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A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart.
I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents.
I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now. because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.
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But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness.
When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream.
And, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty, who formed us in his own image, and the breath


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Reflexology – A system of massage used to relieve tension and treat illness, based on the theory that there are reflex points on the feet, hands, and head linked to every part of the body.
The theory behind reflexology is that these areas correspond to organs and systems of the body. Proponents believe that pressure applied to these areas affects the organs and benefits the person's health.
Reflexologists use foot charts to guide them as they apply pressure to specific areas. Sometimes these practitioners use items, such as rubber balls, rubber bands and sticks of wood, to assist in their work. Practitioners of reflexology include chiropractors, physical therapists and massage therapists, among others.
Several studies funded by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health indicate that reflexology may reduce pain and psychological symptoms, such as anxiety and depression, and enhance relaxation and sleep. Studies also show that reflexology may have benefits in palliative care of people with cancer.
Reflexologists claim that reflexology also can treat a wide variety of medical conditions, such as asthma, diabetes and cancer. However, scientific evidence is lacking to support these claims.
Reflexology is generally considered safe, although very vigorous pressure may cause discomfort for some people.

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peruse Friday's Fancies to pick up on the newest, hottest spring trends!
No wonder I'm doing a happy spring dance!
Yup. You most definitely have my pick for favorite Friday Fancies outfit of the night. :) Really really love your outfit...
and cute blog btw, following you now :)
60's are nice...it's already in the 80's here!! Oh and I love the neutral/neon mix!
Cute!! I almost bought a top like that, but in green, yesterday!
I loved those Prada shoes when I first saw them and now that they're on sale I'm so tempted to make the purchase. Eeeek.
Beautiful, and those earrings! me want!!
LOVE the pinks with that neon belt - so cute :)
The Other Side of Gray
i love that skirt! v pretty. xoxo jillian:: cornflake dreams
What a fun outfit! So fun love the pops of neon!
Have a great weekend girl:)
WInter pretty much skipped Texas this year, but I'm not complaining either! Love that skirt!
I am dying to try out a long maxi skirt this spring!
Great combo!
A Day in the Life and Mind...
Beautiful outfit...so soft. I love it!
I noticed your blog was named "Coral Cafe" and was instantly intrigued, because my spring fever outfit today was built around a coral blazer. Isn't it just the best color?
P.S. - LOVE those booties you included.
So you're tellin me you're dresses in Spring gear already because you haven't seen any snow?! Or is it more like Fall gear? Up here there's such a clear distinction between seasons and therefore a clear distinction in fashion as well, but I always wondered what it'd be like for those who have no snow. Do you just keep dressing in fall fashion? Have a GREAT WEEKEND, and great outfit!! Sooo pretty and colorful! x
I'd like to add this whole outfit to my wardrobe. Pastels are one of my favorite spring trends this year!
I just got a shirt almost identical to #2 (the pale pink sleeveless button up). I found it outlet shopping at a steal for about $5. So happy. Loving this round-up!
That bag! That bag! I'm in love.
Lovin the accessories you pulled for this look ~ the earrings are amazing!
love these bright colors drew! that belt = amaze!!! love it all:)
Happy weekend girl!
Such a great look! Love that maxi skirt, especially. Have a great weekend!
Perfect little belt for that outfit, Drew. Happy Friday. xo
That skirt is divine! And so are the earrings - so you!
Love the feminine shades of pink, and 100% agree about the pairing. The neon belt adds the perfect amount of pop! xo
What lovely inspiration! Loving all the pastels and neons and I need those earrings!
This is such a gorgeous spring outfit... though I'd love to wear it today!
Spring gorgeousness!!
Loving the pastels! I did a similar thing for my friday fancies haha! That jacket is really freaking cute... I kinda sorta really want it haha! :)
Have a fun weekend!!!
Nicole Rene
I'm happy to be a new follower! I love what you have shared and can't wait to see what you have for the future.
Stop by sometime and check out my latest post. I'd love to hear what you think!
that entire outfit is so dream worthy!!!!! adore everything!
xo TJ
loving this! and those earrings? oh my god..i die! and isn't the weather crazy?! it's like winter never happened!
I am loving this entire look! The pop of neon is so unexpected.
Have a fabulous weekend,
Oh that skirt...! Dying for a maxi with pleats like that. And such fun accessories too!
I LOVE the skirt and shoes you picked out! Thanks for the sweet comment.. you've got a new follower! xo
Love the color variation with the brown as a strong neutral. I am totally loving these maxi skirts...a colored one is definitely on my "must have" list for Spring! Hope you have a wonderful weekend and Happy Friday!!
Twirling Clare
Such pretty pastels! I love the maxi and bag.
that skirt is amazing!
That belt is such the perfect pop of color for this outfit! Very nice look. I love the long skirt.
Well now that outfit is just gorgeous. Love the color of that skirt.
Oh suga snap pea I'm totally loving this and that punch of neon... Ohhhiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
I love it!!
Drew this is soo perfect for spring! Love all the pastels with the nuetral jacket, genius! This can get in my closet now.
You nailed it with this outfit. I love love love that skirt!
Love the maxi skirt! Have a great weekend :)
Laura xo
Drew that's so cute! I love the pastels with the neons mixed in! It's so chic and springy, I'm a fan! Have a great weekend darlin!
I love love love the pops of neon!!
Love, Leigh
Great items!
Ioana of Fashezine
Very cute! I wish I could pull it off. Baby steps, right?! :)
absolutely love!
what a gorgeous combination! I love all of those colors!
love the outfit!
xoxo navy & orange
Loving that maxi skirt paired with the heels! Gorgeous look, as usual! :)
What a beautiful and stylish ensemble, Drew! Love it, and I´m pretty much obsessed with that gogeous skirt!
xx Ivana
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Macarons and Pearls
What a fabulous outfit. Love the Miu Miu shoes!! Thrilled to find and follow your blog ~
That skirt is absolutely fantastic :) What a beautiful color!
gosh i'm loving long skirts right now and this color is absolutely divine!! lovely outfit!! xo


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Rainbow Mental Health Facility to hold town hall meeting
Published January 28th, 2014 at 3:28 PM
The organizations involved with the revamped Rainbow Mental Health Facility in Kansas City, Kan., are holding a town hall meeting Friday to explain the changes.
Officials have scheduled the meeting for 10 a.m. at the Johnson County Mental Center, 6000 Lamar Ave. in Mission, Kan.
Last week, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback announced that Rainbow will reopen as a crisis-stabilization resource serving Johnson and Wyandotte counties. Plans call for it to begin operations by April 1.
State officials closed all but six of Rainbow's beds in 2011 after federal surveyors said the facility was understaffed and the state fire marshal found safety violations. The state converted the six beds to a crisis stabilization unit.
Wyandot Center, the community mental health center in Kansas City, Kan., is managing the new facility.
Also included in the collaboration are the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, the Johnson County Mental Health Center and the Heartland Regional Alcohol and Drug Assessment Center.
According to Wyandot Center, the expanded continuum of care at Rainbow will provide a broader array of services as alternatives to hospitalization or jail for people who can benefit from community-based interventions.
Major Funding for Health coverage on KCPT provided by Assurant Employee Benefits and the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City.


