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The Alikreukel are found along most of the South African coastline and are often just boiled in a pot or steamed in their own juices on an open fire and eaten out of the shell.
This dish adds a bit of a chef's touch to the usual way of preparing the Alikreukel and still keeps the natural flavour of this much loved delicacy. You either love or hate the taste and for those of you have never much enjoyed the natural way of preparing this somewhat tough little customer this might be a new way to enjoy eating them.
Alikreukel cooked in a white wine and vine ripened tomato Pomadora sauce served with poached linguine
Preparation time
Cooking time 3 hours
Ready in 3 hours
Recipe yield 4 Portion
20 Alikreukel or Olly crocks 5 per person this is also the daily limit min size 0.65cm
40g of real butter melted
20g or 3 garlic cloves crushed
1 Lemon juiced and zested
For the tomato sauce
4 Fresh tomatos
2 tins of chopped tomato
2 carrots finely grated
5 cloves of garlic
1 head of celery finely chopped
100grams of tomato puree
6 Onions finely chopped and fried until brown
Olive oil to fry the onions
150ml Double cream to finish and enrich the sauce
Salt and black pepper to your taste
Chef's tip
Break the shells open, remove the flesh and rinse them in salt water removing the soft stomach part. The Alikreukel don't have to be cooked in the shells. Boil them in salt water and slice them very thinly.
For the sauce: Lightly fry the finely chopped onions and celery until they are lightly browned and then add the garlic. Poach the shellfish in water and slice or dice very finely then add them to the onions and lightly fry then add the white wine and reduce by half. Then add the chopped tomato, tomato puree and the tinned tomato turn the heat down a simmer on a very low heat for two to three hours. Cook the pasta in boiling water until ready and add the sauce then fold it through the pasta and serve. Top with freshly chopped parsley ground black pepper and a squeeze of lemon.


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A major expansion is in the works for one eastern Iowa airport.
The Dubuque Regional Airport will soon get a brand new passenger terminal, and it comes with a nearly $40 million price tag.
Airport manager Bob Grierson said none of that money, however, comes from general taxes.
"If you do not fly, you do not pay into this project," Grierson said Wednesday.
The Federal Aviation Administration is paying $33,740,777, the state is paying $1,049,298 and the Dubuque Regional Airport is paying $5,183,378, making a total of $39,973,453.
Grierson said all federal, state and airport dollars come from air travel, whether tax on jet fuel or user fees attached to airfare.
The plans include a new access road from US Highway 61 plus a "prairie style" building that utilizes local elements such as natural limestone.
Mike Marshall, owner of Fly DBQ Cafe, the only restaurant at the Dubuque Regional Airport, is excited for the new building. Right now, his customers can only take his food so far.
"You buy your beverages and things outside security, you can't take it through," he said.
In plans for the new terminal, Marshall will have a restaurant plus a snack bar on the other side of security. He said he anticipates seeing business skyrocket with that.
"I'm thinking we'll probably double what we have now," Marshall said. "Once we're there in security, we can sell beverages, we can sell mixed drinks, we can sell beer."
The airport and its terminal opened in 1947 and has seen two renovations since then, but nothing to this scale.
"It's had a good 65-year life," Grierson said of the current terminal. "We've done everything we can to keep it operational as a terminal facility, but, simply put, we can't expand it anymore, we can't upgrade it anymore, the parking is insufficient. Aircraft parking is insufficient."
He said the airport sees more than 70,000 passengers come and go each year. It may not be the midwest's busiest airport, but managers are planning for the future.
"We'll have the ability to expand. We'll have the ability to handle multiple carriers simultaneously, which we don't have today," Grierson said.
Crews are now preparing the property for the new structure, which is set for completion by the end of 2016.
"I'm really excited about it. It'll be nice," Marshall said.
The new terminal project is more than a decade in the making. The airport plans to put out bids for construction in July and break ground on the building this fall.


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Foodies sue providers of hacked payment system
A group of restaurants is demanding millions of dollars in damages from two companies accused of selling point-of-sale terminals that exposed customer data to criminal hackers. In a complaint filed in Louisiana state court, the restaurants claim the Aloha POS software manufactured by Georgia-based Radiant Systems failed to …
As acronyms go
the one for Point of Sale is really unfortunate, particularly in cases like this.
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Unfortunate, or accurate?
About time too!
Why do tech equipment suppliers get away with supplying kit that's not fit for purpose?
- Why did noone hit by the Microsoft email viruses sue them for ignoring the security sections in the MIME RFCs and so opening the gates wide to them?
- Please please PLEASE can I get compensation from the suppliers of car and building alarms that go off every time there's a bit of wind&rain!
... etcetera.
Good to hear someone is taking action, albeit in a distant country and over a relatively obscure matter!
This is exactly how this should unfold
This is exactly what should happen in this case. They end user had a good faith effort to have a secure environment through a vendor. The vendor stated they were compliant with PCI standards, which has been proven to be false.
The end user paid their victims back for their charges, and now seek to be made whole from their vendor. The POS company and vendor have no one to blame but themselves for this one.
Having done professional audits, I was always very careful, knowing that my written report was relied on. I didn't dare put anything in that could not be proven in a court of law or sign something off to make someone's life easier.
