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Halo 5: Guardians is the latest installment in the acclaimed first-person shooter series, exclusive to Xbox One. Peace is shattered when colony worlds are unexpectedly attacked. But when humanity's greatest hero goes missing, a new Spartan is tasked with hunting the Master Chief and solving a mystery that threatens the entire galaxy.
Today Microsoft released the latest trailer for Master Chiefs newest adventure – A Hero Falls
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Through the eyes of a child
I saw this little girl at the mall about a month ago. I absolutely adored her outfit.I asked mom if she would ever sell when she outgrew it and she said no.This outfit was bought 10 yrs ago in England for her big sister.This coat and hat is a treasured piece!!It was so fun watching...
Lina & Daniel
Beautiful day and a gorgeous couple was what we had on Saturday.We were both amazed with your artistic talents. You are beautiful people on the inside as well as the outside.We had a good time and even conquered a fear or two along the way. LOLUp on the train bridge we went and got some...
Ahh,When we scheduled this session it was suppose to be -4.Driving to meet the sign said a balmy -19.So we kind of froze.I had a blast and I hope you did too.You are a beautiful woman!!The camera loved you.Here is a sneak peek for you to enjoy!!

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The Importance of Family Dinners VII
The Importance of Family Dinners VII
CASAColumbia has surveyed thousands of American teens and their parents to identify situations and circumstances that influence the risk of teen substance abuse. What we have learned is that parental engagement in children's lives is fundamental to keeping children away from tobacco, alcohol and other drugs, and that parents have the greatest influence on whether their teens will choose not to use substances. Our surveys have consistently found a relationship between children having frequent dinners with their parents and a decreased risk of their smoking, drinking or using other drugs, and that parental engagement fostered around the dinner table is one of the most potent tools to help parents raise healthy, drug-free children. Simply put: frequent family dinners make a big difference.
On behalf of CASAColumbia, Knowledge Networks, an international online research organization, conducted a nationally representative Internet-based survey of 1,037 teens, ages 12 to 17 (546 boys, 491 girls), and 528 parents of these teens. In addition, QEV Analytics, a national public opinion research firm, conducted a nationally representative telephone-based survey of 1,006 teens, ages 12 to 17 (478 boys, 528 girls), asking teens questions that we have used to measure trends over time.
This report found that 58% of teens reported having dinner with their families at least 5 times a week. Compared to teens who had frequent family dinners (5 per week), those who had infrequent family dinners (2 or fewer per week) are almost 4 times likelier to have used tobacco, more than twice as likely to have used alcohol, 2.5 times likelier to have used marijuana; and almost 4 times likelier to have said they expected to try drugs in the future. The report also revealed that teens that had infrequent family dinners were likelier to have said they had ready access to alcohol, prescription drugs (without a prescription, in order to get high) or marijuana.
Additionally, the report examined the amount of time parents spent with teens and the role that played in substance abuse prevention.
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Room 10's Writing – Have a read.
This is a persuasive piece of writing written by Lucy Aplin.
Why Wainuiomata Intermediate is just as good as any other intermediate in NZ?
These days when you're walking down the street all the kids ever talk about is Wainuiomata Intermediate. Wainuiomata intermediate is just as good as your school. Nothing more, nothing less. Everyone says that Wainuiomata is a "poor uneducated, low decile school that no one should go to". However, that is hocus pocus information and I will state the following reasons why.
Firstly, does your school have a gym? Well Wainuiomata Intermediate most certainly has one. At the start of the year I hated playing sports, until I went into the gym. The gym provides us with a dry, clean space to play sport and exercise when it is cold and wet outside. I enjoy sport now as it is a way to exercise and at WIS we have a space to enjoy it. You would highly struggle to find another intermediate in the World with a Gym!
Have you ever had a fantastic teacher that pushes you until you can be pushed no more? Well Wainuiomata Intermediate has great teachers just like that! Many of our teachers come from long distances just to teach us students! Now that's commitment. The teachers are awesome because they help us and they plan all our lessons. (There are much more, however we would be here for centuries.) Our teachers put in the extra hours and effort to teach us enjoyable lessons that keeps everyone engaged and on task.
Many people would agree that we have the oldest classrooms in the world! Well as a matter of fact Wainuiomata Intermediate has just built a brand new learning environment for Area 2 to work in. It is a free flowing classroom where us students can connect with other teachers and students. The area is new and improved and has the newest colourful furniture. In 2020 the next stage/classrooms will start to be built. The school will be fully modern by the time all of the classrooms have been successfully built. Our school has gone from old cold classrooms to soon to be new and improved warm learning areas!
Lastly, on Tuesdays and Thursdays we have technocraft. Technocraft is when we go to the tech rooms and make stuff such as handicrafts, woodwork and other great goods. Technocraft gives us a chance to improve on things that we don't do in the average classroom. Technocrafts include: Sewing, Music, Woodwork, Digitech, Art and my favourite cooking!
That is why you should come to Wainuiomata Intermediate. It is a modern, crime free, loving school with many great opportunities. If you think WIS is a low decile school with grubby students that have bad attitudes and behaviours than come to our school, see what our school is made of. Although Wainuiomata Intermediate has a bad reputation, that doesn't mean you can't strive to achieve great things at Wainuiomata intermediate!
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When I was living in London, I became obsessed with Munchy Seeds. I'd always have tubs and tubs of these roasted seed mixes on hand (in the freezer, to prevent the fat in the seeds from going rancid) to toss in salads, tuck in sandwiches, and sprinkle over steamed veggies. They're also awesome in tacos. So, what's a girl to do Stateside? Answer:
Scatter a handful of sunflower seeds in a pan
Add several spritzes of Bragg Liquid Aminos or a few teaspoons of tamari
Shake or stir over medium heat for a few minutes until the liquid is absorbed but before the seeds get too brown. Transfer to a plate to cool and store in an airtight container.
Of course you could also follow Munchy Seeds' lead and vary the seeds, which I plan to do. But this is the very lazy, happy version that still delivers the necessary munch.
It's 4pm. You want something sweet and creamy. Slurped through a straw. Without the guilt trip.
Enter the milkshake hack. Here's all it is:
Ah, the fixings. In this case, I've used two tablespoons of lucuma powder, several shakes of cinnamon powder, and a splash of vanilla extract. Blend everything until smooth, and smirk at yourself for being so smart.
To easily peel tomatoes, make a small x on the bottom with the point of a knife and plunge into a pan of boiling water for one minute. Skins slip off easily when cool, and your sauces are silky smooth. Happy Friday!
Which means one of many delicious things:
It's time for the ultra-flexible, always refreshing, lovely-to-look-at watermelon cooler!
Originally inspired by this post I saw on In the Raw, this is easy-peasy:
Blend in VitaMix until smooth, and that's it. You can use this as a base and vary the berries, or add a peeled kiwi for kick.
By the way, I buy a whole watermelon, cut it into quarters, wrap in plastic, and keep in the fridge. That's after I let it hang out on my counter for a few days — to me, the watermelon is one of the most stunning things nature has made. It also happens to be packed with pure water, slimming fiber, and succulent sweetness. I like to make this for guests — pour into glasses and pop into the freezer a few minutes before they arrive, then put one in their hand and watch for the smile.
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Antique cabinets acquire the distressed look through attrition or even abuse. It means that the cabinets have seen better days, with dark patches, streaks, dents, or discolored areas. Singled out, this type of defect is typically termed ugly, but when the look is evenly distributed throughout the cabinets, it evokes an atmosphere of country farms, cottages or just simpler times. Imitate the distressed look with a few tricks.
If your cabinets are already painted white, you're in luck. Just leave them as-is and move on to other distress-related techniques. If your cabinets are not white, sand them with 100-grit sandpaper to smooth and prepare the old finish. You don't need to strip them; just rough up the surface so it will accept the new look. Instead of paint, use white lacquer to get the base color down. It dries faster and covers better than paint. Use aerosol cans of white lacquer to paint everything. Don't use bright white, but choose an off-white or ivory color. Spray everything. If it's not perfect, don't worry about it -- it's distressed already. After the first coat of lacquer is dry, sand everything again with 180-grit sandpaper and spray on another coat.
If desired, you can also brush latex paint on the cabinets instead of lacquer. It takes longer but yields similar results. Just drag a brush parallel with the grain. It's OK if you get some lines. One coat is usually sufficient, since the look is distressed and light spots fit right in. If the paint feels rough after the first coat, rub it lightly with fine-grit steel wool.
Distress means that some of the paint or stain is gone from the edges, routing or along the bottoms of the cabinets where the finish has been rubbed off over the years. Routing or routing designs are 1/4-inch decorative lines or patterns cut on the face of some doors for aesthetics. Imitate the look by dragging a stain marker along inside routed designs to make it appear as if the routing were losing paint. Stain markers are just like colored markers. Choose almost any color that's darker than the original paint on the cupboard. The darker color makes it appear if the paint has been scraped or worn off. There are two types, oil and solvent base. Choose solvent base for quicker drying time. Push down on the tip to make the stain flow. Make irregular streaks lightly along the edges of doors, on corners or anywhere paint might have come off through years of use. Use the marker randomly to make delicate small lines or cracks. If it's too much, drag a fingertip or cloth over it to remove some of the stain.
Get serious about distressing your cabinets by using a sander. Put on breathing and eye protection and then run the pad of an orbital sander along the bottom edges of doors and drawer fronts to remove the lacquer or paint. Hold the sander with one hand and roll it back and forth lightly over edges. Blunt the corners by pressing the pad of the sander onto corners as if years of wear had taken their toll. Make random streaks (along the valance or anywhere) to remove some of the white, and expose the edge of the cabinet or doors. Don't focus all the distress in one area; spread it out evenly. Use a rotary tool to sand routing wider, or blunt the edges of the routing. Install a bit on the rotary tool that's just a bit wider than the routing; in most cases, the bit should be at least 5/16-inch wide or cone shaped. Drag it along the routing to make the routing appear worn in places, where years of fingers have blunted the sharp edges of the routing. In essence, make the routing appear less than perfect. Make small squiggly lines along the bottom edges with the rotary tool where time may have removed the finish.
Beat It
Carpenters sometimes use chains to acquire a weathered look on woodworking projects. Scale down this technique by beating your cabinets lightly with a small chain to create dents and divots. Try a small metal chain like you might hang a fluorescent light with, or a larger metal chain that you might find hanging from exterior drain pipes for bigger dents and divots. Do as many or as few as you like, with almost any type of metal chain but stay consistent, regulating the divots and dents evenly over the surface of the doors, drawer fronts and face frames. Mix it up a bit and use small chisels to carve longer divots on the edges of drawers or doors.


