text: Ok, a quick look, this is what I got. Teams with real cap space Det Mem Tor Oklahoma Teams that might have cap room (approx. $8~10 million) Atl Minny So basically, Detroit/Memphis/Toronto/Ok City will be the only teams that set Gordon's price @ $12 million if they choose to bid that in FA. Now, Toronto is only in that mix because they lose Marion and Parker, two starters. Memphis is losing a lot of old deals. But they have OJ Mayo and Greg Buckner playing the 2. Det has Hamilton, Stuckey and Afflalo. OK, might make a play for Gordon. I can't see a need at SG for anyone else that has money. Toronto will be down Parker but they have that guy from Hawaii.


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Boasting the world's first Armani
hotel on the bottom floors, the Burj Dubai Tower also houses 900 Dubai
residences, 37 floors of office space, a fine dining restaurant and an
observation deck. The tower itself is reported to have cost $1.5 billion. It stands more than 800 metres tall and can be seen from 95 kilometres away.

I am with you on that AG. I would not want to live there. lol

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20 Life-Changing Ways to Use Bobby Pins
Keke Palmer's long hair was always flawless, so it's no surprise that she pulls off this pixie so well. We love the way it's cut in short layers all around to add volume and dimension.
We've been obsessed with Julianne's chin-length bob forever, but her brand-new pixie is equally gorgeous! The longer layers keep it feeling girly, so it's a great cut if you're nervous about going too short.
11 Times Taylor Swift Didn't Wear Red Lipstick


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On 1378 KM
Posted on 15th Jan 2011 at 10:38 by Harry Slater with 31 comments
Take 1378 KM, for example. It's a Half-Life 2 mod that places players in the role of either a guard or a refugee at the Berlin Wall. The refugees have to cross the wall, the guards have to stop them. Unsurprisingly, it's currently causing huge controversy in Germany. The game's creator, Jens M. Stober, defends the game as a work of art, suggesting in a statement on the site that it's not necessarily the content of the title that's causing controversy, but the medium.
There have been documentaries, feature films, paintings, sculptures and a huge variety of other pieces created that deal with the terrible things that happened during the communist regime in Eastern Germany, but videogames have one feature that's not present in the others - interactivity. In a videogame, you're not simply presented with the facts, you're presented with a choice. You can choose not to shoot, if you want.


text: Would it be prudent to do a preventive treatment for AFB and or EFB just coming out of winter. My friends hive wintered in one deep and they are not expecting to get honey this year. I have read that you should not treat within four weeks of a flow if you are putting on honey supers. I was j just wondering if many people actually do preventive treatment for this. Thanks


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So happy to see the DB let the WR catch the ball then take 2 steps before they try to tackle them.
I am just so proud of the NFL for making the game so safe for everyone. Please turn it into Touch Football then you can do away with all the pads.
NOTE TO NFL Get some scoreboards that can read over a 100 for each team its just a matter or time.


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Australian-based collaboration design specialist Matt Cooperrider has begun to explore an idea that I think the GeekDad readership is more than well positioned to help with. As well as being one of those out-of-the-box thinkers and generally smart guys, Matt is also a role-player and geek at heart. He has begun a new project called Play to Decide which will research how role-playing games can be used to support organizations and communities in democratic decision-making and the collaboration that follows.
I love the idea of Play to Decide. RPGs have always offered such immersive experiences that could be used in a range of ways to support relationship building or problem solving in the real world. In my own gaming evolution from traditional fantasy/sci-fi gaming into the horror and pulp gaming of 1920s/1930s and ultimately to GURPS – a system where you can play anything, in any time period – I see systems that allow for role-play all types of government, organizational or community scenarios. Role-playing games could offer a framework that is far more engaging and worthwhile to participants than your more standard scenario-planning models. So, I am interested to see where Matt takes this.
Matt Cooperrider, however, is a humble fellow and acknowledges that the idea is very new and the depth of his knowledge still shallow. He is looking for some help, advice and expertise. He has created the Play to Decide blog to gather stories, ideas and inspiration that will help to develop and explore what this type of RPG might look like and how it could work. Continue Reading "Can RPGs Help Organizations Make Better Decisions?" »


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Re: st: Bootstrapping Conf Intervals - what do they mean?
"Dan Weitzenfeld" <email@example.com>
Re: st: Bootstrapping Conf Intervals - what do they mean?
Wed, 4 Jun 2008 18:09:18 -0700
Thanks all for your help and feedback. Somehow, I managed to get
through Advanced Statistical Methods as an undergrad totally unaware
of the difference between Bayesian and Frequentist points of view.
I'm definitely going to do the suggested reading.
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Clive Nicholas
<firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> Alan Neustadtl replied to Dan Weitzenfeld:
>> This is an interesting issue. Blalock (Social Statistics 1960, p.
>> 210) provides the following discussion about confidence intervals:
>> "Several words of caution are necessary in interpreting confidence
>> intervals. The beginning student is likely to use vague phrases such
>> as, "I am 95 per cent confident that the interval contains the
>> parameter", or "the probability is .95 that the parameter is in the
>> interval." In so doing one may not clearly recognize that the
>> parameter is a fixed value and that it is the intervals that vary from
>> sample to sample. According to our definition of probability, the
>> probability of the parameter being in any given interval is either
>> zero or one since the parameter is or is not within the specific
>> interval obtained. ...one's faith is in the procedure used rather
>> than any particular interval. We can say that the procedure is such
>> that in the long run 95 per cent of the intervals obtained will
>> include the true (fixed) parameter."
> [...]
> It might be worth pointing out that Iversen (1984) - amongst many
> others - has argued, repeatedly in this case, that using the
> terminology of probability when estimating and interpreting confidence
> intervals is only possible after the generation of Bayesian
> statistical models. Indeed, he also argues that they are
> computationally equivalent yet conceptually different: the 0.95
> statistic is founded as a measure of uncertainty about the point
> estimate; the 95% statistic is seen as a "long-run relative frequency"
> (p38). Confusingly, he mentions the word 'probability' for both
> classical and Bayesian approaches here, but he gives a even clearer
> definition between the two on p31.
> Wood (2005) produced a rather nice primer on bootstrapping CIs that
> may be of assistance here, and it should be freely available on the
> Interweb.
> --
> Clive Nicholas
> [Please DO NOT mail me personally here, but at
> <firstname.lastname@example.com>. Thanks!]
> Iversen GR (1984) "Bayesian Statistical Inference", Sage University
> Paper on the QASS 07-043, Thousand Oaks: Sage.
> Wood M (2005) "Bootstrapped Confidence Intervals as an Approach to
> Statistical Inference", O rganizational Research Methods 8(4): 454-70.
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Weigh the time you invest in preparing these reports vs. the benefit your team will receive from getting the information and discussing it.
If asked to identify the No.1 question I've been asked during the past 20 years, it would be: "What should I check or monitor on a monthly basis?"
I prepare monthly reports for some dealerships. I measure performance in areas I consider critical. The report, created in Excel format and presented in a graph, details the total dealership and department performance for the past 13 months.
Dealers use the finished product in management meetings to review both the most recent month's performance and its results compared with those of the previous 12 months.
The items measured are as follows:
- New- and used-vehicle sales in total, retail-only and gross-per-retail units.
- Used-vehicle wholesale as a percentage of total used-vehicle sales.
- Dealership vs. industry year-to-date new-vehicle sales compared with the previous YTD. These results are then compared with their manufacturer's results.
- New- and used-vehicle departmental total gross and departmental net prior to the allocation of fixed.
- Parts, service and body shop total departmental gross and departmental net prior to allocation of fixed.
- Mechanical service repair order count including customer pay, warranty and internal work.
- Employee productivity as measured by total dealership gross divided by the employee count, excluding the dealer principal.
- Asset-management trend: New, used and parts dollar inventory, average day's cost of sale, end of month dollar day's supply and annualized dollar inventory turn rate.
- Receivables trend: fixed-operation receivables by department detailed by 30, 60, 90 and 91+ days.
- Dealership net profit (pre-tax and owner compensation). Also, dealership net profit as a percentage of gross and net profit as a percentage of sales.
In addition to this, dealers should track their vehicle aging showing the percentage of new and used vehicles in the 30-, 60-, 90-, 120- and 150+ day categories.
Also worth tracking are customer satisfaction, employee turnover and month-end frozen capital.
This information will allow you to identify trends, some of which might be negative, and, if so, take corrective action. For example, if you see two months that are comparable in total gross, yet there is a substantial difference in a department's net, your report will indicate this and allow you to do a quick analysis to determine the cause.
I realize this is a lot of information and it takes some time to prepare it, but I would ask that you weigh the time you invest in preparing these reports vs. the benefit your team will receive from getting the information and discussing it during management meetings.
"When performance is measured, performance improves," said Thomas S. Monson, a religious leader and author. "When performance is measured and reported back, the rate of improvement accelerates."
A quick word of caution on used vehicles: I've been in this business for 44 years and learned many things. One of the more expensive lessons I learned early on was to begin getting my used-vehicle inventory in line at the end of August.
Why? Because if you have a rule that you will not have any 60+ day inventory toward the end of the year, you will be more active in the wholesale market in late October or early November when historically prices are lower.
If you have a 75-day or 90-day aging limit, you will enter the December wholesale market as aggressive buyer, not a distressed seller.
Through experience of doing it the wrong way, I finally learned to be "lean and mean" by November 1. Yes, conditions in the used-vehicle market have changed during the past two years, but not so much that I would unduly keep inventory heading into late fall.
Good selling!
Tony Noland of Tony Noland & Associates is a veteran dealership consultant. He can be reached at tonynolandandassociates.com.


