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The culmination of decades of development in debug and trace IP – Arm CoreSight SoC-600 offers the most comprehensive library for the creation of debug and trace solutions. This includes debug access, trace routing and termination, cross-triggering and time stamping.
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PPC Management
The main service offered by Blue Thirst is PPC Management. We do this with Google Ads, Bing Ads and Amazon Advertising. We also offer some PPC on Russia's largest search engines Yandex and China's largest search engine Baidu.
We are one of the South Coast's only fully accredited Google Premier Partner Agencies. We are experts in markets such as lead generation, eCommerce and finance. And we are experienced in managing large complex accounts with more than 1000 campaigns. We can also offer custom automation such as integration with call centres for availability changes.
With Google ads we can offer YouTube advertising, Display, Google Shopping, Google Play and Remarketing services. We then also use Bing Ads to expand this visibility to Bing, Yahoo and MSN searches.
Baidu and Yandex are used to target audiences in Russia and China. Yandex has the ability to identify Russian inflections in search queries which gives users a better local language experience in search. Yandex has .market and .webmaster tools to sell consumer products and to track your analytics. Baidu is very similar to the Google Ads platform. 80% of searches in China are conducted through Baidu, so there's no better place to advertise for that market.
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crude inclines amid market optimism
Crude oil rose today and yesterday after it seen a sharp decline last week, as Europe leaders eased concerns over the debt crisis by considering to expand the role of EFSF in order to contain the crisis from spreading, which made investors less worried about oil demand that retreated in the last period. Oil for November delivery is currently trading around $82.24 a barrel after recording a high of $82.47 and a low of $80.90 after the opening price at $81.35. This week, three European parliaments will have their vote on the expansions program that was suggested on July 21, but with a condition to have national parliaments' approvals, today we will see the vote result from Slovenia and on Friday will see the major vote from the German parliament. The European measures of expanding the role of the EFSF are considered positive signs that made investors optimistic about the European action to contain the crisis, as it eased concerns that dominate the world markets, which pushed oil prices to the upside after it seen a drop in world demand, hoping that European leaders could contain the crisis. More eyes on Greece, which considered the disease that may affect other European countries, where it is showing a good progress in cutting their budget deficit, as after plenty of measures announced to reduce the deficit, the Greek prime minister declared of new measures that may help to reduce the deficit in order to collect the six tranche of last year bailout, and today we will see the result of the Greek parliament vote on them. On the other hand, the U.S. dollar has seen a decline in yesterday's trading which released the negative pressure on crude oil and let it rise, where it remain neutral in today's session to open the session at 00 and reached the high of 00 and a low of 00 and it is currently trading around 000. Last week, we have seen a panic sell-off that damaged the world markets, as investors worried about the global economy which is slowing down compared to previous pace of growth, and some economists are seeing the world economy is heading into a double dip recession, as the deepening debt crisis in Europe and a slowing pace of global recovery are taking the world economy into the abyss. We may see choppy trading and volatility may remain evident in markets with poor fundamentals around the globe, and investors are awaiting for any action from the European leaders that would calm the markets.
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What is the boundary between freedom of expression and public decency? Better yet, should self-expression be limited or unlimited?
The Japan Times reported that legislators passed a controversial bill on Monday that will toughen regulations of the sale of Japanese comics and manga (anime) that contain intense sexual acts.
Such anime are very popular in the country. They can easily be bought on display in many convenience stores.
A panel deliberation of the bill that seeks sound upbringing of the youth will take place in a session on Wednesday for enactment.
The bill plans to toughen the government's stand against comic portrayal of incestuous affairs, penal offenses, and rape.
As expected, the bill received complaints from the publishing industry saying that it violates the freedom of expression and limits creativity. The industry also demanded to the assembly for consideration to artistic and social expression.
The proposed bill was opposed by the Japanese Communist Party and minor groups, but was well received by members of the Democratic Party of Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito Party.
Author's note: In your opinion, should the media be censored in publishing reading materials that contain violence and pornography in lieu of creativity and freedom of expression?
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ALLAMUCHY, N.J. –- With the initial housing phases sold out in record fashion at Mountain Ridge at Panther Valley, Baker Residential is gearing up for the release of the third townhome section at the collection of three-bedroom residences rising in this sought-after Panther Valley neighborhood in Warren County's Allamuchy Township
The developer is now assembling a list of VIP Buyers for the newest offering of spacious homes at Mountain Ridge which is expected to open sales this spring at the exclusive suburban community.. To add their name to the VIP List and receive introductory pricing from the mid-$200,000s, prospects can call 908-852-0016 or visit http://Town.HomesAtMtnRidge.com.
"Word is spreading quickly about the success of Mountain Ridge and many have already contact us to add their names to the priority list," says Hollis Schilp, Sales Representative for Baker Residential. "They're anxious to not only receive some of the first opportunities to purchase in the third housing section, but also take advantage of incredibly affordable pre-construction pricing. We only anticipate releasing a select number of townhomes at first, meaning those interested are encouraged to join our VIP List today."
Sales at Mountain Ridge have been fueled by a variety of Federal programs that add considerable value to new home purchases. This is particularly true for first-time buyers who have found the community's approval by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) makes homeownership extremely attainable thanks to friendly FHA financing that requires only 3.5% down.
With sales and development moving so quickly, visitors to Mountain Ridge can obtain a better sense of the comfort, charm and appeal of the neighborhood. A new on-site sales center has opened at the community and the initial residents have now moved into their new home, Several site improvements are now complete, including the main entryway, the main access road and internal roads in the first two phases, providing a strong glimpse of how the community will look once finished.
Five different designs are offered at Mountain Ridge with affordable pricing starting in the mid-$200,000s. Homes range from 1,968 to 2,850 square feet and boast 2.5 baths, one-or two-car garages, as well as designer interior appointments such as walk-in closets, gourmet kitchens and full finished basements included in the purchase price.
"Mountain Ridge at Panther Valley's housing designs fulfill a broad range of lifestyles," says Barbara Cohen, another Baker Sales Representative. "Young couples and single-professionals appreciate the fact that the spacious floorplans provide plenty of room to grow. Empty-nesters downsizing from large single-family homes are pleased to discover they don't have to sacrifice extra space to benefit from the ease of maintenance-free living."
Homes at Mountain Ridge have been designed to reflect the natural beauty of Panther Valley, which is defined by rolling hills and heavily wooded terrain. Each townhome building will combine design elements with country-inspired details to create streetscapes of enormous grace and flair.
"Our unique location at the top of a mountain provides panoramic views of the surrounding countryside to strengthen the tranquil, small-town environment," Ms. Cohen says.
The striking community is part of Panther Valley and its world-class recreational amenities. Residents will enjoy two sparkling lakes, two beautiful pools with a third to come, a wealth of tennis courts and the 18-hole Panther Valley Golf & Country Club located within the gated Panther Valley community and available on a membership-only basis.
Mountain Ridge homeowners will also appreciate the community's convenient location, which offers a quick trip to the array of business, cultural and entertainment opportunities throughout northern New Jersey and beyond. The community is located in close proximity to a several major highways, including Routes 80, 287 and 78, as well as commuter train and bus stops.
"If its outdoor recreation they seek, Mountain Ridge is in the heart of one of New Jersey's natural havens," Ms. Cohen indicates. "The community lies in the shadows of the Allamuchy and Stephens Mountains, while the 70,000-acre Delaware Water Gap is nearby where fishing, boating, camping, kayaking and more can be found. "
Shopping, fine dining and entertainment are also close at hand at the Rockaway Townsquare Mall, which features several national retailers and department stores. Local shops and boutiques can also be found in historic downtown Morristown and Parsippany.
