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Shabeena's Quest
The Markaz
Friday, February 1, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
14-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai became a worldwide cause célèbre for her activism on behalf of girls' education when in October 2012, she was shot in the head and neck in a Taliban assassination attempt. Malala survived the attack and has become an international symbol of freedom. Her case is only the tip of the iceberg, however, because in other parts of Pakistan getting an education is still an act of defiance. Director Hemal Trivedi will present her short documentary, Shabeena's Quest, and talk about Shabeena, a remarkable school principal, and her quest to bring education to the children, particularly the young girls, living in the shadow of the Taliban, in Pakistan's Islamabad region.
This Director's Screening is presented by Developments in Literacy, a nonprofit that builds and operates schools and develops innovative solutions for quality education. It is cosponsored by the Levantine Cultural Center, Muslims for Progressive Values, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, and GlobalGirl Media. There is a suggested donation of $10 and light snacks are included. Seating is limited and RSVPs are strongly advised: 323.413.2001.
Despite age-old traditions that keep girls out of school and send them into arranged marriages, Shabeena's school actively recruits them. Afshan, a bright young girl who comes from a family of six daughters, is one of her great success stories. Living on the meager wages of a night security guard, her family is committed to each of them attending school. Another girl, Zarina, comes from similar circumstances but has had to fight to stay in school and resist her family's plan to marry her off at the age of 14.
The film follows Shabeena at work. We see young girls and boys in their classrooms, discussing Pakistan and its future; we hear villagers tussling with different views about education for girls; we see Shabeena recruiting for new students, persuading reluctant parents of the long-term benefits of educating girls.
And, over the course of a year, we see how Afshan and Zarina, as well as Shabeena herself, each strive to realise their dreams.
Born and raised in an inner-city chawl (ghetto) of Mumbai, India, Hemal spent her formative years striving to climb the social ladder. She did several odd jobs ranging from working as a concierge in Mumbai's five-star hotels to a lab technician in a microbiology lab. With the help of a state scholarship Hemal entered one of India's most prestigious business schools in India (NMIMS). She worked as an Index Fund manager for India's largest mutual fund for three years until she discovered her passion for documentary films. She soon moved to United States to get an MFA in documentary films from the Documentary Institute (University of Florida). Hemal now lives with her husband and her son near New York City. She has over eight years of extensive experience of producing and editing documentary films and she has won several awards for her work.
Her filmography whether as director, producer and/or editor includes Outlawed in Pakistan; Shabeena's Quest; Saving Face; Beyond Mumbai; When the Drum is Beating; Flying on One Engine; Laughter; Faith Under Fire; Haiti: Six Months After the Earthquake; Voices of Sudan: the New Country is Born; Politics of Hunger. Visit her site, Manjusha Films.
Developments in Literacy builds and operates schools and develops innovative solutions for quality education. With its successful models for teacher training, curriculum enhancement, vocational training, and technology integration, DIL provides high quality education to the most marginalized children and youth. This empowers them with the critical thinking and problem solving skills they need to redefine their future and that of their communities. Wherever DIL provides value added education, girls and women are able to transform their lives, often replacing child marriages with leadership roles in homes, villages and the work place. Supported by the Pakistani diaspora, DIL was established in 1997 to address poor access to quality education in Pakistan's underdeveloped areas. Beginning with a handful of schools and students, today DIL works across Pakistan in 179 schools, educating over 17,000 students, of which 68% are girls. The organization employs over 800 teachers, almost all of whom are women. DIL's robust teacher training program benefitted more than 30,000 children in 2011 alone. Visit dil.org. Youtube Channel: SupportDIL
When & Where
The Levantine Cultural Center
5998 West Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles,
Friday, February 1, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PST)
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The Markaz champions a greater understanding of the Middle East and North Africa by presenting artistic and educational programs that bridge political and religious divides. In a search for common ground, the Markaz fosters discussions among artists and thinkers and offers classes and workshops that serve diverse ethnic communities.


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dave at rodrig dot com wrote:
> maybe it's just late, but i lost you about halfway through (I've read it
> several times...)
> At first it seems like you're trying to go into your LAN (from the DMZ),
> then it seems as if you're talking about the other direction....a diagram
> might help.
No, I re-read my message, and it's certainly NOT clear. I guess it was
late when I wrote it. Let me start again.
I have an Optional interface, that I want to be able to go through my
VPN (which is IPSEC) to another location. It is on a seperate subnet
than my LAN (192.168.2.1), and the VPN is set up to establish from my
LAN subnet to the other internal subnet (192.168.1.1) at a different
location. Now, I've tried setting up an additional VPN from the Opt
subnet (192.168.100.1), to the network on the other side, and racoon
seems to just ignore it. It never tries to establish at all. Maybe
there is a limitation on how many tunnels can go to a single location?
That being the case, I tried to route traffic to the remote subnet from
my Opt1 subnet through the LAN interface. This is where the problem
comes in. If I put in a route that says:
If from Opt interface, destined for the 192.168.1.0/24 network, go
through 192.168.2.1,
it doesn't work. I didn't really expect it to, but thought I'd give it
a try. The funny thing is, if I tracert from the 192.168.100.0/24
network, to the 192.168.1.0/24 network, the tracert goes nowhere, not
even to the gateway of 192.168.2.1 as I specified. Without the route,
it tries to go directly out the WAN interface (which it probably
should), but obviously doesn't get very far because it's a private network.
Is there a way to get this to work that anyone can think of? I really
need to get from the 192.168.100.0/24 network to the 192.168.1.0/24
network any way I can. A 2nd VPN seemed the first logical choice, but
when I set it up, nothing happens, not even an attempt to connect. Is
there a way to route this traffic so it can reach the 192.168.1.0/24
network through the VPN that does work?

