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The risk-benefit balance of hypnotic medications remains an area of great clinical uncertainty, especially with long-term use. Issues of adverse effects on cognitive, psychiatric, and motor systems, together with risks of tolerance and dependence, necessitate caution even in short-term use. Several observational studies have even suggested hypnotics confer increased mortality risk. One recent study showed a strikingly increased mortality risk.1 However, it contains several methodological and inferential limitations, the dissection of which may be instructive for providers and researchers for whom this complex and concerning topic is relevant.
Kripke et al. analyzed a large database of diagnosis codes and prescription records with linked indications.1 They asked whether prescriptions for certain hypnotic sleep medications were associated with increased mortality over a 3-year observation period. From a database of over 200,000 individual outpatients seen between 2002 and 2006, about 10,000 had at least one hypnotic prescription, survived at least 3 months into the observation period, and did not already have a diagnosis of cancer. For each of these subjects, 2 controls were obtained from the remaining database, matched according to age, sex, smoking status, and observation period. The authors report 3.5-5.5 times higher mortality in the hypnotic group than the baseline 1.3% mortality of the control group.
The correlation of events in time does not necessarily imply a causal relationship. This is often referred to as the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy ("after this, therefore because of this"), and this fallacy remains an issue in modern clinical studies. Although the authors acknowledge this fallacy in the article's supplement, the discussion in the main text not only argues that hypnotics caused the deaths, but it also implies that limiting hypnotic use would prevent deaths. In prior work, Dr. Kripke challenged the critique that correlation is not causation by stating that the same criticism was applied to association data regarding smoking risks.2 This argument is countered by the unfortunate reality that the literature is replete with examples of correlations in observational data that were not sustained in randomized prospective trials, as has been elegantly described by the work of Iaonnides.3
Beyond the flaw of implying causation from correlation in this instance, the study design contains several serious limitations. First, the groups were not matched for the most important confound in a study of hypnotic medications: the underlying sleep disorder. Given published literature that point to a key role of sleep disorders in the mortality risk associated with hypnotic prescriptions, we find it surprising that sleep diagnostic codes were not evaluated in this retrospective study based entirely on a diagnostic code database. In prior studies of hypnotics and mortality risk, it has been recognized that the drug-related risk and the underlying sleep disorder diagnosis are intertwined.2 Moreover, one of the proposed mortality mechanisms discussed in this study is that hypnotics can exacerbate sleep apnea, which is known to cause motor vehicle crashes,4 strokes, and heart attacks.5 Failure to account for the critical confound of underlying sleep disorder likely contributed to an inflated mortality hazard in Kripke et al. By comparison, in the prior 24 related studies listed in their supplemental material, the median hazard associated with hypnotics was < 1.5, and only 4 studies reported values > 2.0. Failing to address the underlying sleep disturbance is a major design flaw equivalent to concluding that chemotherapy prescriptions increase mortality without taking into account the mortality associated with the underlying malignancy that prompted chemotherapy. Given that their main outcome was mortality risk, it is unfortunate that cause of death data was not available to support potential mechanistic links.
Another important limitation relates to comorbidities. Major illnesses that carry mortality risk burden were 1.5-2 times more common in the hypnotic group of this population, compared to the control group. While the authors attempted statistical correction for these differences, the severity of the comorbidities was not available and thus the groups could have differed in this regard. Also, the extent to which comorbid sleep disorders, presumably much more common in the hypnotic group, might have synergistic risks with the medical conditions remains unknown. Psychiatric comorbidities that may have contributed to morbidity and mortality were not available and may also have differed between groups, as sleep complaints are a fundamental part of most psychiatric disorders. Finally, alcohol consumption may have serious interactions with hypnotic medications, in addition to health and accident implications, yet the control for alcohol use was limited to self-reported "yes," or "no," or "unknown." Given the concurrence of alcohol use, sleep complaints, and psychiatric disorders, it is possible that the hypnotic group was overrepresented in alcohol consumption not captured by this simplified categorization. Imagine, for instance, a person occasionally having 1-2 drinks per week, being "matched" with someone consuming 5-6 drinks per night.
The data speak only to prescription content, not the actual patterns of hypnotic use. The authors argue that non-compliance in the hypnotic group or undocumented use of hypnotics in the control group would each lead to underestimation of the effect size. We agree. But it is unclear why the authors disregarded the (likely) possibility that patients in the hypnotic group may also be taking undocumented over-the-counter or prescription agents for sleep, which would exaggerate any mortality risk, either through drug interactions or as a marker of severity of a sleep disorder carrying its own mortality risk.
The authors emphasize the dose-response relationship between frequency of use and mortality risk. Yet no statistics are provided to support that claim, and the overlapping confidence intervals raise the possibility that there may be little or no dose effect. Even if the hazard ratios are statistically different, the dose-response profile would be highly unusual: a steep and immediate risk elevation observed at sparse dosing—fewer than 1.5 pills per month—followed by less than 1.5 fold change in risk over the next 10-fold increase in dose. Furthermore, the antihistamine diphenhydramine conferred a similar risk as benzodiazepines, non-benzodiazepine ligands, and barbiturates, each of which have different mechanisms, different drug-drug interactions and different side-effect profiles. Furthermore, some of these medications are used for other common indications, such as anxiety, epilepsy, and allergic rhinitis. Are we to surmise that patients using occasional benzodiazepines for anxiety or using occasional diphenhydramine for allergic rhinitis are dying at 4-6 fold increased risk?
The authors argue that the absolute gain in total sleep time with sleep medications is modest. We agree. However, total sleep time may not be as important as continuity (which is not necessarily reflected in total duration). Further, the greater subjective than objective sleep time benefits reported by patients taking sleep medications may be partly due to our limited techniques of objectively quantifying sleep physiology through current conventions of sleep staging, rather than simply modest objective efficacy. This uncertainty extends to the question of whether pharmacological sleep recapitulates important or restorative aspects of normal sleep. For example, certain hypnotic agents impair cortical plasticity in animal models of sleep-dependent neuroplasticity.6 Resolving whether hypnotic medications faithfully replicate natural sleep physiology remains an important area of ongoing investigation.
Reporting alarmingly high death risks from commonly used medications generates intense media coverage and raises public concern. This paper's discussion begins with the shocking claim that a half-million deaths in the USA in 2010 (about 25% of all deaths) may have been due to hypnotics. Given the numerous methodological flaws and logical fallacies of this paper, we find this claim to be irresponsible from scientific and ethical perspectives. From a Bayesian standpoint, extreme claims require extraordinary evidence. In this study, plausible arguments can be made that hypnotics are not causative for, and may not even be associated with, the observed mortality hazard.
Dr. Kripke is a long-standing critic of hypnotics.7 To be clear, many of his concerns are shared by the community of providers who care for those with sleep complaints, including the authors of this commentary. For example, long-term use of hypnotics is not recommended. Short-term use should be employed with caution, controlling for circumstances that might lead to unwanted effects, including driving safety and psychiatric wellness. Tolerance and dependence may develop. Further, non-pharmacological treatments have been shown to be equal to, or more effective than, hypnotic medications.
