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Open Thread: Friends and Family and Everyone Else
Here's a place to talk about the relationships in your life whenever you want.
I started University with great optimism about all the new people I would meet and in particular I was positive I would connect with the "best friend" I so badly wanted.
It almost seemed like a dream come true when I met Isabelle on that vast campus. We seemed to have so much in common and, best of all, she wanted to be my friend.
Often, I would return from an evening with Isabelle frustrated and angry. It never occurred to me that there might be some other reality where I could come home and think, "Isabelle is such a great person. It's so fantastic how we communicate."
Instead I was angry at being ignored, criticized or subject to a black mood. Isabelle would invite me out, but entertain me with a mood so foul that, when our other friends showed up and I asked her to come to their table she would utter a barely audible, "Fuck you." Isabelle was never there for me, but I was expected to be on point at a moment's notice.
I once asked her to act in a short film I had to make for class; she was eager to help. After one day of shooting she decided she didn't want to do it anymore, but not before telling me my script was stupid. She left me in the lurch with my deadline days away and a lot of useless footage.
Her bad treatment of me escalated to the point where she would invite me to have drinks with her, and then sit there in silence while I struggled to have a conversation. Meetings like that became so unbearable I would sometimes take out my book and read to prove a point she failed to notice. Isabelle would call me up and expect me to be there at her convenience, with no regard for what I was doing.
I took to lying about how long I would take to meet her because I was fearful of her anger and accusations. She would invite me for dinner and then say things like "Glad I didn't spend too much on food" because she disapproved of the cheaper bottle of wine I brought.
Money was always contentious. Isabelle felt that she could buy me drinks or food and that would fulfill her side of the friendship, while lacking any emotion or response when I came to her with my troubles. She would hold her job over my head like some amulet that made her better then me. She never let me forget that she was a hardworking breadwinner, and I was an idiot for still being a student.
I thought that whatever problems Isabelle and I had could be remedied by my trust and understanding. We saw each other several times a week, we texted and called each other constantly. I thought we would be friends forever.
If she was in a good mood, which was not often, we had a lot of fun. We would giggle about pop music, or talk about books. She once dared me to drop a nickel down some guy's butt crack in a busy bar. I dropped the nickel discreetly and then ran for the bathroom. When I came back we laughed like maniacs as she told me told me about his reaction.
These were the moments I looked and prayed for. Their sweetness, how honest they felt. They were so true, fuzzy, and pink. Now I feel like it was all a fake. These moments were on her terms. She was in a good mood, and I was therefore, granted clemency.
It took me a long time to stand up to Isabelle and realize that her behavior was not OK. The last day we spoke was the day I finally, properly, stood up to her. She had left me waiting for hours. We were supposed to go to a party together and she didn't bother telling me she had other plans. I texted her:
"Hey, it's not really cool that you had other plans and didn't tell me. I really don't appreciate being treated like I don't matter."
What followed were a litany of insults, most involving the words "fuck," and "you," but I still didn't realize it was over for almost two months. She disappeared from my life as quickly as she had appeared, and with zero explanation. I was livid, confused, and devastated. I kept sending her messages and tricked myself into thinking she was busy with work.
It took a face-to-face encounter to really let me know that it was all over. I was at a bar with several male friends who stupidly encouraged me to buy her a beer and try to talk to her.
If I'm being honest with myself, I knew exactly what was going to happen before I plonked down 6 dollars for that beer. Isabelle looked at me in a way I've only been looked at by strangers. Her gaze slid away from me as easily as if I were a lamppost, the quietly uttered "No thanks" echoing inside my head. Then I cried on the patio like I'd just lost my only friend.
Isabelle broke my heart into a thousand pieces. I felt as though someone had died. The anger and resentment churned inside me to the point where I would randomly stand above the bed my fiancé and I share, screaming at him about Isabelle.
I felt like she had no right to end the friendship after I had put up with her for so long. I'm sure she ended it because she thought something had happened that did not happen. She thought I was the abusive one that I didn't care about her enough, or that I didn't have enough money and couldn't be respected.
My "break-up" with Isabelle was not something people knew how to talk about. Men shrugged their shoulders and told me I was better off, while women listened politely and then, changed the subject.
There's no rulebook for breaking up with a female friend. There's no goodbye, there's no closure, and there's no ending. The people I told thought I was being a little ridiculous. They acted as though my goldfish had died and I was losing my marbles.
The only person who really understood was my mother who, after 50 years of friendship with another woman, was unceremoniously dumped much like I was.
I haven't yet been able to let go of the rage I feel toward Isabelle, and I'm fearful of running into her. The idea that she could act like she never knew me hurts more then all the emotional abuse and put-downs I endured for the length of our friendship.
I'm trying so hard to remember the times where it was good, where we were connected, when we enjoyed the same books or films. The times she would put her insanity aside and just be my best friend.
The saddest thing is that I've had to let go of the belief that she cared about me. She dropped me like yesterday's garbage. There was no love, there was no remorse, there was nothing.
I mistook Isabelle's intensity for real love shared between friends and it was very easy for her to prey on my emotions. I have become hyper-vigilant of selfishness in the other women I have formed friendships with. Still, I often look at myself and realize that I am again embroiled in a friendship where it is all about the other woman.
I realize that I have spent my life looking for women to relate to and, when I befriended those women, I taught them that I would give them everything and, that they could give me nothing.
We teach people how to treat us. If selfish and negative behavior is reinforced with kindness and understanding, why would these so-called-friends act any differently?
Isabelle had power over me that I gave her. So frenzied was I to have an intimate, "best friend" relationship that I basically gave her license to treat me like shit At the time, I thought everything going on was simply a quirk of Isabelle's personality and not particularly wrong.
I know now that I give too much, too quickly, to people who were never willing to do the same. I still really want the real thing: a woman who would truly be my "best friend." Now, it is clear that not everyone I come across will be that person.
I need to figure out what sort of woman I want as a friend, and understand that I am always going to be disappointed if I'm not clear about what I want in a friendship.
Everything in this world must be asked for. Otherwise, you're standing in a crowded room wondering why no one is talking to you.


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|1,833 sq ft
|Property type
|Minimum Stay
|3 nights
Beautiful, fully furnished unit 2 minute walk to Kite Beach, Cabarete. 10 minute walk to the center of the action in this quaint beach town.
15 kilometers of gorgeous, uncrowded beach to walk and explore. Surf, Sail, Kite Board, Paddle Board. BBQ/grill in gazebo by pool, bottled water included, full size washer and dryer, Iron and board, storage unit for kites or surf boards.
The Neighborhood
There are so many things to do and see on the North coast it will depend on your likes.
We love just walking on the beach for hours, or a refreshing morning swim in the sea. (or the pool below your terrace)
We have the premiere Zip Line course on the North coast 15 minutes away at Monkey Jungle in El Choco.
One of the best surfing beaches on the island is 5 minutes by car or moto concho
The Amber museum in Puerto Plata which is a 30/45 minute drive.
The Botanical Gardens on Mount Isabella in Puerto Plata is a great day trip.
