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My in-laws are serious eaters. At all the gatherings I've attended, the quantities of food would make the Two Fat Ladies blush, and we always come home with several containers of leftovers. This Christmas was no exception! My mother in law hosted Christmas Eve, as is getting to be the tradition. She veered away from the usual Puerto Rican fare this year (roast pork, arroz con gandules) and went Mexican, making posole, ceviche and nopales (cactus) salad. One of his cousins brought an interesting new (to me) PR dish of chicken gizzards cooked with green bananas and a few green olives (something like this except it was served warm instead of like a salad). The dish is an unglamorous greyish color, but the flavor was great and the gizzards were much more tender than when I've made them. It re-inspired me to try making gizzards again after an unsuccessful attempt last summer.
With all this great food in such abundance, it's always hard to know what to bring. My MIL never wants to assign me a dish; she always demurs, saying that there will be enough food, or to just bring "whatever I want". I know this is because she doesn't want to impose, but I have somewhat mixed feelings about it… she knows I like to cook; I'm part of the family now; shouldn't that warrant a side dish assignment? To be fair, for all I know she does the same with all the other relatives and they just bring whatever they feel like. But a small part of me would be flattered to be entrusted with something specific.
In the end, I just decided to make a dessert… you can never have too many, especially with his family's sweet tooth! I didn't feel like leaving the house for groceries, so I "shopped my pantry" and made a Meyer lemon pound cake with a lemon cream (lemon curd + whipped cream) to go on top. Although I'm not the biggest dessert/ cake person, I do love citrus (see these posts) and almost always have lemons in the house! I wasn't sure if its simplicity would be appreciated, but to my delight it was almost gone by the end of the night, when richer and sweeter offerings remained.
This recipe is from The Gourmet Cookbook, one I turn to often when I'm looking for a recipe that's traditional yet updated. The method is simple, and you can certainly serve the cake as-is with the lemon glaze rather than making the lemon cream (although you need to zest all those lemons anyway, so you may as well use them). I did an easy curd where you mix everything and cook it together rather than tempering the eggs; it seemed to work about the same. You'll want to strain it for textural reasons, but that's about the fussiest part of the recipe. And I know a heavy cake recipe is probably the last thing you're looking for right now, but you never know when you might decide to have people over for tea, or when you might need an easy recipe for your next get-together with your in-laws.
(Meyer) lemon pound cake (adapted from The Gourmet Cookbook by Ruth Reichl)
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I made this cake with fragrant Meyer lemons, but regular lemons will do just fine. However, you will likely need more lemons for the curd if you don't use Meyers, which tend to be much juicier.
for the cake:
2 cups cake flour (not self-rising)
1 tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
zest of 5 lemons (about ¼ cup)
2 sticks (½ lb) unsalted butter, softened
2 cups sugar
6 large eggs
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
¼ cup fresh lemon juice
¼ cup whole milk
for the glaze:
1 cup plus 1 Tbs powdered sugar
2 Tbs fresh lemon juice
Lightly grease and flour a 2-quart kugelhopf pan or bundt pan (a neutral-flavored cooking spray works well to get in the nooks & crannies). Knock out excess flour. Place a rack in the center of the oven and preheat oven to 325°.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients and zest. Cream the butter and sugar in a stand mixer or with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy, 2-3 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition; then add vanilla. Reduce mix speed to low and beat in ⅓ of the flour, the milk, another ⅓ of the flour, the lemon juice, and the remaining flour, beating until just combined and scraping the sides of the bowl as needed. Pour the batter into the prepared pan (place on a baking sheet for easier transport in and out of the oven) and bake until top is browned and a skewer or knife inserted into the center comes out clean (original recipe specified 45-55 minutes but mine took about an hour and 10 minutes). Meanwhile, make glaze by combining powdered sugar and lemon juice until sugar is fully dissolved.
Cool cake in the pan for 15 minutes (see photo- a wine bottle works well for this). Invert on a rack and allow to cool completely before glazing. Put cake on a serving plate and pour glaze over top, allowing it to drip down the sides. If storing for later use, allow glaze to set before covering. This cake keeps well for several days if wrapped and refrigerated; allow to come to room temperature before serving.
Lemon Curd/ Lemon Cream (adapted from Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan)
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Note: in Dorie's book, she uses the term "lemon cream" to refer to a variation on lemon curd containing a higher ratio of butter.
1 ¼ cups sugar
1 egg
6 egg yolks
6 Tbs butter, cut into 6 pieces
freshly squeezed juice of 4 lemons (use 5 or even 6 if lemons are dry)
optional: 1 pint heavy whipping cream
Whisk together all ingredients in a medium heavy saucepan. Place over medium low heat and cook, stirring vigorously and constantly, until butter melts and mixture starts to thicken (original recipe says 4-6 minutes but I've never had mine cook that fast). The curd is done when you can make a track with your finger on a spoon or spatula and the curd doesn't run into the track. It will look thin, but thicken as it cools. If desired, for a smoother texture, strain curd while still warm through a fine mesh strainer into a bowl. Press plastic wrap over the top so a skin doesn't form, and cool in the refrigerator.
To make lemon cream, whip cream with beaters or a stand mixer until it has body, but before it becomes firm. When curd has fully cooled, stir in whipped cream to taste- less for a more pronounced lemon flavor and more for a milder, creamier flavor.


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REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph (1759-1840)
Lilium Pomponium / Lys Ponpon [Red Lily]
[Pl. 7] Paris: Imprimerie de Didot jeune, 1802-16. Stipple engraving, printed in colour and finished by hand, engraved by Tassaert. Very good condition apart from a skillfully repaired loss in the right margin and a small brown spot in the image. Sheet size: 20 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté was one of the world's great flower painters. Born into a family that had been painters for at least two generations, Redouté went to Paris in 1782 with his brother where they worked as scene painters for the Théâtre italien. Redouté painted flowers in his spare time. The search for subjects led him to the Jardin du Roi and eventually Gerard van Spaendonck who made him an assistant. While at the Jardin du Roi, Redouté came to know Charles-Louis L'Heritier, an amateur botanist and writer of independent means. He gave Redouté a full time job as an illustrator, instructing him in plant anatomy. Redouté's understanding of plants contributed greatly to the clarity of his depictions. But it was Redouté's work in stipple engraving and colour printing that was to be of the greatest importance. Stippling and the application of two or three colour inks to one plate were engraving innovations that Redouté brought to French printmaking, and these were brought to perfection in Les Liliacées from which this work comes. Les Liliacées is one of two Redouté masterworks, the other being Les Roses. These works demonstrate the appropriateness of the accolade "Raphael of Flowers", for one is constantly impressed by the exquisite compositional sense and clarity of vision. More than with any other painter, one sees in Redouté's flowers living, breathing beings at their most beautiful moment.
Cf. Nissen BBI 1597; cf.Great Flower Books (1990), p 128; cf. Dunthorne p 231; cf. Stafleu & Cowan TL2 8747; cf. MacPhaeil, Redouteana, 10.
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The growing number of very wealthy individuals globally is driving demand for ultraprime residential properties in the world's main financial centers, according to a new report.
The value of residential property purchases over $15.5 million in "old world" London and New York and "new world" Hong Kong and Singapore will grow by 27% in the next five years, according to research produced by property developer Candy & Candy, estate agent Savills and Deutsche Bank.
In 2012, some 300 residential real estate transactions worth more than $15 million took place in the four markets. All told, those transactions exceeded $10 billion.
The report predicted that the number of such transactions would grow to 400 a year by 2017, with a total value of $13 billion. It said the growth would be both organic and incremental; neighborhoods considered ultraprime will expand and new ultraprime stock will be built to expand supply.
Demand for trophy residences is being driven by increases in global wealth. The reported counted 187,380 people with assets of more than $30 million; of those, 50,000 were worth $100 million or more.
The report said that as international markets recover in the next five years, the number of ultrawealthy people would increase by 20% and global wealth would grow from about $122 trillion to $150 trillion. Already in 2012, the number of billionaires increased by more than 10%, and their wealth grew by 14%.
Much of this wealth creation is being generated in the emerging markets of Africa, central Asia, China and South Korea. Asia's wealth creation is already growing by 11% per annum, and that of Russia, Eastern Europe and Latin America by 9% per annum.
