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- The first wash of the garment should always be Dry-Cleaned.
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- Length of Saree: 6.3 meters (include 85 cm blouse fabric) Blouse fabric attached with saree.
- Length of Lehenga Choli Choli/ Blouse: Choli fabric will be of 85 cms so we can provide you blouse length upto 15 inches and sleeve length can be made 5 to 6 inches only. If you need long blouse and long sleeves in such case you should contact to our customer care department for that particular item.
- Blouse which is shown on model is only for modeling purpose.
- Every saree/lehenga choli comes with unstitched blouse, if you need stitched blouse then we can provide to you as per your given measurement and stitching charges will be applicable in such case.
- Ready to wear saree/lehenga choli provides easy way to drape the saree. In such concept tailor will be stitching the saree on petticoat as per your given measurement.
- Blouse will be stitched with cotton lining. If any net sarees/lehenga choli comes with shimmer fabric then lining will be used of the same fabric instead of cotton.
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Facebook is using you, whether you know it or not. Sometimes it's obvious: you like a page, you click share, Facebook benefits. Other times, you have no clue until a friend asks you about a photo they saw that you liked. The unfortunate side-effect to all of this is that it can actually make you an unbearable annoyance to your friends, and you probably don't even know it. Here's how it works, and how to stop it.
When we talk about the ways that Facebook uses your personal information, we're usually talking about why you should care about your privacy, or how Facebook tracks your activity. In this case, we're discussing how your Facebook habits are used—with or without your knowledge—to bother your friends with ads that they associate with you. It's a very different beast, but it can be stopped. Here's what you need to know.
EdgeRank: The Math Facebook Uses to Pimp Out Your Likes
You've probably seen an increase in posts in your news feed that say "[Your Friend] likes [Random Group]'s photo," with the full photo and text of the group's post right there, as though you liked the group yourself. On your phone or tablet, you've likely seen "Sponsored Posts" that say "[Another Friend] likes [Random Company]" with an invitation to like that page as well. It's annoying to be sure, but you also likely know that your friend didn't choose to advertise the page to you—it's Facebook, using our habits to get likes and shares.
The logic that Facebook uses to decide what lands in your friends' feeds is called "EdgeRank," and it's purposefully obscure—after all, if everyone understood it clearly (and lots of people claim to, but don't), advertisers wouldn't have to pay to promote posts, and users would be able to easily filter their feeds and block ads they don't want to see. EdgeRank serves two purposes: For people who operate Facebook pages and manage brands, it's the algorithm that decides whether your post gets out to as many of your fans as possible. For users, it's the likelihood you'll see something in your feed liked or shared by someone else. It's also the math that governs why your news feed refuses to stay in real chronological order, even after you set it to "most recent."
We're not talking about your own status updates, photos, or anything you post to Facebook yourself—just the way you interact with other pages, groups, and people on Facebook. It's one thing if your news feed is full of baby pictures from your old high school friends—it's another thing when every post you like from a group you follow ends up in all of your friends' news feeds without you knowing or being able to control who sees it.
Facebook Uses You to Help Pages and Brands Find Your Friends and Go Viral
The Problem: When you see a post in your news feed from a group you've never heard of, like a heartwarming photo or a campaign for a cause, you might assume it's because your friend chose to share it with their followers by clicking the "share" button. That's not the case: odds are they thought it was good, clicked Like, and moved on. A quick way to check is to visit their profile directly: if you don't see the post there, then Facebook decided that you might like to see it too, not your friend.
This is annoying, but it's especially problematic when you click like on something that may not be work-safe, assuming that "like" is not "share," so "who'll see it, right?" For example, one of my friends is a model: she's attractive, and her photo shoots are often artsy, but it's nothing you'd want your boss asking you about because they peeked over your shoulder at work. By "liking" her posts about her photo shoots, I run the risk of unintentionally sharing her photos with my Facebook friends, and having their bosses scold them for looking at scantily-clad model pics. See the problem? Unfortunately there's no way out of this: Facebook doesn't let you set the privacy level of something you've liked. If the original poster shared publicly, your like is public as well. Remember that if you're a fan of any Facebook groups or pages that like to keep their posts in-group or close to pocket, or it may land in a friend's news feed.
This is EdgeRank in action: it's not sinister, it's just Facebook deciding that your friends may have similar interests and may like what you like. The downside is that it populates your news feed with photos and updates from pages you may have no interest in, and does the same to your friends. We've shown you how to clean up your own feed, but how do you avoid cluttering up everyone else's feed?
The Solution: First, think before you click the Like button. There's no way to determine which likes will be posted to which friends, so before you like that photo on one of your favorite pages, assume that it could be broadcast to all of your friends. Here are some other tips:
Hide those pages you like from your profile and set their posting rights to "only me." In our tests, doing this hid the things we liked from those groups from other people's feeds—but we can't be 100% sure it'll work for everyone.
Check your activity log. This is the only way to know which of your likes are public and which aren't (Go to your profile, then click "Activity Log.") You'll see a history of every status update, photo, and shared item you've liked, along with an icon that'll tell you whether it's public or shared only with friends. Facebook usually doesn't let you change the visibility of those entries, but you can "unlike" something if you don't want it in someone else's feed with your name plastered over it.
Use Social Fixer to tame your own feed. You can use Social Fixer to trim down those types of re-liked posts in your own feed, removing the temptation to like them yourself. Still, this doesn't stop Facebook from re-sharing groups you actually do like with your friends that don't.
Facebook Uses Your Likes to Sponsor Brands, Cluttering Up Your Friends' Feeds
The Problem: You've seen the ads before: Friend A, B, and C Like [Brand], with a Like button next to it. They're right there in the middle of your news feed—sometimes there are two or three of them together in a big "sponsored" box. It's annoying, especially when the brand in question isn't even remotely interesting to you. Save your friends the hassle, and audit the brands and companies you like on Facebook.
The Solution: Unlike pages and brands that you don't need an active relationship with, and don't like new ones unless you need to. Save your friends the irritation of seeing "So-and-So Likes A Company You Couldn't Care Less About!" every time they log in to Facebook and just remove brands you don't feel like providing free advertising for.
Don't get us wrong, lots of companies offer great customer service, discounts, and other incentives to like them on Facebook (we'd be lying if we said we didn't want you to like us on Facebook too,) but let's be honest. You probably liked a bunch of companies on Facebook because you shop there and wanted to see what their Facebook page was all about, or because they were running a contest that required you Like them—not because they offer you any tangible benefit today. Alternatively:
Follow the same companies on Twitter instead. Twitter doesn't come with the same commitment that Facebook does, or the same access to your friends. You could also use Twitter lists to stay on top of their deals and coupons without having to like or follow them at all.
Set up a second Facebook account for "liking" purposes. A second account, one that you only use for things like promotions and discounts, is invaluable—stuff it full of as much or as little information as you choose to provide, and then use it instead of your main account. You can even use it as a way to see what's Facebook is sharing from your primary account without you knowing (although the specifics vary from friend to friend.) Note: Facebook's policy is one person-one account, so you'd likely be violating their TOS by doing this. Just something to keep in mind.
Adjust your Facebook Ad Settings. One reader noted that you can also make sure to limit Facebook's ability to use your name and likeness in ads (which they currently don't, but say they may in the future), and how they use your likes and pages to generate ads for others to see. There's even a settings page governing it, even though it's quite buried. Set both options to "No One."