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From HaskellWiki
Romanian Page: Rodin
1 .The Rodin Language, a small implemented pseudocode for teachers , a C-style alnguage,specially designed fot teachers and student from România, ideal for teaching algoritms.
* Rodin/Download * Rodin/News * Rodin/Examples * Rodin/FAQ * Rodin/Others *
Last Version's Codename: Rodin ExperimentExp12 launched on 29'th of august 2009. Details on the Rodin/News page. Downloads from the Rodin/Download page.
Please check the files with a reliable antivirus. Never knows, especially from the moment when I had found a virus inside a Nero package!
1.1 Latest news - Tech. news
The statement called "citeste v[e];" used to read vectors IS implemented. Also the switch. Please made your own collection of programs but do not forget to note which version of the Rodin Language was used for program. To get an IDE please download Total Edit and try it. You have just to define one or two options in the tools menu. Don't forget to specify:The IDE will run Rodin.exe programfile.txt Extra documentation can be found in the .zip archive or on the Rodin/Download page.
1.2 . Latest mounth news - teaching news
See here: Rodin/News. Last year's news can be found here: Rodin/News/2008.
Rodin/FAQ. Here you can find explanations concerning the Rodin Language itself and The Rodin Platform for Language Development.
1.4 . Download !
1. The Rodin Language: Rodin/Download. Various examples for lessons are available in the archives.
2. The IDE "Total Edit" from the Codertools website: Total Edit Download IDE !. Or directly from here: http://download.codertools.com/TotalEditStd_5_2_8_install_en.msi
3. An Install HowTo telling how can you make Rodin and Total edit to work together.
1.5 . Articles from scientific Journals
Can be find in the .zip archive, inside a directory called docs. Images and descriptions how to configure Rodin are included.An Windows / Wine installer can be found on this page: Rodin/Download. 50-60 examples of programs are available in the archive, suitable for small lessons.
1.6 . Other editors
1.U may use The Ultra Edit-ul.
2.Or you may want to try X-Emacs....
Pagina proiectului Rodin este in dezvoltare. Vizitati-o regulat pentru a gasi update-urile, noutatile precum si programele si exercitiile noi adaugate.
Inapoi la inceputul paginii Rodin: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Rodin. (pe care o gasiti imediat folosind un motor de cautare binecunoscut.)
Mergeti la Facultatea de Stiinte de la Universitatea din Bacau. => http://stiinte.ub.ro


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I have to admit, I am a sucker for police procedurals — stories which track the machinations of the officers and the court system as they work their way toward nailing the bad guy at the end of the plot. I like them on television, and I like them in books. Recently some enterprising and creative authors have taken the police procedural in some surprising new directions. One of my favorite series is the Nursery Crimes Divison series created by author Jasper Fforde, who is most well known for his Thursday Next series. In those stories Detective Jack Sprat — yes, that Jack Sprat, though he has issues with it — solves crimes involving other nursery rhyme characters. A wonderful sense of wit pervades Fforde's work.
Author Toni Dwiggens adds a touch of the outdoors to the police procedural with her Forensic Geology series. In her series, geologists Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaw solve crimes through their knowledge of dirt. Dwiggens takes this niche premise to great heights when she adds to it all sorts of wonderful dangers such as highly radioactive waste, the baking heat of Death Valley, and volcanoes.
Her fellow indie author, Annie Bellet, takes the police procedural in a completely different yet intriguing direction with her new work Avarice. Avarice is the first story in Bellet's new series covering the adventures of the Considerable Crimes Division in they mythical city of Pyrrh. Bellet follows some very traditional premises for the police procedural but along the way adds to each of them some new twist based on the fantasy world she has created. Continue Reading "Law and Order With Sword Fights: Avarice by Annie Bellet" »


