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No, leave the iron to cool down before putting it away and follow the 4 tips: empty out the water remaining in the tank, set the thermostat to the minimum, close the steam control and stand it upright or place it on the base (depending model).
Choose a board that is height-adjustable to adjust it to your body. It should be steady and robust so that you can place the ironing appliance on it.The board should be perforated to allow the steam to pass through the fibres of the fabric to soften it and make ironing easier. The ironing board cover should also be suitable to allow the flow of steam through.
There could be several reasons for this:• You are not using the right type of water (Refer to the FAQ "What water should I use for ironing?").• You have used a starch type product on your laundry (Always spray to the reverse side of the fabric to be ironed and clean your iron afterwards).• Fibers from clothes have been trapped in the holes in the iron and have become carbonised.• The clothes have not been rinsed enough and there is detergent left on them or you have ironed a new item of clothing before washing it.• See the instructions for use to find out what type of water is appropriate and clean the soleplate from time to time with a damp sponge.
It is essential to select the right ironing temperature.Your iron has a built-in thermostat controlling the temperature very precisely over the entire surface of the soleplate. The thermostat dial contains international markers with dots corresponding to three ironing temperatures.Make sure that you use the right temperature for your clothes:• Marker with 1 dot for synthetic fabrics.• Marker with 2 dots for wool and silk.• Marker with 3 dots for cotton and linen.
• Don't use the Boost steam button intensively. Wait few seconds between each use.• The temperature button must be placed on Steam area (between 2 dots and MAX).• Use steam only when the iron is hot (the light must be off).
This function allows you to iron fabrics in situ or on a hanger.To do this, set the iron temperature button to the maximum position.• Leave the item on a hanger and gently pull the fabric with one hand.• Press the steam control button intermittently and move the iron from top to bottom.As the steam produced is very hot, it softens the fibres and removes creases.Note: Never use the vertical steam function on an item being worn by anyone.
Yes and you do not need to fill the tank with water. Set the variable steam control to Dry and set the temperature to suit the type of material (care points •, ••, •••).At the end of your ironing session, we would suggest that once your iron has cooled down, you should wipe over the soleplate and around the steam holes to remove any burned fibers that may have started collecting around the steam holes.
If it has not been used for a long time (for example several weeks), use it over the sink for a few minutes to remove any residue that could stain your laundry.
No, you must always unplug the iron before filling it.
To avoid damaging the soleplate, follow this advice:• Always place your iron on its heel rest or its base (depending on model),• Avoid ironing over abrasive items (buttons, zip fastenings, etc.),• Never clean your iron's soleplate with abrasive or metallic pads.
Shiny marks can appear on some fabrics, especially on dark coloured fabrics. We would advise ironing dark clothes inside out and using the correct temperature.If ironing mixed-fibre fabrics, set the temperature for the most fragile fibre.Important: The iron takes longer to cool down than to heat up. We recommend that you start with fabrics to be ironed at a low temperature.
• Tap water:Your appliance has been designed to function using untreated tap water. If your water is very hard, we recommend you use a max of 50% untreated tap water and 50% distilled water available in most shops.• Types of water not to use:Heat concentrates the elements contained in water during evaporation. The types of water listed below may contain organic waste, mineral or chemical elements that can cause spitting, brown staining or premature wear of the appliance: water from clothes dryers, scented or softened water, water from refrigerators, batteries, air conditioners, rain water, boiled, filtered or bottled water. These types of water should not be used in your equipment. Also only use distilled water as advised above.Always remember:Never use rainwater or water containing additives (like starch, fragrance or water from domestic appliances). Such additives can affect the steam properties and at high temperature, form deposits in the steam generator chamber which are likely to stain your washing.
If your iron has an anti-calc system, you should clean the anti-calc valve once a month. To do this, unplug the iron and leave it to cool for 30-45 minutes. Empty the water and remove the valve, holding it by the top. Let the anti-calc valve soak for 4 hours in a glass of commercially available white vinegar or natural lemon juice, then thoroughly rinse the anti-calc valve under tap water. Reposition the anti-calc valve into your iron. Warning! Never touch the end of the anti-calc valve. the iron does not work without the anti-calc valve.
Firstly, fill the iron tank to MAX with water.Set the thermostat control to Max and the steam control on DRY and switch on.Place the iron on its heel and leave to heat up for around 5 minutes.Unplug the iron then hold your iron horizontally above the sink.Remove the anti-scale valve (or set the control to self-clean/autoclean depending on the model). Steam, water and scale deposits will leave the steam chamber through the steam holes and the iron will be clean.At the end of the operation, push the anti-calc valve back into position. When your iron is cold, you will also be able to use your vacuum to gently suction limescale and dirt that may have clogged the holes in the soleplate.
Four good tips:After use, empty the tank, close the steam control, set the thermostat to minimum and stand the iron upright or place it on the base (depending on model).Cleaning:Use a damp soft cloth to wipe your iron and never use cleaners or solvents.If your iron has an auto-clean function, refer to the instruction manual before using it.Tips:• Always use untreated water in your iron. If your water is very hard, we recommend you use a mix of 50% untreated tap water and 50% distilled water.• Avoid placing your iron on sharp objects such as zip fasteners and metal buttons.• Do not put your iron down flat on rough surfaces.
You must take precautions so that using your iron is risk-free.Of capital importance… Never leave a hot iron unattended.This is not only to avoid overheating of the iron or the surface on which it is placed but also to ensure that no-one gets burned. If safety is one of your main concerns, choose an iron that has an automatic cut-off function.And never, never…Never leave a hot iron within reach of children or pets who risk knocking it over and injuring themselves.Like any electrical appliance, never put your iron in water.Do not use an iron that has fallen down or has a damaged power cord. If you have the slightest doubt concerning the condition of your iron, contact the Service Centre.Always unplug your iron before leaving it, cleaning it or filling it with water (unless it is a model that has a removable water tank). Regularly check the water level to ensure that there is always enough.
Never use any descaling agent or vinegar when rinsing the boiler: they could damage it.• Self-cleaning: heat the iron, unplug it, remove the anti-calc valve and spray the iron over the sink.• Cleaning the anti-calc valve: Remove the antiscale valve and soak the valve in a cup of white vinegar or plain lemon juice for 4 hours.
It is not designed for the water to be removed completely. It is okay to use or store the iron even with a small amount of water remaining. When storing, please remove as much water as possible and store in an upright position.
• The Durillium soleplate:Regularly clean the soleplate with a damp, non metallic washing up pad. For easier, non-corrosive cleaning of your iron's soleplate, use a damp sponge on the soleplate while it is still warm.If cleaning dirt off is an issue, use the stick which is made specifically for cleaning the Durillium soleplates.• The stainless soleplate:Clean the soleplate of your iron when it is cool with a damp cloth or a non-abrasive sponge.• The autoclean soleplate:It is recommended that you use a soft damp cloth on the warm soleplate, in order not to damage the surface.Warning: The use of iron cleaner will cause damage to your soleplate's autoclean coating.
Gently shake your iron to reactivate it, the lights should start to flash and then the product should start to heat up.
3 possible causes:• No mains supply: check that the mains plug is properly inserted or try plugging the iron into a different socket.• Temperature control set too low: set the temperature control to a higher temperature.• The automatic electronic cut-out* is active: move your iron.* depending on model
Always set your iron to the 'No Steam' function before you start to fill.
Some irons (depending on model) can produce steam when set on the One dot setting, however, the majority of our irons will only produce steam when set on the 2 dot or 3 dot setting. When you look on your iron's thermostat dial you will notice that the 2 dot and 3 dot settings have a shaded background, this indicates that the iron will produce steam when the dial is set inside this shaded area.
Not all of the steam holes release steam, the smaller holes on the soleplate that look like they might be steam holes are actually designed to assist soleplate glide ability.
There is not enough water in the tank. Fill it up with the quantity indicated in the instructions for use and push spray button several times to fill the system complete.
All irons contain a thermostat light. It is normal for the thermostat to turn on and off. It indicates the thermostat is working and your soleplate is being maintained at the desired temperature. If the auto-off light blinks, you must disengage the auto-off function. This is done by gently shaking the iron which will allow the iron to reheat.
