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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Dining Room Reveal! Alex Meets the Wainscoting Deadline!
Hello everybody!
I am back from my 17 day business trip adventure, hooray! I am feeling well rested, happy to be home, and I am PUMPED to get back into my blogging routine! Not sure if you've missed my posts but I have certainly missed writing them :)
Now, it was the big project I was waiting to finally see once I got home- our newly improved dining room with wainscoting. Seeing the blog posts of Alex working on the wainscoting was such a teaser! Thankfully, all of that anticipation was worth it because I am SOOOO HAPPY with the final look once I got home!
So, are you ready for the big dining room reveal?!? Of course you are, here it is...
And the 'after', looks so nice right?!?
Now, I know from the 'before' photos you can't see much of the walls, but that was because they were never worth showing much of in a photo. I REALLY LOVE the formal feel the wainscoting adds to our dining room! It also kind of gives it a more formal feel, don't you think?
My hubby certainly added something beautiful that made our home even more wonderful to come home to! Nice work Alex! Oh, and he will be back posting later this week covering the DIY step-by-step post for this wainscoting project (complete with more gratuitous action photos).
What do you think?
Are you loving the wainscoting too?
As for those other projects Alex wanted to tackle, well he didn't get to them... because he tackled a different project all his own which had nothing to do with our house. Had more to do with this I guess...
Yep, that is Bill Murray from the movie Zombieland. Curious? Stop by tomorrow to check out his "other project". He-he!!!
12 comments:
- AnonymousMarch 17, 2012 at 8:04 AM
Just beautiful what a wonderful addition to that room. I'm inspired!!!
ReplyDelete - AnonymousMarch 17, 2012 at 4:32 PM
Love the panelling but really don't like that colour on the walls :)


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The influence of downward gaze and accommodation on ocular aberrations over time
Ghosh, Atanu, Collins, Michael, Read, Scott, Davis, Brett, & Iskander, Robert (2011) The influence of downward gaze and accommodation on ocular aberrations over time. Journal Of Vision, 11(10), pp. 1-13.
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Grilled Chicken Recipes: The Battle Of Sweet And Spicy
Recently Jason and I started doing a webcast for Sun Publications, aptly name "The BBQ Addicts Show". I know, totally creative but I guess it gets the point across. I voted for "The BBQ Addicts Act Like Monkeys And Then Cook Show" but no one would agree with me. Here is a press release from Sun about the show for some additional info.
The show is going to be geared for beginners in the first few shows, then we'll get into some more advance techniques including injections, making your own rubs and barbecue sauces, maybe even cooking the Bacon Explosion!
So here is our first episode featuring "Sweet and Savory Chicken Breast Sandwiches and Spicy Wings and Drummies". This episode is brought to you by the city of Riverside.
Spicy Chicken Marinade
- 1/4 cup barbecue sauce
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 tsp. black pepper
- 1 tsp. kosher salt
- 1 tsp. minced garlic
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 1 tsp. crushed red pepper
- 1/4 cup Sriracha Sauce
Savory Honey Brine
- 2 cups water
- 2 tbsp kosher salt
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1 tsp rosemary
- 1 tsp thyme
[...] Grilled Chicken Recipes: The battle of Sweet and Spicy [...]
Both look good but I'll go with the spicy wings! You had me when I saw the sriracha go in!
Tried them both. Spicy wins. Yum.


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"I listened yesterday. It's no reflection on you but I could'nt see where you were going or what you were going for. This early seventies thing did'nt get noticed the first time and you talk about friends of like Dealney and Bonnie who had records out like we're supposed to remember who they are. Then you play this long winded free jazz stuff that really grates on my nerves. And that noise without a beat and sounds like someones being pinched. Then you play a reggae song, I think you called it Dub, to what, be cool? You seem to really fetishize the whole folk thing too which is obnoxious to us who don't even care. I liked it when you played that punk song though. I like Joe Belock a lot." (Visit homepage.)
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Limited to 1,000 copies, the 12-inch includes The Wonder Year's performing Into It Over It's "Anchor," Polar Bear Club playing Transit's "Skipping Stone," Transit covering Polar Bear Club's "Resent and Resistance," A Loss For Words performing The Story So Far's "Quicksand," and Into It Over It covering The Wonder Year's "Don't Let Me Cave In."
The Glamour Kills tour begins in Lancaster, Penn., at Chameleon Club March 9. Other stops include Ottawa's Ritual M arch 13; Chicago at the Bottom Lounge March 17; Salt Lake City at Club Sound March 21; Pomona, Calif., at Glass House March 29; San Antonio at White Rabbit April 4; Orlando, Fla., at The Social April 12; and Philadelphia at Theatre Of Living Arts April 20.
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Many Iranian lawmakers have called for an immediate ban on oil exports to the EU before its ban goes into effect in July
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Oil prices could hit $150 a barrel as a result of the ongoing international standoff over Iran's nuclear programme, the head of the country's state oil company said yesterday.
Ahmad Qalehbani, chief of the National Iranian Oil Company, made the remarks as Tehran ponders cutting off exports to Europe, before a proposed EU embargo on Iranian crude is due to come into effect. The embargo is set to go into effect in the summer, but Iran says it may cut the flow of crude to Europe early. "It seems we will witness prices from $120 to $150 in the future," Qalehbani was quoted as saying by Iran's official news agency.
Any such price hike would likely play havoc with the global economy, forcing many countries back into recession. Qalehbani's statement came as Iranian oil officials prepare to debate a ban on crude sales to European Union countries.
Many Iranian lawmakers have called for an immediate ban on oil exports to the EU before its ban goes into effect in July - in a bid to hurt Europe before it can find alternative suppliers. Meanwhile, one of the UAE's most senior oil executives - Crescent Petroleum president Badr Jafar - has called for the world to lessen its dependency on the Strait of Hormuz.
About 17 million barrels of oil pass through the narrow waterway at the mouth of the Gulf each day - and Iran has threatened to block the vital artery in the event of a conflict with the US and its allies. "While the Gulf region is blessed with 47 percent of the world's proved oil and gas resources, it only has one seaborne route for them to reach the international market," Jafar said in a statement that was released yesterday. He called for the region to explore "new export routes" and said the use of a new pipeline between Abu Dhabi and Fujairah - which will be ready this year - could be one of a number of ways of reducing the quantity of oil that could be disrupted by any blockage of the Strait.


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Seems like Christmas was just yesterday and here we are, at the beginning of the Lenten season and on our way to spring. For many, Lent means meatless meals, among them those that include cheese.
Two favorite cheese-laden dishes for Lent are lasagna and macaroni and cheese. Over the years, I've offered many macaroni and cheese recipes, and to be perfectly honest, kids seem to always prefer the kind that comes straight out of a box. And it's not just the children who lick their plates clean when served a bowlful of Kraft's macaroni and cheese, but some adults, too, who grew up with the stuff.
A recipe found in a vintage Sunbeam frypan recipe and instruction booklet comes pretty close to having the taste many folks yearn for from their macaroni and cheese, due surely to the use of processed sharp American cheese, which guarantees a smooth, curdle-free velvety sauce. I used Velveeta, also a product of Kraft, for the Sunbeam recipe.
Besides its ease of preparation, the lovely part about this version of macaroni and cheese lies in the butter-browned fresh bread crumbs that top it, sublime when homemade bread is available. And while we're on the subject of things that come out of a box, there's no doubt that no-boil lasagna noodles make fixing the once laborious Italian casserole easier than ever.
Four-Layer No-Boil Lasagna, prepared from a recipe that originated on the back of a Barilla no-boil lasagna box, has become a favorite of mine — and, you have told me, yours as well. Of course, any recipe that comes from a box can be improved upon with our own homemade touches, but as a place from which to start, during Lent and other times of the year, these recipes are good meatless ways to begin.
