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Eovaldi plans to mix it up from the mound
MIAMI -- Hard-throwing right-hander Nathan Eovaldi is looking to show more than just power and predictability with his pitch selection this season, and he plans on offering hitters a change of pace.
Already one of the hardest-throwing starters in the game, Eovaldi has spent the offseason working on his changeup. If effective, it will give left-handed hitters something else to think about.
"I'm working on my changeup a lot," Eovaldi said. "I'm hoping to be able to throw that for strikes more. I know last year, I started using my curveball more, and it helped me out tremendously. Being able to use my slider and fastball off my curveball helped me out."
When you throw as hard as Eovaldi, it is natural to rely so heavily on pure heat. According to FanGraphs.com, his fastball averaged at 96.2 mph, which placed him in the upper tier of all starters. Eovaldi's fastball maxed out at 100 mph in 2013.
Because his fastball is such an explosive weapon, Eovaldi used it to get ahead in counts, and conversely, when he was behind, he'd dial up the heat. He used it so often, his pitching patterns became predictable. Per FanGraphs.com, Eovaldi threw his fastball 70.6 percent of the time. As for his changeup? Just 1.7 percent.
Eovaldi is hopeful of commanding four pitches -- including his slider and curveball.
"Getting first-pitch strikes with my secondary pitches, and even when behind in the count, is going to be huge for me this year," Eovaldi said. "If I'm able to throw all four of my pitches for strikes, it will help me out a lot."
Marlins pitchers and catchers begin Spring Training workouts at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Fla., on Sunday. Eovaldi, who turns 24 on Thursday, is already in South Florida, taking part in the Marlins Ayudan Week.
Miami maintains that Eovaldi is one of the team's building blocks. He is projected as the No. 2 starter, behind Jose Fernandez, and the two have the raw talent to be one of the game's most overpowering tandems.
Fernandez's fastball hit 99 mph during his 2013 National League Rookie of the Year Award-winning campaign. His average fastball, as reported by FanGraphs.com, was 94.9 mph.
What set Fernandez apart last season was the command he showed on all four of his pitches. He also was more unpredictable, throwing his fastball 57.3 percent of the time.
For Eovaldi, refining his secondary pitches is a work in progress, but there is little disputing his untapped talent. In an injury-plagued 2013, he went 4-6 with a 3.39 ERA in 18 starts.
It was a painful season overall for the team, which lost 100 games. For Eovaldi, the season started with a lengthy stint on the disabled list.
After enjoying a strong Spring Training, Eovaldi was pegged as the No. 2 starter. But in his final Grapefruit League outing, he experienced some discomfort in his shoulder, and he informed the team that something wasn't right.
The Marlins played it safe and Eovaldi opened 2013 on the DL. Once healthy, he had to basically build back up again, and he didn't join the rotation until June 18.
"I feel that was a fluke," Eovaldi said of his injury. "I've never had that happen to me before, or even any tightness in my shoulder before.
"It was, honestly, the very last game of Spring Training. It got tight. I wanted to be safe, and say something."
Though the team called his injury shoulder inflammation, Eovaldi labels it biceps tendinitis, because the muscle runs into the shoulder area. Either way, he was sidelined for several months.
"I had to shut it down," Eovaldi said. "It took so much time, because I basically had to go through Spring Training all over again."

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Dinner of Kolhapuri chicken and lunch of fried fish,..and ya theres a giveaway too,..:-)
15 comments:
- Lakshmi said...
umm....that looks like a grand meal! ENJOI u both :)
- February 11, 2009 at 2:47 PM
- Unknown said...
good entry for the event..i hardly know what event are going on nowadays, but now I have decided to keep myself updated with them..send one for your event though i was planning to send a cake..no time yaar..will send if am able to do before your event's deadline..
- February 11, 2009 at 3:15 PM
- Finla said...
Wowo you are busy with all those wonderful event.
I love the kolapuri chicken the gravy from it looks so yumm.
- February 11, 2009 at 3:48 PM
- Sharmila said...
I'd love to have that dinner plate Priyanka. :-)
- February 11, 2009 at 7:36 PM
- lubnakarim06 said...
Wow chicken recipe looks spicy and scrummy....... egg and fried fish recipe also sounds yummy......
- February 11, 2009 at 8:20 PM
- Asha said...
Love your thalis as always, I made one too this week! :)
Lovely CLICK Pizza. Enjoy all of them.
- February 11, 2009 at 9:41 PM
- Cham said...
Like ur spread and I like the chicken and fish the most! I ve made something for ur event will poston friday!
- February 12, 2009 at 1:30 AM
- karuna said...
this is the second chicken recipe i am seeing, and its making me hungry.the gravy, just makes me grab a plate and starting eating it.....yummy
- February 12, 2009 at 9:06 AM
- Sujatha said...
fish for lunch, and chicken for dinner? Girl, you're having a feast there! And I'm here planning to make soup for dinner.. :)
- February 12, 2009 at 9:47 AM
- Unknown said...
ooohh firat thank you so much for Kolhapuri chicken recipe this one is my hubbys fav one thanks dear that thali looks so inviting
- February 12, 2009 at 2:42 PM
- Prajusha said...
wow..chicken gravy looks yummy.wonderful click of pizza
- February 12, 2009 at 3:55 PM
- Srikitchen said...
kolhapuri chicken is looking delicious! i havent heard about it so far and will surely give a try soon!
thali looks great!
- February 12, 2009 at 5:17 PM
- soma said...
Love Kohlarpuri chicken, & this is the one i make most often at home.. Spicy Hot:-)
- February 12, 2009 at 10:41 PM
- Yasmeen said...
WOW ,I'm hungry.please trail back to my blog for a
token of gratitude
- February 14, 2009 at 5:56 AM
- bee said...
thanks for the lovely entry, dear priyanka.
- February 17, 2009 at 4:17 AM


