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Seven things you can only get away with wearing as a student
As students we like to think we've got our lives 'sorted'; we pretend to have direction, and we tell our parents that we make a home-cooked meal every night for dinner. However, the reality is that somewhere along the line, we'll probably crawl into foetal position, admit defeat and carry out our uni days wondering what it's really like to be a real life adult.
If Miranda Priestly from The Devil Wears Prada walked on to any Aussie uni campus, she'd be utterly disappointed with our lame attempt at fashun. More than likely, she'd tell all of us: "You have no style or sense of fashion."
But, if you're unsure about wearing something on campus this semester, look no further than our guide to what you can get away with wearing while your uni days last.
Dirty AKA "aired" clothes
In other words, "I'm saving the environment, Mum." Generally, washing is not one of our priorities and what's the difference between washing detergent and the breeze from nature anyway?
Both of them seem to do the same job when it comes to 'cleaning' our clothes. Besides, learning how to use a washing machine is totally for our post-grad bucket list, right?
And we're not just talking about wearing onesies for a fundraiser. Lately, it seems to be a staple item in the wardrobe of many students. What's even better is that hardly anyone seems to look twice when someone struts into a tute sporting a cow onesie equipped with utters. Ah, student life!
Pyjamas seem to become more common as exams loom closer. Usually your fellow peers will try to be subtle, denying that their oversized hoodie is in fact covering a flannelette pyjama top that they haven't washed (see point one) in weeks. But hey guys, we're stressed out students, so this is totally acceptable. As long as you wear deodorant, that is.
These beauties were invented for ease of shoe selection when you're running two minutes late for the bus. Yes, we know that slipping into these bad boys is so easy, but one piece of advice: buy a semi-sturdy brand, because we all know someone who's broken a thong at uni only to then use duct tape to fix them so they can carry out the day.
For those going on exchange, please remember to call them 'flip flops' otherwise we could be in all sorts of strife.
Birkenstocks and socks
Desperate times call for desperate measures. You're stressed out to your eyeballs with countless essays, group assignments and exam prep so all you want to do is get to uni and put your brain to work.
To make matters worse, it's winter and you can't find any of your closed-in shoes and your Birkenstocks seem to be staring right at you… Something tells me this won't cut it when you land that ultimate office job!
Clashing prints
Although this makes me cringe, as a student it seems like we can get away with wearing leopard print pants and a stripy top. Theoretically, this could make anyone with an interest fashion break out in hot sweats. That said, if executed with confidence, it'll work!
Slogan t-shirts
The amount of 'yolo' and 'I woke up like this' t-shirts flying around campus is endless, but that's totally acceptable because (for us students anyway) there's a lot of truth in said slogans.
Also, I don't care what people say - jeans and athleisure trainers have actually become a thing. In fact, the right trainer and correct cut of jeans can leave a student looking like a fashion King or Queen.
So make sure you commit fashion sins as a student while you still can. As soon as we land amazing grad jobs, that's when we'll need to dress all profesh.
Ailish Parr
Ailish is never happy just sitting still and has a secret love for #qanda. She is studying a double degree at the University of Queensland but always makes time for coffee and socialising.


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Wrinkles, those deep lines and creases that stubbornly set in overtime may not be entirely preventable, but that doesn't mean that you can't take some anti-aging measures to keep their development at bay. While it's true that practically everyone will develop at least a few wrinkles at some point in their life, there are some factors can accelerate their development. That being said, there also some things that you can do to ward off wrinkles and fine lines. Preserve your beautiful skin and delay the development or worsening of existing fine lines and wrinkles by practicing these anti-aging skin care tips every day.
Ward off wrinkles skin care tip #1: Wear SPF with broad spectrum protection every day. One main contributing factor to skin aging and wrinkle development is sun exposure. UVA and UVB rays can wear down some skin plumping proteins and fibers. Continued, unprotected exposure to the sun will leave your skin more vulnerable to the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles – not to mention sun spots and sagging skin too. So, look for a sunscreen, day cream or other skin care product that is formulated with SPF broad spectrum protection so that you can better defend your skin against fine lines and wrinkles on a daily basis.
Ward off wrinkles skin care tip #2: Keep your skin moisturized. Dry skin is more likely to show fine lines and wrinkles compared to hydrated skin. Moisturizing your skin with anti-aging skin care products can also possibly slow down the development of fine lines and wrinkles. Consider layering hydrating skin care products; first apply a serum and then your day or night cream. If you are prone to dry skin, you may also want to consider applying facial oil, either as a first moisturizing step to surge skin with moisture or as a final step to lock in added moisture.
Ward off wrinkles skin care tip #3: Always remove makeup before bed. A simple step that may be skipped too often, removing makeup before turning in can be crucial for preserving your skin's integrity. This basic skin care step can appropriately prep and clean your skin of dirt and makeup residue that can clog your pores and contribute to dull, dry looking skin. Applying an anti-aging moisturizer to skin that is covered in makeup won't properly hydrate as well as skin that is fresh and clean. Find a non-drying makeup remover method to better ensure your skin is set up to look and feel its best.
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"Modern Mallard says that avoiding closure can lead to molting, and I'm already small and on top of that I don't think I can handle being bald!"
It always seems like whenever a movie is made for the sake of something other than the story, it never fails to disappoint. For example, is there any doubt in anyone's minds that the Star Wars prequels were little more than special visual effects portfolio pieces for Industrial Light and Magic? If you need proof, just listen to the commentaries or watch the behind the scenes stuff and take note of how often the story is talked about in comparison to the effects and production.
I had this in mind as I sat down to watch Disney's Chicken Little. This was the first major effort by Disney to produce a CGI animated movie solo instead of in conjunction with their long time associate Pixar. Because of this, I couldn't help but compare it to the Pixar productions as I watched it and by the end I decided it was more a showcase of their CGI animation capabilities than a movie they decided to make because the story was worthy.
But why? It had all of the cool, trendy CGI graphics and animation. What I found it lacking was heart and a well thought out story. From the trailers, one would believe that it's all about an alien invasion, but I thought that it took too long to set up that situation and then when we finally do see the aliens, they're gone before you know it.
The story is basically this: a little misfit chicken, named Chicken Little (shocker), is ostracized by the town he lives in because of his seemingly false claim that the sky was falling which sent the town into frenzy. In his efforts to prove him self to the town he finds that what he wants most is to prove himself to his father.
That alone sounded great to me. I really had high hopes that I'd be surprised by this movie and find that it was actually a touching father/son relationship flick. The problem is they just let it hang. It seemed like towards then end that they must have written in the script, "comedic alien invasion," and let the gags fly. When it came to resolving the father/son conflict, there was no real bonding between father and son, but it was just that the dad turned into a pushover wanting to cater to every whim of his son's. To me, that was unsatisfying.
But did I hate it? No. Much of it was very funny! As a comedy it worked well. I liked the premise, it just seemed like it was made up of parts of 4 different movies and it could have been great if it had just focused on one. I also like movies that are funny, but end up making us feel good about ourselves and the experience we had, it seemed like Disney was just in it for the laughs in this one.