For additional information on Mountain Ridge at Panther Valley please call 908-852-0016 or visit http://Town.HomesAtMtnRidge.com. To visit, go on Route 80 West. Take exit 19 for County Highway 517 towards Hackettstown. Turn left at County Highway 517/County Road 517. Go 2 traffic lights and turn right at entrance to Panther Valley


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Republican Congressman's Wife Thrown Out of SOTU Speech
By Elaine Meinel Supkis
The paranoia of anyone showing any signs or anything around Bubble Boy are so intense, police even removed the wife of the powerful House Defence Appropriations Subcommittee for wearing a tee shirt saying, "Support the Troops"!
From commentator at Smirking Chimp:
Beverly Young, wife of Rep. C.W. Bill Young (news, bio, voting record) of Florida — chairman of the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee — was removed from the gallery because she was wearing a T-shirt that read, "Support the Troops — Defending Our Freedom."Heh. The fascists consider any expression of anything to be a "protest". As always, the right wing, and this lady is a far right winger, thinks they will be granted the privilage to do whatever they wish while the rest of us have no rights at all and are forcibly silenced and crushed underfoot. The idea that she would need some civil rights eludes her, normally.
"Because she had on a shirt that someone didn't like that said support our troops, she was kicked out of this gallery," Young said on the House floor Wednesday morning, holding up the gray shirt.
"Shame, shame," he scolded.
Mrs. Young was sitting about six rows from first lady Laura Bush and asked to leave. She argued with police in the hallway outside the House chamber.
"They said I was protesting," she told the St. Petersburg Times. "I said, "Read my shirt, it is not a protest.' They said, 'We consider that a protest.' I said, 'Then you are an idiot.'"
I have often seen this. "You can't do (x) to ME!" is the common refrain of people desiring privilages. Whole societies are predicated on grantig vast privilages and benefits only to select members. America was supposed to be striving to do the opposite even though we have a really crummy record in the past which is why the Civil Rights Act had to be added to the body of laws even though the Bill of Rights pretty much covers everything.
Here is an attempt at censoring Tom Toles, the Washington Post cartoonist. From Americablog:
And why not have the Pentagon try to stifle a free media while supposedly promoting freedom in Iraq? The US government just arrested one of President Bush's top political critics for threatening his life with a t-shirt. So why not now threaten a top political cartoonist for drawing a cartoon that the Pentagon doesn't like? Why not use the power of government to try to censor the media, something that's a direct violation of that pesky and quaint 1st Amendment to the US Constitution - you remember, that document the Bush administration doesn't think is relevant.Here is the offending cartoon:
Of course, the Out of Joint Chiefs of Staff who sit in protected offices are all snippy about this, chosing to pretend the cartoon mocks the wounded when it is pointing out the obvious: the Pentagon itself has boasted about taking amputees and putting them back into Iraq!
Of course, the GOP hausfraus don't get all upset over the purple bandaids or mocking Murtha for being a Marine who actually saw warfare unlike so many officers in the Pentagon and Rumsfeld himself who never saw anyone shoot at him, ever, since he "fought" when there were no wars going on.
Ditto most GOPers. They attack amputees who dare to run for office as Democrats, they show no mercy to fellow Americans if any soldier gets in the way of the pork barrel in DC!
Even as Bill Gates backs down about censoring a Chinese man's blog and Google tries to calm us all about censoring blogs like mine if the person is googling in countries that hate me, all the world writhes with attempts at censorship or pretending they don't censor when they do it.
From the BBC:
Newspapers across Europe have reprinted caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to show support for a Danish paper whose cartoons have sparked Muslim outrage.Muslims are raging about this all over the world. They are now boycotting many countries. The rage is justified because the Europeans, pretending there is no censorship therefore it is OK to publish sacrilege is sheer nonsense.
Seven publications in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain all carried some of the drawings.
Their publication in Denmark led Arab nations to protest. Islamic tradition bans depictions of the Prophet.
The owner of one of the papers to reprint - France Soir - has now sacked its managing editor over the matter.
The cartoons have sparked diplomatic sanctions and death threats in some Arab nations, while media watchdogs have defended publication of the images in the name of press freedom.
Try printing a cartoon showing Sharon wearing a swastika!
There, see? No go. Right now, they put "holocaust deniers" in prison just for saying, there were no deathcamps! They are lying, of course, but putting someone in prison for this is NOT FREE SPEECH. Period. The trials of holocaust deniers goes on and on with no on in the American and few in Europe mentioning this. Again, not only are they being tried for daring to speak their minds (wrong or right, it doesn't matter), they are being put in prison in a Nazi-like "Nacht und Nebel" media blackout!
If Europe wants to act like Nazis and stop free speech and not give news coverage of loss of the right to speak freely, they have no right to persecute anyone for talking about Nazis!
This creeping censorship is all over the planet and I am 100% against it. The blog is mightier than the sword is this blog's motto. But in the end, power grows out of the state and the state can silence anyone if the corporations and newsmedia want to conspire with the state.
And this, in a nutshell, is what is wrong today. Not enough free speech. Long live the net! Blog on!
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Race and capitalism in America should be fertile ground for literary fiction. This year's Black Friday shopping frenzy brought the usual bout of stabbings and shootings to add to the overall death count, not to mention the looming environmental collapse that such consumerism feeds. And the list of things you can't do while black without having the police called or a gun pulled on you seems to expand by the day, from working out to moving into an apartment to buying Mentos. Yet Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah startled me by the… Read More
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Different kinds of writer
I have a bad habit, sometimes, of generalising about what "writers" are like, mostly based only on my own experience. Last night I got a good reminder that there are many different kinds of writer. I was performing at an event called "Stand up for Books", organised by the Society of Authors and the Society of Young Publishers. I was one of six authors reading from their work. Not only was the writing itself very varied in style and subject matter, but the way we behaved on stage was very… Read More
Off-key stories hit the mark
I was excited to meet Courttia Newland at Bim Literary Festival here in Barbados earlier this year. He's a British writer, but was here because his mother is Barbadian. I'd read his debut novel The Scholar when it first came out, which I now realise is a long time ago (like, last millennium). Had always planned to try another of his books but never got around to it, so I was happy to pick up this collection of "twelve macabre short stories", and get it signed. First of all I… Read More
How much would you pay for a short story?
Quick question for you. I'm thinking of making some of my short stories available for download from this site, but am not sure how much to charge for them. So I've set up a quick poll, below. I'd really appreciate your vote (oh dear, I sound like a politician). Seriously, though, it would help, and please be honest. If you wouldn't be interested or don't think it's worth paying for, just say so. The results are anonymous 😉 What I'm thinking of is a pdf document that you'd download after… Read More
"Maybe This Time" by Alois Hotschnig
I found Maybe This Time a very unsettling collection of short stories. I mean that in a good way. Being unsettled is often the prelude to thinking about things in a new way, and to me that's one of the most important functions of literature. The stories are very varied in style and content, but many of them deal with the question of identity in one way or another. In the first story, The Same Silence, The Same Noise, a man becomes addicted to spying on his neighbours. Yet he… Read More
"Best European Fiction 2010" edited by Aleksandar Hemon
This was a very interesting collection of short stories from around Europe. There's one piece from each country, so it really felt like a broad and varied collection rather than being weighted toward particular countries. One thing I didn't like is that some of them were extracts from longer pieces, which I don't think works very well. A short story is crafted specifically to fit that length; an extract from a novel, no matter how well-written, often feels dissatisfying to me because I feel as if I'm missing things by… Read More
"Bon Voyage, Mr President" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A short book of four short stories. I liked the main one, Bon Voyage Mr President. It's quite a straightforward story, with none of the magical realism for which Marquez is known. The dying ex-president of a Caribbean nation is in Geneva, seeing doctors about a mysterious ailment. A man from his home nation recognises him and invites him to his house, with the initial intention of making money out of him by selling him funeral services (the man is an ambulance driver and makes extra money working for funeral… Read More
"Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida" Part 5
The final part in my journey through Russian literature. For the original post in the series, please click here. Varlam Shalamov Here we move into the Stalinist era and writing about the Gulag. Through the Snow is a beautiful extended metaphor about writing as walking through virgin snow, with readers coming along behind on tractors and horses. Berries is about prisoners being tempted by berries just on the other side of a line they are not allowed to cross. One of them crosses, and is shot dead. The guard comes… Read More
"Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida" Part 4
For the original post in this series, click here. Isaak Babel These three stories come from Babel's posting as the equivalent of an embedded war correspondent with a Cossack regiment in Poland in 1920. They are not compromised or sanitised in any way, however: the convey the full savagery and horror not only of war but of military life. My First Goose, for example, is set not on the battlefield but in the barracks, where the narrator arrives, a bookish political commissar, and is mocked and threatened by the soldiers…. Read More


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How To Protect Your Facebook Account From Unauthorised Sign-In
Just like I did for Yahoo, LinkedIn and Twitter, please find below, a simple guide to give your darling Facebook one more layer of security. It also involves using a verification code to be sent by Facebook to your phone, to gain entry into your Facebook account.