Sue Ade is a syndicated food columnist with experience and interests in the culinary arts. She has lived and worked in the Lowcountry since 1985 and may be reached at email@example.com or 843-683-0375.
1 (9-ounce) box Barilla no-boil lasagna
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 (15-ounce) container ricotta cheese
4 cups (16-ounce package) shredded mozzarella cheese, divided
½ cup (2 ounces) grated Parmesan cheese, plus additional cheese for serving
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley, plus more for garnish
¼ teaspoon fresh ground pepper
2 (24-ounce jars) Barilla Marinara Sauce
Non-stick cooking spray for coating baking pan
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray a 13 x 9 x 3-inches deep baking pan with non-stick cooking spray. (If you don't have a deep baking dish, just make 3 layers to avoid spillovers in your oven.) Remove 16 no-boil lasagna sheets from box. Do not boil. In a medium bowl, beat eggs. Stir in ricotta cheese, 2 cups of the mozzarella cheese, Parmesan cheese, parsley and pepper.
To assemble
Spread 1 cup of sauce on bottom of baking pan. On top of sauce, layer 4 uncooked lasagna sheets, ⅓ of ricotta cheese mixture, 1 cup of mozzarella cheese and 1 cup of sauce. Layer again, with 4 uncooked lasagna sheets, ⅓ of ricotta cheese mixture and this time, 1½ cups sauce. Repeat, with another 4 lasagna sheets, the remaining ricotta mixture and 1 cup of sauce. Finally, top with remaining lasagna sheets, the remaining sauce and remaining mozzarella cheese.
To cook and serve
Bake, covered with foil, until bubbly, 50 to 60 minutes. Uncover and continue cooking until cheese is browned, about 5 minutes. Let stand 15 minutes, sprinkling with additional Parmesan cheese before cutting. To serve, garnish with chopped fresh parsley. Makes 12 servings.
The recipe here, designed for use in a three-quart capacity electric skillet fitted with a vented lid, was found in a vintage Sunbeam frypan recipes and instructions booklet. Kids love it.
½ pound elbow macaroni, or similar size dry pasta product
3 tablespoons butter
½ cup fine fresh bread crumbs, from store-bought or homemade bread (see recipe below)
2 tablespoons grated onion*
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
⅛ teaspoon pepper
½ teaspoon dry mustard
2 cups milk
⅓ pound processed sharp American cheese, grated
Cook the macaroni as directed on the package label. Drain. Preheat the frypan to 300 degrees. Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter. Add the bread crumbs and brown. Remove from the frypan and set aside. Add the remaining butter to the frypan and sauté the onion at 240 degrees.* Blend in the flour, salt, pepper and mustard. Add milk gradually, stirring until smooth. Stir in ¾ of the cheese. Turn the temperature dial to "off." Fold in the drained macaroni. Mix lightly with a fork. Top with the remaining cheese and bread crumbs. Sprinkle with paprika. Cover, with vent open.
Bake at "high simmer" for 25 minutes, until bubbly and hot.* Serve directly from the frypan. Makes 4 to 6 servings.
*Kitchen Ade note: If you do not like the taste of onion in your macaroni and cheese, just leave it out. Be sure to adjust the heat on your frypan so that the dish is not cooking at too high a temperature. Set at "medium simmer," my macaroni and cheese was ready in just over 15 minutes.


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Apple and Samsung CEOs Agree to Meet Regarding Patents
Apr 17, 2012, 2:12 PM by Eric M. Zeman @phonescooper
updated Apr 17, 2012, 2:15 PM
The executives and general legal counsel from both Apple and Samsung have agreed to meet in San Francisco to discuss a settlement to the on-going patent litigation between the two companies. Presiding Judge Lucy Koh issued an order that read: "The parties have indicated that they are willing to participate in a Magistrate Judge Settlement Conference ('MJSC'). Therefore, the parties are hereby referred to an MJSC with Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero with a 90-day deadline. As the parties have indicated in their joint statement, the chief executive officer and general counsel of Apple and the chief executive officer and general counsel of Samsung shall appear and participate at the MJSC." The two companies have lawsuits pending in nine countries, including the U.S. The patent war was kicked off in April 2011 when Apple sued Samsung for "slavishly" copying its iPhone and iPad designs. The mitigation meeting was not 100% voluntary, though it wasn't 100% compulsory, either. Two patent trials between the companies are scheduled to kick off during the summer months.
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About time this nonsense ends. I must say Tim Cook is a lot more reasonable than SJ ever was. If this nonsense is settled soon Apple may yet again gain my respect.
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I'm an avid reader, but it's not often I find a book that I just can't put down. In fact, before a few weeks ago, the last book I read in a day was either Bel Canto or Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and before that it was Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray. So, it's been awhile. And I couldn't have been more surprised when The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender captured me in that way, that obsessive way in which the rest of one's day disappears (dishes, dinner, laundry, walking the dog – though he sits next to you, whining for his walk, you cannot hear him!) and all one can do is read, read, read!
Sometimes it is the action or the mystery in the book that draws one in, but in the case of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake it is the voice of the main character, Rose Edelstein, and her unique ability to taste the emotions of the people who prepare her food that really got me. By eating their food, Rose has a distinct understanding of the emotional and personal struggles of her mother, father, and brother; an understanding that becomes a burden and causes a such a sadness in Rose that she relies strictly on processed food for sustenance. This book is driven by Rose's isolation and the deep sense of responsibility she has for keeping her family together, along with just the right amount of magical realism (Rose's brother and father also have unique abilities). The subtle originality of this coming-of-age story will draw you in, and Rose's personal journey will keep you reading.
Other recent character-driven books I couldn't put down: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout and American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell.


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Good Java Style, Revisited
I was recently asked to review and update an older article entitled "Good Java Style" which was presented in two parts (Part One and Part Two) by Thornton Rose; it originally ran on this site in 2001. Inasmuch as the landscape of software and the IT industry changes almost daily, I agreed to attempt an updated presentation and maybe add a bit more of the "why" based on my own experiences. Of course, as with any online article, this will not be an exhaustive survey of all Java style considerations, but I do aim to hit all the high points.
Why Style Matters
If you are writing code for a living, you are most likely working with a team of fellow developers, all battling the impossibility of feature requirements on one hand against some looming deadline on the other. The one thing that makes good teams—and breaks bad ones—is communication. Requirements, schedules, test cases, assumptions, algorithms, patterns, those little "fix me" comments: These are the thousands of little details that development staff must juggle to get something that works, as planned, out the door so that money comes back in. Although parts of that list are handled at different levels of the organization, you still must be able to effectively communicate with your fellow development staff.
Requoting from the Java Code Conventions:
- 80% of the lifetime cost of a software product goes to maintenance.
- Hardly any software is maintained for its whole life by the original author(s).
- Using good style improves the maintainability of software code.
History Note
As an aside, the preceding reference was last updated in 1999, back when we were just starting to use Java 1.2. As for the initial version of this article written in 2001, Sun had just made Java 1.3 available. We are now, in 2008, using Java 1.6, and there have been a lot of enhancements made to the language, as well as Java's role in the software ecosystem, since. Java 1.7 is even on the drawing board. However, the foregoing statements are still as true now as they ever were.