Caving and waterfall tours are also available through tour operators in Cabarete.
Horse back riding on the beach.
River tours and so much more.
Do you golf? We have many fine courses on the North coast.
Late January to Early March is the time for whale watching in Samana.
Tours to Las Terrenas and Samana, about 2 hours from Cabarete, can be easily arranged.
How about a day on a 75 foot catamaran right off the beach in Sosua!
Snorkeling trips and of course the diving is great as well.
All extra of course, but reasonably priced excursions close to the condo.
Fiona is a retired diplomat with the Italian government, speaks Italian, Spanish, French and English. I'm a retired Aircraft Maintenance Tech from Davenport, Iowa USA. I speak English....:-) and a bit of Spanish and Italian.
We visited the North Coast of the island in 2009 and simply fell in Love with the place and eventually bought a property and built our retirement home here.
We arrived for good in 2011. We bought the condo in Cabarete as our home as we built our house.
Fiona paints and I do some IM to pass the time. We also share a love of cooking and gardening and do both activities together.
We Love Cabarete and the whole of the North Coast and we are sure you will as well. The beach is never crowded and you can walk for hours in either direction. The choice of restaurants within walking distance of 727 is incredible. Italian, French, Dominican, Mexican, Thai...you name it, as well as the good old Hamburger. Janet's Market on the east end of town has a large selection of whatever you may need to cook up in the condo. Or, grab a cab and go into Sosua and the Playero Supermarket for a bit bigger selection and more restaurants and the quaint Sosua Bay Beach.
Jim and Fiona Lehenbauer purchased this condo in 2009
If you've been here before you will find this condo a cut above most in Cabarete and in Ocean Dream. If you haven't experienced Cabarete or Ocean Dream you will be pleasantly surprised by this unit, it's accessability to Kite Beach and all the things you need to enjoy your stay.
Getting around
Take a Moto Concho for the brave, or a local bus for pennies into Sosua. Or rent a car and check out the area.
You can catch a taxi from the airport for about $35 USD. If only two I'll pick you up for $25.
When we arrived at the vacation rental we were in awe as to how beautiful it was! the pictures on line are beautiful, but really dont do the place justice, its so much more beautiful in person. If you like to cook, the kitchen was well stocked with all the modern applicances that you need to feel comfortable in the kitchen.
Its just a few minute walk to get to the beach.
We also appreciated the serenity of the the complex, it was very nice and quiet. The grounds and gardens are very beautiful and very well kept.
It has all the comforts of a hotel and the coziness of a home. We difinitely would highly recommend the Fifis Beach Hideaway place for a nice relaxing vacation with friends and/or family. We look forward to staying there again.
I would recommend Jim and Fiona's place to anyone who wanted to stay in a beautiful, clean, safe vacation rental. We just spent our first visit to the D.R. at the beginning of January, we had the best time. Jim and Fiona were so helpful and kept in contact with us before/during our stay, he even recommended a one night stay in Santo Domingo because of our late arrival, and I'm glad we did. Once, we arrived at their rental the place was everything and more, it was like being at home we had everything we needed, the place was super clean. I would get up every morning and sit out on the back balcony that faced the pool, drinking my coffee. I loved that we were steps away from the beautiful beach. You are within walking distance from the local beachside restaurants, bars, and shopping, it's located in the prefect spot. We had such a great experience I would highly recommend staying at their place. We were and hour from the Waterfalls that is a must see, you can go horseback riding on the beaches, and we enjoyed the beaches everyday. I will hopefully get back to the D.R. and I would stay at Jim and Fiona's place again. Thank-you for making our stay a great memory.
Heather and Eric


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Data and information management have lately been making tremendous leaps in scale and scope, which we've been hearing about largely through terms like "cloud computing" and "big data."
With kudos to new takes on software and data optimization techniques (like virtualization, compression and columnar storage) the buzz coming from "big data" can take most of its credit from hardware advancements, notably 64-bit CPU, multicore processing, server parallelism and storage in new formats like solid-state disk and flash.
Where CPUs held the performance high ground, storage (and the time, money and labor it takes to read, write, manage and move data) had become the engineer's wall of throughput.
But now that barrier is crumbling, and was the topic of DM Radio last week where host Eric Kavanagh called a panel of experts to discuss how RAM and main memory leaps are causing enterprises to reconsider the way they transact, integrate and analyze data going forward. It's something we all need to pay some attention to because it's evolving very quickly.
In fact, said Rogert Gaskell of Kognitio, removing the disk bottleneck has put the burden back on parallel CPUs in ad hoc or unpredictable environments and need to be processed as quickly as possible.
Commoditization, the effect of units of things becoming very inexpensive and interchangeable, is one contributor to this change. Even though it still tests on lab benches, solid state disk storage is also the backbone of a new inexpensive big data solution from Amazon Web Services released just last week. That couldn't have happened economically even a year ago.
In the late 90s it cost about $600 to add 4 MB of RAM to my hotshot 486 PC. That was the equivalent amount of data for a song or two on my MP3 player. Today, companies hand out multi gigabyte flash drives like candy. Memory is no longer a step-up luxury item. In fact, you can expect a tricky time for corporate buyers: even as they save increasing amounts of money; it becomes harder to do more than dip their toes into pain points for the time being. The opportunities are growing, but so is the chance for buyer's remorse for private infrastructure that's going to fall to lesser uses before too long. If you have a database that's twice too big to fit in memory right now, data legend Michael Stonebraker said on our show, "just wait two years" and it affordably will.
"We're seeing a bunch of startups geared on main memory that are on average 50 times faster than disk systems," said Stonebraker, most lately a founder at VoltDB. He also says we can look to open source as a wave of the future that will bring "wildly cheaper" pricing to in-memory.
On the transactional side, OLTP is already destined to live in main memory, Stonebraker said. "OLTP is used when you click 'buy it now' on eBay or transact for an airline ticket. Since it does represent a business transaction, OLTP does need to be bulletproof, and ACID compliant. It is a SQL ACID market exclusively."
Main memory right now does have a downside in that it requires redundant hardware and replication to ensure data is not lost when power fails in a flood or earthquake. For now that is a cost of doing business. When and if non-volatile RAM comers available it will remove the need to write redundantly to disk.
"It's not going to be too many years before non-volatile RAM is available cheaper than flash memory which ends the need to persist databases at the risk of power failures or system crashes," said Stonebraker. "And, remember, if you run 50 times faster, your power consumption just went down 50 times too."
This is where the economics of data management take another turn. Todd Walter of Teradata said there is a long tail of data with diminishing value that becomes less valuable the less it is used. So, we'll see hardware tiering of multiple disk and solid state and flash devices going forward. The problem there is, multilevel platforms are very manual to manage. "We think the key to make it happen is automatic management to place data in the right tier based on access patterns and the value of the data."
That's what he says Teradata is working on now, the ability to support many types of storage from the slowest disk to RAM and manage it without managing platform to platform with no humans involved.
This raises another question about the future of the utility computing model also. With data it seems we always overflow our closets no matter how many we build, but complexity could affect how commoditized data can become. And if data is an asset, we may decide we want much of it nearby.
