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Anyone happen to know of a way to set the focus to a particular window via a shell command? I have a perl application that invokes xine, then goes into a raw character mode to consume characters from the terminal. Unfortunately, when xine is invoked, the focus is switched out of the terminal window and I have to move the mouse in order to reestablish focus. Since the program is all about speed and efficiency, I do not want to have to do this. Any ideas? I'm assuming I'd start by using 'xwininfo' to establish the id of the window I want focus placed into, but once I have said id, what program do I pass it to? If there isn't one, I can obviously write a tiny little X app that will do it (which will probably take a few days of manual reading) or someone can send me the presumably 10 lines of code necessary and I'll be eternally grateful :- )
Hmmm. While I'm on this track, how about a means of moving the mouse to a particular position on the desktop via a command-line prompt? That would also do the trick, since I could just move the mouse into my window (and since I have 'focus-on-over' set, that should be sufficient).
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I was looking for some places to stay close to Yala National Park so that I could get up early in the morning and able to enter the park by 6:00 am. Laya Safari was only 4 km away from the Park entrance so did not hesitate to book this place.
I think it was one of the best choice I have ever made in recent years to stay there. It was a Luxury resort and end up staying in a deluxe room overlooking endless turquoise water of the indian ocean from the bed as well as from the balcony. A large private beach which was such a wonderful place for morning / evening walks that definitely exceeded my expectation for the money I paid.
The pool was so beautiful and well positioned right next to the ocean looks like popped right out of the ocean, specially such a wonderful seen before dawn. Laying down in my bed I could see the waves after waves reaching out to the shore with roaring sound reminding me the power of the nature.
Unbelievable food at the hotel restaurant may be the best food in Sri Lanka. Housekeeping was excellent they came and made my bed late afternoon while I was enjoying watching the beautiful view from the balcony after a long day of safari.
If you want to get away, Laya Safari is possible the best place to be, I fully enjoyed my 2 nights stay at Laya and Highly recommend!
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Frank Lampard has described the prospect of confronting Barcelona as the ultimate challenge of Chelsea's recent recovery but says conviction is growing within the Premier League club that the European Cup holders and favourites can be beaten in the semi-final stage of the Champions League.
Confidence was helped by success over Tottenham Hotspur in Sunday's FA Cup semi-final, which showed strength and power restored to Chelsea's game after a traumatic season. The Londoners have relied upon those qualities when facing Barça in recent years, and have not been beaten in their past five encounters with the Catalans, although there is an acceptance that Pep Guardiola's team have progressed markedly even from the side that edged out Chelsea at this stage three years ago, courtesy of an away goal, en route to winning the trophy.
"There are not many teams you'd fancy to beat Barcelona over two legs of a semi-final, and they've shown just how good they are in the last few years," said Lampard. "It's a huge, huge challenge. As big as anyone could take on. If we win it would be one of the biggest victories, even if it does only put us in the final and doesn't win us the cup. I don't mind us being written off. I understand what people are saying: everyone has this feeling with Barcelona that they're going to roll over everyone. When they're at their best, they can do that.
"I'm probably the same because, whenever I watch Barcelona on TV, I expect them to win. But, if we play the way we did against Spurs, with the same focus and determination and with the ability we have in our team, we have to believe we have a chance. You have to believe in yourself. At Chelsea we feel we've given them tough games when we've met before and we're ready to do that again.
"We are aware of their strengths – the manager and coaching staff have studied them, and we all watch their games – and they've probably moved on from 2009. But we've changed as well. We'll look at it as it is now. We can't show too much fear against them. We have to respect them but we have take them on and play the way we did against Tottenham. That [performance] was a symbol of Chelsea at our best. We were very strong all over the pitch and looked solid. If we do that, we can give anyone in world football a game, including Barcelona."
Lampard said the prospect of stifling the threat posed by Lionel Messi was daunting. The Argentinian has not scored in six meetings with Chelsea in the past, though arrives at Stamford Bridge with 63 goals to his name this season. "He's a different player to 2009," said the England midfielder. "He was a fantastic player then but now he's improved even more. The level he's taken his game to is something I've never seen before. I grew up on [Diego] Maradona who was my idol as a player, but Messi has taken it to even higher levels. To score 70 goals, which he'll probably end up with this season … well, those are crazy figures. He's the best player in the world on merit – absolutely unbelievable."
Yet Chelsea are revelling in what only recently would have been an unlikely pursuit on the top four, the FA Cup and a first European Cup, with the interim first-team coach, Roberto Di Matteo, having won nine of his 12 matches in charge since the sacking of André Villas-Boas last month. The players have praised the Italian's open approach to management, with key personnel who had previously been so frustrated at bit-part roles now more understanding of the need for squad rotation amid a cluttered schedule.
"Our fixture list is amazing and thank God for that because, when we lost away at Napoli [in the round of 16 first leg in February], you could see our season flitting away," added Lampard. "Now, all of a sudden, we're interested in everything. We're all happy to be here and the manager has to take a lot of credit. You can see the desire and love he has for the club and the fans relate to that. But he's done the simple things right: the basics of management, for me, are man-management and he's done that brilliantly. He's got individuals playing well, with confidence, and when that happens you have the chance of being a very strong team."


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LUKAS Jutkiewicz expects the Championship promotion race to go "right to the wire".
