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I get that there are people out there who only listen to CD's and will never go down the computer route but to limit yourself as a manufacturer at this price point and not inlcude any digital inputs seems limiting to customers who might want to purchase it and have the option down the line of using a digital input. Just sayin'
Parasound Halo CD 1 CD player Measurements
At a time when CD players have morphed into all-purpose digital source/preamplifiers, it seemed anachronistic for San Franciscobased Parasound to introduce a CD player in 2013 that was nothing but a CD player (footnote 3) However, the Halo CD 1 ($4500) is more than it seems. Its CD-ROM drive spins CDs at four times the usual speed, controlled by software from Holm Acoustics, so that every bit is read at least twice before being sent to a large RAM buffer. Playback is thus from memory, not directly from the spinning disc.
John Marks reviewed the Halo CD 1 in June 2013: "It didn't take too much listening for me to conclude that, for playing regular CDs, the Parasound CD 1 was quite similar in essential sound to Bricasti's justly fàted M1 DAC [$8595]: detailed yet smooth, fast yet not fatiguing, and with wonderful frequency extension at the bottom and top," he enthused. "If you're prepared to keep playing your CDs and don't care about futureproofing, this is a fantastic player for reasonable money, given the high qualities of its engineering and parts."
John Marks's praise was echoed by Sam Tellig in July: "Slowly, over several evenings, I came to realize that the CD 1 was uncommonly able to distinguish good and great recordings from the poor and the mediocre." He concluded that "The CD 1 is for those who love their Compact Discs as much as Artie and Mikey love their LPs and turntables and Kal craves his surround sound."
If two of Stereophile's senior editors had been so impressed by the Halo CD 1, I wanted to find out for myself what it had to offer. I asked Parasound's Richard Schram for another review sample (serial no. 01049), which arrived at the end of August. Before doing any listening, I got the Halo CD 1 up on my test bench, using Stereophile's loan sample of the top-of-the-line Audio Precision SYS2722 system (see www.ap.com and the January 2008 "As We See It") to assess its performance. For some tests, I also used my vintage Audio Precision System One Dual Domain. I did a complete set of tests using the CD 1's "op-amp" output stage, then repeated some of the tests using its "discrete" output stage.
The maximum output level was the same from both the "op-amp" and "discrete" outputs, at 3.94V balanced and 1.97V unbalanced. The latter is just 0.14dB lower than the CD standard's recommendation of 2V RMS. The output impedance was the same from both sets of outputs, at a low 102 ohms balanced and 51 ohms unbalanced. Both figures were the same at all audio frequencies, and both are half the specified impedances. Peculiarly, the CD 1 inverted signal polarity from both its balanced and unbalanced outputs when the Normal button was pressed on the remote control. Pressing Invert actually resulted in a non-inverted output signal. (The digital output's data were in the correct polarity.)
As it reads the CD data more than once before sending it into memory, I shouldn't have been surprised that the CD 1 was the best-performing player I have encountered when tested for error correction/concealment with the Pierre Verany Test CD. It played all the tracks on this CD without muting or audible glitches, even the ones that have combinations of gaps in the data spiral with minimum track pitch. RME's DIGICheck program confirmed that there weren't even any errors flagged in the CD 1's digital output. Color me impressed! This is the only CD player I've tested ever to have done this.
The CD 1's impulse response (not shown) indicated that it uses a conventional linear-phase reconstruction filter. The red trace in fig.1, a wideband spectral analysis of the player's output while it played data representing white noise at 4dBFS, reveals that this filter has the usual very fast rolloff above 21kHz. It suppresses the ultrasonic image at 25kHz of a full-scale tone at 19.1kHz (blue trace) by almost 110dB. The harmonic distortion associated with this tone is also very low in level, with the second harmonic at 38.2kHz lying at 94dB (0.002%).
Channel separation (not shown) was superb, at >120dB between 400Hz and 3kHz, and still 115dB at 20kHz. Fig.2 shows the CD 1's frequency response with normal data (green and gray traces) and pre-emphasized data (blue and red). The former response is perfectly flat, but the latter rises above 50Hz, reaching almost 10dB at the top of the audioband. This indicates that the CD 1 does not recognize the pre-emphasis flag in the CD data. Those very rare CDs that are pre-emphasized will sound thin and bright.
When Parasound's Richard Schram received the preprint of the review, so that he could prepare a "Manufacturers' Comments" letter, he let me know that something must have gone wrong: in their testing of the Halo CD 1, it did handle pre-emphasized CDs correctly. I couldn't redo my measurement in order to check this matter, as the review sample, had already been returned to Parasound. However, it was sent back to me in time for me to remeasure it.
Using the top-of-the-line Audio Precision SYS2722, I first measured Halo CD 1's frequency response with pre-emphasized data burned on a CD-R, exactly as I'd done before. Again, the output climbed at high frequencies (fig.3, cyan and green traces). I then played the CD-R on a Pioneer SACD player and my Ayre C-5xeMP universal player, both of which recognized the emphasis flag on the CD-R and applied the correct de-emphasis.
I then remeasured the Halo CD 1, this time with the pre-emphasized track on the original CBS Test CD 1. The result is shown as the blue and red traces in fig.3. Now the correct de-emphasis was being applied. Then I played the de-emphasis test tracks on the Pierre Verany Digital Test CD. Again the Halo CD 1 applied the correct de-emphasis.
My original measurement was therefore incorrect, but I am at a loss as to why the Parasound didn't recognize the pre-emphasis flag on the CD-R, whereas the Pioneer and Ayre players did. (It might be relevant that the Ayre and the Pioneer are based on the same transport mechanism.) When I looked at the Parasound and Pioneer players' digital outputs with RME's DIGICheck software as each played the CD-R, neither had the emphasis flag set. However, the Pioneer's digital output had the de-emphasis applied to the audio data, whereas the Parasound's did not. All I can think is that there is some incompatibility between the Halo CD 1 and pre-emphasized CD-Rs. But as the player will almost never encounter such a disc anywhere other than in my test lab, this is not anything to be concerned about.
A problem in measuring a CD player that does not have a digital input that can handle data with a bit depth greater than 16 is that it becomes impossible to test the player's intrinsic performance. This is shown by figs. 4 and 5, which are, respectively, a 1/3-octave spectral analysis and a narrowband FFT spectral analysis of the player's output as it decoded data representing a dithered 1kHz tone at 90dBFS. In both graphs, the noise floor above 500Hz or so is actually the spectrum of the dither used to encode the signal. The CD's own noise is below that floor, except at low frequencies. The higher resolution of the FFT technique uncovers a low level of second-harmonic distortion, and a couple of power-supplyrelated spuriae at, again, a very low 120dB.