In summary, it remains plausible that hypnotics confer some degree of mortality risk, and substantive clinical and scientific questions remain about their biological impact on sleep and risk-benefit balance. But alarmist claims from mediocre data serve only to distract and detract from the many serious questions and concerns lingering in the arena of hypnotic medications. We encourage practitioners to openly discuss with insomnia patients the risk-benefit balance of pharmacological and behavioral approaches, as well as no treatment—which itself may confer health risks.
Dr. Ellenbogen has received speaking fees from the American Academy of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital Academy, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Dr. Bianchi has a patent pending on a home sleep monitoring device. Dr. Thomas is co-patent holder for electrocardiogram-based sleep technology, and for a carbon dioxide delivery device used to treat central/complex apnea, and he receives consulting fees from DeVilbiss.
Bianchi MT; Thomas RJ; Ellenbogen JM. Hypnotics and mortality risk. J Clin Sleep Med 2012;8(4):351-352.
Kripke DF, Langer RD, Kline LE, authors. Hypnotics' association with mortality or cancer: a matched cohort study. BMJ Open. 2012;2:e000850[PubMed Central][PubMed]
Kripke DF, author. Chronic hypnotic use: deadly risks, doubtful benefit. Sleep Med Rev. 2000;4:5–20. [PubMed]
Ioannidis JP, author. Why most published research findings are false. PLoS Med. 2005;2:e124[PubMed Central][PubMed]
Tregear S, Reston J, Schoelles K, Phillips B, authors. Obstructive sleep apnea and risk of motor vehicle crash: systematic review and meta-analysis. J Clin Sleep Med. 2009;5:573–81. [PubMed Central][PubMed]
Yaggi HK, Concato J, Kernan WN, Lichtman JH, Brass LM, Mohsenin V, authors. Obstructive sleep apnea as a risk factor for stroke and death. N Engl J Med. 2005;353:2034–41. [PubMed]
Frank MG, Jha SK, Coleman T, authors. Blockade of postsynaptic activity in sleep inhibits developmental plasticity in visual cortex. Neuroreport. 2006;17:1459–63. [PubMed]
Kripke D, author. www.darksideofsleepingpills.com.


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I certainly agree with you but you'll find urlsnarf informations in sslstrip's logs... So it doesn't bring anything new, imo.It's always interesting to demonstrate that an attacker can study your browsing habits and use that knowledge to exploit a computer/steal passwords (dns poisoning/phising/etc...).
All right, thanks, I thought you mentionned it for yamas, not as general knwoledge. But it makes more sense this way and it sure seems to be a nice tool ! I'll try to have a go at it when I figured how to launch itXplico is an interesting (and powerful) tool. It's best run on a dump (live capture mode is not as useful). It's easiest used through its web GUI so I agree wouldn't integrate well with yamas - just mentioned it while we were discussing image extraction.
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Sslstrip logs contains pretty much everything that happens on the network. You'll get a load of crap, headers, requests, etc. In urlsnarf, you only get the requests like GET. So, it's a little more readable than sslstrip logs, but to obtain the same result the parsing would be easy.
urlsnarf :
sslstrip192.168.1.3 - - [23/Jul/2008:15:41:52 -0700] "GET http://suggestqueries.google.com/com...=en-US&q=sguil HTTP/1.1" - - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:184.108.40.206) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1"
Ok, sslstrip logs are more verbose, but if you do something like cat sslstrip.log | grep "Resolved host successfully:", you should get the browsed websites...011-11-17 15:27:50,528 Resolved host successfully: clients2.google.com -> 18.104.22.168
2011-11-17 15:27:50,529 Sending request via HTTP...
2011-11-17 15:27:50,573 HTTP connection made.
2011-11-17 15:27:50,573 Sending Request: GET /service/update2/crx?
2011-11-17 15:27:50,574 Sending header: accept-charset : windows-1252,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
2011-11-17 15:27:50,574 Sending header: connection : keep-alive
2011-11-17 15:27:50,574 Sending header: accept-language : fr,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6
2011-11-17 15:27:50,574 Sending header: host : clients2.google.com
2011-11-17 15:27:50,574 Sending header: user-agent : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.120 Safari/535.2
Example on one of my logs with egrep -i -a -e "Resolved host successfully:" /root/sslstrip.log
And it wouldn't be too hard to keep only certain columns with awk or cut...2011-11-17 15:27:22,486 Resolved host successfully: safebrowsing.clients.google.com -> 220.127.116.11
2011-11-17 15:27:22,731 Resolved host successfully: safebrowsing-cache.google.com -> 22.214.171.124
2011-11-17 15:27:26,931 Resolved host successfully: whos.amung.us -> 184.108.40.206
2011-11-17 15:27:28,606 Resolved host successfully: www.facebook.com -> 22.214.171.124
2011-11-17 15:27:31,875 Resolved host successfully: 0-74.channel.facebook.com -> 22.214.171.124
2011-11-17 15:27:47,956 Resolved host successfully: whos.amung.us -> 220.127.116.11
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Running both KDE and GNOME BT5 flawlessly. Thank you !
Make the Xplico run into BackTrack 5 is a real pain in the ass. When I wanted to try it, after losing some hours in vain, I only downloaded the VM from Xplico's website.
Hi guys ! Quick post to tell you there were updates made ! It should be easier to run it on other linux platforms, and some stuff here and there.
As stated in the "message of the day" feature, I'm dropping urlsnarf since I didn't get much positive feedback about it.
With that said, if you guys really want something that'll show the browsed websites, I can do it just like I showed you two posts before this one. Tell me what you'd like !
Cheers !
Running both KDE and GNOME BT5 flawlessly. Thank you !
Also, you may want to add a -u feature in the script, because when I only want to update, not run it, I still have to go through the whole rigmarole of settings options, and cleaning up. -u would be so much more convenient. Thanks.
Last edited by ShadowMaster; 02-15-2012 at 01:09 PM.
World Domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer the term World Optimization.
Noted for the -u option, I'll work on that !
With that said, I myself have to update the same way you guys do. And when I just need to update it, I wait for the message to be displayed and then ctrl+c.
But yeah, an update option would be better
And yeahp, it's normal that the message of the day changes without an update. It's curled from my website on launch. You can deactivate that with the silent mode (-s).
Running both KDE and GNOME BT5 flawlessly. Thank you !
World Domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer the term World Optimization.
Ouch... I must have **** up somewhere along the way. I'll look into it, thanks for reporting !
Running both KDE and GNOME BT5 flawlessly. Thank you !
Of course I report. I love this tool, I want the newest version.
That being said I'm not clear on the syntax to use fakessl? I see the option to add the favicon, I see the option to use ettercap, but where do I add in the fake ssl? Perhaps, if -e has been selected, you could make that one of the additional options. To use sslstrip for most, but for some websites/browsers, allow for fakessl?
World Domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer the term World Optimization.

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Hallo all,I'm trying to rebuild/imitate another site in Javascript (mostly just to edumacate myself) and I've run into something.
I have an absolutely-positioned anchor with an onclick event. If it's clicked, a hidden <select> appears and opens. The focus() is moved to this select immediately.