The Boro striker is warning that whatever the outcome of today's clash with Brighton at the Amex Stadium there will be plenty of drama to come in April.
He said: "It's been a crazy season but then, it's a strange league.
"You can come in having won and not move or take just a point and go up a few places. No-one seems to want to go up.
"But we expect that to happen every week. We can't look to other results to get us there. We have to do it under our own steam.
"This season is going right down to the wire. We have to start getting the wins and making sure that whatever is happening behind us we are still in the race."
Jutkiewicz was today planning to sting former mentor Gus Poyet for a second time this season this afternoon.
The Boro striker made his big breakthrough at Swindon when Poyet was a coach under boss Dennis Wise.
But he repaid the Uruguayan by scoring the second as Coventry beat Brighton 2-0 in December, the striker's last goal for the Sky Blues before his £1.6m January switch to Boro.
"I know Gus from my time at Swindon," said Jutkiewicz, who grabbed Boro's goal in the bruising 1-1 draw at Ipswich on Tuesday night.
He had just broken into the Swindon side at the age of 17 when Wise and Poyet arrived to reorganise the Robins in 2006-07.
The striker played 17 games that term and scored five goals as the team went up to League One but the dug-out duo quickly moved on to Leeds.
"Gus was the coach there with Dennis Wise as the boss and he's a really good guy," said Jutkiewicz. "He was great with me and helped me a lot.
"And he is a great coach. He gets his teams organised and motivated and full of confidence out on the pitch and they set out to play good football. We've seen that this year.
"Brighton have come up from League One this year and I'm surprised at how well they have done really.
"They started slowly but have crept their way up the table and that says a lot about how he has got them playing.
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A simple explanation of April Charms would be the idea of contrast -two very different things that are inter-related. Contrasts that are not contradictory, but rather complementary are especially intriguing to me. Symbols, such as unevenly balanced objects joined by chains, causes viewers to inwardly ask the question, "What am I bound to?" Long forgotten memories of childhood activities or as monumental as a painful life tragedy, these things bind us and are a significant component of who we are. The relationship between mother and child, siblings and couples and the communities we live in and are bound to. The varied and dynamic events, places, people, and things that have touched us inform our future choices, commitments, habits, and journeys. As I convey this sense of destiny in my work, the final product allows viewers the opportunity to contemplate personal obligations, histories, and potentials.
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VA becomes symbol of disrespect
Published 3:56 pm, Thursday, May 15, 2014
SAN ANTONIO — It's hard to say what was worse for Michael Brookins, a nasty fall that shattered his ankle and broke his leg, or fighting with the VA over his claim.
The agency fought the Navy veteran for years over a back injury. He said the injury was related to his fall. The VA didn't see it that way. It took nearly 10 years to settle that one, in his favor, he said.
"I would get a letter from somebody saying you are approved, and then I would get another letter from somebody saying you are not approved," he said. "I mean, nobody knew what was going on in the place."
Some things don't ever seem to change. As bureaucracies go, the Department of Veterans Affairs is a towering monument to red tape. Especially now, no one knows what is going on there.
Then again, it could have been worse for Brookins, a San Antonio resident.
As far as he knows, Brookins hasn't been placed on a secret list and then died while waiting for care — jarring allegations that have emerged from Phoenix.
He hasn't died while waiting for chemo like Anson Dale Richardson did, as the Express-News' Sig Christenson reported. Richardson's family felt like he was denied one last shot at survival.
So now, as the Office of Inspector General investigates allegations at the Phoenix VA Health Care System and concerns at other VA sites, including in Texas, the VA has been thrust in the spotlight it deserves.
"Unless you get new leadership at the VA, I don't think you are going to see much improvement, and that's because I think there is some basic dysfunction at the VA that can only be cured by stronger leadership," U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said.
Cornyn was quick to praise VA Secretary Eric Shinseki's military service. But he still wants him to resign.
"We owe respect to the veterans, and we are not giving it to them," he said.
About that r-e-s-p-e-c-t: Before the deadly delays in patient care came to light, the VA's claim backlog was a big symbol of veteran disrespect. There are about 300,000 pending claims that are more than 125 days old, per VA stats. All told, there are about 585,000 claims.
These numbers have been worse. There were once 611,000 claims more than 125 days old.
Shinseki has set a goal of squashing the backlog by 2015, and the VA has instituted some important reforms.
But here's the catch:
"I think all of this sort of cooking the books and secret waiting lists and making appointments look like they are being made on time when in fact they are not, that really undermines the credibility of all the data," Cornyn said. "And we need to look at that and make sure that it's reflective of reality."
Or as Brookins wondered during his prolonged fight with the VA, does anyone really know what's going on?
Brookins enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1981, serving as a radioman and intelligence specialist. He left active duty in 1987, then did a stint in the Navy Reserve.
Back in 1984, he was out for a run, training in Connecticut, when he slipped on some black ice. He shattered his left ankle and broke his leg. His treatment was fine, but he was in world of hurt when he returned to light duty.
"My back hurt. My shoulders hurt. My legs hurt. Everything hurt for a while, and I would take aspirin."
Fast forward to late 2003 when he filed a disability claim with the VA for his ankle. That claim was approved easily.
But he also filed a claim for nerve damage in his back he believed was connected to his severe fall. He fought the VA over it for about 10 years, he said.
As time passed, he said his neurologist kept putting new dates on the same old letter.