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As the world gears up to gape at the wedding of one Kate Middleton into the barrel of jug-eared inbreds known as the British royal family, Audi has figured out a way to turn the royals into silent spokesmodels.
The German automaker has a special House of Windsor discount offering up to 60% off models, ensuing that most of the vehicles driven by the family while surrounded by paparazzi are, just like the family itself, imported from Germany. According to the Daily Mail, Prince Charles has an A8 and a few Allroads for the staff, while Prince William has an S4 and Ms. Middleton an A3.
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Seeking at least a quarter of a million dollars in project funding on Christie Street, a company called Edison Junior has developed a wireless doorbell called DoorBot that transmits an audio and video feed over Wi-Fi when someone rings the doorbell. The homeowner will be able to see who's standing at the front door and communicate over audio to find out what they want. However, there's no video display on the DoorBot. The person standing at the front door can't see where the homeowner is located.
Conceptually, it can provide the illusion that the home's resident is currently in the house even if they are at work or on vacation. For instance, if a delivery driver is dropping off a package, the resident could use DoorBot to let the driver know that the package can be safely left on the doorstep. It could also help people avoid someone standing at the front door by simply looking at the video feed and choosing not to communicate.
Using just four AA batteries, the device will be powered for approximately a year before needing a replacement set of batteries. In regards to battery life, Edison Junior's CEO Jamie Siminoff said "If the user gets a lot of rings, about 5-10 per day, the DoorBot's batteries may last about 9-12 months. DoorBot will alert the user when the batteries are getting low so that you know to change them," in an interview with Mashable.
Edison Junior provides a mounting bracket to install the DoorBot or the device can be attached to the left or right of the front door using four screws. When mounting the DoorBot at the typical location of a standard doorbell, the user can adjust the angle of the camera in order to better view the visitor. The camera also uses infrared technology in order to see visitors at the door at night. When a visitor presses the button on the DoorBot, a LED ring lights up around the button to indicate activity. In addition, the DoorBot is housed in a brushed aluminium plate and has been specifically designed to be weather resistant in most climates.
In order to get started, the user downloads a free mobile application for iOS or Android smartphones and tablets. After quickly syncing through the app and the home's wireless network, the DoorBot is ready to feed audio and video to the mobile device.
In addition, the development team has included Lockitron compatibility within the DoorBot application. The Lockitron allows a homeowner to lock or unlock the deadbolt on the front door using a smartphone application. Ideally, the homeowner will be able to see the visitor and unlock the front door without having to walk to the front of the house. It would also be ideal for verifying visiting friends of family when away from the home.
According to the pricing on Christie Street, the DoorBot costs $169 and will be delivered by July 2013. In addition, a version with a Lockitron can be purchased for $319 with the same delivery date. At this point, Edison Junior has raised about 16 percent of the total required funding, but six weeks still remain on the campaign. In order to generate even more buzz about the DoorBot, representatives with Edison Junior plan on showing off the wireless device at CES 2013 during early January.
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In their op-ed piece calling on Congress to "Fix the sequester before it's too late" (April 5), Rep. Steny Hoyer and Gov. Martin O'Malley assert that Maryland is on the verge of eliminating its long-standing structural deficit.
To the extent that is true, it still doesn't account for the mounting unfunded liabilities related to public employee health care benefits and pensions in Maryland that must be paid by the taxpayers.
So long as our political leaders are unwilling to identify this major fiscal challenge facing future generations the problem of Maryland's structural deficit cannot be addressed.
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Yes he's shit. First he was shit, then he was good, now he's shit again. That was all in the last month I think.
Agree with all the comments regarding cuco,but the fact is koeman had a dilemma in Seamus,s injury an unproven kenny and holgate.With the qualifiers,pre season and tough league fixtures he had a decision to make.Knowing seamus would be back at some stage you needed a fall guy as cover and cheap,and that gentlemen is exactly what we got.I also think holgate would have started at right back yesterday,if it wasnt for injurys to the centre backs.When everything is back to normal,an under contract cuco will bring in a few bob in the transfer market.
imany knew this but they get shitted on, as Koeman knows best.
You have a real chip on your shoulder over this, don't you? No one has shitted on anyone for saying Kenny should get a shot. Some have aired on the side of caution, which is completley logical. Let's not forget that Galloway was "better than Baines" only a couple of years ago.
the Galloway at left back shit most likely lost us a good young left back getting game time look get it out of you head that Galloway is a left back he is not and out of the 2 defenders we sent to sunderland the other lad is doing way better
I'm not sure what your point is?
Galloway was never better than Baines at left back
I know... my point was a lot of fans got over excited by a couple of good performances at LB and proceeded to claim he should dispose Baines for good, which was a mad shout.
this might be unfashionable to say on here but after the last few games I don't think hes shit/wank or whatever you want to say about himcould you use some sort of extreme positive adjective? no. but shit? no.
Kennys been ready fro a while, many knew this but they get shitted on
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The kids at the camp, returning for a second year, would be surprised that none of the gentle mares who they had ridden and taken care of the summer before, were there. Instead, a new crop of horses had arrived. The owners, not wanting to pay for the winter boarding care, had sent the original horses to auction and, unknowingly, to slaughter.
What's Your Wish, born and trained to be a racer, and lauded by his owners when he won titles and did well, found himself pushed haerder until he could no longer keep up. After several years of racing, he slowered and didn't perform as well. His owners, not knowning what his fate would be, sent Wish away.
Countless racehorses are shipped for slaughter, crammed on trucks for days without food or water after being sold at auciton for the foreign delicacy of "horsemeat." There is no painless euthanized death for horses like Wish. They are whipped, dragged, dismembered and hung to bleed out.
Imagine family pet ponies, objects of affection for their young owners, winding up in the wrong hands. All too often horses sold by their loving owners think they are are sending them to good homes, not realizing the new owerns are kill buyers and sending their horses to an agonizing death.
Most people don't realize it but horses from all breeds and all functions -- be they racers, pets, draft horses and wild horses - end up in the concentration like camp auction where they are sold to the slaughter house not necessarily because they are unwanted, but because the owners have no knowledge of what really is happening to their animals. 70% of the annual thoroughbreed crop, even though they are young and healthy , end up in the slaughter farms. Even a jockey, who had ridden for 35 years, had no knowledge of what happened to the horses when they disappeared.
Right now thousands of America's horses continue to suffer on US soil. These are not just the wild Mustangs, who are hearded by helicopters across lava fields and crammed into trailers, but our loved pets and friends. Many of these horses have helped heal handicap kids and brought grief stricken people back to their own sanity.
The Bureau of Land Management would like us to believe that only the wild horses - of which there really are only a few left - create such a problem for the farmers and the livestock when in fact, they are bought and sold by the bigger companies and miners wanting to destroy the land. In fact, scientific data shows wild horses restore the lands deciminated by livestock. Michael Blake, author of Dances With Wolves, himself, toured the area and found falsifications in their claims. "There are no unmanageable surplus horses."
Until recently, there were three slaughter houses operating here in the United States. These companies, run by Belgium overlords, were here for the sole purpose of selling the horsemeat overseas. It costs American taxpayers $5,000,000 (five million) for every year that we subsidize these foreign owned slaughter houses. Ironically, the meat, considered a specialty in Europe, presents a health risk for humans because of the many carcunigenuc and other harmful drugs (known to be leathal to humans) which these competition and working horses are given on a routine basis.
Since these have been stopped, temporarily, our forlorn four legged friends have been shipped north to Canada or south to Mexico to meet their untimely death. Foreign and special interests are once again pushing to pass bills that will legalize horse slaughter in several states despite the pending federal legistation to prevent this. SB 1176 and HR 2966 will stop the slaughter of our American horses, while SB 1281, and HR 7 will ensure safe transport for the horses and effectively ban the use of double decker trailers for transporting horses in America.
Become informed and join the millions of horse lovers and community members in opposing the slaughter. The federal ban on slaughter will cause horse owners to treat their animals more responsible and help them to understand that, if they do have the euthanize a horse, the cost is less than a month's feed.
Winner of numerous awards, this film exposes the lies that we are being told about the wild Mustangs and about the domestic horse industry. Outstanding footage, and expert testimony exposes the legal, ethical, economic and humane issues of these glorious creatures.
Saving America's Horses: A Nation Betrayed, documented and written by filmmaker Katia Louise and assisted by Debra Lopez and Nancy Stanley, also had Paul Sorvino, Linda Gray, Tippi Hendren, Ken Wahl, Peter Max, Shane and Sia Barbi, and Willie Nelson, among others. Produced by IMA Studios and Humanion Films and presented by the Wild For Life Foundation and The Triumph Project commenced its Los Angles theatrical run at Laemmle's Pasadena Playhouse 7 (673 Colorado, Pasadena.) The film shows daily until November 29th at 1 pm and 3:15 pm. It will have it's grand opening in NYC Dec 7th, 2012 and then return to Los Angeles.
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Puerto Aventuras | Kantenah, Puerto Aventuras 77710, Mexico
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El Dorado Spa Resorts & Hotels is a fabulous collection of luxurious All Inclusive Adult-Only beach resorts located throughout the most beautiful sites and exclusive beaches of the Riviera Maya in Mexico.
