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COOK TIME: 10-12 minutes
COOLING TIME: 5 minutes
They're chewy, chocolaty and delicious, and so affordable to make. This recipe makes around 10 medium sized cookies (if you don't eat half the mixture waiting for others to cook!) and they only take 10 minutes per tray to bake.
After some experimenting and adaptation of existing recipes, I quickly found my staple recipe for chocolate peanut butter cookies. I was never a fan of peanut butter on its own and it wasn't something I could imagine myself taking a liking to, however I found a recipe online which seemed easy enough to do, and all that was required from me was a few adaptations of the recipe to make it vegan! I really wanted to give PB another chance to shine after hearing so many wonderful reviews of it in different recipes.
Originally I made these without the cacao powder - which is fine - but the peanut butter taste was still too strong for my liking. I did however quickly realise that when you add something sweet (i.e sugar) to peanut butter it completely changed my opinion of the taste. I think for me it was just too nutty and savoury and needed that sweet side.
So after my first batch there was still something missing to make these cookies the dream that they now are. They were the perfect consistency and size, not complicated to make and took no real time at all to churn out - but something was missing...
Of course it was chocolate!! What else would make something a thousand times better? So when it came round to making these again I decided to throw in a couple of tablespoons of raw cacao powder, giving these cookies the perfect colour and balance of flavours.
One of my favourite things about this recipe is there's no funny ingredients - everything is so basic and easily accessible with very little fuss to use. In about 20 minutes you can whip up a batch of these wonderful cookies to share (or not to share!).
(I could literally sit and eat these all day. Try with a side of plant milk to wash them down!)
What you will need:
- 1 ripe banana (riper bananas will give more chewy cookies)
- 1 cup Billingtons Golden Caster Sugar (labelled vegan)
- 1 cup Peanut Butter (Personally I have tried Whole Earth's Smooth PB which is my favourite! However in the pictures, I actually used Meridian's Smooth PB which gives a slightly sweeter taste so feel free to experiment!)
- 3 tbsp raw cacao powder
- 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda for US)
- Sprinkle of cinnamon (optional)
What you will need:
- 2 medium baking trays (generic basic value trays)
- Cup measures: 1 cup, 1 tbsp, 1/4 tsp.
- Large mixing bowl.
- Cutlery: 1 fork, 1 spoon, 1 spatula.
- Cooling rack.
- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees C.
- Peel and mash the ripe banana with a fork into the large mixing bowl.
- Peel and mash the ripe banana with a fork into the large mixing bowl.
- Measure 1 cup Whole Earth's Smooth Peanut Butter, followed by 1 cup Billington's Golden Caster Sugar and add to the mixing bowl (DO NOT BEGIN MIXING).
- Add 3 tbsp's of raw cacao powder.
- Add 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) and a sprinkle of cinnamon (optional) to the bowl and begin mixing with a spoon.
- Ensure your ingredients have distributed evenly and there are no clumps of sugar!
- When your mixture is ready and your oven in preheated, you can begin to size out and shape your cookies.
- Using the tablespoon measure, roughly collect 1 tbsp of mixture per cookie (as shown) and transfer to the baking tray. (The mixture should be doughy but quite sticky so you may have to shake the tbsp measure for it to come out!) Shape the mixture into a circular shape measuring roughly 4-5cm wide, by about 1cm in thickness.
- Using the tablespoon measure, roughly collect 1 tbsp of mixture per cookie (as shown) and transfer to the baking tray. (The mixture should be doughy but quite sticky so you may have to shake the tbsp measure for it to come out!) Shape the mixture into a circular shape measuring roughly 4-5cm wide, by about 1cm in thickness.
NB: On the medium sized trays you can only fit 4 cookies as they expand and flatten during baking.
- Pop the first tray of 4 in the oven at 180c for exactly 10 minutes (12 minutes for 2 trays of 4). Timing is very important with these cookies as they can quickly burn!
- Your cookies should look as if they are rising like little cakes - don't worry! They won't have cake texture as they flatten during the last minute of baking! When the timer hits 10 minutes watch your cookies very carefully for the next 2 minutes and when they look like they are beginning to flatten take them out of the oven.
- Leave the baking tray on a heatproof surface for a few minutes while the cookies cool and finish cooking. They are extremely fragile when you first take them out so don't try to transfer them to the cooling rack just yet!
- After a few minutes lightly touch with your finger to see if they've firmed up - then you can use a spatula to place them onto a cooling rack. In about 5-10 minutes they'll be cooled and firm enough to eat.
You should have enough mixture for 10-12 cookies (three rounds of 4) with a little bit left to munch on while they bake.
I'd definitely consider this as a base recipe which you can build on by adding different accent ingredients. NB: Try to remember to balance out the wet with the dry ingredients - too wet and they'll not hold their shape, too dry and the cookies will be too firm to eat.
Suggested accent ingredients:
- chocolate chips
- mixed crushed nuts
- cranberries
NB: stick to smaller ingredients as larger ones can affect the cookie integrity and shape.
- You could also add whole nuts and press them into the tops of the mixture for a prettier appearance.
Let me know in the comments if you try this recipe at home and how they turned out! Any questions can be left in the comments too - or you can tweet me @chloesharman
Happy baking! Enjoy!
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For nearly 70 years, the oil industry has relied on logging tools to reveal the properties of the subsurface. The arsenal of wireline measurements has grown to allow unprecedented understanding of hydrocarbon reservoirs, but problems persist: a continuous log of permeability remains elusive, pay zones are bypassed and oil is left in the ground. A reliable nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurement may change all that. This article reviews the physics and interpretation of NMR techniques, and examines field examples where NMR logging has been successful.
Some Basics
Nuclear magnetic resonance refers to a physical principle- response of nuclei to a magnetic field. Many nuclei have a magnetic moment- they behave like spinning bar magnets. These spinning magnetic nuclei can interact with externally applied magnetic fields, producing measurable signals.
For most elements the detected signals are small. However, hydrogen has a relatively large magnetic moment and is abundant in both water and hydrocarbon in the pore space of rock. By tuning NMR logging tools to the magnetic resonant frequency of hydrogen, the signal is maximized and can be measured.
The quantities measured are signal amplitude and decay. NMR signal amplitude is proportional to the number of hydrogen nuclei present and is calibrated to give porosity, free from radioactive sources and free from lithology effects. However, the decay of the NMR signal during each mesurement cycle- called the relaxation time- generates the most excitement among the petrophysical community.
Relaxation times depend on pore sizes. For example, small pores shorten relaxation times- the shortest times corresponding to clay-bound and cappilary-bound water. Large pores allow long relaxation times and contain the most readily producible fluids. Therefore the distribution of relaxation times is a measure of the distribution of pore sizes- a new petrophysical parameter. Relaxation times and their distribution may be interpreted to give other petrophysical parameters such as permeability, producible porosity and irreducible water saturation. Other possible applications include capillary pressure curves, hydrocarbon identification and as an aid to facies analysis.
Two relaxation times and their distributions can be measured during an NMR experiment. Laboratory instruments usually measure longitudinal relaxation time, T1 and T2 distribution, while borehole instruments make the faster measurements of tranverse relaxation time, T2 and T2 distribution. In the rest of this article T2 will mean tranverse relaxation time.
NMR Applications and Examples
The T2 distribution measured by the Schlumberger CMR Combinable Magnetic Resonance tool, described later, summarizes all the NMR measurements and has several petrophysical applications:
- T2 distibution mimics pore size distribution in water-saturated rock
- the area under the distribution curve equals CMR porosity
- permeability is estimated from logarithmic-mean T2 and CMR porosity
- empirically derived cutoffs separate the T2 distribution into areas equal to free-liquid porosity and irreducible water porosity.
Application and interpretation of NMR measurement rely on understanding the rock and fluid properties that cause relaxation. With this foundation of the mechanisms of relaxation, the interpretation of T2 distribution becomes straightforward.
T2 Distribution - in porous media, T2 relaxation time is proportional to pore size. The observed T2 decay is the sum of T2 signalss from hydrogen protons, in many individual pores, relaxing indepedently. The T2 distribution graphically shows the volume of pore fluid associated with each value of T2, and therefore the volume associated with each pore.
Signal processing techniques are used to transform NMR signals into T2 distributions. Processing details are beyond the scope of this article.
In an example taken from a carbonate reservoir, T2 distributions from X340 ft to X405 ft are biased towards the high end of the distribution spectrum indicating large pores. Below X405 ft, the bias is towards the low end of the spectrum, indicating small pores. This not only provides a qualitative feel for which zones are likely to produce, but also helps geologists with facies analysis.
Lithology-independent porosity- Traditional calculations of porosity rely on borehole measurements of density and neutron porosity. Both measurements require environmental corrections and are influenced by lithology and formation fluid. The porosity derived is total porosity, which consists of producible fluids, capillary-bound water and clay-bound water.