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I've reached that point in the design process where I get to experiment with everything I have been thinking about and planning. It's when I get my hands dirty and start to get a real insight into what will work, what won't, students' thoughts and opinions and develop my own ideas of how successful I have been. I have found the prototyping process very engaging, stimulating and somewhat cathartic (they say 'a change is as good as a holiday'). I have been able to quickly test out all of my ideas, analyse them and improve them in a short amount of time (Dam & Siang, 2018).
My prototype began as a visual conceptual prototype and moved on to a functional prototype (Laureate International Universities, n.d.). I tested my three ideas out over a week long period with different classes utilising the space. I took notes after each iteration and asked for feedback from both my team teaching partner and the students using the space. Involving my students and teaching partner has helped to create better ideas and a stronger final product (Riddle, 2016).
When I began prototyping my ideas, I really wanted to test out the experiences my students and my teaching partner were having. I wanted to see work in action to know if an idea would be successful (d.school Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, 2016). The following sums up my thoughts for each idea:
Idea 1
My first thought when I actioned this idea was that the noise level iin the room would increase. Previously, the furniture in my room was quite evenly spaced which meant the noise was evenly distributed. I was pleasantly surprised when the noise level remained much the same. I had also initially planned to use the office space/ storage room for a quiet work zone but after consultation with my teaching partner, it was deemed that this area would not be a suitable learning zone.
One unintentional outcome of this design was that the teacher's chairs were set up differently and it forced us to stand up during whole class instruction. This was a positive because we both became a bit more animated and the students were more engaged. We also found that it became a better sharing space at the end of the lesson for students.
Idea 2
I had mixed feelings about this idea when it was put into action. There were things that worked well but an equal amount of things that didn't. The 'whole class learning' zone was good and having the Lego/ Construction zone seemed to work well too. The cupboards around the Lego tables also created a 'quiet' zone behind it which was unintentional.
What didn't work though was that the cupboards around the Lego/ Construction zone blocked the teachers view of part of the classroom and made it feel smaller. Additionally, the couches moved to a 'Conversation' zone meant that we couldn't use them as part of our behaviour management as we had done all year (when entering the room, the students that followed the expectations would be rewarded with a seat on the couches – this has been a great way to positively reinforce behaviour with our young students).
Idea 3
Idea 3 is my least favourite. The position of the TV and whole class focus area faces the wrong way and partitions the room in a way that makes the room seem smaller. The whiteboard is also in a position where it looks untidy (We didn't want to look at the back of it). We also found that the joins in the floor (our room is a modular portable) cause tables to sit on an angle if placed over the join. Not only is that unpleasant to see and work on but it can be a hazard for chairs. We had to be mindful of this when placing furniture.


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Not a Loser
So I was sitting at the dinner table last night with my wife while our 3 year old son Callum ate some dinner (my wife was feeding our 10 month old his dinner).
While we were sitting and chatting, I asked Callum what he did at daycare that day. He is in a group of 24 kids ranging in age from 3 to 5 years old.
After some chit chat about games and activities, he started to talk about the 'big' kids in his class. He was referring to the 4 and 5 year old boys. His face went very sad, and he explained to us that the older boys called him a "loser."
My eyes immediately welled up, and so did my wife's.
I didn't know what to say, so I just gave him a hug.
I don't even think that Callum knows what "loser" means – it's not a word we ever use around the house, but he clearly understands that it is meant to be hurtful.
I suppose that I knew that eventually our kids were going to run into this at some point, but I was caught completely off guard by it last night. I thought that this sort of thing would start much later in life.
I feel helpless at not being able to protect him from this. Moreover, I just feel heartbroken that my son's world is no longer unblemished by people that are mean.
As time passes, I'm sure he'll just begin to realize that people like the mean kids exist, and that we all have to tolerate them during our stay on this earth. In a couple of years, he'll be a 'big kid' himself, and I hope that he doesn't do and say things that make the little ones sad. But we learn from our environment, don't we?
Callum knows to say things like "don't say that, that hurts my feelings" – but when the big kids just laugh, and call him a baby while he cries from frustration and sadness, it doesn't help.
As Callum learns what it's like to be a little boy, I am learning what it is to be a parent, and just how hard it can be to watch harm come your child's way.
I know it's the way of the world, but it just sucks.
Callum, you're not a loser.