Here is what to do :
1. Click the drop down arrow on the top right and click Settings
2. Click on Security (top left)
3. Click on Login approvals (second row)
4. Check the box by Require a security code to access my account from unknown browsers. You will see a pop up telling you about login approvals
5. Click on Get started
6. Another pop up with the following message appears:
Alternate Security Code Delivery
If you ever can't use Code Generator, we can text you a security code to your phone.
Note: We can't text landlines or Google Voice.
Click on Continue
7. A confirmation code will be sent to the phone number you already have on your facebook account. You also have the option of changing your phone number.
8. Enter the code sent to your phone or change your phone number. It could take a while for the code to arrive your phone.
From this point, you are good to go.
The next time you or anyone attempts logging in, the following message will appear:
Enter Security Code to Continue
It looks like you haven't logged in from this browser before. Please enter the security code from your Code Generator below
Can't find code?
1. Your code generator can be found on your mobile Facebook app.
2. You will find three lines on the top right of of your Facebook app that looks like this ≡
3. Click on it and scroll down and you will see your Code generator.
4. Click on the code generator. It will give you a 6 digit code which you will enter on the space requiring security code. Note that the codes change after every 30 seconds.
5. Click Continue and you will be shown a pop up giving you the option of either saving your browser or not. If you save your browser, a security code will NOT will be required when you want to log in. But every other person using another device/browser will be required to provide it.
1. Click on Can't find code? (see above) and chose an alternative means of verification which includes getting the code by SMS.
2. Enter the code sent to you and chose the option of either saving or not saving your browser.
1. Click the drop down arrow on the top right and click Settings
2. Click on Security (top left)
3. Click on Code Generator (third row)
4. Click Enable and you will see a window telling you how to activate code generator on your phone.
You are done !
To disable the code generator, simply click through to step 3 above and click on Disable.
1. Click on the drop down arrow on the top right and click Settings
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Chicken tortilla soup from scratch on the stove top in just 30 minutes! Tender sauteed chicken breast shredded and combined with bold seasonings, spicy chilis, fire roasted tomatoes, and corn tortillas to create a hearty and satisfying dish.
This chicken tortilla soup recipe is infused with a bunch of Mexican-inspired flavors using common pantry ingredients. No fuss here, just saute the chicken and simmer everything in a big pot. The authentic taste of this smokey tomato based soup shines through with each spoonful.
What makes this recipe lip-smackingly good is the combination of earthy spices like cumin, coriander, and paprika, fresh and dried chilis, and charred tomatoes. The shredded chicken, vegetables, beans, and strip of corn tortillas simmer in the aromatic base. In just 15 minutes, the soup becomes lightly thickened and packed with savory and spicy notes. Customize each bowl with colorful, creamy, and crunchy toppings for a delectable experience.
How To Make Chicken Tortilla Soup
- Saute the chicken breasts in a pan to add more flavor and texture.
- Boost the flavor of the dried spices by blooming in olive oil and cooking with onions and garlic.
- Canned chipotle peppers, fire roasted tomatoes, and chopped jalapenos add smokiness and heat.
- Thicken the soup with tomato paste and corn tortillas.
- Simmer shredded chicken, vegetables, chilis, and tortillas in the chicken stock until slightly thickened.
You'll be amazed at how quickly the flavors develop in the pot. I highly recommend browning the chicken before shredding. However, if you're pinched for time, cutting up a rotisserie chicken works nicely as well.
Spice Tolerance
The level of spiciness can be adjusted by adding one or two more tablespoons of chopped chipotle peppers. Start off with a small amount, taste, then add more to allow the heat to build. I originally added double the amount and found that adding a little sour cream tamed the spice. However, my husband Jason advised to tone it down a bit, for those who like a milder version. For my brave chili lovers, increase the spiciness to your liking!
Thickening the Soup
This chicken tortilla soup recipe is thickened two ways, using some concentrated tomato paste and adding in corn tortillas into the chicken stock. The paste contains a high amount of tomato solids, which increases the viscosity of the liquid. I use it to instantly thicken up tomato sauce for dishes like spaghetti and meatballs.
The main contributor to thickening is thinly sliced tortillas. By cutting them into smaller pieces, it allows the stock to quickly absorb and soften the tortillas as it cooks. You'll notice that after 15 minutes of simmering, most of the tortillas have broken up into the soup, naturally adding body and richness from the starches in the corn.
Easy to Make
This soup is a family favorite that I enjoy serving alongside taco night, or on more chilly evenings. The extra pieces of corn, bell pepper, and black beans provide extra fiber and protein to each serving. The great thing about the recipe is that it doesn't require much effort to make or compromise on taste. All of the authentic flavors of a great chicken tortilla soup are created in one big pot.
I like to serve the soup with a lot of different toppings. Fresh cilantro, sliced jalapeno peppers, diced avocado, sour cream, radish, green onions, and crispy fried tortilla chips add vibrant colors and interesting textures to each bowl. I can't wait to hear what you think and what toppings you add in the comments section below!
More Soup recipes
If you make this recipe, please let me know! Leave a comment, rate it, and don't forget to tag a photo #jessicagavin on Instagram. I'd love to see what you come up with. Cheers, friends!
Ways to ensure juicy and tender chicken
Chicken breasts can be prone to drying out when cooking, the lean meat contains a lot less fat. To minimize moisture loss and ensure even cooking, a few techniques can be used. First, make sure to flatten to an even thickness so the heat from the pan can distribute at the same rate. Add chicken to a preheated pan with hot oil, then cook over a consistent medium heat so that it doesn't overcook. The chicken can also benefit from brining to increase the moisture retention before cooking.
Chicken Tortilla Soup
- 1 1/2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breast, pounded to 3/4 inch thick
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt, (6g) plus more as needed for seasoning
- 1 teaspoon paprika, (2g) sweet or smoked, plus more as needed for seasoning
- black pepper, as needed for seasoning
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1 cup chopped white onion, (140g) 1/4-inch dice
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic, (10g)
- 2 teaspoons cumin, (4g)
- 1 teaspoon coriander, (2g)
- 1 teaspoon chili powder, (2g)
- 1 tablespoon chopped chipotle chilis in adobo sauce, (17g)
- 1 tablespoon minced jalapenos, (10g)
- 1/4 cup tomato paste, (56g)
- 3/4 cup chopped red bell pepper, (100g) 1/4-inch dice
- 1 cup corn kernels, (160g) fresh, canned or frozen
- 1 cup black beans, (175g) canned, rinsed and drained
- 14.5 ounce canned diced fire roasted tomatoes, (411g) plus juice
- 5 cups unsalted chicken stock, (1.2L)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 cup sliced corn tortilla strips, (100g) 1/4-inch thick, 2-inch long strips
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 1/4 cup cilantro leaves, for garnish
- Lightly season chicken breasts on both sides with salt, pepper, and paprika.