House Styles and Holy Wars
As has been mentioned above, what is truly king is that you effectively communicate with your colleagues. (In fact, just being able to communicate with yourself after a six-month break can be a good thing, too.) Seasoned software developers tend to be passionate about their preferences and their prejudices, nearly to the point of riding into glorious combat to defend the honor of their bracing style or their choice of text editor. It makes great fodder to tease each other around the lunch table, but in a team environment, communication plays a much more important role than whether the "{" is on the "right line" or not. At this point, your team of developers just needs to agree on a common style to use. (This is all the more true if you are all doing the right thing by peer reviewing each other's code.) So, if it is the case that you are the junior developer at a code shop with an established style, the professional thing to do is use that style. But, if you are shopping around for a good style to agree upon, doing a little reading about why different people and different shops use a particular style can be informative.
With that being said, I am not going to try to sell one particular approach over another unless I've seen evidence warranting me to. Moreover, some of the items that developers previously had to worry over are now being handled automatically by solid IDEs, whose general behaviors for styling, indenting, and formatting have basically attained parity with each other. Also, it may happen that an attempt to force a line or two of code into a particular style actually detracts from the general purpose of communication. I feel that clarity of purpose must win over "styling rules at all costs" approaches, so it is hard to say that any absolute ever truly exists.
The IDE Effect
Integrated Developer Environments (IDEs) for Java have matured a great deal in the past seven years. The leading contenders in the "download for free" corner are Sun's Netbeans IDE and the Eclipse IDE. Both editors offer an excellent "Format" tool that fixes basic style and presentation of source code in addition to intelligent indent handling, parenthesis matching, and code completion. Moreover, good IDEs can even have their exact formatting style tweaked to varying degrees. This means that a lot of the heavy lifting can be done for you as you write the code, and also as a one-button cleanup when you're basically finished. The use of an established Formatter configuration can also be an aid to a development group that wants to standardize on a particular code style in a simple way. (Gone are the days of manually adjusting the whitespace around code tokens to get them to adhere to a common style.) Given the sheer power of options that IDEs now provide you, it is silly in the extreme to continue to eschew them in favor of a more primitive "raw mode" text editor. Still, some people are stuck in their ways.
The Monitor Effect
In addition to solid IDE tools, the desktop monitor has likewise made great strides in physical size (and resolution), allowing more material to be shown on the screen at a time. A common code style consideration involved limiting lines of code to 80 characters, for fear that someone might need to view the material on an 80x25 text console. In all honesty, it is the 21st century now, and in the current age of large, widescreen monitors and mice that scroll horizontally as well as vertically (and the afore-mentioned IDE tools) this 80-character line length limit is becoming an anachronism. Unless you have a distinct need to keep lines short due to some process requirement or tooling limitation (or managerial mandate), I'd cast a bit of a wary eye on this one. Still, IDEs carry an option for where to draw a visual hint, with a default value of "80," and the auto-formatters tend to wrap lines that exceed this length. In this circumstance, fighting the formatter probably isn't worth a great deal of effort, but wearing out your Return and Tab keys just to wrap lines on your own isn't either. So, if an 80-character line just feels overly cramped, and your team can agree on some other limit, see what everyone thinks of 120.
General Guidelines
Tabs vs. Spaces
Whether a Tab character results in a literal '\t' being present in the code file or whether some certain number of space characters is used instead can be a issue that causes a little debate. Most people that have a reason ready say that Tabs should be expanded to space characters. Their justification for this is that a plain text file does not have the notion of "tab stops" stored in it (whereas a word processor document does), so it is hard to know whether an actual '\t' character shifts the line over as many places in two separate tools for two separate people or not. However, if the tabs are expanded to space characters, the same amount of indent is applied for everyone. The choice to do either action is usually a configurable option in any decent code editor. Another point then is how many spaces should represent a Tab. The biggest consensus is to use four (4) spaces each. (People who insist on using literal tab characters while reading in an 80x25 console are a particularly vexing breed.)
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Marlins release former Angels prospect Dallas McPherson
April 1st, 2009, 12:24 am by Earl Bloom, staff writerDallas McPherson, coming off a 42-homer season in Triple-A in 2008, was released by the Florida Marlins on Tuesday night after they failed to find a trading partner for the third baseman, who is out of options.
McPherson, 28, hit 18 homers in 360 at-bats as an Angel from 2004-06. The Angels let Troy Glaus escape in free agency because of McPherson's emergence from the minor leagues, but injuries derailed his career in Anaheim.
Emilio Bonifacio won the Marlins' third-base job, and with Jorge Cantu set at first base and Gaby Sanchez also in the picture, Florida had no room for McPherson, who plays both corners of the infield.
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With film cameras rolling and two-time Olympic gold medalist Edwin Moses doling out sage advice, the Oglethorpe University men's and women's track and field teams enjoyed a rather unusual practice last Thursday afternoon. That's because Sky Sports, the largest sports broadcaster in the United Kingdom, was in Atlanta to capture some pre-Olympic coverage for the upcoming 2012 London Games, and Oglethorpe loaned their track and athletes to the project.
Moses, who first gained fame at the 1976 Montreal Games where he won gold by setting a world record in the 400 meter hurdles, lives nearby in the Brookhaven area and suggested Oglethorpe to Sky Sports as the locale for the filming. Sky Sports has tabbed Moses to be an in-studio analyst for the upcoming London Games and wanted to capture footage of him in the same city that hosted the 1996 Olympic Games.
After shooting footage of the Oglethorpe entrance and academic quadrangle, the Sky Sports crew descended on the track where members of the Stormy Petrel men's and women's track teams greeted Moses. Moses took time addressing the team about the finer points of his career in track and field before giving Oglethorpe 400 meter hurdler Katy Galli some one-on-one instruction on how to best clear hurdles and excel at the event. The Sky Sports team then filmed Galli, who wore a tiny camera affixed to her head, as she ran the 400 meter hurdles while Moses made commentary on specific portions of the race.
"It was an honor to have a track athlete of the caliber of Edwin Moses on our campus giving our kids who love the same sport some great advice," said Oglethorpe men's and women's track and field Head Coach Jan Spiro. "The folks from Sky Sports could not have been nicer and seeing our student-athletes interact with Moses was a real treat."
After over an hour of instruction and filming shots, Moses and the Sky Sports crew graciously said their goodbyes before the Oglethorpe track and field coaching staff gave the track teams a wake-up call: the real practice was about to begin.


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Media Details Center Efforts to Help Teachers
New website can help teachers opt out of the MEA
WJRT-TV12 in Flint and the MIRS newsletter are reporting on a new website the Center has established — www.AugustOptOut.org — to help teachers wishing to resign from the Michigan Education Association.
"Union members around Michigan have the ability to say 'yes I want to stay in a union' or 'no I want to opt out," F. Vincent Vernuccio, director of labor policy, told WJRT.
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The MEA claims its bylaws trump state law and that it's so-called "August window" is the only time members can resign.
"We are trying to inform MEA union members any way we can to make sure they are well aware of the August window," Vernuccio told MIRS.
Peter Boyd, a science teacher in the Martin Public Schools who opted out of the MEA, sent an email to teachers across the state informing them about www.AugustOptOut.org. The site also has testimonials from other former MEA members about why they chose to quite the union.
MIRS, in a story titled "How To Break Up With Your Union 101," reported that a website known as "Eclectablog" posted Boyd's letter online, including links to www.AugustOptOut.org. It also has a running tally of school districts in which teachers received the resignation information.
MEA President Steve Cook in a YouTube video posted Tuesday reminded members that the Center "will help you in every way possible" to leave the union.
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I'm on knitpicks right now ordering some yarn, and since I'm on a tight budget, I'm going for the $1.99 yarn (Wool of the Andes and Telemark, in particular) and I was wondering... is there a difference? I mean I know they are made of different materials, but if I was making a scarf or a hat, is one better than the other?
Another question: If I were making a scarf with stripes, is it ok to knit, say, Wool of the Andes with Shine, which is mostly cotton?
