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What We've Forgotten About Obamacare
Last week I wrote about the Halbig case, in which a federal appeals court ruled that the Affordable Care Act only allowed subsidies for the purchase of insurance to be given out on state exchanges. Because most states have opted out of building exchanges and others are considering switching to the federal exchange, this would obviously be a big deal for the law's implementation.
Since the decision was handed down last Tuesday, liberal and conservative commentators have joined the battle over whether this reading of the law was obvious or outrageously absurd. A lot of liberal journalists who had covered the law said that if Congress had ever intended any such thing, they would have heard about it and reported on it, because that would have been big news.
It became harder to insist that this was a clear misreading when extensive audio and video surfaced of Jonathan Gruber, one of the architects of the law, telling people in 2012 that tax credits would only be available on state exchanges. This week, another group found an NPR interview with Jonathan Cohn, the New Republic's star health-care reporter, who also seems to have thought that states could opt out of the exchanges but wouldn't, because it would cost their citizens a lot of money:
Basically, where a state could opt out of the exchanges, I find it hard to believe a state would actually do that. You know, it's -- if you think about the history of these sorts of things, Medicaid was set up and is, remains, an optional program for states. States can opt out of Medicaid if they want to.
They don't because there's a lot of federal money they are entitled to if they participate in Medicaid. In addition to that, it helps them cover poor people in their state, and if they don't get that money from Medicaid, they're going to be totally responsible for this on their own.
I can't possibly imagine a state opting out of an insurance exchange, given it's a good deal for the state. And I know a lot of states are nervous about what's going to happen with this, but at the end of the day, I just don't see it happening.
To his credit, Cohn -- who is a top-notch reporter and a careful, thoughtful analyst, for all that he inexplicably disagrees with me about the wisdom of the health-care law -- wrote this up himself.
I wish I could tell you definitively what I was thinking at the time but, more than four years later, I truly don't know.
My best guess? I certainly knew the House and Senate bills contemplated different exchange models -- and that liberals preferred the House version, mainly because they were skeptical that state officials could or would adequately police insurers. But I hadn't investigated further, as I said on the air, most likely because I was busy writing on other topics getting more attention. Once the issue came up in the House-Senate negotiations, I probably started asking more questions, became satisfied that the exchange proposals were actually similar, and moved on to other things. Note that the "Fresh Air" interview took place just three days before the e-mail exchange I wrote about earlier this week -- a communication with Debbie Curtis, a key House aide who was part of those negotiations, who told me that the differences between the House and Senate versions of the exchanges were mostly a "red herring."
Again, I can't be sure about all of this and readers will need to make up their own minds. I'd be lying if I said that seeing and hearing my own words didn't give me pause. Still, I didn't write the law. I wrote about the law. The real-time information I had in early 2010, while negotiations were taking place behind closed doors, was necessarily incomplete and tentative -- a point I tried to get across even then.
There's been a fair amount of schadenfreude over this, and fair enough; over the five years that I've been covering health-care reform, both sides have enjoyed crowing over the other -- and eaten some crow, too. But that's not what this post is about. This post is about memory, good faith, and why it's harder than you think to know what happened.
When I wrote about Gruber last week, I took pains to stress that I thought he was telling the truth, as he saw it -- that he genuinely did not recall having believed that subsidies would only be available on state exchanges. A number of my readers accused me of being hopelessly naive, at best, and at worst of bending over backward to cover up for one of my liberal buddies in academia.
The latter is ridiculous: I opposed Obamacare four years ago, still think it was a bad idea, and have never met Jonathan Gruber or, to my recollection, even spoken to him. It is true that I bend over backward to give people the benefit of the doubt, which not only steers me clear of libel law, but also makes for a much more productive debate. "You are a lying liar!" is not a proposition that you can reasonably expect your opponent to debate. And frankly, it's often just a way to avoid dealing with arguments you don't want to engage in: Witness the number of people who accused conservatives of a bad-faith misreading of the law here.
But in this case, I am not stretching to my utmost to give Messrs. Gruber and Cohn the benefit of the doubt. I said that I thought Gruber was being sincere because, well, I genuinely think he's being sincere. I believe this even more strongly of Cohn, who has always been fair and honorable in his analysis and our few personal interactions.
At least some of the liberal analysts who were intimately familiar with the details of the law did indeed believe that premium subsidies would only be available on state exchanges. But I disagree that Cohn and Gruber were being dishonest when they said otherwise. I think they just forgot.
"How could they forget!" you ask. To see how, let me take you on a tour of another, fairly recent controversy: the accusations that Mitt Romney had bullied a young classmate in his high school, setting upon him with a group of friends and cutting off his longish blond hair. That student turned out to be gay, though it's not clear whether Romney would have known that at the time.
When this news broke, Romney said that he didn't remember the incident, but he made a general apology for any "hijinks" he pulled in school. The Internet immediately divided, almost perfectly, into two camps: liberals who insisted that of course it must have happened and he couldn't possibly have forgotten, and conservatives who questioned whether it had happened at all and, if it did, whether it had happened in the way described, because most of the people making the accusation were Democrats. There was a strong implication that they had been lying for partisan purposes.
My opinion on this was my opinion on the Swift Boat veterans who attacked John Kerry, and people claiming to remember details of George Bush's Air National Guard service in the early 1970s, and anyone else who comes forward with a story 40 years later about someone who was not famous at the time: These sorts of stories are simply too unreliable to be treated as fact -- especially if the results of those memories are politically important.
We tend to think of memory as a video camera, capturing events and faithfully replaying them for us. All the research on this shows that it's nothing of the sort. Memory is a narrative you tell yourself. Every time you recall a memory, you strengthen it -- but you can also change it. It is frighteningly easy to create false memories.
Have you ever been searching for something important you lost, and suddenly thought you remembered where you put it? You can remember yourself doing it. Then you go look, and it isn't there.
This effect can get even more powerful when there's another person there, telling you what to remember. Here's one of the world's leading experts on false memories, showing how it happened to her:
Not even Loftus was immune to suggestion. In 1988, after 13 years of testifying about memory's fallibility, she was told by her uncle that she was the one who had found her dead mother in the swimming pool. The sights and sounds of that awful morning came back to her -- the corpse face down, the nightgown, the screaming, the stretcher, the police cars. But within three days, her uncle recanted the story, and other relatives confirmed that her aunt, not Loftus, had found the body. The memories of the memory expert were false.
The incident strengthened Loftus' conviction that such recollections shouldn't be trusted in court. The more cases she saw, the more passionate she became about her work. She saw herself as Oskar Schindler, rescuing as many innocent souls as she could. "The beauty I find in helping the falsely accused is something I like about myself," she wrote in an essay years later. "It's the deeper part of who I am."
Anyone who questioned how Romney could fail to remember having bullied a crying kid should take note: This woman misremembered her mother's death, one of the worst, and most important, things that could ever happen to anyone.
You should also think hard on this when you assess the stories the other people were telling: A few days after the Washington Post broke the Romney story, it came out that they'd been talking to each other before they talked to the Post. At this point, it seems to me that the story was simply hopelessly contaminated. The Post story made much of the fact that they all agreed about the memory. Yet all that tells you is that they'd agreed upon a version that was internally consistent. Note, however, that I'm not suggesting that they're lying. I'm suggesting that once they'd spent a lot of time talking about an incident that one of them recalled from 40 years ago, the line between what they actually remembered and what they'd heard other people say was too hopelessly fuzzy to treat it as fact.
And this is true of anyone who is giving you a detailed account of something that happened a while ago. People don't remember things that happened a while ago; they remember the stories that they have told themselves about it. I vividly remember sticking a key into an electric socket when I was (I am told) about 18 months old. Do I remember it? Or do I remember being told about it? It feels like a real memory, but all the research indicates that that tells you precisely nothing.
Conversely, I am told that when I was a teenager, a horse reared up and pawed around my ears, miraculously not kicking me in the head. Multiple people agreed that this had happened, but I have no memory of it. Either I've forgotten something I certainly ought to remember -- or they are misremembering something that happened to someone else. No way to tell, because we don't have contemporaneous documentation.
