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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Residents say they want their city to become safer after there was a triple-shooting down her street Wednesday, and an unrelated drive-by and SWAT standoff just a few blocks away.
Northside resident Mary Gettis is all too familiar with this type of thing. She's ready for that to change.
"It's bad, it's bad. There's too much of this going on and it's not getting any better," said Gettis. "It's worse day-by-day."
Gettis is one of the many people living in an area where crime is common. Wednesday night, Gettis said there was a triple-shooting down her street. A few hours later, there was an unrelated drive-by and SWAT standoff just a few blocks away.
Gettis and Mad Dad's president Donald Foy said it has become a plague to their neighborhood.
"It's just totally out of control," said Foy. "It's not safe any place. No part of town anywhere."
Whether it's in Northside, Newtown, Conn., or Aurora, Colo., Foy said something has to be done about the violence. That's why he would like the community to come together and fight it and seconds the pressure for more national gun control.
"I'm all for a person being able to protect their family, but we got to target automatic weapons," said Foy.
When it comes to Jacksonville's crime, Sheriff John Rutherford hasn't made a comment yet on gun control. Instead, Rutherford said it is the city's "young thugs" who are causing the violence.
The three men shot were in their 20s and police said they were targeted. Whatever the answer may be, whether it's a change in gun control or a change in neighborhoods, Gettis said she just wants her community to be safer.
"Bright, open, daytime. The devil is busy twenty-four seven," said Gettis. "You just have to be careful."
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retrofuturist wrote:Unless you are Tilt, I don't see what your acceptance has to do with whether or not Tilt accepts that all the nidanas are dependent on avijja.
OK, take it as speaking for myself then. Past ignorance.
retrofuturist wrote:It is curious how people wish to speak for the lokas of others.
I'm not, I'm discussing the Buddha-Vacana. Can we stick to that?


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Stamford, Conn. -- Quick Response (QR) codes are gaining increasing acceptance among consumers in North America and Europe, particularly among younger consumers, according to a new research report commissioned by Pitney Bowes.
QR code usage as reported by more than 5,000 consumers surveyed stands at 15% on average and at 27% for consumers 18 to 34 years old, according to "QR Code Use" study.
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" Katy's returning characters include 'Jack of all trades' Lily Allen, East End gangster Her Majesty The Queen (giving it 110%) and Armed Forces TV reporter Captain Rosie, following in the footsteps of her hero Ross Kemp as she presents her own documentary series reporting on anything from War Films to the Credit Crunch. "
Well well. When i saw that my former classmate at St Clement Danes school, Katy Brand had made a TV show I was obviously intrigued. When I heard that it was based on celebrity impersonations, I thought 'wow she'd better get that right.' When I finally got around to watching an episode, unfortunately I saw that this couldn't be wider of the mark. From her awful Lily Allen gig - I mean, it's bad enough that there IS a Lily Allen, without our TV show hosts having to remind us of it -, to her weird and frankly embarrassing Kate Winslet pastiche, I couldn't even sit through a whole episode. It started off bad and got so bad that if the remote control battery had expired, I'd have hurled the control at the screen to break the telly - anything to rid my living room of the abhorrent garbage that I had selfishly subjected it to.
Doing impersonations is an art that very few can master and fewer still master in a way that would justify them having a TV show. By taking the p*ss out of celebrity culture, all Brand is doing is reminding us of its ugly face and ironically the only people who would watch this tripe are probably those that are the butt of its jokes.
If your viewing standards are poor enough to suffer an episode of this can I recommend you check out - El Dorado lost episodes, Hollyoaks, the best of Neighbours DVD and Strictly Come Dancing. Come on Katy, you were relatively witty at school - raise the damn bar.
Wow, I have to admit I had seen glimpses of this show before and thought it was rubbish but having watched a whole episode last night I can now say categorically it is not remotely funny.
The show started with Brand dressed as a man in a suit, I think her skit was taking the michael out of Mark Ronson for lacking originality (Bit of a shame she hasn't heard some of his remix work or DJ work prior to his 'Versions' album'. The skit wasn't funny it was simply her dressed as Ronson singing about being unoriginal.
The next skit sums Brand up for me, when your doing an impression and your first comment in a sketch is 'I'm Lily Allen' its clear your impression is based on nothing other than wearing a dress and a wig, she sounded nothing like her, and simply played on the fact Allen uses Twitter. Again lacking in any depth or substance and purely playing on the fact that Brand is a large lady who dresses up as others.
She then proceeded to play the Queen as a loud mouthed wastrel which was poorly written and copied from Catherine Tate, a sketch followed about wedding dresses which could have been written by a Clam, it was awful.
The show is stunningly poor, its on ITV2 on Thursday nights and plays on Brands size and nothing more, she needs decent writers and to stop gurning annoyingly and learn some comedic skills, i'd get more laughs out of watching David Mitchell sit still and say nothing than 5 hours of this mindless rubbish.
The sketch show format can often be hit and miss, this follows that formula but leaves out the hit all together (unless you wish to add an s at your own prediliction.
One of those comedy shows where you keep watching because its so awful, ITV don't do much comedy and you can see why!!!
After watching a couple of shows and being decidedly not amused, I flicked to the cable tv 'on demand' and settled down to give her another chance.
The first sketch was a spoof of the singer Rhianna's 'Umbrella' song called 'Bad Spella'. Katy was dressed in Rhianna-type clothes and even, perhaps a little unwisely, 'blacked up' for the song in terrible stage make-up. I did, in fact, enjoy this spoof as it reeled off many better rhymes that go with umbrella (with associated visuals). I've watched a great deal of 'French & Saunders' in my time, and this song was as good as the song spoofs they do - at least in the written material. I do think, however, that visually, 'French & Saunders' improve the comedy itself (two of them and both better better clowns).
Her sketches are based around a few characters that she repeats in each show (including Lily Allen and Jennifer Anniston). This is usually a winning formula. The problem is that I do not find them at all funny - some are interesting, yes, but not funny. For example, there was a tiny sketch about Russell Crowe appearing on a sketch show reading a simplistic poem and then throwing a fit. It was clearly not worth the effort of Katy getting all dragged up as Crowe (at least an hour in make-up) for a miniscule sketch that made the point that Crowe is a bit of a Prima Dona. I quite enjoyed a sketch about the deluded wife of a serial killer - but not in a laughing way.
There are several really depressing moments in the show such as the inclusion of a character farting. These moments make my spirits sink even further. They are a cheap shot of infantile comedy; I don't know how they make it through the editing process.
Katy Brand is a larger than life character - confident and very watchable in herself- it's just that them material is not wonderful. I see her as more of a character actress and I expect that one day we might be appreciating her in something that is much more satisfying to watch.
The show ends with another spoof - this time with the 'Pet Shop Boys'. Some ok moments but I think that there was much more milage that was not squeezed out of the idea. Again, lots of expense (extras, costumes, props) for very few titters!
I admit that I watch a lot of rubbish on TV - but it's normally rubbish that I (shamefully) enjoy, and is rightfully given obscure time-slots on obscure channels. There is however, rubbish which I really can't stand which takes prime-time space on the main channels, clogging up the airwaves with its general awfulness.
I apologise if this review ends up sounding like a bit of a rant, but 'Katy Brand's Big Ass Show' is one of the least funny pieces of supposedly funny television that I have ever had the misfortune to see. I forced myself to watch two more of the shows last night, just in case I was missing something - but alas, I don't think I was.
What is it with comedy and 'Brands'? - Jo Brand, Russell Brand, Katy Brand - each getting slightly less funny with each Branded incarnation. Actually, Jo Brand and Russell Brand are frequently funny, whereas katy Brand seldom is.
Each thirty-minute show involves Brand doing her done-to-death routines include 'The Queen' (where her majesty is given a Ray Winstone type persona, and ends up saying "F*** off" or something along those lines) - perhaps amusing on the first viewing, but not on the 100th time around. Then there is 'Captain Rosie' - which is just rubbish, and 'Jesus' Girlfriend' - which, well I'm not even going to waste words writing about.
The best (if you can call it 'best') part of the show is probably Katy's take on music videos, and whilst most of them are pretty average, there have been a couple of (fairly) amusing ones - I once felt the corners of my mouth twitch upwards into some distant semblance of a smile - but that's about it.
In the latest series, Brand has brought in a few new characters including Jennifer Aniston - whose catchphrase is 'I'm fine' - which isn't that funny, and seems a rehash of last season's Kate Winslett who said "im normal".
Although she's probably a very nice person in real life, I would be happy to present Katy Brand's Big Ass Show with the title of 'Unfunniest sketch show on TV' - it's boring, offensive and incredibly annoying. I'm not really a fan of Katherine Tate either, but Tate's work one hundred times better than this rubbish. I think what annoys me most is the fact that there are so many talented comedians out there who would kill for a slot on ITV2 - yet the dubiously skilled Brand is presented with a second series in which to churn out this bland material.
Oh and, if you must watch it, it's shown on Thursdays on ITV2 at 10pm
Unsubtle and unfunny... can you tell I don't like it...? ;)


