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Abalone, creative Japanese cuisine, 龍吟, Foodie, Gastronomy, HaoKouFu, Michelin 3 stars, Michelin Guide, RyuGin, Seiji Yamamoto, www.cathyho.com, 山本征治
Soft "Simmered Abalone" and "Blue Crab" with "Wakame Seaweed and Apple Vinegar Jelly"
30 Tuesday Oct 2012
Posted Gastronomy, Japan - Tokyoin
Abalone, creative Japanese cuisine, 龍吟, Foodie, Gastronomy, HaoKouFu, Michelin 3 stars, Michelin Guide, RyuGin, Seiji Yamamoto, www.cathyho.com, 山本征治
Soft "Simmered Abalone" and "Blue Crab" with "Wakame Seaweed and Apple Vinegar Jelly"
26 Wednesday Nov 2008
Posted Gastronomy, Japan - Tokyoin
An inspiring and fantastic dining experience in Tokyo – RyuGin
RyuGin, a restaurant renowned for creative Japanese cuisine, is hidden in the very modern and chic Roppongi area. The chef Yamamoto Seiji (山本征治) used to work under the very famous chef Koyama Hirohisa (小山裕久) at Aoyagi (青柳) for 11 years. When he was 33 years old, he started his own restaurant RyuGin in December 2003. It's rated as a 2-star restaurant by the first issue of Michelin Guide – Tokyo 2008. Yamamoto was invited to the 2007 Madrid Fusion and presented a dish called "Silkscreen of Squid Ink with Squid Carpaccio" which earned an ovation at the event. Indeed, Yamamoto is a super star in Japanese cuisine nowadays.
The dining space of RyuGin is pretty small. The main space could host about 20 guests only, but with a private room, it can host up to about 26 seats. I was lucky to get a seat because I called to make a reservation just 2 days ahead, but I was requested to arrive at the restaurant at 18h, otherwise, there'd be no tables available until 22h. I knew it's very difficult to get a table there, so, I told the person that it was fine for me to be there at 18h.
On that day, I was the first guest to arrive at the restaurant. The sommelier (who was also the person to serve me) told me it would be okay to take a few pictures of the restaurant since no other guests were there yet. I was glad that the sommelier spoke English fluently. He told me that he went to Australia to take a sommelier course before, so there was no problem to communicate with him in English at all. Obviously, we have a shared interest – wine. Soon, we started a cheerful conversation. By his recommendation, I ordered the Gastronomy B set (which cost 26,250 yen, about US$250) which focuses on Yamamoto's signature dishes.
After having the seasonal amuse bouche, I asked the sommelier what kind of whites they provided by the glass. He soon brought 4 whites to my table. Normally, I would choose the wine by myself, but in this case – I didn't know how this "creative Japanese cuisine" would be, so I preferred to consult the sommelier. Satisfyingly, he gave me this answer – "How about this – I'll pour some of each wine for you, so you can try the different combinations with different dishes." How could I reject this offer?!
When the first dish came, I was still on my Champagne Henriot. Then the 2nd dish – Aichi figs with port flavored foie gras terrine served with sesame cream came, the waiter suggested another wine which didn't appear in those 4 white flight when he just showed me. It's a 2005 Zind-Humbrecht Clos Windsbuhl Gewurztraminer VT, what a brilliant suggestion. "Le mariage" of the wine and food was very harmonious. The bouquet of this Gewurz was dazzlingly aromatic. I just couldn't stop myself taking a deep breath of this wine…
The sommelier was indeed helpful and friendly. He patiently explained every dish to me. When the "Assorted Sashimi – RyuGin Style" was served, the chef Yamamoto himself even came to pour the soy sauce for me as well as presented his greetings. Quelle surprise!
When I dined at some Michelin 2-star or 3-star restaurants in Paris, I sometimes found some dishes were not executed perfectly which usually made me feel a bit disappointed. But at RyuGin, I would say – every dish just and simply blew me away. I didn't find anything over-cooked or not executed properly. Plus, the ingredients were top quality and the service was inviting with a "Japanese" sincere touch. Instead of "words", maybe the pictures posted here would tell better by themselves. You would understand what RyuGin is likely to be.
Winewise –
Champagne Henriot "Souverain"
2005 Zind-Humbrecht Clos Windsbuhl Gewurztraminer VT
2003 Chateau Villa Bel-Air, Graves
2006 Koshu Cuvee Denis Dubourdieu (Made in Japan and by original Japnese grape variety)
2006 Domaine Weinbach Pinot Blanc
2003 Domaine Jayer-Gilles Bourgogne Hauts Cotes de Beaune
2006 Chateau Mercian Nagano Merlot (Japanese wine)
1999 Louis Jador "Ladoix"
1998 Chateau Batailley, Pauillac
Japanse Sake "天明 Tenmei" 純米吟釀 Junmai-Ginjo
Gastronomy B set
1) Amuse bouche – Ichiban Dash soup (Traditional clear broth) with puree of 5 varieties of wild mushrooms.
2) Deep fried seaweed, stuffed with sea urchin
3) Aichi figs with port flavored foie gras terrine served with sesame cream. (The foie gras is from Landes)
4) Blue swimming crab and Shanghai crab topped with chrysanthemum gelee
5) "RyuGin's house special – Contrasted of two abalone pieces cooked differently, steamed for 10 hours and the other in Shabushabu." – The more transparent one on the right side is cooked by "shabushabu" way.
6) "Assorted sashimi – RyuGin Style" – There are 2 pieces for each kind of fish. For the first piece of each fish, the chef recommended me to eat with the sauce placed next to it. Then eat the 2nd piece with wasabi and dip a bit soy sauce.
7) Egg pudding, made with Hamo's bone stock, flavored of autumn
8 ) Char grilled natural large eel with aroma of Japanese peppers
9) "Chef's specialty – Grilled baby pigeon with autumn truffles" – the baby pigeon was only 28 days old! The meat is so tender… It's grilled perfectly. The autumn truffle is very aromatic which tells the quality.
10) "Chef's rice dish of the day" – The fish on the top is from Hokkaido, but I forgot the name of it…
11) Fresh compote of pear and small grapes with plum wine soda gelee
12) Caramel ice cream with Wasanbon sugar served with grated milk curd" – Wasanbon sugar is considered the best sugar in Japan. I really like the flavor of grated milk curd.
13) Baked chestnut cake served on full-moon presentation – very traditional Japanese dessert. Interesting presentation.
I posted this experience sharing on a gourmet forum called OAD (Opinionated About Dining), and I sent e-mail to RyuGin and told them I did that. A couple days ago, I received e-mail from Ryu-Gin, and I'm so grateful for that. Here's the e-mail from Ryu-Gin –
Dear Ms. Ho,
Thank you for sending the URL for your photographs.
