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The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf
Here in Davao City, Philippines they have three branches, Abreeza Mall, SM LANANG Premier and THE PEAK Gaisano Mall. I'd already visited their place at Abreeza and I love the exterior of their coffeehouse.
And now for the first time I visited their branch located at the main entrance of SM LANANG PREMIER fronting BREADTALK and beside Banco de Oro.
A really nice furnished and equipped place, quite big compared to CBTL Abreeza branch. The location is good too, in 10 seconds you are walking to the main taxi station.
I like the menu of this coffeehouse, for me it is better than STARBUCKS.
A truly BAKED-FRESH pastries from CBTL using their very own and exclusive recipes.
PHp 85
A creamy lemon baked custard on a shortbread crust.
PHp 85
Moist and filling muffins, with many to choose from nuts, bananas, blueberries and cheese.
At present CBTL offer over 22 varieties of coffee, 20 kinds of tea and 13 original ice blended . Here are some of our choices:
PHp 150
Their signature Espresso with steamed milk, foam, added with their signature powders. Many flavors to choose from VANILLA,MOCHA, DOUBLE CHOCOLATE and my fave WHITE CHOCOLATE DREAM.
PHp 155
Mocha lovers will surely love their delectable Special Dutch Chocolate and Coffee Extract blended with ice and non-fat milk.
PHp 115
Fresh Orange Juice and French DeLuxe Vanilla blended with ice.
My all time favorite from CBTL is their bitter-sweet and yummy WHITE CHOCOLATE DREAM HOT LATTE. Smooth and the right balance of bitter and sweet and not so milky. Unlike with other hot choco I've tasted, which are very irritating to the throat because of coarse texture of a cocoa powder use in a drink.
I am just disappointed with their staff's. Upon entering no one greet us or ushered us to our table. We call the guard attention who just came in from a break and ask him if we can drag the other table to make it one with the reserved table that we have. Another thing that disappoint me is their Wi-Fi service, they are only FREE if you are a REGISTERED CBTL MEMBER.
Nevertheless, all in all this will be my favorite place of drinking coffee and meeting with friends. Next time I drop here I will registered myself to avail their FREE Wi-Fi Service.
|ATENEO DANCE TROUPE together with our kids
and with our ADT moderator Ms. Ludivina Quiros
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Mocha Ice Blended Coffee and Lemon Squares are my all time favorite in CBTL. I haven't been to any branches when I visited Dvo, looking forward on my vacation.ReplyDelete
Got to love CBTL! And you've got to try the ensaymada. It's affordable but it can always make me go full whenever I eat them. It's a yuuum! :DReplyDelete
I love the cakes and pastries of CBTL. This coffee shop has been long running in the Philippines but I have not tried their coffee yet. Haha.ReplyDelete
I love CBTL because it has a more relaxed ambiance than other coffee shops. Love, love their lemon squares!ReplyDelete
I am a coffee lover also! I like CBTL because they have the delicious treats ever!ReplyDeleteReplies
My super duper favorite at CBTL is their sugarfree chocolate cake!you should try its heaven no umay factor ever !Delete
Their White Chocolate Dream Hot Latte looks tempting! To be honest, I haven't tried CBTL yet. It's about time I do.ReplyDelete
Great to find that you can try many things with coffee but most of them are actually best for the summers season to beat the heat.ReplyDelete
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That all looks quite tasty, especially the coffee cake!ReplyDelete
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Turkey shut down Twitter today. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced, "We now have a court order. We'll eradicate Twitter. I don't care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic." (Hurriyet Daily News) He also said Turkey will "rip out the roots" of Twitter. (Washington Post)
Those roots are in the Internet. This is a good thing. Even if Turkey rips the roots out of the phone and cable systems that provide access to the Net, they can't rip out the Net itself, because the Net is not centralized. It is distributed: a heterarchy rather than a hierarchy. At the most basic level, the Net's existence relies on protocols rather than on how any .com, .org, .edu or .gov puts those protocols to use.
The Net's protocols are not servers, clouds, wires, routers or code bases. They are agreements about how data flows to and from any one end point and any other. This makes the Internet a world of ends rather than a world of governments, companies and .whatevers. It cannot be reduced to any of those things, any more than time can be reduced to a clock. The Net is as oblivious to usage as are language and mathematics — and just as supportive of every use to which it is put. And, because of this oblivity, The Net supports all without favor to any.
Paul Baran contrasted centralized systems (such as governments), decentralized ones (such as Twitter+Facebook+Google, etc.) and distributed ones, using this drawing in 1964:
Design C became the Internet. Except the Internet is actually more like D in this version here:
Because on the Internet you don't have to be connected all the time. And any one node can connect to any other node. Or to many nodes at once. Optionality verges on the absolute.
The distributed model (C) appealed to military folks because it was the best design for surviving attack. Even in a decentralized system there are central points of vulnerability where a government could spy on traffic or knock out a whole service.
The "attack surfaces" of a distributed system are no larger than a single node or a single connection, so it's much harder to bring the whole thing down. This is why John Gillmore says "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
No doubt this is happening right now in Turkey, just as it is in China and other countries that block sites and services on the Net. It might not be easy, but it is do-able by design. That design is not about hard, fixed and administrated lines, but on voluntary connections, or what Bob Frankston calls 'DIY connectivity'.
Twitter's centralized nature makes it a dot in the star-shaped designs of A and B. That dot becomes a black hole when powerful actors like the Turkish and Chinese governments "eradicate" it. We need to bear this in mind when we design and use centralized systems — and even decentralized ones, such as we have with Twitter, Google, Facebook and other "social" walled gardens, which together comprise something that looks and works on the model of B rather than C. But it is also essential to understand that D is what we have underneath it all, and it is based on Paul Baran's distributed model (C).
It also helps to recognize that some things — such as being social with each other — do not require centralized systems, or even decentralized ones. They can be truly distributed, heterarchical and voluntary. Just as we have freedom of speech and association in any free society, we should have the same on the Net. And, at the base level, we do.
But this isn't easy to see, for five reasons:
- We do need centralized systems for doing what only they can do
- Existing building methods and materials make it easy
- The internet is also a "network of networks" which at the backbone and "provider" level (the one you access it through) is more like a combination of B and C — and, because you pay providers for access, it's easy to ignore C as the virtuous base of the whole thing
- After eighteen years of building centralized systems (such as Twitter) on the Net, it's hard for most people — even geeks familiar with the Net's base design — to think outside the box called client-server (and some of us call calf-cow)
A great way to avoid the black hole of centralization is to start from the fully distributed nodes that each of us are, designing and building first person technologies. And I have a specific one to recommend, from Customer Commons:
This is Omie:
She's the brainlet of Customer Commons: She is, literally, a clean slate. And she is your clean slate. Not Apple's. Not Google's. Not some phone company's.
