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Very interesting note! Indeed, I live and work with a couple of Germans and would say that the reasoning is absolutely right. It is astonishing how strongly they deny reality sometimes. Nonetheless – no ideas from my side for how to name the phenomenon. cheers
How about, "If all you have is a history of failed aggression, everything looks like an opportunity for pacifism."? Not very metaphorical but it's the best I can come up with on a moments notice. lol
The Applebaum comment is based on several inaccurate assumptions.
1. Almost none of the leading German media and political elites believes that Koehlers comments (and the following criticism) are the true reasons for the resignment.
2. Germany as a society does not have "a pride of pacifism" but rather a decades long tradition of economic rebuilding diplomatic/political negotiations.
Think of the Marshal plan of the US. Basically Germany has done this to Eastern Germany and to all of EU/Europe. As a result of a successfully re-integrated Europe the value of reconstruction in international negotiations is very high.
3. As a matter of fact Germany has actively adjusted in military terms on a global scale. Neither the society nor the politics deny national interests and international security responsibilities.
The analysis of Apelbaum comes around 15 years too late, like the opinions of this website.
It is typical of Lear's style to not only state his opinion, but to take a swipe at the web site as well. If this site is so out of date Lear, why not create your own site and go away? Then you will see if you can get the kind of readership that GPP has. My guess is not.
Here are "my" websites:
I´m the main author and chief layout designer from all of these.
Together and singularly, these are some of the most read documents of engl. Wikipedia and on an annual basis some of the most read documents on the internet.
I have my audience ….;)
Content is king. It is my fate that by now millions of readers and watchers know my "work" (opinion) but not the editor in person.
Number of edits from a single account (in this case Berlin @ engl.Wikipedia) :
It is Lear 21! And that is me.
I don't think Wikipedia is supposed to be a medium for propogating your own opinion.
I have also found the presence of such opinion incredibly annoying on the EU Wiki Page in the past, so much so that I have had o disregard it completely as a resource. At least now I know who to blame for that..
In any case, I think a lot of this German pacifism is due to the role that she played in both World Wars. I don't think that much of Europe would take to kindly to seeing a German display of military strength, she would be too powerful for the rest of Europe to accept. I think Germany know this and that this causes them to rule out military diplomacy.
It is also worth noting how "under fire" Germany seems to be in the US Press at the moment.
Paul Krugman has taken a dig at their economics too:
Germany has done much to influence the current international system, much of it beneficial. I do not mean to discount that. What I mean to highlight is a foreign policy stance that has gone way too far in one direction. As the events in Kyrgyzstan, Israel, Turkey, Korea, Afghanistan, Congo, etc have shown that if the world's great powers all took on a German type of pacifism, the likely outcome would be outright scary. The EU/Germany is at long last living in peace. This is a wonderful happening. But the rest of the globe is still riddled with conflict and this takes both hammers and hoses to tend to.
Don´t worry, the work on the Wikipedia articles is basically the condensed result of several thousands of articles published in the the last ten years. Articles originated from all continents in several languages from high brow to low brow quality.
Almost all information in the Wiki entries is based on high profile sources.. The Germany article is even regarded as one of finest in the Wikipedia reputation system (best 3000 out of 3 million).
@Frost: Stop this pacifism nonsense. Germany is an active driver of all EU security issues and military project. It secures the coast of Libanon, is the third largest troop in Afghanistan and one of the largest financier (3rd, I think) of UN missions. Although it is not politics, it should be not noted that Germany is even the 3rd largest arms exporter by now.
The only truth is its relatively small military budget (in % to the GDP) compared to France, UK. But because of its close alliances in Europe and Nato it hasn´t yet been challenged to do otherwise.
I believe that EO is absolutely correct concerning the role of Germany in WWI and WWII and the fears that other European countries would have if Germany were to become more militaristic. Fortunately, the US has been around to handle some of the heavy lifting and that has allowed the EU to concentrate on their economic interests. If indeed Lear was the primary contributor to "Wiki" that explains a lot. Wiki entries are "supposed" to be free of opinion but it is apparent that is not the case. And I'm not talking about just the articles for which Lear takes credit. One of the inherent dangers of a Wiki type of resource is that it is open to mis-statements, confused "facts", and shoddy input. Never-the-less Wiki is still a good tool for quick reference in a lot of cases if one is careful about accepting everything at face value.
The third largest arms exporter? hmm, now there's something to be proud of.
Most of the Germans I have met (and they have all been over the age of 55) all still have deep psychological scars from the guilt of WWII and the genocides. I think this guilt has been driving their policy's for quite a few years.
I offer this:
"If all you have is a Dove, than everything looks like bird seed."
and this:
"If all you have is an olive branch, than everything looks like fertilizer."
Combine the two and you get:
"If all you have is a Dove and an olive branch, than everything looks like bird seed and fertilizer."
I believe that you are correct about residual guilt. Good metaphors. lol
If all you have is a (US) sledgehammer than even standard hammers look like matches.
If the "only" thing you have is a sledgehammer you tend to repair your computer by hitting it.
What I find very irritating is that this blog is supposed to be written by an academic (I still guess its fake).
Most of the entries here are based on outdated believes, clichees, or fantasies and rarely are based on facts and realities in the 21st century.
I find it irritating that you are still here Lear. I would have thought, with all of your negative feelings, that you would have fled to an environment that is actually receptive to your unyielding intolerance of any opinion that you didn't create. I can assure you, because I researched it, that Professor Frost is an academic; whereas I found it difficult to believe that you are not a teenager pretending to be knowledgeable in IR. Are you sure that Locke, and The Hive Queen and the Hegemon are not your primary sources? (That is a literary reference in case you missed it.)
