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In 1990 a FAO Survey of Zambia revealed that 39% of Zambia's total land area is covered with forests, out of which 1% or 3,300 Km squared has been disappearing every year. At this rate, Zambian forests will be depleted within 30 to 40 years, if measures are not taken to curb deforestation. This situation is mainly attributed to the dependence of 90% of Zambians on wood fuels as a household energy source. According to the Department of Energy (DoE) 1974-1996 Energy Statistics Bulletin, 76% of energy sources in Zambia are wood fuels and 83% of urban households use charcoal as an energy source as opposed to 24% in the rural communities. The forecast wood fuel consumption is one million tonnes per year by the year 2000; this is compounded by the relatively high population growth rate of 3% per annum and urbanisation rate of 4% per year. One convenient household energy source that can replace wood fuel is electricity. However, large investments would be required for the distribution infrastructure. In addition, most Zambians cannot afford the high connection costs and the high cots of electrical cooking appliances.
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Location, continent: Africa
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Website: www.nisir.org.zm
FundingMain funding organization: Japanese International Cooperation Agency
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Technology: Briquettes And Pellets
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Week 15 has come and gone, Addicts and the Chiefs came away with a playoff berth for the first time since 2010. The best part was, they did it without relying on another team to lose. They went out and won the game, clinching the berth on their own. Yesterday before the game we broke down the things the Chiefs would need to do in order to secure a victory. Let's go back and see how they did. As always, my original comments are in normal type and my follow-up comments are in bold.
Key #1: Special Teams Needs Another Special Day
With punt returner Dexter McCluster out of the game after his spectacular 177 total return yards and one touchdown performance last Sunday against the Washington Redskins, the next man up — likely Quintin Demps — will have to step up. Many think a return is a return is a return, but the mechanics behind a punt return and a kickoff return are quite different. This phase is a game changer for the Chiefs and will need to show up today.
While the special teams didn't find the end zone like last week, they did a great job of setting up the offense with terrific field position. Quintin Demps 50 yard return to start the game set Alex Smith and Jamaal Charles up perfectly to score on the first play of the game. In all, the special teams contributed every bit as much as the rest of this football team to secure the win and clinch the playoff spot.
Key #1 : ACHIEVED
Key #2: The Pass Rush Will Need to Pick Up Where it Left Off
After taking a mini-vacation from sacking the quarterback — one that lasted from Week 8 until last week, really — the Chiefs pass rush is back. Defensive coordinator Bob Sutton dialed up some great blitz packages last Sunday in our nation's capitol and was able to hit the Washington Redskins' quarterbacks a total of six times. He'll need to dig into that bag of tricks and find some more of that magic today. While the Raiders quarterback Matt McGloin is an undrafted rookie, he's shown some affinity for throwing touchdowns when given time. It's up to Tamba Hali and company to ensure he doesn't have that time.
I have never seen a team go so hot and cold in one aspect of the game as much as this defense in regards to sacking the quarterback. For the first seven games, the D was unstoppable. Then they went cold. Then last week they got to the QB six times. This week, they weren't even able to breathe on Matt McGloin or Terrel Pryor. The Chiefs defense and especially their coordinator Bob Sutton need to figure out a way to fix this before the playoffs.
Key #2: NOT ACHIEVED
Key #3: Start Fast
Even when the Chiefs were on their magical 9-0 run, one of the things they were unable to do was start fast. More often than not their first drive or two or three ended with a three-and-out. However, they seem to be getting better at getting the offense moving right out of the gate. I would love to see an opening drive for a TD today, but I'd settle for any points on the board after the opening possession.
Is it considered an "opening drive" when it only takes one play to get you in the end zone? The Chiefs started fast and didn't stop. In fact, this was probably the Chiefs fastest start of the season. They wasted absolutely no time in scoring after the huge Quintin Demps return that set them up on the 50 yard line. By the time the game clock showed 14:38 in the first quarter, the Chiefs were up 7-0.
Key #3: ACHIEVED
Key #4: Increase That Turnover Ratio
Bad teams give the ball away. Good teams force those turnovers. The Raiders are a bad team and the Chiefs are a good team. This should be the perfect recipe for this Chiefs team to increase that turnover ratio. The Chiefs have guys who can intercept the ball, and working against the aforementioned undrafted, rookie quarterback, that shouldn't be difficult.
This is almost laughable. All in all, the Chiefs defense had a bit of down day. But you'd never know if you look at the turnovers. The Chiefs defense created seven takeaways from the Chiefs. Derrick Johnson, Frank Zombo and Ron Parker all recorded interceptions on the day, with Eric Berry getting two of them and taking one to the house. In addition to that, Hakeem Abdullah and Tamba Hali both recovered fumbles. While the Chiefs did give away a turnover on a rare Alex Smith fumble, they still ended the day at +6 in the turnover category. That's good enough for the league lead.
Key #4: ACHIEVED
Key #5: Don't Take Your Foot Off the Gas
Last week the Chiefs kept scoring points, regardless of what the Redskins were doing. This isn't youth league football. There is no rule that says you shouldn't run up the score in the interest of good sportsmanship. If a good team plays a bad team, the good team should keep scoring as much and as often as possible. I don't care if it's second or even third-stringers dancing in the endzone, but I want to see scoring and a lot of it.
I guess I asked for it. I said I wanted scoring and lots of it. I got it. The Chiefs scored the most points of any team in a single game this season. Alex Smith threw five touchdown passes, a career best for him. Four of those were to Jamaal Charles, an NFL record for a running back. Smith also hit tight end Sean "The Beard" McGrath for a late score and the rookie Knile Davis found the end zone for a second straight week. Even when the Chiefs slipped in the third quarter and let the Raiders get within four points after scoring three unanswered touchdowns, the game was never in question. This offense is just too explosive. Wow…did I just say that?
Key #5: ACHIEVED
There you have it, Addicts. The Chiefs hit four of the five keys we laid out for them and it was good for a win against the hated rival Oakland Raiders as well as a playoff berth. Damn that feels good to say. Up next, the Indianapolis Colts. I say bring 'em on!
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The ongoing federal challenge to Texas' omnibus anti-abortion law made its way to the nation's highest court on Monday evening, with abortion providers asking Justice Antonin Scalia to put an appeals court decision on hold while their case makes its way through the judicial system.
Recent findings directly contradict the charge often made by anti-choice politicians that pushing through abortion restrictions is based on an overarching desire to protect the health and safety of women.
A new lawsuit filed in state court argues a law signed by Gov. Fallin in May that requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital violates the Oklahoma Constitution.
Advocates asked a federal court to block the measure before it takes effect next month.
The stories of women who participated in focus groups led by SisterSong, included in a new report, convey the gross under-education and discriminatory treatment of Black women living in the South, in particular, where sexual and reproductive health education is nonexistent and stigma is rampant.
Issued by a federal district court, Wednesday's order permanently blocks the law, which would have banned abortions as early as six weeks of pregnancy.
A group of Texas doctors filed suit against the State of Texas Wednesday, challenging part of a new omnibus anti-abortion law that requires abortion providers to meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centers.
The ruling means that abortion providers in Arizona will be forced to adhere to outdated protocol when performing medication abortions.
A bill that would make it a separate crime to kill or injure a fetus in crimes committed against a pregnant woman passed the Florida House Judiciary Committee on Monday, and now heads to a vote on the house floor.
North Dakota is far from alone in spending large sums to defend anti-choice laws. But what makes the state unusual is that fiscal conservatives are now criticizing a double standard, where the lawmakers backing these bills are more regularly seen opposing other instances of what they call government interference, and decrying so-called "big spending."


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MADRID -- Roger Federer rallied to beat Tomas Berdych 3-6, 7-5, 7-5 and win the Madrid Open for a third time on Sunday.
While Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal had blamed the new blue-clay court for their early exits, Federer's biggest obstacle was to overcome an opponent who had beaten him in three of their previous five meetings.
"It is amazing to win here again," said Federer, who will overtake Nadal as the second-ranked player behind Djokovic. "It has been a tough tournament. Tough to move, but you've got to try to make the most of it. Here there was some good tennis and some bad tennis, but you see that in all tournaments."
Berdych hit 14 winners and made just two unforced errors in a dominant first set. However, Federer finally found his ground game and broke Berdych twice to even the score and force the third set, where he secured the victory after Berdych had saved three championship points.
The sixth-seeded Berdych jumped out to a 3-0 lead after hitting a crosscourt return to take Federer's first service game.
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So I am almost 40 and have had two children. I am fairly slender but have fluctuated weight. I became very unhappy with the way my labia was puckering out. I would wear tight clothes and you could see the outline, which is a big no-no.
In September, after visiting various websites, I had a consultation at Dr. Pousti's office. Immediately, I loved the feel of the office and staff, and upon meeting the doctor, I felt just as comfortable. I decided to go for it, and scheduled my appt. I had both the Minora and Majora done, which I did not see too many reviews for, so I didn't know what to really expect. I was thinking 3-5 days I would be out and then I would be up and running......WRONG!!!
Let me just say real fast, that the actual surgery went great! I loved the hospital I was at. Staff was friendly, they took really great care of me. This was a first actually that I came out of general and did not get sick!!! Thanks everybody....
Surgery day I went in at 9am and got out around 1:30 pm. I came home, had some pain, but not bad because pain medicine still in system. I slept most of the day. (I got one of those back rest chairs you can put in your bed and some pillows and slept pretty dare good this whole time.) Urinating stung, hard to sit down.
Second day was harder. Definitely sore, Really swelled up, stomach and legs looked huge. Couldn't walk great, had to kind of bend over, stick out my butt and waddle. I decided to take my pain pills, which I was prescribed Percocet. The pills are pretty strong for me and I didn't care for the way they made me feel, I am also a strong believer in addiction, so I dropped down to a Vicodin. I also was taking homeopathic arnica. Started taking those two days before surgery, so they get into your system. The Vicodin worked well but definitely still in pain. Slept the whole first week, getting out of bed pretty much just to use the restroom and maybe a walk into the kitchen. Lost track of time, pretty much out of it, no desire to read or do activities. Showered day 3, felt good, very sensitive on the area and felt really tight because of the swelling, almost like it would crack. Throbbed and ached, so I would not want to stand for any duration of time. Definitely bled, so I had to wear pads. I decided to put liquid organic coconut oil on the area. Its and antifungal, and antibacterial with healing properties, you can eat the stuff. Made it feel better. Lots of ice too!!!!
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It's now Day 15 and I have had about 3 days of feeling pretty dare good, I can walk almost normal, can sit in a chair, can drive almost pain free. It doesn't throb or ache when I am standing.
Dr. Pousti tells you in the beginning not to look at the sight for about a month. Of course I felt the need to look so I knew where and what to clean. It does look like Frankenstein, but I am pretty familiar with how the body heals so I can see that its going to come out great and I am excited. I will definitely keep whoever is listening posted.
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This Best New Artist nominee looks adorable in a strapless beaded cocktail frock. But with silver metallic shoes where is the rest of the bling? Girl needs a necklace to flatter that great decolletage. What do you all think?
tuvwxyz 5 years
That's what makes her Corinne Bailey Rae. There is no other like her. She has her own style; she is from the UK; she is her own person; and she definitely knows who she is. That's what I like about her, she is not trying to fit into the norm. Her absence of accessories is what makes her a Hall mark. Her voice and music is nice.
Eve2Lillith 7 years
I think some simple silver studs and a thin short silver chain would have been just find with this outfit. Anything else would have been too heavy on the jeweled edge compared to the simplicity of the rest of her wardrobe design. I think she did well playing it safe without jewelry, plus it probably got her more attention being essentially 'au natural' at a place where "bling and rings" are abundant. And oh if i had curly hair I'd so be taking this picture to my stylist!
MandyJoBo 7 years
I think she is smart not to accessorize because her beautiful facial features are jewels on their own.
maplesyrup 7 years
gorgeous! She looks pulled together.
BlondeSugar 7 years
I really don't like calling grown women cute, but she is SO CUTE! Love her voice too.
buggyslice 7 years
She looks fantastic but could use some jewelry.
jifaner 7 years
Never heard any of her music, but she is a pretty girl! Love her dress and hair, but she needed some earrings or a great necklace to pull it all together. She almost looks like she forgot to finish getting ready.
flutterpie 7 years
cutie patootie flutter-the one, the only, accept no substitutions
kscincotta 7 years
She looks great, but she could use a great pair of stud diamond earrings and some serious bracelets.
rubialala 7 years
Looks great but needs a necklace.
phatE 7 years
looks like they forgot to put jewelry on her
utjenn03 7 years
I love the dress, but I think she could have at least worn some earrings or necklake. I don't think it would have taken that much away from the dress.
audreystar 7 years
she is so cute and her dress is understated, classy and very pretty. i love her raw talent.
sanD13 7 years
i'm a huge fan of her music so she can do no wrong :-)
sexyface 7 years
love her dress
kendalheart 7 years
She looks great! I dont agree with needing a necklace but some long earing would look wonderful!
LoneWolf 7 years
You know she wanted to DIE when she woke up with that pimple, but she looks very cute. Love the curls.
GirlinMotion 7 years
She is beautiful! Love it!
HeatherStJoeMI 7 years
Very classy !!!!!
girlyfied 7 years
Love it. Very French circa 1930s.
amyfinke 7 years
like the fresh makeup, but she needs a necklace with short hair
redsox26 7 years
love her, the dress and her music
Tech 7 years
Seriously, she looks great, but what is that mark on her chin. What bad timing!
JK-Boogie 7 years
Love the dress but she must be gutted to get spots on the day of the Grammy's
JessNess 7 years
she looks classy
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Tocllaraju Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|Route Climbed: Westface Date Climbed: 6 of august 2003
|We satrted at 12`o clock down in the basecamp and reached the summit at 6:30 AM. From the face we didn`t see a lot because we were climbing all the time in the dark. But we just arrived at the summit with the sun and this was the most beautiful I`ve ever seen!
|Posted Jan 12, 2004 4:08 am
|Jim Clarke
|Route Climbed: NW Ridge Date Climbed: 7/3/02
|Great intermediate climb in the Cordillera, with just enough challenge. The ice climbing was perfect on the summit pitch...a worthwhile summit particularly if you go for the West Face Direct.
|Posted Sep 26, 2003 9:51 am
|Route Climbed: NW Ridge (normal route, 1939) Date Climbed: August 24, 2003
|The hike up to about 5700m is cake, and I bivyed on the lip of the bergschrund, intent on the West Face, but awoke in a whiteout. I cocooned in my bivy sac until 7am, when things hadn´t gotten any better, and went for the normal, NW ridge. The route was easy, with one 60 degree section to bridge the lower schrund, then a lot of circituitious walking, another short 60 degree section to bridge the upper schrund, and then the final 65 degree summit pyramid, which is about 120m. It took me about 4.5 hours from my bivy and back in a whiteout, solo, so I took off and traversed across the granite ridge connecting Toccla and Urus Este. I highly recommend this as a tasty desert after a bunch of snow. It´s just like a mini-version of a Sierra rock traverse, like the Palisade, or Evolution, with spectacular scenery of Ranrapalca, Copa, Aquilpo, and if it hadn´t been cloudy - a lot more. Anyways, back to the subject: this route is easy. Go for the icy West face if you don´t mind a few seracs (no big danger), and the weather is OK. August 2003 in the Blanca has had terrible weather. It was fun, still.