Facebook Isn't Planning to Stop Anytime Soon
Annoying your friends—by which we mean making sure that Facebook ads your friends see have your name above them (and vice versa) aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Facebook's new Graph Search gives you a great way to find people who share interests with you, but it also gives advertisers a great way to cross-reference people's likes and interests so they can better target who should see their brand or product, and which of their friends they should use to say "See? Your friend already likes us, why don't you?" Image from the always funny Actual Facebook Graph Searches.
Now, Graph Search is only limited to a small number of people right now and it respects your privacy settings. If you're smart about keeping your privacy settings where they should be, you don't have anything to worry about from Graph Search. Similarly, it's not certain that Graph Search is even open to advertisers right now, so there's no reason to get out the torches and the pitchforks.
Another example of the same philosophy was Facebook's Social Reader. Graph Search is in the future, but Social Reader is a great example of a Facebook feature that went belly up because people didn't care too much for their activity being shared automatically and without their explicit permission each time it was used. News sites using Social Reader, like The Washington Post and The Guardian (the latter of which has already killed their social reader app) saw tumbling numbers last year as readers ditched them en masse. Whether they left because they didn't care for every story they read being automatically shared with their friends (assuming they didn't change post visibility to "only me,") or because they just didn't like what those apps had to offer is still a matter of debate.
The Bottom Line: Just Know What You're Getting Into
The truth is that Facebook is a free service to users, and it needs to make money somehow, and that money will be made using your data. The question is whether Facebook uses it or they give it to someone else to use, and how that information is used.
The moral of the story here is to be careful with the things you like, because it's not just things you share that end up in your friends' news feeds. Since you can't even go to your profile to see what's been shared on your behalf, it's impossible to tell until someone pings you to ask why you've been liking so many posts from one particular Facebook group lately, or why the only thing you seem to share these days are someone else's photos. Of course, stay on top of your privacy settings, the post visibility of apps you use (remember: "Only Me" is your friend,) watch what you click "Share" on. Oh, and of course: Every time Facebook makes an arcane change with nebulous results, make sure to update them accordingly.
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What's up with that?
I know this may be hard to believe, but WE GET HEALTH PROBLEMS, TOO.
I see this odd view surprisingly often. People who somehow expect us to be beyond the health concerns of non-doctors.
We may be doctors, but we're also humans. Prone to the same illnesses, bad luck, and erroneous judgments the rest of mortals are.
When I have to take a sick day (rare), and Mary starts frantically canceling people, most of them are fine with it. But we get the occasional person who gets angry because I'm sick. In their minds, apparently, that's impossible. So I must be making it up to go golfing.*
In 12 years I've had 3 patients change neurologists because I was sick and had to reschedule their appointments.
As a neurologist, I also take care of (gasp) other doctors! I have patients, who are also doctors, with epilepsy, MS, Parkinson's disease, and more routine stuff. I've seen young doctor's die with brain cancer.
Being a doctor doesn't protect you from the things that ail others. Including bad karma.
On the flip side, sometimes we're surprised when something serious happens to us. At times there seems to be an unspoken belief that by devoting ourselves to caring for others, it should magically protect us from those same diseases we fight. Nope.
If anything, the high stress nature of our work makes us MORE likely to have shit happen. We often ignore our own issues because of the time needed to care for others. Most of us live sleep deprived, caffeine-overdosed, and on food that we'd never endorse to you.
I chew out patients for not exercising, or a poor diet, or forgetting to pick up their prescriptions. But I likely do the same stuff as much as, if not more often, than they do. After a long day at the office and hospital rounds, and picking up kids, and Mrs. Grumpy having an after-work meeting, when the hell do I have time to pick up my Lipitor and get something decent for dinner? So I put the pharmacy off for another day and grab a pizza. And hope that over the weekend I'll find time to exercise. My average work week is about 60-70 hours. I doubt that's conducive to longevity.
So yes, I get migraines. And if you think your doctor is superhuman, they aren't. Even if they try their best to make you think they are.
*For the record, I've never golfed on anything other than a miniature course.


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I will NEVER be the same after this!
This was the BEST 1 YEAR "GLAM-A-VERSARY" of the GLAMINARS!
I lost my voice that night after all the talking I did, but I gained more love! Thank you to everyone who was a part of such an amazing experience!!!
I tried to type a blog post last night, but I have only been getting about 3 hours of sleep a night preparing for the glaminar, that I fell asleep with my computer on my lap in bed...with nothing but a POST title typed in that said...."I am sooooo tired"! ha ha ha ha
I promise I will type a better post about the GLAMINAR & IMATS later, but I'm off to another doctor appointment....I've already had 3 yesterday for my leg...It was very, very swollen after the GLAMINAR weekend! ha ha ha....But I have an awesome new silicone thing, that goes over my scar that will help it look a little "nicer"...it's the same thing that burn patients wear. I love it already, my scar doesn't hurt so much when my pants or leggings rub against it! Hooray!
Off to another doctor appointment! I love you all...! Each set of beautiful eyes that are reading this...feel the love I am sending to your heart!
REMEMBER: you're more beautiful than you know, more talented than you think, and more LOVED than you can imagine!
Have a beautiful day, filled with more smiles, more love, and more happiness in your step...no matter what happens or goes wrong...remember...there's a reason, there's hope, and I believe in you!!!
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Daring Bakers Challenge October 2008
~ In memory of Sherry "Sher" Cermak 1948-2008 ~
Just a few of the ingredients I used for this months Daring Bakers' challenge. On one pizza? No of course not. And what are the Daring Bakers doing making pizza, you must be thinking? What's daring about that?
Well this is what I love about the group. We get to try our hands at everything and this would not be a daring group if we were making any ole pizza!
This month it was Rosa of Rosa's Yummy Yums who was hosting the challenge. Initially she was going to co-host the challenge with Sher, but life takes sad unexpected turns. To honor her memory Rosa decided to carry through with Sher's chosen recipe for the October challenge.
The challenge was to make pizza dough using the recipe from The Bread Baker's Apprentice by Peter Reinhart and using the tossing method! This was going to be fun. Otherwise we were free to use our imaginations. This was going to be a lot of fun.
I chose to make this quite early on in the month. Tom was away for the weekend and Soeren and I decided to tackle the challenge together. The tossing method with a 6 year old is a hilarious event. After the kitchen looked like we had just been snowed in with flour we decided to really get to work.
We are your typical family who love pizza - but are a bit picky. We have very specific likings to our pizzas and our notion of pizza is a perfect thin crusted one rather than the greasy deep pan pizza. Our pizzas have just a few toppings, going for a medley of full flavor rather than piling on the ingredients. We often make pizza at home and over the years we have found a few basics we stick to - basics like the dough, the spice oils and the tomato sauce.
So that is why I was quite keen on trying another type of pizza dough.
Basic Pizza Dough
Original recipe taken from "The Bread Baker's Apprentice" by Peter Reinhart.
Printable version of recipe here.Makes 4-6 pizza crusts (about 9-12 inches/23-30 cm in diameter).
4 1/2 Cups (20 1/4 ounces/607.5 g) Unbleached high-gluten (%14) bread flour or all purpose flour, chilled
1 3/4 Tsp Salt
1 teaspoon Instant yeast
1/4 Cup (2 ounces/60g) Olive oil or vegetable oil (both optional, but it's better with)
1 3/4 Cups (14 ounces/420g or 420ml) Water, ice cold (40° F/4.5° C)
1 tablespoon sugar
Semolina/durum flour or cornmeal for dustingMethod
Day one
Mix together the flour, salt and instant yeast in a big bowl (or in the bowl of your stand mixer).
