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Rich Chocolate Heart Cakes
Happy Healthy Holidays!
Tender and very rich heart shaped chocolate cakes topped with warm ganache and sprinkled with and optional hazelnut praline. It doesn't get much better than these!
Recipe Ingredients
6 large sprigs fresh rosemary
1 large egg white
1/2 cup superfine sugar
1 cup unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
11 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
5 large eggs, separated
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
1/4 cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
Chocolate Rosemary Ganache
Hazelnut Praline (optional)
Note: You will need twelve 3 3/4-inch heart molds or tart pans with removable bottoms to make individual chocolate cakes.
Recipe Directions
Separate rosemary into small bunches. Beat egg white with a drop or two of water until it is very loose. Place superfine sugar in a small, shallow bowl. Lightly brush one sprig of rosemary with the egg white. Sprinkle superfine sugar over the damp bunch of rosemary; shake to remove excess. Transfer rosemary to a cooling rack to dry, at least one hour. Repeat until all rosemary is used; set aside sugared rosemary. (It will keep at room temperature for about 24 hours.)
Preheat the oven to 275-degrees with two racks centered. In the top of double boiler, or in a heat-proof bowl set over simmering water, melt butter and chocolate together, stirring frequently, about 5 minutes. Set mixture aside to cool.
In a medium bowl, lightly beat egg yolks, and stir them into the cooled chocolate mixture. Add granulated sugar, flour, and baking powder to the chocolate mixture, and stir to combine.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, whisk the egg whites just until soft peaks form. Stir one-third of the egg whites into the chocolate mixture to lighten it. Fold the chocolate mixture into the remaining egg whites, just until combined. Spoon the batter into twelve 3-3/4-inch heart molds with removable bottoms. Transfer molds to a rimmed baking sheet. Bake until centers spring back when touched, about 45 minutes. Transfer molds to a wire rack, and let sit five minutes. Unmold cakes. (After they have cooled, if not using right away, cover cakes lightly with plastic wrap.)
To Serve: Place a cake on serving plate. Pour warm ganache over it; sprinkle with praline, if using. Top with a second and then a third cake layer, drizzling each with ganache. Repeat to make three more servings. Sprinkle cakes with praline if desired, and garnish with sugared rosemary. Serve.
Nutrition Information
Yield: 4 servings
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Are Millennials Choosing To Rent, Or Just Choosing Not To Buy?
By Jackie Marchildon
If there is anything more frustrating than an entire generation being painted with the same, broad brush, it's the current housing conditions faced by that same generation.
I admit that sometimes, as a long-term renter, I do think about what it would be like to own a home. But that doesn't mean that I consider renting a stopover before buying. Renting is its own lifestyle and although currently dominated by millennial city dwellers in Toronto and Vancouver, it is not unique to this generation, nor to their respective cities.
Look at Manhattan, for example. It's assumed people rent there and that's OK. In fact, it's routine. Why shouldn't it be the same in Toronto? Let's start discussing the benefits of renting instead of the disadvantages.
Renting is convenient
My generation, stereotypically, is filled with wanderlust. We like to travel, we like to know we can we pick up and move to the other side of the country, or to a new continent altogether. Renting allows for that freedom. Two months' notice is all you need to start somewhere new.
Renting allows you to experience different living conditions
I've lived with roommates, I've lived alone, and I currently live with my boyfriend. Every apartment, house and condo had its own unique characteristics, some I loved (like the backyard bonfire pit), and some I hated (like the carpeted stairs). Each home taught me something about what I liked or didn't, and I discovered neighbourhoods as I moved. I've lived in 11 different spaces in the last nine years. Moving 11 times in such a short period isn't exactly ideal for a homeowner. Of course, moving that often isn't great as a renter either, but the point here is that I was always able to move easily enough. The costs were minimal in comparison to the costs of selling and buying a home -- let alone 11 of them.
The fact of the matter is, millennials aren't all renting by choice, but many of them are, and that's great. We've been dealt this hand, and we've settled into it. Many of us would rather pay a decent rent to live somewhere that we love than buy a home somewhere affordable that we don't.
Real estate bubble?
I know we aren't predicting a housing crash in the near future, and we continue to refute the idea of a potential real estate bubble, but the fact remains that housing prices are at an all-time high. In the city of Toronto, the average price of a detached house was more than $1.2 million as of February 2016. It's hard for any 20-something to look at a that kind of number and think, "Sure, I could easily pay that off in 25 years."
If the housing market does not continue to heat up as predicted, and home prices do drop, where does that leave the 20-something-year-old with a near million-dollar mortgage for the next 25 years?
