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Kevin DrumNov. 20, 2008 10:22 PM
APPLE WOES....So remember how you guys were all over me for years about how bad PCs sucked and how I should get a Mac to solve all my problems etc. etc.? And so I finally got one a few months ago, and it worked fine. (Not really any better than a PC, to be honest, but it was fine.) Remember all that?
Well, guess what? I haven't used my MacBook for a couple of months, but I pulled it out the other day and discovered that Macs don't hibernate in order to extend battery life. They just go into standby mode when you close the lid, and then hibernate right before the battery goes completely dead. So of course my battery was completely dead. No big deal, though: I just plugged in the charger and went away for a few hours.
And nothing happened. The notebook no longer recognizes the battery and declines to charge it even a tiny bit. Reinstalled the battery, but that didn't do any good. So now what? Take it into an Apple store and find out what's wrong, I guess. What a pain. Why can't Apple make decent hardware, anyway?
Kiera ButlerNov. 20, 2008 8:10 PM
Oh my God, you guys. Rejoice, teens of the world. It's just gotten a whole lot easier to pursue one of your favorite interests: torturing each other on the Internet. On a new site called High School Tabloid, teens can submit pictures and scandalous stories from their very own high schools. Just think: The angst and growing pains of your friends, enemies, and frenemies memorialized—and laid bare for literally the whole world to see! Check out this screen shot from the home page:
And its motto pulls no punches: "Gossip, Publicity, Popularity."
Teens who post are awarded points, two for comments posted to a story and "10 points for posted headline with story." (So are the points for the headline or the story?) Earn enough points and this fabulous prize could be yours:
Obtain 50,000 points you become an official High School Tabloid columnist which will give you the opportunity to write a cover story, which will be featured on the HighSchoolTabloid home page! .GOSSIP.PUBLICITY.POPULARITY.
Folks, there may be hope for journalism yet.
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Party BenNov. 20, 2008 7:28 PM
For those of you who felt like the McCain campaign, round about early September, started to look like some sort of demented cartoon, don't say "that's all folks" yet. As we discussed here back in August, singer-songwriter Jackson Browne filed suit against the McCain campaign for using his song, "Running on Empty," in a campaign ad. Sure, the suit was more symbolic than anything (considering the ads were probably off the air by the time Browne called his lawyer) but the remnants of the McCain campaign are taking it very seriously, countersuing in U.S. District Court in California. As Reuters reported, McCain filed two motions:
The first is a standard motion to dismiss, claiming that McCain's use of the song was fair use. McCain also says that Browne's assertion that the Lanham Act's prohibition on the implication of a "false association or endorsement" fails because it only applies to "commercial speech," not "political speech." The second filing is maybe even more interesting. It's an anti-SLAPP motion, which is typically used by defendants as a way to seek monetary damages after a plaintiff has subjected a defendant to a lawsuit meant to chill free speech. So far, McCain is only looking for attorney's fees and costs, but claiming an artist has interfered with free speech is quite the poke of an eye in show business.
That's right, McCain is looking to recoup some cash here. To add insult to injury, the first motion included the boastful assertion that using "Running on Empty" in their ad "will likely increase the popularity of this 30-year-old song." Hilarious, but McCain may have a point, as the only major "win" that had anything to do with his campaign was pop-cultural: SNL's ratings bump and Tina Fey becoming America's sweetheart. Maybe Browne should write a book?
Daniel LuzerNov. 20, 2008 6:09 PM
There's a new tactic to target casual drug users: Convince them drugs are polluting the planet. On Tuesday, according to the Guardian, Francisco Santos Calderón, the vice-president of Colombia, told a conference of British senior police officers:
If you snort a gram of cocaine, you are destroying 4m square of rainforest and that rainforest is not just Colombian—it belongs to all of us who live on this planet, so we should all be worried about it. Not only that, the money that you use to buy the cocaine goes into the hands of FARC, of illegal groups that plant mines, that kidnap, that kill, that use terrorism to protect their business.
As the Guardian explained, Santos wanted to persuade casual British users, the "social user who drove a hybrid car and was concerned about the environment" to eschew the drug because of its environmental impact. As Gawker asked sardonically, "You might not stop for the sake of your money, your police record, or your septum, but would you give up blow if you knew that every eight ball cost ten square meters of precious rainforest habitat, you Whole Foods junkie?"
While Santos didn't cite any evidence to prove his point (or his 4m square statistic), what he is saying sort of makes sense. The coca plant is a cash crop and Columbia is a tropical country; growing cocaine—like oranges, mandarins, or coffee—obliges farmers to cut down some of the rainforest. Still, something about this seems a little suspicious. Are casual users of cocaine really responsible for pervasive environmental destruction?
While it's true that in the last five years, production of cocaine in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru has increased almost 20 percent, the truth is that the destruction of the rainforest is not due to increased demand from wealthy British cocaine users. In fact, it makes more sense to wonder if inept efforts to eradicate the coca plant don't cause most of the destruction of the rainforest. Farmers grow coca because it's a lucrative cash crop; then drug control agents spray the plants with poison. As Mother Jones explained back in March 2007, this causes farmers to, sensibly, push further into the rainforest.
So yes, it is technically true that the cocaine industry is destroying the Columbian rainforest. But while casual drug use certainly doesn't help, it's not the main cause of environmental destruction; that award goes to Plan Columbia (.pdf). It looks like Santos can't see the rainforest for the coke.
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Jonathan SteinNov. 20, 2008 6:03 PM
My piece out today on frustrated internet activists in the Republican Party begins with a story from Michael Turk, a conservative activist who ran the eCampaign division at the RNC after the 2004 presidential election. In short, the RNC killed an exciting opportunity for web video just as it began to get some coverage because it badly misunderstood the conventions of the genre. (See the piece for more detail.) That episode presaged the current state of affairs. Four years later, Barack Obama used and is using web video as one of many technological tools to reach out to hundreds of thousands of his supporters, while John McCain had a lackluster YouTube channel and generated little excitement around his web operations.
But it isn't just Obama who is capitalizing on the power of web video. It's the left more generally. Consider The Young Turks. A radio show originally on Air America and now on XM satellite radio, The Young Turks has been broadcasting on the web since the pre-YouTube era. Now that it operates a YouTube channel, it is absolutely killing the game. Just this week the channel passed 50 million views, with 32.4 million views coming in a period that maps with the election cycle (January to October 2008). By comparison, the John McCain YouTube channel has just 25.7 million views in its lifetime.
A progressive satellite radio show did better traffic online than the Republican presidential candidate. The Republican activists that I spoke with have a seriously uphill battle.
Kevin DrumNov. 20, 2008 4:36 PM
BLOG BLEG....I need more blogs to read. Who do you recommend? All subject areas and political affiliations welcome as long as they have interesting things to say. Leave your top picks in comments.
Party BenNov. 20, 2008 4:29 PM
It's here: early this morning, the entirety of Chinese Democracy, the new album from Guns N' Roses and their first in 17 years, was posted to their official MySpace page for your 96kbps listening pleasure. The physical CD will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy stores this Sunday, breaking with the odd tradition of Tuesday releasesspeaking of democracy, could we do that with elections too? Anyway, Jon Pareles has a lot of fun with it in the Times today:
"Chinese Democracy" is the Titanic of rock albums: the ship, not the movie, although like the film it's a monumental studio production. It's outsize, lavish, obsessive, technologically advanced and, all too clearly, the end of an era. It's also a shipwreck, capsized by pretensions and top-heavy production. In its 14 songs there are glimpses of heartfelt ferocity and despair, along with bursts of remarkable musicianship. But they are overwhelmed by countless layers of studio diddling and a tone of curdled self-pity. The album concludes with five bombastic power ballads in a row.
Glimpses, indeed, and I might add "fleeting."