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ByDante Chinni
Dante Chinni is the writer of Politics Counts , which runs every Friday. Mr. Chinni is the editor of Patchwork Nation, which examines different types of communities across the U.S.
In his second inaugural speech this week President Barack Obama made a point of planting a flag on the issue of global warming. "We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations," Mr. Obama said from the steps of the Capitol.
That's the kind of line that brings applause from an audience of strong Obama supporters, but beyond the Beltway, attitudes about global warming are more complicated and mixed. How mixed? Consider two places: Ronan, Mont., and Ann Arbor, Mich.
In 2011, a state representative from rural, agricultural Ronan submitted a bill that embraced global warming as "beneficial to the welfare and business climate of Montana" and that said "reasonable amounts of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere have no verifiable impacts on the environment."
In Ann Arbor, a college town where the stated goal is to "eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions and other destabilizing climate impacts," one the big debates last year centered on whether the city should ban excessive car engine idling, because of the harmful health and environmental effects.
In those two communities, you have the divide over global warming in nutshell. While politicians and the media tend to focus on the Democratic/Republican divide on the issue, the real split is evidenced in other ways – the urban/rural divide, the education divide and, crucially, the age divide. And when you add all those differences together and look at it through geography, you see glaring differences in how various places understand the issue.
To get a sense on the country divides on global warming and Mr. Obama's sentiments regarding it, we looked at numbers from an October Pew Research Center question on global warming through Patchwork Nation's lens of demographic county types.
From what you've read and heard, is there solid evidence that the average temperature on earth has been getting warmer over the past few decades, or not?
|County Types
|Yes, mostly because of human activities
|Yes, mostly because of natural patterns
|Yes, don't know/refused
|Total "Yes"
|Campus and Careers
|Emptying Nests
|Evangelical Epicenters
|Immigration Nation
|Industrial Metropolises
|Minority Central
|Monied Burbs
|Service Worker Centers
In some ways those numbers show great agreement – at least on the question, is global warming occurring? People in every one of the nine county types here (all the types where there was a statistically significant sample) say they believe the earth is getting warmer.
But when the question turns to why, the numbers shift pretty sharply – and fall into familiar patterns.
In some places – the rural Service Worker Center counties and the poorer Minority Central counties – only about 3 in 10 people believe humans are "mostly" responsible for global warming. The numbers aren't much higher in the socially conservative Evangelical Epicenters, the formerly fast-growing Boom Towns and the aging Emptying Nests.
Mr. Obama lost all those county types in November, except for the Minority Central counties.
In the urban Industrial Metropolis counties and the suburban Monied Burbs, large pluralities agree that that global warming is real and that it is being caused by humans. And in two county types the belief in man-made global warming reaches the 50%-or-above mark – the collegiate Campus and Career counties (Ann Arbor sits in one of those counties) and Latino-heavy Immigration Nation counties.
Mr. Obama won all those county types.
So, voila, the voter breakdown on the global-warming issue is nearly a duplicate of the breakdown of Mr. Obama's support. It's just another partisan issue, right? Not exactly, there is something else going on in those figures with longer-term implications and it involves age.
The two biggest supporters of man-made climate change are the Immigration Nation (light blue on the map below) and Campus and Career (green) counties. Those places don't share a lot of commonalities. There are big differences in income and education levels. But they have one common trait – they are younger than other places.
In both of those county types roughly 50% of the population is under 34 years of age – it's actually slightly more than 50% in Immigration Nation. In most of the county types that figure is 45% or less. And both Campus and Careers and Immigration Nation counties have fewer people over 65, about 11%. Nationally that figure is 13%.
What does that mean? It indicates that while there are a variety of factors that go into people's attitudes on global warming, age is profoundly important. In reporting in Campus communities in particular, Politics Counts has found environmentalism is held out as one issue where most all students agree. Liberal and conservative. Democrat and Republican.
If those young people hold on to those beliefs as they age, it has big implications for the global-warming debate in the coming years. As pollsters like to say, the numbers above represent a "snapshot in time." While the divide in the chart above is stark, it may not always be.
That doesn't mean the Democrat/Republican divide on global warming is going to disappear. And it doesn't mean places like Ronan and Ann Arbor will ever be the same. But over time, attitudes amongst all kinds of voters in all kinds of places may move closer together – and closer to Mr. Obama's position.


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Topic: Planting my bulbs
We planted tons of daffadils and tulips at our summer house last week. Then, I went into the store and saw PINK, yes pink daffadils. Of course I needed them, so now I have 54 more bulbs to plant. I wish I would have known about them earlier. I would not have gotten so many white ones. When I googled them, I found out there were also peach ones so now I am on the lookout for them too. How many daffadil and tulips are too many?
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1) How the byfuglien are the Byfuglien-less Blackhawks where they are? … and how did they lose nine in a row? … Not that they were great in this game. They sure weren't. They got a bunch of gifts in the first period, the benefit of some calls, a quick whistle, a ridiculous new rule that allows an offending team to choose whether it will face a four-minute 5-on-4 or a two-minute 5-on-3 Still, they sure have a bunch of talent and some grinders. Kind of like the Philly predicament, I guess.
2) How the bryzgalov do you give the offending team that choice when it takes two minors on the same play? The team that was fouled should make the call — 5-on-3 for two minutes, or 5-on-4 for four, right? I think the Rangers would have taken the 5-on-3, and would have had a chance to get one and maybe get back into the game. This new rule makes absolutely zero sense to me, that the team that committed the penalties can choose the situation that most benefits that team. But a lot of stuff the NHL comes up with makes zero sense to me. I should be used to it. It's ludicrous and I don't mean the rapper. The Rangers sure made the Blackhawks pay on the power play, didn't they? Probably the easiest four minutes Chicago has faced this season.
3) I agree with John Tortorella (again) that this isn't solely on Martin Biron. He wasn't good, and his five-hole has been big enough for Brad Marchand's nose lately. But, come on. Penalty shot, breakaway, screen shot, breakaway. Hard to say it's all on the goalie. And though Tortorella said he never considered pulling him because he deserved to fight it out, it also would have made no sense for Henrik Lundqvist to come cold into a game in which the Rangers were playing defensively as they were.
4) I didn't get a good look at the Brandon Dubinsky elbow, so I have no idea if he made contact with the head, and thus no idea if it will be reviewed? Oh, right, Brendan Shanahan and the alleged Department of Player Safety have already legalized elbows to the head. Or maybe Dubinsky elbowed the guy's stick and his stick hit his head.
5) You talk about the Rangers being entitled to have one of these once in a while after, remarkably, losing just 13 times in the first 55 games, and they sure are. But even more so, Dan Girardi and Ryan McDonagh, for all the hard minutes they play against all the top players, have to be forgiven for one like this. Boy, were they bad. At least they got a night where their minutes didn't pile up, for what that's worth.
6) I imagine all those scouts in the building went away thinking, um, geez, do we really want to trade a good player for some of these guys?
7) That John Scott, 6-8, 270-pound enforcer=Godzilla.
8) Now about some of the calls … first, the penalty shot. I am not sure Girardi ever actually covered the puck in the crease. It looked to me that he put his hand on it and swept it just outside the crease. He might have covered it, and it might have been in the crease. But I can't say he did for certain.
9) Second, the waved-off, quick whistle goal. I didn't have a problem at all with that call. Corey Crawford's skate had the puck pinned on the goal line for quite some time. At what point do you blow it dead when a goalie has control of the puck? I thought he had it long enough for a whistle to blow, and the whistle absolutely did blow before Ryan Callahan's sixth-effort knocked it in. If you want to complain, complain that the ref who blew the whistle was coming around from the other side and probably couldn't have seen what we saw on the replay and maybe shouldn't have blown the whistle. And complain if he really said he lost sight of it, or if he said he saw it under the goalie's pad.
10) What would the score have been with Rick Nash and Pavel Kubina? I don't think Kubina's coming here. The Rangers really don't want to give up assets to get a fifth or sixth defenseman who might not be as good as Bryan McCabe on the power play. Plus is sounds like Kubina is being dealt soon, and I don't think the Rangers have anything imminent. I could be wrong (again).
11) There was a lot of red in the building. To be expected with Chicago and an Original Six. And I didn't mind it, because that red classic Blackhawks jersey (0r Black Hawks) is awesome. I was talking to a guy with an old-school Bobby Hull No. 9 jersey, and was on the train with a Chelios No. 7, complete with the "C." I think Bobby Hull's mother used to take Bobby and Dennis by the hand to see Chelios play.
12) I thought we might have a Bickel vs. Bickell fight. Dammit.
13) Really, really nice standing ovation for Gary Carter when they announced his passing during a TV timeout. I got to know the Kid a little bit, actually had the opportunity to have lunch with him a few years ago. I know, people say he had an ego and liked the attention. But he played the game the right way, the way all pro athletes should play — all-0ut, 100 percent, and with joy. And another thing. He started the Game 6 rally in '86, when some of his teammates were in the clubhouse getting undressed.
My Three Rangers Stars:
1) Carl Hagelin.
2) Marc Staal.
3) Steve Eminger.
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In September, we'll be displaying art that calls attention to the role of science, math, and technology in the creation of art.
Everyone is welcome to submit works for consideration. Submissions are due on Friday, June 27, 2014.
See Exhibit Information and Submission Guidelines (pdf)
We're looking for:
- Works that in some way speak to the impact of technology on our lives or depict the relationship/juxtaposition of technology and art
- Works in which science/technology/math were utilized to create the work, such as:
- the use of perspective in a painting
- the chemistry of pigments or dyes
- the geometry of quilting
- the many ways in which technology may be used to enhance, distort, layer, and modify images
We will consider ceramics, glass, metal painting, photography, wood, drawing, textiles, paper art, other media. Sculptures will be considered, but due to the limited space and security, we ask that artists proposing works of sculpture meet with the Library Director prior to submission to ensure the feasibility of the piece.
The show will be on exhibit in the library from September 1 – 30, 2014.
An Opening/Program will be held on Sunday, September 7 at 2:00 p.m. As part of the opening, we are looking for 2-4 artists who would be willing to participate in a panel discussion about how science and technology have influenced or enabled their artistic work. Interested artists can contact Meagan Parker, Programming and Outreach Librarian.
For questions about the "Year of Discovery – Science, Technology, and ART" exhibit, please contact Ashley Rooney.


