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Ok, guys, I try not to talk about my wacky diets too much on here, unless I am testing one, but right now I'm doing a 30-day paleo diet challenge wherein my husband and I try to keep strictly paleo for 30 days. He cheats a lot. I cheated once. With Jack Daniels. The walk of shame was not one I'd like to repeat. But anyways. This relates to today's post, I promise.
Today I am testing paleo ice cream. Yup.
Now imma be straight with you here. Paleo ice cream sort of flies in the face of all that is paleo. The idea is not to create delicious treats and baked goods off a list of approved foods. The idea is to eat a "clean" diet of unprocessed foods. But, dude, I have been eating chicken breasts, spinach, and apples for 15 fucking days and if there was ever a good time for chocolate ice cream (even if it's not really ice cream), the time is now.
All of these things are technically allowed on a paleo diet:
Of course, I'm using a shit-ton of honey in this recipe, so, yah know. Also a shit-ton of cocoa, but turns out cocoa doesn't have sugar in it, which I didn't know. (Shut up.)
I started by mixing together my coconut milks.
Little did I know that the full-fat coconut milk would have a giant glob of solidified something on the top and would plop impressively into my mixing bowl, creating an explosion of coconut milk fat on my counter. (That's what she said?)
Once mixed with the honey, the consistency evened out some.
Then I added 1/3 of a cup of cocoa, which seemed like a whole lot to me, especially since it took like a full minute to get it mixed in.
But, lo, I consulted my recipe again and it was time to add another third of a cup of cocoa. This shit gon' be good, y'all.
I then assembled my ice cream maker (which for some reason had an extra part thingie and I don't know what it was for, oh well)…
Then I poured in my mix and let it spin.
The recipe suggested keeping it in the ice cream maker for 20 minutes, but mine was still soup at 20 minutes, so I left it a while longer… like a lot longer. After an hour or so, it was still soup. Hrm.
Delicious chocolate soup, to be sure, but still soup. Not frozen in the least. So I did what the Pintester do, and I decided to just stick it in the freezer to see if anything would happen.
Time passes.
Hours later, I went back to check and I thought it was frozen until I stuck my spoon in and the chocolate soup erupted from the now-punctured frozen soup crust. Perhaps I just didn't let it freeze long enough. Perhaps it will never freeze completely. I do not know.
I do know that it's pretty damn delicious and rivals any for-real ice cream I've ever had, even in its soupy state.
That could be extreme deprivation talking, though. It's been 15 days since I've had anything remotely sweet (besides that Manhattan, and it was only sweet for like an hour, and then it was evil). Still, I give it two caveman thumbs up.


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I am now one-quarter into Lisa Randall's Warped Passages and the baby talk is irritating the hell out of me. Ditto for the coy introductions that attempt (and abysmally fail) to be "hip", the stale metaphors and the numbing repetitions. The book could be 1/4 its length with no loss of clarity or accessibility. She should demand a better ghost writer for her next book.caliban wrote:I'm afraid I don't read popular physics books, because they inevitably devolve to baby talk.
That said, the central concept of our world being a bounded brane embedded in a higher-dimensional bulk and interacting with other restricted branes through gravity is exciting, especially because it's testable.
More on the theory itself when I finish the book... unless I fling it in a spasm of annoyance.

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Shipwreck Emerald Sells for More Than $1M at Auction
The 5.27-carat stone, salvaged from the wreck of the Spanish ship Nuestra Señora de Atocha, blew pre-sale estimates out of the water.
Sotheby's said Thursday the previously reported weight was an approximation derived from measurements, explaining that the stone was in a bezel setting when Mitzi brought it to the auction house, which did not allow its specialists to see its full breadth.
Prior to the sale, she allowed the auction house to remove the emerald from its mounting and have it evaluated by American Gemological Laboratories, which determined its exact carat weight.
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Chief Financial Officer Zara Boldt and Vice President of Technical Services John Armstrong will leave the company later this year.
The two have signed "heads of terms" for the tentative 10-year sales agreement they reached in June.
Ali Weiss Jewelry has opened its second store in Roslyn, New York.
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A New Hampshire store manager is the inaugural recipient of the grant for up-and-coming women in retail.
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Watch as Edahn Golan, Sherry Smith and Avi Levy join Michelle Graff to talk pricing and trends in this controversial corner of the market.
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Associate Editor Lauren McLemore recently spoke with Columbia Gem House's Eric Braunwart about the uptick in non-traditional gemstone cuts.
"Pre-Owned Luxury by Rocksbox" offers secondhand jewelry from Kay, Zales, and Jared to members and non-members.
The museum is asking for the public's help in finding thousands of pieces of ancient gold jewelry and gemstones stolen from a storeroom.
The company was recognized for one of its private-label, consumer-focused jewelry care lines.
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Participants from the first round of grants saw up to a 900 percent increase in their platinum sales.
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Roger Waters can't see himself ever performing with Pink Floyd's surviving members David Gilmour and Nick Mason again as he says the band as something in the past.
Roger Waters can't see himself ever performing with Pink Floyd again.
The group's founder left the band in 1985 and while he still plays songs from their catalogue on his solo tours, Roger won't ever get back together with surviving members David Gilmour and Nick Mason.
When asked if he could see them would performing together as Pink Floyd once more, Roger said: ''I can't. I'm having dinner with Nick tonight. He'd jump back in a heartbeat.
''But I left Pink Floyd for very good reasons and it was the right and proper thing to do. It was over in 1985 and it's still over.''
Roger, 69, started performing Pink Floyd songs in 2005 after a letter arrived from organisers of the French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours asking him to do so.
He told The Sun newspaper: ''It said, 'Will you play 'The Dark Side Of The Moon' in its entirety and bring Nick Mason with you?' I thought it was a weird idea but why not?''
The event spawned two more years of touring in 2006 and 2007 and Roger said it was the breakthrough he needed to become an established solo star.
He said: ''Suddenly I'm touring with a brand name, which is The Dark Side Of The Moon, and people began connecting it with me. 'Oh that's who Roger Waters is. We never knew that.'
''Being able to tour with my band instead of Pink Floyd was my breakthrough.''
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MORRO BAY, Calif. (AP) — Tejay van Garderen thought he had lost his overall race lead in the Tour of California after a string of bad luck in the final couple of miles Wednesday.
The race jury gave it right back a couple hours later.
Tour organizers issued a controversial statement that said a major crash near the finish that held up van Garderen and many other top contenders would be treated "such that all riders affected by the incident and the road blockage will receive the field time," effectively giving van Garderen the lead back.
That rule is designed to protect overall leaders from the chaos that comes in the final 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) of a race, when sprints often lead to crashes. But the crash in California occurred just outside of the 3-kilometer-to-go mark, putting the decision of the commissaires into a harsh spotlight.
They did not provide the reasoning behind their decision.
Regardless, it meant that rather than falling to 13th place and 47 seconds behind Kasper Asgreen for the race lead, van Garderen kept his yellow jersey by 6 seconds over Gianni Moscon — a rider who also was held up by the pileup.
"When they told me I was back in yellow, I was surprised," van Garderen said. "I thought it was bad luck, and then they decided to give us the time from the crash because we were back on. I just have to applaud their decision."
It didn't change the fact that Fabio Jakobsen won the stage with an inspired uphill sprint, the third straight for his Deceuninck Quick-Step team this week — all by different riders. Or that Jasper Philipsen finished second on the stage to give embattled UAE Team Emirates something positive, and that three-time world champion Peter Sagan took third to assume the sprinter's green jersey.
It changed just about everything else, though.
"Sometimes the cards fall your way," van Garderen said.
