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- Research to produce and promote knowledge
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Comic book series : Wimbledon Green
Wimbledon Green
Taking a break from the serialization of his saga Clyde Fans and the design of The Complete Peanuts, critically acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator Seth creates a farcical world of the people whose passion lies in the need to own comic books and only in pristine, mint condition.
Meet Wimbledon Green, the self-proclaimed world's greatest comic book collector who brokered the world's best comic book deal in the history of collecting. Comic book retailers, auctioneers, and conventioneers from around North America, as well as Green's collecting rivals, weigh in on the man and his vast collection of comic books. Are Green's intentions honorable? Does he truly love comics or is he driven by the need to conquer? Lastly, is he really even Wimbledon Green?
A charming and amusing caper where comic book collecting is a world of intrigue and high finance. Part riotous chase, part whimsical character sketch, Wimbledon Green looks at the need to collect and the need to reinvent oneself.

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Valve has informed users of its Steam online game distribution platform that hackers have probably downloaded encrypted credit card transaction data from a backup database during an intrusion last year.
In November 2011, Valve announced that hackers gained unauthorized access to Steam's user database, but said that there was no evidence to suggest a leak of encrypted credit card details at that time.
However, that has since changed. "Recently we learned that it is probable that the intruders obtained a copy of a backup file with information about Steam transactions between 2004 and 2008," said Gabe Newell, Valve's co-founder and managing director, in an email sent Friday to Steam users.
According to Newell, the backup file contained Steam user names, email addresses, encrypted credit card details and encrypted billing addresses, but no account passwords.
Valve doesn't have reasons to believe that the sensitive transaction data was decrypted, Newell said. However, this possibility should not be excluded.
"As I said in November it's a good idea to watch your credit card activity and statements," Newell said. "And of course keeping Steam Guard [a Steam account security system] on is a good idea as well."
The company decided to send the email to Steam users before sending official breach notification letters as required by some states when credit card information is involved.
The investigation into the intrusion is ongoing, but authorities might already have a suspect in custody.
During a recent conference call between the FBI and the U.K. Metropolitan Police, law enforcement officials discussed the case of a 15-year-old hacker known online as TehWongZ, who got arrested before Christmas.
U.K. Metropolitan Police officials said that TehWongZ took credit for breaking into Steam in a written statement that listed his hacking achievements. The hacker allegedly said that he downloaded 32,000 Steam usernames, passwords and credit card details.
A recording of the official conference call was leaked onto the Internet on Feb. 3 by members of the Anonymous hacktivist collective. The FBI has since confirmed its authenticity.


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Selepas ujian..... nyanyi aja!
Nulis apaan ya....
Ah, ya. iseng2 nyari lirik lagu Sami Yusuf aja deh... Dari kemaren posting video klipnya Sami Yusuf kok ga muncul terus ya...
Ini lagu Mother (in Arabic campur English)
Blessed is your face
Blessed is your name
My beloved
Blessed is your smile
Which makes my soul want to fly
My beloved
All the nights
And all the times
That you cared for me
But I never realised it
And now it's too late
Forgive me
Now I'm alone filled with so much shame
For all the years I caused you pain
If only I could sleep in your arms again
Mother I'm lost without you
You were the sun that brightened my day
Now who's going to wipe my tears away
If only I knew what I know today
Mother I'm lost without you
Ummahu, ummahu, ya ummi
wa shawqahu ila luqyaki ya ummi
Ummuka, ummuka, ummuka ummuka
Qawlu rasulika
Fi qalbi, fi hulumi
Anti ma'i ya ummi
Mother... Mother... O my mother
How I long to see O mother
"Your mother, Your mother, Your mother"
Is the saying of your Prophet
In my heart, in my dreams
You are always with me mother
Ruhti wa taraktini
Ya nura 'aynayya
Ya unsa layli
Ruhti wa taraktini
Man siwaki yahdhununi
Man siwaki yasturuni
Man siwaki yahrusuni
'Afwaki ummi
You went and left me
O light of my eyes
O comfort of my nights
You went and left me
Who, other than you, will embrace me?
Who, other than you, will cover me?
Who, other than you, will guard over me?
Your pardon mother, forgive me
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Story Highlights• NEW: Evidence removed from Smith's hotel room
• NEW: Hearing on DNA in paternity dispute at 8:30 a.m. Friday
• Smith was found unconscious in her hotel room
• Former model, reality star involved in controversy
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(CNN) -- Anna Nicole Smith died Thursday at a South Florida hospital after being discovered unconscious in her hotel room.
The reality TV star, Playboy Playmate and former Guess model was 39.
She checked into the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, on Monday with her lawyer and boyfriend, Howard K. Stern.
Smith's private nurse called hotel workers at 1:38 p.m. and security officials went to the room, Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger said. (Watch Chief Tiger describe the rescue effort )
Before rescue workers arrived, Smith's bodyguard performed CPR on her, he said.
She was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood at 2:10 p.m. where she died, Tiger said. (Watch how Smith's death leaves daughter's fate undecided )
An autopsy is scheduled for Friday, according to the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office. (Watch what might have led to Smith's death )
Late Thursday, police told CNN the hotel room where Smith was found had been cleared. Police carried bags of evidence out of the building.
Smith's attorney, Ron Rale, told reporters she had been suffering from flulike symptoms for the last couple of days.
"We are saddened and heartbroken by my sister's death. No matter what our differences have been over the years, Anna was still our blood and she will be missed terribly," Smith's sister, Donna Hogan, said in a statement Thursday.
"She was a woman who was determined to get out of her small town in Texas and make a name for herself." (Smith rose to fame after dropping out of school)
Hogan went on to say that the death of Smith's son, Daniel, last year "left her deeply saddened, a sadness she hid from everyone."
Dannielynn Hope, who Smith gave birth to a few days before Daniel, 20, died, "is now without a mother," Hogan wrote.
A life of celebrity and tribulations
Smith was known as much for her sometimes-turbulent life off-camera as she was for her tabloid celebrity. The former topless dancer in Houston made her first appearance in Playboy in 1992, was named Playmate of the Year in 1993, and appeared in Guess jeans ads and movies.
In 2002, Smith launched a reality television program, "The Anna Nicole Show," on the E! Entertainment network. At one point, it was the network's highest-rated program.
She shocked people by marrying 89-year-old Texas oil magnate Howard Marshall II, who had an estate valued at $1.6 billion. He died the next year, and Smith waged a 12-year feud with Marshall's son, E. Pierce Marshall, over the inheritance.
Earlier this week, Smith was included in a class-action lawsuit against a company, TrimSpa, for which she had worked as a spokesperson. (Watch Larry King say Smith's weight issues led to her depression )
TrimSpa makes a product it claims leads to substantial weight loss. The lawsuit alleges the marketing of the product, TrimSpa X32, was false or misleading. (Full story)
Smith also was embroiled in a dispute over the paternity of Dannielynn Hope. (Full story)
Larry Birkhead, an entertainment reporter and photographer who has claimed to be Dannielynn's father, will be filing an emergency order to obtain DNA samples to determine paternity, his attorney, Debra Opri, told CNN's "Larry King Live."
Smith and Stern have both said that Stern is Dannielynn's father. Stern has said the couple planned to marry, but it was unclear whether they had. Rale said he would be in court to oppose the DNA order.
A hearing is set for 8:30 a.m.
"On the instructions of the experts, we had to move in for a DNA order tomorrow morning, and we're going in for that," Opri said. "We need the order ... Larry has to do what the doctors say, and I have to do what the doctors say."
On news of Smith's death, Opri said Birkhead was "inconsolable ... he has lost the mother of his child and he has lost a woman he loved very much."
Anna Nicole Smith, Howard K. Stern and baby Danielynn Hope Smith.
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JNF lands should be open to all Israeli citizens
Published August 14, 2007
Imagine the following scenario: Italy's Parliament passes a law that restricts the sale of public lands to Christians. Government officials rush to justify the measure, citing historic ties between Italy and the Roman Catholic Church.
Nonetheless, the consequences of the legislation are clear: Italian Jews and Muslims are to be denied fundamental rights that Christian citizens alone will enjoy.
We know what would follow — howls of outrage from every Jewish defense organization in North America. Jews throughout the world would demand the immediate repeal of the offending law and call upon Christian groups to join their protests.
How, then, can Jews remain silent when Israel's Knesset stands ready to enshrine in law the right of an Israeli government agency to lease public land only to Jews? The law in question is the Jewish National Fund Law.
JNF owns 13 percent of Israeli land. Since 1960, that land has been administered by a government agency, the Israel Lands Authority, or ILA, which agreed that it would act in accordance with the JNF covenant and lease land only to Jews.
In 2005, Israel's attorney general ruled that this policy violated Israeli anti-discrimination laws, but the ruling was never implemented. Now, as Israel's Supreme Court stands ready to affirm the attorney general's view and end the discriminatory policy, the Knesset has passed a preliminary bill that would authorize the ILA to continue its policy of discrimination.
The JNF holds a place of honor in the Jewish world. It was founded in 1901 by the Zionist movement as the vehicle to purchase land in Palestine for Jewish settlement. Millions of Jews grew up depositing coins in blue-and-white JNF pushkes to support the organization's projects.
Since 1948, the JNF has done superb work in reforestation, water reclamation and environmental education. Sadly, however, JNF now insists that policies once necessary for its mission must be written into law, even if those policies today can only damage the state they helped create.
Let there be no mistake: The proposed law is an abomination that contradicts Israel's most fundamental values and will undermine her position throughout the world.
Not one of the many justifications provided for this law has any validity.
The claim is made that JNF land was purchased for Jewish settlement with the pennies, nickels and dimes of the Jewish people throughout the world, and that these commitments must be honored. In fact, only about a third of JNF land was purchased before Israel's founding in 1948. The remaining two-thirds was transferred or sold to the JNF by the Israeli government, often at reduced prices, much of it from unclaimed or abandoned Arab land.
In short, JNF holdings more accurately can be described as belonging to the citizens of Israel, including its Arab citizens.
The claim is made that the JNF and the ILA had a deal, and the terms of that deal must be respected. But no democratic government can accept principles that run counter to its own values and laws.
The claim is made that Israel is a Jewish state and, as such, it can favor its Jewish citizens. But to say this is to misunderstand what a Jewish state is all about.
As a Jewish state Israel has, and must maintain, a secure Jewish majority. It has, and must maintain, a vibrant and aggressively Jewish national culture. It offers, and must maintain, preference in immigration to Jews throughout the world.
However, as Israel's Declaration of Independence makes explicity clear, preference in immigration is the only legal right to be granted to Jews that is not also to be granted to Israel's non-Jewish citizens. Discrimination in all other matters, including the right to purchase land and acquire property, is forbidden.
It is unthinkable that Israel will be a country where purchasing land will require a paper from the Chief Rabbinate certifying one's Jewish status. It is unthinkable that Christian and Muslim Israelis, non-Jewish foreign investors and the 700,000 Russian immigrants whose religious status is unclear will be prohibited from leasing public lands. It is unthinkable that a people that has suffered from similar discriminatory laws throughout its history, including in Iran and Saudi Arabia today, will now impose them on others.
The JNF is a worthy body. My admiration for its accomplishments is not diminished by the fact that certain JNF policies that made sense in another era of history do not make sense today. But if the JNF wishes to retain its central role in Jewish life, it needs to oppose this terrible law.
Rabbi Eric Yoffie is the president of the Union for Reform Judaism.


