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on Tuesday, November 18, 2014
A nice spacious bag at a very good price. Although initially concerned the material may have made the bag look cheap, I have found this to be a smart non looking changing bag. It fits in all I need for my newborn and toddler, with added room for some of my things too. Although a little heavy to carry about, the long strap enables it to be put over the pram handles. Overall very pleased with my purchase for a very good price!
on Monday, November 17, 2014
Great bag - looks really stylish, and very practical too. Love it.
on Thursday, November 13, 2014
We bought this bag in the brown colour for going out with our son who is now nearly a year old. And I recently ordered one as a gift for a friend. The brown colour looks like leather and does not look like a nappy bag, so is very versatile to use for both myself and my husband. A friend also commented that it looked posh! It also has a great number of pockets and compartments, which is just what we need.
The only down side is that I left the changing mat somewhere (not to be found again) and it has proven difficult to purchase a replacement. Its very disappointing as I wanted to maintain the entire set.
But all in all, a very worthwhile purchase.
on Wednesday, November 12, 2014
I bought this bag as a gift for a friend who had just given birth. It is a really lovely looking bag, more like a large hand bag than change bag, with room for everything you could need.
Kimberley Mason
on Thursday, October 02, 2014
Great changing bag. Spacious inside with deep side zips so you can rummage right to the bottom of the bag. Lovely colours and good sized handles.
Liz R
on Wednesday, October 01, 2014
Fantastic bag. Great quality with plenty of space for all the bits and bobs I lug around with me. I'm really over the moon with it!
on Monday, September 29, 2014
LOVE my new changing bag! Had my 2nd son 4 weeks ago and have had different bags in the past. Wanted something that didn't look too much like a changing bag but was big enough and did the function of a changing bag. Can easily fit my bay's things, mine and a change of clothes for my 3 yr old and have space in the bag! The 2 handles give options for carrying it and the colour is great. Really happy with this bag!
on Monday, September 29, 2014
Nice bag.
on Friday, August 29, 2014
I love this bag! I have not used it yet but will do very soon as my baby is due in a couple of days.
It's very fashionable and has lots of room so you will have plenty of space for personal items as well as items such as spare clothing for baby.
I also totally love the retro print on the bag lining, changing mat & thermal bottle holder.
The bag looks more expensive than it is and jojomamabebe are selling at a very reasonable price as I first compared online with other retailers.
I would highly recommend buying this bag, also would make a great gift for a mum to be.
on Thursday, July 31, 2014
Great bag, fits in everything with ease, quality changing mat and bottle holder.
on Monday, July 21, 2014
Love it! Great bag, big enough to hold everything you need for a day out and more!
on Wednesday, July 09, 2014
Lovely bag, had a 15% off voucher so good price. Not used it so far as baby due in Aug
on Thursday, June 05, 2014
This is a great change bag - it is reasonably priced and a lovely shape and size. I have only had it a few weeks and already it has taken me from out & about to day trips to an overnight bag for myself, baby & older child. Deceptively large! The top zips right down too so instead of throwing all your things out and all over the pram while stressed at a shop check out or baby change station you can get to everything really easily. Lovely lining - only downside for me is the outside looks a little cheap - but I suppose you get what you pay for and it ticks all the other boxes! Couple of good accessories inside too.............
on Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Love it, much more my style than any other changing bag I could find in my budget :) More than enough room to meet our needs.
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on Thursday, April 24, 2014
Love this change bag. Lots of compartments for mummy stuff and huge middle compartment for baby stuff! Classy bag and bit too girly as have a baby boy. Could easily pass for a normal bag after baby bag use. Would definitely recommend this product and with free delivery and quick service it was perfect!
Louise walsh
on Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Love my new bag. Just exactly what I wanted, great for me and my two boys aged 15 months and 33 months. So spacious and easy to find everything. Great quality too.
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on Wednesday, April 02, 2014
I have searched and searched for a reasonably priced but good looking and functional, spacious change bag. This one is great. I will be able to use it afterwards as a small weekend bag as well. I am very pleased with it and hope it lasts well.
on Tuesday, April 01, 2014
It is what it says.
on Tuesday, March 11, 2014
I am so pleased with this bag. Bought it in red as a bit of a pressie to me also. I will be returning to work in a few weeks and thought that this could transition between work and non-work days. My only regret is not buying it sooner! It is not that much more expensive than a basic bag but looks much nicer and I have have so many people telling me how nice it is.
on Friday, March 07, 2014
Really good value for money. I had been searching for something that looked like a normal bag with space to fit everything into for my toddler, baby and me and this does the job.
on Thursday, February 13, 2014
This bag is great. It looks fab, more like a handbag rather than change bag. There is lots of room for both baby and mums stuff. I have had lots of compliments about the bag. It is a very good price too. The first bag I received, zip was faulty but jo jo replaced without any problems. Great service. Very pleased!!!
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on Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Really pleased with this bag. Great price and looks more expensive than it is. Lots of space for all the essential baby items and even enough room to carry extras that my toddler needs to! Pretty pattern on interior of the bag and on accompanying bottle holder / changing mat. Fantastic bag, can't wait to use it!
on Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Lovely bag, nice and roomy with enough compartments to keep things organised. I got the brown one and I like that it looks like a large handbag rather than a change bag.
