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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--According to the latest procurement intelligence report from Technavio, the global 3PL services market is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 5% over the next five years due to the difficulties in handling the vast geographic presence of supply chain operations driven by globalization.
The research report titled 'Global 3PL Services: Procurement Intelligence Report 2017-2021' provides an in-depth analysis of category spend, best procurement practices and cost saving opportunities, aimed at helping organizations achieve superior business performance. The report also provides insights on pricing, supplier positioning and top companies, enabling sourcing professionals to improve their competitive advantage through procurement excellence.
"The growth can also be attributed to the lack of internal expertise to manage logistics activities, this has driven demand for specialized third-party service providers," said lead Technavio procurement expert Angad Singh, specializing in research on category spend intelligence. "Buyers of 3PL services focus on transactional relationships with suppliers for repetitive services, whereas they focus on collaborative partnerships for strategic services such as IT-intensive and customer-centric activities," added Angad.
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Cost saving opportunities in the 3PL services market
The adoption of cost optimization levers can help buyers of 3PL services realize cost savings and achieve category management and value benefits (including a reduction in procurement complexities).
Technavio procurement experts have segmented the cost saving opportunities in the 3PL services market into the following value-enhancement opportunities:
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- Bundling of services
Adoption of technology saving aspects
The use of AR in freight handling allows suppliers to obtain important freight information such as weight, destination, and content, helping them speed up delivery processes and improve the ways in which objects are handled. It is a direct or indirect view of the real-world environment in which computer-generated inputs such as sound, videos, and graphics augment elements.
Drones are UAVs that can be controlled either remotely or programmed to fly in a particular path. Drones are utilized by 3PL companies to deliver small packages to customers and help suppliers reduce significant amounts of transportation costs.
Optimization of procurement practices saving aspects
Service providers are increasingly automating complex manual processes, especially in warehouses, to improve productivity, minimize fatalities, and enhance efficiency.
Buyers prefer to enlist 3PL providers that help manage transportation costs, especially while dealing with ocean and air freight costs.
Bundling of services saving aspects
Cloud-based analytics platforms can help buyers track inventory on the go, conduct what-if scenario analysis to minimize risks associated with global supply chains, and help in demand-supply planning.
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More investors are buying single-family homes as they see opportunities abound across the country, due to the combination of low home prices and limited interest in homeownership.
Despite current mortgage rates, tight lending standards limit the eligibility of many potential owner-occupant homebuyers, which may contribute further to rental gains. While government efforts are moving slowly according to some, many private investors are already purchasing distressed single-family properties and renting them out, according to the National Association of Realtors.
NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun recently noted that investment sales in 2011 were 65 percent higher year-over-year. Experts say this is largely due to investors' ability to buy in cash rather than deal with lenders, according to the Washington Post, which removes the credit restraints that are slowing residential mortgage lending.
Property management companies can help these eager investors turn their new acquisitions into profitable assets, with services that may be in greater demand as the number of single-family rentals available across the country rises. Investors are motivated partly by the perception that bonds and other opportunities are less profitable than real estate at the moment, according to research and analytics firm CoreLogic. The firm recently reported that converting foreclosures into rentals may become a $100 billion business this year. Activity in Arizona, California, Florida and other hard-hit markets is a potential driver of that growth.

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Introduction to Networking
Introduction to networking structure, terminology, current and emerging technologies, and the World Wide Web as an integrating framework. Topics covered include TCP/IP, Security Concepts, Wireless Networks, and Network Virtualization. Emphasis on applications of networking to the Web and Programming. 3 Credits (3 Lecture) Prerequisite(s): Placement by Examination or MTH006.


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Even Kobe Bryant stops playing basketball every once in a while. As of this summer he'll finally have his own specific sneaker to wear for such instances: the Nike Kobe 8 NSW Lifestyle. The colorway shown is the only one we've had a look at so far, a super colorful sort of knitted look that's been dubbed the "Mexican Blanket" Nike Kobe 8 NSW. Still no word on a US release date, but the sneakers are starting to show up out in Asia so that's a good sign. Get with us after the jump for full photos and tell us what you think of the Nike Kobe 8 NSW remix.
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3PAR Gen5: True flash scale storage
(I'm in Vegas, waiting for HP Discover to start(got here Friday afternoon), this time around I had my own company pay my way, so HP isn't providing me with the trip. Since I haven't been blogging much the past year I didn't feel good about asking HP to cover me as a blogger.)
When flash first started becoming a force to be reckoned with a few years ago in enterprise storage it was clear to me controller performance wasn't up to the task of being able to exploit the performance potential of the medium. The ratio of controllers to SSDs was just way out of whack.
In my opinion this has been largely addressed in the 3PAR Generation 5 systems that are being released today.
I believe this replaces the 10800/V800 (2-8 controllers) system, I believe it also replaces the 10400/V400(2-4 controllers) system as well.
- 2-8 controllers, max 96 x 2.5Ghz CPU cores(12/controller) and 16 Generation 5 ASICs (2/controller)
- 224GB of RAM cache per controller (1.8TB total - 768GB control / 1,024GB data)
- Up to 32TB of Flash read cache
- Up to 6PB of raw capacity (SSD+HDD)
- Up to 15PB of usable capacity w/deduplication
- 12Gb SAS back end, 16Gb FC (Max 160 ports) / 10Gb iSCSI (Max 80 ports) front end
- 10 Gigabit ethernet replication port per controller
- 2.5 Million Read IOPS under 1 millisecond
- Up to 75 Gigabytes/second throughput (read), up to 30 Gigabytes/second throughput (write)
This augments the existing 7450 with a high end 8-controller capable all flash offering, similar to the 20800 but with more adrenaline.
- 2-8 controllers, max 128 x 2.5Ghz CPU cores(16/controller), and 16 Generation 5 ASICs (2/controller)
- 448GB of RAM cache per controller (3.6TB total - 1,536GB control - 2,048GB data)
- Up to 4PB of raw capacity (SSD only)
- Up to 10PB of usable capacity w/deduplication
- 12Gb SAS back end, 16Gb FC (Max 160 ports) / 10Gb iSCSI (Max 80 ports) front end
- 10 Gigabit ethernet replication port per controller
- 3.2 Million Read IOPS under 1 millisecond
- 75 Gigabytes/second throughput (read), 30 Gigabytes/second throughput (write)
Even though flash is really, really fast, 3PAR leverages large amounts of cache to optimize writes to the back end media, this not only improves performance but extends SSD life. If I recall correctly nearly 100% of the cache on the all SSD-systems is write cache, reads are really cheap so very little caching is done on reads.
It's only going to get faster
One of the bits of info I learned is that the claimed throughput by HP is a software limitation at this point. The hardware is capable of much more and performance will improve as the software matures to leverage the new capabilities of the Generation 5 ASIC (code named "Harrier 2").
Magazine sleds are no more
Since the launch of the early 3PAR high end units more than a decade ago 3PAR had leveraged custom drive magazines which allowed them to scale to 40x3.5" drives in a 4U enclosure. That is quite dense, though they did not have similar ultra density for 2.5" drives. I was told that nearline drives represent around 10% of disks sold on 3PAR so they decided to do away with these high density enclosures and go with 2U enclosures without drive magazines. This allows them to scale to 48x2.5" drives in 4U (vs 40 2.5" in 4U before), but only 24x3.5" drives in 4U (vs 40 before). Since probably greater than 80% of the drives they ship now are 2.5" that is probably not a big deal. But as a 3PAR historian(perhaps) I found it interesting.
Along similar lines, the new 20k series systems are fully compatible with 3rd party racks. The previous 10k series as far as I know the 4-node variant was 3rd party compatible but 8-node required a custom HP rack.
Inner guts of a 3PAR 20k-series controller
With dual internal SATA SSDs for the operating system(I assume some sort of mirroring going on), eight memory slots for data cache(max 32GB per slot) - these are directly connected to the pair of ASICs(under the black heatsinks). Another six memory slots for the control cache(operating system, meta data etc) also max 32GB per slot those are controlled by the Intel processors under the giant heat sinks.
How much does it cost?
