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"Our pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical partners require expertise in specialized testing, analysis, and regulatory support to ensure their therapies are brought to market safely and efficiently," said
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Preconference Workshopon Challenges and Patient Impact of Particles in Biologics April 30, 8:00 a.m.– 6:00 p.m., San Diego, Calif.
Particles in parenteral products, especially in protein containment, remains a hot topic, even though it has been discussed for many years. This workshop provided a lively discussion addressing questions related to particle formation, characterization tools and standards, to name a few.
During the workshop,
Fran DeGraziopresented a sub-session titled, Unique Considerations for Testing and Understanding Particle Loads from Primary Packaging Components.
DeGrazio and Paskiet will also participate in two important, upcoming
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June 19-20, Rockville, Md. June 20, 9:00 – 9:30 a.m.– <381> Elastomeric Components Used For Injectable Drug Products
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Glass and elastomeric materials used in packaging systems must be shown to be suitable for their intended applications. To address these issues, USP is revising two existing USP-NF chapters <381> Elastomeric Closure for Injections and <660> Containers−Glass.
Diane Paskietwill present on the proposed revisions to <381> Elastomeric Components Used for Injectable Drug Products Packaging/Delivery Systems and provide background for developing additional chapters: <1381> Evaluation of Elastomeric Components Used in Pharmaceutical Packaging/Delivery Systems, <382> Elastomeric Closure Functionality in Injectable Pharmaceutical Packaging/Delivery Systems and <1382> Assessment of Elastomeric Closure Functionality in Injectable Pharmaceutical Packaging/Delivery Systems.
- Control and Determination of Visible and Sub-Visible Particulate Matter in Biologics
June 26-27, Rockville, Md. June 27, 8:30 a.m.– Particulate Matter in Biologics Originating from Packaging Components: Occurrence and Control Measures
Part of a session on "Manufacturing Control of Particulate Matter," this presentation will describe current particle measurement technologies and sample preparation techniques applicable to packaging components. Visible and sub-visible particles from primary and secondary packaging components will be discussed and case studies will illustrate outcomes of particle investigations and examples of quality control data.
Additionally, Paskiet will co-chair and DeGrazio will present this fall at a
- 2017 PDA Container Closure, Devices and Delivery Systems:
Compatibility and Material Safety Workshop October 2-3, Washington, D.C. October 3, 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.– Impact and Consideration of Pharmaceutical Packaging on Particulates
With the patient in mind, this workshop will focus on the most current and relevant topics in the world of container closures for device and delivery systems as it relates to material compatibility and safety.
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Delivering cakes can be stressful. You have worked for days designing, planning baking, crumb coating and decorating — whew. All this hard work now comes down to the final delivery, which can make or break your cake.
Ease your delivery concerns with these 12 tips for successful cake deliveries:
1. Charge for delivery
If you're anything like me, you hate asking people for money. You might also offer to deliver cakes for free. To build a business, you need to stop doing these things!
Make sure you always charge for delivery. Deliveries cost you money: They cost in gas, time and wear and tear on your car. It also takes time to plan, prepare, pack, organize what you need to take, drive the cake to its destination, set up the cake and take pictures . Your time is worth money. Charge for delivery!
A good starting rate is $0.55 per mile, with a minimum price around $30.
2. Structure your cake correctly
Most delivery concerns can be diminished if you know your cake is securely structured. To learn more about how to structure your cakes, I recommend checking out Richard Ruskell's Bluprint class Topsy-Turvy Cake Construction . His class helped me understand a better way to construct all of my cakes, not just my topsy-turvy ones.
3. Plan ahead
Deliveries take time and planning. As you can see here , take the time to plan for the delivery while planning and sketching the cake, long before baking it.
Here are a few questions to ask yourself while planning the delivery:
- Have I been to this location before?
- How long will it take me to get there?
- Will I be delivering during rush hour?
- Are there alternate routes to take in case of an accident or delay?
- Do I have other deliveries that day? Do they coordinate?
4. Contact key vendors early
You can impress other vendors by being organized and ahead of the game. No matter how much you network, you have to show other vendors how you run your business and how reliable and organized you are. It's only then that they'll recommend you to their clients.
Call the event coordinator a few weeks before the event to schedule the delivery and ask questions. If you need to coordinate with the florist, call early to arrange the details. Don't be afraid to ask questions. The wedding industry is a small world, and impressing vendors that will refer clients to you can drive big business.
5. Set up an emergency contact person
During the consultation and on your contract, ask for an emergency contact person for the day of the event.
If your customer has a party organizer or wedding planner, they're the best contact person. For more DIY events, ask for a name and phone number for someone that's helping with the event — but not the guest of honor, their parents or close friends. You want to have someone who can deal with the situation without stressing out the bride, groom or their close family.
Call your emergency contact person at the same time you call the other vendors, introduce yourself and give them the details about your delivery. Then you'll be ready if any problem arises.
6. Deliver early
Plan to deliver the cake 2-3 hours before the event. With all of the problems that could arise while delivering the cake, it's best to be on the safe side. You want to give yourself plenty of time to deliver and set up the cake.
You also want to make sure you are finished long before guests arrive. If you're setting up the cake outside, make sure your cake will last for this amount of time. Discuss these issues at the consultation, not while setting up the cake the day of the event.
7. Bring an emergency cake supply kit
Bring everything you could need to repair your cake. If you're not sure what to bring, start with this essential cake delivery kit to learn what bring with you on a delivery. Most cake decorators will tell you that if you bring it, you won't need it, but if you forget it, you'll be sorry.
8. Bring business cards
Just a few. Bring business cards to introduce yourself to other vendors or to present to the front desk when you arrive so they know you're with a business.
Do not leave business cards on the table by the cake unless your customer requested them. However, you can ask the party planner or coordinator to hold onto a few to hand out to guests who ask for them. You want to have them available, but your customer's event is not the place to advertise. Be courteous and professional and let your cake speak for itself.
9. Get insurance
Depending on where you'll be delivering, business insurance could be necessary. Some venues and companies require proof of insurance in order to deliver to their business.
Insurance is also a protection for you, for your business, equipment, materials and in case of law suits due to contaminated food or other health issues.
10. Maintain your car
A clean, well-maintained car is a necessity. You don't want to be stuck on the side of the road with an overheated car and a wedding cake in the back.
Some states require your car to be inspected by a food inspector in order to transport cakes. Check your local food laws to make sure you are compliant.
11. Be careful with customer pick-ups
Some customers may want to pick up their cakes at your bakery. If you're OK with this, teach your customers how to transport their cake, how to prepare their car and the importance of being cautious while driving.
Cover your bases by having them sign a Customer Pick Up Form that states that you are not liable for the cake once it has left the bakery and that you will not come to fix the cake if it's damaged in transit. These options should be discussed during the consultation or before the contract is signed.
