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Navel Piercing Experience
el Piercing Experience
It's been two years since I had my navel pierced, but the memory hasn't
faded any, and I know that it never will.
I still haven't decided whether I prefer spontaneous events to planned
ones, but this was probably the most spontaneous thing I've ever done. I'd had an
interest in doing
something drastic, purely for shock value. I was only sixteen, so when my
said no to the idea of a nose ring, I seriously had to consider their
opinion. The
idea of a belly-button ring hadn't really appealed that much to me, there
isn't much
shock value in something people can't see.
I had a huge crush on a beutiful blonde at the time, we were good friends, so as a result we spent a lot of time together. She was with me on that night, in fact she was probably the reason I actually went through with it. We dropped by a couple of hair dressers who we knew used to pierce noses with guns. They wouldn't do a navel piercing, for which I'm thankful, I might have actually gotten it done with the gun. We only went to see them out of curiousity, I had no intention of getting a hole punched through my skin. We figured that while we were out, we might as well go visit the town's only tattoo parlor, who also advertised body-piercing.
When we came in he was busy planning a Metallica tattoo on a guy's back. I felt intimidated around him, he was a big, long-haired, stoned biker. I asked him a couple questions about the equipment he used, the procedure... and how much it cost. I thought forty dollars was too much, but I was still considering it. He said that if we both got one done he'd drop it to thirty-five, not a big drop in price, but it was all I needed. She needed a little convincing, especially since she didn't have the money and I was offering to pay. We agreed that it would just be a loan, and that I would go first.
I was so nervous! I was sure it would hurt like an SOB, so the adrenaline was flowing like a river. I hadn't anticipated the need to shave my stomach, but it didn't suprise me too much. He had a good laugh about the mole I have in my belly-button, but then he got down to business. I didn't understand most of what happened, the forceps where a foreign idea to me, I didn't even realize the needle was hollow. My body was tensed like a clock-spring, and then when he put the needle through... It didn't hurt in the least bit, I was watching him do it, and I couldn't believe it was actually through, and I hadn't felt a thing. I got off the bed, walked around, looked in a mirror, saw that some friends of mine had shown up to see if I'd gotten it done or not, they told me I looked pale, I said I was fine, and fell flat on my face.
I've always been a little embarassed about nearly passing out (ok, maybe I
did pass out).
Lately though, I've learned a lot more about body-piercing, and realized that it was the rush that put me down, and that was worth it.
Jason McCarthy
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DxOMark image quality testing protocols for lenses and sensors
Testing protocols for distortion, LCA, and vignetting
We measure Lateral Chromatic Aberration and distortion on the DxO Labs dot chart, which is a pattern of regularly distributed black dots on a glass support. We chose glass because it provides the flatness and shape stability necessary for these measurements. The dots printed on the chart are circular and perfectly aligned, forming a grid.
Measuring vignetting (the darkening of an image near its corners) requires using the white background of the same dot chart. Before shooting, we align the camera sensor on the target plane and carefully check the uniformity of the lighting to ensure that it remains within the +/-4% range. To further enhance the accuracy of the vignetting measurement, we characterized the actual illumination uniformity of the chart using a calibrated camera-lens couple. We also set the color temperature to 5500K (corresponding to daylight).
We take a picture for each focal length and aperture. The camera remains at the same shooting distance so that the same chart area is framed, which means that the chart illumination is exactly the same for every focal length and aperture.
Finally, we take two additional pictures for each focal length at two different distances, with the lens focused at infinity, in order to calculate the Effective Focal length (EFL).


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Two nights ago the sports world watched an astonishing drama unfold during the final games of Major League Baseball's regular season. Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated aptly described it as "the most thrilling 129 minutes in baseball history." With the Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees less than three outs away from winning their respective games, fans witnessed a series of spectacular, come-from-behind plays that propelled the Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Orioles and Tampa Bay Rays to victory.
What does this have to do with antique automobiles? Well, there's a good chance that the 2011 Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards presented by the American and National Leagues will go to athletes that played in Wednesday night's games. And, it just so happens that baseball's first MVP award originated with an automobile company. Just over 100 years ago, the Chalmers Motor Car Company cleverly decided to promote their cars by piggy-backing onto baseball's popularity at the time. In 1910, president Hugh Chalmers announced that the player from each league with the highest batting average would be presented with a trophy and brand-new Chalmers Model Thirty. Controversy soon surrounded the American League's top contenders, Ty Cobb and Napoleon Lajoie, which Chalmers sidestepped by awarding each a new car.
|Photo courtesy of the Creamer Family
While it remains to be determined who will be remembered as baseball's Most Valuable Players from 2011, this Chalmers-Detroit has already established itself as one of Alaska's most valuable automotive artifacts. While she still needs work to get her in top running condition, hopefully she will be ready to run in next year's Golden Days Parade--exactly 100 years after her arrival in this fair city.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Apr 2013 21:14 UTC
"OS X 10.9, which is internally codenamed 'Cabernet', will focus on various 'power-user' enhancements and take core features from iOS, according to our sources. Unlike operating system updates such as OS X Leopard and OS X Lion, OS X 10.9 will likely not be an overhauled approach to how the operating system feels and functions." Features for power users and features from iOS? Seems like an oxymoron. Still, if they manage to finally fix the Finder and Spaces, I'll be happy.
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RE: OpenGL & filesystem
by moondevil on Tue 30th Apr 2013 07:18 UTC in reply to "OpenGL & filesystem"
The two things I want from Mac OS are a newer version of OpenGL and a better filesystem. OpenGL 4 would be nice but even 3.3 would be a significant step forward.
This always pisses me off.
Thanks to the iPhone usage of OpenGL and their inputs for OpenCL, Apple has brought life back into OpenGL, and then they always have an outdated implementation full of proprietary extensions on their desktop OS.


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April 18, 2008
The Lipscomb Bisons beat USC Upstate 9-5 Friday night in Spartanburg, S.C., at Harley Park.
Kyle Tognazzini threw the final 2 2/3 innings for the Bisons to earn the win. He did not allow a run and struck out two.
The Bisons rapped out 15 hits with right fielder Shane Simpkins, first baseman Ryan Wilkins and second baseman Ben Williams each collecting three hits.
Designated hitter Justin Sanders, third baseman Branden Cadavid and Williams each drove in a pair of runs.
Sanders was the big hitter with both a home run and a double. Catcher Caleb Joseph hit his 12th home run of the season. Center fielder Allen Bolden also added a home run.
Rex Brothers opened for the Bisons, allowing five runs and 10 hits while striking out eight in 5.1 innings. Chris Burnette pitched a scoreless inning before Tognazzini closed out the game.
The Bisons are 21-16 overall, 15-7 in the A-Sun. USC Upstate is 18-21, 11-11.
The two teams meet Saturday for a doubleheader.


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8Pen's input method comprises from four sectors with stacks of characters on each side. In the middle, the big black circle is the spacebar. You start each gesture from the spacebar, and then you circle around the 4 sectors depending if the character you want to reach is 1st or 2nd, or 3rd, or 4th. So to type "a", which is the first character in its stack, you only circle around its immediate sector, while to reach "r", which is 2nd in its character stack, you must circle around two sectors. Difficult to explain, but this video can make it clearer.
This is obviously a very innovative way of looking at typing, although there is a steep learning curve, mostly because the characters stack order is based on how much they're used in the English language. So for example, for "a", which is used a lot, it's just a 1-sector long gesture, while for the less-used "z", it's 4 sectors long. I believe that it's possible to learn this system in about 1-2 days if you work it. I learned where all the vowels are stacked within 10 minutes for example.
The system allows for custom gestures, so for example you can create your own quick gesture for whole words or sentences that you use a lot.
I worked with 8Pen since I bought it yesterday, but I can't imagine this system being able to get faster than actual typing. Actually, this is not entirely true. 8Pen can be faster than a soft keyboard, but only if the screen is smaller than 3.5". In that case, single-handed operations like 8Pen are possibly faster than the error-proneness of a tiny soft keyboard. But on larger screens, especially on 3.7"+ screens and for people with somewhat small fingers, Swype or a normal soft-keyboard are possibly faster than 8Pen. But this is for people who are after Guinness records to clarify for us. Overall, I'd say that 8Pen is faster than hand-writing, and much faster than Palm's Graffiti, and it holds a definite advantage in smaller screens.
The other advantage of 8Pen, that could prove major, is that it's blind-friendly. And not just for blind people, but also for users who can walk and type without looking at a screen. A lot of youngsters were able to do that with T9 back in the day, and it's certainly possible with 8Pen, while it's not as easy with any other touch system. The jury is still out on BlindType, since there's no available version for it yet, but also BlindType doesn't seem to be as friendly typing both blind and with a single hand -- something that's possible with the 8Pen. Only thing missing from 8Pen is vibration when the finger touches the "spacebar" circle, so we get a clue as to where the starting point is.
So what to use? I think that all these systems have their place. Soft keyboard if you're not keen to learn new things or your fingers are small enough, Swype and BlindType if you're after speed and flexibility, and 8Pen if you're working on a small screen and you're interested in single-hand blind-typing.


