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The parents took the help of Instagram to share the heartbreaking news of their daughter. Apparently, they are very upset with the incident and shared their emotions with the world. Victoria was just one month aged, and she had a problem since she was in her mothers' abdomen.
According to sources, when Feliciano was five months pregnant, she got to know that her baby is suffering in disorder. After that, the family got to know about the heartbreaking news. To knowing that, the child may have come out with a serious problem they kept faith in God. Feliciano decided to maintain the baby, and she continues the pregnancy.
But right after her birth, they faced the vulnerable truth that Victoria came out in the world with that serious problem. And just after one month, she passed away. After Reggaeton Star Wisin's Newborn Daughter Dies the parents left a heart touching message for their baby that they are going to meet her soon in the heaven. They will not leave her alone and will be with her as soon as possible. They showcased the ultimate love through the note.


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There is no traffic congestion on the straight and narrow path. Tommy Dewar
My young daughter Carrie wanted to buy me glasses for Christmas the winter she worked after school at a kitchen and gift shop. She told her co-workers that she wanted the glasses because "My mother belongs to this group that drinks." It sounded like it was a club of debauchery and alcoholics anonymous drop-outs. The co-workers looked askance at her. A clarifying explanation was in order!
Well this Mom still drinks but the story is so much more than debauchery. As I start off Chapter 1 of my book, Whisky Tales: Tastings and Temptations: it is all Amanda's fault. Really. She was the one who suggested that a group of us get together and have our own whisky tasting. Being the great followers, we eagerly said, "Sure." The rest is more than history, more than a deviation from the straight and narrow path.
My ever expanding love of whisky and blossoming collection, has taken me on a journey that was never envisioned during that first tasting. I like to give credit to the shocking preference I had for the Lagavulin 16 Y.O. We were sampling the then "Six Classic Malts" whiskies which were sold as a gift set of nip size bottles (so wish they were still available.) Yes, they are all mammoth-corporation Diageo owned whiskies but they give a fairly good range of flavor profiles. But during that first tasting all I knew was that they were "scotch"; something I thought old men drank. The six expressions included:
- Glenkinchie 10 Y.O.
- Dalwhinnie 15 Y.O.
- Cragganmore 12 Y.O.
- Oban 14 Y.O.
- Talisker 10 Y.O.
- Lagavulin 16 Y.O.
Taste after taste my face twisted and wrinkled and I thought how could this possibly be pleasurable? Was it supposed to taste like medicine, burn the throat when swallowed, and not have any bubbles? After tasting all six, Amanda told us to go back to the one we liked the best. I found the Lagavulin wrapped snuggly in my hands. It tasted like leather, iodine, peat and smoke. Astonishing! I embraced my new found love and set out on a quest to learn more about whisky, to seek out bottles that were not the "every day" and to build a collection to share and experience with others. While I have more than 150 bottles and have traveled several times to Scotland, I am still working my way through Ian Buxton's 101 Whiskies to Try Before You Die. So much whisky in the world to taste. It is still a thrill to find a whisky expression not well known or available that awakens the nose, palate and finish! (And is not going to break the bank to buy.)
Many of us who use the word passion when discussing whisky – whether it is single malt, a blend, a bourbon, a rye, distilled in Scotland, Canada, America, Ireland, India, Japan – have stories on how the passion was ignited. For me, the fun of it all was behind my taking up the pen and writing my romp of a book, creating this blog, and tweeting out to all who will listen. Connecting through social media and from all points of the globe continues to fuel passion, expand knowledge and the pure joy of experiences with likeminded souls. We are not on the straight and narrow path. We are not trying to be labeled as experts but simply reaching out and sharing our passion and our whiskies. I still belong to "this group that drinks" – fantastically it is a worldwide group!
I thank you Amanda. I thank you Lagavulin. Whisky drinkers tell your stories!
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I do not usually do requests, but keen reader Phil Turner forgot to switch his TV off when Liverpool's FA Cup tie at Reading had finished and found himself mired in ITV's Saturday night schedule. He implored me to write something withering about the programme that followed the football, ITV's new dating show, Take Me Out, but I am finding it difficult to top Phil's own suggestion that the show be retitled Take Me Out and Kill Me.
On Phil's behalf, I watched the last half hour. It is essentially Blind Date for the binge-drinking generation, although even with my best drinking trousers on I doubt I could dull the senses sufficiently to make it mildly diverting. It is hosted by the stand-up comedian Paddy McGuinness, who seems personable enough without ever threatening to say anything remotely funny.
These are great times for stand-up comics. They are everywhere: travel shows, light-hearted quiz shows, Radio 2, Radio 4, car insurance adverts, Question Time, quality newspapers. Newsnight with Michael McIntyre surely cannot be far away.
Not that one begrudges them. Inventing funny stuff is a hellishly difficult, merciless business. It killed Tony Hancock and drove Richard Pryor, WC Fields and dozens of others towards damaging dependencies. The fact that comedians can now earn a good living, freed of the obligation to be funny, shows how we have grown as a society.
About Paddy's show, I cannot bring myself to write much. Thirty girls compete for a date with some publicity-seeking pretty boy. They are eliminated in stages and the last one standing gets to walk off with the doofus. It is as vacuous as it sounds but it is built on the same foundations as much of popular TV these days.
Most shows are a contest of some sort, working in three phases. Phase one is where we laugh at the no-hopers, the seriously deluded picked by the producers simply to be scorned. In phase two, we are invited to feel sympathy for the unfortunate ones, the semi-talented who just fail to make it to phase three, where the lucky winner is awarded "the opportunity of a lifetime" – to record an album of competently covered middle-of-the-road pop tunes for Simon Cowell or, in the case of Football's Next Star, on Sky last night, to sign a year's contract with Internazionale.
Seven thousand boys had been cut down to 10 by the end of last night's show. In phase one, the sniggering narrator had great fun with 16-year-old Ashley Green, "who is not asking if he's good enough for Inter, but wondering if Inter is good enough for him".
"He knows he can be big," Ashley's dad said. "Probably as big as Ronaldo, and probably earning the same sort of money. If he was approached by a Premiership club, though, he'd probably go for that because everybody has to start somewhere."
Predictably, Ashley was rejected, and lest we missed the joke we saw footage of father and son leaving. As the narrator, Seb Fontaine, said: "It is not so much Inter Milan as 'into dad's van'." Ho, ho. If you are going to break hearts, have some fun with it.
Another of the 7,000 picked purely for comedy value was a lad who looked like he might be more at home in one of those shows where Gillian McKeith hectors people into giving up crisps. "I'd compare myself to Mascherano," he said. "A bit aggressive, but can pass the ball." The Inter coaches helping make the selection – Marco Monti, who lost a little credibility by looking like he had wandered in from a Glenn Roeder lookalike contest, and Paolo Migliavacca – delivered the inescapable verdict: "Not a football player."
"Of the 7,000 boys who applied to be Football's Next Star, almost all have their dreams shattered," said Seb, somewhat unnecessarily, given that the format of the show demands 6,999 shattered dreams. By final whistle last night, the score was 6,990. The remaining 10 "move away from family and friends to stay in a stunning Italian villa by Lake Como" and train at Inter. Each week, one of the 10 will be put on the plane back home. So, shattered dreams fans, don't touch that dial.
The show is saved from being simply the theatre of cruelty by its presenter, Jamie Redknapp, who plays a blinder, pointing up the positive aspects of the contest and showing genuine empathy with the young hopefuls.
Finally, I heard Sven-Goran Eriksson on 5 Live yesterday say his project to bring Premier League football to Notts County is "on hold" – in which vein I should like to point out that my projects to bring a lasting peace to the Middle East, reduce the national debt and win this year's Rear of the Year are also on hold.