I'm told the new 20k series is surprisingly cost effective in the market. The price point is significantly lower than earlier generation high end 3PAR systems. It's priced higher than the all flash 7450 for example but not significantly more, entry level pricing is said to be in the $100,000 range, and I heard a number tossed around that was lower than that. I would assume that the blanket thin provisioning licensing model of the 7000 series extends to the new 20k series, but I am not certain.
It is only available in a 8-controller capable system at this time, so requires at least 16U of space for the controllers since they are connected over the same sort of backplane as earlier models. Maybe in the future HP will release a smaller 2-4 controller capable system or they may leave that to whatever replaces the 7450. I hope they come out with a smaller model because the port scalability of the 7000-series(and F and E classes before them) is my #1 complaint on that platform, having only one PCIe expansion slot/controller is not sufficient.
NEW HP 3PAR 3.84TB cMLC SSD
HP says that this is the new Sandisk Optimus MAX 4TB drive, which is targeted at read intensive applications. If a customer decides to use this drive in non read intensive(and non 3PAR) then the capacity will drop to 3.2TB. So with 3PAR's adaptive sparing they are able to gain 600GB of capacity on the drive while simultaneously supporting any workload without sacrificing anything.
This is double the size of the 1.92TB drive that was released last year. It will be available on at least the 20k and the 7450, most likely all other Gen4 3PAR platforms as well.
HP says this drops the effective cost of flash to $1.50/GB usable.
This new SSD comes with the same 5 year unconditional warranty that other 3PAR SSDs already enjoy.
I specifically mention the 7450 here because this new SSD effectively doubles the raw capacity of the system to 920TB of raw flash today (vs 460TB before). How many all flash systems scale to nearly a petabyte of raw flash?
NEW HP 3PAR Persistent Checksum
With the Generation 4 systems 3PAR had end to end T10 data integrity checking within the array itself from the HBAs to the ASICs, to the back end ports and disks/SSDs. Today they are extending that to the host HBAs, and fibre channel switches as well (not sure if this extends to iSCSI connections or not).
The Generation 5 ASIC has a new line rate SHA1 engine which replaces the line rate CRC engine in Generation 4 for even better data protection. I am not certain if persistent checksum is Generation 5 specific(given they are extending it beyond the array I really would expect it to be possible in Generation 4 as well).
NEW HP 3PAR Asynchronous Streaming Replication
I first heard about this almost two years ago at HP Storage Tech Day, but today it's finally here. HP adds another method of replication to the existing sets they already had:
- Synchronous replication - 0 data loss (strict latency limits)
- Synchronous long distance replication (requires 3 arrays) - 0 data loss (latency limits between two of the three arrays)
- Asynchronous replication - as low as 5 minutes of data loss (less strict latency limits)
- Asynchronous streaming replication - as low as 1 second of data loss (less strict latency limits)
HP compares this to EMC's SRDF async replication which has as low as a 15 seconds of data loss, vs 3PAR with as low as 1 second.
If for some reason more data comes into the system than the replication link can handle, the 3PAR will automatically go into asynchronous replication mode until the replication is caught up then switch back to asynchronous streaming.
This new feature is available on all Gen4 and Gen5 systems.
NEW Co-ordinated Snapshots
3PAR has long had the ability to snapshot multiple volumes on a single system simultaneously, and it's always been really easy to use. Now they have extended this to be able to snapshot across multiple arrays simultaneously and make them application aware (in the case of VMware initially, Exchange, SQL Server and Oracle to follow).
This new feature is available on all Gen4 and Gen5 systems.
HP 3PAR Storage Federation
Up to 60PB of usable capacity and 10 Million IOPS with zero overhead
HP has talked about Storage Federation in the past, today with the new systems of course the capacity knobs have been turned up a lot, they've made it easier to use than earlier versions of the software, though don't yet have completely automatic load balancing between arrays yet.
This federation is possible between all Gen4 and Gen5 systems.
Benefits from ASIC Acceleration
3PAR has always use in house custom ASICs on their systems and these are no different
The ASICs within each HP 3PAR StoreServ 20850 and 20800 Storage controller node serve as the high-performance engines that move data between three I/O buses, a four memory-bank data cache, and seven high-speed links to the other controller nodes over the full-mesh backplane. These ASICs perform RAID parity calculations on the data cache and inline zero-detection to support the system's data compaction technologies. CRC Logical Block Guard used by T10-DIF is automatically calculated by the HBAs to validate data stored on drives with no additional CPU overhead. An HP 3PAR StoreServ 20800 Storage system with eight controller nodes has 16 ASICs totaling 224 GB/s of peak interconnect bandwidth.
NEW Online data import from HDS arrays
You are now able to do online import of data volumes from Hitachi arrays in addition to the EMC VMAX, CX4, VNX, and HP EVA systems.
The competition
HP touts the scalability of usable and raw flash capacity of these new systems + the new 3.84TB SSD against their competition:
- Consolidate thirty Pure Storage //m70 storage systems onto a single 3PAR 20850 (with 87% less power/cooling/space) ***
- Consolidate eight XtremeIO storage systems onto a single 3PAR 20850 (with 62% less power/cooling/space)
- Consolidate three EMC VMAX 400K storage systems onto a single 3PAR 20850 (with 85% less power/cooling/space)
HP also touts their throughput numbers (75GB/second) are between two and ten times faster than the competition. The 7450 came in at only 5.5GB/second, so this is quite a step up.
*** HP revised their presentation last minute their original claims were against the Pure 450, which was replaced by the m70 on the same day of the 3PAR announcement. The numbers here are from memory from a couple of days ago they may not be completely accurate.
Fastest growing in the market
HP touted again 3PAR was the fastest growing all flash in the market last year. They also said they have sold more than 1,000 all flash systems in the first half which is more than Pure Storage sold in all of last year. In other talks with 3PAR folks specifically on market share they say they are #1 in midrange in Europe and #2 in Americas, with solid growth across the board consistently for many quarters now. 3PAR is still #5 in the all flash market, part of that is likely due to compression(see below), but I have no doubt this new generation of systems will have a big impact on the market.
Still to come
Compression remains a road map item, they are working on it, but obviously not ready for release today. Also this marks probably the first 3PAR hardware released in more than a decade that wasn't accompanied by SPC-1 results. HP says SPC-1 is coming, and it's likely they will do their first SPC-2 (throughput) test on the new systems as well.
Bottom line
HP continues to show that it's 3PAR architecture is fully capable of embracing the all flash era and has a long life left in it. Not only are you getting the maturity of the enterprise proven 3PAR systems (over a decade at this point), but you are not having to compromise on almost anything else related to all flash(compression being the last holdout).
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I still don't understand why someone would choose something over 3par in this day and age.
Eddie, we chose Dell Compellent for our DR site because HP 3Par Adaptive Optimization is way too slow to react to data getting hot. With our DR site most data will be cold until we roll over and so it's a serious consideration. We would consider going all flash to eliminate the issue but even HP's touted $1.50/GB is still ~10x more expensive than an NL tier which would end up costing us ~$150k more to host on flash even if we could achieve the 4:1 data reduction that HP's number requires. We like our 3Par, and it's been highly reliable and I wish the Dell had cage availability but the weaknesses of AO and the refusal of 3Par to add an option for flash based write caching pushed us to another solution. Also the new Dell SCv2080 kicks the 7200 all over the place, 168 drives in 10U and no per-drive licensing.
Great article, wish I was lucky enough to attend these events! Also glad to see a new post as I've enjoyed reading your others.
I think I'll struggle to convince my manager to buy me a 20850 but I can dream. With regard to Andrews comment I also agree that AO needs to be enhanced to allow remote copy volumes to receive AO data so it can be tiered appropriately. We have 2 x 7400 arrays in separate DCs synchronously replicating and I have concerns around how well things will go in a full failover IO wise, at least till AO kicks in and does it's job.
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SPECIAL REPORT: What To Expect At The Upcoming OPEC Meeting (Part 2)
In part two of this video special report, Stratas Advisors' director of energy markets, Jeff Quigley, sat down with Hart Energy to discuss the upcoming OPEC meeting on May 25. Will production cuts continue? What if something unexpected happens? How will oil price affect the proceedings?
