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Andrew Whittaker Elected MCEER Director
Andrew S. Whittaker
Professor Andrew S. Whittaker, S.E., an expert in earthquake and blast engineering, has been elected MCEER Director. As Director, he assumes overall leadership of MCEER and its research, education and outreach initiatives. A University at Buffalo (UB) faculty member since 2001, he becomes the sixth director in the Center's 25-year history.
Whittaker, Professor and Chair of UB's Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, was elected to the post by the MCEER Management Council, a group of University at Buffalo faculty members who oversee MCEER's operations. As MCEER Director, he will also serve as Chair of the Council.
Whittaker is a member of several American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) committees that address structural loads, blast engineering, and earthquake protective systems. He is on the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Committee 349 on reinforced concrete nuclear structures and is the Structural Team Lead for the Applied Technology Council ATC-58 project on performance-based earthquake engineering. Whittaker is also a recognized structural engineering expert in the seismic resilience of nuclear power structures, and has conducted extensive research on fragility evaluation of conventional and isolated power plants, risk assessment procedures, modular composite construction for Generation III+ plants, and proposed designs for Generation IV reactors. He is a licensed Structural Engineer in the State of California.
Whittaker succeeds Andre Filiatrault, Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, who stepped down to more intently pursue his research interests.
During his tenure as director, Filiatrault led the initial phase of development of the University at Buffalo/ MCEER Experimental Campus for Large Infrastructure Protection, Sustainability and Enhancement - ECLIPSE Campus, an MCEER publicprivate initiative that enables large- and full-scale testing of new knowledge, tools and technologies to intelligently renew our Nation's infrastructure and protect it against a host of hazards, both natural and manmade.
Filiatrault also served as the driving force behind the continuing UniQUB/ MCEER Earthquake Engineering Seminar Series, a joint effort with Haiti's Quisqueya University (UniQ) in Port-au-Prince. Established to help the island nation effectively rebuild following the January 2010 earthquake, the program has educated more than 500 engineers in Port-au-Prince on fundamentals of earthquake engineering design and construction. Filiatrault also served as MCEER Deputy Director from 2003 to 2007.
Read the press release at http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2011/12/13075.html.


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Anna, in her eagerness to show kindness to the guest of the house, and to divert what seemed to her his sad thoughts, did not stop to make any reply, but rose and hastily crossed over to one of the bookcases, bringing back in her arms a large folio, full of colored illustrations of field sports.
"Now, Cousin Cecil," said she, drawing up a chair close by the side of his, and laying the folio open upon her lap, "this will please you I am sure; this is not about rats, but thorough-bred horses and dogs, stag-hounds and fox-hounds. Did you ever hear that our grandfather kept a pack of fox-hounds here, that is a hundred dogs you know. I will take you to the kennels and the huntman's lodge some day soon."
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"The tape came up to speed, then, opening theme -- Crosby: Blue of the Night; applause; introductory patter -- Crosby and Carpenter; song -- Crosby: My Heart is a Hobo; applause.
"Murdo McKenzie signaled me to 'cut.' I pressed the stop button. There were surely no more than two seconds of silence, which seem more like minutes to me, and then a shower of compliments. One small machine, one of a pair, side-by-side on a makeshift table -- the only two of their kind in the United States arranged to record and reproduce magnetic tape with such remarkable fidelity -- had, in a listening demonstration lasting almost exactly five minutes, upset the entire future of sound recording in this country."
Jack Mullin on his demonstration of the Magnetophone tape recorder to Bing Crosby in August 1947 at the NBC/ABC Hollywood studios.
The beginning
The place: London, England. The date: Sunday, February 25, 1940. Twilight comes early to London at that time of year, and on this particular Sunday, it mixed with fog and smoke from thousands of fireplaces to wrap those unlucky enough to be out of doors. Indoors, in front of hundreds of thousands of hearths, Londoners relaxed with their Sunday newspapers and the wireless. World War II had been a fact of life for nearly six months, but the first bombs had yet to fall. It was the era of the phony war, when Hitler still believed it was possible to form an alliance with right-wing forces in Britain and end the war.
Suddenly, listeners who hadn't tuned their set quite properly heard the familiar strains of "God Save the King." An upper-class English voice announced the inauguration of the New British Broadcasting System. What followed was an evening of popular and concert music, interspersed with "news" programs designed to convince listeners that Germany and England shared the same interests and ideals in the upcoming struggle.
The New British Broadcasting System (NBBS) probably would have come into being anyway, but what really made it work was audio recording on magnetic tape. Tape had existed in Germany on an experimental basis since 1920, and commercially since its introduction at the Berlin Radio Exhibition in 1935. What made the NBBS broadcast remarkable was a new recording breakthrough by two Reichs-rundfunk Gesellschaeft (German radio) engineers. Drs. Otto von Braurmuhl and Walter Weber found that by mixing a very high frequency signal with the audio during recording, the reproduced signals were so good that it became difficult to tell them from the live performance.
NBBS, which used captured commercial transmitters in Luxembourg, Belgium and Scandinavia, relied on tape for virtually all of its programming. It was, therefore, possible to air the same concert at the same hour from all of the stations. British listeners wondered how it was being done.
The Third Reich, however, was not the only country in which experiments with magnetic tape were being conducted. In September of 1944, the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company in St. Paul (known today as 3M), already producing coated "Scotch" pressure-sensitive tapes, received a special request from the Brush Development Company of Cleveland, Ohio. The Brush company was "interested in obtaining tapes coated with an emulsion containing a uniform dispersion of ferromagnetic powder," as the inquiry stated. The Brush Company, under a special Navy Department research contract was -- along with 3M -- about to launch the era of magnetic tape.
The first try
Brush agreed to supply the powder if 3M would apply it to a sample stripe of backing so it could be tested. The task was handed over to Dr. Wilfred Wetzel who was unaware of the work that had been done in Germany. One of the first problems he faced was that the oxide supplied by Brush turned out to be nothing more than iron, and that once applied to a paper backing it continued to rust, changing its chemical and magnetic properties.
Another was that 3M had no recorder; not even a recording head, and Brush was being somewhat secretive about what the end product would be used for. Whatever the purpose, Wetzel realized that the coating would have to be smooth if it were not to wear out anything it came in contact with. So 3M scientists, under Wetzel's direction, tried a number of techniques for gluing the particles onto quarter-inch strips of paper eight to ten inches long. As fast as they did so, the samples were mailed to Brush.
In 1944, no one in the United States had yet made a magnetic tape recorder. Wire recorders, using the principals of magnetic recording (patented in 1898 by Poulson), were being used for some business dictation. Even greater interest, however, was shown by the U.S. Navy Department, which was using them to record what they could intercept of German U-Boat radio messages. Much better quality recording was needed, and that was the goal of the Navy Department research contract with the Brush Company.
By late 1944, the World War II Allies were aware of the magnetic recorder developed by German engineers, a recorder that used an iron-powder-coated paper tape, which achieved much better sound quality that was possible with phonograph discs. A young Signal Corps technician, Jack Mullin, became part of a scavenging team assigned to follow the retreating German army and to pick up items of electronic interest. He found parts of recorders used in the field, two working tape recorders and a library of tapes in the studios of Radio Frankfurt in Bad Bauheim.
Almost simultaneously, 3M physicists and chemists were developing for Brush and the Navy a coated tape with a smooth surface and uniform dispersion of ferromagnetic powder that would withstand being drawn over a magnetic head to record electromagnetic signals. The goal was to produce a tape for high fidelity magnetic recording. By 1945, the first workable magnetic tape product had been developed.
After the war
At the end of the war in August of 1945, the Brush Company informed 3M that its Navy Department contract work was finished, and that further development on magnetic tape was to be conducted directly with Brush. The previous year's research had proved costly for 3M and, as yet, had produced not a cent in revenue; prospects for return were remote. But 3M elected to finance its own research based on the potential for extensive post-war application.