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safariFRANK is the Steenhuisen's. We have our feet firmly planted in three amazing continents Africa, Australia and Europe (Germany)! Our African heritage and close knit family have seen us travel overland through the African bush for over 30 years. Every family member is 'instilled' with a great love of the African land. Going on Safari in Africa is for us not a destination, it is lifestyle. We want to share these real Safari experiences with you. Amongst the clan we champion the wilds of Africa, educating, conserving and supporting. With Frank on the ground in Africa leading the way as a trails guide, we can share with you our wild Africa!
The Steenhuisen Clan
- CEO turned SEO (Serial Explorer and Overlander)
- Real deal Afro Aussie, addicted to Africa
- Adventurer at heart
- Active conservationist
- Hates unexplored spots on the map
- Loves exploring Africa
- Passion for startups, small business and personal service
- Bino's the 'weapon of choice'
Based in Africa and Australia
- Heart of the team and a hippy in the city
- Never leaves home without waterproof mascara
- Loves snakes
- Creative soul inspired by the beauty of Africa
- A foodie with kick ass cooking skills around the camp fire
- Once an athlete, but has learnt that in Africa – only food runs!
- The best wildlife spotter of us all
Based in Africa and Australia
- Grew up in South African bush, schooled in Australia
- Prefers tracking lions to city life
- Botswana obsessed
- Qualified walking and vehicle guide
- Passionate about sharing the complexity of the African bush
- A super bird nerd who is fascinated by the smaller things
- Believes a campfire is an essential part of life
Based in Africa
- Afro Aussie, whose heart lies in the African bush
- Loves rhinos and is passionate about their conservation
- Degree in Business and Property
- Favorite sound is a lion roaring in very close proximity
- An adrenalin addict who is a teensy bit scared of elephants
- Proud mommy to beautiful baby Marissa
- Did we mention Karin loves rhinos?
Based in Australia
- Switched on electrician who is happiest when he's 'off-grid' in the African bush
- A warrior when it comes to conservation
- Lover of… and fighter for rhinos
- Travelling is his addiction as long as great coffee is also in the back pack
- Exercising makes Jan feel alive, but as a serial bookworm, so does a great read
Based in Australia
The Extended Clan
- Grew up in Munich, studied in Berlin, passionate about Africa since 2012
- In love with Namibia –especially the Namib
- Wrote her master thesis about land use conflicts between conservation & agriculture in Namiba and Nature Reserve in Namibia
- Loves to listen to the sounds of the night – in the bush (not in Berlin!), especially when elephants are around the tent
- Sleeping under the stars is the best (especially in Southern Africa)!
- Hasn't seen wild painted wolves yet
- Has recently been to Zambia and thinks the Lower Zambezi National Park belongs on every bucket-list!
Based in Germany
- Born and raised in Lower Saxony, Germany
- Passionate about Southern Africa – especially Namibia- due to extensive travels
- Loves: Sunsets in the Erongo Mountains, the incomparable starry sky of the Namib and the silence and tranquility during a mokoro tour through the Okavango Delta
- Fascinated by elephants and the peace and gentleness they exude
- Sitting around the fire after a long safari day is the best
- Next on her bucket-list: A safari in Tanzania and Kenya
Based in Germany
- Born and raised in Berlin
- Bachelor in International Business Administration and Horse Science
- Addicted to Southern African since her first horse safari in Namibia 2012
- Loves to wake up with the sunrise, the sounds of nature and horses
- There is nothing more exciting than approaching the wildlife by horse and becoming one with nature
- Next destination: Okavango Delta
Based in Germany
Have a question for anyone on the team?
We'd love to talk.


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The Kingdoms
Let me begin with this:
I want to live happily with both sides, but I clearly cannot.
The war has begun and there will not be peace; I am old enough to know this.
The East kingdom has declared independence from the West.
I am the prince.
My territory borders the two kingdoms, and they both ask me to join them.
Now I consider my heart and nothing else.
While the West may be wealthier and stronger, I do love the East too.
Yet, my heart tells me the West has a place in there as well.
Do I abandon my past loyalties?
Do I break the promises I have made?
Where will I be happy?
These questions do not help.
They leave me viciously between a rock and a hard place.
But the rock has turned to magma, and the hard place is only ice.
The fighting begins and I am left out of it.
I must decide before it is too late.
by Will M., Grade 9
|artwork by Emily W., Grade 9
A Journey I Must Find
My lifelong achievement was to tell a tale.
I yearned to tell my future all about the past,
My life dedicated to a journey.
But I remained unsatisfied with the unknown facts.
A journey I must find.
A simply complex mysterious item.
What truly is a journey?
Must I go and leave for some preposterous adventure,
Out of the place I call home?
A journey I must find.
Is it the escape of ideas?
The thoughts and feelings within myself?
Or is it the exploration of such unidentifiable entities inside my head?
Some things I did not know.
A journey I must find.
Are the answers about this journey in a book
Somewhere on a discarded shelf?
Will I run out of precious time to carry out my voyage?
Must I find this expedition?
This journey I must find.
As I live and dream and think,
Possibilities bloom from seeds of ideas.
I have not gone to travel far and wide,
I simply dwelled on my vast curiosity.
Is this the journey I had to find?
In the future I tell this tale,
For it is one I reflect back upon.
Why should I search for a journey,
When the journey indeed was my searching?
My journey I had found.
by Katie H., Grade 9
|artwork by Bailey S., Grade 8
Fully Present
From hearing to listening,
In distracted mindsets to deep corners of thought,
Closing out others to engaging in conversation,
One only improves by being fully present.
A state of confusion or the lack of interest,
Morphing to curiosity and wonder.
What is unknown must be explored,
It can only expose new light.
And just the help of a single story telling,
one that has lost grasp of the common interest,
May only provide new insight to those who are lost,
For this means the world to the one who listens.
Those who only hear must fail,
as they lose opportunities to grow upon the unfamiliar information.
When they are forced such a story
but do not devote themselves to processing what is being told to them,
one more chance to bloom suddenly disappears.
Just when the loss of interest takes over,
take a moment to listen and absorb.
Not a disadvantage within a mile when spending time on letting the words digest,
the realization of the message's importance will resonate within.
Internalize what is being fed to the soul,
appreciate every bit of knowledge and wait,
until the next time advice is desperately needed.
It will be the most helpful spoonful one has ever eaten.
Sitting there staring does a person no good,
as the details slip right past one's fingertips.
All of the difference is made with focus and attentiveness,
One will be able to catch it before all has escaped.
Be there with everyone and everything else,
and only there,
not off in the distance ignoring the environment,
Surrounding one's very body providing such comfort.
Do not hear them. Instead listen.
by Carley K., Grade 8
This month's recipe is for Chocolate Truffles. Enjoy!


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Patients (or a Helper) register for recovery products, wellness services, hospital co-pay help and more.
Friends, family and colleagues can choose a gift to send or simply donate funds.
How it works
Step 1
Create a recovery registry
Create an account
Tell your story
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Choose your privacy settings
Step 2
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Or send privately through email
Keep friends + family updated
Step 3
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What is a cash fund?
A cash fund is an easy way to receive financial support, without asking for money directly. By registering for a cash fund, you can raise money for different categories of recovery expenses like prescription co-pays, meal delivery or flying a loved one to visit you.
How cash funds work:
Friends, family and colleagues can donate to any fund they choose in any amount they choose. These funds get deposited in your cash fund account. You can request to withdraw the donated funds at any time. Withdrawals will be sent to you via check. (You can also use your cash funds toward purchases of products or services on the Mend After site.)
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HBO Sports announced today that the Cincinnati Bengals will be the subject of this year's "Hard Knocks," an all-access look at an NFL team's training camp.
The show's eighth season will debut the first of five episodes at 10 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, with subsequent shows premiering Tuesdays at the same time.
The series launched in 2001:
- 2001: Baltimore Ravens
- 2002: Dallas Cowboys
- 2007: Kansas City Chiefs
- 2008: Dallas Cowboys
- 2009: Cincinnati Bengals
- 2010: New York Jets
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In our unboxing video of the HTC Wildfire, we had the opportunity to power on the device for the first time and give you a brief introduction to this device's software. In part 1 of our software overview we now dive further into exploring the Android OS and the HTC Sense skin.
Sense is a skin created by HTC for use on many of their Android devices. Sense makes Android user friendly by adding new widgets, more home screens, and by streamlining certain menus and functions. Many of HTC's custom widgets include stocks, news, weather, and the acclaimed flip-clock on the home screen. What's more is you can still install applications of your choosing from the Android Market.
If you haven't used HTC Sense yet this will be a great tour for you. If you have, you may even learn a thing or two! Also, stay tuned for our upcoming hardware overview!


