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I'm new to decorating and had a silly question. Has anyone ever used vinegar in their buttercream when practicing only? I would like to discourage myself from getting the icing anywhere near my mouth (those little drips and messes can be tempting). I figure I am FAR less tempted to take even a taste if I practice with buttercream that actually tastes bad. Will it affect my consistency too much? I figure that if you use water or milk with the same results it should work, however I don't know if the acidic nature of vinegar would cause a reaction and mess it up.
P.S. I'm a chemist by trade so I can handle as much or as little advice as you want to give in terms of reactions of acids/bases with sugar and shortening.
Some people deliberately put vinegar in their buttercream! Not to stop anyone from eating it though It's to stop the icing from cracking, and just a very small amount. I've never tried it but I've heard it works.
It's a novel idea you have, I have no idea how it would work, but very creative! Good luck resisting temptation!


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The agreement between EBRD and GarantiBank Romania could be signed within 2-3 months.
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"Tradition" is the watchword when it comes to gift-giving for Mom this year, as nine of 10 consumers plan to celebrate Mother's Day, with total spending estimated to reach nearly $17.2 billion, according to the annual Brand Keys Mother's Day survey.
Celebrants intend to spend an average of $163 this year, up 10 percent over 2011. Men, following a long-time pattern, intend to spend more than women, reporting an anticipated average spend of $190. Women anticipate spending $136 on Mom.
"Last year shoppers went high-tech," said Robert Passikoff, Brand Keys founder and president. "But this year, they're going with more traditional gifts, including cards, brunch or dinner, flowers, jewelry and clothing. The shift back is a reflection of last year's purchases when e-readers, tablets, and smartphones were the gift-of-choice. After all, no matter how much you love Mom, she doesn't need a new computer or e-reader every year."
As part of the Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Engagement Index, the New York City-based brand and customer loyalty research consultancy polled 5,000 men and women age 18 to 60 about how they were planning to celebrate Mother's Day. Here's what they found (percentages in parentheses indicate changes from last year):
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From Cali, Colombia, singer-songwriter Marta Gómez crafts genuine songs with hooks that can transport even non-Spanish-speakers into the heart of her anthemic refrains and irresistible rhythms. Marta and her group perform a repertoire of original compositions based on a vast amount of rhythms from Latin America. On her songs, Marta mixes the joy of the Caribbean with the nostalgia of the Andes adding jazz and pop elements, taking the authenticity of South American indigenous folk music into a hip new realm.
Her last project, Musiquita, reflected the steady growth of an artist who, while deepening her art, maintains her own strong identity. On "Musiquita", Marta expands her vocal vocabulary, enlarging her unique sound to include percussive vocal improvisation and soaring vocalese. Her arrangements have become more sure and years of worldwide concert touring have solidified the sound of her band. But it's Marta's unique voice, the quality and the simplicity that she draws from the bittersweet stories of the people of Latin America, that remains intact on "Musiquita".
Marta will be performing music from her vast repertoire as well as new songs from her newly released sixth studio album, El Corazon Y El Sombrero (the heart and the hat), which is an homage to poet Federico Garcia Lorca.


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Bobby Farrell performed as usual in Russia the night before he was found lifeless by a hotel staff.
Boney M star Bobby Farrell has died at the age of 61. The singer, who was on tour in Russia, was found dead in his hotel room in St. Petersburg on Thursday, December 30 morning. Farrell's body was reportedly discovered by hotel staff after he failed to respond to a wake-up call.
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With a musical career of junglist exploration spanning over two decades, the highly prolific Netherlands-based producer FFF (aka Triple-Times-F) presents his Criterion Records label debut with three stunning pieces of forward thinking jungle only available on vinyl.
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Up next the 'Sounds Of Summer' fuses together a fierce blend of frantic, hard-stepping breaks and thunderous bass pulses juxtaposed by soothing, jazzy Rhode's keys to creating a perfect balance of light and dark elements.
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Defoe in Dorset; Part 4
Continuing and completing Daniel Defoe's travels through Dorset between 1722 and 1724, Harry Bucknall guides us on the final part of his journey through the county
Published in May '15
Arriving in North Dorset, the author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe captured the region in his three-volume A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain at a unique moment in its history. Here pre-industrial society was booming as the Shaftesbury-Stalbridge-Blandford 'triangle' became a focus for manufacturing cloth in all its many and varied forms – from lace to stockings to sail canvas and buttons. Here it was that the fabrics and the fastenings that, in some senses, literally held the country together were made. The great steam driven looms of Lancashire that would revolutionise production and sweep all before them were still a good generation in the future hence Defoe's commentary: 'In this little interval also I visited some of the biggest towns in the north-west part of this county, as Blandford, a town on the river Stour … , a handsome well built town, but chiefly famous for making the finest bonelace in England, and where they shew'd me some so exquisitely fine, as I think I never saw better in Flanders, France or Italy, … but 'tis most certain, that they make exceeding rich lace in that county, such as no part of England can equal.'
