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Today: Apple (AAPL) closes out the week with its third straight day of establishing new lows on Wall Street, with important earnings report ahead. Also: Google (GOOG) gains after its earnings report as Wall Street ends worst week of the year.
All eyes on Apple's earnings report as horrible week comes to an end
Apple shares are at their lowest price since the death of co-founder Steve Jobs, hitting fresh 52-week intraday and closing lows Friday for the third consecutive day. The decline is a continuation of a seven-month slide that has led to a sharper focus this week as Apple has slipped below $400 ahead of its first quarterly earnings report of 2013.
Apple stock has now declined as much as 45.4 percent since reaching an all-time intraday high of $705.07 on Sept. 21, the day the iPhone 5 launched in the United States, and 9.1 percent this week, declines that The New York Times described as both vicious and brutal in a front-page story for Friday's editions.
The questions for investors still holding on to the stock and those that have jumped in during this week's weakness is if the decline is rooted in the fundamentals of the business, and whether a rebound is ahead with Apple's earnings report next week.
For the first question, most of the analysis this week does not point at actual weakness within Apple, but rather perceived weakness that analysts and investors expect to show up in Apple's upcoming earnings, whether next week or in the future. Analysts — and Apple's own forecasts — expect the company to report its first year-over-year profits decline in more than a decade next week. The average analyst estimate for Apple's earnings per share, according to Thomson Reuters, was $10.07 Friday, while Apple had earnings of $12.30 in the first quarter of the 2012 calendar year; however, analysts also expect Apple to announce revenues that far exceed its year-ago sales, with an average forecast of $42.49 billion vs. last year's revenues of $39.19 billion.
The expectation of falling profits and gaining revenues is the technical issue that scares many Apple analysts and investors, as it would signal a declining growth margin, always one of Apple's strongest features.
"Gross margins are likely to shape sentiment surrounding Apple's stock as they are key metric underpinning both the bull and bear cases," Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi wrote this week, noting that bears say Apple cannot maintain its large margins of the past, while bulls believe last quarter's declining profit margin was a blip on Apple's radar.
While margins are an issue, price-to-earnings ratio are in Apple's favor, especially when factoring in the large amount of cash the company has on hand. As Wolfram Alpha pointed out this week, Apple has not traded at such a low P/E ratio excluding cash since its shares were trading in the single digits in 2000. Business Insider wrote a widely shared piece about why Apple was an attractive stock price, with P/E ratio at the core, and even Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said in a speech that the company's "stock price is a little low right now."
"It's very disappointing because if you look at the amount of cash that Apples holds that cash translates to one to two hundred dollars per share of stock just in cash form. So the expectations are a little lower even than they expect," he said.
However, Federated Investors portfolio manager Lawrence Creatura says many investors are throwing that metric out the window with Apple because "investors are suspicious about the 'E' in the P/E."
"It has lost its relevance because the future earnings are so uncertain," Creatura told The Wall Street Journal.
Those doubts make Tuesday's earnings report so important for Apple investors, many of whom probably have thoughts similar to Sentinel Investments president and CEO Christian Thwaites, who believes that Apple is both cheap and scary at the same time.
"Boy, it is looking cheap," Thwaites told the Journal. "But my worry with Apple is that it's becoming like Cisco (CSCO), Oracle (ORCL) and Microsoft from 12 years ago. The earnings came through back then, but the market felt it wasn't worth paying up for those names."
"It could be dead money for a while," he added.
Shares hit a low of $385.10 Friday before closing at $390.53, a daily decline of 0.4 percent.
Google and Microsoft rise, IBM plummets after earnings reports
Investors who have already dumped Apple could be looking at Google for investments. The Mountain View search giant announced revenues Thursday that were less than a third of what even the most pessimistic analyst expects Apple to announce, but growth expectations led to a big bounce Friday on Wall Street.
"We look at Apple and say, 'Hey, where's the next round of growth coming from?' You look at Google and say, 'Hey, these are some pretty big markets they're chasing after,'" BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis, explained to The New York Times.
Google gained 4.4 percent Friday to close just shy of the $800 mark, at $799.87, the strongest performance of the significant technology and Silicon Valley companies top announce earnings Thursday.
Microsoft mimicked Google's gains but didn't increase as much, moving higher by 3.4 percent after announcing that it had surpassed analysts' expectations for earnings despite a major drop in personal-computer sales during the first quarter. Investors obviously didn't mind that another prominent Microsoft executive, Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein, was shown the door, instead focusing on a new tablet device that will seek to rival the Amazon Kindle and iPad Mini.
IBM was not as fortunate, and it wasn't close. The New York tech giant had its worst single-day decline in more than a decade, after posting profits below analysts' average forecasts for the first time since 2005. The company will lay off employees and close some underperforming units in an effort to right its ship.
In Silicon Valley, struggling Sunnyvale chipmaker Advanced Micro devices dropped 1.6 percent after beating diminished expectations, and neighbor Intuitive Surgical dropped 1.8 percent after posting strong profits but a light forecast.
Wall Street gains at end of bad week, Bay Area IPO gains
The rest of Wall Street posted a good day, with the three major U.S. indexes closing their worst week in 2012 with gains, led by tech stocks: The tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 1.3 percent while the SV150 index of Silicon Valley's largest technology companies moved higher by 0.7 percent.
Foster City biotechnology company Gilead and Palo Alto electric car maker Tesla hit all-time highs Friday and closed with gains of 4.5 percent and 1.8 percent respectively. Large-cap stocks were uneven, with Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) taking a spill with a 3.2 percent decline and Cisco dropping 0.6 percent, while Intel (INTC) gained 0.9 percent and Oracle moved 0.8 percent higher.
The Bay Area's newest market entry, Blackhawk Network Holdings, made a splash on Friday, gaining 13.1 percent in its market debut. The Pleasanton-based Safeway spinoff sold shares for $23 apiece in its initial public offering for a $230 million windfall, most of which will go to its parent company, which retains ownership of nearly 94 percent.
Silicon Valley tech stocks
Up: Gilead, Google, Tesla, Workday, SolarCity, Intel, Yahoo (YHOO), Electronic Arts (ERTS), Oracle, Intuit (INTU), Yelp, LinkedIn, Adobe
Down: HP. VMware, NetApp, AMD, Juniper, eBay (EBAY), Cisco, Apple, Netflix
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Up 39.70, or 1.25 percent, to 3,206.06
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Up 10.37, or 0.07 percent, to 14,547.51
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Up 13.64, or 0.88 percent, to 1,555.25
Check in weekday afternoons for the 60-Second Business Break, a summary of news from Mercury News staff writers, The Associated Press, Bloomberg News and other wire services. Contact Jeremy C. Owens at 408-920-5876; follow him at Twitter.com/mercbizbreak.