When heating your iron for the first time, you may notice a small amount of odour and smoke, this is simply the engineering residues from the manufacturing process burning off. These are harmless and will quickly disappear.
It is normal. Your iron generates a lot of steam; this steam is condensing on the board. Some waterdrops could appeared underneath the ironing board and fall on the flooring.
Your iron has been stored horizontally, without draining the water tank and with the selector placed on steam position. When you store your iron horizontally, check that the tank is empty and the selector on "DRY" position.
Check the following points:• The tank is empty or almost empty; add more water,• The selected temperature is too low and does not allow steam to be produced; set the thermostat to the steam zone (between 2 dots and MAX),• If your iron has a Dry/Steam control, set it to the Steam position,• Scale has built up in your iron; descale it,• Your iron has an intelligent system (a moving sensor) which temporarily stops steam being released when the iron is not moving, even when it is placed horizontally. This function eliminates wasted steam while you are handling the clothes!
Please check the following points:• The tank is empty or almost empty; add more water.• The selected temperature is too low to use this function; set the thermostat to the zone between 3 dots and MAX.The "supersteam" or "turbo" function should not be used intensively – wait a few seconds between pressing the button.
You are filling the tank with the Dry/Steam control set to Steam – it needs to be in the Dry position. Or, you have over-filled your iron – do not go beyond the "MAX" level on the tank.
Some laundry starches and synthetic fibres may stick to the surface of the iron. Please clean the Iron's surface.
This is probably crystallized calcium chlorohypochlorite. Carry out the self-cleaning instructions in the instruction manual two or three times. If that hasn't resolved the problem, it may be that your iron needs repair. Please contact the service centre.
The internal parts may make metallic noises with the change in temperature. There is nothing wrong with it.
After following the instructions in the user manual for starting the appliance, make sure that your electrical socket is working by plugging another appliance. If it still does not work, do not try to dismantle or repair the appliance yourself and take it to an approved repair centre.
Do not use your appliance. To avoid any danger, have it replaced by an approved repair centre.
The electronic system cuts the power and the auto-stop light flashes if the iron is not moved for more than 8 minutes (on its heel rest or base) or is left flat for more than 30 seconds. To turn the iron back on, gently shake it until the light goes out.
This may be due to the use of chemical descaling agents or additives in the water for ironing. Never use this type of product in the water tank (see our recommendations regarding water to be used). Some residues could also been present in the steam chamber or on the soleplate; use the self cleaning function (Depending model). All linen, especially new garments, must be washed and rinsed thoroughly to remove any soap and chemical deposits before you iron them. If these are not removed by washing they may appear later out of the soleplate in the form of small brown or white spots or streaks on your linen.
Use the right temperatures on the thermostat for the right fabrics. A reason for sticking may be the use of starch. If you want to use starch, simply spray it on the reverse side of the garment, so that there is no contact between the soleplate and the starch. Clean the soleplate from rubber prints of fabric (Which always must be ironed on reverse side of the rubber prints).
The anti-calc collector is a scale collector which automatically collects the scale which forms inside your iron. The amount of scale collected depends on the hardness of your water.
This system prevents the soleplate from clogging. Its active coating eliminates fibres and impurities that often become stuck to the plate and end up reducing its glide.
The higher the wattage, the faster the iron will reach the desired temperature.
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The views and opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of the people, institutions or organizations that I may or may not be related with unless stated explicitly.
In other words – I choose the content on this blog and the opinions on here are mine. For me blogging is a creative process, and it's different from other kinds of media. I write for many clients around the world and what I like about this blog is that it is mine – I say what I like, I include what I like, and I highly encourage other bloggers to embrace that fearless independent spirit – don't be a sheep, don't copy me (yes, people tell me and how we laugh about it), don't be dictated to and don't dictate.
Also, my thoughts and opinions change from time to time as I come to learn more and develop my understanding about the things and issues that I am blogging about. This blog just provides a snapshot of the knowledge, views, and opinions that I hold at a particular point of time and these might most probably change over a period of time. I reserve the right to evolve my knowledge, thoughts, and viewpoints over time and to change them without assigning any reason.
If you find that something I like doesn't work for you, then I can't be held liable for this – remember, each to their own – I am only making suggestions.
As mentioned above, I am not a trained make up artist, beauty therapist or the like. Although I write constantly, I am not faultless and will occasionally make spelling and grammatical mistakes – this blog is an outlet for me and sometimes I just let things flow rather than keeping everything very straight laced and static.
Although I would love to write on this blog all day every day I simply don't have time, so occasionally (or should I say rarely) there will be days with no new posts and comments take a while for me to get back to (email if its urgent).
Please understand that as a young woman I have a full time job like most people, I have household/day to day commitments like most people, I have family/caring responsibilities like some people, I am a multiple cat momma, I also have freelance work in the evenings after my job and I write posts for this site and others too. Rest assured, every moment of my day is accounted for. (Holidays? Sleep?! What are they?!)
Why do I do it then? I love it!
I buy 75% of my make up and skincare, I get 25% from various companies to test out and review. When I started I didn't get anything free and PRs approaching me is something that only happened from mid- late 2009.
Of the 25% I review about 40% of these – the majority of the time I don't show you the item if I am not inspired by it. You'll find a review on some other blog – just not on mine.
I love being able to work with PR (some are great!) and it means I try things that aren't in my normal psyche – HOWEVER I will only review products that I feel like talking about. I am not afraid of upsetting a company/PR (can you guess) because I buy enough of my own products and have enough in my stash to keep me going for the next decade when I force it on to my own daughters.
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Friday night in the semifinals at Alico Arena here on the campus of Florida Gulf Coast the Lady Bisons swept the Belmont Bruins 3-0 in the tournament version of the "Battle of the Boulevard" with set wins of 25-14, 25-23 and 25-11. The Bruins were the No.4 seed.
The Lady Bisons will face ETSU, the No. 3 seed. The Lady Bucs upset Kennesaw State, the No. 2 seed, 3-1. The championship game begins at 2 p.m. It is available on A-Sun TV with live stats at atlanticsun.org.
"I'm really pleased with how we came out and dictated the match early," Lady Bisons coach Brandon Rosenthal said. "We put a lot of pressure on them even going into set two.
"In set two we had a four or five point lead and Belmont fought back hard. In the middle range we had as a big of a lead as three and as small a lead as one. But Belmont never tied us."
Rosenthal admits that if the Lady Bisons had lost the second set he might not be preparing for the championship match.
"The rallies were long in set two," Rosenthal said. "Both teams were winded. Neither team was calling time outs. Mentally it is hard because we are feeling pressure on every play.
"Belmont did some nice things in set two and we didn't pick up on them. It wasn't one thing or another."
In set three Belmont had a roster issue that caused a delay after the first point of the match. Rosenthal was concerned how that wait might affect his team, but the Lady Bisons jumped out to an 8-1 lead and never looked back.
"It was a tough situation," Rosenthal said. "Our girls don't like waiting. When a big wait like that is going on they get frustrated. "Teams that are frustrated tend to try to overplay things. I thought we did a real nice job of settling down and taking care of the job."
This was the fifth time in the last five seasons that the two teams have met in the A-Sun Tournament. The winner of the match has gone on to win the tournament each of the last four years with the Lady Bisons winning in 2007 and 2009 and Belmont winning in 2008.
It was the third win this season for the Lady Bisons against the Bruins.
Senior middle blocker Alex Kelly made 15 kills and was credited with 15 digs, both match highs.
"That's just Alex Kelly," Rosenthal said. "To say I would expect anything less would be a lie.
"All of these girls want this championship, but we all know what a competitor Alex is. She got hot early and I thought we went away from her a little bit. But we found a rhythm going back to her."
Three other Lady Bisons finished in double figures in digs with senior setter Jake Pease, junior middle blocker Katie Rose and freshman libero Stephanie Rex each making 10.
"We have been stressing defense since our last match with Belmont last week," Rosenthal said. "We looked at what we could do differently than we have done all season in the tournament match.