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DA Sundays River councillors Karen Smith and Isabella Wagenaar and activists will be marching from Bergsig to the Kirkwood Town Hall today at 09:30 (subs: 30 April) to highlight the continued lack of sustained water delivery and shocking service delivery in the area which impacts on jobs.
The mayor of Sundays River Valley, cllr Mbulelo Kebe, has been alerted about the march and is expected to receive a grievance petition from the DA.
As the Sunday's River Valley Municipality is the second largest foreign exchange earner after the motor industry in the province, urgent action is needed to ensure the right environment is set up to improve employment prospects for the community and ensure it is a competitive place to invest in.
The lack of sustained water provision in several areas of the valley over the last years is having a devastating effect on the production of quality citrus in the area.
This has resulted in ongoing permanent and seasonal jobs being lost at an alarming rate in the valley.
Having regularly visited all the areas of the Sundays River Valley, the lack of water supply, the squalor and the appalling condition of roads infrastructure in the area is one factor that will continue to rob this municipality of economic freedom.
On behalf of the Democratic Alliance I will with my colleagues in the Sundays River Council, Provincial Legislature and Parliament lobby for urgent dedicated funding to specifically fund maintenance of water. We will ensure that the proposed road infrastructure upgrade of the R335 which was announced by Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti last week, comes to fruition.
Furthermore, I will be asking the MEC for Local Government, Mlibo Qoboshiyane, to launch an investigation into the alleged mismanagement of MIG funding assigned to this municipality and misspent.
In addition, I will be engaging with the MECs for Local Government and Agriculture that province set up a dedicated task team to visit the area so they can see how desperately serious this issue has become.
In the Western Cape where the DA governs, we are prioritising basic services to the poor, improving education for all and creating jobs.
This has been achieved by sustained focus on infrastructure maintenance and development which are key drivers of economic advancement and job creation opportunities for all.
The Sundays River Valley municipality will become the compelling place to live and work in when the same recipe for increased job creation in the Western Cape is implemented here.


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Here is a chapter (33) from my upcoming book (working title) A Month of Italy: Rediscovering the Art of Vacation. I hope you like it.
"Preach Christ with all your might, and if you must, use words." That little quote, often attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, was the only thing I really knew about the man before this vacation.
Other interesting things are also attributed to this rascal believer, including legends that he conversed with the birds and talked a wild wolf out of terrorizing a little mountain town. The more believable aspects of his life are fascinating enough, however, and the deeper I researched into the life of this little man, the more respect I gained for what he accomplished.
Born a rich kid whose father was a textile merchant and mother was French, his "normal guy" name was Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone. Growing up today we might call him Johnny Fran, or something catchy like that. One can only imagine a life with such a moniker, so Francis did what all rich kids with funny names do; he lived it up. He went in for all kinds of exciting things, such as fighting in a battle to defend Assisi, getting captured and spending a year in prison, getting seriously ill, recovering, and then taking a trip to Rome to tour St. Peter's, much as we just did (except he got to see the original basilica, not the "new" one, of course, it being the thirteenth century and all). Only instead of strolling around admiring architecture and the like, Francis decided to join in with the beggars he saw everywhere. Apparently this life either appealed to him or appalled him so much he was never the same again.
When Francis returned home after his pilgrimage to Rome, he refused to go back to his profligate way of life. As a result, his former friends teased him. It seems Francis wasn't interested in playing sports anymore. When asked if he was planning to settle down and marry, Francis supposedly answered, "Yes. To the most beautiful bride." What he meant by this was the bride of poverty. "Oh, that Johnny Fran is such a jokester," his former friends no doubt thought. But they were wrong. Francis's vow of poverty was sincere, and his way of life consistent with his new views.
He began tending to the needs of the local lepers: the lowliest and most avoided people of his day. In the church of San Diamano near Assisi he had a vision in which he claims he was told, "Francis, Francis, go and repair my house, which, you can see, is falling into ruins." Francis took this vision literally, and launched himself into one of the original fixer-upper projects – the church in which he'd been praying. Surely pleasing the local priest, Francis began helping with restorations. He made a little miscalculation, however, when he sold some goods out of his father's store to pay the construction costs, always exorbitant in Italy, I guess even in his day. His father didn't take too kindly to this appropriation, however, and attempted several popular tactics to get restitution, such as assault, battery, and lawsuits.
In a hearing before the local bishop, Francis renounced his father and his inheritance, in the process even removing every stitch of clothing from his person. Departing the scene entirely naked, Francis went to live among the beggars once again, this time with a more authentic material situation.
Slowly he was able to expand his fixer-upper activities, restoring several more local churches. Then he heard a sermon that changed his life even further, compelling him to officially renounce a material life and to spread the word that the kingdom of Heaven was at hand. He dressed in a simple rough garment, which lots of painters have since reproduced, and went around to all the towns in the area preaching repentance and faith in Christ. Francis was sincere, and by the end of one year had gained eleven followers. He refused any official ordination as a priest, and he and his followers began to be known as the "lesser brothers," because they refused to act with pride or take their place above anyone else.
Of course, such offensive behavior got them in trouble with the powers-that-be – The Church in Rome. It seems that preaching at the time was illegal unless one had obtained official sanction. So back Francis and his eleven went to the city that had started it all for him. Incredibly, and thanks to a dream he'd had, Pope Innocent III gave them an audience and an approval of sorts. Francis was instructed that as his group grew, they could come back and gain official acceptance from the church. In other words, "If you can convince more people of your ideas then maybe we'll be convinced, too," or something like that. This quasi-approval from The Church was pretty important because it allowed Francis and his eleven to avoid the complications of being declared heretics. This was nice, because it allowed them to live, which was very helpful in gaining new followers.
Francis continued to demonstrate his life of poverty and preach his gospel everywhere he went, many times attempting to spread the message outside of Italy, and even purportedly preaching to the Sultan of Egypt. His order of followers, ultimately called the Franciscans, spread around the globe, and the order he co-founded for women, called the Poor Claires, was also successful. Francis was involved in many pioneering movements of the faith, both big and small, including the interesting Trivial Pursuit-type fact that he was the first to set up a three-dimensional nativity scene, complete with live animals. It was two years after he died that he was officially pronounced a Saint, and therefore got the name he is best known by today: St. Francis of Assisi. He lived a life consistent with his doctrine and has been a hero of the faith down through the ages.
As soon as I realized how close we were staying to Assisi, the town made famous by this fascinating man nearly eight hundred years ago, I knew we had to go check it out. Only a short drive into Umbria past Lake Trasimeno, we began to notice the change in stone color as indicated in all the guidebooks. Where Tuscany is typically the orange of terracotta tiles and the brown of the stones found throughout the region, stones of pinker and whiter hues characterize Umbria.
We spotted the gorgeous little town from the expressway, off to our left a few miles away, cozily nestled into the side of a large ridge. The sun was already running out of steam for the day, and the dimming colors reflecting off the Umbrian stone made a pleasing contrast to the dark green all around the town. It was beautiful.