Add the oil, sugar and cold water and mix well (with the help of a large wooden spoon or with the paddle attachment, on low speed) in order to form a sticky ball of dough. On a clean surface, knead for about 5-7 minutes, until the dough is smooth and the ingredients are homogeneously distributed. If it is too wet, add a little flour (not too much, though) and if it is too dry add 1 or 2 teaspoons extra water.
If you are using an electric mixer, switch to the dough hook and mix on medium speed for the same amount of time. The dough should clear the sides of the bowl but stick to the bottom of the bowl. If the dough is too wet, sprinkle in a little more flour, so that it clears the sides. If, on the contrary, it clears the bottom of the bowl, dribble in a teaspoon or two of cold water.
The finished dough should be springy, elastic, and sticky, not just tacky, and register 50°-55° F/10°-13° C.
Flour a work surface or counter. Line a jelly pan with baking paper/parchment. Lightly oil the paper.
With the help of a metal or plastic dough scraper, cut the dough into 4-66 equal pieces (or larger if you want to make larger pizzas).
To avoid the dough from sticking to the scraper, dip the scraper into water between cuts.
Sprinkle some flour over the dough. Make sure your hands are dry and then flour them. Gently round each piece into a ball.
If the dough sticks to your hands, then dip your hands into the flour again.
Transfer the dough balls to the lined jelly pan and mist them generously with spray oil. Slip the pan into plastic bag or enclose in plastic food wrap.
Put the pan into the refrigerator and let the dough rest overnight or for up to thee days.
NOTE: You can store the dough balls in a zippered freezer bag if you want to save some of the dough for any future baking. In that case, pour some oil (a few tablespoons only) in a medium bowl and dip each dough ball into the oil, so that it is completely covered in oil. Then put each ball into a separate bag. Store the bags in the freezer for no longer than 3 months. The day before you plan to make pizza, remember to transfer the dough balls from the freezer to the refrigerator.
Day Two
On the day you plan to eat pizza, exactly 2 hours before you make it, remove the desired number of dough balls from the refrigerator. Dust the counter with flour and spray lightly with oil. Place the dough balls on a floured surface and sprinkle them with flour. Dust your hands with flour and delicately press the dough into disks about 1/2 inch/1.3 cm thick and 5 inches/12.7 cm in diameter. Sprinkle with flour and mist with oil. Loosely cover the dough rounds with plastic wrap and then allow to rest for 2 hours.
At least 45 minutes before making the pizza, place a baking stone on the lower third of the oven. Preheat the oven as hot as possible (500° F/260° C).
If you do not have a baking stone, then use the back of a jelly pan. Do not preheat the pan.
Generously sprinkle the back of a jelly pan with semolina/durum flour or cornmeal. Flour your hands (palms, backs and knuckles). Take 1 piece of dough by lifting it with a pastry scraper. Lay the dough across your fists in a very delicate way and carefully stretch it by bouncing it in a circular motion on your hands, and by giving it a little stretch with each bounce. Once the dough has expanded outward, move to a full toss.
Make only one pizza at a time.
During the tossing process, if the dough tends to stick to your hands, lay it down on the floured counter and re-flour your hands, then continue the tossing and shaping.
In case you would be having trouble tossing the dough or if the dough never wants to expand and always springs back, let it rest for approximately 5-20 minutes in order for the gluten to relax fully, then try again.
You can also resort to using a rolling pin, although it isn't as effective as the toss method.
When the dough has the shape you want (about 9-12 inches/23-30 cm in diameter - for a 6 ounces/180g piece of dough), place it on the back of the jelly pan, making sure there is enough semolina/durum flour or cornmeal to allow it to slide and not stick to the pan.
Lightly top it with sweet or savory toppings of your choice.
NOTE: Remember that the best pizzas are topped not too generously. No more than 3 or 4 toppings (including sauce and cheese) are sufficient.
Slide the garnished pizza onto the stone in the oven or bake directly on the jelly pan. Close the door and bake for about 5-8 minutes.
NOTE: After 2 minutes baking, take a peek. For an even baking, rotate 180°.
If the top gets done before the bottom, you will need to move the stone or jelly pane to a lower shelf before the next round. Should the bottom crisp before the cheese caramelizes, then you will need to raise the stone or jelly.
Take the pizza out of the oven and transfer it to a cutting board or your plate. In order to allow the cheese to set a little, wait 3-5 minutes before slicing or serving.
Another basic for our pizza are spiced oils. These are used to pour into the pizza sauce or toss rucola, radicchio, chard or spinach to give these leafy toppings a lovely aroma. I normally infuse olive oil with herbs, like thyme, rosemary, oregano or marjoram. Garlic, ginger or chili flakes give the oil an extra body and a powerful flavor. Try using a delicate organic extra virgin olive oil because you will really taste the difference. For these pizza selections I infused the oil with 2 varieties: garlic and chili flakes for the sauce and dried thyme for the radicchio.
Infusing the oils is fairly easy and does not require an extra recipe. I normally buy small sealable glass bottles to store the oils in, because the longer the oils are infused the more time they have to enfold their aromas. However if you do not have time to infuse the oils for that long, even a 3-6 hour quick-infusion will be sufficient. Simply pour the amount of oil you require in small bowls and add your herbs and spices. Then just forget about it while you tackle the rest of your pizza.
Cheese is an important element in a pizza and something I like to experiment with. My organic store has an incredible cheese counter - a cheese for every occasion, or every pizza if you prefer. Fontina, Roquefort, Manchego, Goat cheese, Gruyere or even a dollop of quark are all some of my favorite types of cheese for pizza.
Some say a pizza is made or broken with the pizza sauce. I agree. If a pizza uses tomato sauce as a base for the toppings, I believe it should blend well with the rest of the flavors used in the pizza. It should not overpower and I prefer it chunky rather than puréed. I also prefer using a mix of cherry tomatoes and passata. For this pizza I gently roasted the tomatoes for 45 minutes in the oven with some thyme spice olive oil and a few slivers of garlic.
Once out of the oven the cherry tomatoes were thrown into the passata, garlic and all, and gently simmered.
The recipe below makes a fairly large batch of roasted tomato sauce. It's also perfect for pasta sauces or as a base for stews, goulash our even soups. Stored in air-tight Weck jars the sauce keeps for 3-4 days in the refrigerator. You can also freeze the sauce in Ziploc bags for up to a month. This is a superb sauce so full of flavor and you'll definitely want to make a big enough batch that goes around for a while.
Roasted Tomato Sauce
Printable version of recipe here.500g cherry tomatoes, cut in half
3-4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
500g tomato passata
1 tablespoon thyme spiced olive oil
2 tablespoon garlic-chili spiced olive oil
1 large red onion, coarsely chopped
Fresh or dried thyme
Salt and pepperMethod
Preheat the oven to 150 degrees C. Line a baking tray with aluminum foil.
In a large bowl toss together the tomato halves, garlic slivers, thyme spiced oil and a pinch of salt. Spread out on the baking tray and bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes. Keep an eye on the tomatoes and if required reduce the heat if they start to get too brown.
In a large pot pour in the passata and the garlic spiced olive oil. Bring to a simmer, then add onions and roasted tomatoes, including garlic, into the mixture.
Simmer for 15-20 minutes until the onions softened and the sauce thickens. Sprinkle with thyme, salt and pepper to taste.
- If you are planning on storing the tomato sauce in jars, pour in sterilized jars
- If you are planning to freeze the sauce in Ziploc bags, allow the sauce to cool completely before pouring it in the bags.
Caramelized Fennel, Radicchio, Pears and Goat Cheese Pizza
Finally it's time for the toppings. For me pizza is like a canvas and I love painting it with a variety of aromatic ingredients. Each ingredient harmonizes perfectly with the other complementing each flavor combination.
