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All-new iMac features stunning design in a spectrum of vibrant colours, the breakthrough M1 chip, and a brilliant 4.5K Retina display
iMac offers the best camera, mics, and speakers ever in a Mac, and Touch ID for the first time
Cupertino, California Apple today introduced an all-new iMac featuring a much more compact and remarkably thin design, enabled by the M1 chip. The new iMac offers powerful performance in a design that's just 11.5 millimeters thin, with a striking side profile that practically disappears. Available in an array of vibrant colours to match a user's personal style and brighten any space, iMac features a 24-inch 4.5K Retina display with 11.3 million pixels, 500 nits of brightness, and over a billion colours, delivering a brilliant and vivid viewing experience.
The new iMac also includes a 1080p FaceTime HD camera, studio-quality mics, and a six-speaker sound system — the best camera and audio ever in a Mac. Also, Touch ID comes to iMac for the first time, making it easier than ever to securely log in, make purchases with Apple Pay, or switch user profiles with the touch of a finger. Combining the power and performance of M1 and macOS Big Sur, apps launch with blazing speed, everyday tasks feel incredibly fast and fluid, and demanding workloads like editing 4K video and working with huge images are faster than ever. The new iMac joins the incredible family of Mac models powered by M1, including MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini, marking another step forward in Apple's transition to Apple silicon. iMac is the most personal, powerful, capable, and fun it has ever been, and customers can order it beginning Friday, April 30. iMac will be available in the second half of May.
"M1 is a gigantic leap forward for the Mac, and today we're excited to introduce the all-new iMac, the first Mac designed around the breakthrough M1 chip," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "With its striking design in seven stunning colours, its immersive 4.5K Retina display, the best camera, mics, and speakers ever in a Mac, and Touch ID, combined with the amazing performance of M1 and the power of macOS Big Sur, the new iMac takes everything people love about iMac to an entirely new level."
All-New Design Enabled by M1
Completely reinventing one of the world's most iconic computers, the new iMac features a thinner and more compact design that is remarkable from every angle. Enabled by the system-on-chip architecture and amazing power efficiency of M1, the logic board and thermals are dramatically consolidated and reduced in size compared to the previous generation's, allowing the side profile of iMac to practically disappear. The much more compact design reduces the volume of iMac by 50 percent,1 allowing it to take up less space and fit easily in even more places.
With an array of colours — green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue, and silver — the new iMac design personalises and elevates any space unlike any other computer. iMac features softer colours and thinner borders on the front to allow users to focus on their content, while the back pops in bold, saturated colour. To complete the simplified design, iMac comes with a new power connector that attaches magnetically and a beautifully woven 2-metre-long colour-matched cable.
Gorgeous 24-Inch 4.5K Retina Display
iMac has always been about its best-in-class display. The new iMac features an expansive 24-inch 4.5K Retina display2 with narrower borders and 11.3 million pixels. With a P3 wide colour gamut and over a billion colours, plus 500 nits of brightness, images are vivid and more brilliant. This new display also features True Tone technology, which automatically adjusts the colour temperature as the environment changes for a more natural viewing experience. In addition, the 4.5K Retina display on the new iMac has an industry-leading anti-reflective coating for greater comfort and readability.
Breakthrough Performance of M1 Comes to iMac
With the power and performance of M1 and macOS Big Sur, the new iMac instantly wakes from sleep, everyday tasks feel faster and more fluid, and apps launch with amazing speed. In Safari, users can browse even faster and run hundreds of tabs at once, and in Photos, users can fly through edits to their images. With Apple Arcade, they can enjoy exclusive games while on the large iMac display, and users can also run a variety of iPhone and iPad apps right on their iMac without breaking their workflow. macOS also delivers powerful iCloud and Continuity features that enable users to work seamlessly across their iMac, iPhone, and other Apple devices.
The new iMac offers the ultimate macOS Big Sur experience. Its refined design brings a new level of power and beauty to the Mac, and allows users to experience the spacious 24-inch 4.5K Retina display to the fullest. macOS Big Sur puts more controls at users' fingertips and is packed with enhancements to key apps including Safari, Messages, and Maps.
The powerful 8-core CPU in M1 features the fastest CPU core in low-power silicon.3 And the 8-core GPU features the fastest integrated graphics in a personal computer.4 When combined with its high efficiency, unified memory architecture, and the 16-core Apple Neural Engine, the new iMac delivers powerful performance when compared to standard models of the 21.5-inch iMac, including:
- Up to 85 percent faster CPU performance, so users can export their favourite video project in iMovie faster than ever, easily work with massive 100-megapixel photos in Lightroom, and compile new apps in Xcode in a fraction of the time.
- Up to 2x faster GPU performance for certain apps like Affinity Photo and Photoshop, and up to 50 percent faster than the most powerful discrete graphics in the fastest 21.5-inch iMac, allowing users to render edits in real time or add complex filters to their photos in a snap.
- The ability to edit up to five streams of 4K footage, or one stream of 8K footage,5 without dropping a frame in Final Cut Pro.
- Up to 3x faster machine learning in apps that leverage the 16-core Neural Engine in M1.6
Best Camera, Mics, and Speakers Ever in a Mac
iMac features a 1080p FaceTime HD camera — the best ever in a Mac — which delivers high-quality video and great performance in low light. iMac also takes advantage of the image signal processor in the M1 chip and the Neural Engine, enhancing camera image quality with better noise reduction, greater dynamic range, and improved auto exposure and white balance. So whether connecting with family or on a video call while working from home, users will always look their best.
To complement the camera, the new iMac features a studio-quality three-microphone array for clearer calls and voice recordings, the best ever in a Mac. The mics are positioned to reduce feedback from the rest of the system, while directional beam forming allows them to better ignore background noise and focus on a user's voice. As a result, conversations are more natural and recordings are crystal clear.
The new iMac also features the best sound system ever in a Mac. It has two pairs of force-cancelling woofers placed side by side for an impressive bass response, while reducing unintended vibrations. Each pair is balanced with a high-performance tweeter. The result is a six-speaker sound system that produces a massive sound stage with strong, articulate bass and crystal-clear mids and highs. All of these speaker innovations, coupled with advanced algorithms, enable iMac to support spatial audio when playing music and video with Dolby Atmos. Together with its beautiful 4.5K Retina display, iMac transforms any space into an incredible movie-watching experience.
Thousands of Universal Apps Now Available
There are now thousands of popular and powerful Universal apps available that take full advantage of M1 and macOSBig Sur,, including Photoshop, Twitter, Microsoft Office, Quicken, Slack, Affinity Publisher, Zappos, 1Password, and DaVinci Resolve, with more arriving every week. With the power of M1 and macOS Big Sur, and thousands of Universal apps, iMac can turn an office into a movie theatre, a living room into a classroom, a kitchen into a conference room, or shine as the centerpiece of a retail space.
Touch ID Comes to iMac, Along with Colour-Matched Accessories
Customers can choose from three models of Magic Keyboard with gorgeous aluminium enclosures that are colour-matched to iMac. And for the first time, Touch ID comes to iMac.7 Implemented wirelessly on Magic Keyboard, it uses a dedicated security component on the keyboard that communicates directly with Secure Enclave in M1, creating an encrypted channel to protect users' fingerprint data from end to end. Whether unlocking their Mac or making a purchase with Apple Pay, users enjoy a fast, easy, and secure experience. Additionally, Touch ID works with Fast User Switching, so customers can change to a different user profile with just the press of a finger. Customers can also choose Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad, as well as the colour-matched Magic Mouse and the industry-best Magic Trackpad.
State-of-the-Art Connectivity for Data and Devices
Every iMac features two Thunderbolt ports for superfast data transfers, giving customers high-performance options to connect to more devices, including support for up to a 6K display, like the Apple Pro Display XDR, and Wi-Fi 6 delivers faster wireless performance.The 8-core iMac configuration offers two additional USB-C ports and also features a 1Gbps Ethernet port in the power adapter, allowing for a less cluttered desktop.
Better for the Environment
Today, Apple is carbon neutral for global corporate operations, and by 2030, plans to have net zero climate impact across the entire business, which includes manufacturing supply chains and all product life cycles. This means that every Apple device sold, from material collection, component manufacturing, assembly, transport, customer use, charging, all the way through recycling and material recovery, will be 100 percent carbon neutral.
The new iMac is minimising its impact on the environment, built using a low-carbon aluminium enclosure and 100 percent recycled tin in the solder of its main logic board. One hundred percent wood fibre in the packaging is recycle The magnets in the speakers, fan motor, and power connector are made with 100 percent recycled rare earth elements. iMac remains free of harmful substances and meets Apple's high standards for energy efficiency.
iMac Joins the M1 Family
Every Mac with M1 — the new iMac, MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini — is transformed into an entirely different class of product and redefines what each of them can do. Combined with macOS Big Sur, M1 brings extraordinary battery life and breakthrough performance to the Mac. Whether customers prioritise portability, power, or capability, there's a Mac for everyone. Learn more about the Mac family at apple.com/mac.
Pricing and Availability
- The new 24-inch iMac is available to order beginning Friday, April 30, on apple.com and in the Apple Store app. It will begin arriving to customers and be available in select Apple Store locations and through Apple Authorised Resellers beginning in the second half of May.