However, CMR porosity is not influenced by lithology and includes only producible fluids and capillary-bound water. This is because hydrogen in rock matrix and in clay-bound water has sufficiently short T2 relaxation times that the signal is lost during the dead time of the tool.
An example in a clean carbonate formation compares CMR porosity with that derived from the density tool to show lithology independence. The lower half of the interval is predominantly limestone, and density porosity, assuming a limestone matrix , overlays CMR porosity. At X935 ft, the reservoir changes to dolomite and density porosity has to be adjusted to a dolomite matrix to overlay the CMR porosity. If the lithology is not known or if it is complex, CMR porosity gives the best solution. Also, no radioactive sources are used for the measurement, so there are no environmental concerns when logging in bad boreholes.
Permeability -perhaps the most important feature of NMR logging is the ability to record a real-time permeability log. The potential benefits to oil companies are enormous. Log permeability measurements enable production rates to be predicted, allowing optimization of completion and stimulation programs while decreasing the cost of coring and testing.
Permeability is derived from empirical relationships between NMR porosity and mean values of T2 relaxation times. These relationships were developed from brine permeability measurements and NMR measurements made in laboratory on hundreds of different core samples. The following formula is commonly used:
A cored interval of a well was logged using the CMR tool. The value of C in the CMR permeability model was calculated from core permeability at several depths. After calibration CMR permeability was found to overlay all core permeability points over the whole interval. Over the zone XX41 m to XX49 m the porosity varied little. However, permeability varied considerably from a low of 0.07 md at XX48 m to a high of 10 md at XX43 m. CMR permeability also showed excellent vertical resolution and compared well to that of core values. The value of C used for this well will be applied to subsequent CMR logs in this formation enabling the oil company to reduce coring costs.
Free-fluid index - The value of free-fluid index is determined by applying a cutoff to the T2 relaxation curve. Values above the cutoff indicate large pores potentially capable of producing, and values below indicate small pores containing fluid that is trapped by capillary pressure, incapable of producing.
Many experiments have been made on rock samples to verify this assumption. T2 distributions were measured on water-saturated cores before and after they had been centrifuged in air to expel the producible water. The samples were centrifuged under 100 psi to simulate reservoir capillary pressure. Before centrifuging, the relaxation distribution corresponds to all pore sizes. It seems logical to assume that during centrifuging the large pore spaces empty first. Not surprsingly, the long relaxation times disappeared from the T2 measurement.
Observations of many sandstone samples showed that a cutoff time of 33 msec of T2 distribuitons would distinguish between free-fluid porosity and capillary-bound water. For carbonates, relaxation times tend to be three times longer and a cutoff of 100 msec is used. However, both these values will vary if reservoir capillary pressure differs from the 100 psi used on the centrifuged samples. If this is the case, the experiments may be repeated to find cutoff times appropriate to the reservoir.
In a fine-grained sandstone reservoir example, interpretation of conventional log data showed 70 to 80% water saturation across a shaly sandstone formation. However, on the CMR log most of the T2 distribution falls below the 33-msec cutoff indicating capillary-bound water. Interpretation including CMR data showed that most of the water was irreducible. The well has since been completed producing economic quantities of gas and oil with a low water cut. The water cut may be estimated from the difference between residual water saturation and water saturation from resistivity logs.
In another example, but this time in a complex carbonate reservoir, the oil company was concerned about water coning during production. CMR log data showed low T2 values below X405 ft indicating small pore sizes. Applying the carbonate cutoff of 100 msec showed that nearly all the water was irreducible, which allowed additional perforation. To date no water coning has occured.
Values for cutoffs can also be tailored to particular reservoirs and help with facies analysis, as in the case of the Thamama group of formations in Abu Dhabi Oil Company Mubarraza field offshore Abu Dhabi, UAE. In this field, classical log interpretation showed water saturation of 10 to 60%. However, some zones produced no water, making completion decisions difficult. Permeability also varied widely even though porosity remained almost constant. Laboratory measurements were performed on cores to determine whether NMR logging would improve log evaluation.
Cores showed a good deal of microporosity holding a large volume of capillary-bound water. Free-fluid porosity was found in the traditional way by centrifuging the water-saturated cores. For this reservoir, however, capillary pressure was known to be 25 psi, so the core samples were centrifuged accordingly. This showed that NMR measurements could provide a good estimate of nonproducing micropores using a T2 cutoff of 190 msec. In addition, permeable grainstone facies could be distinguished from lower-permeability packstones and mudstones with a cutoff of 225 msec.
Additional Applications
Borehole NMR instruments are shallow-reading devices. In most cases, they measure formation properties in the flushed zone. This has some advantages as mud filtrate properties are well-known and can be measured at the wellsite on surface. When fluid loss during drilling is low, as in the case of low-permeability formations, hydrocarbons may also be present in the flushed zone. In these cases NMR tool may measure fluid properties such as viscosity and so distingish oil from water.
A published example of the effects of hydrocarbon viscosity comes from Shell's North Belridge diatomite and Brown Shale formations, Bakersfield, California, USA. Both CMR logs and laboratory measurements on cores show two distinct peaks on the T2 distribution curves. The shorter peak, at about 10 msec, originates from water in contact with the diatom surface. The longer peak, at about 150 msec, originates from light oil. The position of the oil peak correlates roughly with oil viscosity. The area under this peak provides an estimation of oil saturation.
T2 distribution measurements were also made on crude oil samples having viscosities oof 2.7 cp to 4300 cp. Highly viscous oils have less mobile hydrogen protons and tend to relax quickly. The CMR log showed the T2 oil peak and correctly predicted oil viscosity. It also showed that the upper 150 ft of the diatomite formation undergoes a transition to heavier oil.
Capillary pressure curves, used by reservoir engineers to estimate the percentage of connate water, may also be predicted from T2 distributions. Typically these curves- plots of mercury volume versus pressure- are produced by injecting mercury into core samples. Under low pressure the mercury fills the largest pores and, as pressure increases, progressively smaller pores are filled. The derivate of the capillary pressure curve approximates the T2 distribution. Some differences in shape are expected as mercury injection measures pore throat sizes, whereas NMR measurements respond to the size of pore bodies.
Other applications and techniques are likely to follow with more complex operations that might involve comparing logs run under different borehole conditions. For example, fluid may be injected into the formation that is designed to kill the water, so that residual oil saturation may be measured.
Function of a Pulsed Magnetic
The CMR tool is the latest generation Schlumberger NMR tool. The measurement takes place entirely within the formation, eliminating the need to dope mud systems witth magnetite to kill the borehole signal- a big drawback with the old earth-field tools. It uses pulsed-NMR technology, which eliminates the effects of nonuniform static magnetic fields and also increases signal strength. This technology, along with the sidewall design, makes the tool only 14 ft long and readily combinable with other borehole logging tools.
The skid-type sensor package , mounted on the side of the tool, contains two permanent magnets and a transmiter-receiver antenna. A bowspring ecentralizing arm or powered caliper arm- if run in combination with other logging tools- forces the skid against the borehole wall, effectively removing any upper limit to borehole size.
An important advantage of the sidewall design is that the effect of conductive mud, which shorts out the antenna on mandrel-type tools, is greatly reduced. What little effect remains is fully corrected by an internal calibration signal. Another advantage is that calibration of NMR porosity is simplified and consist of placing a bottle of water against the skid to simulate 100% porosity. T2 properties of mud filtrate samples required for interpretations corrections- may also be measured at the wellsite in a similar fashion. Finally, the design enables high- resolution logging- a 6-inch long measurement aperture is provided by a focoused magnetic field and antenna.
Two permanent magnets generate the focused magnetic field, which is about 1000 times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field. The magnets are arranged so that the field converges to form a zone of constant strength about one inch inside the formation. NMR measurements take place in this region.
By design, the area between the skid and the measurement volume does not contribute to the NMR signal. Coupled with skid geometry, this provides sufficient immunity to the effects of mudcake and hole rugosity. The rugose hole effect is similar to that of other skid-type tools such as the Litho-Density tool.
The measurement sequence starts with a wait time of about 1.3 sec to allow for complete polarization of the hydrogen protons in the formation along the length of the skid. Then the antenna typically transmits a train of 600 magnetic pulses into the formation at 320-msec intervals. Each pulse induces an NMR signal-spin echo-from the aligned hydrogen protons. The antenna also acts as a receiver and records each spin echo amplitude. T2 distribution is derived from the decaying spin echo curve, sometimes called the relaxation curve.