He made his case to Texas pols including U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, whose office responded.
"We try to facilitate those cases as much as possible," Cuellar said.
The House recently passed some important measures regarding the VA: making records electronic, funding overtime and requiring monthly reporting on the backlog.
But those measures will ring hollow if the underlying dysfunction lingers.
In life, there are big and little symbols. People dying while waiting for care counts as a big symbol of failure.
But as Brookins' story reminds us, the little failures are also inexcusable. Ten years is a long slog.
What a dreadful, intolerable, heartbreaking mess. This is some thanks for service.


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Fragile X syndrome, the most common cause of inherited mental retardation, is caused by expansion of an unstable CGG repeat (? 200 CGG repeats) in the promoter region of the FMRI gene on the X chromosome. Expansions lead to methylation and silencing of the gene. Fragile X-associated tremor ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) is the phenotype seen in carriers of FMR1 premutation (CGG repeats 55-200). It is characterized by action tremor, ataxia, cognitive impairment (memory and executive dysfunction), parkinsonism, psychiatric disorders, peripheral neuropathy, and autonomic failure. Brain MRI characteristically demonstrates increased T2 signal intensity in the middle cerebellar peduncles.
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After a break, Sudam comes with all the flow of the Argentinean summer, showing to our fans that Progressive is on top! African Steppe is a monster track from 2 brothers from Murmansk (Russia). These guys keep the deep progressive sound alive. An amazing production that remains those old good moments of the EDM, when quality was the extra condiment of each track. Original Mix starts with an intro, then jumps straight into a progressive house beat, full of atmosphere and climax. It could be used to start a performance or during a long peak time set. First remix by label founder, KINTAR. He took the track into a massive remix, using House chords plus a monster bassline will fire up your dancefloor. Proof it doesn't matter if it´s Dark or Deep, it's Danceable. Second remix by Michael and Levan and Stiven Rivic. They take it into a progressive trance remix. They put their skills with a floating atmosphere and a Deep bassline, using some psy trance elements. A perfect track for different EDM lovers.
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WELL. That was quite the year we've just had, wasn't it? Asides from the obvious main events, which have garnered a great deal of media attention – such as the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, Euro 2012 and the Olympics – there have been all manner of bizarre, surprising and downright weird stories from the worlds of news, sport, politics and entertainment.
THE 50 FUNNIEST MOMENTS OF 2012 (Channel 4, 9pm)
As the number of topical comedy panel shows will attest to, there's also been no shortage of hilarious moments worth lampooning – and with this comprehensive countdown, Channel 4 is bringing us the lot. Or 50 of the best, at least.
Whether it's Boris Johnson dangling from a zip wire while celebrating Team GB's first Olympic gold, or South Korean rapper and music producer Psy teaching the world to dance Gangnam Style in his phenomenally popular music video, there has been no end of comical highlights for the producers of this fabulous show to choose from.
A veritable wealth of famous faces also pops up to offer some unique views on the events of the year, including singer, television presenter and reality TV star Stacey Solomon, writer and comedian Russell Kane, stand-up comedian Rob Beckett and Canadian comic Katherine Ryan. With such an emphasis on comedy performers, you can expect to be nursing some aching sides by the time the two-hour special draws to a close.
The best thing about it is, when they're off stage and away from their prepared material on shows such as these, you really get the impression that these masters of mirth are just being themselves – and it's hilarious.
Yes, there really is nothing like a good countdown show to round off the year, so as we look forward to welcoming in 2013, this is the perfect way to look back on what has been, quite frankly, a preposterous 12 months.
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Channel 4, 8pm
If you're not feeling too delicate after stuffing yourself at Christmas, Jimmy is on the hunt for a more sustainable alternative to fish and chips – which is where the jellyfish and snails come in. He's also rustled up a squirrel pie.
On a slightly more traditional note, Jimmy and Jamie are championing Britain's new generation of artisan beer makers.
BBC Two, 9pm
It didn't take a genius to realise if you put a couple of famous faces in a car and send them off to traverse some white-knuckle route, the result would be great TV. The latest drivers are Twenty Twelve co-stars Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes. Hugh has a few moments of high anxiety when they are stuck on a high mountain pass in bad weather.
STV, 9pm
SOMETIMES the simplest ideas turn out to be the best. Take It'll Be Alright on the Night, presented by Griff Rhys Jones. It is simply a selection of mistakes made by actors and presenters. They've been captured on film making what former host Denis Norden would describe as a "cock-up", cut together by an editing team and then delivered to our screens for our amusement.
BBC Four, 9pm
Mark Radcliffe is counting down the top 10 songs of all time, not in terms of how many copies they sold or a viewers' vote, but judged on how much money they've earned.
As well as totting up the cold, hard cash, the DJ will be also be looking at the stories behind the songs.


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Author DEREK GORDON is a marketing and sales exec with more than 20 years success in integrated marketing and sales strategy and management. He is the Chief Marketing and Sales Officer for Pathbrite.
Last Friday, Workday, the cloud-based HR and financial systems provider, had a pretty spectacular IPO. Closing at $48.69 a share, which was up 74 percent from its opening, the company collected something like $675 million. It's likely most people missed the event.
