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There was no sign of trouble before the Robinson R-22 Beta lost power 3,000 feet over Honolulu, and pilot Julia Link had seconds to act. Her successful autorotation and emergency landing earned praise, and so, too, did the mechanic's decision to take responsibility for the incident long before the investigation is complete, vowing to make good on all losses.
While there was no loss of life or serious injury, Brant Swigart said coming forward, even at risk of legal consequences and the suspension or revocation of his airframe and powerplant mechanic's certificate, was the only way he could sleep.
"Whatever pressure I'd be under is really nothing compared to the mental pressure I was putting myself under once I realized this was our fault," Swigart, 46, told AOPA in a telephone interview. "It should have been fatal."
Pilot Julia Link, 30, who earned her helicopter instructor-instrument certificate after training at Mauna Loa Helicopters, where she is now a staff pilot, made sure it was not. Link was flying a photographer over the city around 3:20 p.m. on May 8, as afternoon traffic began to build and children played outside. After stabilizing the descent at 1,500 feet per minute, she had about a minute to find a safe spot to land in a crowded city.
"I felt pretty calm," Link recalled in a telephone interview. "Either it's going to work out or it isn't."
'I didn't catch it'
Swigart operates Hawaii Air Power Labs, maintaining helicopters with two fellow mechanics, one of them still an apprentice. Swigart had held N5ZK in his shop for a month and a half after completing an overhaul, unable to shake a nagging feeling that something had been missed. One night, he returned after dinner and tried to put his unease to rest with yet another detailed inspection. What he missed then would become painfully clear once he got a close look at the badly damaged helicopter on the street: The mixture control cable, where it attaches to the mixture bell crank, had been improperly installed, with limited freedom of movement that put additional stress on the cable. In addition, a spring designed to force the mixture to the full rich position in case that cable failed had been reversed, and when the cable snapped the flow of fuel was cut off entirely.
"I didn't catch it," said Swigart, who signed off on the overhaul, though he had not personally worked on that assembly. He insists that is irrelevant, and that he should have seen it and is solely responsible for the mistake. Swigart took the unusual, if not unprecedented step of contacting local media and speaking publicly about the error.
"I needed to own up to it," Swigart explained. "That would be my biggest step toward feeling any kind of better about it."
Swigart has vowed to pay for a replacement helicopter, and also to replace the 2012 Mazda 6 that was parked on the street near a curve in the road and badly damaged. One of the skids caught the car as Link brought the stricken helicopter in, spoiling what might otherwise have been a perfect power-off landing.
"I'm not rich, just a mechanic," Swigart said. He has not figured out exactly how he will come up with the money, but said he will see to it he does, borrowing money as necessary. He has also contacted the city, offering to pay for a parking meter that was destroyed when the still-spinning rotor cut it in half.
"You can't help but really appreciate somebody who puts his own neck on the line knowing the consequences, but knowing it's the right thing to do," said Mauna Loa Helicopters President Benjamin Fouts, owner of the helicopter that is damaged beyond repair, and a longtime friend. "He's just a quality guy."
'A hole in one'
Fouts also had high praise for his pilot, who flew with him over the precise spot where the trouble started a few days after the forced landing.
"Her knowledge of downtown Honolulu was really critical," Fouts said, noting that there was only one option available: a one-way street that would at least offer protection from traffic in one direction. Unlike most local roads, it was also clear of power lines. Link avoided a more inviting field nearby because children were playing there.
Link has logged 390 hours, and demonstrated skill and decision-making that were equal to "the worst of the worst scenarios."
"She had one shot at it," Fouts said, noting it was next to impossible to land in the middle of a crowded city without causing serious injury or loss of life. "That was a hole in one."
Link said there was little time to think when the engine quit, knowing that the rotors would slow dangerously within a second or two. The RPM alarm was sounding as she initiated autorotation and worked to trim the falling helicopter.
"It was not a good situation to be in," Link said.
She scanned for a spot free of wires and other obstructions, and ruled out a cemetery, fearing that one of the gravestones would catch a skid and cause the helicopter to flip. It was also a place to avoid, under the circumstances, on principle.
"Knowing I would crash land in a graveyard, that was not an option for me," Link said with a chuckle.
She decided instead on the one-way street, lined up to approach, and concentrated on managing airspeed, RPM, and timing the flare. She also contacted ATC.
"I got a little lonely in that minute," Link said of the helicopter's final plunge. She reported the engine failure and requested an ambulance to respond, not yet aware she would come to rest a stone's throw from a fire station.
At 200 feet, she completed a final checklist and prepared to flare, having banished from her mind thoughts that the situation could end "very, very badly." The road clear ahead, a successful outcome was also beginning to become clear.