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Saving money and becoming more efficient is every company's goal — important to its survival, especially in the current economic scope. Binary Office has been helping its customers achieve those goals since 2000.
Binary Office provides automated software to its customers in addition to the technological set up and transition to eliminate the lengthy manual tasks of data entry, invoice payment or searching for a file through mounds of paper work. It has helped businesses, government agencies, legal firms and a health care clinic save hundreds of thousands of dollars.
John Bergquist, vice president of sales & marketing of Binary Office, looks for three things when applying the Binary Office services to a company. One, does the office have a lot of paper files that can be scanned for storage or retrieval? Two, is there a need to route paper around the office to get a task done that can be scanned and electronically routed and approved? Lastly, is a lot of data entered manually by workers that can instead be scanned using the automated input software?
Binary Office Saves Time And Money
Bergquist has incredible accounts of what Binary Office has achieved since its establishment.
"[When using] the automated capture software, we typically see a labor savings of 80 percent," Bergquist says. "If somebody has 10 data entry clerks keying in data manually from invoices, it's a very labor intensive process and is just a pure expense with no revenue generation. We could reduce that to two or three data entry clerks, and most times our customers don't wish to reduce staff but handle planned growth without adding additional staff."
One of the first contracts for Binary Office was automating the credit applications for one of the major banks, and aside from the the manual entry and labor savings was the savings from the exorbitant overnight costs.
"The bank was overnighting the applications from the field to the home office on a regular basis," Bergquist says. "The savings alone when not having to overnight the paper applications was about, if I remember right, $80,000 a month."
But the savings doesn't always have to be purely financial; Binary Office also participated in automating all the individual income tax form processing out of the state of North Dakota. Tax season is time crunched as is, so any way to cut corners on time is desperately needed.
"In their case, they had to hire an army of part-time workers; [Binary Office] eliminated the need to hire so many part-timers and, at the same time, cut the time in the back log of tax return processing," Bergquist says. "The average time was 10 to 12 days; we cut that down to two hours in terms of processing time."
Binary Office has undertaken new projects and is excited about utilizing new software to save companies more money and time.
The current excitement for Bergquist is the application of EMC's "Kazeon" eDiscovery software for legal customers. It can cost a law firm or a company's legal department approximately $1.5 million for every case to take the time to find the files pertinent to a matter and send out all the paper documents and files to an outside service to perform the legal review process, Bergquist says. Bringing eDiscovery software in-house to automate parts of the legal review process can wipe these recurring costs away.
It can be difficult to find copies of files even if they are stored electronically. The problem is that the files can be stored in different places and multiple times, such as in emails, personal desktop computers and laptop computers.
"There is no search engine either in IT or a legal office that lets you search all these different repositories, but eDiscovery has the Google-type search interface to look across all areas no matter where it's stored, whether it is in an email, in a Microsoft exchange server or Microsoft SharePoint, as well as desktop computers and laptops," Bergquist says. "In the case of eDiscovery software, the cost of the software can range anywhere from $150,000 to $400,000, which is 30 percent of the cost of sending it all out and having it done."
Binary Office is unique in the service it provides, in addition to the software product it sells.
Mollen Immunization Clinic administers flu shots every season and the numbers for this fall season are expected to double. For every flu shot administered, a number of forms must be filled out by the recipient, including a consent form and an insurance form. The insurance forms need to be processed in a short amount of time if the insurance is to be involved in the payment process.
"Binary Office stepped in, took over the project and became the internal IT resource both working on-site and off-site," Bergqist says. "During the months of August and September, we had only a two-month period where we had to get all the changes ready, changes to the forms, changes to the process and ramp up the system to accommodate the influx of forms."
These success stories are Bergquist's favorite part of working for Binary Office.
"My favorite aspect is to look at a company's manual processes and the high cost that they are struggling with and the slow nature of those manual processes, and being able to virtually eliminate the slowness and the cost in one fell swoop by simply using our software," Bergquist says.


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Mavericks owner Mark Cuban speaking Monday at UF
Published: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 4:47 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 4:47 p.m.
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has never been shy about expressing his opinion, something that University of Florida students will be able to see firsthand next week.
Cuban will be speaking Monday at 8 p.m. at UF's Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. The student-run ACCENT speaker's bureau is sponsoring the event, which will include a question-and-answer session.
"We wanted someone from the business community who also appealed to young people," said Josh Holtzman, chairman of ACCENT.
Cuban is being paid $43,000 for the event, according to Holtzman. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. They will be available from the Phillips Center box office starting an hour before the event.
Cuban was an owner of Broadcast.com when it sold for $5.7 billion during the dot-com boom. He went on to buy the Mavericks as well as Landmark Theaters, film distributor Magnolia Pictures and other businesses.
He's known for being outspoken in interviews and through his blog and Twitter account. He's also written an e-book and is part of the reality TV show "Shark Tank."
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Oh, hi there! I do still exist, after all.
I've been digging out from under a pile of unfinished projects around the house and resume re-tooling/networking/hustling, but here I am. And my creative juices are flowing again!
Long story short, I've left my job (all good feelings, but it was time) and am looking for something new, this time back in the legal world. I know! So crazy.
But, I know why we're all here: Let's talk food. And, more specifically, cheese. A couple of weeks ago, I received an invitation, as I sometimes do, for a cheese tasting. A French cheese tasting. With four different producers, all eager to share their wares with me and talk about how they produce the best cheeses in the world. I thought, why on earth not? It's time to jump back in, and there's nothing like some amazing cheese and the people who love it to inspire me. So, I said yes. And thus began the great renaissance of my cooking and blogging mojo (or so I hope!).
I walked in at 11:30, and was promptly offered a glass of red wine. Now, I don't normally drink that early in the morning, but who am I to reject such hospitality? I mean, when in France (or at least, when among French cheese producers)…
So, I had some wine, and I sampled some amazing cheeses, and I met a group of the nicest European foodies you could ever hope to meet, one of whom was considering a move to Austin (I gave him some good restaurant tips). And then I came away with literally pounds of amazingly good French cheese and butter to experiment with. Nothing like that for inspiration! Everyone was so excited about my haul — the kids dug into the Mimolette Vieille from Isigny Ste Mère first, eating it by the chunk. Likely they were attracted by the cheese's bright orange color (imparted with annatto, I'm told), but they loved the nutty flavor and kept coming back for more. They know good cheese, my girls!
I had more brie than anything else, so that's where I started. I made an impromptu brie omelette for the kiddos that very evening, using farm-fresh eggs, a little cream, a pinch of salt, a hearty dollop of unsalted butter from Isigny Ste Mère for the pan, and a few generous slices of Brie L'Indulgent (a triple-cream brie) from President.
Simple is best, especially when you're working with quality ingredients. I did sneak* a couple of small bites and the omelette was melt-in-your mouth amazing. Turns out I have some retained skills with a spatula!
*Okay, I straight-up stole them. Je ne regrette rein.
The next night, I had a little more time to plan, but I still needed something that would come together quickly, since Amelia has swim class on Wednesday evening, and we would need to eat directly after that. Pasta with Brie and Tomatoes did the trick, and it was a hit all around.
It's a bit rich to call this a recipe, as it really is just some stuff I threw together to make a quick meal, but it was so good that I will definitely make it again! Plus, it includes my new favorite secret weapon for spicing up a meal without much effort: dried shallots.** Think of it as a template.
**So versatile! Add them to salad dressings, sauces, etc. for a pop of flavor. I get mine from Penzeys, and make sure to always have them on hand.
- 8 oz pasta (preferably short pasta with texture to grab the sauce; I used casarecce)
- 4 oz Brie, rind removed, cut into slices bite-size chunks
- 1 cup cherry or grape tomatoes, halved or quartered (depending on size)
- 1 tsp dried shallots
- pinch salt
- Cook the pasta in generously salted water, according to package directions, until al dente. Drain, reserving ¼ cup of the pasta water.
- Pour the hot pasta directly into a heavy, heat-proof bowl, and add the Brie, tomatoes, shallots and salt. Add a splash of pasta water and cover the bowl with a plate or lid to retain the heat. Let it sit for a few minutes so the cheese becomes nice and melty.
- Remove the plate or lid and give the pasta a good stir, so that the melted Brie thoroughly coats the pasta and the tomatoes are divided evenly, adding another splash of pasta water if needed. Adjust seasoning and add a nice crank of pepper (that is, if your kids don't object to such things as strenuously as my oldest does these days.
- Serve immediately with a nice salad. Voila le dîner!
Stay tuned for more cheesy deliciousness, as I work my way through all these goodies!