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Twitter is building an official app for Windows 8, says it will be 'great'
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Twitter has just announced via the Twitter Mobile account that it is building a Twitter app for Windows 8, and that it will be 'great'. There is currently a dearth of good Twitter apps for Windows 8, with many turning to MetroTwit as one of the best compromises.
Currently, Twitter makes an offcial app for Android, iPhone, iPad and the Mac, though the Mac client has long been neglected. The neglect of the Mac client has led many people to conjecture that Twitter was giving up on native clients for desktops, pushing people towards the web instead. This would indicate otherwise.
#Windows8 needs a great Twitter app. So we're building it. Looking forward to sharing it with you in the months ahead.
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Whether a native Windows 8 client would indicate that work will continue on the Mac app is unknown. But what we do know is that Twitter will most likely be building in support for its expandable-Tweet Cards feature, which is friendly to media content and advertisers. Whether it will follow the Windows Design Language (formerly known as Metro), or be a traditional app for the desktop is unknown at this point. We'd bet on Metro-style though.
That brings up the question of how Twitter will keep the look of the app 'consistent' across all of the platforms. So far it has done so on Android and iOS by enabling what is essentially a web window inside a native frame. In that window, they show their tweets, media and more in a stream that closely resembles the website. If they were to follow the Metro language closely, it would make for an interesting mixture.
Twitter has recently made moves to curtail the development of third-party clients in order to better control the way that people view Twitter. When the changed to its API were announced, I noted that it would have to do a much better job of building its own apps than it had currently been doing:
If it wants the new Cards feature to become a real tool for advertisers, though, it's going to need to do that, and soon. A major re-write of the official apps in all their forms is likely in order.
I'd be very surprised if we didn't see new versions of all of the official apps built with a native 'frame' displaying an embedded web view of Twitter's stream. Don't expect them to be suddenly awesome, however. The Facebook mobile apps suck completely and hundreds of millions of people still use them.
So, the jury is still out on whether the new client will actually be 'great', as Twitter says, but it seems that, at the very least, it is still interested in producing native clients for non-mobile platforms.
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SALT LAKE CITY — Police say a drunken 19-year-old Utah man punched and kicked Boy Scouts in a hotel swimming pool near Bryce Canyon last week.
The Salt Lake Tribune (http://bit.ly/1dSJpBf ) reports Scout leaders told police the man attacked four 12- and 13-year-old Scouts on January 24 at Ruby's Inn.
Jail documents say he was laying in his own vomit inside the hotel when police got there. Officials say he later said he was too drunk to remember the ordeal.
The 19-year-old is being held in the Garfield County Jail on suspicion of felony child abuse, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, underage drinking and trying to get into a bar even though he was underage.


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Running the Hershey Vintage Hill Climb in the #40 Valvoline Audi Quattro
I own several late-model Audi S4 race cars, but for some reason the 1985 Ur-Quattro that I just backed into my garage after doing battle at the 2008 Hershey Vintage Hill Climb in Hershey, PA, leaves me with a different feeling then the others. I purchased the #40 Valvoline Audi Quattro a few months ago. The ad simply read: "ex-Audi race car." Gone the way that many showroom stock race cars have in the past, this example was doing duty as an occasional street car. The ad on the internet grossly understated the condition and value of the car. Other than the original Valvoline war paint, not much had been changed from this incredible piece of Audi history.
I (or I should say the guys at www.AudiBMW.com) have spent the last three months preparing the car for this past weekend. The car was in fine running order for normal street use, but as you know, that does not mean that it is even close to being ready for competition. Many things had to be done to get the #40 ready for its first real test in some 22 years.
First, some typical early Audi CIS drivability issues needed to be addressed. After searching the internet and finding a few key diehard Audi enthusiasts, we were well on the way to unlocking many of the mysteries surrounding CIS fuel management. The most difficult decision to make came with all of the suggestions to simply disregard the system completely and replace it with a modern, stand-alone engine management system. My race team uses Motec on our #06 World Challenge Spec S4 so I am very familiar with the huge performance and reliability gains with that system. I decided against the modern engine management system because, in the true spirit of owning a "vintage" Audi race car, I am trying my best to maintain the original integrity of the car.
Second on the list and probably the most important aspect of any race car is the braking system. My team and I (more so my team – thanks again guys) had to thoroughly test and inspect the entire braking system. After a few practice sessions which involved a very soft pedal, we made the proper repairs and the brakes now bind down hard enough to plant you hard against the 5-point harness.
The next step we needed to take to insure we would be ready for race day was to replace most of the 23- year-old (well used) suspension bushings with new urethane units from PowerFlex. These particular units are by no means the easiest to install but well worth the effort when the car is pushed to its limit.
Moving further down the list, the guys did some reworking of the full 3-inch stainless steel exhaust. The catalytic converter was removed and a few leaks were repaired. The complete list included some 22 items to be addressed and each time we ran the car the list grew slightly longer.
Now with all of the dirty work out of the way, it was time for a facelift that would return the Quattro to its full racing glory. Sometime during the late eighties the car was painted back to its original Tornado Red finish. Each time I saw the smallest hint of the blue or white racing surface hiding under the current finish, it made me anticipate this stage of the restoration like a child waiting for Christmas morning. I use the term "restoration" lightly because the car will continue to see some pretty hard race abuse. I made the decision to refresh versus fully restore the cosmetics because of all of the racing the Quattro had ahead of it. I would like to thank DuPont for supplying the product and Cockrell's Auto Body in Mechanicsburg, PA for the application. In less than a week the car was painted and copies of the historic original vinyl were installed. The car looked amazing! The #40 Valvoline Audi now looks the same as it did in the spring of 1986 when two Polaroid photos were taken outside the race shop for the original SCCA Log Book that remains with the car today.
Now that the car looked the part and seemed to drive the part, the question was whether it was really up for the task of entering competition for the first time in 22 years. The Hershey Vintage Hill Climb www.svvscc.org has been a grand event since the 1950's. The race is set in the beautiful and historic chocolate town of Hershey, Pennsylvania. The Hershey Vintage Hill Climb is referred to as exhibition-only event. But how you can take 73 competing egos, throw in close to 15,000 units of finely-tuned, race-fuel-burning horsepower and not expect at least a few competitors to take it serious is beyond me! I can't figure it out, but if that's what keeps the Volvo-driving insurance man happy, so be it.
I have participated in this event for the past two seasons in a very good-looking and well-prepared 1972 BMW 2002 Ti. This car is owned by a very good friend of mine, Vince Gladfelter, and has been a race car most of its life. The BMW 2002 Ti is so good in fact, that in the 2007 event, we finished 4th and 5th out of 35 competitors. Because Vince owns the car and I would like to drive it again in the future, I will not say who was in the 4th spot; but I will say it was only by 5 hundredths of a second. Shhh, remember this is only an exhibition.
This year I entered the race thinking, first, that I would be happy if the Audi did not breakdown before the final run on Sunday and second, that if I was able to compete all weekend, that I could finish somewhere near the top 10. A top 10 finish would not be easy to accomplish because this year's event gave recognition to Corvettes as the featured vehicle. What comes with featuring Corvettes? Corvette people! Registration more than doubled to 73 competitors. I may not be a huge fan of this all-American sports car, but it is very hard to argue their racing success in the last 55 years.
After 3 months of preparation, the cold and foggy morning of Saturday, May 3, 2008 had finally arrived. I was quite relaxed considering that in a short time I would be driving nearly 100 mph zigzagging between some fairly substantial trees. Over the loudspeaker that was barely audible in the busy pit area, the call for the yellow group came. Within a few minutes, I was staged and waiting for the course clear signal to arrive. When the traffic light to my left switched from red to green, I made one last mental check. Helmet on "yes," harness secure "yes," gauges ok "looks good." Now bring the tachometer up to 4500 rpm, increase grip on the wheel, take one more deep breath and let the clutch fly.
