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Graduate of Indiana State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Radio-TV-Film and a Communications/Journalism minor.
Over 7 years on-air radio experience with the majority being in a morning show setting at a classic rock station (AOR). The last station she worked at was her favorite job ever in radio. (WZLS 96.5 Asheville, NC)
Currently, she works at home with great success researching "work at home". She started working at home full time in 2002.
Her website, MoneyMakingMommy.com was created in 1999. It is considered one of the top work at home resources on the internet. Featured in national women's magazines and in newspapers. She was recently part of an expert work at home panel for Woman's World magazine.
MoneyMakingMommy.com receives over 250,000 unique visitors each month and the weekly work at home newsletter has 21,500+ subscribers. Her goal is to help women find online jobs or careers from home that suit their personalities and lifestyle. Whether that's actual employment or starting a home business. The site is filled with ideas, reviews, job postings and more.
Kelly has written about all things work at home and how you can earn online.
She has a very successful section on her site filled with NO Fee work at home jobs and opportunities.
Kelly has written for women's magazines as well.
Her newest blog, HomeBasedBusinessMom.com is enjoying a growing readership and internet presence.
Kelly has two children. A 23-year-old son, and an 17-year-old daughter.
Originally from Terre Haute, Indiana - they moved to the small mountain town, Weaverville, NC in early 1995 and love it.
Kelly is also a pet lover . Her family has adopted two Maine Coon cats.
"I love working at home. I love writing. The internet has been a fascinating world to me since I first logged on back in 1992!! (I know....ancient!)
I am thrilled to share what I find regarding work at home with others. I know what it's like to want to be home with the kids - and it's tough out there wading through all the work at home blah blah. New sites go up every day....and many offer no content, no real solutions or ideas.
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Pressure Cooker Saffron and Artichoke Risotto
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Author Notes: Making risotto in a pressure cooker is not only fast, it is easy. There is no standing over a hot stove stirring slowly. Instead, almost everything goes in the pot up front and, after a few minutes of checking e-mail or typing on the blog, the risotto is ready.
This risotto would make an excellent vegetarian main course or could be served on the side of a good piece of simply grilled fish. I am looking forward to making this risotto with fresh artichokes and peas when they come in at the farmers' market, but for now, the frozen versions are mighty tasty.
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Food52 Review: The pressure cooker method to cook the risotto worked very well. I didn't have to heat stock or worry about stirring. The risotto was cooked through but still had a nice bite and good amount of structure left to it. There was a slight bit of sauce that was remaining, which was ideal. The flavor of the risotto was good and we enjoyed it with caramelized scallops. However, what we really missed about this recipe was that there was no cheese, which was pretty funny considering this recipe is from [email protected]! We liked the added flavor of parmesan though maybe not everyone needs cheese in their risotto. Overall, if you are in the mood for a bright saffron-flavored risotto, put down your spoon, get out your pressure cooker and give this method a go. - monkeymom
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Serves: 6
tablespoons Spanish olive oil
small onions, diced (about 2 cups)
garlic cloves, finely chopped
cups Arborio rice
teaspoon saffron threads
1 1/2
teaspoons lemon zest
cups frozen artichokes, quartered
cup dry white wine
3 1/2
cups vegetable stock
teaspoon salt
a few grinds
black pepper
cup frozen peas, set out to thaw
tablespoons butter
tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- Heat the olive oil over medium high heat in the pressure cooker and add the onion and garlic. Cook until the onion is soft, about 7 minutes. Add the rice and stir to coat with the oil. Add the saffron, lemon zest, artichoke hearts, and mix again. Add the white wine, vegetable stock, salt, and pepper and stir. Cover the pressure cooker with its lid and lock it on. Bring the pressure up. Follow the directions for your pressure cooker, but in mine, I know the pressure has built when the pot begins to hiss. Cook the risotto for about 6 minutes. Release the pressure. When the pressure has been released, remove the top. Add the peas and stir. If the risotto still contains a bit more liquid than you would like, let it sit for a minute or two. Stir in the butter and parsley. Taste and add more salt and pepper if you like. Serve immediately.
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- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Risotto (Savory)
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Opening Scene;
The Camera Spans across an Egyptian style Desert at night with a full moon, the screen fades to black and then fades back into to an Egyptian tomb were hieroglyphics are written on stone walls and the floor is sandy, the theme song from Tomb Raider 2 is playing over this scene, one Egyptian style guy is stood wearing a big necklace with purple teeth on it, on each side of him are two Egyptian style men wearing loin cloths and are covered in strange body paint, a teenage Egyptian girl is tied up and struggling on a sacrificial table, they speak in a strange unknown language.
Head Egyptian: shuridepa deuenta si elondar nege, forsa ca fiatow, (The three moons of elandor have aligned, the time is dawning)
Left Egyptian: ales kla me prophecia al dabloe (as the prophecy foretold my liege)
Right Egyptian: le ferdan de comencia (let this battle commence)
The Music turns dramatic as the girl is sliced down the chest with a sacrificial dagger by the head Egyptian, as she dies she screams:
Girl: Un gretyuna rave denta res!!!!! (I forsee the final rave)
While this is happening the other 2 Egyptians pour molten gold into two mould boxes and a glowing green substance into another, bigger box in the middle.
The two boxes containing gold are shot off in one direction while the bigger box is sent off somewhere else in the same way, by high powered catapult through a window.
The head Egyptian then walks up behind the others and uses his massive hands to crush their heads.
Egyptian: resida inferteyo (this is the beggining)
Fade to black
Scene 2: The Montage
This scene is set in a jungle, a t-rex is running through the forest, the camera shows the t-rex standing on the 2 smaller boxes, pushing them deep underground, the t-rex screams and grabs its foot, as the dinosaur rawwrs the subtitle "Ahhhhh you fucker!" appears.
The earth is the shown being wiped out by the meteor and the t-rex is killed, along with everything else.
Millions of years later the boxes are dug up by a cave man, who breaks them both open with a stone, it is revealed that the artefacts look like two halves of a golden grinder.
The cave man is shown striking them together, and being the first man to discover fire, he screams but then realizes how warm the fire is, he burns himself, panics and puts it out, as he gets chilly he relights it and gets cosy.
Later that day he is showing his discovery to all of the cave people in his tribe, another cave person walks up to him and signals to borrow it with a grunt and a hand gesture, the cave man the puts a finger on both sides and rolls it down a hill, he then invents the wheel
Cut to 1939, a British soldier and his 3 mates are seen using the golden grinder in a trench hot boxing a dug out, a reggae version of God Save the Queen can be heard on an old time radio.
Soldier 1 (Skinning up with gg): so anyway yer as I was saying, these Germans were fighting?
Soldier 2 (smoking a spliff): yer, what about the nazi fuckers?
Soldier 4 hits a bong and falls asleep with it in is hand, soldier 3 proceeds to pick it up, clean it out and repack it during the following
Soldier 1 (sparks up spliff): like, what can they really be that pissed off about, I mean they had that fight with us right? (tokes) but we cleared that up and it was generally understood that, ya know, that shits in the past, its gone?
Soldier 2: so yer whats your point (toke)
Soldier 1: Im gettin to it yer hold on, (toke) anyway as I was sayin; were English, so let's face it were pretty nice people, like, the British are programmed to be polite, take queuing for example, we invented that shit man (toke)
Soldier 2: And?
Soldier 1 (Relights spliff): and then you've got the French, and fair play they beat them, but declaring war on France is like punching a kid in a wheel chair, you just don't do it, its harsh; and correct me if im wrong here but to the Nazis; isn't the whole point of this is to wipe out the jews? why? I mean yer they may have some weird customs but their hardly a threat are they? (toke) I mean when would a Jew do Ju du? All im sayin is that that hitler wanker, if he just maybe, just took the time to sit back a smoke a bit of this, hey, maybe he wouldn't feel so pissed of all the time; sorry ive been chattin shit, ah well (relights spliff)
Soldier 3: yer but that is pretty true tho
Soldier 3 pulls and hits the bong, when he inhales a bomb explosion is heard as all the lights go out, shouting and gunfire is heard and the silenced after a load of white flashes
Cut to a scene of a woman in WWII clothing opening a letter saying her husband has died in the war, she starts going through the box of his belongings, she finds his uniform, a photo of her, the grinder and a rasta hat.
The widow buries the hat and the grinder in a box in the garden, the camera zooms into the ground were the box is buried the zooms out again to the same place but 50 years later, 1999.
The area has become a building sight, a low level worker is smoking a roll up while digging a trench, and finds the box, when the box is opened the hat has wasted away but the grinder is perfect condition, amazed by what he found he immediately took it to the nearest jewellers and asked how much it was worth. The workers in the jewellers huddle together and have an unheard conversation
Jeweller: How much do you want for it?
