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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Peppermint Bark
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...Once upon a time there was a city that had a street that held a store that had a restaurant where the world's most beautiful Christmas tree stood. It happened that each year a parade was held to welcome a visitor from the polar region to the store that held the tree. Once inside, the old and red-robed guest held court in a kingdom where he had a throne surrounded by a train in which the young could ride, and an assembly of gnomes and fairies and candy canes that danced at his command. His council was sought by the well-dressed young and he was in great demand. There would, of course, be a private visitations, but before that could happen there were blocks of decorated windows in need of review, and a lunch to be had in that huge room with the magical tree. It was a day wondrous in every way and it is remembered so, even to this day.
My lovely memory of Christmas past was rudely jarred this past weekend and I'm putting Santa on report. I don't want to hear the world has changed or that times are different. Santa has clearly dropped the ball and some attitude adjustment is in order. What happened to the dress code? How can one pour out their collective soul to someone in pajamas and suspenders? That's not the worst of it. With a line that stretched clear to the high dessert, Santa decided to take an unscheduled coffee break, over and above the ones that are mandated by his union. The line, already packed with bored and tired tots, turned really ugly and Santa got exactly what he deserved on his return. I'm told photo sales for the day were down.
I needed something to sweeten my disposition after our outing and I had a new recipe for peppermint bark that I wanted to try. It uses light and dark chocolate and it sounded more interesting than the recipe I've been using. Bark is one of the easiest recipes in the Christmas repertoire. It is nothing more than melted chocolate into which peppermint candy is pressed. Over the years I've learned a trick that makes it really easy to make. Adding a 1/2 teaspoon of shortening to every ounce of chocolate makes it easier to spread. I'm told that butter or margarine, because of their water content, cannot be used in its place. Melted chocolate will seize if it comes in contact with liquids. Chocolate that has seized can sometimes be brought back by using shortening as well. I really like the new bark recipe and if you make candy for the holidays you might want to give it a try. Here's the recipe.
Peppermint Bark...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of ChefsCatalog.com
12-oz. high quality semi sweet chocolate
1 pound white chocolate (with cocoa butter)
1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
3/4 cup candy canes or peppermint candy, crushed
1) Place candy canes or peppermint candies in mini-food processor and pulse until in
small pieces. Set aside.
2) Line a 15 x 10 jelly roll pan with foil, letting it hang over the sides. Grease foil
with nonstick spray. Melt chocolate chips in a double boiler over medium-low heat.
Pour evenly into jelly roll pan and smooth with an offset spatula. Sprinkle with 1/4
cup peppermint candy. Place in refrigerator until cold and firm.
3) Heat white chocolate chips in a double boiler over medium-low heat until chocolate is
almost melted. Remove double boiler insert from pan and stir until completely melted.
Stir in extract. Cool slightly. Pour this over chocolate layer, and, working quickly,
spread to cover. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup crushed candy. Lightly press it in.
4) Chill until both layers are firm. Lift foil out of pan and shake off excess candy.
Peel foil from bottom of peppermint bark. Trim edges. Cut into 2" squares. Yield: 2 pounds.
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48 comments :
- Lenia said...
It looks amazing!Have a lovely day,dear Mary!
- December 6, 2011 at 2:15 AM
- Angie's Recipes said...
Beautiful and festive barks! Angie
- December 6, 2011 at 2:42 AM
- Alessandra said...
Mary, would you like a laugh? When I was reading my mouth dropped! Suspenders????
Then I went back to the photo... how could she see that he was a cross-dresser? And then I remembered that in American English suspenders are braces (British English), for us here in NZ suspenders means garter belt!
So now you can think that your Santa could have been even worse :-)!!!
- December 6, 2011 at 3:49 AM
- Katarina said...
Looks so delicious!
- December 6, 2011 at 3:57 AM
- Diane said...
Things are not what they used to be!!!
That Peppermint Bark looks quite delicious Mmmmm Diane
- December 6, 2011 at 4:48 AM
- Rambling Tart said...
I'm glad you had something so delicious to brighten your day after that fiasco. :-)
- December 6, 2011 at 5:05 AM
- Erika K @ Best Food Processor Info said...
I'm sorry to hear things didn't go well with Santa :( But hey, making peppermint bark wasn't such a bad thing in the end.
I'm also glad to hear about your tip on adding shortening to melting chocolate. We've had a few dessert disasters that probably could have been fixed with a tip like that!
Your bark looks delicious and would put anyone in a more festive mood.
Cuisinart 12 cup food processor
- December 6, 2011 at 5:09 AM
- Unknown said...
I understand, I can get so upset when things don't live up to my expectations. I do hope that beautiful bark cheered your mood.
*kisses* HH
- December 6, 2011 at 5:50 AM
- Alicia Foodycat said...
I love peppermint bark! I have to try this!
- December 6, 2011 at 5:54 AM
- Tanna said...
I am dismayed that Santa would show up in his PJs and then take a union coffee break!! Sad. Sad. Sad. So sorry, Mary.
The tree and the bark and the precious children are all delights to the eyes!! blessings ~ tanna
- December 6, 2011 at 6:35 AM
- Anna's kitchen table said...
Mary, I'm sorry you were disappointed with your Santa trip :-(
Your bark looks great.
- December 6, 2011 at 6:38 AM
- Sam Hoffer / My Carolina Kitchen said...
My feelings exactly about our "new" Santas. But of course your peppermint bark saved the day and who's day wouldn't be more perfect with chocolate and peppermints.
- December 6, 2011 at 7:02 AM
- Stephanie said...
Very festive. I'm loving the start of all the holiday posts I'm seeing.
- December 6, 2011 at 7:09 AM
- Margaret Murphy Tripp said...
Santa in pajamas?!! What a rip! Ah well, at least the peppermint bark is sure to perk anyone up! I've made it before and adore the look and taste of it. Appreciate the tip of adding shortening to loosen it up. Have a great day!
