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Your favorite pasta all dress up!
Wolfgang Puck Baked Macaroni's and Cheese with Black Truffle Oil
- 8 ounce elbow macaroni
- 3 tablespoon butter
- 3 tablespoon flour
- 3-1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 medium white onion
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- pinch cayenne
- 10 ounce sharp aged white cheddar (grated)
- 3 ounce gruyere cheese (grated)
- 1 ounce parmesan cheese (grated)
- 3 tablespoon butter
- 1 cup brioche bread crumbs
- 2 tablespoon chopped parsley
- black winter truffle oil for drizzling
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step-by-step directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- In large pot of boiling salted water, cook the macaroni to al dente (approximately 7 minutes). Strain and place on a lightly oiled sheet pan.
- While the macaroni is cooking, in a separate pot, melt the butter and whisk in the flour. Continue to cook over low heat for 4 minutes stirring constantly. Add the milk, onion and bay leaf. Simmer for 10 minutes. Remove onion and bay leaf.
- Turn off the heat and add 3/4 of the aged cheddar and all of the other cheeses. Season with cayenne, salt and black pepper and fold in macaroni. Divide into 4 ramekins and top with remaining cheddar.
- Melt the butter in a sauté pan and toss bread crumbs and parsley to coat. Top the macaroni with bread crumb mixture. Bake for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven let stand for about 5 minutes. Finish with a few drops of black truffle oil and serve.
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Red Lion announces long-term growth plan; full-service chain to increase properties by 50 percent in five years.
"We are aggressively pursuing opportunities for growth," said Red Lion's vice president of Development, C.A. Anderson, a panelist at the eleventh annual Hotel Industry Investment Conference, a major gathering of hotel industry leaders. "We currently have an inventory of more than 14,000 rooms and anticipate adding 7,000 over the next five years."
The full-service chain expects to complement its 54 existing locations with additional properties in cities such as San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, and continue moving east to cities such as Dallas, Houston and Kansas City. The company's strategy is to own, manage and enter into selective joint agreements. Red Lion will maintain operating control over all properties to ensure high quality and consistency.
"Red Lion is very selective, participating as partner or operator only in properties that meet strictly defined criteria of property type, size and location," Anderson said. "We take a long-term approach, creating deliberate, strategic growth that provides our shareholders and other partners with the highest long-term return on investment. Our operating expertise, combined with a strong balance sheet that gives us capital availability, positions us well for growth."
To maximize the potential of its existing and future occupancy, Red Lion is investing $11 million in a state-of-the-art central reservation system that includes a new call-center facility, telephone equipment, computer systems and Anasazi reservation software. The system, named OSCAR for "On-line Systems for Centrally Automated Reservations," will link central reservations, global distribution systems and Red Lion properties directly to up-to-the-minute room availability and rate information beginning April 1, 1996.
"OSCAR will dramatically streamline operations, resulting in increased revenues and operating efficiency," Anderson said. "More importantly, it will allow us to provide enhanced service to guests and travel agencies because we'll be better able to track last room availability."
Red Lion's primary focus is meeting the needs of the business traveler with high- quality meeting facilities, full-service amenities and prime locations in the western United States. More than 50 percent of its guests are individual business or leisure travelers and more than 30 percent are convention or group delegates. Known for its loyal customers, Red Lion recorded 1.2 million group-room bookings in 1994. Its Frequent Guest Dividends program is currently up by nearly 56 percent from 1993, and its occupancy rates have consistently exceeded the industry average.
A proven industry leader in the full-service category, Red Lion also enjoys strong alliances with American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Horizon Air, American Express, AT&T and Hertz.
Red Lion's current portfolio is composed of wholly-owned hotels, joint-venture properties, leasehold properties and management agreements. Currently, Red Lion operates and manages 54 hotels and resorts in 10 western states, and employs more than 10,500 people. Red Lion Common Stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "RL."
CONTACT: Red Lion Hotels Inc.
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I have done lots of still lifes in LF. mostly on pol 665 pos/neg, but that is coming to an end....
but also larger.
I use as a minimum medium format for still lifes; mostly because I want to see the images on a glass plate before I make the image..
I don't know what you mean by the "logistics" of Still lifes, but I have always felt it very difficult/challenging! regardless of the negative size.
I am as some will know, very intutive in my image making - so "all" I do is to have a lot of possible items ready, and then I use a fairly large amount of time, setting the still up.. That's the challenge! it can (for me) take hours before I realize, that that little item in the far right corner ruins the whole image....
but I also find it VERY interesting and a fun thing to do.
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• Prime Minister Netanyahu is feuding with his foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, over the conversion bill Lieberman wants the Knesset to consider by the end of next week (and which today Jeffrey Goldberg describes as an assault on the Diaspora). [JPost]
• For practical purposes, the West Bank construction freeze has not, strictly speaking, involved a total moratorium on building. [NYT]
• The "proximity talks" do not appear to be accomplishing much; Palestinians accuse Netanyahu of playing for time. [NYT]
• This morning, the Libyan-sponsored ship that had been heading for Gaza but then agreed to divert to Egypt was waiting off the dock of El Arish, in the Sinai. [NYT]
• Keeps getting weirder: The CIA says it paid $5 million to the alleged Iranian nuclear scientist who has just returned home after showing up at the Pakistani Embassy, and who has claimed U.S. agents abducted him. [WP]
• U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Jewish groups to make Alan Gross, an American Jew imprisoned in Cuba for helping Cuban Jews connect to the Internet, a cause of theirs. [JTA]
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Bob Lalonde Named Fenzi North America's National Sales Manager
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Video Production 101: Making a Movie with Kdenlive
By profession, I'm a music teacher. Four times a year, my students perform a show at a local coffeehouse called Coffee Amici. The room hosts regularly scheduled performers, open-mic nights and various community events. My students love to play there. It's a great opportunity for them to show their stuff for an attentive crowd, and eventually, they asked about the possibility of doing video recordings of the shows. I looked into the affordability of the requisite gear, the extent of Linux support for recommended hardware, and the availability of software that would help me produce a simple DVD from my recordings. I was happy to discover that the project was well within my price range and that my software choices included more than one adequate solution.