She can be what you want her to be, do what you want her to do, run whatever apps you want her to run, and use data you alone collect and control.
Being a clean slate makes Omie very different.
On your iPhone and iPad you can run only what Apple lets you run, and you can get only from Apple's own store. On an Android phone you have to run Google's pre-loaded apps, which means somebody is already not only telling you what you must do, but is following you as well.
Omie uses Android, but bows to Google only in respect of its intention to create an open Linux-based OS for mobile devices.
So Omie is yours, alone. Fully private, by design, from the start.
Omie needs crowdfunding. More specifically, she needs somebody who is good at doing crowdfunding videos, to help us out. We have the script. If you're up for helping out, contact me. I can be DM'd via @dsearls, or emailed via my first name @ my last name dot com. Thanks!

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Doolin Doin' da Weaves
A picture and comment from Dave and Sylvia in Mendon, MA…
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Here is a picture of Doolin after a few days with your poles."
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Advanced - General Settings controls what pages get processed and how they are encoded.
The program will detect UTF-8 encoding automatically if the skin's template files contains an UTF-8 marker, but if it's missing, then you can choose an alternative encoding. ISO-8859-1 is the default choice as it is one of the most common encoding options - it is a subset of UTF-8. If characters do not display correctly in the generated pages try another encoding from the list.
Technical note. The Java Virtual Machine by default uses the encoding of the underlying operating system. For consistent results Windows users may need to edit jAlbum's invocation method, using Menu -> Tools -> Open Directories -> Program Directory, to reveal the jAlbum.ini file. Close jAlbum and open the jalbum.ini file in a text editor.
Find the line that begins with
Virtual Machine Parameters=
and after the '=' add
Note, changing the virtual machine parameters as above could also interfere with reading and writing files from/to the file system, so proceed with caution and if it causes problems with file names remove the setting.
Another reason for changing the virtual machine parameters is described in Heap Space Problems
Checking this box will ensure that UTF-8 (UTF is the Unicode Transformation Format) is always used for writing the generated web pages. UTF-8 is the current standard recommended for HTML documents as it manages any possible signs and characters.
For more background information on encoding and write UTF-8 settings see Solving character encoding problems tutorial For those interested, further information on character encoding can be found at W3.org
Date formats may be displayed within your album as the current date, as part of any metadata for photographs, such as date taken or elsewhere, depending on the skin you are using. If this field is left blank the default standard date format for your region will be used, if you want a specific format enter valid letter codes here. The example date shown is the current system date and time formatted to the selected pattern.
Examples of valid letter codes are shown in the table to the right. You enter the letter codes in the form of, for example: h:mma E dd MMM yyyy'. In this case you would see, for example, 12:24AM Monday 14 Jul 2014. The letters used are from the Simple Date Format. The ones shown in the table to the right are commonly used, others are D, F, k, K, s, S, u, w, W, X and Z.
You can automatically exclude files and folders by entering their names or regular expressions, this saves having to individually exclude items. Regular expressions can be used to exclude multiple files, for example folderName.* would exclude folderName1, folderName2, folderName3 etc. The default ignore parameter is \..* which will ignore all files and folders that start with a period character (files starting with a period character are usually used to make a file invisible to the user.) Another example is \..*|.*\.(avi|mov|mp4) which will ignore AVI, MOV and MP4 video files. You can find out more on regular expressions (often abbreviated to regex or regexp) by searching the internet for one of those terms.
Any changes made only become effective after clicking apply or saving, closing and then reopening the project. If you use apply then the changes will be implemented but the file visibility within the project will not change until you use Menu/View/Update to hide/show them.
Read about Java's regular expressions
Enable sequential navigation between index and slide pages of folders, by linking the last page of one folder to the first page of the next folder. Chaining options are for no chaining, siblings only or full tree (the whole album).
Some skins, such as Turtle for example, may have their own method of linking directories. In this event use only one of the settings, probably the safest is the skins own method.
If this option is not checked then subdirectories in your project will not be processed. This is very useful if you have a main project that includes several sub-projects (often called a Master Project/Album. You process all of your subdirectories with this option enabled, but for the top level master project the setting is turned off. The master album thus has links to the sub albums, but does not affect them, so you can use different style/settings in your sub-projects.
Web locations make creating multiple album linking much easier
If your project has many levels of folders and subfolders, and lots of files in your project, then turning this option on can save processing time. It works by comparing file dates for your input and output directories and only processes those in the images directory that are newer than the equivalent in the output directory. It is best left turned off, for general use, and used only when working on large projects and turning it on specifically for a particular build. It can give confusing results, when turned on, if other settings are also changed, like changing the skin.
For a detailed discussion on the above potential problems see this forum post
Normally this option would be turned on. If it is turned off then there will be no navigation links to the subfolders. It is useful if you have your own website and, for example, you have password protected access to individual subfolders. Users logging in to one folder would not know of the existence of another folder as there would be no links between the two.
With this option off subfolders are indicated by a folder icon on index pages. Turned on and you can select an image within each folder to act as the thumbnail icon for that folder. Some skins can indicate a folder of images by having a thumbnail image with a folder icon overlay.
Any file added to a folder is automatically included, unless this option is enabled. Excluded files are listed in albumfiles.txt with a dash (-) prefix, making the selection of a few images from a bunch of new ones easy to manage.
Metadata can come from a wide range of sources such as XMP, EXIF, IPTC and of course jAlbum's own data. The information can include titles, authors, comments, keywords, flags, GPS location etc. jAlbum will use the first source it finds from those selected, it is recommended that 'XMP' is always checked.
If you have metadata in a database system and you can export it to a CSV or XMP file jAlbum can import that metadata, see Menu>File>Import>From database…
The actual metadata field name for each source is shown after the source name, all are embedded in the image except for jAlbum's 'text file' source.
xmp stands for 'Extensible Metadata Platform', it enables the creation, processing and interchange of metadata. If enabled comment, title, rating, flag and keywords from the file itself will be used by jAlbum. xmp is open source and was created by Adobe. You can read more at https://www.adobe.com/products/xmp.html
Note, Windows users that have used 'Windows Properties' to enter comments these are used here by jAlbum, and if you edit the comments within jAlbum, the correct xmp description field is updated too.