Over the last few years, the world has been obsessed with the social Web – social networking, social marketing, social advertising, social media – and watched with bated breath as the biggies moved to IPOs. What followed was more disappointing than thrilling as the biggest IPOs – Facebook and Zynga – stumbled badly. While LinkedIn has done spectacularly well and, more recently, Trulia has been holding its own, the performance of social Web start-ups post-IPO has been largely underwhelming.
Meanwhile, the humble and underappreciated business-cloud application (née SaaS) companies have been chugging along, creating profitable business models and taking on massive incumbents like Oracle and SAP. Beyond Workday, there's ServiceNow (IT management), Guidewire (insurance industry workflow management), ExactTarget (email marketing management), and DemandWare (on-demand e-commerce), among others.
All of these produced impressive first-day pops and strong valuations. And they got to those with solid, defensible business models, impressive financials and focused execution on stated objectives.
Which isn't to say the start-ups in the social space don't work hard or don't have a notion of how they'll remain both competitive and profitable in the years to come. But it is to say that nothing inspires investor confidence more than solid business metrics.
While all the glitz and glamour has accrued to the flashier social Web companies out there – which, let's face it, is in many ways deserved – the humbler business-process applications, redolent of the SaaS applications of yore, have been quietly producing a revolution all their own.
It's time to take notice.
Author DEREK GORDON is a marketing and sales exec with more than 20 years success in integrated marketing and sales strategy and management. He is the Chief Marketing and Sales Officer for Pathbrite.


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Portal CCG is a card game not to be confused with the video game of the same name. It holds no relations to said game. Portal is played by two players who act as tamers with creatures under their control. It should be noted that this game is not played by Dvorak rules and has its own.
Special Rules
If a player cannot draw when they are needed to, they lose the game. When 10 Energy Tokens are lost, the player who loses them loses the game.
Tokens are lost when a monster is destroyed, or due to a card's effect.
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Josh Harrellson and Darius Miller reunite to fight childhood cancer
Former Wildcats Josh Harrellson and Darius Miller are spending part of this week at Indian Summer Camp in Badgdad, Kentucky. Indian Summer Camp is a week long camp through the Kids Cancer Alliance that allows kids with pediatric cancer to spend a week away from the daily struggles that come with cancer. We caught up with Harrellson and Miller at the camp and found out why helping these kids means so much to them.
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Drug Companies Ignore Neglected Diseases, WHO Says
Margaret Chan (file photo) (epa) February 1, 2007 -- The head of the World Health Organization says more must be done to cure "neglected" diseases that afflict 1 billion people in developing countries.
Margaret Chan told a health conference in Bangkok that these diseases were ignored by drug companies that have little incentive to develop drugs for poor markets.
She said "ancient and entrenched" diseases, including many caused by parasites in places like Africa and India, caused far greater human suffering than emerging threats such as SARS and bird flu.
Chan named six diseases that maim, blind, disfigure, and kill millions of the world's poor but are rarely seen in wealthier countries with higher living standards and better health care.
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Bill Collison
His Dad spent his life growing stuff, and the Bill's story started many years ago when he showed Bill a small space, not much bigger than a shed, just off the high street in Lewes, in East Sussex. Make of it what you will, he said. Bill grew up planting, pruning and picking fresh fruit and vegetables, so he opened a tiny greengrocery shop.
A few years later Bill moved the shop on to the high street and everything was going well until the town was hit by a flood in 2000. His shop was ruined (so was his house, further down the street, but that's another story). So, he had to start again, only this time he added a café.
Often with more luck than judgement, Bill's set out to create something amazing, with great food, a real buzz, and plenty to look at - a place for everyone. They had a lot of support - from their customers and suppliers, and from the lovely people who came to work with them and, to their surprise, they became a bit of a sensation, growing to open 76 restaurants nationwide.
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|From Summer
As my school life resumes, I've finally fallen back into routine, and life has picked up its pace once again. Gone are the days when the only recurring structure to my day was waking up and falling asleep. I can't plan my activities on a whim any longer, nor can I decide to change the course of my day well after it has started. I'm now bound to schedules and after school activities, to homework and long hours spent in the confines of a classroom. But surprisingly, I quite like it.
Around the end of August, I fell into sad resignation at the realization of how quickly the days were passing by. As the first day of school crept closer, each fleeting night became a rerun of the last. Just like every evening before, I found myself snuggling my face into my pillow, breathing away the melancholia and trying to suppress my anxiety at the thought of starting my sophomore year of high school.
I had grown comfortable with my leisurely days, and by no means did I want them to end. I tried desperately to soak up the last drops of vacation, to capture the summer air and all it carried with it and bottle it up in ludicrous hopes of saving it for later enjoyment, but to no avail.
|From Summer
It was only as I was walking back home after the first day of school, fall already making itself apparent, that I realized I'd been wrong for wanting summer to last forever. Though at the time I couldn't imagine anything better than waking to a room bathed in the golden sunshine of August, I'd completely overlooked the reasons I adore fall.
I'd missed the way the whole earth seems to transform itself right around September 21st. Concentrated sunlight becomes slightly more diffuse, and in the morning, light breezes carry the sweet scent of the previous night's rainfall. Outside, dry leaves crunch quietly underfoot, and fallen flowers form a vibrant yellow carpet beneath the aging sycamore tree. The sun no longer takes its time setting. Instead, it douses the whole world in darkness minutes after it begins its descent. Fall is a time when the entire world is alive and breathing in its new autumnal décor, giving life to an array of squashes, tiny beaded cranberries, and plum-colored figs.