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If you were hurt aboard a rig, barge, tugboat, tanker ship or any other vessel, you might have rights as a seaman under the Jones Act. The Jones Act is a federal maritime law that grants specific rights to injured seamen, crewmen and some other maritime workers, including the following:
The Jones Act covers crewmen who are injured or die through the negligence of their employers aboard vessels in navigable waters at sea or rivers, lakes, bays, bayous, sounds, or any other waterway. Unfortunately, not all accidents aboard floating vessels are covered by the Jones Act. To find out if you have a case, please contact the knowledgeable Lake Jackson Jones Act lawyers of Stevenson & Murray. Your consultation and case evaluation will be free and completely confidential.
Our Lake Jackson Jones Act lawyers also handle claims against third parties other than the employer for those who may be covered under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA). While many employees injured aboard a vessel—the captain, first mate, deckhands, engineers, wipers, and even cooks and housekeepers—may have a claim under the Jones Act, others may need experienced legal help to find other sources of compensation and benefits, such as LHWCA claims for qualified maritime workers or state workers' compensation benefits.
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Web Designer Magazine: Five Questions with Mayhem Studios
I had the pleasure of Dave Harfield interview me for Web Designer Magazine: Web Design for Real People and defining the internet through beautiful design. I was asked, "Five Questions with Calvin Lee of Mayhem Studios."
The Five Questions Were Fun Yet Informative:
+ Describe yourself in five words?
+ Which design tool makes the biggest contribution to your creative output and why?
+ What do you consider to be the most useful technique in the design/development process?
+ Web creatives love designer fonts. What's your favourite and why?
+ One tip that you would give anyone trying to get into the industry?
So head on over to Web Designer Magazine to find out what my answers were to the, "Five Questions with Calvin Lee of Mayhem Studios."
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MASSAMAN CURRY THE KING FOOD IN THE WORLD (by CNN)
Emphatically the king of curries, and perhaps the king of all foods. Spicy, coconutty, sweet and savory, its combination of flavors has more personality than a Thai election.
Even the packet sauce you buy from the supermarket can make the most delinquent of cooks look like a Michelin potential. Thankfully, someone invented rice, with which diners can mop up the last drizzles of curry sauce.
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Berlitz is more than a language school. With a tradition of excellence stretching back more than a century, our passion and drive motivates course participants to succeed. Ongoing innovation ensures only the best materials and methods are used in every single Berlitz lesson around the world. The company's commitment to being the best has resulted in a strong and recognized brand with a wide variety of products. Berlitz has a broad customer base with a range of interests, which further demonstrates its appeal to a large cross-section of the global population.
The inner workings of Berlitz
Berlitz is a highly regarded company that has become a leading global player in language acquisition and study. Students and employees alike benefit from Berlitz's flexible management structure to leave more time to focus on what really matters: the success of its customers. Regardless of what position you assume at Berlitz, you can expect to be involved in a diverse selection of tasks.
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Professionalism, cooperation and passion are a must for every person who works at Berlitz. It is only by working with passion that the company can provide the services its customers expect. Berlitz also strives to maintain a multinational, fast-paced atmosphere that makes it fun for everyone to be a part of the Berlitz family and also believes in giving all of its employees the autonomy they need to make quick decisions that streamline company goals.
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No matter what job appeals to you at Berlitz, you will receive in-depth training, all the support you need and access to various study materials.
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The book Iberian Adventures was published in English in May 2017.
If you love Spain and want to know more about this fascinating country I can recommend you to read this book, written by an Irishman who fell in love with Spain in the 50ties and has lived in Spain since 1978.
I specially enjoyed the chapters dedicated to the first english hispanists of Spain like Henry Swinburne, Richard Ford and Gerald Brenan and of course the American, Washington Irving.
And the ones which tell us more about the first inhabitants of the Iberian peninsula.
The book with this beautiful cover
is full of anecdotes about the discoveries Gibson made in the museum of Archeology in Madrid and his visits to historic places all over the pensinsula.
Gibson likes etymology of words and affirms that the word Hispania, the roman name for Spain, means Land of Rabbits, the name being given to Iberia by the people from Carthago (important city on the tunesian coast in times of the romans).
Also he is interested in the special devotion in the spanish culture of the Virgen Mary. He affirms that he thinks the reason of the importance of the Virgin is that religions before christianity had their own goddess of fertility being very important in iberian culture. Small sculptures of the Godess Astarté from fenician origin are to be seen as the ancestors of the virgen Mary.
These and innumerable other details, also about the origins of El Quijote the world famous book of Cervantes can make you feel dazzled by the knowledge of Gibson.
Gibson also writes about Federico García Lorca, Machado and about the lack of contact between Portugal and Spain. He dreams about a future of Spain and Portugal becoming a part of a Federal Iberian Republic.
About Catalunya he remarks the lack of willingness of Rajoy to discuss and listen to the Catalans and he writes about his own relation with the editorial Planeta.
In the last chapter called 'Love Spain, sad Spain' Gibson writes about the virtues and non virtues of Spain and the Spanish.
About the sun, many times implacable, the sociability of the people and the noise they produce, the look of the Spanish straightforward in the eyes ……
The book ends with reflections about the Law of Historic Memory which was approved during the government of President Zapatero and the way the judge Garzón was removed from his position and the fact that still many of the rests of the victims on republican side have not had a dignified burial.
Gibson also talks about the lack of sensitivity towards culture shown by the government, comparing how the 400 years of Shakespeare and Cervantes were celebrated in 2016. Gibson insists that schools should teach more arabic, latin and greek so that future generations are also able to understand their rich inheritance.
Ian Gibson is also the author of: Winds of the south (Viento del Sur) and other books about Federico Garcia Lorca, Antonio Machado, Ruben Darío and Luis Buñuel.


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-If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.
-Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.
-Doar pentru ca cineva nu te iubeste asa cum vrei tu, nu inseamna ca nu te iubeste cu toata fiinta sa.
-Love is not something you can run away from. It's something you have to stand up to and realize there is no more running.
-Sometimes you just got to be strong. It may hurt and you may shed a few tears, but every thing's going to be alright.
-I don't miss him, I miss who I thought he was.
-Everyone tells me I should forget about you, you don't deserve me. They're right, you don't deserve me, but I deserve you.
-I miss you a little, I guess you could say, a little too much, a little too often, and a little more each day.
-You may not love me today, tomorrow, or ever, but I will love you until it kills me, and, even then, you'll be in my heart.
-Sometimes the person you really need is the one you didn't think you wanted.
-It's hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone when your heart still does.
-I thought when love for you died, I should die.It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.
-God can heal a broken heart, but He has to have all the pieces.
-Nothing hurts more than realizing he meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to him.
-When I see you smile and know that it is not for me, that is when I will miss you the most.
-Love is like the truth, sometimes it prevails, sometimes it hurts.
-Where there is love, there is pain.
-Love hurts more than hate.
-Trust is like an eraser, it gets smaller and smaller after every mistake.
-When you hold me in your arms, I wish time would stand still forever.
-It`s not that I don't love you, it's that I finally realized you never loved me.
-Cu cat regula e mai stricta, cu atat capul care a conceput-o e mai prost.
-Singurul lucru mai rau decat sa fii vorbit pe la spate este acela sa fii ignorat total.
-Daca astepti momentul potrivit, te intrec altii care nu-l asteapta.
-Un prost care nu spune nici un cuvant nu se deosebeste de un savant care tace.
-Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.
-Ma pot increde mai mult in dusmani cinstiti decat in prieteni falsi.
-Dusmanii se recruteaza dintre prieteni.
-Gaura unui ac de cusut este suficienta pentru doi prieteni adevarati.
-Daca toti oamenii ar sti ce spun ceilalti despre ei, n-ar mai exista in lume nici macar patru prieteni.
Don't say "Worse than this it can't be". You'll see life can prove you the opposite.
● Aminteste-ti cu drag ziua de ieri. Gandeste-te la posibilitatile zilei de maine. Traieste ziua de astazi la maxim!
● Daca vrei sa fii fericit o clipa, razbuna-te. Daca vrei sa fii fericit o viata, iarta.
● Nu merita sa plangi pentru nimeni, iar cei care merita nu te vor face sa plangi.
● Daca stii sa vezi ceva bun in fiecare om, aproape toti vor sfarsi prin a vedea ceva bun si in tine.
● Iubirea a fost inventata de nebuni si de poeti.
● Adevarul marunt se exprima prin vorbe, adevarul mare se exprima prin tacere.
● My heart and I lie small upon the earth like a grain of throbbing sand.


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Cute way to decorate for a baby shower then hang on the nursery wall. Quick and easy stitch out. Raw edges of fabric can be pinked to prevent raveling.
Formats included: pes, hus, jef, dst, vp3 and exp.
For hoop sizes:5x7
Complete instructions included.
Words/Fonts are not included. Add your own for a personal touch.
I may be able to help out with additional sizes and formats but please message me prior to purchase if you need files other than listed because as with most instant download digital files refunds are not offered.
You are not purchasing a finished product but the digital files to stitch out the embroidery design, appliqué or in the hoop project that is in the listing. You must have an embroidery machine in order to use these files. Please feel free to message me with any questions prior to purchase.


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Three projects of the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge were awarded special prizes at the Mozilla SXSW party today. Ten projects already selected as Design Challenge winners participated in a design camp in Austin, TX over the past three days. Today three of these projects were chosen for special awards: ClozeFox was selected as "best use case"; the project leader of Mupple received the prize for "sharing knowledge with others"; Expression Widgets was chosen as the "best web hack". You can find more information about them and download all Jetpacks-based add-ons from the Design Challenge wiki.
Project teams from across the world started working on Jetpack-based prototypes in December 2009. After the first round of seminars, ten finalists were invited to attend Design Camp, a hands-on workshop for hacking Jetpack-based add-ons and the future of open education, which took place just before SXSW. The overall winners were selected by a panel of judges and the Design Challenge participants themselves.
The Design Challenge finalists showcase different ways of learning on the open web:
Clozefox – Clozefox turns any webpage into an interactive, educational and fun language learning resource, and share your progress on twitter.
Cohere – Collaboratively annotate the web with Cohere. Create semantic connections between annotations while discussing them with other users online.
ExpressionWidgets – Create, capture and share web content like text and images collaboratively with Expression Widgets.
HooverNotes – Annotate the web like a book with HooverNotes. Leave comments, highlight content and collect pieces of content from multiple sites or a single web page.
LangLadder – Learn a new language while doing your everyday internet activities. Langladder integrates language exercises into activities like email, social networking and blogs.
LineHive.com – Hyperlink storytelling. Create paths through the internet by grouping webpages and sites into a timeline you can share, tweet, or embed.
Mupple – Keep best practices and experiences with Mupple by recording your web activity and sharing them with others on the web.
Net Detective – Joe Denton is one of the best gumshoes on the force, but he can't solve these cases without your Internet detective skills in this jetpack that turns Internet search skills into a game for kids.
Rubrick – Create, share and reuse teaching rubrics using Rubrick and allow both teachers and students to get on the same page.
Study Troll – Be sure you know your facts before the Study Troll comes and demands an answer in this add-on that turns any web session into an interactive flash card quiz.


