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Susie Fishbein, author of the Kosher by Design cookbook series, has already sold over 400,000 copies worldwide and has been named one of the 50 most influential Jews by the Forward. Susie is currently working on her next cookbook, Kosher by Design Cooking Coach.
Susie is here to tell us her LAST LICKS…
I am finishing up the recipes for my next cookbook. Kosher by Design Cooking Coach and am obsessed with a Chili Garlic Cauliflower that I can't get just right. I am on version #6, batch #13. Mistakes can be yummy too.
Ouch. Purim just ended, sensitive subject.
Roasted Kale. I am not trying to make amends for the junk food question, it's just that I finished working on a kale recipe for Cooking Coach so I have a lot of leftovers and am finding them addictive, like potato chips, only so much healthier.
For my third daughter's bat mitzvah this past summer, my extended family visited Spain and Portugal on a Jewish heritage trip.
A Thermopen instant-read thermometer. Pricey but really accurate, and I need accuracy for developing the recipes for my new book.
My family was walking around Westfield NJ a few Sundays ago on a gorgeous day. We happened upon an art gallery that featured my favorite local artist, Helen Frank. My husband and daughters spotted a stunning painting of a kitchen table which had perfect colors for my den. We knew just the perfect spot to hang where it would peek out perfectly to my own kitchen table. In 20 years we have only bought 4 pieces of art but this one was so perfect we made a group decision and decided right on the spot.
A hockey glove for my son. I am a huge Amazon shopper. I buy everything from household items to gourmet food products.
There is a fabulous store near me called CBL Fine Arts which specializes in unique gifts. For my parent's 50th anniversary, my siblings and I created a memory vase from there of our family photos that get etched onto glass. It is so beautiful.
Last? I am focused on the next! Seder for 25, the ultimate dinner party. My brother-in-law Clint, teases me that he wants to auction off his seat at my seder table on Ebay.
For more information on Susie Fishbein and the Kosher by Design series, check out kosherbydesignblog.com.
Would you like to win Susie's Passover by Design: Picture-perfect Kosher by Design recipes for the holiday? Leave a comment telling us what is the last thing you cooked?
Mac and cheese and spinach in puff pastry.
Can you tell I'm trying to get rid of my chometz :)?
Last thing I cooked was a chocolate cake for Shabbos - pesach recipe so no worrying about crumbs!
Last thing I cooked was salmon and pasta
Last thing I cooked today was beer stew from fresh n easy cookboook
falafel for dinner. shwarma and stew beef for shabbat !
Eggplant Lasagna without pasta- thin sliced eggplant instead of the noodles... getting in the spirit of pesach early :)
garlic fries. Super duper yum!
I am the person who Kashers the kitchen of our Synagogue so we can prepare a Kosher Passover meal for 65 attendees. This might not sound like many, but down here in the South, it is a staggering number! Our entire congregation -- including the 'extended' family members is just barely 150! I began this task yesterday, so the food that will be prepared next week can be stored in the kitchen. I put a whole chicken in a marinade of olive oil, grated lime peel and ginger at 6am. When I got home, at 5pm, I put it on the rotisserie of the BBQ. At 630pm, voila! It was a wonderful meal, along with the slices of squash and zuchinni that I'd placed on the grill! Leftovers tomorrow will be even better!
Blueberry pancakes from Kosher by Design Kids in the Kitchen
Thanks for this awesome article! I'm a big Susie fan, and I thought I was the only one around without this cookbook. I cooked turkey cutlets shmeared with a mixture of dijon, apricot preserves, and san-j asian bbq sauce. That got 3 bottles out of the fridge! (And it smells pretty good.) Chag Sameach everyone!
Egg rolls and farfel with roasted veggies.
Oh wow..Cappuchino, can you post your egg roll recipe? I'd love to see how you cook that ;)
Oatmeal and molasses for breakfast, and I'm getting ready to make some pudding w/cherry reduction sauce for Shabbat breakfast tomorrow!
Pasta with pesto and tomatoes.
Omelettes for four with sauteed onions & broccoli, in my already Pesachdik kitchen (don't hate me!)
General Tzao's Chicken - yum
Yaprakia-Dolamades with Lamb so yummy.
I just made 2 briskets, a delmonico roast and chuck steaks in the oven together while cooking matzah balls on top of the stove. All for Pesach.