- iMac with 7-core GPU starts at $1,299 (US) and $1,249 (US) for education, and is available in green, pink, blue, and silver. It features an 8-core CPU, 8GB of unified memory, 256GB SSD, two Thunderbolt ports, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Mouse.
- iMac with 8-core GPU starts at $1,499 (US) and $1,399 (US) for education, and is available in green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue, and silver. It features an 8-core CPU, 8GB of unified memory, 256GB SSD, two Thunderbolt ports, two additional USB 3 ports, Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, Magic Mouse, and Ethernet.
- Additional technical specifications, configure-to-order options, and accessories are available at apple.com/mac.
- Customers can experience the new iMac at select Apple Store locations and have their questions answered in person. Customers who visit stores are encouraged to check apple.com/retail for information on opening hours, services available, and the health and safety measures in place.
- Anyone can get shopping help from Apple Specialists, choose monthly financing options, trade in eligible devices, and get Apple Support and no-contact delivery or Apple Store pickup options.
- Every customer who buys iMac from Apple can enjoy a free Online Personal Session with an Apple Specialist, and receive guidance on how to make their iMac work the way they want.
- Customers in the US can trade in their eligible device for an Apple Gift Card or credit toward their purchase. If the device is not eligible for credit, Apple will recycle it for free.
- For a limited time, eligible customers who purchase a new iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, or Mac can enjoy one year of Apple TV+ for free and three months of Apple Arcade for free.8
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- Claim is based on comparison with the 21.5-inch iMac.
- Actual diagonal screen measurement is 23.5 inches.
- Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 chip and 16GB of RAM measuring peak single thread performance of workloads taken from select industry-standard benchmarks, commercial applications, and open-source applications. Comparison made against the highest-performing CPUs for notebooks commercially available at the time of testing. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Pro.
- Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 chip and 16GB of RAM using select industry-standard benchmarks. Comparison made against the highest-performing integrated GPUs for notebooks and desktops commercially available at the time of testing. Integrated GPU is defined as a GPU located on a monolithic silicon die along with a CPU and memory controller, behind a unified memory subsystem. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Pro.
- Claim is based on comparison to the highest model of the 21.5-inch iMac.
- Testing conducted by Apple in March 2021 using preproduction 24-inch iMac systems with Apple M1 chip and 8-core GPU, as well as production 3.0GHz 6-core Intel Core i5-based 21.5-inch iMac systems, all configured with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD. Tested with prerelease Xcode 12.5 and Create ML 2.0, with an Action Classification model created in the app. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of iMac.
- iMac with 7-core GPU can configure to Magic Keyboard with Touch ID.
- $4.99 per month each for Apple TV+ and Apple Arcade after free trial. Special offers are good for three months after the first activation of the eligible device. One Apple TV+ offer and one Apple Arcade per Family Sharing group. Plans automatically renew until cancelled. Other restrictions and terms apply; visit apple.com/promo for more information.


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Ahead of its official release later today, the first high-resolution photos of the Samsung Galaxy S4 have leaked from China. The images not only confirm the rumored hardware specs (4.99-inch 1920x1080 display, 8-core Exynos Octa SoC), but they also confirm the Galaxy S4's dimensions (it's super-thin!), the battery size, and introduce some interesting new software features -- such as S Pen... but without the pen.
First, the dimensions. The Galaxy S4 will be 140.1mm long, 71.8mm wide, and just 7.7mm thick. This means the S4 is slightly longer and wider than the Galaxy S3 (to be expected with the larger screen), but a full millimeter thinner. The Galaxy S4 weighs 138 grams, up slightly from the S3's 133g (again, probably due to the larger screen). All in all, and as we can clearly see in the leaked images, the Galaxy S4 will physically be very similar to the S3.
On the hardware side, the Chinese photos(Opens in a new window) clearly show the S4's 4.99-inch 1920x1080 display -- though it still isn't clear if this is an AMOLED or LCD display. The close-up photos hint that the Galaxy S4 will have a real RGB display, rather than RGBG PenTile, but we'll have to wait until the official announcement later today to find out for sure. We also have confirmation that the Galaxy S4 -- at least in China -- will have an 8-core Exynos Octa 5410 SoC. The Exynos Octa uses four Cortex-A15 cores clocked at 1.8GHz for heavy lifting, and four Cortex-A7 cores in a big.LITTLE setup to perform background and less-intensive tasks. The new Cortex-A15 core is incredibly powerful, but at the expense of being very power hungry. The Exynos Octa will be the first mainstream use of a big.LITTLE setup, though, and it will be very interesting to see if the S4 (and Android) can make good use of those wimpy A7 cores.
Rounding out the hardware, the Galaxy S4 has a tri-core PowerVR 544MP3 GPU clocked at 533MHz (the same GPU as the iPhone 5's A6 SoC, but at a higher clock speed), 2GB of RAM, a MicroSD slot, and a monstrous 2,600 mAh battery. The larger battery will help offset the larger display and power-hungry Cortex-A15 cores. The larger battery will also help with LTE connectivity -- though, curiously, there's still no mention of whether these leaked Galaxy S4s actually support LTE. A mobile carrier in the UK has said that its Galaxy S4s will support LTE, so we're probably still looking at at least two versions of the S4: One powered by the Exynos Octa, and another powered by the Snapdragon 600 or 800 SoC with integrated LTE modem.
On the software side, the photos show that the Galaxy S4 will support eye tracking, though there's still no details on how the tracking is being performed. There does seem to be a new aperture/camera at the top of the phone, which could well be the eye tracking hardware. It seems the S4 will also let you interact with the interface by hovering your finger over the screen, rather than touching it, which apparently creates an effect like the Galaxy Note's S Pen.
We're sure that both eye tracking and this S Pen-without-the-pen feature will be shown off tonight -- so be sure to check back around 7pm ET for ExtremeTech's coverage of the Galaxy S4 launch event in New York.
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Lobia Fritters/Alasandula vada:
1 cup Lobia/Alasandulu/Black eyed peas
3-4 tbsp finely chopped Onion(1 onion)
2 tbsp finely chopped coriander
2-3 tbsp grated carrot(optional)
1 " ginger,chopped
3-4 green chillies
1 tbsp chopped curryleaves
salt to taste
Oil to deep fry
- Soak lobia overnight or atleast for 3hrs.Drain them and spread over a kitchen towel/napkin to remove excess water and pat dry.
- Grind lobia with ginger,salt and green chillies to a coarse paste,preferably do this process in whipper mode.
- Add finely chopped onions,coriander,curry leaves and grated carrot and mix well.
- Heat oil in a deep kadai over low flame until it is quite hot.
- Grease a thick plastic cover or banana leaf or your palm with oil and take a small portion of batter and make a round ball out of it and slight pat it until it forms vada by pressing it at the edges and carefully lower them into hot oil and fry them over medium flame until it is golden brown and crisp outer side.
- Drain them on paper towels and serve it hot with tomato ketchup.
Lobia Sundal/Alasandula Guggillu:
1 cup cooked Lobia/Alasandulu/Black eyed peas
1 tbsp chana dal
1 tsp urad dal
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
a pinch of hing/asafoetida(optional)
5-6 curry leaves
2-3 tbsp fresh grated coconut
3-4 dry red chillies,broken
1 tsp lemon juice(optional)
1 tsp ghee/oil
salt to taste
- Soak lobia overnight or atleast for 3hrs.Pressure cook them with some salt until 3-4 whistles,it should hold its shape and should not become mushy.Drain cooked lobia and set aside.
- Heat ghee in a kadai and crackle mustard seeds.Add chana dal and urad dal and fry until they turn red in color.
- Add broken red chillies and fry for a minute.Now add curry leaves and hing and fry for another minute.
- Add cooked and drained lobia and stir fry for few minutes,do this process carefully in order to avoid lobia to become mushy.
- Add little salt as we added already some salt while cooking them.Add grated coconut and mix properly.
- Switch off the flame and after a minute add lemon juice and stir properly and serve.
- For a Vegan version use oil instead of ghee for tempering.


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With income and rights, women living with HIV/AIDS start afresh in Cambodia's villages
More than 1,300 poor women have received home-based care, skills-training and grants to start their own businesses through a Fund for Gender Equality programme.Date:
I was afraid to sell goods to villagers," admits Mom, a 35-year-old single mother of two young girls living in Norea Ten village in Svay Rieng province, in southeastern Cambodia. She used to work as a producer of local Khmer Wine (Sra Sor) but was forced to stop when she was diagnosed with HIV.
Mom recalls the hostility she faced from her neighbours in the village, who would take her products and refuse to pay for them – all of which made her fearful for her safety and ability to make a living.
According to the Report of a joint UN AIDS & UN Women Asia Regional Technical Meeting on Responding to the Feminization of AIDS, between 1997 and 2006, the proportion of women living with HIV increased from 38 to 52 per cent. However, this trend has since turned around. In 2011, 44 per cent of new infections were women and this rate is expected to continue to decrease gradually. In rural areas, discrimination against women living with HIV and AIDS is compounded by the lack of education and knowledge of the epidemic.
