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FDISK /MBR rewrites the Master Boot Record
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The MS-DOS Fdisk utility usually updates the master boot record (MBR) only if no master boot record exists. Repartitioning with Fdisk does not rewrite this information.
Fdisk has an undocumented parameter called /mbr that causes it to write the master boot record to the hard disk without altering the partition table information.
Warning Writing the master boot record to the hard disk in this manner can make certain hard disks partitioned with SpeedStor unusable. It can also cause problems for some dual-boot programs and disks with more than four partitions.
What is the MBR?At the end of the ROM BIOS bootstrap routine, the BIOS reads and executes the first physical sector of the first floppy or hard disk on the system. This first sector of the hard disk is called the master boot record (or sometimes the partition table or master boot block). There is a small program at the beginning of this sector of the hard disk. The partition information, or partition table, is stored at the end of this sector. This program uses the partition information to determine which partition is bootable (usually the first primary DOS partition) and attempts to boot from it.
This program is written to the disk by the fdisk /mbr command and is usually called the master boot record. During typical operation, Fdisk writes this program to the disk only if there is no master boot record.
NOTE: The fdisk /mbr command only re-writes the MBR on the system drive (DISK-0) using BIOS calls. You cannot specify any other drive for the fdisk /mbr command to operate on other than DISK-0.
Why is the MBR Changed During Setup?During the installation of Microsoft MS-DOS Upgrade, Setup replaces the master boot record on the hard disk with code to display a message similar to:
The MS-DOS 5.0 Setup was not completed.This message should be erased and the master boot code rewritten before Setup is completed. If a problem occurs during Setup and you return to the previous version of MS-DOS, Uninstal should also remove this message. However, if Setup or Uninstal does not remove this message, or if the master boot record becomes corrupted, a new master boot record can be written to the disk using the following command:
Insert the UNINSTALL #1 diskette in drive A.
Press the ENTER key to continue.
fdisk /mbr
WARNINGSDo not use this command if any of the following conditions exists:
Some older original equipment manufacturer (OEM) versions of MS-DOS and some third-party partitioning utilities can create more than four partitions. Additional partition information is commonly stored information on partitions in an area that the fdisk /mbr command overwrites.
Some dual-boot programs have a special MBR that asks you at startup which operating system you want to use. The fdisk /mbr command erases this program. Dual-boot systems that boot whichever partition is marked Active are not affected by the fdisk /mbr command.
For more information about how to partition a hard disk, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
255867 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255867/ ) How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition or Repartition a Hard DiskThe third-party products that are discussed in this article are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of these products.
More information on partitioning, disk organization, and the boot sequence can also be found in Chapters 3 and 8 of the DOS Programmer's Reference by Terry Dettmann, published by the QUE Corporation; Chapters 2 and 10 of Advanced MS-DOS Programming by Ray Duncan, and article 3 of The MS-DOS Encyclopedia, both published by Microsoft Press.
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Discussion of the Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed new "proxy access" rule, aimed at giving activist shareholders an easier shot at electing members or slates to boards of directors, can get pretty arcane.
So I was glad to see, in today's Wall Street Journal, a good primer on 14a-11 and a succinct and quotable quote that, to me, sums up the proposed change. Says lawyer John Finley of the New York firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett:
It's the biggest change relating to corporate governance ever proposed by the SEC. Period. It gives activists the ultimate vehicle to express dissatisfaction with a board, the ability to replace board members at the company's expense.
Business lobbying against the change is ramping up toward the post-Labor Day push. That, of course, is when politicians return to Washington and harvest season begins for the crop of governmental mischief planted earlier in the year.
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My name is Chrislan Manengs, Author, singer, entrepreneur and partner at Elite Entertainment. I started my education as an electrical engineer then continued in Telecommunications. My educational path was solid then until I decided to make music. Being in the music industry was in itself a strong educational path for me because I had to learn the hard way how the music business works. I was always hungry to understand what really makes people famous, i wanted to know what was that real ingredient that helps to speak sales and most importantly how to sustain one's career.
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Good question. Cyber criminals and the threat of cyber attack is industry agnostic. For the utilities industry though the knock on effects of a cyber attack are potentially disastrous for wider society (Die Hard IV anyone). With a complete reliance on electricity, the national electric grid is of paramount importance to the nation; and therefore a prime target for cyber attack.
On Tuesday, senior figures from the US utility world convened to discuss how they could protect the North American electric grid from cyber attack. The Bipartisan Policy Center (BCP) convened this joint Electric Grid Cyber Security Initiative with Homeland Security and the Edison Electric Institute.
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Spread out across the country, across multiple sites, the electric grid is extremely vulnerable to cyber attack. With our complete reliance on technology, any interuption to the electric grid for any sustained amount of time would have huge effects on businesses, transport, the economy, the list is endless.
You can read the full press release here >>>
But what can utility companies do to protect themselves?
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Session Number: 33 Room: Salon A
Presentation Type: symposium
Chair: Deborah F. Perry Discussant: Roxane Kaufmann
Synopsis: This symposium will present data that examine factors related to preschoolers' challenging behavior. The first paper reports findings that youngsters served in 40 state-funded pre-kindergarten programs are expelled at a rate that is three-times that of K-12 children. One variable related to lower rates of expulsion was access to mental health consultation (MHC). The second paper presents the findings from a comprehensive research synthesis of 23 reports that examined the effectiveness of MHC on staff and program outcomes. The last paper examines the characteristics of effective MHC in a large sample of Head Start staff.
