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The litigation paralegals work beside the attorney and accomplish certain tasks in the litigation process. Paralegals with a civil litigation paralegal degree are virtually similar to the lawyers, but they are not permitted to practice law. Although it may not necessarily be required by all employers, earning a Civil Litigation Paralegal Degree may be what you need to educate yourself and jumpstart your career in the field of law.
Educational Qualification Required For A Litigation Paralegal:
There are a number of ways that will help you become a professional litigation paralegal. Most paralegals gain knowledge first hand through the experience. They work their way up the ladder by starting from the scratch, going all the way to better firms. You can also earn the certification to become a paralegal through education in the course. Online and vocational schools offer gateways to earning the degree*. By earning a degree, you may have a better chance of employment, as employers can see you have the education which may be necessary in the field.
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Other than these official duties, the litigation paralegal will also be asked to assist in depositions, research and witness preparation. They also act as assistants during the trial process.
When it comes to employment, the candidate with higher degree of qualification is given precedence over the rest. A civil litigation paralegal degree will prove efficacious in such scenarios.
Skills Required**:
Initially, document management was the beginning of this study. However, the current situation includes the requirement for the profession.
- Court Room Presentation: This includes the technical support of digital presentation and proper arrangement of the projector. This applies in cases where there is a demand for such advanced technology.
- Trial Graphics: It blurs the distinction between skills of computer and artistic creativity. It requires the manual representation of the events through manual drawing. It requires a fluency in the art.
Attorneys are in general linear thinkers and it falls on the litigation paralegal's shoulder to give attention to the other trivial details.
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Now it's time to clean out the gardens and wait for Indian Summer.
Feel I must write something more about my grandson who was 4 in May.
I picked him up yesterday, as we spend Thursdays together. He went to get his bike to show me what he'd done to it (a 2 wheeler that he's been riding without training wheels for 2 months now)
He had installed a kick stand on it ... all by himself!! On Wednesday he went into the garage and got a handful of wrenches, took the kick stand off an old bike of his older brother's and put it on his bike. His mom said she only had to tighten the bolts a little, otherwise the job was done by him. I asked him how in the world he could do this all by himself and he said, "I watch my dad work all the time." And he does.
Friday, August 29
My oldest granddaughter ( yes, the one that just returned from Europe) came over last night all excited to tell me about her senior year now that school has started again. She's finishing high school at a local college. The program is called PSEO (Post Secondary Education Option) and so far she's happy to be there. She joined a paintball club (good grief!!) and is taking a Greek class. All guys wearing suits in that class and only one other girl. She's amazing. I asked her why Greek? and she said she plans to go to Greece someday.
Granddaughters #4 & #5 (sisters) are both in junior high this year, volley ball has stated and they're on the same team. WooHoo! Another game to cheer at!
Oldest grandson's football games (7th grade, different school in a different town) have started so unless these games are on the same night, we'll be there, too. He's good in this sport but is really good in basketball so I'm anxiously waiting for that season!!
Enough bragging for today ... I've got 3 grand kids left to brag about on another day. Thanks for putting up with it and especially for your nice comments.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
I have a 4 year old grandson who loves to give gifts. We were at a birthday party for his great aunt, he was assisting her with her gift opening. When she unwrapped a gift to find a small, shiny red box with a gift inside, my grandson asked if he could have the box. Of course we thought it was because it was a pretty, shiny box. A bit later he returned the box to his great aunt telling her it was her present from him. Inside she found 2 stones and a nickel. She mailed him a thank you note telling him that she put the stones in her flower garden and was keeping the nickel as her "good luck" charm. He'll be elated when he gets mail from the mailman!!
This is August. My birthday is in January. Monday he came over with a big box ... my birthday present he says ... "because your birthday is coming up." Inside the big box was a smaller box and inside it was an old coin purse and inside the coin purse were 2 dollars, a dime and a penny. I asked him where he got the money (especially the dollars) and he said it was money his mom gave him for doing his work. I asked him if he didn't want to spend the dollars on something special that he wanted to buy and he replied, "I can earn more dollars, these are for you so you can buy something special for your birthday present." Aren't grand kids just the greatest!?
My oldest granddaughter just recently returned home from a 17 day tour of 7 European countries. She was one of 216 kids from high school bands who are called the Minnesota Ambassadors of Music who were selected by their band instuctors to make this trip. She fell in love with Venice and absolutely loved Switzerland. She brought me back a music box from Switzerland as a souvenir of her fabulous trip.
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Phase I/II Study of Lapatinib in Combination With Paclitaxel as 1L Chemotherapy for ErbB2-positive MBC
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This is an open-label, non-randomized, multi-center study of lapatinib plus paclitaxel to evaluate safety, tolerability and efficacy in Japanese patients with ErbB2 over expressing advanced or metastatic breast cancer. Lapatinib 1500mg/day will be administered in combination with paclitaxel 80mg/m2/week. Lapatinib and paclitaxel will be administered until disease progression or withdrawal from the study due to unacceptable toxicity.
The study will proceed in two phases. The first phase (Phase I part) will lead to evaluate safety and tolerability of lapatinib taken together with paclitaxel in the first 6 subjects. Pharmacokinetic profile also will be evaluated as the secondary objects.
Then the study will move to the next treatment phase (Phase II part) to evaluate further safety and clinical activity, if no major safety concerns are raised during Phase I part. The primary objective of the study is to evaluate overall survival (OS), and the secondary objectives are Objective tumour response rate (ORR), Duration of response, Time to response, Clinical benefit and Progression-free survival (PFS) in 12 subjects.
Neoplasms, Breast
Drug: Lapatinib in combination with weekly paclitaxel
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|An Open-label, Single-arm, Phase I/II Study of Lapatinib in Combination With Weekly Paclitaxel as First-line Chemotherapy for ErbB2-overexpressing Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients
- Tolerability [ Time Frame: For first cycle (4 weeks) ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]This regimen is established as the tolerable treatment option for Japanese patients.
- Overall survival [ Time Frame: Assumption is two years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Time from study treatment initiation to death due to any causes. To be determined the OS for Japanese patients for comparison with overseas efficacy data.
