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(Telegraph) - National power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while electronic items, navigation devices and major satellites could stop working after the Sun reaches its maximum power in a few years.
Senior space agency scientists believe the Earth will be hit with unprecedented levels of magnetic energy from solar flares after the Sun wakes "from a deep slumber" sometime around 2013, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
In a new warning, Nasa said the super storm would hit like "a bolt of lightning" and could cause catastrophic consequences for the world's health, emergency services and national security unless precautions are taken.
Scientists believe it could damage everything from emergency services' systems, hospital equipment, banking systems and air traffic control devices, through to "everyday" items such as home computers, iPods and Sat Navs.
Due to humans' heavy reliance on electronic devices, which are sensitive to magnetic energy, the storm could leave a multi-billion pound damage bill and "potentially devastating" problems for governments.
"We know it is coming but we don't know how bad it is going to be," Dr Richard Fisher, the director of Nasa's Heliophysics division, said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph....
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Shortly after Steve Jobs died, the death watch for Apple itself began. The assumption by many in the tech press was that Jobs was Apple's soul, and without him, the company that he founded, fled, returned to and then resurrected would wither away.
Financially, that's not happened. Apple's doing quite well in terms of revenue and profit, but its stock has tumbled as it hasn't maintained the phenomenal growth that made it a Wall Street star. Apple also has not produced a disruptive product on the scale of the original iPhone or iPad since Jobs died (though you could argue that the iPad mini is disruptive … at least of full-sized iPad sales).
In Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs, we read that Apple was working on a television. Jobs claimed to have "cracked" the problem of a great TV interface, but other than continued iterations of the Apple TV product that's been out there for a while, there's no sign of something bigger and disruptive. Breaking through the monolithic structure protecting TV content appears to be the stumbling block.
But hey! We may get a smart watch, instead.
Apple's legend has been built on these disruptive products, starting with the Apple II computer. As more time passes without a new breakthrough device, Wall Street, analysts and tech journalists become convinced that Apple has lost its mojo. As a result, we've got drumbeats of doom.
Rationally, it's clear that Apple's not going away any time soon. But last week we may have seen the real cost of not having Steve Jobs around. Apple appears to have gone tone deaf in reaction to the launch of Samsung's Galaxy S4 smartphone.
The day before the S4 launch, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller gave a strangely defensive interview to the Wall Street Journal in which he bashed a product that no one had really seen yet. He even went so far as to declare that the phone would have a year-old operating system, meaning Android 4.1. The S4 is indeed launching with Android 4.2, making Schiller look as foolish as any Apple blogger who repeats unfounded rumors about the next version of the iPhone.
Then there's this:
The name of the page is "Why iPhone" and it's a lavishly illustrated argument for choosing an iPhone over, mostly, an Android device. It talks about specific features and why they're better than the competition, and like Schiller's interviews last week, comes off as defensive. It also gets at least one thing dead wrong.
For example, in the section touting the iPhone's Retina display, the page says Apple's phone is the only one with this feature:
The Retina display on iPhone ushered in the era of super-high-resolution displays. Its pixel density is so high, your eye can't distinguish individual pixels. The images and words are amazingly vivid and crisp. Everything just looks so real. In fact, once you see a Retina display, you're never satisfied with anything less. Yet it remains a feature found only on iPhone and other Apple products. [Emphasis mine.]
Uh, no. Lots of phones now have displays with a "pixel density is so high, your eye can't distinguish individual pixels." That includes the Galaxy S4, which has a density of 441 pixels per inch compared to the iPhone 5′s 326 ppi. The new HTC One has a pixel density of 468 ppi.
Apple also sent this page via email to many of its customers – including some who'd already bought an iPhone 5. What?
These moves have been ham-handed at best. While I hate to play the "what would Steve Jobs have done?" game, it's an obvious question to ask here. I don't think Apple's design or innovation chops are fading away with Jobs' death. But the company's ability to control the conversation apparently has.
There are many instances in Isaacson's biography in which Jobs put the kibosh on tone-deaf marketing before it could get out Apple's door. If only he'd been around to stop this latest fiasco.


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Whew! What a wild week this has been. I'm supposed to be in my "less busy" season, but somehow, what with projects showing up earlier than expected, I ended up with three deadlines this week. That kind of stuff is only supposed to happen in November and December!
So I thought it would be good to unwind with a rambly post. Because a lot of other stuff happened/is happening so I have tons to talk about.
As I type this, guess where my daughter, Hayley, is? In Hollywood!
She flew out on Thursday morning to spend a few days with a good friend of mine, Holly Sorenson. Holly's the executive producer of ABC Family's Make It Or Break It, and they're shooting the season finale right now. We thought it would be a great way for Hayley to experience a real live television set in action, so to speak, so she took a short break from her filmmaking studies to fly out to LA.
Hayley and Holly on the MIOBI set
I love this picture of the two of them on set! They're having a great time together, and Holly took Hayley out for some pampering, too:
Hayley getting some pampering
And if you've never watched Make It Or Break It before, you're in for a treat! The show follows a gymnastics team on their journey to the gold; Season 3 premieres next month, and you can catch up on the earlier episodes online.