These spuriae and the rise in low-frequency noise can also be seen in the spectrum of the CD 1's output while it played a full-scale tone at 1kHz (fig.6), which was taken with the "discrete" output stage. Figs. 4 and 6 were taken with the "op-amp" output; there were no measurable differences to be found between the two output types. One peculiarity is the appearance of low-level spuriae with a 100Hz spacing in fig.6. I have no idea where these might arise from.
Linearity error (not shown) was less than the amplitude of the dither noise used to encode the signal. The CD 1's reproduction of an undithered tone at exactly 90.31dBFS was almost perfect (fig.7), with excellent waveform symmetry, and the three DC voltage levels described by the data well differentiated.
The spectra in fig.1 indicated that the Halo CD 1 offered very low levels of distortion. This was confirmed by fig.8. Even into the punishing 600 ohm load, the distortion spuriae all lie below 94dB (0.002%), with the third harmonic the highest in level. This graph was taken using the "op-amp" output stage; again, the "discrete" output gave the same result. This is not surprising, considering that the discrete devices are wrapped within the output op-amp's negative-feedback loop, and the performance was the same when I tested the CD 1's high-frequency intermodulation (fig.9). Actual intermodulation distortion was low in level, but the audioband noise floor looked rather hashy, presumably due to the 16-bit encoding.
When I tested for the CD 1's rejection of word-clock jitter (fig.10), the central spike that represents the 11.025kHz tone was well defined, with no spectral spreading of its base, and there were no supply-related sidebands. However, while most of the odd-order harmonics of the low-frequency, LSB-level squarewave were at the residual levels, those at ±229.5Hz were slightly accentuated, and those at ±457.6Hz were slightly suppressed.
I auditioned the Halo CD 1 using the system mentioned in my review of the Electrocompaniet ECD 2 D/A processor elsewhere in this issue. For my primary reference, I used the NAD M51 D/A processor ($2000) that Jon Iverson reviewed in July 2012, driving the NAD with the Halo CD 1's coaxial S/PDIF digital output. (Only 16 bits were active in the player's digital output, confirming that it doesn't add dither or pad the data with zeros to give a 24 bit-depth.) Levels for the comparisons, as always, were matched to within 0.1dB at 1kHz, using the test tone on my Editor's Choice CD (Stereophile STPH016-2), and I made sure that both the CD 1's and M51's outputs were in positive polarity.
The niceties taken care of, I put on Kate Ceberano and Mark Isham's 2009 album, Bittersweet (M|M 10270 01670-6) and selected their treatment of "Skylark," a track I have grown very fond of. I listened first through the NAD; Ceberano's smoky tones emerged from the close-miked piano intro, her image hanging palpably between the speakers. I switched to the Parasound. Nothing changed. I confirmed that I had switched. I had. The two products sounded virtually identical. Many, many switches later, I felt that when Isham solos, there was the slightest smidgen of additional reverb surrounding his flugelhorn through the NAD. Maybe. I put on Percy Grainger's Handel in the Strand, from a 1985 collection of the Australian composer's orchestral works (CD, Chandos CHAN8377). The delightfully "clattery" piano that chugs along behind the strings in this reverberant 1979 recording by the Bournemouth Sinfonietta, conducted by Kenneth Montgomery, was presented perhaps slightly more forward by the Parasound, the soundstage being a little more delicately layered via the NAD. Perhaps.
A thought struck me. These comparisons were all being performed driving the NAD from the Parasound's digital output. John Marks had enthused about the Halo CD 1's performance as a transport, but could it be that if the Parasound had a sonic signature, it was affecting the digital output, forcing the NAD to clone that signature?
I hooked up the NAD via USB to my Mac mini running Pure Music and synchronized playback of an Apple Lossless file of Kate Ceberano's recording of "Skylark" with the same track playing on CD on the Parasound. Again, perhaps there was a touch more ambience with the M51, and now perhaps a touch more midbass with the Halo CD 1, but the sounds were otherwise virtually identical. I repeated the comparison using another reading of "Skylark," from the Tierney Sutton Band's superbly recorded Desire (CD, Telarc CD-83685). There was no change in my conclusion: If the NAD M51 is a Class A digital processor in this magazine's "Recommended Components" when it decodes CD-derived files, then the Parasound Halo CD 1 is a Class A CD player. John and Sam had called it correctly.
As Sam concluded, the Parasound is "for those who want to give their CDs proper respect, and who don't care what the 'industry' or editors want us to think." In this case, Sam, the editor agrees with you.John Atkinson
I agree with volvic in that Parasound seems rather shortsighted for not including digital inputs on this unit. With the popularity of music servers and computer-based audio as a source, being able to use the CD1 as a DAC would be a huge benefit for many. No SACD capability either, unlike many competitive units.
People that haven't heard,it,simply can not relate to how good this CD player really is.
It is the only player I have heard with outstanding resolution and completely non fatiguing sound. Resolution better than SACD or DVD audio on the top oppo players which sound good but to my ears ever so slightly bright. That resolution was there for older 1980s CDs many of which were poor recordings and yet they sound better than I have ever heard them. Most of my SACDs are hybrids and the Cd layer is all that will play and yet I would rather listen to the cd layer on the CD 1 then the SACD on the Oppo. This is the most analog sounding digital player I have ever heard and every genre of music sounds good on it.
I think the Parasound CD 1 is a player for those smart enough not to go down a fairly frustrating computer audio rabbit hole and who just want to hear great sound. I compared the cd 1 to two different set ups computer related. One was using a Wyred for sound modded Sonos player both the 44 K model and the 96 K model connected to my wi fi set up. Most f my music is in Wave files but I also had some Flac files which will play on the sonos. I used an audio quest,digital cable run between the sonos and the using the built in dac in a MAC 6700. The Parasound CD1 kicked it's butt. I had two audio buddies over and we matched songs on the sonos and the cd 1 so that you go go back and fourth. I used the analog balanced outputs on the cd1 into the MAC . One of my buddies uses the modded sonos 96 k in his set up but we all agreed the cd 1 sounded better on every tune we played. We then compared music played on a MAC laptop via USB against the CD 1. The resolution of the dad's inside the Mad via USB upsamples to 192. But again in every case music sounded better on the CD1.
so I've been trying to why the emphasis on computer audio is so hot? Having been told by the audiophile press that higher resolution is better people have consumed the kook aid. To me now it seems that perhaps we are just finally getting to the place where we understand how best to get the information off of a disc and convert it to analog In a really high quality way,where it competes with the best analog. The CD1 does it better than anything I have heard and clearly simply having higher resolution music files is not the answer. Computer audio seems to offer a million confusing paths to music that is good but not great. Just my Opinion.


