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Four Methods:Dried strawberry cupcakesFresh strawberry cupcakesStrawberry jam cupcakesFrosting and topping ideas for strawberry cupcakesCommunity Q&A
Strawberry cupcakes are both pretty and delicious. You can make all sorts of fun toppings to make them even more appealing.
- Dried strawberry cupcakes
- 200ml milk
- 50ml olive oil
- 200g flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 50g sugar
- 2 eggs
- 80g dried strawberries
- Fresh strawberry cupcakes
- 100g butter, softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence or extract
- 2 eggs, large
- 1 1/2 cups plain/all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 cups pureed fresh strawberries (frozen can be used also)
- Strawberry jam cupcakes
- 250g butter
- 4 eggs, large
- 160g caster (superfine) sugar
- 250g self-raising (self-rising) flour, sifted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence (extract)
- Strawberry jam
- Icing/frosting for cupcakes (see suggestions below for toppings)
Dried strawberry cupcakes
1Arrange the cupcake cases in a muffin pan. Preheat the oven to 175ºC.
2Pour the eggs into the mixing bowl. Crack in the eggs and mix.
3Add sifted flour and baking powder to the liquid mixture.
4In a separate glass container, mix the olive oil and milk. Pour this into the cake batter. Mix well.
5Pour the batter into cupcake cases. Use a teaspoon to transfer.
6Sprinkle in even amounts of dried strawberries.
7Place in the oven. Bake for 25 minutes.
8Remove from the oven and set on a wire cooling rack to cool. Frost the cupcakes and enjoy!
Fresh strawberry cupcakes
1Preheat the oven to 180ºC. Place cupcake cases into a muffin pan.
2Sift the flour and baking powder into the mixing bowl.
3In another mixing bowl, beat together the sugar and butter until creamy. Add the vanilla.
4Gradually add the eggs, one at a time. Beat in well after adding each one.
5Pour the flour mix into the liquid mix. Stir together.
6Pour in the milk. Then, pour the strawberry puree into the batter. Mix well to combine.
7Pour the batter into the cupcake cases.
8Place in the oven and bake for 13-15 minutes.
9Remove from the oven. Cool on a wire baking rack.
Strawberry jam cupcakes
1Place the cupcake cases into a muffin pan. Preheat the oven to 160ºC.
2Place the butter and sugar into the mixing bowl. Add the vanilla. Cream together until light and fluffy.
3Fold in the eggs. Add one at a time and beat in well each time.
4Fold the sifted flour into the batter.
5Pour 1 tablespoon of the batter into each cupcake case. Add 1 teaspoon of strawberry jam into the center of the batter.
6Add another tablespoon of cupcake butter over the top of the jam.
7Place the pan into the oven. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes.
Frosting and topping ideas for strawberry cupcakes
Here are a few topping ideas. If using icing or frosting, choose either white, pink or strawberry red for the colors.
1Make a fresh strawberry topping. Frost or ice the cupcake with frosting of choice and add fresh strawberries:
- Add a whole strawberry or half a strawberry. Either stand up the strawberry or lay on its side.
- Add a strawberry fan. Cut a strawberry into a fan shape and arrange on the frosting or icing fanned out.
- Cut the real strawberry into a shape, such as a heart shape.
- Dip real strawberries in chocolate, allow to set and place on the cupcakes.
2Mold a strawberry using red fondant, sugar paste or marzipan. Frost or ice each cupcake and add a strawberry figure to each one.
3Add an edible strawberry candy to the frosting or icing.
4Add pureed strawberry to the icing sugar or confectioners sugar. Once mixed to a decent consistency, add to the cupcakes as usual.
5Ice or frost the cupcakes with strawberry red cupcakes. Pipe small melted chocolate "pips" across the red surface at even spaces. Add a green candy leaf or green fondant leaf at the "top" of the strawberry.
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- To test cupcakes, stick a skewer or a butter knife into the cupcake. If it comes out clean, the cupcakes are ready. If it comes out moist, more baking time is needed.
Things You'll Need
- Muffin pan
- Cupcake cases
- Mixing bowl and mixing implement
- Teaspoon and tablespoon
Sources and Citations
- Strawberry jam cupcakes adapted from: http://lingspassion.blogspot.co.nz/2008/03/strawberry-jam-filled-cupcakes.html
- Pureed strawberry cupcake adapted from: http://www.kidspot.com.au/best-recipes/Party-food+11/Strawberry-cupcakes-recipe+2311.htm
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Dog: Sacred to the faeries of Ireland and Scotland probably because they were held in high regard by the Tuatha de Danann. Many Celtic myths involve dogs or dog familiars, which belonged to heroic figures or deities, and wars were often fought for and over them such as the one between Fionn MacCumhal and King Arthur. Examples of the importance of Celtic dogs are found in the myths of Gwyn Ap Nuad, Cuchulain, Amaethaon, and Taliesin. Dogs are also the archetypal symbols of shapeshifters
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Nice topic. Looking at the two seals above it looks like you might need to use a little more wax and push down straighter. Experience has taught me how to get a complete circle of wax around the matrix with an even height.
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Julie, if I play around with baking powder, is there a formula to follow? This cake is from the RHC Marble Velvet cake and it calls for 2 teaspoons baking powder (don't have the book with me right now but I think that's what it is). You think 1 1/2 tsp will work?
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Even though Stanley Hartman was feeling too sick to get out of bed on St. Patrick's Day, it was still a very lucky day for him!
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If somebody was asked to choose a movie to describe Fordham men's basketball last season, it would have been "The Perfect Storm."
Already saddled with a schedule that saw the Rams play 20 of 31 games away from home, Fordham saw its best player, senior forward Chris Gaston, go down with a knee injury just three games into the season. The result was a 7-24 record, and a 3-13 mark in the Atlantic 10.
Despite the rough season, the storm clouds around the program seem to have lifted.
The biggest reason for optimism stems from the program landing Jon Severe, who was named New York State's Mr. Basketball while playing for Christ the King. The 6-foot-3 guard picked the Rams over major-conference programs such as Boston College, Kansas State and Pittsburgh.