Date: Friday, February 24, 2006
Session Time: 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Presentation Time: 10:15 AM - 11:45 AM
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Presenting: Walter Gilliam
All Authors for this paper: Walter Gilliam
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Synopsis: Results of a nationally representative study of 3,898 prekindergarten classes indicated that 10.4% of prekindergarten teachers reported expelling at least one preschooler in the past 12 months, of which 19.9% expelled more than one. Nationally, 6.67 preschoolers were expelled per 1,000 enrolled. The prekindergarten expulsion rate is 3.2 times the rate for K-12 students. Rates are reported for each of the 40 states that fund prekindergarten. Rates were highest for older preschoolers, African Americans, and boys. The likelihood of expulsion decreases significantly with access to classroom-based mental health consultation.
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Presenting: Eileen Brennan; Deborah Perry; Mary Dallas Allen; Adey Tsega
All Authors for this paper: Eileen Brennan; Deborah Perry; Mary Dallas Allen; Adey Tsega; Deborah Perry; Mary Dallas Allen; Jennifer Bradley; Adey Tsega
Presentation Type: element of symposium
Synopsis: Increased numbers of children are being expelled from preschool. Mental health consultation can help families and caregivers cope with troubling behavior in young children. We reviewed 23 recent empirical studies examining mental health consultation in early childhood settings. Using content analysis, we classified the studies by research design and synthesized major findings related to staff and program level outcomes. Studies reported improved staff attitudes, skills, and retention, and mixed findings related to improved quality of classroom environments. We argue that policymakers and practitioners need systematic, rigorous tests of this type of intervention.
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All Authors for this paper: Beth Green; Maria Everhart
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Synopsis: In response to the increasing need to better support children with emotional/behavioral challenges in childcare settings, mental health consultation with early childhood educators is an increasingly popular intervention strategy. However, there is little empirical evidence about characteristics of effective consultation. We present findings from a national survey of 74 Head Start programs and 712 Head Start directors, staff, and consultants to address this gap. Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling, results suggest that the key factor in effective consultation is the quality of staff-consultant relationships, above and beyond characteristics such as the amount spent on consultation, and ratio of consultant hours to number of children.


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According to a University of Wisconsin report, 29% of businesses that lose data in a disaster are out of business in 2 years & 43% never re-open their doors at all! Are you prepared? No? Not Sure? Keep reading to find out what to do so you limit your risk.
911, Katrina, wild fires, tornatoes, earthquakes, fires, and so many other unexpected disasters happen. Many disasters take down one business or community, but recently, major storms, such as Katrina, have taken out counties and states!
This is the beginning of a short series I'll write on how to be plan-full about mitigating the risk of disasters in your area. Let's make sure your business is not one of the reported 72 percent – not to mention your family and your life!
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- Do you believe your community is well-prepared for a disaster?
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So Tired…
And so weak.
I'm well past the drying time for a coat of paint and there is no smell left in the loft. Moreover, the pallets came apart super well, so I've put my bed back together, am going to use the dinette cushions as a curtain one last time, and getting a much needed good night's sleep in my bed TONIGHT. Tomorrow, I'll finish up with the curtains (got one done, plus the carpentry!) and then it'll be time for the big reveal!
I cannot believe how long this has dragged on… The days have run together, so I had to pull out the calendar: I took it apart on December 9th, so it's been a solid month! It's going to have been worth it, though. The loft is now dry, mould and mildew free, and the humidity has gone down considerably. I'm still going to need desiccant crystals and the dehumidifier, but it is a much, much healthier place and I will probably sleep better now.Share on Facebook


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Pride of the Marines
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It's somewhat ironic that one of the best war-inspired films of the 1940s hit movie screens the same week that the war ended. Delmer Daves' Pride of the Marines (1945) is an uncompromising portrait of Al Schmid, a real-life soldier who was blinded in combat, then had to come to grips with his condition upon returning home. Schmid's tortured attempts to acclimate to society are somewhat reminiscent of the challenges facing Marlon Brando's wheelchair-bound character in Fred Zinnemann's The Men (1950). But Daves and his gifted screenwriter, Albert Maltz, avoid the often polemic tone of Zinnemann's film, and are well served by one of John Garfield's strongest performances.
Garfield himself initiated this project when he read a Life magazine article about Schmid, and it's easy to see why: there's enough drama in this role for three actors. In the first part of the picture, Schmid is shown courting and marrying his girlfriend (Eleanor Parker), in his hometown of Philadelphia. When war is declared, he joins the Marines, and is shipped off to Guadalcanal. One night, while under attack by the Japanese, Schmid mans a machine gun and mows down literally hundreds of enemy soldiers. But a grenade blast blinds him, and he's sent home a bitter, changed man.
It's on the home front that Schmid faces his biggest challenges. He'll eventually find a new kind of courage, but not before passing through a dark psychological corridor of anguish and self-doubt, one that also effects his wife. Few punches are pulled in this often harrowing picture, and Garfield is nothing short of magnificent.
Although Daves' Westerns were often ripe with liberal politics, if you looked beneath the surface, Pride of the Marines eventually gained a reputation as his most left-leaning picture. Several years after the movie's release, screenwriter Maltz had the misfortune of becoming one of The Hollywood Ten, a group of higher-echelon film talents who were accused by the House Un-American Activities Committee of being Communists. HUAC used pieces of the dialogue in Pride of the Marines - mostly lines dealing with social consciousness and the struggling underclass as evidence that Maltz had, indeed, deviously inserted coded messages into his work.
Maltz's script is hardly apolitical, but it's quite a stretch to view it as pro-Communist. In fact, the main concern before its release was a simple scene that showed white and black soldiers enjoying each other's company. "In the recreation hall scene," producer Jerry Wald wrote to Daves, "please don't mix colored boys and whites around the piano. This stuff is usually cut out of pictures in the South." No one made any mention of the possibility that the film would instill Marxist teachings in the hearts of its viewers. But then again, Joseph McCarthy didn't work for Warner Bros.
