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Whenever I counsel people on the road to becoming a home cook, I make sure to say "if you're not making mistakes, you're not cooking." What a lot of people tend to forget about food bloggers is that we, too, make a ton of mistakes as we develop and execute recipes. If we didn't, we wouldn't be cooking, either.
My recipe mistakes range far and wide. There are the tiny missteps that drag an otherwise excellent recipe asunder: that tablespoon too many of lemon juice, that makes a pleasantly tangy dressing downright sour; the extra liquid you added to something that turned it soupy; the recipe that would have been perfect, if you had seasoned it just a little better as you were cooking; the muffins that taste alright, but you forgot the baking powder, so they emerge from the oven looking like hockey pucks.
Then there are the big mistakes, the veritable kitchen catastrophes. These include the time I made a red pepper and seaweed soup that sounded great on paper, yet tasted horrible. There was also the broccoli soup I served my mother that was so lemony she actually puckered her face. The time I decided to make a cantaloupe and garam masala smoothie–yikes. The many, many, many failed loaves of homemade bread that I've attempted (if I ever retire, which, given my constitution, is unlikely, I swear I will perfect bread making). My first risotto, which was an affront to Italian grandmothers everywhere because I tried to speed through it, and ended up with tough rice. Oh yes, there have been many disasters.
Normally, if a recipe makes it to my blog, it's because it either tasted "just right" on the first try, or because I've made it enough times to feel confident that it's essentially foolproof. But the honest truth is that my recipes, like any recipes, are fallible. Oftentimes, I learn that what's perfect for my palate is not perfect for other peoples' (for example, I like a lot more lemon in my recipes than others do). Or I write something down incorrectly as I'm cooking, and end up posting a recipe with an error in it. Or I experience some sort of fluke as I cook–an accident or faulty ratio that for whatever reason wasn't a problem for me, but it's a problem when my readers repeat it. There are all sorts of possibilities for variance in the success of what I make.
None of this should be very surprising–it's the standard trial and error that comes with making food. But to read a lot of food blogs, you'd think that cooking is a seamless process, an elegant, choreographed ballet that's ready for TV syndication. No way: cooking is messy, uneven, and often very chaotic. And I'm absolutely willing to admit to all of you that, for every one of my successful recipes you see here on the blog, there are plenty of flops.
Today, I want to do something I've never done before, which is to "fix" two recipes that readers have had a hard time with, and post the amendments. They are my recent beet granola (so good) and my buckwheat and quinoa pancakes with pumpkin cream. Both recipes worked like a charm in my kitchen. And both have caused a lot of problem in other peoples' kitchens–so much so, that I took the pancakes off the blog, for fear of having my readers waste costly and valuable ingredients.
Typically, if I make something delicious and only one reader reports a snag, I know that his or her execution was the exception, and mine was the rule. If I make something successfully at home, but nearly all of my commenters write in to tell me that they had no such luck, I know that I'm the exception, and they are the rule. It's usually very easy to know what I did wrong.
Take the beet granola: it became clear very quickly from my comments that I'd used way too much liquid in the recipe. This surprised me, because I did test it in both my oven and my dehydrator, but for whatever reason, it didn't work for anyone else, at least not without a lot of extra cooking or dehydrating time. So the obvious "recipe fix" was to decrease the liquid used for the granola. As I did that, I also nixed the sunflower seeds, which felt slightly extraneous in the recipe when I made it, and also drowned out the delicate flavor of the hemp seeds. This was a win win: I got to fix the big and immediate issue (too soggy) and improve something microscopic, too.
Revised Beet Granola (vegan, raw or cooked, soy free, gluten free)
Makes 2 1/2 cups
1 1/2 cups rolled oats
1/2 cup hemp seeds
1/3 cup goldenberries or raisins
2 tsp cinnamon
Pinch sea salt
4 pitted dates, soaked 1 hour or more and drained
1 small beet, quartered
1/4 cup water
1) Place dates, beet, and water in a high speed blender and blend until smooth. You can also use a food processor, but if you do that you may want to substitute 2 tbsp maple syrup for the dates (as they can be tough to blend unless very well soaked). You should end up with about 1/2 cup liquid, but if your beet is on the large side you may have some extra. Use only 1/2 cup for the granola, and reserve the rest for drizzling on vegan yogurt, oats, or banana soft serve!
2) Mix the oats, seeds, goldenberries, and cinnamon. Pour 1/2 cup wet ingredients over the dry ones. Bake at 350 degrees for about 12-15 minutes, or dehydrate at 115 for about 8 hours, or until dry. Enjoy!
I hope you guys have more success with this dramatically altered portion of liquid. Let me know!
Next up was a revision of my buckwheat and quinoa pancakes with pumpkin cream. This is another recipe that went totally smoothly when I made it, but most people found that it the dough stayed way too mushy through cooking, and never turned into light, easy-to-flip pancakes. Fail! I'm sorry guys. I've revised the recipe considerably; the biggest change is that now the quinoa stays whole, rather than blending in, and there are no berries (probably helpful for texture). I hope it works. You'll tell me, right?
Note that, since I'm on a kick right now of putting beet in odd kinds of recipes—granolas, smoothies—I came up with an alternate sauce beet and berry sauce for the pancakes. The pumpkin cream sauce would rock, too.
Buckwheat and Quinoa Pancakes with Pumpkin Cream or Beet and Berry Sauce (vegan, gluten free, soy free)
Makes 10 pancakes, or roughly 3-4 servings
1 1/4 cup buckwheat flour (NB: buckwheat is naturally a gluten free grain, but if you are gluten free, double check your flour to be sure it's GF certified to assure safety from cross contamination)
1/2 cup cooked quinoa
2 tsp baking soda
Pinch salt
1-2 tsp cinnamon (I like to go heavy on cinnamon)
1 1/2 cups almond milk + extra for while you make the pancakes
1 tbsp flax meal + 3 tbsp warm water
1 tbsp agave or stevia to taste
1) Mix the buckwheat flour, backing soda, cinnamon, salt, and quinoa in a large bowl.
2) Whisk together the flax and warm water and let sit for a few moments. Then, whisk it together with the almond milk and agave (if you wish—I used about a 1/2 tsp stevia here, but either is fine, and the recipe doesn't need much sweetening).
3) Mix wet ingredients and dry. Keep in mind that you'll need a little extra almond milk because pancake batter thickens as it sits, so have the almond milk handy.
4) Heat a skillet over a medium/high flame. When it's hot enough, drop batter by heaping 1/4 cup servings onto the skillet. Wait until bubbles form on the top, and then gingerly flip the pancakes, one by one. Cook through on other side till batter is used up. Serve with beet and berry sauce OR pumpkin cream sauce, below!
Beet and Berry Sauce (gluten free, soy free, vegan)
Makes 3/4 cup
1 medium beet, roasted or steamed
1/2 cup blueberries (fresh or frozen)
1/4 cup water
2 dates, or stevia to taste
Blend all ingredients together in a blender till smooth, adding more water if needed. Pour over pancakes, and enjoy the benefits of many, many antioxidants in this syrup, which has no added sugar at all!
Pumpkin Cream Sauce (gluten free, soy free, vegan)
Serves 2-4
2 cups puréed pumpkin or autumn squash
Scant 1/2 cup almond milk
2 tbsp almond butter or cashew butter
1 tsp xanthan gum
1 tsp cinnamon
Blend all ingredients on high, and serve. Delicious on fruit slices, too!
Whichever way you serve these pancakes, I hope that the consistency and overall success is now much better. I really loved the taste when I made them yesterday, and love what the whole quinoa does for texture and chew. Yum.
Part of being a chef means making errors. But I'm lucky to have readers who keep me posted on what works and doesn't. Let me know, so that I can tweak things for you guys!
Tomorrow, I'll have a dual cookbook review here on the blog, and the usual food+life on Sunday and beyond. See you soon!