- Heat large saute pan or dutch oven over medium heat.
- Add 1 tablespoon olive oil, once hot cook the chicken on one side until lightly browned on the surface, 6 to 7 minutes.
- Flip the chicken and cook on the other side until the internal temperature reaches 160F, about 5 to 6 minutes.
- Transfer chicken to a clean plate and shred into smaller pieces once cooled, reserve.
- In the same pot heat over medium heat, add in 1 tablespoon of olive oil.
- Once the oil is hot, add in the onions and garlic, saute for 1 minute.
- Add in the cumin, coriander, chili powder, and 1 teaspoon paprika, continuously stirring for 30 seconds.
- Add chopped chipotle chilis and jalapenos, saute for 1 minute.
- Add in tomato paste and saute for 1 minute.
- Add in bell pepper and corn, saute for 1 minute.
- Add in the black beans, fire roasted tomatoes, chicken stock, oregano, salt, 1 cup tortilla strips, and shredded chicken, stir to combine.
- Bring to a boil and then reduce to a simmer, cook chicken tortilla soup until tortillas are softened about 15 minutes.
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September 22, 2013
I have to admit that I am an extreme movie buff. I find it very refreshing to watch a movie after hectic work weeks. I watch a movie every weekend. I can easily say that last 60 times (that would be around 65 weekends) tickets are booked for movie on my mobile. It should be noted that most of the times these movies were booked using BookmyShow and that's because it's a fantastic app and entire process is so seamless that there is no better way to book movie tickets in Bangalore and perhaps India (lets us know about your ticket booking preference in Comments below).
What I like about the app is that within 3 to 4 steps you can select a movie, choose the offers and then you choose payment options and add your ticket to apple passbook. It will also save you from long queues in booking line. You can see through the slideshow below, how easy it is to book a movie ticket through BookmyShow.
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The slideshow above, walks you through the entire ticket booking process. The one below, walks you through the authentication and ticket confirmation process.
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It's also interesting to note that there are tons of offers not only from credit cards and debit cards but also prepaid cards as well as Airtel money and movie money.
The entire process of going 1-2 hours early and standing in queue was so inefficient in India. Infact people use to go only to find that tickets got sold. Bookmyshow, ticket genie, kyazoonga and others have done a good job.
The whole process can be made even more seamless and easy if you save your contact details as well as credit card details so you don't have to enter those again. It becomes a one click process in bookmyshow.
I think in a country where 96% of transactions happen in cash, mobile recharges, movie tickets and phone/electricity bill payments are great examples of how things can become simple. These categories of payments have been transformed by online and mobile payments.
When you want to watch a movie, you should be doing just that. Not worried about whether you will get a ticket, or how long you will have to stand in the queue. With BookmyShow you can also select the best seat available and using your apple passbook ticket just key in the pin in the kiosk, take your ticket and enter the movie hall.
The whole process can be improved if the QR that is generated could be read by a scanner at movie halls. Its high time movie hall chains like Inox and PVR should bring these QR readers and machines so that people can simply pass through without having to go to a kiosk.
LTP View: I have always believed that the biggest dent that anybody can put in the payments industry are the merchants/retailers. Nobody else is so central to the payments value chain, its not the banks and not the technologists. The reason is that a good payment system should be deeply integrated into the entire purchasing process. It should not stick out but should be an integral part in the service/product consumption process. Uber and Bookmyshow are great examples of that.


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Bucs break through with walk-off 1B in 11th
PITTSBURGH -- The Pirates and Cardinals went back and forth as their bullpens put up a steady line of zeros late into the evening. Pittsburgh finally sent everyone home in the 11th inning on a chilly Tuesday night at PNC Park, as Jordy Mercer's walk-off single to right field gave
PITTSBURGH -- The Pirates and Cardinals went back and forth as their bullpens put up a steady line of zeros late into the evening. Pittsburgh finally sent everyone home in the 11th inning on a chilly Tuesday night at PNC Park, as Jordy Mercer's walk-off single to right field gave the Bucs a 6-5 win over St. Louis.
The National League Central rivals met 19 times last season, and five of those games went into extra innings, all of them decided in walk-off fashion. They played seven one-run games. Their bullpens were the two best in the NL. Two games into the season, there's reason to believe not much has changed in 2016.
"It seems like we always play these guys, they're good games and we always go to extra innings or something crazy happens," Mercer said. "Just two good teams going at it."
• Bauman: Pirates win battle of best NL bullpens
The Cardinals' bullpen -- from Tyler Lyons in the fifth to Seth Maness in the 11th -- had retired 18 straight batters when Gregory Polanco came to the plate with one out in the final inning. Maness walked Polanco, and Josh Harrison's single up the middle moved Polanco to second. Mercer then delivered a base hit down the right-field line that slipped past Cards first baseman Matt Adams.
"It was unbelievable," Cardinals starter Michael Wacha said of watching what his bullpen did after he exited with one out in the fifth. "Those guys were throwing up zeros after zeros. They kept us in there, gave us a fighting chance. It was a lot of fun watching those guys go to work."
"I know it was cold," Mercer said of the mid-30s chill by the Allegheny River. "So we were ready to get the heck out of there."
Making his Pirates debut, left-hander Jonathon Niese gave up five runs (four earned) on five hits and a walk while striking out seven. Niese pitched better than his line might indicate, as Pittsburgh made a few costly mistakes behind him, but St. Louis capitalized on two mistakes by Niese in the fourth. Niese hit Brandon Moss with a pitch, then served up a two-run homer to Jedd Gyorko, the second baseman's first with the Cardinals.
As well as the Cardinals' bullpen pitched, the Pirates matched them after Niese left the game. Five relievers combined to throw six scoreless innings, allowing three hits and two walks while striking out six. Left-hander Kyle Lobstein picked up a win by tossing two scoreless innings to end the game.
"We didn't give up a run all the way through," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "All of them contributed."
Mixed review: Aledmys Diaz wasted no time collecting a hit in his Major League debut, but he also committed a defensive flub that turned the game in the fifth. Two innings after he laced a single to right, Diaz received a grounder off the bat of Francisco Cervelli with the bases full, one out and the Cardinals clinging to a 5-3 lead. But what was a tailor-made double-play ball was bobbled by Diaz, who couldn't get an out. Wacha was chased from his start, and the Pirates evened the game before the inning ended. More >
"I was thinking about making a double play for the team," Diaz said, "and I think I hurried up a little bit and missed the ball."
Corner misplays: The Pirates' corner outfielders didn't do Niese any favors, playing a part in at least two Cardinals runs. In the third inning, left fielder Starling Marte bobbled Stephen Piscotty's single, allowing Diaz to score, Matt Carpenter to reach third and Piscotty to take second. Carpenter immediately came around to score on a groundout by Matt Holliday. In the fifth, right fielder Polanco took an indirect route into the right-center-field gap, turning what was likely a double by Piscotty into a triple. Piscotty scored on the next play, another defensive miscue, when Mercer threw wide of John Jaso at first.
On the mark: After misreading a ball off the right-field wall in the Pirates' two-run second, Cardinals right fielder Piscotty halted a potential Pittsburgh rally in the third by throwing Andrew McCutchen out at home. Yadier Molina made the swipe tag on McCutchen, who was trying to score from second on a single by David Freese. Piscotty also reached base three times and collected the team's first triple of the season.
"Terrific play, on both ends of that," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "That was a plus-plus throw to get a very fast runner."