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A Parents Committee, headed by local businessman Rockie White of local building firm, A-Rock Construction, has been formed to help raise vital funds for the academy.
Together with a fellow parent, Adam Stevenson of MBS Building, the pair will help to arrange various events and fundraising throughout the season, in addition to being a representative for other parents at the academy to discuss any issues or ideas they may have,
Spireites director Chris Breeze said: "I am delighted that Rockie and Adam have come on board to help, as we have tried for some time to launch a Parents Committee. Within a matter of weeks, Rockie has already sourced and secured a substantial amount of corporate sponsorship, so I am really pleased.
"Together with our existing fundraiser, Mick Beddiingham, I think the committee will be successful in helping reduce the shortfall that the football club have to find each year (around £70,000), which will be vital for sustaining the academy and giving us a platform to develop the players of the future."
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please contact the academy administration manager, John Knapper, on 01246 269300 (ext 4201).
Pictured: Academy manager Mark Smith, flanked by Rockie White (left) and Adam Stevenson.


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The CEO of a health startup under scrutiny from federal regulators says she's "devastated" that she didn't fix compliance issues at the company sooner.
Elizabeth Holmes sat for an interview on NBC's TODAY show April 18 to defend Theranos, her much-hyped startup that wants to revolutionize blood tests.
The executive has been on the defensive since The Wall Street Journal reported that regulators have considered banning her from the industry for two years over violations of multiple laws regulating clinical labs, among other penalties. Holmes and Theranos are fighting to stop the sanctions from being implemented.
"Anything that happens in this company is my responsibility at the end of the day," Holmes said on TODAY. "We stopped testing and have taken the approach of saying, 'let's rebuild this entire laboratory from scratch so that we can ensure this never happens again.'"


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The New Jersey sextet who released six records, since their formation in 1997and enjoyed cumulative worldwide sales of over three million units before disbanding in 2011 originally reformed (at two days notice) in 2016 to play the Sound on Sound Festival in Atlanta, although in typical Thursday fashion, it was the charitable element of their performance that enticed them and not the almighty dollar. After triumphant appearances at Riot Fest in Denver and Chicago, 2016 was topped off with magical (sold out) home coming shows at their spiritual home of The Starland Ballroom in NJ.In 2017, the band undertook a successful 24 date headline tour of the USA with Touche Amore and Basement in tow, as support. Never afraid to wear their hearts (or their politics) on their sleeves the band criss-crossed the USA performing under two side banners that readRefugees Welcome Here and 'Protect Immigrant Communities in open defiance of the atrocious politics facing their immigrant brothers and sisters. This outspoken stance not surprisingly garnered both controversy and respect, two notions long synonymous with Thursday. The band also went on to headline the Northside festival in Brooklyn to a record-breaking crowd. Dont call it a comeback and dont call it nostalgia, the bands singer Geoff succinctly summarizes their reunion:This coming year, we are going to take the show across all the cities and countries that embraced us so thoroughly "back in the day." You can probably guess a few of them.The problem with nostalgia, and memory in general, is that it's a destructive process. Much like recording over the same cassette, again and again, the quality degrades with each pass. Put in a modern way, our memory is like a hard drive: the more you try to fit on it, the further it compresses, lowering the quality of the new memory and the original experience, too. Rather than endlessly overwriting the original experiences that we shared with so many of you, we've been discussing how and when to wrap up this trip down memory lane. In the next year, we'll be announcing our international tours as well as a final group of dates in the US, that will be totally unlike anything we've ever attempted to do.Beyond that, we will only return in the event of new music. And new music will only come if we feel it's truly inspired and adds a new dimension to the band. In our humble opinions, there are only a few bands that have put out records worth coming back for. Bands like Portishead and MBV.We have loved every minute of these shows. We look forward to 2018 and everything it brings.Tom Keeley lead guitar, backing vocalsTim Payne bass guitarGeoff Ricklylead vocalsTucker Rule drumsSteve Pedulla rhythm guitar, backing vocalsAndrew Everding keyboards, synthesizer, backing vocals
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Where we come from is a question my boys have asked numerous times concerning our family's origin. It's normal to be curious about where you come from, especially if your family tree leads you to far away places such as Scotland, Britain, Germany, or Ireland. However, finding information on our ancestry roots hasn't always been easy.
Take Ireland for example. In 1922 there was a fire at the Four Courts which destroyed many of the records which could've made it easier for someone to trace their roots to Ireland. Knowing that our family had a connection to the country wasn't sufficient enough in our journey of self-discovery. You have to actually visit the country and explore it.
I suggest using a professional tour company such as goirishtours.com as it can give you a glimpse of the place your ancestors inhabited, setting you on a trail which will lead you to your ancestry roots and besides, who doesn't want to explore the beauty of a country like Ireland up close?
Finding Your Ancestry Roots
Tip 1. Find possible family members in your current location
When families migrate, they tend to move to the same country or city. This is done to ensure security and support in a new environment which makes sense. Nobody wants to move somewhere without family or friends.
So, find out if there are people who share the same surname as you in your local area or nearby towns. All you might have is your name in common but if you are lucky, you might find you share more than that. You might share the same ancestry roots.
Tip 2. Use traditional naming patterns for clues
There is no guarantee this will work as overtime families end up changing their names based on personal preferences and trying to fit into society. However, it can give you clues about your family tree.
Traditionally, the eldest son in a family was named after his paternal grandfather, the second got his maternal grandfather's name, and the third son his father's name. Knowing the names of your family members can give you clues in tracing your ancestry roots.
Tip 3. Use websites that give clues on locations of families sharing surnames
Nowadays you can find anything on the Internet and there are many websites offering ancestry information both for free and for a fee. Use them to your advantage. This is an excellent place to find out locations of families that share your surname.
When looking up surnames, you will get information of areas occupied by people dating back to the 1800s. You can even narrow your search, starting with regions of origin. If this proves unsuccessful, you can proceed to regions with fewer residents who shared the same name.
I looked up my grandfather and grandmother using their surnames in their local area of origin, and I was surprised to find Census and tax information, along with the address of the house my father grew up in. I even found a marriage certificate and voting information for my grandparents.
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Bread Church seeks to close the distance between people of all ages and the bread they eat. We start with bread as a means of people reconnecting with all the food they eat.
We teach people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures how to make their own bread.
In doing so we help people understand more about the bread they eat, what goes into it and encourage people to reconnect with one another and with their spiritual lives.


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If you are not from the state of Nevada then you probably are wondering what this animal is. Well, I had to ask my children as I was not raised here and they have both learned about it in school. This animal is called the Great Horned Sheep and is the state animal of Nevada. I learned about the Cardinal that beautiful red bird that is the state bird of Illinois. When I took this photo, I sat for a moment and wondered why this animal was so important. Not hard to figure out…..It is the fact that it has 2 sets of horns on top of its head. I wonder how he did that? Any thoughts out there?
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TiVo Adds 318K MSO Subs, 19K Retail Subs in Q4
TiVo's decision to reorganize and push ahead on plan to direct more resources on MSO growth and international expansion, and less so on retail, continues to be justified by its financial results.
TiVo said it added 318,000 subs through MVPD partnerships, a small decline from 324,000 adds in the category in the year-ago quarter. The company also added 19,000 TiVo-owned subs, in its fiscal Q4.
TiVo ended the period with 6.80 million cumulative subs, comprised of 5.47 million via MSO partnerships and 971,000 TiVo-owned customers.
TiVo said "traditional" MSO service revenue grew 45% in Q4 driven in part by strong growth with Vodafone in Spain and increased deployments in North America with operators such as Cogeco.
"We are very bullish about the future prospects of the operator parts of our business," TiVo CFO and interim CEO Naveen Chopra, said in an interview.
Though the sweet spot of TiVo's traditional DVR product has been mid-sized operators, particularly in the U.S., the company's product portfolio has diversified in the past year or so with non-DVR products, mobile offerings, as well as cloud-based search and discovery (via Digitalsmiths), giving it access to a broader market.
"That really opens up the ability to work with operators of all different shapes and sizes," Chopra said. "I think there are some interesting opportunities to use parts of that portfolio with some of the larger operators."
Chopra also expanded on how TiVo's retail strategy will look amid the company's restructuring. It's not abandoning retail, but it retail-facing spending levels will come down.
"I think we've had to make an honest assessment that some of the money we've invested from a marketing perspective has not really generated the kind of subscription growth there that we would've liked to have seen," Chopra said.
Though TiVo has seen its retail business grow in small increments, the plan now is to spend less money trying to acquire retail subs and to spend more on "different classes of products that go beyond the traditional DVR," the exec said, noting that TiVo will be announcing more details toward the end of 2016.
Even with that revised focus, TiVo, Chopra said, remains supportive of an alternative to the CableCARD, which the FCC is now pursuing through proposed new rules designed to "unlock" the set-top box and apply to different types of MVPDs, and not just cable operators.
But TiVo's support for that effort, he said, is "not purely because of our role in the retail business. We believe the evolution to a next-generation standard that is used by all operators is critically important for the work we do with the mid-tier operators."
Chopra said TiVo and Comcast are still pushing ahead on a plan to develop a non-CableCARD approach that would enable TiVo's retail products to access Comcast's full lineup of linear programming as well as the MSO's video-on-demand service.
That effort is "still moving forward," he said, but acknowledged that it's a "somewhat complex process" to figure out exactly what the implementation will be. "But I think both we and Comcast view that as an opportunity to demonstrate to the industry what an appropriate solution…that addresses both the operator and parties like ourselves can be. "
On the financial front, TiVo said Q4 service and software revenues climbed 11%, to $101.7 million, and GAAP net income of $0.2 million, which included $12.8 million of CEO transition costs offset by $7.7 million of related tax benefits.
TiVo has also moved to an annual guidance format (versus providing guidance only on a quarterly basis). For fiscal 2017, TiVo said it expects service and software and technology revenues to be in the range of $400 million to $420 million, anticipating double-digit service revenue growth in operator-focused areas spanning MSO revenue, Cubiware (a middleware platform acquired last year that gets TiVo into more international markets), and Digitalsmiths.
It also expects single-digit percentage declines in retail service revenues, and decreased technology revenue from both lower IP licensing and professional services revenues.
TiVo is also forecasting adjusted EBITDA for FY 2017 to be $145 million to $155 million, citing higher service and software and tech revenue growth, reduced operating expenses (not including restructuring), lower TiVo-owned subscription acquisition costs, and an MSO hardware margin drop of about $10 million as TiVo continues to transition to third-party hardware.