Maltz's career would be derailed for several years due to his blacklisting by HUAC. And Garfield, who refused to testify against his colleagues, also found himself unable to work in films. Many people feel that the harassment he suffered from HUAC contributed to his death from heart failure, at the age of 39.
Producer: Jerry Wald
Director: Delmer Daves
Screenplay: Albert Maltz (from a book by Roger Butterfield)
Music: Franz Waxman
Camera: Peverell Marley
Editor: Owen Marks
Art Direction: Leo Kuter
Sound: Stanley Jones
Set Decoration: Walter F. Tilford
Cast: John Garfield (Al Schmid), Eleanor Parker (Ruth Hartley), Dane Clark (Lee Diamond), John Ridgely (Jim Merchant), Rosemary DeCamp (Virginia Pfeiffer), Ann Doran (Ella Merchant), Warren Douglas (Kebabian), Don McGuire (Irish), Tom D'Andrea (Tom), Rory Mallinson (Doctor), Stephen Richards (Ainslee).
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In other words, I think anyone currently developing sites using XHTML-MP markup, no Javascript, geared towards cellular connections and two inch screens are simply wasting their time[.]
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Lead Operations Research Analyst
- Employer
- Target
- Location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Posted
- Oct 07, 2017
- Closes
- Jun 20, 2018
- Category
- Management
- Employment Status
- Full Time
Description: LEAD OPERATIONS RESEARCH ANALYSTSimilar Industry Titles and Key Words: supply chain, supply chain logistics, supply chain optimization, supply chain innovation, senior research analyst, applied research analyst, inventory planning, transportation scheduling, statistical demand forecastingAbout This OpportunityThe Global Supply Chain Design and Decision Sciences team is responsible for defining Target Supply Chain's future operating model across the full value chain from vendor to guest. This team is responsible for developing optimization, simulation, machine learning models and niche data science techniques to evaluate product flow from vendor to distribution center, across the first mile, middle mile and last mile, with focus on delivery speed, ensuring sufficient capacity for throughput and storage (inventory modeling) in the network and improve operating efficiencies both within 4 walls of distribution center and across the network. A team member in this role will leverage different techniques, such as linear programming, mixed integer programming, clustering, Monte Carlo simulation, discrete event simulation, regression, random forest, SVM's and other machine learning techniques along with advanced statistical skills and also collaborate with stake holders across product, technology and business teams to transform Target's Supply chain.As a Lead Operations Research Analyst, you will have these primary responsibilities…
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Had a great time on Sunday on an artisan bread baking course at the fabulous Earth's Crust Bakery in Laurieston. Only a 20-minute drive from home, I think I may have written in a previous post about their delicious and highly-addictive spelt Galloway loaf. The course was a gift from my sisters-in-law Ally and Alex.
There were four other eager bakers on the course which took place in Tom's converted garage-cum-bakehouse. The conversion work was carried out partly by Phil, the owner of the Hebridean sheep currently residing in our field. In fact, before heading off to the course we had first to check and feed the sheep as Jo and Phil were away.
We started the day by making a sourdough dough and being taught kneading techniques. Top tip – knead less, don't add flour and let the dough rest more to get it doing the work for you. While the dough rested we prepared a focaccia dough Tom had made earlier. The technique for this is similar to that used for making puff pastry, repeatedly folding the dough in thirds before adding olive oil. The focaccia, once cooked, became part of our lunch, along with several breads and Paulina's rich tomato and bean soup.
But before lunch there was tea, coffee and delicious Dundee cake and a lesson in shaping a tinned loaf (a seeded style of bread) for proving. Fortified by lunch, we then had a go at making the seeded loaf dough and turned out and slashed the tops of sourdough loaves which had proved in traditional bannetons. We used a lame for slashing the top of the loaf – I was a bit heavy handed with mine but the bread seemed to take it. Then our loaves were baked in a very hot oven, liberally sprayed with water from a mister to stop the crust forming too quickly.
I left with lots of tips and tricks, a sourdough starter, two delicious loaves and a banneton of my own plus more baking enthusiasm and the exciting news that there will be a farmers' market starting in Kirkcudbright in March and Earth's Crust will be having a stall. I think I'll have to start making space in the freezer…


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BOMBSHELL: Sean Spicer To Be Fired, Replaced…
Sean Spicer? Out.
Kimberly Guilfoyle? In — perhaps.
IW reports:
White House sources tell Infowars that Sean Spicer is set to be fired as President Trump begins a purge of establishment advisers who he feels have failed to properly investigate leaks coming from within the administration.
Speculation is already swirling as to whether or not Spicer will return after he was "benched" and temporarily replaced with Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Sources tell Infowars that Spicer has behaved like a "deer in the headlights" in recent weeks and is not able to handle the pressure of the job.
Infowars can reveal that Spicer will be gone by next week and that former prosecutor and current Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who was previously considered for the role, is currently the favorite to replace him.
White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus could also be on the chopping block as President Trump begins a purge of moderate advisers whom he feels have performed poorly when it comes to investigating the source of leaks that have proved embarrassing for the administration.
Having been guided by moderate advisers for the last 6 weeks, Trump tried working with the Washington establishment but has come to the realization that they do not want to compromise on any issue, don't care about the country, and are merely concerned with blocking his policy agenda.
Trump is set to take the gloves off, sidelining those within his inner circle who he feels he cannot fully trust and going back to the approach he took for the first 50 days of his administration.
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I am trying to access Windows custom properties of a file (only available for some file types, like Office documents and some others), as shown below :
I have managed to access the basic properties this way :
...and that's OK.Code:import java.nio.file.Paths; Path monFichier = Paths.get(WPath); BasicFileAttributes basicAttrs; basicAttrs = Files.readAttributes(monFichier, BasicFileAttributes.class); System.out.println("creationTime = " + basicAttrs.creationTime());
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Can you sum up Hot Wire in no more than 25 words?