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Kevin DrumNov. 20, 2008 3:33 PM
MORE CDS CHATTER....Megan McArdle, who has been skeptical of the role of credit default swaps in the financial meltdown, publishes an email today from a reader that, I think, gets it about right:
As someone with a front-row seat to this crisis, let me say that there are people who trade CDS and do not understand crucial details of contract terms and bond seniority....Moreover, street-side participants in CDS have realized that they are counterparties to obligations they often don't understand, and this has certainly played a role in both a) their unwillingness to extend credit and b) their inability to get credit from lenders who are uncertain of what their CDS obligations mean. THAT is why Buffett called them "financial weapons of mass destruction" not because they START a war, but because they have immense capacity to radically ESCALATE it.
....[After the fall of Lehman Brothers] everyone started worrying about collateral, and then discovered that they were not able to properly worry about collateral, since they did not fully understand derivative collateral requirements. All they knew is that they were facing something big and scary, and so once again collectively and naively we all stopped lending just to be safe.
As someone with a front-row seat to this crisis, let me say that there are people who trade CDS and do not understand crucial details of contract terms and bond seniority....Moreover, street-side participants in CDS have realized that they are counterparties to obligations they often don't understand, and this has certainly played a role in both a) their unwillingness to extend credit and b) their inability to get credit from lenders who are uncertain of what their CDS obligations mean. THAT is why Buffett called them "financial weapons of mass destruction" not because they START a war, but because they have immense capacity to radically ESCALATE it.
....[After the fall of Lehman Brothers] everyone started worrying about collateral, and then discovered that they were not able to properly worry about collateral, since they did not fully understand derivative collateral requirements. All they knew is that they were facing something big and scary, and so once again collectively and naively we all stopped lending just to be safe.
This is, roughly speaking, my understanding of what happened too. The CDS market is a highly useful one, but it's too opaque; it's too hard to truly know what your CDS counterparty risk really is; and collateral requirements can amplify a downward spiral and cause bank failures that otherwise wouldn't have happened. There are regulatory answers for all these things, and although they probably wouldn't eliminate problems in the future (nothing can do that, I imagine), they might reduce them considerably.
On another note, Megan has apparently cast her vote for "CDSs" as the plural of CDS. I'd opt for "CDSes" myself, but I'm open to anything that's an actual, rather than an implied, plural. Perhaps this will start a trend.
Kevin DrumNov. 20, 2008 3:07 PM
NONCONVENTIONAL WARFARE....Speculating on what might happen if Robert Gates stays on for a while as Secretary of Defense seems a little frivolous when we don't even know if Gates is truly in contention for the job, but let's do a bit of it anyway. Gates has taken the position that the Army should focus almost exclusively on counterinsurgency and irregular warfare in the future, something that Michele Flournoy, who's heading Obama's defense transition team, has criticized:
She said the document appropriately emphasizes irregular warfare focused on terrorists and rogue regimes bent on using insurgency or weapons of mass destruction but might go too far. "I think irregular warfare is very important, particularly in contrast to preparing solely for conventional warfighting, but it shouldn't be our only focus," Flournoy said, adding that countries such as China likely are preparing for "high-end" warfare and attacks involving anti-satellite technologies and cyberspace.
Barron YoungSmith thinks this is going to cause some tension:
If Gates ends up staying on at the Pentagon, he and Petraeus will almost certainly be able to impose these counterinsurgency-oriented priorities on what Flournoy, who has long-standing plans to revamp DoD, hoped would be a top-down review starting from scratch.
I'll take the other side of this issue. My guess is that the Army's institutional culture is so dedicated to conventional warfare that even a massive push from Gates and Petraeus in the other direction will turn the battleship only a few degrees. Especially if all this stuff is part of a top-down review (which it will be, since the QDR process will be starting up in 2009), a clear and concentrated focus from the start on nonconventional warfare is probably the only way we'll make any progress at all. I think I might be on Gates's side on this.
Kevin DrumNov. 20, 2008 2:27 PM
YOU ARE WHAT YOU BLOG....Via Andrew Sullivan, this is just scary. The Typealyzer sucks in the contents of your blog and spits out your Myers-Briggs personality type about two seconds later. Like pretty much everyone of a certain age who's worked in the business world, I've taken the Myers-Briggs test a couple of times, and the typealyzer got my personality type exactly right. (Though my recollection is that it was a close call on the Sensing/Intuition scale.) This is especially impressive considering that upwards of a third of the text on the blog is excerpts from news articles and other blogs.
Methinks the web is getting too smart for its own good. Granted, my personality type probably isn't too hard to figure out even from a 30-second conversation, but it's a little unnerving that some heap of silicon can do it. If they can already do this, how long will it be before our robot overlords take over completely?
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This year's on-time approval of the New York State budget has special significance for the residents of Rockaway and Broad Channel.
It's also significant for Assembly member Phillip Goldfeder who was able to vote on his first-ever Albany budget while granting one special reinstatement for the peninsula: the return of the Cross Bay Bridge resident rebate program. This means that Rockaway and Broad Channel residents will soon be able to traverse the bridge as many times as they need to without paying a dime.
"Most importantly, people in Rockaway and Broad Channel want to know whether or not the rebate is included," Goldfeder said. "I am proud to say I was able to accomplish just that by providing reimbursement to the MTA for the Cross Bay Bridge rebate program. It's nice to see something you work so hard on come to fruition."
"While the money is in the budget we have to rely on the MTA to implement the program. I am urging the new director of the MTA, Joseph Lhota, to take the money and implement it as quickly as possible," he continued.
MTA Bridges and Tunnels spokesperson Judie Glave told The Wave this week that the rebate should take effect in July at the latest.
Once the MTA receives the reim- bursement from the state, the money goes into the MTA general fund and must then be distributed to MTA Bridges and Tunnels. The rebate cannot be reinstated until they receive the reimbursement from the MTA fund.
When elected in November, Goldfeder pledged to make the CBB toll one of his top priorities. The MTA revoked the rebate back in 2010 after more than a decade of having Rockaway and Broad Channel residents with EZ-Pass cross the bridge for free. A compromise was then passed that was still considered unfair to most. It allowed the MTA to charge EZ-Pass residents for the first two trips across the bridge before subsequent trips became free of charge.
In the fall of 2011, directly after Goldfeder's election, he sent a letter to MTA President Joseph Lhota, asking that the MTA reinstate the full residency discount. Shortly after, he sent Lhota a petition with 2,000 signatures in support of the toll's elimination. Goldfeder then made the announcement in January that he worked the revival of the Cross Bay Bridge resident rebate program into the 2012 budget proposal. It took several months for the budget to be approved and for the rebate to become official.
"The return of this important rebate program is a step in the right direction towards the complete elimination of this inherently fair tax," Goldfeder continued. "This toll has been a burden for the residents and businesses of our community for far too long. The passage of the rebate program in the budget is a tremendous victory for our community, but it is only the first step towards complete elimination of this toll for all of Queens residents."


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And there's a good reason for that as its owner in the 1970s was no one less than the one and only true kit car guru mister Peter Filby. In the many, many, magazines that he published in the period the 'Maya Maynot', as it soon became known, was a regular topic and it can be seen in the background on pictures in other articles too. Originally the car came with 850cc engine "which expired rather suddenly at an unmentionable speed, so Caroline, and her boyfriend Peter Filby, decided to drop in something a little more healthy like a 998 Cooper lump", wrote Hot Car magazine in 1975. At around that time the headlights were changed to rectangular units from Hillman's Avenger, a job that was carried out by the Lenham Motor Co. Also the colour was changed to 'Tinned Salmon' with a black stripe plus a front spoiler was fitted, while later pictures show it with a rather amazing rear spoiler in Can Am style, too!