I wish they could have focused more on one of the included plots to make this movie a bit more cohesive. Let's see, is it a story about a misfit kid and the heartache of feeling that the whole world is against you? Is it about an ingenious kid whose incredible dexterity and ability to improvise saves the town? Is it about a father who doesn't know how to identify to his son because he's not as coordinated or athletic as he (his father) used to be? (A point that doesn't jive with some of the stunts we see Chicken Little pull off throughout the movie) Is it about an alien child who accidentally gets abandoned on earth and has to be rescued by local kids and given back to the alien parents before interstellar war breaks out? (Hmm, sounds like E.T.) Any of these stories would have been fun to explore with the others becoming sub plots, but there's really no clear main story for the movie.
But my kids enjoyed it. And I didn't find anything in it that was offensive, except for the obligatory burp humor to make kids giggle. If I had to compare it to another movie, I would say it's a lot like Dreamwork's Madagascar—big on laughs, but only so-so on heart.


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Business competition has taken on a new meaning in Gainesville with a number of competitive events that pit business ideas against others, from the Startup Quest entrepreneurship training program's team competition, the University of Florida's Big Idea Gator Business Plan Competition for students and the Startup Weekend events.
Two such events are coming up Thursday with the 6th annual Gainesville Area Innovation Network FastPitch Contest and the Empowering Women in Technology Startups investor pitch competition.
The GAIN FastPitch event, which is open to the public, features 10 growing companies pitching their ideas to a team of business advisors and investors.
Competitors this year include companies with 911 assistance devices, personal growth courses, advanced marketing solutions, pool decking materials, and a coconut opener, according to a news release from GAIN.
Once judges select three finalists, the audience will vote on the winner.
The event starts at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Gainesville Country Club. Tickets, which are $10 for GAIN stakeholders and $15 for the general public, are available through Eventbrite.
Empowering Women in Technology Startups is an eight-week training program in which women learn how to start a technology company, with teams forming a business plan around a UF research invention. The session ends Thursday with teams making pitches to a panel of women investors.
UF Innovation Hub Director Jane Muir started the program in 2012 to prepare women for leadership roles in tech companies that have traditionally been dominated by men.


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It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => Military News/Veterans => Topic started by: Libertas on April 18, 2016, 07:20:14 AM
Team Obama's Nuclear Strategy-Combination of failure, incompetence and insanity!
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April 18, 2016, 07:20:14 AM
NYSlimes product, so take with some skepticism, still, saying stuff like this about Duh Wun, that has to be hard, not that these presstitutes are any less the true-believers and eager stooges of the next Prog coming down the pike...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/science/atom-bomb-nuclear-weapons-hgv-arms-race-russia-china.html?_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/science/atom-bomb-nuclear-weapons-hgv-arms-race-russia-china.html?_r=0)
For a president who came to office more than seven years ago talking about eventually ridding the world of nuclear weapons, it was an admission that an American policy intended to reduce the centrality of atomic arms might contribute to a second nuclear age.
Moscow is fielding big missiles topped by miniaturized warheads, and experts fear that it may violate the global test ban as it develops new weapons.
The Chinese military, under the tighter control of President Xi Jinping, is flight-testing a novel warhead called a "hypersonic glide vehicle." It flies into space on a traditional long-range missile but then maneuvers through the atmosphere, twisting and careening at more than a mile a second.
The Obama administration is hardly in a position to complain. It is flight-testing its own hypersonic weapon, but an experiment in 2014 ended in a spectacular fireball. Flight tests are set to resume next year. As part of the modernization process, it is also planning five classes of improved nuclear arms and associated delivery vehicles that, as a family, are shifting the American arsenal in the direction of small, stealthy and precise.
Now, the concern is that the precision and less-destructive nature of these new weapons raises the temptation to use them.
A key question that Mr. Obama addressed is whether America's planned upgrades are helping drive this competition. Or are Russia and China simply using the American push as an excuse to perfect weapons they would build anyway?
Moscow and Beijing, analysts say, are testing space weapons that could knock out American military satellites at the beginning of a nuclear war. In response, Washington is launching space observation satellites meant to deter and help defeat such attacks.
That year, Mr. Obama offered another olive branch: He ordered the American military to reduce the number of warheads atop its land-based missiles to one, from as many as three. That was a signal to show the missiles were more about defense than offense.
Moscow did not reciprocate. Instead, with treaty ink barely dry, it began deploying a new generation of long-range missiles that bore four miniaturized warheads. It continues such actions today, even while adhering to overall treaty limits.
The administration is also developing a hypersonic warhead that would zoom ahead of Beijing's rush to perfect its own. The American version would be nonnuclear: The goal is a weapon so fast and precise that it relies on the raw force of impact to destroy a fixed target, such as a missile silo.
While that fulfills the president's commitment to rely less on atomic weapons, it may prompt adversaries who cannot match the technology to depend more on nuclear arms.
Mr. Perry, the former defense secretary, argued that the diminished nuclear arms and the nonnuclear weapons that Mr. Obama is developing could make the unthinkable more likely.
"They make the weapons seem more usable," he said, "even if there's no credible plan for how you control escalation."
No major nuclear power is more threatened by the American advances than China, analysts say. A pre-emptive strike, they note, might easily do in its relatively small arsenal.
Critics see the "launch on warning" tactic as greatly increasing the risk of accidental war. In the past, they note, false alerts have repeatedly brought the world to the brink of disaster.
Last year, the Chinese military declared in an official document that the nation seeks to "improve strategic early warning" for its nuclear forces.
Early this year, the Union of Concerned Scientists, a private group in Cambridge, Mass., that backs arms control, published a report on the intensifying launch-on-warning debate. It said the Obama administration's arms modernizations "are the most prominent external factor influencing Chinese advocates."
So, Obama is both hero and villian, eh? Wow, it takes some kind special moron to keep playing for Team Stupid, eh?
There is so much irony mixed liberally with usual moonbat leftist kum-bay-ya hippie BS it isn't worth itemizing it all.
Bottom line - Obama exemplifies once again why he is the most destructive force ever inflicted upon America and the world...to date. He caves, others seize. He pouts, others mock. He projects nothing but weakness and in so doing that is the real danger to everybody, it makes a mistake more likely, not less.
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Friday, April 13, 2012
WindowsSecurity (Ransom Trojan) - 04.13.2012 - Analysis and Removal
Creates this registry value:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell
points to the malicious that was run.
Creates a bad value under this key:
Look for a value similar to: "S112106111" which points to the malicious file that was run.
Main objective is to delete the one malicious file you ran. For example I ran a file from my desktop called be65d.exe. I would need to delete this file before I am able to get into Windows again.
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WSJ Market Wrap: Jan. 23, 2015
U.S. stocks fell Friday, giving up some ground after four sessions of gains that lifted the S&P 500 to its highest close of the year. Photo: Getty.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... U S stocks fell Friday giving up some ground after four sessions of gains that lifted the Essen P five hundred to its highest close of the year ... the pullback comes a day after markets cheered the European Central Bank's announcement that it would buy ... sixty eight billion dollars worth of bonds them up in an effort to pull inflation rates back up to its target ... let's take a look at where the markets ended today ... I ... the Dow closed down one hundred and forty one points at seventeen thousand six hundred and seventy three or just under one percent while the Nasdaq was up seven point settling at forty seven fifty eight and the Essen P cools down nearly twelve points ... at twenty fifty two ... shares of ups close down about ten percent after higher than expected expenses dragged on its fourth-quarter earnings ... meanwhile Starbucks reporting stronger traffic and sales in the holiday quarter sending its shares to all-time highs ... the coffee chain closed up around seven percent ... and that cured obviously market wrap you can read more on WS J dot com slashed markets ...


