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Brent Scores Twice in Pirates 4-2 Win Over Albanyby Staff Writer / Anaheim Ducks
Portland, Maine - Tim Brent scored two goals and Nathan Marsters made 25 saves in his AHL debut to lead the Pirates to a 4-2 victory on Sunday afternoon at the Cumberland County Civic Center.
Brent started the scoring early with the first of his two goals just 3:51 into the game. With the extra-attacker on the ice for Portland after a delayed penalty was called, Brent put the puck past River Rats goaltender Ari Ahonen. Kent Huskins and Simon Ferguson were awarded assists on the goal.
Less then two minutes after the Pirates scored, the River Rats got on the board as Ryan Murphy received a pass from Cam Janssen and beat Marsters to knot up the score at one.
Pirates forward Simon Ferguson was able to break the tie and pick up his first career AHL goal with 2:27 left in the first period as he beat Ahonen to the far side of the cage.
Albany was able to close the gap less then two minutes later when Bobby Allen notched a power play goal for the River Rats. Forwards Ilkka Pikkarainen and Ahren Nittel picked up helpers on the goal.
After a scoreless second period and 8:15 into the third, Zenon Konopka scored what turned out to be the game-winning goal. The goal extended Konopka's consecutive point streak to four games. Shane O'Brien and Ryan Shannon were credited with the assists. The assist for Shannon also extended his point scoring streak to four games.
The Pirates would pick up an insurance goal with the River Rats goalie pulled and just 54 seconds left to play. Tim Brent skated with the puck past the center ice line and shot the puck into the empty net to give him his second goal of the game and the Pirates a 4-2 lead they would keep until the final horn.
The Pirates next game will be on the road this Saturday as they visit the Bridgeport Sound Tigers at 7:05 p.m. The Pirates will then return home on Sunday as they host the Lowell Lock Monsters at 4:05 p.m. Sunday will be the first of several "Skate with the Team" Promotions. Fans are invited to bring their skates and join the Pirates on the ice after the game.
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Embraer has appointed John Holland Aviation Services (JHAS) as an authorized service center to provide line and heavy maintenance services for E-Jets from its base in Melbourne.
"JHAS is the first official maintenance service provider in Australia appointed by Embraer Commercial Aviation to provide maintenance services for our E-Jets line in Australia," Alex Glock, Embraer Commercial Aviation vice president for Asia Pacific, told AIN.
"Embraer has a long-standing relationship with JHAS, as it already provides a number of MRO services to our customers in the country. This agreement reinforces our relationship, and I am certain it will allow us to up the ante in our customer support offerings to our operators down under," Glock said.
According to Embraer, JHAS is Australia's largest independent MRO organization and the only one with comprehensive EASA coverage. Focusing largely on the Asia Pacific region, JHAS provides engineering support to both domestic and international airlines as well as other operators. It can also service a wide range of both passenger and military aircraft. JHAS provides services at most major international airports throughout Australia.

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SO - what can I do to get the MJP to work on my MacBookPro?
So tell me if you would, have you already attempted multiple times to install the MagicJack Plus software?
Yes sir
and it keeps getting stuck with the progress bar as you have noted?
Hangs saying it can't complete the install because it's already in progress
I just checked your "already tried"
and the MJPlus works just fine on Windows 7
Yeah - MJP says it's related to the new update, they don't support OS above 10.6.8
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Absolutely correct on all fronts....
so that is why the progress bar will never go forward
in Lion until THEY update their software
So far you've just told me what I already knew........
which I know is a pain to you because it works great on Win 7
because I must be honest
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So far not a $58 solution my friend
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So what I was going to say, was Magic Jack is telling Lion 10.7 customers
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that is all I wanted to tell you
This is not a satisfactory answer, I admit
Still waiting respectfully....... for the "results" part of the chat you were promising earlier
but we are only as effective as the product you need assistance with and what they can offer when it comes to software and OS compatibility
SO - to the best of your knowledge, no "techie" work around of the problem at this point? No way to install this as a Windows device on the Parallels side of the intel processor and ignore the 10.7 complications.....
You were thinking just as I was about the Virtual Desktop software option
of which I happen to be a specialist of as well
and that would be either Parallels or VMWare Fusion
and yes you would have to still go Windows 7- and that would be the only way you could do it
but I was not sure if you would want to do that because you already have a Win 7 computer
Now will add, that I have attempted to install Snow Leopard 10.6 in my VMWare Fusion virtual desktop software
before, but it did not work
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It's a Windows PC not a laptop, so it doesn't travel with me. I have moved to Abu Dhabi and hadn't planned to take the PC with me. I have the Parallels Desktop in place, no copy of Snow Leopard I'm aware of
bear with me for a moment if you would
I want to see if there is anything that I could add to simplify this for you
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as I can. Please keep in mind your MJPlus does not support 10.7 Lion, and what I have found is that Parallels as well as VMWare Fusion for Mac only allow Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server to be installed as a virtual desktop terminal and not the standard user copy of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
so the only steps you can take in this manner are limited to installing a Parallels Windows 7 virtual desktop on your Mac for potential use with your MJPlus
Downgrading your Mac to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Finally, this information is limited only because of the limitations of the MJPlus software so please do not hold us accountable for what MagicJack is responsible for updating with their MJPlus product.
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Not satisfied because you provided me with no new information and did not provide me with a solution to the problem. We spent over 45 minutes on the phone and you just repeated what I already knew......you yourself made the comment that it was an unsatisfactory answer.
I agree with your assessment. You were pleasant enough, but not helpful.
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As a user it would be more to your benefit to not have your hopes built too far above the bar that you will always get resolution , because more times than not, when it is an issue of system compatibility hardware or software - that can be a very tall hurdle to cross successfully
I would be remiss if I did not give you this insight from a technician's perspective, so you can understand moving forward, that services like JustAnswer,com are always still strive to work very hard to assist you with your inquiries-- but we as Experts have to provide you real answers; not facsimiles of what we hope to think you can do--
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ABC's "Good Morning America" picked up a new complaint by union organizers against Wal-Mart. The company actually wants its employees to show up on time for work.
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Private Israeli Airline to Replace El Al on Flights to Jordan
A private Israeli airline will replace the national carrier El Al on flights to Jordan starting November 1, a senior aviation official told AFP on Monday.
"Arkia Airlines will start operations to Jordan on November 1 while El Al will stop operations on October 26," Amar Balqar, executive director for Royal Wings, a sister airline of the national carrier Royal Jordanian, said.
Arkia will make two flights to Jordan on Sundays, one on Mondays and one on Wednesdays, Balqar said, adding that the Israeli carrier will use Boeing 737 and Dash-7 aircraft for the services to Amman's Queen Alia Airport.
Arkia won a tender for this operation, Balqar said.
Industry sources said El Al's flights to Jordan were no longer commercially viable. In fact in recent weeks the Israeli national carrier was making only one or two flights a week to its Arab neighbor.
