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Okay, I know that everyone seen them. Yet, I will like to make them. PULL APART CUPCAKES!!!!!
Does my frosting need to be thick to make the base of the top decoration? What are some pointers regarding do's and do not's for this type of decoration?
I am feeling pretty nervous about it (lack of knowledge is the culprit)......
Do you mean a cupcake cake with seperate cupcakes glued on a board with icing?? or like a pull apart cinnamon bun thingy..
When I make cupcake cakes, I just trim off the very top of the dome on each cupcake, place them on a cake base (with no icing underneath), put a fairly thick layer of regular buttercream on top and decorate just like any cake. The cupcakes need to be staggered from row to row to minimize the spaces between them. I usually put a border around the cake, following the edges of the outside cupcakes. HTH!
@Kiddiekakes-pull apart cupcakes=individual cupcakes glued (with frosting) to the cake board.
@Marianna46-thanks for the tip on staggering. It seemed obvious but didn't think of that. The border tip is a good one. I was wondering how to minimize any excess frosting falling between the cupcakes.
Just adding my 2 cents.
i put a very small amount of buttercream on the bottom so they stay in place when I'm spreading my icing and it doesn't shift in the box. i don't trim the tops (unless they're REALLLY domed nor do I stagger them, I place them side by side. so for example if you're doing 20 cupcakes, make a 4x5 rectangle on your board. i then take a boarder bag and outline the outer edges of the cupcackes in buttercream, then i ice over them.
if you're not comfortable with just icing them over you can cover the top of each cupcake with the same boarder bag (a little more than you would if you were just icing one cupcake) and then spread from there so you're basically just smoothing out the top while taking off any excess icing. Just make sure your layer is thick enough because if your cupcakes are chocolate and the icing is too think it will turn a rusty brown looking color.
its all a matter of personal preference though. However you choose to do it...goodluck!!!!
I've only made one once, but my instructor gave me a great tip. She suggested I bake the cupcakes in the same shape as the final product. I wanted a circle, so I put my filled liners on a pizza pan and baked them like that. It eliminated the gaps between cuppies! I also used a large icing tip to frost and then smoothed the icing after it was already on, rather than trying to apply the icing with a knife or blade. The cuppies moved around too much. Good luck!
@mandysue-how are you baking these in the shape that you want them to become? Are you using the individual tin foil cupcake liners (seems like the obvious answer but just checking)? The large icing tip trick sounds very managable.
Thanks everyone for the posts.
Yep, I just used cupcake liners. The cupcake won't be perfectly round when finished. It will be mishapen so it can fit next to the other cupcakes, but I don't think that matters. The frosting looks bad when they are pulled apart anyway. Good luck!
I just couldn't wait to post this: BUT THE PULL APART CUPCAKE TIPS WORKED
I put frosting on the bottom of the cupcakes as suggested. I was more so nervous about the frosting bit. In some areas the frosting sunk a little between the cracks and crevice. Yet the design held up.
ONE Note: Make sure that the cupcake sizes (the tops shapes) are similar in shape. It makes frosting easier. I used to different types of muffin tins. A MISTAKE!!!! It affects the size of the cupcakes (width and height). Make sure that there is some consistency and everything should work out fine.
(Just to add: I frosted 2 pullapart cakes 2 dozen each for two classes: a monster from WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE and a scarecrow. )
glad you were able to get it done! and yeah, the cupcakes all being the same size will make a huge difference in how easy it is to ice them!!!!!


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- New Product Development (NPD) takes place within a web of connected actors who do not master fully the objects of the process, but rather they interpret the affordance - the en-abling and constraining framing by objects such as sketches, drawings, specifications, mock-ups and prototypes. The article draws on critical comments and extends Hutchby's concept of affordance. Even if Hutchby does not study an artefact as a micro-level phe-nomenon from an engineering perspective and only considers the consumption of an arte-fact, we use him to study the development of artefacts in NPD. Hutchby's approach con-sists of a functional and a relational dimension. We haul the functional dimension at both ends by employing an engineering and a sociological view. This is done by first viewing an artefact as consisting of different sub-systems and components and second by understand-ing design as a combination of reading and writing text in a situated context. The relational dimension is extended by employing American pragmatism. The empirical part of the arti-cle consists of four case studies of NPD in enterprises (under pseudonyms). Two cases fo-cus predominantly on technical issues of NPD, whereas two are more in the sociological direction. Alpha employs the artefact as a drawing and/or a mock-up in order to understand the customer's situation, Golf applies a draft version of the customer's CAD-drawing to translate the requirement to the toolmaker, Juliett utilises drawings and specifications to negotiate technical and non-technical aspects alike, while Sierra uses a CAD-system to support joint-development crossing organisational boundaries. The cases share features such as triadic relations; customer's problem, product designers and artefact. For example, a wheelchair is presented to Sierra, the result of NPD-activities carried out by a professional golfer. Two product designers interpret the affordance of the wheelchair and compare it with the intended functionality explained by the golfer – we denote it intended affordance; the identified gap is used to rewrite the design. Next, the affordance of both proposals is discussed and the selected solution forms the basis of a new writing process. The cases also share the tension between and combination of hardness of some elements of the product and the malleability of others. Finally, the perception of an artefact is not an isolated and individualistic activity, but a process where human agency makes use of a network in which social and material factors constitute the interpretation. Our findings thus substanti-ate that artefacts frame the possibilities for action within NPD.
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CHRIS Brown confesses he's in love with Rihanna AND model Karrueche Tran in a
candid new video.
The singer poured his heart out to fans in the self-pitying clip, shot in the
back of a car in New York just hours after he announced his split from the
23-year old model.
He said: "I'm stressed out. When you share a history with somebody then
you fall in love with somebody else, it's difficult.
"Is there such a thing as loving two people? I don't know if it's
possible, but for me, I feel like that.
"I'm being real I don't wanna hurt either. I'm not trying to be a player.
I just care too much."
