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The Muffin and I decided to decorate some cookies just for fun on the school holidays. I let The Muffin choose the cutters she wanted (girly girly ones of course), and then she had a good idea: "Mummy let's each choose a Princess and do that theme of cookies!" She (predictably) chose Cinderella, but I'd been looking for an excuse to try out my new mini apple cutter, so I chose Snow White.
As it was mainly an activity for The Muffin to enjoy, I let her have most of the control over shapes etc, which meant I only got two: a couple of dresses, and a whole lot of apples! Here's what I came up with:
Poisoned apple, anyone?
No, no, Snow White - don't eat it...!
Oh... too late.
Interestingly, these cookies were all decorated exclusively with 20-second icing (normally I'm an outline-and-flood girl). I loved the way the 20-second icing worked for the sleeves on the Snow White dress - made them nice and puffy. Also the apples. I think 20-second icing is definitely the go for these little mini cookies, and it just goes to show that it can be used to flood and add detail to a larger cookie if you are
feeling lazy in a hurry (the red detailing on the front of the bodice was still 20-second icing - I just used a #1 tip after the main part of the dress had more or less dried). The slashes on the sleeves were done using the wet-on-wet technique.
And if you're wondering, here are the cookies The Muffin decorated:
You can't see it, but her dress was all sparkly - you know, from the Fairy Godmother's magic.
It was a fun day!
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Snow White Cookies
The Muffin and I decided to decorate some cookies just for fun on the school holidays. I let The Muffin choose the cutters she wanted (girly girly ones of course), and then she had a good idea: "Mummy let's each choose a Princess and do that theme of cookies!" She (predictably) chose Cinderella, but I'd been looking for an excuse to try out my new mini apple cutter, so I chose Snow White.
Posted by Sugary Flower at 9:07 AM 1 comments
Labels: Cookies, Cooking With The Muffin
Monday, April 23, 2012
Muffin Tin Monday - Dinner Under The Sea
It's Muffin Tin Monday! The Muffin requested an Under The Sea theme (again - it seems to be one of her favourite MTM themes). This time it contains:
Top Row: Apple "bubbles"; Quiche; Pikelet fish (sprinkle eye).
Bottom Row: Various "seaweeds" (spinach leaves & carrot) on grated cheese "sand" with an apple crab; Udon noodle "seaweed"; Pikelet fish & a "fish egg" (ie Easter egg).
The After Shot:
She only left a couple of bits of carrot and a leaf.
To see what other mums came up with this week, check out The Muffin Tin Mom's blog.
And if you're after something sweeter, be sure to check back here soon, as there's lots of sugary goodness coming up over the next few weeks!
Posted by Sugary Flower at 9:06 PM 4 comments
Labels: Muffin Tin Monday
Monday, April 16, 2012
Muffin Tin Monday - Friends In The Garden
Today The Muffin had a friend (we'll call her S) over to play. Since it is the school holidays, S was able to stay for lunch and have her first ever Muffin Tin Monday!
I used a twelve-hole tin, and the girls sat opposite each other and had six holes each (that way they both got the same food). For food options, I played it pretty safe, as I'm not too familiar with what foods S likes...
First Column (ie bottom row as seen by S): 2 Leaf-shaped Vegemite & cheese sandwiches; Yoghurt with a little raspberry jam mixed in (because I wasn't sure if S was used to unflavoured yoghurt) plus butterfly sprinkles; Flower-shaped Vegemite & cheese sandwich.
Second Column (ie top row as seen by S): Apple flowers; 2 Gummy snails and 3 chocolate rocks; Carrot butterflies.
Third & Fourth Columns: same as the first two, but as seen by The Muffin.
The After Shot:
The Muffin ate the lot, and then asked for some grapes as well. S tried the yoghurt, but "wasn't sure about it" (maybe I should have left it white after all!). She had some grapes too.
The girls had fun eating their garden lunch together, and I think one uneaten thing out of six for a child I don't know very well was pretty good!
To see what other kids had this week, check out The Muffin Tin Mom's blog.
Posted by Sugary Flower at 7:05 PM 5 comments
Labels: Muffin Tin Monday
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Easter Fun
Okay, so I know Easter is all over and done (apart from the enormous mountain of chocolate currently residing in our cupboard. Wow.), but before we kiss it goodbye entirely, I thought I'd share a few things we did to celebrate on Sunday...
Coloured Eggs
Sure, everybody colours eggs for Easter, right? But we do it a little differently...
We used to do it the normal way (ie boil eggs, then soak in food colouring to colour the shells), but we found that little hairline cracks in the shell would usually cause skanky-looking coloured bits on the egg itself inside, and sometimes there was actual coloured water hiding in there as a nasty surprise for the person who cracked it open (because we colour our eggs to eat, not just to look at). When, a few years ago, my friend's small son ended up with indigo-coloured water running down his arms, I thought to myself, There Has To Be A Better Way.
So then it occurred to me that it's really the shell causing the problem - and Who Needs The Shell, Anyway? So now when we dye eggs, we hard-boil them, shell them, and then dye them. And after just a minute or two (way quicker than dyeing eggs with shells), they look like this:
Aren't they pretty?
And the best part is, it means you don't have to feed people just a whole boiled egg (which is, let's face it, kinda boring) - instead, you can halve them, scoop the yolks out and make a yummy filling to pipe back in...
And they're still pretty!
We had cookies (which I've already posted separately, but here they are on the platter):
Quick & easy chicky cupcakes (with Starburst Chew beaks, which incidentally are So Yummy! - I hadn't had them before):
And The Muffin and I also made some of these M&M birds (this fantastic idea is from Callye at The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle - she did them with sugar almonds as well - so cute, and so very easy!)
The Muffin's Dinner
After all the festivities, none of us wanted a proper dinner, but I wanted The Muffin to eat something halfway decent too, so when she asked for "a cute chicken themed Easter bento", I thought sure, why not?
She had a cheese & Vegemite sandwich cut into three pieces: an Egg With Legs, and two mini chicks. The chicks have black sesame seed eyes, and one of them is just hatching out of a chocolate egg (against my better judgement. But it was out of The Muffin's present stash, so she would have eaten it eventually anyway, and it was Easter, after all). The Egg With Legs has the cheese legs painted with a tiny bit of orange food colour, and icing eyes. There are also spinach leaves, cashews, and grapes.
I'm linking this meal to Bento Of The Week over at Bento Blog Network.
Hope everyone's Easter was as fun as ours - how did you spend yours?
Posted by Sugary Flower at 8:13 PM 1 comments
Labels: Bento, Cookies, Cooking With The Muffin, Cupcakes, Easter, Themed Parties
Monday, April 9, 2012
Muffin Tin Monday - Easter Chickens
It's Muffin Tin Monday, Easter Monday edition! As The Muffin is now on holidays, we were able to do her Muffin Tin Meal at lunch time for once - yay!
Top Row: Grapes with a home-made chick pick; Tinned peaches; Chicken cupcake (left over from our party on Easter Sunday).
Bottom Row: Toast soldiers ("twigs", said The Muffin); Yoghurt & coconut "nest"; Soft-boiled egg.
The After Shot:
The Muffin is not a big fan of frosting (I know, I know: Whose Child Is This?), so she scraped the frosting chicken off her cupcake (after carefully removing and eating its beak). She ate everything else.
To see what other Muffin Tin Kids had this week, check out The Muffin Tin Mom's blog.
Posted by Sugary Flower at 6:25 PM 6 comments
Labels: Easter, Muffin Tin Monday
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Lion Cookie
You remember my little Giraffe cookie? Well now he has a friend.