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We've all got guilty pleasures, and one of ours is Irish cream. Bottled versions abound, but mixing up your own batch is a cinch, thanks to this recipe we adapted from D.C.-based bartending brothers Ari and Micah Wilder. "We're big fans of Irish whiskey," says Ari, "especially when it comes to spiking our coffee." So the duo went about developing an Irish cream that works equally well in coffee and cocktails, and is just as good sipped solo. Combining Irish whiskey with rich cream, maple syrup, vanilla beans and cacao nibs, this is a spirited sipper you'll want to indulge in all winter long.
Step 1
In a small saucepan, combine 5 Tbsp. of granulated sugar, 1 oz. of water, and 2 vanilla beans, split lengthwise. Bring to a simmer and stir until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature.
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Melt 1 Tbsp. of unsalted butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add 3 oz. of cacao nibs (about ¾ cup) and whisk for 1 minute.
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Whisk the vanilla syrup (with vanilla beans) into the butter mixture.
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Whisk in 1 oz. of grade B maple syrup and 2 cups of heavy cream and increase heat to medium-high. Whisk continuously, just until bubbles form. Reduce heat to low and let simmer, whisking frequently, until mixture thickens slightly, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool to room temperature.
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Stir in ¼ tsp. of almond extract and 4 oz. of Irish whiskey.
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Strain and funnel into a large glass jar and cover. Shake before using. Will keep refrigerated for up to 2 weeks.

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According to an article in Fast Co. Design, the dress combines embedded sensors and "smart foils" that become see-through when zapped by electricity. The e-dress is made from a single sheet of material that is cut into a pattern and fastened to give volume and shape. The end result looks like a winning Project Runway creation, if the designers had less attitude and more actual computer-geek chops.
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The Teen was an Aman convert after this exchange she had with a manager of the hotel on the first day of our stay… "Excuse me, is it possible to arrange for me to ride a camel?" to which, the gentleman answered, "At Aman, we can do anything… would you rather the camels come to the hotel or would you like to go to the camels?" She hobbled back to our room, impressed. Obviously, we were going on a camel ride the following afternoon. Fearful that having the camels come to us might cost a significant sum, I told her to arrange for the hotel to send us to the camels some 15 minutes away in a section of Marrakech called the Palmeraie…
We headed to the front entrance of Amanjena at the appointed time, and a large dark green Mercedes limousine pulled up to transport us to the camels. I just had to laugh at the irony of this. The camels should be amused. We had opted out of a a real desert experience, what with the Teen in a cast and Mrs. MM having a serious sand phobia, so we did the tourist thing and headed to the Palmeraie, a section of town with massive villas, tons of palm trees and bands of camels for hire, waiting for tourists to fleece. I had a bad feeling about this from the start, but we weren't planning on returning to Camel-land anytime soon, so figured we should just do it, if only to meet the Teen's desire to ride a camel.
My biggest mistake was not checking online what a camel ride SHOULD COST, and to make a short story shorter, we got fleeced. NEVER pay more than $10 for a 20-30 minute camel ride. We got three camels that were tethered together, and went for a 20 minute ride through the nearby palm groves. Mrs. MM was out front, on her camel "Madonna", while I followed on my camel "Ayeesha" and the Teen brought up the rear, riding on "Shakira". My camel was the biggest darned camel in the lot, probably because I weighed nearly 200 pounds…
Madonna and Shakira had recently given birth, so the baby camels followed behind us, untethered. They were about 3-4 months old and cute.
At one point, the baby camels were called over and went ahead of us to munch on some greens…
Patches of persil or parsley were growing amongst the palm groves, and apparently this herb is a camel favorite. The guy accompanying our trio of camel riders grabbed a bunch of the persil for each of us to hold onto and presumably feed to the camels when we were done with the excursion.
On closer inspection, the parsley actually looked and smelled more like chervil, and it turns out there is a variety of donkey chervil that must be the one that camels like to eat…
Shakira, the Teen's camel, kept sniffing my leg and crotch area, wanting some of that persil and frankly, it was getting a bit annoying. :) At least my humongous Ayeesha kept farting back towards the Teen. Needless to say, we were laughing all throughout this adventure.
But the EVIL happened on the dismount. Camels have a particular way of lying down on the ground to let you off, and it seems they usually make it a gentler two-step process. My camel, however, decided to practically flop down like in a cartoon and with my high center of gravity, I nearly got thrown off the darned beast and rolled off its neck, probably breaking my own neck as I landed on the ground. Since the Teen was in a cast, all of the locals were helping her get off her camel and I was on my own. In a knee-jerk reaction, I pushed strongly against the small handle or rail and proceeded to get the sharpest pain in my chest I have ever experienced. I prevented a fall, but was now nearly certain I was in the midst of a massive heart attack. I stumbled off the beast, tried to stand on two wobbly legs (that's what happens when they are spread over the massive back of a camel and you don't do stretches regularly) and made a beeline for the Mercedes. Sharp piercing pains from my left armpit across my chest were excruciating, but not wanting to alarm anyone, I simply told the driver to return to the hotel immediately. I figured if I was going to die, I was going to die in an Aman. Sweating profusely despite the strong airconditioning, I tried to calm my breathing and will this to be simply a pulled muscle and that's what it turned out to be. For the next day or two my chest was sore, but at least I hadn't suffered a heart attack. :) Let's just say on the topic of camel rides – been there, done that. Never again. :)
Awww…I don't mean to be rude, but that was a funny story. I'm still laughing my head off!!
Aug 1, 2010 | 10:38 pm
Thank God it wasn't a heart attack! I'm so amused by the hotel manager's reply to the Teen about the camel! :)
Aug 1, 2010 | 10:40 pm
gahd. i got scared for you for awhile there while i reading. thank heavens it was only a pulled muscle.
Aug 1, 2010 | 10:42 pm
I'm glad your chest pains were nothing too serious, but that was seriously LOL!
I empathize with you as I took a 3-day camel (they're actually dromedaries) trek across the desert and was sore for what seemed like weeks after! They're definitely not the most comfortable animal to ride! One of our group actually did fall off his camel when the camel fell going up a steep sand dune. It was a bit scary, but both he and the camel were OK. Our camels were not only farting, but also peeing and pooping in front of each others' faces! Poor babies were tied very close together, so it couldn't be helped!
(As an aside, when we went to the camel stable to start our journey, there were all these brown egg-shaped things on the ground, and we thought they might be reptile eggs. Turned out to be camel poop!)
And don't feel too bad about being fleeced in Marrakesh. EVERYONE gets fleeced in Marrakesh at least once, and badly fleeced at that (Fez was almost as bad, but the other cities I visited were not so bad). Good thing you haven't tried taking the taxis!
Aug 2, 2010 | 12:24 am
Whoa! Glad you are ok!
Aug 2, 2010 | 1:39 am
love the Teen's fashion sense :)
Aug 2, 2010 | 6:55 am
Excepting the chest pain you felt, I find the part of your precipitate alighting from the camel funny. Could you have been the last straw for the beast?
