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Chef Somnath, head Chef, The Byke Signaturem The Byke Hospitality, Bangalore shares some traditional Ugadi recipes that you can try at home this festival.
Mavinakayi Chitranna
2 Cups Cooked rice 150-Gr
Mango (Raw) , grated 30-Gr
Black Urad Dal (Split) 1/2-Tsp
Chana dal 1/2-Tsp
Mustard seeds 1/2-Tsp
Green Chillies , slit 1-No
Curry leaves 10-No
Turmeric powder 1/4-Tps
Asafoetida (Hing) 1/4-Tps
Salt , to taste
Coriander (Dhania) Leaves , a small bunch, finely chopped
Gingelly oil 1-Tbs
1-Heat gingelly oil, Add the mustard seeds, chana dal, split urad dal and roast the dals on medium flame until the dals turn golden brown in colour. add in the curry leaves, asafoetida, and slit green chillies, saute for a few seconds until the aromas of the asafoetida and curry leaves come through.
2- Add the grated raw mango, turmeric powder and saute until the mangoes become a bit tender.
3- Once the mangoes have softened, add the cooked rice, salt to taste and stir well to combine.
Garnish with coriander leaves, Serve hot
Bisi bele bath recipe
Bisi bela bath masala prd :- Coriander seeds1/2Tsp,chana dal-1 Tsp , black pepper1/4 Tsp,urad dal 1 Tsp , jeera1/4 Tsp, methi – 1/4Tsp ( Roast and make of powder with out oil)
Roast and make a dry powder :- Cardamom 2/3Pcs, cinnamon
1″ stick , pepper 4/5 corns ,cloves 2/3,dry coconut 25grm, poppy seeds 1/4 Tsp , sesame seeds 1/4 Tsp , dried kashmiri red chilli 2 ,few curry leaves, pinch of hing
Chopped -carrot, beans,potato, matar,peanuts 50Gr
Turmeric 1/4 Tsp
Tamarind extract 25 Ml
Jaggery 10 15
Onions 50 Grm
Toor dal, cooked 50-Gr
Rice, cooked 100-Gr
Ghee 1-Tbs
Mustard / rai 1/4 Tsp
Dried red chilli 1
pinch of hing
few curry leaves
Cashew 4-5 pcs
1 – Firstly cook vegetables, 2 tbsp peanuts,with required water, ¼ tsp turmeric and 1/2 tsp salt.
2 – When its cooked add tamarind extract,jaggery and ½ onions. boil for 7/10 mins. 3 – Add cooked toor dal,cooked rice and 1/2 cup water.
4 – Add 2 tsp of bisi bisi bele bath masala preparations and simmer for 5 to 10 mns. Finally pour the tempering and serve the bisi bele bath
Obbattu Qty
Maida 200 Grm
Jaggary 200 Grm
green cardamom Pdr 10 – Grm
Chana dal 200 Grm
Chirouti Rava 100 Grm
Salt 1/2 tsp
turmeric 1/2 Tsp
Step 1
Soak the chana dal for about 30 minutes. And prepare the dough with maida,rava, salt turmaric pdr, Use water to make a dough. You can also sprinkle oil to give it a fine texture. Leave it for about an hour or so.
Step 2
Meanwhile, take a pressure cooker and cook the soaked Chana dal. After it is cooked properly, drain the water and put two cups of cane sugar. Place the cooker on medium flame and let it cook for about 15 minutes. Now grind them adding 2 tsp of cardamom in it in a grinder. Keep grinding it until the mixture turns smooth. Do not add water, let it remain thick.
Step 3
Now from the dough, take out balls and extend those ball with the help of your hands. Make another few medium sized balls out of the prepared mixture (step-2), this time put them on the dough sheets, give extra care while you cover and seal them.
Step 4
Take a plastic sheet and spray some oil and place the dough covered ball, start rolling it until it flattens and become fine chapatis. Fry the chapatis till they turn golden brown. Serve with ghee / banana


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We've had a clinical research center at this office for more than 30 years. I started here about 14 years ago, and have been heavily
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It's been a really important part of the practice, something I really enjoy. It allows me to be on the cutting edge of new science involved in allergy and asthma medications.
So there are several different levels of research–Phase I, II, III, and IV. Most of the studies we do are Phase II and III, where they're really investigating a new drug, learning about how it works with the patients.
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The number-one most important thing for research is a process called informed consent. That means you know what you're getting into. And whether or not you decide to participate, we love you.
Many of the patients who participate in research are patients from our clinic. You do not have to participate in research. We try to be very clear with people. It's an option.
Most people actually ask us, can I participate in a research trial?
After that, you get a booklet of information about the disease, about the medication, about the risks and benefits. In most studies, there is a placebo arm, meaning that there might be a sugar pill.
We don't take away maintenance therapies that are keeping a person healthy.
So that's the core thing, is informed consent.
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in the first month, and then monthly visits could be six months, 12 months, or even some studies go on for several years.
I think the processes are the same. You have to be very detail-oriented. You have to be very clear with your patients about the process of informed consent, that they're participating in a research trial.
I think the bottom line is really no.
You're trying to find patients with a specific disease who meet certain criteria. When people go into research studies, their care for that health condition is probably better than it's ever been before.
They may take home a PalmPilot and mark down daily symptoms. They might be blowing into a machine for a respiratory disorder, where we're following those numbers every single day. So if there's a problem, we know it.
They also have free access into the center, to come in and be evaluated for any problems they might be having. Right now we are studying–actually, this is really cool. I didn't mention it before. We're doing some gastrointestinal diseases.
We've built a great partnership with one of the local GI offices in town. So we are currently studying Crohn's and ulcerative colitis. We're also studying eosinophilic esophagitis.
Then we have studies for eczema, asthma. And we have studies coming up for chronic sinus disease, more asthma trials, patients with COPD as well.
Yeah, I feel like when people come to us, as a specialist's office, they've tried the basic therapies for their disease.
Let's use asthma as an example.
They might have an everyday inhaler, a rescue inhaler that they're using. But now they're looking for deeper answers to what's going on.
I think one of the most compelling reasons to participate in research is you can no longer–you can move from being a victim of your disease to actually being part of the solution. Rather than being part of the problem, you're part of the solution. You're helping us understand new medications and how they work.
And also, during the course of the study, your health care is free.
You come into the center for any sort of exacerbations. Your medications are generally paid for. And you earn a little bit
of money to participate. That's not a reason to participate in research trials, but it is a motivation for a lot of people.
We have teenagers who don't like taking their medicines every day, or forget to take them. In a research study, you
might have a PalmPilot you take home every day. It asks you, did you take your medicine? It might ask you questions about your symptoms. You'd be followed closer than you've ever been followed before.
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Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Volume 5 Number 2: A Protocol for Implementing the Interim Population Consequences of Disturbance (PCoD) Approach...
Report on developing a protocol to implement the interim Population Consequences of Disturbance (PCoD) Approach: quantifying and assessing the effects of UK offshore renewable energy developments on marine mammal populations
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Reading List: Moneymakers
- Tarnoff, Ben. Moneymakers. New York: Penguin, 2011. ISBN 978-1-101-46732-9.