This article describes how I recorded a student show with an inexpensive camcorder and how I produced a movie from that footage with Kdenlive, a non-linear editor (NLE) for Linux. Kdenlive is a powerful program, but my project was simple, and the methods I describe here should be usable in other Linux NLEs.
First, I needed a video camera. My research and my budget led me to the Samsung SC-D382 miniDV camcorder (Figure 1). For about $100, I got a camera with a remote control, a DV interface (IEEE 1394, aka FireWire) and advanced settings that can be configured for a relatively good-quality recording. It's lightweight, and I found it easy to operate and control. Obviously, more money gets more camera, but I intended to keep expenses as low as possible without compromising the quality of the basic material.
By default, the camcorder produces video in an NTSC 4:3 display format, commonly associated with the square screen of a television in North America. The default audio setting appears to be with a sample rate of 32kHz with a resolution of 12 bits. The camera's advanced settings allow me to set the preferred display format to NTSC 16:9, also known as widescreen, and to increase the audio bit resolution to 16 bits. Alas, the audio sample rate is fixed, so CD-quality sound is not possible with the Samsung, a limitation I overlooked when purchasing the unit.
Of my two studio machines, only one has an integrated IEEE 1394 connection. I planned to use both boxes for video work, so I bought and installed an inexpensive PCI board that added three IEEE 1394 ports to my main machine. If you plan to make a connection with a FireWire-enabled camera, check for a port on your motherboard and make sure you have an available slot for an extension board if you need one. And by the way, even the cables need attention. FireWire cables have a variety of pin configurations, so be sure you have the right connectors on both ends of the cable. For example, my camcorder wants a 4-pin connector, and the ports on my machines require a 6-pin adapter.
I also bought a carrying case for the cameras and a good tripod with bubble levels and a variety of gizmos to position the camera in just about any direction. I've been especially happy with the tripod, and I advise anyone interested in amateur video recording to invest in a decent stand for your camera. Yes, you can solve a lot of problems in your edit stage, but you'll save time and energy if your basic material is centered correctly from a stable position.
I drew the line for my expense account at lighting. The camera provides autocorrection for lighting and focus, and my project didn't need a dedicated light system. I was ready to consider my software requirements.
I had two primary concerns on the software side. I needed to ensure that the kernel versions included the IEEE 1394 modules and that I would find a video editor user-friendly enough for a total newbie. The modules issue was non-problematic. My main box runs 64 Studio 2.1, a by-now old Debian-based system running on a 2.6.21 kernel compiled for 64-bit hardware and real-time operation, while my secondary 32-bit machine runs a more-modern Ubuntu Jaunty system with a 2.6.29 kernel optimized for real-time performance. Both systems provide the required modules—raw1394, ohci1394, ieee1394—all of which are autoloaded when the machines go through their hardware discovery during the boot process.
The process of finding the right video editor consisted of trying out the available NLEs for Linux to determine which one offered the most amenable work flow. During the process, I wrote a series of profiles on Linux NLEs that you can read at LinuxJournal.com. I worked on a simple project in each editor, and I found that more than one program could serve my purpose. I finally decided that Kdenlive (Figure 2) provided the tools I needed in a layout that was easy for me to understand and operate. For the project described in this article, I used Kdenlive 0.7.6, but since then, I've been building the program from the latest SVN codebase. By the time you read article, this minitutorial Kdenlive should be available in a shiny new version 0.7.7.
Similis sum folio de quo ludunt venti.
Since this article was published Kdenlive has reached version 0.7.8 and is better than ever. Also, if anyone would like to view some of the performers from the shows, here are a couple of links :
Sam Strathman plays Little Wing :
Paige Trafton sings Big Black Horse :
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Dave Phillips
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INSIDE Public Accounting reveals nation's top 200 accounting firms
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The Platt Group, publishers of INSIDE Public Accounting (IPA), recently has released its inauguralBeyond the IPA Top 100, a ranking of the nation's top 200 accounting firms.
For more than 20 years, IPA has sustained a tradition of compiling the annual IPA Top 100 accounting firms, the IPA Best of the Best and IPA All-Stars. As the profession continues to grow and evolve, IPA will evolve with it. The August 2010 issue identifies the IPA Top 100 – the 100 largest firms in the United States, beginning with Deloitte at No. 1 ($10.9 billion) and ending with No. 100, CCR LLP ($29.7 million).
In this inaugural special report, Beyond the IPA Top 100, we pick up where the August issue left off and identify firms ranking from No. 101 to No. 200. Minimum net revenue is just shy of $13 million to make the list, which IPA plans to publish annually.
"What are the numbers beyond the IPA Top 100" has been a question many firms, consultants, and associations have asked over the years. By compiling this new list, IPA continues to quantify for the profession what many have wondered about," said Kelly Platt, publisher of INSIDE Public Accounting. "We are proud to provide the most comprehensive list of the Top 200 firms available today."
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The motorcycle chronicles of Jackie & Valentino
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Joined: Sep 2008
Location: Vankouver
Oddometer: 826
Sunday May 11
The morning skies were dark and gloomy.
It was only 0800 and we were already on the road (read early for us)
And followed this route to cover the 500 km to Salamanca.
Although the clouds were black and menacing, we stayed dry.
Plenty of wind though
The province of Castilla y Leon is of extraordinary beauty, the landscape from Galicia changed from rolling green hills to steep gorges separated by desert like mountainous range, until we reached the plains of central Spain.
