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Available for: iPhone 4s and later, iPad 2 and later, iPod touch (5th generation) and later
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Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed through improved memory handling.
CVE-2016-4654: Team Pangu

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Advanced Contemporary Women's Fashion Brand Tibi Rolls Out NGC's PLM and ERP
Advanced Contemporary Women's Fashion Brand Tibi Rolls Out NGC's PLM and ERP
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NGC® today announced that Tibi, the New York-based fashion brand founded by designer Amy Smilovic, has implemented NGC's PLM and ERP systems. Tibi's designer collection is sold at over 600 retailers worldwide, including Net-a-Porter, Shopbop, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Harvey Nichols.
Tibi selected NGC's fashion PLM and apparel ERP software to support the popular brand's rapid growth. "NGC offered a comprehensive solution with both PLM and ERP, and that was very appealing to us," said Alexandra Boet, CFO of Tibi, LLC. "There were various features that stood out when compared to other systems, such as calendars and alerts that allow us to manage the business by exception. Based on our experience with our previous software vendor, we also liked the fact that NGC has a regional office that can provide customer support."
NGC's fully integrated PLM and apparel ERP system has enabled Tibi to streamline business processes and productivity, helping the company improve its overall efficiency. "NGC's software allows data from design, production, inventory, sales and accounting to live in the same repository," Boet noted. "This reduces time and error related to system interfaces, enabling us to get reports that correlate to different areas of the business. This allows us to focus our efforts on analyzing data rather than inputting it."
The systems have also had a positive impact on Tibi's supply chain, according to Boet. "We are now able to electronically exchange data with our trading partners in a systematic way," Boet said. "Most of our trading partners have been able to easily automate their processes, and this has eliminated the need for human data entry entirely."
"Tibi is one of the bright young stars in advanced contemporary women's fashion, and NGC is pleased that our PLM and ERP solutions are helping Tibi run its business more effectively," said Mark Burstein, president of sales, marketing and R&D, NGC. "NGC is proud to be working with Tibi."
About Tibi
Headquartered in New York, Tibi LLC (www.tibi.com) is a women's young designer collection known for its effortless take on feminine dressing - clean, modern, and relaxed. Tibi dresses the woman who has a laid back, minimalist sense of style that is decidedly feminine. Tibi is sold at over 600 retailers worldwide including Net-a-Porter, Shopbop, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, and Harvey Nichols.
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NGCis a leading provider of PLM, Supply Chain Management, ERP and Product Testing software and services for brands, retailers and consumer products companies. NGC solutions help increase profitability, reduce costs, improve speed to market and product quality, and manage compliance and testing.NGC has received top rankings by many leading industry analysts and has been recognized as a top 100 supply chain and logistics company by Inbound Logistics, SupplyChainBrain and Supply & Demand Chain Executive.
NGC customers include AX Armani Exchange, Aeropostale, Billabong, Carter's, Casual Male, Hugo Boss, Jos. A. Bank, Marchon Eyewear, Spanx, Swatfame, VF Corporation, and many others. NGC has offices in Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Canada, China, India, Mexico, and El Salvador and is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Software Inc. (NAS: AMSWA) . For more information, visit www.ngcsoftware.com.
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Tired of boring, repetitive raid bosses? I know I am! This week's Shared Topic encouraged our imaginations to run wild as we design our own, personalized boss fights. Sephrenia from Guild Mum is the one to thank for this very creative topic:
I was lying in bed the other day, thinking…. and I wondered what sort of boss I would be if I was a boss in WOW. Would I be an easy loot giving boss like Loot Reaver, Chess Event, Gunship, or would I be a really hard one, like STUPID ROTFACE who is driving us crazy at the moment, or Shade of Aran was in Karazhan for our guild many moons ago? What would my special abilities be? What loot would I drop?
Sharing their takes are:
Sephrenia from Guild Mum
Pheadra from DI the Tank
Exanna from OMG…Priest!
TwilliK from Arcane Envoy
Zan from Altoholic Anonymous
Dristanel from The Physician's Log
Windsoar from Jaded Alt
Ophelie from The Bossy Pally and the Giant Spoon
Next week's Shared Topic has a more futuristic flavor as we stop to think about the effect Cataclysm will have on our gameplay as well as the game changes we'd like to see.
To be part of any of the Shared Topics, stop by the forum at Blog Azeroth and take your pick from the many upcoming and past topics!


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John Boehner announced on Tuesday that he will proceed with a plan to suspend the federal debt ceiling, which is actually kind of a brilliant way to avoid crashing the world economy without voting for something that sounds like it increases the national debt. But, as part of his concessions to the looniest wing of the Republican party, he has also committed himself to passing a budget that would reach full balance within a decade.
Paul Ryan's budget, even while employing all sorts of fanciful projections, didn't balance the budget until 2040.Why? Because the parameters Republicans have picked for the budget make balancing the budget utterly impossible. Moving that timetable up by seventeen years changes the plausibility level from Level: Unicorn to Level: Unicorn Being Ridden By Santa Claus Who Has Lost 50 Pounds Through One Weird Trick. (That's why Santa's riding a unicorn now — otherwise, he'd be far too corpulent.)
Some actual budget wonks are surely working to show this as we speak, but in the meantime, some rough, rough math. According to Richard Kogan of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, balancing the budget in 2023 will require an estimated $800 billion in savings that year.
To begin with, the GOP has ruled out any tax increases. (Indeed, the $800 billion includes the tax hikes on the rich from January 1 that most Republicans voted against — knock those tax hikes out, and you'd have to cut more.) House Republicans also don't want to cut defense — indeed, they have voted consistently to increase defense spending over current levels. But to be charitable, we can assume the defense spending increase proposals fail.
What's next? There's Social Security and Medicare. But wait — Republicans have insisted that, as a basic principle of fairness, we cannot touch those programs for anybody 55 years or older. (They "should not be forced to reorganize their lives," says Paul Ryan.)
So what's left? You have, mainly, programs for the poor and very sick, like Medicaid, child nutrition, unemployment benefits, and so on. Then you have domestic discretionary spending, which is basically all the major functions of government that aren't either defense or writing a check to people — infrastructure, food inspectors, scientific research, and on and on. Republicans have already forced Obama to accept extremely tight caps that would cut domestic discretionary spending to well below its lowest level as a share of the economy in decades. How those caps would actually be implemented when it comes time to impose the cuts, I can't imagine.
But that's the pot of available savings. It's around a trillion and a half dollars in 2023. So, that means House Republicans will have to cut domestic discretionary programs and spending for the poor by about half.