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Hello everyone!
I have been struggling with the belly fat around my lower stomach (below my belly button) for a while now. That seems to be the last place I lose my fat and to be honest I have never seen that part of my stomach look anything like I would like it to look.
I have been struggling with this for a while now and decided to try fasted cardio.
What is fasted cardio?
Fasted cardio is doing cardio right when you wake up before you eat anything. Since your body has technically been fasting while you were asleep, your body uses burns fat instead of its preferred energy source – carbs – as energy. There are many articles out there and research that shows that fasted cardio does work but you also have to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Meaning if you incorporate fasted cardio and still eat like crap, then you probably won't see a difference.
Essentially fasted cardio may burn more calories from fat. But it can also end up burning protein which you know is important for building and repairing muscle. This is why I suggest drinking BCAA's while doing fasted cardio.
Since fat is the main fuel source while in a fasted state, fat from hard to reach areas like lower stomach, thighs and hips can slim down since this is where a lot of fat gets stored, especially in women.
Did fasted cardio work for me?
I think it did! It's only been a week and I lost 3 lbs. and noticeably lost fat on my lower stomach. Since my fitness goals are to be really lean and continue to lose body fat, I will continue doing fasted cardio and see where it goes. All in all, I am already excited with the results. Want to read more on fasted cardio? Check out this article: Does Fasted Cardio Provide Significant Benefits?
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Raspberry Pi schematic errata
The (partial) datasheet was published here: | at raspberrypi.org and | a mirror
It has a couple of typos. Some more serious than others.
Let's gather those schematic typos and errors here.
The quality of the schematic is high. It looks like it contains the information that designers need.
Schematic v1.0 (Model B)
Unverified typos
- On sheet 3, area C9, should that not be a (B) instead of (A) under the "IC3?"
- Also D10 close by


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When I arrived at the house of Swenglish person number 5 the kitchen looked a bit chaotic – but smelled divine – as my host and her partner were in the middle of preparing for a joint birthday party.
After a quick cup of green tea I was set on sandwich making duty: salmon and cream cheese on Polish bread, egg and cress on brown bread, and finally cucumber on white bread. First I was a bit nervous as some people are very particular about their sandwiches: the thickness of the butter, the amount of filling and which shape to cut them in, but luckily my hosts were happy with my triangular creations.
I find cucumber sandwiches very funny as if that little bit of green would make the sandwich healthier or spice up the butter. My grandmothers in Sweden used to put half a grape on their bread rolls, but at least they had cheese to go with it.
This is the delicious sandwich, scone and cake table, but I had to wait quite a while before I could stuff myself with "Death by Chocolate" or "Rocky Road" as I was partly in charge of the tea-making which was more nerve-wracking than the sandwich making. A friend once said the following about tea: "There's a process in making it that you can take pride in" which make it sound just as complicated as it is.
English people are so fussy about their tea! In Sweden anyone would be happy if you handed them a black coffee, here people wanted either Breakfast Tea or Earl Grey or Rooibos or decaffeinated or something herbal or other, and if that wasn't enough you have to deal with the strength of the tea and not to forget: the milk and the sugar:
Just a bit of milk, please
Make it very milky, please
Put in the milk first, please
One and a half tea-spoon of sugar, please
No sugar, please
I like mine quite strong, please
Don't stew it too much, please
Leave the bag in, please
Is there any more hot water?
In the end everybody got what they wanted (hopefully!) and gathered in the sunny garden to laugh and gossip and listen to a speech by the host and a surprise ukulele performance. I'm glad I tried a scone for lunch because believe it or not – by the time the guests went home the plates and trays were empty, save the pumpkin cake which only I really enjoyed as it had the same spice mix as Swedish gingerbread. A big thank you to my hosts for letting me be part of such a lovely typical English afternoon!


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Umberto II came out on the balcony of the Quirinal Palace today, where he received an ovation from a crowd of about 12,000, "most of them evidently monarchists," reports the New York Times. This appearance followed the Cabinet's endorsement of his father, King Vittorio Emanuele's abdication, in favor of Umberto.
Umberto said in his proclamation that "the people's will as pressed in the elections will determine the future form and the new structure of the State."
Elections will be held on June 2. The new King "further affirmed his willingness to bide by the wishes of the Italian people."
The monarchist crowd cheered as Umberto appeared on the balcony three times alone and then reappeared with his wife, Queen Marie José, and their four children, Crown Prince Vittorio Emanuele, 9, and his three sisters, Princesses Maria Pia, 11, Maria Gabriella, 5, and Maria Beatrice, 3.
Observers note that "Italy has gained in the change of Kings, from the point of view of popular affection and past reputations -- at least in the past twenty years." But many remain doubtful that this change "will swing the populace to vote for the retention of the monarchy."