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February 13, 2013
Well, I guess we a got a bit of snow! Shoveling that much snow should qualify as a few days at the gym.
With all that snow, you may have a tough time telling that you have shrubs in your yard. The deep snow can present a few problems for shrubs in your yard.
The amount of snow can weigh down the branches of arborvitae and other multi stem plants. As the snow builds up on a branch, it tends to fall to the ground. Your first instinct is to shake the branch or to knock on it with a broom. These plants will be brittle from the cold weather that we have had after the storm. A hard whack with a broom or a vigorous shake could cause a branch to snap. It would be better to carefully dig out around the branch and then gently brush off the excess snow. The branch will ultimately go back into position if there was no damage from the weight of the snow as the snow fell on the plant.
The amount of snow on the roof of the house will mean that some of you will have to shovel the snow off the roof. If you need to shovel off the roof, be careful not to push or throw the snow onto the shrubs that are planted around the house. The heavy snow, dropped from the height of the roof can cause major damage to the shrubs. Several years ago, we had a winter where we had lots of snow. Many shrubs were damaged from the snow being shoveled off of the roof of the house. I know that this can be a major job. I spent part of Sunday using a roof rake to get the snow off the roof. The shrubs that you have planted around your home are a major investment. Don't throw that investment away because you need to shovel off the roof.
The aftermath of the snow also means that you may have to widen the driveway of the walkways. This is also a potential time to damage shrubs. Shoveling that snow back can mean that the snow you shovel, snow blow or plow can land on shrubs adjacent to the driveway or walkway. Again, a bit of prevention can save you tons of extra expenses come the spring.
Luckily, the snow we got was not the heavy pasty snow that other parts of the state received in the storm. However, you may have some broken limbs on trees in your yard. This can happen from the high winds in the storm. It is important that any damage be taken care of as soon as possible. If the damaged branch is left on the tree, or if the torn off branch has left a jagged edge exposed on the tree, water that gets into the area can cause further damage to the tree. I know it can be a major problem to get to these trees if they are away from the house. It is better to treat them now rather than wait until the spring.
Well, that's all for this week. I'll talk to you again next week.


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Friday, May 20th
We sleep in until 9:30 AM. I guess we needed the rest. Dress, teeth, shower. By 10 AM we miss the free cold cereal breakfast. We visit the grocery store across the street and pick up some fresh bread, fruit and a sandwich. I have a bag of carrots. We take the train into the city and walk to the library to scout it out as a future resource — a pit stop to sit and catch our breath.
From there we take the long way to the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) — weaving through the nearby Grant Park, watch Segway tourists find their balance, tip our hats to Abraham Lincoln, but miss the Buckingham Fountain by oversight. The entrance to the AIC is flanked with two great, green lions that do not mirror each other. For one thing, the tail on one curls up; the tail on the other goes down.
Inside we check our heavy bags at the coat check. (We're still lugging anything valuable with us, including three books.) Trouble is, they inspect your bag and forbid anything perishable. Remember how much food we bought this morning at the grocery store? We carry it with us in Christa's purse at the coat check girl's unofficial suggestion. The ticket takers do not inspect purses.
We cross over every square foot of this museum and see every painting, sculpture and relief except a few of the blotchy paint-splatter modern art displays. We're not art smart but we know what we like: Medieval paintings especially, except some of the monotonous religious ones. Brian likes the surrealists (original Salvador Dali's and Yves Tanguy's here). Christa likes some of Picasso's more legible stuff like The Old Guitarist. We both likes American Gothic even though some of its surrounding modern art was weird. Many old illuminated books at the Early Renaissance France exhibit.
It is a big museum. At near collapse, we limp to the next train station according to the map, miss it (the blue line is a subway, not an "L"), take the wrong train, find it at last, and travel to the Red Canary.
Walking into the Red Canary feels like walking into an old movie when women wore dresses and men wore hats. Everything is black and white and red. Not like White Stripes but more like a black and white film updated with dark, maroon red hints so you can see where the ghosts of mobsters belong. The restaurant/bar/lounge is larger than the website indicates.
Everything about its interior is impeccably designed. A long, curved glass window lets you view into the kitchen as you walk down the hall towards the restrooms. A matching long, curved mirror paces it on the other side. There is seating in the main room, at the bar and in an adjoining lounge room. Upstairs is another lounge and a wide balcony with many more tables and room for parties. Out back, where we sit, is a beautiful patio crawling with aesthetic ivy and old trees. The food is wonderful.
If this sounds like a commercial, it is. We enjoyed the Red Canary as a hidden treasure. A close friend recommended it. Her brother runs it and he was generous enough to give us a quick tour. If I were you, I'd go to Chicago just to eat there. If you are a student of design, you can find nothing better.
Full and delighted, we leave the Canary and find our room turned over with new sheets (no cigarette burns, stains or bleach holes) and new towels — two! instead of one. Friday nights are a bad time for this hotel. We didn't bring ear plugs with us. The party lasts until dawn: Someone has music playing, someone is carrying a broken TV around and strange smells come through our shower grate, through the washcloth. The wildest voices we hear are from the people who work there.
(Next: A pier, a high-speed police chase, some towers and "home".)


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Professionals that service the elderly can be on the front lines of protecting those senior clients from financial fraud and abuse.
That's the message of the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities, which has compiled a TOOLKIT of helpful information which professionals can use to intervene if they think one of their elderly clients is being scammed.
Brian LaForme, executive deputy director of the department, has been hosting a series of professional seminars for professional groups that work regularly with older clients, introducing them to the concept of how they can help prevent those clients from being financially abused or scammed.
"We're looking for people who are influencers in the community. Accountants are perfect examples," LaForme said.
But, he said, it's not just those who work directly with elderly clients and their money that can help; any professionals with contact with older adults can help.
"Doctors, lawyers, cosmetologists," he said. "There's no single profession. Anyone might be the one point of contact that makes a difference in a senior's life."
LaForme gave the example of a hairdresser who has been servicing the same client for 15 years, but lately that client has been coming in looking disheveled or more unkempt than usual. That might indicate there's a problem.
He said a banker might also notice that an elderly client is now being accompanied by a younger, perhaps extremely demanding person that seems to be controlling their finances.
"There are red flags, and it can be anyone, a guardian or someone who is close to them," he said.
Seniors are also more commonly targeted by scams from strangers, he said.
Seniors can have a lessening of cognitive ability that might make them more vulnerable to scams that might seem obvious to others.
He notes that some of the scams aren't just "a prince from Nigeria with a big check he needs help cashing," but more sophisticated "grandparent scams" that use information about family members collected off social media that can even make savvy people vulnerable to a scam.
The older generation is also less likely to just "hang up" on a caller that might be suspect because they consider such things "rude."
In addition to making the TOOLKIT available online, LaForme said, his department is willing to visit to speak to professional groups to detail the issue of elder financial abuse and ways to help.
Some professionals who are required to obtain continuing education credits can receive those credits for participating in these seminars.
For more information, professional groups can contact the department at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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You know, in all the busyness (business) of school, it's easy to focus on the here and now, to take the same old (or at least not brand new) coursework and spray some deoderant on it and deliver it up as you've always done. You've done it, I've done it (and -ahem- doing it) – I would hazard a guess that all professional teachers have and are doing it.
It's easy.
It's easy to get lost in the content to be taught.
It's easy to get lost in the drafting, the marking and the crossmarking.
It's easy to get lost in the behaviour management of your class.
It's easy to get lost in the administration and paperwork.
It's easy to forget that it's all about the kids.
It's easy to forget that we're not teaching ourselves, or ourself from however long ago we were at school.
It's easy to forget that we're teaching kids who are living in a different world to what was – and to what will be.
It's easy to lose sight of that goal – helping kids learn… what they need and what they want, so that they can go on learning, because it's fun to.
This leads me on to this post I read today: 50 TED Talks Every Educator Should Check Out. I've watched most of them, but I found that it was enriching, eye opening, brain stimulating to watch them again and renew my passion for what I do. I teach.
Go on check out the post, watch the vids. Be reinvigorated.
Innovation Excellence | 50 Ted Talks Every Educator Should Check Out (2014 Edition).