- Many people think of early America as a time of virtuous people, hard work, and sound money, all of which have been debased in our decadent age. Well, there may have been plenty of the first two, but the fact is that from the colonial era through the War of Secession, the American economy was built upon a foundation of dodgy paper money issued by a bewildering variety of institutions. There were advocates of hard money during the epoch, but their voices went largely unheeded because there simply wasn't enough precious metal on the continent to coin or back currency in the quantity required by the burgeoning economy. Not until the discovery of gold in California and silver in Nevada and other western states in the middle of the 19th century did a metal-backed monetary system become feasible in America. Now, whenever authorities, be they colonies, banks, states, or federal institutions, undertake the economic transubstantiation of paper into gold by printing something on it, there will always be enterprising individuals motivated to get into the business for themselves. This book tells the story of three of these "moneymakers" (as counterfeiters were called in early America). Owen Sullivan was an Irish immigrant who, in the 1740s and '50s set up shop in a well-appointed cave on the border between New York and Connecticut and orchestrated a network of printers, distributors, and passers of bogus notes of the surrounding colonies. Sullivan was the quintessential golden-tongued confidence man, talking himself out of jam after jam, and even persuading his captors, when he was caught and sentenced to be branded with an "R" for "Rogue" to brand him above the hairline where he could comb over the mark of shame. So painful had the colonial experience with paper money been that the U.S. Constitution forbade states to "emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts". But as the long and sordid history of "limited government" demonstrates, wherever there is a constitutional constraint, there is always a clever way for politicians to evade it, and nothing in the Constitution prevented states from chartering banks which would then proceed to print their own paper money. When the charter of Alexander Hamilton's First Bank of the United States was allowed to expire, that's exactly what the states proceeded to do. In Pennsylvania alone, in the single year of 1814, the state legislature chartered forty-one new banks in addition to the six already existing. With each of these banks entitled to print its own paper money (backed, in theory, by gold and silver coin in their vaults, with the emphasis on in theory), and each of these notes having its own unique design, this created a veritable paradise for counterfeiters, and into this paradise stepped counterfeiting entrepreneur David Lewis and master engraver Philander Noble, who set up a distributed and decentralised gang to pass their wares which could only be brought to justice by the kind of patient, bottom-up detective work which was rare in an age where law enforcement was largely the work of amateurs. Samuel Upham, a successful Philadelphia shopkeeper in the 1860s, saw counterfeiting as a new product line for his shop, along with stationery and Upham's Hair Dye. When the Philadelphia Inquirer printed a replica of the Confederate five dollar note, the edition was much in demand at Upham's shop, and he immediately got in touch with the newspaper and arranged to purchase the printing plate for the crude replica of the note and printed three thousand copies with a strip at the bottom identifying them as replicas with the name and address of his store. At a penny a piece they sold briskly, and Upham decided to upgrade and expand his product line. Before long he offered Confederate currency "curios" in all denominations, printed from high quality plates on banknote paper, advertised widely as available in retail and wholesale quantities for those seeking a souvenir of the war (or several thousand of them, if you like). These "facsimiles" were indistinguishable from the real thing to anybody but an expert, and Union troops heading South and merchants trading across the border found Upham's counterfeits easy to pass. Allegations were made that the Union encouraged, aided, and abetted Upham's business in the interest of economic warfare against the South, but no evidence of this was ever produced. Nonetheless, Upham and his inevitable competitors were allowed to operate with impunity, and the flood of bogus money they sent to the South certainly made a major contribution to the rampant inflation experienced in the South and made it more difficult for the Confederacy to finance its war effort. This is an illuminating and entertaining exploration of banking, finance, and monetary history in what may seem a simpler age but was, in its own way, breathtakingly complicated—at the peak there were more than ten thousand different kinds of paper money circulating in North America. Readers with a sense of justice may find themselves wondering why small-scale operators such as Sullivan and Lewis were tracked down so assiduously and punished so harshly while contemporary manufacturers of funny money on the terabuck scale such as Ben Bernanke, Tim Geithner, and Mario Draghi are treated with respect and deference instead of being dispatched to the pillory and branding iron they so richly deserve for plundering the savings and future of those from whom their salaries are extorted under threat of force. To whom I say, just wait…. A Kindle edition is available, in which the table of contents is linked to the text, but the index is simply a list of terms, not linked to their occurrences in the text. The extensive end notes are keyed to page numbers in the print edition, which are preserved in the Kindle edition, making navigation possible, albeit clumsy.
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When our faith is dead, we need to wake it up! God can revive our faith when we examine our hearts and decide to seek him once again.
Wake Me Up
11 Do this because we live in an important time. It is now time for you to wake up from your sleep, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The "night" is almost finished, and the "day" is almost here. So we should stop doing things that belong to darkness and take up the weapons used for fighting in the light. 13 Let us live in a right way, like people who belong to the day. We should not have wild parties or get drunk. There should be no sexual sins of any kind, no fighting or jealousy. 14 But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ and forget about satisfying your sinful self.Romans 13:11-14 NCV
We can fall asleep spiritually. God wants us to make a difference in the lives of others and do something special with our lives, but how can we do that if our faith is asleep?
Our faith is affected by the condition of our hearts, so let's look at 3 heart conditions that might have affected our faith.
1. Are You Unaware?
…I know what you do. People say that you are alive, but really you are dead. 2 Wake up! Strengthen what you have left before it dies completely. I have found that what you are doing is less than what my God wants. 3 So do not forget what you have received and heard. Obey it, and change your hearts and lives. So you must wake up, or I will come like a thief, and you will not know when I will come to you.Revelation 3:1-3 NCV
When you're unaware, you don't want to see or know what is going on in the lives of others. We can pretend we're alive, but the truth is clear. When you're heart is alive, you are filled with life, energy, faith, and emotion. But when you're heart is dead, you walk around each day numb, lifeless, apathetic, cold, and joyless.
2. Are You Unconcerned?
34 Then Jesus explained: "My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work. 35 You know the saying, 'Four months between planting and harvest.' But I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe for harvest. 36 The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike!John 4:34-36 NLT
If you're unconcerned, that means that you don't want to care. Doing the will of God is what gives you strength. Living for ourselves leaves us empty and unsatisfied. Who has God been wanting you to care about?
3. Are You Unconscious?
34 You will stagger like a sailor tossed at sea, clinging to a swaying mast. 35 And you will say, "They hit me, but I didn't feel it. I didn't even know it when they beat me up. When will I wake up so I can look for another drink?"
Proverbs 23:34-35 NLT
And unconscious heart is one that doesn't want to feel negative emotion, take responsibility for others, or feel the pressure to help someone. When your heart is unconscious, your are trying to numb the pain and emotions you feel, but you will end up escaping to sin: drinking, drugs, overeating, isolating.
3 Ways to Revive Your Faith
1. Become Compelled
14 For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.2 Corinthians 5:14-15 NIV
Remember the cross. Gratitude wakes our hearts up and reminds us of how much we need God's love and forgiveness.
2. Become Compassionate
35 Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. 38 Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."Matthew 9:35-38 NIV
Who can you love? God puts people in our lives who only we can help, support, and reach.
3. Build Conviction
8 When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.John 15:8 NLT
How can you rearrange your spiritual priorities? Conviction is when you decide to change your heart, desires, and actions to match what God values over your own emotions.
Wake Up Spiritually!
- The Power of the Word (Psalm 19:7)… Revives My Soul
- The Power of Prayer (Luke 22:29)… Renews My Strength
- The Power of Confessing Sin (James 5:16)… Heals My Heart
- The Power of Repentance (Acts 3:19)… Refreshes My Life
- The Power of Baptism (Acts 2:38)… Forgiveness of My Sins
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Scott Moala
Scott has over two decades of experience working in the ministry in the San Francisco Bay Area. He and his wife Messer are raising two teenagers, while working to grow their local community through mentorship and community service.
Today, we're excited to talk about what happens when we express our gratitude to God by being generous with other people.
It's clear that we live in a special place.
God's vision for the church is for every person to be inspired, connected, and "joined by faith as family."


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If only there was a chart for it, like modern knitting patterns. You can always make your own using chartminder.com. I don't find La Laine patterns very often. They seem to be a brand name of Bairns-wear, which was a Nottingham brand. I'm *really sorry *there is a very unacceptable word in one of the yarn colour names.


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These two CDs almost couldn't help but be hodgepodges, since they're compilations culled from compilations – the tribute albums Rattlesnake Guitar (from 1995, dedicated to Peter Green) and 2002's From Clarksdale To Heaven (remembering John Lee Hooker) and a '97 roundup of then-newly recorded British blues, Knights Of The Blues Table. But they're intriguing hodgepodges, with enough inspired performances to outweigh a few clinkers.