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MINNEAPOLIS — Hitting third in the All-Star Game is both an honor and a burden, but one Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki embraces.
"Not too many guys can say they hit third for an all-star team," Tulo said Tuesday, about three hours before the 85th All-Star Game at Target Field. "No doubt it's cool, but if you are hitting third, the lineup is depending on you, so hopefully I get some good at-bats. Maybe I get some runners in scoring position and I make the most of it."
This is the fourth time Tulowitzki has been selected to the All-Star Game, but only the third time he'll play in the game. He was inactive in 2010 because of a broken wrist.
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Chris Carpenter was every bit the postseason ace he's been in the past for the St. Louis Cardinals.
Taking the mound for only the fourth time in 2012, missing a rib after surgery to cure numbness on his right side, the 37-year-old Carpenter pitched scoreless ball into the sixth inning, rookie Pete Kozma delivered a three-run homer, and the defending champion Cardinals beat the Washington Nationals 8-0 Wednesday to take a 2-1 lead in their NL division series.
All in all, quite a damper on the day for a Nationals Park-record 45,017 red-wearing, towel-twirling fans witnessing the first major league postseason game in the nation's capital in 79 years.
Three relievers finished the shutout for the Cardinals, who can end the best-of-five series in Thursday's Game 4 at Washington.
Kyle Lohse will start for St. Louis. Ross Detwiler pitches for Washington, which is sticking to its long-stated plan of keeping Stephen Strasburg on the sideline the rest of the way.
The Cardinals won 10 fewer games than the majors-best Nationals this season and finished second in the NL Central, nine games behind Cincinnati, sneaking into the postseason as the league's second wild-card under this year's new format. But the Cardinals become a different bunch in the high-pressure playoffs — no matter that slugger Albert Pujols and manager Tony La Russa are no longer around.
Carpenter still is, even though even he didn't expect to be pitching this year when he encountered problems during spring training and needed an operation in July to correct a nerve problem. The top rib on his right side was removed, along with connecting muscles.
He returned Sept. 21, going 0-2 in three starts totaling 17 innings, so it wasn't clear how he'd fare Wednesday. Yeah, right. Carpenter allowed seven hits and walked two across his 5 2-3 innings to improve to 10-2 over his career in the postseason. That includes a 4-0 mark while helping another group of wild-card Cardinals take the title in the 2011 World Series, when he won Game 7 against Texas.
With the exception of Ian Desmond — 3 for 4 on Wednesday, 7 for 12 in the series — the Nationals' hitters are struggling mightily. They've scored a total of seven runs in the playoffs and went 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on base in Game 3.
Rookie phenom Bryce Harper's woes, in particular, stand out: He went 0 for 5, dropping to 1 for 15.
Carpenter was pretty good with a bat in his hands, collecting a pair of hits, including a double off the wall that was about a foot or two away from being a homer. When he reached second base, he raised his right fist.
Similarly, neither club could be sure which Edwin Jackson would show up for NL East champion Washington, a year after he was part of the Cardinals' championship team: The one who struck out 10 and allowed one unearned run in eight innings against St. Louis on Aug. 30, or the one who lasted only 1 1-3 innings in a loss to the Cardinals on Sept. 28.
Much closer to the second version, it turned out, although he did recover from a rough start to retire eight of his last 10 batters Wednesday.
Still, Jackson was done after five innings and four runs. The Cardinals tacked on four runs off relievers Craig Stammen, Christian Garcia and Ryan Mattheus.
Not since the original Senators lost to the New York Giants in the 1933 World Series had big league baseball stretched past the regular season in Washington. Back then, of course, there was no MLB Network in HD to carry a game the way there was Wednesday; indeed, television itself was in its infancy, period. And spectators in attendance way back then could not enjoy a beer at the ballpark, because prohibition wasn't repealed until a couple of months later.
With the Capitol Dome rising beyond left field, the crowd of today was ready to root, root, root for the home team, breaking into chants of "Let's go, Nats!" after player introductions and again after a four-jet flyover. And, boy, did they boo — when Cardinals outfielder John Jay was announced as the game's first batter, when catcher Yadier Molina trotted to chat with Carpenter, even when Carpenter paused between pitches to tie his red-and-gray right shoe.
Most of all, they booed when Washington's Danny Espinosa was ruled out at first after bunting in the second. TV replays showed that Espinosa did beat third baseman David Freese's throw, but the call was missed by Jim Joyce — an umpire best known for blowing a call at first base to ruin Detroit pitcher Armando Galarraga's bid for a perfect game in 2010.
Earlier, those boos were directed at Jackson.
The Cardinals opened the second inning with four consecutive hits, the biggest being Kozma's first-pitch homer into the first row in left off a 94 mph fastball to make it 4-0. Kozma took over as the Cardinals' everyday shortstop in September, replacing injured All-Star Rafael Furcal, and only had 72 at-bats during the regular season.
But he's only the latest in a series of "Who's that?" stars of this postseason.
Carpenter Pitches Cards past Nationals 8-0 for 2-1 Lead
Carpenter pitched scoreless ball into the sixth inning
Chris Carpenter was every bit the postseason ace he's been in the past for the St. Louis Cardinals.


