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Monday, May 16, 2016
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Love, with all my Heart
By- A. Gorman
Genre- Romantic Suspense
Expected Publication Date- May 31st, 2016
Analind Charles thought her life was finally getting back on track. After catching her abusive husband with another woman, she finally mustered the courage to walk out. Now that her divorce is finalized, she's free to pursue her dream of becoming a pastry chef. When she meets a handsome customer and sparks fly, she's hopeful that her life is finally beginning.
Rush Clemons just wanted to honor his fallen hero father at his bar, but things aren't as promising as they once were. Overworked and stressed by the antics of his floozy bar manager, things aren't looking so good for the Monastery Tavern. When he asks Analind to go out with him, he is hopeful the troubles are behind him.
The couple only thinks they knew trouble before. Jealousy and spite bring tension to the new relationship. When Analind's ex forces his way back into her life, Rush finds himself scrambling. Can he save her before her past wrecks both of their futures?
About the Author-
A. Gorman was born and raised in a small community in Central Indiana. She left the slow moving life of the country for the fast-paced city life. After spending twelve years in the city and becoming a mother to two wild and crazy kids, she chose to move back to the peace and quiet of the country after marrying the man of her dreams and gaining three more children.
As an avid reader, A. never set out to be an author since she's a full-time editor for several incredible authors. However, after editing one day, a voice started talking to her and talking and talking. She decided to sit down and write what she had to say, and it turned out she had a lot to say. Then that one voice turned to two, and another story came to life. Not believing that anything she was writing was publishable, she asked a few friends to critique her manuscript…and now she's the proud author of the Their Sins series, with several more series and standalones planned.
When she's not corralling their five kids and two dogs or out in their garden, you can find her at her desk editing or writing her next novel with a cup of coffee and classical music cranked up on her iPad. While she loves reading, A. is addicted to all things British, coffee, and gummy bears—in no particular order.
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Monday, February 24, 2014
Milk Chocolate, Nut, and Raisin Clusters
The nuts and fruit could easily be changed out to use whatever you prefer, but I followed the suggested ingredients, other than skipping the feuilletine flakes, to taste the candies as they're made by Ducasse. Hazelnuts were toasted in the oven and then rubbed in a towel to remove the skins before being roughly chopped. I bought a new container of golden raisins, but they seemed very dry. So, I soaked my raisins in hot water for twenty minutes, drained them well, and dried them on a towel. I used all cornflakes, and chopped, unsalted pistachios. Salt was added separately. The milk chocolate I used has a high percentage of cacao for milk chocolate at 40%. Another surprising ingredient that made me curious about these clusters was the addition of some white chocolate. There was no explanation for it, but I went with the suggested amount. The chocolates were melted and then half of the mixed chocolates was poured over the mix of cornflakes, raisins, and nuts. The mixture was carefully folded to distribute the chocolate, and then the remaining melted chocolate was added and folded until everything was completely coated. I used a tablespoon-size scoop to create the clusters which sat on lined baking sheets until set.
I'm still wondering why the white chocolate was added. Maybe it made the flavor richer or slightly sweeter? The result was without a doubt delightful. The clusters were sweet and chocolatey with just enough salt for balance, and I did put a few flakes of sea salt on top of each one. The real fun in these clusters, though, is the mix of textures. Crunchy nuts, shatteringly crisp cornflakes, and chewy raisins all covered in chocolate made my sweet tooth very happy.
Posted by lisa is cooking at Monday, February 24, 2014
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I would totally do this with potato chips!ReplyDelete
And then not share!
Too bad I have none of these ingredients, I also have an urge to have some of these clusters :)ReplyDelete
What kind of chocolate chips are those? I've never seen the flat discs.ReplyDeleteReplies
I buy them at Whole Foods or Central Market. They're with the big chunks of chocolate that are cut, wrapped, and marked by cacao %. They melt better than chocolate chips since they don't have any added stabilizers.Delete
These are addictive!ReplyDelete
my sweet tooth could rival yours, no doubt about it. the white chocolate and corn flakes are great additions. i'd love a batch of these and they definitely wouldn't last long.ReplyDelete
Yum! These clusters just look and sound delicious, the crunchy, and chewy...all in one bite...YUM again!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the recipe, have a great week Lisa :D
Wow! These look sooo addictive. They might make it to the cluster stage in our house. Maybe. ;-)ReplyDelete
These would be great for a party. I love the mixture of textures too - great ingredients for a perfect snack xxReplyDelete
These looks so delicious! I should make them for the kids, ready for when they get home!ReplyDelete
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these look absolutely amazing Lisa!ReplyDelete
Bellìsimo es una delicia mi querida Lisa,abrazos.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 28, 2014 at 3:55 PM
I saw the chocolates and wondered the same thing. I like you clusters…the only thing I would change is to use dark chocolate but that is just a personal preference. Karen (Back Road Journal)ReplyDelete
Dear Lisa, I have enjoyed these myself. They are very difficult not to finish during the making and after. They are delicious.ReplyDelete
Blessings dear. Catherine xo
Lisa, can you believe I am flying to Paris in 72 hours? Yeap.... we have a work-related trip, but of course Paris is always full with pleasure too.ReplyDelete
I saw that article on food and wine and hope I'll be able to follow some of the tips, although when we go there we tend to go to the same "old places" of the times we lived there.
can hardly wait!
I don't remember now when I saw a chocolate concoction made with corn flakes, I am wondering if it was Happy in the Kitchen, but maybe not.
I am going to make these for my daughter. She is going to love these. thanks for sharingReplyDelete
This takes me right back to my childhood when we used to make these sorts of treats with my grandmother.ReplyDelete
Beautiful photographs of a well-executed sweet, Lisa! And with less hassle than flying to Paris :)ReplyDelete
I posted these a few weeks back, I used dark chocolate, and we loved them!ReplyDelete
I could see this being a dangerous eat-all-the-batter situation. But I still want them!ReplyDelete


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We have all been there before. You have a web application that runs in your data center, and the load the website is generating is increasing. You need to buy more servers and increase your bandwidth to the Internet as well. Every year you find yourself back in the same place, adding servers, increasing bandwidth. The costs of your simple little website keep expanding. In this article we are going to explore how you can leverage Microsoft Azure to ease this burden. You will be able to serve more visitors with the same servers you have today, give them a speedier experience, and reduce your bandwidth usage.
The typical web server farm looks like the following diagram. You have a four web servers (or more) sitting behind a load balancer, receiving requests from the Internet. Your server is handling several jobs. It has to process user requests, fetch data, bind that data to the ASPX view (web forms or MVC) and serve the resulting HTML back. That HTML has URLs to resources your server is hosting, namely images and JavaScript. Serving out this HTML and static resources takes up bandwidth as well. Another challenge is that your users around the world have a poor experience waiting for your static media to be sent from under your desk all the way to Japan.
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You may not want to or be prepared to move your whole application to the cloud. Perhaps moving the application to the cloud doesn't make sense in your scenario. The great thing about Azure is that it is meant to be used in pieces; it isn't an all or nothing scenario.