In 2010, two local Cambodian NGOs, Cambodia Health Education Media Service (CHEMS) and Cambodian HIV/Aids Education and Care (CHEC) came together to develop a programme to tackle the many challenges that low-income women and those living with HIV face in rural Cambodia. The two-year programme was designed to address the challenges these women face in a comprehensive manner, to strengthen their economic opportunities, leadership skills and access to health care, as well as to improve the knowledge about HIV/AIDS among these women and their families. CHEMS and CHEC applied for funding and successfully became a grantee of UN Women's Fund for Gender Equality (FGE).
The programme "Strengthening the Economic Livelihoods Opportunities for Low-Income and HIV-Positive Women" was implemented in 12 provinces from 2011 to 2013, in close partnership with community-based organizations and Cambodia's Ministry of Information, the National Aids Authority and the Ministry of Women's Affairs, in line with the five-year national HIV strategy for 2009-2013.
Today, the programme has reached over 1,300 women, providing them with livelihood skills-training and grants to kick-start their own businesses, as well as health counselling and home-based care services. Through self-help group meetings, they have also increased awareness of their basic rights and developed their abilities to advocate for those rights.
When the programme's home-based care team visited Mom at her home in 2011, she had no means of earning an income to support her two daughters. She soon signed up for pig-raising training, as her mother had an empty pig pen that she could borrow. Following her completion of the training, Mom received a USD 100 grant. She bought two young piglets for USD 50 and saved the rest. The first pig she sold for USD 375, allowing her to expand her business and buy four more.
Today Mom says she is happy with her job and has time to take care of her girls. She plans to spend the profits of her next pig sale on building a new house so that when it rains they will no longer have to go to her mother's house for shelter.
By addressing the loss of livelihood, one of the most significant factors contributing to the poverty and vulnerability of women and families affected by HIV, the FGE-funded programme works with women to build a better future for women like Mom.
The final evaluation of the programme, which concluded in March 2013, indicates that beneficiaries are now generating more income, are committed to continue and expand the livelihood activities, and that their families have better nutrition and food security as a result, as well as funds for children's school education.
In addition, Cambodia's National AIDS Authority's endline survey [1] reveals another positive impact: a significant increase in the number of beneficiaries who can now afford to send their children to school after the programme's implementation.


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Award ceremony speech
The following account of Butenandt's work has been made.
As recently as twelve years ago, very little was known about the nature of the sex hormones. As regards the oestrogenic, or follicle, hormone it was established that extracts from certain organs, e.g. the ovaries and placenta, bring about the characteristic oestrus phenomena in castrated female rats. Only a few observations were available concerning the stability and solubility of their active principles. Further development in the chemistry of the oestrogenic hormones could not take place until the purely biological discoveries by Allen and Doisy in 1923 and by Aschheim and Zondek in 1927 had been made.
Butenandt made the first big step forward in clarifying the chemistry of the follicle hormone in 1929 in Göttingen, simultaneously with Doisy in the United States. Both workers succeeded in isolating from the urine of pregnant women a substance in crystalline form having oestrogenic effects. Butenandt named this substance folliculine, a designation which was later changed to oestrone. He established that its empirical formula was C18H22O2, and that it was an oxyketone.
Shortly after the discovery of oestrone, Marrian in London (1930) isolated from the urine of pregnant women a new hormone which he called oestriol. Butenandt confirmed Marrian's discovery and explained the relationship between the new substance and oestrone. The relation between sterols and oestrogenic substances which had been assumed on crystallographical grounds became probable from the chemical point of view only after Butenandt and Marrian had shown, independently of one another, that only three benzoide double bonds enter into the ring system of these substances.
In 1932, Butenandt was able, from observations made in spectral analysis, and especially on the basis of the then established correct formula of cholesterol to draw up the formulae of the chemical structure of oestrone and oestriol. But there remained the important task of proving the chemical structure of the ring system as assumed by Butenandt. By breaking down the oestriol molecule stage by stage Butenandt proved that both œstrogenic hormones contained a phenanthrene core. At the same time he was able to obtain the same dimethyl phenanthrene from etiobilianic acid, a transformation product of cholic acid. He had thus confirmed the close relationship existing between the follicle hormones on the one hand and the bile acids and sterols on the other.
The second important ovarian hormone, the corpus luteum hormone, was by various workers obtained in crystalline form from corpus luteum in 1931 and 1932. In 1934, Butenandt and Westphal succeeded in producing this hormone, which was given the name progesterone, in a chemically pure form. They also demonstrated its close relationship with pregnanediol, a physiologically inactive dihydric alcohol which Butenandt and Marrian had found independently of one another in the urine of pregnant women. In the autumn of 1934, Butenandt succeeded in converting pregnanediol into progresterone. The synthesis of this important pregnancy hormone from cholesterol was carried out by Butenandt in a simple way in 1939.
The merit of the chemical exploration of the testicular, or androgenic, hormones falls to Butenandt and Ruzicka in common. Butenandt was the first to tackle this problem, and it was only possible to work on it after biological research had found a quantitative test for the determination of these substances – the so-called capon comb test.
Butenandt started with male urine, or alternatively its chloroform extract – approximately 0.8 per thousand dissolved in chloroform. In the process of purification it proved that the male hormone behaved in many respects like oestrone; when he realized this, it made Butenandt's work considerably easier.
When the purification had been successfully accomplished, there presented for the first time a crystalline substance with the physiological properties of a male sex hormone.
Butenandt gave this substance the name androsterone and defined its composition as C19H30O2. It differs from oestrone only in the additional content of 1 methyl group and 5 hydrogen atoms. Butenandt drew up the full constitutional formula in 1934 on the basis of the formula of cholesterol.
Androsterone had been synthesized from epi-cholestanol by Ruzicka, but it soon proved to be not identical with the genuine male hormone from the testicles. For this reason it made a great stir when in 1935 Laqueur and his collaborators isolated from testicular extract a highly active hormonetestosterone.
The close relationship of testosterone to androsterone made it comparatively easy to clarify its chemical composition, and still in the same year 1935 Ruzicka and Butenandt were able, in the same way but independently of each other, to obtain testosterone from trans-dehydro-androsterone.
Butenandt, Ruzicka and others then produced from sterols various new substances which, when tested as male sex hormones, were found to be active in varying degrees.*
* Professor Adolf Butenandt was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1939, for his work on sex hormones. Owing to political conditions at the time, Professor Butenandt was prevented from accepting the prize. In 1949 he received the gold medal and the diploma.
The following account of Ruzicka's work has been made.
The higher terpenoids or polyterpenes, which occur in great variety in the vegetable kingdom, were originally the main subject of Ruzicka's investigations, and the extremely difficult determination of their structure has been made possible through his exceptional experimental skill. The pioneering work of Ruzicka and his co-workers has led to thorough investigations of a very large number of important polyterpenes.
When studying the natural odorants occurring in musk and civet, muscone and civetone, little known until then, Ruzicka obtained fundamentally new and surprising results during the years 1924-1926. He discovered that the molecule of muscone as well as that of civetone contains one single ring of carbon atoms, the number of which was considerably larger than that in all hitherto known cyclic molecules, larger even than had been considered possible. During his investigations of these odora he synthesized many kindred macrocyclic compounds, and drew attention to the plant-physiologically remarkable fact that these could be prepared from natural fatty acids.
Many interesting relationships exist between the polyterpenes studied by Ruzicka and a series of physiologically and medicinally important groups of compounds, viz. the bile acids, the sterols and the sex hormones. Among the many interesting results obtained by Ruzicka and his collaborators with sex hormones, the preparation of compounds with the same action as male sex hormones is of signal importance. It is his merit that by establishing preparative methods for androsterone and testosterone the technical synthesis of these two hormones has been made possible.
Moreover, the numerous new related compounds prepared by Ruzicka have contributed fundamentally to our knowledge of the physiologically so very important sex hormones, thus creating a sound basis for future investigations *.
At a special ceremony in Zurich the prize was handed over to Professor Ruzicka by the Swedish ambassador Baron H. G. Beck-Friis on January 16, 1940, after a speech ending with the following words:
Professor Ruzicka. On behalf of the Nobel Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences I convey to you the most cordial congratulations – to which I may be permitted to add my own – and at the same time express my hope that you will be able to extend your research successfully to ever-increasing fields in the service of mankind.
With this hope I have the honour to present you with the Certificate of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the year 1939 and with the Nobel Medal.
* Professor L. Ruzicka was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1939, for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes. Owing to the war conditions Professor Ruzicka attended the ceremonies later in 1945.