We have not heard of OAD website, and could you tell us the URL?
We assume it's like Chowhound or EGullet and your word of mouth certainly help
s us as we are a tiny restaurant and don't have the capacity for PR.
Recently, we started the online booking for overseas. Hopefully the guests wil
l feel more convenient to reserve a table whenever they want to from anywhere
in the world.
We hope to see you again on your next visit to Tokyo.
RyuGin Administration


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Ex-Mass. chemist pleads not guilty in lab case
A chemist who used to testify for prosecutors stood up in a sixth Massachusetts courthouse Monday and again pleaded her innocence in connection with a state drug lab scandal.
Annie Dookhan's plea in Essex Superior Court on a charge of misleading the grand jury, prosecutor and judge marked the end of her half-dozen arraignments following a 27-count indictment.
Authorities have accused her of wrongdoing that includes fabricating drug test results and tampering with evidence while testing samples. They also allege she lied about having a master's degree in chemistry while testifying as an expert witness during drug prosecutions.
The 35-year-old Franklin, Mass., woman remained free on her prior bail of $10,000. Dookhan and her attorney declined to comment outside the courtroom. She is due back in court Friday for a pre-trial conference in Middlesex County.
The scandal threatens to unravel thousands of drug convictions. Judges have let about 200 drug defendants out of custody and put their cases on hold while legal challenges go through the courts. Authorities said some have committed new crimes in the meantime.
State police closed the Boston lab in August after taking over the facility and learning about the depths of Dookhan's alleged misdeeds. She resigned months earlier during a state Department of Public Health internal investigation.
Authorities say Dookhan tested more than 60,000 samples involving 34,000 defendants during her nine years at the lab.
She allegedly told police she sometimes contaminated a sample with a known narcotic if it tested negative for drugs, and other times would label a sample positive without testing it.
Also Monday, a Massachusetts prison inmate filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Dookhan, a Boston police official, the state and the offices of the Suffolk and Norfolk district attorneys.
Plaintiff Jeffrey Solomon, also known as Jeffrey Banks, is currently serving a prison sentence in Middlesex County on unrelated charges. Last year, prosecutors decided not to pursue drug charges, including dealing cocaine, against Solomon after testing showed a substance certified as cocaine by Dookhan was not a narcotic.
In his suit, Solomon said he's a victim of perjury, threats and false evidence, and claims unspecified monetary damages.
The suit accuses the Boston police detective who arrested Solomon of destroying evidence and falsely testifying he found cocaine on Solomon.
The lawsuit alleges state health officials didn't respond properly after finding problems with Dookhan's work and claims Dookhan favored prosecutors because district attorneys and health officials failed to prohibit contact between chemists and prosecutors.
A spokesman for the Suffolk district attorney said the office hadn't seen the suit and couldn't comment.
A spokesman for the Norfolk district attorney referred questions to the attorney general's office, which defends his offices against suits. An email requesting comment was left with spokesman for the attorney general, as well as a health department spokeswoman. A Boston police spokeswoman said the department doesn't comment on pending litigation.

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I am here to admit…I'm not a Star Wars fan. I might be if I watch the movie(s) all the way through. But as soon as the weird looking characters come on screen I feel myself stifling a giggle 😉 They're just so funny looking I find it hard to take the movie serious. However, my husband would watch any of the Star Wars movies ANY chance he could get. If he's zapping through the channels and comes across one, regardless if he watched one the day before, he stops and watches it. He loves them. True fan.
So when an amazing woman found me on Facebook (LaDonna you're awesome!!) and asked for Star Wars cookies for her little cousin I was all over it! I WANTED to learn the characters. I WANTED to get them right for Curtis' birthday. I called in the household storm trooper (hubby) and he gave me the run down. You know…Is it light saver or light saber?, What color are light sabers?, Is this green a good Yoda green?…you know the basics 😉
Happy Birthday Curtis! May the force be with you! (Just added "Find out what the force is" to my list) 🙂
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Obama administration will seek to extend funding for Afghanistan civilians through 2017
TOKYO -- The Obama administration will ask Congress to sustain U.S. assistance for Afghanistan near the average amount it has been over the last decade through 2017 as part of the international effort to stabilize the country even as most international forces pull out over the next two years.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made the pledge Sunday as some 70 countries gathered in Tokyo to announce a four-year civilian assistance plan. Altogether they are promising to give $16 billion to Afghanistan through 2015.
The funds would help Afghanistan build its economy and make necessary reforms, Clinton said.
"We have to make the security gains and the transition irreversible," Clinton told officials, including Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
She said Afghan security "cannot only be measured by the absence of war."
"It has to be measured by whether people have jobs and economic opportunity; whether they believe the government is meeting their needs," Clinton said.
Clinton said Afghanistan has made substantial progress over the last decade, but needs effective collaboration between its government, private sector, neighbors and international donors "so that this decade of transformation can produce results."
Annual U.S. civilian assistance since 2001 has ranged from $1 billion to this year's high of $2.3 billion.
Clinton said the aid request to Congress through 2017 would be to maintain funding at or near the average level, without specifying further.


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When an organization puts up a web application, they invite the world to send them HTTP requests. Attacks buried in these requests sail past firewalls, filters, platform hardening, and intrusion detection systems without notice because they are inside legal HTTP requests. Even "secure" websites that use SSL just accept the requests that arrive through the encrypted tunnel without scrutiny. This means that your web application code is part of your security perimeter. As the number, size and complexity of your web applications increases, so does your perimeter exposure.
The security issues raised here are not new. In fact, some have been well understood for decades. Yet for a variety of reasons, major software development projects are still making these mistakes and jeopardizing not only their customers' security, but also the security of the entire Internet. There is no "silver bullet" to cure these problems. Today's assessment and protection technology is improving, but can currently only deal with a limited sub-set of the issues at best. To address the issues described in this document, organizations will need to change their development culture, train developers, update their software development processes, and use technology where appropriate.
The OWASP Top Ten is a list of vulnerabilities that require immediate remediation. Existing code should be checked for these vulnerabilities immediately, as these flaws are being actively targeted by attackers. Development projects should address these vulnerabilities in their requirements documents and design, build, and test their applications to ensure that they have not been introduced. Project managers should include time and budget for application security activities including developer training, application security policy development, security mechanism design and development, penetration testing, and security code review.
We encourage organizations to join the growing list of companies that have adopted the OWASP Top Ten as a minimum standard and are committed to producing web applications that do not contain these vulnerabilities.