In keeping with form we managed to park in the wrong place, as some polite residents in lawn chairs informed us. So in standard fashion I unloaded the family and drove down yet another hill in search of a berth for the mini-bus.
The first thing that struck us as we shopped our way into the city was just how marvelously clean it was. This was true of most places we'd been, but for some reason Assisi was so prim we felt as if we were walking around in a dollhouse. There were also plentiful photo opportunities and I was kept busy at the shutter throughout the evening. One in particular featured three large, identical trees on a ledge behind a fountain on which two young men wearing fedoras, facing the opposite direction, were posing side-by-side for a photo of their own. From my angle exiting a small tunnel, it looked like a Beetle's album cover. It is still one of my favorite shots I've ever taken.
It took a searching eye to see the reconstructions and repairs from the devastation an earthquake caused here over a decade ago. One or two buildings were undergoing massive restorations, but I wasn't sure if this was the last of the repairs or just more of the type of ongoing construction one sees throughout these towns of old in Italy.
Terri really got into the shopping in Assisi, finding a monogramming store to customize some aprons for friends and relatives. We picked up a few more gifts and found a little out of the way place for dinner, taking our seats at long picnic tables in the front by the bar area. This was also where one had to pay at the end of a meal, and a funny photo opportunity presented itself. I looked up between my first and second plates to see a nun standing at the cash register waiting to pay her bill. From my vantage point the cash register was not visible, and it looked like she had sidled up to the bar for a drink. I decided not to take the picture, she not having actually incriminated herself, and instead enjoyed a private giggle at the arrangement of some of these restaurants.
After dinner we strolled the main streets, and I especially liked the Tempio di Minerva, the remains of a Roman temple dating back to the time of Caesar Augustus. It has been incorporated as the front of a more "modern" building, an amalgamation done hundreds of years ago. This made me think of a similar arrangement in Castiglione del Lago, and served as a constant reminder of the many layers of history enveloping us throughout our travels.
Unfortunately, the hour being late, we ran out of time and light. I would have loved to have seen the twenty-eight panels of frescoes depicting the Life of St. Francis by Giotto, some of his most renowned work, in their original position in the lower part of the Basilica di San Francesco. Also in this church rich in art treasures are frescoes by Martini, Lorenzetti, and even Cimabue. Knowing that we were only scratching the surface with our abbreviated evening visit, I made a mental note to return some day and "do" Assisi correctly. Besides, with the kids in tow we had bypassed many a museum and church interior during this trip, missing out on huge amounts of painted masterpieces. Perhaps a future visit, Lord willing, could revolve around an itinerary of Italy's best frescoes. Wouldn't that be a chance at sensory overload.
I made due with what we had to work with, however, and leaned against a ledge and watched the sunset. The reflected light from the changing sky almost made the buildings of Assisi glow. As I snapped a few last photos, trying desperately to capture with the lenses what the senses themselves could barely take in, I thought about the ground upon which I stood. How many pilgrims had migrated to this city throughout the centuries, searching for inspiration from a man who actually practiced what he preached? I found it interesting that in a world with no shortage of self-promoting, selfish, greedy, murderous, power hungry, materialistic, and glory hungry people, that a humble, dedicated little man from a tiny hill town could have gained so much acclaim, much less have had such an impact. About him author Robert Clark wrote, "He'd given Christ a face people hadn't seen before, the peasant's face. Until then Christ had been the Redeemer as the judge and king of the universe: he was painted enthroned, stern and impassive. Now he was the Redeemer as the man of sorrows, the god who became human to the quick and the marrow in order to lay claim to human wretchedness." In fact, in my reading I discovered that many historians believe the "Franciscan revolution" begun by this humble man, which brought people back to a basic, humble faith, served to delay the Reformation by nearly three hundred years.
Is it that rare for someone to preach Christ with all his might, and if he must, use words?
Or perhaps it's not rare, but obscure "lesser brother" types away from the camera lens of Hollywood or the national news are the ones who do it.
Or, maybe it's supremely difficult, requiring the kind of meekness described in the Bible: enormous strength held under control, the animal appetites tamed and subdued.
The more I thought about it the more I realized what a tough, heroic figure St. Francis really was. The thousands of pilgrims throughout the centuries had chosen a worthy figure to emulate on their own journeys homeward, and I was glad to be numbered among them.


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Morris, MN – Superior Industries, Inc., the only North American based manufacturer of conveyor systems and their related components, recently named Terin Louis and Matt Wulf as new conveyor components territory managers in the Northeast and Midwest United States respectively.
Louis joins outside sales after serving five years in the company's engineering department. While in that role, he spent time designing new and existing products for both conveying equipment and conveyor components customers.
"His technical education combined with a background in conveyor components engineering means Terin is armed with a unique set of skills for field sales," said components sales manager, Mike McFerren. "All his technical experience will allow him to really dig into customer applications and present them with sets of custom, problem solving solutions."
Louis received a degree in manufacturing engineering from St. Cloud State University. He and his wife will make their home in New Jersey.
Matt Wulf succeeds Ryan Loge as Superior's new conveyor components territory manager in the Midwest. Loge was recently promoted to conveyor components sales operations manager.
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Well it's been a while.
I've been doing a lot of questioning of myself as of late. Being on an MA is pretty useful for that of course, but also the prospect of it ending and me then going out into the wide world has also prodded me into thinking what kind of photography do I want to be doing to help me onwards in my career. The possibilities are pretty wide. I need to narrow things down and focus.
Historically for me photography has always been a way of engaging with the moment. I've always tended to shoot first and to think second. My first ever project on cage-fighters and boxers didn't have much planning or conceptualisation, it was born from raw curiosity and energy. Nothing was intellectualised. It was created from instincts, reflexes, and a lot of lucky moments. It was good training for a wide eyed enthusiast in love with Magnum era black and white reportage. However whilst it was successful, particularly as a homage to a genre, it is not the only way that I want to shoot.
Napoleon Dynamite was the first piece of work I handed in on my MA and had ambitions to be more conceptual than it was, yet it didn't have enough of a visual idea to hold it together as a full photo essay. There were some nice images in there which were successful in their portrayal of the theatricality of the re-enactors history making, but there weren't enough. And there weren't enough because I hadn't focused on that as the point of the essay. I was trying to shoot that as well as everything else. I needed more of a vision.
The re-think project that I just handed in marked a step in a new direction for me. Rather than focusing on a specific community / hobby / overly theatrical event it was born out of a process of walking. I walked through rural areas in England (Epping Forest and I walked a lot through Claverham near Bristol). I was interested in the goings on in these areas as well as their usefulness as places in which man and nature live side by side. Eventually I produced a dummy for a photobook out of this work. It marked a new step in my progress mainly because of the process in which it was made, as well as the fact that I shot most of it on medium format film. Where it needed more work was on the clarity of the idea and the relationship between that and the final images (that old problem again). There are some good frames in there but overall I think it needs streamlining. In my next project the research process will be more thought thorough and structured, and will need to start from a strong idea that I can explore and develop through photographing in the real world. I'll also need to stick with to death this time. Oh focus, focus, focus!