Imagine keeping your application wherever it is today, under your desk, in your datacenter, or at a hosting provider. All we are going to do is move half of our web server's responsibilities to the cloud. We are going to move all of our static media to Micrsoft Azure, and have it hosted there.
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Microsoft Azure has three types of storage in the cloud. They are BLOBs, queues and tables. BLOB is an acronym that stands for Binary Large Object, and you might have had reason to work with BLOBs in a relational database like SQL Server. Your experience as a developer was likely terrifying. BLOBs are hard to use in a database, since databases aren't really made for storing large unstructured pieces of data.
Don't worry about BLOBs in Microsoft Azure. In Azure they are simply a file system in the cloud. There are a lot of ways to leverage BLOBs in your application, and in this article we are going to look at the simplest of those scenarios, simply hosting you public files in a better place than your server.
Hosting your static media in Microsoft Azure can gain you a lot of benefits. You will quite easily remove a lot of load from your servers. This allows those servers to host even more simultaneous users. This puts off the day when you have to add more servers to your web site. You should track the work your web servers are performing; I think you will see a big spike in the amount of users you can host on one of your servers if they no longer have to respond to the static media requests.
The second benefit is that your users will be able to download more files at the same time. Each browser is limited to downloading only two files per host name. This is an old networking standard that doesn't really apply to today's modern networks, but it is still enforced. One cheat many users do is to change the registry of their Windows machine to download more than two files at a time from each host. You can't rely on your users really doing this to improve the performance of your site.
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The USDA researchers used a different metric for urban areas, where residents may be more reliant on walking and public transit. The map below of the Washington, D.C., area shows where residents are more than one mile from a supermarket.
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Newswise — BETHESDA, MD – January 29, 2014 – The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce its 2014 Award Recipients. The five individuals honored are recognized by their peers for outstanding achievements and contributions to the genetics community.
"The 2014 GSA award winners are impressive scientists who collectively have positively influenced the field of genetics in research, in education, and in fostering the genetics community," said GSA President Vicki Chandler, PhD. "These awards provide an annual opportunity for the genetics community to recognize those individuals whose superb achievements have advanced the science of genetics. On behalf of GSA, I thank each of the award winners for a lasting contribution to the field."
The award recipients, who will receive their awards at GSA conferences during 2014, are:
Frederick M. Ausubel, PhD (Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital) has been awarded the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal for lifetime contributions to the field of genetics.
Angelika B. Amon, PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute) has been awarded the Genetics Society of America Medal for outstanding contributions to the field of genetics during the past 15 years.
Hugo J. Bellen, DVM, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute) has been awarded the George W. Beadle Award for outstanding contributions to the community of genetics researchers. Charles Boone, PhD (University of Toronto) has been awarded the Edward Novitski Prize, which recognizes an extraordinary level of creativity and intellectual ingenuity in solving significant problems in genetics research.
Robin Wright, PhD (University of Minnesota) has been awarded the Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education, which recognizes significant and sustained impact in genetics education.
Additional background about each of the awards and recipients is listed below (alphabetical order):
Recipient: Angelika B. Amon, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Howard Hughes Medical InstituteAward: Genetics Society of America Medal
Dr. Amon has uncovered key biological principles governing the cell cycle. Her work as served as a guide to scientists who study questions related controlling mitotic and meiotic cell divisions. She was the first to demonstrate a connection between the physical completion of anaphase and the initiation of mitotic exit, which is key to understanding basic cellular processes. More recently, her research has focused on the genetic consequences of aneuploidy, cells with too few or too many chromosomes, as it relates to stress responses and cancer. Although her lab primary uses yeast as a model organism, she has also studied trisomy in the mouse as a model of aneuploidy in mammals. She is well-known for being passionate about the importance of model organism research and for being an excellent mentor.
Dr. Amon is the Kathleen and Curtis Marble Professor of Cancer Research at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2010, and is the recipient of the Ira Herskowitz Award from GSA's yeast genetics community (2012), NAS Award in Molecular Biology (2008), the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research (2007), the Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation (2003), the Eli Lilly Young Investigator Award (2003), and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (1999). She is active in community service, with roles on several journal editorial boards, scientific advisory boards, and review committees.
The Genetics Society of America Medal, established in 1981, is awarded to an individual for outstanding contributions to the field of genetics in the last 15 years. Recipients of the GSA Medal are recognized for elegant and highly-meaningful contributions to modern genetics, and exemplify the ingenuity of GSA membership.
Recipient: Frederick M. Ausubel, PhD, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General HospitalAward: Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal
Dr. Ausubel is Professor of Genetics, Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and is the Karl Winnacker Distinguished Investigator in the Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
During his 40-year career, Dr. Ausubel's work has centered on host-microbe interactions and host innate immunity. He is widely recognized as a key scientist responsible for establishing the modern post-recombinant DNA field of host-microbe interactions using simple non-vertebrate hosts. He has used genetic approaches to conduct pioneering work that spawned six related areas of research: the evolution and regulation of Rhizobium genes involved in symbiotic nitrogen fixation; the regulation of Rhizobium genes by two-component regulatory systems involving histidine kinases; establishing Arabidopsis thaliana as a world-wide model system; identifying a large family of plant disease resistance genes; identifying so-called multi-host bacterial pathogens; and demonstrating that Caenorhabditis elegans has an evolutionarily conserved innate immune system that shares features of both plant and mammalian immunity.
His early work with Klebsiella pneumonia and Rhizobium meliloti brought discoveries about key regulatory networks in free-living and symbiotic nitrogen fixing bacteria and the genes that symbiotic bacteria use to interact with their hosts. He also applied genetic analysis to the host side of microbial plant and microbial animal interactions, using Arabidopsis and C. elegans to define fundamental immune defense mechanisms, ultimately fathering scientific research fields that have grown to hundreds of independent research groups. Ausubel's findings support the hypothesis that key features of host-defense responses, and the offensive strategies pathogenic microbes use, have ancient origins.
He has been an author on over 300 publications, has trained over 30 graduate students and 70 postdoctoral researchers, spawning a highly-successful scientific lineage. Dr. Ausubel is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Microbiology. He currently holds an NIH MERIT Award, has served on the editorial boards of fourteen journals, numerous advisory boards, and has edited a popular manual detailing protocols in molecular biology.
The Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal is awarded to an individual GSA member for lifetime achievement in the field of genetics. It recognizes the full body of work of an exceptional geneticist. The Medal was established by GSA in 1981 and named in honor of Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866–1945), a 1933 Nobel Prize laureate for his work with Drosophila chromosomes and their role in heredity.
Recipient: Hugo J. Bellen, DVM, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical InstituteAward: George W. Beadle Award
Dr. Bellen holds positions as the Charles Darwin Professor in Genetics and the March of Dimes Chair in Developmental Biology, Departments of Molecular and Human Genetics and Neuroscience, and he is also Director of the Graduate Program in Developmental Biology at the Baylor College of Medicine and an HHMI Investigator.
