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This page aims to help you remove Trojan.Maljava. Our removal instructions work for every version of Windows.
"Trojan horse" is a term that is extremely popular among all the people who use the Internet. Almost every online user has heard the word "Trojan" at least once and has probably encountered such malware in one way or another. This is so because presently, Trojan horses represent the most numerous and the most widely-spread group of malware on the Internet and, as per some recent statistics, every three out of four virus infections are caused by these malicious pieces of software. The Trojan programs usually appear harmless at first sight and tend to trick the people into running them, believing they are some interesting apps, useful components or tools. However, the moment they become part of the system, they secretly launch various malicious activities behind the back of the users.
In the text below, we are going to discuss more about the general characteristics of this malware group as well as the features of one particular Trojan Horse representative called Trojan.Maljava which has been recently reported by a number of users and cyber-security researchers. Those of you who have been infected by this new Trojan will probably find the instructions in the Removal Guide below useful. They are created to help even a non-experienced user detect and remove the infection without risk for the system.
Trojan horses and their characteristics:
All the viruses that fall under this category have certain similar characteristics that you need to be aware of. The stealthy infection is one of them. A threat like Trojan.Maljava will try to get inside your computer without being noticed. It may even try to bypass your antivirus software, pretending to be some legitimate program or software tool. Once inside the system, the infection will also try to hide its traces and not to trigger any visible symptoms of its criminal activities. From system destruction, file corruption, theft of information and credentials to blackmailing and direct harassment of the victim – you can expect almost anything from a Trojan horse attack. The hackers who create such malicious pieces of software can program them to perform specific criminal tasks with surprising precision or they can use them as multifunctional tools for destruction, fraud and theft of different scale.
Trojan.Maljava Removal
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Reboot in Safe Mode (use this guide if you don't know how to do it).
Press CTRL + SHIFT + ESC at the same time and go to the Processes Tab. Try to determine which processes are dangerous.
Right click on each of them and select Open File Location. Then scan the files with our free online virus scanner:
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After you open their folder, end the processes that are infected, then delete their folders.
Note: If you are sure something is part of the infection – delete it, even if the scanner doesn't flag it. No anti-virus program can detect all infections.
Hold together the Start Key and R. Type appwiz.cpl –> OK.
You are now in the Control Panel. Look for suspicious entries. Uninstall it/them. If you see a screen like this when you click Uninstall, choose NO:
Type msconfig in the search field and hit enter. A window will pop-up:
Startup —> Uncheck entries that have "Unknown" as Manufacturer or otherwise look suspicious.
- Remember this step – if you have reason to believe a bigger threat (like ransomware) is on your PC, check everything here.
Hold the Start Key and R – copy + paste the following and click OK:
notepad %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/hosts
A new file will open. If you are hacked, there will be a bunch of other IPs connected to you at the bottom. Look at the image below:
If there are suspicious IPs below "Localhost" – write to us in the comments.
Type Regedit in the windows search field and press Enter.
Once inside, press CTRL and F together and type the virus's Name. Right click and delete any entries you find with a similar name. If they don't show up this way, go manually to these directories and delete/uninstall them:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER—-Software—–Random Directory. It could be any one of them – ask us if you can't discern which ones are malicious.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER—-Software—Microsoft—-Windows—CurrentVersion—Run– Random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER—-Software—Microsoft—Internet Explorer—-Main—- Random
If the guide doesn't help, download the anti-virus program we recommended or try our free online virus scanner. Also, you can always ask us in the comments for help!
What may a threat like Trojan.Maljava be after?
As we said, Trojans may significantly differ in their activities and criminal purposes. If you have a threat like Trojan.Maljava on your system, you basically have to be prepared for some of the following:
- Destruction of your data or some sort of system corruption and malfunction: Crashing your entire system is one of the possible purposes of a virus from the Trojan Horse family. The hackers may use the infection to secretly modify certain system processes, delete files or format your disks in one single command. They may also exploit the RAM and the CPU resources for launching other harmful processes without your knowledge. Sudden system errors, crashes and significant slow-down in the productivity of the computer could be some of the consequences.
- Espionage and theft of credentials: Occasionally, a Trojan like Trojan.Maljava could be exploited as a tool for espionage, which can secretly hack into your web camera or mic and track down every movement, conversation or activity that you do while the infected computer is on. The crooks may also set the malware to monitor your keystrokes and login credentials or transfer certain files from your computer to their remote servers.
- Distribution of viruses and advanced malware infections: Many Trojan horses could also be used as a backdoor for other malware. In fact, one of the favorite ways for the criminals to insert viruses such as Ransomware, Spyware or other sophisticated threats inside the computer is through a Trojan-based backdoor, which can provide the other malware with a gateway inside the targeted system.
Which are the most common sources of Trojans and how can one get infected?
Very often, threats like Trojan.Maljava may be incorporated in some illegal web pages, sketchy ads, torrents, free software installers and shareware platforms. Such tricky software may also be contained within a video or an audio file, some interesting image or a spam email attachment. Even a harmless-looking text document could infect you the moment you click on it if you are not careful. Sadly, it is oftentimes really difficult to distinguish a malicious transmitter from normal and harmless content – that's why the best way to protect yourself is to invest in a reliable antivirus/anti-malware software program such as the professional removal tool, which is available on this page. In most of the cases, the absence of such software is the main reason for infection, as well as the careless online behavior of the user.
Can Trojan.Maljava be removed successfully and without risk for the system?
Dealing with a Trojan horse is a real challenge that requires your full focus and your cautiousness. However, if you carefully follow the instructions in the Removal Guide below, you may be able to detect and remove Trojan.Maljava effectively. For fast and successful elimination of the malware, we also highly recommend you use the professional anti-malware tool from the guide in combination with the removal instructions for maximum effect.
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|High (Trojans are often used as a backdoor for Ransomware)
|System crashes, software errors, significant sluggishnes or unusual settings modifications
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|Spam messages, fake ads, missleading links, infected email attachments, torrents, compromized software installers.
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Bach, J.S.: Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001
Bach, J.S.: Partita No. 1 in B Minor, BWV 1002
Bach, J.S.: Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003
Bach, J.S.: Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004
Bach, J.S.: Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005
Bach, J.S.: Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006
The timeless masterpieces that flowed from the pen of J.S.Bach during his brief employment as Coethen court musician to Prince Leopold (1717-23) are equally staggering in their brilliance: the Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, the Brandeburg Concerts and the Six Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin.
Offering his telling interpretations of BWV 1001-06 is Paolo Ghidoni (b. 1964), well known as a violin soloist and chamber music performer, especially for his ability to communicate with audiences.
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By Julie Myerson
A Mother's Story
While researching her next book, Julie Myerson finds herself in a graveyard, looking for traces of a young woman who died nearly two centuries before. As a child in Regency England, Mary Yelloly painted an exquisite album of watercolors that uniquely reflected the world in which she lived. But Mary died at the age of twenty-one, and when Julie comes across this album, she is haunted by the potential never realized. She is also reminded of her own child.
Only days earlier, Julie and her husband locked their eldest son out of the family home. He is just seventeen. After a happy childhood, he had discovered drugs, and it had taken only a matter of months for the boy to completely lose his way and propel his family into daily chaos. Julie—whose emotionally fragile relationship with her own father had left her determined to love her children better—had to accept that she was powerless to bring him back.
Honest, warm, and profoundly moving, this is the parallel story of a girl and a boy separated by centuries. The circumstances are very different, but the questions remain terrifyingly the same. What happens when a child disappears from a family? What will survive of any of us in memory or in history? And how is a mother to cope when love is not enough?
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Ugne Matrisciano, Anders Rune and Lejla Dizdarevic have joined the EGTA team in Brussels.
EGTA is the Brussels-based trade association of television and radio sales houses that market the advertising space of both public and private broadcasters across Europe and beyond.
Ugne Matrisciano joins EGTA as Research and Insight Manager responsible for members' requests, surveys, databases and event organisation. She brings more than three years of relevant research experience, having worked as a Quantitative research consultant at InSites Consulting and Consumer researcher at Procter & Gamble.
Anders Rune also joins EGTA as Research and Insight Manager and will be involved in market intelligence, research, audience measurement and TV requests. He brings more than 10 years of experience from various research and management roles in Denmark, London and Brussels, where he previously worked for companies such as GAN Integrity Solutions, Transparency International UK and Mentis Consulting. Over the past 3 years, he worked on TV advertisement measurement for a multinational client.
Lejla Dizdarevic joins as Marketing and Research Project Manager. She will be involved in cross-departmental projects for research, communication and events. Lejla brings communication and events planning experience from several non-profit associations in Brussels, the most prominent one being in the aviation industry.


