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The company of Broadway's first-ever revival of Stephen Schwartz's rock musical GODSPELL last month welcomed a new leading man- stage and screen star Corbin Bleu (Disney's "High School Musical," Broadway's In the Heights) - to the starring role of Jesus. Get a first look at Bleu in the show below!
Corbin Bleu made his Broadway stage debut in 2010 as the lead character, bodega-owner Usnavi, in the critically acclaimed musical In the Heights. He starred in the Emmy-award winning Disney Channel Original Movie "High School Musical" and its sequel, "High School Musical 2" alongside Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, and Ashley Tisdale. "High School Musical 2" premiered to 18 million viewers, making it the highest rated Disney Channel Original Movie in history and the overall highest rated program in cable history. Following to the worldwide success of "High School Musical," Bleu reprised his role in "High School Musical 3: Senior Year." The film broke opening weekend records and grossed over $250 million worldwide.
Directed by Daniel Goldstein and choreographed by Tony Award nominee Christopher Gattelli (South Pacific), GODSPELL also stars Wallace Smith as Judas, and co-starring Uzo Aduba, Nick Blaemire, Celisse Henderson, Morgan James, Telly Leung, Lindsay Mendez, George Salazar and Anna Maria Perez de Tagle.
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HIGH school pupils in Blackburn were today returning to a purpose-built £10million school building.
Our Lady and St John Catholic College has unveiled the results of building work at the North Road site which has created an entirely new campus.
The school is part of the multi-million pound Building Schools for the Future programme renewing and rebuilding local schools.
The scheme aims to replace older buildings within Blackburn with Darwen and provide students with 21st century learning environments.
Our Lady and St John, one of the last to be completed, now consists of a brand new building with classrooms and administration facilities forming a quadrangle with three existing buildings based around a courtyard.
The heart of the school is an open space used for lunch where the whole school also gathers for break times.
Also included is a new open plan library and resource centre, new changing rooms and a fitness studio, as well as a bigger car park. Headteacher Keith Ballard said: "Our wonderful new school is the result of much hard work and patient planning from staff, pupils, parents, governors and the local authority over the last 15 months of building work.
"Balfour Beatty has given us a fantastic, well-equipped school which opens a new chapter in the life of Our Lady and St John Catholic College.
"We will continue to build on our fine reputation and to offer a first-class 11 to 19 education to future generations."
Coun Dave Harling, Blackburn with Darwen Council's executive member for schools and education, said: "I'm very excited to see the new college open and see the amazing new building and the modern educational facilities for students and staff.
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EDDIE Howe declared himself a contented manager after watching Cherries make hay in the Dorset sunshine yesterday.
Howe's men turned on the style in the county town, leaving opposite number Phil Simkin to magnanimously concede Cherries had handed out a "footballing lesson".
Yann Kermorgant's four-timer led the rout of the Southern Premier League outfit as Cherries created a wave of goalscoring opportunities throughout this pre-season friendly.
And but for the woodwork and the heroics of Dorchester goalkeepers Alan Walker-Harris and Shane Murphy, it could have been embarrassing for the hosts.
"It was a good work-out for us, good from all perspectives," said Howe. "Even though it was quite an easy afternoon in terms of the scoreline, I thought the attitude and application were excellent. The lads didn't let up and wanted more goals. That was a very pleasing sign."
Harry Arter opened the floodgates after two minutes when he drilled an unstoppable drive past Walker-Harris from just inside the 18-yard box.
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Howe said: "Yann is a class act and took his goals very well. He has come back looking fit and, with his technical qualities, hopefully it is going to be a big season for him. We need goals and goalscorers, attacking and creative players are very important to any team.
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Howe added: "It was good to see Callum get off the mark. He was in the right place and finished it well. Considering he has had a lot less training than the other guys, he looked really sharp."
Cherries: Buchel (O'Flaherty, 70), Smith (McCarthy, h-t), Francis (Cargill, 66, Whitfield, 70), Cargill (Cook, 60), Harte (Daniels, 60), Fraser (Matthews, 27, McQuoid, 60), Gosling (O'Kane, 60), Arter (Pugh, 60), MacDonald (Pitman, 27), Ritchie (Stanislas, 60), Kermorgant (Wilson, 60).
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Topic: the month of february - surgery and radiatio
Dear all my friends,
I hope this is the right place to post my recent experiences, which I hope might help someone else. Plus, you might wonder where I have been - - too tired to write much, actually, until now!
Diagnosed in October with ICC, one large tumor (6.8 cm) and two small ones (~2 cm) and many little ones, I went on gem/cis (dose 1000/75 mg) for four 3-week cycles and they all shrank and the tumor markers went way down. I experienced all the usual insults of chemo plus some scary neuropathy in my hands (eek! I am a violinist!)
Dr. Kato had originally wanted to do a chemo-radiation-chemo "sandwich", but with such great shrinkage decided in early January to "throw in" a little surgery. Keep it in mind that this was never billed as a curative surgery because of all the little tumors, but a palliative surgery to get rid of as much tumor burden as possible. So on January 31 (three weeks after the last chemo) he removed the big tumor and all the left lobe, leaving the right lobe with its many small (less than .5 cm) tumors. There has never been any question that I am "behind the eight ball." There had been one of the medium size tumors in the right lobe but it had shrunk to almost nothing and Dr. Kato wanted to leave a good piece of liver so I could get through everything. My liver enzymes have never faltered for even a moment since I was diagnosed.
The main idea was to hit me with everything as big and as fast as possible, so when I was only three days out of the ICU from the liver surgery they did a liver angiogram and two weeks later on February 20th they put in the y-90 spheres. (Both procedures do hurt btw and are uncomfortable but fascinating if you ask for and get your own monitor to watch). The radio-oncologist, using a formula that determines the "payload" of radiation depending on your size and health and whether or not you had previous radiation or chemo, picked a dose and then a reduction. He wanted -20% and I argued successfully for only a 10% reduction from the maximum. I am totally nuts I think. For two weeks I ran temperatures up and down - never high enough to worry about infection but bothersome and miserable - and felt sick as a dog. I could not get warm to save my life unless I was sweating all over. I also did not eat for at least a week. It was just too much. Still recovering and suffering from the gigantic but gorgeous abdominal scar from Dr. Kato's work, I had plenty of narcotics but I have to say it was a dark February for me and I am really healthy and strong (except for this little cancer thing!) In case you wondered, Dr. Kato says he's never done this before. I guess I am the guinea pig!
As if that was not enough, in keeping with the general plan to compress the schedule way tighter than the conventional wisdom, we went back to the gem/cis chemotherapy at a slightly reduced dose (1000/50) just 2 and a half weeks after the radiation. A week later I basically had no platelets, no white blood cells, disaster. I think my body had just had enough for the moment. So I decamped to Cancun for a week and just got back last night feeling much better, stronger from fighting waves and walking, healthy from such good food, and happy to be warm at last. Feeling good, if I do say so!
In two days we go back to chemo again. That is my plan for now. Scans are not possible for 8 weeks after y-90 so the next news I will have will come in late April. The goal was to get rid of as much tumor as possible and set this ICC back as far as possible. I have no lymph node involvement or metastases outside the liver. My personal goal is to get into some kind of immunotherapy trial because I think that is the future. At least two surgeons/experts that I talked to on this journey explained to me that they believe my body is fighting this cancer everywhere in my body except in the liver. Don't know why.