Simple meal on Friday night, meat loaf with rosemary roasted potatoes and sweet peas in the pod. Wish you all a chag Pesach, a sweet and kosher holiday.
can it be something i baked?? or does it have to be cooked?? ;)
Yup, it's Tuesday, 2 days to Passover, and I just finished preparing a delicious dinner. Chicken cutlets breaded in crumbs, asparagus and potatoes in dressing. That's it for the bread! On to Passover food we go!
Veggie burgers on rolls and potato chips. (Yes, I'm trying to get rid of the chometz, too.) Oh, and a green salad just to make it a little healthier. That's IT! As of tomorrow, we're pesachdik.
one pot/ foil pan dinner: chicken, potatoes and veggies in duck sauce. real lazy erev yom tov supper
Last thing I cooked was scrambled eggs for my children and grandchildren for Chol Hamoed breakfast. This happens daily every year on Chol Hamoed. I guess this has become part of our Yom Tov celebration.


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Grace Abbott (1878–1939) was a teacher who went on to become Director of the Immigrants Protective League of Chicago and Director of the U.S. Children's Bureau. In 1934 she became professor of public welfare at the University of Chicago.
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Frankie Victoria Adams (1902–1979) was a social worker who influenced the development of social work education and of professional social work in the American South. She developed the Group Work and Community Organization concentrations at Atlanta University.
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Jane Addams (1860–1935) was a settlement house leader and peace activist. She was the founder of Hull-House and became president of the National Conference of Charities and Correction. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
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Chauncey A. Alexander (1916–2005) was Executive Director of the National Association of Social Workers from 1967 to 1982 and founder and president of the First Amendment Foundation. He was instrumental in developing an International Code of Ethics for social workers.
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Litsa Alexandraki (1918–1986) was best known for her work in Greece on matters of child welfare, and the protection of refugees and migrants. She was also elected for three terms as President of the International Federation of Social Workers, a position she held from 1962–1968.
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Delwin M. Anderson (1916–2007) was director of the Social Work Service in the Veteran's Administration from 1964 to 1974. In his work he laid stress on recognizing the social components of illness and physical injury.
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U.S. Rep. AARON SCHOCK, R-Peoria, used a national platform last weekend to deliver a message that he thinks the Affordable Care Act is a �ripoff� because it will make young people pay too much to support insurance of older folks.
Schock delivered the weekly Republican address � the GOP�s forum as President BARACK OBAMA, similar to other presidents in recent years, provides a weekly weekend comment.
Obama used his Dec. 21 weekly address to praise Congress for passage of a bipartisan budget deal designed to keep the government operating for two years.
�So after a year of showdowns and obstruction that only held back our economy, we�ve been able to break the logjam a bit over the last few weeks,� Obama said. �It�s a hopeful sign that we can end the cycle of short-sighted, crisis-driven decision-making and actually work together to get things done.�
The president did note that more than a million people will lose unemployment benefits a few days after Christmas, and asked that members of Congress �restore that lifeline immediately, then put their entire focus on creating more good jobs that pay good wages� when they come back from their break.
Schock, now 32 and still one of the youngest members of Congress, used Eureka College � east of Peoria and where President RONALD REAGAN went to college � as the backdrop for his video in which he said the federal and state ad campaigns to get people to sign up for health insurance don�t tell the whole story.
�No matter how many actors and rappers and rock stars the president rolls out, the best sales pitch in the world can�t sell a bad product,� Schock said. �And this health-care law is a bad product for young people.
�How bad? Well, typically, based on health and age, it costs about six times more to insure a 64-year-old than it does an 18-year-old,� Schock said. �The health-care law, however, says that insurance companies can only charge their most expensive customers three times what they do their cheapest customers. In other words, they are forced by law to shift the cost of older and sicker patients onto young people. And the president needs a lot of young people � about 2.7 million � to enroll so he can shift the costs onto them and keep premiums from skyrocketing.
�In Washington, they call this �community rating,� but where I come from, we call it a ripoff,� Schock said.
�Young people helped put the president in office,� Schock continued, �and with this health-care law, he�s pushing them into years of less choice, fewer opportunities and larger bills.�
He said the law should be scrapped, and young people should �pay their fair share for health care, and nothing more. And instead of Washington telling us what to buy, let�s get back to letting every American choose the plan that�s best for them and their family.�
In seeking response, I contacted JIM DUFFETT of Champaign, executive director of the Campaign for Better Healthcare, a consumer advocacy group that supports the Affordable Care Act.