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Howdy! It's your disappearing writer here. Sorry for the extended absence, but it has been a busy few months. Among other things, I spent the spring and summer studying for my Certified Specialist of Wine exam and I passed. Yay! You can expect there will be more wine posts in the future.
I've also helped launch a new series of classes with the Wine and Food Foundation highlighting food and wine pairing at area restaurants. It has been so fun to work with local sommeliers and chefs to explore both classic and unusual pairings. Executive Chef Troy Knapp of Austin's Driskill Grill recently led a group of twenty Wine & Food Foundation supporters through a phenomenal three course tasting at one of our Perfect Pair classes.
Incredible food and wine pairings are usually a collaborative effort between a chef and sommelier as they each own a specific half of the equation, sharing some knowledge in the middle. Chef Knapp has an edge up on the pairing formula as not only is he an experienced chef, but he is a Certified Sommelier. He introduced our group not only to his wine acumen, as well as the new approach to the Driskill Grill menu which they unveiled that week.
All the pairings were spectacular, showing off two different wines with each plating, I was wowed by an amuse bouche of butternut squash soup paired with 2008 Domaine Huet, Le Haut – Lieu, Vouvray Demi Sec from Loire, France. While a sweeter wine is not usually my first choice, the Demi Sec harmonized beautifully with the butternut squash and made me long for fall.
The crowd favorite of the night was Chef Knapp's second course pairing of dry-aged Wagyu flatiron steak with a blind pairing of Temprañillo. Curious if the group could discern the Spanish Rioja (2006 López de Heredia Viña Cubillo Crianza) from a Texas Temprañillo (2012 Bending Branch), Chef Knapp had the group taste the two without giving a clue as to their origin.
About half the group placed the wines correctly, but everyone was a winner because the perfectly grilled beef and Bending Branch Temprañillo were a match made in heaven. The dry cherry flavors married well with the steak served atop a carrot puree, roasted beets, summer squash and huckleberry bordelaise.
Ending the night with a 2008 Royal Tokaji paired with a hazelnut torte guaranteed that everyone left full, satisfied and as devoted fans of Chef Knapp and his team at the Driskill Grill.
To learn more about wine and food pairing, join us for the Wine & Food Foundation's next Perfect Pair class class on Tuesday, October 20th at Arro or at one of Driskill Grill's pairing dinners, the next one on Tuesday, October 13th is with Master Sommelier Guy Stout. You can learn more about Guy Stout and his journey in the wine world in his interview with Levi Dalton of the I'll Drink to That podcast.


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I KNOW!!!!!!!!! I just watched yesterday and I am left in utter disappointment as I have been such a follower of Las Vegas! That being said, I really hope Speed is saved. Great attraction that does not deserve a death. Perhaps a more main stream location... and price... will give Speed a better life if it is to get built again. BTW, I look forward to meeting a lot of you this summer!!!