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I've been away from this blog for too long. I took November off to do Nanowrimo, which was successful for me this year, although blasting through a 50,000-word novel in 30 days didn't leave me much brain power for anything else. My brain was too full of space ships and time travel to think coherently about cemeteries and the past. It's time to get back up on the horse, as they say.
The photo prompt for this week is Reflections. Of course, I have a morbid spin to put on that subject…
I love the man-made bodies of water in the old garden cemeteries, even as I recognize that they're difficult to maintain. This pond in Detroit, pictured above, was an alarming shade of green. Lakes draw wildlife from snapping turtles to Canadian geese that might not welcome visitors. Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn filled in one of their lakes fairly early in their history so they could build a chapel atop it.
In a cemetery in Northern California this summer, I saw warnings posted that the maintenance crew would dump out any flower arrangements with standing water in order to prevent mosquitos from breeding and spreading West Nile Virus. I'm not sure how Hollywood Forever keeps their ponds so lovely and free of dangerous critters.
One of my favorite cemetery vistas is looking across the pond in Mount Auburn at Mary Baker Eddy's monument. There's something so peaceful about the lovely Grecian Revival temple reflecting in the unruffled water. For me, there's a sense of the afterworld in the vista, tranquil and welcoming beyond the turmoil of this world.


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Stars' playoff hopes take hit with loss to Sharks
DALLAS (AP) -- Logan Couture's timing was perfect.
Couture broke out of a slump with a power-play goal to put his team in front late in the second period after T.J. Galiardi got the tying goal earlier in the period, and the San Jose Sharks beat the Dallas Stars 5-2 Tuesday night in a matchup of teams vying for one of the final Western Conference playoff spots.
Couture had gone 10 games without a goal when he snapped a 2-2 tie with a deflection of Martin Havlat's setup at 17:24 of the second period. Couture's 31st of the season came only 27 seconds after Dallas' Michael Ryder went to the penalty box for tripping.
"It had been a while, so it felt good to get on the board," Couture said. "(Havlat) made a great play to me. It's something we work on, on the power play. I went to the slot and he had the patience to wait `til I was open. It was right on my stick."
Antti Niemi stopped 29 shots, and Daniel Winnik, Joe Thornton and Ryane Clowe also scored for the Sharks. San Jose improved to 92 points to remain in the conference's top eight, three points better than ninth-place Dallas.
Niemi denied Dallas' Jamie Benn on a breakaway with about 5:20 left to preserve his team's lead, and Thornton's 17th goal of the season with 4:50 remaining gave San Jose a two-goal pad.
"Huge," Thorton said of Niemi's save on Benn. "If he doesn't make that, it's a totally different game. He's a world-class goalie ... who saved our bacon tonight."
Brenden Morrow and Alex Goligoski scored for Dallas, and Kari Lehtonen had 21 saves.
Dallas, returning from a 1-3-0 road trip, is in danger of missing the playoffs for the fourth straight season.
"That one stings," Morrow said. "You'd like to be able to control your own fate, we had that tonight and we let it go and now we're going to need a lot of help."
Clowe added an empty-netter with 1:04 left and San Jose improved to 8-4-1 in its last 13 games.
The Stars had assumed the top spot in the Pacific with a 10-0-1 run, but they've gone 3-7-0 since then to tumble out of the conference's top eight.
Dallas has two games left: at Nashville on Thursday and St. Louis at home on Saturday.
"Now we need help and you just start preparing, getting ready for Nashville," Stars coach Glen Gulutzan said. "There's no other way to look at it. It's just business as usual and go win the game."
San Jose also has two remaining: at Los Angeles on Thursday, and home against the Kings on Saturday.
Dallas built an early 8-1 shots advantage, but Winnik banked in a rebound off a sprawling Lehtonen at 12:09 of the first period to put the Sharks in front. Andrew Desjardins and Brent Burns assisted on Winnik's eighth goal of the season.
Morrow got a fortunate bounce to draw his team even at 1 when he backhanded a shot from a sharp angle that glanced off Niemi's stick. The puck snuck through the goalie's pads and into the net at 17:47 of the first for Morrow's 11th of the season, assisted by Mike Ribeiro and Mark Fistric.
The Stars began a 5-on-3 power play with 20 seconds left in first period, with 38 seconds of it carrying over into the second period. But Dallas was unable to generate much pressure with the man advantage.
Goligoski gave his team a 2-1 lead at 11:10 of the second period. Benn carried the puck behind the net and fed Goligoski, whose slap shot from center point beat a screened Niemi for Goligoski's ninth of the season.
San Jose needed only 32 seconds after Goligoski's goal to pull even at 2 when Galiardi beat Lehtonen from the right of the cage for his ninth of the season.
"It was a great momentum swing for us," Thornton said.
The Sharks beat the Stars 3-0 on Saturday night in San Jose, the previous game for both teams.
"Very big, considering that four points went into our account and not into theirs," Sharks coach Todd McLellan said of sweeping the home-and-home set.
NOTES: The Sharks won the season series 5-0-1. ... San Jose had been 1-6-2 in its previous nine road games. ... Dallas had been 6-2-1 in its previous nine at home. ... The Sharks were without D Douglas Murray (lower body). ... RW Radek Dvorak (ankle) was out for Dallas but LW Eric Nystrom (leg) returned from a three-game absence.