Nothing remains of the lace industry that Defoe spoke so highly of, save Mrs Betty Penny's collection of historic costumes in the Blandford Fashion Museum, which catalogues trends in clothing from 1740 to the present day.
The Blandford Forum that Defoe visited was most different from that of today; it was already recovering from a significant fire in 1713, when – nine years after Defoe had composed his history – on the afternoon of 4 June 1731, the town was almost completely destroyed when sparks from a soap boiler chimney fell onto a neighbouring thatch roof. The inferno ripped through the streets and even the Church of St Peter & St Paul, where the townsfolk were sheltering, succumbed to the flames later in the day.
Sixteen people died in the blaze and donations from across the land, including the Royal Family, were sent to help rebuild the town, which John and William Bastard set about designing with gusto; drawing up plans most notably for the Town Hall, the church, the market place, almshouses and a number of residences. The Bastard brothers, entrepreneurs in spirit, were not only builders, but furniture makers, ecclesiastical carvers and plaster workers; their company, Bastard & Co, was recorded as the single largest private losers in the fire.
Blandford is today described as a Georgian town because it was totally rebuilt as a consequence of the conflagration; the Town Hall was completed in 1734 but it would take a further twenty-nine years before the town was finally completed in 1760; a portico was added to the church to mark the occasion.
Back in Defoe's day: 'From thence I went west to Stourbridge, vulgarly call'd Strabridge; the town, and the country round is employ'd in the manufacture of stockings, and which was once famous for making the finest, best, and highest priz'd knit stockings in England; but that trade now is much decay'd by the encrease of the knitting-stocking engine, or frame, which has destroyed the hand knitting-trade for fine stockings thro' the whole kingdom,…' the industrial winds of change were already beginning to blow through the Blackmore Vale when Defoe visited Stalbridge, and it was perhaps to alleviate this new found austerity that King George I granted the town market rights. About the same time, the MP for Melcombe Regis, artist and father-in-law of Hogarth, Sir James Thornhill built Thornhill Park nearby. Pevsner once described it as a 'modest but sizeable villa'. Recently on the market, it was one of the most sought after houses in Dorset. The obelisk erected to mark the accession of George II still stands to this day.
If Defoe were to visit Stalbridge now, he would comment on the town's welcoming feel. There is a great sense of tradition along the High Street, from the veritable cycle emporium at the far end, to the snug Post Office and the enduring presence of Dike & Son, the local stores since 1851, or still in a nostalgic vein, the Vault, where the connoisseur can even find vinyl records to suit his or her every need. It was also in Stalbridge, that the late, great and much-lamented Douglas Adams wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Defoe, meanwhile, heads further west: 'From hence I came to Shireburn, a large and populous town, with one collegiate, or conventual church, and may properly claim to have more inhabitants in it than any town in Dorsetshire, tho' it is neither the county town, or does it send members to Parliament; the church is still a reverend pile, and shews the face of great antiquity.'
It is hard not to empathise with Defoe; there is an intangible vibrancy to Sherborne – its characterful streets and secret courtyards, hewn out of the local golden ham stone, coupled with an ever present throng, partly the result of it being home to five schools, partly the beguiling array of shops, galleries, cafés and restaurants – give the town a charm and sense of purpose, as if it was still the capital of ancient Wessex.
To give provenance to this educational pedigree, King Alfred was educated here, and his two elder brothers, Kings Ethelbert and Ethelbald, are buried in the pretty 8th-century abbey, once the capital's cathedral, with its exquisite vaulted ceilings, stained glass windows and intricately carved reredos. It is surprising, however, that Defoe makes no mention of Sherborne's castles; the old, destroyed by Fairfax, the Parliamentarian General, and the new built by Sir Walter Raleigh and extended by the Digby family in the 17th century.
The A30, the old London to Penzance road, takes you through rolling open country where big hedges abound and bold tree lines march the ridges that climb towards the border with Wiltshire until Shaftesbury 'upon the top of a high hill, and which closes the plain, or downs, and whence nature presents you a new scene or prospect, (viz.) of Somerset and Wiltshire, where 'tis all enclosed, and grown with woods, forests, and planted hedge-rows'.
Since early times, Shaftesbury, because of its high position, had always played an important role in the Kingdom of Wessex. In the early 10th century, Royal Mints were established in the town by King Æthelstan. King Alfred fortified Shaftesbury against the Danes and, later, with his daughter, Æthelgifu, founded the Abbey, which rose to become the wealthiest Benedictine Nunnery in England, until broken up in the reign of Henry VIII during the Reformation.
In 980AD the Abbey, became home to the relics of Saint Edward the Martyr, the King of England murdered at Corfe Castle in an alleged conspiracy by the Dowager Queen Ælfthryth and Edward's half-brother Æthelred the Unready. The town thus became a site of pilgrimage, bringing added wealth and income.