Stored in jAlbum's own comments.properties file
Use text entered in jAlbum's title and comment fields. If unchecked any texts entered in explore or edit mode will not be used in the output album.
Note. If unchecked information entered will be saved but will not be shown when jAlbum is next launched, to use them again check the box and refresh the display (F5), the information you've entered will reappear.
Warning! If unchecked and the information is hidden then any additional information entered will overwrite It.
Jpegcomment.JPEG Comment
Looks for a caption metadata embedded within the image file.
IPTC stands for 'International Press and Telecommunications Council' and they developed their own metadata format, you can read more at https://iptc.org/standards/photo-metadata/iptc-standard/
User Comment
Exif stands for 'Exchangeable Image file Format' and is a standard for formatting various media files. This is yet another means of embedding metadata in files, you can find out more at https://www.cipa.jp/std/documents/e/DC-008-2012_E.pdf and easier to read information on exif tags at https://exiv2.org/tags.html
Note, if a camera manufacturer includes the make and model in the comment tag jAlbum will automatically remove it. However, the recommended location for comments is in the xmp data. Exif is really designed for recording the settings used.
Image Description As exif comment above except for the location of the data.
You can select Object Name, Headline, or None! It will import the title from the IPTC block if an XMP block is missing or if the existing title attribute is null. If you are not sure, go for none!
This option allows skins to show camera settings such as ISO, aperture, speed, flash fired status etc. and for anything that relies on metadata such as 360º panoramic image and regions (face detection etc.). Not all skins will show such information and the information shown may vary for those skins that do. This option must be set if you want to show a map when using a skin that supports them.
You can see a list of all the metadata for an image by selecting it in explore mode, Cntrl/right clicking it and then selecting 'List metadata'.
This option writes the photographic data, as above, to the generated images in your album output. Turning on this option will result in a warning about possible image distortion and increased file sizes. See figure to the right.
This option can also result in damaged thumbnail or slide images if the original image did not originate from a digital camera, but was the result of scanning a photographic print or slide. These types of images often lack properly formatted metadata fields.
Writes the xmp metadata to the scaled-down (closeups). This can save your images, comments and titles on the internet, just in case your backups fail. (You have got backups of your files, haven't you?)
If your images contain extensive metadata for edits made in external applications, like Lightroom, then some of that data may be truncated. If that happens the system console (F7) will show an error message including the name of the affected file. For an example of controlling edit metadata in Lightroom see this forum post
This option must be enabled before deciding which widgets you want to use. The widgets are configured in Settings/Widgets.
RSS is, generally taken to stand for 'Really Simple Syndication', although some might say 'Rich Site Summary'. It is a method that allows visitors to easily be made aware of updates to your site, by 'subscribing' to your RSS feed. The album.rss-files that are generated, one per folder that include links to media files such as images and videos, are also needed for the iOS- and Android Apps and for the mobile wrapper at http://jalbum.net/mobile/. Subscribers will need to subscribe to all subfolder feeds if they want to be notified of any media changes within the album.
If enabled the JSON data files will be generated, even if the skin being used does not need those files. This will allow non-JSON based skins to work with jAlbum's Wordpress bridge . See also jAlbum Bridge plugin for Wordpress.
Advanced - Naming Settings Keep your pages web friendly!
Some skins may not support changes to the default values of index page name and extension. If you make any changes and things fail try posting in the appropriate skin forum.
For most web servers, the default page in a directory is named index.html (or index.htm), it is the file looked for when entering a URL without a file name at the end. Only change this setting if you are sure you know why you want to, and what its effect will be.
The extension html (HyperText Markup Language) is the default extension for static webpages. Sometimes the extension used is just htm. Other extensions used for web pages, such as asp (Active Server Page) and php (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor), are 'server side languages.' jAlbum produces static html pages that are designed to run on the visitors machine. Server side languages run on the server, feeding the visitor with a dynamically made page. Change this setting only if you are sure you know why you want to, and what its effect will be.
Note that using php, asp, etc., instead of html, may cause problems for visitors when viewing your albums via your profile or album page.
Also be aware that if you change the index page name or extension on an existing project, files that have the original name or extension won't be deleted. So, you will end up with both files in the output, which can cause problems. If you change the index page name or extension on an existing project, you should delete the existing output before making the album again. By the same token, the files with the former names should be removed from your server. If you are using the jAlbum uploader, this should happen automatically.
If selected jAlbum will replace diacriticals, for example characters like "é, è, ü, Á and å", with the base characters (e, u A, a) instead for generated file names. If no title has been explicitly set for such an object, jAlbum will use the original name without any file extension as title
See Structure
See Widgets
Edit mode allows you to alter or apply variables on a per folder or file basis, for example changing the thumbnail or slide image bounds, or applying watermark filters for all images but with variations by folder or file. If you want to create a global variable, one that will exist for all files, then define it here first. Variables are only saved when you leave the field by clicking in, or tabbing to, an empty field.
jAlbum also provides a special class of variables, known as Image filters. Used here they will apply the filters to all of your thumbnail and close- up images.
This is the actual name of the variable to be defined or one already existing. As an example, some skins have template pages that check for a variable named 'pageID'. This variable controls the overall style to be used for the design of the template, but if one does not exist it uses a fallback (its own) design. Now you want to use that template with another skin that also has templates, but use a style called 'pages' for templates. In the name section enter 'pageID'.
This is the field where you enter the value to be assigned to the variable named above. Taking the example from above we would enter the string, say, 'pages'. The template now builds a web page that has the same overall style as native templates that use a style called 'pages'.
Control/Right clicking on the rows of variable names/ values brings up a contextual menu with the following actions:
These all help to speed up your work flow, especially if you are using variables in the edit mode on some files.
This is a text area for making notes, or reminders, on the current project, for a variation from your default settings. The text field is plain text, no bold, italics or underline etc.
There is a single option, 'Notify on project load', of having a notification message appear when the project is loaded, provided there is content in the notes field. Uncheck the notify box if you do want to keep some notes but don't want to see the reminder message. Clicking on the message's 'notes' link, after 'This project has', will open the notes window.


