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Cakespy: Magic Cookie Bar Pie Recipe
Quirky, cute, sometimes controversial, always delicious recipes from Jessie Oleson.
Jessie Oleson (aka Cakespy) drops by every Monday to share a delicious dessert recipe. —The Mgmt.
Magic Cookie Bars are, as their name might imply, no ordinary treat. Starting with layer upon layer of unrelentingly rich layers of buttery graham cracker crumbs, toasted coconut, chocolate and butterscotch chips, and nuts, they get even better from a rich smothering in sweetened condensed milk.
With all that awesome, some might argue that a small serving is best. But I disagree, and to prove it, I've created it in a deliciously thick pie form.
Inspired by the construction of the delicious BakedBar from Baked in Brooklyn, I made my pie with a coconut-graham cracker crust which then got filled with the sweetened condensed milk slurry—the resulting confection attained a crust that was crispy, but the inside remains pleasingly gooey, making for a dessert that will likely displease your dentist, but will definitely make your mouth happy.
Magic Cookie Bar Pie
- Yield:about 12
- Rated:
- For the crust:
- 1 cup sweetened shredded coconut
- 1 3/4 cups finely ground graham cracker crumbs
- 3/4 cups (1 1/2 sticks) butter
- For the filling:
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 3/4 cup butterscotch chips
- 1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
- Note: The peanut butter is not traditional in this recipe, but it is delicious. If you want to stay traditional, you can choose to use 1 cup of toasted pecans, walnuts, or peanuts instead.
Preheat oven to 300°F.
Butter a 9-inch pie plate.
Put the graham cracker crumbs, butter, and toasted coconut in a pan over low heat until melted; stir until the mixture is cohesive.
Let cool until it is still warm but not hot to the touch; using your hands, press the mixture into the bottom and sides of your pie plate.
Refrigerate the crust for 15 minutes, then bake for 10 minutes, or until golden brown. Let cool for about 20 minutes before moving ahead.
Increase the oven temperature to 325°F.
Place the peanut butter in small even dollops across the bottom of the crust.
Evenly scatter the chocolate chips and butterscotch chips on top of the peanut buttered crust.
In a steady stream, pour the sweetened condensed milk over the filling. Gently shift the pan to make sure the milk has been distributed evenly.
Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until golden brown and bubbly (mine was more like 40 minutes). Transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely. I found that chilling for an hour or so helped the filling set.
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First comes the comedy, then the music, then the dancers.
Those three acts should fill the bleachers Saturday at Fayette's Royal Bull Thistle Festival. The entertainment events, along with food, arts and crafts sales, will all be located in the shade of the village's Normal Memorial Grove park near the school.
Mike Hemmelgarn leads off the entertainment at 1 p.m. Hemmelgarn is an accomplished ventriloquist, but that's just the start of his talents. With the help of his puppets and juggling skills, he'll have children and adults alike in stitches with his humor that appeals to all ages.
The northwest Ohio bluegrass group Hand Hewn follows at 2 p.m. and they'll give a repeat show at 4 p.m. Their visit to Fayette is a repeat, also, since they performed a few years ago at the Bull Thistle Festival.
Band leader Jerry Eicher of Delta is joined by fiddle player Brenda Holdridge, upright bass player Don Pawlicki, banjoist Dorn Wells and mandolin player Jimmy Thompson. Eicher plays guitar.
Hand Hewn goes beyond bluegrass to perform folk, gospel and old-timey tunes. They've performed together for eight years and have played in a variety of venues, including colonial days reënactments dressed in clothes of the period.
"You talk about fun," Eicher said, "we have it."
The Turkey Foot Trotters square dance group will take over the stage at 3 p.m., before the return of Hand Hewn.
OTHER EVENTS—The first festival-related event is scheduled from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Friday with the annual ice cream social sponsored by the United Methodist Church. A full dinner will also be served and a free-will donation will be charged.
On Saturday morning, the Fayette American Legion will sponsor a pancake breakfast from 7 to 10 a.m. to raise funds for the Fulton County Red Cross.
Before filling up, runners and walkers can participate in the Fayette Athletic Boosters' first "5K 4 the Fields," an event designed to bring in money for athletic fields at the new school. The event is planned at the track, south of the high school.
Registration begins at 7 a.m., a one-mile fun run at 7:45 a.m. and the 5K run/walk at 8 a.m. For those not registered, T-shirts will be available on race day while supplies last.
The annual parade will head out from the Church of the Nazarene parking lot at 11 a.m. and the chicken barbecue begins in the Grove at noon.
Bull thistle judging is scheduled at 1 p.m. to determine the winner of the coveted Golden Hoe award, and the park will be filled with displays by artists, crafters and food vendors. Inflatable games will be set up for the kids and a pedal tractor pull is planned.
A softball tournament will be played throughout the weekend, the S.A.K. three-on-three basketball tournament begins at 1 p.m. and a classic car show is scheduled at the track.
The day ends with the annual fireworks show from Phantom Fireworks. The event begins around 10 p.m. at Harrison Lake.
The final event of the weekend takes place at 10:45 a.m. Sunday with the community church service in the Grove.


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7 Things a Girl Needs From Her Mom
By Cindi McMenamin
This is Part 2 in a 3-Part Series on inspiring your daughter. Read Part 1 here.
Our daughters watch us, look to us for what they need, and often imitate both our weaknesses and our strengths. So being aware of what they most need can help us focus on getting them through their teen and young adult years.
As I surveyed daughters, ages 15-45 for my book, When a Mom Inspires Her Daughter, I found that, overall, our daughters don't need more money, leniency, opportunities, structure, extra-curricular involvement, or music lessons as much as we might think. Instead, what they all indicated that they needed - and still need - is their mother's "love and support."
My daughter, Dana, now 21, says: "I needed my mother's love and support in everything I did. No matter if I did something completely wrong, I needed her to love me anyway and to let me know it was going to be okay."
I asked my survey respondents to further define the phrase "love and support" so moms could get an idea of what it would tangibly look like to show that to their daughters. See if these sound like something your daughter might need, too.
1. She Needs to Know She is Your Priority
As a 19-year-old college student who has never doubted her mother's love for her, Annie says: "My mom made me her center. I don't think that spoiled me. Rather, it made me secure in the fact that she loved me and would do what it took to provide for all I needed."
Another daughter said: "Not to sound selfish, but I needed my mom to choose me first over a lot of things, to let me know that I was a priority in her life over work and finances."
Because we tend to live such over-scheduled lives, it can be challenging to let our daughters know they are more important to us than the job or the tasks at hand. (For some practical ways to show your daughter she is a priority, see the upcoming Part 3: Giving Your Daughter the Gift of Your Time.)
2. She Needs to Know She Is Accepted
A young woman needs to know she is accepted by her mom, no matter how old she is. She needs to feel accepted as she is recognizing her uniqueness, in the ways she feels "odd" or out of place in a crowd, and on the days she feels she didn't measure up to others around her.
3. She Needs to Feel a Connection with You
Karen said she never really felt a deep emotional connection with her mom.
"My mom was a single parent raising me and my siblings. She worked outside of the home through most of my adolescent years. I didn't feel a connection with her because she had a "hard shell" around her heart. While I always knew she loved me, it was very difficult to approach her.
"Even as I matured and became a wife and mother, I did not feel I could share with her the secret places of my heart. I never really felt like I could share intimately with her. Only a few times can I remember really opening up and sharing deep thoughts with her."
Be the one who initiates an emotional connection with your daughter. Even if she's acting like she doesn't want that, she will know that you are the one who is reaching out.
4. She Needs a Spiritual Foundation
Katie, who was raised in a committed Christian home, says that although she might not have appreciated it at the time, her mother's insistence that she attend church every Sunday and learn strong biblical values is one of the best things her mother could've done for her. It is something Katie intends to imitate with her own children.
Krystle, who is raising a teen and pre-teen daughter, said she wishes her mom had made more of an effort to bring her up, spiritually.
"My mother was a loving, devoted Christian stay-at-home mom up until my parents divorced when I was around 7 years old. Our lifestyle changed dramatically after my parents divorced. My mother struggled to support and raise four children on her own. She became discouraged and left her church for a while. She worked a lot, turned to friends and partying. She became more focused on her life and her needs and didn't encourage her children enough. I feel that my mom should have drawn closer to the Lord during these times."
Our daughters need us to have a strong dependence on the Lord so they can imitate that walk and develop a dependence on the Lord, as well.
5. She Needs to be Allowed to Fail
One young woman who was raised with a strong spiritual foundation said she wishes her parents had realized she was human and she would, indeed, fail.
"I felt very lucky in that both my parents were great examples who showed me love my entire life. The downside for me was that I never felt I could be completely open and honest because the lines of right and wrong were so clearly drawn I was afraid I wouldn't be accepted for the mistakes I did make. I wish at ages 14-16, I had been given permission to make mistakes without judgment. That's not to say I would have made better choices than I already did, but when I messed up, I didn't feel like my mom was as approachable."
When our daughters are young, there are times we want to step in and do something for them, rather than risk their disappointment or having to watch them fail. But it is crucial to their development as young women to learn how to pick themselves up after they fail and move on. Your daughter needs to be okay with the fact that it's perfectly normal and human -- to make mistakes. She needs to know it isn't the end of the world if she fails to do something right. And she needs to know that coming in second or third or not placing at all, is often a part of life.
Guiding your daughter through disappointment and failure is just as important as guiding her through victory and success. Let her make mistakes. Let her feel badly. Let her live out what it's like to be imperfect. And love her through it. Could anything show her more of the way God loves us?
6. She Needs You to be a Woman of Integrity
I can't help but think that is my daughter's greatest need from her mother, as well. I can raise her according to biblical principles, and talk to her about the importance of living frugally, being Christ-like, loving others and having a pure heart. But the bottom line is, if I am not modeling any of it myself, then my words are merely words. She needs to see the Christ-like life lived out in me every day of my life and know it is real before she will know how or even have a desire to live it herself. She needs an example to follow in making life's choices and being the woman she knows I want her to be.
7. She Needs Your Stability
I will venture to say that your stability is even more important than hers. Our daughters can't be the ones who hold us up, emotionally. That's our job. Sure, it's nice to have a relationship with our daughters in which we can share with them what's on our hearts. But be discerning. Your daughter does not want to hear about your marital struggles, your loneliness, or your depression with how things are going in your life. It is our job, as moms, to bear their burdens when they need emotional support and nurturing.
If we're not careful, we can reverse the situation and cause our daughters to feel the weight of having to emotionally carry us. I know many college-aged girls who feel guilty about going away to school because of how difficult it is on their moms to be away from them. Our daughters need us to be a rock because we look to Christ, our Rock, in times of trouble and adversity. Our daughters need us to be women of integrity who show them how to be in the midst of a compromising world. And our daughters need us to be women who can keep it together when life around us falls apart. If we are the ones with the emotional issues, we can lead our daughters toward depression, a sense of hopelessness, or a desire to distance themselves from us.
Because our daughters model our behavior in so many ways, they end up imitating both the positive and the negative in us. So, if you are constantly searching for your own identity, struggling for a sense of purpose, or dealing with insecurities, chances are she will be, too.
In short, be the woman you want your daughter to become. And chances are that she will, in time, follow suit.
Cindi McMenamin is a national women's conference and retreat speaker and the author of a dozen books, including When Women Walk Alone (more than 100,000 copies sold), When a Woman inspires Her Husband, and When a Mom Inspires Her Daughter, upon which this article is based. For more on her books and ministry, or to download her free article "Suggestions for Mother-Daughter Memory-Making" see her website: StrengthForTheSoul.com.
Publication date: September 3, 2013