Turned out that sometimes such reports did get read, and the auditors report was enough to get the budget to fix the problems. Point being when a customer is paying someone to say they are 'ok', you are now taking responsibility that they are in fact 'ok'.
Are they a UK based business / Gov Department...
"What we can say is that <insert Name> takes data security very seriously"
How many time have we heard that in the UK!
I hope they get sued so badly they go bust, just for their utter arrogance in saying the above sentance. Their terminals have proved non compliant yet they still spout this marketing drivel.
Far too common.
I have lost count of the number of compainies I have been to where all the credit card data is stored including cv2 digits... there really needs to be a hotline for reporting the stupid companies who think this is good practice...
This includes various third party software systems also these people should know better!
Call the card companies...
The PCI compliance program is very stringent. If someone is not compliant they mat lose their ability to process that particular brand of card (MasterCard, Visa, etc.). I didn't bother looking for any kind of contact information but I'm sure there is a way you could report these issues to the card companies anonymously. I work in a retail company now but used to work in a hospital for many years. The staff here gets just as anxious about PCI audits as hospital staff used to be about HIPAA compliance. I mean even the software industry has the BSA. I'm sure the card companies would be interested in hearing these stories because the fraud obviously costs them and their business partners money.
Merchants want to get paid for the risk to their customers now?
"criminal hackurs"? What a convoluted way to say "electronic theft". But aside from that, the credit card security system is laughable on its face. To "pay" you hand over all the credentials to the merchant, who combines the whole thing with a nice fat bill to send it off to some third party processor. Then it suddenly doesn't matter that one of the numbers was written on the backside of the card. You've just given them all away. All. Of. Them. Like giving your PIN to your CHIP+PIN card away, only now it's a fundamental requirement of the transaction. Any party to the transaction with a copy of the information is a viable target for a thief.
How many parties? Well, it starts with you. Then there's the merchant, his payment processor, the cc company, your bank, maybe their payment processors too. Everyone will (well, should, duh) have backups that may or may not be encrypted and could be accidentally lost on the way to or from the off-site backup storage, by courier, both of which in turn are another company. Who else has access? Hm, what about accountants and even the revenue service? I'm sure I forgot a few. And that is when everything goes just peachy fine. If the paper trail wasn't enough already, this would be reason enough for me to not have a credit card.
Missed point, or paranoid ramblings? ..unless you are much smarter than everyone I know (of)
I ask of you, how would you propose a card/chip based transaction that does not include every detail needed to verify it?
The trick to this, and where Aloha fell down, was that the credentials are stored very temporarily in volatile memory. The processing company stores the credentials somewhat more permanently (in a queue) but still with a TTL measured in minutes to fractional hours, and behind a much more robust security system, usually with encryption.
I'm not sure where you got the idea of backups of full creds from, at most the backups are of a summarized, redacted set to ID the transaction, but not enough to duplicate the transaction, or create another one. Other than you (on the card/chip) the PoS terminal, the processing co., and the bank, no-one else has full credentials. The accountants, revenue service, back-ups, et al., get something like "<amnount> charged to <CC company (Visa/MC/etc.)> number xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-<last four> by <merchant> on <date>" not a lot that can be done with that.
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Dahlia Baker had a reputation in her hometown. It was one of the things a woman with a body like hers had to contend with. As if large breasts and legs for miles made her a dumb bimbo. But it wasn't like anyone cared that she had a 4.0 and a free ride to UNLV and so she grabbed opportunity with both hands and headed for the sunny heat of Las Vegas.
Still, she has bills to pay and if she wants to keep herself in books and a roof over her head, she has to get a job. And that's where The Dollhouse came in where she worked as a burlesque dancer.
She's got a plan for her future. But into her life strolls Nash, the brother of the man who owned the Dollhouse and a reputed player. Nash was literally the hottest man she'd ever clapped eyes on.
And he wants her.
Despite her reservations, they enter into a fiery affair and soon Dahlia's heart is involved.
Nash knows Dahlia is skittish and over time, he begins to understand why. He may be a playboy, but he knows what he wants and he wants forever with Dahlia. It's just going to take a very skillful combination of extremely hot sex and unconditional love to get her to see it too.
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London • The world's disbelief at the political impasse in the U.S. turned to cautious relief Thursday as the country stepped back from the brink of default. But fears remain about another possible shutdown — and, even worse, a possible default — early next year.
At the same time, experts and foreign officials warned that Washington's credibility had been damaged — a point President Barack Obama echoed.
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The deal may assure only a few months of financial order, and the prospect of another possible crisis early in January when the agreement lapses leaves many wondering about U.S. government stability. The short-term nature of the deal makes many uneasy.
"It's a huge threat to the leadership of an indispensable power," Klaus Scharioth, Germany's ambassador to Washington from 2006 until 2011, told The Associated Press. "That's bad news for all of us. It's bad news for Europeans because we're the closest partners of the U.S., but it's bad news for the rest of the world too if they don't exercise the power that they have."
He expressed the hope that American democracy can right itself in time to prevent another disaster once the current deal expires in January.
"The answer has to come from within," he said. "I hope the current situation is bad enough that people realize it cannot continue."
