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I am not into eggs/meat lately for bfast. Any other ideas? Is it not a good idea to eat fruit on its own (insulin response?)
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i'm a fan of skipping breakfast.
but, if you want fruit, eat fruit. if you want to add some fat to it, try an apple with almond butter, or berries and cream. anything can work as a breakfast; if i ate breakfast and got tired of eggs, i'd be downing fish or some kind of seafood every day.
Full fat greek yogurt (if you tolerate dairy) with 'Nola is delicious.
'Nola: Girl Gone Primal: Recipe: Grain-Free Granola (Nola) - The Final Cut
Coconut milk custards are yummy and egg-hiding and fill you up for a while.
smoothie w/frozen mango, blueberries, greek yogurt, flavorless whey, and greens
mug cake with protein added
goat cheese stuffed peppers�The whole concept of a macronutrient, like that of a calorie, is determining our language game in such a way that the conversation is not making sense." - Dr. Kurt Harris
Buttercoffee (aka Bulletproof coffee, but I use much less butter than recommended) - it's like a steamy hot coffee milkshake, sorta."Right is right, even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it." - St. Augustine
Who says back fat is a bad thing? Maybe on a hairy guy at the beach, but not on a crab.
I don't have breakfast often, and when I do it happens to be more of a brunch.
However, I alternate:
- fried eggs + bacon or...
- smoked wild salmon with avocado
- smoked wild salmon with homemade cream cheese
Yep, omega-3 are important
It may seem a bit strange to start the day with fish after being used so long to sugary chocolate chips and milk, and I agree. But once you get used to it's just a breakfast like another.
When I do not have proper breakfast (most of the time) I just take a cup of italian black coffee. I have been burning fats all the night and probably I am in full ketosis, too, so why stopping right now?
lately i've been making "bulletproof coffee with a twist":
stovetop espresso (probs 2 cups and i usually do half caf)
1 big tablespoon coconut oil
1-2 tbsp of the "meloroaster mix" (1 can of coconut cream, add heavy cream (1/2 cup??), blend, add any/all cocoa powder, cinnamon, vanilla to taste - store in big mason jar in fridge and try really hard NOT to down several spoonfuls every time you open fridge)
1tsp butter (optional - often don't bother)
1 egg yolk
blend everything but the hot coffee first...if it isn't blending add a little bit of the coffee (you don't want to 'cook' the yolk!). then slowly blend in coffee.
this is AMAZEBALLS and often enough for me in the morning. if not i make the meloroaster shake (ok now i'm refer to myself...ugh)
- 1cup (i never measure but probs right) mixed frozen berries
- 2-3 big arse kale leaves
- scoop of homemade full fat yoghurt (if available)
- bit o h2o
- unsweetened whey
- dollop of coconut oil
Something with canned pumpkin perhaps?
My non-meat breakfast is usually yogurt with blueberries and pur�ed almonds...mmmm!
Sometimes I add canned pumpkin to it as well.
But maybe you could come up with a pumpkin based breakfast if you are not tolerant of/don't want the dairy.
If I am particularly full from the day before, I might eat a handful of almonds and an apple. Mostly because I know I need to have carbs throughout the day. I also eat broccoli with my eggs/meat, but I haven't tried it (broccoli) alone for breakfast yet.
Great thread!Began Primal Living: 25 Sep 2012
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i dunno your food preferences, so here's this
Vegetables - chowstalkerbeautiful
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Baby if you time travel back far enough you can avoid that work because the dust won't be there. You're too pretty to be working that hard.
I made a lovely paleo smoothie the other morning. A frozen banana, an egg, a spoonful of good cocoa, about half a cup of coconut milk and about half a cup of water. Blended smooth - yummy!
I buy the almost over-ripe bananas for super cheap, peel them all and layer them flat in a ziplock bag in the freezer. They are easy to get out one at a time.
Man oh man am I happy to see some ideas here... First let me say I typically don't eat brekkie on days when I work in the office because it just takes me several hours to even get hungry once I wake up. So I usually have an early lunch in the office. Of leftovers, typically.
Sometimes I will just need something but don't have the time to make brekkie or want to mess with leftovers -- that's when I usually heat up some broth and take it to sip on my commute.
But brekkie at home is another story. Sometimes I eat leftovers, but when I'm at home and have the time and inclination to get in the kitchen and whip something up, I tend to stick with old reliable -- eggs and bacon. This last weekend, I had a moment, as I was diving into my second egg, when I thought -- OK, had enough, don't think I can tolerate another bite of eggs. The puppy benefitted. I think I've just been too monotonous in my egg choices for my weekend brekkies (I fall back on the no-muss, no-fuss scrambled egg). The next day, I just had bacon and half a grapefruit, NO eggs, and that held me fine until lunch. But now I'm thinking about what I might have for brekkie this coming weekend. So, again, thanks for the ideas.

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Many cheese makers think that the milk from an animal suffering from a garget may be the cause of the huffing of cheese.
garget in the udder, or weed, is also to be guarded against.
Inflammation of the udder (garget) is a frequent trouble in every herd.
There are also a number of inflammatory udder troubles known as garget or mammitis.
The last is especially the case with the poke or garget (Phytolacca decandra).
garget, gar′get, n. a swelling in the throat of cattle and pigs: inflammation of a cow's udder.
If strong and vigorous, the calf is the best doctor for garget or caked bag.