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This isn't your average children's and youth ministry conference!
Something is happening in the church. A new kind of Christianity is taking root and growing across the globe. New forms of ministry, worship, and community are emerging. Questions are being asked. And change is happening.
But amidst these changes and shifts, children and youth are being left behind. Innovative approaches to ministry with adults are emerging around the world, but little critical reflection and attention has been given to how to nurture young people within a new kind of Christianity.
In May of 2012, leaders, ministers, volunteers, parents, and students will gather in Washington, DC, USA to spark conversations about youth and children within a new kind of Christianity. They will talk about innovative practices, critical issues, and controversial topics like violence, racism, interfaith dialogue, and sexuality. They will emark on a journey together to engage in life-giving ministry with young people. And they will blaze a new trail for the 21st-century church.
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Paul Holmes 01 Apr 2002 // 11:00PM GMT
This survey (MIA III) was designed to build upon momentum generated by the success of WorldCom's previous Meetings in America surveys, which compared how the cost benefits of teleconferencing vs. business travel impact productivity (MIA I) and the Internet's impact on business productivity (MIA II). Having analyzed results of both surveys, Dome viewed MIA III as an opportunity to highlight current business communications trends and demonstrate how WorldCom is uniquely qualified to respond to those trends.
Dome overcame numerous challenges including:
- Identify an emerging workplace trend that could generate newsworthy research results that would also highlight the benefits of WorldCom Conferencing.
- Use MIA III and its results to distinguish WorldCom's services/capabilities from the more than ten major conferencing service providers and scores of niche conferencing companies that serve the ultra-competitive $1.5 billion conferencing market.
Planning for the MIA III program launch began in October 2000, five months prior to the announcement date. Dome used this time to identify a suitable MIA III survey topic; finalize survey questions; create the media strategy; acclimate and media train third parties; and write a white paper to report the survey conclusions.
Knowing that the best way to hook media on MIA III was to tie conferencing services' benefits to workplace trends, Dome began seeking out the trend that survey results could support. Dome investigated federal government studies and Harvard University research on workplace trends, as well as interviewed conferencing technology users. From these efforts came the identification of a rising workforce trend: the emergence of "virtual workers" who collaborate on projects from multiple, far-flung locations. This was the platform Dome had been looking for.
Leading up to an early March launch, Dome researched several authors dedicated to the topic of virtual work and the virtual workforce, recognizing that one of them could be an ideal third-party spokesperson who would lend credibility to the study. To that end, Dome secured nationally recognized author Dr. Jaclyn Kostner. Together, Dome, Dr. Kostner and Modalis Research Technologies developed myriad survey questions that would generate compelling consumer feedback, translating into interesting and customized print and broadcast story angles.
For WorldCom's MIA III initiative, Dome's main objectives were to:
Dome's positioning for MIA III was designed to differentiate it from the two previous surveys. Dome maximized interest by making results relevant to several target audiences and naturally identified "newsy" trends, including technology's impact on cost, productivity and attitudes; virtual work as a means to work/life balance; efficiency and the institutional acceptance of virtual work. A step further, Dome bolstered MIA III survey results as important data that, when analyzed with results from MIA I and II, provided a multi-dimensional look at the major areas influencing today's business environment and the related workplace movements and trends.
Dome also leveraged third-party credibility. Utilizing Dr. Kostner would highlight and legitimize survey results.
Knowing that MIA III's impact could be felt globally, Dome's communications strategy targeted top business publications that would communicate the survey's key messages to a variety of key corporate decision-makers. Most importantly, Dome sought media coverage that not only reached the target audiences, but also positioned WorldCom at the forefront of this technology.
Dome also coordinated a series of carefully timed broadcast and print media efforts, including a satellite radio tour (SRT) and Net Conference presentation to announce the results to the media.
Additionally, Dome used the news to immerse media in a "user experience" and did so by leveraging WorldCom's Net Conferencing technology to communicate the survey results of MIA III. This approached fully engaged reporters and other attendees in a truly interactive and fun experience.
To ensure the effective communication of survey results, Dome planned an extensive spokesperson media training one day prior to the program launch.
Dome's media outreach began with the offer of an exclusive to workplace reporters. First, Dome secured an exclusive "first break" with Newsday's workplace reporter Patricia Kitchen. Then, Dome distributed press kits to the top 150 dailies and distributed the press release over PR Newswire. Offering interviews with WorldCom representative Tim Reedy and Dr. Kostner, Dome also worked with a reporter from Time Magazine's first-ever Global Business section to develop an in-depth trend story on managing a global workforce using technology.
At the same time Dome was scheduled to host a Net Conference to announce the survey results to the media. Moderated by Tim Reedy and Dr. Kostner, both in different locations across the United States, the Net Conference would showcase the benefits of this exciting technology. Dome secured attendance from a wide range of media, including Time, Investors Business Daily, Internet Week, Network World, Meeting News, Florida Times Union, Tele Span Publishing Group, Akron Beacon-Journal, Convention South Magazine and Richmond Times Dispatch.
Next, Dome conducted a national satellite radio tour with Dr. Kostner, who discussed the survey results with prominent radio outlets. Her perspective and WorldCom's messages reached 2 million listeners in several major markets including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston and Miami.
In a multi-layered media approach, Dome combined traditional and non-traditional communication vehicles, such as WorldCom technology, to highlight WorldCom Conferencing's services and media results surpassed the program's objectives as well as client expectations.
Raise awareness of, and demand for, WorldCom Conferencing services
Result: WorldCom Conferencing saw a 20 percent increase in inquiries for its services
Generate awareness for WorldCom Conferencing by securing 20 million media impressions and ensure more than 85 percent brand mention in media placements
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Achieve a stronger than industry average CPM of $3 or less
Result: Dome achieved a $2.68 CPM
Establish WorldCom Conferencing as an authority on conferencing technology
Result: Both Tim Reedy and Dr. Kostner were quoted in dozens of articles and radio interviews reinforcing WorldCom's knowledge and expertise


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From the Editor…
Some time ago, I announced that I had decided to close the blog. Being the official administrator I had the casting vote, so that was that. There were a number of reasons for this decision, chief among them that I felt there were not enough people signing up and contributing to the discussions. Following my announcement, I received a number of representations, by phone and email, both from individual bloggers and from readers who sought to change my mind. I appreciated all the arguments in favour of keeping the blog open, but I remained resolute in my decision. Right up to the moment when our hard-working blogger, Petrus, put some points to me that really did take me by surprise. In short, it was his story, which he emailed to me only yesterday and which is published below, that made me change my mind. As a trusted adviser said when I told her, "we'll never know how many other 'Peters' are out there, to whom the blog has, similarly, made a huge difference in their lives." So, read on and tell me if you think I'm right to reverse the original decision to close, instead keeping the blog open… OR am I a Scots version of Theresa May, dithering and changing my mind at every turn? Don't answer that! Anyway, below, read Peter's pitch to keep the blog open – and tell us if you think he has a point. Also, feel free to offer ideas for future topics or suggest any improvements you'd like to see; if it's within our power, we'll be glad to oblige. Just don't suggest sacking Petrus – that's out of the question!
From Petrus…
At the Catholic Truth Conference of June 2012, I gave a keynote address outlining my journey from Modernist Catholic, to Church of Scotland elder, back to Modernist Catholic and finally to the Traditional Catholic faith. In this address, I outlined the role the Catholic Truth apostolate played in that process. In this article, I want to specifically focus on the role the Catholic Truth Blog has played in that journey and my subsequent eleven years attending the Traditional Latin Mass exclusively.
Back in 2008, the blog wasn't the first contact I had had with Catholic Truth. I had already subscribed to the newsletter for over eight years. Not only did I subscribe to the newsletter, I had a couple of letters published and exchanged emails with the editor – the first occasion being when I read criticism of Catholic education in the newsletter. I'd just qualified as a teacher in a Catholic school and was livid that a Catholic publication would slate Catholic education. In this email, I took great pleasure in telling the editor that those involved with Catholic Truth were excommunicated because they denied the authority of an Ecumenical Council!
Despite my initial condemnation of Catholic Truth, and my Modernism, I volunteered to meet with the editor. However, a priest put me off by defaming the professionalism of the editor, telling me that she had a "failed teaching career" (nothing could be further from the truth). So, I pulled out. In fact, I just didn't turn up!
During my three years as a Protestant, I lost interest in the newsletter and subsequently missed the launch of the blog. It was only when I returned to the Faith that I returned to reading Catholic Truth. By this time the blog was up and running. I took this as an opportunity to prove my re-found fidelity to the Catholic Faith and set out to put these schismatics to rights!
However, it didn't quite work out as I planned. The clarity of the comments, alongside the charity of the bloggers had a profound effect on me. I began to wonder what went wrong with my Catholic formation and made a decision that I wouldn't allow this to happen to my children. The bloggers exercised tremendous patience with me. The best piece of advice I received was to attend the Traditional Latin Mass exclusively for six weeks and I was assured that I would never want to return to the Novus Ordo Missae. This advice changed my life.
Not only has it changed my life, it's changed the life of my wife, who, whilst not contributing to the blog, is a regular reader. Its coverage of issues in education was instrumental in our decision to home educate our children. Thanks to the blog, only our oldest child has been to a Novus Ordo Mass, but thankfully he has no recollection of it. So, the influence of the blog extends beyond me personally.
I became a regular blogger because it was the only place I could receive support and guidance as a Catholic, outside of the Mass and the Sacrament of Confession. Eleven years later, I am still there, perhaps not as much as I once was due to family and work commitments. It's not all been plain sailing, I've had more arguments and fallings out with the editor than I've had hot dinners! [Ed: always his fault 😀 ) However, if I'm honest, I have to say that without the Catholic Truth Blog I might not be where I am now. Without the friendship of the editor and the extended Catholic Truth team, family life in our household would be vastly different… and not for the better. I wouldn't hesitate in saying that the Catholic Truth Blog has been the most important contribution to authentic Catholic life, both in Scotland and far beyond, in the last twelve years. Please, God, long may it continue!