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"Loved this Resort!"
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All my expectations were met. All of the reviews that I read about this resort were bang-on. My husband and I had a very enjoyable relaxing week. The grounds were well maintained; the rooms were beautiful and clean; the food was delicious. All the staff was very friendly. Tip - use you Personal Conseirge - very helpful!
I would recommend this resort to couples who need some time together, to enjoy each other's company - It was sure great for our relationship!!!
"More Style Than Substance"
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Having stayed in hotels all around the world, we had high hopes for this resort. Sadly, we were unimpressed. The highlights were: the exceptional staff, the beautifully manicured grounds & the location. The low points were the food & the shabby room that we were given.
The hotel group makes extraordinary claims of being better than any other all-inclusive resorts. I'm afraid that they don't come close.
After a generally appalling flight with First Choice, we arrived in Cancun some three hours behind schedule.
We had paid extra for a private taxi transfer, the reasoning being for this was that we would arrive ahead of the crowds and be the first at check-in. The dashboard was illuminated like a Christmas tree with a plethora of warning lights that told a tale of a seldom maintained vehicle. Even a constant alarm coupled with a flashing stop light failed to attract the drivers' attention. Despite this & an unscheduled detour around the suburbs, we did amazingly arrive at our destination.
We were then swiftly & courteously attended to & served with a cold glass of sparkling wine & refreshing towel before being transported to our room on a golf buggy.
Our first hotel room (4124) was located in a block that was three stories high & above the swim-up rooms. In your description, all rooms are 'suites'. Mine (& Websters) definition of suite is: 'A series of connected rooms used as a living unit'. The room was not a suite; it was a bedroom with an en suite bathroom. In addition, it was worn, jaded & cluttered. In a relatively small room, they had managed to shoehorn in: a king-size bed, a table that contained a coffee machine, a dressing table, a dining table, two chairs, a pair of bedside cupboards, a cabinet the size of a wardrobe that contained an old fashioned TV, a DVD player & a mini-fridge. On top of all that, there was a Jacuzzi bath in the remaining corner. Our balcony was narrow & shallow with a wall that was so high that when seated, it was not possible to see anything other than the wall.
We were eventually moved to a room that was more like the description on their website. Although it was a vast improvement, we still had a number of problems including electrical faults, no hot water & broken air-con.
Restaurants and Bars:
We had told the management that we were both vegetarian & this information was passed to the maître d' of each restaurant. For whatever reason & despite the menus having vegetarian options, this concept seemed to bewilder the staff. One morning at breakfast in Arrecifes restaurant, I ordered a plain omelet with tomato & mushroom. When it arrived, it came with a side order of bacon. After complaining & once again reminding the waiter of my dietary requirements, he apologised & removed the omelet. When he returned with the next one, it had ham inside! This became a theme throughout our stay.
There was hardly any fresh produce, the choice of vegetables consisted mainly of egg plant & carrots & the fruit was confined to a choice of melon, papaya & pineapple while most of the seafood was frozen. There were, in addition, the availability of apples, bananas & plums that were displayed in 'Healthy Corner' which was situated at the main bar. These items were not on offer in any of the restaurants. Having vacationed in most Caribbean countries, this was the worst selection of produce that we had witnessed.
Including swim-ups, there were six bars. Unfortunately, only two are open after 6.00pm & one of those were closed for refurbishment. The result was that the entire occupancy gathered in one bar which was also the location of the evening entertainment. On one evening, I counted that there were about 200 people surrounding the bar which was staffed by just three people. The majority of the customers were ordering cocktails which are obviously time-consuming. Despite the best efforts of the staff, customers were waiting for unreasonable amounts of time to be served; in addition, the public areas were not cleared of glasses etc. Management should have identified this problem & increased the number of staff. Because there were no other bars, this area was very noisy, especially when the entertainment started. It was hardly conducive with the romantic image that is portrayed in the brochure & as a result, we returned to our room most evenings at 10.00pm. As this resort is purported to be 5 star, I was very surprised to be served drinks in plastic glasses in the evening. I fully understand, from a health and safety point why this is done during the day, especially around pool areas but it is a little down-market to be expected to drink out of a plastic receptacle when dressed for dinner.
The beach was nice enough but there are a number of ugly sand bags surrounding the coast that are trying to keep Mother Nature at bay. The beach has an abundance of sunbeds which is just as well as many people 'reserve' the best ones at some unearthly hour of the day and in some cases don't use them.
The grounds are superb & are a credit to the maintenance team. Spare a thought for those guys when tipping.
There are two main pools. One is dedicated to 'fun' & the other relaxation. Because there are a number of swim-up suites, there is ample space for all.
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In conclusion this is a good hotel but not a great hotel. The staff are excellent but attention to detail is lacking in some areas.
The nightly entertainment is, in comparison with comparable hotels, very poor. There are no quiet bars so if you don't enjoy noise or the sight of wedding parties flashing their breasts while taking part in drinking competitions, you may prefer an early night.
Dress codes are not enforced & public areas are not cleaned sufficiently between day & evening resulting in ones clothes being marked with sun tan oil & sand. Being served drinks in plastic glasses in the evening is also not what one would expect in such an establishment.
If you want a good quality hotel, then you will be happy, if you want the experience that they claim to offer, go elsewhere.
"What a disappointment!!"
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Visited on: Dec, 2010 | Leisure | With Spouse/Partner
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Just returned from spending a week at Eldorado Seaside Suites in Mexico. Wow! Anthony from United Kingdom hit it all. This was our honeymoon. We have visited several other countries and places and this has been the worse. From Day 2, we tried to move to a different resort, but was told several times that it would cost $1,000.00 USD a day to move to another resort. They moved us to another room after we had given them several complaints concerning just our room. We could actually hear some one clipping there toe nails in the next room. The food was all the same. One night we decided to check out the different restaurants. They all had the same exact food, just in a different order. The beach was nasty! Huge black nasty looking sand bags everywhere. You only have about 50-75 yards to walk on the beach. Couples resort, but no one would enforce the topless; very uncomfortable. We will not be back. What a disappointment!!
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Saturday, December 12, 2010
"Seaside - A good value"
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My husband and I just returned from a relaxing week at Seaside. I was a bit surprised to read the critical reviews preceding this one, especially those critical of the food and accommodations. I do agree with some of the comments and the need to manage certain aspects of guest behavior, namely hogging beach beds and leaving a mess in bathrooms. I might add that the staff is constantly cleaning the rest rooms so it's not a hotel issue.
Firstly, our room was clean and very comfortable. The grounds impeccably maintained. We often took a walk after the evening meal just to take in the scenery. The staff could have not been more pleasant, including some cheerful bar tenders and wait staff.
While the beach was clean and the water protected it's not much of a swimming beach, the water is just too shallow. One earlier review complained of topless guests, but that's common in every Caribbean vacation spot, every European beach (often more than topless) and not uncommon in the US. Furthermore Seaside is an adult hotel, not Disney- we don't understand the complaint.
I will complain about guests that put their books and towels on the beach beds and never use them, that's just guest bad manors. We also found that guests seem to be a little less than friendly. Seldom did saying "good morning" get a reply. All that said my husband and I had the relaxing vacation we were looking for.
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We took a Lomus van-very reasonable but it is a long ride from Cancun airport. Lot's of development and road construction.
We were greeted with a cool drink (don't like Champagne)and receive some information on sights and resort facilities.
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The Italian, Mexican and Garden Restaurants served some excellent meals. The wine list is overpriced, but the house wines were acceptable if not good. The International Restaurant served a wonderful meal one night but the next time our meals were buried in salt. The Asian Restaurant was Ok at best. Breakfasts were phenomenal, just anything you might want even if not on the menu.
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We felt that our vacation was a good value, pleasant, relaxing and comfortable. Massages were expensive and the steam room was segrated (gals & guys had separate areas) not good. The gym is small but adequate and hardly anyone seemed to use it.
"great customer care"
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The first thing I noticed about this beautiful hotel is the way the staff approach and treat the clients and customers here, the customer service was something else. Once you arrive the reception, you will be greeted by very friendly staff all waiting to make you feel special. It is my first time in this particular hotel but I have been to other El dorado hotels and I can say that they were quite amazing. After all the airport trouble and stress of getting to the hotel from the airport, I was greeted with cool cocktail that calmed me right away and then check in was sorted out and my room was not far from the front desk. One problem though I had was that I felt like the hotel was far from the airport but doesn't really matter anymore once you get to the hotel and enjoy everything that they offer. My room had an ocean view, it was gorgeous and I enjoyed looking out of it every time I was in the room. The area where the room was located is quiet and not so noisy like the pool side. The towels were folded in an art like manner and kept on the bed which greeted me once I entered the room, it was beautiful. I was just amazed at how the staff were all trained to be able to offer the maximum customer care service to customers. The restaurants here served good food, they were clean and the waiters were great as well.