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by Patience Bloom (from her blog)
Please bear in mind that this is just one editor's pet peeves, compiled over many years of reading. And I'll include some good with the peeve: I love reunion romances. We've all had a romance that we've fantasized about revisiting. In Romanceland, you can! I also love cranky Alpha heroes, heroines with a touch of crazy, characters facing natural disasters and the one-night stand that winds up being happily ever after.
Because there's balance in the cosmos, here are a few of my pet peeves:
*On page 1, someone is driving. Sometimes driving to a destination in the opening is necessary and it's not enough for me to reject a story but grrrrr, I see it so often, especially in suspenseful romances.
*After a passionate night, the heroine wakes up to the hero cooking breakfast. He can make an omelet. I can't even make an omelet. You'd think this might be a unique post-night-of-passion scene, but it's not. The hero often makes soft, fluffy eggs for breakfast, which signifies his soft, fluffy underbelly. Along with this, the character waking up to the smell of bacon or strong coffee. I wish I kept eggs and bacon in my fridge but sadly, I just have condiments.
*When they're lost in the woods, there's always an abandoned cabin. And in that cabin, there's a dusty pantry. Somehow, the heroine finds enough there to prepare a five-course meal. Wouldn't it be refreshing if all they had was a can of tuna to share? Maybe not so romantic but potentially funny and real.
*Characters become amateur sleuths. A cop will go to a murder scene and someone close to the victim will insist on helping with the case. They fall in love as they both search for clues. This aggravates me, though I see it all the time and it can be explained away. Plus, if someone close to me were involved in such misfortune, I'd like to think I'd be a giant pain in the posterior and insist on helping. It's still a pet peeve. I do like, though, when non-law-enforcement characters find themselves in the middle of a suspenseful situation.
*The ex is a passionless dweeb or a gold digger. My problem with this is…well, we've all made mistakes, but the ex must have had some good qualities or else why would the hero/heroine get involved?
*Exes/parents/grandparents are killed in car crashes. It's easy to kill off characters this way, but car crashes are a given now in romances. Maybe these extraneous characters could exist without appearing on the scene. Car crashes create emotional conflict by making a central character an instant orphan. It happens, it's real and awful but if I had a penny for all the car crashes I've seen…They have no impact on me anymore.
And those are my pet peeves for this Friday. No need to delete any scenes–just be mindful of the ways you can make your story stand out. 🙂


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Couple of photos of Transcendence, the salmon-smashing-through-a-building sculpture above the Southpark restaurant at SW Salmon & Park Ave. It's been around for years (and was there when the B. Moloch restaurant occupied the space), but I didn't realize it had a name or counted as Art until just recently; turns out it's by the same artist who did Portal (the arch made of a pair of large hammers) on 1st Ave. just south of downtown. His website has a better photo of Transcendence. It also shows up in a blog post at Travel for Aircraft, and in Flickr & Facebook photos beyond number (here are just 3 of them: [1] [2] [3] that I thought were decent).
While searching for info for this post, I ran across a Stumptown Stumper at the Tribune about yet another piece by the same guy, something called "Mimir" on NW 27th between Thurman & Upshur, near Macleay Park, described as "a combination of Norse mythology, gibberish, fish and space creature". Pretty sure I'm going to need to track it down now and take a few photos. Discovering new topics like this may be the very best part of this entire blogging racket.


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16 October 2019
Pauline's Favourite Black Forest Gateau
Pauline Nott, a resident at our brand-new care home, Banstead Manor, in Surrey, shares one of her favourite recipes.
Serves: 10
Prep: 20 Minutes
Cooking time: 18 Minutes
- 6 Large Eggs (seperated)
- 150g Golden Caster Sugar
- 50g Cocoa Powder (sifted)
- 50g Chocolate
- 425g tin of pitted black cherries in fruit juice
- 2 tablespoons of Cassis
- 3 tablespoons Black Cherry Jam
- 200ml Whipping Cream
- 12-15 Fresh Cherries
- Butter for greasing
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/356°F/Gas Mark 4. Lightly butter 2 x 20cm loose-bottomed cake tins and line the base with baking paper.
- Place the egg yolks and sugar in a large bowl. Using an electric hand mixer, whisk for 3–4 minutes, until pale and slightly thickened.
- Using a large spoon, fold in the cocoa powder and 25g chocolate, roughly chopped.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the egg whites until stiff. Add 1 spoonful to the chocolate mixture to loosen slightly, then carefully fold in the rest using a large metal spoon.
- Divide the chocolate mixture between the cake tins and bake in the middle of the oven for 18 minutes, until the sponges are no longer wobbly in the middle when you shake the tins gently. They will be puffed up when you take them out of the oven and will sink a little during cooling.
- Leave the cakes to cool in their tins, then slide a palette knife around the outside of each to ease from the tins. Discard the baking parchment and place 1 cake on a serving plate.
- Drain the cherries, reserving the juice. Mix 2 tablespoons cherry juice with the cassis and drizzle over the cake on the plate.
- Evenly spread the jam on top. Softly whip the cream and spread half of it over the jam. Cut two-thirds of the cherries in half and place on the cream. Finely grate the remaining 25g chocolate and sprinkle half over the cherries.
- Top with the second cake and spread the rest of the cream on top. Place the reserved whole cherries around the top edge. Scatter the remaining chocolate in the middle and arrange the fresh cherries in the centre.


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In both Synaptic Package Manager and Ubuntu Software Center, I sometimes see the following footnote.
Canonical does not provide updates for deja-dup. Some updates may be provided by the Ubuntu community.
Does this mean that these packages are not automatically updated as new versions are released?
… or does it just mean that Canonical plays no part in the development of the particular app.
… or does it mean something else?
Do I need to monitor and manage the installation of latest releases myself?


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I recently made a delicious Chicken Pot Pie, which more than made up for the my disastrous Boston Creme Pie.
I can't post the recipe quite yet cause it still needs some tweaking. I had way to much sauce and it was much to thin. I ended up having to scoop the filling out with a fine mesh strainer to put in in the pie shell.
Once I get the recipe fine tuned, I promise to post it. For now, know that it was loaded with chicken, carrots, celery, onions, peas and a little bit of cream. It was in my fridge and I just couldn't let it go to waste. And to be honest...it took it over the top.
What is Mush Push? Well, the official definition is the soft creamy sauce left when you give your bowl of ice cream a good stir. To us it means all the wonderful things we love and want to share.