During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the relics were buried for safe keeping and only recovered in the 1930s; thereafter they lay in a bank vault for many years while the authorities wrangled over whether the remains should be returned to Shaftesbury or handed to the Orthodox Church where Edward is also venerated. In the 1980s, the Saint was placed in the care of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and he is enshrined in Brookwood, Surrey, in the St Edward the Martyr Orthodox Church – far from his kingdom and a long way from his spiritual resting place, no matter how he met his end.
Defoe found the town to his liking: 'the country rich, fertile and populous, the towns and houses standing thick, and being large and full of inhabitants, and those inhabitants fully employed in the richest and most valuable manufacture in the world, (viz.) the English cloathing, as well, the medley, or mixt clothing, as whites; as well for the home trade, as the foreign trade.'
It is arguable that Defoe visited Shaftesbury at its zenith; Abraham Case founded his button business in the 17th century and by the reign of Queen Anne, his family and heirs had turned it into an efficient and profitable commercial operation that employed 700 people; by the end of the 18th century, over 4000 women and children were involved in the manufacturing process. Initially made from rams horn discs and latterly wire rings, the buttons were renowned for the detail of their embroidery, with names like 'High Top' and 'Dorset Knob'; remarkably, it was not until the Great Exhibition of 1851, when John Ashton exhibited his button-making machine, that mechanisation dealt a devastating blow to the weavers and button makers that, for centuries, had made the town, and surrounding areas, so wealthy. The effect on the community was devastating, leading to considerable unemployment and significant levels of emigration. Shaftesbury has never regained such prominence since. ◗


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In a large nonstick frying pan, heat 3 tablespoons of the oil with 1 1/2 tablespoons of the butter over moderately high heat. Add the onions and cook, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes. Stir in 1/4 teaspoon of the salt. Reduce the heat to moderate and cook, stirring frequently, until the onions are well browned, about 5 minutes longer. Remove.
Sprinkle the liver with the remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt and the pepper. In the same pan, heat the remaining tablespoon oil and 1/2 tablespoon butter over high heat. When the pan is very hot, add the liver and sage. Cook, stirring, until just done, 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from the heat, return the onions to the pan, and toss.
How to Cook Liver: Forget all the bitter, grainy liver you may have had. The way to make liver taste good is primarily a matter of resisting the temptation to overcook it. It should be seared to keep the juices from escaping and should be slightly pink inside, not dingy gray. Use high heat bravely and briefly.
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Posted 07 December 2012 - 12:03 PM
My son is going to be attending school near me next year (instead of living with his dad and attending school there)
I freely admit this will be my first experience doing school runs & packing lunches. (noob mummy is noob! )
i figure we will adjust as the term goes on, but i'd love some ideas on what to pack him for the first week or so?
He is 9, with an average appetite (not too fussy, eats more some days, less others) and apart from no nuts, his school has no restrictions
thanks all
Posted 07 December 2012 - 12:05 PM
I would ask him, he is 9, he will know what he likes and what he currently takes.
Good luck
Posted 07 December 2012 - 12:16 PM
he told me takes a sandwich and a packet of shapes.... i dont know how accurate/healthy that idea is
Posted 07 December 2012 - 01:49 PM
My DS is 9 and has been packing his own lunch for the past year. He has a sandwich with cheese and sometimes salami, some shapes and cow cheese, or sultanas, or rice crackers/ cakes for recess, an apple for brain food, and some more fruit to go with his sandwich at lunch. I bought lots of those little snack size containers and whenever we open some shapes, crackers or soy crisps, we divide them up between several containers. Then he only has to really make his lunch, and grab the other things on the run.
ETA The shapes work out much cheaper if you buy and dispense them this way. And that amount of food does not seem enough for a growing boy. And the school will probably want him to have fruit to eat in class.
Edited by mindy05, 07 December 2012 - 01:51 PM.
Posted 07 December 2012 - 01:54 PM
My 9yo is a big eater during the day (then again my 5yo eats nearly the same amount)
DS9 gets -
Sandwich (2 if its just vegemite or a spread)
1/2 mango
4 tiny apricots
Small pack chips
Muesli bar
Fruit bar
9 times out of 10 his lunch bag comes home empty.
Posted 07 December 2012 - 01:56 PM
my 10yr old is in grade 4 this year and has a fruit, sandwich (varies everyday what goes in it) and a treat LCM bar or shapes or chips or something (i know not totally healthy) and shes happy with it.
Posted 07 December 2012 - 01:57 PM
My 8.5yo DD takes something along these lines:
1 multigrain Vegemite sandwich
1 hard boiled egg
Veggies cut into sticks: celery/ red capsicum/ cucumber
Cubes of cheese and a handful of baby tomatoes
Fruit can be a mix of strawberries/ grapes/cherries/ a whole apple or whole orange
Other ideas:
veggie sticks and a dip (like hummus)
crackers and cheese
BBQ Shapes and the like
homemade muesli bar (nut free)
tub of yoghurt (more like Jalna and less like Yogo)
dried fruit like sultanas or banana chips
I guess it worth asking what he's used to having and going from there
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Proposals for the first-ever set of rules at EU-level to address legal and ethical issues raised by the increased use of robotics and artificial intelligence, will be voted in the Legal Affairs Committee on Thursday. MEPs will call for legislation to define who is liable for a robots' actions. They will also debate increased safety and introduce a code of conduct to ensure compliance with fundamental ethical principles.