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Daniel Vávra, lead designer on Mafia, laments the current gaming landscape for being publisher-driven and risk-averse, citing Dead Space 3 as an example of "turning something interesting into something nobody will like."
So he is talking about how we need more original ideas but was the lead designer on a GTA clone. Sorry but it is true. Make better games. Be the change. Stop preaching about what you hate and then go and do the same thing.
Also, Dead Space always was a horror action shooter. I dont get where people have this idea that it used to be like silent hill or something. So the people who hate on dead space 2 or 3 must not remember Dead Space 1 at all. I do because I replay it every year. That is my fav new series this gen. What ever changes are made, they still have no problem retaining the horror. And they will do it again in DS3.
well he's probably right, Dead Space 3 went full RE6 retard...
I am not planning on buying this one since they have changed the direction in a terrible way. But if I do buy it, I could wait 2 months until it is half priced.
Dead Space 3 went all lost planet (which didn't sell well either)!?
While I understand the publisher's side of things here as there is ALOT of money at risk...you can't create the next GTA or other big title by copying existing content.
A good recent example are ANALyst remarks to Rock Star that Red Dead Redemption would never sell. Imagine if that jewel of a game was left on the cutting room floor due to some stupid ANALyst remarks.
You must take risks in order to create the next big thing.


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Christopher Wheeldon's new ballet, The Winter's Tale, will have its world premiere on Thursday 10 April, and to mark the occasion we are planning a very special event. We would like to invite audience members to join the cast, members of the artistic team and the Royal Opera House directors for a unique post-performance dinner in the Paul Hamlyn Hall.
All proceeds from the evening's performance and dinner will benefit the Royal Opera House Foundation, the registered charity that supports every aspect of the Royal Opera House's work – its achievements onstage, development for talented emerging artists and craftspeople, and extensive learning and participation programmes. Fundraising plays a vital part in allowing us to stage ballet and opera and also enables the creation of new works such as The Winter's Tale. Find out more about supporting the Royal Opera House.
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The Winter's Tale runs from 10 April-8 May 2014. Standard tickets are still available.
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New Canaan forecast: Warmer & wet
Today is expected to be cloudy but warmer in southwestern Connecticut, with showers possible during afternoon and nighttime.
The National Weather Service says that, after patchy fog clears from parts of the region later this morning, the daytime high temperature will rise to the mid-40s. There is a 20 percent chance of showers after 4 p.m., with a wind around 6 mph.
Showers are also possible tonight, as the temperature dips to a low of about 40 degrees. There also will be patchy fog in parts of the region. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent.
Tomorrow, showers are likely -- with the possibility of the heavy rain and even isolated thunderstorms after 4 p.m. as the temperature rises to the mid-50s. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent.
Stormy conditions are expected overnight tomorrow, with more heavy rain and strong winds in the forecast. The temperature will register a low of about 40 degrees, with a south wind 13 to 20 mph, becoming west after midnight, and gusting as high as 33 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80 percent. New rainfall could be between 1 and 2 inches.
On Thursday, skies will be mostly sunny, with a high temperature in the mid-40s. Nighttime will be partly cloudy, with a low temperature in the upper-20s, the NWS says.
Friday should be partly sunny, with a high temperature in the mid-30s. Friday night will be partly cloudy, with a low temperature about 20 degrees.
The outlook for Saturday, according to the weather service, is sunny and temperatures in the 30s.


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Well this week I'm a bit under the weather, but definitely getting better and still managing to get some coding done so I thought I'd indulge you with this bit of commentary that's been on my mind for a while. Before I do so I want you to know that Im working on a small something that mostly beginner Cocoa programmers may find very useful, though veterans may find it useful as well. I was amazed as I searched in Google to see if someone had already done this project and I couldn't find one result that matched this. Then I searched Yahoo! just to make sure... nothing. Anyway I'll reveal this once it's done so keep tuned. The Cocoa Strategy One thing Im surprised i've never heard anybody discuss, or at least never seen it discussed anywhere (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) is the strategy Apple has for the Cocoa (and related) Frameworks. For me learning Cocoa on Mac OS X 10.0.4 (on my first Mac a 733Mhz Quicksilver PowerMac G4) through 10.2 you got mostly a sense of... well this could be a great kit, it definitely has potential, but mostly you got the feeling that things were being fixed and brought up to standards. It wasn't till Panther ( Mac OS X 10.3) that I saw something in the SDK that made me really say wow (after everything you already saw wow at when being introduced to Cocoa.) That was Cocoa Bindings, it was like Apple saying "hey you remember writting all that code just to display data in a NSTableView? Forget it! Just bind it!" At the time I was hugely impressed by this because this was a totally different style of programming. I had never conceived of not programmatically setting the data in a table. At first it feels like setting up some sort of intricate laser setup using precision angles with mirrors and saying "just trust me if you set this up like so it'll connect." So now we have Cocoa Bindings. "Great!" you say. Then 10.4 Tiger came out and so did Core Data. More than this Core Data felt like a perfect extension of Cocoa Bindings. In bindings you got a huge reduction in code by letting Apple manage all this for you on the back end and all you had to do was make your Instance Classes Key-Value Coding/Observing ( KVC/KVO ) Compliant which was (and still really is unless you've become really lazy after Core Data) nothing hard to do at all. In Core Data you got data persistence, database-like querying and the ability to save data in 3 different formats with barely any effort. When Tiger came out I thought to myself "Wow is this a grand strategy Apple has? Or are they just following up on the next logical step to make Cocoa better?" Looking at this you could easily make arguments one way or another. Wikipedia makes a comparsion of Core Data against an earlier NeXT Product called Enterprise Objects Framework. Now I've never used EOF, nor have I used WebObjects (which you use with EOF), but it does seem from the description that EOF and Core Data are definitely different in design, though somewhat similar in some of their functionality. Could you say that Apple had a goal of one day of brining the functionality that now is Core Data to the Cocoa Framework? Maybe. This technology has obviously stuck around for years and years so Apple, or at least some part of Apple, has believed in it. However even if you think they really wanted this, surely there must be a grand strategy for Cocoa? If you think this, then Leopard surely must put it to the test. We've put in a system (Bindings) to make some tasks which required a decent amount of code easy, then we put in a system to add data persistence and some SQL-like queries amongst other things. So what could be the next logical step? Now because I went to WWDC 06 this gets slightly fuzzy in what I can and can't tell you so I shall err on the side of caution when speaking of Leopard improvements. However I can say in this context that I didn't see anything that spoke to me (strongly at least) that this is the next logical addtion to Core Data. There were some brand spanking new classes that were very impressive and used Cocoa Bindings (obviously.) The thing that spoke to me the most was the vastly improved Developer tools like Interface Builder (especially), Xcode and Xray. These new tools are practically like having a new framework which makes you vastly more productive. So im curious what everybody thinks. Do you think Apple has somewhat of a grand strategy in mind for Cocoa? Or do you think Apple is more short sighted in this respect of just performing a great analysis of the framework after each Mac OS X release and giving the developers what they are trying to reach for? More or less what do you think should be included in Cocoa for Mac OS X 10.6? One interesting trend I see repeating itself over and over is that of Apple coming up with some great custom control (usually used in iLife) and then Cocoa developers working on their own custom implementation of that control, then Apple releases it officially in the next SDK for Mac OS X. I wonder how long that will continue?
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Does Apple have a Grand Cocoa Strategy?
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- Joe Goh said...
The way I see it, the obvious Grand Strategy for Cocoa is to provide an extremely enticing framework for developers to make them develop Mac-only applications. As it isn't easy to port Objective-C/Cocoa code to other platforms, the more developers use Cocoa, the more Mac-only apps Apple has in its software landscape.
Thus, all enhancements towards Cocoa must fit this goal. The upcoming CoreAnimation API fits this goal perfectly. Once you write an app using this API, its going to be really difficult for you to bring this experience to any other platform. Thus, the entire Mac software landscape post Leopard might have a distinctive CoreAnimation look-and-feel to it, whilst other platforms will look rather... static? ;-)
This might also explain why Java support was dropped for Cocoa. Its just another step towards making it harder for you as a developer to switch from making Mac-only applications, or continue doing it the Microsoft Mac Business Unit way at least; have two seperate teams for each platform, both writing native code.
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I don't know how well that strategy will work for Apple in the long run. It might serve to scare more people away from the platform than it captures with Cocoa's blinding presence. That is, if it's what they are actually trying to do.
I really don't think that Apple is trying to subdue developers only to trap them on the platform. Apple realized they had inherited a great thing from NEXT and decided to run with it. Unfortunately, this meant supporting a language that few developers are familiar with. Despite what the developer documentation says Objective-C is a rare bird and generally resembles C only in it's guts.
I think that they also realized that supporting the Cocoa design paradigms in another language would be difficult or impossible. Bindings, Core Data, etc. They all work great with objective-c because of how objective-c works. Implementing the same design patterns in Java, for instance, is workable but hardly clean.
I also think that this was the driving force behind their decision to drop support for the Cocoa-Java bridge. They saw alot of work (implementing Core Data, Bindings in Java) for very little gain (how many people rely on the bridge). And not some form of entrapment.
You could be right though. What you suggest is hardly unheard of.
- Chris Ryland said...
Apple is really in a bind with Objective-C, in the sense that it's clearly a great language--fully dynamic in all senses, really just Smalltalk in C minus blocks--but no one's ever heard of it in the wider development community.
From what I can tell from talking with higher-ups at WWDC, they have no intention of moving on to a new language, and in fact see the general "failure" of C#/CLR at MS (which, eg, is not being used by anything core in Vista) as a vindication of their choice to stay the course.
I was the Leopard Tech-talks in Toronto and sat through the talk about Xcode and Interface Builder 3.0. And i was impressed with the changes but i would hardly call it a grand strategy. The improvements make programming in Xcode seem even more convenient but it doesn't change, as mentioned in other comments, that objective-c is not a widely known language.
That said, i'm trying my hardest to learn it quickly...I am a Java programmer and i got to say i was disappointed that Apple dropped support for the java-bridge :( It was my quick start into cocoa programming and the easiest way to learn for me...
My life is alittle harder, but CoreData + Interface Builder are making my learning experience a pleasent one. I think that might be Apple's Strategy...make coding pleasent as opposed to completely mind-numbing, and tedious... :)
- Hamish said...
What were you expecting as the next logical step? Cheetah gave us the zero-code View, Panther the zero-code controller, and Tiger completed the zero-code MVC with the zero-code model.
So Apple moved on to other technologies to make developer's lives easier. Just as you don't have to write table controllers before, now you don't have to write controllers for animation.
You don't have to do your own memory management any more (either in Objective-C, or in Python or Ruby). As you mentioned, the developer tools are getting better all the time (which was the only thing Microsoft were really doing better).
I think Apple's strategy is "If you build it, they will come".