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I share some of the concerns Steve Krause and Alex Reid have expressed about the five-week E-Learning and Digital Cultures MOOC offered by the University of Edinburgh in which more that 41,000 people are participating. Alex notes the reductive ways in which the introductory readings are framed, pointing out that the engagement with "Prensky's digital immigrants and digital natives" terminology "is an unproductive and even damaging perspective" but observing that "as with the utopian/dystopian discourse, perhaps the concept is to move people away from these positions." I'm with him there, and I'll add that this is a strategy many of us have used in our own teaching: to begin from a perhaps obvious and engaging perspective and then to gradually complicate matters. I'm not sure I agree with his complaint about the content of the readings, though, particularly in his assertion that "[w]hile technologies do not determine culture, they clearly participate in shaping the world (both naturally and culturally if you wish to make those problematic distinctions)": well, depending on what positions you're coming from, as the readings (even in their very basic and introductory nature) suggest, that's a position that's open to debate. I would argue the same about his statement that "[w]e could say that technologies are market-driven, but we wouldn't want to mistakenly believe that the market overdetermines technology. As if the market were some uniform entity. As if the market were not capable of error." The market had nothing to do with the Internet: that was all government and university-driven. Ditto for the space program. I'm not disagreeing with Alex for the sake of disagreeing, but simply to say that disagreements about positions offered by readings in the course are different from disagreements about how the course is conducted, and I suspect that the course leadership might have some idea about the types of engagement they were trying to promote and the range of positions they were offering for examination.
And that's why I find myself liking the generous-but-skeptical way I see Steve Krause thinking about the course leadership's methods when he observes that "Knox et al seem to be attempting an alternative to the 'drill and grill' approach, though it remains to be seen if they'll be successful. 40,000 people have signed up for this MOOC, and I have to wonder if many/most of them will understand the dispersed learning experience. And I have to wonder if this dispersed kind of learning is ultimately scalable." This experiential mode is a good thing, I think, and I'm curious to see how my fellow participants find their own ways through the material. With 41,000 participants, there's way more activity and interaction than I could ever take in, but I'm starting to get a handle on which threads I might check in on — journalism has long demonstrated, and web discussion fora have long confirmed, that the ability to write a kicky and informative headline and lede can sometimes give you an idea about the quality of the discourse within.
More importantly, though, and what ought to make folks like Cheryl Ball rejoice, is the way the course leadership have designed and characterized the final peer-evaluated project that determines one's performance in the course: as they put it, in a language and conceptual approach likely familiar (and that's not a bad thing) to many of us in computers and writing,
Text is the dominant mode of expressing academic knowledge, but digital environments are multimodal by nature – they contain a mixture of text, images, sound, hyperlinks and so on. To express ourselves well on the web, we need to be able to communicate in ways that are "born digital" — that work with, not against, the possibilities of the medium. This can be challenging when what we want to communicate is complex, especially for those who are used to more traditional forms of academic writing. Nevertheless, there are fantastic possibilities in digital environments for rethinking what it means to make an academic argument, to express understanding of complex concepts, and to interpret and evaluate digital work.
That open-ended and multi-modal approach to a final project has a lot of people in the course nervous, but also makes me really excited: there's finally starting to be some big, widespread recognition of and engagement with (and even validation of?) the affordances of new media composing. Even if 90% of MOOC participants drop out, that's still 3100 new media compositions to be excited about. Anybody looking for a possible Kairos Topoi submission? I'd love to see a big-data approach to assessing that corpus of new media compositions. Talk to me.


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Karrueche Tran Opens Up About 'Fighting a Battle' With Rihanna Over Chris Brown [VIDEO]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Karrueche Tran is breaking her silence on the much publicized love triangle between herself, Chris Brown and Rihanna. In an emotional interview on Keke Palmer's new BET talk show, 'Just Keke' (set to air tomorrow), Tran is up-front and honest about her feelings in the situation.
"I've never dated a celebrity before, so it was very new to me — paparazzi and all that," the model said. "And then, even the situation with Rihanna… the reason that why people tuned into this so much is because it's relatable. I have girlfriends, I have family, who [have] gone through it — it's the case of the ex."
Though others may have gone through similar situations, Tran was quick to point out that hers was pretty unique, compounded by the fact that both Brown and Rihanna are two of the biggest stars in pop music.
"In this case, my boyfriend is a celebrity whose ex-girlfriend is an even bigger celebrity," she explained, revealing that Rihanna's diehard fans were quick to stand up for their idol — and lash out at Tran.
"Not only am I fighting a battle with her, I'm fighting a battle with her 14 million fans," she said. "So imagine how that feels for me when I gotta get on Twitter and gotta see a whole bunch of stuff … they make up all kinds of crazy stuff, and it's like, they know nothing about me. … Because I stay so meek sometimes, it gives them open space for them to say whatever they want."
But despite the cruel words from fans, the most difficult part of the situation was the genuine heartache — and heartbreak — of it all, something she revealed with genuine emotion when Palmer asked her about the hardest aspect of the scenario.
"I guess I would say the heartbreak, because it was a real situation," she revealed, getting visibly choked up as Palmer comforted her and enveloped her in a hug.
And though it seemed like Brown and Tran may have weathered storm after storm (including the singer's most recent stint in jail), it looks like the couple once again may be off, if Tran's recent Instagram post about her heart being shattered is anything to go by. You can check out the photo below.
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There would be trouble brewing if Dwight Schrute took over the offices of Dunder Mifflin. We heard it personally from the warehouse supervisor, Daryl Philbin (known in real life as Craig Robinson).
"I don't know how many people would work in that office if Dwight was the boss," he tells PopcornBiz.
Robinson, a guest at the "Comedy Central Roast for David Hasselhoff," gratefully adds that Dwight at the controls "would be hilarious." Best watch what you wish for.
But in terms of guesses as to who will fill the spot once Michael Scott (Steve Carell) departs, Robinson has no idea. "I'm just trying to keep my job over there," he says. "I know nothing."
Well he does know something. His character is not likely to move from the warehouse to the big office, even if Daryl has grown in prominence in past years.
"I wouldn't hold my breath for that," he says of getting the top job. "But I would relish the opportunity."
He's also sure that the show can go on without Carell. "I'm not saying he's easy to replace by any means," says Robinson. "But they'll be able to at least squeeze out an episode without him."