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Chemistry Adolescence Education
(Grades 7-12)
Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT)
This adolescence education program is for students who have an undergraduate degree in chemistry and seek certification to teach chemistry in grades 7-12. Students who complete the degree are eligible for initial certification (see Teacher Certification for more information).
Applicants should have an undergraduate degree in chemistry. The applicant's undergraduate work must be acceptable to the Chemistry Department in Harpur College, as well as to the Graduate School of Education. Students without appropriate undergraduate preparation in chemistry are required to take additional credit-hours in consultation with the graduate director in Chemistry to be eligible to apply to this program. Applicants must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better in chemistry and overall.
In addition, applicants should have a distribution of undergraduate coursework in the arts and sciences, which must include one semester of college-level study or three years of high school in a language other than English. It is recommended that students meet with a graduate adviser prior to applying to the MAT chemistry program.
Letters of recommendation should be from chemistry professors familiar with the applicant's work. (In the special case of an applicant having held an extended position in the field of education, one letter may be from the applicant's supervisor in the position.)
If all prerequisite undergraduate requirements have been met, the MAT degree requires three semesters of full-time study (or the equivalent of part-time study). Students may begin their degree programs in either the fall or spring semester, but will be admitted for the spring semester only if space permits. Matriculated students are expected to successfully complete LTRC 519, SEC 500, SEC 593, and 100 clock-hours of fieldwork before being admitted to the fall student teaching semester. Read about Fieldwork Requirements. Because the Master of Arts in Teaching course of study is a unique graduate program that results in a professional credential, we expect our students to conduct themselves professionally at all times in both University and school classrooms.Minimum Requirements for Degree (courses are subject to change)
This program requires a minimum of 42 credits: 22 credits in education, 12 credits in the academic discipline, and 8 credits in supervised student teaching. Grades of B or better must be earned in both SEC 593 and SEC 594, and an overall average of B or better must be maintained to graduate.
|Adolescent Learners and Literacy for the Content Areas
|4 credits
|Foundations of Secondary Education
|4 credits
|Special Education for Content Area Teachers
|4 credits
|English as a Second Language for Content Area Teachers
|2 credits
|Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations in the Pedagogy of Science
|4 credits
|Curriculum and Teaching in Science
|4 credits
Subject Courses
A minimum of 12 credits in graduate-level chemistry. Coursework will be selected based on the area placement exams.
Supervised Student Teaching - 8 credits
SEC 590/591. Pre-service Practicum in Teaching I and II - 8 credits
Plan of Study Form
The Plan of Study Form for the MAT Chemistry Adolescence Education Program provides students and advisors with a form to guide students through the requirements.
For more information about this program, contact program coordinator Thomas O'Brien via email or at 607-777-4877


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D-Tools' New Mobile App Helps Dealers Simplify Proposal Process
D-Tools new mobile app allows dealers to create rough proposals before generating detailed plans for an integration system.
By Julie Jacobson · April 14, 2014
D-Tools is best known for its sophisticated proposal and project management software used by thousands of residential and commercial systems integrators.
Creating a project and proposal for any given client is a big task, especially if clients don't really know what they're getting themselves into.
D-Tools has created the Mobile Quote app that lets dealers rough out a project and an estimate before time and money are wasted on a full-blown proposal.
Sitting down with the client, a dealer uses a tablet to walk through every space, noting potential locations for speakers, outlets, keypads and other electronic devices.
Together, the dealer and client can select price ranges based on the priority of any given room or subsystem, eventually arriving at a pretty good idea of a complete system and budget.
The app, which costs dealers $12 per month per device, is a complement to D-Tools SIX software. Images, products and other items loaded into the Mobile Quote can be ported automatically to SIX to jump-start a detailed project.
D-Tools demonstrated the app at the recent ISC West 2014 security conference. The company expects to release the software this month.
Tim Bigoness, VP sales and marketing for D-Tools, demonstrates the app in the video below.


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The relationships you build with the media are mutually beneficial. The media constantly needs fresh information and they look for people like you to provide it. Expect, but don't be discouraged by disappointment and rejection. The media sees thousands of press releases and notes every day.
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text: Mar 08, 2011 - Let me start by saying that I'm a tough critic. I have combination 2b/3a/3b hair. Yeah, it's a little crazy. Anyway, I expect a lot from my products and this one did not disappoint. At first, I was put off by the smell. Why do products for black hair tend to smell like synthetic pina colada or fruit salad? Given that I didn't spend much on the jar ($9.99 @ Target), I decided to go ahead and try it anyway and I was pleasantly surprised. The fragrance dies down within minutes and while your hair smells slightly sweet/slightly shea-like, it's a light fragrance. I love that it's thick without being weighty and it moisturizes without being greasy...at all! That's a huge plus for me. It's easy to rinse out and my hair doesn't feel all "producty" after a few days of use. I also use it on my pre-schooler's incredibly curly hair. I'm particular about the products I use on her hair, but I really like this one and feel like it's clean enough and pure enough to use on her hair everyday. Run, don't walk and stock up because Target sucks at keeping it in stock. Just bought two and put them in reserve. Oh, and combining this with TIGI's Catwalk Curls Rock Curl Amplifier did the trick. Great hold, definition, shiny. With this combo, I can sometimes get 3rd day hair, 4th day if you count a messy bun.