I can arrow up and down through the select options, and I can click on any of those options with a mouse and trigger the onclick() event I've set on the options (I have also tried with setting the onclick event on the select itself, same problem). Hitting ENTER does not seem to trigger the event though (FF7/Debian for now). I have no idea why, since that should be the normal event in a dropdown select when the ENTER key is hit anyway, as far as I can tell.
Am I wrong in this?
Should I explicitly write an onkeyup and check for the Enter key and add an onclick there? (seems like overkill)
Here is the code I'm working with:HTML
Refine term:
<select id="refineSelect" name="refineSelect">
<option value="foo">Foo</option>
<option value="bar">Bar</option>
<optgroup label="-- Try on --">
<option value="amazon">Amazon</option>
<option value="bing">Images - Bing</option>
<option value="google">Images - Google</option>
<option value="maps">Maps</option>
<option value="news">News</option>
<option value="wikipedia">Wikipedia</option>
<option value="youtube">YouTube</option>
<optgroup label="-- Show all --">
<option value="baz">Baz</option>
<option value="quux">Quux</option>
I originally had the label outside the select and may move it back out; it was originally wrapped to try something else out. I don't think it matters here but maybe??
The CSS isn't anything special, the anchor is absolutely positioned and so is the select.
Javascript (currently leaving out the bits that are not part of this function):
(inside Object Foo)
init: function() {
var refineAnchor = document.getElementById('refa'),
s = document.getElementById('refineSelect'),
q = document.getElementById('q');
Basis.addClass(s, 'hidden');
Basis.addEventListener(refineAnchor, 'click', Foo.refineClickListener(s, q));
Basis.addEventListener(s, 'blur', Foo.sBlurListener);
showRefineSelect: function(s, q) {
var opt;
Basis.removeClass(s, 'hidden');
s.size = s.length;
//loop through s's options and add click listeners
for(var i=0; i<s.options.length; i++) {
opt = s.options[i];
opt.onclick = (function(opt,s,q){
return function() {
submitParams: function(opt, s, q) {
alert(q.nodeName + ', value is ' + q.value); //for now, my test to see that click event happened
hideRefineSelect: function(s) {
Basis.addClass(s, 'hidden');
refineClickListener: function(s, q) {
return function() {
Foo.showRefineSelect(s, q);
sBlurListener: function(event) {
So, when the anchor gets a click event (works with mouse or Enter keys), the select dropdown appears and focus is automatically moved to it. This all works (so far, not widely tested).
I can arrow around the options, which I want.
I can click an option with the mouse and see the result of my click event that I've placed on the options.I cannot hit Enter and see the result of my click event. I see in my debugger that yes, each option is getting the click event assigned to it.
Before adding click events to the options I had tried the simpler add-click-event-to-select. This hadn't worked originally which is why I thought maybe I needed to add directly to the options.
Is there something I'm obviously missing here? My brain is in a fog.
Also, I'm doing this partially to better learn Javascript. I don't care if there's some 500kb downloadable jQuery whatsit that does it all for me. That defeats the purpose really.
The onclick event for <option>s is supported by Firefox but isn't standard. Clicking an option will trigger the onchange event.
The onclick event for <option>s is supported by Firefox but isn't standard. Clicking an option will trigger the onchange event.
Hm, let me try onchange as my event then. Thanks.
I also noticed while playing around with the loops that:-I can't add any more events (but maybe this is because the element doesn't support them in the first place?)-I can't get the event itself if I wanted to do something with it.
But this I assume is all my not knowing how to correctly deal with loops and events.
*edit no event works. However, I know someone managed to write this in Javascript because the real site does work, with Javascript. But the code is heavily obfuscated so I can't really see what they did.
<option>s don't have event handlers. onchange/onclick event handlers should be applied to the <select> element.
Tried that too, the moment nothing happened on the options.
If I use a cut-down, tutorial example, I can add an onchange event to a select and it acts as I expect, where I need to hit Enter to select my choice.
But it doesn't seem to do anything within my code context.
It could have to do with that I have the select first absolutely positioned and then forced open using size. Not sure.I tried as.onchange = (function() {return function() {alert('foo bar baz');}})();
and I get no response, while of course doings.onchange = function() {alert('fuzzbazz');}; had it going off the moment it opened.
I'm going to see if I can get "normal" select behaviour without hiding it and letting it do what it would normally do, but then I'd have to figure out how to keep it working while hiding it away again.
I've only had a quick look through your code ans post but I think you are over-scienceing what you are trying to do. Also, you talk about links but I don't see any in your html, so not sure what you are trying to do there.
Perhaps try a new approach. Start from scratch with just a bare <select> with no styling and get it working - something like this:
This code alerts the selected option and its value.
<select name="mySel" onchange="doThis(this);">
<option value="1" selected="selected">option 1</option>
<option value="2">option 2</option>
<option value="3">option 3</option>
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2 large leeks
1 to 1 1/4 lbs of potatoes (3 medium)
1/2 large onion
1 oz butter
2 thyme sprigs (fresh)
2 bay leaves
4 cups vegetable stock
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 teaspoon salt (to taste)
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
1 to 2 tablespoon chopped chives (to garnish)
1 to 2 tablespoon bacon bits (to garnish)
Chop the leeks. Wash them very, very well in a bowl of water, allowing the grit to fall to the bottom of the bowl. Lift the sliced leeks into a colander to drain. Rinse well and pat dry before using.
Dice the potatoes and onion. Melt the butter in a large soup pot or Dutch oven. Add the leeks, potatoes and onions, stirring to coat them in melted butter. Turn the heat to low. Cover the pot and allow the vegetables to 'sweat' for 15 minutes, stirring every 3 minutes to prevent burning.
Add the vegetable broth, bay leaves, thyme sprigs, salt and pepper. Turn up the heat and bring to simmering point. Lower the heat and simmer for 20 to 25 minutes until vegetables are tender. Remove the bay leaves and thyme sprigs.
Blend the soup until smooth with an immersion blender or in batches using a food processor or blender. Add the heavy whipping cream and stir into the soup. I use a half cup, but if you really like creamy soup, use up to 1 cup of cream.
Serve hot in soup bowls. Garnish with bacon bits and chives if desired.
Slow-Cooker Corned Beef and Cabbage
Corned beef and cabbage is a classic Irish meal. Our family has always eaten it around St. Patrick's Day. It's a meal I look forward to every year.
My mom, Ann Wilson, has two tricks up her sleeves to make the perfect Irish dinner. She tops the meat with chili sauce along with the spice packet that comes with the brisket before cooking it and she sprinkles a little bit of caraway seed onto the steamed cabbage before serving.
We cook our corned beef in the oven according to package directions, but if that doesn't work with your schedule, use your slow cooker instead.
4 large carrots, peeled and cut into matchstick pieces
10 baby red potatoes, quartered
1 onion, peeled and cut into bite-sized pieces
4 cups water
1 (4 lb) corned beef brisket with spice packet
6 oz beer
1/2 head cabbage, coarsely chopped
Place the carrots, potatoes and onion into the bottom of a slow cooker, pour in the water, and place the brisket on top of the vegetables. Pour the beer over the brisket. Sprinkle on the spices from the packet, cover, and set the cooker on High.