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Every other Thursday, we bring you Nicholas Day -- on cooking for children, and with children, and despite children. Also, occasionally, on top of.
Today: A kid breakfast that's more wholesome than pancakes, and won't send parents down a sugary spiral, either.
The weekend breakfast was long ago annexed by the American father. This alone should make us suspicious. The American father is a clever, devious creature.
His most devious move, of course, was to requisition the grill as a uniquely male site, and to endow it with an aura that made grilling seem as if it required some sort of mystical sense of the ancient ways of fire rather than the possession of opposable thumbs. And then — and this is the truly clever part — he displayed his mastery of fire only occasionally, so that when he did it was by default a special occasion and everyone felt very grateful and thanked him profusely and trotted out their high-grade adjectives.
More: Speaking of high-grade adjectives: Aretha Frankenstein's Waffles of Insane Greatness.
But the American father was not satisfied. He realized that weekend breakfast offered a very similar low-risk, high-reward return: using those same opposable thumbs, he would mix together a small number of ingredients, according to an eternal, invariable recipe, and conjure up waffles or pancakes or French toast. The near-miraculous weekend-only appearance of these dishes made everyone in the household behave in a highly atypical manner. No one said, Not waffles again. No one said, That syrup looks disgusting. No one said, Only one bite. And everyone felt very grateful and thanked him profusely and trotted out their high-grade adjectives.
All of which is to say: I stand here before you, humbly, on the shoulders of giants.
But the regular weekend-only appearance of pancakes or waffles or French toast brings with it its own problems. Not for the children. For the parents.
Children can eat an endless quantity of pancakes or waffles and it only makes them stronger. I quote from the closing lines of the great Anytime Mapleson and the Hungry Bears: "And Anytime ate 1,297 pancakes. Then he drank a big glass of milk and ate 537 more. After that, he forgot to count."
But parenthood brings with it rapid senescence and some devastating physiological changes: 1) The discovery that spinning around repeatedly no longer has the addictive, mildly hallucinogenic effect it had in childhood but instead feels pretty much like death; and 2) that you can no longer eat 1,297 pancakes before falling asleep. Or even three pancakes. This is a problem, since as the parent of small children you are always about to fall asleep anyway, so in order to avoid a pancake-induced coma you have drink even more coffee than you are already drinking, which means that when you are finally able to go to sleep, you instead stare at the ceiling and see cups of coffee swimming before your eyes. It's a terrifying vicious circle of pancake consumption and sleep deprivation and it ends with the children in the orphanage. The memoir is forthcoming.
So you start looking for other recipes.
For all intents and purposes, Marion Cunningham's The Breakfast Book is the only cookbook you need to consult before 11am. It is hugely charming; it is eclectic; it is comforting and weird in equal measure. There are fantastic muffin recipes and then there are things like spicy, sweet-sour orange slices (which are also fantastic). It's highly domestic escapist literature.
But I am incorrigibly promiscuous and sometime last year I cheated on The Breakfast Book: I made the baked oatmeal from Heidi Swanson's Super Natural Every Day. I have made it a half-dozen times since. It's fruit layered with milk-soaked oats layered with nuts. It's wholesome but not so wholesome that it is caught trying to be wholesome. And it is narcolepsy-proof.
Not least, it is different enough, and sweet enough, to feel like a special occasion. To feel like weekend-only breakfast. And if it deviates slightly from the rules laid down by the American father for weekend-only breakfasts, it respects the basic formula: when he makes it, everyone feels very grateful and thanks him profusely and trots out their high-grade adjectives. I speak from experience.
Heidi Swanson's Baked Oatmeal
2 cups rolled oats1 cup walnuts, toasted and chopped1 teaspoon baking powder1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon1/2 teaspoon fine-grain salt2 cups milk1/3 cup maple syrup1 large egg3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly2 teaspoons vanilla extract2 bananas, sliced into 1/2-inch pieces1 1/2 cup blueberries or a mix of berries
See the full recipe (and save and print it) here.
Photos by James Ransom
A New Way to Dinner, co-authored by Food52's founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, is an indispensable playbook for stress-free meal-planning (hint: cook foundational dishes on the weekend and mix and match 'em through the week).
See what other Food52 readers are saying.

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Zhong-Jin Yang, MD
4143 Upstate University Hospital - Downtown Campus
750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
315 464-4720
750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
315 464-4720
Current Appointments
- Professor of Anesthesiology
- Associate Professor of Surgery
- Director of Thoracic Anesthesia
Hospital Campus
- Downtown
Clinical Section Affiliations
- Anesthesiology: General Anesthesia, Neuroanesthesia, Thoracic Anesthesia
Research Programs and Affiliations
- Anesthesiology
- Anesthesiology at University Hospital
Upstate University Hospital - Downtown Campus
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750 East Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
315 464-8668
Education & Fellowships
- MD: Peking Union Med Coll, Beijing, China
- Residency: University Hospital, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, Anesthesiology
- Residency: University Hospital, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, General Surgery
Research Interests
Protective role of hyperbaric oxygenaton in ischemic and traumatic brain injury. Effect of hyperbaric oxygenation on chronic constriction induced sciatic neuropathic pain.
Specialties & Certification
- Anesthesiology
- Adults
- Adult Anesthesiology
- General Anesthesia for Bone Marrow Biopsy and Aspiration, and Spinal Tap Procedures
- General Anesthesia for Dental Procedures
- General Anesthesia for Radiographic Procedures (MRI, CT Scan, Interventional Radiology, Nuclear Medicine)
- General Anesthesia for Surgical Procedures (General Surgery, ENT, Orthopedics, Vascular, Neurosurgery, and Others)
- General, Regional and Monitored Anesthesia
- American Medical Association
- New York State Society of Anesthesiologists (NYSSA)
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- Chinese
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Accenture has undertaken a goal of transforming itself into an insights-driven enterprise that simplifies business decisions by embedding AI at the core of its operating model.
Business performance management is high on Accenture's digital agenda—particularly for teams managing the relationship and health of Accenture's client accounts, and for executives leading the operations of large Accenture business units. As Accenture grew and diversified, its operational environment had become increasingly complex. And so did corporate reporting.
Teams and leaders need instantaneous and continuous understanding of client account and business unit performance. They need information that is online, intuitive, secure and actionable. Accenture's internal IT organization and the business pursued the opportunity to transform the existing environment with streamlined, cohesive and more intelligent information platforms to strengthen account leadership's ability to make more effective business decisions.
Pursuing an insights-driven transformation required action on two tracks: using data and analytics to transform current processes, and helping Accenture leaders prepare for changes in business practice and culture.
The initial journey focused on enabling core client account management capabilities on a digital and integrated analytics technology foundation. Internal IT then added focus on business unit leadership. Information needed to be standard but personal—aligning leaders around a common metric set tailored to their specific sphere of influence.
Design thinking advanced an experience environment that helped increase adoption of the new technologies. Adoption also required and fostered culture change within Accenture's front-office leaders, as they became more insight-driven in management behavior. This change then enabled management processes to evolve from function administration to enterprise collaboration.
A loosely coupled service architecture and DevSecOps foundation provides the flexibility to deploy features continuously and stay always-on—an architecture that scales to additional applications.
Deployed to 15,000 users in 9 months
50 countries
450% increase in engagement in one year
Used 40,000 times monthly by client account leaders
Accenture continues to drive toward becoming an insights-driven enterprise, increasingly using AI to aid in making decisions. The company's investment in Manage myBusiness has allowed internal IT to simplify legacy reporting architectures and re-invest budget in its predictive AI road map.
Human-centered design and technology allow Accenture to scale business dialogue faster across more stakeholders, continuously innovate and drive adoption of new AI-powered solutions for the future. This foundation empowers Accenture's transformation of management processes, leadership culture and business performance outcomes.