That's a lot easier to do when the closets we are building are virtual, the data is highly concentrated and doesn't come with the same brick and mortar burden of laying foundations for whole new data centers.
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Fantastic fact
The Hulu Selangor Umno Youth media unit chairman Mohd Jefrin Mattu was discontented because he had received, among other things, photographs of ".....Dr Wan Azizah handing out school bags to children and adults but there is no way to see what was inside". Jefrin was also upset because "there were also photographs of Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim and exco member Elizabeth Wong handing out "gifts" "
It's ironic. It's stupid. It's childish. It's.....I also don't know what to say la except...
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Aiyooo Pat,
It's ironic. It's stupid. It's childish. It's....
OK to let Jefrin make the police report.....
The reason....Since there are no peaceful protests, the mata mata have no work to do lah. I think it is better to keep them busy else they may go around shooting people.
- 10:40 pm
pm din hand out 'gifts' BUT bribe !
- 10:48 pm
jadi kami semua kena rapat lagi dgn pengundi kat kampung, supaya mereka semua ni paham isu2 leceh macam ni...
patrick satu undi.
para intelektual jumlah sikit aje kat malaysia.
warga melayu/orang asli yang diperbodohkan umno baru beribu2...berjuta2...
rapatkan diri lebih dgn kumpulan tertindas ni...merekalah yang boleh jatuhkan umno baru.
hulu selangor boleh dijadikan ikhtibar...
- 11:23 pm
Saturday, May 1, 2010
To Dato Seri Najib..Our UMNO Boss!
Please explain to us UMNO members why did you allow Ezham Noor to become a senator?
Has he really done so much for UMNO that he deserved that much credit?
By campaigning for BN in the HS elections, he deserves such a reward?
Ariff Sabri your ex Adun pun turun berkempen to find the points and blog for BN in his usual 'bukan bodek' and calling 'a spade a spade' style.
Ramai yang berduyun2 tolong jugak without being paid a single cent petrol money.
Ezham ni dulu bukan ker yang threaten nak expose berkotak2 rahsia kerajaan when he was clinging to Anwar Ibrahim?
Macam2 dia caci kerajaan waktu menyebelahi PKR.
Suddenly, baru saja masuk UMNO, just because he managed to persuade some PKR guys to leave and join UMNO, hes to be rewarded so highly?
Yeah..betul he claims to know of Anwar Ibrahim's secrets and all..but takkanlah give him such a lucrative, important post?
I baru baca somebody's blog...mungkin ker Ezham jadi Timbalan Menteri after this?
You mean to say those who criticise the Government like mad and comment about UMNO's weaknesses from the enemy camp have a better life than those who criticise from within in their sincerest manner?
Politically, you are making most of us UMNO members quietly disillusioned and very disappointed..
Whose idea is this to give Ezham so much credit for HS by elections' victory??
p.s. Looks like all the 'kataks' have a field day nowadays!
No need to be loyal to the party anymore..jump sana, then jump back in, then you jump into a really BIG pot of gold!
And we UMNO loyalists still 'struggle' on...huyung hayang!
And we have to continue being patient?
Tok, you better stop dishing out ridiculous rewards/recognitions to so many 'once a upon a time traitors'!
Its so unfair!
Senang2nya they get so much appreciation.
Don't you realise UMNO has now taken so much 'poison' from the outside??
Thanks Tok Seri..from ahli biasa UMNO Pulau Rusa, Pekan, Pahang.
Oh! Happy Labour Day!
Posted by mamasita at 7:49 AM
- 11:28 pm
Patrik.. aiya, that one mock cheque only. Cannot lodge report.
If the mock-cheque came with a school bag, then the school chairman will be in trouble la - receiving gifts from BIJAN1.
- 11:52 pm
I am not sure whether I want to cry or laugh
- 12:05 am
Otak senget! Dia buat boleh, orang lain buat tak boleh; sedangkan yang dia buat itu lagi besar.
- 7:38 am
Bro Pat.
Trick question....Which is better? Handing out mock cheque that may bounce. Or Mock cheque that the money does not belong to you but taking the credit for it.
Or handing out school bags with wads of dosh inside?
Old idiom. Thre is no medicine for stupidity
- 8:06 am
This is part & parcel of being in politics.
"Making themselves a bloody FOOL for all to see....!!"
But then again.....
Millions of ringgit are given away in plain sight what....!!!
That he can see mah............!!
WT stupid F....???? Nothing better to harp on??
Agree with you la Pat..
They are stupid or just "plain" stupid...! Niamah ke fuu lat!!!!!!
- 8:19 am
Aiyah,what else? cari point and show KJ he is doing his ground work lah!Worst than babi mentality.
- 8:36 am
Not everyone wants to hand out 'mock' cheque.
A mockery to MACC-lah!
- 8:36 am
Just say N-I-A-M-A-H la u Jeffri......
khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakkk tui!!!!
N-I-A-M-A-H lu....
- 9:15 am
bro,dont upset.What do we expect from them???smarter than us???cant be,right??
I will be more worry if this bunch of human being become smart and you and me ,may not able to sit down n yam seng anymore...
Let them be what they are....we will be safe.
- 10:17 am
WHO CARES.. as long as you can get LATUKSHIP ,SENILETORSHIP and follow by Prosperity... .
WTF Semen Producer- 100% guarantee as per your sample requirement.
Chia Beh Leow
- 10:33 am
TNS!! anyway, to join UMNO u nid to pass some kind of stupidity tests with merits ...
- 11:33 am
This is called licence to give !!!!
- 11:47 am
na jibai is smart, he only handing out large mockup checque so his budak suruhan cannot accuse him of hiding money inside^^
School bags are bribe...
RM 3,000,000.00 is contribution!!
What a smart donkey:)
- 11:47 am
Cash is ok, "gift" is NOT ok. That's why we should never present our duit kopi covered, placed below license is ok though.
- 11:50 am
- 12:09 pm
The more they make this kind of report ; the more they will pissed off the rakyat, a shot in the foot lah!
- 12:38 pm
I thought I heard that "Saifull" will be confered Latukship soon.
A kid asked me recently why no grandson also can call LATUK ?
Aiyo , I replied nowaday if you got money any stupid ass-hole name
you want to call yourself also no problem lah.
full of shiiitt if you like. no problem.
- 1:35 pm
I can absolutely understand why the report is lodged against the PR people. Those bags may contain cash or gold bars or even autographed photos of Zaid Ibrahim. They should even lodge a report that children are being used as carriers of suspicious items.
- 1:37 pm
im not surprise source is from umno youth, gift and bribe also canot differentiate, stuuuupid
- 4:12 pm
Old fox, the Mamak Kutty resurface !
Surat Terbuka kepada Dr.M: "Kaki Dalam Kasut" (atau dalam mulut?)