Cook the brisket for about 7-8 hours. An hour before serving, stir in the cabbage and cook for 1 more hour or steam separately. Add butter if you wish and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Irish Soda Bread
Maybe you've thought about trying your hand at making Irish soda bread. Simply Recipes has an easy way to bake a loaf to serve alongside corned beef or potato soup.
4 to 4 1/2 cups flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
4 tablespoons butter
1 cup currants or raisins (optional)
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1 3/4 cups buttermilk
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Whisk together 4 cups of flour, the sugar, salt, and baking soda into a large mixing bowl.
Using your (clean) fingers (or two knives or a pastry cutter), work the butter into the flour mixture until it resembles coarse meal, then add in the currants or raisins.
Make a well in the center of the flour mixture. Add beaten egg and buttermilk to well and mix in with a wooden spoon until dough is too stiff to stir. Dust hands with a little flour, then gently knead dough in the bowl just long enough to form a rough ball. If the dough is too sticky to work with, add in a little more flour. Do not over-knead. Transfer dough to a lightly floured surface and shape into a round loaf. Note that the dough will be a little sticky, and quite shaggy (a little like a shortcake biscuit dough). You want to work it just enough so that the flour is just moistened and the dough just barely comes together. Shaggy is good. If you over-knead, the bread will end up tough.
Transfer dough to a large, lightly greased cast-iron skillet or a baking sheet (it will flatten out a bit in the pan or on the baking sheet). Using a serrated knife, score top of dough about an inch and a half deep in an "X" shape. The purpose of the scoring is to help heat get into the center of the dough while it cooks. Transfer to oven and bake until bread is golden and bottom sounds hollow when tapped, about 35-45 minutes. (If you use a cast-iron pan, it may take a little longer as it takes longer for the pan to heat up than a baking sheet.) Check for doneness also by inserting a long, thin skewer into the center. If it comes out clean, it's done.
Baking Hint #1: If the top is getting too dark while baking, tent the bread with some aluminum foil.
Baking Hint #2: If you use a cast-iron skillet to cook the bread in the oven, be very careful when you take out the pan. It's easy to forget that the handle is extremely hot so be sure to put a pot holder over it.
Remove pan or sheet from oven, let bread sit in the pan or on the sheet for 5-10 minutes, then remove to a rack to cool briefly. Serve bread warm, at room temperature, or sliced and toasted. Bread is best when eaten warm and just baked.
Irish Trifle
For dessert assemble an eye catching trifle. The flavors of orange and lime are a delightful way to top off your Irish-inspired meal.
1 pound cake loaf
3 cups orange sections, divided
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
4 eggs, separated
6 tablespoons orange juice
6 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon grated orange rind
2 teaspoon lime juice
Cut pound cake into large cubes, place in 2-quart bowl. Place 1 1/2 cups orange sections over pound cake. In the double boiler, mix together sugar, salt and flour. Beat in egg yolks, orange juice, water and lime juice. Place over boiling water and cook, stirring constantly for 10 minutes or until mixture thickens slightly. Remove from heat and stir in orange rind. Cool.
Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form. Fold into orange custard mixture. Pile on top of prepared pound cake and sections. Arrange remaining orange sections around edge of bowl. Chill for 1 hour. Garnish with whipped cream and candied fruit.
Note: May add orange marmalade to cooled thickened mixture for sweeter taste.
Makes 8 servings.
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TRIM Enabler 2.0 for OS X Lion Releasedby Kristian Vättö on 1/22/2012 4:22 PM EST
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blueeyesm - Sunday, January 22, 2012 - link"Everything looks super. Thanks for asking!"
:) Reply
extremepcs - Sunday, January 22, 2012 - linkPeople with Mac's get trim? ;) Reply
ananduser - Sunday, January 22, 2012 - linkWhich is why Apple bought that Israeli company that designs flash controllers. Apple "approved" SSDs will be best for your Apple computers. Various SSD optimizations(TRIM among them) included in future OSX builds will only be available on SSD drives for mac, that would feature Apple designed controllers. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Sunday, January 22, 2012 - linkAnobit concentrates on NAND longevity, although they seem to make enterprise level controllers as well. It's definitely not clear that Apple will come up with their own SSD controller, but it's possible. Apple has always more or less relied on third parties for the hardware components so designing their totally own SSD controller would be a big step. Reply
ckryan - Sunday, January 22, 2012 - linkAnobit also makes an embedded flash controller, the MSP3035(? I think that's what it's called). They have several patents concerned Digital Signal Processing and Memory Signal Processing. STEC Inc also uses some kind of DSP as well (or is planning to, based on an article their Technical Marketing Manager wrote for EE Times). Their MSP embedded controller is claimed to have a max speed of 666MBs, though it's unclear whether this is external or what configurations are needed to achieve that. The MSP works with 2xnm SLC/TLC/MLC. Reply
name99 - Monday, January 23, 2012 - linkYes, Apple is intent on strangling the nascent MBA SSD replacement market in its cradle. I mean, last time I checked, there were at least NINE people in the world who were interested in cracking their MBAs open to dick around with the insides.
Hell, why don't you really ramp up the crazy. Did you know that you can't rip out the CPUs on MBAs and replace them with an overclocked Intel CPU, let alone an AMD CPU? Did you know that the RAM on MBAs is soldered?
And you know what --- ALL Ultrabooks are pretty much the same.
Look, Apple is not perfect. They do plenty of dumb stuff. But this obsession some people have with assuming the entire world wants to mix-and-match their hardware is just stupid beyond belief. It was stupid when people first whined about iPods not having replaceable batteries over ten years ago, and the same crowd that were whining then have apparently learned NOTHING from the trajectory of either Apple as a company, or hardware in general, over the past ten years. Reply
ananduser - Monday, January 23, 2012 - linkWhy do you attribute me with malice ? The SSD market is nascent and it's drowned in controllers from different companies. Apple does not want to mess with this mess and would design(IMO) its own controllers for Apple approved SSDs. It will be a requirement that a SSD manufacturer would include Apple's controllers. It is not about strangling the DIY aspect, it is about "quality control" as Apple would put it. Apple does not want to rely on 3rd party firmwares if any issues should arrive. Apple's mo is to provide all drivers/firmwares themselves.
Anyway who knows if this flash purchase is aimed at SSD controllers for their desktop offerings ? It might be, but we cannot say for sure.
Now how do you like it if I attribute you with fanboyism ? Reply
name99 - Monday, January 23, 2012 - linkFair enough. One sees so much stupidity in the comments that it's hard not to attribute malice to even a slightly ambiguous comment. Reply
Kristian Vättö - Monday, January 23, 2012 - linkApple already uses in-house firmwares. Reply
kkwst2 - Monday, January 23, 2012 - linkWhy is whining about not having a replaceable battery stupid? It is one of the reasons that I will not buy an iPhone. Obviously I am in the minority, but it doesn't make it stupid. Just because the device is successful doesn't mean I have to like/agree with their design decisions. Reply
ananduser - Monday, January 23, 2012 - linkI agree with you, a modular approach is also best for environmental purposes(less e-waste). Reply
star-affinity - Thursday, January 26, 2012 - linkI'm under the impression the non-modular batteries Apple is using in their i-products and laptops is of a kind that be charged many more times (more cycles) then modular batteries. Should last a couple of years longer than other batteries.