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Protesters Win Pipeline Delay
The Keystone XL pipeline started out as a fairly obscure infrastructure project that most observers expected to win quick and easy approval.
But through months of determined protest, opponents of the pipeline (which would carry oil from Canada's tar sands to refineries in the Gulf Coast) stirred up a national debate about the wisdom of building it. And today, they're celebrating a victory: The State Department (which must approve the pipeline since it crosses an international border) announced that it will delay approval of the project by at least a year until it can study alternative routes.
The pipeline isn't dead, but the delay is very bad news for the developer, TransCanada—whose CEO was quoted warning that any delays might kill the project—and very good news for the thousands who have worked to keep the project from being rubber-stamped.
To get the issue on the public's radar, more than 1,200 people volunteered to be arrested outside the White House in August; just last week, thousands of protesters encircled the building completely. Opponents also sent some 300,000 comments to the State Department and filled public hearings for months.
Many of the pipeline's opponents object to what they see as the dangerous precedent it sets in terms of addressing—or rather, failing to address—global climate change. NASA scientist James Hansen famously said that if the tar sands are developed it would mean "game over" for the climate. The day before the State Department's announcement, the International Energy ABdgency released a warning that, without a move away from fossil fuel-based energy infrastructure in the next five years, the opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change will be "lost for ever."
While the State Department cited climate change as an issue of concern, the primary reason it gave for the delay was to evaluate possible alternative routes for the portion of the pipeline that runs through Nebraska, where opposition was particularly fierce. The proposed route would have crossed the Ogallala aquifer, threatening a source of drinking water and irrigation for much of the Great Plains. Nebraskans of all political backgrounds came forward to oppose the pipeline. When TransCanada sponsored an ad for the pipeline at a Cornhuskers football game, it led to boos from the crowd and the cancellation of the sponsorship. The state legislature stepped in, convening a special session and developing a bill that would give the governor oversight of pipeline routes.
Still, only a month ago a poll of industry insiders found that 91 percent of them felt sure it would be approved, including 71 percent who expected approval by the end of the year.
Of course, there's still no guarantee what the Obama administration's final decision will be. Some worry that moving the decision until after the 2012 election is a sign that the Obama administration is "just kicking the climate can down the road," as Glenn Hurowitz puts it—putting off until after the election a decision that would alienate the president's base. Others point out that after acknowledging the worries of the protesters—including, specifically, the pipeline's impact on climate change—it will be harder for the administration to spin a future approval. Either way, public outrage has suddenly become a major factor in a way that wouldn't ordinarily be the case in such a process.
Opponents know the fight isn't over—but they also know that they've accomplished much more than anyone, particularly TransCanada, ever expected. "A done deal has come spectacularly undone," wrote Bill McKibben to supporters of the climate group 350.org, which helped organize protests.
Opponents are promising to keep protesting the pipeline—and to keep working to make sure its approval process happens under public scrutiny. But they'll also be building on the lessons of the Keystone effort, dragging more of our national decisions about energy into the spotlight. "We need to broaden our work to take on all the forms of 'extreme energy' now coming to the fore: mountaintop removal coal mining, deepsea oil drilling, fracking for gas and oil," says McKibben.
In Nebraska, the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline is no longer about left versus right.
Many communities trying to keep fracking, drilling, or big box stores out finding they don't have the legal right. Their response? Take on the very structure of law.
How regular people, from Denmark to Liberia, have stood up to power—and won.


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that 90's quilt cover >>>>
that 90's quilt cover >>>>
@BeeCee having hand me down bedding doesn't make you retro to da core
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Has it been confirmed that this is actually the OP though? Gonna need you to mention GF in one of your videos to confirm tbh @BeeCee
no way was that him in the video, he wouldnt expose himself like that.
lickle yute that aint left his bedroom since 1999 and his mum has to bring him up his beans on toast every day at 6pm so he can eat and watch the simpsons
If ever the word wasteman fit any two people in the world, it would be this guy and Rhymezee.
My TOP-10:
1. Civilization
2. Doom
3. Earthworm Jim
4. Toy Story
5. Streets of Rage
6. Robocop
7. Sonic
8. Dune
10. Tetris
Mario kart 64
doom is the best!


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What would you imagine a home to look like if it once was an airbase and shelter for a US Air Force bombardment group in World War II? You probably wouldn't picture this farmhouse in Essex, England. Designed by Cameron Scott of Timberdesign with the help of Rationel Windows and Doors, this modern farmhouse is an adaptive reuse of an abandoned World War II airfield. Old barracks for the USAF 381st Bombardment Group have been transformed into functional areas for the new house and sit proudly next to this new farmhouse.
The owners of this property commissioned Scott to transform the existing airfield after seeing him at a timber construction conference. The farmland surrounding these Nissen huts had been without a farmhouse since the war and they knew something needed to be done. The architecture of the house reinterprets the design of the airbase into a regular family farmhouse through the addition of heavy timber design coupled with metal structural supports. This Douglas Fir timber frame structural system also allowed the family to design the open interior floor plan into the modern home that they desired.
The house is composed of two linear volumes connected by two walkways, which create a central courtyard. The courtyard provides a safe haven for the children to play in away from the day to day operations of the farm. One of the linear volumes is comprised of a story and a half of private space for the family, and a tower with 360 degree views.
Three dimensional simulations of the home during the design phase helped the owners better understand the thermal capacity of their future home. Scott was also able to design the house to come close to meeting the energy standard of Passive Haus. The addition of a 40kWp PV array, energy techniques such as passive solar, a solar thermal system, and biomass energy conversion help to not only make this a potential carbon-neutral project but possible carbon-positive.


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How to Lower the Cost of Thanksgiving
Shopping for your turkey dinner yet? Here's some good news: This year's Thanksgiving meal for a family of 10 will cost just $49.48, according to the American Farm Bureau. That's only a 28-cent increase from last year, which is less than 1%.
Of course, we have some ideas on how you can lower the cost even more on one of the year's most anticipated feasts. Get a taste of these.
- Turkey is the table's big-ticket item. Fortunately, some stores guarantee the lowest price on turkey and will match a competitor's price when you show their ad or coupon.
- Frozen turkeys typically cost less than fresh, but you have to allow time to thaw—about a day for every 4 pounds. Planning ahead can save you a significant part of your Thanksgiving budget.
- If you're only serving a few guests, don't feel obligated to buy the whole bird—a turkey breast will do the job.
- There is no law stating you must make everything from scratch. Will your family refuse to eat if you don't make grandma's green bean casserole? Probably not. Make a few of your family's favorite traditional sides, but also take some shortcuts and looks for coupons on pre-made side dishes like potatoes or cranberry sauce.
- Dig into the depths of your frozen food stash and see if you have any leftover rolls or sliced bread. Thaw it out for Thanksgiving and use this bread for your stuffing.
- You'll save around 50% if you make your own pies (as opposed to buying them at the store), and most are ridiculously easy to make. If you know how to peel and slice apples and buy piecrust, then you can make pie. Plus, it can be served at room temperature so you can bake it early in the day.
- When it comes to adult beverages, stick to bottles of wine under $10. If you pour it into and serve from a decanter and most guests won't think twice.
One final tip: Ask for a rain check if the store is out, even if a sale item won't be restocked by Thanksgiving Day. You still need to eat in December, so why not take advantage of those Thanksgiving deals.


