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<?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd"> <book lang="en"> <chapter id="ext.ffi"> <title>Foreign Function Interface</title>
 <title>What is a FFI?</title> <para>A Foreign Function Interface, or &FFI; for short, is a means for a programming language to interface with libraries written in other programming languages, the <emphasis>foreign code</emphasis>. You will see this concept most often being used in interpreted environments, such as Python, Ruby or Lisp, where one wants to reuse the big number of libraries written in C and C++ for dealing with graphical interfaces, networking, filesystems, etc.</para> <para>A FFI is made of at least three components:</para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term>Foreign objects management</term> <listitem><para>This is the data that the foreign code will use. A &FFI; needs to provide means to buid and manipulate foreign data, with atomatic conversions to and from lisp data types whenever possible, and it also has to deal with issues like garbage collection and finalization.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>Foreign code loader</term> <listitem><para>To actually use a foreign routine, the code must reside in memory. The process of loading this code and finding out the addresses of the routines we want to use is normally done by an independent component.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>Foreign function invocation</term> <listitem><para>This is the part of the &FFI; that deals with actually calling the foreign routines we want to use. For that one typically has to tell the &FFI; what are the arguments that these routines expect, what are the calling conventions and where are these routines to be found.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> <para>On top of these components sits a higher level interface written entirely in lisp, with which you will actually declare and use foreign variables, functions and libraries. In the following sections we describe both the details of the low-level components (<xref linkend="ext.ffi.dffi"/>, <xref linkend="ext.ffi.objects"/>), and of the higher level interface (<xref linkend="ext.ffi.uffi.and.cffi"/>). It is highly recommended that you read <emphasis>all</emphasis> sections.</para>

 <title>Two kinds of FFI</title> <para>&ECL; allows for two different appraoches when building a &FFI;. Both approaches have a different implementation philosophy and affect the places where you can use the &FFI; and how. <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term>Static &FFI;</term> <listitem><para>For every foreign function and variable you might need to use, a wrapper is automatically written in C with the help of <xref linkend="ref.c-inline"/>. These wrappers are compiled using an ordinary C compiler and linked against both the foreign libraries you want to use and against the &ECL; library. The result is a &FASL; file that can be loaded from &ECL; and where the wrappers appear as ordinary lisp functions and variables that the user may directly invoked.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>Dynamic &FFI;</term> <listitem><para>First of all, the foreign libraries are loaded in memory using the facilities of the operating system. Similar routines are used to find out and register the memory location of all the functions and variables we want to use. Finally, when actually accessing these functions, a little piece of assembly code does the job of translating the lisp data into foreign objects, storing the arguments in the stack and in CPU registers, calling the function and converting back the output of the function to lisp.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </para> <para>
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As you see, the first approach uses rather portable technices based on a programming language (C, C++) which is strongly supported by the operating system. The conversion of data is performed calling routines in the &ECL; library and we need not care about the precise details (organizing the stack, CPU registers, etc) when calling a function: the compiler does this for us.</para> <para>On the other hand, the dynamic approach allows us to choose the libraries we load at any time, look for the functions and invoke them even from the toplevel, but it relies on unportable techniques and requires from us, the developers of &ECL;, to know very well both the assembly code of the machine &ECL; runs on and the calling conventions of that particular operating system.</para> <para>&ECL; currently supports the static method on all platforms, and the dynamical one a few of the most popular ones, shown in <xref linkend="table.dffi"/>. You can test if your copy of &ECL; was built with DFFI by inspecting whether the symbol <symbol>:DFFI</symbol> is present in the list from variable <symbol>*FEATURES*</symbol>.</para>
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 <row> <entry>Architecture</entry> <entry>Support</entry> <entry>Operating systems</entry> </row>

 <row> <entry>Intel x86 32 bits</entry> <entry>Complete</entry> <entry>Any with SysV ABI (Linux, BSD), Windows, OS X</entry> </row> <row> <entry>Intel x86 64 bits</entry> <entry>In progress</entry> <entry>SysV ABI</entry> </row> <row> <entry>PowerPC 32 bits</entry> <entry>In progress</entry> <entry>OS X</entry> </row>
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 <title>Foreign objects</title> <para>While the foreign function invocation protocols differ strongly between platforms and implementations, foreign objects are pretty easy to handle portably. For &ECL;, a foreign object is just a bunch of bytes stored in memory. The lisp object for a foreign object encapsulates several bits of information: <itemizedlist> <listitem><para>A list or a symbol specifying the C type of the object.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>The pointer to the region of memory where data is stored.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>A flag determining whether &ECL; can automatically manage that piece of memory and deallocated when no longer in use.</para></listitem> </itemizedlist></para> <para>A foreign object may contain many different kinds of data: integers, floating point numbers, C structures, unions, etc. The actual type of the object is stored in a list or a symbol which is understood by the higher level interface (<xref linkend="ext.ffi.uffi.and.cffi"/>).</para> <para>The most important component of the object is the memory region where data is stored. By default &ECL; assumes that the user will perform automatic managment of this memory, deleting the object when it is no longer needed. The first reason is that this block may have been allocated by a foreign routine using <function>malloc()</function>, or <function>mmap()</function>, or statically, by referring to a C constant. The second reason is that foreign functions may store references to this memory which &ECL; is not aware of and, in order to keep these references valid, &ECL; should not attempt to automatically destroy the object.</para> <para>In many cases, however, it is desirable to automatically destroy foreign objects once they have been used. The higher level interfaces &UFFI; and &CFFI; provide tools for doing this. For instance, in the following example adapted from the &UFFI; documentation, the string <varname>NAME</varname> is automatically deallocated</para> <programlisting>(def-function "gethostname" ((name (* :unsigned-char)) (len :int)) :returning :int) (if (zerop (c-gethostname (uffi:char-array-to-pointer name) 256)) (format t "Hostname: ~S" (ffi:convert-from-foreign-string name)) (error "gethostname() failed.")) </programlisting>

 <title>Higher level interfaces</title> <para>Up to now we have only discussed vague ideas about how a &FFI; works, but you are probably more interested on how to actually code all these things in lisp. You have here three possibilities:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para>&ECL; supplies a high level interface which is compatible with &UFFI;. Code designed for this library should run mostly unchanged with &ECL;.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>The &CFFI; library features a mostly complete backend for &ECL;. This is however a work in progress, as the fact that &CFFI; allows for calling arbitrary functions without declaring them causes some troubles with &ECL;.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>&ECL;'s own low level interface. Only to be used if &ECL; is your deployment platform. It features some powerful constructs that allow you to merge arbitrary C code with lisp (<xref linkend="ref.c-inline"/> and <xref linkend="ref.clines"/>).</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> <para>In the following two subsections we will discuss two practical examples of using the native &UFFI; and the &CFFI; library.</para>
 <title>UFFI example</title> <programlisting> </programlisting>