"We have played solid defense this season, but I thought we took it up a notch. We were very prepared. Our girls were really disciplined on defense and executed our game plan. When we are scoring out of our defense that puts a lot of pressure on the other team."
Rose barely missed a double-double with nine kills. She posted a .750 hitting percentage, tying with Pease for the match high.
"Katie Rose played a tremendous match," Rosenthal said. "She is like Erin Pierce was for us last season. Katie is the X-factor.
"It is the little plays time and time again. Defensively, she was solid. Offensively, when we can get our middles hitting like Katie and Alex did it's tough on the other team."
Senior outside hitter Meghan Hinemeyer added 10 kills. Pease made 38 assists.
The Lady Bisons are 23-5. Belmont finished the season 14-15.
Written by Mark McGee, Senior Publisher/Director of Media Relations.


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Feds want to survey, possibly clean up vast garbage pit in Pacific
Despite pessimism, feds gather data on giant wandering blob of primarily plastic flotsam
The so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a stewy body of plastic and marine debris that floats an estimated 1,000 miles west of San Francisco, is a shape-shifting mass far too large, delicate and remote to ever be cleaned up, according to a researcher who recently returned from the area.
But that might not stop the federal government from trying.
Charles Moore, the marine researcher at the Algalita Marina Research Foundation in Long Beach who has been studying and publicizing the patch for the past 10 years, said the debris - which he estimates weighs 3 million tons and covers an area twice the size of Texas - is made up mostly of fine plastic chips and is impossible to skim out of the ocean.
"Any attempt to remove that much plastic from the oceans - it boggles the mind," Moore said from Hawaii, where his crew is docked. "There's just too much, and the ocean is just too big."
The trash collects in one area, known as the North Pacific Gyre, due to a clockwise trade wind that circulates along the Pacific Rim. It accumulates the same way bubbles gather at the center of hot tub, Moore said.
A two-liter plastic bottle that begins its voyage from a storm drain in San Francisco will get pulled into the gyre and take weeks to reach its place among the other debris in the Garbage Patch.
While the bottle floats along, instead of biodegrading, it will "photodegrade," Moore said - the sun's UV rays will turn the bottle brittle, much like they would crack the vinyl on a car roof. They will break down the bottle into small pieces and, in some cases, into particles as fine as dust.
The Garbage Patch is not a solid island, as some people believe, Moore said. Instead, it resembles a soupy mass, interspersed with large pieces of junk such as derelict fishing nets and waterlogged tires - "an alphabet soup," he called it.
Also, it's undetectable by overhead satellite photos because it's 80 percent plastic and therefore translucent, Moore added. The plastic moves just beneath the surface, from one inch to depths of 300 feet, according to samples he collected on the most recent trip, he said.
By Moore's estimation, the "floating landfill" is also simply too far from land to conduct any meaningful cleanup operation. It's about 1,000 miles west of California and 1,000 miles north of the Hawaiian Islands - a week's journey by boat from the nearest port. It swirls in a convergence zone located about 30 to 40 degrees north latitude and 135 to 145 west longitude.
There's no doubt that a stew of marine debris exists in the convergence zone of the gyre, said Holly Bamford, an oceanographer and director of the marine debris program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, but there is some debate as to its size.
Moore has led most of the research and publicity surrounding the Garbage Patch, so Bamford said her federal agency, which oversees ocean conditions, is collecting its own data to assess the area and density.
Bamford said she has noted some "gaps in the research" that suggest the affected area is not as large as Moore estimates. Yet there's no question that marine debris is gathering in the area and is having a negative impact on marine life, such as fish who mistake the particles for food.
"But before we embark on a huge removal process," Bamford said, "we need to understand what we're dealing with."
Bamford added that the agency had attempted to take satellite photos of the area last year, but the overhead photos were inconclusive. "It's hard to distinguish a whale reaching the surface versus a piece of plastic," she said.
Still, Bamford said the agency is considering flying unmanned aircraft that can be launched from boats to skim the ocean's surface and collect data.
But launching the drones is 18 months away, Bamford said. It could be two years before a federal plan is enacted to remove the plastic - if it's warranted, Bamford said.
"Once we get to that stage, we'd need to ask, 'If we can remove it, what would be the best way? And what would we do with it afterward? If we collect it, would we bring it back to shore - and then what, put it in a landfill?' "
In the meantime, as the production and the use of plastic continue to grow, so will the Garbage Patch, Moore said. The only way to reduce marine debris, all sides agree, is to cut it off at its source - on land.
The dramatic growth in plastics use over the past two decades is what distresses activists like Moore. The annual production of plastic resin in the United States has roughly doubled in the past 20 years, from nearly 60 billion pounds in 1987 to an estimated 120 billion pounds in 2007, according to a study by the American Chemistry Council, which represents the nation's largest plastic and chemical manufacturers.
Keith Cristman, a senior director of packaging at the American Chemistry Council, said the plastics industry is aware of its connection to marine debris and said the council is working with federal and state agencies to put more recycling bins on California beaches in an attempt to stop plastic bottles and bags from making their way to the sea.
At the end of November, Cristman said, the council is co-sponsoring its first marine debris workshop with state and federal agencies.
Cristman said he'd rather see more plastic recycled than production slowed.
"Plastic is a valuable resource," he said. "It shouldn't be wasted, it should be recycled."
Asked if the council would assist in any cleanup of the Garbage Patch if the federal government called on it, Cristman said, "We're always interested in working with NOAA and the EPA."
Moore said his crew had collected new data that suggested more plastic is entering the gyre, yet he was hesitant to elaborate until he finalized the research.
"The ocean is downhill from everywhere," Moore said. "It's like a toilet that never flushes. You can't take these particles out of the ocean. You can just stop putting them in."


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An Inside Look at Toilet Paper Testing
- The most important factor we considered was absorption. You definitely want a TP that can hold water!
- You don't want your toilet to have to work too hard, particularly if you have finicky plumbing. We timed how long each type of toilet paper took to dissolve in water to see how much stress it would put on your pipes.
- You also don't want your TP to break down before you're done using it. We evaluated how strong the squares were while wet and dry using special machinery in the lab.
- We also used a special machine to figure out just how thick each sheet was, with the highest scores going to tissue over 0.1 inches thick!
It's all well and good for toilet paper to do well in the Textiles Lab, but how will it hold up in your home? We asked consumer testers what they thought about the TP in our test and took a closer look at each roll for quality and quantity.
- We called it a blind softness test. We had staffers come up to the lab and feel each toilet paper to see which felt the softest to the touch.
- But the real test is in the stall. We stocked our bathrooms with mystery brands of TP and had consumers fill out an evaluation form to rate which paper was the softest and gentlest.
- It's just as important for toilet paper to be well made as it is for your favorite garment to be carefully constructed. We rolled out each roll onto black fabric and looked for any imperfections that might compromise the tissue, like tiny holes, tears or thin spots. We also rated which types of TP were thinner or thicker, by seeing how well we could see the black fabric through the paper.
- Sure, every brand of toilet paper promises more paper per pack, but how much are you really getting for your money? We unrolled roll after roll to see just how many sheets and square feet you get in each pack and then compared that to the manufacturers' promise. We also weighed each roll to see if you're getting more paper or if it's just fluffed up with air.
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Follow the steps in this article if you experience any of these symptoms:
- When adding input sources so that you can type in another language, some languages are missing from the list of input sources:
- The "Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar" checkbox in Keyboard preferences doesn't stay selected, or doesn't cause the Show Emoji & Symbols menu to appear in the menu bar or Input menu.
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Peppermint Meringue Clouds
I love to bake so my kitchen gets a real workout every Christmas. This unique recipe combines both sugar and meringue cookies. —June Rolf, Norwood, Minnesota
- 2/3 cup shortening
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 egg whites
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon white vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 cup (6 ounces) miniature semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup crushed peppermint candies
- 1/2 cup crushed spearmint candies
- 1. In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg yolks, milk and vanilla. Combine the flour, salt and baking powder; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- 2. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, beat the egg whites, salt, vinegar and vanilla until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar; beat until stiff peaks form. Fold in chocolate chips. Transfer half of the meringue to another bowl. Fold peppermint candies into one portion and spearmint candies into the remaining portion.