text: Noimi became involved in music almost by accident after a friend offered her a presenter's slot on a pirate radio station. The show was a success and led to a stint on Freak FM. From there she broke into performing, appearing with garage band So Solid Crew on their hit They Don't Know. Signed for a one-off single deal to London Records in 2001, her first single Booo! went into the charts at number 12 and became one of that summer's most popular records. An album contract with Polydor followed.


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Click here for the pdf version of the June 25 Durham Rotary Bulletin
Click on this June 25 Calendar Item for a description of the program to be delivered by Bob Ingram, former GSK co-chair and all around Durham citizen.
During the program on June 25 we will induct our annual Community Service Award winner into the Paul Harris Society.
Click on this June 25th Calendar Item and come enjoy an evening on The Eleanor Roof to celebrate the passing of the gavel to a new Club President.


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If you have been issued a social security number you must provide it on your application for a U.S. passport.
If you fail to provide the information, you will encounter a delay in processing and/or denial of your passport application. You will also subject to a $500 penalty enforced by the IRS pursuant to Section 6039E of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. 6039E). All questions on this matter should be directed to the nearest IRS office.
If you do not have a Social Security Number, you must submit a statement, signed and dated, that includes the phrase, "I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the following is true and correct: I have never been issued a Social Security number by the Social Security Administration."
If you are in the United Kingdom and require a new or replacement Social Security number card, you should contact the Federal Benefits Unit at the Embassy.
If you have been issued a social security number and cannot remember it, or are unsure as to whether you have ever been issued one, we recommend that you schedule your passport appointment for 9:30am, 10:00am or 10:30am. Earlier appointment times are available and may be scheduled if more convenient but this may also lead to a longer wait time at the Embassy while your application is reviewed.


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Pathways through the education and training system: do we need a new model?
(Faculty of Education, University of the Free State, 2011)
Analyses conducted by the Education, Science and Skills Development (ESSD) research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) reveal major areas of misalignment in the South African education pathway system. ...


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I realize I'm new to the world of blogging and most of all, Instagram. I thought I was killing Facebook with my all of 500 followers, but once I decided to take my social media game to the next level to increase my blog traffic and perhaps monetize I realized I was in some very sticky territory. At this point, everyone and their mother is an expert at increasing followers and has a webinar, an e-book, a course or a channel. I'm not even sure who to believe anymore. I started off with a great mentor/boss blogger on Instagram (@BossGirlBloggers). To this day, I credit her with the best material, the clearest information and hold her in high esteem as someone who was and continues to be transparent.
I then took an amazing Instagram course with Dean Street Society. I was very impressed with the amount of information shared and tips and tricks that really helped me grow from less than 400 followers to over 3000 in two months. I took notes, I put the Dean Street Society playbook into action as if I were taking an online certification class and it was wonderful. The catch? It costs money. Would I pay for the course again? Hell yes! The course helped me clean up my IG, find my niche and learn the basics ins and outs. In this case I definitely got what I paid for.
I've been actively reading books about affiliate programs, watching YouTube videos, engaging in Pods, and signing up for support groups on Facebook. My take? Do not attempt to engage in affiliate programs until you have regular visitors on your blog site. Amazon will drop you like a bad habit if you're not generating sales.
As for groups, I've actually managed to make some buddies, who read my work follow my blog and share but not enough to make any real money. I will say those people willing to read and share my work have meant the world to me (you know who you are). Some groups are swollen with people like me trying to get a piece of recognition and it's proving to be very frustrating. It makes me nuts when I'm asked to share twenty posts, or like five blog articles in a group of six hundred links and the shares or likes are not reciprocated. Why am I even there? After the fifth week of this, I'm out. I'm sticking to my groups where we genuinely engage with one another. I've come to the conclusion that the main person who gets a ton of followers and shares are the administrators. I'm not knocking them either, I just wish I had thought of it!
Another group experience happened when I commented on a post, and raised my opinion on a triggered subject. When I tell you this girl was angry and looking for a fight, I'm being tame. Who needs to deal with someone's anger management and self esteem issues? The girl got so hostile I had to blog her. Millennial angst? Yup, it exists.
There are many contradictory theories on Follow 4 Follow, but this is the week, the Saturday morning of my discontent where I have officially decided to partner with two groups, who not only pay attention to people who unfollow you the minute turn your back and ban them but also share my passions and drive for creating a community. I'm done with the loops, which seem to lose as many followers as I gain in a week. These are not organic followers. They're not interested in my blog or me for that matter. They're interested in building up their own following and I can't really blame them but…deuces!
Bots and Coupon Queens who only follow your giveaways to win, and then unfollow within seconds had me needing mouth to mouth. I think I lost hundreds of followers by the hour, (of course after I congratulated myself and my incredibly loyal base publicly on IG and had to quietly remove the embarrassing and now somewhat offensive post).
At the end of the day building a brand is an extremely slow and steady process. You do have to spend a bit, you must engage and it's a world most people cannot break into over night. I plan to keep trudging along and enjoy every minute of this difficult to navigate, yet fun and rewarding platform. What are your thoughts on building a brand? How's it going? I'd love to hear your opinion.
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The texture of these delicate slice-and-bakes is similar to a Mexican wedding cookie: crumbly, but insanely tender.
Plenty of butter and breadcrumbs make for a super-decadent, extra-crispy roast chicken.
Luscious, cheesy eggs baked inside prosciutto "baskets" make a craveable finger-friendly brunch main.
When things in the crisper drawer aren't looking so crisp anymore, make this soup.
Move over, mint! Take a seat, tarragon!
The simple joy of vibrant beans cooked in fragrant broth with a splash of cream.
This bright and fiery Haitian condiment (pronounced "pick-lees") is traditionally served with meats and fried food to balance rich flavors.
Use these in salads (croutons in every bite!), sprinkle over pastas, dust atop tender braised meats, or just eat them out of hand (naturally).
A doubly crunchy topping marks a breakthrough moment for creamy roasted fennel.
Store-bought puff pastry makes these savory "elephant ears" an easy bite-sized appetizer for your next party.
With apple cider, Aleppo pepper, and thyme, this pretty dish offers a lighter take on your usual Thanksgiving sweet potato casserole.
Is there anything better than a beautifully cooked steak? I love the simple flavors in this recipe—just great-quality meat paired with a garlicky herb butter. Perfect!
These zesty chicken fingers get their flavor from a tangy buttermilk marinade and a breading spiked with smoked paprika. Be sure to plan ahead—these chicken pieces taste best when marinated for 24 hours before they are cooked.
Cooking your stuffing in an ovenproof skillet means it can go from stove to oven without missing a beat. Prepping your aromatic vegetables in the food processor cuts down on chopping time, too.
Any kind of firm, sweet pumpkin or squash can be used for this recipe. If you want a shortcut, you can buy pre-cubed butternut squash. Just make sure the surface of the squash looks fresh and moist.
The sweetness of the squash, dates, and coconut oil in this simple roast is balanced by the garlic and woodsy herbs.


