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Cheesecake Factory Red Velvet Cake Cheesecake
Making the Cheesecake Factory Red Velvet Cheesecake recipe at home is not very difficult, though it is time consuming. Plan to start baking a day or two before you want to serve this dessert as it entails making two separate cake recipes along with the frosting. Both recipes require the cakes to chill for 4 hours or more before they can be assembled and frosted. The Cheesecake Factory Red Velvet Cheesecake is a towering dessert comprised of decadent, red velvet cake layered with The Cheesecake Factory's signature cheesecake and topped with a luscious cream cheese frosting.
Start to finish: 11 hours 45 minutes (Active time: 2 hours)
Serves: 12
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Cheesecake Factory Red Velvet Cheesecake Ingredients
Filling ingredients for Cheesecake Factory cheesecake:
- 2 pounds cream cheese, brought to room temperature[2]
- 1 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 cup sour cream, room temperature
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 5 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Cheesecake Factory Red Velvet Cake Ingredients
- 1 cup buttermilk[3]
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups flour
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda[4]
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/4 cup sugar
- 3/4 cup canola or vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs, brought to room temperature[5]
- 1 teaspoon white vinegar
- 1 teaspoon red food coloring
Cheesecake Factory Red Velvet Cake Cheesecake Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients
- 12 ounces cream cheese, room temperature[6]
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, brought to room temperature[7]
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 4 cups confectioner's sugar
Recipe by CopycatRecipeGuide's Food Editors
Cheesecake Factory Red Velvet Cheesecake Recipe
Cheesecake Factory Red Velvet Cheesecake Filling Recipe
- Preheat oven to 475 degrees.
- Place 2 large shallow pans filled with 1/2 inch of water into the oven to create a water bath.
- Prepare 2 greased 9-inch springform pans by wrapping aluminum foil around the bottom of them to prevent leakage from the water bath.[5]
- In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese with an electric mixer on low speed.
- Gradually beat in the sugar, eggs, sour cream, flour, vanilla and lemon juice.
- When the batter is blended, divide it between the springform pans.
- Place one cheesecake pan into each of the water baths in the oven.
- After 10 minutes, reduce heat to 350 degrees.[2]
- Bake for another 35-40 minutes until the sides are set. The center should be slightly jiggly as it will firm up during cooling.
- Cover and place in the refrigerator to cool for four hours or more.
Cheesecake Factory Red Velvet Cake Recipe
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease one 9-inch round baking pan.
- In a small bowl, whisk buttermilk and vanilla.
- Mix the flour, cocoa, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt together in another bowl.
- Cream the sugar, butter, and oil together.[4]
- Add one egg at a time and whisk.
- Add vinegar and food coloring, and beat the batter well.
- Add half the flour mixture to the batter and mix at low speed.
- Continue to mix the batter while adding the buttermilk.
- Add remainder of flour mixture and mix the batter until it is smooth with no lumps.
- Pour the batter into the prepared 9-inch pan.
- Bake cake for 30 - 35 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.[5]
- Cool round layers 10 - 15 minutes before loosening, then remove them from the pans, and cool completely.
- Once cooled, carefully slice the Red Velvet Cake horizontally so there are two evenly-sized layers.
- Freeze for 4 hours or more.
Cheesecake Factory Red Velvet Cake Cheesecake Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe
- Using electric mixer, beat cream cheese, butter, and vanilla in large bowl until smooth.[7]
- Add powdered sugar 1 cup at a time, beating until smooth after each addition.
- Remove the chilled cheesecakes from the springform pans.
- Remove the Red Velvet Cake layers from the freezer.
- Place one layer of Red Velvet Cake on a plate.
- Spread a thin layer of frosting on the cake to help the next layer to adhere.
- Place one cheesecake layer on top of the Red Velvet Cake.[5]
- Add another thin layer of frosting.
- Repeat with remaining Red Velvet Cake and cheesecake layers.
- Cover the entire cake with a crumb-coat of frosting to trap all loose crumbs before adding your final layer of frosting.[8]
- Use a piping bag to create a decorative edge around the top of the cake.
- Cut the cake into 12 equal slices and serve.
How to Make Red Velvet Cake
The history of the Red Velvet cake dates back to the 1870s, when it was mentioned in a book by a man named Dr. Alvin Wood Chase. As it turns out, "red" did not originally refer to the color of the cake, rather it referred to the cake's velvety texture. Years later, the cake earned its vibrant namesake during the Great Depression when John A. Adams, whose family owned a food coloring and extract company, began marketing the "reddest" cake ever seen and distributed copies of the recipe to all his customers. His recipe included multiple extracts and red food coloring that could be obtained through his company, of course. The idea caught on and now there are several versions of the original Red Velvet Cake recipe.[9]
Also See: How to Make Cheesecake Factory White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Cheesecake, How to Make Cheesecake Factory Wild Blueberry White Chocolate Cheesecake, How to Make Cheesecake Factory Caramel Pecan Turtle Cheesecake, How to Make Cheesecake Factory Snickers Bar Chunks and Cheesecake, How to Make Cheesecake Factory Adam's Peanut Butter Cup Fudge Ripple Cheesecake
- ↑ http://www.thecheesecakefactory.com/aboutUs/faq/faq
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/red-velvet-cheesecake-recipe/index.html
- ↑ http://www.justapinch.com/recipes/red-velvet-cheesecake-7.html
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.browneyedbaker.com/2012/02/08/red-velvet-cheesecake-recipe/
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 http://www.recipegirl.com/2011/11/28/red-velvet-cheesecake-cake/
- ↑ http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Vanilla-Cream-Cheese-Frosting-104319
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://www.melskitchencafe.com/2012/12/juniors-red-velvet-cheesecake-cake-knock-off-sugar-rush-5.html
- ↑ http://bakingbites.com/2009/08/what-is-a-crumb-coat/
- ↑ http://www.gilttaste.com/stories/2290-the-unknown-history-of-red-velvet-cake


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Anything less than a wonderful Christmas is a disappointment
A couple of years ago Simon Wolfson, the chief executive of Next — one of the sharpest knives in the retail drawer and proof that occasionally the hereditary principle gets it right — made a forecast. In an environment of low consumer spending that has become the "new normal", Lord Wolfson of Aspley Guise said, the usual measure of monitoring retailers' performance, like-for-like sales, becomes less relevant.
Instead, Next would enhance shareholder value by using its strong cash generation to buy back its shares, rather than opening more and more stores.
This week the notion of like-for-like sales, comparing current sales only with those in stores open during the comparable trading period and stripping out anything in newly built outlets, came under attack again, from…