If anyone has any questions about the surgery or y-90 experiences, please ask. Bless you all and I will let you know how the next scans are - - what kind of wild-looking liver-thing I have now! Oh, and I think Dr. Kato does not like straight lines on a body. He told me the look of the scar is very important, it must be aesthetically pleasing. Mine is so beautiful, I am very proud of it. So maybe he is onto something. Anyway, the medical gist of all this is the use of surgery not for curative purposes but for palliative purposes, and the aggressive compression of a usual treatment schedule.


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Dear Mr Relle, I'm sorry…
Following Michael Gove's open letter to his old French teacher in the Radio Times, a few of us were asked if we had anything to say ourselves…
Would you drive a bus for free?
Would you drive a bus for free? I ask you, because increasingly, I am asked to work for no fee.
The enormous and growing appetite for content – on blogs, online newspapers and magazines, sprawling paper supplements, free papers, Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr posts, emails, text, tattoos – means that writers are more in demand than ever. It's not just newspapers that commission writers but any Social Media Strategist or Marketing Exec working for companies from plumbers to PRs. But not one of them has a business model that knows how to turn a profit from of the vast amounts of content they supply their customers/readers/audience.
Which means that either writers have to be content with the 'publicity' instead of a fee – usually a plug for their own blog, which they also write for free – or they ask non-writers, who are plugging another business. Which means an awful lot of the content is either written in a slapdash manner by proper writers (who takes a job seriously that they aren't getting paid for?) or written badly because it's written by a non-writer.
Despite the fact that everyone thinks they're a writer now, and in many ways this is nothing new (any published author has had to endure several people tell them they'd write a book too 'if only I could find the time'), I'm going to say something very brave and bold against this: you're not a professional writer unless you write, frequently, and are paid to do so.
I have nothing against amateur writers – I was one myself once. And I'd far rather the person who says they want to write and actually does sit down and write. But until someone publishes your work or puts on your play or films your script, thereby investing in the words you pulled out of your head, then you are not a professional.
Writing is not easy. It can be comfortable, yes – writing in my pyjamas, on my bed, or in a cosy cafe, a cup of coffee at my side. It's not going down the mines. But simply being able to spell doesn't mean you can write. Copying out someone else's writing doesn't mean you can write. Even being able to be a bit witty on email doesn't mean you can write. It takes time to learn how to write things down as they happen; to describe a scene in a way that resonates with someone else who has experienced something similar or maybe never experienced it at all; to write down dialogue that sounds real; to put across an argument in a succint and non-hysterical way; to describe a person's entire personality in just two or three sentences. I've been trying for 15 years and I still can't do it as well as I'd like to.
But of what I have learned to do so far, I get a positive response to, quite a lot of the time. People read what I write and are moved, or laugh, or feel compelled to write me a letter. As I tend not to write shocking things, or provoke the more vulnerable elements of our society into feeling attacked and needing to defend themselves, this is not as easy as it might appear. It took practice. It still takes practice. It's taken years of sometimes weeping over my laptop or feeling the pressure of a deadline, or fighting back tears of frustration after an editor has handed back copy with red marks seemingly on every line.
But now, I must do this for free.
Recently, I called the editor of a major online newspaper blog about writing them a column, which she had said she really wanted. We chatted for a while about what would be in the blog and it was all feeling rather exciting. Then I said – 'oh, we need to talk about the fee.' 'Well, we don't really pay our writers,' she said. 'Usually they can just plug their own blog or whatever.' After a while, she said she might be able to find some sort of budget – around £25-30 for an 800 word article. To put this in context, 12 years ago, I was paying writers for the Mail on Sunday (when I was a commissioning editor) an average of 50p a word. At one point, I had to pay certain writers 25p a word, for a new section of the magazine I was working on, and this was hugely embarrassing. That would still have worked out at £200 for an 800 word article.
When I pointed this out, the editor said, 'those kind of fees are for papers – this is online.' So what? What of your boasts that online readership is vastly higher than newspapers? The problem is, of course, that we are still dealing with the hangover from the dotcom bust at the turn of the century. After that, publishers were so slow off the mark when it came to the interweb that they learned nothing from the music industry's decline ('people love the artwork on CDs,' a high-up at EMI told a friend of mine around 2001, 'we've got nothing to worry about') and continued to shoehorn their ancient business models into the new technology.
Publishers knew they needed to build websites, but as they were already beginning to haemorrhage money on their print outlets (the Guardian now is losing something like £1 million a week), they invested zero cash. If readers were going to get stuff for free, the reasoning must have been, it wasn't worth spending money on. Nor could they persuade advertisers to pay even a quarter of their usual fee because it was 'free content' and therefore not taken seriously or read properly.
Of course, all this has changed now. We know that writing is taken just as seriously online. We even know that people are prepared to pay for premium content. We know that the internet is our primary source of content and newspapers are for the old-fashioned or just anyone who doesn't have an iPad yet and still fancies something to read on the train. (I'm aware that this is a lot of people.) The canny have found other ways to generate income if they can't do it through content – live events (witness the growth of Damian Barr's Shoreditch Salons, celebrating its fourth birthday tonight, having spawned further events around the globe, some of which are very poor imitators) or driving people back to print that has redefined itself, eg beautiful, limited-edition books. Or maybe, writing the blogs for the non-writers (I do this).
I don't want to be a moaning minnie. I understand I'm in a privileged position. I was educated well, given great opportunities, and I'm doing a job many would love to do. But I don't see that vocational jobs should be 'punished' with smaller fees because we're doing what we love – cf. teachers, nurses. I love my job, but I have worked hard to get to this point and I still have to pay the mortgage and get the weekly food shop. In an era when my skills are apparently in demand, it seems frankly ridiculous that it should be the one era when I shouldn't expect to get paid for them. (I do get, by the way, that I hardly help matters by writing this blog for free. But, the internet eats itself, and I still have to play the game – I need the public voice as much as anybody.)
There's no real solution in sight. As I say, I'm lucky. I am still finding people who will pay me to write and I'm hoping I can make it last. But I may not be able to do it until I retire. To that end, I'm developing other skills – public speaking, for example – to supplement that income. When even the likes of international bestseller Susan Hill ('Woman In Black') posts on Facebook that she cannot afford to continue living in her home, and she doesn't strike me as the extravagant type, then you know this isn't a profession that is rewarding its professionals.
Our only hope is that readers vote with their feet: read what you feel is worth reading and has value. And pay for it.
Reading with mother
I've been a bit quiet on here lately… Life, as usual, getting in the way of plans. But also because every spare minute has been devoted to reading. I am a big reader, anyway, always have been. Since I was 16 years old, I've kept a record of every book read – largely because my memory is hopeless and I can't remember what I've read otherwise. I once read a book twice and didn't realise the second time until about two-thirds of the way through – and it shows that on average I read about 25 books a year, sometimes a lot more, sometimes a lot less. (At the start of a love affair, I hardly read at all.)
As I want to pursue more writing around the period of the 1920s, I've been reading around and about that time. At first I thought I was looking forward to re-reading some of my favourites from that time – A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh, The Moon and Sixpence by W Somerset Maugham, the Collected Works of Dorothy Parker. But I've read each of those several times, and as enjoyable as reading them again always is (I keep them by my bedside at all times, like a jar of peanut butter in the cupboard, there for when quick comfort is needed) I'm hungry for new details, new stories, new people.