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In our newest franchise, every Tuesday our Cybergirls, Playmates and sexiest fans tweet their hottest photos for your viewing pleasure.
Want in on the fun? Tweet your photo or Vine to @PlayboyDotCom using the hashtag #TuesdayTease and we'll post the best photos here.
And catch up on last week's Tuesday Tease here.
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2BR Surry Hills Apt w/Sports Facilities
Size0 m²
Floor No.6(with elevator)
- Kitchen
- Air conditioning
- Washer/dryer
- Parking available
- Gym
- Pool
- Elevator in building
Accommodation summary
|Cooper St, Surry Hills, Sydney, 2010 Sydney, Australia
|Property type
|Property ID
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
This property accepts bookings starting within the next 180 Days.
Modern two bedroom apartment in a complex with gym. High ceilings, fully equipped stainless steel kitchen, reverse cycle A/C, security parking, stylish furnishings and generous balcony with city views make this Surry Hills apartment a fantastic place to stay whether you're in Sydney for a few nights or a few months.
This top floor apartment sleeps five. Master bedroom with king bed, second with double/single bunk. Both with built in wardrobes.
Living area includes large plasma HD plasma TV, DVD and CD player. Kitchen with full size fridge, dishwasher, blender, toaster, electric cook top, fan-forced oven, cutlery, crockery, pots and pans. Bathroom with bath and shower. Internal laundry with washer and dryer.
Located in Surry Hills the apartment is close to some of Sydney's best restaurants and bars - 2 minute walk to Crown Street and 10 minute walk to Oxford Street,. Its easy to get to Darling Harbour (15min walk), China Town (10min walk), Martin Place/CBD (15min walk), Fox Studios & the SCG (20min walk), Kings Cross (20min walk), Paddington shopping district (20min walk), Sydney Opera House (30min walk) and plenty of other things.
Public transport is easy too. It is 5min walk to Central Station (where you can catch a direct train to the CBD, Airport, Telstra Stadium, Bondi Junction, Circular Quay to connect with ferries to Manly or Interstate). The apartment is 1min walk to a taxi terminal and 3min walk to buses.
All rates include utilities (including phone line rental), linen and towels. Cleaning charge when you leave and internet & phone charges are additional.
Air Conditioning/Heating
Built-In Wardrobes
CD Player
Close to SCG (Sydney Cricket Ground)
Close to Shops and Restaurants
Close to Transport (500m walk to Central Station)
Cutlery and pots & pans provided
Dining table (6 seats)
DVD Player
Internal Laundry with Dryer & Washing Machine
Internet available (additional cost)
Iron & Ironing Board
King Bed (1), Double bed with single bunk (1)
Large Balcony with outdoor table setting
Linen & Towels Provided
High Chair
Modern Bathroom with bath/shower
Modern Kitchen (all you need to cook at home)
Parking (secure offstreet & undercover)
Plasma HD TV (42 inch) with Foxtel/Pay TV
Roof top heated pool and deck with city views
Roof top tennis court (some racquets provided)
Security building
House rulesAll bookings incur a departure cleaning fee of $198
Please note that there is a minimum booking period from 23rd December to 2nd January. We cannot accept bookings with arrival or departure inside these dates.
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|On arrangement
|Check-out before
|Cancellation Policy
Reviews of this property
Appartment is very good located and has space enough for 4 to 5 people (one bedroom for adults, the other bedroom rather for 2-3 kids). Great is tennis-court and pool on the rooftop with amazing few.
The price was rather high and for this, in our opinion all details shoud be perfect (like dishwashing machine must work correctly, all lights should work, no broken chairs).
We stayed at the apartment in April 2015 (2 adults and 2 children) and found it to be excellent. Great location (handy to transport and also easy to walk into town and around), great facilities, spacious, very comfortable and very clean and tidy. The one negative was dealing with Peter and his office staff. When asking for clarification or assistance, they were very defensive and their general communication was not great. Once they sort that out, I would have no hesitation in recommending the apartment as a great place to stay.
Thank you for the great apartment. It has a great location to public transportation. Everything you need is available (great kitchen, washer, dryer, balcony, ...). The rooftop pool is awesome. Here you have a beautiful view. On the way to the station you pass a supermarket. Everything was clean and tidy on arrival. Would highly recommend it and would like to stay here again at any time. Again a big thank you to Peter, keep it up.
Vielen Dank für das tolle Apartment. Es hat eine super Lage zu den öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln. Alles was man benötigt ist vorhanden (tolle Küche, Waschmaschine, Trockner, Balkon, …). Der Pool auf dem Dach ist genial. Hier hat man eine schöne Aussicht. Auf dem Weg zur Bahn kommt man an einem Supermarkt vorbei. Alles war bei der Ankunft sauber und gepflegt. Kann es nur wärmstens empfehlen und würde hier jederzeit wieder übernachten wollen. Nochmal ein großer Danke an Peter, weiter so.
Beautiful apartment, 2 bedrooms, spacious living room. Good equipment appliances. Swimming pool, gym: real benefits. Apartment located in Sydney as close to the Central Station. It is located in an area where quality of life is quiet and pleasant. Warning, the district lacks some shops and we must take precautions before returning.
Bel appartement, 2 belles chambres, séjour spacieux. Bon équipement en électroménager. Piscine, Tennis, salle de sport : de réels avantages. Appartement bien situé dans Sydney car proche de la gare centrale. Il est localisé dans un quartier de qualité où la vie est calme et très agréable. Attention, le quartier manque un peu de commerces de proximité et il faut donc prendre ses précautions avant de rentrer.
The apartment has a great location and very good size and well distributed. However, should the three beds thicker mattresses. We were there with five adults, which was for three in the small room very cramped. One should add to the description that it is for 2 adults and up to 3 children. With the key service and has all super geklappt.Vielen thanks.
Das Apartment hat eine Top-Lage und ist sehr schön groß und gut aufgeteilt. Allerdings dürften die drei Betten dickere Matratzen haben. Wir waren dort mit fünf Erwachsenen, das war für die drei im kleinen Zimmer schon sehr beengt. Man sollte zur Beschreibung hinzufügen, dass es für 2 Erwachsene und bis 3 Kinder gilt. Mit dem Schlüssel und Service hat alles super geklappt.Vielen Dank dafür.
Reviews for this host's other properties
Fantastic view, Good bed, a little bit shabby but clean, perfect contact,
We had a great stay at his condo before our cruise. It was just as advertised and anything we needed was only a phone call away.
It was very clean when we arrived and the beds are very comfortable.
The condo is in a great location within walking distance to the CBD and Darling Harbour. We will defiantly be staying here again when we come back to Sydney.
Fabulous apartment, very spacious and clean, with a gorgeous view of the bridge and cityscape, lovely little touches by the host made us feel at home, very secure building and parking made all the difference I will definitely be booking this apartment again in the future
Very nice spacious apartment with a fantastic view of Sydney. Great location. We really enjoyed our stay.
Apartment very well located, the whole town can be done on foot
The downside is that this is the same street is very busy and noisy at night.
The pool and rooftop jacuzzi its a real plus
Everything conforms to the description on the website (missing a few dishes when we are still 5)
I highly recommend
Appartement très bien situé, toute la ville peut se faire à pied
L'inconvénient c'est que de ce fait la rue est très passagère et bruyante même la nuit.
La piscine et le jacuzzi sur le toit son un réel plus
Tout est conforme à la description faite sur le site (manque un peu de vaisselle quand même lorsqu'on est 5)
Je recommande vivement
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Personally I am not very happy that people are easily manipulated and are jumping on the fad of having a Mac. It does not give them freedom as an end user and costs way too much. A person is buying into the brand rather than actual need of the user. There are amazing PC laptop computers that you can buy for $600 comparing to Apple latops that are usually around $1300 and more. Apple computers are overpriced, proprietary, restrictive and protectionist. This might not be a good direction to be heading into. Could Apple prove to be even more restrictive and opressive than Microsoft?
I would like to hear your opinion on the success of Apple. It seems that Mac's are selling like hot cakes and the market share is increasing quite a bit. Do you think this is good or a bad thing for the free and open source community?


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Speaking Event: Update on Syria
Mother Agnes-Mariam of the Cross is Mother Superior at the Monastery and Convent of St. James in Qara, Syria.
The story that Mother Agnes tells is very different from what we hear and read in the North American press. In Spring 2013 she organized an international delegation, led by Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire, which visited Lebanon and Syria. The delegation observed conditions and talked with refugees, opposition and government representatives. Mother Agnes is one of the main organizers of Mussalaha ("Reconciliation") Initiative, a popular movement in Syria that mediates disputes and organizes ceasefires between opposing forces.
Mother Agnes is touring the U.S. and Canada in November and December 2013 to inform people about the reality in Syria and the need to stop foreign support and financing of terrorism. Her message is non-sectarian, promoting the values of Peace, Love and Reconciliation.