The car was used on a daily basis, which did not do much good, and a couple of years later it was decided to refurbish it somewhat more thoroughly as "the general air of dilapidation was not helped by the rather unusual styling, which although bizarre at first, does tend to grow on one", wrote Filby. A series in Alternative Car magazine followed. The engine, brakes and steering were rebuilt, starter engine, fuel pump and dampers were replaced, the doors were fitted with new hinges and interior panels, and the body work around these was strengthened. A new rear window and new windscreen rubbers were fitted, sound proofing, rubber mats and new seats were ordered and the car was repainted in Ford Olympic Blue. It cost some 55 hours and 550 pounds (material only) to do the job. Some issues later, the car was advertised for sale in the magazine for 750 pounds only, which seemed a bargain. Where did it go? It appears to have been on the road for the last time in 1983.
The Maya GT in its original guise, including 'frogeye' headlights
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By that time original 850 engine was replaced by a 998 Cooper unit
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Some years later the 'Maya Maynot' was overdue for a major restoration
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This is what it became. Colour is now Ford Olympic blue
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I have a 2001 330i Sedan. I'm overhauling my heater hoses and am having a hard time verifying or identifying the three hoses I need. I already have the radiator hoses.
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3) From the other firewall connection to the middle of the expansion tank (64218376153, I think)
4) From the bottom of the expansion tank to the firewall (11531436410 for sure)
What's confusing is the diagram that everyone refers to (Pelican, RealOem, etc.) shows another hose, but then doesn't list the part number. What hose is that? There is no third connection on the firewall that I am aware of.
I hope to buy the aluminum water pump pulley but it is out of stock. My plastic pulley got chipped when I removed it. It was frozen on from ten years of attachment. Surprising, given that it's plastic. Couldn't budge it without a little prying, but like the rest of the plastic parts in the engine compartment, it gets brittle with age. Love my three BMWs, but hate the plastic.
Is the fancy Stewart water pump really worth two times the price of the BMW pump? Car is not raced.
I also need the pulley from the A/C tensioner. Doesn't look like the pulley is available separately from the tensioner itself. Can anyone find the pulley separately?
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 5, /PRNewswire/ -- In 1994, hardly a product supporting Microsoft(R) platforms could be found. In 1995, they could be found, but mostly behind closed doors. But this year, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) platforms and technologies have exploded onto the SIGGRAPH `96 show floor. They're setting stunning price/performance benchmarks and often exceeding the features of traditional UNIX(R)-based workstation applications. As a result, SIGGRAPH `96 attendees are being treated to a dazzling array of new hardware products, authoring and animation software, graphics-accelerator cards and technology demonstrations - all based on Microsoft multimedia platforms and technologies.
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* Among almost 300 SIGGRAPH '96 exhibitors, more than 200 are showing applications based on the Windows NT(R) and Windows(R) 95 operating systems or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0.
* In just one year, the number of SIGGRAPH exhibitors shipping Windows-based products has jumped more than 350 percent. More than 110 SIGGRAPH `96 exhibitors are shipping Windows-based products, up from 25 at SIGGRAPH `95. This includes 83 software companies and 50 hardware companies.
"Never before has a professional market adopted a new platform so rapidly," said Bill Caffrey, vice president and director of advanced technology strategies for The Gartner Group. "Without doubt, Microsoft platforms are setting the new standard for professional content production."
"Windows NT-based systems have become the graphics target platform of choice for virtually all the workstation graphics applications," said John Latta, president of Fourth Wave, an industry analyst firm. "This shift marks a major change in workstation market dynamics as the PC, through Windows NT, increasingly penetrates what was the exclusive territory of workstations only a few years ago."
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Breaking through price/performance barriers and providing a robust authoring environment, Windows NT is quickly becoming the preferred platform for creative professionals. Already, many feature films, commercials and interactive game titles are being produced with Windows NT-based hardware and software.
* Content creation software. Virtually every leading content creation and authoring software package - including Softimager 3D, Macromedia(R) Director, Adobe Illustrator(TM) and Kinetix's 3D Studio MAX - is now available for Windows NT. These products match or exceed the functionality of workstation-based products and take advantage of Windows NT support for multiprocessing, multitasking and networking capabilities.
* Hardware. New microprocessors - such as Intel(R) Pentium(R) Pro and Digital's Alpha - are forging new performance standards. OpenGL(R)- based graphics cards from innovators such as AccelGraphics Inc. and Dynamic Pictures are providing better-than-workstation interactive performance. Almost every leading PC company now offers high- performance, specially optimized hardware for creative professionals. Companies such as Digital Equipment Corp., Intergraph Corp., NEC Technologies Inc. and NeTpower Inc. are aggressively marketing extremely fast yet affordable systems, including single-, dual- and quad-CPU systems.
Playback: Games and More
Microsoft platforms and technology are emerging as the leading playback systems for both CD-ROM and the Internet. Microprocessor technology and graphics-accelerator cards provide arcade-like quality and speed.
* Titles. Virtually every leading game company - including Activision Inc., id Software, DreamWorks Interactive and Microsoft Corp.'s own interactive media division - is now producing titles for Windows 95-based systems. More than 100 titles are available today, with hundreds more scheduled to be available by the 1996 holiday season. Hundreds of titles make use of the Microsoft DirectX(TM) set of APIs, including the Direct3D(TM) API.
* Internet applications. Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 is rapidly becoming the leading multimedia-enabled browser through ActiveX(TM) Controls, support for the Java language, and now incorporation of VRML 2.0. Companies such as Dimension X and OnLive! Technologies Inc. are offering a new breed of Internet-based multimedia applications.
* Hardware. Fast and affordable Intel Pentium microprocessors have placed multimedia-enabled PCs within the budgets of most home buyers. Graphics-accelerator card manufacturers such as Creative Labs Inc. and Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc. are harnessing the power of a new breed of high-performance graphics processors from companies including 3Dfx Interactive, ATI Technologies Inc., Rendition Inc. and S3. Many leading PC manufacturers will offer Direct3D-based products in time for the holiday season; these products include the IBM(R) Aptiva, Compaq(R) Presario and NEC Technologies PowerMate and Ready systems.
Microsoft: Enabling the Change
Because platforms and APIs are based on open systems, thousands of companies are expected to accelerate the rate of innovation over the next year. Microsoft is moving rapidly to put in place additional platforms, products and initiatives to fuel the explosive growth of the creative market and keep customers and hardware and software vendors on the cutting edge. The products and initiatives include these:
* Windows NT 4.0. Windows NT 4.0 includes DirectX 2.0 components (except for Direct3D, which will be included as a software implementation in the Windows NT 4.0 software development kit. Full integration of Direct3D, including hardware acceleration, is expected to be available later this year). Windows NT 4.0 also includes a new version of OpenGL, the open industry standard 3-D API for professional graphics applications. OpenGL 1.1 includes performance-critical new features for encapsulating geometry data (vertex array) and handling multiple textures (texture object). The Microsoft release is the first available implementation of the OpenGL 1.1 specification. The new release also incorporates a new, optimized pipeline that improves performance by between 2.5 and 4 times on SPEC/OPC benchmarks, making it the fastest OpenGL software renderer available in the industry today. This new version of OpenGL is also being supported on Windows 95 and is scheduled to be packaged with Windows 95 for OEM preinstalled systems later this year.
* ActiveX. ActiveX, an open, cross-platform set of technologies for integrating components on the Internet, has been widely adopted by corporate MIS and ISV communities. As the leading commercial object model, ActiveX is used by millions of application and content developers. Hundreds of ISVs currently market over 1,000 ActiveX Controls. Microsoft is transitioning ActiveX specifications and appropriate technology to an industry-standards body. The group will be a customer-driven organization in which Microsoft is one of many members involved in decision making.
* DirectX interactive media API. DirectX is a suite of APIs for hardware and software developers that delivers the next generation of high-performance, real-time multimedia for the Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT operating systems. DirectX includes Direct3D, which offers developers a highly optimized 3-D software rendering engine with transparent, high-performance, device-independent services that fully exploit the advanced features of any underlying hardware. Microsoft will continue to expand the DirectX set of APIs to include support for new types of hardware acceleration, input devices, multiplayer applications, 3-D sound and other elements.
