store's owner, Stephanie Stauder. The students and volunteers had met in donated space called the be you house until last month, when the residential home became unavailable.
One of the premises of the be lab is "city as school," where students extend their learning environment to the buildings and offerings of an entire city.
"The idea behind Anthology is so much bigger than a bookstore," Stauder said. "We've been able to successfully put things in place to facilitate conversations and connections. Anthology's role is (to serve) as a place to accommodate and facilitate people coming together and sharing ideas."
Anthology has become a "space of permission for kids to be, learn and share," Hardy said.
Hardy and Stauder realized they have the same goals for the be lab and for the bookstore — to set people free to allow them to live out their passions.
To further this mission, the be lab and Anthology collaborated with homegrOWNzipcodes, a for-profit, for-good business model focused on connecting community members. The model, started by Stauder and Heather Goldstein, eventually will serve as a model for other communities.
"My passion is helping people work in their passions, especially students, so they live their authentic lives," said Goldstein, conscious leader trainer who volunteers with the be lab.
HomegrOWNzipcodes connects like-minded people in a supportive relationship, encouraging authenticity to their passions. Within this type of learning network, those connected can listen to one another, provide mentoring, come up with new ideas and co-create.
The blackboards serve as a model of the app, which will match people with learning partners based on the content of their daily reflections in the app. The app users would verbally input their thoughts and curiosities on a daily basis, which would then be compiled into data, or nodes. Those with similar data are then connected.
In the meantime, people are being connected through the handwritten flowchart inside Anthology's entrance.
"What happened when you set a person free in a space with nothing to prove?" Hardy said.
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Woodstock-Oxfordshire.com - Woodstock
Welcome to the Woodstock web site which contains details on Woodstock accommodation (Woodstock hotel and bed and breakfast information), attractions in the Woodstock area and other information on this Cotswold town.
Woodstock has royal associations going back to Saxon times. Today it is a vibrant town with an air of grandeur and is probably best known for Blenheim Palace.
With Oxford only eight miles away, Woodstock is a popular commuter town and Woodstock has much to offer both tourists and residents too.
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We are looking for people to help us with content writing and general website updates. If you live in Woodstock or the surrounding area and you would be interested in helping us, please email firstname.lastname@example.com with details of how you can help.
Sometimes known as the 'Gateway to the Cotswolds' and founded in 1163, Woodstock epitomises the charm and beauty of many Cotswold towns, but with its own unique character.
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In observance of improving sustainable business, the state of the humpback whale and recycling all those uranium isotopes you have stuffed in your apartment's washer/dryer unit, your friendly neighborhood Buffalo Exchange is having a dollar sale.
It's going down tomorrow, April 24 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. All proceeds from dollar items will go directly to the Human Society's "Don't Trash Wildlife" campaign. Neat. And trust us, behind the pleather and the ragged loin cloths abandoned after last year's Burning Man, there are treasures to be found at Berkeley Buffalo Exchange. Especially if you're in the market for off-season clothing items. Boots and half trenches anyone?
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Save Wildlife From Trash! Dollar Day Sale for Earth Day [Buffalo Exchange]


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Baruch in the News
College featured in Crain's New York, The Educated Observer and Biz Ed
SmartPitch Competition in Crain's New York
This spring young entrepreneurs from New York colleges and universities are competing in the 11th Annual SmartPitch Challenge, hosted by Baruch College and IBM. The competition, which celebrates New York City as a center for innovation and new business development, gives student entrepreneurs an opportunity to create and validate a business concept, pitch their idea and follow a business plan to ultimately launch their business.
The competition kicked off Feb. 1 at Baruch College with a reception featuring remarks by noted business entrepreneurs, educators and mentors. A series of supporting events are being hosted throughout the challenge that will lead up to the formal SmartPitch competition scheduled on June 6. A list of events and updates can be found on Facebook and their Social Networking Site.
The SmartPitch Challenge, partnership of the CUNY Institute for Virtual Enterprise (IVE), the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship at Baruch College and IBM, is featured the article, "Delivering the Perfect Pitch: Startups flock to business-plan competitions to win cash and publicity," published in Crain's New York.