Historical re-enactment at home
One of the main bits of feedback about my last photo essay (on Napoleonic historical re-enactment) was that although there were some nice single images they didn't come together as a story that well. They didn't really have a point besides showing that a particular hobby takes place. If you want to see what this piece of work looked like you when I submitted it you can see the website here.
My strategy with the first iteration of my re-enactment project was slightly misguided. After going through all of the images I had shot I saw that I had three categories of images (portraits, action shots, and anachronistic scenes) and so I decided to make sense of them by presenting them in their 3 simple categories. Obviously this was slightly silly; in effect my submitted piece of work was less an exercise in telling a story and more one in which I simply categorised some images of historical re-enactment. Nice if you want to look at a catalogue of images, not so nice if you want an actual story about the hobby.
I guess what I'm interested in is giving the viewer a sense of the background on which re-enactment takes place, which is on the lives of women and men with historical interests in the UK. I will be doing this not only through some multimedia videos that I am currently producing but also through a series of portraits that I am doing in and around where re-enactors live. I will be using all of this to add another dimension to the images of the re-enactments taking place. Here are a few that I shot recently with the great Keri Tolhurst.


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Princess Tårta is probably one of the most unique desserts to Sweden. However, it's also one of those things that's well-known to anyone who's been here, but completely foreign to anyone outside of Sweden. Which is why I was really excited when I watched an episode of The Great British Bake-Off and the challenge was to re-create a Swedish Princess Tårta (If you haven't seen it yet, it's a great show for anyone who loves baking!).
Typically this is a large, round cake that layers cake, jam, custard, and cream, and is topped with green marzipan and and a pink rose. The first time my husband came to Sweden with me (about 10 years ago) he fell in love with this delicious dessert. In fact, most people who have visited us in Sweden have been head-over-heels for this cake.
Now I must confess, I have never made a full Princess Tårta before, and truthfully it sounds a bit daunting (just watch The Great British Bake-Off episode and you'll see what I mean). So I wanted to create a version of the cake that is easier to make, easier to transport, and easier to eat… hence, the Princess Tårta Cupcake!
Making these Princess Tårta cupcakes reminded me so much of our wedding cake, which we ordered from Nielsen's Scandinavian Bakery in Seattle. This was a special cake to have at our wedding, not just because it resembled our favorite Swedish dessert, Princess Tårta, but also because it has special significance to both of our families. My family ALWAYS ordered a Nielsen's cake for any special occasion… birthdays, graduations, you name it! At one of these gatherings we found out that Chris's parents actually had this same cake for their wedding many years ago. So, it only seemed perfect that we should have a Nielsen's wedding cake topped with two adorable dalahäst for our own special day… (photo credit: our awesome wedding photographers, Stefan and Audrey):
Making these cupcakes not only reminded me of our wedding, but also of a special memory of another wedding… the wedding of the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria and her husband, Daniel.
I wish I could say I was important enough to be at the wedding, but alas, I must confess that I watched the ceremony on tv along with millions of other Swedes around the world. I remember there was so much hype around Stockholm leading up to the wedding… big hearts all over the city, large photos of the happy couple hanging from the NK department store, a historical wedding dress exhibit at the palace, and Princess Tårtas with white marzipan in every bakery window.
My favorite part of the day was when the ceremony was finished and my whole family grabbed our walking shoes and headed into the city center. My mom had been going through chemo at this point, and my grandma had recently broke her hip, so this was especially a big deal for all of us to go out together. We patiently waited in a crowd of thousands to watch the happy couple ride around in a horse-drawn carriage. As the Crown Princess and her new husband came close, you could hear the crowd's voice rise up loud and see Swedish flags waving high in the sky, and it was such a surreal moment of unity. Their carriage passed by quickly, but the crowd energy lasted much longer as we all shuffled to get to the subway station for our free rides that day.
Sounds like a modern-day fairytale, right ? Well it sort of was a Cinderella story in a way, but with a feminist twist… the one where the Princess falls in love with a "commoner" and transforms HIS life forever. Daniel was from the countryside and actually was the Crown-Princess's gym-trainer, which made people skeptical of the relationship at first… but as fairytales go, love knows no status….and they definitely are living happily-ever-after with their two beautiful children, in their gorgeous palace.
The memory of the royal wedding holds an extra special place in my heart, as the following year both my mom and mormor passed away, making this was the last summer we were all in Sweden together. Sharing in the excitement of the wedding day with my family and the rest of the country is something I will always cherish.
So with that, I give you the recipe for Swedish Princess Tårta Cupcakes! They are a white cupcake filled with vanilla custard…
topped with raspberry whipped cream frosting…
and covered in green marzipan, a pink rose, and a sprinkle of powdered sugar.
I am very proud of these cupcakes (I even had a Swede tell me it was the best Princess Tårta he'd ever had!)… so I really hope you get to enjoy these delicious bites of Sweden with your loved ones. Whether you eat them on a special day or any old Tuesday, I promise you will fall in love with the flavors of Princess Tårta.
Princess Tårta Cupcakes
- Cupcake:
- 1 ⅓ cup flour / vetemjöl
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda / Natriumbikarbonat
- 1 teaspoon baking powder / bakpulver
- ⅛ teaspoon salt / salt
- 4 tablespoons butter / 55g smör
- ¾ cup sugar / socker
- 2 eggs / ägg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla / vanilj
- 1 cup milk / 2.4dl mjölk Vanilla Custard:
- ⅔ cup milk / 1.6dl mjölk
- 3 tablespoons whipping cream / vispgrädde
- 2 tablespoons sugar / socker
- 1 egg yolk / äggula
- 1 teaspoon vanilla / vanilj
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch / majsstärkelse Frosting:
- 1 cup whipping cream / 2.4 dl vispgrädde
- 1 tablespoon raspberry jam / hallonsylt
- ½ cup powdered sugar / florsocker
- ½ teaspoon vanilla sugar / vaniljsocker Decoration:
- approximately 12 inch diameter rolled pink marzipan / 32cm rosa marsipan
- approximately 24 inch diameter rolled green marzipan / 62cm grön marsipan
- powdered sugar / florsocker
- Cupcakes:
- Pre-heat oven to 350° F / 175° C.
- Mix dry ingredients together in a bowl.
- In a separate bowl, cream together softened butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then add egg and vanilla.
- Slowly alternate adding in dry ingredients and milk to the butter mixture.
- Line a cupcake pan and fill each cup using a ¼ measuring spoon, so that each one is about ¾ full.
- Place cupcakes in pre-heated oven for 14-16 minutes. Vanilla Custard:
- While cupcakes are baking, begin vanilla custard by heating the milk and cream in a pot on medium heat.