* Direct3D support for Intel's MMX(TM). Microsoft's Direct3D is the first widely distributed 3-D graphics API to be optimized for Intel's new MMX technology. Applications based on Direct3D - either shipping or in development - will automatically take advantage of Intel processors with MMX technology. Microsoft and Intel Corp. will continue to work closely to ensure that MMX technology and Direct3D are enhanced and scale for successive generations of the Intel architecture.
* ActiveMovie. The ActiveMovie(TM) API is a next-generation, cross- platform digital video technology for the desktop and the Internet. With ActiveMovie, developers and creative professionals will be able to create and deliver stunning titles on multiple platforms with crisp synchronized audio, video and special effects. ActiveMovie also provides a flexible, extensible, "future-proof" architecture that delivers easy integration of new technologies, third-party enhancements and real-time special effects.
* Talisman. "Talisman" is the code name for a technology initiative by Microsoft for the research and deployment of advanced multimedia technologies for the hardware industry. Talisman is a DirectX hardware reference design for 2-D and 3-D graphics, video and advanced audio functionality. The reference design will be used by vendors to create motherboard implementations and graphics-accelerator cards.
More information on Microsoft graphics platforms and technologies is available on the Microsoft Developer Network Web site at http://microsoft.com/mediadev/ or http://microsoft.com/gamesdev/. General information can be found at http://microsoft.com/. Information on Microsoft graphics research can be found at http://www.research.microsoft.com/. More information on Softimage products can be found at http://www.softimage.com/.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software for personal computers. The company offers a wide range of products and services for business and personal use, each designed with the mission of making it easier and more enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full power of personal computing every day.
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Two methods of TV system adjustment are available.
1. TV cable adjustment with engine off.
2. TV control pressure check and adjustment procedure with engine on.
The Throttle Valve (TV) Control Cable System consists of a cable attaching stud on the throttle body throttle lever, the TV Control Cable Assembly, the External TV Control Lever on the transmission, and the Cable Mounting Brackets at the throttle body and transmission. As the throttle body lever is moved from idle to wide open throttle (WOT), the TV control cable pulls the transmission TV control lever from idle to WOT. Return of the cable and transmission lever towards idle is accomplished by the return spring on the transmission end of the cable assembly. This spring and the end of the cable assembly is protected by a flexible rubber boot. The transmission external TV control lever actuates the internal TV control mechanism which regulates the TV control pressure. The travel of this lever is controlled by stops internal to the transmission.
The TV control cable is set and locked to its proper length during initial assembly by pushing in the locking tab at the throttle body end of the cable assembly. When the tab is unlocked, the cable is released for adjustment. The take-up spring at this end of the cable automatically tensions the cable when released. With the slack taken up and the locking tab pushed in, the take-up spring plays no part in the operation of the system.
Under normal circumstances, it should not be necessary to alter or readjust the initial setting of the TV control cable. Situations requiring readjustment of the TV control cable include maintenance involving the removal and/or replacement of the throttle body, transmission, or TV cable assembly.
When the TV control cable is properly set, the transmission TV control lever will be at its internal idle stop (lever to rear as far as it will travel) when the throttle body throttle lever is at its idle stop.
TV Cable Adjustment with Engine Off
Note: At accelerator pedal WOT, the transmission TV control lever will not be at its WOT stop. The wide open throttle position must not be used as a reference point for adjusting the TV control cable.
Idle Speed Effect on the TV Control Cable
The 5.0L (302 CID) EFI Engines use an air By-Pass ISC that does not affect throttle position. Therefore, idle automatic setting does not affect TV Cable adjustment.
TV Cable Adjustment Procedure, Retention Spring
1. Set parking brake and put selector in N (do not put selector in P).
2. Remove the protective cover over the cable linkage (F-150-250 and Bronco vehicles only).
3. Verify that the throttle lever is at the idle stop. If it isn't, check for binding or interference in the throttle system. Do not attempt to adjust idle stop.
4. Verify that the cable routing is free of sharp bends or pressure points and that the cable operates freely. Lubricate the TV lever ball stud with Premium Long-Life Grease XG-1-C or -K (ESA-M1C75-B) or equivalent if necessary. Check for damage to cable or rubber boot.
5. Unlock the locking tab at the throttle body end by prying up with a small screwdriver to free the cable.
6. A retention spring must be installed on the TV control lever at the transmission, to hold it in the idle position (as far to rear as the lever will travel) with about ten pounds of force. If a suitable single spring is not available, two V8 TV return springs may be used. Attach retention spring(s) to the transmission TV lever and hook rear end of spring to the transmission case.
7. With the TV cable locking tab unlocked and the retention spring in place, rotate the transmission outer TV lever 10-30 degrees and return slowly.
8. Push down on the locking tab until flush.
9. Remove the retention spring(s) from the transmission TV lever.
TV Control Pressure Check and Adjustment with Engine On
NOTE: This procedure requires the use of TV Pressure Gauge with Hose T86L-70002-A or equivalent. The results of the adjustment procedure depend on the accuracy of the pressure gauge. The pressure gauge should be checked (and recalibrated if necessary) approximately four times a year or when the following occurs:
a. The needle will not return to 0 psi under no pressure.
b. The needle goes past 0 psi (negative side) under no pressure.
c. Bumping or dropping a pressure gauge.
1. Attach TV Pressure Gauge with Hose T86L-70002-A or equivalent to the TV port on the transmission. On some applications it might be easier to use the TV Pressure Fitting Service Tool No. D80L-77001-A.
2. Remove the protective cover over the cable linkage.
3. Insert the tapered end of the Cable TV Control Pressure Gauge Tool T86L-70332-A between the crimped slug on the end of the cable and the plastic cable fitting that attaches to the throttle lever. Push in gauge tool, forcing the crimped slug away from the plastic fitting. Make sure gauge tool is pushed in as far as it will go.
4. Operate the engine until normal operating temperature is reached (approximately 5-10 min. with transmission in park). The transmission fluid temperature should be approximately 100-150°F. Do not make pressure check if transmission fluid is cold or too hot to touch.
5. Set parking brake and place shift selector in N (neutral). With gauge block in place and engine idling in neutral, the TV pressure should be 33 ± 5 psi. For best transmission function, set the TV pressure as close as possible to the mean (average) pressure using the following procedure.
NOTE: Do not check or set TV pressure in P (park).
6. Unlock the TV Cable Locking Tab at the throttle body bracket. The adjuster preload spring should cause the adjusting slider to move away from the throttle body and the TV pressure should increase.
7. Push on the slider from behind the bracket until the TV pressure is 33 psi. While still holding the slider, push down on locking tab as far as it will go, locking slider in position.
NOTE: An increase of 1-2 psi is possible when transmission is shifted from NEUTRAL to a forward gear. This is considered normal and no compensation should be made.
8. Remove gauge tool, allowing cable to return to its normal idle position. With the engine still idling in neutral, TV pressure must be at or near zero (less than 5 psi). If not, reinstall gauge tool. Repeat Steps 6 and 7 but set the TV pressure to a pressure lower than previously set but not less than 26 psi. Remove gauge tool and recheck TV pressure to determine if it is at or near zero.
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We had left booking the accommodation late and struggled to find anything in budget that didn't involve sleeping in a dorm with noisy 18 year olds. One resort seemed to have the answer, the Blue Lagoon Beach Resort had luxury tents available for about �30 a night. I thought we had seen the back of camping when we left NZ, clearly not. I'm not sure I would say they were luxury. It was a bigger version of the tent we had in NZ, you could just about stand up in it. There was a real mattress though, I guess that was the 'luxury' bit. We had an enclosed area which gave us better mossie protection than any of the more expensive villas did.