Baruch's Newman Vertical Campus in The Educated Observer
Jill Lerner, Managing Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) was interviewed by The Educated Observer about the role architecture and design plays in the world of higher learning today. Ms.Lerner's 30-year career in design and management at KPF has seen her at the helm of many award-winning projects for academic institutions across the globe.
The Newman Vertical Campus mixed-use academic complex at Baruch College, CUNY is among the buildings featured in the article. The 780,000-square-foot building occupies almost a full city block in Manhattan's historic Gramercy Park neighborhood and won an AIA National Honor Award in 2003. In the article, "If You Build They Will Learn: The Role of Architecture and Building Design in Optimizing Modern Learning," by The Educated Observer, Spring 2013, Lerner says, "It is always rewarding to work with a client with these sensibilities. It was a fabulous opportunity to remake a major institution in the city and resulted in an internationally recognized, award-winning design."
BizEd Highlights CSR-Sustainability Monitor
Baruch College's Weissman Center for International Business has created the CSR-Sustainability MonitorTM that examines 560 CSR reports from national and international corporations. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a leading non-financial evaluator of corporate performance by shareholders.
During the last decade, there has been growing global, public concern about the impact of corporate strategies and operations on the physical, economic, and socio-political environments. To address this concern, researchers at the Weissman Center for International Business, under the direction of University Distinguished Professor S. Prakash Sethi, have developed the CSR-Sustainability MonitorTM which is an analytic framework for the systematic and objective evaluation of CSR reports. The CSR-S Monitor, which was published in late January, is featured in the "Upcoming and Ongoing" section of the March/April Issue of BizEd Magazine.


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Cross-posted from Palintwibe.com:
About a week ago, I posted here samples of hate filled and violent threat tweets toward Governor Sarah Palin. It was not a pleasurable thing to do, but people need to be made aware, especially since Governor Palin has been accused of being hate inciting. The "love everyone and let's just get along" crowd of the left feels warm and accepting toward every critter and human alive, minus a few select outspoken conservatives, with the main target of their hate being Sarah Palin.
It's truly astonishing how such people that would consider themselves sane and loving can spew such vitrolic acid from their fingertips and mouths. Just what has Governor Palin and her family done to them personally? How can they wish death and give clear cut methods of achieving it with no remorse or second thought?
Does not Governor Palin have freedom of speech guaranteed to all citizens of the United States of America? Yet, I have never heard or seen anything said or written by her that called for anyone she disagreed with in the world of politics to be killed. And like it or not, I cannot call the cries for her dead body to be tortured and screwed into the oil spill as a plug "free speech" by any sane American.
What? You didn't hear about that? I found out because TIME magazine's online news feed page had a story on it. Check out this Facebook page and see for yourself. It calls for "two birds to be killed with one stone" on the information page. At the time of this writing, the group numbers 119,656, fans of the page 1,000,000 People Who Want to Plug the BP Oil Spill with Sarah Palin.
Sound ha, ha, funny? Not if you read the info and wall comments. I certainly hope that the Facebook community reports and flags this page enough to pull it. Facebook itself would do well to avoid any kind of liability or reputation issues by shutting it down quickly. Copycat pages are already popping up like here and here. They should all be eradicated, along with any other FB pages that suggest any person be used in that manner, not just Governor Palin.
If this particular site is gone before you get there to do your good duty of reporting it, take a gander at some screenshots. I call this the WALL OF SHAME. And to any of the fans of that page that may chance to stop by here: Your mama should wash your mouths out with Lava Soap and send you to military school.
Was that too violent? I was taught not to say some things.
Oh, and one more thing….it's all about the money, baby. The page's creator has a Cafe Press store too. Yeah, they even sell stuff for the kiddies. Sick.
There are plenty more examples, but you get the gist. Please report and flag this page and similar ones. It is people like these that are making our country a dangerous and divided place. May God help us all.
Be sure to tweet the Gov at @SarahPalinUSA with a Hi-5!


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You could safely describe the climate of Malta, MT as dry, arid, thirsty, bone-dry, or any number of other synonyms for "no umbrella needed." They get only 13 inches of rain per year, most of which typically falls in June. By comparison, Houston gets almost 50 inches of rain per year.