Nearly half of the 30 combined tracks come from Rattlesnake. Wisely, artists didn't attempt to mimic the Fleetwood Mac founder; indeed, Larry Mitchell's version of "If I Loved Another Woman" (the epitome of Green's economic style) is closer to a Stevie Ray – a note-filled barrage, but a very impressive one. And paired with Jon Paris' vocal, bass, and harp, Harvey Mandel throws in plectrum-edge harmonics, chicken pickin', and his trademark sustain on "Ramblin' Pony."
Rory Gallagher handles vocals, mandolin, and slide (acoustic and keening electric) on a nice "Leaving Town Blues," while "Stop Messin' Around" is given a swinging, acoustic groove by Savoy Brown, featuring founder Kim Simmonds. The standout Green homage, though, is Simmonds' former bandmate, Lonesome Dave Peverett, on the minor-key "Love That Burns," with his Foghat partner Rod Price on fat-toned slide and some great harp courtesy Southside Johnny.
Hooker is best represented by T.S. McPhee, whose Groundhogs were named after Hook's "Ground Hog Blues," reprised here. Accompanied by only his acoustic guitar and Dick Heckstall-Smith's sax, it's perhaps the most original reading of the set.
Highlights from Knight include Mick Taylor's gnarly slide on "You Shook Me" and Otis Grand's jazzy guitar, backing Paul Jones on a T-Bone Walker medley. The set also offers rare platforms for the underrated Duffy Power (in a drummerless trio featuring Heckstall-Smith again) and Cream lyricist Pete Brown, not only taking a lead vocal but producing many of the tracks.
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We got some troubling news on the living conditions of my oldest niece, which was immediately followed with news that she's returning to live in the area. She will move in with a friend and get settled into a new job and resume life, hopefully none the worse for wear for what she's been through. No, this is not the niece that just gave birth to Baby M, it's her older sister.
I'm crazy excited to see her and it's had me floating around during this chaotic period of house prep and never ending work in getting this place ready to list for sale.
So, instead of whining about something, I thought I'd share that happy bit of news.
"On a scale from one to awesome I'm the shit. Get over it."
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The 18 Best New TV Shows of 2018Header photo: Nick Briggs/BBC America TV Lists Best of 2018
If our list of the 25 best TV shows of 2018 nods at the medium's changing landscape, our ranking of the year's best new shows points squarely toward the future. Of course, it features pioneers, from Killing Eve's Sandra Oh (the first Asian actress to receive an Emmy nomination for Lead Actress in a Drama Series) and Pose's Janet Mock (the first trans woman of color to direct an episode of TV) to the entire Vida writing staff (the first ever all-Latinx writers' room). But the titles here feel fresh in other ways, too: There are novel approaches to "late night" (Patriot Act with Hasan Minaj, Random Acts of Flyness), new spins on old ideas (Queer Eye, Cobra Kai), and more non-linear series (8!) than you can shake a remote at. The last Golden Age of Television may be over, but it appears that the next one has just begun. —Matt Brennan
Here are the 18 best new TV shows of 2018:
18. Cobra Kai
Network: YouTube Premium
Cobra Kai is a real television show. Maybe this is obvious to some of you, but when YouTube Premium first announced a TV series based on The Karate Kid story, the whole thing sounded like a joke: at best a campy, kitschy paean to 1980s nostalgia, at worst a crass money grab. But the 10-episode series is neither. Instead, it's a rich story that revisits Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) 34 years after Daniel's crane kick won him the karate tournament. But, as suggested by the title—which takes its name from Johnny's dojo—the show has flipped the script, putting Johnny at the center. One of the biggest takeaways is that it's all about perspective: My favorite moment in Cobra Kai finds Johnny re-telling the entire plot of the first movie from his point of view. A casualty of peak TV and the glut of streaming platforms, Cobra Kai didn't receive the buzz it deserves. (Who the heck is paying for YouTube Premium?) But those of us who did tune in witnessed Zabka giving one of the year's best performances as he brings depth and nuance to a character he hasn't played in decades. His Johnny is a study in contradictions, stuck in the past but struggling to do right by his future. The series is the year's most delightful surprise. Wax on Cobra Kai. Wax on. —Amy Amatangelo (Photo: YouTube Premium)
17. Counterpart
Network: Starz
It's so easy to get hung up on Counterpart's gimmicks—who doesn't want to see J.K. Simmons play both a soft-spoken push-over and an acid-tongued killing machine?—but creator Justin Marks' sci-fi spy show offers so much more. In its first season alone, this series walked an Orwell-meets-Le Carré tightrope to cover topics like germ warfare, government surveillance and, well, the double-crossing of spies and assassins. Not dissimilar to the work done to build up Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell's Philip and Elizabeth Jennings on FX's The Americans, the series was also stealthily brilliant in the way it used Nazanin Boniadi's Clare and Sara Serraiocco's Baldwin to explore issues like the toll all of these factors take on the soldiers recruited to enforce them. A new season starts December 9. Please watch it. —Whitney Friedlander (Photo: Starz)
16. Queer Eye
Network: Netflix
It's a miracle the new Queer Eye worked. It's easy to imagine, in these hyper-divided and reboot-obsessed times, how its central concept—five gay men driving around the South in the Trump years, improving the lives of people from diverse backgrounds—could have not worked. It could have stereotyped or trivialized its subjects, or its format, first deployed in the early 2000s, could have felt stale. But it didn't! Within days of release, it became a comfort TV must-watch for a country exhausted by news—inspiring legions of fans to argue instead over which member of the Fab Five is the best. (The correct answer is a tie between Tan and Bobby.) Queer Eye is clearly well-intentioned and well-made, and underneath its produced sheen, the interactions between the cast and their clients feel incredibly powerful and emotional. If only all reality TV felt this way. —Eric Vilas-Boas (Photo: Courtesy of Netflix)
15. On My Block
Network: Netflix
That Netflix is coming out of 2018 with a critical and creative hit like On My Block is not so much a surprise as it was statistically inevitable. That it was the inner city-set, teen-oriented dramedy On My Block that made such a memorable splash? That was less of a given. Unlike the various teen-oriented networks on linear television, with their established brands and storytelling voices, Netflix started the year off with no real standards for new teen shows to live up to or to subvert; from Netflix's "throw spaghetti at the wall" perspective, On My Block could be, well, anything—which is exactly what it ended up being. In one moment, On My Block is a Freaks and Geeks-style growing pains comedy; in the next, it's a gang drama; in the next, a Goonies-style treasure hunt. Sometimes, like when they're arguing about how to flirt or joking about farts, the core crew of friends feels endearingly young; other times, when they're scheming how to extricate one of their number from the gang initiation murder plot he's caught up in, or they're caught in that same plot's literal cross hairs, they seem older than they deserve to be. On My Block isn't anything you expect—what it is, rather, is something completely fun and fresh, starring the types of kids living the type of life that rarely gets to be fun or fresh, and judging from the passionate response the teens in my life have had to it, that's worth all the Netflix-spaghetti in the world. What a gift. —Alexis Gunderson (Photo: John O. Flexor/Netflix)
14. Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
Network: Netflix
There's a telling line in Hasan Mihaj's standup-comedy-meets-the-news routine in "Supreme," Patriot Act's fifth episode. After making a reference to retired basketball player Antoine Walker that only gets scattered laughter from his studio audience, he quips: "I do my jokes for four people at a time." It's recovery, but it also genuinely speaks to his laser-sharp focus. Minhaj presses on regardless ("Google it!" he says), and it doesn't matter. Because of the format, his charisma, and his commitment to his material, especially when he relates to it as a nerdy Indian-American Muslim millennial man, he makes it all the more compelling. "Supreme" touches on sneaker culture, macroeconomics, and Gandhi's checkered history in South Africa, and then points out some of the hypocrisies of capitalism beyond the screen. Minhaj's contemporaries are all capable of doing that, but his show's fresh, and it's sunk every shot it's taken so far. —Eric Vilas-Boas (Photo: Cara Howe/Netflix)
13. Vida
Network: Starz
Vida is truly the anti-Roseanne. Premiering a couple weeks before Roseanne Barr fired off the tweet that became the death knell for the (first) modern-day iteration of her pioneering ABC sitcom, creator Tanya Saracho's family dramedy, on Starz, covered so much ground in just six half-hour episodes. Focusing on two sisters (Mishel Prada's cut-throat Emma and Melissa Barrera's beauty-equals-privilege Lyn) who are coming to terms not only with their estranged mother's death, but also with the revelation that she'd married a woman without telling them, Vida manages to cover issues like LGBTQ acceptance in the Latinx community, gentrification, racism and the struggle for cultural identity that so often plagues children of immigrants or those who came to America at a young age. (Plus, it features some of the most queer-positive sex scenes on TV). Behind the scenes, it also broke ground by becoming the first-ever all-Latinx writers' room, and for its push to cast non-binary talent like Ser Anzoategui. —Whitney Friedlander (Photo: Starz)
12. Sally4Ever
Network: HBO
In my pre-air review of Sally4Ever, I wrote that it just "might be the funniest TV series of 2018." It's high praise I stand by and will probably stand by for the last few days of 2018 as well. In my opinion, Julia Davis is an unparalleled comedic mind, something that's absolutely evident in the best ways with Sally4Ever (and not so much in the best ways with Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner's remake of Davis' Camping). The combined power of Davis' natural disaster of a character, Emma, and Catherine Shepherd's always reacting (never big, but still, reacting) Sally is honestly hilarious just to think about. —LaToya Ferguson (Photo: Courtesy of Sky)
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Network: Netflix
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina arrived on Netflix with a thousand critics wondering if it could fill the Buffy-sized hole in our hearts. A remake of 1990s sitcom that was itself an adaptation of 1960s comic book, the new series is also a companion to Riverdale, and shares more in tone with that darker and daring version of Archie and the gang than with the original Sabrina. In the first episode, Sabrina's favorite teacher is brutally murdered by a body-possessing witch, played with divine wickedness by former Doctor Who villain Michelle Gomez. Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka—little Sally Draper, now 19) is a half-human, half-witch high-schooler, pure-ish at heart but destined to serve the Dark Lord, Mr. Satan himself. Her would-be Scooby Gang all face their own struggles, from gender identity and parental oppression to issues of a more mystical variety. But Sabrina is a plucky, cauldron-half-full kind of girl, determined to have the best of both of her worlds. Lucy Davis and Miranda Otto are superb as Sabrina's two witch aunts who raised her after the death of her parents. Beautifully shot and imaginatively crafted, the jury's still out on whether it can live up to Buffy Summers' legacy. But its girl-power protagonist is certainly going to try. —Josh Jackson (Photo: Courtesy of Netflix)
10. Corporate
Network: Comedy Central
For everyone who's had a soul-crushing job where they can almost feel the walls closing in on them. For those who've sat in the office parking garage on Monday mornings and wondered if this would be the week that their guilt over their company's environmental and/or human safety conditions finally broke them enough to quit their mid-level executive gig. For all the HR people who nod as workers blubber about unfair conditions, but who secretly know their mission is to protect the business at all costs. For the two Yes Men who know only one of them is actually needed on the payroll. For these people and more, creators Pat Bishop, Matt Ingebretson and Jake Weisman's Comedy Central series is for you (and not at all for your human steroid of a CEO). —Whitney Friedlander (Photo: Comedy Central)
9. Homecoming
Network: Amazon Prime Video
Julia. Fuckin'. Roberts. What more do you want? A mind-bending narrative? Check. Direction by one of the most creative TV helmers working today, contained within tightly written, 30-minute episodes so he doesn't fall prey to his worse impulses? You got it. Great jokes and heartrending pain? Ha-ha and boo-hoo, too. Homecoming has it all and then some. Add to it one of the most visually exciting moments of 2018 TV and some star-making supporting performances from the likes of Shea Whigham and Bobby Cannavale, and it's no guessing game why Homecoming the TV series is even more talked about than Homecoming the podcast. It's just that good. —Jacob Oller (Photo: Amazon Prime Video)
8. Succession
Network: HBO
The first three or four episodes are something of a slog, but once Succession clicks the pieces into place, it emerges as one of the year's most entertainingly lacerating glimpses of life atop the pecking order. Pitched as an almost Shakespearean struggle for control of the family media conglomerate, with Brian Cox as Rupert Murdoch-esque patriarch Logan Roy, creator (and The Thick of It scribe) Jesse Armstrong turns Succession, by degrees, into one of the most nauseating, foul-mouthed, mean-spirited, brutally funny debut series this side of Veep, anchored by the jockeying among the four Roy children: Kendall (Jeremy Strong), the heir apparent; Roman (Kieran Culkin), the playboy; Connor (Alan Ruck), the outsider; and Shiv (Sarah Snook), the secret weapon. Add in a collection of unforgettable hangers-on, including Logan's consigliere, Gerri (J. Smith-Cameron), Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun), and Shiv's debased husband, Tom Wamsgans (the exquisitely slimy Matthew Macfadyen) and a cracking second half, and Succession isn't just one of the best new series of the year, but also one of the most promising. Season Two already has the makings of a classic. —Matt Brennan (Photo: Peter Kramer/HBO)
7. Sorry For Your Loss
Network: Facebook Watch
Grief is not usually a central theme in scripted television series, a medium better known as a form of escapism. As backdrop to other issues on HBO's Six Feet Under? Sure. That one time Archie Bunker breaks down after Edith's death, or Ally McBeal barely holding it together when she tells the staff of Cage, Fish & Associates that Billy died on the courtroom floor? Certainly memorable.
But creator Kit Steinkellner's half-hour drama allows survivors a chance to wallow in the pain of a beloved one's unfortunate and surprising demise. Here, it's not just star Elizabeth Olsen's newly widowed Leigh—if ever there were a character in need of a hug, followed by a few stiff drinks and some moments of silent companionship—but everyone working their way through the Kübler-Ross diagram after the death of her husband, Matt (Mamoudou Athie). That this process does not allow for martyrdom is not inconsequential.