Chris, one of the owners of this newly set up resort, had formerly managed the most successful operation in the area and it quickly became apparent why it had done so well
We got to know our fellow guests quickly through the daily activities, sunset happy hour and at the set menu dinner which was served around 8pm everynight. Neither of us have ever come across such a sociable holiday resort, its a brilliant idea and the dynamic worked really well. It made a great change from just lazing on the beach, it was largely the people we met that made this leg of our trip so memorable!
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Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - Democrats continued Wednesday to defend Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle's accusation that President Bush had "failed so miserably at diplomacy" even as they had to clarify the South Dakota Democrat's remarks.
As CNSNews.com previously reported, the South Dakota Democrat defended his original statement following the Democrats' weekly policy meeting at the Capitol Tuesday afternoon.
"Well, I stand by my statement," he told reporters. "I don't know that anyone in this country could view what we've seen so far as a diplomatic success.
"A diplomatic success is what we saw in 1991. A diplomatic success is getting a broad coalition of countries," Daschle continued. "We had nearly 20 countries in 1991."
But Secretary of State Colin Powell had already declared Tuesday morning that the Bush administration had surpassed Daschle's standard for successful diplomacy.
"We now have a coalition of the willing that includes some 30 nations who have publicly said they could be included in such a listing," Powell told reporters at a briefing for the international press. "And there are 15 other nations, who, for one reason or another, do not wish to be publicly named but will be supporting the coalition."
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told CNSNews.com Wednesday morning that the sheer numbers are not the primary focus of Democratic criticism.
"The difference is this: In 1991, there were countries not only voicing their support, there were countries showing their support by sending troops to the field, risking the lives of their young men and women and also providing us with the resources to wage the war successfully," Durbin argued. "This time around, unfortunately, most of the support is vocal.
"When it comes to troops in the field, when it comes to money to execute the war," he continued, "many of these countries are not going to be there."
That was also part of Daschle's complaint Tuesday.
"A diplomatic success is having 200,000 international troops present instead of the 225,000 U.S. troops, which are present today," he said. "A diplomatic success is getting other countries to pay 90 percent of the costs incurred. All of that happened in 1991; none of that is happening in the year 2003."
Jay Farrar is vice president of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and fought as a Lt. Colonel in the Marine Corps in the Gulf War. He confirmed Daschle's criticisms.
"It's pretty much accurate," Farrar said. "To quibble, you'd be splitting hairs on exact numbers."
Of the more than 500,000 troops that comprised the coalition force against Iraq in 1991, approximately 150,000 to 200,000 were from countries other than the United States.
"The problem with Tom Daschle's statement is that he didn't clarify what he meant by 20 countries," Farrar said. "We had 20 countries contributing forces of some sort or another."
A handful of countries contributed full military units, while most of the 20 countries sent small numbers of technicians such as medical personnel and chemical/biological weapons specialists.
Farrar said the proportionate cost of the war was also as Daschle claimed.
"Some countries paid in cash to the U.S. Most countries paid 'in-kind,'" he explained. "In other words, the Saudis gave bases and base rights and fuel to the U.S. forces, the Japanese contributed cash and vehicles and things of that nature.
"But the U.S., out of its own pocket, had to finance a very small portion of it," Farrar continued, "somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 to 30 billion."
Steve Baker, a research analyst with the Center for Security Policy, did not dispute Daschle's statistics, but he did offer some perspective on the numbers.
"That doesn't include the years that the United States and England have been enforcing the 'no-fly zones' on their own - the millions of dollars that's cost - without the help of the French and others," he explained.
Baker also noted that the number of troops from other countries participating in the 1991 coalition may have had more political than military significance.
"It's a different question of how useful they were in the big picture," he said. "It had a lot, probably, to do with the political nature of the conflict rather than an actual necessity of having them on the ground."
While Daschle's detractors and supporters debate the numbers, Baker believes they are missing the truly serious damage potentially caused by Daschle's criticism of President Bush.
"It's dangerous because you could seriously undermine the morale of the forces that are there on the ground when you have a political leader saying that the President of the United States is doing his job poorly," Baker argued. "What does that say to the troops who are going to be commanded by this individual?"
Baker also criticized Daschle for failing to understand that principle.
"Daschle's efforts are simply shameful, really," he concluded.
At a political event Monday, Daschle offered the following assessment of President Bush's efforts to peacefully resolve Iraq's refusal to surrender its weapons of mass destruction to U.N. arms inspectors:
"I'm saddened, saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war," Daschle said. "Saddened that we have to give up one life because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country."
Daschle also stated that he believes he can publicly disagree with Bush while still supporting members of the U.S. military. But House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) agreed Wednesday that such comments undermine the country's unity and the troops' morale.
"I think it's hypocritical to say on the one hand that you support the troops," DeLay observed, "while on the other hand, you say that it's wrong, that the reason they are risking their lives is wrong."
DeLay added that he is disturbed that Daschle "is defending the position of France.
"Anybody can say anything he or she wants to. This country has a long history of defending people's right to speak," DeLay added, "but there are consequences to what you say."
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The "Flying Farmer" Gary Mullen worked his way back into the top ten in 2013 with a 4th place effort. The former Allen Lumber Street Stock Champion capped off a stong finish to the season with a streak of top tens including a runner-up finish on Labor Day. What's more impressice is he did it in the same car he used to win the championship back in 2009.
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Brendan Simms: Review of Victoria Schofield's "Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire. 1714-1783"Roundup: Books
Mr. Simms is the author of "Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783."
In "Witness to History," Victoria Schofield remarks that her biographical subject, the British historian John Wheeler-Bennett (1902-75), was "never a household name" but that, by the mid-20th century, "he knew virtually everyone who was." And so it seems. He knew the Nazi-era German diplomat Adam von Trott, who was later executed for conspiring against Hitler. He knew Franklin Roosevelt, whose 57th birthday party he attended in 1939. He was in regular contact with British statesmen, especially Harold Macmillan and Anthony Eden. For good measure, he supervised John F. Kennedy's undergraduate thesis at Harvard. He met with several Bolshevik leaders, too. There are not many men who could tell an undergraduate who was undecided between Jesus Christ and Leon Trotsky that, although he himself had never met our Lord, he "did have a long talk with Trotsky and I don't think I should advise you to follow him."
As Ms. Schofield shows, Wheeler-Bennett was one of the first of a new class of "experts" who emerged after the peace settlement that concluded World War I. As a young man in the interwar years, he set out to make himself an authority on international affairs generally and on Germany in particular. Serving in the early 1920s as an assistant to Gen. Neill Malcolm, then a kind of roving British ambassador, he traveled extensively, from Germany and the other parts of Continental Europe to North Africa and the Far East.
The first chapters of Ms. Schofield's engaging chronicle evoke a lost imperial world. In Cairo, she tells us, Wheeler-Bennett stayed at the Shepheard's Hotel, a "famous caravanserai" where one "could not sit for half an hour on [the] terrace without meeting at least half a dozen friends and acquaintances." At another time we see Wheeler-Bennett chasing smugglers in Borneo. It was in Berlin that, having left Malcolm's staff, he chose to settle in the late 1920s and early 1930s....
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Bring Up the Bodies
A Novel by Hilary Mantel
2009 / 407 Pages
Aaron's Review
Off with her head!!!!
Slow down bloodlusty! To get there you'll have to sit through 400 pages which chronicle the events leading up to the eventual deed that you're hungrily anticipating. In fact, if you read Wolf Hall, the first book in Mantel's Thomas Cromwell trilogy, you might be just a tad bit annoyed by the first seventy pages or so of this second entry, especially if you read the two back to back. There's a fair amount of recapping and flashbacking about who Cromwell is, how he has risen through the ranks, what happened to his wife and children, and of course the most significant back story involving Cardinal Wosely. In the novel's defense however, it does pick up the story right where the events detailed in Wolf Hall end.