Emirates pressed on Wednesday without climbing specialist Kristijan Durasek, who was implicated in an Austrian investigation into doping earlier in the day. The 31-year-old Durasek is accused of using a "prohibited method" during the 2017 season, the sixth cyclist to be ensnared in the scandal.
He has been provisionally suspended by the UCI, the sport's world governing body, and the team has sent him back to Europe to cooperate with the far-reaching investigation.
Back in California, van Garderen had steered clear of trouble while the peloton brought back the day's early breakaway. But his chain snapped with about 5 miles to go, sending the 2013 race winner to the pavement. His teammate, Lachlan Morton, was there to give van Garderen his bike, and several more teammates dropped back in a desperate attempt to pace van Garderen back to the field.
Then he inexplicably missed a hard right-hand corner with a couple miles to go, and the controversial crash just as van Garderen was catching the field slowed him down again, apparently dashing his hopes of holding onto his lead.
It wasn't until much later that the commissaires delivered their decision, though they did not say why the extended the 3-kilometer rule to where the crash took place.
The fifth stage Thursday is a hilly, 138-mile affair that takes the peloton from Pismo Beach to the beach town of Ventura. The stage includes a short, steep climb near the finish that could prove crucial for riders trying to make up ground on van Garderen in the overall standings.
"It's going to be a long stage. For sure there will be climbs again, I don't know how many. It will be six hours," Jakobsen said. "I hope tomorrow the sun shines again."
The three-stage women's Tour of California also gets going with an out-and-back stage centered on Ventura. American climber Katie Hall is back to defend her overall title, but the race's status part of the Women's WorldTour means the field is loaded with more big names than ever before.
Among them are Hall's teammate, Anna Van der Breggen, a stout Trek-Segafredo team headed by former world champion Lizzie Deignan, and climber Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio of Team CCC-Liv.
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Old location of the Sutro, to the right (not seen) is a shopping center
The first time I visited the Sutro Library I remember thinking "Wow this place is a dump!" It was located across from a shopping mall in an ugly brown building. The inside wasn't much better. It always seemed dark, like half of the lights were shut off. There were no windows to the outside world. I really did not like to do research there at all.
I don't know why I was surprised at the condition of the library. It has been treated like an ugly red-headed step child since the very beginning.
In 1859, Adolph Sutro planned and built a tunnel which made it possible to drain and ventilate the many mines in the Comstock Lode, and to permit the miners to bring out the rich silver ore. This made Adolph a very rich man.
He ran for mayor of San Francisco in 1894 on the Populist ticket, as the "Anti-Octopus" candidate, which opposed the politics of the Southern Pacific Railroad. He served one term.
Adolph Sutro's Cliff House 1894
At one time he owned one-twelfth of the acreage in San Francisco. He purchased the Cliff House in the early 1880s and a thousand acres of land facing the ocean, now named Sutro Heights. He also built the famed Sutro Baths and planted Sutro Forest.
The Sutro Baths
He owned the finest private library in the United States and had planned to build a library at Sutro Heights, then decided to use half the acreage subsequently given to the University of California, on Mount Parnassus (now Mount Sutro). A specific design for this building was published and the university regents actually approved the offer. However Sutro, who died in 1898, had failed to provide the necessary legal basis for this plan in his will, unrevised since 1882, and his heirs disputed the ownership of the collection. Only after extended litigation and several unsatisfactory location changes did they finally agree to donate it to the California State Library in 1913, on the condition it must remain permanently in San Francisco.
Bookplate from Sutro Library
In the 1906 Great Earthquake, about 40% of the library collection was destroyed by fire. Over the next forty-six years, the California Legislature repeatedly failed to provide funding for maintenance of the collection or construction of a building to house it. At one point returning the collection to the Sutro heirs was a consideration.
In 1959 The University of San Francisco offered to house the collection in the Gleeson Library for a nominal fee. There it remained until 1983 when it was moved to the location on Winston Street - the ugly brown building.
I am really looking forward to visiting the Sutro Library in its brand new home. May 2012 is when the door will open to the much improved location for the library.
The new address is: 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 94132
The Sutro Library is the San Francisco branch of the California State Library. Its holdings are cataloged and can be checked online using MELVYL.


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How Many More Black Boys Have to Die?Florida has one more chance to deliver justice to the parents of a slain black boy. The state that faced calls for boycott over the acquittal of George Zimmerman is currently holding pretrial hearings in a similar case.
Florida has one more chance to deliver justice to the parents of a slain black boy. The state that faced calls for boycott over the acquittal of George Zimmerman is currently holding pretrial hearings in a similar case.
Nearly a year ago in Jacksonville, Michael Dunn, a 45-year-old white gun collector and software engineer, fired at least eight shots into a carful of teenagers after admonishing them about the volume of their music. Two of those shots hit and killed 17-year-old Jordan Davis, an African-American boy.
Dunn, who has two more pretrial hearings next month, is using the Stand Your Ground law in his defense; it's the same one that Zimmerman, who shot and killed teenager Trayvon Martin, initially invoked before his trial and subsequent acquittal.
The law was originally crafted by the National Rifle Association and introduced to the American Legislative Exchange Council, which pushed it as a "model bill" in states around the country. The Florida version of the law passed in 2005. Although the measure allows people to use deadly force if they feel threatened regardless of whether they can safely leave the scene, it provides no clear definition of what constitutes a threat.
What that essentially means is free rein for gun owners to carry their weapons into any situation, shoot and later claim to have felt threatened even in the case of killing someone. This Wild West mentality has proven advantageous for older white gun users like Dunn, who have a greater chance than others of proving homicide justifiable according to studies like this one.
Dunn said he felt threatened when one of the car's occupants brandished a shotgun. He fired shots from his 9 mm and then fled the scene. But police found no weapons in Davis' car or in the surrounding area. Davis' father, Ron, lamented, "They were just kids. … They have never been in trouble. The kids had no weapon; they had no drugs in the car."
With killings like those of Martin and Davis causing public uproar, Congress has been compelled to look into Stand Your Ground laws. In fact, a Senate hearing on the laws would have taken place in mid-September but was postponed due to the Washington Navy Yard shooting. The hearing had been slated to feature testimony from Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, and Davis' mother Lucia McBath.
In lieu of the Senate hearing, McBath agreed to appear on "Uprising," the radio show I host, for an interview. As a mother of two boys myself, I asked McBath to tell me about the child she had lost.
"Jordan was the life of the party," she began. "He had lots and lots of friends. People seemed to gravitate toward him. He used to bring everybody together. I figured that when he became a man he would become a social organizer or activist or an attorney or would live out his life doing something bringing people together."
There are differences between the shootings of Martin and Davis. In Davis' case, there were plenty of witnesses to the shooting, and there was no physical contact between the shooter and the victim. However, as McBath points out, both involved "black young males, unarmed, being shot down."
McBath believes the Stand Your Ground laws need to be closely examined. "You don't have to prove you were threatened," she noted. "The ludicrous thing about these laws is that you only have to prove that you believed you were being threatened."
The combination of Stand Your Ground laws and pervasive societal stereotypes of black men seems to have extended the impunity previously reserved for cops, to would-be cops and vigilantes. Nation magazine journalist Mychal Denzel Smith, who has been covering the Davis case, told me just weeks after the killing last year, "I can't imagine any scenario where Michael Dunn would have felt justified in using such deadly force against a group of white teenagers in the same situation. I just can't fathom that." He added that the Stand Your Ground laws are easy to invoke in a society where "the image that we have of black manhood and black teens is as 'naturally violent.' "
Zimmerman's casual remark to the 911 dispatcher made minutes before he shot Martin, that "these assholes always get away," seemed to reveal his implicit prejudice against black youths. It is difficult to imagine what else he may have been referring to in using the term "these assholes" given that all he knew at the time about Martin was that he was a young black man. In addition, according to news reports, during the six months leading up to the Martin shooting, Zimmerman called the police several times to report people he believed to be suspicious, and each time, when asked, he said they were black, so it would be fair to assume black youths were collectively "these assholes."