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Reevaluation of patterns of mussel (Mytilus edulis) selection by European Oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus) Nagarajan, R; Lea, Stephen E.G.; Goss-Custard, J D (NRC Research Press, 2002)European Oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus) were highly selective towards mussels between 35 and 50 mm in length, and fewer than 5% of mussels taken were below 35 mm or above 50 mm. The oystercatchers selected ventrally ...


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He never heard the train approaching
Jeremiah Hotchkiss, 70, a deaf-mute of Glens Falls, was instantly killed and mangled beyond recognition Jan. 19, 1911 by a Delaware and Hudson passenger engine near the railroad station in that city. Train engineer John King, said he did not see the man and knew nothing was amiss until he felt a slight jar. The fireman was sent to investigate and found the deaf mute's mangled body about 15 feet from the engine. It is believed that Hotchkiss was walking the tracks to John St. and no one witnessed the accident. Engineer King ran down and killed another deaf mute on the Platt St. crossing in April, 1910 in Glens Falls. The victim was a resident of Pottersville and his body was taken there for burial.
Undertaker assumed he was dead
Owing to a misunderstood telephone message, Edward Chevalley, the proprietor of the well-known roadhouse at stop 17 on the Schenectady-Albany road, who is suffering from cancer, came to his senses the night of Jan. 7, 1911 just in time to ask an Albany undertaker who was at work on his body, what the trouble was. It seems that Chevalley had a severe relapse and his mother, who lives in Albany, was telephoned that her son had died and therefore sent an undertaker to the house. While the undertaker was busy laying out the body, Chevalley suddenly sat up in bed and asked for an explanation.
They turned tail and ran
George Boyce started from Wells to go to Thurman and when he arrived at the railroad crossing at The Glen, the northbound passenger train was just leaving the station. The horses became frightened and turned completely around, throwing Mr. Boyce out and he landed in a snow drift uninjured. The team than ran up to the railway track two miles to what is known as the Anderson Brook Bridge. The train came along up and the trainmen found that one horse had fallen through the bridge. They cut the harness, letting that horse down through the bridge. The animal sustained considerable many bruises. The other horse, above the bridge, was unhurt. Mr. Boyce hired a horse to hitch with his uninjured horse and continued on his journey to Thurman.
New tuberculosis asylum in North Creek
"The Gables," a building at North Creek owned by Dr. Lee Somerville, was erected by the late Dr. Thomas C. Durant who was at one time president of the Adirondack Railroad. The Warren County Board of Supervisors recently appropriated $10,000 for its purchase, the property to be used as a County Hospital for tubercular patients. (Note...In the mid-1860s, when Dr. Durant was vice-president of the Union Pacific Company, he is remembered for missing the hammer blow at the golden spike in ceremonies at Promontory Point, Utah. He was however, one of the great men of his day. He died in 1885 in North Creek.)
Stony Creek and thereabouts
Louis Bidwell and Miss Isabel Bidwell drove to Stony Creek to visit George Brown.
Charles Smith is stocking his sawmill near Stony Creek in Knowelhurst with logs from his mountain lot above Lester Lyng's place. The lot was nearly all burned two years ago.
Edgar Ordway has three sick horses. Dr. Pitcher, veterinary surgeon of Warrensburgh, has made one trip over there to see them.
(Note...Dr. Alfred J. Pitcher was supervisor of Warrensburgh from 1908 until 1911. He lived in the little house on Elm St. behind the present day Floyd Bennett bandstand.)
Prominent lady dies - a long time resident
Mrs. Emma Hayes, 83, widow of Halsey B. Hayes, died Dec. 15, 1910 of paralysis. She was born in Warrensburgh and spent her whole life here. She was the daughter of the late Joseph Bennett, a respected old settler of the town. Her husband died Feb. 20, 1894. They were parents to 10 children.
Emma Hayes resided with her granddaughter, Mrs. Nelson Dufresne. Full of years, loved by her children and grandchildren and esteemed and honored by a large circle of friends and acquaintances, this good woman has gone to receive the reward assured to those who truly serve the Lord as she has done. Since 1864 she has been a faithful communicant of the Church of the Holy Cross in Warrensburgh.
Wheeling and dealing with horses
G.R. Smith of Johnsburgh is the proud owner of the handsomest cutter in town. Chester Mitchell has sold his farm in Minerva to Orrin Kellogg.
Henry Brown, foreman of the Eagle Nest Club's property at Blue Mountain Lake was recently in Warrensburgh to buy a team and found just what he wanted at the farm of Arthur Morrison. He drove home with a fine pair of horses for which he paid $500. Mr. Morrison bought the team from Eugene Murphy of Chestertown.
In other news, at the home of William LaFlure in Pottersville there is much rejoicing over the arrival of a son who came on Christmas night. The question is, will young LaFlure be as good a horse trader as is his grandfather, Uncle Joe LaFlure?
Citizens passed away
Lorenzo Hemingway, 88, an old resident of Horicon, died Friday, Jan. 20, 1911 of cancer at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Hiram Ross. He has two other daughters and three sons to mourn his loss.
Mrs. Elizabeth Loveland, 79, died of pneumonia Jan. 20, 1911 at the home of John W. Cameron of Athol. Internment was in the Cameron Cemetery.
Mrs. Kezire Murdock, 77, died Saturday, Jan. 21, 1911 of chronic nephritis at the home of her son, Linsey Murdock with whom she resided in Warrensburgh.
William Lackey, 88, died Jan. 25, 1911 at his home in Johnsburgh. He is survived by two sons, Andrew and Miles Lackey.
Ella K. Ingraham, 3, the daughter of Mrs. Carrie Ingraham and a grandchild of John H. Pasco, died Jan. 25, 1911 of typhoid fever in North Caldwell. The father died of the same disease about three years ago in Glens Falls.
News roundabout
The men and teams around Riverbank are very busy drawing logs to the river and wood and pulp wood to Warrensburgh. Arvin Hutchins has commenced drawing pulp from Mill Creek Pond. Wallace Tucker of North Thurman has been working in the lumber woods at Cedar Lakes. The sleighing is fine.
The new 1910 census says that there are 32,252 people in Warren County. Thurman has 805, Stony Creek has 858 and Chestertown has 1,731 people. There are 2,385 citizens in Warrensburgh and 1,482, a combined total in Lake George and Caldwell.
John Hastings, the young son of Frank Hastings, is recovering from pneumonia. T.J. Converse of North Creek is very ill with the grippe, which has settled in his face and head.
Fred Duell and Earl May caught a nice string of fish in South Horicon. George Will of Johnsburgh has a yearling colt that weighs 840 pounds.
The chimney was very hot for several hours after the fire was put out.
Burgers store at 26 Warren St., Glens Falls has new solid oak dining room tables with claw feet on sale for $8.98.
E.A. Knight of Lake George has a used Knox runabout automobile for sale. It is air-cooled, single cylinder, 10 horsepower, in fine condition with a jump seat for two extra passengers. It has a side steering lever and is guaranteed to climb any hill, all for $100. He also has a classy little Reo roadster for only $200.
There was yet another fire scare the morning of Jan. 17, 1911 in Chestertown when the chimney of Mrs. Rising's house burned out and filled the house with smoke.
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Gorillas Riding Dinosaurs: All-Action Dracula
All-Action Classics, Volume 1: Dracula
Written by Michael Mucci; Illustrated by Ben Caldwell
Sterling; $6.95
Adapting classic literature for a younger audience is tricky business. I mean, any kind of adaptation has its challenges, but taking a novel intended for adults of a century or two ago and making it exciting for modern kids has to be daunting as hell. Especially when that novel is Dracula, which has a difficult narrative style with all those journal entries and spends a lot of time building dread by prolonging events. It's also violent and bloody.
I'm curious to see how Dynamite's Complete Dracula handles the slower parts of the story. And how much use they'll make of captions as opposed to letting dialogue and images tell the story. That's got to be a hard job and Dynamite has the advantage of targeting an adult audience with presumably longer attention spans. Plus, lots of blood will be welcomed by grown-up vampire fans.
Not that younger readers don't also appreciate lots of blood, but I imagine that some of their parents aren't quite as excited about their being exposed to it. Michael Mucci and Ben Caldwell had some hard choices to make. Fortunately, they made all the right decisions and have created an adaptation that's perfect for their audience – including grown-ups in the mood for a fast-paced, exciting version of Bram Stoker's story.