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It was a draw, but it felt like more. Buoyed by a late comeback, the Dash will aim to build on last Sunday's result when they go for their first home win of the season on Friday night against the Chicago Red Stars.
Houston welcomes Chicago to BBVA Compass Stadium (7 p.m. CT; TICKETS) in confident mood after a late equalizer from Tiffany McCarty gave Randy Waldrum's side a valuable road point against FC Kansas City, who had beaten them 4-0 only two weeks earlier.
"I think it was huge," captain Erin McLeod told HoustonDashSoccer.com. "From a mental standpoint it was a tiny victory for us, especially because we made some early mistakes and we could have been easily 2-0 down in the first few minutes of the game. They missed one opportunity and put the next one away.
"So I think there's still a lot of things that we need to work on, but what I liked in the Boston game which was very similar, and we came back to win, is the team has fight. And if you have that you can work on the other details."
There was disappointment on Thursday for Meghan Klingenberg and Whitney Engen, as the Dash and USWNT defenders ended their spell at Swedish club Tyresö FF with a 4-3 defeat to Wolfsburg in the UEFA Women's Champions League final in Portugal. But the good news for Houston is that the pair will soon head to Texas, and their arrival should lead to a greater sense of stability for a Dash roster that has been a constant work in progress.
"We've had changing personnel and that's challenging, you can't just show up and then everybody gels right away … I think once we start consistently having the same players in the starting lineup, or at least almost, I think you'll see the results on the field," McLeod said.
Waldrum is hopeful that the draw with Kansas City and the sound performance in last week's 1-0 loss to the reigning NWSL champions, Portland Thorns FC, are harbingers of good times ahead—starting Friday.
"We lost to Portland but played well, I thought. Then to go on the road and get a point in the same week, especially against Kansas City; even though they're not at the top of the table right now, just the way they play, they're going to be there in the end, I think they're one of the better teams in the league," the head coach told HoustonDashSoccer.com.
"So I think it was a great result for us, to do that on the road against a team of that quality and hopefully it'll give us the momentum going into Friday's game. We've got a real opportunity to get some more points at home."
Chicago edged the Dash 1-0 in Illinois on May 11 then won their next two matches, both against the Boston Breakers. So they arrive in Houston on a roll, but Waldrum believes the Dash can make home advantage count. "We're starting to play better and I'm hopeful that this will kind of spring us forward into a good run, now that we're getting a little bit more consistency," he said.
McLeod and forward Ella Masar played for the Red Stars last year. McLeod said that Chicago's style means that Houston will have to take extra care when moving the ball out of defense.
"Chicago always brings a very physical game, we will expect that, they've been very dangerous on set pieces so we're ready for that, and they're a high pressing team, especially in the last couple of games they've taken advantage of mistakes at the back," the goalkeeper said.
The visitors are third in the standings behind leaders Portland and Seattle Reign FC. After the past two encouraging displays and a tight 2-0 loss in Seattle on April 27, McLeod is sure that the Dash are developing into a side capable of competing with the NWSL's best.
"I don't think we're far away from these teams. I think we're an expansion team so we've had to do a little bit more work as far as organization and team chemistry, we have to play catchup a little bit, but I think there's so much potential on this team," she said.
"What I love most about this team is that people are willing to fight and they give everything till the last minute of the game, that's something I don't think you can teach. The rest we can figure out."
Tom Dart is a contributing writer to HoustonDynamo.com and HoustonDashSoccer.com. Former editor and reporter for The Times of London and reporter for SI.com, Dart currently freelances for The Guardian.


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What are the most popular bits of the bible, to quote and discuss?. Often trolling around the religious blogs it is clear that lots of folks don't have a wide vocabulary to choose from. So tonight I did an experiment.
Using some code I have, I queried Google to ask how many unique pages it has in its index referring to each verse of the New Testament. I won't go too much into methodology here, its kind of like looking at the number of results when you do a regular google query, but there's a lot of faffing about needed to exclude duplicate content, and to account for aliases in the names (1Co, 1 Cor, 1 Corinthians, etc) tendencies such as the fact that verses at the start of popular ranges get mentioned more (e.g. 1 Cor 12:1-10, should either be credited to all ten verses, or none, not to 1 Cor 12:1, which a normal search would do).
The searching process involved 8000 separate searches, and the collation of a fair amount of data on about 15m pages. The top ten passages are:
|John 3:16
|For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
|John 14:6
|Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
|John 1:1
|In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
|Matthew 28:19
|Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
|Matthew 7:16
|By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?
|Acts 1:8
|But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
|Colossians 4:3
|Pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains.
|Acts 2:38
|Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
|John 10:10
|The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
|Mark 16:15
|He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation."
(Quotations from NIV)
Some of these were a *big* suprise to me. Colossians 4:3, really? Wow. And there's an interesting pattern among the top 50 – many are missional like this. You can also see in this the problem of dividing by verses. Some quotes, like John 10:10 are rarely quoted in full, only the second half is normally used.
If you deal with frequencies at all, you know that distributions tend to be massively skewed: the winners win big, everyone else is way behind. Sure enough this distribution is a power law, with John 3:16 scoring more highly than the next 6 verses combined. And there are a lot of passages with only a handful of mentions.
Here is a graph of the frequency distribution of results. You can see that the first few are huge, and everyone else is basically nowhere. Obviously a very tiny proportion of the NT gets talked about.
A better diagram is the heat map above. This shows the relative distribution of popular bits. Note that the colors are generated by rank (not by absolute score), because if we did a heat map by score the whole thing would be purple with one or two blues, and then John 3:16 in red.
You can see some interesting trends on there (click for a bigger view, really it is worth it! – you may have to click again once it appears though, because it is taller than your screen, some browsers shrink it to fit). In particular you can see that John is the rockstar gospel, although Matthew's sermon on the mount does pretty well. Among the letters Colossians is the clear winner, although Galatians is also pretty hot. I was surprised at 1 John, being so important, and 1 Corithians being so sparse. And Christians obviously don't like encouragement, because Paul's least scathing letter, 1 Thessalonians is practically entirely purple. And interesting that the top passage in Mark (16:15) isn't really part of Mark at all.
There's only so many conclusions you can draw around this, it is meant for fun rather than serious study. But if there are specific questions you'd like me to answer with the data, leave a comment.