"[Scouting guru] Tom Konchalski used to say, 'He scores like we breathe.' It comes so naturally to him," Fordham coach Tom Pecora said at Tuesday's Atlantic 10 Media Day at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Severe is just one piece to the puzzle Pecora — entering his fourth season at the school — is hoping can produce a dramatic turnaround, as the program continues to rebuild from the depths that saw the team win just five games combined in the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons.
"There's been a lot of heavy lifting," Pecora said. "Fordham is an incredible academic school with tremendous tradition, but the basketball program has been broke[n] for a long time. We've gotten tremendous support [while changing the program's culture]. The alumni base is incredible."
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"He's an X-factor," Pecora said. "He goes from [10] rebounds at Ole Miss to three fouls in the first two minutes the next game. He has to get more consistent, and play with greater maturity to be a force every night."
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Pecora said he also is expecting a bounce-back season from senior guard Branden Frazier, who shot just 35 percent from the field last season.
Pecora also said Severe and burgeoning sophomore guard Mandell Thomas will ease the pressure on Frazier, who often had to do too much offensively last season.
It has been a Herculean task to get Fordham back to respectability, following its low point just four years ago. But with a program galvanized by a highly touted recruit such as Severe, it's possible this could be the start of something special at Rose Hill.
Fordham was picked to finish 11th out of 13 teams in the Atlantic 10 preseason poll. Additionally, Frazier was named to the preseason Atlantic 10 third team.


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Countdown to Daytona: Owner Point Style 13 (David Ragan)January 25, 2009
OK, things got a little confusing… apparently I skipped Day 17 and Day 18 in my countdown…I got confused, one number (the one in the title) was counting down, while the other number (which day I was on) was counting up. So today, is actually Day 23 of my 35-day venture around the world of NASCAR.
Today we look at a driver who showed enormous improvement between his rookie season and his sophomore year at Roush-Fenway Racing.
We all remember Martinsville in 2007 (I was there!). David Ragan (then a rookie) had to of spun around six or seven times.
Everyone was counting him as the odd-man out when Roush was forced to cut a team following the 2009 season.
Then something happened, the driver who originally couldn't stay on the track, nearly made the 2008 Chase.
Not only did he have a great showing in the Cup Series, but he also finished fourth in the Nationwide points. And thus, the top driver without a win was introduced to the NASCAR fans.
Now onto the preview:
Today's Spotlight: No. 6
Team: Roush Fenway Racing
Driver: David Ragan
Sponsor: UPS Racing For a look at the paint scheme visit Jayski.com.
Driver 2008 Stats: Ragan earned more than $3.9 million in 2008 en route to a 13th place finish in the points. He managed 14 top-10 finishes, six top-fives and an average finish of 15th. (For comparison, his 2007 stats were an average finish of 25th, three top-10 finishes and only two top-fives.)
News: When former champion Dale Jarrett decided to officially retire, long-time sponsor UPS had to find a new young driver to represent their company for years to come. During the off season, that driver was found at the Roush Stable.
Last year, Ragan was sponsored by AAA, but this year he will hit the pavement driving the infamous brown and gold UPS sponsored Ford.
Other than that, the only news worthy topic out of Roush has been the team trying to change NASCAR's mind on the four-car ownership limit. (They have a point, with five teams fully sponsored, and new teams unable to find sponsorship, they might as well let them hang on to their sponsors and drivers, right?)
My Prediction for 2009: One word spells out my prediction for Ragan in 2009: C-H-A-S-E. Yes, Ragan will make the 12-team playoffs this year. Now, he won't win the thing, but I see him finishing in the neighborhood of fifth through ninth.
Will this team remain in top-35: Sure will.
Up Tomorrow: No. 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
This story also appears on my blog: Sports 101
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ENGLAND have received a favourable draw in this morning's qualifying draw for the 2016 European Championships.
Roy Hodgson's side have been drawn with Switzerland, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania and San Marino in Group E of qualifying for the tournament, which will take place in France.
With the European Championships expanding to 24 teams, the top two teams from all of the qualifying sections will be guaranteed a place in the finals.
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The best third-placed side will also qualify, with the other teams finishing in third position entering the play-offs.
The Switzerland ties will pitch Hodgson against the nation he led to the 1994 World Cup finals in the United States and the 1996 Euros in England.
The Swiss qualified successfully for this summer's World Cup in Brazil, but England successfully avoided some of the stronger sides in the second pot of teams.
Similarly, Slovenia were not the strongest potential opponents from pot three, and England will be confident of beating Estonia, Lithuania and San Marino from the lower ranked teams.
Elsewhere, Scotland and Republic of Ireland have been drawn with Gibraltar in Group D, while Wales face a tough task against Belgium, Israel and Bosnia-Herzegovina in Group B.
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April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. In honor of this, pinwheels can be found in front of all the libraries in Harrison County.
"Partners in Prevention" teamed up with the Harrison County Child Advocacy Center to place the pinwheels and spread a message.
The pinwheels represent a bright future for children who have been abused.
"Pinwheels are a little different twist on things, a bright future whirlwind. It's to spread a positive message and to make the community aware of child abuse prevention," said Shelly Giaquinto, executive director of the Harrison County Child Advocacy Center.
Giaquinto said all of the libraries have coloring pages and pinwheels available for kids.
Partners in Prevention went though six boxes of pinwheels, with 200 in each box.
Also in honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month, the town of Nutter Fort teamed up with the Genesis Youth Crisis Center to raise a flag for the month.
A proclamation was made by Nutter Fort Mayor Nathan Rohrbough, and a flag was raised at city hall.
The flag will be flown for the rest of April.
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The twelfth round of the 2015 Formula One world championship took us to the Autodromo Nazionale Monza for the Italian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton eased to his seventh victory of the season ahead of home team Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel who simply had no answer to the pace the reigning champion was able to articulate.
There was more drama off-track when Hamilton was made to wait over three hours post-race to get his victory affirmed as stewards investigated his Mercedes team for infringing recommended starting tyre pressure limits.
While both Force India drivers were able to finish sixth and seventh on the high-speed track - which tend to suit them the most, Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo and Daniil Kvyat worked their strategies out to bag five points. Here are the top five moments from the Italian Grand Prix:


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It's nearly the end of 2005, and financial planners' phones are ringing with questions from concerned investors.