Turns out – this year, they're getting most of their rain today. Which is an extremely good thing for the town and the local citizens, as they're in the middle of an extreme drought cycle that is threatening cattle and crops. But it also make it very difficult to navigate dirt roads, climb up steep inclines or any other of the things you need to do to get to a paleontological site, and work on it.
So, we've been stuck inside all day, working on fossils at the Dinosaur Field Station (the local prep lab and fossil preservation facility) and getting ready to go when the weather does clear.
The people who own the property we are working on have offered the use of something called a "six-wheeler" to get out to the site, which sounds spectacularly dangerous. But when you've already done this:
you've pretty much conquered all fear. Well, I should say, they've conquered all fear. I was standing on the solid ground above, taking this picture. Hopefully, we'll be able to get out to the sites soon, so more on our adventures later!


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Lemon & Poppy Seed Muffins
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Muffins continue to be New Zealand's top mid-morning treat. And they're easy to prepare. The dry ingredients are mixed in one bowl, the liquid in another, then the two are combined until the dry ingredients are just moistened. Baking takes about 15 minutes. So in 30 minutes you can whip up and bake a simple super treat.
Makes 12
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|Lemons, zested and juiced
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|Baking powder
|2 cups
|Plain flour
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|Poppy seeds
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|Plain unsweetened yoghurt, low-fat
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|Vanilla essence/extract
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|Canola oil
|Eggs, large
- Preheat the oven to 200degC. Lightly oil a 12-hole muffin pan or line with paper cases.
- Place the sugar and lemon rind in a large bowl. Rub them together until the sugar is moist and aromatic with the lemon rind. Sift in the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir in the poppy seeds.
- Combine the yoghurt, eggs, vanilla, lemon juice and canola oil in another bowl, until well blended.
- Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients, mixing until just moistened. Spoon into the prepared muffin holes.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown and a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes, and then remove the muffins to a wire rack to cool.


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Benjamin Cardin on Crime
Democratic Representative (MD-3)
Proponents recommend voting YES because:
This amendment reinstates the COPS Program. I remind everyone, when the COPS Program was functioning, violent crime in America reduced 8.5% a year for 7 years in a row. Throughout the 1990s, we funded the COPS Program at roughly $1.2 billion, and it drove down crime. Now crime is rising again. The COPS Program in the crime bill worked, and the Government Accounting Office found a statistical link between the COPS grants and a reduction in crime. The Brookings Institution reported the COPS Program is one of the most cost-effective programs we have ever had in this country. Local officials urgently need this support.
Opponents recommend voting NO because:
The COPS Program has some history. It was started by President Clinton. He asked for 100,000 police officers. He said that when we got to 100,000, the program would stop. We got to 110,000 police officers and the program continues on and on and on.
This program should have ended 5 years ago or 6 years ago, but it continues. It is similar to so many Federal programs that get constituencies that go on well past what their original purpose was. It may be well intentioned, but we cannot afford it and we shouldn't continue it. It was never thought it would be continued this long.
CURE (Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants) is a membership organization of families of prisoners, prisoners, former prisoners and other concerned citizens. CURE's two goals are
Title: To provide Federal assistance to States and local jurisdictions to prosecute hate crimes.
Summary: Provide technical, forensic, prosecutorial, or other assistance in the criminal investigation or prosecution of any violent crime that is motivated by prejudice based on the race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or disability of the victim or is a violation of hate crime laws.
Title: To reduce the risk that innocent persons may be executed.