Tom tripped upstairs to the garret, and returned with a bunch of garget berries, with which they stained their faces and hands.
The milk of any animal suffering from any form of garget should be rejected, as it may cause trouble, especially in children.
The garget plant grows from three to six feet high, with a purple stalk, and strings of berries hanging down between the branches.


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Old geezer moment: sometimes these optimisations make me feel like I did when I was writing assembly code (inner loops of texture mappers slinging pixels… unrolling carefully, rejoicing when a clever trick got your loop down from 11 to 9 cycles per pixel – those were the days) and went from Pentium to PentiumPro – suddenly it was no longer possible to measure how many clock cycles any one instruction took: an innocuous change somewhere up or down the line would sometimes dramatically change the time response of an unrelated instruction, occasionally a loop iteration would randomly take more or less cycles than average, and sometimes instructions would appear to take a fractional amount of cycles. It was like wading through quicksand.

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Jason Sudeikis Threatens 'Saturday Night Live' Exit
If Jason Sudeikis isn't given more substantial roles, he may be ready to put "Saturday Night Live" producer Lorne Michaels' back against the wall.
The nine-year cast member told The Los Angeles Times recently that if he continues feeling undervalued and underutilized, he's ready to join Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg in taking his comedic chops elsewhere.
"Just [staying] for the juice of being in the public eye - of being Mitt Romney - is not enough," he said. If his bosses aren't careful, 2012 could mark the biggest exodus of marquee talents in many years.
If it takes off and becomes an "Anchorman"-echelon hit, his turn as a campaign manager in Will Ferrell's upcoming comedy "The Campaign" could provide Sudeikis a lesser degree of the leverage Wiig's Oscar-nominated "Bridesmaids" provided her. Prior to performing alongside Ferrell, Sudeikis made his big-screen in-roads with "Horrible Bosses," "Hall Pass" and "The Bounty Hunter." In 2013, he's joining Ed Helms and Jennifer Aniston in "We're The Millers."
"You start at 'SNL' when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my 'SNL' years," he said. "I'd like the opportunity to use creative muscles that . . . haven't been asked of me for the first nine years that I've worked [at 'SNL']. It could be some sort of title change. The least of the concerns is anything financial. I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits. It's more having a desire to give mroe to a place I really believe in."
Michaels would do well to keep him around at least another year or two. Nearly a decade is a lifetime on "SNL" and with Wiig and Samberg gone, the show could use at least a few familiar faces to ease in the next crop of comics.
The good news is, Sudeikis is in a position where "SNL" needs line up with his ambition. He wants something more substantially challenging, and the show will need somebody to step up as a marquee big-hitter to carry sketches without Wiig and Samberg's star power. There's seemingly no reason at all why he shouldn't be given more.
Besides....what if Romney wins?
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Australian Outback
Date of Joke: Saturday, 29th March, 2003
An American woman of 40 wants to get married, but she is only
willing to marry a man if he has never been with a woman. After
several unsuccessful years of searching, she decides to take out
a personal ad. She ends up corresponding with a man who has
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TOP STORY >> Arkansas truck driver dodges bullets in Iraq
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IN SHORT: Woman chronicles her time in the war zone as a civilian contractor, saying it was scary-going, but shes ready to go back.
The first question one woman asks another who voluntarily goes to Iraq to work is, of course, Why?
Why would a feisty, blue-jeans-wearing American woman go to, of all places, the Middle East, of all places, Iraq, of all places, a war zone to drive trucks? Cindy Morgan, raised in DeWitt and a mother of three boys, answers that question with much more than the usual formula of to support the troops, though that was one of her reasons.
Morgan, pretty and feminine but with a tom-boy swagger, already had a career as a truck driver.
She took a truck-driving job in Iraq, as a civilian contractor conveying food and supplies to U.S. troops, partly to leave her hard-luck life be-hind, to escape an abusive husband, her third. While there, she found a reason for living, one that didnt involve tolerating indifference, carelessness, stupidity, cruelty or dishonesty.
But she also learned a lesson she thinks a lot of Americans need to learn: What happens in the rest of the world matters here.
Sitting here in the United Statesyou know we have it really good. And we see stuff over in countries like that and we say, Oh, thats not going to affect us. But in ways it does. Its like the old saying, There are six degrees of separation. Its a small world when you really look at it, and everything affects everything else.
Cynthia I. Morgan has written about her experiences in a new book, Cindy in Iraq: A Civilians Year in the War Zone (Free Press, $25.)
While in North Little Rock last week to promote the book, she sat down in the Books-a-Million café for an interview, some 7,000 miles and a culture away from war to discuss those experiences and why she decided to write about them. Her eldest son, Kenny, joined the Arkan-sas National Guard and later followed his mother to Iraq, where he was attached to the 39th Infantry Brigade and spent 10 months.
During her time in Iraq, Morgan kept an on-line journal that became particularly popular with the families of civilians working for private contractors supporting the troops. Her book stems from that journal, but she also wanted to present more than her personal experiences, which involved ambushes, seeing fellow truckers shot and taking shrapnel herself.
Morgan said that the American public needed to know about the vital, though extremely dangerous, work of civilians in supporting U.S. troops in the Iraqi war. And, she said, Americans need to know that good things have come of the U.S. presence in Iraq: A vicious dictator has been deposed, living conditions have improved, and many Iraqis, Morgan said, are grateful.