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5 Years of X Series from "X100" to "X-Pro2" by David Airob
David Airob
David Airob (Barcelona, 1967) took his first steps in the world of photojournalism when he was 17, contributing to various sports publications. At the end of 1989, he began contributing to Barcelona's "La Vanguardia", joining its staff of photographers a few months later. Since then, this daily newspaper has been the sole focus of his professional activity, covering all types of news stories.
For the last three years, he has served as Chief Photo Editor. In addition to his work at La Vanguardia, he has carried out several more personal photography projects, which have earned him different awards. He has published reports in magazines such as Paris-Match and Time-Life. He is also the co-founder of the Barcelona Documentary Photography Centre.
I have a vivid memory of the first time I set my eyes on a Fuji X camera. I was at home having a look at the latest offerings from Photokina 2010, when all of a sudden up popped a photo of the X100.
I must admit that I was immediately fascinated by it. It was love at first sight, the beginning of a close relationship that is still flourishing 5 years on.
As a photographer I've always attached great importance to the quality of the images my cameras produce, but I also care deeply about its exterior design and looks.
A photographer spends a lot of time with his gear so these are important considerations for me.
When I first started using the X100 it was as a supplement to my DSLR cameras. Gradually, though, It started to become part of my everyday working gear. The technological evolution of these cameras in just five years has been remarkable, reaching new heights with the introduction of the X-Pro2.
We must not forget a second, very important ingredient: the quality of the lenses.
I am in love with the Fujinon 23mm / 1.4 (35mm FF) because I love the perspective these optics give and I would say that 85% of my images have been made at this focal length.
Usually I have a 16mm/1.4 and 56mm/1.2 keeping it company in my bag. Bright (extremely sharp)lenses which allow me to avoid flash in most situations, in fact I never use flash with them.
I sincerely believe that with just these three lenses I could travel the world. Sometimes, when I have to do a particular assignment for the newspaper where I work, I use the XF50-140mmF2.8 zoom for the versatility it provides, but I've always preferred fixed lenses.
As a photojournalist the discretion of my cameras is very important to me. The more unnoticed I am the better, and the size of the Fuji helps me enormously in this area.
They are not perceived as aggressive by the people who are being photographed, whether we be shooting in the street or elsewhere.
On many occasions they allow you be nearly invisible, a virtue greatly treasured by any photographer who wants to truly reflect that which he is reporting.
I approach these cameras in a different way to the way I work with my DSLR cameras. I would almost say that they inspire in me a philosophy of silent work that invites me to walk and observe, without the excessive weight that so often has a negative impact on my back when using larger cameras, enjoying photography in its purest form, by focusing exclusively on walking , observing and shooting. There is no better way of understanding documentary photography.
David Airob


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This is a short post because my daughter said it so well with links to some of my Arizona ancestors. Please take time to look at her beautiful Blog, TheAncestorFiles.blogspot.com. Today, 14 February 2012 is the 100th Anniversary of Arizona Statehood.
My ancestors on both sides of my family came to Arizona with the very first Mormon pioneers starting back in 1876. Compared to the early settlers in the Eastern U.S. or the length of time my family lived in Europe, this is not so impressive. But if you realize that in 1876 there were less than 10,000 European settlers in Arizona and most of those spoke Spanish, you can get some perspective.


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MOVIE REVIEW- Bad bounce: Apply paddle to 'Balls of Fury' makers
Timing is everything in comedy, and in the movie business that goes double for the timing of a film's release. Death at a Funeral got lost in the shadow of Superbad, opening the same weekend. Following those two, plus Rush Hour 3 and Mr. Bean's Holiday, in the same month would be a daunting task, even for a far funnier film than Balls of Fury.
Made with the spirit but not the skill of the Airplane! and Naked Gun movies, Balls of Fury is a cheap-looking one-off by the Reno 911! team of director Robert Ben Garant (Deputy Travis Junior) and his co-writer Thomas Lennon (Lt. Jim Dangle). Perhaps it's significant that they didn't mention it was in the works when they toured a few months ago promoting the hilarious Reno 911!: Miami.
The plot is a spoof of Enter the Dragon, with ping pong replacing martial arts as the subject of an international tournament sponsored by a major bad dude. In this unofficial Year of the Chubby Leading Man (Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill), Dan Fogler stars as Randy Daytona, who narrowly lost the ping pong championship in the 1988 Olympics to Germany's Karl Wolfschtagg (Lennon, looking more like Kiefer Sutherland than Jim Dangle, except for the tight shorts).
Nineteen years later, Randy's wasting his ping pong skills as a lounge act in Reno when he's recruited by FBI Agent Rodriguez (George Lopez) to go undercover and get invited to the "high-stakes tournament at a secret location" held every five years by the notorious Feng (Christopher Walken). The FBI's been after Feng forever, and this could be a chance for Rodriguez to gather evidence against him.
Coincidentally, Feng killed Randy's father (Robert Patrick) all those years ago, so he's got a personal reason to go after Feng in addition to patriotism, doing the right thing and restoring his own dignity. Are you laughing yet?
Needing a refresher course, Randy is sent to Master Wong (James Hong), the old blind teacher (and Chinese restaurateur) who also trained Feng. While Wong spouts wisdom like Mr. Miyagi, the hands-on (but hands off!) work is left to his niece, Maggie (Maggie Q).
At Feng's jungle hideaway Randy, Rodriguez and Wong are offered "courtesans of pleasure" (trafficking in sex slaves is one of Feng's enterprises) to help them relax the night before the tournament. These courtesans happen to be of the male variety, and the guests don't have the option of refusing, which opens the door to a lot of mildly homophobic humor. Diedrich Bader plays Gary, Randy's date for the night, who wishes he'd "never gone to that audition in Orlando."
The final portion struggles frantically to resolve the story, leaving any pretense at coherence behind along with most of the humor.
Fogler, who won a Tony in Broadway's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, proves more of a good sport than a good actor here. The same goes for Walken, who has brought more flair to SNL sketches. What can he do with an all-American character– who affects chinoiserie in his name and wardrobe but says things like "Okey dokey artichokey" and "Toodles"– except use Feng's sexual orientation to add another level of creepiness?
The cast includes Jason Scott Lee, Terry Crews, Aisha Tyler, and breakout Heroes star Masi Oka as a washroom attendant.
Whatever combination of CG and stuntwork was required for the ping pong sequences, especially one in which Maggie takes on four men at once, yields impressive results. Maybe they should have made a serious ping pong movie. It couldn't have been any worse, and it wouldn't have had any dead panda jokes to inspire PETA to picket theaters where it's playing.
If you're looking for pure silliness and don't care that it's rarely inspired, plus more Def Leppard songs than anyone's heard in a long time, Balls of Fury may meet your needs; but its makers deserve a paddling.