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Press Releases
Zoominfo Exposes Relationships in New Search Engine
Colleagues, Friends and Competitors Served up alongside Photos, User Feedback and More in Deep Summaries of People and Company Information
New ZoomInfo Content Agreements with BNET (www.bnet.com) for reference content and SimplyHired.com for jobs
December 5, 2005 - WALTHAM, Mass. - Zoom Information, Inc., (www.zoominfo.com) the search engine that extracts and summarizes people information from the Web, now exposes automatically built lists of colleagues and relationships in its summaries. Enabling instant networking and discovery, the relationships that ZoomInfo has uncovered using artificial intelligence are published in open, free search results along with photos and any personal information that individual users add to their summaries. Company summaries, formerly in limited beta release, now include financial information, key employees, competitor search and more.
"Who you know, and who knows you, is a large measure of how you are valued today in business," said Jonathan Stern, founder and CEO of Zoom Information Inc. "Discovering relationships on the Web and exposing them on ZoomInfo elevates ZoomInfo summaries to an indispensable tool for everyone in business."
ZoomInfo now provides more information about business people and companies, and allows searching in new ways, including:
Automated, open networking
- Automatically discovered lists of colleagues enable first-degree networking in the open, free search site. Users can also invite others to join their colleague lists.
- ZoomInfo's email engine allows direct but secure communications. Email addresses are not published publicly to maintain the privacy of each individual.
- Automatically extracted keywords published with each summary to enable keyword searching for similar people or companies
Reputation management and promotion with search engine optimization and placement
- A universally accessible reputation management platform where users can create, edit and publish their professional summaries, add personal information, keywords, photos and more
Search engine optimized – ZoomInfo summaries are published to be crawled by and rank highly within major search engines
- RSS publication – users can subscribe to RSS feeds of summaries to keep track of specific individuals
Company Summaries with financials, competitors, jobs and whitepapers
- Automatically built company summaries including revenue, employee number, key personnel, and web reference sources.
- Related white papers and case studies through a partnership with BNET (www.BNET.com), a comprehensive source of high-quality whitepapers, case studies, Webcasts, and audiocasts for business professionals. As part of the partnership, BNET will also feature ZoomInfo's people search technology on its web site.
- Job openings at summarized companies through partnership with Simply Hired
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EDIT: Removing any mention of politics.
I'm starting to think that I'm pathologically trusting... For instance, I'm bearing my soul to the internet on a dating site. So far it's been pretty fun, so I think I'm going to stick with it (being pathologically trusting).
EDIT: Less convoluted.
I would like to do post graduate work, but it's not really in the budget. Plus I have so much debt; mostly from the first round of schooling.
I play all different kinds of music (guitar and pipa, mostly) and I was once a fairly inspired visual artist, mostly working in ink and charcoal. I would like to be inspired again... I am not sure if the scorched-earth class war battlefield called Connecticut is really the place to find inspiration, but I suppose inspiration ultimately comes from within.
I am also good with my hands. I've been told I'm an adroit guitar player, although I've never really felt compelled to be a performer and no one ever uses the word 'adroit.' I mostly just enjoy it for its own sake, and don't have much interest in being a "rock star", although at some point in my teens I did. I also play pipa (a 4-string Chinese lute), and I'm an excellent typist, mostly because I type all day at work.
I'm pretty good at one on one strategy games. I'm a decent Go player (3k-6k on KGS-don't worry if you have no idea what I'm talking about, it's really cool. Trust me). I also lived with a really great chess player for a couple years in 2007-08 or so, and played lots of games with him, so some of his greatness rubbed off on me I'm sure. My chess skillz are probably a little faded by now, because I hardly play that much anymore (for lack of IRL opponents-I don't like to play chess on computers for some reason. Except BattleChess. That shit is classic!)
Moovees: "The God of Cookery", "Shaolin Soccer", "Heat", "The Taint", "A Scanner Darkly", "Tropic Thunder", "Boggy Creek II: The Legend Continues", "The Pumaman"
shows: "Game of Thrones", "Arrested Development", "Mr. Show with Bob and David", "Children's Hospital", "Transformers", MST3K (!!!)
music: Shpongle, Deadly Avenger, Luca Turelli, Rhapsody of Fire, Pantera (mostly just "Cowboys from Hell" ca 1989), Royce Da 59 (curveball!)
Also, witty things that I should've said hours ago.
Also, this might be better under the "utterly idiotic things that you really shouldn't say but might if you have no ability to filter your thoughts whatsoever" section, but I don't see that so I'll put it here: I've had sex before and I liked it a lot (many of the times). So... I may want to do it again... If you find that offensive or weird, then... umm, we can do other stuff together. Or not.


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It's not uncommon for a trucker to be away for weeks at a time and being alone makes it very easy to fall into temptations that are literally around the corner. Transport for Christ is a ministry designed to meet the unique personal and spiritual needs of the people that work in this very difficult industry.
Dave Schroeder-Owner Schroeder Transport
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Sam Macintosh-Chaplain-Transport for Christ
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Woodrow Landfair has traveled the
continental 48 states of America by motorcycle for the last 13 months. This is what he calls Woodrow Landfair has traveled the continental 48 states of America by motorcycle for the last 13 months. This is what he calls Urban Camping (Truck Stop Sleeping).
For more information about Woodrow visit: http://www.WoodrowLandfair.com
Woodrow Landfair had never ridden a motorcycle. He had never written a book. He had no experience in public speaking.
After earning a degree in Creative Writing in the spring of 2006, Landfair pawned all he had and dedicated himself to traveling the 48 states while writing his first novel.
To lighten expenses, Landfair sold his car, purchasing a 1995 Suzuki Intruder motorcycle to undertake the odyssey.
To promote himself he performs his short-stories at venues nationwide.
To support himself –and to gather material–Landfair does manual labor and odd jobs. He's worked as a room service bell hop, a door-to-door salesman, a babysitter, a bartender, a waiter, and a food-runner. He's built a fence in Florida, been a bouncer in New York City, changed oil in Virginia, and lifeguarded in Washington, D.C.
Landfair has lived in homeless shelters in New York City. He has stayed as a volunteer in the Katrina ravaged Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. He's slept and dined in the mansions of millionaires, in trailer parks, in Truck Stops, and in roadside fields.
His journey through the 48 states is part of a curriculum in self-education. Landfair is learning as a writer, as an artist, as an American, and as a human.
Born in Richmond, Virginia, Stanley Woodrow Landfair, nicknamed Pack, grew up traveling between his father in San Francisco, California and his mother in Springfield, Virginia.
He attended the University of Texas where he spent his first two years as a Midshipman on a US Navy ROTC Scholarship. From 2003-2005 he was a member of the Longhorn baseball team. He was twice named their Teammate of the Year (2004, 2005) and won an NCAA National Championship (2005). He graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing.
Landfair's intention was to pursue a career as a U.S. Navy SEAL before setting out to become a writer. When a back injury ended his former aspiration, Landfair began work on the latter.
As for his plans after touring the 48, Landfair quotes Louis L'Amour: "My intention was to be a writer. I would make no effort to acquire a trade."
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Dieudonne Muhire
Why Hide - Poem by Dieudonne Muhire
How to choose who to be
There are many choices now
It's your decision
Play a guitar, be a move star?
It's your choice.
You have been the kind of person
That hides the face
It's like a curse
So a fried to tell the world
What you got to say
Fear gets in the way
You only get one life to work it
So who cares if it's not perfect?
To me it's more than perfect
Why should you hide from the thunder?
And the lighting you under.
You have to scream until there's nothing left
With your last breath
Though it's full of girth
Make them listen
Though the host is closing the curtains
There are no way they going to ignore
Even if they didn't know
Not anymore.
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In a July 19 editorial ("More fair fares," Opinion), The Salt Lake Tribune expressed concern about the recommendations of a study on distance-base fares being considered by the Utah Transit Authority.
Based on its review of the study, The Tribune asserts a distance-based fare system could hurt ridership and adversely affect major partners like the University of Utah and the LDS Church.
UTA appreciates the expressions of concern; however, it's premature to jump to such a conclusion. The study reviewed by the newspaper is only one of many models UTA is reviewing as the agency studies distance-based fare and its potential benefits.
No decisions have been at this time, and no proposals or plans have been developed.
UTA needs to finish studying the models and begin to develop distance-based fare scenarios that can be vetted with our partners and the public. Before any decisions will be made, there will be multiple opportunities for the public to provide input and help shape the future of UTA's fare programs.
Early studies suggest a distance-based fares system has great potential to provide greater equity for our riders. Customers would pay for what they actually use, like they do with fuel or utilities. Today, a rider pays a $2.35 local fare whether he or she travels two blocks or 20 miles.
We also believe a distance-based fare system has the potential to increase ridership. Charging riders for distance traveled would likely incentivize riders to take more short trips than they do today, while not necessarily discouraging longer trips if priced appropriately.
Nor does a distanced-based fare necessarily mean the end of discounts. UTA's electronic fare system could be programmed to provide appropriate discounts or rewards for seniors, low-income, and frequent riders.
Although the traditional monthly pass may not be part of a distance-based fare system, it would likely be replaced by a superior, more flexible fare product.
UTA also has no plans to eliminate our partnership programs with educational and corporate institutions. These partnerships are mutually beneficial, and we expect them to continue into the foreseeable future. They are an important part of our success. Thousands of students and employees of these partners benefit daily from riding transit, enjoying financial savings and more efficient use of their commuting time. The community benefits from better air quality and reduced traffic congestion.
There is no reason to believe that moving to a new fare structure would necessarily increase personal costs for students or employees of these partners. The direct cost to a student or employee is determined by each partner, not by UTA.
Many choose to subsidize the cost of the passes, providing them to employees or students for no out-of-pocket expense or for a nominal amount. UTA will continue to encourage this practice as we work to enhance our relationship with our partners.
With today's technology, we have an opportunity to develop a fare system that will provide greater options and possibilities for all of our riders. The next few months will be spent developing potential fare concepts that we will share with our riders and the general public at the earliest opportunity. UTA encourages everyone to join us in developing a new and better fare system that will provide greater equity and opportunity for all riders.
Michael Allegra is UTA's general manager.


