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Built to handle some of nature's nastiest conditions, the Marmot Randonee Glove features a Gore-Tex XCR insert and waterproof breathable Marmot MemBrain shell fabric. Doubling down on tech like that is even better than a double-dip at your favorite ice cream parlor.
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Super Warm
- Familiarity:I've put it through the wringer
- Fit:True to size
- Height: 5'11"Weight: 176 lbsSize Purchased: Medium
I used these extensively during Spring snowboarding in Australia. Temperatures were mild around 25F to 35F with a fair degree of wind chill on the summit runs. Snow conditions ranged from icy to good to slushy throughout the day so these gloves got a real workout.
Super warm even when they started to get a little wet from the slush. Great features with the wrist strap, gauntlet draw-cord and safety leash all well thought out. The snot zone a good inclusion. I found them fairly dexterous and no problem dealing with snowboard bindings.
Great glove which seems to be tough and would definitely recommend.
Liner comes out of 5th digit sometimes
- Familiarity:I've used it several times
- Fit:True to size
- Height: 5'10"Weight: 150 lbs
These were warm enough as a medium weight glove on a Rainier climb this summer. They stayed dry as advertised. However, not particularly dextrous. Sometimes, rather randomly, the insulation liner, which isn't meant to come out, would back out of position on my 5th digit and it would take several minutes of working it back in place to get them back on. Adequate but looking further for the ideal working glove on the mountain.
Excellent so far
- Familiarity:I've used it several times
- Fit:True to size
- Height: 6'1"Weight: 186 lbsSize Purchased: Large
Took these gloves to Jackson Hole within days of receiving them, and they held up very nicely in both warm spring skiing conditions and cooler, windy, white-out conditions at the gondola summit. I'm 6' 1 and the large was a great fit for my hands. Great value, well-insulated, and looking forward to taking them out next season!
- Familiarity:I've put it through the wringer
- Fit:True to size
Just invincible. Have a few gaps in the leather from 3+ season of use and still have never gotten wet, not in freezing NE sleet or 18" dumps in Utah. I have small hands and the S fits well, could be a bit shorter in the pinky but whatever. Dextrous enough for anything you can reasonably expect to do with ski gloves on, and slide back on without slop for everything else. Plenty warm, it has to be brutal subzero before I feel like I need handwarmers, and with those in they handle anything short of expedition temps; if you complain that "my fingertips got cold on the lift" wearing gloves, go back to your little kid mitts.
Skied the liftline twice (went right past it the first time) when I dropped one. Once I finally bust these, if ever, I'm sticking with Marmot.
These gloves are awesome
- Familiarity:I've used it several times
- Fit:True to size
I bought these for my husband and he loved, they are very warm. I didn't know that he had one before that lasted quite a long time. The customer service people are also great and very helpful.
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Looking nice
Holding up well to hauling and marking
Great glove
It has held up great after 2 seasons of ski patrol. I wear these when the weather is wet and cold. Which seems like most of the time.


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I see a light on the horizon, traveling swiftly toward man. The truth resides within that light, a truth for all the ages. Darkness will be only a dim memory once the light reaches us. For some, this light, already exists in their life. For others, it will be an awakening so profound they will be truly transformed. It will be amazing.
What life is now is nothing compared to what it will be. Thunder and lightening spans for miles across the sky. Clouds roll in and they hide such a glorious sight that if we see it all at once, it will freeze time. Everything will stand still, just to be a part of this one experience. This one miracle.
He is coming, along with the Angels and His life. His breathe is fire and water together. Cleansing and purifying us is what He does. He is our Savior, our Prince Charming, and He revives every lost dream that has been wiped away into the unending abyss of forgotten memories. He is Devine. We are One, those who are His.
So, when you look up into the early morning sky each new day, remember that He is not a lifetime away. He resides in Heaven among Angels, but if you ask, He will take up residence in you too. Make room for Jesus. It doesn't matter how much space you give Him to start with. He knows exactly what He is doing, even when we don't. Let the miracle of life unfold within your body. All your regrets will be washed away with the precious blood of the One who knows you more than you can imagine. Let Him feed your spirit, mind, and body with eternal life. Give Him a chance to give you the existence that never dies.

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I got home today from a month-long trip to China that I organized <https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/NoisebridgeChinaTrip2>. 10 of us traveled around, visiting all of the hackerspaces currently in China, exhibiting at the Shenzhen Mini Maker Faire and giving talks and workshops and exhibiting at the big Maker Carnival China 2012 in Beijing. We also visited my manufacturer in Shanghai, where my TV-B-Gone remote controls are made.
Lots of photos:
This was my 10th trip to China. I was there with my mom in 1998, and then every year since I started making TV-B-Gone remotes there in 2004. It has been very interesting to get a snapshot impression of how China has changed through the years.
Though not very accurate, it is possible to have a sense of some very real change happening in China.
In 1998, there was capitalism visible in China, including KFCs everywhere, but it still felt like a 3rd-world version. Also, the Cultural Revolution was not all that long gone in '98, and my sense was that people were still realing from it. Police were all over, and they had guns. And people seemed to be a bit wary of them.
On my trip in 2008, just before the Olympics, there must have been some heavy propaganda happening on Chinese media, 'cause lots and lots and lots of people I met all asked me what I thought about protestors in London and San Francisco. And before I could answer, they all said the same thing: "CNN is all lies." I'd probably mostly agree, but probably for different reasons. There were also many inconvenient, seemingly random, restrictions imposed by the Chinese government (such as not allowing anything to be shipped with a battery installed). When asked why, most Chinese people I asked, answered with a straight face that it must be done because otherwise the Dali Lama would blow things up at airports.
By the time of the first Hacker Trip To China that I organized in 2009, things were very different. A gigantic, ugly statue of Mao was surrounded by a perimeter of stores selling everything imaginable. A huge department store had a mongo pile of a newly released American board game that they were pushing hard: Monopoly! There were still no hackerspaces in China, though. I still had the sense that officials were very official, and you didn't want to cross them.