His slurred speech is interspersed with shots of him looking moody and
tortured and footage of him with both his exes – including images of him
cuddling up to Rihanna, 24, during nights out in New York this week.
Chris, 23, posted the video on Twitter early this morning, along with the
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It was his second outpouring in just hours – after he confirmed he had ended
his relationship with Karrueche in a statement.
He said: "I have decided to be single to focus on my career. I love
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"I'd rather be single allowing us to both be happy in our lives."
Karrueche was rocked by the news – and his tormented video confession did
little to ease her pain.
After watching it, she took to Twitter to express her anguish, writing a
string of tweets to followers.
She said: "Wtf is going on? All I'm saying is.. You don't mess with
people's genuine feelings. You just don't!
"Life moves on.. So let's all."
Chris and Karrueche started dating early last year.
His relationship with Rihanna ended when he was arrested for brutally
attacking her in his car after they'd attended a pre-Grammys party in 2009.
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Nicki Minaj – Pink Friday Roman Reloaded Review
1. Roman Holiday
2. Come on a Cone
3. I Am Your Leader feat. Cam'ron & Rick Ross
4. Beez in the Trap feat. 2 Chainz
5. HOV Lane
6. Roman Reloaded feat. Lil Wayne
7. Champion feat. Nas, Drake, & Young Jeezy
8. Right By My Side feat. Chris Brown
9. Sex in the Lounge feat. Lil Wayne & Bobby V
10. Starships
11. Pound the Alarm
12. Whip It
13. Automatic
14. Beautiful Sinner
15. Marilyn Monroe
16. Young Forever
17. Fire Burns
18. Gun Shot feat. Beenie Man
19. Stupid Hoe
Self-proclaimed hip hop queen and brash Young Money artist Nicki Minaj came up by success of her mixtape, depicting a no-nonsense, bad a** b**** who would take down any rapper – male or female – in her rise to the top. In 2009, Young Money Entertainment took notice, and signed Minaj. One year later, she released Pink Friday and created an album that was both critically and commercially successful. Having the perfect blend of in your face lyricism with a bit of Lil Wayne infused metaphorical quips, she put out an album that was enough to satiate the need of hardcore hip hop lovers and a much larger market at the same time. After the success of Pink Friday, Nicki opted to continue on her creative journey and developed a character to feed off of in some songs. Not unlike Marshall Mathers's Slim Shady persona, Roman Zolanski is an alter ego of Nicki Minaj who is said to be a wild, fashion afficianado with an odd love for violence and gun fire. In Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, Roman takes center stage. Is the alter ego of Nicki Minaj strong enough to stand on its own, or does it have more fizz than the poppiest of albums?
Immediately off the bat, Minaj starts with a song that is about as jarring and annoying as a friend who thinks British accents are cool. Rather than focusing on the creation of a song worth listen to, she bangs over the listener's head with more voice changes than Robin Williams on crack. Both "Roman Holiday" and "Come on a Cone," the lead off tracks, leave much to be desired, mixing Nicki's "I forgot to breathe" raps with her accent-full choruses and beg the listener to lower the volume…all the way down.
Just as she started the album, Nicki ends it with another mess of a song in "Stupid Hoe" that displays just how many different ways she can change her voice whilst insulting any other female MC that is out there. An annoyingly repetative rap with some average lyrics and below average hook that disproves Nicki's ability to sing more than it proves anything.
Thankfully, the album takes a sharp turn north with the first song featuring guest starred tracks "I Am Your Leader" and "Beez in the Trap." "Leader" has Rick Ross pulling out one of the better single verses I've heard from the big man, including a beautiful wrestling reference in "Monday Night with the RAW, I'm Vince McMahon on the beat." Not to be outshined, Cam'ron comes with a nice verse as well. Of course, it is Nicki's track, and she does her job dilligently, reminding me that she can actually rap without the perk of voice altering nuisances. "Beez" surprised me in its simplicity, reminding me of an early 90's track. You can almost hear The Beastie Boyz in the background, begging to get on the track. A great showing by Nicki here, although I didn't need the geography lesson in the last verse.
Speaking of guest stars, Nas, Drake and Young Jeezy show up on the track "Champion," and pull more than their fair share of weight, seemingly inspiring Nicki to step her game up as she drops any voice altering and auto-tune (well, at least when it comes to the verses). The song is deep, and probably holds much more emotional weight than any other track on the album, proving that Nicki has the chops to pull off a song that isn't all about her being the "baddest bitch."
There's a hiccup of quality once we reach the first track that guest stars Lil Wayne " Roman Reloaded," as he displays some of the laziest rapping I've heard from the man. Seriously, with lyrics like "Weezy F, and the F is for Fill in the blanks" it feels like Wayne is doing just that. The track's production is also way too overloaded with practically every cheap trick in the booth. It's almost as if someone picked one aspect of every hit of 2011 and put it into this one song. Nicki does her best talking about how she is the best, but Wayne really drags this and his other guest starring track, "Sex in the Lounge" that has such gems as "Like I get that pussy wetter than a dirty sewer." How is that even close to appealing? Nicki's verse on the track has little to do with the rest of the song, and honestly, who has sex in the lounge?
The first single off of the album, "Starships" marks a direct and blatant change in the entirety of the album, and this is probably where Nicki makes her gravest mistake. Nearly every song after "Starships" is no different than the number of club tracks that have taken over the airwaves of 2011, with the surgence of Taio Cruz, David Guetta and the producer, RedOne. In fact, he's on more than one track here, and it shows. For the rest of the album, hip hop is left in the dust as Nicki tries her best to channel Rihanna and Beyonce in love ballads like "Right By My Side," "Fire Burns," and "Gun Shot," and "Young Forever." She feeds off of her inner Gaga and Madonna with tracks like "Beautiful Sinner," "Pound the Alarm." "Automatic" and "Whip It." The only problem is that each one of these people do a better job than Nicki. It's almost as if Nicki would serve better in a guest spot for each of these other females' albums. Instead, we're left with Nicki Minaj ft. Nicki Minaj, and it comes off as annoying and weak. Not to say that some of the songs aren't annoyingly addicting, because there is something to be said about these songs, and there is most definitely a place for it in the grand scheme of things, but if Nicki's "job" here was to create an album that allowed the character of Roman Zolanski to appear as a force to be reckoned with, then she failed miserably, seemingly forgetting that this was her album about halfway through.