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Beats Music 2014 Super Bowl Commercial Features Aloe Blacc's 'Can You Do This'
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Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres dances her way through the new Beats Music commercial, which will be played during the 2014 Super Bowl on Sunday (Feb. 2). The clip features Aloe Blacc's cheery 'Can You Do This.'
Beats Music, the latest music app to hit the market, enlisted DeGeneres for a commercial clip highlighting all the possible musical combinations.
In "The Woods," (which is actually a condo) DeGeners, who plays a modern day Goldilocks, finds herself in an solitary "Den" (an apartment). Instead of bogarting porridge like in the original 'The Story of the Three Bears,' she goes through all the headphones in the house to find the perfect song to dance to.
Just when the family of bears arrive home, she finds that perfect song (thanks to Beats Music) — cue 'Can You Do This.' Blacc can also be heard on the Avicci hit 'Wake Me Up,' which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 100. He's also readying his upcoming album, 'Lift Your Spirit,' for a March 25 release.


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(CNSNews.com) – Four Republican congressmen have written to Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Galvin, calling on him to certify the results of Tuesday's special Senate election "without delay or political games" so that Sen.-elect Scott Brown can be sworn in.
Brown's victory over state's attorney general, Democrat Martha Coakley, "proves that the American people reject a government takeover of health care and oppose higher taxes, more spending, and bigger government," Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) said in a statement. Massachusetts "cast a strong vote against the Democratic Leadership's liberal agenda and in support of the ideals of freedom and free markets," he added.
"The people of Massachusetts have spoken. They deserve to have their duly-elected Senator sworn into office as soon as possible, and we urge the Secretary of the Commonwealth to certify this election quickly and without partisan political games," Mack said.
Scott's victory is pivotal in the GOP's quest to block President Obama's health care bill. Brown would be the 41st vote that Republicans need to sustain a filibuster.
"As the Secretary of the Commonwealth and Massachusetts' top election official, it is now your obligation to certify this election without delay. Do not politicize, undermine, or cheapen this historic moment," Mack wrote in a letter also signed by Reps. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.), Tom Price (R-Ga.), and Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.).
"The people of Massachusetts deserve to have their duly-elected Senatorial representation in place as soon as possible. For the sake of the Commonwealth and our nation, please put special-interest politics aside and heed the voice of the public. Nothing less is acceptable," the congressmen wrote.
Meanwhile, Scott said Wednesday that he spoke to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Sen. John Kerry and he doesn't expect to have any problems being seated in the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. Scott plans to travel to the nation's capital on Thursday.


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**Giveaway closed: Congrats to Jennifer W on winning!**
I didn't know what to expect when I started reading Kyle Idleman's newest book, AHA. The prospect of having a moment or moments of clarity that change ones life is always appealing to me.
I didn't know what to expect when I started reading Kyle Idleman's newest book, AHA. The prospect of having a moment or moments of clarity that change ones life is always appealing to me.
Mr. Idleman bases his book around the parable of the prodigal son and the way that son reacted once realizing he needed to change and as soon as possible. Right away he gets into how God sends alarm bells in our lives to get our attention. It reminds me of that part on Bruce Almighty where he asks for a sign and all the signs on the road say, "wrong way", "dead end", flashing red and he keeps on driving. He refers to the story in Genesis of the brothers, Cain and Able and how God tried to warn Cain and give him the opportunity to do what was right. In Genesis 4:7 God says to him "But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it".
A situation rose up in my life concurrent to reading this, a situation that was not bad but had the potential to become so, left unattended. I must have been at least conscious of the possibility because I immediately knew God was speaking to me through these verses, through the message in the first few pages of this book that I was "coincidentally reviewing". I heard the Lord whisper yelling at me, "come to your senses now!", "be like Joseph and run!".
As I grow closer to the Lord and more confident in my identity in Him I have also felt attacks rising against me. I saw this situation clearly as a trap, it didn't look like much from the outside, and perhaps if I hadn't have been reading this book I wouldn't have bothered seeing it as such. The author is so right, and God gave me an up close and personal example of these warnings God gives us to save us from what could hurt us and others. I felt the Lord telling me, listen now before it becomes something altogether different than you think it could. I've never felt a need to radically obey the Lord as I have in that circumstance as I read concurrently the proverbs that warns, "can you hold fire close to your chest and not get burned?" and so I ran.
The very next chapter he speaks about coming to that desperate moment, the moment that can bring the AHA. The one in which, if we haven't heeded God's warning we reach this place and we no longer can run from Him. I've had these moments in other circumstances, much of my depression could be defined by this. That place where we become desperate and God becomes real, for the prodigal son it was eating pig slop. Sometimes deserved consequences, sometimes inflicted pain by outside circumstances but as he says these moments are "the defining moments can be our response to loss" . God calls us, wake up, come back, respond.
He talks about how so many times we try to do this life of following Jesus in our strength, only to end up living under deep guilt because we can not do it. That many times this AHA moment comes from realizing this and letting God reveal truth to us, sometimes this happens over a period of isolation. He says "sometimes we want to seize AHA, but AHA is not seized it is received." Again, this resonated with me. Throughout this last year and half I met a few times with someone who told me to change my posture with the Lord as one who was receiving, and stop striving. To let Him give me His love, show me who He is, who I am, what my identity really is. This is not something I could grasp and grapple for, it had to be received. Not hurried, but slowly imparted.
I have heard it said that self work is hard work, so also is the life of the Spirit. We are to work out our salvation with fear and trembling, not work for it, but work it out, but its WORK. It is hard because we have to stop, look at what is hurting, feel it. You must be brave because it's admitting that you are not OK, that you have made some mistakes along the way, that there is healing that is needed, and there is healing that is available. Being honest with ourselves is also a part of that AHA, as he describes, and this can be scary.
He says
"I don't want to spend any part of my life missing out on what God wants me to see now. I don't want to come to my senses in twenty years if God is trying to wake me up now."
Do we want to be awake? Or is sleep a comfortable shadow of false security?
He goes on into other key aspects of having these AHA moments, brutal honesty about our shortcomings, mistakes, brokenness, and being able to be honest with others about these as well. How instead, many times, we embrace things to protect ourselves such as denial, projection, or minimizing these things in hopes that they will just go away.
He says
"AHA won't happen until we come to a place were we stop defending ourselves".
The last part in the book he talks about is immediate action, how the prodigal son decided he would go back to his fathers house, what he would say to him and got up and went. He points out, "so often we know what needs to be done, but we just can't move." There are so many good points in this section about why we stall ourselves. About what we say we believe and what we actually believe and the power that lies in the chasm in the leap between the two. About our passivity, our procrastination, and our defeatism.
Finally he talks about the son having returned to the father's house. Pointing out that the father runs to him and repetitively kisses him, and I thought about how I kiss my own boys. That he, just like our Father, isn't like a cop waiting to bust us but to run to us, welcome us back with open arms. Also not forgetting that older brother who is mad about this, and pointing out that he, also, was a prodigal. He quotes Tim Kellar who says, "the bad son was lost in his badness, but the good son was lost in his goodness." but points out how the father approaches them both, God initiates with us, no matter where we might be stuck.
He closes by telling us
"we expect God to be an angry father who demands justice, but through Jesus, HE gives us love and grace and we don't deserve it. Ultimately it's not a story about two sons who disobey, but about a Father who loves His children unconditionally."
That is the best news.
I really recommend this book, it was insightful and personally really helpful. God definitely used it to speak to me in many ways. So often we want this big moment to come to us easily, but there are so many aspects that go into this AHA moment we want to change our life.
If you would like to order this book you can go to the website HERE
also I am giving one away to one reader, and it might as well be you!


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And yet this first night spent at the pole of the world was pleasant and quiet.
She was greeted on her return by the girl who had let her in on the first night.
His wounds had been awkwardly bound up by the kind-hearted youth on the first night, while he lay in a swoon.
Now, as on the first night, it was the voice of the owl, and he answered it from the window.
I was presented to him while he was making his round before dinner on the first night.
On the first night, there was a packed audience of hearty supporters.
Now good-night, and may you rest sweetly and peacefully on this first night at home after your long absence.
We had not noticed them the first night, as they had been on fatigue.
It would appear that he crossed the creek in the dark, and his horse escaped from him on the first night.
Pope appeared in the theatre on the first night, and was greeted with applause.