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Apple Senior Manager (Arden Fair R070) in Sacramento, California
As a Senior Manager, you guide other leaders to inspire top performance from their teams. You monitor multiple lines of business within the store to achieve operational objectives and collaborate with corporate business partners to report results. You're knowledgeable about the industry and keep up to date about competitors and trends. You lead the sales and customer support teams by example, finding solutions to create and maintain a high level of customer focus. To foster growth among your staff, you coach and encourage with clear communications. By developing strong relationships across teams and with customers, you create an environment that enhances loyalty for Apple products and services. Apple is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
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2 medium onions,finely chopped
2 tbsp chopped coriander
1 large tomato,finely chopped
3 tbsp beaten curds
1/4 cup fine sev/bhujia
1/2 tsp roasted jeera powder
1/2 tsp sugar
salt to taste
For Patties:
3-4 Big potatoes(Alu)
2-3 Bread slices
1 tsp chilli powder
1/2 tsp garam masala
1 tbsp chopped coriander(optional)
oil for shallow frying
For Ragda:
1 1/2 Cup yellow dry Peas
2 medium onions,finely chopped
1" Ginger
5-6 cloves of garlic
1 tsp red chilli powder(can be replaced by 3-4 green chillies)
2 tbsp chopped coriander
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp Garam masala
1 tsp roasted cumin powder
1 tbsp Amchur powder(can be replaced by 2 tbsp tamarind pulp)
1 tsp Cumin seeds
a pinch of hing
Salt to taste
For Green Chutney:
1 cup Coriander leaves
1/2 cup mint leaves
4-5 green chillies
1" ginger,chopped
1 lemon,squeezed
salt to taste
For Tamarind Chutney:
1/4 cup tamarind pulp
7-8 seedless dates
1/4 cup grated jaggery
1 tsp black salt/kala namak
1/2 tsp roasted cumin powder
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
salt to taste(add less)
For making Patties:
- Boil the potatoes or pressure cook for 2 whistles.Cool them,mash or grate potatoes in a bowl and keep it aside.
- Cut the brown edges of bread and slowly dip in water for few seconds and squeeze out extra water from it.Add the squeezed out bread chunks to the potato mixed and season with enough salt.
- Add red chilli powder,garam masala and coriander to it and mix well.
- Make Patties(either round,heart or oval shaped ones) around half inch thickness and keep them aside or keep in refrigerator for an hour.
- Take a wide bottom tawa/pan pour oil over it and shallow fry the tikki's until golden brown on both sides over medium heat.(I did it on the hot pan/tawa with minimum oil usage)
- Soak the yellow peas overnight and pressure cook with little salt and turmeric for 1-2 whistles.Do not pressure cook for long otherwise it will become very mushy.
- Grind Ginger,garlic,green chillies and coriander to a fine paste.(if green chillies are not used,do not add them).
- Heat oil and fry the finely chopped Onions till brown,now add the ground paste and fry until the oil leaves the sides and now add cooked peas and enough water and boil it until the gravy thickens,slightly mash some peas to get a thick and nice gravy.
- Add garam masala,roasted cumin powder,amchur powder,turmeric and enough salt to it and mix well.
- Keep it simmered while the patties are almost ready.
- Taste the ragda at this stage and adjust the salt,spicyness and sourness according to your taste.
- Wash coriander and mint leaves and drain them completely.
- Grind the leaves with remaining all ingredients(chillies,ginger,lemon juice and salt) to a smooth paste.
- You can store this in refrigerator in an air-tight bottle up to a week.Make it in a large proportion and you can even pour them in ice cube tray and freeze them to form ice cubes which can be stored for months together.
- Boil tamarind pulp with chopped dates and jaggery until it forms a thick syrupy liquid and cool the mixture completely.
- Grind it into a fine paste and bring it to a boil again and add red chili powder,kala namak/black salt,roasted cumin powder and salt to it and mix well.
- Cool the mixture and pour them in air-tight bottles in refrigerator for months together.
- Beat curds with sugar until uniform and smooth.
- Arrange two patties on a serving plate and pour hot ragda over it.
- Sprinkle with onions and tomatoes over the ragda mixture.
- Drizzle green chutney,beaten curds all over and generously drizzle tamarind chutney over it.Add the chutney's according to your taste buds.
- Sprinkle roasted cumin powder and a pinch of salt and generously sprinkle sev over it.
- Garnish with coriander.


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Lo, the Web Performance Advent Calendar hath moved
Dec 22 This post is part of the 2009 performance advent calendar experiment. Stay tuned for the articles to come - only 2 to go!
Some time ago there was a post on YUIBlog highlighting the findings of Wayne Shea and Tenni Theurer on the caching behavior of the iPhone. Curious if things have changed several iPhone OS updates later, I ran some experiments with OS3 and OS3.1.
- iPhone will not cache components bigger than 15K (was 25K in the previous experiment)
- total cache is about 1.5MB (was 500K)
- short-term memory cache will store components up to 1941K provided the component size does not divide by 4
- powering off the device still clears all the cache, Expires headers still important
- not sure since when, but closing all tabs clears the cache too
- consider HTML5 application cache to improve cacheability and provide offline experience – components in the application cache can be bigger than 15K and stay cached even after you clear Safari's cache from the Settings app (or clear it any other way)
15 is the new 25
Previous experiment showed that the iPhone will not cache components bigger that 25K, but this number is now down to 15K. And this is ungzipped size, meaning if you have for example a 20K JavaScript and your server sends it gzipped down to 10K, it will not be cached by the iPhone.
So minification can definitely help you here. Minification may not be as beneficial as gzipping in desktop browsers, but it may be the difference between a cache hit or miss in the iPhone. Minify, then gzip. And, in general, try to keep your component sizes low - that always helps in any browser.
Total cache size
First off, how was the experiment run? I simply tailed the access log of a server, in order to monitor which components get requested:
$ tail -f ~/logs/http/access.log | grep "XXX.YYY.ZZZ.000"
Where XXX.YYY.ZZZ.000 is the IP address. You can also replace that with just "iPhone" if you think no one else is hitting this site with an iPhone.
Then I requested components with different sizes and look at what the log tail says.
Once it was clear that 15K is the maximum components size, the next question was how many of those 15K components can be cached before iPhone runs out of space allocated for caching? And the result was 105. Attempting to cache one more file resulted in removing existing ones from the cache. Then playing with the size of the very last component helped nail the exact number of bytes available in the cache – 105 * 15 + 7 = 1582K.
So the total cache is just a little over 1.5 MB (earlier research showed 0.5MB for earlier iPhone OS). Have in mind that this is the total cache shared between all pages, it's not per domain or per tab.
Memory cache
The iPhone has a little bit more cache space in the form of memory cache. The memory cache has no per-component size limit, so your components can be as big as the memory cache – 1941 bytes (don't ask how many attempts it took to nail this number).
There a little catch though, probably due to a bug, and it's that if the component size divides by 4, it won't be cached in memory. That's true for JavaScripts – they will be requested on every page load. CSS files with sizes over 15 that divide by 4 will not be requested in the same tab session, but if you close the tab and open the page in another tab, they will be requested again.
So components under 15K go to the disk cache, a 16K component is never cached (so is 20, 24, …, 36,.. 100,… 1024 and so on), 17K and up (up to almost 2 megs) components are cached in memory.
This memory cache is very unreliable as you can guess, because it gets cleared very often, it's probably useful only in the same user session on your web site.
Some observations
- Closing all tabs, except for blank ones (as when you do "New Page") and then closing Safari is the same as clearing the cache from Settings. So it's a good idea in your normal daily use to leave at least one page open, before you close Safari in order not to cause the implicit cache clearing.
- Tapping the reload icon in the address bar sends unconditional requests for all components, without the If-Modified-Since header and ignoring the Expires header. So to speed up your browsing, refresh the page by tapping the address bar and then tapping GO, don't use the refresh icon.
- The tests I ran were using OS 3.0 and OS 3.1.2. I got my phone last Christmas which means that according to this page it came with OS 2.2. I don't remember if I ran any tests with OS2.2. too. I do remember though that I tried some tests back when I didn't have a phone and asked help from Ryan Grove and Nicole Sullivan. Chatting over IM they were loading pages while I was tail-ing the server log. Those tests must have been with OS 2 or OS2.1. Back then the results showed that the limit for a component that gets stored in the cache was 10Meg, which was also the total size of the cache. Now I have my doubts that back then we only tested memory cache, not disk cache. In any event, it's important to note that those restrictions are all software restrictions. No matter what model the phone, it's the OS that sets the limits. Different models with the same OS will behave the same when it comes to caching sizes.
HTML5 offline application cache
All in all we can safely summarize that the iPhone has no cache to speak of. 15K per component is nothing and the limit of 1.5Megs shared with all other pages will have your cached components kicked out pretty quickly.
So – what's an iPhone performance optimizer to do? Use HTML5 goodies.
Another thing to do is use the offline application cache. It's meant to support applications to work offline, but it also ends up being useful to improve caching of online applications as well.
What you need is a simple text file called a manifest. In there you list all the components required by your application. E.g.
CACHE MANIFEST /root/path/to/images/image.jpg or/maybe/relative/paths/too/scripts.js http://example.org/good-old/absolute/path/oojs-home.jpg
It's important to serve this file with content type text/cache-manifest
Then in your html
tag just point to that file. Let's say you called the manifest mycache.manifest
(could be dynamic, php, or anything, as long as it's served with the proper content type). So your HTML should start like the following:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html manifest="mycache.manifest">
And this is it. There's also JavaScript API available if you want to play with the items stored in the cache.
Now the browser will request the manifest file every time (Expires header won't help you here) and if its contents is changed it will quietly and unobtrusively download the updated components in the background and the next time the user will see the updated page. Needless to say it makes sense that all the pages of the site share the same manifest.
The best part is that when using offline cache none of the restrictions mentioned above apply – you can store files bigger than 15K and you don't share your total cache space with anyone.
I used this for a personal project – whomsy.com if you want to play with some requests and monitor the traffic (e.g. using the iPhone simulator and Charles proxy).
Manifest – not just for iPhone?
- Browser support – currently Webkit browsers support manifests, and IE doesn't. Firefox does support offline cache, however it shows an ugly confirmation message at the top of the page and you normally don't want to stress out your users with warning messages (see screenshot below)
- The "homepage" meaning the page that includes the cache manifest also gets cached implicitly. This could be undesired behavior for many sites, but could work just fine for Ajaxy one-page-sites and applications.
Overall, I'm pretty enthusiastic about using offline cache for the purposes of normal page caching too. The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed (nor supported in IE) yet 🙂