Dr. Bellen has made seminal contributions to the fields of genetics, developmental biology, and neuroscience through a steady stream of insightful experiments in Drosophila. His lab has addressed fundamental questions regarding genes involved in neuronal development, neurotransmission, and most recently the mechanistic basis for neurological diseases such as ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). In parallel with this landmark science, he has worked to expand the toolbox available to Drosophila genetics. Bellen is a leading scientist in the Drosophila Gene Disruption Project effort to disrupt and tag Drosophila genes on a comprehensive scale, an effort initiated with previous Beadle Award winners Gerry Rubin and Allan Spradling. Moreover, his laboratory developed simple mapping methods, introduced in collaboration with Koen Venken a highly versatile transgene system named P[acman], created genomic P[acman] libraries covering the whole fly genome, generated in collaboration with Thom Kaufman a library of transgenic flies with molecularly defined duplications covering more than 95% of the X chromosome, developed the MiMIC transposable element, and created a library of 6,000 MiMIC strains that permits manipulations of most fly genes. These efforts have provided ~15,000 new stocks with single transposable element insertions, which enable mutational analysis of ~75% of Drosophila genes. These technologies, now used by the majority of Drosophila labs, have advanced almost all fields of biology. From technological innovations to development biology and neurodegeneration, as well as the training of more than 60 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows (the majority of whom hold faculty positions), the breadth of Bellen's influence on the genetics community is extensive.
A longtime member of GSA, Dr. Bellen's presence in the community is broad and deep. He has participated in review panels, editorial boards, numerous curriculum development boards and task forces, has authored over 200 publications, books, chapters, and has presented his work in countless seminars and symposia.
The George W. Beadle Award, established by GSA in 1999, honors individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the community of genetics researchers and who exemplify the qualities of its namesake as a respected academic, administrator, and public servant. Beadle (1903–1989) served as the President of GSA in 1946; he was awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Edward L. Tatum in discovering that genes act by regulating definite chemical events.
Recipient: Charles Boone, PhD, University of TorontoAward: Edward Novitski Prize
Dr. Boone is Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto's Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research and Department of Molecular Genetics, and has risen to the top of the emergent discipline of post-genome systems biology. His visionary, creative approach to science has focused on the global mapping of genetic interaction networks. Dr. Boone invented the Synthetic Genetic Array (SGA) technology, transforming the field of yeast genetics. SGA provides an automated method to both cross thousands of specific strains carrying precise mutations and map large-scale yeast genetic interactions. These network maps offer researchers a functional wiring diagram of the cell, which clusters genes into specific pathways and reveals functional connections. His innovative method provides insight into difficult human genetic problems, including the origin of complex inherited disease and phenotypes, and it has catalyzed work in labs worldwide.
Dr. Boone serves on the editorial boards of both GENETICS and G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. He is also an HHMI international research scholar; a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; and holds the Tanenbaum Chair in Molecular Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Boone previously received the Ira Herskowitz Award from GSA's yeast genetics community.
The Edward Novitski Prize recognizes an extraordinary level of creativity and intellectual ingenuity in the solution of significant problems in genetics research. The award recognizes scientific achievement that stands out from the body of innovative work, that is deeply impressive to creative masters in the field, and that solves a difficult problem in genetics. It recognizes the beautiful and intellectually ingenious experimental design and execution involved in genetics scientific discovery.
The Prize was established in 2007 by the Novitski family and GSA to honor the memory of Edward Novitski (1918–2006), a Drosophila geneticist and lifelong GSA member, who specialized in chromosome mechanics and elucidating meioisis through the construction of modified chromosomes.
Recipient: Robin Wright, PhD, University of MinnesotaAward: Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education
Dr. Wright is a Professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, and Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs in the College of Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on work for exploring the genetics, molecular and cellular biology, and physiology of cold adaptation in yeast.
Consistent with her philosophy of linking research and education, Wright includes undergraduate students in all of her research. She seeks to teach how to think like and to actually be a biologist, working in teams and looking at real-world problems. This active approach to learning has taken off at the University of Minnesota, and has other universities looking to Wright for guidance. She emphasizes a learner-centered model of classroom work that promotes and enhances lifelong skills, and is described as having "transformed biological education at the University of Minnesota" through several efforts including developing the interactive, stimulating Foundations of Biology course sequence, emphasizing active learning and open-ended research; spearheading the construction of Active Learning Classrooms; and establishing Student Learning Outcomes, standards that measure biology education. She serves as founding Editor-in-Chief of CourseSource, focusing national effort to collect learner-centered, outcomes-based teaching resources in undergraduate biology.
She has held roles on the Advisory Committee for the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and National Science Foundation Vision and Change Initiative (2013), Senior Editor for CBE–Life Sciences Education, the steering committee for the National Academies–HHMI Summer Institutes on Undergraduate Education in Biology, as well as countless other course design teams and committees. She is an active member of GSA, having previously served as Education Committee Chair and contributing editor for the popular "Ask the Abbot" advice column in the GSA Newsletter. Dr. Wright is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a National Academies of Science Education Mentor in the Life Sciences. She received the University of Washington's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2000.
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Is the 'UFO Mothership Over London' Video Real?
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A new viral video making the rounds on the Internet purports to show what's been dubbed a "mothership" and at least three separate smaller alien spacecraft filmed in the skies over London.
The most famous video (which was taken anonymously and is one of two or three versions in circulation) shows a large glowing white oval moving in and out from behind clouds over the course of about 20 seconds, and then zooming off, with three white dots also making an appearance.
So what are they? The pattern of movement does not resemble any known aircraft, and some are already proclaiming the sighting as proof of aliens. While not exactly the same as landing on the proverbial White House lawn (or above 10 Downing Street), some say an appearance over London is a pretty high-profile statement that aliens are here. [Read: Astronomers: We Will Find Extraterrestrial Life in 20 Years ]
Others aren't so sure. Some believe that the videos are merely a viral marketing tool to publicize the upcoming alien sci-fi film "Iron Sky." One argument against that explanation is that the film is not slated to be released until April 2012, though studios often begin early promotion, and these amateur UFO videos would take little time or effort for special effects professionals.
In fact, the crudeness of the London UFOs may be a sign of fakery. The spacecraft in the video resemble those in an alleged UFO video taken over Jerusalem earlier this year, and which many experts (including myself and those at MUFON, the largest pro-UFO organization in the world) concluded were faked.
The mothership and its UFO siblings videotaped over London are among the absolute easiest images to fake: glowing ovals and dots. There's no detail, no flying saucer windows or aliens waving hello from high above. Just white moving dots that anyone with some video-editing chops could create with little effort.