$35-million man: Fresh off a news conference announcing his newly signed long-term extension with the Pirates, Polanco ripped an RBI triple off the Clemente wall -- with a 110-mph exit velocity, according to Statcast™ -- in the second inning to give Pittsburgh an early 1-0 lead. Harrison followed with a productive out, knocking a grounder to shortstop that allowed Polanco to score from third.
The Cardinals unsuccessfully challenged a safe call on a bang-bang play at second base in the bottom of the 11th. Gyorko, who had moved over to short, made a diving stop to glove a Harrison ground ball and rolled the ball to second baseman Kolten Wong, who grabbed it as Polanco was sliding into second. Polanco was called safe, a ruling that was confirmed via instant replay. It turned out to be a key call, too, as Polanco came home as the game-winning run five pitches later.
"It kind of got stuck in my glove a little bit," Gyorko said. "I made that play like a week ago down in Florida. It's in there. I just have to get it out of my glove a little bit smoother."
"That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to get the whole team in here and get warm." -- Mercer
"You've seen him on video, seen him on tape, and try to prepare as best you can. [He threw a] tough first-pitch cutter, tough second-pitch curveball. And then I just battled after that and was able to get some wood on that pitch and get it down the line. A lot of excitement. It's a great accomplishment, absolutely." -- Cardinals outfielder Jeremy Hazelbaker, on collecting his first Major League hit off Mark Melancon.
The last time the Cardinals opened a season 0-2 was also the last time the franchise won a World Series -- 2011. That club actually lost six of its first eight games.
Tuesday was the first time since Aug. 13, 2014, that the Pirates entered the day ahead of the Cardinals in the standings.
Cardinals:Mike Leake will make his organizational debut on Wednesday when the Cardinals wrap up their series in Pittsburgh with a 6:05 p.m. CT game at PNC Park. Leake, who allowed five runs in 20 spring innings, received the largest contract the Cardinals have ever given to a free-agent pitcher.
Pirates: After earning a spot in the rotation with a sensational Spring Training performance, right-hander Juan Nicasio will make his Pirates debut in their series finale against the Cardinals at 7:05 p.m. ET at PNC Park. Nicasio struck out 24 batters in 15 scoreless innings this spring, beating out Ryan Vogelsong for the final spot in Pittsburgh's rotation.
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Cauvery river panel meets on Tamil Nadu's callSeptember 19th, 2012 - 7:27 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 19 (IANS) After a wait of nine years, the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) met Wednesday at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence here, following a request from Tamil Nadu over the state's demand for release of the river's water by Karnataka.
The meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was attended by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa, Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, Puducherry Chief Minister N. Rangasamy and Kerala Water Resources Minister P.J. Joseph, sources in the Prime Minister's Office told IANS.
"The Tamil Nadu chief minister is at the prime minister's residence to attend the CRA meeting. After the meet, she will leave Delhi around 8 p.m. to return to Chennai," a senior leader of Jayalalaithaa's party, AIADMK, said.
"Kerala Chief Minister Oomen Chandy is indisposed and hence the state's water resources minister is attending the meeting on his behalf," an official source said.
According to sources, Jayalalithaa had written to the central government in May seeking a meeting of the CRA.
The state has demanded that Karnataka release water from the Cauvery to save Tamil Nadu's standing crops.
The last meeting of the CRA was held in 2003 when the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) was in power at the centre.
The Supreme Court earlier this month expressed its displeasure that the Prime Minister's Office had not fixed a date for the CRA meeting.
Tamil Nadu had made a plea to the apex court for a direction to the central government to convene the CRA to approve a "distress-sharing formula" evolved by the Cauvery Monitoring Committee for sharing the river water, in view of the failure of the monsoon this year.
Karnataka had indicated that it would demand a new formula to share Cauvery water with Tamil Nadu and other states when the monsoon fails.
- Cauvery River Authority to meet Wednesday after 9 years - Sep 18, 2012
- Will move apex court again on Cauvery water: Jayalalithaa - Sep 19, 2012
- Cauvery award: Both Tamil Nadu, Karnataka unhappy (Roundup) - Sep 20, 2012
- Karnataka asks PM to rescind Cauvery water decision - Sep 21, 2012
- Jayalalithaa renews call for Cauvery River Authority meet - Aug 23, 2012
- Karnataka walks out of PM's meeting on Cauvery waters - Sep 19, 2012
- Resolve Cauvery water dispute, SC tells PMO (Lead) - Sep 03, 2012
- Karnataka for new formula for Cauvery water sharing - Sep 11, 2012
- Cauvery water dispute adds to Karnataka Congress' woes (Karnataka Newsletter) - Sep 21, 2012
- Convene meeting of Cauvery River Authority: Jayalalithaa - May 19, 2012
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Loss of confidence in HRT sees scripts plummet by a million
Shattered confidence in hormone replacement therapy has seen the number of prescriptions fall by a million, according to new figures.
The Prescription Pricing Authority found just 6.4 million HRT prescriptions were written in 2003, down from 7.4 million the year before, in the wake of adverse publicity from the US Women's Health Initiative and the UK's Million Women Study.
The studies linked HRT to breast cancer, stroke and heart disease.
GP Dr Anthony Seeley, a council member for the British Menopause Society, said the 13.5 per cent fall was very significant, mainly because of the lack of effective alternatives for vasomotor symptoms.
'There are unlicensed alternatives, such as SSRIs, but they're not very effective,' he said.
Dr Seeley added that he thought there would be a
further drop in HRT prescribing in 2004, followed by a swing back to HRT prompted by more recent data from
the oestrogen-only arm of
the WHI trial, which he felt suggested lower incidence of breast cancer – in contrast
to the Million Women study.
'We need to individualise treatment. Combined HRT in the long-term is not a good idea – low-dose oestrogen has much more to offer and we should consider tibolone as a useful alternative,' he said.
But new research in the BMJ (May 29) has added to the complexity of the risk-
benefit equation for HRT.
The study found HRT use is one of the main causes of false positive mammography, leading to anxiety and unnecessary biopsies in significant numbers of women.
During the period of study, HRT use accounted for 20 per cent of false positive recalls in the NHS breast screening programme, amounting to 14,000 extra 'cases'.
The study concluded the false positive rate was 64 per cent higher among HRT users than in non-users.
Lead author Dr Emily Banks, until recently deputy-director of Cancer Research UK's clinical epidemiology unit, said: 'Women who attend screening on HRT need to be aware of these risks of false positives. It's up to them to make the informed choice. There's no role for HRT in chronic disease management.'
HRT: a complex risk-benefits picture
Oestrogen plus progestin versus placebo resulted in:
lIncreased risk of heart attack
lIncreased risk of stroke
lIncreased risk of blood clots
lIncreased risk of breast cancer
lReduced risk of colorectal cancer
lFewer fractures
lNo protection against mild cognitive impairment and increased risk of dementia
Oestrogen alone versus placebo resulted in:
lNo difference in risk for heart attack
lIncreased risk of stroke
lIncreased risk of blood clots
lUncertain effect for breast cancer
lNo difference in risk for colorectal cancer
lReduced risk of fracture
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You can now play Extreme Road Trip 2 for PC on a desktop/laptop running Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and MacOS/OS X. This can easily be done with the help of BlueStacks or Andy OS Android emulator.
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== Features ==
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* Unlock cars as you progress
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* Complete missions to get rewards and master every car
* Flips, wheelies, close calls, slams and other new stunts
* Race against your friends' replays
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* Drive in 11 exciting locations
* Use all-new power-ups like the coin magnet
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If you're into free awesome things that are fun, this is a game you should download!
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A R Rahman's track Elay Keechan for Mani Ratnam's Kadal is creating magic among the Tamil fans across the worl his last Hollywood outing, 'People like us' has been shortlisted for the Academy Awards for its original scores. Can the two times Oscar award winner may give Kollywood yet another reason to smile. The soundtrack composed by Rahman has made ...Read More »
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If you passed your car driving test on or after 1 January 1997 and you want to tow a caravan or certain trailers, you may have to take a specific practical driving test.