For this challenge I made three pizzas, each very different from the other and each highlighting an entirely different flavor combination.
Which is your favorite flavor combination?
Printable version of recipe here.
2 fennel bulbs, sliced
1 teaspoon maple syrup
Small head of radicchio
2-3 small pears, thinly sliced
Soft goat cheese
Pecans, roughly chopped
1 tablespoon thyme spiced olive oil
150g herb quark, simply chop up some fresh herbs of choice and mix into the quark.
Salt and pepper
1 portion basic pizza doughMethod
Preheat oven to 200 degrees C.
In a large bowl toss the fennel with the thyme spiced oil. Heat a large skillet to medium-high and sauté the fennel slices. Add the maple syrup and mix. Once the fennel begins to soften, turn the heat down and sauté gently until the fennel caramelizes and releases its aromatic fragrance.
Make sure you stir frequently so that the fennel does not stick to the bottom of the pan. This normally takes 15 to 20 minutes.
Spread the prepared pizza base with the herb flavored quark, the caramelized fennel and pear slices. Break off a few edges of the goat cheese and lay out on the pizza. Finally sprinkle with the chopped pecans.
Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes or until the base is crispy. Take out of oven sprinkle with salt and pepper then arrange the radicchio leaves over the top.
Allow to rest for 2-3 minutes, then slice.
Helpful reads:
- How to caramelize vegetables
- How to make homemade quark
Prosciutto di Parma, Spinach and Gruyere Pizza
Printable version of recipe here.5-6 slices prosciutto di Parma
Handful of fresh baby spinach
150g roasted tomato sauce
100g Gruyere cheese, grated
1 portion basic pizza dough
Salt and pepperMethod
Preheat oven to 200 degrees C.
Generously spread the prepared pizza base with the roasted tomato sauce. Salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle the cheese and bake in the oven for approx. 8-10 minutes.
Take out and arrange the ham and spinach leaves on top of the pizza.
Allow to rest for 2-3 minutes, then slice.
Nutella, Pears and Toasted Almonds Pizza
Printable version of recipe here.Several large tablespoons of Nutella
2 pears, thinly sliced
Handful almonds, sliced
Powdered sugar
1 portion basic pizza doughMethod
Preheat oven to 200 degrees C. Line a baking tray with waxed paper.
Using a cookie cutter or a glass cut circular shapes out of the prepared pizza base. Place each mini-pizza on the baking tray.
Generously spread each mini-pizza with Nutella. Arrange the pear slices and sprinkle with the almond slivers.
Bake in the oven for approx. 8-10 minutes. Remove and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
"Nutella Pizza for dessert rocks!" was the all thumbs up verdict from Soeren. What surprised me the most was that he seemed to like the fennel radicchio combination a lot more than the expected Parma ham and spinach. I had made that pizza extra for him thinking he would not like the fennel-radicchio pizza that much. But to my surprise he wanted more than the one slice I had given him to taste. The Parma-spinach pizza combination is one of the regular types of pizzas we often make. Sometimes I will substitute the spinach with rucola and the prosciutto with bresaola.
Would I make this again?
This is very similar to the pizza dough I regularly make at home. The only difference my proofing/rising takes just an hour in a warm place. Tossing is not going to be something we will do often when making pizza though. Although we had a great laugh, the tossed dough was hardly usable, after it had flown two or three times through the kitchen and swept up the floor. We'll be sticking to the trusty rolling pin.
What did I learn from this challenge?
That I can proof the dough in the fridge overnight for a more hassle free pizza. I know this might seem pretty normal to most of you, but we normally make pizzas on the spur of the moment. I will quickly buy a few ingredients for the topping on the way home from work and then make the dough allowing it to proof for 45-60 minutes. It never occurred to me that if I planned ahead I could actually allow the base to proof in the fridge. Duh!
I'd like to thank Rosa for this fun challenge. If you need more inspiration for pizza toppings please browse through the several great creations from the other Daring Bakers.
Have fun!
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Retrospective: Mercenary
I didn't discover Traveller until 1980 or '81 by which point there were already several examples of all the categories of support material. I had only a spotty collection of both adventures and supplements, but I owned every single book produced for it. That's because, unlike adventures and supplements, I viewed books as Official™ and thus absolutely essential for running and playing a "proper" Traveller campaign. In retrospect, it's an absolutely foolish notion, but, having read one too many editorials by Gary Gygax on the importance of buying and using only official AD&D products, the mentality was very easy to adopt with regards to other games.
Fortunately, when I started playing Traveller, there were only two additional books beyond the three that started the game. The first of these was Mercenary, published in 1978 and written by Frank Chadwick and Marc Miller. Mercenary was 52 pages long and provided lots of new rules and information for ground forces, both Army and Marines. So you got lots of news military equipment and vehicles, a discussion of mercenary work, and a bunch of sample adventure outlines for such characters. But the big draw of Mercenary (and its immediate successor, High Guard) was its expanded character generation rules.
For those of you who don't know Traveller well, here's a brief overview of character generation. Characters can enlist in one of six services, three of which are explicitly military (Army, Navy, Marines). They then go through 4-years terms of service during which rolls are made to see what skills, if any, they acquire during that term. The most skills a character can acquire in a single term is four (in his first term if the player rolls very well), but most terms grant only one or two skills. Once the character musters out, he'll have a handful of skills that reflect his time in his chosen service.
Mercenary changes this somewhat by providing lots more detail about a character's terms of service. Each term represents a four-year block, but Mercenary lets the player roll for each year within that term, to see not only what a character's specific duties were during that time but also provides many more opportunities to gain skills. The result is that a character generated under the rules of Book 4 are almost always much more talented than those generated under the original three LBBs.
It's no surprise, then, that, by the time I started playing Traveller, nearly everyone I knew used Mercenary (and High Guard) to create their characters. This meant almost no one played Scouts or Merchants, at least until they, too, got expanded character options later in the '80s. After all, why wouldn't you use these rules? Not only did they generate better characters but they were also official. By calling Mercenary "Book 4," GDW had placed it on the same footing as Books 1-3 that came in the boxed ruleset. Unless you were explicitly trying to get a reputation for stubbornness, the pressure on the referee to allow Mercenary was significant.
At the time, I don't remember having any qualms about allowing Book 4 into our campaigns, despite the weird way it warped them into focusing almost exclusively on mercenary tickets and the like. Of course, this may explain why some of my players wanted to move on to play a "real science fiction game" like Star Frontiers, since its adventures weren't just about traveling from world to world fighting local insurgencies. Nowadays, though, I have a less positive feeling about Mercenary, feeling that it inaugurated not only power inflation in Traveller but a cult of the official that was common enough that a little pushback against it was much needed -- especially by guys like me whose natural tendency was to look to a game's designer/publisher for guidance rather than relying on my own judgment. Oh, the follies of youth!
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I was wondering when you were going to get to power creep in Trav. IIRC Mercenary also introduced the game-changing gauss rifle, which all but did away with every other gun except Traveller's 2-handed sword, the LMG.
I was suspicious about Merc's power mismatch from the start, but I couldn't resist the higher-powered PCs and gear. We never played merc contracts, though - we were still tramp traders meeting patrons in various versions of the Mos Eisley Cantina and dreaming of knocking over a bank or a starport. But we were all, to a man, ex-marines, and we figured Han Solo must be, too.I was just talking (very briefly) about this one yesterday. White Dwarf gave it a 9 out 10 in their Open Box reviews.
http://timbrannan.blogspot.com/2012/05/white-dwarf-wednesday-14.html- Paul PatinoMay 3, 2012 at 10:45 AM
Personally I think Mercenary/High Guard is, loosely, more like how generation should have been from the start. I don't see giving characters 4 skill throws per term as really inflating power. Considering the odds, I would be pretty surprised to see a 4-term character with more than 1-2 skills at L3 or more. Were I to run an LBB Traveller game now, I'd probably omit the books after 1-3, but house-rule at 1 skill per year basis rather than 1 skill per term.