Worker: 50 quid
Jeweller: deal
The screen then side wipes to a scene of the jeweller being outside a museum surrounded by media people on a big stage appearing to unveil the artefact at the museum
Guy at podium on stage: And so it is my honour to introduce the man who discovered this ancient, possibly Egyptian, possibly myan, possibly anything artefact; It is my honour to introduce to you, Mr David Deramy!
Polite applause
Steven(the jewler): Thank You, Thank You, it was through nothing but shear hard work, that I can spunk 10 mill of this stupid museums money, all on hot tubs, bitches, bling and burgers, ill see you later and you can all get fucked! (runs of stage with a big bag with '£' sign on the side.
Fade to black)
The camera pans from the left, down from the floor upwards in a conservatory, past a wooden table holding a bong, different types of rizzla, blunts and rips, an ounce of weed can be seen on the table to, along with the golden grinder, the camera pans around to show 2 people aged 17 and 18 on a sofa, going from left to right, smoking blunts, Scott is on the left, and Ben is sat on the right, over this scene the following conversation can be heard, while buffalo soldier is on quietly in the background:
Scott: I cant believe this actually happened, I mean we've deserved this for so long.
Scott: I cant believe this actually happened, I mean we've deserved this for so long.
Ben: Knaw what I mean, its been takin this piss lately, I mean what has happened here doesn't usually happen to decent people like us yo know; usually its just fake little plastic pop girls and dickheads pretended to be talented buy doin the same shitty thing everyone else seems to be doin over and over again, and getting paid fuckloads of money for it, when me and you would be ecstatic to make fuckloads of money buy doing something decent, (camera pans to bens face) If we handle this properly mate (big toke) we could be dole proof! (blows smoke into camera)
The words dole proof appear in big letters on screen as the opening sequence plays, pictures of the characters cartoon/anime/comic/anime style drawings of the characters are shown with the opening credit the song playing is hectic by enter shikari.
Scene 2: Allow This
The scene is set in a college classroom, all the students have desks covered in scraps of paper and artwork, except ben, who sat with a ipod with one head phone in, looks slightly hung over and is drawing a companion cube in a note pad.
A Teacher is talking at the front of the sclass in a middle class, slight up tight attitude, all line between two * is bens thoughts. During these thoughts the teachers words turn to mumbles, the camera is on ben during thoughts.
Teacher: And what we can see is that the shape in the water is analogical of oppression of women and minorities in this (picture of deodorant can in the style of lynx named 'Hype') Deoderant advert from 1985…
Ben: *yer gunna watch scott pilgrim later, ugh im well shattered, would they notice if I fell asleep here? Oh for fucks sake I can't be arsed with this anymore*
Teacher (picture of apple on screen): …Origination from the late works Sainsbury van dahlia of the 1940's avatacan art movement, which blends the colours of fruit using a solution made from berry juice and horse semen…
Ben: *I could be doing such better shit right now, I mean I could be at home writing a film, I could be out pulling granny's out of wells, I could be making the world a better place but no, instead I'm stuck here a nun at an orgy, no idea what's going on and I'm surrounded by dicks.*
Teacher: … which is why the colour yellow was banned in china (Ben stands up) can I help you ben?
Ben: Yer you can as It goes,
(Frame pauses; while the frame Is paused the background behind ben a light blue with a grid of ganja leafs over the head headphones and yellow smiley faces, at the bottom Jedi420 is wrotten in a futuristic chrome style in the bottom left corner. Revert back to video)
listen, im glad you lot all seem to have your priority's in life sorted out, and that you can all find this interesting, boring as fuck it maybe, good for you, but you know what, I came here expecting to be making cool pictures on computers and that, but instead I find myself standing behind an easel in front of some dying plats, wasting my time away being the excact thing I didn't want to be come, so you know what I don't know what I'm gonna do after this, but theirs no way it's not gonna be better than this, so fuck this, yer I'm out (everyone goes quite and have a 'what the fuck look on the faces)
(Frame pauses; while the frame Is paused the background behind ben a light blue with a grid of ganja leafs over the head headphones and yellow smiley faces, at the bottom Jedi420 is wrotten in a futuristic chrome style in the bottom left corner. Revert back to video)
listen, im glad you lot all seem to have your priority's in life sorted out, and that you can all find this interesting, boring as fuck it maybe, good for you, but you know what, I came here expecting to be making cool pictures on computers and that, but instead I find myself standing behind an easel in front of some dying plats, wasting my time away being the excact thing I didn't want to be come, so you know what I don't know what I'm gonna do after this, but theirs no way it's not gonna be better than this, so fuck this, yer I'm out (everyone goes quite and have a 'what the fuck look on the faces)
Ben precedes to walk out of the door
Ben: (While leaving) laters'
The next clip is ben walking down a corridor to get to an elevator, a small emo girl is walking the other way, towards ben
Ben: I quit college!
Emo: What?
Ben: Yer I Finally Quit
Emo: Why?
Ben: Cuz I was gonna do real subjects, proper a-levels and that, but instead I ended up on some shitty course with shitty people, fuck that, I've got to do better things with the time I have man
Emo: Oh really, what are you gonna do
Ben: First get hogh, then I'll figure out the next move, think I'm gonna use all this spare time to learn guitar, really get my band goin ya know
Emo (Giving ben dirty looks): Little stoner, maybe it's time to grow up and stop pretending you're in dethklok (walks off)
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Since 1994 The Glee Club have been bringing the very best comedy, music and special events to Birmingham, Cardiff, Nottingham and Oxford for you to enjoy. Our experienced team have brought an unparalleled combination of comedians, music acts and live entertainers to our clubs, with a list of names that any venue would envy.
Our history is proof that all of the very best artists love to play The Glee Club, so please take a look at what's coming up at a club near you and join us soon for a great night of entertainment.
Where I first decided to do stand-up... Many comics think it's the best room for comedy in the entire country
The Glee Club was like singing in a jazz bar in new York with Charlie Parker... Thank you SOOO much!


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Napkin Art #15: ABQ 505 Squiggleydoo
I can't remember much about the woman who made today's napkin except that she's a kickass artist and was super kind to draw a napkin for me. Stark spaces, bold lines and a sense of collapsing symmetry underscore a message of iconic (ironic?) local pride. It's destined to be a classic. Thank you, napkin lady.


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HOUSTON (CBS-Houston) – The Owls have had a few days off since their 70-46 loss to Tulsa at Tudor Fieldhouse on last Saturday. They had no Arsalan Kazemi who was resting a sore left knee and worse, the veteran threesome of Connor Frizzelle, Tamir Jackson, and Lucas Kuipers only scored a total of 3 points combined, all on free throws. It was hardly a good shooting night says Rice Head Basketball Coach, Ben Braun.
"We've had a better shooting day with Connor, Lucas, and Tamir, (all) go a combined 0-for-14 – that's tough. It's going to be a struggle. You got to put the ball in the basket."
Meanwhile, one guy who did put the ball in the basket was freshman forward Jarelle Reischel who led all Owls with 11 points and was the second leading scorer in the game.
"I thought Jarelle played really hard today and he probably would have had a few more baskets had there not been 7-footers hovering around inside and (He) made some big plays. But, I liked his aggressiveness and he's been practicing very well. Thought he was on the floor for a loose ball, he dove on the floor for a loose ball in front of our bench. I mean that was the kind of effort and grit we need; we're going to need (that) from our team."
Reischel also grabbed 6 boards and was 3-of-5 from the free throw line. Add one assist and Braun likes what he saw so much that there could be a new face in the starting lineup.
"(He) got to the foul line; that's important," says Braun. "He got to the foul line as much as anybody today and managed a game high 6 rebounds. He was the only player we had in double figures. And I thought he defended well. So, we just got to find some guys that match his energy and his effort and I think we'll get back there."
It was obvious against Tulsa that the Owls missed junior forward Arsalan Kazemi who had an MRI performed last Wednesday that revealed no structural damage, only inflammation. But, Kazemi needed a game break to rest the knee. Therefore, 7'2" sophomore center Omar Oraby started, played 18 minutes, grabbed 2 rebounds, and scored 6 points.
In fact, nine Owls played double-digit minutes as Braun continued to search for the right combination of players to work. It never happened. That reinforces just how important Kazemi is to the lineup.
The Owls will need Kazemi back in the lineup Wednesday night against Memphis and the Coach pulls no punches when debating the issue of whether or not Kazemi is healthy enough to play.