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Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Insurer, Mansard insurance Plc said on Monday it has completed the acquisition of a 60 percent stake of Penman Pensions Limited, according to the company in a notice to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).
Mansard says the acquisition extends its subsidiaries to four (4), having already made significant inroads into Asset Management, Health Insurance and Property segments through its wholly owned subsidiaries (Mansard Investments Limited and Mansard Health Limited) as well as its majority holding in the property joint ventures, APD Ltd.
In the same vein, Mansard announced the listing of 500,000,000 ordinary shares of 50 kobo each to the Daily Official List (DOL) of the Nigerian bourse arising from the company's Share Option Plan approved in 2014 for employees of the company.
"By this action, the total outstanding shares of the company are 10,500,000,000 units," Mansard affirmed.


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In my early months of trying to conceive, I'd get discouraged and maybe a little down from time to time. However, after trying to get pregnant for two years and after having two failed IVF's (my own version of the "terrible two's"), I can't help but think, "Wow. This REALLY is bordering on a total disaster, huh?" And when you have no reason for the lack of success, no diagnosis and no explanation, the road ahead isn't just a little bumpy. It's long, poorly lit, laden with pot holes and utterly endless.
I did see my doctor for the infamous "What The F*ck Appointment" and the only explanation he could give with regards to our recent IVF is that we just had bad luck. If they had ten couples at the clinic that day, one of the couples would have to get screwed statistically and it would seem that couple is us. I guess we took one for the infertile team that day. You're welcome nine lucky couples. Now, can you loan us $5000?
Frankly, it always seems like we're the doomed ones. My husband and I seem to be exceptional… but in an unlucky way. We had an unusually horrible rain storm on our wedding day (despite the fact that it hadn't rained on our wedding date for the previous 30 years), our first doctor missed a uterine polyp that was practically giving him the finger in all of my sonograms, our insurance company broke up with us, our house got hit by lightning last year and we can't get pregnant despite the fact that both of us are healthy. I know that things could always be worse and in the grand scheme of things, nothing TOO horrible has happened. I am grateful for that. Besides, if you ask my husband who is way more of an optimist than I, he points out that our wedding day was the greatest day of his life, that the uterine polyp had his own fan club (Yay Jackson Polyp!), and we would have never discovered the wonderful world of Blu-Ray or High Definition television if it weren't for the lightning frying our antiquated electronics. However, I still can't help but feel like we're the equivalent of a negative miracle.
Despite the many setbacks and despite my suspicion that we are cursed, I am committed to forge ahead with some level of enthusiasm. One thing making it a smidge difficult for me is I sense that some of my friends are beginning to get bored with our efforts or they feel we should simply move on. As a fan of the shows 48 HOURS and DATELINE, I've seen many an interview with a mother, father or couple whose child has been missing for years and people tell them, "Look, it's been 10 years. You're not going to find them so you should get on with your lives." The parents of these missing children never take too kindly to this suggestion and rightfully so. They want to know where their child is. They need their child back… or at the very least, some answers as to what happened to him or her. And that's how I feel whenever someone says, "Maybe having kids just isn't in the cards for you." It's like they are telling me to stop looking for my missing child.
Is that overdramatic? Well, probably yes, but I'm still a bit hormonal (thanks progesterone!) and that's how it feels. It especially stings when friends who have children tell me that perhaps I should consider doing other things with my life. That's pretty easy for them to say, isn't it? It reminds me of the scene in THE AVIATOR where Katherine Hepburn's mother says to Howard Hughes, "We don't care about money here Mr. Hughes." And he responds with, "That's because you have it."
Of course I know that people are always well-intentioned. I also don't mean to imply that if you have children, you never have anything helpful to say or that you can't be supportive. I have quite a few people in my life who are parents and who have never experienced fertility issues that have been beyond loving and comforting. It's just when anyone tells me, whether they themselves are parents or not, that maybe it's time to give up, that I can't help but want to tap dance on their windpipe.
The other night, I was out to dinner at a family restaurant. I was looking around the room and studying all the people with kids or babies thinking about all the things I may never know. What it's like to see a positive pregnancy test. The pride you feel when you tell people you're expecting. The joy of feeling your baby kick for the first time. Having a baby shower. Getting a nursery ready. Giving birth. Sending out baby announcements. The first year of being a mom. Their first word. When they go off to kindergarten. And so on and so on. Even though I was sitting at a table inside the restaurant, I might as well have been outside on the street looking in through the window at all the families. That's how separate I felt from the experience. It was a happy family restaurant filled with happy fertile families. Pathetic, unlucky infertiles aren't allowed. Hmmmm. Come to think of it... I wonder if they should have an infertile section at restaurants? That's not a bad idea.
The one comfort in all this is thanks to my mystery fertility issues, I may also never get to know what it's like to have your 14 year old daughter come home with a new piercing and a 20 year old boyfriend… so that's something.
All in all, I'm not ready to give up. More importantly, as bad as our luck has been, we have never been told that's its impossible. As I said in my last blog entry, until someone says that we can never have children or until I'm dead, I'm going to do my best to have a family one way or another.
At this moment, the plan is to go ahead with IVF #3. The doctor says we could start again as early as next month but we're thinking we may wait another month or so to get all our infertile ducks in a row. I'm back on Weight Watchers, we're putting as much money as we can into our savings account and we're looking into getting yet another opinion (just to be safe). I don't know if this is going to go on another two years, if we'll have another two IVF's or if we will ever have the happy ending we imagined but we're moving ahead with hope and humor.
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Join us to celebrate the School of VISUAL ARTS MFA Social Documentary Film with the 7th Annual Thesis Showcase at the SVA Theatre. This screening series is a preview of documentary shorts and features in-progress, the work of SocDoc's Class of 2017. Filmmakers will be present, and Q&As will follow each screening.
Featuring the films:
*Friday September 22*
6:00pm -Showcase Spotlight-
"Dykes, Camera, Action!" (45minutes)
Director: Caroline Berler
7:10pm -Showcase Spotlight-
"DOG. WALKER." (26minutes)
Director: Brian Inocencio
8:00pm -Showcase Spotlight-
"Alice Was Four" (40minutes)
Director: Rebecca Benson
"I Am Gary" (49minutes)
Director: Edgardo Marmol
"Protected Ground" (35minutes)
Director: Gia (Yanru) Wang
*Saturday, September 23*
"Eating The Enemy" (30minutes)
Director: Melanie McLean Brooks
"Save Wilbur" (22minutes)
Director: Shuonan Liu
"Kids Can Spit" (33 minutes)
Director: Chelsi Bullard
"Trip Home" (35 minutes)
Director: Mingi Kim
5:00pm -Showcase Spotlight-
"Rail Fan" (50minutes)
Director: James Stuart
6:15pm -Showcase Spotlight-
"Not in My Mother's House" (50 minutes)
Director: Sandra Itäinen
7:15pm -Showcase Spotlight-
"Come and See" (80 minutes)
Director: Kai Nottapon Boonprakob
*Filmmakers' Reception*
Film descriptions & more here: https://mfasocdoc.sva.edu/
SocDoc student, and BFA Directing 2014 graduate, Mark Crowell, writes about his first few weeks in the program:
"Last week I started my first class at MFA Soc Doc. It's been fantastic. We have many wonderful professors who, just like undergrad BFA Film, are current working professionals. As I write this now, my professor Micah Fink is scheduling a shoot this weekend in Atlanta for a documentary he's making about the eradication of polio.