 <title>CFFI example</title> <programlisting> </programlisting>

 <title>FFI Reference</title> <toc/>    <refentry id="ref.clines"> <refnamediv> <refname><function>ffi:clines</function></refname> <refpurpose>Insert C declarations and definitions</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> <title>Special form</title> <funcsynopsis> <funcprototype> <funcdef>ffi:cline</funcdef> <paramdef><parameter>c-code</parameter>*</paramdef> </funcprototype> </funcsynopsis> <simplelist columns="2" type="horiz"> <member><replaceable>c-code</replaceable></member> <member>One or more strings with C definitions. Not evaluated</member> <member>returns</member> <member>No value.</member> </simplelist> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsect1> <title>Description</title> <para>This special form inserts C code directly in the file that results from compiling lisp sources. It can only appear as a toplevel form and, contrary to <xref linkend="ref.c-inline"/>, it does not accept any input values nor returns any value.</para> <para>The main use of <function>FFI:CLINES</function> is to declare or define C variables and functions that are going to be used later in other &FFI; statements.</para> <para><function>FFI:CLINES</function> is a special form that can only be used in lisp compiled files as a toplevel form. Other uses will lead to an error being signaled, either at compilation time or when loading the file.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>Examples</title> <para>In this example the <function>FFI:CLINES</function> statement is required to get access to the C function <function>cos()</function></para> <programlisting>(ffi:clines "#include <math.h>") (defun cos (x) (ffi:c-inline (x) (:double) :double "cos(#0)" :on-liner t))</programlisting> </refsect1> </refentry>    <refentry id="ref.c-inline"> <refnamediv> <refname><function>ffi:c-inline</function></refname> <refpurpose>Inline C code in a lisp form.</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> <title>Special form</title> <funcsynopsis> <funcprototype> <funcdef>ffi:c-inline</funcdef> <paramdef>(<parameter>lisp-value</parameter>*)</paramdef> <paramdef>(<parameter>c-type</parameter>*)</paramdef> <paramdef><parameter>return-type</parameter></paramdef> <paramdef><parameter>C-code</parameter></paramdef> <paramdef>&keys;</paramdef> <paramdef><parameter>one-liner</parameter></paramdef> <paramdef><parameter>side-effects</parameter></paramdef> </funcprototype> </funcsynopsis> <simplelist columns="2" type="horiz"> <member><replaceable>lisp-value</replaceable></member> <member>A lisp expression, evaluated.</member> <member><replaceable>c-type</replaceable></member> <member>A valid <acronym>FFI</acronym> type.</member> <member><replaceable>return-type</replaceable></member> <member>A valid <acronym>FFI</acronym> type or (VALUES).</member> <member><replaceable>C-code</replaceable></member> <member>A string with valid C code plus some valid escape forms.</member> <member><replaceable>one-liner</replaceable></member> <member>A boolean, defaults to <symbol>NIL</symbol>.</member> <member><replaceable>side-effects</replaceable></member> <member>A boolean, defaults to <symbol>T</symbol>.</member> <member>returns</member> <member>One or more lisp values.</member> </simplelist> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsect1> <title>Description</title> <para>This is an special form which can be only used in compiled code and whose purpose is to execute some C code getting and returning values from and to the lisp environment.</para> <para>The first argument to <function>ffi:c-inline</function> is a list of lisp forms. These forms are going to be evaluated and their lisp values will be transformed to the corresponding C types denoted by <replaceable>c-type</replaceable>.</para> <para>The input values are used to create a valid C expression using the template in <replaceable>C-code</replaceable>. This is a string of arbitrary size which mixes C expressions with two kind of escape forms.</para> <para>The first kind of escape form are made of a hash and a letter or a number, as in: #0, #1, ..., until #z. These codes are replaced by the corresponding input values. The second kind of escape form has the format @(return <optional>n</optional>), it can be used as lvalue in a C expression and it is used to set the n-th output value of the <function>ffi:c-inline</function> form.</para> <para>When the parameter <replaceable>one-liner</replaceable> is true, then the C template must be a simple C statement that outputs a value. In this case the use of @(return) is not allowed. When the parameter <replaceable>one-liner</replaceable> is false, then the C template may be a more complicated block form, with braces, conditionals, loops and spanning multiple lines. In this case the output of the form can only be set using @(return).</para> <para>Note that the conversion between lisp arguments and <acronym>FFI</acronym> types is automatic. Note also that <function>et:c-inline</function> cannot be used in interpreted or bytecompiled code!</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>Examples</title> <para>The following example implements the transcendental function <function>SIN</function> using the C equivalent</para> <programlisting>(ffi:c-lines "#include <math.h>") (defun mysin (x) (ffi:c-inline (x) (:double) :double "sin(#0)" :one-liner t :side-effects nil))</programlisting> <para>This function can also be implemented using the @(return) form as follows:</para> <programlisting>(defun mysin (x) (ffi:c-inline (x) (:double) :double "@(return)=sin(#0);" :side-effects nil))</programlisting> <para>The following example is slightly more complicated as it involves loops and two output values:</para> <programlisting>(defun sample (x) (ffi:c-inline (n1 n2) (:int :int) (values :int :int) "{ int n1 = #0, n2 = #1, out1 = 0, out2 = 1; while (n1 <= n2) { out1 += n1; out2 *= n1; n1++; } @(return 0)= out1; @(return 1)= out2; }" :side-effects nil))</programlisting> </refsect1> </refentry>
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I decided not to post this in the FX thread, instead i posted it here for ANY current DX user that is planning to upgrade in a near future, specially since December is approaching. I found this video comparison on youtube VERY interesting and imformative. Hope you find it useful.
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False Patriots
Jack McLamb, 56
Of the sprinkling of law enforcement professionals who supported the Patriot movement, retired Phoenix, Ariz., cop Jack McLamb became by far best known, speaking at Patriot events around the country.
Describing himself as the most highly decorated officer in the history of his police department, McLamb ran an outfit called Police Against the New World Order that he claimed had a highly unlikely 6,300 members.
He produced a periodical called Aid & Abet Police Newsletter and, most famously, a 75-page conspiracist document entitled Operation Vampire Killer 2000: American Police Action Plan for Stopping World Government Rule.
McLamb embraced a panoply of conspiracy theories. He told a 1996 rally that government officials were smuggling drugs into the country in a bid to incite racial hatred.
In 1999, he asserted that Vice President Gore intended to reduce world population by 90% through some kind of end-of-the-millennium Y2K plot. He suggested that Communist-led Latinos planned to take over the Southwest.
Along with his friend, Green Beret-turned-Patriot James "Bo" Gritz, he sold plots of land in Idaho as the perfect place to survive the coming troubles.
But when the much ballyhooed "Y2K" collapse failed to materialize, McLamb began to peddle his ideas on the tax protest circuit, instructing students last fall that "Taxes are Voluntary!"
'Itching for a Standoff'
Norm Olsen, 53
From the very beginning, Norman E. Olson was a radical among radicals. After starting the Michigan Militia in April 1994 as one of the first major militia groups, Olson helped make his home state one of the leading spots for Patriot activity.
He drew widespread attention after reporting Oklahoma City conspirator Terry Nichols had attended one of the meetings of the Michigan Militia, which he claimed counted 12,000 members.
But Olson, a Baptist preacher who spends time in his Alanson gun store wearing a camouflage military outfit, alienated his colleagues after Oklahoma by offering reporters an incredible theory: The Japanese government had bombed the federal building there as a return favor for the sarin gas subway attack that he said the U.S. government carried out in Tokyo.
Unceremoniously booted out by his comrades-in-arms, Olson started another group, the Northern Michigan Regional Militia, while attacking his former friends as "too moderate." In the run-up to the millennial date change, Olson predicted government collapse and worse as a result of the "y2k" computer bug — a collapse he welcomed.
"We're itching for a standoff someplace," he told The Washington Post in late 1999. "Any movement needs a good and noble rallying point, an Alamo or a 'Remember the Maine,' and this could be it."
The Price of Truth
John Parsons, 51
Many thousands of people left the Patriot movement in the late 1990s, tired of waiting for the revolution that never came, scared off by arrests or diverted into harder line groups. John Parsons left because he had to.
As early as 1995, the head of the Tri-States Militia of South Dakota — a national umbrella group that grew to have affiliates in 32 states — told a reporter that his followers "despise terrorists."
In July of that year, he organized a summit of militias from 18 states, creating a free hotline number to quash "rumors about purple spaceships and U.N. vehicles on a freight train across the Atlantic."
Parsons believed in many militia articles of faith, in particular the threat of a coming New World Order, but he faced a moral dilemma when an Oklahoma militant approached his group for help in building bombs.
After a long period of soul-searching, which included standing before the bombed-out federal building in Oklahoma, Parsons decided to tell authorities about Willie Ray Lampley's plans to bomb the Southern Poverty Law Center and offices of the Anti-Defamation League. Even harder, he agreed to testify in court, where it came out he'd been on the FBI payroll.
After Lampley was convicted, the FBI told Parsons his life might be in danger. In 1996, Parsons appears to have disappeared, quite likely, as is widely rumored in the militia world, into the witness protection program.
The 'Two-Bomb' General
Benton Partin, 74
Patriot ideologues have long scoffed at the work of scholars and specialists, but like conspiracy theorists everywhere, they love a credentialed expert who is on their side. Such was the case with retired Brig. Gen. Benton Partin, a 31-year Air Force veteran who provided Patriots with their core theory about the Oklahoma bombing.
In press conferences, at Patriot gatherings and in letters to politicians, Partin expounded on his idea that the truck bomb driven by Timothy McVeigh "could not possibly" have destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building by itself. Claiming long experience in weapons design, Partin — who retired in 1979 — said photographs of the damage convinced him there were other bombs inside the building.
Although Partin didn't say so, other Patriots expanded on this theory to accuse the government of bombing its own building to create an excuse for passing draconian anti-terrorism legislation.
Ultimately, Partin became a proponent of a whole pantheon of conspiracy theories. He claimed that federal agents used explosives to breach the Davidian compound in Waco — a charge for which there is no evidence.
He produced a hyper-conspiratorial video entitled, "Globalism: The Program." And, never one to pass up a possible plot, he said TWA Flight 800 was hit by a surface-to-air missile. Partin did finally present his Oklahoma bomb theory to a grand jury, which roundly rejected the concept.
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Rep. John Murtha has died at the age of 77. After a career as U.S. Marine and pro-defense Democrat in recent years he became the champion of the netroot Left and its anti-Iraq War crusade. Like all politicians he will be judged on the totality of his career.
He, of course, has been in the center of ethics scandals that have swirled around his cottage industry in pork for his district. His passing, to be blunt, may have one of two results: It may either help clear the decks for Nancy Pelosi to finally "drain the swamp" and root out those members who have misused their positions on key committees, or his passing may lead to a series of embarrassing revelations concerning the way he and colleagues conducted business. Time will tell.