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Widow Of Deceased Professional Wrestler Owen Hart Files Lawsuit Against World Wrestling Entertainment, Vince McMahon & Linda McMahon
WWE continues to use Owen Hart's Name and Image for Marketing more than 11 Years After he Was Killed in a WWE-sponsored Stunt; In Violation of Contract and Contrary to Family's Wishes
HARTFORD, Conn., June 22, 2010 -- Martha Hart, the widow of the late Owen Hart, a professional wrestler who was killed in a May 1999 stunt orchestrated by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) today filed suit in the U.S. District Court here against WWE, Vince McMahon (current chairman and CEO) and Linda McMahon (CEO until 2009). The lawsuit alleges the WWE and the McMahon's used Owen Hart's name and likeness without right in dozens of commercial videos and other materials, violated a contract restricting the use of Owen Hart's name, likeness and wrestling footage, and disregarded Martha Hart's wishes against further association of her late husband's name with WWE following his death. (Mrs. Hart and WWE settled a wrongful death lawsuit in 2000. Mrs. Hart established the Owen Hart Foundation later that year.)
"In the eleven years since Owen's tragic and avoidable death, I have worked tirelessly to disassociate Owen's name and likeness from anything related to WWE in order to protect our children from any reminder of the circumstances surrounding their father's death, and to avoid any misplaced perception that I endorse WWE," said Martha Hart in a statement.
"Unfortunately, even though WWE, Vince McMahon and Linda McMahon were and are well aware of my wishes and desire to shield my children from WWE and its activities, I was shocked to learn earlier this year that they have been using Owen's name and likeness in videos, websites, television programs and print materials. Given this callous, insensitive and irresponsible behavior, one must question the moral character of Vince and Linda McMahon and the manner in which they conduct
their business."
According to the lawsuit filed today before the U.S. District Court in Hartford, "Since Owen's death, the WWE and McMahons have sought every available opportunity to further exploit Owen's personality for their own commercial benefit. Their use of Owen's name and likeness draws attention to the WWE's ongoing violent and highly questionable theatrical activities that caused Owen's death. Defendants' use of Owen's name and likeness is also in direct disregard of Martha's and her children's objections … The WWE's wrongful use of Owen's name and likeness, over Martha's
continuing objection to any association with defendants and in the absence of any legal right of use, creates the wrongful impression that Martha and the Estate now support, approve or condone the video (which they do not)."
The lawsuit seeks to enjoin the WWE from further use of Owen Hart's name and likeness, and seeks unpaid royalties as well as damages for breach of contract, copyright infringement, unjust enrichment, accounting and unfair and deceptive trade practices.
Mrs. Hart is represented by the law firm Nixon Peabody LLP.
Source: www.marthahartsueswwe.com


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The World's 10 Best BBQ Festivals 2013
Looking for the world's 10 best BBQ festivals and events? Here are some great festivals you can attend for some amazing BBQ dishes.
1. BBQ Festival Memphis
The Memphis in May International Festival has been held since 1977 and you'll find some great BBQ at this event. This event celebrates international and southern cultures. There's also the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest where teams compete for bragging rights and the title. There's a large party that goes on while the contest takes place. This is a great festival to take part in and there's a lot to do.
2. Big Apple Barbecue Block Party
This party has contestants from around the country take to the streets around Madison Square Park to create top notch BBQ for the people of New York City. You'll find all types of barbecue here such as pig form St. Louis or mutton from Kentucky, there's something at this festival for everyone. This is one of the best BBQ festivals you can go to in the country. If you love BBQ then you need to go to New York City to take in this festival. Each year you'll find something a bit different at the party to take in and discover. You'll also meet a lot of interesting people at this party and form new friendships too.
3. Owensboro Barbecue Festival
This festival was created to help raise money for local charities. There's a lot of fierce competition at this festival and great food too. Local teams work to win the Governor's Cup for the best cooking team. People at the festival can sample the food created by these teams and there's even a Backyard Cook-Off competition for regular people to show off their BBQ skills. There's also a lot of other entertainment here such as life performances and carnival rides for the kids as well as face painting and other fun things to do. You can work off all the good food at the 5K walk or run.
4. Smoke On the Mountain
At Galax Virginia you can take in the Smoke on the Mountain BBQ Championship. This is a two day event with a whole hog, pork shoulder, and pork rib competition. This is straight BBQ without the use of any marinades or other sauces prior to the inspection of the meat. Sauces can be used once the meat is inspected. The festival also has booths and vendors as well as various other things to do.
5. I Love Barbecue Festival
At Lake Placid, New York you can take in the I Love Barbecue Festival. Teams compete in steak, sausage, Chicken, and Pizza categories as well as ribs. The public determines the winner of this competition and there's a lot of live musical performances at this festival too.
6. Blue Ridge BBQ & Musical Festival
In Tryon North Caroline you can take part in the Blue Ridge BBQ & Musical Festival. There's a lot of blues music at this festival as well as the pork cooking contest which is then judged by the Kansas City Barbecue Society
7. Tennessee Funfest
The Tennessee Funfest is one of the area's largest BBQ festivals and it send proceeds to the Alzheimer's Association of the Mid-South. There's a Tennessee State Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest with seafood, beef, and whole hog competitions. You'll find other non-BBQ competitions too. Other things to do include carnival rides, music and more.
8. Great Southern Tailgate Cook-off
This Kansas City BBQ competition offers over $20,000 in prizes and cash. There's crafts, arts, live music, and great food at this competition. Other things to do include a volleyball tournament and a bean bag toss competition.
9. National Capital Barbecue Battle
At the National Capital Barbecue Battle in Washington, DC, there's a great BBQ event that you'll want to go to. This takes place along the historic Pennsylvania Avenue. There's a competition with over $400, 000 in prizes given out. Other things include merchandise stands, and musical performances.
10. Pigs & Peaches BBQ Festival
In Kennesaw, Georgia you can take part in this awesome BBQ festival. This festival combines BBQ with fresh peaches. There are contests for amateur as well as the Georgia State Championship for professionals. There's also the each dessert for the bakers. The kids can enjoy a playa area and there's various booths and exhibits at the event.