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Contemporary Drawing Practices encourages dialogues about non-traditional drawing. Featured artists share their strategies. As a research project, the blog strives to present a broad spectrum of unusual approaches and create a forum for artists, educators, and related organizations. It is a framework for consideration for what drawing can be.


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An exclamation made when one has decided to take their personal conflicts to the next level by getting the law involved and filing a civil suit.
-That guy wouldn't compensate me for damages caused by his wet floor, so I chose to Bring in the Powdered Wigs.
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Since the new year is well under way, I thought I'd share some of my favourite outfits from 2012.
Most of them are quite casual and I love them because they were so practical for my day to day activities. I thought it would be fun to take a look back at all these photos and be reminded of the fashion trends that we saw last year, and also some great moments from 2012 that came along with these outfits. I also threw some photos of accessories and jewellery, which I loved wearing during the year.
Most (if not, all) can be found on my Instagram page. Check it out!


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Masi Robert C Dds is located at the address 19701 Vernier rd Ste 260 in Harper Woods, Michigan 48225. They can be contacted via phone at (313) 882-1511 for pricing, hours and directions. Masi Robert C Dds specializes in Craniofacial Pain, Injuries, Aches & Pains.
Masi Robert C Dds has an annual sales volume of 501K - 999,999. . For more information contact Robert Masi, Owner
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In this category, Fancyhometrends offers a huge range of different motifs of wall decorations. Nature reproductions with trees, flowers, wood, stones and animals will bring pure freshness into your living spaces. Besides this, lettering, numbers, vehicles and Disney reproductions goes especially well with the rooms of our little ones. Wall decorations with reproductions of cities and tourist features carry an urban flair and stimulates those who want to travel and see the whole world. Wall decorations with grocery reproductions fit perfectly into kitchens or gastronomy.


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Shavuot learning for women at the Rova Matnas on Misgav Ladach 20. In english. Midnight til 4am.
Rabbi David Aaron. "Soul Torah: How to spiritually reboot."
Rabbi Gavriel Sassoon. "Kaballat HaTorah and mastering oneself."
2-4am Rbzn Tziporah Heller.
2-3am Megillat Ruth
3-4am What you have to do to receive the Torah
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We would appreciate volunteers to help set up and clean up. For info call 0547347926
Trip with Women in Green Isru Chag Shavuot at Sinai Farm in Sussya
On the day after Shavuot there will be an activity for the entire family at the Sinai Farm in Susiya, in South Hevron Hills. (See the attached Hebrew flyer)
Background on Sinai Farm: In 1996, members of the family of Yair Har-Sinai, hy"d, and his wife Dalia Har Sinai and their nine children, decided to establish an agricultural farm on the outskirts of the community of Susiya, near Nahal Rahim. It is an agricultural farm that uses methods from the past and organic methods. A herd of sheep was established, as well as orchards, a vegetable garden and wheat fields. All of the hard work was conducted with the ideal of blending with nature, a modest, un- materialistic lifestyle and first and foremost, love for the Land of Israel.
For Jews to preserve the state's lands was, in their eyes, a supreme value and therefore they did the agricultural work and allocated more and more plots of land to shepherding.
In 2008, Yair Har Sinai was murdered by Arabs from the area. His wife Dalia made the decision to continue their shared path, to continue developing and preserving the grazing areas and continuing the activities in the area of shepherding and producing cheese from their milk.
To the family tragedy of the father's murder, was added the theft of 170 sheep from their pens in the middle of 2010, but even this did not break the vision of the family, which continues, together with friends, to work in the farm and develop it. On the day after Shavuot, as mentioned, an event will be held at the place for the entire family and it will be a good opportunity for the People of Israel to see with their own eyes, true love of the land and dedication. Details in the attached flyer. The main activities will be from 12 noon to 4:00pm. Entrance fee: 90 nis per family. 20 per person.
Yehudit Katsover 050-7161818 Nadia Matar 050-5500834
Rav Yaakov Moshe Poupko's lecture, "Yerushalayim: From Conception to Resurrection ", can be heard on Leil Shavuot, 1 AM, at the Mayanot Shul, 28 Narkis Street Nachlaot (close to Mircaz Ha"Ir).
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Support & Education for People who are HOH (Hard of Hearing) or Deaf and their families –Do you live with hearing loss? Have you felt isolated? Do you have trouble communicating with others- in person, or on the phone? You're not alone! Facilitator:Ronnie Kaufman. 14:00 At AACI Glassman Family Center, 37 Pierre Koenig, Talpiot.
My recipe for almond spread is not like the smooth store bought one. Mine is not oily.
Almond paste/spread:
1 cup ground almonds + 4 brazil nuts
5 fresh chestnuts
1 tab Coconut oil- mine had solidified.
1 Tab brown rice sypup
1 tab apple cider vinegar
1 tab poppy seeds
2 Tab of avocado
1-Put nuts into your food processor and run until pulverized.
2-Add the vinegar, brown rice syrup and coconut oil and continue blending.
3-Check on the consistency. It will start to hold together.
4-Add the poppy seeds Blend.
5-Add avocado. Mixture should now make a ball. 6-Refrigerate. Enjoy.
( serve on the side: Red pepper, avocado, carrot,
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flakes mixed with brown brown rice syrup Ingredients
1-spinach, kale, beet greens, additional herbs chopped fine, combined with orange sections and chilled in plastic bag. (my phone is not cooperating. Hence no photos)
2-rolled millet corn meal/ground almond, rolled between two sheets of baking paper chilled overnight.
Cut all vegetable for filling. save stalks of the beet greens and spinach for soup.
Roll out the chilled millet and corn almond meal.
Layer greens with orange section. Fold the sides together and pinch to close. Serve with mixed sesame seeds, Chinese parsley
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flakes, brown rice syrup and orange juice sauce.
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This crayon drawing was created shortly after pondering how one comes to a specific conclusion. The only straight line in this entire map of crossed connections and disconnections is the truth... which is often obscured by the viewers intertwined lines of perspective, communication and understanding.
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Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a 10-inch nonstick skillet over medium to medium-high heat. Add the ham and turkey and cook 3 to 4 minutes, add scallions and cook 1 to 2 minutes more. Beat eggs with milk or half-and-half, hot sauce, salt and pepper. Pour over the meats and scallions and cook the eggs a few minutes, lifting to settle. Transfer to oven.
While turkey and ham are heating through, heat a second nonstick skillet with 1 tablespoon oil and 2 tablespoons butter over medium heat. Add potatoes and grated onion and cook 7 to 8 minutes. Season the hash browns with salt and pepper. Turn and press the potatoes down to brown and crisp.
Grate Emmentaler cheese.
Remove frittata from oven after 5 to 6 minutes, once eggs have set on top but are still a bit soft at the center. Cover the frittata with cheese and bake 5 to 6 minutes more until golden on top. Let stand a few minutes before cutting in wedges to serve.
Preheat grill to medium-high heat.
Once preheated, place pineapple spears on the grill and mark on all sides. Remove and garnish with crystallized ginger.
Switch broiler on and lightly toast bread on each side. Stir ricotta with lots of coarse black pepper, rosemary and honey. Top the toast with heavy dollops of ricotta to pass at table.
Serve wedges of frittata with potatoes and pineapple spears alongside.
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Readers' Choice Awards: Best Asia Leadership Consultant
Despite being crowned as the winner in the Best Asia Leadership – Consultant category, work is the only thing occupying the thoughts of Abhijit Banerjee, Director of Asia Pacific Sales & Marketing Academy (pictured).
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by Cesco Estep
There is an unholy three-way alliance in West Virginia that threatens our very way of life. It began many years ago with an unspoken bargain between the local "mainstream" media and the corporations who gain the most from our abundant natural resources. Together they have undermined the political system to the point where the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of Appalachia are rarely even considered by the state's main regulatory agencies if enforcement even remotely involves our extraction industries. One of the earliest examples of the level of collusion by State lawmakers was when one West Virginia governor ordered his state militia to destroy the printing presses of certain newspaper editors who dared criticize his pandering to powerful robber baron coal owners. It has been lost to all but the most astute state historians that during that same period Governor Hatfield never so much as even blinked at Charleston's "mainstream" newspapers. He obviously felt that unlike the newsprint from the labor press, Charleston's "mainstream" media had been reporting the "right stuff" all along. Hatfield and his legislature were criticized by Congress, but in the end the sovereignty of the State of West Virginia ruled the day, and the historic Paint Creek strike was broken without giving in to the number 1 complaint by strikers: the removal of the brutal mine guard system. Eventually some fifty thousand miners and their families were thrown out of their homes across the Kanawha Field by the coal owner's union, replaced mostly by immigrants from all over the world.