They enjoy walks through the jungle, and hanging out on the African Savannah. Oh yeah, and they always try to take time to
eat smell the flowers...
I wonder if they will make any more friends one day?
Oh yeah, and little Leo is my latest (and last, for now!) entry into LilaLoa's Creative Cookie Competition. I do have more ideas, so maybe I'll come up with another entry or two later in the month, but that's all I've got for now! You can see my other entries here, here, here and here- or just check out everyone's entries over at LilaLoa.
Posted by Sugary Flower at 10:20 PM 3 comments
Labels: Cookies
Flower Cookie
A Flower for the cookie competition over at LilaLoa:
The Muffin looked at this and said, "Is it meant to be a sunflower?" I answered quite truthfully that I really didn't know what sort of flower it was meant to be, I just sort of let the cookie show me what sort of flower it wanted on it.
Posted by Sugary Flower at 10:12 PM 0 comments
Giraffe Cookie
Another entry for LilaLoa's Creative Cookie Competition!
Isn't he cute? Little munchy giraffe looks happy, but maybe a bit lonely... does he need some friends?
Posted by Sugary Flower at 10:07 PM 4 comments
Labels: Cookies
Easter Chicken Cookies (and competition entry)
As well as Easter Bunnies (and Carrots for them to eat), I also made some Easter Chickens using that gift box cutter in the cookie competition over at LilaLoa:
I made some mini chicks, too - at the Sugary Flower household, Easter is all about the chickens this year!
These ones were made at The Muffin's request as gifts for her school friends and teachers:
Each child/teacher got a chick, an egg and a tulip.
Hope you are having a Happy Easter!
Posted by Sugary Flower at 9:39 PM 0 comments
Carrots for the Creative Cookie Comp
Hungry for carrots? Here you go then:
(these are being entered in LilaLoa's Creative Cookie Competition) - go check out the competition, it's awesome.
Posted by Sugary Flower at 9:36 PM 2 comments
Easter Cookies (and competition entries!)
So if you don't already know (and if you don't already read LilaLoa, then you should), Georganne over at LilaLoa has thrown down the gauntlet, as it were. A cookie challenge. She has nominated a gift box shaped cookie cutter, and challenged anyone who's listening to decorate it - as Anything But A Gift.
As it happens, this timing also coincides with the fact that I needed to make some cookies for Easter. So I made some chickens, and some eggs, and some tulips, and some carrots. And some gift boxes. And then I got out my icing bags, and this is what I came up with:
Hmm, I think those Easter bunnies look a bit hungier than that...
Happy bunny!
Happy Easter everyone!
(and seriously, go check out some of the awesome entries in this competition - there are some very creative cookiers out there!)
Posted by Sugary Flower at 9:03 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Muffin Tin Monday (Easter!) plus Bonus Bunny Bento
Yesterday was Muffin Tin Monday. We finally got ourselves into gear and made an Easter tin for dinner!
Top Row: Bunny pick with carrot circles; Banana, yoghurt, lime juice & coconut mixture (leftovers from our Indian meal the night before); mini chocolate cupcake with salted caramel buttercream and Easter Egg sprinkles.
Bottom Row: Pikelet chicks with "Mummy Chicken" pick; Easter Bunny bread roll; Pumpkin soup (which is what Husband and I were having).
I was very pleased with how the Easter Bunny bread roll turned out - and it was So Easy! This was a parbaked "Bake At Home" type roll (which we love, and often have with soup), and I just cut a thin wedge out of its head after it was cooked, and then drew the features on with Gourmet Writers. I could even butter it through the hole, so its face wasn't destroyed in the buttering process.
The After Shot:
I was amazed she didn't eat more of the bread roll. Then again, this probably was quite a lot of food, and I think the allure of the cupcake was all too much.
To see what other lucky kids had for breakfast, lunch or dinner this week, check out The Muffin Tin Mom's blog.
But Wait - There's More!
The Muffin also had this bunny bento for lunch yesterday at school:
Dried cranberries, most of a banana with Easter stickers, two TrueFruit bunny heads, pretzel sticks, carrot flowers, and a bunny face & three small egg-shaped sandwiches. Yummy!
Posted by Sugary Flower at 6:52 PM 3 comments
Labels: Bento, Easter, Muffin Tin Monday


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715 pp ISBN 978-0-88815-208-4.
This new work by Danie Strauss must now be called The Definitive Statement regarding The Philosophy of The Cosmonomic Idea. In effect, it is the New Critique for the twenty first century in that it not only covers the entire range of the fundamental ideas developed by Herman Dooyeweerd more than seventy years ago, but it does so entirely within the spirit of Dooyeweerd's work. Strauss systematically develops a number of themes that are troublesome in Dooyeweerd's formulation and manages to provide us with significant resolutions. Perhaps the single most important contribution to theoretical analysis as such, is his elaboration of the relationship between Conceptual Knowledge and Concept Transcending Knowledge (Idea Knowledge). This relationship is central to all forms of discrimination and is pervasively evident in the cultural traditions of both the East and the West. This work will be the starting point for systematically coherent analysis in all disciplines as Strauss convincingly makes his case that Philosophy is the Discipline of The Disciplines.
Fonte via: http://www.allofliferedeemed.co.uk/strauss.htm
Divulgação: http://luis-cavalcante.blogspot.com / http://metodologiadoestudo.blogspot.com

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As children, we knowingly grew up with and revelled in some food traditions. During the week we typically had one 'green' curry which was something like okra, cluster beans or spinach for example with a lentil or pulse based dish and of course abundant chapatti and rice with, salad and pickles on the side. When my aunts visited, we knew dad would go out and buy bright orange and sticky sweet spirals of jalebi, fluffy and lightly sour rice and lentil cakes of dhokla and all the children got bounty chocolate bars at the end. There were potato and cassava dishes for celebratory fasting days and summers full of steaming hot, spiced rice flour dough which puffed aromas of chillies as we lay the poppadum's made with that very dough onto sheets of unused saris in the garden. On Thursdays we had hot, buttery Khichdi made of simmered down rice and lentils with potato curry, Kadhi and crisp poppadum's. On Fridays, dad made proper chips after chopping and lightly boiling thick cuts of potatoes and they were accompanied by fried eggs, beans or mushy peas and lashings of vinegar. It was either that or a Chinese take-away or home-made pie but goodness my brother and I loved those Friday meals.
When I started working in London things altered. Every day was a food adventure rejoicing a different cuisine of the world with my friends or colleagues. One of the things I love about London is that pretty much any cuisine I want to explore is accessible. Some of these cuisines became regular features on my home-cooking menu such as Malaysian recipes with their fresh and sprightly flavours of lemongrass, chillies and lime leaves. Over the years I have read about the fusion of cultures that influences Malaysian cooking; Malays, Chinese, Indian and apparently even Portuguese and Dutch and for me this makes it such a testament to the success that fusion food can deliver. I am shameless when it comes to slurping up bowls of fragrant Laksa but the dish that has always made me most curious is rendang curry. I think it is the thick, clinging curry sauce that just makes me swoon for vegetarian alternatives to the traditional heavy meaty-based versions of this recipe. The curry gravy reaches thrilling levels of wonderfulness when simmered for around an hour, making it unsuitable for vegetable based dishes but Quorn works well in that it just becomes tender and soaks up the flavours of the curry base over this time. I have cut back on my intake of sugar so I haven't added brown sugar, palm sugar or any sweeteners to this recipe but what I have done is add tamarind paste and also powdered some toasted coconut to give a little touch of sweetness. It has taken me about three attempts to get to a rendang recipe that I am happy with and I have to say, this one is just divine. I have served it with a really easy and colourful carrot salad and steaming hot rice.