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Management Updates
This section of the web site features Management Updates written by the turf specialists of the UMass Extension Turf Program. The messages cover regional problems, are geared toward regional conditions, and are posted frequently during the growing season.
The most current message appears below; click into the archive to see messages from the current and previous growing seasons.
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|Aug 15, 2006
|Filing date
|Oct 30, 2000
|Priority date
|Oct 30, 2000
|Fee status
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|Publication number
|Matthew A. Goldberg
|Original Assignee
|Microsoft Corporation
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (10), Non-Patent Citations (3), Referenced by (10), Classifications (6), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The present invention relates to computer systems, and more particularly to a system and method for supply requested documents at a relatively quick rate.
Web documents are stored on web servers and are provided to client computers over the Internet upon receipt at the web server of a request for the document in the form of a uniform or universal resource locator ("URL"). The URL specifies the communications protocol by which the information is to be transferred and the Internet address of the host or web server upon which the document is stored. The URL may also specify a directory path and file name for the document. The communications protocol for the web is the hypertext transfer protocol ("HTTP"). Documents or pages stored on web servers and available over the web are generally formatted in a markup language. Markup language web documents contain text and a number of tags which provide instructions as to how the text should be displayed, which text should be hyperlinked to other documents, and where other types of content, including graphics and other images, video and audio segments, application programs or applets, image maps, and icons, should be retrieved from and displayed in the document. One of the most commonly used standardized markup languages is the Hypertext Markup Language ("HTML"), currently available in several versions. Other standardized markup languages include the Standard Generalized Markup Language ("SGML") and the Extensible Markup Language ("XML").
Conventionally, web servers receive requests from a client for a particular HTML document. The servers then load the HTML file (e.g., an Application Service Provider (ASP) file) and parse the HTML file for script code. The script code is then interpreted and executed and the results sent back to the requestor, for example, by inserting the results into the loaded HTML file and transmitting the file and results back to the requestor. The problem is that the process of parsing, interpreting and executing the code is both time and resource intensive.
In order for a web server to serve many users at a reasonable rate, the web server must be able to supply the requested HTML pages very quickly and use as little system resources as possible. Web sites that dynamically generate web pages based on state and user input have the challenge of doing this in a scalable manner. The most efficient way to do so is through compiled code running in the same process as the web server. The most obvious place is for the HTML text to be part of the code itself, but this leads to disconnected, hard to read string constants that are difficult to maintain and that require a recompilation of the code whenever a change is made to the HTML text.
Accordingly, there is an unmet need in the art for a system and method that mitigates the above stated deficiencies with traditional HTML servers.
A system and method is provided for supplying requested HTML pages at a relatively quick rate using limited resources. The present invention provides a solution to efficiently, clearly, and straightforwardly supplying text constants to code running in a server environment and using them to generate dynamically changing pages. The present invention employs an executable code component residing on a server system that inserts text templates including strings and arguments into requested HTML documents. The text strings general includes constant parts and variable parts. Variable parts change depending on state and user input. Each text template is considered a page and is loaded up at start up time by the executable code component, which parses and stores the constant parts of the text string into memory and retains the memory location of the text string. Additionally, the memory location of argument variables within the text constants can also be stored in memory. A request from a client causes the executable code component to load a copy of the appropriate HTML page, retrieve the appropriated text strings and arguments from the memory and insert the text strings and appropriate arguments into the loaded page. The copy is then transmitted back to the client. The executable code can also execute any code that was required by the HTML page to provide the desired results.
In one aspect of the invention, the constant part of the text strings residing in the templates can be modified without recompiling the code. Modifications to the templates can be made while the executable code is still running. At the point when the executable code component loads a text template, it begins monitoring the text template for any changes made while running. Upon a change occurring, the text template is loaded and parsed again and the old information is replaced by the new information. Code referencing that page is automatically provided with the new information, thus, modifications occur dynamically.
To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, the invention then, comprises the features hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims. The following description and the annexed drawings set forth in detail certain illustrative embodiments of the invention. These embodiments are indicative, however, of but a few of the various ways in which the principles of the invention may be employed and the present invention is intended to include all such embodiments and their equivalents. Other objects, advantages and novel features of the invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the invention when considered in conjunction with the drawings.
The present invention is now described with reference to the drawings, wherein like reference numerals are used to refer to like elements throughout. The present invention is described with reference to a system and method for generating dynamically changing HTML documents at a relatively quick rate in response to a client request. The system and method provide separation of the constant text and the code embedded in the HTML documents. The present invention employs an executable component that includes all the basic functionality typically embedded in script code of a plurality of HTML documents. The dynamically generated text is broken down into string template pages. Each string template page can be authored as a single file and includes all the information necessary to complete a request. Editing the file can be done with the author's favorite document editing tool, and likewise viewing the file can be done in the typical manner as well, as long as meta-information in the page is included in a format that is considered "hidden" by the viewer.
A string template page includes one or more strings and each string includes a text constant and can include one or more argument variables. Each string template page is provided with identifiers for pages (e.g., the file name), string or text constants (e.g., text that does not change) and variable portions of strings (e.g., arguments). The pages are read, parsed and processed into a data structure into memory by the executable component for efficient use at runtime. The executable component parses each page for where each string begins and ends and the strings unique identifier and where each argument should be inserted into the string constant and its argument number.
The present invention provides for separation of the text constants of HTML documents from the code embedded in the HTML documents. By separating the text constants out into individual files, including the minimal meta-information needed by the code to use them, readability, ease of authoring, and separation of text data and code are achieved. The needs of generating dynamic text can be served by breaking up the text into pages, strings, and places to insert arguments. To make the use of these templates at runtime as fast as possible, the files are pre-processed at start-up time, efficiently storing information about where the pages and strings are located, with particular details about where they begin and end, and where to insert arguments. Intelligent IDs can take advantage of this efficiency, by allowing the code to reference objects by one ID only, defined at design time, while still gaining the direct access provided by pointers determined at run time.
The executable component 14 parses string constants from the string template pages 12 by utilizing new string indicators and determines where variables are to be inserted by utilizing insert argument indicators. The executable component 14 stores the string constants into a memory 18 and retains information relating to the memory location of each string constant and the insertion location of each variable. All the logic necessary to generate and insert the variable arguments into the string constants resides in the executable component. A variable can be a pointer to text, for example the user's name, or the current date, generated by the code. A variable can also be a pointer to another string in the page, for example, if there is an optional text constant which may or may not be used depending on a state. The argument can be authored as a string in the page and passed in as a variable only when applicable.
A monitoring system 16 is provided coupled to the executable component 14. The monitoring system 16 monitors any changes to the string template pages 12. If any changes occur with any of the string template pages 12, the monitoring system 16 informs the executable component 14. The executable component 14 then reloads the changed string template page or pages, parses the string constants and variable locations, stores the new string constants in memory and retains the string constant and variable locations. The monitoring system 16 could be a configuration data source component, for example, in the Microsoft� Windows� Operating System environment, the configuration data source component type could be Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), which is a support mechanism for management of systems in an enterprise. WMI allows developers to use a simple, consistent mechanism to query for information or configure settings on computers across an enterprise (e.g., hardware settings, file change information, driver configuration, BIOS information, application settings, event log information). WMI allows for both hardware and software to be modeled. It is to be appreciated that other computer monitoring systems that provide configuration information may be employed to carry out the present invention.
The monitoring system 16 allows modification to the string template pages 12 while the executable component 14 is running. With the constant part of the text residing in the templates, completely separate from the code, changes can be made to the constant text without needing to recompile the code. After the code initially loads a string template page, the monitoring system 16 or the executable component 14 can begin monitoring that page or file for any changes made while running. When a change occurs, the page is loaded and parsed again, and the new information replaces the old. Code that references that page will now be given information about the new parse, such that modifications can be incorporated on the fly.
A request for a HTML document from a client 20 is received by the executable component 14. The executable component 14 executes any code relating to the request. The executable component 14 then loads up the string constants for a particular string template page 12 corresponding to the request using pointers pointing to the memory locations of the strings in the memory 18. The executable component 14 then retrieves the argument numbers, determines the appropriate variable based on the request or a state and inserts the variable into the strings. The executable component 14 then returns the results of any executed code and the string constants with inserted variables therein. It is to be appreciated that the request that the executable component may insert the strings and arguments into a requested HTML page in place of the results that were conventionally provided by script. Alternatively, the executable component 14 via the code and the stored information of the string template pages 12 may serve up the entire HTML page and results requested without the need to load up any HTML page.
An example of a possible environment 30 for the system 10 is illustrated in
The local computer 32 is operatively coupled to a network 44, such as an Internet, an intranet, or another computer network. The local computer 32 is connected to the network 44, for example, over a telephone line 50 via a modem 38. Alternatively, the local computer 32 may be connected to the network 44 through another connection 42, such as an integrated services digital network (ISDN), T1, DS 1 or other high speed telecommunications connections and an appropriate connection device, a television cable and modem, a satellite link, an optical fiber link, an Ethernet or other local area network technology wire and adapter card, radio or optical transmission devices, etc. It is to be appreciated that the invention also may be implemented in a browser environment for other public and private computer networks, such as a computer network of a commercial on-line service or an internal corporate local area network (LAN), an Intranet, or like computer network.
The local computer 32 runs software, including a browser 60, for unified browsing of electronic documents and other data from local sources as well as from the computer network 44. Specifically, documents for browsing with the browser software may reside as files of a file system stored in appropriate storage devices at the local computer 32 or reside at resources at a remote computer 68. The remote computer 68 is operatively coupled to the network 44 via connection 46, which may be in the form of a telecommunications connection and appropriate device or any other communications link (including wired and wireless) to the network. By way of example, the remote computer 68 is an Internet-based server connected to the computer network 44 to provide one or more World Wide Web ("Web") sites to which the local computer 32 may connect.
By way of example, a plurality of HTML string template pages 52 resides at the remote computer 68 that conforms to HTML standards. It is to be appreciated that the browser software running at the local computer 32 may be capable of browsing documents having other data formats from the local computer or the remote computer 32. The HTML string template pages 52 include text constants that are logically grouped into pages and strings. A string is the largest text constant which will be used in total and with a pre-defined, constant number of variable parts, and a page is the collection of all the strings needed to complete one request. Editing the file can be done with a document editing tool, and likewise viewing the file can be done in the typical manner as well, as long as meta-information in the page is included in a format that is considered hidden by the viewer.
The browser software running locally on the local computer 32 displays a HTML document 62 in a window 64 or area of the local computer's display 34 allocated to the browser by the operating system. The window 64 includes a document display area 66 and user interface controls (not shown). The browser displays the HTML document 62 within the document display area 66 of the window 64, although other display types also may be used. The displayed document may include text and/or images generated by an executable component 54 in conjunction with the HTML string template pages 52.
In the example shown in
In one aspect of the invention, the executable component employs intelligent IDs. An intelligent ID is a globally scoped structure that contains two fields, the constant unique identifier and a pointer to the actual information (object). The executable code only needs to reference the intelligent ID when referring to an object. When the executable component starts up, every intelligent ID's pointer field is initially NULL. If an intelligent ID is referenced which still has a NULL pointer field, a search is made for the object referred to by the unique identifier field. When the object is found, the pointer to that object is stored in the intelligent ID. In all future references to the intelligent ID, the pointer field is found to be not NULL, and that pointer is used directly.
In view of the structure described above with respect to
With reference to
The system bus may be any of several types of bus structure including a memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus, and a local bus using any of a variety of conventional bus architectures such as PCI, VESA, Microchannel, ISA and EISA, to name a few. The system memory includes read only memory (ROM) 224 and random access memory (RAM) 225. A basic input/output system (BIOS), containing the basic routines that help to transfer information between elements within the computer 220, such as during start-up, is stored in ROM 224.
The computer 220 further includes a hard disk drive 227, a magnetic disk drive 228, e.g., to read from or write to a removable disk 229, and an optical disk drive 230, e.g., for reading a CD-ROM disk 231 or to read from or write to other optical media. The hard disk drive 227, magnetic disk drive 228, and optical disk drive 230 are connected to the system bus 223 by a hard disk drive interface 232, a magnetic disk drive interface 233, and an optical drive interface 234, respectively. The drives and their associated computer-readable media provide nonvolatile storage of data, data structures, computer-executable instructions, etc. for the server computer 220. Although the description of computer-readable media above refers to a hard disk, a removable magnetic disk and a CD, it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that other types of media which are readable by a computer, such as magnetic cassettes, flash memory cards, digital video disks, Bernoulli cartridges, and the like, may also be used in the exemplary operating environment.
A number of program modules may be stored in the drives and RAM 225, including an operating system 235, one or more application programs 236, other program modules 237, and program data 238. The operating system 235 in the illustrated computer can be Microsoft Windows NT Server operating system, together with the before mentioned Microsoft Transaction Server, Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows 2000.
A user may enter commands and information into the computer 220 through a keyboard 240 and pointing device, such as a mouse 242. Other input devices (not shown) may include a microphone, joystick, game pad, satellite dish, scanner, or the like. These and other input devices are often connected to the processing unit 221 through a serial port interface 246 that is coupled to the system bus, but may be connected by other interfaces, such as a parallel port, game port or a universal serial bus (USB). A monitor 247 or other type of display device is also connected to the system bus 223 via an interface, such as a video adapter 248. In addition to the monitor, computers typically include other peripheral output devices (not shown), such as speakers and printers.
The computer 220 may operate in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers, such as a remote server or client computer 249. The remote computer 249 may be a workstation, a server computer, a router, a peer device or other common network node, and typically includes many or all of the elements described relative to the computer 220, although only a memory storage device 250 has been illustrated in
When used in a LAN networking environment, the computer 220 is connected to the local network 251 through a network interface or adapter 253. When used in a WAN networking environment, the server computer 220 typically includes a modem 254, or is connected to a communications server on the LAN, or has other means for establishing communications over the wide area network 252, such as the Internet. The modem 254, which may be internal or external, is connected to the system bus 223 via the serial port interface 246. In a networked environment, program modules depicted relative to the computer 220, or portions thereof, may be stored in the remote memory storage device. It will be appreciated that the network connections shown are exemplary and other means of establishing a communications link between the computers may be used.
In accordance with practices of persons skilled in the art of computer programming, the present invention is described below with reference to acts and symbolic representations of operations that are performed by the computer 220, unless indicated otherwise. Such acts and operations are sometimes referred to as being computer-executed. It will be appreciated that the acts and symbolically represented operations include the manipulation by the processing unit 221 of electrical signals representing data bits which causes a resulting transformation or reduction of the electrical signal representation, and the maintenance of data bits at memory locations in the memory system (including the system memory 222, hard drive 227, floppy disks 229, and CD-ROM 231) to thereby reconfigure or otherwise alter the computer system's operation, as well as other processing of signals. The memory locations where data bits are maintained are physical locations that have particular electrical, magnetic, or optical properties corresponding to the data bits.
The present invention has been illustrated with respect to a programming methodology and/or computer architecture and a particular example, however, it is to be appreciated that various programming methodology and/or computer architecture suitable for carrying out the present invention may be employed and are intended to fall within the scope of the hereto appended claims.
The invention has been described with reference to the preferred aspects of the invention. Obviously, modifications and alterations will occur to others upon reading and understanding the foregone detailed description. It is intended that the invention be construed as including all such modifications alterations, and equivalents thereof.
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Cooks' Home Tour: The Assistance League of Everett is presenting a combo tour of six homes with a chef in each offering tastes from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 9. There will also be a raffle and a vendor market. Tickets are $25 in advance online by Aug. 30, and $30 at the door. See the website http://assistanceleagueofeverett.org or call 425-252-3011, ext. 113. Proceeds benefit Operation School Bell, which provides clothing for children in need in Snohomish County.
Arboretum tours: Reservations are now being taken for 2013 custom group tours of the Evergreen Arboretum &Gardens. The group tours are available all year by calling 425-257-8597. There is no charge, but donations to the Evergreen Arboretum Foundation are welcome. The arboretum is at 145 Alverson Blvd., Everett. Go to www.evergreenarboretum.com or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Evergreen Arboretum and Gardens 2013 lectures: Noon to 1 p.m. select Saturdays, at the arboretum, 145 Alverson Blvd., Everett, either in the indoor classroom or, when appropriate, outside on the arboretum grounds. All the classes are free. Seating is limited and some classes require registration. Call 425-257-8597 to register. Go to www.evergreenarboretum.com to learn more.
n Aug. 17: Native plants with Andy Sudkamp, a horticulturist and biology teacher. Meet at the arboretum entrance for a tour.
- Sept. 21: Fall/winter containers with Dee Drake, arboretum volunteer. Registration necessary. Meet at the arboretum entrance.
- Oct. 19: Putting your Garden to Bed with Wink Cushman, master gardener. Meet at the arboretum entrance.
- Nov. 16: Holiday natural centerpieces with Marylou Hart, arboretum board member and master gardener. Registration necessary.
- Dec. 7: Arboretum gift-making workshop for kids, noon to 2 p.m., with Hap Wertheimer, past arboretum president and art teacher. Registration necessary.
Nursery classes
These local nurseries feature gardening classes, guest speakers and special events throughout the year, often for no charge. Check their websites or call for details.
- Christianson's Nursery and Greenhouse: 15806 Best Road, Mount Vernon; 360-466-3821; www.christiansonsnursery.com
- Falling Water Gardens: Free classes in creating and caring for a pond, 17516 Highway 203, Monroe; 360-863-1400, www.fallingwatergardens.com.
- McAuliffe's Valley Nursery: 11910 Springhetti Road, Snohomish; 360-862-1323; www.mcauliffesvalleynursery.com
- Molbak's Garden &Home: 13625 NE 175th St., Woodinville; 425-483-5000; www.molbaks.com
- My Garden: 17414 Bothell-Everett Highway, Mill Creek; 425-402-1842; www.mygardennursery.com
- Pine Creek Nursery: 23225 Sofie Road, Monroe; 360-863-8866; www.pinecreeknursery.com
- Plant Shack: 2829 164th St. SW, Lynnwood; 206-390-1422; www.plantshacknursery.com/
- Sky Nursery: 18528 Aurora Ave. N., Shoreline; 206-546-4851; www.skynursery.com
- Sunnyside Nursery: 3915 Sunnyside Blvd., Marysville; 425-334-2002; www.sunnysidenursery.net
- The Plant Farm at Smokey Point: 15022 Twin Lakes Ave., Marysville; 360-652-3351; www.theplantfarm.com
- Wight's Home &Garden: 5026 196th St. SW, Lynnwood; 425-775-3636; www.wights.com
Plant clinics
Got a gardening question? Consult a local master gardener at a public plant clinic. If you have a plant with a problem or disease, bring in a fresh plant sample that, if possible, includes the diseased area, a transition area and a healthy area. Photos are also helpful. You can also call the master gardener hotline from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April through September, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. October through March at 425-357-6010 or visit the Home &Garden section at snohomish.wsu.edu.
- Arlington Hardware: 215 N. Olympic Ave., Arlington; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 7.
- Edmonds Farmers Market: 100 block of Fifth Ave. N. in front of Log Cabin; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays through Oct. 5.
- Everett Farmers Market: Everett Waterfront near Marina Village; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays through Sept. 29.
- Marysville Jenning Park Demonstration Garden: 6915 Armar Road, Marysville; 10 a.m to 1 p.m. Saturdays through Aug. 31.
- Monroe Evergreen State Fair: Fairgrounds, Monroe; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Aug. 22 to Sept. 2.
- Mukilteo Farmers Market: Mukilteo Lighthouse; 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesdays through Sept. 25 .
- Snohomish Farmers Market: First and Cedar streets, Snohomish; 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. through Aug. 29.
To submit an item for the Home &Garden calendar, e-mail email@example.com.