Many Israelis travel to Amman to connect with Royal Jordanian flights to the Far East, which are often less expensive than flights on Israeli airlines.
Royal Wings has nine flights a week between Amman and Tel Aviv and another three linking Amman and Haifa in line with a transport agreement signed between Jordan and Israel in 1996, two years after they signed a peace treaty.
Royal Jordanian however does not offer a service to Israel - JERUSALEM (AFP)
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Hello and welcome to the live blog on the Bank of England's Inflation Report press conference.
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Key takeaways:
- The MPC's fan charts now show inflation more-or-less on target over the forecast period, and the risks to inflation are now judged to be broadly balanced. This would suggest that there will be no more QE in May. However, the MPC has also left itself some wriggle room, as inflation is still shown to be a little below target over the next couple of years. The governor also said inflation was "more likely to be below the target than above it for a good part of the three-year forecast period".
- The UK economy is still set to recover gradually, though the numbers may "zig zag" over the course of this year as a result of the Queen's diamond jubilee.
- Charlie Bean appeared confident that productivity levels would recover (see 11.25). And the governor was also surprisingly forthcoming in acknowledging that there may be flaws in the inflation targeting framework (see 11.36 and 10.53).
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Best of the '00s in TV: Drama
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If I could modify the list with my choices, I'd take off West Wing and replace it with House.
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Detroit getting a Robocop Statue
Pete Hottelet is the entrepreneur whose $25,000 may help bring a Robocop statue — that may look like the bust above — to Detroit.
Hottelet explained to Jalopnik why he did it and how he got the idea... in Antarctica. He's apparently not just an eccentric CEO with a random Robocop fetish and a DeLorean. He named his company, Omni Consumer Products, after the mega-conglomerate in the film. A fitting name because OCP makes real life versions of fictional products like Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator from Idiocracy and StayPuft Marshmallows from Ghostbusters.
His $25,000 will help fund the building of a Robocop statue in Detroit, launched by a random tweet to Detroit Mayor Dave Bing. He gave us the scoop on why he got involved in the interview below. You'll just have to imagine every quote from him preceded by a round of semi-automatic laughter.
Jalopnik: Why did you decide to help fund a Robocop statue in Detroit?
Pete Hottelet: It's a ridiculous story. I was in Antarctica and a friend of mine retweeted Mayor Bing, and another friend of mine emailed me the article and I was like... ok... someone needs to make this statue."
Why were you in Antarctica?
I was just $#@!ing around.
In Antarctica?
I went to North Korea last July.
What was the first step?
I called the Mayor's office and gave them an offer to make this statue, and they probably didn't think I was serious about making and donating the statue so they didn't call me back. So Wednesday the folks at Imagination Station launched the Kickstarter campaign, and that just sort of took off.
So you've teamed up with them to build it?
They did a great job in launching the Kickstarter and getting the press and attention so last week when we were talking, we said here's our plan: "If we can get up to $25K I'm going to donate the money I was going to spend anyways and we'll kick this thing to the roof and get 'er done."
If we combine the money we were going to spend, we can make a statue that's twice as big.
How big is it going to be?
I think a ten-foot tall (bronze) statue is probably the minimum, a 15-foot tall one would be great. I don't know. We'll find out. We'll see how the Kickstarter goes.
What's the source for this statue? What's it going to look like?
I have an amazing story about this. Yesterday I caught up with one of the artists that's working with Fred Barton studios, he works over at Phil Tippett — if you can think of a sci fi movie Phil Tippett probably did models for it. He did all the aliens in the cantina bar in Star Wars, he did the bugs from Starship Troopers. Amazing, amazing work.
So this guy works at Tippett studios, and for the last five years he's been restoring the original set of armor from the Robocop film for the statue, so this whole thing could not have come along at a better time. He's half a glove and a calf plate away from having a completely restored armor, completely meticulous and insanely detailed.
(You can see a shot of the work above.)
Why does Detroit need a Robocop statue?
It's going to draw a lot of people to the area, it gives them something to stop off and see in Detroit and if they really like the movie people will make the trip out special to go to Detroit. From that perspective it can help the local economy and from another perspective it really shows people they can step up and do something.
Slightly off topic, do you really wear the Sex Panther Cologne you make?
I wear it every day. 60% of the time it works all of the time.
Guy sounds like a real cool dude. I love his attitude.Some people live long, meaningful lives.
Other people eat shit and die.
I'm not racist, I hate everybody equally; especially fat people.
Making fictional products reality is pretty brilliant I must say.1 SPOT LEFT - BoostAddict Fantasy Football League
Robocop stands for something though, he's not just a humanoid robot that kicks ass.Some people live long, meaningful lives.
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Monday, June 9, 2014
Perfect Gluten and Dairy Free Chocolate Chip Cookies
When I started eating gluten-free again, my regular cookie recipe would taste amazing, but sometimes the cookies would be really flat and not rise at all. I began experimenting and found this amazing gluten-free flour mixture, and I experimented with the amount used in the recipe. The result of all my sacrificial cooking is this Perfect Gluten and Dairy Free Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. This is a double recipe (I figure if you're
going to do the work, then let's have lots!). If I don't have time to bake all this dough, I'll keep it in the freezer for whenever I want to eat the dough--I mean, bake more cookies. From the freezer, I leave the dough out for about 5 minutes, then it's ready to use and bakes the same as freshly made dough. This recipe uses Crisco, which is dairy-free, and if you use dairy-free chocolate chips, then it's all the way dairy-free. I
personally am okay with the semi-sweet chips, so I use those.
2 1/2 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
1 1/2 sticks Crisco Baking Sticks Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening or 1 1/2 cups shortening
4 tablespoons unsweetened, vanilla-flavored almond milk or other non-dairy milk
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
2 large eggs
4 1/2 cups gluten-free flour blend*
2 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 and a half bags (18 ounces) semi-sweet chocolate chips
Heat oven to 375°F.
Combine shortening, brown sugar, milk and vanilla in large bowl. Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended. Beat in eggs. In a separate bowl, combine flour, salt, and baking soda. Mix into shortening mixture until just blended. Stir in chocolate chips.
Drop by rounded measuring tablespoonfuls 3 inches apart onto an ungreased baking sheet or a baking sheet lined with parchment paper (that's what I use).
Bake for 10 minutes. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet on a cooling rack. Remove cookies to rack to cool completely. Enjoy!
Tips: I got the uniform size on my cookies by using a cookie scoop (size 24). If you don't have one of these, then use a round tablespoon and a spoon to gently scoop out the dough. Also, I recommend using a stand mixer if you have one since this is a double batch. I have not made this recipe with a hand mixer.