This is particularly true when there is an answer people very much want to get to. It's called hindsight bias: Once we know the "correct" answer, we tend to believe that we would have figured that out even without being told. In fact, if we're asked to predict the answer in advance, we will often edit our memories of what we did believe, to show that "we knew it all along." This is not a conscious attempt to deceive someone else; it is part of the mind's unconscious mechanisms for deceiving itself. Elizabeth Loftus theorizes that this has self-protective functions, helping to tamp down distressing memories and boosting our self-esteem. But of course this mechanism probably gets a powerful boost when you add in the sort of motivated cognition that we see around political topics.
Misremembering is not lying. Are you more likely to misremember things in politically salient ways? Of course, because when your memory suggests the "wrong" thing, you're quite likely to go hunting for evidence that you're wrong ... while a memory that bolsters your preferred narrative is not one you're going to ferociously interrogate. This is just human nature. It doesn't mean that Cohn and Gruber are being dishonest; it just means they're human. And it applies just as strongly to conservatives who claim to have some strong memory of what went down in 2010.
Of course, that leaves us with a bit of a problem. We can't rely on memory to tell us what the intentions were, because as this episode has demonstrated, memories are extraordinarily unreliable. And the written record is extremely thin, because -- as best I can tell -- it simply never seriously occurred to any of us that states would fail to set up exchanges.
That does not mean, as some of the law's supporters have suggested, that we must therefore defer to the Internal Revenue Service's interpretation allowing subsidies to be offered on federal exchanges. The logic of this seems to be that Congress meant to pass a law that worked; this will make the law not work; therefore, this cannot have been congressional intent. As a friend points out, by this logic, Congress could have just written "ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY" for 2,000 pages, and whatever the regulatory agencies did would be fine, because hey, Congress wanted the law to work.
But you cannot run a country that way. Nor do political parties get to take a mulligan and effectively rewrite the law because they screwed up the first time. There are very good reasons that we demand that agencies hew to the law that was passed, not the law as it should have been passed or the law as a hazily shining dream in the hearts and minds of the congressmen who voted for it.
So we have to fall back on our written memory: the legislative history and the text of the law. The arguments that this result was "absurd" and that "no one could have thought that" were always bad arguments, strategically as well as intellectually. The case needed to be won in the text.
While my understanding is that the Cohn clip may ultimately end up in the briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Gruber gotcha clips were never going to make a difference in the court case, because for precisely the reasons I have outlined above, courts do not normally consider post-facto statements about the law. (After all, Gruber could have been misremembering in 2012!) They are not legally important, but they matter nonetheless, because they bring the public debate back to where the legal debate always seems to have been: the text of the statute and the bills that preceded it.
Will the plaintiffs' reading of the statute prevail? On that, I have no opinion. I started out pretty skeptical of this case, but after reading the plaintiffs' briefs -- and, funnily enough, after listening to the impassioned arguments of liberal commentators -- I find it very plausible. However, I opposed Obamacare, and I have long said that it was an overly complex monstrosity with too many internal contradictions to survive, so it's not exactly a big stretch for me to agree with the Halbig plaintiffs. And, more to the point, I am not a lawyer, so I'm not really qualified to judge their arguments about the finer points of administrative law and the two-part Chevron test.
What I think I can say, after all this, is that their view of the law is not some absurd ideological construction. If it is wrong, it is wrong in a way that anyone -- even very smart, very liberal analysts who have spent a whole lot of time thinking about the law -- could be wrong. I think I can also say that we'd all be in much better shape if we were a lot less confident about our own memories -- and a lot more charitable in engaging people across the aisle.
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Common Sense(s)
February 20 – April 10, 2016
Gallery Reception: Saturday, February 20, 2016, 5-7pm
Common Sense(s), features a compilation of photozines and related ephemera by over 50 artists. Curated by CPW's Juan Madrid and artist Carlos Loret de Mola, the exhibition examines what constitutes a "zine" in contemporary photographic practice. This exhibition amalgamates obsessions and issues, structure and chaos, sense and nonsense, into a visual assault reflective of the photozine itself. Artists and publishers include 3 Dot Zine, Adrian Octavius Walker, Akemi Hiatt, Alejandro Cartagena, Amanda Chestnut, Anna Leigh Clem, Bob Civil, Curtis Hamilton, Dan Boardman, David Schoerner, Downgrade Magazine, Ed Panar, Elle Pérez, Empty Stretch, Erica Christmas, Evan Ortiz, Everything Is Collective, Fryd Frydendahl, Ginevra Shay, Halfling Zine, Louie Palu, Mambu Badu, Megawords Magazine, Meghan Boilard, Meron Menghistab, Michael Max McLeod, Michael McCraw, Mohamed Sadek, Oranbeg Press, Papersafe, Patrick Bresnan, Rob Hornstra, Ron Jude, Sasha Phyars-Burgess, Stephanie Segura, Suzanna Zak, Tammy Mercure, Terranova, Trevor Clement, Varvara Mikushkina, and VUU.
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Hanson, Bucholtz are sheriff primary winners
Published 8:00 pm, Tuesday, August 5, 2008
HURON COUNTY — Following his victory in the Republican sheriff primary Tuesday, Kelly Hanson said he was overwhelmed and humbled to see the support he received.
Hanson, a Port Austin resident, nabbed 46 percent of the votes cast in Tuesday's primary, according to unofficial election results released by Huron County Clerk Peggy Koehler.
He had a total of 3,811 votes, overcoming both the 3,142 cast for current Huron County Sheriff Kent D. Tibbits, and the 1,299 cast for Bad Axe resident David James DeCourval.
"I got a lot of support in the past two and a half months obviously, and a lot of people to thank," Hanson said.
Following his loss, Tibbits said it's still too early to tell what he will do in the near or far away future.
"Of course we're disappointed, but life goes on," the Pigeon resident said, adding he wants to thank all the voters for their eight years of support. " … We had a great run, had a great staff, and I wish the other two candidates the best of luck in the November general election.
The other candidate Tibbits referred to is Gene Bucholtz, the winner of Tuesday's Democratic Huron County Sheriff Primary.
Bucholtz, a Harbor Beach resident, defeated his opponent, Don Koglin, of Ubly, 992-222.
"I'm very happy that the voters voted for me," Bucholtz said. " … I'd also like to thank Don Koglin. He ran a very nice campaign. He's really a gentleman about it."
Hanson and Bucholtz will go on to compete in the Nov. 4 General Election for the office of sheriff, which is a four-year term and begins January 2009.
Quite a few handshakes and dollars went into many of the campaigns — specifically those running as Republicans.
According to campaign finance statements submitted in late July, Tibbits received the most contributions, totaling $13,237. His expenditures, as of July 20, were $9,584.
DeCourval reported receiving no contributions and had expenditures that totaled $11,694. Hanson received $2,374 in contributions and reported $9,031 in expenditures.
The amounts listed in the pre-election statements candidates filed in late July mean that is how much each candidate earned and spent as of July 20. The total expenditures and contributions
of each campaign more than likely will increase after the candidates submit their post-election campaign finance documents.
As for the Democrats, Koglin reported receiving $725 in contributions and spent $699 as of July 20.
Koehler said Bucholtz previously filed a waiver to report campaign finances because he did not anticipate to receive and/or spend more than $1,000.
However, she said his campaign notified her that they did go above that $1,000 threshold and will file an itemized list of expenditures and contributions in post-election campaign finance documents — something that's required by law, not something that's a penalty because she said he didn't do anything wrong because, as of the July 20 cut-off date, his campaign had not spent or received more than $1,000.
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- The best form of support Masjids can give is to hold a Khutbah prior to World Hijab Day (Saturday, Feburary 1st, 2014) on the topic of Hijab and its importance and to highlight the importance of Dawah about Hijab, which is crucial in these times as Hijab is being maligned. It would be an honor if WHD was mentioned and the congregation was asked to participate as well as promote.
- 2. Hold an Open House/Open Masjid event wherein Community members, both Muslim and Non-Muslim can learn about Hijab.
- 3. Hold a Hijab Drive, prior to WHD wherein people can donate Hijabs for those who will participate on World Hijab Day to wear. This event can also have a table wherein World Hijab Day material is passed out. WHD material can be found here: https://worldhijabday.com/category/get-involved/download/
- Organize and start up Hijab Halaqas, led by Sisters of the Community,that will continue even after WHD. our goal is to leave a positive impact even after the event is done.