Another sign that this is a fake is the way the video begins. The cameraman is apparently randomly videotaping a mundane sidewalk, and then moves quickly to a street corner, where he takes careful note of the reactions from passerby before aiming the camera up into the sky to see what, exactly, it is that has so captivated their attention. He videotapes the skies for about a minute, then once again brings the camera down to show us a small crowd of people who are also staring into the sky and getting photos. [Read: Flying Saucers Turn 64! A Look Back at the Origin of UFOs ]
This is highly suspicious behavior for someone who truly believes that there are alien spacecraft in the skies above that could reappear at any moment. If you spotted what you believed to be a UFO that could zip away at any moment, wouldn't training your camera on the spaceship be the first thing you would do? Whoever created, edited, and posted the video clearly wanted to make sure that viewers knew that others had seen, and were reacting to, the lights.
Aliens may in fact be out there, but the evidence so far suggests that the London UFO video is another hoax.
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Capcom and Korean publishing partner Seed9 Games offer you Ghosts'n Goblins Online. They are looking for testers for its second closed beta test, which will run from March 6 to March 11. You have until March 4 to sign up. Capcom says that the first closed beta received very good reviews, so you may want to check it out. That is, unless you're under 12 years old, then you're out of luck.
Purists may deride the fact that Ghosts'n Goblins Online features a co-op, class-based, beat-em-up system with online RPG elements. There is no word yet about an English localization.
"Follow your friend into Ghosts'n Goblins Online!" the Korean advertisement reads. There's a tiny skull hanging over the word "friend."
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Memphis Grizzlies needed almost all of a 21-point fourth-quarter lead to survive a late push by Boston's reserves.
Jerryd Bayless scored a season-high 30 points and the Memphis Grizzlies weathered the rally to escape with a 110-106 victory over the Celtics on Saturday night.
"I was just able to make a couple of shots in the beginning and got it going," said Bayless, who had 20 points in the first half. "Mike (Conley) was looking for me, (Zach Randolph) was looking for me. A lot of guys got me some good shots, and I was able to knock them down."
Bayless led seven Memphis players in double figures and three recorded double-doubles. Darrell Arthur, starting for Randolph, scored 18 points, while Randolph had 15 points and 11 rebounds off the bench. Tayshaun Prince and Mike Conley had 12 points apiece, Conley adding 10 assists, Ed Davis scored 11 points, and Tony Allen added 10 points and 10 rebounds.
Conley also had four steals, while Davis blocked five shots, matching his career high.
Paul Pierce led Boston with 26 points, while Jordan Crawford keyed a fourth-quarter rally, scoring 14 of his 21 points in the final frame. Jeff Green finished with 12 points, and Jason Terry had 10, as the Celtics lost their fourth straight.
"I think guys just didn't want to quit," Crawford said. "It was an opportunity for guys to play and try to make a run to win the game. . Everybody stepped up when other guys were down."
Both teams were without key players. Kevin Garnett and Courtney Lee sat out for Boston with left ankle sprains. Memphis center Marc Gasol is out indefinitely because of an abdominal tear.
"Obviously, we don't have any room for errors, especially when you have two starters out," Pierce said. "So we have to do a better job with turnovers. We have to rebound better."
The Celtics ended the night with 15 turnovers, leading to 21 Memphis points. Boston also was outrebounded, 44-37.
Randolph didn't start for disciplinary reasons, after arriving late for Saturday's shootaround.
Memphis led 98-77 with 7:16 to play after a 3-point play by Conley. Pierce had gone to the bench with his fifth foul, and Boston coach Doc Rivers had the reserves in, seemingly to play out the final minutes.
But the second-stringers began a push that pulled Boston within 104-102 after two free throws by Crawford with 18.9 seconds left.
The Celtics never got closer as Memphis converted all six of its free throws in the final 18.5 seconds.
"They were great," Rivers said of the bench. "We basically told them to go in and try to cause havoc, and they did that. I though Jordan was fantastic with his offense and with his passing."
Memphis, which led by 10 at the intermission, continued to extend the lead in the third, going up by 15 points on several occasions in the middle stages.
As is usually the case with the Grizzlies, defense led to offensive spurts and Memphis forced a handful of Boston turnovers while controlling the pace and eventually leading by 17.
But the Celtics were able to close the third with a bit of a push to trail 85-73 at the end of the period.
Memphis opened the fourth with a 14-4 rally, and the lead reached 21.
But the Celtics reserves weren't ready to give in. They mounted a 21-4 run to get within 102-98 after Crawford's long 3-pointer with 1:14 left in the game.
Memphis carried a 61-51 lead into halftime, led by Bayless, who was 8 of 12 from the field, including missing only one of three shots from beyond the arc.
"I thought that (Bayless) gave us a huge lift," Memphis coach Lionel Hollins said. "I mean, it was early on, and I didn't know how we were going to score. JB came in and started making shots and got on a roll and carried us in the first half."
After the third-quarter rally, Memphis seemed poised to relax down the stretch, and almost relaxed to the point of letting the game slip away.
"That's been our Achilles' heel the past couple of years," said Allen, who played six seasons with the Celtics. "We've got to fix that. We can't get too lax when we have a lead."
NOTES: Bayless got a technical in the second quarter when he fouled Crawford on a layup, then pushed him in an after-basket skirmish. ... Rivers got a technical foul in the fourth after Pierce was called for a double dribble. ... Boston had won five straight in Memphis, the Grizzlies' last home win in the series coming on March 14, 2006. ... Memphis swept the season series against Boston for the first time since the 2000-01 season, the team's last year in Vancouver. ... Memphis has won all four of its home sellouts this season, defeating the Heat, Thunder, Lakers and Celtics on Saturday night before full houses.


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A Common-place-book to the Holy Bible: Or The Scriptures Sufficiency Practically Demonstrated. Wherein are the Substance of Scripture
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446. oldal - Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him. But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.
364. oldal - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ' Or how wilt thou (Say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye : and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
177. oldal - But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you : but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among -you, let him be your servant : even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
262. oldal - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
122. oldal - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
14. oldal - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
419. oldal - And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
69. oldal - The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people ; for ye were the fewest of all people : but because the Lord loved you...
380. oldal - And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads : and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
211. oldal - For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly ; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh : but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly ; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter ; whose praise is not of men, but of God.


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We are Robert and Samantha and are both 28 years old. We met at Plattsburgh State University in 2005 and then completed our graduate studies in Buffalo, NY where we lived until 2012. We have been married for two years and currently live in a 665 square foot apt. in Yakima, WA with our live-in cat, Tobey.
We are both young professionals with full time careers. Samantha is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and I am an architectural designer. We travel (recreationally) as much as possible regionally, nationally and internationally. I am also a co-founder of our local Maker Space here in Yakima and am working towards architectural licensure. I bring all of this up to say that this project will be a primarily evening and weekend affair. As we write this on November 1st, 2014 we do not have a trailer. We do not have a place to build a tiny home. We do not have a truck to tow a tiny home or a place to put a tiny home and our combined construction experience is relatively miniscule. Yet, here we are, about to spend the next 12-14 months building a tiny home!
While I sometimes wish that we had an amazing epiphany that led us here, our reasoning for taking on the design, construction and occupation of a tiny home is a rather diverse list:
- The Dream: Who wouldn't want the opportunity to design and build their own home!? And we want to be neighbors with all of our friends for a month at a time! Ok, so this reason may be a bit shortsighted but seriously, that would be pretty cool.