Unfortunately the light was not the best to take pics
Another bull, I love these
We are starting to see some olive groves, and the perfumes in the air are also changing. Maybe because it was Sunday, but there was no traffic at all, and we were lucky the rain was holding off.
Storks did seem to mind the weather
Navigating is through city traffic is not a problem. Despite being a real pig when static, ST becomes easy to handle in the narrow coble stone streets, and nimble enough to thread safely as soon as your gather a bit of momentum.
We stayed away from the superslab to better enjoy the landscape, and landed in Salamanca by late afternoon.
Plaza de España
We entered the city searching for our hostel, and Jackie after taking a quick look gave me the thumbs down. Leave it to Flight Attendants to be able to appropriately gauge, the value you get for your buck for any establishment.
So we ended up here, a got a really good deal on a nice 3 stars.
Shortly after it started to pour, really hard. Perfect I thought, ST needs a rinse anyway.
Squeaky clean
Salamanca is a one of the oldest university city of Europe and is alive with people of all ages. A much younger crowd than in Oviedo.
People were much taller back in those days
The cathedral was majestic but it will have to take second place behind Santiago de Compostella.
Here are a few
The nave was very impressive, see how small people look next to the columns
Jackie was tired, she kept on saying come on Valentino why don't you go get ST while I guard this bench
Ole Torro
Valentino was happy again, we found ham
I will let you delight in the pictures, but Salamanca was truly beautiful. We have learned more about the customs of Spain.
Although the streets were practically deserted for most of the day, apart from a few wandering tourists,
Where did everybody go
After resting for a few hours we left our hotel, the Rona Dalba, to return to the streets where we were greeted by crowds of Spaniards doing their Sunday evening walk, (El Paseo del Domingo)
There's everybody
And here
Meeting for caña y pinchos (cold beer on tap and individual appetizers).
Two beers and two pinchos will set you back €3,40.
So far anyways, Salamanca takes the palm... at least for tapas.
Plaza de España by night
Tomorrow we head for Madrid, the capital and a visit at the museo Del Prado....
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LAKE ELSINORE: City poised to move on boat launch project
Goal is to create modern, expanded lake access
The underwater ramp was built years ago to the elevation of 1,240 feet, long before researchers concluded that was the lowest the lake should drop to maintain maximum health. The city in conjunction with other agencies instituted various measures, including the infusion of reclaimed water, to keep the lake at 1,240 feet. At that level, however, the old boat launch is submerged.
However, when the lake drops below 1,240 feet, as happened in 2009, another city-owned launch, situated on the southeast side of the lake, sits too high above the water for use by watercraft large enough to accommodate more than one person.
That launch is fully operational now, as the lake's level is close to 1,248 feet as a result of rainfall over the last couple of wet seasons.
Installing a usable launch at the other end of the lake fits in with the city's goal of making the 3,000-acre freshwater lake as accessible to the public as possible.
In addition to the new launch, the project will provide a vehicle and boat parking lot with 270 spaces, a restroom building, an entry kiosk, two 400-foot-long floating docks, a landscaped, lighted picnic area, and a fish-cleaning station, according to the staff report for Tuesday's meeting.
"If we can keep the lake at 1,240, that will be beneficial to both the new boat launch and the existing one," Brady said. "Both will be functional and operational."
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Good for Hendo and good for Strikeforce. Hendo is one of the best and most respected fighters out there. Could it be true the UFC didn't realize he had already beaten Vitor? seems like a stretch but who knows. If he fights at the S. FL Janusary show I will be pumped…. and there.
UFC will regret him getting away. other fighters may follow him if they see there is a real alternative…. that is assuming they stay in business. at this point I hope they do because Hendo is the man.


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Located within a portered luxury apartment block with its own secure car parking within the Pimlico Conservation Area. A very short walk to Victoria Station with direct rail and underground links to Gatwick and Heathrow airports. Close to excellent restaurants, public houses, theatres, Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace yet within the village atmosphere of Pimlico. The Apartment has two double bedrooms, one with an en-suite shower room and is fully furnished to a high standard with Wi-fi internet and Sky TV. There is a porter, communal roof terrace and a secure basement car parking space if required. An extremely convenient location from which to explore London and sample the delights of some of the most exclusive enclaves of Belgravia and Chelsea.
Please note that the internal shots may vary as there are a number of flats with slightly different decor on different floors and in different positions in the same apartment block.
The Property is just outside the London Congestio
Bike Hire: There is a Barclays bike hire station within 100 yards which enables you to cycle throughout Central London and after registering you can cycle for up to 30 minutes for free and just leave the bike at another docking station, which are found at most places of tourist interest. Its a great and cost effective way of seeing London...and getting some exercise!
We really enjoyed the flat and would like to return the next time I have to come to London. Great location and everything in the flat works fine. Thanks again
We thoroughly enjoyed our week in London staying in this apartment. It was spacious and clean with all the mod cons you would need. It is literally a stones throw from Victoria Station so you can hear the trains but only in the background, they don't disturb your sleep. It was possible to walk to a large number of sights from the apartment e.g. Buckingham Palace, Westminster, the London Eye, South Kensington and the West End but the tube is within easy reach. The only transport problem we had was that the Victoria line is closed on a weekend. Plenty of restaurants in the vicinity too as well as takeaway chains. Would definitely recommend it to friends
This is very nice flat. Great location and it had everything we needed. Despite its proximity to the Victoria rail station, it was very quiet (when closing the extra heavy duty windows and using the fan). The master bath could use a little freshening up and a new coat of paint, but other than that, we loved it! Comfortable and well-appointed. A great find!
El departamebnto cumple bien con todo lo ofrecido: excelente ubicación, cuenta con todo lo necesario para tener una gran estadía. Muy limpio. Fácil Check in y Check out. El único problema: el ascensor estuvo malo gran parte de nuestra estadía (5 días) por lo que tuvimos que subir y bajar por las escaleras, lo cual resultó complejo con las maletas.