Until last year I'd never considered documentary filmmaking. I always wanted to make narrative films, but I've realized that so many accomplished directors have made documentaries. There are the obvious ones like Werner Herzog (Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Rescue Dawn), but Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, Christopher Nolan, Noah Baumbach, and countless other "narrative" directors also make documentaries. Even the director of the Baywatch got his start making the acclaimed documentary King of Kong: A Fist Full of Quarters.
The thing I like most about documentary filmmaking is that there are no hard rules to follow. What constitutes a documentary? The line between narrative and documentary has been blurry since the beginning. Nanook of the North, a 1922 documentary about an Eskimo family living in the Arctic Circle, and one of the seminal early documentaries turned out to be entirely staged. Nanook turned out to be an actor, and the woman playing his wife was actually the director's wife. This blurred line has continued to follow filmmaking all the way to more recently films like I'm Still Here and Stories We Tell. A year or two ago I would have thought of documentary filmmaking as limiting, but I realize now that it's another filmmaking tool to tell a good story. And who wouldn't want that?"


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Weddings, Speeches and Cakes, Oh My!
My best friend is married…welcome to the club Em!! I had the honor of being Emily's maid (matron sounds so old) of honor for her wedding last Friday evening. What a beautiful wedding it was too, she looked absolutely stunning and everything was just perfect…75 degree weather, gorgeous venue, amazing band and of course, delicious cake! Em had an idea a while back that her and I bake the cakes for the wedding and that her and Joe (the groom) would only have a small cake to cut into for pictures. Everyone thought we were crazy taking on such a huge and important task however, it turned out to be an amazing idea and not only made a great looking dessert table but we got a ton of compliments to boot! I ended up making four different cakes and frosting combinations, including red velvet with cream cheese frosting, german chocolate with coconut pecan frosting, marble cake with chocolate frosting and a cinnamon crumb cake. Em ended up making a pistachio cake with cream cheese frosting and a banana cake with Nutella frosting. Here is a pic of the dessert table:
I have already posted the Red Velvet recipe from Em's wedding shower but here it is again!
Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 3 eggs
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 3 cups flour
- 2 T cocoa powder (heaping)
- 1/2 t salt
- 1 1/2 t baking soda
- 2 1/4 cups sugar
- 2 t vanilla
- 1-2 ounces red food coloring
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
- 2 t vinegar
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- 8 oz butter, softened
- 3 1/2 – 4 cups powdered sugar
- 2 t vanilla
Cream butter and cream cheese together. Add in vanilla and powdered sugar, mix until smooth. Frost entire cake, eat and enjoy!!
German Chocolate with Coconut Pecan Frosting:
- 1 pkg. (4 oz.) German Chocolate
- ½ cup water
- 4 eggs, separated
- 2 cups flour
- 1 t baking soda
- ¼ t salt
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 t vanilla
- 1 cup buttermilk
Heat oven to 350°F. Cover bottom of 9X13 pan with waxed paper; spray sides with cooking spray. Microwave chocolate and water in large microwaveable bowl on high 1-1/2 to 2 min. or until chocolate is almost melted, stirring after 1 min. Stir until chocolate is completely melted. Beat egg whites in small bowl with mixer on high-speed until stiff peaks form; set aside. Mix flour, baking soda and salt. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with mixer until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, 1 at a time, beating well after each. Blend in melted chocolate and vanilla. Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating until well blended after each addition. Add egg whites; stir gently until well blended. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 40 min. or until toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool cake in pan 15 min.; remove to wire racks. Cool completely.
- 4 egg yolks
- 1 can (12 oz.) evaporated milk
- 1-1/2 t vanilla
- 1-1/2 cups sugar
- ¾ cup butter or margarine
- 1 pkg. (7 oz.) coconut (2-2/3 cups)
- 1-1/2 cups chopped pecans
Beat egg yolks, milk and vanilla in large saucepan with whisk until well blended. Add sugar and butter; cook on medium heat 12 min. or until thickened and golden brown, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Add coconut and nuts; mix well. Cool to desired spreading consistency. Frost entire cake!
Cinnamon Crumb Cake:
- ½ cup brown sugar divided
- 1 ½ cups plus 5 T granulated sugar, divided
- 3 t ground cinnamon, divided
- 1 ½ cups chopped walnuts, divided
- 2 cups plus 7 T cake flour, divided
- ½ lb. (2 sticks), plus 5 T butter, divided
- 2 large eggs
- 1 ¾ t vanilla, divided
- 1 t baking soda
- 1 t baking powder
- 1 cup sour cream
- ¼ cup powdered sugar
- ½ T milk
Directions: heat oven to 350, 9X13 inch pan. Combine ¼ cup brown sugar, 2 T granulated sugar, 1 tsp. cinnamon and ½ cup chopped walnuts for filling, set aside. In bowl, combine 7 Tbs. flour, 3 Tbs. granulated sugar and remaining brown sugar, cinnamon and nuts. Using 2 knives, cut in 5 T butter until crumbs form. In bowl of electric mixer, cream remaining butter, gradually adding eggs, 1 ½ t vanilla and remaining granulated sugar. Beat 2 mins. In separate bowl, combine baking soda, baking powder, and remaining flour. Add flour mixture to butter mixture. Beat in sour cream. Mix 1 min. Pour ½ batter into pan, sprinkle reserved filling over batter. Top with remaining batter and crumb mixture. Bake 45 mins, let cool. In bowl, combine powdered sugar, milk, and remaining vanilla. Drizzle icing over cake.
The marble cake was a little more difficult since I had to make two cake batters, chocolate and vanilla.
Chocolate Cake:
- Butter, for greasing the pans
- 1 3/4 cups flour, plus more for pans
- 2 cups sugar
- 3/4 cups good cocoa powder
- 2 t baking soda
- 1 t baking powder
- 1 t kosher salt
- 1 cup buttermilk, shaken
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs, at room temp
- 1 t pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee
Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and mix on low-speed until combined. In another bowl, combine the buttermilk, oil, eggs, and vanilla. With the mixer on low-speed, slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry. With mixer still on low, add the coffee and stir just to combine, scraping the bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula.