'If buying a detached home doesn't seem appealing, what about a condo?' you might ask. The average condo in Toronto costs $435,579 according to the Toronto Real Estate Board. A $400,000-mortgage with the average national rate of 3.24 per cent interest and an amortization of 25 years will have a monthly mortgage payment of about $1,943.
Let's say a mortgage payment of approximately $1,900 a month gets me a nice one-bedroom unit with two bathrooms in a trendy neighbourhood, or even a two-bedroom unit in certain areas of the city (assuming I put down the minimum five per cent on about $400,000). It would be a nice condo, but small for two people and a dog, regardless of the number of bedrooms. A $1,300 or $1,400 monthly rent, on the other hand, gets me a cute one-bedroom apartment in Roncesvalles that essentially takes care of itself. By renting, I'm able to have more cash flow at the end of each month, which I can continue to put towards other things that matter to me -- like travel and paying off school debt.
I'm sure I could potentially find a smaller unit with a monthly mortgage payment that would be around the same amount as my rent, but that still doesn't take into account closing costs, maintenance fees and unexpected repair costs.
Personal development vs. real estate development
Millennials seem to be investing money into themselves rather than milestone possessions: education, travel and career development. Many of us spend years paying off our degrees, we work extra jobs to fund our travel expenses and we spend a couple years out of school working as interns to invest in our long-term career goals.
In my young career, I've seen three major layoffs and sadly, because of this, I've learned the value of saving in case that happens to me. I have critical illness insurance in case something worse comes along, an RRSP to plan for my retirement and a TFSA set up as a travel fund. My savings may not be going towards a home, but they are going towards my well being, both mental and physical, and I'd take that over a property title any day.
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Find and foster different mentors for your varying skillsets. We're more connected than we've ever been before to various acquaintances, friends, and professionals through our various social networks, which can be a huge source of support in a sometimes formidable technological world. Seeking out the help of someone a little bit more seasoned is one of the best things a millennial can do (just make sure to stay in touch with them). Having some outside perspective can help you sort out what you'd like to do in your life.
Everyone who has something to learn also has something to offer. While millennials are often branded as being a tech-savvy generation, that is often a simplistic view. Millennials do offer that, but, in many cases, they offer a far more realistic answer to certain situations. That's why offering to mentor someone in the basics of your strong suit can be so useful for you and your mentorship student. By simply opening up your mind and thought process to another person, you'd be surprised how much both parties end up learning from it.
Despite widely reported issues surrounding our average student and personal debt, millennials aren't actually doomed to a life of financial ruin. In fact, nearly half of all people in their 20s have started saving their money in a dedicated account. It turns out that the biggest hurdle facing millennials and their money isn't a lack of ability when it comes to saving money, but a lack of trustworthy/good advice when it comes to money matters. To put it simply: we need to stop viewing our parents as the sole authorities on financial advice in our lives. Various studies show that millennials tend to struggle with finding a good source to provide financial guidance, and ultimately end up standing in place. We're not saying to cut out the opinions and advice of your folks; they probably have some great tips and tricks (and, you know, respect your elders and all that) for you. But that advice should be paired with firsthand financial knowledge, and that's on you to seek out and learn. You'll be thankful that you took the initiative to understand (and control) your financial future, and so will your family back home.
Do you like Netflix? Of course you do. Do you like sleeping? You don't even need to answer that. Are these in short supply sometimes? Now that's the most problematic bit. One of the things that people often overlook in their lives is scheduling a block of "Me Time." It seems like we stretch ourselves pretty thin in a lot of ways (work, relationships, home care, etc.) and when we crash, we crash hard. This makes dealing with the overwhelming nature of life and its endless possibilities extra tough. If your brain is in overdrive, how can you make a coherent choice about anything? It's not impossible, but it's still hard. That's why a diverse array of business leaders and industry thinkers have been examining how we live our lives, and they've all come to the same conclusion: the work-life balance needs to be rebooted, and we can start by severely limiting how much work and digital noise we bring home with us. This is why it's so important to budget out proper rest and relaxation time time for napping, relaxing, and binge-watching the shows in your Netflix queue. For every step you take towards realizing yourself and your dreams, make sure to take a moment to recharge and congratulate yourself for the forward momentum you've generated. You're not being a Lazy Millennial; you're ensuring that you're not headed towards a midlife crisis down the road. Maybe the older generations could stand to take some advice from you for a change. The road map to Being A Millennial is being written every day, and there's no right or wrong way to navigate this relatively unique point in history. But as long as you're pushing forward and keeping your dreams in sight (no matter what form those dreams may take), you're on the right path. Good luck!