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For this project you will need:
A label, Timer, Shape and a combo box.
This will be done in four easy steps in one tutorial.
Step one create a new project call prjTimers and create one form called frmEggTimer. If you haven't already created a label and timer do so. In the general declaration section at the top of the code type:
Dim SecondsCounter As Integer Dim Boiling As Boolean
Step two, in the form load procedure type:
Label1.Visible = False timeLimit = 1 SecondsCounter = timeLimit * 60 'You can Change the Interval to a lower number to make the timer faster Timer1.Interval = 1000 Timer1.Enabled = True Boiling = True
Step three double click Timer1 and in the Timer1.timer() procedure type:
Static NumberofSeconds As Integer Dim msg As String 'If you wanted you could change the message msg = "Your egg is ready!" NumberofSeconds = NumberofSeconds + 1 If Boiling = True Then 'You can Change the color to one you like Shape1.BackColor = &H40c0& Boiling = False Else 'You can Change the color to one you like Shape1.BackColor = &H4080& Boiling = True End If If NumberofSeconds = SecondsCounter Then Label1.Visible = True Label1.Caption = msg Timer1.Enabled = False End If
Step four making sure you have your combo box and in Form_Load procedure type:
Label1.Visible = False Combo1.AddItem "Soft Boiled" Combo1.AddItem "Medium Boiled" Combo1.AddItem "Hard Boiled"
In Combo1_Click procedure type:
Dim X As String X = combo1.text Select Case X Case "Soft Boiled" timeLimit = 1 Case "Medium Boiled" timeLimit = 2 Case "Hard Boiled" timeLimit = 3 End Select SecoundsCounter = timeLimit * 60 'You can Change the Interval to a lower number to make the timer faster Timer1.Interval = 1000 Timer1.Enabled =True
Now you can test this out by pressing F5. I have commented on certain things that you can edit so have fun.
If you have any problems just comment or contact me ([email protected]) or if you have any questions.


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I'm not usually one for worrying when a product is discontinued; there's always an alternative out there but I did nearly keel over when I found out that my beloved Shiseido mascara base had been replaced by a new formula; the Nourishing Mascara Base:
Shiseido Mascara Base, the original, was simple the best lash primer – ever. It held curl perfectly and you could match it with the worst mascara ever and it would still be amazing.
Nourishing mascara base (and I will do a side by side comparison after this review) promises to add volume, hold curl, add length and make lashes more supple.
The new mascara primer comes in a plain tube:
The brush is different from the original, it's quite spiky and reminds me of a toilet brush. I'm not saying that's a bad thing! On the contrary, it combs through the lashes nicely!
The product is a greyish gel:
Here it is applied to curled lashes. It adds a gloss to the lashes although I wouldn't use this product on it's own.
There's no irritation at all using this product which I can sometimes get with primers and it doesn't seem to do much on – but trust me it sets the curl and locks it in.
I used a generic crappy mascara here – as you can see, it DOES hold curl. It has added some volume but remember I didn't use the best mascara here, I used a cheap one I wouldn't normally consider putting on day to day.
Praise the lord! The reformulation has not been a disaster!
Here is my other eye (there is eyeliner on this one – sorry, the life of a beauty blogger!) – this is the mascara on curled lashes NO PRIMER. As you can see they flop:
At £21 this is not by any means a cheap purchase but you will either be someone who needs a lash primer or not.
Some people can use any mascara and look lush lashed, but if you need help in terms of holding curl, enhancing the finish, length and volume then this is THE primer. I have tried many and none of the others compare, really.
I like this because it means I can wear any mascara on my lashes – when I use a mascara that can hold curl, it can be hard to remove. With this primer I can use something like a generic drug store mascara or something heavy and creamy like YSL Faux Cils and the curl will stay – also it is easier to remove at bed time so we are all happy!
Comparison to the original coming up!
Do you use a lash primer product?


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You may recall I had a meltdown in my 1963 r69s. Both pistons melted, left worse than right.
So, I have cleaned out the melted piston bits from the head, scraped off the melted piston from the valves (bench grinder was great for that- they just flaked off). Cleaned off the melted piston from the ouside of the valve guides (dremel tool with brass wire bush). Valves lapped, held gasoline in the chambers with no weeping, so I went to start to get the bike ready for the new pistons and bored cans.
I went to clean the engine case, and pull off the old gasket. Here's a pic. There was so much sealant that it plugged the oil passages! Check out the top of the gasket- you can see the sealant oozed into the space and blocked it off. The bottom holes were likewise plugged. While I'm not happy with how this played out, at least this was not my handiwork!


