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In a lot of ways, tonight's episode of "Glee" was an entirely more touching tribute to Corey Monteith's character, Finn, than the actual tribute episode from September.
The kids of McKinley High paid their respects to their fallen leader through song, memories and a very touching flashback. I personally feel justice for Finn after tonight. There were no fake tears, no forced performances, no questions such as "Where is this character?" or "Why didn't so-and-so come back for this?" The episode wasn't forced and for that very reason, Corey Monteith's Finn Hudson has been officially laid to rest.
New Directions take a trip to Los Angeles for the National Championship along with Finn's parents acting as chaperones. There's a lot riding on this because a long time ago Sue told Will and Nene Leakes that one of their programs would be cut at the end of the school year due to budget issues. Whichever team takes home the National Championship will be the team that would continue on in McKinley.
Unaware as to what is at stake, the kids are loving sunny L.A., so much so that they break into Randy Newman's "I Love L.A." Once at the hotel, Will learns that "Detective Sue Sylvester" has called and told front desk that a 50-year-old man with a perm by the name of Will Schuester has kidnapped 12 emotionally disturbed kids and set off for L.A., and that he should not be granted a room. Oops.
While Will straightens things out, an old face shows up ... Mercedes Jones! Yup, fresh off her "Dancing With the Stars" win, Amber P. Reilly shows up in her best drag queen getup and a "fauxhuahua." No, really.
Shortly after her arrival, we find out that while she was peddling her album in a 7-11 parking lot, a stranger who wound up being Kanye West's maid bought the album and gave it to West (who then gave it to Kim, who gave it to Ryan Seacrest, who gave it to Sony Records, who then offered Mercedes a songwriting contract.)
And then we meet Throat Explosion. Dun dun dunnnnn! And the actor from "Pitch Perfect" (Skyler Astin) is the lead singer. The two groups exchange some words, and then go separate ways. Will had had a special talk with Sam about taking Finn's leadership role over for his last hurrah and Sam took it incredibly serious against the rival choir.
Love triangle 2.0 known as Marley, Ryder and Little Puck finally have lines again! Did anyone miss this? Anyone? OK, me neither. Marley talks about how she's lost her mojo for singing because no one has praised her songwriting abilities. Ryder and Puck make up and take her stuff to Mercedes to talk some sense in her. Basically this was more storyline closing. It was cute to see everyone kiss and make up after not thinking about them in four months, said no one ever.
The night before competition, New Directions sneak into the theatre for one last midnight practice as a team. Sam, who is taking his new role as Finn's successor very seriously, brings out Finn's plaque and begins to remember him with kind words meant to ignite fires in the souls of the New Directioners.
Unfortunately, this is cut short when Throat Explosion, who obviously had the same midnight practice idea, interrupts the impromptu memorial and kicks them out of the theater. The next morning, as Tina and Artie are hanging out with Mr. and Mrs. Hummel, they are laughing and carrying on about how glee club is almost over for them and that Tina, in particular, doesn't know what she's going to do with her life afterward.
To this, Mrs. Hummel retorts, "At least you have a life." After shooing the kids off, Mrs. Hummel admits that seeing the kids makes her miss her son even more. After a very strategically placed "Laguna Beach" reference, the adults decide that it's too much to handle being around all of this and decide to leave.
Onto the competition. The judges always take me by complete surprise, mainly because they're so random. First judge up: Marlee Matlin! I don't mean to be rude or insensitive, but I'm wondering if "Glee" is punking us with a deaf judge. (Can she judge a singing competition?) Judge two (and my personal favorite) is TV's Jackee Harry! Or just Jackee, if you're nasty. And finally (and this one is the kicker) the third judge is Joanna Rohrback. Who is Joanna, you ask? Just the creator of Prancercise LLC. Yup, it's a real thing.
The Amazons sing the Go-Go's "Vacation." Throat Explosion does an interesting mashup of Styx's "Mr. Roboto" and One Republic's "Counting Stars."