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Report: Fla. driver tweets "2 drunk 2 care," then kills two
Two young women were killed early Sunday morning when their car was hit by a wrong-way driver who is believed to have tweeted "2 drunk 2 care" just hours before the deadly accident.
According to Florida Highway Patrol, Marisa Catronio, 21, was killed instantly and Kaitlyn Nicole Ferrante, 21, died several days later from injuries she sustained when the Toyota Camry they were riding in was hit by a wrong-way driver on the Seagrass Expressway in Coral Springs.
Early in the morning on Nov. 17, Kayla Mendoza, 20, was traveling east in the westbound lane when she hit the Camry with her Hyundai Sonata. Mendoza suffered severe injuries and was taken to the hospital. Florida Highway Patrol spokesperson Mark Wysocky told CBS News' Crimesider that Mendoza was not tested for alcohol at the scene because of her condition, but that results from tests on her blood taken at the hospital are pending.
The Miami New Times was the first to report the existence of a Twitter account registered to a "Kaila Mendoza." At 10:03 p.m., a little less than four hours before the time indicated on the official accident report, a tweet appeared saying "2 drunk 2 care." On the page, Mendoza describes herself as a "pot princess."
Mendoza has not been arrested or charged with any crime and Wysocky said that investigations into traffic homicides typically take 30-90 days to complete. He says the agency is aware of the Twitter post but would not confirm whether it belongs to Mendoza.


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LANCASTER, Calif. & TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions.
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California PV Power Plant to Reach 230 MW When Completed This Year
First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced that the Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One project has achieved a peak generating capacity of 100 megawatts (MW)AC connected to the electrical grid. The photovoltaic (PV) power plant, which is under construction in northern Los Angeles County, will have a generating capacity of 230 MWAC upon completion, expected later this year.
Initial construction on the solar project began in Sept. 2011 and module installation started in June 2012, providing an average of 400 jobs during the construction phase. Power from the plant is being purchased by Pacific Gas and Electric Company under a 25-year contract.
"We are proud to achieve this important clean energy milestone for California, which was made possible by the tireless efforts of hundreds of individuals working together. We especially appreciate the support of LA County's Fifth Supervisorial District staff and the departments of Regional Planning and Public Works for their contributions to making this project a success," said Lou Moore, First Solar Senior Vice President of Engineering, Procurement and Construction. "Unlike traditional power plants, the modular nature of PV power projects enables us to quickly add substantial volumes of clean energy to the grid throughout the construction process. This shorter 'time to energy' is another key advantage of PV solar electricity."
Dennis Hunter, Deputy Director of Los Angeles County Public Works, congratulated First Solar on its achievement at Antelope Valley Solar Ranch One. "We appreciated the opportunity to work with the First Solar team to reach this operational milestone," he said.
When fully operational, the facility will generate enough power for 75,000 average California homes and will displace about 140,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year. That's equivalent to taking 30,000 cars off the road on an annual basis.
About First Solar, Inc.
First Solar is a leading global provider of comprehensive photovoltaic (PV) solar systems which use its advanced thin-film modules. The company's integrated power plant solutions deliver an economically attractive alternative to fossil-fuel electricity generation today. From raw material sourcing through end-of-life module collection and recycling, First Solar's renewable energy systems protect and enhance the environment. For more information about First Solar, please visit www.firstsolar.com.
For First Solar Investors
This release contains forward-looking statements which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements in this release do not constitute guarantees of future performance. Those statements involve a number of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, including risks associated with the company's business involving the company's products, their development and distribution, economic and competitive factors and the company's key strategic relationships and other risks detailed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. First Solar assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein.


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oneworld's latest fare makes visiting Japan even easier and better value01 March 2007
Visiting Japan has been made easier and better value than ever for international travellers with the launch of the latest fare from oneworld®, the leading quality airline alliance - Yokoso Visit Japan pass.
oneworld's Yokoso Visit Japan pass offers flights serving 42 destinations throughout Japan, using the unrivalled domestic network offered by Japan Airlines and JAL Express, J-AIR and Japan Transocean Air, the three of the five affiliates joining oneworld alongside it which operate Japanese domestic services.
The pass can be used for up to five flights within a two-month period from the departure date of the first Japanese domestic sector.
Each sector flown is charged at a standard JPY10,000 (approximately US$80). Customers need to stipulate how many sectors they will need before they arrive in Japan, and book the first sector. The rest can be confirmed during the trip. Available to anyone living outside Japan, the pass must be bought in conjunction with an international flight with any of the oneworld airlines to the country.
Yokoso Visit Japan pass goes on sale from 1 April - when Japan Airlines, the biggest airline in the Asia Pacific region, becomes the latest airline to join oneworld.
The alliance already offers its Visit passes for the rest of Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and New Zealand and Europe, enabling travellers to fly around each region using services by all the alliance's member airlines - and at fares offering savings of up to more than 50 per cent on many flights. oneworld is the only airline alliance offering this kind of pass for all these continents.
oneworld's Visit Passes are part of an extensive range of alliance fares offered by oneworld. Others include its round-the-world oneworld Explorer fare, its various Circle fares, providing for travel around several continents and also products for the corporate sector.
1 Prices quoted do not include passenger taxes, fees or charges.
2 Full details will be available from 1 April on oneworld.com or any oneworld member airline's sales outlets.
3 Specific terms and conditions apply.
About oneworld
oneworld brings together some of the best and biggest names in the airline business - American Airlines, British Airways, Qantas, Iberia, Cathay Pacific, LAN Airline and Finnair, plus their dozen affiliates. Japan Airlines, Malév Hungarian Airlines and Royal Jordanian will start offering the alliance's services and benefits from 1 April. Dragonair, LAN Argentina and LAN Ecuador are also lining up to join the alliance as affiliate members during 2007.
The alliance enables its members to offer their customers more services and benefits than any airline can provide on its own. These include a broader route network, opportunities to earn and redeem frequent flyer miles and points across the combined oneworld network and more airport lounges. oneworld is the only alliance to enable passengers to fly throughout its network, on any combination of carriers, using just electronic tickets.
oneworld was voted the World's Leading Airline Alliance for the fourth year running in the 2006 World Travel Awards, based on votes cast by some 170 000 travel professionals, including more than 110 000 travel agents in 200 countries.