This flat is as described. It is very close to Victoria Station and the HOHO bus stop. In addition, the Victoria Palace where Billy Eliot is playing, is a 3 minute walk. I highly recommend this show. The property is clean and well-maintained. All appliances worked. The only uncomfortable part of our stay was the heat! It was relentless, but Debra managed to find us a much needed fan to help us through.
George's Tavern on the corner served very good F&C and was one of the only places with ac.
Debra also allowed us to stay an extra night due to my reservation error.
I would recommend this flat to any family with children or Seniors as it does have an elevator.
As an additional bonus the flat does have a landline that allows for local and international calls.
All in all a good find.
Appartement très agréable situé dans un beau quartier au cœur de Londres, à deux pas de la gare Victoria ( on entend un peu les trains) ce qui permet de toujours trouver un bus ou un métro pour rentrer à la "maison" le soir après une bonne journée de visites. L'appartement est très confortable et bien aménagé pour 5 personnes, très propre .....parfait pour un bon séjour. Les contacts par mail avec la propriétaire ont toujours été très agréables, et riches en informations sur l'accès à l'appartement et l'environnement (commerces à la gare, visites...). À 10 minutes à pied de Buckingham Palace, c'est un point de départ idéal pour visiter la ville en traversant les parcs.
This apartment is extremely comfortable and lovely! And with sound proofing in place, it is very quiet. The kitchen has everything one needs to self cater, and the two bathrooms make is easy for a family with older children to have space. Dealing with the owner is a great pleasure - she is helpful, friendly and efficient. I would highly recommend this place to anyone wanting to visit London and u will definitely stay there again next time I am in London!! Fantastic apartment! Thanks Debra :)
Central London, SW1, Pimlico, Belgravia, Victoria, Westminster. Located in a Conservation area within the Pimlico Grid within a few minutes of Victoria rail and coach stations. Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament are within walking distance and many fine restaurants and theatres are very close by. Being close to Victoria Station, there are fast links to both Gatwick and Heathrow airports.
Other Activities: The Queen Mother Sports Centre is within 10 minutes walk
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3 night minimum stay
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|Rates include all electricity and gas and a weekly clean and replacement of linen. The car parking space is available for an extra £50 per week. A deposit of £100 is required to cover against damage to furniture etc. £50 charge for either the double sofabed in the lounge or a single foldaway bed made up.
Please Note: The owner of this property accepts payment in the original currency specified (GBP), before use of conversion tool. The conversion tool is provided for your convenience only. The owner may accept other currencies if specifically agreed in advance.
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These Neat Animations Show How CMOS and CCD Sensors Work
The animations show the basics of how the two sensor types capture light, make sense of it, and then send it off to be stored as an image.
The animations show the basics of how the two sensor types capture light, make sense of it, and then send it off to be stored as an image.
Device harnesses light to charge camera sensors that use same technology as solar cells.
Buildings in cities across the globe bear special sensors, placed for a purpose: they enable people who want to create art, data visuals, music or whatever else from the data they produce.
Beijing tech students come up with clever way to measure how objects deform.
Automation to keep us safe without much in the way of man power.
A new technology called Pixie is trying to solve that problem of lost gadgets by turning them into a connected network you can search with an augmented reality interface.
CES 2015: D-Link offers a slice of peace of mind with its new Wi-Fi Water Sensor.
The sensor works with near-field communication technology to detect specific gases present when food spoils.
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07.11.07 - By Andrew Wake: British local TV network Yorkshire television have reported that negotiations for a 175 pound match up between Sheffields International Boxing Federation champion Clinton Woods and pound for pound great Joe Calzaghe have begun and are at an advanced stage. Its a fight I definitely want, Woods told Yorkshire TVs interviewer I feel confident I can beat him. Id be the first guy to beat him and its a massive fight. It would be the battle of Britain. Im the light heavyweight champion and hes talking about coming up to my weight so lets get it on..
Id be a big underdog but a lot of people believe in me and I believe in myself. I know he looked good the other night against Kessler but Kessler isnt Clinton Woods. It would be a different story when he gets in the ring with me.
Personally I have been a big advocate of Clinton and, as stated recently in my article Woods has the goods, I believe that he could beat most of the current light heavyweight division and deserves more credit than he receives but Joe Calzaghe is an all together different proposition and I fail to see any way in which Woods (41 3 with 24 KOs) would be able to handle the Welshmans speed and agility. For me Woods would be a simple way for Calzaghe to become a two weight champion to add another belt to his already glorious collection.
Woods said, People keep underestimating me but I keep coming back with good performances. I think the better the fighter Im against the better I fight so I need a big test against someone like Calzaghe and Im confident I can beat him.
Me and Dennis (Hobson, his promoter) went to New York and American TV want to put me on. Theyve given us a date for a unification fight with Chad Dawson but the fight I want is with Calzaghe.
As much as I like Clinton Woods I am very sceptical about the comments he made in this interview and, although its not impossible, I do not believe there is any truth in Yorkshire televisions claim that negotiations are at a progressed stage. For me the undefeated Italian Dragon has bigger fish to fry, and those fish are called Bernard Hopkins and Kelly Pavlik.
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Cycle Buddies - CD 1 - Sunday, January 25, 2009 (longer cycles please)
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hi i am here with you. m/c oct 22. my 1st cycle after was cd25, 2nd cd 47 this one i started spotting cd21-cd23 heavy cramps clotting cd24 which was yeaterday so i guess yesterday way really cd 1 for me. i take prenatals plus calcium and frolic acid.
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TTC #1 since July 2008 - Taking a break from Temping/Charting so don't ask!