But I'm not sure about this. :) Reply
lalapill - Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - linkthe unibody batteries are brainless to replace if you have like one cheap screw driver. if you buy the warranty from apple and your battery dies before then you can maybe get it replaced for free often because it died prematurely.
otherewise if you have no warranty then replacing it yourself is not in danger of voiding the appplecare.
you're not a design engineer and designing the components and how they fit together iside an mba or mbp is not easy at all, maybe even more crazy for iphone. so long term why should they sacrifice better design for a removable battery most only have to replace once in the useful lifetime of the product?? Reply
666an666 - Saturday, May 25, 2013 - linkNon-replaceable battery prevents the owner from putting a faulty / leaky battery in during warranty. Makes sense to me, as I live in China where junk batteries are sold on the street corner to tight-wads who want an extra battery for their phone / music player. Reply
inplainview - Sunday, January 22, 2012 - linkWould this be of any use on Intel SSD's. The 320 and 510 series? Reply
dagamer34 - Sunday, January 22, 2012 - linkProbably. I don't remember those SSDs having garbage collection built-in like on SandForce drives. Reply
ravisurdhar - Sunday, January 22, 2012 - linkSo then would you *not* recommend me enabling it on my OCZ Vertex 2 (SF-1200 based)? Reply
ravisurdhar - Sunday, January 22, 2012 - linkShould add it's in a 2010 MBP on 10.6.8. Reply
rangerdavid - Monday, January 23, 2012 - linkMy age-old advice: If it aint broke, don't fix it. Reply
cyabud - Monday, January 23, 2012 - linkI use TRIM Enabler with a Vertex 2 (SF-1222) on my machine with no issues (10.7.2). If you're unsure, try it anyway. As the article says, the software makes it very easy to restore the vanilla kext if you notice any issues with the patched one. Reply
Impulses - Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - linkUmm, all high end modern SSD have GC algorithms built in... Some are just more aggressive in how it works (Intel/SF vs Samsung/Crucial) but they all do GC. Reply
jenniejohn - Monday, January 23, 2012 - linkhmm this just awesome and informational.
http://www.memoryclearance.com/catalogsearch/resul... Reply
ksherman - Sunday, January 22, 2012 - link"Moreover, you can always enable TRIM later on if you experience poor performance, and even disable it right after it has TRIM'ed the empty blocks in case TRIM causes problems with your SSD."
How will we know the drive has been TRIM'd? Reply
Kristian Vättö - Monday, January 23, 2012 - linkYou can erase free space in Disk Utility, that will clear the blocks if you have TRIM enabled. Reply
star-affinity - Thursday, January 26, 2012 - linkI'm under the impression the non-modular batteries Apple is using in their i-products and laptops is of a kind that be charged many more times (more cycles) then modular batteries. Should last a couple of years longer than other batteries.
But I'm not sure about this. :) Reply
star-affinity - Thursday, January 26, 2012 - linkThat, comment ended up in the wrong place.
Too bad one can't edit or delete comments... Reply
dagamer34 - Sunday, January 22, 2012 - linkI had some issues when I enabled TRIM with the first version of TRIM enabler and it caused so many beach balls and stutters on my OCZ Vertex 3 that I turned it off and left it alone. Reply
ckryan - Sunday, January 22, 2012 - linkSF2281s don't really act like other drives during TRIM. Some of the SF2281 BSoD's are directly attributed to TRIM (and indeed, I've experienced this multiple times first-hand). SF228x drives are pretty relaxed about TRIM in general. Their garbage collection is good, but not nearly as aggressive as some Indilinx FW and some drives like the Corsair Performance 3 (The predecessor to the performance Pro). Reply
PoopyPants - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - linkapple does things for very specific reasons, and i truly truly believe that the TRIM being disabled on non MAC ssd drives (via the OS) was done DELIBERATELY so that you would be FORCED to buy the 3x's over priced SSD with the Apple name on it.
dont kid your self you fan boys, apple is smart and they know damn well that doing this increases their revenue because they can get more sales from people who want larger capacity.
did they do it to ensure 100% hardware comatability, yes i believe they did as that has been the way builds their systems, always has been and always will be.
the OS only works on certain hardware, the hardware only works on certain OS's. and when you try to backdoor that methodology you have to do some serious hacking to get it to work, or you buckle and buy the apple branded hardware.
does apple care. pfpfpf hell no, they dont care one teeny tiny bit.
i would almost bet that you very shortly will see Apple trying to have this software banned or removed as it circumvents some sort of bullshit patent apple thinks they have.
i am a HAPPY macbook air owner, and MAC Mini. but i also own more PC's than MAC and i enjoy each and every system i have.
but the Air and its soldered RAM and silly designed SSD was something i will never get over. Reply
XianZhuXuande - Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - linkBy far the largest amount of Apple's money comes from sales to the general market. While they might pull some shenanigans during initial sale of a product (e.g. getting the upgraded RMBP model to upgrade the SSD) your theory of them excluding TRIM support from third-party SSDs specifically to encourage customers to purchase SSD upgrades directly through them strikes me as a conspiracy theory. Heck, you can't even find a SSD upgrade in their store unless you search for it properly, and even then, you're lucky to come up with more than an overpriced kit for 512 GBs in a Mac Pro.
P.S. Your Air has a flat chip SSD because a 2.5" SSD would seriously interfere with their ability to make the machine so thin. Reply
unhuman - Friday, March 23, 2012 - linkHow about reviewing this app with various SSDs? Before + after #s Reply
jerryx2000 - Saturday, September 22, 2012 - linkI own the OWC 6G 480GB. Its in the 2011 MBA. OWC does not recommend TRIM as it has it own Sandforce method. http://blog.macsales.com/11051-to-trim-or-not-to-t...
My question is if TRIM is not disabled does it affect batter life? Reply


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The Pleasures of Romantic Travel
de Katrina Neumann, Andrea Rosen, and Elsewhere Collaborative
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Katrina Neumann plans fictional trips with books from Elsewhere Collaborative's collection and travels through continents as she reads them aloud in parks around the city of Greensboro, North Carolina. Neumann invites strangers to participate in the performance by sitting and listening by her side. After the 10-hour allotted time (for three weeks, every Saturday) she packs up her suitcases and heads back to Elsewhere. It is just another day in the park.
There are sound bites from readings during the performance installed by GPS and Broadcastr (a smartphone application) in Fisher Park and Center City Park with instructions inside.
Andrea Rosen, contributing editor and art historian, has an additional feature essay discussing The Pleasures of Romantic Travel performances. Rosen's prominent essay, "Can I Change Your Saturday?," can be found at the closing of this catalog.