At first, 3M management considered being a contract supplier of finished product to Brush, and perhaps others. But the prospects of being merely a producer, with huge development costs and limited return, did not interest 3M. There was also a growing awareness that other companies were experimenting with tape, and many more were beginning to show an interest in building recorders. 3M decided, instead, to add magnetic tape to the its product line.
As months added up and scores of experimental magnetic tape formulations were tried, funding questions became serious; 3M considered putting the whole project in abeyance because no further orders were forthcoming from Brush. Fortunately for 3M, there were farsighted men at the company who, by force of argument and enthusiastic evidence, kept the project alive and advancing.
3M physicist Wetzel foresaw a broad potential market for magnetic tape. He also concluded that because sound could be recorded magnetically, the step to magnetic television pictures would be highly practical. He saw both requiring tape, which held the potential for much higher signal density than wire or steel ribbon.
In January of 1946, 3M learned that Brush was developing a tape recorder to show in New York. The tape project at 3M accelerated, with binder and backing improvements progressing rapidly. By May 1946, large usable quantities of tape were being produced, tape that would prove to be very helpful to Jack Mullin, the former Signal Corps technician who had scavenged German tape recorders during the last months of World War II. (See also Jack Mullin.)
Enter Bing Crosby
On May 16, 1946, Mullin was scheduled as the speaker at the regular meeting of the San Francisco chapter of the Institute of Radio Engineers, held at the studios of radio station KFRC. A demonstration of the German tape recording equipment had been promised, and the room was packed. Mullin played recordings of an orchestra, vocalists and a pipe organ that he had made on some of the tapes he brought back with him. The reaction was little short of a sensation.
One of those who heard about the demonstration was Frank Healy of Bing Crosby Enterprises. Healy believed that Mullin and his machines might provide the solution to a ticklish problem for the singer. In the 1940's, all programming, at least on the "prestige" networks (NBC, CBS and the fledgling ABC) was done live. Broadcasters and sponsors alike believed that transcribed shows -- those recorded in advance on 16-inch, 33 1/3 RPM discs -- sounded inferior and audiences would resent their "canned" quality. But Crosby, one of the highest-rated performers in the NBC stable, had insisted on freeing himself from the weekly grind of appearing live at the microphone. He sat out the 1945-46 season entirely, and came back only when third-ranked ABC promised to let him pre-record the Kraft Music Hall -- but only as long as the ratings remained high.
To Healy and Crosby's technical director, Murdo McKenzie, that meant recording bits of the show on a series of discs, then re-recording from one to another to produce a finished program. It was expensive, time-consuming, and worst of all, sounded bad -- particularly when one section had to be re-recorded two or three times.
Accordingly, one day in August, 1947, Mullin was called in to record the first Crosby show of the upcoming season on his German equipment, while Healy and McKenzie recorded it on disc. Mullin remembered the historic encounter:
"The most unforgettable moment in my life was the one when I stood before my Magnetophone tape recorder and pressed the Playback button for the first time in the presence of Bing Crosby, John Scott Trotter, and Bing's producers, Bill Morrow and Murdo McKenzie. Everything was at stake. By invitation, I had been present with my colleague, Bill Palmer, to record the first radio show of the 1947-'48 season in the NBC/ABC studio complex in Hollywood. And now we were to hear the result of our efforts and be judged by perhaps the most critical ears in the world of radio and recording.
"Prior to our invitation to come to Hollywood from San Francisco to record, and possibly, just possibly, to edit our tape into a complete show, the producers had looked into every alternate means of recording sound that showed any promise of success. Mostly, these boiled down to variations of disc recording methods and photographic sound-on-film systems. I am sure ABC held out little hope for success in testing our apparatus.
"The result of the (very successful) demonstration was that the Crosby people wanted me to stay right there and go through an editing process, to make a broadcast out of it. I did," Mullin told a reporter, "and they saw how easy it was with tape. The next thing I knew, I had a job recording the Bing Crosby Show for the rest of the season."
The problem was that Mullin had only his two rebuilt German recorders and 50 reels of German recording tape for the task. Luckily for him, 3M was working on a commercial product with a backing of acetate film rather than paper.
Mullen also faced another problem -- the 3M tape was "too good" for the German machines, which couldn't handle the tape's higher coercivity. Wetzel and his associates went back to the lab to come up with a tape that would work on the old machines, and on the 12 audio recorders Ampex Corporation was rushing to complete for the American Broadcasting Company. Crosby had been instrumental in persuading the network to buy the machines, copied from Mullin's German originals.
It's worth noting that when the Kraft Music Hall aired on the night of October 1, 1947, it was broadcast from a 16" disc rather than from the tape Mullin had recorded in August. McKenzie and his crew, after having assembled the show from Mullin's master tape, put it on a disc for on-air playback. After one or two shows, they decided to gamble on broadcasting directly from the tape; but just in case the tape should break there was a musician standing by in a nearby studio ready to go on the air with a piano recital.
That practice persisted not only at network studios but also in the studios of larger stations around the country for a year or two, until broadcast engineers discovered that tape simply didn't break. Once ABC began to switch to tape, it made two copies of each program and started them simultaneously on playback decks. If one were to fail, the engineer had only to switch to the backup, missing hardly a syllable.
Tape catches on
ABC's love affair with magnetic tape soon spread to the other networks, who planned to use it to facilitate the switch from standard to daylight savings time at the end of April 1948. The radio networks were thrown into turmoil earlier that year when Congress voted to let the individual states decide when -- and if -- they would go on daylight savings time. For a historic 22 weeks ABC pre-taped 17 hours of network radio programming daily to be replayed at periods appropriate to widely varied time zones.
When 3M began delivering tape, it was only in limited quantities. Everybody wondered whether the tape supplier would be able to meet the April deadline. Somehow they did -- but just barely. Mullin, in order to make his 50 reels of German tape last until reinforcements arrived, saved every scrap, every edit, and spliced them together for reuse. Splicing tape at the time meant "Scotch" sticky tape with a dusting of talcum powder. Mullin remembers checking each splice on a just-broadcast reel, then reassembling the tapes for use again during the next week.
Very much the same thing happened at the ABC studios in Chicago when the network got its first recorders. After the network signed off at midnight, a pair of 3M technicians went to work checking every splice in every tape so they could be reused the next day. Somehow, they managed to finish just in time for sign-on the following morning. During the 22 weeks this routine went on, the station lost only three minutes of air time because of a tape or splice failure.
The introduction of Scotch 100 magnetic tape in 1947 launched the recording tape industry in the United States. Initially, it took a lot of tape to reproduce a limited amount of sound. Broadcast tape recorders in 1947 operated at speeds of 30ips. By 1949, decent quality could be obtained at 7 1/2ips, a 4-fold improvement. That speed is still the industry standard.
A historical footnote -- although ABC had been the first network to embrace recording tape, it was one of the last to put full confidence in it as an archival medium. When Lee Harvey Oswald fired at President John Kennedy in Dallas, TX, on November 22, 1963, ABC engineers realized that history was being made. They dusted off the transcription turntables and captured all of the events of that long weekend on a series of discs. Other networks recorded their coverage on tape. It was the last hurrah of the electrical transcription.
Fear of tape breakage was ever-present in those early days -- not because it actually did, but because of a history of breakage with some tape forerunners. Even Mullin, who knew the medium better than anyone else, was never sure how his splices would hold up to the high tensions of those early recorders.