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The resources in this section are made available to providers of continuing education for interpreters working in the California courts. The California Court Interpreters Program seeks to work with education providers to provide all interpreters working in our courts with educationally sound opportunities to maintain and improve the knowledge, skills and abilities required to perform their responsibilities competently, fairly and efficiently.
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This soup is a delicious alternative to Chicken noodle soup. We've enjoyed it at several Italian restaurants and I thought I'd try to duplicate it at home.
Here's the recipe I came up with. You can easily double it to serve 10-12 people.
- 10 cups home made or purchased low sodium Chicken broth, divided
- Italian style meatballs (recipe follows)
- 1 cup sliced carrots
- 1 cup uncooked Orzo (rice shaped pasta)
- large handful of chopped kale or spinach
- the rind of a piece of fresh parmesan (if available)*
- several large leaves coarsely chopped fresh basil
For the Italian Style Meatballs:
- 1 cup fine breadcrumbs
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup beef broth
- 1/2 lb. lean ground beef
- 1/2 lb. ground pork
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. Montreal Steak Spice
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh Basil
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
- 1/3 cup grated Romano cheese
- Mix breadcrumbs, milk, beef broth and egg together.
- Add ground beef, ground pork and remaining ingredients.
- Form into small meatballs. (about 3/4") I use a tablespoon to measure the amount for each meatball.
- Cook meatballs 10 at a time in 2 cups of chicken broth. This will only take a few minutes for each batch. Cut one in half to see if it is done.
- In another pot, cook sliced carrots until just tender.
- Cook orzo in a separate pot of boiling water until "al dente". (do not overcook)
- Add cheese rind to chicken broth in a large soup pot and bring to a boil.
- Turn heat down to a simmer and add meatballs, cooked carrots, cooked orzo pasta and chopped kale and basil.
- Heat until kale is wilted.
- Serve with a sprinkle of grated parmesan and chopped basil if desired.
As with any soup recipe this one can be adapted to your taste. Some like it with garlic added to the broth. I've also seen it made with different leafy greens (arugula, curly endive, escarole)
Making the small meatballs is the tedious part of this recipe but you can prepare and cook them ahead of time and refrigerate them. The carrots and orzo can also be cooked ahead of time so they are all ready when you assemble the soup.
*I've noticed from my reading that Italians often add the rind or heal of Parmesan cheese to their soups. This not only uses up that last bit of cheese but adds flavour to the soup. And, it's a a delicious mouthful if the melted cheese turns up in your bowl.


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I've talked about change many times before, the fact that change is happening all around us, within us and that change is the only constant in life.
It's something I used to be very resistant to. Change was (and still can be) scary. It's unpredictable. It reminds me of how little I have control over and at times, how much I don't know.
But a few months ago, I started wishing for change. Big change. More than wanting and needing it, I have absolutely been craving change from way down deep.
It had been building for a while but seemed to really come to the surface this summer. I felt stuck, like my feet were sinking in deep mud.
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PSD Researchers Contribute to January 2006 BAMS Cover Article
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division (PSD) researchers Tom Hamill and Jeff Whitaker, co-authored the current cover article for the January 2006 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). The article entitled "Reforecasts: An Important Dataset for Improving Weather Predictions," discusses how weather forecasts can be improved through statistical corrections of the current numerical forecast using many observations and past forecasts from the same fixed model. Improvements of probabilistic quantitative precipitation forecasts are shown to be very large, and the authors propose that reforecast-based techniques become a mainstay of the NWS production suite. The question is how to achieve the benefits of reforecasts without hindering model development. The authors propose a scenario whereby model development would proceed much as it does now, but in addition every several years a new reforecast database would be produced offline with a new, updated version of the operational model, a version that is computationally less expensive to run than the operational models. The reforecast model would then be run in real time alongside the operational models. Forecasters would then have the benefit of both raw, high-resolution model output and high-quality statistical products based on the reforecasts.
Approximately four years ago, Hamill and Whitaker began their "reforecasting" effort, a companion effort to the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis. Fifteen-member ensemble forecasts were run over the last 25+ years using initial conditions from the reanalysis and a recent, unchanging version of NCEP's global forecasting system. The reasons for this effort included improving medium-range weather forecast products, improving probabilistic forecasts of extreme events, and diagnosing model errors. Users wishing to explore possible applications of reforecasts can download data at http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/reforecast/. Real-time probabilistic precipitation forecasts are available at http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/reforecast/narr.
Errors from past forecasts can be found and corrected, dramatically increasing forecasting skill. The potential benefits of reforecasts are so large that their regular use should become part of the numerical weather prediction process. This research supports NOAA's mission goal of serving society's needs for weather and water information.
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I'd be watering my plants more often since the ground would dry more quickly, I,d be sweeping the dust off my porch more often because of all the loose dust. I'd be watching actresses in the movies with less makeup. And finally, i'd be making a lot of salt and flour clay so I could still enjoy my hobby.
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I would wither away without clay to manipulate. I guess I would go back to drawing, painting & chasing the dog.
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Kendrick Lamar & Robin Thicke among Soul Train winners
Listen to Kendrick Lamar on iHeartRadio | Listen to Robin Thicke on iHeartRadio
Kendrick Lamar, Robin Thicke and Tamar Braxton are adding new hardware to their trophy shelves after the 2013 Soul Train Awards.
According to HipHopDx.com, during Friday's awards ceremony at Las Vegas' Orleans Arena, Kendrick's debut album good kid, m.A.A.d. city picked up the trophy for Album of the Year. Kendrick beat out albums by Justin Timberlake, Miguel, Jay Z, Fantasia and Rihanna to get the honor.
Robin Thicke's smash hit "Blurred Lines" featuring Pharrell Williams and T.I. grabbed the award for "Song of the Year."
Meantime, Tamar Braxton won in the category of Best R&B/Soul Female Artist, while Miguel won for Best R&B/Soul Male Artist.