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10) Mario Sports Mix (Wii)
I love Mario's sport outings, and this time it's not just one sport-- it's four. You have your dodgeball, basketball, volleyball, and hockey. Throw in some memorable Mushroom Kingdom characters as well as job classes from the Final Fantasy series, and you have a colorful cast of characters to play with. With the addition of online play, you can bet I'll be online getting owned like the newbie I am!
9) Dead Space 2 (PS3, 360)
We go from cute and colorful to dark and macabre with Dead Space 2. I was so close to getting a platinum trophy in the original. I just couldn't stomach the Impossible difficulty all the way. A shame. Regardless, this title is one to look out for! The necromorphs are back, and this time they puke on you! Gross! Learn some manners, you undead bastards! The thrills and chills are just a couple of weeks away when Dead Space 2 hits both the 360 and PlayStation 3!
8) Portal 2 (PS3, 360)
The original Portal was a clever, innovative puzzle game full of jumping, cake, and lies. The sequel brings even more to the table with new gun upgrades, puzzle designs, and much more. I eagerly await to see what Valve puts into this game as now it's a full-priced retail game and not just a part of the best gaming value package ever (aka the Orange Box). We'll see if Portal 2 is worth the price when it comes out later this year.
7) de Blob 2 (PS3, 360, Wii)
I very much enjoyed the original Wii-exclusive, de Blob. Sure, levels could take upwards of an hour to complete fully and jumping with the Wii remote was a pain, but now those problems have been remedied! Paint the town red, blue, orange-- whatever-- in this sequel to the clever painting platformer. Now you can play it in HD with vivid visuals, Move controls, or an Xbox 360 controller. I'll probably stick with the Wii version. Gotta grow that collection, y'know!
6) Star Fox 64 3D (3DS)
I am really interested in getting a Nintendo 3DS. If Nintendo keeps making quality games, I'll be there to lap them up for sure. It's just a matter of finding the money to buy this three-dimensional beauty. Nonetheless, both games on this list for the 3DS are remakes. Star Fox 64 3D has impressive new textures, probable new voice acting, and a host of fun new twists on one of my favorite Nintendo 64 games period. I'm going to kick your ape ass all over again, Andross!
5) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (3DS)
The second remake isn't as visually intriguing as Star Fox, sadly. Hopefully we get a new dungeon or two plus some fresh side quests to keep this remake worth the cost. Still, I'm a sucker for rebuying over and over again my favorite game of all time. I haven't played Ocarina of Time in the longest time, so it'll be nice to replay this game with souped up visuals and in its 3D splendor. With the touch screen, the Water Temple will be a breeze to switch boots!
4) LittleBigPlanet 2 (PS3)
In the original LittleBigPlanet, I was addicted to creating new levels, objects, and Sackboys. With the power to build games of varying genres than the platformer, I can only imagine how much of my life will be wasted playing this new title. Originally supposed to come out in the holiday season of 2010, the delay sure seems worth it to knock out the remaining bugs inside this immense creator package. Don't forget about the awesome premade levels included, too!
3) Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (PS3)
Nathan Drake just cannot seem to catch a break. I did not mean to rhyme and be cute either. Anyway, it seems we're taking a vacation to the desert sands of perhaps the Sahara. In a short GIF I saw, Nathan leaped from a rooftop into a window, shot baddies while partially submerged in beautiful water, and knocked out an enemy from behind. Just like the previous two Uncharted games you can bet there will be some sort of supernatural twist to bring things off-kilter.
2) Marvel VS. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds (PS3, 360)
My birthday present to myself will be Marvel VS. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds. When your subtitle is FTW, you know your game will be excellent. I loved Tatsunoko VS. Capcom for the Wii, and the hotly-anticipated third installment of Marvel VS. Capcom promises to bring the same ease of play that Tatsunoko had. Ease of play is important while also keeping a sense of depth for veteran players so they don't feel left out. Hulk, prepare to be my bitch.
1) The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii)
Hopefully the newest installment of the Zelda series even makes it to the 2011 holiday season. I'm certain it will thankfully. This new entry promises a new design philosophy. Perhaps dungeons will be replaced altogether. Who knows? The E3 demo showed a vibrant cel-shaded approach to the visuals, incredible new items, and battles against foes new and old. Without a doubt, I am most excited for this gem in a currently otherwise bleak 2011 Wii lineup.
That's enough from me, though. What are your top ten most anticipated games of 2011? Let me know in the comments sections, as always!


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Favi's Plant Babies 13
This collage is part of a print collection honoring the many plant babies that I nurture and care for. By growing many species of plants in my home, I am able to connect to the power and the wisdom of nature's intelligence, and that creates a window for me to also be in touch with my ancestors in an embodied way.
Growing plants for me is a continuation of my ancestral stewardship of plants that my father passed on to me when he was alive. Growing plants is a way for me to disrupt and resist the oppressive, polluted concrete jungle that I was forced to grow up in, and repair my relationship to the living world.
These works celebrate the plants in my life, acknowledging their wisdom and the way they have transformed my life.
For this series, I created soft, round, playful shapes to personify each of my "plantcestors." The shapes of the plants and vases are cut out from linoleum block patterns made from my drawings. Each still life captures a different essence in my home.