Is the stock market going to go through a major "bear market" like it did a few years ago? What impact will the hurricanes have on fuel prices, construction costs, tax revenue and consumer spending? And when will the Federal Reserve stop raising short-term interest rates?
"One of the biggest questions we continue to hear is what impact high oil and gas prices will have on our economy and financial markets," said John Mark Holliday, CFP, of EFP Wealth Management in Tupelo. "This issue is not only in the news on a daily basis, but we are reminded of it every time we fill up our vehicles at the gas pump."
Investors are also talking about the increased level of business that manufacturing companies are doing with China and how that will affect American jobs.
"We try to stay focused on each client's individual situation and goals and therefore, we tend to take more of a long-term perspective when answering many of these questions," explained Holliday. "We believe the economy continues to be relatively strong overall and expect it to remain healthy in 2006. That doesn't mean, though, that there won't be some bumps and soft spots along the way. However, no one can predict with certainty what will happen to the economy and markets in the near-term. That is why we believe it's important to have a solid diversified investment plan geared to an individual's or family's goals and not make knee-jerk reactions based on the daily news headline."
J. Randall Mascagni, CFP, president of Mascagni & Company Inc. in Clinton, said he is sticking to his plan for clients and not altering his strategy because "we have planned with our clients all along for events or circumstances that could disrupt or deter their goals."
Warren Wiltshire, J.D., vice president trust officer for Pinnacle Trust Wealth Management in Ridgeland, said the investment firm is taking a similar approach.
"We listen to our clients' concerns and tweak plans as needed," he said.
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Investors are closely monitoring the stock market, which typically has a run-up toward the end of December.
"Mutual fund managers don't want to put in a year-end statement showing a high percentage of cash," said Wiltshire. "We're still in the market, but there's less emphasis on stocks. Typically, we might have 50/50 stocks and bonds. Right now, we're probably unweighted in stocks, maybe 40/50/10 (stocks/bonds/cash) or 30/50/20."
Financial advisers are also keeping an eye on General Motors (GM). Rumors have swirled the Detroit automaker will file for bankruptcy protection in 2006 even though GM CEO Rick Wagoner has called the speculation "just plain wrong."
"It would certainly be a psychological blow," said Wiltshire. "Going back to the '20s, everybody's heard what's good for GM is good for the country. You'd think the opposite would be true. I mean, the Japanese weren't selling cars here then."
Holliday said any time a well-known multi-national corporation is in the news because of financial difficulties, it catches one's attention.
"We've learned that any company, regardless of its historical strength or size, can stumble due to any number of issues both in and out of its control," he said. "That is one reason we believe a fundamental rule of investing is to have a well-diversified investment portfolio that isn't heavily concentrated in the stock of any particular company or sector, regardless of its current strength or reputation."
Year-end strategies
Holliday is meeting with clients for year-end strategy sessions to seek opportunities to reduce their 2005 tax liability, replace their investments because of performance or accommodate a change in their long-term goals.
"Some of the issues of concern to young professionals are funding their company retirement plan to the maximum extent possible, determining how much they need to set aside for emergency funds, establishing a systematic savings and investment plan, evaluating their insurance needs, and establishing a plan to pay off student loans and other debt in a timely manner," he said.
Couples with children are focused on similar issues, but are also looking at saving for college, how much house they can afford and the best method of financing it while also seriously mulling their retirement fund growth.
"For a couple nearing retirement, the amount of resources they have set aside for retirement and the level of income these resources would provide become very important," said Holliday. "It's important to this person that these funds be invested in a manner that will not only provide sufficient current income, but also continue to grow in order to meet future increases in the cost of living. This person should understand all potential sources of retirement income, including social security and pensions, as well as what to expect from their retirement savings. They should also know how their death will impact the level of income available for their surviving spouse."
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Barburrito have been delivering fast and fresh Mexican burritos and more since 2005, first in Manchester and then in several venues across Scotland since 2016.
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Formerly Pinto Mexican Kitchen, the three Glasgow city centre branches of this local chain were taken over by Barburrito in late 2015. The Manchester-based group, who opened their first burrito bar in 2005 and now have over a dozen Mexican eateries across the UK, rebranded the Scottish Pintos (including Edinburgh) in Spring 2016. It's much the same style of casual Tex-Mex offerings, delivering fast and fresh food in an 'uno, dos, tres' ordering process – choose burrito (including classic, loaded and a 'superfood' version giving you four of your five-a-day veggies), tacos or nachos; pick a filling such as pulled pork, shredded beef or veggie; and add salsa on an incremental heat scale. Additional Barburrito touches include more rice options and featured 'limited edition' fillings to pack into those handy holdalls of Tex-Mex goodness.
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One year later, Ryan has never felt better. Business is good and he hopes to renew his relationship with Samantha. Then the unmarked gifts begin to appear: a box of Valentine candy hearts, a heart pendant. Most disturbing of all, a graphic heart surgery video and the chilling message: Your heart belongs to me.
In a heartbeat, the medical miracle that gave Ryan a second chance at life is about to become a curse worse than death. For Ryan is being stalked by a mysterious woman who feels entitled to everything he has. She's the spitting image of the 26-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily in Ryan's own chest. And she's come to take it back.
©2008 Dean Koontz; (P)2008 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
"Koontz is a master of the edge-of-your-seat, paranoid thriller - and perhaps the leading American practitioner of the form." (Newark Star-Ledger)
"Koontz is a superb plotter and wordsmith. He chronicles the hopes and fears of our time in broad strokes and fine detail, using popular fiction to explore the human condition." (USA Today)
I am a big fan of Dean Koontz and have been reading his books for over fifteen years. After joining Audible I became a Koontz listener and have been very pleased with the materials downloaded up to now.
The plot of this book seemed intriguing but proved not to be so. It takes a long time to get going. There is only a slight air of mystery created (in the middle of the book) and no fear and suspense at all. At one point I almost gave up listening but persevered and listened to it through to the end.
If you like your Koontz bloody or mysterious this book is not for you and you must seek elsewhere.