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And along with these seasonal changes comes school. School, which I had deemed the bane of my existence just a few months back, is definitely not the prison I'd made it out to be.
On the contrary, high school is just as exciting as it was last year. But this year I'm treading charted waters. So far, my sophomore year is shaping up to be the best one yet. I'm enrolled in clubs I'm passionate about: the Go Green campaign, the afterschool orchestra. I've been forced to pick up my momentum once again as my schedule has rapidly become inundated with assignments and tests to study for, but I know to make the most of it, because soon enough, it'll be summer vacation once again.
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I made this tart soon after the first week of school. Despite feeling confident about high school, I was still in need of familiar territory.
I'd like to tell you that the slight tartness of the filling was the perfect contrast to the honey-sweetened figs and that the pistachio crust complimented the citrus-scented yogurt in every respect. But I found the flavors to be too different from each other to pair well, the crust too lacking in sweetness.
Despite not being perfect, the tart was so beautiful it didn't really matter. Slices were cut and passed around the table as we sat outside, the soft sound of the forks clinking against the plates drifting into the quiet autumn evening.
I'll definitely be making this tart again soon, while figs are still in season. But the next time around, I'll substitute the pistachios with almonds and skip the orange zest in the filling entirely as to make the taste of the figs more pronounced.
The original recipe called for mascarpone cheese in the filling, but I substituted it with strained yogurt in favor of a lighter tart.
Fig Tart
adapted from Desserts for Breakfast
makes one 9″ tart, or six 4.5″ tart, or ~32 mini tartlettes
240 gr (2 cups) AP flour
65 gr shelled raw pistachios
50 gr (1/4 cup) sugar
7 Tbspn butter, cold
1 egg yolk
3-4 Tbspn water, cold
In a food processor, combine the flour, pistachios, and sugar and process until the pistachios are finely ground.Using the food processor or a pastry cutter, cut the cold butter into the flour mixture until the size of small peas.
Add the egg yolk and gradually add the water just until a dough begins to form when you press it between two fingers. Do not overmix.
Form the pastry into a ball and refrigerate for at least one hour. (or stick it in the freezer for a shorter amount of time.)
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
Remove the pastry dough from the fridge and press the dough into the tart pan. Prick the bottom of the dough all over with a fork, cover with parchment paper, and weigh down using dry beans or pie weights. Return to freezer for a few minutes if the dough has softened.
Bake for ~13-15 minutes until the edges just begin to turn golden. Remove the beans and parchment paper and continue to bake for 3-5 minutes more, until the crust has completely turned golden brown. Remove from oven and let cool.
450 gr strained yogurt
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 tspn vanilla extract
freshly grated zest of 1 lemon
In a mixer bowl with the whisk attachment, whip the yogurt, brown sugar, and heavy cream on medium high until soft peaks.
Add the vanilla extract and lemon zest and continue to whip just until stiff peaks. Do not overmix.
Spoon the filling into the cooled tart shell, and smooth with a spatula.
2 punnets figs
2 Tbspn honey
2 Tbspn raspberry jam (or fig or apricot, or any mixture thereof)
Cut the figs into quarters and arrange on top of the mascarpone tart filling.
Warm the honey and jam together, either over the stove or in the microwave. Brush over the arranged figs.
(filling recipe adapted from Donna Hay.)
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Now this gives me an opportunity to take some of my faves away with me.
Chanel Eau de Cologne?
Oh dear a week in a touring caravan and no perfume buying opportunities
Mmm-mmm. Did you sample a new citrus scent in the past year? Are you still loving an old fave? Tell us what refreshes.
For newcomers, here's the lowdown on this monthly online event:Every member, any gender, novice or veteran sniffer, is invited to apply a fragrance related to the theme of the month (listed below) and share your thoughts on the first Saturday of the month. This isn't a mandatory assignment; it's just for fun. Because not everyone logs in on weekends, you're encouraged to continue to add comments within this themed thread on subsequent days. If you don't join us for this month's discussion, please look ahead at the tentative lineup and join in at a later date.
JANUARY ~ OrientalLooking for suggestions?
(warmth, flowers, spices, woods & vanilla)
FEBRUARY ~ Animalic
(civet-, castoreum-, leather-, or musk-influenced scents)
MARCH ~ Chypre
(used to be defined by oakmoss presence, but ...?)
APRIL ~ Floral
(single solifore or full bouquet of flowers)
MAY~ Fruity
(single sweet fruits or a bowl of fruity-florals)
JUNE ~ Citrus
(hesperidic: bergamot, lemon, orange, grapefruit, tangerine, etc.)