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Chicken Pot Pie
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ooooh, i love chicken pot pie. yum.ReplyDelete
That is one delicious looking pot pie. So much better than store-bought! Your filling looks tasty. I do hope that you will share the recipe once you have finished "tweaking it" although it looks like it doesn't need that. ;)ReplyDelete
Yum! I wish my husband could eat chicken! That looks so good!ReplyDelete
gorgeous crust! I'm so hungry right now! I love a lot of sauce so it'd suit me perfectly!ReplyDelete
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Anna Sanders (Two Wheel Jones) and Lewis Elliot (TriScottsdale) blazed through the Tour de Scottsdale on Sunday to stand atop the podium as the fastest overall leaders, female and male.
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In 1960, The second-gen Ranchero arrived as a completely different vehicle. Redesigned inside and out, as it's common when moving into a new generation, the Ranchero became much smaller, based on Ford's compact Falcon, specifically the two-door sedan delivery variant. it was 13 inches shorter than its predecessor. Ford also shortened the wheelbase, which measured only 110 inches compared to 118. The popularity of small, economical cars like the Volkswagen Beetle perpetuated a shift in thinking among the three largest American manufacturers; 1959 had the introduction of the 1960 Falcon along with the 1960 Chevrolet Corvair and Plymouth Valiant. A pickup version of the Volkswagen Bus and a van based on the Chevrolet Corvair were offered, as well. The economic recession of the late 1950s also certainly played a role. Ford believed the market wanted a more practical vehicle, one much smaller, lighter, and cheaper than a full-sized pickup truck, and indeed the Ranchero sold well in this incarnation. Now marketed in print as the "Falcon Ranchero", the new vehicle's standard powerplant was an economical 144 cu in (2.4 L) straight-6. In 1961, the 170 cu in (2.8 L) straight-6 was offered, and in 1963, the optional 260 cu in (4.3 L) V8 was offered in addition to the 144 and 170. The two-speed Ford-O-Matic automatic transmission (1960 - 1963) or three-speed C4 Cruise-O-Matic could be ordered as could a three-speed manual transmission. The Ranchero had an 800-lb load capacity. The Ranchero evolved along with the Falcon in 1964, becoming just a little larger along with its parent and using the same basic body style for 1964 and 1965. In 1965, the 289 cu in (4.7 L) V8 replaced the discontinued 260 and an alternator replaced the generator in all Ford cars.
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IDENTIFYING WITH CHRIST IN BAPTISM AND COMMUNION by Pastor Shah, Clearview, Henderson
The Church has been instructed by Jesus Himself to keep two ordinances: Baptism and Communion. Earlier in the service we celebrated Baptism and later in the service we will be observing the Communion. This morning we will look briefly at both from the Bible. Why is it that we observe these two acts? Is it just ritual? Is it just tradition? I submit to you that when you truly understand what they mean, you will gain a special love for both of them. Two passages we will read – Matthew 28 and Luke 22—
Matthew 28:18-20 18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
Luke 22:17-20 17 Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, "Take this and divide it among yourselves…19 And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me." 20 Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.
Overall Background: The two aspects of church that have lost their significance are Baptism and Communion. These two acts were meant to help us identify with Christ. Baptism was to help us individually identify with Christ. Communion was to help us collectively identify with Christ.
This morning we will briefly look at both of them so you can appreciate them in a whole new way.
Background: Throughout the centuries Christians have disagreed over the meaning and mode of baptism. Some groups baptize primarily to wash away original sin. They think that there is something that miraculous in the water that has sacramental powers to make someone a Christian. Other groups baptize infants primarily as an initiation into the church. There are even some Protestant groups that do not claim that baptism washes away original sin but they claim that baptism includes children into the covenant God made with His people, kind of like circumcision in the Old Testament.
Who is right and who is wrong? This morning we will not call names but simply see what the Bible has to say about baptism.
1. Jesus was baptized by immersion. John the Baptizer was baptizing in the Jordan River. This was not a baptism to salvation, just repentance to prepare the way of the Lord. We know that it was a baptism by immersion because John 3:23 tells us that John "was baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there."
Jesus Himself came from Galilee to be baptized. What was John's response? Matthew 3:14 "John tried to prevent Him, saying, "I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?" 15 But Jesus answered and said to him, "Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." Meaning: He identified with the people of Israel. He was obedient to the Father. He approved of John's work. Later he even approved His disciples baptizing the people.
If Jesus was baptized (being perfect), you should be baptized.
2. Jesus commanded new believers to be baptized. After Jesus rose from the dead, He appeared to His disciples many times. At His final appearance, in the presence of 500+ people, He gave them the charge to go into the entire world and preach the good news about Him. Listen to what he said in Matthew 28:18-20 18 "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, Meaning: Not only get them saved from their sins but make them disciples. How do you make them disciples? The very next line says, "baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Isn't that strange that Jesus did not tell them make disciples – going to church, praying everyday, giving their tithes but baptism.
Why Baptism? Because it is the first act of discipleship that a responsible person takes after they are saved.
3. What does it mean? Paul explains its true meaning in Romans 6. Some people think that Paul gave baptism a new meaning other than Christ. To the contrary, as more and more Gentiles were getting saved, Paul wanted to make sure that they understood the true meaning of baptism. Listen to Romans 6:3-5 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,
Why does discipleship begin with baptism? Because baptism tells the world that I am united with Jesus in His death, burial, and resurrection. I don't have to do anything but simply reckon that it was applied to me the moment I was saved. All I have to do is now remember that I am one with Him. It is a sign that I am now cut off to the old world and have entered into the new.
For e.g. Just like Marriage—as the Bible says is 7 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh'; (Mark 10) What if I had told Nicole right after the wedding – "Okay – now you can go home and I will call you when I need you." It is a marriage already headed for disaster.
Baptism is a reminder that now we are one with Christ.
The early church diligently baptized new believers. Samaritans in Acts 8; the Ethiopian ruler; the Apostle Paul; the family of Cornelius; and so on. By the way since the earliest church history, the church always baptized by immersion – Ephesus, Emmaus, Milan, Tunisia and on and on.
God wants your first step in the Christian life to be one of identification with Christ. He is not interested in making you a nice church member. He is not interested in making you a faithful church member. He wants your entire identity to be centered upon Jesus Christ. Jesus did not come to show you the Way. He is the Way. He did not come to teach you the Truth. He is the Truth. He did not come to give you Life. He is the Life.