While Hayley's deep in Hollywood excitement, I'm going to the opera for the very first time tonight! A friend of mine has season's tickets, and she asked if I'd like to go see Tosca. I listen to opera only via Ward, who loves it (we're planning on going together ourselves once we've really settled into our city lives), but other than that, I'm a total opera newbie. So I thought a classic opera like Tosca would be a good way to start my opera experiences.
My main dilemma? I have nothing to wear! <insert wail here> And while you might have heard other people say this kind of thing, I can assure you, I truly have nothing to wear. I don't have dress boots, so that leaves out all my winter dresses (all one of them) and winter skirts (all one of them, too). I know you can wear jeans to the opera but I'd like to be dressed at least a cut above jeans. So the only thing I have left are these black cotton pants which are in no way dressy – but they're not jeans! I've decided to be happy with that.
(I can't even wear my dressy ankle boots because it snowed last night, and given the choice of walking in snow and ice in heels or my sturdy, dependable Thinsulate boots … well, let's just say I've never been one to pick fashion over comfort and safety …)
Okay, this has been a long ramble, but I've really got to tell you about a fabulous recipe resource Ward recently discovered. (And then I'll stop rambling – I promise!). It's the magazine version of The Best of America's Test Kitchen: Best Recipes and Reviews 2012, and it is simply amazing.
So far this week, Ward has made the following recipes:
Chicken and Slicks: this is the Appalachian version of chicken and dumplings. We had it last night and it was SO delicious. You make your own noodles for it (well, I didn't – Ward did all of that), and instead of using water in the noodle recipe, you actually use chicken broth. Very tasty noodles, very tasty dish.
Cod Fish Cakes: ever have a fish cake and it really tasted more pasty than seafood-y? The fish cakes Ward made from this magazine were the absolute best I've ever tasted, and that includes fish cakes I've ordered at a restaurant. Solid chunks of cod, with nothing to hide the flavor. Yummy!
Black Bean Chili: I didn't have any of this, because I'm not one for chili, but it fits the bill for a vegan entrée for Ward. He had a bit of trouble getting the beans soft, but other than that, he said it was delicious.
Rosemary Focaccia: our latest joke is that this recipe alone is worth the cost of the magazine (It's $9.95, kind of hefty for a magazine but really really worth it). Seriously, I've never had focaccia that tasted this good: fluffy with just the right amount of density and chewiness, and a beautiful rosemary flavor through and through.
It's a plan-ahead recipe, as you have to make the starter between 8 and 24 hours before you prepare the actual dish. You also need a very hot oven, and since our oven is very close to our fire alarm, every time Ward opened the oven door, I had to stand on a chair and fan the hot air from the alarm so we didn't set the thing blaring. But it was well worth it – it's so good, Ward has made it twice this past week.
Okay, I'm done rambling, like I promised!
And since I can't ramble and not talk about food at one point or another, I'm including this as a Weekend Cooking post. For more food-related posts, make sure you head over to Beth Fish Reads!


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Welcome to Leipziger Jazztage
43rd LEIPZIGER JAZZTAGE 10. – 19. OCTOBER 2019
In its 42nd edition in 2018 the jazz festival Leipzig presented FISH'N'CHIPS – with Norma Winstone, Dave Holland's Aziza, Matthew Herbert's Brexit Big Band, James Farm, Empirical, Avishai Cohen Quartet, Yazz Ahmed, Soweto Kinch, Max Andrzejewsk's Hütte and Guests play Robert Wyatt, Lucia Cadotsch + Tricko, Kit Downes, Elliot Galvin, Oli Steidle & The Killing Popes et al. From 11th to 20th October 2018 roughly 100 contemporary jazz artists played more than 20 concerts in 10 venues, from independent clubs to the opera house of Leipzig. Welcome to Leipziger Jazztage!
The international Leipziger Jazztage is one of the oldest and most well-known jazz festivals in Germany – in 2016 in its big 40th jubilee edition. It runs 10 days with roughly 100 artists from all over the world and is hosted by the Jazzclub Leipzig. The festival focuses on international established names and pioneers of jazz as well as innovative and brave newcomers – and presents them in venues such as the venerable theatre and opera house, the historic "Kongreßhalle am Zoo" and churches as well as independent clubs and the oldest movie theatre in Leipzig. The aim of the Leipziger Jazztage is to present all kinds of contemporary jazz in a special thematic context with current themes ranging from »Between Mahler and Miles« and »Sound of Heimat« to »Cinematic Jazz« and »Fine Arts«. With self-initiated projects and commissioned works the festival captures the zeitgeist of jazz, while also maintaining a close relationship with the polish jazz scene which distinguishes the Leipziger Jazztage from other festivals. Furthermore the traditional »Jazz for Kids« offers a highlight for the whole family in the great opera hall.