While these days the deal between the our press and our political leaders over how to go about selling out the rights of citizens to the extraction industries is not quite as overt as it used to be, the more subtle modern alliance between the two has essentially undercut any natural competition between the two political parties which have been producing most of our lawmakers. The incentive for this long-lived corporate-driven media/ political confederacy has always been money, and I mean big money. Money so big that even some of the state's once most powerful trade unions have been compromised and all but brought to their knees. The secret syndicate formed by the extraction industry corporations to control the political will and dictate what the media reports is truly an Axis of Avarice.
Despite the incessant yet subtle propaganda that our local news organizations pump out, more and more West Virginians are rejecting the false paradigm that voting for "the lesser of two evils" is necessary. No longer is the thought of putting the alternative into office as nearly as frightening as it used to be, because folks sense that both essentially are driven by the same evil. There is much evidence that voters have begun rejecting outright the two party system, which, considering the lack of choice that those two parties have been offering, makes a lot of sense. Last general election's turnout indicates that many, if not most, had been duped into boycotting their own right to vote! If, indeed, that's true, then most of the blame for that boycott is on West Virginia's mainstream media.
Persuading voters to opt out of their duty to participate in our democracy on election day is one of the main strategies of the Axis of Avarice. For around a century the not so subtle persuasion of cash-on-the-barrelhead advertising has turned our local mainstream media into a virtual propaganda tool of the extraction industries. If you doubt it then consider this: It is beyond curious how West Virginia's major news sources have collectively avoided letting the public know the real results of our last statewide Special Election. The dirty little secret they don't want you to realize is that Earl Ray Tomblin was put into office by a paltry twelve percent (12%!!) of all registered WV voters. Instead of reporting the incumbent's failure to inspire even his own base as a shocking fact, just last year the media collectively chose to misrepresent our last gubernatorial election as "exciting" by falsely reporting that it was a close race. Had challenger Bill Maloney won by the same margin, then Mountain Party challenger Dr. Bob Henry Baber, would have been portrayed as a "spoiler" throughout the state and likely beyond. But the truth is that there's no way that Baber could have been a "spoiler" for either of his two opponents because it really wasn't a close race at all! Conspicuously unreported by allmedia outlets is the shocking fact that a SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT of all voters essentially chose to vote for "NONE OF THE ABOVE!" That, friends and neighbors, is beyond simple voter apathy. It is proof of a silent conspiracy.
Unfortunately, the lion's share of West Virginia voters had once again been scammed into thinking that there were only two candidates in the race, despite the fact that there has long been THREE major parties in West Virginia.
To most everyone who ever had bothered to register it was obvious that between the incumbent Democrat and his Republican challenger there wasn't enough difference to bother to go to the polls on election day. Despite complete media saturation (and thanks to the millions-upon-millions thrown into full-blitz advertising by both corporate camps,) West Virginia voters realized the lack of a clear difference between what Tomblin and Maloney represent. Yet due to the blackout by stations and newspapers with whom their advertising dollars were focused, most registered voters to this day aren't aware that the Mountain Party exists, much less that its platform allows only nominees who aren't corporate sellouts.
In elections over the last dozen years voters have been purposely misled by the media's push-polling to think that there are only two major political parties in West Virginia. Because of the pernicious industry-wide media blackout in corporate biased and corporate driven surveys year after year, voters go to the polls thinking that the two party system is broken. Worse yet, there is solid evidence indicating that voters actively choose not to participate because of the negative ads the two corporate-sponsored candidates run about each other, primarily because they really don't have much positive to convey about themselves. It's through that cynical secret system that the media has long been paid to push the lie that there is no third party grassroots solution.
Although it's been widely ignored by the media, the dismal turnout for the last statewide primary (again, the Special Election of October 2011), signaled a major tipping point. If, as the media would like us to believe, corporate advertising truly controls who wins elections, then it's ONLY because that campaign cash has caused an industry wide local corporate media blackout of the facts regarding the growing influence of the Mountain Party. Mountain Party candidates are regularly kept out of the news and off the editorial pages because they staunchly refuse to accept corporate campaign contributions. Honest candidates with honest solutions are effectively blocked from addressing the public primarily because it is impossible for them to raise huge amounts of campaign financing without compromising their stance on major positions.
The silent conspiracy of blacklisting candidates for cash for over a decade is the only adequate explanation for the resultant boycott by voters last election day.
Grassroots campaigning across our rural mountain state on five and ten dollar contributions is arduous, but our gubernatorial nominees have been doing it for over a decade. It is no mall coincidence that the lack of decent alternative telecommunications makes it even more so. Thanks to the political tentacle of the Axis, the Manchin/Tomblin syndicate essentially wasted $24 million in federal stimulus on gold-plated internet routers, most of which will sit un-utilized in their unopened shipping cartons until they're obsolete. Last primary, enough low information voters (a.k.a. pissed off Democrats) turned out to select Keith Judd, a Texarkana prison inmate over Obama because Manchin and Tomblin had, through their well-greased media, successfully scapegoated the President for what their syndicate had been doing to us for years.
In the run-up to the last gubernatorial election, most potential voters believed that they could choose only the incumbent, whose platform was "Lower Taxes, More Jobs", or his challenger, whose platform was essentially, "More Jobs, Lower Taxes". Why is it both nominees are essentially running on the same plank as last year? Apparently both camps want us to swallow that Earl Ray's year-long term in office somehow magically changed the way voters feel about their own nominee.
How can the press maintain credibility while acting as if it's natural for two corporate tools really is a competition between "two major parties"? How can the press ignore the fact both camps apparently believe that the repeat of the same lower voter turnout will be an advantage for their own candidate while running against the same opponent? It is hard to fathom how any journalist worth his salt could swallow that either Maloney or Raese are anything more than high-paid strawman candidates. Perhaps most noticeable is how no one in the mainstream media ever gets around to pointing out how ludicrous the whole "Punch 'N Judy" theme is between the Manchin, Raese, Tomblin and Maloney. All that lucre for "campaign advertising" is obviously money well spent. It's essentially hush money.
Choosing not to report the facts is one thing. Leaving out information to keep folks from figuring out exactly why only 12 percent of all voters wanted Earl Ray Tomblin to continue to govern and even fewer chose Maloney is a direct threat to the mainstream media's economy. Even the brightest corporate-employed journalists never dare wonder out loud why there was such a low turnout despite the fact that West Virginia has maintained the highest voter registration rate per capita for years. None dare publicly speculate why so few participated despite soaring voter registration rates previous to Tomblin's Special Election. What I'm getting at is that if folks had enough of the truth and were able to weigh all those factors, they'd begin to understand the real reason why so many WV voters chose to boycott the last Special Election.
The misconception that there was no reason to vote is a ruse deftly propagated by the
newsprint push polls. This year the WV Broadcaster's Association will do its level best to keep the existence of a third party solution from the general public by barring the Mountain Party candidate from publicly debating Earl Ray Tomblin and Bill Maloney.
Despite the media's concerted efforts, those of us who are politically astute do know that the Mountain Party of West Virginia exists, and recall that it had a gubernatorial candidate on the 2011 ballot. The fact that Dr. Bob Henry Baber did not inspire people to come out to vote was basically because he couldn't afford to buy access to the public through West Virginia's avarice-driven media. Like all Mountain Party candidates, Baber rightfully shunned all corporate backing, so the media dutifully kept his name off their political polls and blocked him from the statewide TV broadcast of what was advertised as a gubernatorial "debate". Note that I purposely placed quotes around the word because it was more of a snoozefest due to the lack of integrity presented by the "journalists" who paid to deliver their softball questions while acting as if it all was something more than a political ad for the syndicate's corporate agenda.
To the credit of West Virginia voters and despite the media blackout, Baber received well over three times as many votes as there were registered Mountain Party members. At the same time, Earl Ray Tomblin received far fewer than than 1/6 of his "base" of 643,859 registered Democrat voters. The incumbent inspired only 102,234 voters out of 1,215,213 all registered. Big Bill Maloney lost because he failed to inspire 251,408 of his fellow Republicans to go to the polls for him. He received 99,013 votes despite the fact that there were 350,421 registered WV Republicans. How could both candidates have possibly been so dreadfully uninspiring even to their own "base"? And just why does the mainstream media choose to ignore each candidate's obvious failure to garner votes?