International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde said the shaky American economy needs more stable long-term solutions.
"It will be essential to reduce uncertainty surrounding the conduct of fiscal policy by raising the debt limit in a more durable manner," she said in a statement.
The stopgap nature of the solution that avoided a default left some experts warning that repeated dramas could sap confidence in the U.S., causing market problems with global implications.
Standard Chartered economist Samiran Chakraborty in Mumbai said American financial markets may over time lose faith.
"In three months' time, this could be back again," said Chakraborty. "If this kind of pushing it back happens several times, then this comfort that the markets had over the last 20 days that a deal will be reached, that comfort may now be dead."
Also, the congressional cliffhanger might dent longer-term confidence in American government debt, a cornerstone of global credit markets, prompting creditors to demand higher interest.
Xenia Dormandy, director of the Americas program at London's Chatham House, said the U.S. image had suffered a double blow, with both its economic and political credentials called into question
"There is a sense that the U.S. as a reliable ally is not necessarily the case anymore," she said, warning that both American allies and adversaries have reached this conclusion. But she, like others, said the damage is most likely short term.
Dormandy and other experts warned that the crisis isn't over and that it is too early to feel relief. Instead, those outside the U.S. must accept that confusion is an integral part of the American democratic system, she said.
Even if the current debate is resolved something else would likely come up and divide the country again, Dormandy added.
"If it's not the debt ceiling, it'd be something else," she said.
There are signs that the world is becoming weary of the repeated threats and counter threats that have become a regular feature of U.S. politics. The budget crisis has made many outside the U.S. question the way the world's leading power conducts its business at home even as it seeks to exert influence overseas.
Peter Trubowitz, professor of international relations at the London School of Economics, said the U.S. system is so dysfunctional that it is sending confusing signals abroad.
"It's just gotten to the point now that it's having lots of negative side effects," he said. "The effect is especially felt in Asia, where countries were already concerned about America's commitment to the region."
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Our Parents' Most Embarrassing Tech Habits
Parents. We love them, but boy, do they know how to embarrass us. Before all you had to worry about was them telling a shameful childhood story, pulling out that old picture of us in a plaid jumpsuit, or providing a little TMI about their personal lives. Now your mom has an iPhone, and can do all this and more with a few quick swipes and taps. We look at a few other funny and embarrassing things our parents are doing with tech...
Typing in ALL CAPS
My own mother does this and I simply can't get her to stop no matter how many times I tell her how it's inappropriate online. "I like it," she says. So that's the way it's going to be — can't argue with mom.
Pulling Out the Magnifying Glass
I learned this new one at a dinner last week. Rather than bother with pinch-to-zoom gesture, our friends' parents have gotten accustomed to pulling out the good ol' magnifying glass to read text and emails on their smartphone. It goes without saying that this is mostly done in public and preferably when she's nearby.
Loud and Inappropriate Ringtones
It still makes me chuckle when my mother's phone rings — a terrible MIDI of a hard rock guitar riff. This for someone who listens to Etta James albums and, I kid you not, Susan Boyle. Maybe she insists on it because it rises her to action before the call goes to voicemail - something she still doesn't know how to check.
Printing Out Every Email
I still haven't figured out the convenience of this practice. Maybe it helps for easier reading like the magnifying glass routine, or maybe they really want an abstract monotone print of the picture attachment - because you know their printer is out of a color cartridge or two. Printed emails are plaguing parents all over the nation, despite all our attempts to nudge them to abandon printing anything and everything out!
This is all in good fun of course. Our parents are our family whom we love, and we have more in common with them than we may like to admit. Who knows what new advances or changes will come along as we age and have kids, eventually making us the subject of embarrassment?
Got any additional embarrassing tech habits your parents do?
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Commenting on every one of my Facebook posts with something cheesy and then adding my friends and writing on their walls. It's awesome.
Gah, my mother comments on every single one of my Facebook posts with something ridiculous and cheesy, too, but since I was trying to hold off on FB and she jumped right in, she was friends with my friends well before I even joined.
Also, she doesn't know how to use her damn phone. Sometimes when I call, I'm assuming she tries to send the call to voicemail or silence it, but answers it instead. She doesn't realize it, so I can hear her entire conversation with whomever she's with (which can be very funny). So I hang up and try again, because all I want to do it leave a message, but, of course, she answers again without realizing. This sometimes goes on for 3 or 4 cycles. Now, if it happens once, I just end up texting her with my question.
Thankfully, my father avoids social media and other technology if he can help it. He only has a work cell, which he is adamant about only using for work business.
My mother has Google's Picasa application installed on her desktop, and no matter what photo she's looking for, she looks for it "in" Picasa. When she finds the photo she wants, she can't get it into Facebook or as an email attachment, because, shockingly, Picasa is not a location on her hard drive she can link to. She calls my sister and I to try to talk her through figuring out how to locate pictures on her hard drive, making what should be a powerful convenience into a sort of painful hassle.
I haven't observed to verify, but I'll assume my Dad has no idea about pinch & zoom on the iPad given his one finger point to type that carried over from his GameBoy days (who else didn't use their thumbs to control it?!?)