So I've been reading the famous quartet by Antonia White, I'm halfway through the last one now and already dreading the final page because I don't know what will satisfy me afterwards. It may mean another six months of colour supplements and newspapers because nothing can compare, so why bother? Hopefully, it'll drive me on to read more and even better, or best of all, it'll inspire me to write.
The first book is Frost In May, based on White's early years at a Catholic convent school. Published in 1930 it was an instant hit. The following three books, which all feature the same heroine, were written more slowly, thanks to Antonia's suffering from various mental conditions – from writer's block to nervous breakdown. She also married and divorced in the 1930s.
The four books were republished by Virago in the early 1980s, after her death, and were an instant bestseller. I remember my mother reading them then and her devastation when she'd finished them all. (She didn't read anything for six months afterwards.) All my life I've waited to share this experience with my mother – she became ill with premature senile dementia in 1998 and died almost eight years ago. It's been a strange feeling, to read the words I knew she read and loved, and think about how they affected her, what they might have meant to her and what they mean to me. It's a reminder that books pull us all together in so many different ways.
As well as that, the first-hand feeling of being alongside someone living in that time is exquisite. The language used – binge, old girl, fancy, my dear –descriptions of the clothes worn, the passions felt, the ambitions of the young women, the repressed, frustrated emotional lives of the men…. So much the same, so much different.
White's writing is subtle in its brilliance: deceptively simple, you think it's almost childlike to write things down just as they happened. And then you realise how hard that is to do. She's at her best when her heroine is frustrated in her ability to communicate with those around her – whether they are stunted in their understanding because of their religious orthodoxy, or because they are men with their own ideas for her, or because they are drunk. Equally, she is kind to the sweethearts who deserve it and chillingly cold with the stupid, who don't. It's a lesson in how to write and be so sublimely easy to read, as delicious and intoxicating as a Pimms on a hot day.
You can start here: Frost In May by Antonia White


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Tierney Jailed After Scuffle
New York -- Patrolman Louis Romano questions former movie actor Lawrence Tierney in the West 54th Street Police Station early today. Tierney was arrested after a bruising battle with Romano and another policeman on Sixth Avenue after they had ejected him from a bar. All three were given treatment at a hospital and released. (1958)
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Well, he was born to kill.
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Nineteen-year-old Seth Stonerock of Stoutsville was sentenced Wednesday in Pickaway County after making a tearful apology to families of the two women who died.
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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I want to marry the woman I love, but I am haunted by her "girlish" past. She recently told me that when she was away at summer camp as a teenager, for two years she had a love relationship with a girl. The most they did was lie down and kiss in the woods, but I am worried this desire for the female sex will resurface when the marriage relaxes and gets boring, as so often happens with so much in-your-face familiarity and the kids that come. -- Deep Down Worried, Selkirk
Dear Worried: What does she say about this? That is what you have to hear. Instead of carrying this worry inside yourself, you need to have a heart-to-heart with her, even if it's scary. Was it a stage that's over, or does she still yearn for this girl or this kind of love? Be careful about the tone of your voice or you won't get the truth. You must be interested, but non-judgmental, and avoid labels like "lesbian" or "bisexual." Just do your best listening and you will hear the ring of truth.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I love the men in my office. We pal around after work and they always take me with them, like their mascot. I'm a woman and a bit younger, but I can keep up to any of them in sports, playing pool and drinking games. But, last night, my most immediate boss -- a separated guy -- got pretty blasted and called me a few pet names when we were out in the group. I saw a few guys look, and I was startled, too. Do we have a situation now? I know he's lonely and I'm single and the other guys have girlfriends or are married. I like him as a colleague but am not looking for a romance with him. Help! -- Not His "Sweetie Pie," Broadway
Dear Not His Sweetie: You can still go out with all the guys, but keep a cool eye on the situation. Exit on any excuse if your lonely, separated boss is enthusiastically hitting the sauce. He may have been projecting a little of his old feelings for his wife onto you when he was bombed. Sometimes guys who have recently ended a marriage are still in the habit of calling the woman in their life pet names. Ignore this one-time gaffe; don't say anything about it at all. Monitor the situation, holding back on the drinking yourself, and see what happens. If he makes a clear move, say cheerfully, "Sorry, but I love my job and we could both get in trouble with this." Then change the subject.


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Late-stage HIV infection can cause AIDS dementia (brain damage due to HIV leading to loss of memory and muscle control). CPI-1189 may be able to postpone AIDS dementia or slow it down.
Patients are randomized to receive either placebo or one of two oral doses of CPI-1189 daily. Patients are assessed for safety and tolerability during Weeks 2, 6, and 10. At Week 10, efficacy assessments are also made. For those who volunteer, a sample of cerebrospinal fluid is obtained at baseline and at Week 10. Blood samples for CPI-1189 pharmacokinetic trough measurements are taken at Weeks 2 and 10. The open-label phase starts at Week 11. At Weeks 13 and 16, a safety evaluation is performed. At the end of the open-label phase, Week 22, a final set of safety and efficacy assessments and a blood sample for CPI-1189 pharmacokinetic trough measurement are obtained.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
You may be eligible for this study if you:
- Are HIV-positive.
- Are at least 18 years old.
- Have symptoms of AIDS dementia including forgetfulness, loss of concentration, slow mental processing, or a loss of muscle control.
- Have been on stable anti-HIV drug therapy for the past 6 weeks (if you are taking anti-HIV drugs).
Exclusion Criteria
You will not be eligible for this study if you:
- Have certain serious medical conditions, such as a mental disorder or an opportunistic (AIDS-related) infection.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00002414
|United States, California
|Alzheimers Disease Research Ctr 0948 / UCSD
|San Diego, California, United States, 920930948
|United States, Illinois
|Northwestern Univ / Dept of Neurology
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
|United States, Maryland
|Johns Hopkins Hosp / Dept of Neurology / Meyer 6109
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 212877609
|United States, Missouri
|Washington Univ Sch of Med / Dept of Neurology
|Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
|United States, New York
|Columbia Univ / Sergievsky Ctr Physicians and Surgeons
|New York, New York, United States, 10032
|Univ of Rochester / Strong Memorial Hosp
|Rochester, New York, United States, 14620
|Study Chair:
|Clifford DB
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00002414 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|November 2, 1999
|Last Updated:
|June 23, 2005
Keywords provided by NIH AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service:
AIDS Dementia Complex
Anti-HIV Agents
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
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I am designing my first Wordpress theme and I was wondering about how readable gray text on white background is. At the moment I'm using #555 text on #fff background. The only clear suggestions I've found were on w3.org site (the WCAG 2.0 guidelines). They state the following:
Contrast (Minimum): The visual presentation of text and images of text has a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1
Contrast (Enhanced): The visual presentation of text and images of text has a contrast ratio of at least 7:1
The thing is, I find #000 on #fff rather harsh on the eyes (might have something to do with my outdated, 6 year old LCD monitor) and the gray text looks much better to me, but perhaps it's not as readable when we're talking about longer articles.
What is the "brightest" text color you would choose for an #fff background? Do you think #555 text is too much?
