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Consumers used to waking up every week or so to news of yet another Internet security hole or data breach may be hard-pressed to understand why Heartbleed, the hole in the commonly used Web security software OpenSSL, is different. But it is: Such diverse and nonalarmist security commentators as Bruce Schneier, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Ars Technica, have all dubbed the bug "catastrophic."
"On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11," Schneier wrote on his blog yesterday.
So: What is it? How do you know if it affects you? What should you do about it?
SSL—for Secure Sockets Layer—is a protocol used ubiquitously on the Web to protect confidential user information in transit. This includes, but is not limited to, user IDs and passwords, credit card details, and other personal information. When you see HTTPS at the beginning of the address in your browser's address bar, that syntax indicates that SSL is in use to encrypt the traffic between your computer and the Web server at the other end. Increased used of SSL to protect the queries and messages users type into search engines, Webmail, and social networks so they cannot be read in transit has been an important part of the Web's response to Edward Snowden's revelations of endemic National Security Agency spying on Internet traffic.
SSL is based on public key cryptography: that is, each server using it has a pair of complementary cryptographic keys that are authenticated by a certificate issued by a trusted authority. Material encoded with the public key, which may be disseminated widely, can be decrypted only by the private key, which is kept secret, and vice versa. When you communicate securely with such a server, your browser first checks the server's identity by checking the certificate. If the browser trusts the certificate, it sends back a message using the server's public key. The server then sends back a digitally signed acknowledgement, and a secure session begins. You can see details of this authentication by clicking on the little padlock that appears next to HTTPS in your browser's address bar. To be useful, SSL has to be implemented in software that in turn is incorporated into a bigger product such as a Web server. The most common such implementation is OpenSSL, used by approximately two thirds of the Web's servers.
Heartbleed is the result of a two-year-old programming error that allows an attacker to trick a system running OpenSSL into undetectably revealing the contents of the server's system memory. At a given second these may be anything—a user name and password, a credit card number or, most damaging, the server's private cryptographic keys. Many well-known sites are affected, including Yahoo! (and its subsidiaries Tumblr and Flickr), the dating site OKCupid and the anonymizing browsing system Tor.
A breach like Target's in December 2013 was comparatively simple. Its reach was huge—DatalossDB.org puts the number of compromised records at 110 million—but the boundaries are roughly known. Consumers know whether they were at risk, and so do business partners such as suppliers and customers. By contrast, Heartbleed is a hole in a piece of fundamental technology that millions of individuals and businesses worldwide have trusted to secure systems ranging from retail Web sites to mail servers, and because there is no way to know what information may have been copied, the exact scale may never be clear.
Fixing the problem is a multi-stage process: site engineers need to patch their server software (which may require waiting for their vendor to provide the patch), revoke their old certificates and keys, and issue new ones. Therefore, say experts such as the anti-virus company Sophos, changing your password before this work is done won't make you less vulnerable, although you may wish to do so anyway. If you do change all your passwords now, make sure to go back and do it again as sites are fixed. You should, however, change immediately passwords on other sites that are the same as the ones you've used on the affected sites. Consider using password managers like LastPass, 1Password or Password Safe to make it easier to generate random, unique passwords—to do so they require you to remember a single (long! complicated!) passphrase.
In the longer term, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is pushing sites to adopt Perfect Forward Security, which would eliminate attackers' ability to use sites' private keys to read data they've stored up over the last two years.
The "Heartbleed" Internet Security Flaw: What You Need to Know
Here is what you need to know to understand the problem and how to respond
Consumers used to waking up every week or so to news of yet another Internet security hole or data breach may be hard-pressed to understand why Heartbleed, the hole in the commonly used Web security software OpenSSL, is different. But it is: Such diverse and nonalarmist security commentators as Bruce Schneier, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Ars Technica, have all dubbed the bug "catastrophic."


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Through the use of volunteer moderators this at one stage worked effectively to help keep users safe so you could enjoy your chat.
We had a great group of dedicated moderators as well as dedicated spammers and trolls. Unfortunatley although the majority of moderators tried hard we also had our fair share of power abusing moderators who also attributed to ChatWorlds fate.
This caused myself and Jay many headaches and we discussed the possibility of closing down the chat site and concentrating on other matters & projects. We kept ChatWorld going and going because we love the idea of freedom of speech and being able to safely chat anonymously.

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Homer resident, Mrs. Janice Lynn Smith, 65, died Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, at South Peninsula Hospital in Homer.
Memorial services were at noon Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, at the Homer Independent Baptist Church, 3614 Forest Glen in Homer. Pastor Glen Harbaugh officiated.
Mrs. Smith was born Aug. 26, 1947, in Blythe, Calif. She moved to Homer in 2005 from California. She worked for Patterson Foods in Patterson, Calif., in the 1970s. She worked for various medical facilities including Turlock Medical Center and Rose Garden throughout the 1980s. In the 1990s she worked for TOPA Management Company in Clayton and Stockton, Calif. Most recently she has been helping with her familys motel business called the Windjammer Suites in Homer. Janice was a member of the Homer Independent Baptist Church. Janice received recognition for her life saving actions that were performed on a senior citizen in need while in Thousand Oaks, Calif. She loved doing crafts, reading and playing games.
The family wrote, Janice was loved by all who knew her. She was an exceptional mother, grandmother and an exemplary wife who will be greatly missed. She was generous of her time and good cheer and always helped those in need. She was quick to laugh, share stories, and enjoyed conversations. She cherished her family and was devoted to each one regardless of the miles that separated them. Family, to her, was every person that touched her life in any way. She loved deeply and it showed in her words and actions. We are better for having had her in our lives. She was a devoted Christian that shared her faith at any given opportunity and we know she is rejoicing in Heaven with loved ones who have gone before and if there is a Wahoo marble game (a family traditional game) being played up there, she is definitely playing.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Homer Waldrip and Cecilia Bates.
She is survived by her husband, Russell Smith of Homer; son, Robert Daniel and his wife, Jennifer of Delhi, Calif.; daughter, DeAnna Daniel of Modesto, Calif.; sisters, Judy Holtz of Modesto, Calif. and Dana Price of Delhi, Calif.; brother, Jay Bates of California; stepmother, Roberta Waldrip of Blythe, Calif.; grandchildren, Noelle and Khrys Daniel of Delhi, Calif., and Bryan Daniel of Modesto, Calif.; extended family of one son and threedaughters and many grandchildren, other family members and numerous others who will all miss her.
Arrangements were by Homer Funeral Home.
Janice Lynn Smith
Homer resident, Mrs. Janice Lynn Smith, 65, died Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, at South Peninsula Hospital in Homer.


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A friend of mine sent me an e-mail following my note, saying:
"It may be a better play for you to remain as the guy who doesn't like it. Seems like you're somewhat known for your anti-twitter stance at this point. "
Ha. I don't know if I'm known for much, but I won't be holding this contrary position simply for the sake of being the devil's advocate. So, what did my readers recommend I do? Let's take a look!
Points in favor of Twitter:
1. Stories first break on Twitter.
2. It's a good networking tool.
3. You can dictate how you use it.
4. It's not noise if you follow the right people.
5. It offers a live pulse of friends' lives.
6. It's another way to exchange ideas and communicate.
7. It can be used as a journal or notepad.
8. You can follow local people.
9. You can directly interact with bigwigs.
Points against using Twitter:
1. At times it's completely useless.
2. Complete failures under peak load.
3. It looks like a tool for egomaniacs.
4. It's full of life's minutia.
5. It requires too much attention.
6. You can miss conversations.
7. People ego stroke.
8. People post like they have ADHD.
9. Micro-conversations about everything and nothing.
Looks fairly evenly split down the middle. Those who like Twitter say it acts as a backchannel for the blogosphere. Those who hate it see it is as useless nonsense for people already too full of themselves.