Kate Hosker
on Monday, January 20, 2014
I love this bag!! Looks really stylish and of good quality. Great value for the money! Lots of room for all your essential baby items without looking at all bulky! Recommend it!
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on Friday, January 03, 2014
Has lots of space and looks just like a big bag instead of a changing bag.
on Friday, December 13, 2013
I bought the red bag - really nice colour. I have not tried it yet but I can already tell it will be big enough to fit all the things I need it. The zip opens down the sides which makes all the difference when rummaging around inside. Plenty of pockets but not too many which for me is a bonus as I forgot what is where! Highly recommended.
Kristine Healy
on Friday, November 01, 2013
Great looking bag for a reasonable price. It looks like a handbag rather than a changing bag. The interior pattern (on the brown version) is particularly nice, I love it!
on Friday, October 11, 2013
Very smart (I bought the brown one). I will feel stylish carrying it and my husband is happy to carry it when he has the baby, which is a major bonus. It's slightly smaller than I expected, but fits in everything I need for a day.
on Sunday, September 29, 2013
Great bag. Got the red one which is a great colour. Is large enough to hold everything for my baby and toddler. Seems reasonably waterproof too and is holding up well 4 weeks in.
on Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Nice bag and a good size but I had to return it as it didn't have enough pockets inside for my liking
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Koto Changing Bags
Fantastic leather-look changing bag with plenty of accessories.
The Koto changing bag is a smart leather-look bag. Lightweight, it has a lovely patterned lining and plenty of accessories.
Three external pockets
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Printed insulated bottle bag
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Ken Shamrock: I Owe Dana No Money, UFC Owes Me
The feud between MMA legend Ken Shamrock and The Ultimate Fighting Championships looks to never end. Ken Shamrock talks about building the company on himself and Tito Ortiz's back on the MMA Hour podcast.
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The lumbar splanchnic nerves are splanchnic nerves that arise from the lumbar part of the sympathetic trunk and travel to an adjacent plexus near the aorta. They originate from L1 and L2.
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When I saw Anne's post for broccoli-lemon risotto, I definately got a craving for risotto. I didn't really have anything better to do than stand by my stove and stir for 40 minutes tonigh, so I figured that it would be the perfect time to indulge my craving. I had broccoli in the fridge, but what caught my attention was the bunch of ultra-tender asparagus ... Read More »
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Apple Streusel Muffins
I'm taking baking class at a cooking school here in LA and today the focus was on quick breads. We made scones, carrot cake and muffins. The class is very small and everyone gets to make everything on their own, an advantage that not all schools can offer. The Apple Streusel Muffins were my favorite of the day. The general reaction was something along the ... Read More »
Neopolitan Buttermilk Cupcakes
I look forward to blogging events. It's like going to a party where everyone has a little present for everyone else. Of course, this is because I, like so many other food bloggers, love food. Once a theme is anounced, I start brainstorming what I'll make. Cupcakes (or muffins) were a great choice by Maki. They're already like little presents. Ok, enough with the present ... Read More »
Fast and easy bbq chicken salad
You will need: a chicken breast, preferably grilled or bbq'd tomatoes an orange baby spinach Chop chicken, tomatoes and orange. Toss with salad and leftover bbq sauce from chicken. Season with salt and pepper, if desired. Read More »
Warm Lemon Souffles
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Pear Clafoutis
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Vanilla Caramel Popcorn
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GENEVA and TAIPEI, TAIWAN -- (Marketwire) -- 01/07/13 -- The era of the smart, connected home that offers its occupants a greener, safer, more convenient and more enjoyable lifestyle has been brought closer through a unique collaboration announced today by STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, and Tatung, a leading electronics company for smart-home solutions. Working together, the two companies have developed an array of smart-home appliances that can be interconnected to form a smart-home ecosystem.
The products, implemented by Tatung using a variety of platforms and reference designs developed by ST, are designed to leverage the popular HomePlug powerline communication (PLC) protocols and hybrid networks. The HomePlug technology transforms ordinary electric wires into a high-speed communication network available in every power outlet. Hybrid networks are based on the emerging IEEE 1905.1 standard and allow devices to take advantage of all available communication media including HomePlug and WiFi. Illustrating the huge range of creative possibilities open to smart-home equipment designers, one of the products demonstrated is an innovative combination of a remotely-controllable LED room light, a networked loudspeaker, and a WiFi access point in a single unit.
All of the modules are based on a unique intelligent communication hub/gateway System-on-Chip (SoC) technology from ST that is the first in the world to integrate both the powerline modem and a powerful applications processor based on an ARM926EJ-S core running at 330MHz. Because the connected homes of the future will leverage many wired and wireless communication technologies, ST's new hub/gateway solution was designed to support the emerging IEEE P1905.1 standard.