"Dangerous Waters"
I can't imagine a Mystery/Suspense reader being disappointed in this book. The action grabs you fast, right up front and pins you until the end. It's exceptionally well written; Koontz has the talent to emotionally hook the reader, then, like the undertow in the ocean, you discover how dangerous the waters really are. To put it more plainly, the human condition is revealed in much of its nakedness and readers are left affected and possibly somewhat disturbed. I will read it again, and soon.
Very predictable and boring. Its been 6 years and I still remember giving up on this one.
"Keep your heart - I don't want it."
Dean Koontz is normally one of my favorite authors. Half way through the book I was hoping the protagonist would die so the book would move on to someone more interesting. I could not wait for this book to be over. If you do ignore the negative reviews (like I did), check to see if your player has a fast play speed to minimize the pain.
"Two thumbs down"
The only positive thing I can say is the narration is good.
Instead of a mystery or thriller, it turns out to be a book of spiritual enlightenment.
If you are looking for a good suspenseful book, look elsewhere
A rich dot commer becomes ill and after visiting his doctor who tells him the possible causes of his enlarged heart could be poisoning among other things, Ryan quickly becomes suspicious of people, preferring to eat out of vacuum-sealed containers as a little-to-late precaution. His suspicions include watching other drivers on the road - don't know what he expects in this latter suspicion.
This story has been more than enough in substance to hold my interest and that of my husband on a long road trip. Still have over 3 hours left out of about 8.5 hours of narration.
This story's theme had a lot of potential but things just didn't fit. I didn't find the ending to be neatly-wrapped. Even the psychological threats the protagonist received weren't frightening - just weird and we're expected to believe that the way they happened were plausible.
What could have worked - just fizzled.
"Very disappointed"
I must say, as an avid Dean Koontz fan, I was confused while I was listening to this and mistook the book to be by some other author unknown to me. The early banter between Ryan and his girl and the dogs at the end were the only part that was anything Koontz-like.
And what is all the garbage about "Sub-text"? Who cares? Proabably only a writer, but books should be written for "READERS". I don't need or want a writing lesson. Very strange.
The story made absolutely no sense and missing his usual charactor growth. I had absolutely no affinity to them, or even cared about them one way or another.
It hints that the main charactor, Ryan, had a poor childhood but didn't delve into it at all. It ended quickly without much of the suspense that I am used to from Mr. Koontz.
The real villian of the story, the Surgeon, was not addressed. Did he continue to opperate without any issues? This was not an abridged book, but it sure seemed like it. Typical Koontz would have went after the Surgeon, that would have made it more interesting.
Maybe this was one of his first novels?
Don't waste your time on this one if you are a fan. You will not get what you expect and probably be as disappointed as I was.
"Not what I was hoping for"
This was disappointing. I read many of Koontz novels and this one was lacking. the main character was not like I expect Koontz character to be. He was way too neurotic and unsure of himself. And there really wasn't a villain either. The whole resolution was pretty lame.
"Worth the time only because it's short!"
I seldom give any Dean Koontz book a less-than-4-star review but this will be an exception. Medically, this book is like a tired Robin Cook novel. If it hadn't been for a sprinkling of the supernatural, the entertainment value would have been negligible. I was so far ahead of the story line that even the last-minute twists didn't turn this into a thriller for me.
"Fun, But Not His Best"
Dean Koontz is usually a lot of fun and this is no exception. I don't think this is his best, but it's certainly not the worst. Maybe if he included a smart, adorable, loveable Golden Retriever I'd be more enthusiastic. He's spoiled me rotten: I've come to be very fond of his dog people.
"Worried about Deans Mental State"
The first half of this disappointing novel has nothing what so ever to do with the last half. It's like the author pulled down an incomplete novel and asked another author to finish it. The female characters were ridiculous. The love of this poor slob's life turned cold to him the only two times he needed her, instead insisting he guess the answer to a mysterious question that she refused to vocalize. Dean relationships 101 SVP. Dean's earlier works were about people overcoming long odds and making lives better. Lately, his work implies that no matter what we do at best we can only hope for a melancholy existence full of regret. And what is with all the male leads, Odd Thomas, this guy, ending up in Monasteries?? Dull, pathetic stuff.
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I remember one review on the infamous "Inca" game by … I think it was Sierra, back then.
The review stated that the voice actor (voice acting was still a rarity back then !) was totally out of his role … The reviewer wrote something like as if they had hired someone who could vaguely speak German in the middle of the U.S. , had given him ac script in which he should speak a really sad and grieving fther who mourns over the death of his son - without telling the "voice actor" so. The result was someone who was reading a mourning with the voice of someone who had just heard a joke or was in an otherwise humorous mood - totally unfitting the role he has to speak.
What people often forget is that voice acting was mainly done in the U.S. first - and for U.S. customers. Here in Germany even in tha midst of the 90s games were sometimes NOT translated. The famous Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis was done with English language vouice acting, too. And this is a rare, very rare sought-after collector's item now here in Germany, because it remained untranslated nd was never sold here in Germany anyway.
Same went for Monkey Island, I think I remember.
The impression was often that Europe was treated as second-class citizend in that respect. And you wonder about bad voice acting or bad translations ?
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CA – Molly and the Bear Signing
March 16, 2016 by Colin Solan
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Cartoonist Bob Scott appears at the Charles M. Schulz Museum on Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 11:00 AM to sign his new book, Molly and the Bear. This is the first book of the popular syndicated comic strip created by Disney Animation artist Bob Scott, whose illustrious career has spanned over three decades and has included projects ranging from Warner Brother's Bugs Bunny cartoons to Pixar's The Incredibles and Ratatouille.
Charles M. Schulz Museum
2301 Hardies Lane, Santa Rosa, CA 95403
(707) 579-4452
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Atlanta-based cartoonist Robert W. Pope appears at the Charles M. Schulz Museum on Friday June 20th at 2:00 pm. For over 15 years, Pope has specialized in bringing many of our favorite animated characters to the comic book page, including Peanuts, Scooby-Doo, Bugs Bunny, Johnny Bravo, Batman and many others. Pope has contributed to several of the new Peanuts comic books and will be available to sketch, answer questions, and sign comics.