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Updated at: 02/26/2013 7:37 PM
We know a lot of you have either tried to buy something or sell something on one of those on-line auction sites like Craig's list. But if you're in that market -- we have a warning tonight about a common problem where the only person who gets in trouble is you.
Inspectors from the US Postal Service say con artists are constantly going after their next victim on those online auction sites. We want to alert you to one scheme that is easy to spot as long as you don't get mesmerized by the amount of money.
The item in was an elliptical machine. A seller posted a picture of it on Craig's list. The price was $1,500. An offer came for $2,500.
"Basically $1,00 more than the asking price," Tom Ouelette, US Postal Inspector said.
And that's the problem.
The money order was counterfeit. The buyer wanted the seller to wire back the overpayment from her bank account before the bank realized the money order was worthless.
"The entire transaction was bogus," Ouelette said. "The intent was to get the seller to wire transfer the money."
That's what happened to Veronica Weber in Bushnells Basin. She posted spare doors from an old jeep on Craig's list and wanted $250. The next day she got an offer.
"He sent a check through. It came in about $2,000," she said.
Eight times the asking price.
"Then almost immediately you got suspicious?" I asked.
"Yeah," Weber said.
The routing number on the check was wrong and there were more red flags.
"He wanted me to send the difference of the money to him via western union and he needed it sent tomorrow," Weber said.
Weber didn't bite. She knew it was bad from the start.
"It was so extreme for that it just, I wanted no part of it after that," Weber said.
"Consumers need to be aware that whenever you are selling something on an online auction site and you get a payment for more than what you asked for - it's probably a scam," Ouelette said.
Weber didn't cash the check and she eventually sold the doors to someone. It was a cash deal. She did say she kept the bogus check just as a reminder that these kinds of things can happen.
The problem is -- if you cash that bogus check or money order, you're probably on the hook for it. Good luck finding the person who scammed you.
The best advice -- just take the money you asked for.
If you find yourself in this situation, call you bank and then call the US Postal Inspector's office in New York City at (877) 876-2455


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A Playbook for Managing at the Crossroads
Innovation Beyond The Four Walls
Cognizant Named a "Leader" in Business Transformation Consultancies by Independent Research Firm
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Rolling forecasts can help organizations react more effectively to increasing competition and a changing economic environment.
In today's volatile business environment, organizations need to anticipate change and react to it nimbly. In this environment, they can ill afford to rely only on annual budgeting and forecasting. By embracing continuous planning or rolling forecasts, companies can remain agile, focused and flexible enough to meet changing business needs.
A rolling forecast continually predicts performance against key business drivers. This allows an organization to better foresee risks and opportunities, revisit strategy in the light of new business scenarios and frequently align resources/activities for competitive advantage. Rolling forecasts are not simply periodic updates against the annual budget and are not associated with a specific financial year.
Three critical steps in implementing rolling forecasts are:
Driver-based forecasting: Forecasting should focus on specific metrics by identifying business drivers that are relevant for analysis and decision-making. This will eliminate data overload and provide organization-wide alignment and control over forecasting.
Linking the forecast to strategic and operational decisions: Risks and opportunities identified during a rolling forecast should trigger "what-if" analyses and scenario planning. Resources for capital projects and operational expenses can then be reallocated and new performance targets set.
Ensure direct ownership and involvement of budget owners: For a rolling forecast to succeed as a reality check, budget owners should be directly involved and provide unbiased data.
Appropriate change management: Rolling forecasts are radically different from fixed forecasts, where projections are adjusted to fill gaps. Many participants will therefore need to jettison their monthly budgeting and target negotiating mindset. Organizations should create a change management policy that explains the objective of rolling forecasts, as well as the new communication practices, knowledge sharing and training programs they require. They should also identify the key metrics for the success of the change management policy.
Just as important for the success of a change management initiative is the focus on data. Organizations should consider:
Focusing on relevant data and data-related processes: Rolling forecasts should focus on a small set of metrics and drivers that are essential for tracking changes in the environment. This should include external market and demand information, along with internal business details. Since rolling forecasts happen at smaller intervals and are expected to produce current and future state views of business within a shorter period of time, rapid integration and aggregation of data are critical.
Processes around data generation, consistency, maintenance and integration should be well supported by data policies and technologies. Rolling forecast corporate performance management (CPM) applications should be able to create and manage different scenarios to facilitate scenario planning, and integrate with actual information for analyzing trends and extrapolating the future.
A CPM application for generating rolling forecasts should be evaluated for specific business fit and strategic features. These features include the ability to forecast across months and years, driver-based planning and scenario management, integration of sales, revenue and cost rolling forecasts and the ability to integrate projected information and compare it with the user-created forecast.
Technical features should include customizability, scalability and automated data input and different user interface options.
Apply proven statistical techniques and predictive models: Rather than relying only on historical data to understand what has happened, rolling forecasts anticipate the future by visualizing patterns found in historical and transactional data. Predictive models can be created for "scoring" data and simulating scenarios using statistical techniques to identify risks and opportunities and make meaningful decisions.
Using a proven framework can help assure rolling forecasts help organizations react proactively to business changes. One example is our FAST framework whose steps include:
The benefits of such a framework include vertical integration of strategy with the continuous planning/rolling forecast, horizontal integration across different functions in forecasting, greater visibility and monitoring, driver-based functional process outcomes consolidated and integrated at corporate levels, and enhanced "what-if" analysis and simulation.
If implemented properly, rolling forecasts provide forward-looking insights that help organizations proactively change course to avoid risks and exploit opportunities. For more insights, read Replacing the Annual Budget with Rolling Forecasts (PDF) and learn more about Cognizant's Performance Management and Enterprise Analytics solutions.
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Here are two effective ways to remove excess fat from your stews.
Contradictory advice abounds on seasoning cast iron, so we look at what goes on when you season to figure out the best way to do it.
Amco's spoutless fat separator solves the problem traditional spouted fat separators have.