We have done the right thing, no matter what the reason was, Morgan said.
When you see the people living like they did and you see firsthand what he [Saddam Hussein] did to the people who lived in his country, you just cant help but know that we did the right thing. Granted, things are not great. Were talking about an area of the world that has been fighting for 2,000 years, and its not going to stop overnight.
But their living conditions in lots of places have gotten better. Theyre getting clean, sanitary water and the trash isnt everywhere, and the electricity grid is starting to get better so they dont have power outages all the time. And their way of life is getting better. Its still dangerous. I wont deny that. There are still civilian Iraqis getting killed, unfortunately. But it is getting better.
Morgan, however, expresses dismay at the U.S. publics attitude toward civilian contractors working in Iraq.
A lot of people think that were just a bunch of money-hungry mercenaries out there toting guns and killing civilians, when 99 percent of us arent allowed to carry a weapon, she said.
Unless youre in security or youre running private security in convoy escorts, youre not allowed to carry a firearm. And we eat, we sleep right beside the soldiers. We run the convoys with them. We get shot at. We get killed beside them.
Theres not enough money in this world to go play Russian roulette with your life, she said. Theyre [private contractors] there for more than just some money. Its God and country, and a lot of these guys are like I am. We were just too old to join the military after 9/11 and we wanted to serve our country.
I had one reporter call us the shadow army because were behind the scenes. Our militarys been cut back so much they cant support themselves. Were part of the largest contingent of civilian contractors weve ever had in a combat zone, and if it wasnt for us, they [the troops] wouldnt have a lot of the things they have. We rely on them for protection, and they rely on us for supplies.
Asked how she was treated in the Middle East, Morgan acknowledged: Being an American is a downside over there. Being a woman over there is a downside. You put the two together, and its like, oh, my gosh. It was scary going over just from the culture and everything you hear about that part of the world. But working for KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary, helped shield her.
We didnt have a whole lot of dealings with the general public, she said.
We were staged out on the roads because a lot of the camps didnt have big enough staging areas for all of the trucks. And we would get to meet the kids and some of the people that way, and that was our interaction with the locals.
Some of them were rude, but if they were rude to me they were rude to the men as well, Morgan said.
And some of them were just as polite and respectful as they could be. And that really surprised me, especially when I became a CC [convoy commander], and we started having TCNs, third-country nationals, running with us. The third-country nationals, also truck drivers employed by KBR, were from all over the Middle East and Asia, and many were Muslim.
I was really afraid of how they would take having a woman tell them what to do and how to do this. But I walked in with, I guess you can say, an attitude of This is my job. This is what weve got to do. And whether I was totally sure of what I was doing or not, I presented the confidence that I was. These guysit didnt take long. They respected me and did what I asked them to do, even went out of their way. Made me tea, would ask me to come eat dinner with them.
Sadly, while she was in Iraq, Morgan suffered more harm from a fellow American than from any Iraqi insurgents.
While in company-provided housing in Kuwait, she was sexually assaulted. The assailant wasnt caught, and Morgan considered coming home. But a friend dissuaded her, saying, Youve let men dictate to you all of your life. Are you going to let this one? Youve finally found something that you believe in, something that you are fulfilled by. She decided to stay, ultimately spending a year in Iraq.
Morgan returned to private life in the United States, driving a truck. But she missed her work in the Middle East. Shes due to go back to Iraq July 24, as a camp manager for another private contractor, Houston-based Falcon SIS.
It still gives me a chance to support the troops, she said. It makes my family feel a little bit easier than Im not going to be outside the wire driving a truck. And you get used to that way of life.
In her book, Morgan says that while in Iraq, she found her pride. As for the book itself:
Its my story. Its a way to get to the American public what civilian contractors are doing over there and the fact that were side by side with the soldiers. Theres a lot of brave men over thereand women.
Jan Cottingham is a freelance writer living in Little Rock.


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Swiss banking giant UBS came to an agreement some weeks ago to continue their role as main sponsor and McIlroy has now responded by finally agreeing to return to the Special China Administrative Region and tee up in the event being staged from November 15-18.
McIlroy won the event by two strokes last year from Frenchman Gregory Havret to secure his then fifth Tour success around the globe. Since then the 23-year old has added a second Major title, the PGA Championship and three PGA Tour titles.
McIlroy revealed his intention to return to Hong Kong straight after losing to American Matt Kuchar on the first day of the World Golf Final in the Turkish resort of Belek.
"There had been a little doubt over Hong Kong but now that it's all sorted out with the sponsor and so on, I am going to defend my title," he said.
"I haven't made up my mind yet about the HSBC Champions."
It now means that McIlroy will return to the European Tour in a fortnight confirmed to play in three of Asia's biggest tournaments: the $7m BMW Masters in Shanghai (October 25-28), the $6m Barclays Singapore Open (November 8-11), $2m UBS Hong Kong Open and the following week's season-ending $8m Dubai World Championship.
If McIlroy does tee-up in the $7m WGC - HSBC Champions at Mission Hills it will mean five Race to Dubai events in succession and in four different countries.
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Robin Thicke Releases Track List and Album Cover for 'Paula'
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By Hannah Perrin
Robin Thicke is at it again.
The "Blurred Lines" singer released the album cover and track list for his seventh studio album, Paula, which is dedicated to his estranged wife, Paula Patton.