- In a separate bowl, cream together egg yolk, sugar, vanilla, and cornstarch until creamy and doubled in size.
- When little bubbles start to form in the heating milk mixture (but not boiling), remove the pot from the heat and slowly pour into the cornstarch mixture, about 1 tablespoon at a time, while whisking vigorously.
- Once about half the liquid is mixed into the cornstarch mixture, pour everything back into the pot.
- Place the pot back on the element at medium heat, and stir constantly for about 5 minutes.
- Pour mixture into a bowl and tightly cover with plastic-wrap, then set in the fridge to settle for at least 30 minutes. Frosting:
- While cupcakes and custard are cooling, set a bowl in the fridge to chill for at least 10 minutes.
- In the chilled bowl, mix together the cream and raspberry jam until fully dissolved.
- Add the powder sugar and vanilla sugar and whip the mixture at a high speed until stiff peaks form.
- Store frosting in the fridge if it is not going to be used right away. Decoration:
- Cut out five, little circles of the pink marzipan and place them in a line where the circles are partially overlapping.
- Roll the overlapping circles into a tight roll, then cut the roll in half – each side should resemble a rose.
- Repeat process until you have enough roses for each cupcake.
- Using a biscuit cutter or glass, cut-out larger circles from the green marzipan, enough for one on each cupcake. Assembly:
- Cut out a small circular piece of the top of each cupcake, making sure you don't reach all the way to the bottom liner.
- Fill each circular hole with the vanilla custard.
- Using a piping bag, cover each cupcake with frosting.
- Cover the frosting with the green marzipan circle, then top with a rose and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
- Store cupcakes in an airtight container in the fridge until ready to eat!


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Beyond the Castle: An Analysis of the Strategic Implications of Disney+, Jordan Sturgill
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Do Emotionally Intelligent People Express Their Faith at Work? An Empirical Investigation, Catherine G. Shearer
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College level mentoring for underrepresented populations: Enhancing the transition into the corporate world, Titilayo O. Abiwon
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Coffee and liqueurs were then served in a salon adjoining the large dining-room, which gave the effect of a private club-room to this part of the restaurant.
Cigars were lighted, and conversation soon turned on feminine charms and the performances of various horses, particularly those of Franc-Comtois, the winner of the military steeplechase. This animal was one of the products of the Prerolles stud, and was ordinary enough on flat ground, but a jumper of the first rank.
At last the clock struck the half hour after eleven, and some of the guests had already manifested their intention to depart, when Paul Landry, who had been rather silent until then, said, carelessly:
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The Alice High School Class of 2007 will grow a little larger Thursday evening, as 27 students join their classmates by walking the stage during summer graduation.
Seniors who failed to graduate in the spring, but who graduate in the summer ceremony are still considered part of the class of 2007. During the spring commencement ceremony in May, 240 students graduated, out of a total senior class of 302 students. The graduation ceremony begins at 7 p.m. in the AHS Auditorium.


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Ignores Environmental Hazards to Minorities/Low-Income
(Beyond Pesticides, March 15, 2004) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to provide adequate protection to minorities and low-income families who are disproportionately affected by pollution, according to a report by EPA's Inspector General (IG), dated March 1, 2004. (Evaluation Report: EPA Needs to Consistently Implement the Intent of the Executive Order on Environmental Justice, Report No. 2004-P-000070) The report was sent from Kwai Chan, Assitant Inspector General for Program Evaluation to Stephen Johnson, Acting Deputy Administrator of EPA.
The IG's report concludes that an Executive Order on Environmental Justice (Federal Action to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-income Populations, Executive Order 12898), signed by President Clinton in 1994, has not been fully implemented nor has EPA "consistently integrated.environmental justice into its day-to-day operations" The report states, "EPA has not identified minority and low-income, nor identified populations address in the Executive Order, and has neither defined nor developed criteria for determining disproportionately impacted." Disproportionately impacted is defined by the IG as a generic term used by EPA, regions, and stakeholders to define the adverse effects of environmental actions that burden minority and/or low-income populations at a higher rate than the general populations.
Moreover, the report discloses that the Bush Administration reinterpreted the order two years ago -- without authority to do so -- to shift emphasis away from the very populations the order was written to protect. The report states, "We believe the Agency is bound by the requirement of Executive Order 12898 and does not have the authority to reinterpret the order. The Acting Deputy Administrator needs to reaffirm the Executive Order 12898 applies specifically to minority and low-income populations that are disproportionately impacted." The administration then defended its action by stating that it would provide environmental justice to "everyone." The EPA's response states, "The Agency does not accept the Inspector General's central and baseline assumption that environmental justice only applies to minority and/or low-income individuals. The EPA firmly believes that environmental justice belongs to all people. . ."
The IG's report dismissed this defense as misleading. "We believe the Executive Order was specifically issued to provide environmental justice to minority and/or low-income populations due to concerns that those populations had been disproportionately impacted by environmental risk."
The report points out that providing justice to "everyone" was already the EPA's mission prior to the 1994 order.
The report further finds that the EPA has yet to develop "a clear vision or comprehensive strategic plan, and has not established values, goals, expectations, and performance measurements" for integrating environmental justice into its policies. As a result, any protections provided to minorities and low-income families from environmental hazards have been spotty and solely dependent upon regional EPA initiatives.
"After 10 years, there is an urgent need for the Agency to standardize environmental justice definitions, goals, and measurements for the consistent implementation and integration of environmental justice at EPA," the report states.
Minority and low-income families often suffer greater exposure to environmental hazards than other populations because industrial plants tend to be situated in or near low-income neighborhoods, and people of color, including farmworkers, are disproportionately in high risk job with exposure to toxic chemicals..
One example of why minority and low-income neighborhoods need special protection is a Bush administration plan to allow coal-fired power plants to buy "credits" from cleaner plants instead of reducing their own mercury emissions. Recent hearings on the Bush plan in several U.S. cities brought out residents concerned that they would be further victimized if they lived near a plant that purchased credits instead of cleaning up.
After a hearing in Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Inquirer cited a testimonial from Ms. Mable Mallard of South Philadelphia, a resident "who gauges when to venture outside based on which way the wind is blowing the pollution from the seven nearby smokestacks."
ACTION: Contact Barry E. Hill, Director, Office of Environmental Justice, 202-564-2515, [email protected] and let him know that EPA should comply with Executive Order 12898 and give specific attention to the disproportionate hazards borne by minority and low-income people under existing environmental programs. Tell him, like the Inspector General, that providing justice to "everyone" was already the EPA's mission prior to the 1994 order and the Office of Environmental Justice and the Bush Administration should stop ignoring people of color who are at highest environmental health risk. Send a copy of your letter to EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt and to [email protected].