- Time to progression [ Time Frame: Assumption is 1 years. ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Time from study treatment initiation to disease progression.
|Study Start Date:
|April 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Lap+weekly Pacli
These subjects will receive weekly paclitaxel (80 mg/m2 IV for 3 weeks in a 4 week cycle) plus lapatinib. Subjects will receive a daily dose of lapatinib until disease progression or withdrawal from study treatment due to unacceptable toxicity or withdrawal of consent.
Drug: Lapatinib in combination with weekly paclitaxel
These subjects will receive weekly paclitaxel (80 mg/m2 IV for 3 weeks in a 4 week cycle) plus lapatinib (1500 mg once daily, starting on the second day of phase I). Subjects will receive a daily dose of lapatinib until disease progression or withdrawal from study treatment due to unacceptable toxicity or withdrawal of consent. Study completion is defined as deaths after administering study treatment for more than once. Subjects will be treated with paclitaxel for standard of 6 cycles, and may be continued at the discretion of investigators. If the subject experiences progression, an unacceptable toxicity related to paclitaxel, or termination of lapatinib therapy, paclitaxel therapy must be terminated any time of study period, even before 6 cycles of paclitaxel are given.
Detailed Description:
This is an open-label, single-arm, Phase I/II study to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of weekly paclitaxel and lapatinib in subjects with ErbB2-overexpressing advanced or metastatic breast cancer who have not received prior therapy for metastatic disease. These subjects will receive weekly paclitaxel (80 mg/m2 IV for 3 weeks in a 4 week cycle) plus lapatinib (1500 mg once daily). Subjects will receive a daily dose of lapatinib until disease progression or withdrawal from study treatment due to unacceptable toxicity or withdrawal of consent. Subjects will be treated with paclitaxel for standard of 6 cycles, and may be continued at the discretion of investigators. If the subject experiences progression, an unacceptable toxicity related to paclitaxel, or termination of lapatinib therapy, paclitaxel therapy must be terminated any time of study period, even before 6 cycles of paclitaxel are given.
This study consists of the Phase I and Phase II parts:
Phase I part
Tolerability and pharmacokinetics in 6 subjects will be evaluated in Phase I part of study and the tolerability criteria are set as follow:
Tolerability criteria in first cycle; Concerning the safety tolerability of this trial, if 1 out of 6 first enrolled subjects meets the tolerability criteria, the study will proceed to phase II part and the regimen will judged as well tolerable. If 2 subjects meet the tolerability criteria, the sponsor will consult the safety review committee. GSK will finally judge based on the consultation regarding the tolerability and the medical significance.
Grade 4 hematologic toxicities. Thrombocytopenia less than or equal to 25,000/mm3 Grade 3 or 4 and clinically significant non-haematologic toxicities. Inability to start cycle 2 within 2 weeks of scheduled dosing due to unresolved toxicity.
For all 6 subjects enrolled, safety profiles occurred in cycle 1 are closely monitored individually. When considering the appropriateness of study continuation, not only the safety profiles noted in cycle 1 of this study, but also the safety profiles reported from pilot part of EGF104578 study and other relevant studies will be referred in order to make medical decisions.
Phase II part After tolerability in 6 subjects enrolled in Phase I part is confirmed, further 6 subjects to be enrolled for Phase II part (i.e. total of 12 subjects). Subjects will receive a daily dose of lapatinib until disease progression or withdrawal from study treatment due to unacceptable toxicity or withdrawal of consent. All 12 subjects will be followed for survival.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Prior written consent in participating in the study by the subject or his/her private attorney.
- Japanese female >=18 years of age.
- Invasive breast cancer with stage IV disease.
- Documentation by local laboratory of ErbB2 status by immunohistochemistry (IHC) or amplification by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH).
- If a taxane had been administered in the neoadjuvant or adjuvant setting, progression must have occurred >12 months after completion of this treatment and the patients recovered from all associated toxicities.
- Measurable lesion(s) according to RECIST criteria.
- Radiotherapy as palliative treatment for painful metastatic disease is permitted but must have been stopped within 2 weeks prior to initiation of any investigational treatment.
For those patients whose disease is ER+ and/or PR+ one of the following criteria should be met:
- Patient with visceral disease that requires chemotherapy (e.g., patients with liver or lung metastases).
- Rapidly progressing or life threatening disease that are considered to be inapplicable to hormonal therapy, as determined by the investigator.
- Patients who received hormonal therapy and are no longer benefiting from this therapy and the hormonal treatment must have been stopped before the first dose of investigational treatment.
- Subjects recovered from all the associated toxicities by prior endocrine therapy.
- Eastern cooperative oncology group (ECOG) Performance status (PS) of 0 or 1.
- Able to swallow and retain oral medication.
- Cardiac ejection fraction within institutional range of normal as measured by echocardiogram. MUGA scan is accepted in cases where an echocardiogram cannot be performed or is inconclusive.
- Adequate organ function.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant or lactating females at anytime during the study.
- Received prior chemotherapy, immunotherapy, biologic therapy or anti-ErbB1/ErbB2 therapy for metastatic disease.
- History of other malignancy.
- Prior therapy with an ErbB1 and/or ErbB2 inhibitor, other than trastuzumab, in the adjuvant setting.
- Planned concurrent anti-cancer therapy (chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, biologic therapy, hormonal therapy) while taking investigational treatment.
- Used an investigational drug within 30 days or five half-lives, whichever is longer, preceding the first dose of investigational treatment.
- Unresolved or unstable, serious toxicity from prior administration of another investigational drug and/or of prior anti-cancer treatment.
- Uncontrolled infection.
- Patients having at least positive antibody either to HBs or HBc.
- Patients who have had a positive HCV antibody.
- Peripheral neuropathy grade 2 or greater.
- Malabsorption syndrome, disease significantly affecting gastrointestinal function, or resection of the stomach or small bowel. Subjects with ulcerative colitis are also excluded.
- Dementia, altered mental status, or any psychiatric condition that would prohibit the understanding or rendering of informed consent.
- Known history or clinical evidence of central nervous system (CNS) metastases or leptomeningeal carcinomatosis.
- Concurrent disease or condition that would make the subject inappropriate for study participation or any serious medical disorder that would interfere with the subject's safety.