A female car thief steals the wrong car and finds herself the target of dark forces colliding over a sinister government conspiracy.
What's unique about it?
Hot Wire is a cross-genre suspense novel, a fusion of noir crime and political conspiracy thriller inspired by the mass paranoia and institutional corruption of 21st Century Amerika. A fast-moving and at times darkly comic story of hot cars, organized crime and black operations spiralling into chaos, the novel is narrated by one of the more unusual protagonists in crime fiction, the 19-year-old professional car thief, Emma Martin, aka "Little Bo Peep." An impulsive, scrawny little runt with glasses and a ponytail, Emma's worries about her job security lead her to jack the wrong car from the wrong people at just the wrong time, triggering a series of events that cascade to an explosive conclusion.
What are your expectations for the book?
Writing is a difficult racket to break into and I try to be as realistic about my chances as possible. Taking into account my own failings not only as a human being but as a writer, I figure that Hot Wire will probably be a huge commercial success and make me rich and famous. I expect the novel will be picked up by a major
publisher and
become a runaway bestseller translated into a dozen different languages. Like
The Da Vinci Code, one of the masterpieces of modern literature, Hot Wire will
be the focus of reading circles and book clubs around the world. Housewives
will meet in their suburban living rooms to analyze the book and drool over my
photograph on the back cover, and the novel will be optioned by HollyWeird
after a frenzied bidding war that will drive the price into orbit. I will then
purchase the last surviving Foo Fighter and retire to New Swabia in New York Antarctica where the lingerie model Kate Upton will tend
to my basic physiological requirements.
What did you learn while writing it?
During the course of writing Hot Wire, I learned that 48 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, resulting in nearly eight years of content uploaded every day.
Do you bear the reader in mind while you're writing? If so, how does that affect the way you write?
Considering the fact that my only reader lives in the
, I decided to write all of my books
in English instead of my native language,
Gnomish. Also, since my reader is a member of the United
States Church
Of God With Signs And Wonders, a
snake-handling cult in the Blue Ridge Mountains,
I try to keep my language as clean as possible. If I'm compelled for artistic
reasons to use particularly blasphemous or filthy words or phrases, I translate
them into Spanish or Russian using Google. For example, instead of saying
"Fuck a Jesus," a phrase I picked up from my bail bondsman, Charlie
Brooker, I'll say mbwa instead. This
baffles my reader and gives him the illusion that he's reading High Literature.
How important is talent?
Talent is over-rated and considering the quality of most of the dribble on sale in my local Barnes & Noble, completely unnecessary to the creative process. Writing is a craft like making a pipe bomb or using a Fleshlight and a writer has to master several basic skills that have diddly-squat to do with talent.
You have to be able to multitask, to work under pressure and ignore distractions. For example, a professional hack can write a three-way sex scene between two lesbian meter maids and an intelligent power drill while smoking a White Owl cigar and drinking a jug of Ripple wine with the Craig Ferguson show on TV and Ozric Tentacles blasting over the stereo, all with a headful of methylenedioxypyrovalerone.
To be productive, you have to know how to locate the browser icon on your computer and the snooze button on your radio-alarm clock, and you should have a basic knowledge of auto-erotica. And shoplifting skills are essential to be a successful writer. You should have enough knowledge of electronics to build your own EAS (Electronic Article Surveillance) tag proximity deactivator and it's important to know that most people never pay any attention to anything that's going on around them. The best way to avoid capture is to deactivate those tags, then wheel your loaded shopping cart out the door like you own it.
Nobody will notice. Guaranteed.
What's the worst piece of craft advice you've heard?
Don't get me started on this. Most writing advice is worthless, especially the swill you get in college "writer's workshops" where a bunch of iGeneration douche-bags sit around in a circle and criticize each other's work while the professor sits behind his desk, playing with himself. After all, if the douche-bags knew anything about writing, they wouldn't be taking a class to learn about writing, would they? And the gibberish found in most writing-craft books in your local book barn isn't much better.
There's so much bad advice floating around that it's hard to pick the worst, but "write what you know" has to be in the Top Ten. If everyone followed that piece of wisdom, we could eliminate most science fiction, murder mysteries, crime novels, thrillers, horror stories and historical fiction, just to name a few categories. All we'd have left would be books about writers drinking too much, arguing with their teenage children, going to work for insurance companies and sacrificing cheerleaders to Cthulhu in the middle of the night.
"Write a draft, then give it to a friend who can review it and advise you."
Mbwa. I don't know about you, but most of my friends are illiterate hillbillies who don't know jack about writing and don't even read. In fact, the only person I know who reads anything runs a small-town beauty salon and likes "Inspirational Romances." Once I mentioned to an old hippy friend that I was writing a novel and he said "Oh, you want to be the next Tom Robbins." The guy hadn't cracked a book since he read the Cliff Notes version of Even Cowgirls Get The Blues back in 1976.
There seem to be two schools of writing: "important" literary academic bilge that focuses on language and "irony," and commercial fiction written by actual writers who are trying to make a living. The literary crap is surrounded by a smog of platitudes about "muses" and "cultural significance" and "finding your inner voice" that reeks of motivational seminars and self-help manuals. For instance, I read one article that advised writers to "honor the miraculousness of the ordinary," whatever the hell that means. But the worst advice I've stumbled onto recently goes like this:
"Remember: writing doesn't love you. It doesn't care. Nevertheless, it can behave with remarkable generosity. Speak well of it, encourage others and pass it on."
In the real world, the writing business works like this:
To what extent do you view writing as a business?