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The Search Marketing Expo in Stockholm coming up next September, to be exact 23-24 September this year. The conference chair is my friend Sara Andersson, the founder & senior strategist at Search Integration. The exhibition is shared with eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit which runs 23-24 September.
As a representative of Nordic eMarketing I am speaking at a session called "Nordic Search – What's going on?" where I am speaking with John Brenne and Christer Pettersson. John is the general manager of WebCertain Norway and Christer is the Online Manager for Search at Eniro. So it's looking like a great session.
I am also speaking about "Reputation Monitoring & Management Through Search" with Mikkel deMib Svendsen, Creative Director of deMib.com and David Lerdell from Lerdell Investigation.
Check out the full agenda of the Search Marketing Expo, great stuff!


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Thecus N3200XXX NAS Server Review
When the subject of storage arises, the direction always seems to be 'more'. I certainly can't seem to recall ever having heard someone say they had too much storage and were looking to reduce the amount of free space. We have all probably experienced the situation where we thought we had an absurd amount of storage that would never be filled, only to find ourselves scrambling to delete files because storage space was getting low. Let's face it, we're all facing a need for increased amounts of storage, especially as our collections of multimedia files grow. Whether it's music, videos, or photographs, you're going to need the ability to safely store and back up an increasing amount of data.
A recent study sponsored by storage giant EMC, titled Extracting Value from Chaos, found that the amount of data generated worldwide is doubling every two years. Some users might shrug their shoulders and wonder what the big deal is, especially with the availability of 3TB drives from the leading hard drive manufacturers. Besides the problems of addressing volumes greater than 2.1TB, which we won't go into here, throwing larger volumes at the problem ignores some of the greater benefits of turning to a solution such as network attached storage (NAS) servers.
Besides being able to quickly add significant amounts of storage, NAS devices also provide protection against hard drive failures through RAID volumes, allow users to share files across the network, and provide the ability to grow storage capacity through online capacity expansion technology. These are just a few of the benefits offered by NAS servers and we'll be examining the Thecus N3200XXX NAS server designed for the SOHO/home market. The N3200XXX is an upgraded and improved version of the Thecus N3200PRO NAS Server we reviewed a while back.
Thecus has been around since 2004 and specializes in digital media storage. The company offers a complete line of storage devices, ranging from a simple two-bay direct-attached storage enclosure on up to 16-bay rackmount enterprise-grade servers. Given Thecus' focus on storage from both the hardware and software sides, let's take a look at the N3200XXX and see what it has to offer.
Closer Look:
As with the previous Thecus units we've reviewed, the N3200XXX arrived in a heavy-duty corrugated cardboard shipping box with the unit tucked inside. The shipping box protected the unit during shipping, but there was some damage to the the box containing the NAS that had to have happened prior to shipping. The front of the product carton features a picture of the N3200XXX, but more prominent is the 'XXX' moniker, which we'll get into in more detail later – suffice it to say it has nothing to do with what you're thinking about! Moving around to the side of the box, we see graphics depicting suggested ways to utilize the NAS server in a typical home environment. The back of the box mirrors the front with the addition of several features depicted across the bottom. That just leaves the other side where we see where the 'XXX' comes from with text touting the Extreme Speed, Extreme Protection, Extreme Data Backup, and Extreme Power Management of the unit. Yes, I know, that's four 'extremes' and there are only three Xs in 'XXX'. We also see the damage I mentioned earlier — the box has been penetrated, so I'm hoping the unit is undamaged once we take it out.
Once we open the box, we can see the N3200XX is cushioned by a pair of closed-cell foam inserts. The inserts suspend the unit within the confines of the box and provide an area of dead space between the unit and the walls of the box. In this case, you can thank the packaging engineers for a job well done, as the unit escaped unscathed from the damage to the outside of the carton. A plastic bag covers the unit as well, providing an additional layer of protection. Also inside the carton is a bag containing a quick installation guide, a Cat 5e network cable, and an installation CD, along with additional software including an OEM version of Acronis True Image backup software. Also in the box are an external power adapter and power cord.
With the unit free of all the packaging, you can get a better look at the plastic wrap used as a further layer of protection against scratches. A closer examination showed the unit was in pristine condition, none the worse for wear despite the damage to the box. Looking at the unit directly from the front, you see a scalloped cover with slits exposing the cooling grill for the hard drive bays. The area below the cooling slits is dominated by the LCD panel with the control buttons off to the right with a power indicator light in the middle (the power button itself is protected by the front door to prevent accidentally powering down the unit). Along the bottom you can make out the LAN/WAN and HDD activity LEDs. From the side you can see the slightly concave profile that keeps the enclosure from looking so flat. The rear panel of the unit is mostly given over to the thermally controlled 92mm cooling fan. Along the bottom, from left to right, are the dual Ethernet ports, a single USB 2.0 port above an eSATA connector, and the power connector. There's also an expansion slot reserved for future cards Thecus might release. The bottom of the unit sports a set of four rubber pads designed to keep the unit from slipping, as well as allowing you to stack the unit if needed.
This is a good time to draw some comparisons of the physical characteristics between the N3200XXX and the N3200PRO. The units are physically identical in all aspects except for the front and that's where the differences really show up. If you click on the link for the N3200PRO above, in the pictures at the bottom of the first page, you'll see the upper half of the front is taken up by three grilled openings. This section of the N3200PRO is really a removable cover that you lift off in order to be able to access the hard drive bays. The N3200XXX makes a major improvement in this area as the front cover is all one piece and is now a hinged door with a push-to-open catch on the right side. The door swings open to provide better access to the power switch, as well as the front USB port. The controls on the N3200XXX are a little more refined and sleeker as well. You'll also notice the grill openings are smaller on the N3200XXX, so let's hope that doesn't negatively impact its cooling performance.


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Manziel sticks to football business at NFL combine
Manziel sticks to football business at NFL combine
Johnny Manziel was all business Friday at the NFL scouting combine.
He walked to the podium, provided mostly thoughtful, deliberate answers and even suggested some of his previous quotes have been overblown.
Now team executives and coaches must determine whether the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner is the guy they want leading their offense and serving as the face of their franchises.
Manziel would not confirm his measurements, reportedly a little under 6-feet and 207 pounds, short and light by NFL standards.
Instead, he promised to be all football, all the time as a rookie - the kind of words new Texans coach Bill O'Brien was waiting to hear at the other end of the Lucas Oil Stadium media room. Houston has the No. 1 pick in May's draft.


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A business chief has welcomed Trade Minister Lord Livingston's announcement of tailored export help for all mid-sized businesses.
George Cowcher, Chief Executive of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire Chambers of Commerce, said: "The Chamber welcomes this move to increase exports, which in turn will create jobs and wealth regionally and nationally.
"As a Chamber of Commerce, DNLCC is part of the Global Chambers Project, which involves working with Chambers of Commerce around the world to drive international trade.
"For many years Chambers of Commerce has been the globally-recognised brand for international trade and individually, regionally, nationally and globally Chambers work closely with governments and partners such as UKTI to help businesses seek out and capitalise on overseas markets.
"DNLCC hosts an annual international trade exhibition and conference, takes businesses on trade delegations to existing and rising economies, offers a complete export paperwork service and delivers a comprehensive international trade training programme, and will continue to do so. All DNLCC services are already tailored to individual company needs.
"What is not yet known is the detail of how the Government plans to deliver its new export drive but DNLCC will do whatever it can to work with the various agencies to ensure it is properly and effectively delivered and hope Government will utilise the expertise and connections DNLCC, British Chambers of Commerce and the Global Chambers Project have to make it work."