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Exciting news out of the United Arab Emirates this week as famed automotive industry icon and noted Fiat enthusiast Jennifer Lopez was tapped to open Audi's latest mega-dealership in Dubai.
As we all remember, J-Lo starred in controversial, much ridiculed ads for the Fiat 500 last year, only for the public to discover that she wasn't really driving around the block at all. Fiat has since dumped that campaign for some ads that are slightly less annoying.
Not one to give up easily, J-Lo is now apparently spokeswoman-ing for Audi in the Middle East, as Motor Authority reported.
But the new facility is way more fancy than your normal neighborhood car dealership. As Motor Authority reports, it's not even called a dealership, but a "terminal," because it's 100,000 square feet and three stories of Audi madness with two car elevators and one floor exclusively dedicated to car customization. It is, apparently, the largest Audi dealership in the world.
The terminal also features what Audi calls a "Powerwall," a floor-to-ceiling screen that displays images of the cars and their customization options in 1:1 scale. I want to go to there.
Say what you want about J.Lo, she seems to be committed to staying in the automotive shill game. And I wish my ass looked that good in white pants, girlfriend.
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COROT enters fine-pointing mode
One month after successful launch, and about two weeks after the release of the first image of the sky, the COROT satellite successfully entered in 'fine pointing' mode.
The fine-pointing configuration was uploaded on 24 January 2007 after the activation of the seismology channel, and uses the satellite telescope as a 'super' star sensor. This will allow COROT to precisely target stars and perform astero-seismologic observations (probing stars interiors).
The optical performances of the seismology channel prove to be excellent, both in terms of shape and stability of the image spots, with a distortion incredibly close to the on-ground modelling performed before launch.
Inside the images collected to calibrate the seismology channel, COROT detected a junk object - a piece of a Delta 1 rocket launched in 1984. This has left on the COROT's camera sensors (CCD) a small smear visible in the middle of the stellar field. The movement of the object inside the CCD image fits well with the trajectory elements computed on ground.
These and all the delicate operations of verification and in-orbit calibration of the COROT satellite – also including a program of calibrations relative to the instrument line of sight performed from 18 to 23 January - have been mastered by the satellite teams at CNRS (Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en Astrophysique (Observatoire Paris Meudon) and at Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence).
For more information
Malcolm Fridlund, ESA COROT Project Scientist
Email: malcolm.fridlund @ esa.int


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Pelosi says $150B economic stimulus plan needed
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that a $150 billion economic stimulus plan is needed now because of the faltering economy and
she may call the House into session after the election to pass it."She doesn't have the guts to do it before the election !"
Pelosi told reporters that the stock market meltdown, which has caused an estimated $2 trillion loss from pension funds, was a factor in her recommendation for a second stimulus bill. The first relief plan sent out $600-$1,200 tax rebate checks to most individuals and couples this year.
The House did pass a $61 billion economic aid proposal last month before lawmakers left Capitol Hill ahead of the Nov. 4 election. But a similar plan failed to pass the Senate. President Bush had promised a veto anyway.
If Democratic nominee Barack Obama wins the White House and if Capitol Hill Democrats make gains in the elections as well, it might be easier to pass a stimulus measure over dispirited Republicans, especially if the economy remains in big trouble.
The Senate is expected to be back at work after Election Day to complete a public lands bill and perhaps deal with other matters, such as a measure to extend unemployment benefits. The House also could return to consider a stimulus plan and additional issues in a lame-duck session before the newly elected Congress takes over in January.
"We may have to go back into session before the next Congress," Pelosi said.
Pelosi said a stimulus package would create jobs by investing in public works, increasing food stamps benefits and extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless. She said lawmakers need to "hunker down" and look closely at the federal budget for possible savings, and reconsider whether the U.S. can afford to fight "a war without end" in Iraq.
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Solid-state drives may replace hard drives as future storage devices on computers, but not until their price plummets. Alienware has SSDs and other cool hardware on its latest PCs, the Area-51 ALX and Aurora ALX desktops, but its prices rise with the SSDs. Innovation is also the appeal of Plantronics' Calisto Pro Series, a sophisticated hands-free telephone system that merges wired, wireless and online communications into one system. Moving to the kitschy, Saitek allows users to personalize PC scrolling by inserting a printed picture on a mouse top.
The future of PC storage
Alienware provides a glimpse of future PC storage with its Area-51 ALX and Aurora ALX desktop PCs, which come with 64G-byte SSDs (solid-state drives).
Boot and program load times are quicker with SSDs and they are more reliable, Alienware says. They also consume less power than hard drives, the company says.
However, SSDs are expensive. An SSD-free Aurora ALX system with Windows Vista Ultimate, running Advanced Micro Devices's Athlon 64 X2 6000 64-bit processor, a Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX graphics card, 2G bytes of memory, a Logitech gaming keyboard and a 320G-byte hard drive costs US$4,099. The price jumps to US$5,799 when the hard drive is replaced with two 64G-byte SSDs.
Hard drives provide more storage capabilities than SSDs, so it's smart to hold off until SSDs become competitive on price and storage capacity.
Both PCs are available at Alienware's Web site.
AAA to the rescue, again
There may be a Chinese restaurant a few blocks away, but is it good? AAA Mobile's GPS-based travel guide for mobile phones not only provides directions to the restaurant, but also shows how it rates. The ratings feature gives it a leg-up over GPS (Global Positioning System) services that provide only locations and directions.
The service also gives hotel ratings and point of interests recommended by the AAA service. That is helpful for tourists and pedestrians wiggling around big cities in search of places to eat and sleep. Users can bookmark the locations.
The 100,000 listings provided by the service may be tiny, but it could start a trend of more GPS systems adding recommendations and ratings.
It works only on mobile phones in the U.S. with Verizon Wireless's service and is available for US$9.99 a month.
Make the mouse your own
Innovation on mice hasn't hit a wall -- Saitek's Photo Mouse lets people customize the top of a mouse with printed pictures, making it fun to use. A hatch on the top of the mouse opens up, where a picture can be inserted. The idea is to personalize a mouse, said Mark Starrett, Saitek's director of marketing, in a statement. But then pictures of loved ones can be placed on a mousepad or as PC wallpaper too, so pick your choice. The kitschy US$19.95 wired optical mouse works with Windows and Mac systems.
Converged communications
Plantronics' Calisto Pro Series is a hands-free telephone system that combines wired, wireless and online communications into one unit. The system can take landline, mobile phone or VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) calls either through a wireless handset or Bluetooth headset.
A desk-based base station houses and recharges the wireless handset and a Bluetooth headset. The handset operates at a range of up to 300 feet (91 meters), according to Plantronics. Users can also download up to 200 Microsoft Outlook contacts from a PC to the handset.
A Bluetooth headset not only takes calls from landlines, it also directly connects to a Bluetooth-compatible mobile phones. A PC connects to the base station through a USB (Universal Serial Bus) port to accept VOIP calls.
Despite a clunky base station, Calisto Pro is a productive device to have for multiple forms of communication. It became available in the U.S. in September for US$279.95.


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Honda to Recall 35,984 1998-2002 Honda Passport Regarding Lower Trailing Link Front Brackets
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Statement by American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Regarding Lower Trailing Link Front Brackets Recall: 1998-2002 Honda Passport
TORRANCE, Calif. – 12/17/2010 – Honda will recall 35,984 Passport vehicles from model years 1998-2002 in the U.S. to inspect the front brackets of the rear suspension lower trailing links. In areas where road salt is extensively used, the forward mounting bracket for the left or right rear suspension lower link may suffer excessive corrosion. This may cause the lower link bracket to become detached from the frame, affecting vehicle handling and increasing the risk of a crash. A small number of incidents have been reported related to the issue; however no injuries have been reported.
The recall is limited to the "salt belt" states where road salt is commonly used, including: Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Washington D.C.
Honda is announcing this recall to encourage all owners of affected vehicles to take their Passport to an authorized dealer as soon as they receive notification of this recall from Honda. The lower trailing link frame brackets will be inspected for corrosion, and if necessary, repaired. Notification to customers begins on December 17, 2010.
When Honda identifies concerns of this nature, nothing is more important to the company than fulfilling our obligation and responsibility to alert our customers. To this end, in addition to affected customers receiving notification by mail, owners of these vehicles can determine if their vehicle requires inspection by going on line or calling Honda. Honda owners can go to www.recalls.honda.com or call (800) 999-1009, and select option 4.