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ICBA Urges Congress to Pass Financial Reform Bill This Week
Bill Should End Too-Big-To-Fail, Provide Strong Regulation for Nonbanks
Washington, D.C. (December 7, 2009)—The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) today sent a letter to Congress urging members to pass a solid financial reform bill by week's end that ends too-big-to-fail and provides strong regulation and supervision of nonbank financial providers.
"The financial meltdown and ensuing recession demand a strong response," said Camden R. Fine, ICBA president and CEO. "Our nation's more than 8,000 community banks, their customers and local communities have all suffered long enough—a strong financial regulatory reform bill is needed to hold too-big-to-fail firms accountable to prevent future abuses and safeguard America's financial future for generations to come."
In the letter, ICBA said that the legislation must address the systemic danger posed by too-big-to-fail financial companies, both banks and nonbanks. It must limit their dangerous activities, give them incentives to downsize and provide a resolution process if they fail. ICBA also called attention to the immediate need for strong regulation and supervision of nonbank financial providers, which played a key role in creating the financial crisis.
While powerful regulations need to be put in place, ICBA also urged Congress not to unduly burden the nation's common-sense community banks, which have always served the best interests of their customers. "The bill must not add to the heavy regulatory burden already faced by community banks. These community banks did nothing that contributed to our financial crisis and remain ready to help finance economic growth in their communities."
To read ICBA's letter, visit www.icba.org. For more information about ending too-big-to-fail, visit www.mycommunitymybank.org.


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I guess I put this off longer than I wanted to, but it's probably time to clear the air regarding me and my journalism career. A number of people have cast aspersions on my integrity lately, implying my opinions are somehow shaped or formed by journalism school, going as far as to suggest that what I write has to do with trying to get a job in media. Those comments are not just wildly off-base, but they're actually personally hurtful.
First of all, I didn't really know I was going into journalism until I was laid off from the construction site at the end of November 2009. I had always been interested in writing and journalism, but I was also a high school dropout and a construction worker, so my options seemed relatively limited. Being laid off gave me an opportunity for the first time to wonder if I still had the opportunity to change my life and do something with my writing.
Before I started journalism school last September, I didn't have any delusions of grandeur. Although the National Post picks my stuff up now and then, it isn't as though I'm going to finish school and go work on their editorial board. Actually, the truth is that in about a month from now I'm probably going to be looking for work at any newspaper that will have me, whether that's in a big city paper or a town of 2,000 people.
A bit about journalism school for a moment. Although there's some political stuff in it, most, if not all, pertains to the manner in which journalists are expected to conduct themselves. And as far as the people in my program go, I'm probably the only one who's interested in politics at all. Sure, some of them probably lean to the left, but then again so do most people in Canada. And if it seems as though most journalists lean to the left, that's probably because writing and media is an occupation that attracts a greater number of people from that demographic. (It's not high finance, after all)
The idea that journalism school is some kind of brain-washing camp or echo chamber for the left, is patently ridiculous. In fact, it's so misguided that I can't really begin to describe it. Would every single person in my program be happy to be offered a job at the CBC? Of course they would. As they would CTV, the Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Sun, the Toronto Star or Canadian Press. They're in school to get a job, not to join a political movement.
So, do people really think I'm going to join the media and conform to some kind of imagined left-leaning editorial directive? To be quite honest, I'm more worried about the getting hired part first. Beyond that, I'm concerned about the perception of a political pundit trying to back his way into journalism after having written politics for four years. It usually happens the other way around for a good reason. For the same reason some people mistrust any CBC reporter who offers an opinion, it's possible that people won't trust a reporter who's done the same thing in the National Post.
But people who think I'm being changed by journalism clearly don't understand me. When I went to Afghanistan, I got to spend time around journalists, some of whom have been doing this for 30 years. It's not as easy as it looks.
You can't just present a story based on what you think is right. You can't just grab the facts you think are relevant or talk to the one person you think should be listened to. You can't dismiss a story because you don't like what a person is saying, even if it's something you disagree with. When I went to report on George Galloway and was barred admission on my media credentials by rabble blogger Derrick O'Keefe because he accused me of being a propagandist, I didn't turn around and submit a story about leftwing censorship. Because that's not the mandate of a journalist, nor is the story about me.
Writing for journalism is hard. If you don't think so, you try it for a day. Try picking a story, finding the most important part about it, interviewing all sides to it, finding the right balance, gathering the background information, ensuring all your facts are correct, and then writing 350 words using the correct newspaper style and spelling. And then try doing that several times a day, and know that you're expected to do that every single day you want to call yourself a journalist. It's hard.
I just finished writing a 2,300-word business article for a trade magazine. It doesn't matter what I think or what I believe. I had to gather facts and information and opinions from the business world, and my credibility and integrity depends on the fairness, accuracy and truth of every single word of that article.
So there's my rant. If you think my opinions are being self-censored or influenced by my getting an education in journalism, you're free to believe that. But don't tell me about it. I'd rather you and I just go our separate ways, because I don't think I can respect a person who can't show me — and my chosen profession — the respect I deserve.


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Thursday, October 11, 9:00 p.m.
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In an effort to manufacture the perception of public support for "regime change" and an international war on Syria, Western officials and Arab dictatorships responsible for fomenting much of the bloodshed are spewing lies about the al-Assad dictatorship almost as quickly as the propaganda can be discredited. And like in Libya, in the crossfire suffering and dying are innocent civilians: children, Christians, minorities, and women.
The latest piece of the pro-war deception to crumble surrounds a massacre of women and children in the town of Houla. Citing dubious "sources" such as anonymous opposition fighters and bogus eyewitnesses, the international media promptly blamed the savage killing spree on supporters of the Syrian regime. Western governments — with zero credible evidence — seized on the questionable claims to expel Syria's diplomats and renew calls for another Libya-style "humanitarian" war.
All along, witnesses and much of the alternative press warned that the claims were blatant lies. Syrian officials, meanwhile, blamed foreign-backed terrorists. "What happened in Houla ... and what we described as ugly and abominable massacres, or true monstrosities — even monsters do not perpetrate what we have seen," Assad said in a speech. "The issue is terrorism. We are facing a real war waged from the outside."
As in the run-up to the war on Libya, the Syrian despot's remarks were quickly dismissed by the establishment press — even though it is a well-known and established fact that Western governments and a motley assortment of Gulf Arab tyrants have been supporting the "opposition" since well before the chaos erupted. And it turned out that Assad, though an extraordinarily ruthless dictator, was actually telling the truth all along.
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Why the war on WikiLeaks is wrong and hypocritical
Quote of the day.
Quote of the day.
by Mehdi Hasan Published
Quote of the day.
The leaders of Myanmar and Belarus, or Thailand and Russia, can now rightly say to us: "You went after WikiLeaks' domain name, their hosting provider, and even denied your citizens the ability to register protest through donations, all without a warrant and all targeting overseas entities, simply because you decided you don't like the site. If that's the way governments get to behave, we can live with that."
* Clay Shirky, internet guru, writing on his blog (but hat-tip: Guardian live blog)