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>Health and Nutrition>Failed cholesterol and triglycerides numbers
A voice of reason:
Your numbers really don't look that bad. Most of the chatter about cholesterol is about one thing; get as many people on statin drugs to make as much money for Big Pharma as possible, without too many people dropping dead (dead people don't generate obscene profits).
Several years ago, my numbers got real bad. Triglycerides in the low 700s, total cholesterol above 300, HDL about 35. My doctor hounded me to go on statins, but refused to run a full thyroid panel (had symptoms pointing towards hypothyroidism for about 20 years). Finally I got diagnosed and treated for my hypothyroidism and and my numbers are now triglycerides below 300, cholesterol less than 230 and I'm happy.
This is what I've learned in my quest for regain my health.
First: cholesterol isn't the boogeyman it's been made out to be. Think about it for a moment....cholesterol is needed by the body to build/rebuild the cells of your body (think of it as the concrete of our bodies. It's also the building blocks that our glands (including the skin) synthesize hormones The body conserves cholesterol. The liver actively recycles cholesterol.
Triglycerides are a serious problem above 230. Triglycerides 230 and below is fine for the most part.
The real culprit is oxidative stress, especially of the arterial walls. Collagen is the rebar of our cells. As rebar makes concrete stronger and more flexible, collagen reenforces the walls of our cells, and this includes the arterial walls. Vitamin C is necessary for the body to synthesize collagen, and is also a powerful antioxidant. Oxidative stress can deplete our bodies levels of vitamin c to the point our bodies can no longer synthesize sufficient collagen, the arterial walls become weakened, and they body must keep the walls reenforced, but without sufficient collagen, it must resort to other means. So, what to do? eliminate as much oxidative stress, insure a sufficient intake of vitamin C (>=3 grams/day) and other antioxidants.
Since cholesterol is the basic building block of our bodies, than the body must transport cholesterol to the site it is trying to repair/rebuild itself (elevated serum cholesterol), so anytime you have torn down your body (like interval training, strength and endurance training) you tear down muscles induce inflammation, both of which increases the bodies need for cholesterol at those sites.
Having your cholesterol levels down where the pushers of statin drugs want will increase, not decrease your risk of cardiac disease, cancer, autoimmune disease, and a plethora of unhealthy (but profitable to Big Pharma) conditions. The medical establishment is all about disease management, not health care. Disease is much more profitable than health. If you are sick you need a doctor to manage your disease and poison pills to manage your symptoms. Health and cures are very unprofitable.
The last race I was able to run was the Carlsbad 5000 in 2003 and it felt like I was dragging an anchor the whole 5K. I had to quit running shortly after altogether shortly after that. I am now off of all the psychiatric drugs (usual response of doctors to women complaining of thyroid symptoms that do not fit into THEIR idea of a thyroid condition are antidepressants and antianxiety drugs (both very profitable to Big Pharma). I have worked my way up to walking 25 to 30 miles per week (third week at this distance) and starting walk/run/walk intervals. Today I've racked up my first sub 15 minute/miles in a long time. My goal is sub 10 minute/mile and a sub 30 minute 5K.
What am I saying? Your doctor is right. Work on improving your overall health. Manage your exposure to oxidative stress. Keep your vitamin C intake well above 3 grams/day. Remember the RDA is set to prevent overt disease states not maintain optimum health. Your cat/dog's liver, when healthy will synthesis the body mass equivalent to 10 grams/day of vitamin C (grams, not milligrams) in a healthy human. The key is healthy.
12 Monkeys
A voice of reason:
Your numbers really don't look that bad. Most of the chatter about cholesterol is about one thing; get as many people on statin drugs to make as much money for Big Pharma as possible, without too many people dropping dead (dead people don't generate obscene profits).
How is this a voice of reason?
And at whom are you rolling your eyes?
And gosh, I thought the reason we address high cholesterol is because it is associated with disease and death.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
no, mostly just to fatten the coffers of Big Pharma. It can be indicative of conditions that need to be addressed. A hint is the liver and pancreas controls cholesterol and triglycerides. High triglycerides, above 230 is much more serious than cholesterol above 200. Hypothyroidism can cause high to very high triglyceride levels and high cholesterol levels, such as my case. Metabolic Syndrome can produce high triglycerides, look for a high fructose intake (excessive of fruits, high intake of fruit juices, consumption of sodas and sport drinks loaded with sugar, (look for high fructose corn sugar as the main sweetening ingredient), abnormal liver function, high alcohol intake (fructose and ethanol have similar metabolic chains).
Study sources other than just sickcare system.
Do you have evidence to support these assertions?
Hey, Spaniel, where's that popcorn eating picture you got? May I borrow it for a day or two?
MTA: found it
2017 Goals:
#1: Do what I can do (200+ training days, 200+ aerobic hours).
#2: Race shape (1/2 marathon, 2 half Ironmans, marathon)
#3: Prepare for 2018
Feeling the growl again
A voice of reason:
What am I saying? Your doctor is right. Work on improving your overall health.
What am I saying? Your doctor is right. Work on improving your overall health.
I agree that one should eat well, get plenty of exercise, control their weight, and maintain their health so that there is much less likelihood that they will develop conditions that require medication to control.
However, most of what you wrote is far from reason and closer to internet legend conspiracy theory. Reason is based on logical deduction from facts and data. Trent asked for facts and data to support your assertions, and so far I have seen none.
BTW, most of the antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, and statins prescribed today are now generic. Evil Big Pharma isn't making anything off them...that's been the case for years, for a lot of them.
"If you want to be a bad a$s, then do what a bad a$s does. There's your pep talk for today. Go Run." -- Slo_Hand
I am spaniel - Crusher of Treadmills
What I have written is based on about six years of research, not all internet. I am not afraid of the so called heretics who speak out against the Oracles of the Medical Deities, what you call internet conspiracies...
Cholesterol Is Not The Culprit:
Oxidative Stress and CHD:
Vitamin C and CHD:
Vitamin K and CHD:
Conflict Of Interest:
This is really bogging my computer down.
You linked Dr Mercola and Dr Hyman.
Oh dear.
Imminent Catastrophe
You linked Dr Mercola and Dr Hyman.
Oh dear.
Or, Dr. Crapola as I prefer to call him.
"Able to function despite imminent catastrophe"
"To obtain the air that angels breathe you must come to Tahoe"--Mark Twain
"The most common question from potential entrants is 'I do not know if I can do this' to which I usually answer, 'that's the whole point'.--Paul Charteris, Tarawera Ultramarathon RD.
√ Javelina Jundred Jalloween 2015
Cruel Jewel 50 mile May 2016
Western States 100 June 2016
To be clear, when I asked for evidence, I was asking for reports of primary research. Not random internet opinion.
Start here.
This is really bogging my computer down.
Yah, junk websites will do that...
What I have written is based on about six years of research, not all internet. I am not afraid of the so called heretics who speak out against the Oracles of the Medical Deities, what you call internet conspiracies...
Virtually everything you linked is random internet junk, not actual data and facts, ie research. I am not convinced by slanted, non-peer-reviewed internet opinions.
You can support anything you want to by pulling random opinions off the internet.
Hey look, I KNEW we never landed on the moon...now here is the proof!
Flying Monkeys exist too.
Flying Monkeys exist too.
There are crazies out there in the interwebs.
Well at least someone here is making relevance to the subject. - S.J.
Ok, so I have seen enough references to Flying animal events on RA that my ignorance is killing me. I gathered that this is a tough event, but what else is so special about it? I'm sorry if this is a stupid question to all the veterans here, but it took me a long long time to even figure out why "BQ" is "special" when I started lurking around RA, so I'm dumb as a brick...


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Hey guys,
I am using an Elegant Theme which has a slider on the home page. By default, the slider uses featured images, but I would like one of the slides to have an embedded youtube video instead.
I have tried the theme support forums, but it looks like this feature is not supported.
Anyway, I am trying to soldier through. Here is the website:
Can someone give me an idea of what the initial steps would be, or will this be kind of a nightmare? Thanks
I just tried an experiment in Chrome of replace the  element in your slider with a YouTube embedded video, and it worked perfectly.
Here was the image code:
<img width="406" height="226" src="http://www.yourvancouvermortgagebroker.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Vancouver-Mortgage-Broker-406x226.jpg" class="thumb wp-post-image" alt="Vancouver Mortgage Broker Photos" title="Vancouver Mortgage Broker Photos">
and I just replaced it with embed code from YouTube:

The only change I made to the code was the dimensions of the video, to match those of the image it replaced.
I'm not sure how you insert this via WP, but hopefully you can just place the embed code where you would place the image. (If it's a big problem, just get a better CMS. :rolleyes: )
You can grad the embed code for videos on YouTube by clicking the Share button under a vid and then Embed.
Thanks for the tip. Will be a little tricky with WP since it's all done with PHP but I will replace that one area in the index.php with basic HTML. Thanks
can u suggest me how to select an image or video from the post, because i use video in few posts only
It's not really clear what you are asking here. Anyhow, start a new thread, with as much info as possible.