Hey, can I join? Today, is cd1 of a 29 day cycle...but last mth it was 38...and b4 that, I was finishing breastfeeding and they were around 33 days. Anyone, I'll be here...trying a new OPK and ordering some preseed.
DS 9/25/07; m/c @ 6wks 5/10/09;Rainbow baby come April!
do you ladies know anything about baby asprin? and what does preseed do?
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today is CD1...usually have 28 day cycles, but this one came early by 6 days lol...TTC #2 so hopefully this month is our month!
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Kellie - Welcome to the group!! What kind of OPK are you using this time around? You'll have to let me know about the preseed, if we don't pass this month with flying colors I'm going to add preseed to the mix, so I'd love to hear your thoughts on it through the cycle!
Wants - Baby aspirin is supposed to thin out the uterine lining to make it easier for implantation to occur. This happens since an 81mg dose is an average blood thinner dose to take daily (totally ok for anyone to take unless you have a blood problem). Preseed helps your CM to carry the sperm to where they're supposed to be. Most lubricants aren't good for sperm and will end up slowing them down or even killing them and preseed gives there the prime environment until they find the egg. ANYONE ELSE: If I'm off, please correct me, as this is what I've understood from other posts/boards.
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TTC #1 since July 2008 - Taking a break from Temping/Charting so don't ask!
I'm in too. Cd1 on Jan. 25, usually around 32 days per cycle. We've officially been trying since November 08. I've been off BCP since september and taking prenatals.
Currently taking Origins, use Pre-seed, OPKs, and considering temping this month.
I agree about the neon pee! Whew I was surprised the 1st time I saw that. And no matter how much water I drink, it never seems to dilute! LOL
DS born 2/9/10, DD born 12/21/11, #3 due 12/12/13
that you for the info ;-) where do you find preseed? is it a pill? and as far as the baby asprin do you start it after your bleeding and then stop when start your period again? and if you do get preggos, how long do you take the baby asprin for?
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Karen ~ DD is 2 and a handful! I'd like to use a OPK but not sure what to try and what is going to be wallet friendly! Any ideas on the best things to try to get pregnant? with my daughter it was an oops pregnancy lol we conceived again (another oops) but m/c at 6 weeks. So this time I'd like to actually plan it and not be shocked to POAS and see a BFP! Any hints, ideas etc! I'm open to all your wisdom!
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DD Hannah 12/12/06
DS Connor 8/5/10
Hey Ladies
AF paid me a visit just now. Today's CD 36 and I really thought I was pg. My cycles are usually 29-30 days. My lmp was on Christmas day. I was driving myself crazy taking hpts all last week. I feel disappointed but relieved at the same time because know I know I can start planing and charting my temp and using the OPK I purchased. I've been taking pre-natal vitamins and getting myself ready.
I've never used an OPK before? Do any of you ladies plan or are currently using OPKs? I've heard that its better to test twice a day?


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I have been playing around with my friend's standard length black drive & loved it right away. It seemed like babolat fixed all that I didn't like with the previous versions - mainly the hollow feel & lack of touch. The racket feels very solid & the feel at net is better. I was just about to pull the trigger & buy it but thought it better to demo the + version just to know the difference.
I've never played with an extended length racket before & there was some adjustment period but it still felt great right away. The main things I noticed were my 1st serve percentage was noticeably better & my 2 handed backhand felt even more solid & I felt alot more control in my shot placement. My 2hbh is my solid shot & my shot down the line with it is my bread & butter. I was confidently hitting short, sharp crosscourt, deep crosscourt, inside-out, & down the line back hands which I wasn't able to do consistently with the standard length. I'm still figuring out the adjustments needed for the net play but they seem minor & the other advantages will outweigh this.
This demo was strung with wilson nxt so I'm eager to know how it'll play with my usual poly strings. I know powerplayer says it plays great with a multi but I'd like to see how it plays with my usual lux adrenaline or TF redcode - I can usually play with a full bed of any poly that is not at a high tension with no signs of TE.
I agree with power player that the black drive + is a great racket - I tried going back to the standard length & wished I had the + again.
This is very interesting because I bought a Pure Drive standard on Thursday liked it but am thinking I should have got the + or the PDR (or at least tried them first).
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Hello there fellow artists. I am restarting my portfolio here, its been a while since I've been on here. I have been unemployed for about 3 months now and have been staying home with my new baby girl. Working on building up my portfolio with new things. Hope you all enjoy this trip down memory lane.
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La Rocca Palermo has all of the ingredients that make our other hostels special- 24hr services, cheap rates with no hidden costs and an unbeatable location, this time smack bang in the middle of Buenos Aires' trendiest district, Palermo. Distinctly Argentinean but specifically tailored to cater to our travellers from all over the world, La Rocca prides itself on its friendly, chilled out, sociable atmosphere in which guests can come to together to explore Buenos Aires
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NittyEquestrian, concidering he is not broken, I do not have a saddle to fit him and he has never had a saddle on his back I don't think that will cause anything else then a total and utter explosion.
I'm not backing off when he gets nervous, I just decided today that we would leave it on a positive note and not force the issue any further.
Last time (just before I put up this post) he had exploded 5 times, pulled away and galloped around the arena trailing both ropes and scared me whitless when he stood on a lunge line and took himself to his knees. Sorry but I'd rather go slow then do it that way.


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Chocolate is supposed to be good for you - if you can avoid the high sugar found in most chocolate. For years, I've gnoshed on the Lindt 85% dark chocolate, and though I never was a big dark chocolate fan, this is really good dark chocolate and I always buy it.
If you just can't stand the thought of a dark chocolate, your options begin to rapidly go downhill. The problem with chocolate (and baking as well) is that the creation of the stuff is more of a science than, say, a stir-fry. If you get the proportions wrong, you've made a puddle of chocolate goo. This is part of the reason that you find sugar alcohols in a lot of low carb chocolate bars - and we all know that sugar alcohols are great as stalling Atkins dieters trying to do induction.