COPS Improvements Act of 2007 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to make grants for public safety and community policing programs (COPS ON THE BEAT or COPS program). Revises grant purposes to provide for:
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MD Senatorial:
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AL-7:Terri Sewell
CA-33:Karen Bass
DE-0:John Carney
FL-17:Frederica Wilson
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa
LA-2:Cedric Richmond
MA-10:Bill Keating
MI-13:Hansen Clarke
RI-1:David Cicilline
GOP Freshmen
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AL-2:Martha Roby
AL-5:Mo Brooks
AZ-1:Paul Gosar
AZ-3:Ben Quayle
AZ-5:David Schweikert
AR-1:Rick Crawford
AR-2:Tim Griffin
AR-3:Steve Womack
CA-19:Jeff Denham
CO-3:Scott Tipton
CO-4:Cory Gardner
FL-12:Dennis Ross
FL-2:Steve Southerland
FL-21:Mario Diaz-Balart
FL-22:Allen West
FL-24:Sandy Adams
FL-25:David Rivera
FL-5:Rich Nugent
FL-8:Dan Webster
GA-2:Mike Keown
GA-7:Rob Woodall
GA-8:Austin Scott
ID-1:Raul Labrador
IL-8:Joe Walsh
IL-10:Bob Dold
IL-11:Adam Kinzinger
IL-14:Randy Hultgren
IL-17:Bobby Schilling
IL-8:Joe Walsh
IN-3:Marlin Stutzman
IN-4:Todd Rokita
IN-8:Larry Bucshon
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To allow one to experience or have something repeatedly in childhood. Because my parents worked so much, my siblings and I were brought up on TV and junk food. I was brought up on home cooking, so having to eat cafeteria food at college was a bit of a shock.
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Space bugs: Clouds of insects zap planes
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Q. How high up do flying bugs go? Do they splatter on the windows of airplanes, causing problems? -A. "Rach" Nid
A. Many insects– and other "bugs" like spiders and mites– ride thermals to high altitudes much like soaring vultures, says Virginia Tech researcher Curt Laub. Migrating monarch butterflies have been seen at 4000 feet. In Africa and the Middle East, migratory locusts fly in radar-able swarms millions strong at a mile high and more.
Flying planes with insect-census traps on the wings, USDA researcher P.A. Glick estimated there are millions of bug "aeroplankton" above any given square mile of land. Most he caught were under 3000 feet, but one spider unfurled a strand of silk and rode it balloon-like to 15,000 feet. Thus airborne, says Iowa State entomologist Robert E. Lewis, spiders have been known to ferry on the jet stream across the Atlantic Ocean.
Essentially floating on the wind, many insects ride weather fronts to cross high mountain passes and oceans to different continents. Moving en masse, moths, grasshoppers, or aphids do pose a minor hazard to aviation as small planes pass through these very real clouds of insects, says University of Arkansas's Timothy Kring. But commercial jets
fly much higher than these, so their problem is more on takeoffs and landings– forcing heavy windshield scrubdowns.
Q. Are sleepwalkers acting out their dreams? –Heidi
A. Quite the opposite. During dreaming sleep, people are actually paralyzed, capable of jerks and twitches but little body movement. Without this motor shutdown function, the nocturnal world might be inhabited by peripatetic dreamers fleeing imagined monsters or trying to fly.
So a sleepwalk is one of those times you know the person isn't dreaming but is rather in a deeper stage of sleep (stage 3 or stage 4). Somnambulists will generally just sit up, get out of bed and go for a stroll, says Dr. Peretz Lavie in The Enchanted World of Sleep. Their eyes are wide open but unseeing; they find their way by memory and thus may trip over unexpected obstacles.
Sleepwalking is a form of "automatism," where learned behaviors are repeated. In one case that puzzled Lavie, a six-year-old boy was seen to get up and go as far as the lab's attached electrodes would allow, "then he began to wave his hands around with strange and exotic movements." When shown the video later, his parents revealed this was just part of a school play where the boy played the role of the sun.
Q. For the truly beer curious, how might your beloved brew behave in the zero-G of Earth orbit or outer space? –C. Conklin
A. Behold Earth beer, its myriad multi-sized bubbles rising in strings from "nucleation sites" in the opened bottle or in the glass. Positively buoyant, they speed up and spread out in the liquid like so many untethered hot-air balloons, says Craig Bohren in Clouds in a Glass of Beer.
With space beer, you can forget buoyancy and rising bubbles, there won't even be a flat liquid surface to rise to, says University of Washington aerospace professor Adam Bruckner. You can't pour anything out of a bottle or can!
Pop the cap and the air space won't necessarily be at the top, in the neck. It can be anywhere, as a large bubble or several, depending on how the container was handled.
Under standard pressure in the space capsule, bubbles will form and grow in place, and given sufficient numbers, a foam may result. Shake the bottle beforehand and the contents will spew out, as on Earth. "Only difference is you can sit back and watch the spherical globs of space beer float away."