- December 6, 2011 at 7:17 AM
- Kim said...
This bark is perfect to feel the magic of Christmas for sure!
- December 6, 2011 at 7:23 AM
- Unknown said...
Suspenders? Really? I'm with you Mary - Santa not in a his jolly red suite? Something is seriously wrong. BUT, I do love love love peppermint bark, so I might be able to forget all about suspenders! lol
- December 6, 2011 at 7:37 AM
- What's next said...
Looks amazing, it may be on the list for a little party I'm having soon! Thanks
- December 6, 2011 at 7:37 AM
- Unknown said...
This would sweeten anyone's disposition - maybe you should send a box to that non-conforming, unruly, self-centered Santa!
- December 6, 2011 at 8:07 AM
- From the Kitchen said...
I just came across the last special shopping bag from that special store that held the most beautiful tree--SOB!! I'm going to hang it on the door knob as a reminder of what was and what should be. A piece or two of your Peppermint Bark would lighten my mood I'm sure.
- December 6, 2011 at 8:18 AM
- Priya Suresh said...
Bark looks super amazing and festive.
- December 6, 2011 at 8:19 AM
- Sue/the view from great island said...
Great story, Mary---you'd think with unemployment so high they could get their pick of top notch Santas!
I will try your trick with the shortening, especially with the white chocolate that sounds like it would be a help. I just love peppermint bark, it's my all time favorite.
- December 6, 2011 at 9:33 AM
- Clint said...
Santa was prolly takin' a break to get a little nip o' gin. You just can't get good help any more.
But seriously, taking the kiddies to see Santa can truly be a monstrous experience. Ha.
- December 6, 2011 at 10:13 AM
- Unknown said...
I am going to have to stop reading food blogs! I am so hungry right now!! =)
- December 6, 2011 at 10:21 AM
- Judy@SavoringToday said...
Peppermint Bark is about the only way to console one's self after a pajamas and suspenders Santa. Can't believe folks stood in line for that.
- December 6, 2011 at 10:52 AM
- Debs @ The Spanish Wok said...
Oh yum, your peppermint bark looks delicious and so colourful too.
- December 6, 2011 at 11:22 AM
- June said...
I would agree that Santa got and definitely deserved his just desserts. Your peppermint bark looks wonderful and once again, you've given me ideas.
- December 6, 2011 at 11:53 AM
- Terri @ that's some good cookin' said...
Peppermint Bark--oh the sweet memories. Santa in pajamas--seriously? That's one low class Santa.
- December 6, 2011 at 12:14 PM
- teresa said...
aw bummer! i'm sorry your visit to santa wasn't the best, and i agree, santa needs to be in his regular suit!
LOVE the peppermint bark, delicious!
- December 6, 2011 at 2:03 PM
- cocinamarroqui said...
Merry Christmas! Today, Morocco is the party of "Ashura". An equivalent to the Christmas party in the Arabic world.
A celebration of children, equivalent to Santa Clauss. Congratulations
- December 6, 2011 at 2:32 PM
- tasteofbeirut said...
That is one candy I always looked forward to for Xmas! why did I not try to make it? this recipe is going to be my guide!
- December 6, 2011 at 2:37 PM
lovely treat, yummo, so pretty!
- December 6, 2011 at 3:25 PM
- Ginny Hartzler said...
They need to hire another Santa! Of course, it's not the Christmas spriit to fire Santa, but nevertheless...
- December 6, 2011 at 4:11 PM
- Rachana said...
Beautiful and delicious barks.
- December 6, 2011 at 5:07 PM
- laurie said...
I just made a batch this weekend, but in Christmas tree shapes. Yours looks awesome!
- December 6, 2011 at 5:14 PM
- FJKramer said...
Dear Mary,
Nice to make your acquaintance. Lovely blog and I really like you sensibilities. I'll be back.
re the peppermint bark - I haven't tried it with shortening -- I'll have to give that a try.
- December 6, 2011 at 5:16 PM
- Erin @ Dinners, Dishes and Desserts said...
I know, Santa has gotten a little disappointing. Where we used to live he wore a Hawaiian shirt!! Seriously, that is NOT Santa. I am hoping in our new town it is back to classic Santa.
You can never got wrong with Peppermint bark though. I love all things peppermint in December!
- December 6, 2011 at 7:13 PM
- Bites from life with the barking lot said...
A coffee Break? Sorry it spoiled your day. Was driving through your neck of the woods over the weekend and would have loved to cheer you up with my new unhousebroken Great Dane puppy! Love your pumpkin pecan bread....consuming some right now!
- December 6, 2011 at 7:14 PM
- Cindy@NorthofWiarton said...
My mouth was watering as I read the method for the Peppermint Bark. My Auntie makes white bark every Christmas, I will share your recipe with her, as I am thinking she might enjoy it too. I pray Christmas & Santa is returned to us, in days long gone by when there was that twinkle in many of a child's eye.
- December 6, 2011 at 7:27 PM
- A Canadian Foodie said...
What beautiful photos - this recipe would blow Ghiradelli's Pepperment Bark right out of the park!
- December 6, 2011 at 7:44 PM
- Joanne said...
Pajamas? Really? what is THAT all about?
Your peppermint bark is needed to get that Christmas spirit back. Quick!
- December 6, 2011 at 8:39 PM
- hobby baker Kelly said...
Ah, that's too bad your Santa was less than professional. Glad you had a delicious treat to cheer things up. We do have a right jolly old elf Santa that wears red velvet knickers and suspenders with a patterned shirt each year and I've always loved him and thought that he was much less intimidating to the little ones than the big red suit. But everyone has their own personal preference. ☺
- December 6, 2011 at 8:45 PM
- kitty@ Kitty's Kozy Kitchen said...