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jonQ3 had een nieuw menu ontwerp nodig en lanceerde daarom een wedstrijd op 99designs.
Een winnaar werd gekozen uit93 ontwerpen ingezonden door6 freelance designers.
Farm to table fast-casual restaurant that serves wholesome, delicious food with local, seasonally changing ingredients. Our menu features features Kale and Grain Bowls, Salads, Burgers and Smoothies.
Digital menu board designed adhering to the following guidelines:
- Size parameters: 3 panels @ 43" monitors, hortizonal/landscape layout.
- 6 menu categories: We have 6 primary menu categories that must be featured and ideally called out with a consistent font/color/design: Burgers/Sandwiches, Sides, Bowls, Salads, Beverages, and Kids' Meals.
- Photo callouts: We would also like to show seasonal item callout photos on the menu board (photos attached)
- Menu Item Names: Please reference our website for copy/menu items names and descriptions. The menu should feature 5 sandwich build options, 4 kale and grain bowls, 4 salads, 4 smoothies, 2 shakes, 9 sides, and 4 kids meal entree options. If you can't find details for these items online, please feel free to reach out or use "Side Option #" instead.
- Menu Item Descriptions: Depending on space, we are open to NOT showing menu item descriptions (i.e. ingredients). We believe they currently clutter our menu and are open to strictly showing product titles.
- Prices: Please show prices for all products (except for burger protein options) These do not need to be accurate and can just be a placeholder of $9.99
- Fonts/Colors: Please feel free to reference our website for insight into the general colors/themes we tend to use in our menus http://www.bgood.com/
Rough Guidelines for this design are attached. Please reference and follow this structure with your design. If you feel the need to deviate from this layout, please feel free to take that liberty but note we are striving for a layout that is convenient for guests and flows nicely, allocating proper space to each menu category.
Another area of potential flexibility is the use of photos. We want to make our menus more visually appealing. The guidelines below consider a 1/2 panel for seasonal visuals. However, we would be open to also featuring photos on the individual Bowls/Salads/Burger panels as well.
If you would like to use stock photos to illustrate something that fits better with your design, please do not hesitate to do so, as we have more photos than the generic ones attached and can also organize photoshoots if warranted by the design you present.


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Interview: 110% Play Harder Talks Products, Recovery HabitsPosted on Jul 07, 2013 under Interview | No Comment
The key to being active in the endurance sports community – especially online – is to go out and chat with the companies that are making high quality products but might not be as well-known. That's why I like when companies approach me and actively want to engage, because there is new opportunity to put together a great story.
Alameda Runners recently caught up with David Green, 110% Play Harder CEO and experienced triathlete and Ironman, to learn more about the company and its unique product line.
110% makes compression clothing from compression shorts and knee sleeves to compression socks, tights and calf sleeves – including ice inserts, which can be heated to create heat inserts – offering even better healing capabilities.
Jump into the full interview after the jump!
Many triathletes and endurance sports athletes like to have clothes that can be used for swimming, cycling and running. "We don't market our gear for swimming. (With) that said, it is extremely hydrophobic and performs very well in the water!"
"I got the Ironman bug when I turned 35 in 1999 and compete in 16 events over the next 10 years. During that time, I evolved from first time – "I want to finish!" to wanting to go as fast as I can. Balancing family, work and training with an aging body is the challenge many triathletes face."
Some athletes are weary of products that future items need to be purchased for, such as the 110% Extra Ice Replacement Insert, but it shouldn't be a big investment.
"That depends on the usage. On average, our re-useable ice sheet should last a year."
110% was born from a dream about helping athletes recover from hard physical effort, and the founder knows about pain.
"The key categories for me to address were faster recovery, stronger performance and injury management. When we came out with the 110% Compression + Ice, we had a product that provided a solution to all of those categories. As I've gone from Ironman to Ultras, these categories hold true with the addition of comfort. You can get through an Ironman with an average garment and it feels fine. Once you undertake a 30+ hour race you realize that chaffing can be a whole different animal. There is no doubt, ultra- anything provides extreme product testing!"
As to why athletes should choose 110% instead of other competing products, it comes down to how 110% products help everyone recover:
"110% provides the only recovery gear that makes the most widely accepted protocol for therapy, RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation); simple, mobile and effective. The garment is also a superb performance piece of gear; constructed with seamless, gradient and zoned compression, our gear provides the ultimate in comfort, support and circulatory benefits."
Each company making clothing and other products for athletes go through internal testing efforts to validate product. Here are some of the steps 110% does to ensure its products are the best available to athletes:
"Our product team starts with a vision for the line. From there, we actively pursue authentic validation by including input and feedback from the 110% Playmakers. Our roster includes 48 world class athletes from different sporting backgrounds. Once we gather feedback, their needs are matched with our line vision."
110% has a great array of products and many have the "+ice" designation, so the compression products include ice to aid recovery.
There are a lot of upstart companies catering to athletes, and Alameda Runners is always on the lookout for fun, new companies to chat with.


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BYRDSTOWN, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities are investigating two bodies found in Pickett County as a possible double homicide.
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Josh Devine said in an email to The Associated Press on Thursday that agents are collecting evidence and trying to figure out a timeline for the crime.
Devine said the victims have not been positively identified. He did not provide any other details.
He did ask that anyone who might know something about the crime to call (800) TBI-FIND, or (800) 824-3463.
Pickett County is located on the Tennessee-Kentucky state line surrounded by Clay, Overton and Fentress Counties.
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Living PesticidePosted: July 16, 2013 Filed under: Blueberry Farm | Tags: aphids, Ladybugs, organic blueberries, organic pest control, U-pick Blueberries Leave a comment
Friday, a package arrived in a small wooden crate with a white bag stapled inside. The kids knew what it was right away, and in what's becoming an annual tradition, started getting stoked for "Ladybug Night" at the farm. After dinner, we took the crate out into the field, pried it open and spread our "pesticide." We watered the blueberry bushes and released our 72,000 new friends at dusk, in hopes of keeping them close to home and devouring aphids.
So far, most of our efforts to grow blueberries organically involve lots of extra work, hassle and expense. But this isn't one of them. I'd rather watch the kids laugh and shriek while spreading ladybugs, than sit on a tractor in hazmat gear, spraying toxic chemicals any day. Go ladybugs!
Note to jonesing berry pickers: We are getting close, but the berries aren't quite ripe yet. I think we'll probably be able to open in about a week to a week-and-a-half, but to be sure, call our harvest hotline for updates starting after the 20th. 206.855.0947.


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In the past three years, the amount of flowers imported from the Netherlands has fallen by 47% to 94,000 tons, while those from Africa have risen 39% to 17,000 tons. Environmentalists warned that 'flower miles' could have serious implications on climate change in terms of carbon dioxide emissions from aeroplanes.
Andrew Sime, the policy director of the New Economics Foundation, said, "There are plenty of flowers that grow in Britain in the winter and don't need to be hot-housed. "Air freighting flowers half way round the world contributes to global warming."
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Men's shirts: with this classic you always ensure a luxurious look.
Men's shirts are the garment that makes the modern man look good on every occasion.
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Good to combine with jeans or a chino but can also be combined with a suit.
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Can you match Smith's exploits?Groundhopper Geoff Smith added Shrewsbury Town's new Greenhous Meadow home to the list of grounds where he has watched Latics.
Geoff, a car park attendant at Boundary Park, has now watched Latics play on 153 different grounds.
It was back in 1959/60 that Geoff began watching Latics and his first away day was to Barnsley in 1964.
Since then he has watched Latics on grounds as obscure as Barrow, Workington and Southport who are no longer in the league and at non-league clubs like South Shields and Grantham.
Geoff, an engineer by trade, has added Crawley, Coventry City's Ricoh Arena and Shrewsbury this season to the list of grounds where he has watched Latics.
And as to the ground where he has watched Latics most - that is Notts County where he has paid 12 visits.