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Topic: MY !ST CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN - Merry Christmas To You ALL
It's that time of year for my "special Christmas" poem. Teddy & I send to all of you wishes for a Very Merry Christmas & Healthier New Year!
I see the countless Christmas trees around the world below,
With tiny lights like Heaven's stars reflecting in the snow.
The sight is so spectacular please wipe away the tear,
For I am spending Christmas up with our God this year.
I hear the many Christmas songs that people hold so dear,
But the sound of music can't compare with the Christmas choir up here.
I have no words to tell you the joy their voices bring,
For it's beyond description to hear the angels sing.
I know how much you miss me, I see the pain inside your heart,
But I am not so far away, we really aren't apart.
So, be happy for me dear ones you know I hold you near,
And be glad I'm spending Christmas up with God this year.
I sent you each a special gift from my heavenly home above,
I sent you each a memory of my undying love.
After all love is a gift more precious than pure gold,
It was always most important in the stories that have been told.
Please love and keep each other as we've been taught to do,
I can't count the blessings of love God has for each of you.
So have a Merry Christmas and wipe away that tear,
Remember I am spending Christmas with our God this year.


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The Senate has passed the Broadband Data Improvement Act, a bill that unlike many others should do exactly what its title says.
The quality of data the government collects on broadband service has long been derided as insufficient, which is problematic because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) often makes policy determinations based on it.
For example, the Commission currently defines broadband as any service operating at transmission rates as low as 200 kbps, a rate far lower than what the industry and consumers consider qualifies as broadband.
Also, the agency assumes that if a single person in a zip code receives service from any given broadband supplier, then all residents of that zip could, an assumption frequently proven untrue.
The new bill will lead to the development of better metrics and more accurate data.
The House of Representatives passed a similar bill last year. The House and Senate bills contain a few dissimilarities and will still have to be squared before the measures contained in either or both become law.
NCTA President and CEO Kyle McSlarrow said: "We applaud the Congress for approving this important legislation, which will enable policymakers to have a much clearer picture about the state of broadband in America. Improved data about the availability and speed of all broadband offerings will help accomplish the important goal of universal broadband for all Americans. As the largest broadband provider in America, our industry will continue to support efforts designed to spur broadband adoption and access in those areas where it currently doesn't exist."
More Broadband Direct:
• Senate passes broadband data bill
• Charter moves on debt; a director resigns
• AT&T broadens rollout of whole-home DVR service
• Study: Customers would rather get bundle from telecoms
• Report: Europe seeing strongest broadband growth
• Motorola to demo new products at WiMAX World
• Research: Online video viewing has doubled in past year
• Notebook PCs go mobile broadband
• 1st phase of Trans-Pacific Express cable system ready to go
• Survey: Urgent need for common information models


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Just did a little update:
New zine in the catalogue – The Plural of Deer is Deer. And coming soon – Fergus #24 + 25, Sex Industry Apologist (still waiting to have the price confirmed on the latter).
Hello to our comrades at the Sticky Institute and all who are down in Melbourne to celebrate the I Am Typewriter festival. We couldn't go, obviously, mainly because Emma has a show on at the moment (read about it here). But we will be having a stall on the 20th of February at Stucco (or in the park across the street if it's a nice day), as part of the Anarchist Summer School. I'm assuming that you don't have to identify as an anarchist to attend, so bring yourselves and your zines!
Anarchist Summer School Zine Fair
197-207 Wilson St, Newtown (Stucco)
3:30-6 or later, Sunday 20th Feb
BYO picnic blanket/table/zine hocking facilities
In other news, we finished making our first little newsletter zine, the Take Care Zine Distro Zine (explanation for laborious title included within). Here's what it looks like:
If you have ever ordered from us or stocked your zine with us you should expect to see one in your letter box soon. If you don't receive one it means that for some reason we haven't got your address on file, so drop us a line and we'll fix you up. Otherwise they will be inserted into every order we receive from now on. Aiming to make this a bi-yearly, possibly quarterly thing, let's see how we go.


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How can we work together to promote better cultural understanding worldwide?
Qais Akbar Omar (GRS'16), a graduate student in the Creative Writing Program, has published a much-praised memoir, A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story. He recalls how the violence and tumult of civil war jolted his family, who, despite losing relatives, their home, and possessions, continued to nurture his wish to attend a university.
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My travels this summer took me to Israel to attend the inaugural Jerusalem Deans' Workshop on "The University as a Neighbor" at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. There I met with deans and faculty from Hebrew University and with public officials, including the President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, and the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat. […] Read More
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Dr, Donald Earl Cowing, Sr. - Obituary
11/20/2003 — Dresden, Maine
DRESDEN -- Dr. Donald Earl Cowing, 76, died Thursday, Nov. 20, 2003, at MaineGeneral Rehabilitation, Gray Birch, in Augusta.
He was born July 9, 1927, in Mount Clemens, Mich., the son of Earl Bixby Cowing of Meredith, N.H., and Elsie Viola Woodward Cowing of Dresden, and attended public schools in Roseville, Mich.
He received his undergraduate degree from Wayne State University in 1951, his master's in clinical psychology from Wayne State University in 1959, and an educational doctorate in special education from Wayne State University in 1968.
Discharged from the Navy as a combat veteran following World War II, he served for many years in the Air Force Reserve before retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He subsequently served for many years as a staff sergeant with the Maine National Guard in Bangor.
Dr. Cowing was a teacher, school psychologist and special education administrator in suburban Detroit school systems, and he served as an adjunct faculty member at several Michigan colleges before going to Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., to establish a graduate program in special education in the late 1960s. He was a faculty member of Bowdoin College in the early 1970s, after which he worked for U.S. Veterans Affairs at Togus as a psychologist at the Medical Surgical Hospital, a position he held until he retired.
He enjoyed spending time at his camp on China Lake and was an accomplished woodworker. Those who knew him understood that his greatest enjoyment came from time spent with friends and family, especially his grandchildren, and maintaining and living in his ancestral home in Dresden. He held memberships in the American Legion and the Masonic Lodge in Dresden; and he was a member of St. Philips Church in Wiscasset as well as numerous professional organizations.
He was married to Betty Lou Boughton in 1948, and they raised a family of five children. In 1978 he married Betty Mayo of Oakland. In addition to his wife and stepson, Chris Mayo of Sidney, survivors include his sons, Donald Cowing Jr. and his wife, Karren, of Georgetown, David and his wife, Judith Stafford, of Woolwich, and Daniel of Dresden; as well as daughters Pamela Cowing Freeman and her husband, Woody, of Wiscasset, and Beth Cowing Sawyer and her husband, John, of Topsham; and his nephew, Tim Cowing and wife, Kristen, who lived with him in Dresden. He is also survived by a dozen grandchildren and his two brothers and their wives, Kendall and Della Cowing of Charlotte, N.C., and Joe and Donna Cowing of Dresden; his nephew, Joe Woodward Cowing and his wife, Kelley who also reside in Dresden, Maine, as well as a large extended family that summers in Dresden.
A memorial service will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 29, at St. Philips Church, Wiscasset.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to St. Philips Church. Funds received will be used to assist families in need in the local community as a memorial to Dr. Cowing's generous spirit and lifelong commitment to helping others.
Arrangements are under the care of Staples Funeral Home, 53 Brunswick Ave., Gardiner.