We have chosen to present this list in a format similar to the highly successful SANS/FBI Top Twenty List in order to facilitate its use and understanding. The SANS list is focused on flaws in particular widely used network and infrastructure products. Because each website is unique, the OWASP Top Ten is organized around particular types or categories of vulnerabilities that frequently occur in web applications. These categories are being standardized in the OASIS Web Application Security (WAS) XML Project.
This list represents the combined wisdom of OWASP experts, whose experience includes many years of application security work for governments, financial services, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing, as well as developing tools and technology. This document is designed to introduce the most serious web application vulnerabilities. There are many books and guidelines that describe these vulnerabilities in more detail and provide detailed guidance on how to eliminate them. One such guideline is the OWASP Guide available at http://www.owasp.org.
The OWASP Top Ten is a living document. It includes instructions and pointers to additional information useful for correcting these types of security flaws. We update the list and the instructions as more critical threats and more current or convenient methods are identified, and we welcome your input along the way. This is a community consensus document – your experience in fighting attackers and in eliminating these vulnerabilities can help others who come after you. Please send suggestions via e-mail to [email protected] with the subject "OWASP Top Ten Comments."


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Aaron Gouveia is outraged that a new law in Arizona and nine other states will allow doctors to lie to their patients about fetal deformities.
Apparently I missed the portion of the Hippocratic Oath where it says "I will lie to patients."
There is a horrid piece of legislation recently passed by the Arizona Senate and slated to go before that state's House, known as "wrongful death, wrongful life." If passed, it would prohibit medical malpractice lawsuits against doctors who purposefully withhold information from a woman that could cause her to have an abortion. Or, in other words, it encourages pro-life doctors to lie to pregnant women about fetal deformities and disabilities that might lead to a woman terminating the pregnancy.
Let me repeat: some doctors are actively trying to deceive their patients. And they're being assisted by Arizona legislators, who want to legally protect doctors for intentionally misleading people. I don't care if you're the most fervent pro-life advocate on the planet – that's completely fucked up on several fronts.
First of all, doctors get more than a decade of schooling and training in order to help people. They help us prevent disease and cure it. We look to them for help – often miracles – when in dire straits because we know all the political, economic and moral differences cease to matter on the operating table. In short, we trust doctors and literally place our lives in their hands.
Which makes this proposed legislation all that more insidious.
There are nine states where this is already law. And new abortion-related laws are popping up everyday, such as the new law in Virginia which makes abdominal ultrasounds mandatory for all women seeking abortions with the exceptions of victims of rape and incest. Everyone else seeking an abortion has to be tortured with an ultrasound so conservatives can try to capitalize on a woman's grief to change her mind. It all goes to prove a woman still has a right to opt for a procedure that is perfectly legal in this country, but only if she survives all the petty obstacles being thrown up by the religious right in an effort to steadily erode Roe vs. Wade at every turn.
If I sound a little defensive, it's with good reason.
Nearly two years ago my wife and I were trying for our second child. At 16 weeks our radiologist detected a fetal abnormality that turned out to be Sirenomelia, better known as Mermaid Syndrome. In addition to our baby's legs being fused together, we found out she was also missing vital organs such as kidneys and a bladder. We got several opinions from world-renowned doctors, but they all said the same thing – our baby would eventually die.
Our world was shattered and the grief was torrential. Our doctors never advised us to have an abortion, they simply went over our options. But knowing our little girl was already near death, we decided the only thing that could make matters worse was having to deliver a stillborn. So we opted for an abortion.
Unfortunately the hospital couldn't do the procedure for 10-14 days. By then, we were told an abortion might not be possible and my wife would have to deliver a dead baby. To avoid that scenario, the only other option was to do it immediately at an affiliated clinic, which we did.
And that's when I was introduced to the horrors of the informed consent laws.
On the day of the procedure, we were verbally accosted by religious zealots holding signs and shouting awful things at us we entered. At the time, I didn't think anything could be worse than having perfect strangers call you a murderer on the worst day of your life. But then I sat with MJ as the doctors fulfilled their legal obligation to inform us about what was going to happen. In detail. Graphic, horrifying detail.
We knew what was happening. We both researched the procedure. Horrible, but necessary. I quickly told the doctor to skip the speech because it was upsetting my wife. I was stunned to hear that she couldn't do that and had to continue. And continue she did.
I'm still haunted by what transpired in the following minutes. My wife with her hands over her ears, trying to block it out. The doctor failing to relent despite my wife and I begging her to stop. My wife shrieking in agony as I tearfully held her down so we could get it over with and do what had to be done.
I understand the intent of that law. People need to be informed about what's happening. But I also believe it's been hijacked by anti-choice extremists who have no problem shaming and intimidating vulnerable pregnant women into keeping their babies. It's a scare tactic, plain and simple. And it's wrong.
But while this kind of abhorrent behavior is expected from the kind of people who stand on street corners holding pictures of mutilated babies and occasionally bombing clinics, shouldn't our medical professionals be held to a higher standard? Don't we deserve doctors who, at the very least, tell us the truth? Forget malpractice lawsuits – I believe any doctor who purposefully lies to a patient should be brought up on criminal charges.
Women are in charge of their own bodies. Abortion is legal. They deserve the right to be truthfully informed of their medical situation by a licensed medical professional, and then make the choice that's best for them. They don't deserve to be needlessly tortured via backdoor tactics and outright lies from people they're supposed to trust the most.
Read Aaron Gouveia's "Confronting Life" and watch the video in which Aaron confronts the protestors who accosted him and his wife on the worst day of their lives.
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Dinner Tonight: Spiced Butternut Squash, Lentil, and Goat Cheese Salad Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
Main dish salads are tricky to pull off, especially around this time of year when you can't just dump a bunch of ripe tomatoes into a bowl with lettuce and call it a dinner. With autumn here, a little extra effort is required. But it also means the results can be even more soulful and satisfying. That's especially true for this salad from Bon Appétit, which mixes roasted butternut squash with French green lentils.
I was a little perplexed by the pairing at first, but it works. The lentils added an earthiness to each bite, which balanced the sweetness of the butternut squash. I'll admit though, it was the dressing that really sold me. I'm kind of a smoked paprika fanatic, and it works wonders here, transforming a respectable fall salad into something warming and remarkable.
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- 3/4 cup French green lentils
- 2 large butternut squash, peeled, seeded, and cut into 1-inch cubes (about 6 cups)
- 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 cups baby arugula
- 1 cup soft goat cheese, crumbled, divided
- 1/4 cup mint, thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
Adjust oven rack to lower middle position and preheat oven to 375°F. Meanwhile, pour lentils into small bowl, and cover with cold water. Soak for ten minutes, then drain.
Bring medium-sized pot of salted water to boil over high heat. Add lentils and cook for 30 minutes. Drain lentils in colander, and rinse with cold water. Let drain again.