When I went there on my own last year, things were somehow way more open than it felt before. People I met were openly criticizing the government. There were two hackerspaces, XinCheJian in Shanghai, and FlamingoEDA in Beijing. Lots and lots of people, including those with positions in Chinese bureaucracy, were expressing the opinion that Chinese culture needs to change to encourage people to be creative and innovative — without this, they said, China would not have an economic future.
When I mentioned hackerspaces, people agreed with me that this was one means of implementing this change; and there was a lot of interest in me sharing my experiences in how to start a hackerspace. And there was also a lot of interest by people in organizing a Maker Faire for the same reason.
One year later, this year, there were not one, but two faires in China: a Mini Maker Faire in Shenzhen, and a big Maker Carnival in Beijing. And there are 7 hackerspaces in China, with talk of lots more. There may very well be 100 more soon, as the top 100 universities may be mandating that they each have one. And an elementary school in Shanghai is slated to have one soon. The hackerspaces in schools and universities are being called "Toyhouse" .
Everywhere I went, the Chinese media was interviewing me about how hackerspaces can change China in positive ways.
The Chinese government still openly censors the internet (though there are free online services that easily circumvent this). And the bureaucracy is still huge and centralized (though so big and out of control that many actually call it "anarchy"), and people in power can, seemingly on a whim, make decisions that adversly affect projects (such as the last-minute venue change for the Shenzhen Mini Maker Faire and the last minute date change at Maker Carnival — both because some bureaucrat said he needed the venue for a meeting — no apology — it's just the way things are.
How will the changes in China play out? I don't know. We will get to see.
Categories: Hackerspaces
After my Midwest Workshop Tour of Hackerspaces <http://blog.noisebridge.net/2010/08/04/mitchs-midwest-workshop-tour-of-hackerspaces/> I had 8 days at home to prepare for me next Workshop Tour, this time visiting Eastern Europe and Belgium, where there are lots of new hackerspaces!
My trip to Europe was paid for by BruCON <http://2010.brucon.org/index.php/Main_Page>, and annual hacker conference in Brussels, Belgium, which is branching out this year from security to other diverse hacking activities. I'll be giving a talk there on how to bring your project from idea to reality, and how to make a living on your project. I'll also be setting up a Hardware Hacking Area, teaching people to solder and to make cool things with micrcocontrollers.
While in Belgium, I'll also be visiting three hackerspaces in the area, giving workshops and talks.
VoidWarranties <http://we.voidwarranties.be> — Antwerp, Belgium
HSB <http://hackerspace.be/Mitch_Altman_Electronics_Workshop> — Brussels, Belgium
whitespace <http://0x20.be/Main_Page> — Gent, Belgium
And while I'm out here in Europe, Hacktivity <http://hacktivity.hu/portal/en>, an annual Eastern European hacker conference paid for my trip to and from Eastern Europe, where I'll be setting up a Hardware Hacking Area.
While in Eastern Europe, I thought I'd put out the word and see if any of the brand new hackerspaces would like me to give workshops at their spaces. The response was very enthusiastic, and I set up a tour of four hackerspaces!
progressbar <http://www.progressbar.sk/> — Bratislava, Slovakia
brmlab <http://brmlab.cz/event/mitchaltmanworkshop> — Prague, Czech Republic
H.A.C.K. <http://hspbp.org/tiki-index.php> and Kitchen BudaPest <http://www.kitchenbudapest.hu/en>
Harkopen <http://harkopen.com/news/workshop-mitch-altman> — Bucharest, Romania
Everywhere I go, hackers are graciously putting me up in their homes. I feel really grateful to be part of such a warm, welcoming, community of hackers.
As with my other tours, the workshops on this tour give anyone and everyone the opportunity to learn to solder by making any number of kits that me and Jimmie Rodgers and Ladyada and others have created to teach people to make cool things with microcontrollers — kits that are designed so that everyone, regardless of age or skill level, can complete successfully and take home with them. It is very similar to what I do when I'm home (and what Miloh does all the other times) at Circuit Hacking Mondays at Noisebridge . The workshops also help build publicity for the hackerspaces that host the workshops by attracting people to the space, and showing everyone how cool it is to have a hackerspace in their home town.
Sharing experiences about our hackerspaces is also a big part of how hackerspaces around the world help and support each other, and I'll be sharing all I can about Noisebridge and how we got going and make things work out.
Other than reimbursement for air fare from the hacker conferences, I am doing this Workshop Tour without charge, and only ask to be reimbursed for any parts used ($10 to $30, depending on the kit). I do this 'cause I love it!
I am looking forward to meeting more of the coolest, intelligent, thoughtful, friendly, creative people in the world — hackerspace people!
Here is my schedule:
11-Sept: leave San Francisco
12-Sept: dinner with whitespace hackerspace — Gent, Belgium
14-Sept: progressbar hackerspace workshop and talk — Bratislava, Slovakit
16-Sept: brmlab hackerspace workshop and talk — Prague, Czech Republic
17-Sept: Hacktivity conference dinner — Budapest, Hungary
18-Sept: Hacktivity workshop
18-Sept: Hacktivity party
19-Sept: Hacktivity workshop
20-Sept: Kitchen BudaPest and H.A.C.K. visit — Budapest, Hungary
21-Sept: Harkopen hackerspace workshop — Bucharest, Romania
23-Sept: VoidWarranties hackerspace workshop — Antwerp, Belgium
24-Sept: BruCON conference talk and workshop — Brussels, Belgium
25-Sept: BruCOB conference workshop
26-Sept: HSB hackerspace workshop — Brussels, Belgium
27-Sept: whitespace hackerspace talk — Gent, Belgium
29-Sept: fly back home to San Francisco
After this tour, I'll be home in San Francisco for the entire month of October!