"Even at 200 feet, I knew that we would walk away alive," Link said. "Still, it was kind of scary."
At 40 feet, she began to flare, skids following the one-way street that began to curve as she approached the parked Mazda. There was no avoiding it, no power to change course or energy to spare. The skid's impact with the car spun the helicopter 180 degrees, but both pilot and passenger were safe.
'I want to make good'
The NTSB and FAA are investigating, and a preliminary report has not yet been released. Swigart said he expects the FAA will at least suspend his mechanic's certificate, if not worse, and he's prepared for whatever comes.
"The FAA can't hurt me more than I hurt myself," Swigart said. He said he would prefer to pay for the damages up front, but it appears the insurance companies involved may not give him that option, opting to sue him instead. He said he will not fight any such lawsuit, though he would prefer to just pay.
"I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I want to make good," Swigart said. He worries the insurance companies will raise the rates of the policy holders, and still collect every dime spent on vehicle repairs or replacement, in addition to court costs.
"What if everybody just came forward and said, 'Hey, I'll pay?'" Swigart wonders. He is uneasy with the praise he has received for his decision to publicly claim responsibility for negligence, but hopes one good thing might come from the episode: inspiring others to do the same.
"I think that more people might think about doing the right thing, which is fessing up if you do something wrong," Swigart said.


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"60 Minutes": new information undercuts Benghazi story
CBS now allows that its "60 Minutes" report on Benghazi may be faulty.
For more than a week, media watchers have waited to see if CBS News would walk back its widely criticized story on the attack in Benghazi, Libya. Eleven days after the Oct. 27 broadcast, the network did. Late on Nov. 7 CBS issued a statement saying new information "undercuts" the "60 Minutes" story, and that the report is being investigated. It may ultimately be corrected.
The background: Defense contractor Dylan Davies, appearing under the pseudonym "Morgan Jones," gave CBS his account of the night four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were killed in an attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi. He described his heroic entry into the compound (scaling a wall, beating up a terrorist, witnessing Stevens in the hospital, etc.), en route to promoting his new memoir about witnessing the Benghazi attack. Not coincidentally, CBS had a financial interest in the success of the book. The correspondent on the report, Lara Logan, and the network's news division later admitted the ethics violation due to the fact that a corporate cousin of the network was set to publish Davies' book. But CBS didn't retract Davies' basic claims.
Until now CBS has stood by its report. The interview was promoted as "the first eyewitness account from a westerner" on the ground that night. The Washington Post reported Davies was not actually at the compound when the attack occurred, CNN questioned the account and veteran journalists subsequently have criticized the venerable news magazine for sloppy reporting. Media Matters, a watchdog group, has consistently called the story a "hoax" and called upon CBS to retract the report.
CBS News vigorously defended the report–until now.
The CBS statement:
60 MINUTES has learned of new information that undercuts the account told to us by Morgan Jones of his actions on the night of the attack on the Benghazi compound. We are currently looking into this serious matter to determine if he misled us, and if so, we will make a correction.
It's a halfway admission, neither an apology nor a correction. But we'll stay tuned to see if those are forthcoming.


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A CEO's new vision often blurs into an indistinct image once the initial blitz is over. To ensure that the vision is more than just a daydream, companies should follow a five-phase model that some organizations have used successfully to avoid disaster or complacency.
It was a beautiful, sunny day in Miami. Inside a darkened auditorium, however, 3,500 senior executives of one of the world's largest financial companies, flown in for just this purpose, sat awaiting their new CEO. The scene resembled the beginning of a pro basketball game: Loud rock music set the beat, and laser images peppered the crowd and the stage. As the audience members stomped their feet and swayed with the music, the CEO appeared on stage. His task? To pitch his newly minted enterprise vision to the already energized crowd.
His speech, as well choreographed as the buildup, was brief and upbeat. The message was simple: "We will become 'the breakout firm.' And to achieve breakout status, we will rely on the three I's of innovation, integration, and inspiration." Given the tight schedule of events for this one-day meeting, the CEO took no questions. But the speech had caught the executives' attention, and the new vision created a buzz of excitement.
Months later, the buzz had worn off. Reality had intruded, as it always does. The company, successful for more than a hundred years, had always proceeded conservatively. Its organizational culture was anything but "break-out." It wasn't innovative; its businesses, products and customers were not integrated; and its leaders were not known for being inspirational.
In short, following their initial enthusiasm, the company's senior executives were having a hard time reconciling the new vision with day-to-day realities as they met in planning sessions with the next levels of management and front-line employees. Within the top executive team, there were few role models for the three I's, and there were no signs of rewards for behaving as breakout leaders.