Live-Acts at Leipziger Jazztage since 1976 Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra, The Bad Plus, Carla Bley, Till Brönner, Peter Brötzmann, Stanley Clarke, Avishai Cohen, Electro Deluxe, Bill Frisell, Steve Coleman, Egberto Gismonti, Mark Guiliana, Hidden Orchestra, Sophie Hunger, Maria João, Joachim Kühn, Rolf Kühn, Nguyên Lê, Albert Mangelsdorff, Brad Mehldau, Pat Metheny, Dominic Miller, Marcus Miller, Mouse on Mars, Panzerballett, Michel Petrucciani, Joshua Redman, Marc Ribot, Antonio Sanchez, Heinz Sauer, John Scofield, Wayne Shorter, Supersilent, Steve Swallow, Eric Truffaz, Leo Smith, Nils Wogram, Michael Wollny, Zentralquartett and many many more


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This presentation is part of the Appication Development Program commissioned by the New York City Charter School Center. Created by charter school expert Cynthia Millinger, Education Plan: Selecting Essential Standards assists planning teams in developing an academic blueprint in conjunction with the New York State Testing Standards. Building a program that will pass the selective criteria of the authorizing agencies is a main theme of this presentaion.


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Feeding the poor in America through "Food Stamps" has been cut out of the Agricultural bill just passed by Congress. We've spent 90 Billion dollars in aid to Afghanistan since 2002. Over 40 Million Americans receive food stamps.They rely on this program for a little food to feed themselves and their family members. And a total war cost in Afghanistan at 644,347,384,000 since the beginning. The war with Iraq and Afghanistan has cost over 1.4 Trillion Dollars.
Over 6,717 U.S.soldiers have lost their lives, and over 50,000 were wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over 25,000 soldiers suffer from Traumatic Brain Injuries. More than 624,000 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan have filed disability claims, Military Times reported in January. More than two-thirds of all applications for benefits take the VA more than 125 days to process.These costs can not be measured. Their families have and are suffering now and long into the future. There has never been a "Declaration of War" on either Iraq or Afghanistan by Congress. How many Iraqi citizens and Afghani citizens have been killed or wounded, no one knows. They suffer because of where they live. For no other reason.
American cities are going bankrupt. One in four bridges in America need repair, total cost estimated to be over 140 Billion. 56,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States shut down since 2001.Read more:
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1. Health Care: Number 38 in the World. Iraq is Number 104, Afghanistan is Number 173 out of a total of 190 countries.
2. Mother's Index: U.S. ranks 30th. Iraq is Number 113, and Afghanistan is Number 145.
3. Elder Care: The U.S. is not even ranked in the top 20 nations of the world.
The U.S. response to 9/11 by bombing Afghanistan, then invading Iraq (a preemptive strike due to the U.S. faking that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction) has led to the financial collapse of the U.S. economy (but not the "War Economy", that is going strong with profits for corporations that build war weapons). The U.S. has lost its "Moral Compass". A land built on "Laws" now determines what laws it follows, and declares that their actions abide by the laws when in fact they are breaking the laws.
Torturing people that were kidnapped from their homeland and take to Guantanamo prison; killing innocent civilians through the use of Drone missiles; and Edward Snowden brings out the World gathering of all communication through NSA's Metadata collections. War crimes for sure. But who's to bring charges? Dr. Francis Boyle did and Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and others were found GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES (posted on this site).
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That's all there is to fly-fishing, and Fly Fish Texas is the place to learn it. The annual event takes place March 10 at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center.
Show hours are 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. All Fly Fish Texas activities are free with regular paid admission to the center.
Fly Fish Texas emphasizes hands-on learning and immediate application of newly acquired skills. Visitors can collect aquatic insects from the center's streams, tie a fly to imitate one of those insects under the supervision of a skilled tier, learn to cast it from a casting instructor certified by the Federation of Fly Fishers, then use it to catch a rainbow trout, catfish or sunfish from one of TFFC's stocked ponds or streams.
Throughout the day, experienced fly-tiers will be demonstrating and teaching fly-tying in the Anglers Pavilion on a one-on-one basis. In addition, group instruction in beginning fly-tying will be offered in the Hart-Morris Conservation Center. Both are offered on a walk-up basis.
Beginning casting instruction will take place all day in the Conservation Center parking lot, again on a walk-up basis. Other, scheduled sessions will teach single-hand and Spey rod casting.
Vendors will be displaying and selling fly-fishing gear, and seminars will brief visitors on where and how to fly-fish in Texas fresh and salt waters for a variety of species. The program will include presentations on fly-fishing locations such as the Llano River, Lakes Fork and Lewisville, the Texas Hill Country and tailwaters below dams. A session will also be offered on fly-fishing New Mexico.
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Several sessions will be aimed at youths or those working with youths. Keith Miller of Waco, who has been catching a fish a day since April 1, 2011, will speak on his quest and also fish with participants. Steve Hall of Austin will speak on the national fly-fishing in schools program. Brad Newman of the Federation of Student Anglers will share insights into how to set up a school-based fishing club.
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Criswell's Big Prediction of the Day
In the spirit of self-fulling prophesies, IBM has launched a big new predictive analytics software lab in China because the company believes there's a big future for big data there.
Predictive analytics involves the sifting through of huge amounts of data looking for patterns in order to predict and forecast trends. How big of a future? According to IDC, a market predictor and forcaster in its own right, the oportunity for business analytics in China is expected to grow 10% annually from 2009-2013, faster than the average IT market growth of 8%.
Okay, 10% isn't that big a number, unless it's a really big pie your cutting into. I predict that a little piece of a big pie is usually better than a big piece of a little pie. Agree?