Hosted by actor Anthony Anderson, the awards ceremony also featured performances from Jennifer Hudson, Chaka Khan, T.I., Warren G, Doug E. Fresh, Slick Rick and Big Daddy Kane.
The full winners list for the 2013 Soul Train Awards will be presented when they air on Sunday, December 1st at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on BET and CENTRIC.
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Not talking about K1, just MMA.
Amir Sadollah for me. Really effective Muay Thai for MMA.
Not talking about K1, just MMA.
Amir Sadollah for me. Really effective Muay Thai for MMA.
Anderson Silva or Shogun Rua.
Shogun's use of Thai boxing against Machida was excellent and Anderson is a mega pimp who can do what he likes with his hands, feet, knees and elbows.
Anderson Silva
The Griffin fight was just a masterclass
Domestically it'd have to be James Doolan.
In foreign fighters it would have to be Shogun.
No longer playing World of Warcraft. Goodbye fond memories
Terry etim!!! Pat Barry ..
"No one deserves to be unbeaten" Dan Hardy post Cage Warriors Strike force 1 2005
"I wanna be in fights that make history" Paul Daley post UFC 108 2010
MMA Connect
Don't forget about Mr Alves
Saddolh has looked great recently
allan belcher
Dude from UFC1 who got sparked by the big fuzzy j.j dutchman
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FLEE Writer Raphael Moran to make special appearance on Feb 20th!Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
Are you in the New Jersey Area? If you are, be sure to stop by Dewey's Comic City in Madison New Jersey to meet Raphael Moran, writer of Arcana Comics' FLEE! He'll be on hand promoting the book and looking for some talented artists for other projects he has going. Don't miss out!


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Visitors to Touch Taiwan 2013 got one of the first views to the latest line of Innolux' products - the 42-inch Ultra HD TV panel. The panel size is expected to be used in LCD TVs as of the second half of 2013 along with the company's other Ultra HD TV panel technology such as 39-and 50-inch units.
Innolux is expected to hold the top spot in Ultra HD TV panel shipments in 2013, with most of the shipments going to customers in China.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
- 2015 global tablet demand forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report provides a 2015 forecast for the global tablet market and analyzes the strategies of key market players such as Google, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft.
- 2015 China smartphone panel trend forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the strategies of key China-based major panel makers BOE, Tianma and IVO for attacking the different market segments through technology and pricing, and their relationship to local vendors Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE, Xiaomi and Coolpad.


text: Precious platinum is the medium to carry this message of love. With fifteen (15) single cut diamonds of an estimated .25 carats (I-J color; VS2-SI1 clarity) set across the front and sides of the band, comfort is tantamount. Nice large proportion to the finger size enable the ring to be sized to your liking.


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With Trouble at Home, Boehner Fights the Right
You could almost hear the fist pumps across Washington when John Boehner lashed out at conservative interest groups.
"They're using our members and they're using the American people for their own goals," Boehner said at a press conference last week. "This is ridiculous."
And with that, Boehner not only said what a number of Republicans had been thinking, he also hit the gas on a speakership almost totally stalled by wrangling and tangling within his own Republican caucus, infighting that was increasingly being driven not by the members themselves but by the outside groups looking to fund-raise off disagreements with GOP leaders.
Boehner's decision to fight back against outside conservative activists, along with a key hire on immigration reform and a move last Monday to file papers for his own reelection in Ohio's 8th District, show the newly aggressive speaker taking matters into his own hands and out of the death grip of the raucous caucus that elected him to lead the House in 2011 but has done little of substance since then.
The series of events has enraged conservatives in Washington and even in Boehner's own Ohio district. But it also has given immigration activists in particular hope that he might use his newfound interest in passing bills to pass theirs, particularly in light of his recent decision to hire Becky Tallent, Sen. John McCain's former chief of staff, to run immigration reform for the speaker's office.
People who have worked with Tallent describe her as smart, deeply versed in immigration policy, and a tough-as-nails negotiator who knows where the path lies to get immigration reform done. In other words, she's not the kind of woman you'd hire to work on a dead issue.
"The fact that opponents of immigration reform have been apoplectic over her hiring should tell you something," says Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, a pro-reform group.
But Sharry pointed to another factor that gives him even more confidence: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Boehner's secret sauce on the budget deal who could be just as valuable on an immigration reform package, which Ryan worked for months to negotiate behind the scenes before talks broke down over the summer.
"If it were just up to John Boehner, I'd be worried," Sharry said. "It's Paul Ryan's involvement that gives me hope."
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Avicii's 'Wake Me Up' fastest selling single of 2013
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After releasing his new single "Wake Me Up," Avicii has been making waves in the dance music community and beyond. The single has officially become the fastest selling single of 2013 in the UK.
In only its first week of sales, the tune moved 267,000 copies, putting it at the top of the chart. The previous record was held by Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" which sold 76,000 copies.
The "Wake Me Up" lyric video raked in 1.5 million views in only two days and currently has amassed over 26 million views.
Congrats Avicii!
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First, make sure you read our section on Basics of Court forms, where you will find a lot of useful information about preparing your paperwork before you go to court.
Once you are ready to file your papers in court, there are some general rules that apply:
Filing court papers by mail
In most cases, you can file papers by mail. Call the court clerk to make sure you can file by mail for your kind of case. Keep in mind that filing by mail will likely slow down the process. And it is not as safe as filing in person, when you can see exactly what is being done and can get your documents right then and there.
Caution! Some cases, like restraining orders and evictions, have very tight deadlines. If you file by mail, you may miss the deadline.
To find out what your court required to file your papers by mail, call the court clerk and ask:
Also ask if there are any other rules you need to know to file by mail.
When you file a lawsuit, you will usually file a petition or a complaint. You also will almost always need a summons. And, in most civil cases, you will need a Civil Case Cover Sheet (Form CM-010). In the individual topics in this website, we tell you exactly what forms you need for your dispute.