- Create a 'My Masjid's World Hijab Day' video. A compilation of the beautiful members of your community and a showcase of all the hard work and efforts you put forth to spread knowledge, awareness and appreciation of Hijab and upload the video on your youtube channel and share the link with us. May Allaah reward you greatly.
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Neither Here Nor There: In the beginning . . .
Published 10:49 am, Saturday, January 7, 2012
Every year - in fact, at least 12 times a year, more likely 365 times a year - I resolve to lose weight, eat healthy meals and exercise. At times, I am a paragon of healthy living while at other times I am the queen of junk food. Up until now I blamed myself for loving chicken-fried steak, butter and hot homemade rolls, pizza, enchiladas and Blue Bell ice cream - lots of Blue Bell ice cream.
It never occurred to me to research the origins of my poor choices in food. Thankfully, Eric Turner sent me this e-mail that lays it all out in black and white. I did notice that his version doesn't mention anything about the apple and serpent in the Garden of Eden.
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In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth and populated the earth with broccoli, cauliflower and spinach, green and yellow and red vegetables of all kinds, so man and woman would live long and healthy lives.
Then using God's great gifts, Satan created Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream and Krispy Creme Donuts.
And Satan said, "You want chocolate with that?"
And man said, "Yes!" and woman said, "and as long as you're at it, add some sprinkles."
And they gained 10 pounds.
Satan smiled.
And God created the healthful yogurt that woman might keep the figure that man found so fair.
And Satan brought forth white flour from the wheat and sugar from the cane and combined them.
And woman went from size 6 to size 14.
So God said, "Try my fresh green salad."
And Satan presented Thousand Island Dressing, buttery croutons and garlic toast on the side.
And man and woman unfastened their belts following the repast.
God then said, "I have sent you heart healthy vegetables and olive oil in which to cook them."
And Satan brought forth deep-fried fish and chicken-fried steak so big it needed its own platter.
And man gained more weight, and his cholesterol went through the roof.
God then created a light, fluffy white cake, named it "Angel Food Cake" and said, "It is good."
Satan then created chocolate cake and named it "Devil's Food."
God then brought forth running shoes so that his children might lose those extra pounds.
And Satan gave him cable TV with a remote control so man would not have to toil changing the channels.
And man and woman laughed and cried before the flickering blue light and gained pounds.
Then God brought forth the potato, naturally low in fat and brimming with nutrition.
And Satan peeled off the healthful skin and sliced the starchy center into chips and deep-fried them.
And man gained pounds.
God then gave lean beef so that man might consume fewer calories and still satisfy his appetite.
And Satan created McDonald's and its 99-cent double cheeseburger. Then said, "You want fries with that?"
And man replied, "Yes! And super size them!"
And Satan said, "It is good."
And man went into cardiac arrest.
God sighed and created quadruple bypass surgery.
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Not only did the American wind industry have a banner year, its seems that the world wide wind industry set a new record for growth and production in 2006. The usual suspects put up big numbers, like the US, Germany, and Spain. But newcomers India and China moved into the top five and Brazil took off with an over 700% increase in wind power production.
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Wind energy continued its dynamic growth worldwide in the year 2006. 14,900MW were added in the past year summing up to a global installed capacity of 73,904MW by the end of December 2006. The added capacity equals a growth rate of 25 %, after 24 % in 2005. The currently installed wind power capacity generates more than 1 % of the global electricity consumption. Based on the accelerated development, WWEA has increased its prediction for 2010 and expects now 160,000MW to be installed by the end of 2010. Five countries added more than 1,000MW: the United States of America (2,454MW), Germany (2,194MW), India (1,840MW) and Spain (1,587MW) were able to secure their leading market positions and China (1,145MW) joint the group of the now top five markets and is now number five in terms of added capacity, showing a market growth of 91 %. Five countries added more than 500MW and showed excellent growth rates: France (810MW, 107 % growth), Canada (768MW, 112 %), Portugal (628MW, 61 %) and the United Kingdom (610MW, 45 %). The most dynamic market in 2006, Brazil, faced its long expected take off and added 208MW which equals a sevenfold increase of installed capacity within one year.
As impressive as these numbers are I think the important part to realize is that wind energy still only produces a little more than 1% of global electricity. That means that we could see growth in the industry like this for years if not decades before we reach a saturation of wind energy world wide.


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Gossip Girl Spoiler Pics: Hope For Rufly?Steve Marsi at . Comments
Is Rufly down for the count on Gossip Girl? Maybe not yet.
The latest batch of photos from the show's NYC set shows the estranged couple in a much better place than when we last left them in May ... or where they appear to be in the Gossip Girl Season 6 trailer.
It looks very much like Rufus sleeps with someone we know.
Maybe they'll get through it, though. Lily is married to Bart, after all, so is it even considered cheating if Rufus and she-who-must-not-be-named hook up? Bizarre, yes, but not necessarily cheating.
Anyway, sound off on whether you think Rufly will make it!
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Spring Hill Ranch Ketchup and Cocktail Sauce
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Author Notes: It is said that ketchup was the very first condiment, invented shortly after humanity first learned that flame-cooked meat, while delicious in and of itself, was lacking just a little something. I have read also that ketchup was the very first foodstuff to be made available in a tin can. Strangely, it is also said that it was this availability of canned ketchup that lead to the rift in North Carolina's barbecue aficionados as canned ketchup was introduced as an ingredient in the sauce (or "dip") used in the western part of the state. Volumetrically speaking, ketchup is still the most popular condiment. Oh, sure, they say that salsa has taken its place, but alas - they speak of dollars, not ounces.
Anyway, here at the ranch we often run short of one supply or another, which can be very inconvenient. It take an hour and a half to go to town, so we try to make do. We made our first batch of homemade ketchup about 20 years ago. While it wasn't perfect at first, we loved the fact that we could control the salt level as well as adjust the flavor more for the adult pallet. So if you are expecting this to taste like what you buy at the supermarket, move on to some "copy-cat" recipe instead. —WileyP
Makes about 30 ounces (enough to fit into an emptied and washed squeeze bottle from brand "h")
For the Ketchup
- 24 ounces low-salt tomato sauce
- 3 tablespoons cider or malt vinegar
- 1 tablespoon light (golden) brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon minced or pressed fresh garlic
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 3/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 3/4 teaspoon ground mustard
- 3/8 teaspoon ground mace
- 3/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
For cocktail sauce, add:
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Teen Top's Ricky surprises with his rapid growth
With the return of Teen Top and their newest song "No More Perfume On You", the group gained much popularity. Though it's all about their comeback these days, one of Teen Top's youngest members managed to snatch away some of the current hype.
Member Ricky's rapid growth has attracted the attention of many Netizens, saying that his recent image differed a lot from the image he had in his child actor days.
About 3 years ago, Ricky appeared as one of the actors in Seo Taiji's "Human Dream" music video. As the main actor, the presented impressive acting and it made him receive the nickname of "Seo Taiji Boy". Later, Ricky was also featured as the younger version of Song Seunghun in "Love Song". His current appearance pulls out a lot of reactions, saying that the teen star's rapid growth made him have a much more manly vibe.
Many netizens commented on his child actor pictures saying "It's the cutie Ricky that I know, right?", "Really turned into a man" and "Every time I watch 'No More Perfume On You' performance, I'm always amazed"
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TEEN TOP to become a 13 member group?
T.O.P. Media has stepped up to address the rumors that said TEEN TOP would be reorganized into a 13-member group with the addition of seven more members.
On August 26th, representatives spoke through TV Report and explained the misunderstanding, "TEEN TOP is not being reorganized into a 13-member group as what was being said in the media earlier. They (TEEN TOP + new group) will promote briefly as a project group at the end of this year. The seven members that will be promoting with TEEN TOP have trained for an average of two years. Once they complete their promotions with TEEN TOP, they will prepare to debut as a new group on their own."
They continued, "We have yet to finalize any concepts for the project group, as we are still in the midst of planning the roadmap for them."