I am curious to know which posts on this blog (not including comments, since I was under the impression that comments are intended to be an outlet for the expression of opinions) you consider to be outdated, cliches, and fantasy's not based on the facts available to us in the 21st century.
1 or 2 examples will suffice.
Is intolerance a tool for a Dictatorial/Totalitarian state or is tolerance a vice for the Pacifist to slowly drown in?
I liked your Enders Game reference. One of my favorite series.
@Hellraiser: Those are very difficult questions. I am going to have to think about my answers before attempting to reply. Enders Game may be one of the best SF/FAN novels ever written. I currently listening to Speaker for the Dead on CD (for about the 4th time) and am discovering again why it also won the Hugo award.
@Hellraiser: In a nutshell, I would posit that intolerance is more and outcome than a tool for the totalitarian state. For the pacifist, tolerance is more of an overriding goal, which sometimes interferes with perception of reality in a less than perfect world, than a vice in which to slowly drown.
You made some respectable factors there. I appeared on the internet for the issue and found most individuals will associate with together with your website.


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manor were held by 1269, when pleas and
perquisites totalled 6s. 8d. (fn. 96) Perquisites from
East Weald (Claywell) in Ducklington were
recorded separately, suggesting a separate
session and possibly court, but by the early 14th
century the homages of Shifford, Aston, and
East Weald (which evidently included the
manor's tenants in Cote) all attended the
Shifford court. (fn. 97) In the 14th century and earlier
15th the court met up to four times a year, but
by the early 16th apparently only twice, usually
in March or April and October, and from the
later 16th it met at other times also. (fn. 98) View of
frankpledge was reserved for the hundred court,
where Shifford's tithingman presented in 1500
and paid 3s. cert-money apparently for the half
year, a sum which tenants complained in 1505
had been illegally raised to 8s. for the two annual
views at Bampton. (fn. 99) Edward North held a view
at Shifford in 1544, and in the 17th century the
manor was sold with its court leet and view of
frankpledge, (fn. 1) but in the 1670s the Bampton
court retained some jurisdiction and habitually
fined Shifford's inhabitants for failure to scour
watercourses. (fn. 2)
Medieval courts settled pleas of debt and other
petty disputes besides granting copyholds, exacting childwite and fines for agricultural
misdemeanours, and issuing licences for marriage
and, occasionally, for going outside the manor. (fn. 3)
Reeves and apparently rent collectors were
elected throughout the 14th century. (fn. 4) Officers in
the late 15th century and early 16th included a
hayward, 2 water bailiffs, and in 1506 2 supervisors of fields, fisheries, and waters, and in 1616
there were 2 grass stewards. (fn. 5) Constables, mentioned from 1642 to the 1750s, were appointed
by the Bampton court. (fn. 6) Copyhold grants continued throughout the 17th century, and courts
baron, with courts of survey, were held in 1699
and 1707; no-later courts are known, and although
the manor was sold with its courts and perquisites in 1755 they presumably lapsed following
Shifford's inclosure soon after. (fn. 7)
In the 19th century and probably by the late
15th Shifford had 4 church- or chapelwardens,
appointed by Shifford, Chimney, Cote, and
Brighthampton, (fn. 8) though only 2 wardens were
mentioned in 1530. (fn. 9) After the division of Bampton parish in 1857 Shifford 'vestry', so called by
1859 and attended by representatives of those
townships, continued to appoint usually 4
wardens, but from the 1880s sometimes only 2
or three. (fn. 10) There was one warden in 1990. (fn. 11) In
1817 there was a 'parish' clerk, whose income
the chapelwardens agreed to increase following
intervention by a vicar of Bampton. (fn. 12)
Shifford may have shared an overseer with
Chimney in the earlier 17th century but had its
own probably by 1666, (fn. 13) and in 1759 may have
had two. (fn. 14) Only a single weekly allowance was
being paid c. 1755, and total parish expenditure
rarely exceeded £4. (fn. 15) In 1775-6 £3 17s. was
spent on poor relief, between 1783 and 1785 an
average of £3 6s., but in 1803 £21. By 1814 the
total was £34, and in 1820 £66, or 30s. per head;
from 1821 expenditure ranged usually between
£38 and £45, rising in 1831 to £68 or c. 29s. per
head. (fn. 16) In 1803 there were 2 adults and 4
children on regular out relief and 5 people on
occasional relief; from 1813 to 1815 two or three
people received relief regularly and the same
number occasionally. (fn. 17)
After 1834 Shifford belonged to Witney union,
and from 1894 to Witney rural district. In 1974
it became part of West Oxfordshire district. (fn. 18)
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So, as far as YouTube is concerned, how does the new browser measure up? Well, almost without exception, every page on YouTube displays and operates perfectly, just like your computer browser, which means you can use all of the features, such as the Playlist Bar. The browser does have some "teething" problems, such as missing images on the Charts pages and navigating with the excellent PS3 remote has become painfully slow on some pages (both these issues were later resolved in subsequent Firmware updates).
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You will also note the new "Auto-select choice" feature (added in version 2.1), which when enabled will bypass the prompt and automatically load the video in the chosen destination. You can change the prompt settings by re-clicking a video link (in original window).
For full details of the features in the PS3 Bookmarklet and the revision history, check out the Features page (click link at top right of page). Here are the highlights for the YouTube plugin:
In addition to YouTube, the PS3 Bookmarklet also enhances Wikipedia, for the ideal viewing experience on your TV (with large pictures and a "Find text" feature).
In December 2012, added support for Twitch and Justin.tv "past broadcast" videos, which you can see demonstrated in the companion video (see below). NOTE: for "non-partner" channels, where the videos are only available in the original broadcast quality, some video may be un-watchable because the video quality is too high for the PS3 browser to handle.