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Beautiful fully furnished 3 bedroom apartment for rent set in a serene location in Kileleshwa
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Sitting room with comfortable sofa sets in earth colours, beautiful Ethiopian carpets, African art sculptures and wall hangings, mahogany coffee table and TV cabinet
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Copyright (c) 2009-2015 Alexander Motin <firstname.lastname@example.com> Copyright (c) 2006 Marcus Alves Grando Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Matthew Jacob, for NASA/Ames Research Center Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the abo...
NAMEisp - Qlogic based SPI and FibreChannel SCSI Host Adapters
SYNOPSISTo compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
device scbus device isp
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf5:
DESCRIPTIONThis driver provides access to SPI or FibreChannel SCSI devices.
SPI supports initiator mode for Ultra SCSI and wide mode transactions for SCSI Ultra2 LVD (1080, 1280), and Ultra3 LVD (10160, 12160).
Fibre Channel supports initiator and target modes of FCP SCSI profile, utilizing Class 3 and Class 2 (2200 and later) connections. Support is available for Public and Private loops, Point-to-Point and Fabric connections.
FIRMWAREFirmware loading is supported if the ispfw(4) module is loaded. It is strongly recommended that you use the firmware available from ispfw(4) as it is the most likely to have been tested with this driver.
HARDWARECards supported by the sysctl Cm net.inet.tcp.syncookies driver include:
- Qlogic 1000
- Fast Wide, Ultra Fast Wide cards, Single Ended or Differential SBus cards.
- Qlogic 1020
- Fast Wide and Differential Fast Wide SCSI PCI cards.
- Qlogic 1040
- Ultra Wide and Differential Ultra Wide SCSI PCI cards. Also known as the DEC KZPBA-CA (single ended) and KZPBA-CB (HVD differential).
- Qlogic 1080
- LVD Ultra2 Wide SCSI PCI cards.
- Qlogic 10160
- LVD Ultra3 Wide SCSI PCI cards.
- Qlogic 1240
- Dual Bus Ultra Wide and Differential Ultra Wide SCSI PCI cards.
- Qlogic 1280
- Dual Bus LVD Ultra2 Wide SCSI PCI cards.
- Qlogic 12160
- Dual Bus LVD Ultra3 Wide SCSI PCI cards.
- Qlogic 210X
- Copper and Optical Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop PCI cards (single, dual).
- Qlogic 220X
- Copper and Optical Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop PCI cards (single, dual, quad).
- Qlogic 2300
- Optical 2Gb Fibre Channel PCI cards.
- Qlogic 2312
- Optical 2Gb Fibre Channel PCI cards.
- Qlogic 234X
- Optical 2Gb Fibre Channel PCI cards (2312 chipset, single and dual attach).
- Qlogic 2322
- Optical 2Gb Fibre Channel PCIe cards.
- Qlogic 200
- Dell branded version of the QLogic 2312.
- Qlogic 2422
- Optical 4Gb Fibre Channel PCI cards.
- Qlogic 246x (aka 2432)
- Optical 4Gb Fibre Channel PCIe cards.
- Qlogic 256x (aka 2532)
- Optical 8Gb Fibre Channel PCIe cards.
- Qlogic 267x/836x (aka 2031/8031)
- Optical 16Gb FC/FCoE PCIe cards.
CONFIGURATION OPTIONSTarget mode support for Fibre Channel adapters may be enabled with the
options ISP_TARGET_MODE
BOOT OPTIONSThe following options are switchable by setting values in /boot/device.hints
They are:
- hint.isp.0.fwload_disable
- A hint value to disable loading of firmware ispfw(4).
- hint.isp.0.ignore_nvram
- A hint value to ignore board NVRAM settings for. Otherwise use NVRAM settings.
- hint.isp.0.fullduplex
- A hint value to set full duplex mode.
- hint.isp.0.topology
A hint value to select topology of connection.
Supported values are:
- lport
- Prefer loopback and fallback to point to point.
- nport
- Prefer point to point and fallback to loopback.
- lport-only
- Loopback only.
- nport-only
- Point to point only.
- hint.isp.0.portwwn
- This should be the full 64 bit World Wide Port Name you would like to use, overriding the value in NVRAM for the card.
- hint.isp.0.nodewwn
- This should be the full 64 bit World Wide Node Name you would like to use, overriding the value in NVRAM for the card.
- hint.isp.0.iid
- A hint to override or set the Initiator ID or Loop ID. For Fibre Channel cards in Local Loop topologies it is strongly recommended that you set this value to non-zero.
- hint.isp.0.role
- A hint to define default role for isp instance (0 -- none, 1 -- target, 2 -- initiator, 3 -- both).
- hint.isp.0.debug
- A hint value for a driver debug level (see the file /usr/src/sys/dev/isp/ispvar.h for the values.
- hint.isp.0.vports
- A hint to create specified number of additional virtual ports.
- dev.isp.N.loop_down_limit
- This value says how long to wait in seconds after loop has gone down before giving up and expiring all of the devices that were visible. The default is 300 seconds (5 minutes). A separate (nonadjustable) timeout is used when booting to not stop booting on lack of FC connectivity.
- dev.isp.N.gone_device_time
- This value says how long to wait for devices to reappear if they (temporarily) disappear due to loop or fabric events. While this timeout is running, I/O to those devices will simply be held.
- dev.isp.N.wwnn
- This is the readonly World Wide Node Name value for this port.
- dev.isp.N.wwpn
- This is the readonly World Wide Port Name value for this port.
SEE ALSOda(4), intro(4), ispfw(4), sa(4), scsi(4), gmultipath(8)
AUTHORSThe sysctl Cm net.inet.tcp.syncookies driver was written by An Matthew Jacob originally for NetBSD at NASA/Ames Research Center. Some later improvement was done by An Alexander Motin Aq Mt firstname.lastname@example.com .
BUGSThe driver currently ignores some NVRAM settings.
Fabric support for 2100 cards has been so problematic, and these cards are so old now that it is just not worth your time to try it.


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Coffee shops: An article in the July 14 Food section described Paper or Plastik cafe as being in Pico Village. It is in PicFair Village.
Los Angeles has never lacked for stimulation, but when it comes to coffee its tendencies, like much of the rest of the country's, have been more about habit than taste. Oh, sure, coffee joints are ubiquitous, both the homegrown variety (Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf) and the interlopers (Starbucks, Peet's, Seattle's so-called "Best").
But when, in the middle of the last decade, artisan roasters and skilled baristas started to raise the bar on coffee culture yet again on the West Coast -- at Vivace and Victrola in Seattle, Stumptown and Ristretto in Portland, at Blue Bottle, Four Barrel and Ritual in San Francisco -- L.A. was mostly left behind.
Small Atwater Village bakery in which Cognoscenti, a one-man company manned by former architect turned pop-up barista Yeekai Lim, has set up a coffee bar using beans from Four Barrel (San Francisco).
Nik Krankl mans the espresso machines at his mother's (Gail Silverton) gelato shops in Los Feliz and Studio City, while he canvases the city for his own cafe location.
Bright bustling cafe in Pico Village -- with a working dance studio attached -- brewing Intelligentsia beans.
Sleek new cafe in downtown L.A.'s Bank District, brewing coffee from Noble (Ashland, Ore.), Verve (Santa Cruz) and Ecco (Santa Rosa)
Elegant Silver Lake restaurant and cafe, outgrowth of a family-owned roasting facility in Alhambra. Proprietor Craig Min medium-roasts single-origin coffees with a global reach.
Selected connoisseur-grade coffee bars in Los Angeles neighborhoods and in Orange County.
Two tiny high-volume downtown cafés, specializing in Blue Bottle beans (San Francisco).
Two cafes in Silver Lake devoted to Central and South American single-origin coffees. Roaster Angel Orozco opened these cafes to provide a place for organic coffee growers to sell their wares.
Chicago-based company that has inserted itself seamlessly into three L.A. neighborhoods. Single-origin and fair-trade coffees light-roasted at its Glassel Park roasting facility.
Airy, Minimalist West Hollywood cafe with multiple bean sources -- Coava (Portland, Ore.), Sightglass (San Francisco), Victrola (Seattle) -- for multiple styles.