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i personally love teen top there music is amazing. and um . can you say SWAG?
their the definition.
looking for something that interests me.. to watch
omg i love teen top...i especially <3 C.A.P....hes the hottest...nd i like their songs like 'first kiss'
i think their my new obsession haha
♥♥ the two guys I love- gikwang & daehyun♥♥
TEEN TOP reveals MV for "Going Crazy"
TEEN TOP has kicked off their comeback by releasing a new music video!
On January 5th, the boys unveiled a MV that's both dynamic and dramatic, as it mixes fluid choreography sequences with a story of a frustrating love.
As reported earlier, TEEN TOP teamed up with Brave Brothers for their second mini-album, who oversaw each aspect to ensure a high quality album. The effort definitely seems to have paid off, as the boys delivered an upgrade in looks, talents, and skills through just their music video alone.
TEEN TOP releases MV teaser for "Driving Me Crazy" + mini-album tracklist
After impressing fans with a rebellious change in image for their second mini-album, "It's", TEEN TOP has returned with a music video teaser!
The 180 degree change in image from their previous color retro suits to a more masculine style was one that was welcomed by many fans, as not only had their homepage crashed for five minutes upon the photo's release, but also topped various search portals.
T.O.P. Media updated fans with the "It's" tracklist on December 28th, which is as follows:
02. Driving Me Crazy
03. Where's Ma Girl
04. Girl Friend
05. Driving Me Crazy (R&B Slow mix)
06. Driving Me Crazy (Instrumental)
Check out the teaser below with a special appearance by 4minute's Sohyun!
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love their album <3
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TEEN TOP CAP's controversial comment shocks netizens
TEEN TOP's leader CAP made a controversial statement that's got some netizens fired up.
On a recent episode of Mnet 'Wide Entertainment News', idol group TEEN TOP discussed where they would like to be in 10 years.
When leader CAP was asked if he could see himself being a father at 30 years old, he remarked, "I want to raise my kids really well. I want to support them so that they can do everything their heart desires."
He then added, "If I have a girl, I'll discipline her by giving her a spanking and keep her at home."
Shocked, the MC asked his reasons for keeping his daughters at home. "It's dangerous outside," he managed to say.
The other members seemed to agree for a moment, but then remarked, "It seems like it'll actually be more dangerous to stay at home", and CAP's 'sexist' comment spread like wildfire amongst the viewers.
Viewers who heard CAP's comment remarked, "Really does seem like the home would be more dangerous", "Is he promoting violence?", "So his sons can have whatever they want, but his girls will hit?", "Seems like the dangerous world will be safer than being at home with a dad like that", and "Please only have boys".
TEEN TOP's CAP apologizes for his controversial
TEEN TOP's CAP apologized for the controversial comment he made on Mnet's 'Wide Entertainment News'.
CAP wrote via TEEN TOP's official homepage on the 17th, "I made a major mistake by saying what I did on last week's episode of Mnet 'Wide Entertainment News', and for that I sincerely apologize."
He continued, "I was just trying to be funny and entertaining during the interview, and what I really meant to say just came out wrong. I was rebuked by a number of people, and I feel that I deserved it… I feel terrible that my team has been criticized because of my actions, and I just want you guys to know that I am reflecting on my actions. I promise to be more cautious in the future and become a prudent person ."
TEEN TOP's agency T.O.P Media remarked, "We apologize for the anxiety we caused everyone due to CAP's controversial comment. We are heeding the advice and comments received from viewers after making a comment that was quite inappropriate for TV, and we will make sure to warn our artists about being more cautious in the future."
TEEN TOP's leader CAP recently remarked on a recent episode of Mnet 'Wide Entertainment News' that he would discipline his daughters by hitting them and keeping them at home, while his sons would be free to do everything their heart desired.
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TEEN TOP's Chunji snaps a handsome selca
TEEN TOP's Chunji is making hearts race with his handsome selca.
On January 20th, Chunji shared a new photo through TEEN TOP's official Twitter along with a short message saying, "My Angel ♥".
TEEN TOP's fan base, 'Angel', swooned over this dedication to them and complimented Chunji for his mature style. The 19-year-old rocked a cute, mischievous look for "No More Perfume On You", but has since adopted a more sophisticated fashion.
Fans replied, "You look so handsome" and "I love your hair color".
TEEN TOP has been receiving lots of love for their song "Going Crazy", which became the number one most downloaded ringtone in Korea.
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TEEN TOP wins 'Music Bank' K-Chart + Performances from February 3rd!
KBS's 'Music Bank' is back with another fun and exciting show that was chock-full of amazing performances!
Aside from the usual stages, both F.T. Island and Block B made held their comeback stages with "Severely" and "Nanrina", respectively. Brown Eyed Girls' Miryo also finally made her solo debut with "Leggo" on tonight's episode.
As for the winners, MBLAQ faced off against TEEN TOP for this week's 'K-Chart', but in the end, it was TEEN TOP who clinched their first 'K-Chart' win with "Going Crazy".
Congratulations to TEEN TOP on their first 'K-Chart' win ever!
Tony An congratulates TEEN TOP on their first K-Chart win
Former H.O.T member Tony An congratulated idol group TEEN TOP on their K-Chart win.
The singer wrote via his Twitter page on the 3rd, "I want to sincerely congratulate TEEN TOP on their win today. Congratulations on your win, TEEN TOP!!!"
Their #1 win on KBS 2TV's 'Music Bank' with "Going Crazy" on February 3rd was the first for the boys who debuted in 2010.
Tony continued, "Andy and I talked a lot about the production of this group when we were in the military. Although I'm a senior to Andy in both the entertainment industry and also in the military, it's good to see Andy being successful."
Shinhwa's Andy responded to Tony's tweet writing, "I hope that the idols you create and debut one day will be successful too."
It's good to see fellow artists supporting each other. Congratulations once again to TEEN TOP!
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Idol group TEEN TOP makes Shinhwa's Andy cry
The boys of TEEN TOP caused Shinhwa's Andy to shed some emotional tears.
Andy who produced TEEN TOP apparently showed some tears after the boys won their first #1 K-Chart win on SBS 'Inkigayo' back on February 5th. This was shortly after their previous #1 on KBS 'Music Bank' on the 3rd.
With a recent interview with OSEN, TEEN TOP remarked, "It was our first #1 win since we debuted a year and a half ago. At our company dinner, Andy hyung told us that 'this is just the beginning.' We didn't hear this until later, but he apparently shed tears while watching the broadcast."
Neil added, "We were really excited as well, as we worked hard to achieve this win. It didn't really sink in when we actually won, but to be honest, we knew that we may win a K-Chart win because "Going Crazy" was such a good song."
"Going Crazy" is an energetic club song with an addictive melody written by hitmaker Brave Brothers, and has stirred interest from the public as TEEN TOP made a fierce transformation for the track.
Congratulations once again to TEEN TOP!
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TEEN TOP proves to be a favorite idol group amongst today's hottest female Hallyu stars
Boy group TEEN TOP seems to be the favorite idol group amongst today's hottest female Hallyu stars.
It all started last year when singer Lee Hyori completed a photo shoot with TEEN TOP last year, and selected the boys as the idol group she would like as a younger partner.
Wonder Girls member Sohee sang praises for the boys saying, "I am most interested in seeing the stage performances of TEEN TOP," while the members of miss A admitted that they were also fans, even suggesting a possible joint performance.
T-ara's Hyomin went as far as to admit that she thought member Niel was cute, stirring interest from fans and netizens everywhere.
And most recently, legendary singer Uhm Jung Hwa admitted on SBS Power FM 'Choi Hwa Jung's Power Time' on February 9th, "I like TEEN TOP. I think they are really cute these days."
Why do you think TEEN TOP has such a broad appeal to the hottest female Hallyu stars?
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Im learning the dance to Crazy ^^
Just got back into routine.
Andy treats Teen Top to a meal after attending a baseball game
Andy, who is currently promoting with Shinhwa, took time off and treated Teen Top to a meal. On April 26th, it was reported that Andy and Teen Top attended the 2012 professional baseball game between LG and Nexen, together with selected child patients from Seoul University Hospital.
The outing will be aired on MBC's "A New Life for Children" on May 5th and will feature Teen Top taking baseball lessons and spending time with Andy and their guests.