— Mitch.
Categories: General
After being on the road since the beginning of July, 2010, I'm in Toronto, my second stop on my Midwest Tour of Hackerspaces which will last throughout the month of August. (This trip started with setting up a Hardware Hacking Area at RMLL in Bordeaux, France <http://2010.rmll.info/spip.php?lang=en>, followed by setting up a Hardware Hacking Area at Ninjacon in Vienna, Austria (formerly Plumbercon) <http://plumbercon.org/>.)
My first stop was the Detroit Maker Faire <http://makerfaire.com/detroit/2010/>, where 22,000 people gathered to check out over 300 exhibits, enthusiastically sharing, learning, and teaching through making cool things. I led a panel on hackerspaces both days of the Faire — both with standing room only. Hackerspaces are really popular now! There are way more hackerspaces in the Midwest alone, than time to visit all of them in a month. This is an exciting time to be a geek!
My main thing at the Detroit Maker Faire was to set up a Hardware Hacking Area, which I did with the help of Jimmie Rodgers <http://www.jimmieprodgers.com/> and Dale Grover, of A2 MechShop <http://www.a2mechshop.com/>. Together with 19 other volunteers, we taught 1,500 people to solder! The Makezine blog has a really sweet writeup on it:
From now (4-August) till the end of the month, me and Jimmie and Matt Mets (of Hack PGH <http://www.hackpittsburgh.org/> — who will be joining us for the rest of the tour after Canada) will be giving 14 workshops at that many hackerspaces around the Midwest.
The workshops will give anyone and everyone the opportunity to learn to solder by making any number of kits that me and Jimmie have created to teach people to make cool things with microcontrollers — kits that are designed so that everyone, regardless of age or skill level, can complete successfully and take home with them. It is very similar to what I do when I'm home (and what Miloh does all the other times) at Circuit Hacking Mondays at Noisebridge <https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Circuit_Hacking_Monday>. The workshops also help build publicity for the hackerspaces that host the workshops by attracting people to the space, and showing everyone how cool it is to have a hackerspace in their home town.
I also share any and all experiences with the hackerspaces I visit about how we started and run Noisebridge.
Me and Jimmie and Matt are doing this without charge, and only ask to be reimbursed for any parts used ($10 to $30, depending on the kit).
As we go from city to city, hackers host us, and we meet some of the coolest, intelligent, thoughtful, friendly, creative people in the world — hackerspace people!
While traveling I hope to have time to blog more about our experiences here on this Noisebridge blog. Jimmie will be adding his thoughts to the blog on his website. And Matt will be blogging about it and posting it to the Makezine website.
Here is our schedule:
Hacklab.TO — Toronto, ON — visit on 3-August
Site3 — Toronto, ON — workshop on 5-August
Kwartzlab — Kitchener, ON — workshop on 6-August
think|haus — Hamilton, ON — visit on 7-August
OCD — Detroit, MI — workshop on 8-August
Mt. Elliot Makerspace — Detroit, MI — workshop on 9-August
I3 — Detroit, MI — workshop on 10-August
A2 MechShop — Ann Arbor, MI — visit on 11-August
AHA — Ann Arbor, MI — workshop on 12-August
LVL1/Actors Theatre — Louisville, KY — demo on 13-August
LVL1 — Louisville, KY — workshop on 14-August
Hive13 — Cincinnati, OH — presentation on 17-August
Hive13 — Cincinnati, OH — workshop on 18-August
BloomingLabs — Bloomington, IN — workshop on 19-August
Arch Reactor — St. Louis, MO — workshop on 20-August
KC Mini Maker Faire / CCCKC — Kansas City, MO — Hardware Hacking Area at Faire on 22-August
Quad Cities Co-Lab Hackerspace — Quad Cities, IA/IL — workshop on 24-August
PS:1 — Chicago, IL — workshop on 25-August
Madison BarCamp — Madison, WI — talk on hackerspaces on 28-August
Sector67 — Madison, WI — workshop on 29-August
I wish I had more time, since there are many other hackerspaces that we don't have time to visit on this trip.
According to google maps, we'll be driving about 2,400 miles in the car we rented for the month. Road trip!
– Mitch.
Categories: General
For three days, 400 people created projects, attended presentations, and made cool things at Codebits, the annual hacker conference in Lisbon. It is put on by SAPO, the Portuguese phone company. They flew me out here to set up a Hardware Hacking Area. And they asked me to give a presentation. I asked if I should do a talk on hacker spaces or on making a living doing what you love. They asked if I could do both. I did.
The Hackerspace Movement:
Make A Living Doing What You Love: How to Bring You Project From Idea to Reality:
They were both very well received. Many people told me they were inspired by one or the other, which is about the best compliment. The videos are at the above links.
I also set up and ran a Hardware Hacking Area throughout the three days of the conference. 49 people out of the 400 attendees made one of my kits — about half of them TV-B-Gone kits. So, there are currently more TVs being turned Off in Portugal.
Now I get to hang out in Lisbon for a few days, before heading to Singapore on Wednesday, where I'll talk about hackerspaces again.
Categories: General
It's Portuguese Independence Day, and as I write, fireworks are going off like crazy outside my window, overlooking what looks similar to the Golden Gate Bridge, but was called Salazar Bridge, after the scary dictator (but renamed to 25 de Abril Bridge, in more recent finer times).
I got here today. Rather than sleep, which is my MO on planes, I worked on my presentations for Codebits, which I'll be giving Thusday and Friday — the one Thursday is about how to start a hackerspace, and Noisebridge will, of course, be the focus.
The CNET story about Noisebridge hit the interwebs. It's a very decent story:
I met up with two friends and managed to stay awake, and even have an hours-long coherent conversation. Now I get to catch up on some emails…
Categories: General
From now till the beginning of February I'll be traveling around the world, going to hacker conferences, giving presentations, setting up Hardware Hacking Areas, leading workshops, and visiting hackerspaces everywhere I go.