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Welcome to OpenOCD! =================== OpenOCD provides on-chip programming and debugging support with a layered architecture of JTAG interface and TAP support including: - (X)SVF playback to facilitate automated boundary scan and FPGA/CPLD programming; - debug target support (e.g. ARM, MIPS): single-stepping, breakpoints/watchpoints, gprof profiling, etc; - flash chip drivers (e.g. CFI, NAND, internal flash); - embedded TCL interpreter for easy scripting. Several network interfaces are available for interacting with OpenOCD: telnet, TCL, and GDB. The GDB server enables OpenOCD to function as a "remote target" for source-level debugging of embedded systems using the GNU GDB program (and the others who talk GDB protocol, e.g. IDA Pro). This README file contains an overview of the following topics: - quickstart instructions, - how to find and build more OpenOCD documentation, - list of the supported hardware, - the installation and build process, - packaging tips. ============================ Quickstart for the impatient ============================ If you have a popular board then just start OpenOCD with its config, e.g.: openocd -f board/stm32f4discovery.cfg If you are connecting a particular adapter with some specific target, you need to source both the jtag interface and the target configs, e.g.: openocd -f interface/ftdi/jtagkey2.cfg -c "transport select jtag" \ -f target/ti_calypso.cfg openocd -f interface/stlink.cfg -c "transport select hla_swd" \ -f target/stm32l0.cfg After OpenOCD startup, connect GDB with (gdb) target extended-remote localhost:3333 ===================== OpenOCD Documentation ===================== In addition to the in-tree documentation, the latest manuals may be viewed online at the following URLs: OpenOCD User's Guide: http://openocd.org/doc/html/index.html OpenOCD Developer's Manual: http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/html/index.html These reflect the latest development versions, so the following section introduces how to build the complete documentation from the package. For more information, refer to these documents or contact the developers by subscribing to the OpenOCD developer mailing list: email@example.com Building the OpenOCD Documentation ---------------------------------- By default the OpenOCD build process prepares documentation in the "Info format" and installs it the standard way, so that "info openocd" can access it. Additionally, the OpenOCD User's Guide can be produced in the following different formats: # If PDFVIEWER is set, this creates and views the PDF User Guide. make pdf && ${PDFVIEWER} doc/openocd.pdf # If HTMLVIEWER is set, this creates and views the HTML User Guide. make html && ${HTMLVIEWER} doc/openocd.html/index.html The OpenOCD Developer Manual contains information about the internal architecture and other details about the code: # NB! make sure doxygen is installed, type doxygen --version make doxygen && ${HTMLVIEWER} doxygen/index.html ================== Supported hardware ================== JTAG adapters ------------- AICE, ARM-JTAG-EW, ARM-USB-OCD, ARM-USB-TINY, AT91RM9200, axm0432, BCM2835, Bus Blaster, Buspirate, Cadence DPI, Chameleon, CMSIS-DAP, Cortino, Cypress KitProg, DENX, Digilent JTAG-SMT2, DLC 5, DLP-USB1232H, embedded projects, eStick, FlashLINK, FlossJTAG, Flyswatter, Flyswatter2, FTDI FT232R, Gateworks, Hoegl, ICDI, ICEBear, J-Link, JTAG VPI, JTAGkey, JTAGkey2, JTAG-lock-pick, KT-Link, Linux GPIOD, Lisa/L, LPC1768-Stick, Mellanox rshim, MiniModule, NGX, Nuvoton Nu-Link, Nu-Link2, NXHX, NXP IMX GPIO, OOCDLink, Opendous, OpenJTAG, Openmoko, OpenRD, OSBDM, Presto, Redbee, Remote Bitbang, RLink, SheevaPlug devkit, Stellaris evkits, ST-LINK (SWO tracing supported), STM32-PerformanceStick, STR9-comStick, sysfsgpio, TI XDS110, TUMPA, Turtelizer, ULINK, USB-A9260, USB-Blaster, USB-JTAG, USBprog, VPACLink, VSLLink, Wiggler, XDS100v2, Xilinx XVC/PCIe, Xverve. Debug targets ------------- ARM: AArch64, ARM11, ARM7, ARM9, Cortex-A/R (v7-A/R), Cortex-M (ARMv{6/7/8}-M), FA526, Feroceon/Dragonite, XScale. ARCv2, AVR32, DSP563xx, DSP5680xx, EnSilica eSi-RISC, EJTAG (MIPS32, MIPS64), Intel Quark, LS102x-SAP, NDS32, RISC-V, ST STM8. Flash drivers ------------- ADUC702x, AT91SAM, AT91SAM9 (NAND), ATH79, ATmega128RFA1, Atmel SAM, AVR, CFI, DSP5680xx, EFM32, EM357, eSi-RISC, eSi-TSMC, EZR32HG, FM3, FM4, Freedom E SPI, i.MX31, Kinetis, LPC8xx/LPC1xxx/LPC2xxx/LPC541xx, LPC2900, LPC3180, LPC32xx, LPCSPIFI, Marvell QSPI, MAX32, Milandr, MXC, NIIET, nRF51, nRF52 , NuMicro, NUC910, Orion/Kirkwood, PIC32mx, PSoC4/5LP/6, Renesas RPC HF and SH QSPI, S3C24xx, S3C6400, SiM3x, SiFive Freedom E, Stellaris, ST BlueNRG, STM32, STM32 QUAD/OCTO-SPI for Flash/FRAM/EEPROM, STMSMI, STR7x, STR9x, SWM050, TI CC13xx, TI CC26xx, TI CC32xx, TI MSP432, Winner Micro w600, Xilinx XCF, XMC1xxx, XMC4xxx. ================== Installing OpenOCD ================== A Note to OpenOCD Users ----------------------- If you would rather be working "with" OpenOCD rather than "on" it, your operating system or JTAG interface supplier may provide binaries for you in a convenient-enough package. Such packages may be more stable than git mainline, where bleeding-edge development takes place. These "Packagers" produce binary releases of OpenOCD after the developers produces new "release" versions of the source code. Previous versions of OpenOCD cannot be used to diagnose problems with the current release, so users are encouraged to keep in contact with their distribution package maintainers or interface vendors to ensure suitable upgrades appear regularly. Users of these binary versions of OpenOCD must contact their Packager to ask for support or newer versions of the binaries; the OpenOCD developers do not support packages directly. A Note to OpenOCD Packagers --------------------------- You are a PACKAGER of OpenOCD if you: - Sell dongles and include pre-built binaries; - Supply tools or IDEs (a development solution integrating OpenOCD); - Build packages (e.g. RPM or DEB files for a GNU/Linux distribution). As a PACKAGER, you will experience first reports of most issues. When you fix those problems for your users, your solution may help prevent hundreds (if not thousands) of other questions from other users. If something does not work for you, please work to inform the OpenOCD developers know how to improve the system or documentation to avoid future problems, and follow-up to help us ensure the issue will be fully resolved in our future releases. That said, the OpenOCD developers would also like you to follow a few suggestions: - Send patches, including config files, upstream, participate in the discussions; - Enable all the options OpenOCD supports, even those unrelated to your particular hardware; - Use "ftdi" interface adapter driver for the FTDI-based devices. ================ Building OpenOCD ================ The INSTALL file contains generic instructions for running 'configure' and compiling the OpenOCD source code. That file is provided by default for all GNU autotools packages. If you are not familiar with the GNU autotools, then you should read those instructions first. The remainder of this document tries to provide some instructions for those looking for a quick-install. OpenOCD Dependencies -------------------- GCC or Clang is currently required to build OpenOCD. The developers have begun to enforce strict code warnings (-Wall, -Werror, -Wextra, and more) and use C99-specific features: inline functions, named initializers, mixing declarations with code, and other tricks. While it may be possible to use other compilers, they must be somewhat modern and could require extending support to conditionally remove GCC-specific extensions. You'll also need: - make - libtool - pkg-config >= 0.23 (or compatible) Additionally, for building from git: - autoconf >= 2.69 - automake >= 1.14 - texinfo >= 5.0 USB-based adapters depend on libusb-1.0. A compatible implementation, such as FreeBSD's, additionally needs the corresponding .pc files. USB-Blaster, ASIX Presto and OpenJTAG interface adapter drivers need: - libftdi: http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/index.php CMSIS-DAP support needs HIDAPI library. Permissions delegation ---------------------- Running OpenOCD with root/administrative permissions is strongly discouraged for security reasons. For USB devices on GNU/Linux you should use the contrib/60-openocd.rules file. It probably belongs somewhere in /etc/udev/rules.d, but consult your operating system documentation to be sure. Do not forget to add yourself to the "plugdev" group. For parallel port adapters on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD please change your "ppdev" (parport* or ppi*) device node permissions accordingly. For parport adapters on Windows you need to run install_giveio.bat (it's also possible to use "ioperm" with Cygwin instead) to give ordinary users permissions for accessing the "LPT" registers directly. Compiling OpenOCD ----------------- To build OpenOCD, use the following sequence of commands: ./bootstrap (when building from the git repository) ./configure [options] make sudo make install The 'configure' step generates the Makefiles required to build OpenOCD, usually with one or more options provided to it. The first 'make' step will build OpenOCD and place the final executable in './src/'. The final (optional) step, ``make install'', places all of the files in the required location. To see the list of all the supported options, run ./configure --help Cross-compiling Options ----------------------- Cross-compiling is supported the standard autotools way, you just need to specify the cross-compiling target triplet in the --host option, e.g. for cross-building for Windows 32-bit with MinGW on Debian: ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 [options] To make pkg-config work nicely for cross-compiling, you might need an additional wrapper script as described at https://autotools.io/pkgconfig/cross-compiling.html This is needed to tell pkg-config where to look for the target libraries that OpenOCD depends on. Alternatively, you can specify *_CFLAGS and *_LIBS environment variables directly, see "./configure --help" for the details. For a more or less complete script that does all this for you, see contrib/cross-build.sh Parallel Port Dongles --------------------- If you want to access the parallel port using the PPDEV interface you have to specify both --enable-parport AND --enable-parport-ppdev, since the later option is an option to the parport driver. The same is true for the --enable-parport-giveio option, you have to use both the --enable-parport AND the --enable-parport-giveio option if you want to use giveio instead of ioperm parallel port access method. ========================== Obtaining OpenOCD From GIT ========================== You can download the current GIT version with a GIT client of your choice from the main repository: git://git.code.sf.net/p/openocd/code You may prefer to use a mirror: http://repo.or.cz/r/openocd.git git://repo.or.cz/openocd.git Using the GIT command line client, you might use the following command to set up a local copy of the current repository (make sure there is no directory called "openocd" in the current directory): git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/openocd/code openocd Then you can update that at your convenience using git pull There is also a gitweb interface, which you can use either to browse the repository or to download arbitrary snapshots using HTTP: http://repo.or.cz/w/openocd.git Snapshots are compressed tarballs of the source tree, about 1.3 MBytes each at this writing.