Following are brief profiles of the prime residential market in the four markets. New York
North America is home to more than a third of the ultrahigh-net-worth population, according to the report, and New York accounts for around one in eight in the U.S. Its top residential properties command the highest prices per square foot in the country, $13,000.
Still, New York ranks seventh globally for prime and ultraprime properties. Prices fell 1% between 2007 and 2012, according to the report. As a result, Asian and other "new world" city inhabitants view New York as a value play, especially if the American economy continues to recover. Overseas buyers have recently made several record-breaking purchases in New York, taking advantage of the weak greenback and the U.S.'s safe-haven credentials. More than 70% of ultraprime residential purchases are by non-U.S. buyers.
Cooperatives and condominiums dominate New York's prime residential market. Condos have outperformed during the latest recovery because they are the only type of apartment building freely available to foreign buyers—and do not require the kind of financial disclosure co-ops do—and are in short supply compared with co-ops.
In terms of transactions worth more than $15.5 million, London is a bigger market than New York and appeals to buyers from Eastern and Western Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, north Africa and Asia. Fully 32% of its ultrahigh-net-worth population is not domiciled in the U.K.
Overseas buyers are attracted by the transparent and stable safe haven, as well as by the city's lifestyle. Demand has contributed to price growth of 24% between 2007 and 2012. For the most expensive properties, prices are up 36% over the previous high in the third quarter of 2007.
Housing stock in the most desirable neighborhoods is shrinking as properties come under foreign ownership. The report noted that new overseas owners hold property longer than U.K. owners, reducing the availability of units that can be traded every year.
Hong Kong
Burgeoning wealth generation in Asia has had an enormous effect on price growth in the prime residential markets of Hong Kong and Singapore; property prices are increasing by more than 150% in each, according to the report.
By 2017, 50% more people will have become ultrahigh net worth in Asia than in North America.
Hong Kong is the world's most expensive city for prime residential real estate. Its supply of ultraprime residential properties is limited and is also a must-have for newly minted, cash-rich mainland billionaires. Prices grew 39% between 2007 and 2012.
Although enormous demand at the top of the market is setting global records, recently announced punishing stamp duty levels will likely cool the enthusiasm. These are aimed in particular at overseas residents and owners who hold property for shorter periods of time.
Singapore's strategic location and established residential market attract buyers from all over Asia. The report said 31% of home buyers in 2011 were foreigners, double the number a decade earlier, with significant numbers of Malaysians, Indonesians and Indians attracted by a familiar language and culture. But Chinese buyers have been driving sales, their numbers tripling since 2007, as they diversify their investments abroad.
Prices grew by 94% between 2007 and 2012. Since 2005, ultraprime property has gone up 232%.
Similar to Hong Kong, Singapore has recently increased property taxes, also aimed especially at overseas buyers. This has significantly damped activity, particularly at the upper end of the market.
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Harmony R Series HR304B Soprano Recorder Blue Translucent with Recorder Express
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This package features Recorder Express by Artie Almeida and the Harmony Blue R Series Soprano Recorder!
About The Recorder:
Harmony Blue R Series C Soprano 2-piece Recorder -- The Harmony R Series recorder is a 2-piece C soprano recorder, with Baroque-English fingering. Sleek design adds color and style to your recorder ensemble. Each recorder includes a bag, cleaning rod, and fingering chart.
About The Book:
Recorder Express Soprano recorder method for classroom or individual use By Artie Almeida Book 48 pages
Includes over 120 exercises and melodies (folk, pop, and original songs), as well as technique tips and beginning music theory. Familiar songs have the words included (sometimes more than 1 verse is given). Vocabulary, theory, rhythm or technique concepts, as well as new notes, are highlighted in train car pictures (the Vocabulary Express, for example). Helpful tips and questions about the music are given throughout the book. A "Superstar Express" challenge page is included at the end of the book. Each piece shows the correct track to use on the CD (when applicable), and how many measures of introduction are used for each accompaniment.
The CD is available separately or in a book/CD combination.
Note Progression: B, A, G, high C, high D, low E, low D, F#, low C, F, high E.
Contents: The Recorder, Finger Placement and Posture, Tone Production, Practice Techniques, Music Fundamentals.
Playing B, Playing A, Playing B & A, Playing G, Playing B, A & G: Hot Cross Buns, Au Claire de la Lune, Suo Gan, Merrily We Roll Along, Buns Cross Hot, Quarter Note Quickstep, Half Note Hop, Triple Meter Practice, Wacky Waltz, The Frog, Steps and Skips, Good News, Eighth Note Encounter, Lucy Locket, Hop Old Squirrel, Mary's Busy Lamb, Theory Express (pencil exercise), All Aboard, Down at the Station, Long-Legged Sailor, Old MacDonald, Bullet Train.
Playing C: Juba, Triple Meter Trip, Humpty Dumpty, Recorder Reminders, Hallelujah Chorus, The Grand Old Duke of York.
Playing D: Lady Come, Expanding Intervals, Harmonious Buns, The Escalator, Jelly in the Bowl, Lightly Row, Jingle Bells, Aura Lee, Sounds of Autumn, Pop Goes the Weasel, The Farmer in the Dell (modified), Andante, When the Saints Go Marching In, Starlight Starbright, Row Row Row Your Boat (modified), Love Somebody, Bow Wow Wow (2 versions), Cobbler Cobbler, Winter Goodbye, Cobbler's Song, Bransle de Champagne, Technique Express (exercises), Rhythm Express (exercises), Theory Express (pencil express).
New Note (low) E: Starlight Starbright, Quiet Moments, Engine Engine #9, Chinese Song, Misty Mountain Morning, Tiptoe, Wayfaring Stranger.
Playing Low D: Playing Low D & E, Theme from Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Hush Little Baby, Old Brass Wagon, Red River Valley, Scotland's Burning, Alouette, Challenge Buns, Jungle Bells, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, William Tell Overture (excerpt), Amazing Grace, All Night All Day, I Got Rhythm, The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
Using the New Note F#: When the Saints Go Marching In, Wedding March, Yankee Doodle, Skip to My Lou, The Water Is Wide, Down in the Valley, Home on the Range, Polly Wolly Doodle.
Using the New Note Low C: Basement Buns, Merrily We Roll Along, Suo Gan, Shortnin' Bread.
Using the New Note F: Hot Cross Buns Revisited, Au Claire de la Lune, Lucy Locket, Taps, Practice for C Scale (pencil and practice exercises), Tommy Had a Brother, Camptown Races, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Kookaburra, Puff the Magic Dragon, Hymn from Finlandia, French Folk Song, Li'l Liza Jane, The Bluebells of Scotland.
Holiday Express: Jolly Old St. Nicholas, Good King Wenceslas, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, My Dreydl, Joy to the World, Happy Birthday, Hanukkah Nights, We 3 Kings, O Come All Ye Faithful, Auld Lang Syne.
New Note High E: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Stratosphere Buns, Kum Ba Yah, This Old Man, London Bridge, Merrily We Roll Along, Land of the Silver Birch
Superstar Express: Musette, Can Can, Ronde, Irish Washerwoman.
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text: The Candy Kid -- as George Morgan was known after his first hit, "Candy Kisses," spent three weeks at the top of the country chart -- was a grand country crooner in the tradition of Eddy Arnold, whom he replaced on the Grand Old Opry in 1948. Born in Waverly, Tennessee, on June 28, 1924, Morgan and his family moved to Ohio not long after. He grew up listening to the Opry and formed his first band in the mid-'40s. Occasional spots on local radio did little for Morgan's career, but after he wrote "Candy Kisses," WWVA-Wheeling (West Virginia) hired him for the Wheelin Jamboree. The Grand Old Opry called soon after, and Columbia Records contracted Morgan in 1948. "Candy Kisses" was finally released early the following year and it hit number one in April; though it proved Morgan's only chart-topper, he placed six of his next seven singles in the Country Top Ten. "Please Don't Let Me Love You," the B-side of "Candy Kisses," reached the Top Five soon after, and another double-sided hit, "Rainbow in My Heart"/"All I Need Is Some More Lovin'" continued the success. Three Top Ten singles (plus the near-miss "All I Need") in the span of a month was simply astonishing for a debut artist, and Morgan proved he was no fluke by closing out 1949 with three more Top Five hits: "Room Full of Roses," "Cry-Baby Heart," and "I Love Everything About You." It was almost inevitable that Morgan's chart success would taper somewhat, though the three-year gap between hits from late 1949 to 1952 was surprising. "Almost" reached number two in April 1952, however, and Morgan's performances on the Grand Old Opry sustained his reputation. He left the show in 1956 to host a TV program in Nashville, but returned to the Opry three years later. He christened his return in 1959 with "I'm in Love Again," which hit number three. Early the following year, "You're the Only Good Thing (That's Happened to Me)" hit number four, but it was Morgan's last Top 20 entry. From 1965 to 1975, George Morgan remained with the Opry and recorded frequently, hitting the nether reaches of the country charts consistently. He witnessed his daughter Lorrie's debut on the Opry, but didn't live to see her musical success in the late '80s: he passed away in July 1975 after a heart attack. His posthumous father-daughter duet, "I'm Completely Satisfied with You," hit the charts in 1979. ~ John Bush


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Is there a better way to sell fast food than pulling at the heartstrings of children mourning their dead parents? Apparently, McDonald's didn't think so, Today.com reported.