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Vendor Cards: XFX GeForce 7800 GTX Overclockedby Josh Venning on 8/16/2005 12:05 AM EST
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VideoQuasar - Monday, August 22, 2005 - linkI must have missed the SPECViewperf 8.1 test portion, or the Cinebench 2003. Are those on hidden pages along with the PureVideo aspects of the card?
These 7800 cards might compete with a mid-range Quadro or Fire card...but I don't know do I !
The reviwers seem to be more interested in which cards come with a BF2 bundle,When you buy 2 for SLI....you can load both...WOW. Reply
walkure - Friday, August 26, 2005 - linkYou people complaining about "yet another review" are idiots. If you don't wanna read it, don't click it!!!
I had not read a single review of any of the cards up to right now. I came to the site looking for one, and I found it. Thank you AT.
I did want to see some comparisons to last generation's cards, like the 6800 Ultra, X800, etc, but I suppose that's found in another article... Reply
bonhimself - Thursday, August 18, 2005 - linkOkay this might sound stupid, but are the tests here in SLi or just a single card? I want to be sure of performance because I'm thinking of getting one of these 7800's Reply
bob661 - Friday, August 19, 2005 - link
Okay this might sound stupid
Both. Reply
Quiksel - Thursday, August 18, 2005 - linkI'm glad I'm not the only one bitchin about these articles. I almost fell out of my chair when I saw YET ANOTHER 7800GTX REVIEW on AT.
Jarred, I know you've been trying to defend the rationale behind so many reviews of the same tech, but SERIOUSLY, this is ridiculous. I want to believe that you guys aren't just trying to milk the readers for more page hits, but I'm really starting to worry. I'm a big fan of AT, and this kind of stuff is just getting out of hand, IMO.
Please, no more 7800GTX Reviews. For the love of God, please. Reply
PrinceGaz - Thursday, August 18, 2005 - linkYeah, I think most AT readers now believe this "lets review every 7800GTX card we get our hands on" individually approach is ludicrous. There's so little difference between most of them, and the differences found in overclocking even with the few (one so far) that hasn't been a reference design, are almost certainly down to random variations in the individual core and memory chips. Actually overclocking tests with samples sent from manufacturers are always suspect, and you should always rely on what are reported in the forums from people who have bought the cards to get a good idea on how well they overclock. I agree with the idea of AT overclocking the cards to find how far they go, but that is really only a minor point of the review.
For all intents and purposes, all the 7800GTX cards you review are identical, unless they have a quieter fan, or a large heatsink that takes up extra slots which would deserve mention for that reason. The game bundle may differ and you might mention that, or what dongles and cables are included, but that's about all that matters and it certainly doesn't warrant a seperate review for every card.
With all these 7800GTX reviews, I seem to have missed AT's review of an X800GT card which will be of more interest to far more readers. I'm sure I'm not alone in wishing you would call a halt to these ongoing 7800GTX reviews that only a tiny minority of your readers will buy, and instead look at more mainstream products and how they impact that market sector. AT is becoming more elitist by the day, what with concentrating only on the very top gfx-cards, CPUs, memory, etc, and will lose its readers if it continues down this path. Reply
Trap - Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - linkhttp://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant....">http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant...e=190377... Reply
DerekWilson - Wednesday, August 17, 2005 - linkThis is not the Overclocked version of the card. Reply
HardwareD00d - Wednesday, August 17, 2005 - linkactually, it is overclocked:
Memory clock: 1.25 MHz (vs. 1.2MHz Standard)
Engine clock: 450 MHz (vs. 430MHz Standard)
but not as much as the version in the review. Still, seems to be a damn good deal considering the card is being scalped for close to $600 at many places. Reply
Igi - Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - linkThis and previous reviews of 7800GTX cards were extremely superficial. After reading the last review many questions still remain unanswered. We all know that we won't see miracles if all the cards use GPUs clocked at similar frequencies. In other words, I don't care if one card is 2 fps faster than the other in Doom3 at 1600x1200, what I'm interested in are features, for example:
- What is the max DVI resolution for both DVI slots?
- Can I drive two Dell 2405FPW LCDs with a single 7800GTX at 1920x1200@60Hz? I had a bad experience in the past with nVidia cards, where max. resolution on primary DVI was limited to 1600x1200. Only the secondary DVI, connected via silicon image TDMS transceiver was able to drive 2405 panel at 1920x1200.
- Can I drive 30" Apple cinema Display at 2560x1600? In other words, is there any 7800GTX card available with a dual-link DVI slot? I know that so far only some quadro cards are able to drive hi-res displays.
- I don't remember TV-OUT was tested in any review. What is the max TV-OUT resolution 720p, 1080i?
- Which inputs are present on the card? S-Video, Composite?
- Can I downclock the GPU to let's say 200MHz or even lower to achieve silent operation during normal work?
Leper Messiah - Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - linkIIRC, all the 7800GTX's are Dual link DVI, it says that in one of the reviews, the eVGA, i believe. Secondly, why the fvck would you bother buying a $500+ card to downclock it so it performs like shite. :confused; Methinks you're nitpicking. Reply
Igi - Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - linkYou are right. There is a statement in MSI NX7800GTX review that all 7800 cards have one dual-link DVI port. I missed this one, my apologies. I would still like to know if dual-link DVI port is a primary or secondary port. This is important in a multi-monitor setup.
I don't think I'm nitpicking. I simply don't want to listen to the noisy fans (38-40dB is still too noisy for me) while I'm browsing the net, writing e-mails, developing apps… What I'm actually asking, is there any "cool and quiet" technology inside G70 that works in a similar way as the A64 C&Q. In other words, is there any option I can set in drivers which will allow me to lower GPU clock while working in 2D (regular windows apps) and increase it to max during 3D game play?
Fluppeteer - Wednesday, August 17, 2005 - linkDerek has already said that they're planning to do a test of the dual link support - which (with a T221) I'd like to see. Ideally I'd like to see something like
...updated for the 7800 (I need a single link port able to get near 165MHz too).
In order for the outputs to be DVI compliant, they *should* be capable of at least single link 165MHz, AFAIK. However, as Tom's Hardware reported, this may not actually be the case if you're driving something needing near the transmission speed limit like a 2405. You might do better with Powerstrip and/or a shorter cable, but if the on-board TMDS transmitter isn't improved then you're right to worry, and it'll be only the dual-link output which can do full single-link speed. (I've had similar problems with the single-link side of my T221, due to the on-board TMDS, and others have struggled even with Quadros which use non SiI parts for one output.) It'd be nice if nVidia realised they had a problem with this - or even if a board manufacturer would give up, and just use SiI parts for all the outputs. If you're thinking of a 30" ACD + a 2405, I'd make sure you can return things if it doesn't work.
The "you need a Quadro" party line which nVidia have re. the 30" ACD isn't very helpful. Quadro 3400, 4000 and (I believe) 4400s only use SiI TMDS transmitters (an 1178) on one of their heads, and use internal transmitters for the other outputs, which aren't always up to snuff - although I'm not sure how near the dual link limit the ACD runs its timings. The Quadro 3000 and 2000 use external SiI parts exclusively, but are obviously slower cards. Allegedly the PNY AGP version of the 6600GT is dual-dual-link capable (although since it doesn't have external TMDS transmitters I've not understood how); the MSI 6800GTo (used as a Dell OEM part) also has one dual-link transmitter (it's effectively a Quadro 3400, AFAICT). There's also a discontinued Asus V9999GE which is dual link (one head, +analogue, using the internal transmitters), and the 512MB 6800Ultra cards which I'm told have one dual-link output.
There's always a choice of other workstation cards, if you don't mind a reduction in gaming performance - there are a few FireGL models (X800 series equivalents) with dual link outputs, and the Realizm 200 and 800 have SiI-based dual-dual link.
Speaking of high resolutions, I'd love to know whether nVidia have fixed their SLi issues with the 30" ACD now the 7800 is out. There's an interesting article at:
...regarding card performance at "ultra high" (2048x1536) resolutions, which reports that the buffer sizes on the G70 were increased so that it doesn't run out of steam at 1600x1200. I'd like to see benchmarks run at 2560x1600 resolution to see how it degrades (or, ideally, at 3840x2400 so I don't have to extrapolate) - and find out whether SLi SFR mode helps (if they've fixed it).
I presume, by the way, that the 7800GTX's outputs don't have HDCP enabled. Not that it matters if you just want to output to an analogue HDTV, but it's a bit of an issue if you have any plans for high def media output in the future (if only when Vista appears). Can anyone confirm?
Regarding silent operation, have you considered a water block? The cooling on my current (6800GTo setup) is an issue mostly because I have a small hurricane blowing from the front of my computer case to the back, and nVidia (for reasons I can't understand) fit their fans to blow from the back of the case towards the front. Result: the warm air from the 6800 gets blows straight back to its fan input, and it goes over 100 degrees C. I'm considering water cooling to get around this problem, rather than because I actually need it for overclocking.
I'm not sure that answers much, but it might add weight to the request for more testing - even if none of it should be vendor-specific for as long as they stick to the reference design!
Avalon - Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - link
it appears that the policy doesn't cover non-physical damage like power surges and overclocks as EVGA's does
Since when did eVGA cover overclocking in their warranty? Reply
Xenoterranos - Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - linkSince they started selling overclocked cards, I think. Reply
ksherman - Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - linkI kinda miss the 'round-up' version of these reviews. I think spliting each vendors cards into is own review makes it a little harder to see all the cards and compare them. Perhaps you should consider consolidating the many single reviews into one larger one. Esp. since most of these cards are really the same, with some slight differences in preformance and appearance. Not to mention each time a reviews comes about, the card that you reccommend usually changes slightly...
just my .02 cents! Reply
n7 - Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - linkShockingly enough, i think the XFX card is the most attractive design of all the 7800GTXs!
Looks like a good option for those not terrified of the XFX name. Reply
Hacp - Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - linknot its name, just its customer support :). Reply
Spacecomber - Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - linkSpeaking of which, what became of AnandTech's efforts to test out tech support by contacting the manufacturer with a typical question that might come up and seeing how long it takes to get a response and how helpful the response is. Typically, this part of the review also covered things like online FAQs and knowledge bases in terms of how helpful these were. Was this only done for motherboards? Is it still a practice followed for some reviews? And, if so, why not for video cards? And if is is not being followed anymore (at all), why not?
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4AcesIII - Thursday, August 18, 2005 - linkI wished they'd not done the spotlight crap on each card but they haven't exactly been putting out much of any reviews worth reading for quite sometime. It would also seem that EVGA put alot of money in their pockets, they are traditionally one of the worst manufacturers of video cards out there, noted in the past for cheap heatsink and fans along with other quaility control issues. Sheesh next they'll be promoting Prolink as the best video card maker. I don't trust these guys anymore, it's not a review it's who gives them the most hmmmmm support lets say instead of coming right out and calling it a bribe, payoff, kickback for putting out a favorable review. Reply
Hacp - Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - linkBtw, is anyone else kinda tired by the huge amount of 7800GTX vendor card reviews? I mean performance is obviously going to be similar, and the higher clocked cards are going to perform better........ Reply
Operandi - Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - linkI tend to agree, all these reviews are pretty redundant. All of them offer the same performance, most/all use the reference design, and most use the stock HSF. If you're going to review each card individually there should be some justification, so far all the cards have been more or less exactly the same. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - linkThe justification was already given several times in the previous articles. If we had waited to do a 7800GTX roundup, there are still additional cards coming out. If we had done a "roundup" at launch, it would have included the two cards we had at the time. Yes, the reviews are redundant when performance is similar, but we're looking at more than just performance. It's a Catch-22, and we figured getting reviews out in a timely manner would be more useful than waiting a month or two to write a roundup. Reply
eetnoyer - Tuesday, August 16, 2005 - linkIf that's the case, why not review whatever sample you have at the time of release and wait for a representative sampling to do a roundup? The only conclusion I can draw is that it's a slow time in the lab and you need filler, or individual product reviews means a greater revenue stream due to page hits/manufacturer contributions. Either way, it's rather disappointing for what I've come to expect from anandtech. Reply