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Effectiveness of participatory approaches in sustainable rural development: analyzing case studies in Uzbekistan
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Access to quality water is a constraint and a source of waterborne diseases among the rural population of Uzbekistan. To address the need for quality water the government cooperates with many international financial and development organizations to address this problem. "Enhancement of Living Standards in Fergana Valley" is a development program funded by European Union and implemented by UNDP seeking to build capacity in development planning and improvement of living standards by involving local communities in the implementation of development projects. The focus of this study was to assess how projects that engage local community people in decisions about development fare. It assesses how capacity training and institutions contribute to success water projects, the most common problem prioritized by the majority of targeted communities served by this program. Elinor Ostrom's and Manzur Olson's principles of collective action inform the development of a framework applied to the analysis of water projects implemented by the program in four communities. The purpose is to identify factors that contribute or hinder the success of collective action, and the sustainability of the produced collective good. Using a multiple-embedded case study design, water development projects are studied in four communities located in four districts of Namangan region of Uzbekistan. The success of collective action in these projects was determined by the perceived value of clean water among households, and by strength of incentives to get access to the clean drinking water. In addition to these, other factors identified included community involvement in the decision making processes, existing norms and customary institutions, local conditions (such as the existence of alternative water sources), and nature of leadership (engaging the group in decisions, and the training of the leaders). These were important for the initiation of the project and during the process of implementation in the target communities. Institutions created by the project, such as the Water Committees, ensured the long-term sustainability of projects where collective action was essential. In the other two cases solutions to sustainability depended on existing organizations. The property rights of the collective good was not important during the initiation of the project, nor through the process of the collective action building the water system. However, property rights might be influential for the success and long-endurance of the created institutions (Water Committees). In addition, coercion was used in one start up case, because the group was not part of the decision to engage in the project, and did not value. The group was not aware of the poor quality of the water, which required additional training and group discussions for increasing awareness of people about waterborne diseases. The findings of the study indicate that it is important to use a polycentric approach while designing intervention methods and approaches of development projects. In order to ensure sustainability of the outcome of the project, where a participatory approach is used, the difference between imposed and voluntary organized collective action has to be recognized. The incentives and involvement of the community in decision making processes can determine the success of the project and ensure long-endurance of the outcome.


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If you love ice cream pies but can't deal with all that dairy, you have to check out this almond butter pie recipe!
What's even better, is that this is an easy no bake pie with an easy no bake pie crust. So no turning on your oven during a hot summer day! (Just a little stovetop cooking is needed to melt the chocolate to drizzle on top of this almond butter pie.)
This No Bake Almond Butter Pie is not only ideal anyone who's dairy free, it's also gluten free. That's because the crust is made from gluten free kettle corn rice cakes.
The combination of coconut milk and honey almond butter creates a no bake pies recipe with the consistency of ice cream.
However, between the almond butter and dark chocolate, this is NOT a light dessert. Serve each person a small piece along with some berries for a delicious summer treat.
How to make an easy no bake pie crust
I decided to use gluten free rice cakes to create a crust, similar to when I use crushed gluten free cookies in my Gluten Free Mini Blueberry Swirl Cheesecakes.
I've been a fan of Lundberg Organic Gluten Free Rice Cakes for years. They have so many sweet rice cake flavors that would make wonderful pie crusts, like Salted Caramel, Honey Nut, and Cinnamon Toast.
I decided that Kettle Corn would work best in a No Bake Almond Butter Pie recipe.
This freezer pie recipe also gave me the chance to use a couple of special kitchen gadgets that I love. First, I used a Beka Cookware Bain Marie to melt the chocolate instead of a double broiler.
I love the Beka Bain Marie since it's almost impossible to burn anything you're melting in it. Plus, you don't run the risk of getting water in your chocolate.
I also used my Blendtec Blender's Twister Jar to make most of this recipe. If you have a Blendtec Blender, you NEED to get a twister jar to make sauces and recipes like No Bake Almond Butter Pie! If you don't, just use your food processor instead.
Making a dairy free no bake almond butter pie recipe
I love ice cream pies, but my tummy doesn't. So I made this No Bake Almond Butter Pie dairy free using a variety of products.
In the crust, I used a vegan buttery spread like Earth Balance.
For the chocolate drizzle, use a dairy free semi-sweet chocolate like Enjoy Life Semi-Sweet Chocolate Mini-Chips, which is gluten free, dairy free and vegan.
I combined it with a little Spectrum Naturals Organic All Vegetable Shortening for easy drizzling.
This almond butter pie recipe also comes with a vegan option!
Since this no bake pie recipe is dairy free, it's practically vegan friendly except for one ingredient – the honey in the almond butter.
If you're vegan or wanting to serve this No Bake Almond Butter Pie to vegan friends or relatives, use plain almond butter.
Just double check the label to make sure your almond butter is vegan. If the no bake pie isn't sweet enough when using plain almond butter, add a little more sugar to taste.
No Bake Almond Butter Pie
For the rice cake crust:
- 1 1/2 cups finely ground Lundberg Organic Kettle Corn Rice Cakes
- 6 tablespoons vegan buttery spread, at room temperature
- 1/3 cup sugar
For the chocolate coating and drizzle:
- 7 ounces dairy free semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon Spectrum Naturals Organic All Vegetable Shortening
For the pie filling:
- 1 cup honey almond butter
- 1 (13.5 ounce) can full-fat coconut milk
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
To make the pie crust:
- Place rice cakes (about half a package) into a food processor and grind them into fine crumbs.
- Add the vegan buttery spread and sugar and pulse until combined. Firmly and evenly press the mixture into a pie plate.
- Break the chocolate into small pieces and combine with the shortening and melt. You can do this in a double boiler, in a bain marie, or carefully over low heat in a sauce pan in medium heat-proof bowl, stirring constantly.
- Dip a pastry spoon into the melted chocolate and give the pie crust a thin coat by using the pastry brush to paint on the chocolate. Work quickly and try not to loosen the rice cake crust.
- Chill the crust in the freezer for 15 minutes.
To make the pie filling:
- Place the almond butter, coconut milk, sugar, and salt into a large mixing bowl and using a hand mixer, beat until completely blended. If you have a Blendtec or similar blender, you can also combine the ingredients in the blender using the sauce setting.
- Remove the pie crust from the refrigerator and pour the pie filling into the shell. Gently tap the pie plate on the counter to release any air bubbles.
- Place the pie back into the freezer for 1 hour or until set.
- Remove pie from freezer. Prepare the chocolate drizzle by remelting the remaining chocolate, if needed.
- Take a spoon, dip into the melted chocolate, and drizzle chocolate over the pie in a decorative manner.
- Place the pie back into the freezer for 30 more minutes.
- Remove from freezer 15 minutes before serving. Slice carefully and enjoy!
- Serving size: 1 slice
Originally published in May 21, 2013. Updated with new pictures and information.