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I wonder why this question was closed as "unreal". There are surely some details missing, but there're thousands good questions which only became good after the details were asked for and subsequently added. I can imagine myself asking a very similar question one day (today I've installed the ADK and ran over a couple of hard-to-describe installation problems), so I'm really curios what's wrong with this one.
As the comments hardly allow formatting, I'm reacting here. At first glance, the answer saying "If a question is missing important details, it should be closed until those details appear." seemed enlightened to me. But after a while....
- How are the newbies supposed to know this (when it wasn't obvious to me)?
- Why can't this be clearly said in the reason for closure?
You might think that everybody first reads everything related to a web site, but the reality differs. The FAQ isn't of much help here, it's "overly broad" and specifies many potential reasons. Agreed, the question lacks details, but which ones? The newbie probably has no idea what details are relevant anyway, nor do they know how to find them out (specifically with things like installation it can get hard: imagine following a tutorial halfway only to find out it doesn't work anymore; try something else, etc., and then describe what you actually did and what version of what you really have).
Looking at the linked question makes clear that this site lost a potential user. This site has a lot of users, so you might not care....


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This just in from the NUMBER TWO television market in the country: The RX-8 looks exactly like the Fisker Karma!
The website of the LA-based TV show Whipnotic, which airs on KNBC (and claims to employ automotive "experts") has a story on the front page that reads:
Mazda's RX-8 is all grown up. Some visual and dynamic changes give the four-door sport coupe new life."
Yeah, how 'bout them dynamic changes? Like a plug-in hybrid drivetrain. And a new badge. And an $80,000 price tag. And, like — wait! It's a completely different car!


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Opportunities for Small & Disadvantaged Businesses
A Broadband MicroJobs Exchange
Freelancers in the IT field have a place where they can go and bid on small jobs to supplement their income. An example of this can be found at www.getafreelancer.com (for reference purposes only). I have worked with Telecom companies and I believe they would outsource a significant amount of their service calls to small and disadvantaged businessesonce it can be determined that the subcontractor does quality work.... more »
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WINNIPEG — Unless you've been on an interplanetary space flight, you're well aware of the angst being experienced by National Hockey League fans who need a shinny fix in the worst way.
The best I can offer is an accounting of the whereabouts of the Jewish players who are still pursuing their lifelong dream as NHL draftees and are now honing their game in junior or minor-pro ranks, not to mention those in their late 20s or early 30s who won't let go and are earning a few dollars in pro leagues in Germany, Austria, England, Switzerland and elsewhere.
Consider, for instance, never-say-die goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris, now 30. The Harvard University grad, who was a fifth-round draft pick by Philadelphia in 2002, has appeared in more than 260 minor league games with 14 different teams in five different countries.
He's paid his dues all right, but don't tell him he hasn't got a shot. Last year in with the San Antonio Rampage, the Florida Panthers' AHL farm team, he got into 34 games and boasted a goals against average (GAA) of 2.33, a save percentage of .921, with a won-lost mark of 19-13-1. He was credited with getting the Rampage into the playoffs. The Panthers recently signed the personable Grumet-Morris, whose wife, Rachel, is a surgeon in Houston, to a two-way deal.
Then there's Winnipeg's Jacob Micflickier, 28, who played last season with the Washington Capitals' top farm team, the Hershey Bears. The former college star at the University of New Hampshire is a left-handed shooting forward. In only 57 games last year, he potted 21 goals and added 35 assists.
The previous year, the 5-8, 180-pounder played with the AHL's Charlotte Checkers and had 29 goals and 32 assists in 78 games. This season, he's taken his game to Biel of the Swiss-A league, where in eight games, he's scored three goals and added three helpers. Micflickier reportedly sees the move to Europe as a way to jump-start his NHL aspirations.
Another Winnipegger, Brendan Leipsic, a 5-9, 175-pound forward, is free of the lockout and is playing in the Western Hockey League with the Portland Winterhawks.
Last summer in the NHL Entry Draft, the Nashville Predators took the fast-skating, hard-hitting forward in the third round, 89th overall. The 18-year-old son of mother Kathleen, a gymnast who represented Canada at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984, and dad Greg, a high school running back in the mid-1980s, scored 28 goals and earned 30 assists in 65 games. He doubtless impressed the scouts with his strong two-way game while recording a plus-16, demonstrating hard work at both ends of the ice. Thus far, Brendan has scored three goals and added three assists in nine games.
The only other Jewish player taken in last year's NHL entry draft was netminder Daniel Altshuller, who's in his second straight year with the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League. The Carolina Hurricances took the 18-year-old in the third round at 69th overall. He fills a lot of net at close to 6-4 and 201 pounds. The Nepean, Ont.-native played in 30 games last year and for junior hockey had a respectable GAA of 3.22 and a save percentage of .900. So far in his second campaign in Oshawa, he has a 7-1 record and a 2.74 GAA to go with a .909 save percentage.
Jewish defenceman Jonathon Blum, 23, will have a place to play with the AHL Milwaukee Admirals, the Predators' No. 1 farm team. The former Vancouver Giant of the Western Hockey League was selected by Nashville in the first round (23rd overall) in the 2007 NHL entry draft.
While he has played in 182 games with the Admirals since the 2008-09 season, the California-born skater, who is 6-1 and 190 pounds has played 56 games in the NHL and scored six goals along with nine assists. Primarily an offensive defenceman in junior, the parent club wants him to work on his defensive play. In the plus-minus department last season he was -14 in the NHL (33 games) and -11 (48 games) at Milwaukee.
In mid-September, Nashville signed Blum, a restricted free agent, to a one-year two-way deal. If he sticks in the NHL, he'll be paid $650,000, and in Milwaukee he would earn $105,000. The contract also guarantees that if he remains in the AHL all season, he'll get $300,000.
Ethan Werek, a 200-pound, 6-2 centre from Markham, Ont., will be back with the AHL's Portland Pirates. Originally drafted by the Rangers in the second round, 47th overall, in 2009, the 21-year-old was traded in May 2011 to the Coyotes for Oscar Lindberg.
The one-time Kingston Frontenac of the OHL – and an all-star at the junior level as well as a winner of a gold medal in the world under-17 challenge in 2008 – scored 10 goals and added nine assists in 69 games with the Pirates last winter. There are a few other veteran Jewish players still trying to eke out a living overseas.
Centre Cory Pecker, 31, a sixth-round pick of the Flames in the 1999 NHL entry draft, is playing in the English League with the Sheffield Steelers. Since 2007-08, he has been playing primarily overseas in the Swiss-B league.
Former Barrie Colts' star right-winger Michael Henrich, 32, a first-round draft pick at No. 13 by the Edmonton Oilers in 1998, hasn't played in North America since he went to Europe after the 2005-06 season. The Thornhill, Ont., skater never made it to the NHL with Edmonton, but he did play 219 AHL games. He's now playing with Dornburn in Austria after playing mostly in Germany and Italy.
Lastly, goalie Josh Tordjman, 27, has taken his act to Asiago of the Italian league. The Montreal puck stopper played 176 games in the AHL with San Antonio and got into a pair of NHL games with the Coyotes. In seven games with Asiago, Tordjman has a 3.22 goals against average and a save percentage of .900.


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Peter Jackson's take on the Hobbit won't be hitting theaters until December of next year, but there is now an official trailer that offers a sense of how the movie will look. Martin Freeman, from the original Office series on BBC and the latest film adaptation of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, plays a young Bilbo Baggins.
Watching the trailer, I started with the sense that the film seems to have a lighter, almost slapstick feel in places. Then, of course, things got somber. Take a look for yourself.
The first time I read The Hobbit I was on a car trip, and I devoured the entire thing in one sitting. The book has a few tonal shifts, and it can seem deeply silly at times, but the thing that always struck me was how well Bilbo was able to keep his head above water during situations that were like nothing else he had experienced in his life. The trailer captures a slice of that, but I think the movie is going to be challenged by the source material in a way we didn't see with the Lord of the Rings books. In the Hobbit characters could be silly, fun, heroic, and selfish. That's a contrast to the characters in Lord of the Rings, who were portrayed as archetypes as much as real people and creatures. The Hobbit is a more human book, even if everyone is a different race, and that makes it harder to recreate in film.
It's not surprising to see such a small amount of effects work when the movie's release is over a year away, so we're going to have to wait a little longer to catch a glimpse of Smaug. Still, I'm pleased. What do you think?