-Barry Hashimoto, Huaraz, Peru
|Posted Aug 28, 2003 6:17 pm
|Route Climbed: Wes Face Direct Date Climbed: July 1999
|In 20 hours non-stop on a beautiful hot summer day together with friend Jesús reached the summit and back to advance camp.
|Posted Dec 4, 2002 1:07 pm
|Route Climbed: NW Ridge Date Climbed: 2-3 September
|It was a misstake to go to the Camp 1 at the first day. It made the trip one day shorter but a lot harder. But we reached the summit after a six hour climb. Summited with Andy Martinez Diaz, (muchas gracias por ayudarme amigo !!) and we were the only ones at the mountain that day wich made it an special climb. The clouds at the top (10:30 am.) were a bit of a bummer.
|Posted Oct 29, 2002 2:10 am
|Route Climbed: NW Ridge Date Climbed: August 1997
|A fine climb - nobody except my friend Armin and me on the mountain that day! Unfortunately we reached the summit in clouds.
|Posted Apr 2, 2002 9:29 am
|Route Climbed: NW ridge Date Climbed: Approx. 14.06.00
|A very fine climb. But not so much emotion, since it was done after Alpamayo, which was our primary goal.
Mule driver didnot show up, so it was a heavy walk out the valley.
|Posted Jan 15, 2002 10:42 am


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Foods that memorialize those no longer with us
- Mandymac Oct 19, 2007 12:55 PM
I had a sort of "honorary grandfather" who taught me how to make bread by hand, as well as some classic Italian specialties in his repertoire. He passed away several years ago, but even today when I make bread, it seems to conjure vivid memories.
My mom likes to go our for a classic martini when she visits me in New York, in memory of my father's favorite Friday night drink.
Do people have special foods and special preparations that they eat/make in honor of the deceased?
I honor my grandfather whenever we have Japanese food (either at home or at a restaurant) by pouring some tea into a bowl of rice to eat. He'd always finish a meal that way (at least, that's how I remember it), and I learned to do it as a child. Now, I do it because I miss him.
Great thread, thanks.
re: smartie
My brother in law died two years ago-way too young. He was a great guy and, born in Italy, basically taught the whole family (lace-curtain-mashed-potato-Irish) how to cook. But it is when we make a simple salad that I remember him best.
1. Take the best green lettuce you can find (butter is best) and break by hand.
2. Gently toss it with excellent olive oil until it is just slightly bruised.
3. Drizzle with lemon juice from thin-skinned lemons.
4. Add salt
5. Enjoy!
Oh my, yes. In fact I'm making the dish this weekend for a family gathering. Glorified rice. One of my uncles, gone now for 15 years, had a serious love of the dish. In our family's peculiar little pocket of Midwestern Scandinavianism, the dish comprised cooked rice blended with sweetened/vanilla'd whipped cream and drained canned fruit cocktail. (It is oddly compelling, I have to say...and not all SO bad for you in the grand scheme of things.) Aforementioned Uncle would scoop up a huge bowl, prop himself in the corner of a room and hold court, with stories and jokes and teasing. My family members invariable cite memories of that uncle whenever glorified rice makes its way onto the potluck table. And everyone smiles. That's the secret ingredient - the memories.
re: cayjohan
Mom (Danish) made it using canned crushed pineapple for the fruit component.I think she called it "heavenly rice".
re: cayjohan
My grandma (German) called this Rice Salad - she used red grapes and pineapple. She also added walnuts. She is from Kansas.
Three days before my mom passed away, she requested bi bim bap as her last meal. While she had really not eaten for weeks (she had advanced pancreatic cancer), she forced the food down her stomach. About a day before she died, she had hallucinations of persimmons. So on the anniversary of her death, I put out bi bim bap and a plate of beautifully arranged persimmons. I plan on doing this every year.
Every time I make biscuits I think of my grandma.
My mom called this morning and they're going down to clean out Gram and Papa's house (Gram's been gone for 25 years and Papa died a year and a half ago, but my uncle Galen had been living there until last January). She asked me if I wanted anything from the house. I'm getting Gram's pots and pans. Nothing special, just a set of Club pans and maybe some cast iron. But they were Gram's.
At my age, at least half the things I cook could be a memorial to one long-gone loved one or another...and even to a few folks maybe not so sharply missed, except for their cooking ;-). But the ongoing "memorial", for my money, is the love of food and interest in cooking that I learned from so many of these people, and the fact that I'm keeping their cuisine alive and further building on it, as much because of the examples they set as anything else. Thanks for the cookies, Grandma Kuntz, and for the roasts and braises and German things, Grandpa Kuntz. Thanks for the fried chicken, Grandma Owen...not because you gave me the recipe, which you'd never do, but for giving me something I've spent decades trying to duplicate! And thanks to my mom, who showed me how it's quite possible to go from a mediocre recipe-follower to an earnest seeker after culinary truth well after 40!
Pies, without a doubt...my mother's were legendary. It's my lifelong quest to make a crust as good as hers. I'm not there yet, but I'm getting closer!
Gumbo with lots of gooey okra, extremely rare roast beef just removed from the donor and served with an unseasoned gravy, frozen string beans and lima beans were favored. An appetizer of Skippy Peanut Butter spread on Triscuits and topped with chopped bacon bits also comes to mind. Those were very popular.....Can't say I make any of them myself but if I eat them somewhere else, I certainly think of those good old days.
re: mvi
I can not have a Thanksgiving without those tiny pearl onions in cream sauce and a turkey with POTATO stuffing ! Yes my Dad loved both and now I do a simple single dish of baked potato stuffing for me ....but tiny onions for all ...( yes very Irish )... before we knew NOT to actually stuff the turkey I would make coarsely mashed potatoes with finely chopped onions , Bells seasoning , S&P, fill the bird and cook ...and of course he had to have regular mashed potatoes as well . very Irish I guess but I too have never met a potato I didn't like..my Mom who is still with us thinks Thanksgiving is all about butternut squash
re: capeanne
Every December when I haul out the vast Mason and Cash bowl my father used to make the cassava pie for Christmas, I feel my parents' presence. My Scots mother had to apprentice for many years before my father would allow her to make this most Bermudian of dishes. We used to grow the cassava and peel and grind it, but these days I get it from a local farmer. I have taught my son how to make it, though at this point he just excels at eating it.
re: Athena
My foodie husband (gone now more than 10 years) persuaded me to try oysters by making the most divine oyster stew. No recipe, of course, but still the best Ive ever eaten. He died suddenly, and took the recipe with him, so I cannot replicate it. I would never try.
Grandmother's fruitcake was the first I ever tasted, and everyone else's was held to her standard. It was more candied fruits than cake or nuts, and you could slice it so thin, it looked like stained glass. Some of my cousins have tried to replicate it, and come close. But its just not quite the same. And of course Gram didnt use recipes either. Each of us cousins has asked her for her recipe for this or that (strudel, potica, fruitcake, casseroles, etc.) only to find years later, when we compared the versions we got with each other, she had given us different quantities or ingredients for the same dishes. Im not sure this was intentional, or just forgetfulness, but it made us all realize that she got the last laugh.
What a great thread, especially with the holidays approaching (dia de los muertos, thanksgiving, etc.)! Thanks for posting this!
Every Thanksgiving my cousin makes her mom's (my aunt) spiced peaches. It's not a very "foodie" recipe--basically just canned peaches with cloves and cinnamon--but my aunt made them lovingly every year and it just isn't Thanksgiving without them. So we always have those on the table in her honor.
Gram, how I miss you so...