In March 2013, added support for NeoGAF (with full screen display and large pictures), you just need to remember to turn JavaScript off (press and select Tools, JavaScript, Off from menu) before loading a GAF page and then turn JavaScript back on for the bookmarklet (without turning JavaScript off, GAF loads "mobile" version of page). NOTE: on the thread list pages, with JavaScript off, clicking a thread link will load the thread in a new window, which you'll find is the ideal window arrangement.
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I recently seasoned my cast iron skillets for the first time, and they have a noticeably brown patina on them. They look almost bronze-like instead of the black that is normally associated with cast iron skillets. Is there a way to get that black color without having to completely start the seasoning process all over again? More importantly, is it safe to eat out of?
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I use hot water and scrub off any stuck on food with a stiff brush. Then I dry it on the stove and rub a light layer of safflower oil while it's still hot.
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I think adding the oil at the end is the problem. After rinsing well, I put it over the heat for a short time and wipe dry with a paper towel. The towel removes surface oil along with the water. Then I put it away dry. There is no reason to leave an oil residue on a well-seasoned pan.
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Are you sure that's safe? We've all heard that one must apply a drop of oil to prevent cast iron from rusting.
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I ignore that advice, and it hasn't killed me yet. My pan doesn't rust because it's old and well-seasoned, but even if it did have a little superficial rust, that isn't poisonous.
Another possibility - if you happened to sand your skillet down (made it metalic-looking rather than black) before seasoning it, a reddish hue is actually pretty normal for a newly seasoned pan. It's just the color of a thin layer of seasoning, made visible by the lighter-colored metal underneath. It will darken in time as seasoning builds up.
That said, it would be a lot easier to say for certain what you're experiencing if you included a pic or two.
It is a bit difficult for me to access. Brown patina, like cowboyardee said, is actually very normal seasoned color especially if you started from an unseasoned pan.
However, if the brown color easily come off from papertowel, then that is probably rust.
The brown seasoning will eventually turn into black. No need to worry. Yes, it is very safe to eat out off.
My CI always does this in the beginning. Over time it will turn black. I too, store my CI dry. Greasy pans attract dust and will go rancid if stored and not used for a period of time. time. There really is no reason to store them oily. The baked on seasoning keeps them from rusting.
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<My CI always does this in the beginning. Over time it will turn black.>
I agree.
<There really is no reason to store them oily. The baked on seasoning keeps them from rusting.>
I agree too. I think if someone is really concern about rusting from the humid air for long term storage (like a year or more), then one can always do one more additional seasoning before storage.
Moreover, it is not that difficult to remove minor rust. It may be more difficult to remove rancid oil.
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>Moreover, it is not that difficult to remove minor rust. It may be more difficult to remove rancid oil.<
Not to mention rancid oil smells. blek. The biggest mistake I ever made was oiling my wooden bowls with veg oil. Not only did it smell bad, it was so sticky and gummy. Took forever to get it off. It took many times of scrubbing with salt.
I once was at a flea market and picked up on that rancid oil smell. I guessed it was coming from a booth with either wood kitchen stuff and/or cast iron pots and pans. BINGO a booth full of rancid old cast iron.
I guess if you are selling old cast iron, you gotta do something to keep the rust at bay. Rancid oil stinks, but it won't harm the metal. It would be easier to get off of ci than wooden bowls. You can throw the cast iron on the grill or oven and bake it off.
i have the same problem and i was lead to this thread. i bought 3 cast iron pans for $5, 2 small ones and one regular sized. i got it in the self-clead oven and got the gunk out. i used flax oil to season it and i did 3 seasoning for now, and they are dark brown in color. i was almost going to strip it again and do over until i found this thread. i might try to wait and see if it turns black after some time of use and additional seasoning.
I reseasoned a new Lodge with flax seed oil. The first several coats came out bronze. After about the fourth or fifth coat it went black. I now have about 6-8 coats on it now and it works like a charm. When I started seasoning it, every time I baked some thing, when finished, I bumped the temp up to 450 and put the oiled skillet in and let it cook for 1/2 hour and then shut it down and left it in over night.


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"Reality has a well-known liberal bias," Stephen Colbert said at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner.
It's hard to say whether the line is original to Colbert: Variations on this specimen of bumper-sticker wisdom have been circulating on the American left for ages. In any event, such a self-righteous and self-negating declaration says a lot about progressive America—none of it good. It's even more revealing that Colbert's line was delivered at Washington's "nerd prom." That such a poor imitation of a deadly quip would provoke hearty laughter among the Beltway elite shows how much liberal clichés have insinuated themselves into political discourse.
Thankfully, the idea that only liberals have a grasp on the facts is one of the first notions Jonah Goldberg eviscerates here. Goldberg quotes Barack Obama, arguably the most liberal president in American history, repeatedly asserting that it's his Republican opponents who are "locked into ideologically rigid positions," even as he racks up $5 trillion in debt, attempts to expand the welfare state more than any president in nearly half a century, and his administration argues before the Supreme Court that the federal government has the power to compel every citizen to purchase health insurance. In contrast to those dastardly Republicans, of course, none of this radicalism is motivated by ideology: "The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works," Obama declared in his Inaugural Address. David Axelrod has even gone so far as to claim that his boss is a "committed, practicing non-ideologue."
As Goldberg notes, this pragmatist pose is nothing more than "self-serving verbiage passing itself off as statesmanlike wisdom." Or, as he puts it more affirmatively: "Pragmatism is the disguise progressives and other ideologues don when they want to demonize competing ideologies." No doubt, many conservatives, pummeled for being honest about their ideological preferences by being told that their empirical judgments aren't liberally biased enough, have surmised as much. But they probably didn't know this tendentious argument has such an illustrious pedigree. Goldberg takes us on a jaunty tour through history and shows us how that noted pragmatist Napoleon employed very similar appeals decrying the supposedly radical ideology of his opponents on the way to amassing supreme power. The emperor even claimed to have coined the term "ideologue"—as an epithet.