Caldwell's animation-inspired characters and settings look like concept art for what could be Disney's Dracula. I hope I can say that as a compliment because Mucci's script does anything but dumb the story down. The combined result isn't much like a Disney film, but the art has the same level of quality. Jonathan Harker and Mina actually have more of a Rankin-Bass look to their designs. They're fresher-faced and less exaggerated than the other characters, which is appropriate since they're the readers' entry to the story. They seem the most normal of the cast.
Renfield is fully convincing as both a kind, pitiful, old man and a violently energetic lunatic. Van Helsing is a comical old scientist with professorial facial hair and enormously bushy eyebrows. Dr. Jack Seward is a thin, fragile-looking man. You can tell just by looking at him that when he moves he's very careful and measured. Caldwell draws aristocratic Arthur Holmwood with classical, almost effeminate features. He looks like he's stepped off the side of an ancient Greek vase. Quincy Morris is a big-jawed Western hero with long, Wild Bill Hickok hair and moustache. I want to read a whole series of stories about Caldwell's Quincy Morris. Lucy Westenra has dark, exotic features that make you believe all of these men would fall in love with her. Her looks also make her into a hauntingly seductive vampire once Dracula's done with her.
I haven't forgotten about Dracula. Caldwell's version may just be my favorite representation yet. He strikes just the right balance between seductive and menacing. I've never seen anyone be able to pull that off before. Usually the Count is either horrendous and disfigured or he's dapper and handsome. Caldwell's design with its switch-thin frame and terrible, crooked teeth leans toward the horrendous, but Dracula's body language conveys a confident, powerful, compelling presence. Caldwell's Dracula can seduce, but it's a seduction based on the vampire's awful will rather than romance.
The lettering helps with this image too. The tails on Dracula's word balloons don't point straight at him like everyone else's in the book. They curl and wind, suggesting a silky, hypnotic voice. And this is the book's greatest strength. Not just the lettering, but the ability that the lettering and the character design and the colors and everything else has to quickly tell you what you need to know about each of these characters. There's no need for long, tension-building scenes. The tension and the horror is all visual. That frees Mucci to spend his time hitting the action parts of the plot.
All-Action Dracula lives up to its name. Not that there aren't scenes of people talking, but Caldwell juices those up too with interesting details and animated facial expressions. Mucci uses very few captions – mostly at the beginning and end as the story ramps up and finally settles down again – and even then he's sparing about how many he allows into a panel. There's nothing in comics I hate more than having to spend a lot of time reading captions on a page. Mucci didn't make me do that, which is pretty impressive in a Dracula adaptation.
I'm curious now to explore some other comics adaptations of the story. Halloween's coming, so I think I'll see what I can dig up. Suggestions about specific versions are welcome in the comments. This is definitely the one to beat though. And at $6.95 for 128 pages, there won't be any beating the price.
Five out of five Mad Renfields.
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|27 Nov 2012
Windows Explorer has slowed markedly
In the past couple of months my win 7 Windows Explorer now takes up to 20 seconds of searching to finally land on the folder selected. This is much slower than it used to be. I guess I'm not at all knowledgeable on what the search process is when one loads Windows Explorer so I don't know where to look for problems. Generally, what things slow the search that Win Explorer goes through to load itself. Would a 3rd party file manager be a better bet rather than a long term investigation to find the problem in my system? I'm a good housekeeper on my machines but something is slowing Win Exp down markedly. And come to think of it the whole machine seems slower also.
I'm running Win 7 on an 64 bit Intel 2.8Ghz i7-860 Processor on an Asus P&P55D-E Pro mother board with 4 gig Ram and an Intel X-25 80gig C drive plus a Samsung Spinpoint T3 1 Terabyte hard drive.
Many thanks for any help!
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|27 Nov 2012
Some good house keeping tools.
Disk Cleanup : Extended
Read through this and see if you care to do some or all of it.
Optimize Windows 7
A very nice program many of us use.
CCleaner - PC Optimization and Cleaning - Free Download
***If you do find any other program for cleaning or speeding up your computer please ask here before using. There is a bunch of bad programs on the net. ***
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|28 Nov 2012
Thanks very much Layback Bear.......I appreciate the help. Yes, I'm a long time user of CCleaner Pro and it's a great program. As I said I'm fairly good at housekeeping. But what has got me really puzzled is what sort of exercise Win 7 goes through to load Explorer. Somewhere along the line I've added something or changed some folder structure that has markedly slowed my Explorer when running through all of the folder tree to finally load up. Something I've done has caused this delay of several seconds in finishing up its startup. I've begun backing up some old DVD's of good size, would that slow my OS down? I've only kept one or two on the disk at any one time.
I'll go through those great Optimizing steps one by one to clean my machine up.
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|28 Nov 2012
SSD never touched!
One more thing just occurred to me: I've never hardly touched my SSD based on the stuff I've read. When I use my Auslogics Defragger I've always skipped my C drive which is the SSD. So it's stayed pretty much as when first built but it's got the OS on it which includes EXplorer, right? So maybe I should be doing something to clean or optimize that SSD?
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|28 Nov 2012
Never defrag a SSD. No manufacture of any SSD recommend drfraging them.
I use the Intel Tool Box for my SSD. I would think every brand of SSD's have something along the same line as Intel.
You could also run this to check Windows y System Files.
SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker
Many times if will fix problems with Windows Explorer.
Many 3rd party anti virus don't play well with Windows 7 and cause all kinds of problems. That is why I use MSE and MAM Pro. They all play well together.
Programs I recommend I use unless otherwise stated.
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|17 Dec 2012
My machine is now slowing more and more and sometimes programs are just not opening and kind of ignoring my command clicks. If I reboot then things freshen up and stuff starts to happen normally for a while. Would a reload of Win 7 on my SSD help refresh this thing and restore original sparky speed......which I really miss. I'm wondering if my proliferation of files and folders and the ton of stuff I have stored on DropBox might be affecting my speed and response. Would a Win 7 reinstall help? Comments appreciated!
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In fact you might outright reject it.
We present it to show that there is more beyond the basic principles that you may have been taught over and over again without any further progressive growth into some of the deeper things of God.
This is the kind of apostolic teaching that some Christians have been receiving for years. In fact this message comes to us from January 15, 1978.
There were and are some Christians who declared war upon unbelief.
They issued a clarion call to the sons of God, sons of the Kingdom of God to possess their inheritance now.
This was their time of transition, they took a step out of old order influences into the Kingdom era.
Truly these kind of messages set the stage for the coming years.
A step into the Kingdom...
One of the beautiful things seen in the fresh birth of the early Church was their spontaneous moving into divine order.
It was not something difficult which had to be taught to them.
Because they had not learned a wrong way that had to be unlearned, they readily came into line with the true pattern that they were to follow.
The second chapter of Acts describes it:
So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
And they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the
And everyone kept feeling a sense of awe; and many wonders and signs were taking place through the apostles.
And all those who had believed were together, and had all things in common.
Acts 2:41-44.
In that beautiful togetherness, in their dedication to the apostolic Word and their continual practice of fellowship, the family of God came forth.
The divine order in all things was natural to them.
At today's stage of the restoration of the New Testament order, Christians have many traditions to unlearn.
During the five or six hundred years since the Protestant Reformation, the restoration has been progressing slowly.
In fact, most of the Protestants still need some reformation.
The restoration can no longer be identified as only the Protestant Reformation, because at this time we are truly seeing restoration among the Roman Catholics also.
There never has been a time like the present, when millions of Roman Catholics are being filled with the Holy Spirit and are speaking with tongues and entering into the gifts pf the holy Spirit.
We must understand what is taking place.
The living Word that God is speaking in this day is so revolutionary and so battled that only a small minority of Christians are willing to accept it.
As a remnant of God's people move on to deeper revelation, they will be looked upon as speckled birds ( Jeremiah 12:9 ).
However, the restoration will continue to accelerate, and the present truths which are being battled today by principalities and powers will be accepted tomorrow by a greater segment of people.
Large basic segments of apostolic foundational truths are being restored to the Church so rapidly that many will probably find it difficult to apply them.