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1 | Wisdom has made her house, putting up her seven pillars. |
2 | She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready. |
3 | She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying, |
4 | Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says: |
5 | Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed. |
6 | Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge. |
7 | He who gives teaching to a man of pride gets shame for himself; he who says sharp words to a sinner gets a bad name. |
8 | Do not say sharp words to a man of pride, or he will have hate for you; make them clear to a wise man, and you will be dear to him. |
9 | Give teaching to a wise man, and he will become wiser; give training to an upright man, and his learning will be increased. |
10 | The fear of the Lord is the start of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One gives a wise mind |
11 | For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long. |
12 | If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if your heart is full of pride, you only will have the pain of it. |
13 | The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all. |
14 | Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town, |
15 | Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says: |
16 | Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says: |
17 | Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing. |
18 | But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld. |


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1. Any serviceable complete (or nearly-complete) bicycle, adult or children's, accompanied by a suggested minimum $10 per bike donation to defray a share of the costs in getting bikes to quality programs overseas and get information back for donors and the public. Flat tires or a missing seat or pedal matter little. Fat-tired mountain bikes and one-speed "cruisers" are the most-desired models. We also accept tandems, recumbents, adult tricycles, trail-a-bikes, and even unicycles.
We welcome children's bikes, because (1) they get children to school, (2) servicing a kid's bike overseas generates mechanic employment just as an adult bike does, and (3) they fit well into the interstices of a shipping container (and increase the value of the shipment)!
2. Usable bicycle SPARE PARTS and components, including tubes, tires, wheels, chains, pedals, saddles, cables, and mountain bike handlebars (but not "drop" handlebars). These items fit well within the shipments of bicycles, adding value without displacing bicycles.
3. Usable bicycle accessories, including helmets, pumps, locks, gloves, chains (for locks), bicycle books and manuals, and hand tools including general tools such as wrenches and screw drivers, as well as specialized bike tools. As with spare parts, these fit easily and add value within our shipments, and are much welcomed.
4. We also collect good-quality metal portable sewing machines in working order, or close to it. Older Singer and similar machines are high-value, in-demand items that fit in small spaces in the shipping containers without displacing bikes. Like bicycles, sewing machines represent a "productive asset" for a low-income working person. Most go to the same vocational programs receiving our bicycles. As with bike donations, an accompanying contribution of $10 is strongly suggested.
We DO NOT generally accept: children's tricycles, "Razor" or other children's scooters, bicycle frames lacking any or most components, or "rust-bucket" bikes whose painted frames are beginning to rust through or whose chains are frozen solid with rust.
Please, NO TABLE SEWING MACHINES – they require too much labor and space to transport, store, and pack. And no off-brand plastic sewing machines--they break quickly and are hard to repair.
We NO LONGER COLLECT cell phones, nor do we accept sports equipment.


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ULTRA Music Festival Drops RESISTANCE Miami Lineup Ahead of Twentieth Anniversary
With thirty-three events across five continents under its belt in 2017 alone, including an eight-week debut residency at Privilege Ibiza, ULTRA's world-renowned RESISTANCE concept returns to Miami bigger and better than ever before, as it announces its mammoth lineup for 2018.
Having significantly upgraded and expanded its presence across Bayfront Park last year, RESISTANCE will once again dominate two colossal areas of ULTRA's waterfront home, as it continues to grow into its own festival within a festival. In addition to welcoming back Arcadia Spectacular's jaw-dropping 'Spider' for the third consecutive year, RESISTANCE's global ambassador Carl Cox will again host the Megastructure on Friday, March 23 and Saturday, March 24 to ring in the festival's landmark twentieth birthday.
The 'Spider' will run across all three days of the event, headlined by heavyweights including Better Lost Than Stupid (Davide Squillace, Mattias Tanzmann & Martin Buttrich), Chris Liebing, Guti (live) b2b wAFF, Hot Since 82, J.E.S.u.S (Jackmaster, Eats Everything, Skream and Seth Troxler), Nic Fanciulli, Patrick Topping & Special Guest, Sasha & John Digweed, Stephan Bodzin (live) and many more…
As expected The Megastructure will welcome back some of the biggest names in house and techno across the first two days of the festival, with headline sets form Carl Cox (on both days), Adam Beyer, Jamie Jones, Joseph Capriati, Josh Wink, Nastia and a special b2b2b performance from Dubfire, Nicole Moudaber & Paco Osuna and a debut performance from Pan-Pot.
More names are due to be announced across both arenas in the coming weeks.
RESISTANCE takes place at Ultra Music Festival which is an 18+ event during Miami Music Week on March 23, 24 and 25, 2018. General Admission and VIP tickets are currently on sale at ultramusicfestival.com priced at $379.95 and $1,499.95 respectively, but the festival is 90% sold out so act now before it's too late.
Early Bird and Payment Plan tickets have now sold out.
For further details and ticket information, head to ultramusicfestival.com. For more information on all RESISTANCE events, visit resistancemusic.com.


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– Yield 450 gr/m2
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The son and namesake of ousted Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos took a commanding lead in an unofficial vote count in Monday's presidential election in the deeply divided Asian democracy.
With 80% of the votes tabulated, Marcos Jr. had 25.9 million, far ahead of his closest challenger, current Vice President Leni Robredo, a champion of human rights, who had 12.3 million.
The election winner will take office on June 30 for a single, six-year term as leader of a Southeast Asian nation hit hard by two years of COVID-19 outbreaks and lockdowns.
Still more challenging problems include deeper poverty and unemployment and decades-long Muslim and communist insurgencies. The next president is also likely to hear demands to prosecute outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte for thousands of killings during his anti-drug crackdown — deaths already under investigation by the International Criminal Court.
Duterte's daughter, southern Davao city Mayor Sara Duterte, is Marcos Jr.'s vice presidential running mate in an alliance of the scions of two authoritarian leaders. Their partnership has combined the voting power of their northern and southern political strongholds, boosting their chances but compounding worries of human rights activists.
Sara Duterte also had a formidable lead with 25.8 million votes for vice president in the unofficial count from the Commission on Elections server. The president and vice president are elected separately in the Philippines.
"History may repeat itself if they win," said Myles Sanchez, a 42-year-old human rights worker. "There may be a repeat of martial law and the drug killings that happened under their parents."
In a late-night video statement, Marcos Jr. did not claim victory but thanked his supporters for accompanying him on "this sometimes very difficult journey" and urged them to keep up their guard until the vote count is completed.
"Let us keep watch on the vote," he said. "If we'll be fortunate, I'll expect that your help will not wane, your trust will not wane because we have a lot of things to do in the times ahead."
Marcos Jr., whose father was ousted in a 1986 army-backed "People Power" uprising, held a wide lead in pre-election surveys. But Robredo tapped into shock and outrage over the prospect of a Marcos recapturing the seat of power and harnessed a network of campaign volunteers to underpin her candidacy.
Officials said the election was relatively peaceful despite pockets of violence in the country's volatile south. Thousands of police and military personnel were deployed to secure election precincts, especially in rural regions with a history of violent political rivalries.
Filipinos stood in long lines to cast their ballots, with the start of voting delayed by a few hours in a few areas due to malfunctioning vote machines, power outages, bad weather and other problems.
Eight others were in the presidential race, including former boxing star Manny Pacquiao, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno and former national police chief Sen. Panfilo Lacson.
Sanchez said the violence and abuses that marked the martial-law era under Marcos, and Duterte's drug war more than three decades later, victimized loved ones from two generations of her family. Her grandmother was sexually abused and her grandfather tortured by counterinsurgency troops under Marcos in the early 1980s in their impoverished farming village in Southern Leyte province.
Under Duterte's crackdown, Sanchez's brother, a sister and a sister-in-law were wrongfully linked to illegal drugs and separately killed, she told The Associated Press in an interview. She described the killings of her siblings as "a nightmare that has caused unspeakable pain."
She begged Filipinos not to vote for politicians who either openly defended the widespread killings or conveniently looked away.
Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte avoided such volatile issues in the campaign and steadfastly stuck instead to a battle cry of national unity, even though their fathers' presidencies opened some of the Philippines' most turbulent divisions.