- Known history or concurrent condition of uncontrolled or symptomatic angina, arrhythmias, or congestive heart failure.
- Concurrent treatment with prohibited medications.
- Known immediate or delayed hypersensitivity reaction or idiosyncrasy to drugs chemically related to paclitaxel or lapatinib or their excipients.
- Have current active hepatic or biliary disease (with exception of patients with Gilbert's syndrome, asymptomatic gallstones, liver metastases or stable chronic liver disease per investigator assessment).
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01138046
|GSK Investigational Site
|Aichi, Japan, 464-8681
|GSK Investigational Site
|Ehime, Japan, 791-0280
|GSK Investigational Site
|Hyogo, Japan, 673-8558
|GSK Investigational Site
|Kagoshima, Japan, 892-0833
|GSK Investigational Site
|Kanagawa, Japan, 241-8515
|GSK Investigational Site
|Osaka, Japan, 565-0871
|GSK Investigational Site
|Osaka, Japan, 540-0006
|GSK Investigational Site
|Saitama, Japan, 362-0806
|GSK Investigational Site
|Saitama, Japan, 350-1298
|GSK Investigational Site
|Tokyo, Japan, 113-8677
|Study Director:
|GSK Clinical Trials
No publications provided
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01138046 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|March 18, 2010
|Last Updated:
|May 29, 2014
|Health Authority:
|Japan: Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare
Keywords provided by GlaxoSmithKline:
advanced/metastatic breast cancer
dual kinase inhibitor
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Breast Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Breast Diseases
Skin Diseases
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
Antineoplastic Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Pharmacologic Actions
Tubulin Modulators
Antimitotic Agents
Mitosis Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 18, 2014


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Actually we are just recruiting, check our missing roles...
-Wezagred, the fallen leader
Greetings Defias Brotherhood,
<Thats Nice> is currently recruiting! This humble guild was formed by a group of friends on this server over a year ago because we had heard about such heroic deeds and the friendly people enveloping this realm. We wanted to create a guild in an environment which would be welcome to all the people we knew, therefore we chose this RP-PvP server.
We are a friendly guild who treats every member of the guild equally, initiate or officer, male or female. We understand and respect the roleplaying environment on this server and do not approve of members disrupting roleplaying events.
We raid two-three days a week, starting from 19:30 till 23:00/23:30. The days are a bit spread out as of now due to shifting sign-ups and it can be any of the following days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.
What we expect of you is that you're a sensible person who can accept criticism and suggestions on how to improve yourself in your class and performance. We want you to have your head screwed on right and to know your own class and the encounters we meet. Have flasks, food and your gear fully repaired before entering the instance.
We want your best performance at all times and even though we goof around from time to time we are dedicated to our progression. You should have some self-distance and devote your time into this guild both socially and in other ways.
We are currently not recruiting anything but the classes we are missing. If you're not a dedicated raider or your class is not on the recruitment list or that you just wish to be part of our community, you can apply for a spot in our second raid (also referred to as alt raid) but won't be promised any other raid unless you prove to be a gem hidden inside coal. The alt raid is often every Friday at 19:30 and during Firelands the main raid cleared 6/7 HC, while the alt raid cleared 7/7 normal. As of Dragon Soul we have not yet sorted how we should approach the second raid.
If your class is mentioned below do not hesitate to contact any of the following officers: Ulltott, Riti, Tankow, Benric or our guildmaster Contramantra. We might be online on our alts so you can generally just ask anyone in the guild and they will refer you to us.
Currently we seek:
Death Knight: None
Druid: Healers
Hunter: None
Mage: Any god damn sort! Please! I beg you! Mages, where art thou?
Paladin: None
Priest: Healers
Rogue: None
Shaman: Healers/DPS, having both specs is a plus.
Warlock: None
Warrior: None
Hope to see you!
(Sidenote: Old recruitment thread is outdated and useless)
Edited by Ulltott on 18/12/2011 21:47 GMT
-Wezagred, the fallen leader
Hey, hey now
(Sidenote: Old recruitment thread is outdated and useless)
Updated our recruitment needs!
We got Blackhorn down and almost Deathwing's Spine, updated title!
Got Deathwing's Spine down and now whiping on Madness, updated title!
Look at this casual, tanking deathwing with a wellfare 359 shield. What an amateur.
I'm not exactly sure what the policy is on social applications. Everyone in the guild is either someone's friend or a raider. That said, I think it wouldn't hurt, especially if your PvE toon happens to be one of the race/class combos we're missing for the Stay Classy achievement :P
On an unrelated note, WTB mages / shamans. Using a hunter for BL is painful.
85 Undead Mage
I will soon be ready to apply. I made a long break but when I left I was in a strong pve guild doing like everthing back then in LK. I think I still need like 1 week to gear a bit and I will be ready for action.
You should try contact either Riti, Contramantra, Tankow or Ulltott regarding your application to the guild.
We got Deathwing down and I got a new shield, should be worth a bump!
90 Blood Elf Paladin
Up you go!
85 Blood Elf Paladin
1/8 hc
need a resto druid or mage
Edited by Contramantra on 05/01/2012 00:17 GMT
Also wouldn't mind people for the secondary raid group, currently 6/8 normal DS.
Mainly healers and all roles and some healers.
85 Goblin Shaman
Transfering my Resto Druid at the end of the month shammy should be 85 and raid ready for a few more options
We're 1/8 hm like everyone and their dog and we're in dire need of cloth people.
We have 0 warlocks, 0 mages, 0 priests (healer or dps). We need a shaman too (resto with ele offspec preferably).
We have 2x 10-man runs per week clearing 8/8 or 1/8hm.
Contact me, Riti or Contramantra in game if you want an invite.
Edited by Tankow on 20/02/2012 21:37 GMT
We have a warlock now but a resto/ele shaman + healer/dps priest would be just awesome.
Contact me, Riti or Contramantra in game if you want an invite.
Edited by Tankow on 21/02/2012 08:15 GMT
We don't really need a resto shaman with ele offspec, but an ele shaman with resto offspec if possible. All everything.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. At last weeks Democratic National Convention, Charlotte debuted on the world stage. The performance?
You might say it was the unexpected hit of the season.
Visitors praised Charlottes walkable uptown, helpful police officers, good restaurants and you knew this was coming our friendliness.