In the 1930's, the British Broadcasting Corporation had acquired several Blattnerphones, recorders that used ribbons of steel as the recording medium. Editing was done by cutting the ribbon with tinsmith's shears and soldering it back together. Occasionally, the soldered joints would come apart and engineers dove for cover as the steel strip thrashed about. One of the problems with the paper tape used on the early Brush Sound Mirror recorders was that it couldn't stand up to the fast braking of the machines.
Gradually, the musicians hired to stand by disappeared and transcription turntables began to gather dust. Tape moved from the control room to the recording studio, where it was to have a profound effect on all forms of music and on the nation's listening habits. And just as 3M and Ampex had met the Crosby and ABC deadlines, they were able to meet the daylight saving deadline of 1948, if just barely.
Recording pictures
While 1948 was audio tape's big year, it was also the year when 3M engineer Bob Herr proposed the idea of recording pictures as well as sound by using a wide tape at a speed of 15ips past a rapidly-rotating head assembly. Nothing much came of it just then. When 3M's Wetzel demonstrated the first black and white video recordings in 1950, it was with a fixed-head brute-force recorder that consumed 7,000-feet of tape in 15 minutes.
Videotape's big day was April 15, 1956, when the 31st annual convention of the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters (NAB) opened at the Conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago. Ampex planned to show its video recorder, the Mark IV (a forerunner of the production model, the VR-1000). 3M had supplied instrumentation tape as the recording medium.
The day before the show was to open, one of the Ampex staffers decided to try out the new tape. With horror, he discovered that it just wasn't up to the high-frequency demands of the Mark IV and placed a phone call to Dr. Wetzel in St. Paul. Ampex had been cagey about what kind of machine the tape was to be used on, no doubt fearing that 3M might jump into the video recorder business on its own.
Because Wetzel had been doing his own research on video tape, he had a pretty good idea what Ampex was up to. Nonetheless, the Ampex engineer, out of desperation, was forced to outline in detail exactly what the new tape was supposed to do. Could 3M do it -- and in time for the debut the following day? Wetzel thought so, and put a team of technicians on the job. They worked through the night, coming with sample after sample.
Finally, by 6:00 a.m., they'd produced a sample that worked and coated two five-minute reels worth of it. But Wetzel had already left for the airport. Vic Mohrlant, a technical services engineer grabbed the samples and dashed to the airport hoping against hope that Wetzel's flight had been delayed. For once, it had not. It was out on the runway waiting to take off.
Mohrlant dashed out onto the tarmac, found a member of the ground crew who had a pole long enough to reach the cockpit, and persuaded the pilot to stop. Fastening the package onto the end of the pole, he shouted that it was an emergency package for Dr. Wetzel aboard the flight. The pilot, not doubt concerned about a medical emergency, pulled the pouch off the pole and passed it back to his passenger.
The demonstration on April 15 caused the same kind of sensation that Mullin's IRE session had ten years earlier. Hard-headed engineers and front office men were on their feet cheering as the first reels rolled on the Mark IV. Many rushed to the stage to get a closer look. And orders for both tape and recorders piled up.
Videotape goes to work
The first commercial reel of Scotch 179 videotape went to CBS. The network used it to record Douglas Edwards and the News the night of November 30, 1956, for delayed broadcast in the Central, Mountain and Pacific time zones.
History was about to repeat itself. All three networks had decided to make the changeover to daylight savings time on April 28, 1957. Again there was a mad rush to produce enough recorders and enough tape to make this possible. In fact, by April 28, the networks had no more than 50 usable reels among them, each with a price tag of $248.95.
This time, there was no concern among professionals about the possibility of tape breakage -- but there were other worries. That would happen if a reel of the stuff containing an important program were placed in a magnetic field, or stored on top of a radiator or warm studio console? What effect would it have on unionized jobs?
What they weren't concerned about, however, were the effects of dust and dirt. One of 3M's biggest problems in meeting the April 28 deadline had been in coming up with perfect reels of tape. The smallest scratch, a wayward speck of dust or dirt in the coating, or microscopic damage to the tape edges were enough to reject a reel of videotape; in early runs, two-thirds of those produced had to be thrown away.
To keep dirt out and reduce the effects of humidity, the company packed its videotape in sealed transparent polybags. Yet stations and networks, used to handling film, asked for a return to the foil-lined black paper wrapping that had been used for film. Eventually, they learned the hard way that when it comes to videotape, cleanliness is more than just a fetish.
The use of videotape spread rapidly for delayed broadcast and news applications. It was slow, however, to catch on in program production and the shooting of commercials, despite its advantages and economies. One reason was the editing process, which was significantly different than film. Electronic editing still lay many years in the future.
The "Kitchen Debate"
By the summer of 1959, videotape had become as accepted a part of television as audio recording was of radio and the music industry. That summer, the U.S. Information Agency had set up an exhibition in Moscow that included, among other things a model American home -- complete with well-appointed kitchen -- and a color television studio, with its own video recorder. On July 24, Vice President Richard Nixon invited Soviet Premier Khrushchev to visit it with him. Khrushchev found the TV studio fascinating and readily agreed to step before the color camera to make a few remarks, then see himself played back on tape. Nixon joined him and before long the subject had turned from lighthearted pleasantries to a full-blown debate on the relative merits of capitalism and communism.
Oblivious to the red eye winking at them from the front of the camera, the two progressed to vigorous thrust and parry. An Ampex official in attendance reminded them of the tape, which continued to run. Khrushchev, shown how to operate the controls of the recorder, rewound the tape and played it back. Nixon persuaded him to let it be seen in the United States, but Khrushchev insisted that it be translated in full and played unedited. To make sure that it got out of the Soviet Union, Ampex International president Philip Gundy rushed back to his hotel with the tape, wrapped it in a dirty shirt and booked the first flight home.
By the time it was broadcast the following day, American newspapers had reported the event as an exchange acrimonious enough to start World War III. What viewers actually saw, though, was the two leaders in earnest and sometimes animated discussion, but by no means ready to launch missiles. The tape has been hailed as a milestone in communication as well as an historical document in its own right.
One thing the history of magnetic tape teaches us: The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Historical Photos
A well-worn transport assembly of a German Magnetophone tape recorder. This machine was one of those brought back to the U.S. by Jack Mullin. (Courtesy of Ampex.)
The March of Progress
In this 1947 photo, Jack Mullin (left) shows his modified Magnetophone tape recorders to Murdo McKenzie, Bing Crosby's technical producer. Mullin's ability to edit on his high fidelity German recorders without noticeable generation loss created a sensation in American broadcasting. Mullin's machines later inspired the Ampex model 200. (Courtesy of Ampex.)
Ampex chief engineer Harold Lindsay checks out the first American professional audiotape recorder, the model 200. This machine was first used by ABC in 1948. (Courtesy of Ampex.)
Magnetic recording tape pioneers Jack Mullin (left) and Frank Healey (with glasses) discuss early tape programs edited for the ABC Philco Hour radio program with Bing Crosby (right). Crosby was an avid proponent of tape recording, and his ABC network show was the first nationally broadcast tape program in the United States. (The fourth man in the photograph cannot be identified.) (Courtesy of 3M.)
Bing Crosby, recording a radio program segment in the early 1950s on an Ampex 600 recorder using Scotch Number 111 tape. (Courtesy of 3M.)
A scene from the famous "Kitchen Debate" between then Vice President Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev in Moscow (July 1959). The encounter was captured on videotape and replayed later to 72 million American home TV viewers. The event brought prominence to the technology of "live" playback from a strip of magnetic tape. (Courtesy of Ampex.)