In reality, astronauts aren't allowed carbonated drinks in orbit, says New Scientist magazine, because a body needs gravity to burp excess gas. "No beer is one of the many sacrifices one must make for space exploration."
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It is an all time indian favorite food - enticed by all races and loved in all countries. Naan happens to be its best friend. Its a boneless version of the very famous "Butter Chicken".
Over the years I have modified my recipe a few times, sometimes to achieve the authenticity of flavors, at other times to make it a "guiltless" dinner and at more times to fulfill "quick mid week" cravings !
But lets accept, if this recipe is not creamy and buttery, it ain't no good.
Here you go to re-create the "Food that touches your soul" !!
I make it in two steps
1) Chicken tikka (Grilled Chicken)
2) Buttery tomato-ey sauce
Chicken Tikka (serves 6-8)
Boneless Chicken 3 Lbs (Cut into 1 inch cubes)
Ginger - Garlic - Green Chili Paste (10-12 Garlic Cloves, 3-4 Inches Ginger Root, 4-5 Green Chili)
1 Cup Yogurt (Hung Yogurt, Greek Yogurt or Sour Cream)
Salt - 1/2 Tbsp
Turmeric - 1/2 Tbsp
Shan Chicken Tikka or Tandoori Chicken BBQ Spice Mix (Can be bought from any Indian Store)
1 Tbsp Lemon Juice
1 Tbsp Oil
1) In a big bowl, mix yogurt with ginger-garlic paste. Add all the other ingredients and mix well. Add in the chicken. Refrigerate the marinade for 3-4 hours at least (Overnight is best).
2) Grill the meat to perfection
You can put the meat on skewers, if grilling on an outdoor grill.
- Charcoal Grill - Until cooked and charred from outside.
- Oven - Bake it on 350F for 30 mins and Broil for 5 mins to get the charring.
- Gas Grill - Cooking time may vary as per the grill and temperature.
The Sauce
1/2 Small Onion or 1/4 of a Big Onion (Onion quantity should not be increased, Tomato needs to dominate)
3 Green Chili
6-7 Medium Ripe Tomatoes
4-5 Cashews soaked in water (Optional)
Whole Spices - 4-5 Black Pepper corns , 1 small cinnamon stick , 2-3 Cloves, 2-3 Cardamoms
Butter 1/2 Stick
Half and Half Milk - 1.5 Cup or Heavy Whipping Cream 1 Cup
Paprika or Red Chili Powder - As per taste
Sugar 1 Tbsp
Coriander Powder 1/2 Tbsp (Freshly Ground enhances the flavor)
Salt to Taste
Chopped Coriander/Cilantro Leaves
1) Puree Onion, Tomato, Green Chili and Cashews.
2) On a heated non-stick pan, add butter and whole spices. Fry on low heat for a minute or until fragrant.
Optional: If you don't like whole spices in your food,you can take out the whole spices from the pan at this point using a spatula.
3) Add the onion and tomato puree to the pan. Add butter as you cook. :D (more the better)
Cook until sauce thickens up, about 10-12 mins on medium heat.
4) Add cream to the sauce. Cook the sauce until it starts bubbling. Add chicken tikka to the sauce.
Cook on very low heat for few minutes and wrap the sauce around the chciken.
5) Taste the sauce and add salt and paprika if needed. Add sugar and coriander powder, this kills the tanginess from tomatoes and enhances the flavors. Cook until sauce thickens to the consistency you like.
6) Add Kasoori Methi (Dried fenugreek leaves) to the sauce and stir.
Garnish with a dash of butter and fresh cilantro leaves.
Serve Hot with Butter/Garlic Naan or Rotis.


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Forget about waiting for paint to dry, those days are over!
The iPad allows you to paint without expensive colours and brushes, replacing the old pallet with a tablet computer.
David Hockney has been using the iPad to paint anything from landscapes to still life.
His recent exhibition at London's Royal Academy, displayed a number of his digital art pieces among his other larger oil pieces. The striking images are mostly defined by their vibrant colours, found in the face of the subject or in stunning landscapes he has captured so beautifully.
Local New Forest artist Jeanie Mellersh, a pioneer of digital art has also been experimenting with the iPad.