- 3. Shape cookie dough into 1-in. balls. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Flatten with a glass dipped in sugar. Drop meringue by teaspoonfuls into the center of each cookie. Bake at 325° for 18-20 minutes or until lightly browned.
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I was just wondering how many people would be interested in attending another IPLA meet this December? I think that NV is still the most logical place for it, and would be happy if we could have it at the same location just north of Vegas.
Ben Stern and Pimpman seem up to it, anyone else interested?


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Being useless at English myself, I will be the last one to criticize other people's mistakes. I just find weird that, in the middle of the rush to get the news out, many people killed Obama instead of Osama tonight.
From MSNBC's correspondant Norah O'Donnell—who tweeted "Obama shot and killed" citing NBC Chief Pentagon Correspondent Jim Miklaszewski as the source—to the BBC News site. And of course, Fox News. That may have been a Freudian slip and not a typo, though.
To check out our full coverage on the successful raid of Osama Bin Laden's compound—from the planning to the aftermath—head here.


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Hamas shift to tunnel warfare catches Israel by surprise
Jerusalem: Israel entered its latest conflict with Hamas armed with a high-tech arsenal, real-time battlefield intelligence and strong domestic support for dealing a heavy blow to Hamas.
But again on Friday, Israeli forces were taken by surprise, this time with two soldiers killed and one taken prisoner when militants once again attacked from a tunnel leading from Gaza into Israel.
As frustration grows in Israel over the military's inability to neutralise Hamas, the militant Islamic group that governs Gaza, despite hitting 4300 targets in 24 days of intense bombing, some military experts say it is increasingly evident that the Israel Defence Forces have been operating from an old playbook and are not fully prepared for a more sophisticated, battle-ready adversary.
The issue is not specifically the tunnels - which Israel knew about - but the way Hamas fighters trained to use them to create what experts in Israel are calling a "360-degree front".
"Hamas has changed its doctrine and is using the tunnels as a main method of operation," said Israel Ziv, a retired general who headed the military's Gaza division and its operations directorate. "This is something we learned amid the fighting."
Israeli troops in Gaza described Hamas gunmen who vanished from one house and suddenly popped up to fire at them from another. And while Hamas fighters are able to use the tunnels to surprise the forces from behind and to attack those in the rear, Israeli soldiers find themselves having to improvise.
In the Gaza war that began in late 2008, 10 Israeli soldiers were killed, four of them from friendly fire. This time, 61 soldiers have been killed, mostly in combat, and one has now been taken prisoner.
"The military has been playing it by ear," said Amos Harel, a military affairs analyst for the newspaper Haaretz, who added that despite its knowledge of the tunnels, Israel's military planners did not draft a new doctrine for prosecuting a land invasion. "But it is pretty good at doing that, and has done it many times."
In this latest asymmetrical war with Hamas, the third in five years, Israel believed it was prepared. It had built up an integrated communications system able to transfer intelligence in real time to air and ground forces, an advancement that military officials described as a "force multiplier".
What Israel was apparently less ready for was Hamas fighters who are willing to engage and are trained to use tunnels.
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As Stanford students, we have been charged – by the Stanfords themselves in the Founding Grant – with the responsibility of "promot[ing] the public welfare by exercising an influence in behalf of humanity and civilization." The words that Leland and Jane wrote down over 120 years ago in honor of their late son still ring true today, for fuzzies and techies alike. Whether you are applying for a visa to study abroad or someday praying for favorable trade relations so that you can expose your product to a new market, international relations matter. So if you're curious about IR or just wondering why there were police dogs outside of Dink yesterday, read on.
Crash Course: Meet the U.N.
Founded in 1945, the United Nations was born out of the need to address global hostility post-World War II and the League of Nations' failed attempt at creating an international body that could effectively address international issues. Despite starting afresh, the formation of an international regulating body still did not sit well with some countries, and after the Soviet Union turned about-face on first Secretary General Trygve Lie due to the UN's role in the Korean War, the UN was almost doomed to the same fate as the League of Nations.
Fortunately, Lie's fellow-Scandinavian successor, Dag Hammarskjöld, strove to prevent the UN from disappearing altogether. However, the UN has had its share of drama, from the Soviet Union's desire to create a troika to replace the Secretary General to the Annan family's Oil-for-Food scandal.
Despite the issues that have arisen, the United Nations remains the predominant world body persistently working to maintain peace between nations and provide aid to those who are hungry, oppressed, illiterate, and ill, deploying approximately 120,000 peacekeepers from over 110 countries and feeding over 90 million people a day. In the words of current Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, "we [- the UN -] deliver more humanitarian aid than anyone."
BMOC: Ban himself
This Thursday afternoon, Ban Ki-moon came to address the Stanford community and discuss the role of the UN in our rapidly transitioning world. Expressing his excitement at being able to speak on campus, Ki-moon joked that "Stanford has subtly made its mark on the world…… and that is just your football team." But beyond voicing his appreciation for California and joking that after a trip to America as a teen, he "was the 1950s equivalent of PSY" because he was so popular when he got home, Ban Ki-moon emphasized a need for American citizens to help address the profound global change that our world is facing today. To make his point clear, Ki-moon elucidated three primary ways to navigate our changing world – his points are as follows.
1) Sustainable Development
First, Ki-moon urged individuals to be more conscious of their consumption of Earth's resources, as "there can be no plan B… because there is no planet B." Asserting that "we cannot drill or mine our way to prosperity," Ki-moon explained his goal for 2030: that everyone in the world will have electricity, solving a current dearth of energy for 1.4 million individuals. His environmental stance reflects current initiatives at Stanford that you can get involved in, from the Stanford Solar Car project to the Green Living Council. As Ki-moon said himself, "I know you understand – after all, Stanford's mascot is a tree."
2) "Dignity and Democracy"
Focusing on civil unrest in Syria and Mali, the Secretary General illuminated the main concerns for addressing international conflict, including funds, access, and political divisions. He wants to provide certainty to young people who have uncertain futures, and uphold the human rights of those who can't defend themselves.
3) Women and Young People
Similarly, Ki-moon argued that women and young people are the "most under-utilized resource" in today's world. He called for "more women in the Cabinet, more women in the Parliament, and more women in the boardrooms," and is proud that South Korea has its first female president(-elect). Because "half the world is under 25 years of age," Ki-moon has appointed a special envoy on youth, who will hopefully be a proponent for children and young adults around the world.
In sum, Ban Ki-moon discussed a variety of pressing issues that he and his peers in the UN need our help to address. It is in this vein that Ki-moon wrapped up his talk; rather than talking about how the youth are the future, he argues that it is time to recognize that young people "have already taken their leadership role today."
So, Stanford students, let's take Ki-moon's advice. Now, more than ever, it is our responsibility to recognize the importance of international cooperation and impartiality. It is time to be global citizens.


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Pipe Maker Adds Tension Stand, Rewind Reel for Oscillate-Wound Coils
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Coe Press Equipment, Sterling Heights, MI, has delivered a special tension stand and rewind reel for oscillate-wound coils to the Tyler Pipe coupling-manufacturing facility in Marshfield, MO. The rewind reel handles coils to 4000 lb. and up to 12 in. wide; rewind speed peaks at 300 ft./min. True-radius mandrel pads on the reel help to maintain consistent pressure and coil-ID shape.
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Pittsburgh is situated at a point where the Allegheny River from the north and the Monongahela River from the south join to form the Ohio River. The terrain is an appealing mix of hills with panoramic views ranging from 715 to 1240 feet in elevation and narrow valleys spanned by many bridges. There are more than 1,700 bridges in Allegheny County. This river metropolis was originally the domain of the warlike Iroquois Indians. Poles were among the frequent visitors to this area since colonial times when Pittsburgh (Fort Duquesne) was the first fortification west of the Allegheny Mountains. As early as 1729, trader, explorer and interpreter, Anthony Sadowski ventured into areas of Western Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, then known as the "Gateway to the West". Considered by many pioneers a tough and rowdy place during the colonial era, Pittsburgh had a reputation as the "drinking-est town" in the west. The census of 1790 listed 32 families of Polish descent living in Pennsylvania. They were members of the Polish Socinian, Moravian Brethren and Mennonite religious sects who settled in the southeastern corner of the state. In 1758, Christian Post, a Moravian missionary born in Chojnice, Poland, worked among the Indians at Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) and Kukuskies (New Castle). During the Revolutionary War, 23 Poles from Pennsylvania served in General George Washington's Continental Army and Militia. Extant colonial records indicate a handful of Poles made Western Pennsylvania their home. It would be a number of years until a noticeable migration of Poles would arrive to this region.