At least you had a happy ending to your Santa saga, for the peppermint bark sounds wonderful! Thanks for sharing your expertise, Mary.
- December 6, 2011 at 8:47 PM
- GLENDA CHILDERS said...
I love peppermint bark . . . did it help get over the shock of a lazy Santa?
Merry Christmas.
- December 6, 2011 at 10:16 PM
- Claudia said...
I am now grateful for our Minnesota Santas with real beards,. proper North Pole clothes and twinkling eyes. I'm also grateful for your peppermint bark - it makes all things merry and bright.
- December 6, 2011 at 10:23 PM
- Christina Kim said...
Such a festive idea; and it looks amazing too!:D
- December 6, 2011 at 11:09 PM
- Amalia said...
I've been meaning to make peppermint bark for quite some time now, and this just pushes me forward to do it! It looks perfect :)
- December 6, 2011 at 11:56 PM
- AllThingsYummy said...
Oh No, Santa needs to get his jolly back.
- December 7, 2011 at 1:01 AM
- That Girl said...
What is up with the sketchy Santas this year?
- December 7, 2011 at 12:40 PM


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The last release candidate of KDE SC 4.4 is out. Following up the first release candidate, another number of bugs has been searched and destroyed. This releases fixes some problems found during the earlier testing phase, and acts as a last line of defense before KDE SC 4.4.0 will be released on February, 9th 2010. Please give this release another spin, report last-minute showstoppers to us using KDE's Bugzilla.
Good work and old machines
First of all, great work guys. The very few annoyances that were left in RC1 seem to be gone, this is going to be an amazing release.
Now I just really miss some way to make kde feel lighter and faster. I'm working in a very old machine P4 512MB RAM. Moved to fluxbox now and the speed difference is simply amazing, even though I use the same apps including many KDE ones.
Of course I understand KDE and fluxbox are very different beasts! That said maybe something like a more advanced version of the old KPersonalizer of KDE3 could help? This would be an application that lets you easily adapt KDE to your machine, turning off certain functionalities to make it lighter. It might be the case that I can already improve it in many ways by tweaking configuration. Maybe it is possible for me to make krunner to show almost instantly instead of taking a few seconds. But it's hard to know what to do and how. A dedicated app or control panel module could very useful.
Also if it case that some of optimizations would have to be performed at compile time, maybe it would be worth it to provide alternate packages (kde4light) and let this new KPersonalizer configure the desktop to use normal or light when adequate.
Anyway again, great RC.
By Jorge Adriano at Mon, 2010/01/25 - 12:38pm
> Moved to fluxbox now and
> Moved to fluxbox now and the speed difference is simply amazing, even though I use the same apps including many KDE ones.
Sounds like either:
Other then that, I can't imagine a reason why running the same KDE apps outside the KDE workspace happen to be any faster.
By vdboor at Mon, 2010/01/25 - 1:47pm
Heya. * Compositing is off
* Compositing is off and so is nepomuk
* Memory. Yes that's probably the main issue here, I agree. It is using swap all the time. However even with emacs and konsole and okular being the only apps running it feels quite slow. I'd expect 512MB to be enough for that so I'm not sure.
By Jorge Adriano at Mon, 2010/01/25 - 3:57pm
by the price of 10€ for 1gb ram , you should just buy more...
i got 8 gb ram and i dont care how much ram kde takes.
i think the focus shifted when you look @ the ram prices these days....
By wintersommer at Mon, 2010/01/25 - 6:55pm
Not always easy
It is not always an easy option to upgrade your RAM. Older systems, especially laptops, may be harder and way more expensive to upgrade than modern systems. That is, if the system supports the bigger/more memory modules at all!
IMHO, memory consumption should continue to be a focus of optimization. That will also make it easier to move applications to the mobile space, where memory is at a premium once more.
By andresomers at Wed, 2010/01/27 - 11:15am
Amen that. I sometimes got
Amen that.
I sometimes got tired of people saying: new hardware is cheap, just buy a new one.
- only americans earn money in dollars
OK, I HAD to say that, now I'm fine and happy again :D
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Wed, 2010/01/27 - 12:27pm
Compositing is off so I
Compositing is off so I wouldn't expect that to be the case, but have a 2nd hand geforce 6 which waiting for me to have some time to install it, so that might help me a bit.
As for identifying what slows it down not yet really, not without spending some time which I can't really afford rigth now. That's why something along the lines of kpersonalizer would be handy. It wouldn't have to automagically guess the optimal solution, but a bunch of settings grouped together concerning options that generally may improve a systems performance, could make it easy in many cases to find out the guilty parts by playing around with a few options.
By Jorge Adriano at Mon, 2010/01/25 - 4:05pm
Turning compositing off isn't
Turning compositing off isn't enough. When you change your drivers to plain 2D you will get additional speed boost.
Some programs are written... nonchalantly and are trying to get 3D effects even with compositing off, effects aren't visible or borked but resources are wasted.
By Mikolaj Machowski at Mon, 2010/01/25 - 6:25pm
krunner via DBus
Does it help to call krunner like this (shell command)?
(It has to be running for that to work - you have to call "krunner" at least once - i.e. at startup)
By Arne Babenhauserheide at Mon, 2010/01/25 - 2:54pm
Thanks for the tip, I will
Thanks for the tip, I will try it as soon as I log in to KDE in that computer.
By Jorge Adriano at Tue, 2010/01/26 - 2:34pm
kde is fast on my machine with 512 mb ram
i have one machine with an amd sempron 3000, 512 mb ram and ati radeon RV280 5960.
kde 4.3 on opensuse runs about as fast on the machine as on my laptop, which has better specs and 2 gig ram..