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Source: AutomotorPro.com – 2019 Hyundai Elantra Sport Young and Furious
Written by Marco Carvajal
Photographs by Marco Carvajal
The Elantra is known as a nice elegant sedan in the Hyundai lineup, but the Elantra Sport is much more than that, it is designed to appeal young spirited drivers with passion for speed and precision.
The Elantra Sport is fast with 201 HP and 195 Torque. The seven-speed dual clutch transmission, can make you feel the passion of driving when riding on fast highways.
You will feel young and furious when driving the Elantra Sport, but don't use all the power, stay under the speed limit.
The Elantra is produced by Hyundai, the South Korean manufacturer, since 1990. The Elantra was initially marketed as Lantra in Australia and some European markets. In Australia, this was due to the similar name of the Mitsubishi Magna Elante model.
The new 2019 Elantra has more options, more trims and a modern redesigned new look. The 2019 Elantra has a more elegant look on the outside and it has been refined inside.
2019 Elantra Sport
The 2019 Hyundai Elantra Sport is smart and stylish, enhanced with a new look, Sportier and Bold. Improved drivability and fuel efficiency make the Elantra Sport the smart choice for those who need power and great value.
The Elantra Sport includes a 201 horsepower 1.6L Turbo-GDI engine and seven-speed dual-clutch transmission and a sporty interior. Advanced technology and connectivity, paddle shifters, sport front seats with leather, flat-bottom, leather-wrapped steering wheel, sports instrument cluster and multi-link independent rear suspension for better dynamic performance.
The Elantra Sport has a sportier design and it is very efficient in its fuel economy with 33 MPG on the highway.
I wouldn't compare a BMW M3 with an Elantra Sport, but the driving sensation is similar. The Elantra Sport competes directly with other compact front-wheel-drive sport sedans.
The new 2019 Elantra design includes Hyundai's signature cascading grille, available LED headlights and available dynamic and integrated Daytime Running Lights. Elantra's rear features available LED taillights and a lowered license plate. The new Elantra brings together a new look, smart, modern and fresh.
Amazing Fuel Economy 29 MPG Average
2019 Hyundai Elantra Improves Fuel Economy, it consumes 26 MPG on the city, 33 on the highway, for a 29 MPG average. This is great efficiency for this sports sedan.
Best Warranty
If we talk about warranty, just expect the best from Hyundai with a10-year or 100,000 mile powertrain limited warranty. 5-year 60,000 mile new vehicle limited warranty. 5-Year and unlimited Miles 24-hour Roadside Assistance.
2019 Elantra Sport Highlights
- Engine Turbocharged Inline 4-cylinder 1.6L GDI turbo
- Horsepower 201@ 6000 RPM
- Torque 195 lb.-ft. @ 1500-4500 RPM
- Front Wheel Drive (FWD)
- 33 MPG on the Highway
- 7-speed EcoShift Dual Clutch Transmission with SHIFTRONIC
- Drive Mode Select
Normal, Sport & Smart - 201-hp
- 18-inch alloy sport wheels
- Multi-link independent rear suspension
- Full LED headlights
- LED Daytime Running Lights (DRL)
- LED taillights
- Leather seating surfaces
- Blind-Spot Collision Warning (BCW) with Rear Cross-Traffic Collision Warning (RCCW)
- Door handle approach lights
- Bluetooth hands-free phone system with voice recognition
- AM/FM/HD/SiriusXM Satellite Radio/MP3 audio system with 6 speakers
- Complimentary Blue Link for 3 years
Optional Infinity Premium Audio with Clari-Fi Music Restoration Technology.
Elantra Trims
I am test driving the top of the line of the Elantra Family, the Elantra Sport.
In general, the Elantra is available in the United States in the following trims. The SE is the base model.
- Value Edition
- Eco
- Limited
- Sport
The Elantra has great value pricing. Hyundai's marketing strategy is very aggressive in terms of pricing. Offering the Elantra at a low price of $17,700 on the SE base model, this price is one of the lowest for sedans in the US market. Then the top of the line that I am test driving, the Elantra Sport costs only $22,300, still a very low price even on this higher-end trim.
In terms of pricing, it is very hard to find another car manufacturer who can offer such beautiful cars like the Elantra line-up with so many features standard, for such low price.
- 2019 Elantra Sport Highlights $22,300
One of the reasons for buying Hyundai cars is the large number of standard features. Just look at the following list of all the standard included features on the 2019 Elantra Sport to understand all what you get without having to pay for additional packages or options.
Exterior Standard Features
- Hands-free smart trunk release
- Dual fold-away power bodycolor side mirrors
- Heated side mirrors
- Side mirrors with turn-signal indicators
- Chrome front grille
- Chrome beltline molding
- Solar control glass
- Variable intermittent windshield wipers/washer
- Hood insulator
- Full LED headlights
- Sport front grille and bumper fascia
- Sport rear fascia with rear diffuser element
- Sport side sill extensions
- LED Daytime Running Lights
- LED taillights
- Automatic headlight control
- Door handle approach lights
Interior Standard Features
- Power tilt-and-slide sunroof
- Air conditioning
- Power windows with driver's auto-down, front illuminated power-window switches
- One-touch auto-up driver's window
- Power door locks
- 6-way driver seat with seat height adjustment for both driver and passenger
- Black headliner
- Leather seating surfaces
- Heated front seats
- Sport front seats with red contrast stitching
- 60/40 split fold-down rear seatback
- Leatherette door inserts
- Dual illuminated vanity mirrors
- Sunvisor extensions
- Console storage box with sliding cover
- Center armrest storage
- Sliding center armrest storage
- Front and rear-door map pocket
- Front passenger seatback pocket
- Rear center armrest with cupholders
- Illuminated ignition
- D-cut leather-wrapped sport steering wheel and shift knob
- Tilt-and-telescopic steering wheel
- Steering-wheel-mounted audio, Bluetooth
- Remote keyless entry system with alarm
- Proximity Key entry with push button start
- Bluetooth hands-free phone system with voice recognition
- Smartphone/USB and auxiliary input jacks (Dual Charging USB)
- Dual charging USB ports
- AM/FM/HD/SiriusXM Satellite Radio/MP3 audio system with 6 speakers
- 7-inch display audio system with high-resolution touchscreen
- Android Auto & Apple CarPlay support
- Complimentary SiriusXM activation and 3-month trial subscription
- Sport instrument gauge cluster
- 3.5-inch TFT monochromatic cluster display
- Multifunction trip computer
Safety Standard Features
- Safety Features
- Blind-Spot Collision Warning (BCW) with Rear Cross-Traffic Collision Warning (RCCW)
- Rearview camera with dynamic guidelines
- Forward Collision-Avoidance Assist (FCA)
- Lane Keeping Assist (LKA)Driver Attention Warning (DAW)
- Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) with individual tire pressure indicator
- Vehicle Stability Management (VSM)
- Electronic Stability Control (ESC)
- Traction Control System (TCS)
- Anti-lock Braking System (ABS)
- Electronic Brake-force Distribution (EBD)
- Brake Assist (BA)
- Advanced dual front airbags (SRS) with Occupant Classification System (OCS)Driver and front passenger side-impact airbags (SRS)
- Side-curtain airbags (SRS) (front and rear passengers)
- Driver's knee airbag
- Energy-absorbing steering column
- Front seatbelt pretensioners and force limiters
- Rear LATCH (Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children)
- Power window lock-out button
- Front and rear crumple zones
The Elantra Sport has more than enough for most drivers, at a very affordable price near $22,000, providing great value for your money. Modern, good looking and fun to drive. If you want to save on the purchase price, the base trim goes for approximately $17,000, it is an amazing deal.
Source: AutomotorPro.com – 2019 Hyundai Elantra Sport Young and Furious


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Gamma After Life
What kind of nuclear future awaits us? The recent discussion on the next generation of nuclear power has ebbed away much too quickly. However especially in the UK a public discussion would be much needed with the current plants becoming out of date and a urgent requirement to either decommission them and replace or refurbish to keep going.
The afterlife of nuclear power, being it military or civil usage is however, a much undiscussed topic. It is a field of uncertainties and projections. A whole range of interesting problems are associated with it, not the least the dramatic time span it covers. See also a post on http://urbantick.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/message-to-future.html. How to plan for 10'000 years?
Image by Factory Fifteen taken from architizer taken from Dezeen / A vision of the post nuclear city.
Many futures are possible and Factory Fifteen has produced a short on their vision, quite a disturbing one but amazingly produced, mixing some CGI and real footage.
The Synopsis of the film in short: In a post-nuclear future, when the earth is riddled with radiation, a new urban developer proposes to regenerate the cities back into civilisation. GAMMA sets out to stabilise the atomic mistakes of yesteryear for the re-inhabitation of future generations. Using its patented 'Nuke-Root' technology; part fungi, part mollusc, GAMMA intends to soak up the radiation and remove it from the irradiated cities, rebuilding them in the process.
Setting out from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, GAMMA launches its RIG_01 BETA and heads east to the iconic disaster sites of 1980's USSR. The film follows a group of researchers investigating GAMMA's practice from launch to deployment. Moving through a trail of unsuccessful ships across the desert, we follow the researchers from Aralsk's littered sea bed east to the Ukraine.
GAMMA begins its quest of nuclear stability in the Ukraine; Pripyat is used as a test bed for the deployment of GAMMA's patented 'Nuke-root' organisms. Intended to soak up the radiation, the roots infiltrate the ground and built structures to absorb the 'nuclear nasty's'. As with many urban developers, GAMMA's execution is cheap and ineffective. The city is in turn rendered more radioactive, broken and uninhabitable than before, only now with an outbreak of growing 'Nuke-roots'. The film follows the researchers through the ruins of the 70's utopia, moving across a whole city that consists solely of desolation and total abandon, the researchers witness the aftermath of GAMMA's almighty cock-up.
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It was therefore left to his deputy, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, to announce the bad news, accompanied by Energy Minister José Manuel Soria (on the right in the picture) and Treasury Minister Cristóbal Montoro (on the left). In reality, only some general figures were provided, while a clearer breakdown of spending cuts and tax hikes will be provided on Tuesday, after the package is submitted to the Spanish parliament.
We will provide a more comprehensive analysis then (a research piece on Spain is also in the pipeline, so watch this space).
For the moment, these are the most important measures announced today:
- The total adjustment (i.e. cuts plus tax hikes) is of €27.3 billion. In reality, this needs to be added to the €15 billion package which was adopted as part of last year's budget in December, but will be implemented this year. This gives us a total of over €42 billion
- Spanish ministries will have to cut their budgets, on average, by 16.9%. Foreign Affairs (-54.4%), Justice (-34.6%) and Defence (-31.9%) will face the toughest cuts. Agriculture (-7.4%), Health (-4.3%) and Economy (-3.8%) will be the least touched;
- Electricity bills will increase by 7%, and gas bills by 5%;
- A 'tax amnesty' will be launched. Tax evaders will be allowed to repatriate capital from abroad and will only have to pay 10% tax on the money (not a bad discount, as the highest tax rate in Spain is 43%). The Spanish government estimates that it can make around €2.5 billion out of this repatriation;
- Certain corporate tax exemptions will be scrapped, so Spanish businesses will have to pay more taxes from now on;
- Public investment will also be cut – notably, €1.5 billion will be cut from so-called "Active Employment Policies" (i.e. measures to favour labour market access)
- There will be no VAT increase;
- The salaries of civil servants will be frozen, but not cut;
- Pensions will remain linked to inflation;
- Unemployment benefits will remain untouched.