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The Mac OS X Lion Report: Where Are the Compelling Features?December 1st, 2010
There was plenty of anticipation ahead of Apple's recent all-too-brief demonstration of some of the sexier features for 10.7 Lion. After the media assumed Apple was largely focusing on the iOS, to the detriment of the Mac OS, you had to wonder whether we'd see any compelling upgrades for Apple's venerable product in the near future.
Unfortunately, the "Sneak Peak" we saw several weeks ago seems less than exciting.
At the top of Apple's list is the Mac App Store, but you don't have to wait for Lion's arrival to see it. It'll debut early next year, with some question marks. By focusing on the sort of easy app design that's a hallmark of the iOS, major software suites such as Office 2011 and the Adobe Creative Suite would not apply, because they install extra stuff outside of the traditional Applications folder.
Key products that extend system capabilities, such as Ambrosia Software's WireTap Studio, won't be allowed, because they add kernel extensions to perform their magic. In this case, it's capturing audio from such apps as iChat and Skype.
Now it's fair to say that the Mac App Store remains under development. I realize Apple wants to make the software setup and removal process as simple as possible. Nowadays, installing new apps presents a source of confusion to many Mac users, what with installers, drag and drop, disk images, and so on and so forth. Ridding yourself of an application often involves more than just dragging an icon to the Trash. Quite often there are auxiliary support files that may still be lurking in the background, perhaps autolaunching at startup and consuming system resources, but they aren't easily removed without some manual labor or a special app removing utility.
As others have observed, the Windows software removal tool presents a superior option, and it's standard issue on Microsoft's operating system.
As to Lion itself, I'm sure Apple has good intentions. They want to use the iOS experience to simplify their core OS, and make it easier to manage your stuff. What I've seen so far is a mixed bag, and there's nothing so far to make it a compelling upgrade, though I grant we haven't seen much. But I would have expected Apple to want to tantalize us right out of the starting gate.
So we have Expose on steroids, dubbed Mission Control, designed to let you keep tabs of all your open apps and document windows. Only it also threatens to further confuse the picture, particularly if you have a not-atypical ten or fifteen apps, and loads of documents, open at any one time. It stands to present not the pretty picture on Apple's site, but a mass of tiny windows that will make matters even more confusing.
This isn't to say that everything in Lion isn't interesting. Full-screen apps, for example, might present a more efficient working environment, particularly when you're using software that traditionally loads your screen with lots of floating palettes, such as Adobe, or large toolbars, such as the infamous Microsoft ribbon. So long as moving back and forth between the traditional and expanded view is seamless, working on a smaller display, such as the 11-inch MacBook Air, might be more pleasant.
I'm on the fence about Launchpad. In a sense, it grafts the icon barrage from your iOS device to the Mac desktop. If you are forced to see all your available apps, paging and paging through them to find what you want, it'll be a mess. If you can pick and choose what's displayed, it may be a useful alternative, although there are existing launching utilities that might be even better. In saying that, there's nothing to prevent a third party from providing a Launchpad-style product for Snow Leopard.
The Auto-save and Auto-resume features are useful, if not compelling. The former is a feature already available in some apps. There are several third-party utilities that accomplish the task of adding automatic save to all or most of your apps that don't support the feature. I was using an auto-save utility 20 years ago for the Classic Mac OS. So this presents nothing more than Apple assuming a function third parties have already provided for a number of years, though I grant it'll likely be more seamless and elegant.
Automatic app resuming brings a key iOS multitasking capability to Mac OS X. It largely eliminates the quit process and replaces it with some form of suspension scheme. The app is halted, rather than quit, ready to resume almost instantaneously via a single click of an icon. This may also mean that the little lightbulbs you see in the Dock to indicate which apps are open will vanish. They won't be needed. If an app suspends rather than quits, you'll be able to get back to work almost instantaneously. Consider the Adobe Creative Suite with an extended launch process that typically takes ten, twenty seconds, or even more before you're ready to work on your document.
I expect that Auto-resume will likely require reprogramming on the part of developers to support new system frameworks, and that means you may have to wait for upgrades before you can use this feature for anything but Apple's own bundled apps. The same is true for the full-screen capability.
Most of these promised Lion features are potentially useful, with some of my caveats. But they don't light my fire. I want more.
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Father Goriot/Section 19
At seven o'clock that evening Therese came with a letter from Delphine.
- "What are you doing, dear friend? I have been loved for a very little while, and I am neglected already? In the confidences of heart and heart, I have learned to know your soul—you are too noble not to be faithful for ever, for you know that love with all its infinite subtle changes of feeling is never the same. Once you said, as we were listening to the Prayer in Mose in Egitto, 'For some it is the monotony of a single note; for others, it is the infinite of sound.' Remember that I am expecting you this evening to take me to Mme. de Beauseant's ball. Every one knows now that the King signed M. d'Ajuda's marriage-contract this morning, and the poor Vicomtesse knew nothing of it until two o'clock this afternoon. All Paris will flock to her house, of course, just as a crowd fills the Place de Greve to see an execution. It is horrible, is it not, to go out of curiosity to see if she will hide her anguish, and whether she will die courageously? I certainly should not go, my friend, if I had been at her house before; but, of course, she will not receive society any more after this, and all my efforts would be in vain. My position is a very unusual one, and besides, I am going there partly on your account. I am waiting for you. If you are not beside me in less than two hours, I do not know whether I could forgive such treason."
Rastignac took up a pen and wrote:
- "I am waiting till the doctor comes to know if there is any hope of your father's life. He is lying dangerously ill. I will come and bring you the news, but I am afraid it may be a sentence of death. When I come you can decide whether you can go to the ball.—Yours a thousand times."
At half-past eight the doctor arrived. He did not take a very hopeful view of the case, but thought that there was no immediate danger. Improvements and relapses might be expected, and the good man's life and reason hung in the balance.
"It would be better for him to die at once," the doctor said as he took leave.
Eugene left Goriot to Bianchon's care, and went to carry the sad news to Mme. de Nucingen. Family feeling lingered in her, and this must put an end for the present to her plans of amusement.
"Tell her to enjoy her evening as if nothing had happened," cried Goriot. He had been lying in a sort of stupor, but he suddenly sat upright as Eugene went out.
Eugene, half heartbroken, entered Delphine's. Her hair had been dressed; she wore her dancing slippers; she had only to put on her ball-dress; but when the artist is giving the finishing stroke to his creation, the last touches require more time than the whole groundwork of the picture.
"Why, you are not dressed!" she cried.
"Madame, your father——"
"My father again!" she exclaimed, breaking in upon him. "You need not teach me what is due to my father, I have known my father this long while. Not a word, Eugene. I will hear what you have to say when you are dressed. My carriage is waiting, take it, go round to your rooms and dress, Therese has put out everything in readiness for you. Come back as soon as you can; we will talk about my father on the way to Mme. de Beauseant's. We must go early; if we have to wait our turn in a row of carriages, we shall be lucky if we get there by eleven o'clock."
"Quick! not a word!" she cried, darting into her dressing-room for a necklace.
"Do go, Monsieur Eugene, or you will vex madame," said Therese, hurrying him away; and Eugene was too horror-stricken by this elegant parricide to resist.
He went to his rooms and dressed, sad, thoughtful, and dispirited. The world of Paris was like an ocean of mud for him just then; and it seemed that whoever set foot in that black mire must needs sink into it up to the chin.
"Their crimes are paltry," said Eugene to himself. "Vautrin was greater."
He had seen society in its three great phases—Obedience, Struggle, and Revolt; the Family, the World, and Vautrin; and he hesitated in his choice. Obedience was dull, Revolt impossible, Struggle hazardous. His thoughts wandered back to the home circle. He thought of the quiet uneventful life, the pure happiness of the days spent among those who loved him there. Those loving and beloved beings passed their lives in obedience to the natural laws of the hearth, and in that obedience found a deep and constant serenity, unvexed by torments such as these. Yet, for all his good impulses, he could not bring himself to make profession of the religion of pure souls to Delphine, nor to prescribe the duties of piety to her in the name of love. His education had begun to bear its fruits; he loved selfishly already. Besides, his tact had discovered to him the real nature of Delphine; he divined instinctively that she was capable of stepping over her father's corpse to go to the ball; and within himself he felt that he had neither the strength of mind to play the part of mentor, nor the strength of character to vex her, nor the courage to leave her to go alone.