So can one read Bring up the Bodies if they haven't read Wolf Hall first? That seems to the biggest question that repeatedly gets raised when it comes to discussing this Booker long-listed title. The answer is yes, you most certainly can read Bring up the Bodies as a stand-alone novel. The better question is should you? The answer to that question is a resounding no.
Even though you'll have to sit through some repetitive information at the front end of Bring up the Bodies, reading Wolf Hall first will help set the stage clearly for the events that will transpire and help to paint a better picture of just how unforgiving and unrelenting Thomas Cromwell can be, for while the first book is primarily about the split between Henry and Katherine, it's also about Cardinal Wosely and Cromwell's deep affinity for him. If you don't have the building blocks of their relationship in place then it will be hard to relate to Cromwell's motivations and the calculated series of actions he undertakes.
What surprised me most about Bring up the Bodies certainly wasn't that Queen Anne lost her head in the end, but rather how ridiculously religious and sexually repressed people living in seventeenth century England really were. Having read this book I never want to get anywhere near a bible ever again. Religion was the root cause of way too many problems back then and sadly that's true even in today's society. Though if we all abandoned religion I'm sure we'd have little trouble finding another topic that we'd deem worthy of killing each other over or in the name of.
Still, religion aside, and even though you know exactly what will happen by the novel's conclusion, Mantel does a perfect job with pacing as she inches ever closer to the sad event, and even if it isn't all that shocking, when one stops to think about it, it all does seem rather crazy. Henry doesn't want Katherine anymore so, as chronicled in Wolf Hall, he goes through a lengthy battle to have their marriage annulled, in the process severing all ties with the Vatican and naming himself the Supreme Head of the Church of England. Then after all that wooing, when he finally has Anne, he tires of her as well and actually goes the extreme of allowing the Queen of England to be beheaded so that he can marry his third wife Jane Seymour shortly thereafter. If Cromwell's such a bad guy for executing on the king's wishes, then what does that make Henry?
And for all his self-justification Cromwell is a "bad" guy, make no mistake about that, but this fact only serves to further illustrate what a fantastic job Mantel has done at building such a complex, multifaceted, sympathetic character. It's tough not to root for Cromwell, even when you know the end result of his actions will most certainly spell death for many a person.
Bring up the Bodies is a near perfect historical novel. In fact it's only flaw may be that the third and final book in the series, The Mirror & the Light, doesn't exist yet, so when you finish Bodies and you're clamoring for more there's nowhere you can turn to get your Cromwell fix.
Well sure, in fairness there are plenty of other places you can turn to, but none of them will be quite as deliciously satisfying as Mantel's take on the events. You can count on that.
Karli's Review
Hilary Mantel's brilliant sequel to her 2009 novel, Wolf Hall, has once again earned her a spot on the Man Booker Prize shortlist. Bring Up the Bodies is a continuance of Thomas Cromwell's story as it intersects with Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. As the novel opens, it is the fall of 1535 – Former Queen Katherine of Aragon is on her deathbed and current Queen, Anne Boleyn, is also inching dangerously close to death. She has made many promises in her relentless efforts to become Queen, yet the most important promise – to produce a male heir to the throne – has yet to be fulfilled. In the meantime, rumors have begun to circulate that perhaps Anne has not been faithful to her husband, and that, perhaps their daughter, Elizabeth, was fathered by another man.
Pretty soon, the swirling rumors reach the ears of the King, and although Henry is outraged at the prospect of his wife's extramarital encounters, he also sees it as an opportunity to rid himself of Anne Boleyn, who has turned out to be more trouble than pleasure for Henry. And of course, "Queens come and go," so Henry enlists the help of Master Secretary Thomas Cromwell to remove Anne Boleyn of her position so that a new (and hopefully more fertile) Queen can take her place. Luckily for Cromwell, "the affairs of the whole realm are whispered in his ear," so the process of Anne's removal is expedited. In fact, it takes just about a month for Cromwell to compile a case against Anne, have her tried in court, and finally beheaded. The crimes against the infamous Queen include treason, incest, and adultery, and her trial and subsequent death prove to be extremely consequential for the Tudors. Many others are sent to their deaths because of what they may or may not have said and done with Anne Boleyn, and Henry's Court is in disarray after living in the midst of potential conspirators and traitors.
But even before the death of his second wife Henry's lust has found a new target – Jane Seymour. Miss Seymour is known for her reputation of purity, innocence, and humility, and Henry would love nothing more than to marry her immediately and impregnate her with (fingers crossed!) a son. And Henry is the King, so, with the help of the ever-faithful Cromwell, England has a new Queen less than 2 weeks after the death of Anne Boleyn.
To British history buffs, the Tudors' story is nothing new. Henry VIII was one of the most infamous and highly-discussed English monarchs, and his relationships with his (count em') 6 wives have been fairly well documented throughout history. But Mantel isn't really interested in Henry or Anne or Jane or Katherine. Of course they're all important players, but none of them compare to the true mastermind of these Tudor events. Thomas Cromwell was always there, quietly listening in the shadows, writing everything down and memorizing every single detail of the King's personal and private affairs so that he would be prepared for anything and everything imaginable. Thomas Cromwell made things happen before the King even realized he wanted them to happen. He's been called cold, cruel, calculated, and evil. But he was also probably one of the most intelligent and well-informed men in Tudor history – despite what he may have accomplished or destroyed with such knowledge.
Either way, Bring Up the Bodies offers readers a new perspective on Henry VIII's relationship with Anne Boleyn – one that focuses on the pragmatic aspect of the surrounding events rather than the emotional or romantic facets. As Hilary Mantel has said, Cromwell "is still in need of attention from biographers,"but even the most skilled biographer may have trouble bringing Cromwell's story to life compared to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.
Mantel is currently writing the third installment of this Henry VIII trilogy, which is titled The Mirror and the Light. Bring Up the Bodies is on the 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlist (which she won in 2009 for Wolf Hall), and The Mirror and the Light is probably already nominated for the 2013 prize. I hope so. And I hope she wins!


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19281824.post8792497623407563554..comments2015-05-03T11:12:16.639-07:00Comments on Gluten-Free Goddess® Recipes: Gluten-Free Thanksgiving + Holiday Side DishesKarina Allrichhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19281824.post-76751788455412457042010-11-22T05:29:54.109-08:002010-11-22T05:29:54.109-08:00Karina, Just had to drop you a note. I have so en...Karina,
Just had to drop you a note. I have so enjoyed reading your blog and cooking from your recipe files! When a friend had a houseguest coming who was both GF and a vegan (gasp!) she begged me to give her some help. I pointed her to your blog and gave her a couple of my favorite quinoa recipes from your collection. The weekend went smoothly and the houseguest was impressed. Your pumpkin pie recipe is a hit at our family table and has even my gluten gobbling brother in law always reaching for "just one more piece'!

Thank you for helping me celebrate the holidays with family and food that we all can eat!Susan on the email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19281824.post-87131203578922791772010-11-21T20:40:54.303-08:002010-11-21T20:40:54.303-08:00I'm so grateful for your site! I was a little ...I'm so grateful for your site! I was a little worried about the holidays since having Celiac is still new for me. Thanks so much for your recipes! One or two of them will probably be appearing on my family's table come Thanksgiving day.Parisahttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19281824.post-68108895137021469102010-11-21T13:38:26.559-08:002010-11-21T13:38:26.559-08:00Karina, I tried your Maple Roasted Acorn Squash re...Karina, I tried your Maple Roasted Acorn Squash recipe yesterday, and it is the first time I really enjoyed acorn squash. So simple but so yummy. A keeper. Thank you for your generosity and creativity. Your blog is the first GF resource I gave a friend who just learned she is gluten-intolerant. Your are definitely one of the "things" I am most thankful for this year.
email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19281824.post-11152877791817379082010-11-21T02:22:11.646-08:002010-11-21T02:22:11.646-08:00How can you possibly miss gluten with food like th...How can you possibly miss gluten with food like this? I feel sorry for those people who think gluten free is boring!The InTolerant Chefhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19281824.post-66479040626333728602010-11-20T21:52:13.203-08:002010-11-20T21:52:13.203-08:00Calabasitas looks wonderful. I wonder if New Mexic...Calabasitas looks wonderful. I wonder if New Mexico adopted it from a regional specialty in Mexico? I also loooove green chiles, (and New Mexico!) so the acorn squash and green chiles is really intriguing. Thanksgiving will never be the same Karina...