Finally it's time for New Directions. As they sing songs like Boston's "More Than A Feeling," Neil Diamond's "America," I think to myself, "Why these songs? These aren't powerhouses." But as they start U2's "Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," the camera catches Finn's parents who are back in the audience to find Mrs. Hummel exclaim, "Oh my God. They're doing all of Finn's favorite songs!" Well played, Ryan Murphy. You got a couple tears out of me. As the Directioners pump their fists on the last note, Sam is holding Finn's drum sticks. More tears.
Knowing how this would play out because of the common knowledge of Lima's storyline being nixed from the show, I still hoped for first place. When it didn't come, my heart still sank. Second place. New Directions just performed their last competition.
It wasn't until Sue's heartfelt speech to Will at the end that I really knew it was over. She told him to be proud of what he's accomplished. That he's a better man than he was four years ago. She ends with something that really stuck with me: "You didn't lose, William. The game's just over." Powerful stuff.
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In the last minute Kurt runs to Santana and Rachel to let them know that glee club has been disbanded and that the choir room is going to be turned into a new computer lab. This is the perfect set up for everyone who is set to return in next week's 100th episode. I'm sure it's going to be wonderful and sad. The show is making such a smart move by focusing on the original characters in The Big Apple, but I sure am going to miss that perfect little choir room that has brought so many people joy these last five years. I hope you'll join me for this big occasion.


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A French sailing team announced Tuesday it is dropping out of the America's Cup, citing economic difficulties.
ALEPH – Equipe de France had been one of 10 teams signed up to participate in the America's Cup World Series, a series of exhibition races with smaller boats that will take to the water starting in July. Those preliminary events are separate from the Louis Vuitton Cup and the 34th America's Cup, both of which will take place in the bay in 2013.
Just over a week before World Series races were going to kick off in Naples, Italy, Philippe Ligot, the team's CEO, said, "France has, without a doubt, all the sporting, technical and managerial talent to win the Cup, but the current economic environment makes funding a commercial team extremely difficult."
The team's departure leaves nine teams from seven different countries — including another team from France — gunning up for the World Series this year. The four teams slated for the America's Cup in 2013 are Larry Ellison's Oracle Racing, the defender; Sweden, Italy and New Zealand. Signing up comes with a $200,000 entry fee. The deadline is June 1.
"We're sorry to see them go but it doesn't really have an impact on the America's Cup itself," said Sam Singer, a spokesman for the America's Cup Event Authority, the race's business arm.
Critics worry the event won't bring the crowds — and spending — to San Francisco that its organizers have promised. The regatta has been scaled back significantly since it was imagined in December 2010. Piers 30-32, for instance, were originally going to house around 10 team boats. Now, in a scaled-back version of the development deal approved last week, they will house up to five.
Mayor Ed Lee downplayed the potential that the French team withdrawal would have a major impact on the economic benefits of the Cup. A 2010 city-commissioned study by Beacon Economics and the Bay Area Council Economic Institute said the event would generate about $1.4 billion in economic activity in San Francisco and almost 9,000 jobs. The report also assumed 15 teams would participate.
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The two most likely entrants are China and Korea, said a regatta source who requested anonymity because official announcements have not been made. Both countries have a team participating in the current America's Cup World Series exhibition races.
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The Moon's gravitational field is decidedly "lumpy," as shown in this map compiled from observations by orbiting satellites, with the nearside at left and farside at right. Red areas exert a stronger gravitational pull than blue and greeen areas. The red circular features correspond to large impact basins that are filled with volcanic rock. NASA's next lunar mission, GRAIL, will map the lumpiness in greater detail, revealing new details about the Moon's structure and formation. The mission also will probe the Moon's interior. [NASA]
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When spacecraft began orbiting the Moon in the 1960s, flight controllers quickly noticed something odd. It didn't take long for the craft to wander off course. Within weeks or even days, both their direction around the Moon and their altitude above it were way off. And many of those craft slammed into the Moon far sooner than expected.