Drivers who gained their licence after this date are limited to vehicles up to a maximum of 3,500KG authorised mass, towing a trailer up to 750KG, or a vehicle and trailer combination up to 3,500KG MAM - providing the MAM of the trailer doesn't exceed the unladen mass of the towing vehicle. If you wish to tow a caravan or trailer combination which exceeds these weight limits, you will need to pass an addition driving test in B+E.
Lantra offers a certified training course that has been designed to prepare learners for the practical B+E driving test. The one day Lantra Awards Technical Award in Trailer: B+E Test Preparation will ensure that learners:
q Understand the requirements of the B+E driving test, appreciating the standards of driving required to pass the driving element of the test through practice in a variety of road conditions similar to those likely to be used during the test
q Gain experience in coupling/uncoupling the trailer to/from a vehicle following test standard procedures
q Practise reversing the vehicle and trailer (unit) within the dimensions required for the test and appreciate the standards required to pass the manoeuvring element
q Understand the vehicle, trailer and loading criteria for the test and receive feedback.
This course is a mixture of theory and practical training and learners will receive feedback on their performance.
To find a Lantra Awards training provider offering this course, visit www.lantra.co.uk/CourseFinder, or contact the Northern Ireland office on firstname.lastname@example.com or 07867 908 171.


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With a stay at ibis Styles Speyer, you'll be centrally located in Speyer, walking distance from Technik Museum and close to Speyer Cathedral. This hotel is within the region of Hockenheim Racing Track and Holiday Park. Take in the views from a terrace and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access and a television in the lobby. Featured amenities include a computer station, express check-in, and express check-out. Planning an event in Speyer? This hotel has facilities measuring 323 square feet (30 square meters), including meeting rooms. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite. Stay in one of 87 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have showers and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks and blackout drapes/curtains, and you can also request irons/ironing boards.
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Treating Hemorrhoids: Rubber Band Ligation
February 26th, 2013 by Eduardo Krajewski, MD, FACS, FASCRS
For most minor to moderate hemorrhoid symptoms, the initial treatment is diet and lifestyle modification. There are also many useful topical medications that can help bring relief to your symptoms. However, in some circumstances these conservative measures just aren't enough. In these cases, simple in-office procedures are used for treatment.
Internal hemorrhoids are supplied by visceral nerves, that is, the same kind of nerves that supply your intestines. Therefore, internal hemorrhoids are relatively insensitive to pain. This makes in-office procedures relatively painless, and the need for anesthesia is minimal to none.
Rubber band ligation is the most common in-office procedure available today. It is generally indicated when you have hemorrhoids that bleed and/or bulge out of the anus. You might also have symptoms such as burning, itching, pain or soiling of your undergarments.
How Rubber Band Ligation Works
First of all, you might receive an enema to clean the area to be treated. Then your surgeon uses a device, called an anoscope, to visualize the hemorrhoids. The symptomatic hemorrhoid is then grabbed with a clamp and stretched. Finally, a special elastic band is placed tightly around the hemorrhoid.
The banding causes the blood supply to the hemorrhoid to be cut off. In about 7 to 10 days the problematic tissue dies and falls off on its own. Sometimes a small amount of blood is seen when the hemorrhoid falls off.
Typically, 1 to 3 hemorrhoids can be banded at a time, and a 4 to 6 week interval is necessary between treatment sessions.
Precautions and Potential Complications
Because of the risk of bleeding, you should avoid taking aspirin or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for at least a week after the procedure. Ibuprofen and naproxen are commonly used NSAIDs that should be avoided. Also, if you take anticoagulant or antiplatelet medications, make sure your surgeon knows this. You might be asked to stop your medication ahead of time in order to minimalize the bleeding risk. Lastly, if you have a true latex hypersensitivity your doctor will probably recommend another treatment since the rubber bands are made of latex.
Complications to rubber band ligation are extremely rare. Some potential complications, however, are:
- Pain
- Bleeding
- Thrombosis (blood clotting)
- Difficulty urinating
- Infection
Taking sitz baths after the procedure can help minimize the occurrence or severity of side effects. You just soak your bottom in a few inches of warm water for about 10 to 15 minutes. Do not scrub and do not add soap to the water. Gently pat yourself dry.
Rubber band ligation is the most common in-office procedure for the treatment of symptomatic hemorrhoids that have failed to respond to more conservative treatment. The success rate of the procedure is up to 85%, and it is relatively painless. It is an excellent choice for the treatment of mild to moderate hemorrhoid symptoms.
Check out The H Doctor website. You will find many useful articles and videos that contain more information about hemorrhoid treatment and other digestive health topics.
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Pytest fixture which runs given ansible playbook file.
Project description
This repository contains pytest plugin which provides an easy way to run particular ansible playbooks during setup phase of a test case. This is useful when you already have some playbook files you would like to reuse during test setup or plan to maintain test setup in ansible playbooks for you to be able to use it both during test run setup and directly via ansible for other purposes (automatically during deployment or manually when needed).
Compared with pytest-ansible module, this module doesn't allow you to inspect ansible facts or details about results of each ansible task, nor doest it allow to specify and execute an ansible task directly. So if you need any of that, go for pytest-ansible instead. This plugin provides the only missing ansible feature which pytest-ansible is not supposed to provide - to run ansible playbook file directly.
Initial structure of this repository was generated with Cookiecutter along with @hackebrot's Cookiecutter-pytest-plugin template.
- The plugin provides ansible_playbook pytest fixture, which allows one to run one or more ansible playbooks during test setup or tear down.
- It's compatible with both python2 and python3 (playbooks are executed via running ansible-playbook in subprocess instead of using api of ansible python module).
- Doesn't allow you to configure ansible in any way, all changes of ansible setup needs to be done in ansible playbooks, variable or config files. This encourages you to maintain a clear separation of ansible playbooks and the tests.
Ansible should be installed (so that ansible-playbook binary is available in PATH). Use version provided by packaging system of your operation system.
There is no stable release yet, so the only option is to use latest sources from master branch.
Latest development version
The suggested way to install from sources of current master branch is via python virtual enviroment:
$ cd pytest-ansible-playbook $ virtualenv .env $ source .env/bin/activate $ pip install -e .
Note that you can use virtualenvwrapper to simplify this workflow.
When the plugin is installed, you can use the following command-line parameters:
py.test \ [--ansible-playbook-directory <path_to_directory_with_playbooks>] \ [--ansible-playbook-inventory <path_to_inventory_file>]
Where <path_to_directory_with_playbooks> is a directory which contains ansible playbooks and any other ansible files such as configuration or roles if needed. A ansible-playbook process will be able to access the files stored there, since this directory is set as cwd (current working directory) of the ansible process.
The <path_to_inventory_file> is file with ansible inventory. You can use either an absolute path or a relative path within the ansible directory specified via the 1st option.
Note that the option names were chosen this way so that it doesn't conflict with pytest-ansible plugin.
Using ansible playbook fixture
The plugin provides a single pytest fixture called ansible_playbook. To specify playbooks to be executed by the fixture, use the following pytest markers:
- @pytest.mark.ansible_playbook_setup('playbook.yml')
- @pytest.mark.ansible_playbook_teardown('playbook.yml')
Note that you can list multiple playbooks in the marker if needed, eg.:
@pytest.mark.ansible_playbook_setup('playbook.01.yml', 'playbook.02.yml')
both playbooks would be executed in the given order.