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More New Music from Santiparro
Just last week I encountered the music of Santiparro. I was struck by the fragile quality of the vocals, placed gently atop these great little folk-influenced ballads. On his latest single, that's the case once again, though I turned my speakers up to the max so I could hear the tiny little details that lurk in the background of this song. Clearly he's made a name for himself already, as this song features that Kyp Malone chap from TVotR, so people are taking notice of his work, and I hope you're one of those as well. Look for his new album, True Prayer, to come out on February 24th via Gnome Life Records.
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Dan Weiskopf/ I'm going to venture a strong claim: it's impossible for scientific images and other materials to preserve their meaning when they're imported into artworks. Images, simulations, and other visualizations are working images: they hone our research projects by operating as evidence, or as devices to reason with. They depend on an array of skilled interpreters, both human and technological. Making them idle by tacking them up for display shifts attention to other properties (their formal character, their allusive potential) that play no role in their working life. Elsewhere I've discussed some examples of how this happens in works that draw on astronomy (see "The Sky and the Edge of Sight").
Of course, it's the prerogative of artists to transform the meanings of anything that they happen to use as raw material–what Danto called "transfiguration". The question is whether materials so transfigured can loop back around and feed into the scientific practices that they originated in. We might think of this possibility as a case of what Linda usefully called recursion.
In this vein, Simon pointedly asks what scientists might take away from exchanges with artists. I suspect that in general, aside from moments of adventitious illumination, the answer is not much. There are relatively few "slots" in the epistemically-oriented activities of planning studies, conducting observations, recruiting participants, preparing samples, writing grants, and calibrating instruments for artworks to make contact. Artworks are ill-suited as tools for scientists to think with.
That's not to say it can't happen. Some artistic explorations might have heuristic value for theorists, or might suggest new phenomena to investigate (on the latter conception, see Domnitch and Gelfand's essay on "art as rigorous phenomenology"). One example of a fairly concrete benefit from these collaborations is in medicine, specifically clinical pain studies. In a number of papers, artist Deborah Padfield and researcher Joanna Zakrzewska describe the creation of depictions of facial expressions of varying degrees of pain to be used by patients in conveying their suffering to doctors. Pain rating scales are notoriously hard to use for this purpose; see a summary in The Lancet, and one of several published studies of the procedure's effectiveness. Notice, though, that it's hard to regard these pain rating cards themselves as artworks.
Finally, I'm more dubious of the idea of artists as all-purpose outsider critics, mostly because to ask a question that really reframes a live problem requires being fairly steeped in the technical details of the field. The ways of thinking that artists develop are tied to their tools and materials, their hand skills, and the vast network of art-historical references that they draw on. It isn't clear what "exchange value" these might have for scientists.


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Open Letter to Jim Hermann, Defensive Coordinator for the University of Michigan Football Team, from A Concerned Fan.
Dear Jim (can I call you Jim? Lord knows I've called you lots worse this season. I've been known to associate you with trucking--mea culpa--if you catch my drift):
There is a story, quite possibly apocryphal, about the Beatles meeting with a record company executive in 1962. Reportedly, after hearing the group's material, he said that the company would not sign them because "Groups with guitars are on the way out." Bad call as it turned out, I think you'd agree.
Watching the struggles of the Michigan defense since the semi-glory year of 1997 smacks of the same miscalculating mindset.
Mobile quarterbacks are not a "fad" or "gimmick." Purdue's offense is a gimmick. Signal callers with 4.4 speed are not. The miserable failure of the Michigan defense to even remotely contain such men over the past eight years has repeatedly led to bitter failure, and threatens to make the block "M" stand for "mediocre" again. Donovan McNabb? Vince Jones? Zak freakin' Kustok? Every one of these guys has destroyed seasons, simply because the defense never, ever has an answer. Never has the ability to make the game-saving stop. Never. EVER.
You might want to think about doing something about that some time.
Before I die, preferably.
Warmest regards,
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Death is the one event in life that will eventually happen. It is also the one for which we are least prepared.
I find it particularly sad when someone who has died leaves instructions they want no funeral service.
While the departed person is the guest of honor at a funeral, it really isn't for them. It is for their friends and family to grieve and celebrate a life.
I read a book a few years ago called, "Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide To Hosting the Perfect Funeral." The book suggests the two biggest events of a Southerner's life are a wedding and a funeral. You have a year to plan a wedding, while a funeral must be put together in a matter of days.
Asa Autry died a couple of weeks ago. He lived two months shy of being 96 years old. He was a World War II Army veteran. For 27 years, Asa and his wife, Grace, hosted a reunion for Asa's Army outfit. For years, they filled up hotel ballrooms with veterans from all across the country. Sadly, as the Greatest Generation began dying off, so did the Army reunion.
Asa spent many years as a USDA poultry inspector. Grace worked for the old Gainesville Midland Railroad. They had friends everywhere.
I doubt Grace Autry has read the guide to good funerals, but she may have succeeded in throwing the closest thing I've seen to a perfect funeral.
Grace sings alto in the First Baptist Church choir and everybody loves her. She is petite, cute and never has a hair out of place. As someone once said, she looks like she just stepped out of a bandbox. A bandbox was a type of box used by nicer clothing stores a couple of generations ago.
So when Grace asked if a few choir members would sing for Asa, it was really no surprise 71 of us showed up.
Mark Green, the Alabama-born piano master who leads our music, played and sung "It Is Well With My Soul," like it ought to be played and sung. I am pretty sure all 88 keys were used.
Then, Mildred Carpenter, who is one of my favorite people on the planet, played and sang "Amazing Grace" as only she can. Mildred has been playing for funerals since she was in grade school. She has played so many times she didn't need a note of sheet music.
Several folks, including Bill Coates, Bruce Fields and Kent Murphey of the First Baptist staff, offered their remembrances of Asa, as did former Sheriff Steve Cronic, Asa's nephew.
Sometimes, preachers get a little carried away with trying to scare folks into making professions of faith at funerals. I'll hear about this, but I think that's wrong.
The Bible says, "You'll know a tree by the fruit it bears." Asa Autry's life was a tree filled with lots of low-hanging fruit. I want to live a life like that.
Asa's funeral was a service of worship for God, respect for a man's well-lived life and an outpouring of love and comfort for his family.
Perfect? Somebody else will have to decide that. But I left with a lot of love in my heart for the man and the God who made him.
It doesn't get much better than that.
Harris Blackwood is a Gainesville resident whose columns appear on the Sunday Life page and on gainesvilletimes.com/harris.


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Dale Pro Audio came to us and asked if we would be willing to upgrade their site from Version 8 to Version 9.2 for AspDotNetStorefront. Of course we said yes!
This upgrade was a unique one because the site is hosted at a remote location. So once we got all the access we needed we began work. Along with the upgrade, we added some new features including integrating a chat software, Vortx one page checkout, backoffice netsuite, and Nextopia Search.
John, Miral and Tiffany were the developers that worked on this site. Let's give them a big round of applause! Good Job guys!


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Outside of an existing logo, the entire set of marketing collateral was created for White Rock Networks over the period of about three years.
Shown: Corporate overview and network services brochure.
Over the years Nukote has called on us to develop not only print collateral but packaging, web based materials and corporate communication pieces.
Shown here are samples of the Imaging Solutions Division brochure.
Provding a wide range of logistics services for the cotton industry.
Shown: Services brochures
PGAL Architecture in Houston contacted us to create a series of collateral pieces outlining their architectural services.
Pictured here is the engineering services brochure.
Being a startup, Cerion Corp. needed an entire suite of collateral to get them up and running quickly.
Shown here is a sample of the corporate capabilities brochure we developed.
Software Services:
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2008 Pottery Catalogs
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Windows event logs - local
Splunk Enterprise can collect local Windows event logs. You can use this input to alert on security or search for specific event iDs to determine the health of your Windows systems.
To get local Windows event log data, point Splunk at your Event Log service:
A. Go to the Add New page
You add a Windows event log input from the Add New page in Splunk Web. See "How do you want to add data?" in this manual.
You can get there by two routes:
- Splunk Home
- Splunk Settings
Via Splunk Settings:
1. Click Settings in the upper right-hand corner of Splunk Web.
2. In the Data section of the Settings pop-up, click Data Inputs.
3. Click Local event log collection.
4. Click the New button to add an input.
Via Splunk Home:
1. Click the Add Data link in Splunk Home.
2. Click Monitor to monitor Event Log data on the local Windows machine, or Forward to forward Event Log data from another Windows machine. Splunk Enterprise loads the "Add Data - Select Source" page.
3. If you selected Forward, choose or create the group of forwarders you want this input to apply to. See "Forward data" in this manual.
4. Click the green Next button.
B. Select the input source
1. In the left pane, locate and select Local Event Logs
2. In the Select Event Logs list box, locate the Event Log channels you want this input to monitor.
3. Click once on each Event Log channel you want to monitor. Splunk Enterprise moves the channel from the "Available items" window to the "Selected items" window.
4. To unselect a channel, click on its name in the "Available Items" window. Splunk Enterprise moves the channel from the "Selected items" window to the "Available items" window.
5. To select or unselect all of the event logs, click on the "add all" or "remove all" links. Important: Selecting all of the channels can result in the indexing of a lot of data, possibly more than your license allows.
6. Click the green Next button.
C. Specify input settings
The Input Settings page lets you specify application context, default host value, and index. All of these parameters are optional.
1. Select the appropriate Application context for this input.
2. Set the Host name value. You have several choices for this setting. Learn more about setting the host value in "About hosts".
- Note: Host only sets the host field in the resulting events. It does not direct Splunk Enterprise to look on a specific host on your network.
3. Set the Index that Splunk Enterprise should send data to. Leave the value as "default", unless you have defined multiple indexes to handle different types of events. In addition to indexes for user data, Splunk Enterprise has a number of utility indexes, which also appear in this dropdown box.
4. Click the green Review button.
D. Review your choices
After specifying all your input settings, you can review your selections. Splunk Enterprise lists all options you selected, including but not limited to the type of monitor, the source, the source type, the application context, and the index.
Review the settings. If they do not match what you want, click the white < button to go back to the previous step in the wizard. Otherwise, click the green Submit button.
Splunk Enterprise then loads the "Success" page and begins indexing the specified Event Log channels.
For more information on getting Windows Event Log data, see "Monitor Windows event log data" in the Getting Data In manual.
Syslog - TCP/UDP
Windows event logs - remote
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 6.2.0, 6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.2.3, 6.2.4, 6.2.5, 6.2.6, 6.2.7, 6.2.8, 6.2.9, 6.2.10, 6.2.11, 6.2.12, 6.2.13, 6.2.14, 6.2.15