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Everyone knows that the iPhone is doing pretty well in the smartphone market, but it turns out Apple's sales are now strong enough to make the company the third-largest seller of all types of phones in the U.S.
According to NPD, Apple leapfrogged both HTC and Motorola to move into the No. 3 spot with 14 percent of the overall phone market, boosted by the arrival of the iPhone on Verizon. Samsung still tops the U.S. market with 23 percent, followed by LG at 18 percent.
"Apple and Verizon had a very successful launch of the iPhone 4, which allowed the iPhone to expand its market share that was previously held back by its prolonged carrier exclusivity with AT&T," said Ross Rubin, executive director of industry analysis at NPD, in a statement. "While some of that growth came at the expense of Android operating system, Android models still accounted for half of all smartphones sold in the quarter."
However, Android's share of the smartphone market dipped in the quarter, NPD said, to 50 percent in the first quarter from 53 percent in last year's fourth quarter. Apple's iOS rose nine percentage points, accounting for 28 percent of smartphone units sold, while BlackBerry lost five points of market share, falling to 14 percent.
For the first time, smartphones overall accounted for more than half of all phones sold in the U.S., with consumers opting for a smartphone 54 percent of the time. That lead to a 2 percent rise in the average selling price of phones, to $102. The trend of more smartphones at lower average prices should continue, Rubin said.
"We've started to increasingly see lower-priced handsets come in, both at the major carriers and at some of the regional carriers as well," Rubin said in a telephone interview. Rubin noted that consumers are starting to move to Android at carriers that cater to the more price-sensitive segments of the market, including carriers such as Cricket, Sprint's Boost Mobile brand and Metro PCS.
"Despite the higher fees, consumers are adopting those handsets, as they are important to stay in touch with the rest of the world," Rubin said.
The iPhone 4 was the top individual phone model, followed by the iPhone 3GS, Motorola Droid X, HTC EVO 4G, and HTC Droid Incredible. Overall for the quarter, smartphone sales grew 8 percent from the fourth quarter, but total phone sells fell 1 percent.


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Cabrera killed Oct. 18
The family of one of the victims in a deadly salon shooting rampage is honoring her memory.
Gladys Cabrera was one of four women gunned down at the Las Dominicanas Hair Salon in Casselberry last month. The gunman, Bradford Baumet, later killed himself.
Cabrera's 5-year-old grandson Jordan wrote 'I love you' on his balloon in memory of his grandmother. She would have been 53 years old Wednesday.
Beaumont killed her and two other women while critically wounding his ex-girlfriend.
Cabrera's family released 53 white balloons to remember the woman they loved so much and who's life was cut short.
Her daughter was inside the salon getting her hair done with her mother when her mother was shot and killed.
The family said they will miss Cabrera but they hope the balloons will reach her "all the way in heaven."
On Saturday, a community outreach event regarding domestic violence will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The surviving shooting victim, 45-year-old Marcia Santiago, is out of a coma.
Family members said Santiago is conscious and communicating to doctors by blinking her eyes. She was shot in the wrist, chest and head.
Santiago is unable to talk because of wounds to her jaw.
Noelia Gonzalez-Brito, 28, and salon co-owner Eugenia Marte, 45, were killed in the shooting.


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and the subject was what?
it may be the site moderators acting or the Obama spies that monitor the Internet for anything they don't like
It was a discussion about how . . . . .
...... the TR moderators - as well as the TR PsTB - are really Obama minions, all **** bent on keeping my discussions about truth, justice, and the American way out of Water Cooler.
And if you believe that, let me tell you about some nifty ocean front property in western Kansas I have for sale: cool ocean breeze, salt sea air, sandy beaches, mild temperatures, hot babes in bikinis ..........
You Know Max, With Global Warming...
Ocean Front property in Kansas may not be that far fetched
I just couldn't resist, the set up was too perfect
But you DO have to just KNOW . . . .
.... that anthropogenic global warming is to blame, at least in part, somehow.
Hey Maxwell, I'll look at your Kansas property if you'll look at
buying some great water front properties I have a deal on down in Florida. They even come with plenty of local wildlife, and the local Animal Control Officers don't care how many of the gators you shoot, as long as you don't make too much noise doing it late at night.
Some of those bigger lakes in Kansas, like Milford Lake
look like they have some nice beaches, mild temps, cool breezes, etc when you check them out in Google maps.
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I've been on Milford Lake. I've also been IN Milford Lake. And I suppose I've been over Milford Lake several times as well. Not to mention driving right past it more times than I could possibly count.
It's not just you, it's the forum spam-blocker
At least half the time I hit reply or answer, poof, my text goes away.
Note that ANYTHING with a valid URL in it gets tossed EVERY time, so do not post anything without doing a workaround such as
www google com (replace space with dots)
And if you type a ten paragraph response to something, be sure to hit COPY one time to save it to your paste buffer, or you will need to retype it
Don't know, Max
I can't speak for all the mods, but I know I haven't seen anything flagged that has your name on it.
If you are trying to include a link, you will need to modify it so it doesn't get blocked. As robo_dev points out, replacing the periods in the url with spaces works.
Regarding URLs
First they work, then they don't. Sometimes they will, other times they won't.
The case of the undecided URL rule.
At this point, I'm not buying that as the reason - simply because I can disprove it (as I just did).


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I think matter has always existed and will always continue to exist. But even if it hadn't, that doesn't then give us a reason to believe that some being created matter. Who created the being? What if that supposed "being" is actually random luck over quite literally an unfathomable number of years?
I tend to believe the Big Bang Theory i.e. all matter was previously compressed into a singularity, which then exploded. But I also believe that before our Big Bang, there was probably another universe which both expanded and then shrank to a singularity, caused by the previous universe collapsing on itself. At the start of that universe, another singularity caused by a gravitational collapse. You see where I'm going.
I can even accept the possibility of a multiverse, though I consider it unlikely. Just my opinion, though I welcome arguments either way.
Why do some people assume there must have been a creation? Why is it hard to believe that everything that is, has always been? I find it more illogical to assume that something can be created out of nothing.
In my opinion, there have probably been more universes than we can imagine, more earths than we can conceive. There are already, in the universe we exist in, a quantity of stars and planets that we are not capable of comprehending. I am not talking about a matter of 14 billion years, but a practically infinite number of years when you consider the previous universes that I believe may have collapsed and re-expanded. For me there is no reason to believe that matter need have been created - it has just always been.
What say you?
I'm wondering: where do others stand on this idea?
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Actually, proton decay has been observed by researchers in a mine in Japan. They used a mine to prevent background radiation from causing false positives. They took a large tank of water and surrounded it with detectors. I seem to recall they observed that the decay rate is way higher than theoretical projections.
You might enjoy Barrow's book- The Origin of the Universe-
"But there are at least four quite different possibilities, all of which are consistent with everything we know about the universe.
1) Instead of beginning as a state of infinite density, the universe of space, time, and matter comes into being with a finite density and continues in a state of expansion.
2) The universe "bounces" into a state of expansion from a previous state of maximum but finite contraction.
3) The universe suddenly begins its expansion from a static state, in which it resided for a past eternity.
4) The universe gets ever smaller in the past without reaching a state of zero size. It has no beginning."
p 87-88
This book was written in 1994 and I haven't really kept up with Modern Physics since then, but it a decent review of the above ideas.
Let cold hard facts point us in the right direction .Theism is an obsolete dinosaur of an idea.
Give me science any day instead :)
Good points all, guess I'll have to keep reading...