Also not to be overlooked: The show's broadening definition of the word "loss" so that it doesn't just concentrate on mortality. If the series gets a second season, I hope it continues to dive into Leigh's adopted sister Jules' (Kelly Marie Tran) issues of abandonment and curiosity about her lineage. I also hope Facebook Watch makes it easier to find this and its other original programs… or that a less scandalous platform picks up Sorry For Your Loss, and does a better job of promoting it. —Whitney Friedlander (Photo: Facebook Watch)
6. Random Acts of Flyness
Network: HBO
Every episode of Terence Nance's debut series for HBO is dense, thick with imagery, ideas, sociopolitical commentary and diversions that can be wildly funny or intensely unsettling. There are almost no corollaries to what Nance and his team have achieved in a short run of six episodes. Even a shorthand idea like "Atlanta if the showrunners were Tim & Eric" doesn't come close to capturing the essence of this visually thrilling and deeply challenging work of televisual art. The sheer volume of themes that they touch on, from police brutality to trans rights to the trope of the angry white vigilante, is impressive enough, but that they make every point stick and every image sear into the consciousness of the viewer is what has rendered Random Acts of Flyness an instant classic. —Robert Ham (Photo: HBO)
5. Pose
Network: FX
Pose, from Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Steven Canals, is an exuberant portrait of ball culture in the 1980s, a sort of soapy, fictionalized, mad hot rendition of Jennie Livingston's classic Paris Is Burning, reinterpreted by trans women creatives Janet Mock and Our Lady J. The ensemble cast—featuring the sensational Billy Porter as the silver-tongued emcee, Pray Tell—is full of shape shifters, fierce queens, underdogs, wits, such that its stories of the AIDS epidemic, transphobia (especially among gay men), racism, and poverty in the decade's gilded New York become an object lesson in the ongoing nature of struggle: a political parable in floral pastels (Mother's Day) and pearl-hued brocade (royalty), or an ecstatic dance musical of Reagan's America. "Pull up. Work harder. Triumph!" Pray says near the start of the season, stating the series' own credo in the process. "If not today, maybe tomorrow." —Matt Brennan (Photo: JoJo Whilden/FX)
4. Lodge 49
Network: AMC
If Jim Gavin and Peter Ocko's quietly extraordinary fable recalls the blissed-out Southern California of the 1970s—shag carpet and stained wood; surf shops and lodges; the rakish disrepair of once-booming Long Beach—that's because its subject is the disappearance of a way of life. Though its plot is set in motion when Dud (Wyatt Russell), a down-and-out beach rat reeling from the death of his father, joins a fraternal order in search of new purpose, Lodge 49 expands its warm, gentle embrace from there until its simple pleasures become almost mystical: An out-of-work newspaper reporter begins having visions; the laid-off employees of an aerospace manufacturer come together for a midnight project; a plumbing salesman chases his holy grail; Dud's sister, Liz (the wickedly funny Sonya Cassidy), abandons ship (literally) when a dalliance with corporate culture becomes too much to handle. Far from uncomplicatedly nostalgic, Lodge 49 is, rather, a humane, tenderhearted examination of the communities that emerge where others have withered, and perhaps the finest treatment of the Great Recession and its aftermath yet to appear on TV. —Matt Brennan (Photo: Jackson Lee Davis/AMC)
3. The Haunting of Hill House
Network: Netflix
Adapting one of the most treasured horror novels ever written is a task so controversial that it divided this very site down the middle, but what's harder to debate is the quality of the show that Mike Flanagan and Meredith Averill spun from Shirley Jackson's yarn. The Haunting of Hill House is a dramatic gut-punch, a riveting tale of familial trauma and betrayal, and a scary-as-hell ghost story. The sheer craft going into every unsettling episode makes it one of the best Netflix originals, and the zeitgeist's love of trendy horror was augmented by the show's clever connection between ghosts and grief. —Jacob Oller (Photo: Steve Dietl/Netflix)
2. Barry
Network: HBO
The year in TV was filled with depressing, yearning, half-comedy comedies. But not Barry. Thanks to its nuanced lead performance by Bill Hader, impeccable direction by Hader and Atlanta mainstay Hiro Murai, and constant entertainment provided by Henry Winkler, the hitman-turned-actor comedy actually worked, and then some. It showed a man that was perfectly competent and perfectly depressed, whose escape from that depression was a rocky one filled with loss, violence, and pain—all in the pursuit of one goddamn good thing in this world. And it was hilarious from top to bottom. —Jacob Oller (Photo: Michele K. Short/HBO)
1. Killing Eve
Network: BBC America
Back in June, I speculated that Killing Eve would still be the most buzzed-about new series of the year when all was said and done, namely because I would never shut up about it. That remains the case: Killing Eve, not only the best new series of the year, but one of the best series, period—made waves because, after all these years, women finally have a character (Jodie Comer's Villanelle) to learn absolutely the wrong lessons from Mad Men's Don Draper and Breaking Bad's Walter White. Equality! The cat-and-mouse game between Villanelle and Sandra Oh's Eve simply had no peers this year, and I'm already ready to start pestering people in 2019 about whether they've seen Killing Eve. —LaToya Ferguson (Photo: Nick Briggs/BBC America)


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Thursday 3 December 2015
When Christmas Cake Goes Wrong...
In my head I envisioned a small cake that in the end would turn out to look like The Snowman. I bet there are loads of you thinking well that's easy, how could that possibly go wrong? One word, icing!
The icing just didn't want to play ball so my poor snowman ended up looking a little "messed up" I suppose is the polite way to put it or sh*t.
You can make out above what I was aiming for and I popped the sponge against Gracie's lunch box so you could get an idea of the size of it.
As bad as it is I will share with you the cake recipe as the cake itself was actually rather scrummy, no I'm not blowing my own trumpet, my lovely kids say so and they are the type to be brutally honest when it comes to all things mum makes.
* 50g Butter
* 50g Self Raising Flour
* 1 Egg
* 2 Tbsp Milk
* You can cream the butter and sugar together first but if you are feeling lazy simply pop all of the ingredients into a bowl and mix until they form a nice smooth mixture.
* Pour into a pudding bowl, you know the ones used for Christmas pudding and cook in the microwave for 3 - 3 and a 1/2 minutes on full power.
Now you can adapt this sponge by adding things like nuts, fruit or perhaps chocolate chips but as I was decorating it I decided to keep it plain.
These are so quick and easy to make, it makes the ideal pudding for when you need one fast!
8 comments:
I could still make out that it's a Snowman! And I bet it tastes yum! And that's most important! Ok...I did laugh, sorry.ReplyDelete
You can still tell it's a snowman....You could have said it was a melting snowman. heheheReplyDeleteReplies
darn, that so would have worked ;)Delete
It's still a very good attempt in my book!ReplyDelete
Pauline :)
i love microwave cakes! I use a basic microwave cake to do all sorts like princess cakes, polar bear cake, and we did even make a snowman cake too once! When i did it i put his nose at the very top of the cake so it looked like he is looking upwards if that makes sense so everything stayed in place more easily. I think you've made a good attempt as like you say you can see exactly what it is supposed to be. xReplyDelete
Ha ha :) ah it happens, but at least it tasted nice which is the most important thing! Will try the recipe, never made a microwave cake before.ReplyDelete
still looks good, and recognisable. As long as it is edible then family do not expect perfection. I am like you, can see it in my head but the ,message does not get to my fingers to well.ReplyDelete
I heard about this pudding but never do it by myself making it!ReplyDelete
This looks so delicious! I love the photos too. Maybe when the Christmas come, I will try to do it :x


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How to Get Started with Online Arbitrage: Definition, Steps and Sourcing List
Creating your first e-commerce business goes way beyond creating a fancy logo, an apt name, writing product listings for online sales. It might sound like a piece of cake, but trust me it's not.
I bring this to the table not to lower your expectations or crush your dream of creating your first online shop. On the contrary, I will give you a heads up so you can build your online shop from scratch and be successful at it.
That being said, have you ever heard the term "Online Arbitrage?"
Here is a story of a guy that makes $200 daily arbitrating online. Others make even more.
Sounds like fun, huh?
Firstly we have to understand what online arbitrage is?
It might be explained as "the act of buying products from retail websites and then sell these same products on different marketplaces for a higher price".
So, in a nutshell, Online Arbitrage means buying products on sale from an online retailer and then selling it online for a higher price.
Most products are acquired on sale, having a pretty substantial discount online rather than the retail price.
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There are so many marketplaces where you can sell these products; Amazon, eBay, Jet, Facebook Marketplace, Let Go, and many others are just some of the best for Online Arbitrage.
"Online Arbitrage is the act of buying products from retail websites and then sell these same products on different marketplaces for a higher price"
Is Online Arbitrage (OA) really worth it?
I know, buying online products and then reselling it sounds kinda fishy, right?
Yet, if you see the whole picture, wholesale buyers do the same thing (buy products at a low price and then selling it with their markup.), and they seem to be okay with it.
However, everything is way easier on the internet. You can manage your products and every aspect of your business from a laptop with no need to travel to close business deals.
The best part? You don't need significant investment to get started.
Like any e-commerce, dropshipping store, and so on, the success of OA will depend on an essential aspect, the number of products at an excellent price.
Why you should give a try to Online Arbitrage?
Putting aside the complexity of any other business model, OA has some advantages that make it entirely scalable to hop in.
Low-cost entry: As I mentioned earlier, you don't need six figures to start with online arbitrage. Your expenses will be mainly in your products, you'll need software to find the best products and a cost for presenters.
There's no exact amount to start, it may vary depending on your situation, on average most sellers invest between $800 – $1000 to start.
Trial and Error: With OA, the process is quite simple. You just need to find an excellent offer, analyze it, make the purchase, and send it to the Marketplace warehouse.
You don't need to worry about online advertising, you can even try different niches and products. There's plenty of room to make mistakes and not to worry about huge losses.
You can earn profits substantially fast: 99% of folks started an online shop to make big money and in a small period.
With in-depth research for detecting the best offers, an excellent strategy to sell your products on your chosen marketplace, there's a chance that you can earn profits rapidly.