"I have learned in our campaign not to retaliate," Sara Duterte told followers Saturday night on the final day of campaigning, where she and Marcos Jr. thanked a huge crowd in a night of rap music, dance shows and fireworks near Manila Bay.
At her own rally, Robredo thanked her supporters who jammed her star-studded sorties and waged a house-to-house battle to endorse her brand of clean and hands-on politics. She asked them to fight for patriotic ideals beyond the elections.
"We've learned that those who have awoken will never close their eyes again," Robredo told a crowd that filled the main avenue in the capital's Makati financial district. "It's our right to have a future with dignity and it's our responsibility to fight for it."
In Maguindanao province, a security hot spot in the south, three village guards were killed by gunmen outside an elections center in Buluan town, briefly disrupting voting. Nine would-be voters and their companions were wounded separately Sunday night when unidentified men fired five rifle grenades in the Datu Unsay town hall, police said.
Aside from the presidency, more than 18,000 government posts are being contested, including half of the 24-member Senate, more than 300 seats in the House of Representatives, as well as provincial and local offices across the archipelago of more than 109 million Filipinos.
More than 67 million people were registered to vote, including about 1.6 million Filipinos overseas.
In the 2016 contest, Duterte emerged as the clear winner within a few hours after polls closed and his key challengers quickly conceded. The vice presidential race that year was won narrowly by Robredo over Marcos Jr., and the outcome was slower to become known.
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For the first dress, I chose this cheerful yellow and pink Hawaiian print poplin.
I knew I wanted a sundress silhouette, so I chose two of the mix and match skirt and bodice patterns from the book: the strapless bodice and three-quarter circle skirt.
It's similar to the Red Eyelet Sundress, but I used the sweetheart neckline option rather than the straight-across neckline. It's like a Choose Your Own Dress Adventure!
The construction is almost exactly what's described in the book, including a full lining. I used a lovely sunny yellow Kona cotton for the lining. The bodice is fully boned for support. Here it is in progress!
Incidentally, the hair scarf is made from this cotton lawn. I love how the two fabrics look together!
I had always intended this dress to have some sort of halter strap, as that's just something I associate with Hawaiian sundresses. So I made this easy gathered strap that snaps in.
I just made an 8" x 24" rectangle, and sewed it into a tube, then angled the ends so they'd sit properly when worn. I gathered the ends and the middle of the strap, tying off the bobbin threads. I finished off the ends with self binding, and then added snaps.
I'll have a lot more dresses to show you; in fact we've already completed several more. I'll tell you more about the fabrics as they ship into stores. Some of them are already available online though! Also, for you international readers, I will have fabrics available for sale in my etsy shop. More to come!


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Every year on Halloween, a certain kind of idea or story takes form, gets dressed up and throws a great party, called the mythic ball. These ideas prefer to be called "archetypes" (and you use the term "monster" at your own peril). For example, Dragon here isn't a particular dragon; she didn't make Saint George a legend, she's never guarded the vaults in Gringotts and she doesn't make a habit of burninating anything. Rather, she exists as the idea of a dragon, a force created by human culture and called upon when someone needs something large, reptilian and powerful for a particular creation.
It's the night of the mythic ball; Dragon is holding court in her glorious dress. She was the queen of the monsters' ball last year; those rare times she doesn't win, she's quite gracious about it, knowing as she does that the title will pass back to her sooner rather than later. Certain parties are known to hum "Puff, the Magic Dragon" behind her back, and there was a great fuss last year when Kraken made a snippy remark about her archetype being based on majestic giant squids and Dragon's being based on cute little frill-necked lizards.
"I suppose you're all just as popular as ever?" Dragon asks the group of archetypes surrounding her. She's trying, without success, to keep from looking smug. Her courteous nature doesn't allow her to directly bring up her own triumphs, but should someone happen to return the question to her, she would bring up how very pleased she was by that handsome and very popular young man voicing one of her newer representations, and how she had actually figured in several very popular cultural works lately. As a matter of fact, these days representing her archetype could be said to constitute its own industry. Not that she had calculated the salary of all the CG renderers, motion capture specialists, character designers and fantasy artists and authors who made up her most devoted fanbase, but she was sure it would be a most pleasing number. They feed their families and expand their portfolios thanks to the world's desire for her; she grows as if nourished not by a hoard of gold but by a wealth of stories and artistic works.
Incidentally, there's a second dragon archetype enjoying the party; this one is older than she is, and, she knows, more powerful. How much of her desire to be the center of this event stems from her jealousy, I can't say.
Happy October, a month which you may know I like to celebrate as the most important time of the paperdoll year since it includes Halloween, a holiday that just begs for fanciful costumes. Those of you who have been reading for a while may remember this dragon-themed masquerade gown from 2010, and the promise of similar dresses to come. It never happened, because I finished that dress — still one of my favorites — and realized I'd never top it in time. (I think that's also when I first noticed my wrists having problems.) Well, now that I'm doing digital coloring and shooting for one dress a week, it's time to revisit the mythic ball…
Who will we meet next? The contentious Kraken mentioned in this installment, perhaps? Or another of the many archetypes attending the ball? Come back next week to find out! In the meantime, don't forget that you can now download combined color and black and white PDFs of all of my 2014 dolls and outfits for free! Also follow me on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest for sneak previews, paperdoll thoughts and fun reference images of dresses. If you enjoy my work, I'd also appreciate your support through Patreon.


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My original plan was to use them as a sandwich with pulled pork as the filling but Matt said he wanted the pork in the middle to be bacon, just bacon, nothing but bacon. Ok, I can go with that though, I added a little fig & jalapeno jam to mine which gave a nice sweetness against the salty bacon.
The biscuits themselves were really easy to make especially if like me you just microwave the sweet potato. They come out really light & fluffy which surprised me, you'd think potato would make them heavy. I used a Jersey Sweet potato because those tend to be our favorite. They are really light yellow and have a mild flavor. Next time I think I'll use an oranger, stronger flavored sweet potato as we would have liked a little more of a sweet potato flavor. We will be making these again though to serve with sausage gravy, fried chicken or just some warm butter & a little honey.
Sweet Potato Biscuits
Adapted from All Recipes
1 sweet potato
3/4 c all-purpose flour
1 T baking powder
1 1/2 t sugar
3/4 t salt
2 T unsalted butter, cold
3 T heavy cream + extra for brushing on biscuits
Poke the sweet potato a few times with a fork. Microwave until soft. (On my microwave it's about 4 minutes on high.) Let cool until touchable. Peel off skin. Mash. Let cool to room temperature.
Preheat oven to 400 F.
Mix the flour, baking powder, sugar & salt together. Cut in the cold butter until about pea size. Mix in the sweet potato. Add the cream 1 tablespoon at a time until you get a soft dough.
Turn out on to a lightly floured surface. Roll out until 1/2 inch thick. Cut with a biscuit or other circular cutter. Place 1 inch apart on a baking sheet that has either been greased or lined with a silicon mat. Brush the top of each biscuit with a little cream.
Bake for 13 - 16 minutes until golden brown.
I got four 2 1/2 inch biscuits plus 1 smaller one. This would probably make six 2 inch biscuits.


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While the end of the year is not quite here yet (but rapidly approaching), now is an opportune time to take a moment and start your year-end tax planning for 2018. This is particularly necessary this tax year because of the changes to the tax law that became effective in 2018. As a result of the significant changes in the law, your taxes may look different this year, so you should allow for some extra time in the preparation. Getting started early is even more essential if you are a business owner, have moved to another state, or plan to make charitable contributions before the year ends.
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Now is the best opportunity to make use of tax strategies to take advantage of tax-deferred growth opportunities, charitable-giving opportunities, as well as tax-advantaged investments among others. During this tax planning process, you will also want to make sure you maximize deductions and credits ahead of the busy tax season. As you consider your year-end options, make sure to sit down with your attorney or other advisors to review your investments to ensure they still align with your goals, the economic landscape, and the current tax law. This conversation can help you identify where adjustments may be necessary for the future.
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Know that the "traditional" year-end planning we've recommended for years still applies to your 2018 taxes. Make sure you are harvesting losses to offset your gains, are contributing the appropriate amount to your Individual Retirement Account (IRA) and/or Health Savings (HSA) accounts, and have taken the necessary required minimum distribution from your IRA (if this applies to you). Other things to consider is fully funding employer-sponsored retirement plan contributions such as 401(k, 403(b) or 457 plans before the end of the year. The same rings true for college savings plans, such as 529 plans. You may even want to consider converting a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA.
Beyond these important points, also make sure to start gathering the necessary documentation you may need for any deductions that you are claiming. These may include copies of statements or receipts regarding your property taxes, medical expenses, dental expenses, child care expenses, education expenses, moving expenses, and heating/cooling expenses. For business owners, the new 199A deduction for business income will have additional paperwork requirements. It's best to work with your bookkeeper and accountant at gathering those records now, rather than waiting until the hectic tax season.
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It could be said that I love cheese but this next cheese loves you back - how can you resist the delightful heart-shaped Serenade from Capra Cheese?
Cheese Name: Serenade
Location: 125 Tices Road, Mt Lookout
This has a double layer of ash - one surrounding the heart and the other straight through the center.