*Gluten-free flour mixture
4 cups brown rice flour
1 1/3 cups tapioca flour
2/3 cup potato starch
2 tablespoons xanthan gum
I combine the ingredients in a gallon-size zip bag and mix it well with a whisk. This chocolate chip recipe will use almost all of this flour mixture. For my local readers, all the ingredients for the gluten-free flour mixture are available at Winco in the bulk section. The potato starch is packaged and available at Walmart or Whole Foods.
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Friday, January 10, 2014
Butternut Squash Soup
Before I was told that I need to eat healthy food that won't cause inflammation (back when I was eating wheat, dairy, corn, etc.,) I thought butternut squash was that weird stuff that my mom would make instead of spaghetti noodles. What I didn't know was that I love butternut squash; therefore, I LOVE this soup. I will say that butternut squash does take quite a while to peel and chop, so plan time for that, but it's worth the work.
If you'll notice, I stuck a spinach leaf in the soup for the picture, but you really could throw a handful of spinach into the soup, let the hot soup wilt it, and eat it with the soup. It's a great way to eat more greens.
Butternut Squash Soup
2 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
2 large sweet onions, peeled and roughly chopped (about 3 cups)
2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
1 teaspoon coarse salt
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 large butternut squash, peeled, seeded, and diced (about 6 cups)
4 cups chicken stock, warmed (or vegetable stock to make it vegan)
Heat the olive oil in a soup pot over medium heat. Add the onion and garlic and sauté for about 10 minutes, or until beginning to soften. Add the salt and pepper and stir. Add the squash and cook for another 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Pour the warmed stock into the pot—if it doesn't quite cover the squash, add some boiling water. Bring to a boil, lower to a simmer, and cook until the squash is very tender, about 20 minutes.
If you have an immersion blender, use that to blend the soup. If not, use a blender being careful to let the soup cool first, and then blend it in batches. Season with more salt to taste.
-Recipe from My Father's Daughter by Gwyneth Paltrow
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Salmon Beet Salad
Salmon Beet Salad
It's winter here, so I bake the salmon; if you wanted to grill it that would work too. I've enjoyed this salad as a lunch just for myself or as a dinner with the family. As you assemble the salad, I recommend salting the cucumbers and beets. I like to make sure there's salt on my raw vegetables without adding a ton of salt to just the top of the salad.
2 large beets
3 medium zucchini, sliced into bite-sized pieces
1 cucumber sliced into bite-sized pieces
1 bunch green onions, dark ends discarded
2 6-ounce wild salmon fillets
Extra virgin olive oil
Coarse salt (iodine-free)
1 head of Romaine lettuce or butter lettuce, washed, dried and cut into thick strips
1/3 cup fresh cilantro leaves, roughly chopped
½ cup Balsamic and Lime Vinaigrette (see below)
1 lime, quartered for serving
Preheat oven to 425.
Steam or boil the beets until cooked through, about 30 minutes. Let them sit until cool enough to handle and then peel them and cut into a small dice.
While the beets steam, drizzle the salmon with olive oil and sprinkle with coarse salt. I like to put my salmon on my silicone baking mat on a cookie sheet so there's no risk of it sticking to the pan (parchment paper would work too). Start the salmon baking at 425 for 14 minutes or until done.
In a large skillet, heat about 1 Tablespoon olive oil and sauté zucchini and green onions. Salt and pepper to taste. Next prep the lettuce and cilantro and make the dressing.
When the salmon is done, break it into pieces. Now that everything is chopped or in pieces, assemble the salad. Lay down the lettuce leaves on each plate and top with beets, zucchini, green onions, cucumber, salmon, and cilantro. Drizzle the lime vinaigrette over the salad and serve with lime wedges.
*Balsamic Lime Vinaigrette
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoons real maple syrup
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
¼ cup olive oil
Coarse salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Put all the ingredients in a jar or bowl and whisk. I refrigerate leftovers and then take the dressing out about 20 minutes before I need it so the oil can get into a liquid state again.
Labels: corn-free, dairy-free, Dinner, egg-free, Food, Gluten Free, Main Dish, Photography, Recipe, Salad, soy-free
Monday, January 6, 2014
Vegan, Gluten-Free Chocolate Mint Cookies
I didn't post for the whole half of last year since I found out I again have multiple food allergies (wheat, dairy, corn, eggs, soy) and I also need to avoid certain other foods to keep myself healthy (more on that later). I've spent the past 6 months figuring out what to eat that won't hurt my body and how to make it taste good, and I'm ready to share with you!
This is about the fourth vegan and gluten-free recipe I've tried, and I have to say I'm so pleased that I have got the hang of baking without eggs! I made this recipe based off two other recipes, and it is a keeper. These cookies stay together so well and taste so good!
Gluten-Free and Vegan Chocolate Mint Cookies
1 ¼ c. butter flavored shortening (like Crisco)
1 c. white sugar
½ c. brown sugar
4 Tablespoons non-dairy milk (like Almond milk, I use vanilla-flavored, unsweetened)
1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
2 cups gluten-free flour mix*
1 ½ teaspoon xanthan gum or guar gum if avoiding corn
¾ cup cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
2 cups mint chips (get dairy-free mint chips or substitute with another vegan/dairy-free chip, like a carob chip; or use a dark chocolate vegan bar and it break up into small pieces and use it like chips) *confession: my mint chips had a tiny bit of whey in it, but I found this acceptable for the holidays.
1. Heat oven to 350
2. In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugars together until light and fluffy.
3. Add non-dairy milk and vanilla; beat well.
4. Combine flour, xanthan gum, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a separate bowl.
5. Gradually blend into creamed mixture. Stir in mint chips.
6. Drop by Tablespoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet. (I use parchment or a silicone baking mat on my cookie sheets.) Bake 8-9 minutes. (Do not over bake; cookies will be soft.)
7. Cool slightly; remove from cookie sheet onto wire rack; let cool completely.
Makes about 3 dozen
-Dairy free option
-Gluten free
-Egg free
-Soy free
-Corn free option
*This mix of flours is good for cookies, cakes, brownies, and gravy; I make at least two batches at a time, mix it up and keep it in a bag or glass jar. Xanthan Gum or Guar Gum does need to be added if making something like cookies, brownies, breads, that need to stay together (1/2 teaspoon per cup of gluten-free flour mixture).
2 cups extra fine brown rice flour
2/3 cup potato starch (not potato flour)
1/3 cup tapioca flour
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
The Wanderer by Robyn Carr
Love, love, love Robyn Carr! I truly enjoyed every part of this story. What Carr does best is make interesting characters and interesting secondary characters as well, so I loved reading every page. I'm excited for this new Thunder Point series.