Theres no hospitality quite like Southern hospitality! Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gushed on the convention stage. Daily Show host Jon Stewart put it another way: Youre the nicest people, he told an ImaginOn audience. Its really kind of annoying.
Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee boss, even kindly teased Mayor Anthony Foxx that Charlotte should be the Democrats permanent convention site.
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We also heard complaints about seedy hotels, over-the-top security and transportation stumbles. And were quite aware that 35,000 convention attendees endured an abnormally rainy week.
Foxx said the city plans to review the weeks operations. Every convention city has problems, the mayor said, but he has never been prouder of Charlottes public employees.
Despite any shortcomings, visitors many in Charlotte for the first time said they were impressed.
This is one of the most hospitable places weve ever visited, said delegate Karen Garcia, treasurer of the Arkansas Democratic Party. I definitely could see Charlotte hosting other big events on the size of the convention.
Its been a home run in every way, said Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, Denvers mayor when it hosted the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Like Denver, youve got a vibrant, robust downtown that most of the rest of the country knew nothing about. Now they do.
Some had low expectations
Maybe Charlotte benefited because some people had low expectations for this convention. In 2011, when the city was chosen as host, we heard complaints that Charlotte was too small. Media portrayed us as a NASCAR-loving town located somewhere north of Atlanta.
What Ive noticed over the years, especially in the North and Northeast, is that peoples stereotype of any place south of the Mason-Dixon Line comes from tobacco road movies, says Mary Newsom, an associate director at UNC Charlottes Urban Institute. People fly into Charlotte for the first time, she says, expecting Bull Connor and Blanche DuBois.
Instead, the nation has seen that Charlotte is a clean, great-quality-of-life city, Foxx said Friday. They found out that we had the guts to go after this... when a lot of people thought we had no business trying to get a convention. We worked together to deliver an amazing week.
Jacquelyn Orton, who lives in Salt Lake City, thought Charlotte was a great convention choice walkable, accessible and friendly. Orton is the widow of the late Congressman Bill Orton, and Charlotte marked her sixth DNC.
Cities like New York City theyre prepared, but not necessarily happy to see you. I think there is something to be said for bringing a major convention to a midsized city, she said. The people were so happy to have us there.
Local restaurants, pilloried by some out-of-town critics before the convention began, proved popular with many out-of-towners.
Ive never liked grits, said Ric Andersen, who works on Capitol Hill. But I had three different kinds of grits this week that Ive actually enjoyed.
The citys image also traveled well, former Republican mayor Richard Vinroot said. He spent convention week on a Greek cruise, getting glimpses of coverage through CNN.
Im literally seeing how we look to the world, and we look pretty darn good, he said Thursday from a ship on the Aegean Sea. Has it been worth it? Who knows. But Im on a ship with people from all over the world, and now they all know about Charlotte.
Mission accomplished.
A second-tier city
Until recently, Charlotte couldnt have pulled off the convention.
Even though some locals bristled last month when Reuters, the international news agency, described Charlotte as a second-tier city, you could argue that Charlotte only reached the second tier a short time ago. That came with the help of $6 billion in private and public investments in the uptown from 2000 to 2010.
Five years ago, we didnt have the Lynx light-rail line, which opened in late 2007. The EpiCentre was still a year away. There was no Ritz-Carlton hotel, N.C. Music Factory, Knight Theater or Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture. They didnt open until 2009. The city also didnt have the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Mint Museum Uptown or the NASCAR Hall of Fame, which all came along in 2010.
Even in 2012, hosting was a stretch, or, as Charlotte Center City Partners President and CEO Michael Smith said, it was Charlottes all-in moment, where we just pushed the stash of chips in.
Many of those investments followed the Charlotte City Councils approval of a spending plan in 2001 that led to construction of the Time Warner Cable Arena, a controversial move voters had opposed in a nonbinding referendum.
Subsequent City Council votes helped bring the Westin hotel and museum row on South Tryon Street, vital amenities during convention week, said former council member Lynn Wheeler, a Republican, and a key contributor in the arena and hotel votes.
UNC Charlottes David Walters, an architecture and urban design professor, hopes city leaders will continue investing in infrastructure trains, streetcars, sidewalks. If we backtrack on the environment or infrastructure, we can kiss our future hopes goodbye.
Charlotte Center City Partners hopes to parlay Charlottes new higher profile into economic development, Smith said, but the process wont necessarily be a linear one.
A talented young person might come to Charlotte for a first job, or a business might look to invest or relocate a corporate headquarters. They might not draw a line back to the DNC, he said. Theyre just going to know about our city.
So whats Charlottes next big thing? A Republican convention would be fine, Foxx said, but not the stretch that the city has shown its ready to make.
I think we should begin looking at a Super Bowl, Foxx said. Longer term, we should begin thinking about the Olympics.
Whether Charlotte pursues those events or not, Dan Murrey, executive director of Charlottes host committee, predicts well see a subsiding of the striving to be something different that has characterized the city in recent years.
Instead, we may just be happy to show off who we are.
Said UNCCs Walters: We are second tier. We need second-tier cities. Cities like us are the real engines of American prosperity and progress. Weve shown that a really good second-tier American city is a good place.
Maria David, Tim Funk, Marion Paynter, David Perlmutt and Kathleen Purvis contributed.
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You know, all things considered, I was so psyched for this game, but upon further reflection? I think Telltale messed up.
There are a couple of reasons, but the biggest one is that it's not a very good poker game. It's a tournament that starts with 25 big blinds. That's *nothing.* To put that into perspective, in a real tournament, 25 big blinds is about the size that you should consider going all-in if you have a good hand and there's been a raise to you preflop.
But there's also the fact that the characters rarely raise preflop! You have no idea where you stand preflop, which is the most important street in a 25BB tournament.
You could say that 25BB or less is standard for the final table of a multitable tournament, but typically the players that make it to a final table of a multitable tournament know NOT to limp in every hand.
This would be bad enough in holdem, but in OMAHA, it's just absolutely ridiculous. To put this into perspective, Holdem is typically played 100-150BB deep in casino cash games. Omaha is played 200-500BB deep!