I think 70% dark energy and 24% dark matter makes the universe a double espresso.
If William Lane Craig was correct about his statements in his little series on the Kalam Argument (horrible source, I know, but he wants to make his god the only source of reality, so it might be correct), then the reason is that the entropy builds up each time it goes through the reset phase (realistically speaking). SO eventually you get to the point where the available free energy is so low you cannot generate a new universe. He then make the jump that you need a creator force. And through faulty logic, a personal one at that.
I don't really know where he got this from, and don't know why this would be the case... but it make give you something to go on for future investigations.
I completely forgot about elemental and smaller forms of decay... That may be waht he was talking about.
That could be were he got it from, and was referencing a physicist's calculations.
You should check out my recent cosmological blog.


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Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome: the main cause of losses on pig farms. Is it forever?
Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome: the main cause of losses on pig farms. Is it forever?
Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome virus has been defined as the primary disease causing economic losses in the Swine Industry. The terrible impact of PRRSv is due to mortality, abortions and respiratory problems in the affected farms.
The cost of Porcine Reproductive and Reproductive Syndrome virus in the US has been estimated as $664 million annually. During 2014, PRRSv outbreaks have been reported in Asia, Europe and America, being the main problem in different surveys for swine veterinarians worldwide:
The most frequent routes of transmission between herds are the introduction of infected animals and the use of contaminated semen. Nevertheless, indirect transmission of PRRSv has been verified by several routes. Vectors, personnel, etc.
As with other members of the Arterivirus, pigs can shed the virus at low levels or intermittently:
Semen can play a crucial role in transmission. This is due to the special features of the virus shedding by this route and the extensive use of artificial insemination.
If you want to avoid the risks and economic losses associated with Porcine Respiratory and Reproductive Syndrome virus, be excellent in your biosecurity procedures, use available vaccines when needed, and always ask your vet for more information. Genetic variability and a high virus transmission rate are the reasons why this disease is selected as the main health problem by veterinarians for the coming years.
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Q: Our daughter, 27 and married for just over two years, is feeling she "is living the wrong life, like I'm not in the right place." We are very fond of our son-in-law, but our primary concern is our daughter.
He is 10 years older and wanted to start a family, but his, "When do you think you will be ready?" has caused her to put the brakes on and have a rethink — of where she is, where they are as a couple, etc. Bottom line is that she doesn't love him the way you would expect a "newly" married couple to feel for each other. There has been no passion, she states, for a long time.
I believe they have laid everything on the table for discussion, but I can tell from my daughter's personality, etc., that she has basically decided that she doesn't love him the way a wife should, rather thinks of him as a wonderful friend. She is very worried about his reaction toward a separation. He has had some trust issues from the past.
I have suggested professional counseling, to help her figure out what she does want and need, but she is hesitant and/or embarrassed with the notion of being a "statistic" and "stupid" for such a serious lack of judgment.
Concerned Mother and Mother-in-Law
A: I answer you with some misgivings, because while this is your daughter and your heartache, it is not your problem to solve. It sounds as if you're admirably close, but already over-involved.
From one sometimes-can't-help-it meddler to another, though, I do have one suggestion for you that I think is both important and in-bounds: Please challenge her implied rationale for her less-than-full reckoning with the problem here. If she defers to feeling "embarrassed" or "stupid," then she passively makes a priority of avoiding difficult feelings, putting a facade on difficult appearances, and postponing any difficult decisions that will create difficult scenes.
In essence, that passive decision-making would put her right back where she was when she made the decision to marry this man despite what she now recognizes (right?) as serious doubts. Surely she chose marriage then because what can feel more awkward, painful, embarrassing and scene-y than pulling the plug on a wedding?
That's a rhetorical question, but I'll answer it anyway: pulling the plug on a new-ish, ill-fitting marriage.
As is always true, deferring pain only compounds it to the point where it can't be deferred any more.
You can't make your daughter do, think or feel anything she doesn't choose on her own, but you can point out at a crucial time in her life that the only way any of us can make sound decisions is to be honest about and accountable to our own needs. The therapist — the implied public — she is apparently ashamed to face doesn't have to live her life. She does.
I hope she summons the strength to follow through on admitting and serving her own needs — since authenticity best serves her husband as well, even if it makes him an ex.
His "trust issues" are his to manage, not hers, of course, but his (and anyone's) need for honesty is hers to respect; suppressing her own needs to mollify him is just a well-meaning kind of deceit.


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The Wal-Mart Strikes
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At this very moment there are countless strikes all over the world. And if you happen to live in France, you are probably on strike right now.
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Look up the black friday vids on youtube
Wallmart encourages the worst in people with no regard to proper organisation or safety, and when the stores try to unionise they just shut them down.
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Big-Will wrote:Aside from its size, Walmart is privately-owned and doesn't deal with unions. It's why its prices are so low. But unions want in on Walmart's action, and if they're successful, its prices will surely rise.
You mention this as though Wal-Mart's low prices are the only thing that matters. Those low prices you enjoy are the result of worker exploitation, which is what Unions are designed to protect against.
Walmart is the largest privately owned employer in the United States. Do you really think their screwing their employees is worth the low prices for the consumer?
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the entire protest group consisted of people from a local union who claimed they came out to protest in order to show support for workers in their community because wal mart is hurting the rest of the country by driving down wages.
sorry, but i find that to be completely self serving. you didn't seem to have an issue with them building the damn supercenter two years ago.........
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bazi42 wrote:you didn't seem to have an issue with them building the damn supercenter two years ago.........
Are you sure? Because I've seen petitions and protests against that very thing. They always get built anyway, of course.
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We had some jackass come into my store and ask one of my crew members where he and his minions could come and protest. My employee told the asshole to direct their question to a manager and offered to call her for him, but he just scoffed and said our manager was an asshole without ever meeting her. My manager is a very sweet woman and she treats everyone better than any manager I've had before. All this douchebag was interested in was making us look bad, by telling us we're somehow suffering and that the best way to resolve that conflict was by making our store and our company look like a dishonest institution. Their goal was to encourage other people to shop elsewhere so they could shut us down and put us out of a job. They're just like politicians. They whine and bitch and moan when they don't get their way, and they don't think about the impact their actions have on others.
Let me tell you something about unions. Some are genuine and actually do shit for their members, but I've only ever been exposed to a couple dishonest and evil ones (namely, the very same union trying to get Walmart workers on their program; the UFCW). Unions are businesses. Unions desperately want Walmart to unionize its workers because the size of Walmart's workforce means millions upon millions of our hard-earned dollars going to their own paychecks while they fight to get us a raise of 5 more cents an hour. All of the worst jobs I have ever had were unionized. I was paid minimum wage and got no benefits, and people who worked less strenuous positions (read: cashier, janitor) were paid almost double what I was as a clerk. Unacceptable. I'm not paid minimum wage where I work now, and neither is my crew. With a corporation the size of Walmart, you're bound to run into bouts of controversy and unfairness that, while the company as a whole may have to claim some responsibility for, it also lies in the hands of each store and its individual members of management. My dad and stepmother used to be the staunchest anti-Walmart people, and their perception of the company as a whole took a 180-degree turn when my stepmom was suddenly out of a job and she was hired as a manager at a store down in Gilroy. They're both die-hard liberal Democrats, and I know if they had something to complain about, it'd be low wages and bad treatment of workers. They don't see that here, at least not in her store or the three others she's supervised at temporarily, and I don't see it in mine. It used to be they would never set foot in a damn Walmart. Now they buy most of their groceries there.