For the initial roll-out, ST has worked with Tatung to develop some prototype products that could be easily commercialized and customized and/or branded by Tatung for other OEMs. This family of HomePlug powerline-enabled products, all targeting smart-home applications, includes a smart meter, a smart plug capable of controlling and measuring the electrical product plugged into it and its power consumption, and video surveillance cameras supporting H.264 and MJPEG video streaming. Additional products include a smart-Home Services Gateway supporting HomePlug, ZigBee, WiFi, NFC, and other communication standards, a smart In-Home Display, a Touch Control Panel, and a revolutionary LED Light, Speaker, and WiFi Access Point.
"This ecosystem of connected products brings the "Internet of Things" into the smart home, enabling the convergence of energy management, entertainment, surveillance and monitoring, and other functions such as Electric Vehicle charging," said Matteo Lo Presti, STMicroelectronics Group VP and Industrial and Power Conversion General Manager. "We believe that working with a strong and well-known OEM such as Tatung will accelerate the market availability of products that leverage the unique combination of PLC modem and powerful application processor in a single SoC solution."
By combining entertainment, energy management and other applications via low-cost, reliable and secure connectivity, smart-home products such as the ones that will be shown in Las Vegas will make it easier for consumers to control their homes and reduce their energy bills. The user interface can span across many screens in the home, including smart phones and tablets, TVs, computers, and dedicated In-Home Displays. In the demonstration, all of the smart-home products communicate with the main home gateway that is based on ST's leading-edge STiH416 connected-home System-on-Chip device and Linux/OSGi (Open Services Gateway Initiative), which provides a future-proof, scalable, and secure platform for the delivery of entertainment, information, social and home services.
"The convergence of Home Automation, Energy Management, and Infotainment creates exciting opportunities to develop new types of products, from essential smart-home building blocks such as smart plugs, to innovative functional combinations such the LED/Loudspeaker/WiFi unit," said W. Y. Lin, President of Tatung. "This collaboration will enable OEMs to bring innovative new ST-enabled smart-home products to market as quickly and cost-effectively as possible."
Initially implemented in Tatung's prototype smart-home products, ST's new intelligent communication hub/gateway technology will be available on the open market later in 2013.
About STMicroelectronics
ST is a global leader in the semiconductor market serving customers across the spectrum of sense and power and automotive products and embedded processing solutions. From energy management and savings to trust and data security, from healthcare and wellness to smart consumer devices, in the home, car and office, at work and at play, ST is found everywhere microelectronics make a positive and innovative contribution to people's life. By getting more from technology to get more from life, ST stands for life.augmented.
In 2011, the Company's net revenues were $9.73 billion. Further information on ST can be found at www.st.com.
About Tatung (www.tatung.com)
As the company that best represents Taiwan by media's choice, Tatung Company has three business groups covering power related business, consumer electronics, and system integration. The Company focuses particularly on the development of advanced technologies and global network of operation. Specializing in serving branded customers on a global basis, Tatung offers its customers tremendous advantages on cost, speed, and seamless backend support.
With smart home solutions and smart grid applications, Tatung demonstrates its synergy on home area networking (HAN) and energy management to make it affordable and complete. Its cutting-edge new products include PLC module, machine-to-machine bridge, smart plug with HomePlug & ZigBee, smart meter with command & control, in-home display, surveillance camera, and addressable LED lighting speaker.
Research and development collaborations between the Company and Tatung University also lay a solid foundation for Tatung to yield advancement and excellence.
ST and Tatung Smart Home: http://hugin.info/152740/R/1668562/541788.pdf
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For more information:
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Tatung Co.
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The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
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The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
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One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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What Mascara Do Your Lashes Require?
What is required for the majority of women around the globe? Of course, it's mascara, before using it, you should know about how to put mascara on properly! Even those women, who stick to the minimalism in the daily makeup, cannot avoid this "magic wand", helping to make the eyes more and appear more significant, available, languishing. Since olden days, females used color arrangements of the resin, feel and soot that have evolved into more liquid mixes later. Nevertheless, mass-production of mascara, just like regular for all of US, started just while in the 20thcentury. In the long run of the past century, polymers turned the part of mascara, where mascara bought such characteristics as softness, flexibility and regenerative influence.
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Among the most common nutritional supplements in mascara there are keratin (the the main pure chemical formula of eyelashes), lanolin (moisturizing portion that makes lashes less crisp), melanin (which defends eyelashes from additional elements), castor oil (to supply and improve eyelashes in the sources) and materials, guarding from contact with daylight. Furthermore various kinds of mascara include vitamins F, A, E and B5, which nourish eyelashes, make them smooth and encourage the expansion of eyelashes. To stop replica of pathogenic bacteria, suppliers increase preservatives in cosmetics, disinfecting the top of the eyelashes.
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First day of Goshen-Lempster School canceled by lightning strike
The school teaches students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
"We had a lightning strike last night around 10 o'clock. The lightning hit a large pine tree, blew up the tree, pretty much splitting it down the middle. I guess the explosion was heard up to a quarter of a mile to a half-mile away," Peterson said.
The electrical charge from the lightning bolt went into the ground and melted an inch and a half gash into a cooper pipe that delivers propane to the school building from propane tanks about 150 feet away from the school, Peterson said.