In a new McDonald's commercial running in Britain, a young British boy mourning the loss of his father yearns to find some kind of connection, but soon realizes he doesn't have his dad's way with the ladies, athletic ability or even the same eye color.
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Stories that affect your life across the U.S. and around the world.
But hey, he can always take solace in the fact they both liked to order a Filet-O-Fish at McDonald's.
The ad created by London-based firm Leo Burnett was released last week and has been met with backlash from U.K.-based child bereavement groups, according to the BBC. It is slated to run for the next seven weeks but could potentially be curtailed.
"This was by no means an intention of ours,'' a McDonald's U.K. spokesperson told the BBC. "We wanted to highlight the role McDonald's has played in our customers' everyday lives - both in good and difficult times."
The ad was also slammed across social media


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The symmetric Kugel-Khomskii can be seen as a minimal model describing the interactions between spin and orbital degrees of freedom in certain transition-metal oxides with orbital degeneracy, and it is equivalent to the SU(4) Heisenberg model of four-color fermionic atoms. We present simulation results for this model on various two-dimensional lattices obtained with infinite projected-entangled pair states (iPEPS), an efficient variational tensor-network ansatz for two dimensional wave functions in the thermodynamic limit. We find a rich variety of exotic phases: while on the square and checkerboard lattices the ground state exhibits dimer-N\'eel order and plaquette order, respectively, quantum fluctuations on the honeycomb lattice destroy any order, giving rise to a spin-orbital liquid. Our results are supported from flavor-wave theory and exact diagonalization. Furthermore, the properties of the spin-orbital liquid state on the honeycomb lattice are accurately accounted for by a projected variational wave-function based on the pi-flux state of fermions on the honeycomb lattice at 1/4-filling. In that state, correlations are algebraic because of the presence of a Dirac point at the Fermi level, suggesting that the ground state is an algebraic spin-orbital liquid. This model provides a possible starting point to understand the recently discovered spin-orbital liquid behavior of Ba_3CuSb_2O_9. The present results also suggest to choose optical lattices with honeycomb geometry in the search for quantum liquids in ultra-cold four-color fermionic atoms.


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but still the best thing is to LEAVE them enough.
eating honey form other hives can do that. feeding honey back from same hive is usually considered safer.
I thought if you got AFB you are forced to burn the hive. Am I wrong?
I thought if you got AFB you are forced to burn the hive.
Who is going to force you to burn them? It may be the law in some states, or the recommended procedure, but especially here in NY, there is no one enforcing it.
There is also claims of shaking the bees onto new foundation as a means to overcome AFB for a colony.
Huh :? The spores are going to stay with the old foundation? :?Seems to me that is a way to spread it not contain it.


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Liberti Church is a church plant out of Cornerstone Church Liverpool and Cornerstone Church Wirral, meeting in the heart of the Lark Lane community. We gather on Sunday mornings on Lark Lane and meet throughout the week to eat, study the bible and pray together in homes across the community. Our vision for Liberti Church is to be community of believers who:
- proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ
- pursue community that is Gospel Centred, Marked by Grace and On Mission
- serve and love the people of Lark Lane
- contribute to the cultural diversity of Lark Lane
We started life as a Gospel Community of six adults and a few of our children meeting in our homes back in 2015 and not long after, we began praying about what it might look like to plant a church on Lark Lane. Since then we have been building a vision and team to plant and by Gods grace in autumn 2017 we began to meet informally for a church service in Esteban restaurant on Lark Lane.
We're excited to be launching publicly on 25th February 2018 in 'Nonno's' on Lark Lane where we'll meet every Sunday from 9:45am.


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During the development of an application I'm working on, I found it necessary to build an AIR Native Extension that exposes the Android location API. Mainly I wanted to be able to tell if the GPS is actually on or not. AIR doesn't provide that normally. In addition, this ANE can tell whether wi-fi based location is on or not, notify you when GPS or network location ability changes, tells you how long it took to get a lock on a GPS satellite, and even exposes the Android proximity alert API.
This git repo includes the compiled ANE, full source code, and a reference implementation project.
ChunkEMail is an AIR Native Extension that allows you to programatically launch your Android mail composer and prepopulate it with a big chunk of text. Though you can use the mailto protocol to launch an email window from AIR, it has a character limit on it. So if you want to put in a huge chunk of text, or don't want to bother with encoding special characters, ChunkEMail allows you to do that.
This git repo includes the compiled ANE, full source code, and a reference implementation project.
I created an AIR application that is available for both the desktop and the Blackberry Playbook tablet. It is an app that allows you to draw out a floorplan and then create furniture and drag it around your floorplan. This way you can plan where furniture will go without having to guess and end up moving the same furniture 20 times. This application was conceived when my wife and I were trying to figure out how to merge our possessions in her small condo after getting married. This should beat the graph paper and ripped-up Post It notes we used then. The app also earned me a free Playbook as part of Blackberry's promotion for AIR developers.
This is part one of an idea I have for a game. It's a network of nodes with a little character that can navigate the network and do different actions at diffent nodes. The network is built from an XML document.
I live downtown where parking is scarce and restricted. However, residents are given a parking sticker that allows them to park anywhere within a 5 block radius of where they live. To help myself and other residents, I walked around my neighborhood logging all the different parking zones and the days there were street sweeping. From this I created a map of the neighborhood that would allow me to look to see if I needed to move my car before the street sweeper came along and ticketed me, as well as see where I might find an empty space late at night.
To display this map, I created a small application using ActionScript 3 and Flash to load in the map created in Adobe Illustrator. I created controls to zoom in and out, view the map fullscreen, and print either the entire map or just the visible section. I also added in a key to explain the colors and symbols on the map. I provided both symbols and colors with color blind people in mind.
I recently made two copies of the book The Life of God in the Soul of Man by Henry Scougal. When I say I made them, I really did. I typset the books, printed them, built the cases, sewed the signatures together and made the physical book. The text is a public domain book from the 1600s that was inspiration for the book I've recently read called The Pleasures of God by John Piper.
The gallery is new and improved. Along with the slick interface, you can now add pictures you'd like to your request list by clicking on the plus sign under them. Once they're in the list, you can either choose to download the pictures or request bigger high resolution versions of the images. The gallery is now also class-based. I developed Picture, PictureCollection, and PictureRequester classes, which I can use in future projects.
Since in Florida we're suffering through an 80 degree winter, there isn't much chance for building snowmen ... until now. My friend Jim at work and I made this nifty Flash piece of viral marketing to promote our Winter Holiday virtual gallery, and to have fun too. It uses Flash Remoting, ColdFusion, XML, and all sorts of ActionScript. I also had to figure out some physics and I got to use some trig.
To help people eat healthy during the barbecue season, Jim Elder and I developed a sample barbecue for OCLS's Celebrate Summer virtual gallery. Jim did the visuals and I did the code. Things work well that way.
This is a Flash puzzle that gets its content from XML. It really came together nicely. The image is from stockxchange, which if you haven't looked at, you really should. It was originally developed for the OCLS National Pet Month virtual gallery.
This has actually been done for a while, but this project just recently won the Thomas Gale Award. I created the shell for the guide. Melody Mitchell came up with the content, and Cassie Shivers, Bobby Tsui, and Vanessa Neblett all helped adapt it for the eGuide. It runs off of XML, and is designed to be reusable. Our second eGuides on medical resources is coming out soon.