Cost-shifting has long been part of health care, Duffett said, with people with insurance covering costs of the uninsured, and insurance company profits sometimes higher than needed. People of different ages get different services and procedures, he said, and premiums from all help pay the bills.
�Unfortunately, Aaron�s kind of �divide and separate� strategy is counter-intuitive to the nature of this country, that � we all have to work together as one nation,� Duffett said. �We�ve been dealing with cost-shifting for decades and decades, and what at least this does is begin to level the playing field for everybody.�
Duffett noted that while he is critical of Schock�s speech, he�s also been critical of leadership of the Illinois House � run by Democrats � because the state did not set up its own exchange for sign-ups under the new health law.
Democrats ROB MELLON of Quincy and DARRELL MILLER of Danvers are in the Democratic primary in the 18th Congressional District to take on Schock.
Mellon said the �vast majority� of Americans support parts of the Affordable Care Act, including the part that allows people up to age 26 � including most students at Eureka, he surmised � to stay on their parents� insurance.
�This is about campaigning for him,� Mellon, a Quincy Senior High history teacher and captain in the Army Reserve, said of the Schock address. �It�s not about finding solutions.�
Karen McDonald, Schock�s political director, said that during debate on the health care law, Republicans did offer solutions including delaying the individual mandate a year to match the delay for businesses, expanding high-risk pools and expanding tax credits for low-income individuals to buy insurance.
�Republicans have offered numerous fixes,� McDonald said.
Anderson retires
DAVE ANDERSON, 67, who was with the Illinois State Bar Association for 39 years, retired from his post as associate executive director, overseeing communications, this month.
He called his time there an �amazing experience.� He thinks that when he was one of about 80 applicants who interviewed for a job at the association in 1974, his 11 years in radio helped him stand out.
A Harrisburg native, Anderson started on radio in his hometown, and moved to stations in Marion and Decatur before joining WTAX in Springfield in 1971. When WDBR went on the air a year later, he was its first news director.
While he�s spent nearly four decades working for the statewide lawyers� group, Anderson never got a college degree himself. He did take some classes at campuses including what is now the University of Illinois Springfield.
�It�s been from Day 1 just an uplifting experience,� Anderson said of his time at the bar association, �and I�ve learned very quickly that there are a lot of lawyers that you really can look up to who are involved in leadership of the association.�
Anderson and his wife, ELIZABETH, have three grown children and three grandchildren, all of them living in Springfield. Anderson said he looks forward to �being less busy for a while,� but he also has �some new possibilities for keeping involved in things.�
In my decades of working with Anderson, I�ve found him to be someone who knows the material, explains it well and understands deadline pressure. That�s a good combination.
And he also still has that voice radio stations would kill for.
�If somebody wants their voicemail recorded, I�ll be available,� he quipped.
Best of luck.
Bernard Schoenburg is political columnist for The State Journal-Register. He can be reached at 788-1540 or follow him via twitter.com/bschoenburg. His email address is email@example.com.


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Big dog: Thunder, fireworks can fool Rover
Q. When the fireworks start, why does my dog shake and run for cover? –B. Kelly
A. Most dogs do not react to the simple popping of fireworks but rather to the deeper sounds, like the boom of a starburst or the roar of distant rockets, answers psychologist Stanley Coren of the University of British Columbia. It has to do with the low-frequency sounds that seem to come from above and sound to the dog like another dog growling, only this dog is very loud and the sound comes from on high, meaning the unseen dog must be very large and threatening.
This is the same reason why some dogs react negatively to thunder. "A dog big enough to give that kind of growl from that high above them must be one scary dog," Coren says.
Q. The Oxford English Dictionary described finding "kangaroo words" as a "fiendishly difficult word game." Are you word-maven enough to cite a few examples? –A. A. Milne
A. Within the letters of a "marsupial" word "nestles" (and "nests") a small word, or "joey" (baby kangaroo), that means the same as the grown word, says wordsmith Richard Lederer online. The letters of the joey must be in proper order though not entirely adjacent; for example, playing with kangaroo words, your mind will "blossom" and hence "bloom."
Balled up inside your "stockings" are your "socks." Hiding in "nougat" and "neurotic" are two different kinds of "nut." Things "Brobdingnagian" and "lumbering" are "big."