Aug 2, 2010 | 7:06 am
Your Guardian Angels must have been on super alert during that camel ride. Esp. for the Teen, who couldn't afford any more injuries! We're all glad you're okay save for that pulled muscle, MM. Bad camels! Cute babies tho. Then again, wait till they grow up! Argh.
Aug 2, 2010 | 7:14 am
What a wonderfully hilarious read on my birthday today! Sorry about your injury though. Last time I rode a camel was in Egypt, 1990s. They have a peculiar stink and their gait gave me camel-motion-sickness, that experienced so never again.
Aug 2, 2010 | 8:20 am
the heart attack scare was, well, scary. :s i'm always afraid of getting sick while out of town or abroad, but a heart attack is toooo frightening a thought.
Aug 2, 2010 | 8:29 am
I so needed this laugh. I'm sorry, but I laughed out loud and HARD! I'm sorry you got hurt, but I saw this going down a different path — one where your daughter falls off on her cast and … well, it would have been bad. Or that you got spit at and that is never a good thing, especially with a camel! Ewwww!!
The times I've ridden camels have been a bit scary. It always feels as though you're going to fall off.
Hopefully you're feeling better now.
Aug 2, 2010 | 9:01 am
did you pay through aman or direct to the camel guides? just wondering who fleeced you.
Aug 2, 2010 | 9:20 am
had i been there i probably would have whisked you to the nearest hospital right away to have that chest pain checked….comes second nature to me being a cardiac nurse :) What happened to the Teen's leg? In all, it was a funny story. Glad youre okay though.
Aug 2, 2010 | 10:09 am
LOL! That was hilarious! =D
Aug 2, 2010 | 10:10 am
"I figured if I was going to die, I was going to die in an Aman." haha!
Aug 2, 2010 | 10:38 am
Thanks for the laugh. At least not one of you got spat on! :)
Aug 2, 2010 | 1:05 pm
Bit of camel trivia. There are two types, the Bactrian and the dromedary. Easiest way to remember? If you lay the B on it's side, it has two humps like the Bactrian camel. If you lay the D on it's side, it has one hump just like the dromedary camel! Convenient huh?
Aug 2, 2010 | 1:42 pm
i'm really sorry, MM…i'm concerned and all that..but this was just too funny!
Aug 2, 2010 | 5:41 pm
Isa G great mneu… gee can't remember the word. Actually, first question they put to you in the camelidae yard is, one hump or two? Apparently, the word camel itself derives from an Arabic root that means beauty which proves once more that it is indeed dependent on the beholder.
Aug 2, 2010 | 5:51 pm
"I figured if I was going to die, I was going to die in an Aman." Best line ever!
Aug 2, 2010 | 6:40 pm
Great story to tell your future grandkids! :D I was literally at the edge my seat as I was reading…good to know you're alright. What an adventure! In case you miss the camel, you can just visit the dromedary camel at Paradizoo in Tagaytay, or Zoocobia in Clark ;)
Aug 2, 2010 | 6:50 pm
I am surprised that the cost of the camel ride was not made known to you by Aman. They usually have a folder of suggested activities in the room or at the library with the corresponding price. I took a similar camel ride at Aman I Khas in India opting for the camel to pick me up at the property and ride out in the desert. The ride was gentle and lovely. Getting on and off was nerve wracking but members of the staff of Aman made sure I was aware of how this was to be done and guided me accordingly. I remember it being fairly expensive but for me the experience was worth it.
Aug 2, 2010 | 7:18 pm
your camel flopped down at the end? she was probably thinking "hay salamat, tapos na!" =)
Aug 2, 2010 | 9:48 pm
"I figured if I was going to die, I was going to die in an Aman.†LOL, I know it wasn't funny for you then, but that one line just was sooo funny. I loved that,:). Am just glad it wasn't an MI.
@Isa, that mnemonic is good, but then again recalling the 2 kinds of camels will be another thing.
Aug 2, 2010 | 10:41 pm
MM, while enjoying such a hearty laugh over your encounter with the camel, my heart also went out to you and for you – the pain you experienced.
Similar story – also got fleeced with a 15 minute ride on a camel around Giza. Basta!!
Aug 3, 2010 | 3:31 am
I am sorry to hear that you injured yourself, MM, but that was a funny story! Really? If you were going to die, you wanted to die in an Aman?? lol
Aug 3, 2010 | 2:16 pm
Love the first photo! swak na swak sa topic!
Thank God you're ok.The worst you can experience in a vacation is to get hurt…in a foreign land! But sorry MM, cannt help laughing.Your camel story is so funny!
Aug 3, 2010 | 6:19 pm
Hee hee funny! Enjoyed the kwento :-)
Aug 3, 2010 | 11:24 pm
Yes, camels are quite evil and I heard they smell bad. It seems that you guys had a good time :D
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So, I've did the helloworld and some other stuff in the examples. I wanted to try something else: so I downloaded some codes from google codes and try to compile. Wow there were so many errors!
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Applying for a work permit/visa in China and need your criminal background check letter fast? We've got you covered.
For the China work permit regulation, a letter from any level of government—city, state, or federal—stating that you have no criminal record seems to do. Some provinces do not require an original copy—a scan suffices. Thus, the easiest solution, if your most recent city of residence allows it, is to send a friend or relative to the local police station there and request the letter and then scan and e-mail it to you. However, some police stations require the signature of the person whose background they are checking; others require a notarized signature. The U.S. consulate in Chengdu provides notary services for a fee of $50, but you must book an appointment during citizens' services hours, which might not be available immediately. Still other police stations require such requests be made in person.
So if the above method fails, you have the option to obtain a record from your state's department of justice or from the FBI. Ordinarily this process takes five to six weeks, but it is possible to expedite the process to a week or less. Here's how:
Step 1
Print two to five copies of the FBI fingerprint card (link opens PDF). This must be printed in color on cardstock.
Step 2
Obtain fingerprints on these cards. The U.S. Consulate lists fingerprinting agencies in Kunming and Chengdu, and here is the FBI's advice on taking clear fingerprints. Fingerprints must be done in blue ink. Taking up to five sets is advised in case some prints are rejected. Here is complete information on how to fill out the information on the fingerprint cards (link opens PDF).
Step 3
Here's the expedited part: Select an FBI channeler from this list of FBI-approved channelers.
a. Select the appropriate delivery method (as of this writing, a scanned copy suffices for the Chengdu Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, so to save time, select an option that includes receiving the letter via e-mail). If you also choose to have an original copy of the letter mailed, make sure to provide a U.S. address and have it sent to your name.
b. Select your desired payment option (this might require printing and completing a credit card payment form).
c You can e-mail the channeler to notify them that your request is on its way.