This is a construct I made for a page on Healthy Holidays on the Orange County Library System's site. It takes some old snowfall code I had and turns it into an interactive toy that acts as a collection of useful links.
I've become quite enamored with Cascading Style Sheets and the CSS Zen Garden. I've made my own little CSS experiment called Lanternlight. It has three different styles, all of which are best viewed in Firefox, though it works with IE6 too. The content is my thoughts on some tough theological questions. Hopefully there's nothing heretical there.
After a good long amount of work, we finally rolled out the new public site for the Orange County Library System. The design was done by OCLS's graphic designer Ben Garcia, but I got to implement it with CSS, ASP, and Dreamweaver templates. The site has since been redesigned, though a lot of the underlying work I did is still in place. Check out the alternate styles and print view!
This diversion was an exercise in creating an isometric landscape. It is a keen plaything that hopefully will become a game some day.
I made this little animation at my job at the Orange County Library System as a way to show off some of what our department did this last year. It incorporates sound (from FlashKit), replayability, and scads of actionScript animation. I get to make this kind of thing at work. How cool is that?
This animated picture viewer not only displays some of my photography, but also shows animation through tweens, ActionScript, and other methods.
Citadels is a multiplayer Flash strategy game running on Flash Media Server and ColdFusion. The game was developed as a joint project for a game development course and a Rich Internet Application course. The game is playable for up to four people, includes in game chat, and application management on the server. Hosting is graciously provided by RealEyes Media.
This was the website for a non-profit community organizing group in Denver that I developed while working for the Digital Media Outreach Center at the University of Denver. However, the site has since been redesigned, and I did not keep screenshots. The site was a venue for member organizations to keep track of events, as well as information for people interested in MOP's mission.
This is the Alpha version my Master's project. It is a ColdFusion-powered tutorial for seniors to make them more comfortable and familiar with computers and using the Internet. Seniors, especially those with mobility issues, have the most to gain from the Internet's resources, but are among the least likely to use them. With this tutorial I hope to change that, giving librarians, senior centers, and relatives a tool to help the seniors they work with to learn the Internet on their own.
A full Beta version is here! This is a fully playable Flash version of the Centipede-esque game using characters from Brian Lind's Polygone comic strip. I designed this as an exercise in scripted animation and game development.
A slick wave menu I created as an exercise in Flash. A great way to conserve space in a tight interface.
My scatterText mutated into something else. This creates a dynamically-generated array of elements that over time breaks into an interesting flock of indecisive circles. The low file size would make it a good toy for a preloader.
A Flash trifle adapted from a module of The Other Seven, but now completely dynamic. I created this as a way of exploring dynamically-generated matrices as a means of arranging elements on the stage during runtime. This approach keeps file size very low and makes changing the layout exceptionally easy. Snappy!
An interactive Flash art piece exploring 7 spiritual truths of Christianity. It exhibits some of my animation and scripting skills, and uses a variety of interactive interfaces.
This site serves as a companion for a book created for an Advanced Typography course. It displays the evolution of the creative process of the book.
The translation of an Icelandic edda by Chris VanDyke. I typeset and bound 3 copies of the book, which contains among other things, a glossary of proper names and many, many translator's notes. This is the non-impositioned PDF of the text. You need Adobe Acrobat Reader 5 or higher to view the text.
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I am a 34 year old male in good health. In general, I eat pretty healthy and I go to the gym 4-5 times a week. However, I have been trying to figure out a stomach/GI issue that I have been dealing with for the past couple of years. When it started a couple of years ago, it only occurred every once in a while. Then it started happening a couple times a week. Well, in the past 4 or so months, it has been occurring every day and has become progressively worse. Basically, I am dealing with abdominal bloating/distention and intestinal gas. When this issue started a few years ago, it seemed like the intestinal gas was the more prominent issue. However, it is the daily distention that is affecting my quality of life. It is extremely uncomfortable and sometimes downright painful (the pressure); not to mention it can potentially be embarrassing. When it is bad, I don't feel like doing much and the pressure buildup also leads to more frequent urination. I have tried many things that don't seem to help. Basically, it starts off in the morning where I feel slightly bloated, but it isn't that bad. I would say on a scale of 1-10, it starts off at about "2" on a daily basis. Then throughout the day, the gas pressure/bloating builds and peaks (anywhere from 7-10 on the scale). It seems like it peaks in the early afternoon during the week because I start my days early. On the weekends, it seems to peak in the late afternoon because I usually eat breakfast later than during the week. My doctor is perplexed because these are the only symptoms. Because my symptoms don't include any elimination issues (i.e. diarrhea, constipation, etc.), he says that IBS and other similar diseases/issues are unlikely; I don't fit the profile. I have tried the following supplements/items, but none have worked:
Gas X
Lactaid (for dairy)
Beeno (digestive enzyme)
Peppermint oil capsules (to help alleviate intestinal gas/bloating)
Papaya enzymes (to help alleviate intestinal gas/bloating)
Fennel seeds (chewing them is supposed to help intestinal gas/bloating)
Prilosec OTC (tried this for 2 weeks even though I don't have heartburn)
Digestive Advantage – IBS (even though I don't have IBS, this is supposed to help bloating by restoring the balance of good bacteria in my GI Tract. This will only work if the bacteria count is skewed)
My doctor tested me for Celiac disease and for the H. Pylori bacteria. Both of these blood tests were negative. Recently, I took the lactose intolerance hydrogen breath test and found out that I am not lactose intolerant. This explains why the Lactaid didn't help me, but unfortunately, none of the other things mentioned above helped me either. Not even when taken in combination. Although I am not lactose intolerant, I just found information related to a milk ingredient called Casein. I have heard that this could cause GI issues, but from what I understand, is a lot less common. I also had an abdominal ultrasound. The results were normal. The only thing noted was that there was a small mass on my gall bladder which the doctor wasn't at all concerned with. He said that it is most likely a cholesterol polyp which is nothing to worry about and would not cause the symptoms that I am experiencing. I also sent in my hem-occult slides to my doctor's office.
I have been keeping a daily food journal to see if there are any specific food items that seem to cause these symptoms. However, I have been unable to find ANY correlation between items.
At this point, my doctor seems to think that I have some type of food intolerance (not allergy). However, I am a bit skeptical because I am waking up bloated. I thought that symptoms from an intolerance would disappear overnight. Before, I thought that I was starting at "0" in the mornings, but I just don't think I realized that I was actually waking up slightly bloated. I tend to hold my stomach in because it helps with my lower back pain. The only other suggestions that my doctor has at this point is to try two different dietary changes. The first one would be to try a modified Atkins diet/reduced carb diet. If this doesn't make a difference during the two-week trial, he recommends that I try a two-week gluten-free diet. I am willing to try anything to find a resolution to this issue, but a gluten-free diet would be extremely difficult for me to follow based on my normal daily diet. I was going to start the first dietary change in a couple of days, but I have decided to try this Digestive Advantage product first. I don't want to change my diet yet because then I won't know if this product is working.
Any information that may help relieve or resolve this frustrating problem would be very much appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
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Access to sanitation has been recognized by the UN as a human right, a basic service required to live a normal life. And yet, some 2.6 billion people – or half the population in the developing world – still lack access to improved sanitation.
In a bid to improve the health and well-being of millions of people worldwide, the United Nations has launched a major drive to accelerate progress towards the goal of halving, by 2015, the proportion of the population without access to basic sanitation.
The drive was established by the General Assembly in a resolution adopted last December that called on Member States to redouble efforts to close the sanitation gap, one of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that world leaders have pledged to achieve by 2015. The resolution established a global push, "Sustainable Sanitation: The Five-Year-Drive to 2015" (5YD), to focus attention on the Goal and to mobilize political will, as well as financial and technical resources.
The resolution also made history by calling for an end to open defecation, the most dangerous sanitation practice for public health and one practised by over 1.1 billion people who have no access to facilities. According to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), children under five are the most vulnerable to poor hygiene and inadequate sanitation, two of the major causes of diarrhea which kills at least 1.2 million children under five each year.
Extending safe sanitation facilities is neither prohibitively expensive, nor technologically unattainable, yet the Joint Monitoring Programme of UNICEF and WHO reported in March of this year that progress on sanitation actually slowed between 2006 and 2008.
"Sanitation is a sensitive issue. It is an unpopular subject. Perhaps that is why the sanitation crisis has not been met with the kind of response we need," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at the launch.