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What a fun weekend in Los Angeles
Gertie! Everyone that meets her always comments on how sweet she is and I couldn't agree more. I was nervous meeting her, about as nervous as when I met Sarai in Oakland (when I started babbling and saying weird things and then sweating because I knew I was saying weird things and then my bangs stuck to my forehead). Gertie was so friendly to everyone and seems like such a down to earth girl. I want to hang out with her again!
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jealous! i've been watching that event get advertised, but it was too far away :( maybe gertie will travel up to the north coast!ReplyDeleteReplies
I wish she would, I would love to make another trip up north ;)Delete
This looks like a super fun weekend :)ReplyDeleteReplies
It was! I would like to repeat it haah :)Delete
Oh man I wish I was there with you ladies!!! You west coast gals have all the fun :) You look adorable, as always, and I love that dress you're wearing! What pattern is that one? (The fabric is awesome) I can't wait to see what you sew up with the new fabrics, too! xoReplyDeleteReplies
I really really wish you were there too, Rochelle!!!Delete
It's a new dress I made. I'm going to post about it soon :)
What a marvelous weekend!!! I'm excited to see your made Peter Pan collar :) Love all the pictures you included, especially the one of you and Gertie - fantastic!ReplyDelete
I am so jealous of everyone that was here:) Seen so many post from people saying how lovely it was:)ReplyDeleteReplies
After going to Sew LA I know that I want to go to all of their parties from now on. They are a fun group of ladies!Delete
Mood looks wonderful - hopefully I will get there when I visit later in the year! I wish I had places like that close to me.ReplyDeleteReplies
Me too! Well closer at least. Mood is three hours away from me :(Delete
I'd be smiling from ear to ear too after such a fun trip too.ReplyDelete
Where's the envy icon??
Fun weekend indeed!! And again your hair looks so pretty! Also I'm interested in hiring you to make me a Peter Pan collar :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks, Noelle! I will make you one, but only if you don't pay me :) Let me know what fabric you have in mind and I'll do it!Delete
I'm bummed I missed out! Looks like you had a fabulous time! And Mood looks like it's amazing. The fabric you picked up is really pretty. I have got to get myself to LA, like right now!! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
I wish you got to go!Delete
Sounds like you had an amazing weekend! I think the part I'm most jealous of are your friends who share your love for sewing! Lucky duck :-)ReplyDeleteReplies
It's fun hanging out with fellow sewing bloggers :)Delete
ohh thats really cool!ReplyDelete
Wow. That does look like a fun weekend! So jealous. Oh and I did the same thing when I met Sarai up here in Seattle (babbled and said weird things). Glad to hear I wasn't the only one! She is probably used to it by now ;)ReplyDeleteReplies
hahhaah I was star struck!Delete
What a fun weekend!!ReplyDeleteReplies
My friends husband said it was "sew fun." :)Delete
You've met Gertie and Sarai now... jealous! Hee hee. Sounds like such a fun time!ReplyDeleteReplies
And both were super cool ladies! :)Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 18, 2013 at 6:56 AM
How FUN! Can't wait to see your Peter Pan collar!ReplyDeleteReplies
I want to do a sew day with some girlfriends and make some!Delete
So jealous of your fabric excursion! I want some too!! I especially love the Micheal Levine fabric!ReplyDelete
I nominated you for the Liebster Award! You can check it out here:
Aww thank you!!! xoDelete
Hey, so glad you could make it to our new LA store location! Hope to see you there again. —MegReplyDeleteReplies
Meg, I would probably move in if you would let me hahaah :) I was seriously impressed with the new space, but mostly impressed with the customer service. The staff was amazing! I can't remember any names, but everyone went above and beyond!Delete
Sorry I didn't get to meet you, I was at the party! Gretchen is so sweet I agree, and SewLA really knows how to throw a party!ReplyDelete
After seeing this I definitely need to get Gertie's book. Those dresses are adorable.ReplyDelete


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Who needs Bulbasaur when you can fight with Ghost? Who needs pocket monsters in your Pokemon game when you can have the heroes of Call of Duty take turns slashing and poisoning? One amazing video depicts the unreal Pokémon: Modern Warfare.
(Video includes text-based profanity, so be mindful before sharing with Pokémon-loving kids.)
The video was created by the people at Blasted Roof and uploaded to YouTube this week. The creators did an extraordinary job mixing two of the biggest franchises in entertainment history.
You've got your re-done title screen:
Your custom Call of Duty Pokémon:
Your team of CoD Pokémon (with a call-out to Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling, aka FourZeroTwo):
Your classic Pokémon-style battle:
And you even have that key element of Pokémon, evolution:
Unfortunately, you also get one of the key elements of Call of Duty gamer culture, slurs:
After viewers complained about the "British Fag" reference, the creators appended the apology you can see in the screenshot above. The "British Fag" character is a reference to the guy in this video:
The "fag" line aside, this is an impressive feat by the people at Blasted Roof. I'd play a Pokemon: Call of Duty. Would you?
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On October 27, 1939, a legend of British comedy was born. John Cleese, the exceptionally tall member of Monty Python, has just turned seventy years old. We are pleased to report that he is not dead yet.
While Monty Python was successful because it was such a brilliant ensemble, Cleese was undeniably essential to the character of their humor: Consider that, of the most popular Python sketches, nearly all of them have Cleese front-and-center: He's the customer in the Dead Parrot and Cheese Shop sketches, and played both Dennis Moore and the Minister for Silly Walks. Had he been in the Spanish Inquisition sketches, he'd have the set. And he played many roles, including the remarkably tenacious Black Knight, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which is by any reasonable standard one of the funniest movies ever made.
Of course, Cleese's brilliance has not been limited only to Monty Python. His writing on Fawlty Towers and his portrayal of Basil Fawlty thereon were so hysterical that, despite having lasted for only twelve episodes, it is thought of by many as the best sitcom ever made. And who could forget his performance as Archie Leach in A Fish Called Wanda, or his guest-starring appearance on The Muppet Show?
So from all of us at GeekDad: Happy birthday, Mr. Cleese! Remember to always look on the bright side of life.