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Highlights from Mr. Adnan Oktar's interview on 06 November 2012
A9 TV, November 6th, 2012)
All Sections Of Society Must Be Treated With Love, Whether They Cover Themselves Up Or Not.
(Regarding the way an artist described women who cover themselves up as 'bogeymen')
All right, our efforts and conception of love are excellent, but our efforts are not enough by themselves. It does not stem from looking like a bogeyman, it stems from some people's language. Otherwise, there are plenty of women who cover up in Anatolia, and they are radiant people. They are the sweetest things in the world, very blessed. They are redolent of Anatolia, immaculate people. But of course we have to be constructive; the word bogeyman is no good. We must say let us be virtuous and warm and loving and use a constructive kind of language. If you call them bogeymen, they will say something in return about you and that will lead to a clash of words, and that would be wrong.
Interpretations of verses of Surat al-Hajj
In this way We have sent it [the Qur'an] down as Clear Signs. Allah says they are clear. "You will understand them very clearly." Allah guides anyone He wills. (Surat al-Hajj, 16)
You cannot lead into pride anyone who is guided to the truth by Allah, alhamdulillah. It is impossible for anyone you make proud to attain salvation, no matter what they do.
Here are two rival groups who disputed concerning their Lord. Those who are disbelievers will have garments of fire cut out for them, the clothes they wear will appear like fire to them in hell. They will assume the form of fire. Clothes are given them, but clothes of fire. But not the fire we are familiar with. ...and boiling water poured over their heads, (Surat al-Hajj, 19) Not the boiling water we are familiar with. That is the water of hell, something very different. Allah says it will go down to their very cells.
...and they will be beaten with cudgels made of iron. (Surat al-Hajj, 21) Not the iron we are familiar with, the iron of hell, the cudgels of hell. All the laws of physics are very different there, the laws of chemistry are different, the nature of matter itself is different. So it does not mean iron in the sense we are familiar with.
Interpretations of verses from Surat al-Naml
Look, the Prophet Solomon says to the hoopoe, 'We will soon see if you have told the truth...
One must not immediately believe as soon as a report comes in from someone. What does he say? "We will see. We will soon see." "...if you have told the truth," It is no good trusting people blindly, one has to check them out. "...or are a liar. Take this letter of mine and deliver it to them..." So preaching can be done by post, sending letters or books, from a distance. There is no need to go in person. "...and then withdraw from them a little..." So they can think and reflect. One cannot ask people, "So, what do you think?" as soon as they are given a book or written materials. Pull back so they can think and investigate. "...and see how they respond." What their reaction will be. In other words, the Qur'an is noting the importance of analysis, of analyzing events. Acting in the light of analysis, and changing one's attitudes on the basis of how events work out. When the Queen of Sheba was given the letter, she said; "Council! a noble letter has been delivered to me."
So she asks for advice. "It is from Solomon and says: "In the name of Allah, All-Merciful, Most Merciful'."
'Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.' Look, all of my books start out "In the name of Allah the Compassionate and Merciful." That is in all my books. It is also a reference to the Prophet Solomon's (pbuh) letter. And the Holy Seal. Allah, His Messenger Muhammed, insha'Allah. It is Allah who creates that seal in the books, masha'Allah. "Do not rise up against me" Because the worst thing is pride. You cannot preach to a proud person. You cannot do anything. That pride has to go first. They must realize they are a servant of Allah. "...but come to me in submission [it says]" He encourages her to have faith. "She said, 'Council! give me your opinion about this matter'." The importance of seeking advice. She seeks advice, though she is a leader, a head of state. She asks her council people who know about these things. "Give me your opinion…" What do you think? What is your view? "It is not my habit to make a final decision until I have heard what you have to say." Look, "I will not make a decision until I have sought your advice and opinions." That is the most right and rational thing to do. Seek advice. Advice can be sought from prophets or doctors. This is the importance of consultation.