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I am going to purchase a handgun in the next few weeks & I am in the process of doing some research. I am new to the site, so be gentle...
I am have been reading the information here for a few days & I appreciate all that I have learned. What I am looking for is information regarding reliability & accuracy. Specifically - facts - not opinions. I know that a few years ago I saw an article that ranked the Beretta 92 among the best as far as rounds fired without jamming. If you know of any information that exists, I would appreciate that information.
You have a great site here. Thanks for the info!
Here are two guns that are pretty "bullet proof".
No one here will disagree.
I like the grip angle and trigger on the XD, so I own one. Others here will love the parts/work availability for the Glock...
Can't go wrong w/ either one, function-wise, and both are much more accurate than most any human holding them could be. They are both a great place to start as a pistol owner, and can be had used under $500.
Welcome to the forum. I learn a little every day here. And I get a few smiles too.
Welcome from down in the swamp. First I would recommend a 9mm in a auto and a .38 in a revolver. If you can rent and shoot them great. If you can't find one that feels the best to you in your hand. All your brand name companies make a fairly good pistol. Accuracy comes from practice and more pratice. Good luck.
...or maybe .357 so you can shot both .357 mag and .38.
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Good luck & don't purchase the first handgun you try , check 'em all out .
First off welcome from the mountian top in North Carolina. Now the best advise is for you to spend time renting or borrowing different handguns. You can read everything written about handguns, listen to every ones arguements, but the final deciding factor is how well you can handle the firearm. I love the 1911 and have carried one for over 35 years, others have thier favorites, I am right "for me" and they are "right for them". Only you will find out what is the best handgun for you, it will be a enjoyable quest. I wish you the best of luck and safe enjoyable future.


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There are a few that you can use. Of course you already know about the A6 setup.
Beyond that you can get an M2 tripod which is what the original 1919 was mounted on. ORF is selling Izzy M2s for around $650. I don't know if they include the T&E or pintle. You would have to check with them. This is probably the most expensive option.
Most guys just starting out go with the MG42/MG3 AA tripod with a 1919 adapter. You can get the tripod from many different places for less than $100. There are plent of people making adapters for these. Some come with dual ammo can holders. Some with T&E units on them. Most of them run about $100-$200. What's really nice about this is that you can set them up for a sitting or standing setup. Here's a pic of Weaponeer's 16" 1919 Flamthrower on the AA mount.
Another option is a Sokolov mount that is included when you buy the 1910 Maxim parts kit. The entire kit runs just under $600 before shipping. Compare that to the M2 and you can see just how good a deal this is. We are currently running a group buy on these right now. Here's a link to some pics of the 1919 on the Sokolov mount.
You can also use the MG42 Ground Mount. Tapco has these for $500 right now. This is a hell of a deal as it include the optics. Tapco also sells the adapter for the 1919. Here's a link:
I'm using a ZB37 tripod that we got in the last group buy. I had to have an adapter made but it's a great tripod. Here's a pic of weaponeer's dual 1919 crankfired setup on his ZB37 tripod.http://www.weaponeer.net/photos/pictures/twin.jpg
I hope this gives you enough options. All of them are great. Each has it's own pros and cons. Hope that helps.