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The Illinois state Senate voted 32 to 21 in favor of a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage on Thursday. The law would redefine marriage as the legal union of two people, not specifically a man and a woman. It would also convert civil unions to marriages within a year's time. Religious institutions and individuals that oppose homosexuality would not be required to perform marriage ceremonies for same-sex couples.
Two years ago, Illinois passed historic civil union legislation. Now with the possibility of same-sex marriage being legalized, some conservative senators feel homosexuality is moving front and center in a threatening way. Senator Kyle McCarter (R-Lebanon) told reporters, "People have a right to live as they choose; they don't have the right to redefine marriage for all of us." Same-sex marriage has plenty of supporters, however, one being Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D), who says that "when two people love each other, no government entity should stand in the way of letting them express that love."
Governor Pat Quinn (D says he will sign the bill into the law if it passes in the state House, however it is unclear if the legislation will be brought to the House floor. This is the farthest a same-sex marriage bill has gotten in the Illinois General Assembly. If the bill is signed into law, it would make Illinois the 10th state to legalize same sex marriage.


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Researchers Reverse Juvenile Diabetes In Animal Model; Clinical Trial FDA Approved
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- March 27, 2006
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- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
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- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC researchers Massimo Trucco, MD, and Nick Giannoukakis, PhD, used a novel treatment strategy thereby reversing, or curing, diabetes. The FDA approved clinical trial to evaluate the safety and feasibility of the treatment (Phase 1 trial) will begin this spring; include 15 patients 18 or older, with type 1 diabetes. Unique because no drugs are used and no foreign cells so there is no chance of rejection.
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Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center researchers Massimo Trucco, MD, and Nick Giannoukakis, PhD, observed marked amelioration of diabetes in a mouse model by a novel treatment strategy involving specific modification of the animal's own dendritic cells, thereby reversing diabetes in animal studies.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the start of a clinical trial to evaluate the safety and feasibility of the treatment (Phase 1 trial). The trial is expected to begin sometime this spring and will include at least 15 patients over the age of 18, with type 1 diabetes.
Dr. Trucco, director of the Division of Immunogenetics at Children's, and his research team will collaborate with Theresa Whiteside, PhD, scientific director at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.
Dr. Trucco and his team found that by removing dendritic cells from the blood during a two- to four-hour procedure, some 20 million dendritic cells can be harvested.
Dendritic cells are cells found in the bloodstream and normally function as one of nature's most efficient immune function cells. The cells identify foreign substances such as cancer cells, process these foreign substances, and then jumpstart the immune response by bringing these foreign substances to the attention of T cells.
Once harvested, researchers then combine the dendritic cells with specific blockers of molecules, known as CD40, CD80 and CD86, all of which can be synthesized in a laboratory. This treatment strategy was found to inhibit the interaction and destructive effect of T cells on the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas, a process that is known to be a critical part of how diabetes occurs.
Subcutaneous injection of dendritic cells into the abdominal/pelvic area near the pancreas and lymph nodes, blocks the T cells as they travel to the pancreas to destroy beta cells.
"We did this in mice, giving them six injections over the course of several weeks. The injections interrupted the T cell and beta cell interaction, allowing the beta cells in the pancreas to regenerate. This enabled the pancreas of the mice to begin producing insulin again," said Dr. Trucco, who also is the Hillman Professor of Pediatric Immunology at Children's Hospital and a professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. "The injections proved capable of stopping this vicious cycle, and through this process curing type 1 diabetes in a mouse."
Until now, scientists weren't sure why the immune system attacks the beta cells, but the result is that the body stops producing insulin. When that happens, glucose builds up in the blood, but the body's cells starve to death.
"We are very excited to begin the clinical trials and see if this process will work in patients with type 1 diabetes," said Dr. Trucco. "A type 1 diabetes diagnosis can be devastating for children and their families. We hope this trial will have results that are life-altering for patients who suffer from this disease."
In addition, Dr. Trucco and his team want to combine the dendritic cells with small portions (i.e. peptides) of insulin. Dr. Trucco believes that adding small doses of insulin to the dendritic cells will help guide the dendritic cells directly to the T cells. Adding the insulin ensures the dendritic cells are used specifically to block the T cell destruction of the beta cells, and not otherwise interrupt a person's immunity. In other words, the dendritic cells are led directly to the target, the T cells that are causing the malfunction of the pancreas, and not to another part of the body.
Type 1 diabetes also is known as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) or juvenile-onset diabetes. While type 2 diabetes typically strikes adults, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reports that more than 1 million children and teenagers (age 19 and younger) have type 1 diabetes. According to the NIH, 5 percent to 10 percent of diagnosed diabetes cases in the United States are type 1 diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes is regarded as an autoimmune disease because a person's immune system attacks and destroys the beta cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. Symptoms of type 1 diabetes usually develop over a short period of time and include increased thirst, frequent urination, constant hunger, weight loss, blurred vision and extreme fatigue. People with type 1 diabetes require numerous daily injections of insulin to survive.
About Dr. Trucco
Massimo Trucco, MD, has dedicated his life's work to finding a cure for diabetes -- finding a cure is a personal quest for him. As an international leader in the field of immunogenetics, Dr. Trucco has pioneered numerous important studies and also maintains a federally funded national bone marrow HLA typing center within his lab. With this funding, Dr. Trucco and his team are able to continue their landmark research into improving the prediction of type 1 diabetes and understanding and managing its complications. Building on his discovery in 1994 that type 1 diabetes susceptibility may be genetic in nature and triggered by viruses, Dr. Trucco's discoveries have continue to lead to better processes for molecular typing for matching bone marrow donors and recipients, the ability to identify those at risk for diabetes, an understanding of the link between a common virus and type 1 diabetes, and a potential cure for the pancreatic damage that causes insulin dependence.
Diabetes and children statistics:
- The risk of developing type 1 diabetes is higher than virtually all other severe chronic diseases of childhood.
- Peak incidence occurs during puberty, around 10 to 12 years of age in girls, and around 12 to 14 years of age in boys.
- The symptoms of type 1 diabetes can resemble the flu in children.
- Type 1 diabetes tends to run in families. Brothers and sisters of children with type 1 diabetes have about a 10 percent chance of developing the disease by age 50.
- The identical twin of a person with type 1 diabetes has a 25 percent to 50 percent chance of developing type 1 diabetes.
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SUNDAY PROFILE / Dianne Feinstein
"A single mother at age 26 after a brief, stormy marriage, Feinstein took up sailing in the bay on an 18-foot boat. One day, unable to raise the sail in rough water, she was almost swept by the tide out the Golden Gate."
Oct. 20, 2012
Washington -- Dianne Feinstein, the press' "raven-haired beauty" of the early 1960s who sailed alone in San Francisco Bay's treacherous waters, has become, at age 79, an institution in California politics.
The state's most popular politician is riding a 26-point lead to a fourth term over her little-known Republican opponent, Elizabeth Emken, whom she refuses to debate. If re-elected as California's senior senator, she would be 85 at the end of a new term, the Senate's third-oldest member, 17th in seniority and wielding enormous power as chair of the Intelligence Committee and as a senior member of the Appropriations and Judiciary committees.
In the twilight of her career, she has left a big mark.
"It's what I'm meant to do," Feinstein said in a recent interview from her home in San Francisco.
Learning to navigate
In four decades of a public life that began with reporters waxing on about her looks, Feinstein seldom speaks of her private life. Yet it bespeaks a singular determination that fueled her rise from abused child to Washington powerbroker.
A single mother at age 26 after a brief, stormy marriage, Feinstein took up sailing in the bay on an 18-foot boat. One day, unable to raise the sail in rough water, she was almost swept by the tide out the Golden Gate.
"The bay's tricky, but the nice thing about it is you learn," Feinstein said. "You learn about tides. You learn about the forces of nature. You learn to respect fog. ... You also learn that if it gets rough and the engine gets swamped, you've got a problem."
By many accounts, she remains much the same person and politician she was as San Francisco's mayor during one of the most turbulent eras in the city's history.
Dianne Feinstein, Convent of the Sacred Heart HS, 1951: U.S. senator. (Chris Usher / AP)
No issue too small
Once known as the "Goody Two-shoes" of City Hall, Feinstein is a "good-government," center-left pragmatist whose ideology is whatever she thinks is right, weighted by a heavy dose of statistics and gravitas.
"It really was my tenure as mayor of San Francisco that taught me how to listen," Feinstein said.
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, consider that 2010 GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina promised to be just like her. Former Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tried for bipartisan support but failed, while Feinstein has sailed to a 53 percent voter approval rating, finding favor among almost one-fourth of California Republicans, according to a recent Field Poll.
She is imperious and warm, charming and intimidating, perfectionist and charismatic, earnest and calculating.