Yellow Cake:
- 4 cups plus 2 t cake flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 t baking soda
- 1 t salt
- 2 sticks (1 cup) butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 t vanilla
- 4 eggs, room temp
- 2 cups buttermilk, well-shaken
Preheat oven to 350°F. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium speed until pale and fluffy, then beat in vanilla. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well and scraping down the bowl after each addition. At low-speed, beat in buttermilk until just combined (mixture will look curdled). Add flour mixture in three batches, mixing until each addition is just incorporated.
Add a 1/4 cup of chocolate to center of 9X13 pan. Follow with 1/4 cup yellow cake. Repeat until pan is 3/4 full (there will be extra chocolate and yellow batter left over…I just made some cupcakes to have around for the weekend)! The important thing here is to make sure that both batters are the same consistency. If not, the runnier one will spread more and the cake will be dominantly that color, instead of marbled throughout. Either way it will still taste good though!!
Thick, Rich, Chocolate Frosting:
- 6 ounces unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled
- 4 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 sticks butter, room temperature
- 6 T milk
- 1 T vanilla
Add butter to mixer with whisk attachment, beat until light and fluffy. Add in powdered sugar, whisk again until fluffy and incorporated. Add in cooled, melted chocolate, milk and vanilla extract. Frost entire cake!
Em and I use the same pistachio cake/bread recipe…it was her mom's recipe and comes out perfectly every time…so here is that one as well! But I'll have to get the banana one from Em to share with you guys since it was soooo good!! Josh and I were lucky enough to taste test that one out before the wedding!
Pistachio Cake:
- 1 pkg instant pistachio pudding
- 1 pkg yellow cake mix
- 1 cup sour cream
- 4 eggs
- 1/4 cup water or milk (I always use milk)!
- 1/4 cup oil
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 9X13 inch pan or line with parchment paper and spray with cooking spray. Beat all ingredients together, pour into prepared pan and bake 40 minutes or until cake tester comes out clean. Let cool in pan 30 minutes, turn out onto wire rack, cool completely. Frost with cream cheese frosting (recipe above)!
Posted on May 16, 2012, in Bakery/Dessert Recipes, Cakes. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
I can attest to the fact that they were delicious.
They were all so delicious! I obviously had to try them all 🙂 I love reading your blog Val- keep it up!!!


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I felt super annoyed today, well not all day, well actually it did sit with me for quite a while and here I am writing about it, so maybe it really did annoy me more than I care to admit?
Out for breakfast with a few girlfriends, the subject of sexual abuse came up. If you read my previous post you will be aware that this is a topic that I feel strongly about, why? I was sexually assaulted in the past. My friends do not know this about me, so they do not censor their views around me. I happen to know another friend sitting beside me was sexually assaulted as a teen by a family member so I knew she would have her own thoughts on this discussion.
One lady brought up the fact that a well known and loved celebrity was being accused of assaulting a women he worked with a few years ago during musical stage show he was part of. Now I will make this clear, I do not know anything about this case, so I am not about to comment on it, but what really annoyed me was a comment made by another friend at the table, a mother who has a tween daughter. Her comment was;
"well what can you expect in that industry? He would have been on drugs, it is part of the scene. He wouldn't have really known what he was doing."
I am sorry (not sorry), but what the F***!????
I don't know if he was on drugs, I don't know if he did it, or if he didn't, but if he did is that excused because it is part of the scene? What was she trying to say? I proceeded to say that I don't believe him being on drugs excuses anything, if in fact he did do it. If he did then I don't care what scene it was ,or what drugs he took, he still is 100% accountable for his actions!
My other friend (the one who was sexually abused) and I started taking about the issues with celebrities and how people treat them like some kind of Gods who could do no wrong, especially the better looking they are. We were chatting about the fact that women are still constantly treated like we are simply here to look pretty, please a man and that we should be flattered that a man, any man gives us attention, like our whole self esteem is based on if a man wants to have sex with us.
Another friend decided to add that 'it is all so much better these days, that women are reporting things mores and abuse occurring far less', she went on to add that 'by the time our children were older it would hardly exist!'
Excuse me again (cough cough), but what planet is she living on?
How can I be sitting there with these intelligent, educated, funny, caring women who I have come to love and yet feel so far apart? Is it because I have been abused? Is my mind so warped because I have suffered sexual assault? Or are they burying their heads in the sand?
According to the fats and figures by OurWatch.org.au for Australian Women;
Eight out of ten women aged 18 to 24 were harassed on the street in the past year.
One in five Australian women has experienced sexual violence
On average, one woman a week is murdered by her current or former partner, according to the most recent analysis of homicide statistics in Australia.
One in four Australian women has experienced physical or sexual violence by an intimate partner
ONE in FIVE women, and yet we want to say it is getting better.
My thirteen year old daughter said no to a boy in her class to going on a date with him early last year. She was very nice about it, she explained she was not interested in him like that, but hoped they would be friends still. She just is not interested in dating. He said that was ok. I am not sure 13 year olds really know what romantic love is, but he told her and his friends he was in love with her. He was sad about her not wanting him, but he left her alone. His friends on the other hand did not leave it there. They hassled her for months, telling her she had made him sad, that it was all her fault he was hurting. That she should just kiss him so he would be happy. She continued to say no. They continued to annoy her. Her friends told them to stop, they didn't. Eventually my daughter told the teachers and the boys stopped, but made it clear they were annoyed at her for telling.
I am proud of my daughter for not giving in to their continued pressure! It may seem all innocent, and for the most part it was, but still, it has to start somewhere doesn't it. Boys being boys in the playground, it is no big deal, don't overreact! But when you go to school day after day being told you have really hurt someone, and the only way to make it better is to kiss them it can put a young girl in a very uncomfortable position. Should we just laugh it off, or should these boys be told to back off!? Should they be told their behaviour is inappropriate? One in five girls/women have experienced sexual assault! 80% have been harassed on the street! Do we just say it is boys having fun? Or do we say enough is enough?
What do you think?
Thank you to everyone for their amazing supportive comments and tweets on my previous post, it means more than I can express here.
Please note: I am not saying that boys and men are not sexually abused or assaulted. The facts remain though according to outwatch.org.au, "that both women and men are more likely to experience violence at the hands of men, with around 95% of all victims of violence in Australia reporting a male perpetrator".
I am also not saying All Men are Bad, I am married to a wonderful man, trust me I know there are plenty of great boys, young men and men out there. Let's raise our sons to be one of the great ones.
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Jessi's New Apron
>> Sunday, October 19, 2008
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Potsdam Central School Team Wins 66th Annual Math Contest at SLU
Monday, April 12, 2010
CANTON -- A team from Potsdam Central School won the 66th Annual Pi Mu Epsilon Interscholastic Mathematics Contest, held recently at St. Lawrence University and sponsored by the university's mathematics, computer science and statistics department and the local chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon, the mathematics honorary.
The win broke a long-standing streak by Canton's Hugh C. Williams High School.
Members of the winning team from Potsdam are Madelyn Ball, Michael Burns, Sebastian Grimberg and Ruisheng Wang.
Forty-seven students from 11 area high schools participated in the contest, which consisted of an individual examination and team-challenge problems.
The Gold Medal in individual competition went to Burns, of Potsdam; the Silver Medal to Reginald Pierce, of Heuvelton; and there was a tie for the Bronze Medal, between Ball, of Potsdam, and Lara Clemens, of Canton.