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
Homemade Flour Tortillas
Growing up, my working single mom arranged for me to go to a friend's house after school in sixth grade. My friend is Mexican and her mother would make the most delicious flour tortillas just as I was leaving (around dinner time). If I was lucky, I was offered one of the soft, thick, velvetly flour tortillas, and I've never forgotten them. Thanks to Facebook, I was able to reconnect with my sixth-grade friend and ask her for her mom's recipe. Of course, her mother didn't make the tortillas from a recipe, but she looked on the internet and found a photo tutorial by Cynthia Detterick-Pineda. By the time this information was passed on to me, I had already mixed the ingredients following Pioneer Woman's recipe. So, below is a blending of the two. I follow Pioneer Woman's list of ingredients for the tortillas (we LOVE these tortillas so much, I'm scared to try anything different now), and I follow the methods of Cynthia Detterick-Pineda.
2-1/2 cups All-purpose Flour
2-1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder
1 teaspoon Kosher Salt
1/2 cup Lard Or Vegetable Shortening
2 Tablespoons (additional) Lard Or Vegetable Shortening
1 cup Hot Water
*Note: I used butter flavored Crisco and that's why mine turn out with a slightly yellow tint. I want to try real lard next.
In a large bowl, blend the flour, baking powder, and salt together.
With a pastry cutter/blender (unless you are one of those, like my teachers, who always used their hands) cut in the lard or shortening. You want these ingredients to cling together slightly and hold a form when squeezed in your hands.
If the mixture crumbles, you do not have the shortening mixed in well or have too little (if it makes a hard clump them you need more flour and less shortening).
Add the water all at once and mix the dough quickly with a fork or by hand until the dough forms a mass.
Work it in the bowl, moving it around the sides to pick up any flour remaining in the bowl.
Knead the dough by folding it in half, pushing it down, and folding again. It should take about a dozen folds to form soft dough that is no longer sticky.
Cover the dough with a towel or plastic wrap to let it rest for about 5 to 10 minutes.
Allowing the dough to rest lets any of the liquid absorb into the flour, which will give you a softer tortilla after cooking.
Take your ball of dough and begin pinching off 1-inch diameter balls. Knead each of these into a tight ball by folding them over with your fingers, turning and repeating until it is shaped like a fat disk. Place it to one side of the mixing bowl and continue to do this until you have used all of the dough. Before rolling out the tortillas, allow the dough balls to rest at least 10 minutes. This will permit the gluten to relax and make them much easier to shape and roll.
On a lightly floured surface take one of the dough balls and begin to roll it out. To keep a somewhat round shape, roll one directions, make a 1/4 turn and roll again, make another 1/4 turn and roll. Continue to roll and turn until you the dough is about 1/8-inch thick and 8 to 10 inches in diameter. NOTE: You can roll the thinner or thicker, if you like. Just remember to adjust the cooking time for how thick they are rolled. I roll mine the way they are done in New Mexico – slightly thicker than any store bought ones.
Heat a Comal, cast-iron griddle, or small skillet to about 450 degrees F. over medium to medium-high heat until water droplets "dance" when dropped on the surface. You might have to increase or decrease the heat after you cook your first tortilla, but you should be able to tell if the tortilla is cooking too fast on the outside and still raw on the inside, or increase it if your tortilla is taking more than 30 seconds to begin to "puff" when placed on the comal.
Place the raw tortilla on the preheated Comal and allow it to cook until it begins to puff up with air pockets, turn carefully since not only is the comal hot, the tortilla is hot and the air pockets may release steam that can burn. Each side should cook about 30 seconds, leaving the tortilla puffy. Press on a center part of the tortilla slightly to be certain the inside is cooked. If it looks as though it has compressed down and is a darker color, your dough is not cooked in the center and will need to be returned to the comal.
- The tortillas can be place in bags or containers and kept for several days in the refrigerator, and they can be frozen (although I do not recommend this as the taste changes some when they are thawed).
- The dough can be frozen easily before cooking and thawed later.
- Store extra tortillas in a plastic bag in the refrigerator. Since they don't have preservatives, they will spoil after a couple of days on the counter.
Comal Definition - Mexican Comal or cast iron plate used to make tortillas. If you do not have a comal, a large cast iron skillet or griddle works well, or even an electric griddle can be used when heated up to 400 to 450 degrees F.
Notes on cooking tortillas: I, along with others who have been making tortillas for quite some time, will roll the next tortilla while the previous is cooking. Unless you feel very comfortable doing this, I would recommend either having someone else flip the tortillas and pull them off the comal, or wait until the present tortilla is cooked before starting to roll a new one. You will find that tortillas can cook very quickly (approximately 1 minute), and they can burn very quickly! If you are using a cast iron comal, and the tortilla burns you will need to scrape off the char and use a damp rag to wipe down your comal before continuing to cook. The flavor of one burnt tortilla can ruin the remainder of the batch.
As you pull the tortillas off the comal, place them in a tortilla warmer or on a plate (lined with a dish towel or paper towels to keep them warm).
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The House that Love Built
Beth Wiseman's The House that Love Built is an easy and comforting read. This is my first Beth Wiseman book, and based off this one, I would be interested to read more of her work.
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Funny and entertaining website. Takes works of literature and sums them up in a sentence or two, via a 'better book title', naturally.
Biblioklept is a first-rate book and culture blog. It is witty and the right kind of strange.
She is an artist who does elaborate book sculptures (among other things), including the work in the photograph above.
A wonderful, searchable archive for book cover aficionados.
A wonderfully sassy and well-written book blog.
Saucy title, not quite so saucy content. The description reads "Porn for book lovers. A photo blog collection of all the best bookshelf photos from around the world for people who *heart* bookshelves."
This is a interesting and insightful book blog, the kind that makes you a bit smarter after reading it.
This is a great community for book lovers. You can post and read reviews, make and take book quizzes, and even win free books
As the site motto states, this is "Where knowledge junkies get their fix." You can spend countless hours exploring the site; reading articles and taking quizzes with such diverse subjects as the locations of muscles on the body and identifying guest stars on The Simpsons.
He is an artist with an intriguing vision for book sculpture. One of his works is featured on the About Me page of this site.
A smart, well-written book blog.
A lovely book blog straight out of the UK.
This blog celebrates the visual beauty of books; be it through images of interesting bookshelves, illustrations in books, a well-designed book cover, and so on.
This is a great book blog. The webmaster (blogmaster?) is also a "Physicist turned Accountant", so expected a unique and varied perspective.
*I always love to discover new book blogs and book related sites. If you have any interesting suggestions, just go to the contact page.


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- Stepfather
- Stepfather Step"fa`ther, n. [AS. ste['o]pf[ae]der.] The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage. [1913 Webster]
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stepfather — O.E. steopfæder; see STEP (Cf. step ) + FATHER (Cf. father) … Etymology dictionary
stepfather — ► NOUN ▪ a man who is married to one s mother after the divorce of one s parents or the death of one s father … English terms dictionary
stepfather — [step′fä΄thər] n. a male stepparent … English World dictionary
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stepfather — noun Date: before 12th century the husband of one s mother when distinct from one s natural or legal father … New Collegiate Dictionary
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TMC Mega Raffle revealed the winners of the Early Bird drawing this week.