Here's my crazy itinerary: Chicago, Lisbon, Singapore, NYC, Philly, Baltimore, DC, Boston.
At the moment I'm at my brothers house in Chicago, where I need to write the two presentations that I'll be giving at Codebits, in Lisbon — the hacker conference put on by the Portuguese phone company (and I'm currently procrastinating by writing this blog post!).
Today I'll prepare the presentation I'll be giving on Thursday, 3-December, at Codebits, which is entitled: The Hackerspace Movement. This, of course, will include lots about Noisebridge. And I'm hoping that it will inspire someone(s) to start a hackerspace in Lisbon. Here's the abstract on the Codebits website:
Tomorrow I'll prepare the presentation that I'll be giving on Friday, 4-December at Codebits, entitled: Make A Living Doing What You Love: How to Bring Your Project From Idea To Reality. This will include photos from the recent Noisebridge China Trip. Here's the abstract on the Codebits website:
All throughout the Codebits hacker conference I'll be teaching people to solder and to make cool things at the Hardware Hacking Area that I'll set up there when I arrive on Tuesday.
One of the cool things about Codebits is the 24 Hour Competition, which is a 24-hour period where people who wish to will initiate and (hopefully) finish a project, which they will have 2 minutes to present on the last day of the conference. Prizes are given to the people (or teams) who create the coolest projects. Anyone who wants to can make use of the Hardware Hacking Area, and I'll be there to help everyone. It shold be way fun!
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A decision to permit hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in New York state will trigger a cool response from drillers, the state's environmental regulator said.
Low natural-gas prices have dulled interest in New York's gas reserves, Joseph Martens, commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, said at a conference today. The agency is reviewing more than 66,700 comments on a draft plan for drilling in the state's portion of a geological formation called the Marcellus Shale.


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Chivas USA falls to UCLA 2-1 in scrimmage
Chivas USA vs. UCLA Photo Gallery 9 Francisco Mendoza
CARSON, Calif. (Saturday, March 5, 2011) –Chivas USA played their eighth preseason scrimmage of 2011 on Saturday night, falling to UCLA 2-1 at the The Home Depot Center's Track and Field Stadium in Carson California. It was the last scrimmage game in Carson before taking on FC Dallas next Saturday in the last preseason game for the Red-and-White.
Chivas USA took the lead at the 23rd minute on a goal scored by Alan Gordon but then UCLA tied the game before halftime and won the game with a penalty kick at the 76th minute. Forward Justin Braun entered the match in the 64th minute, and looked active in his first preseason action for Chivas USA after recovering from a laceration on his Achilles region.
The Red-and-White wore their official 2011 home jerseys for the first time, with Corona Extra as the presenting sponsor.
The Red-and-White controlled possession for much of the first half, and took the lead in the 23rd minute. Gordon received an incisive pass from Francisco Mendoza, and turned his defender to finish inside the 6-yard box. It was Gordon's 3rd goal of the 2011 preseason.
Defender Jimmy Conrad nearly scored in the 35th minute on a Chivas USA corner kick, only to see the ball cleared off the line by a UCLA defender. A few minutes later UCLA's Chandler Hoffman scored for the Bruins on a corner kick at the other end, tying the match at 1-1.
Chivas USA had a good number of chances in the second half, but it was UCLA who ultimately scored the winner. Defender Michael Umaña was adjudged to have handled the ball in the box, and UCLA's Andy Rose scored from the penalty spot in the 76th minute.
Chivas USA continues preparation for the 2011 Home Opener on March 19 against Omar Bravo and Sporting Kansas City. Season Seats for 2011 are now on sale, with prices remaining at the same low rates as 2010. For more information, or to purchase tickets, please call 1-877-CHIVAS-1 or visit cdchivasusa.com.


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OK, I understand that to use xlink kai one MUST have the tunneling software installed and running. But, I cant seem to find definitive confirmation of this. I've seen some people imply it isn't necessary, but they don't come out and say it.
Can I get someone who can give me a definite yay or nay on this issue? Thanks.
Need Pc?
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Posted 10 May 2009 - 06:52 PM
I haven't messed with it in a while, but if I remember correctly, you need the software running on your PC, or directly on your router. DD-WRT.com has a version with Kai built in.
Posted 15 May 2009 - 04:47 AM
either have it running on your pc, or log into via xbmc.
Posted 18 May 2009 - 04:47 AM
In order for Kai to work, even from your Xbox, you must have Kai's tunneling client running on another machine in your network.
I had no idea about DD-WRT having Kai though. I'll probably look into this. Thanks for the info!
I had no idea about DD-WRT having Kai though. I'll probably look into this. Thanks for the info!
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China Telecom wing: iPhone 4S due as soon as late February
updated 11:35 pm EST, Mon January 30, 2012
China Telecom may have iPhone 4S in a month
China Telecom sub-label Beijing Telecom stated Tuesday local time that a China Telecom-native iPhone 4S was expected within about a month. It said the CDMA version would "likely" reach the network by late February or early March, China Daily said. Apple's device had already been given regulatory clearance for China Telecom's network and would face few barriers.
The carrier proper hadn't directly confirmed any plans.
The addition would help Apple address its underestimate of Chinese demand as well as help counter the rise of Android in the region. At 36.3 million users on its 3G network, it sits above existing carrier China Unicom and is considerably closer to leader China Mobile's 51.2 million. Local companies like Huawei have gone mostly unopposed on these networks and have contributed to Apple being fourth in China, behind Huawei, Samsung, and Nokia.
The last of the top three, China Mobile, is believed to be waiting on a TD-LTE version of the iPhone, where it would not only have a halo device for its network but better roaming than its limited TD-SCDMA network allows.