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Every two or three years, the Member Growth Evangelism Committee at Crosslake Presbyterian sponsors a sale so large that it is held in several areas inside the church and on the church grounds and parking lot.
In addition to the sale, there is a huge silent auction, bake sale and lunch booth.
The sale will be Thursday and Friday, June 6 and 7, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Saturday, June 8, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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1. the hero in The Princess Bride. He is in love with the princess buttercup, who thinks that he has died after a sea journey and he become engaged to prince humperdinck. Posing as the Dread Pirate Roberts, Westley rescues the princess from a group of motley kidnappers. Later, he is captured and is tortured, dying at the hands of prince humperdinck. somehow he overcomes death and he and buttercup run off together.
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MAJORITY JUDGMENT: Measuring, Ranking, and Electing. Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki. xvi + 414 pp. The MIT Press, 2010. $40.
Majority Judgment is a lucidly written book in which Michel Balinski and Rida Laraki offer a compelling argument for rethinking the nature of voting—that is, how best to aggregate individual choices into a social choice. I have serious reservations about the specific solution they offer, a method of voting known as majority judgment. But I am not an unbiased observer, having long been an advocate of another system, approval voting, which shares some of the properties of majority judgment but which, like some other voting systems, may give very different outcomes, as I will show.
Balinski and Laraki jettison the traditional framework used in the analysis of social choice, made famous by Kenneth J. Arrow's celebrated impossibility theorem 60 years ago. Arrow assumed that voters rank candidates (or other alternatives) from best to worst and proved that four "reasonable" conditions for aggregating voter preferences are mutually inconsistent, which suggested to some that the social-choice problem was insoluble. The authors offer a critical review of this literature, proving several of its important theorems; this discussion abets a comparison with their own mathematical results, which are grounded in axioms. The book also includes many empirical and experimental examples, supported by astute history-of-science observations and rigorous statistical analysis. All of this makes for a rich interdisciplinary treatment of voting theory, which is arguably the foundation of democracy.
The singular contribution of this book is prescriptive: Balinski and Laraki propose that voters grade candidates rather than rank them and that these grades be aggregated in a particular way—if there is to be a single winner, the candidate with the highest median grade should be elected. They illustrate their argument by using the six grades used in French schools (Balinski and Laraki are associated with the Laboratoire d'Économétrie in France): Excellent, Very Good, Good, Acceptable, Poor and Reject.
The authors assert that it is the verbalized forms of the grades, not numerical points, that voters should use to rate candidates, at least insofar as there is a "common language" whereby the words convey more or less the same meaning to all voters. Although this is a tall order in many voting situations, it is not so difficult in several interesting cases that Balinski and Laraki discuss, such as wine and figure-skating competitions, in which expert judges—the voters—presumably apply similar standards.
But why use the highest median rather than the highest mean grade—assuming there is an underlying interval scale that allows for averaging—to determine a winner? In fact, both of these standards share a problem. For example, suppose five voters give candidates A and B the following grades (the voters are aligned with the grades they have given to each candidate):
If one were to convert these word grades to a six-grade equal-interval numerical scale of 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 from best to worst, the mean would favor A (2, or Poor for A; 1.8, or slightly worse than Poor for B), even though four out of five voters prefer B, whose median grade is Poor (A's median grade is Reject).
But the tables are turned if the five voters give A and B the following grades:
Now the median favors B over A (A's median grade is Acceptable and B's is Good), even though four out of five voters prefer A, who is the mean choice (with a mean grade of 3.8, or almost Very Good, for A, versus 3.2, or slightly better than Acceptable, for B).
If the voters were restricted to just two grades, Approve or Not Approve, then B would win in the first example and A in the second example, assuming that voters would choose Approve only for the candidate to whom they gave the higher grade and whom they therefore presumably prefer. Under this system, known as approval voting, note that B and A, respectively, win by decisive scores of 4 to 1 in the first and second examples.
These examples can readily be extended to include races with more than two candidates. For simplicity, I've used only two candidates to illustrate how the mean, the median and approval voting can lead to three different outcomes in the two examples.
Which grading system is best? Balinski and Laraki argue that choosing the candidate with the highest median grade, which they call majority judgment, is better than approval voting, because it allows voters to express themselves more fully; and it is better than using the mean, which is called "range voting" or "score voting," because it is less manipulable, among other reasons.
To illustrate manipulability, let us return to the first example. If two of the four voters who gave a grade of Poor to their preferred candidate, B, raised their grade of candidate B to Acceptable, B would be the range-voting winner, with a mean grade of 2.2, or slightly better than Poor. So by slightly exaggerating the grade they give to their preferred candidate, they can induce his or her election, which is a form of strategic voting.
But the median winner in the second example, candidate A, is also vulnerable. If the voters who gave grades of Poor to A, who is their preferred candidate, moved to the extreme and gave candidate A grades of Excellent, then A would have a median grade of Excellent and would defeat candidate B, whose median grade would still be Good.
This illustrates that majority judgment, too, is vulnerable to strategic voting. Although the median cannot be altered if voters exaggerate but stay on the same side of the median (for example, if those who gave candidate A a grade of Poor had not raised their grade above Acceptable), when they do not stick to their side, they can indeed manipulate the outcome to their advantage under majority judgment as well as range voting, as Balinski and Laraki acknowledge.
Although the median is generally less manipulable than the mean, which would seem to favor majority judgment over range voting, majority judgment suffers from a bizarre problem that range voting and approval voting do not—its vulnerability to the "no-show paradox," as illustrated by the following example, in which five voters give candidates A and B the following grades:
Notice that all three voting systems, including approval voting, render A the winner, and that A receives a higher grade than B from every voter except the second one.
Now suppose that two new voters show up, and each gives a grade of Excellent to candidate A and a grade of Very Good to candidate B. These additions would not change the outcome under range and approval voting; in fact, they would give a bigger victory to A. By contrast, under majority judgment, the new median would be Very Good for B but would remain Good for A, so B would win, even though it was A who received more support from the new voters.
Although the new voters have given higher grades to A than to B, their votes have backfired, electing B instead, so they would have been better off not showing up. This paradox is clearly antithetical to democratic choice—more support should help, not hurt. The authors acknowledge that majority judgment is vulnerable to the no-show paradox, but they dismiss this as "of little real importance" in practice.
Majority judgment is not the only system in which additional support can sometimes hurt a candidate. In some systems—such as the Hare system of single transferable vote (also known as the alternative vote or instant-runoff voting), which is used in Australia, among other places—voters rank all of the candidates. Those who receive the fewest first-choice votes are sequentially eliminated, and the votes cast for them are transferred to the next-lower choice who remains until one candidate receives a majority. Under this system, a voter who raises a candidate in his or her ranking can actually cause that candidate to lose. Voting systems that allow this to occur are said to be nonmonotonic.
Balinski and Laraki say that the property of monotonicity is critical: Any method that lacks monotonicity should be disqualified. But nonmonotonicity is intimately related to the no-show paradox—the underlying problem of both pathologies is that more support hurts a candidate. It therefore seems to me that the authors are being inconsistent in not disqualifying majority judgment because of its vulnerability to the no-show paradox.
Balinski and Laraki are not the first to propose use of the median, but they are the first to address the problem of ties (with only six grades, two or more candidates could easily tie for the highest median grade). They suggest an elaborate set of rules for breaking ties. These are plausible, but there are other tie-breaking rules that would probably work just as well.
One of the strengths of Majority Judgment is its discussion of applications of the method to different types of contests. In addition to wine and figure skating, there are other competitions (the authors discuss piano, diving and gymnastic competitions) in which judges grade contestants. In some types of contests, either fewer gradations (as illustrated by approval voting) or more (up to 100 gradations have been suggested by some proponents of range voting) might work better.