Now, if you assume that Republicans aren't going to actually figure out how to go further than the domestic discretionary cuts they've already voted for — I doubt they can actually carry those out — then the available pool of spending is the $900 billion-some dollars spent on programs for the poor and sick: Medicaid, food stamps, etc. So we're looking at close to a 90 percent spending cut on programs for the poor and sick. I suppose Paul Ryan could spin this as a super-compassionate plan to help starving children and people with awful diseases learn to stop being moochers and take care of themselves.
More likely, you're going to see more sleight of hand: assuming faster economic growth, magic asterisks galore, and so on. Now, my figures are very back-of-the-envelope. But the inescapable fact is that Boehner has committed now to voting on something that would require even more draconian cuts to social spending than the Ryan budget. It could work! Also, the suddenly slim, unicorn-mounted St. Nicholas might swoop in, impale Obama, and somehow win the budget fight.
Update: Kogan does the full numbers and has a more complete breakdown here.


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One thing I've noticed about generous action is that it can be hard to talk about. More specifically, doing something generous and then telling folks about it doesn't necessarily feel natural.
The interesting part is to watch what happens when you spread a story about someone being generous to you.
For example, when I told people about my wonderful, outrageous experience of a stranger buying lunch for me and my family in Nashville over the holidays, people couldn't help but share their own stories of wonderful, outrageous generosity they'd experience. One of my favorites was from a colleague who recalls to this day the time she pulled up to a toll booth and was told that her father, in the car ahead of her, had paid her toll for her. In her words, "What's so funny about this is that my father was wonderful, caring…heck he paid for me to go to college…and yet that time he paid my 80 cent toll really sticks in my mind as a moment he did something special for me."
Our critical brains are so adept at explaining why a small gesture of generosity – money, time, a smile or an open ear – is small, limited, maybe inconsequential. Yet our own experience of generosity holds the real wisdom. When we experience generosity, we feel noticed; we understand that we are not so separate from everyone else; we suspect that people around us are there to support us; we don't feel alone.
When you hear about someone experiencing generosity, it's almost impossible not to recall and share that day when someone made you feel special, noticed, worthwhile and lucky.
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text: Security expert Dan Clements is building a virtual "lost and found" box for data, a concept he hopes companies suffering from data breaches will embrace to find out just how bad the damage is.Clements launched his startup, called CloudeyeZ, last September. He has since been nurturing an idea he says could save companies money by getting a better handle on how much data they've lost."There aren't a lot of solutions for companies that are hacked," Clements said.CloudeyeZ in California has a few different services. It works with freelance computer security consultants around the world who specialize in infiltrating forums, for example, that trade in stolen credit card and bank account details."We are virtual bounty hunters," Clements said.If a bank suspects it has been hacked, it could give CloudeyeZ a sample of the data believed to have been stolen, such as a Bank Identification Number (BIN) which identifies a bank associated with a credit or debit card. CloudeyeZ investigators report back where it was found, and leaves the next action to the bank, Clements said.Contacting law enforcement is sometimes "a last resort" when companies are trying to assess what was hacked, Clements said. The stolen data often isn't identified, and the perpetrators -- many who are likely to live outside the U.S. -- are unlikely to be prosecuted.He envisions CloudeyeZ as a step before contacting law enforcement, where companies can get a grasp on what is lost and figure out the least expensive way of handling it.CloudeyeZ is building a database called the Blind DB to store small bits of text and numbers, which could be matched with lost data. Only vetted parties would have access. CloudeyeZ hopes law enforcement agencies will eventually contribute stolen data so it can be matched with organizations hit with a data breach, Clements said. CloudeyeZ doesn't hold all of the data it finds, as it would rather direct people to where the data is actually hosted.CloudeyeZ is also experimenting with posting bits of information to Twitter: one of the latest cryptic clues revealed is "52082XXX24,5013,110,33617, wesley, IT guy."The company also has an escrow arrangement where it acts as a middle-man between a finder of information and its seeker, collecting 20 percent of the reward money. CloudeyeZ provides a sample of the suspected stolen data to its bounty hunters, who then search the underground, contacting their own informants for more information.In one case, a bank paid a reward for finding some of its intellectual property, Clements said. How does an organization ensure it isn't buying its own property back from the thief? It doesn't, Clements said."It's up to them how they want to handle that batch of property," Clements said. "We don't make a judgement call on how the property got out into the cloud. It could be stolen, but we are not going to make that judgment. We are hired by the owner to retrieve it, no questions asked."Clement said CloudeyeZ is still an edgy concept, but one ready for a post-hack realm. There are so many young males using keyboards as the equivalent of an AK-47 firearm, he said."They can get into almost anything," Clements said.Send news tips and comments to firstname.lastname@example.com


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HARDY, Sir CHARLES, naval officer, colonial administrator, and office-holder; b. c. 1714, son of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Hardy and Elizabeth Burchett; m. July 1749 Mary Tate; m. secondly 4 Jan. 1759 Catherine Stanyan, and they had three sons and two daughters; d. 18 May 1780 at Portsmouth, England.
Charles Hardy entered the Royal Navy in 1731 under his father's patronage; he was promoted lieutenant six years later and captain in 1741. His early years at sea were spent in American waters; from 1741 to 1743 he served off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. Appointed governor of Newfoundland on the outbreak of war with France in 1744, Hardy failed to take up his post and was tried by court martial for neglect of duty. He was exonerated, however, after it was shown that he had unsuccessfully battled contrary winds for 63 days before returning to port. The following year, in command of the Torrington, he helped convoy reinforcements from Gibraltar to the newly captured fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island. He served off the coasts of Spain and Portugal from 1746 until the peace in 1748, when he was placed on half-pay.
In 1755 Hardy was knighted and appointed governor of New York. The post became one of considerable importance since, in preparation for war with France, London decided that year to make New York City the arsenal of British arms in North America. A rather self-effacing man, Hardy proved to be an effective governor. He was especially useful to Lord Loudoun, commander-in-chief in North America, who expressed his gratitude for "the assistance and friendship I have met with from him on every occasion." In the spring of 1757 Hardy suggested that a trade embargo be laid on the British colonies in order to ensure an adequate supply of transports for Loudoun's planned attack upon Louisbourg and to prevent the French learning of the British plan from captured ships. The embargo affected shipping from Nova Scotia to Virginia and was the cause of many complaints from the business community, probably because it was enforced more effectively than any other embargo in colonial America.
In June Hardy convoyed the transports intended for the siege of Louisbourg to Halifax, Nova Scotia. He had been promoted rear-admiral in 1756, and at Halifax he became second in command to Vice-Admiral Francis Holburne. The presence in Louisbourg harbour of a large French naval force under Comte Dubois de La Motte [Cahideuc*], intelligence about which came in part from Hardy's observations, led to the cancellation of the expedition. Hardy had advised against it in any case, arguing that the season was too advanced for British ships to keep their stations off Île Royale. His opinion was well founded since in September a hurricane wreaked havoc in Holburne's fleet cruising off Louisbourg.