- The Money: The up front cost in just materials & equipment for a tiny home may seem surprisingly high at first ($10,000-$30,000) but the dramatically reduced expenses of living in a tiny home and the saved rent money means after 1-3 years it has already paid for itself completely. We are tired of renting. We are tired of lengthy leases. We are afraid of a mortgage (on top of school loans!?).
- The Education & Experience: The tiny home movement takes the "less is more" mantra to great lengths and my architectural interests align with smaller scale, sustainable residential design and construction. I can't think of a better way to practice what I intend to preach. This project will be a great design exercise incorporating sustainability, material selection, spatial efficiency and flexibility as well as weight distribution and severe force resistance (taking a tiny home down the road at 60mph is like having your home be effected by an earthquake and hurricane at the same time). Add to that the necessity to know and understand local D.O.T regulations and zoning codes when considering transportation and placement and you have enough lessons to consider us full time students during this project. We are also brainstorming ways to turn this project into an educational experience for others, not only through the documentation on this website but also through presentations, open houses and hands on workshops for our community. A project like this also becomes an amazing exercise in ergonomics that has already started to make us hyper aware of our day to day environment. I carry a tape measure in my back pack to better understand the different dimensions of everyday objects and spaces. When you remove traditional standards and requirements, you are then able to design to your (bare) necessities, resulting in an incredibly intimate experience between body and architecture.
- The philosophy: Samantha and I have always said we will never own a king size bed because we don't want the potential for more space to make its way between us. And we feel the same about the spaces we inhabit. Call it encouraged interaction if you will, and luckily, we really like being around each other!
- The challenge? We spent 30 days in 2008 living out of a Honda Civic and a tent as we traveled the United States, coast to coast and back. In 2010, we spent 30 days (legally) hopping trains from country to country in Europe with nothing more than what could fit in our 60 liter backpacks. We spent 6 weeks in 2012 navigating the rural towns, crowded cities and rugged landscape of the Patagonia region of South America, carrying all of our belongings over 1400 miles in those same backpacks. And in 2013 we packed up everything we owned into a 16' U-haul and drove west from our roots in Western NY to Yakima, WA. One of us had a job, we did not have a place to live and we kept our mattress on top of our belongings in the box truck in case we had to spend a few nights in the back while we looked for a place to call home. Sooo…we really expected the decision to live in a fully functioning and furnished sub-200 square foot space would come easy, yet it turned out to be a more serious and lengthy internal debate than expected. This is new territory. It pushes its occupants to question traditional standards of habitation. It re-evaluates our notion of home. It tests traditional methods of construction and it questions archaic zoning ordinances. With that said, we have yet to dive into an experience we are unsure about and not come out on the other side thankful that we took the leap.
This marks the beginning of our tiny home journey…
-Robert & Samantha
P.S. Check out our Adventures Before SHED & Adventures While Building SHED & Adventures while living in SHEDAdventures while living in SHED to learn a little more about us and our interests other than tiny living!


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Washington Revised Code Title 59. Landlord and Tenant § 59.18.150. Landlord's right of entry--Purposes--Searches by fire officials--Searches by code enforcement officials for inspection purposes--Conditions
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(1) The tenant shall not unreasonably withhold consent to the landlord to enter into the dwelling unit in order to inspect the premises, make necessary or agreed repairs, alterations, or improvements, supply necessary or agreed services, or exhibit the dwelling unit to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, or contractors.
(2) Upon written notice of intent to seek a search warrant, when a tenant or landlord denies a fire official the right to search a dwelling unit, a fire official may immediately seek a search warrant and, upon a showing of probable cause specific to the dwelling unit sought to be searched that criminal fire code violations exist in the dwelling unit, a court of competent jurisdiction shall issue a warrant allowing a search of the dwelling unit.
Upon written notice of intent to seek a search warrant, when a landlord denies a fire official the right to search the common areas of the rental building other than the dwelling unit, a fire official may immediately seek a search warrant and, upon a showing of probable cause specific to the common area sought to be searched that a criminal fire code violation exists in those areas, a court of competent jurisdiction shall issue a warrant allowing a search of the common areas in which the violation is alleged.
The superior court and courts of limited jurisdiction organized under Titles 3, 35, and 35A RCW have jurisdiction to issue such search warrants. Evidence obtained pursuant to any such search may be used in a civil or administrative enforcement action.
(3) As used in this section:
(a) "Common areas" means a common area or those areas that contain electrical, plumbing, and mechanical equipment and facilities used for the operation of the rental building.
(b) "Fire official" means any fire official authorized to enforce the state or local fire code.
(4)(a) A search warrant may be issued by a judge of a superior court or a court of limited jurisdiction under Titles 3, 35, and 35A RCW to a code enforcement official of the state or of any county, city, or other political subdivision for the purpose of allowing the inspection of any specified dwelling unit and premises to determine the presence of an unsafe building condition or a violation of any building regulation, statute, or ordinance.
(b) A search warrant must only be issued upon application of a designated officer or employee of a county or city prosecuting or regulatory authority supported by an affidavit or declaration made under oath or upon sworn testimony before the judge, establishing probable cause that a violation of a state or local law, regulation, or ordinance regarding rental housing exists and endangers the health or safety of the tenant or adjoining neighbors. In addition, the affidavit must contain a statement that consent to inspect has been sought from the owner and the tenant but could not be obtained because the owner or the tenant either refused or failed to respond within five days, or a statement setting forth facts or circumstances reasonably justifying the failure to seek such consent. A landlord may not take or threaten to take reprisals or retaliatory action as defined in RCW 59.18.240 against a tenant who gives consent to a code enforcement official of the state or of any county, city, or other political subdivision to inspect his or her dwelling unit to determine the presence of an unsafe building condition or a violation of any building regulation, statute, or ordinance.
(c) In determining probable cause, the judge is not limited to evidence of specific knowledge, but may also consider any of the following:
(i) The age and general condition of the premises;
(ii) Previous violations or hazards found present in the premises;
(iii) The type of premises;
(iv) The purposes for which the premises are used; or
(v) The presence of hazards or violations in and the general condition of premises near the premises sought to be inspected.
(d) Before issuing an inspection warrant, the judge shall find that the applicant has: (i) Provided written notice of the date, approximate time, and court in which the applicant will be seeking the warrant to the owner and, if the applicant reasonably believes the dwelling unit or rental property to be inspected is in the lawful possession of a tenant, to the tenant; and (ii) posted a copy of the notice on the exterior of the dwelling unit or rental property to be inspected. The judge shall also allow the owner and any tenant who appears during consideration of the application for the warrant to defend against or in support of the issuance of the warrant.
(e) All warrants must include at least the following:
(i) The name of the agency and building official requesting the warrant and authorized to conduct an inspection pursuant to the warrant;
(ii) A reasonable description of the premises and items to be inspected; and
(iii) A brief description of the purposes of the inspection.