The lab will help big users see patterns in vast amounts of data and forecast trends before they occur, particularly in industries like banking, telecommunications, power grid, railroads, health care, and urban management -- each and every one a big pie industry. The lab will house a dedicated team of more than 200 software engineers and IT architects focusing on predictive analytics, working out of IBM's China Development Lab which employs more than 5,000 software engineers.
Here's my no-brainer prediction: The big winners in all this will be vendors of many-core processors and parallel programming tools. Efficiently and accurately sifting through and analyzing the amount of data we're talking about isn't going to happen on anything less than lots and lots of quad-core or more computers, and writing the parallel software isn't going to be easy. So lets programmers who have the skills for writing parallel software into the winner's circle too. That's my prediction.


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Set the ORBVAAHost and ORBVAAPort options to the host and port of the public address. The ORBUserConfigurators option tells the ORB to create an instance of the VirtualAddressAgentImpl class and invoke the configure method on the resulting object, which must implement the com.sun.corba.ee.spi.orb.ORBConfigurator interface. The ORBUserConfigurators value doesn't matter. Together, these options create an ORB that in turn creates Object references (the underlying implementation of remote EJB references) containing the public address, while the ORB listens on the private address specified for the IIOP port in the GlassFish Server configuration.


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NGC 6826's eye-of-demon appearance is heightened by two sets of blood-red "fliers" that lie horizontally across the image. The surrounding faint green "white" of the eye is believed to be gas that made up almost half of the star's mass for most of its life. The hot remnant star (in the center of the green oval), one of the brightest stars in any planetary nebula, drives a fast wind into older material, forming a hot interior bubble which pushes the older gas ahead of it to form a bright rim. NGC 6826 is 2,200 light- years away in the constellation Cygnus.
The Hubble telescope observation was taken Jan. 27, 1996 with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2.
Image Credits: Bruce Balick (University of Washington), Jason Alexander (University of Washington), Arsen Hajian (U.S. Naval Observatory), Yervant Terzian (Cornell University), Mario Perinotto (University of Florence, Italy), Patrizio Patriarchi (Arcetri Observatory, Italy) and NASA


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29 Mar 2013
27 Mar 2013
Sam Edelman Beauties
New Sam Edelman "Reagan" pumps in neon coral snake leather with silver sole and heel - that´s what I call a shoe perfection... :-)
25 Mar 2013
22 Mar 2013
Striped Pullover
Today´s simple combination of a striped pullover, black slim jeans and classic pumps livened up with a bright clutch...
21 Mar 2013
Dark Green Shorts
I have these shorts for so long that I can almost call them vintage, although they haven´t appeared on the blog yet...
19 Mar 2013
Nerdy Me
The older I am the more diopters I need, and the only advantage is that once in a while I get new glasses. These are my latest from Tom Ford and I´ve convinced myself that they make me look awfully smart. 8-)
18 Mar 2013
Freezing in Sandals
I admit that I could have worn more meaningful shoes as it doesn´t make any sense to wear sandals in the winter... And I also admit that I felt really cold and had to go to change my shoes later... But I got these beauties for Christmas and just couldn´t wait to wear them anymore! OK, I´m probably crazy, but receiving summer shoes in the winter is a pure torture for me. And as my birthday is in summer, I´d like to suggest to all my potential shoe-donators to offer me summer shoes for my birthday and winter shoes for Christmas, it´d be much more practical and health-protecting... :-)))
15 Mar 2013
The Chanel Jacket
On this link you can find a video about creation of a legendary fashion item - the timeless Chanel jacket...
14 Mar 2013
Faux Fur, Leather and Leopard
This faux fur vest from Replay has quickly become the IT item of my wardrobe... Here I combined it with a leather skirt and leopard accessories.
13 Mar 2013
Karen Millen Trench Coat
My outfit from the last weekend - a military trench coat from Karen Millen, faux leather pants, Miu Miu silver booties and Karl´s leather gloves. What do you think?
12 Mar 2013
Orange Skirt
A free-time outfit from last (warm) week... Today it would be impossible to be dressed like this as Brussels is all white after the last night snowfall. :-)
11 Mar 2013
Three Shades of Gray
This is an outfit from the last week. And I really hope that spring will come very soon and these will be my last pictures with a cold and red nose for a long time. :-)
8 Mar 2013
Paris Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2013 - 2014
|So cool Marc Jacobs in Louis Vuitton... :-)
Freshly pics from the Paris Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2013...
7 Mar 2013
Fur in the Sun
The first warm(er) and sunny weather is so lovely that I´ve almost forgotten the terrible cold I´m having...
6 Mar 2013
Red Studded Booties Again
If you think that this hat has quite an unusual shape, you´re right - it´s been like that since once in Belgium I was getting out of a train and a broken door shut my head. If now you think that in my case this explains a lot, believe me it´s not because of the doors... :-D
5 Mar 2013
Black on Black
An elegant black outfit - a classic jacket, basic men´s cashmeer sweater and faux leather skirt - spiced up with pink suede pumps...