Step 4
Use an express courier to send your application form, fingerprint cards, and payment to the channeler you selected. As of this writing, FedEx's fastest service takes about 3 days from Chengdu to Chicago and costs RMB310. DHL charges approximately RMB440.
Step 5
Track your package online and wait with baited breath. After the designated processing time (48 hours in the case of Accurate Biometrics), you will receive an e-mail with a one-time access link to download your letter in PDF form. Therefore, make sure you are downloading on a device that will allow you to save the file.
Note: The above method takes about one week in total and costs around $100 to $150 (express shipping plus channeler fee). If you have more than a month to prepare this document, you can submit your request directly to the FBI. The fee for each "identity history summary" (i.e., criminal background check) is $18, and the processing time is 32 days. You will still need to factor in the cost and time of shipping your application and fingerprint cards to the FBI.
Officially the Rules for the Administration of Employment of Foreign Nationals in China seem to require that
foreign nationals have no criminal record in order to work legally in China (无犯罪记录证明). While enforcement of the general regulation may be handled differently in other cities, the Chengdu Human Resources and Social Security Bureau requires new arrivals and job changers to provide proof of no criminal record before a work permit will be issued. While it is not clear if entries for minor crimes may be tolerated, the rule of thumb seems to be zero tolerance.
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Today, I'm sharing this decadent Pumpkin Pie Bread pudding w/ Caramel Sauce Recipe… It's definitely a family favorite dessert!
I can't believe October is nearly over and I haven't made one single recipe with pumpkin in it! (What kind of blogger am I? Ha ha…) The weather has not been very cool lately, so I haven't really felt inspired to make any fall recipes.
I have to say, this Pumpkin Pie Bread Pudding was totally worth the wait! If you make one pumpkin recipe this Fall, you've got to try this bread pudding. It's so good!
When making recipes I plan on eating (and I definitely planned on eating this one…) I try to switch out the dairy products with Silk Almondmilk or Soymilk when I can.
It definitely made sense to make the switch in this recipe. (You can generally substitute Silk for dairy milk, cup for cup, in almost any recipe.)
You can see a few other of my recipes where I've made the switch here: Creamy Avocado Dip, Skinny Baked Spinach and Artichoke Dip, 10 Smoothie ideas under 150 calories, Mini Chocolate Pudding Pies and Healthy Banana and Oats Cookies.
When it comes to bread puddings, different breads will yield different results. Brioche or other sweet breads will make a very sweet bread pudding and you would be able to cut down on the additional sugar used. Many recipes call for "stale" bread, but stale bread isn't really necessary. Bread pudding is just a great recipe to use up old, stale bread.
If you do use very dry or stale bread, you'll want to let the bread soak in the liquid mixture a bit longer than specified in this recipe. I've also seen recipes with sourdough, though I'm not a fan of sourdough, so I've never tried them.
Pumpkin Pie Bread Pudding w/ Caramel Sauce
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 50 to 65 minutes
Total time: 1 hour 35 minutes
Yield: 8
- 1 1/4 cup cup packed brown sugar
- 2 Tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice
- 3 cups Milk or Silk Almond Milk
- 1 Tsp Vanilla
- 1 1/2 cup Pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)
- 3 Eggs
- 6 cups French bread, cubed
- 1/4 cup Butter, melted
- 1/2 cup Chopped pecans (reserve 2 tbs for topping
- 1 Tsp Cinnamon sugar
- Caramel sauce
Cooking Directions
- Heat oven to 350ºF.
- Grease bottom and side of springform pan, 10×3 inches.
- Mix brown sugar, pumpkin pie spice, milk, vanilla, pumpkin and eggs in large bowl until well blended.
- Add bread cubes to large bowl and drizzle with melted butter. Stir to coat all bread cubes.
- Pour liquid mixture over bread and gently combine. Fold in pecans.
- Let mixture stand 10 minutes, then transfer to springform pan.
- Sprinkle reserved pecans and cinnamon sugar over bread mixture.
- Bake 50 to 65 minutes or until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
- Let stand 10 minutes; remove side of pan.
- Drizzle with caramel sauce and enjoy! (I used caramel ice cream topping, but this Maple Caramel Sauce recipe from silk looks really good too!
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Skippy plans to travel the world, meet someone famous, see lots of different animals, and climb a palm tree. Quite a lot of ambitions for such a small toy!
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Hello Everone!
I arrived in Queensland today and will be spending a few weeks with my new hosts.
As soon as I escaped from the padded postbag, I wanted to explore this strange new place, so I bounced up stairs to the deck and watched the last rays of the sunset with Harrison.
There's another furry creature here, Bella. She's a maltese shih-tzu cross doggie, who tells me she's very glad I am here. Apparently, Bella was getting tired of being the smallest animal in the house, and told me that it's my turn to get picked up and hugged by Lilly all the time.
"I try to look pleased when Lilly picks me up all the time", Bella confided to me, "but sometimes I find myself muttering 'Oh no, not again!'".
I heard some possums chattering outside last night while everyone else was asleep. Bella tells me the local possums are very naughty, and have a party every night outside her room. She yips at them but they just call her names and laugh at her.
Today, we're all going geocaching. I promise I'll show you some photos when we get back. Neilius tells me he's going to try to introduce me to a travel bug, so that we can talk about our adventures.
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There's nothing like a good New England Lobster…roll. I'm calling this one a sandwich, because I do not favor putting this masterpiece in a hot dog roll. Yes, yes, I know that's the traditional way of serving it. But I prefer to get rolls from a bakery or from the bakery section of my local supermarket.
Some people insist that you keep the ingredients to a minimum, basically serving the lobster with mayo, celery and some salt and pepper. I say nonsense. This is a delicious recipe, whether you buy your lobsters and boil them yourselves, or purchase lobster meat by the pound.
I hope you enjoy it!
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2 tsp lemon pepper seasoning
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Healthy bunch of fresh chives, finely chopped
2 tsp Dijon mustard
1/4 tsp Tabasco Sauce
Fresh-ground black pepper
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There can be little doubt that the ants are phylogenetically related, through the lower families of Hymenoptera with the oldest and most primitive of all the existing insects, the Blattoidea, or cockroaches. But while the Blattoid body, as seen, for example, in the common cockroaches, is generalized, that of the ants in its sharp demarcation of the head, thorax and abdomen is highly specialized. These accentuated subdivisions enable anyone to recognize an ant at a glance.
In this respect the ants are the most typical of insects, and may be the ones to which the term insectum were originally applied. While these and many other characters make it seem a far call from the ant to its remote Blattoid ancestors, it must be borne in mind that the individual ant still passes in its embryonic development through a stage in which the body consists of twenty like, or homonomous segments.
Six of these belong morphologically to the head, three to the thorax and the remaining eleven to the abdomen. The first and third segments bear no appendages, the second bears the antennae, the three thoracic segments bear the three pairs of legs, and the second and third of these segments in the males and females develop, at a much later stage, the two pairs of wings.