In the nation's biggest state, no issue seems too small for her attention. She is a regular on national television discussing Iranian nuclear ambitions, yet tends assiduously to parochial California interests. A workaholic who takes home 7-inch binders at night, she delivers them to staff the next morning filled with sticky notes.
"Where Bill Clinton liked to stay up at night and make phone calls to people far into the night all around the country and just B.S. about stuff, I think she'd rather read some policy paper about fracking," said Jerry Roberts, a former Chronicle editor and author of the 1994 biography "Dianne Feinstein: Never Let Them See You Cry."
Respect of Republicans
She revels in split-the-baby deal making: "I think my greatest strength is finding a solution when there are opposing sides."
It was Feinstein, an ally of Hillary Rodham Clinton against Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, who brought the warring candidates to a secret rendezvous at her Washington home to bury the hatchet in private.
In a chamber riven by partisanship, Republicans like and respect her.
"She thinks through issues and makes what she thinks is a rational and correct decision," said Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., the top Republican on the Intelligence Committee.
"Unfortunately there are some Republicans who, if it's a Democratic idea, immediately jump up and they're opposed to it, and that happens on the other side of the aisle too. But with Dianne, that does not happen."
'Intimidating force'
Feinstein healed a partisan rift on the panel and this year led a bipartisan rebuke of the administration on intelligence leaks suspected to have come from the White House, while fending off GOP calls for a special prosecutor.
"She has a towering presence both literally and figuratively, a sharp intellect and she is persistent to a fault," said Susan Kennedy, a former aide to Feinstein who later worked for Govs. Schwarzenegger and Gray Davis, a Democrat.
"The combination of those three things makes her an incredibly intimidating force," Kennedy said. "She feels an immense responsibility of holding public office, much more so than anyone I've ever met."
Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, who has battled Feinstein on some issues but has been allied with her on others, said, "You wouldn't want to have anybody else in your foxhole but her."
She is not shy about wielding power, shutting down solar developers to protect land in the Mojave Desert, negotiating the deal to rescue ancient redwoods in the Headwaters Forest in Humboldt County, and leading the restoration of wetlands on San Francisco Bay.
Backing agribusiness
But Feinstein has infuriated Bay Area Democrats and environmentalists on water issues. She slipped riders into bills, threatening to override the Endangered Species Act and delighting farm interests who contribute to her campaigns.
In 2009, she forwarded a letter from corporate farmer and campaign contributor Stewart Resnick to two Cabinet secretaries, demanding and getting a study by the National Academy of Sciences. Resnick had asked Feinstein to side with agribusiness in a dispute over a federal plan intended to help fisheries in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta but opposed by farmers worried they would not get enough water during a drought year.
The $750,000 study did little to settle the matter. Environmentalists accuse Feinstein of empowering a water grab by farmers on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, although many of those critics refuse to speak publicly for fear of angering her.
Some pundits speculate that her narrow loss to Republican Pete Wilson in the 1990 governor's race made her keen to woo the Republican-leaning Central Valley. Dan Schnur, a former Republican strategist, now director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California, said her support for agriculture has secured her Senate seat.
"That's a huge obstacle for any Republican challenger," Schnur said.
Tom Nassif, chief of Western Growers, a farm group that has endorsed Feinstein's re-election, defended Feinstein as being fair to the entire state, saying many lawmakers "are afraid to take on the environmentalists. ... Sen. Feinstein, on other hand, is not afraid of anybody."
As for Resnick's campaign contributions, Feinstein said, "I have thousands of people who contribute to my campaign. Stewart Resnick has. So what? So have others, and I'm proud to have ag support. I've worked hard for ag support."
Violence from mother
Feinstein was born Dianne Emiel Goldman in San Francisco in 1933 to an abusive mother and an adoring father. She lived in several neighborhoods while growing up in San Francisco and took horseback riding lessons for recreation. But at home, she was subjected to unpredictable violence. She witnessed her mother try to drown a younger sister in the bathtub, and as the eldest of three girls, she often took the brunt of her mother's wrath.
Her father, Leon Goldman, a prominent surgeon, schooled her in hard work, and Morris Goldman, her Uncle Morrie, took her to meetings at City Hall that piqued her interest in politics. Her father was Jewish, but her mother, raised Orthodox Catholic, insisted she be educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, an exclusive school that trained girls to "assume positions of influence and have the power to shape and change society."
Feinstein graduated from Stanford University with a degree in history at a time when women were educated to become wives. She dreamed of national politics.
In 1969, at 36 and married for the second time, to Bertram Feinstein, a neurosurgeon who was a colleague of her father, she managed an upset in her first campaign for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the board's first female president. Steeled in San Francisco's knife-fight politics of the 1970s, she waged two disastrous campaigns for mayor.
March 11, 1982: Mayor Dianne Feinstein's punishment for accepting generous Atari donation? She has to pretend to talk to Pac-Man. (Steve Ringman / The Chronicle)
Uniting city in crisis
Feinstein became the city's first female mayor with the assassination of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk in 1978, projecting an aura of calm and unity in a shell-shocked and divided city. Feinstein threw herself into the mayor's job, focusing on quality-of-life issues that she believed affected the city's larger prosperity, long before sociologists devised similar theories.
She arrived at fires pulling hoses, rode herd on bureaucrats, and on one of her inspections through town, saw an inebriated man collapse on a Tenderloin sidewalk, jumped out of her car and began mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale seriously considered her as his running mate in 1984, raising her national profile. Reaching for the governorship in 1990, Feinstein was edged out by Wilson but two years later won his vacated Senate seat, becoming California's first female senator.
After a close contest in her re-election bid against wealthy Republican Michael Huffington in 1994, she has skated to re-election, facing GOP candidates of steadily declining quality.
Marriage to Blum
Once divorced, once widowed (Bertram Feinstein died in 1978), Feinstein married wealthy investor Richard Blum in 1980. She lists assets of at least $42 million but still draws a $58,000 annual pension from the city of San Francisco. She has been dogged by charges from the left that she commingles public affairs with Blum's business interests. In 2007, a freelance journalist claimed she steered defense contracts to Blum from her chair on the Appropriations panel dealing with military construction. Feinstein was cleared by the Senate Ethics Committee.
Feinstein voted for the Iraq war, which she called her deepest regret, but has sounded caution on Iran. She pointed with pride to her 1994 assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004 and which she hopes to renew, and her work raising fuel-efficiency standards for automobiles to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
When she is in the capital, Feinstein entertains members of Congress at her home in Spring Valley in northwest Washington, where Blum visits her regularly. On breaks, Feinstein returns to the Pacific Heights home in San Francisco that she and Blum have owned since 2006. Her daughter, Katherine Feinstein Mariano, is presiding judge of San Francisco Superior Court; she has three stepdaughters.
She is a serious book reader, particularly of mystery novels and intelligence thrillers, and recently read Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs.
Feinstein has benefited from California's other U.S. senator, Barbara Boxer, an intensely partisan Democrat who can make Feinstein appear more moderate. In 2005, when Feinstein warmly introduced Condoleezza Rice at her confirmation hearing as secretary of state, Boxer said the single, childless Rice lacked a personal stake in the war.
Broken leg no obstacle
Above all else, Feinstein is tough. Four years ago, she broke her leg on a morning walk near Lake Tahoe with a friend, former Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Walnut Creek. She refused treatment and went on to host a dinner that night for 100 people and preside the next day at the Lake Tahoe Summit, an annual conference she spearheaded to save the lake where she rode horseback as a child.
"I wrapped her ankle. You know, I had Girl Scout training - I'm not an orthopedic surgeon," Tauscher said. "She is just so determined and so focused. I would say to her, 'Doesn't it hurt?' It's black and blue and just swollen. She'd say, 'Well how many people are at table five?'
"It wasn't until everything was done that she even considered going to the hospital," Tauscher said. Doctors found a break above the ankle.
Feinstein said she heard the bone pop but decided to carry on. "I just had to do it," she said. Asked how, she replied, "I just did."
Carolyn Lochhead was the Washington correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle, where she covered national politics and policy for 27 years. She grew up in Paso Robles (San Luis Obispo County) and graduated from UC Berkeley cum laude in rhetoric and economics. She has a masters of journalism degree from Columbia University. Twitter: @carolynlochhead
Sept. 5, 1980: Walter Mondale campaigns with Dianne Feinstein in SF. Vici MacDonald/The Chronicle
U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi with Dianne Feinstein, center, and Rep. Jackie Speier on Nov. 7, 1990 in San Francisco. Feinstein had just conceded the California gubernatorial election to opponent Pete Wilson. Photo by Pete Leabo, Associated Press.
April 15, 1986 - Willie Mays says a few words to S.F. mayor Dianne Feinstein before the start of the Giants' home opener at Candlestick Park. Michael Maloney/The Chronicle
Barbara Boxer, left, and Dianne Feinstein join arms in victory after both won their bids for the U.S. Senate November 3, 1992. They will make history by becoming the first two women from the same state to serve in the Senate. Lou Demattaeis/Reuters
Senior United States Senator Dianne Feinstein speaking to The Chronicle in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, September 25, 2012. Liz Hafalia/The Chronicle