According to final campaign finance reports filed with the West Virginia Secretary of State's Office, incumbent Tomblin spent $4,156,909.8 and Maloney spent $3,315,593.63. Incumbent Tomblin was able to completely finance his campaign through contributions, which is a LOT of money, especially considering that so many people in West Virginia are so poor. Most of it was funneled from the extraction industry's corporate coffers directly into the mainstream media's corporate coffers, with relatively little trickling down to local economies. Meanwhile, in West Virginia's coal patch, where Earl Ray Tomblin is from, folks are so still poor that the children are known to suffer at a far higher rate than the rest of the State. One of Tomblin's legacies as Senate President is that West Virginia's kids continually suffered from poverty growing steadily at a higher rate than the rest of the U.S., so his "lower taxes – more jobs" campaign pledge rings hollow, even to his "base".
Fortunately, for tools like Tomblin, Maloney, Manchin, Raese, and their international syndicate of ultra wealthy backers, the State of West Virginia is abundantly resource-rich, which is the only justification for shoveling millions upon millions of cash at our media. Considering West Virginia's long, sordid history of graft and corruption by industry shills of both major Parties, it is no small coincidence that our State does not track the source of campaign contributors in the same way that other states do for their citizens. However, according to data compiled by the National Institute on Money in State Politics, the largest sectors to contribute to Tomblin's 2011 campaign were lawyers and lobbyists, followed by mining interests. Maloney, a gas industry advocate who earned his fortune in the extraction industries, actually loaned his own campaign $2,450,000, or 74 percent of his total campaign expenditure. Unreported and untracked by our Secretary of State is how he'll retire that earlier campaign debt to himself. It's a pretty safe bet that Maloney will repay himself from the money he raises from "outside interests" this go-round for whatever deal he cut prior to his first run with the Koch Brothers. In Raese's case spending campaign cash on advertising could be compared to the same way that folks move their loose change from one pocket to another, since he's a multimillionaire media mogul. Joe Manchin's fortunes were made from his coal and gas brokerage firm during his entire political career, assuring his political backers that his deadly personal policy of "Retail Government" will remain in place and insuring that his campaigns will be well financed by the extraction industries -for as long as he can stay out of jail.
It may strike some folks as odd that West Virginia's Republican Party chose to run the same candidate who just last year lost to Earl Ray. It really only makes sense as long as the press continues to support the ridiculous notion that it was a close race. One might have assumed that since Governor Tomblin and former Governor Joe Manchin officially proved that they were "Friends of Coal Operators" by suing the EPA (for basically trying to protect citizens from radical mining practices) that Maloney, a gas industry man, might have been persuaded to use the lawsuit as a political bludgeon, since the surface mining industry has displaced so many deep miners. Besides, NON-political polls have strongly indicated that most West Virginians want MORE regulation, oversight, and enforcement over industrial excesses, not less. Yet Tomblin's main challenger remains silent and the media even more silent (if that's possible).
The disconnect between what the two major candidates are touting and what voters really want (and the state needs) is evidence of corporate-driven media spin, considering how that West Virginia's major newsgroups avoid connecting the most obvious needs of citizens to the complete lack of concern by the major party candidates. It is solid proof of a conspiracy when the major newsgroups essentially silence Mountain Party candidates.
Neither West Virginia's mainstream media nor Bill Maloney has ever gotten around to mentioning that while Tomblin was Senate President both he and Joe Manchin actually ran more small business out of West Virginia than any other state. The fact that the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce have endorsed both Manchin and Tomlin every time they've run lately isn't surprising given the Chamber's clandestine yet transparent history of endorsing only multinational anti-union shills. But if West Virginia is as "conservative" as our mainstream media's political polling would have us all believe, then Tomblin's dismal record certainly should have helped Maloney inspire far more than ten percent of West Virginia's entire electorate. Although Maloney desperately keeps trying to run on a more conservative platform than Tomblin, both he and the incumbent spent millions upon millions to advertise how conservative they are. During Maloney's last campaign he ran ads claiming that Tomblin is "no friend of coal" which didn't inspire voters mainly because everyone knew that it was an utterly ridiculous claim. Unreported by the mainstream media was the fact that instead of attending the recent Democratic Convention, Tomblin attended a fundraiser sponsored by the new head of the West Virginia Coal Association, James Laurita, Jr., who reportedly has supported only the Republican party and a few select Democrats. So why would Maloney, a shrewd businessman, keep advertising that Tomblin was no "Friend of Coal" way unless he was propped up to lose in the first place?
Despite having an extensive gas industry background, Bill Maloney has apparently chosen to never mention publicly why Tomblin's Marcellus "dirty bomb" bill is responsible for so many job losses in the coal patch. More than anything else Tomblin has done to knock King Coal off the throne, the incumbent's "anything goes" Marcellus bill that Tim Manchin helped wheedle through the legislature caused the price of gas to tumble to the point where coal can't possibly continue to compete as an electricity source. Despite the blinders by the media, progressive voters know why Earl Ray, Joe Manchin and their Republicrat campaign has desperately been shifting the blame onto Obama by endlessly flogging their phony "war on coal" meme. Their culpability for their team effort to push the low standard regulations over hydrofracking in West Virginia is never mentioned by the mainstream media because it's paid lots and lots of money to advertise for them. So that outcry about Obama's "war on coal" all must be true, right?
Like the ridiculous "Clean Coal" campaign ads that ran over the last two years, what all the two corporate candidate's feckless advertising really buys is silence. It's essentially why the mainstream media will never reveal how Tomblin, Manchin, Raese and Maloney are all the same cadre of high-stakes grifters working the same racket from different angles.
Try wrapping your mind around it this way. Owning both jockeys insures that you'll never lose in a two-horse race. In West Virginia's gubernatorial two-party race the multinational corporatists (known as "ALEC") not only own both jockeys, they've bought both political stables –lock, stock, and barrel. ALEC's biggest problem in our Great State is that there are THREE horses in every gubernatorial race. Because the Mountain Party owns its own stables, it is impossible for ALEC to own all of the jockeys. So the next best thing isn't to board up starting gate #3, but rather to bar the Mountain Party entry from the track altogether. In West Virginia, ALEC operatives have accomplished it by indirectly taking control of the State's media. Anyone even remotely familiar with the true history of West Virginia realizes that West Virginia's major media was compromised long ago. It has always been instrumental in suppressing third party politicians who dared stand up for the people against excesses from what was once commonly called the robberbaron industries.
If any active politician today knows the true story of West Virginia's history of suppressing grassroots party candidates it is Jesse Johnson of the Mountain Party. Besides tostate to town hall meetings as well as lectures all across the U.S. with elder statesman Ken Hechler for the last several years,
Jesse has run for Governor on the Mountain Party ticket twice before, in 2004 and 2008. As a result, the corporate heads of West Virginia's major media can't help but understand Johnson's stance on most major issues, especially the one that will most effect their own bottom line: campaign finance reform. They, more than anyone understand that true reform most likely would mean a major cut in their own income. If campaigns are no longer able to buy media silence through the giant campaign budgets that corporate-driven candidates spend on mindless attack ads engineered to make it look like there might be a difference between their two horses would immediately dry up. That's why blacklisting Jesse Johnson's campaign from fair and balanced West Virginia news coverage is basically all about the money. For the record, Johnson has gotten far better coverage outside of West Virginia in all three of his previous campaigns for office.
Despite what our local media wants you to believe, the Mountain Party is one of only three parties legally recognized by the Great of West Virginia. This feisty grassroots organization has grown in popularity because it has been running solid gubernatorial candidates for well over a decade. It's the only way that third-party candidates can maintain the same legal right to be on the ballot as the two corporate-owned parties without getting literally thousands of voter's signatures on a petition prior to every primary.
At the same time our statewide mainstream press has downplayed the Mountain Party as a news item and summarily ignored its press releases, it regularly features fringe groups who make headlines by merely calling themselves a "Party"-when under state law, they're not. The media's coverage of such groups reveals its bias by treating them as political parties despite having never mustered enough voters in consecutive races to gain true party status here. Propped up by the media and financed by multinational corporations, wittingly or not, the members of these fringe organizations end up as little more than tools in a scam to trick the public into believing that their extremist views have far more political clout than they have followers. In West Virginia, where this type of three-way racket has been going on since the Mine Wars around a century ago, lawmakers nonetheless continue to choose to use all the hoopla trumped up by the media as political cover to justify being rewarded by lobbyists for their legislative favors. The appearance of a powerful coalition helps politicians dodge public scrutiny over self-serving and destructive lawmaking. Such obvious backroom deals can be made because in West Virginia the corporate sponsored politicians and their lobbyist pals have long understood that they could rely on the same well-greased press that propped them up in the first place.