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Nation & World
As Democrats gather, liberal positions gaining in popularity
Check out McClatchy's new, expanded politics page
DENVER — As they meet for their national convention Monday through Thursday, Democrats are poised to shift their party's course — and the country's.
They're turning to the left — deeply against the war in Iraq, ready to use tax policy to take from the rich and give to the poor and middle class, and growing hungry, after years of centrist politics, for big-government solutions, such as a health-care overhaul, to steer the nation through a time of sweeping economic change.
They are, in short, more liberal than at any time in a generation and eager to end the Reagan era, which dominated not just the other party, but also their own, for nearly three decades.
"Every generation . . . there are changes in people's relationship with government," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. This, he said, is such a time.
The shift of the party also reflects a change in much of the population — evidenced in the policy positions advocated by rank-and-file voters as well as the party's presumptive presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.
"Government SHOULD do more, especially when you're spending tens of billions of dollars in Iraq protecting the interests of millionaires," said Rebecca Washington, a Democrat and an accountant from Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
"We've got to revoke the tax cuts for the wealthy," said Vicki Balzer, a Democrat and retired teacher from the Cleveland suburb of Berea. "We definitely need to do something more for the economically disadvantaged. . . . We've allowed big corporations to take millions for corporate leaders while workers get nothing."
Nationally, 40 percent of Democrats in the 2006 midterm elections called themselves liberal, the highest since the American National Election Studies program started asking in 1972.
At the same time, the number of Democrats who support a government safety net for the poor — such as guaranteeing food and shelter for the needy and spending to help them even if it means more debt — jumped by 14 percentage points from 1994 to 2007, according to the Pew Research Center.
Support for that safety net also rose by 15 points among independents and 9 points among Republicans.
That's a remarkable change since the mid-'90s, the decade when centrist Bill Clinton dominated the Democratic Party, signed a welfare overhaul into law that forced recipients to work, expanded free trade against the wishes of organized labor and famously declared the era of big government to be over.
"During the era when Bill Clinton was president, there was a clear re-centering of the party," said Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas.
Today, she added, "there is a growing understanding that government can play a positive role in investing in our country."
What changed? Several things.
The Iraq war lasted longer, cost more lives and money, and proved deeply unpopular. A few years ago, Obama was a rare voice in the party opposing the war; today he's one of a chorus.
Anxiety about a slowing economy resurrected fears about American jobs and paychecks in the global economy. Promises to change trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement punctuated the Democratic primaries.
Also, Obama promises a dramatically different tax policy, one that would raise taxes on the wealthy, cut taxes for the middle class and offer new "refundable" tax credits to the working poor that would wipe out tax liabilities and deliver anything left over in the form of checks.
He also wants to tax oil companies and use the money to give checks to the poor to pay for high fuel costs, or anything else.
Many Americans recoiled at the weak federal government response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Republican George W. Bush turned into one of the most unpopular presidents in modern history. Just as American revulsion at Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1980 helped usher in the Reagan era, rejection of the Bush era could help swing the pendulum the other way.
At the same time, the party has new power centers in liberal groups such as Moveon.org and blogs such as dailykos.com, where antiwar fever and anti-Bush anger are magnified.
They helped propel Howard Dean to an early lead for the 2004 Democratic nomination, lost, then regrouped to help defeat pro-war Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut in a 2006 primary, though he went on to win re-election as an independent.
"Enormous dissatisfaction with the Republican Party has brought out the base more," said Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico.
Ever more vocal and influential heading into this year's election, that base fed the sense that the party should "return to its core values," Richardson said. "The rise of the Internet and bloggers have made the party more progressive."
Schumer also thinks that it's all part of a historic cycle in American politics — or at least he hopes it is.
He said Americans encouraged and grew accustomed to an activist federal government during the Great Depression of the 1930s, one that Democrat Franklin Roosevelt delivered and Democrat Lyndon Johnson accelerated in the 1960s.
They grew disenchanted with that big government by the 1970s, a government seen as corrupt in the Nixon days, unable to stop oil crises or runaway inflation, and unable to rescue Americans whom Iran had taken hostage.
"By 1980, the average person said, 'I don't need government anymore. I'm fine on my own,' " Schumer said.
That sentiment drove U.S. politics for years, helping Republicans win five out of seven presidential elections and giving the Democrats two victories only when they nominated a Southern centrist in Clinton.
This year, however, Democrats rejected Hillary Clinton, who, while arguably more liberal than her husband, was to the right of Obama on big issues such as tax policy and had a history of being more hawkish on national security.
Perhaps it's because Obama was simply a more appealing candidate. But it also might be because times are changing.
Now, Schumer said, Americans feel shaken by big forces such as globalization, terrorism and a sputtering economy. "The whole world changes, and people feel a little bit at sea, and they need help," Schumer said.
Whether the country will turn to a resurgent-liberal Democratic Party to navigate that less-certain world won't be known until November. But for Democrats watching their national convention, it's clear they want something very different.
Can Obama win over those voters who find him pompous?
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Bailouts and stimulus initiatives may help some. The post-mortems on the wrecked global economy, toxic derivatives, US market and dollar crash would continue for several decades. Is time to focus on viable and sustainable solutions? Businesses and banks need bespoke turnaround survival strategies to reduce losses, improve efficiency, increase revenue, gain sustainable competitive advantage, and outperform market competition. The results add real business values, attract investors; create new business opportunities and jobs. One FixyaExperts.com client was advised to reduce losses by 30% and increase production by 50% to attract investors who continue to target undervalued growth sectors, niche and captive markets where consumer demand still continues to grow in double-digits annually to 2030. What other solutions are out there for recovery? http://www.youtube.com/fixyaexperts, http://www.FixyaExperts.com
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I read with interest about Color, a new social photo app that was much in the news today. The main angle of coverage was the size of the pre-revenue company's funding - $41 million from Sequoia and Bain. Hell, the company isn't just pre-revenue, it's pre-product....at least for now. Tomorrow the actual product launches.
If it works as advertised, it may well be the first truly execution of augmented reality that truly scales.
I for one hope it works.
The service's founder, Bill Nguyen, is the real deal. He has a particular ability to see around corners, and is a veteran of more than half a dozen startups. So why am I fired up about Color's service? Because I think it bridges an important gap in how we use the web today. And please know that my definition of "the web" is in no way limited to "PC based HTML". When I say web, I mean the digital platform through which we leverage our lives.
OK, now that we've clarified that, what does Color actually *do*? Well, let me explain it as best I can, based on a great piece here by Bruce Upbin (OK and this piece and this one too).
In short, Colors combines the public social graph and instant sharing of Twitter with the "capture the moment" feel of an Instagram or Path. But the real twist is in the service's approach to location. To my mind, Colors has the opportunity to be the first breakout application fueled by the concept of "augmented reality."
Now, let me back up and remind readers of my oft-repeated 2010 maxim: Location is the most important signal to erupt from the Internet since search.
OK, that said, what Colors does is offer up a visual public timeline of any given location, in real time. Every single image captured at any given location is instantly "placed" at that location, forever, and is served up as an artifact of that location to anyone using the Colors application.
Put your brain to that idea for a second, and you realize this is one of those ideas that is both A/ Ridiculously huge and B/ Ridiculously obvious in retrospect. And pretty much every idea that passes those two tests only has to pass a third to Be Really Big. That third test? Execution.
Wait Battelle, you may be saying. What are you on about? I'm not getting it?!
In short, if Color is used by a statistically significant percentage of folks, nearly every location that matters on earth will soon be draped in an ever-growing tapestry of visual cloth, one that no doubt will also garner commentary, narrative structure, social graph meaning, and plasticity of interpretation. Imagine if Color - and the fundamental which allow its existence - had existed for the past 100 years. Imagine what Color might have revealed during the Kennedy assassination, or the recent uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, or hell, the Rodney King beating?
But that's just the stuff that's important to us all. What Color really augurs is the ability to understand our shared sense of place over time - and that alone is mind-bendingly powerful. Back in 2008 I was struck with a similar concept, which at FM we turned into Crowdfire - a fleeting, early antecedent to the Color concept focused on music and festivals.
To me the key here is plasticity. By that I mean the ability to bend the concept of "social graph" beyond the inflexible "one ring to rule them all" model of Facebook to a more nuanced set of people you might care about in the context of place or moment. I love these kinds of steps forward, because it's just so damn clear we need them.
Trust me on this. If Colors fails, it will be due to execution, and someone else will get it right. Because the world wants and needs this, and the time is now. (By the way, I'm not encouraged by the website, which focuses on group sharing and such. I think the service is way bigger than that. But I guess you have to start somewhere...)
Oh, and note to Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare: If you don't get this feature into your service, pronto, you will more likely than not be rueing the day Colors launched.


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Electronics Components: How Integrated Circuits Are Made
You don't have to know how integrated circuits (IC) are made to use them in your electronics projects, but the process is pretty interesting The process is complex and varies depending on the type of chip being made. But the following process is typical:
A large, cylindrical piece of silicon crystal is shaved into thin wafers about one-hundredth of an inch thick.
Each of these wafers will be used to create several hundred or thousand finished integrated circuits.
A special photoresist solution is deposited on top of the wafer.
A mask is applied to over the photoresist.
The mask is an image of the actual circuit, with some areas transparent to allow light through and others opaque to block the light.
The wafer is exposed to intense ultraviolet light.
The ultraviolet light etches the wafer under the transparent portions of the mask but leaves the areas under the opaque parts of the mask untouched.
The mask is removed and any remaining photoresist is cleaned off.
The wafer is then exposed to a doping material.
This creates n-type and p-type regions in the etched areas of the wafer.
The process is repeated for each layer until all of the layers have been created.
Of course, this assumes that the circuit design calls for multiple layers stacked on top of one another.
The individual integrated circuits are then cut apart and mounted in their final packaging.
Here are a few other tidbits worth knowing about how integrated circuits are made:
As you've probably seen on Intel commercials, the manufacturing process for integrated circuits is done in a clean room, where workers wear special suits and masks. This is necessary because at the scale of the integrated circuits, even the smallest speck of dust is enormous.
Each integrated circuit goes through a variety of complicated quality tests after the circuit is finished. The manufacturing process is by no means perfect, so many are discarded.