"But that must change," he added. "It is time to put sanitation and access to proper toilets at the centre of our development discussions."
The 5YD picks up on and continues the spirit of the 2008 International Year for Sanitation which helped to put the neglected sanitation crisis onto the agendas of government leaders, the donor community, civil society and the business sector.
Visit the "Sanitation Drive 2015" website:
UN-Water strengthens coordination and coherence among UN entities dealing with issues related to all aspects of freshwater and sanitation. This includes surface and groundwater resources, the interface between freshwater and seawater and water-related disasters.
The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities.
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Zara, please open a webshop in the US, you could single-handedly outfit my
whole family!
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Oh lord, I would be shopping like crazy for my good friend's newborn little boy.ReplyDelete
I couldn't agree more!!!ReplyDelete
i love zara.ReplyDelete
everytime i'm in the store (kids/baby section) i get so dizzy:S
i just want to buy they're whole line!
I agree!!!ReplyDelete
I just visited Montreal where they have a Zara kids and came back with so many goodies. The shoes are especially delightful!
Such a cute collection!ReplyDelete
i agree! the first time i visited a Zara in CA, i bought lots of cute little sweet things for my son. oh, and for me :)ReplyDelete
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I´ll follow your blog on a future ;D
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agreed! same goes for H&M - we don't have one very close to my city in Cali. I went to an H&M in Norway, Sweden and Denmark when we were there over the summer. Can't wait to do some kiddo shopping when we go back for Christmas!!ReplyDelete
I wish these came in adult sizes too, i could soooo see my boyfriend wearing the cardigan and jeans from the bottom right hehe :) I love the way the outfits are photographed too so you can really see how all the pieces work together.ReplyDelete
nate received most of his fall/winter clothes from baby zara, can't wait to see him in them!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 22, 2010
you do realize they DO have a webshop online now? and you can buy those very clothes for kids?? it just launched in Sept or beginning of October.ReplyDelete
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Lest you were worried that there was going to be a serious lack of major films at this year's Comic-Con, Legendary Pictures has just announced its first-ever panel. The studio will be bringing out the big guns, as the films set to be featured are as follows: Guillermo del Toro's next directorial project Pacific Rim, Alex Proyas' adaptation of Paradise Lost starring Bradley Cooper, Seventh Son starring Jeff Bridges, and the feature film adaptation of Mass Effect.
The studio is bringing along the major talent from each film, including Pacific Rim's Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day and Idris Elba (as well as del Toro), Seventh Son's Bridges and Ben Barnes, Both Proyas and Cooper from Paradise Lost, and Mass Effect game creator Casey Hudson and the screenwriter working on the film adaptation Mark Protosevich. Hit the jump to read the full press release.
Here's the full press release:
Burbank, CA – July 6, 2011 – For the first time ever, Legendary Entertainment will hold a standalone panel to provide the Comic-Con® International audience with an early look at some of the films from Legendary's upcoming slate. On Friday, July 22nd, audience participants will have the opportunity to attend an engaging panel consisting of cast and filmmakers from upcoming Legendary films including PACIFIC RIM, SEVENTH SON and PARADISE LOST, all to be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, as well as MASS EFFECT.
Fans can expect to witness on-stage camaraderie between and Q&A's with:
Acclaimed writer, producer and director, Guillermo del Toro alongside cast members including Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Charlie Day, and Rinko Kikuchi as well as screenwriter, Travis Beacham.
Academy Award® winner, Jeff Bridges and THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA star, Ben Barnes, alongside Alicia Vikander and director, Sergei Bodrov.
Bradley Cooper and KNOWING director, Alex Proyas.
Game creator, Casey Hudson and screenwriter adapting the game to film, Mark Protosevich.
Legendary's Chairman and CEO, Thomas Tull as well as Chief Creative Officer, Jon Jashni, will also be in attendance to answer fan questions and to speak directly with cast and filmmakers about this exciting slate of upcoming films. Geoff Boucher of the Los Angeles Times, who is also the founder of HeroComplex.com, will moderate the panel.
About Legendary Entertainment
Legendary Entertainment is a leading media company with film, television and comics divisions dedicated to owning, producing and delivering content to mainstream audiences with a targeted focus on the powerful fandom demographic. Through complete or joint ownership, Legendary is building a library of marquee media properties and has established itself as a trusted brand which consistently delivers high-quality, commercial entertainment including some of the world's most popular intellectual property. Among the wholly-owned film projects that Legendary Entertainment is currently developing in-house are Pacific Rim, directed by Guillermo del Toro; an adaptation of the phenomenally successful interactive game universe Warcraft; Godzilla, based on Toho Company's famed character; Warren Ellis' Gravel; and Mass Effect, based on Electronic Arts and BioWare's hit videogame franchise. Legendary has co-produced more than 25 Warner Bros. films, including the recent smash hit, The Hangover Part II, which holds the distinction of posting the highest opening weekend gross ever for a comedy film, the critically acclaimed Inception, which has been a box office smash grossing more than $825 million worldwide, as well as the global blockbusters Clash of the Titans ($493 million worldwide), The Dark Knight ($1 billion worldwide), 300 ($456 million worldwide) and The Hangover ($467 million worldwide).


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The people have spoken. At least 14,000 of them, anyway. And 62.6 percent of those are not satisfied with downtown Jacksonville.
This is according to the Jacksonville Community Council Inc.'s JAX2025 survey that asked people to rate many issues facing the city.
In similar surveys nationwide, the top issues are usually education, public safety and the environment. In this local survey, 28.1 percent of the adult responses said they were not at all satisfied with the vibrancy of downtown (plus another 34.5 who aren't very satisfied). It's a big drop down to the next items with the most "not at all satisfied" responses, such as the ability to influence local government (17 percent), the ease of transportation and moving around (16.7 percent) and the quality of public education (15.7 percent).
It surprised JCCI CEO Ben Warner: "It's a huge, major, community-wide issue."
As proof, Warner pointed out that although the respondents skewed a little higher on education and income than Jacksonville's averages, people of all education levels noted downtown was a big issue, including 12 percent of those with a high school diploma.
The first results of the survey were presented Jan. 19 at the Prime Osborn Convention Center, where about 1,000 people gathered at tables of 10 to discuss and prioritize the issues raised. Each table held discussions that were shared with the entire group. Results of that meeting will be posted on jax2025.org this week.
Downtown came up again and again.It could be that downtown has been in the news a lot lately — and over many years with numerous plans for its revitalization. Mayor Alvin Brown pushed through the creation of the Downtown Investment Authority to help shepherd downtown ideas into reality. Now, they have to pick an executive director and get moving. City Councilmember Don Redman has led an effort to remove tables and benches from Hemming Plaza to shoo away "undesirables." The historic Bostwick building can't seem to find a compromise that will save and restore it. A few high-profile crimes have taken place at The Jacksonville Landing in a ZIP code that is otherwise one of the city's safest.
A lot of residents attend the First Wednesday Art Walk downtown, but they don't return to the area until the following month's festival, citing the fear and discomfort created by panhandlers and the homeless. But there are also new bars, restaurants, businesses and events popping up, in addition to the long-standing favorites.
Many people in Jacksonville and surrounding communities don't see their connection to downtown. No doubt they are among the 19.1 percent who were neutral on the topic in the survey. But if you look at almost any successful big city, — the suburbs proudly identify themselves as part of that city and are drawn to it through arts, sports, shopping and community events. This is what downtown Jacksonville could be: the hub around which a greater metropolitan area revolves.
So many of the other issues measured in the survey are connected to creating a strong core:
Transportation and infrastructure: Sprawl creates traffic and the need to spend resources on more and more roads. Concentrating more people in a higher-density area creates a more pedestrian- and bike-friendly city.
Good-paying jobs and quality public education: Companies that pay well look for cities with a good quality of life that will attract high-quality, well-educated employees.
Environment, parks and open spaces: Downtown is defined by its greatest asset, the St. Johns River. The health of that river and public access to it will help drive downtown's success.
Strong, stable neighborhoods and the sense of community: Downtown should be a city's strongest neighborhood, reflecting the character and personality of the entire metro area. A vital downtown regularly draws people from the suburbs to work, shop, eat and celebrate, creating a greater sense of shared community.