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WILLOUGHBY -- Police say a robber passed a note to a store employee saying he had a gun and wanted all the cash in the cash register.
The Willoughby Police Department is asking for help in catching the man who robbed Tye Dye Sky at 36495 Vine Street in the Freeway Plaza 10 days ago.
Video surveillance footage shows the man walking from E. 364th Street and entering the store. He left immediately after getting the cash from the employee behind the register.
He is described as in his late 30s, about 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighing 170 pounds. He also has light facial hair around his cheeks and chin.
He was wearing a black knit ski cap with a horizontal red stripe, a black jacket with a light grey hooded sweatshirt underneath and light blue jeans.
Police thought it was unusual that he passed a note because that is usually only something a bank robber would do.
If anyone has any information, they are asked to contact the Willoughby Police Department at 440-953-4212.


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Secrets of a slim figure and a youthful appearance for a woman in the forties shared former supermodel Cindy Crawford (48). It sounds very simple. "Being happy. This is honestly the most important thing, "says Cindy. Happiness is the key that makes her look incredibly great. Ok, it is not just sitting on the sofa, eating and being happy.
Cindy also does regular sports activities. However, as she herself admits, she is never forcing herself to be strictly disciplined just 80% of control is enough, because it is more achievable. Beautiful brunette shares a secret of successful diet. She allows herself to eat a piece of chocolate every day without feeling guilty, because as she says: "When a woman in her forties aims at the weight loss, it immediately shows in the face, you will still look super-skinny, but too old."
And how does Cindy keep her youthful look? Suntan lotion every day, proper fluid intake, getting enough sleep and appropriate skin care.
You might have heard already that Cindy is promoting Meaningful Beauty cosmetic products under her name. These contain sunscreen, moisturizer and cleansing properties and are major parts of her young and healthy look, as she states herself. Cindy is proud to put her name under this brand because it has unique antioxidant as the main compound that helps to reduce impact of toxins or other chemicals influencing daily the health of your skin.
However, Cindy admits as well that after 40 you have to take special care of your skin. Cosmetic products are not strong enough. She gets her skin treated from time to time with Botox or goes to special nourishing procedures and massages.
Well, we just have to say that this mother of two looks amazing for being 48 years old and many people can only envy her. I guess, it is also thanks to her genes!


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- tag files using discogs data. Retrieve more info than most taggers. Goes to extra length to make sure retrieve data is correct and well formatted
- flexible tag mapping allows you to write only what you want where you want
- use of meta data in tags to display artist / label / release discogs www page
- able to later update specified tags (useful to update rating)
current version: 1.32
Download foo_discogs 1.32
Documentation (thanks Bachi-Bouzouk)
find release dialog screenshot (v0.90)
release dialog screenshot (v0.90)
screenshot illustrating use of discogs data
GdiPlus.dll is a dependency, however if you use some recent version of Windows you already have it.
If you're using fb2k under wine (Linux) you'll need to copy GdiPlus.dll in fb2k root directory.
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Strange, redid some tests here, everything work fine. Are you able to reproduce lost settings consistently ? for example changing a setting, hit OK (or apply), quit fb2k, relaunch and you losed the setting ?
The settings reset every time i restart foobar. However its easy to restore my own settings by opening the mapping panel and hitting OK, since my old settings are still stored there.
Could you make the matching system optional please. It messes up albums if track lengths differ from discogs
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I was recently asked why I am so adamant about organic gardening practices. When I started thinking back about how I got where I am today, I realized that my path largely shaped was by a box of Organic Gardening magazines. Years ago, a friend cleaned out her dad's garage and gave me a mother lode of old magazines, which I read with interest, though I lived in a small apartment at the time.
Later, when I moved from a tiny city lot to an old farm on Bainbridge Island, I felt totally overwhelmed. Instead of a manageable little plot, I now had acres to contend with. Blackberries, bindweed and nettles grew vigorously, choking out ancient garden plants like lilac and peonies.
Until this time, I always had gardened organically. Now, faced with a huge series of problems, little time and too much space, I was advised by many experienced garden designers to "get over" my ideals and "do it right." The sensible way to deal with the mess was to use chemicals and "start all over." Reluctantly, I went shopping. After reading the warning labels, I couldn't bring myself to use anything but a spray bottle of a supposedly "safe" blackberry and brush killer.
Terrified of harming my kids and my pets, I made both stay indoors. Fearfully, I went to the furthest corner of the property and started spraying an enormous patch of Himalayan blackberries. As I worked, flocks of birds flew out of the bushes. In dismay, I stopped spraying. What was I doing? This felt like madness; dealing death instead of bringing the garden to life.
I went back to the house, threw away the spray along with the old clothes I had been wearing, and took a long shower, trying to wash away any residue of poison. That day, I realized that I'd rather clear the land slowly, inch by inch, than experience a deadly silent spring in my own backyard for the sake of convenience.
Thus, I cleared the land by hand, slowly but steadily. As the garden emerged, I found a treasure trove of antique plants, from silver laced primroses and trilliums to rare roses and flowering shrubs. The clearing took several years but felt magical, like exploring the past. As I uncovered more plants, I developed a kinship with the long-ago gardener who had once filled this wild property with beauty.
The funny part of the story is that when, weeks after that Black Spray day, I returned to the distant blackberry patch, I found that the safe spray had done exactly nothing. As I cut down the thick canes and chunked out the roots with a heavy mattock, I had to chuckle. For me, it didn't matter that the poison attempt was a bust. It was worth a lot of hard work to know that the birds, the frogs and the bees were as safe from chemical damage as my own small children and our beloved animals.
Since that day, I've never strayed from my determination to garden as cleanly and healthfully as possible. Indeed, all that work taught me many a trick for ridding gardens of dreadful weeds without harming the soil or the critters. I can thank those 7 acres for much of what I know about weeding, mulching and bed building. Having so little time and money helped me become very efficient and caused me to rethink a lot of standard advice.