In July 1758, as second in command to Vice-Admiral Edward Boscawen*, Hardy took part in the successful siege of Louisbourg and the following month convoyed three regiments under Wolfe* to the Baie de Gaspé and the lower St Lawrence River. The force did considerable damage, burning about 200 fishing boats and numerous stages, storehouses, lines, and nets; the hamlet of Mont-Louis, taken by surprise, was razed. Hardy, however, did not agree with Wolfe's proposal to sail farther up the river, and he turned back off he du Bic. He was probably fearful of the dangerous navigation and anxious to return to Louisbourg in case he had received orders to sail to England.
From 1759 to 1762 Hardy served in home waters as second in command to Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hawke and to Boscawen; in November 1759 he participated in Hawke's celebrated success off Quiberon Bay, France. He was promoted vice-admiral in 1762 and two years later was elected to parliament from Rochester, a seat he held until 1768. In 1771 he was returned for Plymouth and was appointed governor of Greenwich Hospital at £1,000 per annum. Seven years later he became, through seniority, admiral of the fleet.
When Admiral Augustus Keppel resigned the command of the Channel fleet in 1779, no active officer would agree to succeed him, and Hardy was drawn out of his long retirement. His ships were greatly outnumbered by a Franco-Spanish fleet which appeared in the Channel in August and he was forced to retreat, but the enemy neither attacked nor attempted to capture a bridgehead for the 40,000 troops waiting in France to invade England. The following May, on the very day Hardy resumed the command, he was seized "with an inflamation of the bowels (a disorder to which he was much subject) and expired on Thursday (18 May) morning at three o'clock." In his will he left an annuity of £1,000 to his wife, and his seat at Rawlins, Oxfordshire, to his eldest son.
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We didn't adopt Belle from a shelter, but we rescued her. Craig's list! The owner was just throwing her out because she wanted to move. She was sending her to the kill shelter. Anyway, we are so blessed to have her! She's the best dog. So if anyone reads this and hasn't looked, try Craig's list! You'd be surprised how many people are on there just throwing dogs and cats away like trash!! And so many of them are just sweet babies who need homes!ReplyDelete
These are awesome tips! When we got Zoe we were not ready at all and had no doggie supplies. My husband was very resistant to getting a dog and so I took him to the shelter to "just look at the dogs". I was dog experienced and knew exactly what I was looking for. I wanted a small to medium sized dog, short hair that was medium energy. We went to the shelter and Zoe was the last dog we looked at. She was the calmest one there. Just laying on her bed among the other barking dogs. It was love at first sight! We adopted her and immediately went to Petsmart to get stuff. LOL. When we got Phoenix I was a lot more prepared because I had a ton of extra dog stuff. We only had to buy a second crate when we got her.ReplyDelete
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Yikes...I just read what the MilitaryPugWife said...it is SO sad that people actually just throw animals out like trash. I cannot even think about it...makes me sick. You are right, it is a big decision. Some of my best dogs were adopted from our local shelter. My Big Guy came from there...he was just the BEST dog ever and I still miss him every day.ReplyDelete
I hope all people will follow your advice... specially #1... it's the worst to get adopted and to come back to the shelter, because something is wrong or it wasn't well planned...ReplyDelete
All our cats are from shelters...they have always been great, well, not sure about Bert, but he is a whole different animal! Mom's first dog was a shelter pet too and wonderful.ReplyDelete
These are all great because you want to make sure you are ready for the commitment of time, energy and money!! It would be nice to have someone at those adoption events kind of letting people know that it is serious and forever and wonderful but also making sure they know ALL the information possible before making the commitment.ReplyDelete
What great tips!! Arty and Jakey were shelter pets, and they are the most pawsome brothers ever!!
PeeEss...Stop by to see how we are participating in Adopt a Shelter Pet, this month!
Some excellent tips! The more knowledge and information, the higher success rate!
Your Pals,
Murphy & Stanley
Those off shelter adoption events are great, but I do hope the staff does everything to discourage impulse buying. I've never gotten a shelter pet, but three of them needed to be re-homed and I had put out the word that I had a home. One was found on the streets and never claimed.ReplyDelete
These are great tips Melissa!
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Those are really great and useful tips!
Wonderful tips!
Mr Bailey, Hazel & Mabel
All of your tips are "spot on" for a successful adoption. Unfortunately too many pets are returned after they are adopted because people weren't prepared. I hope everyone considering adoption gets a chance to read your post. Sharing.ReplyDelete
This is a wonderful post!ReplyDelete
Those are some great tips. I do wish that shelters could look at individual cases a bit more instead of having rules set in stone. I think that sometimes the dogs or cats miss out on great opportunities because the rules that are supposed to help didn't in their case.ReplyDelete
Excellent tips! We hope all humans read them and take them to heart when they want to adopt a new pet.ReplyDelete
Good advice.ReplyDelete
Hi Y'all!
Excellent advise. It is sad that often dogs miss a chance for a happy home because shelters or rescues insist the adopter be within so many miles so they can do home visits. Shelters would be advised to work together to allow more dogs to be adopted out of their immediate area and still be sure they are going to a stable home.
Y'all come on by,
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Terrific points, every one of them! All are important to consider.
Love & Biscuits,
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Pawesome post and such great tips!!ReplyDelete
Pawesome post, guys!!ReplyDelete
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great tips, thanks for sharing them.ReplyDelete


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//February 26, 2013
WASHINGTON — Profits at U.S. banks jumped almost 37 percent for the October-December period, reaching the highest level for a fourth quarter in six years as banks continued to step up lending.
The figures are fresh evidence of the industry's sustained recovery more than four years after the financial crisis.
Banks earned $34.7 billion in the last three months of 2012, up from $25.4 billion a year ago and the highest for a fourth quarter since 2006, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reported Tuesday. Sixty percent of banks reported improved earnings from the fourth quarter of 2011, the agency said.
The FDIC, created during the Great Depression to ensure bank deposits, monitors and examines the financial condition of U.S. banks.
For all of 2012, the agency said bank earnings rose 19 percent to $141.3 billion, the second-highest annual level ever.
The number of banks on the agency's "problem" list fell to 651 from 694. Banks had lower losses on loans in the fourth quarter and set aside almost 25 percent less to cover potential losses than in the final quarter of 2011.
"The improving trend that began more than three years ago gained further ground in the fourth quarter," FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg said at a news conference. Still, "troubled loans, problem banks and bank failures remain at elevated levels, while growth in lending and revenue remains sluggish," he said.
Banks with assets exceeding $10 billion drove the bulk of the earnings growth in the October-December period. While they make up just 1.5 percent of U.S. banks, they accounted for about 82 percent of the industry earnings.