For information on location sensitive populations (schools, hospitals, etc.) and demographic data in the United States, including your neighborhood, to to EPA's easy-to-use map. For more information on tracking the Bush administration's environmental policies and compliance, contact BushGreenwatch, 1320 18th Street, NW, 5th Floor, Washsington, DC 20036, 202-463-6670.


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Here's what we know – everyone makes mistakes.
Sometimes a failure is our own fault. Sometimes it's because we were counting on something or someone else. It could be in our control, or not. But one thing is for sure: we all make mistakes.
Given that reality, here's the bigger question: how do you handle things when others make mistakes?
Since we know they're going to happen, it's not like we can use "being surprised" as an excuse. And you'd think we'd be more prepared. But a lot of times we act shocked and angry when someone makes a mistake that impacts our goals, or plans.
People – you, me, everyone- is going to make a mistake. Our job as leaders is to have empathy, humility, compassion and contingency plans.
Which of those is missing for you?


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Written by, Larry Foster
As enterprises look to more granularly understand the payback of implementing or expanding upon telecom expense management (TEM) solutions or managed mobility services (MMS), they have historically focused solely on the predicted hard dollar savings. But as we see the industry evolve, our enterprise customers are increasingly implementing programs to manage their complete communications lifecycle.
Better Insight-Driven Decisions
With Communications Lifecycle Management (CLM) in place, these organizations gain an all-encompassing view into their assets and services across voice, mobile and other unified communications. This new view helps them maximize efficiencies across internal workflows, policies and processes. With the capability to combine business data with communications data, they can make better decisions using the improved business insights and analytics.
Ranking the Benefits of TEM and CLM
AOTMP recently completed research to assess what benefits organizations are realizing with TEM and CLM programs. Their results confirm cost reduction is still the most common benefit but they also cited improved workflow, visibility, forecasting and other benefits as shown in their results below:
These results corroborate that the benefits are moving beyond just the "year one hard dollar saving" and into more long term and strategic benefits for these enterprises. The results also confirm that investing in telecommunications is not just another expensive cost to be managed, but rather, it provides a technological platform that enables organizational change, growth, expansion, customer visibility, efficiencies, or even blue sky programs that can transform businesses.
AOTMP recommends that organizations must transform the view of telecom across the organization to enhance the perceived value of the current investment and to explore new ways to maximize the value of their comprehensive assets. Now, armed with improved reporting, business analytics and KPIs, organizations will be able to elevate the perception of telecom into highly valued strategic asset status.
Timeline for Realizing Business Value
With most TEM programs, returns on hard-dollar savings typically start during the first year of implementation. But that's just part of the story. Here's a look at what happens over the first three years:
During the first year, you want to achieve a quick win to support the ROI of the program and so your efforts will be focused on building a unified data model and aligning to best practices with the goal of removing existing waste and reducing costs.
In year two, you're reaping the ongoing rewards of the efficiencies achieved in year one and now you're focused on proactively optimizing costs, negotiating new contracts in your favor, and leveraging newfound decision making abilities to support your business strategy.
During the third year, your program is humming along, your vendor is handling the heavy lifting, and you've gained strategic alignment with the business which impacts both the top and bottom lines. You have also identified new cost savings after adding digital assets like cloud, software licenses and UC services to the program.
What's clear is that enterprises are gaining value that far exceeds the initial ROI goals. From what we see here at Calero, that value has a time-line, and the more mature the organization, the more value they are able to gain over time.
Next Steps: If you're interested in going deeper into the ROI discussion, you can check out our blog titled The ROI of Telecom Expense Management. In addition, be sure to download this white paper about Going Beyond Invoices and Expenses to Drive More Business Value with CLM.
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ObjectRhetoric: an object-oriented rhetoric of hypertext for technical communication
Jones, Roland Alexander
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Technical communication is becoming increasingly focused on the efficient production of documentation, largely commoditizing a profession based, at least in part, on the art of rhetoric. As technical communicators embrace single sourcing, the practice of writing content for one context and reusing it in others, the impetus is on technological solutions that enable more output with less effort. This dissertation will describe a new rhetoric to help technical communicators in dealing with the complexities of composing within a hypertextual and single-source based environment while employing the traditional skills of the profession. A useful model for technical communicators working with reusable content is that offered by object-orientation, a programming method that likewise focuses on reusable content, specifically program code. Rather than defining a series of algorithms in program code, which results in inefficiencies similar to those of writing and maintaining individual documents, object-orientation segregates code by creating models of interaction among code objects which then govern themselves. Such a process could help create more efficient and sustainable methods of creating documentation if applied to technical communication. Since these objects offer a new approach to authoring, a rhetoric of such objects becomes necessary before they can be implemented for technical communication. Since these objects are connected through complex referential relationships, they are also an advanced form of hypertext. Object-orientation and the hypertext theory of Ted Nelson provide language suitable for defining such a rhetoric. A theory of invention is equivalent to understanding how knowledge is formed, manipulated, and stored within the mind; cognitive theory and the work of Marvin Minsky and Roger Shank help define a suitable metaphor for this rhetoric. Lastly, elements of the process will be shown through the example of real-world activities such as those involved in complex documentation efforts.


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Reviews for The Last Ballad
by Wiley Cash
Copyright © Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Inspired by the events of an actual textile-mill strike in 1929, Cash (This Dark Road to Mercy, 2014, etc.) creates a vivid picture of one woman's desperation.Ella May Wiggins works long, grueling hours in a mill, but it still isn't enough to keep her children fed. The year is 1929, and fed-up workers are fighting for rights like a standard wage, a five-day work week, and equal pay for equal work. Ella's curiosity about the union leads her to attend a rally in a neighboring town, but when she gets up on stage to sing a song that she wrote, she becomes an unexpected star of the labor movement. Her prominence makes her a target for those who view union members as communists, and Ella's belief that African-Americans should be included in the union places her in even more danger. But Ella's voice isn't the only one Cash exploresthere are multiple points of view, including Ella's now-elderly daughter Lilly, an African-American porter named Hampton, and several others whose lives intersect with Ella's. Cash vividly illustrates the difficulties of Ella's life; her exhaustion and desperation leap off the page. She faces extreme hardship in her fight for workers' rights, but it's always clear that she keeps going because of her love for her children. Although it is initially a bit difficult to keep so many points of view straight, it is satisfying to see them all connect. It's refreshing that Cash highlights the struggles of often forgotten heroes and shows how crucial women and African-Americans were in the fight for workers' rights. A heartbreaking and beautifully written look at the real people involved in the labor movement. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.


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I realize today is American Thanksgiving, but as it is a holiday I am finding our celebration of to be in increasingly dubious taste given what we know and continue to learn about its genocidal origins, I'm uh…going to be a party pooper and just sort of ignore it.
(that said, I did tote a broccoli and cheesy rice casserole over to Jessica's and ate turkey, but we pretty much only do this at this point out of tradition, and as fun as it is to cook, I'd be cool if America as a whole just kind of quit on Thanksgiving and also tossed Black Friday out after it…)
(is now a good time to mention I've got a raging headache, PMS, and a lot of existential angst?)