Similarly, Michael Dunn reportedly said "I hate that 'thug' music" when he drove up alongside the car that Jordan Davis and his friends sat in. To Davis' mother, McBath, "right then and there he had already deemed the boys in the car thugs simply because of the music they were listening to. That's a bias he had from the very beginning."
The good news is that the legal protection Stand Your Ground laws offer to shooters who may be prejudiced against black youth may be short lived. A movement is afoot to overturn them, both in Congress and on the streets. A group of activists called the Dream Defenders camped out for days in front of Florida Gov. Rick Scott's office this summer, shortly after the Zimmerman verdict was announced. They are demanding the passage of a bill called Trayvon's Law to repeal Stand Your Ground as well as to address racial profiling and what they call the "school-to-prison pipeline."McBath understands the importance of activism to overturn laws. Her father was the NAACP chairman for Illinois for 20 years, so she comes from a background of civil rights activism. And, as part of her quest for justice for her son, she has become a spokesperson for the group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
McBath's father attended the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and she followed in his footsteps by participating in this summer's 50th anniversary commemoration of that event, speaking there for justice for her son. She told me, "Jordan's father and I have decided that no matter what justice we receive in our trial, the true justice will be in changing the Stand Your Ground Laws so no other families will never ever have to bear this burden."
Only someone who has lost a child can know what Lucia McBath is experiencing. When I asked her how her family has managed to deal with the tragedy of Davis' death, she said, "Of course it's very difficult. I say all the time — it doesn't get easier; it just gets a little bit more bearable. Every time we are able to share with others who he was as an individual, and what he meant to us, it just becomes a little bit easier. But," she paused, "there are good days and bad days."
Most parents of young black boys appreciate the danger their sons face in America today. The question is, when will American society at large appreciate it enough to demand justice? Smith distilled the urgency of repealing Stand Your Ground laws into this simple statement: "We don't have time to sit around and wait for more young black boys to die before we decide that this law simply is unjust."Wait, before you go…
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- IDE Development - Various pages about current development of the IDE.
- Lazarus for education - How to setup the IDE for courses and beginners.
- Lazarus Hacks - Customizations and hacks that can adapt the IDE and LCL to specific needs.
- startlazarus - How the IDE is started.
- Unit not found - How to find units - Explains how the compiler and the IDE searches for units and how this can fail.
The Lazarus component library (LCL) is very similar to Delphi's VCL (Visual Component Library). Most Lazarus units, classes and properties have the same name and functionality as their equivalents in Delphi. This makes porting Delphi applications to Lazarus relatively easy.
- LCL documentation - On line help for LCL (work in progress).
- LazActiveX - ActiveX/LazActiveX documentation
- TAChart documentation - Standard component for drawing graphs and charts.
- LCL Components - Tutorials about the standard LCL components such as TMainMenu, TButton, TComboBox, TTimer, etc. Complements and links to the reference docs.
- The LCL in various platforms - A brief discussion about LCL features which behave differently in different platforms.
- Autosize / Layout - How to design forms that work on all platforms.
- Main Loop Hooks - How to handle multiple event sources
- Asynchronous Calls - How to queue methods for later execution
- File size and smartlinking - How to smartlink applications and create smaller executables.
- Accessing the Interfaces directly - Example how to access the LCL widgetsets
- Add Help to Your Application - How to create a Online Help for your application
- Colors - Description of system colors like clDefault, clWindow and the fpImage FPColor
- LCL Tips - Tips and tricks
- LCL Defines - Choosing the right options to recompile LCL
- LCL Code Examples - Example working code for Lazarus.
- Lazarus Custom Drawn Controls - A set of custom drawn controls in Lazarus
- LCL Accessibility - Documentation about using making LCL applications accessible
- The Power of Proper Planning and Practices - common-sense programming best practices for the Free Pascal and Lazarus developer
- Multiplatform Programming Guide - How to develop cross-platform applications and how to port from one platform to another
- Introduction to platform-sensitive development - The next step in cross-platform development.
- Deploying Your Application - How to create an installer for your application
- Cross compiling - Creating executables for one platform, on another
- GDB Debugger Tips - Known Issues / Tips for debugging Pascal using GDB
- Remote Debugging - How to debug your Lazarus application from another machine
- Application Icon - Setting the application icon
- Using Pascal Libraries with .NET and Mono - yes, you can use your Pascal code with .NET and Mono
- Pascal and PHP - the Pascal connection to PHP
- Developing Python Modules with Pascal - extending Python with Pascal
- Developing Web Apps with Pascal - yes, you can write Rich Internet Applications (RIA) with Pascal
- Pascal and GIS - using Pascal for GIS and mapping
- Smartphone Development - About using FPC and Lazarus to target various smartphones
- Lazarus Components Directory - A description of extra packages which are shipped with Lazarus, such as support for printers, fpWeb, daemons, etc
- Lazarus Documentation Editor - Using "lazde" to create documentation
- FPDoc Editor - An integrated editor for documentation files
- FPDoc Updater - A GUI tool for updating FPDoc files
- lazbuild - Compiling projects and packages without the IDE
- LazSVNPkg - Lazarus Subversion IDE Plugin
- InstantFPC - run pascal programs as normal unix scripts
Coming from Delphi
- Lazarus Components - Comparison between Lazarus and Turbo Delphi components
- Lazarus For Delphi Users - For Delphi users who are getting started with Lazarus
- Code Conversion Guide - How to convert existing code and components from Delphi and Kylix
- Delphi Converter in Lazarus - Convert a Delphi unit, project or package almost automatically
The Lazarus Developer Guides
- Developer pages - A list of lazarus developers
- Lazarus Development Process - Roadmaps, ToDos, current development and what needs to be done for Lazarus 1.0
- How To Help Developing Lazarus - A guide to help newbies start improving Lazarus
- Version Numbering - Explanation of the different version numbers of Lazarus
- Creating a Patch - A guide to making a patch with changes made to Lazarus
- Creating a Backtrace with GDB - A guide to making a backtrace to help you debug a program
- Nomenclature - Guide to choose a name for a new method or property
- Design Guide Lines - A guide about how to proceed when changing Lazarus Source Code.
- GUI design - Notes on guidelines when designing the lazarus GUI
- Roadmap - An idea of the current status of the various parts of Lazarus
- Moderating the bug tracker - Guidelines for lazarus developers and moderators for using the bug tracker.
- Codetools - How the codetools are integrated into the IDE
- Creating IDE Help - How to extend the IDE documentation
- How_To_Make_Lazarus_Docs - How to make help for the IDE
- Distributing Lazarus - Installers - Hints and notes for packagers who want to write an installer for Lazarus
- Bounties - Need a particular new feature soon? Set a price here.
LCL - Lazarus component library
The following articles go deeper into developing for/with the LCL. See also the user LCL section above.
- How To Write Lazarus Component - A helpful guide to creating your first LCL component.
- LCL Messages - Guide related to LCL Messages
- LCL Internals - Implementation details and how to create a new widgetset
- LCL Key Handling - Help! A key press, what now?