The first abdominal, which has long been known as the mediary segment, becomes fused with the hind portion of the third thoracic segment during pupal development, as Janet and Emery have demonstrated, and becomes the epinotum of the latter author.
The pedicel consists of the second abdominal segment, or of this and the third segment, while the remaining seven or eight form the gaster.
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MEXICO CITY — With Mexico's presidential vote and other key elections less than six months away, both the government and its watchdogs fear that the black hand of organized crime will manipulate the process to install puppet candidates as servants of the drug cartels.
According to Mexican prosecutors, little has been done to keep the narcos and their drug money out of the July 1 election, and U.S. officials worry that tainted campaigns could bring new leaders to city halls and federal offices who might undermine the ongoing war against Mexico's powerful crime gangs.
Political analysts say that the drug lords could corrupt the presidential race even without having to meddle directly in those campaigns and that their attempts to boost local candidates or suppress votes could contaminate the process at every level.
Such threats appear to put Mexican democracy at a critical juncture, as the country struggles to escape from the decades-long shadow of corrupt, one-party rule while new, darker forces angle for power.
Five governorships, hundreds of congressional seats and nearly 1,000 local-level races are at stake, but the top prize is Mexico's presidency, an office that the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, dominated for much of the 20th century and appears poised to recapture.
Despite concerns that drug gangsters will bankroll some candidates while intimidating — or assassinating — others, a package of new laws targeting election-related crimes has stalled in Mexico's National Congress since April. That leaves little time to safeguard the upcoming vote, Juan Luis Vargas, Mexico's chief prosecutor for electoral crimes, said in an interview.
"The appetite of these criminal groups is infinite," said Vargas, explaining that the cartels operate by an "economic logic" not unlike any business interest looking to gain influence. "They want certain guarantees from the authorities: that their monopolies will be protected and their competitors won't be allowed to operate in a given territory."
Mexico's 2012 vote is even more at risk from pernicious influences than the last presidential election in 2006, Vargas said, because the country's mafias have honed their methods of corruption, opting to finance campaigns rather than buy off officials after they are in power.
"They say: 'Why would I want to pay off the authorities if I can own them from the start?' " he said.
Elections held Nov. 13 in Mexico's troubled state of Michoacan are viewed as an ominous sign of what could happen to the vote this summer. Polls showed the sister of President Felipe Calderon, Luisa Maria Calderon, with a solid lead in the governor's race, but she ended up losing to PRI candidate Fausto Vallejo Figueroa amid multiple allegations of voter intimidation.
Local news media revealed audio recordings of a La Familia drug cartel leader allegedly threatening to kill voters' family members if they cast ballots for a candidate who was supposedly backed by the rival Knights Templar gang. Federal authorities say they are investigating, as candidates in other towns also reported threats.
"We cannot allow organized crime to decide at the ballot box," said Josefina Vazquez Mota, a leading contender to be the 2012 presidential candidate of the National Action Party (PAN), which ended 71 years of PRI-party rule with Vicente Fox's election in 2000.
Mexican presidents are limited to one six-year term, and the PAN held on to power in 2006 with Calderon's narrow win over leftist challenger Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who will top the ticket for the Democratic Revolutionary Party, or PRD, again in 2012.
This time around, analysts expect PAN candidates to be hobbled by public dissatisfaction with Calderon's military offensive against the drug cartels. At least 50,000 people have been killed since he took office in December 2006, and gangland violence has spread misery to parts of the country that were previously considered safe.
Calderon has angered rival lawmakers by suggesting that a presidential victory by PRI candidate Enrique Pena Nieto would represent a capitulation to the criminals. But many Mexicans seem nostalgic for the relative tranquility of life under the PRI, whose network of patronage and corruption once kept organized crime in check.
PRI leaders have bristled at allegations by Calderon and others that they aren't as committed to fighting the cartels. But political observers say the party deserves the most blame for holding up a package of proposals that would stiffen penalties for election-related crimes, expand investigative powers and mandate greater transparency and oversight for campaign financing, among other changes.
Pena Nieto has called on candidates to sign a "pact" agreeing to shun any offer of assistance or cash from criminals. "I don't want a single vote or bit of help from those who are outside the law," he said. "I want to win the trust of good Mexicans."
Mexico has not updated its election-crimes laws since 1996, despite the intensified pressure on its political system from the cartels as well as conventional influence-seekers.
"We have federal election laws that are made to prevent outside interference, but the reality is that if you get a million pesos to put up campaign posters, there is very little authorities can do about it," said Jose Carreño, a political analyst and resident scholar at Mexico's Tecnologico de Monterrey.
"We have a problem, but until there is reform, there isn't much that can be done," he said.
Local elections are viewed as especially vulnerable to cartel interference, because it takes relatively smaller acts of fraud, corruption and political violence to sway the outcome. And some observers of the drug war doubt the gangsters' ability to have significant influence beyond their immediate surroundings.
"Mexican narcos don't have the ability to sway elections on a national scale," said Mexican security analyst Alejandro Hope. "And why would they need congressional deputies anyway? They don't control the local police."
But a presidential victory by the PRI could still be marred by perceptions of illegitimacy if there are widespread reports of vote-buying, violence and other shenanigans at the local level.
"I think a lot of people want to give the PRI the benefit of the doubt, because they think it may be in a stronger position to get the [cartels] under control, given its history and reputation," said Michael Shifter, president of Inter-American Dialogue, a policy think tank based in Washington. "But the penetration of the drug trade into the political system appears to be deepening, and it's very hard to get precise information."
Jeffrey Davidow, who was the U.S. ambassador to Mexico when the PRI lost the presidency in 2000, said that although Mexico's political parties are often quick to throw around accusations of underworld ties, their campaign operations are so opaque that the allegations rarely stick.
"All of these charges and insinuations seem to argue strongly that the Mexican political system ought to be more transparent about how elections are funded," Davidow said.
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- Egyptian military leader to visit Egypt
- Insurgents storm Iraqi police station; at least 21 dead
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Nice one KFC! Ito ang dapat tularan (not the viral vid with the beki rep who made fun of the customer). The rep maintained professionalism, even though he knew it was his mother. I wouldn't go to the technicalities of the call, he didn't provide the total bill, but that's just me! LOL (TVC time constraints and too technical perhaps)
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Doubt is an inevitable part of life.
These things may give us reason to say "no"; to back down or step away. But they are so much more.
They are the sign of an opportunity we wouldn't generally be presented with. They are the gateways to something greater, that often leave marks behind (Yes, sometimes these marks are scars, but they can also be something wonderful).
So don't take doubt as a warning sign you must heed.
Take it as a possibility to adventure.
Doubt is an inevitable part of life.