In the Great Low Carb Craze of 2003, when everybody was doing low carb, there were some OK chocolates. Yeah, they used sugar alcohols, or those chemicals that end in 'ol' - sorbitol, malitol, etc. These aren't calorie-free, but they have less of an impact on blood sugar - a major bugaboo on Atkins.
Also - eating too much of the stuff could have a laxative effect - think Alli with a chocolate flavor.
I used to keep some bars in the freezer, break off 2 squares a night, and I was able to stay in ketosis. Did it slow my progress? Maybe, but at what point does a diet become so restrictive that life stops being worth living?
As I've mentioned in my about page, it did take some time to lost my 80 lbs, and I'm up 15 now, but I still look back and think a 65 lb. weight loss sustained over 5 years ain't shabby.
The low carb chocolate you could find at your local grocery store is no more, however - low carb has gone underground, like the French Resistance in WWII. We now have to find foods that are only accidentally low carb - it's almost as if the label 'Low Carb' is the kiss of death to a product.
Truth is - the low carb chocolates weren't all that good. They were a bit waxy. Better than nothing, but about the quality of no-name Easter chocolate.
I'm sure that some of you will mention that there's this great 'chocolate bar X' that I can order over the internet - but I don't want to buy food over the internet. I know a number of you don't have a choice in this because of your location, but I just don't want to get in the habit. Call it a mental block - I've never bought low carb food over the internet.
So now we come to the item mentioned in the title of this posting. I was reading on one of the low carb forums about a chocolate 'bark' made of coconut oil, chocolate, and Splenda. I had purchased some coconut oil - without a clue what to do with it - based on a suggestion that some research points to coconut oil helping in weight reduction.
You can read more on all this in the forum post - I won't attempt to cover it here. What I will cover is my version of the chocolate bark recipe. I used the following:
(As the proportions for each are 1/2 of the previous ingredient, it is easy to scale this recipe up and down without much calculating.)
I mixed these well and used the top of a large tupperware casserole as a plate, lined it with tinfoil, and poured in the mixture. I then covered the top with tinfoil (to prevent a God-awful mess from a shallow plate of chocolate goo pouring all over the inside of the freezer) and put in the freezer for a half-hour.
The result was unbelievably good. I had bought a high-quality coconut oil and there was no coconut flavor at all. It tasted like a high-quality milk chocolate, with the same texture.
It is a disaster waiting to happen as it melts quickly - care is advised with children and white slipcovers (from actual experience)
Dangers aside, this was a great find, and I'll do this one again, most certainly.
While cocoa has carbs in it, cocoa is a great expenditure of your daily carb allotment, in my opinion. Probably safe for induction, if you don't overdo it, but it's so darn good you'll have a hard time resisting 'just another piece'.
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Following the release of his band's best album yet, frontman Yannis Philippakis talks about not hiding behind lyrics and feeling like a middle-aged woman.
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Not so long ago, it wouldn't have made much sense at all for Metallica to choose Foals to play their music festival. But with Holy Fire, the Oxford band's muscular recent Flood and Alan Moulder-produced album, Foals stop noodling in the margins of rock and run headlong into its belly, blending the careening swagger of stoner rock with a sleazy funk thrust-- all without sounding anything like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, thank God. And within that hypnotic thrust, Holy Fire hits some restful-if-anxious points, too; "Providence", for one, dusts itself off with a vocal line from frontman Yannis Philippakis processed to sound like an old Lomax recording, as he explains when we chat by phone in early February.
While touring behind Foals' last album, 2010's Total Life Forever, Philippakis often appeared in quite battered form, turning up to interviews with yellowed eyes, a spotty tongue, a packet of quickly chain-smoked cigarettes, and on one occasion, a bottle of cough syrup. Certain stories made him appear in a harrowed, panicked place, a portrayal he now says was perhaps slightly exaggerated due to his willingness to let journalists into his troubled mindset. For now, though, "it's an era of contentment" for him and the band. "With this music malarkey, I used to bang my head against the wall, but now I've learned the way through the maze a bit better," he says. "I can still get lost, but my emotional equilibrium isn't as tied into it."
He makes himself subject to quite a tongue-lashing on Holy Fire, however, berating his unfaithfulness and bad habits in order to "feel uncomfortable" when listening to the new material. We spoke about the pitfalls of writing cryptic, self-referential lyrics that don't cop to much, how Flood and Moulder played tricks on them during the album's recording, and why he's recently taken up growing roses. Read the interview and watch the band perform Holy Fire outtake "Blue Bird" below:
Pitchfork: Parts of Holy Fire comprise some of the most aggressive music the band has ever made, but you're singing your most open and vulnerable lyrics. What provoked that?
Yannis Philippakis: I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential. I don't get any humanity when I listen to that, so I really wanted to avoid it. You can get into a comfort zone writing lyrics, like wearing a mask. But I wanted to feel uncomfortable when I was listening back to [the lyrics]; I wanted to squirm. I never want to listen to the songs in front of people close to me. There's an emotional honesty in that place where it's not earnest but it's vulnerable.
Pitchfork: You self-flagellate a lot over the course of the record.
YP: Oh yeah. I'm taking a bath in my guilt, but there's a redemptive purpose to that. It's not as if I'm endlessly throwing out a trail of images that can never be traced back to me; I can see the traces of myself, and I wanted it to be a cathartic process, to grow and work through the knots of my personality. Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write. I like simple writing. I'd rather read Hemingway than Burroughs.
It's a hard thing to do when you first start as a band. The lyrics on our first record epitomize a fear of being found out, or of being too known. You feel vulnerable and you want to hide it. But now I feel like a middle-aged woman who's just gone through a divorce, and she's looking in the mirror and is OK with herself-- I can get up in the morning and look at myself in the mirror and say that I'm a beautiful woman and believe it.