She takes the iPad into the forest and to the beach and paints the beautiful scenerey around her without worrying about her paints and brushes.
She simply finds the iPad practical and easy to use and the digital aspect allows her to share her artwork with a wider audience.


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If you switched to the new Google Docs interface and wondered why there's so much whitespace, I have a good news for you: Google Docs has two new options for adjusting display density. Click the new settings drop-down and select one of the three options: comfortable (the default option), cozy and compact (similar to the old interface). My favorite option is "cozy", which is both clean and compact.
Another change is that the details pane is no longer a sidebar. If you want to find more information about a document, select it and click "Details". Google Docs will display an overlay that includes a large thumbnail, sharing information, the list of collections where you placed the document and some other information.
There's also a button for sharing the selected documents and some new icons for documents, spreadsheets, drawings, presentation and other files.
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Study reveals seniors at risk for stopping medications after losing brand-name drug coverage
UH researcher conducts study as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical ScholarUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
A recent study found that over one in four seniors cut back on their use of medications after their health plan stopped covering brand-name drugs. This has implications for the 23 million elderly people enrolled in the new Medicare Drug Benefit plan, where some health plans are trying to bridge a "coverage gap" in the benefit by providing coverage for generic but not brand-name drugs. The gap occurs when seniors have spent $2,250 for drug costs, then lose all drug coverage and must pay the next $3,100 out-of-pocket until the beginning of the next calendar year when coverage begins again. Medicare expects four in ten seniors to fall into this coverage gap. "Generic-only" drug benefits are being considered as one way to help seniors during this period. This study shows that generic-only drug benefits, while better than no coverage, are not complete solutions to the coverage gap.
The study, published in the September 14 issue of the American Journal of Managed Care (AMJC), found that even when seniors retained coverage for generic drugs, the loss of brand-name drug coverage was sufficient to lead patients to cut back on their medications. Although many seniors (more than 25 percent) reported switching drugs to reduce costs, 28 percent of seniors still stopped or skipped medications. The decrease in medication use affected drugs for treating high cholesterol, pain, asthma, and depression among others. Two-thirds of the seniors reported difficulty paying for their prescriptions, and many others said prescription costs resulted in their not participating in enjoyable activities (43 percent), having difficulty paying rent or other bills (24 percent), not getting other medical care (15 percent), and/or having to borrow money or get help paying for medications (13 percent).
Dr. Chien-Wen Tseng, currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and a researcher at the Pacific Health Research Institute, conducted the study with UCLA and RAND investigators Drs. Mangione, Keeler, and Brook while she was a UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.
Dr. Tseng says that this study shows that, "Physicians and health plans must actively help Medicare patients find ways to adjust to a switch from brand-name to generic-only drug benefits. Health plans are required by Medicare to provide any benefits during the coverage cap, and providing some coverage for generic drugs is much better than no coverage. However, insurers, physicians, and Medicare must realize that these ʻgeneric-only' drug benefits are not complete solutions to the coverage gap."
Although not addressed in this study, Dr. Tseng feels that, "Patients and physicians have to make the best use that they can of generic drugs. If seniors choose to stick to brand-name drugs, they may find themselves running out of drug coverage before the end of the year."
Dr. Tseng's current study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has developed a paper and web-based "smart prescribing guide" that helps physicians identify which drugs are covered by most formularies in Hawaiʻi. "Doctors want to help," she said, "but it's hard for them to know which drugs are covered, which are brand-name or generic, or how much drug benefit a senior has left."
In Hawaiʻi, the issue of affordable medications is also important for the nearly 204,000 people, or 20% of the population, who are believed to be without drug benefits. Although health plans recognize the importance of providing drug benefits, the cost of such benefits can be a problem. The two leading health plans in Hawaiʻi, HMSA and Kaiser, report that drug expenditures for their members doubled in the last five years and are expected to double again in the next five years. The need to make prescription medications affordable for patients is a critical health issue for Hawaiʻi as well as nationally.