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Since applications automatically trust the domain name system (DNS) to perform its functions as needed, DNS has become an easy target for hackers. To top it off, the DNS is oftentimes invisible to users, making it even more difficult to identify attacks.
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I feel like there are too many social pressures to meet most of the expectations driven by popular culture... besides, my lousy job and other factors make it nearly impossible to find, much less maintain, any meaningful relationships.
Anybody else find themselves in the same situation, or am I the only ape here left grooming themselves in the corner?
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bible belt here tooo.... and turning 63 this summer... and don't look my age... not much hope here either.... not about to spend weekends with a 'grandma' and kids everywhere on weekends for 'cookies'... so don't think there are many 'active-outdoors-athiest' senior 'available' ladies out there that have 'never smoked'... lol
wow 63 huh?
*raising towel in upright throwing position*
Duan, I find the same issue with brothers. Most, anyway. Crispy (code word for Christian) as all get out! And the women, forget about itl...they ar extra crispy (Black women).
It's pretty frustrating I got a response to an e-mail that I sent on POF and it read "Had me till I read you didn't want kids"
Damn! She probably wouldn't agreed with me being an atheist either but I didn't even have the chance after the no kid thing!
Well, in that case I'm dating someone ... and I regularly throw in the towel.
... you sick little monkey.
So ask more girls out. Meeting potential dates in person, you're going to find that 75% or 90% of the people are completely incompatible, once you start discussing personality details.
You work from opposite directions, online and in person. Online, you can sort for compatibility, then get together in person and find that you have zero chemistry. In person, you sort for chemistry, then find out about compatibility afterwards.
Given the small percentage of the population that any of us would be compatible with, online services can be advantageous. But, when you're out in the sticks, you're going to have fewer people from within your area in online forums. Just get used to it not working out, and go talk to the next cute girl.
Try looking on the public bulletin boards around the campuses. There are many events sponsored around specific activities which may attract more of the non-religious types. Look into those.
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HAYWARD — A 19-year-old passenger in a car who was killed by Hayward police during a chase Sunday was an unintended victim as officers fired at the driver, a police spokesman said Tuesday, and authorities will seek homicide charges against the man behind the wheel.
"In this incident, the driver is the sole suspect in the assault against the officer with the civilian riding along," said Hayward police Sgt. Eric Krimm. "The officers did not intend to shoot the passenger. It was due to the dynamics of motion and time that it occurred."
The man's name has not been released, pending notification of family. He was one of four people fatally shot by police in less than 27 hours over the weekend in separate incidents in Hayward, Union City, San Francisco and San Jose. Officials on Tuesday identified the man killed in Union City as 26-year-old Amos G. Smith, a Union City resident, and said the incident remained under investigation.
In Hayward, Krimm said the passenger's death was "tragic."
"Our policy does not prohibit shooting at a vehicle. In any shooting, officers have to consider and be aware of their backdrop and the potential injury to people who are not the intended target. It's tragic that he was shot in this incident because there was no intent to harm him," Krimm said. "At this point in the investigation, we have not found anything that we would have arrested him for."
The driver, identified as Arthur Pakman, 23, of Oakley, was arrested following the 3:20 a.m. shooting. Police said Pakman was driving a Honda, with one passenger, that struck a police cruiser during a traffic stop at Fletcher Lane and Watkins Street.
An officer fired on the Honda, hitting the passenger. During a subsequent pursuit, the Honda crashed at D Street and Foothill Boulevard.
Police had been looking into whether the wreck played a role in the victim's death, but an autopsy Tuesday showed the man died from a gunshot wound.
"The victim was struck twice by bullets, one of them which proved to be fatal," Krimm said.
Krimm said authorities would seek homicide charges against the driver, but Pakman has yet to be formally charged. He was arrested on suspicion of felony murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Pakman was to be arraigned Tuesday at the Hayward Hall of Justice, but that hearing was postponed so Pakman could be transported to the Contra Costa County Jail, where he will be held without bail for a parole violation, a prosecutor said.
Pakman's Hayward-based attorney, Frederick Remer, said the violation stemmed from a 2010 driving under the influence conviction.
Remer said his client was on his way to visit his girlfriend in Richmond on the morning of the incident and did not intend to strike the police car.
Remer said his client is a former Marine who was recently discharged from service and that he was trying to drive around the cop car to avoid being pulled over.
"He was a young kid, trying to flee cops," Remer said. "He didn't present a clear and present danger to any person."
The rash of Bay Area police shootings came just days after two Santa Cruz police officers were ambushed and fatally shot by a man they were attempting to question.
In the Union City incident, two officers shot Smith after they said he pulled a gun from the waistband of his pants and pointed it at them. Police said the officer had tried to pull over the suspect about 10 p.m. Saturday on Dyer Street south of Meteor Drive.
Also Saturday, Daly City police shot and killed Aaron Sawyer, 23, after a car chase that ended in San Francisco about 12:30 a.m. Police said the driver, later identified as Sawyer, brandished a hand gun at officers multiple times during the pursuit.
The fourth shooting occurred about 2:30 p.m. Saturday, when a man was fatally shot by two San Jose veteran officers after leading police on a high-speed pursuit. He was identified Tuesday as 28-year-old San Jose resident Ronald Aduddell.
Police say Aduddell pointed a gun multiple times at officers during a 30-minute pursuit which began near Union and Bascom avenues and ended in South San Jose. Police have not yet located the gun.
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Robert Post was a four-year letter winner with the Kings Point football team and a one-year letter winner with the KP basketball squad. He was the starting quarterback for the Mariners for three and a half years and received the 1966 Adm. Stedman Trophy. Post also won the 1963 and 1965 Amelia Waldecker Trophy as the Outstanding Offensive Player at the Boardwalk Bowl and won the John F. Kennedy Memorial Trophy, presented by the Mariner Quarterback Club to the Boardwalk Bowl's outstanding player. After graduation, Post signed with the New York Giants as a quarterback and safety.


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the phone feels really nice in the hand, with the matt back making it
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Board meeting 2010-12-14[edit]
This board meeting convened primarily for the purpose of discussion the upcoming election for board of directors.
Miloh Alexander, Ani Niow, Shannon Lee, Andy Isaacson, Rachel McConnell, Jonathan Lassoff, and Seth Schoen were present at 2169 Mission.
Shannon: Noisebridge seems to be losing its identity and become more diffuse and consequently people don't feel a sense of responsibility to the organization.
Others: You've been saying that for a long time...
Shannon: It's still true. And it relates to our problems sustaining the organization.
Miloh: Noisebridge is a shell organization to do whatever people want to do, so this is OK if it doesn't have a single identity.
Shannon: This is proposed as an agenda item for the annual member meeting.
Andy: OK, this will be an agenda item for the member meeting. We have to actually have one and so designate it.
Miloh: Why isn't the regular meeting enough?
Andy: It's officially supposed to be designated as one. The main purpose of such a meeting is to elect the board. Then it can meet and elect officers.
Shannon: I can't come on Jan. 4.
Rachel: Jan. 11?
Seth: I can't be here but I could designate and teach someone else how to do it.
Rachel: Someone will need to run the election.
Jof: I will run the election.
Seth: Does the board agree to hold the election on Jan. 11?
Andy: It's too bad that it can't happen before then.
Seth: Shall we have all the features of the election the same as last year? Viz.
- Condorcet
- Electronic tallying
- Paper ballots in a ballot box
- No formal controls of people's ability to vote
- Having a list of people who are eligible but not enforcing it
At least two board members object to the lack of controls against fraud.
Seth: Last year this was made explicit.
Rachel: It was made explicit that we couldn't do anything "reasonable" to prevent fraud so we decided not to.
Shannon: Kelly could accept the ballots and check people off or otherwise verify people.
Rachel: Although she might not be able to be here.
Andy: It seems important to have some mechanism to actually use the list to verify things, so that people don't have the perception that there are no controls or that their votes won't matter or will be overwhelmed by fraud.
Discussion of whether Condorcet tallying tends to detect / deter fraud and whether there are other ways to show that we actually do deter ballot fraud.
Rachel: The person managing the process could deal with accepting proxies and then it could all happen in a single day.
Miloh: Maybe we don't need this process.
Seth: The bylaws say that nominations should be complete 21 days before the election.
Jof: Can we get a proposal today and ratify it together with nominations at the next meeting, one week from today?
Seth: It turns out that nominations are supposed to begin 30 days before the election. Which would mean that we don't actually have enough time to comply with the nomination process as of now and hold the elections on Jan. 11.
Discussion: Move elections to 18th. The board also designated January 18 as the 2010 annual member meeting.
Seth: The bylaws say that the president shall choose a committee to nominate candidates. Last year this was apparently "any person".
Jof: All Noisebridge members in good standing are hereby appointed to the nominating committee, to commence today (December 14).
Jof plants the "HEREBY!" flag in reality.
Jof is going to send a plan to the membership.
Discussion of the timing of consensus on the election plan. We can't consense on it unless it's discussed at a general meeting today. However, Jof agrees to tell us his plan right now and then it will be up for consensus next week.
Nominations will be open for 9 days. Consensus on Jof's election process to occur at next general meeting, one week from today. Election itself to occur on Jan. 18, administered by Jof.
All those who are candidate are requested to be present on Jan. 18, which is also designated as the annual member meeting for purpose of election of directors, with the aim of achieving a quorum for a meeting of the newly elected board of directors.
Motion for adjournment. Meeting is adjourned.