4 Mar 2013
Karl´s T-shirt
It seems like spring is almost here, it´s about time to take out my new T-shirt from Karl. I´m gonna wear it in plenty of variation, in the first one I´ve combined it with a military trench coat from Karen Millen and faux leather pants. And pumps, of course. :-)
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Nicki Minaj Bats Her Mega Lashes on Wonderland Cover
Nicki Minaj occupies the cover of Wonderland's REVOLT/RECALL/RENEW issue, which lands tomorrow (Feb. 2) and stays on the stands through the doom and gloom of March.
Minaj certainly perks the grey landscape quite a bit with her cotton candy pink wig and those mega lashes. Pop music's favorite pink lady could take flight if she bats those fast enough. But she also has a face as flexible as comedian Jim Carrey, with the way she contorts, smiles, sucks in her cheeks and twists her lips. Minaj is such a ham, and this cover shows a different side of her expressiveness by honing in on her lovely eyes and not her rubbery expressions.
Minaj's wide-eyed, heavy-lashed, "I'm in shock" look is completed by a thick coat of chalky lavender lipstick. She accessorizes with gold earrings and a necklace, while wrapped in a race-car tee. She's a fashion revolutionary in this image. She also looks like the kind of gal you could hang out with in New York's Lower East Side. We bet Minaj and Lady Gaga would've been fast friends who shared closets back in the day if they had known one another, given their mutual outrageous taste in clothing.
The mag said the Minaj wore Prada for the shoot, and she looks like a billion bucks. In the accompanying feature, she talks about her various personalities, since the "Roman" in the 'Roman Reloaded' subtitle of her upcoming album is an extension of herself. (The full title is 'Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded,' in case you missed it and it's out in April!)
Minaj also revealed a love of cooking and expounded upon her obsession with Barbie dolls. Those are familiar topics in Minajville, but we can't wait to read more.


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Speaking of Blondes – I really like the new Blonde Roast at Starbucks. Apparently the Baristas have been told not to make any blonde jokes with customers….like when they order a tall blonde. I have to wonder how far Starbucks thought that name through before they brought it to market. Funny.
Jim went out with some work friends tonight and Ella is at our neighbor's for a sleepover. I told Taylor we would have a "date night" and she responded to me "Mommy, I'm not having a date night with you. We are having a girls night out!" So, I went with that:-) The thing is, it has been a really long week and I went for a run before our "girls night out" so by the time we left the house I was getting super tired. As I type, we are back home and snuggling on the couch (actually now she is laying on her stomach and "accidentally" kicking me every ten seconds.) I told her she can watch any show and stay up until 9 o'clock – very exciting:-).
We did make a stop at Justice and the Kangaroo (which is a gas station.) One of her friends at school had a piece of Valentine's candy and apparently she got it from the Kangaroo, so Taylor has begged me to stop there for the past week. So tonight I told her we would go and find her treat. The only problem is she couldn't tell me exactly what it was. She said it was not like normal candy, but it was smooth like the palm of her hand (and then she made me feel how smooth her hand was.) I still have no idea what that candy was and I'm not sure that she does either. I let her get a little package of airheads and she seemed happy with that. We don't buy candy very often so I guess it was exciting enough.
Speaking of exciting….these are AWESOME chocolate chip blondies. I will make these again and again. They are buttery and sugary and perfectly soft and doughy. They are thinner than your typical bar cookie or brownie, but they are thicker than your typical cookie. If you like a chewy chocolate chip cookie try these. They would be PERFECT as the base for a blondie sundae.
To top all of that excitement off they are super easy to make. It probably took me about 10-12 minutes total to get them into the pan to bake. I like to make cookies when I have plenty of time, but on a Sunday afternoon when we just want a treat to go with a nice dinner, I like to turn to easy, but delicious recipes like this. Enjoy!
Source: Taste of Home
Chocolate Chip Blondies
- 1-1/2 cups packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup butter melted
- 2 eggs lightly beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup 6 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
- Combine the brown sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla just until blended. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt and whisk until combined; add to brown sugar mixture. Stir in chocolate chips.
- Spread the mixture into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.


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America's national celebration, July 4, must have rung hollow to the thousands of soldiers marching away from Gettysburg after the bloodiest battle ever fought on this nation's soil.
From one point of view, it was a fight between family, friends, neighbors and fellow countrymen. From the other, it was a fight for independence hardly different from the one that began 87 years before.
Even today, the men who portray either side on battlefields where no blood is drawn have different views about what happened in Gettysburg and during the Civil War.
Like the real conflict it imitates, Civil War re-enacting hinges on choosing sides. Men and women decide to invoke the ideal of a single America with a strong central
government, or to embody the romance of a lost cause and its dream of what might have been had fate played out differently on those three July days in 1863.
Their reasons for making their choice vary from person to person, and so do their views of what happened on that day 150 years ago.
"Americans fought and Americans lost," said Paul Hanley, 64, of Ohio. He sat with others sporting the blue uniforms of the Union, living historians portraying Battery A of the 1st Ohio Light Artillery division.
"Both sides lost because of the casualties," his colleague, James Rush, agreed. The 63-year-old Ohio man clutched a lit cigar between his lips as he made a stool of two stacked ammo boxes stamped with the name "Allegheny Arsenal" in a Union re-enactor camp Tuesday near the Pennsylvania Monument on the Gettysburg battlefield.