Standout Tracks: "I Am Your Leader," "Beez in the Trap," "Champion," "Hov Lane."
Skippable: The entire second half starting with Starships
The 411: Unfortunately, I cannot even say that the album started off strong, because it's not until the third song that we get any semblance of actual music worth listening to, and this is due in large part to the guest stars on the track. It's a shame that Nicki's shining moments are only when she has a man on the track with her. Unless, of course, that man is Lil Wayne, since he brings nothing to the table. What could have been a wild and crazy ride that, at least would have some semblance of consistency, ends up being a smorgasboard songs that seems more like a game of "how many singles can I fit?" I'm a fan of Nicki Minaj, and I thought Pink Friday was a strong effort, but this is something that was created with a club deal of some sort in mind. Instead of standing out from the crowd, she joins the ranks of Madonna, Rihanna, and the plethora of other female pop stars that have used the growing club scene and excessive Bass, Clap, Synth musical pimple on the face of all genres.
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Then you missed a walk-off hit by pitch from Greg Garcia in the 12th inning.
Just like we expected. Right?
After tonight the Cardinals will have played a fraction over 25% of the 2014 baseball season and I believe we're further away from knowing what this team is than we were at the start of the season when literally anything was possible.
And not by a little – by a lot.
They're 20-20, 5.5 games back of the Brewers in the NL Central. They can't hit. They can't field. They can't pitch. Until the next game.
Then they hit, field and pitch. We feel a bit better.
Then they can't hit. They can't field. They can't pitch.
It's maddening.
You look at the roster and there are so many holes, yet we feel like this is a roster than can compete for a title. It's one thing to be like the Cubs and know who you are – eventual 100 game losers – but this team? We're 1/4 of the way done with 2014 and we're all still pretty confident they'll be playing in October, pretty much disregarding everything we've seen.
Doesn't. Compute.
In conclusion… a walk-off HBP in the 12th inning against a bad team where they blew a save in the 9th is pretty much the perfect ending for the Cardinals so far in 2014.


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Let's start with the powerplant of this '11 GMC 2500HD. Bruce estimates that the 6.6L diesel engine puts out about 600 hp and 1,200 lb-ft of torque. How? Well, there's the stock VGT turbo paired with a BorgWarner 5474—Bruce is sure this is the first-ever twin-turbo LML Duramax on the street. The 20-percent Industrial Injection nozzles add to the power boost, as does the H&S Mini Maxx, and even more products. A Snow Performance MPG-Max was installed, along with an ATS Co-Pilot. A FASS Titanium series 220-gph fuel/air separation system keeps the fuel spotlessly clean. ARP 625 head studs keep the engine together.
All this power requires a strong transmission, and Bruce was lucky to have ATS practically in his backyard, so he became a regular visitor and learned everything he could. Eventually, the truck ended up with an ATS billet Allison transmission with ATS Five Star torque converter and ATS billet flexplate. A FloPro 5-inch stainless turbo-back with a 6-inch black chrome tip gets all the exhaust gases out of the engine.
Bruce also knew from the start that the truck would have to be lifted, so he picked up a 7-inch Skyjacker kit and added T-Rex traction bars and Fabtech HD tire rods. Rocky Mountain Driveline custom-built the driveshafts. Pro Comp supplied both the wheels and tires. The Xtreme All-Terrain tires are 37 inches in diameter.
Tough bumpers were a necessity, and Bruce went with the Iron Cross Automotive offerings, as they look great, fit perfectly, and are tough as anything available on the market.
A lot of work went into this pickup, and Bruce is rightfully proud of it. The truck even has its own Facebook page (www.Facebook.com/DirtyDDiesel).


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Not least, he suggests, because the new Missal goes to a lot of trouble to restate some key doctrines (consubstantial, etc) left fuzzy by the old version of the text.
Indeed, I'd add, the particular virtue of the Nicene Creed is its witness to the Tradition, that is larger than purely Scriptural formulations. There are almost twice as many lines about Our Lord in particular, for example, in the Nicene-Constantinople Creed as there are in the Apostles', possibly important when implicit or explicit rejection of the divinity of Our Lord, neo-Arianism, is rampant among priests and people alike.
Indeed, the Pope spoke on the importance of belief in the divinity of Christ in some remarks for Pentecost:
"If mankind forgets God this is also because Jesus is often reduced to the status of a wise man, and His divinity is diminished if not denied outright. This way of thinking makes it impossible to comprehend the radical novelty of Christianity, because if Jesus is not the only Son of the Father, then God did not enter into the history of mankind. The truth is that the incarnation is at the very heart of the Gospel..."
Permission to use the Nicene Creed
Here in Canberra it is full steam ahead with the Apostles Creed option, as the archdiocesan website announces:
"Archbishop Mark Coleridge has given permission for use in the Archdiocese of the Apostles Creed in place of the Nicene Creed at the discretion of local pastors in light of the introduction of the new translation of the Missal. If the Apostles Creed is normally used, he asked that the Nicene Creed be sung or recited in English or Latin on the great feasts, especially Christmas and Easter."
What's the motivation for this? Is it a conciliatory gesture to those who prefer the imagined golden age of the pre-nicene Church, divorced from subsequent ecclesial tradition? Or is it a clericalism that asumes the benighted laity cannot grapple with the complexities of the creed traditionally used in the liturgy? Or even an ecumenical nod to fundamentalists who can't find such schmancy words as "consubstantial" in their King James Bible? Whatever the reason, it makes the new Missal a case of two steps forward and one step back!