Because of Pittsburgh's geographical location, boat building was the earliest of industries started in order to transport goods downstream on the Ohio River. By 1800, Pittsburgh boatyards were constructing vessels sturdy enough to cross the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Mississippi River through New Orleans. River traffic, in addition to Conestoga wagons and pack horses from the east, was heavy. The pioneers sought a better way of life than the Atlantic coast cities could afford them, with their crowded cities and high taxes. Many chose to move westward for a freer life. Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania was the destination of many of these early pioneers. The expansion of new industries brought prosperity and an influx of mostly Anglo-Saxon immigrants. In 1810, the population of Pittsburgh was 4,768. Small groups of Poles began arriving in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania after the Polish Insurrections of 1830 until 1848. By the year 1852, there were a large number of Poles who lived on the South Side of Pittsburgh, and the first Polish Mass was held at St. Michael's Church (German - 1848) by Father Stanislaus Parzyk on November 20th of that year.
As more immigrants arrived, new Polish neighborhoods were formed in Lawrenceville and the Strip District in close proximity to new industry at that time. The Poles from this area traveled across the Allegheny River to Pittsburgh's North Side and worshipped at St. Wenceslaus Church (Bohemian - 1870). In 1860, the city's population was 50,000.
Nationality Report, Homestead Steel Works, Howard Axle Works, Carrie Furnaces, October 8, 1919
Chart One -- Nationality of Pittsburgh Area Steelworkers
It was not until the year 1875 that the Poles built their own parish, St. Stanislaus Kostka on 21st Street in the Strip District. During the mass migrations from Poland to the United States in the 1870's, it is estimated about 152,000 Poles left the provinces of Poznan, Bydgoszcz and Silesia. Many settled in the areas around Pittsburgh and Erie. They were mostly well educated "intelligentsia" escaping the Kulturkampf campaign going on in the Prussian partition at that time. It was this group who would provide a leadership base for Polish immigrants that followed. During the 1870's, Pittsburgh was becoming one of the most heavily industrialized sections in the United States, producing two-fifths of the nation's iron and half of the nation's glass. The area around the city had numerous industries and manufacturing operations, including 60 petroleum refineries, 46 glassworks, 7 large steel mills, and mines that were producing 20% of the nation's coal. By 1880, Pittsburgh's population was 156,000, the majority being of Anglo-Saxon descent. In 1881, Poles arriving in Pittsburgh numbered 5,614. This new wave of immigrants led to the eventual establishment of Pittsburgh's second Polish parish, St. Adalbert's on the South Side, in 1884. A large number of "Gorale" arrived during this same period and settled in the Laurel Highlands of Fayette County near Uniontown. In 1887, the third Polish parish would be founded in Western Pennsylvania — St. Joseph in Everson.
By the year 1900, immigration to Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania from Poland and Austria-Hungary was 114,847. From Russia (Partition?), and the Baltic states 90,787. Within the City of Pittsburgh, the estimated Polish population for the year 1903 was 50,000. The city was now producing 50% of the nation's open hearth steel. The average steelworker was paid $1.50 a day and worked 87 hours a week. Most of the Eastern Europeans worked in the open hearths, which involved the longest hours and the highest risk of accident. They normally worked 12-hour shifts, but sometimes were forced to work the dangerous 24-hour "long turn", where accidents involving molten steel and heavy machinery were common. Most Poles who settled within the city limits of Pittsburgh worked in the steel mills. Biographer James Parton once described Pittsburgh at night as "hell with the lid taken off," a phrase that stuck until smoke control laws went into effect in the 1940's. Chart One shows the ethnic diversity of the Pittsburgh area steelworkers during this time period.
Most Poles living outside of the city were employed as coal miners in Pennsylvania's largest industry during the turn of the century. Poles and Slovaks were almost 33% of the work force at bituminous mines in Allegheny, Fayette and Westmoreland counties in 1910. These counties, along with Beaver, Cambria and Washington, is where the largest concentration of Polish-Americans live in southwestern Pennsylvania today. Erie County leads the list in northwestern Pennsylvania. From 1900 to 1914, the number of Poles immigrating to Pennsylvania was 337,000. By the year 1920, Pittsburgh was the largest Pennsylvania community of immigrant and second-generation Poles, they numbered 200,000. The official U.S. Census for 1920 listed the total population for every group living within the City of Pittsburgh at 588,343. The Polish population of Pittsburgh was at its height during the 1920's and 1930's.
After World War II, the Pennsylvania Polonia had gradually assimilated into the larger "American" society. However, religion and the "ethnic" parish remained an intrinsic part of Polonian culture well into the 1970's, at which time they had succeeded in establishing 58 Roman and 11 National Catholic churches in the western half of Pennsylvania. By the 1970's, the majority of Pittsburgh's Polonia lived in suburbia, far removed from the old ethnic neighborhoods, yet found themselves pulled back to the old parish for funerals and weddings. Pittsburgh's Poles are 95% Roman Catholic, 3% Polish National Catholic and 2% Protestant. In the 1970's, studies showed that more "Eastern" Europeans lived in Pennsylvania than any other state and more than half of those were in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. According to the ethnic studies program at the University of Pittsburgh in 1975, the Polish population of Pennsylvania was 1.1 million and 175,000 lived in southwestern Pennsylvania. The U.S. Census of various groups of "Eastern" European descent living in Pittsburgh included the following in 1970:
1. Poles 72,432
2. Slovaks 69,593
3. Serbo-Croatians 25,842
4. Ukrainians 11,668
5. Russians 11,643
6. Czechs 6,264
7. Slovenians 5,979
1. Poles 72,432
2. Slovaks 69,593
3. Serbo-Croatians 25,842
4. Ukrainians 11,668
5. Russians 11,643
6. Czechs 6,264
7. Slovenians 5,979
With the arrival of the 1990's, the Roman Catholic Church in Pittsburgh experienced closings and mergers of many ethnic churches, resulting in new worship sites. Chart Two summarizes changes in Polish parishes that have occurred with the Diocese of Pittsburgh.
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THURSDAY, July 19, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- Lack of health insurance is a major predictor of whether women will be diagnosed with late-stage cervical cancer, a new study suggests.
The analysis of data from nearly 70,000 U.S. women diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer between 2000 and 2007 found that lack of insurance was second only to age as the strongest predictor of late-stage (stages 3 and 4) cancer at diagnosis.
The researchers found that 55 percent of privately insured patients had stage 1 cancer at diagnosis, compared with 40 percent of Medicaid recipients and 36 percent of uninsured patients.
In contrast, late-stage cancer was diagnosed in 24 percent of those with private insurance, 34 percent of those with Medicaid and 35 percent of those without insurance.
Age was another important factor. Women 35 and older were up to 2.5 times more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancer than those aged 21 to 34.
Inadequate screening contributes to the risk of being diagnosed with late-stage cervical cancer, the researchers noted.
The study was published online July 19 in the American Journal of Public Health.
"Advanced-stage disease leads not only to poorer quality of life and greater morbidity, but often to higher treatment costs as well. Screening should be made accessible and affordable for all women for whom it is recommended, especially for those at higher risk of advanced-stage disease, such as middle-aged women, Medicaid recipients and uninsured women," they concluded in a journal news release.
More than 12,000 women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer and more than 4,200 will die of the disease in the United States this year, according to the American Cancer Society.
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Attraction & Online Dating
A new feature of The Sims 3 is attraction, which is available with the latest patch regardless of whether you have Seasons installed. It's a small mechanic, but it can give your single Sims a romantic target in case you have no other plans.