Cesco Estep is the pen name of a Charleston resident who wishes to remind readers of a certain political activist that was murdered in his own home by order of Governor William E. Glasscock of the Great State of West Virginia. Estep's house was riddled with bullets for aiding strikers by letting them camp on his property during a lockout. On the night of February 7, 1913, the bloody Bull Moose Special, manned by Kanawha County Sheriff's deputies and mine guards rolled up Paint Creek, then, according to congressional testimony, slowed down as it approached Holly Grove to strafe miners in their tents with Gatling guns mounted on an armored rail car. The Bull Moose Special had been armored for the specific purpose of transporting scab labor, and the coal operator was tired of having his scabs intimidated as they were being transported through Holly Grove.
Although Quin Morton, the coal operator who had requested the action, and Kanawha County Sheriff Bonner Hill, who was in command of the operation, were both on board the train that night, neither were convicted because at the time they were under protective orders from the West Virginia Governor.
Mr. Estep died in his own bed from a fifty caliber Gatling gun wound to his face.
Never forget the many brave men, women and children who were forced to revolt against the government of the State of West Virginia in 1921. Today's politicians are compelled to destroy historic Blair Mountain rather than to preserve it, for the same reasons that they've all but eliminated teaching in our schools the true reasons behind that uprising. Although the controversial mountaintop removal permit at Spruce Fork includes major portions of Blair Mountain, that fact is never included by mainstream journalists when they write about the lawsuit that former governor Manchin filed against the EPA for placing a moratorium on destroying its watershed. Blair Mountain stands as a solitary symbol of the dangerous amount of control outside extraction industries exert over our nation's political system as well as our local media.


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Hi friends
i build a few models and enter them to game
my models havent texture
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one of my models is AA truck with missile system
truck deploy at place and after deploy lancher come up and start rotating
now need your help about lancher system and missile system animation
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Well, there's no tutorial about creating textures. You have to practise, a lot. Basically, this is all about training and increasing your 2D graphics skills.Also, you didn't tell, which application would you like to use. Probably, the best choice is Adobe Photoshop - it's not as simple as GIMP, for example, but when you get it - creating graphics will be a pleasure. Trust me.Now - the textures. As I said, there's no tutorial about textures, generally. You can find some articles about creating your own patterns and using filters, but the best way to make a texture is editing a photo. In brief - you load your image to Photoshop, or any other tool, edit it (adjust it, add some colors, blah, blah blah - all depends on project type - here, you just have to feel it) and, if you want, make it tiling. It works for all wall, ground, floor etc. graphics.More complex textures - like clothes (or any other thing with "built in" shadows and lights) need more work - here I'm not able to tell you, what to do. There are many ways to achieve your goals. Try to experiment, learn about functions and tricks in your graphic software and, again, practise.The truth is, it's like a... Riding a bicycle - when you once get it, you'll be able to do whatever you want. Know your software and after a while, it won't be matter, what kind of project you're working with (texture, wallpaper, poster etc.).
And the most importang part - have fun with it! It's all about enjoying your work (then, it's easier to learn anything).
By the way, sorry for any language gaffes, it there were any. I'm in a rush, so I'm writing faster than thinking. At least, I hope I've helped.
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tank you for answer
i work with 3dsmax
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how make a texture for my model on 3dsmax??
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Have you UV mapped your model yet?
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Look for a UV mapping tutorial.
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There's plenty of texturing and texture creation tutorials. Search youtube, alternately, I highly recommend digitaltutors.com though there's a subscription fee, it's well worth it.
As for the truck animation, it will probably need to be done in code. You'll have the truck and missile battery modeled as separate pieces and then use a "look at" type script to orient the missile battery at the plane and then a "go to" script for the missile. In Unity using playmaker it's trivial.
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Firstly all this is a Plain guess as you need to be much more specific when your talking about this stuff.
Once you have the correct format YOU WILL NEED TO KNOW WHICH GAME YOUR MODDING /ENGINE your using .. example
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Another Example UDK 3 : easy to export un textured model then import the .dds to the engine and make a material (in UDK) that references the .dds into the diffuse slot. (then apply the material onto the model)
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"That's a fair analogy," said Mah, who began programing at 9 and graduated from high school at the tender age of 15. "Every night we download all of your transactions, categorize them into different buckets - dining, rent, payroll, you name it."
The company won early funding from Berkeley's Center of Entrepreneurship and accelerator program Y Combinator; to date it has attracted nearly $1 million in angel investment and counts some 10,000 users.
David Wu, an angel investor in the concept and executive-in-residence at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Redpoint Ventures, said inDinero is filling a niche in the accounting software space.
"There is a huge chunk of the market that uses pencil and paper because it's too hard to do accounting," said Wu, who previously ran the QuickBooks Online unit for accounting software maker Intuit, which acquired Mint in 2009. "There is a pent up need in the small business market for something that's easier."
In addition to Wu, inDinero's other high-profile investors include: Elad Gil (Twitter), Kevin Hartz (EventBrite CEO), Jawed Karim (YouTube Founder), Jeremy Stoppelman (Yelp CEO), Dave McClure (500Startups and Mint investor), and Keith Rabois (Square).
InDinero is initially free. It then charges businesses monthly fees of up to $99, depending on their transaction volumes, all without a single mention of off-putting terms like accruals, amortization, intangibles or liabilities.
"I asked a lot of people, 'What do you think of this vocabulary? Do you understand what it means?'" said Mah, noting many off-the-shelf programs still require knowledge of accounting terminology. "A lot of them told us, 'No,' and that's one of the reasons they're not actually managing their accounting software themselves."
To her surprise, she said it has not just been mom-and-pop businesses that gravitated to inDinero, but many with significant scale and sizeable employee rosters.
"It's amazing how even the founders and executive teams don't actually have as much day-to-day insight into their money as they ought to," she said.
Terry Hardman, owner of an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma-based business that distributes and repairs surgical equipment, said inDinero's ease of use won him over. "It's extremely user friendly," said Hardman, who often pulls up his account from his mobile phone. "I've got a true picture right there in one spot."
At least one accountant said that anything that takes the hassle out of the accounting process and provides real-time information is worth considering.
"I think the biggest problem people have had in the past is they were using software that was far more sophisticated than the type of business they had," said Ruth Goran, a CPA in Skokie, Illinois who specializes in small businesses. "It made it more cumbersome."
Mah, for her part, is a committed user of her own software, which sometimes sheds light on the growing Mountain View, California company's excesses.
"I didn't realize how much we were spending on food and restaurants," she said. "This happens across most businesses and most categories. Just by looking at the graphs and trying to figure out where your money is going is a huge factor in helping you save money."


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Comment »Posted on Tuesday 21 July 2009 at 12:44 pm by Colin StuartIn About Just A Theory, Space & Astronomy
As you have been hearing from the Just a Theory team, this week has been a special one for everyone and particularly those of us involved with astronomy and space science.
With Jacob pipping me to writing stories both about the moon landings and Lord Drayson's announcement that the UK will once again fund UK astronauts, you can hear my take on it, as well as a shameless plug for Just a Theory on this week's BBC 5Live Pods and Blogs podcast.
Head on over to the BBC website to check it out (21st July episode, I'm first up)
More to come from me on tomorrow's solar eclipse soon!


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Typically, most of us looking for great brunch recommendations will simply ask a friend or coworker -- but have you ever thought of asking your friendly local chef? We did, querying Dallas' best chefs to find out where they like to hunker down for weekend breakfast. Every well-known brunch gem is represented among these 16 restaurants, as are a couple of spots you may not have thought of to kick off your weekend dining.
There's a Stock Market-Themed Cocktail Bar in Hong Kong
Chef Tony Street of Y.O. Ranch Steakhouse
His pick: Blue Mesa Grill (address and info)
Multiple locations
The Downtown meat master enjoys digging into this popular Southwestern chainlet's gigantic buffet. "There is something about eggs, chilies, and tortillas that wakes up the senses," Street says. The menu reminds him of his years in Acapulco, particularly the chilaquiles, but his absolute favorite item on the buffet is the chicken-cheese-and-pepper-tastic Adobe Pie. This spot is super packed for brunch, so arrive early or late to try to avoid the throngs.
Chef Braden Wages of Malai Kitchen
His pick: Stock & Barrel (address and info)
Oak Cliff
The chef-owner of West Village's Southeast Asian eatery and his co-owner wife Yasmin go for American fare come brunch time, at Oak Cliff's Stock & Barrel. He says, "[Chef] Jon Stevens is a great chef who really knows the meaning of comfort food." Wages says his go-to is the meatloaf burger, "the perfect mix of rejuvenating soul food and brunch gluttony." Other popular entrees include fried spicy spaghetti and cheddar grits topped with eggs.