When you first file, you will not have a case number. The clerk will stamp it on your paperwork, and that will be your case number throughout the case. Once you file as a plaintiff or petitioner, you will always be referred to as the plaintiff or petitioner. This is true even if, later in the case, the other side takes you to court for a related request of some type.
Once you file your complaint or petition and your summons, you will have to serve the other side with a copy. This means that you will have to legally deliver the papers to the other side. Read our section on Service of Process for details on how to do this.
The respondent or defendant in your case may or may not file an answer or some other type of response. In most cases, he or she will have 30 days from the date you deliver your papers to him or her to file a response. In some cases, like evictions or domestic violence, you will have a lot less time, usually just a few days.
If the respondent or defendant does not file any type of response with the court within those 30 days, the court does not just make a decision. You have to ask the court to "enter the default" of the respondent/defendant, which means that he or she is no longer allowed to file a response and has defaulted (so your case will be decided based only on the information you give to the court, without the other side having any input into the matter).
You can then follow the procedures for requesting a court judgment in your favor. The individual sections on this Online Self-Help Center will explain this in a lot more detail, but for now, just remember that you are not done once you file and serve your lawsuit, even if the other side does not do anything. There are more steps for you to take to get a court order.
If you are served with a lawsuit, you usually have to file a formal response in court if you want to participate in the case. Writing a letter to the court and either mailing it or dropping it off is NOT enough. You need to actually file your response with the court clerk. There are some cases where you can show up at your court hearing without filing papers (like in small claims cases), but in general, you should file your response if you want to make sure the judge will hear your side of the story. Keep in mind that if you have a court hearing and have not filed any papers in response, you can still show up at the court hearing and try to explain your side.
Here are some tips if you are served court papers:
There are several ways to respond. The most common is to file an answer or a response. But there are also motions (requests) you can file, depending on the situation in your case. It is very important that you get legal help to find out how you should respond to a lawsuit.
If you do NOT respond in time, the plaintiff or petitioner can ask the court to "enter a default" against you. That means that you can no longer respond or participate in the case, and the court will usually order what the plaintiff or petitioner asked for in the petition or complaint.
The individual sections of this Online Self-Help Center will explain how to respond and what to do in a lot more detail.
Many court filings require a filing fee. Usually, the largest fee is what is called the "first appearance" fee because you have to pay it the first time you file papers in a given case. So, if you are the plaintiff and are filing a complaint, you have to pay this fee. If you are the defendant and are filing a response or some other paper for the first time in the case, you, too, have to pay this "first appearance" fee.
After the first appearance fee, there are other court fees for filing documents, but they are smaller amounts.
The fees are uniform in all 58 California counties (except for Riverside, San Bernardino and San Francisco counties, where fees may include a small surcharge related to local court construction needs). Click to find the filing fees on the Statewide Civil Court Fee Schedule. Also, courts have their fee schedules posted on their website. Click to find your court's website.
If you are low income and cannot afford to pay the filing fee, you may qualify for a fee waiver. Click for information about fee waivers.
Changing your address or contact information
When you have a case in court, you must always keep the court updated with any changes in your address or phone number (or your name, if you change your name). If the court does not have your most current address, you will miss important court notices. Also, once a case is going, a party can usually serve the other party by mail at the address of record with the court. If your address with the court is outdated, you will also miss important papers filed by the other side in your case. You could lose important rights.
So, in order to keep the court updated, whenever your address changes, you must file an official court form called a Notice of Change of Address (Form MC-040) with the court.
To file a change of address:
Changing lawyers—Substitution of attorney
You should also keep the court updated if you change lawyers, or if you go from having a lawyer to representing yourself or vice versa.
To do this, you have to fill out and file a Substitution of Attorney-Civil (Form MC-050). This form is required whenever someone changes the person who is acting as his or her lawyer. If a lawyer is representing you, and you now want to represent yourself, you need to complete this form. The Substitution of Attorney — Civil will remove one person as the lawyer in the case and replace that person with someone else (you or your new lawyer if you have one).
If you are acting as your own lawyer and then hire a lawyer, you will also need to fill out this form.
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The three sisters behind Philadelphia-based Soom Foods are producing what may be the best tehina in the city.
I get really excited to share stories about local chefs and restaurateurs with my readers. But, since I also love cooking at home with my husband, I get super stoked about new products that come from local businesses.
Enter: Soom Foods.
This relatively new brand of tehina, which is originally from Ethiopia, is manufactured in Israel before landing at restaurants like Zahav, North Bowl, Eat-A-Pita, Pure Fare and Agno in the Philadelphia area. "We use it because it's delicious and soo smooth! You don't even have to stir it," comments Oron Daskal, owner of North Bowl. "Also, I like to support other local, Jewish businesses."
OK, so what exactly is tehina? Good question. The simple answer is that it is a puree made from sesame seeds. What it really is is a crucial building block in some fantastic recipes.
When I think of tehina, my mind goes to hummus. However, there's so much more to this gluten- and peanut-free sesame paste. Tehina can be used in smoothies, salad dressings, as spreads on toast and in cookies, cakes and brownies. There's really no limit!
Soom Foods was founded by the three Zitelman sisters — Shelby, Jackie and Amy — who are all under 30 years old. Their operation is based in Philadelphia, where two out of the three women live (Jackie resides in Israel). Their combined resumé is quite impressive and the perfect formula for their entrepreneurial endeavor: Shelby is a Wharton alumna, Jackie has a master's in environmental science and Amy recently graduated from University of Delaware with a concentration in interpersonal communications.
Amy, the youngest of the triumvirate, leads sales and marketing for the brand. I asked her how she feels about launching her product in Philly. "Philadelphia is a city with amazing restaurants that take pride in quality, superior flavor and being from Philadelphia," she replied in an email. "Soom Foods chose Philadelphia as our home specifically for those reasons, and we're so excited to be personally (because we deliver ourselves!) providing these great chefs a tehina they'll be proud to use!"