It can also depend upon the size of the font in question and maybe it's the choice of colours. Yes, black on white isn't always the best if your luminance is wrong on your monitor. Maybe a subtitle off-white background image or colour might help rather than lowering the font outline to a washed-out grey.
Info take a look at: Juicy Studio: Colour Contrast AnalyserThis says your choice is fine, I would have to agree. However it also sort of depends on what the other parts of the page are. For example, I assume the white is a wrapping type container, but if the main background is really bright, it could hurt eyes.
Usability and accessibility best practice is to avoid using #000 on #fff because the contrast is too stark, and it can exacerbate certain conditions such as dyslexia. At the same time, if you soften the colours too much then you'll cause problems for people with weak eyesight. I have excellent vision but I find that sites that only just meet the WCAG guidelines are not only slightly harder to read, but look noticeably pale and washed out. Unless you're deliberately going for an arty look over legibility, I'd say that's a poor choice.
Usually I'd go for something around #222, which is dark enough that it looks near enough black - nobody can complain about it being too pale - but at the same time soft enough that it shouldn't cause any problems with glare. Ideally, your design choice shouldn't be noticeable - if people look at it and think "Hey, he's used grey text" then you've overdone it.
You are right to say that #000 of #fff look harsh to the eyes, though its a kind of recommendation from W3C or WAI. Also the color contrast analyzer comes into play only when the foreground has sufficient surface area also. If you text is much small then it is better to put them #000 on #fff. But if you are talking about big paragraphs or the base color of the text throughout the site, then my recommendation is always the area between #000 and #555, i.e. #333. That's why #333 has now become a standard :).
I would avoid grey on white for text. From my experience, people find it hard to read especially those who wear glasses.
How are you finding this site? Yup, that's right, SPF uses grey on white. The text you're reading right now is #333. But it doesn't look noticeably grey. That's what I meant by your design choice not being obvious. You soften the shade just enough that it reduces the contrast but not so much that people realise what you've done (unless they're really looking closely for it).
Thanks, everyone. This gives me a lot of ideas. For now, I've changed #555 text to #444. I hope most of my visitors will find this acceptable.
In the future I'll think about changing the main background to something gray and leaving the text content background white. Right now both of them are white, I guess that could cause some problems like rguy84 said.
Also the color contrast analyzer comes into play only when the foreground has sufficient surface area also.
True though I use the toolbar rguy84 mentioned and it does mention that something that fails at small text might pass with larger text. Though it doesn't say how small or large.I generally take it to mean "headers vs body text" personally. I can get away with weirder colours in headers simply because they are larger, thicker letters.
I keep hearing these absurd claims that gray is better, but I find it illegible and harder to read. I think the real problem is many people are going with CMS defaults, and the default is a rather light or medium gray that really is hard to read. I have no idea why the herd mentality in designing sites that are hard to read. Yes, pure black on pure white might be bad, but there seem to be a Lot more complaints about gray. You could use a dark charcoal gray with white, or use black on an off-white bg.
But I think a lot of people are, for some insane reason, going with a less legible design because the powers have so decreed ;')
I have no idea why the herd mentality in designing sites that are hard to read.
I know why: Designers. Tiny, washed-out text "looks professional" to graphic designers, marketers, and bosses. Guess who has the power over how a web site looks and works? Yup, those people.
Large, readable text looks childlike to bosses, ugly to designers and when they are things like utility menus in the footer linking to unsavories like Terms And Conditions, scary to marketers (they don't want to scare customers away).
The UX folks need to beef up their control of web design, and get the 33"-CineMac designers either more out of the way, or forced to become one of Them (UX people).
Why do people insist on grey text on a white background? In terms of legibility, black text on an off-white background is significantly more readable.
Legibility is not the goal.
Well, it should be...
And there shouldn't be pollution or war either. People should stop at stop signs and use their blinkers. Everyone should get pie. And?
Well, as long as we agree that people who disregard legibility on the web are in the same category as those who make war and such. Like Hitler. Actually, they're worse than Hitler. At least Hitler wanted to get rid of the fairly illegible Franktur typefaces prevalant in Germany in the thirties and fourties.
Really? He hated ze fontzes?
That's prolly the best Godwin I've ever seen. Props.
I hate the WCAG's formula and ratios just because it's needlessly complex and pointless and could be done a million times simpler using luminance, which is what I use... the formula from the usability guidelines Apple, M$ and IBM got together and wrote circa the move to color at the end of the 80's. (windows 2/OS 2/MacOS 4 era)
Which is the PROPER luminance calculation for projected light as found in the old usability guides; is hardware encoded into all VGA adapters, and can be found in books like Ferrara's "Programmers guide to the EGA/VGA cards"
Also this is another place photoshop sucks since it uses the reflective formula for luminance instead (Y = 0.2126*R + 0.7152*G + 0.0722*B which is actually meaningless outside a CMY colorspace as it overemphasizes green)
Using the proper formula for displays I consider 50% difference the minimum and 75% or higher the ideal. side effect of this formula is the color blind will never have issues with the results either.
For example, #555 is 85,85,85, so that's 85... white is 255... so that's 66%, entirely acceptable. Let's plug in a color combination we know sucks, true red (255,0,0) on true blue (0,0,255)...
255,0,0 = 76.5 == 30%0,0,255 = 28.05 == 11%
Difference of only 19% across the spectrum means effectively illegible. How about the green and magenta which give the color blind fits?
0,255,0 = 59%255,0,255 = 41%
well that's a no brainer at only 8% difference.
It's so much simpler to just say "take your two colors, take 30% of the red, 59% of the green, 11% of the blue, add them together, and if the values for the two colors are less than 50%, it's illegible, and if it's less than 75% it could be problematic" than the convoluted mess the W3C tried to foist on us.
a useful interactive colour scheme designer
My favourite handy tool - dead simple to use. http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=628


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Once you decide to sue someone in court, there are several issues you need to consider to prepare yourself for the case. Read this section carefully to make sure you are starting your case properly. As the person who is filing the civil lawsuit, you are the plaintiff. There can be one or more plaintiffs. The plaintiffs can be all individual people, all companies, or a combination of both.
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These are hard issues to decide, even if at first glance they seem easy. For example, let's say you get into a car accident. First, you have to figure out if the person who was driving the car is also the owner of the car. If not, you have to make sure you sue both the driver and the owner. Second, was the accident in part your fault? You also need to know what city and county the car accident happened in. And you only have a certain amount of time to sue, called the "statute of limitations." If you do not file your lawsuit within the statute of limitations, your case can be dismissed, even if the other person was clearly at fault.
And what if the car that hit you is a government vehicle, like a police car? In that case, you might have to sue the city or county where the police department is located. When you sue a government entity, the law generally requires you to first file a Government Tort Claim with the government entity, usually within 6 months from the date of the accident or incident causing injury. Most government entities have forms for this purpose. This requirement is to give the government entity notice of what happened and allow them to review your case and resolve it outside of court. If you do not file the Government Tort Claim with the government entity within the required time period, you may not be able to recover any money from that entity. Once you file your government claim, the government entity will accept your claim, deny your claim, or not respond. If the government entity denies your claim or does not respond within 45 days, you can then sue in court, but there is usually a shorter statute of limitations to file your lawsuit from the date the claim is denied (or the 45 days go by), often only 6 months!