ReplyDelete - FaoladhMay 3, 2012 at 11:17 AM
That pretty much matches my experience (except that I got into the game a couple of years earlier, and so watched High Guard come out, then get revised nearly immediately). Today, I'd probably just go with the six original careers, except that I'd replace Other with the twelve careers in Supplement 4.
ReplyDelete - Frank FilzMay 3, 2012 at 1:34 PM
As I contemplate running Traveller again sometime, I do a lot of thinking. I like the additional detail Books 4-7 added, but they do have some impact on power level. Though with the ideas that Paul Gazis put forth, it's not so bad, he added an experience system, where to go from level N-1 to N, you need to gain N skill points. Skills in character creation give you two skill points per skill earned, so the first three skills earned give you 1/1, 2/1, 3/0 and it takes 5 skills earned to get level 4.
I like the additional skills added, and the additional chargen details gives you more to work with.
I've also had a look at MGT, which adds some detail but keeps close to Book 1 chargen.
Frank - jhbrinegMay 3, 2012 at 1:38 PM
The effects of Mercenary that you describe here are a great example of the push for emulative rules that you recently wrote about. As I saw it, Mercenary came about to allow players to more effectively emulate military SF stories; the original rules didn't generate robust enough characters to allow such emulation (or at least people thought they didn't).
ReplyDelete - Stephen TeixeiraMay 3, 2012 at 2:11 PM
Mercenary wasn't complete, it mentioned a lot of the gear in the Striker
game, so it was more like a book integrating Striker into Traveller.
That aside, the books did introduce a huge amount of military theme
creep into the game. With books 1-3, warships were limited to smaller 50,000 ton ships and low jump ratings. With books 4-5, million ton ships
carrying armies capable of jump 6 are introduced - that sort of detail changes a game.
I prefer book 1-3 Traveller, with more emphasis on small ships, diplomacy, exploration, mysteries, and merchant traders. Small ships and adventuring parties could make a difference, and there were parts of the starmap big ships could not go, creating backwater areas and places for star pirates to hide. The base game and the book 4-5 games were vastly different games, at least from my game table. - Paul PatinoMay 3, 2012 at 3:39 PM
I also like the replacing of Other with the Sup4 careers as well.
ReplyDelete - middleton8vu9May 3, 2012 at 4:40 PM
Supplement 4 - Citizens became the default that most of my players wanted to roll characters from, especially Belters, Pirates and Barbarians. A party of these misfits made for very bizarre campaigns.
I can't remember the issue offhand, but Space Gamer had an article called competitive Citizens that gave a cool system to allow 1 year skill roles for these characters.
This was only important if you worked Book expanded characters into the game and all the Citizens classes tended to be very skill oriented rather than combat oriented so it helped lots regardless.
The expanded ship design rules in High Guard were riddled with problems and that book was rewritten/revised at least once and heavily FAQed by GDW. - middleton8vu9May 3, 2012 at 4:40 PM
Supplement 4 - Citizens became the default that most of my players
wanted to roll characters from, especially Belters, Pirates and
Barbarians. A party of these misfits made for very bizarre campaigns.
I can't remember the issue offhand, but Space Gamer had an article
called competitive Citizens that gave a cool system to allow 1 year
skill roles for these characters.
This was only important if you worked Book expanded characters into the
game and all the Citizens classes tended to be very skill oriented
rather than combat oriented so it helped lots regardless.
The expanded ship design rules in High Guard were riddled with problems
and that book was rewritten/revised at least once and heavily FAQed by
GDW. - Gordon CooperMay 3, 2012 at 4:48 PM
Books 1-3 of Classic Traveller represent the kind of Traveller I enjoy. They are evocative rather than exhaustive. They are manageable rather than overwhelming. They are open-ended rather than constraining. The smaller number of skills meant one could do more with those skills -- it encouraged creativity. The increase in the number of skills, although it seemed to give characters more capabilities, in the end gave them more limitations (in my opinion). I really wish they had just added new services in the same level of detail as the originals and left the originals alone.
IISS - Stephen TeixeiraMay 3, 2012 at 6:21 PM
True, I just remember reading through Mercenary and seeing dozens of references to gear and weapons not in the book. Only years later did I find them in a copy of Striker I picked up.
ReplyDelete - RobertMay 3, 2012 at 8:01 PM
These days I prefer to stick to the Book 1 and Citizens of the Imperium generation. That said, there are bits of the "advanced" character generation I might've liked to see integrated back into "basic" chargen. (Which it looks like some of the later editions have done, but I haven't had time to take a good look at them.)
I'd also say that the books have some useful stuff beyond the expanded chargen. And I like the way I can ignore that stuff until in becomes relevant. - John DavisMay 3, 2012 at 10:13 PM
Whoa; didn't realize Classic Trav only had 6 careers. I've been playing Mongoose, which is mostly very close to Classic with some rough edges filed off, and the chargen is much more like what you describe pre-Mercenary, but with many more careers (12ish, I think?).
ReplyDelete - Fred SchiffMay 3, 2012 at 10:51 PM
"Adventures" weren't. They were generally mini-campaigns, or small sandboxy situations with no real expected resolution. Or worse they did have a resolution which wouldn't be considered by your players.
I got into Traveller late with MegaTraveller. They had 18 careers, with some additional steps that increased the number of skills in the basic careers, and still including the advanced careers for four of them (in all of their bug ridden, paste-up deficient glory). For some reason the journalist was not included even though its a major character in the authors adventures in the zine Traveller Digest. They could have left out the wet navy. "Unofficial" careers both basic and advanced appeared in various places in magazines or online. I think you miss the mark on this one a bit, James. There's nothing wrong with more official material, per se...but it's a matter of how you do it. If you're going to offer Enhanced Character Generation, you need to do it for every class.
I've come to believe that Mercenary, not the Third Imperium setting, was the high water mark for Traveller as a system. The problem wasn't an enhanced character generation system for Soldiers and Marines (and eventually Naval characters with High Guard, Merchants with Merchant Prince, and Scouts with Scouts). The problem is they never got around to doing the same thing for other careers, which essentially left those grossly underpowered
For a setting and indeed a system that just cries out for space
feudalism, why no enhanced Noble career? Why did none of the other 12 careers published by GDW not get
the same attention? For all you can rag on the various splat-books that have been a plague on every version of D&D since AD&D2, at least TSR/WotC have generally made sure that each of the core classes got a little extra love. GDW never even went that far.
To return to my original point, Mercenary took a broad game that could create and simulate a wide variety of sci-fi stories, involving a variety of characters (particularly after Citizens of the Imperium added a whole bunch of new classes) and effectively narrowed the number of classes a player might want to play back to the core book, effectively limiting the types of games that could be played as surely as if they'd never created a broader array of classes in the first place. Effectively games of Traveller after the release of Books 4-7 were released tended to be either mercenary games, naval oriented games, or merchant games. Now all of those have their place, but you could do so much more if you didn't limit to these options.