By whatever noticed at Mon, 2010/01/25 - 5:22pm
KPersonalizer and old hardware
From my experience KDE4 is not slow (actually it's fast) on old hardware, but it's occasionally slow on some hardware. When I had some problem it was usually somehow related to the graphic card/drivers (don't ask me details... :-)). I had KDE4 (4.0 actually) run beautifully and smoothly on an old samsung PIII notebook with 512MB ram. The desktops cube worked flawlessly ;-).
Now, all this is to say that KDE4 is not slow by itself (actually it's really fast for what it does), but, for some reasons unknown to me, its performance on some hardware appears randomly slow.
On another note, I fully agree about KPersonalizer. Why do we need it?
By klaus at Tue, 2010/01/26 - 12:12pm
I found that using KDE with a
I found that using KDE with a different window manager than kwin, really sppeds it up. But for the RAM part, I blame Plasma (sorry plasma guy & aargon).
I would like if KDE had a kind of slim build also, I would get rid of:
- Plasmoids (who cares about desktop fancyness when you can barely open 2 apps at same time?)
With those configurations, KDE would be much faster.. but seems like the KDE4 direction is to add more animations, graphic effects and such, not making the beast faster. Just look at the 4.4 release, there is nothing new for the user in the desktop, that are not new plaismoids, graphics, etc... Sad thing :-(
That said, I do use KDE4, I do like it, but it makes me sad that all promisse of faster KDE that Qt4 bought is just vanished by all those layers and effects added to KDE.
By Iuri Fiedoruk at Wed, 2010/01/27 - 12:39pm
May be you should stick to KDE 3.5 for a while ..
My machine is 5 years old and I there are some problems with performance, but not in the way you describe. Following the consumption of resources in Systemmonitor shows that the main problems are Kmail and Akregator. Both apps which have not been transformed to the new and shiny KDE4-technologies yet. As I understand it, both will be transfered to Akonadi with KDE4.5. So it is worked on, even though I wished the increasing speed problems in Kmail would be fixed for KDE 4.4.
By Mark at Thu, 2010/01/28 - 11:13am
you've confused Nepomuk with Akonadi, there have been large numbers of performance improvements, my name is Aaron not Aargon (i am not a nobel gas ;) but the most amazing statement you made is this one:
"Just look at the 4.4 release, there is nothing new for the user in the desktop, that are not new plaismoids, graphics, etc... Sad thing"
now go read this:
then come back and repeat what you said.
By Aaron Seigo at Wed, 2010/02/03 - 11:58pm
"Performance-Analyzer" for KDE4-Systemsettings
I am really looking forward to see KDE 4.4 final. I read that much good reports, that I installed some test-system to play with the beta-releases.
But I have to admit, that I have performance problems, too. For example the important task "ALT+F2" for krunner takes too long. In my office on KDE3, I use it duzend of times each day and I only have to think about "ALT+F2" to see it. This is not the case with KDE 4 any more.
But reading about performance issues and KDE 4 gives you thousands of hints from hardware to software, which you would have to test until you find the solution for your special hard/software combination.
To get once and for all times rid of these comments (you are reading right now ;) ):
Everyone who would post any comment on "KDE4 is soo slow", you simply point to the integrated performance check, which gives you only the hints for tuning, which help your spezial hard/software combination.
I am looking forward for any comments on the idea of an KDE specific performance tool.
By Jens at Thu, 2010/01/28 - 9:30pm
This is funny
I find it funny that devotees are now are complaining about speed, and also dare suggest that plasmoids etc should be optional, and I even see people get positive scores - amazing. Those of us who complained about bloat&slowmess at the time of 4.0, 4.1, 4.2... were ridiculd and told to STFU and wait for 4.n+1. So what changed?
As for speed, on my home "test desktop" for example, 3D OpenGL applications like googleearth flies along just fine, but moving around plasmoids is a sluggish and lugging affair. I find that just hilarious. I also have kde 4.3.5 on my eeepc-901 (2GB RAM), along with kde 3.5.10 - one is close to unbearable, the other runs excellently, guess which. And googleearth works fine on the eeepc as well (albeit with "atmospheric effects" turned off).
By kolla at Tue, 2010/02/02 - 10:00pm
"hose of us who complained about bloat&slowmess at the time of 4.0, 4.1, 4.2... were ridiculd and told to STFU and wait for 4.n+1. So what changed?"
personally i just got tired of dealing with it and have been busy actually improving things rather than spending time dealing with people complaining about things they have a cursory knowledge of. outside of people stuck with craptastic x.org drivers, it seems to be paying off for most.
"I find that just hilarious."
it's hilarious that x.org drivers are bad at accelerating (esp with Qt apps), but OpenGL calls to the hardware are fast? that's not hilarious. it's pretty sad and pretty much the status quo in x.org.
By Aaron Seigo at Wed, 2010/02/03 - 11:53pm
Thanks very much for the speedy release. Isn't it a day before it is due? I am going to do an update right away :)
By Bobby at Mon, 2010/01/25 - 12:55pm
Beautiful wallpapers
I was simply amazed today: my I.T teacher is now in love with the Macs at college and forgets how to use other machines (she's used to the multi-touch touchpad, and my Dell netbook obviously doesn't have that...), but today she said, "I'm going to change the background image, 'cause the one I'm using is a bit boring (basically all black with some pink swirls in the corners)."
Remember that design goal in Aaron's talk, oh so long ago? "We want the user to see a proprietary system side-by-side with KDE, and still say, 'I want that one!'." You're getting damn close. Maybe I should get a more attractive laptop... ;)
By madman at Mon, 2010/01/25 - 5:31pm
Thanks, This as been our goal since the beginning of oxygen, there is no reason we cant do better than the rest in that department, maybe we can do better, the trick is not giving up and improving a little bit every day, not all is done but I think overall the path so far is very positive. KDE sc is on a steady polishing path that will deliver an extremely mature and well designed desktop, wont from night to day and most people wont notece it, but as great Galileo said "E pur si muove" ( And yet, it moves).