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Dozens of Chinese tourists wearing orange, maroon and even tartan hats brush each other aside as they try to snaffle the best spots to photograph an ancient headstone.
This is the Temple of General Yue Fei, a 12th-century army hero. He is still beloved nearly a millennium later and his tall, slim headstone is one of the most celebrated attractions in Hangzhou, a city of great history and spectacular beauty.
The hectic scene is a sign of the popularity of this city in south-east China with domestic tourists. Last month, Dutch airline KLM launched the first service directly connecting Europe with the city, a cultural centre we have largely ignored despite it being little more than 100 miles from Shanghai. KLM has spied an opportunity in the business traveller market, as Hangzhou develops a mini-Dubai of towers, shopping malls and high-street designer-label shops. But it is also hoped that the city and its friendly 6.5 million inhabitants will lure Europeans looking for relaxation as well as commerce.
Hangzhou is based around the West Lake, a vast body of water surrounded by green hills and filled with historic man-made islets and causeways. Essentially a national park, West Lake claims to have more than 100 tourist attractions, the majority of which are many centuries old. Most of the monuments and rebuilt pavilions dedicated to largely forgotten poets and leaders are difficult to appreciate fully as a Westerner, but it is a relaxing place. Though the lake is overcast, enough sunlight breaks through to create attractively blurred views of the dramatic surrounding landscape in the shimmering water.
Slow-moving boats take sightseers between the islets and locations on the banks of the lakes, a hop-on-hop-off service that costs barely £4. The most famous and impressive site is on Small Yingzhou Islet, known as "Three Pools Mirroring the Moon". This trio of pagodas, nearly 400 years old and barely six feet tall, sitting in the water just off the shore, feature on the one yuan note. They come into their own when candles are placed inside during a full moon.
However, I'm here at about 2pm, so am treated to the less impressive but surely more amusing sight of oarsmen trying to get close enough for their passengers to touch the pagodas. Often the boats must make several spins of the little stones before the goal is achieved.
I head to the heart of the islet and find the centre filled with market stalls. I munch on a giant corn-on-the-cob, which costs me five yuan (49p) and watch the Buddhist monks laughing at the silly pictures they have taken of each other, and a middle-aged man feeding his two parrots. Then I take the boat to Zhongshan Park, a common term in China for places named after Dr Sun Yat-sen, the early 20th-century revolutionary leader. Artists paint in the small pavilions and lovers try to negotiate some of the cragged steps that lead to the top of the park.
In the distance, the golden spire of the Leifeng Pagoda, a stunning 10th-century landmark rebuilt only eight years ago, emerges out of the greenery. It tempts me, and I walk the three-kilometre (1.8 miles) Su Causeway to reach this architectural gem. The great relief is that no cars are allowed on the avenue, which is lined with weeping willows and magnolia trees and has six gorgeous stone bridges – drivers in Hangzhou are impatient.
Before I reach the pagoda, I take a slight detour to what is known as "Viewing Fish at Flower Pond". There is no denying the Chinese ability to describe the literal truth. The clear pond here is full of thousands of red carp that seem to swim on top of each other quite uncomfortably. No matter, the little children and adults gathered here are entranced.
I finally reach Leifeng, the entry fee a bargain 40 yuan. Located on a hill, a long escalator takes me up to what is actually only the ground floor. Inside are the remains of the original AD977 foundations. The balcony on the top floor offers a 360-degree view of the entire area. I watch the ant-sized boats in the tranquil lake below moving about at a romantic pace.
Time for a beer, and I narrowly avoid entering a crazy music festival aimed at teenagers before finding a terrific US theme bar called Eudora Station. I have never seen my favourite beer, Red Seal Ale, outside of its home state of California. Yet here it is, in a part of China that I had barely heard of only a few weeks earlier – two bottles for about £4 during happy hour. An American comes in, also excited that his own favourite brew, Rogue, is served here.
The bar is part of Hangzhou's burgeoning nightlife scene, which is an acquired taste. Nightclubs and bars along the waterfront have laughably poor singers who are usually little better than the average drunken karaoke star-for-the-night. At one fairly empty establishment, the young songstress notices me as a white European and asks what I would like her to belt out. This is one of the few young women who have approached me without commercial gain in mind – one of the very few uncomfortable aspects of Hangzhou.
Later that evening, it's from one of the ladies of the night that I flee to the shores of West Lake once more, where the moon lights the rippling water. It's by far this city's most seductive proposition.
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How to get there
KLM (0871 222 7474; klm.com) offers return flights from London to Hangzhou, via Amsterdam, from £805.
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[TELEVISION WATCH] It comes as no surprise, given the hype and extensive promotional efforts surrounding the World Cup, that the early broadcasts on ESPN, ABC
and Univision have drawn record ratings and viewerships.
The USA-England game on ABC was the most-viewed first-round game ever with a 7.3 household rating and 12,956,000 viewers, based on fast nationals. It was the fifth most watched game on ABC after the 1999 Women's World Cup final (18 million viewers), the 1994 World Cup final (14.5 million), the 1994 World Cup second-round match between the USA and Brazil (13.7 million) and 2006 World Cup final (12 million).
Through five matches, ESPN and ABC averaged 3,427,000 households and 4,937,000 viewers -- up 95% and 108%, respectively, vs. the first five games of the 2006 World Cup.
Univision attracted 5.4 million viewers for the opening game between Mexico and host South Africa on Friday. Amazingly, the opening game was Friday's most-viewed program in these key markets Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix and Sacramento.
Its average audience of 4.0 million for the two games on Friday nearly doubled its audience for the first two games four years ago.