LoyarBurok is pleased to reproduce this tat-to-tit response to Dr. Mahathir's 'Kaki Dalam Kasut' written in July 2009 when he brandishes the disgraceful rhetoric that Perkasa uses to intimidate the non-Malay population.....Read more
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Edmund Burke
Irish orator, philosopher, & politician (1729 - 1797)
- 5:40 pm
There is this annoying trend where police reports are made even for the slightest of matter for political reasons. It's an abuse of rights and wastage of the country's resources. No wonder serious cases can never be resolved as the police are so tied up with such trivial cases all year long.
Be careful, we may be investigated by the police should someone file a report against us for farting stinkily (after feasting on petai and durian)!
- 5:58 pm
This country is so full of morons that I have actually doubted my sanity. My god, I cant believe it. Fucking morons.
- 6:41 pm
Please don't niamah them. They all are already stupid asshole. If you niamah them like you're fucking the wall. Nothing will happened. Believe me, believe in god they will be rotten to hell one day. Then only everyone can shit on their face.
- 7:37 pm
You've live long enough ... dear Patrck to know the shallowness and facetiousness of Malaysian politics.
Why get upset over it ...why bother to even read about it !
The politicians in this country whom you can pay a modicum of respect - you can count them with the fingers of your left hand
- 7:39 pm
tiu... those bee end tot they r damn smart but stupid ppl like u & me oso can c wat a joke tis bee end is... let them pretend like they r smart so they dun hv enuf pointer to go heaven... kakaka
- 8:08 pm
Just look at the NIAMAH faces
- 8:20 pm
Cash, land titles, gifts, datukships and fake checks given out by 1UMNO is halal. School bags, books, shoes and school uniforms given out by the PR opposition is haram and are deemed as bribes and corruption.
The fart of 1UMNO is heavenly sweet fragrance. Torture, assault and killings by the 1UMNO lapdogs 1PDRM and 1MACC is acceptable and justifiable. 1UMNO, 1PDRM, 1MACC, 1Perkasa, 1Utusan, etc are all above the law.
This is 1Bodohland run by the 1UMNO government. Why should we be surprised by the actions of sycophant 1UMNO youths since they are all brain dead zombies anyway.
Double 1NIAMAH.
- 9:28 pm
That 's the quality of Malaysia politician la. yaaaaaaak pui.
- 10:01 pm
- chongsiew said...
- 11:37 pm
it's like they don't know what they are saying and doing... give people 3 million and say others giving out bags to school children is bribing... niamah!
- 1:08 am
What quality is there with whatever title is bestow on these "traitors" ...??
Pat..! You are NOT getting a title for sure...!
- 8:40 am
need to say more? that's malaysia news!
- 1:07 pm
I have stopped reading mainstream papers or watching mainstream TV News as I do not believe in BN's reference of right vs wrong.
I am looking forward to exercise my vote to effect change.
- 3:01 pm
Rape of the land and people of Sarawak is still rape. That how I look at it. The poor indigenous people of Sarawak will be better off if they had not joined Malaysia and stayed independent like Brunei. However, either due to corrupt leaders who worked in their own interest or out of total ignorance, they were sold out by Temenggong Jugah and Abdul Taib Mahmud's uncle Rahman Yakub.
See where Taib's family and cronies are now and where the rest of Sarawak people are. They are slaves and serfs of the rulers or rajahs of Sarawak who took over from the White Rajahs - the Brooke family. Sarawak is colonised by these people.
- 3:39 pm
Hi !
Believe it OR not, RIPLEY
dari Tukar-tiub.blogspot.com
KERETA KETUA POLIS SELANGOR KENA KEBAS – minsider
SHAH ALAM, May 6 — Thieves have hit the top cop in Selangor — Chief Police Officer Khalid Abu Bakar has lost his official car.
His driver had parked the Perdana V6 near a restaurant in Section 9 here to have his breakfast, but found the car missing when he............read more
who incapable ?
- 7:24 pm
Oih, Cina, apa lagi yg kau nak?
Oih... Ingat tu sudah memadaikah? Bagilah respect... Buat benda benda yg betul, jgn tipu tipu punya...
Then we have 1 truly Malaysia... Cuti cutilah kat Malaysia! :-D
- 1:59 am
Penang opposition leader Azhar Ibrahim (umno) warned that there would be a repeat of the May 13 riots if the people lost confidence in the authorities.
Another example the racist nature of umno.
- 7:13 am
Azhar Ibrahim of Penang UMNO realised that the only way to come back to power in Penang is through another May 13 incident. Umno is nothing but racist, power-crazy and corrupt. They stole Perak, indulge in bribery in Hulu Selangor and the same will happen in Sibu.
How much longer are we going to spend our lives under the imminent threat of another May 13? It's over 40 years ago now. The only reason why we can't seem to let it go is because politicians (read: Umno) don't seem to want Malaysians to move on with their lives.
- 8:12 am
I am not surprised at all !
I think our national leaders have done a lot in the past to push Malaysia as a nation to greater heights ! Now, we are seeing the by products of nation building. Not only were time sacrificed but a lot of things as well.
Corruption has eaten into our lives and even a small child now believes that when you want to do something, it is not how well you know about a subject matter, it is how your father knows who, I know who. The most important thing is $$$. BN spend so much of money into this Hulu Selangor campaign including your money !
This moron has the cheek to lodge a report and when his boss is not leading a good example ? See ! So much has been sacrificed just to win an area ? Makes me sick to the core !
Now, Sibu is going to be another example of money spending campaign and big time ! I wish my area will also have another by election !
- 11:05 am
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. "
Rabbi Abraham Heschel
"Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves."
Peter McArthur
- 11:39 am
-purebasterds period!-
- 11:50 am
Watching the news on local TV is very torturing.
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|29 Dec 2012
Icy Box (IB-865) on a ASUS Maximus v Gene Board USB 3 incompatible?
Hi Everyone,
I have a new motherboard (Maximus v Gene) and I've brought a Icy Box (IB-865) card reader to make use of the USB 3 connector on the motherboard. However the unit works well for a dozen reboots and then it malfunctions. After a dozen reboots the Icy Box power light no longer powers up and the storage cards I plug into the unit no longer show up in windows. The only way i can resolve the issue is to open up the case and unplug and plug the unit back in. Its not faulty as i've retunred one unit thinking it was faulty but the same fault as reappeared on the new unit. I've tried upgrading and downgrading the BIOS and playing with a few settings but no joy. Can anyone think of anything i can try without having to keep opening up the case?
Thanks in advance :)
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|29 Dec 2012
Win 7 Pro 64-bit 7601
It could be that it gets put to sleep for no good reason (it happens), try the following:
Go to your Control Panel > System > Hardware tab > and click on the "Device Manager" button.
In the Device Manager window, find the item or items labeled "Universal Serial Bus controllers." Open it, and double-click the first item called "USB Root Hub."
In the USB Root Hub Properties dialog, click on the "Power Management" tab.
"Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" is checked by default.
Uncheck this box, and click "OK."
Repeat for all "Universal Serial Bus controllers." items if there is more than one.
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|29 Dec 2012
Tried the above but to no avail noticed the USB 3 port works but card reader function dosen't and still no power light. Anyone got anything else I can try?