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cepStudy: Comprehensive examination of EU policy proposals affecting the economy.
The updated cepDefault-Index makes clear that the euro crisis has not been averted. The Index shows that, with the exception of Ireland, the crisis countries in receipt of financial assistance have not succeeded in halting the decline in creditworthiness. Italy's creditworthiness has been deteriorating continuously since 2009. The reforms implemented so far are insufficient.
Moreover the creditworthiness of France is under threat. Even if the French situation is not yet as dramatic as in the southern European countries, it still requires an urgent course correction. A drop in France's creditworthiness could place the entire Euro rescue package in doubt therefore the trend in French creditworthiness is of significant importance for the future development of the Euro Zone.
The Commission wishes to combat offences that have a detrimental effect on the EU budget by harmonising provisions on penalties. To this end, it proposes a harmonisation of the relevant offences and prescription periods for prosecutions as well as minimum sanctions depending on the severity of the offence.
In the EU operators of fixed installations and aviation companies may emit greenhouse gas emissions only if they possess the corresponding emission allowances. According to the Commission, the reduction of prices for emission allowances is a result of the "imbalance between supply and demand". Now, it proposes options for eliminating structurally and sustainably what it perceives as a "supply-demand imbalance" in the EU emissions trading system (EU ETS).
The Commission wishes to introduce uniform key information documents on investment products (PRIPS) in order to strengthen investor protection and to create a level playing field for investment product manufacturers. The key information documents must be provided to retail investors before the acquisition of an investment product (e.g. an investment fund) and must have a standardised structure.
The Commission wishes to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions caused by indirect land-use changes. To this end it wishes to limit the amount of how much conventional biofuels count to a maximum of five percentage points of the 10% expansion target, amongst other things.
The Commission proposes a "major and rapid transformation" in the EU's external aviation policy in order to strengthen the international competitiveness of European airlines, create benefits for consumers and improve public safety and environmental protection. To this end it proposes amongst other things to agree at ICAO level on a global system for CO2 emissions from air transport and to conclude agreements between the EU and third countries on the liberalisation of the national regulations on ownership and control of airlines.
The Commission's proposal comes as no great surprise. By 2020, 40% of the non-executive directors of stock-listed companies are to be women. In order to comply with the principle of proportionality, several exceptions are allowed. For instance, the Directive applies solely to companies with an annual turnover exceeding 50 million and with more than 250 employees. Where a third of the company's board of directors are already women, then the quota can be considered fulfilled. And if a company can prove that they could not find any eligible female applicants, they do not have to comply with the quota requirement. With regard to filling the positions on management boards, the introduction of a 'flexi-quota is proposed', according to which companies set their own targets.
In order to ensure that companies comply with the quota, Member States must provide for penalties - what form these may take is up to the Member States. They must, however, be effective, proportionate and serve as a deterrent.
The Commission wishes to reform State aid law and in particular re-target it as to better promote economic growth in Member States. This serves the purpose of implementing the growth strategy "Europe 2020" and of supporting Member States in consolidating their public budgets through a re-targeted State aid approach.
The Fiscal Compact of 2 March 2012 obliges the Contracting Parties to introduce a debt brake into national law. Amongst other things, it provides for a correction mechanism obliging the Contracting Parties directly in case of default. Thus the budgetary discipline of Contracting Parties is to be strengthened. The Commission proposes seven principles which the Contracting Parties should take into in shaping national laws.
The Commission wishes to delegate key tasks of banking supervision from national banking au-thorities to the European Central Bank (ECB). The tasks of the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the voting rules in its supervisory council must be adjusted accordingly.


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Your pregnancy week by week by Nhuma Expansion Technologies
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Your Pregnancy Week by Week is a practical guide that brings you the basic knowledge to carry you through conception and pregnancy.
This application, produced by a multidisciplinary team of professionals, will explain week by week the changes that you, your baby and your family will experience during the next 9 months.
With basic, attractive, dynamic, entertaining and direct language, you get access to scientific knowledge, without the barriers placed by using medical terms, and interesting tools to enjoy this stage of your life.
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Create a new user account and transfer your data to the account via a sparse disk image. If you're using OS X Snow Leopard or earlier, you can then re-enable Legacy FileVault on the new account or leave it off if desired. When you're done, you can delete your original account to recover disk space.
Important: Before performing these steps, you should back up your data (or your entire home folder) as a precaution.
- Start up in Safe Mode.
- Log in to your account if you haven't already.
Create an interim disk image to transfer home folder files to
Do not open any other applications while completing these steps.
- Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.
- From the File menu, choose New > Blank Disk Image.
- From the Format: pop-up menu of the Blank Disk Image window, choose "sparse".
- Adjust the Size pop-up menu. The disk image should have enough capacity to hold the contents of your home folder (directory). You can choose "Custom..." from the Size pop-up menu to enter a specific size if needed (if you need more than 4.7 GB, for example).
 It's OK if you make the image a little larger than you expect you'll need. For example, if you have 2.3 GB of stuff in your Home, you might create a 2.6 GB (or larger) image.
- Give the image a unique name, but save it somewhere outside of your Home (don't save it on the desktop or in Documents, for example). You could save it at the root level of your Mac OS X volume, or on a different partition or different disk.
 Note: If your hard disk does not have enough free space for the new image, create it on an external disk or different partition which has enough space.
- Mount the new sparse disk image.
- In the Finder, select the image volume and choose Get Info from the File menu. Make sure "Ignore ownership on this volume" is selected (at the bottom of the window).
- Open your home folder (from the Go menu, choose Home).
- Select all items in your Home and drag them (copy) to the mounted sparse disk image. Advanced note: Invisible files or folders might not be copied; usually this should present no issue or only a minor issue--for example, ssh users will need to accept the ssh key after completing these steps.
Create a new user account
- From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
- From the View menu, choose Accounts or Users & Groups.
- Create a new account that has the same privileges as your original, current account (enable "Allow user to administer this computer" if it is enabled for your current account). You may wish to give it a name similar to your current account.
- Log out of your account and log in to the new account created in the previous step.
Copy files from the disk image to your new account
Avoid opening any other applications during this process.
- Mount the same, new sparse disk image that you copied files to.
- In the Finder, select the image volume's icon and choose Get Info from the File menu.
- Make sure "Ignore ownership on this volume" is selected (at the bottom of the window).
- Highlight all items in the sparse disk image and drag them into your new account's home folder (from the Finder's Go menu, choose Home). You may be prompted to confirm that you wish to replace some items.
- Restart when the copy has completed.
- Log into the new user account and verify that all desired data has been transferred and that you can open files as expected (things on your desktop or in your Documents folder, for example).
- If desired, enable FileVault for this account in Security & Privacy preferences.
Reclaiming disk space
If you want to reclaim the disk space used by the old account, use System Preferences to delete the original user account. You can also delete the interim sparse image.
Important: Do not delete these items unless you are sure that all files have been properly copied. Advanced users should make sure any needed invisible files were copied, if not you can use Terminal to copy or move them.


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Office 365 Integration Module for Windows SBS 2011 Essentials Released Today!
[Todays post comes to us courtesy of Enrico Toro, Product Manager of Server and Cloud Platform Marketing] It is our pleasure to announce that starting today the Office 365 Integration Module for Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (OIM) is freely available for download in the Microsoft Download Center. We would like to thank all… Read more


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Today's guest blog post is by AAA President Leith Mullings.
As an anthropologist and President of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), I was especially gratified to hear President Barack Obama acknowledge the discipline of anthropology and support its scientific integrity. In a speech at the 150th Anniversary of the National Academy of Sciences, President Obama said:
And it's not just resources. I mean, one of the things that I've tried to do over these last four years and will continue to do over the next four years is to make sure that we are promoting the integrity of our scientific process; that not just in the physical and life sciences, but also in fields like psychology and anthropology and economics and political science — all of which are sciences because scholars develop and test hypotheses and subject them to peer review — but in all the sciences, we've got to make sure that we are supporting the idea that they're not subject to politics, that they're not skewed by an agenda, that, as I said before, we make sure that we go where the evidence leads us. And that's why we've got to keep investing in these sciences.
Nearly 100 anthropologists are members of the National Academy of Sciences, many of whom are among the 12,500 active members of the AAA. In an era in which some members of Congress are attempting to undermine the peer-review process and academic freedom in research, it is heartening to have the support of the President on these important issues.
I look forward to the President's continued support for the critical contributions anthropologists make to the understanding of human kind in all of its aspects.