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Well people always tell me i'm in skinny jeans...
Sigh... I can't help that my thighs used to be 31 inches around...
But since I cut back on power lifting my legs shrank down to about 28 inches around.
So I can't really fit skinny jeans... I make jeans Skinny...
Sad thing is I can't fit boxers anymore...
Tired of all the fucking lies...
skinny jeans aren't good for a mans junk .... theirs a reason why testes are below the body
A lot of hipsters in Seattle wear skinny jeans. That's fine, they can wear what they want to wear.
I have never worn skinny jeans myself, it just doesn't seem comfortable. I don't want my junk squeezed.
Winter Is Coming.
I want to be a mango forever.
It doesn't fit on guys.. is what i think. ~!
Crunchyrolling is my thing -ttebayo!
Skinny jeans on boys is a no for me.
Sing sweet.....
I've come across guys wearing skinny/girls jeans. Not exactly a good look, that's for sure.
Feel free to add me as a buddy, or have a chat. I don't bite.
I don't really like it.
But, honestly, I get the feeling that all guys have a sort of feminine side to them. I mean girls wear them to show off our curvy legs....
Do guys want to show off their legs too?
Dilly Bisket!
I don't like tight pants, especially if the fabric is thick. It pinches and squeezes and feels uncomfortable. Like high heel shoes.
But I'm not gonna judge someone else based on their pants.
(For small guys, I guess it looks kind of cute.)
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Wear 'em all the time. I see nothing wrong with it.
Nice to skate in. If you can't move around, or you can see genitalia, you're wearing the wrong pants. Get some nice Levi's. They're not really "skinny" jeans, but their skinny fit is nice.
skin tight pants are a no-no.
I'm wearing a pair of skinny jeans right now, and they are much more comfortable than I thought. Tried some super skinny and no, just no, those will never work for me.
Thay are all gone O_O
Personally ...I kinda like them but i classify skinny pant as 2 things.And i only like it a little bit tighter knees down...
And personally ,i don't wear jeans that often ,so i often end up just wearing some sweat pant like pants,that aren't sweat pants lol
Type 1 :
The type that cole2day mentioned
These are the skinny pants that are bad for your junk LOL
Type 2:
+These are easy to move in ,doesn't cause suffocation of you little brother downstairs.
And i only like it a little bit tighter knees down...Cuz more than that ...ouch XD
But i don't have anything against guy wearing them cuz its none of my business,but i like them (2) and the other ones i don't really think it fits any guys.I sure like typing
Feel Free To Ask Any Cheese Related Questions.=P
Apple bottom jeans *jeans*, boots with fur *with the fur*, comes into my head when I saw this.
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The type that cole2day mentioned
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These are the skinny pants that are bad for your junk LOL
Nah, i was talking about these.
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They're actually quite comfortable. Not too tight in the crotch area, not too tight in the thigh. Plenty of room.


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Alibi Picks
Every Needs a Little Love and Effexion
Effexion: The Many Facets of Love opening reception
Join Albuquerque's Best of Burque Best Arts Event purveyors the Guerrilla Photo Group as they team up with Albuquerque's Best Gay Nightclub, Effex, to bring you a Valentine's Day photography show for the entire month of February. Featuring the work of over a dozen photographic teams consisting of a photographer, at least one model, makeup artists and lighting assistants, GPG's oeuvre showcases the work of studio shooters working on high concept shots. "This is a multi-artist photographic exposition of the many facets of love," said Rip Williams, founder of the Guerrilla Photo Group. Photos will be hung upstairs in the old hallway adjacent to the old lounge, and will feature both black and white and color photos that fit the theme. The show opens tomorrow and will run thru the 28th. Get more information at guerrillaphotogroup.com. Effex Nightclub • Sat Feb 2 • 8-11 pm • FREE • 21+ • View on Alibi calendar


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Copiague Library budget vote and trustee election Tuesday April 26
Voters heading to the polls on Tuesday to cast their ballots in the Copiague Library's budget vote and trustee election will have the chance to see the library's new renovations. Construction was recently completed on an addition to the building. Library Director Kenneth S. Miller said that this is a wonderful opportunity to showcase their work to the community.
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Moving Sports Documentary: NBA Houston Rockets Draft Pick "Royce White's" Struggle With Social Anxiety Disorder!
"Last June, we spent 24 hours with Iowa State forward Royce White before the NBA draft. To us, Royce was the most intriguing story in the draft, with an extraordinary combination of skills and size. He's also incredibly open about his generalized anxiety disorder, which he deals with on a daily basis" - @geelock @Hockfilms @highway_30
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The boys of summer | Chuck's World
I have nothing to say about the World Cup. I want to be upfront about that, in case there's somewhere else you need to be.
I come from a generation that didn't play soccer, except as a two-week course in gym class. We also explored gymnastics, table tennis, and I think jai-alai. They were trying to give us a taste of the wide world of sports, but in my day soccer was exotic and alien. Like curling. Or hockey.
I'm not immune at all. Force me to watch soccer and I'll soon be screaming and claiming it's the greatest game ever invented. It's just one of those things I never dipped into, like "The Wire," and now I think I have enough on my plate.
After most of a lifetime of spectator sportsmanship, in fact, I weaned myself from most of that. I'll admit to be drawn back into the Seahawks net when Russell Wilson and Pete Carroll showed up, just because they seemed different and maybe inspiring.
And I watched most of the NBA playoffs, but that's because one side of my family (the side my daughter married into) are San Antonio natives, and the Spurs are a special team anyway.
That was a lot of fun, watching their near-sweep of the mighty Heat.
But sports are just games, and games are just games. Whether you throw a Frisbee or a shot put, I admire your skill and appreciate your enjoyment, even if I don't share it. I have no attitude here.
And then there's baseball, but let's wait a moment for that.
Summer came early this year to the Pacific Northwest, like you didn't notice, and by that I mean it came right on time. You know what I'm talking about; summer here begins on July 5 and after a few fits and starts, takes off on July 26 and wraps it up somewhere around Oct. 13.
If you're new to the area, take it from me. If you've been here for years, you're probably already watching soccer and not reading.
So the solstice and summery weather came on the same day, nice, and coincidentally I noticed an article about the 25th anniversary of the movie "Field of Dreams."
Kevin Costner and a few other cast members, along with a whole bunch of fans, gathered on a recent weekend in that small town of Dyersville, Iowa, where Ray Kinsella's tenuous farmhouse and inspired baseball field still exist.
It looked like fun, everyone watching the movie on a screen in center field, then a celebrity softball game and other things. It's not my favorite baseball movie (I have to lean toward "Bull Durham" for that), but it's up there.
It's sentimental and ethereal and a little goofy, and I would watch it at the drop of a Mariners cap.
My sober, serious eyes will mist up and I'll head down to the garage, searching for a ball and a glove until I get distracted and forget, but there are just some movies. Some movies like that.
"Americana" is a hard word to describe, sliding somewhere between kitsch and idealism, but give us a cornfield, a high fly ball, and James Earl Jones to sum it up, and I think you've nailed it.
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: It's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh, people will come Ray. People will most definitely come."
And, of course, it's not really about baseball, or corn or dream seeking. It's about fathers.
On any given year, regardless of the weather, along with the solstice comes The Trip. Every year at this time, my wife finishes teaching and heads out of town, sometimes to a conference, sometimes just to visit family.
I've written this story many times. How my son and I manage in a house lacking the structure of a woman. I've made dozens of jokes about Pop-Tarts and personal hygiene. Some of this has a little truth, but mostly they're jokes.
Here's what's not a joke. My son has a disability, and at 24 he still lives with us, gradually becoming independent, but it's a slow process. And since the woman of the house is gone a lot, and I work at home, we've been a team even when summer is just a dream.
And it's that, more than corn fields and sweeping music and Burt Lancaster and all the rest, that gets me a little teary whenever I watch that film. Sure, it's baseball. It's history. It's heartland, it's mystical, it's James Freaking Earl Jones.
But really, Ray Kinsella wants his father back. I'd like my father back, too, but every morning my son hugs and kisses me, tells me he loves me, and I know that real life isn't the movies.
And that there's a baseball glove in the garage, somewhere, and somehow this summer I'm going to find it.
And we'll head out into the yard and have a catch, I swear we will, if only to celebrate that he's here and I'm here. It's not heaven. It's not even Iowa. But for a few moments it'll be both, and that's what I'm talking about.