Also, I've never seen somebody who takes longer to pull the damn trigger on a purchase... he was wowed by the iPhone and wants one so bad, but held off for a world phone that would work with Verizon. The 4S came out, which could be used globally and he still kept waiting... wanted to wait until after my brother's wedding (in Oct) and then vacation in Mex in Dec/Jan. Now he's talking about getting one when the 5 comes out. We'll see...
Now, he's dragging his feet in the same way for a MacBook, that Mom is "giving him" for their 40th anniversary... he's only been talking of switching to Mac for 2 years now.
Good one @Jon Tingley, my mom does the Facebook thing too just forgot about that one. Not only is the comment cheesy but it screams for attention because it's written in all caps, of course. Gotta love it.
These are all delightfully embarrassing "problems" to have with ones parent....
I've noticed a pattern with my Mum. When she was catching up and started using e-mails, I started seeing chain letters pop up in my inbox. Now that she's been on Facebook for a year, my news feed is full of the same stuff. Wonder what will come next?
My dad will use the word "text" when he really means email, he thinks the two terms are interchangeable. e.g. he will call and say "Why didn't you respond to my text?" To which I tell him I never received one. Before I realize he means email, we argue because he thinks I'm ignoring him. Then I politely remind him that the "text" and "email" don't mean the same thing, but he always forgets.
My parents also have a tendency to leave 2 second voicemails, they are always along the lines of, "Hey, it's Dad call me back. Bye." There's no way to tell if it's urgent or not, or what my parents want. Chances are, if I see a missed call from my parents I'll call them back, so why leave a voicemail at all?
If my mom wants me to look at something on a website, instead of just sending me the URL, she copies the entire page and pastes it into an email. Drives me crazy. When I tell her to just email the URL, her response "I thought that's what I was doing"
Gotta love 'em
I'm sure all you tragic hipsters will find something trendy that's waaaaay above your poor parent's ability to comprehend. Then you won't feel quite so embarrassed about them. Or, wait! No... No, you couldn't possibly... Could you? Maybe enjoy their quirks and eccentricities, and yes, their terrifying squareness.
By the way, I can find some twenty-something schmuck who does every silly thing your poor old parents do.


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The same old questions lie in front of me,
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Just like unanswered phones that always ring,
And living just keeps on its walking by.
Unsaid, the words then hover in thin air,
An empty promise attracting more dust,
Untaken chances, a meaningless dream
All left behind to fade in silent rust.
The dreams that offered a different hope,
And slowly I believed they could be true,
As knowledge shown within a golden light,
The doors opened in shades of deja vu.
I looked to the stars for beauty's refrain,
And watched as more demons stole it away,
I heard their laughter push blades in my back,
For daring to think life was mine to play.
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Book to book consistency
I am a professional Fine Art Photography and I teach as well. This would be my first attempt at making my images into a book. I print everything myself and teach the process as well so I am not worried about making the book itself.
What I am worried about is book to book consistency when I put it up for sale. I am worried about someone buying the book off of the website, it is printed and mailed to them, and I never see the quality. What if I sale 20 books in one month and 18 of them are not printed the same as the books I got for myself, you know something may have gone wrong.
Can anyone testify as to the consistency of Blurb's printing from one book to the next over a period of time?
I have been creating and ordering books for over a year from Blurb. My experience with the hard bound books with the printed cover is that the internal book printing is pretty consistent. Not identical as when ordering a large number from a single printer. B&W color shifts as you might expect are more noticable than with color images. The covers on the other hand can be dramatically different, especially background colors. The covers are not printed on the same printer as the books and the color shifts can be quite large as I found on my last book (private printing). This has caused a small problem in that the books were given as gifts and now several on the individuals have asked to purchase additional books for their children. The printing have now come from two different printers and the green color of the cover vary from a sherwood green to bluish green. It takes a little explaining that the difference is not a defect. If the background color of your proposed books are critical, you might want to contact Blurb Support to see if there is a way around this. I think there is but it will cost you.
Thanks Len!! A few more questions on this topic.
So when you say "background color", you mean the color I choose to go on the outside of my photo? Will that effect the colors of my photo, or are you saying the outlining color around my image might be different but the photo fine? I will either choose black, or leave it white, so from what I think you are saying I should be fine.
Also, when printing cover photo directly onto book, versus printing onto cover sleeve, will they look the same. Is printing directly onto a cover of book a problem, or should I not do that and only print photo onto sleeve and just print name onto hardcover?
Perhaps that you want to do a proof book with first twenty (yes, 20) pages with most challenging images and cover sleeve. I would think that proof book itself will speaks for itself.
To address with quality-related issue, best if you contact with Blurb staff through email support customer service when you run into some kind of specific issue that might arise from time to time.
As for consistency of book to book, outsourced printer to other printer, I strongly encourage you to submit a after-thought, in-depth analysis and perspective from someone like you as expertise in your field, your knowledge and skills could be of help and benefit Blurb staff and all. To do this, perhaps that you want to submit feedback email support submission.
You want to do a survey posted by Blurb.
Hope that this helps.