In the early Church, the believers walked in truths much more readily than believers do today, for they have so many traditions to unlearn.
God must erode the false foundation from under them until it collapses.
His living Word is doing that very thing.
Believers who are walking in divine order today must look to the Lord for the expanding vision of what His order is to be.
God is raising up an end-time company of believers, a remnant who will not become a denomination; neither will they become a law unto themselves and form some independent walk.
They will not become segregated and isolated as a little group who think they are the only people of God and that wisdom will die with them.
They will recognize that they are simply an ordained segment in the Kingdom of God.
God has many ways of working to bring to pass His purposes.
In the Old Testament times He chose Ezekiel to be a watchman on the wall ( Ezekiel 3:17 ).
Today God again has prophets who visualize the things that are coming, lest the enemy should overtake His people or deception be their portion.
Lest the purposes of God be frustrated, men again give warning and guidance in directive prophecies.
God is raising up a prophetic community upon whom the anointing of the Lord is to rest.
They are to go out and position themselves so that those who are hungry and looking for light can find the way.
In the days of American history before the Civil War there was a system called the Underground Railroad.
It was not really a railroad.
Sometimes it was a ferryboat crossing a river or a lake.
Sometimes it was just a little hunter's cabin tucked away in the wilderness.
It provided a way for the slaves who were breaking through to freedom to find help as they made their way up into states where they would be recognized as free men.
The stigma that was upon the black people was also suffered by many who were seven-eights white; they, too, were sold into slavery because of that small Negro heritage.
They suffered the same barbaric cruelties as the black people, cruelties which were sometimes perpetrated by their white relatives.
People who loved God and hated slavery provided a way to get those people through to freedom.
This illustrates the way that God will bring people out of Babylon.
In the coming days, we will find that divine order, like an 'underground railroad,' will be the means whereby hungry people can be smuggled out of Babylonian traditions and brought into freedom.
They must be conditioned to freedom and literally liberated because Babylon is slavery; it is not just an organization.
It has placed mental and spiritual chains upon its people.
These chains are invisible, but they are there, nevertheless; and the people must be liberated from them.
That will not be done unless God has a people who are moving on in the grace of God in divine order.
Then they will be able to liberate others to move in this grace.
In order to walk with God now, we must become revolutionaries in the true sense.
Revolutionaries without submission give birth to anarchy, but revolutionaries who are under divine order will bring in the Kingdom.
We must keep that firmly in mind.
There has to be a way whereby we become wholly submissive to the Lord.
Although it will be difficult, we must live with continual intense determination against slavery, bondage, and oppression of every kind, and at the same time find ourselves totally and irrevocably dedicated to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the perfect rule and order that He is bringing forth in His Kingdom.
The Communists have a way of achieving their purposes.
They train men to become revolutionaries, wholly dedicated to revolution; but these men are not permitted to be a part of the new government that is set up.
When the Communists move in and take over a country, they kill the revolutionaries.
They did this in Cuba and in other countries too.
Why do they kill them?
On the human level, it is almost impossible for a man to destroy one order and still have real dedication to build a right order.
Most revolutionaries are not dedicated to building; they are only dedicated to destroying an establishment.
We must have a dedication that exceeds their dedication.
While continually crying against that which is out of order, we must cry to God for that which is in divine order.
This is not a middle-of-the-road process; it requires a true vision of God's Kingdom.
As you read about Isaiah, Jeremiah. and Ezekiel, you will find them crying out against the system that was wrong, proclaiming judgment, and prophesying its fall.
Their eyes were upon the future.
They saw the coming kingdom, and they were prophesying concerning it.
It is not easy to see.
Only an incurably naive and romantic person, one who lives in the past with his head in the sand of traditions, can accept the present state of affairs in the world.
This is an age in which people make much ado about nothing.
While the world is going berserk, some are even becoming so stirred up about ecology that it seems they would actually dedicate their whole lives trying to perpetuate certain endangered species of animals.
It is true that the world is ready to die in the midst of its own garbage and pollution, but why not forget about that and work to bring forth the Kingdom.
When the Kingdom comes into full manifestation, God will bring forth species of animals that we have never thought of before.
Why try to cling to an age that is dying?
Let us give ourselves to bringing in the Kingdom.
Cease to merely exist.
Live your days with purpose and direction.
Keep on top of the spirit of this age in your thinking.
Keep your spirit focused upon the Lord.
Redeem the time because the days are evil ( Ephesians 5:16 ).
Whether or not you understand everything that God is doing, your spiritual protection will be found in being a part of the order that He is restoring.
It is essential to realize that every ministry that God raises up will have some area of weakness.
This is deliberate on God's part because the ministries are not to be infallible.
They are to have an area in which they can be complete only by what others members of the Body of Christ supply.
This s true of an apostle as well as a prophet or any other ministry.
They need your prayers, and you need their ministry.
There must be a mutual submission and exchange in order that God's plans can be fulfilled.
Endeavor, above everything else, to find the leading of the Lord, because there must be a breakthrough into another dimension, much like the mirror in Alice in Wonderland.
There is a way to walk through into another dimension, on the other side of the mirror.
Now we see through a glass dimly, but on the other side of it we are going to know even as we are known.
Then we will no longer prophesy in part, but there will be a perfect revelation to our hearts ( I Corinthians 13:9-12 ).
This breakthrough into another dimension will be achieved by the individuals who move collectively as a body.
The breakthrough into the next age will be made by a company of the sons of God, not by an individual son here and there.
The great victory over Satan and the great manifestation of the Kingdom will come about through the unity of the Body of Christ and the oneness with which we love one another and stand together.
Do you have a dread or a fear- like icy hands gripping your heart- of the days and weeks and months slipping away from you?
Do you find that the truths which God has shown you are becoming so elusive that you cannot really walk in them?
Promises that were very real, hopes and visions that burned in your heart, may become dim as you go along and become distracted.
If the devil cannot defeat you, he will try to distract you and use all of your time against you.
His strategy resembles that used by the basket ball team which is winning the game.
With only a few minutes of time left, they start stalling, passing the ball back and forth.
Their objective is to keep it out of the hands of the opposing team.
They do not need any more points; so they just pass the ball back and forth so that the time will run out and they will win by their margin of points.
Let us not fail to see that the enemy will use the same tactics with us, keeping us so busy and preoccupied doing so many things that we fail to set our hearts to the true course, with a determination to win the race.
Apply yourself and give diligence to God's promises concerning you.
Pray over them.
Cry over them.
Every member in the Body of Christ has an individual ministry to fulfill, and while they fulfill it collectively, they still attain it by a personal dedication and by having the work of the cross worked in them individually.
The responsibility cannot be shifted to the pastor.
Each one must learn to command his day.
Each one must determine how he is going to fulfill his ministry.
Currently in the news:
●Obama signs into law the US – Israel Strategic Partnership Act. This is a most important and surprisingly positive move by the US. It effectively strengthens the US – Israel alliance and in fact makes it law. Immediately weapons supplied to Israel will increase by $200 million. The new bill will also free up trade in strategic products. This is good news for the US and its position with God. Let's see how it lasts!
●Obama signs a bill preventing suspected Nazi activists or sympathisers from receiving Social Security benefits!
●What a war or two! A cyber war with North Korea and they threaten to attack the White House. An economic war with Russia and they threaten to attack the US. Well at least there are no bombs flying (yet!) Oh yes, almost forgot: North Korea has 100 nuclear warheads sitting pretty atop inter-continental missiles.
●Hamas is at it again. They've been firing rockets into Israel again and are rebuilding their terror tunnels with EU aid money! Israel is not responding yet.●The so-called peace process and talks relating to Israel dividing the land and the city of Jerusalem may break down soon over the settlements issue. There are new war drums beating in the background. Either way, we need to look for a peace treaty to be signed. this may come through these current negotiations or in an attempt to end a war not yet on the go. It is the signing of a seven-year peace treaty that kicks off the tribulation period. It will most probably happen on a feast of trumpets.
As the coming of our great Lord and King gets nearer, all of His attributes get nearer and everything He has laid up for us gets closer. As the coming of the antichrist nears, the more he will deceive people including Christians who are not well armed and prepared! He comes in camouflage, as an angel of light, but with him comes hell eternal.