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By wintersommer at Mon, 2010/01/25 - 6:56pm
Some bugs
Happy that you fixed the plasma panel crash, it feels much more stable :)
Please, pay extra attention to Nepomuk/KMail issue nr. 219687, because KMail must not be released unless it get fixed.
Keep up good work!
By szotsaki at Mon, 2010/01/25 - 7:58pm
KDE SC 4.4. Boo Yah! :D
Congratulations team KDE! 4.4 is looking like a shiny, sexy beast of a release. Everything is getting nicely polished.
Can anyone on an OS other than Kubuntu confirm if Dolphin's search box works for you? For some reason searching with nepomuksearch:/whatever in dolphin seems to work, but not using the searchbox. Weird.
Anyway, I am absolutely *loving* the new automount drives options combined with the lightning speed of Virtuoso combined with krunners in Kickoff. This is the power + integration I always dreamed of in KDE.
By Bugsbane at Mon, 2010/01/25 - 8:50pm
Nepomuk seach in Dolphin works very well on Archlinux.
By Mutlu Inek at Mon, 2010/01/25 - 11:37pm
You're not the only one with
You're not the only one with this problem. I've gotthe same problem (I'm using kubuntu as well)
By chris at Tue, 2010/01/26 - 12:10am
Fixed now
According to the bug report linked in the entry (of which this bug is a duplicate) it should be fixed for 4.4 final.
By Luca Beltrame at Tue, 2010/01/26 - 4:17pm
I hope...
...If finally the "1 activity per desktop" feature is fixed (bugged since KDE 4.3 RC1) because will be a very good KDE SC 4.4.0 release by the number of optimizations and new features.
By xapi at Mon, 2010/01/25 - 10:34pm
I don't know what it would need to be like for you to consider it fixed. It does work a bit better than in 4.3, but a major revamp is planned for 4.5, AFAIK.
By Mutlu Inek at Mon, 2010/01/25 - 11:39pm
If you enable the option
If you enable the option "different activities for each desktop" you will get new extra activities with default elements and/or as addition on every restart the order of activities linked to a desktop is changed using one of those new default activities.
You don't see that is needed that it mustn't create extra activities and not swap randomly activities?
The annoying bug was reported before the 4.3 release without a fix so this feature only can be used to "demostrate" what could do KDE4 activities but not much more.
To be exact is this bug report :
Currently I can't test it so If someone had verified it if still exist the bug will be helpful...
By xapi at Tue, 2010/01/26 - 2:01am
I agree. Activities was one
I agree. Activities was one of the features of the KDE4 series that was touted by the devs. For a while I could not see how they differed that much from the standard multiple desktops. However, once "per desktop" activities were introduced, I began to see the benefit and have used them ever since. Hopefully this will be somewhat stable when final is released, otherwise activities really aren't that useful for me.
Other than that, SC 4.4 is really nice.
By cirehawk at Tue, 2010/01/26 - 5:24pm
Superb release
Congratulations to all developers, bug triagers, translators, artists, promoters and usability experts who give us KDE SC! This is a superb release. Apart from a few minor bugs, it feels really stable and certainly much faster than 4.3. It's amazing how much better the software gets with every release.
By Mutlu Inek at Mon, 2010/01/25 - 11:43pm
Not everyone can add more RAM (Reply to wintersommer)
I should have foreseen that the login would drop the link to the original comment.
So either our favourite desktop environment has to run adequately or see itself being replaced. I am using an Lenovo IBM ThinkPad X61s with 1 GB RAM, currently with openSUSE.org 11.1 and KDE 4.1.3 - and I am considering taking Moblin for a spin when it is time to upgrade. I don't expect openSUSE.org 11.2 with KDE 4.4 to be faster than my current setup, because one keeps adding new features and daemons.
The road to new users is more bells and whistles with every release, so I don't have an argument with that. The issue is how easy it should be to adapt the new release to an older computer. I suppose ideally one should have a common codebase but two software compilations, a light-weight "moblin" version in addition to the full version.
By Kjetil Kilhavn at Tue, 2010/01/26 - 10:33am
Is it really KDE?
Is it really KDE that's slowing down your system? My brother has an IBM Thinkpad R40e running openSuse 11,2 and the latest stable version of KDE and he doesn't have a speed problem.
By Bobby at Wed, 2010/01/27 - 6:30am
phonon fix
Amarok stopped losing the sound device, so I can use it again! Many thanks!
By Arne Babenhauserheide at Tue, 2010/01/26 - 11:31am
or not... sorry.
or not... sorry.
By Arne Babenhauserheide at Tue, 2010/01/26 - 2:48pm
Printing and Dual-head support?
I know I've already asked the same question when KDE 4.3 RC3 came out, but has printing support been improved in any way in KDE 4.4?
The printing system in KDE 4.3 is, in many cases, lacking functionalities when compared to its 3.x counterpart. In some applications, printing is also somewhat broken - I've stopped using Konqueror in favor of Firefox because it was way too often unable to spit out on paper anything remotely similar to what's on screen.
A second question is about support of dual-head display systems. I'm using a Cintiq graphical tablet that includes a built-in screen, so this is a very important setting for me. KDE4 never worked properly with it - the 2nd screen would stay black with no KWin available. I ended up using another WM/DE on it, but that's merely a work-around. This is disappointing, as multihead worked very well under KDE 3.5.
Has any progress been done regarding support of such multiple screen settings?
By Lauwenmark at Fri, 2010/01/29 - 10:37pm
multiple screens work
multiple screens work reasonably well here, so something must be special about your setup. did you make a bugreport?
By Beat Wolf at Sun, 2010/01/31 - 1:30pm
Release candidate not stable?
"KDE SC 4.4 RC2 is not stable software, as such, it is not suitable for everyday or production use."