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Ethel B. Heath, age 92, of Aitkin formerly of Mound and Princeton, died Saturday, April 13, 2013, at the Aicota Health Care Center in Aitkin.
Ethel was born September 30, 1920, at Clarkfield, the daughter of Oley and Sadie (Richardson) Handeland. She grew up and attended schools in Clarkfield, graduating from the Clarkfield High School. She married Charles F. Heath on May 26, 1945, in Hennepin County. They made their home in Mound, where they owned and operated Chuck's Hardware Store for over 25 years. For many years, they had been coming to their cabin on Cedar Lake near Aitkin and in 1971, they moved to Aitkin and made their home here. Ethel's husband Charles died in 1973. She continued living in Aitkin and worked for Francin's Clothing Store and Eleanor's Boutique before moving to Princeton in 2002. She lived there until moving back to Aitkin in 2011, when she entered the Aicota Health Care Center. She enjoyed reading and gardening and was a member of First Lutheran Church in Aitkin.
She is survived by grandchildren Katherine Freund of Minneapolis, Katherine Nyberg of St. Cloud, Ruth (Jim) Bender of Aitkin and Charlie (Krista) Anderson of Aitkin; great-grandchildren Samantha and Gina Nyberg, Daniel Bender and Jake Anderson and sons-in-law Kerry Freund and Todd Pieper. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Charles; daughters Nancy Eck, Susan Pieper and Karen Freund; two brothers and one sister.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, April 18, 2013, at 10:30 a.m. from the Sorensen-Root-Thompson Funeral Home in Aitkin with Rev. Darrell Pedersen officiating. Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. until the 10:30 a.m. services. Burial will be in the Mound Union Cemetery at Mound.
Arrangements are with the Sorensen-Root-Thompson Funeral Home in Aitkin.
Ethel Heath
Ethel B. Heath, age 92, of Aitkin formerly of Mound and Princeton, died Saturday, April 13, 2013, at the Aicota Health Care Center in Aitkin.