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Plant DescriptionFor the past 10 years, Richard Saul at Itsaul Nursery in Atlanta has been crossing Echinacea purpurea and Echinacea paradoxa ,and he has gotten some spectacular hybrids which he has named the Big Sky series. These coneflower hybrids combine the best traits of their parents - large flowers with reflexed petals, knock-out gorgeous colors of mango, canteloupe, peach, mustard, butter yellow, strawberry and everything in between, strong stems, and strong fragrance. As with all of the coneflowers, flowers start out intensely colored and fade over time. 'Sundown's' flowers start fluorescent rose pink while buds are expanding, then change to bright rose-orange, then fade finally to soft purple pink. Very stunning. Plants grow 24 to 30 inches tall and 18 to 24 inches wide. They want full sun, good drainage, and average to dry soil. Just like their parents. Mid-summer, dry-growing, flowering companions could include Butterfly Weed, Coreopsis, Achillea, Russian Sage, Blazing Stars, and yes, yes, Little Bluestem. Fall planting not recommended.
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FORT LAUDERDALE — Praising anti-abortion advocates for their efforts to protect the unborn, U.S. Rep. Henry J. Hyde, R-Ill., said Saturday that he thinks a reversal in legislation legalizing abortion can be achieved only if at least two new justices are appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court or an amendment is made to the Constitution.
Hyde, guest speaker at the Broward County Right to Life`s 12th Annual Christmas Benefit Breakfast, made the remark during a news conference shortly before he addressed a group of 400, including clergy and county and state officials attending the affair at the Pier 66 Hotel.
``I think that there are three (justices) who can be counted on to reverse the Rowe vs. Wade legislation, which legalized abortion,`` said Hyde, naming Justices Sandra Day O`Connor, Byron R. White, and William H. Rehnquist as the three among the nine justices who would favor such a change.
``Abortion is a tough issue; it`s a mean issue,`` Hyde said. ``There are equities on both sides. There are human problems that need human solutions. But I have become convinced that abortion is an inhuman solution.``
Hyde, who has served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 11 years, is responsible for introducing in 1976 the Hyde Amendment, which prohibited the use of federal funds to pay for abortion unless a mother`s life is in danger.
Hyde, a father of four and a grandfather, said he became involved in the anti-abortion movement in 1969.
``Basically, it is a question of values,`` Hyde said. ``I am convinced that abortion is killing human life after it has already begun.``
During his speech Saturday, Hyde discussed the value of human life, citing examples of grossly deformed individuals who, despite their handicaps, had made worthwhile accomplishments in life.
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text: If you like to stay a few steps ahead, take note: the Pantone Color Institute has just revealed the top ten colors you should—read: will—be wearing come spring. They are: Tangerine Tango, a juicy orange hue; Solar Power, a warm yellow hue; Sodalite Blue, a maritime blue hue; Cabaret, an intense rosy-red hue; Starfish, a warm neutral hue; Margarita, a piquant yellow-green hue; Sweet Lilac, a pinkish lilac hue; Driftwood, a beige-grey blend; Bellflower, an ornamental purple; and Cockatoo, a spirited blue-green. So, now you know which colors to look for, tell us: which color is your favorite?


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Dedication to ethical standards of practice and offering the highest quality care has earned Victory Physical Therapy the trust of local physicians and the community in which we serve.
Victory Physical Therapy donates $4000.00 proceeds from 2012 Trick or Trot to TOPSoccer, a sports program for children with special needs.
Community Events
Trick or Trot 2015
Victory Physical Therapy would like to thank the participants and sponsors of our 9th Annual Trick or Trot held on Saturday, October 24th. We are happy to announce with your support we raised a little under $3000!! This money is presented to The Harrison Township Recreation Commission to help with their efforts in continuing to provide accessible playground equipment and camp programs for children with special needs. Thanks again for making our event a tremendous success. We look forward to seeing you at next years race!!!
Welcome to Victory Physical Therapy
8 Time Winner Gloucester County Times "Best of Gloucester County"Victory Physical Therapy is an independently owned private practice located in Mullica Hill, NJ. Our focus is to serve our local communities and their families by providing the latest evidence based therapeutic techniques to ensure success in achieving our patients' rehabilitation goals. Individualized patient care is our priority at Victory Physical Therapy. While at Victory you can expect:
- Consistency in care to ensure patient / caregiver trust and rapid progress.
- Prompt and professional attention to your specific needs.
- Ongoing therapeutic support during and after your rehabilitation.
- Our commitment to excellence - your Physical Therapist at Victory Physical Therapy conforms to rigorous continuing education requirements to guarantee maximum effectiveness of treatment through knowledgeable care.
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Clothing Room Needs
The clothing room is in need of good used clothing, sizes infant to teenager and new socks and underwear.
Call 428-6616 for more information or to make a delivery. OR, a blue donation bin is located outside the church at Prairie Avenue Christian Church, 2201 E. Prairie, Decatur.
The Domestic Violence Shelter Needs:
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The Employability Program
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DeWitt County Pantry Needs:
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"Harmony is not always exact".
Sarah is a British Ceramic Artist who works with clay to create highly textured and expressively decorated sculptures and produces a range of hand-made tableware in lively forms and vivid colours.
Sarah specialises in high fired vitreous ceramics (fired to stoneware, 1260°C) All her tableware is glazed with food safe glazes and is dishwasher friendly!
She shows her work at specialist ceramics and art exhibitions. Please check the blog for latest news and events. Her work is available direct from her studio (by appointment please). Please call her or make contact to arrange a visit.


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This is my second attempt at a segmented vessel. Again, I was inspired by Malcolm Tibbets, who invented porthole segmenting. It was a risky task with being new to segmented turning but I needed something unique for my mother's Christmas present. She is big on oak and on acorn décor so I thought it would be cool to have portholes with little acorns in each. I turned the acorns from oak dowel to save time. I didn't get very many of them exactly the same but I can call it art and let it slide. Turning a piece with portholes can make one a little nervous. I didn't have my tool catch in the ports, but I was stressed about it the "hole" time; makes for a different sanding approach as well.
The finished design was not what I originally intended. The piece was supposed to be more rounded and softer at the feature ring but due to my inexperience in not making the segments thick enough, I had to stop there to prevent a major fubar. The shape reminds of those vintage tops. Overall I think it came out acceptable and she loved it.
This vessel is made from oak, maple, and cherry with four coats of wipe-on ploy and paste wax. Thanks for viewing.
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NBA 2K18: 5 Best New Features In MyTeam
2K18 has hit a slam dunk with its new mode.
NBA 2K18 has finally arrived, and the general consensus across media sources is it's the best yet in the successful series.
As usual, the newest addition brings us a whole host of new features, including plenty of new additions to the well known and popular MyTeam mode.
MyTeam has always been popular due to its card-collecting nature, and the ability to accrue a team of players built from the greatest NBA stars of all time. The chance to team Michael Jordan with Lebron James, Shaquille O'Neal with James Harden, or Kobe Bryant with Tim Duncan are just a few of the mouth watering combinations players could throw together.
Over the course of the NBA season, more and more cards are added to the game based on stellar performances in real life, giving fans the chance to upgrade their roster with improved versions of their favourite stars.
This year sees a whole host of new features added to MyTeam which will ensure gamers keep on coming back for more throughout the year.


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Every sunrise gives me a new day to love you! Good morning, sweetheart. Hope you have an amazing day!
Never Compare ourselves with anyone else…because each one
of us is a unique creation…
never try to compete with anyone…
instead, compete with ourselves, let us
become a better person than
yesterday's ourselves.
One of the best lessons you
can learn in life is to master
how to remain calm.
Don't complain about changes if
you are not willing to change.
Every strike brings me closer to
the next home run.
Our Lives begins to end of the day
we become silent about things
that matter
I must be the luckiest guy alive because every day I see the same girl who I saw in my dreams the previous night. Good morning.
A morning text does not simply mean, "Good morning." Rather, it comes with the silent loving message, "I think of you when I wake up."