- LCL Internals - Resizing, Moving - How the LCL communicates with the LCL interface to resize, move controls
- LCL Drag Drop - Managing dragging, dropping and docking
- LCL Unicode Support - Road to Unicode enabled Lazarus
- LCL Documentation Roadmap - Which units have to be documented
- LCL Bindings - Bindings to use LCL on other languages
- Lazarus known issues (things that will never be fixed) - A list of interface compatibility issues
- Win32/64 Interface - The Windows API (formerly Win32 API) interface for Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/10, but not CE
- Windows CE Interface - For Pocket PC and Smartphones
- Carbon Interface - The Carbon 32 bit interface for macOS (deprecated; removed from macOS 10.15)
- Cocoa Interface - The Cocoa 64 bit interface for macOS
- Qt Interface - The Qt4 interface for Unixes, macOS, Windows, and Linux-based PDAs
- Qt5 Interface - The Qt5 interface for Unixes, macOS, Windows, and Linux-based PDAs
- GTK1 Interface - The gtk1 interface for Unixes, macOS (X11), Windows
- GTK2 Interface - The gtk2 interface for Unixes, macOS (X11), Windows
- GTK3 Interface - The gtk3 interface for Unixes, macOS (X11), Windows
- fpGUI Interface - Based on the fpGUI library, which is a cross-platform toolkit completely written in Object Pascal
- Custom Drawn Interface - A cross-platform LCL backend written completely in Object Pascal inside Lazarus. The Lazarus interface to Android.
These articles cover how to set up the IDE, LCL and your own programs with translated/localized strings, and how to internationalize them (e.g. deal with date formats, decimal separators etc) :
- Translations / i18n / localizations for programs How to translate your application and how to load translated resource strings of projects and packages in your application.
- Step-by-step_instructions_for_creating_multi-language_applications: Tutorial demonstrating how to convert one of the Lazarus example projects to a multi-language application.
- Getting translation strings right A few notes for programmers on how to create and use translatable strings in your application. Quickly discusses general things about creating strings, offers a few hints on implementation issues and points out some things to consider when using English as base language in particular.
- Localization Notes:
- German - Notes and guidelines for translating the Lazarus IDE to German, including a small dictionary to look up often used translations.
- Portuguese-Brazilian - Small dictionary containing common translations of terms used in the Lazarus IDE for the Portuguese-Brazilian translation.
- Russian - Notes and guidelines for translating the Lazarus IDE into Russian.
- Add language bar explains how you can add a list of translations to the top of a wiki page.
- Translating the IDE
Additional Components Documentation
- Project Templates - the package projtemplates
- Pascal Script and Pascal Script Examples - How to use the pascal script components in Lazarus
- OpenGL - How to use OpenGL in Lazarus
- KOL-CE - Free Pascal/Lazarus port of KOL&MCK library. How to create very compact applications for Win32/WinCE in Lazarus.
- How To Write Lazarus Component for more component info
- Project Groups - about package projectgroupslaz.lpk
- Package Tabs - about package packagetabs.lpk
- Favorites - about package favorites.lpk
Free Pascal Compiler Documentation
In addition to this site, the latest version of the documentation can also be found on-line and in a variety of downloadable formats on the main Free Pascal Compiler site.
- User's guide
- Programmer's guide
- Reference guide for the system unit, and supported Pascal constructs
- Run-Time Library reference manual
- Free Component Library reference manual
- Free Pascal documentation tool manual
- Build messages
Special Topics
- Databases
- SciTech Portal - Lazarus and Free Pascal for Science, medicine and technology.
- Lazarus Development - (2015) A blog of Lazarus developers regards development process.
- Adventures of a Newbie - (2006) A blog of a newbie getting started with some tutorial information in a running log.
- On the road with Lazarus/Free Pascal - (October 2016) A blog dedicated to register my experiences while programming with Lazarus and Free Pascal (by Luiz Américo)
- Porting to Lazarus - (2014) This blog describes the porting of a medium-sized application (~100 kloc) from D7 with CLX to Lazarus (by Alexsander da Rosa)
- Living Lazarus - (2013) One man's exploration into the possibilities of an open source RAD (by Wibblytim).
- Bee.ography (2011) just (another) Bee's buzz!
- Parallel Pascal Worlds (September 2016) Donald Shimoda.
- devblog.brahmancreations.com (2010) Observations on Free Pascal and Lazarus Development
- CNOC TechBlog / Lazarussupport - (2016?) A blog about Lazarus and Free Pascal in general - Joost van der Sluis
These websites cover Free Pascal, Lazarus or both - or they cover Delphi concepts that are applicable to Lazarus/FPC:
- PP4S Lazarus (and Delphi) getting started information, tutorials. Useful for beginners.
- Pascal - SwinBrain (Internet Archive; original link dead) - Unique free pascal tutorial and documentation at Swinburne University
- Lazarus Programming A series of tutorials to get beginners started. Limited "how to install" material. From SheepdogSoftware.co.uk
- Basic Pascal Tutorial Updated version of Tao Yue's Pascal Tutorial (reposted with permission).
- Delphi Tutorials Arranged in Groups, by Difficulty An accumulation of material from many years. Topics range from "Hello World" to using Dallas 1-Wire to TCP/IP. The ones I've tried port to Lazarus without hassle.
- Community for Free Pascal and Lazarus in Chinese. - Community, forums, source code and demos in Chinese.
- Pascal - Club d'entraide des développeurs francophones - Francophone community about Pascal.
- Programando en Pascal - Spanish tutorial focused on FPC/Lazarus, hosted in Wikidot.
- See Lazarus videos
Conferences on Lazarus and Free Pascal
How to cite in scientific publications
Missing documentation?
If you miss documentation for Lazarus or Free Pascal, you can always write it yourself and submit it to the Lazarus/FPC bugtracker for inclusion. Have a look at:
- FPDoc Editor Built-in documentation editor in Lazarus. Page explains how to get fpdoc help sources and write your own help.


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There are three new players on Chicago's elite hotel suite scene, each meant to attract the type of VIPs that don't balk at dropping thousands on an overnight stay. Two of the suites are inside recently opened hotels, the third is a major overhaul of a Michigan Avenue stalwart—all of them come with highly personalized services and are also the hotels' top-tier rooms to book. Here's a look inside the city's new guard of luxury suites.
Regent Suite at the Langham, Chicago
Price: $5,925 a night
Personality: Gorgeous, gilded luxury
Perk: A personal butler can draw you a bath
The international hotel chain opened its Chicago location in River North last summer, but the 11th-floor Regent Suite wasn't finished for guests until February. One can see why there was a hold-up—every inch of the two-bedroom, 2,700-square-foot suite is dripping with opulence. The foyer (one of the largest we've seen) has white marble floors and a marble-clad powder room. The living room parlor sits on the corner of the Mies van der Rohe-designed building and its motorized drapes quickly reveal sweeping floor-to-ceiling views of the lake, the river and the Loop with a push of a button. Two full bathrooms are the showstoppers here, with almost every surface covered in white marble, plus large tubs made for soaking and separate rain-shower stalls (There's also a bidet in the master bath. This is an international hotel after all.)
Directly upstairs with an identical layout is the Infinity Suite, the Langham's other top-tier suite. While the Regent Suite has a polished contemporary classic look, the Infinity Suite is mid-century modern with design flourishes that include a mustard yellow piano, a gold onyx fireplace and a gold leaf ceiling. Both rooms include 24-hour personal butler service and access to the Langham Club, the luxury version of a palatial business lounge (cocktails, espresso counter and gourmet snacks, plus a fireplace, reading library and killer views). The seven butlers on staff go through an extensive training process to cater to exacting VIPs, who may request the signature pink rose petal bath, help unpacking or a ride to dinner in one of the hotel cars—a black Jaguar XJ or the authentic 1965 pink London taxi.