Soom Foods also sells on their website and is available in food stores and supermarkets from Washington, D.C. to New York City.
A date with tehina and nutella
2 cups dried dates
1 cup walnut pieces
1 1/2 cup coconut flakes
1/4 cup nutella
1/2 cup tehina
1) Blend dates in food processor. Remove and reserve.
2) Blend walnuts in food processor. Remove and reserve.
3) Mix walnuts, dates and 1 cup coconut flakes in a large mixing bowl.
4) Add nutella and tehina to the mixture. Stir until all ingredients are thoroughly incorporated.
5) Scoop a tablespoon full of mixture out of the bowl. Roll into a small ball.
6) Pour remaining coconut flakes onto cutting board and roll each ball around until covered.
7) Place on dish and chill in refrigerator, covered in wax paper until ready to eat.
For even more recipes and news on all things tehina, click over to Soom Foods.
Cheers to these sesame sisters,
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Certainly a large and abstract question, for an even bigger topic, but...
What does it take to develop a Mobile App?
What I am really getting at is not "Give me some code..." but rather I am wondering "Do I have the skills and ability to develop my own Mobile App that appears on something like the Apple Store?!"
Pardon me for saying this on my most favorite of websites, but anyone can build a web page and a website. (Although few can do it at the level that our beloved SitePoint Gurus can!)
Back to my original question...
It is my perception that to create a Mobile App that is worthy of the Apple Store, you might need a Ph.D. in Computer Science, 10+ years of professional experience coding in C, C++ and C#, and have built your own Java Compiler while still in high school?! :eek:
Realistically, how hard would it be for a mere mortal like me, to create a modest Mobile App that looks professional enough, and is secure enough that it could get placed on the Apple Store, and something the average person would feel confident enough in to want to install on their Smart Phone? :-/
Maybe a simple Mobile App like...
Thanks to A LOT of help from people here at SitePoint, I feel like I have gotten pretty good with HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL. And I think the website I have been working on looks awesome.
But do I have what it takes to "Go Mobile"?!
It sure seems like if I could take the "awesomeness" of my browser-based website, and convert some of it into a Mobile App that people could use on their Smart-Phone, that I could open up a whole new world of Visitors and Customers!! (BTW, I am not asking about making my website "mobile", I am specifically asking about creating some modest Mobile APP.)
In closing, how hard is it to do what I am thinking about??
Is this something only people like Steve Jobs and Bills Gates were made for?
Or could a decent - but still green - web developer figure things out in a reasonable amount of time?
im not really on that but this Article : Link can guide you to achieve this goal i hope!
Very interesting article. Thank you!
Unfortunately - while useful in other ways - it doesn't answer my OP.
What I am trying to get a handle on is how difficult it is from a technical standpoint to write a Mobile App.
Again, it isn't rocket-science to build a modest website using PHP, MySQL, HTML, and CSS.
However, to write a true "application" (i.e. some .exe) is a whole other undertaking from the little I know.
And I would suspect that to write a Mobile App, you'd need to be pretty knowledeable with more advanced languages like C or C++, but that is the whole purpose for this thread...
I don't know what is involved?! :-/
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hehehhehe ok now that i got you, the main question is not what language you gona use to build and develop a mobile APP but Which Language you will Feel Comfortable With... Like i said before im not on all that but what i read and hear about this kind of development is that they use C++ or Python... but what im sure about is that every mobile device have a supported language.. like for example Android was programmed by JAVA even though C++ is supported now... on the other hand for example the the iPhone is programmed with Objective-C... but in fact i guess and you can correct me if im wrong.. Most use a Web Development then Export it for the supported mobile device language....
So i think the best way is to try... why you don't do a look to Google AppEngine they use java and python so you can get an idea to which one to start learning !?
Thanks for the reply.
Well, it is starting to sound like I might have a really large uphill battle...
You see, I never learned OOP in college or as a Developer in my earlier years, and since I work as an Analyst now, and just program "recreationally", I might be in for quite a task.
I guess I was starting to feel all "big and important" since I'm doing pretty well with PHP. But the reality is that being a seasoned Java or C++ or C# developer is in a whole other class - no pun intended - than doing kiddie PHP stuff - which is where I'm at.
Maybe there are some others out there with real world experience on this topic??
I have mixed feelings about all of this...
On one hand, having to learn OOP and true Application Development with a complex language like C, C++, Java or C# terrifies me!!! (Especially having to write code that interacts with an Operating System - which I get to avoid with PHP)
On the other hand, even if I would have to learn OOP and something like Java or C#, you wouldn't think it would be overly hard to program a Calculator or do News Feeds. I mean, programatically, I could figure that out in PHP. It's just that I wouldn't know how to do it in an OOPish way in say, Java?!
Building a Mobile App isn't my first priority in the business I am trying to start. But I confess, it would be so cool to say, "Oh, BTW, make you you check out my latest XYZ App on the Apple Store!!"
Anyways, maybe some others out there can join in the conversation and try to help "enlighten" me?!
I would generally argue thick client applications -- including mobile -- are easier to understand than most web apps. The fundamental difference is most apps are stateful and you end up spending lots of effort fighting the stateless. Furthermore you don't actually have control of the client environment so you need to work with those exigencies.
Anyhow, if you've got a mac, there really isn't anything but a 4 gig download between you and being able to write your own iOS apps for the simulator.
Yes, I am on a Mac.
So where would I begin - being on a Mac - and probably wanting to focus on writing for the Apple Store (i.e. Mobile App for iPhones, iPads, iWhatever)?
One thing I have liked about PHP, is that even though I have been away from programming for over a decade, the learning curve has been pretty easy.