Beyond the wealth of comments on the article, many took the time to write their thoughts in detail, which impressed me. I don't know if that's a factor of Twitter's popularity, a good topic, or simply the fact that once it hit TechMeme, everybody wanted to be part of the conversation. Needless to say, below are some of the best reactions:
Tech Confidential: Why use Twitter? Because it's there
Oliver Thylmann: Why I Use Twitter
Clunky Flow: If blogosphere = conference main hall, then twittersphere = buzzing side halls
Ugh!!'s Greymatter Honeypot: The Twitter Debate


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The following is a list of common suggestions (in whimsical order) compiled to make it easier to find relevant threads to the topic you want to discuss.
Feel free to contact me through PM / IRC if you think that a topic or thread that should be in the list is missing.
Also includes suggestions that are not promised core features but on Josh's Want list. (but not "commonly proposed")
Below this post you will find a few pointers on how to present your suggestions in a way that gets them the attention they deserve.
Not every topic will be listed here. The Search Function has it's quirks but it does work very well.
Sounds / Voice acting / Music
Music and sound
Voice Acting - Crowdsourcing?
Voice synthesis?
In game juke box and custom soundtrack
Soundtrack for the game
Story / New game+ / Death / Difficulty
Story setup for beginning a new game
Some kind of (interesting) New Game +
On Death: Continue as new pilot?
Ship System Targetting & Piracy!
Perma death
Difficulty, Gameplay & Other ideas
Galactic lore and prodecural history? Some ideas.
Dont Make Being a Newbie Too Hard
Storyline generation
Production / Resources / Mining / Economy / Trading / Cargo transfer / Fuel / Supply
Storage Space
Resource Gathering
Towing Cargo
Limited fuel and ammunition and the supply thereof
Making mining fun
Agents/Information brokers
Black Market
Mechanics of cargo transfer, trading, and scanning cargo
Procedurally generated building materials
Bounty Hunting/law enforcement
Varied Ship Materials for Different Races
Illegal Goods
Travel / Navigation / Exploring
Nebulas, Black Holes and other Galactic Things
Time acceleration vs. super cruise / in-system jumps
Interplanetary Highways, Trade Lanes, Acceleration Gates
Interstellar Travel, Wormholes, and Jump Drives
Infinite Space and Travel
Autopilot Ideas
A few ideas on Navigation and Explorationinterplannetary space
The look of the formation interface.
Mechanics of formations / following / escorting
Do we get to name things we discover?
Exploration and scanning
The Road Taken... Ideas for mapping your personal universe
Flying a capital ship (controls)
Flight Model / Control Feels Wrong
Playership Flight Controls Post v1.1
Space Stations
Station Details
Space Station layout
Space Stations - Building, Care and Nurturing
Planets / Planetary interaction
Planet Terraforming
Procedural Cities on Planet Surfaces
Space to Planet transision
Planetery ownership
Buildings on planets and what not
Planet-based play
Planet Ownership
Discover Planet Locations (on planet POI)
Planetary Movement
Destructable Planets
Rogue planets
Space to Surface combat
Crafting and Ground Structures
War, Conquest, Occupation
Orbital Defense Platforms
Asteroids / Stars / Space things
Galactic things reimagined
Stars and Such
Destructible Asteroids - Can we do it?
Dynamic Asteroids
Procedural Backgrounds/megastructures
Seeds / Factions / A.I. / Artificial Life / Missions
Grand seed; and ulterior seeds.
Procedural A.I.?
Free riders
Migrant fleets and mobile bases
Factions + Civilizations Suggestions
suggestions for the universe
Character/seed selection
Universe names
Universe Tech-level Setup
Emergent multi-part missions, quests and epic stories
Bosses / End game content / Super Weapons
Galactic Threat!
Death Star
Huge Huge HUGE Things
Lan based multiplayer?
Mumble / TeamSpeak integration (for multiplayer)
IRC (or xmpp) chatroom!
Limit Theory Objects and Names catalog
LT site / Wikipedia / Community / other internet related suggestions
Home page of LT
Export Charts
Forum universe mapping
Handy Thread of LT relevant links for game design aspects.
Forum Moderators
Help with forums - suggestions
Streaming development.
Kickstarter / Post release content / Beta / Funding suggestions
Extra Donations.
Unreached Stretch Goals in Later Versions?
Adding a Pay-Pal Function to the LT Website
LT Goodies
Custom Ships for Kickstarter Goal
Extended funding for stretch goals
Limit Theory Shirt
Handling of alpha and beta
Post release wish list
Split from: Thanks for Your Suggestions! I Read Them!
MOD Support
Texture Packs for LT
Room modding (future release)
Modding Cockpit / UI
Support additional hardware / platforms
OUYA Support and Procedural Narrative
Oh yea!? Can we get this game on OUYA?
Oculus Rift 3D Support
Ship design / editing / customization
Ship classification
Starship style (graphical)
Edited Ship Blueprints/ Mass Production
Ship editing (Anyone played Aurora?)
Handling ship builder limitations
Windows and other stickers
Making the Borg a reality with carriers!
Hollow pieces
More light on the ships and stations
Ship Profiles, Angles, Curves and Symmetry
Ship subsystems
Tech / Skill system / Leveling
Tech Progress Mechanics
Researchable Tech
PC Skill System
Crew skills, hiring, management, gameplay opportunities
Capital ship command and Crew experiance/readiness/drills
Fleet and Follower Loyalty/Competency
Technology tree ideas draft
Universe Tech-level Setup
Fleet command / RTS interface / Carriers / Orders
Fleet orders
advanced planning and other suggestions
RTS Map Mode
Fighters and how to make capital ships feel big, Wake Field
Carriers: Internal vs. external landing, Towing ships
Tactical Interface Demo
Hangars and repairing docked ships
Joint Node Editing (UI)
Combat / Stealth / General Balancing
Balancing Ship Design and Faction Diversity
Balancing small vs large ships
Decoy Drones - distraction instead of cloaking
Diplomancy after fights
strafe firing
Sensors, Scanners, Stealth and A.I. Perception
Targeting System/Overview
Pirating, Boarding, Capturing of Ships
Connecting detection, sensors, and energy settings
Weapon Types / Weapons
Weapon Statistics / Mechanics
Mines. The kind that goes boom.
What about dropping Mines or Bombs during Dogfights
Weapon Limitations?
Weapon safeties, dealing with friendly fire
Stream Weapons
A Way to Make Loads of Missiles
Ship destruction and subsystem damage
Dynamic ship destruction
More unique; effects to damaged or destroyed sub systems.
Explosions, Extended Impact & Damage Effects on Ship Models
Visible Damage
damage detail and affecting gameplay
advanced planning and other suggestions
3D Avatar
Spacewalks, Getting out of your vehicle
Ship Interiors.
Player character being "on" a station
UI / Cockpit
Immersion and Monitor Support
Tactical Map and Ship Orders UI
Chatting with other space peoples
Color Blind mode
Loading screens
Your Friendly and Helpful Board Computer
Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:02 pm
Suggestions about Suggestions
Ideas and suggestions are a very important part of game design but sometimes an otherwise great idea is overlooked because it is not presented well.
Since the line of volunteers was surprisingly short, I figured I'd write up some tips on that.
Mind you, these are not rules.
Trying to regulate creativity would be the dumbest idea ever.
All of these are merely suggestions which may improve the odds of your feature sounding cool enough to catch a developer's attention. That's why you went to the trouble of writing it up, no?
Since the line of volunteers was surprisingly short, I figured I'd write up some tips on that.
Mind you, these are not rules.
Trying to regulate creativity would be the dumbest idea ever.
All of these are merely suggestions which may improve the odds of your feature sounding cool enough to catch a developer's attention. That's why you went to the trouble of writing it up, no?