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Computex 2013: Thunderbolt Graphics from SilverStoneby Ian Cutress on 6/6/2013 9:34 PM EST
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Aikouka - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkDon't USB-based graphics adapters already exist? Wouldn't they have the same issues when you unplugged them? Reply
Gigaplex - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkThey're extremely low performance CPU based adapters. When unplugging them, you lose the display connection, not the computational resources. Reply
DanNeely - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkUSB2 only has enough theoretical bandwidth to do 800x600x16x60hz before needing compression. In practice even that would need some compression.
On paper USB3 has enough bandwidth for 1080p with room to spare; you'd still probably run into problems trying to game in it though. USB is designed to be cheap to implement and lacks the QoS guarantees needed for consistent low latency performance. Reply
jameskatt - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkI run my USB 2.0 display adapter at 1920x1200x32x60Hz for video conferencing. Obviously, USB2 has enough bandwidth to do this. Reply
Death666Angel - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkIt uses compression to do that. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkVideo conferencing is **massively** compressed because most peoples upstream pipe has less bandwidth than USB1's 12 megabits. Reply
winterspan - Saturday, June 08, 2013 - linkthis is not for routing video signals to a monitor.. an external GPU needs a huge amount of bandwidth back to the CPU, hence the PCIe x8/x16 connections Reply
HisDivineOrder - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkFinally, Thunderbolt will have a point for a majority of laptops. Reply
Dentons - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkMaybe.
$250 will buy the core of an adequate desktop PC. Given that the GPU has to be purchased in either case, this will only offer a minimal cost reduction over buying a desktop machine.
If this box were $49, then it might be a viable option. Even so, it seems to be a solution looking for a problem. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkA decent PSU alone will run close to $50; add a decent quality enclosure and $100 seems a reasonable price point. Reply
Dentons - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkThat's a decent PSU, an adequate PSU can be had for half that. An adequate case is not much more. An adequate MB - CPU combo can be had for $110 to $150. Add RAM and an HD and you'll be barely more than $250. Less if you shop for sales.
Plop a serious GPU in such an "adequate box" and it may run better than if the GPU were dropped into this and cabled to an i7 laptop. And of course, if you build an actual PC, you have another entirely separate computer to do whatever with. Reply
mavere - Saturday, June 08, 2013 - link"And of course, if you build an actual PC, you have another entirely separate computer to do whatever with."
Which is actually a downside in this situation. If I wanted to build a separate computer, I'd have built one already... Reply
flyingpants1 - Friday, June 07, 2013 - link$49 for a case, thunderbolt to PCI-E adapter, and 450W Silverstone PSU? No. Maybe more like $149-199. This version is a proof of concept, there will probably be cheaper options available in the future. Reply
mercutiouk - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkI'd be more than happy to see an external box that doesn't need to feed things back to the internal display.
This is definitely a fine crack at making a good product though. My own setup will have the full setup (raid card, graphics card, sound card with attached drives, screen and speakers) waiting at home for a decent gaming grade laptop to act as it's base unit all attached via thunderbolt. I'm even quite happy to take the thunderbolt to PCIe bridge card (TH05 when it gets certified) and build my own chassis for it all to sit in. We just need devices like this to push things along. Reply
chaosbloodterfly - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkThere are people for whom a couple hundred dollars isn't a terribly big deal, and want the power of a desktop and the portability of a laptop.
e.g. the people who spent $2000 on a Sony Vaio Z with the GPU dock. Reply
ananduser - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkMeanwhile the Z no longer sells. Reply
jfraser13 - Friday, June 20, 2014 - linkSince it uses Thunderbolt, there's no way that it could be $50. Just having Thunderbolt adds about $50 to the price. Besides, this type of product is mostly for Mac users(like myself). This would allow someone to use a MacBook Pro for graphics intensive programs instead of buying a desktop because there are two other options besides an eGPU: buying a PC desktop or buying a Mac desktop. Buying a PC desktop wouldn't be ideal, not just because it runs Windows, but because you'd have to use different programs and you might have to buy Windows versions of some games. On the other side of the fence, a Mac Pro desktop costs over $2500. If the T004 ships for $250 without a Thunderbolt cable, you could get an eGPU with a GTX 650 for around $400(before tax). The issue boils down to $2500 vs $400. For a Mac user like myself, this would be a perfect solution. The only issue is that Intel won't allow Silverstone to sell it despite co-branding with Asus. Intel told Village Tronic that Thunderbolt doesn't support "Host Adapters to Thunderbolt, Graphics Controller cards in external chassis and PCIe Expansion Chassis for Windows", which of course is a bunch of malarky because Magma and Sonnet already sell this type of thing for a much higher price. I already set up a petition to demand that Intel allow the sale of the T004 and affordable eGPUs in general. Here's a link to it if you'd like to sign it: https://www.change.org/petitions/intel-allow-silve... Reply
twistedgamez - Thursday, June 06, 2013 - linkto clarify: i put a graphics card in here, then i plug it into my windows macbook and the laptop will think it has the gpu plugged into it? like the (non grahics card designed) sonnet thunderbolt expansion thingy?
does anyone know if thunderbolt 2 which is double speed runs on pcie 4x like thunderbolt 1? Reply
DanNeely - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkWhy is the GPU oriented the way it is? Flip it 180 and it's fans can have direct access to draw outside air for better cooling.
I'm also wondering about the PSU; the fat multi-colored cable looks like ATX-24; which in turn implies they're using a full on computer PSU. All they should need is a pure 12V model which'd be more compact; thunderbolt itself can send 10 watts down the cable; which should be more than sufficient to run whatever odds and ends the controller board needs. Reply
hansfilipelo - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkThe GPU is oriented that way since hot air has lower density. The nature helps the fan to draw the hot air to the top of the chassis.
If the fan would have been in the top of the chassis it would've drawn the hot air into the graphics card.
This is like fourth grade physics. Reply
Death666Angel - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkAnd by 10th grade physics you realize that with the force fans typically produce, natural convections plays a minuscule role. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkYou're trying to flip it a different way than I'm suggesting. Spin it around the vertical axis so the cards fan is up against an exterior vent, not facing the internal volume of the enclosure. Reply
hypopraxia - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkI have wanted and waited for exactly this product. External GPU connected via Thunderbolt that feeds its frame buffer back to the internal display. -:excited:- :) Dedicated GPU at home, integrated GPU on the go. It's so... elegant. Reply
twistedgamez - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkthe frame buffer is not sent back to the original display in current solutions, i am quite sure that you need to plug an external display into the graphics card, i believe the thunderbolt 1 cable essentially acts as a 4x pcie extension cable
look at the linked MSI page and the Sonnet thunderbolt echo express and the videos on youtube of them in action
thunderbolt currently runs pcie 4x v2 - hopefully thunderbolt 2 can is 8x v2 or 4x v3... Reply
jstapels - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkUnfortunately, but hopefully we will eventually get to the stage where these are designed more as "framebuffer" accelerators. Reply
Death666Angel - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkAlready exists in some fashion. Many people have hacked their expresscard slots in the laptop to take advantage of the x1 or x4 PCIe interface for external GPUs.
But the problem of what to do when hot-plugging remains, I believe. Reply
winterspan - Saturday, June 08, 2013 - linkits not a hack... you can buy expresscard->PCIe shells for this very purpose. However, expresscard (1x PCIe) didn't have enough bandwidth for high-end GPUS.. I believe the one I saw had an ATI 3770 back when the 4870 was king Reply
Ryan Smith - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkA GTX 480? Now these guys are just showing off. Haha. Reply
Khenglish - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkWith current thunderbolt graphics cards run on a restricted x4 pci-e 2.0 link. The bandwidth is only around 20% higher than x2 2.0. optimus will allow you to use your internal LCD screen just like if you had a dedicated gpu inside the laptop, but there will be a significant performance hit due to needing to send the frame buffer back over the small x2 2.0 link.
nvidia has this pci-e compression that pops up when running x1 links. Would be nice if they expanded this to x2 and x4 links.
As for the cost it'd be nice if the price went down to that of the old bplus adapter, but $250 is far more reasonable than what sonnet wanted. They should offer a PSUless option for people who already have a desktop psu lying around to cut costs.
http://forum.techinferno.com/diy-e-gpu-projects/21... Reply
jtd871 - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkSorry, Ian (and everybody else at AT). I really hate to link to an external review site, but there's already this bad beast:
Shouldn't be too hard to substitute a Thunderbolt interface. Yes, it'll still have hot plug issues. Reply
Khenglish - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkWhen I used an external card through the expresscard slot "hotplug issues" that have been brought up here were a minor concern, especially when the external card is nvidia. The card is available in the "safely remove hardware" icon and you can eject it at any time. If you are actively rendering something off that card there will obviously be a problem, but after disabling/ejecting the card everything runs off the IGP like the card was never there. The only issue is that games will reset settings on you when they see that they are being run by a different gpu.
The big problems that people have are not enough PCI config space (mostly a problem on macs and some dells), which can be solved for all systems by enabling 36-bit allocation through a DSDT override. The 2nd problem being some laptops being quirky when detecting an extra gpu on post (refusing to post, disabling the IGP, etc), and that is solved by just hotplugging the external card (the expresscard, not the pci-e slot).
For those of you wondering about the performance on thunderbolt, look at the x2 2.0 results in what I linked above. Giant performance tables if you scroll down. x2.2 means x2 PCI-E 2.0 link, while x1.2opt means an x1 2.0 link with nvidia's pci-e compression running. Reply
Sm0kes - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkUnfortunately, this will likely never hit the market. Just look at thunderbolt adoption (outside of Apple) and it's unclear who would even be the target market for this. MSI announced a similar product several years ago (GUS II), which is still vaporware. Reply
twistedgamez - Friday, June 07, 2013 - linkapple laptops are the majority in my software cohort at uni, if they were to actually sell this then many of us would buy it to play games - we don't have the money to shell out for a full rig but $250 + $250~$450 + monitor (which we probably already have) is more reasonable Reply
Sushisamurai - Saturday, June 22, 2013 - linkWhat graphics card would be reaching / approaching the bottleneck of thunderbolt? A 680? 650? 760? Reply


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SEXUALLY explicit photographs traded by East Lancashire youngsters could lead to bullying, harrassment and intimidation, a top cop warned.
Young people 'sexting', the act of sending explicit text messages and photographs to peers, also risk becoming the target of paedophiles, head of protection at Lancashire Police, Det Supt Ian Critchley said.
The warning came today on Safer Internet Day, and ahead of a live web chat later this week.
He said: "It is always important young people remember that what they send to someone thinking it is private can be forwarded on to others without their consent, and may be used against them at a later date to bully, harass and intimidate them.
"The person who you send messages or pictures to may not always be who they say they are as well, and so, I would encourage young people to be mindful of this so they don't potentially send something they may regret later."
The police joined forces with Lancashire Safeguarding Children's Board, Lancashire County Council and Lancashire Young Peoples Service to highlight internet safety.
And officers have been visiting schools across the county to give talks to pupils.
Last week it emerged that a 13-year-old boy, from Blackburn, had raped his eight-year-old sister after watching pornography on a friend's Xbox.
Det Supt Critchley said: "Unfortunately, we have seen over recent years that the internet has become an ever-increasing method by which offenders seek to meet, groom and then sexually exploit young people.
"As such, we would ask all parents, carers and teachers to make they know what their children, or children in their care, are doing on the internet and who they are talking to."
The web chat will be hosted between 11.35am and 1pm at www.trusted2know.co.uk/web-chat, and will provide an opportunity for schools to ask direct questions to officers and agency partners about their e-safety concerns, the different types of online crimes that exist, and steps they can take to stay safe online.


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13 January 2012
Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) and would like to purchase the new RVN badge for the discounted price of £15, you can still do so until 31 January 2012.
We launched the new badge in October 2011 in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of veterinary nurse training, and those qualifying since 4 July 2011 have been presented with this badge.
RVNs who qualified previously may purchase the new badge for £15 (to cover the cost of the badge and engraving it with the RVN's individual number) as long as it's ordered before 31 January 2012 [order form available in 'Related documents' box on right].
After this date, it can be purchased for the usual 'badge replacement' rate of £43.
The design of the new badge builds upon the traditional antique silver and red-enamel badge, with the addition of the word 'registered' underneath.
This highlights the fact that RVNs, while qualified to the same level as their listed colleagues, stand apart because they additionally agree to account for their professional practice and keep their skills and knowledge up to date.
RVNs are registered in the non-statutory RCVS Register of Veterinary Nurses, abide by a code of professional conduct, and commit to continuing professional development.
They can also now be taken to task via a disciplinary system.
There is no obligation to purchase the badge, although we hope that many RVNs will choose to do so to mark the step forward which their profession has made.


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Spinach, Bacon, and Onion Dip
Spinach, bacon, and onion make a flavorful match in this cheesy dip. Serve with crostini or pita chips and pair with a seasonal cocktail or two. This festive combination, great for company, might become a new holiday tradition.
- Servings: 10
Source: Everyday Food, November 2010
- 4 slices bacon, thinly sliced crosswise
- 1 medium yellow onion, diced medium
- coarse salt and ground pepper
- 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour
- 2 packages (10 ounces each) frozen spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 bar (8 ounces) cream cheese
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan
- Crostini or pita chips, for serving
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium saucepan, cook bacon over medium, stirring occasionally, until browned and crisp, 10 minutes. Drain bacon on paper towels. Discard all but 1 tablespoon fat from pan. Add onion to pan, season with salt and pepper, and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, 8 minutes. Add flour and cook 30 seconds. Add spinach, milk, sour cream, and cream cheese. Cook, stirring, until cream cheese melts, 2 minutes. Stir in bacon and 1/4 cup Parmesan.
Transfer mixture to a 1 1/2-quart baking dish and top with 1/4 cup Parmesan. Bake until bubbling, 14 minutes. Heat broiler and broil until top browns, 3 minutes. Let sit 5 minutes. Serve dip warm with crostini or pita chips.
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naveisa25 MAY, 2013This stuff is always a hit whenever I have company, I used to serve it as an appetizer but people ate so much of it they couldn't eat dinner, so now I just use it for when we have people over for games or whatnot as a snack!!Reply