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The C++11 standard provides several long-requested concurrency features such as the
std::future, and others. While those are a welcome addition to the language, in this article, I will show that they are not sufficient for all but the most basic concurrency needs. I will argue that the primitives in C++11 are particularly ill-suited for modern applications that must deal with the concurrency imposed by I/O operations and exploit multicore at the same time.
Fortunately, many of these limitations can be addressed by augmenting C++11 futures with continuations, based on experience with the Parallel Patterns Library (PPL) at Microsoft. The reader is expected to have a working knowledge of C++11 and some experience writing parallel code, but familiarity with the PPL is optional.
Connected and Multicore
We take it for granted that the software we use daily is both connected to the Internet and able to harness multiple cores. It is natural to think of the Internet (or the cloud) and multiple cores not as two distinct capabilities of a program, but as a single elastic compute resource. As Herb Sutter puts it in Welcome To The Parallel Jungle, "The network is just another bus to more compute cores."
However, a developer building a modern connected multicore application faces two distinct challenges:
- Building a well-performing connected program requires dealing with the latency and unpredictability typical of I/O operations. This is difficult, and getting it right results in a an application that is responsive and scalable, but not necessarily faster.
- Building a well-performing multicore program is a parallel programming job a different challenge altogether, often requiring a different tool set and different skills. When this is done right, the program runs faster, although its speed is usually orthogonal to the responsiveness and the scalability.
Taking the view of the cloud as a natural extension of multicore behooves us to find a programming model that, at the very minimum, gives us a way to efficiently compose the I/O operations and the multicore operations.
Concurrency in C++
In the last decade, the software industry has developed a many tools for multicore programming in C++. Libraries such as Intel's TBB (Threading Building Blocks) or Microsoft's PPL (Parallel Patterns Library) are the state of the art. These tools excel at parallel decomposition partitioning serial code into multiple "chores" that run on multiple cores.
But there is more to being "connected and multicore" than just parallelism. Well-performing concurrent programs must combine the connected components, with their inherent latency and unreliability, with the parallel components. Put another way, if parallelism is about decomposing the program into independent parts, concurrency is about both decomposing and composing the program from the parts that work well individually and together.
I believe that it's in the composition of connected and multicore components where today's C++ libraries are still lacking.
The Dreaded Wait
Most of the concurrency primitives in C++11 are composed via waiting. One can spawn a thread (by creating an instance of
std::thread), then wait for it to finish by calling the
join method. Likewise, the result of a future object (represented by
std::future) can be retrieved by calling the
get method during which the calling thread waits for the result to become available.
Why is this a problem?
Waiting on the GUI thread means that the user of the application is rewarded with the "hourglass" or the "spinning donut" while the thread is waiting for an operation to complete. This is bad enough for a CPU-bound operation, but the length of an I/O-bound call can be truly unpredictable and therefore very long.
Clearly, the GUI thread of the application is a scarce resource, and we want to return it to the message pump as soon as possible but let's not kid ourselves by thinking that all we need to do is offload the long-running operation to another thread. If we did that, how would we synchronize the two threads without waiting?
The woes of composition-by-waiting are not limited to GUI programs. By default, at creation, a thread reserves 1 MB of stack space on Windows and 8 MB on Linux. This value is configurable, but reducing the stack size may break programs with deep call chains or multiple stack-allocated objects. In other words, not only GUI threads are expensive all threads are. This can be felt acutely in a multithreaded server application. If many threads decide to block at the same time, waiting can bring the server to its knees very quickly.
In C/C++, continuations are commonly known as "callbacks," and they are often used for asynchronous programming. This is not to say that the concept is unique to C++, but because the language has been a laggard in adopting mainstream functional programming features such as the lambda expressions, C++ libraries that use continuations consistently are still rare.
The concept of the continuation was pioneered by Scheme, which introduced the style of programming where instead of returning a value, a function takes an additional parameter the continuation that is invoked to process the return value of the function. Naturally, the continuation itself is also a function that can take continuations, and so on.
Continuations make the flow of control explicit instead of invoking a function and waiting for it to complete, a program written in a continuation-passing style specifies explicitly what to do with the return value when it is available.
For concurrent programs, continuations are a boon because they allow us to avoid blocking waits which, as I stated above, greatly hinder responsiveness and scalability.
http.open("GET", "customer.html"); http.onreadystatechange = function() { if(http.readyState == 4) { var serverResponse = http.responseText; // process serverResponse here: ... } }
More recently, Node.js has been very successful at capturing the mindshare of the developer community thanks to its use of continuations for server-side programming. In Windows Runtime, which powers the Metro-style apps in Windows 8, the concept of continuations is used holistically for all potentially long-running applications. Continuations are, in fact, the only way of working with asynchronous operations.
Tasks, Futures, and Promises
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Apricot Pastry Bars
Total TimePrep: 45 min. Bake: 35 min. + cooling
Makesabout 4 dozen
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar, divided
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup shortening
- 3 large eggs, separated
- 1/4 cup 2% milk
- 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 4 cans (12 ounces each) apricot filling
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, 1 cup sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda. Cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- In a small bowl, whisk the egg yolks, 2 egg whites, milk and vanilla; gradually add to crumb mixture, tossing with a fork until dough forms a ball. Divide in half, making one portion slightly larger.
- Roll out larger portion of dough between two large sheets of waxed paper into a 17x12-in. rectangle. Transfer to an ungreased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Press pastry onto the bottom and up the sides of pan; trim pastry even with top edges. Spread apricot filling over dough; sprinkle with walnuts.
- Roll out remaining pastry to fit top of pan; place over filling. Trim, seal and flute edges. Cut slits in top. Whisk remaining egg white; brush over pastry. Sprinkle with remaining sugar.
- Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 125 calories, 6g fat (1g saturated fat), 13mg cholesterol, 63mg sodium, 16g carbohydrate (7g sugars, 1g fiber), 2g protein.
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Oct 11, 2011
These were great! I ended up having to use apricot jam because I couldn't find the filling at the multiple stores that I tried. Sent them to work with my husband & they were a huge hit, but I will probably never make these again. I found them very difficult to make because the dough was very flaky & fell apart the minute I tried to transfer from counter to pan.
Aug 17, 2011
These will also work well with any kind of Canned filling including home made Crabapple filling adjusting the sugar to your taste.
Jan 27, 2011
These are heavenly! This is a special occasion cookie; it takes time to prepare, and the cans of filling needed are a bit costly, but I recommend using the filling and not substituting with apricot preserves. The filling is thicker and has less liquid in it, which holds the layers together better. I substituted butter for the shortening---I don't like shortening and never use it. The dough is soft, so it takes some care to handle. I did have a problem with not having enough dough for the top crust; I had to patch here and there with the trimmings, and placing the top crust was a challenge. I was concerned that the top crust would not look smooth and even, but it did bake out remarkably well. The baked pastry is soft, similar to a newton cookie, but it does cut very nicely. My family loved these, so this recipe will go into my "keeper" file.