The cover features a sad-looking Robin, which makes sense considering it doesn't seem like his public proclamations of love towards his high school-sweetheart-turned-wife have been working.
Since the announcement of their split in February, the 37-year-old singer has dedicated songs to her at concerts and made comments to the media about getting her back. The album is his latest effort … but will it work?
All 14 tracks on the album were written and produced by Robin and inspired by Paula. Songs such as "You're My Fantasy," "Love Can Grow Back," and the lead single, "Get Her Back" reveal just how hopelessly devoted he is to his first true love.
Rap-Up released the track list on Wednesday.
1. "You're My Fantasy"
2. "Get Her Back"
3. "Still Madly Crazy"
4. "Lock the Door"
5. "Whatever I Want"
6. "Living in New York City"
7. "Love Can Grow Back"
8. "Black Tar Cloud"
9. "Too Little Too Late"
10. "Tippy Toes"
11. "Something Bad"
12. "The Opposite of Me"
13. "Time of Your Life"
14. "Forever Love"
While the actress has made no comment about Robin's attempts at rekindling their fire, her Twitter bio still says, "wife of the amazing, brilliant, genius @RobinThicke!"
Paula will be released on July 1.


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Watch Eric Church's 'Drink In My Hand' And Make A 'Toast' To Tuesday [VIDEO]
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Let's make a toast to Tuesday and enjoy Eric's latest video. Why not? I mean, everyday should be a celebration. It doesn't even have to be an adult beverage. Maybe a cup of hot tea or an ice cold, super-sized soft drink. Whatever 'cup' you're sipping from, we raise our glass and toast to you, our listeners for working hard, playing hard and living the dream with us everyday.
What drink do you have in your hand right now?
Or, should I say, what drink do you prefer in your hand when you're off the clock?


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London (AFP) Sep 20, 2006
The Royal Society, Britain's premier group of scientists, has written to the British arm of energy giant ExxonMobil, demanding the company withdraw support for groups that attempt to undermine the consensus relating to climate change, The Guardian reported on Wednesday.
It is the first time the society has written to a company questioning its activities, which the Royal Society said supported groups that "misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence."
According to the newspaper, which obtained a copy of the letter sent to Esso, Exxon's British arm, last month, the Royal Society cites its own surveys which assert that the energy company distributed 2.9 million dollars (2.3 million euros) to 39 groups that, the society alleges, misrepresent the facts of climate change.
"There is not a robust scientific basis for drawing definitive and objective conclusions about the effect of human influence on future climate," the letter, written by Bob Ward of the Royal Society, read.
Ward continued: "At our meeting in July ... you indicated that ExxonMobil would not be providing any further funding to these organisations. I would be grateful if you could let me know when ExxonMobil plans to carry out this pledge."
The society also criticised Exxon's own stance on climate change, which asserts that "gaps in the scientific basis" make it difficult to blame climate change on human activity.
In response to this, the society wrote: "These statements are not consistent with the scientific literature. It is very difficult to reconcile the misrepresentations of climate change science in these documents with ExxonMobil's claim to be an industry leader."
The oil giant, The Guardian reported, confirmed receipt of the letter and refuted "any suggestion that our reports are inaccurate or misleading."
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Mark Wahlberg Makes Himself at Home While Filming 'Lone Survivor' in New Mexico (PHOTO)
Although it appears to be coincidental that the location of the two shoots is the same, it's no doubt convenient for Wahlberg, whose schedule has been incredibly busy in recent months not only filming these two films, but Michael Bay's Pain & Gain as well.
New Mexico also offers a wide array of landscapes for filmmakers, a variety which comes in handy when a film demands an unusual backdrop but destination filming is financially untenable.
Why is Wahlberg's Lone Survivor making its home in New Mexico?
Written and directed by Peter Berg (Battleship), the film chronicles "Operation Red Wing," a failed 2005 mission in which a SEAL team was assigned the task of capturing or killing Taliban leader Admad Shad. Only one member of the team survived the mission.
New Mexico provides a comparable visual backdrop for the story, which took place in Afghanistan. The film also stars Taylor Kitsch (Battleship), Eric Bana (Hanna), Ben Foster (Contraband) and Emile Hirsch (Savages).
Wahlberg was also spotted away from set in Santa Fe eating dinner.
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:05:38 -0700, Steven Stremciuc
<steve at freeslacker dot net> wrote:
> Plenty of traffic still gets through to the web servers, but I see many
> blocked packets being logged (following just a snippet):
> looks like they are being caught here:
> 613953 @17 block in log quick on dc0 from any to any head 200
It's hitting that because it's not matching an existing state entry.
Generally you'll see this but it won't cause problems. It's usually
from retransmitted packets or the last packets of a session.
As described in the ipfilter howto:
"Due to the often laggy nature of the Internet, sometimes packets will
be regenerated. Sometimes, you'll get two copies of the same packet,
and your state rule which keeps track of sequence numbers will have
already seen this packet, so it will assume that the packet is part of
a different connection. Eventually this packet will run into a real
rule and have to be dealt with. You'll often see the last packet of a
session being closed get logged because the keep state code has
already torn down the connection before the last packet has had a
chance to make it to your firewall. This is normal, do not be
> The way I noticed all those dropped packets was connections to the
> servers started dying, and the only way I could get it working again was
> to reset state tables. As soon as I did that connections through the
> m0n0wall became responsive again, but I noticed how many packets it's
> blocking.