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Back in November, I wrote a feature story for IA magazine based on my white paper that explained why traditional business school strategies don't work very well in independent advisory firms, and what firm owners can do about it. Since then, I've been asked to give a number of speeches and write some follow- up articles on the subject, so I've spent some time mulling over various ways to talk about these issues that will resonate with advisors. One notion that's occurred to me is that among the biggest mistakes that I've see business owners make in the advisory world is thinking about "What" instead of "Who."
Let me explain. The "what" in my approach are the components of a business that we put down on paper: The business model, structure, organization chart, job descriptions, and the processes and procedures that describe how the business should run. This is where most business owners start, whether they are launching a company or reorganizing it to attain higher goals.
In fairness, this may be a good place to start if you're running a large corporation (although I doubt this is how the most successful companies do it). With smaller business, that have fewer resources and narrower margins for error, these paper "whats" are a far too theoretical way to think about the firm. Which brings us to the "whos," that is, the people who work in the business and prospective employees that you might hire.
It seems to me that smaller businesses (which lack HR departments that facilitate a revolving door of employees coming and going, formal training programs and pools of junior employees competing for advancement) are far more dependent on the strengths and weaknesses of their employees and on their ability to work together to build a successful firm. If that sounds like I'm talking about a team, I am. At least, that's how I think of advisory firms.
Moreover, just like any successful team, it's way more effective to design a strategy to fit the strengths and abilities of the employees you have than to create a strategy in a vacuum and then try to mold or hire employees who can make it work. Most owner/advisors already know this makes sense, because it's almost always the way they launched their businesses: based on their own strengths, their expertise, their experience, their people skills and the kind of clients for whom they have an affinity. However, many advisors forget these roots for one reason or another, and try to build their firms according to some paper plan.
I have found that firm owners will be much more successful if they take a more grassroots, ground-up approach, by organizing their businesses to: first, support and compliment their strengths, and then to support and compliment each of their employees.
Before you draw up the org chart and write the job descriptions, think about what each employee does best, and give them a job that uses that talent. Also think about how your employees work together, and be sure that compatible people are in jobs that require a lot of interaction. No, this isn't rocket science, and yet few firm owners actually think this way.
Sure, you can and should hire additional employees to meet a firm's needs, or holes in your existing team. But remember, how new employees will fit into your team should be your first consideration: simply hiring the candidate who looks the best on paper is taking a huge risk. Teams made up of superstars rarely work out well for long: Shaq and Kobe come to mind. And most advisory firms I know can't handle either the turnover or the payroll of the Yankees.


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Tension hung in the air, thicker and more pronounced than Demi Lovato's '80s-era eyebrows, on tonight's X Factor Top 12 results show. Even Khloe Kardashian could feel it: "Live on stage we've got a sensational performance from the incredible Taylor Swift!" she declared, eyes burning with ennui (or was she merely distracted by a shiny object dangling in the distance?).
Whatever the case, the telecast took a hideous turn within its first 20 minutes. No, I'm not talking about this exchange in which the Kardashian woman and cohost Mario "yes my soul is in the Lost & Found" Lopez were allowed to abandon the teleprompter following Ms. Swift's rendition of "State of Grace."
Khloe: "Great job! Hey! Now you have been a young star. You started really young. We have a lot of young contestants on the show. What advice would you give them?"
Taylor: "I think the advice I would give people is to just, no matter how tired you are or no matter what kind of bad day you're having, be nice to people. You know?"
Khloe: "Be nice! The Golden Rule! Abolutely!"
Mario: "Great advice! That's great advice just in life, too! You're exactly right! By the way, Taylor's new album Red is out in stores now! And aftet the break we're gonna find out which acts have made it through to the Top 10 and which two will have to sing for survivor [sic]! And later on we're gonna reveal the rankings of the Top 10, so please do not move!"
Right before that meeting of the minds, Mr. Lopez revealed — without the slightest bit of fanfare — news that totally broke my reality-competition-lovin' heart: Highly entertaining, high-energy rap act Lyric145 (and its sure-to-be-a-superstar frontwoman Lyric Da Queen) was the week's lowest vote-getter, and thus was being shown the exit without even a last-chance sing-off. WHY?! THE?! FACE?!
Of course, this being a double-elimination week, there was more blood to be spilled. Here's how the rest of the hour played out.
Sent to safety IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER
Arin Ray
Vino Alan
Carly Rose Sonenclar
Diamond White
Tate Stevens
Beatrice Miller
CeCe Frey
Fifth Harmony
Last chance sing-off
Jennel Garcia: A servicable albeit slightly tearful take on Hoobastank's "The Reason."
Paige Thomas: A butterfly-delicate, mostly on pitch cover of Coldplay's "Paradise," marked by hypnotically tossed-off phrasing.
Uh-oh. Despite the fact that Jennel had outperformed Paige every week on the show this season, she got outsung when it counted most. How would the judges vote?
L.A.: Eliminate Jennel
Britney: Eliminate Jennel
Simon: Refused to vote before Demi, invoking his role as Mario's boss to get his way
Demi: Eliminate Paige
Simon: In "an easy decision," Eliminate Jennel
Wait! If Simon had planned to send the Massachussets rocker to the guillotine anyway, why not just get it over with, instead of forcing Demi to publicly come out against one of the two acts she's got left in the Top 10? That's not keeping it real or entertaining, it's just keeping it obnoxious.
Yep, just like that, two of the acts this season with a real-world shot at being chart-topping successes are out of the competition. Who exactly voted for Paige, CeCe, Diamond, and Arin? (Sorry, Arin, but "Crazy for You" was a crazy mess.)
And finally, our hosts brought the Top 10 back to the stage to reveal the order of this week's votes:
10. Paige Thomas
9. Arin Ray
8. Beatrice Miller (who reacted to the news with a not-ready-for-primetime combo of bitterness and resignation)
7. Diamond White
6. Fifth Harmony
5. CeCe Frey
[Oh em gee! Just over three percent of the vote separates the top four!]
4. Emblem3
3. Vino Alan
2. Carly Rose Sonenclar
1. Tate Stevens
Wait, they forgot to mention where Lyric145 is ranked? Oh…
And with that, let me turn things over to you:
Did the right acts get sent home this week? If not, who dodged the proverbial bullet? What did you make of the voting order? And who's more painful: Khloe or Mario? Hit the comments with your thoughts!Follow @MichaelSlezakTV