Providentially, today's traditional Matins readings for Ember Wednesday in the Octave of Pentecost (or 'quarter tense of Pentecost' if one is into Irish antiquarianism) are not entirely irrelevant to these issues.
Consubstantial with the Father
St Augustine on St John 6:44-52 (I am the bread of life):
"Do not think that you are drawn unwillingly; the soul indeed is drawn also by love. Nor should we be fearful lest we be accused concerning the Gospel word of the sacred Scripture by men who place emphasis on the words and are far removed from understanding matters wholly divine, and it be said to us: "How do I believe by my own will if I be drawn?" I declare: "It is of little consequence that you are drawn by the will, for you are drawn by desire also." What is it to be drawn by desire? It is to delight in the Lord, and He shall give to you the petitions of your heart. It is a certain desire of the heart whose sweet bread is that bread from heaven. Furthermore, if it is allowed the poet to say, One's own desire draws one; not necessity, but desire; not obligation, but delight; how much more vigorously should we declare that that man is drawn to Christ who is delighted with truth, who is delighted with happiness, who is delighted with justice, who is delighted with everlasting life—all of which Christ is! Or do the senses possess their desires, while the soul is deprived of its own? If the soul does not possess its desires, whence is it said: "But the children of men shall put their trust under the covert of thy wings. They shall be inebriated with the plenty of thy house; and them shalt make them drink of the torrent of thy pleasure. For with thee is the fountain of life, and in thy light we shall see light"?
Propose this to one who loves, and he will sense what I am saying; propose it to one who desires; propose it to one who hungers; propose it to him who is journeying in this solitude and thirsts and sighs for the fountain of his eternal country; propose it to such a one, and he will sense what I am saying. But if I speak to one who is cold, he knows not whereof I speak. Such were those who murmured among themselves. He says: "He whom the Father draweth, cometh to me." What is this, "whom the Father draweth," when Christ Himself draws? Why did He wish to say, "whom the Father draweth"? If we are to be drawn, let us be drawn by Him to whom she who loves Him says: "We will run after the odor of thy ointments." But let us take note of what He wished to be understood, brethren, and grasp it in as far as we are able. The Father draws to the Son those who believe in the Son by reason of the fact that they believe He has God as His Father. For God the Father begot the Son equal to Himself, and whosoever thinks and feels in his faith and reflects that He in whom he believes is equal to the Father, him the Father draws to the Son.
Arius believed that the Son was a creature; the Father did not draw him, because he who does not believe the Son to be equal to the Father does not know the Father. What do you say, O Arius? What do you say, thou heretic? What are you talking about? What is Christ? "He is not," says he, "true God, but him whom the true God has made!" The Father has not drawn you, for you have not known the Father whose Son you deny. You think another thing— He is not His Son; you are neither drawn by the Father, nor are you drawn to the Son! "He is the Son" is one thing; what you say, another. Photinus states: "Christ is man alone; He is not also God." The Father has not drawn him who so believes. Whom has the Father drawn? Him who says: "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." Show a green branch to a sheep, and you will draw it. Nuts are shown to a child, and it is drawn, and because it runs, it is drawn—drawn by love, drawn without harm to the body, drawn without binding the heart. If then those things which are among earthly delights and desires, when shown to those who love them, draw them—because it is true that the desires of a person draw him on—does not Christ, revealed by the Father, draw? For what does the soul more vehemently desire than the truth?
And for your listening delight today, the Alleluia for Mass today (Verbo Domini caeli firmati sunt in Latin) in a Byzantine Rite chant setting from the Basilian Monastery of Gottaferrata near Rome, founded in 1004.


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text: Show Hide image Politics 22 September 2011 Why Lib Dems love the grumpy Tories The calm surface of coalition politics conceals a simple fact — none of the political parties has fo Sign up for our weekly email * Parliament is still hung. Its hungedness is sometimes forgotten because coalition government has proved unexpectedly stable. There were ample forecasts that the arrangement could never work and, even when it started working, differences between Tories and Liberal Democrats were routinely advertised as "having the potential to wreck the coalition". NHS reform; the AV referendum; Europe - their wrecking potential is as yet unfulfilled. Not all rows between the coalition partners are even worthy of the name. Nick Clegg's recent public veto on Michael Gove allowing free schools to operate for profit was choreographed months in advance "down to the last comma and full stop", according to a senior government adviser. It gave the Lib Dem leader a trophy concession to help bring his party behind Gove's reforms. Behind closed doors, there are disputes of real ferocity, as in any government. Still, a quiet technocratic revolution has been achieved: coalition is established in the repertoire of British peacetime politics. That causes glee among senior Liberal Democrats, although there are many in the party who find alliance with Tories hard to stomach. The mood at the party's annual conference was one of queasy satisfaction. Lib Dems' hunger for power has been fed with unsavoury political partners. Inevitably, dyspeptic anti-Tory belches were released in Birmingham. Tim Farron, the party president, happily anticipated "divorce" from the Conservatives. The Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, warned of a "Tea Party tendency" on the Tory right. On the conference fringe, delegates groaned about NHS reform and university tuition fees. Thrashable Brown Privately, Clegg is growing increasingly impatient with his party's public bellyaching. "HMS Coalition is sailing," one senior aide said to me when asked about dissenters. "The question is: are they on board?" The same might be asked of the right wing of the Conservative Party, which is, for tactical reasons, quite popular with the Lib Dems at the moment. While the junior coalition partner can only be grateful for the hung parliament, the Tory back benches are barely reconciled it having happened at all. David Cameron's inability to thrash the eminently thrashable Gordon Brown is a source of confusion and shame. That feeling expresses itself in haphazard demands - tax cuts for high earners, tighter abortion rules, separation from Europe - all of which helps support the notion, vital to Clegg's prospects of an electoral comeback, that coalition is a brake on Tory fanaticism. "They are not unhelpful," a Lib Dem minister says of these grumpy Tories. "It reminds people what they would have been like without us." The Tories' failure to win the last election has disoriented Labour, too. It demonstrated that there are still