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Countries pledge to cooperate in dealing with the root causes.
But monasteries involved in protests are forced to take part in 'patriotic re-education' sessions.
Civil society groups say the draft should not go to parliament until they can weigh in.
Critics point to fears of lost votes in Myanmar's upcoming national elections.
Existing government-controlled organizations only serve to control society, not help farmers, they say.
The closures are the first since an outbreak of HIV in the province last year.
A 44-year-old Korean man is currently in an isolation ward in the southern province of Guangdong.
Officials have concealed the incident because Kim Jong Un wants crude oil and food aid from Russia, one source says.
Reports on the case have been deleted from the country's tightly controlled news and social media sites.
Local residents are roped into searching for four other suspects who fled.
Hundreds have been caught along the way and confined to refugee detention centers in Thailand.
Two more suspected migrant boats are spotted off Malaysia and Bangladesh plans to relocate thousands of Rohingya refugees.
The ongoing conflict in Shan state could delay the forging of a permanent nationwide peace deal with the government.
She was detained a week ago without an arrest warrant, a source says.
A former colonial second-in-command says Beijing and the Hong Kong government lack sincerity over electoral reforms.
Dai Jianyong's detention highlights fears that state controls will tighten further, and permanently.
May 29 gathering in Thai capital is region's first meeting on human trafficking, illegal migration.
A former top Communist Party official says the authorities pursue those who complain about them in the manner of bounty hunters.
Residents of Tianjin's Gegu township say that one in five has cancer.
They say the government should not succumb to outside pressure to accept those from the minority Muslim group rescued from boats or still stuck at sea.
Her self-immolation outside police offices in Gansu is the second such protest to occur in Tibetan areas of China this month.
Sources say the young attacker has been detained, but his motive was unclear.
Censors order websites to remove the Chinese version of the online article.
After a traumatic journey by boat, 15-year-old does not want to go back to a refugee camp in Bangladesh.
They are taken into custody as authorities enforce curbs on sharing politically sensitive information.
Public executions are common, with gruesome methods frequently used, sources say.
They were among more than 200 boat people found off the coast of Myanmar last week.
Critics say the U.S. $50-billion project will wreak environmental havoc in the Central American nation and force thousands to relocate.
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Energy Security Concerns and US Tensions May Boost Demand for High-Polluting Fuel in China
China's Local Bond Binge Sparks Debt Concerns


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Podcasts 2016
10 I'm listening to right now.
I'm a fiend for podcasts. So much so that I've almost stopped listening to normal music altogether while I drive to work. I figure I can either listen to phat beats on Spotify, or listen to something that will inform me about some niche-y aspect of the world and likely elicit some emotions.
I began my foray into the podcasting world about five years ago, and, like a lot of people I talk to, I started with NPR's This American Life, hosted by Ira Glass. The way that those stories grip and consume you is addicting and sometimes a little scary. Most of the time, I'll get out of my car after listening to a portion of that show and not even remember driving.
Ira's show became a fix for me, and I burned through the previous few years' worth of podcasts in a few months. I needed new stuff.
Good podcasts are weirdly hard to find, though. The top-ranked ones on iTunes don't always cater to that Ira Glass brand of storytelling that I crave. So, I decided to put together a good list of alternatives for anyone else who shares my taste: quirky storytelling unrelated to sports or "how-to" themes.
Radiolab — WNYC
Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich host Radiolab, one of my favorite shows out there. Its dynamic style — constant cutting between the hosts' and interviewees' voices — forces you to pay attention. Radiolab also produces its own sound effects and musical accompaniments that make every show, even one about mitochondria in cells, seem packed with drama.
More Perfect — WNYC
This is Radiolab's first spinoff. This seems to be a thing that a lot of established podcasts are doing these days, starting with This American Life's Serial (detailed below). I feared maybe the spinoffs would be like movie sequels which usually stink, but I've seen no reduction in quality. More Perfect tries to answer the question: "How does an elite group of nine people shape everything from marriage and money, to safety and sex for an entire nation?" (referring to the United States Supreme Court). It delves deep on specific cases that shape day-to-day life in the U.S.
You may be thinking "uh, boring!", but More Perfect tells these stories in the classic Radiolab manner that turns even the driest legal opinions from the court into juicy tales.
Reply All — Gimlet Media
I recently concluded producer Sruthiri Pinnamaneni's four part series on Paul Modrowski, who was imprisoned for a gruesome murder in 1992. Sruthiri delves into his case after learning that Modrowski had been publishing blog posts for years by sending handwritten letters to his mother, who would then transcribe them to the Blogspot account "On the Inside". It's fascinating, chilling, and leaves you perplexed.
More generally, Reply All is a show about the internet. But much of the time, Reply All details stories tangentially related to the web, such as a report on an ex-orthodox Jew from New York, who was cast out of his religious community after becoming enraptured by AOL chat rooms in the '90s (another one by Sruthiri).
Startup — Gimlet Media
If you're like me and have the fantasy of one day starting your own business, or if you own your own business already, this show is a must-listen. The first season details Alex Blumberg (ex-producer of This American Life and NPR's Planet Money) and, later, his business partner Matt Lieber's struggle to get "Gimlet Media" off the ground. The show documents investor pitches and the challenges of hiring, dividing up founder equity, and raising funds (along with the not-commonly-seen family life challenges for founders) that come with creating a business.
The second and third seasons turn outward and take a look at other businesses — failures and success stories alike.
Mystery Show — Gimlet Media
Journalist Starlee Kine solves mysteries. Not conventional mysteries though, like whether a god exists. More like getting to the bottom of what odd vanity plates mean, like in episode 4, "Vanity Plate," where Starlet spots a woman who drives a car with a license plate that reads "ILUV911." Is this an appalling reference to the events of September 11, 2001? Or an expression of love for emergency 9–1–1 dispatchers? We don't know, but Starlee figures it out.
NPR Politics Podcast — NPR
This one is a regular for me. They do short "quick takes" for important updates in politics, such as Hillary Clinton clinching the democratic nomination, and longer, hour-long round-ups toward the end of the week. The hosts are a roundtable of seasoned NPR correspondents: Sam Sanders, Asma Khalid, Scott Detro, Domenico Montanaro, and others who study the news and interview political figures all week to bring you a concise series of things you need to know.
Hidden Brain — NPR
Host Shankar Vedantam takes a look at what subtle, unseen forces motivate or manipulate human behavior. The show offers an in-depth sociological view of a whole bunch of phenomenon, like how Google finds talent, the placebo effect, or how Uber pricing affects whether or not people will request a ride.
Love + Radio — Radiotopia
I have to be careful with this one. Love and Radio, produced by Radiotopia's Nick van der Kolk, typically deals with emotionally-intense stories. You have to be in the right frame of mind to hear these. I recall one instance where I was driving back from California, bawling while listening to the Greetings from Coney Island episode. And I'm not one easily brought to tears. L+R isn't afraid to speak with convicted murderers or people who've experienced horrific or dramatic things. Though always intense in one way or another, Love + Radio is consistently great.
Serial — NPR
I had to throw this in here, though many people reading this article are likely already aware of this show. Sarah Koenig is simply my favorite journalist. She takes on complex and extremely nuanced criminal cases like that of Adnan Sayed, a man convicted of murdering his high-school ex-girlfriend, whom the first season is about. In the second season, Koenig turns to the bizarre tale of Bowe Bergdahl, who was at first hailed as a war hero upon his rescue from Taliban captivity (which lasted five years) in 2014, but later excoriated by critics as a traitor. I find that Sarah's work is so valuable precisely because it doesn't make things easy for you. She doesn't paint Bowe as an innocent victim, but neither does she portray him as an America-hating deserter, as some would like you to believe. So, it's hard to think of Bowe as anything other than a complex human being, like everyone else. And that is the beauty of the way that Sarah tells her stories.
Code Switch — NPR
Code Switch is brand new to NPR as of just a couple weeks ago and covers race, debuting with its episode "Can We Talk About Whiteness?". What I find compelling about Code Switch and its hosts Gene Demby, Shereen Marisol Meraji and others, is that they talk about race in an inclusive way. The team brings on speakers from a variety of backgrounds, white and black, professors and journalists, to discuss race and diversity, and what it means to be a conscientious member of a multi-ethnic society. They illuminate lesser-known impacts of "whiteness", from workplace micro-aggressions to why U.S. National Parks' visitors and staff are approximately 80% Caucasian.
Let me know if you have other great ones
Seriously, I would love to hear your suggestions that follow this same vein of storytelling (feel reach out to me on Twitter or wherever). Podcast curation is one of those things I haven't found a good solution to, though there are some great attempts out there (see "Sampler" from Gimlet Media). The issue for me comes down to taste and finding podcasts that address that my growing need for gripping, relatable stories.
I may just try to make an app that addresses this. Stay tuned.