A St. Lawrence University scholarship, named in honor of Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Robert Cromie, for up to $5,000, is designated for the top-ranking senior, Reginald Pierce, or one of four alternates (Ball, Clemens, Zach Stratton, Norwood-Norfolk; and Michael Gilbert, Parishville-Hopkinton), should they decide to attend the university. Scholarships are also designated for the three top-ranked non-seniors, Burns, of Potsdam; Connor Pierce, Heuvelton; and Grimberg, should they decide to attend St. Lawrence, in amounts of up to $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000, respectively.
In team competition, Heuvelton placed second and Salmon River, third.
The highest-ranking member for each team was as follows: Brasher Falls, Martin Fregoe; Canton, Clemens; Colton-Pierrepont, Axel Colin; Gouverneur, Ryan Devendorf; Heuvelton, Reginald Pierce; Madrid-Waddington, James Lavieri; Norwood-Norfolk, Stratton; Parishville-Hopkinton, Gilbert; Potsdam, Burns; Salmon River, Andrew Bromberry and Rakenhoktha Barnes; St. Regis Falls, Kenneth Prush.
The top 10 in individual competition were Burns, Potsdam; Reginald Pierce, Heuvelton; Ball, Potsdam; Clemens, Canton; Connor Pierce, Heuvelton; Stratton, Norwood-Norfolk; Grimberg, Potsdam; Gilbert, Parishville-Hopkinton; Bromberry, Salmon River; and Barnes, Salmon River.
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South Africa's word of the year, state capture, is setting some records. For one, it has not even made it in to any reputable English dictionary yet.
Yes, that's right, if you pull your latest edition of the Oxford- Webster-, or South African Pharos dictionary off the shelf (or visit its website), hoping to find a definition, or a translation of state capture, you are going to be disappointed.
The dictionaries have not yet caught up with the term launched by ex-Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, in her report on the corrupt relationship between President Jacob's administration and the Gupta family. The report was titled "State of capture."
State capture was last week announced by the South African Language Board (PanSALB) as the country's word of the year for 2017, beating both White Monopoly Capital and Blesser, which both also made it to the word of the year short list.
The winning word/term, state capture, was used more than 20 000 times in over 11 000 South African newspapers.
When we did some research on the phrase after the announcement was made, very few reference to it was to be found on the websites of reputable Dictionaries. We found it, for instance on the Collins website only as a "New Word Suggestion" for describing "the efforts of a small number of firms (or such actors as the military, ethnic groups, and kleptocratic politicians) to use the state to their advantage through illicit, non-transparent provision of private gains to public officials."
First use?
According to Wikipedia the word/term was first used by the World Bank in 2 000 "to describe the situation in central Asian countries making the transition from Soviet communism. Specifically, it was applied to situations where small corrupt groups used their influence over government officials to appropriate government decision making in order to strengthen their own economic positions; these groups would later become known as oligarchs."
However, we could not find collaborating information that, that was indeed the first time the term was used. And, the notion or concept of what we now call state capture, goes back at least half a century, or more.
According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, during the "second half of the 20th century, the concept of state capture was used in the early critique of "the pluralist theoretical framework in political science." According to pluralism, a multiplicity of interest groups prevents any particular group from being dominant.
"However, the counterargument was that interest groups are not equally endowed with resources. Many commentators argued that business represents a very strong power system – far stronger than any other social group or institution – that challenges and threatens to dominate public power."
The particular Britannica article states that the term capture "describes how public bureaucracies had become dominated by strong and powerful interest groups. In a context characterized by a complex multitude of interest groups, the bureaucrats tend to deal with the best-organized groups as a way of reducing complexity."
South African version
However, in an IMF research paper published in late 2001, dealing with "the challenge of state capture in transition economies, highlights that big corporations are not necessarily the ones to watch. In what looks very much the Gupta-type South African experience, the researchers amongst other, write: "Surprisingly, captor firms are more likely to be new entrants to the market (of economies in transition). Indeed, the data suggest an interesting and counterintuitive answer to the question of why firms engage in state capture"; and
"In high-capture economies, some types of foreign investors—those with local partners and domestic headquarters – are nearly twice as likely to engage in state capture as domestically owned firms."
Root of capture
The word capture, on its own, made its way into English toward the middle of the 16th century from Middle French (capture, meaning 'a taking') from the Latin word captūra, also meaning "a taking," but especially referring to animals, from captus, which is the past participle of capere ("to take, hold or seize").
In our modern dictionaries, capture has become recognised in a number of other contexts, like in the capturing of data, as on computers, and capturing the atmosphere, as in, of a solemn occasion.
Now, on the back of what has been happening in South Africa over the past year, the capture of state capture in dictionaries might become part of the Zupta legacy.
Final word
For some of those protesting the loudest about state capture in South Africa, especially from organised business, and from politics we want to give a quotation from a Vladimir Putin meeting with Russian business leaders in 2000 to ponder: "I only want to draw your attention straightaway to the fact that you have yourselves formed this very state, to a large extent through political and quasi-political structures under your control. So perhaps what one should do, least of all, is blame the mirror."
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Myrcene is the smallest of the monoterpenes and has a flavor and smell described as earthy, fruity and clove-like. Monoterpenes are the building blocks of other larger and more complex terpenoids and cannabinoids. Found abundantly in hops, sweet basil, mangoes and cannabis, myrcene is the reason your beer can smell heavily like hops and is also responsible for some of those unexpected effects from consuming cannabis as it acts synerginistically with other cannabinoids and terpenoids to enhance effects. Myrcene is the reason new users are suseptible to the gigles and is also known to help increase the peak potential of the user's high and even reinvigorating a deteriorating high. Myrcene has many medical benefits but is most often associated with relaxation.
Molecular Mass: 136.23 g/mol
Decarboxylation Point: 115-145°C(239-293°F)*
Boiling Point: 166-168 °C (334 °F)
Vapor Pressure: 7.00 mmHg ( 20 °C)
Other Names: 7-Methyl-3-methylene-1,6-octadiene
Odor: Clove, Earthy
Appearance: Clear, Colorless
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Genre: Erotica
In October, when I was going thru my EMT course at the City Fire Academy in NYC, I met a girl. Her name is Shaquan. At first I thought she was one of those stuck up types and I didn't want anything to do with her.
One day we were practicing patient examinations and I was stuck with this girl Shaquan. Well we didn't talk much just the usuall "Hi" and "hello" stuff. Well I started to do my assessment on her and when I had to check her ribs I started to sweat. She had a nice pair of tits, I paused and was staring at her shirt where I noticed her nipples were getting hard, she noticed that I was staring and she said, "Go ahead touch them it's the only way to see if there all right." They were all right I'll tell you. I started to feel her tits and I said, "nothing wrong there." She started to blush and so was I.
I then said, "How about going to dinner after class?" She agreed and we went and had a nice time.
The next day was Saturday and we had class in the morning. I found out that she was a nurse, 5'6" tall, black hair, grey eyes and a perfect body. I wanted it badly.
"How about going for a ride later?" I said.
"Ok I know a perfect place we could go" I picked her up later that night and started driving.
"Where to?" I asked.