- Do not worry about topic necromancy.
If an existing but old topic deals with the area of your idea or something very close to it, do not be afraid to resurrect it.
Ideas have no Best-Before date.
- Use the Search Function. (yeah, you saw that one coming)
Many great ideas have already been submitted. If you can improve upon something or have a great alternative way of handling it, we want to know.
Having several alternative solutions all in one place makes it much easier to take the best parts of all them and design an even better game feature from there.
If the "good bits" are scattered across 5 different topics discussing a similar issue, some inevitably get lost. We do not want your ideas to get lost. Do you?
- If there is no existing topic, don't hesitate to create a new one, either.
Just make sure your topic title describes what you are talking about. This is your topic's business card!
By editing the first post you can also change the topic name at a later time.
Posting a topic like "A few suggestions" in a suggestion forum with several thousand posts... now that's not going to get a lot of attention.
Something meaningless like that doesn't make anyone curious about what you have to say because it's obvious that you didn't spend a lot of thought on it.
- Don't be shy.
Correct spelling or formatting are nice to have but they do not make a boring idea interesting.
Good idea is good.
- Be descriptive.
You have this awesome image in your head about how exactly the feature is going to work? Well, *I* don't.
Explain. Show me.
What controls or menus are you using on your imagined keyboard? How and where are these guns attached to the ship? Can they move? How fast? What's happening if an AI ship does that thing?
It also helps a lot if you do not only describe what you want to do but what you want to achieve by doing so. Very often this goal can be achieved in ways you hadn't imagined.
If you only tell someone that you want to do that, well, that's that. But if you tell him the desired outcome, you make him try to come up with a solution, too.
Such a degree of detail may be understood as insulting in a normal conversation but in feature suggestions it's the best way.
- It doesn't matter if this or that would have to be present in the game for your idea to work. That's someone else's job.
Play the game in your head. If your game feature feels right, it's all good. You don't have to worry about balance. (but it's a plus if you do =)
- Break it up.
If people see a 10+ line paragraph, many just skip it entirely. Too long, did not read.
If you change the subject even slightly, insert an empty line, then continue. (See what I did?)
That makes your post much easier to read and understand.
- Tell me what other cool things I can do with that feature!
No, it's not obvious.
Maybe your idea is a brilliantly simple concept that the AI can use to appear smarter and more "human"? Point. It. Out.
Your readers are not stupid but they are not inside your head, either. Most of 'em anyway.
- Do not be afraid to edit the first post if you think of something new or someone else has come up with something awesome on page 3.
Take it and run with it! This is a team effort. You don't get a prize for having the awesome idea. It's us who get the cool game feature!
- Familiarise yourself with how the BBCode formatting works.
It's not rocket science and a few simple clicks can help you create a good looking post. By creating a good first impression, you can more easily get people to actually read it.
On the screen where you post or edit something, there is a link to the brief summary right under the rows of smilies.
The LIST code has many uses. You can even use it without creating any actual bullet points. Then it only indents the entire enclosed text / paragraph
- like
- like
- If you use links to reference existing suggestions or images, please use text descriptions instead of just copying some gibberish URL into your post.
It looks a lot more professional if people can see what a link is about.
- Example 1, Example 2, Don't Try This At Home, Kids
By sorting your thoughts and breaking a concept up into categories and sub-categories, you let the reader deal with one snippet at a time.
By keeping the reader engaged, you get a lot more feedback about facets of your idea that you hadn't even considered.
Just imagine for a moment how these example posts would look as one continuous paragraph! Would you read that?
If you're creating something extensive, use multiple posts. That creates more structure and you (and readers!) can directly link or bookmark individual posts.
This isn't about driving up your post count or bumping a thread. It's just a lot easier to read and understand.
- And last:
This is the real world. The chance of your suggestion being implemented is a lot better if you figure out a way to create a new feature with a tiny tweak to an existing mechanic... instead of suggesting an entirely new framework for UI, models, and gameplay.
Example 1, Example 2 (not quite as close)


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Symeon Papadopoulos (Chair)
CERTH, Greece
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Rene Kaiser (EiC)
Know-Center, Austria
Yuhong Liu
Santa Clara University, USA
Thomas Gottron
Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Symeon Papadopoulos
CERTH, Greece
Christian Timmerer
AAU, Austria
Steering Board
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HP Labs, USA
Symeon Papadopoulos
CERTH, Greece
Christian Timmerer
AAU, Austria
Bulletin Board
Suman Deb Roy (EiC)
Betaworks, USA
Content Curator
Symeon Papadopoulos (pubs)
CERTH, Greece
Ramesh Jain (SLN blog)
University of California, Irvine, USA
Ralf Klamma (misc)
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
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Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
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Penn State Altoona, USA
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EURECOM, France
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Facebook, USA
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Gut Healing for Beginners
Welcome + PRE-Module - Prep for your journey
Welcome to Gut Healing for Beginners + Course Overview + PRE-Module (1:10)
My Story, the Short Version (6:04)
You Today + 9 Signs Your Gut is Unhealthy + What's Holding You Back? (9:16)
Gut Healing Fast Track + PRESSing On + 3 Pillars for Ultimate Gut Healing (12:29)
Working Backwards + Before We Start + Things You'll Want Ready Before Beginning (3:27)
What is the Microbiome? (71:31)
Week 1 - Mindset + Vision Board
Why Start Here? + 21 Best Tips If I Were Starting Over Again (10:39)
How Mindset Changes Gut Healing + Gut Healing Mantras (5:09)
Vision Board + Create one in a Day + Share (4:20)
What is a Vision Board and Why Make One? (4:51)
Types of Vision Boards (21:38)
Making Your Vision Board List (15:17)
Vision Board Materials (10:18)
My Personal Vision Board (2:39)
Vision Board Wrap Up (1:09)
Week 2 - Journal + Lifestyle + Diagnosis
The Journal + Who Needs a Gut Healing Journey Journal? Creating Your Journal + How to Use My 90-Day Gut Healing Journaling System (63:09)
What the heck is "lifestyle" anyways? + Lifestyle Buckets (1:43)
Sleep, Supplements (13:46)
Personal Care Items, Home Cleaning Supplies, Makeup, Skincare (14:00)
Workouts, Stress (13:45)
Work / Career, Therapy, Around the Home (7:04)
Where you're at today, what you already know + Gut health vs. gut healing (7:03)
Why Does My Stomach Hurt {and How to Reset Your Gut} + Root Cause Analysis (13:14)
Symptoms, Conditions, Bristol Stool Chart (6:04)
Free Testing, Common + Overlooked, What Testing is Like, Colonoscopy and Endoscopy, SIBO Test (12:00)
Testing Costs + 9 Steps to Building Your Team (8:01)
Western or Alternative? + General Practitioners and How to Fire Yours (26:04)
BONUS: Step-by-Step, Legit Diagnosis (16:07)
Week 3 - Diet
Start here first, 14 things to know, your digestive system (13:02)
Allergy vs Intolerance, Food Lists, Gut Healing Foods (4:14)
Which Diet to Choose? (14:58)
How to Read Labels for Gut Health, Using the Journal for Food/Lifestyle on a Daily Basis, BONUS! (13:52)
Troubleshooting symptoms, Bloating, Constipation, Diarrhea (10:35)
Reintroducing Foods (9:57)
Week 4: I Believe You!