Writing is strictly a business as far as I'm concerned. My heroes are the old pulp writers who cranked out thousands of books under various pseudonyms at two cents a word in order to pay the rent. Guys like Erle Stanley Gardner, for instance. The ultimate hack, he dictated all of his Perry Mason novels on an ancient dictaphone while lying around on a couch at his ranch in


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And here it is again, the TT fortnight. The one fortnight out of the entire year where I am acutely aware that human beings are squishy sacks of breakable, tearable meat.
Don't get me wrong, I love bikes, I love racing, I love the men and women that take these enormous risks to fulfil a need within them to be better, faster, braver. They do this year in year out, many of them sacrificing families, a stable income and two legs of the same length to do so. Some of them never come back.
I am incredibly proud of my little brother. He's fast, really fast. On one of the days next week he has, with a dollop of talent and a smigeon of luck, a chance of a podium. He'll be on the tele, he usually is, and I want him to win. I so badly want him to win, so then he can retire, have children, have a life that doesn't cause us to dread this fortnight, a life where we can buy his birthday present before his birthday instead of, superstitiously, holding off until we know he's safe. But more than anything I want him to win for him.


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Pizza-fied Veggie Tots
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Prep: 5 minutes
Cook: 20 minutes
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One 16-oz. bag Green Giant Cauliflower Veggie Tots
1/2 cup canned crushed tomatoes
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1/2 tsp. onion powder
1/2 tsp. Italian seasoning
1/3 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
1/2 oz. (about 8 pieces) turkey pepperoni, chopped
Optional toppings: chopped fresh basil, fresh oregano
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Spray a baking sheet with nonstick spray.
Place Veggie Tots on the sheet, and bake until golden and crisp, 12 - 14 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, stir seasonings into crushed tomatoes.
Closely arrange tots on the center of the sheet. Evenly top with sauce, cheese, and chopped pepperoni.
Bake until cheese has melted, about 3 minutes.
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By Victoria McCarthy
With the release of his major label debut, Based on a T.R.U Story, 2 Chainz is keeping a good stride. So we can't help but wonder what's next for the Atlanta rapper. Could the next frontier be reality TV stardom? Rumors have been circulating that 2 Chainz would join the cast of the popular reality show "Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta" but he says he turned down the offers.
On a recent trip to Baltimore, 2 Chainz revealed to local radio station 92Q that he had been approached by the producers of the show "numerous amounts of times." However, the rapper says he turned down the offer due to privacy concerns. "I just didn't want to have nothing to do with it." 2 Chainz explained, "I'm gonna be on the road, they gonna be somewhere just like, in your girl face, with another girl talkin' about another girl."
But Chainz doesn't seem too worried about bowing out of the reality TV world. This past Wednesday (August 15) 2-Chainz appeared on "RapFix Live" promoting his new album and giving fans a taste of what to expect for his upcoming "Birthday Song" video. Though he is not an official member of G.O.O.D Music, 2-Chainz explained that Kanye West and his team were influential in creating Based on a T.R.U Story, and even snagged West's director Andreas Nilsson for the "Birthday Song" visuals.
Chainz went on to explain that the director's imagination was sometimes a bit out of control. "I think cake, balloons, candles, normal birthday stuff, but this guy just goes up the street, turns left and just keeps going left. He's telling me something like, 'I think it'd be nice if we put a cupcake on a girl's butt and shoot it off in fast motion, then blow up the cupcake.' So I said, 'Bro, come back home, come back!'"
However with a bit of creative compromise, 2-Chainz and Nilsson agreed on a concept which the rapper himself describes as "very trippy." "I shot him a few ideas and said, 'Let's play "birthday" word association.'I actually think of women jumping out of a cake, but we combined ideas, and we even had quadruplets in the video. I was intrigued by them."


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Want an instant dose of summer when it's grey skies outdoor? Whip out the frozen banana and blend up a healthy smoothie — it will give your body a buzz of energy without the caffeine, help your immune system thrive through cold and flu season, and push your digestive system in the right direction.
These two recipes from Sally Obermeder's recently released book Super Green Smoothies hold within a powerhouse of nutrients that will see you on your way to pure health and bounding energy right through the winter.
Flat Belly Juice
Serves 1
45 g (1 cup) baby spinach
1/4 avocado peeled and stone removed
15 g (¼ cup) broccoli florets
1 frozen banana
Large handful of mint leaves
3 raw almonds
1 teaspoon coconut oil 250 ml
(9 fl oz/1 cup) almond milk
1 teaspoon stevia, to taste
Place all the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.
Mango Magic Smoothie
Serves 1
90g (2 cups) baby spinach
1 frozen banana
185g (1 cup) chopped mango
250ml vanilla almond milk or soy milk
Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.
Recipes by Sally Obermeder
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DC Cooperative Weed Management Area!
by Chris Weiss, Executive Director, DC Environmental Network
Are you interested in learning about initiatives to increase native wildlife habitat by managing invasive plants in the District?
On June 7th, 2012 at 12:00 pm at the offices of the DC Environmental Network and Global Green USA (1100 15th Street NW, Washington, DC, 11th Floor), members of the Steering Committee for the District of Columbia Cooperative Weed Management Area (DC-CWMA) will hold a public meeting to formally announce the establishment of the DC-CWMA, and to invite any organizations who view invasive plants as a threat to natural areas in the District to join the DC-CWMA.
The DC-CWMA's coordinator and Steering Committee will brief participants on the benefits of joining the CWMA, the benefits of cooperative management of invasive plants, the structure and function of a CWMA, and the DC-CWMA's plan for managing invasive plant management in the District. The cooperative welcomes partnership with District landowners and managers, environmental organizations, community groups and individuals interested in becoming active in invasive plant management efforts in the District.