In Omaha, preflop starting hands run very close together in value. Going all-in preflop on almost ANY four cards is not typically a huge mistake.
This would be bad enough except that all the characters overbet the pot! There's a *reason* Omaha is played pot-limit - it's to prevent the "bingo/roulette" luck-based all-in preflop. And with 25BB, any preflop raise commits you to the pot no matter what flops, so you might as well go all-in preflop!
Finally, there's Ash. Oh, Ash. I would love to have you at a real table. But Ash is a problem at this one. Ash just completely *dominates* the other players with his wild aggression, because the other players don't wait for premium holecards that can stand up to Ash's aggression, don't take into consideration that middle or bottom pair is probably good against Ash, and aren't willing to risk it.
So Ash is almost always the chipleader because he's sucking up chips from the other player, you're almost forced to go all-in on any ace or any two broadway cards, and Ash will call your all-ins (when he has you covered) with any junk.
Personally, I think that Telltale dropped the ball here. They didn't have to tweak the AI in order to offer 'hard' and 'easy' modes. All they had to do was present a "beginner" mode as-is, and a hard mode where overbetting the pot in Holdem was rare and forbidden in Omaha, start the players with at least 50BB (probably 100) and call it an advanced mode.
I actually think that the original Poker Night had a better poker experience, and considering that it would sometimes mess up on ranking the cards, that's saying something!
I was REALLY looking forward to this, but honestly, the poker in this game is a total no-fun grind. There's no strategy to it...
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Council on Adoptable Children (COAC): In 1977, the South Carolina Department of Social Services spearheaded a move to form the Council on Adoptable Children, an adoptive parents? group that has continued to grow in South Carolina. Today the Council on Adoptable Children is an important advocate for South Carolina?s children awaiting adoption. The Council on Adoptable Children, through Department of Social Services funding and assistance from the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, produces South Carolina Seedlings, an adoption photo listing service. Each year, COAC, in cooperation with other adoption agencies, sponsors an adoption conference for families, workers and interested individuals. COAC also publishes a quarterly newsletter and conducts picnics, parties, retreats and other special activities for special needs children and prospective adoptive families.
South Carolina Seedlings: Under the auspices of the Council on Adoptable Children, a statewide photo listing service featuring special needs children was implemented in November 1980.
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Florence Crittenton Services: Florence Crittenton Services of North Carolina and South Carolina provides maternity home care to birth parents. These services include group adoption counseling.
South Carolina Families for Kids: In 1995, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation awarded South Carolina a grant to restructure its child welfare system. The Department of Social Services, in conjunction with the United Way of South Carolina, implemented South Carolina Families for Kids. The initial focus of the project was the "Backlog Blitz". This effort concentrated attention on children whose permanent plan was adoption and attempted to accelerate their movement through the child welfare system. The long-term focus of South Carolina Families for Kids is the improvement of the child welfare system in South Carolina by ensuring that timely permanent plans are made and implemented for children. Some of the components of this effort are improvements in the family court system, implementation of the casework team concept and a statewide publicity campaign to recruit foster and adoptive homes for waiting children.
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Through a W. K. Kellogg grant, the African American Adoption Center has been developed in collaboration with Reid House of Christian Service. The goal of the grant is to recruit and prepare adoptive and foster families to adopt African American children. The effort involves a partnership with churches and community volunteers. Children Unlimited, also a W. K. Kellogg recipient, offers a variety of support groups for older adoptive children and families, as well as a broad spectrum of adoption preservation services. Children Unlimited has been instrumental in assuring that mental health and adoption specialists meet annually for joint professional development.
In November 1998, the Department of Social Services began contracting with seven private, licensed child-placing agencies in South Carolina to assist in recruiting and preparing families for adoption. These agencies are:
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Other girls carried feather dusters or wore handcuffs.
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"Mr. Deacon creates a cardboard provocativeness, not much better than a London sex shop."
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The runway was framed by two drawbridges, and the clothes looked a touch medieval.
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Haider Ackermann, Riccardo Tisci, and Alber Elbaz are said to be in the running — but none will say so.
Gorgeous kids with model genes.
A golden finale of models.
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Tiny lights create an artful backdrop.
A pun as bad as that can only mean one thing: Cat prints are enjoying their second life in Paris.
Dior CEO said so at the John Galliano show — which could be the designer's last — in Paris yesterday.
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Two Thunder Bay Queens squads sport perfect records in their respective Minnesota tournaments.
The First Class Gas bantam AA Queens picked up their third straight win at the St. Luke's Icebreaker Invitational in Duluth with a 4-1 win over the Wayzata Trojans on Saturday evening.
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My iMac
June 13th, 2012 at 9:31 pm by Dr. Drang
If you're interested in getting a new iMac, as I am, the past couple of days have been a series of swings between cautious optimism and disappointment, with certainty waxing and waning from hour to hour. I've come away believing two things: Apple isn't as secretive as it used to be or as Tim Cook promised at D10; and there will be new iMacs this year.
Let me start by explaining why I care about new iMacs. My current office computer is a 2006 iMac: white, Intel Core 2 Duo, 24″ screen. It was a sturdy, reliable machine for almost six years, but the past several months have not been pleasant. First, the hardware is starting to falter.
It started with the screen displaying gibberish—blank areas, torn windows, small rectangles filled with random dots of color—on warm days. I grabbed a copy of smcFanControl, bumped up the fan speeds, and moved on. I didn't like the extra whirring noise, but my office isn't a monastery; there's usually street noise, the buzz of overhead fluorescents, conversations in the hallway, and iTunes playing in the background to cover up the louder fans. I could live with the louder fans.
Then the hard disk got wonky. I had a few SuperDuper backup failures over the course of a couple of months (I run a scheduled backup every weeknight). When I sent the logs to Dave Nanian at Shirt Pocket, he told how to fix my immediate problem and also told me that some of the error messages were a sign of a hard disk going south. I wasn't surprised. The inevitability of hard disk failure is why I run SuperDuper in the first place. I considered replacing the internal disk but decided—because I figured this iMac was going to be retired soon, anyway—to avoid the hassle and just boot from an external FireWire disk. I've been running that way for 3-4 months now.