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3 Signs Your Pool Pump Needs Repair or Replacing Before Summer
The top of your spring chore list right now must be pool maintenance. Every day, the temperatures rise, and soon, your kids will beg to head outside for a swim. Winter can be hard on pool pumps, and not all of them survive the cold, harsh days. As you go through your pool maintenance checklist, pay particular attention to your pool pump as your pool cannot remain clean for long without it. This post examines three different signs that your pool pump needs repair or replacing before summer comes around.
The Motor Is Rusted
It is not unusual to try and fire up your pool pump only to find out it won't start. The most common indicator of this issue is a humming sound coming from the pool pump but nothing else happening. The main reason for this noise is rust that has formed around the pump's motor over winter.
Locate the rear of the motor and try twisting it back and forth using a wrench. Be gentle, as you want to dislodge the rust without breaking the motor. If this step does not help, pull the motor out of the housing and check to see if debris is clogging the impeller. The impeller regulates the flow of water from your pool to the filter. Impellers get clogged over winter with tree vegetation, and this vegetation can cause issues with the motor.
The Pump Makes Noises
While pumps do make noise as they run, some noises indicate more serious internal problems. When you start running your pool pump again, keep an ear out for these audible clues:
- When a pump sounds like a vibrating blender, this noise usually means a part is out of alignment. Causes of the sound include the impeller vibrating against the side of the housing or not enough water moving through the pump, causing the impeller to spin faster than it's designed to.
- A squealing or whining sound is a sign of an issue within the motor shaft part of the pump. There are ball bearings within the motor shaft which keep it spinning with ease. When these parts wear out or come into contact with each other, friction occurs and causes the squealing sound.
Noises coming from a pool pump need investigating sooner rather than later. You can repair the source of many sounds before the pump suffers significant damage. However, ignoring noises can make pump replacement necessary.
The Pump Leaks Water
Turning on your pool pump and noticing water leaking from it is not a great sign, but it is a sign that your pump needs repairing. Most times, a pool pump leak occurs because one of the seals within the pump housing has deteriorated. These seals are designed to keep the water inside the pool pump as it flows through this area. If the leak is not from a compromised seal, it could be escaping through a cracked pipe which needs replacing.
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PCGS No: 6464
Circulation strikes: 1,029,028
Proofs: 0
Designer: Charles E. Barber
Diameter: ±30.6 millimeters
Metal content:
Silver - 90%
Copper - 10%
Weight: ±12.5 grams
Edge: Reeded
Mintmark: "S"
(for San Francisco) just below the eagle's tail on the reverse
"1892-S is scarcer than one
might think, given its mintage of more than a million and for being the
first year of issue. Generally this coin comes well struck with nice luster."
The finest example graded by PCGS
is a single MS-67.
Recent appearances:
NGC MS-61. Ex - Bowers and
Merena Galleries' Robert W. Schwan Collection Sale, October 26-27, 2000, Lot
1340 at $632.50
MS-60 Cleaned. Ex - Heritage Numismatic Auctions, Inc.'s "Long
Beach Signature Sale", May 31-June 2, 2001, Lot 5644, not illustrated,
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Banjo-Kazooie Review By ACDCGAMER

 Wow, it's been forever since I've done a review; in fact, it's been a while since I've been on GBATemp for that matter. But low and behold, I'm back and I'm doing a review of an N64 classic which I'm sure most of you are familiar of! To start off, this Rare-developed platformer/action-adventure title was the first of the Banjo-Kazooie series, sporting sharp and colorful graphics that pushed the Nintendo 64 when only a few other games would at the time. With a memorable cast of characters (and there are a lot of them!), solid game mechanics inspired by (and/or ripped off from) Super Mario 64, and a fantastic soundtrack, Banjo-Kazooie became one of several landmark titles on the system. But is it all that's cracked up to be? The game has a rather simple, yet humorous plot; taking place in an area known as Spiral Mountain, Gruntilda the Witch seeks to become the prettiest of them all, but after finding out that a bear named Tooty is in fact prettier, she sets off not only to kidnap Tooty, but to physically steal her looks via some contraption. After finding out what's happened, her brother Banjo and his sarcastic bregull partner/friend, Kazooie, set off to rescue her before Grunty's plan comes to fruition, where they have to overcome many obstacles over the course of many worlds as they traverse through Grunty's lair. Simply put, Banjo-Kazooie is a technical masterpiece on the Nintendo 64. Featuring incredibly sharp texture work, great animation, and fantastic art direction, B-K is simply one of the greatest-looking games on the system, period. On top of its graphical prowess, the game runs smoothly with no slowdown or framerate drops. Now, this is of course for it's time; Banjo-Kazooie today does of course look dated but my review is focusing on how great this game looked for its time. I am also applying this viewpoint on the game's sound work as well, which is equally spectacular; I really commend Grant Kirkhope for composing such a fantastic soundtrack, but I'm only getting started. On top of such a fine soundtrack is a vast, dynamic array of sound effects which perfectly accompany actions and environments that are present in the game. Whether it's Banjo attacking an enemy, running through some bushes or swimming through water, each sound effect sounds as accurate as you would expect. In addition to this, the music itself changes accordingly as Banjo and Kazooie travel to new areas, doing a seamless job at that. One such example can be found in the change from a song's upbeat to a more soft and relaxed tone when Banjo dives underwater, but so many more instances of this can be found in the game that you really have to play it for yourself in order to truly experience what I'm talking about. Simply put, Rare did an absolutely superb job. Gameplay, however, is something that I'm divided on. Borrowing heavily from Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie features game mechanics that have defined the greatest of 3D platformers, yet also uses puzzles and other Zelda-like elements for an action-adventure feel, and Rare does a fantastic job of blending these two genres together. Some aspects that uniquely set apart Banjo-Kazooie into a league of its own, however, include the hilarious dialogue found in the fantastic and huge cast of characters, and some unique gameplay mechanics which allow Banjo-Kazooie to expand on what has already been done well in previous platformer and action-adventure titles. These include the ability to learn new moves in order to progress through new levels as well as to come back to previously-unreachable areas of earlier levels, giving the game a non-linear edge to it. In addition, there are times where Banjo and Kazooie can undergo transformations to adapt to specific levels; for instance, Banjo-Kazooie can transform into a walrus in the ice world, and an alligator in the swamp world, and such transformations also allow the player to reach new areas which can't be reached in any other way. It's awesome to have such variety and depth in a platformer, and fortunately Banjo-Kazooie uses this mechanic extremely well. Really impressive stuff. For the most part, Banjo-Kazooie control just fine, easily comparable to Mario. However, there have been a few moments throughout the game that unnecessarily frustrated me; like Mario, Banjo can take damage from falling long distances, but my biggest complaint is that Banjo falls way too small of a distance before he takes damage upon landing on the ground. Now, with Kazooie's help, Banjo has the ability to slow down his descent thanks to the flapping of Kazooie's wings, but only for a short period of time before he falls again. My biggest issue with controlling Banjo's falling was that you can