Which is not to say that Barack Obama is a budding Bonaparte; he's not nearly so canny about his pursuit of power. All evidence indicates that the president truly believes he is unencumbered by ideology. Thus, candidate Obama argued in 2008 that his preferred progressive—er, pragmatic—political agenda is thwarted because rural Americans "get bitter, [and] they cling to guns or religion." Now ensconced in office, he has signed an executive order monitoring gun sales in border states in the wake of a fatal Justice Department gun-running scandal, and undermines religious freedom in the name of the mandated provision of free contraception. So it looks as if the president is foisting his own ideology about guns and religion on a country with a majority of religious gun owners who have their own opinions that often run contrary to the president's—and not the other way around.
Once Goldberg establishes that Obama and the rest of liberal America believe their own hype about their ignorant opponents trapped in ideological false consciousnesses, he's off to the races. This is a Russian nesting doll of a book, with the author unpacking and inspecting one unexamined liberal trope after another, including essays on "Dissent," "Social Justice," "Separation of Church and State"—and much more. If many of Goldberg's readers have intuitively rejected these half-baked conceits, they'll walk away from this read with some fleshed-out historical and philosophical reasons for being wary. And it's hard not to agree that these clichés are tyrannical, given how often the same dumb ones get recycled. While advance copies of The Tyranny of -Clichés were circulating in Washington, President Obama accused his Republican opponents of practicing Social Darwinism, a fallacious claim with little historical justification that's the subject of Goldberg's eighth chapter. The chapter on "Science" flays attempts to conduct pseudoscientific research proving that conservatism is a mental illness that short-circuits empiricism (see Andrew Ferguson's "The New Phrenology," on page 21).
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In a response to my article, "The Two Faces of the Tea Party," Jonah Goldberg writes that "at times [Continetti] seems to be trying — and trying very hard — to use [Glenn] Beck to discredit the entire conservative argument against the progressive revolution in politics."
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One of the reasons all of this is relevant is that the basic arguments and outlook of the Tea Parties are simply and profoundly different from the outlook of the New Left. The Tea Partiers are not in any meaningful sense Rousseauians. They certainly don't reject original sin in any serious way. And I suspect if you asked many of them they would say that the American people deserve their share of blame for the financial mess we're in. They do believe, I would bet, that America is a basically decent nation that has drifted into a kind of soft-despotism or Nanny-statism. But that vision isn't Rousseauian, it's De Tocquevillian.
One of the reasons all of this is relevant is that the basic arguments and outlook of the Tea Parties are simply and profoundly different from the outlook of the New Left. The Tea Partiers are not in any meaningful sense Rousseauians. They certainly don't reject original sin in any serious way. And I suspect if you asked many of them they would say that the American people deserve their share of blame for the financial mess we're in. They do believe, I would bet, that America is a basically decent nation that has drifted into a kind of soft-despotism or Nanny-statism. But that vision isn't Rousseauian, it's De Tocquevillian.
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The sides will lock horns in south Wales with the biggest prize in European rugby at stake, before returning to domestic action for Top 14 and Premiership finals respectively.
Of course, Toulon and Saracens have met before, at the semi-final stage last term, when seven penalties and a drop-goal from Jonny Wilkinson's boot sent the French side into the final with a 24-12 victory at Twickenham.
As well as being the last Heineken Cup final before Europe's premier competition becomes the Champions Cup next season, Saturday's final will be awash with emotion as both captains make their penultimate appearances.
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Should Toulon prevail, former England fly-half Wilkinson will become only the fourth captain to lift the European trophy twice, while Steve Borthwick aims to top the Challenge Cup medal he picked up with Bath in 2008.
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I made a vacherin! Pictures incuded
Hope these pictures turn out, first time I've posted pictures. This was a neat experience, I mostly cook and don't bake at all, but thought this would be a neat challenge...will be tasting it for dessert so can't wait for that, either. The "cake" of this cake is an eggwhite mixture, piped, baked and cooled...when the whipped cream is added to the layers, the layers get softer I am noticing as they absorb moisture from the cream. Sorry for the long links w/ the pix. Anyone else make one of these before?
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I need to take a break from this site- just started training for for a 1/2 marathon. Pictures like that are bad for me :)
A-HA! It's a highrise Pavlova!
Not something I'd ever make, unless by very special request (or challenge!), but - as was the case with the Pavlova - I suspect it would be ridiculously delicious. Very pretty, too.
Thanks all so much - couldn't wait to post pix for my chowhounds. Sometimes I just like to challenge myself and try something different.
Oh it looks BEAUTIFUL! My mouth is watering. Mind if I ask how long it took you start to finish? Something like that looks like it would take me a week or so!
The process itself was not difficult, just kind of hurry-up-and-wait with the meringues...they were an hour and a half baking, then sit in the oven to cool before assembly. I would say the entire process, start to finish, was about 3 1/2 hours. Like I said, I don't bake much and the pastry bag is the bane of my existence, so someone with more experience there would not take as much time to fill the bag and pipe out the meringue/whipped cream for assembly.
Looks beautiful! (Looks like serving this 'tall beauty' may have been a challenge...how did that go for you?)
Interesting...the top layer did not call for a smear of melted chocolate as did the other two layers, so the top was kind of soft after a while, guess it absorbed some moisture from them cream...took a chef's knife and sliced gently, definitely a little messy and akward to serve at first, but not awful. Almost hated to cut into it, though!