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Dry Skin Around Nose – Certain conditions, such as perioral dermatitis, psoriasis or eczema, can trigger flaky and dry skin around your nose or on the corners of your mouth. In fact, peeling, broken and reddish skin on the face may be the body's response to direct exposure to winter weather condition or frequent use of extreme detergents or soaps. If the dry, flaky skin around your nose and corners of your mouth is not the result of fundamental, dry and unmoisturized skin, you may need to see your health care service provider to figure out the cause.
Dry Flaky Skin Around Nose & Corners of Mouth
If your face feels tight and itchy, you might see that the skin, around your nose and corners of the mouth, is also dry or flaky. An easy option to dry facial skin is exfoliation, followed by the application of a gentle and lightweight moisturizer. If the flaky and flaky spots on the face do not disappear after utilizing an exfoliant and a moisturizer, you have to determine whether the cause of the dry skin is due to a hidden medical condition, a skin sensitivity or an exposure to harsh chemicals.
Soap and Water
A number of aspects can cause dry skin. Winter or dry environments can pull the wetness from your skin, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. Taking really hot baths can likewise draw moisture out of your skin, as the warm water rapidly dries and vaporizes the moisture out of your skin. Particular soaps, specifically harsh soaps, can dry out your skin. You can avoid dry skin due to these trigger by using a moisturizer to your face, changing to a milder soap or utilizing less warm water when bathing.
Skin problem
Certain medical conditions, such as perioral dermatitis and contact dermatitis, can affect the skin around your nose, mouth and eyes, inning accordance with DermNet NZ. This kind of dermatitis mostly impacts adult women as males seldom develop this condition. The specific cause is not quite comprehended however is thought to be associated with poor hygiene, particular facial creams and topical creams and lotions. You might require antibiotics to clear perioral dermatitis if your skin doesn't react well to terminating making use of facial creams and topical creams or ointments.
If your body isn't really receiving enough iron or biotin, you might suffer from dry, flaky skin. Although biotin shortage is rare, the result is dry, flaky skin and broken skin around the corners of your mouth, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center. An iron shortage simulates the symptoms of a biotin shortage in that you may establish split skin around the corners of your mouth and experience other comparable symptoms such as dry skin, inflamed tongue, burning feeling in your mouth and brittle fingernails.
Factors to consider
Depending upon the cause of your dry skin, if altering a few routines such as hot baths or a milder soap hasn't assisted, you may do not have iron or biotin in your diet plan. Ask your healthcare provider to carry out screening to help figure out the exact cause. She might buy a blood or urine test to see if you lack biotin or iron. She may likewise take a sample of the dry skin by flaking some of the skin onto a smear slide and analyzing the skin under a microscopic lense.
How to Get Rid of Dry Skin Around Your Nose
Dry skin on your nose can result from a variety of causes. The cosmetics and soaps you utilize can make skin dry, and the aging procedure can trigger skin to become dry because the sebaceous glands end up being slow with age. Treat dry skin on your nose the method you would treat it on other area of the face.
Things You'll Need
- Hydrating cleanser
- Alcohol-free hydrating toner
- Cotton pad
- Moisturizing cream
- Hydrating mask
Step 1
Wash your nose with a moisturizing cleanser. Utilize one that contains ingredients such as rose and olive oils. Wet skin prior to applying the cleanser, then rinse all traces of the cleanser from your nose thoroughly and let air-dry. Clean your nose with a cotton pad moistened with an alcohol-free hydrating toner.
Step 2
Spread a moisturizing cream on your nose while it is nearly but not entirely dry. Select a moisturizing cream that contains skin-nourishing ingredients such as rose oil, avocado oil, olive oil or a blend of these oils. Apply the hydrating cream to your nose not only after washing it, however whenever your skin feels tight or dry.
Step 3
Use a moisturizing mask once or twice a week to carefully exfoliate and hydrate. Spread out the mask all over your nose and leave it on for the time suggested on the label, and then completely rinse the mask off your skin.
Step 4
Drink water. Water usage is very important, as water hydrates skin. Avoid dry environments to help keep your skin much better hydrated.
Step 5
Apply an alcohol-free sunscreen to your nose– and to all exposed areas of skin, for that matter. Dab some sunscreen on prior to you go outdoors and reapply it typically if you'll be out in the sun for any length of time.
7 Alternatives Ways To Remove Dry Skin Around Nose
Typically individuals have 2 kinds of skin-oily and dry. Though oily skin looks very irritating as it makes your face greasy, the skin problem increases in case of dry skin. If your face gets too dry, it can develop swelling, inflammation, redness and eventually your skin ends up being flaky. This is also really hazardous as these skin flakes can create lots of health problem like dandruff, breathing difficulty, stomach problem etc.
Now if you have mix skin in your T-zone area (i.e; lips, nose and forehead) can be dry or oily. Now exactly what are symptoms of dry nose? You'll see skin flakes and feel a stretch on that location. The problem increases primarily in the winter season.
Therefore, you require proper methods to remove dry skin around nose. Prior to that you also need to know the reasons for the dry skin. It can occur for genetic factors, cleaning in hot water is also a reason, and any kind of hormone condition like thyroid can likewise make your skin dry. Now, let's learn the value of remedies to eliminate dry skin around nose.
Dry skin is type of a skin problem. If treated at main stage, you can avoid numerous additional health problem. Instead of utilizing market item discover home remedies to get rid of dry skin around nose. To make your search easy, here are some methods to get rid of dry skin around nose.
Use Petroleum Jelly
This is among the easiest and helpful methods to remove dry skin around nose by applying petroleum jelly. There is no specific time to utilize it however if you apply it during the night before going to sleep can give you the best result.
Drink Enough Water
Not all external ways of appeal items will help you get a stunning & radiant skin, you need internal remedies to eliminate dry skin around nose and also from face. So, 8 glasses water a day can resolve your problem within.
Apply Almond Oil
Dryness creates itching and pain. To avoid such ailments, almond oil is a good treatment. You can utilize it as it is. But if you want much better outcome, mix it with aloe vera gel. It will provide you a calming impact.
Use Exfoliator
Dirt and contamination can make your face dull. Now, if you do not exfoliate routinely, dead cells and dust deposit in the curves of your nose and make the scenario even worse. Lemon and sugar is a great scrubber for dry skin. Use two times a week.
Apply A Mask
When you want solutions to remove dry skin around nose, you should be really familiar with the ingredients of face masks; otherwise your face will be drier. Make a pack with milk, yogurt and cucumber. It will hydrate your face and bring a soft touch impact.
Usage Another Mask
Here is another face mask that can fix your issue of dry skin around nose. Take an egg yolk and blend it with couple of drops of olive oil. Apply around your nose and wash after 10 minutes.
Cautious About Sunscreen
Sun block is the important things that you should not forget when you're outside. Examine your sunscreen before purchasing. If it has alcohol as an ingredient, prevent it. Use aloe or olive oil based sun block. Never forget to reapply on your nose if you find it stretchy.
So, That Is Some Dry Skin Around Nose Information