James Meredith, of Tucson, won the two Chevrolet vehicles — a 2014 Silverado and a 2014 Cruze LTZ — and $20,000 cash — a prize package valued at more than $80,000, according to a news release.
Gerald Nathanson, of Tucson, won a 2014 Fiat 500L, a seven-night Mediterranean cruise and $10,000 cash, a prize package valued at more than $40,000, the release said.
Tucson Medical Center uses proceeds from the raffle on its health-care programs and services.


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This buxom Canadian act-chest has a sexy if not yet skinful career percolating north of the border. Sarah Smyth was in a couple of episodes of the TV series Naked Josh, a good start but the wrong nude gender, if you ask us. She also appeared in the feature film Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), which put her on the big screen, but only in a children's movie. The charms of this curvy creature were beginning to appear beyond our sights when she was cast in sitcom ...Join Mr. Skin for the full bio >>
Call Me Fitz (2013) - as Paula
Naked Josh (2004-2005) - as Natalie Bouchard
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- Theorica
- Theorica The*or"i*ca, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? (sc. ?), fr. ? belonging to ? a public spectacle. See {Theory}.] (Gr. Antiq.) Public moneys expended at Athens on festivals, sacrifices, and public entertainments (especially theatrical performances), and in gifts to the people; -- also called {theoric fund}. [1913 Webster]
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Gloversville's Estee school beyond saving, developer says
The vacant hulk of Estee Middle School on North Main Street in Gloversville is beyond saving, according to a prospective developer.
Liberty Affordable Housing and CRM Rental Management, real estate partners based in Rome, are in serious discussions with the Fulton County Center for Regional Growth to buy the vacant 90 North Main structure as well as the current 39 apartment Estee Commons complex and an adjoining lot, according to CRG President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Reese.
Engineers and executives from both companies presented their plan for the Estee Commons parcels at a Gloversville Common Council meeting Tuesday night.
"They said the 90 Main structure would just be too hard to fix," he said. "It's been vacant so long."
Liberty plans to raze that building — erecting a 40-unit senior housing complex in its place. The neighboring Estee Commons building is complete, so they plan to just operate that as is.
Originally, Reese's organization planned to turn both vacant structures into affordable apartments.
It finished Estee Commons, "but just as we were thinking about starting work on [the middle school]," he said, "the entire housing industry collapsed. We've been trying to sell for a few years."
Now, he said, Liberty and CRM Rental have the right vision for the project.
The old Estee Middle School isn't exactly a glowing mark in favor of Gloversville.
Reese described it as "unsightly" at the moment, degraded by years of disuse. Even so, it has redeeming qualities.
"A lot of people in Gloversville went to school there," he said. "They have fond memories."
Certain aspects of the architecture evoke those glory-days type of memories — the imposing tall geometry and horizontal lines, the big main doors.
Even as the building is bulldozed, those details will rise again.
Reese said the companies plan to build the new structure on the same footprint, with, at least on the outside, the same general look.
On the inside though, it will be pretty different.
While Reese's organization originally wanted to divide the middle school up into 25 units, Liberty officials plan 40 separate apartments.
Reese explained that older school buildings weren't exactly built with efficiency in mind.
There are wide hallways, unused sections of space and a generally awkward layout.
"When you come in the main doors, you either have to go up a flight of stairs or down one," he said. "That is not very handicapped-accessible."
The new structure, if built, will be laid out more efficiently and constructed with green technology.


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Caroline's "command central" was the telephone in her home in Sydney's grand dress circle suburb of Bellevue Hill. Appropriately, the house is in Fairfax Road, near the old Knox family home, and built on the former tennis court of the home of Sir Warwick's lawyer, the late Sir Alistair Stephen.
The names Fairfax, Knox and Stephen are representative of Caroline's era of Sydney society, a time of parlour games and finishing schools, languid holidays at Palm Beach, of Romano's and Prince's restaurants, the Black and White Ball, of a time when the Fairfax family controlled John Fairfax Publications and the Fairfax family friends were the Stephens, the Knoxes, the Allens, and the Lloyd Joneses.
Yet, despite her great interest in Australia's history, Caroline did not live in the past, taking much interest in the present. Like the journalist she never was, she always wanted to know what was really happening.
As her friend Prue Wyndham said, Caroline was "an up and about sort of person", out of the house at a brisk pace after her early morning round of phone calls.
"Caroline Simpson here," she would tell her caller, or simply "It's Caroline!" The wake-up call switched the recipient onto Caroline time, and into the workings of the city. Her call list included Herald journalists, including the late Annette Dupree, myself, and Daphne Guinness. Did we know? What should be done about? Something in Sydney life was amusing, appalling, dreadful or ridiculous, and definitely calling for action.
If we thought her views were too outrageous, she would accept a knockback with grace. If teased in print, she would never take umbrage, and seemed to enjoy publicity, such as that which followed the recent sale of Fairfax's corporate art collection.
Her calls might concern the environment, the state of historic houses, politics, a spot of bother at the Royal Botanic Gardens, or her love of the television show At Home with the Braithwaites, about a family which wins money in the lottery and whose members make a mess of their lives. Throughout her adult life, her main focus was the first 50 or so years of white settlement in Australia. As Fairfax historian Gavin Souter said, "She cared about the past, and was one of its most responsible and serious custodians."
She cared nothing, however, of politically correct views, and spoke her mind freely and without fear of contradiction. At dinner parties, if she did not agree with the views of other guests, she was known to leave the table, said Prue Wyndham.. "I don't think an open mind was one of her attributes," she said, "but I don't think she made up her mind without knowledge."
A voracious reader of newspapers, Caroline took much interest in John Fairfax Publications, and clipped many press and magazine articles to send to her friends. Her house was filled with books and an excellent collection of colonial paintings.
Her main stage was the city of Sydney but she was as much at home at the Sutton Forest country property and in their London flat.
Despite her wealth, Caroline did not waste money on herself. Until a windfall gain of the late 1980s, triggered by the unsuccessful takeover of John Fairfax Publications by her half-brother, Warwick Fairfax, Caroline travelled economy class to England, telling friends it was a complete waste of money to pay more.
After the takeover, that view changed, as did many things in her life. Then she was able to take up serious collecting, and indulge her dream of owning Clyde Bank, the oldest Georgian house in Sydney. She bought the three-storey house in Lower Fort Street in 1992, and spent three years restoring it, adding three kitchens designed by her favourite architect, Espie Dods. Clyde Bank was opened to the public as an art gallery of colonial art and furniture.
Caroline did not like the term "art museum", preferring the more vibrant, living word "gallery." She was particular in her use of words, and had a knack of picking the emotive phrase, the well thought out comment, or the sharp response, delivered with the timing of an actor.
She said of Espie Dods, "He is charming. No, charming is not the right word. A head waiter can be charming."