Application: Have you been baptized? That is your first step as a disciple. It sets the tone for the rest of your Christian life.
Background: Just like Baptism, throughout the centuries Christians have disagreed over the meaning and purpose of the Communion. Some groups think that the communion has sacramental powers where the bread and wine literally transform into the body and blood of Jesus Christ. Even someone like Martin Luther, who led the Reformation, could not break away from the idea that there's something special in the Communion. He claimed that Christ's body is literally "in, with, and under" the bread and wine—whatever that means. Some groups think that the communion is God's gift to the church by which he bestows grace and blessing.
There are still others who don't think that the bread and wine become the body and blood but they are still torn over whether there is a spiritual something in the Communion or is it only a reminder?
Who is right and who is wrong? Just like baptism, lets see what the Bible has to say about communion.
1. Jesus commanded His disciples to keep the Communion. On the night before He was crucified, Jesus celebrated the Passover with His disciples. You can just picture it. They would have bought an approved lamb; taken it to the temple to be slain; then brought it back and roasted it; then set the table with the lamb, unleavened bread, bitter herbs, and now wine has been added to the meal. You can imagine the disciples sitting down to go over these rituals and customs but they had no idea what was about to come.
Luke 22: 17-20 17Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, "Take this and divide it among yourselves; Notice carefully: There is a collective approach to this act. He did not individually give it to each. There is a group dynamic in play here.
Now comes the strange part—19And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is My body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of Me." You can just imagine the shock in the face of the disciples 20Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you. No Jewish person would have ever dreamed of saying that.
2. What did Jesus mean by that? The disciples did not understand it that night but they did later and Paul explained it to the Corinthians in I Corinthians 10:16-18 16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? Meaning: When you take part of the bread and the cup, you are connecting with the sacrifice and the death of Jesus Christ. You are reminding yourself that your life is depending upon the life of Christ. He is your life. He is your sustenance. He is your spiritual nourishment.
3. What makes this different from baptism? While baptism is our individual identifying with Christ, communion is our collective identifying with Christ. Paul explains again in I Corinthians 10:17 For we, though many, are one bread and one body; for we all partake of that one bread. There is a communal aspect to this act. It is a family meal, where the main spiritual course is Jesus. Sadly, the Corinthians had forgotten this and were pushing and shoving at the feast. There was envy and strife and bitterness in the hearts of the people; there was sexual immorality in the church; there were marital problems; and the list goes on and on with idolatry and stealing and cursing and every evil imaginable. What they were doing in private life was simply bleeding over in their public life. Paul reminded them of the meaning of the feast and gave them a stern warning in I Corinthians 11: 29-30, 29For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 30For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.
Now some people have taken this to mean that there was something sacred in the Communion that killed off the people. Not true. It was no different than what happened to Ananias and Sapphira. When they lied to the Holy Spirit, they dropped dead. In the early church God allowed such radical responses to sin to send us the message that it matters when we sin in the body, the church.
The Communion is important not because there is something miraculous in it but because it reminds us that we are connected to Jesus along with other brothers and sisters in Christ. Jesus takes it very serious when we try to attack the unity of His body.
What is the solution? Listen to I Cor. 11: 33-34 33 Therefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. 34 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together for judgment.
Communion binds us together in Christ. Is there anything in your heart that is evil against another brother or sister? Confess it to the Lord and make it right.
Matthew 26:30 "And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives." Again, it is a custom to end the Seder by singing the Hallel (Psalms 113 through 118).


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'You keep saying Hitler, but I don't think it means what you think it means!'
A typically great piece from outstanding columnist and fellow West Virginian, Don Surber.
Deplatforming pushed by media outlets. It's a thing!
Winning the Cold War changed the world for good. It's all to easy to forget it. And for generations to fall back in love with tyranny.
Sure Narcan is great! I've given a lot of it. But is it good that it's taken the fear of fentanyl out of those who abuse it?
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When you're here, you're family
It's about making everyone feel welcome for Lynn Stanberry.
"You get a warm feeling coming in here," she smiled. "There are college kids, locals, people on vacation. It all kind of mixes and blends well together."
Sitting in a booth at O'Malley's Pub & Grill in Sylva, Stanberry has been the owner of the establishment since 2002. With the location celebrating 18 years in business this year, Stanberry aims to continue the long tradition of being the "everyday place for everybody."
"I want folks to feel that they're at a local sports pub, that's friendly, where you can come in by yourself and feel part of a group or come in with 25 of closest friends and have a party together," she said.
Raised in nearby Canton, Stanberry went to Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. While pursuing her degree, she started serving at O'Malley's. After graduating in 1999, she left the area to see what was out there. But, before she got too far away, O'Malley's offered her a manager position. Returning to Sylva, Stanberry enjoyed her time at the restaurant, and this next phase of her career there proved bountiful.
"The original owner wanted to sell, and I knew that I loved this place, so I bought it. I figured if I could manage it, I could own it," she chuckled.
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Once she took charge of O'Malley's, Stanberry made it a personal mission to maintain the familiar ambiance loyal customers come for, but also keep things fresh, with their beloved, ever-changing menu being a main priority.
"We specialize in hot wings, burgers, fried green tomatoes, things like that. It's American pub food, but we are always adding more things and tweaking our menu," she said.
Alongside the culinary delights, Stanberry also makes sure that the live music component of O'Malley's stays strong. Fan favorite local acts and college bands overtake the patio stage on Friday and Saturday nights throughout the year. With all of those aspects thriving, O'Malley's is still going strong.
"18 years being open is a long time, but it goes to show you that there have a been a lot of bars and restaurants that have come and gone," Stanberry said. "We've weathered the storm, and we have that niche that people like. We'll always try to keep that niche."
Surrounding O'Malley's and greater Sylva are the majestic Great Smoky Mountains. Standing outside the building, one can turn in any direction to see the natural beauty of Western North Carolina.
"Everything in Sylva is growing. People want to retire here. Students graduate from WCU and want to stay here. We have microbreweries down the road and live music all over," Stanberry said. "It's a beautiful place here. I've traveled all over and I still want to be here — this is my home."


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Hackers Holding Data For Ransom On The RiseHackers Holding Data For Ransom On The Rise
One security company urges IT managers to back up their data to protect from this new risk, which is still rare but increasing steadily.
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Attacks where criminals hold kidnapped data for ransom are becoming more sophisticated, a security company said Tuesday. It's only a matter of time before hackers have the upper hand.