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Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is a surgical treatment for obesity that changes the stomach and small intestine to cause weight loss by two means: 1) restriction of caloric intake and 2) malabsorption of calories.
Intake is restricted by creating a small pouch to serve as the stomach. Malabsorption occurs because the first part of the small intestine, where many calories are normally absorbed, is bypassed.
Stomach and small intestine
The reason for the surgery is to treat morbid obesity (also called clinically-severe obesity). Doctors use a calculation called body mass index (BMI) to determine overweight or obesity. BMI uses an equation to compare your height and weight to decide whether your weight is normal or not. A normal BMI is between 18.5 and 25. If your BMI is 40 or more, you are at least 100 pounds over normal weight for your height.
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass may be appropriate for people with the following factors:
Obesity increases the risk for complications during any surgical procedure.
Each bariatric surgery program has specific requirements to prepare you for surgery and for your lifestyle changes after surgery. Your program will likely include the following:
In the days leading up to your procedure:
You will be given general anesthesia, which puts you to sleep for the duration of the procedure.
To prepare you for surgery, an intravenous (IV) line will be placed in your arm. You may receive fluids and medications through this line during the procedure. A breathing tube will be inserted through your mouth and into your windpipe to help you breathe during surgery. You will also have a catheter placed in your bladder to drain urine.
There are two surgical methods used for Roux-en-Y gastric bypass:
The open method begins with an 8-10 inch incision to open the abdomen
This method begins with several small incisions in the abdomen. Gas is pumped in to inflate your abdomen, making it easier for the surgeon to see. Your surgeon passes a laparoscope and surgical tools through these incisions. A laparoscope is a thin, lighted instrument with a tiny camera that projects images of your abdominal cavity on a monitor in the operating room; your surgeon performs the operation while viewing the surgical area on this monitor.
Both surgical methods proceed as follows: Your surgeon uses surgical staples to create a small pouch at the top of your stomach. This pouch, which can hold about one cup of food, will serve as your new, smaller stomach. A normal stomach can hold 4 to 6 cups of food.
Next, the surgeon cuts a section of the small intestine and attaches it to the newly created pouch. This intestinal bypass moves food directly from the pouch to the middle section of the small intestine (jejunum), thereby skipping the lower stomach and the upper section of the small intestine (duodenum).
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This procedure has both restrictive and malabsorptive effects. It is restrictive because the smaller pouch can only handle one-sixth the amount of food as a normal size stomach. And it is malabsorptive because the duodenum, where many calories are absorbed, is bypassed. The result of this operation is that fewer calories are taken in and fewer calories are absorbed.
To complete the procedure, your surgeon will close the incisions with staples or stitches.
The breathing tube will be removed and you will be taken to the recovery area for monitoring. You'll be given pain medication.
About two hours
Anesthesia prevents pain during surgery.
Patients typically experience pain and/or soreness at the incision sites during recovery. Your doctor can prescribe pain medication to relieve the discomfort.
Risks associated with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass include:
You may be in the hospital for 2-5 days. Patients usually go home earlier after a laparoscopic procedure than an open procedure.
While you are recovering at the hospital, you may receive the following care:
You may be out of work for 2-6 weeks after gastric bypass surgery (less time with laparoscopic, and more time following an open procedure). Do not drive or lift anything heavy for at least two weeks. You'll need to practice lifelong healthful eating and exercising habits.
You are encouraged to walk as soon as possible, with a goal of exercising daily. Be aware that you may have emotional ups and downs after this surgery. You will meet regularly with your healthcare team for monitoring and support.
Your new stomach is the size of a small egg and is slow to empty, causing you to feel full quickly. Therefore, you need to eat very small amounts and eat very slowly.
You'll begin with four to six meals per day; a meal is two ounces of food. For the first 4-6 weeks after surgery, all food must be pureed. Once you move to solid foods, food must be chewed well. When making food choices, you'll need to ensure adequate protein intake, while limiting sweets and fatty foods. Eating too much or too quickly can cause vomiting or intense pain under your breastbone. Most people quickly learn how much food they can tolerate.
You may need to take the following medications, as directed by your doctor:
The success of gastric bypass surgery depends on your commitment to lifelong healthful habits. If lifestyle changes are made and maintained, the benefits of bariatric surgery include:
For severe obesity (BMI 40 or greater), surgery has clearly emerged as the most successful treatment. There are, however, several competing surgical procedures. These include:
Each of these procedures has benefits and drawbacks. Be sure to discuss all surgical options with your doctor so that you can best understand all of the choices available to you.
It is essential for you to monitor your recovery once you leave the hospital. That way you can alert your doctor to any problems immediately. If any of the following occur, call your doctor:
Women's Health: How Much Do You Know?
As a woman, your health concerns are as unique as your body. How you take care of yourself has a huge impact on your future, affecting everything from your ability to have children to your risk of heart disease. There's no substitute for good health, and when it's gone, it's often gone for good. Don't let it pass you by. Test your smarts with this women's health quiz.
American Society for Bariatric Surgeryhttp://www.asbs.org
National Institutes of Healthhttp://health.nih.gov
Weight Control Information Networkhttp://www.win.niddk.nih.gov
BC Health Guide, British Columbia Ministry of Healthhttp://www.bchealthguide.org
Canadian Laparoscopic Weight Loss Surgeryhttp://www.weightlosssurgery.ca/en/index.php
American Society for Bariatric Surgery. Rationale for the surgical treatment of morbid obesity. Available at: http://www.asbs.org/html/rationale/rationale.html. Accessed June 17, 2005.
Baylor College of Medicine. Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y. Available at: http://www.debakeydepartmentofsurgery.org. Accessed June 18, 2005.
Gastrointestinal surgery for severe obesity. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases website.Available at: http://win.niddk.nih.gov/publications/gastric.htm. Accessed June 18, 2005.
Laparoscopic gastric bypass procedure. Cleveland Clinic website. Available at: http://www.clevelandclinic.org/health/health-info/docs/1900/1993.asp?index=4355. Accessed June 18, 2005.