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So in love with that fringe bag! Looking good Mamma!ReplyDelete
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I love when I can put my winter clothes away…but I hate when the weather will be 70 one day and 40 the next and I pull some right back out…it's bad. I love that wrap sweater though! Pieces like that are so pretty!ReplyDelete
The wrap top is so perfect for your baby bump and I bet so comfortable!!ReplyDelete
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ahh wasn't this weekend just GORGEOUS?! I loved every min of it--totally wore sandals every chance I got ha!! You look just darling--loving these colors on you and that fringe bag is AH-mazing :)ReplyDelete
Doesn't Spring cleaning feel so good?! Awesome that you are doing it now before baby boy is here!! Those shoes are super sexy too fab lady!ReplyDelete
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Today we say farewell to our series of Intel-based Motherboard Memory Lane articles on HWBOT, having exhausted history's quota of Intel Chipsets from the Intel P965 platform to the present day. All of which leads us to the current mainstream Intel platform, the Z270 chipset that was in fact launched just a few months ago. The Z270 chipset arrived with a new Kaby Lake series of backwards compatible processors and the hope of improved overclocking capabilities. Let's take a look at the chipset, the processors and motherboards, plus a few of the outstanding scores that have been submitted to HWBOT.
Intel Z270: Overview
First announced back in August 2016, the new Z270 platform was officially launched in January 2017. The Z270 Platform Controller Hub (PCH) was designed as a direct replacement for the previous Z170 that had arrived in August of the previous year. Whereas the 100 series, (codenamed Sunrise Point) included six PCH offerings with Q-,B-,H- and Z- offerings, the 200 series used the codename Union Point and featured five PCH models; the Intel Z270, Q270, H270, Q250 and B250. All members of the Union Point family had specific feature limitations in terms of PCIe lane count and connectivity options. The Z270 remains the high-end model – boasting a full complement of connectivity it is the only family member that allows full CPU and memory overclocking.
A direct comparison of the Intel Z270 PCH and its predecessor reveals very little difference. In short the two main differences are that the Z270 platform offers 24x PCI gen 3.0 lanes direct from the PCH compared to 20x lanes with the Z170. One other new feature that end users can enjoy with a Z270 motherboard is support for Intel Optane Technology. The additional PCIe lanes can be regarded as Intel's acknowledgment that motherboard vendors were keen to expand support for faster M.2 drives, bringing more bandwidth to the PCH specifically for that reason.
The Z270 PCH uses the same DMI 3.0 interface that the previous generation enjoyed, offering data bandwidth between CPU and PCH of 8GB/s. Dual channel DDR4 support with default speeds of 2,133MHz (and increasingly, 2,400MHz) also remained unchanged, although DDR3 was no longer supported. Integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 allowed for three independent displays with HDMI, DisplayPort and DVI options. In terms of PCIe 3.0 from the CPU, the Z270 offered the same 1x 16, 2x 8 or 1x 8 + 2x 4 configuration options.
If you compare the connectivity and network options, the Z270 looks identical to its predecessor. You are getting support for a total of up to 14x USB 2.0 port and 10x USB 3.0 ports, 6x SATA 6Gb/s SATA ports, plus an integrated Gigabit Ethernet MAC and HD audio support. The Z270 is manufactured using Intel's 22nm process with dimensions of 23mm x 23mm and has a TDP of 6 watts.
Most Popular Intel Z270 Motherboards
Looking at previous Intel platform product eco-systems we found that ASUS and its Republic of Gamers branded motherboards were becoming increasingly popular with enthusiasts on HWBOT. An examination of the Z270 era further underlines that notion, proving that the company remains ahead of its rivals in terms of design and innovation. Let's take a look at the top ten Z270 motherboards in terms of score submissions on HWBOT so far:
- -ASUS ROG Maximus IX Apex – 17.51%
- -ASUS ROG Maximus IX Hero – 10.13%
- -ASUS ROG Maximus IX Formula – 5.94%
- -ASUS Strix Z270E Gaming – 4.77%
- -MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon – 4.27%
- -ASUS ROG Maximus IX Code- 3.41%
- -MSI Z270 Gaming M7 – 3.27%
- -ASUS ROG Strix Z270F Gaming – 3.22%
- -GIGABYTE Z270X Gaming 7 – 3.14%
Gone are ASRock and EVGA, two companies that we are used to seeing on this list. GIGABYTE did not perform so well in previous Z170, Z97 and Z87 platforms, and once again we find that they have only one board in the top ten with the Z270X Gaming 7 taking only 3.14% of all Z270 submissions, arriving in tenth place. MSI are doing reasonably well and have two boards in the top ten with a combined 7.54% of all submissions.
The leader of the Z270 pack is clearly ASUS who dominate the the top four and have seven boards in the top ten which collectively account for just over 49.23% of all submissions. The seven ASUS boards feature six ROG branded boards, again underlining the continued strength of a brand which spans several price points and form factors. Of the seven boards, the ASUS ROG Maximus IX Apex motherboard proves to be most popular with enthusiasts, featuring in 17.51% of all Z270 submissions so far.
The ASUS ROG Maximus IX Apex quickly established a reputation for being an overclockers dream at launch. With presets for various CPU and memory configurations, many of them configured by well known Elite overclockers, the Apex board came flying out of the traps at launch and has simply never looked back. The majority of Elite and Extreme overclockers on HWBOT who are breaking world records are using the Apex board, such is its dominance. It also used a unique cutaway PCB shape that gave it a very attractive and distinctive look. Here's what Tom Logan on overclock3d.net had to say back in January of this year:
"It's the ultimate expression of the ROG ethos, blistering performance allied to game-changing looks. We love it, and the relatively affordable pricing is just the cherry on top, which is why it is the first product that has won the OC3D Ultimate Award. The bar has been raised, a new standard has been set casting all that come before it into the shadows. ROG is back and it's back with a vengeance."
Most Popular Intel Z270 Compatible Processor: Intel Core i7 7700K
With the launch of Intel's 7th generation Core series processors, the company waved goodbye to the 'tick-tock' product launch cadence that it had previously used. Kaby Lake architecture processors were neither 'tick' nor 'tock', branded as an 'Optimized' architecture rather than a wholly new one. It was the first platform launched as part of Intel's new "process-architecture-optimization" model and was manufactured using the same 14nm process that had been used with both Broadwell and Skylake architecture processors.
Intel's 7th generation Core processors were led by the flagship Core i7 7700K, a CPU which retails today for $339.99 USD. In very similar fashion to its Skylake brother, the Core i7 6700K, it is a quad-core processor with eight threads. Each core is clocked at 4.2GHz with a maximum turbo frequency of 4.5GHz amounting to TDP of 91 watts, identical to Skylake. The increased clock frequency compared to the previous generation is without doubt the most appealing factor for most enthusiasts, offering a marginal performance boost over the Core i7 6700K at stock settings.
Indeed, as with most of Intel's' recent processor offerings, we find that the top SKU is both unlocked and the most popular model with overlockers. The Core i7 7700K is involved with 67.39% of all Z270 platform submissions. It's cheaper alternative, the Core i5 7600K registers with 16.62% of all submissions. Which brings us to the first ever unlocked Core i3 processor, the Core i3 7350K, a dual-core chip with hyperthreading clocked at 4.2 GHz that retails for a fairly reasonable $150 USD. It is responsible for 5.54% of all submissions, making it the most used Core i3 part on HWBOT ever.
In pure overlocking terms, the Kaby Lake architecture has indeed proved to be very popular. One metric that paints that story very clearly is the the fact that only 4.22% of all Z270 submissions use the previous gen Core i7 6700K Skylake part, despite being fully compatible. Kaby Lake is in some respects similar to Sandy Bridge – a processor that can really scale and produce higher clock speeds, even without exotic cooling. Indeed most Core i7 7700K processors can boost from a base clock pf 4.2GHz to to 5GHz without breaking too much sweat. Use an all-in-one water cooler, and you can push it even further. Features such as 'AVX offset' allow for improved stability at higher clock speeds and voltages. For most enthusiasts, 5GHz at 1.35v with DDR4-3600 is a reasonable and doable configuration. In terms of most world records on HWBOT, the Core i7 7700K remains the fastest in single threaded benchmarks and has the best IPC performance of any processor manufactured by Intel to date.
Intel Z270: Record Scores
We now take a look at some of the highest scores posted using the Z270 platform starting with the highest reference clock for the ASUS ROG Maximus IX Apex.
Reference Clock
Reference clock overclocking may not be the most important benchmark of the Z270 era, however it remains a reliable way to determine a motherboard's ability to clock highly. The highest reference clock submitted on HWBOT using a ASUS ROG Maximus IX Apex motherboard came from Polish legend Xtreme Addict. He managed a reference clock of 583.94 MHz using an Intel Core i7 7700K processor configured at 4,200MHz (Stock)
(8 x 583.94MHz).
You can find the submission from Xtreme Addict here on HWBOT: http://hwbot.org/submission/3415507_xtreme_addict_reference_frequency_rog_maximus_ix_apex_583.94_mhz
CPU Frequency
Although raw CPU frequencies are not really treated as true benchmarks, they remain an important performance metric for most overclockers. The highest CPU frequency ever submitted to HWBOT using the Intel Z270 platform and the ASUS ROG Maximus IX Apex came from Russian master slamms who pushed an Intel Core i7 7700K to a 7383.72MHz, a massive +75.8% beyond stock settings.
You can find the submission from slamms here on HWBOT: http://hwbot.org/submission/3412339_slamms_cpu_frequency_core_i7_7700k_7383.72_mhz
SuperPi 32M
Finally we come to the classic SuperPi 32M benchmark, an important benchmark in terms of historical relevance. The fastest SuperPi 32M run submitted on HWBOT using the Intel Z270 platform was submitted by futto-kun from Japan who completed a run in just 4min 14sec 469ms using an Intel Core i7 7700K clocked at 7,129.9MHz (+69.76%).
Here's a great shot of the LN2 cooled rig from GalaxOCLab:
Check out the submission from GalaxOCLab here: http://hwbot.org/submission/3508501_futto_kun_superpi___32m_core_i7_7700k_4min_14sec_469ms
Thanks for joining us for today's trip down Motherboard Memory Lane. Return in two weeks time when we will begin our historical examination of AMD platforms and motherboards.