Within a year, the term "breakout" had slipped quietly into the background. Few senior executives could even remember the three I's. About two years after the speech in Miami, the CEO declared victory and went on to lead another company. But the confusion sowed by the unrealized vision cost the company both market share and the harder to quantify elements of trust and momentum with employees and customers.
This gap between inspiration and implementation is a common one. We set out to find out why, and what CEOs and their top teams could do to translate bold visions into operational realities.(See "About the Research.") In this article, we'll first explain several common reasons behind the derailment of bold visions.


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A bumper crop of … garden sales
Did you ever advise someone NOT to do something — and then completely succumb to the temptation yourself?
It happened to me last weekend after teaching a class on fall perennial planting as a Master Gardener Volunteer apprentice. Now, I don't know that much about fall perennial planting, but I DO know who to ask. And who I ask is Joy Andrews at Fort Collins Nursery, and Irene Shonle at the Gilpin County Extension office. After conferring with Joy and Irene on why fall is such a good time to plant, about the soil takes much longer to cool off than the air, how roots keep growing until the ground freezes and then the plant has a head start for spring, Irene — whose autumn at altitude 7,000 feet lasts "for maybe three days" — talked garden-center sales and the myriad temptations they offer.
"People tend to forget the realities of their own gardens" when they're faced with a great sale, or a plant color they crave to add to a certain spot. You can't make a shady spot sunny or lean mountain soil into Midwestern loam, no matter how hard you try. "Wild Thing" salvia, alas, will always be a zone 6 plant. If your dirt's not already dug, you're going to have to dig it to plant something. If that something is big, you'll have your work cut out for you.
I passed Irene and Joy's combined wisdom on to a couple dozen kind and patient listeners at a nearby library who didn't seem to mind that they'd been gardening decades longer than I have. And then I went to Gulley Greenhouse and proceeded to blithely ignore it.
I blame the roses. I wasn't conquered by two-for-one roses or even 50-percent-off roses. Oh, no, the people at Gulley were truly evil. They had some roses whose tags had somehow fallen off in their moves outside, inside, all around the property. They'd marked these "mystery" roses — perfectly healthy, many in abundant, knee-weakening fragrant bloom — down to $3 a pop. Eeeeeevil. Irene hadn't mentioned scent as a major puncher of the plant-prudence override button. And one of those mysteries was proffering a perfect, pale lavender bud right at nose level. It was so unfair.
Have you ever had that moment peculiar to shoppers when you're driving home (OK, when you're driving home the FIRST time, because you've just bought so many rosebushes that you can't fit them all in your car without buckling one of them into the passenger seat, which is just a little too "Little Shop of Horrors" even for me) and this voice in your head says, "holy ^%$#! I've just bought SEVEN rosebushes! Am I a compulsive shopper? What was I thinking? How will I get them all in the ground? Am I powerless before plant sales? Will I feel less conflicted if I give one away? What if they croak from my abject ignorance?"
And then the OTHER voice in your head says, "You TWIT! Are you crazy? Go back and get the other three you wanted but DIDN'T BUY! They're three-dollar ROSES, fer cryin' out loud! The hell with thrift, this calls for complete abandon!"
Finally, sanity prevailed. Or at least what I think is the saner voice did. I am not sorry. Briefly crazy, , but not sorry. I'm keeping the roses. I might even go back for more. Nine's a better number than seven, doncha think?
Dig on, plant-crazy comrades. It's going to be a long, brown winter.


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On this day in 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay became the first men in history to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Since then, more than 3,000 climbers have gazed at the world from a height of 8,848 metres. And today, 60 years since that very first feat, celebrations are being held across the world. Richard Pallot reports.
Sixty years ago, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay struggled to make the first ascent of Mt. Everest — but today, anyone with an Internet connection can easily trek to basecamp, take a virtual flight over the region's glaciers, and see how the mountain has changed over the years.
"What we've heard from the scientists that study these specific glaciers is that the melt rate is increasing dramatically," David Breashears, a famed mountaineer and filmmaker, told NBC News.
"One then says, well if we continue to put more carbon into the air … what will the glaciers look like and what will the consequences be?"
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A screenshot from the Everest: Rivers of Ice website shows an image a glacier flowing from Mount Everest in 1921 compared to what it looked like 2007.
The website, Everest: Rivers of Ice, uses a new interactive storytelling technology from Microsoft Research to help Breashears prod people to ponder the consequences of the region's changing glaciers.