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Further steps towards a European space policy (2nd Space Council)
ESA PR 29-2005. The second meeting of the Space Council – concomitant meeting of the ESA Council at ministerial level and of the European Union Competitiveness Council (Internal Market/Industry/Research) – was held at the Kiem Conference Centre in Luxembourg today.
In consultation with private and public stakeholders, the Space Council is working on the definition of a coherent space policy and associated programmes, covering the activities of the EU, ESA and their Member States. The objective is to endorse, at the third Space Council meeting planned for November this year, a European space policy and European space programme for the period to 2013.
The orientations for a European space programme are based on the Framework Agreement between the European Community and ESA and on the ESA Convention. At this second meeting, the Space Council confirmed that the European space policy should cover mainly the following:
- a European space strategy,
- a European space programme matching the strategy and reflecting associated costs and funding sources,
- a commitment by the main contributors as to their roles and responsibilities,
- the key principles of implementation.
The aim of the strategy is to develop increasingly advanced space systems according to user needs. All the benefits derived from associated services will have to be shared by all. The EU will have to identify user needs and build a political will around them. ESA and its Member and Cooperating States will develop future space technologies and systems and pursue excellence in space-based scientific research.
Priorities within the European space programme see the EU focusing on space-based applications to contribute to the achievement of its policies, particularly Galileo and the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme (GMES). ESA will focus on space exploration and on the basic tools on which the exploitation and exploration of space each depend. Securing guaranteed access to space through a complete, competitive family of launchers, pursuing excellence in space science, and exploiting its know-how in the exploration of the planetary system and in developing technologies to maintain a competitive space sector will be among ESA's main tasks.
The investments needed for these priorities for the EU, ESA and Member States will be identified in the coming months and go through each organisation's normal budgetary and programmatic approval procedures. By coordinating efforts, the players will ensure that new investments bring additional outcomes. Financing sources for space-related activities for the EU are the Seventh Framework Programme of research, technology and development, the trans-European network programme, and the competitiveness and innovation programme. ESA draws on Member States' contributions to mandatory and optional programmes.
EU space-related programmes will be managed in line with an efficiency criterion, in accordance with the Framework Agreement, and will benefit from ESA's technical and management experience, in cooperation with the relevant agencies and entities in Europe. ESA programmes will be managed in line with its Convention. Decisions on future programmes taken at ESA's ministerial Council meeting in December this year, and discussions on future EU financial prospects, will make it possible to determine whether the programme is consistent with the ambitions of the European space policy.
The second meeting of the Space Council was chaired jointly by Ms Edelgard Bulmahn, German Minister for Education and Research and current Chair of the ESA Council at ministerial level, and Mr François Biltgen, Minister for Labour and Employment, Minister for Culture, Higher Education and Research in Luxembourg, and current Chair of the EU Competitiveness Council. The meeting was also attended by Mr Günter Verheugen, European Commission Vice-President, in charge of enterprise, industry, competitiveness and space matters and by Mr Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency.
German Minister Edelgard Bulmahn said: " Today we are sending an important signal: ESA and EU are moving ahead on their way to put space at the service of the European citizen and the Policies of the EU. Building on the long-standing experience of ESA, the European Space Programme will enable Europe to face the political, economical and scientific challenges of tomorrow."
Luxembourg Minister François Biltgen said: "By agreeing on essential elements of the future European space policy, we have today taken a considerable step forward towards establishing a joint European space programme. Thus, the groundwork has been laid for the third Space Council planned for end-2005 to endorse a European space policy and programme."
Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen stated : "I am grateful for the full support the Space Council has given the Commission today. We will now work full speed ahead and complete our proposal for a European space policy and programme. This will identify programme priorities for future European development of space applications."
ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain said: "ESA has just turned 30. Thanks to the continuous support of its Member States, it has grown to make the European space sector one of the foremost competitors in the world and at the same time has become a respected partner. Now the European space policy is being integrated within the wider ambitions of Europe and space is set to become a much larger and more integrated undertaking in our future. ESA is prepared to adapt in order to take on an even greater role for Europe."
The Space Council was established in order to coordinate and facilitate cooperative activities between the European Community and ESA through their Framework Agreement, which was adopted in 2003 and entered into force in May 2004.
The first Space Council meeting took place in Brussels on 25 November 2004.
The EC-ESA Framework Agreement has two main aims. The first is the coherent, gradual development of an overall European space policy, which will specifically seek to link demand for services and applications using space systems in support of EU policies with the supply through ESA of space systems and infrastructures necessary to meet that demand. ESA is acting de facto EU implementing agency.
The second aim of the Agreement is to establish a common basis and appropriate practical arrangements for efficient and mutually beneficial cooperation between ESA and the European Community, fully respecting the institutional and operational frameworks of each institution, to facilitate the setting up of joint initiatives and to provide a stable framework for EC-ESA cooperation to benefit all European citizens.
Over the last three years, the EU and ESA have worked together to outline a European space policy that identifies and prioritises objectives for space. The European space programme – expected to be endorsed by a Space Council session at the end of 2005 – will constitute a common platform including all activities and measures to be undertaken by the EC, ESA and other stakeholders in order to achieve the objectives set by the European space policy.
The European space programme will be drawn up in light of the overall recommendations set out in the White Paper on Space, an action plan adopted by the European Commission in November 2003 for implementing an enlarged European space policy. Drafted in cooperation with ESA, the White Paper includes proposals for joint EC-ESA initiatives and takes the Framework Agreement as its basis for implementation.
For further information, please contact:
Barbara Dufner
Spokesperson for Minister Edelgard Bulmahn
Federal Ministry for Education and Research, Berlin
Tel.: +49 1888 57 5175
Pierre Decker
Ministry for Culture, High Education and Research
Research and Innovation Department
Tel. : +352.478.5216
Gregor Kreuzhuber
Spokesman for Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen
Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, in charge of competitiveness and space matters
Tel.: + 32 2 296 65 65
Franco Bonacina
Spokesman for ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain
Tel. : + 33 (0)1 53 69 71 55


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Passion Attendees Give $227,000 for Bible Translation in Mali
College students attending the Passion Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, this past weekend exceeded the set goal and gave over $227,000 to fund a Bible translation project in the Western African nation of Mali.
Currently, members of that particular people group in Mali have no access to the Bible in their own language. But now with the money given by students attending the Passion 2011 Fort Worth conference, the people group will receive translation of 90 Bible stories into their "heart" or native language over the next five years.
"They don't have one verse in their heart language," emphasized Louie Giglio, founder of the Passion conference, on Saturday. "And what an amazing thought that in the unfolding of history, God chose us to put Scripture in the hands of 500,000 people in Mali."
By Sunday, the last day of the conference, students had given $227,418, exceeding the Do Something Now goal of $220,350 to fully fund the translation.
Passion's Do Something Now campaign seeks to introduce students to global causes and offers them ways to put their faith into action.
Other DSN causes in the past include providing: clean water wells for remote villages; micro-loans for poor families in Afghanistan; one year of food for children in South Africa; homes for families displaced by the earthquake in Haiti; vocational training for girls rescued from the sex trade; and surgeries for babies in Uganda suffering from hydrocephalus, or "water on the brain."
During the three-day youth event, Giglio announced the newest cause to the Do Something Now campaign. Over the next 60 days, the nearly 10,000 students attending the Passion 2011 conference in Fort Worth are responsible for spreading the word about Haiti Rising.
The Haiti Rising cause seeks to raise money to buy heavy equipment to remove rubble left by Haiti's earthquake last year. On the cause's webpage, organizers highlight that it would take a dozen workers using hammers months to clear one two-story home. But a heavy equipment team using an excavator and a dump truck can do the same job in one day.
"Many of the issues that plague Haiti's rebirth are complex, yet rubble removal is not," read the DSN page for Haiti Rising. "One month vs. one day … Until the rubble is gone, rebuilding cannot begin. Together, we can help clear the way, creating the possibility for families, schools, businesses and churches to rise again."
As of Monday morning, the DSN campaign has raised $72,835 out of the goal of $739,020 for partner Samaritan's Purse to clear rubble in Haiti using heavy equipment.
In addition to the various global causes, students attending the Passion conference also donated more than 5,700 towels and 31,200 socks to the local homeless community in Fort Worth.
They also donated $14,091 to purchase and send mosquito nets to people in Africa.
"Do Something Now is our way at Passion of saying 'worship is about justice,'" said Giglio. "It's about action and lifestyle. If our worship is for God, we've got to combine that with everything we've got to touch people in Jesus' name."
Michelle A. Vu
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Obama: Oath on a Sunday, ceremony on a Monday
- Obama to have a private swearing-in on Jan. 20 -- a Sunday
- A public ceremony, parade, and balls will be on Monday, Jan. 21
- The "Sunday exception" has affected previous presidents
President Obama's inaugural committee confirmed Thursday that he will take his second oath-of-office in a private ceremony on Jan. 20 -- a Sunday -- with the parade, balls, and other public events to take place the next day.
The president and first lady Michelle Obama will also sponsor a National Day of Service on Saturday, Jan. 19, said the 2013 Presidential Inaugural Committee.
"In keeping with tradition for Inauguration Days that fall on a Sunday, the President will participate in a small private swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20," the committee said in a statement. "The President's public swearing-in, the parade and the official Inaugural balls will take place on Monday, January 21."
The Martin Luther King, Jr., memorial holiday is also on that Monday.
The "Sunday exception" also affected inaugurations of presidents James Monroe, Zachary Taylor, Rutherford B. Hayes, Woodrow Wilson, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan.
On the National Day of Service, the committee said, the president and first lady Michelle Obama will ask Americans to honor King's memory by organizing service projects in their communities. The Obamas, Vice President Biden and wife Jill Biden, and members of the Cabinet will also participate in service projects that day.
The inaugural committee also announced that the four living presidents would serve as honorary co-chairs Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.
The other co-chairs for the 2013 Presidential Inaugural Committee: Ambassador Matthew Barzun, National Finance Chair of President Obama's reelection campaign and former Ambassador to Sweden; Eva Longoria, Actress, Obama for America Campaign Co-Chair and Founder of the Eva Longoria Foundation; Jane Stetson, National Finance Chair of the Democratic National Committee; and Frank White, former member of the National Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprises.
"Vice President Biden and I are grateful to these distinguished women and men for agreeing to serve as co-chairs and honorary co-chairs, including Presidents from both sides of the aisle who have dedicated their lives to serving the American people," Obama said in a statement. "This year's Inaugural will reflect our belief that working together, we can keep moving our country forward and fulfill the promise of the American Dream for all families."