Welcome to the new morning with smile on ur face LOVE in ur "heart"Good Thoughts in ur "mind" Wish u the Brightest Morning…
I went to sleep last night with a smile because I knew I'd be dreaming of you… but I woke up this morning with a smile because you weren't a dream. Good Morning, baby!
If u cannot get someone off ur mind, maybe he/she is supposed to be there. Remember, the mind can recognize what the heart is trying to deny. Good Morning!
Eyes are not meant for tears and heart is not meant for fear, never get upset but always cheer bcoz u r the 1 who can make people smile for years. Good Morning!
Life is a rope that swings us through hope. Always believe that today is better than yesterday & tomorrow will be much better than today… good morning babe.
All mornings r like paintings:- u need a little inspiration to get going, a little smile to brighten up & an SMS from someone who cares to color ur day… (*) Good Morning (*)
M"ind touching"
E"ffect which wins the hearts…
Yes… It's your sweet smile so keep smiling always, good morning!
There are many stars but the Moon is U,
There r many friends but the best is U,
To forget me is up to U,
To gorget U is something I'll never do!
*** Good Morning ***!
Night has ended yesterday,
morning brings another day.
May you smile like the sunny rays
and leave your worries at the bright blue bay.
Good Morning!
5 Steps to a Lovely Morning:
Open your eyes.
Take a deep breath.
Throw aside the covers.
Get up from bed.
And read my message.
Good Morning my love.
May I come into your world?
I bring no flowers, No cakes,
But wishes to keep you fresh,
Prayer to keep you healthy,
And love to keep you smiling…
Good Morning….
Just thinking about you makes me feel like tackling the world. You are the reason I take vitamins with my toast and coffee. Have a great day!
Do you remember when I made you pancakes you get your special days off to a good start? I'll tell you a secret: it wasn't the pancakes that made it special. It was my love. Have a great day.
The thing about good friends is that distance can separate them but it can't erase the special thing that made them close to begin with. A connection of the soul. I hope you have a great day, my friend.
Good morning! Today was just an ordinary day until I thought of you and suddenly everything, everywhere became extraordinary. I just thought I would let you know.
Dreams can only become a
reality if there is hard work and
Motivational morning quotes
Success consistes of doing the
common things of life
uncommonly well.
I got up this morning with you in my thoughts. Come to think of it, I went to bed last night the same way. Hey, at least I'm consistent. Have a great day!
I wish I could be besides you as you open those cute eyes.
Would brush my fingers by your hair and lay your hands aside.
Then I would say a prayer for today to protect you from falling.
Lastly I would take your hand in mine and wish u good morning
Every morning my love for you keeps growing and I feel like I am getting closer too you as each day passes by. You are the dream love of my life and I need you every day. Good morning.
your love has countless pages,
no matter open any page it shows your love only,
some time has friend, lover, brother, sister, father mother, husband, wife
but never ends, keep ON & ON,
Good Morning!
love has no fear,
but you are not near,
I want you near,
dear come here,
will wait for year,
because your my sweet dear
Good Morning
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Thread: Testicle massage question
- 04-19-2010 #1
The theory behind testicle massaging is that the act of massaging your sack and nuts draws additional blood into it. This additional blood is both healthful and as a super added bonus helps to enlarge both the sack and your nuts. I was wondering about that and so here is my question - if you were to apply that theory to your unit, and massage only one part of it, shouldn't that area increase in size over those areas not being massaged? I am not talking about jelqing, but actually massaging your shaft at one spot only. According to this theory the heat would draw blood into that area at a higher rate then the rest of your shaft. To look at it in a different perspective, if you only massaged your shaft, doing it just like the testicle massage, should not your shaft gain in girth? I seriously doubt that the above would happen, which makes me question whether or not massaging your nut sack alone will enlarge anything. If someone massaged your biceps and triceps, but you didn't do any lifting, they certainly wouldn't get bigger. I think massaging your sack and nuts is definitely good for both, I just wonder about the increased size of things. After I jelq my sack I always follow up with massage, and often massage them throughout the day. Maybe I am missing something here, which for me is probably more the rule than exception, so please clear things up if I am not seeing the whole picture. Besides, I love good back and forths.
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Interesting points rbi. I have yet to notice my sac actually getting bigger though via the testicle massage. For me, it just makes it hang lower and gives it the appearance of being bigger. My testicles are the same size, just hanging down much lower.
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When I first started jelq long before I found pe forums I started with a short stroke. This resulted in development only in that area.
Whatever relevance this has,not sure.
- 04-20-2010 #4
Pegasus, not sure that is the same thing. A jelq, even a short stroke one is doing more to that area than a simple massage would. Not only are you bringing in more blood, but you are doing so forcefully, which is not the same thing as a gentle massage.BPEL 7.3", MEG 6.7", FL 6.0", MFG 5.75"
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- 04-23-2010 #5
So, do people feel massaging alone can increase sack and nut size?
I am still convinced that jelqing your sack is the better way to go as you are massaging everything except your actual nuts, but you are also working the spermatic cord that controls your nuts placement in the sack, and that cord is covered with skeletal muscle called the cremaster muscle.BPEL 7.3", MEG 6.7", FL 6.0", MFG 5.75"
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Mum's fund-raising hopes for son with aggressive cancer
A mum from St Annes has started a fund-raising push that she hopes will help cure her five-year-old son of cancer.
Charlie Gibson-Woolley also has Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism.
He has now developed Stage 4 High Risk Neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer that affects children.
Charlie's family are hoping to raise £275,000 to send him to America, where he would receive treatment they hope will save his life.
He's been in hospital for the past three months, and has been receiving chemotherapy for 80 days.
For children with the condition, long-term survival with treatments currently available is just 30%.
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U.S. v. Susan B. Anthony: 1873 - "i Have Been & Gone & Done It!", Stumping Before The Trial, Trial Begins June 17
women suffrage minor united
Defendant: Susan B. Anthony
Crime Charged: Unlawful Voting
Chief Defense Lawyers: Henry R. Selden and John Van Voorhis
Chief Prosecutor: Richard Crowley
Judge: Ward Hunt
Place: Canandaigua, New York
Dates of Trial: June 17-18, 1873
Verdict: Guilty
SIGNIFICANCE: This was one of the first in a series of decisions—including two rendered by the Supreme Court—which found that Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution did not expand or protect women's rights, an interpretation which remained unchanged for almost 100 years.
Several cases in the 1870s, including U.S. v. Susan B. Anthony, grew out of women's attempts to gain full rights of citizenship through the judicial system. Had this strategy worked, women would have been spared what followed: a 60-year-long, state-by-state legislative campaign for suffrage and 100 years in which the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause was not applied to sex discrimination cases.
In July 1868, exactly 20 years after the Seneca Falls Convention and American women's first public demand for suffrage, the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted. Section 2, intended to encourage states to grant suffrage to African-American men, angered women's rights leaders because it introduced the word "male" into the Constitution and, some thought, called into question the citizenship of females. Francis Minor, an attorney and husband of Virginia Minor, the Woman Suffrage Association of Missouri's president, thought women were looking at the wrong clause. Section 1, he pointed out in 1869, declared:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.
Minor wrote that this clause confirmed the citizenship of women and concluded, "provisions of the several State Constitutions that exclude women from the franchise on account of sex, are violative alike of the spirit and letter of the Federal Constitution."
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton published Minor's analysis in their newspaper, the Revolution, and urged women to go to the polls. In 1871 and 1872, in at least 10 states, women did so. Most were turned away, but a few actually managed to vote.


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PS3 to Play Home to More of SEGA's House of the Dead Series
Last year, the once Wii exclusive House of the Dead: Overkill Extended Cut was brought to the PlayStation 3. And while it wasn't a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, it worked will with the PlayStation Move in replicating that "arcade" experience on the PS3. It was a lot of fun, too. SEGA announced this morning that there is more House of the Dead arcade-style fun coming to the PlayStation Network.