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Parents are changing baby diapers in booths. Besotted pet owners are trying to sneak in small dogs. Smartphone addicts are ordering meals while chatting on their phones.
The spoiled are threatening to rant on Yelp if (unreasonable) demands aren't met. They're sending back dishes because a pal's entree looks better, and storming out if they're not seated immediately. Boors are calling servers "Yo," boasting about their wine cellars, demanding to switch tables. Locavores are interrogating servers about sourcing. The particular are using the menu as a list of ingredients, or claiming food allergies they don't have. And the inconsiderate are skipping out on reservations.
And: "No groping, . . . mauling, sucking face, canoodling or heavy petting."
There is no manners index tracking diner behavior, but Patrick Maguire, an industry veteran who's writing a book called "Server Not Servant," says a survey he conducted of more than 200 current and former service industry workers found that almost one out of five customers is impolite, disrespectful, or downright rude.
"Some [patrons] are not happy unless they're miserable, or making someone else miserable,"
"Are you familiar with a 'love sheep?' '' Doyle asks, recalling a group of guys who installed a crude, inflatable sheep as a centerpiece at a high-end Boston restaurant, to the dismay of co-diners. "There are rude people in all aspects of life," he says, "but in a restaurant you can be stuck next to them for hours."
Marblehead-based etiquette consultant Jodi R.R. Smith says the problem may not be that customers are getting ruder, but rather that we've become increasingly intolerant of others' behavior. "Everything we watch on TV is about judging others," she says, mentioning, "The Bachelor," "So You Think You Can Dance," and "The Voice." "That's what we do for entertainment — judge others. When we turn off the TV we continue doing that."
Are you a besotted, 'Yo' _ canoodling locavore or heavy petting 'sucking face' who compares the size of your portion dish with other diners at restaurants ?


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Lockdown lifted at Arizona Air Force base
Lockdown lifted at Arizona Air Force base
Davis-Monthan Air Force base in Arizona was placed on lockdown Monday after unconfirmed reports of gunshot sounds. The lockdown was lifted just before 10:45 a.m. local time.
Officials posted on the base Facebook page that people should seek shelter.
A charter school for grades 6 to 12 said on its Twitter account that it would not allow anyone to enter or leave the school.
The Tucson base is home to the 355th Fighter Wing, which provides training and deploys the A-10 jet.
About 6,500 active duty military and 1,000 Reserve and Air National Guard personnel work on the base, along with about 3,000 civilians.
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The Wonderful Adventures Of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All [MTVRapFix Live Submitted]
"Hot off their breakout performance on Jimmy Fallon, we hopped on the bus and headed to Philly with Odd Future to get an inside look at hip-hop's unlikely breakout stars." - MTV
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Danny Granger's return to Indiana's lineup has been delayed by an illness.
Indiana was hoping to have Granger on Wednesday night against Charlotte, but coach Frank Vogel said after the team's Wednesday morning shootaround that Granger stayed home with flulike symptoms. Vogel says Granger's left knee responded well to the most demanding practice he's had since being diagnosed with patellar tendinosis in November, though even if he was feeling well he may not have played.
Granger hasn't played yet this season, and Vogel says he's not "quite ready" to return. The team hopes to have him back after the All-Star break.
Power forward David West also missed Wednesday's shootaround with a scratched left eye. Vogel says he will be a game-time decision. He was hurt in Monday's loss to Brooklyn.
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Parents, Teachers and Press Urged to Spread Message of National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, October 20-26
Release Date: 09/26/2013
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Environmental News
(Lenexa, Kan., Sept. 26, 2013) - United behind a theme of "Lead-Free Kids for a Healthy Future," EPA Region 7 is urging parents, teachers and news media representatives to join federal, state and local health and environmental agencies in spreading the message of National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, October 20-26.
While lead poisoning is a health issue that can affect persons of any age, young children are most at risk. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that at least 4 million households in the U.S. have children living in them at risk of exposure to toxic lead. Nearly half a million U.S. children ages 5 and younger have blood lead levels above five micrograms per deciliter, the reference level at which CDC recommends public health actions be initiated.
Nationally, the most common way that children become exposed to lead is by breathing or swallowing dust or chips of lead-based paint, which is often found in and around housing or child-care facilities built prior to 1978, when lead-based residential paints were banned in the U.S.
In the four states of EPA Region 7 Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska young children, depending on the communities where they live, also may be exposed to soils contaminated by lead from the area's past or current lead mining and processing industries.
Lead poisoning can adversely affect nearly every system of the body, but particularly the central nervous system, especially for unborn and young children whose bodies are just beginning to develop and grow. Because lead poisoning often occurs with no obvious symptoms, it frequently goes unrecognized. However, lead poisoning is easily diagnosed with simple testing, and in most cases, it can be treated.
In advance of National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, October 20-26, EPA is working to raise awareness of toxic lead hazards and spread information about ways to minimize or prevent exposures to lead. The Agency has a range of free information, outreach materials and other resources available online.
Throughout the year, EPA works proactively with professionals employed in the home and building renovation and repair trades to encourage their compliance with federal laws and regulations designed to prevent exposures to lead caused by renovation, repair and painting activities. EPA similarly strives to educate homeowners and consumers who do their own renovation, repair and painting, to follow lead safe work practices.
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- 1 lb. Salmon, cut into 1×1 inch bites
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1 c. Sweet Chili Sauce
- ½ tbs. Paprika
- ½ c. Green onion, finely chopped
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Season salmon cubes with salt and pepper to taste.
3. In a bowl, add the salmon, Sweet Chili Sauce (you can find in most grocery stores), Paprika and green onions.
4. Place bites on an aluminum foil-lined baking sheet and roast on broil for about 5-7 minutes.
5. Serve in a tray with a toothpick in it.


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Verify Cisco Diagnostic Framework Portico
From DocWiki
Do this for the Unified CCE Call Server and Unified CCE Data Server, Sides A and B. This procedure applies only to golden templates.
Step 1 Open the command prompt and enter cd C:\.
Step 2 Enter cd icm\serviceability\diagnostics\bin and press Enter.
Step 3 Enter DiagFwCertMgr /task:CreateAndBindCert /port:7890 and press Enter.
Step 4 Go to Start -> Run and enter services.msc to open the Services tool. Make sure the Cisco Diagnostic Framework service is running. If it is not, start it.
Step 5 Open Diagnostic Framework Portico: Start > Programs > Cisco Unified CCE Tools > Diagnostic Framework Portico. Then make sure you can log in to the Diagnostic Framework Portico using domain user credentials.


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An abusive man sent terrifying messages to his father's partner over Facebook because he claimed his dad owed him money.
Chesterfield magistrates' court heard on Friday how Jonathan Slater, 34, sent insulting messages to his father's partner including sexual threats and death threats.
Prosecuting solicitor Ian Shaw said: "The complainant is the partner of Mr Slater's father and she said there have been difficulties with the defendant. Things had come to a head because on Mr Slater's account there has been a lack of contact with his father because he has taken the view his dad owes him money.
"What he resorted to is sending messages on Facebook to the complainant which are vile and have caused great upset. The messages make reference to raping and committing violence to her and that she should commit suicide and they are not words that anyone should use."
Slater, who has previous convictions for threats and criminal damage, pleaded guilty, that at Matlock and elsewhere in November, he caused his father's partner to fear violence would be caused against her by the sending of offensive Facebook messages.
Mr Shaw said the messages included threats that any failure to return the money would result in raping and the chopping off of his father's partner's head. They included comments about the kidnapping of a relative of the complainant and urinating on the grave of her relatives. Julie Page, defending, said Slater, of Houfton Road, Bolsover, began offending after the breakdown with his father over owed money.
Ms Page added other messages were simply derogatory. Magistrates committed the case to Derby Crown Court for sentencing on May 30.