Phone and electrical wires were also damaged, knocking out the alarm system, telephone and some of the building lights.
Irving Oil was at the school Thursday morning repairing the melted propane pipe and testing the entire system, Peterson said. The workers said they had never seen such a large hole in a pipe before, he said.
Peterson said the Goshen-Lempster volunteer fire department is to be commended. The firefighters responded to the dangerous and dark scene Wednesday night to shut off the propane tank, stopping the leak.
The school's new computers purchased recently for the computer lab are fine for the most part, Peterson said.
Fortunately the computer lab was moved to another part of the building but had previously been on the side of the building closest to the explosion, he said.
"We have a whole new lab of computers," Peterson said. "Right now they look like they are OK, just some of the switches got knocked out."
The school's insurance is expected to cover most of the damage costs, Peterson said.
Peterson and a few teachers drove around the Goshen-Lempster school district Thursday morning making sure no students were outside waiting for the bus. They found about 15 students who had not heard that school had been canceled.
A greeting party was also at the school to tell any children who arrived at the school Thursday morning, he said.
"It's funny cause the younger kids were really kind of sad there was no school and the older kids were like, 'all right,' " Peterson said.
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Abilene mother indicted for allegedly choking son
Published On: Dec 13 2013 07:38:41 PM CST
An Abilene woman was indicted Friday for third degree felony injury to a child after her 4-year-old son reported she allegedly choked him.
Danielle Bennett, 24, was arrested in January after the child's babysitter noticed bruising on his neck and the child told her Bennett had choked him. Bennett allegedly told police she grabbed him around the neck because she was angry after having to ask him to clean up several times.
A Taylor County grand jury indicted her.
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Eclairs. Or flourless chocolate cake. Or orange cake with orange syrup and bittersweet chocolate ganache.
… I come up with lots of excuses to call things "special occasions," is what I'm sayin', I guess.
Eclairs. Or flourless chocolate cake. Or orange cake with orange syrup and bittersweet chocolate ganache.
… I come up with lots of excuses to call things "special occasions," is what I'm sayin', I guess.
I don't often have fettucini alfredo because it's so simple to make at home that I never bother ordering it, and it's so rich that making it at home is a little shocking. But I do adore it. I should make it sometime soon.
Tapas: some pickled or seasoned vegetables, fried potatoes and romesco sauce, toasted or fried nuts, cheeses. OR, depending on the crowd, the mood, and the weather, maybe grilled cheese sandwiches and soup, or omelettes.
Flourless chocolate cake. Or meringues with creme anglais and macerated strawberries. Or eclairs. Or orange-almond cake with orange syrup and ganache. Or…
… apparently, I have too many special occasions.
Hush puppies, for sure. I hadn't had hush puppies for yeeeears after moving to New England, until one day this summer it occurred to me that I could just make them. (I know, I know.) They were spectacularly good.
Chocolate-covered pretzels, or salted chocolate chip cookies. It's a toss-up.
Avocado fries with romesco sauce for dipping.
Nothing's faster than an omelet, filled with whatever leftover seems appropriate—or just a bit of cheese.
We have a tiny apartment and a ton of friends, so I almost always serve finger foods with small plates—but I like to make sure the foods are filling and wholesome, especially if we're serving cocktails. Drinkers need some ballast.
So one of my favorite dishes is an assortment of savory galettes: I can make the dough and filling ahead, shape the galettes at my leisure and freeze them, then bake them at the last minute with no hassle.
Awww, there are so many! Mac and cheese is a reliable standby. So is cream of tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich, or breakfast-for-dinner. But lately I've rediscovered how much I love cinnamon toast. So simple, so comforting.
I make a super-simple pulled pork taco filling that is really just faux carnitas; for vegetarian tacos, black beans are my household staple.
I cook so little meat that I like to keep it super-simple: salt and fire, maybe a drizzle of an herb-and-oil blend or citrus wedges once it's off the grill. But I do like to grill mushrooms after letting them soak up balsamic-rosemary marinade and to brush brandy and butter onto Vidalia onions before putting them on the grill. Those are some big flavors, all right.
That pain-in-the-neck Cook's Illustrated recipe for pumpkin pie that is the only pumpkin pie I've ever loved.
Gosh, I haven't fried chicken since I was a kid (and as far as I know, my mother never fried chicken). Nowadays, I think I'd try a buttermilk soak and a simple seasoned flour dredge.
I suspect some of our nieces and nephews will serve our version of Deborah Madison's roasted squash galette with caramelized onions and garlic at their own Thanksgiving dinners a generation from now.
Marble cake!
I notice guests tend to ooooh over eclairs, and I do too when someone makes them for me! All the elements are simple — puff pastry, creme patissiere, chocolate glaze — but done right, the combination is exquisite. They're a delicious combination of old-fashioned and elegant, and I love serving them.
By the same token, I love serving meringues with macerated berries and cream (or, sometimes, a rich custard made with the leftover yolks). So simple, so bright and fresh, and old-fashioned enough to be unexpected.
Are escargots categorized as bistro fare? I love traditional escargots, and they're surprisingly hard to find in my area. I need an old-school recipe and a source for the snails, I guess.