Those banks include Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. Most of them have recovered with help from federal bailout money and record-low borrowing rates.
Gruenberg noted that banks' profit from interest they charge has been eroded by historically low interest rates during the economic recovery. Banks' net interest income fell to $104.4 billion in the fourth quarter from $107.1 billion a year earlier. That was the lowest quarterly level since the final three months of 2009, the FDIC said.
The decline in interest income has made banks increasingly reliant on the fees they charge.
For the sixth time in seven quarters, banks' lending increased. It rose by 1.7 percent in the fourth quarter, led by growth in commercial and industrial loans, and credit cards. That shows banks are becoming less cautious, which could help the economy. More lending leads to more consumer spending, which drives roughly 70 percent of economic activity.
Home equity loans fell by 2.2 percent, however.
So far this year, three banks have failed. That follows 51 closures last year, 92 in 2011 and 157 in 2010. The 2010 closures were the most in one year since the height of the savings and loan crisis in 1992.
In the fourth quarter, the decline in bank failures allowed the insurance fund to continue to strengthen. The fund, which turned from deficit to positive in the second quarter of 2011, had a $32.9 billion balance as of Dec. 31, according to the FDIC. That compares with $25.2 billion at the end of September.
The FDIC is backed by the government, and its deposits are guaranteed up to $250,000 per account. Apart from its deposit insurance fund, the agency also has tens of billions in loss reserves.e


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CRS: INTERNET GAMBLING: A SKETCH OF LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS, January 11, 2001
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Title: INTERNET GAMBLING: A SKETCH OF LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS
CRS report number: RS20485
Author(s): Charles Doyle, American Law Division
Date: January 11, 2001
- Abstract
- S. 692 as passed by the Senate and H.R. 3125 as introduced would have outlawed commercial use of the Internet to gamble and facilitate gambling with fairly broad exceptions for certain forms of legalized gambling. Individual bettors would not have been covered and there were to have been exemptions for fantasy sports leagues, horse racing, dog racing, and state lotteries, among others. Violations would have been subject to criminal penalties and court injunctions. Service providers who cooperate with authorities in good faith enforcement of the Act would have been immunized for their cooperation and for violations occurring through use of their facilities. Although similar in most respects, S. 692 and H.R. 3125 had some differences. For instance, S. 692, but not H.R. 3125, would have exempted certain gambling and gambling-related activities conducted under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. The proposals were not enacted during the 106th Congress, but the Justice Department appropriation legislation did include a section subsequently enacted and drafted to clarify the legality of the use of interstate communications in connection with off-track parimutuel gambling.
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Sean Kelly announces Callum Innes: Liminal, an exhibition of the artist's most recent work from both the Exposed Paintings and the Untitled Lamp Black Paintings series.
In Innes's work, layers of paint are laid down on meticulously gessoed canvas and ultimately covered in black. Innes then uses turpentine to remove the layers from sections of the painting, revealing the luminous color that lies underneath. The process is repeated several times, alternating between application and removal. In the Exposed Paintings, the residue from this process is left on the canvas's surface directly below the "exposed" section, creating another layer of color altogether. In the Untitled Lamp Black Paintings, the picture plane is split in half vertically; the colors are painted and left to dry before the black paint is applied and subsequently taken off on one side. The candescence of these works comes from the initial color itself, altered by the removal of the black. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Innes explained "I make a painting and work with the surface, then dissolve it, taking it off with turpentine. In many ways, I am dissolving an image that is in my head…With the paintings, [I] make a black made of many colors…until I dissolve it. Then the colors separate so that color will be revealed."
Innes has achieved an intense luminosity with the paintings that comprise Liminal, so much so that the works almost appear to be lit from within. The new Exposed Paintings include some of Innes's largest to date, measuring over seven and a half feet in height. The creation of the works is physically arduous as they have to be completed in a single day. The Untitled Lamp Black Paintings include the eponymously named color, a matte black of particular richness and depth. The muted surface of this matte black on one half of the paintings stands in stark contrast to the ethereal glow of the chromatic intensity on the other half. The resultant works of both series are spare, elegant canvases that combine a formal precision with an intense poetic beauty and conceptual complexity.
Callum Innes has emerged as one of the most significant abstract painters of his generation, achieving widespread recognition through major solo and group shows worldwide. He was awarded the Jerwood Prize for Painting in 2002, and the Nat West Prize in 1998. In 1995 Innes was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. Recent critically acclaimed museum exhibitions include From Memory, which traveled throughout Europe and Australia in 2008-9, Callum Innes: Recent Work at the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh in 2010 and Callum Innes at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, England in 2013. Callum Innes: Materials and Process, at the Neues Museum in Nürnberg, Germany and Guerlain Donation at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, France are both currently on view.
In 2012, Innes created a permanent commission for the Edinburgh Art Festival, entitled The Regent Bridge. Innes's work is included in many major public collections worldwide, including: the Tate Gallery, London, England; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France; the Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland; the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland; the Museum of Modern Art, Ft. Worth, Texas; and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
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Facebook is extending the scope of its site into Twitter and Google+ territory by making it possible for Facebook members to subscribe to each other's public posts without necessarily having to be approved friends.
The option to let other Facebook members subscribe to one's public posts will go live across the site in the coming days, Facebook said on Wednesday.
This feature will apparently replicate Twitter's "follow" model and similar functionality available in Google+. This is a capability that famous users have been requesting for a while, because personal profiles have a maximum limit of 5,000 friends.
A way to get around this limitation on Facebook has been to set up a promotional Page, but for this type of user, that means managing two presences on the site.
Now, users will be able to let others subscribe to their public posts without having to add them as friends, a move that puts Facebook in much more direct competition with Twitter and adds a major new usage scenario for Facebook members.
This new Subscribe Button is the latest in a rapid-fire string of new features Facebook has added in the past month, which many industry observers believe have been prompted by the launch in limited beta of Google+ at the end of June.
This week, Facebook announced new features to simplify and automate the grouping of friends, and earlier made its privacy controls more prominent and easier to use, two improvements seen as reactions to the Google+ Circles feature.
Previously, Facebook also rolled out video chat, which it lacked when Google+ launched with its Hangouts video chat feature.
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Rumour: Ubisoft has 'restarted' Rainbow Six: Patriots three times
Ubisoft has offered 'no comment' on the rumour that Rainbow Six Patriots has been "redesigned from the ground up three times," according to Superannuation. Ubisoft's Laurent Detoc has said before it "wasn't working". He said at the time a "very influential" editorial group within the publisher decides if something goes forward or not, and that they're "not going to bring it to you" if it doesn't.
Rainbow Six: Patriots wasn't working and is being remade, states Ubisoft
Two years ago, Rainbow Six: Patriots was announced, with a new dynamic story and a "We are the 99%" theme. Since then, the game quietly dropped out of site. Ubisoft's NA president Laurent Detoc explained that the game wasn't working and had to be remade.