The source of the interference was the Moon itself. It turns out that the Moon's gravitational field is lumpy. So as a craft orbits the Moon, it sometimes gets a stronger tug toward certain parts of the lunar surface — a tug that quickly pulls the craft out of position.
Those lumps are known as mass concentrations — mascons.
By carefully measuring the motions of all the craft that have orbited the Moon, scientists have mapped where the mascons are. Most of them are associated with the lunar plains — "seas" of volcanic rock. If you look at the Moon tonight, you can easily pick them out, because they form the dark regions on the lunar surface.
The volcanic rock is denser than the rocks around it, and it forms deep basins in the lunar crust. So these formations have a slightly stronger gravitational pull than other regions.
Scientists would like even better maps of the mascons, though, to help them learn more about how the mascons formed, and about the structure of the entire lunar crust. And a new mission will provide such maps. More about that tomorrow.
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tig: a curses interface for git. It gives you a mutt-like interface of the git repository and provides you with the ability to define custom key commands, etc. Really good for reviewing patches or lists of patches before pushing them, and even better for branch work. Example: git checkout mybranch; tig master. Hitting C now will cherry-pick the currently selected patch onto the current branch. I have to admit, that only since I started using tig I got a reasonably good handle on my branches. Thanks to Kristian Høgsberg for showing me tig.
cscope_maps: a cscope pluging for vim. It provides a significant advantage over the ctags support as it doesn't require the use of :cnext anymore. Instead, it lists all tags in a list and you can jump straight to them. It also gives you the "who's using this symbol" cscope search on "Ctrl+Space, s".
taglist: another plugin for vim. After hitting :Tlist, it lists the symbols defined in the current file (and also from previous buffers, though I find this sometimes annoying). Great for getting an overview on a new code base, or searching for symbols. The use of Tlist goes down the more familiar I become with a file, but it's still invaluable after a few years of looking at the same few files.
Nostalgy: a Thunderbird plugin that provides keyboard shortcuts to move emails around. Hit S and type the mailbox, including autocompletion, etc. Sorry, no screenshots (I use TB for work email and I'm too lazy to blur out), but there's screenshots at the URL above anyway.
Aside from the usual stuff these four have become must-haves to me.
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4 useful things - try this at home.
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tig = awesomesauce. cheers!
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cscope_vim_tutorial link is (minorly) out of whack
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Thanks for pointing those out.
I already knew the vim plugins, but they're definitely worth noting.
And tig is a really good addition to the already great experience of using git and all the tools surrounding it.
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Alexander Craig Aitken
Born: 1 April 1895 in Dunedin, New Zealand
Died: 3 November 1967 in Edinburgh, Scotland
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Alec Aitken's family on his father's side were from Scotland, and on his mother's side were from England. Alec's mother, Elizabeth Towers, emigrated with her family to New Zealand from Wolverhampton, England, when she was eight years old. Alexander Aitken, Alec's grandfather on his father's side, had emigrated from Lanarkshire in Scotland to Otago in New Zealand in 1868, and began farming near Dunedin. Alec's father, William Aitken, was one of his fourteen children and William began his working life on his father's farm. However he gave this up and became a grocer in Dunedin. William and Elizabeth had seven children, Alec being the eldest.
He attended the Otago Boys' High School in Dunedin, where he was head boy in 1912, winning a scholarship to Otago University which he entered in 1913. Surprisingly, although he had amazed his school friends and teachers with his incredible memory, he had shown no special mathematical abilities at school. He began to study languages and mathematics at university with the intention of becoming a school teacher but his university career was interrupted by World War I.