(f) An inspection warrant is effective for the time specified in the warrant, but not for a period of more than ten days unless it is extended or renewed by the judge who signed and issued the original warrant upon satisfying himself or herself that the extension or renewal is in the public interest. The inspection warrant must be executed and returned to the judge by whom it was issued within the time specified in the warrant or within the extended or renewed time. After the expiration of the time specified in the warrant, the warrant, unless executed, is void.
(g) An inspection pursuant to a warrant must not be made:
(i) Between 7:00 p.m. of any day and 8:00 a.m. of the succeeding day, on Saturday or Sunday, or on any legal holiday, unless the owner or, if occupied, the tenant specifies a preference for inspection during such hours or on such a day;
(ii) Without the presence of an owner or occupant over the age of eighteen years or a person designated by the owner or occupant unless specifically authorized by a judge upon a showing that the authority is reasonably necessary to effectuate the purpose of the search warrant; or
(iii) By means of forcible entry, except that a judge may expressly authorize a forcible entry when:
(A) Facts are shown that are sufficient to create a reasonable suspicion of a violation of a state or local law or rule relating to municipal or county building, fire, safety, environmental, animal control, land use, plumbing, electrical, health, minimum housing, or zoning standards that, if the violation existed, would be an immediate threat to the health or safety of the tenant; or
(B) Facts are shown establishing that reasonable attempts to serve a previous warrant have been unsuccessful.
(h) Immediate execution of a warrant is prohibited, except when necessary to prevent loss of life or property.
(i) Any person who willfully refuses to permit inspection, obstructs inspection, or aids in the obstruction of an inspection of property authorized by warrant issued pursuant to this section is subject to remedial and punitive sanctions for contempt of court under chapter 7.21 RCW. Such conduct may also be subject to a civil penalty imposed by local ordinance that takes into consideration the facts and circumstances and the severity of the violation.
(5) The landlord may enter the dwelling unit without consent of the tenant in case of emergency or abandonment.
(6) The landlord shall not abuse the right of access or use it to harass the tenant, and shall provide notice before entry as provided in this subsection. Except in the case of emergency or if it is impracticable to do so, the landlord shall give the tenant at least two days' written notice of his or her intent to enter and shall enter only at reasonable times. The notice must state the exact time and date or dates of entry or specify a period of time during that date or dates in which the entry will occur, in which case the notice must specify the earliest and latest possible times of entry. The notice must also specify the telephone number to which the tenant may communicate any objection or request to reschedule the entry. The tenant shall not unreasonably withhold consent to the landlord to enter the dwelling unit at a specified time where the landlord has given at least one day's notice of intent to enter to exhibit the dwelling unit to prospective or actual purchasers or tenants. A landlord shall not unreasonably interfere with a tenant's enjoyment of the rented dwelling unit by excessively exhibiting the dwelling unit.
(7) The landlord has no other right of access except by court order, arbitrator or by consent of the tenant.
(8) A landlord or tenant who continues to violate the rights of the tenant or landlord with respect to the duties imposed on the other as set forth in this section after being served with one written notification alleging in good faith violations of this section listing the date and time of the violation shall be liable for up to one hundred dollars for each violation after receipt of the notice. The prevailing landlord or tenant may recover costs of the suit or arbitration under this section, and may also recover reasonable attorneys' fees.
(9) Nothing in this section is intended to (a) abrogate or modify in any way any common law right or privilege or (b) affect the common law as it relates to a local municipality's right of entry under emergency or exigent circumstances.
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Allowing us Daring Bakers a bit more time to recover from holiday excess, it was a brilliant scheme to propose a lighter, easier challenge. Instead of the typical novel of a recipe that rattles on for 18 or more pages, this one was quite simple, but allowed for plenty of creative freedom- Exactly what I crave.
This month's challenge is brought to us by Karen of Bake My Day and Zorra of 1x umruehren bitte aka Kochtopf. They have chosen Tuiles from The Chocolate Book by Angélique Schmeink and Nougatine and Chocolate Tuiles from Michel Roux.
Like most DB challenges these days, I was at first miffed by the simplicity of those plain old tuiles, this boring and unexceptional cookie that could be easily made by newbie bakers. Instead of wasting time and getting in a huff though, I quickly moved on and made exactly what I would have wanted from the challenge. What else other than a plated dessert?
Believe it or not, this one required no veganization on my part, as Lolo had already concocted a perfect recipe for vegan tuiles, which I happily put to use. Going with the theme of "light and airy," I sketched out a few shapes of little birds and then cut them out of cardboard to make my templates. Coloring the dough by using beet juice instead of water, plus just a tiny pinch of paprika, my love birds took flight in rosy shades of pink. A tiny dab of the batter mixed with cocoa created their eyes.
Perched upon spun sugar nests, these crispy feathered cookies were quite an adorable pair, and I could have easily stopped there. But no, I had my heart set on a composed plate of different flavors and textures. Starting from the bottom up, rounds of fluffy chocolate cake were topped with pistachio mousse, making for a rich, creamy base to contrast nicely with the wafer-thin tuiles. Surrounded by a simple coconut foam, each bite was a little bit different, but all were satisfying to both my sweet tooth and my inner pastry chef.


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In a filing with the United States district court for southern New York, Apple claims the Department of Justice has its story all wrong. The Justice Department filed an antitrust suit against Apple and multiple book publishers earlier this week alleging that the group colluded to fix the prices of electronic books. In a recently released document filed with the court on Wednesday, Apple's counsel addressed the charges by claiming the DOJ has its story backwards — Apple wasn't working with publishers to fix eBook prices, it was breaking Amazon's "monopolistic grip" on the eBook market and the publishing industry. Read on for more.
"The DOJ's accusation of collusion against Apple is simply not true," Apple stated in its filing, according to Fortune. The document continued, "The launch of the iBookstore in 2010 fostered innovation and competition, breaking Amazon's monopolistic grip on the publishing industry."
The company goes on to state that the iBookstore and Apple's iBooks product have done a huge service for the electronic book industry rather than harm it. Amazon had a 90% share of the eBook market when Apple entered the space, but the retail giant's share has reportedly dropped to as low as 60% since Apple launched the iBookstore in 2010.
"Since then customers have benefited from eBooks that are more interactive and engaging," Apple said, proceeding to place the blame for any possible wrongdoing squarely on the shoulders of book publishers. "Just as we've allowed developers to set prices on the App Store, publishers set prices on the iBookstore."


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... this last Wednesday of February 2014
is finding me on board Urban Jungle Bloggers movement,
meeting some great participants & blogger friends,
I joined in just a few days ago & wanted to make it to submitting my entry
for this month, well... before it ends ;)
So, promised B i s c o t t i recipe coming as a next post this week!
Honestly I could not be absent, being myself such an avid, little, urban gardener...
Plants have always been part of life in my homes.
I can say with certainty that the best
option I have to share so far
is the little, happy, ever growing, green family*
* remember our w i n t e r g a r d e n just about 2 years ago?
living in our current home,
often referred to as the P e a r l B i r c h e s H o u s e.