I prefer spending my time writing the Business Logic versus struggling with all the annoying Technical Stuff.
Technically, you need to install XCode from the app store and then make a new iOS project of an appropriate type. Objective C is a funny looking language but it is pretty sweet once you get your head around it. With current versions of iOS (5+) you get automatic reference counting so you don't even need to deal with [retain] and [release] anymore.
Lots of educational resources out there about building iOS apps at this point. Personally, my favorite resource was the iTunes U Stanford iOS classes but YMMV.
hey debbie, what about this Link it's about php and mobile application ! a full tutorial! as you said that you feel good with PHP !
So I would be stuck with using "Objective C"?
Does your response also imply that I would have to use OOP? (Which I know very little about.)
And if I installed XCode, and then apparently created a new "iOS Project", are there any other tricky technical things required? (Many years ago when I was chatting with a desktop app developer, I remember him describing how complicated it was to have to use Libraries and Classes from Microsoft and Windows in the C++/Java app he was working on. For instance, unlike PHP which is standalone, you apparently had to know which MS Windows classes to use so yo could build your GUI, even if it was written in Java. So basically my understanding of all of this was you needed to be an expert in BOTH MS Windows Classes/Libraries AND Your Programming Language!! That is the kinda stuff that would break me if I ever decided to take up building my own Mobile App...)
To build a real-world PHP application you'd typically need to leverage PHP as well as SQL, HTML and Javascript. Which is probably more involved than wrapping your head around Objective-C and CocoTouch.
And no, OOP is not horribly hard or scary though there are lots of PHP developers who make it out that way. In any case, Objective-C is a strict superset of C so you can write pure procedural code outside of the points where you need to touch the UI which is all wrapped up in CocoTouch. Even then you really just need to implement the right method, not get into crazy object oriented design.
Well, first, I hope to try and start learning proper OOP as soon as I get v2.0 up and online.
Secondly, if you had to take a broad guess, would it be possible to build a simple Mobile App (e.g. Receive Articles & Alerts on Topics You Subscribe To) for iPhone and iPads in maybe 4-6 months?
I haven't done a formal count yet, since I still have a few weeks of code tweaking left, but I estimate my current website is around 15,000 lines of code...
BTW, have you ever built a Mobile App?
Something I just want to add to this topic. If you want to write an iOS for apple, you will need to buy a developers license. Which costs $99 per year. Without that, you cannot write and release any iOS apps.
That being said, Objective-C is arguably one of the ugliest syntax's around, but once you understand it, it is not hard to write. Yes, and now with ARC, it is a lot easier when you do not have to worry about memory management to that level.
I came from a C# background of about 5 years XP. I decided to start learning with a book I bought as well as online. And I wrote and released my first app to the apple store in about 4 months. Was a basic app, but fun to do @ the same time. And to be honest, the book was not really much help to me. I found it easier to just do a simple hello world tutorial, so you learn how to get things up and running. Then after that, come up with a project and do it and research and learn each step of the way. IMO, that is the best way to learn something. To have a clear goal in mind and you work toward that goal. If you get stuck, post your problem here and we can try and give you advice.
When building mobile apps be it Android, iOS or windows, the biggest challenge is device support. You were talking about libraries, etc for windows. Well, something like that. Certain SDK items are only available from certain OS versions and up. So if you want to use a higher SDK, you will have to up the minimum level of OS version, which will reduce the target audience somewhat, depending on how new it is. Or you will have to use reflection to get around that. So that is just something to be aware of.
There are tools around like PhoneGap and Mono that allow you to write for multi-OS with one language. But IMO the experience is not as nice as doing it yourself.
So, good luck with endeavour to learn mobile app development. Yes, it is a challenge, but it is well worth it and pretty fun to do.
Hi DoubleDee,
i read your task and would estimate the project in 100 hours for iOS.
Not to be ignorant, but how in the name of H-E-double hockeysticks did you come up with that estimate? There's no definitive app defined, nor requirements gathered.
Sorry - don't buy that. To throw a random number of hours out there for a product which hasn't been defined, with requirements that haven't been set, and a developer having no experience developing in that platform?
Our general rule for any project requiring an immediate estimate is "3 weeks"; it has been very successful. Yes, we have published a few mobile apps and we were doing mobile focused web apps since before it was sane. We also have built a number of connected windows apps which are more like mobile apps than web apps.
In any case, your list of requirements could be easily done, devil is usually in the details -- like do you want to synch people's accounts and how to handle offline reading.
David, so maybe I can give a better idea of what I might like to do?
First off, I read the link that DeadMix provided, and agree whole-heartedly with what it said, which was basically...
a.) Don't just write a Mobile App to have one. Have a clear purposeb.) Make sure your Mobile App provides something your Website can't easy provide (i.e. value-added benefit)
Here are two rough Mobile App ideas that I have...
(Remember, I am in the "Exploratory Phase" right now, and the goal is not to properly scope out a Mobile App. The goal is to answer "Is it FEASABLE to try to learn to develop a Mobile App all by myself for iOS??)
App #1: Receive Alerts of Certain TopicsVia a simple UI, a person could receive alerts on Articles of interest. User could...- Browse Categories (e.g. Finance, Legal, Small-Business), and Subscribe to an entire Category.- Browse Popular Topics (e.g. Taxes, Incorporating, SEO, Building a Website), and subscribe to a specific Popular Topic.- Search by Keywords for Related Topics (e.g. Search for "S-Corp" yields "Incorporating"), and Subscribe to specific Topic.- Manage Subscriptions (i.e. Unsubscribe)
App #2: ChecklistVia a simple UI, a person could manage their life by using Checklists. User could...- Browse a Listing of Checklists (e.g. Items Needed for Taxes, Items Needed to Incorporate, etc.), and Subscribe- Use the Checklist- Manage Subscriptions (i.e. Unsubscribe)
Those, of course, are very high-level requirements, but they provide a rough idea of how I think a Mobile App(s) could help my future business.