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re: rootlesscosmo
Great, thanks for the tip.
re: ClaireLiz
And I forgot to mention--great-looking Vacherin!
like everyone else says, youve done well! its beautiful, for real. im a pretty avid baker and i have to say that looks quite intimidating. great job. wish i could taste it, tho.
also, like one asked above, i wonder how the presentation/plating went. it looks like a horrorshow to cut. good thing you took pix! thanks for the display.
re: ben61820
Taste was interesting - whipping cream did not call for additions, but I put a little vanilla extract into it and a pinch of sugar...so this vacherin called for dark chocolate and raspberries, so you have a little tartness, cream was not overly sweet, but there was a fair amt of sugar and some grated choc in the egg whites, so that is where you get your sweetness from - like a sweet crunchy wafer. Overall pretty satisfying for what you would expect it to taste like.
All kinds of high fives, pats on the back, hugs and even Blessings to you! You even have a baker here doing a swoon :) It looks great and I bet tastes as good as it looks. You can be proud of your effort. I think this is the reason we all like to cook.
Another congrats to you, and thanks for posting the photo. VERY photo-worthy. Sorry if I missed this, but what cookbook were you baking from?
Cookbook is a neat one, desserts only, that a friend gave me a few years ago - chunky little book, with great pictures and descriptions - called "Chocolate and Baking" from Paragon Publishing. They show another vacherin besides this one, a round one with tropical fruit and coconut in the meringue. Here is a link to the book below (tm root!)


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CSC axes another 640 UK IT workers
But knowing even a little about how things work can't do any harm, can it?"
ENORMOUS HARM - when we are continually having experts overriden by opinionated barely sentient people who "know about" something. Sound familiar?
EMC Isilon stiffens penetration into NAS arena
Return on $2.1B Investment
Somehow I cannot feel impressed.
CERN boffins re-running neutrino speed test
To Richard French
Neutrinos are seriously hard to direct - from Cern they simply aimed directly at Grand Sasso through the earth - and they went through without a problem - further reading will tell you they are so good at slipping through stuff they receiver at Grand Sasso is solid lead and only records an occasional impact,
So it is much like light going throuh space on a tiny scale - as far as a neutrino is concerned the occasional atom nucleus is so far from the next that a collision is very rare. Furthermore a neutrino does not carry any charge (AFAIK - correct me if I am wrong) so it does not easily get diverted by electrons or protons.
If you sent it down a fibre optic it would simply go straight out at the first bend.
Microsoft cuts Azure storage pricing
Less than half the picture
Without the bandwidth charges there is no way to compare the costs - they could just as well be free and charge the earth to read and write
Bandwidth restrictions can affect the memory
A kid with his first car
AS part of the learning experience many of us have souped up a basically weak platform with added high performance components - your first car, a hifi or soundsystem, a camera with lenses, your overclocked games machine, your iToy with apps -
There is nothing wrong with those efforts until they reach extremes and you look back in hindsight.
This simply sounds like a failure in management allied to giving toys to a tinkerer.
You pays your money and takes your choice - I have seen just as many examples of forklift refreshes fail to deliver becaues the key IP is lost.
Hunt refers News Corp/BSkyB bid to Competition Commish
Gordon Brown's bank account?
Well at least that is in the public interest - and fair too as he hacked into mine and removed large chunks for the last ten years and then left us all in debt.
Data General's Tom West dies
RIP - Tom, you were an inspiration.
The world and me in particular is richer for having Tom West.
Thank you and enjoy learning the Harp.
Are SPEC file benchmarks broken?
Simply another useful analysis input.
I come form the 'More information is better' school and welcome ALL benchmarks that include published details.
Yes it would be useful to include pricing metrics - but honestly these change from the date of publication quite rapidly, and differ internationally with local pricing affected by shipping, exchange and taxes.
I have used spec benchmarks (since LADDIS) since they began and they have ALWAYS provided a good insight into comparative performance and sizing. They also give a flavour within a vendor of their range and highlight what is needed to get best results.
So the SPEC NFS was not broken when NetApp published a Million IOPS in May 2006 http://www.spec.org/sfs97r1/results/res2006q2/sfs97r1-20060522-00263.html
AND it is certainly not broken now when EMC published half that 5 years later on a newer version of the benchmark. (yes I know they are not comparable - but for marketing a million trumps half a million).
The item above highlights the problem - the marketing use which is purely aimed at producing a winner, which is only relevant to the single biggest baddest configuration which has been lashed together.
Properly using the benchmarks provides access to information on entry level boxes, comparisons on midrange and comparisons on the use of flash, fast and slow disk and differing caching approaches including 'super cache extensions' using flash.
Despite the fuss about the 'pure flash' entry - it is simply another documented entry to compare - and gives a good reality check to what you will get from those expensive drives.
Delete all you like, but it won't free up space
data at rest encryption?
Encrypting data at rest only protects you from the physical media being removed and is fairly useless for anything else.
Encrypting data as it enters and exits the application is the only real sensible approach - and we really have very few solutions here.
so most encryption is only of any use on transportable media
SAN vs NAS: Spelling out the differences
OK DJUNIX - how about CERN telling you ?
Go look at https://openlab-mu-internal.web.cern.ch/openlab-mu-internal/03_Documents/4_Presentations/Slides/2010-list/2010OOW-08.pdf
But sadly this whole NAS/SAN thing has been back to front thinking for years - feel like I am suddenly in 2000 when we had these debates
Spending my time with Cloud - using REST now and catch up to the real world with stuff like NFS4, pNFS, iWARP and RDMA if you want to be up to date.
Even FCoE is an acknowledgement that at the switch and cable layer FC has been swallowed
Flickr flap illuminates cloud concerns
So you want your cake and to eat it
It is great to have TR write a balanced article, maybe combining this one and http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/02/mozyhome_charges_usets_more/
would really illustrate the mob mentality of those WHO DID NOT BOTHER TO UNDERSTAND THE RISKS AND WON'T PAY FOR THE SERVICE THEY NEED
The world is full of bleating losers - the only way to improve this is a bit of tough love - grow up!