U r b a n J u n g l e B l o g g e r s challenge this month
was to present "one plant in three stylings"
I decided to adjust the theme a little to my needs,
so that I could also at the same time take the chance
to share with you a corner of the bedroom,
which organically evolved after the decision for seeing it with
fresh, new eyes
Any recollection of the Hello new wall! post?
that wall has been hosting our Malm chests of drawers,
while providing sufficient horizontal space {2,40 x 0,50 cm } for displaying favorite objects,
or just having useful free space at our disposal.
This is how it currently looks
and this is from where I took things
building around the theme for the 3 different stylings.
Protagonist is the little succulent seen above,
brought from a trip to Fuert Ventura this past December,
growing roots in a grey, stoneware mug,
which otherwise serves favorite cups of tea or coffee.
Rather than creating totally differentiated stylings,
I chose to demonstrate the e f f e c t s h a p e s of plants
have as a decorative element.
Instead of totally changing the materials / objects
surrounding the plant,
{ something that has been so wonderfully demonstrated by many participants ! }
I kept on adding plants.
Below you see our growing succulent fellow
in the company of a round, green leaved friend, as a 2nd version.
... and in the 3rd version, the addition of a madly growing
aloe vera plant { flash back h e r e }
which totally turned the whole vignette
into a family of plants,
all distinguished for their rather "architectural" character.
Which version do you like the most?
And what about you? Are you growing currently any plants at home?
If yes, what kind of? Where?
saying goodbye with a little "bonus" picture
of a glimpse into an idea
you might want to try out yourselves:
wrap a p r e t t y s t r i n g around the
relatively, grown & strong trunk of one of your
tall house plants { mind you, not too tight! }
Here is our Seflera plant,
begun barely a few centimeters tall with only but three little leaves,
now all grown up,
wrapped in a cotton white string with golden accents.
It gives an air of surprise
while turning the plant
into an even more decorative element, don't you think?
P r o d u c t s in this post:
1. "Golden ratio" p o s t c a r d s : S n u g
2. large & small f r a m e s : RIBBA / Ikea
3. star c a n d l e h o l d e r & "Calm" c a n d l e in a silver glass: h&m Home
4. metal grey c a n d l e h o l d e r s : from a local shop, saw exactly the same in white
while visiting the House Doctor stand in Ambiente a couple of days ago.
5. simple, grey c a n d l e s: Ikea
6. light brown ceramic pot: MANDEL / Ikea
7. D a l a h o r s e : Swedish souvenir present from a friend,
spray painted in silver grey
8. grey stoneware m u g { here holding the little succulent }: John Lewis
9. green leaved plant in a concrete p o t : from the flower section of our local super market
10. decorative woolen & beaded hearts : from local stores


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Set-top boxes? Built-in software on your TV? That's so 2011. For 2012, media center manufacturer Roku is taking a different approach: The company on Wednesday announced that it would be compressing its traditional set-top software into a thumbdrive-sized Streaming Stick, to be available in the second half of 2012.
Designed for televisions with the new MHL ( Mobile High-Definition Link) port, the Streaming Stick offers Roku's full complement of software without the need for a bulky set-top box. Roku has partnered with TV manufacturer Insignia to bundle the Streaming Stick with the company's new HDTV line, though the device will also be available as a standalone purchase. As the MHL port is still quite new, and not available on most televisions, the Streaming Stick won't be shipping until later this year.
Sounds intriguing, to be sure, but why go this route over built-in software or a set-top box? According to Roku, it's all about space and upgradeability. Since the Streaming Stick connects directly to a television's MHL port, it keeps you from having to add cables and boxes to your entertainment setup; additionally, if you purchase a MHL-compatible television with built-in software, and next year that software is rendered obsolete, you can still take advantage of all the technology the Streaming Stick has to offer, without having to upgrade your entire television.
Of course, we'll have to wait and see until later this year as to how that will shake out, and whether the majority of television manufacturers get on-board with the MHL standard. At the least, we should start seeing MHL-enabled TVs from Samsung, Sony, and Toshiba, as the companies are all part of the consortium trying to get MHL ratified as an industry standard.
Roku has not disclosed any details on the price of the Streaming Stick, though the company's current set-top boxes range from $50 to $100.


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New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- BP will try again within the next day to cap a well that has gushed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the energy company said Friday.
The latest attempt will involve inserting a tube into a ruptured pipe, collecting oil and sending it to a vessel on the surface, said Mark Proegler, a BP spokesman.
The insertion tube was on the sea floor, and engineers planned to move it into place later in the day, Proegler said.
The company has lowered a smaller containment dome for use if the insertion tube does not stem the flow of oil into the water, Proegler said.
But Adm. Thad Allen, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, said twice Friday that the containment dome, referred to as a "top hat," was the first choice, followed by the insertion tube.
Officials could not explain the discrepancy.
Neither procedure would be a permanent solution, Allen said Friday in Mississippi. The procedures, he said, "will reduce the leakage, not stop the leakage."
The ultimate solution, Allen said, will be achieved by relief wells that are being drilled near the leak site. Those will take weeks, if not months, to complete, BP has said.
After much discussion over whether the use of subsea dispersants could cause ecological damage, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry said Friday that officials have concluded that it "is an option we can consider and will move ahead with."
The decision was made after the results of three tests were analyzed, she said. "This is not a decision that was made lightly, but it is a series of tradeoffs. You're really trying to minimize the impact on the environment as best as possible."
Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer for exploration and production, said the company has spent more than $450 million responding to the spill and that more than 14,000 people are involved in the effort.
To date, more than 1.2 million feet of boom have been deployed and another 400,000 feet of boom have been staged for deployment, he said. In all, the company is trying to accumulate 3.5 million feet of boom.
The forecast this weekend and early next week "looks very favorable to use all tools," he said, citing burning, skimming operations and use of surface and subsurface dispersants.
Suttles said the spill has had "limited impact" on shore, with oil being found in four locations in Louisiana, two in Alabama and one in Mississippi.
In Washington, President Barack Obama criticized executives from BP and two other companies for blaming each other for the catastrophe.
"It is absolutely essential that, going forward, we put in place every necessary safeguard and protection so that a tragedy like this oil spill does not happen again," Obama said after meeting Friday with Cabinet members to discuss the spill.
Read about oil spill responses
"This is a responsibility that all of us share," Obama said. "The oil companies share it. The manufacturers of this equipment share it. The agencies in the federal government in charge of oversight share that responsibility. I will not tolerate more finger-pointing or irresponsibility."
BP's efforts to plug the leak come amid growing concern that the company has been low-balling how much oil has poured out of the well.
Rep. Edward Markey, D-Massachusetts, sent BP a letter Friday asking for details from federal agencies about the methods they are using to analyze the oil leak.
Markey, who chairs a congressional subcommittee on energy and the environment, said he would launch a formal inquiry after learning of independent estimates that are significantly higher than the amount BP officials have provided.