I always think of my father when I make cheesecake. Every year for his birthday or Christmas, I would make him a plain, rich New York cheesecake, and every year he greeted it as if it were his favorite present.
No matter what I grill, I always grill some sort of bread: flatbread cooked completely on the grill, a split baguette brushed with herb oil, pita with garlic butter. The smoky intensity of grilled bread is intoxicating.
Bread, almost certainly, and I think I'd go for the color blue.
In its whole, raw state, the artichoke. Sliced or peeled or cooked, beets.
My favorite is strawberries, fresh little local strawberries. My most used is blueberries, the tiny little Maine blueberries I buy at the farmers' market and freeze to eat all winter long.
Homebaked bread, homemade pie crust, and homemade tortillas. They're all so simple and so much more than the sum of their parts. The storebought counterparts are perfectly fine as vehicles for something else, but the fresh-made homemade versions are something special on their own.
I am always, always going to zero in on a chocolate cupcake with dark chocolate frosting.
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Bolognese is one of my favorite sauces to make, and I'm pretty damn good at it. My goal with this vegan version is to create a 100% meat-free sauce that benefits from a long, slow braise, and produces an end result that is every bit as rich, hearty, a deeply flavorful as my own traditional bolognese recipe. More
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How do you undo gushers? I brewed a blueberry wheat beer and bottled a week ago. I opened one yesterday and it was a gusher. It was room temperature and had some carbonation to it. Do I just put it into the fridge and cool it down? Will that reduce the gushing?
The beer is still a bit green but man what a fantastic summer ale! Can't wait!
Yes, cooling them should help. I have noticed a big difference in some of my brews that are opened at warmer temps vs. cooled ones.
You could also open and re-cap once you've cooled them down; cooling it down should help prevent the gusher, and re-capping should release enough CO2 to bring it down to a normal carbonation level.
Gushing can also be caused by bacteria. If it were mine I'd grab one, pour off what beer there is that isn't foam and evaluate it just to be sure.
Hope it's just too much priming sugar or something.


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Otto Prutscher was a prominent member of the Wiener Werkstätte and a former student of Hoffmann. This plant stand, as well as a number of designs for similar plant stands by Prutscher, was produced by Beißbarth & Hoffmann AG, a manufacturer in Mannheim-Rheinau, Germany. Its architectonic design represents a particularly advanced take on the new geometry. The black-and-white checkerboard of painted squares is echoed in the alternating tiers of square cachepots. The motif is similar to one employed at the time in Glasgow by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, whose work was well known and admired in Vienna.
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Portsmouth condominium blaze now five alarms
A five alarm fire was burning at Harbour Place Condominums in Portsmouth on Friday. (GRETYL MACALASTER/Union Leader Correspondent)
Heavy smoke billowed and flames burst from the roof, which had partially collapsed by about 8 p.m.
Crews were called out to Harbour Place Condominiums at 135 Bow Street shortly before 7 p.m. for reports of a chimney fire that spread into the ceiling.
By about 9 p.m., the fire had been contained to the roof and the third floor, but was not under control, Portsmouth Fire Chief Chris LeClaire said.
Fire crews were fighting the fire from the roof and the third floor of the building. Additional crews were conducting salvage operations on the first and second floor, LeClaire said shortly before 9 p.m.
Two buildings between Bow Street and the condo building made access challenging for crews.
All of the residents were evacuated and no injuries were reported as a result of the fire, LeClaire said.
One woman walking near the scene was injured when she slipped on ice formed by water flowing from the many hoses on scene. Crews dispersed sand onto the ice around the scene throughout the night to keep crews and bystanders in the area safe.
The fire went to five alarms and crews from multiple communities including Dover, Rochester, Newington, Greenland, North Hampton, Hampton, New Castle, Kittery, Maine and York, Maine were on scene to provide extra manpower and support.
A man who said he was familiar with the building said all of the residents had found other accommodations for the night. LeClaire said the American Red Cross had not been called in because he had not received an indication of need.
According to city records, the building was constructed in 1987 and houses 18 condominiums each valued at over $500,000.
Multiple downtown streets have been closed as a result of the fire, including State Street from Pleasant Street, the top of Daniel Street and Bow Street.
A scheduled performance of the Vagina Monologues was cancelled at the Seacoast Repertory Theatre because of the theater's proximity to the blaze.
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Jackpot: astronomers tag Goldilocks planet
No thanks. I've just finished the blancmanges
Indonesian train roof fare-dodgers given the brush off
The Register - for all your IT* news
* Indonesian train
Koala food may power US Defence force
That's just my back yard.
Admittedly there not as common as they were. Apparently birds have learned how to kill and eat them. What's a bit of poison when you're Australian wildlife.
Toshiba releases 'world's thinnest' Android tablet
Seriously, WTF
is wrong with letterboxing. Is a black bar in your field of vision so much worse than a bezel? I'm looking to buy a new monitor but everything's bloody 16:9. Now the size is limited by the available space on my desk, so by going widescreen I'm actually losing screen real estate. Likewise with a tablet the limiting factor is primarily the larger dimension (and 16:9 is horrible vertically). Now, I hate to agree with the sainted Steve (check my posts if you like, you won't find any Apple love from me) but he got that one right.