Thompson Chicago Loft Suites at Thompson Chicago
Price: $1,500 a night
Personality: Urban sophisticate
Perk: A personal assistant can pack you a to-go lunch on your way to the airport from buzzy Italian restaurant Nico Osteria, located inside the hotel
You'll have to be more specific when you call to book the penthouse at Thompson Chicago—there are six rooms at the top. The 665-square-foot, two-level lofts have a cool urban residential feel, with cowhide rugs, arc floor lamps and custom artwork by Wes Lang, who designed Kanye West's recent tour T-shirts. All of the suites sit on the 22nd floor of the hip new Gold Coast hotel and vary from each other in small, albeit calculated ways. For instance, two rooms (2205 and 2210) have large dining room table that flips into a pool table for guests who want to host others for both dinner and billiards. Two rooms (2201 and 2203) have a boardroom table instead of a dining table for guests hosting business meetings, and three of the six Loft Suites have outdoor terraces ideal for toasting special occasions alfresco. Thompson takes advantage of the differences between each suite, looking to book a room that specifically suits the purpose of a customer's visit.
To further customize a Loft Suite guest's stay, the hotel launched what it calls the Thompson Attaché program in April. Guests will be assigned an attaché (a manager-level employee) to carry out his or her personal requests. The attaché conducts a pre-arrival call to arrange transportation to and from the hotel, can set up in-room check-in so guests can bypass the front desk, and can arrange for services like having the "beach concierge" set up chairs in the sand and pack a lunch from the hotel's restaurant partner Nico Osteria.
Presidential Suite at Intercontinental Chicago
Price: Starts at $2,900 a night
Personality: Contemporary international flair
Perk: A welcome amenity and turndown service are personalized to your tastes
While the Intercontinental isn't known for the over-the-top luxury of the Langham or for the of-the-moment hipness of the Thompson, the hotel does have at least one distinguishing aspect: grand architecture dating back to 1929. The 35th-floor, 1,700-square-foot Presidential Suite, which was unveiled in April, is located in the hotel's historic tower, once the exclusive Medinah Men's Athletic Club. Original Moorish elements such as arched doorways and domed ceilings are intact, even though the suite was gutted. (The former interior design was from the 1980s and it badly needed a major refresh). Now the two-level suite feels light and airy, due to the large windows that not only let sunlight flood in but also give guests a bird's-eye view of the top of the Tribune Tower just south of the hotel.
Simeone Deary Design Group, the team behind the dazzling interiors of the Waldorf Astoria Chicago (originally The Elysian) renovated the suite, preserving the domed ceiling in the living room and the master bedroom's Juliette balcony that over looks the main living space. A dark and cozy media room equipped with a 65-inch flatscreen TV was created, as well as a cozy library nook and a large dining room with a boardroom table seating eight. Perhaps the boldest design decision was to remove one of the three bathrooms to make space for a gourmet butler's kitchen. Those booking the suite can call ahead to have the kitchen stocked with preferred drinks and snacks, or have hotel staff prepare meals and have them served in the dining room overlooking Michigan Avenue.


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Lackey set for first game action since '11
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- John Lackey will get a reward for all the hard work he has done to bounce back from Tommy John surgery when he takes the ball for the Red Sox in Saturday's Grapefruit League opener against the Tampa Bay Rays at 1:35 p.m. ET.
The righty will go just one inning, but it's likely one that he will savor. This will be the first time Lackey has pitched in a game for the Red Sox since Sept. 25, 2011 at Yankee Stadium.
"For anybody who's gone through Tommy John, you can identify with some of the things he's gone through," said Red Sox manager John Farrell. "Certainly the rehab can be very lonely. I'm hopeful that John will be able to reflect back on the year-plus that he's worked his tail off to get to the point where he's back in a Major League setting. [Saturday's] a significant day for him, and certainly for us as we form this rotation going through camp."
Not only is Lackey throwing the ball well, but he's doing it with a new-and-improved physique.
"He's felt great physically," Farrell said. "His arm has shown the looseness we're accustomed to seeing with the Angels and really his first year here. I know one thing, he feels really good about himself from a physical standpoint, and it's translated into some confidence right now. [Saturday] begins his progression toward the start of the regular season."


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Pair the dress and belt with some cowgirl boots and I think you'd have a rocking outfit!ReplyDelete
Very pretty! I agree with you about the belt - personally, I like a self-fabric belt with this kind of dress, and if the (possible square, rather narrow) buckle is also covered with the same material, it is a perfect finish. Can you tell I had dresses like this one? ;)ReplyDelete
So cute! I love it with a belt, but with you that the brown one might not be "the" belt. It looks super cute!ReplyDelete
Looks great!ReplyDelete
natasha @ twenty-something blog
I think it would be nice with a self fabric belt, a pretty floral fabric belt, or black patent with patent pumps. Great work!! I love seeing how you interpret the dresses you see online and in catalogs!ReplyDelete
Nice DIY! A cardigan will be nice as the weather transitions. Anthros snakebite belt would look nice as well. What is the Vogue pattern number? Your version is very cute!ReplyDelete
Great job! I love the color and I like it with the belt, but you could add a different belt to dress it up.ReplyDelete
I love the dress and think that you could mix it's very versatile. You could pair it with a different belt for a new look, pair it with a cardi, or tie a scarf around it (as a belt, scarf or shawl) for a whole new look.ReplyDelete
Love the dress! I can envision it with a cute cardigan sweater this fall.ReplyDelete
you did such an awesome job, the end product is amazing!ReplyDelete
Cute cute! You are really talented. Love the softness of the dress :)ReplyDelete
I like it with the brown belt personally!ReplyDelete
I really like how you rounded the front part (hope that makes sense)!!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous, very girly and summery! I hadn't seen your tutorial but I might have to get that pattern now :DReplyDelete
wow this looks great!ReplyDelete
I would make a matching belt out of the same fabric. What year is the pattern from?ReplyDelete
JBalloon--That could be pretty! I don't know what year exactly, I gave it back to my mom, but it was probably 1975ish?ReplyDelete
Beautiful...70's had some great wearable sundresses. I'm trying to find the pattern I used back mid 70's--seems like everyone in Jr hi home ec mad it!!ReplyDelete
.....some similar elements...contrasting foldover band and straps wide enough to hide a bra strap. But zipper back and "princess" type darts (no waistline). Soo frustrating..


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A new step has been taken to identify and treat those suffering from fibromuscular dysplasia. FMD causes both an abnormal narrowing and enlarging of medium sized arteries in the body, which can restrict blood flow to the kidneys and other organs causing damage. In a new report appearing in August 2014 issue of The FASEB Journal, scientists provide evidence that that FMD may not be limited to the arteries as currently believed. In addition, they show a connection to abnormalities of bones and joints, as well as evidence that inflammation may be driving the vascular disease in FMD patients.
"Having medical treatment options for FMD, or for people who may be susceptible to FMD, will improve their quality of life by preventing vascular complications," said Nazli B. McDonnell, M.D., Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health in Baltimore, Maryland. "Recognizing the additional features of FMD, namely those involving the joints and bones, may help us to design better treatments for these ancillary symptoms that were previously thought to be independent of FMD."
To make this discovery, Nazli and colleagues recruited patients with FMD and performed physical exams. Vascular imaging and bone density studies were also conducted. Researchers measured specific proteins in the blood that indicated inflammation activation of the transforming growth factor-beta (or TGF-beta) pathway. Patient skin biopsies also were collected to grow dermal fibroblast cell lines, which were studied for TGF-beta pathway and inflammatory biomarkers and were compared to age-, sex-, and BMI-matched controls that did not have FMD.
Source: Eurekalert


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Lee Zink, operations director with Kiewit Infrastructure West Co., accepts the Project of the Year award for Tilikum Crossing, Bridge of the People at the DJC's 20th annual TopProjects event Thursday at the Oregon Convention Center. (Sam Tenney/DJC)
Debbie Kitchin, president of the board of directors of the Energy Trust of Oregon, applauds after announcing that the Hawthorne Depot project won Energy Trust's High Performance Building Awards' Major Renovation award.