Obesity risks add to complications of gastric bypass [news release]. Duke University Medical Center website. Available at: http://www.dukemednews.org/news/article.php?id=7217. Accessed June 20, 2005.
Obesity surgery. Columbia University website. Available at: http://www.columbiasurgery.org/divisions/obesity/index_obe.html. Accessed June 20, 2005.
Obesity surgery. Ohio State University website. Available at: http://surgery.osu.edu/generals/obesity.cfm. Accessed June 20, 2005.
Surgery for obesity: what is it and is it for you? Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research website.Available at: http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=HQ01465. Accessed June 18, 2005.


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DICE responds to Battlefield 3 Criticism from fans
Battlefield 3 has seen its fair share of controversy and fan outrage since launch, but now six months in, fans have become even more vocal than ever before. Concerning the game's problems and the methods that DICE has chosen to address them, has stirred up Battlefield fans, yet again.
The last update that arrived on all platforms was the biggest on record, and it fixes a lengthy list of problems that the game has been facing. As you can imagine, not everyone liked the changes made in the last patch. DICE's Patrick Bach addressed those disgruntled by the recent changes to the game in a recent interview.
"People do not care and they do not know about the big picture, but we do. Because we don't care about single individuals, we care about everyone. We try to make sure that everyone has a great time and that the balance is overarching. So we have a lot of statistics, we look at all the data and we try to listen to people and ask 'is this really an issue?'. And in most of the cases it is not an issue."
"People do not care and they do not know about the big picture"
Yesterday, DICE released new gameplay footage from its Close Quarters DLC. And spoke about problems still facing the game. The developer reassured that they are still looking into problems with Battlefield 3 on all platforms, and new fixes (for PS3) should arrive before the expansions.
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Zelda for Wii U in research and design phase
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Shigeru Miyamoto said that Nintendo needs to examine the most important gameplay aspects that would bring a new console Zelda to "a very big audience."
Last year's E3 trailer garnered a "positive reaction," but Nintendo is highly interested in "the way that tastes are broadening in video games [as] you have some people who prefer more casual experiences, and you have some people who prefer sort of those more in-depth experiences."
Miyamoto confirmed that they're still in a research and design phase, where the team is "looking back at what's worked very well and what has been missing and how can we evolve it further."
"With the last game, Skyward Sword, that was a game where you had motion control to use your weapons and a lot of different items, and I thought that was a lot of fun, but there were some people who weren't able to do that or didn't like it as much and stopped playing partway through it," he said.
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Thanks to all who signed the petition and voted "yes" for the City of Millcreek. This four-year effort has given all Millcreek residents information proving how truly viable our community would be as its own city, based on the latest Salt Lake County financial data. It has also given us all a chance to recognize that incorporation is the only way to preserve our community by preventing annexations.3 comments on this story
Furthermore, it has helped many realize how high our comparative tax burden is in unincorporated county and how little input we have in the decisions made for Millcreek, with only 1 in 9 county council members specifically representing us along with the volunteer community councils, who only make recommendations to the county on our behalf.
The vote to become the City of Millcreek was defeated, receiving only 42 percent at the polls. But some good things have come of this already, and we're sure more still will come in the future.
One valuable gain has been the opportunity given to many volunteers to become acquainted with such a great number of good people throughout our entire community. Millcreek is truly an area for which we should all be proud.
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Because large segments of the populace–particularly African-Americans, women, and men without property–have not always been accorded full citizenship rights in the American Republic, civil rights movements, or "freedom struggles," have been a frequent feature of the nation's history. In particular, movements to obtain civil rights for black Americans have had special historical significance. Such movements have not only secured citizenship rights for blacks but have also redefined prevailing conceptions of the nature of civil rights and the role of government in protecting these rights. The most important achievements of African-American civil rights movements have been the post-Civil War constitutional amendments that abolished slavery and established the citizenship status of blacks and the judicial decisions and legislation based on these amendments, notably the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision of 1954, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Moreover, these legal changes greatly affected the opportunities available to women, nonblack minorities, disabled individuals, and other victims of discrimination.
The modern period of civil rights reform can be divided into several phases, each beginning with isolated, small-scale protests and ultimately resulting in the emergence of new, more militant movements, leaders, and organizations. The Brown decision demonstrated that the litigation strategy of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) could undermine the legal foundations of southern segregationist practices, but the strategy worked only when blacks, acting individually or in small groups, assumed the risks associated with crossing racial barriers. Thus, even after the Supreme Court declared that public school segregation was unconstitutional, black activism was necessary to compel the federal government to implement the decision and extend its principles to all areas of public life rather than simply in schools. During the 1950s and 1960s, therefore,NAACP–sponsored legal suits and legislative lobbying were supplemented by an increasingly massive and militant social movement seeking a broad range of social changes.
Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The initial phase of the black protest activity in the post-Brown period began on December 1, 1955. Rosa Parks of Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat to a white bus rider, thereby defying a southern custom that required blacks to give seats toward the front of buses to whites. When she was jailed, a black community boycott of the city's buses began. The boycott lasted more than a year, demonstrating the unity and determination of black residents and inspiring blacks elsewhere.
Martin Luther King Jr., who emerged as the boycott movement's most effective leader, possessed unique conciliatory and oratorical skills. He understood the larger significance of the boycott and quickly realized that the nonviolent tactics used by the Indian nationalist Mahatma Gandhi could be used by southern blacks. "I had come to see early that the Christian doctrine of love operating through the Gandhian method of nonviolence was one of the most potent weapons available to the Negro in his struggle for freedom," he explained. Although Parks and King were members of the NAACP, the Montgomery movement led to the creation in 1957 of a new regional organization, the clergy-led Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) with King as its president.
King remained the major spokesperson for black aspirations, but, as in Montgomery, little-known individuals initiated most subsequent black movements. On February 1, 1960, four freshmen at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College began a wave of student sit-ins designed to end segregation at southern lunch counters. These protests spread rapidly throughout the South and led to the founding, in April 1960, of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). This student-led group, even more aggressive in its use of nonviolent direct action tactics than King's SCLC, stressed the development of autonomous local movements in contrast to SCLCs strategy of using local campaigns to achieve national civil rights reforms.