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Once you have answered all the preliminary questions about whom to sue, where to file your lawsuit, and how much to sue for, you are ready to file your case. Civil cases vary a lot depending on what the lawsuit is about, but there are some general steps you will have to follow no matter what you are suing about.


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A number of questions were directed towards Bediuzzaman in his own day from his disciples and those around him regarding whether or not he was the Mahdi (as). In fact, similar questions had been put to other revivers (mujaddids) before Bediuzzaman, and their followers claimed that these people were the Mahdi (as). They also told their students, with proof, that they were not the Mahdi (as), and that their attributes were incompatible with his. They gave detailed descriptions of when and where the Mahdi (as) would appear, the kind of features he would possess, his struggle, and how he would cause Islamic moral values to prevail. They made statements, in the light of the hadiths of our Prophet (saas), along the lines of "I am not the Mahdi, because the Mahdi will be aged such and such, appear from such and such a place, possess such and such features, and be a sayyid."
Bediuzzaman gave two kinds of response to those asking for his thoughts on the subject;
1) He made it clear that he was not the Mahdi (as) and wrote pages of statements regarding why he was not the Mahdi (as) aimed at those who claimed that he was.
2) He also responded to those who ascribed the rank of Mahdi (as) to him by saying, "assumptions have been around for a long time, that cannot be denied;
therefore, I had no quarrel with those holding such assumptions, and yet told these people that "he rejected claims regarding the rank of Mahdi".
1) Bediuzzaman said, "All my brothers bear witness that I never accepted the rank of Mahdi (as)" (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Rays, p. 365) and proved this over hundreds of pages in the treatises.
The answer provided by Bediuzzaman, when asked about a subject is important, and he clearly stated that he was not the Mahdi (as). In his works, Bediuzzaman stated that he was not the Mahdi (Emirdag Addendum, p. 266), that the Mahdi (as) would appear a century after him (Kastamonu Addendum, p. 57), that he was a private soldier and a member of the vanguard of the Mahdi (as) (Barla Addendum, p. 162), that he had prepared the way for the Mahdi (as) with his work and books (The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen, p. 189), and that it was an error and a confusion to imagine that he and the Treatise of Light were the Mahdi (as) (Emirdag Addendum, p. 266).
He also stated that the Mahdi (as) would be a sayyid (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, , the Rays, p. 365), that he will perform three tasks in the worlds of politics, authority, and religion at once and at the same time (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, the Rays, p. 456) (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Rays, p. 590) (Emirdag Addendum, p. 259-260), that the Mahdi (as) will reanimate the essence of Islamic moral values by bearing the titles of the successor of our Prophet (saas) and the spiritual leader of all Muslims (The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen, p. 9), that he will bring peace and justice to all the world (Emirdag Addendum, p. 2590; Letters, pp. 411-412), that he will bear the title of "the Great Reviver" (Tilsimlar Magazine, p. 168), that he will bring about Islamic Union (Emirdag Addendum, p. 260), that he will receive the support of all Islamic scholars, sayyids descended from our Prophet (saas), and all Muslims (Emirdag Addendum, p. 260), that he will forge an alliance with the Christian world (The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen p. 9), that he will pray together with the Prophet Jesus (as) (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Rays p. 493), and that he will install the moral values of the Qur'an over all the world and encourage all people towards the true path (The Ratifying Stamp of the Unseen, p. 9) (Letters p. 473).
In Bediuzzaman's day, "no Islamic Union collecting all Muslims under a single roof had been established, and nobody bore the title of spiritual leader of all believers," "justice and dominion had not been brought to the entire world," and "Islamic moral values did not prevail all over the world." Nobody bore the title of the Great Reviver and Ruler; nobody enjoyed "the support of all Islamic scholars, sayyids descended from the line of the Prophet (saas), and all Muslims," and nobody had performed such a great service to the faith as communicating the message of the moral values of the Qur'an, dedicating his life to and risking everything for it.
He fulfilled the role of reviver of his own century in the most honourable manner. Yet, his message was communicated, not with force and imposition, but in the face of difficult physical and spiritual circumstances and enormous difficulties. He did not assume the position of commander; on the contrary, he was oppressed and spent his life as a captive, faced with physical troubles and difficulties. He received no widespread support, but was rather subjected to various injustices, oppressed, and spent much of his life under such harsh circumstances as prison and exile. He reported that the means and responsibilities to be discharged as listed above, would belong to the Mahdi (as), the reviver of the century following his.
2) Bediuzzaman stated with full supporting evidence that he was not the Mahdi (as), but that he had no quarrel with people who harbored such misconceptions:
There were people close to him in his day who held misconceptions about Bediuzzaman being the Mahdi (as). Indeed, Bediuzzaman added some mentions of these attitudes of his followers to various parts of his treatises.
However, as we know, pleasing thoughts about a person are no proof that they actually reflect the truth. Bediuzzaman also stated this in his treatises, saying there may be people who hold pleasing assumptions about himself; these have been around for a long time, that cannot be denied, but they are in fact an error and a confusion. One extract in which Bediuzzaman sets this out reads:
... They rightly personally regard the spiritual entity of the Treatise of Light as a kind of Mahdi (as). Since they imagine the mere interpreter of this spiritual entity to be therepresentative of this spiritual entitywhich comes from the students of Light, , they sometimes give him that name (the Mahdi). This is, in fact, a confusion and an error, but not one for which they are responsible; suppositions have been around for a long time and cannot be objected to. Since I regard what my brothers do as a kind of prayer, a hope, and a reflection of the pure conviction of the students of Light, I made no great objection. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Emirdag Addendum, p. 248)
Bediuzzaman states that it is sometimes imagined that as the spiritual entity of the Treatise of Light and the author of these works he was considered to be the Mahdi (as), but that this is an error and confusion. He says that people who think along those lines make an analysis with regard to describing the truths of faith, but that they do not take into consideration that the Mahdi's (as) other two duties - "establishing an Islamic Union, being the leader of the Islamic world, and causing Islamic moral values to prevail over the world, are absent from him." Therefore, equating the role of Mahdi (as) with the Treatise of Light and with himself is merely a "supposition."


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MIAMI - A 53-year-old woman charged with attempted murder had be restrained when a judge told her she'd be held on no bond.
Police arrested Blanca Regalado on Saturday.
According to an arrest affidavit, police responded to an apartment in Miami in reference to a stabbing. When officers arrived, fire rescue was transporting Regalado's husband to the Jackson Memorial Hospital after he suffered six stab wounds to his upper abdomen, right arm, and right leg.
Inside the victim's apartment, Regalado told police, "I did it. My husband is a drunk. I'm tired of him and I stabbed him," according to the affidavit. She also told police her husband becomes aggressive when he drinks and that she prepared a Swiss Army knife in her dresser for the next time they fought.
Regalado's husband is listed in serious condition. She appeared in bond court Monday.
WATCH: Regalado appears in bond court
"You are being charged with attempted felony murder," said Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat. "Do you have money for a private attorney?"
Regalado appeared confused when asked.
"Let's relax. Just answer my question. Do you have money for a private attorney?" Rodriguez-Chomat asked again.
"Si," she responded.
But when Rodriguez-Chomat told her she would be held without bond, Regalado began screaming.