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DJ Khaled's Bus Catches Fire [VIDEO]
According to the "We The Best" producer's twitter, the official DJ Khaled Tour bus exploded with flames on Friday night. Most would use this mis-hap as an excuse to take a break from the road. However he refuses to cancel any shows and vows to continue promoting his new album "Kiss the Ring". See the explosive video inside.


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We have been using ext3 with numerous machines and they take quite a bit of abuse without incident. This morning I got a call to say that a power cut had rendered one box unbootable.
Investigations revealed that the /boot partition was in good order. An fsck of / also showed things to be well - except that the partition was completely empty - except for /lost+found.
It might appear that some one had created a new filesystem on it. However no one at that office would know how. Someone commented that this had happened before but not reported.
I am perplexed, and struggle to believe it's an ext3 problem. Anyone seen anything like this before?
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We 100% believe that in order to get your facts straight, you need to ask questions … and lots of them. And on a day this big, you don't want to leave anything out. We have taken some time to go through our most frequently asked questions and listed them below with answers.
That said, we feel there are a few things you need to know about what it's like to work with us. As much as we want you to ask about our work, we think it's equally important that you jive with us too!
HERE ARE OUR CORE VALUES. We carry them with us wherever we go, yes, we'll even bring them to your big day (don't worry, they don't eat):
- Generosity. We love working with couples who are givers. Couples who put their guest's experience above details like centerpieces and place cards. We're drawn to generous spirits because it's something we feel is the cornerstone of our ability to tell your story accurately and authentically.
- Trust. We know this day is insanely important to you (as it should be). We also know you have a lot on your plate and don't want to be one more worry of yours on your big day. We trust you to have the time of your life, you trust us to do what we do best: get it all on film.
- Love of the art. There is nothing better than working with clients who have a deep appreciation for the work we do. They have more fun, they're more relaxed and their films turn out to be our best work as a result.
- Authenticity and honesty. Couples who are honest with us and themselves and who bring their true selves every time we see them completely rock our worlds. It's that rawness that tells the real story. And there's nothing more beautiful than that!
Who will be filming my wedding?
Many companies sub-contract their shooting and editing, but when you hire Shade Tree, you get Shade Tree.
Why should we consider Shade Tree Films for cinematography coverage?
Of course, we believe there are many reasons to consider our team for your wedding, but in a nutshell we are a team of professional filmmakers that love people and love what we do! We catch precious moments with a very unique style. Ultimately we believe great imagery speaks for itself but what makes us different is our ability to portray each couples story, unique to them.
What is the booking process?
After you decide to use our services, a 50% retainer is due upon booking, and the remaining 50% is due 30 days prior to the date of the event. Feel free to send us an email and we can send your more detailed information on packages and pricing.
What do you need from us prior to the event?
Our goal is to make your experience with us as easy and stress free as possible; therefore the little we do require of you is intended to make working with us enjoyable and easy for you. Logistically, all we need from you is a detailed event timeline at least one week prior to the event. Most importantly we need your trust in us as filmmakers and friends.
What equipment do we need to provide for you the day of the event?
We are a completely self-contained team. We bring everything that we need. This includes cameras, lights, audio, etc. The only thing we can't bring with us is electricity. We will need at least one electrical outlet designated for us in all locations of your event.
When will you arrive and depart from the event?
Much of the story occurs in the moments of the early morning preparations. We arrive as everything is getting started. This is when we are able to capture footage of the bride and groom preps as well as the ceremony site prep. We leave the event once the story has been captured, which usually is shortly after open dancing has begun.
Will you direct us, instructing us on what to do while filming is taking place?
The essence of our films is to capture moments as organically as possible. We never ask a couple to say certain things into the camera, or do certain actions; we want their film to reflect them naturally. However, if lighting or background is not conducive to an optimal finished product, especially during preps, we will ask if we can move to a different part of the room or facility to make sure we capture the moments in the best way possible. Ultimately, it is all about you being you!
Do you film both the bride and groom preps?
Yes, we feel a couple's story is incomplete without both preps.
Do you mic the groom and officiant?
Yes, we mic both the groom and the officiant. On the groom and the officiant we will use two mics for the film, one is a back up audio source. We use professional grade wireless mics to ensure we always get the best possible audio.
Do you shoot in HD?
Does a bear crap in the woods? Yes, but most importantly we are focused on capturing your story and ensuring that you are happy with your film.
How long does it take to get our film back?
Again, our biggest concern is that we create a film that you absolutely love, that is not a cookie cutter film, but rather created custom for each couple. In order to do this, it takes time; the season and workload are also factors that come into play. But on average each film takes about 4 to 6 months to get back to you but it will be more specifically outlined in your contract.
Do you charge overtime?
All packages include up to 12 hours to ensure necessary coverage. If it seems as though you will need more coverage, we will simply ask you what events you would like us to stay and cover or how much longer you would like us to stay. Our over-time rate is $250 per hour and payment is due upon request of overtime.
Do you work well with photographers?
Yes, absolutely! This is something we greatly pride ourselves in. We do not see weddings as a competition of shots, instead we focus on the couple and their day. In order to make sure we are on the same track as a photographer, we email the photographer a week before the wedding to introduce ourselves and let them know we want to work together as a team. Our desire is to not only produce great films, but to enhance the overall experience.
How long are the main features?
Our main features run about 15 to 25 minutes depending on the events that take place during each wedding. The factors that determine the length of a feature are the personal vows, quality/length of speeches, and other cultural events. We like to take the day of footage and use as much of the audio, speeches, vows, etc.; while overlaying shots of preps, photos, and such in order to create a cinematic story. Main features are extremely enjoyable to watch and very story driven.
How long are the highlights?
Highlights run for about 1 or 2 songs and are usually 3-7 minutes in length.
How do I get the final film(s)?
We are always in search of ways to create the best product for you. We deliver all films on flash drives. We have found that delivering the electronic files helps you to be able to back up and copy your films easily so that you can preserve them longer. This also means you get a higher quality finished film(s) and you can easily put play it on your TV, computer, ipad and where ever else you like to watch movies. The flash drives will include the items listed in your package; main features, highlights and love stories.