Although "ransomware" remains relatively rare, Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs stressed in a recently-published report that the threat is quickly increasing. "This is the highest point [in ransomware] we've ever seen," said Shane Coursen, senior technical analyst with Kaspersky. "In the number of new instances of ransomware, not in the volume of attacks, we're seeing more types of this than ever before. "But it's not reached its highest limit." The report by Alexander Gostev, a Kaspersky senior virus analyst, tracked the evolution of ransomware from 2004 until 2006, and noted that each attack has upped the ante on encryption. June 2006's "Gpcode.ag," for instance, was downloaded to thousands of Russian computers from an infected site, then locked up files using a 660-bit key. "[This is] the longest key which has ever been broken," wrote Gostev. Although it would normally take a standard PC approximately 30 years of computing time to break a key that long, "luck was on our side. Our analysts were able to add decryption routines for files which had been encrypted using this key to antivirus databases within a single day." In a typical ransomware attack, the criminal reaches into a compromised computer -- victimized earlier by a worm or Trojan -- and grabs a slew of files. He then encrypts those files, making them impossible for the owner to access them. Later, the attacker sends the victim an e-mail ransom demand for the encryption key that unlocks the frozen files. "This is a serious threat," said Coursen. "This is a threat that if it affects your system, there's no way to recover your data." And it's becoming more serious. As the criminals turn to ever-more-elaborate encryption, they may be able to outpace and outwit anti-virus vendor researchers. The earliest ransomware simply stored the kidnapped files in compressed archives, then password-protected those archives. In 2006, though, attackers turned to asymmetric encryption, like RSA, to lock hijacked data. "We'll get to the point where we're not able to reverse the encryption," said Coursen. Gostev seconded the motion in his research. "In spite of the fact that we were able to decrypt 330- and 660-bit keys within a reasonably short space of time, keys of this length are already pushing the boundaries of modern cryptography," he wrote. "Anti-virus companies might find themselves powerless [in the future], even if maximum computing power were to be applied to decrypting the key." Consumers are most at risk from ransomware, Coursen added, because while businesses regularly back up data and follow set security policies, at-home and small business users usually neglect both. Other than the standard advice -- update the operating system, use a firewall, and deploy up-to-date anti-virus to keep the computer from being compromised in the first place -- Coursen recommended consumers start backing up. "Backups are very important today, more important than ever," he said. "And it's so much easier to back up now." The Kaspersky ransomware analysis can be downloaded from the company's Web site.
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Quick Start Paces Boston University To 3-2 Win Over Harvard In Women's Beanpot
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - Senior Victoria Bach tallied two goals and freshman Jesse Compher scored the eventual game-winner to lift the Boston University women's ice hockey team to a 3-2 victory over Harvard in the opening round of the 40th annual Women's Beanpot on Tuesday night at Conte Forum.
BU (11-14-6) will play in the Beanpot title game for the first time since 2012. The Terriers are in search of their first Beanpot trophy since 1981.
- The Terriers scored three times in a span of 2:21 to take a 3-0 lead by the 6:09 mark of the opening stanza.
- Bach began the goal bonanza just 3:48 into the proceedings. After senior captain Rebecca Leslie won a battle in the defensive zone, Bach collected the puck and raced up the right wing. After a Harvard defender lost an edge, Bach sped to the right post and deposited a backhander past Beth Larcom (29 saves).
- She made it 2-0 at the 5:55 mark. Larcom turned aside Leslie's initial shot, but junior Mary Grace Kelley's pursuit of the rebound led to Bach getting a chance on the doorstep which she did not miss for her NCAA-best 34th goal of the season.
- Compher added to the BU lead just 14 seconds later when Bach found her wide open at the bottom of the right circle and Compher made no mistake for her eighth goal of the season.
- Harvard (9-13-2) scored the next two goals, lighting the lamp 14:03 into the first period and then again at the 5:06 mark of the second stanza, to cut the deficit to 3-2 entering the final frame.
- The Terriers continued to push the tempo in the final minutes, at one point hemming Harvard in its own zone for a two-minute span late in the frame.
- Freshman Corinne Schroeder (24 saves) saved the game for BU in the last minute, making three fantastic stops with a sea of Crimson at the top of the crease, to help BU hang on to the victory.
- Bach came within one goal of the century mark for her career with her two-goal effort on Tuesday.
- She sits at 99 career goals, with her latest marker moving her into a tie for first in the country with 34 goals this season.
- Bach recorded her NCAA-best 11th three-point game of the year as she also assisted on Compher's marker.
- Leslie notched her 17th multi-point game of the season with her two-assist outing on Tuesday.
- She is now two assists from 100 for her illustrious career.
- On the season, Leslie has collected 47 points on 18 goals and 29 helpers.
- Compher collected her sixth goal in eight games on Tuesday night.
- She has been on a roll over the last nine games, recording a point in eight of those tilts (6g, 4a).
- Compher extended her point streak to six games (4g, 2a) on Friday.
- She now has eight goals and 15 assists for 22 points this season.
- The Terriers will face either Boston College or Northeastern in the Beanpot title game next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.


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Professor of engineering at the Hebrew University, Leo Joskowicz, will receive the Kaye Innovation Award for a neurosurgical robot that should greatly enhance the safety and accuracy of neurological surgery.
…an invention by a Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher has made it possible to retain the advances of such keyhole surgery through utilization of the "services" of a tiny robot that can guide surgical procedures with great accuracy.
For this development, Prof. Leo Joskowicz of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the Hebrew University has been named one of this year's winners of a Kaye Innovation Award, to be presented on June 6 during the Hebrew University's 70th Board of Governors meeting. Prof. Joskowicz is the founder of the Computer-Aided Surgery and Medical Image Processing Laboratory at the Hebrew University, which he heads to this day.
Although keyhole brain surgery, based on preoperative CT or MRI images, has obvious advantages for the patient, misplacement of the surgical instrument in these procedures may result in hemorrhage and severe neurological complications.
To overcome this problem, Prof. Joskowicz and his associates have developed a novel, image-guided system for precise, automatic targeting of structures inside the brain. The system is based on a miniature robot that can be programmed with detailed information obtained from preoperative electronic scans of the patient.
During surgery, the robot is directly affixed to a head clamp or to the patient's skull. It automatically positions itself with great accuracy in respect to the surgical targets. Once positioned, the robot locks itself in place and serves as a guide for insertion by the surgeon of a needle, probe, or catheter to carry out the procedure.