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- Categoría Bellas artes
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102 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación dic. 17, 2012
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Katrina Neumann was born in 1985 in Fullerton, California and grew up in Ashburn, Virginia. Neumann received her BFA from SUNY Purchase College and her MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. Katrina Neumann has received a number of awards including the Karsh Prize in photography, SMFA President's Research Award, and the Montague International Travel Grant. Her work has been featured in the juried-in-print exhibition New American Paintings and her curatorial work has been reviewed in ArtNews. She is affiliated with Flux Factory, Elsewhere Collaborative, The Wye and All Hands Volunteer. Neumann currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
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There are several things America has every right to be proud of. Besides baseball and the mythical creature known as the Cronut, there is our inclination to slather pork over everything that is even remotely edible. It's our right! So how come none of our fast food chains let us top burgers with prosciutto? Wendy's Japan is now the first to hold that honor.
They recently launched the Prosciutto Mozzarella Italiano. Besides the salty, hammy goodness, this burger is also topped with mozzarella cheese, spring greens and tomato. Sounds too healthy for you? Don't worry it also has mayo, basil cream cheese sauce and sun-dried tomato sauce. That's three sauces if you were keeping count, and you always should be keeping count.
The burger is part of a new premium line, which also includes an avocado wasabi burger, an Iberico bacon burger and more. To help stem your jealousy, these sandwiches do cost nine dollars. So there's that.


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John Carmack Joins Oculus Rift as CTOby Jarred Walton on 8/7/2013 12:55 PM EST
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A5 - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkI'll be surprised if the 1080p model is at retail next year. I'm thinking mid-2015 is more likely from what they've been saying. Reply
WhitneyLand - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkOne interesting is how may non-gaming uses could be practical. I'd use one just to walk along a beach in Fiji and listen to the waves. Reply
Rezurecta - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkKinda indicates how important audio implementation would be. Reply
todlerix - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkIf they can do the audio right it will have a much more important role than audio does today. Virtual surround sound on headphones with the VR as well would be incredible. Hopefully they can pull it off. Reply
JeffFlanagan - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkYou're very right about the audio being important.
Even when playing games in a home theater, well done surround-sound leads to the greatest immersion. They'd do well to build surround-sound into the release version so people don't have to run an additional cable to their head for sound. Reply
Krysto - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkThey should use whatever LG G2 is using for audio. That would be sweet. Reply
Dentons - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkOculus needs to ship their consumer product, NOW.
Not because I want one, but because the market does. The product is in huge demand. The developer models are clearly 'good enough'. The pricing is clearly 'close enough'. When each of those metrics line up, it is time to ship the damn product, no matter the imperfections.
Clearly, those in charge at Oculus want the consumer model to be a more perfect product. That's a very bad mistake, one that has doomed countless tech companies before them. Perfect or not, if a product is functional at a reasonable price point, it's not time to wait for improvement's, it's time to ship.
Oculus is hot now. They have mindshare today. Who knows what will have the public's interest in 6 months, let alone a year or 18 months. Not me, and certainly not them.
Their iron is roasting hot, they need to strike. Reply
orionismud - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkI have a developer prototype, and I can assure you that it's not ready for prime time.
The screen is too low res to be usable in all but the simplest games, but more importantly, the software support is lacking. As of now, you can play TF2 and HL2, but anything else requires a lot of painful setup time to get working at all.
Another big problem is the immersion itself. It feels so real that you get motion sickness pretty quick, because what your eyes and ears are experiencing is very different from what your inner ear is experiencing. I can play games for hours and never get any motion sickness, but I could only handle about 5 minutes of the OR before feeling sick. I'm sure I'll get used to it over time, and I'm already up to about 15 minutes, but that's going to be tricky issue for them to deal with.
That said, it's still awesome and I will definitely buy a higher res version for as much money as they want for it. It's like being in the future. If you've seen 3D TV and 3D monitors and been unimpressed, you'll still want to check out the Oculus Rift. Reply
psuedonymous - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkThere are some essentially solved problem for Oculus: smearing on pans is solved with lightboost-style backlight pulsing. Oculus have a 1080p prototype model they've shown off a few times, so they've either found a supplier of HiDPI LVDS panels (or possibly eDP smaller than 10.1"), or made a DVI-MIPI controller. The remaining major issue is positional head-tracking (current tracking is orientation-only). Sixense's Hydra has seen a massive boost in popularity (think hundreds to thousands of percent depending on how big your moving average window is), and have shown mockups of a prototype 'Hydra 2' with an obvious spot for 1-2 clip-on tracking modules (think head and torso tracking).
End if this year is possible for a second developer preview of a finalised first-gen product, with sometime mid 2014 for a consumer release not an unreasonable estimate. The first devkit was mainly delayed by supply issues (there simply weren't enough of the 5.6" panels in existence to fulfil all the orders they got). Reply
Guspaz - Thursday, August 08, 2013 - linkMy experience with my dev kit says they're VERY far from being good enough. It doesn't work properly for people with myopia, for example (swapping out lenses helps, it doesn't fix it), there's no consumer-ready software available, there are a ton of usability (and reliability, like the foam glue falling off) fixes needed to the physical design, the lack of positional tracking for head movements is an issue...
If they shipped the dev kit as a consumer product today, it would be a disaster, and kill off VR for the next decade. The devkit is impressive for giving demos, not for everyday consumer use. Reply
flyingpants1 - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkKids, this is how you end up with an expensive, incompatible, buggy flop of a launch. Reply
Dentons - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkAlternatively, it's how you miss your market window entirely and fade into technology history.
The tech industry is littered with products that 'could have been', if only they'd shipped in a reasonable time frame. Reply
Mondozai - Thursday, August 08, 2013 - linkOh, I see the haters are out in force.
Carmack has a very good reputation. He has consistently tried to avoid taking a specific deadline but his games usually ship within reasonable timespans.
Interesting to see human psychology at work, some people immediatedly try to bring the OR VR down. Reply
Dentons - Thursday, August 08, 2013 - linkMost criticism is not hating. Oculus seems to be making some very bad decisions. The only question is, why?
Their product is in tremendous demand. The manufacturer has already delivered over 10,000 developer versions. The existing product has received raves, not just from the specialist press, but the mainstream press. Developers who react to such fanfare by saying they 'hope' to release in a year or so are asking to be beaten to market by more nimble foes.
At the very least, this indicates a real disconnect or lack of funding. Failures to deliver are storied in the tech industry. It's not enough to have a good idea, you have to deliver before your competition. Developers are often their own worst enemies. They want the product to be perfect. Saner heads often need to force developers to release a product they're not entirely happy with. That doesn't mean a buggy, terrible, product. It means when a product is 'good enough', it's time to release. If it's successful, there will be a 2nd gen, 3rd gen, and more.
In truth, he who ships first often wins. If some Chinese company decides to reverse the existing dev model and sell it for $149, Oculus could die before they ship a single consumer unit, and it will be their own damn fault. Reply
HisDivineOrder - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkI'll believe a release when I see it. They've been making noise about releases for what? Years now? They're always "close" to release, but they never quite get there. They never QUITE have the tech they need. And they never have any software that's truly there for them that anyone truly wants to play.