To their credit, GDW finally figured this out with The New Era (too late to save the company, however) and gave the Advanced Class concept the old heave ho. Similarly, Traveller 4th Edition (which I worked on a bit) and Mongoose Traveller ditched Advanced Classes (in T4), or came out with advanced class book options for every character class (Mongoose Traveller). Either one is preferable to what Books 4-7 did to Traveller, and by extension to MegaTraveller.My friends and I adored Mercenary when it came out, because we were all enormous fans of Hammer's Spammers. It took a while, we realized that all those plusses on our dice rolls were screwing up the game. Somebody worked out a simple conversion chart that ratcheted Merc-generated stats down a bit, and we assumed that Merc characters didn't benefit from Traveller's standard rule that all PCs have basic familiarity (level 0) with everything. As a Merc, if you didn't have level 1 in a skill, then you were completely unskilled and took big penalties. Eventually we went back to the standard chargen because it made everything simpler. We sure loved all the Ironmongery, though.
ReplyDelete- FaoladhMay 4, 2012 at 3:12 AM
Yeah, the non-character creation stuff is generally good. At this point, I'd use some stuff I found on the web (now gone to archive.org) to incorporate ideas from GURPS Traveller: Far Trader into Classic Traveller, which should fill out the trade system in Book 7 properly.
ReplyDelete - Shawn SanfordMay 4, 2012 at 10:07 AM
I've recently started a Traveller campaign and am using only books 1-3. I allow characters to roll for skills on each table every term (instead of picking one). It gives the group a wider variety of skills without all the added crunch of books 4-7. In retrospect, I could have also used Citizens of the Imperium, but I was going for the Old School approach.
ReplyDelete - Robert FisherMay 6, 2012 at 6:39 AM
So far I haven't seen anything in Mongoose Traveller that has convinced me to invest much time into it. But then, I like gray areas, and I often don't care for "clean up".
ReplyDelete "With books 4-5, million ton ships carrying armies capable of jump 6 are introduced - that sort of detail changes a game."
I don't really see why. That they exist in the setting doesn't mean the players would necessarily have them, or have control of them.
In an Earthbound game set in the 21st century, where you play smugglers and traders and mercenaries, the players might well have access to small jets, or boats, or even a small submarine. There would also exist major military hardware, that might well factor into the players' schemes, but which they wouldn't be able to consider their own equipment.
" Small ships and adventuring parties could make a difference, and there were parts of the starmap big ships could not go, creating backwater areas and places for star pirates to hide"
These situations would be preserved by means of the backwater areas being too numerous and/or too remote to be patrolled effectively. Even a power great enough to field huge ships has limits, and priorities. The piracy activities in a certain area might not be significant enough to warrant intervention from outside the sector.
Think of how long the real-world pirates on the Horn of Africa were able to operate without real opposition. And that's on a major shipping route. Had the Horn been even more remote, and the pirates been less active, they might not have incurred the current anti-piracy operations.


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After bringing their grievances to the doors of Congress on Tuesday, protesters from across the nation plan to take aim at Washington's other vilified power brokers: lobbyists.
Flocks of community activists, unemployed protesters, union members and Occupy Wall Street participants have choked K Street, which is home to the lobbying arms of many large corporations and industries. Police have blocked off the street at one of the busiest intersections in the city and have arrested some protesters.
Protesters are targeting the offices of General Electric, Verizon, Capitol Tax Partners, the American Bankers Association and the lobbying firm Clark Lytle & Geduldig. Last month, Reuters reported that Clark Lytle, which lobbies on behalf of the financial industry, urged the American Bankers Association to conduct opposition research against Occupy protesters, but the recommendation wasn't acted on.
Borrowing from the Occupy rhetoric, protesters decried the influence of money in politics. In a written statement, organizers vowed to "make Wall Street pay" for enriching the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans and to "track down those responsible for crashing the economy and causing millions of 99%-ers to lose their jobs and homes — while failing to pay their fair share of taxes."
The demonstration is part of "Take Back the Capitol," a weeklong campaign in Washington to advocate for job creation, the extension of unemployment benefits and other economic policies. Following months of protests in other cities mainly against financial institutions, the gathering is the first to bring together a wide range of progressive, labor and Occupy groups to target Washington's political class.
Looking Left
Some news reports have credited Occupy Wall Street as the organizer. Many Occupy followers are participating, but the group behind it is the American Dream Movement, which partnered with progressive organizations such as MoveOn.org and Rebuild the Dream, and major labor groups such as the Service Employees International Union and AFL-CIO.
As police in various cities across the country dismantle the remaining Occupy Wall Street camps — they dismantled tents in San Francisco in a raid early Wednesday morning — protesters are grappling with the question of where the movement should go next. The collaboration with traditionally left-leaning groups this week in Washington is one path forward.
Both American Dream and Occupy leaders say they are not leading politically partisan movements, and have refuted speculation that their work might shift to political activism for the 2012 elections, particularly in favor of Democratic candidates. Yet several of the participating groups, from MoveOn.org to the unions, are heavily involved with the Democratic Party.
And among participants in the week's first protest — sit-ins outside congressional members' offices on Tuesday — the pull to get involved in the 2012 elections was strong. A number of them say they are motivated in part by their anger at Republican-led movements in various states to weaken collective bargaining, an effort that succeeded in Wisconsin earlier this year.
'We Need People To Rise Up'
"Before Feb. 11, I really was not politically involved," says Kelley Albrecht, who traveled from Wisconsin to the nation's capital. On Feb. 11, Wisconsin's governor, Republican Scott Walker, drew national attention by introducing a cost-cutting measure that severely curbed collective bargaining rights for government employees.
"I only voted occasionally. I felt like my vote didn't matter," says Albrecht, 41, whose husband is a union worker. She is unemployed and says Walker's cuts to Medicaid caused two of her sons, ages 10 and 8, to be dropped from the program. "Now, I can see myself getting involved in politics," she says. "We need people to rise up and take a look at what's going on."
Albrecht and her sons were among three busloads of Wisconsin residents who arrived in Washington on Tuesday at 2:30 a.m. Hours later, she and 20 others set off from the National Mall to the office of her representative, Republican Paul Ryan. Ryan, who chairs the House Budget Committee, has drawn the ire of Albrecht and other protesters because he favors privatizing Medicare and severely cutting other entitlement programs to eliminate the federal deficit.
As they approached the House office building, they chanted, "Paul Ryan, he's the worst! He puts corporate interests first!"
'Please Knock'
On the second floor of the Longworth House Office Building, they found Ryan's office door locked and a note posted that read "Please Knock. Only Scheduled Appointments will be admitted today."
Fellow protester Maria Morales knocked and two of Ryan's aides emerged, closing the door behind them as they addressed the crowd.
The aides explained that Ryan was out of town. They said that if the protesters go online and schedule a meeting, "we'll be happy to consider it." The protesters scoffed and, together on cue, sat on the hallway floor, determined to wait until Ryan appeared. Ryan's aides returned to the office, again closing the door behind them. Ryan never showed.
"This is very frustrating," said Morales, an unemployed 68-year-old who recently took in her out-of-work granddaughter and her two children. "We come here all the way from Wisconsin, and they lock the door. Come on."
Throughout Tuesday, demonstrators visited the offices of about 99 House and Senate members, from both parties, and most were refused meetings with lawmakers.
About 25 people from Maryland actually got face time with Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen. He emerged from his office and spoke to the group, telling them he sympathizes with the unemployed.
No Satisfaction
Other Wisconsin natives sat down with another one of their congressmen, Republican Thomas Petri. They discussed funding for transportation projects, schools and President Obama's jobs bill. But many protesters say they came away unsatisfied.