When her half-brother Warwick moved into his father's old office, she remarked: "Warwick has been an absentee landlord. What do they say? There's no fertiliser as good as the master's footprint."
When a man was introduced to her as the "partner" of a woman, Caroline asked "bed or business?"
When Prue Wyndham suggested she pick up a hitchhiker on the way to Palm Beach, Caroline responded, "Certainly not, there's a perfectly good bus service."
Another friend, Martha Rutledge, thinks Caroline had "a kind of puritanical streak of the Congregational Church. Not so much a religious streak, but puritanical principles."
It was once said of Caroline that she was "imperious but shy." James Fairfax believes her conservatism might have flowed from uncertainties in their upbringing, resulting from the divorce of their parents.
Caroline was the elder child of Marcie Elizabeth (known as Betty) Fairfax (nee Wilson) and Sir Warwick Fairfax, who married in 1928. Born in October 1930, she was brought up in her parents' home, Barford, in Bellevue Hill. She and her brother, James, played in the idyllic garden setting, and could also roam in the adjacent garden of the original Fairfax family home, Ginahgulla. They grew up with a strong sense of family history, and were cared for by a flotilla of servants, among them a cook, butler, housemaid, parlourmaid, kitchenmaid, Mother's personal maid, chauffeur, gardener, and Nanny - Bertha Mary Tamblin, who had looked after the children of the Marquess of Linlithgow, later the Viceroy of India.
James has written in his memoir, My Regards to Broadway, that "Nanny was kind, firm, and practical with common sense ... She had a large wooden spoon and used to rap us over the knuckles for disobedience."
On two of their summer holidays, he and Caroline stayed with Nurse Craig in a small wooden cottage in Florida Road, Palm Beach, while their parents stayed at another house at the end of beach.
They attended Rosemont Play School, run by Mrs Charles Lloyd Jones in her house, Rosemont, in Woollahra, then a kindergarten, Fairfield. In their early years, they were driven to school in the Rolls by the chauffeur.
Caroline was a 16-year-old student at Ascham when her parents divorced and her mother married the French navy commander, Pierre Gilly. Caroline then lived with her mother and stepfather in Tokyo, and attended a finishing school near Interlaken.
Back home in Sydney, she returned to Barford, living with her father and his new wife, Hanne. At Barford, she had her own apartment of a few rooms, nicknamed "Caroline's ivory tower" by her father.
In the mid-1950s, Caroline met her future husband, Philip Simpson, then a partner in the law firm, Minter, Simpson & Co, in which his father and grandfather had also been partners. They married at All Saints, Woollahra, in April 1959, and a year later, asked John Amory to design a family home in Fairfax Road. They moved into the house in 1961.
That year also marked the start of a committee that dominated Caroline's life for the next quarter of a century. It was the women's committee of the National Trust, formed by Dame Helen Blaxland. Caroline was the backbone of the committee, and its vice-chairwoman in the mid-1980s.
The committee's own "command centre" was Lindesay, the historic house in Darling Point, and Caroline contributed to a book on its history.
When her children were in their 20s, she became ever more active in writing, publishing and collecting, co-authoring Ascham Remembered 1886-1986. She was convener of an exhibition about her great-uncle, the architect Hardy Wilson, contributed to Australian Antiques - First Fleet to Federation, wrote postscripts to books on New South Wales' houses, by Nesta Griffiths, and contributed many entries to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, a project she recently rescued from financial strife with a gift of $100,000.
In the 1990s, she published books, including Railways, Relics and Romance, on the Eveleigh Railway Workshops, with photographs by David Moore, and established the Caroline Simpson Scholarship at the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture in Britain.
Caroline was a silent philanthropist, never drawing attention to her gifts to the Art Gallery of NSW and State Library of NSW.
In all this busyness, her abiding interest was her own family, past and present. Early in 2001, one of Caroline's calls came at the usual time, early in the morning.
"I'm having a family reunion!"
She certainly was. A hundred invitations went out to all branches of the Fairfax family, including Sir Warwick's third wife, Lady (Mary) Fairfax, and "yonng" Warwick in the United States. He didn't reply; Lady Fairfax accepted. For a photo, Lady Fairfax sat at the centre, on a chair especially carried to its place by James Fairfax. The photo appeared on page two of the Herald. Caroline was thrilled.
Among the guests were her children, Louise, Alice, Emily and Edward, and her four grandchildren. Two of her children seemed to fulfil an unfulfilled role of Caroline's, training as actors. One of the two, Edward, is an actor and pianist, who appeared recently in the show Two Pianos, Four Hands.
Caroline was in her garden overlooking Sydney Harbour when she felt ill last Friday morning. At St Vincent's Hospital, she was diagnosed with a heart tumour and underwent an operation during which she had a heart attack and died late in the day.
Among her group of friends, the sense of unreality about her death is profound. The crusading Caroline never seemed to suffer ill health, and we are all waiting for the phone to ring one more time.
She is survived by her husband, four children, four grandchildren, and her two brothers.
A private burial service is to be held todayand a memorial service at All Saints, Woollahra, on January 21.
Valerie Lawson
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RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA – The city's largest homeowners association is one step closer to hiring lifeguards and installing an automated external defibrillator at the Beach Club and Lagoon, where a 3-year-old boy drowned earlier this year.
On July 4, Xavier Ergueta, 3, was found unconscious in the water shortly before a Rancho Santa Margarita Landscape and Recreation Corp. fireworks show began. He was taken to Mission Hospital and died the following day.
Off-duty medical professionals who worked to revive Ergueta criticized the response by pool monitors who did not initiate CPR and were frustrated that the facility lacked first-aid equipment such as an AED.
Under the law, homeowners associations are not required to have AEDs or lifeguards – who are obligated to perform CPR – at association pools.
On Tuesday, Rancho Santa Margarita Landscape and Recreation Corp.'s board of directors received recommendations from its water safety ad hoc committee, formed after the July incident to review pool-safety policies.
The 16-member committee suggested SAMLARC hire lifeguards who would watch the water in addition to pool monitors, whose main responsibility is to enforce rules. The committee made no recommendations as to when and at what facilities lifeguards should be placed, Community Executive Officer Candice Fullenkamp said.
The committee also recommended installing a permanent AED at the lagoon and requiring pool staff to bring AEDs with them to the rest of the pools.
"We didn't take the Fourth of July drowning lightly," SAMLARC board president Don Chadd said. "There's not a day I drive by this lake that I don't think about it."
Board members decided to bring in SAMLARC's insurance broker and attorneys for next month's meeting to ask about increased liability if the association adopts the policy changes, Fullenkamp said.
The insurance broker had told the ad hoc committee that SAMLARC's liability will increase by having lifeguards and AEDs, but it will be covered by insurance, Fullenkamp said.
The full cost of the policy changes has not been analyzed, Fullenkamp said, but additional liability and equipment could increase membership fees.