The men in the Union camp were well dressed, mostly in full uniform, wearing the matching coats and pants that northern factories at the time of the battle were able to mass manufacture. Their tents were neatly pitched in perfect rows. Soldiers gathered to listen to drummer boys while eating hardtack and drinking coffee _ a luxury not afforded to the rebel South.
Re-enactor Ross McNerney, also of Ohio, has a somewhat different view of why he wears Union blue.
"It'd be like re-enacting the '87 Super Bowl and pretending to be the Broncos," he joked, speaking of those on the other side of the line. "No one wants to be on the losing team."
But it's not all a joke to McNerney.
At sunset, the view from his tent reminds him of the sacrifice made on the green field he is calling home this week - an area once staked out by the Second Army Corps of the Union Army.
"For us," McNerney said, "what we're fighting for is still here."
A mile away, a rebel encampment sat hidden at the end of a wooded path in Pitzer's Woods.
The smell of burning wood wafted through the air as more motley men gathered around fires, eating lard-laden biscuits, rice and cornbread. Tents of all varieties were scattered in the woods in no particular order, as if someone set it all up in a hurry.
The men's clothing reflected a reality of the war. With less access to state-issued uniforms, Confederates were known to take what they could get from the dead and dying on the battlefield. The result was mismatched attire made up of raggedy-checkered shirts that bore hints of local loyalties.
In this makeshift camp, there were many views of the men and cause to which they bear witness, much like people's feelings about flying the Stars and Bars in 2013. Some men joined units representing the places they live now. Others felt connections to ancestors who died for the cause.
"You'll find anyone from a Ph.D in history to a redneck who wishes we still had slavery," Sam Cathey, a re-enactor from Hagerstown, Md., said.
Cathey belongs to a group of re-enactors that "galvanize," switching between blue and gray uniforms depending on what's needed to make an event look historically accurate.
Some call it "cross dressing."
Chris Stevens refuses to do it.
The re-enactor, who lives in Chesapeake, Va., knows how the story ends. He knows the South lost, but chooses to represent the Confederacy out of conviction.
"Does the outcome change the principles we stood for?" he asked rhetorically. "Your basic liberty-minded American can understand what they fought for - wanting to live free from the shackles of an over-burdensome government."
The South wasn't fighting for slavery in his view. To Stevens, that's a common misconception echoed by the tourists that have crossed his path this week.
In the 1860s, he said, slaves were like any other property - an integral part of the southern economy.
"We know that today to be wrong," Stevens said. "But they were valuable property. This is like your John Deere tractor that you need to harvest crops."
And that's where some animus still shows through.
"Southerners will tell you until they're blue in the face that their ancestors didn't fight for slavery. They believe it. They really do," said Brad Keefer, a history professor at Kent State University, who portrays a member of Company B, 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
"But look what they did after the war," Keefer continued, taking a sip of water from a tin cup. "They restored white supremacy to the South. It's satisfying to know we fought for the right cause."
"But whether you're Confederate or Union, you're honored to be representing those guys on their battlefield," he added. "They were a noble enemy. Why were they a noble enemy? They were Americans."


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The official Twitter feed of the WWE Insider claimed late last night that Sin Cara suffered a ruptured patellar tendon and will be sidelined for six to nine months, following surgery.
The masked grappler suffered the injury while performing a dive outside the ring during the Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Tag Team Match. He was left unable to compete and therefore eliminated.


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|8th Syrtis Fusiliers RCT
|Unit Profile (as of 3062)
|The Snow Cobras
|Parent Formation
|Syrtis Fusiliers
|Age of War
The Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers used lighter 'Mechs, hovercraft, and VTOLs to move quickly throughout the battlefields.[1]
- 1 History
- 2 Officers
- 3 Tactics
- 4 Composition History
- 5 Notes
- 6 References
- 7 Bibliography
Early History[edit]
The Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers could trace its origins back to the Age of War or earlier and the private military force raised by House Hasek to defend its mining and drilling concerns on New Syrtis. The Syrtis Fusiliers became the private guard and personal army of the Hasek family, with their star rising alongside that of the Hasek family and New Syrtis; the Syrtis Fusiliers expanded, and as time progressed the brigade became the official guard of New Syrtis and then the perhaps the most important military command within the Capellan March Principality of the Federated Suns.[2]
Davion Civil War[edit]
The bulk of the Syrtis Fusiliers brigade supported Prince David Varnay and his wife Cassandra Davion loyally throughout the Davion Civil War, opposing first the combined forces of Laura Davion and Nikolai Rostov and then First Prince Alexander Davion. At the end of the war Prince Alexander offered an amnesty to the survivors from the brigade, and reintegrated the Syrtis Fusiliers into the Armed Forces of the Federated Suns, the restructured military that replaced the Federated Peacekeeping Forces as the state military of the Federated Suns.[2]