A release candidate is supposed to be a stable version that would become the release unless there are critical bugs discovered. Ideally the "release candidate" and the released version are identical. If it is not suitable for everyday or production use then it is a beta.
By André at Tue, 2010/02/02 - 2:15pm
Not yet
We define a RC as a release in which only critical bugs will be fixed. So it should be stable, sure but with so many applications in the KDE software compilation it is unrealistic to expect no bugs. Besides, we're just being cautious here.
If you're just releasing one application, like Firefox, it's not hard to do things the perfect way. What we do is not comparable to Windows 7 or even Mac OS X, as that have far less functionality. And we manage to release a steadily improving product every 6 months. Nobody beats us to that, so please give a little credit even if things don't completely live up to your expectations in terms of used words...
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Figure 2: The Metro UI in Visual Studio 2012.
Notice that the top menubar has also morphed. You now click on a word in capital letters to access a drop-down menu. We were told by Microsoft that this design is intended to push developers into the Metro way of viewing things. However, we found that application of the UI was highly inconsistent. For example, the configuration manager dialog box was essentially unchanged from the pre-Metro version used for years in Visual Studio (Figure 3).
Figure 3: The conventional configuration dialog.
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Additionally, APTA's comments submitted in September address MedPAC's various long- and short-term proposals to reform the Medicare therapy benefit. Comments Really? Huge cut and more admin burden! !!! Great job guys. Another job poorly done. Hey here's an idea... How about we work to decrease costs by eliminating the admin burden on practices that meet a performance threshold? Lets be honest nobody's looking at all this data were collecting for PQRS, why and at what cost is collecting more data? Functional measure a must, the rest is waste! Posted by Dan Fleury on 11/3/2012 9:05 AM the obama "death panels" are arriving as fast as hurricane sandy. the geriatric population will be given pills to control their joint pain rather than getting a new joint. remember---election day is only a couple of days away. Posted by robert on 11/3/2012 9:10 AM Wow, this is the future of PT. Medicare is the last of payers to move in this direction. All of the insurance companies have already done things like MPPR years ago. We as a profession need to realize that this trend is not going in the other direction, EVER! Unless we decide to do something real and powerful about it, not just writing letters to Congressional groups or insurance commissioners. Posted by Billy on 11/3/2012 12:45 PM wow Posted by Jonathan Casler -> ?FS]>M on 11/3/2012 12:46 PM death panels were a republican idea adopted in a a bipartisan bid via congressional committees ... that the Right wing rejected all their own ideas had more to do with their own legislative agenda as described by Mitch McConnell ("defeating Obama in 2012 is our number one legislative agenda item"-- january 2009). Remember, Bush and the Republican Congress of 2005 brought you HMO for medicare seniors underwritten by 500 billion in guaranteed profits. You may object to having your reimbursement cut, God knows I do, but at least I will have clients. Under HMO empowered Medicare I have no access to those patients. The election is only days away and a strong Democratic turnout is essential to ensure that the policies that brought us Donut holes, Medicare Advantage, Iraq and tax cuts for billionaires, etc etc. do not return. Posted by Jonathan Holtz on 11/3/2012 10:43 PM "Death panels" completely misrepresent the very reasonable idea of discussing end of life decisions in a rational and reasonable manner, BEFORE a crisis happens. Making such decisions early makes practical sense. Most of the health care dollars are spent in the last 6 months of life - with no obvious quality enhancement. Obama's idea makes very good sense. I agree with Dan, more assessments are a nightmare with no apparent PT application. If we spend all our time doing bizarre assessments, then who is going to help the patient get better? Posted by Jane Milliff on 11/4/2012 9:44 PM What I have learned: The character of the comments physical therapists leave on this subject is directly related to whether they: A) work in affluent areas vs. impoverished and B) whether these PT's (all credential abled health care providers) are employeed and may be naive. vs. selff employed and informed! Time has passed and the health care operations of the late 80's through the new millennium need to stop depending on the revenue $'s of Medicare and recognize that the only way to get commercial insurance to anti-up and pay better for HMO plans is to: CREATE COMPETITION FOR PROVIDERS TO WANT TO PARTICIPATE. The federal government through the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) will do this through the medicaid system by: 1) providing an incentive to states to mandate an expanded contributory insuance policy alternative to the employer based insurance industry that abuses care decisions delivered via an IMPAIRMENT model. 2) allow development of a health care delivery system using the INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTION model by the World Health Organization. This will creating fiscal solvency and the ability of small providers nation wide to tell commercial mafia insurance HMO plans that YOU DON'T NEED THEIR STINKIN CONTRACT TO SURVIVE! Medicare is keeps revenues upin afluent areas. And those in afuent areas don't want to offer health insurance to those who live in impoverished areas for being a CNA for their elder while they live a life away from that responsibility. .regarding this manner is Posted by David Bullock -> >LU`CH on 11/4/2012 10:01 PM Why did you reduce the cap and continue with it being combined PT with SLP? That make no sense. Rather, do away with the Medicare cap and place a heavier burden on medical necessity. As professionals, we need to be policing our own ranks. Posted by scott gibson on 11/5/2012 7:05 AM In the hospital arena a shared $1270.00 CAP does not cover the costs of providing care. The shared CAP was a result of a typographical error(which CMS has admitted) and was not intended to be shared by the writers in the first place. At least get rid of the shared cap. The reduction is severe and with the 1 on 1 requirement in the physician fee schedule, there will be many who do not make it with this payment. Posted by Laurie H on 11/5/2012 12:31 PM Really sad, we fight the nickle and dimes and miss the big picture. Experience and skill are ignored in the payment process, no one attributes the increase in costs to the aging population and their