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Bermuda: AOD to Increase Water Depth Capacity for its Jack-ups
Asia Offshore Drilling Limited (the "Company") has decided to increase the water depth capacity from 350 feet to 400 feet for its three jack-up rigs under construction. This investment will increase the marketability of the rigs, allowing them to successfully operate in more offshore areas.
The additional capital expenditure to extend the legs is estimated to be below US$ 5 million per rig. These upgrades will have some impact on the delivery schedule of the first two rigs, as the first rig will be delivered in the first calendar quarter of 2013 and the second rig will be delivered by the end of the second calendar quarter of 2013. The delivery of the third rig remains unchanged at the end of the third calendar quarter of 2013.
The Board believes these upgrades will improve the long-term return on investment for the Company's shareholders. The Company has an option for construction of one more jack-up rig at Keppel FELS that matures on September 30, 2011. The Board has resolved to not exercise this option. Given the prevailing uncertainty and volatility in the financial markets, the Board's objective is to enhance the quality, marketability and value of the existing rigs rather than incur additional financial risk by ordering a fourth rig. The decision not to exercise the option will ensure that the Company remains fully financed up to the delivery of the first rig in 2013.
Source: Asia Offshore Drilling, September 29, 2011


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Most second-generation products are souped up versions of the originals, but streaming media pioneer Boxee is taking a different approach. On Tuesday, the company announced the Boxee TV, a $99 set-top box with dual tuners that support a $15-a-month cloud-based DVR service with unlimited storage.
With its low price and simple design, Boxee TV clearly targets the mass market that more or less ignored the feature-rich, $199 Boxee Box it replaces. D-Link remains Boxee's hardware partner for Boxee TV, which is slated to go on sale on November 1. (You can pre-order the device now on Boxee's website.)
The new hardware is much smaller than the Boxee Box, and its remote has only a few basic navigational and content buttons on one side—it lacks the small keyboard that came on the back of the Boxee Box remote. We'll have to wait for review units to see how the user interface has evolved.
Boxee TV lets you watch over-the-air or basic cable TV (via a coax connection) and record up to two shows at a time. Through a network connection (either ethernet or Wi-Fi), Boxee TV apps will also stream media from popular Internet sites and services, including Netflix, Vudu, Pandora, YouTube, and Vimeo. (Boxee says that additional media partners will be announced at launch.)
The optional Cloud DVR service will roll out gradually. At launch, it will be available in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. While $15 a month may seem expensive, during an in-person demo Boxee CEO and co-founder Avner Ronen said that cable companies typically charge $10 a month extra for cable boxes that record to hard drives with limited capacity. (Boxee will offer a free three-month trial.)
Also, you typically can only access DVR content on the set connected to the DVR, or at best another device on your home network. With Boxee TV, you'll be able to access your recordings via an HTML 5 app on any Internet-connected device with sufficient bandwidth, which Ronen pegs at between 1.5Mbps and 4Mbps.
While the service will be able to record high-def content, it won't support adaptive bit rate at launch, meaning it won't adjust the media stream based on the bandwidth of the receiving device. So you probably won't be able to watch content on a 3G smartphone, for example.
Asked about the dramatic differences between Boxee TV and the Boxee Box, Ronen said the original product was "designed by geeks for geeks," while the new one was "designed by geeks for the people." The goal, he said, is to make Boxee TV and service accessible "to anyone who can pick up a remote."
We'll have to wait a few weeks to see if the Boxee TV lives up to that promise.


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Stella Alves Da Motta
Stella started interpreting by chance. Her first career was as a teacher in her birth country Brazil and when she arrived in Australia she did some relief teaching. It was then that a friend approached her for some assistance interpreting for a psychology appointment and she has now been interpreting in Portuguese for 23 years.
The code of ethics is an important tool
Stella says 'you need to be tough to be an interpreter, it's a tough profession'. Her greatest challenge while working as an interpreter is not to get involved in the situation. 'We've got a heart and we come across a lot of sad situations'. Her tool to overcome this challenge is to stick very strictly to the code of ethics for interpreters, which was developed by the Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators (AUSIT). 'It's very important and it's there for a very good reason. It's to protect us. I feel if I do exactly as it says in the code of ethics I kind of protect myself and can stay separated' she said.
The rewards of interpreting
Stella feels rewarded knowing she is helping people. 'I know that although I am not involved, I am helping because it's very frustrating when you can't communicate, when you can't say what's going on. To help in this process of communication is very rewarding for me' she said.
Giving back to the community
While interpreting is her paid profession, Stella has a lifetime of giving back to the community working for a variety of organisations voluntarily. Most recently she was involved in the start of up of RIAM, a referral information service for Portuguese speaking women. RIAM is under the umbrella of ABRISA, the Brazilian association in Melbourne which assists women to access information like how to apply for a Medicare card or access family violence services. She is also part of the CCBV, The Council for Brazilians Citizens in Victoria, under the foreign ministry of Brazil. In this role she is supporting Brazilians that come to Victoria.
Future of interpreting
Stella sees the wave of bringing interpreting to a more professional level and sees the influence of Professionals Australia as a positive thing for interpreters and translators. 'We work independently, it's very lonely. If interpreters don't have something to group them together they can get lost' she said.
Stella's tips for future and current interpreters
Stella recommends the following tips for people thinking about becoming an interpreter or for other interpreters. 'You have to read the paper and watch the news every day to be up to date on the affairs of the countries that you will be interpreting for. Also, try to visit places where interpreting is done. That is, in courts, hospitals and government departments'. She also said 'if you've got your heart and your mind set and you like helping people and dealing with people all the time, it's a very rewarding profession'.


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I have been working with Sam Ramji and Robert Duffner from Microsoft, and I have been very pleased to resolve the issues that I had with the work they are funding for the Apache POI project. Not only has Microsoft addressed the concerns that I had with regards to patents and OOXML, but they have gone a step further and added the binary formats to the list. By publishing their clarifications to the Open Specification Promise (OSP), Microsoft has acted both in good faith and purpose. For me personally, this is a big step forward. At one time, I donated my Open Source project to Apache, partially out of fear of Microsoft. Now, Microsoft is becoming a key contributor to this project.
Although the OSP does not address some of the edge cases where work may be required for compatibility but not for implementing the specification, Microsoft has agreed to go further and sign a specific agreement with Apache which will address this concern for the work they have funded with POI. Furthermore, the OSP will be managed as a legal product much like the way that an Open Source project is, with revisions as they are needed.
It is prudent for the Open Source community to work cautiously with any large corporation. Having dealt in the past with Sun and IBM, I know that any such relationship will have its ups and downs. Microsoft has had an adversarial relationship with the Open Source community, including making vague and unsubstantiated patent claims towards Linux, but there are good people at Microsoft working in good faith to bridge this gap. While individuals at Microsoft may do this for altruistic reasons, companies behave in this way due to rational self interest. Therefore, as open source technologists, we can compete with Microsoft in some areas (hopefully not in the courtroom), and cooperate in other areas. This situation is, fortunately, an area of the latter.
For my part, I look forward to further cooperation with Microsoft. It has been a pleasure working with Sam Ramji and Robert Duffner. I might not have had this opportunity had it not been for a certain OSI Board member / Open Source diva along with Sam Ruby. Thanks.
-Andrew C. Oliver
Professional Open Source Developer
Founder, Apache POI
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Page 280 - And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know ; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Page 179 - For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Page 313 - But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all : and thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest ; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
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Page 167 - The calm retreat, the silent shade, With prayer and praise agree, And seem by thy sweet bounty made For those who follow thee.
Page 254 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
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Page 68 - Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
Page 200 - And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.


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NEW YORK — Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Thursday called the new Windows 8 operating system scheduled for release next month "a very exciting new product" and "a very big deal" for the world's largest software maker.
Gates said in an interview with The Associated Press that he is already using Windows 8 "and I'm very pleased with it."
Windows 8 is Microsoft's biggest overhaul of Windows in more than a decade and the company's attempt to stay relevant and exciting in a world where mobile gadgets have started to overshadow personal computers.
"Hardware partners are doing great things to take advantage of the features," Gates added. "It'll be a big deal."
Microsoft Corp. will release Windows 8 on Oct. 26 along with a new version of Internet Explorer.
Gates responded to a question about Windows 8 during an AP interview about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's key role in a new global campaign to eradicate polio.
Windows 8 will replace Windows 7 on practically all personal computers sold to consumers.
It features major changes in the way consumers interact with their machines, and versions of it will also run on tablet computers and smartphones.
Although Microsoft has grown into much more than a maker of computer operating systems — providing computer services to corporations and Xbox gaming machines to game enthusiasts — Windows still accounts for a significant chunk of the company's annual revenue.
In 2011, Microsoft's "Windows & Windows Live" division generated 27 percent, or $19 billion, of the company's $69.9 billion in annual revenue.-