Here is an example how to specify 2 playbooks to be run during setup phase of a test case and one for the teardown:
@pytest.mark.ansible_playbook_setup('setup_foo.yml', 'bar.yml') @pytest.mark.ansible_playbook_teardown('teardown_foo.yml') def test_foo(ansible_playbook): """ Some testing is done here. """
While using markers without ansible_playbook fixture like this is valid:
@pytest.mark.ansible_playbook_setup('setup_foo.yml') @pytest.mark.ansible_playbook_teardown('teardown_foo.yml') def test_foo(): """ Some testing is done here. """
no playbook would be executed in such case.
Also note that using a marker without any playbook parameter or using the fixture without any marker is not valid and would cause an error.
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By Brad McQueen
Parents should opt out of letting their kids be used as guinea pigs for the Common Core/PARCC "pilot" test being given in Arizona schools over the next few weeks. As a "governing board" member of the PARCC testing group, Secretary of Instruction, John Huppenthal, has agreed to pilot and then implement the PARCC test statewide during the 2014/2015 school year.
At a recent meeting with parents and teachers in Oro Valley that I attended, Huppenthal stated that the PARCC pilot test is a "voluntary" test that Arizona schools have agreed to participate in. The testing window starts next week and lasts for several weeks. Hundreds of schools across AZ and the country will have thousands of K-12 students sit for several hours to take the pilot version of the computerized Common Core/PARCC test. Pearson Testing will then gather the results of the pilot test and use them to tweak their version of the Common Core/PARCC test that they will then sell back to states across the country to use to assess the new Common Core standards which have been fully implemented this year.
What will we get from the pilot tests? According to Huppenthal, absolutely nothing, except that teachers will be able to look over their students' shoulders to get an idea of what next year's Common Core/PARCC test will look like. Sounds like a pretty cheap date. None of the data derived from the pilot test, regarding academic or computer skills, will be made available to participating schools to assess instruction. No financial compensation will be offered to our students and schools for participating in this pilot test either, though Pearson stands to make millions when it uses data from the pilot test to finalize their nationwide test.
Do students have to take the Common Core/PARCC test? No. The state of Arizona has not yet adopted a test to assess the new Common Core standards, so officially students/parents who opt out of the pilot test cannot be penalized in any way for not taking an "adopted state assessment". Our kids are being pimped out to the Pearson testing company without the schools asking parents for input or for permission.
What can parents do? Parents are their kids' ultimate educators and protectors. Parents can call their children's schools and check to see if their child will be involved in this pilot test. They can then ask that their kid be "opted out" of taking the test or they can simply keep their kids home the day of the test. We have enough problems in Arizona with education, let's not add to the list the problem of a predatory testing company using our kids for their financial gain.
Brad McQueen
Elementary Teacher – Tucson, and author of The Cult of Common Core
Follow Brad on Twitter at @cosmowisdom
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Don't try this at home
A bit of silliness from last night. You know, being spanked in this position is very awkward. The blood doesn't know where to go — to my head or to my bottom.
Tops are evil. I know, I'm not telling you anything new. But I thought it was worth reiterating. New Guy comes over here with his toy bag stuffed with implements, plus a case with two canes in it. Oh, and wearing his belt. You'd think that would be plenty of instruments of correction, right? But nooooooo. On the way, he actually stopped the car, got out and cut a fresh green switch. @#$%!!!!!!
"I think you need a good switching, young lady." Whatever. I think you need a lobotomy. (No, I didn't say that out loud. I should have; had nothing to lose!)
Last night was quite different from our play last Monday. Whereas last week I'd been strung out with tension and was ready for a good cry, this time I couldn't stop giggling. I felt like my blood had been infused with champagne bubbles and everything tickled me (well, except for those damned implements). Fortunately, he has a good sense of humor and played along.
After a long OTK warmup (I swear, I can feel his hand getting stronger each week), he stood me up and then piled a couple of pillows on the side of the bed. I started to lie on them.
"Did I tell you to lay down?"
"No," I replied. "And you didn't tell me to lie down, either." Oh, the glee. Y'all know how much I love correcting a top's grammar. Naturally, he didn't love it one bit. I swear, you try to educate some people…
I had to bend over and put my hands on the pillows, but eventually he let me lie on them. (Rather, he picked me up and plunked me down on them.) After a healthy dose of his paddles and straps, it was switch time. It didn't last very long, though. It broke.
He was unfazed, though. He still had plenty left to work with. And it was able to impart quite an impression before it met its demise.
Usually I wind down after a while, settle into my zone and shut up, but last night, I simply couldn't; I was sassy to the end. I'm glad it's not always like that, because that would get tiresome for both of us, but sometimes, it's fun to be silly and light-hearted. However, his spanking/switching/strapping wasn't light anything.
Still haven't broken him of asking stupid questions, though. At the end: "Hmmmmmm… how many should I give you with these?"
"How the @#$% should I know?" I snapped.
"Well, that's good for at least ten," he said, laying ten hard ones on me. Then he stopped. I thought he was done, so I started to get up.
"Where do you think you're going?"
"I thought you were done!"
"No, I said at least ten, for saying… oh, now I forgot what you said."
Helpfully, I reminded him, "I said, 'How the @#$% should I know?' "
Sheeeesh! Try to be helpful!
At 9:30 he had to leave, but not before he gave me a sample of all his toys again. He didn't want me to forget how they felt, you see. Plus, it tweaked him that I'd already faded. My bionicity seems to have returned. Today, except for one tiny mark off to the side where the switch wrapped a little, I am completely unmarked. Sore, though. Definitely sore.
My apologies if the pictures are a bit large. Blogger is acting up today, and after the first image, it wouldn't let me upload any of the others. So I had to do it the old-fashioned MySpace way: upload the images to Flickr, copy the picture code and paste it into the blog. I don't know how to resize or adjust the photos when I do it that way. But at least I got it to work! Not bad for a computer-challenged sort.
Rainy day, sore bottom… all is well in my little world at this moment.
Thanks, New Guy. (He likes that name, BTW)


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To Thomas Jefferson from Columbia, South Carolina, Citizens, 6 March 1801
From Columbia, South Carolina, Citizens
Columbia South Carolina 6th. March 1801
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They may be professional beggars or people so down on their luck that they have nowhere else to go.
Whatever the case, the number of beggars in Preston i the highest in the county, it has been revealed.
Lancashire Constabulary has made 215 arrests under the 1824 Vagrancy Act in the past four years, with the biggest number of those made in Preston.
The city saw 41 arrests for vagrancy since 2012, mainly for begging in a public place and being found in or upon enclosed premises.
In comparison, there were six arrests in Leyland, five in Chorley, and 13 in the Lancaster and Morecambe areas.
Jeff Marsh, chief executive of The Foxton Centre in Preston, which works with the city's most vulnerable, said: "The Vagarancy Act had almost stopped being used until recently, but its use has picked up again, usually to deal with begging rather than rough sleeping.
I'd get nicked for sleeping in doorways and for begging, even if someone came up to me and gave me something when I hadn't asked for it.Karen Wallis
"I can't think that arresting someone for rough sleeping would be useful in any way and I noted with some dismay the recent proposal in Newport to use anti-social behaviour legislation to criminalise rough sleepers and use fines of up to £1,000 and I was pleased when they stepped back from this.
"On a purely practical level it would be a complete waste of police and court time without addressing the reasons why someone was on the street and I can't see many of the homeless people having the money to pay a fine."
Karen Wallis, 45, spent years on the streets after an abusive relationship saw her spiral into drug use and alcoholism, and said she was arrested "thousands of times" under The Vagrancy Act.
Through a placement at Emmaus Preston, she turned her life around, and is now employed as the charity's deputy community manager.
She said: "I'd get nicked for sleeping in doorways and for begging, even if someone came up to me and gave me something when I hadn't asked for it.
"It was a nuisance, a complete waste of taxpayer's money, but sometimes I looked at it as a chance to be dry and warm.