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Star Alliance member Lufthansa next week will confirm a partnership with Panasonic Avionics to reignite in-flight broadband on its overseas flights.
Sources with knowledge of the situation tell ATI and Flightglobal that Lufthansa will announce the agreement on 12 October.
Some 72 aircraft in Lufthansa's international fleet are still equipped with Connexion by Boeing (CBB) antennas.
Those systems will remain in place when Lufthansa starts offering Panasonic's Ku-band-based eXconnect service to passengers.
New Lufthansa aircraft, including the carrier's forthcoming Airbus A380s, are expected to be retrofitted with Panasonic's eXconnect antenna, which is supplied by EMS and includes Starling technology.
While the eXconnect antenna is nearly the same size as the MELCO antenna used by now-commercially-defunct CBB, it is only a fraction of the weight. The radome has also been contoured to reduce drag and improve efficiency.
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A lot of people are under the false impression that soy is great for the body – tofu! Soy milk! It's all over aisles in health food stores, so it's natural that many of us would think we are doing our bodies a favor by consuming it. Unfortunately over 90% of soy in the US is genetically modified (GMO), and more frighteningly, soy contains estrogen-like substances, and studies have shown that because of it people who regularly consume soy (two or more times a week), have an increased likelihood to suffer from irritability, mood swings, Alzheimer's Disease, and cancer. For men in particular it can also contribute to hair loss and swollen prostates. My father has cereal morning and before bed every single day with soy milk, and my pleas to get him to stop have done nothing. I hope he will be the exception rather than the norm because the evidence against soy is becoming overwhelming.
Sadly the classic dairy milk we've long been told (thank you, lobbyists…) is great for our bodies is not much better. Not only does milk from dairy cows contain lactose and casein, both of which are often associated with gas and bloating, but a good chunk of dairy cows are injected with growth hormones to increase their milk production. Dairy milk is also slow to digest. Add to all of this the fact that dairy and soy milk are both relatively high in calories and sugar, and they're just bad all around. So what's the answer? Unsweetened almond milk!
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Barack Obama, the Bamboozler-in-Chief, is going to try to tell you that you should not focus on the fact that most of us are worse off than we were four years ago, by telling us the the problem he "inherited" was far worse than he thought. Well imagine a fellow that decides to walk from one side of the continental United States to the other. He starts off in San Francisco, and by the time he gets to Denver, thinks to himself, "Wow. This is far longer than I thought it would be!"
But, at least, he'd have made it to Denver.
Now imagine Barack Obama starting off in San Francisco, going the wrong way, ending up in Hawaii, knocking off to play a few rounds of golf, and looking you in the eyes and telling you, "It was farther than I thought."
Obama said he'd cut the budget in half by the end of his first term, but made it tremendously larger instead. As a candidate, he promised to "go through the budget line by line" to eliminate waste and fraud. By my reckoning, he's played over 90 rounds of golf, but hasn't quite found the time to do the whole "line by line" thing. And he said he had cut millions of dollars from the budget, so that he could sound like a moderate politician, but the truth is, they were all phony cuts, and the Federal Budget is slated to continue to grow every year for the next ten years.
When next year's budget is bigger than this year's budget, normal people will tell you that's not a cut, but an increase. A bamboozler will tell you what he thinks you want to hear.
The first two years of his presidency, Democrats controlled the White House, the House and the Senate. They had the power to pass any legislation they wanted, any remedy to the economy that they saw fit: health care reform (as opposed to health care insurance reform), minimum wage, or jobs bills and instead, funneled money to political supporters like Solyndra and failed solar companies, sent money overseas to build electric cars, and actively took measures to raise the price of oil, gas and electricity, instead of doing what was right for the country.
What on God's green earth makes you think the next two or four years will be any different under Obama?
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27th May
Juanillo-Cap Cana Beach, Santo Domingo
This event was held at Juanillo-Cap Cana Beach, Santo Domingo
More than 200,000 spectators watched Red Bull F1's Jaime Alguersuari bring Formula One to the Caribbean
The Red Bull Running Showcar was the highlight of the Red Bull Formula Santo Domingo event which featured other high-speed thrills such as drift cars, Porsche car runs and karting.
Afterwards Toro Rosso driver Jaime said: "It has been amazing to be in the Dominican Republic. I am very happy that I shared this moment with the best audience ever. I enjoyed every minute on the track."
And the country were so impressed with our young Spanish driver that Jaime was made a distinguished guest of the city of Santo Domingo by the city's council.
The day after the Showrun, Jaime became the first F1 driver to race at 180 kph... on sand.


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So, I was trying to make sure I uploaded the videos I took of the dogs today, Needless to say, Lola was still wanting to attack the water.
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My dogs name is Lola too... and she loves watching T.V. and when the animals run across the screen... she runs outside to catch them... as if they just ran across the into our backyard.... that video was funny!! whoever was laughing made me laugh!
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April 24, 1996 Hubble Captures Detailed Image of Uranus' Atmosphere
Hubble Space Telescope has peered deep into Uranus' atmosphere to see clear and hazy layers created by a mixture of gases. Using infrared filters, Hubble captured detailed features of three layers of Uranus' atmosphere.
Hubble's images are different from the ones taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which flew by Uranus 10 years ago. Those images - not taken in infrared light - showed a greenish-blue disk with very little detail.
The infrared image allows astronomers to probe the structure of Uranus' atmosphere, which consists of mostly hydrogen with traces of methane. The red around the planet's edge represents a very thin haze at a high altitude. The haze is so thin that it can only be seen by looking at the edges of the disk, and is similar to looking at the edge of a soap bubble. The yellow near the bottom of Uranus is another hazy layer. The deepest layer, the blue near the top of Uranus, shows a clearer atmosphere.
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One of the reasons for this blog inactivity to couple with my tiring job and general inconsistency with what I choose to dedicate my time to (this including tv, video games, among other things) is because ive often sought for generally higher quality content. Originally I wanted to do lengthy reviews but could not keep up the pace, I wanted to do daily updates but again that never stuck. I even tried to upload parts of a story I'd been working on but as you can probably tell that didn't work out either.
Going forward I'd like to try something different and open myself up to shorter, less substantial posts instead of trashing stuff that I don't believe are lengthy enough. Even if those posts end up being relatively brief thoughts, the way I see it, if they're longer than 140 characters then they can fit on a rarely visited blog instead of Twitter. Further on that note, a high performing phone means I can probably make posts on the go easier (though my hand hasn't gotten used to the keyboard size yet so typoes are aplenty).
So that's my mini update. This could end up being one of many false alarms and I still might not post here again for a while but as always, let's hope it's not.