Wanna take a swing at how long either of those two apps would take to build...
- For an Experienced Mobile App Developer?- For Me?
So if I developed exclusively for iOS, would I be stuck with using Objective C, or could I write things in another more common - and possibly prettier language - like C# or Java?
(BTW, does writing an "iOS" Mobile App means that it would work on iPhones and iPads and maybe other Apple products?)
I found it easier to just do a simple hello world tutorial, so you learn how to get things up and running. Then after that, come up with a project and do it and research and learn each step of the way. IMO, that is the best way to learn something. To have a clear goal in mind and you work toward that goal. If you get stuck, post your problem here and we can try and give you advice.
Well, I do that for a living, so that part is easy!
Based on the high-level descriptions I gave for two sample Mobile Apps above...
How hard would it be to write a professional-looking, yet simple Mobile App that scales well?
If I was going to the trouble to write a Mobile App, I would hope to do it in a way that would work on nearly any Smart-Phone. Because what I do NOT want to become is a full-time Mobile App Development Shop!!! :eek:
Could I write it once and basically leave it short of security updates and updates that address major platform shifts in the industry?
Yes, it is a challenge, but it is well worth it and pretty fun to do.
Well, I am more interested in doing it for the "Fun Factor" versus a dying, unmet business need. (I think it would help me grow as a developer!)


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Ms. Bennett has served as FSS Commissioner for five years. She first joined GSA 21 years ago as Director of the FSS Governmentwide Travel/Transportation program and has served in FSS for the entire tenure of her GSA career. Other key career milestones included initiating the GSA SmartPay® program and serving as the first FSS Director for the Services Acquisition Center. Ms. Bennett began her federal career at the Civil Aeronautics Board in 1969.
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Sheriff's deputies in Cleburne County, Arkansas are confirming the singer's death, saying McCready was found inside her home in Heber Springs Sunday, and that it appeared she died from a single gun shot wound to the head. Her body has been sent to the State Crime unit. No other details have been released.
The 37-year-old singer has had a long history of personal struggle. She had been in and out of rehab while battling addiction and mental health issues. McCready was being treated at a facility earlier this month before she was released to an outpatient program. Her death comes one month after the January 13th death of her boyfriend, David Wilson, 34, at his Arkansas home. Authorities are still investigating his death.Mindy leaves behind two young sons: 6-year-old Zander (with ex Billy McKnight) and 9-month-old Zayne (with Wilson).
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As the years progressed, Mindy began making more headlines for her turbulent personal life than for her music. In 2004 McCready was arrested on drug charges and put on probation after pleading guilty. But she ended up in jail more than once on probation violations. In May 2005, McCready's ex-boyfriend, Billy McKnight, was arrested for attempted murder after a brutal attack on the singer. In the months that followed, McCready was twice hospitalized following suicide attempts, the second of which occurred after she learned she was pregnant with McKnight's child. She gave birth to son Zander in March 2006. In 2008, McCready came forward with allegations that she'd had an affair with baseball great Roger Clemens when she was just 15 years old. Clemens denied McCready's claims.
McCready's legal and substance abuse problems led to her losing custody of Zander, who was placed with her mom in Florida. Mindy spent years battling her parents for custody, which she eventually won in late 2011 - after taking the boy from her father's home and hiding out with him at boyfriend David Wilson's Arkansas home. Last April she and Wilson celebrated the birth of their son, Zayne. McCready attempted to relaunch her music career in 2010 with I'm Still Here, her first studio effort in eight years. The album peaked at number 71 on the chart, and neither single from the disc charted.
Stacy McCloud, a reporter for FOX 17 Nashville initially tweeted the news Sunday night. Several sources, including E! Online, People.com and NY Daily News, soon reported the news as well.
A close family friend of Mindy McCready has informed me that the country singer has committed suicide. Not confirmed with OFFICIALS. #Sad— Stacy McCloud (@stacymccloud) February 18, 2013
The Mindy McCready suicide I told you about has now been confirmed from 4 different sources. A statement from the family is in the works— Stacy McCloud (@stacymccloud) February 18, 2013
Dateline NBC reporter Andrea Canning also reported the news via Twitter:
Just got a call from Mindy McCready's best friend that she shot and killed herself this evening.My heart breaks for her two boys.RIP— Andrea Canning (@CanningAndrea) February 18, 2013
"Ms. McCready was pronounced dead at the scene from what appears to be a single self-inflicted gunshot wound," the sheriff's department said in a statement. "At this time family members have been notified of the incident. Ms. Mcready will be transported to the Arkansas State Crime Lab for an autopsy and the matter will be fully investigated."
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Roc, Feb 2004, 6.99, 480 pp. ISBN 0451459628 For centuries, it was thought that the soldiers killed all the sorcerers and stamped magic out of existence. The ruthless noble Evard is an heir to the Leiran throne and brutally disposes of any threats to his goal of becoming king. His closest ally Tomas, Duke of Corrigon and the King's Champion, has a sister Seri who he plans to marry. Through trickery, Seri forces the monarch to let her choose ...