GameStop cancel pre-orders for Ubisoft's Rainbow Six: Patriots
US retailer GameStop has pulled pre-orders for Rainbow Six: Patriots, although others continue to service them for now. What's going on? Officially Ubisoft have "nothing further to share" about the title. Will Ubisoft be scrapping the project? It seems unlikely. What's more likely is that it's getting a major overhaul significant enough to affect the product listing, and so GameStop feel it should be relisted.
UbiSoft: Rainbow Six: Patriots still on track despite personnel changes
A few days ago, it was reported that there was some significant leadership change in the development team working on Rainbow Six: Patriots. Creative director David Sears, narrative director Richard Rouse III, lead designer Philippe Therien, and animation director Brent George were allegedly fired at the time. It was later confirmed that Sears was indeed cut from the project.
Rumor: Top Rainbow Six: Patriots staff axed from development team
UbiSoft has confirmed that at least one of the lead staff of the Rainbox Six: Patriots development team at UbiSoft Montreal has been axed. The original unnamed source had revealed that creative director David Sears, narrative director Richard Rouse III, lead designer Philippe Therien, and animation director Brent George had been removed from the project. Ubisoft has confirmed that Sears is no longer with the team.


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Would Reagan back gay marriage?
The daughter of President Ronald Reagan says she thinks that her father would not "stand in the way" of gay marriage.
"He was a very tolerant person," Patti Davis, 60, the late president's youngest daughter, said on a YouTube showabout gay rights on Wednesday. "He did not have prejudices against gay people."
Davis suggested her father's conservative views — support for the stability of the traditional family and a desire to remove government from people's lives — and friendships with gay people dating back to his years in Hollywood would lead him to back gay marriage.
"I think he would be puzzled, on the one hand, on why anyone would have a problem with people wanting to be married and wanting to be committed to one another," Davis said. "What difference does it make to anybody else's life? I also think because he wanted government out of peoples' lives, he would not understand the intrusion of government banning such a thing. This is not what he would have thought government should be doing."
Asked directly if her father would support same-sex nuptials, Davis said: "I don't think he would stand in the way of it, at all. I don't think he would stand in the way of two people wanting to make a commitment to one another."
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The show, "Gwissues," is hosted by Howard Bragman, a public relations executive and gay rights activist who is a longtime friend of Davis.
Like the slew of politicians who have endorsed same-sex marriage in recent weeks, Davis said her father's views on gay rights were shaped by people he knew. Davis said that, when they were out town, her parents would often leave her and her siblings in the care of lesbian friends.
"I grew up understanding that they were a married couple," Davis said. "You know, I had aunt and uncle this and aunt and uncle that and then I had aunt and aunt."
She also related a story of watching a Rock Hudson movie with her father as a child, and remarking to him that Hudson looked uncomfortable kissing a female co-star. Hudson, a friend of the Reagans, never revealed his homosexuality to the public and died of AIDS in 1985.
"Well, he said, 'That's because he doesn't want to be kissing her,'" Davis recounted, laughing. "'He would rather be kissing a man.' … He said, you know, 'Some men love other men, some women love other women, and that's just the way they are.'"
Reagan's delay in forcefully addressing the spread of HIV and AIDS has long earned him the ire of gay rights activists, but as governor of California, he forcefully opposed a ballot initiative that would've banned gays and lesbians from working in public schools.
Davis has long espoused liberal views. She gave the interview while promoting her self-published novel, "Until Human Voices Wake Us," about two sisters-in-law who leave their husbands after falling in love. Her conservative brother, Michael Reagan, wrote an op-ed in late March encouraging American churches to continue fighting against gay marriage. The op-ed did not invoke or mention their father's views.


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From the Hans Christian Andersen biography "The Life of Hans Christian Andersen. Day By Day", written by DPhil Johan de Mylius:
1840Tribute from the students at Lund
Journey in Europe and the Orient.
1840: Tribute from the students at Lund
3 February
First performance of Mulatten (The Mulatto. Original Romantic Drama in five Acts). The play is staged a total of 21 times during HCA's life. This work provides HCA with an income of 800-1000 rdl.
5 February
The Mulatto is published as a book. The play is, with its depiction of the pariah and sexuality to be found within the tension between the social spheres, from lower to upper levels, a dramatic counterpart to the novel O.T.
Early 1840
Swedish translation of O.T. is published under N.H. Thomson's Bibliothek af Den Nyaste Litteraturen (Stockholm).
11 March
The vaudeville monologue, Mikkels Kjærlighedshistorier i Paris (Mikkel's Love Stories from Paris), is performed for the first time at the Royal Theatre. Performed 3 times during HCA's life.
13-20th April
To Skåne once again. Via Malmø to Hyby.
17 April
Tribute from the students at Lund, Sweden.
13 May
En Comedie i det Grønne (A Comedy Out in the Open Air. Vaudeville in one Act) (Adapted from Dorvigny and Kotzebue) is staged at the Royal Theatre. Music by Edv. Helsted. 33 performances during HCA's life.
Receives a fee of 40 rdl. for the play, something HCA later feels is out of proportion with the success of the play. Requests in 1842 that the fee by adjusted to 100 rdl.
4th - 24th June
Visits Nysø.
27th - 30th June
Sees the coronation ceremony held at Frederiksborg Castle.
24th July - 11th August
Summer journey to Odense and Glorup Estate. Attends a concert in Fåborg, where he sees the Voigt family once again (Riborg's family) and her husband.
1840: Journey in Europe and the Orient.
27 October
Release of Comedy Out in the Open Air (En Comedie i det Grønne).
31 October
HCA departs on a journey which would last almost one year, returning to Denmark on 13th July 1841. This journey would provide him with background material for En Digters Bazar (A Poet's Bazaar). Before the trip he had read, whilst staying at Hyby Estate in June 1839, Voyage en l'Orient, a book by Lamartine.
Earnings from The Mulatto were to pay for the journey, at least the first part of it. HCA hoped to be paid an equal amount for (sales of) The Moorish Maid (Maurerpigen) (800-1000 rdl.). This anticipated extra income was to finance the journey on to "the Orient".
3 - 4th November
Stays with Conrad Rantzau Breitenburg, count of the estate at Itzehoe.
6 November
Visits the poet K.F. Gustzkov (who belongs to the radical "young Germany") in Hamburg and hears Franz Liszt play at a concert.
9 November
Pays a visit to the publisher Vieweg in Braunschweig.