Each AED costs $1,000-$2,000, she said. Although rates vary, lifeguards are generally more expensive than pool monitors.
SAMLARC staff will try to provide cost estimates at the Jan. 28 meeting, Fullenkamp said. If the board decides to approve the recommendations, HOA members would be notified of the suggested policy changes for review and input.
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'Love & Hip Hop Atlanta' Gets Two New Cast Members?
Love & Hip Hop NY hasn't finished airing and producers are already beefing up the cast of Love & Hip Hop Atlanta, sources claim.
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The improvements mark the completion of Phase I of Sea Rim State Park's redevelopment funded in part by $2 million approved by the 81st Legislature to aid in its recovery. "Sea Rim is a unique state treasure rich in cultural and natural resources where the lush marsh grasses meet the gulf waters and visitors can truly get away from it all," says Justin Rhodes, Texas State Parks regional director. "We want all Texans and others to rediscover a sliver of Texas beach in its unfettered state that teems with wildlife and offers a variety of recreational opportunities." The park, which reopened in 2009 with limited services after being hammered in 2005 by Hurricane Rita and in 2008 by Hurricane Ike, encompasses two units split by State Highway 87. The Beach unit draws sun lovers to 5.2 miles of beachfront, while the expansive Marsh unit attracts legions of kayakers, birders, crabbers, anglers and hunters. It is on the edge of the sprawling marshland crisscrossed by more than 16 miles of paddling trails that a new heated and air-conditioned cabin can be rented for $95 a night. On the park's beach side, visitors can rent one of the 15 new full-service campsites or opt for primitive beach camping. A new day use area with picnic tables and shade shelters was erected with the assistance of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The Texas Department of Transportation provided funding for new roads, a parking area and beach access. Sea Rim State Park, which first opened to the public in 1977, derives its name from the portion of the Gulf of Mexico shoreline where inland mud flats and tidal marshes meet the sea. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department originally purchased the coastal property in 1972 from the Plant Oil and Mineral Corporation and Horizon Sales Corporation. 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The Hickory Crawdads got their seven-game road trip off to an impressive start Thursday night. The Crawdads pounded the Savannah Sand Gnats 10-1 at Historic Grayson Stadium.
Second baseman Travis Demeritte backboned the outburst going 3-5 with two home runs and five runs-batted-in. Demeritte leads the South Atlantic League with 23 home runs, four more than teammate Nomar Mazara, who sits in second place with 19. The win also leaves Hickory (65-44 overall; 24-16, second half of the South Atlantic League season) two games behind Hagerstown for first place in the SAL' Northern Division. The Suns defeated Charleston 1-0 Thursday night.
Hickory pitchers Tyler Smith (5-3) and Ryne Slack, who held the Sand Gnats to just one run on four hits with ten strikeouts. Smith went six innings and gave up an earned run on three hits with six strikeouts; Slack, who picked up his fifth save, gave up just one hits with four strikeouts.
Hickory didn't waste any time jumping on losing pitcher Logan Taylor (0-3) by scoring two runs in the first inning, and another run in the second for a 3-0 lead. Zach Cone and Jairo Beras plated Hickory's first two runs with an RBI double and an RBI single respectively; Demeritte went deep for the first time with a solo blast leading off the second inning.
Savannah (67-38; 23-16) got on the board in the bottom of the third, when Champ Stuart lined a RBI single off of Smith to cut the score to 3-1. But the 'Dads responded with a run in the top of the fifth.
Michael De Leon reached on a one out single to center field before Taylor walked the next three batters, including Kellin Deglan, who drove in a run to make it, 4-1. Taylor gave up four runs on five hits with three walks in six innings.
The Crawdads batted around in the eighth, scoring three runs on three hits for a 7-1 lead. The Sand Gnats didn't help themselves by committing three errors in the inning. Demeritte and De Leon each came through with RBI singles in the frame; Luis Marte brought in a run with an RBI groundout.
The 'Dads added to their lead with three more runs in the ninth. Demeritte had the big hit in the inning as he connected on a three-run blast to left field. The Crawdads and the Sand Gnats match up tonight at 7:05 p.m., for game two of their four game series.
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Artist: Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, Kronach 1472–1553 Weimar)
Date: ca. 1530
Medium: Oil on linden
Dimensions: 35 1/4 x 24 3/8 in. (89.5 x 61.9 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1911
Accession Number: 11.15
In this panel Judith presents the severed head of Holofernes, the Assyrian general directing the siege of her city, having killed him with his own sword. The virtuous heroine, who seduced the enemy with her coquettish appeal, is dressed in an elaborate contemporary costume that is characteristic of Cranach's courtly mannerism. The painter and his workshop produced several versions of this successful composition, which contrasts the gruesome head and the serene beauty of the biblical heroine. At the lower right, Cranach placed his insignia, a crowned winged serpent with a ring in its mouth.


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Popular among collectors, Alphonse Mucha's sensual style typically featured intriguing female figures. "Four Seasons" was Mucha's first series of decorative panels and one of his most popular works.
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Last week I was interested and surprised to read in The Australian Financial Review article "Spotless, Nine turn backs on credit ratings" that
The article noted: "Without a rating, these companies cannot go back to the US capital markets, which is where private equity-backed names have had a lot of success raising debt in the past few years."
Although not strictly true – several Australian companies, recently
In general, it is peculiar behaviour that Australian companies would choose to withdraw their credit ratings. In fact, I do not understand why so few Australian companies have credit ratings.
This viewpoint is supported by a recent PhD thesis by Philip Bayley (no relation), titled The Impact of Syndicated Loans on the Development of Australia's Corporate Bond Market.
A key conclusions is that corporate bonds are cheaper than syndicated loans, after allowing for differences in the determinants (loan characteristics, measures of borrower default risk and non-default factors). That said, the thesis found that some companies prefer syndicated loans over corporate bonds, as they can be competitively priced and have the ability to provide a large sum of money from a limited number of banks, with near certainty of a successful execution.
Particularly interesting – but perhaps unsurprising – was that syndicated lending banks distinguish between those companies that can access the corporate bond market and those that cannot when determining the credit spread to be applied to syndicated loans.
Credit ratings are a critical factor that helps a company gain unfettered access to the wider capital markets.
As such, the credit spread applied to syndicated loans made to companies that cannot access the corporate bond market was found to be considerably wider.
The thesis noted the annual cost of a credit rating is substantially less than the average additional borrowing expense incurred when banks believe the borrower has no other funding alternatives available.