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More people will soon be eligible to skip long security lines at American airports, Transportation Security Administration head John Pistole announced Friday at the Aspen Security Forum.
Pistole unveiled a plan to widen the popular TSA Pre-check program. The existing TSA Pre-check allows frequent flyers to apply through airlines to gain "known traveler" status and use faster, dedicated security lanes that don't require removing shoes, belts and laptops at the airport. Members are pre-screened with background checks and fingerprint analysis. The average security wait time for TSA Pre-check travelers is two to three minutes, Pistole reported.
Pistole's first mention of the program and so-called "happy lanes" drew rare applause from the Security Forum crowd at the Doerr-Hosier Center.
"This initiative will increase the number of U.S. citizens eligible to receive expedited screening," Pistole said of the expansion.
The agency is aiming to enroll 25 percent of travelers by the end of this year, and 50 percent by the end of 2014. The expanded program will open Pre-check registration to less-frequent flyers and aims to expand to 300 airports. The expedited lanes already are in place at the 40 busiest airports in the country, including Denver International.
TSA Pre-check registration will be available online, Pistole said, with an $85 fee covering three years of enrollment. Applicants will still need to volunteer personal information and submit to a personal interview, background check and fingerprinting.
Since its founding in 2011, 12 million eligible travelers have signed up for TSA Pre-check.
Pistole touted the program as a way to focus more stringent security on travelers who are unknown to the TSA and more likely to be a threat.
"That's our way of dealing with risk-based security and saying, 'Let's get away from the one-size-fits-all, and let's focus on the those that we can pre-screen,'" he said. "Everybody's still going through security but there's no reason we need to treat someone like a terrorist if we've already looked at them."
In light of the recent public backlash against government surveillance and the National Security Agency's PRISM program, Pistole said the TSA will offer new options when Pre-check customers provide their private information. The agency has partnered with third-party companies, he said, with whom customers can opt to do their background check if they don't want to give their information to the government.
Pistole would not disclose how the TSA uses the personal information taken for Pre-check eligibility, saying he did not want to provide tools for terrorists seeking entry to the program.
"What we don't do is publish a list saying, 'Here is what we use,'" he said.
Pistole's name has been floated as a possible replacement for U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, who announced last week she is stepping down from the post.
Pistole demurred when ABC News correspondent Brian Ross asked about whether he might take the job. Pistole half-jokingly mentioned another candidate in the audience: former Congresswoman and Aspen Institute trustee Jane Harman. She also has been mentioned in media reports about the cabinet appointment.
"There are a number of very well-qualified people, including some sitting in this room," Pistole said. "I'm not going to mention any in particular — Jane Harman."
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text: I wish I had paid closer attention to the release of BT5 so I could have started seeding the distros to everyone who wanted it. I've got a seedbox that is downloading em as I type. In the future, is there a mailing list or someone to contact so I can offer my seedbox to help seed in the future?


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The first inning looked like it was going to be more of the same as last night when Daniel Murphy got picked off of first base and then committed an error on a routine fly ball in the bottom of the inning. That error led to an unearned run to put the Dodgers up 1-0.
John Maine struggled in the first a little, then settled down before giving up a three-run homer in the sixth inning to put the Dodgers up 5-3 for good. He helped his own cause in the second inning when he hit a two-run, bases-loaded double to put the Mets up 2-1. Those were Maine's first RBI of the season.
David Wright kept up his hot streak and hit an RBI single in the third to put the Mets up 3-1. He extended his hitting streak to 11 games and also had two walks on the night.
The rest of the offense was once again stagnant as the Mets had only six hits all night. They failed to capitalize any more on a struggling Chad Billingsley, who couldn't find his command in the first four innings. He really settled down in the fifth and sixth innings.
Ramon Martinez, who was playing second base for a resting Luis Castillo, was batting in the six hole, and it wasn't a great spot for him to be in. He struck out three times and grounded into a double play to halt an eighth-inning rally.
Jose Reyes returned to the lineup and went 1-for-4.
The big question right now is what happend to the Mets offense. They've scored only five runs in the past three games. Is the loss of Carlos Delgado really that significant to the offense? The Mets have hit 0 home runs on the road trip.


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Get an overview of this hotelEco-friendly hotel in Utrecht with 24-hour front desk
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Located in the heart of Utrecht, this eco-friendly hotel is within a 5-minute walk of Neude, TivoliVredenburg, and Grocery Company Museum. Meeting Plaza Utrecht and St. John's Church are also within 10 minutes.
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Self parking, coffee/tea in a common area, and a meeting room are available at this smoke-free hotel. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include dry cleaning, a 24-hour front desk, and tour/ticket assistance.
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Apollo Hotel Utrecht City Centre features tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and coffee/tea in a common area. Wireless Internet access is complimentary. This eco-friendly hotel also offers dry cleaning/laundry services, room service (during limited hours), and a television in a common area. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
Apollo Hotel Utrecht City Centre is a smoke-free property.
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- 24-hour front desk
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- Total number of rooms - 90
- Number of floors - 5
- One meeting room
- Multilingual staff
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Self parking (surcharge), Offsite parking discounted rates available
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- Pay movies
- In-room safe
- Hair dryer
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Television
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Separate sitting area
- Cable TV service
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Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 11 AM.