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It's hard for me to remember that far back with any real clarity. At that time it was the best in my opinion. It was set as my primary browser and was my goto browser for diagnostics. However, that browser had some serious problems following standards. So I would probably put its best version a little later than 3, maybe at 7. But then again, at the time the problems of 3 weren't so apparent, other browsers weren't much better.
So maybe. I don't think I was using Chrome much, if at all back then. Was it even around? If it was, it was probably not a lot like what it is now as far as developer tools go. If the choice were between a standards compliant FX 3 and today's Chrome, that would be a tough call.


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Panda's jack not enough to lift Giants past Crew
Third baseman hits tying blast in 6th before 'pen allows go-ahead HR
MILWAUKEE -- Giants manager Bruce Bochy would have had to step in the batter's box or on the pitcher's mound to do more than he did to try to influence Tuesday night's outcome.
The Giants dropped a 4-3 decision to another playoff contender, the National League Central-leading Milwaukee Brewers. Yet the mood in the Giants' clubhouse afterward was subdued, but not solemn. They knew they delivered an honest effort -- right up until the final out, when a video review overturned an umpire's call on Joe Panik's apparent infield single.
They also knew that Bochy managed aggressively -- that is, to win. The Giants moved closer to defeat with a hitless, scoreless eighth inning. But despite what the zeros might have suggested, it wasn't just another feeble shutout frame.
After Pablo Sandoval drew a one-out walk, Michael Morse pinch-hit for Gregor Blanco and drew a walk. One out later, Buster Posey batted for Juan Perez and struck out. Not only were the Giants blanked, but both of their true center fielders, Blanco and Perez, were out of the game.
Some managers would have obsessed over their defense in the bottom half of the inning and might have left Morse or Posey in the dugout. Not Bochy.
"I don't think I've ever hit for two center fielders in one inning," Bochy said. "But, you know what? We're a run down, and I'm going to put my bats up there."
Did Bochy's moves leave the Giants short of defenders in the Brewers' half of the eighth? Not really. Hunter Pence moved to center field, a position he hadn't played since 2007, and first baseman Brandon Belt shifted to right field, where he spent all of 10 2/3 innings in 2011. Posey occupied the first-base vacancy and Morse strolled to left.
As is often the case in baseball, nothing happened to make the Giants regret or salute these moves, because the Brewers didn't hit the ball out of the infield in the eighth.
But Pence, for one, liked what he saw from Bochy.
"We're all right on board," Pence said. "He's amazing at putting things together. Sometimes, we have to do things on the fly, but we needed those at-bats out of them to give us an opportunity to win. It's a lot of fun watching him manage a game. He's got a touch, and he gives you a great chance to win. All of his moves seem to make sense."
They didn't generate offense, though. That was limited to Sandoval's three-run, sixth-inning homer that tied the score.
Gerardo Parra, a non-waiver Trade Deadline acquisition for the Brewers, broke the deadlock in the seventh inning by homering off right-hander Jean Machi (6-1). That ended a streak of 22 consecutive scoreless innings recorded by San Francisco's bullpen.
Parra's homer also handed the decision to Brewers starter Jimmy Nelson (2-2), who surrendered Sandoval's homer while logging seven innings.
Giants starter Tim Lincecum struck out eight in six innings, while allowing three runs and seven hits.
Bochy couldn't do anything about the overturning of Panik's single, a chopper that second baseman Rickie Weeks double-clutched before making his throw. Had the "safe" call on Panik remained intact, the Giants would have had runners on first and second base with Belt due up.
"I just don't see how it got overturned. It was so close," Bochy said. "... But they did, and that's the game."
Bochy believed that none of the multiple replay angles definitely proved Panik was out. "You always hear that word 'conclusive,' " Bochy said.
It marked the second time this year that an overturned call concluded a Giants defeat. On May 6 at Pittsburgh, umpires overturned an initial "out" ruling when Posey tagged Starling Marte at home plate.
More drama could await. This was the first game of the season between the Giants and Brewers, who visit San Francisco Aug. 29-31. Like the Giants, if the Brewers don't win their division, they should remain in the race for a Wild Card spot. That gave this game added impact.
Bochy typically chants the mantra that each game is as essential as the next. But, he admitted:
"They're all so big now. ... Two teams playing for a lot here. They're not do-or-die games, but they're really, really important. We know that."


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Spring Training tickets go on sale Saturday
HOUSTON -- The Astros announced Wednesday that individual-game tickets for Spring Training games at Osceola County Stadium in Kissimmee, Fla., will be available for purchase beginning at 9 a.m. CT/10 a.m. ET on Saturday.
Tickets can be purchased online at www.astros.com/SpringTraining or at the Osceola County Stadium box office (home games only). The box office is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET and on all game days.
The Astros' first home game for the 2014 Grapefruit League season is March 2 vs. the Braves at 1:05 p.m. ET. Workouts for pitchers and catchers in Kissimmee, which are open to the public at no charge, begin on Feb. 16. Position player workouts begin on Feb. 20.
Osceola County Stadium advanced-ticket prices for individual games are: Dugout Box: $28-$50; Outfield Box: $23-$39; Upper Reserved: $21-$36; Outfield Reserved: $16-$26; Standing Room: $10-$15.
Season tickets for Spring Training games can be purchased now by calling 321-697-3214. Season ticket prices for all 13 Spring Training games in Kissimmee are $338 for Dugout Box seats, $273 for Outfield Box seats, $247 for Upper Reserved seats and $208 for Outfield Reserved seats.