"The public needs to know the answers to very basic questions: how much oil is leaking into the Gulf and how much oil can be expected to end up on our shores and our ocean environment?" Markey said in a letter to BP. "I am concerned that an underestimation of the flow may be impeding the ability to solve the leak and handle management of the disaster."
BP has said since the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drill rig that about 5,000 barrels -- or 210,000 gallons -- have been pouring out of the well a day. The company says it reached that number using data, satellite images and consultation with the Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"I think that's a good range," Suttles said Friday.
But a researcher at Purdue University said BP's estimate is low. Associate Professor Steve Wereley said that about 70,000 barrels of oil are leaking each day, based on an analysis of video of the spill.
"You can't say with precision, but you can see there's definitely more coming out of that pipe than people thought," he said. "It's definitely not 5,000 barrels a day."
A BP executive rejected that assertion Friday.
"Well, that's not what our experts, multiple experts, not only from BP, and the industry say," said Bob Dudley, BP managing director for the Americas and Asia. "This crude is what's called a light-sweet crude. It has lots of gas and when it comes out, it expands very rapidly, a little bit like bubbles in a soda pop. So it's very difficult to look at it and say that the volume will be much higher. We certainly don't see that at the surface."
The dispute over the size of the leak caps a week in which congressional committees grilled executives from BP and two other companies: drilling contractor Transocean Ltd., which owned the rig, and oilfield services contractor Halliburton, which was responsible for cementing the well shut once drilled.
The companies blamed each other.
BP pointed to Transocean, which said BP was responsible for the wellhead's design and Halliburton was responsible for the cement finishing work. Halliburton, in turn, said its workers were just following BP's orders, but that Transocean was responsible for maintaining the rig's blowout preventer.
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Obama took exception Friday.
"I did not appreciate what I considered to be a ridiculous spectacle during the congressional hearings into this matter," the president said. "You had executives of BP and Transocean and Halliburton falling over each other to point the finger of blame at somebody else. The American people could not have been impressed with that display, and I certainly wasn't."
Obama said the federal government also was taking responsibility for its role. "For too long, for a decade or more, there's been a cozy relationship between the oil companies and the federal agency that permits them to drill," Obama said. "It seems as if permits were too often issued based on little more than assurances of safety from the oil companies.
"That cannot and will not happen anymore. To borrow an old phrase, we will trust, but we will verify."
As a result, Obama said, the Mineral Management Service will be restructured, with the part of the agency that permits oil and gas drilling and collects royalties separated from the part of the agency in charge of inspecting the safety of oil rigs and platforms and enforcing the law. "That way, there's no conflict of interest, real or perceived," Obama said.
In addition, Obama said, the administration has ordered immediate inspections of all deepwater operations in the Gulf of Mexico, and no drilling permits will be issued until a 30-day safety-and-environmental review is completed.
Obama also announced a new examination of the environmental procedures for oil and gas exploration and development.
Learn more about efforts to stop the leak
BP, the Coast Guard and state and local authorities have scrambled to keep the oil from reaching shore or the ecologically delicate coastal wetlands off Louisiana. They have burned off patches of the slick, deployed more than 280 miles of protective booms, skimmed as much as 4 million gallons of oily water off the surface of the Gulf and pumped more than 400,000 gallons of chemical dispersants onto the oil.
On Friday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration closed off to fishing another part of the Gulf of Mexico over which the federal government has jurisdiction. NOAA has now closed 19,377 square miles (50,187 square kilometers), which is 8 percent of the Gulf area within 200 miles of the coast, called an exclusive economic zone. The closed area a week earlier had been 4.5 percent.
Investigators are still trying to determine what caused the April 20 explosion at the rig, which sank two days later. Eleven workers are missing and presumed dead.
CNN's Eric Fiegel, Brian Todd and Ed Lavandera contributed to this report.


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Inexpensive equipment can be used to disrupt vessel-tracking systems and important communications between ships and port authorities, according to two security researchers.
During the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam Thursday, Marco Balduzzi, a senior research scientist at Trend Micro, and independent security researcher Alessandro Pasta described three new attacks against the Automatic Identification System (AIS), which is used by over 400,000 ships worldwide.
AIS supplements information from marine radar systems and sends a ships's identity, type, position, course, speed, navigational status and safety-related information to other ships, shore stations and aircraft. Port and coastal authorities also use the system to send important traffic information and other data back to the ships.
Balduzzi and Pasta warned last year that the lack of authentication and integrity-checking in the AIS communication protocol could allow pirates, terrorists or other attackers to create ghost vessels or spoof information received by the ships.
It's also possible to disable AIS communications over a large region, Balduzzi said Thursday. An attacker could impersonate a port authority and tell all AIS systems—on ships, in shore stations, etc.—to stop transmission for a number of minutes, and then repeat the command when that interval passes in order to prolong the downtime, he said.
Balduzzi and Pasta experimented on land with a self-built AIS transmitter and power amplifier and achieved a signal range of 20 km, but at sea the range would be bigger because there are less obstacles. Using more power can also significantly boost the range.
The equipment used by the researchers cost US$600, but they said that an AIS transmitter could be built with cheaper components for under $100.
AIS communications can also be used as a channel to exploit vulnerabilities in the software running on the back-end systems that process and collect AIS data. For example, the researchers found an SQL injection vulnerability in a system used by ship captains to store weather forecasts received over AIS.
The vulnerability could be exploited to insert bogus weather information into the database or even delete the whole database, Balduzzi said.
The impact of using AIS to attack back-end systems depends on what those systems are designed to do and what kind of vulnerabilities they potentially have. If the system stores information about ship traffic in a harbor for example, inserting bad information into its database or deleting it can have serious consequences, the researcher explained.
A third attack presented Thursday involves the spoofing of Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) information sent over AIS. DGPS data improves the accuracy of GPS-based localization from meters to centimeters.
A constant stream of spoofed DGPS data could make a ship deviate from its course, Balduzzi said. The result would be similar to that of a GPS spoofing attack demonstrated by researchers from the University of Texas at Austin last year, he said.
According to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations agency responsible for the safety and security of shipping, the installation of AIS is required on all ships of 300 gross tonnage or more that are engaged on international voyages and for all passenger ships regardless of size.
The IMO did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the AIS attacks revealed Thursday at Hack in the Box.
According to Balduzzi and Pasta, AIS providers and maritime authorities generally acknowledged in the past that the lack of authentication and integrity checking in AIS is a problem, but said that captains are instructed to correlate information from multiple systems and not rely on AIS data alone.
"To me, if you have a system that's supposed to enhance the previous systems, but is not secure and can report wrong information, then it's useless," Balduzzi said.
Completely fixing the problem would require redesigning the communication protocol to build in security, and then upgrading or replacing the AIS hardware installed on ships, in ports and ground stations. However, that's not feasible in the short term, the researchers said. Using specialized software to detect anomalies in the AIS data can be a temporary solution, but won't protect against all possible attacks like the denial-of-service ones, they said.