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We always called this "Salisbury Steak", but it does not have tomatoes. Comfort food at it's best...
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This is so easy, and tastes so good!! I have made it several times, and have done it in the slow cooker using slightly less liquid. I has turned out excellent every time. We serve it over buttered egg noodles. This time, I'm trying it with mushrooms, per the request of my husband. I'm sure it will be great. I use gallon size freezer bags to contain the flour mess during the pounding process, which has worked well to keep the mess down. I love this dish!! Thanks for posting it!!!
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- 1 1⁄2-2 lbs round steaks
- 1⁄2-1 cup flour
- salt
- pepper
- 2 -3 tablespoons oil
- 1 large onion, sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 2 -3 cups beef broth
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- Cut round steak into 6 serving size pieces.
- On a cutting board, dredge pieces with flour, salt and pepper.
- Pound flour into the meat with a meat mallet.
- Turn pieces, dredge, and pound until they can't hold any more flour.
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- In a large non-stick skillet, heat oil and brown steak pieces on both sides.
- Place in a covered casserole.
- Add onions and garlic to the skillet.
- Saute until onions are limp (5 minutes).
- Place onions and garlic over steak pieces in casserole dish.
- Add enough beef broth to barely cover meat.
- The flour from the meat will thicken the broth as it bakes and will make its own gravy.
- Bake at 300F for 2 hours or until fork-tender.
- Serve over noodles or mashed potatoes.


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Visiting the Bluff in the Buff
Weekend Trip to the Brac
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Moving here from the U.S., we knew we'd be around our kids a lot of the time without any significant breaks for just Nadine and I. After many gracious offers from the kind elementary school principal to watch our kids for a weekend (I don't believe weekend babysitting is in her job description), we finally took her up on her offer. Since we have been on island, our entire family has considered Angie and her husband, Kevin, to be our kids' surrogate island grandparents. They seem quite willing to fill that role.
The Cayman Islands consist of 3 total islands. They are Grand Cayman, and the 2 sister Islands, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman. Grand Cayman is the big city (pop. 60,000). Cayman Brac is the country town (pop. 2,000). And Little Cayman is a ghost town (pop. 150). Upon further research of our trusted Lonely Planet, neither one of the Sister Islands have much to do other than scuba dive, and neither one of us dive. We decided to go with Cayman Brac for our surprise Valentine's Day weekend.
Even though the Cayman Islands receive cruise ships and cargo ships, there yet isn't any type of ferry/boat service between Grand Cayman and the Sister Islands. Even though they lie 65 miles apart. So we took my favorite form of transport. We boarded the large plane destined for Kingston, Jamaica with a very brief stopover on Cayman Brac.
We sat next to a very nice lady from the Brac (that's what the local call Cayman Brac). She asked us our names, where we were from, had we ever been to the Brac before. She then resumed talking about her sick husband, her knitting business in Grand Cayman, and the state of affairs in the Cayman Islands. Everything was fair game. When the plane was 45 minutes late, she transformed from a nice, gentle soul into a very jaded, opinionated one. She then attacked Cayman Airways inability to leave on time, count the number of passengers onboard correctly. She was on the verge of counting all them herself. Eventually we took off and her hand sewn bag broke. Karma?
Fortunately for us, a student of mine has a grandmother from the Brac and they graciously offered to allow us to stay at their little guest house for only $25 a night. For the Cayman Islands, that is a bargain!
For the first time in a long time, Nadine and I felt like a pair of tourists. No kids. No responsibilities. Just throwing our backpacks in our little white Korean rental car, and exploring the 12 by 1 mile area of Cayman Brac. There are some similarities between to the two islands. The west end is the more populated side of both islands with the east end being sparcely populated. The one attribute that the Brac has over Grand Cayman is elevation. The highest point on Grand Cayman peaks at a lofty 75 feet, and that may be the island dump Mount Trashmore. The Brac on the other hand soars over Grand Cayman, its' highest point is 149 feet.
The Gaelic word brac means bluff, and the brac starts emerging from the sea as you head east. The bluff continues elevating until you abruptly hit the the Lighthouse on the eastern most point of the island. Drastically, 149 feet drop smack dab into the Caribbean Sea below. It's a great place for rock climbers. Yet the edge is not roped off, so if you explore too close to the edge, you may become a cliff diver. Or even a cliff cannonballer.
People on Cayman Brac are just as friendly just like the rest of the country. While driving around the Brac, folks would simply give each other the Texas wave from behind the steering wheel. This isn't the one you see in New Mexico where you solely flash the middle finger, rather this consists of raising your index finger. Now if we could just get them saying y'all.