Thanks!!!

PatPat @ gluten-free-around-the-world.comhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19281824.post-14628285362702758182010-11-20T20:46:16.293-08:002010-11-20T20:46:16.293-08:00Wow, such amazing photos and recipes. I love your...Wow, such amazing photos and recipes. I love your blog. May I ask what camera and lens you use for your photos? They are absolutely amazing. Also, would love to connect with you. I have a healthy living blog.Jeanettehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19281824.post-57213893317772408022010-11-20T18:45:19.198-08:002010-11-20T18:45:19.198-08:00Just wanted you to know that I am thankful for YOU...Just wanted you to know that I am thankful for YOU this Thanksgiving. Your recipes and writings have helped me through the terrible allergy transition and onto great food. Best wishes to you and firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19281824.post-62192078363529724332010-11-20T17:54:30.923-08:002010-11-20T17:54:30.923-08:00Karina - this is wonderful! What a great resource....Karina - this is wonderful! What a great resource. Only problem is I don't know which ones to pick - they all look fantastic. Have a great T-giving!I Am Gluten Freehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19281824.post-2039743140374884092010-11-20T17:30:13.749-08:002010-11-20T17:30:13.749-08:00That acorn squash with green chilis looks like som...That acorn squash with green chilis looks like something I would make. Looks spicy but traditional.Meaganhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19281824.post-89727638936360236522010-11-20T17:06:46.572-08:002010-11-20T17:06:46.572-08:00Everything looks great, especially the quinoa dish...Everything looks great, especially the quinoa dishes. I am always looking for new ways to cook quinoa.Elsahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19281824.post-71144717478126671532010-11-20T16:23:25.295-08:002010-11-20T16:23:25.295-08:00We make your green beans and portobellas with pome...We make your green beans and portobellas with pomegranate molasses regularly (it's great as a side for fish, turkey, roasted chicken, your meatloaf, pumpkin lasagna, etc.) -- and it's part of our "regular Thanksgiving menu" too! With compliments to you, Karina, of course! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!

PS- Trader Joes and Costco both sell pre-trimmed, pre-washed green beans! Woo hoo!~Mhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19281824.post-87360172997683307522010-11-20T15:18:51.011-08:002010-11-20T15:18:51.011-08:00Thank you a million times! These all look deliciou...Thank you a million times! These all look delicious. Now to pick which ones...Carol Bhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19281824.post-31090476104553076412010-11-20T14:31:34.643-08:002010-11-20T14:31:34.643-08:00Karina, So glad that your happy self is back! What...Karina,
So glad that your happy self is back! Whatever was that struggle of last week it looks like you stared it down and won. Yippee! Thanks for such a bountiful roundup of goodies.
RuthRuthhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19281824.post-74566066302572690412010-11-20T13:27:20.026-08:002010-11-20T13:27:20.026-08:00as this will be my first GF thanksgiving, i am ver...as this will be my first GF thanksgiving, i am very grateful for these delicious looking recipes!
now...which ones to choose??!aurorafedorahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19281824.post-38516629263670074242010-11-20T12:42:03.510-08:002010-11-20T12:42:03.510-08:00Just thought I'd stop by and 'make your da...Just thought I'd stop by and 'make your day' :-). Just came from Trader Joe's, their in-house gluten-free consultant was talking to a couple, she's just been diagnosed and is reeling from the shock. The consultant had a prepared list of tips and resources -- two websites, one yours. Afterward, I took her aside and told her we'd met and she said, "I LOVE her website, I tell people ALL the time to go there, they won't need another, EVER." (My caps, her emphasis.) She says she makes your gluten-free pumpkin pie every year and that when it's side by side with a regular pumpkin pie, people only take hers. You make a difference in people's lives in such a meaningful way. Happy Thanksgiving, be well ...Alanna Kellogghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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stratola brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 24 Designs von 11 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Need logo for "Formerly Famous" Softball team
Formerly Famous
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Need logo for "Formerly Famous" Softball team, we are a group of guys that used to work at Famous Players movie theatre as ushers, and played together on a softball team back then. Now we are all over 30, no longer work at Famous Players, but are playing softball together once again. Hence "Formerly Famous", but we like the name because of the other meaning that we were formerly famous people. We are all older, out of shape and get injured quite frequently.
 So feel free to play with the movie theatre angle, the slo-pitch softball angle, or the out-of-shape former stars angle


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Easy and squeaky-fun as a side dish to roasted fish or an African-inspired stew.
The salad is best served right after it's made.
Servings: 2 - 3
- About 2 cups packed cups baby spinach leaves, rinsed and dried
- 2 (22 ounces total) cucumbers, peeled, seeded, cut lengthwise into quarters then into thin half-moons
- Fronds from 3 sprigs dill, minced
- 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon fresh lime juice
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- Flesh of 1 avocado, cut into thin slices, for garnish (optional)
- Sea salt
- Few grinds of black pepper
Toss together the spinach, cucumbers and dill in a salad bowl.
Whisk together the vinegar, lime juice and oil in a measuring cup, then drizzle over the salad and toss to coat.
Arrange the avocado slices on top, if desired. Sprinkle with the sea salt and pepper. Serve right away.
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Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.
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Prasad Devarajan, MD
Director, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Director, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Medical Director, Stone Center
Director, Nephrology and Hypertension Clinical Laboratory
Louise M. Williams Endowed Chair
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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Clinical specialties: acute kidney injury, nephrotic syndrome, kidney stones
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Czech KA, Bennett M, Devarajan P. Distinct metalloproteinase excretion patterns in focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Pediatr Nephrol. 2011 Jul 1.
Askenazi DJ, Koralkar R, Levitan EB, Goldstein SL, Devarajan P, Khandrika S, Mehta RL, Ambalavanan N. Baseline Values of Candidate Urine Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Biomarkers Vary by Gestational Age in Premature Infants. Pediatr Res. 2011 Jun 3.
Abraham BP, Frazier EA, Morrow WR, Blaszak RT, Devarajan P, Mitsnefes M, Bryant JC, Sachdeva R. Cystatin C and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin as markers of renal function in pediatric heart transplant recipients. Pediatr Transplant. 2011 Apr 25.
Sundaram N, Bennett M, Wilhelm J, Kim MO, Atweh G, Devarajan P, Malik P. Biomarkers for early detection of sickle nephropathy. Am J Hematol. 2011 Jul;86(7):559-66.
Devarajan P, Krawczeski C. In reply to 'antifibrinolytic use during cardiac and hepatic surgery makes tubular proteinuria-based early biomarkers poor tools to diagnose perioperative acute kidney injury'. Am J Kidney Dis. 2011 Jun;57(6):960-1.
Piyaphanee N, Ma Q, Kremen O, Czech K, Greis K, Mitsnefes M, Devarajan P, Bennett MR. Discovery and initial validation of α 1-B glycoprotein fragmentation as a differential urinary biomarker in pediatric steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome. Proteomics Clin Appl. 2011 Jun;5(5-6):334-42.
Li S, Krawczeski CD, Zappitelli M, Devarajan P, Thiessen-Philbrook H, Coca SG, Kim RW, Parikh CR; for the TRIBE-AKI Consortium. Incidence, risk factors, and outcomes of acute kidney injury after pediatric cardiac surgery: A prospective multicenter study. Crit Care Med. 2011 Jun;39(6):1493-1499.