complexities, we are coming to a point where reimbursement does not cover the cost of one PT/PTA who is required to provide care let alone any overhead and to put the crowning star on the whole mess, PTs can't even opt out of Medicare. Posted by Leon Bradway -> AGQ^E on 11/5/2012 6:14 PM This is bad for patients and bad for therapists. Posted by Carol Barker on 11/7/2012 1:41 PM Can someone stand up and protect physical therapy profession? What kind of role is APTA playing in this issue? Posted by Wei on 11/8/2012 2:05 PM Yes, what is APTA position in this issue? How can we still provide quality Tx for our Medicare pts with such drastic reimbursment restrictions? I would love to provide charity care for them (because that is where it all is coming to), but I simply couldn't afford it because I have to pay rent, salary to all my employees, etc. So, pls APTA, give us specific answer here! Posted by Bella Kavalerchik on 11/12/2012 12:39 AM It does not appear that MedPAC took any of the APTA recommendations seriously. The rationale given to MedPAC by the APTA in Oct letter for not reducing the cap or considering MPPR seem to have been ignored or perhaps not even read. Posted by Betty Fackler on 11/15/2012 11:41 PM APTA members should be aware that one of MedPAC's recommendations was addressed in legislation that Congress passed on January 1 to bring the nation back from the "fiscal cliff." The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (HR 8) applies the multiple procedure payment reduction (MPPR) to therapy services at 50%, up from 20% for office settings and 25% for facility settings, beginning April 1. APTA is strongly advocating to fix this flawed policy. For more information, visit APTA's 2013 Medicare Changes: January 2013 webpage at http://www.apta.org/Payment/Medicare/2013/Changes/. Posted by News Now staff on 1/7/2013 2:07 PM


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Paired with the MicroTCA™ Starterkit, developers receive comprehensive visualization and management options
Eching, Germany, October 11, 2011 — Kontron announced today the introduction of its new application ready MicroTCA™ Starterkit which is operational out-of-the box. MicroTCA™ Starterkit includes the Kontron MicroTCA™ system OM6060 with AC-Power supply and an entry-level MicroTCA™ Carrier Hub (MCH) AM4901 together with the new Kontron MicroTCA™ configuration management software OMVIU. Kontron OMVIU delivers a Graphical User Interface for fast and convenient system configuration.
All Kontron MicroTCA™ systems are managed over IPMI. The MCH is in charge of this type of management: it checks electronic keying before booting-up the system; it controls the power, hot-swap cycles and fans. Also, IPMI allows monitoring the system, i.e. to check system event logs, monitor the health of the system and to take measures in case of problems. In order to facilitate system configuration over IPMI, Kontron provides the Kontron OMVIU graphical user interface.
Kontron OMVIU is a Java based tool and allows remote monitoring and control of MicroTCA™ systems on any Java enabled platform. The intuitive GUI allows the simultaneous access to several MicroTCA™ shelf or carrier managers. The product supports Kontron's entire AMC/MicroTCA™ portfolio and any standard compliant system (backplanes, fan units, power modules), MCH or AMC from other vendors. With Kontron OMVIU, all remote control and visualization can be done via mouse clicks, without the deeper level of knowledge and experience required for a command line interface (CLI).
"Kontron OMVIU supports an icon based visualization of the system and its states" says Irene Hahner, product manager in charge of the MicroTCA™ product line. "It is easy to learn and provides monitoring and tracing of events, error logging facilities, and corrective actions, all by visualization. This way, we aim to facilitate using state-of-the art managed systems for our customers and benefit from the better diagnostic coverage and system availability. On an entry level system, Kontron OMVIU allows users to become familiar with MicroTCA, in particular with respect to the MicroTCA's™ management and control capabilities. In combination with the hardware, the MicroTCA™ Starterkit provides a comprehensive package, which allows reducing project lead times and offers a cost optimized and complete set for evaluating MicroTCA™ and gaining experience with MicroTCA™ based applications."
The Kontron OMVIU graphical user interface helps to create remote controlled MicroTCA™ systems, including extensibility for vendor-specific recognition and graphical representation of extra boards and components. With its trace and error logging facilities it is possible to track behavior of components with respect to conformance to standards. During development, lab evaluation, and deployment, the remote system may be supervised with user notification on changes.
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Fiduciary die-hards will tell you that at the heart of the financial planning process—which has many steps—is the critical step and client deliverable of the investment policy statement.
The IPS, as it's referred to by advisors, records how client monies will be managed, along with guidelines and constraints affecting investment decisions and responsibilities.
CFPs Norman Boone and Linda Lubitz literally wrote the book ("Creating an Investment Policy Statement," FPA Press 2004) on the topic, and their IPSAdvisorPro has been the flagship software product in the financial planning field.
Now, that product may soon reach a much larger array of financial advisors with its acquisition by fi360, a leading fiduciary tools and training organization, which certifies fiduciary advisors through its AIF and AIFA designations.
Fi360 announced its purchase of IPSAdvisorPro on Thursday, without disclosing terms of the sale, and ThinkAdvisor reached out to Norm Boone to find out what the sale of his flagship product and life's work means for the industry.
"We've been thinking and writing about this this for a long time," says Boone, head of San Francisco-based Mosaic Financial Partners — "we" being him and his wife and business partner, Linda Lubitz Boone, head of Miami-based Lubitz Financial Group.
Boone wrote an article on the topic for the Journal of Financial Planning in 1992 and developed a product for Ibbotson in 1996 — "It was on an 8¼-inch floppy disk," he says — before he and Lubitz published their 2004 book and then launched IPSAdvisorPro in 2006.
"I've been doing this for 26 years, and Linda for a little over 20," Boone says. "And in our work with our clients, transparency became an increasingly important issue for us.
"We really believe that having a document that reports all of the agreements that we've made with the client about how we'll invest the money helps their level of trust with us and eliminates the possibility of unhappy clients because they'll get exactly what was expected."