Ty Barker, general manager of Unico Properties, speaks after receiving the first place award for excellence in renovation for the US Bancorp Tower.


text: June 10, 2020COVID-19: Crisis resilience made in GermanyRegion:GermanyFocus GermanyTopic:Economic and european policy, Germany's super election year 2021, MacroeconomicsAnalyst:Barbara Boettcher, Eric Heymann, Marc Schattenberg, Sebastian Becker, Stefan SchneiderPDF 633kFacebookTwitterXingLinkedInCOVID-19: Crisis resilience made in GermanyBarbara BoettcherEric HeymannMarc SchattenbergSebastian BeckerStefan SchneiderGermany has got COVID-19 under control faster than many other countries.Germany has got COVID-19 under control faster than many other countries. It also recorded one of the lowest infection fatality rates among the G10 countries. The complete fiscal policy U-turn in response to COVID-19 induced economic damage should allow the German economy to weather this crisis better than many other countries – although the impact will still be massive. We have identified six structural features of the German society contributing to its superior collective resilience. Due to these features we expect the German recession in 2020 to be less severe than in most other industrial countries. This crisis resilience should also further improve Germany's relative position among the major industrial economies once COVID-19 has been overcome. And this will increase pressure on Germany to play an even more supportive role within EMU/EU in the medium term. [more]Deutsche Fassung ➜


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Georgia Gould, Tim Johnson win 2010 Boulder Cup
UPDATED: Georgia Gould scores a solid win, Katie Compton abandons and Tim Johnson attacks late to drop Todd Wells.
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Georgia Gould (Luna) turned the tables Sunday in Broomfield, Colorado, grabbing the hole shot and riding to a solid solo victory in the Boulder Cup in Broomfield, Colorado.
Tim Johnson (Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com) also rode alone to the finish, but the national cyclocross champion left his race-winning attack for later in the game, jumping mountain-bike champ Todd Wells (Specialized with four laps to go in the sixth round of the North American Cyclocross Trophy Series (NACT).
The new Boulder Cup course at the FlatIron Crossing Mall was more challenging than many riders expected. Long grass lay down to make a number of off-camber corners and straightaways extremely slick. Two would-be run-ups turned into sharp, rideable climbs, much to the chagrin of the promoters. Four downhill switchbacks over the slick grass at the center of the course tripped up a number of riders in both races before the steep, 50-foot ramp to the finish.
"There wasn't sand or gravel, but the combination of the dry ground with the grass on top was like ice," said Johnson. "Some of those off-camber sections it was sketchy just to stay upright."
After doubting the technicality of the course earlier this week, Planet Bike's Katie Compton — who would abandon on Sunday after hitting the deck in a series of slick downhill switchbacks on the third lap — called the track a pleasant surprise despite leaving the race battered after her second crash in as many days.
Gould goes, Compton crumbles
Gould, missing the cat ears and whiskers she wore last Halloween, jumped to the hole shot. She led Wendy Simms, Devon Haskell and Compton, the winner of Saturday's Colorado Cross Classic, onto the grass for the first time and gapped her competitors on a tight uphill and off-camber 180-degree switchback that was slick with long grass.
The chasers pulled Gould in when she crashed in a shallow ditch leading into the pit two minutes into the race. She remounted and tagged onto the group and in a replay of Saturday's race, Compton, Gould and Duke emerged as the three leaders midway through the opening lap.
"I just completely stuffed it there," said Gould. "It was just like a funny thing — 'Whoa, that's a really pro move.'"
The Planet Bike and Luna riders dueled on the steep, 50-foot run-up leading to the finish of the first circuit, gapping Duke. When the leaders left the pavement again they had 10 seconds on the Hudz-Subaru chaser and the two-up battle was on.
"Georgia was riding much better than I was today," said Compton. "She was putting me under pressure in the technical sections."
Compton, who was concerned before the start about the aftereffects of Saturday's hard crash, led Gould onto a 200-meter, 6-degree grass climb on the second lap. But in a reversal of the day before, it was Gould who attacked and put her rival into danger.
"I didn't feel like I was riding much better than yesterday," said Gould. "I didn't want to go too hard too early and blow myself up. It's such a hard course."
Compton crumbles
When the pair arrived to the finish run-up for the second time Compton appeared to be struggling on her feet. A lap later Gould arrived to the run-up with a gap of 1:15 after her Planet Bike rival crashed in the slick grass downhill switchback at the center of the course.
"I was just being too conservative because I was worried about crashing," said Compton.
Compton walked the run, her head down, and it was clear her race was over. She abandoned at the start-finish. Back at her car, Compton grimaced as she cleaned her new wounds, which lay over her abrasions from the day before, and debated whether to see the medic.
"I'm pretty sure (Georgia) would have beaten me anyway, she was just flying," said Compton. "I just hate having to pull out."
Both Millers, who rode through Duke on the second lap, passed Compton running and set out in a long pursuit of Gould. Amanda Miller (Hudz-Subaru) rolled away from Meredith Miller (Cal Giant-Specialized) on the backside of the course, and the latter grimaced as she crept up the run with Duke 10 seconds back.
She and Duke battled for two laps until Meredith Miller attacked on the long grass climb on the far end of the course, knowing she needed to avoid being dropped by the former downhill and dual slalom champ on the technical descent. When she got a gap, Meredith Miller put her head down and played it conservatively.
"I knew that I needed to put a good gap into her so that she wouldn't catch me and drop me again," she said. "I got a big enough gap that I could make a little mistake and she wouldn't catch me."
She made contact with the younger Miller soon after, and when Amanda Miller touched down she took advantage, riding into second with a half lap remaining.
"I crashed and couldn't get my chain back on," said the Hudz-Subaru rider. "I must have just taken them too fast — I hadn't crashed any other laps."
Duke, the surprise of the weekend, also passed Amanda Miller and landed on the podium for the second day in a row.
Gould's solo ride was demonstrative; she led at one point by 90 seconds — a lifetime in 'cross.
"I just rode my own race," said Gould. "I just tried to ride hard the whole time and it worked out well … I don't know if I had the mojo corner riding today or what."
Nearly an early end for Summerhill, Johnson
The men got off to a sketchy start when Danny Summerhill (Holowesko Partners) tried to move up the right side of the road 250 meters into the opening 400 meters of pavement and another rider squeezed him into the barriers.
"I got pushed into the barriers," said Summerhill. "I got my knee on it and I'm amazed I didn't crash."
Johnson, who was on the young rider's wheel, thought his race was about to end before it began. Fortunately, Summerhill kept his bike upright and the group rode onto the grass together for the first time.
"It scared the crap out of me," said Johnson. "I was just hopeful they wouldn't go ballistic at the front and I might have a chance to catch up and it worked out."
On the opening lap, it was Wells, Summerhill and Jeremy Powers (Cannondale) who jumped away from the field. Johnson, teammate Jamey Driscoll and Geoff Kabush (Maxxis-Rocky Mountain) held tight in a five-rider chase group, the Cannondale riders unwilling to hunt down their teammate at the front of the race.
National champ closes the gap in the air
Crowds were three deep on the steep ramp leading to the finish straight. A full-sized barrier and a 10cm barrier sat at the base of the climb to take riders off their bikes, but the elite men would have none of it. Wells led Powers and Summerhill in the air over the barriers at the base of the would-be finish run-up for the third time. Five seconds back Johnson jumped away from the chase group and made contact with the leaders soon after.
"It's always tough," said Johnson. "You can never assume a race is going to go a certain way and I was hoping I would still have a chance to catch on, and once I did, it was up to me to try and win."