10 November
Travels by train for the first time. The trip from Magdeburg to Leipzig (approx. 110 km) lasted from 7 am till approx. 10.30 am. This is the train trip HCA describes in his famous passage in En Digters Bazar (A Poet's Bazaar), namely the chapter "The Railway". Here he calls the railway "a master piece of the mind and says that he has now:
"...with all my consciousness, seen God face to face, as it were, [....]. Emotion and imagination are not the only rulers within the realm of poetry. They have a brother, equally powerful, called intellect"
11 November
Seeks out Mendelsohn-Batholdy during a rehearsal of Beethoven's Symphony no. 7. in Gewandhaus. Dinner with the Brockhaus family (the publisher himself was in Paris).
14 November
Visits Fr. Compe, a book seller in Nürnberg.
17th November - 1st December
Staying in München. Spends time with the poet H.P. Holst. Visits the painter Fr.L. Storch for the first time on 17th. Storch was, like HCA, from Funen. Attends a concert on the 21st with the pianist Sigismund Thalberg.
18th - 23rd November
Publication of "Die Seejungfrau" (The little Mermaid) in Magazin für die Literatuer des Auslander (Magazine of Foreign Literature) (Berlin).
26th November - 3rd December
"Die Seejungfrau" is published in Frankfurter konversitionsblatt.
27 November
Visits the painter Kaulbach at his studio:
"a pale young man with the face of a genius, but with a tortured look. He knew who I was and shook hands with me tenderly, gave me an explanation in print of his latest work which stood before me, painted on cardboard",
(the diary, same day).
Kaulbach becomes a life long friend of HCA and later creates a widely distributed illustration of HCA's story "Engelen" (The Angel).
29 November
Visits the philosopher Schelling.
2 December
Departure from Munich. Goes through Innsbruck, Brenner, Bolzano, Verona, Mantova and Bologna to Florence (12-13th December); continues via e.g. Perugia, Assisi, Foligno, Terni, Civita Castellena and Nepi to Rome.
Also in December, release of Billedbog uden Billeder af H.C. Andersen. Ny Samling. Helliget mine svenske Venner (Picture Book without Pictures by Hans Christian Andersen. New Collection. Dedicated to my Swedish Friends), including the evenings 21-30 (no. 22, 24, 25 and 27 had been printed in Denmark earlier in the year). Printed in Hertha, Svensk-Dansk Nyärsgäfva för 1841.
A new Swedish collection of HCA's fairy-tales is released in Lekkamraten (the shared title of several booklets, first issued in December 38, published by L.J. Hierta). Additional booklets are released before Christmas 1841 and 1842 (the last one including "Den lille Havfrue" (The little Mermaid), which HCA had recommended to Hierta, in a letter dated 16th April 1839, as a fairy-tale which would be more suitable for Hierta's Läse-Bibliothek, as it was "intended more for adults".
In this month there is also the publication of Johan Ludvig Heiberg's Nye Digte (New Poems), in which HCA's dramatic writing is labelled as fit for the theatre in hell. (in: A Soul after Death (En Sjæl efter Døden).
18 December
Maurerpigen (The Moorish Maid. Original Tragedy in Five Acts) is staged at the Royal Theatre (performed 3 times in total). HCA's earnings from this fiasko amount to just 300 rdl, rather than the expected 800-1000. HCA is therefore obliged to apply to the king for extra travel grants from the fund ad usus publicos, so as to be able to reach Constantinople.
Mrs Heiberg had refused to play the lead role in The Moorish Maid, and Heiberg himself had been against the play being accepted at all. On this occasion, HCA has a falling out with the Heibergs. And it was Heiberg who had introduced HCA to the literary scene in the late 1820's.
19 December
Maurerpigen (The Moorish Maid) is released as a book.
19th December - 24th February 1841
In Rome.


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Chris Isaak Pays Tribute To Sun Studio's Golden Years
What if you could time-travel back to Memphis' Sun Studios in the 1950s? Behind the console would be none other than producer Sam Phillips. You might hear such classic songs as "My Happiness," "Crazy Arms" or "Walk the Line," originally recorded at Sun Studio by Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash, respectively. On a new two-disc set, Chris Isaak pays tribute to the legendary music recorded at Sun Studio with Beyond the Sun.
When Isaak stopped by to talk about the album with All Things Considered host Melissa Block, he brought his guitar to sound check. Isaak recorded Beyond the Sun at the legendary Sun Studio and, in this interview, marvels at the talent of Phillips.
"From everything I've seen about him — the things that I keep hearing from different artists — was he encouraged them to be themselves," Isaak says. "Elvis Presley walks into Sun Studio in the '50s, and when he walked in that room, I think if it would have been a lesser man producing, he would've said, 'I could make this guy into a kind of a Southern Dean Martin.' But Sam Phillips was bigger than that. Whoever walked through that door — Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis — he took these guys who were so unique, and instead of saying, 'I'm gonna knock off the edges,' he said, 'Yeah, I love it.' "
It's interesting, then, that Phillips didn't hold on to any of these future stars for very long. They went to major labels like RCA Records.
"I called my album Beyond the Sun because it starts at Sun Studio, and those guys all went on and just kind of took off like rocket ships," Isaak says. "They all did great material, but I think that he really shaped their sound."
Sing Like Elvis, Get 50 Bucks
One of those future stars was, of course, Elvis Presley. Naturally, Isaak says that everybody in his generation wanted to be Elvis.
"I would sing those songs a lot," Isaak says. "I was shy. I did all my guitar playing in the house. And then finally, I was throwing hay and working in Stockton [Calif.] and somehow [someone] had heard me singing in the house and said, 'Hey, I'll hire you for our fraternity party or sorority party.' And I said, 'Well, they gonna pay me?' 'Well, yeah, we'll pay you 50 bucks.' I mean, that's how much I made for throwing hay all day. I was like, 'You bet! Yes!'
"And my brother and I, I remember us both going, we had made little song lists of songs we knew, and we played all the songs, and they were very happy," Isaak says. "And at the end, we walked out and put our guitars in the car, and some girls came out. It was the first time that I went, I connected, 'Hey, if you sing, you're getting paid, girls are talking to you.' Then my older brother — these girls were talking to me, I was trying to be suave, and you're 16, 17 or something — and my brother says, 'That's my younger brother Chris. He ain't never seen no full-grown nekkid woman.' I just remember that line. And the girls, of course, they just took off. I looked at him and said, 'Where do you come up with this stuff?' "
But Isaak didn't want Beyond the Sun to be an album of musical impressions.
"You know, I knew those versions really by heart. I said, 'I don't want to do an Elvis impression. I don't want to do a Carl Perkins impression on these things, so let's just learn the songs really well and then let's forget 'em.' And that's what we did. We rehearsed it a lot. I don't know what people think making a record is like, but basically, I got a bunch of spaghetti and spaghetti sauce, and the whole band was staying at my house and we had a ball. It's a bunch of grown men acting like we're 15-year-olds, but it's like, we're all at this house, and we're playing music night and day. And we did all that work — by the time we got to the studio, we knew the songs, and then we just had fun."