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Queen Street is to be transported 100 years back in time to 1914 as part of a First World War Remembrance Weekend.
The event, which runs from August 2-4, will see a street festival complete with theatre, model railways and parades taking place on Queen Street.
The West Yorkshire Archive Service will also be running two workshops for families to trace their history and find out how they may be connected to people who fought or lived through World War One.
These take place at Cucina Café on August 2 from 11am-noon and 1pm-2pm.
Coun Bill Urry, of the Archives, Archaelogy and Trading Standards Committee said: "As well as being a great opportunity for people to find out more about their family's involvement in World War One, it is also a chance for us all to reflect on the contribution and sacrifices made by the people of Morley 100 years ago."
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The United States' top transportation safety official has said the US Federal Aviation Administration accepted test results from Boeing in 2007 that failed to properly assess the risks of smoke or fire leaking from the batteries on Boeing's new 787 jets.
Deborah Hersman, the chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, told reporters that Boeing's tests had predicted that the batteries on its new 787 planes were likely to emit smoke less than once in every 10 million flight hours – and showed no indication that the batteries could erupt in flames.
But once the planes were placed in service, she said, the batteries overheated and smoked twice last month, and caused one fire, after fewer than 100,000 hours of commercial flights.
"The assumptions used to certify the batteries must be reconsidered," Ms Hersman said.
She said Boeing's tests before the battery was certified, which the FAA oversaw, found no evidence that a short circuit in one of the battery's eight cells could spread to other cells.
But Ms Hersman said the fire on a 787 parked at an airport in Boston on January 7 started with a short circuit in one cell and then spread to the other cells.
She said investigators have still not been able to tell what caused the short-circuit in that cell and led to a "thermal runaway," overheating up to 500 degrees, that then cascaded to the rest of the cells.
"This investigation has demonstrated that a short-circuit in a single cell can propagate to adjacent cells and result in a fire," she said.
In searching for the cause of the fire on the plane in Boston, Ms Hersman said the safety board was still looking at the battery's charging mechanism, potential manufacturing defects or contamination, and whether the cells were not as isolated as they should have been.
Cause of short-circuit still unknown
Investigators have so far ruled out two possible reasons for the short-circuit – a mechanical or electrical shock from outside the battery.
"We have left a lot of issues on the table," she said. "We have not yet identified what the cause of the short-circuit is. We are looking at the design of the battery, at the manufacturing, and we are also looking at the cell charging. There are a lot of things we are still looking at."
Ms Hersman said the plane's flight data showed that the battery's voltage unexpectedly dropped from a full charge of 32 volts to 28 volts, which also suggested that problems began in one of the four-volt cells.
Ms Hersman said it was still too soon to determine whether the battery's casing had performed its job. While the container had sustained fire damage, it is still being evaluated to determine how protective it was.
The 787 is the first commercial airplane to use large lithium-ion batteries for major flight functions. All 50 of Boeing's 787s that were delivered to airlines have been grounded since mid-January, when a 787 made an emergency landing in Japan after the pilots smelled smoke in the cockpit.
The FAA's decision to certify the batteries has come under scrutiny in recent weeks. Because airplane regulations did not cover lithium-ion batteries, the FAA approved Boeing's use of the novel technology under nine special conditions that covered the need to contain or vent any hazardous materials.
Certification process under review
The FAA, which is part of the Transportation Department, is also reviewing its own certification process, the battery tests it required and other critical systems on the 787.
In response to Ms Hersman's comments, the Transportation Secretary, Raymond LaHood, and the FAA administrator, Michael Huerta, said in a statement on Thursday that the agency's review is "a data-driven process," adding: "Based on what information our experts find, the FAA will take any action necessary to further ensure safety. We must finish this work before reaching conclusions about what changes or improvements the FAA should make going forward. The leading experts in this field are working to understand what happened and how we can safely get these aircraft back into service."
Ms Hersman said that because the problems on the Boeing planes were unexpected, the safety board has been trying to understand "the special conditions related to the failure and the outcome we saw — fire and smoke."
And while Boeing calculated the odds of a problem as minuscule, she said, "there have now been two battery events resulting in smoke less than two weeks apart on two different aircraft."
Doubts over quick resolution
She said the safety board said it would issue an interim report in the next 30 days. Its findings so far suggest that Boeing will have a hard time convincing regulators that it can fix the problems quickly and get the planes back in the air.
Ms Hersman stressed it would be up to the FAA to decide whether and when to lift the grounding order on the 787. "About two million people travel on US airlines safely every day," she said. "The aviation community has achieved this remarkable record in large part through redundancy and layers of defence. Our task now is to see if appropriate levels of defence and checks were built in the design, certification and manufacturing process."
Boeing picked the new lithium-ion technology because it provided more power than traditional batteries of the same size. Ms Hersman's comments came a day after the FAA approved one flight of a Boeing 787, with a flight crew but no passengers.
The flight, which took off on Thursday morning, is the first for a 787 since aviation authorities grounded the innovative aircraft last month after two incidents with its lithium-ion batteries. The FAA said it would let Boeing return the 787 from a painting plant in Fort Worth to its plant near Seattle. It has not yet approved flights to conduct tests on the batteries.