Housing: More people living downtown create an environment for retail stores and restaurants to thrive. It gives downtown businesses a built-in workforce and helps ease traffic congestion. Now, the city needs to help spark development of the many empty historic buildings into apartments and condos.
Public safety: Some say they don't feel safe downtown. More streetlights, more activity and more people counteract that. There's not an overabundance of panhandlers and homeless people in the area; there's just so little activity on a regular basis that they tend to stick out.
JCCI has worked with several cities on visioning projects, including San Antonio a few years ago (sa2020.org). Now, that city is making a name for itself. It heads up the Milken Institute's 2011 Best Performing Cities index, has the second-largest bike-share program, was named a brain-gain city (sixth in the nation for in-migration of college-educated new residents with a bachelor's degree or higher), lowered teen pregnancy by 10 percent, went from being one of the fattest cities to one of the fittest, created "cafécollege" to help kids go to college and voted last November to add a quarter-cent sales tax to fund early childhood education.
"They identified what they wanted to become and aligned public policy and other goals to make it happen," Warner said. "That's within two years of announcing the plan. Even better things are on the horizon."
The JAX2025 results give us the opportunity to wrestle with our goals.
"Who are we, and who do we want to become?" Warner said. "We haven't seen that in any of the other communities, this conflicted community identity."
Downtown is the key to solving Jacksonville's identity crisis.
Recent legislative actions and Office of the General Council interpretations before the conclusion of this new JCCI Vision study could impact all of us as we tell the world that Downtown is a Destination and not a pass through. Specifically I'm referencing our St. Johns River our American Heritage River a Federal Initiative.
We are right now in the middle of our 2013 FIND grant cycle application process. Next meeting of the Jacksonville Waterways Commission is Feb. 13 open to the Public.
The OGC reference that I refer to was a mistake that was presented to the Jacksonville Waterways Commission meeting 1/28/13 that had to do with The Jim Love Berkman Dock Compromise. Legal representation by the city got it wrong. The Love Compromise has nothing to do with Shipyards.
Another active piece of legislation is 2013-51. Will this legislation have any impact on the 6 artificial reefs that are planned south of the Fuller Warren Bridge? I would hope not. Especially since the DIA is fully aware of the issue and now has money to move this benefit for Mayor Brown in making Downtown a Destination and not a pass through forward.
This new DIA with a 20 plus square mile Authority Zone will have tremendous power. The Vision is good if we all can see.
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A few Points about downtown:
They can't even build a parking garage for the Landing. How many years has it been?
The majority of citizens won't cross the river if their life depended on it.
Most people don't feel safe because they might run into people different then themselves.
There is no major attraction to draw people downtown unless it involves city business or a trip to the courthouse.
In the age of strip malls, parking kills any desire to go downtown. Most people if they can't pull right up to the door forego the stop all together.
Are they ever going to finish that apartment building across from the JSO?
Bums scare people.
Every media story about downtown is about how terrible it is.
We are not an urban culture. Never have been probably never will be.
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Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
The New American
November 14, 2012
"Why do the powerful cheat?" That is the headline of an article published by USA Todayreporting on the alleged extramarital affair carried on by CIA Director General David Petraeus that resulted in his resignation.
That is a sociologically interesting question regarding the lives of eminent men, but a more important question to the political life of our Republic is why powerful men such as Petraeus and his recently reelected boss cheat on their oaths of office to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.
Arguably, it was Petraeus' pursuit of a more overtly military role for the intelligence agency that will be his most devastating legacy.
As Robert Wright says in an Atlantic article:
When, in the fall of 2011, David Petraeus moved from commanding the Afghanistan war effort to commanding the CIA, it was a disturbingly natural transition. I say "natural" because the CIA conducts drone strikes in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region and is involved in other military operations there, so Petraeus, in his new role, was continuing to fight the Afghanistan war. I say "disturbingly" because this overlap of Pentagon and CIA missions is the result of a creeping militarization of the CIA that may be undermining America's national security.
This trend was clear during the Bush administration, but it accelerated under President Obama, who greatly expanded drone strikes, and it reached a kind of symbolic culmination when Obama nominated this four-star general to run things at Langley. That would have been the perfect time to reflect on the wisdom of the convergence of the CIA's and Pentagon's jobs. But, instead, the network of journalists, think tankers, public officials and others who constitute the foreign policy establishment preserved their nearly unblemished record of not focusing on the biggest questions.
An example of this acceleration of the CIA's role in military operations was provided in a Wired magazine report that 333 drone strikes have been carried out in Afghanistan this year. Notably, the lead on carrying out these attacks has been assumed by the CIA under Petraeus' watch. The Wired story reports:
"The difference between the Afghan operation and the operations in Pakistan and elsewhere come down to the fundamental differences between open military campaigns and covert campaigns run by the intelligence community. It shapes everything from the level of transparency to the command and control to the rules of engagements to the process and consequences if an air strike goes wrong," e-mails Peter W. Singer, who runs the Brookings Institution's 21st Century Defense Initiative. (Full disclosure: I have a non-resident fellowship there.) "This is why the military side has been far less controversial, and thus why many have pushed for it to play a greater role as the strikes slowly morphed from isolated, covert events into a regularized air war."
The military has 61 Predator and Reaper "combat air patrols," each with three or four robotic planes. The CIA's inventory is believed to be just a fraction of that: 30 to 35 drones total, although there is thought to be some overlap between the military and intelligence agency fleets. The Washington Post reported last month that the CIA is looking for another 10 drones as the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) become more and more central to the agency's worldwide counterterror campaign.
Increasing the CIA's arsenal of drones, as well as its approved theatre of operations, was a priority of Petraeus. As we reported last month, CIA Director and retired Gen. David Petraeus (a member of the internationalist Council on Foreign Relations) insisted that a beefed-up drone presence would help his agents keep up with the "threats in North Africa," a region the government insists is attracting al-Qaeda militants fleeing from the constant barrage of Hellfire missiles fired from drones patrolling the skies over Pakistan and Yemen.
It's not as if North Africa hasn't seen its share of drone sorties. On July 24, the Washington Post published an article describing the congestion of the skies over Somalia caused by drone traffic. The situation is so bad, says the Post, that there is a "danger to air traffic" in the area.
An additional problem posed by the proliferation of the unmanned aircraft above the east African nation is that their presence might be evidence of a violation of a 1992 United Nations Security Council arms embargo still in effect.
The article in the Post cites a UN report in which officials of the international body recount several instances where collisions between drones and commercial aircraft or objects on the ground were "narrowly averted." One such incident involved a drone and a passenger plane flying above Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
The authors of the report of the investigation did not directly implicate the United States. That said, the report indicated that "at least two of the unmanned aircraft appeared to be U.S.-manufactured and suggested that Washington has been less than forthcoming about its drone operations in Somalia."
According to the report, there have been 64 unauthorized drone deployments, fighter jet missions, or attack helicopter flights recorded in Somalia since June 2011. At least 10 of the documented flights involved drones.
While the U.S. military keeps mum about its use of drones around the world, it is known that drones are deployed and launched from American military bases in Djibouti, the Seychelles, and Ethiopia. In fact, in a statement released in June, the Obama administration admitted that it "is engaged in a robust range of operations to target Al-Qaeda and associated forces, including in Somalia." In 2011, the military acknowledged that as part of that operation a drone strike was launched against two suspected leaders of al-Shabaab, an alleged al-Qaeda affiliate based in Somalia. Again, the use of these drones and the firing of missiles at militants seemingly violates the 1992 embargo, as drones carrying Hellfire missiles are inarguably deployed for uses that are "exclusively military," in direct contravention of the terms of the embargo.
Ultimately, the decision of whether to ship additional drones to the CIA will be made by "a group led by President Obama's counterterrorism adviser, John O. Brennan," according to officials cited in the Washington Post article. In other words, more powerful men who will commit to violating their vows to uphold the Constitution.
This group is reportedly the same powerful cabal that decides which names get added to the president's infamous "kill list" and how soon those targets are erased from the list by way of a presidential order of summary execution. No charges. No trial. No problem.
Again, from Robert Wright,
The circumstances of Petraeus's departure from the CIA are a little alarming; you'd rather your chief spy not be reckless. But the circumstances of his arrival at the CIA a year ago were more troubling. Yet no alarm was sounded that was anywhere near as loud as the hubbub surrounding Petraeus now. That's scandalous.