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Unfortunately WaitingFor is not a noun and so violates our coding standard for class names (which would probably lead to confusion even if we told the coding standards to take a flying leap in this case). We came up with other similar names that seemed clear but weren't nouns as well.
For some reason, phrases were bouncing around in my head today:
Although "summon" denotes exercising authority, it also denotes letting the person that you seek decide whether or not to respond to that authority. It isn't an action, it is a request. Summon might even denote an asynchronous request to me where you issue the summons and then come back later to see whether anything responded.
And I'm used to "get methods" being accessor methods for object attributes which are things you usually don't expect to fail.
On the other hand, a "find" method implicitly means "try to find" for some reason. I guess because "to find" implies a non-trivial amount of work is involved and so it is unreasonable to rule out failure.
Yeah, naming is one of the least rewarding parts of programming, while it can be surprisingly tricky, time-consuming, and important.- tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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Sienna Miller and her long time boyfriend Rhys Ifans are engaged! Which is great news, so now hopefully everyone will get off her back up supposedly breaking up Sean Penn's marriage with Robin Wright. Robin and Sienna are supposed to be good friends and everything; but on the other hand, when in celebrity land, you're […]
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yeah hey hello i am new and i get the exact same screen. is the problem perhaps because the rom (im using) is PAL not US?
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Toronto multi-ethnic band Jaffa Road has been nominated for a Juno Award for its sophomore album, Where the Light Gets In, which was released in October last year.
This is the second nomination for Jaffa Road, whose first album, Sunplace, was nominated for a 2010 Juno Award, also in the World Music Album of the Year category.
Vocalist Aviva Chernick called it a dream come true to receive this recognition. "It brings Jewish culture forward to the Canadian cultural sphere," she said. "We're part of a whole movement of people who are slowly edging Jewish culture more into the main so it's not ghettoized, so that it can be celebrated as a voice in our national arena."
The band blends influences from Jewish, Ladino and Indian music, jazz, and more.
Guitarist and oud player Aaron Lightstone said he was overwhelmed with feelings of excitement and accomplishment, as well as gratitude when he heard the news.
"We also saw the other nominees, and my first thought was that we're in some pretty good company," he said. "The competition is pretty stiff."
Even if Jaffa Road doesn't win, the band will feel honoured to have been included in the category, Lightstone said. "There are some great albums that didn't even get nominated."
Chernick said she is thrilled to find the band nominated in the same category as Danny Michel, whose album, Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me, is her current favourite.
"It's the album we play in my house to dance around to and share joy, and I couldn't believe it, that we're nominated with him," she said.
Jaffa Road spent almost a year on and off working on the newest album, said Chris Gartner, bassist and producer. It was the result of a collaborative effort involving a team of people that includes four guest artists.
It's a huge accomplishment that a group with Hebrew music and obvious Jewish influences could reach such mainstream appeal, band members say.
"As much as we value and appreciate the support we've received from the Jewish community, we have a bit of a bigger vision for the band and what we think the band could do," Lightstone said.
He added that the band's success shows that Canadians are open to any kind of artistic expression. "There are other cultural communities doing this sort of thing – taking an aspect of one cultural heritage and putting it in the blender with everything else that's around us in a multicultural mix and producing something new," he said.
Chernick said Canadians who speak Hebrew can turn on the radio and hear their language, and people have thanked her for contributing to that effort. "They heard a piece of themselves on the radio," she said. "That's the joy for me."
Lightstone said he found the group was being taken more seriously after the first Juno nomination. If he wants to play at a festival, for example, having the nomination attracts attention from the organizers.
"Even if we don't end up getting the gig, at least I get call-backs now," he said.
He also thinks it helped put a spotlight on the band, helping it stand out in the vast Canadian music scene.
It "makes it a little easier to be noticed in that very large crowd where there is a lot of high-quality music coming out of Canada," he said, adding that he is looking forward to the awards ceremony for the opportunity it presents to connect with this network of acclaimed musicians.
Chernick said she is also looking forward to the ceremony, which she described as intimate despite being in a large room.
"You get to hear people speak about their journeys making the music. It feels good to be a part of it all," she said. "It's like other artists, working away in the woodshops, fine-detailing the piece for hours and hours, and all of sudden you get to be with people who appreciate it, and it makes it come alive."
She said she's especially looking forward to representing the community of people who have supported the band over the years.
The 2013 Juno Awards take place on April 21 in Regina.


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While the 8-door '57 Chrysler limo almost beat out the stretched Ferrari 400i limo in our last Choose Your Eternity poll (and what an upset of reigning PCH Superpower, Italy, that would have been!), V12 power and Italian build quality seem to have triumphed over fins and rust. Today we need to see how Italy fares against its fellow PCH Superpower, Great Britain (with the winner moving on to take on France, of course). And, just to make things more fun, we're going with some serious Malaise machinery today, because Euro-Malaise is inherently cool-yet-hellish.
Can you get a Ferrari project for just $5,500? As anyone who has gone car shopping on any Craigslist site from Florida to Texas for the last year can tell you: Yes, you sure can! I've been running across the infamous Eddy, Texas Ferrari (go here if the ad disappears) for as long as I've been doing Project Car Hell, because the seller just won't give up! Many readers have sent in tips on this one, and now- finally!- I'm using it. So, why can't the seller unload this genuine Ferrari 308 for even as much as a Fiero-based "Ferrari" sells for? Sad to say, this car has been "toasted." Actually, I'd say "damn near completely consumed by flames" would be a more accurate statement, but enough of the hair-splitting- this is a Ferrari for $5,500! It has an engine and transmission and at least three genuine Ferrari wheels. This project is not impossible! Yes, it needs a few parts, but think of it this way: from the very moment it clanks onto your driveway, you're a Ferrari owner (and that moment will be the last happy one you spend with your new project for many, many years).
Burned Ferrari sitting in a Texas field? Is there anything in the same price range that can compete? How about that mighty British Malaise Warrior, the Lotus Esprit? Say, one for the exact same price as the Ferrari? Not possible, you say? Check out this 1980 Lotus Esprit, (go here if the ad disappears) located in the profoundly iron-oxide-friendly state of Delaware. The wing! The stripes! The V8 engine "not in car" (and maybe not even included in the deal)! The seller describes it as "awlsome," which we're assuming is not a typo; you'll feel as though an awl is being hammered into your skull every time you try to make this car drive. The body is in "great" shape and the interior is "good," so you'll be able to concentrate on all the mechanical components in need of work (i.e., all of them). Oh, and the electricals; go ahead and console yourself that Lotus was not a British Leyland company, but the Prince of Darkness had a hand in there somewhere.