Corned Beef
Cottage Cheese w/ Noodles
Peppermint Ice Cream
These are not homemade, but pizza from Numero Uno (in Los Angeles), Entemann's cakes, Cinnamon danishes from Beverlywood Bakery (also in LA)
My daughter was once invited to a Memorial Day party. She was told everyone was to bring the favorite dish of someone deceased that they wished to honor. She brought cherry pie, which was Brennan's favorite. At the party, everyone talked about their deceased friend or relative and I think it was a wonderful thing to do.
re: walker
What a absolutely awesome idea - I must do this!
When holidays arrive, I get into making the Jewish-y, eastern European dishes my mother made for us. Last Passover, when I was making a batch of matzo balls that came out especially well, I needed to "talk" to Mom, who passed away in 2001. I have her ashes in an urn and brought it into the kitchen where she could be part of the process. It is a wee bit creepy, but it made me feel connected to her.
re: EllenMM
Not creepy. I know a woman who has her mom and dad in cute boy and girl salt & pepper shakers (holes sealed off) on her kitchen window sill and she consults them as she happily cooks.
re: torty
This time of year, the foods I miss most of my mother's are her fruit cakes and mince pies. The stories of cremation bring her sharply to mind. I was surprised when my father had her cremated. I'd never heard her mention it. But Dad had her ashes in a bronze urn on their mantlepiece, and every morning he would brew two cups of coffee -- one for him, one for her -- and chat with her for a while as he had done every morning when she was alive.
A couple of weeks after her cremation, he called me with a special request. "Sis, you're about the most responsible member of the family, so I want you to promise me that when I die, you'll have your mother's ashes put in my arms before you bury me."
I was touched by his desire that they be together for all eternity. "Dad, I can do even better than that. What about having you cremated and putting both your ashes in the same urn?
His voice was tight. "Oh my god! Don't do that! I never had her permission to cremate her, and what if she's mad?"
That was a decade or two ago, and my dad is gone too now, her urn resting in his arms. But here it is the holiday season, and me without a decent fruit cake. Or mince pie! Maybe if I steep a store-bought fruit cake in some heavy booze....
re: Caroline1
Your post really touched me. I, too, miss my mother's great Italian cooking. My mother had her regrets about cremating my father (the only way he could be buried in military cemetery in San Francisco). She went around saying, "he's burned to a crisp." Now, she's there with him.
re: walker
Thank you, Walker. As long as we remember them, they live on...
My Mom passed away about fourteen years ago. She made the best stuffed cabbage I've ever eaten, and also the best homemade cornbread with chopped onions & jalapeno peppers. Anytime I eat those two foods, I think lovingly of her. Unfortunately, she never wrote down the recipes for either, so I've never been able to replicate them...I've tried, but mine just don't taste quite as good.
This is a beautiful topic, because it really gets to the heart of something very human about food.
One evening, on my way home from work, I bought a piece of cod for dinner. I got it home. What to do? Hmm. I thought that I'd roast it, topped with very finely diced shallot, thinly sliced tomato, salt, pepper, a bit of thyme and paprika, dressed with a bit of olive oil. A sort of vaguely Portuguese inspiration, right? As soon as I tasted my first forkful, I was immediately transported back over 20 years to my Finnish grandmother's lunch table. I was 13 years old, and for lunch she had roasted a whole pike stuffed with sweet onions and tomato. I had been thinking Portuguese, but apparently she was standing behind my shoulder whispering Finnish wisdom. I can't help but think of her every time I make it. With the approach old cold weather, I have resolved to master her coffee bread (pulla) and cinnamon buns (korvapustit).
I make a very clear chicken soup with acini di pepe ("snowball" pasta), dressed with grated parmigiano... the simple masterpiece of comfort made by the Friulan woman who took care of me as a child. And, I still attempt, but haven't mastered, her ragu.
My Scottish Canadian grandmother was a very reluctant cook, but after school, when I was in highschool, she and I would often have fresh orange slices with syrup-packed ginger root with our tea, while we plotted against the rest of the family. As soon as I taste anything like that, I'm transported back to that moment.
I wonder whether the portal to time travel is located on the tongue.
re: hungry_pangolin
Thank you, hp...you write very well and I was transported back to afternoons with MY Scottish Canadian Nana...
re: hungry_pangolin
That orange and ginger sounds heavenly.
You might like Tessa Kiros's book Falling Cloudberries - lots of recipes from her Finnish mother and fabulous photographs of Finland.
My Italian grandmother was a great cook. She never measured anything other than by judging how much to add by looking at it in the palm of her hand. When she made pasta she would put a mountain of flour on the metal kitchen table, made a valley in it for the other ingredients, throw them in, knead everything together and roll it out with an old wooden dowel.
Every time I cook and I pour some ingredient into the palm of my hand to "measure" it, I think of her. I often think of this as proof that there is such a thing as eternal life.
re: woodys
My parents owned a Mom & Pop restaurant aka a greasy spoon..they are (both) long gone, but what remains so clear in my memory was watching my Mom take a ginormous(!!) Leg of Pork out of the oven! It was always served with real Mashed Potatoes, and those dreadful but ever popular (in those days late '50's!)canned peas & carrots and a side dish of her homemade applesauce. What I wouldn't give for one of those dinners right now!!
To honor my maternal grandmother we make noodles. Nothing fancy - basically egg noodles cooked in chicken broth. They're a family tradition at all holidays. My sister has the pot she used to cook them in and I have her wooden rolling pin.
To honor my paternal grandmother we make Steamed Pudding with hard sauce. Grandma C used to make this dense molasses cake in a steamer and top it with a raw egg and powdered sugar-based sauce that just melted over the still-warm pudding. The exact recipe for the hard sauce is still unknown so we've tried many iterations (sans raw egg) but still haven't gotten it quite right. The steamed pudding recipe is in hand - and my dad even has a copy in his safe deposit box so as to not lose site of this family tradition.
re: HungryLetsEat
That sauce sounds like a cross between Nigella's brandy butter and iced rum sauce in How To Eat.
My entire Thanksgiving dinner is a homage to my husbands Grandmother. She was a wonderful cook, she taught me that fried chicken and gravy was not a gruesome dark brown greasy mess, but light and crispy chicken with heavenly cream gravy. She taught me to make bread and how to fold sheets - not that that has anything to do with food but she really taught me so much.
When we decided that Thanksgiving was getting to be too much for our Grandparents and that we would start having it at our house instead, she came over and "helped' me make it - but really she made it - I helped and took notes, all the way down to the "till it looks right".
Thanksgiving has been at our house every year since and I still use those notes. I think there would be a riot if I changed anything, not that I intend to!
I found an un-labled VHS tape a couple of years ago, popped it in and it was from her last Thanksgiving in 1987. I burst into tears when I heard her. I miss her terribly.
All of our holiday recipes...matzo ball soup, sweet and sour meatballs, cholent and brisket were all invented by my grandmother and we continue to make them at every holiday in her memory.
Thanks for all of the stories so far! I had suspected people would have interesting associations, just hadn't expected all of the recollections to be this moving. Some really incredible tributes in here.
Cabbage noodles, cucumber salad, and palaczinta remind me of my father, who came to the US from Hungary in the 60s. He made cabbage noodles every time I visited him because it was/ is my favorite. He died 3 years ago but now when his sister, my aunt, makes it, I feel like he's at dinner with us.
My maternal grandmother was a very unpleasant person but made the most amazing shortbread, the recipe for which she passed on to my mother and aunt. I try and think of them when I eat it.
My father was a wonderful man, but cooking was not an interest of his. So it really surprised me when one weeknight for dinner, he made the salad, while Mom prepared the rest of the meal. It was a Greek salad, based on two salads he had eaten in Chicago's Greektown at the (now) long-departed Grocery Diana and at the still-in-existence-and-going-strong Parthenon. It was the best salad that I had ever had and still is. Everything in it was extremely strong and spicy. My Dad had just retro-engineered the recipe from paying attention to what the salads were like at those two restaurants. Greek salads, back in the sixties, were practically unheard of and my Dad had never before exhibited any ability to figure out a recipe simply by eating it. That salad became a staple at special occasion meals and I will always remember him and his gusto for life when I eat it.