You need to pay attention to your monthly forecast profits to understand how to improve your strategy to keep those earnings in the sky.
What do you need to get started with OA?
To be perfectly honest, the only thing you just need to start with OA is a seller account (like an Amazon Seller account, for example), internet, and money to spend on your inventory.
Some tools will be pretty handy, especially the ones that will find the best inventory for your OA.
FBA Revenue Calculator: This tool will show you the exact amount you will receive when you sell an item online and allows you to calculate potential profits on different items you purchase.
It's free and provided directly by Amazon.
A computer and a 2nd monitor: Obviously, you need a machine to get the job done. Still, it is crucial that you also have a 2nd monitor. Why? Let's say that it will make your life and product research so much easier.
You'll need to keep Amazon tab open and also considering purchasing in another tab; so you can compare products, make sure items match, and look for special offers.
Trust me, this is a must tool; you'll be using it daily and definitely will boost up your productivity.
Remember, this is not a must as having different browsers in one computer can do the magic.
Tactical Arbitrage: This tool automates a vast amount of the OA process; It allows you to pick a store, set criteria for the products you want to purchase, and it will do the work for you.
Tactical arbitrage will do the search for you and start looking for products that fit the criteria you set in. It's definitely a kick-ass tool to have on.
Some tips to take your OA tactic to the next level
You might feel pretty hype up about OA, and just want to start with it right away, and that's cool. However, it's not a bad idea to have some tips that will be pretty useful for your OA journey.
Here are some of the most relevant:
Don't invest vast amounts of money at the start: OA is something that won't need $250K to launch it; that's the beauty of it.
Always do research: Like in any business project, with no research, you won't have any success. The more research you do, the higher are your odds of being successful.
Choose products you can sell quickly: Doing well proper research, will give you enough data to detect which products are selling well. For example, it might be easier to sell sports shoes rather than an automatic 350 lbs smoker.
Also Read: What Market Research Can Do for your Startup
Try to find products at half of their current marketplace price: The secret to having good profits with Online Arbitrage is pricing. You need to pay attention to this aspect, to get the right margin you need to buy products on sales or with an excellent retail discount.
Keep an eye on trending items on marketplaces: With marketplaces, it's all about what's trending. These will give you a hint on which products you should focus on.
Respect Marketplaces Policies. Don't try to get away with it. Keep a fair game; don't try to be a smart ass and try to cheat marketplaces. They have strict guidelines, and you should respect it.
Don't stick to just one niche: You may lose excellent opportunities if you are only focused on one niche. In OA, you can try different products and niches and get away with it.
Use social media to drive traffic to your items: Once you have selected your product, you need to get the proper awareness to start selling it. You can use Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube as platforms to deliver quality traffic to your products.
Be patience and persistent: Now that you know how online arbitrage works, you need to understand that like any project that would make you earn money, it takes hard work, effort, and patience to achieve a great outcome.
Great achievements take time, try to be patient. If you stick to these tips and work hard, the pay off will be fantastic, trust me.
Best Websites (Sourcing List) for Online Arbitrage
It's not a bad idea to have a list of potential retail stores where you can start searching for products. Here are a few ideas so you can get started with it:
- Walmart
- Target
- Sam's Club
- Kmart
- Office Depot
- Home Depot
- Lowes
- JCPenney
- Sears
- Walgreens
- Gamestop
How much will you earn with Online Arbitrage?
This is a question that depends on how serious you are about OA. It will totally depend on how much time you are willing to spend doing research, comparing prices and products, understanding trends, and so on.
Your total profit may vary. You can make $1M in a year (hold your horses, getting to this number might take a while, but it's totally reachable) or $1000 in a few months.
The more time you put into this, the more money you can make. Now you get the whole picture, though.
Now that you understand what's OA and how it works, you need to know that this can be done by everyone. You don't need to have a degree or be an e-commerce expert to figure it out. Willingness, patience, and effort; that's all that it takes to bring your OA to the next level.
OA is worth to give it a try. I wouldn't say that it is a way to make money with no risk at all; however, the chances to have massive losses are significantly low.
Like I said before, the success or failure of your OA experience will depend on how far are you willing to spend time and effort building this process.
I f you have any questions or need more clarification, kindly drop a comment.


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Russia, Russia, Russia: Roger Stone Testifies Before House Intelligence Committee
"I deeply resent any allegation that I would collude with the oppressive Russian state"
Roger Stone, an ally of and unofficial campaign adviser of President Trump, testified Tuesday in a closed hearing of the House Intelligence Committee. Though Stone requested an open hearing, it was at the Committee's insistence that the interview be closed.
This is the latest in the efforts of Congress to root out alleged collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign and/or Trump associates.
Stone was called to testify because he had a private Twitter conversation with infamous hacker Guccifer 2.0.
President Donald Trump's former campaign adviser and longtime confidant Roger Stone testified before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, six months after admitting that he exchanged private messages with a hacker implicated in a massive cyberattack that targeted the Democratic National Committee last year.
Stone told Business Insider in March that he had a private conversation on Twitter with the person, nicknamed "Guccifer 2.0," and that the interaction was so "brief and banal, I had forgotten it."
"Not exactly 007 stuff even if Gruccifer 2.0 [sic] was working for the Russkies," Stone said. "Meaningless."
In his opening statement to the committee, which was leaked Monday night, Stone cast doubt on the intelligence community's assessment that Guccifer 2.0 was a front for Russian intelligence.
He pointed to a report written by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), publicized by The Nation in August, claiming that the theft of DNC emails was not a hack, but a leak.
"Now that more information is in the public domain, the very question of whether Guccifer 2.0 hacked the DNC must be revisited in light of the VIPS report cited by The Nation," he said.
After his testimony, Stone told reporters that he believed the DNC hack was an "inside job," pointing again to the report in The Nation.
On Monday night, Stone released a statement in which he denies any collusion with Russians and notes that there is "not one shred of evidence" that he or anyone on the Trump campaign did so.
He also released the private Twitter messages between himself and Guccifer 2.0
[O]n Monday night, [Stone] defended himself in a lengthy statement.
"While some may label me a dirty trickster, the members of this committee could not point to any tactic that is outside the accepted norms of what political strategists and consultants do today," he said in the statement. "I do not engage in any illegal activities on behalf of my clients or the causes in which I support. There is one `trick' that is not in my bag and that is treason."
Stone has also released a series of supporting documents, including direct messages he exchanged with Guccifer 2.0, the unnamed hacker who has taken credit for breaking into Democratic National Committee email servers.
In addition, he has denied advance knowledge of the leak of former Clinton Campaign chairman John Podesta's emails and says he never colluded with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He has long denied that he worked with Russian officials to influence the presidential election.
"I recognize that those who believe that there was collusion between the Trump camp and the Russian state, now say Stone, `MUST HAVE' been involved, but that is not based on one shred of evidence," Stone wrote. This is nothing more than conjecture, supposition, projection, allegation, and coincidence, none of it proven by evidence or fact," Stone also says in the statement.
The contents of these private messages between Stone and Guccifer 2.0 were also released, and Fox News also reported these contents.
The direct messages on Twitter, exchanged over a month-long period, show Stone first congratulating Guccifer for being reinstated on Twitter after he was kicked off. They also show him asking that the account retweet a tweet about how the election could be rigged against Trump.
Guccifer writes: "I'm pleased to say that u r great man …. please tell me if I can help u anyhow."
Stone doesn't respond again until several weeks later, when Guccifer asks him about an article on a Democratic turnout model. Stone replies "pretty standard."
Stone's opening statement released Monday night includes his statement that as a political strategist, treason is not in his "bag of tricks."
He further shares his family's experience in 1956 Budapest and asserts that he "deeply resent[s] any allegation that I would collude with the oppressive Russian state."
"While some may label me a dirty trickster, the members of this committee could not point to any tactic that is outside the norms of what political strategists and consultants do today," he said in the statement.
"I do not engage in any illegal activities on behalf of my clients and the causes in which I support. There is one 'trick' that is not in my bag and that is treason," he said.