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HootSuite Adds Support For MailChimp, RSS Reader, More
Hootsuite is expanding its App Directory, adding support for MailChimp, Chime.in, Identi.ca, Vision Critical Surveys, and RSS Reader. The new apps are available starting Tuesday for all 4 million of HootSuite's Free, Pro and Enterprise clients.
"Businesses today are social. Success depends on connecting with customers instantly across multiple social media channels and networks. The growth of our App Directory gives clients an impressive arsenal of tools to do this, all in a single place," says HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes. "Our goal, as we close in on six million users by end of year, is to continue aggressively integrating leading apps, turning our dashboard into the mother of all SaaS resources for the social business."
Tuesday's apps bring a number of interesting additions to the service, particularly for business users.
MailChimp: Allows you to view and search for recent campaigns, as well as share campaigns to social networks and view campaign results.
Chime.in: Chime.in integration allows you to schedule and send chimes from within HootSuite, as well as view and leave comments, and preview photos and video.
Identi.ca: Identi.ca users can now post status updates, monitor their timeline and messages, view conversations, and track replies.
Vision Critical Surveys: Now you can share surveys from Vision Critical Survey's with your social networks, and monitor results in real time.
RSS Reader: The RSS Reader app lets you view your RSS feeds within Hootsuite and easily share those stories with your social networks from your HootSuite dashboard.
"While we offer social capabilities and tracking inside our own application we know that the most important thing for small businesses is convenience," says MailChimp Head of Integrations and Partnerships, Amy Ellis. "So many small businesses use HootSuite to manage and measure their brand's presence on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and more. We're excited that this integration will also allow them to manage the sharing of their email campaigns across those networks as well."
HootSuite launched the App Directory enabling third-party developers to build extensions into the dashboard platform late last year. Applications currently available include Constant Contact, Digg, Flickr, Get Satisfaction, InboxQ, Orkut, TrendSpottr, Tumblr, and YouTube. HootSuite natively supports Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+ Pages.
What do you think about the new additions to HootSuite's App Directory? Is there any addition you're particularly excited about? What apps would you like to see supported in the future? Let us know in the comments.


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As I've noted before, I don't usually write about the people or the companies that I consult with, due to the obvious conflicts of interest. With that said, one of the benefits that I get out of working on an ongoing basis with companies that help independent advisors to better service their clients and run more successful businesses, is that I often get a deeper understanding of the challenges that advisors face and potential solutions to those problems.
A very good example of this symbiosis has been my work with business consultant, human resources specialist and fellow Investment Advisor columnist Angie Herbers. Over the nearly 10 years that I've worked with Angie, I've learned a great deal about the issues involved in running an advisory firm, particularly about hiring and working with employees. During that time, a significant part of Angie's business has involved recruiting employees for advisory firms. We've spent countless hours discussing the limitations of the available information regarding employee salaries and total compensation, and how she's had to compile her own data to create realistic compensation plans. Our conversations have usually ended with: "Someday, we ought to publish our data so that the entire advisory industry can figure out what they should be paying people."
I'm happy to say that day arrived on Aug. 24, when Angie launched her Salary Advisor on AngieHerbers.com. The Salary Advisor is an online tool that enables advisors or employees to answer some simple questions that describe any job within an advisory firm and quickly get an accurate salary and total compensation range for what people in a similar capacity get paid. It's simple and is based on over a decade of extensive experience structuring compensation packages for advisory employees.
As anyone who's tried to use industry salary tables quickly finds out, there are shortcomings in much of this data that can lead to unfortunate errors and misunderstandings. The basic problem with existing salary data, as I've come to understand it, is the lack of consistency in job titles across the industry. In some cases, data gatherers are simply willing to go with the titles used by the firms surveyed, without bothering to determine what duties the employees in question actually perform. Someone might be called a lead advisor at one firm, a senior advisor at another firm and an associate advisor at a third firm. Consequently, determining whether the salary ranges given for any of those jobs is applicable to someone working in your firm is difficult if not impossible.
In her Salary Advisor, Angie avoids this confusion by basing her compensation ranges on the factors that determine an employee's value to an advisory firm, rather than anyone's description of his or her job. To do this, Angie and her team conducted an extensive analysis of their database of employees and their compensation, concluding that there are really only five factors that determine an employee's compensation level: Firm size, experience, training and education, responsibility and what one might call their team potential.
Firm size is the most straightforward: Virtually all the available data shows that people who work for larger firms simply make more money. In part, that's probably because larger firms tend to have larger clients that create greater economies of scale and leverage, which is shared by their entire staff (in various degrees). We can argue about the fairness of this fact, but in the end, it's simply an economic reality that the entire industry might as well learn to live with.
Experience, of course, is usually measured in years in the financial services industry, but some experiences are more valuable than others. For example, two senior advisors, each with 10 years' experience, might have a considerable difference in compensation; one could have nine years' experience as a junior advisor and only one year as a lead advisor while the other has four years in a support role and six years in a lead role.
What's more, various industry backgrounds tend to be valued quite differently by different firms. For instance, an agent with 15 years of experience selling life insurance might be considered qualified for a senior advisor position in a large, full-service firm, but may only be qualified for a junior position at a firm that focuses exclusively on financial planning. The same might be the case for experienced brokers, trust officers, paraplanners and even accountants.
Training and education generally falls into either professional positions, or non-professional and staff positions. What qualifies as "professional training" can also vary from firm to firm, though CFPs, CFAs, CPAs and attorneys are almost always considered professionals, while the status of folks with an MBA, a CLU, a ChFC, or EA will often depend on the firm and the services it offers. Even among professional designations, some are typically valued more highly than others. Investment managers with a CFA, for instance, are usually paid on the higher end of the professional salary range. Staff positions mostly speak for themselves, although increasingly, people with technology, marketing and business management experience are valued highly, and consideration is given for their potential to reach a professional or even a partnership level.
Responsibility accounts for what might be considered the importance or impact that an employee has on the success of the firm. Rainmakers come to mind here; the ability to attract new clients can have a major impact on everyone in the firm. So do folks who manage other people, as well as senior advisors who have responsibility for client service and well-being.
Finally, there's "team potential." This is the hardest of the value factors to quantify, but ironically, might also be the most important. As Angie often writes in her columns for Investment Advisor and AdvisorOne.com, the success of small businesses such as advisory firms is extremely dependent on the ability of owners and employees to work together toward the common goal of serving clients in the best way possible. Just as we see with professional athletes, some people have a greater ability to work with others, increasing their motivation and inspiring them to work harder and perform better than they otherwise would. It's a skill set that savvy employers value at least as highly as experience and professional training.
In the Salary Advisor, Angie asks seven questions that get to the heart of each of these value factors. The first three are pretty straightforward: "What is the gross annual revenue of your firm?" "What is your level of education?" "Do you have a designation?"
The fourth question, "In what state is your firm located?" accounts for both a cost of living adjustment based on the latest CPI figures, and a higher demand for advisory employees in states such as California and New York.
The next two questions—"What is your primary role in your job?" and "What is your secondary role?"—allow people to pick from an extensive list of possibilities and are the heart of the salary tool. The answers to these questions determine what the person in question actually does, rather than the job title he or she has been given.
Lastly, there's, "What job title best describes your position?" Although related to a job description and somewhat subjective, there's a subtle difference here as well. This isn't asking what the firm calls one's job; rather it's asking how the person using the tool would describe the job. Whether it's the employee or the boss, people's descriptions of a job tend to be lot more accurate than the formal job descriptions written for an organizational chart. The Salary Advisor uses this answer to confirm the roles described in questions five and six are pointing toward the same job.
Like many seemingly complex tasks such as writing a financial plan or creating an investment portfolio, when they are performed by intelligent people over many years, it becomes obvious that the number and range of variables involved is smaller than one would expect. The truly valuable insight is correctly identifying what those factors are. I'm not an entirely disinterested party here, but to my mind, the Salary Advisor is a major advancement in the way advisory firm compensation will be calculated. I'll let you be the judge.