After the outing, Top Media updated their Twitter account with a message saying, "It's been a long time since Andy last came to the baseball stadium, the weather's good and he seems to have become a child again~." Meanwhile, Teen Top also updated their own account saying, "Waa delicious dakgalbi! It's even more delicious because Andy-hyung is treating us hahahahahaha – Niel." A photo of their outing and meal was uploaded with the tweets.
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TEEN TOP sends their thanks to parents
May 8th marks South Korea's national celebration of Parents' Day and the members of TEEN TOP made sure to show their gratitude to their parents.
On May 8th, TEEN TOP uploaded a photo on their me2day and Twitter accounts of them holding carnation flowers in celebration of Parent's Day.
Along with the photo they wrote, "You put all your suffering aside when you gave birth to me and did all you could to take care of me day and night. Thank you mom and dad~ we will continue to be hard-working sons."
They continued, "Mom and Dad, you know your six sons love you very very much right? We were too shy to say this before but we thank you with a big hug today! I love you!"
Fans who saw their post commented, "I should go tell my parents I love them in the morning", "The parents must be so happy to have such loving sons from TEEN TOP", and "Their sweet gesture makes you rethink about your parent's love."
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TEEN TOP reveals album jacket and title for upcoming third mini album
The boys of TEEN TOP have unveiled their album jacket cover along with the title.
On May 23rd, TEEN TOP's official website shared the above photo. The album jacket photo is very different from the homeless look they portrayed in the concept photo. The album jacket photo also reveals the album title, 'Artist'.
TEEN TOP's official Twitter account tweeted, "Wow… I heard Artist TEEN TOP's new images have been revealed keke I'm going to go see it!"
Teen Top will release their third mini album on May 30th.
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My Favorite Raw Food Ice Cream
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I've often had the thought . . . if only ice cream didn't have animal fat and refined sugar. For a healthier frozen dessert, I've got a recipe for a raw treat that is divinely sweet and creamy, without any processed ingredients: Brazil-Nut Vanilla Ice Cream.
Nut Milk, A Raw Food Staple
Nut milks, particularly almond milk, have become quite popular. Nut milks are made by soaking nuts in water for 8 to 12 hours. You'll see in the video how to use a mesh bag to make sure you squeeze out all the goodness from the nuts.
Brazil nut milk is a popular substitute for dairy milk and cream in many raw ice creams. Why? Brazil nuts are naturally sweet and don't overpower other flavors. That makes Brazil Nut Vanilla Ice Cream a perfect base for all kinds of add-ins such as fresh fruits, nuts, cacao nibs, etc.
The Right Tool for Raw Ice Cream
At this stage, you could use ice, rock salt and an old-fashioned hand-crank machine to create your frozen raw confection, but I prefer something less labor intensive. Electric ice cream makers do the cranking for you. My personal favorite is the ice cream maker from Cuisinart.
To use an electric ice cream maker, you place your ingredient in a canister that holds a freezing agent. (these canisters must be placed in the freezer for up to eight hours before using.) Then you just flip a switch and the machine automatically churns the mixture to velvety perfection.
A quick trip back to the freezer allows the mixture to solidify to the consistency you like best.
Click here for my Brazil-Nut Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe.
What's your favorite ice cream mix-in? My recipe book Raw for Dessert features a variety of raw food ice cream recipes, but I'm always looking for new ideas. Won't you share yours in the comments section?
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Cameron Diaz spotted cosying up with Jason Segel
Rumours are doing rounds that Hollywood is going to have a new couple on its board very soon as Cameron Diaz seems to be dating Gulliver's Travels actor Jason Segel. The couple seems to be very much in love as they were spotted recently cosying up with each other.
According to a source, "They were at the upscale eatery Nick and Toni`s and seemed to be on a date." The duo was also seen on a shopping spree at Citarella food market in the same area. An onlooker revealed, "They bought groceries and then drove off together." Cameron is presently busy filming The Other Woman opposite Leslie Mann, Taylor Kinney and Kate Upton. Diaz and Segel shared screen space in the 2011 comedy Bad Teacher where they kissed each other. Segel mocked about the sequence, "It was very good for her." Earlier this year Segel reportedly broke up with actress Michelle Williams.


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Rasputin's Bastards
by David Nickle
Edited by Sandra Kastari
Cover Artist: Erik Mohr
Review by Benjamin Wald
ChiZine Publications Paperback ISBN/ITEM#: 9781926851594
Date: 26 June 2012 List Price $16.95 Amazon US / Amazon UK / Show Official Info /
David Nickle's second novel, Rasputin's Bastards, moves away from the author's previous focus on horror writing to bring us a fast paced thriller featuring a secret history of psychic cold war spies, vast networks of psychically dominated sleepers, and a plot for world domination. At the same time, there are clear thematic similarities between this work and Nickle's earlier writings, particularly his debut novel Eutopia. Both novels explore the way that we allow ourselves to live in illusions to hide from the world, and how this can allow us to be manipulated and controlled by outside forces.
Surprisingly, for a novel full of mind control and hidden pasts, Nickle manages to imbue his characters with significant agency, using his premise to raise questions of personal responsibility versus societal control rather than hide from them. This strong thematic backbone provides substance to the excellently written spy-thriller material, providing both action and food for thought in a strong sophomore novel.
The plot of the novel is complex and intricate, following a number of characters who start off relatively ignorant, and then proceed to slowly unwrap the layers of the plot and of their own hidden histories. Many of the characters turn out not to be who they think they are, making self-discovery a recurring motif of the novel. The basic premise is that during the cold war the soviets developed a cadre of psychics who had the power to dream walk. From sensory deprivation tanks, these dream walkers could see through the eyes of and control the actions of a network of sleepers; specially prepared agents who were perfect spies since they themselves didn't even know that they were spies. With the collapse of the soviet empire, the dream walkers scattered and went into hiding, using their powers to erase their own existence from the records. Most were content to use their networks of sleepers to amass wealth and live in hiding, but some have grander plans, plans that threaten the entire world.
The novel is full of action and reveals, and does an excellent job of balancing the sense of a wider mystery with a steady stream of revelations to keep the plot advancing. There are also a number of thoroughly delightful touches that create a sense of the bizarre and unexpected, such as the surprise arrival of a decommissioned Russian submarine early in the narrative.
It is not a perfect book. The ending is bit too Deus ex machina for my taste, and Nickle succumbs a bit too often to the temptation to makes characters special by providing them with special psychic powers whose only purpose is to break the rules that Nickle himself sets up about how psychics operate. Also, while the plot arcs of the main characters are well paced and exciting, some of the minor characters meander a bit without too much to do but provide a point of view on some of the action. Still, despite these flaws the novel as a whole is exciting and intriguing.
Rasputin's Bastards works on multiple levels. It is an entertaining thriller, a fun secret history/conspiracy theory, and a thoughtful exploration of the importance of one's own past, the nature and extent of personal responsibility, and the allures and dangers of the human capacity to live in our own illusions.
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Street Food is ready-to-eat food which is sold by the vendor or hawker and it's mostly sold at the open market or streets. We all Indians love to eat Street Food and much more than the Food of Hotels/Restaurants. This Article is for all the Street Food lovers and to make everyone realize why Street Food is very important part of our life. In this Article, we will show you 7 reasons why everyone loves to eat Street Food. The motive of this Article is to promote the street food of India. To all the Street Food lovers, must read this Article.
1. Cheap/Inexpensive
The biggest reason that we all loves to eat street food is that it's way more economical or cheap than the food of Restaurants/Hotels. Street Food is very economical for the middle class people and that's why the major chunk of that class prefers street food the most.
2. Represents the Local Cuisine
If you are a True Foodie, then you will explore the best places to get the finest local food and that's definitely not the Hotels/Restaurants. If you want to try the Local food of Mumbai, Delhi or other city, then you surely go to street food places as they serves you the finest food items of local cuisine.
3. Saves the Time
If you are feeling very hungry and can't wait hours to get your order, then Street Food is the only savior for you. You have to wait at least 35 minutes to 1 hour to get your order and that's seriously a waste of time. In the cases of Street Food, it saves lot of time as it's prepared very fast and you don't have to give your order to waiters.
4. Food prepared in front of you
The best part of eating street food is that it's prepared in front of you. If you don't like to eat spicy food or sweet then you can say directly to the cook for changes in spices and vice versa. And it gives better feeling while watching your food preparation in front of your eyes.