Meanwhile, add cubed butternut squash, 2 tablespoons oil, cumin, paprika, and salt to large bowl. Mix well with pair of 12-inch tongs. Transfer to baking sheet and arrange in single layer. Place baking sheet in oven and cook for 20 minutes. Flip squash pieces with tongs. Cook until tender,a bout 15 minutes longer. Remove baking sheet from oven and let cool for a few minutes.
Transfer butternut squash and any remaining oil to large mixing bowl. Add arugula, half of goat cheese, mint, vinegar, and remaining olive oil. Toss gently. Season with more salt and pepper to taste. Serve with remaining goat cheese sprinkled on top.
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Vancouver Island & BC Islands
Vancouver Island offers a rich diversity of topography and landscapes, ranging from magnificent rainforests and sandy beaches along the coast to spectacular mountains that form the spine of Vancouver Island. This diverse playground offers a fabulous selection of outdoor recreation and adventure in its remote wilderness regions.
Vancouver, Coast & Mountains
This region of British Columbia incorporates the city of Vancouver, the resort town of Whistler, the BC Sunshine Coast, and the Fraser Valley on the BC Lower Mainland. The Coast Mountains that run from Vancouver's North Shore right up to Northern BC provide appreciable opportunities for recreation and outdoor adventure.
Thompson Okanagan
You can't really say you know British Columbia until you've travelled this area, certainly one of the liveliest in the province. A series of gentle mountain ranges rolls between the Thompson Plateau in the west and the Shuswap Highlands to the east, then rises dramatically in the Selkirk and Monashee Mountains.
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Dominated by mountains and water, the Kootenays region of British Columbia is cradled between the Monashee Mountains and the Selkirk and Purcell Mountains. Between these ranges are the enormous Arrow and Kootenay Lakes. The BC Rockies present some truly extraordinary landscapes to explore and thrilling whitewater rafting and kayaking adventures.
Cariboo, Chilcotin, Coast
The Central Coast of British Columbia delights adventurers with some of the most beautiful terrain in BC. The Chilcotin Plateau east of the Bella Coola Valley can rightfully claim to be the true bastion of the range rider, with vast expanses of the Chilcotin being worked by large ranching outfits. Thousands of lakes and rivers offer superb recreation possibilities.
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The boundless wilderness of Northern BC is larger than the state of California. The North West is filled with the standard BC fare of deep fjords, dramatic canyons, sheer mountains, rivers thick with salmon, old-growth forests, and an abundance of wildlife. The Rocky Mountains and their foothills dominate the North East, as the Rockies cut a vast swath across the northern half of BC.


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I dug around in Windows 7 and discovered some super-secret features. It's possible I was sabotaged, but I've decided to go public with my discoveries.
Here at TechRepublic we have been evaluating, experimenting with, and discussing Windows 7 throughout 2009. We've seen the same stuff that everyone else is talking about -- the fact that Windows 7 cleans up the Vista interface, cleans out much of the code that made Vista too much of a resource hog, and finally suppresses most of those horribly-annoying UAC prompts.
However, during our Windows 7 exploration, I also spotted some secret features that are hidden deep within the recesses of over 50 million lines of code. In fact, these features are so secret that I doubt even the most dedicated, deeply-experienced IT professionals will be able to find them. Yes, they are that mysterious.
Of course, it's always possible that someone has sabotaged me and planted the code for these little secrets in my Windows 7 machines. But who do that? Linus Torvalds? Richard Stallman? David Pogue? (It can't be David, see No. 5 below). But, just in case, I've decided to reveal these secret features so that the world can know.
1. Software that turns normal displays into touchscreens
I don't know how Microsoft did this. It seems like they would have needed cooperation from the hardware manufacturers. Nevertheless, it appears that the company has developed its own highly-secret software that can turn any standard LCD screen into a touchscreen. Now users will no longer have to a do a simple click-and-drag to resize photos. Instead they'll be able to reach up to their screens with both hands and use a set of complicated multi-touch gestures to do the same thing, and it will only take 5-10 seconds longer. Upon further digging, I also discovered that all mouse and keyboard drivers appear to be in a time-bombed phase-out cycle.
2. PC-to-PC version of the Zune 'squirting' feature
One of the most underused features in the Microsoft Zune platform is squirting, which allows a Zune user to share a song with another Zune user over Wi-Fi (although the squirted song can only be used for three days or three plays). Microsoft thinks this feature is very innovative and deserves much more attention and usage than it has received. Therefore, it has quietly integrated it into Windows 7. This will allow cubical mates to share songs with each other from their massive libraries of Zune Marketplace selections, and laptop users will even be use to shoot songs to each from other across the aisle in the subway, for example. In a surprising move, there is currently no PC-to-Zune or Zune-to-PC option. However, I've learned that Palm has also discovered this feature and apparently developed its own module to allow PC-to-Palm Pre squirting and vise-versa.
3. Registry: The Starter Edition
Much like the way Microsoft is offering a crimped version of Windows 7 called "Starter Edition," I've also discovered an alternate version of the Windows Registry. Since this mysterious alternate Registry does not have an official name, let's call it "Registry: The Starter Edition" because it is a greatly simplified and dumbed-down version. In fact, instead of five hives like the standard Registry, this one only has two: HKEY_CLUELESS_USER and HKEY_CRAPPY_MACHINE. I'm still not sure what purpose this alternate Registry will serve. The only thing I can think of is that it is designed to simplify the process of building Windows software for developers who have been writing Windows code for decades but are still too lazy to follow best practices in terms of file organization and user security.
4. Dual-boot software to run Mac OS X, known as 'Training Camp'
Apple opened the door to more users - especially IT pros - in recent years by building Boot Camp into its Macintosh computers to allow them to run Windows along side Mac OS X in a dual-boot configuration. Not to be outdone, Microsoft as a secret dual-boot loader in Windows 7 that allows it to emulate Mac hardware and configure Mac OS X as an alternative boot option using the standard off-the-shelf Mac boot discs. In a fit of cleverness, Microsoft has decided to name it "Training Camp," which I found out when I uncovered the Help file. However, I'm not sure what it is training for. If you have any ideas or theories, please post them in the discussion below.
5. The David Pogue spambot
The most puzzling and nefarious bit of code that I discovered in the bowels of Windows 7 was what appeared to be a spambot that could be used to flood the inbox of a targeted user, or even take down the person's PC. Of course, this could just be next iteration of Windows Live Mail. However, I'm concerned that if this code fell into the wrong hands, it could be used to unfairly target the perceived enemies of Windows, such as New York Times tech writer David Pogue, who has recently been viciously targeted by the blogosphere as a Mac partisan in the guise of an objective technology journalist.