She gave me directions and we ended up at the water front on City Island. We found a place to park and I reached over and started kissing her madly.
I wanted her and I think she knew. My left hand eased up her shirt and came to rest on her left tit, where I rubbed it to make her nipple hard. I started gently pulling her nipple and she responded by putting her hand on my already bulging pants.
Soon the stick shift brake handle and steering wheel all got in the way and we decided to move outdoors. It was October and that night was very cold. We brought a blanket with us and walked to the other side of a field and placed the blanket down and became very comfortable.
We resumed our little games only this time I was so horny my cock was wet with anticipation. I removed her shirt and bra and got my first look at those beautiful breasts of hers. Her nipples were hard partly because she was aroused and partly due to the cold. I slid her jeans and panties off and then started to remove my clothes. WOW it was cold!!! But I didn't care. I began to rub her tits and kissing her lips my tongue searched the inside of her mouth.
I then kissed her neck and on down to her tits, where I licked, sucked and gently bit her nipples. She was wriggling around. I then started making my way down to her legs. I licked and kissed her thighs.
There I got a good wiff of her love box. It smelled fresh and alive. I buried my tongue in her cunt and started licking madly. It tasted so good I never wanted to stop. My tongue found her clit and I started paying some friendly attention to it. Soon her breathing was getting heavy and she begged me to stop, but I just kept right on sucking and licking her beautiful pussy. I was in heaven. I finally stopped just before she came and layed down next to her wiping the pussy juice off my face when she got up and planted her face between my legs and started madly sucking my stiff cock. She was no novice. Her tongue could do wonders with the tip of my prick that my other girlfriends couldn't come close.
She stopped too soon. I wanted to cum in her mouth but she slid up and started rubbing my cock with her pussy. I was getting pissed off. I wanted to stick my cock up in her and with a carefully well practiced move I lunged forward and my cock went right into her wet warm hole. I was fucking her like mad and she loved it. Her breathing was getting very fast as was mine. Then she said, "Oh Shit I...mmmm Starting to..to cum! AHHHHH!" She fell on top of me but I didn't stop fucking, not yet. About a minute later I stopped just before I was about to cum.
She said "what's wrong" I said that I didn't want to cum inside her, for fear of getting her pregnant. She said "Fuck, you stick that cock in me. I want you to cum inside me." I didn't need to be told twice. I stuck my dick right up inside her again and this time she started to pump up and down. Soon I was beathing very fast and she knew I would climax soon. I started moaning and she fucked wildly, "I'mmmm cummming AHHH!" I shot my load inside her and it seemed to last forever.
Afterwards we just lay there, but soon the cold got to us and we put our clothes on and left.
I've seen here quite a few times after that and plenty of times in deed.
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Graduated in Modern Letters (University of Ouagadougou, Burkina), in Communication (University of Benin, Togo), and in Journalism (Bordeaux International School, Bordeaux, France; and Periscoop Multimedia, Montpellier, France).
Souleymane Ouattara has been Editor in Togo and Burkina, before becoming Coordinator for Syfia-Jade (African Journalists for Development Network), in 1996, and acquired the following experiences:
Awarded the FAO RFI Prize in Food Safety for articles and radio
Awarded the Reuters UICN 2000 prize in environmental journalism for French-speaking Africa
The African Journalists for Development network (JADE) is active in fifteen African countries. Through its program "Rural Communication and Sustainable Development" it supports rural and community radios in two regions of Burkina Faso and southern Mali.
In Mali, we are especially experimenting with the use of the Internet to enrich the contents of the Sigida Yeelen magazine on the environment, which we produce with radio Kéné and village-based local communicators.
The results obtained using the Internet - considering that it is exclusively used for electronic mail - have enabled us to enrich the subjects treated. The following phase will consist in receiving the different materials and mixing them.
The African Journalists for Development network (JADE) is a section of Jade Afrique, a professional association of journalists specialized in multimedia production, publishing, communication for development and training.
Jade Burkina has carried out its activities since 1994, when it was recognized as an association by the administration of Burkina Faso. The association essentially comprises journalists. However, it is in the process of opening up to other communications professionals, especially literacy agents in local languages, drawers and traditional communicators.
I - Our Activities
1.1. Media
1.2. Publishing
Jade Burkina has published the following works and reviews on behalf of a number of development agencies and projects:
1.3. Communication For Development
JADE is responsible for implementing the rural communication and sustainable development project financed by the Centre canadien de Recherche pour le Développement International, CRDI (Canadian International Development Research Center). The research pursues the following objectives.
To develop a communication strategy to foster the exchange of information and knowledge between rural communities, farmers' organizations, development agencies and local media, and to develop a synergy among such bodies. The purpose is to support local participation in development initiatives for a better management of natural resources.
The methodology is based on participatory research-action. It involves the media, development agencies, farmers' organizations and grassroots communities.
The implementation of the different activities will involve all of the players, with JADE acting as facilitator and coordinator of the process. The farmers' organizations, media animators and development agencies involved come from three regions of Burkina Faso and Mali.
In order to achieve the objectives of the research, the experiment will rely on the following activities:
1.4. Fréquence Verte or New Information and Communication Technologies Servicing the Rural World in Africa
Fréquence Verte is a monthly radio magazine in French, about thirty minutes long presented by two broadcasters. It is generally composed of 2 or 3 short reports (2 to 10 minutes long), music related to the rural world, news briefs, and an African proverb.
The first Fréquence Verte program was aired in June 1996.
The magazine is produced by an international French-speaking team, animated by the network of African and French offices of the Syfia agency.
Such regional offices are located in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Cotonou (Benin), Douala (Cameroon), Dakar (Senegal) and to a smaller extent Tananarive (Madagascar).
The managers in turn oversee the work of the contributors to Fréquence Verte from the countries in the region. In Montpellier (France), two journalists, one Canadian and one French, are responsible for the coordination and training of teams, mixing, and the duplication and sending of the program to about one hundred African radio stations.
Fréquence Verte has functioned according to this approach since its origin to December 2000. However, once the central coordination of production moves to Benin in January 2001, its approach is likely to change.
A Concrete Example of the Production of a Fréquence Verte Program
When a correspondent returns from the bush after a radio coverage, he listens to the material that he has recorded and drafts a script of the story he wants to narrate. He then sends the script by electronic mail to the office that broadcasts the program. The office makes adjustments and comments, and returns the corrected script to its author. The correspondent then records his voice and transfers the retained sound elements (comments, excerpts of interviews in the local language, translations in French, background sounds, and music) from his small mini-disk digital recorder to his computer. He then proceeds to the editing of the piece, from beginning to end. Once the piece has been edited, the correspondent uses a free software (RealAudio or MP3) to reduce the size of his sound archives (non-compressed sound takes up a lot of disk space) without affecting the quality of the sound. This operation is known as sound compression. The files that are still too large are split up by using another free software to make it easier to send the piece by E-mail. In Montpellier, where the final editing of Fréquence Verte takes place, these fragments of files are put together again and decompressed to be processed with a more powerful software.
At present, four out of the five Syfia offices in Africa work according to this approach.