Some kangaroo words even contain multiple joeys: Open up a "container" and you get a "can" and a "tin"; when you've "feasted, you "eat" and have "fed"; and when you "deteriorate," you "rot" and "die." To be "stealthy," "slippery" or "slinky" is to be "sly." To "broadcast" "bombast" is to "boast" and "boast." Lurking in "falsities," "falsifies," "fallacies," "calumnies," "hyperbolizes" and "plagiarizes" is the word "lies."
And, at last, "dead" reposes in "deactivated," "desiccated," "decayed," "disintegrated," "decapitated," "departed" and "deceased."
Q. What is that in your yard flashing the "teeth of a lion," so to speak? –Bl Lahr
A. Can you see the teeth in a dandelion? asks Anu Garg in The Dord, The Diglot, and an Avacado or Two. The word "dandelion" is from the French "dent-de-lion," meaning "tooth of a lion"– since its leaves look like the sharp teeth of the fearsome animal.
Q. Which crystals are for rich folks and which are for the rest of us? –D. Trump
A. Crystals are repeating three-dimensional arrangements of atoms, ions, or molecules, formed of almost any solid material, says Rebecca Coffey in Discover magazine.
The crystals of coveted gemstones are measured by the "carat" (from the Greek "keration" or "carob bean"), which is the standard for weighing small quantities, equal to about .007 ounce. When Richard Burton bought Elizabeth Taylor the heart-shaped Taj-Mahal diamond, he is said to have bragged, "It has so many carats, it's almost a turnip."
A "fancy intense pink" diamond recently went for a world record $46 million at auction. The Cullinan diamond is the largest known gem-quality diamond ever found. It weighed 3,106 carats (nearly a pound and a half) when discovered in South Africa in 1905 but has since been cut into more than 100 stones.
The choice for us commoners is crystallized sodium chloride, or "salt," with enough dissolved in the oceans to make a cube 165 miles on each side. There's also sugar: each American eats more than 130 pounds per year, feeding our epidemics of obesity, tooth decay, and high blood pressure.
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Story of an heirloom quilt
Carolyn Hall of Bassett, Nebraska, sent the photo of the beautiful quilt above, and I asked if I could post it for everyone to enjoy. She graciously agreed and wrote a few words of explanation about the quilt's history:
The quilt was made by my cousin Neva Armour in MI. When she died it was left to her niece, Sharon Katz Gobel in KY. So the only relation it has to Rock County is me. You may put it on your blog as an example of a completely hand done quilt originally started in the 1930's and finished in 2006-7 by the Busy Fingers quilting group of the Bassett United Methodist Church (Leona Spann, age 93, Lois Bennett, age 87 and Carolyn Hall, age 68). The cat is a barn cat from Cherry county. She must be part Siamese to get the seal brown color.
I sized the photo down to post it here, but take a closer look in the image below. I am awed at the many, many little pieces of cloth, the hours of work, and the thousands of stitches in this quilt. The quilters loved what they were doing and their joy in their skill just shines here.
The story that goes with it makes it even more special. How nice that the quilt was finally completed!
A quilt like this has a value that is far beyond money.
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University of Alabama: Attempt to Limit Freedom of Speech and Right to Petition
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The Faculty Senate of the University of Alabama (UA) has threatened the First Amendment rights both of free speech and of petitioning the government for the redress of grievances by initiating an investigation into the Alabama Association of Scholars' communication with faculty members and legislators over proposed mandatory diversity training seminars in UA's College of Engineering. FIRE protested the mandatory seminars as part of a letter writing campaign after UA first implemented them, writing administrators to note that "mandatory workshops espousing a particular orthodoxy on issues of race and ethnicity would violate the moral and, indeed, constitutional obligations of a public university." FIRE continues to stress that these mandatory workshops violate faculty members freedom of conscience, and that the investigation into constitutionally protected activity create a chilling effect on free speech.
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My buddy gave me a 4-hour French cooking class for my birthday a while back. I went in and got excited what we would be making - something wine and stew. Disappointed. The instructor went for quiche --a classic French dish after all. Yeah, I was a little disappointed by the dish but it wasn't too bad, tho, because I had never made quiche. Yeah. How lame. I know.
Making quiche is less complicated than I thought. It's just time-consuming. You have to let the dough rest because it will rechill the butter and make the dough elastic, bake the dough, make filling, and bake it again. However, the outcome is worth making. It came out beautifully and you could make it ahead of time! I served this quiche with pea soup and my sister in-law's cinnamon buns. We were full and happy.