Have you discovered any hidden features deep within the recesses of Windows 7? Any features you wish you could find if you were really looking? Post in the discussion below.


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Hormones are chemicals in the body that help the body function. Some of them help control how normal, healthy cells grow. For some types of breast cancer, female hormones such as estrogen and progesterone can also cause breast cancer cells to grow. In these cases, hormone therapy is used to help prevent the growth, spread, and recurrence of breast cancer. Recurrence is when the cancer comes back after treatment. There are different kinds of hormone treatments used for breast cancer. Each type works a bit differently. They all have the same goal of stopping hormones from getting to the tumor.
A hormone receptor test is done to measure the amount of certain proteins called hormone receptors in breast cancer tissue. Hormones such as estrogen and progesterone that naturally occur in the body can attach to these proteins. If the test is positive, it means that the hormone is likely helping the cancer cells to grow. In this case, hormone therapy may be given to block the way the hormone works. Or it may be given to help keep the hormone from attaching to the receptors on the cancer cells.
If the test is negative, the hormone does not affect the growth of the cancer cells, and other cancer treatments are given. Always discuss the results of the hormone receptor test with your doctor.
The goal of hormone treatment is to stop hormone receptor-positive cancer from getting the hormones it needs to grow. When cancer cells cannot get what they need to grow, they shrink and die. Because hormone treatment goes through your whole body, it's called a systemic treatment.
Hormone therapy is usually given in addition to another treatment. It's given only if tests show that your cancer uses certain hormones to grow. When you get it depends on the stage of your cancer. Hormone therapy may be given:
As prevention. It may be used to lower your chance of breast cancer if you have lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) or are otherwise at high risk of breast cancer. This may be the case even if you were treated successfully for breast cancer years before hormone therapy was available.
As neoadjuvant therapy. This means it's used before surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy, often to help shrink the tumor.
As an adjuvant therapy. This means it's used after another type of treatment. It's commonly used after surgery to help keep the cancer from coming back.
To slow down the spreadof breast cancer. Hormone therapy may be used to slow the spread of metastatic (stage IV) breast cancer and breast cancer that comes back after treatment (recurrent). In this case, it's used to stop the cancer cells in other parts of the body from growing.
Hormone treatment may be given in 2 ways:
Medicine therapy. This is hormone therapy done with special medicines. The medicine blocks or lowers the amount of hormones, so they can't cause the cancer to grow. Most of these medicines are pills. Sometimes they are given as a shot (injection). There are 3 main types of hormone treatment medicines. They are selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs), aromatase inhibitors (AIs), and estrogen receptor downregulators. Each works a little differently. And each causes slightly different side effects.
Ovarian ablation. This is a procedure used to stop the ovaries from making female hormones. The ovaries make most of the estrogen in a woman's body, until menopause. After menopause, estrogen is still made in the body's fat tissue. If you're still having menstrual periods, the ovaries are your main source of estrogen. Ablation can be done by surgically by removing the ovaries or damaging the ovaries with radiation. This type of hormone therapy, stopping the ovaries from making hormones, is often done with medicines, too. Ovarian ablation keeps the cancer from getting the estrogen it needs to grow. This slows the growth of breast cancer.
You can read more about these methods below.
The SERMs class of medicines keeps hormones from binding to their receptors. They do this by mimicking the shape of the hormone and filling the space in the receptor. That leaves the cancer-promoting hormone with no place to bind to the cancer cells. SERMs do not stop estrogen from being made. They keep it from working on the cancer cells.
There are 3 common SERMs used for breast cancer, all taken as pills:
Tamoxifen, the most commonly used SERM
Raloxifene, used only to help prevent breast cancer, and approved for use only in postmenopausal women
If you have not gone through menopause, your ovaries still make most of your estrogen. After menopause, your ovaries no longer make large amounts of estrogen. But cells in your muscles and fat still make some estrogen from male hormones called androgens.
Aromatase inhibitors interfere with the enzyme called aromatase. Its role is to convert androgens into estrogen. By affecting how much estrogen is made, aromatase inhibitors reduce estrogen in the body. This helps slow or stop the growth of breast tumors that are sensitive to estrogen. Sometimes it even shrinks them. Researchers have found that the medicines can't lower estrogen levels enough to affect tumor growth in younger women who have not gone through menopause. That's because younger women's ovaries still make high levels of estrogen. For this reason, these medicines are used only in women who have gone through menopause.
There are 3 aromatase inhibitors used for breast cancer, all taken as pills:
Many studies have compared aromatase inhibitors with tamoxifen as adjuvant hormone therapy in postmenopausal women. Using these medicines, either alone or after tamoxifen, has been shown to better reduce the risk of cancer recurrence than using only tamoxifen for 5 years.
These medicines attack the tumor's estrogen receptors. They block and damage the receptors so that they are unable to bind to estrogen. The only medicine of this type that is approved to be used for breast cancer is fulvestrant. You get it by a monthly injection into a muscle. Your doctor may prescribe it for you if other hormone therapy medicines don't work.
If you have not gone through menopause, your ovaries are your main source of estrogen. Estrogen causes some breast cancers to grow, and treatment plans for these cancers may include stopping the ovaries from making estrogen. This is called ovarian ablation or ovarian suppression. Ovarian ablation is most often done to treat breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body. It can be done in these ways:
Surgery. The ovaries may be taken out by surgery. This surgery is called oophorectomy or ovariectomy. You will get general anesthesia before the surgery so that you'll be in a deep sleep and won't feel anything. The surgeon may do open surgery, which means you'll have a large cut (incision). Or you may be able to have laparoscopic surgery, which means smaller incisions are used. The side effects of surgery and your recovery time depend on which procedure you have done.
Radiation. Another way to stop the ovaries from making estrogen is to use radiation to damage them.
Medicines. Most often, medicines called luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) analogs such as goserelin or leuprolide are used to stop the signals the body sends to the ovaries to tell them to make estrogen. These medicines can be used alone. More often, they're used with other hormone therapy medicines in women who have not been through menopause.
All forms of hormone therapy cause similar side effects that are like the symptoms of menopause. But the side effects are often worse than those caused by natural menopause. Both surgery and radiation cause premature menopause right away.