But the main reason I want a new iMac is that this one can't run Lion effectively. It's usable RAM is limited to 3 GB (no, really), and Lion can't seem to manage within those confines. Free memory is always running low and the SPOD makes regular appearances as the disk thrashes the swap space. Moving back to Snow Leopard isn't an option, as I've gotten used to certain Lion-only features in the software I use. (I've also gotten used to the purge command.)
So I've been ready to get a new iMac for months. At first, I figured a new one would come out in the spring. The 2010 model came out in May, and Apple's never gone more than a year between refreshes. The announcement that Mountain Lion would come out in summer was a deep disappointment to me, because I figured that would delay any new iMacs until they could be shipped with Mountain Lion installed.
Then came WWDC on Monday. I tweeted in the morning that I doubted we'd see new hardware until ML shipped but was reminded by Jonathan Poritsky that the 2010 iMac shipped a few months before Lion. This gave me some hope.
And when the keynote started off—after the usual throat-clearing about how many, how much, how quickly, and how wonderful—with the announcements of new MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros, my hopes rose. But no. Nothing about new iMacs. Still, maybe there was just no room in the keynote for desktop announcements. Mac sales are, I believe, about 2:1 laptop-to-desktop, so it would make sense for desktops to be given short shrift.
So I looked on store.apple.com when it came back up after the keynote to see if the iMac had been given a stealth upgrade. Nope. Then in the evening came David Pogue's depressing story (since updated) that an Apple exec told him that new designs for the iMac and Mac Pro were in the pipeline for release next year. Next year being six months away, this wasn't what I wanted to hear.
Tuesday morning I woke up thinking that Pogue's report might be a blessing in disguise. I've been putting off getting a new iMac because I've been thinking a new one is just around the corner. But if I know for sure that a new design is at least six months away, I could buy the current model right now and be comfortable with the decision. If only there were some confirmation of what Pogue was told.
Confirmation came Tuesday afternoon with this Forbes article (which, like the Pogue article, has since been updated) by Connie Guglielmo. She got in touch with some people at Apple who confirmed what Pogue reported: new iMacs and Mac Pros planned for 2013. I started pricing out a system, but decided—for what reason, I don't know—to hold off placing an order.
Procrastination triumphs! By Tuesday evening, Guglielmo's article had been updated. Apparently, Apple flacks had read her original report and quickly got back in touch to clarify that "new design in 2013" applied to the Mac Pro only, not the iMac. Translation: there will be a new iMac this year.
Which, frankly, makes more sense. If Apple had waited until 2013 to rev the iMac, that would be more than a year and a half between updates for its main desktop machine—that's far too long. Yes, I know Mac Pro users have already waited longer for an update than that, but to hell with them. It's hard to work up sympathy for people who spend over $3,000 for a computer.1
So this two-day odyssey has left me back where I was on Monday morning. I'm expecting a new iMac to be announced Real Soon Now and refuse to feel like a putz for buying the current model just before it's discontinued. I bought an LC II shortly before the LC III came out and was deeply scarred by the experience.
My annoying conscience impels me to point out that I spent more than $3,000 on my first Macintosh. In my defense, I will point out that that was a really tricked-out system: 8 MHz processor, 512k of RAM, two (count'em, two) single-sided floppy drives, a dot-matrix printer, and a sweet carrying case. ↩
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I agree with the idea that iMacs will be updated this year, but I'll note two things. One is that Apple may be being slightly coy since October of this year represents the beginning of fiscal year 2013. And we know that there are product updates near the beginning of that quarter. All big-ticket Mac hardware except the Mac Pro has received an update in one of the recent Octobers, so it's not like any updates then would be out of character.
MacBook Pro, 2011 MacBook Air, 2010 iMac, 2009 Cinema Display, 2008
If forced to guess, I'd think iMacs get updated even sooner simply because of potential back-to-school purchases, but for all I know the October-Decemeber holiday season sees more sales of the iMac than late summer.
FREDERIC ALBRECHT says:
Dear Dr. Drang,
Thank you for the in-depth analysis and to tillitate my hopes on this subject.
In that sense, I really hope that both of us will be pleasantly surprised by an arrival of a new IMac in the year 2012.
Kind regards from France,
Frédéric ALBRECHT
Terry says:
My 24" iMac is doing the same as yours and needs replacing. On some blogs (S Blanc & others) they are going with a MacBook Air along with a 27" display. Any thoughts or would you consider this set up instead of a iMac.
Chris says:
It is like your iMac is six months ahead of mine (in terms of breaking down). Until the new iMacs come out (or I buy a 13" MBA) can you let me know what FireWire drive you bought? Mine just died and I just spent two days wrestling with a WD that was supposed to work but doesn't)!
Note: My video card went at 3 years + 3 months. I ended up paying $400 to get it fixed.
Thanks for all the great content!


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State police arrested a Canterbury man at a hotel after officers said he was found in possession of a large amount of drugs.
Officers located 22-year-old Derek Barrett at the Knights Inn on East Main Street in Plainfield around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Officers were looking to serve Barrett with a warrant for cultivation of marijuana as a result of an investigation in April at his Canterbury home. Police said they located more than three pounds of marijuana packaged for sale.
When officers located Barrett at the hotel, they said they found him in possession of several narcotics, including more than 14 grams of heroin and 200 grams of marijuana, both packaged for sale. In addition, officers located scales, packaging material and a stun gun, along with more than $2,000 in cash.
Barrett was additionally charged with operating a drug factory, possession of heroin with intent to sell, possession of marijuana with intent to sell and possession of an electronic stun gun.
He is being held on a $55,000 bond and will be arraigned in Danielson Superior Court on Wednesday.
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An occluded front is formed during the process of cyclogenesis when a cold front overtakes a warm front. When this occurs, the warm air is separated (occluded) from the cyclone center at the Earth's surface. The point where the warm front and the occluded front meet (and consequently the nearest location of warm air to the center of the cyclone) is called the triple point.[1]
There are two types of occlusion, warm and cold. In a cold occlusion, the air mass overtaking the warm front is cooler than the cool air ahead of the warm front, and plows under both air masses. In a warm occlusion, the air mass overtaking the warm front is not as cool as the cold air ahead of the warm front, and rides over the colder air mass while lifting the warm air.