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Of course you're out in California where I think Wally World is the least shitty to its employees. In the vast spaces to your east, it's not quite the same Wal-Mart.
Call me crazy but I believe that anyone who has a full time job deserves paid time off and health care, no matter what their job is or how much it pays. I don't care if you drive a dump truck or pick lettuce or stock shelves; to not have those things is just inhumane. Is it too much to ask to only work 51 weeks a year and not go broke if you get injured? Also is it too much to ask to not have your full time job replaced by two part time jobs?
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I'm a type 1 diabetic. If anyone's going to bitch about health benefit prerequisites and quality, it would be me. Been there, done that. For me, it's a requirement for any position I take.
City ordinance requires all employers to pay associates a minimum wage of $10.00 an hour, and all of us in the store make more than that. Meanwhile, all surrounding cities have minimum wages ranging from the federal level to $8.75. On holidays we receive double time pay.
All major companies are stingy with benefits. In fact, the only company I can recall off-hand that is particularly notorious for NOT being stingy is Costco. They may have the ideal situation, but good luck stopping corporate greed. It's always going to exist. It's all about the extent of what's in effect.
All I'm saying is you need to point fingers at Target, Safeway, Kohl's...whatever. For every few people who don't complain about their benefits, you have some that do. Proportions for each aside. If I'm not complaining and nobody at my store is, that I know of, it's certainly not in line with the accusations levied on the company as a whole. A great deal of effort has been made in recent years to repair the damaged reputation that, while may have been well-deserved a while back, is no longer as valid as a lot of naysayers will have you believe.
Walmart doesn't enjoy seeing workers go. Even from a financial standpoint, high turnover makes little sense. They want to retain their workforce and use incentives to do so. It costs the company significantly more to hire and train people than it does to keep its pre-existing staff.
You gotta keep in mind who you're talking to; an outspoken liberal who believes every associate should have full benefits, which should be mandated by federal legislation. I'm all about the welfare of the people. All I'm telling you is the reputation on the company as a whole is not reflective of each individual store, associate, or member of management. Putting the past aside, we'll see what the future holds. But right now, I'm not complaining, and the path looks good.
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But like trip said, different states have different regulations, and you mentioned that your city has a minimum wage of $10, whereas out here where I live, most workers will get paid $7.25 an hour. The gas station I work at pays me $8 an hour.
The way I view the anger at Wal-Mart is that people are slowly coming to recognize the problems associated with giving more power to companies and corporations, and the most infamous symbol of that right now is Wal-Mart.
But there have been lots of stories circulating about Wal-Mart and there have been more than a few disgruntled workers. All workers should have the right to protest, and if you're not part of a union, then you're taking a major risk in doing so since you won't have anyone to back you up. It's kind've a miracle that the protests work at all.
But my point is that the alternative to having unions is much worse. There's been a lot of mistrust and animosity towards Wal-Mart, and I think for good reason. I have never once shopped at a Wal-Mart and been satisfied. If I went to yours though, that might change.
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Walmart is privately-owned and doesn't deal with unions. It's why its prices are so low.
Competition is the basis of any strong economy.
Retail is not competitive and so government intervention may not just be acceptable but could push prices toward a more competitive market price. This may be a higher price.
Allowing some but not all companies to get away with blocking union rights gives them an unfair advantage, just as some nations having fewer worker's rights gives them a disadvantage. Whatever level of union rights there is it should be the same for everyone.
It's possible for labor or government to become a problem, either by being too big or fighting the wrong battles. I don't think what these workers want is a problem though. We need to keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn't get too big but that's way off.
Wallmart (ASDA) has unions in other countries and doesn't die off - the retail market in those other nations seems more competitive than in the US if anything.
I'm sure everything in Niels story is true but you can't get at broad trends from a few experiences; just as snow doesn't disprove global warming, a few union workers doing worse than a few non-union ones doesn't demonstrate that unions don't help workers.
Do you really think their screwing their employees is worth the low prices for the consumer?
As has been said numerous times, it screws the taxpayer too as most Wallmart workers are also on welfare to work programmes. It's possible to scrap those programmes. I'm sure the people would still work those jobs as they do in China. I think people would be better off either with those programes or with higher wages to start with.
which should be mandated by federal legislation
If we could get the benefits of unions without the whole strikes and protests thing (which inconvenience consumers and harm buisiness) it'd be far better. Lobbying federal government directly for those benefits might be a better path than unionizing though you need someone to do the lobbying and that is likely to be a union.
i find that to be completely self serving
What's wrong with self interest? I thought that was the basis of our system ._.
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The Future of the Digital Age According to Jaron Lanier
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Okay…so Joran doesn't exactly have the slick look of the other internet guru's. When Tom Beebe (Thanks Tom) sent me an article about this guy last week, I must admit, besides being upset about the "cashless' society that the internet is taking us, I had not thought much about the other side— but I am now.
So Nobody Asks: Is there a downside to the internet?
Men love to invent…and thank God. For the short time they have been here, they went from clubbing each other with clubs, to threatening each other with the atomic bomb proving that many inventions have a double edge sword. One's man's ceiling is another man's floor, and even Paul Simon would admit that he'd rather be a hammer than a nail.
While the sheer genius of the atomic bomb can be marveled at…the world is now in continuous fear of the next 'nuclear' attack, and some of us wish that it had never been invented..and did they REALLY think the future consequences of it through?
Obviously not.
And so it is with the new digital technology–like the atomic bomb it is having a downside effect. With all the wonderment that has come with the ease of home computers, there is a man who is pointing out, that it could be the destruction of us all.
And that's where Jaron Lanier comes in. Jaron was a Silicon Valley digital rock star. He was a pioneer and publicizer of virtual-reality technology (computer-simulated experience. ) and knew all the big guys; Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg, —-Google, Facebook, etc…and he is so upset about what he has created, he is going around the world and warning the rich guys…of what he calls, "digital Maoism."
Jaron Lanier, calls this "digital Maoism" indicting "internet intellectuals" like Facebook and Google of being "spy agencies." He wants to subvert the "hive mind," as the web world's been called, before it engulfs us all, destroys political discourse, economic stability, the dignity of personhood and leads to "social catastrophe." Instead of an ever-upward enlightenment, it is just as likely, he argues, that the crowds will devolve into an online lynch mob.
And who could deny this? Remember how excited Obama was about the Arab Spring? Remember how it was declared that the whole thing came about because of FACEBOOK? Without FACEBOOK the riots would not have evolved. But what came of that? While Zuckerberg was taking victory laps with Obama's plans to get rid of Mubarak, a huge vacuum was created and the Muslim brotherhood jumped into that hole, and took the reigns of power, leaving the 'useful idiots" staring at their cell phones and wondering what the hell happened.
And Jason sees this as not a good thing. It's Mob rule…which is what democracy is, and our founders hated it. He explains it as:
"An enabling and foreshadowing of mob rule, not a growth of democracy, but an accretion of tribalism. But it slowly is turning us into a nation of hate-filled trolls. We have economic fear combined with everybody joined together on these instant twitchy social networks which are designed to create mass action. What does it sound like to you? It sounds to me like the prequel to potential social catastrophe."
And then there's the economic side, which is much more damaging. Here's more:
"I'd had a career as a professional musician and what I started to see is that once we made information free, it wasn't that we consigned all the big stars to the bread lines. They still had mega tour profits. Instead, it was the middle-class people who were consigned to the bread lines. And that was a very large body of people. And all of a sudden there was this weekly ritual, sometimes even daily: 'Oh, we need to organize a benefit because so and so who'd been a manager of this big studio that closed its doors has cancer and doesn't have insurance. We need to raise money so he can have his operation.'