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My family often prints coloring pages from the Nursery Manual for use in FHE. Some of the PDF files look great on the screen but then print with large solid opaque black boxes where the text should be.
For example, last night we used the PDF from Lesson 28 of the Nursery Manual. The coloring pages are the PDF links on the far right (direct link). This PDF shows the behavior described above.
FYI, we are using Windows Vista and the printer is an HP-P1006. I also tried "printing" to CutePDF and opening the resulting PDF, which also looks great but also prints the opaque boxes.
Has anyone else seen this?
Printouts have Black Boxes?
Discuss ideas and suggestions around the LDS.org website.
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I could not wait to get my (cake batter) sticky fingers on Kate Doran aka The Little Loaf's first cookbook, Homemade Memories released last week. I spent the entire evening it arrived pouring over page after page of delicious recipes with a large mug of steaming hot tea. I don't think I have ever had a cookbook before that I have wanted to make every single thing from it (homemade nutella – yes please! colin the caterpillar cake – may be the only birthday cake I will ever make again!). The photography, by Helen Cathcart is absolutely stunning, she has managed to capture every oozing ounce of sauce, fat dollop of cream and fragile crumb, each picture almost leaps off the page.
I thought that the first recipe I would make from the book would be something a little morecomplicated (homemade doughnuts) or saccharine (brown butter chocolate chip cookies). But in keeping with this gorgeous book I settled on something that fitted into life right now, that will become part of a whole, a larger memory remembered in years to come (partially) through baking.
In 11 days Dan will be taking part in the 40th London to Brighton bike ride. Having grown up on his father's stories of the years he participated, it has been something Dan has spoken about wanting to do our entire relationship. I am so proud of him for finally doing it, he has been cycling nearly everyday to train and is looking in the best shape of his life. If anyone is interested in donating (he's raising money for the British Heart Foundation – such a great cause!) his donation page is here. Instead of haribo or fluorescent blue sports gels for him to take on his rides, I made a big batch of Kate's Apricot Peanut and Sesame Flapjacks packed full of energy fueling nuts, seeds, dried fruit and oats. Cycling through the beautiful English countryside and the challenge of Ditchling Beacon will forever be intertwined with the sweet sticky flavour of brown sugar, honey and apricots with the light crunch of oats.
The smells wafting from my oven this morning were absolutely heavenly, comforting and sugary. It took a lot of self control not to break chunks off as I took it out of the oven. I managed to wait less than half an hour, until it set a little more before snapping a few quick shots and scarfing the largest slice with a big cup of tea. The recipe offers two baking options for the flapjack, longer and hotter for a chewy biscuity flapjack, or my personal preference shorter and cooler for a fudgier texture. By far my favourite addition to the recipe was the hint of citrus adding a bright note to the honeyed mix from zest of a small orange. What's left of little wholefood treats are now sitting, individually wrapped in my freezer ready to be grabbed before each training session and eventually the big ride.
First of many many bakes from @thelittleloafblog beautiful book Homemade Memories. Apricot, Peanut and Sesame Flapjacks (oh 54) for Dan's London to Brighton ride in just over a week. I'm so proud of him, he's been training almost every day! If anyone is interested he's raising lonely for the British Heart Foundation and I've included the link to his page in my profile (22/66 of my cookbook challenge)
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recipe by Kate Doran from Homemade Memories
100g butter
100g smooth or chunky peanut butter (I used this one which is my favourite brand and is 100% peanuts)
100g light muscavado sugar
4 tbsp honey
150g roughly chopped dried apricots
135g rolled oats
90g jumbo rolled oats
3 tbsp sesame seeds
zest of one small orange
- Preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan, line a 20cm by 20cm tin with greaseproof paper (unbleached is better). I used a
- In a medium saucepan combine the butter, peanut butter, sugar and honey over a low heat stirring until the butter has melted and all the ingredients are well combined.
- Add the chopped apricots to the pan and heat gently for 1-2 minutes to help soften the dried fruit slightly.
- Pour in the rest of the ingredients and stir with a wooden spoon until all the dried ingredients are equally covered with the warm buttery syrup.
- Carefully tip into your prepared tray and using the back of a spoon or a silicone spatula press firmly to create an even layer.
- Place in the middle of the oven for 25-30 minutes for a softer bake, or 10C higher for 30-35 minutes for a biscuity finish. When ready the flapjack should be golden around the edges and firm in the middle.
- Allow to cool to room temperature before cutting.


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It's no secret that Lake Tahoe is a great spot to ski, swim, hike, and vacation. But thanks to this little number from Carrie Richards Photography, we are now in the know. Tahoe is more than just a great family trip - it's a ultra special place to get married too. The moody, dark skies played against the deep, blue lake and it was magic. The beautiful florals from Bellissima Floral were the perfect compliment to the woodsy ambiance. The whole wedding, planned by Amazáe Special Events, was so perfect, it just begs to be swooned over. And swoon we will - here and in the full image gallery.
From Bellissima Floral ... Anne and Rob are a whimsical, fun-loving couple who met one summer working as camp counselors in the Sierra Mountains. After living together for several years in Lake Tahoe, pursuit of their careers moved Anne and Rob to the San Francisco Bay area. On a favorite lake-view hike during a visit to Tahoe, Rob proposed to Anne. When dear family friends offered to host the nuptials at their historic, lodge-style cabin in Lake Tahoe, Rob and Anne knew it was the perfect place to "Take the Plunge." An intimate autumn celebration for their closest friends and family was planned. Save-The-Dates were sent out: engagement photos of Anne and Rob dressed in wedding garb literally taking a plunge into the San Francisco Bay. On the lush West Shore of Lake Tahoe, 60 guests were treated to a full immersion experience of Rob and Anne's vibrant personalities, love for the outdoors, and a festive celebration.
Anne chose a warm saturated palate of oranges, wine, plum and gold. She wanted an intimate, seasonal, feasting feel full of dimension and texture. To honor the autumn season, she requested dahlias and wildflowers be layered with elements that speak of the time of year, such as artichokes, squash, sunflowers and rosehips. Anne loves dahlias and included them as a tribute to her father-in-law and his passion for cultivating dahlias in his garden.
The wedding day was full of amazing and meaningful nuances that were appreciated by all, many personally handmade by Anne, Rob, and their families. Anne and her sister made the escort cards, crafted from leaf shaped paper strung on colorful ribbon tied to the branches of a tree in the yard. Anne's mom and grandma fashioned paper chains to edge the ceremony pier, anchored to the pier posts with heirloom varieties of farmer's market pumpkins. A skilled woodworker and close friend of the couple made customized wooden signs to guide guests around the venue and down a wooded footpath to the ceremony pier. The wedding cake and cupcakes served for dessert were a favorite recipe that Anne's mom baked from scratch. The ale of choice served at the bar was Rob's own self-crafted homebrew.
The ceremony took place on a pier over Lake Tahoe. Cocktails were to follow in the naturally landscaped backyard, and dinner and dancing were staged on the cabin's wrap-around porch and deck. But, Mother Nature had a different plan. The day started out warm, sunny and blue. During the ceremony guests were treated to a seemingly painted backdrop of ever darkening clouds reflecting in the blue lake. The first drops fell as guests walked from the lake up to the reception. As the mountain thunderstorm came in strong, the celebration easily transitioned under cover. By no means were spirits dampened. Guests heard emotion-filled speeches over a farmer's market inspired dinner, served at glowing candlelit tables. Anne and Rob shared their first dance under strung bistro lights and a lovely, evening Tahoe sky.
Photographer: Carrie Richards Photography / Flowers: Sara Spurlock of Bellissima Floral / Event Planning: Crystal Laquang of Amazáe Special Events / Invitations: Brides Uncle, John Moniz / Venue: Private Home, Lake Tahoe / Linens: La Tavola Linen / Rentals: Event Masters / Wedding Dress & Bridesmaid's Dress: J. Crew / Rings: Tiffany & Co., Benchmark, Jerry Spaulding / Groom's Suit: Men's Wearhouse / Hair: Tara Morrisey of Bella Vita Salon / Makeup: Elizabeth Atkinson / Catering: Scott Yorkie / Cake: Brides Mom, Kathy Moniz / Cake topper: goosegrease on Etsy / DJ: DJ Paul / Wooden signs: David Worfolk / Escort cards: Bride