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As I sat around the Thanksgiving dinner table, I wondered how each and every one of the people sitting around me would cope if they suddenly woke up with CFS tomorrow. I don't think anyone of them would handle the situation as graciously and as humbly as I have. I could be wrong, as some people rise to the occasion and I'm not wishing that any of my loved ones or dear friends, ever have to deal with what I am dealing with. But I do often wonder if anybody can put themselves in my shoes and envision the realities of my life.
Then today, I get this email from The CFIDS Association and clicked on the link and watched a video, which asked the question: What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and were well?
Everyone in the video answered with normal everyday things that people take for granted: getting a job, going on a family vacation, finishing up college; spending a full day with grand kids. I know at the top of my list would be to take a walk, a very, very long walk.
When I was healthy, I never sat and worried about getting sick or suffering with a long chronic condition. I think if I woke up well tomorrow, I would always worry that CFS is like the devil sitting on my shoulder waiting to attack again. Could I ever really shake this experience and not be afraid that with the next step I take or movement I make, I'm going to be in pain and suffer with extreme fatigue. Or maybe the reverse would be true and I would start living life to the fullest, taking advantage of every opportunity presented to me and not shying away from things.
At the very end of the video, it asked the reverse question, What would you want to do today if you knew you'd have CFS tomorrow? The purpose of the video is to raise money for additional research and I hope that it makes people think about what their life would be like if they woke up and couldn't move or think clearly. If their life was undeniably different from when then went to sleep and different not in a good way.
I am just not sure that most people think that way, unless illness has touched their life. I hope I am wrong and this video raises a lot of money so that the cause of this mysterious illness that desimates the lives of its sufferers can be found and I can wake up well tomorrow.
I guess how I handle a return to wellness is something that I can only dream about right now. I will cross that bridge when I get there and I hope I do get there.


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BIALL, CLSIG and SLA Europe Graduate Open Day
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BIALL, CLSIG and SLA Europe Graduate Open Day
Date: Tuesday April 11
Time: 9:30am – 5:30 pm
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About a week ago some people from Ukraine discovered that they're no longer able to view MK11 page in stores, or do they have it in their pre-orders. Support services of different stores seemed kind of confused on why that happened as well, with PS Store support eventually saying that WB Games flagged the game as unavailable in the country.
So, I've tried to know on as many doors as I could and eventually got the same answer from WB Games support as other people.
This is the answer everyone got, word for word. And they don't answer any further questions, such as what do they mean by "local laws".
This can't really have anything to do with violence. All other violent games are available, including all other MK games. Our government never really cared about video games. We don't even have a real age rating board.
So, without any help from WB Games or Netherrealsm or anyone else, people made the only other connection they could – to a relatively recent (2018) law that bans propaganda and symbology of communist regime together with the Nazi propaganda and symbols. And MK11 has that one Skarlet Kold War skin where she looks like what Hollywood imagines Soviet commissars looked.
If you're curious, why would they pursue commies the same way as Nazis – communist regime has done some things in our country. Check out Holodomor if you're curious.
Now, this might seem a bit too much for a government, to ban a game for a skin like that, and you would be right – which is why nobody did that. This was a decision by WB Games, not by any government body here. Our government is very much occupied with things like war and a very messy presidential election. I can't find any proof of this being anything more than a preemptive measure by WB Games.
But anyway, this seems like an issue with your country laws, why do you blame Warner Bros for anything? Well, there are 3 reasons for that.
1) They don't care about us
I didn't exaggerate in the into – we just found out that we're screwed. There was no official update, no notification from Warner Bros. or Netherrealm, even to the people that pre-ordered the game. And remember - this wasn't done by the local government, so there wasn't an official announcement by them either. We had to – and still do – piece together what happened ourselves.
I seriously doubt anyone outside of Ukraine even knows about this situation. Go and browse WB Games' twitter, Netherrealm's or Ed Boon's – there is not a single mention of de-listing the game in an entire country. And unlike Australia or Japan, where the game has problems for the more clear reason of violent content, there are no news or blog posts about this.
Or take one more step and tell us what exactly do they mean by "local laws". Why would anyone have to guess what's the problem? Maybe if we knew what it is, we could contact our government to verify whether it's an issue or not and if it is – push for it to be changed to not affect video games.
Instead, we sit in darkness and radio silence, just guessing why aren't we allowed to play the new game.
2) The Skin Issue Can Be Easily Resolved
I'm not a programmer, I'm actually a lawyer. But I can't imagine that making a single skin unavailable for a single country can be that hard. It shouldn't take too much to just delist it from store pages here and if you connect with a player that has it – just use Skarlet's standard model on the side of Ukrainian player. If you need time to do that – delay the launch. Don't just ax it.
That would take a bit extra work, sure. But there's also extra money in it. And the industry has already done region-specific censorship with other games. Like swastikas in Germany or skeletons in China.
But, alas, Ukraine is not China. Ukraine is 46th for gaming revenue. Maybe they've calculated how much money it would take to make the change versus how much they are likely to make and decided it's not worth it. Anyway, your worth as players in this matter is literally just your monetary worth. Nothing more.
3) The Skin Issue is a Non-Issue
This goes along with what I've said earlier – no government body cared about a video game in this country in the whole history of the country. The law forbids propaganda of Communist and Nazi totalitarian regimes – basically Third Reich and USSR. But is the depiction of a blood ninja in a video game wearing a cap with a red star on it, propaganda of the regime? Not really.
Right now, you can freely buy in Ukraine the new Wolfenstein games, filled with Nazi imagery. Or Hears of Iron 4 where you can play as Stalin. Or Red Alert 3 with this cover:
And there are other games, including online games with skins. Any example you can think up, you can probably buy here because no video game was affected by this. Ever. If we don't go into conspiracy theories, all I can see in this is a corporation calculating their "potential risks" and deciding to off an entire country from release to avoid even a spec of risk.
It might seem like I'm overthinking and speculating to weave a narrative that paints Warner Bros. as the villains here. But I kind of have to – they give us no information about this, so we make do with what we have. All we know is that WB Games canceled the release country-wise without really explaining why.
I'm not really into that, but please, share this information with others, so that the world knows even a little bit about WB Games and how they can decide to screw you over without even telling you what or why.