"My husband broke my leg!" she yelled. "Please! No! No! No!"
Regalado had to be restrained in her wheelchair. She is expected back in court Tuesday for a probable cause hearing.
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A reminder to dance all the way to the grave in a limited edition by Ludvig Löfgren for Kosta Boda. A Vanitas is a "symbolic still life... meant as a reminder of the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, encouraging a sombre world view (wikipedia: vanitas)." I must have a morbid streak because I've always been drawn to them without knowing what they were called.


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One prominent former Laker sounds skeptical about the team's playoff chances.
"It's going to be tough," Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said in a phone interview. "If they do make it, I don't know how far they're going to go."
The Lakers entered their game Friday against Memphis with a half-game lead over Utah for the eighth playoff spot. The Lakers would likely play against San Antonio or Oklahoma City in the first round. They've only gone 1-5 against those teams.
"They had been trying to figure out a whole new system," Abdul-Jabbar said, referring to Mike D'Antoni replacing Mike Brown as head coach following a 1-4 start. "That just makes for confusion. They may have to wait until next year."
Abdul-Jabbar has stayed busy, appearing on ABC's "Splash." He will host a party sponsored by Prime Sport during the NCAA men's basketball final Monday in Atlanta. During halftime of the Lakers' game Tuesday against New Orleans, Abdul-Jabbar will feature an interactive trivia game called "The Skyhook Challenge" that fans can play through their phones or computers.
If a player surpasses Abdul-Jabbar's NBA scoring record (38,387) in trivia points, Novartis Oncology will donate $38,387 to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for blood cancer research and patient services.
Abdul-Jabbar was diagnosed November 2009 with a rare form of leukemia, and has reported continued improvement.
Abdul-Jabbar also has paid attention to Dwight Howard after meeting with him last summer.
"He had injuries and they need him to do a lot of things," Abdul-Jabbar said, referring to Howard's surgically repaired back and torn labrum in his right shoulder. "It's hard for him and the Lakers because they don't know what to expect from him."
Abdul-Jabbar wasn't done.
"It's going to take a change in his attitude," Abdul-Jabbar said. "But he's smart and capable of learning what he needs to know to be a more effective player."
Howard has scoffed at Shaquille O'Neal's similar criticisms. Howard didn't take offense to Abdul-Jabbar's comments, but he disagreed with them.
"My overall mindset has always been good," said Howard, who's averaged 16.7 points and 12.7 rebounds per game, his lowest numbers since 2005-06. "But if you can't do it, you can't do it.
"I'm in better shape now."
Lending support
Understanding the frustration when he broke his leg at age 15, Howard contacted Louisville guard Kevin Ware after injuring his right leg in the first half of the Cardinals' NCAA Midwest Regional final Sunday against Duke.
Howard and Ware played on the same AAU team in Atlanta in separate stints.
"Us Celtics stick together," Howard said before quickly clarifying, "That's the Atlanta Celtics."
Howard added Steve Nash and Pau Gasol also expressed support shortly after Ware's surgery Sunday. Ware has said Lakers guard Kobe Bryant called him, too. Howard described Ware's spirits as "pretty good."
"When I broke my leg, everybody thought my career was done," Howard said. "I'm pretty sure it will push him to get back even harder."
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Only eight days after having surgery to repair a lateral meniscus tear in his left knee, Lakers forward Metta World Peace tweeted he's been cleared for running exercises. The Lakers him to miss at least five more weeks. ... Nash missed his second consecutive game because of a strained right hamstring and right hip spasm. ... Forward Antawn Jamison said his sprained right wrist "is killing" him, but he will play.
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Thursday afternoon the lake just north of Houston churned out its fourth ShareLunker of the current season, a 13.8-pound largemouth bass caught by Renee Linderoth of Conroe.
The big bass is the sixteenth ShareLunker to come from Lake Conroe, giving the lake a solid grip on the number four spot on the list of top big bass lakes in Texas, after Lake Fork, with 240 entries, Alan Henry (25) and Sam Rayburn (23).
Linderoth was fishing in two feet of water south of the F.M. 1097 bridge when the fish took a Hula Grub. "I have to give credit to my fishing guide, Ron Higgins of Higgy's Freshwater Adventures," Linderoth said. "Without him putting me in the right place and fishing the right way, I would not have caught this fish."
Higgins also gets credit for the bass being entered into the ShareLunker program rather than being immediately released. Linderoth grew up fishing with her father but had not fished in recent years until buying a boat. "I had not heard of the ShareLunker program and was going to release the fish, but Ron said 'No, we have to get it weighed and see if it is a ShareLunker,'" she explained.
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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I got mad at my boyfriend when we were playing a little game a week ago, and I left him tied to my kitchen chair as a lesson. Then I went to the pet store to get some cat food and kitty litter, planning to be back within an hour -- but I didn't tell him that. He got himself free after 20 minutes and then stuffed all my best dresses into a bag and took them to his apartment. I love my beautiful dresses and he knows it. He says I will never get my stuff (about $800 worth) back until I apologize to him, on bended knee. That's not going to happen! One of my friends has volunteered to go to visit him, ostensibly to talk about me, and then send him outside on some excuse and steal my clothes back. Is it really stealing when it's your own stuff? -- Not a Thief, Wolseley
Dear Not a Thief: You don't say your age, but you sound very young. Do you know that both of you did something illegal? When your boyfriend made off with $800 worth of clothing, he was stealing. When you left him tied up in a room and took off, the consensual sex game was over. You were forcibly confining the man, which is not funny, not cute and definitely illegal.
Don't involve any other friends in this nonsense. Ask for your clothes back and say you're sending a friend or your parents to come and get them -- his choice -- but you will not be coming at all. This must end the games. Why? Because now it's breakup time. You two can't afford to be together. It makes you act foolish enough to get into serious trouble. At least one person out of a couple needs to have good sense if they're going to play games.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: This is tough and confusing. Four months ago my ex and I broke up over my seeing guy friends from way back and my lying about it by saying I was going out with my girlfriends. I didn't tell my guy friends about my jealous boyfriend because I didn't want them to dislike who I was dating. When he found out, we ended up arguing every time I went somewhere. I couldn't stand the fact he thought I was capable of cheating due to my lies.
Now, we've been seeing each other again for three weeks. The time apart made us realize we missed and loved one another, but when I asked him if we could be in a relationship -- because we're doing everything you would normally do in a relationship -- he said no. He told me: "I have to get my priorities done," meaning his schooling and the fact he wants to fix how he is in a relationship. If we wait too long we could meet someone else. Should I be patient and not worry so much or stop doing what we're doing in order to know if he wants to be with me? -- Open Heart, Winnipeg
Dear Open Heart: There's nothing better than sex with an ex who's doing everything to try to impress. For your own sake, stop. He's giving you the big line about "priorities," but it's really about not trusting you and he's got quite the deal now -- free sex with an ex and there's little ol' you trying to win him back. There's a big problem here: He's the WRONG GUY and you're wasting your time on him.
You need a confident guy who knows he's your man and isn't worried about your old guy friends. Your kind of guy should be happy to meet your pals and socialize with them and their mates. And here's good news: Real friends who know the natural you to a depth will usually like a person who is right for you.