Alexander's clemency towards the Syrtis Fusiliers and his subsequent actions in rebuffing the attempt by Richard Varnay to seize control of the Capellan March cemented the Fusiliers' loyalty to New Avalon and the wider Federated Suns.[2]
The Star League[edit]
The Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers served the Federated Suns well in the two centuries following the Davion Civil War; when the Star League council issued the Council Edict of 2650, sharply limiting the size of the military each Great House was allowed to maintain, the Eighth and her sister regiments were left untouched. The brigade would remain ten regiments strong until shortly after the repeal of the Council Edict of 2650.[2]
During the Star League era the Eighth was a complete contrast to her sister regiment, the Seventh, perhaps intentionally; whereas the Seventh was an assault regiment with a preponderance of slow, heavy 'Mechs, the Eighth was a lightweight regiment within which almost every 'Mech could reach a cruising speed of sixty kilometers per hour or better. As a consequence the Eighth was capable of maneuvering very flexibly on the battlefield.[2]
First Succession War[edit]
In February 2788 First Prince John Davion launched Operation SOLAR SHIELD, a desperate plan to try and disrupt the invasion of the Federated Suns launched by the Draconis Combine in May 2787. Prince John had been preparing to invade the Capellan Confederation when news of the Combine invasion reached him, and the forces he drew together for SOLAR SHIELD were based on those three 'Mech regiments nearby earmarked for the abortive invasion of the Confederation plus some six assorted regiments of armor and infantry provided by regional militias within the Marlette Combat Region. Prince John divided his forces into three groups and launched strikes at three occupied worlds on the Terran flank of the invasion, hoping to disrupt the thrust being lead personally by Coordinator Minoru Kurita.[3][4]
SOLAR SHIELD proved to be flawed from the outset; the units assembled lacked time to train together, Prince John's forces were limited in number, and he had only a handful of WarShips available to use to escort his forces. Senior officers advised against the operation, but Prince John felt that speed was of the essence, and ordered that the operation go ahead. Elbar was one of the worlds targeted by SOLAR SHIELD, and in May 2788 the Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers jumped into the Elbar system, initially encountering no serious difficulties. While the transport JumpShips recharged, the Fusilier DropShips set off for Elbar, along with a small WarShip escort, but before the JumpShips could finish recharging the Narukami-class destroyer DCS Tsutsuji appeared and attacked the transports, supported by two squadrons of aerospace fighters.[3]
The Fusiliers realised that they were heading into a trap, and that the DCMS forces were well-prepared for any attack; their two-ship WarShip escort lacked enough docking collars to enable the Fusiliers to escape with all their DropShips, and the Tsutsuji had destroyed all eight Fusilier JumpShips, so the Fusiliers resorted to transferring as many of their DropShip crews, passengers and equipment into the Carrack-class transport FSS Port Victoria as they could before jumping out of the Elbar system, abandoning more than a dozen DropShips behind them. Combined with heavy defeats on Cartago and Schedar as well, SOLAR SHIELD was an abject failure that cost the AFFS men and resources it couldn't afford to lose.[3]
Third Succession War[edit]
The Eighth was based on Avigait in 3025.[5]
FedCom Civil War[edit]
In 3063 the Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers were stationed on their homeworld Lothair. Shortly after the outbreak of the FedCom Civil War, Duke George Hasek ordered them to New Syrtis.[6]
The unit was dragged into the FedCom Civil War in 3065 when pro-Katherine forces tried to conquer New Syrtis in an attempt to neutralize Duke Hasek. The Duke's forces eventually repelled the invaders but all units suffered heavy casualties.[6][7] The Eighth was forced to fight the 11th Avalon Hussars, 4th Donegal Guards, and the Ridgebrook CMM.[8] The unit was stationed to Genoa in 3067 to rebuild.[9]
The Jihad[edit]
After participating in Operation Sovereign Justice and Operation Thunderstrike the Eighth's personnel issues have downgraded the unit's experience level. The Eighth's soldiers were also having trouble learning the new tactics that are required by a Light Combat Team. Fortunately Brusett wasn't likely to come under attack soon, so this weakness cannot be exploited by the Capellan Confederation.[10]
During Operation Sovereign Justice the Eighth invaded Liao and fought the Dynasty Guard. The Guard inflicted heavy losses on the Eighth and forced them off-world.[11][12]
The Dark Age[edit]
As part of Operation MATADOR the Eighth teamed up with the Second Robinson Strikers to assault Hyalite. The two AFFS units drove the Third Taurian Lancers from the world. The Eighth then went on to secure Norman's World.[13] In 3082 they were able to rebuild their armor unit and gain the full complement of battle armor troopers. They were moved to garrison Talcott.[14]
|Commanding Officers of the 8th Syrtis Fusiliers
|Iona Hasek
|Hauptmann General
|Pollak Ramsey
|Hauptmann General
|Deborah Palu
|Entropy Richards
The Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers are a fast unit - deploying light Mechs, hover-tanks, and helicopters.[6]
Composition History[edit]
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers (Regiment/Veteran/Reliable)[18]
- - At This point in time the Eighth were stationed on Chesterton.[18] The Syrtis Hover Recon - a battalion of hover vehicles - had been attached to the Eighth for so long at this point in time that it was essentially a de facto part of the Eighth, although it was still listed as merely being "temporarily attached".[2]