The Ur-Quattro moved slightly to the left, but it did seem to hook up all four, soft-compound DOTs pretty well. Seven thousand first, seven thousand second, seven thousand third, the road ahead begins to curve to the left, don't lift, and stay hard into fourth. The first high-speed curve is approaching quickly, don't lift. The apex is still too far into the corner to see. I begin to lift so I turn the wheel gently to the left and begin to smoothly but assertively apply power and attempt to settle the rear of the car.
It hits me in an instant, something feels incredibly familiar, something that only a handful of race car drivers have ever experienced. A Quattro feels so good, so stable, under power that it becomes addicting. It truly raises the question of how much lateral adhesion is too much. This car is by no means a 2000 World Challenge Spec S4, but the rush of familiarity is undeniable and very welcome at this speed. Now the corners, most of which are taken in second gear, become tighter. The same approach applies: when the car becomes unstable, use the right pedal not the center one. Looking into the rear view mirror at the finish line, I ask myself a question that comes to me at least once a day (my daily driver is a 2003 S8), "Why doesn't everyone drive an Audi with quattro?" This theory was only reconfirmed when a good friend of mine came back from timing and scoring and told me that I ran a 52.457.
After the first run, I am on top of the 72 other competitors. FTD belonged to a 23-year-old, 2958-lb, full-interiored, power-windowed street car that was driven on pump gas to and from the event with a brand new pair of slicks graciously donated by Goodyear (the original 1986 supplier) sitting in the pits. With the help of the tires I did manage to take off over a full second by the final run on Sunday, but even with the slicks my time was not enough to secure a first-place finish. Somehow a 10th-place finish would have left me in a more comfortable spot at the weekend's closing. I would have been very satisfied knowing that this old Audi race car would have only sat behind a few purpose-built, track-use-only race cars. But now with an amazing 3rd-place finish, I have more determination than ever to prove to world that these are not only the cars that changed the racing world forever, but that they can still do it 23 years later.
We will be continuing to develop the car throughout the season. The weekend of May 16, 2008 the car will be on display at the Carlisle Import Kit/Replicar Nationals in Carlisle, PA . I will run the full Pennsylvania Hillclimb Association series and if all goes well, the SVRA, US Vintage Grand Prix at Watkins Glen in September. The ultimate goal for the Goodyear/Valvoline #40 Audi Quattro will be in 2009. I will give you a hint. It's a pretty big hill in Colorado where Audi secured its North American dominance in motor sports.


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- Paddington Reservoir GardensThe city of Sydney has infused the ruins of a public waterworks with new life by transforming the  antiquated infrastructure into a vibrant public park. Designed by TZG Architects and JMD Designs, Paddington Reservoir Gardens is the reincarnation of a defunct reservoir from the 1800's. Situated a full story below street grade, the park has preserved the original barrel vault roofs and trusses with a subtle weave of new materials and a dynamic design that frames the history of Sydney's growth into a metropolis.1
- Paddington Reservoir GardensThe original water works was completed in 1878, but it was decommissioned after only 20 years due to low pressure and brackish water. And there it sat, occasionally changing hands until a service station had to abandon the building after a roof collapsed. When TZG Architects collaborated with JMD Designs to turn the space into a public park, they realized the ruins would be a unique and valuable reference for the residents of the city.2
- Paddington Reservoir GardensThe park has a dense layer of subtropical plantings laced with raw materials like wood beams, concrete, iron, and brick. The supporting materials were placed discretely in order to enhance the preserved structures.3
- Paddington Reservoir GardensThe park collects water from the neighboring Paddington Town Hall, and from on-site tanks located beneath the walkways and planters. Australia is a leader in water efficiency, so the waterworks' approach to water preservation is as symbolic as it is functional.4
- Paddington Reservoir GardensThe park's entrance is indicated by a lightweight perforated steel canopy that echoes the shape of the vaulted ceilings. The architects wanted the entrance to offer a counterpoint to the Victorian era ruins.5
- Paddington Reservoir GardensThe 'sunken garden' features a Victorian-era design scheme. Because of the garden's lowered profile and high solar exposure, the micro-climate can support subtropical plants. A large on-site rain collection system provides water.6
- Paddington Reservoir GardensThe building has been preserved with a new concrete waterproof cap. Below, the camber is vividly lit like a industrial cathedral.7
- Paddington Reservoir GardensThe restored reservoir chamber was used for years as a garage.8
- Paddington Reservoir GardensThe gardens are planted based on a Victorian design sensibility, alluding to the public building's preserved architecture.9
- Paddington Reservoir GardensThe roof of the gardens is a public lawn elevated above street level. You can clearly see the concrete cap protecting the infrastructure.10
Paddington Reservoir Gardens
The city of Sydney has infused the ruins of a public waterworks with new life by transforming the antiquated infrastructure into a vibrant public park. Designed by TZG Architects and JMD Designs, Paddington Reservoir Gardens is the reincarnation of a defunct reservoir from the 1800's. Situated a full story below street grade, the park has preserved the original barrel vault roofs and trusses with a subtle weave of new materials and a dynamic design that frames the history of Sydney's growth into a metropolis.


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Tosky will be back in town on Saturday, just across the street from where she rewrote the Palo Alto swimming record book. The freshman is a member of the nationally No. 1-ranked USC women's swim team, which will face No. 8 Stanford at noon at Avery Aquatic Center.
"So excited!" Tosky said. "Even more excited to go home for for a bit."
Tosky and the Trojans (4-0, 8-0) first will take on host and two-time defending NCAA champion California on Friday (1 p.m.), where Tosky will meet up with former Gunn rival and Cal freshman Rachael Acker.
The No. 3-ranked Bears moved to 2-1 in the Pac-12 Conference (5-1 overall) last week after falling to Arizona but defeating Arizona State on the road. They are led by lone senior Caitlin Leverenz, a two-time NCAA champion last year (200y IM, 200y breast) who went on to win bronze for the U.S. in the 200m IM at the 2012 London Olympics.
Junior Cindy Tran is the two-time defending NCAA champion in the 100y back while freshmen teammates Rachel Bootsma (an Olympic gold medalist) and Elizabeth Pelton are All-American caliber backstrokers, as well. Tran, Bootsma and Pelton, in fact, are currently ranked 1-2-3 in the country in the 100-yard back.
Cal leads the series, 18-14. The teams have split the past four meetings. Last year at USC, the Bears defeated the Trojans, 162-138.
Stanford (2-0, 5-1) is coming off victories over Arizona and Arizona State and is led by junior Maya DiRado, a career nine-time All-American who posted three top-four finishes at the 2012 NCAA Championships and was fourth in both the 200- and 400-meter IM at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials.
The 2011 Pac-10 Freshman of the Year swam for the U.S. at the 2012 FINA Short Course World Championships, taking fifth in both the 200m and 400m IM. Sophomore Maddy Schaefer was the 2012 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, earning All-American honors in the 100y free and helping Stanford to NCAA titles in the 200- and 400-yard free relays. Schaefer ranks No. 3 in the nation in the 50 free (22.18) and No. 5 in the 100 free (48.36) for Division I.
Tosky and Schaefer are long-time teammates at Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics.
Stanford leads the series, 32-2. USC's last win over the Cardinal came in 1996, 153-147. Stanford won at USC last year, 160.5-139.5
Tosky hopes to reverse USC's recent efforts against Stanford. Despite her youth, Tosky is one of the country's top swimmers with a pair of World Championship relays golds already to her credit.
Tosky's versatility makes her a dynamic addition to the Trojans and helps fill the void of the departed do-everything Katinka Hosszu.