Right now, I'm an hour past the end of my birthday, and hoping to wake up at around 9 am to get some writing done (I suspect I'll be too tired, and will convince myself to sleep more – also that I'll only write 1k amidst all the distractions I will consistently spring forth). I'll have till 2-3pm to at least strike past 1k as I'll have to go to work after that.
I keep wanting to buy games (Overwatch and Madden are on my list) or play some I haven't finished, along with a million other things I'd like to do but I need to remind myself to focus on my novel. Once that's done, and hopefully published one day, I'll be able to refocus my time away from things like my job and school and to things I enjoy a lot more. After all, they arent gonna disappear anytime soon and hard work will pay off eventually.
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(CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama condemned the attacks on journalists in Egypt Friday amid mounting criticism that the assaults were being orchestrated by President Hosni Mubarak to suppress international coverage of bloodshed by pro-government operatives against peaceful protesters.
"We continue to be crystal clear that we oppose violence as a response to this crisis," Obama said. "We are sending a strong, unequivocal message: Attacks on reporters are unacceptable. Attacks on human rights activists are unacceptable. Attacks on peaceful protesters are unacceptable."
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday that the administration continues "to receive very disturbing reports" of "systematic targeting" of journalists in Egypt.
The Committee to Protect Journalists has excoriated Mubarak for "an unprecedented and systematic attack" on international reporters.
"This is a dark day for Egypt and a dark day for journalism," CPJ executive director Joel Simon said. "With this turn of events, Egypt is seeking to create an information vacuum that puts it in the company of the world's worst oppressors, countries such as Burma, Iran and Cuba."
"We hold President Mubarak personally responsible for this unprecedented action," said Simon, "and call on the Egyptian government to reverse course immediately."
The Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent, nonprofit committee promoting press freedoms worldwide, said Friday it has recorded at least 101 direct attacks on journalists and news facilities this week. The anti-press activities include assaults, detentions and threats, the committee said.
Friday's attacks weren't as severe as Thursday's peak offenses, but the hostilities against a free press remain at "an alarming level that must be halted," the committee said.
Plainclothes and uniformed agents reportedly went so far as to even enter journalists' hotels and confiscate equipment, the committee said.
A journalist shot a week ago while covering a demonstration died Friday, a state newspaper reported, according to the committee.
It was the first reported journalistic death during the weeklong uprising, it said.
Ahmad Mohamed Mahmoud of the newspaper Al-Ta'awun, published by the state-owned Al-Ahram Foundation, died from a sniper's bullets fired while he was filming confrontations between demonstrators and security forces January 28 in central Cairo's Qasr al-Aini area, adjacent to Tahrir Square, Al-Jazeera and the semi-official Al-Ahram reported Friday, according to the committee.
The Mubarak regime hasn't discriminated in which sorts of journalists are being attacked: Egyptians and other Arabs, Russians, Americans, Europeans and South Americans all have been targeted, the committee said.
Speaking on state-run Nile TV Thursday, Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman mentioned the role of the media and, at least in part, blamed journalists for the country's current unrest.
"I actually blame certain friendly nations who have television channels, they are not friendly at all, who have intensified the youth against the nation and the state," he said. "They have filled in the minds of the youth with wrongdoings, with allegations, and this is unacceptable."
Meanwhile, in Washington, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the attacks Thursday, "in the strongest possible terms."
Pro-government journalists and officials have been engaging in a campaign the past two days accusing foreign journalists of being spies or, in particular, "Israeli spies," the committee said. In one instance, a woman whose face was obscured "confessed" to having been trained by "Americans and Israelis" in Qatar, where Al-Jazeera is based, the committee said.
NPR journalist Lourdes Garcia-Navarro and her Egyptian-American colleague Ashraf Khalil, provided a typical account Thursday of how routine street reporting quickly turned in a thuggish assault on them.
While interviewing a taxi driver about food, money and security in a middle-class neighborhood across the river and a good distance from the often-violent Tahrir Square, at least a dozen men suddenly surrounded them, Garcia-Navarro said on the NPR website.
They asked for IDs and whether they were Israeli spies or worked for Al-Jazeera, an Arabic-language media outlet whose extensive coverage has angered the Mubarak regime.
The men surrounded Garcia-Navarro in her car and repeatedly punched Khalil in the face. After 10 minutes, the army showed up, calmed the mob and protected the journalists.
"What happened today -- I've lived here on and off since 1997 -- I did not think they had it in them, this kind of violent paranoia and xenophobia," journalist Khalil said. "I've never seen Egypt like this."
The attacks against reporters targeted some of the most prominent news organizations in the Western and Arab worlds alike.
The Al-Jazeera network said Friday that a "gang of thugs" stormed its Cairo office and burned the facility and the equipment there.
Al-Jazeera said that over the past week "its bureau was forcibly closed, all its journalists had press credentials revoked, and nine journalists were detained at various stages." The network said it "faced unprecedented levels of interference in its broadcast signal as well as persistent and repeated attempts to bring down its websites."
Like other networks, Al-Jazeera said it won't let such obstacles stop it from gathering news.
"We are grateful for the support we have received from across the world for our coverage in Egypt and can assure everyone that we will continue our work undeterred," a network spokesman said.
Meanwhile, the French Foreign Ministry said it has had no word on the whereabouts of three French journalists and a French researcher in Egypt. The journalists work for Le Figaro newspaper and Magneto Presse, and the researcher is employed by Amnesty International, it said.
A prominent blogger, Wael Abbas, said a group of people who said they thought he was a foreigner detained him Friday afternoon. They turned him over to the military, which released him, he said.
And the Egyptian military secured 18 journalists who were captured by thugs and took them to a "safe place," Egyptian state media reported Friday.
It was unclear which news organizations the journalists worked for or where they had been taken. CNN could not independently confirm the report.
Journalists attempting to cover unrest in Egypt have reported being beaten, arrested and harassed by security forces and police Thursday, leading to sharply limited television coverage of the protests.
Along with Al-Jazeera, other news outlets -- including the BBC, Al-Arabiya, ABC News, the Washington Post, Fox News, and CNN -- said members of their staffs had been attacked or otherwise targeted. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch also reported that staffers were detained.
U.S. State Department officials told CNN earlier that they had information that Egypt's Interior Ministry was behind the journalist detentions, citing reports from the U.S. Embassy in Egypt.
"The threats to journalists on the street were explicit, and increasing. We pulled back accordingly to protect our people," said CNN Executive Vice President Tony Maddox.
The Islamist group Muslim Brotherhood reported that its website office was stormed Friday by security forces, who arrested "the journalists, the technicians and the administrators" in the office. A "gang of thugs" accompanied the forces, the Muslim Brotherhood said.
Some of those individuals were later seen being taken near the Interior Ministry headquarters, the website said.
CNN's Christine Theodorou, Jill Dougherty, Elise Labott, Ben Smith, Mary Rogers and Caroline Faraj contributed to this report.