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The end of summer doesn't just mean it's time to buckle down at work or head back to school. For many college students, autumn also signals a disruption in summertime loving, in other words, a return to the dreaded long-distance relationship.
But are these types of relationships really so hard? Or, as a recent study suggests, does absence truly make the heart grow fonder?
According to some estimates, up to 75% of college students have engaged in a long-distance relationship at some point, and roughly 25% to 50% of them are currently in one. But long-distance relationships aren't just for college kids; surveys show that about 3 million American adult couples live apart, too.
Previous research has done little to make people believe these situations can work. In fact, one 2010 study suggested successful romances require regular face-to-face contact to succeed.
That's why this latest study, published in the June 2013 issue of the Journal of Communication, is so heartening. Researchers at Cornell University asked 63 couples in long distance and in geographically close relationships to keep track of how often they interacted with their partners and which type of media (phone calls, texting, video chat, etc.) they used. The couples also kept diaries of what information they shared with their partners and how close they felt after interacting with them through these high-tech tools.
After a week, the researchers interviewed the participants and asked them about their satisfaction with the relationship.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the long-distance couples contacted each other most often, about three to four times a day. But the researchers also found that this frequent contact may have forged stronger bonds between the partners.
Long-distance couples felt more intimate with each other than did couples who saw each other all the time, possibly because people in long-distance relationships willingly shared their feelings without being coaxed. They also felt more accepting of their partners' behaviors and felt like they were getting closer instead of just sharing information.
As a result, long-distance couples said they felt more committed to each other, even though 30% of them only got to see each other in person one to three times a month.
It makes sense: Just as online relationships and Facebook flirtations allow us to idealize strangers because we don't have to live with all of their quirks, long-distance relationships may help keep the romantic bloom on the rose a little longer.
"In some ways, long-distance relationships are a bit easier, at least for desire, perceived satisfaction, and not having to deal with day-to-day life," explains Kristen P. Mark, director of the Sexual Health Promotion Lab at the University of Kentucky. "Sure, you miss your partner and ache to see them again, but that ache is exactly what fuels the desire and passion in the relationship. Missing out on the mundane allows for your relationship to flourish on the ups of life without having to worry about paying the bills, what to cook for dinner or getting the kids up and out the door in the morning."
On the other hand, technology can make it easy to present your partner with only a surface façade and mask your true feelings. People in long-distance relationships would do well to be as honest as possible with their partners, and themselves, to ensure that their romance has the depth to last when they become geographically closer.
Concerns aside, I believe that long-distance relationships may actually offer a valuable lesson for the rest of us.
"Putting some 'distance' in your relationship can be helpful, even if you aren't in a long-distance relationship," Mark says. "Using space apart to fuel sexual desire or reignite spark is a useful strategy when daily routine becomes monotonous. It allows for you to miss one another and realize why you've got each other in your life in the first place."
So whether your boyfriend is enrolled in college halfway across the country or your wife is simply leaving for a week-long work trip, don't fret: The time apart may make your relationship stronger than ever.


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TULSA, Okla. -- Bringing your golf team to the city where you grew up, went to high school and starred at your hometown university, breeds perks not associated with NCAA competition.
"I just love being here," Arizona State head coach Melissa Luellen said. "It's comfortable. I don't have to use a GPS or get lost. It's nice when you have a familiar feel."Luellen's fifth-ranked Sun Devils sat third following Wednesday's second round of the 2014 Division I Women's Golf Championship -- great comfort since that's why they're here.
But a deeper comfort surrounds the greens and fairways at host site Tulsa Country Club -- Luellen's husband, Mark, whom she met while both attended Tulsa. A collegiate teammate, Maggie Roller, who coaches the girls' golf team at local Jenks High School, and her daughter, Jenni. Other family members and college-opponents-turned-friends.
"I've been following them every day," Roller, whose son, James, has applied to be the Sun Devils' on-course scorer during Thursday's third round, said. "It's been just such a blast."
Perhaps the deepest comfort comes from the older woman who zips along Tulsa Country Club's paths in a special cart marked with her name -- Dale McNamara. Tulsa's retired Hall-of-Fame women's golf coach coached four national-champion teams, five runner-ups and 28 first-or-second-team All-Americans (including LPGA great Nancy Lopez) and still follows the game.
She's Melissa's mom.
"It is extremely special," McNamara said of this week's NCAA final. "It's like coaching again. I couldn't go to sleep at night, excited."
Their mother-daughter juxtaposition is significant for more than legacy purposes.
McNamara's 1988 NCAA team championship came on this same Tulsa Country Club course where Melissa also won low-medalist honors in that tournament. The woman who won multiple tournament titles, national and conference coach-of-the-year honors, also raised a four-time All-American.
"The year that she won nationals, that was really special, because that's the first mother-daughter deal to have done that," McNamara said. "It was exciting."
"I knew that it would make it such a good thing for the city because this is such a great golf community," Luellen said of Tulsa hosting this year's Division I finals. "And the way Tulsa pulls together to put on a show. I think they've done a fabulous job. It's exactly what I expected."
Luelleb followed her mother's footsteps almost by accident. She graduated from Tulsa in 1988 and competed in the Futures and Ladies European Tours before qualifying for the LPGA Tour in October of 1989. She spent 11 years on the Tour, winning the 1991 Stratton Mountain LPGA Classic and teaming with Mike Springer to win the 1993 JC Penney Classic.
"Wonderful, wonderful putter," McNamara said. "And a really good brain."
But after hanging up her professional spikes in 1999, Luellen faced a crossroads. Her mother encouraged her to consider coaching and perhaps not coincidentally, to the daughter's thinking, McNamara retired the same year. The ex-LPGA professional found herself interviewing for her mother's job, and getting it.
"Which is stunning," Luellen said. "Osmosis does not make a good coach. I was gone from it. I didn't think about team golf. I didn't think about any of it, and my mom did so many things by just gut instinct."
Luellen survived, and learned, leading her alma mater to seven tournament titles and back-to-back Western Athletic Conference and NCAA Central Regional championships during her 2000-2002 tenure. When longtime Arizona State head coach Linda Vollstedt, a McNamara contemporary, retired, Luellen was contacted and succeeded Vollstedt in 2002.
Now in her 13th season in Tempe, her resume is beginning to mirror her mother's.
"I think she's fabulous," McNamara said. "I always thought she would be."
Under Luellen, the Sun Devils have won the 2009 NCAA Division I title and two Pac-10 titles. Arizona State's Azahara Munoz won the 2008 individual Division I title.
"Looking back, now that I've been in coaching for a while, to see what she did -- to not always take the No. 1 players and make them into a great team -- she was really good at that," Luellen said of her mother. "Just so much of what's in their heart. We have different styles. We're similar in some ways, but we have different styles."
Calm and congenial -- "stubborn from the get-go," Luellen admits -- her vision of the Arizona State program is "one of the best -- family. A lot of love. Fun. Just always creating and living in an environment that we choose."
Citing her's mother foundation of ethics and respect, Luellen calls Vollstedt and Dr. Debbie Crews, an Arizona State assistant research professor of exercise science and physical education, her other career mentors, particularly on the scholarly aspects of the game of golf.
"I think you still have to be so clear about where you want to go, and everything you do centers around that," Luellen said of the pressure of Pac-12 golf, which fielded six of the nation's top-10 ranked teams entering this week's NCAA national. "The tournaments you play in, what kids you invite to your family. My assistant coach [Melissa Farr-Kaye] is a huge asset to me. And the competition is so tough out there. You get your heart broken several times in recruiting."
Luellen and her older sister, Cathy, grew up in the sport, shuttled around in their mother's golf cart. Per McNamara, Luellen didn't play her first round until age 11, but quickly absorbed it. A brief high-school flirtation with tennis wasn't enough to deter her.
"My mom would like to spend more time with me this week, and my sister -- I'd like to spend more time with her," Luellen said. "But if anybody knows that the team comes first, it's my mom."
McNamara hosted a pizza party for the Sun Devils when they arrived Saturday. She also hosted other retired coaches on Tuesday night. Now 78, she lives with her eldest daughter in a restored 1935 Tulsa cottage and snow-birds with Luella in Arizona. Vision problems and the 2007 death of her husband, Cathy's and Melissa's dad, meant shredding the big family home.
"The girls said, 'we're taking over your life,'" McNamara recalled with a smile.
But she's as fiery and enthusiastic as ever this week, decked out in Arizona State gold, black and garnet, and unabashedly partisan.
"The idea of someone taking a flag stick and slamming it on the green just infuriates me," McNamara said. "Little things like that. ... because it is the most awesome sport in the world, and most difficult. You've got to have a lot of character to play it, and I'm hoping these coaches are teaching that."
"That I take from my mom because she was vehement on etiquette," Luellen said. "She pulled me off the golf course. I slapped my leg when I was 12, and she was like, 'if you can't behave, then you don't get to play.' Put me in the cart, took me in -- I cried, stewed, got mad.
"Thought about it. And I expect the same from my young ladies."