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Some conveniences for dealing with HD resolutions (iPhone 3 vs iPhone 4 for example) are optionally provided and include: automatic texture swapping to a double resolution texture for HD automatic reconfiguration of UV coordinates automatic handling of double resolution UIFonts The kitchen sink and text test demo scenes included with the UIToolkit are an exceptional example of the power of the system. You can run these demo scenes on a non-retina iPhone, retina iPhone and an iPad and the exact same code will layout the controls and text in the same places. On top of that, the retina and iPad will receive textures that are twice the size automatically so they will remain pixel perfect and looking crisp! Built in UI Components UIToolkit provides all the standard controls you would expect and more. There is an exceptional attention to detail with regards to the way the controls feel when using them. For example, all touchable UI components can have highlightedTouchOffsets added. This mimics what Apple does with their iOS controls by adding a padding around the control that is activated while the control is being touched. If you set the highlightedTouchOffsets to have an extra 30 pixels and a user touches the button, they can slide their finger an extra 30 pixels outside the boundary of the button and it will remain highlighted. You can experience this by opening any Apple app on your iPhone with a button in it and touch your finger on it than slide it around off the button further and further until it is deselected. This behavior is available out of the box for any controls included with UIToolkit or any custom controls that you add. So what does UIToolkit include out of the box? UISprite: the base of every component that can be seen. All UISprites can have animations added to them that can be played on demand. UIButton: standard button with selected state, optional sound on touch down and delegate action on touchUpInside UIContinousButton: UIButton that can either report every frame that a finger remains on it or when a finger touches down or up UIToggleButton: 3 state button that can be used just like a checkbox if desired UIProgressBar: standard progress bar that offers 2 modes of progression: texture stretching or just revealing the texture as progress advances UISlider: slider that works in both the horizontal and vertical direction UIKnob: rotating knob control UIText and UITextInstance: reads in a .fnt file and displays text including line breaks (base code courtesy of EskemaGames) UIJoystick: joystick control with configureable dead zone and background image UISwipeDetector: control that is capable of detecting swipes in any combination of directions (up, down, left, right) Animations Baked in to Every Component Animate localScale, alpha, rotation and position with one line of code. You can animate to, from or from-to for any of the animation types and specify your easing style. You can even create your own easing equations if you so desire. Why are we releasing such an awesome product for free? Over the last couple years we have seen a lot of really fun games made with Unity thrive in the App Store. We have also seen a bunch that are solid games with less than optimal looking menus and HUDs made with the standard Unity GUI classes. Unity GUI works great on desktop but it does not perform optimally on mobile devices. Enter UIToolkit. If you look at some of the top games in the App Store there is one thing they all have in common: polish. Try playing around with the menus, pause screens and HUDs on some of the great Unity-made games out there like Gears and BattleHeart. They are smooth as silk and look great on retina, non-retina and the iPad. These are highly polished games that have a great feel from the moment you launch them all the way through to the end. UIToolkit helps reduce the man-hours to get this kind of polish and we want to see every Unity developer succeed so this release is us doing our part to help the community provide a better end product. Extending UIToolkit UIToolkit was designed from the start to be as easy as possible to extend. We want the community to make some really cool controls that can be shared. Creating a new control can be done easily by just extending the UITouchableSprite class and implement one or more of the touch-related methods: onTouchBegan, onTouchMoved, onTouchEnded. That's all it takes. If you make an awesome custom control feel free to send us a pull request on Github and we will include it for the rest of the community to use. So, Let's See Some Code UIToolkit has an easy to use workflow and API. Once you have your textures created (using the free version of the excellent Texture Packer) you can reference them by name. This is all it takes to make a button in the top-left corner of the screen that has an extra 30 pixel touch offset padding when highlighted: Code (csharp): var playButton = UIButton.create( "playUp.png", "playDown.png", 0, 0 ); playButton.highlightedTouchOffsets = new UIEdgeOffsets( 30 ); Pretty simple, right? You may notice that this doesn't do anything all that magical with regards to layout though, so let's see an example of creating a UIToggleButton with relative positioning (in the top-right corner) so that it works on all resolutions: Code (csharp): var x = (int)UIRelative.xPercentFrom( UIxAnchor.Right, .1f ); var y = (int)UIRelative.yPercentFrom( UIyAnchor.Top, .1f ); var toggleButton = UIToggleButton.create( "cbUnchecked.png", "cbChecked.png", "cbDown.png", x, y ); Not all that much more difficult. Now go download it and add that extra polish to your game so that you end up with a hit! Get it now on Github!


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There are so many beautiful and colorful creatures in nature. It is almost as if they are aware of it. Just look how they show off to one another. It's obvious that they are proud of their colors. But let's think for a minute! How did these colors come to be? Where did this harmony of colors on living things' bodies, with hues as beautiful as any master artist could ever paint, come from?
These colors cannot have come into being by chance, as the supporters of the theory of evolution claim. Let's consider this with an example. Colors cannot do anything by themselves, can they? If you look at the colors around you, you see that they are really lively and beautiful. Now let us wait for these colors to come together and form a beautiful painting. We will probably have to wait for some time. In fact, there is no need to wait at all. And I am sure that you think the same way. These colors could never come together by chance and produce such a painting. It is clear that there is an artist who uses these colors which you see and who produces the painting. Whenever you see a painting, you know that it has been painted by an artist.
Just as a lifeless picture painted on a piece of paper cannot come into existence by chance, surely the wonderful colors of animals cannot have been produced by chance either. All these colors and designs are proofs that Allah has created these creatures with great care. Let's look at a few examples to see how intelligently planned these colors and designs are.
The creation in an elephant's foot
The largest land animal on our planet is the elephant, which weighs about five tons. In order for such a heavy creature to be able to walk, it needs a special design. Elephants have to walk long distances to find water, and are equipped for the task with legs that are wonders of engineering. If their legs were a bit thinner, they would not be able to hold the elephant up. But there is an even more interesting design feature in the foot of the elephant. Under the toe bones there is a thick, elastic fatty cushion. The wide sole covered with this fatty cushion distributes the pressure, and the elephant's weight is spread out evenly over its feet. Because of this, elephants are able to tread very lightly despite their weight. The pressure that an elephant's foot exerts on the ground is less than that exerted by a woman wearing high-heeled shoes. In short, this is a special shock absorber system designed for elephants.
The fact that the sole of the elephant's foot has been equipped with a cushioning system shows the existence of a plan. The system was designed how the animal would best be able to walk. And this shows us that there is a Creator Who created this system. This is the creative artistry of Almighty Allah.