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winning Sunday's Zurich Marathon in 2:12:04 in snowy conditions. At the same time that Kawauchi was racing in Zurich, corporate league star Yuki Sato (Team Nissin Shokuhin) also age 29, ran the London Marathon, finishing 11th in 2:12:14. Pre-race Kawauchi had said, "There's no way I'm going to lose to him," and having lived up to his words he was very pleased with the outcome of the 'Yuki Showdown.' "I beat [Sato] on time, and with worse [weather] conditions in Zurich I win on racing too."
"I was in really good shape and felt great in Zurich, and it doesn't feel like there's any lingering damage," he said post-race. "I want to break 2:10 once before the summer."
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Bangalore, Mar 17: Former Maharashtra Governor S M Krishna, drafted for party work during the Karnataka Assembly elections by the party high command, was today accorded a tumultous welcome on his arrival at the HAL Airport by his supporters here on March 17.
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I caressed the necklace around my neck and couldn't stop the grin that stayed plastered upon my face. The amount of love that I felt for Wolf is so endless that
it seemed longer than the Earth itself more endless than a winters night.
I wanted to jump with joy and shout to everyone that this man had given me such
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Almost as if he were giving me his heart, letting me know that I'm his and he's mine.
And in that moment I knew that nothing would stop my love for him, not his demonic side or activities. I don't see how he thought that his soul wasn't as beautiful as I saw it. Hell he's nicer than my mother and she's human!
He's quickly become the most important person in my life, the thing I can count
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After having our breakfast in bed I begged Wolf to take me to the hospital to check up on Melissa instead of going to drama club. I currently
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I was thinking of going for a walk when a tired looking young nurse wearing pink scrubs walked up to me a strained smile.
"She's ready to you now Ms Riley." She said politely
I thanked her and followed her to Mellissa's room.
She held out her hand and gestured me into the room. I walked in slowly, taking
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Melissa sat propped up in the hospital bed, looking so fragile and nothing like the head cheer leader I had come to hate.
I noticed that her left eye was swollen shut and her bottom lip looked puffy.
She had dark circles under her eyes and she looked so weak that I felt my heart
How could Zane do something so horrible?
Then I remembered what Wolf told me. I sighed.
I slowly approached the bed and smiled at her.
She looked at me a smiled slightly.
"Hey." She croaked.
"Hey. How you doing?" I asked as I stopped next to her bed and pulled up a chair and slowly sank down into it.
She grimaced.
"I'd be better if I didn't have this stupid I.V in my arm." She said as she held up her arm.
I winced at the sight of the I.V needle digging into her hand.
"Look's sore." I commented.
She laughed softly and nodded.
"Melissa I need to know what exactly Zane did you." I said gently.
Her smile slipped away and her eyes became haunted.
"I don't know. I was ranting to him about leaving me in a creepy place and I guess he just snapped. The next thing I knew I woke up here with my dad telling me I was fine and my mum demanding me to tell het who did this to me." She said with a small frown.
How could she not remember what had happened to her?
I was about to ask her when a voice spoke from the door way.
"Well this is cozy." She drawled.
I turned in my chair and saw Denise leaning against the door frame with an
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She laughed.
"Checking up on the patient." She said smugly.
Melissa cleared her throat.
"Do I even know you?" She asked.
Denise grinned.
"No, but I know Zane. He's very sorry about what he did." She said past her
A skitter slithered down my spine.
"How do you know Zane?" I asked suspiciously.
She shot me one last grin and walked out of the room.
"Well that was weird." Melissa said.
"Very weird." I murmured.
I got up from my chair and followed Denise out. I walked out into the hall expecting to see her walking away but she was nowhere to be seen.
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Looking around in confusion I tried to look for her but still no sight of her.
I shook my head and turned to walk to the front entrance.
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This article focuses on high availability for applications running in Azure. An overall strategy for high availability also includes the aspect of disaster recovery. Planning for failures and disasters in the cloud requires you to recognize the failures quickly. You then implement a strategy that matches your tolerance for the application's downtime. Additionally, you have to consider the extent of data loss the application can tolerate without causing adverse business consequences as it is restored.
Most companies say they are prepared for temporary and large-scale failures. However, before you answer that question for yourself, does your company rehearse these failures? Do you test the recovery of databases to ensure you have the correct processes in place? Probably not. That's because successful disaster recovery starts with lots of planning and architecting to implement these processes. Just like many other non-functional requirements, such as security, disaster recovery rarely gets the up-front analysis and time allocation it requires. Also, most companies don't have the budget for geographically distributed regions with redundant capacity. Consequently, even mission critical applications are frequently excluded from proper disaster recovery planning.