"Our meeting was so heated up in there," says Robert Townsend, an unemployed 48-year-old from Milwaukee. "We asked him if he would vote for the jobs bill. He was evasive on that. And I asked him, 'Tell me something positive that you're doing for Wisconsin that will put us back to work.' He mentioned something in Oshkosh, but that's mostly for military people. He really didn't have much of an answer. It's like he had no commitment to addressing this problem."
After being out of work for five years, Townsend, who has a college degree and has gotten by on occasional work as a handyman, says he feels desperate. He says he now sees this movement as a step toward becoming a volunteer in some capacity for the 2012 elections.
"If the opportunity presents itself next year, I would definitely like to get involved," he says. "I'll go door to door. Anything I can do to make things happen."
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Flea Control in Dogs
My dog always seems to have fleas. What can I do?
Successful flea control involves both eliminating fleas from your dog and controlling fleas in your environment. Dogs and cats share the same fleas, and fleas can travel from one animal to another. Thus, it is important that all pets in your home are on a flea preventive program.
Treating your pet for fleas has never been easier. With the many choices we have today, we can provide you with the safest and most effective flea preventive for your pet's needs.
However, when it comes to environmental control, it is important to understand the flea life cycle.
What is the life cycle of the flea?
There are four stages to the flea life cycle, namely the egg, the larva, the pupa and the adult.
Flea eggs are whitish and about 0.5 millimeter (mm) (1/32") in length. They are unlikely to be seen without a magnifying glass. Adult fleas lay eggs after taking a blood meal. The eggs are initially laid on the dog's skin but fall off into the environment to continue their life cycle. Flea eggs constitute approximately 50% of the total flea population. Eggs may hatch in as little as 14 to 28 days, depending on environmental conditions. High humidity and temperature favor rapid hatching.
Flea larvae are about 2-5 mm (1/8" to 1/4") in length. They have a whitish body and a black head. They feed on organic debris found in their environment and on adult flea feces. They dislike bright light and move deep into carpet fibers or under furniture, organic debris, grass, branches, leaves and soil. Flea larvae prefer warm, dark and moist areas. Outdoors, larval development occurs only in shaded, moist areas where flea infested pets spend a significant amount of time. Our climate-controlled homes offer an ideal environment for the flea larvae to thrive.
The flea pupae produce a protective silk-like cocoon that is sticky. It quickly becomes coated with grime and debris, which acts as a useful camouflage. With warmth and humidity, pupae become adult fleas in 5-10 days. The adults do not emerge from the cocoon unless stimulated by physical pressure, vibrations, carbon dioxide or heat. This is important since once fleas emerge from the cocoon they can only exist for a few days unless they are able to feed. Pre-emergent adult fleas can survive within the cocoon for up to 9 months. During this time they are resistant to insecticides applied to the environment. This is important to remember because adult fleas may emerge from their pupae into the environment a considerable time after you apply insecticides in your home.
Once it emerges, the flea adult, unlike the larvae, is attracted to light and heads to the surface in order to encounter a passing host to feed upon. Two days after the first blood meal, female fleas begin egg production. In normal circumstances the adult female will live up to three weeks, laying approximately 40 eggs per day. The entire life cycle, from egg to adult flea can be completed in as little as 14-28 days depending on environmental conditions.
Apart from irritation, are fleas particularly harmful?
Fleas can cause anemia in heavy infestations, especially in young or debilitated dogs. A single female flea can consume up to 15 times her body weight in blood over the several weeks of her adult life. In addition, fleas can carry several diseases, including plague, and act as vectors (hosts) to spread one of the most common tapeworms of the dog and cat, Diplylidium caninum.
How do I prevent fleas on my dog?
Successful flea control includes treating both your pet(s) and the environment.
What should I put on my dog?
Shampoos, sprays, powders and topical preparations are all available. There are also very effective products designed for monthly administration that are available through your veterinary clinic; some of these products are conveniently combined with medications to prevent heartworm and intestinal worms. Be sure to consult your veterinarian to choose the most effective and safe flea products for your home and pet.
What about the environment?
Environmental preparations are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Most "quick kill" products are only effective against the adult flea. Your veterinarian can provide you with flea products that contain Insect Growth Regulators (IGR) that will prevent maturation of the flea eggs and larvae in addition to chemicals that will kill the adult fleas.
"Before applying any environmental product, we recommend vacuuming your carpet to stimulate the pre-adult fleas to emerge from their protective cocoons."
Before applying any environmental product, we recommend vacuuming your carpet to stimulate the pre-adult fleas to emerge from their protective cocoons. Be sure to discard the vacuum cleaner bag after its use.
My dog lives most of his life outside. What should I do?
Concentrate on dark, shaded areas and the areas he sleeps in, including his bedding. Spray a product containing an IGR and repeat every 14-21 days for three to five applications.
The newer topical and oral flea preventives will greatly assist you in solving your flea problem. And, by understanding the flea life cycle and following our advice, you and your pet will be flea free in no time.


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Send In The Clowns
Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground,
You in mid-air.
Send in the clowns.
Isn't it bliss?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around,
One who can't move.
Where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns.
Just when I'd stopped opening doors,
Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours,
Making my entrance again with my usual flair,
Sure of my lines,
No one is there.
Don't you love farce?
My fault I fear.
I thought that you'd want what I want.
Sorry, my dear.
But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don't bother, they're here.
Isn't it rich?
Isn't it queer,
Losing my timing this late
In my career?
And where are the clowns?
There ought to be clowns.
Well, maybe next year.


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The single most important piece of advice health experts can give to help us stay safe from COVID-19 is this one: Wash your hands.
"In the final analysis, it's the hands. The hands are the connecting piece," says Elizabeth Scott, PhD. Scott co-directs the Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community at Simmons University in Boston.
"You can't necessarily control what you touch. You can't control who else touched it. But you can look after your own hands," she says.
Hand-washing — with soap and water — is a far more powerful weapon against germs than many of us realize.
Scott says it works on two fronts: "The first thing that's happening is that you're physically removing things from your hands. At the same time, for certain agents, the soap will actually be busting open that agent, breaking it apart."
Coronaviruses, like this year's version that has left 100,000 worldwide infected with COVID-19, are encased in a lipid envelope — basically, a layer of fat. Soap can break that fat apart and make the virus unable to infect you.
The second thing soap does is mechanical. It makes skin slippery so that with enough rubbing, we can pry germs off and rinse them away.
Sounds pretty simple, but the vast majority of people still don't do it right.
A 2013 study had trained observers discreetly watch more than 3,700 people wash their hands. It found that only about 5% of them followed all the rules. About one in four people just wet their hands without using soap — a move hygiene researchers call the "splash and dash." About one in 10 didn't wash at all after a trip to the restroom. The most common shortcoming for most people was time. Only 5% spent more than 15 seconds washing, rubbing, and rinsing their hands.
Scott says that's not good enough if you're trying to keep from getting sick.
With a new virus on the loose, the stakes are higher now. It's time to bring your technique up to speed.
How? Well, first turn on the water. It doesn't matter if it's hot or cold.
"We've done research on water temperature, and what we've discovered is that water temperature doesn't really matter in terms of effectiveness," says Donald Schaffner, PhD, who studies predictive food microbiology, hand-washing, and cross-contamination at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.
Second, lather up. The soap helps germs slip off your skin as you rub your hands together.
If you're in control of the soap you're using, you may want to pick a liquid or gel over foaming pump soap. A 2017 study that compared liquid and foam soaps from the same brand found that washing with foam didn't significantly reduce bacteria on the hands of people who were in the study, while washing with a liquid soap did.