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Military, Services, Training
By By Douglas Nelms | November 6, 2013
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The U.S. Army is expanding its capabilities to protect the Persian Gulf region through joint training exercises with the U.S. Navy and friendly Middle East countries. Particular emphasis is being placed on working with the Navy to develop tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) for littoral (close to shore) operations in the region, to include over-water survival training and shipboard landings.
The Texas Army National Guard's 36th Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) is currently fulfilling this role. The unit was deployed to the region in April and includes the 4-227th Attack-Reconnaissance Battalion (Boeing AH-64D Apaches), the 1-189th General Support Aviation Battalion (Sikorsky UH-60L Black Hawks), the 449th Aviation Support Battalion and a detachment of fixed-wing aircraft. It has headquarters at Camp Buehring in Kuwait, with responsibility for the Army Aviation operations across the Central Command Area of Responsibility.
UH-60 landing on a U.S. Navy ship. Photos by Sgt. Mark Scovell of the 36th CAB public affairs office
While TTP development is a major element in the Army's planning, the primary mission of the unit is to provide security for the region, and particularly the defense of Kuwait, according to Maj. Randy Stillinger, public affairs officer for the 36th CAB. It is also tasked with building stronger ties with multi-national partners in the region through joint training exercises.
The first of these was Operation Desert Talon, conducted with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with the primary goal being "to further the development of AH-64D Apache TTPs and assess the aircraft's efficacy against small watercraft that potential adversaries could employ against coalition forces," Stillinger said.
The unit employed both moving and stationary targets to represent watercraft profiles, and culminated with a live fire exercise over the Gulf.
Stillinger also noted that the deployment required the Army helicopter pilots to receive deck-landing qualification (DLQ) before conducting operations off U.S. Navy ships. Ground school classes taught by a qualified instructor pilot are followed by five deck landing patterns on land or in an approved simulator.
Five landings on a ship are then required for qualification. These qualifications are maintained and integrated regularly into exercises in the Gulf.
"While there are some aspects of DLQ that we can control, gaining and maintaining currency is dependent upon the availability of U.S. Navy ships in the Northern Arabian Gulf [as well as] changing conditions in desert weather, which can affect training for several days at a time due to high winds and blowing sand or dust," he said.
AH-64Ds from the 4-227th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion.
In a recent article by Meghann Myers in the Navy Times, Maj. Scott Nicholas, the 36th CAB future operations chief, said that "We're trying to develop tactics, techniques and procedures for the littoral fight, specifically for countering fast-attack craft and fast-inshore-attack craft, or small boats that might approach a larger Navy ship along a coastline." The free flow of maritime traffic throughout the Gulf and through the Strait of Hormuz – the narrow strip of water between Iran and the Arabian Peninsular leading from the Indian Ocean into the Gulf – is crucial to the export of oil to the rest of the world, he said.
LTC Jim Nugent, operations officer for the 36th CAB "Mustangs" noted that the unit continues to expand its capabilities during its current deployment to Kuwait.
"This mission provides us with a high volume of opportunities to engage with joint and multinational partners across multiple lines of effort. In particular, we've been fortunate to work frequently with our Navy and Marine counterparts in the region, building our capacity to support the CENTCOM Commander in the littoral and maritime realm," he said.
"The Apache gives the naval commander a direct-fire weapons system that's highly maneuverable and extremely lethal, that can respond in a very powerful way to augment his onboard organic systems as part of a joint effort," he said.
The 36th CAB pilots are fully committed "to furthering tactics, techniques and procedures that support synchronized maritime maneuver" and taking advantage of the chance to team with their counterparts in the Navy, Marines and Air Force.
"I think we're going to see much more of this in the future," he said.
Col. Rick Adams, commander of the 36th CAB, said that as the U.S. Military moves into the future, the unit "is on the tip of the spear with regard to Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental and Multinational (JIIM) operations. We're privileged to be in a time and location where these elements merge and offer opportunity to advance our skills geometrically."
While the Apache gunships were obviously providing the firepower for the training operations, the Black Hawks were conducing missions involving combat search and rescue (C-SAR), medical evacuation, logistics support and personnel transfer.
Although the 36th CAB is part of the Texas Army National Guard's 36th Infantry Division that gained fame in both World War I and II, the element now operating in the Gulf is comprised of National Guard units from Texas, Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota and Montana, as well as active duty units from Fort Hood, Texas and Germany. The 36th CAB will serve in the Gulf region until this winter, when it will return to its home base in Austin, Texas.
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Avengers director Joss Whedon is to introduce the UK premiere of his latest film Much Ado About Nothing at the Glasgow Film Festival, which will also host talent including Neil Jordan, Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Eli Roth and Régis Roinsard
Whedon, also known for TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly, will help close the festival on Feb 24 with his modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy.
Tickets to the film sold out within an hour of the initial programme announcement, before the director was confirmed to attend.
The festival, now in its ninth year, will open on Feb 14 with French director Régis Ronsard and the UK premiere of his 1950s-set romcom, Populaire.
Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace), Saoirse Ronan (Hanna) and director Neil Jordan (Interview with the Vampire) will attend the festival to support vampire thriller Byzantium, which will screen as part of Film4 FrightFest on Feb 22.
Eli Roth, best known for directing the Hostel series, will be in attendance for FrightFest as well, promoting the UK premiere of Aftershock. He'll be accompanied by co-star Lorenza Izzo and director Nicolas Lopez.
Scottish actors David Hayman and James Cosmo will also attend. Hayman will introduce Sawney: Flesh of Man, a modern-day take on the legend of cannibal king Sawney Bean while Cosmo, who features a record five films in this year's programme, will be in conversation about his career.
Stars of Channel 4 student comedy series Fresh Meat will take place in a masterclass as part of the Glasgow Youth Film Festival. Director Annie Griffin and co-writer Sam Bain will be joined by actors Greg McHugh, Kimberly Nixon and Charlotte Ritchie.
Also expected are writer/director Yasmin Fedda who will premiere documentary A Tale of Two Syrias; director Konrad Begg with Scottish stars Lorna Anderson and Ford Kiernan for Irish musical Songs for Amy; and 20-year-old director Rob Savage in support of his first feature, Strings.
The festival, which runs from 14-24 February, includes 368 film screenings.
Among the 57 UK premieres showing at the festival are Park Chan-wook's Stoker, starring Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman, and The Place Beyond the Pines, which reunites Ryan Gosling with Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance.
Other premiere highlights include Welcome to the Punch, starring James McAvoy; Mama, starring Jessica Chastain; Arbitrage, starring Richard Gere; and The Paperboy, with Golden Globe-nominated Nicole Kidman and Matthew McConaughey.


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Usually I leave the World Net Daily beat to Ed, but this came up in my Google alerts, and I couldn't resist.
The European Court of Human Rights is set to deliver a key verdict early next week in a major case against the United Kingdom surrounding anti-Christian discrimination.
I'm not sure exactly how the UK managed to "surround" this alleged anti-Christian discrimination, but the four cases concern two women who were wearing crosses in violation of company policies prohibiting jewelry, plus a counselor who refused to provide sex therapy to gays, plus a borough clerk who refused to officiate at gay marriages. I'm not sure what the specific legal merits are in each case, though the reason this lawsuit is coming up in the ECHR is because the Christians have failed to win their lawsuits anywhere else. Then again, look who's representing them.
"These cases are of a primary importance because they raise the matter of the toleration of Christians by the Western postmodern society," explained director Grégor Puppinck with the European Center for Law and Justice, which filed a brief in the case supporting the plaintiffs.
The European Center for Law Injustice (excuse me, "and Justice")? That would be the expatriate branch of the American Center for Law Injustice (darn, did it again), would it not?
The WND doesn't waste too much time relating the relevant details, and goes straight to the Christian martyrdom pose.
"They are an example of the marginalization of believers in the current liberal societies," he told WND. "If it is not stopped by human rights, the radical secularist ideology can potentially submit the Christians in Europe to the same oppression that they suffer in the Communist and the Islamic countries."
Translation: if we don't stop this, we may soon find Christians being treated the way Christians try to treat gays (this exact lawsuit being a specific example). Plus, isn't it getting harder to use Communist and Islamic regimes as evil boogeymen, when Communist countries like Russia are seeing a resurgence of Christian influence (just ask Pussy Riot), and when Islamic countries have always had the same anti-gay prejudices and policies as the Christians are trying to promote? If irony were a power source, we wouldn't need fossil fuels.
Well, there's tons of fun here for the dedicated ferrophile, but I just want to quickly highlight this remark, which is really the cream of the crop here.
However, the issues at stake are even broader than that, Puppinck explained.
"While Christian values were the source and the paradigm of human rights, they are now at risk of being replaced by this ideology as new underlying values of human rights, and of being turned into nothing but mere subjective, individual practices, without any social legitimacy or rational claim," he warned.
The consequences could be disastrous.
True—but only for mere subjective, individual practices, without any social legitimacy or rational claim. And frankly, we're better off without them.


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The Jolie flies
Angelina Jolie's Maleficent can apparently fly. Here she is on set today in England suspended against a green screen. Am now very interested to see what they do with this in post and how real it will look when they're done. Will it actually seem like the Jolie is airborne outside?
Last night at SMUT there was a question about the Jolie's thinness and whether or not it has anything to do with heroin. Heroin isn't doing a very good job of marketing itself as the dangerous drug it is if people think the Jolie can shoot up on the regular and then just show up on movie sets like it's not a thing and get to work suspended 15 feet in the air without nodding off. Or maybe Heroin IS marketing itself well and harmless if people think users can shoot up on the regular and still show up on time on mega million dollar movie sets for a Disney movie and make it through the day. Heroin has a good publicist. So does Prednisone. As if you can just pop Prednisone for bloating and faking a pregnancy without other very, very serious side effects...
Really? I guess you've not known anyone who's actually been on Prednisone. Because if you know Prednisone, you wouldn't be so quick to believe that someone would voluntarily go on it. And all that just because a piece of fabric looked weird on TV? Come ON.
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September 13, 2013, 12:24 pm
If CU Buffs have heart, flood will postpone football game
With much of the state they call home under water-flood damage, the Colorado Buffaloes need to postpone their game against Fresno State.
Hard to believe, but some things are bigger than college football. A flood is one of those things.
Much of the community that the University of Colorado serves is bailing out from a devastating flood. There are many bright minds at CU. Now is the time for the state's flagship university to serve the people of Colorado with a bright idea. Postpone the game, scheduled for Saturday. Let police and other emergency personnel deal with helping flood victims put their lives and homes back together.


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