"She would never forgive me for putting her in the wrong over it," he said to himself. Then he turned the doctor's dictum over in his mind; he tried to believe that Goriot was not so dangerously ill as he had imagined, and ended by collecting together a sufficient quantity of traitorous excuses for Delphine's conduct. She did not know how ill her father was; the kind old man himself would have made her go to the ball if she had gone to see him. So often it happens that this one or that stands condemned by the social laws that govern family relations; and yet there are peculiar circumstances in the case, differences of temperament, divergent interests, innumerable complications of family life that excuse the apparent offence.
Eugene did not wish to see too clearly; he was ready to sacrifice his conscience to his mistress. Within the last few days his whole life had undergone a change. Woman had entered into his world and thrown it into chaos, family claims dwindled away before her; she had appropriated all his being to her uses. Rastignac and Delphine found each other at a crisis in their lives when their union gave them the most poignant bliss. Their passion, so long proved, had only gained in strength by the gratified desire that often extinguishes passion. This woman was his, and Eugene recognized that not until then had he loved her; perhaps love is only gratitude for pleasure. This woman, vile or sublime, he adored for the pleasure she had brought as her dower; and Delphine loved Rastignac as Tantalus would have loved some angel who had satisfied his hunger and quenched the burning thirst in his parched throat.
"Well," said Mme. de Nucingen when he came back in evening dress, "how is my father?"
"Very dangerously ill," he answered; "if you will grant me a proof of your affections, we will just go in to see him on the way."
"Very well," she said. "Yes, but afterwards. Dear Eugene, do be nice, and don't preach to me. Come."
They set out. Eugene said nothing for a while.
"What is it now?" she asked.
"I can hear the death-rattle in your father's throat," he said almost angrily. And with the hot indignation of youth, he told the story of Mme. de Restaud's vanity and cruelty, of her father's final act of self-sacrifice, that had brought about this struggle between life and death, of the price that had been paid for Anastasie's golden embroideries. Delphine cried.
"I shall look frightful," she thought. She dried her tears.
"I will nurse my father; I will not leave his bedside," she said aloud.
"Ah! now you are as I would have you," exclaimed Rastignac.
The lamps of five hundred carriages lit up the darkness about the Hotel de Beauseant. A gendarme in all the glory of his uniform stood on either side of the brightly lighted gateway. The great world was flocking thither that night in its eager curiosity to see the great lady at the moment of her fall, and the rooms on the ground floor were already full to overflowing, when Mme. de Nucingen and Rastignac appeared. Never since Louis XIV. tore her lover away from La grand Mademoiselle, and the whole court hastened to visit that unfortunate princess, had a disastrous love affair made such a sensation in Paris. But the youngest daughter of the almost royal house of Burgundy had risen proudly above her pain, and moved till the last moment like a queen in this world—its vanities had always been valueless for her, save in so far as they contributed to the triumph of her passion. The salons were filled with the most beautiful women in Paris, resplendent in their toilettes, and radiant with smiles. Ministers and ambassadors, the most distinguished men at court, men bedizened with decorations, stars, and ribbons, men who bore the most illustrious names in France, had gathered about the Vicomtesse.
The music of the orchestra vibrated in wave after wave of sound from the golden ceiling of the palace, now made desolate for its queen.
Madame de Beauseant stood at the door of the first salon to receive the guests who were styled her friends. She was dressed in white, and wore no ornament in the plaits of hair braided about her head; her face was calm; there was no sign there of pride, nor of pain, nor of joy that she did not feel. No one could read her soul; she stood there like some Niobe carved in marble. For a few intimate friends there was a tinge of satire in her smile; but no scrutiny saw any change in her, nor had she looked otherwise in the days of the glory of her happiness. The most callous of her guests admired her as young Rome applauded some gladiator who could die smiling. It seemed as if society had adorned itself for a last audience of one of its sovereigns.
"I was afraid that you would not come," she said to Rastignac.
"Madame," he said, in an unsteady voice, taking her speech as a reproach, "I shall be the last to go, that is why I am here."
"Good," she said, and she took his hand. "You are perhaps the only one I can trust here among all these. Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman."
She took Rastignac's arm, and went towards a sofa in the card-room.
"I want you to go to the Marquis," she said. "Jacques, my footman, will go with you; he has a letter that you will take. I am asking the Marquis to give my letters back to me. He will give them all up, I like to think that. When you have my letters, go up to my room with them. Some one shall bring me word."
She rose to go to meet the Duchesse de Langeais, her most intimate friend, who had come like the rest of the world.
Rastignac went. He asked for the Marquis d'Ajuda at the Hotel Rochefide, feeling certain that the latter would be spending his evening there, and so it proved. The Marquis went to his own house with Rastignac, and gave a casket to the student, saying as he did so, "They are all there."
He seemed as if he was about to say something to Eugene, to ask about the ball, or the Vicomtesse; perhaps he was on the brink of the confession that, even then, he was in despair, and knew that his marriage had been a fatal mistake; but a proud gleam shone in his eyes, and with deplorable courage he kept his noblest feelings a secret.
"Do not even mention my name to her, my dear Eugene." He grasped Rastignac's hand sadly and affectionately, and turned away from him. Eugene went back to the Hotel Beauseant, the servant took him to the Vicomtesse's room. There were signs there of preparations for a journey. He sat down by the fire, fixed his eyes on the cedar wood casket, and fell into deep mournful musings. Mme. de Beauseant loomed large in these imaginings, like a goddess in the Iliad.
"Ah! my friend! . . ." said the Vicomtesse; she crossed the room and laid her hand on Rastignac's shoulder. He saw the tears in his cousin's uplifted eyes, saw that one hand was raised to take the casket, and that the fingers of the other trembled. Suddenly she took the casket, put it in the fire, and watched it burn.
"They are dancing," she said. "They all came very early; but death will be long in coming. Hush! my friend," and she laid a finger on Rastignac's lips, seeing that he was about to speak. "I shall never see Paris again. I am taking my leave of the world. At five o'clock this morning I shall set out on my journey; I mean to bury myself in the remotest part of Normandy. I have had very little time to make my arrangements; since three o'clock this afternoon I have been busy signing documents, setting my affairs in order; there was no one whom I could send to . . ."
She broke off.
"He was sure to be . . ."
Again she broke off; the weight of her sorrow was more than she could bear. In such moments as these everything is agony, and some words are impossible to utter.
"And so I counted upon you to do me this last piece of service this evening," she said. "I should like to give you some pledge of friendship. I shall often think of you. You have seemed to me to be kind and noble, fresh-hearted and true, in this world where such qualities are seldom found. I should like you to think sometimes of me. Stay," she said, glancing about her, "there is this box that has held my gloves. Every time I opened it before going to a ball or to the theatre, I used to feel that I must be beautiful, because I was so happy; and I never touched it except to lay some gracious memory in it: there is so much of my old self in it, of a Madame de Beauseant who now lives no longer. Will you take it? I will leave directions that it is to be sent to you in the Rue d'Artois.—Mme. de Nucingen looked very charming this evening. Eugene, you must love her. Perhaps we may never see each other again, my friend; but be sure of this, that I shall pray for you who have been kind to me.—Now, let us go downstairs. People shall not think that I am weeping. I have all time and eternity before me, and where I am going I shall be alone, and no one will ask me the reason of my tears. One last look round first."
She stood for a moment. Then she covered her eyes with her hands for an instant, dashed away the tears, bathed her face with cold water, and took the student's arm.
"Let us go!" she said.
This suffering, endured with such noble fortitude, shook Eugene with a more violent emotion than he had felt before. They went back to the ballroom, and Mme. de Beauseant went through the rooms on Eugene's arm—the last delicately gracious act of a gracious woman. In another moment he saw the sisters, Mme. de Restaud and Mme. de Nucingen. The Countess shone in all the glory of her magnificent diamonds; every stone must have scorched like fire, she was never to wear them again. Strong as love and pride might be in her, she found it difficult to meet her husband's eyes. The sight of her was scarcely calculated to lighten Rastignac's sad thoughts; through the blaze of those diamonds he seemed to see the wretched pallet-bed on which Father Goriot was lying. The Vicomtesse misread his melancholy; she withdrew her hand from his arm.
"Come," she said, "I must not deprive you of a pleasure."
Eugene was soon claimed by Delphine. She was delighted by the impression that she had made, and eager to lay at her lover's feet the homage she had received in this new world in which she hoped to live and move henceforth.
"What do you think of Nasie?" she asked him.
"She has discounted everything, even her own father's death," said Rastignac.


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