He said as a lifelong Republican and opponent of communism, he "deeply" resents claims that he helped the Russians influence the election.
"As someone whose political activism was born from the anti-communism of Sen . Barry Goldwater and President Ronald Reagan; and whose freedom seeking family members were mowed-down by Russian tanks on the streets of Budapest in 1956, I deeply resent any allegation that I would collude with the oppressive Russian state to affect the outcome of the 2016 presidential election ," Stone said.
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— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) September 26, 2017
Following his three hours of testimony, Stone spoke with reporters. He stated that he thought the DNC hack was an "inside job" and suggested that Paul Manafort is anticipating his own indictment.
He answered questions for over three hours behind closed doors, refusing to provide only one piece of information: the name of an intermediary through whom he says he communicated with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.
. . . . When he emerged from behind closed doors on Tuesday afternoon, Stone said that he had "correct[ed] a number of the things that members of the committee had said about me" — but allowed that he believed some members of the panel didn't "buy my claims."
"A fair amount" of the questions were related to his communications with Assange, mostly from committee Democrats, Stone said.
The Republican leading the investigation, Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), said only that Stone's description of the meeting was "very accurate." Committee member Peter King (R-N.Y.) described the interview as "businesslike" and "cordial."
Stone provided a few other details about the byzantine investigations engulfing Trump allies. He said that he has not been contacted by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is heading the federal investigation into Russian election meddling.
He also said that counsel for former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort had contacted his own lawyers to tell them that he expected to be indicted in the federal probe.
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Publisher Activision has been issuing copyright strikes on Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare videos that depict either game glitches and/or cheating, a report claims.
Eurogamer says that video network Machinima has emailed partners to warn of the action, saying: "Activision is being particularly vigilant about their Call of Duty videos lately; issuing strikes on videos showing glitches. If you post videos highlighting these glitches, your channel may be liable to receive a copyright strike so please be careful."
Activision itself has claimed that it is trying to protect the game from cheats rather than hide evidence of gameplay problems.
"Occasionally, some folks post videos that promote cheating and unfair exploits. As always, we keep an eye out for these videos – our level of video claims hasn't changed," it said.
"We're excited that so many fans are having fun playing the game and posting videos of their gameplay. We love watching the videos ourselves. We are appreciative of the community's support in helping to ensure that everyone has the best playing experience possible."
Copyright strikes can potentially be a big blow for YouTubers as they affect a rating known as 'standing', the result of which can be blocked access to a number of uploading features – which is a big blow to those whose income depends on it.
Three upheld strikes results in the complete termination of an account and all of its content.


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Better moisture has many states poised for good pheasant hunting this Fall, but challenges still persist.
Winter was not a killer across the core pheasant range. Habitat (some of it challenged by drought) and nesting success will write fall's prospects.
Pheasants Forever's annual state-by-state forecast provides an insider's view of conditions on the ground and your chances for birds in the air.
Despite drought, it should be a decent to good pheasant season Minnesota.
You will work for your birds this year in drought-stricken South Dakota, but there will be pheasants.
Pheasant hunting opportunity and access should be about the same as 2020 in Kansas, meaning a pretty good hunting season.
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The Spirit of Christmas kicks off on Tuesday 1st December for a full month of celebrating Christmas in Devonport.
"This December, Council will provide an array of fun activities to get people into the Christmas spirit following what has been a challenging year for many," Devonport Mayor Councillor Annette Rockliff said.
To officially kick off the festivities, the traditional Christmas tree in the Rooke Street Mall will be lit from December 1st.
This year, a new tree and decorations have been funded by the Australian Government's Infrastructure Investment Program Stimulus: Supporting our Community. 11 panels decorating the base of the tree have been painted by local children.
Council is sponsoring a home decorating competition – prizes will be awarded to the best night time display and to the best day time display. A sight-seeing map containing all the entered houses will be available from 1st December.
One of the highlights of the month will be a Santa tour of the suburbs, with assistance from the Devonport Motor Show, Rotary Club of Devonport North and Christmas in the East. Dates for the tour are:
• 5 December – East Devonport and Ambleside
• 15 December – Devonport West
• 16 December – Miandetta and Valley Road
• 17 December – Spreyton, Quoiba, Stony Rise and Tugrah
Mayor Rockliff said, "We would love to see kids in their driveways and front yards, making some noise for Santa as he goes past – play music, sing carols, ring some bells, blow a whistle or bang some pots and pans – Santa loves joyful noise!"
The Spirit of Christmas Scavenger Hunt is another family friendly activity designed to get families reconnecting and out and about and exploring Devonport. Take a deep dive into the Devonport community and surrounds by solving the clues, unravelling the riddles and finding what may be hidden in plain sight. You could play in a day or spread the fun out over a week – more information will be released about this next month.
Free family movies will be hosted at the paranaple convention centre, Elf on 4th December and The Polar Express on 11th December. Bookings for this activity can be made through Eventbrite.
Providore Place will be hosting Twilight Markets on 4th and 18th December from 4:00pm – 8:00pm, with plenty of stallholders, entertainment and food vendors, and a "secret santa" will be visiting the CBD, Fourways and East Devonport between 8-10 December with gift vouchers from various local traders to hand out to unsuspecting shoppers.
In addition, there will be number of online competitions and activities, including:
• Kids' Christmas Dress Up Competition
• Pet Parade Competition
• Alternate Christmas Tree Competition
• Ghosts of Christmases Past – share old photos and traditions of Christmases past
• Ghosts of Christmases Present – How will Christmas be changed for you this year? What are you doing to make it special? Share your ideas and help others to make their Christmas special too
• Ghosts of Christmases Future – What new tradition have you started this year that could possibly turn into something you carry into future years?
As always, there are a number of community groups and organisations who are also planning festive activities. For example, the City of Devonport Brass Band will be playing carols on Tuesdays and Thursday evenings, a Twilight Market will be held at the Don Holl, The Greatest Christmas Show and Santa Train will be held at the Don River Railway and a Christmas Garage Sale will be hosted by the Mersey Lions Club at the Devonport Show Grounds.
Culminating on Christmas Eve, 'Christmas Jingle' is a world-wide event where everyone is invited to go out on their doorsteps and ring a bell for two minutes to spread the Christmas spirit and to help Santa fly his sleigh.
All these activities and many more are included in the calendar of events at http://bit.do/SpiritofChristmasCalendar.
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Isosurfaces. A
common source of surface data is something
called an Isosurface. The prefix
Iso comes from Greek and means
"equal." Thus an Isosurface is a surface that
follows points of equal value. As a 2D example, the lines on a weather
map show lines of equal atmospheric
pressure. Likewise, the lines on a
topographic map show lines of equal
elevation. The map to the right shows a
dark-brown line 5,500 that follows
points that are 5,500 feet above sea
It takes an X, Y and Z
argument which are Cartesian Coordinates
for points in 3D space and produces a value for any
point in 3D space. For instance, plugging
the values 1, 2 and 3 into the equation,
you get a value of 14 for that point.
To use the equation to
find a 3D surface, you want to find
points in 3D space where the equation
produces the same value. For example,
here are some example points that
produce values of one.
If you examine the
points where the result of the equation
is one, you'll discover they form a
spherical surface. The image to the
above and to the right shows a spherical
surface created with the equation.
Using a more complex
equation produces a more complex
surface. For example, using the equation
1-(Cos(X)+Cos(Y)+Cos(z)) produces a much
moe complicated surface called a Schwartz
The Marching Cubes
algorithm simplifies this process by
dividing the 3D space into cubic boxes. The program
tests the points at the corners of the
boxes to see if the surface passes
through the box. If the surface passes
through box, the exactly location of the
surface is calculated by
The Drawings to
the right show all the possible
combinations. Corners with an orange dot
are inside the surface. Points without a
dot are outside.
On the other hand, the number of cells goes up
by the cube of the number of grid lines. That
means a 5 x 5 x 5 grid will have 125 cells, a 10
x 10 x 10 grid will have 1,000 cells and a 100
x 100 x 100 cell
grid will have 1 million cells.