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Rennie Harris Puremovement
Rennie Harris Puremovement has been thrilling audiences since 1992 when Philly's Rennie Harris founded it on the belief that hip-hop was the most important original expression of a new generation. The Joyce engagement takes a look back at some of the important and compelling pieces that display the company's well-earned reputation for capturing the fierce urban spirit of this art form. Program highlights are an excerpt from the multi-award winning Rome and Jewels and P-Funk, which begins happily with four dancers b-boying, locking, and popping, before descending into darkness. Also on tap—the fiercely athletic Students of the Asphalt Jungle and the probing March of the Antmen, with both works telling gripping stories through potent movement.
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I could become a professor
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Classic Brew pours pints of fun for patrons
CORPUS CHRISTI - Coastal Bend residents will get their shot at a beer list long enough to make a sommelier blush at the 17th annual Classic Brew.
The Thursday event, a fundraiser for KEDT public television, will feature more than 150 different beers along with food from at least 15 area restaurants, said Mary Ann Buchanan, the station's membership director.
"It's just a great big fun party," she said of the event, which will be at the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History.
Kyle Hotz, the brewmaster at B&J's pizza, said the event is a great chance for people to sample various brews they might not come across ordinarily.
"There's so much growth happening," Hotz said of the popularity of craft beers. "B&J's has it's own brew club at the southside location."
Buchanan expects 800 to 900 people to attend the event and said local home brewers make it possible.
"I couldn't do this without them," she said. "They bring some of their own product and they volunteer, lots of them. It's so important to have people who know what they're doing."
Buchanan said the event's genesis goes back to a wine class she was taking along with Jack Baker, who owns B&J's Pizza.
"About 18 years ago we said 'wouldn't it be fun to do this with beer,'" she said and what could have turned into famous last words has becoming a tradition riding the wave of a trend.
Even as beer has become more like wine in its variety (St. Paul's puts out seasonal brews) the crowds are still distinct.
"It's very definitely a different group of people," Buchanan said. "There's some crossover but not as much as you think."
Likewise, Hotz doesn't think the craft beer era has anything to do with a desire to emulate wine. He attributes it to dissatisfaction with what the mega breweries are producing.
"I think people want to enjoy something they can trace back to its roots," he said. "Something that's local and fresh and clean and that's made in America."
Of course, the big companies aren't exactly shutting down, and, in fact, the major brewers' local distributors are among the Classic Brew's sponsors.
"It's a good showplace for all our clientele," Buchanan said.
What: Classic Brew
When: 7 p.m. Thursday
Where: Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History, 1900 N. Chaparral St.
Cost: Tickets are $50 each.
Information: Tickets are on sale at the KEDT Studios, 4455 S. Padre Island Drive, Suite 38; both B&J's Pizza locations; online at kedt.org or by calling KEDT at 855-2213.
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Avantco TUC48R 48" Double Solid Door Undercounter Refrigerator
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- Stainless steel interior and exterior
- (2) self-closing swing doors
- (2) shelves included
- Automatic defrosting
- Rear and side breathing
- Temperature range of 32 – 41 degrees Fahrenheit
- ETL Sanitation Listed and NSF Compliant; 120V
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|42 1/2 Inches
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|22 3/4 Inches
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|4.8 Amps
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Keep more of your most-used ingredients on hand and make use of that space under your countertop with this Avantco TUC48R double door undercounter refrigerator! This unit fits under any countertop with adequate ventilation space, and provides 11.9 cubic feet of refrigerated storage in a compact, 48" wide footprint. And since it comes mounted on casters (2 locking), you can easily roll it out for cleaning or routine maintenance.
A corrosion-resistant 304 stainless steel interior also makes it easy to clean and ensures you'll never be set back by spills, while two adjustable plastic coated steel shelves let you adapt to changing menu needs.
The rear and side-breathing refrigeration system is centered around a 1/4 hp compressor and foamed-in place polyurethane insulation to ensure efficient operation, and a top mounted cooling fan ensures even temperatures throughout the interior, even when the door is opened. Please consult the Specification Sheet for additional details.
- 11.9 cubic feet of storage space
- Requires 3" of clearance around sides and back of unit. Cannot be installed into cabinetry
- Rear and side-breathing refrigeration system; 1/4 hp compressor with R-134a refrigerant
- (2) plastic coated shelves included; 90 lb. shelf load capacity
- 304 stainless steel interior; 430 stainless steel exterior
- 32 - 41 degrees Fahrenheit temperature range
- Removable door gaskets for easy cleaning
- Foamed in place polyurethane insulation
- (4) casters, (2) locking
- (2) self-closing doors
- ETL Sanitation Listed and NSF Compliant, comes with a 7' cord and NEMA 5-15P plug
Exterior Dimensions:
Width: 47"
Depth: 30"
Height: 35 1/4"
Interior Dimensions:
Width: 42 1/2"
Depth: 22 3/4"
Height: 23 1/2"
Capacity: 11.9 cubic feet
This refrigerator is rear and side breathing, and for proper ventilation it requires 3" of clearance behind it and on the sides. It should not be built into cabinetry.
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Overall User Rating: Avantco TUC48R 48" Double Solid Door Undercounter Refrigerator ( 4.4 stars from 10 reviews )
This works ok so far. Just an fyi there thing is actually 35 and a half inches. Was just a bit too high for me so I have to take off the wheels.
Elise M. from backwater Posted on 07/16/2015
Like standard undercounter refridgerator. Nice quality build. Handle built as one piece of stainless steel. Easy to clean. Temperature display is outside easy for inspection. Keep my stuff cool without any problem. Good price well built quality. Recommend.
Chinapat C. from RAWR Sushi, LLC Posted on 11/04/2014
it is a good fridge. my favorite part are the handles to open the doors. no way one could get stuck on them. sadly i have a problem with the temperature. on some occasions i caught the reading a 49F. so i had a repair man come by to check on it. supposedly it is fixed and jet the temp reaches 49F or even 50F. not sure what to do about that. maybe just keep our beverages cool with it.
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I have had this fridge for over 6 months now and still love it! We have had no problems at all. It is easy to keep clean. And it was a great price
Steven G. from cuppa sunshine Posted on 02/10/2014
we operate a coffee / bagel storeand needed a under counter refer for our expresso area this was a perfect fit for our application love it
Eugene M. from the bean bar Posted on 01/05/2014
We purchased it in July, 2012, have had some issues that the on/off switch is on the front of the unit and staff kept bumping it, but found a way around that by putting a box over the switch. Unfortunately - one year and one month after purchase, of course - we came in one day to find the temperature at 66 degrees. Called the local repair guy who came and refilled the freon - and now we are out his bill, plus had to throw out dairy products and had lost sales today. Quite disappointing.
Kristi S. from Rainbow Confections Posted on 08/30/2013
Thanks for your review! The new Avantco TUC48R Double Door Undercounter Refrigerator has the controller on the back, preventing the problem of it being bumped. We have contacted the manufacturer to let them know about the Freon issue. A Customer Solutions Representative will be in contact with you to see how they may help.
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Got the cooler last month and been going great so far, used the white glove delivery and the brought it and placed it for me, good value product
Jerry D. from the rendezvu Posted on 08/02/2013
Excellant cooler. No problems at all. Plugged it in and has been running good. Love the digital readout of the internal temperature. that is great. Very roomy inside. A plus for our business.
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It will be an all-Juneau final in the Region V 4A basketball tournament Friday night.
The Thunder Mountain Lady Falcons defeated Ketchikan 64-55 in third-round action Thursday morning at Sitka's Mt. Edgecumbe High School.
Sophomore Ashley Young and senior Jonelle Staveland both put up double-digits for the Lady Falcons, with 19 and 18 points respectively. But Ketchikan junior Jayley Taylor — despite her team's losing effort — now holds the single-game tournament record of 34 points, with 12 coming in the fourth period, including a pair of three-pointers.
The second loss takes Kayhi out of the tournament. Thunder Mountain advances to the final against the Juneau-Douglas Lady Crimson Bears. If Thunder Mountain defeats the as-yet undefeated Lady Crimson Bears, it will force a playoff game between the same two teams on Saturday afternoon. The winner of that game will represent Region V in the state 4A tournament in Anchorage.
It's the same matchup on the boys side, except it is Juneau-Douglas which is coming into Friday's final through the losers' bracket.
The Crimson Bears defeated Kayhi Thursday morning, 60-58, in the closest contest yet in the boys' tournament.
Juneau senior Keith Ainsworth led all scorers with 18 points, including a pair of three pointers. Fellow senior Phillip Fenumiai put up 13 points.
Ketchikan once again had a balanced scoring attack, with three players in double-digits. Seniors Kable Lervick and Brien Auger scored 12 and 10 respectively. Junior Isaiah Navales also had 10.
The second loss knocks Kayhi out of the tournament. Juneau will meet Thunder Mountain in the 4A final Friday afternoon. As with the girls, a win by Juneau will force a Saturday playoff for the regional title.