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"I thought getting funded would be as simple as pitching my idea to a smart VC and getting a check based on the magnitude of the idea."
Two different first-time entrepreneurs in their early twenties both made some version of this comment to me in the last month. I like and respect both entrepreneurs and they were confiding in me that the fundraising process has been very disappointing and were seeking advice on how to close on some capital.
The fact is that raising money is really hard unless you've built a successful business before. Of course, that actually makes some sense given that building a company is really hard, and most venture-backed companies don't return capital to investors. The likelihood that an investor will fund a first-time entrepreneur simply based on an interesting idea is exceptionally small.
Consider that the entrepreneur has a tremendous amount of conviction about the concept. However, the investor has never heard the concept before and is likely hearing it (or at least this version of a theme) for the first time and is quite unlikely to share the depth of conviction that the entrepreneur holds. In fact, a typical investor is regularly hearing credible ideas and cannot possibly fund them all.Even if the investor is enthusiastic about the concept, she is likely meeting the entrepreneur for the first time and hasn't yet established the trust and confidence needed to believe the entrepreneur has what it takes to execute the idea and be one of the few to succeed.
So what can a first-time entrepreneur do to overcome the odds and get funding? Here are a few tricks that I've seen work well:
Figure out who in the world you know that can afford to put some money into the company and believes in you without caring much about the idea. Even if it is a small amount of money, this can be used to create more evidence that you're building a fundable business. The value of such trust networks is actually way more effective for raising money than the idea itself. If the people you know that have the means to bet on you aren't willing to fund you, why should you expect someone that you don't know to fund you?
Find experts related to your business, preferably ones who have built a successful company in the same space, and sell them on your idea. The more you can sell that person, and the more credible that person is, the better. If that person signs up as an advisor, that's helpful, but a director is better; signing up as an investor is much better and taking a leadership position on the team is the best.
The most important thing an entrepreneur can do prior to raising money is to keep building the business regardless of the funding situation. Continue to validate the market opportunity and try to prove out that the founder's convictions are right. Build the team with people who will work for sweat equity. Create some early product and show market traction. It is very hard to know when you will have enough evidence to convince investors, but an entrepreneur that can continuously show progress has a good shot of convincing investors that he is scrappy and capable. When an investor is trying to figure out if an entrepreneur has what it takes, that ability to keep building the business is great evidence. Certainly, the entrepreneur should not sit around and wait for a check in order to really start building the business. At some point, if the company is showing meaningful signs of living up to the founder's beliefs, it becomes very hard for investors to ignore.
At what point does an entrepreneur hit the wall and cannot live on ramen noodles alone? This is a very personal decision and the reason that most successful entrepreneurs have inspiring stories of perseverance. It's a question of objectively assessing the depth of the entrepreneur's conviction, how much struggle he can endure, and how much progress he can make without capital. First-time entrepreneurs rarely get a benefit of the doubt from investors and getting funded is rarely easy.
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The federal government's real estate agents apparently work up quite an appetite.
The General Services Administration is seeking restaurateurs to lease space in its headquarters building at 18th and F streets NW as early as April 2013, according to a notice posted at FedBizOpps.Gov, the government's online database of opportunities.
According to the notice, posted Sept. 12, the GSA has nearly 9,700 square feet available to one or more interested tenants. The GSA is offering up the space for a five-year lease term with three five-year renewal options, according to FedBizOpps.
First-time restaurateurs aren't barred from applying, but the GSA's notice warns that, "Due to the nature and location of this space, we will evaluate Offerors more favorably who have more experience in retail food sales to the public."Read the full story from the Washington Business Journal.


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Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Lemon-Lime Bars...
For the platform underneath the bright filling of these bars, we needed to prepare the rich base and give it a head start in the oven. Made by combining softened butter with a dose of moist brown sugar and fresh lemon zest, the creamy concoction was firmed up by adding flour and a couple pinches of salt. We patted the buttery crumbles into the pan and slid it into the oven to bake until it was lightly golden and almost set.
While that was happening, the zesty filling was prepared by mixing a combination of several eggs, granulated sugar, fresh lemon juice and a couple of surprise ingredients (if you could see me, I'd have one eyebrow raise in a sinister tone...); baking powder and nutmeg! I'll get back to those in a little bit though. When the sweet and tart mixture was combined, we whisked in a bit more lemon zest to punch up the power, along with a touch of lime to broaden the line. Poured over the hot crust, this needed to bake until the edges were lightly browned and the center just set. You can't just go and slice this into pieces though... it needs time for the flavors to meld and the eggy filling to firm up. This is why I wasn't able to talk about these bars yesterday as they needed to sit in the refrigerator for at least a couple hours first. With a blanket of confectioners' sugar coating the top, you could certainly stop here with a delicious set of tangy bars, but we wanted to add another level.
For a fun element on top, we candied thin slices of key limes, along with strips of fresh lemon zest in a heavy sugar syrup. It may sound like extra work, but really, it took just a few minutes and it adds such a decorative finish! The syrup is made by heating together sugar and water in a 3:1 ratio - the strips of zest and slices of lime were tossed in and after simmering for two minutes, they are removed and spread out over a rack to cool.
I found the bars to sliced well and loved how well the balance of sweet to tart was. The baking powder in the filling allowed it to be light and airy - not as dense as you might find in a traditional lemon bar. The nutmeg? Hmm... that's a loaded question - if I didn't know it was in there, I definitely couldn't pick it out, but we both thought we tasted an extra zing in the bars that made them even better. Forgo the candied citrus if you must as it doesn't make or break these, but why not give it a try? It's those little unexpected touches like this that can make all the difference!
The other day we had this Asian Pear and Apple Salad with Red Wine Vinaigrette as a side to dinner and I never got a chance to talk about it.
To coat a duo of tender salad greens and crisp romaine that created the bulk of this salad, we dressed the salad in a mixture of extra-virgin olive oil, red wine vinegar, a dash of sugar, minced garlic, paprika, dry mustard, basil and a pinch of cayenne pepper.
For juicy, crunchy bites threaded throughout, we cubed a large Asian pear and complimented it with tart chunks of Granny Smith apple. We also tossed in raw arcs of mild red onion for added zip, while creamy crumbles of goat cheese are strewn over the top before serving. Red onions might not be mild enough for everyone, but I've found that soaking them in icy water for a few minutes before using takes a little edge off. Jeff and I both liked this, but thought the dressing was on the skimpy side - I would probably increase it by at least 1 1/2 times if we made this again. Not so much that it would make the salad soggy, but we thought a little extra would have helped this along. The dressing did perk up our taste buds as it was well-flavored with those added seasonings! If you're a nut-fiend, toasted walnuts or pecans would be a nice touch to finish off this lighter salad.
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I'm sure they will love that special treat Joe. Hope you have warmer weather soon.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/04/2009 10:05:00 PM
Both the salad and the lemon lime bars look delicious!ReplyDelete
Belated Happy Birthday Wishes!
- Anonymous3/04/2009 10:44:00 PM
Nooooo why why why. This is my third totally love sweets (brownies 1st, my grammy peanut butter fudge 2nd). I haven't had these in a long time mostly because I will eat most of it.ReplyDelete
I will be making these this weekend.
- Anonymous3/05/2009 11:37:00 AM
The garnish on your bars is beautiful, and the salad looks so fresh and yummy.ReplyDelete
Love your blog! Happy Belated Bday!
Yum to both things. I love fruit in salad, esp with goat cheese. And the bars are heavenly. I want to try that baking powder trick.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3/05/2009 12:44:00 PM
I was just wondering yesterday what lemon-lime bars would be like, I had never seen anyone make them! These came out lovely.ReplyDelete
You have 2 of my favorite flavors here, I love anything citrus and apples, I crazy about them!ReplyDelete
Helene - Me too... though I think we have more snow comming!ReplyDelete
Sue - Thanks!
Kimmy - hee hee... sorry!
Kerstin - Thanks!
Laura - Me too... I'm glad I finally came around to goat cheese a few years ago!
Alisa - And they were quite tasty too!
Bunny - Woo!
- Anonymous3/08/2009 06:56:00 PM
these look sooo good...ReplyDelete
i can´t wait to try them!
i have tried a lot of lemon bars but none came out as good as i hoped, but i have high hopes in this recipe