5. Contributes Local Economy
I have so many people in my knowledge that eats street food just because they believe that eating in at the western restaurants/Hotels will benefit nothing much to our country, but surely to western countries. Eating street food is definitely great for the economy and promoting the local food.
6. Street Food is so yummy
Am I the only one who believes that Street Food is way better than Food of Hotels/Restaurants! The taste of street food is very authentic and real and that's what we didn't get it from the food of Hotels. If you want to try the food of any cuisine, just eat the street food of that place to get the real taste.
7. Menu is always available
You will never be told 'Sorry it is not in the Menu today' like Hotels/Restaurants. The best part of street food is that they have everything available which is on their menu list and you will not be disappointed at all. This reason is surely a great message to everyone that street food is prepared for the Food lovers and not for the purpose of today's special.


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So, since I recently became an economic statistic, I've been updating ye olde resume and clip file, in preparation for seeking gainful employment. While I have a current gig at GPS Maniac, I only get a chunk of the advertising revenue from that; I draw no monthly salary. So until such time as that happens, i.e, the advertising reps at sister pub and former employer GPS World sell some ads on the Maniac, I need to pay some bills and feed myself.
I was looking for some clips from my trip to [tag]China[/tag] on behalf of E-News back in 2005 today when I came across the blog I kept as part of that project. I had thought that this was long gone. I have a PDF of the entire microsite that housed the blog, and my stories filed from China, among other things involved with this China trip project, but had thought Reed Business had taken down the blog long ago, along with the microsite. But the blog is still there, tucked into a dusty little corner of EDN (Electronic Design News, the pub that eventually absorbed what was left of Electronic News Online when Reed pulled the plug).
This was a relief, because I wasn't looking forward to editing more than 1,000 pages in the PDF file I made from the microsite once upon a time and making it presentable. Anyway, you can read more about the China/Silicon Road project here, and read some of the stories and blog entries produced from my memorable month in the midst of this 5,000-year-old culture, if you are so inclined.
This seemed a bit coincidental, as I had just been talking on the phone previously with a former colleague; among other things we had talked about was my eventual return to China — as this is a frequent topic with me, anyway — and her son, who used to teach English at a university in Kunming, in central China, for some years. Naturally I've been thinking about pursuing a career in [tag]TEFL[/tag] — teaching English as a foreign language — ever since I came back from China.
Didn't give it much thought though, until I was at the gym tonight, doing run/walk intervals on the treadmill (because I'm in such sad shape these days I can't even run 30 minutes on the treadmill). What do I stumble across on the vast wasteland of the idiot box on my machine (it's one of those kinds of gyms) but an episode of Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations, in which he travels to China, dining on duck in Beijing and hot pot in Chengdu, among other Chinese culinary delicacies. God, it about killed me. Between reading my old clips and watching this show, it all came back to me; I think if I had the money right now I'd be on a plane to China tonight, and I would fly straight through to Chengdu, the capital of Szechuan province and the best damn food in the world.
I have to admit, [tag]Anthony Bourdain[/tag], given the constraints of a one-hour television program, did China and its cuisine justice, I thought. And I couldn't help but think, as I drove home from the gym, that someone is trying to tell me something. …


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Opening on Earth and Uranus: John Carter, A Thousand Words, Silent House, Friends with Kids
FilmDrunk Suggests: John Carter. Just go see it. It was expensive to make, so Disney needs your money.
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Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 50% critics, 72% audience, 66% intergalactic porn fetishists
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"I don't usually bring up a film's budget in a review, but the reported $250 million price tag for 'John Carter' gives one pause. I suppose one could argue that masterpieces have no price. Then again, 'John Carter' is no masterpiece." – Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
"You want to know more about this world, the lives and causes on it, and how it will all end. In those final moments of screen light, Martian and Earther will blend, and you'll find yourself wanting to go back, wanting to know more." – Our home slice Laremy Legel, Film.com
Armchair Analysis: I'm excited to see this one. Remember, while Vince hated Cowboys and Aliens, I loved it (Hi, Damon Lindelof!) because I was able to read a title like Cowboys and Aliens and think, "Well this should be entertaining if I pay $12 expecting a film about cowboys fighting aliens and don't get lost in silly plot details like where they keep getting all of their bullets or bad acting." I hope to enjoy a movie about a Civil War soldier who somehow winds up on Mars, fighting an alien race bent on dominating our universe. Call me crazy.


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In late April after being inspired by one of our guests, I started the Dukan diet. In the past I have always done best on a low carb no sugar based diet. I have to admit this can be difficult sticking to this type restrictive diet as an Innkeeper who tries to always keep the cookie jar filled. Lucky I have Marty as my sweet taste tester. I am happy to report I weighed in the morning at my lowest in 12 years! Thank you Dukan!
One of the recipes that has helped me stick to the Dukan Plan is Dukan friendly Mini cheesecakes. I make these in small ramekins, although they could also be made in mini jelly jars for a great presentation. I got the idea for the mini jelly jars from a pintreset posting of the Italian Dish. The associated recipe was just begging for a Dukan makeover.
For the Dukan Crust – Makes 10 to 12 Mini Cheesecakes
- 1.5 cups Oat Bran
- 5 Tablespoons Melted Butter – This is only 1/2 T per serving – Not to bad
- 1 Tablespoon Cinnamon
- 2 Packets of Fiber Splenda
- 1 Tablespoon Agave Syrup
Mix all the crust ingredients together and press into the bottom of the ramekins.
For the Cheescake Filling
- 2 8 oz packages cream cheese – low fat optional
- 1 cup low fat greek yogurt
- 4 eggs – You can use egg beaters, but I prefer real eggs.
- 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract – are the caviar from a real vanilla bean… Lets face it if your are giving up sugar you should treat yourself to real vanilla!
- 4 Tablespoons confectioners Sugar substitute
- 3 packets Splenda Fiber
- Zesta of one Lemon
Whip all of the ingedients for the cheescake filling until light and fluffy.
Pour into prepared ramekins.
Bake in a water bath at 350* for 30 minutes until set
Cool completely – Refrigerate for one hour until chilled, serve with Sugar free whipped topping.
Ok so I know technically I am not supposed to have fruit on the Dukan diet, but I have to make an exception for fresh raspberries in the picture. These are also Gluten free, just be sure your Oat Bran is made in a gluten free environment.


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text: Resend -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Mokomake mkae setup fails Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:24:59 +0930 From: Rod Whitby <rod at whitby.id.au> To: Ewan Marshall <ewanm89 at googlemail.com> CC: community at lists.openmoko.org References: <200703271948.24524.ewanm89 at googlemail.com> Ewan Marshall wrote: > Make setup for mokomakefile is giving this error: > mtn: error: I/O failure while talking to peer monotone.openembedded.org, > disconnecting This I can do nothing about. Either OpenMoko Inc. needs to find a monotone server that can handle the load, or you just need to keep retrying until it gets through. There are other mirror OpenEmbedded monotone servers, but none that are marked as official (i.e. either have an openembedded.org or openmoko.org domain), so I will leave it up to the owners of those domains to bless mirrors by adding them to one of those domains. [Some might say use ewi546.ewi.utwente.nl instead, but I don't think OpenMoko should depend on a server which is scheduled for disconnection without notice, and that is owned by a University that threatens you if you add a CNAME in another domain to one of their servers.] > mtn: error: branch org.openembedded.dev has multiple heads The latest version of MokoMakefile will select one head and use that. "make update-makefile" to get it. -- Rod _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community at lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Michael Welter Telecom Matters Corp. Denver, Colorado US +1.303.414.4980 mike at TelecomMatters.net www.TelecomMatters.net


text: https://www.eff.org/opportunities/jobs/designeractivist The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, is looking to hire a visual designer who wants to lead others and change the world. EFF's designer/activist will create layouts and graphics for campaigns about protecting digital freedom worldwide. More often than not, this means designing beautiful and usable websites alongside developers and activists. But it will also require project logos and the occasional flyer, sticker, or t-shirt. The ideal candidate keeps up-to-date on user experience conventions, wants to build a better digital future, and must aspire to create polished visual work that matches the ambitious goals of EFF. Job responsibilities include: Designing striking layouts and graphics for online activism and fundraising campaigns Creating powerful images about key issues Developing attractive and engaging information designs for printed documents, like research reports and one-pagers Working with other public interest groups on grassroots campaigns Required: Intimate knowledge of leading graphics software Experience designing user interfaces alongside web developers and other collaborators Great communication skills Excellent project management habits A passion for Internet civil liberties issues Not required, but very helpful: A background in illustration Writing experience Environment is fast-paced; staff is hardworking yet laid back and friendly. Salary in the mid-$40,000s and includes benefits. To apply, send a cover letter and your resume to designer at eff.org. Please include links to at least three samples of your work. No phone calls please! https://www.eff.org/opportunities/jobs/designeractivist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/noisebridge-jobs/attachments/20130319/049bd05e/attachment.html>


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Currently shipping HDD maximum capacities for commercial products are as high as 6 TB. Both Seagate and Western Digital are offering products with this storage capacity. Seagate is pushing higher area density with a more conventional approach whereas Western Digital's HGST unit's 6 TB drive is hermetically sealed with a helium environment. Seagate and HGST have both reported successful qualifications of these higher capacity products and their design into next generation storage systems.