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Power failures happen frequently with computers; however, if you know how to test your power supply, it doesn't have to be a stressful situation. In this about.com video, learn how to test a computer power supply.See Transcript
Transcript:How to Test a Power Supply
Hi I'm Evan Stein from CMIT Solutions, and I'm here for About.com to show you how to test the power supply.
If you press the power button on your computer and nothing happens, the first thing you should do is not panic. Most likely your date is fine, and the power supply on your computer has failed or is having problems.
Use Multi-Meter and Piece of Wire to Test Power Supply
To test your power supply, you're going to need a multi meter and a small piece of wire. The first thing you want to do is make sure you've unplugged your computer.
Disconnect Components
Open the case and remove all of the components, the hard drive and the DVD drive. This is the power supply. Once you've disconnected all of the components, all of the wires from the power supply should be free with the exception of this: the 24-pin motherboard connector.
Disconnect the connector from the motherboard, and you're going to need the small wire to jump pins 15 and 16. Now the way to identify pins 15 and 16 are to look for a green wire and a black wire next to each other.
Jump Pins, and Plug Computer Back In
It's 12 pins on a side. So, counting from here, which would be pin 13, the oranges are 13, the blue is 14, that black is pin 15, and that green is pin 16. I want to take that small wire and jump pins 15 and 16 like this. Once you've got those pins jumped, plug the computer back in, we're now ready to test the voltage.
ATX 24-pin 12-Volt Power Connector
You're going to want to find a pin out for the ATX 24-pin 12-volt power connector. And you can find that on About.com. That's this. That pin out will tell you which of these ports are ground, and which of these ports are carrying voltage. The two oranges are pins 1 and 2. The third pin I know is ground. I'm going to take my black from the multi-meter, ground that on pin 3, and I'm going to test the voltage of pin 1, which is coming in at 3.4, right in the acceptable range. Testing pin2, and the multimeter shows again, 3.4. Pin 4 is a 5-volt pin, and the multi meter shows 5.12 volts, which is also in the acceptable range.
Finish testing your power supply by going pin to pin with the red connector and comparing the voltage to the outputs that are listed on that pin out for the 24 pin, 12 volt power connector. And that's how you test a power supply.
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Use these resources for information and helpful tips on how to find the pain care that's right for you.
Here you will find a list of key questions to ask your doctor about your illness or pain during your first visit, and help you determine if he or she is able to communicate with you in the manner you expect.
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You will find links to more than 35 important health associations and organizations that can provide additional information on pain as it relates to specific conditions and disease states, as well as links to sites and organizations devoted to substance abuse.
American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine: www.aahpm.org
American Academy of Pain Management: www.aapainmanage.org
American Academy of Pain Medicine: www.painmed.org
American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: www.aapmr.org
American Academy of Physician Assistants: www.aapa.org
American Board of Pain Medicine: www.abpm.org
American Chronic Pain Association: www.theacpa.org
American Headache Society: www.americanheadachesociety.org
American Medical Association: www.ama-assn.org
American Nurses Association: www.ana.org
American Pain Society: www.ampainsoc.org
APhA/Pain Management Partnership: www.pharmacist.com
Pain Management Partnership: www.pharmacist.com
American Society for Addiction Medicine: www.asam.org
American Society for Pain Management Nursing: www.aspmn.org
American Society of Anesthesiologists: www.asahq.org
American Society of Pain Educators: www.paineducators.org
American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses: www.aspan.org
American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine: www.asra.com
Association of American Medical Colleges/MedEdPORTAL: www.aamc.org
CDC, National Center for Health Statistics: www.cdc.gov/nchs
Center to Advance Palliative Care: www.capc.org
Dannemiller Memorial Education Foundation: www.dannemiller.com
Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care/Beth Israel Medical Center: www.stoppain.org
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association: www.hpna.org
Institute for Healthcare Improvement: www.ihi.org
Institute for Safe Medication Practices: www.ismp.org
International Association for Hospice & Palliative Care: www.hospicecare.com
International Association for the Study of Pain: www.iasp-pain.org
The Joint Commission: www.jointcommission.org
National Association for Healthcare Quality: www.nahq.org
National Association of State Controlled Substance Authorities: www.nascsa.org
National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention: www.nccmerp.org
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization: www.nhpco.org
Pain and Palliative Care Resource Center/City of Hope: prc.coh.org
Pain and Policy Studies Group/Wisconsin University: www.painpolicy.wisc.edu
Pain.com: www.pain.com
Pain Treatment Topics: www.pain-topics.org
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care: www.promotingexcellence.org
Shaare Zedek Cancer Pain and Palliative Care Reference Database: www.chernydatabase.org
Society for Pain Practice Management: www.sppm.org
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: www.samhsa.gov
United States Pharmacopeia: www.usp.org
Wisconsin Pain Initiative: www.aspi.wisc.edu/wpi
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Sun opposite Neptune creates a dynamic and creative push-pull which drives them to achieve imaginative excellence. They have an ethereal, other worldly aura which attracts people to project their dreams onto them. They wear it well and make good clothes-horses for partners to wrap their fantasies around. They are prime candidates for projection. They seem to attract wounded and troubled partners who seek in them salvation. They may have supremely idealistic expectations in their love life, constantly searching for that perfect Soulmate to make them feel whole.
Sun Opposite Neptune Celebrities
Elizabeth Taylor (41′) was the perfect Neptune beauty with her spellbinding and unique violet eyes. She has fallen hopelessly in love with 8 husbands, all dramatic and romantic in some fashion. 2 abusive alcoholics, one dying in a plane crash. Her most famous of course, her star crossed marriage with fellow screen idol Richard Burton. She has had more than her fair of medical problems, but continues to radiate star quality. Alison Goldfrapp (87′), multi-media Pop star and walking work of art. Alison draws inspiration from surrealism and nature. She said that "music is a visual experience" and she visualizes her lyrics before writing them. She uses animals to convey human emotions in her lyrics and they feature heavily in her videos. She is famed for her unique fashion sense, inspired by paganism, and quite shamanic, she has been known to wear a horses tail on stage.
Tiny Sheena Easton (59′) made her big dreams come true winning a BBC "Making of a Pop star" contest which catapulted her to instant Hollywood stardom. Singing a bond theme and dueting with Prince a far cry from her working class Scots roots. She has married 4 times and says she is "always in love" with her relationships. Carol Channing (97′) strange elastic-faced Actress with a kooky image, had 3 marriages including one celibate through impotence. Poppy King (68′) built a multi-million pound cosmetics company by the age of 21. The "Lipstick Queen" owned one of the biggest cosmetic companies in Australia, but it has since gone into liquidation.