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It began as Flex Data Services. Then the software became LiveCycle Data Services. Now it is just called Data Services. Data Services has been made a component of ADEP Experience Services. Besides a name change from LiveCycle, it can be deployed differently. No longer exclusively tied to J2EE servers, it is now available as an OSGi bundle. The Java EE application server version continues and continues to be supported. While basically the same, there are some slight differences. The location of configuration files is slightly different. In addition, there are some differences in the way Java classes need to be deployed to work with Data Services. Lin has some very good blog posts about this: [How to Create a Data Services application for the Experience Server that returns data and How to create class/jar files for data service project without using maven].
Once logged onto the Experience Services as an admin there is a dashboard with all sorts of interesting links. There are five you need to concern needed to get started with Data Services. The right side contains three: CRXDE Lite, Packages, and Package Share. On the left you need to know about two, Getting Started and OSGi Console.
CRXDE Lite is an application to browse the JCR object database. Where in the Java EE version of Data Services you would put configuration files within folders, the Data Services server is entirely self-contained within this database. Configuration files are within the hierarchy of the database. The Packages link lets you see which packages you have installed and deploy or undeploy packages. The Package Share link lets you install more. Package Share leads to a library of available packages that can be installed.
The Getting Started link points to an area with good documentation on how to use Experience Services and contains Data Services examples. After following that link you will see a section, Application Use Case Samples, with the example applications. The first example, called Data Integration, shows how to use Data Services within its new framework. Follow the link, Developer tutorial, that is in the right side of that example's box.
There is one last thing that needs to be done before developing with this server. On any screen click the Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform logo in the top left of the screen – this will take you back to the main screen. Press the OSGi Console link in the left section. This is where configurations are set. To develop with Flex and integrate it with the Experience Services the default setting for RDS needs to be changed. The Configuration tab should be selected at the top. Select Adobe Data Services from the list. You will see its configurations. Make Enable RDS selected and the environment is ready to work with for development. Disable RDS in production environments for security.
Data Services gives the Flex front-end of an application access to the middle-tier services on a server. It has a very efficient data transport protocol for Flex. It allows real-time messaging protocols that give the developer the ability to push and pull data from Flex. Data Services can act as a relay and be a proxy host for other services. It provides data management that works with Flex, sending only the data need for display. Someone gave me a short summary of Data Services that is more complete:
Data Services provides remoting (RPC), messaging (publish/subscribe and push) and data management capabilities for the creation of rich Internet application (RIA's) as well as multi-screen, mobile or occasionally-connected applications. Data Services also provides a highly productive set of model-driven development capabilities which enable developers to focus on application and business logic and includes a wide variety of back-office data connectivity options including connectivity to server-side Java code, SAP, RDBMS's, Hibernate, JMS and other server-side systems and technologies.
There's quite a bit of information in that description and it would be interesting to discuss all of its capabilities separately. Data Services is a great tool in a developer's kit.
[Edited 10/20/2011: I said the Data Services "is deployed totally differently. No longer tied to J2EE servers…." I should have pointed out that it is not exclusively an OSGi bundle. It is continuing to be available for Java EE application servers, with the next version being 4.6. This version is available for public preview on Adobe Labs. I also added references to some very good links from Lin's blog about creating Data Services applications for the Experience Server. I added a short summary of Data Services I got from someone else.]
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Gingerbread Muffin Tops Recipe
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We came up with this unique recipe for muffin tops that don't require a special baking pan. The flavor is similar to mouthwatering molasses cookies.—Taste of Home Test Kitchen
Recommended: Top 10 Gingerbread Recipes
VERIFIED BY Taste of Home Test Kitchen
- 1/3 cup butter, softened
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 3/4 cup molasses
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon coarse sugar
- In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and molasses. Combine the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well.
- Drop by 1/4 cupfuls 2 in. apart onto a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Sprinkle with coarse sugar. Bake at 350° for 15-20 minutes or until set. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Serve warm. Yield: 7 muffin tops.
Originally published as Gingerbread Muffin Tops in Taste of Home's Holiday & Celebrations Cookbook Annual 2010, p45
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"I don't understand how this recipe passed the Test Kitchen approval. The taste is very good, good gingerbread recipe but they did not turn out like muffin tops, more like a very large flat cookie. I think if I make again that the baking soda should be reduced to 1/2 tsp. and add 1 tsp. of baking powder. The muffin top needs to rise much more than they did. I think the Test Kitchen needs to try this recipe again and then resubmit it. Thank you."


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Get information on six new and free Notification Center widgets
Over the past week or so, various developers have been racing to put out their first (or one of many) Notification Center widget(s). Naturally, since the Notification Center is new territory and seemingly an easy place to start off, there's been a huge jump in widgets released for the Notification Center. Some are paid, some are free, but nonetheless, I'm sure its been filling our "Changes" log in Cydia to an exuberant extent. Instead of doing one article per, since many of them are rather simple, I will be doing what I call an "Widget Round-up" to discuss the six new Notification widget that just popped up in Cydia. Without further to do, let's get started:
Note: To enable any Notification Center widgets/add-ons, simply go to Settings -> Notifications -> (X). Notification Center widgets are available on devices that are jailbroken and on iOS 5 (5.x) only (with the exception of native widgets that come with iOS 5).
Also: Whether you call them WeeApps, add-ons, or widgets, they are all the same thing. It's your personal preference in terms of what they are called.
With NotiCall, you can have your Favorite Contacts from your Phone.app right in the Notification Center. Upon enabling the widget inside Notifications, you can view and access the buttons inside the Notification Center. It works with contact photos as well as without.
To be completely honest, I didn't find any pros to this widget. Here are my cons:
- When you have no contact photo, all it shows is the person's name and not the number. This is kind of difficult, especially for someone like me who has three phone numbers for his dad in his Favorites. There's no way of distinguishing them
- If you do have a contact photo for a contact in your Favorites, no name or info is displayed on the button at all. All that is shown is a photo. That makes things super difficult to remember what icons goes to what number as well as the fact that it is a small button with a small image
- You have to respring every time you change something about a favorite (such as add a new one, delete one, give one a contact photo, etc.) in order for it to take effect inside the Notification Center
- There are other applications, such Favorite Contacts and WeeSpeeddial for Notification Center, that charge little money but add a ton of functionality beyond just what Noticall has to offer
Ultimately the decision to use a widget is your choice, however I don't find it useful whatsoever. You must have an iPhone on iOS 5 to use this widget.
Name: NotiCall
Author: dcampogiani
Version: 1.0.0
Price: Free
SlideCenter for Notification Center
SlideCenter offers a miniature slideshows of photos inside your Notification Center. SlideCenter pulls photos to use for the slideshow from the following places:
/var/mobile/Media/PhotoData/Sync/ (Photos synced from your computer)
/var/mobile/Media/DCIM/100Apple/ (Camera Roll on device)
SlideCenter simply cycles through all the photos you have in those particular areas inside the Notification Center tab. If you have it open long enough, you can watch it go through all your photos.
Here are my pros and cons:
- SlideCenter offers something unique, something that hasn't been done before in the Notification Center. If you are a photo lover, this might be a cool feature
- It pulls pictures from both your Camera Roll and the photos you sync from your device
- Due to how small the Notification Center is, the slideshow only shows part of your picture. Depending on the layout of your picture, SlideCenter completely cuts off an important part of a photo
- SlideCenter cycles photos on its own and you can't swipe through pictures manually
- You can't define the amount of seconds that each picture takes before switching. Initially, it lacks a lot of options
If you find this tweak of interest to you, go download from Cydia now. It is available on all iOS 5 devices.