Cheers, Brian {a passionate Blurbarian}
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I realize that I failed to include the link to survey info announced by Blurb, the link below:
Hope that helps,
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I wasn't very clear in my response. The contents of your book will be printed on an HP Indigo 5000 series printer (These printers us a liquid system to carry the toner to the image unlike the xerox iGen series that use a dry toner process) The dust cover with be printed using a different printer, probably an ink jet system. The two printers are not color matched and therefore your images will not be identical in the book and on the cover. From printer to printer I have found the book photos to be close but not identical to one another. The difference are acceptable for my use but I'm not sure about yours. The problem with re-orders is that you have no control over which printer printes your book. So even in producing a test or proof book it is difficult since the book will be printed by a printer is somewhat random fashion. Now getting back to an image on the cover, since the printing process for book and cover printing, the same photo in the book will be rendered differently on the cover. I have found additionally that the the cover printings are not as well controlled as that of the books themselves. Blurb does have a special service, for more money, that as a professional you might take advantage of to minimize some of the differences I mentioned. Contact Customer Support for more information.
I strongly support what Brian said about proofing a book. But keep in mind that your book might not get printed by the printer that printed your proof. My books have alternated among three printers, one three miles from my home, one in MA, and one in WA. Despite some of Blurb's claims, distance from your location have little bearing on which printer is chosen. Three separate proofs of my recent (private) book came from 3 miles away and my order ot 15 books came from over 2K miles away in WA state. Go figure. (The standard response will be printer backlog at the closer printer)
My experience has not been so positive with consistency. Of the 5 books I ordered in the past month only 2 have come out acceptable. I am still waiting for a correction of the errors. Of my first order (3 books) 2 were correct, the third (in the same box) had someone else's contents entirely.
I ordered 2 more, slightly different layout but with mostly the same images. One came with large white borders on the top of all pages (cutting off my images), and they both had colored stains on the booksmart borders provided by blurb. One had globs of glue seeping out of the spine.
Now I understand mistakes are made, but I would not be comfortable putting my professional name on a product and having it shipped directly to a customer with this huge margin of error. The ones that were correct look great, but 2 out of 5 isn't a great track record so far.
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I agree with you. I don't consider myself a professional but I and my wife have created 10 books over the last year. Most have been for private use and several have had more than one printing order. In all cases I have made all orders ship to me. In this way I can review each book for errors and can hand them out or ship with knowledge that the receiver will get an acceptable book. My concern is not having, in most cases a family member or friend, have to deal with Blurb directly. Blurb is extremely good on making all books a quality product and will correct errors but unfortunately workmanship at the printers can vary a lot.
I've ordered three different Imagewrap 13×11 books. Blurb has printed 6 books so far and only 1 came out OK. I need to photograph defects and get them to reprint two more(again). The books were ordered between Thanksgiving and Christmas. All but one of the defects came from Rochester, NY, but one came from Seattle, WA. I have 5 defective books! I'm truly ready to give up—despite Customer Service's responsiveness. It just wear on you that these $100 books are 80% defective! I've been assured there are no higher-than-usual defect rates for these books or Rochester. However, since Math is a skill I enjoy, I understand that probability of 5 out of 6 books being defective for me and it not being an indicator of a larger issue—is like me winning the lottery. Woo Hoo! I guess I'm just lucky.
I ordered one 10×8 imagewrap and it was perfect (and from Rochester). Four copies of that 10×8 books have been purchased by other people. Two have arrived successfully, there was something slightly off with one, but the receiver was willing to ignore it. I don't know about the other two as they were purchased directly from Blurb.
Can anyone tell me about the quality of the text only 8×5 books from Blurb? Paper Quality? Printing quality and consistency? Cover quality and consistency?
I completely agree with others who commented on the cover quality control. Basically, there isn't any. In the same batch, an imagwrap cover looked different from a dust jacket. And both were completely wrong from past covers in terms of colour and dynamic range.
Plus, the imagewrap cover won't lay flat.
Completely useless.
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Reggaetón Still Gets a Bad Rap
Why the urban Latin music genre makes people in power nervous
By Juan Carlos Pérez-Duthie
Several years after reggaetón reached its peak and some of its performers went on to become major stars, the music still ruffles feathers.
But it's not raperos in this country that are feeling the heat for their once sex-and-violence-drenched lyrics. Those performers had to change their tune, or risk becoming the flavor of the day.
Thus, hardcore reggaetón led to more romantic or danceable forms of the genre, and saw performers like Wisin & Yandel, Tito El Bambino, and Don Omar, among others, broaden their base and get a second wind in their careers. Those who didn't evolve fell behind and dropped off the music radar.
Guess some countries, especially in the Caribbean, didn't hear that the party was cancelled.
Earlier this month, the Cuban government announced that it was going to crack down on reggaetón. The government said it considers reggaetón a type of music that corrupts people, is insulting to the Cuban woman, and devalues the musical traditions of the island.
One may or may not agree with that assessment, but Cuba doesn't stand alone.
Puerto Rico, cradle of this mix of hip hop en español, street slang, and roots from Panama and Jamaica, tried to stamp it out when it first sprouted from the marquesinas or garage and porch areas in many houses to the clubs and then on to radio. But the music proved unstoppable and Puerto Rico had to come around.