Caramelized Onion Bacon Quiche
Courtesy recipe of Edge of Seattle cooking class
Yield: 1-9" quiche, or 8" quiche with some leftover for cupcake quiche
Quiche dough:
2 cups AP flour
1/2 tsp kosher salt (original recipe is 1 tsp)
8 oz. unsalted butter, chilled, cubed
1/4 cup ice cold water
Olive oil as needed
- Mix flour and salt in a food processor with a dough blade. Add butter small handful at a time. When incorporated, add remaining flour and mist just until incorporated.
- Add water and mix until incorporated. Check to make sure there are no pockets of butter visible in the dough.
- Pat into a round shape, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and rest in the fridge for one hour or up to a day. You can wrap and freeze the dough for future use.
- Pre heat oven to 375 F.
- After dough has been resting, roll it out on a lightly flour surface to about 1/4 inch thick. Lightly oil the inside quiche pan.
- Using a rolling pin to help roll the dough and place on the pan. Allow the dough to hang over the sides to prevent it from shrinking back inside the shell. Use a sharp knife trim accessed dough and seal any cracks with cut dough.
- Place parchment paper on top of the dough and add pie weights or beans on it. Bake for about 30-40 mins until lightly browned but the bottm is light in color.
- Remove pie weights and parchment paper. If there are any cracks, seal with more dough. Make sure there's no crack! otherwise the batter will leak.
- Return shell to oven for another 15 mins until bottom is golden brown. Remove and allow to cool.
1 cup whole milk
1 cup heavy cream
3 whole eggs
1 tsp kosher salt (original recipe is 1.5 tsp). I reduced it because I added bacon.
White pepper to taste
Freshly grated nutmeg to taste
Cayenne pepper (optional)
Cooked bacon, cut into small pieces
Cameralized onion
Grated white cheddar and mozzarella
- Reduce oven to 325 F.
- Combine milk and cream in a saucepot. Heating milk to just below its boiling point.
- Whip eggs and seasonings in another bowl until very well combined. Temper eggs with hot milk mixture and combine all ingredients.
- Whisk the mixture until light and frothy.
- Place baked quiche shell on a baking sheet for easy transfer to the oven. Pour half of batter into quiche shell. Sprinkle in any toppings. Pour on remaining quiche batter until almost full. Don't pour too full because you will have to move the quiche to the oven.
- Transfer to the oven. Bake for about 15 mins or until it's done. It wil jiggles uniformly.


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DALLAS, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- In a limited time offering, Lay's, the U.S. snack maker, is expected to offer Lay's Wavy Potato Chips Dipped in Milk Chocolate.
Lay's, the nation's largest salty snack maker, is expected to announce on Friday its plans to roll its chocolate covered potato chip that is scheduled to last from post Halloween to New Year's only at Target stores, USA Today reported.
However, Ram Krishnan, vice president of marketing at Frito-Lay, the parent company of Lay's, said if the chocolate potato chip is a major hit, it could become permanent.
"When you try something drastically different, you have to walk before you can run," Krishnan told USA Today. "We wanted to test our way through this before we go big."
The product, which costs $3.49 for a 5-ounce bag, might be the first commercially available chocolate covered potato chip, but smaller chocolate makers have been providing them for dozens of years. They are especially popular in the Midwest.
Mixing salt and chocolate is nothing new. There have been chocolate covered pretzels for years and Dairy Queen offered ice cream, chocolate and salty peanuts long ago, but this is new territory for Lay's.
Krishnan said if the product is popular the company might try other flavor combinations using dark chocolate, white chocolate and peppermint.
Over the past year, sweet and salty snacks include: Kettle Maple Bacon Potato Chips, Planter's Sweet & Salty Snack Mix, ConAgra's Crunch 'n Munch and even Sweet 'n Salty Bugles, USA Today said.
There will probably be more of these type of combinations. Fine cooks try to include Fat, Acid, Salty and Sweet -- known as FASS -- to unlock the taste of food. The acid is usually lemon or lime, but it can be vinegar and potato chips with vinegar have been around for decades.


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Apple iPhone TTY Adapter
This adapter lets you use your iPhone with standard TTY devices. Just plug the cable from your TTY device into one end of the iPhone TTY Adapter, then plug the other end of the adapter into your iPhone.