Although in many competitions winning is the name of the game, in others taking second or third place is considered meritorious and noteworthy. In the latter contests, judges are likely to make nuanced distinctions in evaluating contestants, rather than giving only maximum and minimum grades to them.
But in many political elections, I'm afraid, voters would do exactly that, giving their favorites the maximum grade and their most serious competitors the minimum grade. The publication of polls on the relative standings of candidates, and the advice of political pundits, would encourage this bifurcation of grades, which is equivalent to grading under approval voting. It is true that in experiments with majority judgment in French elections, many voters gave intermediate grades to candidates, but I would argue that they did so because they knew this was only an experiment and thus felt that they could afford to be honest.
In the dozen or so professional societies in which approval voting has been used, voters often approve of two or more candidates in races that have five or more contestants. In major public elections with three or four major candidates, a centrist is likely to receive support not only from centrist voters but also from moderate left and moderate right voters and, therefore, will be more likely to win under majority judgment than plurality voting. But majority judgment would probably not favor centrists to the extent that range and approval voting would; as a case in point, using as evidence data from an experiment in Orsay, France, Balinski and Laraki argue that in the 2007 French presidential election, centrist François Bayrou probably would not have won under majority judgment.
Majority judgment seems best suited for contests in which winning isn't everything, so that jurors' judgments are more likely to be sincere. The difficulty of manipulating the median should also foster sincerity under this system. But the susceptibility of majority judgment to the no-show paradox is a serious problem, in my opinion, and so is the lack of a common language to assess political candidates, especially in a country like the United States in which cultural differences are significant and partisanship runs high.
Balinski and Laraki have made a provocative case for using majority judgment in evaluating contestants; their case for using it in political elections is weaker. More important, they have expertly presented the benefits of grading candidates, as opposed to ranking them. For too long the latter perspective has dominated the study of social-choice theory.
Steven J. Brams is professor of politics at New York University. He is coauthor with Peter C. Fishburn of Approval Voting (Springer, 1983; second edition, 2007) and is the author of Mathematics and Democracy: Designing Better Voting and Fair-Division Procedures (Princeton University Press, 2008). His latest book is Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds (The MIT Press, 2011).
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Silo Mountain (Big Haystack) Climber's Log
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|Silo or Sihi?
Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2010
|First time I bicycled to this one, I took a wrong turn and wound up running out of time. Second time was a charm.
|Posted Jun 5, 2016 12:03 pm
Date Climbed: Sep 9, 2012
|Kind of a cloudy day, so I decided to scratch this one off the list. I recently purchased an electric mountain bike, so I figured this would be a good test of its capabilities. I was able to get the bike right to the end of navigable road (4000') just as the battery was reaching its low voltage limit. A quick scramble up the south side of the "summit block" was not nearly as brushy as I had expected. No views to be had, but a fun ride back down made it all worth it.
|Posted Sep 9, 2012 6:55 pm
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|Did It
Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2012
|Cold and wet day but still had a good time.
|Posted Jul 23, 2012 10:32 am
|Mike Lewis
|Sunday Chore
Date Climbed: Mar 27, 2011
|Very dangerous level 5 avalanche danger with extreme whiteout conditions. Class 5 rotten Choss encountered on both summits. We got lost constantly and as the situation proved to be more intensely desparate I broke my foot and needed emergency medications to handle the pain and we barely made it out alive. It was worth it though, as there was a brief clearing where we could see Whitehorse and Glacier peak.
Just Kidding. It was pretty simple and easygoing.
|Posted Mar 28, 2011 7:36 pm
|Josh Lewis
|Good Day Out
Date Climbed: Mar 27, 2011
|Redwic said it all, it had some good views on the way as well.
|Posted Mar 28, 2011 7:27 pm
Date Climbed: Nov 24, 2007
|We did this as a fall bike trip with a dusting of snow. We found a good way down but the ascent at the top was a very slow bushwhack. I think it took us about 45 minutes to go a tenth of a mile. But we made up for it by coasting down the last several miles of road on our bikes.
|Posted Mar 28, 2011 3:13 pm
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Date Climbed: Mar 27, 2011
|Michael, Josh, and I ascended Silo Mountain, and then Haystack Mountain on the return-trip. Silo Mountain has some steep/cliffy slopes, so we avoided those by backtracking slightly along the road and ascended/descended a northwest slope. Nice, brief, steep glissade on the way down, due to perfect snow conditions allowing us to do so. This particular slope would not have been recommended if icy, due to the steepness. No bushwhacking necessary for us, due to snow being on the peak as well as the rest of the summit approach above 2300' elevation.
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Hef's Movie Notes: Boogie Nights
Hugh Hefner introduces the film that gave us a glimpse into the world of 1970s porn.
Tonight: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy and Heather Graham in Boogie Nights.
The director, 27-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson, adapted this feature from a student film he made a decade earlier, titled The Dirk Diggler Story.
Diggler was inspired by unusually well endowed porn star John Holmes, also known as Johnny Wadd.
The Dirk Diggler Story starred Anderson's father, Ernie Anderson, and our dear departed friend, Bob Ridgley as "Jack Horner."
Off-screen, Ernie Anderson and Bob Ridgley had long shared booth duties as the promo voices of ABC-TV.
The role of Diggler in Boogie Nights was initially offered to Leonardo DiCaprio. He wanted to do it, but he was signed for Titanic, which created a scheduling conflict.
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Gwyneth Paltrow declined the role played by Graham as "Rollergirl."
Warren Beatty and actor-director Sydney Pollack turned down the "Jack Horner" character. Pollack attended the premiere of Boogie Nights, and later told the media he thought he had made a mistake in declining the role.
Burt Reynolds ultimately got the role, which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He told Maxim that he researched the part by hanging around during the making of real porn films. He was so disgusted by what he saw, or so he said, that he regretted not wearing rubber gloves after each visit to a porn set. He also felt the need to take a shower immediately after each visit. Or so he said.
Everyone he met on these excursions posed the same question to him: "How can I obtain a Screen Actor's Guild membership?"
In the cast: Robert Downey Sr., as the studio manager, plus real porn stars Summer Cummings, Skye Blue, Nina Hartley and Veronica Hart.
The film's title is derived from a 1977 disco hit by a group named "Heatwave." But the lead singer, Johnny Wilder Jr., is a born-again Christian and blocked use of his song, explaining that Boogie Nights was meant to celebrate dancing, not pornography.
The film was shot from July 10 through October 4, 1996, all over the San Fernando Valley.
They cut 40 seconds from the film in order to change the NC-17 rating to an R. The "F" word (and derivatives) was used 165 times in the final cut.
The budget and estimated cost of the film was $15.5 million.
Boogie Nights opened on October 8, 1997 at the New York Film Festival. It earned $26.5 million domestically and $15.5 million overseas for a total of more than $43 million—a clear commercial hit.
The critical reception for a film on this subject was surprisingly positive. The San Francisco Chronicle declared, "Boogie Nights is the first great film about the 1970s to come out since the 1970s. It gets all the details right, nailing down the styles and the music. We know we are watching a wonderful sprawling, sophisticated film … a panorama of recent social history, rendered in bold, exuberant colors."
The Los Angeles Times called it "a startling film." The New York Times enthralled "Everything about Boogie Nights is interestingly unexpected. … Mark Wahlberg gives a terrifically appealing performance."
Rolling Stone declared, "This chunk of movie dynamite is detonated by Mark Wahlberg, who grabs a breakout role and runs with it. … Boogie Nights is mercilessly honest and mercilessly humane at the same time—a hilarious and harrowing spectacle. A fireball in a time capsule."
Roger Ebert wrote, "In 1977, when the story opens, porn movies were shot on film, screened in theaters and a director could dream of making one so good that the audience would want to stay in the theater even after they had achieved what they came for. By 1983, when the story closes, porn had shifted to video and most of the movies were basically just gynecological loops. … 'Jack Horner' is the father figure for a strange, extended family of sex workers. He's a low-rent Hugh Hefner, and Burt Reynolds gives one of his best performances, as a man who seems to stand outside the sex and views it with the detached eye of a judge at a livestock show."
Boogie Nights earned three Oscar nominations: Best Supporting Actor for Burt Reynolds, Best Supporting Actress for Julianne Moore and Best Screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson.
Reynolds didn't get along with Anderson, who wanted to use him again in Magnolia. Reynolds said no. In fact, Reynolds fired his agent for getting him the part. And he would do nothing to promote the film, despite the Oscar nomination it earned him and the Golden Globe that he won.
So now—from 1997—Boogie Nights.