The mission of the District of Columbia Cooperative Weed Management Area is "To restore natural habitats and ecosystems and to protect biodiversity by working to eliminate invasive plants in the District through a coordinated effort across political and ecological boundaries." One of our primary goals is to educate and engage communities through various training and volunteer opportunities. For organizations with work-force development programs, the cooperative can provide valuable Green Jobs trainings on invasive plant management.
Other opportunities for partner involvement include:
• Participation in Weed Warrior training
• Ability to apply for multi-state, multi-partner or watershed-based grants
• Volunteer work-days for your group
• DC-CWMA committee membership
The DC-CWMA is composed of partners from local and federal agencies, and local conservation organizations. Our current partners include the National Park Service, The U.S. National Arboretum, the District Departments of the Environment and Transportation, the Student Conservation Association, the Anacostia Watershed Society, and the University of the District of Columbia's Cooperative Extension Service.
To learn more about DC-CWMA call (202) 727-8705.
Things you might learn about: Invasive Plant Management, Habitat Restoration, Wildlife Conservation, Environmental Education, Green Jobs and Work-Force Development
All are welcome!
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Welcome back to the 5 after 5! After a long week come and share your list of 5! Each week we will have a new topic for the following Saturday! So think of your great 5 After 5 List and come link up with us! This week is 5 Ways to Enjoy Winter!
We are not big outdoor winter people…or I should say I am not! My daughter would love to play in the snow more and I do make it a point to do it a few times during the winter months. This year it has been cold but not a lot of snow so far.
5 Ways to Enjoy Winter
Books and Blankets
You can't go wrong with a cozy spot to curl up with a good book and blanket! We read lot around here. Lots of picture books, poetry, bible and of course I fit in one of my books from my reading list!
Arts and Crafts
Because we spend more time inside in the winter we do more crafts, coloring, painting and sensory bins. It helps the days go by more smoothly!
Dance Parties
Turn up the music and start moving! The kiddos have so much energy and I just don't go outside when it soooo cold! Sooo we crank up the songs and get out all the wiggles. We play dance freeze, Red Light Green Light and be lots of different animals. We love Wee Sing Animals CD.
Homemade Bread
Who doesn't love homemade bread! We make lots of homemade bread now as we soak our flours and eat a more organic foods. Turn on the over to warm up the house and soon the fresh smell of bread baking…so nice in the winter time.
Watch the snow falling
I do enjoy watching fresh snow fall…from inside my warm house. It is beautiful!
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Have you ever woken up and expected to see destruction everywhere?
In 48 hours, I lost everything. I came home to find my girlfriend of four years with another man. The next day a plane crash ripped my family away from me, shattering me in the process. In many ways, I died that day, too. The fun-loving man who'd lived in the fast lane and loved his career in the film industry was gone. Left was a forty-year-old shell that dwelled at the bottom of a bottle.
Only one person knew what I was going through. My sister's stepson, who hadn't been on the plane. Julian knew what it was like to lose everyone he loved, too. He'd stopped showing up at reunions when he was a teenager, so I didn't know him very well. But I told him at the memorial service he could come out and visit me in LA whenever. One day he did, and I guessed it was as good a day as any to start picking up the pieces and see what was left of us.
Dani's rating:
I didn't fall in love with this book until Paris.
At the beginning, there's grief and tears, and cheating ex-girlfriends.
Noah wants to do right by his nephew Julian, but following a horrific tragedy, he can barely get out of bed and shower.
Julian is Noah's older sister's stepson. She raised him, and he calls her "mom," but he is not related to Noah, who's been so busy living the Hollywood life he hasn't seen Julian in years. Noah was never a true uncle; he barely knows Julian when Julian, now 23, shows up on his doorstep in Los Angeles.
What I loved most about Noah is that he's open and self-aware. His voice is real and strong.
He swings somewhere around a 2 on the Kinsey scale and has been with guys before; he's just never had romantic feelings for a man, not until Julian, who is not only his nephew in name but 17 years his junior.
My heart broke for Julian. Even with Noah, he's so alone. He doesn't think Noah really wants him, not for anything but sex anyway.
The book skips two weeks forward in nearly every chapter. At one point there's a nine-month time lapse. The men come together for one night only to start dating (and fucking) other people. This didn't sit well with me, although I understood that they needed to move beyond their pain to truly SEE each other as partners, not just two guys sharing a tremendous loss.
Noah is a B-list producer, Julian a musician. They bond over music and film. While I didn't need the level of detail about the film Noah was directing, it certainly added to the authentic feel of the business (in L.A., there's only one business, no explanation needed).
Once the men finally open up to one another in Paris, where Noah is directing scenes for a movie his good friend Tennyson is producing, the feels keep on coming. One of my favorite moments is when the men visit Sacré-Cœur, and Noah asks Julian out on a date.
"You know, room service for dinner doesn't sound bad. Then we wouldn't have to leave the bed."
I groaned a laugh and stole one more kiss. "Don't fucking tempt me. But no. Indulge me. I want—"
"The couple shit?" [Julian] quipped.
I inclined my head and smirked. "That's right. Besides, I thought we said no sex."
"You said that. I was being hypothetical."
At heart, this is a tender, romantic story about two men who have to move beyond perceptions and labels to find each other.
The passion between Noah and Julian is combustible, and Cara Dee sets the page on fire with the explosive, rough sex. Noah is an ass man through and through, and there's even naughty student/professor role play. So very HAWT.
Noah's personal assistant Nicky is a shifty, slimy fucker who worms his way into Julian's bed. He tries to play a game with Noah, but Noah is having none of that. Nicky definitely gets what's was coming to him.
I liked Noah's friends, who eventually become Julian's friends, and have his back always. Tennyson's pretty damn smart, and Sophie's a total spitfire.