The project started in 2007 when Breashears was asked by PBS to match an iconic 1921 image taken by George Mallory of the Main Rongbuk Glacier, which begins in the North Face of Mount Everest. "The vertical melt rate of the glacier was just astonishing," said Breashears.
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Famed mountaineer, filmmaker and photographer David Breashears discusses the project in a video on the Everest: Rivers of Change website.
The experience compelled him to start the non-profit GlacierWorks, which aims to document, educate and raise awareness about the glaciers in the Himalaya, which are a water source for as many as 1.5 billion people and reflect sunlight back to the atmosphere, slowing the pace of warming.
What can the Web be?
Microsoft teamed up with the non-profit "to showcase what the Web can be," Roger Capriotti, director of product marketing for Internet Explorer, explained to NBC News.
The image of the basecamp, for example, contains on the order of 4 gigabytes of data and is the amalgamation of more than 400 images that have been stitched together. Visitors take in the broad view, and then zoom-in on basecamp to see individual people or climbers higher up the mountain.
10 years ago, on the 50th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's climb to the top of Mt. Everest, he sat down with TODAY's Ann Curry to talk about that moment, and how he has since devoted his life to building hospitals and schools for the Sherpa people who helped him reach the world-famous summit.
At of the heart of website is a storytelling platform developed by Microsoft Research called Rich Interactive Narratives (RIN), which allows for integration of data heavy video, images, and maps in a way that lets users explore Everest on their own.
"We are just starting down a path of building great interactive experiences in a way that we just haven't done before," Capriotti said.
Storytelling context
For Breashears, the Web technology allows him to use his vast archives of imagery as well as those collected by his mountaineering colleagues and scientists to lure visitors to a region of the world many would otherwise never visit and, hopefully, prod them to think about global change.
Key to this lesson is a series of images of vanishing glaciers that allow comparisons of historic photographs with those taken in recent years. The images are laid on top of each other, allowing the user to scroll back and forth between them with a flick of the finger or mouse.
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Historic and recent images of glaciers in the Himalaya allow visitors to the website to see the melting ice.
But the website is more than glaciers, Breashears noted. He wants visitors to learn about the Himalaya region in general and as they do never forget where they are.
For this reason, users can zoom in on Namche Bazaar, for example, which serves as a trading post between Nepal and Tibet, but not into the doorway of a home there. But once zoomed down on the town, a video becomes available showing a street level view of the traders.
In future iterations of the website, he noted, users may be offered an opportunity to watch an interview with an expert on the local people, or a slideshow showing what the village looked like before the first Westerners arrived in the mid-20th century.
"The goal is that if you get this storytelling platform developed today at a certain level then there will be a tremendous amount of high-quality user-generated content … and what we've done is we've just presented this great architecture, this stage."
John Roach is a contributing writer for NBC News. To learn more about him, visit his website.


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Well here's an unexpected surprise! Nicki Minaj decides to show some love to the Windy City and release this hard-ass record titled "Chi-Raq", featuring Chi-town's own rising artist Lil Herb.
After showcasing her impressive rap skills on the track "Lookin' Ass Nigga", Nicki is back again with some serious heat as she trades bars with Lil Herb, aka G-Herb, over this hard-hittin' production from Boi-1da, Vinyls, and Allen Ritter. This is super mean y'all. Check it out for yourself.
Sidenote: Nicki also hints in the track that she might put out a new record every week until her album The Pink Print drops. She says on the outro:
"I always got a trick up my sleeve. I might give you a new trick every week until this album drops…..I don't know, I figured they wanted some more."
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Home theaters, can't best buy em
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Welcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past.
Idris Elba is a world-famous actor, but like many world-famous actors before him, he's got a bit of a lead foot. Lucky for us then that he's not only comfortable being in front of the camera, but also in the seats of things like Minis, NASCAR racers, lowriders, and a whole menagerie of awesome.
The whole thing lasts an hour, but as it's from the BBC there's a chance it will be taken down soon. I recommend you start watching now.


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Capitol greeted Republican Laura Bradford like a rock star after 2008 election
Rep. Laura Bradford's leaving office with an asterisk that will always be by her name but she was the toast of the town in 2008 when she knocked off Democrat Bernie Buescher of Grand Junction.
That election wasn't kind to Republicans, but there were two bright spots: Bradford and Kevin Priola, of Henderson, who won an open House seat that Democrats had expected to keep.
But Bradford's was the biggie as Buescher was going to be the next speaker of the House. Republicans cheered when incumbents and incoming lawmakers gathered at the Capitol two days after the election to elect leadership.