Last tourist excursion was a visit to the Cayman Brac Parrot Reserve, the only place in the world where the Cayman Brac parrot lives. As Lonely Planet proudly explained on page 282 of their Caribbean Islands guidebook, "you should not have no trouble spotting one of the 400 remaining Cayman Brac parrots that are slowly reestablishing themselves." First of all Lonely Planet, 400? I only counted three. Secondly, no trouble whatsoever spotting them? As we walked over the raised wooden walkway over the limestone bluff, we were skilled and fortunate enough to only hear two or three of these 400 parrots. Never saw a single one.
Until next time, ¡hasta pronto!
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Parts of a Computer
Network, sound, video cards and Optical drives
A computer is a device that accepts information (in the form of digitalized data) and manipulates it for some result based on a program or sequence of instructions on how the data is to be processed. (www.techtarget.com)
to make a computer work, some of the important components are used such as a:
Network card
Sound card
Video card
and Optical drives
Network Cards
Network cards or Network Interface Cards (NIC) are used to connect the computer to the internet with an Ethernet cable it is used to send and receive data through the networks. On the network card there are two distinctive LED lights on the face of the card that faces out of the CPU tower, one light lights up green which shows that the card is receiving electricity the other light lights up Orange or red depending on the megabytes per second. and the orange or red light indicates the internet activity.
to transfer the data over the network the network card uses a transceiver which changes parallel data into serial data which is easier to upload on to the internet. Each card must have a unique address which is called a MAC Address which differentiates all the network cards in the world.
Network cards have settings that can be configured, some are the I/O address, and memory address DMA settings.
to use the network card you'd need the right cable (Ethernet) and the right bus architecture for it to work.
the light that lights up orange indicates 10 megabytes per second or red which indicates 100 megabytes per second. you can differentiate different network cards by the speed the network card can send data onto the computer and also the amount of connectors and also which interface is used and also if the card will wake up on LAN connectivity.
There are a lot different models for different people
The most efficient sound card model-
TP-LINK TF-3200 Network Adapter 10/ 100Mbps PCI 1 x RJ45 which is going for retail 6 dollars.
average model-
StarTech PEX1394A2V 2 Port 1394a PCI Express FireWire Card Up to 400Mbps FireWire 400 (1394a) 1 - PCI Express x1 2 - Firewire 400 (6 pin; IEEE 1394a)
High-end model-
Intel XL710QDA2BLK Ethernet Converged Network Adapters XL710 10/40 GbEPCIe 3.0, x8 Dual port
Sound Card
Sound cards let the user input a microphone or and auditory device into the computer either to input data or listen to output data from the computer. The sound card has a lot of ports like the headphone and microphone jacks. Many sound cards can come with headphone amplifier. this is important to a user because it there isn't any sound card installed there will be no audio playback and also no audio input that is registered into the computer. to attain great sound quality many consumers consider the more quantity of channels, easy to use interface and a SNR which ranges between 100 to 116 dB
Sound card Properties
The different interfaces that a card could have (is connected to the motherboard using PCI cables, PCI Express cables and USB cables)
The numerous amount of channels which can split to different speakers.
Signal-to-noise ratio which controls the level of sound coming out of the computer which which automatically changes to meet the noise around (desktop)
The most efficient sound card model-
StarTech ICUSBAUDIO 2 Channels USB Interface Audio Adapter $22.99
average model-
Asus Xonar U7 $94.00 (7.1 channels , 192 KHz/24 bit HD Sound quality, 114 dB SNR, integrated headphone amplifier, convenient microphone volume wheel)
High-end model-
HT | OMEGA Claro Halo 24-bit 192KHz PCI Interface Sound Card w/ a built-in HI-FI Headphone Amplifier
Video/Graphics cards
Video cards also referred as graphics cards are one of the most important components of a computer, it helps maximize the frames and pixels needed to resolute the screen. Video cards are an essential because to have a smooth video playback and smooth gaming experience, a video card of some sort is needed. Video cards can come in different sizes but many of them are almost a forearms' size because they contain 1-2 or possibly 3 cooling fans and a processor of it's own behind of the fans. many popular games only run on the best of the best graphics card.
Graphics card properties
there are many properties to a video card since it is the meat and bones of a computer and needs all the power it can get.
the different interfaces the graphic card can run on (PCI, PCIX and AGP)
the quality of the stream processor. this helps to allocate more virtual RAM and space (VRAM) to certain applications
the amount of CUDA cores there are (basically they are cores for the individual graphic card)
the memory size and interface (so it can multi task many applications)
if it is equipped with the latest technologic ports (HDMI, DVI, D-SUB, TV-OUT and HDCP ready)
the graphics cards can differ in coolers/fans whether they have 1-2 or even none
The most efficient sound card model-
XFX HD545XCLH2 Radeon HD 5450 2GB 64-Bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.1 HDCP Ready Plug-in CardLow-profile Video Card $49.99
Average model-
EVGA 02G-P4-3753-KR G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 750 Ti Superclocked 2GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Video Card $179.99
High-end model-
MSI Gaming N760 TF 2GD5/OC G-SYNC Support GeForce GTX 760 2GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 SLI Support Video Card $269.99
Optical Drive
Optical drives let you input "portable drive" which can hold various amounts of data ranging from music to movies to notes. a component that resembles the CD is the Hard drive which is basically a disc that has much more space than a portable drive, the optical drive is basically the housing where the CD can be inspected to see what exactly is in there. this component can be very important if you have a specific movie or album that you would like to play. However in 2014 many laptops do not include the optical drive in the Netbooks since it adds significant weight and if unnecessary when there are smaller media technology (SD cards, iCloud, USB, portable Hard drives). But in terms, of desktops, the optical drive is one of the most avidly used component in the computer to all gamers and video editors and many more.