In 1915 he enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and served in Gallipoli, Egypt, and France, being wounded at the battle of the Somme. His war experiences were to haunt him for the rest of his life. After three months in hospital in Chelsea, London, he was sent back to New Zealand in 1917. The following year he returned to his university studies, graduating in 1920 with First Class Honours in French and Latin but only Second Class Honours in mathematics in which he had no proper instruction. In the year he graduated, Aitken married Mary Winifred Betts who was a botany lecturer at Otago University. They had two children, a girl and a boy.
Aitken followed his original intention and became a school teacher at his old school Otago Boys' High School. His mathematical genius bubbled under the surface and, encouraged by R J T Bell the new professor of mathematics at Otago University, Aitken came to Scotland in 1923 and studied for a Ph.D. at Edinburgh under Whittaker. Aitken's wife, Mary, had continued to lecture at Otago up to the time they left for Edinburgh. His doctoral studies progressed extremely well as he studied an actuarially motivated problem of fitting a curve to data which was subject to statistical error. Rather remarkably, his Ph.D. thesis was considered so outstanding that he was awarded a D.Sc. for it in 1926. Even before the award of the degree, Aitken was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1925.
He was appointed to Edinburgh University in 1925 where he spent the rest of his life. After holding lecturing posts in actuarial mathematics, then in statistics, then mathematical economics, he became a Reader in statistics in 1936, the year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Ten years later he was appointed to Whittaker's chair.
Aitken had an incredible memory (he knew π to 2000 places) and could instantly multiply, divide and take roots of large numbers. He describes his own mental processes in the article [4]. Although some may suggest this has little to do with mathematical ability, Aitken himself wrote:-
Familiarity with numbers acquired by innate faculty sharpened by assiduous practice does give insight into the profounder theorems of algebra and analysis.Aitken's mathematical work was in statistics, numerical analysis, and algebra. In numerical analysis he introduced the idea of accelerating the convergence of a numerical method. He also introduced a method of progressive linear interpolation. In algebra he made contributions to the theory of determinants. He also saw clearly how invariant theory fitted into the theory of groups but wrote that he had never followed through his ideas because of:-
... various circumstances of anxiety, or duty, or bad health ... I have observed my talented younger contemporary Dudley Littlewood's assault and capture most of this terrain.Aitken wrote several books, one of the most famous being The theory of canonical matrices (1932) which was written jointly with Turnbull. With Rutherford he was editor of a series of the University Mathematical Texts and he himself wrote for the series Determinants and matrices (1939) and Statistical Mathematics (1939). In 1962 he published an article very dear to his heart, namely The case against decimalisation.
In [3], describing his period of recovery from a small operation in 1934 Aitken writes:-
The nights were bad, in the daytime colleagues and other friends visited me, and I tried to think about abstract things, such as the theory of probability and the theory of groups - and I did begin to see more deeply into these rather abstruse disciplines. Indeed I date a change in my interests and an increase in competence, from these weeks of enforced physical inactivity.Also in [3] Aitken describes the reaction of other mathematicians to his work:-
... the papers on numerical analysis, statistical mathematics and the theory of the symmetric group continued to write themselves in steady succession, with other small notes on odds and ends. Those that I valued most, the algebraic ones, seemed to attract hardly any notice, others, which I regarded as mere application of the highly compressed and powerful notation and algebra of matrices to standard problems in statistics or computation found great publicity in America...Colin M Campbell, now a colleague of the authors of this archive at the University of St Andrews, was a student in Edinburgh in the early 1960's. He writes:-
Professor Aitken's first year mathematics lectures were rather unusual. The fifty minutes were composed of forty minutes of clear mathematics, five minutes of jokes and stories and five minutes of 'tricks'. For the latter Professor Aitken would ask for members of the class to give him numbers for which he would then write down the reciprocal, the square root, the cube root or other appropriate expression. From the five minutes of 'stories' one also recalls as part of his lectures on probability a rather stern warning about the evils and foolishness of gambling!In fact Aitken's memory proved a major problem for him throughout his life. For most people memories fade in time which is particularly fortunate for the unpleasant things which happen. However for Aitken memories did not fade and, for example, his horrific memories of the battle of the Somme lived with him as real as the day he lived them. He wrote of them in [2] near the end of his life. These memories must have contributed, or perhaps were the entire cause, of the recurrent ill health he suffered. Collar writes [1]:-
These black periods must have been harrowing in the extreme, but were borne with great fortitude and courage.The illness eventually led to his death. The book [2], which he wrote to try to put the memories of the Somme behind him, may not have had the desired effect but the book led to Aitken being elected to the Royal Society of Literature in 1964.