What you're experiencing is real, thoughts (4:47)
People and relationships (6:50)
Connect back to the beginning (2:20)
Bonus Module
Candida 101
Leaky Gut 101
Celiac 101
Reflux, GERD, + Heartburn 101
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Chocolate Chip Cookies
28 comments:
- AnonymousFebruary 24, 2009 at 4:56 PM
Those look like the yummiest chocolate chip cookies...ever! Even better than the ones that Betty Crocker helps me bake. I just might have to try these ones. I'll have to sample the first batch before I give any to my family, though!ReplyDelete
MeMeMeMe..... Me wanna cooooookie!!!!!! Nummy nummy nummy!ReplyDelete
Do you have to show the close up photos of the finished product??? *drooling* geez, Jill....ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 24, 2009 at 6:22 PM
Oh my heavens Jill! You would totally post this on Fat Tuesday when I have decided to give up sweets for the next 40 days! But I think I will make them for my 30th birthday! :)ReplyDelete
Those look obscenely good!!ReplyDelete
Are these a GIVEAWAY????? They look amazingly good......thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
OH My Goodness !!!!! Thank you!!! Thank you !!!! For these yummy cookies.Will be making them soon...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 24, 2009 at 8:42 PM
You're seriously trying to get me to fall off the diet wagon aren't you!!!!!!ReplyDelete
hello, cellulite? prepare for visitors. mama's making you some chocolate chip cookies.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 8:31 AM
I love all the chocolate chips!!! Yum!ReplyDelete
YUM! I'm hungry. I agree did you really need SUCH closeups! They look delicious!ReplyDelete
WOW those do look like the BEST chocolate chip cookies EVER!!!! I LOVE all the choc. chips in them! Can't make them though cause I would eat ALL of them!!ReplyDelete
Yummy! And I LOVE the way you add the chocolate chips. I smell cookies in my near future. And I was just thinking earlier this morning I needed to make some for my secret pal as they are her favorite. Thanks for sharing such an awesome recipe...will let you know how they turn out. :)ReplyDelete
those look so crazy-good! don't tempt me!ReplyDelete
I really need some of those. Those are so yummy looking cookies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
YUMMY and so cute. Love the recipe card... you are good. :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 25, 2009 at 4:08 PM
Wowwie! Those are the best looking chocolate chip cookies I've EVER seen! I will definately have to make some of those. Thanks for always sharing your recipes. I love your cooking!ReplyDelete
I admit to beating the crap out of my eggs, thanks for the tip! Also...do you use regular flavored shortening or the butter flavored???ReplyDelete
I wish those cookies will appear in my cupboard....ReplyDelete
Ok, I am SO going to make these! Heck I don't even like CCC's (I do have a thing for the dough though) but these are absolutely gorgeous! My family is going to go crazy for these for sure!ReplyDelete
I had three sick babies to take care of today (my two kiddos and my husband) but I still managed to make these cookies today! And OH.MY.GAWD. These are SINFUL! The best I've ever had. Thanks so much! YUM!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 28, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Jill...I did make these YUMMY cookies a few weeks ago, but I have a question. How do YOU store them? With all those wonderful chips on the outside, I found that some of the chips would fall off in the ziploc bag I keep them in OR the chips would get a little smooshed. How do I keep my pretty chocolate chip cookies pretty? (I guess by not storing them in an ugly old ziploc bag is a good place to start!! :) ) THANKS...Erin Blair from www.stampwitherin.typepad.comReplyDelete
- Wandria SmithApril 23, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Jill... I am so grateful for finding your blog!! I just ruined a whole batch of chocolate chip cookie dough. After reading your blog, I realize the three things I did wrong. First, i used baking powder instead of baking soda. My cookies turned out white because of this. I also beat the hell out of my egs, and mixed the dough way too much. Come to think of it, it did taste like cake batter. Last, I used butter instead of margarine. I also notice that the recipe I used only calls for 3/4 cup of brown sugar. Lucky for me, I have everything I need at home to try again!ReplyDelete
those look beautiful!!ReplyDelete
Your chocolate chip cookie it making me drool... Tonight is my first time reading your blog and I am totally hooked, from you great organization ideas to your lovely digi scraps to all the lovely recipes and treats. Thanks so much...ReplyDelete
Well I just made these cookies. While my first pan didn't turn out like yours, the second one did. For my oven it was 14 minutes when the cookies started to brown. They are delicious! thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Wait, one question. In you pictures it looks like the butter soft but also a little melted. Is it supposed to be melted or just softened to room temp? Thanks!
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE these cookies. I made another batch, this time doubled, last night. I put reese pieces on one dozen.l I've found my very FAVORITE recipe. Thank you so much for sharing!ReplyDelete
Question -- What kind of flour did you use? I used pastry flour and my cookies didn't turn out chewy at all. I had to bake them until crunchy in order to get them to brown, and when I left them soft, they were super grainy. I also used dark brown sugar, but I don't think that should've affected the consistency.ReplyDelete
I ran out of large chocolate chips and ended up mixing mini chips with crushed Andes mints.. turned out delicious! :)


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KEEFER, THOMAS COLTRIN, engineer, author, and businessman; b. 4 Nov. 1821 in Thorold Township, Upper Canada, eighth son of George Keefer* and Jane Emory, née McBride; m. first 27 Sept. 1848 Elizabeth McKay (d. 1870) in New Edinburgh (Ottawa), and they had three sons and four daughters; m. secondly 26 June 1873 Annie MacKinnon, née McKay (d. 1906), in Rockcliffe (Rockcliffe Park), Ont.; they had no children; d. there 7 Jan. 1915.
Like his elder half-brother Samuel Keefer*, Thomas Keefer was born to engineering. His father, through commercial association with William Hamilton Merritt*, was first president of the Welland Canal Company. In the 1820s and 1830s the Keefer children, and there were 14 of them, grew up immersed in the ceaseless activity, disasters, and tentative triumphs of frontier canal building.
Keefer received his formal education at Grantham Academy in St Catharines and Upper Canada College in Toronto. Upon graduation in 1838 he worked as an apprentice engineer on the Erie Canal in New York State, at the time the leading project on the continent for schooling engineers. From 1840 to 1845 he practised as an assistant engineer on the Welland Canal, which was then being reconstructed with public money. Through the influence of Samuel, who had become chief engineer of the Board of Works of the Province of Canada, Thomas was appointed engineer in charge of the timber slides and river improvements at Bytown (Ottawa) in 1845. Four years later he was transferred to the St Lawrence River improvements, on which he would work for about two years.
Keefer's marriage in 1848 to Elizabeth McKay, daughter of Thomas McKay*, a legislative councillor and one of Bytown's wealthiest landowners and industrialists, brought him the financial security necessary to preach and practise engineering in a fractious environment. The McKay fortune, which Keefer administered following his father-in-law's death in 1855, meant that he would never have to scramble for work. He could, when occasion required, be above the political jockeying for place in an engineering community riven with jealousies and conflicting ambitions. But he was not by nature a bystander. He fervently believed that the prosperity and spiritual well-being of the population would be wonderfully advanced if technology could be applied to the abundant resources of the country under a wise commercial policy – and he was impatient to proceed with a minimum of political interference or financial trickery. Above all, he maintained, Canada needed transportation improvements. The St Lawrence pointed the direction westward. It was for man to improve upon this avenue with the new technology of masonry, steam, and iron. But this goal would require concerted effort and public investment. These convictions formed the basis of the two pamphlets published in Montreal and Toronto in 1850, Philosophy of railroads . . . and The canals of Canada . . . , with which Keefer burst into prominence.
Written at the behest of the Montreal and Lachine Rail-road, Philosophy stands as one of the most rousing hymns to railway promotion ever penned. Its immediate object was to turn Montreal's attention away from local railways and projects connecting the city by rail to seaboard ports towards a strategic linkage with Toronto, thereby allowing Montreal to outdistance its American rivals for control of the interior trade. But in its rolling cadences and literary allusions, Keefer's prose transcended the immediate commercial objectives of his Montreal patrons to make a soaring general argument linking railways to the material improvement and moral perfection of man. For this reason the pamphlet was reprinted four times, translated into French, and in various forms employed in the promotions of several Maritime and New England projects.