Simply put, when any unrelated Sim is near your active Sims, you might see a push notification of the visitor being attracted to your Sim. As you can see in the screen shot here, a townie is attracted to Pete simply because she caught him studying a new skill. Attraction can occur for any number of reasons, though you'll likely see it most often when Sims learn new skills.
When there is attraction between two Sims, each gets a buff if they're in the same room together. Also, all Romantic-type social interactions between the two have a slightly higher chance of succeeeding, and the relationship score between the two will climb slightly faster. The bonus stacks with anything else going on with your Sim, so a high Charisma skill or several of the Lifetime Rewards will increase it even faster.
Attraction has the side-effect of motivating the townies to ask your Sims out on dates somewhat frequently. Other Sims don't respect your vows, so you may get a lot of calls asking your Sims on a date even if they're married. There is no way to turn it off (unlike opportunities), so it might get a little annoying if your Sims have particularly active social lives.
Attraction is subject to the same rules as other relationships when considering whether men or women hit on any particular Sim. It seems that for attraction, Sims tend to prefer heterosexuality, but it's not a guarantee based on your Sims' hidden sexual preference numbers.
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With all this attraction, new babies, and other lovey-dovey nonsense happening around the Falkon Towers, Becki has decided she wants to try discovering what these human emotions are like as well. Not willing to go out and actually talk to other life forms outside of her job, Becki decides to set up a dating profile for the Internet.
This is a new feature beginning with The Sims 3 Seasons and is free for all adult Sims. Simply go to a computer, then interact with it and choose "Online Dating...," then "Create Profile." The default screen shows the Sim's actual picture, traits, favorites, and body type, which is how other Sims will find them.
That is, if you want that to be the case. Becki doesn't know love but she does feel shame, so she decides to change her profile a little bit... you know, just a harmless revisionist history for her body and mind. The picture is fixed, but the traits can be altered if you so desire. Becki gets rid of her Hydrophobic trait in favor of Good, and trades Party Animal in favor of Flirty. She also sets her body type to "Slim," reasoning that she's just a SimBot and there's not an ounce of body fat on her!
With her profile created, she decides to check out some of the eligible Sims around town. This is also achieved at a computer by using the interaction "Online Dating...," which now features more commands now that Becki's profile is created. She can edit or remove her profile entirely if she changes her mind, and she can check her messages for any potential mates every day or so.
For now, Becki chooses "Browse Profiles." She's chooses her prefered gender from the top two buttons, and we get a scroll box with everyone who is also signed up with the site. Hunter looks like a winner (or at least the least drugged-out), so she clicks his picture.
This brings up Hunter's profile, including his traits and favorites. Like Becki, he could be lying, but it would be a sad Sim world if we were so cynical that we just assumed nobody could tell the truth. Becki isn't that cynical with life (at least not yet), so she clicks the "Send Message!" button underneath his traits. We don't get to select what precisely the message says, but it's a way for Hunter to know that Becki is interested in him.
A day passes, and Becki goes to work like normal. Pyro, meanwhile, divorces Asewuk and kicks her and their Alien baby out of the Towers because they "fulfilled their purpose." Becki doesn't know what that meant but hopes she doesn't end up like those two, so she goes to the computer and selects the "Check Messages" interaction (from the "Online Dating..." category).
This will list anyone who has contacted her. Sometimes it doesn't take any effort; we can see here that Tom and Odin both contacted Becki without her making the first move. But she wanted Hunter, and Hunter indeed has (in his own way) said that they just might be compatible! Becki wants to keep her options open, so she clicks the "Accept Request" button next to Hunter's message but chooses not to delete the other two for now.
Accepting the request simply adds the target as a contact in your Sim's relationship panel. Practically speaking, this means Becki can immediately call Hunter up and start chatting the night away. Nothing is guaranteed; he won't immediately come rusing over even if she invites him over, since their relationship score is still +0.
Becki in fact chats with him online and gives him a call the next day. Their relationship starts to form, and it isn't long before Hunter is willing to meet Becki in person. She uses her cell phone to arrange a date, using the "Invite Out" command and targeting the Winter Festival.
When Hunter meets Becki for the first time, there is a little mystery involved due to the fact that she lied on her dating profile. As you can see from the push notification though, Hunter is suitably impressed and interested. The level of how much you lied on your profile (if you lied at all) can severely negatively impact your starting relationship. This mainly only applies when you swapped a trait for its opposite, like Family-Oriented for Commitment Issues. Becki did no such thing with Hunter, so he didn't immediately reject her.
In fact, things are going pretty well for Becki and Hunter. They have a good time at the Winter Festival, and it's the start of a fairly healthy relationship... one that involves a paranoid who lives in a bomb shelter and a SimBot, but hey, beggars can't be choosers.


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Champions League semi-finalists Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund registered huge wins, hitting 10 goals between them as they returned to Bundesliga duty in sensational style on Saturday.
Having drawn Barcelona in the semi-finals of the Champions League, German champions Bayern crushed Nuremberg 4-0 at Munich's Allianz Arena, despite resting nine of the team which won 2-0 at Juventus on Wednesday.
"The game showed my players have a very professional attitude at this stage of the season," Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes said. "It's good that I was able to make nine changes, we still have a lot of games ahead of us."
Dortmund hammered bottom side SpVgg Greuther Furth 6-1, with Jose Mourinho, coach of their Champions League semi-final opponents Real Madrid, watching in Franconia.
Having already been confirmed Bundesliga champions the week before, Bayern extended their unbeaten run in the Bundesliga to 20 matches since losing to Bayer 04 Leverkusen in October last year — their only league defeat this season.
Nuremberg traveled to Munich unbeaten in their previous nine games and chasing their first win at Bayern in 21 years, but it took just five minutes to dismiss any notion of an upset.
Even without nine first-choice players, Bayern were 3-0 up inside 25 minutes.
Jerome Boateng volleyed home the first with just five minutes gone, before the centerback provided the final pass for Mario Gomez to make it 2-0 on 17 minutes.
Brazil defender Rafinha, in at rightback for Philipp Lahm, scored the third on 24 minutes with France international winger Franck Ribery captaining the team for the first time since he joined back in 2007.
Nuremberg's luck did not improve after the break when Belgium midfielder Timmy Simons' penalty was saved by stand-in Bayern goalkeeper Tom Starke, albeit with his head when the ball went through his gloves.
Swiss winger Xherdan Shaqiri grabbed Bayern's fourth on 56 minutes after a final pass from Ribery, while coach Jupp Heynckes gave a league debut to 17-year-old Danish midfielder Pierre Hojbjerg for the final 20 minutes.
The win leaves Bayern on 78 points, 20 clear of second-placed Dortmund, with five games left and just three short of Dortmund's record of 81 points in a Bundesliga season, set last year.
After their dramatic 3-2 Champions League win over Malaga last week, Dortmund ran riot at Furth, with both Germany midfielders Ilkay Gundogan and Mario Goetze scoring twice early as they went 5-0 ahead at halftime.
Furth are just two matches short of becoming the first Bundesliga team to lose all of their home matches in a season.
The hosts pulled a goal back with 20 minutes left, but Robert Lewandowski netted Dortmund's sixth with 10 minutes left to extend his own record, having scored in all of his past 11 league games.
He is five short of Gerd Mueller's Bundesliga record.
On Saturday night, Schalke 04, fourth, came from two goals down to draw 2-2 with third-placed Bayer 04 Leverkusen, who had a man sent off, in the battle for the league's third automatic Champions League place for next season.
Leverkusen were 2-0 up with an hour played after Simon Rolfes, then Michal Kadlec netted for the Werkself.
Schalke fought back with a goal by Finland's Teemu Pukki, before Brazilian Raffael netted a late penalty after Bayer's Omer Toprak was sent off for a foul on Pukki in the area, four minutes from time.


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Mushrooms are a Vegetable Food item in Don't Starve.
There are three types of Mushrooms; Red, Green, and Blue. They can be used as vegetables or filler in Crock Pot recipes, or given to a Pig to produce Manure. Each mushroom has different effects on Health, Hunger, and Sanity, therefore, a player needs to know the advantages and disadvantages of their effects and think hard before consuming them. However, when combined effectively, mushrooms are a very synergistic food.