SEGA revealed this morning plans to bring House of the Dead 3 and House of the Dead 4 to the PlayStation 3 via PSN. The classic arcade shooters will again feature PlayStation Move support, and a HD makeover. Although, SEGA was quick to point out that the HD-ness of them won't be as significant as HotD:O-Extended Cut (which wasn't that good in the first place), and instead be a mere sprucing.
House of the Dead 3 will arrive on February 7th, while House of the Dead 4's release is more vague with just "Spring" as the window.


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Long story short, my XPS crashed and died, and I have a Dell 4600 to use right now, it is what I have and can afford.
I tried to run the image imported on the 4600 I get error "cannot create activex component". This computer is running windows xp home SP3.
Any ideas what the issue is and how to fix it? Any help would be appreciated.


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Philippines' Gloria Arroyo speaks out on fraud charge
Former Philippine President Gloria Arroyo says she has faith that the courts will clear her name, in her first public comments since being arrested on vote-fraud charges.
She told local broadcaster GMA TV that the government was "employing demagoguery" against her.
Mrs Arroyo was arrested last month accused of rigging a 2007 election.
She denies the charge and has been trying to leave the country for specialist medical treatment.
The government has barred her from leaving though, and the two sides are now locked in an intense legal and political struggle.
"I have peace of mind because my conscience is clear. The current administration is employing demagoguery to ruin me," Mrs Arroyo told GMA.
"I believe in the rule of law. I think I did my best. I have great faith in God."
Mrs Arroyo, president from 2001 to 2010, also told the broadcaster that she was recovering well from a rare bone disease that had already required three operations this year.
She showed GMA scars from the operations and said there was no guarantee of avoiding a relapse.
She was arrested in hospital, where she has been for several weeks.
On Friday, she left the upmarket hospital she had been staying in and was transferred to a court-approved state hospital.
Politics in the Philippines is notorious for corruption, vote-rigging and long-running bitter rivalries between clans and families.
Mrs Arroyo, herself the daughter of a former president, has been surrounded by corruption allegations for years, and survived several attempts to have her impeached while in office.
Her predecessor Joseph Estrada was jailed for corruption, and former authoritarian leader Ferdinand Marcos amassed a vast fortune by embezzling public money.


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Starz Announces September Premiere Date For Season 3 Of Outlander
Starz reveals that the first episode of its historical fiction series Outlander's third season will debut on the network this coming September.
Having proven more than capable of consistently bringing in viewers as well as being nominated for several Golden Globe awards, it is little wonder that Starz would decide to continue producing the program. Set for a premiere date in the fall, it will be some time before fans of the genre-mixing series are able to see it back on the air. However, representatives from the series will once again be present at this summer's San Diego Comic-Con, allowing the truly devoted a major opportunity to tide themselves over.
The new season will consist of 13 episodes, each of which tells part of the story of Voyager, the third book in the best-selling book series on which the program is based.
Comingsoon.net, the source of this story, had this to share about the plot of the upcoming season:
The story picks up right after Claire (Caitriona Balfe) travels through the stones to return to her life in 1948. Now pregnant with Jamie's (Sam Heughan) child, she struggles with the fallout of her sudden reappearance and its effect on her marriage to her first husband, Frank (Tobias Menzies). Meanwhile, in the 18th century, Jamie suffers from the aftermath of his doomed last stand at the historic battle of Culloden, as well as the loss of Claire.
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Chicken Caesar Salad Recipe
I don't eat a lot of salads but chicken Caesar salad is amazing. If you are looking for a nice and light meal this recipe is for you. Chicken Caesar salad is very popular in many countries and can be ordered at almost any restaurant. I also made my own garlic croutons and have included the recipe for that as well. If you want to save time and just buy some from the story that will work as well but these are better! For the dressing I used mayo instead of the traditional raw egg. I just don't feel completely safe eating raw eggs but maybe someday things will change J! Typically the chicken in chicken Caesar salad is grilled. I used a grill pan instead of an outdoor grill but if you don't have either you can just pan fry the chicken. Enjoy.
2lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts
¾ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon brown sugar
½ teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon onion powder
1 head romaine lettuce (washed and torn into pieces)
shredded parmesan cheese
2 cups of white bread (torn or cut into pieces)
3 tablespoons virgin olive oil
2 garlic cloves (crushed)
¼ teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 tablespoon lemon juice
½ teaspoon Dijon mustard
½ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 oil packed anchovy (minced)
¼ cup olive oil
Cooking Instructions:
Step 1: For the dressing- In a small bowl whisk together mayonnaise, lemon juice, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, and minced anchovy. Then last whisk in olive oil. Refrigerate until needed (whisk once before using).
Step 2: For the croutons- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Tear or cut bread into pieces and place in a bowl. In a small bowl mix crushed garlic, olive oil, and salt. Drizzle oil mixture over bread pieces and toss to coat. Lie out bread pieces in a single layer on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes turning half way through for even browning. Allow to cool until needed.
Step 3: For the chicken- Between 2 sheets of wax paper pound chicken breasts with a mallet until at an even thickness. Season chicken breasts on both sides with salt, sugar, garlic powder and onion powder. Grill chicken on an outdoor grill or indoor grill pan for 5 minutes on each side of until no longer pink inside. Slice chicken into small strips.
Step 4: To make the salad mix shredded lettuce and chicken bits. Top with croutons, dressing and shredded parmesan cheese.
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8 Responses to "Chicken Caesar Salad Recipe"
You chicken in this salad looks amazing. Looove caesars.
man i love your recipes, especially the chinese ones. would love to see more of them, mongolian beef/ chicken and maybe a moo goo gai pan, or sweet and sour fish… yum !! and whatever others!
keep up the excellent work, your pics are absolutely amazing!!
Chicken Caesar salad is one of my favorite salads. We often have this as a stand alone meal and love it.
Your salad looks absolutely delicious. I didn't know that they used raw egg in this salad but I agree with you.
This is sooo a favourite – i just can't resist if I see it on a menu. Yours looks scrummy!
this was OUTSTANDING!!!!!!! deeeeeeeeeeee-licious. thank you for taking the time to post the recipie!!!! love, love, loved it 🙂
Do you have to use anchovie paste?


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Your Recordings must be properly tagged with Artist Name, Song Title and Album Name. Be sure to include a mailing address, email address and phone number.We accept NeoSoul, jazz grooves, south african House, HipHop Soul, Jazz as well as International all interesting neo soul sounds. Send us your work today.


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Do you remember back in September when IDC predicted Android tablets would not see any significant growth in the share of the market that they command? IDC probably hopes you have forgotten that in light of their report today showing some significant changes in the tablet market during the third quarter of 2012. Perhaps the most stunning change was the worldwide market share for Apple devices, which slipped from a commanding 65.5% of the market in the second quarter to 50.4% in the third quarter. IDC attributes some of this to consumers holding off on purchases amidst rumors of the iPad mini. A bounce back is expected during the fourth quarter, but may be hampered by the iPad mini's relatively high purchase price.
Apple's loss was Android's gain as Samsung, Amazon, Asus and Lenovo all saw their share grow compared to both the 2012 second quarter and year-over-year. Samsung saw shipments improve from 1.2 million units during the 2011 third quarter to 5.1 million units this year. Samsung now commands 18.4% of the tablet market.
Overall, the tablet market continues to grow, up 49.5% compared to a year ago and up 6.7% compared to last quarter.
The question now is whether the third quarter is just a blip and we see Apple return to controlling almost two-thirds of the market or will Android based devices continue their march to dominance?