The IEEE and the Electric Universe
Not to mention that idea that gravity was once a fringe concept
is just plain wrong.
SpaceX successfully tests SuperDraco rescue rockets
If there is a leak
and toxic vapours manage to reach the crew I think the crew might already have had problems - like not being able to breathe in the vacuum of space. And yes, if there are two leaks there could be an explosion. If I were designing the system I would separate the tanks for the component fuels. And since the SpaceX people are smart I suspect they have come up with something even better.
Hypergolic engines are a tried and proven reliable technology, widely used without problems (the Apollo Lunar module main engine was hypergolic for a start). I'd certainly rather have eight of these things around me than a singe rocket above me as in conventional launch escape systems (or nothing as was the case with the shuttle).
This is impressive stuff - if they keep it up the Martian Alliance may have to consider breaking cover.
Boffins crack superconducting graphene's melting mystery
You love Britain so much
yet you can't spell its name or even be bothered to capitalise it properly.
That aside, this is fundamental research where the limiting factor tends to be the researchers not the equipment so if you really want to keep the research in Britain you can't just throw money at it. (How many tunneling electron microscopes can one team use?) And yes this research is going to be exploited by all the world - that's how fundamental research works. If Edison made more money out of electricity than Faraday it wasn't because Faraday was under-appreciated. (It was probably because Edison was a thieving bastard.)
JEDI alliance: Jellyfish overlords won't rule Earth after all
Just what we want you to think
Regards - the Rutan Host.
Serial killer PYTHONS stalk Florida's Everglades
Snakes on
Lake Pontchartrain. OK, wrong state but not far off.
Star Trek tractor beam to save Earth from asteroid Armageddon
just fit them with peril-sensitive filters.
Nikon compact, only $AU100k
but shirley
They're offering $100k to take it off their hands.
Boffins one step closer to invisible shed
"plasmonic cloaking"
Didn't Spock invent that. Or maybe it was Scotty. I'm sure it was one of them - having to escape certain death before the end of a TV hour is the mother of invention.
BBC's images of murdered infant did not breach privacy, copyright
Different issue
different court, different country. Both sensible judgments, though.
Big stars give birth to little stars in new WISE pic
That puzzled me too
(And supernovae may be quick but they belong in a funeral home. The process of recycling their material into new stars takes a little bit longer.)
Spammers hit mobes with QR code junkmail jump pads
Easy, it ends in
Boeing backs biofuel boffinry
On the other hand
Oil has never been polluted by something as dirty as politics.
I agree about the corn
I don't advocate the use of food crops for biofuel. But that's for economic/politcal reasons.(Sugarcane is exception - it's high yield and if you're living on sugar you're doing it wrong.) A ratio of 1.5 for energy in to energy out may look bad (and is bad compared to 8 for sugarcane) but apart from pollution/land use concerns it really doesn't matter since you're producing energy. You might as well complain that you're "only" getting 50% return on you're investments!
But again, I'm not advocating the use of food crops for biofuels. I am advocating serious research into non-food sources such as switchgrass and algae. If they can be made to give the yield of sugarcane without it's environmental impact (cane farming tends to be fertiliser intensive and produce nasty runoff) we will have a viable alternative to oil.
Hang on
" The fuel required to transport biomass to a processing plant, covert it to fuel and transport the fuel to an airport is about equal to the fuel created from biomass."
I see this claim again and again. Yet we manage to transport crude oil half-way around the globe for a net energy profit. Is the energy density of biofuels so much less or is this an economic argument in disguise?
Now I can't find precise figures but according to the Wikipedia "oil tanker" article "the average cost of oil transport by tanker amounts to only two or three United States cents per 1 US gallon". (Yes there's a citation for that.) With crude oil at 1$100 per barrel (42 gallons) three US cents buys something like one hundredth of a gallon. That's a ratio of 100 to one even assuming no other costs.
OK, if you transport the raw biomass rather than processing it on site the ratio would decrease significantly but why would you do that? You harvest the material, process (or refine) it and ship it out in a concentrated form.
Sorry, but these efficiency arguments are just a red herring. There is no theoretical constraint. At the moment oil is cheaper because it's cheaper (an economic constraint). But it's not getting cheaper and never will while biofuels certainly will.
Did Vatican commit Cardinal sin over Wikipedia bios?
I love how
they translate even the names into Latin. Nialus Armstrong FTW.
Whale versus shark in KIWI DEATH MATCH!
Trouble is
if the sharks had FRIKKIN' LASERS!!! the Orcas would respond with SMEGGIN' TACTICAL NUKES!!!11, they're that hardcore.
Stephen Hawking seeks geek to maintain his unique wheelchair
I applied for that one
All I got was killed in a cheap negative effect.
Make room, internet, there's another 5 million domains to fit in
Turn off the internet - that's crazy talk
The internet is just a black box with a flashing red light on the top. There is no off button.