The authors of the study are Dr. Chien-Wen Tseng who was a UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar when this research was conducted and is currently an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Hawaiʻi's John A. Burns School of Medicine and an investigator at the Pacific Health Research Institute; Dr. Robert H. Brook, Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Professor of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health; director, UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program; and Director of RAND Health; Emmett Keeler, Ph.D, Adjunct Professor of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health and senior mathematician, RAND Health; Beth Waitzfelder, Ph.D, Investigator at the Pacific Health Research Institute, and Dr. Carol Mangione, Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. The study was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the UCLA Center for Health Improvement in Minority Elders/Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research, National Institutes of Health.


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Bernoulli variable algebra
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- Subject: [mg46517] Bernoulli variable algebra
- From: jmyers6761 at aol.com (JMyers6761)
- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 22:59:07 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I have been working on a Mathematica package used to predict the reliability of complex redundent systems. The calculations, which are done symboliclly, become quite complex. Since all of the variables used are Bernoulli variables, i.e. take on only values of 0 or 1, the expressions must be simplified by use of the rule x_^n_->x. My problem is this, the expressions are complex and large and, as a result the Mathematica Kernal runs out of memory trying to expand the expressions. I know, from other techniques, that the resulting expressions after application of the x_^n_->x rule are still large (> 1000 terms) they are not unmanageable. (The expressions prior to applying the rule might be on the order of 10^6 terms) If a technique could be devised for accomplishing the effect of the above transformation without first requiring the full expansion of the expressions it would be possible to greatly simplify the required analysis. Is anyone aware of a technique for the simplification of algebraic expressions of Bernoulli variables without requiring expansion of the expression first? Any hints would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou, Al Myers


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Kanye has a present for Taylor Swift.
The "Power" rapper took to the Twitter wire to announce a new song he penned especially for the country-singing sweetheart he dissed last year at the MTV Video Music Awards.
"I wrote a song for Taylor Swift that's so beautiful and I want her to have it," Kanye tweeted, US Weekly reported. "If she won't take it then I'll perform it for her."
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The manic rapper noted for overblown opinionating claimed that Taylor was unfortunate collateral damage in his anti-award show offensive. "She had nothing to do with my issues with award shows," Ye' said. "She had no idea what hit her."
The apology comes the same week that Black Crowes' front man Chris Robinson smacked Swift down in Nylon for Guys magazine. This year's VMA hostess Chelsea Handler has vowed to reunite West and Swift somehow in the broadcast.
Kanye let loose a long stream of Twittering on Saturday, concluding with a vow to turn over a new leaf.
"When I woke up from the crazy nightmare, I looked into the mirror and said "GROW UP KANYE," Kanye wrote, MTV reported. "Yes I was that guy. A 32 year old child."


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Taurog is a deity of warfare, battle, and savagery. He relishes combat and detests weak and spineless spellcasters. Taurog is one of the most generous deities in the game when it comes to piety, giving huge amounts of it to followers and barely punishing them at all for infractions. His simplicity and easy-going nature makes Taurog a favorite deity of beginner players or those looking to abuse Pactmaker.
Taurog's boons come with a trade-off, however; as items they occupy an inventory slot and reduce your maximum mana by 1. Although there are ways to deal with the loss of mana, the inventory space requirement is quite problematic as Taurog will punish you for destroying one of the items.
Taurog is obtained in a sub-dungeon in the west. Inside a massive arena is Taurog's altar. Stepping on the altar will summon four guardians which you must battle to prove your worth to Taurog. Ironically, you are not prohibited from using spellcasting against these guardians, and in practice it's difficult to defeat them without casting spells due to the fact that they gain death protection. Taurog's subdungeon is by far the largest unexplored subdungeon in the game, which leads to some exploits. It's entirely possible to avoid stepping on the altar and prevent yourself from unlocking Taurog, causing the subdungeon to appear again in the future. You can use this subdungeon as free exploration space whenever you find it, which is extremely valuable to certain classes (such as the Assassin) which can defeat almost any foe if given enough tiles to explore.
Basic Strategy
Taurog's boons vary greatly in value depending on your class and how many preparations you used. As you progress further into Desktop Dungeons, you will unlock more powerful items to purchase from shops, more preparations that use inventory space, and encounter more dangerous dungeons... which will frequently contain gold rewards with which to purchase those powerful items you've unlocked! Taurog's items don't compare favourably to many of these items, and as a result filling your inventory with his gear will limit your ability to use these very powerful items. This can frequently be offset by spending gold on other things, such as potions or Tikki-Tooki piety, but sometimes it will just make you weaker in the long-run. For new players and Purist runs, however, this often isn't a big deal and Taurog works well for most combat-oriented classes and even the occasional magic-oriented class.