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|MAFW Manual
gchar* name = "myplaylist"; MafwPlaylistManager *manager; MafwProxyPlaylist *playlist; GError *error = NULL; manager = mafw_playlist_manager_get (); playlist = mafw_playlist_manager_create_playlist (manager, name, &error); if (error != NULL) { /* Error management */ } else if (playlist != NULL) { /* Playlist created correctly */ } else { /* This should not happen */ }
The method mafw_playlist_manager_create_playlist is responsible for requesting the creation of a new playlist to the playlist daemon. If the operation was successful, this operations returns a reference to a MafwProxyPlaylist that will act as a local representation of the remote playlist created in the playlist daemon. If the requested playlist name has already been used (this is, another playlist with that name already exists), no playlist is created and a reference to the already existing playlist is returned. In order to check if a certain playlist already exists, the developer can use mafw_playlist_manager_get_playlists or mafw_playlist_manager_list_playlists to list the playlist names that have been registered already.
It is important to consider the shared nature of the MAFW playlists. From the developer point of view, this means it should never be assumed that a certain MAFW based application is the only one interacting with a playlist.
The application can install a signal handler in order to be notified of the creation of new playlists. This can be done like this:
{ g_signal_connect(manager, "playlist-created", G_CALLBACK(on_mafw_playlist_created), NULL); } static void on_mafw_playlist_created (MafwPlaylistManager* manager, MafwProxyPlaylist *playlist, gpointer user_data) { /* Handle new playlist */ }
Although new playlists can be used right away after calling mafw_playlist_manager_create_playlist, it is to always handle newly created playlists through the "playlist-created" signal, because this will work also for playlists created by other MAFW based applications.
It is possible to import an existing playlist file or the contents of a particular container of a source extension as a MAFW playlist with the help of mafw_playlist_manager_import. If this method is passed a URI as parameter, it will try to parse the file pointed by that URI and populate a playlist with the entries of the playlist file. Likewise, if a source object identifier is used instead of a URI, and it points to a valid source container, the container will be browsed, and the contents will be used to populate the playlist. If the object identifier points to a single media item instead of a container, the associated media will be treated as as a playlist file, parsing the file it points to adding its entries to the playlist.
After a playlist has been imported, the framework will invoke the callback passed as parameter to mafw_playlist_manager_import, with a reference to the imported playlist proxy object. The name of the playlist will be the URI pointing to the file, or the source container title. If a playlist with this name existed already, then a number will be added after the name as a suffix to ensure a unique name is assigned. After this, the "playlist-created" signal will be emitted.
This is an example of importing a playlist file to the framework:
static void on_mafw_playlist_import_done (MafwPlaylistManager *self, guint import_id, MafwProxyPlaylist *new_playlist, gpointer user_data, const GError *error) { /* Code to handle playlist import or check for errors */ } static void import_test_file(void) { gchar* uri = "file:///home/test/test.pls"; MafwPlaylistManager *manager; GError *error = NULL; manager = mafw_playlist_manager_get (); if (!mafw_playlist_manager_import (manager, uri, NULL, on_mafw_playlist_import_done, NULL, &error)) { /* Error management (preconditions violated) */ } }


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The Momentum Montessori Toddler program is designed to meet the needs of children 18 months to 2.5 years of age. Our scaffold learning environment was built for young students to develop their social, emotional, physical, and cognitive abilities in a loving preschool environment. The student based learning approach will allow students to explore and discover with a variety of character development activities and academic lessons. Our Toddlers will be introduced to Music, Physical Literacy, Life skills, Art, French, Reading, Writing, and Mathematics. While our Toddlers are developing their independence, parents will be provided a digital Daily Student Report, multiple messages including pictures and videos sent through Brightwheel's smartphone technology, and happy to know their child has been provided healthy nutritious meals by award winning catering company Real Food for Real Kids. The Toddler program runs Monday to Friday from 7:30am-6:00pm while offering free Early Drop-off and Late Pick up. With a 1 to 5 Teacher to Student ratio, our Toddlers are always well supervised and for Toddlers in need for potty training, we offer that as well. The Momentum Montessori Toddler program is, The Smart Start to Success.
The CASA program provides daily immersion of Mathematics, Reading, and Writing in the English language while building student empathy, patience, self-confidence and self-worth. Our goal is to educate students to think globally but act locally by also teaching them about technology, physical literacy, and music. We will develop our students understanding of the English language while also teaching them to speak Mandarin, French, and Spanish. With a variety of student-based learning opportunities, our teachers will guide our students to enjoy the process of exploring and discovering the world around them. This is highlighted by our experimental learning program which will take students out of the classroom and explore the best attractions the great city of Toronto has to offer. We also invite educational programs and professionals from the community to bring their passion for education to our school. When we have visitors, we have students take on leadership roles and act as Momentum Montessori ambassadors for our welcomed guests.
Healthy active living is a corner stone for Momentum Montessori and we offer up daily physical education opportunities of moderate to vigorous activity in a fun filled environment while promoting proper hygiene. Our school believes in making the healthy choice, the easy choice and that is why we offer a catered food program by Real Food for Real Kids which is entirely based of organic, non-genetically modified, or artificially flavoured food. A healthy start is a smart start.
The incorporation of technology in education has shown to provide even higher levels of comprehension with learner development and cognitive growth, which is why Momentum Montessori
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An introduction to the Arts is vital for a developing mind. At Momentum Montessori we teach our students a variety of performing arts skills including singing, public speaking, movement to music, and instrumental music. Our students will gain experience with playing the piano, percussion, and string instruments. Momentum Montessori encourages our students to have as much fun as possible playing music and grow a deep seeded appreciation for the Arts.
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Dahi Vada (Dahi Bhalla) Recipe (with Step by Step Photos)
|For Vada:
|1 cup Urad Dal (black gram lentils without skin)
|1/2 tablespoon crushed Ginger-Green Chilli (optional)
|Oil, for deep frying
|Salt to taste
|4 cups lukewarm Water
|For Assembling:
|3½ cups Curd (yogurt)
|1 tablespoon Red Chilli Powder
|2 tablespoons Roasted Cumin Powder
|1 tablespoon Black Pepper Powder (optional)
|1/4 cup finely chopped Coriander Leaves
|1/4 cup Sweet Chutney (date tamarind chutney)
|3 tablespoons Powdered Sugar or to taste (optional)
- Rinse and soak urad dal in water for 6 hours or overnight.
- Its size would increase to almost double during soaking. Drain and discard all water from dal.
- Place it in grinder and grind into a smooth paste by gradually adding 1-2 tablespoons water at a time as required (approx. 1/2-cup total water). Amount of water required may vary according to the quality of dal. Do not add too much water otherwise batter will turn watery; it should have thick lumpy consistency and there should not be any broken dal pieces.
- Transfer it to a large bowl and add crushed ginger-chili and salt.
- Mix well and beat the batter until it turns light, about at-least 4-5 minutes. This step is very critical as it will decide how soft and fluffy vada would be after deep-frying. More or excess beating will not harm the softness and fluffiness of it.
- Heat oil in a deep frying pan over medium flame. When oil is medium hot, take a medium lemon sized portion of batter in between your fingers or a spoon and gently drop it into the oil. Drop 4-5 portions at a time. Deep-fry them on medium heat until light golden brown and crispy. Take them out from oil and transfer into a bowl having lukewarm water. Make vadas from remaining batter in similar way.
- Soak them for about 7-8 minutes. Oil droplets would start floating on surface and vada would turn soft.
- Takeout them out from water and press gently between your palms and remove excess water. (This will also drain-out excess oil)
- Transfer them to a plate.
For Garnishing:
- Beat curd with sugar and salt with hand beater until smooth. Do not use electric blender for beating otherwise curd will turn very thin.