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Stepping up for hospitals in Florida
This week, the Florida Hospital Association took a big step forward with a hefty financial investment to encourage patients to prioritize important health care decisions. As we all know, state hospital associations -- especially large ones like FHA -- have plenty of concerns and issues to balance with their various hospital members. Rural. Large public


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Seven Best Practices for Achieving Data Center OptimizationChatsworth Products Discusses Keys to Utilizing Thermal, Airflow ManagementAGOURA HILLS, Calif., Jan. 19, 2017 — As technologies surrounding cloud computing and convergence continue to evolve, data center managers have to reshape their strategies to allow for greater capacity and to ensure they can provide the highest quality of uninterrupted service that is being demanded of them. Industry leader, Chatsworth Products (CPI), provides seven best practices for addressing these demands and achieving data center optimization.Data center managers should work to identify where their resources are currently allocated and how they can best be optimized. The key to this is embracing the latest thermal efficiency, airflow and power and environmental monitoring strategies. The way data centers utilize their resources will undoubtedly continue to change as new technologies emerge. Furthermore, as more devices become integrated with the Internet of Things (IoT), downtime will not be an option.With this in mind, here are seven best practices to consider:
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Join Moomintroll, his family and their friends in beautiful Moominvalley, where everyone is welcome. Surprising things happen every day in Moominvalley - luckily the Moomin family and their friends embrace the unexpected with their characteristic humour, kindness and charm. This beautiful book contains nine exciting adventure stories - all closely based on the warm and whimsical Moomin world and characters created by the celebrated writer, artist and illustrator Tove Jansson. Presented in chronological order, each story is taken from an animation episode and set in the idyllic and peaceful valley where the round blue Moominhouse stands. The stories describe the adventures of nine-year-old Moomintroll, his parents, Moominmamma and Moominpappa and their eclectic and happy band of friends - Little My, Snufkin, Snorkmaiden, the hattifatteners and other famous characters from the classic stories. The stories in this collection will delight Moomin fans of all ages. In one story Moomintroll sails to the mysterious Hattifattener island and in another, he finds a tiny dragon. The Moomins temporarily move house, Snufkin composes a new spring tune and Moomintroll encounters the mysterious Groke.


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Dialed In Becomes New Favorite to Win Kentucky Derby 2011
After weeks of talking about Uncle Mo, Dialed In has slipped in to become the near-even odds favorite to win the Kentucky Derby 2011 this coming Saturday. The payout at Sportsbook.com at this early juncture in time would be $140 for every $100 bet.
Dialed In raced on a sloppy track this week.
New York trainer Nick Zito said his three-year-old colt had no problems handling the sloppy track after having a long gallop, completing two laps of the track.
"He liked it," Zito said. "I can't remember ever galloping him on a wet track but it looked like he did all right."
The weather for Saturday's race is expected to be nice.
Dialed In won a cool million early last month at the Florida Derby, which has helped propel him to favorite status.
These were your odds prior to post up positions being announced and were available at Sportsbook.com.
Animal Kingdom +3200
Archarcharch +600
Brilliant Speed +3000
Comma to the Top +5000
Decisive Moment +4500
Derby Kitten +4000
Dialed In +140
Master Of Hounds +1500
Midnight Interlude +2000
Mucho Macho Man +1400
Nehro +600
Pants On Fire +2800
Santiva +4200
Shackleford +2000
Soldat +1500
Stay Thirsty +3000
Sway Away +3200
Twice The Appeal +1500
Twinspired +5000
Uncle Mo +400
Watch Me Go +5000
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David Silverman's short film Stand Up or Shut Up is the kind of film that lingers in your sense for much longer than its nine minute running time.
The set-up is simple - a quiet IT guy named Eddie (Jeffrey Umberger) finds his voice by taking a stand-up comedy class, but he risks losing everything else.
As nearly every stand-up comic will tell you and as Jerry is taught, it's really the truth that's funny and it's no secret that some of the funniest stand-up comics are those with seriously f***ed up lives or traumatic pasts. As Jerry prepares to go onstage with his wife (Kristi Snyder), his boss (Tom Clark) and other friends, the stage becomes quickly set for a five-minute comedy routine that is funny, emotionally raw and even kind of revelatory thanks to a pretty remarkable performance from Jeffrey Umberger as the comic who may just be willing to lose everything to reclaim his voice.
I can't say that Stand Up or Shut Up really surprised me in the direction that it takes, but what did at least modestly surprise me is just how entertaining and emotionally satisfying the film is in the short span of a less than nine minute film. One of the things that's true about short films and comedy is that every word matters, and writer/director David Silverman certainly makes every word matter in the film. It helps that Silverman allows the words to linger in the air rather than rushing for a punch line or a moment of poignancy, but it also helps that Umberger gives a performance that is awkwardly funny yet quite touching in its vulnerability. Umberger is wearing so many emotions on his face as he starts his routine, while it's almost worth watching the film simply to see how his face and body language changes over the course of his five-minute routine. As an audience member, I was simultaneously going "No way," "Way to go" and "Absolutely amazing" all at once.
While the film is very much about Umberger's Eddie, it's even more effective thanks to the briefly appearing yet incredibly vital supporting cast including Kristi Snyder as his wife, Tom Clark as his boss, Gracie Ortiz as the boss's wife and Ryan Girard as Mike Malarky, the show's host who gets the not so pleasurable task of dealing with Eddie's unexpected routine.
D.P. Tim Glover does a terrific job of focusing his lens on Eddie and following his facial expressions, body language shifts and, as well, of those in the audience. Silverman edits the film with an eye towards allowing lines to linger in such a way that you sort of reflect on some of comedy's more personal and relevant comics ranging from Lenny Bruce to Stephen Wright.
The recently completed Stand Up or Shut Up is already an official selection of Action on Film, Indie Memphis, Dam Short Film Festival, Macon Film Festival and Rome International Film Festival. The film is deceptively simple, but if you get a chance to check out the film watch what I mean - you'll be thinking about the film long after the closing credits and you'll become even more and more blown away by the quietly awesome performance of Jeffrey Umberger.
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We provide domestic and overseas enterprises and institutions with integrated and comprehensive services such as sales, trading and market making of fixed income, commodity and foreign exchange securities as well as derivatives, including interest rate business, credit business, structured product business (covering securitized products and non-standard products), foreign exchange business and commodity business (including futures business).
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