It's always tomorrow, tomorrow. I'm beginning to think this isn't going to ever come together the way they promised it would. I think the pricing is going to be absurdly higher than they promised and I think the software is going to be lacking. I mean, we all have these images in our head (of images on our eyes) of how it will be, but besides some E3's and some shows, what real proof is there they can get it out within the price point they claim with the functionality they claim?
Next you'll have Gabe Newell releasing a version of Portal 2 specially built for this thing and you'll have fully Razer Wii-stick'ed it or Northwest Falcon (?) orb-thingy'ed it.
I just don't buy it. They aren't moving like a company that's actually releasing something anywhere in the next two years. They're moving like a company searching for investors. Reply
Dentons - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkFor whatever reasons, they clearly seem to be delaying a consumer product release.
You may be right. They may not have enough funds to take the product to market. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, August 08, 2013 - linkYou can purchase a devkit right now for $300, though obviously it's more for developers than consumers at this stage. So $300 for a functional implementation is at least something reasonable. Give them the next 12 months and I suspect 1080p at a similar price point will be done. Reply
Mondozai - Thursday, August 08, 2013 - linkI think you're right. You can fix the audio problem with vibrations to the cheeckbones.
What is harder to fix is getting that lag on the display down but even more so, motion sickness. Still, I find it hilarious that some people say that "this won't be hot in 3 years".
Eh, yes it will. VR is such a huge step that in 3 or even 5 years from now, it will still crush the status quo. We'll still be playing smartphone games on a 5" screen with no or bad sound and/or playing on the PS4/Xbox One. That will never be able to outcompete a true VR experience.
Carmack's philosophy has been to "ship when it's ready" like Blizzard. His game creations stalled in creativity(same old, same old) but he is renowned for his technical brilliance.
The only question mark is how someone like Carmack, who likes running things, will handle the inevitable competition for power with the younger, more inexperienced CEO? Reply
JeffFlanagan - Thursday, August 08, 2013 - linkI don't think the motion sickness can be fixed with technology, unless you include drugs in technology. Some subset of the population just isn't capable of using HMDs without becoming sick. The O.R. team can't rewire the user's brain. Reply
Guspaz - Thursday, August 08, 2013 - linkThey're delaying a consumer product release because what they have now is nowhere near ready. I'm speaking from personal experience here. The dev kit is neat to play around with, and good enough for development work. It is also extremely flawed, because they still have a lot of issues to work out. Reply
Death666Angel - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkWhat are you talking about? Every post I've read on the KS page has stated that they see themselves very far away from release. You are pulling stuff out of your other end, aren't you? Reply
Randomblame - Wednesday, August 07, 2013 - linkThe most important missing feature is (and you all know it) the groin attachment. :p Reply
SeannyB - Thursday, August 08, 2013 - linkFor how Carmack has been focused on graphical immersion all these years, it makes sense that he joined Oculus. You don't need a John Carmack to make generic shooter games anymore.
I think one of the major problems with the dev. Rift is how it makes you demand so much more from the VR experience. You want to stand up, walk around and feel things in the virtual world when you put it on. The low-hanging fruit of adding 6-DoF head tracking, better optics, and a higher-res panel isn't going to alleviate that frustration. But if you start getting bulky VR rigs involved, then it very quickly relegates itself to a niche. Reply
Impulses - Friday, August 09, 2013 - linkProper head tracking would actually go a long way towards delivering accurate surround audio from a pair of stereo headphones... That's the way the Smyth Realizer does it, it's a niche product because of cost and the fact that no one wants to wear an extra attachment on top of headphones, but if you're already donning headgear... This could be the biggest leap in gaming audio since the first surround cards came out 15 years ago (RIP Aureal). Reply
piiman - Saturday, August 10, 2013 - linkAnd how many have died due to crappy buggy products? Add to that that there doesn't seem to be anything like OR (in the same price range) coming anytime soon, or at all, and I see no reason for them to rush to market. Personally I think you'd make a really bad CEO. Reply


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QVC Promotes BCA with 90,000 Pairs of Shoes!
This October, we'll be shoe shopping for a cause at QVC!
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If you're still searching for the perfect fall footwear, prepare to drool over QVC's 90,000 pairs! On Wednesday, October 24, 2012 (5-8pm ET), the mega retailer will broadcast "FFANY Shoes on Sale." Together with the Fashion Footwear Association of New York (FFANY), the airing will feature more than 80 brands and over 90,000 treats for your feet.
Read Cancer Survivor Debbie Merle Designs Vibrant, Go-Anywhere Jewelry
And believe it or not, there's more delish shoe news in store! Not only will you be able to score sexy brand name shoes at half off, but you'll also be supporting Breast Cancer Awareness. Proceeds raised will be donated to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, The Abramson Cancer Center, and The University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, among others. Participating brands include Bandolino, Vince Camuto, MICHAEL by Michael Kors, BCBGeneration, and many more. Are you having a shoegasm yet?
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Look, I don't have fun at work. Team meetings are a particular waste of time. They are, minimum, an hour long, and usually only about 10 minutes has anything to do with me.
Thing is, that's how it is for EVERYONE in the meeting.
So instead of just being bored, I doodle (yet remain bored). Here's one:
for this one, I tried to be professional. I printed out the appointment agenda from Outlook and brought it to the meeting. At first my doodles were limited to decorating the page (see the scribble and some boxlike images. I actually took some notes on the things about me. This eventually grew to reacting to the page I was writing on and a couple of reactions to things said in the meeting. Unfortunately, it didn't last long.
And well, eventually, anything that popped into my head started showing up. Like the hoagie with a face. More or less, I'm just gonna leave it like this, I think.
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Vhembe district borders Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Vhembe is a land of legend indeed. You can visit sacred lakes, ancient ruins and historic mountains. You can check out cave paintings, royal palaces and visit South Africa's first city of gold − Mapungubwe World Heritage Site.
Vhembe includes the Soutpansberg Mountains, South Africa's northernmost range, and vast tracts of wilderness along the Limpopo River Valley. Vhembe includes the towns of Louis Trichardt, Mussina and Thohoyandou, and the land of legend is also famed for its thousands of baobab trees, source of much folklore and icon of Limpopo province.
Vhembe is also gateway to the northern parts of the Kruger National Park, part of the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park, along with Mozambique's Parc Nacional do Limpopo (Limpopo National Park) and is the world's biggest animal kingdom.
Lying in the foothills of the Soutpansberg mountains, Louis Trichardt is an agricultural centre, and a good base from which to explore the land of legend. Take a guided tour along the Ribolla Route, visiting the studios and workshops of local crafters, sculptors, potters and weavers, scattered around the historic village of Elim.
You can also take a tour of some of the important historical places of the Venda people, including Thathe Vondo Holy Forest, the sacred Lake Fundudzi and the Dzata Ruins which were once the capital of the Venda people, ruled by the great Thohoyandou, whose name means 'head of the elephant'.
A guided tour to Thulamela in the northern Kruger National Park gives you a fascinating insight into the lives of an ancient culture. A hillside of stone walls and ruins tells the story of people who settled here in the 15th century. And don't miss Vhembe's cultural highlight − a visit to Mapungubwe World Heritage Site, set on the banks of the Limpopo River.