Chef Richard Blankenship of CBD Provisions
His pick: Kirin Court (address and info)
Much like every other chef on this list, Blankenship reports rarely having time to take in brunch, but when he does, he heads to Kirin Court for the Richardson restaurant's famed dim sum. Some of his favorite bites to pick from among the roving carts are shrimp dumplings and BBQ pork buns, though he says he never fails to find something new to fawn over every visit.
Chef Danyele McPherson of Remedy
Her pick: The Grape (address and info)
Lower Greenville
Yes, the Lower Greenville chef selected her former workplace, but The Grape certainly deserves the props. Just try to get in sans reservations on a Sunday to see how rabidly popular the bistro is. McPherson loves the brunch vibe there, but also "everything on the menu is decidedly craveable. The chicken biscuit goes hard: fried chicken, cheddar cheese, and honey butter on a couple jalapeño-cheese biscuits... delicious." Another must-order entrée is the bacon cheeseburger, only available at brunch and crowned the best in the state.
Chef Brad Phillips of Asador Restaurant
His pick: BrainDead Brewing (address and info)
Deep Ellum
The new Deep Ellum brewery launched brunch over in late summer, right in Philips' neighborhood, which was all kinds of convenient for him. "I've been there a few times before for their beer and really good apps but never for brunch," the modern American cuisine master notes. The brewpub's biscuits and gravy, accompanied by a bacon flight (!) fit the bill for him, and sent him home happy: "I had the most amazing nap after!" Philips says.
Chef Kent Rathbun of Abacus/Jasper's/Hickory
His pick: Meso Maya (address and info)
Arts District, Preston Hollow
"Who doesn't like food from South of the border after a good Saturday night?" the Iron Chef alum asks. Rathbun says he lands at the regional Mexican chainlet Meso Maya for brunch fairly frequently. "I love their handmade tortillas, their top-shelf margarita... and then their Pollo Budin Azteca, which is white corn tortillas layered with melted Chihuahua cheese, Monterrey Jack, queso asadero, sauteed white chicken, black beans, arugula, queso fresco, and roasted creamy tomatillo sauce." Going in for seconds on cocktails here? Definitely order up an avocado margarita, one of the best iterations of the drink you can find.
Chef Marcus Paslay of Clay Pigeon Food and Drink
His pick: Brewed (address and info)
Fort Worth
Fort Worth chef Paslay keeps things local when it's time for brunch, becoming a recent fan of "hip and trendy" café Brewed. "It's great for a late Sunday morning brunch. They have an extensive selection of anything brewed: coffees, teas, and beer, and they use locally sourced Avoca coffee, which is what we serve at Clay Pigeon Food and Drink." On a recent meal there, he dug into some drip coffee, the fried egg, bacon, and cheese sandwich on sourdough, and a serving of duck-fat fries, which he calls "the perfect hangover cure." The chicken and waffles here are also mighty popular.
Chef Richard Graff of Meddlesome Moth
His pick: Lucky's Café (address and info)
Oak Lawn
Since becoming and empty-nester and moving with his wife from North Dallas to Oak Lawn, the gastropub chef's favorite brunch spot has become old-school diner Lucky's Café. "The staff is friendly and fun, the chef is using local Texas ingredients, and they have a killer, perfectly caramelized brioche French toast that they serve with Maker's Mark maple syrup." Classic omelets of all varieties are a hit here, too. And Graff shares a little pro tip: "Get there before 10am, and you won't have to wait too long for a table."
Erin McKool of Start: Real Food Fast
Her pick: La Duni (address and info)
Multiple locations
The owner and recipe crafter for the healthy fast-food joint loves the comforting Latin American eats at La Duni once the weekend hits, and she can't get enough of one particular order. "My friend Amy and I meet about every other Saturday... and we order the exact same thing for brunch: huevos rancheros with both red and green sauces, the steak medallion cooked medium-rare, and Duni's amazing Bloody Mary." La Duni is also noted for its fabulous coffee, extensive pastry selection, and eggy plates like migas and brunch chiles rellenos.
Chef Anthony Van Camp of Hilton Dallas Lincoln Centre
His pick: Bolsa (address and info)
Oak Cliff
We couldn't express Bolsa's rise to the upper echelon of the brunch heap better than Chef AVC, soooo: "It was the bomb, like, eight years ago, kinda fell off as being the bomb, but this year, they've really stepped it back up. The new chef is super legit." Indeed, Chef Joel Harrington has brought a new zeal to the farm-to-table menu, with brunch highlights including a bacon-and-egg-topped burger, biscuits and chorizo gravy, an iron skillet quiche, and BBQ-roasted pork belly.
Chefs Dennis Kelley and Melody Bishop of LARK on the Park
Their pick: Smoke (address and info)
Oak Cliff, Plano
As a couple, parents of a small child, and the chefs generally in the kitchen for brunch, Kelley and Bishop don't hit the brunch scene very often. When they do, chances are you'll find them at the modern smokehouse aptly named Smoke. "We love the inventive dishes and great drinks at Smoke. Add a mimosa or a glass of wine and it's the perfect way to brunch," the two agree. Among the blockbuster dishes at this super-popular weekend spot are the Heavy Handed blueberry and ricotta cheese pancakes and the coffee-cured brisket.
Chef Brian C. Luscher of The Grape/Luscher's Red Hots
His pick: The Fatted Calf (address and info)
This enterprising chef goes for a bit of a drive come brunch time, noting "Chef Ted [Grieb] has got everything I want in a brunch menu: great sweets, high-quality local eggs and beef (the steak and eggs hits the spot), a nice variety of lunch items." His favorite plate on the lunch menu? The chicken-fried steak with poblano gravy, mashed potatoes, and corn. Luscher also lauds the eatery's "great, friendly, welcoming service staff, completely reasonable pricing, and full bar."
Chef David Holben of Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steak House
His pick: Crossroads Diner (address and info)
North Dallas
The steakhouse maestro uses plenty of superlatives to describe his feelings for this old-fashioned diner, highlighting "the best pancakes and homemade breakfast sausage in town. I love the daily specials." Thanks to its comfy-cozy setting and a welcoming staff and vibe, Holben extols Crossroads as "the place you want to take your family and friends. My first choice by far." Another warm and fluffy menu classic are the sticky buns for which the restaurant has won rave reviews.
Chef Blythe Beck of Pink Magnolia
Her pick: The Local Oak (address and info)
Oak Cliff
"I love Local Oak!" says the self-proclaimed Naughty Chef. And now that she's set roots in her own new Southern-flavored spot down the street, brunch-time visits should be a breeze. "I am obsessed with their Frito pie and their Wild Orchard cocktail. They are great neighbors and super fun," she says, adding, "by the way, they call it 'Blunch.' They are funny, too."
Chef Roe DiLeo of Henry's Majestic
Her pick: Boulevardier (address and info)
Bishop Arts District
The kitchen leader and Hell's Kitchen alum has gotten her share of heat, both at the local gastropub and on TV, so when she's out of her chef whites, she loves to brunch at Oak Cliff's French-inspired Boulevardier, "not only for its amazing food, but the cocktails and staff are on point!" she raves. As for her go-to dish, she has a specific pairing: "My favorite dish is hash Boulevardier. The oyster mushrooms, the sage maple sausage, and black pepper hollandaise are just amazing together. My favorite drink at brunch is their Raised and Infused; I'm a gin fan, and it's very balanced and refreshing."
Chef Daniel Tarasevich of Le Taco Cantina
His pick: The Standard Pour (address and info)
Who among us doesn't love a brunch that's equally tasty and boozy? Tarasevich is no exception and loves the eats and sips at this McKinney Ave hotspot equally. His ideal plate is the breakfast sandwich: "This sandwich has Nueske's bacon, smoked ham, scrambled egg, avocado, tomato, cheddar cheese, all on a croissant and, let me tell you, it's fantastic!" The chef also digs TSP's neighborly vibe and notes "their $5 cocktails deliver exactly what I'm looking for." Other brunch menu delights include the chicken biscuit, fried quail and waffles, and warm donuts.
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Farah Fleurima is a Dallas-based word wrangler who loves her gin and tonics as crisp as her bacon. As a professional food stalker and beer/cocktail/straight-liquor tippler, she loves to write not just about her culinary conquests, but also her frequent travels. You can check out more of her musings at TheDallasDiva.com.