If you don't have spiritual light and insight you won't even see your own need for light. You will carry on into oblivion.
Have you ever wondered why some people just can't see what you see? You can explain spiritual things till you're blue in the face and they just can't see. There's nothing wrong with their intelligence, they're just blind to many things of God.
The main reason many can't see or understand is because they are not born of God in the first place. The new birth is the starting gate.
John 3:3 "I say to you, unless one is born again you cannot see the kingdom of God."
Acts 9:18 "Immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales and he received his sight at once and he arose and was baptised." This verse relates to Paul receiving his natural sight after being struck blind, but it most certainly also relates to spiritual sight. Note that as He "saw" he was obedient and went to be baptised right away.
After salvation and adult baptism comes a whole new world of following our Lord as we are led by His spirit.
Self righteousness, self dependence, or pride is the big problem. Trusting in yourself and your own good works rather than the saving grace of the living God is the reason God will hide His Face, His Kingdom and His ways from you. God then comes in and makes sure that you will not see, by blinding your eyes.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4 "Our gospel is hidden to them that are lost in whom the god of this world has blinded the eyes of them who believe not."
Now, in this verse (above) it teaches that Satan "the god of this world" has blinded the eyes of unbelievers. It's not a contradiction. Of course Satan would not want anyone to see into God's glorious kingdom or to see his own workings for that matter.
Spiritual blindness is a monumental problem because you will not see that there is a war on the go. You won't see demonic forces at work in the world. How can you defeat an enemy that you don't know exists or can't see?
God will also not not let unbelievers with hard hearts participate in, or even see His Kingdom as well.
What incredible difficulty for unbelievers to see and understand spiritual truth. Both God and the devil have darkened their hearts and understanding.
Blind teachers and preachers:
Matthew 15:14 "Leave them alone, they are blind leaders of the blind, and if the blind leads the blind they will both fall into the ditch."
A very good way to ensure continued spiritual blindness in your life is to cling to religious traditions.
Mark 7:13 "You make the word of God of no effect through your traditions which you handed down."
Mark 7:7 "Their heart is far from Me and in vain they worship Me teaching as commandmensts the doctrines of men."
Colossians 2:8 "Beware lest anyone cheat you you through empty philosophy and empty deceit, according to the traditions of men, according to the basic principles of this world and not according to Christ."
John 8:12 "I am the light of the world. He that follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."
Jesus Christ


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No matter what adjectives you attach to a name, the more you yell that name, the more power you give it. This is why Gore had no chance.
It sure seemed to come down to the wire almost twelve years ago, but in retrospect, it was a foregone conclusion. You remember Florida, right? All of the little things that added to Gore's loss? Pat Buchanan getting almost two thousand democratic votes due to the butterfly ballots, the hanging chads, the recounts? It was as if fate knew that all eyes were on Florida. Gore was going to win, but that was not in the cards.
The Revolt
What are those cards anyway? The cards are supposed to be a metaphor for ultimate luck... the draw of the hand. It's when no one knows what will happen next. Well, I agree that no one knows, but I can guarantee that it is also not luck. What turned the tide that day were the people. It was not necessarily what the people wanted, it was what they yelled loudest.
What happened in the 2000 election was that Bush was running as one of the most ignorant candidates on foreign policy and other key issues, as well as having strong ties to the profit-crazy, environmentally-disastrous oil industry, (and later ended up a term with what will go down in history as the worst presidential term ever*). This is not coming from a Democrat, just from an observer. Republicans knew it. They knew that Bush was messy, but also that he gave them their best chance.
And Gore? Sort of a stiff, don't you think? He had the environmental thing going, but for most voters it came across as a bit preachy and annoying. In short, he won the nomination, but he is not a ball of fire. He had to dig deep to scratch at whatever pieces of personality he found just in order to be palatable. So why did he get the votes he did? Gore's biggest vote was the anti-Bush vote. A lot of people hated Bush with a passion... a passion that ended up stabbing them in the back.
No One Cares What You Want
Things happen in the universe in a way that reflects, not complements. All of those Bush haters were yelling, but what was heard was just the main focus: Bush. As the law of attraction has it, whatever we put energy behind will propel forward. There is no reverse energy. We can't say, "We don't want something and therefore negate it.
What we direct our emotions towards gains momentum.
So slow down. Find something you love, and love it. Love it with all your heart. Believe in it. You can, in a calculated way, act against a person, a measure or a regime. But keep your emotions targeted at what you love.
November 2012
What we are facing with the upcoming election seems to be heading in the same direction; only the opposite party is going to benefit.
Romney? Are you kidding me? Who is that guy? He's a combination of a calculating financial whiz and soulless robot. We don't know what he stands for because he most likely stands for the opposite of everything he's forced to be saying. His aim is not to better America. His aim is not to elevate the people. He is no people-leader. Republicans hang on to him because, as it stands, he has the best chance. The best chance to beat Obama, that is.
Yes, as much as lefties hated Bush, conservatives can't stand Obama. Four years ago they all thought that having a basketball-dribbling man with a diverse background and terrorist name for president was something so heinous, it just would not happen. Just could not. But it did. They had four years to stew in muffled disgust, and now they have their chance.
It is my prediction that with all the Super PAC's money and out-raising the Dems by a wide margin, Obama will cross that line with more electorate votes to his name.
This election, the passion lies with him. Democrats love him with passion, Republicans hate him with passion, and Romney is, well, ho-hum.
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A woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempted burglary at Thomas's Battersea school in London according to police – barely a week after Prince George started as a student there Time
It's only the second week of class for 4-year-old Prince George and already someone is under arrest for allegedly breaking into his elite London primary school.
London police announced by tweet Wednesday that a 40-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of attempted burglary at Thomas's Battersea school in south London's Battersea neighborhood.
There was no indication from police that Prince George or anyone else at the school was threatened at any point.
London police arrested the woman, who was not identified per department policy, at 2:15 p.m. local time on Wednesday one day after "an individual gained access to its premises," according to the press release on the Metropolitan Police's website.
The woman was arrested "in the vicinity of the school" and was taken to a south London police station where she remains in custody.
"We are working with the school to review its security arrangements after the incident," the police statement said. "Police were alerted and officers attended immediately after the issue came to light."
Prince George, third in line to the throne and son of Prince William and Duchess Kate of Cambridge, started school last Thursday at Thomas's Battersea, a few miles across the Thames River from his family's home at Kensington Palace.
The child is protected by royal bodyguards as well as London police, and the school itself also has security arrangements.
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The Great Australian Bake Off – The Cast Is….
The Great Australian Bake Off starts tonight on NINE at 8.00pm. It has been a long time coming but it looks like it will be worth the wait. The show will be hosted by Anna Gare and Shane Jacobson, and the judges will be Dan Lepard and Kerry Vincent who will both find a lot of new fans.
However what really makes these shows are the cast there are ten contestants. They are:
Monique a 30 year-old former basketballer from Adelaide. This girl is sassy and can actually bake as she has a blue ribbon from the local show to prove it. She also owns a travelling caravan to sell her home-made lemonade at markets. Twitter handle is @Moniquebowley.
Steve is a 26 year-old boxer from Canberra. He likes to make healthier baking options which include honey filled oat muffins. Maybe he and the personal trainer boys from My Kitchen Rules need to hook up.
Sarah-Jane is a 30 year old teacher and mother from Melbourne. She has a blog called New Fat Ladies and also is a member of Aquaporkos a synchronised swimming group that is into positive body image. Twitter handle is @ess_jay_bakes.
Mark is a 51 year-old accountant from NSW. His signature dish is a sourdough based pizza so expect him to do better on the savoury challenges. He is precise so should be able to follow a recipe.
Julie a 41 year-old farmer's mum bakes every day. She has to be one of the favourites as she has won multiple ribbons at shows and should have a wide baking knowledge. One of the ones to watch.
Nancy is a 22 year-old architecture graduate. She maybe young but her strengths are cakes and decorating. Could be the dark horse.
Brendan is 21 years old and his studying hospitality management at University. He may be young but he has been baking since he was seven. His signature dish is rocky road cheesecake. Twitter handle is @bgarlick.