JULY ~ Green
(fresh leaves & grasses)
AUGUST ~ Fresh or aquatic
(cool, dewy notes and seaside scents)
SEPTEMBER ~ Opposite-Gender Fragrance
OCTOBER ~ Ambery
(dark, light or blond amber as feature note)
NOVEMBER ~ Spicy
(warm notes associated with cooking)
DECEMBER ~ Gourmand
(fragrances with a foody note, but not usually fruity--save for May)
See previous SnS discussions:
Oriental Jan. 2007, Jan. 2008, Jan. 2009, Jan. 2010, Jan. 2011, Jan. 2012
Animalic Feb. 2007, Feb. 2008, Feb. 2009, Feb. 2010, Feb. 2011, Feb. 2012
Chypre March 2007, March 2008, March 2009, March 2010, March 2011, March 2012
Floral April 2007, April 2008, April 2009, April 2010, April 2011, April 2012
Fruity May 2007, May 2008, May 2009, May 2010, May 2011, May 2012
Citrus June 2007, June 2008, June 2009, June 2010, June 2011
Green July 2008, July 2009, July 2010, July 2011
Fresh Aug. 2008, Aug. 2009, Aug. 2010, Aug. 2011
Fougere Sept. 2007
Opposite Gender Sept. 2008, Sept. 2009, Sept. 2010, Sept. 2011
Ambery Oct. 2007, Oct. 2008, Oct. 2009, Oct. 2010, Oct. 2011
Spicy Nov. 2007, Nov. 2008, Nov. 2009, Nov. 2010, Nov. 2011
Gourmand Dec. 2007, Dec. 2008, Dec. 2009, Dec. 2010, Dec. 2011
For the months of July and August 2007, regular BN was offline and supporters had access to an abbreviated site. We discussed aquatics and greens, but those posts are no longer accessible.
"I live in the garden, I just sleep in the house." -- Jim Long
Now this gives me an opportunity to take some of my faves away with me.
Chanel Eau de Cologne?
Oh dear a week in a touring caravan and no perfume buying opportunities
For Citrus SnS I chose the bright and tangy Hermes Eau de Pamplemousse Rose. Manages the neat trick of staying refreshing without going sour or rank, not always easy for a grapefruit scent to pull off.
Notes include grapefruit, orange, rose, rhubofix, vetiver.
"I felt something so intense, I could only express it in a perfume." - Jacques Guerlain
I'm wearing Sous le Vent today. It's much more than a 'citrus'. Mostly, it's an aromatic, green-citric chypré with a slightly indolic element in the background (needs liberal application) that seems to come from an element that is also part of honey (I once analyzed the ingredients list meticulously). It is 'currently still part' of the Guerlain line-up, but I expect this to go in 2013. There are only few bottles sitting around on shelves worldwide, so you've been warned a couple of times, if this, one of the greatest secrets in perfumery IMO, is quickly gone for good. Try it now, if you haven't! Have a great weekend all!
It's going to be Eau de Guerlain in the morning and most likely Blu Mediterraneo Capri Arancia by Acqua di Parma in the afternoon...that seems to be a citrus staple for me. Oh how I wish that I had more Acqua Viva by Profumum (sigh)
"When you become comfortable with uncertainty. infinite possibilities open up in your life"
-- Eckhart Tolle
This morning, before heading out to work, l drained my sample of Escentric 01. This has lemon & pepper in the opening, with a touch of woods. lt dried down more quickly than l remembered from the first wearing, into a very nice mossy ambergris.
After lunch, l topped up with a spritz or two of Sisley's Eau d'lkar, from a sample l originally got for my bf to try. lt didn't work for him, but l really like this on me! To my nose it has a long-lasting grapefruit note, backed up with a sweetish, cool & leafy-green accord, which l think is the mastic. When l first tried this in the winter, it didn't last long, but in the heat it projects & lasts beautifully! l recommend this as a very refreshing, unisex & long-lasting summer citrus.
"What is this secret connection between the soul, and sea, clouds and perfumes? The soul itself appears to be sea, cloud and perfume..." - from Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis.
A new-to-me scent entered my favorites list recently, thanks to the happenstance arrival of a sample Cacio included in his donation of scents for the zoo's big cat scent project (which reminds me, I should check with the zookeeper). All this is to preface my assertion, yet again, that when I plot to sample, I am no more successful in finding a wonderful perfume than when samples fall into my lap.
This wonderous creation is Patricia de Nicolai's Cologne Sologne, which I perceive as a traditional cologne with neroli tendencies. The official notes are neroli, sandalwood, grapefruit, lemon verbena, and Sicilian bergamot. The lasting power is above average for a cologne of this type. The bottle is a big disappointment glamour-wise, and I don't know why this tasteful perfumer has chosen the transluscent, pale blue balls for caps on her product line. I guess I can always transfer CS to an Annick Goutal bottle.
I will probably get around to researching what is up with the rhymie Cologne Sologne name. Was she being goofy or clever beyond my understanding?
"I live in the garden, I just sleep in the house." -- Jim Long
"No probblem of longevity or sillage... Spray a little on your clothes if you want to irradiate."
"I live in the garden, I just sleep in the house." -- Jim Long
Quarry, it's obviously this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sologne
Cologne Sologne is indeed fantastic, a great refreshment. Nicolai sells this off their site (under Bath) per litre at a very favorable price. I like being generous with this kind of fragrance.
I'm theoretically still in sync with Jicky EdP. Compared to the former PdT most of the citrus is gone or hardly detectable. It's lavender galore at first (I love that) with the best and dirtiest vanilla Guerlain has ever produced gradually joining in. I like to think I can detect the dash of birch tar that is added for smokiness. One of my greatest loves!
"What is this secret connection between the soul, and sea, clouds and perfumes? The soul itself appears to be sea, cloud and perfume..." - from Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis.
I was going to try being original and pick something not yet mentioned, but Larimar's choice of Sous le Vent was just too darn tempting, so I am going to put that on right now!
MPG, Sanguine Muskissime. I just found this bottle in storage. It's really lovely but very light which is probably why I put it away. It smells like orange baby aspirin and light musk.