Cloud platforms, such as Azure, provide geographically dispersed regions around the world. These platforms also provide capabilities that support availability and a variety of disaster recovery scenarios. Now, every mission critical cloud application can be given due consideration for disaster proofing of the system. Azure has resiliency and disaster recovery built in to many of its services. You must study these platform features carefully, and supplement with application strategies.
This article outlines the necessary architecture steps you must take to disaster-proof an Azure deployment. Then you can implement the larger business continuity process. A business continuity plan is a roadmap for continuing operations under adverse conditions. This could be a failure with technology, such as a downed service, or a natural disaster, such as a storm or power outage. Application resiliency for disasters is only a subset of the larger disaster recovery process, as described in this NIST document: Contingency Planning Guide for Information Technology Systems.
The following sections define different levels of failures, techniques to deal with them, and architectures that support these techniques. This information provides input to your disaster recovery processes and procedures, to ensure your disaster recovery strategy works correctly and efficiently.
Characteristics of resilient cloud applications
A well architected application can withstand capability failures at a tactical level, and it can also tolerate strategic system-wide failures at the region level. The following sections define the terminology referenced throughout the document to describe various aspects of resilient cloud services.
High availability
A highly available cloud application implements strategies to absorb the outage of dependencies, like the managed services offered by the cloud platform. Despite possible failures of the cloud platform's capabilities, this approach permits the application to continue to exhibit the expected functional and non-functional systemic characteristics. This is covered in-depth in the Channel 9 video series, Failsafe: Guidance for Resilient Cloud Architectures.
When you implement the application, you must consider the probability of a capability outage. Additionally, consider the impact an outage will have on the application from the business perspective, before diving deep into the implementation strategies. Without due consideration to the business impact and the probability of hitting the risk condition, the implementation can be expensive and potentially unnecessary.
Consider an automotive analogy for high availability. Even quality parts and superior engineering does not prevent occasional failures. For example, when your car gets a flat tire, the car still runs, but it is operating with degraded functionality. If you planned for this potential occurrence, you can use one of those thin-rimmed spare tires until you reach a repair shop. Although the spare tire does not permit fast speeds, you can still operate the vehicle until you replace the tire. Similarly, a cloud service that plans for potential loss of capabilities can prevent a relatively minor problem from bringing down the entire application. This is true even if the cloud service must run with degraded functionality.
There are a few key characteristics of highly available cloud services: availability, scalability, and fault tolerance. Although these characteristics are interrelated, it is important to understand each, and how they contribute to the overall availability of the solution.
An available application considers the availability of its underlying infrastructure and dependent services. Available applications remove single points of failure through redundancy and resilient design. When you broaden the scope to consider availability in Azure, it is important to understand the concept of the effective availability of the platform. Effective availability considers the Service Level Agreements (SLA) of each dependent service, and their cumulative effect on the total system availability.
System availability is the measure of the percentage of a time window the system will be able to operate. For example, the availability SLA of at least two instances of a web or worker role in Azure is 99.95 percent (out of 100 percent). It does not measure the performance or functionality of the services running on those roles. However, the effective availability of your cloud service is also affected by the various SLAs of the other dependent services. The more moving parts within the system, the more care you must take to ensure the application can resiliently meet the availability requirements of its end users.
Consider the following SLAs for an Azure service that uses Azure services: Compute, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Storage.
|Azure service
|Potential minutes downtime/month (30 days)
|21.6 minutes
|SQL Database
|4.3 minutes
|43.2 minutes
You must plan for all services to potentially go down at different times. In this simplified example, the total number of minutes per month that the application could be down is 108 minutes. A 30-day month has a total of 43,200 minutes. 108 minutes is .25 percent of the total number of minutes in a 30-day month (43,200 minutes). This gives you an effective availability of 99.75 percent for the cloud service.
However, using availability techniques described in this paper can improve this. For example, if you design your application to continue running when the SQL Database is unavailable, you can remove that from the equation. This might mean that the application runs with reduced capabilities, so there are also business requirements to consider. For a complete list of Azure SLAs, see Service Level Agreements.
Scalability directly affects availability. An application that fails under increased load is no longer available. Scalable applications are able to meet increased demand with consistent results, in acceptable time windows. When a system is scalable, it scales horizontally or vertically to manage increases in load while maintaining consistent performance. In basic terms, horizontal scaling adds more machines of the same size (processor, memory, and bandwidth), while vertical scaling increases the size of the existing machines. For Azure, you have vertical scaling options for selecting various machine sizes for compute. However, changing the machine size requires a re-deployment. Therefore, the most flexible solutions are designed for horizontal scaling. This is especially true for compute, because you can easily increase the number of running instances of any web or worker role. These additional instances handle increased traffic through the Azure Web portal, PowerShell scripts, or code. Base this decision on increases in specific monitored metrics. In this scenario, user performance or metrics do not suffer a noticeable drop under load. Typically, the web and worker roles store any state externally. This allows for flexible load balancing and graceful handling of any changes to instance counts. Horizontal scaling also works well with services, such as Azure Storage, which do not provide tiered options for vertical scaling.