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers (Regiment/Veteran/Reliable)[19]
- - At this point in time the Eighth were a light-weight regiment at full strength and based on Chesterton.[19]
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers (Regiment/Veteran/Reliable)[19]
- - At this point in time the Eighth had been reduced to just forty-five percent of full strength and were based on New Ivaarsen.[19]
8th Syrtis Fusiliers (Regiment/Elite/Reliable) [20]
- Note: At this point in time the light-weight unit was stationed on Mirach with an operational readiness of 99 percent. [20]
8th Syrtis Fusiliers (Regiment/Veteran/Reliable) [20]
- Note: At this point in time the light-weight unit was stationed on Mirach with an operational readiness of 32 percent. [20]
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers RCT (Regiment/Regular/Questionable)[5]
Eighth Syrtis Füsiliers RCT (Regiment/Regular/Reliable)[21]
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers RCT (Regular/Reliable)[15]
- CO: Hauptmann General Pollak Ramsey [15]
- Note: At this point in time the unit was stationed on Lothair. [15]
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers RCT (Regular/Reliable)[16]
- CO: Hauptmann General Deborah Palu
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers RCT (1 Regiment/Regular/Reliable)[6]
- CO: Leftenant General Entropy Richards
- Aide: Major Lorena Felton
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers Aerospace Brigade (One unnamed Wing)[6]
- CO: Light Commodore Jordane Meloch
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers Armor Brigade (3 Regiments/Elite/Fanatical)[6]
- CO: Major General Bruce Durnne
- Aide: Leftenant Colonel Iakobus Malenkov
- Eighth Ogilvie Light Armor - Colonel: Hachi Lee-Kwane
- Eighty-eighth Lyons Cavalry Regiment - Colonel: Ingvar Haakensen
- 100th Talon Armored Regiment - Leftenant Colonel Darlene Shouth
- 259th Syrtis Artillery Battalion - Captain Dusty Bondo
- The Eighty-eighth is reinforced to five Battalions, includes three VTOL Battalions
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers Infantry Brigade (4 Regiments/Regular/Reliable)[6]
- CO: Major General Rezi LaFayette
- Aide: Leftenant Colonel Paul Farchione
- 384th Federation Mechanized Infantry Regiment - Colonel: Meda Brown
- 390th Federation Mechanized Infantry Regiment - Colonel: William James Rohm
- Seventh Alcyone Mechanized Regiment - Leftenant Colonel: Veronica Hasek-Romanov
- 189th Syrtis Jump Regiment - Colonel: Rafaella Delacruz
- Infantry regiments fields AFVs
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers RCT (1 Regiment/Regular/Reliable)[9]
- CO: General Entropy Richards
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers Aerospace Brigade (Elite/Reliable)[9]
- CO: Rear Admiral Grant Jeron
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers Armor Brigade (Elite/Reliable)[9]
- CO: Major General Dusty Bondo
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers Infantry Brigade (Regular/Reliable)[9]
- CO: Major General William James Rohm
Though at full LCT strength, the Eighth's armor contingent consists of mostly Succession Wars-era vehicles that were seized from the planetary militia.[10]
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers LCT (Regular/Questionable)[17]
- CO: Marshal Entropy Richards
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers Aerospace Brigade (Green/Reliable)[17]
- CO: Commodore Adriano Bott
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers Armor Brigade (Regular/Reliable)[17]
- CO: Major General Fleur Baggaley
Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers Infantry Brigade (Green/Reliable)[17]
- CO: Major General Alaric Schneider
Since at least 2960, the Eighth have had a traditional drink: the "Sour Cobra":
Theoretically 2 shots of Bourbon, 1 spoon citrus juice, 1 spoon lemon juice, 1 cup crushed ice. But in reality on New Syrtis they often had to resort to: Bourbon, concentrated citrus or lemon juice, and ice, freshly chopped from a glacier.
The Sour Cobra is also recommended for cleaning purposes.[22]
- ↑ House Davion (The Federated Suns), p. 141
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Field Report 2765: Federated Suns, p. 18, "Syrtis Fusiliers"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 First Succession War, p. 40, "Fighting The Tsunami"
- ↑ First Succession War, p. 41, "An Expensive Learning Curve"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 House Davion (The Federated Suns), p. 137 (pdf version), "Ridgebrook PDZ"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 Field Manual: Federated Suns, p. 107, "8th Syrtis Fusiliers Unit Profile"
- ↑ Field Manual: Updates, p. 132
- ↑ FedCom Civil War (sourcebook), pp. 141-142, 156
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 Field Manual: Updates, p. 137, "AFFS Deployment Table - 3067"
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Field Report: AFFS, p. 15
- ↑ Technical Readout: 3058 Upgrade, p. 86
- ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 23
- ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 54
- ↑ Field Manual: 3085, p. 63
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 20 Year Update, p. 22, "AFFC Deployment Table - 3050"
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Objective Raids, p. 15, "Federated Commonwealth Deployment Table"
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 Field Manual: 3085, p. 69, "AFFS Deployment Table - 3085"
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Field Report 2765: Federated Suns, p. 19, "Regimental Status"
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 First Succession War, p. 134, "Armed Forces of the Federated Suns"
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 20.3 '' Second Succession War'', p. 95
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Historical: War of 3039, p.136
- ↑ Imminent Crisis , p. 43