Seagate indicated that they are looking at higher HDD capacities this year and next, with single drive storage capacity possibly as high as 10 TB. During the June quarterly conference call the company indicated that they have delivered 8 TB HDD units to customers for cloud storage and other applications needing high storage capacities and have received positive responses from those customers. The implication is that we may see shipping volumes of 8 TB drives for enterprise applications by 2015.
Seagate also indicated that their key value object storage products are giving them a differentiated offering for big object storage configurations. The company indicated that their products are under consideration at a large cloud storage environment with total capacity of 0.25-0.5 zetabytes of storage. In general the company indicated that the average storage capacity per drive is increasing and this was just under 1 TB (945 GB) per drive in the last quarter.
While these higher capacity products increase the value of HDDs in hyperscale and other high capacity storage environments, Seagate also reported that notebook HDD shipments reversed a general downward trend, increasing 2% in shipping units over the prior quarter. Seagate indicated that they are seeing some strength in their solid-state hybrid HDD units in markets including notebooks with September quarterly sales for these products projected to be 2.5 M.
Perhaps HDD notebook shipments have reached bottom or at least the rate of decline is shrinking. At the same time Seagate indicated that there was a much less aggressive average sales price decline per drive than in the past, although the company didn't give an ASP per drive number to compare. With a more stable drive pricing environment and a chance at increasing stabilizing HDD shipments the prospects are favorable for positive profit margins for 2014.
HDDs have been under assault by other technologies and for the most part the HDD companies have done little publically to counter these assaults. By increasing the storage capacity of their products HDD companies are appealing to the traditional value of magnetic storage as a low cost way to store information. This is absolutely essential for HDDs to remain relevant as they are experiencing pressure from both SSDs and magnetic tape.
SanDisk announced SSDs with 4 TB storage capacity a bit over a month ago with expectations that these capacities could exceed 10 TB in the not too distant future. While these SSDs will have might higher initial price per GB than HDDs, it is clear that SSDs could potentially offer a way to higher volumetric storage density in data centers and combined with lower power during operation, this could appeal to some enterprise users.
Other the other hand, current magnetic tape cartridges are shipping with capacities as high as 8.5 TB with higher capacities possible in the next year or so. Magnetic tape is lower cost than HDDs in $/GB although the time to data in generally longer with magnetic tape. New flash-based front ends for tape systems using flash memory are helping these products maintain their value as a very attractive way to store cold data.
HDDs companies have to develop public knowledge of their abilities and develop confidence in what they can deliver to all segments of the digital storage industry. This industry appears poised to store more zetabytes of content than ever before but it is no longer quite so clear which storage technology will dominate. Seagate and the other HDD companies need to be more public about the merits and future of this storage technology.
An example of this secretiveness is that the Advanced Storage Technology Consortium, created to promote and develop HDD magnetic storage technology, has not updated their public technology roadmap since 2013—so what is the future of HDDS? HDD companies need to let the world know what they can provide in order to maintain their important role in consumer and enterprise storage. 8 TB drives and Kinetic HDDs are great, but these companies need to let the world know what futures they offer.


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I'm 14 years old and want to make flash games. Can someone tell me what programs and other stuff i will need to start. And if there are any good books. thx.
This thread may help you out:http://armorgames.com/community/thread/431806/how-to-make-gamesAdobe Flash:http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=flash&romoid=EBYEXFlash Develop:http://www.flashdevelop.org/Here's the tutorial that I first started with:http://gamedev.michaeljameswilliams.com/2008/09/17/avoider-game-tutorial-1/If you've never programmed before, you won't be able to jump right into making games. You'll have to learn to "think with code" which includes syntax and logic skills. But first, see where you can get with the links that I gave you, and post a reply if you need any help.
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text: I am trying to make a video of our paintball team over here in Egypt. I have been using a JVC DV800 camcorder. I use the pixela program that came with the cam to capture the video onto my pc. The cam captures at 160x120 and when I capture it to my pc I can only capture it at the same res. When I try to make the vid into a VCD or try edit the video the res is horrible. Is there any program or advice anyone can give me on how to make this video have a higher res without all the digital pixels ruining the vid? Or am I just screwed lol? Thanks in advance.


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Gov. Andrew Cuomo today sent a program bill to the state Legislature that would let the state's Office of Emergency Management accept "any assistance, including but not limited to gifts or grants of real or personal property, but not including money, from any public or private source, for the purpose of preparing for, responding to, or recovering from a state disaster emergency."
The provision is included in a 22-page program bill, below, that Cuomo's aides say they are seeking to help the state make a coordinated response to natural disaster. A memo supporting the legislative obliquely references recent storms that lashed New York: Irene, Lee and Sandy. The bill would require OEM to publicly post any donations it receives, and says this provision will result in "better coordination and use of such gifts and donations."


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I attended the SV2 Sprint Meeting on Tuesday night and one of the presenters made a point that has stuck with me all week, I will make my best effort to replay the moment but I will also take editorial license to paraphrase:
"We have become too metrics driven, we look for historical data to inform our future direction but historical data is a reflection on the past and ignores the value of intuition."
The point the speaker was making is that the Silicon Valley style of management, in business and elsewhere, focused on discrete problem sets with specific solutions, coupled with modern management theory about benchmarking progress against objectives (this is the OKR framework). The challenge with this approach is that every disruptive technology advance in the Valley and beyond has come as a result of trial-and-error, intuition about changing behaviors, and a healthy dose of luck, so in essence we are pursuing a management model that is incompatible with the Silicon Valley ideal of changing the status quo of the world we live in.
To quote another Tuesday night speaker:
"Big change doesn't come from small change."
The emphasis on data has led to an unfortunate behavior that I also want to highlight, which is the weaponization of data, for the purpose of frustrating progress rather than enabling it. I see this play out in many conversations when specific strategy proposals bring together people with different perspectives and, ironically, intuitions about the problem set.
Rather than moving forward with imperfect information these folks will insist on more data to validate a point of view that they know is subject to a lot of interpretation and one which will unlikely be conclusive with even a massive amount of data. This is a toxic behavior in any company and the result is a frustration that develops into lost trust and isolation.
We hire smart people not just because they are skilled but also because they can exercise judgement about moving a business, or project, or philanthropic endeavor forward. If we accept iterative small change then we inherently accept mediocrity and lack of relevance because over time these turns of the crank will not add up to disruption at scale. Intuition and judgement have a role in business and using data as a foil for intuition does disservice to the individual and to the business.
There is a role for management tools, such as OKR (I use them and find immeasurable value in the technique), but I am increasingly of the mind that the devotion to discrete management measurement is incompatible with the strategy role that a management team must accomplish, and an insistence on data to make decisions can become a crutch for people who lack the confidence in their own intuition about what is often quite obvious.
With reward comes risk and the contrary is also true, without risk there is no reward.


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The mission of NAHH is to improve the health and well being of Hispanics, including through immunization. Materials for parents are available in English and Spanish. Hay información sobre las vacunas en español.