As a result, the processing time also goes up by
the number cube of the grid lines. For example,
a 50 x 50 x 50 grid can be process in one
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and a 200 x 200 x 200 takes 36 seconds.
To control the resolution,
Mandelbrot 3D allows you to set the number of
grid lines. The "Grid" option shown to the right
sets the number of grid lines.
Range. The Maximum and
Minimum range values are the 3D coordinates of
the minimum and maximum range covered by the
Marching Cubes algorithm. Setting the smaller
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By Donald Mukai
For the Northwest Asian Weekly
A picture of my mother hangs on the wall at Northwest Defenders Association. She is carrying a small suitcase and walking with her younger sister, who smiles at the camera. Next to their picture is the "Order of Civilian Exclusion," telling citizens of Japanese ancestry, like my mother and aunt, which Seattle streets they cannot cross. The school my mother attended — Seattle Pacific University — was outside the boundaries set in the Exclusion Order. The Order ended her life as a student and her dream of becoming a teacher.
Shortly after the picture was taken, my mother and her family were sent to a lonely desolate internment camp in Minidoka, Idaho. When World War II was over, she and my father moved to Spokane, where they raised a family of three boys. My brothers and I have been blessed by their sacrifices and endurance.
The picture and the copy of the Exclusion Order explain a 2012 internship in honor of my mother created by the Northwest Defenders Board of Directors, on which I served as a member and treasurer for several years.
Interns, in addition to learning to be public defenders, also work on projects challenging laws that hurt immigrants and refugees. Last summer, the interns worked with Executive Director Eileen Farley researching a challenge to King County's practice of voluntarily honoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer requests. In King County, anyone booked into jail, whether suspected of a minor traffic offense or a serious crime, whether or not found guilty, or even that the prosecutor decides not to charge, will be turned over to ICE at the end of their case if ICE asks for them. In the past two months, ICE has even asked that King County turn over three youth held in juvenile detention.
This research was part of a more than year-long effort by Northwest Immigrant Rights Project Director Jorge Barone, Immigration Project attorney Ann Benson, Ms. Farley, and others to persuade King County to modify its practice of voluntarily honoring ICE detainer requests. Last month, King County Executive Dow Constantine sent a letter to the King County Council asking them to say that in King County, only persons charged with serious crimes will be turned over to ICE. Now, Mr. Barone, Ms. Benson, and Ms. Farley will work to persuade the Council to turn the Executive's request into law.
Northwest Defenders is one of four nonprofit public defender agencies that in 2013 will represent almost 30,000 poor people, including many people of color, immigrants, and refugees, who are charged with a crime or whose children the state seeks to remove from their parents. In 2011, a consultant hired by King County observed that "[t]he provision of indigent defense services in King County has historically been seen as among the finest in the nation …"
However, in November 2012, King County Executive Constantine announced he would end the county's 40-year relationship with the agencies and beginning July 1, 2013, public defenders would work directly for King County. His decision follows a Washington Supreme Court decision giving public defenders working for the agencies the same benefits given to prosecutors.
If the independent agencies are gone and only county employees remain, who will question King County about why they are cooperating with ICE? Who will create a Racial Disparity Project, like the one at The Defender Association, or the ROYAL program at Society of Counsel Representing Accused Persons, which matches young men of color with mentors? These programs challenge how King County does business. Will public defenders who are county employees do this?
The Seattle Times, the King County Bar Association, Seattle Municipal Court Presiding Judge Kimi Kondo, and King County Superior Court Presiding Judge Richard McDermott have sent questions and concerns about the Executive proposal and the turmoil his timeline may create for clients and the courts. This year is the 50th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court decision in Gideon v. Wainright, which held that anyone whose liberty the State seeks to take has the right to be vigorously defended by an attorney. I urge the Executive to heed those who have questioned his decision. Respect the Washington Supreme Court decision giving public defenders benefits like the prosecutors, but work with the County Council to maintain King County's strong and effective public defender agencies. (end)
Donald Mukai is a former Area General Counsel for Verizon Wireless retiring after a 30-year career. He currently has a small law practice serving immigrant and elder clients.
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If you thought Flipkartians were resting after making the deal of the century by selling a USD 16-billion stake to none other than the world's largest retail company Walmart; get this. The business-to-business online marketplace Udaan, which was founded recently by three senior ex-Flipkartians, has become the fastest Indian startup to reach Unicorn status. They have joined the billion-dollar club merely 26 months after registering.
While the specifics of the investment are yet to be released, talks are in the advanced stage for Udaan to rake in USD $225 million from its existing backers DST Global and Lightspeed Venture Partners' global fund, according to ET.
Indian Food Delivery Startup Swiggy Achieves Unicorn Status
"Udaan was planning to raise its next round of financing after December but started seeing interest from investors. Existing backers have decided to double down again on the company," ET quoted an anonymous person familiar with the development.
In February, the company raised around USD 50 million from Lightspeed and Apoletto Asia, which is heavily invested by the founder of DST Global Yuri Milner. This was after they had already raked in USD 10 million from Lightspeed two years ago. The latest round is projected to quintuple the valuation it gathered in February.
Recent unicorns to make headlines have been food-delivery platform Swiggy, messaging app Hike, and advertising platform InMobi. They have all taken around four years to touch a billion dollars. While Paytm Mall did make it within fourteen months, it came from an already established business and brand.
Udaan is a network-centric B2B trade platform, created to target small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India. While bringing together traders, wholesalers, retailers, and manufacturers in India to a single platform, Udaan provides insights into active trends as well as B2B trade features to help SMBs grow their business. The company takes products from manufacturers and sellers in 80-100 cities, delivering to 800 cities and towns across India.
The startup faces competition from companies such as Amazon Business, Metro Cash & Carry, Walmart, and Alibaba. Reliance Industries is also expected to get into this space.
PolicyBazaar Raises USD 200 Million in SoftBank Led Funding Round
Industry experts expect the B2B ecommerce market to touch USD 700 billion by 2020, a mark way higher than the USD 50-100 billion projected for consumer-facing online retail during the same time period.
Of the three co-founders of Udaan, Vaibhav Gupta, Amod Malviya, and Sujit Kumar, Kumar used to run the logistics unit Ekart and WS Retail, as senior operations executive, at Flipkart. While Gupta directed functions such as product management and finance at Flipkart, Malviya was the chief technology officer.
The year 2018 is being called the year of unicorns, considering six new startups have joined the billion-dollar club. The five other startups are edtech startup BYJU'S, fintech company Paytm Mall, food delivery startup Swiggy, insuretech startup PolicyBazaar, and SaaS startup Freshworks.


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The Tempest (Annotated)
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The Tempest is a comedy written William Shakespeare. It is generally dated to 1610-11 and accepted as the last play written solely him, although some scholars have argued for an earlier dating. While listed as a comedy in its initial publication in the First Folio of 1623, many modern editors have relabelled the play a romance.


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Needle Status Update
I've been quite busy developing Needle for the last few months, and I was happy to release it at Black Hat Arsenal USA 2016. But what happens now?
Well, we have a few conferences already lined up where you can catch up directly with Needle and myself:
OWASP AppSec USA 2016 [October 14, Washington DC]: with a talk named "Needle: Finding Issues within iOS Applications", I will show how Needle can be used both by security professionals and developers to assess the security of iOS applications
Black Hat Arsenal EU 2016 [November 3, London]: Needle will come back to Arsenal (Europe, this time!) to showcase its new features
DEEPSEC 2016 [November 8-9, Vienna]: for those who want a hands-on approach on iOS exploitation, I will deliver a 2-day workshop at DEEPSEC this November. This exercise-driven training course will use detailed tutorials to guide the attendee through all the steps necessary to exploit a real iOS application, and, in the process, provide an understanding of the modern attacker's mind-set and capabilities. The course will cover iOS hacking, from the basics of vulnerability hunting on the platform to advanced exploitation techniques.
There's still time ro register to the workshop, go grab a ticket!
To stay updated, remember to also follow @mwrneedle on Twitter!