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You can apply this attribute to an assembly, interface, class, or structure.
By default, the common language runtime converts to ANSI characters any managed Unicode characters passed to an unmanaged method executing on Windows 98 or Windows Me. Best-fit mapping enables the interop marshaler to select a close-matching character when no exact match exists. For example, the marshaler converts the Unicode copyright character to 'c' for unmanaged methods that accept ANSI characters.
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Tired of seeing the same site you never click in your Google search results, time and time again? You can now remove it, thanks to Google's recently-launched SearchWiki tool. Available only to logged in Google users, you can now bump up a result or remove it entirely.
Of course, the modifications only affect your own future search results. However, others can see your activity, identified by your nickname--this is where the Wiki aspect really shines. Basically, it's the community that can come to a consensus about which results matter!
Personalized Search Results
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Google Goes Retro
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- By: Jacob CourtadeNov 22, 2008
References: googleblog.blogspot & bits.blogs.nytimes
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|Wind surfers in the don't need much depth.
|Last Keel-boat of the day racing the tide.
Norderney is the oldest tourist destination in Germany.
|May is still off season here.
|It was too cool for a beer,
|The only swimmer we saw.
|Old style change room.
|Rental beach chairs waiting for the summer rush.
We left the next day for Helgoland, just ahead of a weather front. Those that were just a few hours behind us got clobbered by a full gale.
Helgoland is a German Island in the North Sea. It is a natural stop off on the way to Denmark and Norway. It's claim to fame is that it is a tax free zone. The highly taxed Scandinavians keep it alive with their visits to stock up on fuel and booze. We pick up two 3 liter boxes of wine and a 3 liter box of French vodka for about $12 CDN each. On the downside we lost our wind vane off our wind steering gear when installing it. Sigh!
|Passat II on the seawall. Wind vane available at bottom of harbor in this location.
|Harbormasters office.
|Color in otherwise drab island.
|Interesting carving.
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After Foiled Terror Plot, U.S. Looks For Stronger Means to Penalize Iranian Regime
After foiling Iran's potentially murderous acts against Saudi and Israeli interests in the United States, the Obama administration is looking for ways to further penalize the regime, especially before it gets hold of possible weapons of mass destruction.
According to The New York Times, President Obama wants the United Nations to release classified intelligence that proves once and for all that they are experimenting with nukes. The administration is also looking at banning Iran's central bank, basically crippling its financial system.
With international sanctions barely pinching Iran's financial surface, a top Democratic lawmaker says the world community has to get more aggressive in stopping the regime's current trajectory.
"Iran is escalating, I believe, its nuclear development. Iran is increasingly hostile. They have not ceased supporting Hezbollah or Hamas or participating in the -- well, bringing of missiles and rockets into Lebanon through Damascus (Syria). It's a very dangerous situation," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee.
"If you project out a number of years, we are on a collision course. If we want to avoid it, we have to take action to avoid it," she said.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton told Fox News that allowing Iran to obtain nuclear weapons would make the ability to end that regime's terror efforts that much more difficult.
"Everything that's wrong with Iran today, the world's largest financier of international terrorism, for example, gets infinitely worse once they get nuclear weapons and they are very close to that point," Bolton said.
But Feinstein said going to war with Iran is not an option the United States should consider. Instead, "looking to stop bad behavior short of war" can be undertaken by several untapped methods, especially since sanctions are not having the intended effect.
"I don't think the sanctions have been as complete as they must -- as they should be. I wished they had sanctioned the central bank of Iran and that would affect oil and maybe that's why they didn't do it. But that makes a big difference," she told "Fox News Sunday."
Expecting some retribution for the alleged plot, which resulted in charges against two men, including an American and a member of the elite unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, Iran's supreme leader said Sunday that Iran is prepared to react.
"If U.S. officials have some delusions, (they must) know that any unsuitable act, whether political or security, will meet a resolute response from the Iranian nation," state TV quoted Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei saying.
Sanctioning the central bank would mean the U.S. black listing any foreign country or company that does business with the central bank. The effort is opposed by some foreign nations, including U.S. allies who pay the bank for Iran's oil.
Retired Gen. Jack Keane, one of the architects of our counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan, said the U.S. should go further and take military action.
"I would start retiring the Quds force who has been using these proxies to conduct actions against us. I would conduct covert actions against them and espionage. That means kill them and take their bases away from them," Keane said.
Feinstein said success in targeting the Quds force would be difficult because it's unlikely such an operation could be contained.
"It probably would escalate into a war, and the question is: Do we want to go to war with Iran at this time? My judgment is no. We have our hands full with Iraq, with Afghanistan, with the deteriorating relationship with Pakistan," she said.
According to the Times report, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has been shy about going public with Iran's nuclear pursuits because he doesn't want his inspectors banned from that country.
The Obama administration also is reportedly hesitant to go the U.N. route because of concerns that the U.S. has lost its credibility after the 2002 claim in the United States that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. No weapons were found in Iraq after the war began.
Nonetheless, the White House is talking isolationism.
"This president has been very focused on holding up Iranian behavior so that it is clearly seen by other nations around the world. And that enables us to work cooperatively with our international partners to isolate and put pressure on Iran in a way that has never really been achieved before," White House spokesman Jay Carney said last week.
Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich told CNN on Sunday that if he were in the Oval Office, he would pursue "replacement of the Iranian dictatorship with a maximum amount of effort to rouse" students, young people, ethnic minorities and other opposition groups. He said he would also "apply every possible economic sanction, including ultimately if necessary cutting off gasoline so that the regime collapses."
"They've been waging war against us since 1979. They think so. They plan for it. They kill us. They have plots around the world. They support terrorist organizations. And we -- at a strategic level the United States is absolutely clueless about what we should be doing," Gingrich said, faulting the current administration with disseminating "confused statements" about outreach to the Iranian regime while at the same time supporting regime change in Egypt and Libya.
"We have done nothing of consequence to systematically undermine this regime," he said. "This is one more in a 32-year process of waging war against us and is further proof of why we need to replace the dictatorship."


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Oakmark Funds lists average total returns on its website with tickers for specific ranges, including 3-month, year-to-date and 1-year, 3-year, 5-year and 10-year averages for each of the stocks in its fund, according to the company's website. It also shows the average annual total returns since the fund's inception and the inception date for each stock. In addition, the expense ratio for the individual stocks in the fund is displayed.


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To celebrate the brewery heritage of Shad Thames, STAMP (Shad Thames Area Management Partnership) will be welcoming two shire horses and a dray cart in Tower Bridge Piazza. Come along and meet these hardworking horses and their handlers.
There will also be a photo opportunity at approximately 2pm when the horses pass alongside Jacob, the bronze dray horse sculpture at The Circle on Queen Elizabeth Street.
Related website: www.loveshadthames.org
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Your baby is 3 months old, and you're finally looking thinner and more rested—but your curls have collapsed and you're losing locks by the handful. Welcome to life with postpartum hair. The good news? The problems are temporary, and there are easy ways to pump up volume and luster while your locks return to normal. (In fact, these tricks can help any woman have thicker, lovelier hair.)
Why the strange changes? During pregnancy, most women shed little or no hair because the body's suppression of androgens (male hormones) has the neat side effect of prolonging hair's growth phase. This hormonal change can also halt the production of sebum (oil). So by the last trimester, many women sport a mane that's more abundant than ever, with a slightly different texture. Fine, limp hair can seem fuller, because it's not weighed down by as much sebum; for the same reason, wavy hair may seem curlier and drier.
But once the baby's born, androgen production—along with shedding—resumes. Hair that normally would have fallen out during the previous nine months tends to start coming out now—with a vengeance. Doctors call this "telogen effluvium," and it can mean temporarily losing between 10 and 30 percent of your hair.
By the time your baby's about 6 months old, new hair growth replaces whatever was lost. This is when some women say their hair suddenly becomes grayer or more wiry. "That's because changes in color or texture, which might have been imperceptible over the course of a year, have been compressed into a shorter and more noticeable timespan," says Howard Murad, M.D., clinical professor of dermatology at UCLA.
During this growing-in phase, it may be tempting to try one of the dozens of supposed remedies for thinning hair. Some of them claim to optimize new growth by increasing circulation in the scalp (which you can do with frequent gentle shampooing and massage); others slightly increase hair-shaft circumference so that whatever hair there is seems fuller, if only for a short time. You definitely don't need a pricey product like minoxidil. "Remember," says Dr. Murad, "your hair is going to grow back naturally, on its own."