Hormone therapy may cause:
Stopping of menstrual periods
Loss of sex drive
Hot flashes
Night sweats
Vaginal dryness
Less common side effects can vary depending on the type of hormone therapy used. These include:
Mood swings
Weight changes
Joint stiffness and achiness
Extreme tiredness
Light vaginal bleeding (spotting)
Skin rash
Loss of bone mass, which puts you at risk for osteoporosis and bone fractures
Increased cholesterol levels
Talk with your healthcare provider about other serious but rare side effects. Taking tamoxifen also increases the risk of cancer of the lining of the uterus (endometrial cancer) and cancer in the muscular wall of the uterus (uterine sarcoma). If you are taking tamoxifen, get a pelvic exam each year to check for signs of cancer. Also, tell your doctor or nurse about any unusual vaginal discharge or vaginal bleeding right away. There is also a small risk of blood clots, heart attack, and stroke.
Talk with your healthcare provider about what to expect from your type of hormone treatment. Some of the side effects can be prevented or treated. For example:
Weight-bearing exercise and medicine called bisphosphonates can help decrease bone loss.
Vaginal moisturizers and lubricants can help overall vaginal health and comfort during sex.
Regular exercise can help prevent weight gain and muscle loss. It can also help prevent depression.
Medicine and counseling can help treat depression.
Ease hot flashes by wearing layers of clothing that you can easily shed, taking care not to overheat yourself, and avoiding your hot flash triggers.
Talk with your healthcare team about any side effects you have.
It's important to know which medicines you're taking. Write your medicines down, and ask your healthcare team how they work and what side effects they might have.
Talk with your healthcare providers about what signs to look for and when to call them. Make sure you know what number to call with questions. Is there a different number for evenings and weekends?
It may be helpful to keep a diary of your side effects. Write down physical, thinking, and emotional changes. A written list will make it easier for you to remember your questions when you go to your appointments. It will also make it easier for you to work with your healthcare team to make a plan to manage your side effects.


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Split verdict announced in Espinoza-Perez case
Jurors find Espinoza-Perez not guilty on second-degree murder charges
A jury on Tuesday convicted Policarpio Espinoza-Perez of conspiracy in the deaths of three children in 2004, but a mistrial was declared on the first-degree murder charge after the jury could not agree on a verdict.
Baltimore City jurors found Espinoza-Perez guilty of conspiracy on three counts, but he was also acquitted of a second-degree murder charge.
"What conspiracy means is that he took part in view of and was part of what happened, whether that means he was acting as a lookout, or whether they thought he was part of the plan. They didn't think he killed the children, but he was involved in some way," defense attorney Nick Panteleakis said.
This was Espinoza-Perez's third trial on accusations that he killed his three young relatives nearly a decade ago. He and fellow defendant Adan Canela have faced two other murder trials in the deaths of 9-year-old Alexis Quezada, 8-year-old Lucero Espinoza and 10-year-old Ricardo Espinoza Jr. in an apartment building in the 7000 block of Park Heights Avenue in 2004.
The first attempt at convicting the men ended in a mistrial, and the conviction in their second trial was overturned. This time around, the men are being tried separately.
"This was a tough case from the beginning. The state's attorney gets credit, using their strengths to their advantage in this case. When you have such a horrific crime that happened to these kids -- killed the way there were -- we're behind the eight ball," Panteleakis said.
The family of the victims said it's been a tough road.
"I don't have my daughter, my son or my nephew. I miss my life. I miss my family -- everything," said Ricardo Espinoza, the father of one of the slain children after the verdict was handed down.
Espinoza-Perez is scheduled for sentencing on April 29. He faces a maximum of three life terms in prison.
"He's crushed. He has never once said to me anything other than 'I'm innocent' in this case -- innocent of these charges. He told me that, after this, he might just be giving up," Panteleakis said.
"We appreciate the jury's hard work, and we are gratified by the outcome," State's Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein said in a statement.
Unlike in the first two trials, prosecutors were not allowed to use certain DNA evidence and witness testimony.
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REDUNDANCY DRIVEN DESIGN OF LOGIC CIRCUITS FOR YIELD/AREA MAXIMIZATION IN EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES by Mohammad Mirzaaghatabar Ahangar A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPUTER ENGINEERING) May 2012 Copyright 2012 Mohammad Mirzaaghatabar Ahangar
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|Reduced scaling of feature sizes and process variations in CMOS nano-technologies introduce manufacturing anomalies that reduce yield, and this trend is predicted to get worse for emerging technologies. In addition, it takes more time to be resolved these issues compared to previous technologies. Therefore, it will be increasingly more crucial to develop design techniques to enhance yield in emerging technologies. While logic circuits, namely gates and flip-flops, occupy a small amount of chip area, they are more critical compared to memories as their irregular structure makes it difficult to improve their yield. In addition, logic circuitry contains many single points of failure, and thus any killer defect in this circuitry can turn a die to scrap. This fact suggests the need to develop a highly efficient architectural design methodology based on using redundancy for logic circuits. ❧ In this dissertation we use redundancy in logic circuits to improve silicon yield/area (a.k.a revenue per wafer). While most of the traditional techniques use redundancy at the core level; we show that for emerging technologies with low yield, redundancy needs to be used at lower level of granularity compared to core level (inter-level) to enhance yield and reduce time to market. Our theoretical and experimental results show a significant increase in yield and yield/area compared to the original circuit without redundancy. ❧ To employ redundancy at fine level of granularity, we need to take into consideration the following issues: (i) design of steering logic - the generic term for a fork, join and switch - for logically selecting a redundant copy of a module to use as well as directing data to and from such modules, (ii) designing a support architecture for testing both the steering logic as well as the modules, (iii) estimating the overheads of steering logic such as their yield, area and delay, (iv) finding appropriate number of spares for heterogeneous modules with different sizes (areas) and yields while taking into consideration the overheads of inserting testable and configurable steering logic, and (v) partitioning the original circuit to find the optimal level of granularity for yield/area maximization using redundancy. ❧ The focus of this dissertation is to develop CAD tool, algorithms, heuristics and theorems to address all these issues. We develop a layout-driven CAD tool (TYSEL) to precisely estimate the overheads of steering logic. We then develop different algorithms and heuristics for yield and yield/area maximization of logic circuits with linear and non-linear structures. Our techniques take into account the overheads of steering logic (estimated by TYSEL) in their computations. ❧ Finally, we introduce a theory of partitioning of the original logic circuit to capture the impact of granularity, and uniformity of partitions on yield/area after using redundancy. Based on our theoretical results, we present a design flow to find the optimal level of granularity for the given logic circuit to be used for redundancy. Our design flow satisfies the realistic issues of using redundancy at finer granularity, such as performance loss and DFT (design for testability).
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The BMW Connected App can be downloaded from the Apple App Store.