only access Kazooie's flapping skill in certain situations, so to speak. For instance, an ability called the Talon Trot is learned in the game where Banjo-Kazooie can walk up steep hills thanks to Kazooie's talons - this also enables the player to move slightly faster, making it great for travelling long distances more quickly. However, in some cases where it can be easy to fall off of a ledge while Talon Trotting, you can't flap Kazooie's wings if you accidentally fall off of a ledge while Talon Trotting. This causes the player to be unfairly punished for making an almost unavoidable error in their judgment, especially in some areas where the camera views the action from an awkward angle, which can definitely be a problem. While issues with the camera are pretty rare (no pun intended), the camera isn't perfect, which is a real shame because a good percentage of these issues happen in areas where a false step can lead to Banjo's death. Another frustrating moment I had with Banjo-Kazooie's game mechanics happened further on in the game. To be specific, I found it very troublesome to defeat the snowmen in Banjo-Kazooie's fifth-level, Freezey Peak; these snowmen are incredibly annoying to deal with because only one attack can defeat them. This attack is incredibly hard to aim, however, and the snowmens' weak points are also hard to hit due to being small. This combination will undoubtedly cause nearly every player to become much more frustrated than needed, because it's an absolute must to kill every snowman in the level as they are incredibly annoying enemies to have to deal with. Don't get me wrong, though; this game is still a lot of fun to play, and definitely has its shining moments gameplay-wise. There are moments where Banjo-Kazooie can legitimately challenge players, and while these moments can also frustrate, the accomplishment of these challenging sections are equally rewarding. By defeating enemies, making your way over treacherous chasms, and solving puzzles, Banjo-Kazooie's charm really begins to shine through and simply radiate its brilliance, especially during its finest moments. It's that huge feeling of accomplishment after collecting that tough Jiggy - Banjo-Kazooie's equivalent to the Power Stars collected in Super Mario 64 - which will keep you coming back again and again to play the game until the very end. And what an end it is! Closing Comments Banjo-Kazooie isn't perfect. While its gameplay is for the most part fantastic, the flaws present in its mechanics are just too significant for me to overlook, and that hurts considering just how much fun Banjo-Kazooie is once you get used to how the game feels. Despite the shortcomings that it has, Banjo-Kazooie really is an outstanding game. If you can look past the issues with its gameplay mechanics, and if you like Super Mario 64 along with Zelda, you will definitely enjoy Banjo-Kazooie for what it has to offer: incredible graphics, sound, and of course, charm. The cast of characters equally entertain along with Banjo-Kazooie's gameplay, making it an experience you don't want to miss or forget... except for the snowmen. Those damn snowmen. Trust me, you'll know why once you meet them for the first time... I still get nightmares to this day. Presentation: 9 Some serious props to Rare should be given here; they've created a game full of charm and hilarity, yet equally fun. Hand in hand, it's an incredibly polished experience for the most part. Some camera issues here and there can frustrate. Graphics: 10 Among the best ever on the Nintendo 64. Banjo-Kazooie is, by every stretch of the margin, an absolutely beautiful game. Sound: 10 Mind-boggling, dynamic sound effects and a spectacular soundtrack do an incredible job setting the game's mood throughout its entirety. The pinnacle of what an audio experience should be for a video game, at the time at least. Gameplay: 8.5 Unique, full of variety, and depth, Banjo-Kazooie is an ingenious combination of ideas not seen before in other platformers before it. Issues with some of the game mechanics can really frustrate at times, but this is otherwise a phenomenal experience. Lasting Appeal: 7.5 Despite the variety of tasks, puzzles, and simply things to do in Banjo-Kazooie, which can take about 10 or so hours to complete, this is still a single player game. Some may find the Banjo-Kazooie infinitely replayable, others won't play through a second time. Overall Score: 9 /10 Edit: Image didn't show up for some reason, added a new one.


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Brent and I were psyched to film this wedding- Palmer is a lace designer in New York City so I was excited to see her dress, and there was a food truck at the reception, and a pinata at the cocktail hour, and photographers we love to work with, and a mariachi band, and beautiful spring colors...and all of that stuff was fantastic. But what I ended up loving the most was how tender-hearted Palmer and Andrew were to each other. They're just so into each other. When you watch their highlights montage here you'll know what I'm talking about.
On a side note- Palmer's veil is 100+ years old and was worn by her grandmother! Don't the two of them together look like a couple from a bygone era?
Song: "I Can Feel Your Heartbeat" by A New Normal; used with permission
Church: First United Methodist
Reception: Mansion at Judges Hill
Photographer: The Nichols
Coordinator: Sydney with Keely Thorne Events
Floral Design: Merveille Events
DJ: Andrew Thaggard with Texas Pro DJ
Cake: Blue Note Bakery
Taco Truck: The Peached Tortilla
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Ain't Misbehavin' – Turbulence, Solar Flares and Magnetism
What's more fun than something that misbehaves? When it comes to solar dynamics, we know a lot, but there are many things we don't yet understand. For example, when a particle filled solar flare lashes out from the Sun, its magnetic field lines can do some pretty unexpected things – like split apart and then rapidly reconnect. According to the flux-freezing theorem, these magnetic lines should simply "flow away in lock-step" with the particles. They should stay intact, but they don't. It's not just a simple rule they break… it's a law of physics.
What can explain it? In a paper published in the May 23 issue of "Nature", an interdisciplinary research team led by a Johns Hopkins mathematical physicist may just have found a plausible explanation. According to the group, the underlying factor is turbulence – the "same sort of violent disorder that can jostle a passenger jet when it occurs in the atmosphere" – or the one your brother leaves behind after he's eaten baked beans. By employing a well-organized and logically constructed computer modeling technique, the researchers were able to simulate what happens when magnetic field lines meet up with turbulence in a solar flare. Armed with this information, they were then able to state their case.
"The flux-freezing theorem often explains things beautifully," said Gregory Eyink, a Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics professor who was lead author of the "Nature" study. "But in other instances, it fails miserably. We wanted to figure out why this failure occurs."
Just what is the flux-freezing theorem? Maybe you've heard of Hannes Alfvén. He was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He's the man responsible for explaining what we now know as Alfvén waves – a low-frequency travelling oscillation of the ions and the magnetic field in plasma. Well, some 70 years ago, he came up with the thought that magnetic lines of force sail along a locomotive fluid similar to snippets of thread flowing along a stream. It should be impossible for them to break and then join again. However, solar physicists have discovered this just isn't the case when it comes to activity within a particularly violent solar flare. In their observations, they have determined that the magnetic field lines within these flares can stretch to the breaking point and then reconnect in a surprisingly quick amount of time – as little as 15 minutes. When this happens, it expels a copious amount of energy which, in turn, powers the flare.
"But the flux-freezing principle of modern plasma physics implies that this process in the solar corona should take a million years!" Eyink animatedly states. "A big problem in astrophysics is that no one could explain why flux-freezing works in some cases but not others."