Canals, which won first prize in the essay competition sponsored by Governor Lord Elgin [Bruce*] to celebrate the completion of the provincial canal system, set forth in equally compelling prose the idea of a commercial empire of the St Lawrence. The Great Lakes basin had the capacity to produce vast quantities of foodstuffs and raw materials and to consume impressive quantities of manufactures. Newly improved with canals, the St Lawrence provided the shortest direct route between this richly endowed granary and the markets of Europe. The merchants and communities along the route, most notably Montreal, stood to gain if the improvements could be built upon, the river itself properly dredged and maintained, and an appropriate commercial policy developed. But Montreal would have to be aggressive: in a competitive situation Upper Canadians had choices and if Montrealers hoped to capture their trade, they would have to do so with better service rather than restrictive legislation.
Writing in the turbulent year 1849, which was marked by the rebellion losses riots and the annexationist movement [see Bruce], Keefer could not avoid the trade question. Now that the policy of imperial preferences, upon which canal construction was predicated, had been repudiated by Britain, what ought to be Canada's proper course? Keefer proposed the pursuit of qualified free trade between Canada and the United States in natural products and a policy of moderate protection "for those manufactures only which require little manual labour, and of which we produce raw materials." Free trade in natural products would maximize the utility of the canal system while selective protection would promote gradual industrialization.
Through the patronage of W. H. Merritt, commissioner of public works in the Baldwin*–La Fontaine* government, and John Young*, Montreal's harbour commissioner, Keefer became the engineer of Montreal metropolitanism. In practice he was consulting engineer in 1853–55 on the city's harbour and shipchannel. During the early 1850s his pamphlets on river and harbour improvements, his site plan for a bridge across the St Lawrence near Montreal, his public lectures on the agricultural and natural resources of the hinterland, and his preliminary surveys of railways towards Toronto and Ottawa were intended to demonstrate how steam and iron could be made to serve Montreal's commercial ambitions. In the same period Keefer also promoted Merritt's broader objectives by compiling trade statistics and marshalling arguments on behalf of reciprocity with the United States in collaboration with Israel de Wolfe Andrews*.
Though considered a leading propagandist for railways, Keefer was greatly disappointed in his ambition to take charge of the construction of the lines he had projected. He criticized co-premier Francis Hincks*'s policy of handing the Grand Trunk project over to British contractors in 1852. He fell out with the Grand Trunk over unpaid bills for his preparatory work and was passed over as chief engineer in favour of Walter Shanly*. The contractors, Peto, Brassey, Jackson, and Betts, had their own ideas about how and where to build the line as well as about the subservient role engineers were to play in its construction. On account of his partisanship, the government rejected Keefer as an investigator of subsequent Grand Trunk difficulties. Shunted to the sidelines, he turned from an advocate of railways into an avenging critic of promoters' waste and political corruption by such entrepreneurs as Samuel Zimmerman*. But he never lost his faith in railways themselves. He was a public proponent from at least 1869 of the idea of a Pacific railway, his presidential address in 1888 to the American Society of Civil Engineers described the engineering wonders of the newly completed Canadian Pacific Railway, and in his turn-of-the-century presidential address to the Royal Society of Canada he envisioned a country linked by a system of high-speed electric railways.
Keefer did build waterworks. These now mundane utilities exemplified the near-miraculous civilizing powers of 19th-century engineering. Intended primarily as a means of controlling fires, waterworks also provided abundant quantities of clean water to inhabitants. Thus in one stroke the twin scourges of urban life – fire and disease – were brought under greater control. And, with reductions in fire-insurance premiums, the works could be said to pay for themselves. By building infrastructure of this kind, municipal corporations could transcend pettiness and immobilizing factionalism and create a civic culture that was more than the sum of its parts.
Keefer's plan for Montreal's waterworks, commissioned in 1853, went one step further. Guided by the engineer's genius, nature would do all of the work. He proposed to use the power of the descending waters of the St Lawrence to pump water up to reservoirs on Mount Royal which in turn would pressurize water mains in the city below. This controversial system worked for a time, but Montreal quickly outgrew its capacity and in the wintertime ice in the fore-bays of the intakes reduced its efficiency. When the system was expanded in the late 1860s more reliable steam pumps were installed.
Following the initial success of the Montreal works, Keefer was in great demand as a consultant for similar projects in other cities. Hamilton retained him to decide between three different plans to furnish water and then commissioned him to build its waterworks in 1857–59. This time Keefer chose steam pumps of the latest British design. Lovingly restored in the 1980s, these Woolf compound engines, built by John Gartshore in Dundas, Upper Canada, and Keefer's elegant engine-house stand as a lasting monument to mid-Victorian civic initiative, technical ingenuity, and the noble concept of progress. Further work of this kind followed in Ottawa and other cities. An engraving of Keefer in the Canadian Illustrated News (Hamilton) of 26 Sept. 1863, showing him surrounded by his monuments – locks on the Welland Canal, a fire-hydrant, and the Victoria Bridge near Montreal (actually built by James Hodges*) – captures him at the apogee of his career. But the advancement of waterworks did not flow easily. Municipalities and ratepayers baulked at costs; partisanship bedevilled the choice of designs as well as contractors. Inevitably compromises and trade-offs had to be made. Cities rapidly outgrew the capacities of their systems, necessitating costly enlargements. Engineers competed ruthlessly for these opportunities, raged privately about delays, and bridled at the insult of rejection. Everywhere, however, the finality of fire drove the process forward. As Keefer noted in a mordant letter to an ally on Toronto City Council in 1856: "I see Hamilton Water Com[missioners] have adopted my report & plan in its integrity – but nothing can be considered decided until the bylaw is submitted to the Citizens – a few large fires will settle the matter both with them and you."
Keefer's growing reputation as an engineer and prophet of progress, combined with his Ottawa connections, opened another outlet for his talents as a publicist: Canadian presentations at world's fairs. In 1851 and 1862 he assisted in the organization of exhibits for the expositions in London. Amidst fiscal adversity he achieved his greatest triumph as executive commissioner of Canada's participation in the universal exposition in Paris in 1878, for which he was made a cmg by Queen Victoria and an officer of the French Legion of Honour. Through his energy Canada gained pride of place in the rotunda at the head of one of the three exhibit halls. There Keefer assembled a monumental four-storey "trophy," an astonishing cross between a pagoda and a triumphal arch on which all the symbols of Canada were hung. On its four faces the trophy displayed the bounty of the fields, forests, mines, and seas. The balconies, inset with the coats of arms of the provinces and principal cities, were decorated with flags and bunting, buffalo and elk heads, ships' wheels, agricultural implements, canoes, and other bric-à-brac. At ground level visitors were greeted by stuffed bears, baskets hanging from their fearsome jaws to collect calling cards. As this was the first time Canada had presented itself in Europe as an aspiring nation, Keefer, in the exhibitions and accompanying catalogue, sought to produce a vision of towering ambition, energetic citizenship within a leading British colony, and expansive, natural wealth in a new transcontinental dominion, a display which, in space, ingenuity, and interest, he claimed outshone that of the United States.
During his latter years Keefer devoted himself to the management of the McKay estate and the advancement of engineering as a profession. In 1873, in a somewhat unorthodox move for the time, he married his deceased wife's widowed sister. This union consolidated his control over the McKay estate and its properties in and around Ottawa. In 1878 he established as his seat Rockliffe Manor House, a stone mansion on a wooded eminence overlooking the Ottawa River, an area that he subsequently had developed. In his capacity as real estate developer he served as president of the Ottawa City Passenger Railway Company (incorporated in 1866 with a perpetual franchise), a horse-drawn railway that connected Rockcliffe and New Edinburgh with the city centre. Curiously Keefer was reluctant to modernize the railway with the result that the city issued a franchise for a rival electric street railway. In 1894 his valuable operation was bought out by Thomas Ahearn* and Warren Young Soper, the proprietors of the new company.