All cheese made by Capra uses organic goats' milk from their own free-range herd.
Much like their Velvet this has that same creamy, clean taste with the ash giving it another dimension. The flavour is quite distinct, I know my sister likened it to a blue cheese but I put it more towards a bitey vintage cheddar.
This cheese is now available at The Cheese Shop Deli at Prahran Market as well as the other places listed in my earlier post.
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Pentagon Radically Reducing Oversight of Contracts Worth Tens of Billions
The Pentagon has radically decreased the Defense Contract Audit Agency's (DCAA) review of contracts, according to an October 18 DCAA memo obtained by POGO. DCAA's job is to protect taxpayers from contractor overbilling.
"POGO has long feared contractors and their government allies would block DCAA from exposing contractor ripoffs," said Nick Schwellenbach, POGO's director of investigations. "Why are billions of dollars being put at risk when Secretary Gates is demanding cost savings?"
According to the memo, contracting guidance "now limits contracting officer requests for audit services to Fixed-price proposals over $10 million and Cost-Type proposals over $100 million, unless there are exceptional circumstances."
These audit services are reviews of cost data (referred to as "reviews") and they entail an examination of a contractor's cost proposal to the government. In these proposals, contractors estimate how much it will cost them to accomplish work on a contract.
Previously, there was no dollar threshold for reviews on fixed-price contract proposals, but contracting officers would limit requests for DCAA reviews of proposals over a threshold tied to the submission of cost or pricing data, which is currently $700,000. The old threshold for reviews of cost-type proposals was $10 million, but could be lower if the contractor has systemic problems estimating costs.
In FY 2009, a total of at least $92 billion in Defense Department contracts fell between the old thresholds and the new ones, according to USAspending.gov. The $92 billion figure is a conservative estimate – it reflects awarded and funded contracts, rather than contract proposals, which are often higher than the funded contract award amounts.
The guidance states that cost proposals below the new dollar thresholds for review may be sent instead to the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA). DCMA is typically less thorough than DCAA, according to a 2009 Wartime Contracting Commission report. The DCMA also does not specialize in examining and verifying cost and pricing data.
The reason for this new restriction is DCAA's attempt to perfectly comply with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS). With this standard, which requires meticulous documentation of findings, DCAA is unable to cover as much ground as they used to, thus the need to restrict "audits" as defined by GAGAS. The number of DCAA reports produced annually has plunged: 33,801 in FY 2007 to 30,352 in FY 2008 to 21,276 reports in FY 2009.
Rather than subjecting reviews of cost or pricing data to GAGAS, DCAA should consider these reviews as financial advisory services, which are not subject to all GAGAS requirements. This would better protect taxpayers and warfighters by allowing DCAA to review cost data and deliver advice to contracting officers in a timely fashion.
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Curried Chicken Wraps
2005, Ina Garten, All Rights Reserved
Prep Time:20 minInactive Prep Time:3 hr 0 minCook Time:45 min
6 servings
3 split (1 1/2 whole) chicken breasts, bone in, skin on
Olive oil
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1 1/2 cups good mayonnaise
1/3 cup dry white wine
1/4 cup chutney (recommended: Major Gray"s)
3 tablespoons curry powder
1 cup medium-diced celery (2 large stalks)
1/4 cup chopped scallions, white and green parts (2 scallions)
1/4 cup raisins
1 cup whole roasted, salted cashews, chopped
6 tortillas
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Place the chicken breasts on a sheet pan and rub the skin with olive oil. Sprinkle liberally with salt and pepper. Roast for 35 to 40 minutes, until the chicken is just cooked. Set aside until cool enough to handle. Remove the meat from the bones, discard the skin, and shred the chicken in pieces.
For the dressing, combine the mayonnaise, wine, chutney, curry powder, and 1 1/2 teaspoons salt in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade. Process until smooth.
Combine the chicken with enough dressing to moisten well. Add the celery, scallions, and raisins, and mix well. Refrigerate for a few hours to allow the flavors to blend. Add the cashews to the chicken.
Fill the center of each tortilla with the chicken mixture. Fold the 2 sides of the tortilla over the filling so that the sides overlap. Roll the tortilla from bottom to top, and cut in half diagonally.
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Take a Break Watch this Vid is something that I came up with here at Ali's Bookshelf. It's a time to put the book down and watch a book trailer or movie trailer. Today's edition is from Harper Teen.
The first vid today is a book trailer of a book that I'm dying to get my hands on. Same goes for each of these books below! Enjoy!
I can't wait to read all of these books! What do you think? The last one reminds me of a bit of The Hunger Games, so I'm excited to see the differences.


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How do you get a 2-year old and a slightly-reformed veggie hater to eat leafy greens? You add pasta.
It never fails.
We've set a couple of goals this year, one of the big ones – and probably the most difficult one – is to eat more plants. There's a direct correlation between the size and shade of a green vegetable and the severity of the scrunchy-nose-and-wrinkled-brow face that I get when I'm planning our dinner menu. The more identifiable the vegetable or the darker the green, the scrunchier the face. (And scrunchier is totally a word. Now.)
But grate some of those objectionable vegetables into small pieces and mix that scrunchy face-inducing green with pasta, a little cheese, and just a little meat to accent the dish (there are few meatless meals wouldn't cause a revolt in this house) and you've got a healthy pasta dish that's a winner among veggie lovers and haters a like.
And my favorite bite is that first one, the one loaded with the top layer of slightly crispy pasta and cheese.
Image used with permissionUpdate: The winner is Emily B with comment #46!
And for the giveaway: it's a 4-piece set of Microplane graters from BigKitchen.com!
The blades on each Microplane grater are designed for a specific food/task:
– Spice grater (nutmeg and cinnamon sticks)
– Hard cheeses and carrots (and it's great for chocolate, too!)
– Soft cheeses and potatoes
– Citrus, garlic, and ginger
A great set of high-quality tools to use for any recipe that requires you to shred, zest, grate, or mince ingredients. To enter, head over to The Big Kitchen Store to see what they have to offer and then share with us in the comments: What kitchen tool is at the top of your must-buy list?
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Baked Penne with Chicken and Kale
Kale transforms this pasta dish into a healthy one-bowl dinner.
- 13.25 oz box penne pasta (I use Dreamfield)
- 2 tsp olive oil
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 large red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
- 1 large carrot, grated
- 2 cloves garlic, grated or minced
- 2 bunches kale, stems removed and chopped
- 48 oz ricotta (I used half part-skim and half fat-free)
- 1 tsp Tobasoco (or other hot sauce)
- Zest and juice of 1 lemon
- 1 oz Parmesan, finely grated (about 3/4 cup)
- 1 1/2 cups leftover chicken, shredded (I used 1 chicken breast)
- Salt
- Pepper
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cook pasta according to package directions.
- Drain the pasts and return it to the pot pot.
- In a large skillet, heat olive oil over medium-high.
- Add onion and red bell pepper, cooking until softened (~5 minutes).
- Add grated carrot and garlic, cooking another 2 minutes.
- Add kale, toss, and cover, turning off the heat and letting sit for 5 minutes.
- Transfer to the pot with pasta.
- Stir in ricotta, lemon zest and juice, hot sauce, 1/2 cup Parmesan, and chicken.
- Season generously with salt and pepper. Transfer mixture to a 13x9 or large dish.
- Top with remaining Parmesan. Bake until bubbly and the top golden brown, 30 minutes.
Yields: 10 servings
Estimated time: 50 minutes
Note: I used Dreamfield penne and calculated the nutritional info based on such. If you use a different pasta, your mileage will vary.
Nutritional Information
Calories: 338.0 | Fat: 8.4g | Fiber 5.4g | Protein 26.1g | Carbs 19.0
Weight Watchers PointsPlus: 6
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Unfortunately, rejection can be a very real outcome of applying to private schools in L.A. The competition is fierce and you can emerge from the process without one single acceptance letter. After all that work, you still don't have a private school where you can send your child.
As you know, from our book and this blog, my co-authors and I believe there's a great private elementary school out there for every family. It may not be the one you had your heart set on. It may not be this week, this month or even this year. But, if you think you want a private school education for your child, don't give up.
· Whatever you do, don't let this temporary setback deter you from seeking the best education possible for your child, whether public or private. It's out there. Waiting for your family.


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Sedatek is the sole agent for the best known nitrous oxide/oxygen inhalation sedation equipment flowmeter (MDM Matrx) which is manufactured in the USA. Although it imports the head, it supplies all the ancilliary equipment required in order to employ the technique, much of which is manufactured in South Africa. We therefore also supply the necessary scavenging equipment, which is required by South African law. This makes Sedatek unique in that it imports the minimum and manufactures the maximum from South African manufactured components. The MDM equipment is approved equipment in the USA, Europe and South Africa and is manufactured to the highest possible standards of safety.


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14 Secretly Cruel Soft Rock Love Songs
Is there any more gentle genre of music than soft rock?
The guitars were acoustic, their harmonies were pop and all breezes were summery. Soft rock is as inoffensive as it gets, all the better to maximize its appeal to a mainstream audience.