many people, mostly in the north of England and Scotland, whose prime motive in the polling booth is to prevent a Tory government. "They couldn't even beat Gordon," says a recovering Brownite adviser, looking for reasons to be optimistic. Recent history suggests voters sentence ousted parties to opposition for longer than one term, but the indecisive 2010 result opens the tantalising prospect of a swifter recovery for Labour. As one senior member of the shadowcabinet puts it: "We don't know where on the trajectory back to power we're supposed to be." That confusion is stirred by bad economic news on the eve of Labour's annual conference. On 20 September, the International Monetary Fund downgraded forecasts for growth in the UK economy and counselled flexibility in the government's timetable for cutting the deficit. That looks like vindication for Ed Balls, who has long warned of just such an outcome. Frustratingly for Labour, scoring political points from bad economic news, when most voters have not followed the nuances of the argument, risks looking ghoulish and smug. Besides, having the right economic analysis after the bust doesn't eliminate the charge that Labour presided recklessly over the boom. Ed Miliband's approach to Labour's legacy is to bury it in bigger themes. He wants to frame the country's economic problems as part of an epoch-shaping ideological challenge - the need to reform capitalism - and not just a managerial task of restoring growth. One Miliband friend and adviser describes the project as "starting with the premise that politics and the economy have to be completely rethought". A Miliband refrain for the Labour conference, as rehearsed in an interview with my colleague Mehdi Hasan (starts page 40), is "ripping up the rule book". Emboldened by victory over Rupert Murdoch in the phone-hacking wars, the Labour leader wants to present himself as the scourge of other unaccountable, vested interests: banks, corporate fat cats, exploitative employers. Want to be a rebel One obstacle to this is the memory of Labour's incumbency. How long after slavishly following a rule book can a party convincingly rip it up? Another problem is the Lib Dems, who want to be the government's scourges-in-residence of vested interest. A section of Nick Clegg's conference speech was dedicated to the theme, boasting that his party was never in the pocket of big business or the media barons (although a big reason is that it was never invited). It is a curious contest. On one side is Labour, recently in government, striving to be a principled opposition. On the other side are the Lib Dems, knowing only opposition, striving to be credible in government. Both want to be the anti-establishment party, which rather concedes the point that the Tories are still in some deep cultural sense "the establishment". It is a mantle that most Conservatives wear gladly, with or without a majority in parliament. The three main Westminster parties are struggling to decode the signal that voters sent them at the last election. Meanwhile, Britain is three years in to an economic crisis that could last much longer, leaving most people feeling ever angrier, poorer and more afraid. The gap between people's craving for a remedy and politicians' ability credibly to offer them one is widening at alarming speed. Coalition has solved the technical problem of governing in a hung parliament. That is quite an achievement. It hasn't even begun to address the problem of our hung politics. 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First things first: tell us about your dogs.
We have a Border Collie, an English Mastiff and one who has a lot of Shepherd in her, and maybe a little Dane. And then we have a mutt we found in a parking lot; he was really on his last legs. We were going to take him to the pound, but he gave me the look, and that was that. Then he promptly threw up all over the car.
Who was your first dog?
Her name was Tessie—she was a Miniature Collie. My parents got her for me when I was three or four. She wandered away when we were on vacation and I never saw her again. That helpless feeling of loss found its expression through Abel's journey.
The book is many things, but at heart, it's a story of woundedness and healing. How do you see dogs as a part of that?
I've never gone through the sort of travails I put Abel through, but I spent a long, long time trying to be a writer—trying to get Wilderness to the table. I could not for the life of me figure out how to get anybody interested in it. And then I got sick and couldn't work on anything for the longest time. It was a nasty bout of Bell's palsy—a nerve branch that feeds half of your face seizes up and dies. So half your face is paralyzed. For six months, I didn't leave the house, and it really started to wear on me.
But I had my dogs. And they didn't care what I looked like, and they licked my face. (Not to say that my wife wasn't the same way, except for the face-licking.) But I could always count on throwing an arm around my dog, or my dogs, and feeling a lot better. People have said that Abel suffers from PTSD. I don't know about that, but I do know that dogs will heal you.
How do your dogs help you write?
I always have a dog here in the room with me—usually two. One lies right behind me, or right on my feet. It keeps me connected and honest.
Wilderness is an achingly beautiful book. It takes you deep into the heart of a Civil War veteran scarred by nearly unspeakable tragedies and losses, and traces his ultimate redemption, which begins the moment a red-blond dog steps out of the forest and into the light of his cook fire.
When we meet this man, Abel Truman, he lives in a shack by the sea on the wild coast of Washington state, alone save for his dog. Old and sick, haunted by memories, he sets out to cross the mountains to make peace with his past. As Abel and the dog make their way through the rugged landscape, we learn Abel's story in a series of flashbacks: the events that shattered his young family, the astonishing carnage of the Battle of the Wilderness, the former slave who nursed him afterward.
Once Abel begins his journey, his dog—and a mysterious wolf-dog who slips in and out of the tale—leads him in directions he never intended to take. The animals move him to take risks and reconsider his past, and to safeguard the life of an orphaned child.
Weller writes beautifully; his descriptions of the landscapes are nothing short of magnificent. So are his descriptions of the dogs, and of the bond between humans and dogs. The wolf-dog harries an elk, Weller writes, "low to the ground, moving like water over stones." Abel, seeing that his dog is sick, feels "something break apart inside him."
Though the book contains violence and cruelty, it has tenderness, kindness and wisdom at its core. It's true and deep, funny and real. Ultimately, it evokes the essential ways that dogs weave their way into our lives: as sentinels, guides, companions and catalysts for crucial turning points in our journeys.
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The Grace of Gratitude
Paul endured and suffered through a variety of perils in order to fulfill his commission as an apostle of Jesus Christ. Yet Paul's command to the Thessalonian church applied equally to himself, "In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus."
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Who Did That?