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A Beginner's Guide to Accessible Cruising
Learn how to choose a cruise, manage shore tours and find the right travel agent.
Cruises can be great vacations for disabled passengers. Travelers in wheelchairs or with other physical challenges, as well as people with medical conditions, can read about which ships are best for handling disabilities, what services cruise ships provide and what kind of pre-cruise preparation they should do.Read Reviews for Cruises for the Disabled


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I have a friend (who does not even own a computer…I swear…she wants nothing to do with them) who calls me at least three weekends out of the month. This has been going on for 10 years. If you know me, then you know how much I hate the phone, preferring email. With her I have no choice, she is computer-less. Shouldn't that be a red flag right there?
She lives in the same state I do, about 500 miles away.
She has two kids and is a stay-at-home-mom. I've known her for years. I wouldn't say we were the "best of friends" but do have a fairly solid relationship. I think. Or thought.
Here's the problem, over the years I've begun to notice a pattern. She calls me only on weekends and only from her cell phone. The connection is always bad. She acts like she doesn't notice it.
I tell her to call me back using her land line but she always has a jillion excuses why she can't. However, if I offered to call her back on her land line it would be satisfactory.
In the beginning I didn't even realize what was happening. I have figured out, by process of elimination, she only wants to speak with me if she's using her free cell phone weekend minutes.
When she does call on the weekend and if I do not answer, she'll leave a message to return her call on her house phone, never the cell. Or her message will say, "Okay, I'll try again next weekend". WTH?
If I do call her back on her cell during the week she never answers. Neee-ver But if I immediately call her on her house phone after calling the cell, she'll pick up immediately. Yes, I have experimented.
I'm on to her.
I have concluded, I am not worthy of her highly prized weekday minutes and am only worth speaking to if it's free and on the weekend!
I really haven't decided how I feel about the situation other than the Wild Boar and I had a big laugh about it.
It is funny but that level of cheapness has always bothered me. Trust me when I tell you there is not a financial reason for her to be this way. Her and her husband do quite well, and she tells me that frequently. Maybe this is why they are doing so well?
It all reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine finds out her favorite contraceptive, The Today Sponge, is being discontinued. She runs around the city buying up all the Today Sponges she is able to get and becomes very, very selective with whom she is willing to use her contraceptive with. It's pretty hilarious.
So, I'm thinking "my friend" does not consider me "Weekday Minute Worthy".
Should I no longer take her weekend calls or should I continue being her Saturday or Sunday entertainment?
Can we categorize people into weekday or weekend minute worthy. Well, obviously we can.
And doesn't everyone just have a billion cell phone minutes anyway?
What I Was Blogging About One Year Ago Today: Extravagant Stupidity


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1. The Leaves - last week I finally decided to tackle my outside - mainly rake the leaves and sweep the walk. I did as much as I could with the leaf bags we had, and had to leave the rest.
Isn't that plant in the bottom right corner beautiful in the fall?
Stored the table and chairs too, but that planter is too heavy to go anywhere!
We also did the side alley, but I didn't take pictures of it - it was the biggest miracle. It's a shared path, and it's super creepy and dark, and houses the garbage and air conditioner and many other things I never really touch...plus I don't really know the 3 neighbours that live in the various apartments next door
This is now what my backyard looks like today. The only thing good about falling leaves is that my house lets in so much more light in the winter!
2. Cleaning - now my house isn't so gross, and I didn't take pictures of it all, but there are the typical week-old tumbleweeds of dust and hair rolling around, the shower drain is starting to get clogged (there isn't enough Drain-O in the world to dissolve all my hair), and the windows need dusting. In particular, the outside of the front window...
3. Halloween - my brother had a Halloween/housewarming party/Jessica's birthday party last Saturday. I decided that if I actually got a costume together, I would go. Well...Saturday hit and we had to go to Value Village to drop off a whole bunch of house stuff and clothes we were donating (another procrastination - the big chair is FINALLY out of the kitchen!), so I thought I'd pop in to see some costumes. Well...those Queen's students will remember Phase 2 around Halloween - INSANELY busy and smelling like people smoking weed and old clothes...so I left. No costume. No party attendance. We were also supposed to rent scary movies, which Matt procrastinated on, but ended up watching "Scream 4" - entertaining but predictable, and "Paranormal Activity" - both # 1 and 2. Wow....so scary. I don't think I've slept well since.
The day before Halloween I freaked out because we didn't have a pumpkin or candy, so got both, but a sloppy leftover pumpkin because we had waited so long. Supposedly there are no pumpkin patches in Toronto. So Matt gutted it and decorated it and I completely forgot to take pictures. So all we had as decor was the pumpkin, some lanterns outside, and my real spider web in the window. Still had about 100 kids, and a lot of leftover candy which I have taken to work in attempt not to put myself into some sort of diabetic coma.
4. Miscellaneous Other House Chores - like the dry cleaning. And getting an oil change for my car. These are mundane tasks that I inevitably put off EVERY SINGLE TIME they are required to get done. Why? No clue. I got the oil change and tune up 1500 km later than I am supposed to (which isn't that many days, really, considering I drive about 100 km per day, but still), and that annoying "perform service" beep is finally not happening anymore every time I start my car. I asked Matt to take in the dry cleaning - this is everything since we got back from our cruise in August (3 dresses), plus some dress pants, Matt's suit, and of course, the pillowcases from the Home Sense pillows I got thinking I could wash the marks out of them and found out they were dry-clean only. So the pillows have been sitting without cases upstairs along with the cases in the "to be dry cleaned" pile for at least a month. So, finally did that, and the pillows are back in the living room!
Finally got a good picture for the big frame on the shelf in our bedroom - it's of the Trevi fountain in Rome. We wanted a black and white to go with all the others in the room, but it was so hard to make Europe pictures NOT colour since they were so incredible there - will use those pictures for the gallery wall in the dining room eventually.
And finally....still no top to the sideboard (waiting until we have some furniture to match the wood stain to), but here's it with the trim done and a bit of stuff on it.
Also, that brown wicker basket is full of leftover candy...
5. Blogging - of course. There's been lots of little things I could have posted about, which really I should save and post about separately every day this week to fill up days of blog posts. My view stats go up the day after a post, and of course steadily decline until the next post. Except lately...there has been a lot of random traffic. Some common search parameters to find me are usually the paint colours I use, "Pax Wardrobe" for our Ikea system, or something about shelving or renovations. BUT....about 20 times a month I get "science of married" as a search parameter, which can only mean someone has not saved my blog link and must search for it each time. I'm flattered, but seriously, save it to your favourites. Or even better - use Google Reader! It saves some much clicking of different blogs daily. I seriously have about 70 on my list, which works about to be about 100 posts a day to sift through (hey, Apartment Therapy usually does 40 per day of those), so Reader makes it a lot easier!
So here's the random stuff from the week. Sunday Matt and I made tapas - and I seriously helped! We made some goat cheese and red wine shiraz jelly (from President's Choice - great new line of around the world products to try) in puff pastry (more a dessert than anything), some sliced chorizo with roasted peppers, some garlicky shrimp, and "patatas bravas" which is pretty much potatoes, with a tomato-like sauce. Tapas also equals a lot of garlic, chilies, and paprika, plus olive oil, but it was all incredible!
I have been taking pictures of the pretty leaves, and made a friend in the process named George - he is grey and bushy and is always awaiting me when I step outside. He has been getting fat lately, and I commented to Matt that he has probably been finding Halloween candy and eating it. Matt scoffed at me and said he was simply fattening up for winter...well...
PS - I absolutely did NOT give him that Mars bar. Please know I do not encourage the wilderness that is my backyard. This week alone a cat tried numerous times to get into our house on Halloween!
By the way, I use Photoscape to edit my pictures - just learning how to use it!
Okay, that's it for today. Will post tomorrow on "Movember" and the weird hair that it once again growing above my husband's upper lip...only 24 days left in this month, thank goodness!