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Two successful technical reviews were held at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on July 9th. In the morning, there was a review of the Ares I-X Ground Diagnostic Prototype (GDP) task. In the afternoon, there was a review of the Exploration Technology Development Program (ETDP) Integrated Systems Health Management (ISHM) Fault Detection, Isolation, and Recovery (FDIR) task. The review team included representatives from KSC Ground Ops (including Bob Waterman), from Ares I (including Mike Watson and Stephen Johnson), from ETDP (including Dana Gould and David Korsmeyer), and from the KSC Launch Control System (LCS). The members of the review team asked many questions and provided some useful comments and criticisms. At the end of the day they gave both tasks Authority to Proceed (ATP).
BACKGROUND: Ares I-X will be the first uncrewed test flight of the Ares I Crew Launch Vehicle. Ares I-X is scheduled to launch in April 2009. The Ares I-X GDP task and the FDIR task are working together to produce a prototype ground diagnostic system that will be demonstrated during the Ares I-X pre-launch period at KSC. This demo will monitor the Ares I-X first-stage thrust-vector control (TVC) and the associated ground hydraulics while the vehicle is in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and while it is on the launch pad. Ares I-X GDP will model the TVC, while FDIR will model the ground hydraulics. The demo will combine TEAMS (a model-based diagnostic tool that is a commercial product from Qualtech Systems Inc., and was originally developed using NASA ARC SBIR funding), IMS (the Inductive Monitoring System, an anomaly detection tool that was developed at ARC by David Iverson), and SHINE (Spacecraft Health Inference Engine, a rule-based expert system from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory). The three tools will be deployed to Hangar AE at KSC, where they will be interfaced with live data from the Ares I-X vehicle and from the ground hydraulics. The outputs of the tools will be displayed on a screen in Hangar AE, which is the location from which the Ares I-X launch will be controlled and monitored.
The FDIR task is also developing an architecture for ground diagnostics, is planning to integrate this architecture with LCS, and is planning a demo which will monitor simulated liquid hydrogen loading in 2010.
NASA PROGRAM FUNDING: Ares I-X GDP is funded by Ares I "1%". FDIR is funded by ETDP ISHM
ARES I-X GDP TEAM: Mark Schwabacher (ARC, lead), Barbara Brown (ARC at KSC), John Ossenfort (EASI at ARC), Rebecca Oostdyk (ASRC at KSC), Charles Lee (EASI at ARC), Rodney Martin (ARC), John Wallerius (PSGS at ARC), Mark James (JPL), Pat Chang (JPL), Lawrence Markosian (PSGS at ARC), Martin Feather (JPL), Nathan Wood (KSC), Tim Taylor (MSFC).
FDIR TEAM: Barbara Brown (ARC at KSC, co-lead), Richard Nelson (KSC, co-lead), Bob Ferrell (KSC), Rebecca Oostdyk (ASRC at KSC), Matthew Pruitt (MSFC), Ellen Arens (KSC), Pedro Vazquez (ASRC at KSC), Emilio Valencia (KSC), Mark Schwabacher (ARC), Kai Goebel (ARC), David Hall (PSGS at ARC), Lilly Spirkovska (ARC), Ann Patterson-Hine (ARC), Martin Feather (JPL), Lawrence Markosian (PSGS at ARC), Michelle Amos (KSC), Ryan Mackey (JPL), Francesca Barrientos (USRA/RIACS at ARC), Steve Cornford (JPL)
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Showing once again the power of live sports in an age of DVRs and TiVos, television ratings for last night's championship game between Alabama and Notre Dame have been described as "astonishing," especially because the game was essentially over by halftime.
According to Nielsen, last night's 15.7 overnight rating amounted "to a 14 percent increase over 2012" and, more impressively, "17 different television markets across the United States had their highest rating ever for a Bowl game televised on ESPN (since calculations began in 2000)."
The game delivered strong ratings even though the numbers peaked midway through the second quarter. Of course, ABC panned the crowd for shots of Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron's girlfriend, Katherine Webb, in the stands. And the late-game scuffle between McCarron and his roommate and center Barrett Jones brought people back to the game, especially as viewers who had left the game found out about the incident on Twitter.
Last year's title game between Alabama and LSU generated a 13.8 overnight rating.
Advertisers continue to pour in money into live sports programming because they are guaranteed that people will watch the programs live instead of recording them for later or watching them archived online. This makes sports not only a revenue generator but also a more important force in the culture since Americans gather together and watch games like the BCS title game on a live basis and share common television experiences that have been steadily decreasing since the turn of the century.
Forbes thinks the fact that "television is stealing fans from at-the-game experiences should not be the biggest concern to schools, conferences and the NCAA":
In fact, some may view it as a positive trend. College football television rights agreements have included astronomical terms as of late, and a recent deal allows ESPN to broadcast the upcoming college football national championship system (including a playoff) through 2026. That deal was estimated to cost ESPN in the ballpark of $7 billion. Based on last night's ratings for what was mostly a non-competitive game, those numbers do not sound bad at all.
Photo credit: Katherine Webb twitter account.


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South Asian fest eyes dialogue with 'Firaaq'
Nandita Das' film tackles the 2002 Hindu-Muslim riotsRead a review of SAIFF opening film "Firaaq"
NEW YORK -- On the eve of the fourth annual South Asian International Film Festival in New York, Indian activist and actress Nandita Das, director of the opening film about Hindu-Muslim violence, called for the movies to act as a platform for peace.
Her film, "Firaaq" -- which means "separation" and "quest" in the Urdu language of Pakistan -- tackles the deadly Hindu-Muslim riots in India in 2002. It will screen Wednesday evening at the Ziegfield Theater in Manhattan.
In her own quest to bridge the divide between Muslim Pakistan and Hindu-majority India -- split at independence from Britain in 1948 -- Das traveled her homeland talking to students about identity, difference and acceptance of other religions, classes and sexual preferences.
"People were getting further divided and polarized, and I realized that the talks were not enough and that film was more powerful a medium to search for the truth and promote dialogue," Das told The Hollywood Reporter.
Without a single Bollywood song-and-dance film at the HBO-sponsored festival, Das said she hopes the U.S. audience will expand its understanding of her homeland beyond an interest in yoga and Steven Spielberg's new Indian finance partner, tycoon Anil Ambani.
"People are realizing that India is a complex country of many paradoxes. Films are a great window into those different Indias," Das said.
Reacting to Tuesday's kidnapping of Pakistani filmmaker Satish Anand in Karachi, Das called for calm until the facts around the kidnapping are known.
Anand, the head of Eveready Pictures, is a Hindu in Muslim-majority Pakistan and the relative of famous Indian actress Juhi Chawla.
Although Das does not know Anand personally, she called for calm because of the history of tensions between the two nuclear-armed nations.
"It's really sad, but whenever one small thing happens between these two countries India always blames Pakistan and Pakistan always blames India," Das said.
Its producer-distributor Precept Pictures will release "Firaaq" in India on Jan. 23.
"We should not assume it would generate a controversy but rather recognize that it is a human interest story that definitely will generate a conversation," she added.
Shilen Amin, SAIFF president, said that while sponsor HBO has not given much money to the event, it is offering winners of its short film competition a priceless opportunity -- to screen their entries on the cable network.
"They've recognized our potential and our growth and will give the young filmmakers we're supporting the chance of a lifetime," Amin said.
The festival will close Oct. 28 with Pakistani director Mehreen Jabbar's "Ramchand Pakistani," starring Das as a low-caste Hindu in Pakistan whose young son and husband are captured by Indian security agencies near the border.