While the fallout from General Petraeus' supposedly sordid personal life and his alleged failure to remain faithful to his wife will occupy the time and ink of the mainstream media, there should be greater interest on the infidelity of so many powerful men who have succumbed to the siren call of unrestrained power and have abandoned their commitment to due process, the rule of law, and constitutional limits on authority.
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It's the last week of new comic releases of the year (Well, kind of, but I'll get to that later), so it's a good thing that tomorrow's haul at your local comic store is full of comfort and joy. Almost.
Okay, the majority of tomorrow's big new books may not be the most jolly holiday of reads, but there's a lot of great stuff to pick up.
Diving straight into Marvel Comics' deluge of product, you can catch up with the mondo depresso Dark Reign storyline with the following collections - Dark Reign: The Hood, Dark Reign: The Sinister Spider-Man, Dark Reign: Skrull Kill Krew, Dark Reign: Young Avengers and the very, very recommended Agents of Atlas: Dark Reign (Seriously, people: Gorilla Man? Marvel Boy? Venus? What about that doesn't sound appealing?).
You can also pick up a couple of single issues from the current Marvel status quo, Fall of The Hulks: Gamma and Captain America: Who Will Wield The Shield which, amusingly, is the follow-up to the Captain America Reborn series that finishes... next month. Hurrah for scheduling!
(Marvel also has a new Halo comic book, Halo: Blood Line, a hardcover version of the recent Marvel Zombies Return series, and a collection of stories from writer Brian Michael Bendis' first decade at the publisher: Brian Michael Bendis: 10 Years At Marvel, coming out. Told you it was a deluge.)
Over at DC, it's a much quieter week, albeit with a new Blackest Night tie-in launching (Blackest Night: JSA). There's a collection of the first half of superhero fantasy The Mighty, and also one of the kids' title Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures In The Eighth Grade that would make a pretty good gift for small kids with big imaginations.
Also suitable as stocking stuffers are Dark Horse's two one-shots of the week, Hellboy: Bride of Hell and the Joss Whedon-written Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Willow.
Keeping in a Whedon mood, IDW offers the Angel Annual (telling the story of the movie version of LA's time in Hell, which promises to be amusing), as well as the weather-appropriate fantasy genre Winterworld hardcover. Finishing up, there's a new Wall-E comic from Boom! Studios - which looks really fun, based on previews - and a new collection of the classic Judge Dredd spin-off, Judge Anderson: Psi-Files, from Rebellion.
If you're looking for something very unfestive to get your year finished right, however, there's one book that's definitely what you're looking for: The Last Days Of American Crime, which mixes crime noir, mind control and heist stories all together for something murky, slightly paranoid and altogether wonderful. Book of the week, easily.
Make sure you get to your local comic store tomorrow having seen this list and checked it twice to find out what's naughty and nice, because this is the last shipping week for new comics this year. Next Wednesday, there are (a few) new releases, but this is the last official week. Go with open wallet and heavy heart. Ho ho ho.


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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie predicted on NBC's Meet the Press that Republican nominee Mitt Romney will change the dynamic of the presidential race in Wednesday's debate with President Barack Obama.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and White House adviser David Plouffe visit Meet the Press to evaluate the current state of the 2012 race and make their candidates' cases.
"On Wednesday night Mitt Romney is going to be standing on the same stage as the president of the United States. And I am telling you David, come Thursday morning the entire narrative of this race is going to change," Christie told NBC's David Gregory.
Asked whether it was too late for Romney to reverse polling numbers which show him behind Obama in battleground states such as New Hampshire, Nevada and Ohio, Christie contended that "the general public that I speak to in New Jersey and elsewhere are just beginning to really tune in to this race."
"Wednesday night is the restart of this campaign," Christie argued. "I think you're going to see those (polling) numbers move right back in the other direction" as a result of the debate.
Christie criticized Obama for "just trying to run out the clock, he desperately wants to run out the clock with platitudes" as the days dwindle down to Election Day, Nov. 6.
On the campaign trail, Obama enjoys a percentage point bump and practice with debate partner John Kerry. Meanwhile, Ann Romney worries about her husband's "mental wellbeing" if he is elected. NBC's Kristen Welker reports.
"The president's happy talk for the next 36 days is not going to anesthetize the American people," the New Jersey Republican said.
Christie also skewered Obama for failing to be specific as to how he would fulfill his promises of creating one million new manufacturing jobs and reducing the national debt by $4 trillion. And, he said, "We're still waiting to hear what he thinks about (the) Simpson-Bowles (fiscal commission report) which he commissioned."
Christie, whom some Republicans wanted to run for the presidential nomination, gave the keynote address at the Republican convention and may be a leading contender for the 2016 nomination if Romney loses on Nov. 6.
Romney is increasingly behind in the national public polls, which means the Republican GOP candidate must focus on succeeding at the first presidential debate in order to rally his troops. NBC's Chuck Todd provides analysis.
Following Christie, Obama adviser David Plouffe said Romney and his aides "expect to come out of this (debate) with the race fundamentally changed. What does that mean? If it's going to fundamentally change, that means seven or 10 days from now, you'll see states like Ohio tied, states like Iowa tied, because that's what really matters here, so they set the bar quite high" for Romney's performance on Wednesday night in his confrontation with Obama.
Plouffe claimed that Romney had prepared for the Wednesday night debate "more than any candidate in history."
He suggested that news media bias might favor Romney, telling Gregory, "We know the news media is anxious to write the Romney recovery and comeback story."
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Plouffe also said, "It's important to understand: the election is happening right now. People started voting in Iowa this week. They will in Ohio next week. People are requesting absentee ballots. We like what we're seeing in those numbers."
The Obama adviser addressed the administration's handling of the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which resulted in the killing of U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and other American diplomatic personnel.
Plouffe said it was "preposterous" for Romney to charge that Obama had failed to be candid with the American people about what happened in Libya and about the continuing danger of al Qaida attacks.
On Sept. 16 on Meet the Press, U.S. envoy to the United Nations Susan Rice called the attack "initially a spontaneous reaction" to an attack on the American embassy in Cairo and to a video which mocked Islam and its prophet Muhammad.
But the Obama administration has changed its tune, with spokesmen saying in recent days that the attack was an attack of terrorism.
"Obviously you're going to know more two weeks after an event than a week after an event," said Plouffe, explaining the administration's change of explanation. "The reason obviously we now have stipulated that this is a terrorist attack is that (information) came from the intelligence agencies."
"The important thing that the American people want to understand is: are we taking the right steps to secure our personnel, our ambassadors?" – and that issue is what the Obama administration is focused on, Plouffe said.
Addressing the Libya attack, Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan said on Fox News Sunday, "If this was one tragic incident, that would be a tragedy in and of itself. The problem is: it's part of a bigger picture of the fact that the Obama foreign policy is unraveling literally before our eyes on our TV screens."
Ryan also commented on the news media, saying, "I think most people in the mainstream media are left of center and therefore, they want a very left of center president versus a conservative president like Mitt Romney."


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Romantic drama stars Kevin Sorbo, Haley Webb, Carlos Ponce and Tinsel Korey.
Arrow Entertainment will handle worldwide sales on Alejandro Itkin & Hunter Carson's Single in South Beach.
The romantic drama, which stars Kevin Sorbo, Haley Webb, Carlos Ponce and Tinsel Korey, tells the story of Amy (Webb) who confuses love with money and becomes a victim of the materialistic nature of Miami's South Beach.
Steve Arroyave, CEO of Arrow Entertainment, and Itkin of South Beach Productions negotiated the deal.
Melissa Hirschensen, agent from Innovative Artists, commented: "We are proud of having packaged Single in South Beach. Haley Webb wonderfully carries the film in an amazingly difficult role and Kevin Sorbo is as solid as always. Innovative couldn't be more pleased with their actors' performance."


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Garmin run missing GPS data and showing as treadmill
for the last week all my runs when uploaded from garmin to strava appear as treadmill instead of outdoor run so maps and moving time not shown. On garmin it is correct. What can i do?
for the last week all my runs when uploaded from garmin to strava appear as treadmill instead of outdoor run so maps and moving time not shown. On garmin it is correct. What can i do?
We are tracking an issue where some Garmin Forerunner devices are not recording GPS data, so that the map is missing from Strava. Unfortunately, Strava cannot fix these activities as the problem occurs in the original recording.
We've heard that the problem is fixed by turning the Forerunner watch off completely, then back on again.