I loved the epilogue and the second epilogue (from Julian's perspective), which is available only on Cara's website. Don't miss that one. It made me crazy happy.
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Closing Time
After seven and a half years, LTP is coming to an end. Our final post will be this Thursday, January 15 and we've been spending our final week going in to memory mode and the big picture on all things Northwestern Athletics. If you'd like to read the post announcing why I felt it was time to close you can read Closing Time part one here and part two of "Closing Time" here. Please note, we'll be leaving the site up so you can access the archives and all of the content that started in June of 2007.
The B1G Time
If you're Cardale Jones aren't you just dropping the mic and walking off stage right ? The young Buckeyes quarterback just did the unthinkable. He started his third career game and promptly went 1)upset Wisconsin 59-0 in the B1G title game 2)Upset heavily favored Alabama in the CFP semi-final and 3)won a national championship against Oregon. It is the single best 3-0 start to a college football career ever.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching Ohio State dominate Oregon, 45-20, in a game that if not for four mostly self-inflicted Buckeyes turnovers, would've been a whooping of epic proportions. Congratulations Ohio State. You earned it. The irony of the Big Ten finally getting a national championship to its name the very day before I close up shop is not lost on me. Perhaps the same good fortune will hit Northwestern now that I'm putting down the pen on Wildcat football. You didn't come here for my analysis of Ohio State-Oregon, but you did come to get an LTP angle.
A friend pointed out that Oregon's Johnny Lloyd, who was returning kicks last night was the very same guy that Bill Carmody nearly inked as a point guard for the 'Cats, so there is that. But, for Wildcat fans wired similarly to me, all I could think about was October 4, 2013 and how the alternate universe might have been, had we hung out for that win against Carlos Hyde and the Buckeyes. My mind drifted to the thought of Jim Harbaugh snatching Braxton Miller for a one and done, and I admittedly anxiously looked up our next date with Ohio State (mercifully, we play them only once – Oct. 29, 2016, away – in the next four seasons). Sadly, I realized how much of a different stratosphere the Buckeyes are in than we are and how the two programs' paths seemed to be dead even in early 2013.
It will be interesting to see what Pat Fitzgerald says about the lift that Ohio State's win will do for the Wildcat's program perception and the fact that he has the ability to leverage playing for the best conference (yes, it is an angle) and can offer the best of big time football with big time academics. We shall see.
Today, I'm turning the post over to a full-blown memory mode. It's a laundry list of my favorite moments – the people, games, events, you name it – in no particular order. The only parameter is the moment happened during the LTP era which started in June of 2007 and ends January 15, 2015. You're actually the ones to judge the "Best of…" I can only tell you my favorite things.
Favorite Game of LTP Era
I'm being disciplined here in picking only one. There are quite a few candidates – the Iowa upsets in '08 and '09, the Nebraska upset in Lincoln, the Wisconsin win in 2009, the list goes on. The easy one to pick here would be the Gator Bowl win on January 1, 2013 since it snapped our bowl drought that dated back to 1949. But I'm always prone to go a little out there and I can't believe I'm doing this but I'm picking a loss (BLASPHEMY). My choice: The Outback Bowl, January 1, 2010 against Auburn.
As you likely know, the 'Cats lost 38-35 in OT, but this was the wildest game I saw in the eight seasons of LTP. Mike Kafka passed 78 times..78…and set an Outback Bowl record with 532 yards. But, it was the way the 'Cats used nine lives, seemingly having lost the game a half dozen times, that stuck out to me. The overriding memory though is just how aggressive we were as a team and how guys made plays. Dunsmore streaking up the sideline shedding Auburn Tigers like a video game. Kafka, despite 5 INTs, making crazy plays. It was FUN. Take a trip down memory lane and then on the backside I'll also tie in my favorite play call which relates to this game.
Favorite Play Call
Fastball. There is a big difference between favorite play call and favorite play. A quick sort through the mental Rolodex of eight seasons and one stands way above all else – teh final play of the Outback Bowl. In the Randy Walker biopic, the play works. It didn't and it still gets my nod. The call was brilliant on many levels. Northwestern's field goal kicker, Stefan Demos, had just been injured on a roughing the kicker penalty as he was attempting to tie the game in OT with NU down 38-35. Fitz, who would later admit he had been holding on to this play for four years, called for "fastball", a Randy Walker-designed iteration of the 'ol fumblerooski play. I loved this because it was a tribute to Randy Walker and almost all of the seniors were Randy Walker recruits who started their careers dealing with a tragedy that was unthinkable. To walk off winners with Randy's play, well that is the stuff of legend. I also love it because as Fitz admitted himself in the postgame "People tell me I'm too conservative. So I said, `What the heck. We're here to win, so let's go,' "
Find that moxie again and keep it!
Favorite Play
Kain Colter's superman dive for the pylon in the upset win at Nebraska. Dan Persa has a laundry list of candidates as well, but that single play where Kain was able to get to the corner, go all out, switch the ball in the air and somehow nick the pylon for a TD was a thing of beauty.
Favorite Player
This feels akin to naming your favorite kid, but I'll give it a shot. Dan Persa. The injury plagued quarterback gave us a ton of great moments during his NCAA record-setting career (still holds the record for highest career completion percentage). Perhaps none signifies the double-edged sword of ecstasy and agony than his game-winning TD pass to Demetrius Fields to beat Iowa (again) in 2010. He ruptured his Achilles while hopping to see the result. Many of us wonder what NU football would have been like had he remained healthy and we took our 7-3 record to Wrigley Field with an in tact Persa at the helm. Dan was never the same in 2011, yet he provided that rare air of confidence to me – whenever he had the ball, I thought we were going to score. When the game was on the line and he was back there, I felt confident we'd win.