A Natural Sound
With the kind of talent that came out of Sun Studio, you might picture a grand building on 706 Union Avenue in Memphis. Its actual humble appearances are deceiving.
"The ceiling looks like if you ever passed out and were looking up at the ceiling, it was like a stairwell ... not that I have," Isaak says. "It's not a flat ceiling, so [the bounce] of the sound is very unique. The walls are all covered in those old 1-foot-by-1-foot acoustical tile, [and it] looks like someone took a pencil and jabbed a million holes in it. It's the same tile that's been there forever. That would deaden the sound, you'd think, and yet the floor is a concrete floor with hard linoleum, so you get this slap sound. And that studio — everybody who's ever gone in and played sets up, starts playing guitar, and then they stop, and then they go, 'Wow. It sounds good. They don't have to do anything in here.' It's just the room sounds good, you know?"
For Beyond the Sun, Isaak picked songs that he'd been singing his whole life.
"I think the same way I always imagine people will play the record at their house. I imagine them doing stuff with music like the way I do," Isaak says. "I put music on and I drive around town. I put music on [when] I'm washing my car. And I put on music if you have someone and you're trying to make love, you put that on the background and you go, 'Maybe this will be romantic. If Frank Sinatra is singing, maybe everything will go good.'
"Some of those songs, people know right off the bat," he adds. "Other songs, they may not know the title. They'll know it when they hear the song. And then some of the songs like 'Miss Pearl,' I don't think people have heard before. And a few songs I wrote. I wanted it kind of all mixed up, so you put on the song and go, 'Yeah, I like this. I know some of this stuff, but it won't feel like I'm eating at a '50s diner.' "
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5 Vegetarian Recipes For the Perfect Weekend BBQ
This blog does not intend to provide diagnosis...
In this article:
- Delicious Vegetarian Barbecue Recipes
- Vegetarian BBQ Quinoa Salad
- Vegan Portobello Tacos on the Grill
- Lemon Walnut Coleslaw Alternatives
- Sweet Potato Quinoa Burger on the Grill
- Dairy-Free Chocolate Ice Cream Alternatives
Being vegetarian does not have to mean that barbecues are out of reach. These tasty vegetarian cookout options will be loved by both vegetarians and carnivores.
Delicious Vegetarian Barbecue Recipes
As temperatures warm up, more and more people plan for barbecues with friends and family. But it can be quite disappointing to show up at a cookout and find that the only vegetarian option is a plain hamburger bun. Here are some great meat-free alternatives that are suitable for any barbecue. Even meat lovers are sure to enjoy these hearty dishes.
Vegetarian BBQ Quinoa Salad
This is a fun twist on the pasta salads found at so many barbecues. Unlike most mayonnaise-rich pasta salads, this quinoa salad has a light and refreshing taste. Thanks to the addition of quinoa and chickpeas, it has plenty of protein and is hearty enough to be one of the main entrees at a cookout. With a fun mixture of brightly colored vegetables, a big bowl of this is a tempting centerpiece on any buffet table.
- 2 cups water
- 1 cup raw quinoa
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- 2 tsp. dried garlic
- ½ tsp. sea salt
- ½ tsp. black pepper
- 1 red bell pepper, chopped into ¼-inch pieces
- ¾ cup chopped red onion
- 1 cucumber, seeded and diced
- 1 cup minced fresh parsley
- 2 cups cooked chickpeas
- Rinse the quinoa thoroughly and put it in a saucepan with the 2 cups of water. Bring to a boil before lowering to a simmer for 15 minutes. Once the quinoa has absorbed the water, take it off the heat, cover it and let it sit for five minutes.
- Combine the olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, sea salt and black pepper in a bowl to make the dressing.
- After the quinoa is cool, combine it with the bell pepper, onion, parsley, cucumber and chickpeas. Toss to combine before adding the dressing and stirring again.
- Let the salad sit in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes before serving to let the flavors combine.
Vegan Portobello Tacos on the Grill
Looking for vegan alternatives to grilled meats? Portobello mushrooms are the perfect option because they have a hearty flavor that pairs well with savory, smoky flavors. These tacos combine perfectly grilled portobellos with fresh veggies and a vegan cheese sauce to make a satisfyingly delicious meal. They are so tasty that many people find their meat-loving friends want a few, too! This recipe normally works as a full meal for two people or a snack for four, so make sure to size up accordingly.
- 4 portobello mushrooms
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ½ tsp. ground cumin
- ½ tsp. paprika
- ½ tsp. garlic powder
- ½ tsp. chili powder
- Sea salt to taste
- 2 Tbs. nutritional yeast
- 1 cup raw cashews
- 1 Tbs. lemon juice
- ¼ tsp. black pepper
- 4 Tbs. water
- 1 cup diced tomatoes
- ¼ cup chopped cilantro
- 1 avocado sliced into strips
- Flour tortillas or wraps of choice
- Remove the stems from the portobellos and toss them with the olive oil, cumin, paprika, garlic powder, chili powder and salt. Set them aside to marinate for a half hour.
- While the mushrooms marinate, make the cheese sauce by combining the nutritional yeast, cashews, lemon juice, black pepper and water in a blender and blending until silky smooth.
- Place the mushrooms on a hot grill. Let one side cook for six minutes before flipping and cooking another six minutes. If desired, grill the tortillas for 10 seconds a side to warm them up.
- Slice the grilled mushrooms into strips.
- Fill the flour tortillas with mushrooms, tomatoes and avocado slices before drizzling with cheese sauce and sprinkling with cilantro.
Lemon Walnut Coleslaw Alternatives
This lemon walnut coleslaw is a tasty alternative that is packed with nutrient-rich foods. The walnuts give a person plenty of healthy omega-3 fats while the cranberries are a great source of vitamin C as well as B vitamins. A tangy dressing made with lemon instead of mayonnaise means that this delicious coleslaw alternative is entirely vegan. One of the big advantages of this salad is its versatility. It can be served as a side at a traditional cookout, yet it is also flavorful and filling enough to be an entree option for vegan guests.
- Juice of one lemon
- Zest of one lemon
- ⅓ cup avocado oil
- 1 Tbs. honey
- 1 tsp. salt
- ¼ tsp. black pepper
- 1 apple peeled and chopped into bite-sized pieces
- 1 cup toasted, chopped walnuts
- 1 cup dried cranberries
- 2 tsp. poppy seeds
- 14 ounces shredded cabbage and carrot coleslaw mix
- Make the dressing by blending together the lemon juice, lemon zest, avocado oil, honey, salt and black pepper, and set aside.