No court order against PlayStation hackers for now
Dear AC defending the land of Liberty.......
Man the rest of the world is so impressed that you get it right 99% of the time......
There are 6 Billion of us who could explain the consequences of the 1% where it has been spectacularly wrong.
Please go back to watching your World Series and stick to the world you know
Multi-coring FAS6200 processors
Wood - Trees?
It's driving 1200 disks and you worry about the power consumption of the CPU?
S African rhino rustlers tackled using satellite horn implants
Surely it is simply one of a whole class of well known Phallusies?
Bonfire of the quangos begins
Idiot design
Classic example of a web site that regenerates the information for each viewer instead uf publising a simple HTTP page which could then be cached and viewed by millions
Unlimited CRB checks may fall away
@You're right, it's a stupid idea
Pity they don't check and record congenital idiots!
@What Lies Beneath
Good comments, but in the end it comes down to this:-
We elected a government to govern.
Media are NOT in charge and if they do not bahave like adults need to be challenged by government
Problem is Government have been caught not behaving by media - so most got kicked out (or just got a good kicking) - the new lot HAVE to do a better job, including getting back in charge, and the next lot they have to sort out is those who dispense justice based on what they would like the law to be.
HP says P9500 is bullet-proof
Storage Teiring?
Is it just me?
Somehow the idea of tiering and large capacity SATA drives on an enterprise array is like the idea of having economy seats on the (now sadly out of service) Concorde.
Tiering between High performance drives and Flash - yes, and then suddenly the array WILL NOT scale to fill all available drive slots, so the HP view makes the most sense.
Can replication replace backup?
Why leave W. Curtis Preston out when he has already published opinion?
for the view of probably the best known backup commentator
Oracle hates discs, loves tape
"Fowler is Oracle's top dog for server and storage systems and it's worth paying attention to what he likes and dislikes"
So he was part of the merger of SUN and STK and then asleep while the value disapeared until they begged for Oracle to buy them.
Man he is so influential I will go back and read everything he ever said.
Did Hewlett-Packard overreact on Hurd's Fishergate?
It's time for somebody to build the company and the people
I would suggest Dan Warmenhoven has the standing, experience and ethical background for chairman - and with his record of getting staff to love working for the company will make the most dramatic positive change. This will fulfill the leadership requirement.
A separate need is for execution for which many of the mentioned candidates are more suitable.
End of Microsoft NHS deal means mass deletions
To All parents of students £40 not £109
Register at http://www.software4students.co.uk/ and at least get the software at a reasonable price.
Not that I want to send the money to MS etc but sometimes needs must!
I am much more worried by the back story - as MS probably only needs a small percentage of the NHS to be compelled to pay up, and maybe to initiate some court action to get the same income.
In the end it shows that every product has a value and a risk - the value was maybe OK at the original price, and the risk is the cost of being locked in or exiting. I hope they take the same hard approach of getting free from the MS lock in that they are doing with being in debt - JUST DO NOT DO IT AGAIN!
Futurologist warns of malevolent dust menace
Smart Dust? Gimme some!
Man this sounds like a good new kind of nose candy!
Maybe the man who made the prediction is using too much.
Storage vendors are in VMware beauty contest
and no mention of VMWare's bestest best buddy daddy EMC?
So here the fun starts - VMWare unlike the OS world have realised that they can influence external storage development i.e that which is in the arrays, and this will dramatically show up the difference between those with real functions and those with none or tickbox implementations.
It is also a strategic move for VMWare against particularly Hyper-V which comes form a MS background of treating all storage as dumb DAS
InfiniBand to outpace Ethernet's unstoppable force
In an Infiniband discussion you guys confuse current Ethernet!
There is no CSMA/CD in any Point-to-Point full duplex or switched Ethernet, nor for over 5 years - so it has been gone in most deployments for a long time, and was last seen with hubs.
Jumbo frames - part of the 1GB spec which is also ages old have been approx 8000 for years now, but again many shops do not implement.
The big difference with infiniband, is that you can work within the seven layer ISO model, and switch the Ethernet and infiniband electrical layers quite easily at a technical level, it is cost (largely infrastructure investment) that works against that.
There is also a large body of people who confuse ethernet (lower layers) with the TCP/IP related higher layers which are quite portable.
Budget to cost over a million jobs: Official
Does this make sense??
So there will be a loss of 600,000 jobs in the public sector - right?
That means we will be borrowing less and paying less interest - right?
so we borrow from banks and pay interest to banks - right?
and by doing this the UK will be worse off?
we will have lower growth than under labour ? how is that possible - if you add in the borrowing Labour had the worst destruction of value in UK history.
alternative - we pay to keep another 600,000 public sector jobs - to do what exactly?
SERVICES! you say? I cannot bloody afford those services.
secondly providing services will definitely not give the UK growth.
every sensible person who does not have their hand out knows this:-
I cannot spend money I do not have or I will be worse off later.
Gordon did for years and it is now later.
Easy-peasy science GCSEs binned
How to fix it?
In the end there are only two groups who properly care about the results - Universities and Employers - so in the interest of the new Government initiative to step out of doing things - lets all propose the Examination boards get put under joint control of a Universities and commerce driven board.
The current system is like motor manufacturesrs controlling driving licenses -they would give one to anybody who wanted to buy a car.
NetApp comes up trumps with fat annual profit
@Man Mountain
Well that was pretty weak, but at least you started with youir prejudicial assumption "Well it's a file server for starters ...".
So lets try to have a proper go.