My wife's next door neighbor, Violet, taught her to make biscuits not long before she was suddenly and tragically killed in a car accident. We always thank her for the cast iron skilletsful of love.
Our first born child was a male Maltese puppy for whom we'd boil ten pound bags of chicken leg quarters. We'd boil a big batch, pull the legs & thighs out, add more and repeat. The broth was intense! My father-in-law couldn't get enough of the stuff. We talked about Zach and Da as we strained and stored chicken stock last weekend.
re: AreBe
I make what I call "Transylvanian Pasta Sauce". Not really Transylvanian - my grandmother, who emigrated from Transylvania to the U.S., really got the recipe from a Sicilian neighbour in New York City. She made it, tauight it to my mother, who taught it to me. They're both gone now, but it's still the best pasta sauce I have ever eaten.
Well I hate beets with a passion, but whenever I go to a salad bar I throw a few on my plate and eat them because they were my grandmother's favorite.
Ah, grandmothers... they just have the magic touch.
My Grammy made the most amazing toast. I think it was Arnold light italian sliced bread, toasted, with Parkay margerine. I laugh when i think about it b/c how could I not be able to replicate that? But it just tastes different.
She also made the world's most amazing pancakes, with Bisquick. I'm sure many would argue that there is no subsitute for "from scratch," but to this day I have never had better pancakes. My uncle has tried to replicate them and come close, but there was just this taste... my mom says it was love :)
What a lovely thread. I think I honor both of my parents every time I eat, because they were the best cooks I've ever known, and it's entirely thanks to them that I eat healthy and am open to lots of different types of food and have such a love for food. However, Thanksgiving holds a special place in my heart. For this immigrant family who only celebrated the American holiday of Thanksgiving, my mother was like a kid waking up on Christmas Day opening up presents...only she got excited about preparing the meal. She passed away exactly two weeks before Thanksgiving, and I actually had a dream in which she was preparing a Thanksgiving meal in her new "home."
What I would give to share one more meal with my parents!
Grandma Meechie, my paternal grandmother was a wonderful cook. I was named after her and we were very close. I spent my childhood weekends with her as her "company keeper". She cooked whatever I wanted to eat. She would make pizza in her cast iron skillet. She would make hamburgers and "skinny french fries" at my request (I was high maintenance even as a kid). I have her skillets now, which originally belonged to her mother.
Grandma Meechie as a divorced mother of four worked her way up from dishwasher to head dietitian at a nursing home. She made the best jello I've ever tasted. Apparently the secret is the juice from canned fruit cocktail. She also used fruit cocktail juice to in the batter for her blackberry cobbler crust. I never mastered the crust but I do make a version of blackberry cobbler with a special ingredient of my own.
Grandma Meechie made the most wonderful biscuits. It still amazes me that she made them without measuring. She always used a glass as a buiscuit cutter. I never mastered her biscuits - and I went to culinary school. It's funny, as I type this the Good Eats episode where Alton makes biscuits with his grandmother is on the TV.
One of my grandmothers signature dishes was Arroz Dolce, which is a Portuguese sweet rice pudding. I wanted to learn how to make it, but by that time, she had forgotten how. I made batch after batch, which she gently critiqued, trying to duplicate her recipe and was finally successful.
My grandma passed away last spring and I made the rice for one of the family dinners we had. I realized how successful I had been in duplicating the recipe when one of my aunts turned to me, with tears in her eyes, and told me it was just like her mothers.
Like many other dishes I make, I will never be able to make Arroz Dolce without thinking of my grandmother.
My husband still makes my grandmother's crab dip every Christmas.
And we always have a little of that canned cranberry sauce because my mother-in-law always liked it.
I can already think of some dishes that I'll make after my mother's gone just because she made them.
My grandmother worked at a small local bakery that made the best chocolate chip cookies in the world! They were made with lots of real butter and had this incredible texture. Every so often I will run across cookies like these and it will take me back to snowy afternoons (when school was closed) at the bakery with Grammom. I was allowed to eat all the cookies that were broken and couldn't be sold.
I am a collector of family recipes - from my own family as well as others so in a sense I honor those people every time I make one. I've lost a bunch of my family but their recipes live on -
Grandpa's Tom & Jerry's - made for Thanksgiving or Christmas or both. Time was that there was a batch for the kids made with milk as opposed to the rum based for the adults but now we are all in the rum set
Grandma's Pizelles - have to have a special iron for these but it was a tradition for us to make them at Christmas
And her Kolaches - with prune filling yet so delish
Mincemeat pie made with moosemeat if possible - the original recipe has been handed down through the maternal side for years and is measured in bowls as in a bowl of brown sugar, two bowls of raisins...and my favorite part - rum and brandy to taste!
Mom's still around to make me lemon meringue pie but I've long been the holder of that recipe and the squeezer of lemons. I could make it myself but its so much better to have her do it.
And every time I make stuffing, I think of mom up early simmering the turkey innards and filling the house with the smell of sauted onions, celery and sage.
But the classic is Russian Tea - no matter what time of night you got up, there was gram in her housecoat, hair in curlers with a scarf around them, reading her Readers digest and drinking that tea.
Thanks for a great thread!
re: AlaskaChick
Hey, AlaskaChick, could you post the moose mincemeat on the homecooking board? And anything you know about its history.


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Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose have hidden Easter eggs for the younger kids to find. Bradley, Brian, Nate, and Lucy have no trouble finding the plastic eggs. But some of the golden eggs disappear! Can the four kids track down the thief?
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Exciting lesson ideas, book lists, videos, classroom strategies, and reproducibles in a daily blog by mentor teachers
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Students showcase their creativity with this activity that helps you teach list poems and celebrate National Poetry Month.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Recommended books to help you teach the many holidays — Poetry Month, Earth Day, and even National Humor Month — that April has to offer.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
It's mid-March, and our Women's History Month celebrations are in full swing....
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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Let's use this special day to inspire children to think about what it takes to be a great leader. I'll share my book choices here, as well as downloadable resources and links that will help you scaffold your students' learning.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011


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BackgroundLoosely based on the plot of the film, the player takes the role of Uncle Fester as he searches for the recently kidnapped baby Pubert. On the way he receives help from The Addams Family and a host of original characters from the game.
Game PlayAn action adventure game with slight RPG elements. You control Fester, moving around the Addams household, fighting regular enemies and bosses, talking to family members, and occasionally solving puzzles.
Hardware Info
- Genre: Action/Adventure
- Theme(s): Gothic
- Perspective(s): Top Down
- Developer: Ocean Software
- Publisher: Ocean Software
Released North America Q1 1994


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Diwali - The Festival Of Thousands Of Years
Diwali has been an important festival of the Indians, which is the time of merry for the Indians. The Diwali is happily celebrated by exchanging good words, exchanging the wishes of prosperity of each other, etc. Prosperity in Indian context has never been the story of prosperity by wealth only.
The main prosperity for an Indian is the mental growth and the dissolution of the mental sorrows and the darkness that makes the mind depressed and demotivated and also makes the mind go round and round in the illusions. The prosperity thus is essentially the prosperity of mind and the wishes for a growing mind.
Lights the symbol of consciousness
Indians have always considered light as the symbol to dissolute the darkness and they refer that the darkness of the mind is due to the lagging of consciousness and this consciousness is the key to enlighten a mind to understand the life, world and the truth underlying the universe. Ravana is referred to be the symbol of that darkness, who envelops the mind of the human with illusion and wrong thoughts and misunderstandings, and thus the entire world starts running after those illusions and makes himself away from the truth of the world.