I haven't been around for a few days because the thing I was afraid of happening did: I ran out of anything in my life to talk about. This is a thing that happens when one rarely leaves their house. I would leave the house more, but I am going to be in Norway in about a month and five days, and I need to have money for food and souvenirs and the Norwegian books and CDs I want but that I can't get here. Leaving the house often ends up costing money, so I try not to. Except for Pokemon Go runs, where I dash out to the nearest Pokestop to keep my weekly streaks going, and you know what, I realize that sounds ludicrous because I am an entire grown-ass adult, but, whatever.
So…that's happening. Or, you know, not.
I had plans to visit my Oklahoma grandparents next weekend. There is a problem: they don't know this. They don't know, because thanks to my absolutely wretched complex about talking on the phone, I haven't called them. Which means I will probably show up next weekend having booked a hotel room (goodbye money) and also that I will probably run into my father on one of his frequent weekend visits, which is…it's awkward. Dad's an okay dude, but I don't really know him very well, and I tend to have a tremendously hard time making conversation with strangers. Which he essentially is. And honestly, we could probably work through that eventually, except then I have nothing to discuss because I work from home and don't get out much, and also he follows me on Instagram.
(what is life like for people with "normal" families? it boggles the mind)
But there you go. That's it. Between now and late December, all I have going on is a trip to Oklahoma – which is a nice state, but very flat, like literally it's flat as all get out, so that drive is shorter but somehow even less exciting than the one to Bitty Lake City, Louisiana – oh, and I am seeing my dentist next week. Not exactly going to throw a party over that last one, I think. It's going to involve fillings.
I don't even have an ending to this post.
I do, however, have this photo of my cat curled up into a vaguely heart-shaped ball.
So cute, you'd never know she ripped a tiny but perfectly painfully placed hole in the arch of my left foot as I tried to sleep last night.


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i hope it's ok that i also post my problem at other forums. just being forthright (upfront).
i recently had a computer, hp pavillion 510c, given to me that was the victim of "rootkit activity", but now the computer is clean. the OS on the hard drive is XP. the computer with xp works nicely. there doesn't seem to be any hardware problems. i can use it for hours and it works flawlessly. there's no dust in the computer. plenty of fans.
what i have planned for this computer is adding a second hard drive as slave and putting a different OS on it (the second hard drive) so that i can have a dual boot system, but i can't get the system to boot from cd. there are two cd decks, but neither will boot any cd. i've tried numerous boot and utility disks and i get the "operating system not found" message. no number to go with the message.
the first thing that needs to be mentioned is the fact that in the bios>boot tab, the CD-rom has an exclamation point in front of it. i don't know how to remove the exclamtion point. obviously this is an eye-opener. a screenshot is included.
i've tried disconnecting the HDD (and the floppy) , nothing was connected but the master cd drive (the jumper on the cd-rom is on master, and it's on the last connector on the ribbon cable, and i've tried other cables). i've tried everything in the bios that i can think of, but i am in no way an expert (that's why i'm here).
the bios is phoenix core version 4.06
bios revision 3.05
the motherboard is a Mat,NO: 126708 LOMITA 011110
i have never heard of these motherboards, but it's all the reasonably identifiable info i can find.
i have never reset a bios back to defaults, so i haven't done it with this one. i have not flashed the bios either. it may need that, but i know that to be a risky endevour, so i won't look into this without guidance.
i have included a link that shows three screenshots.
one is the exclamation point that is probably causing the problem.
one is boot-time diagnostic and quickboot screen, and one is the main tab.
i am not in a hurry to get this computer working, and i have it completely disassembled, so there is nothing i am not willing (able) to try. i have all the time in the world.
Ed James
it works!
it's hard to say exactly what, if any, changes had any effect, but these are the things that i did between the moments that it wouldn't boot from the cd and when it did boot from cd.
i unplugged the power cord to the psu and pulled the cmos battery for about 15 minutes to reset defaults.
i disabled quick-boot mode. i don't know if this had any bearing on the solution. i would sure like to know specifically what disabling/enabling quick-boot mode does.
i set the correct time in bios>general tab and pressed f10 to save changes.
Ed James
I would speculate the issue was that the boot order somehow excluded the CD drive. The default places it back int the boot order.
Disabling fast boot just allows you to see what is happening during the POST cycle.
I would recommend that if you have the option in the start up screens to choose which drive to boot from that you take advantage of that by totally isolating both hard drives from each other.
Disconnect the first hard drive before installing an OS on the second one. After completion you can reconnect and then use the option in the start up screens to choose what to boot to.
The advantage of this method is that it avoids using the Windows boot loader. This method is better, IMO, because the drives do NOT depend on one another to boot.
If one or the other becomes un-bootable you will still be able to get to the other. That is not usually the case when using the Windows boot loader.
(Oops - OtheHill's post was not there when I started typing this)
Your Boot Device Prority list
Hard drive
Removable Devices
!CD-Rom Drive
Network Boot
was set wrong.
When you removed then re-installed the cmos battery, the bios set the Boot Proirity list to defaults that work for booting from a bootable disk in an optical drive.
What is it set to now?
I have no idea why the ! in front of CD-Rom - I've never seen that - perhaps that is to show you you can't boot from it?
You always have to re-set the time and date to other than defaults when you remove the cmos battery, or when you remove it then replace it, or when you clear the cmos by moving a jumper on the mboard, then moving it back, either in the bios, or in the operating system before you reboot the computer.
If you set the bios to defaults in Setup, only the current time and date settings are retained of the user settings that were not defaults.
In order to be able to boot from a bootable disk in an optical drive, the CD drive or similar has to be listed before (above in this case) the bootable hard drive. It doesn't necessarily have to be first in the list.
Anything you want to be able to boot before a bootable hard drive must be listed before it.
If the hard drive is listed before the optical drive and is bootable, or in any case, if the hard drive is bootable, the bios never attempts to boot anything else in the list listed after that, including other hard drives that may be in the list, or in a list elsewhere in the bios settings, if you have more than one hard drive.
E.g. the possible correct ways for your case
Removable Devices
CD-Rom Drive
Hard Drive
Network Boot
CD-Rom Drive
Hard Drive
Network Boot
or on a computer you can connect a legacy floppy drive to
Floppy drive
CD-Rom Drive
Hard Drive
Network Boot
Sometimes floppy drive is listed even if you don't have one connected. That causes no problems - the bios never examines a floppy disk in a legacy drive to see if it's bootable, since the drive is not there.
I've found if a legacy floppy drive is listed after the optical drive, for most bioses, a bootable floppy in the floppy drive will not be recognized as bootable while booting.
For most if not all bioses, if the boot order is set up right to recognize a bootable floppy in a legacy drive, if the floppy in the drive is not bootable, the bios does not attempt to boot from anything else listed after it.