Finally we should mention Aitken's love of music. He played the violin and composed music to a very high standard and a professional musician said:-
Aitken is the most accomplished amateur musician I have ever known.
Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
Click on this link to see a list of the Glossary entries for this page
List of References (7 books/articles)
A Poster of Alec Aitken
Mathematicians born in the same country
Additional Material in MacTutor
- Papers in the Proceedings and Notes of the EMS
- Walter Ledermann's memoir
- A C Aitken the poet
- Edinburgh's tribute to A C Aitken
- Turnbull and Aitken: Canonical Matrices
- Aitken: "Statistical Mathematics"
- EMS Arithomometer
- Edinburgh Mathematical Society: Death of A C Aitken
- Obituary: The Times
- An entry in The Mathematical Gazetteer of the British Isles
- Alec Aitken arrives in Edinburgh
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Cross-references in MacTutor
- History Topics: Memory, mental arithmetic and mathematics
- History Topics: Matrices and determinants
- History Topics: Ledermann's St Andrews interview
- New Zealand Mathematical Society
- Royal Society of Edinburgh
- South African Mathematical Society
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'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' gets Comic-Con world premiere
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SAN DIEGO -- ABC took the wraps off Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on Friday, giving the new drama its first public screening at Comic-Con. It premieres Sept. 24.
What the pilot showed was a team of highly skilled but not superpowered agents under the suddenly alive and kicking Agent Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg), who died in The Avengers movie.
The episode explained the revival of the character, who appeared to have a grand time getting around, whether by team plane or his vintage, souped-up Corvette, Lola.
One surprise was the appearance of How I Met Your Mother's Cobie Smulders as Agent Hill, a character she played in The Avengers.
The pilot screening hadn't been announced, but many expected it. The audience, stoked to see the first episode, responded enthusiastically, with many rising to their feet to applaud as it ended.
MORE:Compete coverage of Comic-Con 2013
Avengers director Joss Whedon is an executive producer of the series, which started shooting last week. He co-wrote and directed the pilot and the episode reflected his style, down to its humorous touches.
"I have that feeling that I have not had for a long time where I have assembled this extraordinary ensemble of ridiculously talented and soon-to-be-very-full-of-themselves people," Whedon said after the screening. "The endless possibilities that we have between them, among them, in their pasts, in their futures ... the things we've taken from the Marvel universe, that we're bringing to the Marvel universe, this is a show that has so much history and so much to make. I guess I'm a little excited."
The series, which started shooting this week, follows a team of skilled agents who investigate strange occurrences across the globe for S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics division).
Agents include combat and espionage pro Grant Ward (Brett Dalton); pilot and martial artist Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen); engineer Leo Fitz (Iainc); and biochemist Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge). Skye (Chloe Bennet), a computer hacker who comes to Coulson's attention during the pilot, eventually joins the team.
Although the agents don't have super powers, they run into people with them, as is the case in the pilot.
Whedon said other Marvel characters may pop up in the series. "We may see some people and we may see some new people from the Marvel universe that are not yet cinematic. The most important thing to me is we get to see these people who are here every week," he said, referring to the series cast.
Gregg appeared to get emotional when talking about amazing recovery of Coulson, a familiar character in Marvel films.
"I can't believe this is happening to me," he said, before thanking the fans for his revival. After Coulson's death in the film, "I was really pleased and proud at the run the guy had, and then ... geeks around the world were just not going to hear that, see. And all over the web was #CoulsonLives.' And that just means everything to me."