Facebook shoves your face into creepy 'sponsored stories' in 2012
"I think well known brands tend to pay more for R&D"
Parallel politics: Gerry Harvey, imports and taxes
I'd question
the "affectionately" bit.
Tas Uni helps align ice observations
"The earth is not warming any more"
Famous last words.
The world will be fine
I just wouldn't fancy being around in another fifty plus years. Just maybe this work will make life in the 2060s a little more endurable.
Facebook's 'Darwinian' nature keeps users safe - Irish gov
Put that simply
the idea is tautologous nonsense. But, of course, you've put it too simply. Put simply, but not too simply, the idea is something like: "the survival of organisms with inheritable traits that allow individuals to survive long enough to have sufficient offspring to ensure those traits survive. That may be beyond your ability to understand but it isn't nonsense.
Now, can we get back to talking about how crap Facebook is.
Ofcom maps out what 'psychics' are allowed to do on TV
Okay, there's some damn fine religious music but from my brief exposure it's not to found on Song of Praise.
IBM: 'Your PC will read your mind by 2016'
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2011's Best... compact cameras
I got a grip
It's attached to my SLR. Obviously, I'm reading the wrong article.
Duff Mars probe's flaming shards to rain down mid-January
Translation fail?
Since 100km is pretty generally regarded as the edge of space I doubt the accuracy of the statement about the fuel burning up in "the dense atmosphere of the Earth at an altitude of approximately 100km".
Doctor Who girl Amy Pond axed in 'heartbreaking' exit
Oh God, you made me remember
the flying shark.
Asus Zenbook UX31E
A-ZOO-S is indeed the 'correct' pronunciation but the company itself tends to use A-SUS in promotional material produced for/by English speakers. (Or maybe their PR company just didn't get the memo.)
Woz's key to success: Burn the tie, wear T-shirts to work
I'm not a Bill Hicks wannabee
I'm a Douglas Adams wannabee.
And anyway I wouldn't have existed if not for Hitler but that doesn't stop me being 21236468th on the list of people who get to have a crack at killing him should time travel ever be invented..
If Einstein where around today he'd have a dozen sets of black t-shirt and jeans.
Nearest supernova since 1986 blasts boffin off her chair
Boffin chair blasting
Great fun for the boffin.
Less fun for the Trazabentigarnos whose stay this used to be.
Mine's the one with the collected works of Arthur C. Clarke in the pocket.
Wikipedia simplifies article editing for world+dog
for adding some perspective (the first thing that seems to get lost when people talk about Wikipedia).
Higgs boson hunters have god particle in their sights
Yin and yang
It's to preserve the balance of the universe - God Particle, Devil typeface.
Why there's real hope for webOS - if HP is committed
This reply is a figment of your imagination
brought to you by a Pre running WebOS 2 . (Thanks to a 'community'.)
Google execs eye NASA's Hangar One to park their air fleet
The "museum or educational centre"
should contain a permanent display of a lead balloon.
2011's Best... Games
Joke of the year.
Infographic: The road to desktop virtualisation
With infographics
slick is the problem. Try good insted
PC sales forecast slashed on back of disk drive crisis
You're forgetting
supply and demand. If the supply's there and demand is low prices go down thus pushing up demand. That's not happening here.
Next Dr Who game to leave Xboxers in the cold
The Eternity Quest
for a decent Doctor Who game.
Red Cross: 600m videogamers may be war criminals
Why not?
ISTR in America's Army or whatever it was called if you broke the rules you ended up in a virtual Leavenworth.
Eyes on stalks: ancient predator a real monster
Wasn't god
permanently on acid. It would explain pretty much everything.
Facebook disses Effin Irishwoman
Or maybe
Far North Queensland.
Navy pays 2x purchase price to keep warship docked for 5 years
What does BAE know about
about oak and hemp?
Quantum computing comes closer as diamonds get spooky
Don't be so hard on him
I think he just had a bad experience with Deepak Chopra.
Tablets to outship regular notebooks by 2016
Your digestive system is safe
Any who claims to be able to make five year quantitative predictions is a charlatan.
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Looking Back on Second Quarter Operational Results for our Fiscal Year Ending March 2015 (consolidated).
Our net sales was 90.0 billion Yen (1.9% increase from same period last year), for the 102nd period, second quarter consolidated. Ordinary profit was 2.8 billion Yen (24.1 % increase from same period last year), resulting in this term's net income of 1.7 billion Yen (31.4% increase from same period last year).
This term, environmental changes of the weaker Japanese Yen and the raise in Japanese consumption tax, affected our business as well.
Lifestyle sports products including running shoes and competitive sports products showed strong sales overall. However, our golf and baseball products in the mid to high price range struggled.
Sales decreased in Japan and the Americas, while the EU, Asia/Oceania showed increase.
For operating profit, we absorbed the cost increases due to the weaker Yen with our cost reduction efforts by improving the process of product development and manufacturing, leading to a gross margin percentage up by 0.9 points. There was also an increase in advertising and promotional as well as marketing expenses, but we managed to achieve increase in profits.