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IsoBuster 3.3 Beta
IsoBuster is an award winning , highly specialized and easy to use CD, DVD and blu-ray (BD, HD DVD) data recovery tool.
It supports all CD / DVD / BD / HD DVD formats and all common file-systems ... Rescue lost files from a bad or trashed CD or DVD disc, save important documents, precious pictures, video from the family, your only system backup, ... IsoBuster can do it all.
No accumulated cost if you need more than one type media supported. IsoBuster is a highly specialized yet easy to use optical media data recovery tool. It supports all optical disc formats and all common optical disc file-systems. Start up IsoBuster, Insert a disc, select the drive (if not selected already) and let IsoBuster mount the media. IsoBuster immediately shows you all the tracks and sessions located on the media, combined with all file-systems that are present.
This way you get easy access, just like Windows Explorer, to all the files and folders per file-system. Instead of being limited to one file-system that the OS picks for you, you have access to "the complete picture". Access data from older sessions, access data that your OS (e.g. Windows) does not see or hides from you etc.
# Changes:
* Added "Extract but filter Mpg" for all files, not just mpeg1 filtering of *.dat files on VCD. If you extract a *.VOB file from a DVD this way you end up with a perfect mpeg2 *.mpg file. See DVDVob2Mpg for more information
* Detect Encrypted partitions on which no file-systems can be found (for instance encrypted with TrueCrypt)
* Implemented certain shell commands. Right mouse click on an optical drive will show "investigate with IsoBuster". IsoBuster is added to the list of programs that is available via "Open with"
# Improvements:
* The toolbar installation is unchecked by default, so that people who don't read and just install, don't get the toolbar. Seems like a good compromise.
* FAT Improvement. Test the backup BPB as well, even if the primary BPB is readable and seems ok, and next decide on the best one to use.
* FAT Improvement. No read-ahead anymore of the FAT. On large volumes this can be time consuming and the FAT records may even not be in use
* Deal smarter with huge FATs, suppress warning message and don't load in memory all at once
* Better error display instead of the horrific and way too generic Borland C++ Builder 'EEFFACE' message for C++ exceptions
* Avoid Nikon *.nef files being found as Kodak *.kdc files
* Suppress Windows 2000 dialog when there is no floppy in the drive and the drive is being scanned
* Implemented the ability to detect a floppy drive for what it really is even if there is no floppy in the drive. Before it was not possible to detect a floppy drive properly if it had no disk inside.
* Scan the full drive letter range A - Z in search of floppy drives, instead of just A and B, now that they can be detected more reliable
* Small speed improvements here and there, trying to serve results faster when and where possible.
* Improvements in finding the proper recordings' names on edited DVD-VR discs
* Improvements to deal with bad (non-windows compatible) file names
* Improvement in building FAT long file names from corrupted directory tables with wrong checksums
* Improvement to detect UDF on a CD-R with incorrect track layout
* Remove certain dialogs with questions during startup for very new users (no prior install), to not confuse them. Use the best Exploration settings instead
* Updated LibEWF support to libewf-20130416
* Show compressed folders blue in the Treeview (left pane), not just the ListView (right pane)
* Show encrypted files and folders green in both left and right pane
* Show encrypted partitions green in both left and right pane
* Show "Sparse" for LastLBA in case the object (or last extent) is Sparse
* Show an empty block and do not read block 0 in case the object is sparse during a SectorView
* When an NTFS extent is extracted on its own ([Professional] license) and when that extent is a compressed part of a compressed file, then it's decompressed on the fly as well
* Various other smaller GUI improvements
# Fixes:
* On Windows 2000 an error dialog was shown (sometimes) when another language was selected because of a change in the language resource dlls in previous version. All fixed now.
* Fixed NTFS issue, probably only seen on large volumes (Terabytes). Fragmented MFT files were not always properly seen as such, so that parts or even the root of the file system could not be found.
* Fixed FAT issue on large FAT volumes that are formatted by other software than Windows itself. In other words an improvement to deal with unexpectedly huge FATs
* Fixed Uninstallation error "Runtime Error (...): Could not call proc."


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[It's been awhile since I wrote anything. I am giving a presentation to some of the founders in TheFunded Founder Institute on incorporating their companies, so I thought I would recycle some thoughts.]
Founders of startup companies often wait to incorporate a company until they are confident that their concept is viable or fundable. At some point, however, an entrepreneur will need to formally incorporate a company. Several reasons exist for taking the step to incorporate.
- More than one founder. If there is more than one founder, the likelihood of an argument about how the equity should be split in the new company increases dramatically. Incorporating a company and issuing stock to the founders will help prevent misunderstandings among the founders about equity splits. Trying to clean up pre-incorporation promises to grant equity in a startup company is a painful task, especially if founders part ways before there are formal documents in place to deal with the situation. Please keep in mind that even if a company is incorporated, founder stock purchase agreements with repurchase rights over unvested stock if founders leave are not included with the documents from typical online incorporation services.
- Creating intellectual property. If there is any IP created and there is more than one founder, then incorporating an entity and assigning IP to the entity is important. Otherwise, if a founder leaves before incorporation and IP has not been assigned to the other founder or an entity, then use of IP created by the former founder may be problematic. Once again, please keep in mind that the documents from typical online incorporation services do not contain IP assignment provisions in connection with the purchase of founders stock or separate IP assignment documents.
- Hiring employees or third party contractors. Although I've run into a situation where the former CEO of a Fortune 500 company personally paid an "employee" out of his own pocket for a year prior to incorporation while incubating an idea, most founders will need to incorporate a company if they intend to hire employees. In addition, if an entrepreneur needs to engage third party contractors, it generally makes sense to incorporate a company so that the third party enters into an agreement with a company instead of an individual. In addition, any IP created by the contractor can be assigned to the company instead of an individual founder.
- Issuing stock options. Many entrepreneurs do not have the cash to pay third parties and may partially compensate third parties by granting stock options or giving them the opportunity to purchase equity at nominal prices. Although it is possible to have pre-incorporation agreements to grant equity upon incorporation, it is simply easier to incorporate a company and grant stock options or equity to satisfy these promises.
- Launching a service/product and general liability issues. One important reason for incorporating a company is to protect the stockholders against personal liability. If a company complies with corporate formalities, creditors of the company generally cannot reach the stockholders to satisfy the company's liabilities. Thus, a company should generally incorporate before launching a product or a service due to potential liability issues, as the risk of liability to a founder increases with customers or users.
- Obtaining visas. If a non-U.S. citizen/non-permanent resident founder intends to work in the U.S. on a startup project, then the founder should work with an immigration attorney on a strategy to legally work in the U.S. Incorporating a company and demonstrating that it is a "real" business with sufficient capital is typically a prerequisite to a visa application.
- Starting capital gains holding period in the event of a stock sale. If a founder sells stock of a company in a taxable transaction and it is held for greater than one year, then the capital gains tax rate is 15% for founders in the 25% tax bracket and higher. These days, it is fairly easy to develop a hit iPhone app or Facebook app and sell a company fairly quickly. I represented a couple of Facebook app companies last year that were sold in taxable transactions. One app was sold by an individual founder and the app was only several months old. Unfortunately, the founder was unable to receive the benefit of long-term capital gain tax treatment on the asset sale (and ended up paying the same tax rate as ordinary income on the sale proceeds). The other app was sold by an individual founder and the app was only several months old, but he had the foresight to incorporate a company more than a year prior to the sale and assign IP to the company. The buyer bought the stock of the company as opposed to the app itself. Thus, even though the app was less than one year old, the shares of stock of the company were held for greater than one year, and qualified for long-term capital gain tax treatment.
- Funding. Obviously, if third party investors want to invest in a startup idea, there needs to be an entity to accept the investment. Generally, I prefer to incorporate and issue founder's stock at nominal prices well in advance of a Series A preferred stock financing because it is difficult to justify that common stock should be priced at $0.001 per share while Series A preferred stock is issued at $1.00 per share.
Incorporating a company is a serious step that results in out of pocket costs and ongoing tax and other filing obligations. In addition, if a founder still has a day job as an employee of another company, then the founder will need to review the founder's employment documents carefully in order to determine if there are any issues. The first step in deciding whether to incorporate or not is to discuss the situation with a competent attorney.