Mapungubwe was South Africa's first city of gold, a flourishing empire that dates back to the 12th century. The people of Mapungubwe traded with Arab traders from present-day Mozambique, and other African kingdoms to the north and west.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Limpopo Tourism and Parks Board
Tel: +27(0)15 290 7300
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
South African National Parks
Tel: +27(0)12 428 9111
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Shiluvari Lakeside Lodge
Tel: + 27(0)15 556 3406
Lesheba Wilderness
Tel: + 27(0)15 593 0076
Madi o Thava
Tel: + 27(0)15 516 0220
The Skirmish Route
Tel: + 27(0)15 516 5455
Drumbeat restaurant at Mashovhela Lodge
Tel: + 27(0)15 517 7176
How to get here
From Johannesburg take the N1 north to Polokwane and continue to Louis Trichardt.
Best time to visit
Vhembe is an all-year-round destination due to its warm climate. Summer (October to February) days can get very hot.
Around the area
Visit the holy forest of Thathe Vondo and its legendary sacred lake, Lake Fundudzi. Check out the Schoemandal Museum, on the R521 Vivo road for an interesting exhibition of Voortrekker days and early history of the area. See the big baobab near Sagole Spa, which is estimated to be over 3 000 years old.
Tours to do
There are guided game drives and walks through Mapungubwe World Heritage Site and guided tours of Thulamela heritage site in the northern Kruger National Park. You can also take a guided tour to the many Venda artists, available through Shiluvari Lakeside Lodge. Find out about the last days of the South African (Anglo-Boer) War that were fought here on the Skirmish Route with a local historian.
Length of stay
At least two days, more if possible.
What to pack
Hats, sunscreen, walking shoes, cameras, binoculars and bird and tree field guides.
Where to stay
Shiluvari Lakeside Lodge is a pleasant spot with thatched chalets overlooking the Albasini Dam and Soutpansberg mountains. Lesheba Wilderness is set high up in the Soutpansberg mountains and their Venda Village is an unusual and artistic spot. Madi o Thava in the foothills of the Soutpansberg mountains offers stylish accommodation and cultural tours.
What to eat
The Wood Owl Restaurant at Shiluvari Lakeside Lodge serves excellent Afro-fusion cuisine. Drumbeat restaurant at Mashovhela Lodge north of Louis Trichardt, has Venda style décor and serves excellent meat dishes and curries.


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Well it sure beats playing FFVII 10,000 times.
Just kidding. I love that game too.
Hey Lesscro, would you mind one more request?
Can you do the Metal Gear Solid from the site I sent you on the PM?
You know, the white box with red lable.
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Facebook's mobile usage continues to grow at an alarming rate and according to a new study by comScore, more people are accessing Facebook through smartphones such as iPhones and Androids than personal computers. The 'Mobile Metrix' report was released on Monday and the numbers reflect data collected for March.


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Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's live interview dated September 10th, 2011
"He makes likenesses of Us and forgets his own Creation, saying, 'Who will give life to bones when they are decayed'?"
What is that? Weakness of faith. He cannot believe. What do you need in the face of that? Genuine faith. Absolute faith. "Say 'He Who made them in the first place will bring them back to life. He has total knowledge of each created thing;"
What is that? Signs leading to faith. Because Almighty Allah encourages people to think. He says that He "Who made them in the first place will bring them back to life." Human beings are created most perfectly. They are made one time only. This pen has been made once. Could the factory make another one? Yes, it could. Why not? We cannot say, "You cannot make another one." Because it obviously can. Can a craftsman who makes one chair not make another? Yes, he can. That applies to everything. Allah also says He "made them in the first place..." So can He not do it again? That is such an easy thing that human beings cannot comprehend it. Allah reminds us of that. It is so easy but billions of people cannot comprehend it. Then they say, "Actually, that is really true. I never thought about that before." Human beings think so superficially. That is why Allah reminds us. Their thinking is so impaired that they say, "Who will give life to bones when they are decayed?" Since they are materialists, they say, "Once matter has gone it is all over." Since they look at things from a materialist perspective. They are unable to equate matter and the soul since they deny the existence of the soul. That is weakness of faith. "He Who produces fire for you from green trees."
Allah also notes the greenness of wood and says He has made it flammable. Allah opens our horizons. But it never even occurs to people. In other words, Allah's Creation of trees such that they can be burned, and their arising from green plants and growing from the soil. They emerge from soil and water and soon become capable of being burned. Can you burn soil? No. Can water burn? No. But water and soil combine together. You look and see that something flammable has emerged. Then you look and see that fruit has formed. Oranges, apples, mandarins, walnuts, melons, watermelons, beans, lentils and whatever else you can think of form in the soil. "He Who produces fire for you from green trees." Allah broadens our horizons. He encourages us to see the signs leading to faith and to think. He reminds us to reflect in order to expand our horizons. When we reflect on it we start thinking of a whole chain of other things. Allah does this so we should think of other things. "Does He Who created the heavens and earth not have the power to create the same again?"There is another logic here. Has He created the atmosphere in the most perfect form? Yes, He has. He also created the soil. Does not Allah cause this Earth to float like a feather in the boundless vasts of space? We are like a ship. We are like a ship with 7 billion people in it. We are floating about like a feather in a ship full of 7 billion people. Never running aground or suffering any turbulence. Take a car. No matter what equipment they provide, cars still rock about, as do planes. But there is not the slightest turbulence here. The whole world is moving through the sky. The soul also floats like that. And nothing happens to it. Does He Who created the heavens and earth not have the power to create the same again?"I "made them in the first place" He says, the Earth and sky. So why should I not be able to make the earth and sky of paradise?In other words, "Since I have created man once, why should I be unable to do so again?" He is encouraging us to think. But Allah does not provide so much information as to eliminate the need for our free will. Because the test would therefore be meaningless. Allah prepares the ground for us to reflect. Almighty Allah says,"Does He Who created the heavens and earth not have the power to create the same again?"Allah does not leave it there. He encourages people to expand their minds. "He is the Creator, the All-Knowing."
Allah always described Creation. And what I talk about is always Creation. So what do they say about us? "They are creationists," they say. When we say that "Allah created," they call us creationists. What do they say? They say, "It was chance that created." "An idol did it," they say. But what do we say? "Allah created." "…when He desires a thing is just to say to it, 'Be!' and it is," saysAllah. Where is the evolution in that? Allah answers evolutionists like that. Evolutionists say, "It must have taken a very long time. Allah could not do so otherwise (may Allah forbid!)." But Allah says, "when He desires a thing is just to say to it, 'Be!' and it is."
Allah gives a time frame. "And it is." It happens instantaneously. "Glory be to Him Who has the Dominion of all things in His Hand. To Him you will be returned."
Do you see the signs leading to faith? Allah directs us to these so we will have faith and believe this. That is why the signs leading to faith are the most vital subject. And I concentrate on the signs leading to faith above all else. I concentrate on genuine faith. I am opposed to imitation faith. It must not be imitation, but genuine. Imitation faith is weak.2011-11-15 21:50:10