Properties of an optical drive include the following
the different CD forms (CDROM) that it can read
the amount of buttons or ports on the drives itself (USB)
the weight or length
disk reading speed
The most efficient sound card model-
StarTech SLMSOPTB Slimline CD/DVD Optical Drive Black SATA External Enclosure $34.99
Average model-
Pioneer 16X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 12X BD-ROM 4MB Cache SATA Blu-ray Burner BDR-209DBK $64.99
High-end model-
LG Black 16x Blu-Ray BDXL SATA Internal rewriter with 3D Playback, Model BH16NS40 $139.99
Finally, i have just scratched the surface of what the essential components of what a computer has inside its's metal casing. The Computer is one of the most complex inventions Human's have ever invented but over time the computer has evolved into something that even average people can build at the comfort of their home. using the main components i have described above you can create a great working computer.
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Legendary sights, sounds & stories coming at you from a straight-shooting local. 50/50 mix of cycling/stops for uninterrupted storytelling from the get-go.
Copenhagen street-soul by the bucket-load. Experience 1000 years of culture and history in an action-packed 3 hours with uninterrupted story-telling from the get-go. See a cross-section of my city with a 50/50 mix of cycling and stops. Unpredictability lies at the core of the Bike Mike experience, you're in for the ride of a lifetime — expect the unexpected. Major stops: 1/ FOOD. Denmark's belly: open sandwiches, New Nordic cuisine & a passion for pork. 2/ HISTORY. The tapestry of our Citadel: God, King & country. 3/ LIVELIHOOD. Lifestyle and growth: Little Mermaid sculpture. Clean, green living & Vestas, Lego, Novo, ARLA, Maersk plus many other world business leaders: all made in Denmark. 4/ POLITICS. A favourite pastime: we crave universal welfare like there is no tomorrow. Christiansborg Castle, the home of political life in the old kingdom over a course of six hundred years. 5/ SPIRITUALITY. Our foundations: Grundtvig, Denmark's spiritual father — many Danes think of singing, folk high-schools, enlightenment, our school system, the co-operative movement and its link to farming, butter, bacon. 6/ "HYGGE". Feed the soul: stop at Copenhagen's most cozy city square for hygge. Minor Stops: Say hello to our royal family at Amalienborg Castle, old Nyhavn – the colourful canal zone and home to H.C. Andersen and his fairytales. Experience the cultural soul of Copenhagen and her endless public spaces. Cruise along our harbour and take in the checkered mix of historic and contemporary architecture.
This tour is the shortest distance wise and is not overly physically demanding. That said, it is by far the most technically challenging ride. Expect urban chaos: cobblestones, curbs, narrow streets, gates and whatever else Bike Mike throws your way. Not suited to the faint-hearted. Group size: max. 18 persons over the age of 15. Good cycling skills are an absolute must — sorry, no time for stragglers.
the low-down:
city tour summer season: march 15th until october 31st
city tour duration: approx. 3 1/2 hours
distance: approx. 16 – 18 km (10 – 12 miles), all flat terrain
tour pace: 15 km per hour
tour stops: University, Cathedral – Kierkegaard, Foodmarket (Torvehallerne), Naval Village, Design Museum, Citadel, Little Mermaid, Royal Palace – Amalienborg, Nyhavn, Harbour bridges, Christianshavn, Noma, Castle Island (Slotsholmen), Christiansborg – Danish Parliament, Royal Reception Rooms, Vartov – Grundtvig, Medieval Town, Graabrødre Torv PLUS unpredictable surprises of the day.
language: english
when: 10:00 am daily – but tuesdays no tours. 14:30 on wednesdays, thursdays, fridays & saturdays in may, june, july & august. 14:30 on saturdays in april & october. 14:30 on wednesdays, fridays & saturdays in september. always check the calendar before you book 🙂
departs: bikemike base in Sankt Peders Stræde 47 / Latin Quarter
price: DKK 300 / euro 45 / usd 50 – including guidance, bike rental and helmet. cash only.
find us on facebook
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com – best way to get in contact with Bike Mike
Phone: (45) 2639 5688 Text messaging to Bike Mike phone: (45) 2639 5688 is an efficient way to communicate short questions/messages on day of touring.