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64F by mid-morning with a steady breeze, rising to 74F by the afternoon with mostly clear skies.
Daily Archives: June 10, 2016
June Events in the Catskills
Today Friday 10th through Sunday June 12th, the Catskill Center is hosting Taking Flight: Birding in the Catskills.
Saturday June 11th, the Catskills own live radio event, Catskill Cabaradio will be hosted at the Pine Hill Center, in Pine Hill. Hosted by Elly Wininger, the event will be "an evening of music, drama, local lore, and laughs", exploring the theme of "Food in the Catskills" with some of the region's most celebrated and unique residents. In addition to growers, purveyors, chefs and food activists, there will be performances by a crop of regional talent including musician Chris Maxwell, poet and storyteller Margot Farrington, and young Maxwell Barnes, saxophonist. The potluck dishes are some of the best cooking in the Catskills.
Voices of Wisdom Gathering at the Blue Deer Center on June 11th and 12th. The gathering will start on Saturday at noon. People will sit by the fire and each of the two elders will speak in turn, offering the wisdom that they see is needed in that moment. The talks and conversations will be followed by a potluck dinner. The Blue Deer Center is
The 5th Annual Living History Cemetery Tour hosted by Middletown Historical Society will be held at Halcott Cemetery in Greene County near Fleischmanns on Saturday, June 18th. Tour goers will visit eight departed residents, portrayed by local actors, who will talk about their lives, loves and losses. Meet a fugitive "calico Indian;" a little girl remembering her Halcott childhood punctuated by tragedy; a farm couple whose long life together was ended by a charging bull; a young World War 1 soldier who fell to the Spanish flu. Tours begin every 20 minutes starting at 4pm. Reserve a tour time by calling 845-586-4736 by June 15th.
Straight Out Of The Ground Farm is hosting a farm dinner on Saturday June 25th for $55 a person. Make a reservation here.
Amy's Takeaway in Lanesville is open all weekend this weekend from Friday, June 10th through Sunday, June 12th, 2016, 11am to 7pm with a special menu.


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Comments on the Alpert-Blumenthal debate at the University of Hartford are now dribbling in.
One money quote used in most press reports concerned the role played by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal in generating business for Connecticut:
Kevin Rennie, a Hartford Courant commentator was unimpressed by Blumenthal's performance:
Christine Stewart of Connecticut News Junkie noted Blumenthal absence from the post-game round-up:
The Harford Courant noted Alpert's earnest aggressiveness in the debate:
The Day of New London remarked on Alpert's invitation to Blumenthal to remove his hobnailed boot from the throats of entrepreneurs:
And The CTMirror charged the attorney general with zestlessness:
One money quote used in most press reports concerned the role played by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal in generating business for Connecticut:
"Alpert: … we have less jobs since he's been in office. I would ask one question of the attorney general: How many jobs have your suits created?Lori Perez of Fox 61 Live noted that, following the debate, "Richard Blumenthal… could not stay to talk to the press." He was due at a money throwing gathering downstate.
"Blumenthal: … Our law suits, our legal actions, actually create jobs, because businesses actually welcome competition and a level playing field."
Kevin Rennie, a Hartford Courant commentator was unimpressed by Blumenthal's performance:
"Easy victories in 20 years of races for attorney general have taken a toll on Richard Blumenthal's debating skills. There were moments in tonight's Hartford Courant-Fox61 Democratic senate debate when the state's chief lawyer could hardly make a coherent thought out of his sentence fragments. Health policy is not his métier. And he's not a natural talking about jobs…Republican Party Chairman Chris Healy thought "Blumenthal's responses were pedestrian. His grasp of issues weak and some of his assertions simply wild exaggerations. He claimed (he) had 'law enforcement' duties when he doesn't; made an incoherent proposal on cutting payroll taxes without saying for how long or at what level of income, took credit for saving lives and said he had witnessed the direct effects of military action. On that last one, I would like to know what battlefield Blumenthal inspected."
"Blumenthal did provide some touching continuity in his closing biographical bit. He said his first job was shoveling manure for his grandfather and he showed the audience tonight how what he learned more than 50 years ago on a farm in Nebraska has stayed with him."
Christine Stewart of Connecticut News Junkie noted Blumenthal absence from the post-game round-up:
"Longshot U.S. Senate candidate Merrick Alpert came out swinging Monday and at least appeared to have had frontrunner Attorney General Richard Blumenthal on the ropes during their first televised debate.
"From healthcare to the war in Afghanistan, Alpert presented himself as a change agent and painted Blumenthal as an 'incrementalist' who has contributed the state's anti-business reputation with his lawsuits…
"After the debate there was an expectation that both Alpert and Blumenthal would be available for questions. With more than a dozen reporters present, however, Blumenthal bolted with his wife to a fundraiser at a private home in Fairfield County.
"State Comptroller Nancy Wyman offered to stand in for Blumenthal, who rarely turns down a chance to speak with members of the media."
The Harford Courant noted Alpert's earnest aggressiveness in the debate:
"Alpert came out swinging, repeatedly tagging Blumenthal, a 20-year incumbent, as a 'career politician' and accusing him of favoring 'incrementalism' instead of bold and decisive action."
The Day of New London remarked on Alpert's invitation to Blumenthal to remove his hobnailed boot from the throats of entrepreneurs:
"Merrick Alpert ripped into his rival for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, in the first debate of the primary campaign.
"In an hour-long forum, Alpert returned again and again to his central charge against Blumenthal, who has served as attorney general for nearly 20 years and remains one of the most popular politicians in the state.
"The attorney general, said Alpert, is prone to 'incrementalism,' litigious to a fault, and too much of a 'career politician' to deliver the massive reforms needed in Washington…
"'Lawsuits don't create jobs, entrepreneurs do,' the Mystic businessman said to Blumenthal, in arguing that a relaxation of regulation to 'get government off the back of business' in order to reverse job losses.
"That charge echoes longstanding Republican complaints that Blumenthal and his staff have been too aggressive in bringing legal actions against businesses in the state.
"Blumenthal retorted that his legal efforts have allowed for greater competition among businesses and also altered some of the factors that have damaged job growth in Connecticut, particularly his efforts to fight rising electricity costs.
"'We have helped, not hurt business in this state,' Blumenthal said.
"But the argument returned again and again to questions of boldness. Blumenthal's support for health care reform was insufficiently aggressive, charged Alpert, who said he favored opening the Medicare program to every citizen, a radical reshaping of the status quo. While Blumenthal said he would support efforts to reform financial practices, including dividing brokerage from consumer banking functions, Alpert said the Congress should reinstate in full the Glass-Steagall Act, which was repealed under heavy lobbying from banking interests in 1999 and enabled investment and consumer banks to merge."An Associated press report in The Hour also reported on Alpert's attack on Blumenthal's penchant for suits:
"In a televised debate at the University of Hartford, Alpert accused Blumenthal of contributing to the state's antibusiness reputation with a bevy of lawsuits during his two decades as attorney general.The Middletown Press reported that "Alpert came out aggressive, pointing out that health insurance has increased and jobs have been lost while Blumenthal has been attorney general."
"'How many jobs have your lawsuits created?' asked Alpert, a Mystic businessman and former Air Force officer who initially got into the race to challenge U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd before the state's senior senator announced his retirement Jan. 6.
"Blumenthal defended his activist role as attorney general, saying his legal actions create jobs by fighting corrupt business practices and making sure honest companies enjoy a level playing field.
"Blumenthal said he's also battled to lower electric rates in a state that ranks among the highest in utility costs and worked to lower health care costs.
"'We have helped, not hurt, business in this state,' said Blumenthal, who acknowledged his Republican rivals will likely make similar criticisms about his record of numerous lawsuits during the campaign.
And The CTMirror charged the attorney general with zestlessness:
"Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, already ordained by pollsters and party regulars as the Democratic candidate-in-waiting, responded with all the zest of man who had just been read his Miranda rights: He had a right to remain silent, and he knew that anything he said could and eventually would be used against him in the general election by the Republican nominee.
"Blumenthal stuck to well-trod ground. His only surprise came later on: He was a no-show at the post-debate press conference, a rarity for a man who does television interviews on vacation."