We are inclined to take things for granted, aren't we? We learn to do this at an early age. As children, we looked forward to eating three meals a day (plus snacks). We expected to find proper clothing in our closets when it was time to dress for the day. We never doubted that someone would nurse us back to health when we became ill. But why did we anticipate these benefits in our daily lives? Because that was the way it was (for many of us—"thanks to mom and dad!").
Taking things for granted is not a real danger to us until our expectations overrun our gratitude. When we grow so accustomed to having things a certain way that we forget to thank the people who made it possible, then we have a spiritual problem. Christians are taught to be a thankful people (cf. Col 3:15). This implies that we should be on the lookout for things to be thankful for—and to express our thankfulness, verbally (with words).


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This CHALLENGE layout combining elements from 3 talented ladies: Jessica Sprague, Anna Aspnes & Debbie Hodge! If you like it, click on the Vote for Me Penscrappers image & cast it! I had a lot of fun putting this layout together.
Inspiration and lessons by Jessica Sprague; cool free kit provided by Anna Aspnes and the challenge hosted by PenScrappers: 10 THINGS TO HEART CONTEST!
The layout itself is a template from Debbie Hodge's Building Pages class in which she teaches various techniques & styles of building pages & the conceptual reasoning behind each. It's a great class, especially if you are an avid traditional, hybrid or digital scrapbooking diva looking for motivation and LOTS of templates to *Get It Scrapped*, as Debbie says!
PenScrappers website is offering Anna Aspnes kit free and my layout is packed full of the elements in her kit to give you an idea!
Many of you may have seen these photos of Jessica before! It is definitely time for a Jessi photoshoot! Marty and her are going on a hike this weekend & I plan to follow along for a while to get new photos of her! The cropped shot of her holding her cello is one of my all time favorites! I've used it on at least 3 layouts! I also love the photo of her walking away barefoot with her cello and the angles of her skirt that flow with the style of Debbie's layout & Anna's kit!
The doodling is mine which needs *REFINEMENT*! Perhaps tomorrow with a fresher outlook, I'll redo & detail more! Lately, I have wanted to branch to learn new techniques. And the best way to learn is to jump in! I've only scratched the surface, however, Jessica's Pen & Tablet class is filled with many Photoshop techniques that evolve around layouts, photo editing and, of course, use of the Pen & Tablet. I'm using my Pen vs. Mouse now, 90% of the time!
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When was the last time you heard flamenco on a metal album? If I was asked that question my answer would be probably be "on The Last Sunset". This album is an oddball and most Conception fans agree this is the band's overall weakest release - it is none too energetic and the songwriting bears some marks of inexperience - but that isn't to say it isn't worth hearing!
The band seems to be fumbling for identity with this release – the sound defying easy categorisation. It sounds closer to heavy metal than power metal (the songs have riffs and on two songs the band utilise shouted passages) but is maybe too groovy, melodic...and downbeat to be called true heavy metal. The title track – a very 80's sounding ballad - belongs on a Whitesnake style Hard Rock album. You could call it prog metal overall but bear in mind the whole album sounds pretty 4/4 time and conservatively melodic throughout even with the meandering passages and flamenco parts.
Whatever the genre this should prove an interesting release for any listener who's looking for something a little different in European clean vocals metal.
Roy Khan is not at his best on The Last Sunset, but, being who he is this is still means I acclaim his distinct vocals here. No one sounds as silky as Khan when he harmonises with himself and there are many interesting vocal arrangements to be heard on this CD; I was even reminded of Messiah Marcolin a few times.
Tore Ostby is an excellent guitarist, being very creative with his solos - even though he stays well away from effects pedals and more showy techniques like tapping and sweeps. The absolute highlight on the album is the fantastic flamenco passages, while not always completely smoothly transitioned into the songs (hear Against the Gods and War of Hate), for sheer novelty and elegance they are well worth hearing.
The production I'm afraid is rather dated and has a bare-bones low-fi feel. The whole mix is quiet and the guitar tone lacks beef, yet it is in no way unlistenable; it has a sort of weird charm about it. The lyrics are likewise mostly either dated or just strange. Building a Force is about the threat of nuclear disaster (like this hasn't been done to death already), Fairy's Dance is about some kind of folk cautionary tale where a witch turns you into a cow (yeah really) but Bowed Down With Sorrow takes a more personal/honest approach and deals with...sorrow I guess; it's actually quite a touching and emotional song. Fans of Engrish will appreciate the line "pain and suffer is all I see". Keyboards enhance the sound when they appear - this is not often.
Maybe one day I'll be able to pinpoint all the influences on display here but for now the closest parallel I can think of is Psychotic Waltz minus the obvious prog elements. This CD won't be for everyone but I can guarantee there is novelty to be found here along with the thrill of hearing the most humble beginnings of one of the most well known singers in metal today.
Conception is one of those precious few bands to have never released a bad album. Conception released four very high quality albums before disbanding in the late 90s. Conception's sound is very unique - the closest comparison I can make is a more melodic No Exit-era Fates Warning, but even that fails to describe the music very well. While Roy Khan is clearly the most well known member of the band, and without a doubt is great singer, the real driving force behind Conception's music is guitarist Tore Østby. Østby's guitar work is nothing other than godlike, ranging from breathtaking shred guitar to thunderous, chugging riffs that provide the rythmic backbone for most of Conception's songs. Unfortunately, Conception has gone largely unnoticed by most metal fans, known more as being Roy Khan's first band rather than the progressive/power metal gem that it is.
History aside, The Last Sunset is Conception's first work, and it shows. The production is a bit rough (though still by no means bad), the songwriting doesn't quite measure up to the brilliance shown in Parallel Minds and In Your Multitude, and the lyrics, while good, aren't the introspective masterpieces of their later works. The style tends a bit more towards power metal than progressive metal, though the later tracks are quite progressive. That said, The Last Sunset is still an amazingly good album.