Three minutes later, Johnson attacked the group in the pit before the long, low-angle grass climb on the far end of the course, and Powers fell off the pace when he struck a sprinkler head and flatted. Troy Wells (Clif Bar) and Driscoll rode through Powers as Wells drilled the pace on the front.
"I shredded the sidewall right off," said Powers. "To try and close that back down, at altitude, just wasn't going to happen."
Summerhill, the U23 national champion, was on pace for a huge result, but flatted a lap later at the hand of the same sprinkler that took down Powers. The mishap happened for both riders at the farthest point on the course from the pits and a long, slow ride in landed them outside the top 10.
"I was so bummed," said Summerhill. "I was just hoping people knew why I was sucking so bad all of a sudden."
At the front of the race, Driscoll caught the two leaders, but when Johnson and Wells hopped onto the run-up in front of huge, costumed crowds, they rode away into a two-man dogfight.
"I don't have the snap, so I can't really ride other people's races," said Driscoll.
A champions' duel
Wells led Johnson for three laps, the national 'cross champion glued tightly to the national cross-country mountain bike champ's rear wheel through the technical descents and the long power sections.
"He wasn't going to pull because Driscoll was coming up," said Wells. "It was either neither one of us was going to pull and there would be three of us and they would just one-two me or I could just pull and try to keep Driscoll off and maybe Timmy J makes a mistake or something, but that didn't happen."
Just when it appeared the race would come down to the final ramp to the finish, Johnson attacked atop the ramp with four laps to go. He took a 20-second lead through the start/finish and aced the slick, downhill switchbacks at the heart of the course to push his gap to a half-minute.
"I took a chance to attack him as soon as we got onto the pavement and got a little bit of a gap," said Johnson. "I felt like I was pretty equal through a lot of the technical stuff, so I thought once I was able to get a little bit of a gap I would be able to hold it. I went early enough so that if I had to attack him again later I'd still have time."
"I couldn't respond," said Wells, who had spent more than five laps on the front. "I was pretty tired at that point."
It was almost for naught when Johnson, who dismounted and ran the finish ramp to save his tight back after dispatching Wells, dropped his chain atop the run on the penultimate lap. Johnson reached over his red-white-and-blue top tube to reload the chain, losing 15 seconds of his lead. The steely veteran felt panic set in with his delay.
"I lost a huge part of my gap and really had to hit the gas," said Johnson. "Todd's no slouch. You never want to give him a second reason or a second wind to catch up."
Wells jumps away from Driscoll
Behind the leader, Driscoll made ground on Wells, with Kabush locked into fourth after losing at least 10 places in the melee when Summerhill clipped the barrier early. When they came through for the bell, Driscoll and Wells were together, despite the former overshooting a tight, uphill switchback and tagging a course marker on the penultimate lap.
Knowing his rival would hop the barriers and escape to the finish, Driscoll upped the pace multiple times, but he has struggled with sharp accelerations this season and could not drop Wells.
"It would have been nice to really punch it into (the barriers) so that I'd have a little bit of a gap and the difference of running wouldn't have been as big," said Driscoll. "But I didn't really have much gas left."
For his part, Wells was content to sit on Driscoll's wheel until he could attack at the barriers heading to the finish.
"When he caught me and I saw him running it, I was so happy," said Wells. Sure enough, the Specialized rider opened the throttle at the base of the climb, flew over the yellow TRP blockades and left Driscoll to ride in for third.
Kabush rolled in for fourth to continue a streak of close podium calls this fall.
"It's a little bit annoying to get fourth," said Kabush. "Gaps opened up there in the first lap and I was seeing stars there in the end, pushing pretty hard trying to close them."
Quick results
- 1. Tim Johnson, Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com, 1:00:47
- 2. Todd Wells, Specialized, 1:01:11
- 3. Jamey Driscoll, Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com, 1:01:15
- 4. Geoff Kabush, Maxxis-Rocky Mountain, 1:01:48
- 5. Adam Craig, Giant, 1:02:05
- Women
- 1. Georgia Gould, Luna, 41:34
- 2. Meredith Miller, California Giant-Specialized, 43:50
- 3. Nicole Duke, Hudz-Subaru, 44:11
- 4. Amanda Miller, Hudz-Subaru, 44:24
- 5. Teal Stetson-Lee, California Giant-Specialized, 44:31


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Gov. Rick Snyder has given the ceremonial green light to a rapid bus line in Grand Rapids.
As the state's first Bus Rapid Transit line, its construction began last week. The $40 million Silver Line will include 33 stations and be ready for riders as soon as August 2014. It's a project funded mostly by the federal government with some state dollars that is designed to travel as fast as a light rail system but at a fraction of the cost. Running along Division Avenue in West Michigan's largest city, it will include prepaid fares, raised platforms, traffic-signal priority and semi-exclusive lanes during rush hour.
Will the Silver Line serve as a model for other transit projects and planning across the state?
Earlier this year, the federal government committed $25 million to build a light rail line through the heart of Detroit. The remaining cost of nearly $140 million for Woodward Avenue's 3.3-mile streetcar line will be funded by a public-private partnership. It will include significant donations from companies whose workers commute from revitalized neighborhoods to downtown offices. Construct for the Detroit project could begin later this year, with service starting in fall 2015.
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Scripture Reading: Revelation 3:20
Jesus is our humble Savior.
He waits for us
to open the door.
We have probably all seen some rendition of The Light of the World, William Holeman Hunt's painting of Jesus standing at the door knocking. Hunt's beautifully done original work was finished sometime between 1851 and 1853. The original painting is now in Oxford, but the artist painted the second edition before he died, and it is displayed at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
When looking at the door in this painting, you can see there is no handle or knob on the outside. The door must be opened from the inside! You must allow Jesus to enter.
Also, one can see it is dark outside. This is to show time is running out on our decision to accept or reject Him. There are also two sources of light to be found in the painting. The first is a lantern with red light that Jesus holds in His hand. This lantern represents His judgment. The other source of light comes from Jesus Christ's face. Thankfully, this light represents the availability of salvation to ALL people! Finally, many people miss the apple to be found in the bottom corner of the painting, which represents original sin.
Jesus is our humble Savior. He waits for us to open the door. He stands on the outside. He is calling upon YOU to let Him in. Notice, Jesus knocks on the door of a house that He has built—a house that He Himself created! It is His house, but still, He asks to enter with only a gentle knock. Friend, Jesus is a gentleman and will never force Himself upon you. It is your decision to allow Him in or to reject him yet again!


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Full bodied fans rejoice - San Lotano Requiem is here.Few cigar makers are as in demand as AJ 'Abdel' Fernandez these days. Looking at his impressive portfolio of top-notch blends, it's easy to understand why. Take for instance his already impressive portfolio boasting the likes of Man O' War, Diesel, Morro Castle, and 5 Vegas Triple-A - all winners, no doubt. AJ's highly successful blends are indicative of his ferocious passion and deep seeded desire for perfection. But now, AJ has taken his craft to another level with the first major release bearing his name, San Lotano by AJ Fernandez. A truly complete ensemble, the San Lotano collection offers something that everyone can rejoice in. Ranging from mellow to full, the new San Lotano line is sure to satisfy even the most discerning of palates. The San Lotano Requiem is the epitome of what a full-bodied cigar should be. Strong and flavorful, yet balanced and smooth, San Lotano Requiem is extraordinary. Blended using an exquisite medley of rich Nicaraguan, Dominican, and Honduran tobaccos, the Requiem is anything but boring. Accompanying the complex blend is an extremely rare Brazilian-grown Habano wrapper, available to merely two manufacturers in the world. Together, the unique wrapper and fillers strike a resounding accord of flavor, body, and complexity. Once lit, the Requiem graces your palate with nuances of wood, leather, and spice. Expect an even burn accompanied by an easy draw and long finish. Easily one of AJ's best blends yet!