That may apply to a USB floppy drive as well, I don't know.
If your bios recognizes a bootable flash drive or USB connected external drive, I've found that with at least some bioses, if the boot order has Removable drives or similar first , if you plug in a non-bootable flash drive or USB connected external drive (or a USB floppy drive?), when the bios finds that is not bootable (or the floppy in the USB drive is not bootable?) , it does not attempt to boot the next thing in the list.
I have encountered one recent mboard that does that even when Removable drives or similar is not in the list, for a non-bootable flash drive.
Brand name systems often have Network Boot or similar listed in the bios boot order. If the computer is normally supposed to boot from a company or institutional network, that's usually listed first. The bios never attempts to boot from other things in the list if that's successful; if that's not successful, according to what I've heard of on this site, you get a network boot specific error message and the bios does not attempt to boot other devices in the list.
Network Boot
Removable Devices
CD-Rom Drive
Hard Drive
Side notes
Many bioses will only boot from a bootable disk in one optical drive if you have more than one. In that case, insert the bootable disk in the other drive, or another drive if you have more than two, if a bootable disk is not recognized while booting.
OR, in that type of bios, when there is more than one optical drive, there is either
- a list of optical drives, often near the boot order list or similar - the optical drive you want to boot a bootable disk from must be listed first.
- or - less likely - there is more than one optical drive listed or available to be listed in the boot order or similar list - the optical drive you want to boot a bootable disk from must be listed first.
The network adapter has to have a boot rom chip or a similar capability on the adapter in order for you to be able to boot from a network. Most network adapters don't have that, but sometimes ones on brand name systems do, already, e.g. models marketed as for businesses. The rom chip must already have the data required on it to be able to boot from your network, or if the adapter has the capability, you can run a configuration program on the network adapter during booting to set settings right if the defaults are wrong for your network.
you said:
"if you have the option in the start up screens to choose which drive to boot from that you take advantage of that by totally isolating both hard drives from each other.
Disconnect the first hard drive before installing an OS on the second one. After completion you can reconnect and then use the option in the start up screens to choose what to boot to."
sorry i was so late to notice you replied (i was working on that computer all day yesterday).
let me get this straight. install crunchbang linux (my choice as the 2nd OS) seperately as master (and no slave) via live cd, then i can reconnect the crunchbang hard drive on the ribbon cable as slave (set jumpers, of course) with the windowsXP as master, and this will work as you specify, or does the XP hard drive need to be slave? i totally agree with your idea, please specify in detail. this is great advice. my experience is intermediate at best.
by the way, the dual boot did go well. i have XP and crunchbang dual boot on seperate hdd's, but it goes to crunchbang as default. i was trying for the default to be XP.
you said:
"Your Boot Device Prority list
Hard drive
Removable Devices
!CD-Rom Drive
Network Boot
was set wrong.
When you removed then re-installed the cmos battery, the bios set the Boot Proirity list to defaults that work for booting from a bootable disk in an optical drive.
What is it set to now?"
my fault. i tried a bunch of stuff, and when it didn't work, i put it back to where it was when i began. the pic was taken after i returned all the settings to the beginning.
by the way, now everything works like it's supposed to. when there is a bootable disk in the deck, the computer boots to it. when there isn't, it boots to hard drive. i do understand what you mean though, cd-rom needs to be at the top. point well taken. my delivery was flawed.
"I have no idea why the ! in front of CD-Rom - I've never seen that - perhaps that is to show you you can't boot from it?"
i spent most of a day on google in vein regarding this issue. yes, i am pretty confident that's why the exclamation point is there (in the pic).
in reading the remainder of your post, it's a pretty good idea not to have anything else plugged into the mb except the cd-rom that you intend to boot from, and in some instances you need to have a second cd-rom deck as slave (that's odd).
great post. i will record that on cassette and listen to it repeatedly at work during slow times. there's alot there and my circuitry overloads easily. this will, no doubt, help me with future bios problems.
thanks for the replies.
Ed James
Ed James
I recommend the boot order to have the CD drive before any hard drives. The reason for that is if you need to boot to a CD after you have an operational OS you can without changing the boot order. If there is no CD in the CD drive the BIOS looks and then skips over the CD drive and moves to the next device.
I am also confused by the mark in front of the CD drive in the BIOS screens. I haven't seen that before either.
Some recent mothrboards with SATA controllers have some SATA ports that are not bootable. Is your CD drive a SATA type? If so, move the cable to another port. You may need to consult your manual on that.
The idea is to have the other drive disconnected when installing the OS. So, You only want the WinXP drive connected if you are installing WinXP. Conversely, you only want the Linux drive connected when installing Linux.
If the drive isn't configured when the other is disconnected you may need to change jumpers on the connected drive temporarily. Or you could just set both to CS and avoid that issue.
You need to be using an 80 wire/ 40 pin IDE cable. 80 wire cables can be identified by the connectors. The MBoard end is usually blue but almost always a bright color. The center is gray and the other end is black.
In order for this to work your BIOS must have the option at start up to choose what to boot from without the need to enter the BIOS screens. That should be an option if your board is less than maybe 4 years old.
the computer dual-boots nicely, the only improvement (just a preference issue) is that it boots to crunchbang by default, but the computer is for my wife, so i think she would rather have it that way (booting to crunchbang linux).
yes, the exclamation point was a difficult subject to get info about on google. exclamation points are usually in the device manager, so that's what most of the hits on google were pertaining to.
this story has a happy ending. now the next time i see an exclamation point in the bios, i think i will know what to do. reset the cmos back to defaults, and reset the time.
this website has an abundance of "bios-brains"!
Ed James


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The absolute best decision I ever made in my life was to liberate
myself from the bondage of Modern Day Slavery and begin
living life by MY values (not by what the fearful masses believed)!
I tell you this because something tells me that YOU also feel that
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and you may even feel a desire to help others grow strong also.
In my opinion, there is no better way to spend your short life here
on this planet.
The 2nd best thing I did, and STILL do, is invest thousands of
dollars a year in my professional education.
In fact I just invested $6,000 to study a powerful method for growing
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And the best way to do that is to work with other strong people.
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Once you have been chosen, you have only two choices left in life.
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Our extended hardware kit makes building with the original Atom frame a breeze. Designed to accommodate a PDB with plenty of room for your FPV gear. Durable aluminum standoffs and steel screws mean you can spend more time flying and less time repairing.
-4 x M3 aluminum standoffs
-2 x M2 aluminum standoffs
-4 x long M3 steel screws
-4 x short M3 steel screws
-4 x M3 nylon female standoffs
-4 x M3 nylon nut
-4 x M2 steel screws
Assembly order, from the bottom:
-Long screws
-Atom main frame plate
-nylon nut
-female nylon standoff
-flight controller
-short aluminum standoffs
-Atom top plate
-short screws