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Also in this video we can see this amazing snare drum.more
In this article by [Music Radar](https://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/interpols-drum-setup-in-pictures-441016) detailing Sam Fogarino's drum kit, it says he uses a: > 14"x6.5" Black Beauty or custom chrome/brass snaremore
The wear-and-tear factor is also a plus. "He does not necessarily go through a lot of gear, whereas Travis [Barker] is always trying different snares and different cymbals and breaks a lot of heads, a lot of sticks. It's not that Eric doesn't hit hard, but Travis is the most destructive guy I have ever worked for."more
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This dog is a real-life Hairy Barker - and goes on motorbike rides dressed in full leather gear and goggles.
The motorcycle-loving hound called Milly is a regular sight speeding around the country lanes in jacket and helmet.
Milly, a Bichon Frise, dons the gear and hops into her specialised travel bag on her owner's bike when they go on adventures.
Retired plumber Paul Crossan, 39, first met "timid" Milly while he was looking for a canine companion for his camper van road trips.
She had been neglected by previous owners, but Paul, from Glasgow, says he "fell in love" from the moment he set eyes on her.


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ISRN Anesthesiology
Volume 2012, Article ID 169043, 7 pages
Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anaesthesia in the Paediatric Population
National Health Service (NHS), UK
Received 19 March 2012; Accepted 2 May 2012
Academic Editors: K. Higa and D. Karakaya
Copyright © 2012 Catherine Gerrard and Steve Roberts. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia is rapidly growing in popularity. Initially, most evidence was for the benefits when used in adults, but there is now a multitude of well-documented benefits in children. The practice of regional anaesthesia in children differs somewhat from that of adults in that in the majority of cases it is used for analgesia and performed under general anaesthesia to allow placement, rather than alone for anaesthesia as in adults. The purpose of this paper is to review the basic aspects of ultrasound regional anaesthesia before going into detail regarding specific techniques.


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Another amazing Christmas present from the Keith. He won our Christmas this year.
An 1868 Ulysses S. Grant campaign token made into a necklace. I love it times infinity.
I am taking a break from etsy business for the next two days. I will write more soon. I hope christmas or other holidays were good to you.


text: Lumex Inc. has released a line of high-power laser diodes that includes a selection of laser emitters in the 650- to 1550-nm range at various power outputs, as well as PIN photodiodes and laser modules. The modules feature integrated driver circuitry and built-in InGaAs monitor photodiodes. Applications for the devices include laser pointers, bar-code scanners and readers, telecom systems and medical devices such as diagnostic and surgical systems.


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Three races in to the 2014 NASCAR season and it has been exciting as all get out. Dale Jr. rolled the dice (never gets old) in Vegas and came up short, just a little bit and the Karate Kid Brad Keselowski took home the victory. There wasn't much of a shake up towards the top, but everyone else who hasn't won a race yet this year really needs to figure their shit out. Next week we head to Bristol for some good ole short track racing! Boogity!
This week – because he has a Karate Kid of his own, and because rumors are going around that he recently died on a movie shoot, he didn't we want to honor Will Smith. Remember, he didn't die, believe it or not some things on the internet are not true. Unless you read it here. Ladies and gentlemen, Will Smith.
1. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (LW: 1) – Men In Black
Jay: There's only one way off this planet, baby, and that's through me.
2. Brad Keselowski (LW: 3) – Independence Day
Captain Steven Hiller: I ain't heard no fat lady!
3. Kevin Harvick (LW: 2) – Independence Day
Captain Steven Hiller: I could've been at a barbecue!
4. Joey Logano (LW: 9) – Men In Black
Jay: You know what the difference is between you and me? I make this look GOOD.
5. Jimmie Johnson (LW: 4) – Ali
Muhammad Ali: Is that all you got?
6. Jeff Gordon (LW: 5) – Enemy of the State
Robert Clayton Dean: Conspiracy theorists of the world unite.
7. Carl Edwards (LW: 10) – Bad Boys
Mike Lowrey: Now that's how you supposed to drive! From now on that's how you drive!
8. Ryan Newman (LW: NR) – Hancock
Hancock: All of you people, blocking the intersection, you're all idiots.
9. Matt Kenseth (LW: 7) – Hitch
Hitch: I just know that I want to be… miserable. Like, really miserable. But hey, if that's what it takes for me to be happy, then… wait, that didn't come out right.
10. Kyle Busch (LW: 6) – Wild Wild West
Capt. James West: Actually, I was thinking I'd stuff your little half-an-ass into one of these cannons and fertilize the landscape with ya.
Honorable Mention
Paul Menard (LW: NR) – Bad Boys
Marcus Burnett: Hey man where-where-where's your cup holder?
Mike Lowrey: I don't have one.
Marcus Burnett: What the f- w'you mean you don't have one? Eighty thousand dollars for this car and you ain't got no damn cup holder?
Mike Lowrey: It's $105,000 and this happens to be one of the fastest production cars on the planet. Zero to sixty in four seconds, sweetie. It's a limited edition.