NetApp designed from day one to be a storage device - go look at all the components that are storage oriented versus those that are server oriented - and I will remind you that originally NAS meant Network Attached STORAGE not server. So what was required -
RAID protected disks
battery backed up cache
simple controller code without the ability to run external applications
management that only covered allocating space and access, not that used the data itself.
The big design difference was that that netApp chose to relocate the metadata responsibility of the file system from servers to the storage. And no it was not designed to be low end - even today it outperforms server based file systems by a big margin. Scale out clusters are however another area and we were contrasting EMC which does not do that either.
Secondly the systems have enjoyed 18 years of development, and Dave Hitz and others are on record about how well the basic design of the system lent itself to development, often to their delight and surprise. There are no penalties for serendipity.
No it is not the best in neverything it does, and there are a multitude of edge cases where a particular product is better in some respect. But there is no other single product which covers such a large section of market requirement with the same level of performance, protection and reliability, let alone versatility.
Are there weaknesses?. of course - but funnily enough some of those you mention are exactly that - and are not relevant in all cases, or easily managed.
" it was originally designed to be a low end file server, which I will accept it is very good at" as you must since the highest demand users from WETA/Industrial Light and Magic through Yahoo choose them first.
"WAFL is highly optimised for writes" correct - so it is weaker on sequential read (only if the file has been repeatedly modified and fragmented), excellent on random read (wide stripe plus greater time allocation to reading), standard on sequential write and excellent on random write.
"But it genuinely isn't so well suited to read heavy workloads. It does slow down as it fills up" depends on what you refer to - seq read agreed to above - the point being that it starts at a faster level than the competition - see http://blogs.netapp.com/shadeofblue/2008/10/finding-a-pair.html and really look at the graph.
I agree the clustering is not that clever - and for a SAN implementation rather clunky
"The dedupe is free for a reason" is really dismissive without any credibility - it works wonders for some applications and does little for others - granted, and you get it without any extra cost is a bad thing?
So what has emerged each time is repetitive banging on about how bad they are and must be avoided because of some particular behaviour or feature which is not as perfect as you would like it to be - so would I, but which you do not offer a better single solution.
So this is a call out - put something forward that you will defend as better all round
@Don't beleive(sic) their Hype
I don't run out of space for snaps, defrag(reorg) is scheduled. My beer is still cold and refreshing.
I first used NetApp in 1996, and EMC symmetrix in 1997, StorageWorks from Digital/Compaq/HP since 1993 and worked for DG when Clariion was first announced.
I have made a living from competing in the market with ALL the major storage vendors in my portfolio, and sometimes have had to install, integrate and support systems which were not my first recomendation for financial, political or inertia to change reasons.
However I would be delighted if you could articulate what the 'inherent problem in its' design' is that NetApp has. Just because you may disagree on design does not count - what exactly is broken?
If this is too difficult I will assume it is an inherent problem in your capacity to work it out.
Stand by for boarding
define Glamorous?
We all notice the person who walks in a room making their presence felt, we may even enjoy their company and spend fun time with them - but do we take them home to keep in a long term relationship?
NetApp has been 'getting it right' for years, the joke is IBM who have access to the product are incapable of using it to their advantage.
I will enjoy my beer while they keep my shop running.
EMC offers storage efficiency guarantee
And what happens next......
An EMC blogger has been going at it to publicise and prove EMC's figures - http://www.pkguild.com/2010/05/emc-20-unified-storage-guarantee-exposed/
and then it turns out the netApp tool has a bug in it! This overstates the need for space.
Wonder how much real research EMC did before they did the guarantee - think Chuck was right and they should have stayed away
NetApp beating out EMC
You get what you ask for.
Your comment "I have sitting in front of me quotes; each for a Centralized Storage environment, Archive solution and backup solution" is exactly what I see from IT dinosaurs every day.
get somebody to quote you for a single integrated state of the art solution.
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Prime america is full of ***.They mislead people into joining their *** seminar meetings and telling you that you will have potential to make money.
What kind of job ask you to pay before you get paid? On top of that what kind of place treats people with favoritism only because an individual has more potential customer leads then someone else? This place is a rip off. If you want to work for yourself, do yourself a favor and take the 200 dollars and invest it doing something online instead like starting your own website.