I will do my best to answer you asap. However I ask for your patience, as I am a one man band operation – thanks
Address for Bike Mike Tours Shop – meeting point for all Bike Copenhagen with Mike tours: Sankt Peders Stræde 47, 1453 Copenhagen, Denmark
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The "friend zone" is a myth. Women don't sort men into inescapable categories. If I'm attracted to you I'll want to be your friend first anyway (and won't know I'm really REALLY interested beyond admiring your attractiveness till I get to know you, anyway). If I'm not attracted to you but like you as a person I want to be your friend, too. Friendship is awesome and friendship is the only solid building block for a lasting romantic relationship. Guys need to stop talking about "The Friend Zone" and "Nice Guys finish last" as if being an awesome girl's friemd or being a nice person is a bad thing!10|10|0
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The following information was submitted in September of 2006 by Elva Brusca:Campbell, born in Philadelphia January 21, 1940 grew up a few blocks from the Philadelphia Museum of Art and visited there often throughout his youth. He studied architecture at Temple University and for several years had his own building business.
But he always painted, including commissions for clients who wanted to have copies of well known artists of the past, to which he always signed his name as the reproducer. He also did fine art restoration and is of the opinion that this is a most effective way to study and master the art of painting.
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The non-conventional oil revolution
In part two of The Drum's series on energy and oil, Barry Naughten looks at what the rise in non-conventional oil means for American power, the Middle East, and action on climate change.
The so-called 'non-conventional petroleum revolution' (NCPR) in the US, and potentially around the world, doubtless has implications for international relations and the fight against catastrophic climate change. However, such implications are commonly misunderstood and exaggerated.
For example, does the NCPR also have the potential to reverse America's long term 'decline', as claimed by The Spectator (UK), historian Niall Ferguson and others? Is the US set to regain an earlier role as the world's energy super-power? Will this energy revolution enable or encourage US military retrenchment from the obviously still unstable Middle East?
The truth is, these suggestions are probably overblown, and stem from a misunderstanding about America's 'dependence' on oil from the Middle East and over-blown concerns about its international 'energy security'.
Oil prices have trebled since 2003, despite the global recession tending to dampen demand. This, combined with technological progress including advances in hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling, has led to a large expansion in oil and gas production from high-cost sources of petroleum including shale gas, tar sands, coal seam gas (CSG), and deep sea drilling.
So far the most spectacular expansions have been in US shale gas and tightly held oil, but similar potential exists globally, notably in Australia (coal bed methane), in some EU member-states (shale gas in Poland), and in China, where vast potential is as yet largely unrealised.
But while this has obvious implications for US energy policy, America's 'dependence' on oil from the Middle East shouldn't be overstated. In fact, no such simple dependence has shaped US policy in that oil-rich region.
Since World War II, the US as the global superpower has pursued control over oil in the Middle East in large part to underpin and prolong its international power. But rather than encouraging the availability of that oil to world markets (including its own), the effect of this control has often (though not always) been to obstruct such a process.
In the US itself, the slogan of energy independence has little to do with foreign strategy and much more to do with domestic politics. Contradictorily, it has been used, largely by Republicans, to justify loose regulation and tax breaks for the US domestic oil extraction sector; and by Democrats (against the interest of oil producers and importers) to legitimate fuel efficiency policies to constrain the consumption of petrol used in transport.
In any event, the US has never been at risk of failing to access foreign oil (or its own) at the world price. Most of its imported oil is transferred by sea, and the US has ruled the waves throughout the period since the US became a net importer of oil just after WWII.
The US is not projected to reach oil independence (according to the US Department of Energy, 2012). Arithmetically, it may do so (if only temporarily) if gas is included and the US becomes a net gas exporter.
What the NCPR means for US power
The actuality and legitimacy of US relative power has on balance diminished over the past decade, largely because of its misadventures in the Middle East and South West Asia, in all cases with an oil and gas agenda somehow involved if not always central. These issues are still ongoing, and are unlikely to diminish as a result of its 'petroleum revolution'.
A key precondition of international power is economic strength relative to adversaries and allies. Estimates of financial benefit to the US economy from the NCPR (as distinct from oil companies benefiting from tax breaks and weak safety regulation) should be tempered by noting the high production costs of relative to the conventional oil of the Middle East. As well, notions of energy-intensive industries flooding back to the US may neglect the ephemeral nature of a glut in US natural gas, especially to the extent that the US ramps up exports of LNG to Asia and Europe, and world prices for gas once again consequently converge to significantly higher levels.
Availability of non-conventional oil from the US and elsewhere puts an upper limit to the international oil price at perhaps $80-100/barrel averaged over the next decade. This figure can be compared with upwards of $200/barrel bandied about, even officially, in 2007-08. In this sense, NCPR technology protects and advances the position of oil importing economies generally, not just the US.
Notwithstanding the NCPR, the Middle East remains by far the major global source of low cost oil resources and hence will continue to receive large transfers of financial surplus based on high-priced world markets, whereas US non-conventional oil supplies are available only at much greater extraction cost and therefore yield much less financial surplus per barrel.