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Party Pants.
My mailman hates me, for sure, because I've ordered about a dozen dresses that have all been tried on and returned — my hunt has been a disappointment. I've been thinking perhaps I just need to scratch my idea of the perfect holiday dress altogether and try something new this year.Enter some pretty festive pants I've been eyeing — maybe a sharp pair of cropped party pants is just what I need to get me through the holiday season? Would you wear patterned pants in lieu of a holiday dress?
Confetti New Year's Eve Invites.
I wasn't just getting in the Christmas spirit this weekend, but also tackling some planning for our annual New Year's Eve party. I love sending out paper invites, because let's be honest — who doesn't love receiving them in the mail? I made a simple invitation on bright pink paper, and tucked them inside glassine envelopes filled with matching homemade confetti — perfect to set a festive tone for the fete!
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May 8, 2015
Why the Toleration of Brilliant Eccentricity Should Be a Metric for Military Vitality
It is cliché that the military is a place for unimaginative people who like to follow orders, as well as morally challenged ambitious careerists who view "service" in the military as a ladder to status, fame, and wealth.
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May 7, 2015
We Need Your Help to Open the Defense Budget
We only have a few days left to persuade the Senate Armed Services Committee to support public hearings on the more than $600 billion Pentagon budget.
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May 6, 2015
Senate Committee—Breaking Rules and Not Giving Names
Not only does the Senate Armed Services Committee want to debate their behemoth authorization bill in secret, they want to do so by disregarding their own committee rules.
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May 4, 2015
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Historical Lessons for Air Force's New Bomber
Recent Air Force acquisition failures should guide acquisition and oversight of the Long Range Strike Bomber.
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May 1, 2015
A-10 Victory in the House
Congress stood up for ground troops and approved an amendment to save the A-10.
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Autumn all-stars in abundance
Cape Elizabeth, Scarborough and South Portland all enjoyed memorable moments during the fall sports season. Each school also had their share of standouts named to all-star teams. Here's a look at who was honored in football, soccer, field hockey, cross country and golf:
On the heels of its run to the state final, it's no surprise that Cape Elizabeth had players named to the Campbell Conference all-star team.
In Class B, seniors Tommy Foden (running back), Luke Morin (lineman), Finn Melanson (wide receiver), Brian Stephenson (lineman) and Ezra Wolfinger (quarterback), along with sophomore lineman Andrew Lavallee, were honored.
The Southern Maine Activities Association football all-star team has yet to be released.
Boys' soccer
Forecaster Country grows superb soccer players like wildfire and 2009 was no different.
In the SMAA, two-time state champion Scarborough placed senior forward Trevor Hoxsie, senior midfielder Nate Tolman, senior back Andrew Nigro and senior goalkeeper Tennessee Peters on the first team.
The second team included Scarborough sophomore forward Andrew Jones, junior midfielder Kevin Philbrick and junior back Peter Rizzi.
Four South Portland players: senior forward Brian Arsenault, senior midfielder Adam Burpee, sophomore midfielder Nemanja Kaurin and senior back Thanh Nguyen were honorable mention selections.
Scarborough's Nigro and South Portland's Arsenault, Nickolas Brown, Burpee, Chad Macleod, Nguyen and Jeffrey O'Connor qualified for the All-Academic team.
Hoxsie and Portland's Fazal Nabi shared the Offensive Player of the Year award.
In the Western Maine Conference, The Class A/B first team included Cape Elizabeth seniors Brock Barritt and Ben Brewster. Capers senior Harper Nelson made the second team.
Several players made the all-regional team as well. In Western A, Cape Elizabeth's Barritt and Brewster and Scarborough's Hoxsie, Nigro, Peters and Tolman were honored.
Hoxsie scored two goals and Brewster added one in the West's 5-4 win over the East in the Maine Soccer Coaches Senior Bowl.
Girls' soccer
Plenty of girls' soccer players were honored as well.
In the SMAA, Scarborough senior forward Jenn Colpitts, senior midfielder Crysti Tsujiura and junior back Tori Armishaw, along with South Portland senior Karleigh Bradbury, made the first team.
Scarborough junior midfielder Cortney Hughes was a second team selection.
Scarborough sophomore forward Haley Carignan and junior back Nicolette Caron were honorable mentions.
Scarborough's Shelby Carignan and Tsujiura and South Portland's Bradbury, Kate Lagios and Erin Speeches qualified for the All-Academic team.
The WMC A/B first team included Cape Elizabeth senior Meredith Riker and juniors Karyn Barrett and Anna Darling.
Cape Elizabeth's Kristin Kerney, Katherine Lavallee, Elizabeth Marcuse and Colleen Thibeault qualified for the All-Academic team.
Scarborough's Armishaw, Colpitts, Hughes and Tsujiura and South Portland's Bradbury were named to the Western A regional all-star team.
Field hockey
Scarborough's field hockey team won its first Class A title this fall. The Red Storm certainly got the attention of other coaches in the SMAA as four players made the all-star team.
Seniors Ellie Morin and Brittany Ross made the first team. Senior Heather Carrier was a second-team selection. Senior Ashley Anastasoff was an honorable mention.
South Portland's Rebecca Roberts made the first team. Michelle Callow was an honorable mention.
In the WMC, Cape Elizabeth's Kelsey Maguire made the District 1 first team. Julia Springer was a second team selection.
Scarborough's Carrier, Morin and Ross were also named to the all-state team.
Ross is one of four finalists for the Miss Maine Field Hockey award.
Cross country
On the trails, the WMC girls' first team included Class B state champion Cape Elizabeth's Emily Attwood, Rachel Nichols, Kelsey Barton and Hannah Doss. Catherine Tierney, Emma Inhorn and Ellen Best made the second team.
Attwood, Doss, Emily Leighton and Colleen Whitcomb qualified as Senior Scholar-Athletes.
On the boys' side, Cape Elizabeth's Reid Douty and Thomas Bottomley made the first team. Peter Brigham and Leo Ledman qualified for the second team.
Peter Brigham and Graham Finley made the cut as Senior Scholar-Athletes.
In the SMAA, Scarborough's Nate Hathaway and Nick Morris and South Portland's Jon Clement made the first team.
Hathaway was named the SMAA Runner of the Year.
Scarborough's Sean Griffin and South Portland's Will Carter, Clement, Samuel Knutsen, Brian McHugh and Matthew Morey qualified for the All-Academic team.
On the girls' side, Scarborough's Melissa DellaTorre was a second teamer. South Portland's Annelise Donahue earned honorable mention.
Scarborough's DellaTorre and Jennifer Snyder qualified for the All-Academic team.
It was a memorable season on the links as well.
South Portland's Aidan Boyce made the SMAA north division first team. Scarborough's Andrew Myers was on the second team.
In the WMC, Cape Elizabeth's Will Pierce and Wilson Laprade qualified for the boys' team.
Congratulations to all of our local all-stars!
Sports Editor Michael Hoffer can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Who can number the redemptive benefits of Calvary? The removal of our sin and the gift of Christ's righteousness would be more than sufficient to fill eternity with the praise of redeemed sinners. God's gifts and mercies are so diverse and manifold that eternity, and certainly a few blog posts, are insufficient to tell them all. As we wrap up a week of considering some of the benefits of the cross, let's finish with three mentioned in the Psalms.
"The LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly."—Psalm 84:11Psalm 84:11
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11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
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"Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory."—Psalm 73:24Psalm 73:24
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24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
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Calvary has purchased for the believer a life supported and strengthened by God's grace. Again and again in Holy Scripture, and certainly in our own lives, we come across the truth that unless God builds and keeps the house of our physical and spiritual prosperity all will come to ruin (Psalm 127:1Psalm 127:1
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127 A Song of degrees for Solomon. for...: or, of Solomon 1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. that...: Heb. that are builders of it in it
WP-Bible plugin). God's grace preserved us in our mother's womb, spared our lives when we were yet without Christ, gave us the salvation and righteousness of Jesus, and is the foundation for every good thing we enjoy. His merciful grace is new every morning in the preservation of our spiritual and physical frame. How endless are the supplies He gives to His needy children!
Calvary has purchased for the believer a life directed by the counsel of God. Our salvation, accomplished on Calvary and applied in our regeneration, has drastically changed our source of wisdom. As believers, we now pant for the instruction and guiding of our faithful Heavenly Father. In His Word, He pours forth the counsel of a loving and reconciled God. The riches of that Book are so many there is no accumulation of life experiences that can exhaust its depth and resourcefulness. This wonderful resource has been there all along, but in our conversion we now gain eyes to see it and a heart to receive it. God's Word has governed great men and small men, nations and individuals. Our Christian heritage is one huge vindication of the rich counsels of God's Word.
Calvary has purchased for the believer a life that culminates in glory. Christ's love is no fake. Like the true and sincere groom, He will have His bride to be with Him. He will have His people to be free from what oppresses them most. So loving and true is the care of Jesus, that He will remove our greatest burden, sin, and give us our greatest desire—the unending enjoyment of Him to all eternity. Man's love changes, and has often proved treacherous, but the love of Christ accomplishes every bit what it intends! Praise God! Calvary's benefits will ultimately result in an eternal arena of praise where, without sin, we can explore these benefits in their fullness forever.