As he approached 70, Keefer understandably tended to do less and less engineering, although the family firm flourished under the direction of his surviving son, Charles Henry. During the 1880s and 1890s Keefer found time to investigate ice problems and winter navigation on the St Lawrence, help adjudicate a dispute over engineering costs on the CPR, and survey the possibilities of providing more direct deep-water linkages between the St Lawrence and the Upper Lakes. He continued to promote canals, his first love, through membership from 1895 in the Canadian-American deep waterways commission. And, despite his age, he worked energetically to establish a profession of engineering. His bitter experiences in the 1850s with railway promoters and politicians had led him to rethink the role of the engineer. In a lecture at McGill College in Montreal in 1856 he argued for both an expansion in engineering education and a new status for the engineer. This call would be followed in 1857 by the creation of an engineering professorship at McGill. On the question of status, Keefer observed: "The engineer, though an indispensable agent, is generally a junior partner in the firm of Grab, Chisel & Co." Instead, he proposed that engineers, like lawyers and doctors, should be a "self-sustaining" profession and that their technical advice should prevail over political and business considerations. It followed that they should be decently paid and accorded due social deference. Thus the Esq. and C.E. by which Keefer usually identified himself.
During the 1880s Keefer, along with his contemporaries and sometime rivals Casimir Stanislaus Gzowski*, Walter Shanly, and his half-brother Samuel, lent his name to the movement to organize Canadian engineers into a society to seek these goals. He was the founding president of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers in 1887 and would remain active in it, serving again as president in 1897. He was the first Canadian to become president, in 1888, of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the only person to date to be president of both bodies. Counting himself among the conservatives in the movement for professionalization, he believed that professional status could be acquired only through accomplishment and not legislated. He also held that the CSCE should have educational goals, and that engineers should be learned gentlemen, not just technicians, and in the forefront of cultural, scholarly, and educational initiatives. He himself was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1890 and its president in 1898–99. He received an honorary doctorate from McGill in 1905, and in 1912, in recognition of his long life of professional leadership, he was named an honorary member of the Institution of Civil Engineers of Great Britain.
Keefer lived out his model of professional achievement. He came from a distinguished family, added to its honour through his practice and international reputation, wielded a formidable pen, moved comfortably in the highest echelon of Canadian society, and was decorated abroad. He built useful works, but it was not given to him to build a great work. Perhaps for this reason the ultimate distinction of a knighthood eluded him.
Keefer's last literary piece, written in his 90th year, was a homage to his mentor, W. H. Merritt. In The old Welland Canal and the man who made it (Ottawa, 1911), he recalled the thrill he had felt as a boy in 1829 watching two vessels, one British and one American, break through ice to open the Welland Canal. This recollection, with its symbols of technological triumph, continental economic integration, faith, human perseverance, and innocence, captures the main themes of Keefer's life.
He died in 1915 at his beloved Rockliffe Manor House, predeceased by his second wife and three of his children, and is buried in the family vault at Beechwood Cemetery. He left an estate worth $610,000.
Forty-nine pamphlets, essays, and reports by T. C. Keefer, including several reprints and French editions, have been made available on microfiche by the CIHM and are listed in its Reg. A number of additional items appear in Science and technology biblio. (Richardson and MacDonald), and in the partial bibliography of Keefer's publications up to 1893 in RSC, Trans., 1st ser., 12 (1894), proc.: 46. The main collections of original pamphlets are to be found in the MTRL and the library of the NA. Several of Keefer's early railway pamphlets have been reissued with a critical introduction by H. V. Nelles as Philosophy of railroads and other essays (Toronto and Buffalo, N.Y., 1972).
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Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated to feel like they're on the outside looking in. But geeks aren't born; they're made. And sometimes it only takes the right starting point to bring newbies into various intimidatingly vast obsessions. Gateways To Geekery is our regular attempt to help those who want to be enthralled, but aren't sure where to start. Want advice? Suggest future Gateways To Geekery topics by emailing email@example.com.
Geek obsession: Michael Moorcock
Why it's daunting: Some authors have recurring characters and ongoing series that they're known for, and usually that's a hook. But in the case of Michael Moorcock, his sprawl is staggering. Over the past 50 years, the British writer has amassed a catalogue of dozens upon dozens of novels, many of them originally published by small presses and subject to countless, confusing reissues and anthologies. Since most of his output falls under the genre of fantasy—rounded out by smaller percentages of science fiction, nonfiction, and literary work—it's suffered many of the ups and downs of that industry, which was once far more fan-driven and mercurial.
Nothing's more mercurial, though, than Moorcock's crowning achievement: The Eternal Champion. The name applies to many things: a meta-series that encompasses many of Moorcock's novel sequences; a conceptual motif that ties into Moorcock's other great invention, the much-copied Multiverse; and lastly, an actual character. The Eternal Champion isn't a single person; he's a shifting, living archetype that transcends time and space, one who manifests himself in an infinite number of incarnations—the most famous being Elric, a doom-shrouded, albino warrior-prince whose liquid morality renders him one of fantasy's most nuanced and intriguing figures.
The complexity of Moorcock's worlds—and his vast catalog, which mostly remains in a state of disrepair—makes approaching his work a formidable task. It doesn't help that his reputation seems quite monolithic, as does his writing; while the editor of the groundbreaking magazine New Worlds, Moorcock was an architect of science fiction's game-changing New Wave in the '60s and '70s. Since then he's influenced everyone from Alan Moore to Neil Gaiman to Michael Chabon. Moorcock is rarely spoken of in a tone other than abject awe, and that cult-like aura can be off-putting to a newcomer. That said, getting lost in Moorcock's work is one of its many joys; rather than being a puzzle to solve, it's a fractal enigma that only grows more deliriously mysterious the closer it's examined.
Possible gateway: Elric Of Melniboné
Why: Just as J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings was solidifying its position at the top of the fantasy canon in the '60s, along came Elric. The chalk-skinned, red-eyed antihero flew in the face of the noble, heroic tradition; at times cruel, impotent, morally ambiguous, and morbidly narcissistic, the dispossessed prince of the lost island of Melniboné—whose people descended from dragons rather than apes—wanders the Multiverse in search of redemption. He encounters many companions along the way, but his constant ally, and enemy, is his sword. Dubbed Stormbringer, the god-haunted blade siphons the souls of those it kills; that god, Arioch, Lord of Chaos and Duke of Hell, then feeds Elric enough residual energy to keep his frail body alive.
Elric's tragic, amorphous weirdness couldn't have come at a better time, as the cultural upheaval of the '60s practically demanded an avatar like Elric. Accordingly, the character was embraced by the counterculture; bands such as Hawkwind and Blue Öyster Cult collaborated with Moorcock on Elric-themed music in the '70s, and countless bands have since based songs or whole albums on him. Traces of Elric's sensibility also popped up in everything from Dungeons & Dragons to Doctor Who. The ubiquity and influence of Elric belies one of the series' most intimidating aspects: its odd relationship with time. Moorcock has written his Elric books without a strict chronological sequence, which can be maddening to those who are used to more conventional, easier-to-follow fantasy series. But that contorted timeline is one of Elric's most beguiling aspects, and it adds to the dreamlike, otherworldly (make that multi-worldly) nature of the character and his milieu.
Still, it's not difficult to slip into Elric circa 2012. Much in the way that Del Rey has honored and done justice to the works of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, the publisher has given Moorcock's Elric series the deluxe, multi-volume reissue treatment. Starting in 2008 with the first of six volumes, The Stealer Of Souls, the series—known as The Chronicles Of The Last Emperor Of Melniboné—gathers all the Elric novels, novellas, and short stories that have appeared over the past 50 years, including lots of extras: scripts, artwork, essays, and Moorcock's own commentary on his most beloved and enduring creation. To date, it's the definitive collection of Elric literature and lore—not to mention the easiest to access. Just don't expect the gritty realism of Game Of Thrones; like its hero, the Elric series is deeply introspective, impressionistic, and metaphysical.