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Norwegian percussionist brings ice instruments to London
Somerset House is setting for 'Ice Music'
Their tuning changes as they're played, they can't be practised for long, and they must be returned to the freezer as soon as the concert is over. These are just a few of the challenges posed by the unusual instruments a pair of Norwegian performers are bringing to London. The reason? The instruments are carved out of ice.
Somerset House is hosting nine performances of 'Ice Music', a 30-minute event created by Norwegian jazz percussionist and experimental composer Terje Isungset. He'll be performing alongside Norwegian vocalist Lena Nymark. The instruments, all made from ice taken from centuries-old Norwegian glaciers, include ice horns, ice percussion and an 'icephone'.
Isungset decided to create the ethereally sounding instruments after taking part in an experimental concert staged in a cave behind a frozen waterfall 11 years ago.
'I'd often thought about using ice in my performances and finally I had the opportunity to try it out,' Isungset tells The Daily Telegraph. 'I could hear tones I had never heard before. I was so eager to explore this new source, I didn't have time to eat and sleep.'
As well as the Ice Music concerts, which draw on ice instrument recordings he made in the Norwegian mountains, Insungset has collaborated with filmmaker Phil Slocombe to create The Idea of North, a sound and video installation evoking Northern landscapes.
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Ice Music performances take place daily from 7-9 January 2011 at Somerset House, London
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Post a pic of your CMVS, AES, NGCD if you customized it. I know the n00bs want some ideas as to what they can do with a PCB, money and some time. Also post any updates if you added anything recently.
I recently added an inline fuse to my CMVS which should have been done a long time ago. Thank god nothing happened before I did. I also updated my power LED which was 2 blue ones pointing at the cart slot to illuminate the cart which worked OK but I wanted something a little more noticable.
Here a shot fron the front, you can see the small 3mm LED:
Here is a little darker shot so you can see the color of the LED:
I also added a test button which was a great idea, now I can play windjammers with 90 second matches:
I am going to be building another CMVS but with a more "antique" look to it. I also am debating if I should OC the one I am going to build. Also I am going to try and install something to make it unique.


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Autolyse and poolish
Hi everyone,
This is my first post here, but I've been lurking on the forum and gathering inspiration for some time now.
I've recently been working on experimenting and improving my French-style bread baking. Over the last bit of time, I've been baking usually every other day and trying different techniques, ratios, etc. What has seemed to work for me has been to really let time do its thing and to work the dough sparingly but deliberately.
So far, I've come up with the following observations for my own baking:
- Autolyse works wonders; I usually mix only the flour and water and let it autolyse for ~30 minutes before mixing in salt and yeast then kneading.
- I have been making relatively high hydration doughs (anywhere from 70%+) and experimenting off of the classic French "base recipe" of 1kg flour, 700g water, 25g salt, 15g yeast.
- I have adopted the "Bertinet method" or French-style of kneading so that I work the dough as little as possible while kneading it. Sometimes I either forego kneading completely or combine with some stretch and folds before bulk fermentation to improve the body of a particularly sticky dough (it's been incredibly humid these past weeks).
- I find using only KA bread flour gives a crumb that is slightly too chewy for my taste and thus I typically mix some KA unbleached bread flour with KA unbleached AP to get a bit closer to French style flour; though the ash content is not there.
- I've been using Sylvia's famous magic towel method for steaming the oven when baking on stone; otherwise for boules, I use dutch oven.
So, this brings me to my question. One thing I find still lacking is a strong fermented taste, which comes from a longer, slower fermentation. (It has been so warm, a typical bulk ferment has been 1-1.5hrs, then a 20 min bench rest and similar proof.) I used to bake SD, but let my starter kick the bucket. I am in the process of building up a new starter now from scratch, and will soon be into SD again, but I also want to experiment with using a poolish to improve flavor.
When doing so, I am curious as to what works best when using poolish with an autolyse ... Should the poolish be started early and then mixed in before the autolyse period? Should I mix flour and water (minus amounts in the poolish), autolyse, then mix in the poolish?
Essentially, with any pre-ferment either a poolish, sponge, biga, etc. or a levain, when is the best moment to incorporate it into a budding dough if I want to maintain an autolyse period? I am really curious to hear if anyone else has experimented with this.
Thanks, all, for any help, sharing of your own experiences and experimentation, and/or geeking out on this.
- brett


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Labour: No child benefit for the rich?
When this government decided to cut child benefit from higher and top-rate taxpayers Labour attacked the move as unfair and proving that the government was out of touch with hard-working families.
Now, however, I understand that the party's leadership has concluded that it will not be able to reverse the cut.
To do so would cost £2.3bn [Scroll down to update] . That is 23 times as much as the money which would be saved by removing winter fuel allowance from wealthier pensioners - the policy unveiled by the shadow chancellor Ed Balls earlier this week.
Some critics are likely to see this as more evidence that Labour has abandoned its support for so-called universal benefits - those benefits paid to all regardless of income. One source told me "we have other priorities".
Tomorrow Ed Miliband will declare his support in principle for an idea first suggested by the Chancellor George Osborne - a cap on so-called "discretionary" welfare spending, or that part of the benefit bill which is not triggered automatically by a rise in unemployment.
The chancellor first floated the idea of a cap in his last Budget. He said he would spell out how it would work in the spending review at the end of this month. His aim was to set a political trap for Labour. Ed Miliband is now trying to escape that trap.
Technically, the Treasury is examining a cap on some of what's called AME spending.
That's what's classified as Annually Managed Expenditure - ie the roughly 50% of public spending which is not currently subject to the annual cuts negotiated between Whitehall departments and the Treasury (what's classified as DEL or Departmental Expenditure Limits).
Almost all welfare spending, debt interest and Britain's contributions to the EU are classified by the Treasury as beyond their day-to-day control because, for example, they cannot determine the level of unemployment, interest rates or the outcome of EU negotiations.
Whatever your politics, the argument for a cap on discretionary welfare spending - or much of what is defined as AME - is that it forces governments to spot and deal with with unplanned increases in welfare bills which are not caused by a recession.
Incapacity benefit, housing benefit and Disability Living Allowance all ran out of control in the past few decades under governments of both left and right.
Labour's willingness to embrace the idea - at least in principle - is a further sign that the party is trying to restore its economic credibility by proving that it has the will to curb spending. The Conservatives will respond that it is deeds and not words that really count.
Of course, a welfare cap won't in itself curb welfare spending. What will is difficult decisions to cut the cost of particular benefits.
The coalition cannot agree on the next set of welfare cuts - there will be no more laid out in the spending review.
Labour has yet to spell out any - beyond one which will save around 1,000th of the projected annual deficit at the time of the next election. Tomorrow we will see if Ed Miliband goes any further.
Update: Treasury have confirmed £1.8bn to me as the child benefit figure for the present government policy.
The £2.3bn figure refers to the original policy they announced in 2010 - where they were doing it for all higher-rate taxpayers.
You'll remember they subsequently adjusted it - introducing a taper instead of the cliff edge, meaning some higher-rate taxpayers did receive some of it - and so the saving decreased to £1.8bn.