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A cold front would be seen as spikes and a warm front as semi-circles in a traditional weather map.
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Stylish and refined, this Kenmore refrigerator 7803 is a spacious addition to your kitchen storage needs. The two Humidity-Controlled Crisper Drawers, Adjustable Glass Shelves, gallon-sized door bins and Full Width Pantry Drawer offer plenty of storage options. A factory-installed interior ice maker and extra-Large Capacity freezer door bins set this top-freezer refrigerator apart from other models. Interior LED lighting, digital one-touch temperature controls and enhanced Multi Air Flow technology combine efficiency and energy savings in one sleek, spacious package.
- A full-width, gourmet pantry drawer stores party platters, pizzas, pies, trays and more while clearing shelf space for better organization and easier storage.
- Gallon door bins easily hold jugs, bottles and gallon containers to help clear the shelves and give you space to stock up.
- Spacious, tight-sealing and designed to control humidity, Kenmore crisper drawers deliver fresh, crunchy fruit and vegetables, so you can stock up on produce.
- Multi Air Flow Technology uses strategically placed vents to balance cool air throughout the entire refrigerator, so even the items on the door stay cool.
- A built-in icemaker automatically makes chilly ice cubes, so whether you're cooling a hot drink or mixing up a cocktail, the ice you need is always on hand.
- Efficient recessed LED lights are mounted along the sides of the refrigerator to give you more space and make it easy to see what you're looking for.
- Electronic controls combined with a digital display means quick temperature readings and push-button adjustments that are tailored to fit whatever food you're storing.
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Olla, LA
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I love the size of this refrigerator and the lighting. The freezer section is fine as far as cooling but the refrigerator section does not stay cold enough even on the highest "cold" setting. Also, you have to get in the habit of standing to the side when you open it or you will hit the top of your foot every time! My husband has offered to put it up on blocks to prevent this, but I would have to tear out some cabinets above the refrigerator. Not very pleased with it.
Plainfield, IL
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It is a big refrigerator. The LED lighting in the refrigerator is not well thought out. It needs an LED panel on the top or in the back of the refrigerator. Wasted space under the deli drawer. This unit is NOT that loud. The icemaker is LOUD!!!!! Freezer is big and lit well. Seems to hold temperature well in both top and bottom parts. Came with a broken leveler and doors were not switched to the other side, as stated when ordering at the store. Delivery men switched the doors and a serviceman fixed the leveler. Love the door handles. Keeps a lot of fingerprints off the doors. I would purchase again. The biggest draw back is Sears Russian roulette of pricing. Bought it on sale, got a discount for using the sears mastercard and a coupon for $35.00 off. The next day checked price and it had gone down $60.00. Went back to the store and got the money off the price I paid the day before. Two days later it was $90.00 cheaper. Went back to the store and got the money discounted off the price again. The next day the price was $400.00 more. Kept checking the price for 2 weeks. Up and down,up and down. I need a diswasher and range also. Kept them in my cart and watched the price fluctuate by more than $500.00 over a month period. Now before I buy these two items I check my cart for the price of the day. This is crazy.
North Olmsted, OH
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Con: Little too large to fit into older home fridge area, had to trim cupboard. Otherwise very satisfied with purchased.
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We love this refrigerator, there is a place for everything. Like the led light in the freezer makes it easier to find items.
Collinsville, OK
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I was a bit concerned after reading some of the reviews about how noisy this refrigerator is. This is the quietest one I have ever owned. Ice maker works fast and keeps us with plenty. I love that it has smooth door and handles because it is so much easier to keep clean than the vinyl with the pits that most have. Lots more room than the side by side I had. You do have to be sure your foot is not in the way when you open the door as it is lower than older models.
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Unit looks good and has plenty of nice features for the price. Compressor failed at 9 months. Lost $500.00 in food. When is someone going to wake up in manufacturing and marketing and put low temp alarms on home refrigerators?
North Richland Hills, TX
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I was so disappointed by my last fridge I was glad when I was finally able to replace it. This one is so much nicer. The layout inside allows for more available space. The temp is much more constant. And it is very quiet. I am very pleased with this model. Now, if it just lasts a long time it will be perfect.
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After 12 years of service, our 21-cubic-ft Kenmore refrigerator failed. I was initially interested in finding an LG-branded unit, but after comparing this Kenmore to the similar 24-cubic ft LG, I concluded that they are essentialy the same unit, and an employee of the local Sears store confirmed it: LG manufactures refrigerators for the Kenmore brand. Pros: The top-freezer design may look old-school, but we find it functionally superior to bottom freezer and side-by-side models...not to mention it is generally less expensive. This particular unit has all kinds of space, and some thought went into the design. It has a drawer for meats and cheeses that is the whole width of the fridge. The door can hold so much you might not even need the rest of the fridge. The LED lighting looks great and should last the life of the fridge. The icemaker is convenient. Cons: The day after purchasing this unit, it went on sale for about ninety dollars less. This refrigerator is not going to impress your friends because it is a conventional top-freezer design, nothing special to look at. There is no water dispenser, although for more money, you can buy a similar unit with the water dispenser. For several hundred dollars less than this unit, you could opt for a slightly smaller refrigerator that may serve your needs just as well. Other thoughts: This refrigerator is ideal for a family. If you have a spot that can handle the height (~67.5") and you appreciate the ease of use that goes with the conventional top-freezer design, this is a spacious option for you. If you are considering purchasing online and having it delivered, our experience in that regard was excellent. I ordered online in the afternoon, and then I got a robo-call in the evening confirming the delivery window (it's a two-hour window) for the next morning, 7am-9am. They called around 8:20am to let me know they would be there shortly, showed up at 8:30am, and had no issue getting the new unit in and the old unit out. They hooked up the water line for the icemaker as well. They were very professional and friendly. Whichever refrigerator you choose, I can recommend ordering online from Sears and just having it delivered...although you will probably still want to go out and look at them, touch them, open the doors, etc. to help in the decision-making process.
Orlando, FL
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Our new Kenmore 24 cu. ft. Top Freezer Refrigerator with the icemaker is just what we wanted. The shelves and drawers are in the right place and it give plenty of room for large bottles and even small yogurt cups. Just the right spacing for everything we need. Love it.