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Ever since I saw this post on Young House Love about their super awesome home made console table they have behind their couch I have wanted one. Check theirs out! '
I don't know why the idea to have a table behind a couch to be able to use as a place to put you drinks and what not while you are sitting at the couch never occurred to me but I wanted one now :)
So I stalked CL- nada. Asked around- nada. Scoured my house for something that would work- nada. Thought about having my hubby build me one- well, I didn't want to wait that long....
And then I came across this beauty @ Salvation Army. It didn't have a price tag so I set my mental price limit to $20 and guess what! When I asked how much, the gall offered it for $20!!! Yee Ha! Now, if I had been in my right mind I probably could have bargained with her down to $15 but I was too excited to think rationally.
It still needs to be refinished to match everything else but I am in love with those knotty little legs:)
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Rasheed Wallace: lover, fighter, hilarious training camp invitee, and talker of the best trash in the NBA. On Tuesday, he yelled "Yeah, Aflac!" at Aaron Afflalo after Afflalo bricked a free throw; last night, he yelled everything at everybody after they did anything. Here is your courtside Sheed experience for a game in which he scored 13 points, blocked three shots, and built on his immense lead for most technical fouls of all time.
When Sheed ran around like his pants were on fire? Looked like this:
Z-Bo did make a difference and the Knicks lost their first game of the season after taking a lesson from their elder statesman and pretty much unraveling emotionally in the third quarter. Still, not every victory shows up in the win column. You're gonna read about me, Lion-el!


text: Do the Steelers draft someone that they do not bring in for a visit? Their visits could be be a tell tale sign of who they are targeting come the end of April. I'm sure they will bring in players like Shanahan and Graham because it won't count against their visits. Who else do you see the Steelers bringing in for personal visits (Vaccaro, Eifert, Allen, Austin, Bailey, Cooper, Ertz, Reid, Cyprien, Lacy, Bernard, Hunt), I would expect all these players to pay a visit. I'm sure there are others that I left off, but do the Steelers usually target these guys? I remember how the Steelers had never talked to Mendy before the draft and we all know how that worked out....I'm interested to see what happens this year?!?


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April 23, 2012, 10:42 am
Cuban zombie flick a hit at Denver's XicanIndie FilmFest
If the title "Juan de los Muertos" sounds a bit like "Shaun of the Dead," there's a reason. The cheeky take on the zombie comedy genre by Cuban director Alejandro Brugués played over the weekend at the XicanIndie FilmFest XIV.
It was an audience favorite, fest director Daniel Salazar wrote in an a.m. email.
"We'll probably screen it again for Film Fiesta in July. It's really clever with surprise movie references to satisfy your inner zombie movie geek."
And as all good geeks know, well-done genre flicks are always attempting to tap a richer vein.


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Serving Size (1 slice), Calories 290 (Calories from Fat 140), Total Fat 16g (Saturated Fat 7g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 50mg, Sodium 220mg, Total Carbohydrate 35g (Dietary Fiber 1g, Sugars 26g), Protein 2g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 0%, Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 6%, Iron 4%.
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
* Ensure all recipe ingredients are gluten free by referencing the ingredient labels, as products may vary. If uncertain, contact the ingredient manufacturer.
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Summer is coming to a close and I cannot believe how fast it flew by. It's getting dark earlier and I'm so eager to wear my new suede booties, but before we move into fall, I couldn't forget to share a little more of summer's juicy peaches.
I made these peach cupcakes topped with vanilla whipped cream a few weeks ago and I just love how simple they are. The recipe isn't complicated and it highlights these gorgeous farmer's market peaches so well. You should still be able to find peaches for another couple of weeks so snatch some up before they're gone!
Peaches and Cream Cupcakes
- 1 stick butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1 2/3 cups flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 generous cup sliced peaches
- Preheat oven to 350°. Line one 12-cup muffin tin with paper cups.