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Organizers said Sydney's 30th Gay Mardi Gras parade held March 1 was the biggest ever.
The 1-mile (1.6 km) spectacle attracted 10,000 participants, 150 floats and hundreds of thousands of spectators.
A contingent of 200 "78ers," people who marched in the first parade in 1978, drew raucous applause. That first parade ended in a clash with police and 50 arrests.
Other contingents of note included official entries by the New South Wales Police Force and the Australian Defence Force, and a group of some 100 Christian pastors who marched to "apologize" for past treatment of LGBT people by Christian churches.
Mardi Gras pumps an estimated $45 million (US$42 million) into the local economy.
A senior member of Parliament for Britain's Conservative Party will be the first Tory MP to enter a same-sex civil partnership.
Alan Duncan, who has been in Parliament since 1992, will tie the knot with James Dunseath, spokesman for London's financial futures exchange, this summer at the Westminster register office in London.
The couple met 14 months ago at a dinner party and Duncan, 50, asked Dunseath, 39, to marry him this past Valentine's Day as the couple vacationed in Oman.
"You could not find two more conventional people to enter into a civil partnership," Duncan told local media.
Dunseath told The Daily Telegraph: "Our friends say we are inseparable. He may be a politician but he's great fun. We both feel it's so right and we're very lucky."
Tory leader David Cameron said he was "thrilled" to learn of the couple's engagement and plans to attend the ceremony.
In 2002, Duncan became the first Tory MP to publicly come out of the closet.
"Living in disguise as a politician in the modern world simply isn't an option," he said at the time. "The Tory view has always been, 'We don't mind, but don't say.' Well, that doesn't work anymore. The only realistic way to behave these days is to be absolutely honest and upfront, however inconvenient that may be at first."
In a new interview with the Telegraph on March 5, Duncan added: "I knew that one day I would have to say something, because I believed honesty to be the best policy. But I wanted to do it when I was sufficiently well-established as an MP for it not to be my only label thereafter. I didn't want to be known just as 'the Gay MP Alan Duncan.' To me, I'm an MP who happens to be Gay."
Duncan also noted: "This is not a wedding. You really just go into the register office and sign. There will be no Elton John-style stuff: no white suits, no John Inman, no flouncing about."
The United Kingdom's Civil Partnership Act, which took effect in December 2005, grants registered same-sex couples all rights and obligations of marriage.
Two barebacking Gay porn movies have been pulled from the British market by their maker after a BBC investigation suggested the performers may have been infected with HIV during filming.
Said the BBC: "Two of the DVDs featured footage from a weeklong shoot during which eight British models had sex with each other in multiple combinations without condoms. Four of those who took part were diagnosed as HIV-positive soon after."
One performer told the BBC he believed the movies showed him becoming infected and that was distressing.
The BBC report claimed that 60 percent of Gay porn movies now depict barebacking - anal sex without condoms.
The constitutional arm of Venezuela's Supreme Tribunal of Justice ruled March 4 that same-sex marriages cannot be constitutionally authorized even though the Constitution bans discrimination based on sexual orientation.
The court said, "If the 1999 constitutional body opted to protect monogamous matrimony between a man and a woman as the essential nucleus that gives origin to the family in the Venezuelan historic and cultural context, the extension of its [marriage's] effects to common-law unions ... should require, at the least, that these [unions] fulfill the same essential requirements - that they are stable and monogamous unions between a man and a woman who have no marriage impediment ... and that the union is based on the free consent of the parties."
But the tribunal added, "The court wants to emphasize that the constitutional norm does not prohibit or condemn common-law unions between persons of the same sex, which find constitutional cover in the fundamental right of free development of the personality; it simply does not grant them reinforced protection, which does not constitute a discriminatory act in regard to sexual orientation."
Judge Carmen Zuleta de Merchán dissented from the decision, arguing that the Constitution grants implicit rights to same-sex couples, and that the other justices were influenced by ingrained social and religious prejudices.
The Gay group Affirmative Union of Venezuela commented: "We see this decision as an advance with respect to the previous situation in which we had no legal existence, we were invisibilized and our human condition was negated in this society. ... We commit ourselves to continue fighting, with all legal means within our reach, to obtain what should be common sense: the overcoming of discrimination in Venezuelan society."
Japan saw more than 1,000 new HIV cases in 2007, the first time the tally has crossed that threshold.
The Ministry of Health and Labor counted 1,048 new infections, bringing the total for all years to 9,392, according to Gay Japan News.
Ninety-three percent of the new cases were in men, and at least 70 percent involved Gay sex.
"It is urgent that we should develop our support, counseling and medical care systems further ... in accordance with local needs and situations," said Aikichi Iwamoto, chair of the ministry's AIDS Trends Committee.
Sweden's government-run Apoteket pharmacy chain will begin selling dildos because customers want them, the Stockholm English-language publication The Local reported March 6.
"We are aware that sex is a very important part of everyone's life. It is important to help people in this area, and there is a certain demand for the products," spokeswoman Elisabet Linge Bergman told the newspaper.
In a survey conducted last year by Apoteket and the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education, customers chose dildos and massage oils as the top items they'd like to see added to the chain's stock.
The dildos, oils and possibly other sex toys will become available in 50 of the chain's stores starting in May, for a one-year trial period, The Local said.
picture above: British MP Alan Duncan
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ENID, Okla. — Back on Aug. 5, an Enid pizza delivery man was robbed at knifepoint after attempting to make a delivery. The suspects also stole his car.
The two suspects wanted for the theft are in jail in Knoxville, Tenn.
Toni L. Black, 34, and Bradley W. McGlothlin, 22, were arrested in the east-central Tennessee city on drug and theft charges.
According to the Knox County Sheriff's Office website, both will appear in court today. Black will appear as a co-defendant on a charge of possession of drug paraphernalia. McGlothlin will appear as a defendant on charges of fugitive from justice, theft of property or services valued at $500 or less, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Black's bond is set at $1,000 on the theft charge and $1,500 on the drug charge. McGlothlin's bond is set at $1,500 on each of the two two charges.
Both were wanted on Garfield County warrants for conjoint robbery unauthorized use of vehicle. Those charges stem from allegedly forcing Chance Stevison at knifepoint inside a Sunridge Estates apartment when he went there to deliver a pizza.
Stevison told police when he went to Sunridge Estates Aug. 5, 2013, to deliver a pizza, he knocked on the door at the address where the pizza had been ordered and the man and woman who were occupants of the house called through the door to ask who it was.
"I knocked on the door and they didn't first answer the door, they just called through the door, 'Who is it?'" Stevison said. "I told them it was Domino's. They opened the door, grabbed my shirt and pulled me through the door, then pulled out knives."
According to an Enid Police Department report, the man told Stevison he needed his car to go to Louisiana to see his child in the hospital. Stevison told him to take the car.
"They had it all planned out," Stevison said. "They had baskets with laundry and things right by the door."
Stevison reported the pair removed the battery from his cellphone so he could not call 911, and also took about $30 he had in his pocket before loading their possessions into his 2004 Isuzu Rodeo and driving off.
EPD Capt. Jack Morris earlier said Stevison's car was found a few days later in Fort Worth, Texas. Stevison said the car was badly damaged.
Here is the story we originally posted on the robbery:
To read more on this capture from the Enid News and Eagle visit here:
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Gordon Banks dies aged 81 – Alzheimer's Society comment
Tuesday February 12th 2019
England's World Cup winning goalkeeper Gordon Banks has died aged 81. The legendary footballer played 73 times for England and was part of the triumphant 1966 team.
Jeremy Hughes, Chief Executive of Alzheimer's Society, said: "Gordon Banks will be remembered for uniting the nation in celebration with his heroic 1966 World Cup winning performance and the greatest save of all time.
"He was a deeply committed and passionate Alzheimer's Society Ambassador and united the nation again, this time against dementia. Gordon raised funds and awareness to help people affected by dementia, including his brother David and many of his 1966 World Cup-winning team-mates.
"Our thoughts are with his friends, family and teammates at this sad time."


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If you're the outdoor type, make sure you protect yourself. Lyme disease is a serious bacterial infection that follows a bite from an infected tick. Lyme disease causes metabolic dysfunction leading to low blood sugars and being diabetic, your immune system is already compromised. Diabetics could display behaviour patterns of daily anxiety, episodes of outbursts and paranoia when struck with the illness. It is a confusing time.
These poppy seed-sized spider-like insects can be picked up in heathland, moorland, woodland or suburban gardens and parks – particularly between April and October. Lyme is common in many areas, Europe, UK and the USA.
There may be up to 3,000 cases in the UK alone each year, although many go unreported. The main infection is Borrelia burgdorferi; some ticks carry more than one type, but not all are infected. Ticks mainly live on sheep, deer, birds and other mammals. They land on vegetation and attach to skin, clothing or pets. It can take up to 24 hours for the disease to be transmitted after a bite and the tick may feed for several days. You can't pass Lyme on to other people and it's easily cured in the early stages, but can have complications if not detected and treated.
The Symptoms
You may not notice the bite until a red patch (like a bull's-eye, several centimetres across) develops around it, between three and 36 days later. This target lesion (erythema migrans) doesn't itch or hurt and may last several weeks or not develop at all. You may also feel fluey-feverish, achy and tired.
If this stage isn't treated, disseminated Lyme disease can develop days, months or even years later. Lyme Disease researchers says over 70 different symptoms have been reported and can lead to long-term disability. They include fatigue, joint pain and swelling, headaches, neck pain, neurological symptoms (limb/facial numbness or weakness, thinking/memory problems, meningitis, sensitivity to light and noise), skin thinning and fibrosis, sleep, bladder and bowel disturbances, heart inflammation and mental-health problems.
The Diagnosis
This can be difficult unless a tick bite or erythema migrans have been spotted. They're usually treated without testing first, as antibodies (blood immune-system proteins produced in response to Lyme infection) aren't always detectable in the early stages.
If symptoms suggest progressive Lyme disease, blood tests should be repeated after a few weeks as they become positive in advanced Lyme disease. You may also need blood tests and scans to rule out other diseases and immune system disorders, whose symptoms overlap with Lyme.
The Treatment
Erythema migrans in adults, children or pregnant and breast-feeding women can usually be cured with a course of antibiotics. If you're very unwell or have symptoms of more advanced Lyme disease your GP will seek specialist advice or even admit you to hospital for treatment. Lyme is unlikely to be fatal, but people with long-term or disabling symptoms may need practical and emotional support.
7 Ways To Prevent It
1. Be aware. Walk in the middle of paths and don't brush against long grass, bushes and wooded areas.
2. Cover up. Long sleeves and trousers should be tucked into socks. Tuck long hair into a hat.
3. Wear an insect-repellant containing DEFT, especially on uncovered skin.
4. Wear light colours to help spot ticks inside clothing, especially in skin folds such as groin and armpits. Ask someone to check your neck and body.
5. Children and dogs can get ticks in their hair, too check carefully.
6. Carry a tick-remover tool. Use it close to the skin to remove the whole tick including the jaws. Don't pull it off, or use a cigarette.
7. Seek medical advice if you suspect a tick bite or erythema migrans.
E301 – Lyme Disease: Danger Lurking in the Grass – www.diabetic.today