I am admittedly biased as I got to know Dan very well after his playing days and he's just a fantastic person.
Favorite Purple Mafia Profile
This one is a beast of the great variety. I'm not sure of the exact number of Purple Mafia Profiles, but I do know it is in the triple digit range. It's almost unfair to pick one. I can tell you the one story that made me laugh out loud was BTN host Dave Revsine's description of former head coach Frances Peay grabbing the microphone at the Burger King across the street from the NU clock tower and trying to rev up the handful of people passing for a Homecoming rally. If I have to pick one though, I've gotta go with Zak Kustok. Zak is a repeat PMP profilee and I've had the pleasure of getting to know Zak and his sister Sarah, through the years. Love 'em both. They have both endured the unthinkable tragedy that I don't even want to go in to here. So let's not.
Zak's story about his roundabout journey from the very same high school as Pat Fitzgerald (Sandburg) to Notre Dame and then, well, you've just gotta read this thing about how he ended up here, it is simply incredible about how close so many times he came to NOT becoming a Wildcat. We are blessed and very lucky he did. The 2000 season still keeps me up at night daydreaming about the magic that happened.
Proudest Moment
Sailgate, 2011. What started as a seed of an idea from my friend Rob in New York – "wouldn't it be great to rent a boat and get some 'Cats fans to go up the Hudson river to see the Army game…" – turned in to a virtual community outreach that exceeded our wildest dreams. Scott Sloane, whom I had never met, agreed to coordinate the idea of renting a boat and getting all of the logistics done for one group of to be determined Wildcat diehards to attend the 'Cats 2011 Army game in style. We put up the order form online and invited fans to help us fill a boat and we needed 100 people total to make it fly (we were nervous about getting to that number). It sold out in hours. Within a week we had maxed out four boats, and while Army Athletics execs assured me "we never sellout, they'll be tons of tickets", the LTP entourage brought more than 700 people via boat and thousands more via driving ticket demand. It was the moment when I got to meet so many of you on one day and aside from NU not cooperating and getting upset by Army, it was an incredible experience. The Pat Fitzgerald Show documented the day:
Favorite Story
Sailgate not only gave us a great memory and a come-to-life realization of the power of an engaged community, it resulted in the Jack Marshall story. The night before the game I found myself at dinner with Patrick and Joanna Marshall, the parents of Jack. They engaged me with the incredible journey of their son Jack and his incredible relationship with Wildcat safety Brian Peters and I was moved beyond belief. By now, you know the story.
I documented the Jack and Brian story which had part one here and part two here. I waited for what I thought was the low point of the season morale and went live with the post when Wildcat fans needed a pick me up and some perspective. The story took off and soon was shared all over the country. I called my friends at BTN who agreed the story was a no-brainer to do and they nailed it. You can re-watch it here:
As a result, I got to know the Peters family, the Persa family and the Marshalls and we continue to communicate to this day.
Then, proving a good story has a long tail, TSN ("the ESPN of Canada") went all-in on the story and brought it full circle documenting Jack's reunion with Brian, who is still playing in the CFL for Saskatchewan. You can watch that amazing story from this past season here:
Jack made his weekly picks, drew them out actually, and submitted them via photo where we would feature them every single week since his original post appeared back in 2011.
Favorite Historical Impact
The community helped NU get a win. Kinda. Larry LaTourette, of Hail to Purple.com fame, went to great lengths to prove to me that Northwestern erroneously had missed a win from 1903 and in fact DID beat Chicago School of Dental. It happened to catapult NU's record from 9 wins to 10 wins and we worked with NU's then sports info director, Mike Wolf, who changed the record book. Just like that we worked together to help give NU it's third all-time 10-win season.
Additionally, we pressed hard to get Rich Falk's Welsh-Ryan/McGaw Hall scoring record rectified. Evan Eschmeyer was erroneously listed as the building's single game scoring record holder, but it simply wasn't true. Falk's 49 point game against Iowa in his senior year is now inked in the record book – for good. As a side note, kudos to NU for admitting Falk in to the NU Sports Hall of Fame two weekends ago. Find me another former coach who was fired at a major college program who tailgates at his home school. Class act.
Most Painful Game
Nebraska Hail Mary. 'Nuff said.
Most Emotional Moment
Being in the stands in Jacksonville for the Gator Bowl win had me literally choked up. I could feel the Gene Hackman speech from Hoosiers percolating in my head. Fitz's emotional on-camera interview and his in-stadium words were incredible. Seeing Morty Schapiro right after my post and having him correct my typo face-to-face just made the whole thing surreal.
Favorite LTP N Flag
I couldn't pick just one here, instead, I dedicated an entire post to it. Check it out here.
We're on to the final countdown of LTP, but as fate would have it, I'm having all sorts of technical difficulties with the site. We'll be posting the LTP Bowl Mania winner once I resolve said issues. Please use the comments section to weigh in with your favorites between June 2007 and January 2015.


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Its no secret that pink is my favorite color. Other than white and grey...which aren't exactly colors. :) But anyways, I love seeing pink in a room. Although it does make some rooms uber-feminine, it gives other rooms a perfect class and posh feel. Like this beautiful dining room.
Gorgeous, isn't it? Those pink chairs are to die for. I also love how the turquoise vase was added for an extra pop of color. The mirrored table it is sitting on is also stunning.
Quick update on my life...I officially moved out of my old place last weekend and moved into my new place on Monday. I have been unable to be at the new place all week until today, so I came back today to a tornado of furniture, boxes, suitcases, etc. I've spent all day unpacking, trying to find a new place for everything, and trying to get settled. The family room and kitchen have made major strides. The bedroom...not so much. Wish me luck as a continue the huge task of unpacking!


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