- Cream together butter and sugar.
- Add the eggs, vanilla and milk.
- Slowly mix in the dry ingredients.
- Finally gently incorporate the peaches.
- Bake for 20 minutes..
For the frosting: beat 2 cups of heavy whipping cream with a 1/4 cup powdered sugar and a teaspoon or two of vanilla extract. Spoon on to your cupcake just before eating.
I can't think of a better way to celebrate the end of summer! These might just make another appearance at a Labor Day party this weekend for one last peach hurrah before we break out the boots and pumpkin.


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As a Christian, Easter marks the most stunning act of grace and enemy-love in human history -- Jesus' death and resurrection. As Jesus was being tortured and executed, he cried out for mercy, even for those terrorists who hurt him. As his buddy Peter picked up a sword and cut the ear off one of the persecutors, Jesus scolded Peter and picked up the ear and healed the wounded persecutor. The early Christians understood the message -- it was a message of amazing grace. It was a message about how there is something worth dying for, but nothing in the world worth killing for -- not even freedom or democracy. One of the early Christians said, "When Jesus disarmed Peter, he disarmed every Christian." After all, we don't see Christians picking up swords again for hundreds of years.
I am one of those Christians who believes we should still have the right not to kill, even in an empire that has a military bigger than Rome's. Perhaps that's why it has been hard for me to navigate what to do as tax season approaches, with so much of our federal tax money going towards militarism. It was a crisis familiar to the early Christians who were accused of insurrection and tax evasion because they had an allegiance that subverted, or superseded, their national allegiance.
So I respectfully filed my taxes this year, and I sent the IRS the letter below. My intention is to respect my country and contribute to the common good, but also to uncompromisingly follow the way of the nonviolent Jesus this Easter -- in a world that continues to pick up the sword
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In 2009, SOS Energie Burkina (SOSEB) began teaching solar cooking, and making solar cookers in Burkina Faso . They have taught over 180 people to solar cook, and have distributed over 300 solar cookers through 2011. The cookers were assembled in Burkina Faso with local materials. They were also SEED Award Winners for a grant to promote the use of biomass briquettes. Their main task is to search for alternative energy to wood and coal, in order to fight against deforestation and protecting the environment. The non-profit organization has over 204 members, including 20 volunteers. They are seeking technical and financial partners to help achieve their objectives.
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- May 2017: Vincent Kikiema reports: We had recently popularized a hundred cooks in the rural commune of Tanghin Dassouri in Burkina Faso.
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Sports fans around the UK are set to enjoy a feast of Winter sport playing out live on their portable devices, as the Winter Olympics kick off later this week in South Korea.
TV Licensing is asking those viewing the live action to ensure they are correctly licensed ahead of an exciting season of sport on TV.
The 2018 Winter Olympics will be held between 9 and 25 February 2018 and Team GB will send around 60 athletes including Bangor-based snowboarder Aimee Fuller.
It will be the 26-year-olds second appearance at the Winter Olympics, having represented Great Britain at Sochi four years ago.
There will be daily coverage from midnight until 8pm across BBC One and BBC Two for the 17 day duration of the Winter Games.
Your licence for your home address covers you to watch the live TV action on the move, as well as watch or download BBC programmes on iPlayer. This applies to any equipment such as TV, computer, tablet, mobile phone or games console, as long as it is not plugged into the mains.
Licensed viewers can take advantage of watching the live sporting drama whenever and wherever they like. Recent Ofcom research1 indicates more than a third of people watch TV on the move – while on holiday (24%), while commuting (16%) or even in the pub (7%).
Karen Grimason, spokesperson for TV Licensing in Northern Ireland, said:
"Remember, your home licence covers you for watching TV on the move. Although we can now watch programmes whenever it's convenient for us, we're still drawn to watching big events like the Winter Olympics live. So now is a great time to remind sport fans they need a TV Licence".