Of course, there has always been speculation that turbulence may have been the root source of the enigmatic behavior. Time for investigation? You bet. Eyink then joined forces – and minds – with other experts in astrophysics, mechanical engineering, data management and computer science, based at Johns Hopkins and other institutions. "By necessity, this was a highly collaborative effort," Eyink said. "Everyone was contributing their expertise. No one person could have accomplished this."The next step was to create a computer simulation – a simulation which could duplicate the plasma state of solar flare activity and all the nuances the charged particles undergo during different conditions. "Our answer was very surprising," stated Eyink. "Magnetic flux-freezing no longer holds true when the plasma becomes turbulent. Most physicists expected that flux-freezing would play an even larger role as the plasma became more highly conducting and more turbulent, but, as a matter of fact, it breaks down completely. In an even greater surprise, we found that the motion of the magnetic field lines becomes completely random. I do not mean 'chaotic,' but instead as unpredictable as quantum mechanics. Rather than flowing in an orderly, deterministic fashion, the magnetic field lines instead spread out like a roiling plume of smoke."
Of course, other solar experts feel there may be alternative answers for this rule-breaking activity within solar flares, but as Eyink says, "I think we made a pretty compelling case that turbulence alone can account for field-line breaking."
What is most exciting is the collaborative effort of the team members from such widely varied disciplines. It was a group effort which aided Eyink to come up with this new theory on the solar flare riddle. "We used ground-breaking new database methods, like those employed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, combined with high-performance computing techniques and original mathematical developments," he said. "The work required a perfect marriage of physics, mathematics and computer science to develop a fundamentally new approach to performing research with very large datasets."
In conclusion, Eyink noted this type of research work may very well give us a better understanding of solar flares and coronal mass ejections. As we know, this type of dangerous "space weather" can be harmful to astronauts, disrupt communications satellites, and even be responsible for the shut-down of electrical power grids on Earth. And you know what that means… no satellite TV and no power to watch it by. But, that's O.K.
"I don't stay out late. Don't care to go. I'm home about eight… Just me and my radio. Ain't misbehavin'.. Savin' my love for you."
Original Story Source: Johns Hopkins University News Release.
Flux-Freezing Theorem, Magetic Field Lines, plasma, solar flare, Solar Phyiscs
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Scientists often confuse their data with reality. There are no lines in space. The lines are on the graphs they use to study these phenomena. Just so its clear to everyone…
This is what I'm talkin bout here! If you never add the lines in your perception you are guaranteed to not understand it. It spent many countless days unable to move from a thrown out back. And I would think about things like this the whole time. I have a deep appreciation for it and the ones that are smart enough to make the Graphs to prove it. Just wish the world would see it too. Thanks for the story.
What is it that is "turbulent"? The aether? Why not talk about magnetic fields rather than lines.?
I believe they're talking about the movement of the charged particles in the plasma.
Turbulence is a property of "fluids", therefore it cannot be applied to the magnetic field itself, but people tend to mix a little the movement of the (charged) particles with the field itself in the description of plasmas, but this is only approximation.
Alfven later severely qualified the usage of the "frozen-in" field lines see: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=alfven%20frozrn%20in&source=web&cd=3&sqi=2&ved=0CDgQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fplasma.colorado.edu%2Fphys7810%2Farticles%2FAlfven_FieldLines_1976.pdf&ei=aS2eUcvcL7X54AP6lYDACA&usg=AFQjCNHgO5JHxlrKT1J9zuck5oq71dRrAw&cad=rja
It wasn't solar physicists that discovered that the frozen-in concept breaks down, but Alfvén himself, who described it as a "pseudo pedagogical concept". See: "On frozen-in field lines and field-line reconnection", in Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 81, Aug. 1, 1976, p. 4019-4021. Abstract: http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1976JGR….81.4019AFull text PDF: http://plasma.colorado.edu/phys7810/articles/Alfven_FieldLines_1976.pdf
Thanks for the links!


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Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them. – Nancy Mitford
I sit next to Jane comfortably and convivially at the white plastic picnic table in the shade of the overhang, a tangle of branches heaped upon the table. We each have a plastic bowl wedged between our knees. I flick off hard, tiny black currants, which fall tickety-tack into the bowl. I pick out the unwanted stray leaf or bit of dirt, flick away the occasional bug clinging to the fruit. They scurry willy-nilly across the plastic table in and out among the leaves and branches. It's quick, easy work and we've finished with the pile much faster than I had anticipated, much more quickly than I would have liked, as pleasant as it is to sit next to Jane, side by side, and chat on the shady porch on a hot, sunny day. The expanse of her lawn spreads out in front of us and she points out the fruit trees and the gooseberry bushes and I know that I will be the happy recipient of this summer fruit.
I've said it before and it bears repeating, the hotel has created the most unlikely of friendships. Jane and Glyn walked into the hotel lobby an afternoon in early summer to introduce themselves. Jane co-wrote a small jam book with Laurent, the former owner of the hotel, and Glyn did the book design. The two have had a long and close relationship with Laurent and thus with the hotel and now that relationship, that friendship, has been transferred to me and Jean-Pierre, another one of the hotel's traditions that we have slipped into, maintain and perpetuate.
Jane and Glyn are oh so very British from their casual dress to their wry sense of humor. Spending an afternoon with the two or sharing a glass of something chilled for apératif and I listen to their stories, stories told in slowly and steadily-paced words, stories of their neighbors in Chinon (who I absolutely must meet) or a restaurant that they have tried or their working lives in London before retiring. And what led them to buy a house in Chinon.
Jane supplies some of the fruit that is used to make Hôtel Diderot jams. Black currants, yes, but plums both green and purple, and rhubarb, which is gathering in my freezer one kilo at a time. There are a few remaining jars of a deep, dark blue jam in the cupboard labeled Le Péché de Jane Phillips, which can be translated as Jane Phillip's Sin or Jane Phillip's Weakness, as you please, a heady and unusual blend of apricots and black currants. And I am down to the last two jars.
So when she asked me if I would like to come over to her house to pick black currants, of course I said yes! And we sat side by side and talked about our kids and she told me about their decision to buy a house in Chinon where they come to spend summers. And she explained that the black currants and the gooseberries are both transplants from England and typical to her home country and not to France.
I receive random emails from Jane, out of the blue:
Quetches sauvages – I saw some today when out walking. They are small and purple. If you want to pick some, they are half way up the Radegonde steps on the right hand side overhanging the steps.
I have prepared and frozen and surplus to my needs:
750g blackcurrants
600g gooseberries
500g wild plums – these I picked on the Radegund Way up the hill behind our house. They are small, orange coloured and acid. I've used half a kilo in my 3 plum jam with reine claude and the purple plums. I'm all jammed out now! They are all ready to use. Do you want them?
We have lots of reines claudes ready now and the purple plums will be ready in the week – these will be super for jam – they have a bit of bite and the stones come out easily (such a bonus!) Do you want them?
Have you tried plum and juniper? A few crushed dried juniper berries in with the plums enhance the flavour – about 4 berries per finished pot. I have some if you want to try this.
I will have perhaps 5 kilos of yellow plums by the end of next week. They are dessert plums so need quetches or similar to balance them. Do you want them?
Or even
We go to England on Monday 20th for 2 weeks. I think there will be Reine Claude and some purple plums ready while we are away. You are more than welcome to come and pick them. I'll alert the neighbours that a strange lady might be picking our fruit!