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If you kept an eye on our E3 coverage, you might've noticed that EA's Dead Space was among our favorite titles at the show. At times, it seems unbelievable that the team behind licensed titles such as The Simpsons Game and The Godfather could conjure up such a grim and disturbing vision of terror. We're close to two months from its release, and during a behind-closed-doors session at Games Convention we got hands-on with two new sections of the game. We don't know how it will all fit together in the end, but right now, EA Redwood Shores has our undivided attention.
EA's Rich Briggs walked a room full of editors and journalists through a section that you'll encounter just past the halfway point of Dead Space's 12-chapter narrative. You're Isaac Clarke, an interplanetary repairman sent to fix a problem on the Nishimura, a mining spaceship the size of a large city. In this bleak future, humanity floats around space looking for planets to strip-mine so that resources can be sent back to Earth. The Nishimura is one of the biggest ships around. But its thousands of miners and crew have become something horrifying, and Isaac must use his work tools to survive the attacks of the Nishimura's mutated citizens, dubbed Necromorphs.
Aside from Dead Space's beautifully bleak aesthetics and its "Event Horizon"-like motif, one its most impressive elements is its clean look. There's minimal HUD, since EA is heavily focused on keeping you lasered-in on survival. Isaac's energy is measured with a small bar on his back that resembles a spinal column. His statis meter, which is used to temporarily freeze Necromorphs, is a half-circle on his back.
All inventory management and weapon selection is done via holographic menus. None of these things ever take you out of the experience, and as Briggs pointed out, you're never 100% safe to dig around your inventory on any location of the Nishimura. Anything can jump out at any time, and unless you absolutely finish them off, Necromorphs will continue to attack. They'll even play possum on occasion. Another nice touch (that some might view with disdain) is the holographic "breadcrumb trail" that lost gamers can use to figure out how to hit the next checkpoint or destination.
In the first section of our demo, Isaac must fight through the ship's mining deck to send out a distress beacon to shoot into space. He starts off near an elevator that leads to the processing plant. Of course, nothing's as easy as you'd hope. He's attacked by a swarm of creatures, including waves of humanoid creatures that shoot out spider-like pests that try to crawl into Isaac's armor. As one of our E3 previews pointed out, the quickest way to watch one of EA's numerous death animations for Isaac is to send him into a fight with several monsters at once. It's something that we really like about Dead Space, but it could be an acquired taste for others.
Upon encountering several Necromorphs, the easiest way to manage a battle is to freeze one or two in stasis, then get out a weapon and rip the limbs off the others. By the time Isaac finishes off the others, the frozen monsters should be back in action, unless our hero finds a way to dismember them. Because Isaac's weapons double as tools for labor, there's a great suspension of disbelief. He also has a telekinetic weapon. It's not as in-depth or powerful as Gordon Freeman's gravity gun; the fictional use is to catch and throw small work-related things. Against Necromorphs it's an invaluable device, letting you do stuff like pick up a severed tusk and throw it at as a weapon.


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"Good jobs report, but needs to be better," Brady says
Rep. Kevin Brady, Chairman of the congressional Joint Economic Committee responded to today's report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) that the economy added 288,000 nonfarm payroll jobs (262,000 in the private sector) during the month of June and that the unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent.
"Today's strong jobs report comes as a welcome relief to Americans on Main Street. Unfortunately, as good as today's report is, the rate of job growth still isn't sufficient to eliminate the private sector jobs gap by the time President Obama leaves office," Brady said. "Even with today's strong report, this recovery still has a private sector jobs gap of 5.8 million. In total, compared to average this recovery has lost more than 20 million job-years. Just to catch up to the average job growth in other post-1960 recoveries, the economy needs to add 374,000 private sector jobs every month through the end of 2016," Brady added.
"However, I am deeply concerned by the continuing low level of labor force participation in the Obama economy, especially among those in their prime working years. Compared to pre-recession levels, the only age groups that have increased their labor force participation are those 60 and older. This trend is both unhealthy for the nation's economic future and unsustainable," Brady noted.
"The decline in the unemployment rate is largely a mirage created by the decline in labor force participation rates. Without those declines since the President took office, the unemployment rate wouldn't be near 6 percent, it would be north of 10 percent," Brady concluded.


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ESPN issued an apology on Tuesday for play-by-play man Brent Musburger\'s remarks about Katherine Webb, the girlfriend of Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron, during Monday night\'s BCS National Championship.
\"We always try to capture interesting storylines and the relationship between an Auburn grad who is Miss Alabama and the current Alabama quarterback certainly met that test,\" ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys explained in a tweeted statement. \"However, we apologize that the commentary in this instance went too far and Brent understands that.\"
During No. 2 Alabama\'s 42-14 win over No. 1 Notre Dame, the camera spotlighted Webb, sitting in the stands with McCarron\'s mother. Musburger commented: \"Wow, I\'m telling you — you quarterbacks: You get all the goood-looking women. What a beautiful woman … Whoa! … So if you\'re a youngster in Alabama, get the football out and start throwing it around with Pop.\" Color commentator Kirk Herbstreit also expressed his admiration.
The 73-year-old Musburger\'s sentiments were met with criticism across the Internet. ThinkProgress blogger Travis Waldron wrote that Musburger reflects \"a culture that views women as nothing more than chattel, a commodity to be won by the best player even if she isn't a willing participant.\"
ESPN\'s telecast of the game was the second most-watched cable program of all time, seen by an average of 26.4 million viewers. The only program to be seen by more cable subscribers was ESPN\'s coverage of the 2011 BCS title game, a 22-19 Auburn victory over Oregon decided by a field goal as the clock ran out. That game drew 27.3 million viewers.
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HOW TO: Leave a Guild Alliance Group (Guild Leaders only)
I. Prerequisites
I.1. You are a Guild Leader
I.2. You are logged into World of Warcraft
I.3. You are running Inter-Guild Link
I.4. Your guild is allied with at least one other guild
II. CLI Method
II.1. Enter: /igl link quit
III. GUI Method
III.1. Open the Inter-Guild Link GUI using one of the methods discussed on the general How To page
III.2. Expand the Inter-Guild Link node to display the additional management pages
III.3. Select the Manage Alliances page
III.4. In the Leave Guild Alliance Group section, click the Leave Now button
IV. Postconditions
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I don't know if you've noticed by now, but I have a huge weakness for peanut sauce. Nothing makes me happier than a fresh spring roll dipped in creamy, salty, sweet gingery peanut sauce. I take them to dinner parties, assemble them on picnics, and have even been known to throw spring roll making parties just for an excuse to eat the sauce. I could eat the stuff straight, honestly, but usually try to pacify my calorie-conscious guilty conscience by eating it with fresh veggies. I have whipped up many different batches of peanut sauce, with the occasional nod to almond butter as a more allergy-friendly base.
But with my new top-allergen free diet for baby yum, it has been many a sad, sauce-less day since I last enjoyed a big saucer of peanut sauce. Today I decided that had to change. I looked into the fridge and pulled out a long-neglected jar of Sunbutter. The good news? This stuff is completely Peanut, Tree-Nut Free, and Gluten Free and produced in a dedicated facility. The bad news for those highly sensitive to soy is that their facility DOES produce soybeans. However, although I'm not eating soy these days just in case it would bother Baby Yum, she never reacted to soy as far as I could tell, and so I thought Sunbutter was worth a try. *Although Sunbutter is the brand-name variety, I actually used the less expensive Trader Joe's version of this product.* If you do react to traces of soy, you can make your own Sunbutter recipe. I played around with some of the traditional ingredients used in peanut sauce and came up with this highly satisfying sunflower seed un-peanut sauce. It would be wonderful on spring rolls, but I enjoyed mine drizzled over sauteed yellow pepper strips and zucchini and wrapped in a gluten-free amaranth crepe. Who says eating gluten free and top eight allergen free has to be boring?
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The inaugural event takes place from 5-7 November 2010 at Bridesmaid Dresses Excel, London.When someone shares with us, we want to share with them.Image on the left, Credit Wedding Magazine Image on the right, Credit Bridalwave.and I've loved getting to know designer Bink a little better, she's one of those fabulously interesting people you could chat for hoooooooours with over afternoon tea and cakes!Rather than give me gifts, several members of my family observe milestones in my life by donating to charities of their choice in my name.We finally set off and got to the church.and he's a set decorator for film and TV.
The source added, Actually the neighbors are another country.That's Kizzy (left) and Lola"One of my main principals in planning my outfit was that I wanted to look like ME so I had decided early on I was not going to grow my hair in order to be able to put it up but to stick with my classic bob long hair just isn't me!Glasgow must have been their lucky charm, because just after their 7 year anniversary he proposed""They decided they wanted to have a teeny little ceremony and meal to share with only their close family and friends at the very beautiful One Devonshire Gardens, then move on to somewhere suitably retro and fabulous to throw a party at night (well, they are Geordie and Glaswegian after all).I very rarely look at shoes to find design inspiration.We enjoyed every single moment of the day Best Bridesmaid Dresses and our guests all say it was such a "happy" day.
I just absolutely adore the photographs below Vintage Garden Party meets Village Fete"I described our wedding day as vintage garden party meets village fete.Both being lovers of all things vintage, romantic and old-school glamour, and having had our own fashion label for 7 years, we obviously wanted to design our own wedding dresses ( no pressure there then!provided the florals on the day"We wanted seasonal flowers, that matched the vintagey feel of Bush Hall.A violinist entertained guestsThe Bride and Groom meet for the first time"My husband made the arch in Denver out of twigs/branches from our backyard and we drove it cross county on the top of our car to Oregon" The ring bearer pillow; a bed of grass The rings were from antique store Treasured Scarab in Denver (25 East Dakota Avenue, Denver, CO, 80209-1514).Sam: As you were also a guest at my wedding I didn't want you to be shooting all night, but I didn't want to miss out on the fun evening shots either.amp;quot; If you could give a single vital piece of advice for any Bride to be, what would it be?In addition to the flowers, we had fairy lights and driftwood wooden hearts along the stage front, and lanterns hanging from the beams and in the alcoves.
Having said that it's still a whirlwind I don't think I finished a whole Modest Bridesmaid Dresses conversation all day!I am in awe of the life story of Madame Coco Dress, with P J Harvey Funny funny.amp;quot;How would you describe your style?I found a beautiful Wedgewood inspired cake design on line and I asked her to recreate as near as she could to the image as it was incredibly ornate.We want to take away the stress from the bride and groom and make it an enjoyable experience, when you see it written in black & white it makes it all feel very real!But I said to myself I'd never know if I was good enough if I didn't try, and I'd rather do that than wonder what might have been.I have tried on many dresses before that one but non of them did it for me.Hoping to meet you both sometime soon and talk beautiful wedding dresses!It was the luxury and intimacy and ultimately fun that the Lodge offered that made it so appealing.so, you have a combination of designers.amp;quot;Next to the Guest book table I put three vintage travel suitcases where I lay an old picnic rug.For example you may wish to have a different colour of embroidery or shorter train.amp;quot;"I borrowed a blue enamel pin that said 'honor' on it from my two BFFs and pinned it to my garter.During this time, Yulia also studied the History of Art at Christie's Institute.