Team GB is aiming for their most successful Winter Olympics after UK Sport set an ambitious target of at least five medals from the games. The GB Paralympic team have set a target of seven medals for March's Winter Paralympics, which starts on 9 March.
Sports fans will be hoping to see a repeat of the feats of snowboarder Jenny Jones, who stole headlines at the 2014 Games when she won bronze in slopestyle, to become the first Briton to win an Olympic medal in a snow event.
In Skeleton, Britain is used to winning ways, having claimed a medal at every Winter Olympics since the sport was reintroduced in 2002. Sochi 2014 champion Lizzy Yarnold aims to become the first Britain to defend an Olympic title, while team-mate Laura Deas has produced the best results so far this season.


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I've been looking at all the new sets in Ace's gallery, and while they look great the prices seem a bit on the high side. Sets have shifted south of the long standing "golden rule" of LEGO - meaning that most of the time sets would average around 10¢ per part. The easy way to approximate it was shift the piece count on the box over a decimal to get the rough price. If that matched up to the set's true price, or was higher, it was a deal. If it was lower, well, not so much of a deal. This has worked out as a sort of standard for a long time now, and only recently has it been consistently slipping.
Here's a glimpse into late this year:
Star Wars:
- 10195 Republic Dropship with AT-OT Walker, 1,758 pcs, $249.99 USD = 14.22 ¢/b
- 8039 Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser - 1,170 pcs, $119.99 USD = 10.25 ¢/b
- 7749 Echo Base - 155 pcs, $24.99 USD = 16.12 ¢/b
- 8038 Battle of Endor - 890 pcs, $99.99 USD = 11.23 ¢/b
- 8036 Separatist Shuttle - 259 pcs, $29.99 USD = 11.60 ¢/b
- 7748 Corporate Alliance Tank Droid - 216 pcs, $24.99 USD = 11.57 ¢/b
Power Miners:
- 8964 Titanium Command Rig - 706 pcs, $99.99 USD = 14.16 ¢/b
- 8963 Rock Wrecker - 225 pcs, $34.99 USD = 15.55 ¢/b
- 8962 Crystal King - 168 pcs, $19.99 USD = 11.90 ¢/b
Space Police:
- 5973 Hyperspeed Pursuit - 456 pcs, $49.99 USD = 10.96 ¢/b
- 5974 Galactic Enforcer - 825 pcs, $99.99 USD = 12.12 ¢/n
- 5972 Container Heist - 282 pcs, $29.99 USD = 10.63 ¢/b
- 5971 Gold Heist - 205 pcs, $19.99 USD = 9.75 ¢/b
Now, this is only a few sets and lines I'm interested in of course, and it's not all of them even... but as a test group it works. Space Police is about what we're used to, averaging just over the 10 ¢/b mark... but PowerMiners is really stepping over (Thanks to the new large rock monsters I assume). Star Wars is almost as bad: a few sets are holding the current trend, but others push it beyond. I understand the high cost for the Taun Tauns so I can forgive that bleak 16.12 ¢/b for Hoth, but nothing about the ATOT and Drop Ship seems to justify such a difference - aside from it's size and exclusivity. In comparison, the UCS Falcon managed a 9.62 ¢/b ratio, and the Death Star was just 10.51. And they had exclusive figures added in... this seems to just have a couple battle packs worth.
Keeping in mind what Steve has mentioned elsewhere about last years oil prices impacting this years set prices, it all paints a pretty clear picture. We're in for a pricey year, and I'd wager it'll stick around beyond '09 even with gas prices easing off a bit (since we all know that's not the only factor in set prices, and the economy isn't all that pleasant right now).
My question to you is have you noticed this too, and will the upped prices effect your buying habits very much? Or maybe you think I'm exaggerating things, since sets like Creator and Town still work out to better ratios? Personally, I've always been the sort to wait for sales... so I probably won't be buying any less that I have been. It just sucks to realize that the times are a changin.