The album starts with a light, haunting, ethereal intro that kicks into the first track, Building a Force, a relentlessly fast and heavy track that showcases everything the band has to offer - blazing lead work, tight and consistent drumming, and of course great vocals - it's Roy Khan, after all. Khan's voice is quite a bit higher than it is in Kamelot (in fact, it's notably higher than it is on Flow, as well). The album flows very well from track to track, although War of Hate seems to run out of ideas about 1/2 of the way through and drags on a bit too long. Fairy's Dance showcases Østby's great rythm guitar work - the intro is spectacularly well written and played, and the rest of the song keeps up the high standard. The lyrics are a bit whimsical, but still loads better than the usual crap about dragons, heroism, and freedom that usually accompanies any power metal out of Europe. Another World is an odd piece of music, showcasing more delightfully complex and well-executed riffs from Tore Østby, but then shifting into a dissonant, death growl part about 2/3 of the way through, before returning to power metal. After a short ambient interlude comes the album's title track - a soft, emotional balad. Khan's voice *really* shines on this track; no other vocalist can really evoke emotion the way Khan can, and his voice perfectly complements the mood of the song. Perhaps the most notable track on the album, however, comes at the very end. Among the Gods is a progressive extravaganza, showcasing Tore Ostby's Latin-influenced guitar playing, first in a wonderful acoustic guitar riff, and then during an instrumental section that will blow you away, complete with several near-flawless leads - yet there is very little guitar wank to be heard; Østby's playing is technical enough to impress, yet it never compromises its musical value for technicality's sake, and as a result sounds absolutely wonderful.
For first-time listeners, Conception's second album, Parallel Minds, or third album, In Your Multitude, may be a better place to start, but The Last Sunset is certainly one of the greatest works of melodic progressive metal ever to be recorded.


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Mavericks' Mark Cuban fined $50,000 by NBA for ripping refs
A league source confirms that Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was fined $50,000 for sending a tweet following Saturday's loss to New Orleans that was critical of NBA officiating.
"Im sorry NBA fans," Cuban tweeted about 30 minutes after the Mavericks' 99-96 overtime loss. "Ive tried for 13 yrs to fix the officiating in this league and I have failed miserably. Any Suggestions ? I need help."
During his 13 years as Mavericks owner, Cuban has been fined an estimated $2 million, mostly as a result of comments about officiating. That total accounts for the fines that have been publically announced. NBA officials said a few years ago that they no longer would announce every fine _ as was the case this time _ so it is possible that Cuban has been fined on other occasions.
The last publicly announced fine of Cuban occurred after a game against Oklahoma City last February. Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle was fined $35,000 for kicking a ball into the stands and Cuban was fined $75,000 for saying that officiating had regressed during the lockout-condensed season.


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Hundreds protest bid to gut Planned Parenthood
WASHINGTON – A mother battling breast cancer, celebrities and lawmakers joined a rally in Washington Thursday to plead with US lawmakers not to cut funding for women's reproductive health programs from the 2011 budget.
"Over the past few years I've been battling stage three breast cancer, but this is not my first battle with cancer," Carolyn Smithers, a single mother of two teenaged girls, told several hundred pink-clad demonstrators protesting bids by Republican lawmakers' to halt funding for family planning programs.
"I was also diagnosed with cervical cancer when I was 19 years old," Smithers said.
A routine pap smear in a Planned Parenthood clinic found Smithers' cervical cancer early enough that she was able to be treated and cured.
"The check-up I received at Planned Parenthood saved my life," Smithers said tearfully after "Sex and the City" star David Eigenberg and Emmy-nominee "Friday Night Lights" star Connie Britton had lit into Republicans for what the two celebrities called attacks on women's health rights.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives Appropriations Committee in February proposed slashing the budget for family planning programs by $327 million — the exact sum requested by Democratic President Barack Obama for such programs in his 2011 budget.
Since then, Republicans and Democrats have been locked in a bitter fight over what programs to cut out of the 2011 budget, with a government shutdown looming as of midnight on Friday if they don't come to an agreement.
Late-night talks at the White House failed to break the budget impasse, and the Republicans Thursday proposed yet another stop-gap spending bill to keep the government running beyond this weekend's witching hour.
The temporary measure includes "a provision preventing both federal and local funds from being used to provide abortions in the District of Columbia." "They're playing 'doctor knows what's best for the little women'," Democratic Congresswoman Louise Slaughter told the pink-clad crowd at the foot of the US legislature Thursday.
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The Big Ten Network is ready for football season, though few fans will get to see its first big day.
The conference's new TV network has been unable to sign a deal with the two largest cable television providers in the Midwest — Comcast and Time Warner.
On one side of the feud is the fledgling Big Ten Network, which has slotted six games involving conference teams for its first big Saturday on the air. Those games will be shown on satellite provider DirecTV and some 40 smaller cable companies.
On the other side are Comcast and Time Warner. They refuse to bow to what they say are two of the new network's demands: putting it on expanded basic cable, and charging each subscriber in the conference's eight states an additional $1.10 a month for the service.
Both sides call the other side greedy.
"What I did not foresee was how public this would become," said Mark Silverman, president of the Big Ten Networky. "In my experience, cable companies negotiate very tough. I did not expect this to be any different. But it is the public face of it that is a surprise. It's been particularly contentious."
Comcast and Time Warner subscribers will have to either listen to the games on radio, switch to a satellite dish or go to a restaurant or bar which carries the game.
Insight agrees to deal to carry BTN
Insight Communications Inc. agreed to carry the Big Ten Network on half of its cable systems, the company said Wednesday, putting the regional sports network in two Big Ten markets in time for the start of the college football season.
New York-based Insight, the nation's ninth-largest cable operator with 1.4 million households, will distribute the network to 640,000 households, including in Columbus — home to Ohio State University — and Evansville, Ind., near Indiana University.
The Insight deal is the biggest distribution agreement with a cable operator for the fledgling sports network, a joint venture between the schools of the Big Ten Conference and Fox Cable Networks. Neither Insight nor the Big Ten Network would disclose the financial terms.