"We wanted to do something that felt like this sweaty, stickier thing--like an insect climbing into delta marshlands."
Pitchfork: Tell me about what's going on at the beginning of "Providence"-- your voice is captured in a way that makes it feel like an old field recording.
YP: On that vocal, I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations. I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect-- that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing. And I've been listening to Alan Lomax's recordings for about five years years now. They've never failed to startle and move me, they're so skeletal and haunting that I can't see how anyone wouldn't be absolutely stunned by them. You realize how much power and emotion can come out of a voice. It was a sign that we didn't need to rely on gimmicks or crutches, or have a lot of bolstering sound.
Pitchfork: You wrote some of the record in Karpathos, Greece, where your father lives, and a few of the songs on the record appeal to a mother figure. Was your heritage on your mind?
YP: That's hard-- I'm definitely preoccupied by thinking I'm just a biological thing. I want to feel that there's more, but so often I'm reminded of how we're just like baboons, basically. The thing about Karpathos that made it such a good place to write lyrics is that there's no wifi, no cars, none of the pernicious side of modern or urban society. Instead, there's mountains and a feeling of timelessness, it's unchanging. I can feel my bloodlines there. I don't know how it creeps into the lyrics, but its definitely part of my brain structure.
Pitchfork: It definitely feels like Foals' most varied album from start to finish.
YP: When we started writing, we wanted to free ourselves from the shackles of keeping things harmonious. It was informed by a confidence in the band-- we feel we will immutably sound like ourselves no matter which producer we work with, or what palette the songs are written in, or what the medium is. The headspace was: "Let's not overthink it, let's not discuss it, let's just enjoy everything, and if things feel intuitively right, then be OK with it."
Also, Flood and Moulder really reinforced our belief that we should try and fan everything out. If we had two songs that felt like they were occupying the same space, we would consciously try and push them apart from each other as much as possible. This record is a myriad of colors rather than shades of the same.
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Pitchfork: I read that Flood and Moulder double-bluffed you by saying you were doing practice takes, then telling you that they had actually recorded them.
YP: It was sneaky and genius of them. I don't know if it's plagued us more than other people, but when we became conscious of the red light going on for a take, it would somehow creep into the playing. There'd be something missing, or there wasn't the kind of feral energy that there would be in the live shows. That sleight-of-hand totally navigated that problem-- there was a charm to a lot of those takes, so we didn't need to do much more.
Pitchfork: The producers you've worked with previously have all essentially been your peers.
YP: And musicians in some way. Flood and Moulder are definitely not musicians, they're producers and engineers, studio men. And they come from that old tradition of British studios, it's almost like a guild. They understand that there's a line between the artist and the songs they've written, and their job is to convey that from the speakers. It meant we didn't ever really feel territorial about what was happening. It's an honor to work with them as much as anything. I grew up listening to The Downward Spiral and Mellon Collie; when you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.
Pitchfork: There was always a positive disparity between your records and the significantly heavier shows. Do you feel Holy Fire comes closer to capturing what you're actually like on stage?
YP: Yeah. It's not just the heavier songs, like "Providence" and "Inhaler", that have that sort of energy, but also songs like "Moon" and "Stepson", where me and [guitarist] Jimmy [Smith] were allowed to go in the studio and just play the same song for five hours without interruption, over and over 'til we were tired of playing it or the wine made our eyelids droop. Someone in the control room would capture it. The integrity of the takes remain.
"Inhaler" almost didn't make it on the record-- when we got back to Oxford after tour, it got extended and became a 27-minute-long beast. We had it on the back-burner, then had three days where we were like, "Let's just give this a go," and it came together, thankfully.
Pitchfork: I've always thought it would be interesting to hear you guys release something long-form.
YP: We'd like to do that. It's strange because there's a tension in the band that's almost bipolar-- if we were left totally to our own devices, we probably would just turn out these proggy jams without focus. But at the same time, there's a desire to make things that are concise and that communicate to the outside world. There's a special edition of Holy Fire that's got all the fragments and loops and jams that informed the actual album. It'll expose the process, show the skeletons.
Pitchfork: Was the stoner rock quality a sound that had always been a part of the band? What made now the time to make a record in that vein?
YP: I've always listened to stuff like Earth, Sleep, and Sabbath, though we didn't have a desire to actually go to that territory before; we don't need to put a little ribbon around what somebody else's idea of what we should sound like is and just adhere to that.
After touring Total Life for so long, we infinitely know the boundaries and parameters of what we had written up until then. Being given a new lease of life to go and write was exciting-- everything felt fertile and new. It's about writing the next sentence, and we got it in our heads that we wanted to do something that felt-- and I don't think the whole record feels like it-- like this sweaty, stickier thing, like an insect climbing into delta marshlands.
Pitchfork: Am I right in thinking you've taken up gardening?
YP: Yeah. My mum used to make me garden when I was younger, then I just stopped doing it. Then I got a craving to do something that felt like it was connected with the land, something that felt domestic. It was grounding for me. I started growing roses. I enjoyed the craft of it and that they're difficult to look after; they can provide joy. But I'm going on tour now so I don't know what will happen to them.
Pitchfork: You're about to go on the road for ages, but you recently tweeted that you wanted to make another album already as well.
YP: What we might start trying to do whenever we get a free day on tour is go into a studio and cut tracks, like how it used to be done; you'd cut a song and it'd be pressed and it would go out. A good thing about the industry changing is that it frees up the artist to disseminate music in various ways. One thing we're going to have to do in our lifetime is free ourselves from the shackle of making albums that are the focal point for everything for two years on either side. It's great in the sense that it's a big task and enjoyable to craft something from start to finish, but it's not natural. The way we write is compulsive, all the time. It'd be nice to have that direct outlet.