Bradford announced this week that she was dropping her re-election bid to take care of her husband, who suffered a heart attack earlier this year when his wife was making headlines. She was stopped by Denver police on suspicion of driving drunk — although she was never arrested — and threatened to leave the GOP.


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FRANK ROBINSON IS STRUGGLING TO BEEF UP HIS ALready-record production and prodding his engineers to accelerate development and certification of his first turbine-powered helicopter.
His efforts to boost production and meet steady and strong demand for his aircraft wasn't helped by President Bush's visit to the Torrance, Calif. factory last month, which bogged production lines down for a week or so with Secret Service preparations and the entourage of presidential aides, dignitaries, and reporters. But Robinson will accept that hit.
"He's very personable," the founder of Robinson Helicopter said of the president, who was joined by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for the tour. "It was a real boost of morale for the workers to see him and shake his hand."
Bush used Robinson's factory as a venue to stir up public and congressional support for foreign trade agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea. Roughly 70 percent of the helicopters Robinson sells are exported.
Bush's visit followed a sales year that again surprised Robinson and set a record for civil helicopter production by a single manufacturer. Robinson produced 823 helicopters last year, topping its own record of 806 set in 2005. A year ago, Robinson told Rotor & Wing that he had fully expected 2007 to mark a slowdown in demand and had planned for that. But demand picked up in late 2006 and continued strong into 2007 — but not at a record level at first. "Through most of 2007, we were falling behind the record year" of 2005, he said. "But in the last couple of months, everybody got fired up."
Robinson faces a problem shared by other manufacturers: a lengthy backlog of orders. "We're all sold out for 2008," he said. "I much prefer to have the lead time down to 2-3 months." At this point, he said, demand shows no signs of slowing down. "2008 hopefully will beat 2007's record," he said. "Sales have really taken off."
That is one reason Robinson is pushing his engineers to speed work on the five-seat, RR300-powered R66. "I just met with my top engineers, trying to build a fire under them."


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Aru is a tourist spot in the Anantnag District of Jammu & Kashmir, India & is noted for its scenic meadows, lakes and mountains Aru a base camp for trekking to the Kolhoi Glacier and Tarsar. There are about 20 alpine lakes, peaks and meadows around the Aru Valley. In the winters, when Aru receives heavy snowfall it provides a great skiing arena. The altitude in Aru ranges from over 9842 feet to 18,000 feet (3000–5425 m) above sea level.
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I'm a big fan of giving children high quality reading materials as stocking stuffers. Magazine subscriptions like SI Kids, Ranger Rick and Highlights will put a smile on their faces on Christmas Day as well as throughout the rest of the year.
Now that children have access to technology such as iPads, I also think premium educational apps make great stocking stuffers. My personal favorites are FarFaria, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Wildlife Count Along and Ranger Rick Junior Appventures App.


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The Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz equation is an integral equation that was derived by Yang and Yang to study some interacting systems. In the simplest case, it is $$\epsilon(\beta)=R\cosh\beta-\int\frac{d\beta'}{\pi\cosh(\beta-\beta')}\log(1+\exp(-\epsilon(\beta'))).$$
A reference for this is Al.B. Zamolodchikov, Thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz in relativistic models, Nucl Phys B342 (1990) 695-720.
I am interested in the asymptotics of the solutions as $R\rightarrow 0$. Zamolodchikov gives a heuristic argument that for small $R\cosh\beta$ we can neglect the first term. Therefore, the $\beta\rightarrow\beta+const$ invariance is restored and the solution $\epsilon(\beta)$ becomes independent of $\beta$ for small $R\cosh\beta$. Can one deduce a more precise asymptotic behavior? In particular, I would like to write down the small $R$ corrections.
One can easily show that this integral operator acting on $\exp(-\epsilon)$ maps the ball of radius $(e^R-1)^{-1}$ in $C^0(\mathbf{R})$ to itself. Furthermore, it is a contraction for large $R$ (see e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4723, appendix C).
Was this equation studied anywhere in the mathematical literature?


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Gingered Maple Cupcakes
Total TimePrep: 20 min. + chilling Bake: 20 min. + cooling
Makes1-1/2 dozen
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1-1/4 cups maple syrup
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup 2% milk
- 1/2 cup finely chopped pecans
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 3 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 2/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 18 pecan halves
- In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs. Beat in syrup and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, ginger, salt and baking soda; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Stir in pecans.
- Fill paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
- Meanwhile, in a small bowl, cream the butter, cream cheese, brown sugar and salt until light and fluffy. Beat in syrup and vanilla. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar until smooth. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Frost cupcakes; top each with a pecan half. Store in the refrigerator.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 425 calories, 20g fat (11g saturated fat), 71mg cholesterol, 348mg sodium, 59g carbohydrate (44g sugars, 1g fiber), 4g protein.