Maria is a 45 year old social worker from Melbourne. Expect to see her draw on her Greek heritage for recipes and flavours. She has her own blog Food From Home. Tiered fondant cakes are her speciality. Twitter handle is @MV8881.
Jonathan is a 35 year-old IT consultant from Melbourne. He says he has not had a full night sleep since his son was born three years ago. Maybe he went on the show to sleep? He has seven years experience baking and will draw on his Jewish and Eastern European heritage. Twitter handle is @jjtweet1978
Bliss is a 23 year old Trivia Quiz host. She is also a former tennis player and has a Bachelors Degree in Theatre and Music. She is gluten intolerant so she won't be tasting some of the dishes she will be baking. Twitter handle is @BlissNixon.
Each episode there is three challenges a signature bake, a technical bake and a show stopper.
To ease them into it the first signature bake is cupcakes. If you like the British version you will like this version and if you have not seen the UK version and you like cooking shows you should find it enjoyable as well.
The Great Australian Bake Off On NINE on Tuesday nights at 8.00pm.
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- 1 domjr { 07.09.13 at 4:05 pm }
Looking forward to watch this show, this week is the finale show for the US version. In the Uk version, the contestant only compete during weekends, and they can go back home during weekdays, not too sure bout the US. One thing that got me wondering was how they can wore the same clothes during the whole 2 days of competition, the host, the judges n the contestant! Hmmmm….
- 2 Littlepetal { 07.09.13 at 4:14 pm }
Look like we have contestants that can bake. Looking forward to the première. We watch this instead of MC.
- 3 smauge { 07.09.13 at 5:03 pm }
I have been HANGING for this show to start! Talk about make a girl wait!
- 4 Carole { 07.09.13 at 5:55 pm }
Really looking forward to this tonight. I will be juggling shows tonight. Will watch the first half of MasterChef then tape the last half hour and switch to 9 for the Bake Off. And tape Winners & Losers on 7.
Did anyone watch The Today Show today? Lisa Wilkinson cooked her chocolate chip biscuits, the recipe has been in her family for years. But needless to say, Kerry Vincent was not impressed, she was criticising everything about them. But Karl enjoyed them.
- 5 Daisy { 07.09.13 at 6:04 pm }
I saw it Carole.
- 6 Andrea { 07.09.13 at 6:43 pm }
I'll be juggling shows tonight too Carole, I will have to tape The Mole and the Baking Show so that I can watch Australia's Next Top Model on Foxtel. Unfortunately MC will have to fall by the wayside as I can only tape two shows at once.
I missed Lisa on the Today Show, might be able to catch it on line, the Baking Show looks very interesting.
- 7 brain dead dave { 07.09.13 at 6:43 pm }
Good luck with this,Ch9. I'm becoming glutton intolerant from watching the overblown judges on Ma$terchef.
"Bliss". Oh,ffs. Her parents deserve a good bake for that.
- 8 Littlepetal { 07.09.13 at 6:46 pm }
Hope you watch The Bake Off, BDD. There are some yummy looking cakes.
- 9 Andrea { 07.09.13 at 7:06 pm }
I thought you might like Sarah-Jane and her New Fat Ladies blog BDD.
- 10 brain dead dave { 07.09.13 at 7:25 pm }
I checked out the blog. It has two women who managed to produce a bun from an oven.
- 11 Littlepetal { 07.09.13 at 7:30 pm }
Ha ha ha. CB may be interested in Sarah Jane. Actually Maria look like Karen Martini. I am sure BDD can find another eye candy.
- 12 kcewip { 07.09.13 at 9:13 pm }
Hope they call biscuits, biscuits and not cookies and icing, icing and not frosting.
- 13 Georgie { 07.09.13 at 9:20 pm }
kcewip – they're calling patty cakes, cup cakes so probably won't.
- 14 kcewip { 07.09.13 at 9:42 pm }
I've heard "frosting" one too many times already…..
- 15 JaniceG { 07.09.13 at 9:51 pm }
I was shocked at how badly Nine managed screw up a winning formula – way too much biographical info for a first show and not enough time on the actual baking and results, plus the other two versions (UK and USA) had much more encouraging and supportive judges. Also, wish they'd cast just Shane Jacobson instead of adding the annoyingly perky and fake Anna Gare.
The worst sin, though, is the casting: hardly any of the contestants seem like they can actually bake anything challenging, and even fewer of them have engaging personalities. Any five randomly selected grannies from the CWA could wipe the floor with all of the contestants they chose.
- 16 Andrea { 07.09.13 at 10:42 pm }
I thought the honey bee cake was kind of cute!
- 17 Suziekue { 07.09.13 at 11:13 pm }
I sorta liked this show. It was relatively fast-paced, loved the cooking and I think I only saw one pathetic attempt at sooky la la sympathy (insert here dead relative of your choice) tears.
Was I imagining it, but in the last couple of frames just before the end, was the Asian lass having her own private meltdown with her hands up to her temples. She did seem pretty hard on herself for not following up her first excellent cake with a party stopper cake. Hmmmm, so watch this space – it could be from whence cometh drama of great heights.
- 18 Littlepetal { 07.09.13 at 11:20 pm }
I saw that too, Suziekue. She did quite well with her ballerina cake and her chequered board cake was excellent.
- 19 Daze { 07.09.13 at 11:44 pm }
Enjoyed the show and heaven knows how long we've been waiting for it to air. Love the set and it might make a slow start like House Rules did, to get a following.
However, bit disappointed, lacked something I can't put my finger on with no structure, too fast, a bit all over the place. And what's the point of Shane, he hardly has any air time or something to do (so far), Anna seems to carry the hosting. Editing is poor – cooking over 2 days yes I believe that but after the contestants were told to go home and rest – there they all were, with the same clothes on again 'the next day'. Anyhow it's light and entertaining and only 10 contestants, well 9 now with one elimination already – Maria and Nancy look like strong contenders and Bliss is half hearted, don't see her lasting long.
- 20 Sioux Denim { 07.09.13 at 11:48 pm }
I really enjoyed the show….not being a baker at all, especially the decorting of cakes I was impressed with a few of them…….
That swarmy young bloke better watchout being a bit too cocky, gonna get set up for sure…..
It mustn't go for too long as there didnt seem to be a lot of contestants…is it a weekly show?
- 21 brain dead dave { 07.09.13 at 11:50 pm }
Shane's there to unblock the shithouse after big bake-offs.
Every Tuesday at 8.00 pm ,Sioux Denim.
- 22 Littlepetal { 07.10.13 at 12:03 am }
Yes, Maria, Nancy and maybe Monique are better bakers. Its weekly show and only 8 episodes.
- 23 Ian { 07.10.13 at 2:27 am }
Can someone tell me PLEASE who was eliminated in the first episode tonight. I recorded the show but it ran out seconds before the name was announced. Thanks!
- 24 smauge { 07.10.13 at 8:20 am }
The boxer dude was eliminated, Ian. Wrong one in my opinion! Should have been the bespectacled scientist who could barely get anything on a plate last night.
I loved it. And they have to keep Anna Gare on. My Hubby loves her.
- 25 FIONA LOWDEN { 07.10.13 at 8:28 am }
Where have I seen Julie from she's so familiar
- 26 JaniceG { 07.10.13 at 8:34 am }
smauge: At least anal-retentive-accountant-guy's showstopper cake tasted good even if he didn't finish the decorating, and the decorating he did finish was impressive. Nothing that boxer-dude made was edible and his "castle" cake looked like something a primary school student might make in their very first attempt at baking
- 27 Georgie { 07.10.13 at 9:00 am }
It didn't start until 8.30 here (mid north coast nsw), after The Block, but the program showed 8.00 start?
Agree JaniceG, the casting in terms of bakery skills seems to have been a secondary consideration. The show obviously isn't about teaching baking skills, so they should start with 10 great cooks, which would make for a more exciting competion.
Agree with you too smauge, I thought Mark should be and would be eliminated. His hands-on approach to rescuing the collapsing checkerboard creation was the highlight last night.
Lol bdd, Kenny has a purpose after all.
- 28 Georgie { 07.10.13 at 9:29 am }
Sorry JanicG, hadn't seen your 2nd comment on the elimination dynamics. I wrote mine then went and made breakfast without hitting the submit button!