The lights of the Diwali festival is the symbol of directing the mind towards consciousness and inspires mind to come out of the darkness of illusion to the light of the truth and also makes the mind please in the familiar and worldly life with wishes to be peaceful in life and prosper there with the metals as its symbol
The festival of thousands of years
Diwali has been the festival of India for thousands of years. The festival is supposed to be followed from the time of the first epic of the world, the Ramayana. Rama was the Prince of Ayodhya, who was sentenced for a fourteen year stay at the first with his brother and wife. A demonic king Ravana snatched Sita and Rama attacked him, as he refused to give Sita back after so many pleads. There a fierce war was carried out to ultimately regain Sita from Lanka, the kingdom of Ravana.
The Diwali festival is the merry of the people of Ayodhya when Rama, their beloved king came back to their city with his family. They lightened their houses and the roads with lights and garlands to make their merry a reason. Finally this festival continued in India as one of the biggest festivals, from that time.
Most important is the reason of this festival than even the festival itself. The festival is the symbol of greeting the positive forces over the negative ones and greeting the truth over the false. The material world looks beautiful but is filled up with illusions that attract a human. A human who can come out of them reaches the ultimate truth and that is consciousness. Thus Diwali is not only the festival of lights to decorate the room and city, not only the festival to make merry with crackers, it is the festival to enlighten the mind with lights of truth and sound of duty.
Top 5 Download Manager - A Good Range of Options
The main purpose of a download manager is to download files from the internet easily with good speed and efficiency. A good download manager should be lightweight and easy to use. It should definitely have a pause and play option. If the system shuts down unexpectedly, then the download should start from where it stopped and not from the beginning. They should integrate easily with all web browsers and accept all sorts of files over the internet. They should be configurable in an easy manner. If your download manager doesn't satisfy all these criteria then you should consider changing it for a better one. Here is a list of top five download manager which is efficient in all possible ways.
5. JDownloader
It is free software and it is compatible with all operating system. Windows, Mac and also linux can handle JDownloader in an efficient manner. It can be used to download movies, music, books and all sort of files over the internet without any problem. The only criteria to make this software work on your system are the Java software with version of 1.5 or higher. If you are a person who accesses file hosting websites to download stuff then this is the must have software for you. It supports captcha recognition in websites like rapidshare, etc. It is also very light and easy for new uses to get accustomed with the functionality.
4. Download Accelerator Plus
It is one of the most downloaded software. It manages downloads very efficiently without any problems or breaks. It also comes with two separate add-ons called the SpeedBit Video Downloader and SpeedBit Video Accelerator which is used to accelerate the speed of downloads up to 200 percent. These add ons helps to download the file by getting multiple bits of information from various websites. Previews are available for the downloads even before it is completely downloaded. It is simple to use and recommended for amateurs.
3. Internet Download Manager
It is one of the best download manager that can integrate with all browsers easily. The name may sound very simple but the features are amazing. It categorizes the download according to file types and also increases the download speed. For amateur downloaders, it is an easy to use interface without any complexity. Expert users can use it's command line interface to fix broken files, download from sites which prompts for password and also schedule work. They can also limit speed for files and also block downloads from certain websites. It is also capable of getting videos from YouTube, Metacafe, etc. It is a simple and useful tool for advanced users.
2. Free Download Manager
It is attractive looking software and for a freeware, it has the complete software for free without a catch. It is also very easy to use and available in various languages. All you need to do for downloading a file is to click on a link or drag and drop it into the box. Simplicity is the main advantage of this software. It has amazing automation feature where it can connect to the internet and starting the download by itself. It can also reduce the number of connection if the internet is quite slow or shut down the system if there is no connectivity or if the download is not available. It also supports flash video downloads, YouTube downloads and BitTorrent protocol support. These amazing features makes free download manager stand out from the rest of the crowd.
1.Orbit Downloader
It is the lightest and the fastest download manager available. It can support all sort of downloads from the internet and it can also easily grab videos from websites like YouTube, Myspace, etc. It can download files of any size very easily. Media files can be downloaded by using the right click and selecting download. Flash files can be downloaded by clicking on the orbit button which appears by default. It can support various browsers and if you are an expert you can optimize the orbit download manager to get the best results out of it. It supports multiple downloads without reducing the speed. They are highly compatible with Windows 7 and it is a must have application if you are looking for a simple and a straight forward download manager.
Buying Vimeo Views Naturally For Your Videos
If you want your vimeo video to attract more eyes than what it is already doing, then you will have to encourage them to comment more on the videos that you have uploaded. Ask them to provide you with suggestions so that you can improve for better in future. Positive feedback or negative feedback doesn't matter as long as it is constructive ones. In case someone is criticizing then also you will benefit if it is done in a healthy manner. When your videos get more comments then it is a signal that your video is getting popular by the day.
If you feel that you want some more features to promote your video even better then you can opt for the paid account on Vimeo. In the paid account, you will be able to upload some very good quality videos which are not possible in the free account. Even after upgrading to the paid version if you feel that things aren't working out the way you thought it would be then you can get top quality Vimeo views for your videos.
When you do that you are actually handing over the responsibility to someone who is expert in pulling in more traffic to your video. Buying the views means that you are actually buying the services of the particular company who is skilled enough to increase your Vimeo views. You must continue to add videos because that is the only way of understanding what the viewers want and then you will be able to mold yourself into one.
Viral potential of Vimeo
It is not impossible to get your video viral on Vimeo but the possibility seems quite lower when compared to that of YouTube. If you are looking for your video to go viral in here then it is definitely not the platform for you. This place boasts of professionalism, high quality of video and the presentation is higher too. It is much refined than that of YouTube and it is mainly for a niche group of people like filmmakers and their fans and also for producers of quality content.
Vimeo is a platform for creative people where you won't be bombarded with innumerous lame videos that don't make any sense at all. YouTube has almost become a junk yard where one and all upload anything and just everything they feel like. Moreover, it is not organized at all therefore when you are looking for similar kind of videos then also you will have irrelevant videos coming up in the search result which is definitely not the case with Vimeo. Instead Vimeo comes up with relevant search results out there.
At Vimeo you can customize your account provided it is a paid one. The look of your account can be done to match your brand when you are marketing on Vimeo. You can also match the color of the player as per the color that reflects your brand. Moreover, it is made easy for you to add a logo of your company on the top of the videos that you are playing in Vimeo. Make use of this platform to the maximum while marketing your brand.
How To Make Sure You Are Visible On Soundcloud?
Every single artist or musician who wants to become popular uses Mediamister Soundcloud service to upload and share his work. If he is not doing it, it means that he has not heard about the Soundcloud music platform yet. However, soon he will hear about the amazing things he can do once he has discovered this website, and he will begin to create his own personal page. To make sure the page he creates is a real success, he should follow a few easy steps. These steps guarantee him that he is not just a clumsy musician who wants to get out of anonymity.
Add Social Links to Your Profile Page
You all know that if you do not have a profile page on every social network, you are assumed to be non-existent. This fact is true for Mediamister Soundcloud service too. If someone hears a name, he tries to find that name on Facebook, or Twitter or on all other social platforms. This means that when you create your profile page on Soundcloud website, you have to keep two aspects in mind. On one hand, you have to make sure to have the same user name (and the same URL address) on all these social networks in order to be easily identified. On the other, you have to add your Soundcloud profile page links to your profile on other social networks.
Contact Information is Vital
No one can search for you, or send you a message if you do not leave contact information on your profile page on this Mediamister Soundcloud service. Try to write a short bio of yours, your hobbies, your interests, your music style, and how music defines you. Add this short bio to your profile page along with contact information. This way, people might show interest in you and your music and might want to contact you.