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Gizmodo is not endorsing a presidential candidate. Nearly everyone on staff agreed that it would be a bad idea, for a lot of valid reasons. Besides the fact that Gizmodo is seen by many as a means of escape from the the real world, we simply don't cover politics. Many on our staff felt that, even if we weighed our selection using just the candidates' statements on technology, we'd just be trivialising the truly pressing issues—the economy, the wars, national security, America's cultural divide and our standing in the international community, to toss out a handful. But I think you guys should know where at least one of us is coming from: Technology is political, because it's tightly intertwined with every major issue. If you don't grasp technology, you no longer understand the world. I'm voting for the guy who gets that.
I'm not suggesting you have to use Twitter—or know what Twitter is—to make sound judgments as a leader of the free world. It's not about being pro-net neutrality, either. These things are trivial. It's the long view—can someone who doesn't know how to read a newspaper online by himself truly comprehend just how connected the world is? (How can someone who can't read newspapers online function at all when they cease to be printed on paper?)
How can the techno-illiterate appreciate that technology is both the cause and the cure for our bruised economy, from the globally connected financial crises at hand to America's potential economic revitalisation through a charge into green energy systems that spur innovation, create jobs and help to shatter our dependence on oil? Temporarily cheaper gas is not a means to economics growth—and we will run out in our lifetime. US entrepreneurship is driven by technology and innovation, and it's key to maintaining our superpower status. A green energy—i.e., technology—economy would reboot all of that.
Technology constantly redefines the way we wage war, but it also aims to assuage the global food crisis. It will heal sick people who couldn't be cured before. Hell, it's what will make flights finally arrive on time. The person at the wheel should know how to use a GPS—and Google, online newspapers, maybe even a smartphone.
That's a small list, but there's a big point. No, I'm not naïve enough to think this will change anyone's mind—in fact I hope your decision is not made so lightly that it possibly could. But I wanted to be clear: The future of this country, on many fronts, is tightly tied up with technology and what we do with it. I don't think it will ever again be possible to vote for someone who doesn't understand that. So why do it now?
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Our regular board games taken to a new level! Each game includes 6 movable character markers that students can click on to move the character around the board. Every character move includes a sound animation. Regular topic squares trigger a theme sound and every "take another turn" and "loose a turn" squares trigger a unique positive or negative sound bite.
This animated Kung Fu Panda board game was designed to practice Money and Banking . Students move around the board and fill in the blanks, use photos or written prompts to practice the target language. The student that reaches the "finish" square first, or is the farthest in the game when time is up, Wins! This game can also be played with groups. Just separate your class into however many groups are necessary and each group can take turns passing the mouse between individual students.
(Note: Use caution when moving characters in the bottom left hand corner of the game board. These moves are close to the presentation menu. If a menu item is clicked accidentally, just click the "back arrow" to return to the game without exiting and needing to restart the game. Backward moves for characters are not enabled in this game.)
Be sure to download our free "Present Simple Tense with Yes-No Questions Animated Board Game-Angry Birds" sample to try one out.
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Can across and interesting topic. I have read about James Barry a long time ago. So, I've know about the existence of this brilliant doctor for years. But, I didn't there were so many others. The list is mostly talented women who disguised as men to join the profession that was off limit to them in their era. Brandon Teena, I know from the movie 'Boys Don't Cry'. Do you guys know anymore crossdressers in history?
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Billy Tipton
Billy Tipton (born Dorothy Lucille Tipton in 1914) was an American jazz pianist and saxophonist. In 1933, she began her career as a musician in various small Oklahoma bars. As time passed Tipton began to associate with her fathers name Billy and eventually she began to present herself as male by breast-binding and packing. At first Tipton appeared male only in performances, but by 1940 she was living entirely as a male. She ultimately gained great success as a musician and went on to record a series of very popular albums. Tipton had a number of lesbian relationships during which he was able to keep his sex concealed. She eventually had a long term relationship with a woman concealing his sex the whole time and they adopted three sons. She was described as a good father who loved to go on scouting camps. In 1989, at the age of 74, Tipton died. It was not until then that the coroner revealed to her family and friends that she was, in fact, a woman.
Chevalier dEon
Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée dÉon de Beaumont (try saying that three times fast!) was born in 1728 in France. DEon was born a female but lived the first half of her life as a man. DEons autobiography states that she was raised as a boy because her father could only inherit money from his in-laws if he had a son. As was usual for the day, because her family were nobles without a title, they styled themselves as Chevalier meaning Knight. In 1756, dEon joined the spy service of King Louis XV and traveled on a secret mission to Russia to meet the Empress Elizabeth. In 1761, dÉon returned to France. The next year she became a captain of dragoons under the Marshal de Broglie and fought in the later stages of the Seven Years War. She was wounded and received the Order of Saint-Louis. She was eventually granted a pension and lived in political exile in London. As part of her negotiation with the crown of King Louis XVI, she was told she could return to France but would have to live as a woman an offer she accepted because the King offered to pay for her new clothes. She lived out the rest of her life as a woman.
James Barry
James Barry (born 1792-1795) was a military surgeon in the British Army, and by the end of his career was Inspector General in charge of military hospitals. He served in South Africa and India. Among his accomplishments was the first successful cesarean section in Africa by a British surgeon, in which both the mother and child survived the operation. James Barry was born Margaret Ann Bulkley and is, therefore, the first female Briton to become a qualified medical doctor. It is believed that Bulkley took on the role of a man in order to achieve her dreams of working in medicine a dream that could not be fulfilled if she remained a woman. Letters reveal that there may have been a conspiracy by Barrys mother and uncles to get him in to medical school. He died from dysentery July 25, 1865 and apparently the charwoman who took care of the body, Sophia Bishop, was the first to discover his female body, and revealed the truth after the funeral. Afterwards many people claimed to have known it all along. The British Army sealed his records for 100 years. James is pictured above on the left.
Malinda Blalock
Malinda Blalock was a female soldier during the American Civil War who fought bravely on both sides. When the war started, rather than be separated from her husband Keith, she decided to disguise herself as a man and join the army too. She was officially registered on March 20, 1862, as Samuel Sammy Blalock claiming to be the older brother of her husband. Her registration papers are one of the few surviving records of female soldiers in the Civil War. Malinda was a good soldier and her identity was never revealed. One of the army surgeons said of her: She drilled and did the duties of a soldier as any other member of the Company, and was very adept at learning the manual and drill. Eventually the couple deserted from the army.
Denis Smith
Denis Smith (Born Dorothy Lawrence) was an English reporter who disguised herself as a man to go undercover during World War I. Dorothy, 19, was living in Paris and wanted to be a war reporter something that was impossible due to her sex, and the difficulty that even males were having at the time getting to the front lines as journalists. She persuaded two young English soldiers to give her a uniform; she had her hair cut short in a military style, and colored her skin with diluted furniture polish to give it a bronzed look. With forged identity papers as Private Denis Smith of the 1st Bn, Leicestershire Regiment, she cycled to the Somme and the front lines. A friend found her work as a Sapper with the British Expeditionary Force laying mines under constant fire. He also found her an abandoned cottage to sleep in at night. After 10 days, she became worried that if her sex were discovered, the men who had helped her would be in danger. She presented herself to the company chiefs and was placed under arrest. She was interrogated as a spy and declared a prisoner of war. The military were concerned that if her story got out, other women would try to enter the army in disguise. Dorothy was compelled to sign an affidavit that she would not tell her story. When she returned to London she was unable to work due to the affidavit. When the war ended she wrote her story but the war office censored it and it would not come out until many years later. In 1925, Dorothy was institutionalized as insane and she died at Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum in 1964.
Marinus was born Marina in the 6th century. Her father wanted to join a monastery (Monastery of Qannoubine, in the Holy Valley, Lebanon) so he took his daughter disguised as a boy with him. Both were admitted and became monks. After living in the monastery for a number of years, it became necessary for both father and daughter to travel. Whilst staying at an inn, the innkeepers wayward daughter was attracted to Brother Marinus and tried to seduce her. When Marinus refused the advances, the innkeepers daughter claimed that he had seduced her and she was pregnant. Marinus refused to debunk the claims by showing that she was, in fact, female, and she was kicked out of the monastery. She lived outside the monastery walls begging. To make matters worse, Marinus was forced to take custody of the child and raise him. She remained there, raising the child, performing harsh penances, and undertaking menial jobs. It was not until her death that her sex was finally revealed. Marinus is revered as a saint in the Roman Catholic, and Orthodox Churches. She is known as Saint Marina the Monk. St Marina is pictured above in red.
Albert Cashier
Albert Cashier was born Jennie Irene Hodgers in 1843. In 1862, Hodgers disguised herself as a man and enlisted in the 95th Illinois Infantry Regiment under the name Albert Cashier. The regiment was under Ulysses S. Grant and fought in over 40 battles. Cashier managed to remain undetected as the other soldiers thought she was just small and preferred to be alone. Cashier was captured in battle but managed to escape back to Union lines after overpowering a guard. She fought with the regiment through the war until 1865. After the war, Cashier continued to live as a male, convincing everyone around her. For forty years Cashier worked as a church janitor, cemetery worker and street lamplighter, she voted as a man, and claimed a veterans pension. In 1910, she was hit by a car and broke her leg. A doctor discovered her secret but agreed to keep quiet. in 1911, Cashier moved to a soldiers retirement home. After her mind began to deteriorate, attendants gave her a bath and discovered her true sex. She was forced to wear a dress from that time on. Cashier died in 1915 and was buried in her military garb. Her tombstone carried the words: Albert D. J. Cashier, Co. G, 95 Ill. Inf. when she was finally traced back to Jennie Hodgers, a second tombstone was erected with both names on it.
Petter Hagberg
Petter Hagberg (Brita Nilsdotter) was born in 1756 in Finnerödja, Sweden. In 1785 she married Anders Peter Hagberg who was a soldier of the guard. Shortly after the marriage he was called away to participate in the Russo-Swedish war (1788 1790). At a loss without her husband, Brita dressed herself as a man and enlisted in the army to find him. She participated in the Battle of Svensksund (pictured above) and the Battle of Vyborg Bay as a marine. During her time there her commanding officer called out the name Hagberg and both she and her husband stepped forward she found him at last. The two kept her sex a secret. Later, at the battle of Björkö Sund, Brita was wounded and ordered below deck to have her wounds taken care of. She went unwillingly and her sex was revealed. After the war she was given a pension (unheard of at the time) and was granted a license to trade (also unheard of for a married woman). She was awarded a medal of bravery and given a military funeral.
James Gray
ames Gray was born Hannah Snell in 1723 in Worcester, England. As a child she played soldiers, but was otherwise seen as a normal young girl. In 1744 she married James Summs, and two years later gave birth to a daughter. Within a year her daughter had died and her husband had deserted her. She borrowed a mans suit from her brother-in-law James Gray whose name she assumed. She began to travel, trying to find her husband who she later discovered had been executed for murder. She traveled to Portsmouth and joined the Royal Marines. She was sent in to battle twice, during which time she was wounded 11 times in the legs and once in the groin. It is not known how she concealed her sex when her groin wound was treated. In 1750 her unit returned to England and she revealed her true sex to her shipmates. She told her story to the papers and petitioned for a military pension which was, surprisingly, granted. Her military service was officially recognized and she eventually opened a pub called the The Female Warrior. She eventually remarried and had two children. Hannah died in 1792.
Brandon Teena
Teena Brandon was born in 1972 in Lincoln, Nebraska. As a child she was regarded as a tomboy and everyone called her Brandon. After being sexually abused by a male relative, she moved to Richardson County, Nebraska and began to live entirely as a male. She became friends with two ex convicts John Lotter and Marvin Tom Nissen. She also began dating a woman (Lana Tisdel). None of her friends knew she was female. On December 15th, Brandon was jailed for forging checks and his girlfriend, Lana, bailed him out. Because Brandon was in the womens section of the prison, Lana discovered her true sex. According to Lana she stopped dating Brandon at this time. When Brandons arrest was published in the paper under her proper name, Lotter and Nissen discovered the truth. They raped Brandon and beat her. Brandon went to the police but a large number of administrative errors resulted in her case not being investigated. Eventually Lotter and Nissen would go on to shoot Brandon and two others who were hiding her. Lotter was sentenced to death and Nissen to life imprisonment. The story of Brandon Teena became the subject of the Academy award winning film, Boys Dont Cry. Brandon is pictured above on the right.