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A Connecticut organization that received an order from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to turn over the records of library patrons should be allowed to identify itself publicly, a federal judge ruled on Friday. The FBI issued the order under a provision of the USA Patriot Act, a controversial law intended to help prevent domestic terrorism. Despite Friday's ruling, the name of the Connecticut organization may not be known until next week at the earliest. The judge hearing the official's challenge to the act, Janet C. Hall of the U.S. District Court in Bridgeport, Conn., has given the government an opportunity to appeal her decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which government officials have indicated they will do. If the appeals court does not overturn Judge Hall's ruling by September 20, the organization can be identified. Court papers refer to the organization only as "John Doe." The documents also show that the organization is an active member of the American Library Association and the Connecticut Library Association. The order that the Connecticut group received is called a national-security letter and is similar to a subpoena. It allows the FBI to demand that libraries, businesses, colleges, and "electronic service providers" hand over the records of their clients. Recipients of the letters are not allowed to tell anyone about them. The American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing the Connecticut organization, has challenged the constitutionality of the letter the group received, arguing that the government has not demonstrated a compelling need for the library records and that the order prevents the organization from speaking freely about the Patriot Act. Chronicle of Higher Education 9/12/05 http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/09/2005091201t.htm
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To say that Ina (Ai-Ai de las Alas) has had a run of misfortune would be an understatement: She's outlived three husbands and must raise 12 children on her own. Steely and stoic, Ina spends little time complaining and instead works hard to maintain an unruffled facade. Her approach works until her kids -- longing for warmth and humanity -- reveal how estranged they feel from her in this Filipino family entry.


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Threadflip Raises $13 Million Series B to Double Down on Its On-Demand Closet Refresh Service
(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 07/23/14 -- Threadflip, the fashion marketplace for women to refresh their closets, today announced it received $13 million in Series B funding to double down on its rapidly growing Concierge Full Service business model.
Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) led Threadflip's Series B funding round with participation from earlier investors Baseline Ventures, First Round Capital and Shasta Ventures. With the Series B Threadflip has raised a total of $21.1 million since its seed funding in 2012.
"Today's consumer values convenience and trust, which puts us ahead of the game with our on-demand Concierge Full Service," said Threadflip CEO and founder Manik Singh. "We started Threadflip to eliminate the friction and expense of buying coveted brands. Now women are shopping with confidence because they know they can get back much of what they spend whenever they're ready for something new. Threadflip has quickly become the go-to app for women to refresh their closets seamlessly." Using Threadflip's Concierge Full Service, women can order a closet refresh package in seconds from the company's mobile app or website. Threadflip then mails a free, prepaid shipping bag to fill and send back with items for sale. Threadflip professionally photographs and uploads the items to the marketplace within 24 hours. Once the items sell, women are given Threadflip credit that can be used to shop for other items within the marketplace or cash out.
More than 80 percent of women selling clothing on Threadflip use their proceeds to purchase other items available in the marketplace, and on average return at least once every two weeks to buy something new.
"I love Threadflip's Concierge Full Service -- it's super easy to use," said San Francisco resident Arian Hushyar. "I mailed Threadflip some of my Michael Kors shoes, some Ferragamo belts and a Theory jacket, and made my first sale just two days later. Since then I've bought a bunch on Threadflip and I've also convinced some of my friends to use the service. This totally takes the guilt out of buying since I know I can sell it on Threadflip." Over 78 percent of accessories and apparel are ultimately sold when listed using Concierge Full Service, which has been growing more than 100 percent month-over-month since its launch earlier this year.
Threadflip also gives women the option to create and manage listings themselves, using photos they take and a simple sell form. With List It Yourself the seller prints a shipping label provided by Threadflip, mails the items to the buyer directly, and receives 80 percent of the purchase price.
For the next 60 days, Threadflip is reducing its commission to 20% and offering Concierge Full Service users 80 percent take-home, instead of the normal 60 percent, on all items over $75.
"Mobile platforms are reinventing the used clothing marketplace, providing a seamless platform for listing and selling clothes while also browsing and purchasing items," said NVP General Partner Josh Goldman, who is joining Threadflip's board of directors. "Threadflip has the necessary formula to break out from the pack. It has developed a well-curated, intuitive and seamless marketplace, and has tapped into the swelling fashion community by changing the social paradigm of buying used clothing." Goldman is an investor in flash sales pioneer, Gilt Groupe, and a board member at Modcloth, the online shopping destination for all things vintage-inspired, and StellaService, provider of customer service performance ratings and analytics for online retailers. He was also on the board of RetailMeNot prior to the online coupon giant's public offering a year ago.
Added Shasta Ventures Managing Director Tod Francis: "We think Threadflip is a Sharing Economy visionary. They are fundamentally changing how women think about owning and buying clothes." About ThreadflipThreadflip is redefining fashion ownership forever. Using its trusted marketplace, Threadflip creates a virtual, revolving closet where women buy accessories and apparel they love, and recoup up to 80 percent of their items' price when they sell. By maximizing financial returns and eliminating resell hassles, Threadflip brings together like-minded women in a community where they can maintain and refresh a stylish wardrobe without spending a fortune. Threadflip is 2 years old, privately held, and based in San Francisco. Buy and sell your favorite brands at www.threadflip.com Media contact Lisa Tarter Email Contact (415) 203-2462 Source: Threadflip
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Without installing anything new, 90% of today's desktop browsers can now do pretty much anything you can imagine with text layout. The same typographic capabilities will become possible in next year's generation of mobile devices, too.