Tosky currently ranks No. 2 in the nation in Division I for the 200-yard fly (1:53.98), is tied for No. 4 in the 100 fly (52.19 and is No. 9 in the 200 IM (1:56.43). She's also ranked among the top 15 in the 200 free (1:45.14) and 500 free (4:42.34).
At the annual SMU Classic in October that featured small, elite groups from different teams around the country in a unique invitational format, USC won the team title and Tosky was named the swimmer of the meet. She set two pool and three meet records in four individual swims.
Tosky, a national team member since 2011, also claimed gold as part of the U.S. 800-meter free relay at the 2012 FINA Short Course World Championships in December. Tosky swam in the prelims as the Americans qualified first for the final, ultimately winning gold.
Tosky won a title in the 200-yard fly (1:54.38) at the 2012 U.S. Winter Nationals and was also fifth in the 100 fly (52.42), sixth in the 200 IM (1:56.67) and fifth in the `B' final of the 200 breast (2:12.86). She also swam on Troy's winning 800y free relay.
For helping the Trojans win the team title at Winter Nationals, Tosky was named the Pac-12 Swimmer of the Month for December.
At Palo Alto, Tosky became the most accomplished female swimmer in CCS history with her eight individual titles. She also set a national public school record in the 100 fly in the prelims of the 2011 CCS finals. Her time of 51.92 erased the old high school record in the books, previously held by Misty Hyman, who went on to win Olympic gold while at Stanford.
In 2011, Tosky was named the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame Female High School Athlete of the Year in addition to being named Swimming World Magazine Female Co-Swimmer of the Year.


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A Douglas City Council member who is the focus of a personal protection order from resident made his first comment about the issue during a council meeting, saying other council members have had to deal with the fallout from his actions.
The council has been �inundated� with comments about the May 8 incident and following court action, said Councilman Eric Smith.
�No malicious intent was intended,� he said during the meeting Tuesday night, Sept. 2. This was the first time at a council meeting that Smith addressed his guilty plea on June 26 in Allegan County District Court to the misdemeanor of breaking and entering without owner permission. He was sentenced the same day to pay a total of $425 in costs and fines.
Smith entered the home of Maria de Leon, who lives across Wiley Road from Smith, after hearing a smoke alarm in the unoccupied residence that was under construction at the time. Smith said he removed the batteries of the smoke detector.
�I was just trying to help a neighbor and it was not appreciated,� he said Tuesday night.
De Leon said parts Smith�s account are not true and that he entered her home once before without permission
The incident led to the issuing of a personal protection order stating Smith has to stay away from de Leon.
De Leon spoke at the last regular city council meeting on Aug. 18, asking the city to do something about Smith�s behavior. Smith had no comment at that time.
The city�s attorney has advised the council that it cannot remove a member � only a recall election can do that. The council could reprimand Smith, but has made no move to do that.
Smith has said he does not plan to resign. He has filed for re-election in November.
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Today I want to briefly recap the women's tournament. Each team had some great moments and this year's gold medal game was the most exciting hockey game of 2014 so far. Despite Canada defending its gold for the third time and capturing its fourth gold medal, the games showcased some new stars and demonstrated how the rest of the world is starting to find its footing in the otherwise North American dominated hockey tournaments.
Group A Teams
Canada: Of course, Canada defended its gold medal on the backs of elite veterans like Jayna Hefford, Caroline Oullette, and Hayley Wickenheiser. Arguably, goaltender Shannon Szabados was the top keeper of the tournament and MVP of the team, but it's hard to argue who among the well-oiled machine stood out the most. Marie-Phillip Poulin came through again with two goals in the gold medal game. Her legend continues to grow. Maybe Jordan Eberle is the Marie-Phillip Poulin of men's hockey, instead of thinking of it vice versa.
Finland: The Finns entered the tournament as the most likely to compete with the North American powerhouses, but just barely got past the Swiss in overtime in the round robin and were stunned by the Swedes in the qualification round. On the bright side, the Finns played well in the 5th to 8th place bracket, finishing in 5th place overall and seeing Michelle Karvinen emerge as a superstar with five goals in the tournament. From the sounds of it, star goalie Noora Raty wants to call it quits due to a lack of a women's professional league. Jenni Hiirikoski also won the tournament's top defensemen honour.
Switzerland: The big shock in this tournament was the emergence of Switzerland as a legitimate team as they captured the bronze medal in an outstanding comeback, stunning the Swedes 4-3. Swiss keeper Florence Schelling won both media keeper of the tournament as well as directorate and tournament MVP honours.Schelling kept them in the 3-1 loss to Canada that certainly bristled the favourites. The 2-0 shocker versus the Russians helped to build her resume as one of the world's top goaltenders among women, and it gives the Swiss a star to build on. 15 year old Alina Müller became a media darling, not only for scoring goals but showing how far along women's hockey has truly come in 16 years. She was born when women's hockey in the Olympics had just started. She will be a star in tournaments to come.
United States of America: Team USA were so, so close to ending Canada's streak of gold medals. Whether it be nerves, unfavorable penalties, losing to the better team, or whatever reasons anyone want to come up with, the team walks away with silver. There is absolutely nothing to be ashamed about with their performance as the difference between gold and silver was so slight that a missed empty netter could have sealed their fate as tournament winners. Amanda Kessel will almost surely replaced Hayley Wickenheiser as the world's greatest female hockey player; she might even be the better Kessel! With the right coach, I see the 2018 tournament as their time to topple their rivals.
Group B Teams
Russia: A lot was expected of the Russian ice hockey teams in Sochi, and both fell short of the medals. Even though the women went undefeated in the round robin portion of the tournament, they were ousted by the Swiss in the 2-0 game mentioned earlier in this post. In the meaningless 5th-8th place tournament, Russia stomped Japan 6-3 only to go down 4-0 to the Finns in the 5th place game. On the bright side, Russia proved that they are perhaps the mightiest of the non-Group A teams. The disappointment of Sochi will be a motivator in international tournaments to come.
Sweden: Sweden finished 4th at Sochi after blowing the bronze medal game to the Swiss, ending their Olympic medal streak at two (bronze in Salt Lake City, Silver in Torino). The women's team has been sliding slowly down the tournament brackets since Torino, and hasn't medaled at the IIHF tournaments since 2007. Pernilla Winberg remains the team's best star since her breakout performance in 2006. If they can find the means to protect their two goal leads, they have a chance to recapture the magic of better tournaments gone by and reclaim the title of Europe's best women's team.
Germany: Germany did not fare well in Sochi, winning only against Japan and losing to everyone else. Goaltender Viona Harrer was statistically the second best keeper in the tournament, posting a .935 save percentage in three games and grabbing a single shutout. The best moment of the tournament may have been the most bitter loss of 2-1 to the Finns in the 5th-8th place bracket. It showed they were close (somewhat) to the rest of the pack.
Japan: Undeniably the weakest team at the tournament, Japan was okie-doked by the referees and goal judges when this goal wasn't to be:
That's quite obviously a goal there at :38 seconds into the clip. I wonder why that goal against the host country Russia wasn't counted. They did pot one goal in the round robin tournament, which led to the greatest celebration ever seen on ice for a goal:
The Japanese can walk away from this tournament knowing they are as competitive as Germany, and while not exactly the best team in Asia (watch out Kazakhstan!) they should be consistently showing up at international tournaments and continuously improving. It took them sixteen years to get back to the women's tournament after hosting the '98 Olympics. If they can continue to play the way they did against Germany, they will eventually defeat them and seek out a new team they can strive to replace in the standings.