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Requirements for the Reading merit badge:
- Do EACH of the following:
- Learn how to search your library's card catalog or computerized catalog by author, title, and subject.
- With the assistance of your merit badge counselor or a librarian, select six books of four different types (such as poetry, drama/plays, fiction, nonfiction, biographies, etc.). Ask your librarian or counselor about award-winning books that are recommended for readers your age and include at least one of those titles.
- Find the books in the library catalog. With your counselor's or a librarian's assistance, locate the books on the shelves.
- Read each book. Keep a log of your reading that includes the title of the book, the pages or chapters read, the date you completed them, and your thoughts about what you have read so far. Discuss your reading with your counselor. Using your log as a reference, explain why you chose each book and tell whether you enjoyed it and what it meant to you.
- Read about the world around you from any two sources - books, magazines, newspapers, the Internet (with your parent's permission), field manuals, etc. Topics may include sports, environmental problems, politics, social issues, current events, nature, religion, etc. Discuss what you have learned with your counselor.
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- From a catalog of your choice, fill out an order form for merchandise as if you intended to place an order. Share the completed form with your counselor and discuss it.
- With your parent's permission, locate at least five Web sites that are helpful for your scouting or other activities. Write the Internet addresses of these sites in your log. Talk with your counselor or a librarian about safety rules for using the Internet.
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Request for a preliminary ruling from the Sąd Rejonowy dla Łodzi-Śródmieścia w Łodzi (Poland) lodged on 27 February 2019 — RL sp. z o.o., having its seat in Ł. v J.M.
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Language of the case: Polish
Referring court
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Applicant: RL sp. z o.o., having its seat in Ł.
Defendant: J.M.
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Should Article 2(1) of Directive 2011/7/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 on combating late payment in commercial transactions, 1 as transposed into the Polish legal order by Article 4(1) of the Ustawa z dnia 8 marca 2013 r. o terminach zapłaty w transakcjach handlowych (Law of 8 March 2013 on Payment Terms in Commercial Transactions) (consolidated text: Journal of Laws [Dz. U.] of 2019, item 118), be interpreted as meaning that contracts the characteristic performance of which consists in providing a temporary right to use goods in exchange for rent (for instance, lease or rental agreements) must also be regarded as transactions which lead to the delivery of goods or the provision of services for remuneration (commercial transactions)?
If the answer to the first question is in the affirmative, should Article 5 of Directive 2011/7/EU, as transposed into the Polish legal order by Article 11(1) of the Law of 8 March 2013 on Payment Terms in Commercial Transactions, be interpreted as meaning that an agreement that the debtor is to make periodic payments, also in the case where the contract is concluded for an indefinite term, is tantamount to the parties to a commercial transaction agreeing on a payment schedule providing for instalments?