The study was small and the first of its kind. Generally, scientists like to see research results repeated before they are accepted as fact. Study participants only washed for 6 seconds. Sadly, that's about the average time most of us spend washing our hands — but it's less than the 20 seconds the CDC recommends.
Still, study researchers think their results make sense. Because foam washes off more quickly than gel soap, users are more likely to splash and dash after a dollop of foam.
"People tend to wash their hands for a shorter duration with the foam soap," says Ozlem Equils, MD, president of an educational nonprofit called MiOra.
What about bar soap? Numerous studies have found that bacteria can stay on bar soap that stays wet because it gets used frequently. But studies that have looked to see whether that's a problem show that the bacteria don't seem to transfer to the next user. If your bar looks slimy, rinse it off under water before you lather your hands, and try to store it so it will dry out between uses.
If you're in a public bathroom, and there's no soap, just rubbing your hands together under the water does do some good. A 2011 study from researchers at the London School of Tropical Hygiene found that washing with water alone reduced bacteria on hands to about one-quarter of their prewash state. Washing with soap and water brought bacterial counts down to about 8% of where they were before washing.
The bottom line is work with what you have. Something is better than nothing.
How long should you scrub your hands? At least 20 seconds, according to the CDC. As you've probably heard, that's the same amount of time it takes to sing "Happy Birthday to You" twice. If you're tired of that one, Twitter has some great suggestions for others.
Pay attention to places on your hands you might not always think about.
Studies where people smother their hands with Glo Germ — a product used to teach proper hand-washing that glows under a black light — before they wash reveal the areas people tend to miss.
"Typically, spots people will miss will be the back of the hands, people will miss the lower palm. You might see some fluorescence around the fingernails and the nail bed area, where people typically don't wash well," Schaffner says.
And here's something that's good to know: Intention counts. Schaffner says his research has shown that the more people try to get better at hand-washing — going for longer, scrubbing more thoroughly — the less likely they are to spread contamination around a kitchen.
Finally, dry your hands.
"Paper towels actually have a beneficial effect beyond simply washing," Schaffner says.
That's right. Rubbing your hands with a paper towel removes even more germs than just washing alone. Dry hands are also less likely to spread contamination than wet hands.
How often do you need to wash? A lot. The CDC says to wash your hands:
Before, during, and after food prep
Before eating
Before and after tending to someone who's sick
Before and after treating a cut or other wound
After going to the bathroom
After changing diapers or helping a child in the bathroom
After blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing
After touching an animal, or touching pet food or pet waste
After handling pet food or pet treats
After touching garbage
If you can't wash, reach for some hand sanitizer. Lipid membrane viruses like coronaviruses are killed by alcohol-based hand sanitizer, Scott says. Just make sure it's at least 62% alcohol.
Make sure to use enough so that it covers all the surfaces on your hands. Rub that on until your hands feel dry, which should take about 20 seconds.
If you still have some skin left on your hands after all that washing, try to keep it clean. Avoid touching contaminated surfaces. Use a clean paper towel to open bathroom doors. Disinfect dirty surfaces that you use every day, like the touchscreen on your phone and your computer keyboard.


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These short tutorials will give you a little heads-up on specific poses (Asana) which you may encounter. We've found them really helpful for fine-tuning, we hope you will too.
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Ricaut et al. (2004) discovered the presence of mtDNA haplogroup N1a (16147A, 16172C, 16223T, 16248T, and 16355T) in an Iron Age Scytho-Siberian skeleton from the Altai, reporting the presence of haplogroup N1a among Iranians and upper caste Havik Brahmins from India.
The haplotypic variation within the seven N1a samples was relatively high (Table 2), with these haplotypes belonging to both the European and Central Asian branches of this haplogroup, as recently defined by Haak et al. (2005). Thus, the source of N1a haplotypes in Altaian Kazakhs was unclear, although they seemed to have originated west of this part of Central Asia (Gokcumen et al., 2007).
While, as we saw, N1a was frequent among Neolithic Central Europeans, its absence in Hungarian commoners suggests that it was re-introduced -in the high status individuals- from Asia.Commoners show a predominance of mtDNA haplotypes and haplogroups (H, R, T), common in west Eurasia, while high-status individuals, presumably conquering Hungarians, show a more heterogeneous haplogroup distribution, with haplogroups (N1a, X) which are present at very low frequencies in modern worldwide populations and are absent in recent Hungarian and Sekler populations.
Twenty samples were found to belong to west Eurasian haplogroups (U2, U4,
U5a1, T1, T3, T4, H5a, H6, HV, K, and I), whereas the 6 remaining samples were attributed to east Eurasian haplogroups (Z, G2a, C, F1b and N9a).
Overall, it appears that the populations of the Near East, the Caucasus, and Mediterranean Europe harbor subhaplogroup X2 at higher frequencies than those of northern and northeastern Europe (P less than .05) and that X2 is rare in Eastern European as well as Central Asian, Siberian, and Indian populations and is virtually absent in the Finno-Ugric and Turkic-speaking people of the Volga-Ural region. [...] the few Altaian (Derenko et al. 2001) and Siberian haplogroup X lineages are not related to the Native American cluster, and they are more likely explained by recent gene flow from Europe or from West Asia.
Specifically, northeastern Altai appears to be a good candidate for the ancestral homeland of the haplogroup U4b, which is apparently ancient European. For some haplogroups, such as X2e, the relatively recent arrival to the Altai region is more likely.
The applied approach permitted identification of 60% of mtDNA types the majority of which had southern Caucasoid origin. Less than 10% of mtDNA types were of eastern European origin.Derenko et al. (2003) also studied several populations from South Siberia where the Caucasoid component was much diminished (17%) with the following haplogroups present: H, U, J, T, I, N1a, X.


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Sub'd by Jessica P., made by Maria Luisa Mijares Arte y Reposteria
(Seriously, how amazing is that painting? Gorgeous!)
I have to stop the story now, or else I may never get to this next fondant-free beauty:
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Ok, so she's not technically a Princess, but Tink and her forest cottage here are still royally awesome.
Now, clap your hands if you believe in eating fairies!!
Wait. I think that came out wrong.
Well, it's not.
'Cuz I still have to show you this FABULOUS fishbowl design for The Princess and the Frog:
I'm thinking of asking this cake to marry me. I hope John won't mind.
Next, a cutie-patooty mini-cake:
Now, I realize that Disney has the corner on the Princess market, but we geek girls will always have a special place in our hearts for Mario's Princess Peach:
And check it out: the blue gems are handmade hard candies! Power up!
And finally, ONE SWEET TO RULE THEM ALL:
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CCC Final Tally!
However, I should point out there was a distinct downward trend: the first three days of the CCC each charity had over $3,000 donated, the next five or so, around $2,000, and after that, they just barely cleared $1,000 each.
Obviously we all were very busy, and many of us were away from our computers for the holiday, so this isn't surprising. Still, if you started off the countdown but weren't able to finish, please, feel free to catch up! All twelve donation pages are still live, and your dollars can still make a huge difference. Just go to the Cake Wrecks FirstGiving page to see the complete list, along with links to give a dollar to any you might have missed.
And thank you all again for your amazing generosity. John and I are proud beyond belief to count you among our loyal Wrecky henchpersons.
Now, back to conquering the world! If you please.
Update from john: Some people think the crown on the last one is Snow White's or the Evil Queen's. However, the Queen's didn't have rubies and, from what I can tell, Snow White's is a round diamond tiara. And I'm a large, scruffy man in construction clothes sitting at the computer researching Disney Princesses. Which is pretty darned cool. -j