But while the sound is placid and lyrics full of sunshine and love, let's not forget the era it came from. This was a decade of one-night stands, fresh divorcees back out on the town and plenty of drinking and drugs. So of course people wrote what they knew.
A lot of songwriters managed to bury some darker storylines in their soft rock songs, keeping them just under the surface to not jeopardize that sweet, sweet AM radio airplay. Here are 14 Secretly Cruel Soft Rock Love Songs whose happy pop sides are only what a fool believes.
Bee Gees, "Nights on Broadway"
Considered by many one of the Bee Gees' best, "Nights on Broadway" features sparkling Gibb harmonies, a fine chugging '70s groove and the POV of a determined stalker. The jilted lover here is waiting in line to see his ex after her Broadway performance, where he's followed her even though she specifically did not want him to. We don't know the result of their meeting, but this one doesn't matter since he's prepared to wait a whole lifetime anyway. A similar story was handled more deftly and less creepily in Thomas Dolby's "Europa and the Pirate Twins."
Raydio, "You Can't Change That"
And here comes Ray Parker Jr. to make the Gibbs look measured. "You Can't Change That" starts out as a solid and reasonable declaration of love. As the song continues, he reminds the object of his affection that she can try changing her telephone number and address, but she's not going to get away from him that easily. Following that, the lines about changing the color of her hair and the clothes she wear seem less like a declaration of loving the person inside and more like tracking down someone in Witness Protection.
Captain & Tennille, "Love Will Keep Us Together"
Perhaps the worst offender of the happy pop bait-and-switch, the bubbly "Love" was the No. 1 song for all of 1975. Can anyone resist an ode to lifelong soulmates? Everyone knows the couplet "Love will keep us together/Think of me, babe, whenever," which is a great place to stop -- stop! -- because the rest of the song is Tennille instructing Captain on how to turn down groupies "whenever" they come on to him. In case he's not convinced, she reminds him he'll soon be old and ugly and never get anyone else anyway.
Benny Mardones, "Into the Night"
Lots of songs from this era mention teenage girls, which is fine from the perspective of a teenage boy or an older man nostalgic for lost youth. "Into the Night" doesn't even try pretend it's that; its first line is the protagonist's buddies straight-out telling him to keep away from the 16-year-old jailbait. But come on, man, implores Benny, those lawmakers responsible for protecting our children are a bunch of "fools who don't know what love is yet." This song is notable for two separate Top 20 chart runs, in 1980 and 1989, with Mardones 41 years old during the second one.
Harry Chapin, "Cat's in the Cradle"
Everyone knows this story-song about a man who's never around during his son's childhood, and then, in an ostensibly poignant "the call's coming from inside the house!" twist, the son ignores his dad because he's grown up just like him. Except upon closer examination, he really didn't. The son doesn't have time to see his dad on command because, unlike you, Dad, he's actually taking care of his own kids, who are sick. The dad is so unfamiliar with this concept that he hijacks the last verse to make it all about him anyway.
Todd Rundgren, "Hello, It's Me"
This tune is a symbol of sensitivity, to the point that it serves as the soundtrack of a pivotal scene in The Virgin Suicides where the neighborhood boys and doomed sisters play record snippets for each other over the phone. (Speaking directly might have scared one of the Virgins off, like baby deer.) Most of the lyrics here are pretty thoughtful, until Todd Rundgren casually tosses off the real reason he's calling: to "spend the night if you think I should." I mean, if not, no biggie but he just thought he'd throw it out there -- making it about as sensitive as a 2AM text reading "hey."
Dr. Hook, "A Little Bit More"
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show had hits like "Cover of the Rolling Stone" and "Sylvia's Mother," the latter being sincerely romantic even if it's schmaltzy. The Medicine Show must have kept things under control, because once they shortened their name to "Dr. Hook," their true creeper-pop selves emerged. The worst is "A Little Bit More," which almost hit the Top 10 in 1976 and has the now-jarring chorus "When your body's had enough of me/And you're laying flat out on the floor/When you think I've loved you all I can/I'm going to love you a little bit more." A close second is 1980's self-explanatory "Girls Can Get It."
Eric Clapton, "Wonderful Tonight"
"Wonderful Tonight" is one of several songs Eric Clapton wrote for his then-wife Pattie Boyd, and on first listen, this seems pretty admiring, and the tale is straightforward: man goes to a party with his wife, and she's so gorgeous everyone stares at her and everything is wonderful. And then he gets too drunk and his wife helps him to bed, and it's still wonderful because ... actually, it's not. Clapton had a serious drinking problem and was often violent to Boyd during his binges. Just because he called his then-enabler something nice before he passed out doesn't make it the capper on a whimsical story.
Barry Manilow, "Looks Like We Made It"
The chorus sounds so positive and celebratory, like a couple finishing a marathon and bursting through the finish line hand in hand. But the jubilant "we made it!" isn't directed to his current partner, but instead toward a former lover he's finally no longer pining over, even though he's been doing so behind his current flame's back. Congratulations on your achievement! It took a whopping one glimpse of his ex for him to realize they failed (or at least he did) at making it anyway, so all the theatrics were premature.
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Alone Again (Naturally)"
All right, this one's already pretty morose. O'Sullivan is sad because his fiancee left him at the altar, sad his parents died, sad he's alone. But this has to be the hugest American hit (it's ranked the No. 5 song of the entire decade) that takes place while the protagonist is actively planning his upcoming suicide. He makes the protagonist of Gram Parsons' "$1000 Wedding" seem downright joyous.
Rupert Holmes, "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)"
This one shouldn't have aged so poorly, since everyone now meets their partners in a personal ad-ish way online (its central situation is even more possible than in the '70s). The biggest, most obvious problem is the nonchalant way they both laugh off their mutual cheating. But almost as bad is how their dating qualifications are a rum hangover of '70s-sitcom cliches. You like to do yoga? You're out, hippie. You eat health food? Ew, gross, you're out too. But "if you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape," which is totally a thing you've done a bunch of times and have an overriding fondness for, then see you at O'Malley's.
Gladys Knight & the Pips, "Midnight Train to Georgia"
Yeah, it's sweet, she's following him to his hometown because she loves him, right? If he weren't such a wimp who couldn't hack it in Los Angeles, maybe. But the wannabe-star boyfriend is crawling home with his tail between his legs, with no thought to her or her own entertainment-industry career, which apparently was doing a lot better since this song was a No. 1 hit. The line toward the end about "now I'm his alone" may explain some of her real motivations for spiriting him out of town.
Dave Loggins, "Please Come to Boston"
Another separated-lover song, but this time the woman's not getting off the couch to go anywhere. She's stalwartly in Tennessee while her lover provides appealing scenarios in other cities: She can sell her art on the street, he'll yell how much he loves her into the canyon, they can look at the stars together. She turns him down not for any practical reason or because she's got better things going on, but by commanding "that ain't your kind of town because I say so." Notice he never goes back to her. Maybe she can meet up with the guy from Georgia; it's a lot closer and he's already a wuss.
Chicago, "Saturday in the Park"
This doesn't have an obvious dark underside, but come on, he remembers every single thing about that afternoon, yet he only "thinks" it was the 4th of July?
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Here's Everything Kelsea Ballerini Would Tell Us About Her Wedding [Watch]
We know Kelsea Ballerini is set to marry fiancé Morgan Evans, but beyond that, she hasn't shared too much ... until now.
The "Yeah Boy" singer let a few details about her upcoming nuptials slip (yes, there will be an open bar), but kept much hidden during a chat with Taste of Country. The 23-year-old has set a date, and while we can confirm it's after her WE Fest appearance in August, that's about all we got as far as the "when."
"I'm not super traditional at all," Ballerini tells Taste of Country Nights, "so I feel like the more ways we can make it a non-traditional wedding we probably will."
She will wear white, but Evans won't wear a tuxedo. Each of them will have five on their side of the bridal party, and while she hasn't done the inviting yet Ballerini says to expect two bridesmaids from the music industry, and three she knows from elsewhere. If you're wondering, she's not planning to ask friend Taylor Swift to stand up in the wedding. We had to ask!
9 Adorable Pictures of Kelsea and Morgan
Still unknown or undecided is the wedding song, if she'll marry in Tennessee (or America even) or Evans' homeland of Australia. The two lovers' parents haven't met yet — that won't happen until wedding week. As she plans all of this, Ballerini is working on finishing her new album. Of course we got a few details about that, too!
A new single will be revealed after "Yeah Boy" finishes its run up the country airplay charts. She's been playing "Roses" live and is very happy with the response, but don't assume that's going to be her next radio hit. Overall it will be very personal album. There's nothing like "Yeah Boy" on the follow-up to The First Time.
"I feel like the so album is so personal that I'm like actually a little anxious to put it out," she says. "There were songs that I was nervous to show my label, nervous to show my management ... but to see the way the people close to me that know me really well have responded to it makes me excited to get it out there."
This summer Ballerini will be opening up for Lady Antebellum. She says aside from the music, she's looking forward to spending quality time with good friend Hillary Scott.
Sam Alex is the host of Taste of Country Nights radio, a syndicated night show which airs on more than 75 stations nationwide. Listen to highlights on iTunes or your Android device.
Listen to Kelsea Ballerini's Interview With ToC Nights,
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