Do not Upload Everything that Pops up in Your Mind
Sometimes, new talents are so eager to show their work to the world that they upload everything they worked on. This way, on their profile page you can find some audio files that are just the kind of work in progress or those that do no sound very well. It is all right to be eager to present your work to the world, but you have to make sure the work you get out there is the best that you can do. Be patient, finish your creation, and develop an original way to present it to the world. This way, the chances of being successful on this Mediamister Soundcloud service are significantly higher.
Identify Your Music with Yourself
Once your song is done and ready to get out, make sure you labelled it right so that it can be traced back to you and your profile page. Add your music's gender in the keyword section to make sure your song is present where it belongs to. Also, do not forget to be logged in on the Mediamister Soundcloud service when you upload your song. If you are registered when you upload the song, your chances of creating a community of fans are higher.
Software Components Required To Develop A Basic Rooting App
Android SDK
A wide range of software development and comprehensive range of tools are available in order to develop a rooting app. This SDK includes the android debugger, essential libraries, and an emulator to test your rooting app. There are sample codes and tutorials available to you to teach the know how of a basic android app, if not a dedicated rooting app. It is supported on a variety of platforms including the Mac OSX, Linux, Windows and others. This SDK is developed hand in hand to the original android development, so you can be sure that provided right knowledge and technicalities of a smartphone, you shall be able to write the code for your own rooting app with convenience. You can then package your android rooting app in the form of an android installable .apk.
Android Debug Bridge (AD😎
This a a set of tools packaged in the form of a toolkit available in the Android SDK. There are both client as well as the server side components to communicate with one another. The access to the ADB is via the simple to use command line interface. There are also the numerous Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) available to be used with the ADB to control commands on it.
It is the Android's very own diagnostics protocol included in the Android SDK package. The primary usage of this tool comes in handy to flash the ROM and the associated file system via connecting the phone to the laptop computer through USB. The fundamental dictates that the device may be started in a boot loader or a secondary program loader mode. This is where the basic initialization of the hardware is performed. When you enable the protocol on the android device, it allows you to issue a specific set of commands via USB by the host computer.
Android Open Accessory Development Kit
Since Android version 3.1, there is an Android Open Accessory toolkit support available which allows the external USB hardware to associate and interact with the android powered device and this interaction is possible only via the special accessory mode. In this mode, the connected accessory acts as the USB host and the other device acts as a USB device.
SDL library
The SDL library makes an offering of the development of android rooting app possibly in other languages other than the primary Java language on which the entire framework of android system is based upon. There can be development of your rooting app on the C language platform and then simple porting of the C program thus generated. If you want to make it possible to use the native SDL code, then you can do so by injection of a small Java shim and Java Native Interface (JNI).
Rooting app developers have to bare in mind that the android framework is very tightly coupled with Linux based systems and associated Linux commands need to be therefore incorporated into the rooting app product to be developed.
What makes Instagram popular among both small business units and huge reputed brands
Instagram: Easy to use
With the improvements in technology, a lot of people have shifted to social media markets for the buying and selling of products rather than the old traditional markets, since these online markets are easily available, time-saving, and more attractive and also save the customers the trouble and cost of travel. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram are the new contemporary markets and they are leaving no stone unturned in the vast world of marketing. Creating markets out of thin air has become so much more effortless because of these websites and Instagram is the most accessible and uncomplicated amongst all of them. Instagram marketing involves straightforward advertising, through pictures and short videos, with small captions and details.
Reasons why it is hugely adopted
Followers are the most crucial bit of marketing on Instagram. The amount of followers a profile has, determines its reputation, and its creditability. But, with growing acclamation of the application, even small business units have been able to expand their business beyond just the local reach. A lot of people have quoted that Instagram is one photo app that can make even the ugliest pictures look beautiful. Instagram has an acceptable range of photo filters that make the image more attractive. Other features of Instagram are quite basic, and easy. So what is it that has made a large number of people, including first class brands and most common of all common people adopt this social media so dearly?
- Instagram allows the person or the brand to follow back and respond to the customers with ease.
- On Instagram, using the hashtags to conduct contests and giveaways brings about interest and active participation from followers.
- A lot of business houses and companies often click pictures of their fans and customers and upload them on Instagram. This helps the brand publicity and also gets it happy customers that would look forward to look out for more updates from the brand.
- Making an Instagram page a little personal has helped a lot of labels. By posting behind the scenes, and pictures from the individual's personal life, one can connect with the followers better and let them live through his posts.
- Instagram allows people to know what their friends and the people they follow have been tracking. Hence allowing awareness about new brands and low-end profiles.
- Instagram grants the feature of GeoTagging to its users by which people can look up the location of stores and brands using the image uploaded.
The above mentioned reasons are what have made Instagram a bright, leading and easily adaptable marketing strategy among not business units, vast and small, alike.
Instagram followers buy goodies based on the quality of the pictures and on the basis of the networking skills of the brand. It has been observed that most used prefer to buy products that are shown in an enviable fashion on the application. So, no matter if the brand is expanded or small, the proper use of the app can make it successful.
What To Gift On Valentines Day
Valentine's Day is one such day when you spend your entire day with your loved ones expressing your love to them. You take a day off from your work and just dedicate your entire day to the one whom you love. Are you the one who is a little confused on what to gift on Valentine's Day to you loved one? Then this is certainly for you.
First of all let us know why valentine day is so important and special? Valentine day is important for them who are in love but have not yet told their loved one that how special they are to them.
Valentine day is one such day on which boys and girls plan something very exciting and unusual for their partner and propose them to be their valentine forever. On this day those who are already in a relationship promise each other to love each other like the same way forever and ever and those who love somebody but were single yet get into a relationship by accepting the proposes. It is thus a day of romance and love is all around.
Following are few of the tips that could be followed to make your Valentine's Day more special and memorable and of course romantic. Let us have a look over them.
What to gift on Valentine's Day:
- Being filmy does not work every time, so keep it simple. It is truly said 'simplicity is the best policy'. So take your loved one on a special romantic date to a restaurant which would be decorated especially for him/her and just open up your heart in front on your lover honestly. This is one such thing that would certainly be loved by all.
- If not a restaurant or a hotel, you can also call her home after decorating your place with lots of balloons and red roses and perfect lighting for your proposal and then with a glass of wine could certainly ask her to be your valentine forever.
- Buy her the favourites of her. Girls are very fond of gifts and if they come with their favourite things enwrapped, they would be the happiest person at that moment. You could gift them teddy bears, a handmade card, a rose bouquet and a box of chocolates. So stop worrying about what to gift on Valentine's Day.
- You could also try for going publically. Girls love it when their guy expresses love for them in front of a crowd be it the classmates, colleagues or friends. So this time buy a red rose bend on your knee and say what you have to in front of the crowd. She is definitely going to like this.
At this moment instead of thinking what to gift on Valentine's Day, you surely are planning for it. This is the day of romance, the day of love. Just live it your own way. The choice is all yours. Just make it special and memorable.


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Leaders to speak and then have a conversation with attendees at the UNFCCC Climate Conference today. Intimate setting. I've inquired about streaming video, and will post a link if available. Hosted by Ban Ki-moon, he brings in a dazzling set of guest speakers, including both Clintons, President Barack Obama, Helen Clark, and many others. See below for details. Reblog widely. I'll update this post as the day progresses.