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Mar 28, 2015
Made this and took to work. Everyone enjoyed them, I received many compliments. They were amazing! I would make the frosting first as it needs to chill for an hour. I also would use half the butter, 4oz. cream cheese and maple flavoring to taste. As far as the cake batter I would use a 1/2 tsp. ginger, cinnamon, allspice and 1/4 cup of nuts. I used black walnuts as well.
Dec 9, 2010
It had a very unique taste. I guess maybe I put to much ginger in it. It was a bit over powering and not really the sweet taste you normally except from a cupcake.
Nov 17, 2010
I made the cupcakes without the nuts (because of allergies) and they were very yummy. They were a great hit at the Bridge club. I will make them again very soon.
Nov 17, 2010
Hi Sakya. Just a fancy way of saying use yummy vanilla extract.
Nov 16, 2010
What is that spice? Spice Islands®, All Natural, No Corn Syrup Added, Pure Vanilla ExtractWe see that in all recipe now
Nov 15, 2010
I have not made these yet, however my husband LOVES maple. I will make these soon and I know I will be making these again and again!!!


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NathanJacobs necessitava di un nuovo design di pagina web con programmazione e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 7 design presentati da 7 designer.
This contest is for a coded template for ApplyMore.com - An innovative website that predicts based upon submitted credit scores and information which credit cards you will likely be approved for if you apply.
Desired Color Scheme:
I'll let you choose the colors.
Desired Style:
I need the site to seem inviting, and easy to use when first seen. They should know what the site does for them at a glance as well.
Accepted File Formats:
.html, .psd, .png
Website: ApplyMore.com
I will need a main page that will tell a potential member what the site will do for them, and entice them to sign up for our
free service. They should know that we guarantee that no matter how bad their credit is we can find credit cards and store
cards that WILL approve them for credit.
What the site will do.
The site is a place that will help people find credit cards and store credit cards that will likely approve them with their
credit scores and credit situation.
This will be a free service.
Calls to action:
I want a person who comes to the site to feel as if they can become part of a large community of people who are constantly
benefitting from our experience in finding credit cards, and store cards that they can likely obtain no matter what their
credit history is.
If they have bad credit, we can get them credit cards. if they have good credit, we can get them better credit cards.
I don't currently have a professional logo, just throw space in there for a logo, or make one up and put it in. The logo
should say Apply More.
Company slogan is: Get More Credit Cards With Less Denials
The menu items I will need are:
Home, My Account, My Credit Card Offers, My Credit Information
There will need to be an image somewhere on the page that entices them to sign up now.
There needs to be a login form (email/password and submit button) on the page that can be hidden when the person is logged
in. So just put it in a place to where if it is taken out it won't ruin the look of the page.
I'm not particular to any certain color scheme so do what you want as far as that goes, but I want the colors to be inviting,
and not distracting.
I like the way this site is done (http://www.womenleaderscoop.com)
Notice how the colors are more catered to women cause it is a women's site - also see the rollovers, kinda gives the site a
nice look.
I will need around 500 pixels for content on each page (click around that womenleaderscoop page to see what I mean)
Bottom of the site should contain sublinks like the womenleaderscoop site does.
Sublinks are:
What We Do For You, About Us, Contact Us
I hope this is enough info to go on. Can't wait to see the entries.


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5 social media dos, don'ts for students
Learn to maneuver around hazards of social networking
Like so many other areas of our lives, technology has changed our relationship with education. It has altered everything from the way we take notes and learn to the way we interact with one another.
Twenty years ago, for instance, most people still prepared their school reports on a typewriter. Fifteen years ago, the Internet became an important tool in education. Now, social media is having an impact on school.
We can argue whether or not there is legitimate value to social media as it relates to school, but the fact is that it exists (maybe your class or club has a Facebook page -- certainly your friends have individual pages.)
But the fact of the matter is that you need to know how to use it properly, safely, and effectively.
Let's start with the basics ...
No. 5: Learn how to use social media
While a lot of social media tools are fairly simple to use, there are so many people who use them incorrectly, and we've seen it. The gaffes can be simple typos or epic posts that leave the author in a cloud of his own embarrassment.
The best are the ones where the Facebook user goes online to complain about his job and how horrid his boss is, but forgets his boss is his Facebook friend. Or a guy calls in sick to work, but then posts pictures of himself at a baseball game -- only later to get busted by the boss.
If you know how your social media tool works, you're not likely to commit some gaffe that will come back to bite you.
Learn what happens when you use a social media tool -- and how you can use it without causing damage.