In Cuba however, there's a more formidable enemy at play: the repressive apparatus of a communist government that fears anything that may sway the masses. Timba, son, and other Cuban rhythms are still beloved, but Cuban youth - like so many other youth around the world - have found in urban music and reggaetón a way to forget about their troubles and just have a good time.
According to several recent news reports discussing the issue, there are ways to make reggaetoneros' lives miserable. The Instituto Cubano de la Música (ICM) will guarantee that they would be removed from official lists for events, they would not get work gigs, and that radio and TV stations on the island would not play their music. Like so much else in Cuba, the government could try to make them disappear.
The reality - as usual - is different, and whether pushed underground or heard from radio stations in Miami or neighboring islands, reggaetón will find a way to skirt around the controls and flow.
Lest you think that a crusade against the vulgarity of urban music is a product of Cuba's hypocritical, hypercritical, censorship obsessed and paranoid political system, think again. In nearby democratic Dominican Republic - another island famous for its musical contributions - reggaetón has also had some hard times.
In the mid-2000s and up to this day, antinarcotics and law enforcement authorities from that country linked the music to the increase in the use of drugs and drug-related crimes. Songs from several artists were even banned from radio, including tracks by Calle 13, Tego Calderón, and Lito & Polaco.
Hispanic urban artists - like many of their predecessors and colleagues in the world of English-language rap and hip hop - have certainly done tangible damage to their image and their cause by the subjects treated early on in their music and by the violence perpetrated on one another and the criminal backgrounds of some performers.
Today's heavy hitters though are not the ones espousing violent and misogynistic and downright dirty songs. Ask Daddy Yankee.
In many cases, urban music continues to be a voice for the disenfranchised, the oppressed, and the poor. That's something that Cuba's masters and other governments fear, of course.
In Latin America, indigenous youth have found in rap a way to vent their frustrations. In Brazil, for example, you have Bro MC's; in Bolivia, there was Abraham Bojorquez, now deceased, and Wayna Rap, as well as Insane Race and Clandestine Race; in Chile it's Legua York and Wechekeche ñi Trawün; Mexico boasts Sociedad Café and Movimiento Acaxao; Los Nin in Ecuador; Paraguay had Nando El Enviado and Nino MC (both killed in a car accident in September), and so on.
Aymaras, Mapuches and other Amerindian groups of young people feel they now have a voice and have even incorporated folk sounds and instruments to their urban creations.
Even in Puerto Rico, protest can be found in a new generation of acts – Perros de Pavlov, Intifada, etc. – that stick closer to the roots of original hip hop than to the bling-bling mania that once characterized reggaetón, and do not disdain musical fusion.
The bottom line is that all these groups from various countries have something to say. Loud. And that is always scary, whether in Cuba or somewhere else.
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World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. (WWE), said on Wednesday that Linda McMahon has resigned as its CEO to run for Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Connecticut Democrat Christopher Dodd. Read more on Linda McMahon's political aspirations below.
Linda McMahon, 60, formally announced her candidacy on Wednesday morning. McMahon says Washington is "out of control" and Dodd has "lost his way and our trust."
McMahon will be up against three other Republicans that include former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons, state Sen. Sam Caligiuri and former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Tom Foley.
Christopher Dodd plans to run for a sixth term next year.
Linda and her husband Vince McMahon, a professional wrestler, announcer and promoter, co-founded WWE. Linda has served as WWE's CEO since May 1997 and was the company's president from May 1993 through June 2000.
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McMahon said she won't be accepting PAC money or individual donations of more than $100, meaning her campaign will be predominantly self-financed. And she brings loads of baggage into the race – a quick perusal of YouTube shows that there's quite a bit of video archival material for her Republican opponents to use against her.
She also donated $10,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2006 – the same year that House Democrats ousted her leading Republican primary rival, former congressman Rob Simmons.
In Connecticut, Republicans have to win a critical 15 percent threshold at a Republican convention filled with GOP activists before they can move onto the primary ballot — and that could be challenging for an outsider like McMahon to accomplish.
But as Chris Cillizza notes in today's Fix, McMahon has also brought on board an A-team of Republican consultants – with Scott Howell and Associates handling media and former NRSC political director Mike Slanker serving as the general consultant. Former NRCC press secretary Ed Patru will be handling the same role with her campaign.
If nothing else, McMahon will provide even more entertainment to a race that has seen no shortage of headlines. Her campaign will be an interesting test on whether voters will be willing to support a political outsider — even, as Chuck Todd noted, when they come from a sport most associated with the worst of politics.
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In contingency management therapy, a person in drug abuse treatment receives positive incentives for staying clean. Vouchers for goods and services, or privileges in a more rigid treatment setting are common incentives. Contingency management therapy is effective in drug rehab studies. But skeptics point out its high costs, and that when incentives stop, its positive effects decline.
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Traditional therapies for drug abuse treatment involved confrontation. Addicts are masters of denial, the thinking went, and therapy should break down walls to force them to accept the reality of their addiction.
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Prescription drug abuse and opioid addiction don't only affect the user's life; the whole family is transformed. Strong relationships with family and friends are essential for successful drug abuse treatment. Various counseling methods include the spouse and other family members of the addicted person.
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- Family members can act as a powerful force for change in the addicted person's life.