The simplest and most common way to use Taurog is to gain piety with him to fuel a pact with the Pactmaker, or else convert to another deity to spend it. Very few deities can produce as much piety as effortlessly as Taurog does, enabling you to fuel some of the Pactmaker's most expensive boons. This will also allow you to completely sidestep Taurog's drawbacks, and your maximum MP and inventory space will be unaffected.
Suggested Classes
The best classes for Taurog are the Berserker, Monk, Paladin, Gorgon, and (perhaps surprisingly) the Sorcerer. The first four classes are strong simply because they can take the Helm (Berserker) or Armour (Monk, Paladin, Gorgon) to stack resists. In contrast Taurog works well with the Sorcerer, due to the class's casting abilities being biased towards melee combat and having the extra mana to afford his boons.
Advanced Strategy
Get In and Get Out
Taurog works best as an early game deity, due to Taurog's Blade. At level 1 or 2, it's an absolutely massive boost to your attack power and can get you quite a lot of bonus experience. And since you won't have found many glyphs yet, you'll still have a lot of them available for conversion (+10 piety) and not that many in your inventory for the penalty for using them (-2 piety).
To take advantage of this, you can grab an early Taurog's Blade off of one kill, one glyph conversion, and six "sparkles". Then you slowly work your way up towards 75 piety, grab the more appropriate resist item for your dungeon, and convert out.
Excellent choices to convert to are Mystera or Jehora Jeheyu to replace your lost mana or Dracul to stack resists with Blood Shield and take advantage of the blood pools you've created. Tikki Tooki and Earthmother can also be strong choices to convert to due to their ability to get large amounts of late game piety, but they don't have the same synergy with Taurog's boons. Glowing Guardian and Binlor are not recommended, as like Taurog they are better in the early game.
Body Pact
Body Pact from Pactmaker is an amazing boon that provides +1% to both resists when a monster hits you for the first time. Since each trigger of Body Pact costs 4 piety and each monster kill with Taurog provides 4 piety, this matches up perfectly. If you use any extra piety (from converting glyphs or killing monsters with magical attack) to buy one or both of Taurog's resist items, you can easily get up to 50% resists. Throw in a Dragon Shield, Tower Shield, or Elven Boots and you can easily hit the resist cap.
Resist Stacking
Dracul, Binlor, and Glowing Guardian all have boons that boost your resists. And all have them have some nasty piety penalties for common actions like drinking potions or gaining a level. One Taurog strategy is to use him as a way to escape those restrictive deities while cranking your resists even higher. And then once you grab the appropriate resist boon(s), converting out to a third deity to get even more boons. In fact, if the deity you left was Dracul, you may even want to convert back once your drink all your potions!
This strategy is quite useful in Naga City, if you have the piety to spare in the arena since you're guaranteed a Taurog altar and source of piety to convert in and out.
Unstoppable Fury
Taurog has one of the most incredibly powerful boons at his disposal: Unstoppable Fury. This allows you to chain multiple death protections at the end of a boss fight. Against high-damage bosses this can be extremely powerful, if you can handle the requirement of having all of Taurog's items. This is a high opportunity cost for most characters, and keeps this boon from being used too often. But it's something to keep in mind if you're stuck and have access to a lot of piety. In that case, if converting your entire inventory to have room for the items is necessary to win, it's the way to go.


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I've been anxiously awaiting the 200 mark because I wanted to give away something fabulous to my readers. Coincidentally, CSN contacted me this week about hosting a giveaway on my blog.
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The RTD35P Rapid Straps are suitable for heavy duty use and feature a unique design registered Buckle Protector. Designed to encase the metal cam buckle, the Buckle Protector is made from injection moulded, TPV rubber and provides maximum protection to avoid denting, scratching or marking any of your gear or vehicle. This item also includes a sewn in Velcro Roll it Strap to keep the strap neatly stowed on its own.
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