Now, that you know how it works, be sure to use it responsibly ...
No. 4: Respect other people's privacy
One of the biggest problems for average Joes and social media is something that schools and the media have had to deal with for years: getting permission to post someone's picture on your Flickr, My Space or Facebook page.
While you were having a great time at the pep rally, snapping away pictures to commemorate your delightful time, that person in the photo with you that you identified by name may not want their picture posted online.
And it's not because they may have been doing something inappropriate -- they may just not want their picture posted.
True, you can use the argument that it is a public event and they are fair game. While that is certainly legal, it may affect your friendships and relationships.
Do the smart thing and make sure the people who are in your pictures are OK with you posting them.
But if you think you're ready to hit the "return" key, hold up a sec ...
No. 3: Think twice before hitting return
There is a problem with commenting back and forth online: We don't have the subtle facial and verbal cues that we subconsciously rely on when we communicate in person.
That's why those emoticons -- stupid as they are -- are actually useful, when used properly. There's a difference between: "Those pants make your butt look big" and "Those pants make your butt look big. :)"
And when those interpersonal cues are missing, people can misunderstand a comment and a conversation can take a turn for the worse. Once people start letting their emotions off the leash, things get heated. Unfortunately, once you hit "Return," you no longer have control of the statement and it's forever committed to the ether.
Once something is on the Internet, it's out of your hands. As the saying goes, once you've squeezed it, you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
You also can't follow the rules if you don't know them ...
No. 2: Know your school's policy
This one harkens back to the earlier point about being respectful of others, but you should also be respectful to your institution. Your school probably has rules governing your use of social media, and learning those rules can keep you out of hot water.
In some cases, schools outright forbid their teachers from having Facebook pages. Your school may also have strict guidelines for a club's Facebook page.
Of course, they can't keep you from personally having a page and you can talk about whatever you want there, but they may have limits in place about what -- in their name -- you can do.
Whether or not these policies are legal or ethical is a debate for another venue, the point here is that you should know and understand your school's policies.
But there is one social media rule that students and parents should know above all else ...
No. 1: Be sure to stay safe
This is Internet 101, and the source material for so many Lifetime network movies, but it bears repeating: Be safe online. Be careful about what information you give out, because it can be used against you.
If you're in a chat room or in a new environment, you should already know not to give out your last name or age, or any personally identifiable information.
But beyond that, take a look at your profile page on whatever social media platform you're using. Look at what information is available. Is your phone number on there? Are your privacy settings solid?
Posting a picture of yourself at track practice with a caption like "This is what we do every day from 3 to 5!" seems innocuous enough, but it can give creeps the information they want.
Having too much personal information and weak security can leave you open for ne'er-do-wells who want to harm you.
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App Review: Camera Zoom v1.1 by KendiTech with Samples
by Rob on
August 3, 2009
Filed under Daily App Reviews, Photography, Utility
Camera Zoom by KendiTech has been holding strong on the App Store's top 100 list. In reality, there's no wonder that an app offering a zoom function on the iPhone would be doing so well as this is a feature that most iPhone users wished the iPhone had. Well, now, through the Camera Zoom app, you can have it today.
Nearly every camera on the market, be it in a cell phone or not, has some type of zoom capability built in. Most (real) cameras have a combination of optical zoom and digital zoom capability that offer the photographer some flexibility in their photo snapping experience. However, everyone also knows that the only type of zoom worth having is optical zoom, since this leverages the lens to do the zoom work and allows the camera to use the full megapixel capability of the sensor for each image taken. Digital zoom, on the other hand, is where a camera will take the same resolution image at every zoom level, but then process the image by cropping and enhancing the result to give the user the effect of true optical zoom. So, in essence, the further you zoom in on a digital zoom system, the less effective pixels of the sensor you are using and your final result would have less detail in it.
Being a photo buff myself, I've scoffed at the Camera Zoom app since it hit the app store, since you wouldn't catch me using digital zoom on any image. I much prefer to take my pics on my 3GS and post-process them in Photoshop (or even PhotoForge) where I have greater control and can sharpen them as necessary should I decide to crop them. So, needless to say, I have been putting off for some time to try out Camera Zoom.
Upon launching Camera Zoom on your iPhone, you are presented with a familiar camera interface but with one exception: the presence of a slider on the bottom edge of the screen. Since the app is called "Camera Zoom" it's not hard to figure out what the slider is for – zooming. The first thing that struck me as odd however, is the focus/metering square of the 3GS is off-center (not touching the screen). When I compared the interface to the actual camera app, the image on Camera Zoom is already slightly zoomed from the original app and cannot but zoomed out to match that of the real camera app.