Those benefits of the IPS clearly resonated with fiduciary advisors. Today, IPSAdvisorPro has some 700 to 800 users — investment advisory firms whose advisor head count totals close to 2,000 or 3000, Boone says. He adds that the number of individual or institutional clients using the IPS through the software is now close to 50,000.
But there is plenty of room for expansion, Boone says.
"Our greatest competition is 1) people not writing investment policy statements and 2) advisors using basically a word document, creating a template and filling in the blanks later on."
Boone says that latter approach has lots of drawbacks, including the likelihood of office mates (there are 19 staffers at his firm) not updating or messing up the template and the huge time and trouble it takes to input broad policy changes across all investment policy statements within the firm.
"If you buy new portfolio rebalancing [software] and you've got 150 clients, you need to go into each account and change each one of them," he says.
Apart from the time savings, consistency and efficiency, the IPSAdvisorPro keeps advisors' compliance officers happy.
"It relieves them of concern that [advisors] are making unwanted changes to the document."
Boone says compliance officers will have even more reason to be happy with fi360's acquisition, since the fiduciary firm has its own IPS tool, and Boone and Lubitz, who will serve fi360 as consultants, intend to combine the best features of both products.
"They have testing back end that allows the compliance officer to say, "You said you'd do X, now how has your performance been?'"
But perhaps the biggest benefit of the merger is fi360's prominent position in the fiduciary marketplace.
"They have a greater presence than Linda and I had," he says. Besides the untapped U.S. advisor marketplace, Boone says there is demand from the fiduciary communities in Canada, Australia, Japan, the U.K. and New Zealand, which fi360 is better positioned to meet.
The fiduciary training firm has been on an acquisitions roll, having acquired Ann Schleck & Co. and Financial Services Standards earlier this year.
"Most advisors haven't known what should go into an IPS. [IPSAdvisorPro] has given them a starting point," Boone says, adding that he is excited about where fi360 will now take it.
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As the world's biodiversity faces the incessant threats of habitat loss, invasive species and climate change, there is an increasing need to consider more direct conservation interventions. Humans have moved organisms between sites for their own purposes for millennia, and this has yielded benefits for human kind, but in some cases has led to disastrous impacts. In response to this complex aspect of conservation management, the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Reintroduction Specialist Group (RSG) and Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) have revised and published the IUCN 'Guidelines for Reintroductions and Other Conservation Translocations'.
Translocation is the human-mediated movement of living organisms from one area, with release in another. The updated Guidelines provide detailed action plans for the full spectrum of translocations, including re-introduction, reinforcement, and conservation introduction. The biological, social, and political ramifications are discussed and provide the starting point for risk assessment and feasibility studies.
Over the last 20 years there has been a significant increase in animal and plant re-introductions, and improved understanding of the scientific principles and practical issues associated with successful translocations. The RSG originally developed the IUCN Guidelines for Reintroduction in 1998, after the initial IUCN Position Statement on the Translocation of Living Organisms in 1987. These Guidelines were based on pioneering reintroductions such as the Arabian Oryx (Oryx leucoryx) in Oman, the Golden Lion Tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia) in Brazil, and the Red Wolf (Canis rufus) in the USA.
The updated Guidelines are a response to the multiple challenges facing species, and the resultant need to use conservation translocations to establish new populations; where the species used to occur; or to boost existing small populations; or to restore key ecological functions. Drawing on experience with invasive species, the new Guidelines also draw attention to the uncertainties and risks implicit in assisted colonisation – the action of deliberately moving plants or animals to areas outside their previous range, where conditions are predicted to be more suitable. To date, there are almost no examples of such assisted colonisation, although it has become a contentious issue in contemporary conservation.
Any conservation translocation must be justified, with development of clear objectives, identification and assessment of risks, and with measures of performance. These Guidelines are an essential tool for any proposed conservation translocation; they are based on principle rather than example, and offer a platform to make an informed decision about this increasingly common conservation intervention.
The Guidelines can be downloaded here.
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July 24, 2014—It Works!, a Palmetto-based consumer-lifestyle company, was recognized by the Tampa Bay Business Journal as Tampa Bay's top growing business. It Works! topped the charts in both the Percentage-based Growth category and in the Revenue Increase by Dollar Amount category at the recent Fast 50 Awards Ceremony. It Works! stood among 50 other growing companies in the Tampa Bay region.
"It is such an honor to receive two awards recognizing our hard-working corporate team and salesforce," says It Works! Founder and CEO Mark B. Pentecost. "It is encouraging to see the seeds we have planted come to fruition."
The Tampa Bay Business Fast 50 Award Ceremony took place on July 24, 2014, and allowed Tampa businesses to come together to celebrate each other's success.
Founded in 2001, It Works! is one of the fastest-growing consumer lifestyle brands and direct sales companies. Inc. ranked It Works! No. 436 on its Inc. 500 list for 2013, and the company is enjoying a 1047-percent growth over the past three years. It Works! offers a variety of daily-use, instant-results products, including its signature and unique It Works! Wrap, a contouring product that can tighten, tone and firm any area of the body in just 45 minutes. It Works! currently offers 31 health and beauty products in 18 countries, paying commissions to more than 90,000 independent distributors worldwide.
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Contact us here if you would like an alteration made to your order. Alteration costs are not included in pricing and will need to be paid in full before work can begin. Alterations void any return policy thus making it a final sale item. We cannot alter any discounted or sample sale merchandise.
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*GROUPE offers same day delivery in NYC if the order is placed before 2PM via Wynd Couriers on non-sample sale purchases.
*GROUPE typically ships orders same-day if it is placed before 4PM, M-F but under some circumstances, we may take longer. A confirmation email will be sent when your order has been shipped. GROUPE is not responsible for delays in shipping caused by the carrier.
*Special and custom orders usually take 4 weeks for delivery but can take up to 7 weeks depending on the time of year and fabric availability.
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