Similarly, Russia, Iran and Central Asia continue to have the by far the highest reserves of gas, especially lower cost conventional gas.
What it means for the Middle East
The US has long and successfully discouraged oil exports from Iran and Iraq, two of the three best oil-endowed states of the Middle East. These two states each paid a terrible price when their leaderships defied the US. Iran lost its democracy for 25 years when its elected Prime Minister Mossadeq was deposed in a CIA/MI6 coup, after the country sought to assert property rights over its own oil in 1950-53. Since regaining its sovereignty from the US in 1979, Iran then suffered first the Iran-Iraq war 1980-88, prolonged by US policy, and has endured ever-tightening economic sanctions to this day.
For their part, since the Iran-Iraq war, the Iraqi people have suffered two devastating wars separated by harsh international economic sanctions from 1991-2003.
By taking both Iran and Iraq out of the picture as major oil suppliers since the 1980s, the US put a floor under international oil prices to the benefit of its own producers and as well as that of the remaining Middle East OPEC member-states (who have been careful not to defy US power since 1973). Downward pressure on oil prices from their current levels of $80-100/barrel would depress production of high cost non-conventional oil in the US and elsewhere.
Avoiding such downward pressure may be difficult if slow global GDP growth persists and Iraq's production of low cost oil expands as recently suggested by the IEA, from 3.4 to 8 million barrels a day by 2035. This Iraqi production would meet fully half of the required increase in global oil supply projected over that period.
That said, the central questions for the US in the Middle East are largely unaffected by its non-conventional petroleum revolution. As the Brookings scholar Bruce Riedel has recently reminded us, these notably include avoiding an unnecessary and dangerously uncertain war with Iran. Not least, by destabilising oil markets, such a war could seriously impact on an unstable world economy.
As usefully spelt out by Stephen Kinzer, there are many potential benefits for the US from a rapprochement with Iran. Not least of these would be scope to refocus and retrench from its 'imperial over-overstretch' in the Middle East and South West Asia, at a time of ongoing domestic fiscal crisis and fatigue about costly and ineffectual wars in the region. So far, these mutual gains have been elusive.
This is in large part due to an effective veto from Israel and its US domestic political supporters rather than rational calculations of US national interest and Middle East regional security.
What it means for China
As a high per capita oil consumer, rapidly motorising China is currently following the 'American model' of low tax rates on oil consumption rather than the 'European' model of high oil taxes and hence much lower per capita consumption. However, there is little sign that China is prepared to grasp this political nettle in the way that it did with its 'one child' population policy. Thus, at considerable ecological and security cost, China continues to 'go out' in search of both foreign oil and in contested terrains such as the South China Sea.
Hence, the US may not be able to reduce its involvement in the international politics of oil even if it were to 'pivot' its political preoccupations from the Middle East to the China-Pacific region.
What it means for climate change
As one of the very few OECD member-states failing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, there would be no more effective way for the US to retrieve some of its lost international prestige than to provide serious leadership in combating catastrophic climate change.
Such leadership would require far more than stabilising its emissions at mid-1990s levels by 2035 as is currently forecast (partly as a consequence of the shale gas revolution). The International Energy Agency's (IEA) demanding objective is an upper limit of 450 ppm CO2 equivalent by 2050. This would limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius by 2100 rather than the horrific 5-6 degrees increase associated with 'business as usual'. As with other OECD states, to achieve the 450 ppm objective requires not merely the backing out of coal but the large scale deployment of the zero-emissions technologies.
Short of adequately pricing emissions (for now politically difficult in the US), it can still promote this objective by continuing to shift out of coal-fired electricity generation, by regulating its non-conventional gas industry to obviate 'fugitive' methane emissions, by rejecting oil imports from CO2-intensive Canadian tar sands, by promoting by R&D, and by reducing its per capita consumption of oil-based transport fuels.
Normalising and effectively managing its international relations, notably with Israel, Iran and China, is equally important. Not least, such a normalisation would also support the climate change objective. Thus, in the case of Iran, its export of gas (currently precluded by US economic sanctions) can address alarming growth in Chinese and Indian coal-fired electricity. In the case of inducing much greater climate abatement action by China, now the largest energy user and CO2 emitter globally, the obvious missing policy link is climate leadership from the US where such emissions are much larger than China's in per capita terms.
Read Vlado Vivoda's opening entry in our series on energy and oil: "Oil may have peaked - but don't panic."
Dr Barry Naughten is an energy economist and a departmental visitor in the Centre of Arab and Islamic Studies at the Australian National University. View his full profile here.
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The 20-man list has witnessed the exclusion of Islam Gamal, Sherif Alaa and Mohamed Ibrahim for technical reasons, while Bassem Morsi and Tarek Hamed are set to miss the game due to injury and suspension, respectively.
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Forwards: Mahmoud Kahraba, Mohamed Salem and Ahmed Hassan Mekki.
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