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Oldfield, Paul. City and Community in Norman Italy. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, 72. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 310. $99.00 ISBN 9780521898041. .
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Paul Oldfield's City and Community contains a wealth of detail from the lives of the cities of primarily Apulia and Campagna in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The five-page bibliography of primary sources in printed editions not only reveals the breadth of his survey of the material but also makes this work an invaluable resource for all scholars and students of medieval Italy. Such a concentrated survey of urban life in southern Italy is a unique and difficult undertaking, and most welcome. City and Community comes out of Oldfield's thesis as will be apparent to the reader. The wealth of material that Oldfield collects is both the strength and great weakness of the work as Oldfield's broader analytic point and overall thesis is too often lost in loosely organized details. This work will ultimately, I believe, prove an important starting point for future research on urban life in Norman Italy.
Oldfield is concerned to demonstrate that, despite an entrenched historiography that has long since marginalized the cities of southern Italy, the cities of Norman Italy developed and retained elements of independence, self-governing, and civic identity. Oldfield is correct to challenge the portrait of southern Italy as "more a passive object than actor in history," as Giovanni Tobacco once described it (5). In this traditional portrait, urban creativity and liberty were crushed by church and state alike. Oldfield offers much evidence that reveals the cities of southern Italy as anything but passive and oppressed.
It should be noted that the title is City and Community, not "city and commune." The latter is a concession to the limited authority of the citizens of southern Italy. Oldfield defines communal as "an adjective meaning 'that which relates to or benefits the community.' It is not to be associated with the commune as an institution unless this is specifically indicated" (7). Such a definition obviously begs the questions, what is "the community," who defines what "benefits" it, and how and by whom was that benefit attained? In this definition, a royal privilege granted to a monastic community, a bishop's household, a guild, or a group of self-described citizens are all equally "communal" actions. A more limiting, but traditional definition of the commune as a sworn association formed with the purpose of governing public activity within urban areas would have loaned greater clarity to Oldfield's work. It would have also allowed more ready comparison with urban transformations on the rest of the Italian peninsula. Nor was it necessary for Oldfield to invent such a distinction as he offers evidence of sworn associations (societies, for ex.) exerting independent authority within the city. In addition, he repeatedly discovers the traditional actors of the communes (boni homines, iudices, cives, etc.) acting with common interests, even if without direct evidence for a sworn association. A more traditional definition would not only have been more precise but would have enabled greater integration of the two historiographies of medieval Italy. The equally thorny question of what defines a city is dealt with in the more typical manner, albeit imprecise, of confining the study to the self-described civitas.
The first part of the work, "Urban Government and Communal Independence," provides a chronological overview of the effects, or lack thereof, of the Normans on the urban centers of southern Italy. The first chapter, "Before 1085: the arrival of the Normans," is filled with tantalizing clues of a vibrant urban life in the eleventh century. One wishes that the cives, boni homines, or iudices (23, 25) that Oldfield has discovered in his research or the uprising against ducal control that he thinks "may be evident of incipient communal participation in civic affairs" were more closely scrutinized in their details. This book is filled with such clues that will surely become the basis of future research. Chapter two highlights the absence of Ducal presence in cities like Troia and Bari. In Bari in particular the Byzantine elite appeared to have retained their titles through the eleventh century. The situation in the cities became more fraught in the early twelfth century with Benevento and Capua asserting greater independence from the Norman dukes and Bari, Gaeta, Trani and Troia following suit more or less. Bari, Gaeta and Trani appear to have experienced the greatest independence although the organization of the chapter requires the reader to construct the comparisons with some difficulty. Here, at least, Oldfield is using the more traditional phrase "communal institutions." Chapter three contends that the years of civil war from 1127-39 did not result in an abandonment of civic privileges but reveals much greater continuity with the privileges gained in the preceding two generations than had been previously thought. This relative, and surprising, independence continued on the mainland through the early thirteenth century.
Part two of the book, "Urban society: community identity and wealth," largely attempts to survey social identity within the cities and is less successful. Intriguingly, Oldfield notes that the term cives is increasingly popular in the twelfth century and that it denotes greater social status although it admittedly cannot be precisely defined (180). He mentions in passing a greater emphasis on civic rights at the expense of civic custom with little effort made to explain what seems a remarkable observation (182). A close examination of the context of that evidence might have enabled greater causal explanation. As is often the case, one wishes that Oldfield could have presented the reader with a range of examples of the use of the term so that the reader could either better understand his reluctance to impose precision or understand the spectrum of possible meanings he has discovered. Chapter seven, "The Community," is perhaps the least satisfying in the entire work, but again tantalizing clues abound. His argument that the distinction between the (ill-defined) categories of "elites," "middle" and the "edges" of society is imprecise, is unsurprising. Still, we are treated to a wealth of detail; the neighborhoods of different cities are sprinkled throughout the chapter (198-202 for example) and would repay revisiting and reorganizing by individual city. If it matters that the tanners were located outside of the cities, then it would matter where outside a given city they were located as it might tell us something about the status of the community they were near. Physical proximity may or may not reveal interconnectedness but it is certainly worth knowing to the extent possible. A social map does not, but could emerge from these pages. Saracen slaves are briefly considered but the Jewish community gets closer discussion here as well (206-15). Chapter eight on the bishop is brief but reveals the interconnectedness of episcopal household and civic identity. The final chapter on the economy is an interesting sketch of the extent and limits of urban trade organization and Mediterranean-wide exchange drawn from a range of sources, from pilgrimage accounts to privileges and charters.
Oldfield has brought together a wide range of evidence and materials that reveal the complexity of urban life in Norman southern Italy. In doing so, he has achieved the objective he set for the work. This work will be useful to future scholars interested in both precise portraits of individual cities and reintegrating the urban history of medieval Italy.


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