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The Cowboys still fancy themselves "America's Team," but there are very little in the way of patriotism requirements to root for them. Leroy McKelvey of South Carolina is the man who somehow brought a stun gun into MetLife Stadium, and tased three fans in his section at halftime. One of them a marine who had chastised him for not standing during the National Anthem.
A Marine at the end of the row noticed that McKelvey and three others in his party would not stand or take their hats off for the national anthem," a law enforcement officer said. "So the Marine tells McKelvey he better not have to get out of the row cause he won't let him out."
Sure enough, during the halftime show, McKelvey got up. Words were exchanged.
Things were said. Shoves were shoved. Guns were stunned.
McKelvey was released on bail yesterday, says the Cliffview Pilot. The article makes sure to note he got his Cowboys jersey back at the police station.
Fan charged with using taser on Marine at Jets-Cowboys brawl inside MetLife Stadium [Cliffview Pilot]
EARLIER: 9/11 Stadium Brawl At Jets-Cowboys Game Includes One Fan Zapping People With A Taser


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- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center scientists have found that production costs can be cut dramatically by growing "dwarf" trees that minimize the need for ladder access. However, the limiting factor for peaches has been the lack of acceptable dwarfing rootstocks for the best peach varieties.
In 1987, UC and USDA scientists began a landmark rootstock evaluation project. More than 100 varieties that were either collected or bred by USDA plant breeder David Ramming were planted at Kearney. Five trees each of O'Henry peach and Santa Rosa plum were grafted on the rootstocks and extensively evaluated over the next seven years.
For peach, eight selections showed good potential as dwarfing or semi-dwarfing rootstocks and were propagated for further evaluation. In 2004, two of these were patented as the slightly dwarfing rootstock, "Controller 9," and the very dwarfing rootstock, "Controller 5."
At UC Davis, now retired researcher Fred Bliss bred rootstocks using Harrow Blood and Okinawa as parents. UC Davis pomologist Ted De Jong has taken over the program, which patented and released three new rootstocks: Controller 7, Controller 8 and Controller 9.5. A fourth, Controller 6, will be released soon.
The research blocks with Controller 6, 7, 8, and 9.5 at Kearney are continuing to be monitored for production performance and sustained productivity. So far, their performance looks positive but, because of funding cuts, the long-term outlook for maintaining the plots is questionable, De Jong said. UC Cooperative Extension farm advisor Kevin Day is conducting trials of "controller" rootstocks in conjunction with growers to help them determine which ones best fit their farming operations.
De Jong said there is significant interest in Controller 9 because it has been available the longest. Trees on Controller 9 are only slightly reduced in size but require significantly less pruning than trees on the standard rootstock, Nemaguard. There is also substantial interest in Controller 6 by growers who are more aggressive in their interest in smaller trees. Controller 6 causes a substantial reduction in tree size without reducing fruit size.
"I think that Controller 7 may be an optimal choice for many growers because it offers modest size-control and trees on it have had excellent production characteristics and is not such a large leap to a smaller tree," De Jong said. "However there has been limited interest in it thus far."
Controller 5 likely makes trees too small for commercial California peach production and trees on it tend to produce smaller fruit. However, it has good potential for home gardeners who have limited space, prefer not to prune much and aren't very concerned about fruit size.
De Jong, Day, UC Davis pomology specialist Scott Johnson and numerous students have conducted extensive research concerning the dwarfing mechanism involved in these rootstocks and published more than 10 scientific articles on different aspects of the research. These articles and more information about the California Rootstock Breeding Program are available on the UC Fruit Report website.


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Pumpkin, Pork and Apple Cider Stew
- Yield: 10 servings
- Prep: 10 mins
- Cook: 170 mins
When fresh pumpkins aren't available, use butternut squash or stir 1 (15-ounce) can of pure unsweetened pumpkin into this stew. It adds richness and loads of flavor.
- 3tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2teaspoons crushed fennel seeds
- 1teaspoon salt
- 1/2teaspoon pepper
- 2pounds Boston butt, cut into 1-inch cubes
- 3tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 2medium onions, sliced
- 2 3/4cups reduced-sodium chicken broth, divided
- 1 1/2cups apple cider
- 1/4cup cider vinegar
- 3cups peeled fresh pumpkin, cut into 1-inch chunks (about a 2 1/2-pound pie pumpkin)
- 1cup carrots, cut into chunks (about 2 carrots)
- 6cups red potatoes, cut into 1-inch chunks (about 2 pounds)
- 1 1/4cups Granny Smith apples, unpeeled, cut into wedges (2 apples)
- Place flour, fennel seeds, salt, pepper and pork in a large zip-top plastic bag. Seal bag and shake to coat pork.
- Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a Dutch oven. Add half the pork and the onions. Cook until pork is browned. Remove from pan. Heat remaining oil in pan. Add remaining pork, and cook until browned. Return cooked pork to pan and add 2 cups broth, cider and cider vinegar. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, 1 hour.
- Add pumpkin and carrots. Return to boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, until vegetables are tender, about 30 minutes.
- Add potatoes and apples. Cover and simmer 20 minutes. (If sauce is too thick, add remaining 3/4 cup chicken broth.)
Recipe courtesy of McGillin's Olde Ale House, Philadelphia, Pa.
Nutritional Info *per serving
- Calories 410
- Glycemic Load 0
- Fat 20g
- Saturated Fat 7g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 2.5g
- Monounsaturated Fat 10g
- Cholesterol 90mg
- Sodium 340mg
- Potassium 940mg
- Carbohydrate 30g
- Fiber 3g
- Sugars 8g
- Protein 26g
- Trans Fat 0g
- Vitamin A 90%
- Vitamin C 45%
- Calcium 6%
- Iron 15%