Cleaning day
There's no escaping cleanup duty for No. 17 Penn State.
Several Nittany Lions were involved in an off-campus fight over the summer that left coach Joe Paterno so steamed he ordered his entire squad to clean up Beaver Stadium after home games this fall, among other punishments.
"We haven't covered any of the details yet," linebacker Dan Connor said. "Just go out there and clean."
Donovan … for now
Coach Bret Bielema has chosen fifth-year senior Tyler Donovan to open the season as the starting QB for No. 7 Wisconsin, but he won't rule out bringing in junior Allan Evridge if Donovan struggles on Saturday against Washington State.
"Our quarterbacks fully understand that Tyler is our starter, and he's not just there to be yanked if he throws an incomplete pass or if he throws an interception," Bielema said. "But by the same account, everybody in our program realizes every snap counts."
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Some Big Ten schools, such as Michigan, charge more for big games and less for those against lesser opponents. For instance, a ticket to see the Wolverines host Appalachian State on Saturday costs $50, while home games against rivals such as Ohio State and Notre Dame are $60.
"Do I think it's fair? Yeah, I think it's fair," said Ohio State coach Jim Tressel. "I've been to a couple concerts and our tickets are very reasonable. I was out in Vegas ... and (wife) Ellen and I went to see Celine Dion, and it was, like, $200. You can go to three Ohio State games for that. And I knew the words to the songs. At least when you go to the game, you don't know what's going to happen."


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Furuno FI-50 Multi XL, a NMEA embarrassment?
Hey, maybe I can get the NMEA riled up too (though I doubt it has the posse gCaptain does). Here's the thing: Furuno's FI-50 line of instruments, including the neat new Multi XL above, are all about displaying NMEA 2000 data, right? Heck, we've known that since their 2007 introduction. I later tested them with all sorts of N2K data, saw how well that screen works in direct sunlight, and then used them this summer in a Cruising World article about N2K wind instruments. They display NMEA 2000 data from most any source, and they're darn good at it! But I defy you to find any reference to NMEA 2000 in the FI-50 brochure you can download from the Multi XL page. What the...?...
The cause of this nonsensical and confusing state of affairs? NMEA will not certify the FI-50 instruments because they allow daisy chaining and Furuno felt it had to scrub most all mention of the Standard to properly acknowledge their lack of certification. This doesn't seem right to me. I've yet to find an N2K-aware engineer who thinks daisy chaining is a major problem, I believe it's commonly done with other CANbus networks, and -- probably most important -- two of Furuno's major competitors had already decided that daisy chaining was worth breaking the NMEA 2000 rules for.
Simrad and Raymarine also developed their own proprietary cables to do daisy chaining and other N2K-type networking with, and while that's further confusing and annoying, I really haven't heard of problems with those systems either. By contrast, the Furuno FI-50s used standard N2K male and female connectors, metal even (as shown here), and thus function much like a tee in a regular N2K backbone. If an FI-50 were to fail in such a way that the instruments upstream of it are isolated from the backbone -- which is the fear that NMEA's rule is all about -- an informed owner could just pull the busted unit and connect the two cables to each other. The problem could be solved without even shutting down the system...not that I've heard of such problems.
Let's recap: Three major NMEA members -- all of whom participated in developing NMEA 2000, I think -- have all decided that daisy chaining, which particularly simplifies installations like a row of instruments, is worth defying NMEA for. Isn't that an issue that should be solved, rather than papered over with silly "CANbus" euphemisms? I think NMEA should relent and permit daisy chaining. I want to respect their N2K certification process because I want it to protect me from problems I can't easily understand and troubleshoot, like bogus network messages. But as far as I know all those Furuno, Raymarine, and Simrad instruments do NMEA 2000 fine, except for the daisy chaining, and I'm willing to recommend them without certification. Fix this, NMEA, please. Hell, you could even make these guys put a "Daisy Chaining Warning" label on the offending gear.
The brochure diagrams below show the unfortunate "CANbus" nonsense, as well as the relative size of the new Multi XL. They also illustrate a bit of confusion that Furuno is responsible for. The folks who write the brochures and manuals like to suggest that Furuno's NMEA 2000/"CANbus" junction box (discussed here) is THE way to install the instruments. That's simply not true. Now, who else can I annoy?


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The symptoms of Hodgkin's lymphoma also can be caused by other conditions that are not related to cancer. See a doctor if you have symptoms that concern you.
Symptoms of Hodgkin's lymphoma include:
- Painless swollen lymph nodes in the neck, underarm, groin, chest, or abdomen
- Unexplained fever, weight loss, or night sweats—sometimes called "B symptoms"
- Ongoing fatigue
- Itchy skin
- Swelling in the face, neck, or upper chest caused by lymphoma pressing on the major vein that drains blood from these areas
- Feeling of fullness in the abdomen from an enlarged liver, spleen, or lymph nodes
- Abdominal problems, such as nausea, vomiting, and indigestion
- Sensitivity to alcohol or pain in the lymph nodes after having alcohol
- Coughing, trouble breathing, or chest pain
Hodgkin's lymphoma usually has a longer, slower onset of lymph-node symptoms compared to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. For instance, a person may have some swelling for as long as a year before diagnosis.
Risk Factors
Doctors do not know what causes Hodgkin's lymphoma. However, doctors and researchers have found some risk factors that are associated with the disease. Keep in mind that most people who get the disease have none of the risk factors. And most people with the risk factors do not develop the disease.
Hodgkin's lymphoma is more common in men than in women and more common in people ages 15 to 35 or over the age of 50.
Also, you may be at higher risk for Hodgkin's lymphoma if any of these is true:
- Your immune system is weakened by an inherited disease, autoimmune disease, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), or drugs given because you had an organ transplant.
- You have been infected with Epstein-Barr virus (which causes mononucleosis).
- You have a brother or sister who has had Hodgkin's lymphoma.