As I learn more about simplifying and editing garden chores, I pass the ideas along to you in my columns. I hope they help you enjoy gardening more while reducing your chore load. That's my story!
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Democrats have been blaming George W. Bush for the last four years.
Now I think it's time for Republicans to start blaming George W. for the next four years.
For a week we've been pinning last week's debacle on everything from Mitt Romney's moderation to low Republican turnout.
But the most important Republican who didn't turn out to support Romney this fall was George W. Bush.
You can make an honest argument that G.W. was as much to blame as anyone else for our being unable to defeat an incompetent incumbent of historic proportions.
For four years Barack Obama has blamed the Great Recession on G.W. and used his presidency as his excuse for why the economy is taking so long to get fixed.
And where's G.W. been? MIA or AWOL, take your pick.
He didn't show up at the GOP convention. He didn't become an enthusiastic surrogate for Romney in a handful of swing states where a few hundred thousand more Republican voters could have changed history. He didn't stump for senatorial candidates in contested states such as Virginia and Montana.
G.W., the ex-cheerleader, was nowhere to be seen or heard during Romney's campaign. What's worse, he didn't even defend his own economic record. He let the conservatives on talk radio and at Fox News do it.
The trouble is talk radio and Fox only reach about 20 million people during a week — and most of them are already in the conservative Republican choir.
Last I checked, 121 million Americans voted on Election Day. That left us Republicans with 101 million people who still needed to hear our message about who's really to blame for the broken economy of 2008 to 2012.
We griped and moaned and pointed to Obama, but the mainstream liberal media were too busy protecting their hero to fairly tell our side of the story.
The only way conservatives can get the national news media to deliver our message to the American people is to go over the media's heads. And the only people who can do that consistently are ex-presidents of the USA.
Bill Clinton became Obama's best propaganda weapon. When Clinton claimed that no one, not even a super-genius like him, could have solved the economic problem G.W. Bush left Obama within four years, every voter in America heard it.
Even Jimmy Carter was hauled out of mothballs to help the Democrat cause.
The 2012 campaign was all about "the economy, stupid." Obama blamed G.W. and Republicans. Plus, he had Clinton and Carter bashing G.W.'s record with their bully sticks every day and countering Romney's arguments that Obama was to blame.
We should have had G.W. standing up and saying, "This is bull. I'm tired of this. This is what I did or did not do with the economy as president. The real culprits are Dodd & Frank and four years of Obama's failed policies."
Instead G.W. stayed quiet, even on the issue of Benghazi. Because he refused to show up and defend himself and his record, the Republican Party had to take arrows for him and we lost our second presidential election in a row.
The question I'd like to ask my fellow conservative Republicans is, if G.W. isn't willing to stand up for his own presidency, why the heck should we?
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FryarTuk 3 years ago
Michael Reagan still doesn't have anything to say. If his last name wasn't the same as the 40th US president he would be a sales person in a tire store. He barely knew his adoptive father and mother Jane Wyman or Nancy R or siblings being shipped off to boarding school from the first day of school. At his high school graduation his father introduced himself, "My name is Ronald Reagan. What's yours?" Michael told him he was his son and without embarrassment his dad told him he didn't recognize him. He was never allowed into the inner function of the WH and RR didn't associate with him until he didn't know who he was in his Alzheimer's condition. He just hasn't any bona fides as a columnist and I have no idea why the AH puts him in front of the readers. Get some good columnist like George Will, David Brooks, Peggy Noonan, Bill Kristol. Conservative folks who have substance.
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The University of Florida softball team set a program record for victories at the Florida Softball Stadium as it claimed an 11-3, five-inning decision over Southeastern Conference Western Division foe 21st-ranked Mississippi State Friday night.
The Gators (39-24, 9-12 SEC) are 24-5 on their home diamond after losing the second half of the twi-night doubleheader 3-1. The Bulldogs are 38-22 overall and 14-12 in league action.
Four of five Gators recording hits in the first game had multiple-hit performances, totaling 11 hits for the team. Senior Jenn Lutsi (Naples, Fla./Barron Collier) and junior Ashley Boone (Irvine, Calif./Woodbridge) were both a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate and both turned in their 12th double this year with four RBI. Lutsi led the squad with three runs.
UF scored four times in each of its first two frames and three times in the fifth, ending the game on the NCAA Eight-run Mercy Rule. Freshman Nicole Michael (Phoenix, Ariz./Greenway) scored the 11th run, the most the Gators have ever recorded against MSU, on a throwing error by catcher Kerri McCallum after stealing third.
Senior Beth Dieter (Orlando, Fla./Dr. Phillips) earned the win. Dieter (18-11) allowed six hits, two earned runs, a walk and struck out one in her 24th complete outing this season. MSU's Kasey Whitehead took the loss after facing just five batters and giving up four runs in the first. She is 2-3.
The Bulldogs scattered nine hits off of the Gator pitching staff to take the nightcap. Junior Renise Landry (West Monroe, La./West Monroe) yielded three runs off of seven hits and had five strikeouts through five and two-thirds innings. Dieter came in relief and gave up two hits in one and a third frames. Junior first baseman Emily Marino (Joliet, Ill./Joliet) accounted for UF's solo run as she smacker her 13th homer of the year in the Gators' fifth inning. Lutsi led UF offensively again, going 2-for-3.
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The NBA's annual Vegas Summer League would be wrapping up right about now. Young players would be finishing up a week of gambling, partying and hopefully, at least for their coach, getting better.
Summer League has always been sort of approached by most as nothing more than a perk of July, just something to sort of help bridge the gap. Nobody really pays attention to it except for the hardest of hardcore fans, general managers, scouts and coaches. And bloggers. Summer League basically is blogger paradise, because it's something to write the crap out of for a couple of weeks in mid-July.