- Take 4-5 fried and soaked vadas in a deep serving plate or a bowl. Pour generous amount of curd evenly over it until fully covered. Top it with 2-teaspoons sweet chutney and sprinkle red chilli powder, roasted cumin powder and black pepper powder. Garnish dahi bhalla chaat with coriander leaves and serve.
- In Gujarat and Maharashtra, sugar is added to the curd but if you do not like a sweeter taste of it then you can avoid it.
- You can prepare vada from equal amount of moong dal and urad dal or only from moong dal.
- Curd should be chilled for a better taste. You can beat curd in advance and then place it in a refrigerator to chill.
- Transfer fried vada immediately into the water and make sure that they stay are fully submerged in it. This will make them softer.
- While taking vada out from water make sure that water is not hot, otherwise you may burn your hands.
- If you deep-fry them on high flame then they will immediately turn golden brown from outside but remain uncooked from inside.
- If you fry them on low flame then they will absorb more oil.
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18 Comments
I hv tried many recipes from food viva n each turn out hit by the family.
Thank you SO much.
There is one query..what can be done if the batter becomes lil thin? Pls reply asap. Thank you
Response: Hello Hiral, you can add rice flour or urad dal flour or fine sooji (rava) to the batter.
It helps me a lot to serve my friends my guests..
Response: Thank you Arati for sharing the helpful tip.
Response: Yes, you can do that. Store the vada in refrigerator and then dip them in warm water (use little more hot water than warm water as the vada are cool) before using.
Response: Hi Meera, you can store the dal mixture in refrigerator. Before making the vada, bring the batter at room temperature and beat it with your hand for 4-5 minutes.
Response: Yes Kasturi, you can use electric blender to beat the batter.
Response: Hi Ana, you can store soaked and drained vada in a container in refrigerator.
Response: Thanks Nisha for trying the recipe and writing the feedback.
Response: Hi Debbie, thanks for trying the recipe. We will definitely try to post more recipes for breakfast and snacks.
Response: Hi Suchita, food prepared from urad dal is heavy and so if you soak the dal for around 5-6 hours, it will be easy to digest. If you are in hurry, you can soak the dal for 3 hours in lukewarm water (not hot) or use the urad dal flour (soak it for around 2-hours) also.
Indian style food . Actually , I always try to make it but l can not
make it . When I tried your it was a very nice result so I love it.
I love your version.


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With the month of December gone, some motorsport fans may be going through withdrawal in North America. Some of us are counting down the days for the Rolex 24 at Daytona (set for January 26th) while other hardcore supporters of NASCAR and INDYCAR are stuck waiting a little bit longer for action 2013 racing action to commence. Excited to say old favourites return to professional racing competition, the 2013 motorsport season brings the addition of some new faces and especially new racing equipment.
The following represent some of the 2013 racing vehicles fans can expect to see competing, and potentially in victory lane for the upcoming season.
Bentley Continental GT3 Car
In the early part of the 20th century, W.O. Bentley turned aviation expertise into a series of precision British performance machines. Pioneering technology such as an overhead cam four valve per cylinder engine layout, Le Mans and even the Indianapolis 500 were proving ground for an ambitious new auto company. Part of the first 24 Hours of Le Mans automobile race in 1923, Bentley finished 4th but would become a powerful juggernaut winning five of the next seven 24-hour races in France. The sale of Bentley Motors Limited to Rolls-Royce in 1931 put the kibosh to racing activities as the brand was recognized as super luxury brand.
Fast-forward over 80 years, a production-based Bentley Continental GT3 concept car is signalling a return to sports car racing. Recalling that Bentley returned to Le Mans between 2001 and 2003 with the brand's sixth win coming in final year, the Speed 8 was a specialized prototype racer that involved technology from the competition-built Audi R8. While Volkswagen Group inspiration is part of modern Bentley vehicles, the Continental GT3 uses the road-going GT Speed version and pairs it with aerodynamic and other performance tweaks.
Bentley has indicated that a return to auto racing is set for later in 2013 but has not identified a series.
Nissan DeltaWing
Heading into 2013, the Nissan DeltaWing is already a celebrated race car design. Participating in two events during the 2012 sports car racing season, no spectator could mistake the DeltaWing race car for anything else on the race track. With a Nissan turbocharged 1.6 liter engine and a lower weight than other prototype race machines, the DeltaWing chassis proved to be more than a novelty when the #0 car finished the 2012 Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta in 5th place. Although the Nissan DeltaWing operated as an unclassified entry (meaning it could not officially claim any class honours) this past season, the American Le Mans Series has approved the Nissan DeltaWing vehicle as a full-fledged entry in 2013. There has been no announcement specifically in what class the DeltaWing will run. Pace at Le Mans and Road Atlanta was equal to the P2 Class racing machines.
Ford Fusion NASCAR Sprint Cup Stock Car
Ford's latest generation mid-sized sedan enters vehicle showroom as an ever-important vehicle for 2013. Competing in a vehicle sector occupied by the Hyundai Sonata, Toyota Camry and the Honda Accord just to name a few, the 2013 Ford Fusion will be balancing family sedan practicality with technology for advanced electronics and alternative powertrains. The new 2013 Ford Fusion will also have a place on the upcoming NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule where will attempt to atone for next season's shortfalls.
While 2012 started promising for Ford with Matt Kenseth dominating the late stage of the Daytona 500 on route to victory, the manufacturer title was collected by an alliance of Chevrolets and Brad Keselowski driving a Dodge Charger claimed the driver's championship. The 2013 Ford Fusion stock car has even more to prove than its vaguely related production counterpart. The last driver of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series to pilot a Ford to the season-ending title was Kurt Busch in 2004. In that occasion, a Ford Taurus body sailed Busch to the Sprint Cup.
Showing off the Aston Martin-sourced exterior design as a charming silhouette, 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup series team are intent to steer the new Ford Fusion to victory in as many of the 36 points-paying events possible in the elite stock car tour.
Chevrolet Camaro NASCAR Nationwide Series Stock Car
Starting in this 2013 NASCAR season, the Chevrolet camp will be represented by an each major division will be represented by dedicated product between the Sprint Cup and shorter distance Nationwide Series races. Entering the 2014 Chevrolet SS sedan into Sprint Cup competition, the Chevrolet Camaro is being called into duty as the next NASCAR Nationwide series vehicle.
The Chevrolet Camaro returns to major NASCAR competition since the disbanding of the short-lived Grand American series that ran from 1968 to 1971. A shape, faithful application of the street car's muscular look, the Chevy Camaro Nationwide Series stock car is certain to be a welcoming sight bowtie badge fans to NASCAR events starting with Daytona Speedweeks in February. At the start of the 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series season, the Camaro's appearance on the race grid will reignite a frenzy fight with fellow pony car the Ford Mustang.
Mazda6 SkyActiv-D Clean Diesel GX Car
Auto racing has been and continues to be a vivid test bed for innovative technologies. Promoting all-around breakthroughs like the rear-view mirror on the first Indianapolis 500-winning Marmon Wasp in 1911, motorsports can also provide a meaningful activity for car manufacturers to demonstrate their proprietary technology to a large audience.
With few diesel products sold in the United States compared to other marketplaces on the globe, the daring launch of their SkyActiv-D clean diesel Mazda6 sedan will definitely require an exceptional marketing campaign. Eager to sell the benefits of the 2.2-liter clean diesel engine, the 2014 Mazda6 SkyActiv-D sedan will be exhibited on the racetrack prior to its sale debut later this year. Taking part in brand new sports car GX category operating under the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, Mazda is met with incredible coincidence with a production-based class promoting clean diesel and hybrid set to debut at the 2013 Rolex 24 at Daytona. There will be at least three cars campaigning the Mazda6 SkyActiv-D clean diesel in the GX Class in late the January endurance race.
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