Cloud deployments should be seen as a collection of scale-units. This allows the application to be elastic in servicing the throughput needs of end users. The scale units are easier to visualize at the web and application server level. This is because Azure already provides stateless compute nodes through web and worker roles. Adding more compute scale-units to the deployment will not cause any application state management side effects, because compute scale-units are stateless. A storage scale-unit is responsible for managing a partition of data (structured or unstructured). Examples of storage scale-units include Azure Table partition, Azure Blob container, and Azure SQL Database. Even the usage of multiple Azure Storage accounts has a direct impact on the application scalability. You must design a highly scalable cloud service to incorporate multiple storage scale-units. For instance, if an application uses relational data, partition the data across several SQL databases. Doing so allows the storage to keep up with the elastic compute scale-unit model. Similarly, Azure Storage allows data partitioning schemes that require deliberate designs to meet the throughput needs of the compute layer. For a list of best practices for designing scalable cloud services, see Best Practices for the Design of Large-Scale Services on Azure Cloud Services.
Fault tolerance
Applications should assume that every dependent cloud capability can and will go down at some point in time. A fault tolerant application detects and maneuvers around failed elements, to continue and return the correct results within a specific timeframe. For transient error conditions, a fault tolerant system will employ a retry policy. For more serious faults, the application can detect problems and fail over to alternative hardware or contingency plans until the failure is corrected. A reliable application can properly manage the failure of one or more parts, and continue operating properly. Fault tolerant applications can use one or more design strategies, such as redundancy, replication, or degraded functionality.
Disaster recovery
A cloud deployment might cease to function due to a systemic outage of the dependent services or the underlying infrastructure. Under such conditions, a business continuity plan triggers the disaster recovery process. This process typically involves both operations personnel and automated procedures in order to reactivate the application in an available region. This requires the transfer of application users, data, and services to the new region. It also involves the use of backup media or ongoing replication.
Consider the previous analogy that compared high availability to the ability to recover from a flat tire through the use of a spare. In contrast, disaster recovery involves the steps taken after a car crash, where the car is no longer operational. In that case, the best solution is to find an efficient way to change cars, by calling a travel service or a friend. In this scenario, there is likely going to be a longer delay in getting back on the road. There is also more complexity in repairing and returning to the original vehicle. In the same way, disaster recovery to another region is a complex task that typically involves some downtime and potential loss of data. To better understand and evaluate disaster recovery strategies, it is important to define two terms: recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO).
Recovery time objective
The RTO is the maximum amount of time allocated for restoring application functionality. This is based on business requirements, and it is related to the importance of the application. Critical business applications require a low RTO.
Recovery point objective
The RPO is the acceptable time window of lost data due to the recovery process. For example, if the RPO is one hour, you must completely back up or replicate the data at least every hour. Once you bring up the application in an alternate region, the backup data may be missing up to an hour of data. Like RTO, critical applications target a much smaller RPO.
Let's summarize the key points that have been covered in this article (and its related articles on high availability and disaster recovery for Azure applications). This summary will act as a checklist of items you should consider for your own availability and disaster recovery planning. These are best practices that have been useful for customers seeking to get serious about implementing a successful solution.
- Conduct a risk assessment for each application, because each can have different requirements. Some applications are more critical than others and would justify the extra cost to architect them for disaster recovery.
- Use this information to define the RTO and RPO for each application.
- Design for failure, starting with the application architecture.
- Implement best practices for high availability, while balancing cost, complexity, and risk.
- Implement disaster recovery plans and processes.
- Consider failures that span the module level all the way to a complete cloud outage.
- Establish backup strategies for all reference and transactional data.
- Choose a multi-site disaster recovery architecture.
- Define a specific owner for disaster recovery processes, automation, and testing. The owner should manage and own the entire process.
- Document the processes so they are easily repeatable. Although there is one owner, multiple people should be able to understand and follow the processes in an emergency.
- Train the staff to implement the process.
- Use regular disaster simulations for both training and validation of the process.
When hardware or applications fail within Azure, the techniques and strategies for managing them are different than when failure occurs on on-premises systems. The main reason for this is that cloud solutions typically have more dependencies on infrastructure that is distributed across an Azure region, and managed as separate services. You must deal with partial failures using high availability techniques. To manage more severe failures, possibly due to a disaster event, use disaster recovery strategies.