With the BMW M laptimer app, driving data from the racetrack can be accurately recorded, bend by bend, and then analysed with the aim of improving driving performance. The app uses BMW sensors to collect detailed data from the vehicle and shows selected results in the Control Display. The system is operated via the iDrive Controller. While it is recording, the BMW M laptimer app shows the GPS position, speed, forward acceleration, lateral acceleration (G-force), lap times and acceleration up to a certain speed (e.g. from 0 to 100 km/h). Depending on the vehicle equipment and model year, factors measured may also include the accelerator position, steering angle, deceleration, rpms and gear, as well as fuel consumption. The recorded information can be shared as a snapshot on social media while the data saved can be sent via email.
For anyone who has ever wanted to know what it is like to have their own personal butler, here is the chance: with Concierge Services from BMW ConnectedDrive. At the push of a button the driver is connected with a BMW Call Centre agent who acts as their "personal assistant" on the road.
From a particular restaurant to the nearest cash dispenser or an emergency pharmacy – the BMW Call Centre agent is there to help and can even send information directly to the navigation system. Concierge Services operate independently of the driver's mobile phone and are available in their home country and abroad, around-the-clock, seven days a week and at no extra cost.
The perfect song for every situation, every road and every mood. Online Entertainment offers direct and unlimited access to more than 22 million music titles inside the BMW – all without a smartphone or other device. There are plenty of tracks here to suit every taste. As soon as an artist's song or album is played in the car, it is automatically downloaded to the car's hard disc. For guaranteed listening enjoyment without any interruptions.
With the Online Entertainment offer, a flat-rate account lasting one year can be opened with any BMW music partner, for example with Napster, which can be used in six different European countries at no additional cost: Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands.
Real Time Traffic Information (RTTI) provides the most up-to-date traffic information at all times. Precise details about the time and duration of hold-ups are relayed to provide almost instantaneous traffic information about motorways, country roads and main roads, as well as numerous urban routes. Intelligent alternative route suggestions help the driver reach their destination as efficiently as possible. The data is drawn from such sources as anonymous movement profiles from the GPS data of vehicle fleets, smartphone apps and police reports, and also takes into account established traffic patterns such as peak commute times.
The traffic information is clearly presented, with the roads displayed in green, yellow, orange and red.
With the Remote Services of the BMW Connected App (available in the Apple App Store), various vehicle-related functions, such as locking and unlocking the car, can be operated remotely.
Just as the BMW ConnectedDrive customer portal, the app also offers the opportunity to access vehicle information such as range or the status of the windows and doors. That way the driver is always fully informed about the status of the vehicle, even from a distance, and also has all information conveniently gathered together at one glance.
This information package is rounded out with the display of the vehicle's current location. To use this feature, customers simply need to activate Remote Services once in the BMW ConnectedDrive customer portal at www.bmw-connecteddrive.com.
The Intelligent Emergency Call guarantees fast, targeted assistance round-the-clock as well as support from trained staff – in the driver's native language, even abroad. If an accident takes place involving the activation of an airbag or the belt tensioners, an Intelligent Emergency Call is automatically issued. Relevant details such as the exact position of the car, the severity of the accident and the possible risk of injury to occupants are transmitted to the BMW Call Centre via the car's built-in SIM card, i.e. independent of a private mobile phone. The BMW Call Centre will inform the nearest rescue coordination centre and provide assistance over the phone until the rescue services arrive. The emergency call can also be triggered manually in case other road users require help, for example.


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The Reserve Bank is expected to adopt a ''wait and see'' approach to a further easing of interest rates at its first board meeting of the year tomorrow, despite a raft of weak data pointing to a softening economy.
Building approvals for December were weaker-than-expected, the ANZ job advertisements survey fell by 0.9 per cent in January and inflation remain subdued, a series of economic indicators released today showed.
But since the Reserve Bank's last cut to the cash rate, commodity prices have strengthened, while the US, European and Chinese economies appear to be staging a recovery, BT Financial Group chief economist Chris Caton said.
''The Reserve Bank will say, 'Well, we may well cut again in the future, but we don't have to be in a hurry to do that. We've already put a fair bit of monetary easing in the pipeline. Why don't we wait and see what effect that's going to have','' Mr Caton said.
A key indicator that will be released two days after the Reserve Bank's meeting, the unemployment rate, is forecast by economists to drift slightly upwards to 5.5 per cent from 5.4 per cent the month before.
I think the private sector is still indicating by its activity in the labour market that there's still not moves to significant reduce the work force, otherwise we would see a lot more negatives on the monthly employment figures," Commonwealth Bank senior economist Michael Workman said.
"On balance, the case is [the RBA] can sit, wait and watch. And maybe they can progress this argument that in December the rate cut was provided on a reading of the economy both here and offshore that was a little bit more negative than it's actually turned out to be."
Inflation benign
Jobs ads fell for an eleventh straight month, building approvals dropped for the first time since last April, while inflation remains benign.
The TD Securities-Melbourne Institute's measure of consumer prices edged up 0.3 per cent in January, after a rise of 0.4 per cent in December.
The annual pace of inflation lifted slightly to 2.5 per cent, after hitting 2.4 per cent in December. It was in the middle of the Reserve Bank's 2 to 3 per cent target band.
ANZ reported this morning that monthly job advertisements fell by 0.9 per cent last month. Job ads had dropped a revised 2.8 per cent in December, after a 2.8 per cent decline in November.
ANZ's head of Australian economics and property research, Ivan Colhoun, said the January results meant job advertising was "broadly unchanged", given the seasonal swings during the December and January period.
"We will need to assess the February data to ascertain whether the previous decline in job advertising is beginning to moderate," Mr Colhoun said.
At the same time, building approvals data from the Bureau of Statistics, also released this morning, revealed that dwelling approvals dropped 4.4 per cent in December in seasonally adjusted terms, against economists' expectations of a 1 per cent rise. In November, approvals went up by 3.4 per cent.
Private sector housing approvals fell 3.3 per cent in December in seasonally adjusted terms, the Bureau of Statistics said, as the value of total buildings approved sank 1.9 per cent for the same month.
Cheaper holiday travel
TD Securities said a rise in the prices of utilities, transport fare in urban areas and education – mostly due to seasonal reasons – were the main contributors to the change in its gauge.
These rises were in turn offset by a fall in the prices of holiday travel and accommodation, clothing and footwear, and furniture and furnishings, it said.
The gauge showed food and vegetables prices rose by 1.2 per cent while car fuel prices fell by 0.6 per cent.
The data also showed that underlying inflation, or the trimmed mean, lifted by 0.2 in January, resulting in a rise of 2.2 per cent in the three months to December in annualised terms, the survey said.
The Reserve Bank board is set to meet tomorrow for the first time this year, with financial markets' expectations of an interest rate cut this month standing at just 16 per cent, Credit Suisse data showed.
Rate cut on radar
Softer economic data and a strong Australian dollar have added further pressure on the RBA to lower interest rates, although most economists expect the central bank to act in March rather than tomorrow.