Krawczeski CD, Woo JG, Wang Y, Bennett MR, Ma Q, Devarajan P. Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin concentrations predict development of acute kidney injury in neonates and children after cardiopulmonary bypass. J Pediatr. 2011 Jun;158(6):1009-1015.e1.
Basu RK, Devarajan P, Wong H, Wheeler DS. An update and review of acute kidney injury in pediatrics. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2011 May;12(3):339-47.
Devarajan P. Biomarkers for the early detection of acute kidney injury. Curr Opin Pediatr. 2011 Apr;23(2):194-200.
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Director, Clinical and Translational Research Center
Director, Clinical and Translational Research Center
Pediatric Nephrologist, Division of Nephrology
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Mark Mitsnefes, MD, MS, is an established clinical investigator with expertise in the area of understanding the development of risk factors for cardiovascular disease in children with chronic kidney disease. The long-term goal of his research is to define biologic targets for interventions to prevent and slow progression of cardiovascular disease in children with chronic kidney disease.
Dr. Misnefes has received numerous awards, including the Proctor Scolar Award (Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation), the Pediatrician Scientist Award (Children's Health Research Center, NIH), the Clinical Scientist Award (National Kidney Foundation), and has been ranked as one of the Best Doctors in America, 2007-2011.
MD: Gorky Medical Institute, Gorky, Russia, 1985.
Residency: Miami Children's Hospital, Miami, FL, 1997.
Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2000.
MS: Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2001.
Certifications: Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), 1995; Pediatrics, 1996; Pediatric Nephrology, 2001, 2008.
Mitsnefes M, Flynn J, Cohn S, Samuels J, Blydt-Hansen T, Saland J, Kimball T, Furth S, Warady B; CKiD Study Group. Masked hypertension associates with left ventricular hypertrophy in children with CKD. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2010 Jan;21(1):137-44.
Wilson AC, Mitsnefes MM. Cardiovascular disease in CKD in children: update on risk factors, risk assessment, and management. Am J Kidney Dis. 2009 Aug;54(2):345-60. Review.
Flynn JT, Mitsnefes MM, Pierce C, Cole SR, Parekh RS, Furth SL and Warady BA. Blood pressure in children with chronic kidney disease: Preliminary findings from chronic kidney disease in children cohort study. Hypertension. 2008;52(4):631-7
Weaver DJ Jr, Kimball T, Witt SA, Glascock BJ, Khoury PR, Kartal J, Mitsnefes MM. Subclinical systolic dysfunction in pediatric patients with chronic kidney disease. J Pediatr. 2008 Oct;153(4):565-9.
Weaver DJ Jr., Kimball TR, Knilans T, Mays WK, Knecht T, Gerdes YT, Witt S, Glascock BJ, Kartal J, Khoury PR, and Mitsnefes MM. Decreased maximal aerobic capacity in pediatric chronic kidney disease. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2008, 19(3):624-30.
Mitsnefes MM, Kimball TR, Kimball TR, Witt SA, Glascock BJ, Khoury PR, and Daniels SR. Abnormal carotid artery structure and function in children with successful renal transplant. Circulation. 2004; 110:97-101.
Mitsnefes MM, Kimball TR, Kartal J, Witt SA, Glascock B, Khoury PR, Daniels SR. Cardiac and vascular adaptation in pediatric patients with chronic kidney disease: Role of calcium-phosphorus metabolism. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2005;16:2796-2803.
Mitsnefes MM, Kimball TR, Border WL, Witt SA, Glascock BJ, Khoury PR and Daniels SR. Impaired left ventricular diastolic function in children with chronic renal failure. Kidney Int. 2004;65(4):1461-1466.
Mitsnefes MM, Kimball TR, Witt SA, Glascock BJ, Khoury PR, and Daniels SR. Left ventricular mass and systolic performance in pediatric patients with chronic renal failure. Circulation. 2003;107:864-868
Mitsnefes MM, Daniels SR, Schwartz SM, Khoury P, Meyer RA, and Strife CF. Severe left ventricular hypertrophy in pediatric dialysis: prevalence and predictors. Pediatr Nephrol. 2000;14:898-902.
Edward J. Nehus, MD, MS
Pediatric Nephrologist, Division of Nephrology
Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
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University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, 2002.
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2011.
Pediatrics, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH.
Pediatrics, 2009.
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Nehus E, Goebel J, Abraham E. Outcomes of steroid-avoidance protocols in pediatric kidney transplant recipients. Am J Transplant. 2012 Dec;12(12):3441-8.
Nehus E, Furth S, Warady B, Mitsnefes M. Correlates of resistin in children with chronic kidney disease: the chronic kidney disease in children cohort. J Pediatr. 161(2): 276-80, 2012.
Nehus E, Goebel J, Mitsnefes M, Lorts A, Laskin B. Intensive hemodialysis for cardiomyopathy associated with end-stage renal disease. Pediatr Nephrol. 26: 1909-12, 2011.
Nehus E, Devarajan P. Acute kidney injury: AKI in kidney transplant recipients—here to stay. Nat Rev Nephrol. 8:198-199, 2012.
C. Frederic Strife, MD
Emeritus, UC Department of Pediatrics
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MD: College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 1968.
Residency: Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Fellowship: Nephrology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Certification: Pediatrics, 1973; Pediatric Nephrology, 1976.
Calvo-Garcia MA, Campbell KM, O'Hara SM, Khoury P, Mitsnefes MM, Strife CF. Acquired renal cysts after pediatric liver transplantation: association with cyclosporine and renal dysfunction. Pediatr Transplant. 2008 Sep;12(6):666-71.
Vo NJ, Hammelman BD, Racadio JM, Strife CF, Johnson ND, Racadio JM. Anatomic distribution of renal artery stenosis in children: implications for imaging. Pediatr Radiol. 2006 Oct;36(10):1032-6.
Brunner HI, Bishnoi A, Barron AC, Houk LJ, Ware A, Farhey Y, Mongey AB, Strife CF, Graham TB, Passo MH. Disease outcomes and ovarian function of childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus. Lupus. 2006;15(4):198-206.
Mitsnefes MM, Subat-Dezulovic M, Khoury PR, Goebel J, Strife CF. Increasing incidence of post-kidney transplant anemia in children. Am J Transplant. 2005 Jul;5(7):1713-8.
Omoloja AA, Kumar K, Crawford AH, Strife CF. Epiphyseal stapling and recombinant human growth hormone for correction of genu valgum in children with chronic renal insufficiency. J Pediatr Orthop. 2003 Sep-Oct;23(5):639-42.
Lande MB, Gullion C, Hoss RJ, Gauthier B, Shah B, Leonard MB, Bonilla-Felix M, Nash M, Roy S, Strife CF, Arbus G. Long versus standard initial steroid therapy for children with the nephrotic syndrome. A report from the Southwest Pediatric Nephrology Study. Pediatr Nephrol. 2003;18:342-6.
Chand DH, Rhoades T, Poe SA, Kraus S, Strife CF. Incidence and severity of vesicoureteral reflux in children related to age, gender, race and diagnosis. J Urol. 2003;170:1548-1550.
Chand DH, Poe SA, Strife CF. Venous pressure monitoring does not accurately predict access failure in children. Pediatr Nephrol. 2002;17:765-770.
Mitsnefes MM, Daniels SR, Schwartz SM, Khoury P, Strife CF. Changes in left ventricular mass in children and adolescents during chronic dialysis. Pediatr Nephrol. 2001 Apr;16(4):318-23.
Mitsnefes MM, Daniels SR, Schwartz SM, Meyer RA, Khoury P, Strife CF. Severe left ventricular hypertrophy in pediatric dialysis: prevalence and predictors. Pediatr Nephrol. 2000 Sep;14(10-11):898-902.
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