And I realized this was a hopeless, stupid design of society and that it was our fault. It really hit on a personal level—this isn't working. And I think you can draw an analogy to what happened with communism, where at some point you just have to say there's too much wrong with these experiments. So by taking value off the books, you're actually shrinking the economy." whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. [Meanwhile], it's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age."
Since Jason is a musician also, he sees the damage here. Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg, they just don't get it because the ONLY job they ever had was creating the internet. But when you're a musician you dream of the hit record, and with free downloads…the monetary rewards of original music went out with the proverbial free downloads onto your hard drive.
And not just musicians…the whole print industry has been changed: thousands of newspapers and magazines have shut down. Think of how many journalists have lost their jobs. And SO much misinformation is put on the internet, it's hard to tell what's true and what isn't.
Many of our schools are getting rid of books, and giving the kids IPADS. They have stopped teaching cursive writing…texting will become so big in the future, that future generations will not even know how to make a complete sentence. Already in China, the kids are forgetting how to read, because all they do is text. Not to mention the waste of time everyone spends on their computers.
AND…when everything is online: books, money—- all that you do and say will go to the few people who run the world and who will have the power to completely control every single thing. Jaron is right. Jason even goes so far as to blame the housing crash on the internet:
"The rise of networking has coincided with the loss of the middle class, instead of an expansion in general wealth, which is what should happen. But if you say we're creating the information economy, except that we're making information free, then what we're saying is we're destroying the economy."
To my mind a over leveraged unsecured mortgage is exactly the same thing as a pirated music file. It's somebody's value that's been copied many times to give benefit to some distant party. In the case of the music files, it's to the benefit of an advertising spy like Google [which monetizes your search history], and in the case of the mortgage, it's to the benefit of a fund manager somewhere. But in both cases all the risk and the cost is radiated out toward ordinary people and the middle classes—and even worse, the overall economy has shrunk in order to make a few people more."
We read of online bullying leading to teen suicides in the United States and, in China, there are reports of well-organized online virtual lynch mobs forming…digital Maoism."
You know, too many of us know someone who has been grieviously hurt by the internet. I know a man whose girlfriend got mad at him, and went online to FACEBOOK and told all kinds of horror stories to their whole network of friends, and it even got back to his work. They were lies, and somehow he forgave her, and they made up, but the damage had been done. This is happening to millions daily. There is no recourse in court….in fact the law can't keep up with it.
And if you think that the powerful people will think twice about hurting society, remember the story of Zuckerberg. When he first invented FACEBOOK as a student, he put up a very demoralizing contest and rated all the women on his campus as "ugly" or "cute" and everyone on campus got to have fun putting down women. Typical liberal. He was old enough to have a moral compass, but he had none.
It was…disgusting….and yet, Zuckerberg was forgiven for such an insidious prank because he was a genius. The question is, when these young, rich, and sometimes very immature boys work with Presidents, you DO have a Maoism. Zuckerberg has moved to China to avoid taxes.
No doubt Zuckerberg thinks he is saving the world, he's not like Jaron who sees beyond himself. You COULD say that the internet is a young technology..it will work out the bugs in time.
I'm sure they thought the same thing about nuclear warfare. But unlike the atomic bomb…so far, we've been kept pretty safe from it..it doesn't affect our daily lives. But the internet is working it's magic every single day. Hopefully…Jaron will make the rich elites think: After all…he's right…we are NOT gadgets….but like the 'ape': We sure do love them.


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Acting Under Secretary for Rural Development Doug O'Brien announced today that USDA is seeking applications for grants that will be awarded to national, nonprofit organizations to provide technical assistance for rural transportation systems. The funding is through USDA's Rural Business Enterprise Grant (RBEG) program. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) remains focused on carrying out its mission, despite a time of significant budget uncertainty. Today's announcement is one part of the Department's efforts to strengthen the rural economy.
"Reliable public transportation service helps rural residents seeking employment," said O'Brien. "This funding will help bring technical assistance to rural transportation project planners so that these projects can get underway."
USDA is seeking applications for three grants. Each grant is to be competitively awarded to a qualified national non-profit organization. Two single grants will be awarded to provide technical assistance to rural transportation projects. The other grant will be awarded to provide technical assistance to rural transportation projects for Federally Recognized Native American Tribes.
Awards made under the RBEG passenger transportation program are competitive. The type of assistance provided may include on-site technical assistance to local and regional governments, public transit agencies, and related non-profit and for-profit organizations in rural areas; developing training materials; and the provision of necessary training assistance to local officials and agencies in rural areas.
For example, under this program in 2012, Rural Development awarded the Community Transportation Association of America a transportation grant to provide technical assistance, training and other problem-solving support services to three tribal transit systems.
Applications are due September 3, 2013. For additional information on how to apply for the grants, please see page 40092 of the July 3, 2013 Federal Register or go to http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-07-03/html/2013-16079.htm
President Obama's plan for rural America has brought about historic investment and resulted in stronger rural communities. Under the President's leadership, these investments in housing, community facilities, businesses and infrastructure have empowered rural America to continue leading the way – strengthening America's economy, small towns and rural communities. USDA's investments in rural communities support the rural way of life that stands as the backbone of our American values. President Obama and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack are committed to a smarter use of Federal resources to foster sustainable economic prosperity and ensure the government is a strong partner for businesses, entrepreneurs and working families in rural communities.
USDA, through its Rural Development mission area, has a portfolio of programs designed to improve the economic stability of rural communities, businesses, residents, farmers and ranchers and improve the quality of life in rural America. USDA has made a concerted effort to deliver results for the American people, even as the Department implements sequestration – the across-the-board budget reductions mandated under terms of the Budget Control Act.
USDA has already undertaken historic efforts since 2009 to save more than $828 million in taxpayer funds through targeted, common-sense budget reductions. These reductions have put USDA in a better position to carry out its mission, while implementing sequester budget reductions in a fair manner that causes as little disruption as possible.


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I've been playing a little with a Raspberry Pi (or two) over the past year. I've chosen OSMC for the OS which automatically runs Kodi on boot. Kodi allows me to watch iPlayer, Youtube, Redbull etc on a senile old TV. I have a NAS drive for storing my personal media such as photos, home videos, and an archive of music from purchased CDs.
I haven't been satisfied with the audio output of the RPi nor do I like using Kodi for playing music. I'm unfussy about the audio quality for watching TV, but for listening to music connected to the HiFi it's not up to scratch.
I splashed out on a HiFiBerry DAC+ which sits (like a hat) on top of the RPi and provides stereo RCA output for connecting to an amp. Audio quality is much improved.
But for general usage of the Pi I soon disliked having audio through the amp all the time. For one, it meant three seperate devices required to be turned on (TV, Pi, amp) - and two - unlike the amp & speakers, the TV can be loud enough to hear the quieter moments without the louder moments shaking the building.
So MPD to the rescue! The Music Player Daemon runs on the Pi alongside Kodi and starts automatically at boot each time the Pi is turned on. It outputs audio to the HiFiBerry DAC+ while Kodi outputs audio (and video) through HDMI. Both can be used simultaneously.
We have had the TV on in the background more and more lately and I've missed listening to music as frequently as I used to. I have a DAB for my HiFi amp but reception is too poor to use it. My fiance uses the TV to listen to the radio but it's generally not my cup of tea. I felt we could have a greater variety of radio to listen to if MPD played internet radio streams. I might even find a station I actually liked rather than endured, but for no justifiable reason, internet radio was something I had never properly tried.