Azure detects and handles many failures, but there are many types of failures that require application-specific strategies. You must actively prepare for and manage the failures of applications, services, and data.
When creating your application's availability and disaster recovery plan, consider the business consequences of the application's failure. Defining the processes, policies, and procedures to restore critical systems after a catastrophic event takes time, planning, and commitment. And once you establish the plans, you cannot stop there. You must regularly analyze, test, and continually improve the plans based on your application portfolio, business needs, and the technologies available to you. Azure provides new capabilities and raises new challenges to creating robust applications that withstand failures.


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entirely secular, non-religious one – that is, one without
hymns, prayers or other religious content. Thereafter,
the key word remains choice.
You can choose to be as traditional or modern, as elaborate or
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Scotland is one of the few countries in the world where humanist marriage ceremonies are legally conducted. They are of course recognised as legal in all countries in the world in the same way as other weddings are.
Today I marry my friend,
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Today I marry the one I Iove. – Bertrand Russell
Humanist weddings have the same legal status as civil and religious weddings as long as they are conducted by a celebrant, who has been authorised by the Registrar General of Scotland.
Each humanist wedding ceremony is unique and deeply personal. A humanist ceremony is a time when you can declare all that you feel for each other in a way that feels right for you.
Same sex couples often choose to celebrate their commitment by having a humanist partnership ceremony, though these are not yet legally recognised, they can be combined with a civil partnership.
The only proviso for having a humanist marriage is that each couple takes out membership of the Humanist Society of Scotland.
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As the Rays' 2012 season ended, several reports had centerfielder B.J. Upton playing his final game as a Ray. No one was expecting the team to make him any offers at all. On Friday, the Rays did so as they made Upton a qualifying offer. Per Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times, Tampa Bay's offer is for a one-year set price of $13.3 million. Upton has two choices under the qualifying offer as explained below via MLBTR: He can accept the one-year deal or decline in search of other offers. If he declines the offer and signs elsewhere, his new team will have to surrender a top draft pick (the selection doesn't go to the player's former team). Upton is due for a big contract. If he signs with the Rays for the year, the chance that Tampa Bay offers him a long term deal is unlikely. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) The post Rays make an offer to Upton appeared first on The Bay Cave.
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It seems that, where weddings are concerned, it is no longer enough to watch out for the traditional drunken uncle on the dancefloor, or to put the best man in a protective choke-hold until after he has delivered his speech. Now even the hosts must be saved from themselves, lest they trade the gentle peal of wedding bells for the wail of a police siren by the end of the evening.
When Harry and Claire Arnold tied the knot recently they ended their wedding day (which included the christening of their twin toddlers, a reception at the working men's club in Coxhoe, Durham, and a continuation of the celebrations over a meal at the local Wetherspoons pub for the by-now-very-happy-indeed couple) in the police cells. They were arrested for being drunk and disorderly after being challenged by a security guard over smoking at a bus stop.
About-to-be-married couples everywhere, I urge you to stop and think. The tradition of marital drunkenness at weddings may be so well established that you can buy pie-eyed bride and groom figurines to announce your intentions from the top of your wedding cake, but for heaven's sake – this is your wedding day. The Arnolds spent four years – four years! – planning theirs. It's supposed to be a day you want to remember, not one you either can't forget or whose memory you have accidentally drowned in a bath of Aftershock. Some things should be sacred.
Marriage is for driving each other to drink slowly over the years. If you're planning to be at that point by seven o'clock the same evening, you may want to reconsider your options.


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Three managers have been suspended and a major investigation is underway over alleged "improper conduct" on a £500m contract to modernise the UK's energy network for National Grid.
The staff work for Balfour Beatty, the construction group which recently won a £150m deal to convert the Olympic Stadium in London and holds more than £1bn of contracts for the Grid.
The probe is a particular embarrassment as it comes at a time when the level of transmission charges levied by the Grid are under fire for being too high and contributing to soaring domestic energy bills.
A spokesman for National Grid, which runs the country's pipes and pylons, said it required the highest standard of ethical conduct from all those companies working on its behalf.
"We are aware that our contractor, Balfour Beatty, is investigating allegations of improper conduct associated with the contract for our gas mains replacement activity in the West Midlands and that they have suspended three of their employees while the investigation is ongoing. We are keeping in close touch with Balfour Beatty on their investigation."