See you soon
I love when an email from Jane pops up into my box.
A fruitful friendship. I am reminded often of our friendship with our neighbors in Italy when we lived in that big, rambling house in the middle of nowhere just twenty minutes outside the bustling city of Milan. We had moved into one of three houses shared by three elderly brothers, smart, cultivated, cultured, kind. The relationship that bloomed was so very neighborly in the old fashioned sense that seems to be so rare these days. We visited, chatted, shared news. We brought each other food, treats from our gardens, did more than just share the occasional meal, your house, then my house, then back to yours. Jane and Glyn pop by to say hello when they walk into Chinon, or drop of fruit. I go out there and spend an hour picking fruit with Jane and chatting companionably. As I do with Mme. Lainel, dropping by, bringing her croissants, she bringing me fresh produce from her garden and chatting companionably about this and that. This is what a move to a small town, to Chinon, has brought us.
On that first visit, Jane, Glyn, and I shared a cup of tea followed by a crisp white Chinon wine chilled to ward off the summer heat. And Glyn's lemon cake. Stupendous. So simple yet brilliant and tart with lemons! He generously gave me the recipe and the following week I made it as well. Mine was less dense than his, most likely because he simply put all the ingredients in a blender, blended and baked, while I beat butter with sugar, then beat in the eggs, etc etc like a classic cake recipe. His was better. So don't over do it, don't overthink it. This is absolutely the best little tea cake for the lemon lover, for the summer. With friends.
- 4 oz (115 grams) butter
- 6 oz (170 grams) sugar
- 6 oz (170 grams) self-rising flour
- 2 Tbs milk
- Finely grated zest of 2 lemons
- 2 large eggs
- 4 Tbs icing/powdered/confectioner's sugar
- 6 Tbs lemon juice, 2 or 3 lemons
- Preheat the oven to 325.F (170°C/gas mark 3).
- Butter an average loaf pan. Line the bottom with parchment paper.
- Blend all cake ingredients together in a blender or in a bowl with electric beaters just until smooth; do not overbeat. Pour into the prepared loaf pan.
- Bake the cake for 50 minutes or until set in the center.
- Prepare the syrup by heating the icing sugar and the lemon juice in a small saucepan just to the boil.
- When the cake is done and out of the oven, leave it in the loaf pan and pierce the cake several times with a skewer then pour the syrup all over the cake, making sure that it soaks in all the way to and around the edges and sides of the cake.
- Allow the cake to cool in the pan before turning it out and placing upright on a cake platter.


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High Plains Helping Hand and HC3 partner for annual One Voice, One Goal event Aug. 26
High Plains Helping Hand and the Hutchinson County Crisis Center (HC3) will hold a fundraiser called "One Voice, One Goal" Saturday, August 26. The event will be held at Frank Phillips College campus Borger Community Activity Center (BCAC). The BCAC is located at 1301 W. Roosevelt St. in Borger.
Event organizers are hoping to set a Guinness World Record, as part of the festivities, for the most people waving checkered (racing) flags. The event begins at 5:00 p.m. and continues to 8:00 p.m. Organizers will have local worship bands performing live, a Boots vs. Badges blood drive, face painting, balloon sales, characters from Star Wars, Spiderman and Disney in attendance and available for pictures, a silent auction and much, much more.
Admission cost is $10 per person at the door which includes a meal and refreshments. Admission is free for children under three years of age. Spread the word with friends and family to attend and help set a Guinness World Record. If we get 520 people to participate, Hutchinson County, Texas will be in the Guinness Book of World Records. Come out and support two very worthy organizations!


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KitHub and National Geographic Explorer Shah Selbe collaborated in a Hydrophone project and I had the honor of doing this illustration for them.
About the Illustration
The Hydrophone Kit enables kids to have their own adventure with an underwater microphone by listening to the sounds in your local pond, river, ocean (or bathtub). So, incorporating all the fun aspects in one illustration will make the illustration more effective.
The next time you use the kit in your bathtub, I hope you'll be able to feel the adventure in the underwater world!
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CNN's "The Lead" anchor Jake Tapper undermined Hillary Clinton's suggestion that she wants the public to see all her emails on Thursday.
He stated, "it used to be the Friday news dump, now it's the tweet just before midnight. Hillary Clinton letting all her 2.9 million followers know or at least the ones still awake at 11:35 p.m. eastern that she wants the public to see her email. To be more accurate, she wants the public to see some of them, not all of them."
Tapper also wondered, "is there a double standard about the acceptability of using personal e-mail accounts for state department officials not named Hillary Clinton? In 2012, the department's Inspector General hammered the then-Ambassador to Kenya for, among other things, using his personal e-mail for official business against department protocol."
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Meet JamesMore About Me...
Male Brown Tabby DSH
Age: 1 year 4 months
Litterbox Trained: Yes
Good with Kids: Yes
Good with Cats: Yes
Good with Dogs: Yes
Declawed: No
Hello. My name is James. I am a huge cuddle bug. Anytime you sit I will be right there on your lap purring away. I am very playful too. I love to chase balls, toy mice, laser pointers, & even wadded up pieces of paper. I also love to play with my fellow foster kitty, Jesse. We will chase each other around the house and snuggle up together when it's time for a nap. My foster family has a dog and I like to follow him around. He's a little scared of me though so we haven't been able to play much but I would probably be okay in a home with a dog or two. My foster family has three kids, ages 2-8, and I am very patient and loving with them all. Is your family reading for a great guy (or two)?
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Score for consumers! Sounds great, but what does this really mean? In the most simplistic sense- it means you have spoken and the world of mega food retailing giants have heard. The shift towards healthier, pasture-raised meats and poultry is real and hitting folks like McDonald's in the spot where it hurts most- their bottom lines. Profits are shrinking and McDonald's is reacting.
The decision to go antibiotic free has created shock-waves in the industry- poised to seriously impact producers like Tyson and Perdue hard and consumers alike. But the shock waves have not been isolated to just the retail consumer world, they have also created smaller ripples among pastured- poultry producers like our farm. Raising the genuine question what does all of this mean for us?
McDonald's decision sounds simple, but of course there is a large grey area. Yes, your chicken nuggets will no longer be laced with antibiotics. Huray!! …well, maybe. The chickens grown to supply McDonald's with their millions of pounds of meat may still receive antibiotics when and if deemed necessary. Huh? Yes, it's true. And don't forget their chickens will still be raised in CAFOs- the very practice which ultimately requires routine antibiotic use in the first place. Antibiotic use and CAFOs go hand in hand. (Imagine a large school, or worse a sports stadium crammed with people for two months. No showers, no baths. You might want a little antibiotics at that point too.)
The story of McDonald's is just the tip of the iceberg in a story about changing food trends in the US. Just this year California enacted Proposition 2, requiring a major shift in the amount of space given to laying hens. What seemed so simple and good on the surface has scrambled (yes, cheesy pun intended) the industry and left California with an unintended result- really expensive eggs from still very-caged chickens.
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