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Kristen Schultz Oliver, Exhale's Director of Programs
Over the years I have witnessed the profound impact of kind, compassionate conversation that has been taking place on the Exhale After-Abortion Talkline. These are rare and significant moments where Exhale counselors are safe harbors in an otherwise tumultuous sea of judgment and stigma around abortion. And in the time since the talkline started, counselors and staff at Exhale have been in the privileged position to make observations about the "big picture" regarding women's needs after-abortion.
We hear from thousands of women and men every year across this country, and while individual needs are unique and vary widely, there are some common questions we've heard. Some of our most often-repeated comments since we launched the talkline include the following:
"Am I the only one?"
"Does anyone else feel this way?"
"Do you know what it's like?"
"I wonder what other women do afterward to feel better."
Collectively these questions point to a need for women not to feel isolated in their abortion experiences. It's one thing for a counselor to say, "You're not the only one! 1 in 3 women by the time they're 45 will have an abortion – over a million women every year in this country…" etc. It's another thing entirely for the woman in question to understand this for herself – not just take our word for it – be able compare notes and share ideas with other women, some of whom likely know what she's going through, because they've been through it too. Yet the stigma surrounding abortion often keeps women's' voices silent and hidden from one another, and many do not realize that a friend or family member has also had an abortion and might be able to relate to them.
Here's the conundrum then: if you've had an abortion, how do you take that leap of faith and trust someone with your personal, private experience? You don't need to be a scholar of abortion care or politics in this country to know that it's not safe to talk openly about personal abortion experiences. It's a mine field out there! The status quo regarding public dialogue and abortion in this country is such a vile, vitriolic thing that it turns my stomach to think about it. Even people you think you can trust don't always understand – and it can be devastating to be met with complete incomprehension from friends and family, to say nothing of the name-calling and hate-spewing that happens in more extreme cases.
Exhale has been offering a vital alternative to that on our talkline, and the clearly identified need for women to share freely with each other steadily became a mandate for us over time. As a learning organization, we have always taken our responsibility seriously to not just observe but to adapt to meet the needs of our callers, and last year the time was ripe to put our pro-voice approach to the test in another forum. It was never a question of "if", only a question of "how" to achieve a new mission-centered goal: to provide women with a trustworthy place and way to connect with each other directly around their shared personal abortion experiences. The technology to make it happen is now easily available, inexpensive and user-friendly, which meant the need, our expertise and the tools all came together in a lucky convergence.
And thus the Exhale Online Community came into being!
But I'm skipping the critically important preparation that took place before it launched in 2009. We did not undertake the creation of the community lightly. Over the course of many months, Exhale learned from experts, conducted research, and consulted with attorneys so that we could provide the most supportive, respectful, private online place possible. We clarified and refined our core values, we articulated our guidelines for interaction with painstaking detail, we developed protocols for moderating the community, and we built the platform and decided on community features. Perhaps most important of all, we decided to offer invitations only to our talkline callers and ensured that admittance to the community was by application only.
Why all this intention, deliberation and caution?
In our experience, a sense of trust and safety is absolutely essential to having honest and candid conversation about abortion. We would be remiss if we did not proceed carefully and thoroughly, given our in-depth knowledge of what people are up against around abortion. We also know that most other online spaces for people to talk about abortion do not foster trust and safety. Elsewhere online the topic of abortion is dominated by political tangents, rude and impolite comments, personal attacks, slurs and offensive comments and all kinds of harassment. For us, we had to take every reasonable precaution against this and instead have participation be rooted in personal stories and a genuine desire to engage with others respectfully.
The result of all this hard work? Unimagined, awe-inspiring success, beyond anything we had dared to hope.
I'll explain: to begin with, success for us is first measured in the exceptional tenor and tone of interaction between community members. In order to evaluate that, we needed a generous volume of people joining the site at a steady yet manageable pace, with a high percentage of members contributing content. We also knew we were expecting people to interact in a totally different way about abortion, and not only did we call upon members to work with us in making the space as respectful and inviting as possible, we consistently modeled respectful behavior in our moderation.
As we referred callers to the community, they arrived in gradual waves, and from the beginning, community members' stories and comments demonstrate a willingness to embody pro-voice values and abide by the guidelines we set forth. With long and compelling individual stories being posted, there are many details for other members to read and respond to. Members take risks in sharing intense emotions and vulnerabilities with each other, and many posts ask for advice, input, ideas, and support. Replies are consistently warm, generous, helpful, kind – even affectionate! There are also the most amazing expressions of gratitude from community members to each other, and to Exhale for providing the space.
It feels incomplete to list all of this here and not provide quotes and examples to support my claims, but one of the non-negotiable values on the community is confidentiality. Preserving this is a fundamental priority for us, and it is strictly prohibited to share members' stories, experiences, photos or videos outside the community.
Such was my dilemma when I presented our findings at sex::tech 2010 in a panel on Innovation. I wanted to be able to share what we've learned about the community without violating the confidentiality we've worked so hard to maintain. Instead, I gave them, what I hope is, a sense of what it's like to participate in the community:
The best way I can describe it is like a "trust fall". This is an exercise in which one person stands in an elevated position and falls backward into a group of people who are expected to catch her. The falling person takes a risk and trusts that the group behind her will extend their arms and work collectively to keep her from crashing into the ground and hurting herself. One person alone could not bear the weight of the falling person – but when joined together, many people can catch her and remain strong.
The Exhale Online Community is like a trust fall to me. No one is dropped, and members are buoyed, held above the fray, embraced.
Moving beyond the analogy, Exhale is measuring our success in concrete terms, including this snapshot:
- 102 members in first 6 months (July 2009 through Jan. 2010)
- An average of 3-5 new members joined per week
- 64% of members contributed content
- Over 700 written posts (including blogs and comments)
- An average of 11 posts per contributing member
It was a fantastic opportunity for me to share about the community at sex::tech, especially given that this was the very first time Exhale was speaking publicly about it, and only on the first six months of operation. One big take-away: many of the questions I received were concerned with expansion and increasing access to the community:
"What are your plans for growth?"
"Can health care providers refer patients to the community?"
"When will you be opening up the community to significant others?"
"With only about a hundred members so far, you're barely scratching the surface. How do you intend to reach the over a million women each year who have an abortion?"
While the desire to have this kind of after-abortion support available to the masses is understandable, it's not our aim to make this relatively small community available to everyone who has had an abortion. We know that each woman's needs after an abortion are unique: some women will not need any special support after-abortion, others will find the support they need within their established network of friends and family, some will reach out and call our talkline for one-on-one support, and others will seek an online way to connect with other women. There is no one-size-fits-all approach.
For those seeking to create community around their abortion experiences, Exhale believes that the quality of conversation that takes place about abortion is paramount and must be well-established before we tackle quantity. That is where our focus has been, and that is where we have found success. Going forward we will take the lessons learned here – clarify positive values, establish guidelines for interaction, invite people intentionally, conscientiously moderate the space, start small, grow deliberately and purposefully – and continue to meet people's after-abortion needs as we understand them. This will always be based in people's real lives and individual experiences, with women's voices front and center.


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Media 100 to support Apple Intel-based Macs
Media 100 HD Suite, Media 100 HDe, Media 100 SDe and Media 100 sw will be qualified for Intel-based Mac systems in the early part of the first quarter next year, according to the company.
The Intel-based Mac development effort will increase the overall performance of the Media 100 systems by enhancing the editing and graphics creation process for Media 100 users. Media 100 plans to maintain backward compatibility with qualified PowerPC-based Mac systems.
For more information, visit: www.media100.com.


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Friday, June 25, 2010
Definitions for cakewalk
- Something easily accomplished.
- A 19th-century African-American tradition in which walkers performing the most accomplished or amusing steps won cakes as prizes.
- The music that accompanies such a competition.
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Citations for cakewalk
This will be a cakewalk, I tell myself, even though I'm up against a pair of convicted killers.
Though it may be baffling to consider, watching you grow up isn't necessarily a cakewalk for your parents.
Origin of cakewalk
The origin of cakewalk lies in the 19th century African-American tradition where a cake was given as a prize for the fanciest steps in a procession. The phrases "piece of cake" and "take the cake" may derive from the cakewalk.


text: On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz> wrote: > On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Bankim Bhavsar wrote: > >> I'm currently porting the sound code of our app from OSS to ALSA but >> this problem is preventing me from doing so. >> Is there any way to get around this problem? > > What's your problem with fork()? If our app is the first to start dmix then a copy of the process (app) will remain till the last application closes the share device. So our problem is not fork but fork without *exec*. Thanks, Bankim.