"The RBA is in a comfortable position to discuss the outlook and the risks at the Board meeting tomorrow, without reducing the cash rate further, for now," TD Securities Asia-Pacific Research head, Annette Beacher, said.
"Compared with this time last year, the cash rate has been lowered by 125 basis points to 3 per cent. We believe past RBA action has set the stage for a decent revival in the housing sector to support growth, as the impact of mining investment fades by year end," she said.
"The strong Australian dollar has allowed numerous goods and services to be imported at discount prices, although this impact likely to fade as the year unfolds as the [Australian dollar] stabilises."
A higher unemployment rate, which some economists expect to be revealed in Thursday's Bureau of Statistics labour force data release, and subdued corporate capital expenditure plans could be factors in pushing the RBA to act in March.
The Reserve Bank has so far cut 175 basis points from the cash rate since the start of the easing cycle in November 2011.


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Rhubarb & strawberry crumble with custard
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- carbs58g
- sugars35g
- fibre4g
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Botanically, rhubarb is a vegetable (it's related to sorrel and dock) but its thick, fleshy…
- 250g strawberries, hulled and halved
Once available in Britain for just a brief period during the summer, strawberries are now a year…
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Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- finely grated zest 1 small orange
One of the best-known citrus fruits, oranges aren't necessarily orange - some varieties are…
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Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Prepare the Roasted rhubarb adding the halved strawberries after 15 mins of cooking. Cook, uncovered, for a further 5 mins until the rhubarb is tender and the strawberries slightly softened. Tip into a shallow dish, about 25 x 18 x 5cm, with enough of the syrupy juices to keep the fruit juicy. (Any leftover can be served with the crumble.)
While the fruits are roasting, prepare the crumble. Mix the flour, sugar and ground almonds, then add the butter and rub together to make coarse crumbs. Stir in the orange zest.
Spoon the crumble loosely over the fruit, then scatter with the pine nuts. Bake straight away for 25 mins until golden and bubbly. Cool a little before serving with custard and any remaining syrup.


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By deploying ZyXEL Metro switches, Carrier Wales is now able to offer customers fibre to the business 'uncontended' connectivity with services from 10Mb to 1Gb. Using ZyXEL switches, Carrier Wales is able to interconnect with FibreSpeed, NTL/TeleWest, BT Openreach and other Next Generation Network (NGN) providers.
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Hi Fabrice, thanks for the explanations.
Indeed I wanted to use the HIRES test to check for the multiple vs single read behavior of the various display modes
Would be interesting to keep this ULA, perhaps it has other funky behavior!
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If you want to ask questions about how the machine works, peculiar details, the differences between models, here it is !
How to program the oric hardware (VIA, FDC, ...) is also welcome.
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Hi Chema, hi Mike, yeap I have a faulty Oric board where the ULA is ok, and it is mounted on a socket, so I can use this replacement. Unfortunately, Patrice's board has a soldered ULA, and i don't have a good unsoldering station (and even with an unsoldering station it is often difficult to correctly remove such 40-pins chips), so I might finish by cutting the pins and unsolder them one after the other...
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I used to think it was impossible to have a meaningful "national debate" on mass surveillance because too many of the nuts and bolts were classified, or because most members of Congress were too cowardly to take this topic on. Your incentive as a legislator is to err on the side of counterterrorism since it'll shield you from blame in case there's another big attack. By ducking the issue and rubber-stamping whatever O wants, you get to cover your ass on national security and point the finger at him in case the program runs into political trouble.
But maybe those aren't the biggest barriers to a surveillance review. Maybe the biggest barrier is that … Congress often doesn't know what's going on because Team Hopenchange keeps lying to them.
The most recent example came on March 12, when James R. Clapper, director of national intelligence, told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the government was not collecting information about millions of Americans. He later acknowledged that the statement was "erroneous" and apologized, citing a misunderstanding.
On three occasions since 2009, top Justice Department officials said the government's ability to collect business records in terrorism cases is generally similar to that of law enforcement officials during a grand jury investigation. That comparison, some lawmakers now say, signaled to them that data was being gathered on a case-by-case basis, rather than the records of millions of Americans' daily communications being vacuumed up in bulk.
In addition, two Democratic members of the Senate Intelligence Committee say that even in top-secret briefings, officials "significantly exaggerated" the effectiveness of at least one program that collected data on Americans' e-mail usage…
"The national security state has grown so that any administration is now not upfront with Congress," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee. "It's an imbalance that's grown in our government, and one that we have to cleanse."…
Wyden said that a number of administration statements have made it "impossible for the public or Congress to have a genuinely informed debate" about government surveillance.
The Post also quotes complaints from Republicans Mick Mulvaney and Jim Sensenbrenner, who, amazingly, seems to have been caught completely off-guard by the executive branch's aggressive interpretations of the Patriot Act he co-authored. That's why I'm torn on how much to blame O here. Blame him entirely, by all means, for lying to the people's representatives, but how seriously can you take congressional grumbles about executive overreach when they helped build the post-9/11 surveillance apparatus in the first place? Even now, it's hard to tell how much they've genuinely been misled and how much of this is them pretending to be shocked, shocked, to find there's gambling going on in here. You know what the poll numbers look like on surveillance right now; they have every earthly reason to plead ignorance — at least until the next thwarted terror attack, when those poll numbers soften and they can go back to being out-and-proud surveillance-state hawks. In a test of credibility between Obama and Congress, how on earth do you decide?
Two things. First, obviously, Congress is going to have to build some sort of independent oversight arm to watch what the NSA is doing. The intelligence committees, which rely on what the president tells them, ain't cutting it. There may be constitutional issues with a legislative agency devised to monitor the executive, but that'll be worked out in court. (At the very least, if it gets that far, the president might be willing to compromise by increasing Congress's role through other means.) The first order of business is to put political pressure on them to take this up by electing more civil-libertarian pols. Maybe the Rand Paul wing of the party is enough to do that, but I doubt it. You'll need mainstream conservatives mobilized. Whatever else you think of Snowden, you can thank him for (probably) having moved the needle a bit there. Second, there … has to be some sort of penalty for lying serially to Congress, doesn't there? At a minimum Clapper should be removed, just to make the point that deceiving the legislative branch on matters of national security (or on anything else) is a matter of grave consequence. Congress does have some institutional self-respect left, doesn't it? Doesn't it?


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If you caught my previous post about my recent ASOS purchases (here) you may already recognise this little number. I loved the retro shape of this dressed coupled with the light material and deep raspberry shade.
I am absolutely loving burgundy for the autumn. What colours will you be keeping an eye out for this season? xx