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#1 Wed 23 Jan 08 6:48am
I am confused. I always had thought that shortening was a semi-solid fat (eg Crisco), similar to lard and was used in some baking, such as pastry.
Read a recipe that calls for the shortening "to be creamed with the sugar ...". Sounded odd to me. Thought that shortening would be "rubbed in to resemble breadcrumbs".
Is my understanding of shortening incorrect? I did Google it and Google agreed with me (not that that means anything ).
Anyone shed some light on this? Am curious.
#2 Wed 23 Jan 08 8:18am
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Re: Shortening...
It would depend on the effect the recipe is trying to achieve. If they want a short taste then it's rubbed in - probably where it got it's name from as it's the most common use. If creamed then the fat is more evenly distributed allowing a more moist mouth feel.
#3 Wed 23 Jan 08 8:32am
Re: Shortening...
Thanks, Rabbit.
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Re: Shortening...
I always thought that shortning was as you discribed it Maree.
I can see that teating it slightly differently might have a different affect on the cooking..I might give it a go and see if I cab acheive spongy pastry for the top af a pie !!
#5 Wed 23 Jan 08 8:56am
Re: Shortening...
The recipe was for biscuits. Good luck with the pastry. I would have rubbed the shortening (or butter) in, rather than creaming. Pastry is not one of my things apart from the bought stuff, lol.
#6 Wed 23 Jan 08 3:31pm
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Re: Shortening...
I don't do a lot of baking anymore but when I did, a lot of my recipes called for shortening (vegetable) for cakes, cookies etc. Cake and cookie recipes now use butter or margarine. When I took a cake decorating course some years back the frosting was made with shortening instead of butter. So, I've been cooking (baking) (creaming) with shortening for many years.
#7 Wed 23 Jan 08 5:47pm
Re: Shortening...
Hi gramma julie and thanks for the response. That's interesting to know.
All fats are equal, I realise, kilojoule/calorie-wise. But isnt shortening a "unhealthy" fat? If I do try this recipe, think I will substitute canola margarine.
The rain has stopped here (due back Sunday with storms- at least Australia Day- Saturday is meant to be fine) but with the sun out again, the humidity has returned. Not good for baking pastry or biscuits/cookies with a high fat content.
Might leave this recipe for the cooler months to try.
Thanks again
#8 Wed 23 Jan 08 6:34pm
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Re: Shortening...
Maree, The word 'shortening' actually refers to the broad category of fats used in baking. This can include the individual ingredient known as Crisco 'Shortening', but it can just as correctly refer to butter, etc.
#9 Wed 23 Jan 08 6:46pm
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Re: Shortening...
I would cream the sugar and shortening as I would cream sugar and butter.. with a mixer.
#10 Wed 23 Jan 08 7:15pm
Re: Shortening...
Thanks, cupcake, for your response.
I thought, in common useage, shortening referred to substances such as Crisco and lard, whilst butter and margarine were referred to as "butter/margarine".
All do the same job (to add fat), (which is "shortening") be it to pastry making, which I rarely make for health, personal/family preference/our humidity/time and oven space (my three businesses are run from home, using the family kitchen and appliances). Due to kitchen pressures, if I do use pastry, it it phyllo and is the "non-freeze" variety. Figure if Jamie chooses to use supermarket "all butter" pastry, it is good enough for me (on the rare occasions I might use puff as a pie topping etc).
Why do we have so much un-necessary confusion (rhetorical question)? If we are advised to use "Crisco-type" products/lard/butter/margarine (or oil, for that matter), why isn't it stipulated?
The only time that I have used lard was about 20 years ago in a "hot water pastry" for a fancy French pie. It was a disaster.I binned it. It was the height of Summer (not ideal conditions with both high heat and humidity for making pastry. Used the filling to make a proscuitto-lined terrine.
Thanks for the info. Sorry about my whinge. Not directed at you but at some recipe writers/editors (not here, but those at large)
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It's the last show for "Saturday Night Live" star Seth Meyers before he takes over the "Late Night" hosting duties vacated by Jimmy Fallon, who is in turn moving to "The Tonight Show".
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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by jr40usa, Dec 4, 2012.
so, 8-8 every year ("average") would be OK with you?
I can promise you the Redskin fans and Giant fans are looking at the playoffs and hoping their team makes it. You can wallow in pity alone or with a few others around here, myself I'm doing exactly what the other fans are doing in Washington and in New York and that is pulling for my team to make it.
No cult just not going to sit here acting like some spoiled little brat, things are not going the way I want so boo hoo. You can have it I don't need it, I'm a fan I pull for my team you can do what you want.
Nice of you to call names when someone expresses their opinion on the end results.
So just to be clear, what is the exact over/under on wins and loses to be considered someone opining versus being a spoiled little brat?
Since you're a moderator I propose your comment will be the official position.
when the slogans are 'hope' and 'believe' and 'have faith'
despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary
that is the definition of a cult
I call it like it is, don't like it? Boo Hoo
You guys sit here and complain anyone says anything positive or make a comment that this team is in the hunt and all of a sudden that is not reality and only you guys who spout negitives and have writen the season off are the only ones who know the truth. You don't
I Speak on my behalf no one elses so only offical stance is my own.
Okay Ricky Bobby.
What evidence? Washington and Dallas are tied NY is 1 game up there are 4 games left that is the facts. There is no certainty that the Cowboys will make it but the same could be said for Washington and New York. You give up good for you.
I can ensure you Washington fans and New York fan are hoping, believing and having faith their teams can do it. They are fans, so if you definition of cult is those who are fans then I'm guilty as charged.
I question how appropriate this comment is?
Then question it. Get over yourself.
So, what the purpose of this thread? Nobody should get their hopes up? There are posts about how bad the Cowboys suck in every thread. Perhaps you were just letting everyone know that we dont play the Eagles again. Sorry, everyone here knows the schedule. All the fans that "believe" or whatever are fully aware of the odds not being in our favor but we are fortunate to be in the situation we are with all the bad play and thats probably why some fans still have hope. You made a thread to let these fans know how ignorant they are and ridicule them?
Really, please tell me the purpose of this thread.
NY has won 2 SBs in the last 4 years and both times have done it after poor starts
Washington is starting a rookie QB and RB so their fans are hoping that this is a sign of things to come
night and day from where we are
That is the whole deal, Some have written the season off and want to tell others they should as well? Give me a break, if some want to write it off then go ahead there is no need to tell others to follow their own negitive views.
Dallas may not make it there is no question about that but they are in a position right now that gives them a shot. It is not drinking kool-aid or rose color glasses it is fact. NY and Washington have their own issues to overcome as do the Cowboys
If we want to talk about hope and believe, O.K. I hope we make the playoffs, but I don't believe we will. How's that?
Too many injuries, bad coaching decisions, penalties, inconsistent play on both sides of the ball, turnovers, etc. Not a formula for a late season run, but I hope we make one.
Telling me what happened in the past does not guarantee anything in the future. As for Washington sure they have a reason to be excited and as a Cowboy fan I have reason to be excited, Dez looks like he is finally getting it together and playing very good ball, Murray back in the lineup may help this running game and puts another playmaker in the lineup something we did not have last year due to his missing the last portion of the season.
Again you want to write off the season be my guest but questioning others who hold out hope just because you don't is going to draw comments in response.
No one is pretending this is a lock or some sure thing, Cowboys have an uphill battle in front of them and many of their fans are pulling for them to do just that, you want to play DMN columnist then go for it
what is really sad is how many here seem OK with average.
what ever floats your boat. But hope, faith is what other fans are doing just as well and other teams have things they have to overcome to make it to the post season. NY is not running away with it they have flaws, Washington has flaws but their fans are solidly behind them.
Who is happy about avg? This is where we are right now tied for 2nd with Washington, 1 game back of NY who we split with and with a better divisional record with 4 games left.
Would I have liked to have seen the Cowboys play better than they have this season? sure no doubt about it, very disappointed but this is the boat we are in and unlike some I will continue to pull for this team to overcome the negitives of this season.
It is not a matter of accepting avg play it is a matter of fans standing up and pulling for their team that is what fans do they pull for their team good times and bad but then I don't think some of you have a clue. You are want to be DMN writers that when things are not going how you would like just wash your hands of the team.


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Mattel's (MAT) first quarter results dipped on costs associated with its acquisition of HIT Entertainment, but the company's results also revealed weakness in the U.S. That domestic slowdown helps explain why the toymaker's shares are down 8.2% this morning.
The company reported EPS of 2 cents, versus expectations for 7 cents.
In North America, gross sales fell 9%. Gross sales rose 7% outside of North America.
Some of the company's top brands appeared to slump: worldwide gross sales fell 6% for Barbie, 5% for Hot Wheels and were flat for Fisher-Price.
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