Taking pictures is easy, as one would expect. Simply slide the slider to the zoom you want, and touch the camera button on the bottom of the screen. If you have a 3GS camera, you can also touch the screen to focus / meter and then take you picture. The interface becomes a little odd here, since it appears as though the camera zoom app is actually zooming the camera interface in order to achieve the visual zoom effect. This makes for a rather odd experience when using the app.
The other issue I had with the app is that when previewing pictures, the preview function looks just like the camera roll in the real camera app, but does not have nearly the same functions. For example, you can preview a picture, but that's it. No other controls or onscreen functions are provided. To email pics or copy/paste etc you will need to close Camera Zoom and launch the camera roll.
I did a series of photographic tests, to which only a couple of them are included in this review. The only real test worth doing is to compare the quality of the images coming from Camera Zoom to images coming from the real camera app, at different crop and zoom levels. The oddities that I mention above while, well, odd, don't prevent one from taking zoomed pictures with the app. So, from here on out we'll look at the end results.
My results after a few tests were actually rather surprising. The app appeared to perform rather well at digital zooming the image and achieved results that were on-par with my own post-processed images. There's no doubt that the app is doing its own post-processing of the image in order to get a decent result after cropping away all the unused pixels. Looking at the pics below, you can see that the two images are very similar. On the left, is an image taken using the camera app and then post-processed (crop and unsharp mask) in PhotoForge and on the right, an image taken using Camera Zoom (no processing except for size). Here's the results:
|Camera App
Cropped and unsharp mask in PhotoForge
|Camera Zoom No processing except size.
As you can see, the two images are near identical. Both images exhibit significant noise artifacts (to be expected considering the dim lighting conditions and the amount of crop done to achieve the 'zoom' level). However, one cannot discount the ease of which it is to use Camera Zoom without having to post process. This is, in my opinion, the only reason why someone would use this app. For everyday, casual shooting the app works great. Digital zoom is easily and effectively achieved. However, if you care at all for image quality, then you'll likely be the type to not even want to use digital zoom under any circumstance, even on your phone. For those I say, post process, to everyone else I say Camera Zoom is a great alternative.


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For many years, I have called on the government to review the "double-pay system," under which some retired military personnel, civil servants and public school teachers now teaching at private schools receive both state retirement pensions and regular salaries at the same time. I am glad to see that the government is now squarely facing up to the double-pay problem, as the Ministry of Education is planning to push for an amendment to the Statute Governing the Retirement of School Faculty and Staff (學校教職員退休條例).
Two years ago, former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislator Hsiao Ching-tien (蕭景田) pointed out that a total of 1,351 retired civil servants were teaching at private universities while receiving state retirement pensions. It was estimated that their combined annual salaries and benefits were NT$1.8 billion (US$61.5 million), which was around 10 percent of the Ministry of Education's annual subsidies for private universities.
According to Hsiao, the Control Yuan had issued a "correction" to the Cabinet regarding retired civil servants receiving double pay by taking up jobs at state-run companies after their retirement from the civil service. As a consequence, the Legislative Yuan immediately amended the Public Functionaries Retirement Act (公務人員退休法) to regulate the practice. However, the amendment failed to include regulations preventing retired civil servants from retaining their retirement benefits while receiving salaries from private schools. As a result the problem is now commonly seen at private universities.
I often urge legislators to promptly address the problem when I talk with them. Since I could also work and receive double pay, friends have asked me if I wouldn't think it a pity if the law were amended, since that would remove the opportunity. My simple answer is that not only would I not think it a pity, I would support such an amendment without reservation, because I would feel uncomfortable being criticized for disregarding social fairness and justice by receiving a double income.
Today, the average monthly salary of a university professor is NT$100,000, while many university graduates only earn NT$22,000 per month when they first enter the workplace. As this gap continues to widen, it is only natural that such a system attracts a lot of criticism.
In addition, the ethos behind a retirement pension program is to support the elderly so that they can continue to enjoy life in retirement without additional income. From this perspective, if someone who receives a state retirement pension also has a new job where they earn more money, then they should no longer receive the retirement pension.
Some professors who receive double pay have said to me that since their current salaries are not too bad, they would accept the decision if the legislature amended the law and demanded that they choose just one of their two income streams. Personally, I have the same stance.
The administration of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has promoted social fairness and justice, and it is now making an effort to narrow the income gap. I am pleased to see the education ministry's push for an amendment of the law for the sake of social fairness and justice. At the same time, using the funds thus saved from eliminating the double-pay system to employ more people to boost the employment rate or provide subsidies for low-income households would be worthy actions.