Mushrooms can only be picked at certain times of the day:
Each mushroom will re-grow after 5 to 10.5 minutes of Rain. They can also be dug up at any time using a Shovel to obtain two mushrooms, but the mushroom spawn will be destroyed. Mushrooms do not grow during Winter.
A Cooked Red, Green, or Blue Cap is the product of cooking the Mushroom over a Campfire, Fire Pit or Dwarf Star.
Red Mushrooms
Red Mushrooms are typically found in Grasslands or Forests and can only be picked during the day. Chopping down a Red Mushtree will also yield a Red Cap in addition to a Log. Red Mushrooms have the worst effects of all the mushrooms, both raw and cooked.
Red Mushrooms can be dropped on the ground to indirectly damage Mobs if they eat it.
Green Mushrooms
–Wickerbottom, when examining a Green Cap
Green Mushrooms are typically found in Forests and Marshes, and can only be picked at Dusk. Chopping down a Green Mushtree will also yield a Green Cap in addition to a Log.
Raw Green Caps can be eaten to decrease Sanity (to hunt Shadow Creatures or Beardlings, for example).
Cooked Green Caps can be eaten to increase Sanity.
Having an equal positive effect to the Raw Blue Cap's negative, the Cooked Green Cap may be eaten in conjunction with a Raw Blue Cap for a resulting +19 , +12.5 , and 0 .
Blue Mushrooms
–Woodlegs, when examining a Blue Cap
Blue Mushrooms are typically found in Grasslands and Marshes and can only be picked at Night. Chopping down a Blue Mushtree will also yield a Blue Cap in addition to a Log.
Raw Blue Caps have the most positive effects of all the Mushrooms.
Raw and Cooked Blue Caps can be eaten together to increase all three stats. Eating one raw Blue Cap and two cooked Blue Caps results in +14 , +12.5 , and +5 .
Downloadable Content
In the Reign of Giants and Shipwrecked DLC, Mushrooms will turn into Mushtrees during a Full Moon. After chopping down these Mushtrees, their stumps will turn into a harvested Mushroom spawn point.
In Reign of Giants, all three types of mushrooms can be found within the Deciduous Forest.
Don't Starve Together
In Don't Starve Together, the Toadstool drops Mushrooms of each color when killed. Mushrooms can be crafted into Funcaps of all three colors, which players can wear on their heads. The Mushroom Planter can be used to grow Mushrooms of all types by planting Caps or Mushroom Spores on them. Mushrooms will not turn into Mushtrees during a Full Moon.
- Blue Mushrooms are good for regenerating health when raw, or retaining sanity when cooked. Green Mushrooms are good for going insane when raw, or regaining sanity at minimum cost when cooked. Red Mushrooms are good for giving to Pigmen, luring Gobblers, and using as Crock Pot filler.
- Red Mushroom damaging Mobs that eat it is especially useful when dealing with Gobblers as 3 Red Mushrooms in a stack can kill one Gobbler, providing Drumsticks.
- If a ghost player haunts a mushroom in Don't Starve Together, it is possible to change the type of mushroom that it is, such as from red to blue.
- Wormwood's health is not affected by edible items, so a Raw Red Mushroom is an effective food source in the early game.
- Mushrooms were added in A Little Rain Must Fall update.
- Rings of Mushrooms can be found in some worlds as Set Pieces. These resemble Fairy Rings, which are naturally occurring rings of mushrooms that are thought to have supernatural origins in various mythologies.
- Although they are considered vegetables in Don't Starve, mushrooms are body parts of fungi, and are technically not plants. However, they act more like vegetables than anything else during digestion.
- The red mushroom's appearance and toxicity is likely based on the Amanita muscaria which contain a toxin that causes hallucinations and intoxication.
- The raw Green Mushroom's insanity is likely based on real life Psychedelic Mushrooms.
- If a mushroom is picked as it sinks into the ground, the player will receive a mushroom but the hole the mushroom left would look like the mushroom is still there and sleeping. The player will still view the mushroom as if it were picked already.
- Sometimes Mushtrees will not transform back into normal mushrooms when the day starts.


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We've already seen a few signs that Episode VII of the Star Wars saga will be embracing handmade practical effects in the form of aliens, creatures and costumes. But the newest sign is a big one. It's a ship. One big enough for a Rebel Alliance pilot to climb into.
The glimpse at the spacecraft comes in a video that shows director J.J. Abrams on set for the currently-filming sequel. Some fans are saying that this ship is a remodeled X-Wing, while others think it might be a Z-95 Headhunter. Whichever it is, it's definitely not CGI and that's probably a welcome development for most people who grew up on the original trilogy of Star Wars films.


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21 December 2006 -The Evolving ILC Design - Centralising the Injectors I report today on another design change that has resulted from our ongoing cost to performance optimisation studies, which we are carrying out before finalising the ILC reference design. -- By Barry Barish
14 December 2006 - Cost Optimisation of Wigglers for the ILC Damping Rings One of the key technical components of the ILC damping rings is the wiggler magnet, a device consisting essentially of a series of dipole magnets of alternating polarity. -- By Gerry Dugan
7 December 2006 - Parameters for the Linear Collider: An Update As we explore the possible trade-offs to make the ILC Reference Design as cost effective as possible, we have needed sharper definitions for some of the stated parameters, making us consider alternatives. -- By Barry Barish
30 November 2006 - FALC -- Whats in the Name I attended a meeting hosted by KEK Laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan on 19 November of the Funding Agencies for Large Colliders (FALC), previously known as Funding Agencies for the Linear Collider. -- By Barry Barish
22 November 2006 - The Japanese Strategy of High-Energy Physics: Full Support for the ILC A community-wide consensus is inevitable to promote a big project like the International Linear Collider, otherwise the project will not be supported by other science disciplines and governments. -- By Mitsuaki Nozaki
16 November 2006 - The Evolving ILC Design: Lowering Detectors from the Surface On 2 November, right before the very successful GDE meeting that has just concluded in Valencia, Spain, we officially made another important change to the ILC baseline design. -- By Barry Barish
9 November 2006 - GDE and WWS meet at Valencia On Tuesday a momentous meeting for the future of the ILC began in Valencia. Under cloudy skies and occasional rain, the ILC family has gathered for one of its tri-annual joint meetings, reviewing progress and the status following the Vancouver meeting last July. -- By Brian Foster
2 November 2006 - Worldwide Peer Reviews for ILC Detector R&D Reaching the science goals for the ILC will require that both the collider performance and the capabilities of the detectors be consistent with the parameters set out by the ILCSC parameters group. For the ILC detectors, this will require improvements in both spatial and energy resolution. -- By Barry Barish
26 October 2006 - ILC-Americas Regional Team Looks to the Future Over the past year, in addition to contributing to the ILC Reference Design Report, the ILC-Americas regional team, ART, has focused on programme planning for the next few years. -- By Gerry Dugan
19 October 2006 - Road to the ILC Reference Design The next big goal for the Global Design Effort is to produce an ILC Reference Design Report, RDR, that will include Preliminary Costing. -- By Barry Barish
12 October 2006 - Pomp and Circumstance Last week, Sheldon Glashow of Boston University and I made a trip to Italy to receive honorary degrees in physics, Lauree ad Honorem in Fisica, from the University of Bologna. -- By Barry Barish
5 October 2006 - The Evolving ILC Design - Eliminating One Positron Damping Ring We have planned from the beginning to quickly create an initial baseline and as a result of technical developments, evolve it in time. -- By Barry Barish
28 September 2006 - Machine Advisory Committee Reviews the GDE The Machine Advisory Committee reviewed the GDE for the second time last week at KEK in Japan from 20 to 22 September. -- by Barry Barish
21 September 2006 - The Evolving ILC Design: Changing the Crossing Angles Optimising cost to performance for the ILC design is a challenging task. Our working groups have identified a number of possible design changes, motivated by large potential cost savings. -- By Barry Barish
14 September 2006 - To-Gakkai meets the ILC Science is a great achievement of human endeavour and culture. Yet sometimes people get confused about the distinction between science and foolish ideas. -- By Mitsuaki Nozaki
7 September 2006 - Developing an International Cost Estimate for the ILC Our GDE team has about a third of its membership from the Americas, a third from Asia and a third from Europe. -- By Barry Barish