Tom Barclay, Flash product manager: "Text Layout Framework is an extensible ActionScript library that runs on the new text engine in Flash Player 10 and AIR 1.5. Leveraging the publishing expertise of the Adobe InDesign team, Text Layout Framework offers a level of typographic control and sophistication that goes well beyond what can be done with HTML and CSS."
Features include right-to-left scripts (Hebrew, Arabic, Urdu, more)… vertical scripts (Japanese, Chinese)… font-embedding of world scripts… print-worthy typography: "kerning, ligatures, typographic case, digit case (oldstyle/lining figures), digit width (proportional/tabular figures)"… graphics nestled within live paragraphs… multi-column flow of text, arbitrary rotation, discretionary hyphenation, many other typographic necessities… text is described as external XML files. Rendered by Adobe Flash Player 10 and above.
Right now it's just a beta API within the Flex 4 Framework, with an interface like this. One application of this API to content creation is in a Flash CS4 component.
There's lots of room to grow — lots of other ways people will want to access precise layout. It's easy to create a SWF, many authoring interfaces are possible.
Projects based on this may help with standard markup languages such as MathML and OpenMath… maybe even markup languages like MusicXML, rendering predictably across browsers, without installing anything new. Sort of a PostScript for the Web.
Resources: Release Notes… wiki… Veronique Brossier…. Mihai Corlan… info on Flex governance… weblog.
This capability is just sitting out there, in the world's browsers, today. It's waiting… waiting for us to learn how to use it.


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City works to identify trail improvements
Pashek Associates is developing a Connellsville Gateway to Gateway Master Plan to identify trail improvements and economic development opportunities for Connellsville as a Trail Town.
Jim Pashek of the Pittsburgh firm presented an outline of the master plan to city council at its regular meeting last week.
Cathy McCollom with the Progress Fund said the Gateway to Gateway plan was funded by the state's Department of Conservation and Natural Resources matched by a Department of Community and Economic Development grant with the city, Connellsville Township and South Connellsville.
Pashek said Gateway to Gateway extends along the Great Allegheny Passage through Connellsville, from its northern to southern border, with special emphasis on developing Crawford Avenue as a "Main Street," enhancing the trail experience, improving the local economy and increasing the quality of life for both Connellsville residents and users of the trails.
"Towns along the trail are seeing economic opportunities," Pashek said. The planning process has taken about a year, with Pashek and others talking to stake holders in the community and coordinating it with the Multi-Municipal Comprehensive Plan for the City of Connellsville, Connellsville Township and South Connellsville Borough, which is in draft form, as well as downtown plans and trail linkage, such as the Coal & Coke Trail and an inter-city loop trail. "We want to engage and blend all recommendations."
The draft master plan has been completed.
He said the plan brings the city "one step closer to achieving some of these goals."
Pashek discussed several broad recommendations:
• Strengthening Crawford Avenue as a "Main Street" by concentrating commercial and mixed-use redevelopment and facade improvements within a few blocks of the Third Street bike lanes.
• Strengthening the residential area north of Crawford Avenue by residential redevelopment, historic restoration and new park development.
• Creating bicycle gateways, one at the north and one at the south entrance on the Great Allegheny Passage. Pashek said attractive kiosks providing information already exist at the north gateway and at Yough River Park. The south gateway needs a kiosk.
• Improving the vehicular gateways at Route 119 and Pittsburgh Street and Route 119 and Crawford Avenue to welcome visitors and direct them downtown and toward trail access.
• Improving the streetscape on Crawford Avenue to encourage a safe environment for cyclists and pedestrians.
• Creating bicycle plazas. Pashek said a plaza on Crawford Avenue and Third Street could provide a safe place to store bikes and equipment while visiting downtown. A plaza also could provide air and a bike wash.
• Employing environmental sustainable design and construction solutions to protect the environment and improve the quality of life.
• Providing bike loops to connect commercial activities.
Pashek said converting Torrance Avenue to bike lanes at Yough River Park would continue the park atmosphere to Third Street.
At Third and Crawford, streetscape improvements could involve mixed-use development and extra parking, in addition to the bike plaza.
At Third Street, he described a master plan with the triangular city-owned park transformed into a commons with more parking added.
At South First and Third streets, near Head Start, Pashek described greening and an overlook. If permission from the property holder can be obtained, "When it's time to redo the street, shrink it and add rain gardens at the building. Enhance the overlook to the river."
He also suggested adding a second decorative arch to the south end of the trail, like the arch at the north gateway.
"How in the world do you do all this?" Pashek asked. He said not to expect everything to be done in nine months. Some aspects may not be completed for 20 years, and goals may change.
He suggested seeking funding for some goals, but said not much funding will be available in the near future, because of the past budget impasse and general economic conditions.
The DCNR will require council to adopt a resolution in January indicating that the plan has been completed.
"I think it's wonderful," Mayor Judy Reed said. "Thanks to all the opportunities from DCED and DCNR. It's taken nine years and now we're eligible for funding because we've got a plan."
A public breakfast meeting to discuss the Gateway to Gateway Master Plan will take place at 9 a.m. Nov. 3 at the Connellsville Cultural Trust, 502 S. Pittsburgh St.


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