Balfour Beatty emphasised there had been no corruption in the award of the Grid contract and no mis-reporting of work being undertaken on it. "This investigation is focused on localised behaviour by a small group of individuals working for Balfour Beatty involved with sub-contracting in the West Midlands contract," it said in a statement.
The allegations are a particular blow to the construction firm, which issued a profit warning on Tuesday and announced the departure of its chief executive, Andrew McNaughton.
But it also troublesome for the Grid which was fined £8m three years ago by the energy regulator, Ofgem, for providing inaccurate information on gas mains replacement work, and whose transmission fees have been criticised by the energy suppliers for bumping up their own costs.
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The screen is another high point. Measuring 2.8in diagonally, it delivers 240 x 400 pixels. It is exceptionally sharp and bright, and that is in no small part due to its AMOLED technology, which really helps when viewing it outdoors and with colour contrast.
The automatic screen reorientation is a real plus point and something you'd expect as standard on a high-end phone like this. You would also expect there to be Wi-Fi but sadly, it is absent. You do get GPS and this is a 3G handset with HSDPA to 7.2Mbps. There is a front camera for two-way video calling.
I found the touchscreen interface a little dodgy. There were times when it simply didn't like my finger presses and I had to make several taps in order for it to respond. This was most irritating when doing things like entering text and setting up the camera.
You might expect some sort of multi-touch support, but it isn't here. I found its absence most annoying when zooming web pages. You have to call up a zoom bar and use that which requires a few too many screen presses. At least you can finger-pan. Ed also has some interesting points to make on the user interface in the video review. There is also a lock button on the side of the phone that helps prevent accidental key presses when the handset is pocketed.
The widgets I mentioned earlier are easily dragged onto the main screen from a sidebar. There are lots of them, many connected. A Google search bar, AccuWeather, Facebook, MySpace, clock and calendar, shortcuts to music playback controls and the FM radio, to contacts and games. There is a birthdays reminder and even a download panel so you can get more widgets as time goes by.
One of the highlights of the Tocco Ultra S8300 is its 8-megapixel main camera. The lens hides under the slide until needed and is accompanied by a double LED flash and self-portrait mirror.
There was some shutter lag, which meant that images could easily be blurred if you move the camera while taking a photo, and it made framing action shots a little trickier too.
The camera does have some nice features, though. Geotagging, anti-shake control and blink detection are present. And the macro mode is superb. The flowers were photographed at a distance of about 10cm and colour reproduction and detailing are both excellent. The chair has a good level of detail and the coloured dish, photographed indoors under normal household lights, has good colour reproduction.
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@sandra - what satnav software came with the phone you tested? Some ISP's are supplying a special version of Route66 LBS for the Tocca Ultra, but trying to get a copy / get info is proving impossible for me.
Samsung are bringing out new phones with GPS (The S8300 you tested plus the newer S7350 Classico {which I have}) & expect you to use Google maps with the device! Just crazy!
Thanks for the review.
I just bought this phone in the US for only $360. All i did was look for another store that sells it at the cheapest price possible and showed it to cellswholesale.com the have this 120% price matching promotion going on.
Have recently purchased S8300. Cannot find the menu to allow text size to be increased .. I am barely able to read due to VERY small font size .. can anyone please point me to where the menu is hidden? Thanks Ron
@ Sandy
With due respect Sandy, you are commenting on a British website which lists this phone in Pounds Sterling(£), not US Dollars($). It is not usually convenient for us to pop over to the USA to buy a phone.
Having said the above, I just won this Samsung S8300 brand new on eBay from a UK seller for £128.74, which is approximately $212, so I think I can safely say that "I got you beat"!
Note: This was three months after your comment so the phone is probably cheaper in the US by now.
Ron, to increase the text size while you are reading a text you can press the volume button on the side.
I've just got the Tocco Ultra and when using the radio and music player the the stop start function appears on the wallpaper and I can't figure out how to remove it any suggestions?
Hi I just bought the Samsung S8300. Is it possible to set up contacts on speed dial ??? I would appreciat any advice on this matter . Thank you
Anyone suggest a good site for widgets and useful (or useless but cool looking) apps or games that use the accelerometer function? Cheers.
@Bev: Sounds like it may be a widget in the background you need to move back by dragging it with your finger to the sidebar.
its a worst cell phone it doesnt worth its cost.1)it has same port for charging,music& data tranfer. u cannot njoy music while charging 2) the battery is so small it discharges easily after taking some pics. 3)the kepad is so stiky,u cannot get a querty keypad on touch screen like in nokia, 4) the 8 mp doesnt worth tat much quality.5)sound quality is poor ,there is no seperate speaker for music like in corby.6)there is no wi-fi.