Advancing Public-Private Partnerships for REDD+ and Green Growth
The Hotel Southern Sun Elangeni
63 Snell Parade, Durban, South Africa
Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Avoided Deforestation Partners and co-host Dr. Jane Goodall invite you to an afternoon of discussion dedicated to forest-climate protection, in tribute to the late Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, with:
His Excellency Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General of the United Nations
President Barack Obama – President of the United States (Special Video Message)
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE – Founder, Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace (host)
Hon. Helen Clark – Administrator, UNDP, and former Prime Minister of New Zealand
Hon. Mary Robinson – President of Mary Robinson Foundation, former President of Ireland
Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton – United States Secretary of State (Special Video Message)
Hon. William Clinton – Former President of the United States (Special Video Message)
Achim Steiner – UNEP Executive Director, UN Under-Secretary-General
Dr. Andrew Steer – World Bank, Special Envoy for Climate Change
Wanjira Maathai – The Green Belt Movement, (daughter of the late Wangari Maathai)
Hon. José Endundo Bononge – DRC, Minister of Environment
Hon. Tina Joemat-Pettersson – South Africa, Minister of Agriculture
Hon. Kjetil Lund – Norway, Ministry of Finance and Co-Chair, Green Climate Fund
Hon. Kuntoro Mangkusubroto - Indonesia, Head of the President's Unit on REDD
Hon. Toga Gayewea McIntosh – Liberia, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Dr. Jonathan Pershing – United States, Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change
Hon. Norbert Röttgen – Germany, Minister for Environment
Hon. Eric Solheim – Norway, Minister of the Environment
Dr. Jason Clay – World Wildlife Fund-US, Senior Vice President
Larry Schweiger – National Wildlife Federation, President and CEO
Peter Seligmann – Conservation International, CEO and Chairman
Sean de Cleene – Yara International, Vice President Global Business Initiatives
Puvan Selvanathan – Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, Vice President, Executive Board
Update 1: My reading is the event was kept secret until Tuesday, Dec. 6 late afternoon
Update 2: As of Dec. 7, 1:30am, event has not been listed on the climate conference program @COP17


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Do Not Call This a "Derby Pie"
Cee Angi is a freelance writer who spent her formative (drinking) years in Kentucky, spending weekends riding her motorcycle and tasting her way through bourbon country. Follow Cee on Twitter, and read her thoughts on other topics like men and baseball at www.Baseball-Prose.com.
The Derby Pie was created in 1950 by the Melrose Inn in Prospect, Kentucky. The creators, Walter and Leaudra Kern, had an idea to make a chocolate and walnut tart and created a cult classic in the state of Kentucky. The quintessential Kentucky meal would be a shot of bourbon, a Hot Brown, and a slice of Derby Pie to wash it down, and the actual Derby celebration is no exception.
It should be noted that the Kerns' Derby Pie is trademarked. In fact, using the name Derby Pie for your creation might find you in court as the members of the Kern family religiously guard the trademark (and the recipe). But what's stemmed from this pie's tradition are a variety of spin-off recipes, many of which I prefer to the Kerns' original recipe.
It's not unusual to walk into a restaurant in Louisville and be greeted by a pie on the menu that takes on a similar name, especially around Derby time. Perhaps the most popular name is the Pegasus Pie. (The Pegasus Parade is an event that leads up to the Derby.) It's also not unusual to have it referred to as May Pie (the Derby is the first weekend of May), or chocolate-bourbon-pecan-pie, which is essentially what the pie has become.
It's taken me years to perfect my pie recipe. This type of pie recipe is very individualized but the result is one of the richest, most delicious slices of pie you will ever eat. It's funny that a pie that combines chocolate, bourbon, and nuts hasn't become more popular in the mainstream. Whenever I mention this pie, I'm greeted with looks of confusion that quickly turn to looks of inquisitive happiness when I mention the ingredients. Each time I describe it the same way: picture a pecan pie. Now add some walnuts. OK, now add a layer of chocolate—and oh, by the way, there's bourbon (of course there is).
My recipe is one that was perfected in Louisville while making these pies frequently with a friend who wanted to open a bakery. To my knowledge the bakery doesn't yet exist, but the result is a recipe that I'm happy to share with people and has become my trademark contribution for Derby parties, Thanksgiving, Christmas, graduations, birthdays, or just because someone has a hankering for chocolate-bourbon-pie, which happens more than you'd think. I hope you'll enjoy a slice of the South, which goes great with some bourbon for sipping, or perhaps the bourbon ice cream that Rachel and Patrick created.
Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie
½ (15-ounce) package refrigerated piecrusts
1½ cups chopped pecans
1 cup (6 ounces) semisweet chocolate morsels
1 cup dark corn syrup
½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup firmly packed brown sugar
¼ cup bourbon or water
4 large eggs
¼ cup butter or margarine, melted
2 tsp. cornmeal
2 tsp. vanilla extract
½ tsp. salt
Fit piecrust into a 9-inch deep-dish pie plate according to package directions; fold edges under, and crimp.
Sprinkle pecans and chocolate evenly onto bottom of piecrust; set aside.
Combine corn syrup and next three ingredients in a large saucepan, and bring to a boil over medium heat. Cook, stirring constantly, for three minutes. Remove from heat.
Whisk together eggs and next four ingredients. Gradually whisk about one-fourth hot mixture into egg mixture; add to remaining hot mixture, whisking constantly. Pour filling into prepared piecrust.
Bake at 325° for 55 minutes or until set; cool on wire rack.blog comments powered by Disqus


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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 1 (HealthDay News) -- About one million packets
of birth control pills are being recalled in the United States by
Pfizer Inc. because of a packaging error that could reduce the
effectiveness of the pills and cause unintended pregnancies.
The recall of 14 lots of Lo/Ovral-28 tablets and 14 lots of
generic Norgestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol tablets was announced late
Tuesday after Pfizer discovered that some blister packs may contain
either too many or too few active pills and that the pills may be
out of sequence. The expiration dates on the recalled packets range
between July 31, 2013 and March 31, 2014.
The pills are packaged in blister packs containing 21 active
tablets and seven inactive tablets. The packaging error means that
the daily regimen for the pills may be incorrect and could leave
women without adequate contraception and at risk for unintended
pregnancy, Pfizer said in a news release.
Experts said the error could pose real problems for women using
the pills.
"This is extremely important," said Dr. Steven Goldstein, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at NYU Langone School of Medicine in New York City. "It is absolutely essential that birth control pills be taken as intended, with 21 medicated pills in a row. Otherwise ovulation could take place and an unintended pregnancy is definitely a possibility."
Another expert agreed.
"Sequence and content of active versus inactive pills is crucial in determining efficacy, including whether or not unwanted pregnancy will be actually prevented," said Dr. Jill Rabin, chief of ambulatory care, obstetrics and gynecology, head of urogynecology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y.
She said that women who determine that they do have the recalled
contraceptive pills should first "ensure that you are not currently
pregnant (by taking a pregnancy test) if you have any symptoms of
pregnancy (missed periods/abnormal bleeding, etc)." They should
also switch immediately to a non-hormonal form of contraception if
they are not pregnant, notify their health care provider of the
situation, and return the defective product to the pharmacy.
Pfizer has informed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about
the recall. In a statement issued Wednesday, the FDA agreed that
"patients who have the affected product should notify their
physician and return the product to the pharmacy."
The cause of the error was identified and corrected immediately,
according to Pfizer.
The birth control pills were manufactured and packaged by Pfizer
and sold under the Akrimax Pharmaceuticals brand. The pills were
distributed to warehouses, clinics and retail pharmacies across the
United States.
More information
Here's where you can find more details on
lot numbers and other information on pills inc...ed
in the recall.
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Hi Guys, this one seems to be peckng my head lol.
My PC has two IP addresses one that was originally set by DHCP (now in the exceptions list 172.16.x.x), plus also a fixed IP in the 192.168.x.x range (both IPs are set on the same subnet mask). I have a QNAP NAS box which has two lan ports which one I configured to a 172.16.x.x and also a 192.168.x.x address. I can see the drive by \\image and the created folder shares appear no problems, but using the QNAP finder, it scans and finds the box, but when you try to connect which fires up the admin page, an error appears teliing me the server (NAS box and PC) are not on the same subnet....
Bizzare happenings..... Can anybody please kindly throw some suggestions at me (the harder the better lol)