San Lotano Habano- peppery start then hints of caramel sweetness and light wood. Long oily finish 1/3 to 1/2 last 1/3 light woody with vanilla and very light citrus that stays around during the long finish and a touch of pepper. 1hr 10 mins to smoke the Robusto. I give it a 90. I will definitely add this to my humidor.
Summing up what the others have already said. Outstanding habano flavor, even burn, delicious finish. Top it off with an excellent price point, and this baby can't be beat! I prefer a stronger stick, and this one does not disappoint. Thank you Mr. Fernandez, job well done!
One can easily see why AJ Fernandez's masterpiece, San Lotano Habano garners so many absurdly high ratings. It tastes so devilishly delicious, that one cannot help but fall in love with it, praise it to high Heaven & formulate a plan to secure a stock for immediate use. I have one more Toro stowed away in the "last stogie" humi & then there are no more. They raised it 20 clams & took all 5 of the San Lotano offerings out of the "Kitchen Sink" sampler, so 2 bones per vitola is not in the near future. I'm gonna need to figure something out, because San Lotano Habano is a must have, go-to blend deserving of all the accolades, all the fuss & even the 94 ratings. AJ can claim another occupant in my top 10 best list. With La Herencia Cubana Core, Man O' War, San Lotano Oval & Diesel Unlimited already there, Mr. Fernandez is crowding out some mighty fine competition. This is the blend that almost everyone should love. It's strong, but not too much for most veterans. I love it! 95/100
Very good stick. Good construction and good burn. Too strong and too expensive to burn as an everyday cigar. Would not buy them by the box, but IF they go on sale for a good price would pick up a 5 pack to age and smoke as an "occasional" stick....
A San Lotano Connecticut Robusto rated as the 2nd best cigar of 2012, behind only an Oliva Serie V Toro, according to Cigar Journal. Habano seems a clear winner too. The 6' X 54 Toro is draped with a rare Habano wrapper that is mud brown in color. It is a bit veiny, yet supple, as it cloaks the somewhat soft frame. It burns rapidly as a result, but doesn't disappoint in the flavor or volume of smoke. I have to agree with a previous reviewer & classify the experience as medium. As the burn progresses, I do become a bit light headed, indicating some power in the tobaccos. Waves of spice & light pepper greet you upon lighting. An inch in & five minutes later, the bouquet blooms into flavors of caramel & oak. Very pleasant. The ash is grey & dislodges itself as I lay it down at 1 1/2". A. J. Fernandez makes some exciting blends & Habano is one I like particularly. Considering the cost & the rapidity at which the stick burns, I can't see myself purchasing a box. However, I will be looking for this blend on special or in a sampler, so that I can stow a few away for special occasions.
This is bar none one of the best cigars in the WORLD! In a world on decent smokes...this one stands apart from the crowd. The Churchhill is my favorite size in this blend...but all are AMAZING! If you want something that is a real treat give this flavor bomb a try
I've smoked and ordered many cigars from CI. I bought this San Lotano Habano as a single, instead of jumping into a box I didn't sample first. I'm glad I was prudent. If you are a fan of full flavored, full bodied cigars, this is not for you. This is a medium bodied cigar, not too much smoke, not too strong of flavor. On the upside, if you like medium cigars, this one will work. There are better for the price though, IMO.
At the price point, it is my absolute favorite smoke. It's my daily smoke, in fact. Since it's release, I've probably smoked (conservatively) 40 or so boxes of the toros, a couple of boxes of the robustos and a box of the torpedos. In those hundreds of cigars, I can recall one cigar that had any construction problem (which was a stem, that was an easy fix). Full bodied, velvety baker's chocolate throughout the smoke. If I could blend my own cigar for personal consumption, at this price point, this would be it. The only thing I might change is some smaller ring gauges in the blend (a traditional corona gorda or a corona would be fitting for the blend).
I just received a 5 pack of the San Lotano Habano Toro (6"x54) as part of a CI weekend deal for $14.99 with free shipping. After a nice dinner of steak covered in mushrooms, onions, and A-1 sauce, I figured I needed to try a full-bodied San Lotano. Do not be afraid of this smoke. Unlike many so called "full-strength" cigars, this smoke does not burn your lips with spice; rather it is heavy on leather and earth, especially in the first ¾". The smoke then mellows out but remains earthy. The last 1/3 adds white pepper while maintaining the mellow earthiness. The construction and draw are perfect, lots of smoke, tight white ash. One of the tastiest cigars I have ever smoked. Do not be afraid of the "full" rating of this smoke (I would rate it "full" in taste but not in power). It will not knock you on your backside. Order some the next time you see a deal on CI. You will not be sorry.
Oh my gosh this is a Powerful cigar! This Stoggie reminds me of Cuban Bolivar cigars! Except Bolivars have taste and more flavor.
Loads of nicotine here that will give you the jitters.
If you aren't use to the strength from a full bodied cigar this is not an entry level smoke. This cigar tends to be one dimensional in taste. There is an earthy taste that is always there and the aroma is on the acrid side.
To those that like this I salute you. Just not flavorful enough to me.
Just finished my first stick and this thing is one of the best surprises I've had in a long time. Not a lot of changes as it burns but that is not a negative. Consistent flavor, outstanding burn and draw. An excellent cigar by any measure! Highly recommend.
These cigars are only sold in a box, so I took a gamble and hit the jackpot. Dominated by mocha and cocoa with a refined cinnamon sweetness, they are perfectly balanced. These monsters sport a leathery, oily wrapper with an excellent draw. This is a relaxing silky smooth spicy cigar. If you like A.J. Fernandez smokes try a box. The box is a work of art and the double bands make these Habanos stand out.
Love this cigar. If you like this, and it's one of my top 5, you'll love the San Lotano Maduro. The box press torpedo is my favorite all time smoke. AJ Fernandez flat out nailed this tribute to his grandfather. Way to go AJ!
Without question one of the best cigars I have tasted this year. Construction is excellent. Burn is so even it is scary. Holds ash forever, as a matter of fact I have seen the ash hold to an inch and a half from the end. AJ has hit a Grand Slam with this one. At our local B&M it has become one of the best selling cigars in the store.....gotta to go and light one up....
Awesome cigar. Easily my favorite cigar of 2011. I am a big fan of AJ Fernandez, and his Man O' War line, but the San Lotano line, especially the Habano, is simply awesome, granted i haven't tried the Maduro yet.


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This autumn, the brothers Theo and Arjan van der Kaaij are going to use LED interlighting on some of their Red Vine medium-sized cluster tomatoes. Stolze BV will install a total of 8.330 LEDs in one of Van der Kaaij's greenhouses in Berlikum, Friesland. The aim is to use the LEDs to achieve continuous year-round high-quality production.
Convincing result
Through the ZON growers association, the Van der Kaaij brothers came into contact with other tomato projects that have been successfully lit with LEDs. Convinced by the good practical results achieved by their colleagues, they opted for a hybrid lighting system consisting of Philips GreenPower LED interlighting in combination with Agrolux HPS toplighting. Philips Horti LED Partner Stolze BV starts on the installation work in September. The first tomato plants will be planted in mid-October and Van der Kaaij is expecting the first harvest in December.
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Besides Van der Kaaij, this season Vivaio Peters BV from Someren, and tomato grower Biesbrouck Greet BVBA from Ardooie, Belgium, will also be starting new projects with LEDs. Last year, Kwekerij Wim Peters installed LEDs on his company in a hybrid system, which performed above expectations. Therefore, next year he is going to double this 20km of LED lighting.