Help my Samsung Tocco Ultra s8300 seems go on mute when I am speaking to somone maybe a bit sensitve I have had the microphone replaced and software replaced still no joy any ideas?
lost vision on the screen and some of the buttons don't work any ideas what is wrong it has been well looked after and never had a fall
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How To Tell Your Kids No When They Want M-Rated Games Like GTA V
Posted on Tuesday, September 24 @ 11:00:00 PST by Daniel Bischoff
That's my advice to you, parents. If you're a mom or dad and you've got a child who is just dying to play that hot, new violence simulator known as Grand Theft Auto V, it's time to channel your inner 90s marketing campaign, the one that pushes you through to the end of your spin class, and tell them "No". It's time to consider how you were brought up and what made you into the person you are today.
But first, a disclaimer!
I'm not a parent. Raising kids is not my job, but I was a kid once, deeply entranced by video games and the allure of virtual adult hood despite raging adolescence coursing through my veins. I was once told no. In fact, I was repeatedly told no and I still turned out OK for it. More importantly I don't hate my parents for it either. That's the message here. It's easier to coast through life without ever giving your son or daughter something to be upset about. Saying yes is easier, right? Saying yes makes the screaming and crying go away right?
WRONG. It doesn't make any of that go away. You will never be able to shield your child from all the terrible things in life. You will never protect them from their first crush, the one that will inevitably end in heartbreak. You will never be able to keep them from making mistakes… in fact some mistakes they need to make, but that's not the point here. The point is that disappointing your children gets harder the longer you refuse to do it, especially when it comes to menially trivial things like "mom didn't buy me that video game."
If you're mindlessly pleasing your children, it probably means you have very little time on your hands, so here are a few more do's and don'ts so we don't abuse what little you've allocated to GameRevolution:
Being told "No" didn't stop me from playing M-rated games. I racked up hundreds of hours at a friend's house and in the end it helped me to socialize and keep me from getting too sucked into the game. Keeping your kids out of M-rated games will prove as impossible as it was for your parents to keep you from seeing R-rated movies or drinking in high school. Think about all the terrible things you did as a child, as a teenager, and now consider the society we live in. You won't be able to keep your children from disappointment and you won't be able to keep them from the things they really want to do, but at least you could create an environment where they're not only responsible for their actions, but one where you're aware of them and what's going on in their lives at the same time.
Tell your kids "No". The worst thing that can happen is they move out at 18 and you get a room in your house back.
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I and My wife stayed in USA for 11 yrs from 1998-2009 and had three kids their ages 14, 8, 4. We were in F1 and Then H1 visa, applied for GC in 2005 but unfortunately our I 140 got denied and ordered removal proceeding after that we opted for volunteer Deportation and came back to India in November 2009. Now my children are uncomfortable here, My Elder daughter is studying in boarding school away from home and unhappy with the studies as going in high school this year, my middle daughter has skin allergy problem because of dust and weather and my younger son is not adjusting in any school because of study burden and he started stammering. So my point is can we prove extreme hardship on my children situation as I cannot leave them in USA by themselves and we don't have any immediate relativ
No the children are not qualifying relatives and they are not 21 so they are not old enough to petition for you. Based upon what you stated you would not have a case to return to the US.
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Based on the information you provided, it appears that, in order for you and your wife to be able to enter the United States again, you and your wife would need to be the beneficiaries of a valid immigrant visa petition, or otherwise be eligible for some sort of visa, whether it be based on employment, study, or even a visitor visa.
It appears that you might not have any family members who could file an immigrant visa petition for you at this time. You would need to have a petition filed by your US Citizen children ages 21 or older, your US Citizen siblings, your US Citizen parent, or your Permanent Resident parent.
For the other types of visas, you would need to investigate to see if you might be eligible.
It is not clear from your posting - did you and your wife accumulate unlawful presence during your time in the United States? If you did, then you might ALSO need a waiver of that unlawful presence. If you need such a waiver, you would need to show extreme hardship to your US Citizen or Permanent Resident parent(s). It appears that you don't have a parent who is a US Citizen or Permanent Resident.
I suggest that you consult with an experience immigration attorney, who would be able to ask you all of the relevant questions, and to give you a legal analysis based on all of the facts.
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I agree with my colleagues. Children are not considered qualifying relatives for purposes of a waiver. Also, they cannot petition for you until they reach the age of 21. You've got a lot going on here and in order to advise your appropriately a lot more detailed information is needed. I would advise you to consult an immigration attorney about possible options that may be available to you. Good Luck.
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The hardships are not your problem. Your problem is you need a qualifying relative who can sponsor you. Since your wife is not a USC, your children will be able to do so when they turn 21.Ask a similar question
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