Next steps: Even more metaphysical than Elric are the two trilogies starring Corum Jhaelen Irsei: The Swords Trilogy and its sequel, The Chronicles Of Corum. Moody and ethereal, Corum is a facet of The Eternal Champion whose decadent existence as a demigod is shattered by two encroaching forces: mankind from below and assorted deities from above. In particular, the Lost Lords known as Kwll and Rhynn bequeath Corum a hand and an eye, respectively, after he loses one of each at the hands of insurgent humans. These epic struggles play themselves out in the form of formulaic, episodic fantasy quests—but as Moorcock breaks out the wide lens, the backdrop becomes almost psychedelically dazzling. He also repeats the use of certain symbols—such as the crystalline Eye Of Rhynn, which echoes the eye of Arioch on Elric's sword, Stormbringer. Beneath all the trippiness, though, Moorcock explores very real philosophical issues concerning the nature of perception, race, and civilization—all couched in gripping adventure, not to mention some alternately gorgeous and grotesque prose.
The other major facet of Moorcock's The Eternal Champion is far less imposing. Dorian Hawkmoon, the subject of the four-book series The History Of The Runestaff, isn't an antihero at all; unlike his fellow incarnations Elric and Corum, Hawkmoon practically oozes nobility, decency, and strength. More than that, though, he's a consistent character, one whose occasional bouts of moral doubt never get in the way of a good, blood-pumping swordfight. There's still plenty of depth to the Runestaff series, but overall it's brisk, straightforward, and fun. And the setting is recognizable and relatively tangible: a post-apocalyptic Europe that's reverted to a state of pseudo-feudal chivalry, which also makes Hawkmoon's world the halfway point between our world and the more abstract, fanciful realms of Moorcock's imagination.
Where not to start: While there are many pockets of wonder hiding among Moorcock's lesser series, they're not as consistently rewarding—partly because most of the lesser series are more loosely constructed and connected than Elric. The magical alternate-history of the Von Bek series culminates in the stunning The City In The Autumn Stars, but it's not really necessary to read the preceding, and relatively mundane, installments to enjoy City. The same can be said of the Sailing To Utopia cycle—which exists on the fringes of The Eternal Champion mythos—or the proto-steampunk of the trilogy A Nomad Of The Time Stream.
The most tempting, yet frustrating, of Moorcock's major creations is Jerry Cornelius. Originally conceived as a 20th-century iteration of The Eternal Champion (and one with striking similarities to Elric), these books became a vessel of Moorcock's gonzo postmodernism throughout the '70s and beyond. There's much to marvel at in Jerry Cornelius, but little to authentically enjoy; much of the pulpy pastiche and pop-culture references are outdated, and the jumpy, experimental nature of the text is not the place for Moorcock initiates to start. Likewise, Moorcock's many standalone novels—including great works like Gloriana, an erotic alt-history saga, or Mother London, a rumination on modernity that draws from James Joyce and Thomas Pynchon—aren't the best entry points.
Elric has never made it to the big screen, although a handful of aborted productions have popped up over the years. In comics, though, the character (as well as Corum and Hawkmoon) has been translated many times, including faithful renderings by the likes of P. Craig Russell and Walt Simonson. The many musical interpretations of The Eternal Champion can be just as intriguing—but even the best-known examples (like Blue Öyster Cult's "Veteran Of The Psychic Wars," featured on the Heavy Metal soundtrack and with lyrics by Moorcock himself) can't substitute for the richness of the source material. Those who want to meet Elric, or any of Moorcock's multifaceted, mythically resonant antiheroes, are best served by the novels themselves.


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- AnonymousJuly 1, 2010 at 8:01 PM
Agreed...deck boot is nice.ReplyDelete
I would love to have those work oxfords for the fall, but I need those chukkas right now.ReplyDelete
Maaaannn i would love a pair of the blue pair!ReplyDelete
photo 1: would you really walk around with a shoe that massive? I keep everything slim unless its a boot.ReplyDelete
Perhaps not the McNairyesque blue chucka, but the rest look snided from various R/W collab's.ReplyDelete
I want that blue red wing chukka..ReplyDelete
Can somebody help me where can I buy those shoes via online??
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A few years ago, I conquered one of what has to be one of the seven wonders of my culinary world, chocolate babka. Babka, if you're new to it, poor you, is a brioche-like sweet yeast cake, usually rolled thin and spiraled around a filling of chocolate, cinnamon, sweet cheese or fruit, and is often studded with streusel. And I know that most people save their gushing prose for lemon meringue pie, 8 inches high, or brownies with swirls of peanut butter, candied bacon and candy bars inside, I know that most people hadn't heard of babka before it became a punch line, but Alex and I fondly remembering the grocery store chocolate babkas — with endless spirals slicked with bittersweet chocolate — of our childhood and I couldn't rest until I cracked the code at home.
Martha Stewart made it easy, as her late mother's chocolate babka is the finest out there, and not just because it contains the complicated twist patterns, pebbles of streusel and touch of cinnamon that it's just not right without. Nope, her version won all prizes because it was completely and totally, borderline indecently, overcrowded with chocolate. The chocolate-to-dough ratio is staggering. It's… unseemly. It's… some kind of wonderful.
But it still has its limitations. We might submerge 2 1/2 pounds of chocolate, 1 1/4 pounds of butter, more than one pound of sugar and two pounds of flour into three buttered loaf pans a couple times in a lifetime in the name of nostalgia and a really decadent good time, but we certainly don't do it often lest we have to be removed from our homes with cranes. To wit, I haven't made it once since then, and this makes us sad.
I found the solution to this crisis — are you allowed to call the irregular appearance of homemade chocolate babka in your life a crisis? Probably not. People might snerk about your First World Problems and not take you very seriously. Which is fine, but then they don't get any of your babka — on the way back from the playground one day, when Jacob and I discovered a shoebox of an adorable new bakery that looks like a grandmother's living room and doesn't. sell. a. single. cupcake. Instead, it focuses on Israeli, European and Moroccan pastries. Within, they sell something fantastic called chocolate "roses," which are precisely like chocolate babkas, baked individually in muffin tins. With some encouragement from a recent coffee date, I knew exactly what needed to be done: math. And a little retesting.
Here, the epic chocolate babkas of 2007 are scaled down to handheld proportions. They're still decadent, they're still a little over-the-top for a Sunday morning, as they should be for dad or anyone else you want to smother with joy, but they're streamlined, simplified, sped up and can even be taken to-go. There are sprinklers and jungle gyms and bubbles to attend to, after all.
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Chocolate Swirl Buns
Heavily downsized and streamlined from Martha Stewart's fantastic chocolate babka
Updated Note 8/1/12: Sometimes I will reread all 300+ comments weeks later and find a theme I'd missed when I only read them as they came in. In this case, I've noticed that a handful of people were finding that their buns were not puffy enough. I haven't been able to retest these yet, but in the meanwhile, if you're nervous or impatient, I believe little harm would come from bumping the yeast level up to 2 teaspoons or even 2 1/4 teaspoons, which would be a full standard envelope (1/4 ounce). You should then check your buns sooner; they might double the first time in 45 minutes instead of 1 hour. They might be puffy enough to bake at 25 minutes instead of 30 on the second rise (filled and in the pan). I doubt anyone will complain if their decadent, gooey breakfast buns are done sooner, right?