Except this summer, because of the you-know-what, there is no Summer League. No rookies to overhype because of a good, random game against a bunch of D-Leaguers. No second-year fringe players to latch onto and get excited about because of a quality week. And no players to completely write off because of a 2-12, five-turnover game. For shame. For damn shame.
And while most just write off what happens in Vegas as unimportant, any time players take the court and compete, there's something of value there for the players, the organization and the coaches. Basketball is about development. It's about getting better. Summer League is a vehicle for new draft picks to get a feel of pro basketball and a feel of playing with a couple of teammates. It's a place for guys to prove themselves a bit. In reality, it's kind of important, even if it's generally ignored by the general basketballing public.
But I can guarantee you a good number of teams were mighty disappointed when Summer League fell through because of the lockout. There's progress to be made, and a week in Vegas is an excellent place to start, especially for rookies. Some teams and players are going to feel the sting of missing out on the opportunity. Here are the ones I see feeling it most.
Minnesota Timberwolves
No team would've benefited more than Minnesota's young roster. First, it would've been the first look at Ricky Rubio on American soil. He would've played against NBA talent and had a chance to run the show for his new team.
It also would've given all of us a chance to rush to snap judgments about his game and, therefore, his career, based on a couple of Summer League games. It would've been great.
But on top of some run for Rubio, Derrick Williams, Wesley Johnson and a few other youngsters could've put away a week or so of games. Every second those guys play together, the better they'll get. They need time to develop, and Summer League is a place for that. Instead, it's going to have to happen on some private court without any coaches. Not the ideal situation for young players to learn and improve.
Cleveland Cavaliers
Pretty much the same scenario for the Cavs as it is for the Wolves, or any young team with talent. Kyrie Irving could've used the extra time on the floor, but not just because he could get a feel for offense or learn the pace of the NBA game or anything. For Irving, it's more that he just needs to play, period.
He only played in 13 games for Duke last season and after returning from his foot injury, played a couple of games in the NCAA tournament. He has barely played any competitive basketball at all in the last year. For a 19-year-old, that's not a good thing. The more play you get, the farther you move ahead.
Not to mention the No. 4 overall pick, Tristan Thompson, getting some play, too. Obviously, that would be great, but to me, it's more about Irving. It's his franchise now, and the objective in Cleveland now is moving him along. Something small like Summer League is one of the first steps forward in doing that.
Sacramento Kings
The Kings' inclusion really is more of a selfish reason. Because with Summer League, you know that every game with Jimmer Fredette woudl be a total experience. Vegas is close to BYU, and Jimmer has quite the following in the area. But, really, it could be in Maine and The Jimmer would walk in like a rock star.
The Kings do need him and Tyreke Evans, though, to get some experience playing together. Who's running point? Is it Jimmer? Is Reke going to handle those duties too? Are they going to tag-team it like Monta Ellis and Stephen Curry? These are some of the questions you can sort of at least start to find answers for, if only they were actually playing.
Oklahoma City Thunder
Despite reaching the Western Conference Finals, the Thunder really do have a ton of room to grow. The roster is extremely young with some pieces that need developing. Two of the most important being Cole Aldrich and this year's pick, Reggie Jackson.
With Aldrich, he simply needs to play a little. He spent most of his rookie season in the D-League with the Tulsa 66ers, and while that's good for development, Summer League gives him a chance to be a focus in a competitive setting as well as a primer for what he needs to work on heading to fall camp. Aldrich is far from a lost cause, and the Thunder are willing to stay patient. But part of that being patient comes because you think a guy is going to improve. And to do that, he's got to play.
With Jackson, Summer League could've helped signal a little where he might fit in. Is he a point guard? Shooting guard? Combo guard? Is he a scorer the Thunder want to use off the bench next season? Is he someone that even will challenge for minutes? The Thunder clearly liked Jackson enough to promise him a spot in the first round, but without him working out for anyone before the draft, he's still largely an unknown for everybody.
Miami Heat
Yes, seriously, the Heat. No doubt that for the most part, the roster is set. LeBron, Wade and Bosh handle pretty much all of the heavy lifting, and veterans Mike Miller and Udonis Haslem pick up the remaining slack.
But the Heat need to develop young talent. Players like Dexter Pittman need an opportunity to grow a bit. Where the Heat lacked most last season was having cheap, young talent to infuse with LeBron, Wade and Bosh. Instead, Pat Riley went with trying to work in guys like Mike Bibby, Juwan Howard, Eddie House and whoever else was willing to take the veterans minimum to chase a title.
A week in Vegas for Miami's youngsters like Pittman and rookie Norris Cole could go a long way to restructuring the role players on the roster. And on top of that, it's a chance to maybe scout three or four other unsigned guys to take a look at later on. Miami needs some young talent, and the Vegas Summer League is one of the best places to look.
Washington Wizards
John Wall is going to be a star. I don't have any doubt. But he's still raw and still has a whole lot to learn about running a team. I remember how much Summer League did for Russell Westbrook a couple of years ago as he was prepping for his second season. It helped Westbrook learn how to slow down a bit, learn when to look for a shot, when to look to set up and when to push. Wall would've been the best player in Vegas, much like Westbrook was always on another level when he was there. But it taught him how to play under control -- to a degree -- while also being able to run around anyone. That would've been a good lesson for Wall.
Then there's Jan Vesely, who is mostly a mystery as he prepares to maybe step in as Washington's new small forward. We know he can jump and dunk, but can he defend? Can he rotate over and help? Can he shoot? If Wall and Vesely are the offensive attack of the future for the Wizards, having them play together, if even for just a week, would be huge.
Utah Jazz
Even more than Kyrie Irving, Enes Kanter hasn't played competitive basketball in a long time. He was forced to sit out all of 2010-11 for Kentucky because of a NCAA violation, and while he's had some workouts and a little five-on-five action here and there, he hasn't been in a real game setting since he moved from Turkey to the United States. The Jazz liked him enough to take him fourth and maybe force a re-shuffling up front, so obviously they're invested in the young big man.