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Agenda: June 20 Neighborhood Centers PEG meeting
Neighborhood Centers Policy Expert Group
Date: Thursday, June 20
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Location:1900 SW 4th Avenue,Portland, Conference Room 2500A (Second Floor)
Welcome, Introductions and Updates (8:00 a.m.)
Presenter: Steve Faust, Facilitator
PEG members will share observations from centers visits and their ideas for discussion topics for upcoming cross-PEG discussions:
- Networks PEG (June 26th, 2 to 3:30 pm, 1900 SW 4th Avenue – Room 7a)
- Residential Development & Compatibility PEG (Date TBD, probably early August)
Comprehensive Plan Update Part 2 Overview (8:20 a.m.)
Presenter: Michelle Kunec-North, BPS
Description: Overview of Part 2 of the Comprehensive Plan Update, which will include refinements to the Urban Design Framework, updates to the Comprehensive Plan Map, and the Citywide Systems Plan (including components of the Transportation Systems Plan). This will also be an opportunity to discuss the role of the Neighborhood Centers PEG in development of the Part 2 components.
Urban Design Framework Discussion (8:50 a.m.)
Presenters: Bill Cunningham and Lora Lillard, BPS
Description: BPS staff will share draft updates to the Urban Design Framework diagram, focusing on centers and corridors, and will ask for PEG input on further refinements. PEG members will divide into small groups to participate in a map-based activity. Note that the link below is to the Urban Design Framework as published in the January Comprehensive Plan Working Draft Part 1 document, which does not include potential neighborhood centers and other additions that staff will share during this discussion.
Related Material:
Urban Design Framework 30% Draft
Public Comment (9:45 a.m.)
Next Steps (9:55 a.m.)
Due to scheduling conflicts, staff proposes to reschedule the July Neighborhood Centers PEG meeting to Wednesday, July 24th, from 3 to 5pm (Conference Room 2500A).
Adjourn (10:00 a.m.)
For more information, please contact Bill Cunningham, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability at 503-823-4203 or email@example.com or Steve Faust, Facilitator at 503-278-3456 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The official website for Death Race, the quasi-remake of road-rage classic Death Race 2000 starring Jason Statham, just went live. And it includes this glimpse of the metal mask that Statham wears as Frankenstein, the star racer of the prison where he's locked up. Statham wears that mask as he pretends to be the dead superstar, racing against other felons in the super-popular televised race, where the prize is survival. Click through to see a gallery of desktop themes from the website, including some awesome fiery car porn.
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Verizon followed T-Mobile and AT&T Thursday, laying out the details for its own program to let customers get early smartphone upgrades. Unfortunately, it's more like AT&T's program than T-Mobile's in that you don't get a price break on the required voice/data plan for buying a phone without a subsidy.
The program called VZW Edge, which isn't available until Aug. 25, works like this, according to Verizon's David Samberg:
… Choose the phone you want and sign up for a month-to-month service plan, it's as easy as that. The full retail price of the phone will be divided over 24 months and you'll pay the first month at the time of purchase. If you want to upgrade after 6 months, just pay off 50% of the full retail price of the phone and you can choose a new phone and start all over again.
How does that break down into actual costs? Let's say you buy a 16-GB Samsung Galaxy S4, which retails without a subsidy for $649. You'd pay that off in 24 installments of roughly $27 (not including taxes/fees). After six months, you'd only have paid about $162 of that amount, so you'd need to cough up another $163 to hit the 50 percent payoff mark for a newer phone.
You're required to sign up for one of Verizon's Share Everything data/voice plans, which are set at prices structured to cover those customers who get a phone at a steep discount. That discount is possible because it's covered by the price of the plan. As a result, those who buy a phone under the Edge program are paying for it twice – once with their monthly installments, and again through Verizon's overpriced service plan.
That's the same pricing structure as AT&T's Next, though Ma Bell 2.0 makes you wait 12 months before you can get a new phone – which is how you arrive at a 50-percent payoff before you can upgrade. AT&T also has not lowered its service plans for Jump members, meaning they, too, pay twice for their devices.
T-Mobile's Jump plan ends up being the winner here, because the company restructured its service plans so they don't include subsidies. Yes, you make a down payment up front, and you pay $10 a month to be part of the plan, but that $10 also provides damage/theft/loss insurance. In the end, because T-Mobile has lower pricing on its service, it's a better deal.
Of course, all three make even more money on the deal because they can turn around and sell your used phone. Used devices can fetch a good price, particularly if they are unlocked and sold overseas.
For a good comparison of the three plans, I recommend this piece by AllThingsD's Bonnie Cha, which breaks down how much you'll pay out under each plan before you're eligible for an upgrade if you start out with a Galaxy S4. The executive summary:
• T-Mobile: $1,240
• Verizon: $1,524.96
For a similar breakdown with a satisfying side-order of outrage, read The Verge's Nilay Patel's item declaring the Verizon plan to be just as big a "ripoff" as AT&T's. Patel cites industry estimates that $20 of the monthly service plan charge goes to subsidies. If that number is accurate, then after six months Verizon grabs $120 in monthly subsidy charges before you can upgrade.
Interestingly, Verizon's own CFO doesn't think that many customers will sign up for its Edge plan. Here's hoping the carrier's customers are indeed smart enough to avoid it.