Anyway, they have a lot of elimination fodder to choose from at this stage.
- 29 Georgie { 07.10.13 at 9:35 am }
kcewip #12 – further on the biscuit vs cookie thing, the ultimate sacrilege as far as I'm concerned is ANZAC cookie!
- 30 smauge { 07.10.13 at 11:21 am }
JaniceG – I agree that the boxer dude's banana cake was a bit weird, and like the judges said, didn't in anyway resemble a castle, but I stand by my opinion that scientist bakerman had an appalling day in the kitchen. I'd be majorly pissed off at getting eliminated over him!
I'm sure I'll get the hang of all their names eventually!
- 31 Littlepetal { 07.10.13 at 11:34 am }
The scientist, Mark party cake may not be the best looking but didn't the judge said it was the most tasty cake. Steve cake must have tasted awful.
- 32 Ian { 07.10.13 at 12:33 pm }
Thanks smauge, I agree with you regarding the elimination. Next week I'll watch the programme live but watch Masterchef encore the next day. SO much competition with all the reality shows competing with the same time slot. One good thing I suppose is that Bake Off is only on once a week.
- 33 JaniceG { 07.10.13 at 12:45 pm }
I definitely don't mean to be defending Accountant Guy's performance but Boxer Dude's was worse. I've watched both the UK and USA versions of this show and they do consider all three rounds when deciding who to whack.


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Author Notes: Sure, mashed potatoes are the usual go-to — but there's something so appealing about crispy potatoes. This recipe allows the potato halves to crisp up beautifully in the oven before smothering them in tangy harissa butter. One of our favorite ways to enjoy these? As a snack for the Thanksgiving cooking squad before the big meal — grab 'em straight from the pan! —CAVA
Serves: 4-6
cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
tablespoons Cava Harissa
large shallot, minced
lemon, zested and juiced
teaspoon kosher salt
bag mixed fingerling potatoes, halved
salt and pepper to taste
olive oil
fresh parsley and warm baguette, for serving
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Rinse and dry the potatoes thoroughly. Slice in half lengthwise. In a large prep bowl, toss potatoes with olive oil, pepper, and salt.
- Place the potatoes cut-side up and spread them out evenly on a baking sheet or a large cast-iron skillet. Roast for 15 minutes, then flip the potatoes and roast another 10 minutes, until potatoes are crispy on the edges and fork-tender. Remove the potatoes from the oven, place on a rack, and allow them to cool slightly.
- For the harissa butter, heat butter in a skillet over medium heat. After the butter starts bubbling slightly, add shallot and sauté for 1 to 2 minutes, until softened. Add harissa, lemon zest, and 1 tablespoon of lemon zest, and reduce heat to low, allowing the sauce to simmer for another minute or two.
- Toss the potatoes in the warm harissa butter until evenly coated. Garnish with rough-chopped parsley and fresh cracked pepper.
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Why I Will Never, Ever, EVER Get a Tattoo
Would I have to start planning outfits around the tattoo like I plan for weather?
I feel like I must apologize dear readers, for I have not exactly been "on it" in terms of Oreo Journalism.
By now, you may have already made your mind up about the Brownie Batter Oreo, the limited-edition sandwich cookie that Nabisco released last month without sending me a package. (They have since remedied this.)
This shouldn't have mattered that much, but it would appear that my steady stream of free Oreos has made me soft, and it took me a full month to obtain these precious jewels.
Maybe it's too late for this review, but I'm pretty full of hubris when it comes to my Important Oreo Opinions, so I figure better late than never. Also, I disagree with pretty much everything I've read on this cookie, and the people need to know! But we'll get to that in a moment, first we're going to talk about my struggle.
I was actually out of town when the Brownie Batter Oreo was released, helping to take care of some of my younger cousins (my aunt just had her fourth). There I was, minding my own business, changing diapers and watching episodes of The Thundermans when all of social media (okay, like three people) erupted with news of Oreo's latest.
I'm not going to lie, I felt like a damn fool. I felt like a fake. How could I have missed these? Was I slipping? I was quickly brought back to reality when my two year old cousin started yelling at me for not sharing my Coke Zero and the five year-old started doing handstands right next to the sleeping newborn.
I had to go to the grocery store anyway, so I decided to grab a pack of these chocolaty cookies that evening, but they were not to be found. I went home defeated and deflated but quickly forgot about my failure. Existing in a house with four children really changes your priorities.
A full week later, I tried again, this time going to Super Target (7-year-old in tow), because Super Target always has novelty Oreos.
But once again, it was not meant to be. (I did however, get some excellent stinky cheese.)
"This is why I hate Super Target," my young cousin said. "Everyone goes to the Super Target instead of the regular Target and that's why Super Target never has anything good." (She is so wise.) I returned to the house empty-handed, resigned to the fact that this particular bit of Oreo journalism would have to wait until I got back to Portland.
Further disappointment awaited me in Oregon. They weren't at Target. They weren't at QFC. I finally broke down and emailed Brittany (my Oreo contact). She was very sweet and sent me a package overnight. Of course, literally an hour after I sent her the email, I found them at Fred Meyer. So, if you're in Oregon, that's where to buy them.
Anyway. I have them now. They are mine. And I have thoughts about them. There's no need to discuss the cookie, as it's the classic chocolate wafer, this Oreo is all about the creme.
The most noticeable thing about the creme is the overwhelming smell that hits you when you first open the package, which is less like brownies and more like a brownie-scented candle or body wash one might purchase as a tween at Bath & Body Works. As someone who is not above a cloying candle (especially in the fall), I did not find this to be unpleasant.
The flavor is reminiscent of a brownie, but one of those prepackaged ones with frosting and little star sprinkles. This isn't a bad thing; my grandmother loves those little prepackaged brownies and would consider this description the highest of compliments.
But if you're looking for a high-quality chocolate fix, this is not that. (But you probably already knew that.) It's that cheap "not quite chocolate" flavor that is so pervasive in American confections.
One friend described them as "Tootsie Roll Oreos" which is also fairly accurate. They also remind me of these little chocolate cake bars my mom used to bring to the Water Park. (I cannot for the life of me remember what they were called, but they were thin and had a serpentine line of white icing on top.)
The creme is also very rich. So rich in fact, that I recommend eating it separate of the wafer, as combining them results in an overwhelming amount of not-quite-chocolate flavor. And don't even think about attempting to eat these without a full glass of milk; to do so would be folly, as the creme kind of sticks to the roof of your mouth.
In terms of limited-edition Oreo flavors, I'd rank these somewhere around "Birthday Cake." In the way Birthday Cake Oreos don't actually taste of cake, but remind you of cake, these don't actually taste of brownies, but only approximate brownie-like flavors with synthetic flavor magic. These are the synthehol of brownies.
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Particularly on healthcare and taxes. In his June 3 speech, McCain said we'd be hearing from the Obama campaign that he is running for Bush's third term:
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Two men have been remanded in custody charged with murdering a man who was found dead in a stairwell in Norfolk.
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HA NOI — Ha Noi Investment General Corporation (SHN) will not file for voluntary bankruptcy despite being short of cash and burdened with a high bad debt ratio, said CEO Dinh Hong Long at the company's shareholders meeting this week.
SHN has been on the verge of bankruptcy since the beginning of this year, when information leaked that the company would unlikely recover debt due from Beta BQP Joint Stock Co worth a total of VND238 billion (US$11.3 million).
According to Long, any bankruptcy must follow two steps. First, three-quarters of shareholders must agree to the dissolution. Second, the insolvent firm, or any firm facing three consecutive years of losses, must de-list its shares.
"SHN cannot go bankrupt in the next two years unless a group of more than 75 per cent of shareholders calls for bankruptcy," Long told cafef.vn.
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In March 2011, SHN signed a contract with Beta BQP under which it lent VND379 billion ($18 million) towards the Thanh Ha Cienco 5 real estate project in Ha Noi's Ha Dong District. SHN transferred VND238 billion ($11.3 million) to Beta BQP, but the two companies decided to halt the contract in June 2011, and Beta BQP defaulted on the debt, causing SHN to file suit.
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