And on top of him, don't forget the Jazz had another lottery pick in wing Alec Burks, who could surprise a lot of people as an NBA-ready scorer. He was terrific at Colorado as he sort of came out of nowhere to climb into the lottery. A little burn for both him and Kanter could've gone a long way for the Jazz, who are committed to the youngsters in life after Deron.


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With contemporary restaurants focusing on comfort food, unhurried meals and mastering one simple ingredient, it's surprising that Louisville's culinary press has neglected one area eatery where all three trends intersect: the Paula Deen Buffet in Southern Indiana's Horseshoe Casino. Got butter?
The 20-minute wait for a table at 6 p.m. on a Friday — which appeared to double by the time I hit the front of the line — testified to the hipness of this self-proclaimed "cutting-edge restaurant (that) features the Queen of Southern Cuisine's down-home recipes in an upscale buffet environment." Anthony Bourdain be damned; the 2010 opening in a down-market casino was clearly a welcome addition to the Elizabeth, Ind., community.
Friday night meant the regularly priced $20 dinner buffet had a seafood component, which was accompanied by an additional $8 charge. And paying up-front meant having to choose a drink before reviewing the entrées to contemplate pairings. So I selected a 2011 glass of Diet Pepsi (included with purchase). Clientele ranged from diners casually dressed in jean shorts to those sporting more formal full-length dungarees. As for the decor, local restaurateurs apparently have reclaimed all of the area's dilapidated barns, leaving the buffet no old wood to rescue and fashion into tables.
Per classical buffet tradition, the cuisine was doled out in stations, including Uncle Bubba's Oyster House. The terseness of the dishes' descriptions, however, was avant-garde Manhattan. (In the spring, New York magazine's Approval Matrix declared an upscale eatery's new 28-word menu the apex of both highbrow and brilliant.) At the Deen, catfish was described as just that, no mention of whether it was farm-raised or wild-caught. None of the diners seemed to miss having their dishes accompanied by the ingredients' curriculum vitae.
This veteran of North Myrtle Beach and the Vegas Strip found the Deen placed nicely in the tradition of all-you-can-eat crab legs buffets. The fried green tomato did not suffer for a lack of fry, and area locavores will appreciate the buffet's mini Hot Browns. Also consumed: frogs' legs (taste like chicken!), an oyster that was reluctant to come out of its shell and butter in both melted and patty form.
The dessert station, named Little Jack's Corner after Deen's grandson, had about 20 different offerings. (Based on Deen's children's cookbook that lists cheesecake as a breakfast option, "Little" is likely one of those ironic-type nicknames.) I opted for the chocolate gooey cake over the "flavored gooey cake," Mama having raised me not to eat mystery goo. The cake tasted similar to chocolate chip ice cream, only with a different texture, evoking either the molecular gastronomy pioneered at Spain's elBulli or the astronaut ice cream sold at the Louisville Science Center. For a digestif, the viscosity from two fistfuls of gummy bears gave my stomach the coating it needed for an incident-free ride home.
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Tuna salad, pasta salad... Cool 'n creamy scoopable dishes like these are summertime staples. Here are a couple of delicious twists on old favorites. Scoop's on!
Fiery Tuna Salad
1/4th of recipe (about 3/4 cup): 113 calories, 2g fat, 580mg sodium, 10g carbs, 1g fiber, 4.5g sugars, 15g protein -- PointsPlus® value 3*
Hot sauce + jalapeños + creamy tuna salad... It just works. Add a bunch of veggies, and get ready to chow down!
1/2 cup fat-free mayonnaise
2 tsp. Tabasco Original Pepper Sauce
Two 5-oz. cans albacore tuna in water, drained and flaked
1 cup seeded and chopped cucumber
1 cup seeded and chopped tomato
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped jarred jalapeño slices
2 tbsp. chopped fresh cilantro
In a medium-large bowl, thoroughly mix mayo with hot sauce. Add tuna and stir to coat.
Add all remaining ingredients and mix well. Cover and refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour. Serve and enjoy!
BBQ Veggie Pasta Salad
1/6th of recipe (about 1 cup): 147 calories, 2.5g fat, 285mg sodium, 27g carbs, 3.5g fiber, 5.5g sugars, 6g protein -- PointsPlus® value 4*
Grilled veggies, spirally noodles, crumbly feta cheese, and a BBQ ranch sauce!?! It's all true, people...
4 1/2 oz. (about 1 3/4 cups) uncooked high-fiber rotini pasta
1 red bell pepper, halved lengthwise, stem and seeds removed
1 red onion, ends removed, cut into 1/2-inch slices (rings intact)
1 zucchini, stem end removed, halved lengthwise
1 ear corn, husk removed
1/2 cup crumbled reduced-fat feta cheese
1/4 cup chopped scallions
1/4 cup fat-free ranch dressing
2 tbsp. BBQ sauce with 45 calories or less per 2-tbsp. serving
Cook pasta in a medium pot per package instructions, about 8 minutes. Drain and transfer to a large bowl.
Bring a grill sprayed with nonstick spray to medium heat. Place pepper halves, onion slices (rings intact), zucchini halves, and ear of corn on the grill. Grill for 6 minutes with the grill cover down, rotating corn halfway through.
Flip veggies. With the grill cover down, grill until fully cooked and blackened, about 6 more minutes, rotating corn halfway through.
Chop veggies and remove corn kernels from the ear. Add to the large bowl. Add feta cheese and scallions, and lightly toss to mix.
In a small bowl, mix ranch dressing with BBQ sauce. Add to the large bowl and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour. Enjoy!
HG Alternative! Cook your veggies on a grill pan, working in batches, and adjust cook times as needed. If the pan doesn't have a lid, just loosely cover it with a skillet lid.
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