Name: SlideCenter for Notification Center
Author: Mathieu Bolard (mattlawer)
Version: 1.0-1
Price: Free
ScreenLock for Notification Center:
With ScreenLock, you can lock screen rotation on your device right from the Notification Center. All you do is simply tap the icon on the box to lock or unlock rotation. If its locked, you can't change orientation (i.e. if you lock in portrait, you can't rotate, or vice versa).
Similar to NotiCall, I did not find this widget useful. Here are my cons:
- Because ScreenLock only offers one simple feature, it doesn't seem worth it to download. You can just as easily access rotation lock by activating your App Switcher and toggling it from there
- Widgets take up a lot of space, so its a good idea to keep your Notification Center tidy. This button only takes up maybe 25% of the space its allocated. My feeling is, "why take up so much space for such a tiny button?"
- This widget could potentially be useful in the future, but it needs to add some new features or functionalities to make it worthwhile
Although my feeling on this widget is my opinion, it is ultimately your choice to download.
Name: ScreenLock for Notification Center
Author: Manuel Gebele
Version: 0.0.1-1
Price: Free
Respring for Notification Center:
Respring for Notification Center offers a quick button to respring your device. For jailbroken devices, having the ability to respring can come in handy quite often. When you have it enabled, you simply tap the respring area to respring your device. Here are my pros and cons:
- If you're a minimalist and you don't like all the crazy features applications like SBSettings, SpringPrefs, and PowerCenter have to offer, this might be a viable option
- Since this widget only has the respring capability, it takes up a lot of space for one thing
- Applications such as SBSettings, SpringPrefs, and PowerCenter offer a lot more and utilizie all the space they are allocated. There's really no difference in terms of file space taken and its always nice to have more options when certain situations arise
You can download this widget right now off of Cydia. It's available on all iOS 5 devices.
Name: Respring for Notification Center
Author: Aleksander Azizi
Version: 0.1-1
Price: Free
QuickNote for Notification Center:
If you're one to write down notes often to refer to, QuickNote gives you an option to do so directly from the Notification Center. Simply tap inside the allocated note space and start typing. When you're done, simply hit "Done."
Here are my pros and cons:
- From a simplicity standpoint, QuickNote offers a simple way of writing down something to "note" or remember
- The "Done" button seems to be extremely unresponsive. When testing this, it took longer for me to actually get out of the composition view than it was running through any of the other components of the widget. It tapped numerous times on the "Done" and after a while, it finally closed. There were times that I even closed the Notification Center in order to get out of it
- With the Notes.app as well as the new Reminders.app, it would be just as easy to add whatever you need there. Since QuickNote doesn't offer any other options than typing, it would just be better to use the stock applications instead
- It would be nice for QuickNote to have a method of quickly deleting a note. The only way to remove what you've typed is to delete manually
- It would nice to have a way to swipe between notes. That way, you could have multiple things written down and you can cycle through them. Right now, you're only able to type inside that one window. Thus, you would have to jam all that you want inside just that one window
Download from Cydia now if you wish to give it a shot. It's available for all iOS 5 devices.
Name: QuickNote for Notification Center
Author: Joseph Fabisevich
Version: 1.0.3-2
Price: Free
MyIP for Notification Center:
Display your local IP address from your device inside the Notification Center. If enabled, a little box inside the Notification Center will show you your local IP address. This can come in handy if you're needing to know your IP address for purposes of SSHing into your device.
Here are my pros and cons:
- It's simple and displays just the IP. Some people don't really care to know other values for their device, so this is a viable option
- Again, it doesn't offer anything else other than just your local IP. Applications like SBSettings, SpringPrefs, and PowerCenter offer that and much more
It's available on all iOS 5 devices. Download it if you find it useful.
Name: MyIP for Notification Center
Author: Ryan Burke
Version: 1.0-1
Price: Free
WeeKillBackground for Notification Center:
Having the ability to kill all background applications from the Notification Center has been a feature people have been asking for. That was one complaint about widgets such as WidgetTask. Now, you're able to utilize a widget that fixes that potential issue
With WeeKillBackground installed, simply open the Notification Center and tap the bar to kill all the background applications.
Since WeeKillBackground only has one feature and purpose, I had one pro.
- Applications such as WidgetTask don't have a kill all background application feature. WeeKillBackground now offers that. It will be a good companion to applications that mirror the iOS dock in the Notification Center
It's available on all iOS 5 devices so go get it now if you wish.
Name: WeeKillBackground for Notification Center
Author: Jonas Gessner (Maxner)
Version: 0.0.1
Price: Free
What are your thoughts? How do you feel about the whole "Notification Center widget" ordeal? Post your thoughts here!


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Poll: MKR v MasterChef
With the two giants of Australian foodtainment going head-to-head at 7.30pm tonight, which one will you tune into?
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- Neither
- Flick between the pair
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They both suck.
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Does anyone really care? Just record them both and watch them later without the ads. Isn't that what everyone does? I am surprised the "ratings war" matters any longer.
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Equal levels of CR@P. Like two blind men arguing over a comb. Both are complete garbage. Used to market to you. From the duopoly that rips you off day after day. They just sit back on your money and laugh! Suckers!
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Watched Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey the other day, left both shows completely for dead, pathetic in comparison....
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Kingston boxer Danny Parsons became the youngest champion in the brief history of the Queensbury Boxing League on Saturday night.
The 18-year-old claimed the vacant southern area lightweight title with by defeatuing Dagenham's much-fancied Craig Hardy at Epsom Downs racecourse.
The former Battersea ABC amateur, handed his professional debut having impressed promotors during some sparring sessions earlier in the summer, had predicted he would win in the
pre-fight build-up.
And Parsons, a former ABA Championships London area semi-finalist, was only too pleased make good on his promise with a unanimous points decision.
"I've never felt a feeling like this before in my life. Winning this title means more to me than anything," he said.
"From the opening bell I felt really strong in there and after watching Hardy's previous fight I knew he wasn't so good going backwards.
"My plan was to keep constant pressure on him and make him work for the whole fight and that's exactly what I did and it all paid off."
It was clear neither Parsons or Hardy were looking to hide from the start of the fight as the pair traded punches at a frenetic pace in an even opening round.
But Parsons' body shots and trademark left hooks caused damage with increasing regularity, as he closed out the contest in style.
The fight will be screened on British Eurosport in October.
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This Another Place In Time photo features Jackie Colson, Dale Fortner and Gerald Roland. It was taken around 1948 at the Mason School. Colson was a trucker and farmer while Roland was a plumber. Both men are deceased. Fortner is a retired captain with the Kentucky State Police. The photo was submitted by Corinne Webster, Gerald's sister. Thanks goes to Justine Taylor and Ruby Vallandingham, both of Williamstown, for guessing.
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Crockpot is a recipe collection you can use within the BigOven recipe software.
Here's how to save them to the right location when you add new recipe boxes to your PC:
· First, make sure that BigOven or BigOven Inspired Cooking Deluxe is installed, but not currently running.
· Look for your "My BigOven Recipes" folder.
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