It was sunny and warm/hot earlier this week so I thought it would be perfect for citrus today. But I forgot about our weather phenomenon here called "June gloom" The fog just rolls in and turns everything gray, damp and cool.
So I'm trying to warm up in my citrus choice- Laura Biagiotti Roma fits the bill perfectly as a spicy light oriental
Launched in 1988, but I had never excountered it before BN. Published notes:
Top: black currant, sicilian bergamot, pink grapefruit, mint and hiacynth;
Middle notes are carnation, jasmine, lily-of-the-valley and rose (I really don't get any of these on my skin)
Base notes are amber, sandalwood, singapore patchouli, musk, civet, vanilla, oakmoss and myrrh. (I get amber, patch,vanilla, and myrrh)
Changed to Annick Goutal-Neroli. It's very pretty and seems to have good sillage, so far. Much better than the MPG.
Bois de Jasmine review;
Although this spring we have several new orange blossom perfumes, from Lancôme Ô de l'Orangerieto Guerlain Floral Romantique, I still pledge loyalty to an orange blossom fragrance that offers the most authentic tribute to the beauty of this marvelously contrasted note–Annick Goutal Néroli. Néroli is not a complicated fragrance, yet with a few carefully balanced accords, it conveys both the sparkling innocence and the languid warmth of orange blossom.
Created in 2003 by Camille Goutal and Isabelle Doyen, the dynamic duo behind the Annick Goutal fragrance line, Néroli is built around the combination of orange blossom absolute and neroli. While both come from the bitter orange blossom, different processing methods result in different olfactory profiles. Orange blossom is darker, richer and more voluptuous, while neroli is greener and fresher. Their complementary qualities make for a particularly multifaceted orange flower accord. The composition is accented with aromatic basil and bergamot, while vanilla and cedarwood create a smooth, polished base. While the initial impression of Néroli is effervescent and green, it becomes velvety and floral as it dries down.
In fact, the main reason I prefer Néroli over many other orange blossom fragrances is its pronounced floral aspect. It gives Néroli a delicate, petally feeling, which contrasts with the sharper, greener character of fragrances like Tom Ford Neroli Portofino, Christian Dior Escale à Portofino andAtelier Cologne Grand Néroli. While Néroli does not quite reach the exquisite richness of L'Artisan Parfumeur Fleur d'Oranger, it has an exhilarating quality that makes it suitable as a refreshing summer fragrance or an uplifting cologne. On the other hand, this winter it has been among my staple fragrances, which is probably why I fared so well through our incessant snows. Néroli reminded me that the spring is not that far away.
Néroli includes notes of bergamot, petitgrain, neroli, orange blossom, cedarwood, and vanilla. Néroli was originally released as a limited edition along with Le Chèvrefeuille, Des Lys, Le Jasmin, Le Muguet and La Violette. Since then, Néroli has joined the permanent collection. Available from Neiman Marcus, Barneys New York, Aedes and other retailers. $115, 100ml.
In the end, I went to Philtre d'amour, of which a generous BNer sent a sample. Citrus, on a bitter background and with some flowers.
Given Quarry's suggestion, I was tempted by Cologne Sologne, but cologne are too fleeting, so I wanted something a little longer lasting. I have been however wearing Cologne sologne as a freshener after the gym this week.
I will do Cologne Sologne this morning - as a refreshment - for breakfast outside and before I leave wearing something different for the day. To me it is straight-up diluted neroli essential oil, which is a good thing, also because it is natural. I am so put off by Tom Ford and the kinds with their synthetic amplification. Their strength is too much and they almost invariably end up being screechy.
Would seem nearly heretical not to choose CS right now, so it's my SOT a.m. Can't understand why DH doesn't like this. Must mean I need to apply more until he gets it.
"I live in the garden, I just sleep in the house." -- Jim Long
I was traveling all day yesterday so I didn't get to sniff 'n speak. I love citrus scents, especially the astringent colognes that are meant to be splashed around as aromatherapeutic refreshers. I like the idea of lying down in a darkened room with a cool cologne-drenched cloth on my head. I've never actually tried that, but it appeals to me. Annick Goutal's Hadrien has been a favorite of mine for years now. I think it is a perfect citrus scent. I understand it has been reformulated. Other citrus scents I've always enjoyed are citrussy florals because they lift my spirits. Clinique Happy and D&G Feminine are a couple that I've enjoyed - I mean really worn consistently and used them up. There are so many in that genre, but they have to hit me just right: a friendly floral/citrus, and not too artsy to be happy go lucky. Mango is not *officially* citrus but it affects me the same way. I looooove mango. You know, I've never sampled the Hermès Jardin Nil scent but everybody raves about it so I suppose I should some day. I'm just afraid that it is too austere and classy to be the type of citrus scent I can relate to.
Sur le Nil is a most wearable scent. I especially love the lotus blossom.
I agree with kumquat- it's doesnt feel austere on skin to me. Try it!
I wore bond Little Italy yesterday for citrus SnS day. What a treat! Little Italy is a simple, yet happy orange fragrance. On a cloudy day, it's a ray of sunshine ... on a hot, sunny day, it's a refreshing drink of orange soda.
From the Bond No9 website:
"Citrus-flavored melt-in-your mouth gelato in spray form. A smooth but zesty mingling of exotic fruits — think of this one as an updated invigorating splash of eau. Oh!"