This just happened to me today, as well. Very frustrating.
I need help with this as well. I'm having the exact same issue. On Garmin all my runs are fine, but when they sync to strava they're being tagged as treadmill meaning I get no map and some other data.
Having the same problem...
I'm having the same issue!! Did you figure out a solution? Any help appreciated!
Having the same problem. Looked at all my watch settings and everything is normal. No solutions yet.
Same here and it's adding 2 minutes to my overall time. I have deleted the strava and garmin connect app and uploaded again and rebooted my watch and phone and nothing is working!
Same here and it's adding 2 minutes to my overall time. I have deleted the strava and garmin connect app and uploaded again and rebooted my watch and phone and nothing is working!
Okay so I guess I accidentially clicked the treadmill tag and it saves it for every run. I unclicked the tag and now my maps are back to normal. If this doesn't help, try plugging in your watch and syncing to the computer with the treadmill tag unclicked! I hope this helps!!
Same with me - all of this week - pse help
FIX: I "reset to default" on my watch and my latest run has map data. Not sure if it was what I did or something that changed on Strava, but it appears to be resolved for me. Hope that works for others.
i have the same issue . the last four runs all being tagged as treadmill ,no settings have changed on my side distance and time correct even showing elevation . very frustrating .v at least its not me . hopefully strava support will see this thread and look at the issue
( im a premium member so its nothing to do with free version )
Ive just had same issue for 2 runs today - both long and outside but Strava shows as treadmill with no map or elevation - I use a Fenix 3 and no problems previously
Olin - where did you find the 'reset to default' option on your garmin?
I'm having this problem. Has anyone found a fix without resetting the defaults? I have the Garmin 235
Same issue. I unclicked the treadmill tag for the run but it still does not show the map. Any help appreciated.
thanks for the above .....ive just done that we will see for the next run
I reset to default and redid settings then switched off and back on while outside .... So far so good. Underwhelmed with responses from Garmin and Strava
Is there a solution or workaround to this issue?
Same here, Fenix 3 (latest Garmin firmware), started a week ago approximately.No map and no elevation data in Strava, no map also in Garmin Connect, looks like an issue on Garmin side. Reset to the defaults, tested with short walk, the missing maps/elevation data is back to both Connect and Strava.
Exactly the same had been happening to me all week. Can't seem to fix it!
same issue, for the third time...
"reset to default" didn't help
any idea how to resolve ?
I switched my 235 off and on without performing a full reset and that seemed to work. I also hooked it up to my laptop for the first sync - don't know if that made any difference but it's working now. All runs completed during the problem are still showing as TM workouts so it seems as if the GPS was not functioning at all and no data was collected.
I don't recall updating any software after my last correctly recorded run (Chicago marathon, 9 Oct) and the first run where GPS did not work (12 Oct) so interested to know what happened?
Same issue here with a Fenix 3 HR
I think something from Garmin is the problem. i don't show map data on connect, and i don't show map on my fenix 3. I turned the device off then on, did a walk around the office, seems to show the map now. i know i killed that segment and would be KOM, lol
Same here, Fenix 3 sw ver.7.60. Garmin App shows all usual data including map data so GPS is fine. Only when syncing to Strava does the map disappear completely so in my opinion a Strava issue. I only sync via iPhone not cable. In addition I've noticed since the map issue that the App is slower opening workouts (up to 20 seconds).
Another victim with the same problem i'm afraid . Last 3 runs have uploaded from my Fenix 3 to Garmin Connect and Strava as treadmill runs. Can't seem to see a solution anywhere on Garmin Forum . Has anyone else found one yet ?
I have the same problem with my Garmin Fenix 3, and today somehow the battery drained from 50% to 0 in less then an hour.
Same issue with Fenix for last couple of runs
I had this problem a few days back. i turned off my fenix 3 then back on, seems to work fine since doing so. I think it was my device software problem somehow. Also the device just updated 11/6. did not show a problem in either. i would suggest you turn off device and restart. I'm not tech though.
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"You, Better! with Ceslie Armstrong" Day 3 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week
Host Ceslie Armstrong broadcasts from Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Fashion's new home: Lincoln Center in New York City for Spring/Summer 2011 season. "Runway Wrap" with Kithe Brewster featuring designers Fiona Cibani of Ports 1961, Rubin Chapelle, Edition Georges Chakra. "Ceslie's Pick" features "Fashion's Night Out" at Domenico Vacca, Stewart Weitzman, and Ceslie hosts the opening of Sky Room. Interview and tips with celebrity hair stylist Anthony Dickey of Hair Rules. Ceslie interviews Project Runway's Tim Gunn.


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There's been a lot of flack thrown Maroon 5's way for writing a song about a payphones. In the age of cell phones, they're an outdated concept and among germaphobes there's nothing nostalgic about having to use a public payphone. But when the guys explained that they had used payphones in Europe, because cell service was too expensive, it all started to make sense.
Maybe some practicality about payphones in Europe survives because Ellie Goulding confessed to 97.1 AMP/Los Angeles that she's been known to use them in a pinch as well.
"Times have changed," Goulding said, recalling her start-up days as a songwriter. "It could go back to it again, but I remember having to call up, from a payphone, the person's house I was going to to work in the studio."
"My phone had been blocked because I couldn't pay the phone bill and I had to get the person from the studio to send the car to pick me up. There were some interesting times when I was really first getting started," Goulding said. "I think that's why I appreciate everything so much now."
It's doubtful that Goulding has to use a payphone because she can't afford her mobile these days, but London red telephone boxes are still a popular tourist attraction. They've been a fixture in the city since 1926. In fact, the original red box telephone is on view by the public at Britian's Royal Academy. In the last decade they've fallen into disuse in the light of new technology and been repurposed as art exhibitions, sold to private citizens who want to own their own red box and turned into mobile phone transmitters.
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As for Goulding, she's released snippets from her forthcoming album Halcyon, the follow up to 2010's Lights. Get a sneak preview.
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Strong and sturdy, the Bed Frame comes with a durable plywood slated base, reinforced angled brackets for long term support, stylish headboard, heavy-duty steel fixings and smooth edges all round. Finished in a non-toxic, eco-friendly white paint, the neutral-coloured Bed Frame makes for easy décor coordination with any bedroom.
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LAFAYETTE, La. (KPEL) -- The LSU AgCenter has provided a number of resources for residents affected by flooding. The information provided on their website has tips on what to do when water enters your home, water well restoration, how to stay healthy, and much more.
Though the information on their website is meant to be a general resource for those affected by flooding, it surely could be of help to those needing it during today's rain event.
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Packed with coral reefs, abundant tropical fish and an assortment of World War II wrecks, there is something for every diver in the Red Sea. Yet if you go to many of the popular offshore sites you can find them swamped with dive boats, while below water there can often be more divers than fish. Thankfully, there's far more to the Red Sea than Hurghada and Sharm El-Sheikh. Join a dive and camel-trekking trip organized by Sinai-based Embah Safari and you'll be taken to some of the less well-known areas along the coast, such as the Nabq Managed Resource Protected Area, which has excellent diving and can easily be reached from the shore.
At the small coastal village of Dahab you spend the first day getting back into the swing of diving; an easy shore dive to Eel Gardens and then a more technical dive to the Blue Hole. After that you'll head to Ras Mohammed National Park – Egypt's only national park, which hosts Napolean wrasse, butterfly fish and turtles. Early the following morning, the real dive safari begins: you pack your belongings onto a camel and trek north for four days along the coast of Nabq towards Dahab, camping overnight with Bedouin in the desert. You'll dive two to three times a day at various rarely visited locations – including reef tables and walls, mangroves and seagrass beds – under the experienced eye of local dive masters. Along the way you're likely to see rays, sea horses and a huge variety of coral and brilliantly coloured fish. But best of all, there will hardly be another dive boat in sight.
Dahab is close to Sharm El-Sheikh (1hr) and Taba (2hr). Taxi transfers can be arranged when you book. For itineraries, prices and reservations see www.embah.com; +20 69 3641 690. Tours can also be booked through UK-based Baobab Travel (www.baobabtravel.com; +44 (0) 121 314 6011). Because of the desert trekking, it's best to avoid July and August. Group sizes are limited to twelve divers maximum and no more than six divers can be in the water at the same time. You will also undergo proper buoyancy checks to avoid overweighted divers damaging the reefs.
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