The real reason I wanted to write this post was immerse myself in the less-viewed women's tournament and look at how some of the non-usual suspects performed. Admittedly, I've only ever paid attention to the gold medal games because that's where Canada resides (and apparently dominates). I took in some more of the round robin games this time around and it's impressive to see how far along women's hockey has come. It's a farce to say it has only progressed as much as the North American teams have. The truth is that beyond the competitors of Team USA and Team Canada, there are some legitimate superstars rising out of the other countries. Are any of the teams as good as their North American counterparts? Hardly. But the point of having these tournaments isn't just to have the two powerhouse teams clobber the lesser teams for sport before their big showdown. The bigger story here is that across Europe and Asia we are seeing countries explore women's hockey and improve as each tournament plays. Arguably, Canada and the United States were four to five steps ahead of all other women's hockey teams from 1998 to 2006. Sweden took one massive leap forward shocking the Americans, but one equally massive step backwards in subsequent tournaments. In the meantime, other European countries like Finland and Switzerland have produced their own all-stars who outshine North American players individually:
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I only see one Canadian on this entire list, and just three Americans. This is a step in the right direction for women's hockey. The rest of the world are slowly but surely catching up with North America.


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On 8th August this year, I posted on a fascinating article that had just appeared in Science (DOI: 10.1126/science.1188002), in which the crystal structure was reported of two small molecules, 1,3-dimethyl cyclobutadiene and carbon dioxide, entrapped together inside a calixarene cavity. Other journals (e.g. Nature Chemistry, DOI: 10.1038/nchem.823) ran the article as a research highlight (where the purpose is not a critical analysis but more of an alerting service). A colleague, David Scheschkewitz, pointed me to the article. We both independently analyzed different aspects, and first David, and then I then submitted separate articles for publication describing what we had found. Science today published both David's thoughts (DOI:10.1126/science.1195752) and also those of another independent group, Igor Alabugin and colleagues (DOI: 10.1126/science.1196188). The original authors have in turn responded (DOI: 10.1126/science.1195846). My own article on the topic will appear very shortly (DOI: 10.1039/C0CC04023A). You can see quite a hornet's nest has been stirred up!
At issue is whether the two bonds (indicated with arrows below) are best described as normally covalent, or very much weaker van der Waals contacts, or essentially non-interacting atoms. The last two interpretations would sustain the claim that 1,3-dimethyl cyclobutadiene and carbon dioxide can co-exist as separate species inside the cavity. The first would argue that they have reacted to form a different molecule. You can inspect the 3D coordinates by clicking on the diagram below.
Barboiu et al originally argued that these two bonds were strong van der Waals contacts, with C-C and C-O distances of 1.5 and 1.6Å respectively, and with a OCO angle of 120°. The various responses to this claim tend to the view that these distances/angles clearly represent new covalent (or partially ionic-covalent) bonds, and that the combined species cannot be described as 1,3-dimethyl cyclobutadiene and carbon dioxide. There is obviously much more to it than that (including a detailed analysis of the errors present in a partially disordered crystal structure). So make your own minds up based on the articles cited above and if it helps, the original 3D coordinates, for your convenience made available above!Popular Posts:
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Some people like to learn from mistakes. Others prefer to learn by finding out what to do instead of what not to do.
Case in point: Last month, I shared 10 phrases great speakers never say. A number of people emailed saying, "Great, but what should I do?"
So I went back to Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, serial entrepreneur and founder of TwitterCounter and The Next Web, for what you should always do during your presentations:
1. Reinforce who you are. At most conferences, you will be introduced, and that introduction should make the audience look forward to hearing your story.
But even though the audience might know something about you, it still makes sense to say a little bit extra about yourself. Don't overload everyone with information, but in one or two sentences explain how your background matters and makes you the perfect person to share what you're about to say.
Framing that makes it easier for people to digest what you are saying is too often overlooked.
2. Help everyone find you. A lot of presentations end with a slide that shows the speaker's name, URL, Twitter handle, and email address.
That slide is usually displayed for about three milliseconds before the projector is switched off. Before people in your audience even have time to reach for a pencil or laptop, your information is gone.
Provide your contact information on the opening screen, and keep it there for a while. (Some people display their name and email address in the footer of every slide, but you might feel that's overkill.) I generally start and close with my Twitter handle (@Boris) and invite people to contact me there.
Bonus tip: When you're in the audience and sense the end of a presentation coming, get your smart phone ready and take a quick snapshot of that last slide. You can write the information down later.
3. Share real stories. People love stories. The best presentations I've seen didn't feel like presentations at all — they were stories told by people with amazing experiences. When you want to explain something to an audience, see if you can translate it into a story, an anecdote, or even a joke. (If you need to convey data or information, tie it to a story.) If the story you tell is something that happened to you, that's even better. If the story is funny, even better!
4. Entertain as much as inform. An often forgotten point: Your job is to, at least in part, entertain the members of your audience. They're taking a break from something else. They've closed their laptops and are focusing on you. Why not reward them with something interesting or funny? Your entire talk doesn't need to be completely on topic. It's fine to start off with something that is beside the point as long as it's entertaining.
Never forget that people will listen more closely to what you have to say when they're having a good time.
5. Time it perfectly. When you're speaking, in effect you're borrowing your audience's time. It's investing in you — respect that investment and don't abuse that trust. If you're given 30 minutes, feel free to only use 25 minutes. Your primary goal is to entertain, inform, and make your audience's investment in time worthwhile. Your goal is not to use up every available minute.
I used to be very concerned with how much time I had for talks; my biggest fear was that I would run out of things to talk about. Now my only concern is giving a great presentation. If that means ending a 30-minute slot after 15 minutes, fine — you can always take more questions from your audience. The better your presentation, the more questions you will get.
And the more your audience will feel you respected its investment in you.
6. Provide something to take home. I always try to think of something specific I can deliver — in words, not in swag — that the members of the audience can apply as soon as they get back to work. I learned that from a speaker at one of our events who had a hugely inspiring story, but then interrupted himself and said something like: "But you can apply this very easily tomorrow by doing the following..."
A sigh of relief went through the room as people scrambled for their notebooks. Inspiration is cool and productive, but it really helps if you have something tangible to offer that your audience can apply right away.
7. Feel free to repeat. It's natural to assume everyone in the audience is paying attention to everything you say. In reality, people hear about 30 percent of what you say, and of that they're constantly translating it to fit their own perspectives or agendas. Plus, things you think are logical and even self-evident might not immediately make sense to everyone in your audience.
That's why it never hurts to repeat yourself a few times. If you want to explain a certain principle, first explain it. Then give two examples of your principle at work. Then, at the end of your talk, go over the different principles you covered and briefly highlight each one.
By then, you've explained your principle four times, and that might just be enough.
8. Help the audience remember at least one thing. It's very easy to overload the audience with information. You think, Wow, I have 30 minutes... I need to really fill that 30 minutes. But most people can't really absorb a lot of information, plus chances are you might be one of a number of speakers that day.
Think of it this way: If 10 percent of the people in the audience really listen to your story and remember one or two key points they can incorporate into their lives, you've done really well. Focus on providing something people can remember and that will have an impact on their lives. To do that, of course, means your story must be simple and clear.
And that's a good thing.
9. Really connect with your audience. No matter how big the crowd, your goal is to make everyone in the audience feel like you are speaking with him or her personally.
Aside from the content of your story, there are also a few simple tricks you can use. When I'm announced as the speaker, I stand and look at the audience, not just for a second but for as long as possible. I try hard to make eye contact with a number of individual audience members, looking as many of them in the eyes as I can and even smiling and waving at a few of them.
This works well for a couple of reasons. In a bigger room, the audience won't really see what or whom you are looking at. If you look at the middle person in a group of 50 people, they all get the impression you're looking at them individually. By slowly scanning the crowd and smiling at a few people, many will get the impression you're looking straight at them.