Notes: Clementine, grapefruit, mandarin
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Here's a big (((SQUEEZE)))
for all who contributed to this thread.
"I live in the garden, I just sleep in the house." -- Jim Long
Hee! Thanks Quarry!
"What is this secret connection between the soul, and sea, clouds and perfumes? The soul itself appears to be sea, cloud and perfume..." - from Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis.


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It will shock no-one that Britney gets to sing and that one song, I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman, is up to No 8 and climbing on the Australian singles charts. Judging by the film's opening, with a screen average beaten only by The Scorpion King, her flying visit to Sydney, featuring a brief concert for fans, has paid dividends.
What's fascinating is the way the teen idol is being eased into a film career. No doubt surrounded by record company executives and agents for whom she is a lucrative cash cow, her screen debut would have been closely managed. Throughout script development and filming, Davis and screenwriter Shonda Rhimes would have heard the phrase "Britney doesn't do that" more times than Justin Timberlake.
Her minders have shaped the 20-year-old, who is famously chaste despite a series of hot music videos, into a film offering suggestive lingerie and even a little pole-dancing for young male audiences and issues for female fans like teenage pregnancy, date rape, dealing with high parental expectations and dieting for beauty.
Lucy takes the most important step in an impressionable girl's life - from wincing at a service station toilet to cheerfully going behind a bush in the desert.
We'll see how far Britney's influence extends. She spends part of the film looking charmingly daggy in grey tracksuit pants and a souvenir T-shirt. Let's see if supermodels start dressing like that on the catwalks.
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East of Nowhere
by Robert Chalmers
Atlantic Books £12.99, pp384
This novel, an unsettlingly Gothic story of redemption, begins with a small, shabby act in a small, shabby place. Edward Miller, the vile and reactionary editor of a national newspaper, has sex with his secretary in a stationery cupboard. He does this because he can. Unfortunately, when he furtively leaves the cupboard's darkened confines less than a minute later, he unwittingly reveals his secret to the world in the form of the airmail stickers that have attached themselves to the back of his suit. Cue sniggers all round from the slavering pack that passes for his staff.
As the news editor, pulled up for his expenses, puts it: 'How can we possibly fly business when you two send yourselves freight?' At this point, we might be entering, though this is hardly a criticism, David Lodge territory. You sense that things are about to go wrong for Miller and that his prejudices (he hates queers and immigrants; he loves Rudyard Kipling) are about to slap him, ever so educatively, in the face.
But Chalmers is not content with mere improving satire. His plan is far darker. Miller's life, it turns out, is flimsier than a new build on one of the very estates he despises, and it takes only a handful of airmail stickers and a few misguided hours at a members-only club to blow it clean away. Twenty-four hours later and he is surrounded by rubble.
First, Miller loses his wife (she finds out about the secretary). Then he loses his job (he is photographed snorting coke in the aforementioned members-only club). He goes home to the big house in the Home Counties, gets drunk and sprays the word 'Wannker' [sic] on his wife's lover's car in silver paint, an act that is also recorded for posterity by a newspaper. Finally, he takes a handful of his wife's favourite vinyl - Art Garfunkel, Bread, Phil Collins - and makes a pyre of it.
Miller realises that he must now scoot, and fast, but where to? He has no family to speak of and certainly no friends. Clutching his credit card and unaware that Everdene is, as a consequence of his pyre, about to go up in flames, he boards a train for Manchester, the place where, 38 years ago, he was born. Thus, his descent into hell, a place hotter than any headline, begins. From Manchester, he runs first to Spain, where he teaches English as a foreign language to mostly half-witted adults, and then to Florida, where, by now truly down on his luck, he is held captive in a camp for circus freaks of the Coney Island variety.
East of Nowhere is a game of two distinct halves. The first, set in Barcelona, is funny - really funny. Chalmers perfectly captures the peripatetic, shifty, dissolute lifestyle of a certain kind of Englishman on the run from himself and, in the case of the principal of the preposterously bogus Oxbridge House College of English, from 'that hideous east coast, the wind whipping in from the North Sea, and the mean streak it breeds in the people there'.
The second is far inkier, a monstrous gloom (in its impoverished shadows looms violence of a kind unimagined even by Miller's most creative sub-editors) that lingers long after you have finished reading. It is in Florida, where his only friend is a black dwarf and where he is at the mercy of a psychopath called the Half Man, that our editor's blunter edges are softened at last.
He falls in love with a woman whose skin is covered in scales, a twist that might be saccharine as well as improbable were it not for the fact that in this world, as in his old one, liberal values count for nothing. To win her, Miller must contemplate activities far worse than rattling off a rabble-rousing leader column or exposing some celebrity affair. Only now, the end justifies the means.
Chalmers is not one for clever similes or long descriptive passages. His instincts are clean and concise. And he has a real ear for dialogue, a talent sadly lacking in most new novels. In conversation, his characters, even the weirdest and most unlikely among them, have the elusive and sardonic timbre of authenticity. Certain details bothered me. Would one newspaper editor really be so enthusiastic about exposing another? Why is it that Miller won't believe that his father's hero, Baden-Powell, was interested in boys, yet he knows all the sexual foibles of the great poets after which the rooms at Oxbridge House are named?
But this is just to be picky. East of Nowhere is a good book and a great read; you turn the pages with genuine and steadily mounting amazement.