I found out MPD can play internet radio and using Sonata - a GUI client for MPD that runs on desktop PC and Android devices (MPDroid) - it's relatively easy to add internet radio streams to MPD's playlist. I expected to find the streams for BBC radio on the BBC website but after digging around for a while it seemed they don't advertise them. Eventually I found the stream URLs on the beebotron.org website.
Listening to music via the network requires at least three devices - the amplifier & speakers, the Raspberry Pi, and a device (PC/Android/etc) to control MPD (and four if you include the NAS on which the music is stored when not playing an internet radio stream... five if you include the router... six if you include the additional switch).
So this was good for a few days but while configuring MPD and using it to listen to internet radio, I became aware its also possible to stream the output of MPD over the network via Icecast. I soon set this up so I could control MPD with my phone while it's output also streamed to my phone for when using the amp was not possible (ie I was in the other room). In my experience this is a better solution than using the mobile to directly accessing music on the NAS with SAMBA.
Wow, the wonders of modern technology eh!? So what does this mean? What is still missing? The last piece of the puzzle I've long been certain is possible is to stream audio transparently from my desktop PC to the RPi so I can listen to anything on my desktop PC through the amp without yet another cable trailing from one side of the room to the other.
Seeing as the RPi runs a version of Linux, and it can stream, I can use the same software on my Linux Desktop PC to do the same. But how to get all audio output from the PC to be streamed by Icecast? The solution lies with another piece of software DarkIce.
Just a matter of configuring DarkIce then. After a bit of trial and error I had it up and running. The Icecast webpage was being served by my desktop PC and the mount point for DarkIce was showing and I could use Sonata to play the stream from my PC on the RPi. Unfortunately it was totally silent as I couldn't figure out the most important part of the configuration - figuring out which single ALSA device for my computer's soundcard to specify. Easier said than done due to my soundcard providing a series of mono outputs rather than pairs of stereo outputs. Rooting around with expert ALSA configuration proved fruitless even after finding an old post on Linux Audio User which appeared would solve the problem but didn't.
While attempting to configure ALSA I had a nagging feeling the soundcard, an M-Audio Delta 66 (Ice1712 chipset) has the capability to do so in hardware. I needed to install specific software for the hardware to see what I could do with it. The answer lies with the fact the soundcard has a hardware mixer outputting to a stereo channel. I just needed to reconfigure the audio routing of the soundcard so the digital mixer became the main output of the card, while all desktop audio went through the mixer instead of being directly ouput. Easy with the chipset specific mixer software - Envy24control.
I still didn't know however the name of the ALSA device for digital mixer to use to configure Dark Ice. One final dig around lead me to another old post on Linux Audio User containing the solution at last (it's still a somewhat expert example of ALSA configuration but much less complex than my earlier efforts might have turned out if I had stuck with them).
On the plus side of this approach for streaming audio from the PC to the Pi, once it's setup there's no messing about, just switch MPD on the Pi to play the audio stream coming from the PC (it starts streaming after boot). The problem however is the delay due to the usage of buffering for streaming - one buffer for DarkIce, and another for Icecast. With the default configuration of both the delay is an unwieldy 15 seconds. With a bit of configuration it can be brought down to a tenth of that which is just about bearable for listening to (rather than watching) music videos on youtube. It's also possible to create a feedback loop with this too. And for bonus points with partner, I can also setup audio streaming from her laptop so she can have Spotify play music on the stereo.


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Roughly two weeks ago I went out and bought an iPad. After a weekend hanging out with a friend who is a part-time digital comics reader, I decided that I was officially going to make the transition to a full-time digital reader for my monthly books (trades and hardcovers will still be purchased physically). It was a drastic move, but after a little bit of contemplation and soul searching, the switch to digital made sense for me.
For starters, like many of you, I assume, I'm very short on storage space in an apartment. Fun story: the last time I moved I actually needed to dedicate an entire trip to transporting just my comic long boxes to my new abode. I decided way back then that I had to find a new home for all my old, dust-collecting comics. I still haven't done that, mind you, but I'm toying with the idea of donating them to a home that would cherish them as I once did.
But that's neither here nor there, the point is: if I wanted to continue my hobby of reading comics, I had to find a way to maximize consumption while minimizing overflow. The answer seemed obvious, really.
Before I could commit, though, I had to get the approval of my local shop which I've been going to every Wednesday since 2004. I was terrified that I would be stoned and called a traitor, a harbinger of doom to the brick and mortar. I approached my shop's owner, a man I've become good friends with over the years, with trepidation. I told him about my interest in getting an iPad and going digital. He paused. But then he surprised me by saying "Cool" and proceeded to hit all the right bullet points for why one in my situation -- someone who's been a loyal brick-and-mortar customer for his entire comic-reading career -- would switch to digital. He hit on the space issue; the ease of waking up on Wednesday and getting your new books without ever putting on pants; and every other excuse one could throw at a shop owner to help them understand your "abandonment."
He totally got it. See, it takes progressive thinking to get the concept of going digital, especially as a shop owner who lives and dies off customers walking through their door. While some view digital as the doomsday of comics, forward-thinking individuals realize it's going to help broaden the readership of the industry in the long run. Digital caters to a different crowd than physical media. The people buying physical copies of comics are the consumers who have been going to shops for years for the tradition and ritual. Digital buyers are the people who just got out of seeing The Avengers and want somewhere else to go to continue those characters' stories. Two audiences coming from two different sides of the coin, yet fueling the same fire. It's synergy, folks.
It's maintaining that mindset as a store owner that will help your brick-and-mortar shop thrive into the future; more people buying comics is what will keep this industry afloat and keep local shops in business too. Thankfully, the owners of my store get that.
Sorry, I went on a bit of a rant there, but it served the purpose of getting me to my next point: Comixology and their digital storefront for B&M stores. Did you know that local stores can create a digital storefront through a digital comics app such as Comixology and a portion of the money pulled in will go back to your favorite brick-and-mortar store? It's true. All it takes is your store jumping through the necessary hoops to set it all up and then presto, you can buy comics digitally and still support the local store you've been going to every Wednesday for the last decade (or more).
And that's precisely what I made sure happened; getting my shop to expedite a digital front so I could continue to support them even through my adventures in the vast world of digital comics --they were already hard at work at getting it up and running before I came along, apparently, but I like to think I made the push that mattered. Now I can rest easy knowing I'm saving a boatload of space by having all my single issues stored on a slim iPad instead of in boxes upon boxes in my tiny closet, and I'm still giving money to the only store on this planet where everyone knows my name.
Thus far, the realm of digital has been great to me; having instant access to every new book when it releases without the need to drive anywhere is amazing. The money I save on gas alone makes the switch to digital worthwhile, and almost balances out the front-end cost of buying an iPad to begin with.
With that said, however, digital can also be viewed as a curse in my case. Since I consider myself a consumer whore, I find that I spend a lot more money, taking risks on series I might not have tried otherwise just because I can click one button and watch the download happen. I might wind up going broke a lot faster with digital. But hey! At least I'm helping the industry, right?
Look, the point of this column was not to convince you to switch to digital. How you purchase comics is completely up to you. But no matter which avenue of consumerism you decide to travel down, it's all helping the same beast grow and prosper. The argument of digital versus physical is antiquated. Comics are comics, whether they're printed on paper or sent to you via the glorious intertubes. To put it even better: someone who reads digital is no less a comics reader than someone buying physical copies. For me, digital is my new weapon of choice, and I couldn't be happier. My bank account, however, tells an entirely different story.
Erik Norris is a freelance writer for sites such as ComicVine, IGN and CraveOnline.com. You can stalk him on Twitter @Regular_Erik.