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go astray
go astray
1. To deviate from what is good or expected. It's not hard to get that professor to go astray and start ranting about current events.
2. To become lost. A: "It seems my coat has gone astray." B: "Hmm, maybe someone picked it up by mistake."
3. To become fraught with error or proceed in a way that will not lead to success or a positive outcome. We finally had to call in a professional after my efforts to fix the boiler went astray. My life goals just kind of went astray for a time in my twenties, but I've gotten back on track.
go astray
1. Lit. to wander off the road or path. Stick to the path and try not to go astray. I couldn't see the trail and I almost went astray.
2. Fig. [for something] to get lost or misplaced. My glasses have gone astray again. Mary's book went astray or maybe it was stolen.
3. Fig. to turn bad or wander from the way of goodness; to make an error. I'm afraid your son has gone astray and gotten into a bit of trouble. Iwent astray with the computer program at this point.
go astray
Wander off the right path or subject; also, wander into evil or error. For example, It was hard to follow the lecturer's gist, since he kept going astray, or The gang members led him astray, and he ended up in court. This expression alludes to sheep or other animals that stray from the rest of the flock. Indeed, Handel's oratorio Messiah (1741) has this chorus: "All we like sheep have gone astray, Every one to his own way." [c. 1300]
go aˈstray
1 become lost; be stolen: Several letters went astray or were not delivered. ♢ We locked up our valuables so they wouldn't go astray.
2 go in the wrong direction or have the wrong result: Fortunately the gunman's shots went astray.


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World of Concrete 2017
World of Concrete
January 17-20, 2017
Las Vegas Convention Center
World of Concrete is considered to be the top shows for the concrete and construction industry. This trade show represents the latest in new technology, equipment and product innovations from thousands of companies. With its No. 1 status in the concrete mixer market, McNeilus has been a popular exhibitor at World of Concrete.
McNeilus, along with sister company London Machinery, will again highlight their top-of-the-line mixers, as well as CNG innovations and superior parts and service offerings. Under the Oshkosh Corporation umbrella, McNeilus and its sister companies London, CON-E-CO and IMT represent the finest concrete mixers, batch plants, service vehicles, and replacement parts and service the industry has to offer.
McNeilus is displaying six ready-mix vehicles in its World of Concrete booth in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. Show trucks include three McNeilus Standard mixers and a McNeilus Bridgemaster® mixer, alongside a London Standard mixer and a McNeilus Oshkosh® S-Series® front discharge mixer. Highlights of this year's display include the McNeilus M80 Series mixer drum with a larger 84-inch drumhead and innovative drumhead impeller, as well as our exclusive Command Center touchscreen electronic controls and our NGEN CNG systems — installed, tested and inspected by McNeilus.


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An Artful Installation
NOTHING ORDINARY about Breta Malcolm. She's wearing a long apron smeared with blues, whites, greens and oranges when she ratchets open the door to her weather-stained La Conner home. And there it is behind her — the extraordinary: a magnificent 9-foot-tall Guy Anderson painting of Icarus tumbling.
The piece fills the wall, looking like it was created just for that spot.
It very well may have been.
This tiny house with the big art originally belonged to the painter who has been called "the Picasso of the Northwest." He built the house and created in it. Malcolm bought it from his estate in 2000, and in 2004 added a master suite and garage. She calls it "that big piece of sculpture that I'm living in." His paint still pocks the studio floor upstairs. She felt destined to live here.
"The place just had a feeling about it, a magical, wonderful feeling, and I've felt like that ever since I've lived here," she says, sighing.
"Guy Anderson had been friends with (noted Seattle architect) Roland Terry for years, and he drew it up on a bar nap. The place just screams Roland Terry."
Anderson didn't need much, and he didn't have it in the tiny studio/home with only exterior stairs to the second floor. "I'm told he used a plunger and bucket to wash his three shirts," Malcolm says.
She lived near Volunteer Park in Seattle for 30 years, raising her two daughters. Now this house is for her. Malcolm previously worked for glass artist Dale Chihuly at his publishing company, Portland Press. In her new life, she sells real estate out of Anacortes and serves as a docent at the Pilchuck Glass School and the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner.
She is a painter also, but finds "I'm much better off doing art as an avocation." When she moved to Anderson's place she thought she would paint more, but succumbed to the laissez fair La Conner life: "I spent all my time clipping back blackberries and fooling around."
A collector of art and whatever else strikes her fancy, Malcolm has made her surroundings a feast of form and fun from the floor up, like a rummage through the attic of an art museum. The original artist's quarters — 500 square feet on each of the two floors — are crammed with paintings, sculptures, shells from the beach, stones, stuffed animals, dried flowers and various other whatnots. Upside-down planters pose as table ends; suitcases are jam-packed with Chihuly glass.
Malcolm had her eye on the old Anderson place and bought it when it was "marked down, marked down, marked down. I got it for $160,000." The house was sinking and listing. Pilings pounded into rock set it right.
The addition gives her 540 square feet more living space. It also gives her a bright, airy master suite with birch ply walls, a deck and garage.
"Wherever there was a choice, Breta opted for the beautiful choice," Anacortes architect Brooks Middleton says. His biggest challenge was working around a commanding outcropping of bedrock. The thing just could not be ignored. So the upstairs deck wraps around the rock, and it serves as the imposing back wall of the garage.
Middleton makes it clear that this was no remodel. Anderson's place stands the way Malcolm found it. The addition is her legacy. In the end, Malcolm suffered from what she calls "architectural intimidation."
"I couldn't move anything in here because I thought, 'My stuff isn't good enough.' Then I thought, 'This is my stuff; get over it.'"
She did, and bought herself a serigraph to celebrate — Morris Graves' "Time of Change."
"I feel way lucky," she says, taking in the old and new, funky and functional. "I raised my daughters telling them, 'The only thing is, don't be ordinary. Ordinary is the worst thing.' "
Rebecca Teagarden is assistant editor of Pacific Northwest magazine. Benjamin Benschneider is a magazine staff photographer.
La Conner is a natural place for a museum devoted to Northwest artists. Four of the region's most influential artists, Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves and Mark Tobey, lived in or spent time in the Skagit Valley.
On exhibit now through Jan. 8 is a retrospective of the work of abstract painter Frank Okada and glass-and-steel sculpture by Lisa Zerkowitz.
The museum, at 121 S. First St., La Conner, is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Admission is $5, $4 for seniors, $2 for students and free for children under 12. The store features one-of-a-kind items from Northwest artists. Check it out at www.museumofnwart.org.


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To Be Nobody But Yourself by E.E. Cummings
American poet e. e. cummings reminds us that being true to ourselves is the hardest but most essential work we ever undertake. He wrote these wise words in a letter of advice to high school poetry students.
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The Equifax Breach
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In the wake of a highly questionable conservative Appeals Court ruling that claims to invalidate Obama recess appointments to the NLRB - and thus a host of rulings protecting workers and possibly consumers - the Chamber of Commerce and other corporate lobbying groups have issued an Action Memo gleefully advising businesses to "act fast" and challenge NLRB rulings against them by filing appeals in the same wacky court "because other circuits may not reach an equally favorable conclusion." Just to make sure, the Chamber is also seeking to invalidate 2011 union rules issued by the NLRB. Others are taking a more direct route: A massive California-based hospital company has told its unions it will not comply with at least two NLRB rulings from the past year that protect workers. Many observers expect last week's ruling "giving the finger to the NLRB" - which if upheld would invalidate an outrageous 600 appointments dating back to Reagan - will go to the Supreme Court; it remains to be seen how much ground workers will lose in the meantime.
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I don't know a lot about this band, but from what I can tell, they definitely have earned their place in the Austin music scene. The Texas Instruments (namesake of the Texas-born titan of circuits, calculators and embedded processing) are frequently named as examples of Austin's "New Sincerity" music style alongside other Austin groups such as the Wild Seeds, the Reivers and the True Believers. Recording with Daniel Johnston (Continued Story cassette, 1985) and appearing in the 1991 movie Slacker are certainly two large feathers in their "indie-cred" cap.
More than anything this record reminds me of the Screaming Trees, especially their 1987 release Even If and Especially When, a record I really, really like. Its a real bummer that this group seems to have fallen through the cracks (especially in the "Live Music Capital of the World" … *roll eyes*) Compare this track with Life's Rich Pagaent-era R.E.M. and the comparisons the Athens' scene are obvious. (Or compare to Athen's heros Pylon for that matter.) This is one of those "missing link" type bands that, in this case, didn't ride the wave of punk that came before them or full-fledged grunge that rose to popularity several years later. RIYL Meat Puppets, R.E.M., Minute Men


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