Regional Operating Results
Sales in Japan was 58.7 billion Yen, down 4.8% compared to the previous year. This is partly due to transferring control of exportation to our distributors in Asia, from Japan to two consolidated subsidiaries.
Running popularity continues, as our walking shoes sales also showed growth, through our opening direct retail wellness shops targeting health conscious consumers.
For competition sports, our brand appeal during world-class tournaments affected certain sporting goods sales such as soccer and swimming to grow favorably. However, reaction to the raise in consumption tax affected our sales more than expected, heavily influencing sales of our mid to high price range products in golf and baseball. As a whole, sporting goods sales fell below last year's results.
On the other hand, our sports facilities and service business had steady orders for appointed management operation and sports facility construction. Senoh Corporation also had favorable growth, with indoor athletic facilities leading the way.
Direct Retail Store Wellness Shop, Motomachi Kobe
Walking Shoes LD40 ST"
Sales revenue in Europe was 7.7 billion Yen (Yen conversion 18.7% increase), a 7.2% increase compared to the previous year on local currency basis.
In Europe, enhanced product lineup for indoor sports including handball, lead to expansion in sales. Also, progress of brand awareness lead to continued strong growth in running product sales. On the other hand, golf club sales were stagnant with hyper price discounts due to excess dealer inventory placing them in a difficult situation.
Sales revenue in the Americas was 14.4 billion Yen (3.6% decrease), an 11.1% decrease from the previous year on a local currency basis. Running products as well as golf products could not produce enough sales, which lead to a decrease in sales revenue. On the contrary, volleyball products maintained market top share showing strong sales.
Sales revenue in Asia/Oceania was 9.1 billion Yen (80.0% increase) and a 73.5% increase on a local currency basis from the previous year, due to the effects of transferred control of exportation from Japan to a consolidated subsidiary in Asia. In total, we are showing steady performance, most notably in Taiwan, mainly in lifestyle sports products. We have successfully exerted our brand superiority and increased promotional efforts to provide positive results.
Golf product business struggled with intense competition, while brand saturation of running products, which is our main pillar for revenue, lead to expansion in sales, contributing greatly to operating performance.
As for China, though income fell due to business restructuring, profits and losses improved greatly.
Europe's Handball Shoes
Mizuno Korea / Running Shoes Advertisement
Our Efforts for Future Growth
Aspiring for growth in Asia, we opened a new subsidiary in Singapore, April 2014.
In Europe, we have moved our sports headquarter functions from England to our subsidiary in Munich, Germany and will expand on active marketing. We have also established a subsidiary in Norway and will start business in April 2015.
Additionally, we have opened for the first time in Taiwan, a direct retail shop for running, and will further increase Mizuno's brand equity to our customers across each region.
Mizuno Germany Branch (Munich)
Taiwan direct retail shop
Mizuno Running Store in Taipei
Forecasts of full-year results for financial year ending March 2015
Observing the second quarter operating results as well as indications from our current business condition, full-year operational forecasts for fiscal year ending March 2015 have been revised as follows.
Full year revenues 186.0 billion Yen
Ordinary profit 6.0 billion Yen
Net income 3.4 billion Yen
The main factors for this forecast revision is for the stagnant sales of sporting goods in the mid to high price range, increase in purchasing costs due to the weaker Yen, and on top of the above issues within Japan, there was also decline in sales in the global golf products market influenced by intensified price wars.
Furthermore, stagnant running shoes business in the Americas, which had shown continuous growth up until the last fiscal year, affected our business greatly. However, actions were implemented for this issue for a swift resolution. We are still in a difficult business environment, but will vigorously push forward to resolve our business challenges and to reinforce our business foundation.
The second quarter consolidated operating results for fiscal year ending March 2015 were grim, however, with the mentality of this fiscal year's business slogan "Move Forward!" we will take swift action, and proceed to make improvements to return towards a growth track.
For the realization of our corporate philosophy "Contributing to society through the advancement of sporting goods and the promotion of sports," and to contribute to our shareholders as well as all of our stakeholders, each and every employee will be exerting further efforts, and so we would greatly appreciate your continued understanding and support.


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Some videos of The Dog Island are now online, on what I assume is its official website. You can check the videos out here. Bless em.
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I always thought that the dog craze was over. I guess I was wrong.
TruBlu said:
I always enjoy a good virtual pet game, as long as it doesn't get too corny or unrealistic. This game isn't looking that great.
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Who needs Call of Duty when you have Mario and Zelda
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2015 shaping up to be a great year
Nintendo Introducing a Pre-Download Option for its Digital Releases
An exciting idea that brings a potential problem with it
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The force wasn't strong with this one
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Giving gamers a place to brew their own games
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Kensington Quarters is officially opening on Wednesday, October 29th. The Fishtown restaurant, bar, butcher shop, classroom combo will offer a selection of the region's finest meats in its butcher shop, while diners of the restaurant enjoy drinks and dinner by Executive Chef Damon Menapace.
The classroom in the upstairs loft (which will also double as an event space) will host butchering classes as well as guest chef lectures and cooking demos that will acquaint guests with Kensington Quarters' farm partners. A class schedule will be announced shortly after opening.