1. Blue Mesa Grill14866 Montfort Dr, Addison
2. Stock & Barrel316 W Davis St, Dallas
3. Kirin Court221 W Polk St Ste 200, Richardson
4. The Grape2808 Greenville Ave, Dallas
5. Braindead Brewing2625 Main St, Dallas
6. Meso Maya11909 Preston Rd, Dallas
7. Brewed801 W Magnolia Ave, Fort Worth
8. Lucky's Cafe3531 Oak Lawn Ave, Dallas
9. La Duni Latin Kitchen & Coffee Studio4264 Oak Lawn Ave, Dallas
10. Bolsa614 W Davis St, Dallas
11. Smoke2408 Preston Rd, Plano
12. The Fatted Calf112 E Rusk St, Rockwall
13. Crossroads Diner8121 Walnut Hill Ln., Dallas
14. The Local Oak409 N Zang Blvd, Dallas
15. Boulevardier408 N Bishop Ave, Ste 108, Dallas
16. The Standard Pour2900 McKinney Ave, Dallas
The original location (well, across the street from the original original location) of the Dallas resto that now has 6 total spots, Blue Mesa serves up Tex-Mex deliciousness from flights of queso to Blue Mesa Churrascaritas (skewers!).
Stock and Barrel is a hip American-cuisine destination with a neighborly feel, and an entire section of its menu dedicated to French fries. Order offerings such as crushed Yukons with Parmesan and smoked paprika mayo, or try out the meats, seafood, and sides coming out of the wood-fired grill.
Come to this consistently packed Chinese eatery for their famed dim sum; bite size offerings range from shrimp dumplings, BBQ pork buns, and hot and sour soup, in addition to vegan options.
Helmed by Chef/Owner Brian Luscher (of Luscher's Red Hots fame), The Grape was originally opened in 1972 and has served approachable, European influenced fare at affordable prices ever since. The menu changes monthly, though, so the Grape never feels stodgy or old-guard. The charming, bistro-like interior and homestyle fare (blueberry pancakes, shrimp and grits) make The Grape a great brunch option
Aside from a killer tap list, the fine folks at Braindead have churned out the Coma Burger, with a brisket/bacon/Wagyu sirloin patty, sweet onion jam, smoked cheddar, crispy shallots, and stout mustard -- which is drawing considerable attention. Add in some outstanding queso and the warm cookies they make with spent grains/serve up with milk, and you should have no trouble sleeping.
This North Dallas Mexican establishment three unique rooms, a 20ft bar and high-end meals that don't break the bank, including the Queso Poblano, which has melted Chihuahua cheese, creamy queso blanco, roasted poblanos, fresh corn, and nopalitos.
Lined with bricks salvaged from a 100-year-old Chi-town warehouse, Brewed's eclectic mix of barnwood-supported concrete counters, couches, and bookshelves serve as a home-y background for classic Southern breakfasts of chicken biscuits and pillowy waffles with Cuvee coffee. The same goes for lunch time, when 60 kinda of Texas crafts make the rounds with truffle and chipotle deviled eggs, mussels, and roasted chicken.
Lucky, indeed: most everything at this greasy spoon is covered in cheese. A grilled cheese with onions, tomatoes, green chillies, bacon, cheddar, Swiss? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes.
Perfectly blending the European and Latin American traditions, La Duni is definitely the only place in Dallas where you can start off with a Pastel Gloria (a Danish-style pastry) and finish with the Asado Brasilero (seared picanha steak with chimichurri salsas). Plus, all of their pastries are baked in house and they've got killer cocktails and coffee.
Located in the historic Settles Garage, Bolsa offers up a menu of American cuisine for brunch and dinner. The longstanding spot scores with creative cocktails you can't get anywhere else, like the The Shepherd with Mount Gay Extra Old, arugula, goats milk yogurt syrup, and lime. A covered outdoor patio with heat lamps makes it a solid spot to camp out even when the weather gets a bit nippy.
The eclectic Southwestern decor and back patio at Smoke makes diners feel less like they're outside a strip mall in West Plano and more like they're in a adobe home in New Mexico. Quiet suburban crowds gather on the multicolored seating for brunch, lunch, and dinner and leave with loosened belts because they've stuffed themselves to the brim with Latin-inspired and Southwestern fare like bbq spare ribs, coffee-cured brisket, and grilled quail prepared by James Beard Award-winning Tim Byres.
Lauded for "great, friendly, welcoming service staff, completely reasonable pricing and full bar," the Fatted Calf serves up southern-inspired American food in a casual atmosphere.
Two Lombardi Mare chefs have opened a mezzanine-equipped, wood-accented, many-windowed grub warehouse that kicks off with from-scratch pancakes, waffles, and TX-pecan & caramel-loaded sticky buns, then moves on to tweaked greasy-spoon classics like carame
This restaurant offers a mix of Cajun- and Mexican-inspired comfort food and a full bar serving up beer, craft cocktails, and eight different wines -- all within a renovated 1920s building with a modern façade.
This French-inspired Bistro uses its wood-fired grill to reinvent some classic dishes from across the pond. In addition to the grub, there's an expansive wine selection that includes more than 120 American and French varietals, as well as a large array of liquors including Whiskeys, Armagnacs and Cognacs.
This place is anything but standard, serving an outstanding variety of liquors, cocktails, wines, and beers, as well as delightful food options like their thyme and garlic chicken, lamb ravioli, and lobster nachos.


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|Alastair Cook poses with the vicious Chinese Water Deer he has courageously felled.
Newly crowned Ashes hero Alastair Cook is in no mood for compromise.
Despite his record-breaking run of scores in Australia, the baby faced Essex batsman feels that some people had been secretly questioning his strength of character.
Not any more, they won't.
Cook proudly poses with a Chinese Water Deer that he had shot with a gun. A real gun. It's dead and Cook is the one who killed it.
|"Take that!" A pumped-up Cook celebrates another Ashes ton by pretending to punch an antelope in the face.
"Some people used to think that I am a bit 'soft' or a walk-over, just because I went to a posh school and sung in the choir. There were those who suggested I might be a bit boring. They must be eating their words now. I have got news for them. No-one disrespects Alastair Cook any more."
The Chinese Water Deer can grow to nearly two feet in height. It was introduced to the UK just over 100 years ago. They are not even British. They have been going round ever since asking for trouble. Well, now they have found it.
The beast found to its cost what a hard–nosed sportsman Cook has become.
|"Look out ewe!" Cook and his girlfriend warn the local sheep not to underestimate him ... or else.
"It was in the wrong place at the wrong time" laughed Cook. "I felt like killing something and it just appeared from nowhere. I was in the mood and nothing was going to stop me. I thought about killing it with my bare hands but I didn't want to risk getting an injury so near to the World Cup so I blasted it in the gut instead ... with my gun. Tough luck Bambi," chuckled the test opener.
After having his photo taken with the bloodied tiny deer Cook put the freshly dead animal in his pocket and dumped it by the roadside.
"There is no place for weakness, either in cricket or the animal kingdom. The deer hadn't prepared itself for a a fight and it paid the price," added the England captain in waiting. "I might kill another one tomorrow, or maybe a sea lion or a pit pony. There's a mallard in the village where I live that has questioned my ability. It's eaten its last bit of stale bread that's for sure."


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So a little while ago I made a fashion video for my Youtube channel which included a three ways to style a blouse from Missguided. The blouse is a black sheer style with a cute heart design on the collar. I love a good blouse and collar combo so this blouse is right up my street and can be styled in a variety of ways. I decided to create a casual daytime look, casual night look and then glam out on the town look!
Look 1 Daytime: This is what I'd wear for uni or just a casual trip into town when it's a grey day. I'd wear a pink jumper to add a bit of colour, the blouse with the collar popping out to show the cute heart detail and then jeans to keep it comfy and casual for uni.
Look 2 Casual Night: I didn't quite know what to call this look as it's that in between night and day look so imagine you're going for a Nando's with the boyfriend or for a cheeky cocktail with the girls. I paired my blouse with my trusty denim shorts, my Missguided tights which add a little oooh la la to the outfit. Then finally my Miss Selfridge leather jacket which I like to throw on with everything.
Look 3 Night Time Look: So this is a glam, out on the town look! I paired my blouse with my Miss Selfridge shorts and then some high ankle boots. This look is perfect for a winter going out look but a little too dark now for my Spring time palette!
So there we have it, my first styling video! I'm thinking of maybe doing another one soon, if anyone has any requests let me know as I'm trying to think of a different item to style! Maybe my coloured jeans? Let me know in the comments below your thoughts :)


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Capturing Canada's social media examples
Go ahead and check it out, add the examples you know or have worked on yourself and help build a repository of Canadian leadership in the social media space that will benefit the industry.
I've even included a page for Canadian social media consultants to list themselves and link to their work if they like.
If you're not too comfortable with editing a wiki yourself and you have some ideas for tags or a better way to organize it, by all means let me know.
I also have to tip my hat to Dave Fleet who created the succesful Social Media Training wiki last year. Hopefully some of the people who got their start there have projects they can share on the new Web 2.0 Examples in Canada wiki.