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- 80% of blog readers consume content in the morning, compared to just under 40% who do so at night (Source: HubSpot)
- 79% of all U.S. moms with children under age 18 are active on social media (Source: Social Times)
- 44.81% of people say they unfollow others who over-communicate or over share on social media (Source: SmartBlog)
- 38% of Internet users use Google to login to Websites and social networks, making it the most popular social media login tool on the Web (Source: Janrain)
- 4pm ET is the best time of day to publish blog posts if you're looking to maximize Re-Tweets (Source: ProBlogger)
- 4 times as many people 74 years old and older use social media in 2010 compared to 2008 (Source: Pew Internet)
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- If you missed Fandango vs. Dolph Ziggler on the WWE TLC Kickoff, you can watch it now at this link or embedded in the video below:
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- Vince McMahon was shown on the WWE TLC Kickoff getting out of a limousine with Triple H and Stephanie McMahon. There has been speculation for the last several weeks when McMahon would make his way back to television. He also appeared later on the pay-per-view in a backstage segment, shaking the hand of Randy Orton.


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This environment is inspired by Witcher and Skyrim and located at the peak of the mountain. The look we headed to was viking and north styled building and moody snow blizzard.
First was I did after blockout is started cut objects one by one in separate Modo files. In engine I made Master Material which you can see below. What I wanted that all material can do is ability to paint snow/dirt/gravel on them. So I used very nice technique in UE4 called material functions. The idea was simple - we need ability to paint 3 additional materials via vertex painting using RGB values (R - snow, G - dirt, B - gravel). So, instead of having a ton of nodes in main materials we encapsulate them in separate mini-materials called material functions. Each material function have own Albedo, Roughness, Normal and other outputs just like regular material do. We can bring them in our master material and just blend them using Linear Interpolation node and using vertex colors as Interpolation amount.


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Senate helps fund LED lights
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Student senate passed a bill Monday allocating $105,000 to change all external lights on campus to light-emitting diodes. It's scheduled to be completed in spring of next year.
The university was given $3.6 million from the Wisconsin Department of Administration for sustainability projects, one of which was to replace the lights with high-intensity discharge lamps, but the Student Office of Sustainability decided to contribute the extra funds to upgrade to LEDs.
Ben Ponkratz, the director of SOS, said the commission didn't have any high-cost projects in the works and they took the chance to
save energy.
"When you have the opportunity to do a large infrastructure improvement on campus, we're going to jump at that," Ponkratz said.
Students pay $10 a year in segregated fees to fund sustainability projects such as the LED-light upgrade. In this case, the price difference between HIDs and the more expensive LEDs is what's being paid for.
However, LEDs will save the university over $16,000 a year and more than 246,000 kilowatt hours of energy per year, according to the bill.
Ponkratz also said that the lights project better, last twice as long and are dark-sky compliant, which means that they don't flood the sky.
"If you are on a level-playing field with (the LEDs), you can't see them at all," he said.
Sen. Matt Sias thought this upgrade was a good move for the university.
"I think this is a very intelligent way to invest money into campus infrastructure and is the perfect time to do so," he said.
Sen. Ben Krall agreed.
"That's exactly what the students overwhelmingly voted in favor of when they voted to allot $10 of their segregated fees."
Normally there is an introduction and then a vote the following week, but rules were suspended because both the state government and Facilities Management needed an answer soon, Ponkratz said.
Sen. April Ross understood the need for expediency, but voiced confusion about the payback period of this project, which is currently at about 34 years. But Ponkratz admitted that the state came up with the estimation and that it may not end up being accurate.
Ross wanted time to possibly correct confusions, but ultimately conceded.
"I know we are pushing things through because facilities wants an answer, but overall I wish we would have had another week for this," she said.
Vice President Mark Morgan agreed the bill could have more clarity in those regards, but ultimately, payback estimations are determined by the state and there wasn't much they could do about it.
He also said that more time would have been nice, but the bill had been debated throughout the semester and it was time to take advantage of the money.
"The idea that the Department of Administration or any agency within state government would throw us $3.6 million is so absurd that I'm not going to start questioning their timeline on it."
Thom Fountain contributed reporting to this story.


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term to describe the short-term separation of a set of lovers. when 'carte blanc' is called by either person, both of the people in the relationship are free to do whatever, and more so whoever, they wish. it is different from 'talking time off' or a separation, break-up, etc... in that the possibility of negative consequences are slim.
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Researchers to probe rich options for Maori land
Wednesday - Rising carbon prices mean carbon farming, backed by manuka honey production, is becoming a viable use of Maori land, says the head of a Ruatoria charitable company.
Climate threatens three of four vital grain crops
Tuesday - Three of the four major grains on which the growing world population depends are vulnerable to global warming, says a new meta-analysis based on more than 70 studies.
Every degree of warming counts for crop harvests
17 Aug 17 - The world can expect 3 per cent to 7 per cent less yield for each degree rise in temperature.
Sustainable Farming Fund grants open
9 Aug 17 - Applications for the latest round of Sustainable Farming Fund grants are open.
Livestock mega farms booming in Britain
18 Jul 17 - Nearly every county in England has at least one industrial-scale livestock farm, with close to 800 US-style mega farms operating across the UK, new research reveals.
Organic farming might not cut climate risk
27 Jun 17 - Organic farming does not always benefit the environment in the ways people expect, and might not avert climate change effects, scientists say.
Federated Famers warns of consequences
26 Jun 17 - Federated Farmers is warning politicians of consequences if agricultural emissions are brought into the Emissions Trading Scheme before other countries put a carbon price on farming.
CARBON CATCH-22: The pollution in our soil
23 Jun 17 - Bad behaviour doesnt usually have good consequences but our fossil fuel and fertiliser habits may have had some good environmental side-effects.
COUNTRY CALL: Farmers want ETS and water price
21 Jun 17 - Parts of the agricultural sector are calling for farming to be included in the Emissions Trading Scheme and for a price on water.
We must do something, dairy industry agrees
15 Jun 17 - The dairy industry is acknowledging it needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Booming dairy industry drives up emissions
6 Jun 17 - Methane emissions from New Zealands national dairy herd have climbed nearly 130 per cent since 1990 as a result of the expansion and intensification of the dairy industry.
Food industry is cooking the planet
29 May 17 - One of the biggest contributors to climate change is the agricultural food industry, but the political will to tackle the issue is lacking.
Targeted forests could slash farm emissions
9 May 17 - Planting forests to clean up waterways could cut New Zealands net greenhouse gas emissions from land use by 80 per cent.
Water shortage could hurt European farmers
3 May 17 - Water scarcity half a world away caused by climate change could push up prices for meat and diary products in Europe.
Dutch building Europes first vertical farm
26 Apr 17 - A farm in the Netherlands will serve one of Europes biggest supermarket chains with lettuce grown using LED horticultural lighting.
Weird weather is being felt down on the farm
21 Apr 17 - Changes to New Zealands weather caused by global warming are starting to affect the countrys agricultural earnings.
We must make our soils great again
19 Apr 17 - Restoring soil fertility is one of humanitys best options for making progress on three daunting challenges: Feeding everyone, weathering climate change and conserving biodiversity.
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7 Apr 17 - Spare a thought for the farmers of America: climate change is going to make their lives more difficult.
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