Birmingham and the March on Washington
TheSCLC protest strategy achieved its first major success in 1963 when the group launched a major campaign in Birmingham, Alabama. Highly publicized confrontations between nonviolent protesters, including schoolchildren, on the one hand, and police with clubs, fire hoses, and police dogs, on the other, gained northern sympathy. The Birmingham clashes and other simultaneous civil rights efforts prompted President John F. Kennedy to push for passage of new civil rights legislation. By the summer of 1963, the Birmingham protests had become only one of many local protest insurgencies that culminated in the August 28 March on Washington, which attracted at least 200,000 participants. King's address on that occasion captured the idealistic spirit of the expanding protests. "I have a dream," he said, "that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed–we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
Although some whites reacted negatively to the spreading protests of 1963, King's linkage of black militancy and idealism helped bring about passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This legislation outlawed segregation in public facilities and racial discrimination in employment and education. In addition to blacks, women and other victims of discrimination benefited from the act.
Freedom Summer
While theSCLC focused its efforts in the urban centers, SNCC's activities were concentrated in the rural Black Belt areas of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, where white resistance was intense. Although theNAACP and the predominantly white Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) also contributed activists to the Mississippi movement, youngSNCC organizers spearheaded civil rights efforts in the state. Black residents in the Black Belt, many of whom had been involved in civil rights efforts since the 1940s and 1950s, emphasized voter registration rather than desegregation as a goal. Mississippi residents Amzie Moore and Fannie Lou Hamer were among the grass-roots leaders who worked closely withSNCC to build new organizations, such as the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party (MFDP). Although theMFDP did not succeed in its attempt to claim the seats of the all-white Mississippi delegation at the 1964 National Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, it attracted national attention and thus prepared the way for a major upsurge in southern black political activity.
After the Atlantic City experience, disillusionedSNCC organizers worked with local leaders in Alabama to create the Lowndes County Freedom Organization. The symbol they chose–the black panther–reflected the radicalism and belief in racial separatism that increasingly characterized SNCCduring the last half of the 1960s. The black panther symbol was later adopted by the California-based Black Panther Party, formed in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
Selma to Montgomery March
Despite occasional open conflicts between the two groups, both SCLCs protest strategy and SNCC'S organizing activities were responsible for major Alabama protests in 1965, which prompted President Lyndon B. Johnson to introduce new voting rights legislation. On March 7 a Selma to Montgomery march ended almost before it began at Pettus Bridge on the outskirts of Selma, when mounted police using tear gas and wielding clubs attacked the protesters. News accounts of "Bloody Sunday" brought hundreds of civil rights sympathizers to Selma. Many demonstrators were determined to mobilize another march, andSNCC activists challenged King to defy a court order forbidding such marches. But reluctant to do anything that would lessen public support for the voting rights cause, King on March 9 turned back a second march to the Pettus Bridge when it was blocked by the police. That evening a group of Selma whites killed a northern white minister who had joined the demonstrations. In contrast to the killing of a black man, Jimmy Lee Jackson, a few weeks before, the Reverend James Reeb's death led to a national outcry. After several postponements of the march, civil rights advocates finally gained court permission to proceed. This Selma to Montgomery march was the culmination of a stage of the African-American freedom struggle. Soon afterward, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which greatly increased the number of southern blacks able to register to vote. But it was also the last major racial protest of the 1960s to receive substantial white support.
Rise of Black Nationalism
By the late 1960s, organizations such as the NAACP, SCLC, andSNCC faced increasingly strong challenges from new militant organizations, such as the Black Panther party. The Panthers' strategy of "picking up the gun" reflected the sentiments of many inner-city blacks. A series of major "riots" (as the authorities called them), or "rebellions" (the sympathizers' term), erupted during the last half of the 1960s. Often influenced by the black nationalism of Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and by pan-African leaders, proponents of black liberation saw civil rights reforms as insufficient because they did not address the problems faced by millions of poor blacks and because African-American citizenship was derived ultimately from the involuntary circumstances of enslavement. In addition, proponents of racial liberation often saw the African-American freedom struggle in international terms, as a movement for human rights and national self-determination for all peoples.
Post 1960's Civil Rights Movement
Severe government repression, the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, and the intense infighting within the black militant community caused a decline in protest activity after the 1960s. The African-American freedom struggle nevertheless left a permanent mark on American society. Overt forms of racial discrimination and government-supported segregation of public facilities came to an end, although de facto, as opposed to de jure, segregation persisted in northern as well as southern public school systems and in other areas of American society. In the South, antiblack violence declined. Black candidates were elected to political offices in communities where blacks had once been barred from voting, and many of the leaders or organizations that came into existence during the 1950s and 1960s remained active in southern politics. Southern colleges and universities that once excluded blacks began to recruit them.
Despite the civil rights gains of the 1960s, however, racial discrimination and repression remained a significant factor in American life. Even after President Johnson declared a war on poverty and King initiated a Poor People's Campaign in 1968, the distribution of the nation's wealth and income moved toward greater inequality during the 1970s and 1980s. Civil rights advocates acknowledged that desegregation had not brought significant improvements in the lives of poor blacks, but they were divided over the future direction of black advancement efforts. To a large degree, moreover, many of the civil rights efforts of the 1970s and 1980s were devoted to defending previous gains or strengthening enforcement mechanisms.
The modern African-American civil rights movement, like similar movements earlier, had transformed American democracy. It also served as a model for other group advancement and group pride efforts involving women, students, Chicanos, gays and lesbians, the elderly, and many others. Continuing controversies regarding affirmative action programs and compensatory remedies for historically rooted patterns of discrimination were aspects of more fundamental, ongoing debates about the boundaries of individual freedom, the role of government, and alternative concepts of social justice.
The Reader's Companion to American History. Eric Foner and John A. Garraty, Editors. Copyright © 1991 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Some excerpts from the ruling announced Thursday in which the Supreme Court narrowly upheld President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul:
Majority opinion:
■ We do not consider whether the Act embodies sound policies. That judgment is entrusted to the Nation's elected leaders. We ask only whether Congress has the power under the Constitution to enact the challenged provisions.