"When you get arrested you get put in a cell, then have to appear in court the next morning, but your fine gets wiped out because you've been in custody.
"I was arrested at least once a week for years, but it's a waste of everyone's time and money.
"It also remains on your record and you have to mention it to employers when you're trying to escape from your past."
Lancashire Constabulary declined to respond to a request for a comment on the arrests and prevalance of gangs of professional beggars.
This issue has been raised by Stephen Buchanan, director of Emmaus, Preston, who witnessed suspicious behaviour on a recent visit to Preston city centre.
He said: "There were four people sat in doorways. I watched them and every 45 minutes they swapped places and there was someone there siphoning off the money.
"They were telling people they didn't need a sandwich, they needed money.
"Then they went and got into a 13 plate car. This really doesn't help the situation. The people who really are in need would prefer food or a hot drink."
Mr Buchanan also raised concerns that arrests for rough sleeping in inner city areas could lead to people moving into places with little shelter, meaning they become ill and put extra pressure on health services.
Despite the concerns, arrests under The Vagrancy Act have been reducing over the past four years in Lancashire.
There were 77 arrests countywide in 2012, the latest figures for 2015 showed 25.
Mr Buchanan added: "It's good to see the number of arrests dropping, but actually the number of homeless people is increasing.
"It suggests that the police are looking at things differently. Officers do come to us and have a chat and we have a very good relationship with them. It's about building a relationship with them."
He added: It would be good if the officers carried information with them to signpost services to homeless people, telling them where to seek help.
"Often they are the first people to come across homeless people, so they could provide better training for officers in terms of listening and support."
A survey carried out by Emmaus nationally found that 49 per cent of respondants had experienced negative attitudes from the general public when homeless, followed by 38 per cent from the police and probation service.
In June, Lancashire Constabulary rolled out an initiative where mental health nurses joined police officers on the beat.
The project is aimed at reducing demand on police services whilst ensuring that people get the right assistance at the first point of contact.
Mr Marsh from the Foxton Centre added: "In Preston there is a multi-agency approach to rough sleeping and the Foxton Centre carries out regular street outreach work in the evenings and early mornings to identify rough sleepers, speak to them and encourage them to take up the services that are on offer.
"We have a regular multi-agency "Rough Sleepers Panel" meeting with the local authority to consider individuals and all work together to try and deal with their often very complex needs.
"We operate a "No Second Night Out" service which helps divert those sleeping rough into emergency accommodation.
"I am worried that the recent cuts announced by Lancashire County Council to the "Supporting People " programme will have a very negative effect on homelessness across the county, under threat are women's refuges who help women fleeing violence and abuse, homeless family provision, schemes for homeless young people amongst others."
Stephan Williamson, 48, has been with Emmaus Preston for seven months, having been with other branches nationally and internationally since 2011.
He became homeless after having a large amount of money stolen from him while working in Majorca.
He said: "There's an element of people on the streets who aren't genuine and it gives everyone a bad reputation.
"But there needs to be more places for people to go, and more services.
"There's a problem in a lot of places where unless you've got a connection with that town or city, you're moved on and you can't get housing.
"Then the police have quite a stance on people living rough in city centres, so people move to where they feel safe on the outskirts, but they may not always be safe.
"You have to sleep with one eye open.
"I've seen people set on fire, urinated on by people passing on the street.
"There's a stigma attached to it, that you're going to have a can of Special Brew in one hand and a needle sticking out of your other arm.
"But I've heard the statistics that most people are only three missed pay days away from being on the streets, so it can affect anyone.
"I saw a woman crouched down talking to a friend of mine while I was on the streets in London. She was smartly dressed and like she was on her lunch break from work.
"Then I saw her again the next morning, queuing outside the day centre for something to eat. It turns out she had left her husband and didn't know what to do or where to go.
"There needs to be more awareness of how close it is for everyone these days. It's so easy to get into debt and to lose your job."
Stephan said the longest he'd ever been on the streets was five to six weeks and he was put in touch with Emmaus through a day centre. He has carried out a range of jobs including furniture restoration and helping to train others.
He said: "They got me off the streets and back into the work situation as well.
"They've helped me get medical stuff sorted too, so I've been able to get my teeth sorted, which has boosted my confidence.
"They do look after you. I want to get back into the real world and get a job so I'm more financially stable for me and my mum."


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BCO award winning architectural practice, gpad london ltd, has completed a 5,705 sq.ft new-build reception extension at Brunel House, Fitzalan Road, Cardiff. The lightweight glass and steel extension juxtaposes the existing Brutalist architecture of the 15-storey mass concrete office building. A new entrance with reception, external landscaping and signage gives the building an enhanced facelift and new brand identity.
The lightweight two-storey glass and steel new-build extension creates additional generous lobby space with a new timber veneer and terrazzo top reception desk and matching panel surrounds. The curtain wall glazing combines natural light with a well-lit double height atrium space that offers improved building access through the use of innovative high quality design.
Careful design of the new entrance accommodates the change in ground levels and the installation of a platform lift from street level provides an accessible entrance to facilitate all users. A new accessible speed gate manages building access control. It can also be used as a regular gate at peak times to allow good user flow in and out of the building. The reception desk is no longer obscured from visiting clients and is in a prominent position directly opposite the entrance for enhanced user experience and access management.
The ground and first floor lift lobbies have been fully refurbished with the addition of an inviting ancillary café for building users to meet clients and colleagues in a relaxed environment. Additional ground floor seating with extra capacity on the mezzanine floor offers various break-out spaces for occupants.
Simon Fancourt ARB RIBA, Architect at gpad london ltd, comments:
"Our brief was to provide tenants with a large accessible grand reception that would impress clients visiting the building. We chose a dramatic pendant feature lighting installation suspended above the double height atrium to create a magical experience as you pass through the large revolving entrance doors. The 5.3m wide entrance stair, floor to ceiling terrazzo wall panels, polished plaster columns and large format concrete floor tiles express our design intent to create a feeling of grandeur for employees and visitors alike."
Material finishes specified empathise with the context of the existing Brutalist architecture. Taking inspiration from the heavy mass concrete construction, the internal finishes use robust materials such as concrete, terrazzo, glass and steel to provide continuity and longevity for the building user.
The use of lighter material colour finishes on the walls and floor provides a striking contrast to the feature elements such as bronzed flat bar steel handrails and balustrades. This colour scheme provides continuity throughout the building – inside and out – with bronzed external bollards, cladding panels and curtain wall glazing transoms and mullions to provide visual connections that have a contemporary appearance.
In-depth building analysis and environmental modelling enabled the specification of curtain wall glass to the reception. The light, bright and airy space provides the required thermal comfort through 8mm Pilkington Suncool external pane and 8mm Pilkington Optiwhite internal pane to give a true low-iron glazing that is clear when viewed from the outside and is both thermally efficient.
Simon Fancourt ARB RIBA adds:
"This particular project to create a 'grand, but accessible entrance' required consideration of the building functionality for all users combined with carefully choreographed aesthetics between the use of materials, colours and textures. The success has been delivered through high quality, sustainable design and the use of innovative detailing."
Key Facts
Location: Brunel House, Fitzalan Road, Cardiff
Type of project: New-build & refurbishment
Client: Castleforge Partners
Architect: gpad london ltd
Project manager: Tuffin Ferraby Taylor LLP
Landscape architect: gpad london ltd
Planning consultant: Asbri Planning (Cardiff)
Structural engineer: Nicholas Jones Partnership (Cardiff)
Quantity surveyor: Linesight
Main contractor: Knox & Wells
Funding: Castleforge Partners
Tender date: 18.11.16
Start on site date: 19.12.16
Completion date: 15.12.17
Contract duration: 12 months
Gross internal floor area: 530sq.m / 5,705 sq.ft
Total cost: £2m


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