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"Is it a full moon out?" your charge nurse asks as she takes the 5th EMS patch in the last hour. "We have two more traumas en route, and there are 4 patients that need to be seen at the door by our triage doc. Our beds are full and the hallways are getting awfully crowded…" You are all too familiar with the expectant look she just used to punctuate her statement, and you know that it is imperative for you and your team to start opening beds immediately. "All hail the full moon!" you chant as you walk briskly over to your ED team that night.
As you rally your department to start trouble-shooting patient dispositions, your senior resident approaches you with three cases he states are "ready to go". The first two are a husband and wife who were in a low speed motor vehicle collision the day before. They came into today to get "checked out" and they both checked out just fine. The x-rays ordered through triage were completely normal, and the happy couple looks eager to be discharged. You help answer some of their lingering questions while your resident finishes up the discharge paperwork for the third patient he has for you.
After passing along a few teaching pearls, you tell your resident you are ready to hear about his next patient. His 3rd case is a 21 year-old female who came into the ED today for vaginal spotting, nausea, and mild abdominal cramping. She had normal vital signs and a benign physical exam. The labs he sent were normal except for a serum hCG of 91,000 mIU/mL. Her blood type is O+ and her wet prep looked normal. He got her abdominal cramping under control with PO Tylenol and she was able to drink plenty of fluid for her bedside ultrasound in the ED.
"I found her IUP without any problems and she's about 9 3/7 weeks along." he states as he pulls up her ultrasound images and videos for you to review. "The fetal heart rate measured at 167 bpm and her adnexae look great. She has no free fluid and the ultrasound went really smoothly." He has her scheduled for an appointment with your OB clinic later this week and her discharge paperwork is burning a hole in his hand.
You review his bedside ultrasound images and video clips and pause to ponder over a couple of his images.
What do you see in figures 1 and 2? Do you need to have a different discussion with your patient?
Dx: Forgotten IUD
As you review the resident's images and videos, you note that there is a hyperechoic object adjacent to the gestational sac. At first, you thought it might just be some artifact but there is definitely an acoustic shadow farfield (posterior) to the hyperechoic object (Figure 3). You ask your resident whether or not he noticed the subtle finding during his scan and what he thinks it could possibly be. During your discussion, you see the light bulb turn on inside your resident's head and you go with him back to the room to reassess the patient. You watch with pride as your resident sits down on the stool next to the bed and gently asks the patient if she has ever had an IUD before. It's clear to everyone in the room that the patient had forgotten about that "minor detail" until that moment when she was prompted. On further review, the patient remembers having an IUD placed for her 16th birthday, but just thought that "they dissolve away after some time." Your resident grabs the ultrasound machine and performs a transabdominal scan so he can show the patient what we are concerned about on her scan. He fans through the uterus and shows her the live IUP again. He then sweeps through the entire uterus and finds a clear transverse view of the IUD imbedded adjacent to the gestational sac (Figure 4).
The OB team comes down to see the patient and explains the risks and benefits of leaving the IUD in place. They have arranged for close outpatient follow up and recommend a comprehensive ultrasound through radiology as an outpatient to follow the pregnancy and IUD. You debrief your resident and give him some pearls to use and pitfalls to avoid during his next patient encounter. "I guess I just stopped scanning once I found what I was looking for…" he contemplates out loud. You put a reassuring hand on his back, give him a comforting smile, and remind him that mistakes are the portals of discovery. Now go out there and enjoy all the mayhem we will be blessed with during this full moon. Just don't let me see another anchor in our department tonight!
Pearls & Pitfalls for Pelvic Ultrasound
Brady Pregerson manages a free on-line EM Ultrasound Image Library and is the author of the Tarascon Emergency Department Quick Reference Guide. For more information visit www.EMresource.org.
Teresa S. Wu is the Associate Residency Director, and Director of Ultrasound and Simulation Based Training for the Maricopa Emergency Medicine Program in Phoenix, Arizona.


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Our cup runneth over with Kings of Leon VH1 Storytellers clips! The band apparently played such a long set in their home city of Franklin, TN that this rocking performance of "Crawl," the fifth single from their monster 2008 album Only by the Night, unfortunately won't be a part of the episode when it premieres Friday, May 13 at 11 p.m. ET/PT. But we're such fans of that album, and this barnburner of a song in particular, that we couldn't let the footage just sit around gathering dust!
Sadly, we're disqualified from entering the Road to Slane Castle contest, but for all you fans who don't work here, go enter! You could win a trip to Ireland to meet the band and see them play at Slane Castle, or a signed instrument from one of the band members plus free admission to Kings of Leon shows this year.
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Sung to the tune of the American folk Ballad The Yellow Rose of Texas
That has come to visit me
She leaves behind her Viking
To come and bake (you'll see).
She's the sweetest rose of Europe
Slogging through the snow,
She hikes and bikes and shoots 'em
Like the meanest dude I know.
Yet, delicate and girlie
And sweet as apple pie
Blond and very British
She's sure to catch your eye.
There's an English Rose of Sweden
We all love her to bits,
Our golden-eyed lassie,
Her friendship never quits (nor does her enormous personality!).
Our dear Swedish Clare, that lovely lassie, our blond-haired, hazel-eyed English Rose, is sweet and young, funny and caring. Yet behind that delicate English Rose exterior hides one tough cookie. Having packed up and moved north to a frigid, icy land, she has gotten used to the rough terrain, the meters of snow, the 6 months of dark and the 6 months of light. A bottle of wine tucked under one arm and her rifle thrown over the other shoulder, she pushes her way out of her cottage and out into the wild wind of Sweden. All booted up, strapped into her skis and head tucked down, she trudges her way through the white, white landscape to meet friends for a chatter and a giggle or a client. Battling Mother Nature, she soldiers on, translating from those strange, quirky Scandinavian languages into English, coming home each evening to a young son and a hunky Viking Superman (who has spent his day de-mining fields, fighting forest fires and rescuing cats from trees and who, in his spare time, runs across entire countries for pleasure).
Clare and I met through the magic that is internet, first bumping into each other early every morning on the Mudflats blog while most Americans were snuggled safely in their beds, waving to each other over the waves, sending virtual messages back and forth as our simple political comments and contact grew into friendship. We shared early morning cups of coffee over the internet, half of Europe between us, finally migrating over to e-mail and then Facebook so we could share photos and chat away to our hearts content, no longer limited to political commentary.
And now Clare has trained down through the wilds of Europe to visit me in our new apartment, relaxing in the comfort of our down-home lifestyle, cooking, baking, eating, drinking coffee and talking, with the occasional trip to the market or time spent on internet checking up on our friends or watching Absolutely Fabulous.
Together we form a strangely odd couple, one so blond, the other so dark, yet so similar. We feel like Patsy and Edina without the cigarettes, laughing at the same jokes, finishing each other's sentences as if we had grown up together, giggling over jokes that no one else gets (particularly not the men in the house). Yet, would Edina and Patsy bake? Methinks not, yet bake we did. Yet if these Absolutely Fabulous women had decided to bake bread, this recipe would be the one. Toss everything in one bowl, stir it all up into a mass of goop, plop it all out into a pan and bake. And no matter how many "smidges of Bolly" you've drunk, this is truly a no-fail bread (just ask the Swedish side of Clare! You know those long dark nights of winter in Sweden…). The results are Absolutely Fabulous!
Clare and I are sending this beautiful bread recipe over to Susan at Wild Yeast for her weekly Yeastspotting event.
1 lb (500 g) white flour *
1 yellow onion
1 packet (7 g) active dry yeast
2 tsps sugar
1 tsp salt
2 Tbs vegetable oil
14.5 American fluid ounces/15 UK fluid ounces (420 ml) lukewarm water
Poppy seeds or caraway seeds to top
* As long as you have the same dry weight to wet volume, you can put almost any type flour you like. Clare often makes this bread using half white flour, half whole wheat.
Dice the onion.
In a large mixing bowl, blend the flour, yeast, sugar and salt together with the diced onion. Pour on the warm water and the vegetable oil.
Using a silicone/plastic spatula (or wooden spoon), mix it all together until you have a well-combined, homogeneous gloop.
Scrape out into an approximately 8-inch (21 cm) round springform pan or another pan with similar volume.
Set aside to rise for an hour to an hour and a half (depending on where you live and the quality of the ingredients) until doubled in bulk.
Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
Sprinkle the top with either the poppy or caraway seeds, whichever you like best!
Pop into the preheated oven and bake for 30 minutes at 400°F (200°C), then lower the oven temperature to 350°F (180°C) and bake for another 30 minutes.
Remove from the oven. The bread should have risen and the crust will be thick, golden and crusty. Clare removes the bread from the pan immediately and allows the bread to cool completely on a wire cooling rack.
Cut, serve and eat. And enjoy!
The results were astonishing. Bite through the crispy, poppy seed-speckled crust into the dense yet light crumb, and you will certainly be surprised by the sweetness of the bread. The onion bits have all melted and given the bread a wonderful hint of sweetness. Perfect for sandwiches, with slices of cheese or even for breakfast