Sending the sound by Internet also makes it possible to air the program from different countries. In turn and over a period of 3 months, each African office is responsible for animating Fréquence Verte. For example, the journalists whose stories will be broadcast send their texts by electronic mail to Crépin Hilaire Dadjo and Bernard Kaboré, the two speakers in Burkina Faso. They themselves prepare a text, which they will read to introduce such stories. As occurs with Syfia's written stories, adjustments to this text are made by the Montpellier bureau. The speakers then record their voices, digitalize them and send them by Internet in order for them to be integrated into the final editing with the jingles.
Each edition of Fréquence Verte also features a news briefs bulletin, that is, a rapid overview of current events in the African countryside. This part of the program is also entrusted, each month, to an African office which collects by electronic mail the texts and sounds of other regional teams and records the bulletin.
In Montpellier, all of these elements (stories, animation, news briefs) are mixed on a dozen tracks. The program is then copied on "standard" tapes, and it is sent to its African recipients by...good old mail.
Fréquence Verte relies on journalists who for the most part do not have any radio broadcasting background. It is a magazine and at the same time a school, where in addition to producing information that is useful to African radios, teams are also trained, which in turn will be able to recruit other journalists and produce their own programs.
Prior to the advent and the development of new information and communication technologies, it would have been practically impossible to make Fréquence Verte in its present form. Since the journalists of Fréquence Verte work thousands of kilometers away from each other, the slowness of traditional mail and the exorbitant costs of international telephone communication made this an extremely complicated adventure.
Three years ago, with very few exceptions, none of the correspondents knew anything about electronic mail or the making of a radio magazine, the animation of a program or digital audio editing.
Today, we make full use of communication technologies (E-mail, Internet telephone communication, FTP protocol file transfer, instant mailing, sharing of applications to access a remote computer, etc.) to prepare as a team the themes of the programs, discuss the topics of the stories, comment on the introductory texts, provide on-line training to the journalists on radio magazines and information technology tools, exchange sounds, solve certain information technology problems on-line and edit the program. To our knowledge, this method of work and of distance training is unique in Africa.
Internet thus offers major advantages to the international Fréquence Verte team: quick communication and low communication costs, decentralized production, team work and a feeling of proximity despite distance. Ever since Fréquence Verte has been available on its site, the Internet has also enabled us in the North, to become direct broadcasters, without depending on general interest radios that take little interest in Africa on a day-to-day basis.
II - Short-term Prospects
As mentioned previously, this system worked until last year. Now, within the framework of its 2000-2005 action plan, Syfia envisages the following activities:
In the course of the year, each office will work with 1 or 2 radio stations selected according to their motivation and impact. In addition to co-producing reports with a journalist from such radios whose work will be overseen from beginning to end, Syfia's offices will help radio or program managers to conceive programs or magazines.
Partner radios will primarily broadcast material produced according to this approach. The material will also be recorded on a tape which will be reproduced locally and sent to other radio stations that broadcast in the same language. According to the interest expressed by other regions or countries in the subjects treated, a tape or a digital audio broadcast will be provided, accompanied by a script in the French language.
At the end of the year, an evaluation of the activities carried out will be made with partner radios. The hard core of Syfia International's radio production will consist of ready-to-broadcast material in French. It will be available to all radio stations in the South and North, according to modes which will depend upon their equipment.
"Subscriber" radios equipped with adequate technological media will be provided with a code enabling them to freely access the site and download the material they need. The other radio stations will receive the programs on tapes duplicated locally in Syfia's African bureaus, together with local production teams.
Relations will be established with other operators, especially the Digital Audio Center (DAC). DAC, a project conceived by AIF (Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie), was implemented two years ago by CIERRO (Inter-African Center for Rural Broadcasting Studies of Ouagadougou). It is a forum bringing together skills in training (Internet and digital audio). It is also a program database which gives priority to the use of national languages (especially transnational languages) in programs. DAC especially targets rural and local radio stations, with which it is also involved in co-production and post-production work. Finally, DAC provides the possibility to purchase radio equipment at a lower cost (even at half the price, according to specific conditions).
Certainly, New Information and Communication Technologies will diversify the offer of programs within rural radios. But don't they risk transforming such structures into mere consumers of products coming from other sources, even if they do participate in an exchange?
It seems to me that the first challenge of rural radio is to ensure the participation of rural producers in the conception, implementation and execution of such programs. To what extent will the Internet foster the fulfillment of this legitimate expectation?
The other question refers to the profusion of information and proximity. Hasn't the time come to define priorities which will ensure the real participation of listeners in program scheduling?
Recourse to the Internet will be an extra asset, rather than a fad which everybody seems to be embracing blindly.
Ouagadougou, 28 December 2000


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BARCELONA -- Ernesto Valverde has high hopes for Philippe Coutinho after the Brazilian made his long-awaited debut for Barcelona in Thursday's 2-0 Copa del Rey win against local rivals Espanyol.
First-half goals from Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi carried Barca through to an 11th semifinal in 12 years, with Coutinho brought on as a second-half substitute for Andres Iniesta.
The club's record signing had been sidelined with a thigh injury since he joined from Liverpool for €160 million earlier this month, but was given the green light to return to action on Wednesday.
Valverde introduced him in the 68th minute to a rapturous ovation from the second-largest Camp Nou crowd of the season, who proceeded to cheer his every touch.
During his cameo, he looked immediately at home, settling into Barca's style and creating a great chance for Suarez to make it 3-0.
"Good players always adapt well," Valverde said in his news conference, when asked about Coutinho's encouraging debut.
"We have high hopes for him here at the club, in the sense that he will be good for our style of play. He's a confident lad who can help us because he's good in one-on-one situations, he can spot the free man. ... And when he gets close to the area, you can sense the danger.
"It wasn't an easy game, but I think he did well. But let's see, this is just the beginning..."
By the time Coutinho was brought into the action, Barca had already engineered a two-goal lead, turning around the tie after losing the first leg 1-0 at Cornella-El Prat last week.
However, a goal for Espanyol would have seen them progress via away goals, making for some nervy minutes as Barca attempted to see the game out.
"I liked the performance, above all the way we managed the final stages," Valverde added. "We turned the tie around in the first half, but we had to look for a third goal because one for Espanyol would have knocked us out.
"In the end, we've managed the game well. Leo [Messi] took responsibility, getting on the ball, holding it and making time [to] pass. You have to know how to play with this type of pressure and tension. And we did. Espanyol were in the tie until the last minute and we had to work really hard."
Barca go into Friday's draw with Sevilla, Valencia and Leganes, who came from behind to knock Real Madrid out at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday.
"The cup is tough," Valverde said after keeping Barca's hopes for a fourth successive Copa del Rey and a record 30th triumph alive.
"You can't be sure of anything. With what happened yesterday [Madrid losing to Leganes] and the day before [Sevilla beating Atletico], you can see it's not easy to get through.
"I think the teams that are in the last four are there because they have really worked hard. In these games, you can't have a bad day because you will be punished. You will be knocked out of the competition."


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My kids were doing this to me yesterday until my brain literally exploded.
(thanks to my brother for posting this on his blog and dedicating it to me last month. He knows my family all too well.)
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If My Life was Animated, This Would Be One of The Scenes
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