Merrill, IA
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Have had this refrigerator for a couple of months now, Despite what the other reviews said, This refrigerator is quiet. Love the roominess and the water dispenser is great. The only very small issue is the LED lighting in the fridge isn't quite as bright as I'd like it to be, should be one in the back as well as the sides. We had to change the doors to open the other way, that was a challenge. But over all, I would rate this refrigerator as Excellent. It does everything I expected it to do. Looks great in my kitchen too!
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Ingredient Spotlight: Fleur de Sel
A friend brought us this little pot of sea salt as a souvenir from her travels in France. It's been sitting in our cupboard staring at us every time we open the door, tempting us and begging to be used. How should we use our fleur de sel?
Fleur de sel is like the extra-virgin olive oil of the salt world. It's the first, most fragile salt crystals that form at the top of the sea water as it evaporates. The grains are flaky and can range in color from grey to pink due to the natural minerals in the water. Those in the know claim that fleur de sel also has a particularly nuanced and delicate flavor that sets it above regular sea salt that comes from fully-evaporated sea water.
Fleur de sel makes a great finishing salt - in fact it's too expensive and rare to use for much else! We've been adding a few pinches to our dinner salads, and we like the subtle crunch and sharp spikes of saltiness it adds. We also really enjoy it simply sprinkled over fresh bread dipped in olive oil! We're thinking of trying it next with fresh summer melon and yogurt lassis.
Fleur de sel is also the salt of choice for bakers and candy makers. They it use for making salted caramels, chocolates, and other surprising confections. We'll have to be sure to save some for our holiday baking!
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One of my favorite breakfasts is a hearty piece of toast spread with avocado and sliced tomatoes and a little sprinkle of fleur de sel. I think it's a great idea, though, to save it for holiday baking.
Sprinkled on top of the Chocolate Caramel Tart, from Marlow and Sons in Brooklyn. Perfection.
Ina Garten has a recipe and they look so delightful.
I bought fleur de sel and used it on a batch of Ina's caramels this past holiday season:
Highly recommended! My only advice is:
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Toasts with Chocolate and Fleur de Sel from Amanda Hesser! (page 213 in the book Cooking For Mr. Latte)
Spread good butter on radishes and dip them in salt, a la francaise. Simple. Delish.
on scrambled eggs (or any style eggs, for that matter)!
Fleur de Sel is good on anything. Love the crunch.
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I use it for most everything, finishing dishes, baking, on roasts, for hamburgers, whatever. It can be ground to create a finer salt. It creates a subtlety in dishes that leaves guests wondering why your dishes are always better then thier own.
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A star running back from the University of North Carolina, Giovani Bernard was the top playmaker on the UNC offense. We talked with Doc Kennedy of the Tar Heel Blog, a North Carolina Tar Heels community on SB Nation, about the two-time first-team All-ACC selection. Tale of the Tape Height- 5' 10" Weight- 205 pounds Class- RS Sophomore Can you give some background info on him and a quick overview of his career? Bernard was a star coming out of high school in Miami. He injured his knee during preseason practice his freshman year at Carolina but quickly lived up to his billing as he became the first UNC running back in 14 years to rush for over 1,000 yards in 2011. He followed that up with a 2012 season that saw him lead the nation in punt returns while leading the ACC in rushing, return yards, and all purpose yards. He ran for over 1,200 yards this season in only 9 1/2 games, as he was injured in the first half of the season opener and missed the next two games. He was first-team All-ACC both seasons. What are his strengths and weaknesses? He is a multi-faceted player who can run, catch, and do it all. He has a knack for finding holes and squirting through for positive yardage. He is also a great pass receiver, with 92 catches in his two years at Carolina. He scored touchdowns this season rushing, receiving, and twice in kick returns. His main drawback is that he is on the small side (5-10, 205). Plus, while he is quick, especially laterally, he does not have breakaway speed. He reads his blocks exceptionally well and that is what gets him into open space. He is one of the few RS sophomores coming out this year. Do you know why he is leaving after only two seasons and do you think he is ready for the NFL? It may just be a matter of striking while the iron is hot. There is really nothing else he can accomplish at UNC and his stock may never be higher than it is right now. He is as ready for the NFL as he will ever be. Do you see him as a running back that can handle 20+ carries a game in the NFL? Not really, but I'm not sure that's where NFL teams will be looking at him, given his abilities in the return game. He would certainly have to bulk up to endure that level of capacity in the NFL. Where would you rank him among top running backs in UNC history? Many people don't know that for many years North Carolina led the nation in the number of 1,000-yard backs. If he had stayed for a 3rd year and put up the same kind of numbers he did in his first two years, he would probably be on the Mt. Rushmore of UNC running backs. As it is, he is 10th on the all-time rushing list in just two years and will always have a special place in the heart of Tar Heel fans because of the punt return TD against NC State that ended a five-year losing streak to a hated rival. You can follow Doc on Twitter @DocHeelfire and the blog @TarHeelBlog.
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Apple's native multitasking bar – an App Switcher, which can be invoked by pressing the home button twice doesn't offer you with too many options. A brand-new jailbreak tweak called Imperium is up for grabs on Cydia store which essentially reinvents Multitasking and takes it completely to a new level. Inspired by Mac OS X's Mission Control and LaunchPad, Imperium Cydia Tweak brings number of system options right on your App Switcher tray and allows jailbreakers to perform a number of actions with ease. Imperium can be activated from anywhere using an Activator action.
There are countless actions users can perform with Imperium cydia tweak, and the fact that it appears to integrate itself seamlessly within the iOS makes it a package of particular importance. With Imperium, users can set predefined app shortcuts, kill background apps, set toggle functions such as airplane mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, location services and even a switch for a flashlight. Access the shortcuts like composing an email or tweet, powering off, snap a photograph and launching apps from a scrolling list of all of your installed apps. The two sliders available conveniently allow you to increase or decrease device brightness and adjust volume.
In the Imperium preferences pane in the Settings window, the tweak allows you to pin four applications to the dock. Activator action method can be configured against these application shortcuts. Moving further down, you will notice options to customize background, blur radius and animation speed. There is also a switch available at the very bottom which will close the Imperium tweak. Well, you can alternatively press the home button to exit Imperium.
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