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Sen. Mitch McConnell says Medicare, Social Security must change to fix U.S. debt
The nation's debt is its biggest problem, and the only way to fix it is to make changes in entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell said Friday.
McConnell, speaking to several hundred people during Commerce Lexington's Public Policy Luncheon at the Hyatt Regency, said those changes should include raising eligibility ages over time.
"Only one thing can save this country, and that's to get a handle on this deficit and debt issue," said McConnell, the Senate minority leader.
"No action means the demise" of entitlement programs, he said. "We have to assure they will be there for future generations."
McConnell focused on three subjects in his speech: the national debt, his role in recent negotiations involving the so-called fiscal cliff and his recent trip to Afghanistan.
He made no mention of gun control and declined to take questions from reporters after the speech.
President Barack Obama and Congress are at odds on the nation's debt limit.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, said Friday that the GOP-controlled House will vote next week to permit the government to borrow more money to meet its obligations. The action would give the government about three more months of borrowing authority beyond a deadline expected to hit as early as mid-February.
The Associated Press said the legislation would not require immediate spending cuts as earlier promised by Republican leaders. Instead, it is designed to force the Democrat-controlled Senate to join the House in debating the federal budget by tying Congressional pay with passing a budget.
The White House press secretary's office, in a statement, said Congress "must pay its bills and pass a clean debt limit increase without further delay." It added that Obama remains committed to reducing the deficit in a balanced way.
McConnell released a statement later in the day, after Cantor's announcement, calling on Senate Democrats to approve a budget.
"It's time to stop governing by crisis and stop-gap measure," he said. "The American people expect the Senate to finally pass a budget."
McConnell said during his speech that the $16.4 trillion national debt cannot be solved with more revenue. "We have a spending addiction," he said.
The 70-year-old senator also recalled his role last month in brokering a deal to avoid going over the fiscal cliff.
McConnell, who has represented Kentucky since 1985, negotiated with his old Senate colleague, Democratic Vice President Joe Biden, to get a deal that was approved by Congress. The compromise killed planned income tax hikes on most Americans and postponed deep federal spending cuts. It raised income taxes on families making $450,000 or more.
McConnell told the Lexington crowd he has never objected to compromise.
Concerning his recent trip to Afghanistan, McConnell said America will need to keep a residual force in the country to train the country's army and to maintain a counterterrorism unit.
"This has the potential for a pretty happy ending," he said of America's troop withdrawal there.
McConnell apparently did not see about 25 protesters in front of the Hyatt who do not want to see him re-elected next year. The rally was sponsored by a group called "Progress Kentucky."
Shawn Reilly, its executive director, said the group has a website urging about 20 Democrats and Republicans to run against McConnell next year.
Protester Phillip Hatfield Stahlman, a semi-retired antique architectural restorer, said he is "disgusted" with McConnell for his unwillingness to put more limits on campaign contributions and proclaiming his No. 1 goal was to keep Obama from being re-elected.
Stahlman said he has no favorite to replace McConnell but that his mother wants "to draft George Clooney, not Ashley Judd."


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A small group of U.S. airmen is on the ground in Mali to guide and unload an increasing flow of U.S. military aircraft ferrying French troops and supplies to the fight against Al Qaeda-backed rebels, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.
Five C-17 Globemasters flying out of a French military have already arrived and departed from Bamako, Mali after dropping off an undetermined number of troops and about 120 tons of equipment, the Pentagon officials said.
"Less than 10" U.S. Air Force personnel were sent to Bamako last week to handle the flights that began arriving over the weekend, a Pentagon official said. George Little, the Pentagon's chief spokesman, stressed that the small Air Force contingent was not a precursor to U.S. combat involvement.
"Boots on the ground is a different question," Little said in repeating the assertions of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that the U.S. supported France in the drive against the rebels but would not send combat troops.
Little said the airmen were limited to the relatively safe environs of the Bamako airport.
"We are confident that security can be maintained at this airfield," Little said.
The French military has little airlift capacity and France has been hard-pressed to maintain air support for the 2,500 French troops now on the ground in Mali.
Britain and Canada began aiding the French with their own C-17 flights earlier this month but the U.S. C-17 flights started only after what reportedly was the heated rejection by French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian of U.S. requests that France reimburse the U.S. for the help.
Little said that the U.S. for now would not ask for payment.
"We've made the decision at this time not to seek compensation or re-imbursement," Little said, adding that there were no initial estimates on the costs of the airlift.
The French also need U.S. help for aerial refueling of their Rafale and Mirage attack aircraft that have been making long-haul flights from France and bases in Chad to bomb rebel positions. Little said no decisions have been made on whether to commit aerial tankers from the U.S. European Command to the effort.
Little would not confirm whether U.S. drones were also aiding the French with reconnaissance missions over Mali.
"We are sharing intelligence with the French," Little said, but he would not provide specifics.
French troops began arriving in Mali on Jan. 11 to combat rebel forces backed by the Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb faction that have gained control of territory about the size of Texas in northern Mali. The French also intervened to protect the estimated 6,000 French citizens in and around Bamako.
French Malian troops over the weekend took back two central towns that had been occupied by the rebels and Le Drian called the action "a clear military success for the government in Bamako and for French forces intervening in support of these operations."


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The Trout Point kitchen emphasizes what is fresh & local: organic produce, herbs, wild foods, and sustainable seafood. The Lodge has had its culinary talents praised by a variety of sources, including Travel & Leisure, Food & Wine, and ForbesTraveler. Trout Point's chef/proprietors previously operated one of Louisiana first certified organic farms, Chicory Farm, as well as the acclaimed Chicory Farm Cafe in New Orleans, and count among just a handful of North Americans inducted into the French Guilde des fromagers in 1994. They also cooked at Costa Rica's Inn at Coyote Mountain and have taught cooking classes in Granada, Spain.
Nigel Richardson of The Telegraph has said: "In one place, decor and cuisine came together in a glorious synthesis of international quality and style. That place was Trout Point, a wilderness lodge in the western interior where refugees from Louisiana have created a Cajun-Acadian gastronomy of simple excellence. That night I dined on squash blossoms stuffed with beef and crabmeat, sat around a camp fire and watched the merest flickering of the aurora borealis in the northern sky."
Here are some examples of the ever-changing menu items served in the new Chez la Foret restaurant:
- Grilled sustainable swordfish skewers on a bed of spaghettini with Spanish saffron and organic maitake mushrooms
- Provencal lentil soup
- Oyster and fennel soup
- Fresh local haddock crusted with dill & sesame with a white wine, dill, & cream reduction
- Seafood Gumbo with scallops, oysters, & shrimp
- Saffron-scented Mediterranean chick pea soup with chorizo
- Grilled Trout Point grape leaves stuffed beef & lemongrass
- Haddock ceviche
- Caribbean black bean soup
- Creole chicken & kkra gumbo
- Scallops ravigote with wild mushrooms and garden chives
- Local Ruisseau oyster with Brie & bacon jam from the Yarmouth Farmer's Market