Yield: 12 muffin-sized buns
1/2 cup (120 ml) milk, preferably whole
1/4 cup (50 grams) plus a pinch of granulated sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons (5 grams) active dry yeast
1 large egg, brought to room temperature
2 cups (250 grams) all-purpose flour, plus more for work surface
1/2 teaspoon table salt
3 tablespoons (45 grams) unsalted butter, at room temperature, plus additional for bowl and muffin tins
3 tablespoons (45 grams) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/4 cup (50 grams) granulated sugar
1/2 pound (225 grams) semisweet chocolate
Pinch of salt
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional)
Egg wash (optional)
1 egg
2 teaspoons (10 ml) heavy cream or milk
Prepare dough: Warm milk and a pinch of sugar to between 110 to 116°F. If you don't have a thermometer, you're looking for it to be warm but not hot to the touch; best to err on the cool side. Sprinkle yeast over milk and let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes. In a small bowl, whisk together egg and remaining 1/4 cup sugar, then slowly whisk in yeast mixture.
In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine flour and salt. Run mixer on low and add egg mixture, mixing until combined. Add butter and mix until incorporated. Switch mixer to dough hook and let it knead the dough for 10 minutes on low speed. At 10 minutes, it should be sticky and stringy and probably worrisome, but will firm up a bit after it rises. Butter a large bowl and place dough in it. Cover loosely with a lint-free towel or plastic wrap and let rise for 1 hour, or until doubled.
Meanwhile, prepare filling: If your chocolate is in large bars, roughly chop it. Then, you can let a food processor do the rest of the work, pulsing the chopped chocolate with the salt, sugar, and cinnamon (if using) until the chocolate is very finely chopped with some parts almost powdery. Add butter and pulse machine until it's distributed throughout the chocolate. (If you don't have a food processor, just chop the chocolate until it's very finely chopped, then stir in the sugar, salt, cinnamon and butter until it makes a pasty/chunky/delicious mess.) Set mixture aside.
Generously butter a standard 12-muffin tin; set aside.
Form buns: Once dough is doubled, turn it out onto a well-floured surface and gently deflate it with floured hands. Let it rest for another 5 minutes. Once rested, roll dough into a large, large rectangle. The short sides should be a scant 11 to 12 inches. The other side can be as loooong as you can roll it. The longer you can make it — I got mine to 20 inches before I ran out of counter space — the more dramatic and swirled your buns will be.
Sprinkle the filling evenly over the dough's surface. It'll be clumpy and uneven and probably look like there's too much chocolate for the volume of dough; just do your best. Tightly roll the dough back over the filling from one short end to the other, forming a 12 to 13-inch log. (Yes, it always magically grows because the dough is soft.) With a sharp serrated knife, gently saw 1-inch segments off the log and place each in a prepared muffin cup. Loosely cover buns with plastic wrap or a lint-free towel and let them rise for another 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 350°F (180°C).
Bake: If you'd like, you can egg wash your buns before baking them (whisking together an egg and the cream until smooth, brush over each bun top). I found the buns I brushed with the wash shinier but otherwise virtually indistinguishable from the un-brushed buns in color. Bake buns for 15 to 20 minutes, until puffed and brown. If you have an instant read thermometer, you can take the buns out when it reads 185 to 190 degrees in the middle of each bun.
Set buns on cooling rack. Theoretically, you should cool them completely before unmolding them (with the aid of a knife or thin spatula to make sure nothing has stuck). This, of course, won't happen, so have at them; just don't burn your tongue. Serve with iced coffee and a bowl of berries. For nutritional balance.
Do ahead: These buns can be formed, placed in the muffin cups and refrigerated (loosely covered with plastic, which you might want to oil to keep it from sticking) the night before, to bake in the morning. You can bake them directly from the fridge. They can be baked and frozen until needed, up to 1 month.


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#include "sys/Axon.h" #include "rprintf.h" #include "uart.h" #include "Sensors/GPS/NMEA/gpsNMEA.h" //GPS libraryGPS_NMEA myGPS = MAKE_GPS_NMEA(UART0,4800); //Declares the GPS as a device, Set UART port and baud ratevoid appInitHardware(void){ //setup UART uartInit(UART1, 9600); rprintfInit(&uart1SendByte);} TICK_COUNT appInitSoftware(TICK_COUNT loopStart){ return 0;}// This is the main loopTICK_COUNT appControl(LOOP_COUNT loopCount, TICK_COUNT loopStart){ //GPS section if(gpsNMEAprocess(&myGPS) ){ // We have received something if(myGPS.info.valid){ // And we have a satellite fix if(myGPS.info.changes.values.longitude && myGPS.info.changes.values.latitude && myGPS.info.changes.values.speed && myGPS.info.changes.values.track){ // Longitude and latitude have been received - so fetch the values double longitude = myGPS.info.longitude; double latitude = myGPS.info.latitude; double speed = myGPS.info.speed; double track = myGPS.info.track; rprintf("Longitude = %d\n",myGPS.info.longitude); rprintf("Latitude = %d\n",myGPS.info.latitude); rprintf("Speed = %d\n",myGPS.info.speed); //In Knots rprintf("Track = %d\n",myGPS.info.track); } } else rprintf ("Fail to acquire signal"); } else rprintf ("Fail to receive something");return 0;}
//setup UART communication protocol uartInit(UART1, 9600); //set the Baud rate for communication at UART 1 (USB) rprintfInit(&uart1SendByte); uartInit(UART0, 4800);//set the Baud rate for communication at UART 0 (GPS)
For the signal, I was outside and had the GPS powered for 45 minutes, just to be sure.I have added an Initialise for UART 0 in this form: Code: [Select]//setup UART communication protocol uartInit(UART1, 9600); //set the Baud rate for communication at UART 1 (USB) rprintfInit(&uart1SendByte); uartInit(UART0, 4800);//set the Baud rate for communication at UART 0 (GPS) I am assuming I've done the initialise properly.Still nothing I don't currently have any way to connect the GPS directly to my PC for testing. I am also concerned about the Enable/Disable wire, I am assuming the GPS is enabled by default...I am trying to eliminate possibilities here, so is there anything silly I'm missing in my code? I know the GPS works at 4800 baud, and I have the Axon 2 at 9600 so it doesn't spit out miles and miles of readings too fast to read on screen.
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The Oregonian reported that Hood River County Circuit Judge John A. Olson issued the opinion Monday, awarding the restitution totalling $36,618,330.24 to cover the costs of firefighting, repair and restoration to the gorge and damage to homes. Victims include the U.S. Forest Service and Oregon Department of Transportation.
The 15-year-old from Vancouver, Wash., earlier this year acknowledged wrongdoing and said he threw two fireworks in Eagle Creek Canyon on Sept. 2 when flames spread quickly. The fire caused evacuations, an extended shutdown of a major interstate highway and devastation to a major outdoor tourist attraction.
The judge's order notes that the boy can set up a payment plan, though payments can be halted after 10 years as long as he complies, completes probation and doesn't commit other crimes.
At a hearing last week, the boy's lawyer urged for a "reasonable and rational" penalty, calling the $37 million sought an "absurd" amount for the child. The restitution is solely the responsibility of the teen, and not his parents, who came to the U.S. from Ukraine.
Olson called it "an extraordinary amount" and then deferred on a separate restitution order because he wanted more time to review the case.
The judge said the largest figure he could find for prior juvenile restitution cases in Oregon was $114,000.
The teen in February pleaded guilty to reckless burning of public and private property and other charges. Olson sentenced him to community service and probation, and the boy had to write more than 150 letters of apology to those affected by the fire that burned 75 square miles.
The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area attracts more than 3 million tourists a year and holds North America's largest concentration of waterfalls. The fast-moving blaze ravaged popular hiking trails and marred stunning vistas.
State law allows the Oregon Department of Revenue to garnishee the teen's bank accounts or paychecks. If he's due refunds on his tax returns, the state could take those.
If he wins the lottery, the state also could collect all of his winnings.
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