Plus it's a nice reminder — to you — that you may be speaking to a crowd, but in reality you're talking to individuals. Keep doing that during your talks as well; that not only helps you read the room but also keeps your connection alive.
Summing it up:
Be personal, speak from experience, feel free to entertain as much as inform, be practical, connect with the audience, and never forget that shorter is always better than too long.
Your main goal is to tell a story that will inspire your audience — and that it will share with other people.
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Pistachio Ice Cream Bombe
Pistachio ice cream | 2 Pint | |
Cherry ice cream | 1 Pint (Dark Cherry Variety) | |
Coffee ice cream | 1 Pint |
Cut pistachio ice cream into 1-inch slices.
Line bottom and side of chilled 1 1/2- to 2-quart metal mold or bowl with slices; press firmly with spoon to form even layer.
Freeze until firm, at least 1 hour.
Repeat with dark cherry ice cream.
Freeze until firm, at least 1 hour.
Slightly soften coffee ice cream.
Press in center of mold.
Cover; freeze until firm, about 24 hours.
Invert mold on chilled serving plate.
Dip a cloth into hot water; wring out cloth and place over top of mold for just a few minutes.
Lift off mold.
Return to freezer until serving time.
Remove from freezer 10 to 15 minutes before serving to make cutting easier.
Garnish as desired with pressurized whipped cream, maraschino cherries, preserved kumquats or mint leaves.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 2968 Calories from Fat 1424
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 158 g243.4%
Saturated Fat 70.6 g353.1%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 401.4 mg133.8%
Sodium 623.7 mg26%
Total Carbohydrates 342 g114.1%
Dietary Fiber 0 g
Sugars 289.4 g
Protein 37 g75%
Vitamin A 48.4% Vitamin C 7.3%
Calcium 54.4% Iron
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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But while Hostess Brands, Inc., will look to resolve its differences with the union that has escorted it to the brink of bankruptcy, production is still planned to cease, according to a company spokesperson.
My understanding is that nothing has changed in the status of all that," Thom Weidlich said in an interview Monday afternoon. "Production is still shut down. At this point the status hasn't changed."
The shop in Russellville, which was sold out of the all the famous Hostess snack cakes, such as Twinkies and Ding Dongs and Ho Ho's, opened its doors yesterday with the goal of selling off at least a portion of the stock left in the store, which was mostly Wonder bread loafs and hamburger buns, with a few odds-and-ends foods here and there.
An employee at the store said Monday morning that once the product was sold, the store would close its doors. She later said she was unsure if the store would re-open Tuesday or if it would have enough product to sell as the product was sold off throughout the afternoon.
As soon as all the bread's gone, the store is no more," the employee said Monday before the announcement that the company would continue talks with the union. "We have no idea on anything. We just know the company is done."
The news of the upcoming mediation came Monday after Hostess moved to liquidate and sell off its assets in bankruptcy court citing a crippling strike last week.
The bankruptcy judge hearing the case said Monday that the parties haven't gone through the critical step of mediation and asked the lawyer for the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union, which has been on strike since Nov. 9, to ask his client, who wasn't present, if the union would agree to participate. The judge noted that the bakery union, which represents about 30 percent of Hostess workers, went on strike after rejecting the company's latest contract offer, even though it never filed an objection to it.
"Many people, myself included, have serious questions as to the logic behind this strike," said Judge Robert Drain, who heard the case in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York in White Plains, N.Y. "Not to have gone through that step leaves a huge question mark in this case."
Hostess and the union agreed to mediation talks, which are expected to begin the process on Tuesday.
In an interview after the hearing on Monday, CEO Gregory Rayburn said that the two parties will have to agree to contract terms within 24 hours of the Tuesday since it is costing $1 million a day in overhead costs to wind down operations. But even if a contract agreement is reached, it is not clear if all 33 Hostess plants will go back to being operational.
"We didn't think we had a runway, but the judge just created a 24-hour runway," for the two parties to come to an agreement, Rayburn said.
Hostess, weighed down by debt, management turmoil, rising labor costs and the changing tastes of America, decided on Friday that it no longer could make it through a conventional Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring. Instead, the company, which is based in Irving, Texas, asked the court for permission to sell assets and go out of business.
It's not the sequence of events that the maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Ho Ho's envisioned when it filed for bankruptcy in January, its second Chapter 11 filing in less than a decade. The company, who said that it was saddled with costs related to its unionized workforce, had hoped to emerge with stronger financials. It brought on Rayburn as a restructuring expert and was working to renegotiate its contract with labor unions.
But Rayburn wasn't able to reach a deal with the bakery union. The company, which had been contributing $100 million a year in pension costs for workers, offered workers a new contract that would've slashed that to $25 million a year, in addition to wage cuts and a 17 percent reduction in health benefits. But the bakery union decided to strike.
By that time, the company had reached a contract agreement with its largest union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which urged the bakery union to hold a secret ballot on whether to continue striking. Although many bakery workers decided to cross picket lines this week, Hostess said it wasn't enough to keep operations at normal levels.
Rayburn said that Hostess was already operating on razor thin margins and that the strike was the final blow. The company's announcement on Friday that it would move to liquidate prompted people across the country to rush to stores and stock up on their favorite Hostess treats. Many businesses reported selling out of Twinkies within hours and the spongy yellow cakes turned up for sale online for hundreds of dollars.
Even if Hostess goes out of business, its popular brands will likely find a second life after being snapped up by buyers. The company says several potential buyers have expressed interest in the brands. Although Hostess' sales have been declining in recent years, the company still does about $2.5 billion in business each year. Twinkies along brought in $68 million so far this year.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Sliced Heirloom Tomato Stack with Blue Cheese
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 2 cups Arborio Rice coating, recipe follows
- 6 red onions, thickly sliced, loosely separated into rings
- 8 cups peanut oil
- 4 vine-ripened tomatoes
- Gray salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Extra-virgin olive oil, to drizzle
- 1/2 cup basil leaves, julienne
- Balsamic vinegar, to drizzle
- 1 cup crumbled blue cheese, frozen
Onion Rings:
Pour buttermilk into a shallow bowl. In a separate bowl spread out the rice coating. Take onion rings and coat with buttermilk, and then cover with coating, shaking off excess. Place coated rings on a tray.
In a large deep saucepan, heat peanut oil to 375 degrees F. With a slotted wire spoon, carefully lower the coated rings into pan to fry. Do the rings in small batches to allow oil to remain a consistent temperature. Place fried rings on a paper towel on a tray to dry.
Tomato Stack:
Cut a small slice from the bottom of the tomatoes - enough so that they will stand. Slice the tomatoes into 1/2-inch thick slices (about 2 or 3), leaving the stem on top.
Season the slices with salt and pepper to taste, drizzle with olive oil.
Place the basil leaves in between the tomato slices, and re-stack tomato. Serve re-stacked tomatoes around a larger stack of onion rings in center of a large serving plate. Drizzle more olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Grate the frozen blue cheese over top.
Arborio Rice Coating:1 cup Arborio rice
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup semolina
2 tablespoons table salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Grind the rice in a blender until very fine. Put it in a bowl and add the all-purpose flour, semolina, salt and pepper. Toss until well blended. Store in a sealed container in the freezer for maximum freshness.
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Research in Economics and Management in France: A bibliometric study using the h-index
This paper presents an application of new measures of research excellence, namely Hirsch's index (2005) and derived indexes. It gives a ranking of French departments of Economics, departments of Management and Business schools based on the quality of the academic environment offered by these institutions using these measures. It argues that, since the bulk of the research is done by a very small number of researchers, a greater concentration of the best researchers seems necessary for France to achieve international visibility in Economics and Management.
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