31 August 2006 - Why Cost Confidentiality A central focus of the GDE at this time is determining the ILC cost in its present form. -- By Barry Barish
24 August 2006 - Revisiting the ILC Parameters An innocent looking little document entitled Parameters for the Linear Collider dated 30 September 2003 has to a large extent determined the present baseline design of the ILC. -- By Barry Barish
17 August 2006 - Happy Birthday GDE One year ago, most of the 49 newly appointed members of the Global Design Effort came to Snowmass, Colorado, for the International Linear Collider Workshop where they participated in our first GDE face-to-face meeting. -- By Barry Barish
10 August 2006 - More Reflections on VLCW06: The ILC Reference Design Last week I discussed the physics and detector part of the joint American Linear Collider Planning Group, ALCPG, and GDE workshop, VLCW06, held in Vancouver from 19-23 July. -- By Barry Barish
3 August 2006 - Reflections on VLCW06 - Physics and Detectors The University of British Columbia, located in beautiful Vancouver, was the venue of a joint American Linear Collider Planning Group ALCPG and GDE workshop, attended by 300 participants from 19-23 July. -- By Barry Barish
27 July 2006 - Building and Testing a String of Cryomodules a Task for S2 An ambitious and crucial goal of the ILC R&D programme is to build and test a string of superconducting RF cryomodules that operate at or near the design gradient. -- By Barry Barish
20 July 2006 - CERN Council launches European Strategy for particle physics A new strategy document outlining the future directions for particle physics research in Europe was approved unanimously at a special meeting of the CERN Council in Lisbon on 14 July. -- By Brian Foster
13 July 2006 - Vancouver Linear Collider Workshop and GDE Meeting The first GDE meeting in the Americas region since the Snowmass 2005 workshop will take place next week on 19-22 July, as a joint meeting with the American Linear Collider Physics Group ALCPG at the University of British Columbia in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. -- By Gerry Dugan
6 July 2006 - Demonstrating the ILC Accelerating Gradient The centerpiece of the ILC concept is the superconducting RF technology that will be used to accelerate electrons and positrons in the main linac. -- By Barry Barish
29 June 2006 - Sokendai Linear Collider Accelerator School Not long after I became GDE Director, and even before I had recruited our initial design team, I gave a plenary talk on my ideas and plans for the ILC design effort at the Particle Accelerator Conference PAC05 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. -- By Barry Barish
22 June 2006 - How Many Magnets Make a Linear Collider Magnets that steer beams around a ring-shaped accelerator, that focus particle beams and that make various optical corrections are key to building such high-energy particle accelerators. -- By Barry Barish
15 June 2006 - Able was I ere I saw Elba This famous palindrome was purportedly spoken by Napoleon when referring to his first sighting of Elba, the island where the British exiled him in 1814. -- By Barry Barish
8 June 2006 - Future Particle Physics in Asia High energy physics is a field of international collaborative efforts, both historically and today. Many non-Asian scientists from around the world are currently participating in the KEKB and neutrino experiments at KEK. -- By Mitsuaki Nozaki
1 June 2006 - FALC Grapples with its Governance Last week I attended the meeting of the Funding Agencies for the Linear Collider -- FALC -- at the INFN Headquarters in a historic building nestled in the small twisty streets near the Pantheon and Piazza Navona in the heart of beautiful old Rome. -- By Barry Barish
25 May 2006 - Einsteins Telescope One of the most intriguing features of the ILC is its potential to act as a telescope to "explore energies a trillion times that of the accelerator itself, in the ultrahighenergy realm where physicists believe that all of natures forces become one." -- By Barry Barish
18 May 2006 - New Look and New Logo Today we inaugurate a new look for the ILC website, as well as a new logo. We have strived to make our website as functional as possible, while also making it attractive. -- By Barry Barish
11 May 2006 - Baseline Damping Rings One of the more difficult decisions we made last fall was which damping ring option to choose for our baseline. No recommendation came out of the Snowmass Workshop and our damping ring working group continued to study the question through much of the fall. -- By Barry Barish
4 May 2006 - DOE and NSF Reviewers See Progress in ILC Americas Program The first review of the US R&D program for the International Linear Collider by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation was held at Fermilab from 4-6 April 2006. -- By Gerry Dugan
27 April 2006 - Elementary Particle Physics in the 21st Century Creating a roadmap for the future of a field has become a very important planning tool in research fields that require large instruments, like astronomy and particle physics. -- By Barry Barish
20 April 2006 - A BIG MAC Report Peer review has become a cornerstone of modern science assessments, scientific journal publishing, funding decisons and academic promotions. -- By Barry Barish
13 April 2006 - Lost in Translation Every Thursday, I get up very early, in order to chair a weekly telecon of our GDE Executive Committee. At the same moment, my colleagues are joining the call in the late afternoon in Europe and near midnight in Japan. -- By Barry Barish
6 April 2006 - The Russian Federation in Seven Days It is widely known that the Russian Federation is home to a large number of prestigious accelerator laboratories and many highly regarded accelerator scientists. -- By Brian Foster
30 March 2006 - Thanks Fumi - Welcome Mitsuaki It is my great pleasure to announce the appointment of Professor Mitsuaki Nozaki of Kobe University of Japan as the new GDE Asian Regional Director, succeeding Professor Fumihiko Takasaki. -- By Barry Barish
23 March 2006 - Integrating the Parts At the GDE meeting in Frascati last December, we approved the ILC Baseline and announced a new organizational structure for developing a Reference Design and Cost. -- By Barry Barish
16 March 2006 - Developing Partnership with India on the ILC I discussed a set of visits to government officials in India with the purpose of laying the groundwork for Indian collaboration. -- By Barry Barish
9 March 2006 - Meeting the President of India One reason for our holding a GDE meeting in India is to provide an opportunity to explore the possibility of Indian participation in both the GDE and ILC R&D program. These discussions will hopefully be a first step toward an eventual full partnership for India on the ILC. -- By Barry Barish
2 March 2006 - Bangalore Preview One year ago, during the opening session of the Linear Collider Work Shop at Stanford University, Jonathan Dorfan on behalf of ICFA read an official letter offering me the position of Director for the yet to be formed Global Design Effort. -- By Barry Barish
23 February 2006 - Energy Upgrade ...Possible upgrade scenarios to 1 TeV were discussed at length during the Snowmass Workshop last summer, but no conclusions or consensus emerged. -- By Barry Barish
16 February 2006 - Work Breakdown Structure - WBS The second meeting of the Reference Design Report group leaders was held at Fermilab this past week. -- By Barry Barish
9 February 2006 - US Budget News The Presidents 2007 budget request to Congress includes a doubling of the ILC R&D budget from 30M to 60M dollars. This is good news, indeed. -- By Barry Barish
2 February 2006 - RD Board A decade or so ago, the thought of building a TeV scale linear collider was pretty much just a romantic notion. The long extrapolations from present accelerators and from proven technologies were daunting. -- By Barry Barish
26 January 2006 - RDR Kick-off Our major theme for the past six months has been to establish a basic configuration for the International Linear Collider. The GDE process got underway last August at Snowmass and culminated in our approval of a strawman configuration at a meeting in Frascati, Italy in December. -- By Barry Barish
19 January 2006 - InDiCo - Integrated Digital Conferencing One of the biggest challenges for our dispersed GDE effort is communications. This was apparent from the beginning and, as a result, I have continually emphasized the need for us to employ the most advanced electronic communications and web tools. -- By Barry Barish
12 January 2006 - Design Cost Board At Frascati, I created three boards that will become the centerpiece of the GDE organization as we now move forward from having determined the baseline for the ILC towards doing the technical design for a construction project. -- By Barry Barish
5 January 2006 - Happy New Year As this New Year begins, I would like to briefly remark on our progress and status to date, as we begin to undertake a new set of tasks and goals for 2006. -- By Barry Barish