- Including family members can increase the likelihood a person will stay in therapy.
- Each family member can begin to heal the damage their loved one's addiction has caused in their own life.
Studies show family therapy results in lower relapse rates, increased happiness in the family, and better functioning in children of addicted parents.
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This idea runs counter to traditional views of drug rehab, in which a person was considered "cured" after a relatively short period in treatment. However, evidence is mounting that lifelong treatment with counseling, maintenance therapy, or often both, should be standard drug abuse treatment for most people with relapsing opioid addiction.
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David "slipped the surly bonds of Earth" in the evening of February 13, 2014. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, on December 5, 1939 to Mary Constance (Jackson) and Ernest Harold Benton.
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animals on two local farms. In 1958 he entered H.M.C.S. Venture, the Canadian naval academy in Esquimalt, B.C., completing his senior year as Cadet Captain. While at Venture, David began his flying training starting with Chipmunks. Further training after graduation took him to the Prairies and then the East Coast where he flew Trackers (S10s) off H.M.C.S. Bonaventure. While in the Royal Canadian Navy, David cruised the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and the North Sea. In 1965, David left the Navy and joined Air Canada, where he spent almost 35 years flying all over the world piloting many types of aircraft, "never bending a wingtip." He retired on December 31, 1999 at age 60, as a 747-400 Captain, second in seniority.
David married Ginny, who he called "the love of his life" in 1991, having met her in 1959 when they were teenagers. They moved to Blaine in 1992 where they both became active in community affairs. David taught weather and boating for the Bellingham Power Squadron and was a member of the Bellingham Yacht Club. He also became involved in local politics. David was an active member of St. Anne's Catholic Church in Blaine and was a Lector for many years. He achieved the Fourth Degree Knight of Columbus.
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Katie has a rare problem - she has an extra room and is not sure what to do with it! "Please help! I have a problematic room in my house that seems to have no purpose. Its 8 ft x 8.5 ft and is right off of the kitchen...
I want to rip out the cabinets and sink since I have no use for it, and I want the room to have a purpose. I've considered a mud room, I just don't need one. Does anyone have any other creative ideas?? Thanks for your help!"
Our first thoughts were either to add lots of shelving and make it into a fantastic pantry and cook book library...or maybe a little art studio/craft room - if you left the sink it would come in handy....or perhaps a small home office?
What would you do with this bit of extra real estate? Share your ideas with Katie in the comments...
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Library, storage, patnry, office, craft room, guest room, laundry room, yoga studio, art gallery....
It would help to know what you are in need of :-)
Used to be the kitchen and the previous owners couldn't bear to rip out those /beautiful/ cupboards?
Laundry room with a range hood just in case? Are there possible laundry hookups in there?
I like the art studio suggestion (ala Martha Stewart).
How about installing shelving and a comfortable chair/lamp and having a mini library?
The problem with ripping out the cupboards is the flooring. Are you ready to replace that entire expanse of vinyl flooring? Wouldn't be a problem if the cabinets are installed on top of the flooring, though.
I would use it in one of the following ways:
1. Photography darkroom.
2. Nice library with wet bar (including comfy reading chair and books). For that, I would remove everything above the sink and replace with shelves.
3. Craft space.
4. I'm assuming Katie has a laundry room already--otherwise, I would use the water hookups to make it a laundry room.
5. Whatever I did, I would remove the old stove hood to make the room seem like less of an extra "half" kitchen.
I dream of this problem.
Wish we had a floorplan and more info. You own this place, I assume? Laundry room with dog bath? Kids craft room? The water makes me think in that direction
Depends on where it is in relation to the kitchen/dining room.
Without knowing, I'd absorb it into the kitchen in some way.
How lucky to have extra space! Do you have pets? That area could be used for all pet related things.
If you do remove the sink, make sure to keep the plumbing itself somehow accessible. Plumbing is an expensive item to install in a room; if you already have it, as you do, just keep it accessible.
As far as uses:
Home Office; 2nd bathroom; Exercise room; Home Office *and* Pantry (it can be done: devote one wall to shelving above and desktop below; devote the opposite wall to shelving for kitchen goods, and run some kind of lo-profile track w/curtain or tambour doors or frosted glass doors to enclose it.)
I wish I had an extra room for my musical instruments: Electronic drum kit, guitar, keyboard and amps that are spread throughout the house (living room, my son's room, guest bedroom) of course, 8 x8 isn't much, but hey, I'd make it fit and JAM!
but maybe that's just me -- working in publishing means that i always have more books than i know what to do with
Guest effieciency?
A bar? You could use the cabinets as a pantry and bar storage, and use the room for entertaining. Also, keeping the sink would be extra useful for entertaining, cooking, cleaning up.
It's a butler's pantry. I've always wanted one.
I love the cookbook library/pantry idea. I've seen pantries like this in old houses and they make me jealous.
I'm a little curious as to why there is an exhaust fan there. My guess is that the previous owner may have done a lot of canning? Perhaps they brought their big pot of preserves or tomatoes from the stove and set it on this countertop and used the hood to suck up the fumes. There would certainly be plenty of space in there for shelves to store the canned goods as well.