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Job Overview
The NASA Pathways Intern Program provides students with the opportunity to explore NASA careers and gain meaningful developmental work experience. This is an internship position as part of a work/study program. The work involves trainee duties at NASA located at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), FL. This position is for students that have been accepted for enrollment or are currently enrolled and seeking a degree (diploma) in a qualifying educational institution on a full or half-time basis.
Students may be placed in KSC organizations such as the Ground Processing Directorate, the Information Technology and Communications Services Directorate, the Engineering and Technology Directorate, the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate or the Center Operations Directorate.
The following major(s) are preferred:
Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering,
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This is an excepted service position.
This position is part of the NASA Pathways Intern Employment Program (IEP) which is a formal training program. Participant completes assigned duties, tasks, readings, and developmental activities specified in the Program. Participants receive formal periodic assessments of progress. You may be required to perform rotational assignments in various organizations.
The participant will be performing basic to intermediate engineering principles, learning procedures, policies, and requirements within the different engineering fields. May work with 3-D CAD, CAM, or CAE geometry modeling; developing software in the avionics lab; working in the Cryo lab on thermal insulation; performing research in basic engineering materials; performing technical risk assessments; and quality assurance assessments.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The Ohio Military Hall of Fame is ready to induct its newest class of veterans honored for wartime actions that went above and beyond the call of duty.
This year's class includes veterans who served in World War II and conflicts in Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East.
Veterans being honored have received commendations such as the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star, the Army Commendation Medal and the Navy Commendation Medal.
Friday's ceremony takes place at the Veterans Plaza at the Ohio Statehouse.
The ceremony will bring to 218 the number of inductees, of whom five have received the Medal of Honor.


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I'm a dinosaur when it comes to the electronic age. I'm the only one in my family that uses a desktop personal computer while everyone else is using laptops and tablets. I'm still running the Windows Operating system while most of the others have moved to Apple products. I prefer to have paper copies of all my bills in order to have a record of expenses when tax time rolls around. I keep hard copies of all of my trade confirmations and monthly statements so I have a record of transactions and positions in order to file the requisite claims for the occasional class action claims and settlements.
I also prefer to receive physical copies of corporate annual reports and proxy statements so I can slowly thumb through the pages of data and dog-ear those pages that might turn into articles for Seeking Alpha. So, it shouldn't surprise anyone that an oversized envelope from Capstone Turbine (NASDAQ:CPST) arrived in the mail this past week. One section that always interests this investor is executive compensation.
Although I consider it a futile exercise, I routinely vote against the "ADVISORY VOTE ON THE COMPENSATION OF THE COMPANY'S NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AS PRESENTED IN THE PROXY STATEMENT." And, since the Directors structure the compensation plans and are recommending that shareholders vote in favor of the pay packages, I also routinely withhold my vote for all the directors.
It's not just Capstone executives that I believe are overpaid, it's nearly all executives in publicly traded companies. In the comments section of a Capstone article written last week I was asked the following question:
So much to stay away? I hate it when they live high on the hog while share price is diluted away. Is compensation in line?
My reply was:
Crunching Numbers Comments (7000)
"Is compensation in line?"
I'm absolutely the wrong person to ask about an opinion on exec compensation. Aside from Warren Buffet, I find US company director and exec compensation packages exorbitant. Much of the dilutive effect comes from changes to the tax laws that limited the deductibility for salaries over $1 million.
That article was generally positive about the opportunity of Capstone as an investment. The company has been growing revenues, entering into new vertical markets and new geographies, and has been improving gross margins. It also continues to generate significant losses, including a $23 million loss in its most recent fiscal year on record revenue of $128 million. I had also noted that shareholder equity had been significantly diluted over the past few years, in part due to executive and director compensation. So, how do investors really know if the compensation is "in line"?
Half of the roughly 50 pages of the 2013 proxy statement are devoted to a discussion of executive and director compensation. Below are three statements regarding the executive compensation plan:
The Compensation Committee believes that the Company's executive compensation program should... Attract and retain individuals of superior ability and managerial talent by offering total compensation that is competitive with a group of companies that are of comparable size within similar industries and other companies with which the Company competes for executive talent... ...Provide compensation that aligns the financial interests of executives with those of Capstone's stockholders through long-term equity incentives that take into account the Company's performance...
In setting compensation, the Compensation Committee reviews information from Aon Hewitt regarding comparative market data, including comprehensive analyses of total compensation and compensation components based on published survey data sized to our annual revenue. The published surveys used by the Compensation Committee in its analysis covers publicly-traded technology and manufacturing industry companies that are between $50 million and $200 million in revenue.
The information provided by Aon Hewitt is described above under "-Overview-Role of Compensation Consultant." The data included the levels of compensation paid at the 50th percentile and 75th percentile of the comparable companies. The Compensation Committee did not set compensation for Named Executive Officers at these or any other percentiles but, instead, used this data as benchmarks in assessing the appropriateness of our compensation arrangements.
It all seems somewhat reasonable. Select a peer group for total compensation, and then construct a compensation plan that aligns executive pay with shareholder interests. I would feel somewhat more comfortable if the proxy did not include the phrase that the compensation committee "did not set compensation for Named Executive Officers at these or any other percentiles."
As investors, we certainly want to see the executives compensated in a manner that aligns their interests with ours. We should also want to see them fairly compensated. That's where the process breaks down. What constitutes fair compensation? Especially if the compensation committee states that it did not set compensation at "these or any other percentiles."
Capstone is a company that has been selling micro-turbines for 15 years and is still looking to turn a profit. Should the compensation committee be including pay scales for executives running profitable companies? And, even if it could devise a peer group of executives operating companies at a loss, it still begs the question of whether that compensation is "fair."
Looking at the proxy statement shows the compensation for five "named executive officers" for the past three years. During that time, the share price declined from $1.27 to $0.90. During that time the company was notified that the NASDAQ was considering delisting the stock. During that time the company had average annual revenue of $106 million and an average annual loss of $27 million.
The total compensation of that executive team was nearly $3.2 million per year. For the individual executives, their average annual compensation ranged from a low of $325 thousand for the CFO to a high of $1.14 million for the CEO. (The remaining three officers were more closely bunched together, ranging from $0.53 million to $0.61 million.)
Is their compensation in line with the industry? If we are to believe the compensation committee, it should be. As a shareholder looking at the share price decline, the bonuses awarded and the compensation for a team that exceeds 3% of revenue, I find it to be excessive, regardless of whether or not it is in line with a peer group. And, I will be voting my shares against Proposals 2 and 3 that address executive compensation and I will also vote against the board of directors that unanimously recommended that I vote in favor of the plan.
Regardless, I will continue to hold the stock in the speculative part of my portfolio devoted to higher risk assets that have the potential for well above average returns... even though it does appear that the executive compensation is not well aligned with this particular shareholder's interests.
Disclosure: I am long CPST. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.
Additional disclosure: I also hold a position in Apple, and hold no positions in any of the other companies mentioned in this article.


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The aim of the Music Focus Group at the University of Southampton is to provide music perception and production (re)habilitation advice, facilities and support for severe to profoundly deaf adults and children who either have or are considering having a cochlear implant.
We are a group of audiologists, researchers, speech & language therapists, teachers of the deaf, musicians, composers and music therapists, based at the:
University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service (USAIS), Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), Department of Music, Humanities
Latest news:
– Launch of the Interactive Music Awareness Programme (IMAP)
– September music workshop at the University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service
– Professionals learn about running music workshops for cochlear implant users
– Focus groups evaluate an online version of the Interactive Music Awareness Programme
– Sound On Sound magazine report on the Interactive Music Awareness Programme
– Compositions for Cochlear Implantees (C4CI) film goes live on the AHRC website and YouTube channel
– C4CI Grand Finale positively received and covered by the BBC
– AHRC awards follow-on funding for C4CI project
– 'Hearing Music' stand reaches out to 5000+ people
Check back regularly for Music Focus Group events, news and resources. If you have any news/comments for the MFG, please email Rachel van Besouw:
rvb (@) isvr.soton.ac.uk
New, online version of the Interactive Music Awareness Programme (IMAP) launches on the 30th January 2014 @ www.morefrommusic.org.
Edna describes her experiences of listening to music through her cochlear implant.


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We are going to be there next week. No car, and not a lot of time to search. I am not in the mood for expensive hotel food. So, please, some nearby places for breakfast and lunch.
We will probably try Tratoria Toscana one night and Atlantic Fish one night cause they are close and familiar. So maybe another dinner spot. I wanted to try Butcher Shop till I saw the prices.
I will also have to beg a ride to Clam Box for fried clams.
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