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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T5 digital camera
Slim and sweet
Review Ultra-compact digital cameras don't come much thinner than the 1.5cm-thick Sony Cyber-shot DSC T5 a supremely pocketable 5.1mp digital camera that will really turn heads towards the lens.
The T5 has swooping curves to the slimline body edges and a sliding lens cover on the front that also provides extra rigidity for its diminutive frame. The cute styling houses a large 2.5in LCD screen that reduces boosts brightness by reflecting light that hits it back out again. It's crisp and clear to use.
There's no optical viewfinder but thankfully the power management has been improved over the old T7, which gobbled battery power at an alarming rate. Here you'll get around 240 shots per charge. Not bad given it's the same rechargeable Li-ion cell as used in the T7.
The camera's 38-114mm 3x optical zoom lens is very sharp Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar glass but with a merely adequate F3.5-F4.4 maximum aperture range.
Focusing and metering work a treat, the former using a wide-range auto-focus set-up with very clear markings and the latter which seems to get the balance about right, even in quite high-contrast scenes. Noise suppression is well handled in brighter conditions but in low light, there's marked shadow noise, even at ISO 100, and which gets worse as the ISO goes up. The sensitivity ranges from ISO 64 to a modest ISO 400 but to be fair to the little T5, the noise is no different from many such models it competes with on the market.
Despite the small size, handling the T5 is actually not bad with only a minor demerit on the shutter release: it seems very long and can get in the way when using back-plate controls. And the zoom control is so small it's very fiddly. Otherwise, the camera is easy to use.
Menus are of the animated and fun variety with icons that swoop about on the screen as do the menus. The latter are simple to understand and range across the bottom of the screen that sadly necessitates some frustrating scrolling to change settings as there's very little in the way of manual controls. You do get ten scene modes - including the usual stuff such as portrait, landscape and night scene modes - and exposure compensation to +/-2EV in 1/3rd stop steps.
The 5.1mp T5 provides enough detail for large prints, even up to A3, meaning if all you need is a small, eminently pocketable digital camera with basic controls but oodles of wow factor as standard, then this a digital camera that's sure to hit your sweet spot.
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WASHINGTON — Grit your teeth. Persevere. Just a few more days and this awful, rotten, no-good, ridiculous, rancorous, sordid, disgraceful year in the civic life of our nation will be over. Here's hoping that we all — particularly special counsel Robert Mueller — have a better 2018.
Many of us began 2017 with the consoling thought that the Donald Trump presidency couldn't possibly be as bad as we feared. It turned out to be worse.
Did you ever think you would hear a president use the words "very fine people" to describe participants in a torchlit rally organized by white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan? Did you ever think you would hear a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations thuggishly threaten that she would be "taking names" of countries that did not vote on a General Assembly resolution the way she wanted? Did you ever think the government of the world's biggest military and economic power would reject not just science but empiricism itself, preferring to use made-up "alternative facts" as the basis for major decisions?
We knew that Trump was narcissistic and shallow, but on Inauguration Day it was possible to at least hope he was self-aware enough to understand the weight that now rested on his shoulders, and perhaps grow into the job. He did not. If anything, he has gotten worse.
By all accounts, the president spends hours each day watching cable news, buoyed by the shows that blindly support him — "Fox & Friends," "Hannity," a few others on Fox News — and enraged by those that seek to hold him accountable. His aides have had to shorten and dumb-down his daily briefings on national security in an attempt to get him to pay attention. Members of his Cabinet try to outdo one another in lavishing him with flowery, obsequious praise that would embarrass the Sun King.
Trump and his enablers have waged a relentless war against truth in an attempt to delegitimize any and all critical voices. He wields the epithet "fake news" as a cudgel against inconvenient facts and those who report them. Can a democracy function without a commonly accepted chronicle of events and a commonly acknowledged encyclopedia of knowledge? We are conducting a dangerous experiment to find out.
To understand how deviant the Trump administration is, consider this: Since its founding, the nation has treasured civilian control of the military as a restraint on adventurism. Now we must rely on three generals — Trump's chief of staff, his national security adviser and his secretary of defense — to keep this rash and erratic president from careening off the rails.
The president's Republican allies in Congress, who have the power to restrain an out-of-control executive, have rolled over in passive submission. Many see clearly Trump's unfitness but continue to support him because they fear the wrath of his hard-core base and see the chance to enact a conservative agenda. History will remember this craven opportunism and judge it harshly.
I haven't even mentioned Trump's nepotism — installing his daughter and son-in-law as high-ranking advisers, with portfolios they are in no way qualified to handle — or his inability to staff the executive branch with the best-and-brightest types who customarily serve. The Trump administration is not only transgressive, it is also mediocre.
The year has been terribly depressing — but not paralyzing. Let's end on a more positive note.
The day after Trump's inauguration, a much larger crowd descended on Washington for the Women's March, an immense show of resistance. That passion might eventually have faded away, but all evidence suggests it has not. If anything, it seems to have intensified.
In November, Democrat Ralph Northam won the governor's race in Virginia, a purple state, by a surprisingly big nine-point margin. His coattails were long enough to elect so many Democrats to the state House of Delegates that control of the chamber is still undecided pending recounts. And then on Dec. 12, Democrat Doug Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore in a special election for a U.S. Senate seat — in Alabama, of all places, one of the most Republican states in the nation.
These races were not about D's versus R's. They were about sanity versus insanity, reason versus chaos. They were about Trump, and he lost.
So Godspeed to the Mueller investigation, but let him worry about that. The rest of us — Democrats, independents, patriotic Republicans — should work toward the November election. Our duty is to elect a Congress that will bring this runaway train under control.
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By Zachary Fagenson
MIAMI (Reuters) - An invasive lizard first spotted in southern and central Florida about a decade ago has become the latest concern for wildlife officials after the four-foot-long, black-and-white tegu was caught on video stealing alligator and turtle eggs from their nests.
Scientists from the University of Florida during the spring and summer of 2013 planted several cameras in the Everglades around nests containing dozens of eggs.
"We captured images of tegus removing (up to) two eggs per day until an examination of the nest on Aug. 19 revealed no remaining eggs," University of Florida professor Frank Mazzotti wrote of one alligator nest in a forthcoming study, conducted with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, to be published in journal Biological Invasions this summer.
Mazzotti said the species, found naturally in Argentina and parts of South America, is thought to have first arrived in the U.S. via pet traders sometime in the early 2000s. Since then its population has boomed thanks to an ability to withstand cold and large clutch sizes containing up to 30 eggs.
"Any species that is a predator and eats high up the food chain and is introduced into a novel environment has potential for causing serious ecological damage," said Mazzotti, a member of the UF's team of wildlife researchers known as the "Croc Docs."
Florida, and particularly the Everglades, is home to dozens of invasive species that have escaped into the wild or been released by pet owners after growing too large. Most famously wildlife officials have struggled to contain Burmese pythons, and occasionally encountered some nearly 20-feet (6-meters) long, even preying on adult alligators.
Mazzotti said tegus are split into two groups, one in the Everglades and another near Tampa on the state's west coast. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission estimated the size of the South Florida group in the low thousands, and Mazzotti said more than 400 have been trapped in the last year.
"We can't contain them," he said.
(Editing by David Adams and Marguerita Choy)


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I know it sounds like a really strange thing to call someone, but after the weekend we've had, with the Charlie Sheens and the John Gallianos and all the rest of the poorly-behaved who feel entitled to spray their bullsh-t wherever they go, Russell Brand is both entertaining and a model of restraint.
Not only does he introduce his mother everywhere – he interrupts people to say "This is my mother Babs" (aside from the fact that she doesn't look old enough to have had him) they looked to be having a great time together. He was proud, right? Which was utterly adorable? I mean, come on. Sometimes you marry a pop star in an Indian ceremony and release two books and maybe it's hard to get excited about things anymore but they manage to look utterly delighted with themselves.
When he was presenting onstage, perhaps due to her presence, he didn't say anything untoward and look, I'll confess I could have used a little untoward just to wake up the night, but fine, no problem, I can deal.
And then the best part – on the Governor's ball carpet, one reporter, trying to keep a conversation going with Brand who only wanted to go inside, says "wow, I guess you really need a drink!"
And -- without missing a beat! -- Brand and his mom Babs fix the girl with identical withering glares as he breezily informs her "Well, I'm a recovering alcoholic actually so we've got to go now". He wasn't biting. He wasn't cruel. And I should stress that while the reporter's remark was unfortunate, it could have happened to anyone in the speed and frenetics of the carpet.
He reprimanded her, just a little bit, while simultaneously not ruining her night, and all with his mother on his arm. He might actually be more of a class act than we thought.
Perish the thought.
Photos from Wenn.com
Best Recovering Alcoholic: Russell Brand
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It is known for its recreational facilities, many which are found in Halleck Park, a large, 70 acre green space found in the heart of the city. The park is home to trails, baseball fields, tennis and basketball courts, a large pavilion, playground areas, and a well-stocked fishing lake. Golf and aquatic facilities are found in other parks and clubs within the city. And for baseball fans, Werner Field, the new home of the Triple A Omaha Storm Chasers, is a popular venue.
Papillion's business district retains its small town charm with shops, restaurants, and service businesses. There are also many similar facilities on the perimeters of the city with Shadow Lake Mall being a major site for national and regional stores and shops.
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