Tech Specs
Cable type: 3.5mm to TTY (Teletype)
TTY (Teletype)
iPhone Models
- iPhone 6s
- iPhone 6s Plus
- iPhone 6
- iPhone 6 Plus
- iPhone SE
- iPhone 5s
- iPhone 5c
- iPhone 5
Answers from the community
what is a TTY adapter
- Asked by Anonymous A from XXXXXXXXXXXX
- on 17-Oct-2009
Best Answer:
TTY is an abbreviation for TeleTypewriter. It's a device used by the deaf to "text" messages across TTY is an abbreviation for TeleTypewriter. It's a device used by the deaf to "text" messages across an analog telephone line. These days, text messaging has just about obsoleted the device however it remains well-suited to the task. Because the TTY was originally designed for an analog phone system it worked very much like an analog modem; converting "text" into "sounds" that were then re-interpreted back into text at the receiver's end. Both parties of the conversation would have to have a TTY machine. This adapter allows a person to connect a TTY machine to the "analog" audio input and output of the phone.
- Answered by Eric P from Dunedin
- on 25-Nov-2009
Will this adaptor work with Mobuyle Credit Card Reader?
- Asked by Donald F from Alachua
- on 12-Oct-2012
Best Answer:
- Answered by Stephen R from Savannah
- on 26-Mar-2013
Can I use my Bluetooth and Square card reader at the same time on my iPad
- Asked by Christopher H from Winter park
- on 20-Nov-2012
Will this TTY Adapter allow my new iPhone 5 to work with my 2.5mm plug telephone headset, for both talking & listening, telephone uses?
- Asked by David K from San Antonio
- on 13-Dec-2012
Yes - if you look at the recent reviews, people talk about using their Plantronics headsets with it. Yes - if you look at the recent reviews, people talk about using their Plantronics headsets with it. Good news indeed!
- Answered by Eric E from Manassas
- on 17-Mar-2014
I need an extension that will work with SQUARE credit card reader? will this work
- Asked by brian B from south point
- on 25-Mar-2011
Best Answer:
I have found that the problem is not with square or trying to find an adapter. What I realized is th I have found that the problem is not with square or trying to find an adapter. What I realized is the fault lies with otterbox. They make the plastic guards which surround the headphone jack too tall to allow the square to plug in. So what I did was to take a razor sharp knife and shave a little off those plastic guards. This allowed the square to plug in and work perfectly and the rubber cover still completely closes on the case. I think otterbox should fix their product as I'm told people have had problems with their headphones as well due to the same issue.
- Answered by Ryan L from Troutdale
- on 05-Apr-2013
will this fit my Lifeproof case?
- Asked by Miguel R from Thousand Oaks
- on 24-Jun-2012


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PATTAYA, Thailand, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Unseeded Kimiko Date-Krumm claimed a straight-set win Thursday in second-round play of the WTA PTT Pattaya Open in Thailand.
Date-Krumm, 43, topped Tadeja Majeric 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 for a second win in the tournament over a player at least 20 years younger. Date-Krumm was 0-for-4 in saving break points against Majeric but finished off six break opportunities of her own.
She won 60 percent of the points and piled up four breaks off Majeric's serve in taking the second set.
No. 5-seeded Elena Vesnina won two-thirds of the points on serve in a 6-3, 6-3 decision over local favorite Nicha Lertpitaksinchai. Vesnina had the only break of the first set and then broke Lertpitaksinchai's serve three times in five receiving games of the second.
The final second-round match went to eighth-seeded Peng Shuai, who defeated Alexandra Dulgheru 6-3, 6-4 with a pair of breaks in each set.
Peng meets Andrea Hlavackova and Date-Krumm draws fourth-seeded Ekaterina Makarova in Friday's quarterfinals. Also Friday, Vesnina is to play Julia Goerges and No. 3-seeded Sorana Cirstea goes against Karolina Pliskova.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 2nd Mar 2010 14:04 UTC
Over the past couple of months, I've been getting a number of emails asking me about SkyOS' status. Since I didn't know anything beyond what's on the SkyOS website, and because, well, I have no affiliation with SkyOS, I couldn't really reply to these emails. However, after yet another email sent to me late last week, I decided to simply... Email Robert Szeleney, the man behind the project.
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SkyOS is not dead
by yahya on Sun 7th Mar 2010 20:15 UTC
... it just smells funny.
But apart from that he doesn't want to declare it "officially" dead, there is nothing in this article providing any evedence that it isn't...
Anyway, relying on proprietary software that depends on a single person is not a good idea. Thanks for making that clear once more.