- Put the apple, walnuts, cranberries, poppy seeds and coleslaw mix in a mixing bowl and toss to combine it.
- Drizzle the dressing over it and stir until thoroughly combined.
- Place the coleslaw in the refrigerator for at least a half hour.
- Place in a large bowl and serve.
Sweet Potato Quinoa Burger on the Grill
This is another great vegetarian BBQ alternative that can be grilled alongside more traditional offerings. The key to this recipe is using finely chopped nuts to give it more texture while the quinoa provides filling protein. The sweet potato makes it nice and tasty. With a yummy blend of southwestern spices, this burger tastes even better than many meaty options. Unlike most vegetarian burger options, this burger is completely egg-free. It uses a flaxseed gel mixture to bind all the ingredients together without requiring animal products.
- 1 Tbs. flaxseed
- 3 Tbs. water
- 1 cup cooked black beans
- 1 cup cooked quinoa
- 2 cups cooked sweet potato
- ½ cup pecans
- ½ cup diced and sautéed onion
- 1 Tbs. cumin
- 1 tsp. smoked paprika
- 2 tsp. chili powder
- 1 tsp. garlic powder
- ½ tsp. sea salt
- Mix together the flaxseed and water and set it aside to form a gel.
- Mash the black beans and sweet potato until a fine, crumbly mixture forms. Avoid using a food processor that may make too smooth of a paste.
- Chop or process the pecans until they are in small, coarse bites.
- Mix together the beans, quinoa, sweet potatoes, nuts, onion and spices. Form the mixture into patties. Sweet potato patties do not shrink like beef patties, so be sure to create a patty in the desired final size.
- Put the burgers on a nonstick baking sheet and bake them at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes. Meanwhile, heat up the grill.
- Remove patties from the oven and cook them on the grill for five minutes per side. Handle them carefully while flipping to avoid crumbling.
- Serve on a bun or in a lettuce wrap. Tasty topping options include lettuce, tomato, avocado, sour cream, cheese, mayo and more.
Dairy-Free Chocolate Ice Cream Alternatives
No cookout is complete without a tasty chilled dessert. A lot of common cookout favorites tend to have dairy, but this does not mean that vegans have to go without dessert. People who give this recipe a try are shocked to see just how easy and delicious it is to make dairy-free chocolate ice cream. The secret ingredient is simply frozen bananas, and only one other item is required. The end result is an incredibly creamy dish that tastes rich and chocolaty while still being entirely vegan. Keep in mind that the texture is best when it is eaten directly after being made.
- 2 bananas
- 3 Tbs. cocoa powder
- Peel the bananas and slice them into half-inch rounds. Spread the bananas on a flat baking sheet lined with parchment paper and place them in the freezer until firm. Depending on how thick the bananas are sliced, freezing can take anywhere between 20 to 60 minutes.
- Place the frozen bananas and the cocoa powder in a food processor or blender. A processor works better, but a blender is fine if that is the only available equipment.
- Pulse on high for a few moments to finely chop everything up. Then, run the mixer steadily for a few minutes. The banana mixture will gradually transform from a rough, chunky-looking puree into a smooth, silky mixture with a texture like soft serve ice cream.
- Serve the vegan ice cream in a cone or a bowl. If desired, top with chopped berries, chocolate fudge, sprinkles or caramel drizzle.


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H-Net: Past, Present, and Future
The Ghost of H-Net Past
When H-Net began in 1994, email was a rarity, the internet was a collection of text-based gopher files that you could access if you knew the right commands, and scholars in small departments or isolated areas never had the chance to talk with someone else in their field. Into these dark times, H-Net editors took on the challenge to teach their colleagues how to use email. Editors promoted discussions of which archives were the most useful for which subjects. H-Announce soon started to replace physical paper flyers to announce conferences. Isolated scholars learned about funding opportunities, could research archives before visiting, and increased their intellectual life by having discussions with fellow scholars. Listserv lists connected people around the world in ways that had never before been possible. It was all very exciting.
But then, Netscape invented a way to put images on the web. People learned how to make their own webpages. Archives started digitizing images and texts and putting finding aids online. Facebook came around and suddenly the problem was not how to find someone to talk to but how to find time for all your new Friends. Twitter made it easy to follow other scholars. Instagram and snapchat made discussions of far-away places more visually interesting. And H-Net lists went on as usual. Discussions dropped off as scholars found other ways to communicate and research.
The Ghost of H-Net Present
In 2008, the H-Net Executive Council learned that the listserv software was not going to be usable much longer. It could not deal with increasing numbers of spam messages. The software was going to be unsupported soon. H-Net faced some major changes and the choice was not whether to change but how to change. It took a few years for Council and the Staff to settle on Drupal as the new platform. H-Net has always been committed to open-source software and having all of our products free to the user. (Institutions pay for the Job Guide ads but the job searcher has free access.)
Once the decision had been made to use Drupal, there were another few years of deciding what H-Net needed and how to make it work. There were wireframes, discussions, lots of changes, more discussion, input from editors, more changes, and on and on until a few years ago we had a design that could be field-tested. This was announced as the H-Net Commons, and networks – no longer just lists – moved to the new system. We immediately found flaws and bugs and the staff found fixes. The second version of the Commons went live and the number of issues has gone down.
There is still room to improve. We can make the experience for users and editors better and those changes are taking place. Many networks are doing about the same as they were before the move: sending out announcements mostly and maybe having the editors spark a few discussions. New editors could bring new life to old networks.
The Ghost of H-Net Future
For some networks, the move to the Commons has sparked a burst of creativity. They have experimented with the new tools and found amazing ways to use them. Take a look at H-Diplo's Roundtable reviews, essays of various sorts, and discussions. Several networks have blogs, some have started collecting teaching materials. H-War has its "Hand Grenade of the Week" blog. Networks with ties to professional associations can be of much more service to their organizations now. We have H-Podcast and the book channel coming out. The future looks bright – if . . .
We need more editors to make use of all the Commons has to offer. Imagine H-Net as a place to find primary sources and discussions on those sources. What a boon to students and teachers alike! Imagine H-Net as a place to publish conference papers, to house bibliographies and historiographies, to highlight student projects in digital humanities. The Commons can be a wondrous place – if . . .
H-Net runs on mostly volunteer labor. A few staff people are paid out of Job Guide proceeds but that budget is limited. If we have more money coming in, we could hire more staff at MSU to help with the under-the-hood work that goes on out of sight. If we have more in the budget, we can offer some support to editors so they have time to create this wonderful content. You have given H-Net your time. Now we are asking that you give a little money, too, so H-Net can continue to grow and reach its potential.
Don't be a Scrooge. Give generously. H-Net needs your support.
Thanks and Happy Holidays!
Jean Stuntz
H-Texas, H-SAWH
President-Elect, H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online