My last words to all of you.*** PRIME AMERICA THEY CAN ALL GO TO *** *** and let their dicks burn on fire for eternity.be809ed
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Takumba13 › primascam Oct 23, 2013 Baltimore, Maryland
The only I have negative to say about prime america is that I was invited to a business meeting and I asked the person if this was prime america and was told that it was not. When I arrived, what I experience was prime america. I was pissed, because it was a waste of time because I had been to previous meeting and did not like their pitch. So if you really want a real work from home business, where Hybrid - Corporate America meets entrepreneurship and lots of company benefits, like a 5,000 a month mortgage payment and if you do not have home, it goes into escrow, til you ready. For more benefits contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com 0 Reply
Anonymous Apr 30, 2013
Anyone who wrote this, he/she should do a good research about the company, how many company that is listed in NYSE and it is called a scam?? Do your homework well before you post this. Listening to your neighbor about this won't count. Funny things I really believe Obamacare and Obama administration are a big
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big d Apr 02, 2013 Orland Park, Illinois
these people are correct, google prime america...you will see for yourself, they just called me for a job interview and left a mesage. I looked them up and they are like most companies....they try to rob people leagally. This company though looks pretty bad. Just my two cents after looking into all the facts.0 0 Reply
Jim R. Dec 06, 2012
First of all I understand the person who posted the comments frustration. Having to give money to go to work is hard. When you invest in yourself and your own business that is what you do. Most people who want to be a Truck Driver had to go to Trucking School and Pay extra for CDL License. Now what I will say is that the facts that he said about Primerica was not all true. The 200.00 you pay, that money goes towards your insurance licence. You have to take a test and pass the test in order to stay in Primerica. You will sell Life Insurance, Auto and Home Insurance, Retirement Plans, mutual funds, IRA, etc. There are four types of ways to earn a salary, 1. Work Hourly - you know what that is. 2. Work on Salary - you get paid a flat rate, no overtime, in most cases. 3. Commission - You sell and make a portion of the pie. The 4th way is PROFIT. thats the way most people don't understand. Most 9-5 people do not understand that concept, but people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs do.The 4TH way is the primary way you make money in primerica. Check out Forbes, Bloomberg or any other financial company and do a search to see which company working employees (not stockholder) have the most millionaires. Do a search and see which company has the most six figure incomes, Primerica.1 0 Reply
Jack Mehoff Oct 26, 2012
It's funny cause a lot of jobs make you pay for *** you need like steel toe boots or fireman gear if u go into being a fire fighter guard cards are hella expensive so are securities and life insurance license comoanies make u pay for that regaurdless if it's an hourly slave job that's another thing people are so brain washed by society that you need to have a JOB where u work for someone making them money all employees are an expense to an employer if they loss money the first thing to go is an employee hence why there's so many lay offs owning a business is what America was born with until the industrial age and the assembly line came into place and flipped the script so who's brain washed America is into think your safe with an hourly job grow a pair and be your own boss0 0 Reply
Jack Mehoff Oct 26, 2012
It's funny cause a lot of jobs make you pay for *** you need like steel toe boots or fireman gear if u go into being a fire fighter guard cards are hella expensive so are securities and life insurance license comoanies make u pay for that regaurdless if it's an hourly slave job that's another thing people are so brain washed by society that you need to have a JOB where u work for someone making them money all employees are an expense to an employer if they loss money the first thing to go is an employee hence why there's so many lay offs owning a business is what America was born with until the industrial age and the assembly line came into place and flipped the script so who's brain washed America is into think your safe with an hourly job grow a pair and be your own boss0 0 Reply
Noone N Particular Oct 19, 2012
Tomorrow, I have an 0900 appointment prior to a Primerica open house event to be held in Chicago. I must admit that all the negative comments have me concerned. I, too, Googled Primerica, and was impressed with the concept. Having tried so many other "opportunities" i know what to expect at the meeting. I want to thank everyone for showing me the other side of the situation. I will still keep an optimistic attitude about this!0 0 Reply
Wha???????? Oct 14, 2012
Ok am a person that has common sense and is logical in my personal opinion on primerica I am conflicted I been to there orientation and to be honest in an economy that where in right now it's very easily to get caught up in any scams to gain money or extra income today I might go to the orientation once again just to check it out but in all case I hope and I know how newly recuite was saying but at the same times please don't act like your brainwashed because your excited about a new opportunity to gain extra income I will try them ou but I still am skeptical about this whole thing I hear all these success stories but at the same time if so many people have success stories why isn't the company Mian streamed huh why don't they have an actual office why why don't they have some sort of hiring regiment huh I know the jobs that I been in that we're like them usually are *** up companies but it is what it is I guess0 0 Reply
Find the truth from the facts, Oct 05, 2012
Today I sat and spoke to a rep, all is clear as to why one should seek extra income, no harm in that so far. I have done sales and marketing in the past, and even the present. Nothing comes easy in this business, you have got to keep your eye on the targe of what you want, in this case $$$$ and freedom for me.0 0 Reply
The one › Find the truth from the facts, Jan 26, 2013 Houston, Texas
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will › oh please Mar 24, 2013 San Juan, San Juan Municipio
i went to a interview and they told me that they will pay me 9000 a month is that truth or is it bull ***
Ricco2012 Sep 12, 2012
First, they are not the only one, Umbrella is another. I can't believe they're still doing this scam!! Several years ago I went to their seminar and it was clear to me of their intentions, $200 charge and a promise to succeed in a network bussiness? Please!! Do you want to succeed? how about this " hard work and sacrifice" example: Work and go to school.(no pain- no gain) Use your common sence, that's all.0 0 Reply
jon tony Jun 13, 2012
well i have been with prime for about 10 years and my mentor said that i should invest more of my money to gain money so i did and now im retired with no worryies but my investment i gave to them was a waste of time and money because i didnt see any of my money back from them so take from a vet DONT DO THIS0 0 Reply
concerned parent Feb 21, 2012
Some one trapped my daughter and said come to our house for dinner we haven't seen you in so long,then after dinner pulled out a flip chart of Primerica and kept her there till they got a yes from her she did it just to shut them up.She is canceling today! What a great way to sell yourselves!0 0 Reply
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Makes 4 people
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35 min
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- 6 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1 1/2 pounds eggplant, cut into 1-inch cubes
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 3 large scallions, trimmed and finely chopped (2/3 cup), divided
- 1 1/2 pound ground veal
- 2 tablespoons chopped dill
- All-purpose flour for dredging
Heat 3 tablespoon oil in a 12-inch heavy skillet over medium heat until it shimmers, then cook eggplant with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper, stirring occasionally, until browned, about 5 minutes.
Stir together tomato paste, sugar, water, and vinegar and add to eggplant with 1/3 cup scallions, then braise, covered, over medium heat until eggplant is tender, about 12 minutes.
While eggplant braises, gently mix veal, dill, remaining 1/3 cup scallions, 3/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper in a large bowl, then form into 4 (4-inch) cakes.
Heat remaining 3 tablespoons oil in a 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium heat until hot. Dredge veal cakes in flour, shaking off excess, then fry, turning once, until golden-brown, 8 to 12 minutes total for medium. 3Divide eggplant among 4 plates and top with veal cakes.
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type: Quick & Easy,
main ingredients: Green Onion/Scallion, Meat, Eggplant, Tomato, Veal
holiday/celebration: Father's Day