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Saturday, February 4, 2012
Peppermint Soap for Laundry
11 comments:
- AMOffenwanger said...
Is it kind of pink-ish? My first shortening batch turned out pink, too. I wonder why. It sure looks yummy though. Don't take a bite, you'll regret it.
- February 4, 2012 at 3:24 PM
- Katherine said...
Cool! You're cranking out homemade soap like crazy, I'm majorly impressed. Well done, Heather!
Glad you found the silver lining in the flooding of the basement. Ack. Hope things are set to rights soon and all your Spring cleaning ahead of time will leave you more time in the garden.
- February 4, 2012 at 5:18 PM
- 3rnigerians said...
I love it. it's been years since I made soap with lye. I need to get back into that this year. It's alot of fun and works so good. Please consider sharing this post by linking up to my blog hop here:
AND- Farmgirl Friday Hop here:
- February 4, 2012 at 5:38 PM
- Steven said...
Hi Heather
Nice post, I have been making soap since 2010 and there is nothing better..... our signature soap is Olive Oil Soap….check it out sometime....luv ur work.
PS will be reading your post on "Favorite Curry" they are big in our house too!!!
- February 4, 2012 at 11:00 PM
- Andrea said...
Hi Heather,
I just found your blog and it's great! I was wondering if you would mind if I used your picture of whole comfrey leaf (from back in 2010) on my own blog--with credit of course! I'm writing a post about the basis for toxicity in foxgloves and I'd like to show how similar its leaves can look to comfrey. Your pic would be perfect...please let me know if that'd be ok.
- February 6, 2012 at 1:10 PM
- Heather said...
Angelika, it did look a bit pinkish (altho now it doesn't) but I wasn't too concerned because I had read here that it could happen - something to do with manganese??
- February 6, 2012 at 7:06 PM
- daisy g said...
I can't wait to try soap making. What's the best type of pot to use? I am planning to purchase one at the thrift store.
- February 7, 2012 at 5:28 AM
- Heather said...
Hi Daisy,
That website I linked with the soap-making info. has lots of tips for making soap (from a way more experienced soap-maker);-). I just used one of my big stainless steel pots, I checked with a soap-making friend and she said that I didn't need to have a separate soap only pot although I do have a separate (thrifted) immersion hand blender and wooden spoon that I keep just for soap making.
- February 8, 2012 at 8:39 AM
- Only in Louisiana ~ documenting the adventures we call Life! said...
Going to study all these links as I want to learn how to make soap...thanks for the info!
- February 9, 2012 at 9:57 AM
Any idea what i can use as a Substitute for shortening and Dr Bronners? Thanks
- February 26, 2012 at 10:08 AM
- Heather said...
Hi Anon, the shortening was what I used to make homemade bars of soap and then, once made, I grated those bars of soap to make the homemade soap powder - there is no shortening added to the laundry powder. If you don't want to use your own homemade soap or Dr Bronner's soap then you can just substitute any plain soap and grate that instead. The recipe for the laundry powder is linked to in the blog post and it uses grated soap, baking soda, washing soda and borax.
- February 27, 2012 at 7:36 AM


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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) When Larry Nelson won the last Father-Son Challenge with son Drew, the runner-up duo included a high school freshman just beginning to grow into his body and his swing.
Look at Dru Love now.
The son of Davis Love III stands 6-foot-3, a five-time Georgia state champion now trying to crack the lineup of a No. 1 Alabama team that includes a U.S. Amateur semifinalist and two second-team All-Americans.
And if you think he's big, check out Arnold Palmer's partner this week. Grandson Will Wears is a 6-foot-5 high school senior who plays basketball during Pennsylvania's winter season.
``Yeah, it's been a while,'' Nelson said Friday.
After a three-year absence, the scramble event returns this weekend at Grande Lakes Orlando's Ritz-Carlton Golf Club.
``When your son's with you, you'd better be competitive,'' said Jack Nicklaus, joined by son Gary this week. ``And your son had better be competitive. Both of you want to show each other that you can play.''
The event had a 14-year run from 1995-2008 before sponsorship issues dropped it from the schedule. It was such a hit among its Hall of Fame participants, though, that organizers never set the concept aside.
With Palmer's help, the event was revived in March with PNC Bank as sponsor.
``It's exciting to think that they want to play as badly as they do,'' Palmer said when the return was formally announced. ``So they bring their sons, their daughters - whatever it might be - and it's pretty exciting.''
The field features 18 major champions or Players Championship winners, paired with their offspring. In the case of guys like Nicklaus, Nelson and Raymond Floyd, they've had to let two sons alternate years.
``It's fun to come and compete on the big stage - or what feels like a big stage to us,'' said Josh Nelson, who helped Team Nelson to the 2007 title but stepped aside a year later as brother Drew helped bring the family another title. ``We relish it. Every year, we were hoping to hear that they would get a sponsor and we're just really thankful for PNC stepping up.''
Dru Love - formally Davis Love IV but with a nickname shortened from the word ``quadruple'' - was 14 at the last Father-Son. As exciting as it was to challenge the Nelsons down the stretch, the company he was keeping was no less memorable.
``Getting out with your dad and playing a scramble is no big deal,'' he said. ``But when you jump out there with - last (time) we had Shark (Greg Norman) and Vijay (Singh) - that was really cool.''
Lee Trevino and Daniel Trevino also are playing along with Nick Faldo and Matthew Faldo, Hale Irwin and Steve Irwin, Vijay Singh and Qass Singh, Steve Elkington and Sam Elkington, Raymond Floyd and Robert Floyd, Lee Janzen and Connor Janzen, Bernhard Langer and Christina Langer, Sandy Lyle and James Lyle, Mark O'Meara and Shaun O'Meara, David Duval and Nick Karavites, Dave Stockton and David Stockton, Lanny Wadkins and Tucker Wadkins, and Fuzzy Zoeller and Gretchen Zoeller.


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Akela Pharma, Inc. announces Board of Director transition
Sep 21, 2012, 18:17 ET
AUSTIN, TX, Sept. 21, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - Akela Pharma, Inc. (TSX: AKL) today announced that Mr. Beng Lai is stepping down as a member of the Board of Directors of Akela Pharma, Inc. in order that he can devote more time to his principal business role as the President of a registered securities dealer.
Mr. Lai joined the Board of Akela in December of 2010. "Beng has served on Akela's Board of Directors for nearly two years. He has been a valued member of the Board and we thank him for his commitment and his many contributions to the company during his tenure" said Mr. Seth E Lemler, Chairman of the Board of Akela. "We wish him the best of success in all of his future endeavors."
About Akela Pharma, Inc.
Akela Pharma, Inc. is the parent company of PharmaForm, and its common shares trade on The Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") under the symbol "AKL" with 32.4 million shares outstanding.
Akela Pharma Inc.'s common shares trade on The Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") under the symbol "AKL" with 32.4 million shares outstanding.
This press release contains statements which may constitute forward-looking information under applicable Canadian securities legislation or forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1955. Such forward-looking statements or information may include financial and other projections as well as statements regarding the company's future plans, objectives, performance, revenues, growth, profits, operating expenses or the company's underlying assumptions. The words "may", "would", "could", "will", "likely", "expect", anticipate", "intend", "plan", "forecast", "project", "estimate" and "believe" or other similar words and phrases may identify forward-looking statements or information. Persons reading this press release are cautioned that such statements or information are only expectations, and that the company's actual future results or performance may be materially different.
Forward-looking statements or information in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements or information concerning our ongoing drug development programs and collaborations as well as the possible receipt of future payments upon achievement of milestones.
Such forward-looking statements or information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, events or developments to be materially different from results, events or developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or information. Such factors include, among others, the possibility that risks associated with requirements for approvals by government agencies such as the FDA before products can be tested in clinical trials; the possibility that such government agency approvals will not be obtained in a timely manner or at all or will be conditioned in a manner that would impair our ability to advance development; risks associated with the requirement that a drug candidate be found safe and effective after extensive clinical trials; our dependence on suppliers, collaborative partners and other third parties and the prospects and timing for negotiating supply agreements, corporate collaborations or licensing arrangements; our ability to attract and retain key personnel; and other factors as described in detail in our filings with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities at http://www.sedar.com.
Assumptions underlying our expectations regarding forward-looking statements or information contained in this press release include, among others, that future clinical trial results will be favorable; that our drug candidate will treat target diseases as intended; that we will raise enough capital, on reasonable terms and in a timely manner; that we will retain our key personnel; that we will obtain the necessary regulatory approvals.
In the event that any of these assumptions prove to be incorrect, or in the event that we are impacted by any of the risks identified above, we may not be able to continue in our business as planned.
For a complete discussion of the assumptions, risks and uncertainties related to our business, you are encouraged to review our filings with Canadian securities regulatory authorities, filed on SEDAR at http://www.sedar.com.
All forward-looking statements and information made herein are based on our current expectations as of the date hereof and we disclaim any intention or obligation to revise or update such forward-looking statements and information to reflect subsequent events or circumstances, except as required by law.
For further information:
Akela Pharma, Inc.
Rudy J. Emmelot
President and Chief Executive Officer
Tel: (866) 977-7771