If canning is not your cup of tea then by golly you've got yourself the makings of a deluxe wet bar and cocktail lounge or breakfast room.
I would do a vintage bar theme for sure. I'd repaint the cabinets, remove the hood and put in a new faucet for the sink. A couple stainless steel shelves for some vintage bar wear would be nice and a backsplash made from replica tin ceiling tiles would look cool too.
The rest of the room would be painted to match the bar, an old poster could be framed and placed on the wall next to the window and new window treatment such as curtains would be nice.
To finish off the room, a round bistro table with a couple of chairs and pendant light above will finish off the lounge look.
Even if you are not drinkers, this setup would be perfect for a casual sunday brunch spread or for your coffee and newspaper. It would also be a great place to stage some hors deouvres with area for conversation.
I've always loved the feeling you get when you find yourself being comfortable in a space in your home that was otherwise unusable. It can be kind of a rush.
A semi-professional or professional espresso machine would work for both the liquor bar and breakfast bar idea.
With the ability to tie directly into your water line you can play barista all day long!
I forgot to add the idea of a track light above the countertop fitted with two or three pendants.
Of course, all of my ideas are for naught if it's actually an extra bathroom with walk-in shower that you need!
another thought is to rent it out. in nyc, that space as-is would fetch about a grand a month. ;)
It seems sad to just 'rip out' existing cabinetry, especially when they seem to be original and in descent shape. I love all of the above ideas, and agree that it would be easier to suggest things if we knew where the room was in relation to other rooms, not to mention how you live in your house.
I, for one, despise the idea that the 'living room' always HAS to include a TV, so I may think of using this space as a TV viewing room, (or, a den if you will). Could be a nice place to just chill with friends, or for the boy (cuz every man has a boy inside him) to "play" video games. This way, your living room can be a place to hang out without the eyesore (aka, TV).
As an artist and an interior designer, I would kill to have an extra room like this!
I think that hood there hovering over a cabinet is hilarious! No matter what, take that down.
I think your lifestyle should dictate the purpose of the space. Do you need a home office or craft room? Extra bathroom?
And more importantly, are you on a "repaint and accessorize" kind of budget or a "tear down walls and renovate" one?
I'd leave the sink, but I have a butlers pantry/mudroom and I find having that extra sink is great for things that require a sink but that I wouldn't necessarily want to take place in my kitchen sink...potting plants, washing dog stuff, etc.
How about the ever-so-pretentious "morning room"? In my pre-open floorplan houses, I've always thought it would be nice to have a sofa or a really comfy chair and ottoman in a nook in the kitchen to sit and drink coffee/read. This fits right into the cookbook library/wet bar/coffee bar ideas.
I wouldn't rip any thing out - I'd just paint it sage green, install more shelves more counterspace and a couple stools and use it as a pantry/crafts/flowercutting space.
If it were in my house, it would be a dog room. Do you have dogs? Want one?
Agree with the library posters- put shelves on one wall, then put in a comfy chaise longue with a good floor lamp and a table, and get one of those plug-in kettles so you don't have to leave the room to make tea and eat the little cookies that you'll keep in the cabinets.
We used the extra space for creating a painting area for our toddler. She's quite happy with it. All supplies are nicely organized there. But for a quick cheap solution a small round table would do. Small tables really can multitask! I would not put any upholstered furniture unless you have a good vent there.
That's where my staff prepares coffee and simple meals for me before I board the Gulfstream G550 to Milan.
I would keep it, so you don't have to see or hear staff members cooking and cleaning...
Pardon my jealousy... but, I wish I had a problem like what to do with an extra room.
Not knowing any other information makes giving this blank room an identity very difficult.
...now, I have to figure out what else I'm giving away/throw out since nothing fits in my space.
Gotta ax those shelves. I'm thinking a cheap quick upgrade would be two shelves like these (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60103632) one above the other adjacent to the window. Also consider bringing some plants into the room, christmas cactus always seemed like a nice kitchen plant for high shelves and hanging pots.
you could make it an indoor garden for herbs and things you might need while cooking since it is so close to your kitchen
If it's right off the kitchen, why not tear down the wall and make a really terrific Kitchen? You might also be able to position the cabinets.


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When generations collide in an Atlanta back yard in "Sheddin'," premiering July 13 at Horizon Theatre, playwright Thomas Jones II promises some of the classic comic rhythms of Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx to help find laughs in all the dysfunction. In Jones' sequel to his 2009 hit "A Cool Drink of Water," Walt (Jones) welcomes hip-hop-singing son Trane (Enoch King) back from a successful tour, angling with his doo-wop buddies to be Trane's throwback opening act. 1083 Austin Ave. N.E., Atlanta. 404-584-7450, www.horizontheatre.com. HOWARD POUSNER
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The Underground Railroad Film Series (URFS) is the neighborhood participation component of the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center's African American Film Festival. The URFS uses the metaphor of the Underground Railroad to illuminate that community can exist over many miles and many backgrounds with one common cause.
Each month from September through February, at various 'safe houses' in greater King County, the Underground Railroad Film Series partners with community groups, organizations and traditionally marginalized populations to host a screening of films by or about Black people that intersect across cultures, providing opportunities for community engagement and self-reflection.
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