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hey so I'm relatively new to java (2 weeks or so) and I have latched onto the idea of if and else if statements. I made this program to output the details of an animal, which include name, height, how many legs it has and whether or not it has a tail. For the last statement, I tried using an if statement to make it choose which line to output, based on whether hasTail is true, or false. However this doesn't work for some reason, and just outputs that a human has a tail, no matter what. Please help!
here is my code so far:
public class HomeProject1a{ public static void main (String [] args){ String name = "Human"; int numLegs = 2; double height = 1.8; boolean hasTail = false; System.out.println("The animal is a " + name); System.out.println("A " + name + " has " + numLegs + " legs"); System.out.println("A " + name + " is " + height + " meters tall"); if (hasTail = true) System.out.println("A " + name + " has a tail"); else if (hasTail = false) System.out.println("A " + name + " doesn't have a tail"); } }
and when I run this file (shift - f6 in netbeans IDE) this is what the output is:
The animal is a Human
A Human has 2 legs
A Human is 1.8 meters tall
A Human has a tail
if you can help thanks so much!


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Jenny is in perpetual search for easy, weeknight recipes to attempt to feed her family. When they balk, she just eats more.
They think I didn't notice, but I saw my friends A and F skeptically eyeing my salad bowl as I madly chopped up my celery for Sweet, Salty, Crunchy, Zingy Apple and Celery Salad. Comments were made about celery, and frankly they were not flattering. The last of the mint from my garden went into the bowl, and some more words were spoken. People, these were not dinner guests anticipating something delicious.
I suppose if one is not familiar with fiveandspice's recipes, one might be permitted to question this recipe. But I have cooked many of her dishes, and I know her to be as solid as the post season Cardinals.
The beauty of this salad is that you need not wash much and the only cutting involves apples and celery, and the rest of the time you're shaking things: boxes of raisins, a bottle of your best olive oil, and a few other items.
I was unable to find ricotta salata in Washington -- something about a recall at Whole Foods and also some general lameness of the grocery stores -- so I substituted some feta cheese, and omitted the capers because I figured that was enough salt. F commented that she actually prefers feta to ricotta salata, and I sort of agree. She said this as she proclaimed her love for this salad, and you will too.
If you want to skip running around an entire city and enduring traffic circles and maybe at some point becoming very very sad in the cheese aisle and having people look at you, just use feta okay?
This salad has this incredible crunch, with a little bit of tart from the apple and tad of bite from the cheese, with this delightful hint of mint mixed in here -- a complex bowl of flavors that takes exactly five minutes to put together and makes you feel sort of healthy and good about yourself, even if you eat it with a slab of barbecue and a slice of corn pudding approximately as big as a throw pillow. Just, you know, for example.
You're welcome.
Sweet, Salty, Crunchy, Zingy Apple and Celery Salad by fiveandspice
This recipe serves 4
2 cups celery, thinly sliced (on a bit of a diagonal)1 sweet-tart apple, such as Braeburn or Pink Lady, cored and cut into smallish chunks2 tablespoons (heaping) golden raisins2 tablespoons capers1 tablespoon fresh squeezed lemon juice1 tablespoon good olive oil2 tablespoons thinly sliced fresh mint3 tablespoons (generous Tbs.) crumbled ricotta salata (or other fresh, salty cheese)
See the full recipe (and save it and print it) here.
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text: If you can have the best, why settle for less? Carmel is not just one of the best places to live in America, according to CNN Money, it is THE best. That is correct: Carmel was named the number 1 best place to live in America in 2012. Thanks to its quiet, peaceful, and safe atmosphere along with its many amenities, this city is a great choice for those who want to be confident that they are making the best choice with their residential decisions.


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Buck becomes force at plate, not just behind it
NEW YORK -- Heading into this season, the Mets understood how much they would rely on John Buck's game-calling behind the plate. They perhaps did not realize how much they would depend on his offense.
Cracking two home runs with a .421 average and nine RBIs over the first five games of the season, Buck has established himself as a force in the middle of New York's lineup. A card-carrying 20-homer slugger as recently as three years ago, Buck watched his production dip significantly in each of the past two years. With the Mets, he is trending in the other direction.
"It feels good," Buck said. "If I was going to write it up, this is the way I'd do it."
Still, the Mets are wary of using their veteran catcher too often. To that end, they plan to rest him Sunday in favor of backup Anthony Recker for the first time this season.
"He can use a blow like everybody else," manager Terry Collins said.


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There are window displays in chemist shops. You take a selfie with the display in the background so you can see all three All Blacks ( a trademark of MegaCorporation and used without permission) then post to the Voltaren Emugel Facebook page. Prize is a trip to the NZ South Africa game.
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Petition of the day
The petition of the day is:
Issue(s): (1) Whether respondent Pacific Rivers Council (PRC) has Article III standing to challenge the Forest Service's 2004 programmatic amendments to the forest plans governing management of 11 Sierra Nevada Forests when PRC failed to establish that any of its members was imminently threatened with cognizable harm because he or she would come into contact with any parcel of forest affected by the amendments; (2) whether PRC's challenge to the Forest Service's programmatic amendments is ripe when PRC failed to identify any site-specific project authorized under the amended plan provisions to which PRC objects; and (3) whether the National Environmental Policy Act required the Forest Service, when adopting the programmatic amendments, to analyze every type of environmental effect that any project ultimately authorized under the amendments throughout the 11 affected forests might have if it was reasonably possible to do so when the programmatic amendments were adopted, even though any future site-specific project would require its own appropriate environmental analysis before going forward.
Recommended Citation: Mary Pat Dwyer, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Mar. 14, 2013, 10:39 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/03/petition-of-the-day-417/


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NBC announced Thursday it has reached a deal with reality TV king Mark Burnett and Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic to create a new series called "Space Race," which will follow contestants as they compete to win a flight into space aboard Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket plane.
"The scope of this endeavor is so staggering that it took these two titans to even imagine it," Paul Telegdy, president of alternative and late night programming for NBC Entertainment, said in the press release. "The term 'trip of a lifetime' has for once been delivered on! This will be a remarkable experience for anyone who has looked at the night's sky and dared to dream of spaceflight."
According to Branson the partnership is a perfect fit for Virgin Galactic, whose mission "is to democratize space, eventually making commercial space travel affordable and accessible to all."
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More than 600 customers have made their reservations for SpaceShipOne flights from Spaceport America in New Mexico, at a current price of $250,000 per seat.
SpaceShipTwo is currently being tested at California's Mojave Air and Space Port, and could take passengers on suborbital space rides as early as 2014.
For Burnett, the show is culmination of a long-held dream. "For the past ten years I have relentlessly pursued my dream of using a TV show to give an everyday person the chance to experience the black sky of space and look down upon mother Earth," the man behind such reality hits as "The Voice" and "Survivor" said in the statement. "Last year I spent time in New Mexico at the state of the art facility and last week spent time in the Mojave desert with Sir Richard and his impressive team."
No air date was revealed for the show or when the eventual winner would be jetting off. The release said One Three Media (the company behind the production) would be distributing "Space Race" at the upcoming MIPCOM TV market in Cannes.