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Sikhs launch mobile app to report profiling
(RNS) Sikh civil rights activists will unveil a mobile phone application next week (April 30) that they say will allow travelers who believe they have been profiled by airport screeners to file complaints directly from their cell phones.
The New York-based Sikh Coalition launched the app project after a steady increase of complaints about unfair treatment at U.S. airports. Sikh men do not cut their hair as an article of faith, and their turbans have been met with suspicion by some Transportation Security Administration personnel.
The group emphasized that that the "FlyRights" app is meant to help Sikhs and other religious and racial minorities who have been subject to profiling, such as Muslims, South Asians, Arabs, blacks, and Latinos.
The TSA, which is under the Department of Homeland Security, accepts traditional written and email complaints, and has a section on its website where travelers can file complaints online. But many travelers are not sure how to file a complaint, feel intimidated, or forget details and lose motivation as time passes after an alleged incident.
"The new application will give those who feel powerless a quick and easy way to have their complaints filed and ultimately heard," said Amardeep Singh, a co-founder and program director of the Sikh Coalition.
Through the third quarter of 2011, the TSA had received only 11 complaints, a figure that Singh said allows the agency to claim it doesn't profile. In reality, he said, there are many more incidents of TSA profiling based on the complaints the Sikh Coalition and other civil rights organizations hear from constituents.
By making it easier to file complaints, Singh said he hopes the app will "exponentially" increase the number if profiling complaints filed with the TSA. "It will make it possible for us to get closer to the truth," Singh said.
In a statement, TSA officials maintained they are "committed to treating each traveler with dignity and respect throughout the screening process."
"TSA does not profile passengers on the basis of race, ethnicity or religion," the TSA statement said, adding that the agency meets regularly with civil rights groups about improving screening procedures.
Some Sikh travelers reported being subject to additional screening every time they traveled through an airport; at some airports, including Oakland (Calif.) International Airport, the coalition said TSA screeners subject Sikhs to secondary checks 100 percent of the time.
The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that complaints sent by the application will be considered official complaints, Singh said.
"To their credit, neither the TSA or the DHS have ever expressed any opposition to the idea," said Singh.


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FC Dallas 2, Seattle Sounders 3 | MLS Match Recap
FRISCO, Texas – Clint Dempsey struck for two goals, one a spectacular free kick and the other a late winner, as the Seattle Sounders rallied for a 3-2 win over previously unbeaten FC Dallas on Saturday night.
A native of Nacogdoches, Texas, whose family once made the three-hour drive for Dempsey's youth practices and did so again to see him in action on Saturday, Dempsey now has five goals in his last two games.
His most recent goal was the most important, the game-winner in the 85th minute off a give-and-go with Chad Barrett, set up by a textbook entry pass from Marco Pappa and hold-up touch from Obafemi Martins at the top of the penalty area. Dempsey then fed Barrett on the right and broke into the box to one-time the return pass into the top of the net.
The late goal stunned a crowd of 17,070 at Toyota Stadium, most of whom who came to see FC Dallas (4-1-1) try to continue its winning start to the season. They got off to a good start, too, as David Texeira – starting for the second straight game in place of Blas Pérez, who did not make the 18-man roster – scored his first MLS goal in the 10th minute on a miscue by Seattle goalkeeper Stefan Frei. A deflected pass, a high bounce and some wind flustered Frei, who saw the ball go off his fingertips and land for Texeira to tap into an empty net.
The Sounders (3-2-1) rebounded quickly, as Dempsey stepped up to a 35-yard free kick and bent it over the wall, off the underside of the crossbar and just over the goal line. The ball then spun back into play, and Martins headed in the rebound to make sure Seattle tied the game, but Dempsey was deservedly credited with the goal.
With Mauro Díaz pulling the strings, Dallas earned countless set-piece opportunities in the first half, and one led to the second goal. Chasing a loose ball that Matt Hedges kept alive, Texeira was fouled in the penalty area by DeAndre Yedlin in the 40th minute, and Michel converted the penalty kick for his third goal of the season, giving Dallas a 2-1 lead at halftime.
After posting an 11-2 shot advantage in the first half, however, Dallas could not continue its attacking success in the second half. Dempsey almost struck for a second goal in the 59th minute, turning and rifling a shot from outside the penalty area that caromed off the crossbar and out for a corner kick.
- Opta Chalkboard: How Seattle turned it around in the second half
Seattle finally tied the game in the 75th minute. Pappa – who came on for another local son returning home, Kenny Cooper – was given space on the left to send in a curling ball that was headed only to the far side of the penalty area, from where Dempsey fired a cross that deflected off Stephen Keel and into the net behind helpless Dallas goalkeeper Chris Seitz.
With the score tied 2-2, both teams continued to push forward late. Frei came up with a crucial save in the 82nd minute with the score tied, reach up to deny a hard-hit Texeira shot, and after Dempsey's go-ahead goal, the Swiss goalkeeper closed down the angle on Díaz in stoppage time, diving at his feet to block a threatening pass and preserve the lead.
Seattle faces a third consecutive road game next week, traveling to face Chivas USA, while FC Dallas will try to rebound at home against Toronto FC.
MLSsoccer.com Men of the Match
|What We Saw
|Clint Dempsey
|Duh. Scored two goals, set up a third, best player on the field by a wide margin. The difference in the game.
|Stefan Frei
|Seriously. Recovered very well from his early mistake and made two key plays in final 10 minutes.
|Obafemi Martins
|Great energy, made sure Dempsey's goal counted, helped set up the winner.


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This purchase includes a digital download of the album. You will be emailed a link to access your download shortly after purchase.


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We distribute Scheme 48 as a source release suitable for compilation under various flavors of Unix, including Linux, and Windwows.
Here are some simplified download and installation instructions. For more detailed installation instructions, see the files README and INSTALL in the distribution.
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Download scheme48-1.4.tgzto download. Put the resulting file in /tmp/scheme48-1.4.tgz or some other location of your choice.
- Log in as root and, at a shell, do
cd /usr/local/src(You do not have to do this as root, but you may have to build the system in a different directory if you don't.)
- Now issue the following incantation to unpack all of the files:
gunzip -c </tmp/scheme48-1.4.tgz | tar xf -
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cd scheme48-1.4 ./configure make make installto configure, build, and install the system.
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Check out the latest casting news in brief below:
- Kevin Zegers (Dawn of the Dead) has been cast The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, the first in a series of adaptations of the best-selling Cassandra Clare books. Directed by Harald Zwart, the film also stars Lily Collins, Lena Headey and Jamie Campbell Bower.
- Terrence Howard (Iron Man) and Dawn Olivieri (The Vampire Diaries) are in talks to join Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sam Worthington in Breacher, formerly known as Ten. The picture, directed by David Ayer, follows ten DEA agents who begin to die off one by one after pulling a heist.
Hit the jump for more casting details.
First up from Just Jared comes the word that Zegers is set to play Alec Lightwood, the gay brother of Jemima West's Isabelle. The story centers on Clary Fray (Collins), an unassuming teenage girl who discovers her true nature when a demon kidnaps her mother from their New York City home. Alec, a member of Clary's new circle of cohorts, dislikes Clary because she comes between him and Jace (Bower), the object of his affection. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is set to debut on August 23rd, 2013.
Howard and Olivieri are in talks to join Breachers, reports Heat Vision. The duo would likely play two of the DEA agents in the Skip Woods-scripted feature that took its original title as a nod to its source story, Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians." Schwarzenegger is already attached to star and Worthington was also recently reported as being in talks to join.