■ Just as the individual mandate cannot be sustained as a law regulating the substantial effects of the failure to purchase health insurance, neither can it be upheld as a "necessary and proper" component of the insurance reforms. The commerce power thus does not authorize the mandate. ... That is not the end of the matter. Because the Commerce Clause does not support the individual mandate, it is necessary to turn to the Government's second argument: that the mandate may be upheld as within Congress's enumerated power to "lay and collect Taxes."
■ It is estimated that four million people each year will choose to pay the IRS rather than buy insurance ... We would expect Congress to be troubled by that prospect if such conduct were unlawful. That Congress apparently regards such extensive failure to comply with the mandate as tolerable suggests that Congress did not think it was creating four million outlaws. It suggests instead that the shared responsibility payment merely imposes a tax citizens may lawfully choose to pay in lieu of buying health insurance.
■ The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax. Because the Constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it, or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness.
■ The Federal Government does not have the power to order people to buy health insurance. Section 5000A would therefore be unconstitutional if read as a command. The Federal Government does have the power to impose a tax on those without health insurance. Section 5000A is therefore constitutional, because it can reasonably be read as a tax.
■ Congress has set out to remedy the problem that the best health care is beyond the reach of many Americans who cannot afford it. It can assuredly do that, by exercising the powers accorded to it under the Constitution. The question in this case, however, is whether the complex structures and provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act or ACA) go beyond those powers. We conclude that they do.
■ The Act before us here exceeds federal power both in mandating the purchase of health insurance and in denying nonconsenting states all Medicaid funding. These parts of the Act are central to its design and operation, and all the Act's other provisions would not have been enacted without them. In our view it must follow that the entire statute is inoperative.
■ The values that should have determined our course today are caution, minimalism, and the understanding that the federal government is one of limited powers. But the court's ruling undermines those values at every turn. In the name of restraint, it overreaches. In the name of constitutional avoidance, it creates new constitutional questions. In the name of cooperative federalism, it undermines state sovereignty.
■ The fragmentation of power produced by the structure of our government is central to liberty, and when we destroy it, we place liberty at peril. Today's decision should have vindicated, should have taught, this truth; instead, our judgment today has disregarded it.
■ Congress has impressed into service third parties, healthy individuals who could be but are not customers of the relevant industry, to offset the undesirable consequences of the regulation. Congress' desire to force these individuals to purchase insurance is motivated by the fact that they are further removed from the market than unhealthy individuals with pre-existing conditions, because they are less likely to need extensive care in the near future. If Congress can reach out and command even those furthest removed from an interstate market to participate in the market, then the Commerce Clause becomes a font of unlimited power, or in Hamilton's words, "the hideous monster whose devouring jaws . . . spare neither sex nor age, nor high nor low, nor sacred nor profane."
■ The decision to forgo participation in an interstate market is not itself commercial activity (or indeed any activity at all) within Congress' power to regulate. It is true that, at the end of the day, it is inevitable that each American will affect commerce and become a part of it, even if not by choice. But if every person comes within the Commerce Clause power of Congress to regulate by the simple reason that he will one day engage in commerce, the idea of a limited Government power is at an end.
■ All of us consume food, and when we do so the Federal Government can prescribe what its quality must be and even how much we must pay. But the mere fact that we all consume food and are thus, sooner or later, participants in the "market" for food, does not empower the Government to say when and what we will buy. That is essentially what this Act seeks to do with respect to the purchase of health care. It exceeds federal power.


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Pitfalls in the use of Time as an Explanatory Variable in Regression
Regression of a trendless random walk on time produces R-squared values around .44 regardless of sample length. The residuals from the regression exhibit only about 14 percent as much variation as the original series even though the underlying process has no functional dependence on time. The autocorrelation structure of these "detrended" random walks is pseudo-cyclical and purely artifactual. Conventional tests for trend are strongly biased towards finding a trend when none is present, and this effect is only partially mitigated by Cochrane-Orcutt correction for autocorrelation. The results are extended to show that pairs of detrended random walks exhibit spurious correlation.
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- Nelson, Charles R & Kang, Heejoon, 1981.
"Spurious Periodicity in Inappropriately Detrended Time Series,"
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- Nelson, Charles R & Kang, Heejoon, 1979. "Spurious Periodicity in Inappropriately Detrended Time Series," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 161, University of Warwick, Department of Economics.
- Michael C. Lovell, 1963. "Seasonal Adjustment of Economic Time Series and Multiple Regression," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 151, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
- Granger, C. W. J. & Newbold, P., 1974. "Spurious regressions in econometrics," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 2(2), pages 111-120, July.
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Labor Court to Hold Hearing on Postal Strike Today
Postal workers will continue their sanctions today, though without a full strike.
After two weeks of disruptions, the Israel Post petitioned the Tel Aviv Labor Court yesterday to order the Histadrut Labor Federation to act to end the strike.
The court will hear the case today.
Under the ongoing sanctions, mail will not be delivered to the periphery, including many IDF bases; diplomatic mail will not be delivered; the Postal Bank will not be fully operating; and payments to state bodies will not be accepted.
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Yahoo, You're Not Off The Hook Over The Chinese Dissidents Case Says New Lawsuit
Yahoo Sued Again for Assisting the Persecution of Chinese Dissidents from the Epoch Times reports Yahoo is being sued once again for allegedly leaking personal information and aiding the Chinese Communist Party in Internet censorship and the persecution of dissidents.
The China Democratic Party, China Social Democratic Party and the New People's Party filed suit against Yahoo in San Francisco Federal Court a couple days ago. The suit named Wang Xiaoning and Guo Quan as being persecuted by the CCP because of Yahoo.
Although Yahoo has settled with two Chinese dissidents, they are said not to have "openly apologized" for the act. I guess the people behind the suit must have missed Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang apologizing openly before a US Congressional hearing.
In any event, the group says 60 people were persecuted because of Yahoo and it is their duty to file a case for them. The suit is also because of censorship of former Nanjing Normal College associate professor Guo Quan, who is asking for China reform.
For past coverage of Yahoo and the Chinese dissident case, start over here and begin clicking backwards from the links within that article.
Eric Goldman emailed me a link to the filing over here.
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