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This room had been my daughter's playroom for quite some time before we were surprised with a new bun in thy oven. Not finding out the gender, we needed to make a nursery happen out of a badly carpeted, drop ceiling infused vanilla shell.
After I removed the nasty drop ceiling, we were left with a wallpapered ceiling. I did all my best tricks to remove the wallpaper but that nasty glue was getting the best of me: I decided to make lemons out of lemonade.
The torn texture of the ceiling (from what paper I did manage to slough off), was the perfect base for a concrete-y/plaster-y effect. So I had my husband prime the ripped ceiling when he primed the walls. Then I used a watered down bevy of paints: medium brown, a light brown and a sage green to haphazardly rag wash the surface. After two layers of that & dry time, I used two watered-down, silvery metallics and did the same thing. It was really a no brainer. And now it adds depth to the room!
My husband, Ken, refinished the original heart pine floors buried beneath many layers of ick and ugly. I bought bargain Ikea LAPPLJUNG curtains at $15/pair and some display shelves. I also scored a great rag rug that was brand new for $20 at a yard sale. The dresser was $75 on sale at my favorite furniture consignment gallery and was coated with the deep turquoise we use for many projects in our home.
The rest of the stuff we used came cheaply or was found in another room in our house. The nursery has such a happy, easy, and dynamic personality: just like our son.
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Spartanburg property owners should not expect to see large changes to their property value when reassessment notices are issued.
Spartanburg property owners should not expect to see large changes to their property value when reassessment notices are issued in the fall, according to the county assessor's office.
Spartanburg County assessor Earl Alexander II and his staff are concluding the years-long process of determining property values throughout the county. State law requires properties be reassessed for tax purposes every five years, and the county's is due in 2013. The last countywide assessment was done in 2008, and Alexander said the next one started "as soon as we finished the last one."
Overall, Spartanburg properties are expected to increase in value by about 2 percent, a growth rate that held fairly constant even as the rest of the country struggled with a bubble burst. There was a slight downturn in property values in 2008, but it wasn't dramatic and property began regaining value quickly, Alexander said.
"Generally, Spartanburg fared better than others," he said.
The 2013 assessment of market value for all of Spartanburg's nearly 157,000 parcels will be based on aggregate data of land and building values and comparable sales. Sale prices, appraisals and other data for 2008 to 2012 will be compounded by a computer system and used to produce a median value. Individual assessors check outlier values to ensure the computer's calculations.
"We don't want to value a property too high or too low. We want to make sure we have fair and equitable values for tax purposes," Alexander said. "It equalizes the burden on everyone when tax bills come out."
While the value of property is rising, the assessment also will consider the leaner years of 2008 to 2010, which will suppress reassessment values, he said.
"Some areas have sold for more, some have sold for less. Some areas have faired better than others," said Robert Crain, chief commercial appraiser.
For the most part, residential and commercial property values correspond, Crain said. Areas around the inland port and in Boiling Springs will see the biggest bump in market value.
If no improvements are made to a property and the property was not sold in the years between assessments, South Carolina caps the amount the taxable value of the property can increase at 15 percent. The market value has no such restrictions, meaning the values do not always correlate, Alexander said.
The primary function of the assessor's office is to determine the market value of a property, so when reassessment notices come out in the fall, Alexander encourages property owners to focus on the market value. If the owner disagrees with the assessed market value, they have 90 days to file and appeal. In non-assessment years, property owners can contest their bill until the late payment date, but during reassessment there is only a 90-day window, he emphasized.
In determining whether the assessed market value of the home is fair, Alexander said property owners should ask themselves if they would sell their property for that price.
"If they would sell it for less, they should come see us," he said.
When filing an appeal, Alexander said property owners should be prepared to show why they say their market value is too high.
Residents will receive fliers and more information on reassessment beginning in July with reassessment notices being mailed in September.


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CBO Suggests Troops Paid Too Much. A recent report by Congressional Budget Office says that growth in Military compensation has exceeded private-sector wages by more than 25 percent over the last ten years. With the threat of $500 billion in mandated defense cuts required by sequestration and the end of the Bush-era tax cuts, some members of Congress and Washington "think tanks" are asking if we pay our Service Members too much. The CBO suggests that the DoD could save money by reducing the rate of basic pay raises along with asking Service Members and retirees to pay more for TRICARE benefits and to contribute monetarily to retirement.
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IOWA CITY, Iowa – Registration is now open for the October 27, 2012 ACT college readiness exam. Students who wish to take the exam must register by September 21, 2011.
Students may register online at www.actstudent.org or by mail. Paper registration forms may be obtained from school counselor offices or by requesting a registration packet from ACT.
The cost for the ACT test (with no writing test) is $35. The cost for the ACT Plus Writing is $50.50. Fee waivers are available to qualified students who can't afford the registration fee. Students should apply for a fee waiver through their school counselor's office.
The ACT is a curriculum-based achievement exam. It measures what students have learned in school and what they need to know to be ready for first-year college courses.
The ACT comprises four multiple choice subject tests-English, mathematics, reading and science-and takes about three hours, plus breaks, to complete. An optional essay writing test, which takes an additional 30 minutes, is also available. Students who wish to take the writing test should register for the ACT Plus Writing.
During registration, students may select up to four colleges or universities to which to automatically send their score reports at no additional charge. All four-year colleges and universities across the United States accept ACT scores for admission purposes. ACT sends score reports only when authorized to do so by the student.
Each test taker receives an ACT score report that includes a wide variety of information to assist with high school course selection, college readiness, career planning and college admissions.
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Both segments (music and literature) of this program are dedicated to "Día de los muertos". It includes an "ofrenda musical" consisting of listener's requests.
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This program presents "Guaguancós" from Cuba, variations on the theme of a classic Bolero, "Dos almas", and "Corridos" (ballads) from the Mexican Revolution. The literature segment presents segments from the conferences by Margo Glantz on Nellie Campobello's writings about "la Revolución Mexicana".
This program celebrates the Thanksgiving Holiday with music composed in celebration of food. It also includes a segment dedicated to the great Cuban "sonero" Benny Moré. The literature segment presents two Colombian authors: Laura Restrepo and León de Grieff.
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