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Free Global Product Search Widget For MarketPress
We've got some great community members at WPMU DEV who are building awesome extensions to our products. The very latest is a free plugin from MarketPressThemes.com that provides a beautiful interface for searching and sorting products across a network of stores.
Solid multisite compatibility is one of the reasons that MarketPress is so popular. There is no better WordPress e-commerce plugin for operating multiple stores with one global shopping cart. This new extension compliments MarketPress' built-in multisite capabilities.
The MP Product Search Widget plugin features:
- Advanced Product Search Options – narrow down the search through different parameters, such as category, tag, and price range.
- Compatible with Multisite for Global Searches – allow customers to make global product searches across your MarketPress network – just like Etsy.com does it.
- Built to Impress – display all the search results in a nice, beautiful modal view, together with product thumbnail, price, and 'buy now' button for each item.
- Advanced Sorting Options – allow your customers to sort the search results based on different parameters, such as release date, title, price, sales.
- Powered by AJAX – perform high-level search queries without crashing the server.
Multisite Compatible: Global Product Search Widget
The MP Product Search Widget plugin also includes a separate widget for multisite installations that gives users the ability to search the network. This functions in a similar way to Etsy.com searches across multiple stores.
Configuration options are the same as the single store search widget. The only difference is that it searches all stores.
Options for the widget include:
- Show or hide category filter
- Limit to custom categories
- Show or hide tag filter
- Limit to custom tags
- Show/hide price range
- Choose from 7 different color skins
- Limit visibility to store pages only
Want to try out a live demo of the search to see how it works? Check out the search widget on any of these themes:
Live Demo: FlexMarket | PRO | GridMarket | SimpleMarket | Twenty Twelve
Download MP Product Search Widget for Free
There are a couple of different avenues for downloading the plugin – either way it's free. The first option is to visit MarketPressThemes.com and create an account. Then you can proceed to the user dashboard to download the plugin. The plugin is also available at github if you want to grab the zip file directly. Many thanks to the folks at MarketPressThemes.com for making this plugin available for free.Tags:


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Rice pudding made with four different types of milk for a lower calorie sweet treat.
So Yummy! Oh, yes it is. What is better for dessert than rich, creaminess? How about rich, creamy and healthy. That is my Quatro Leches Rice Pudding. When I was thinking about a dessert for Cinco de Mayo, I again went back to a Royal Caribbean cruise we took with a stopover in Cancun. We took a cooking class and I was reunited with my love for rice pudding.
I had long since put aside my love of rice pudding. You see, I discovered my adoration for rice pudding when I lived in England as a kid. It was rich, creamy and served hot. Each mouthful was sheer pleasure. When we came back to the USA to live, I ordered rice pudding at a restaurant. A bowl of this stiff, cold pudding was put in front of me. What? What is that? It didn't look like rice pudding. Sadly, one bite told me it wasn't the rice pudding I so dearly loved.
From that point on, I thought my love affair for rice pudding was over. Then one fateful day in Cancun, Mexico, my hubby and I took a cooking class. We made rice pudding for dessert, hmmm! It wasn't pudding like, it was looser, more custard like. Oh, that was a good sign. Dare I dream my love affair of rice pudding could be reignited? Oh yes, it certainly was.
I did not try to make this rice pudding ultra light. Since I wanted rich, creaminess which meant there was going to be some fat in it. I was willing to have a smaller serving size to be fully satisfied with the taste and texture. Luckily it ended up being easier than I thought. Silk Soy creamer was the hero in the dish. It has a lot less fat than cream but still helped give a rich texture. I was, however, really shocked how many calories fat-free sweetened condensed milk has.
Holy cow! I should have had a clue given "sweet" is in the name. Luckily this made a large quantity so I decided to keep it in the recipe. The other two milks rounding out my four milk rice pudding were fat-free evaporated milk and lite coconut milk. What a lovely combination they made. Even my hubby was going back for seconds. Quatro Leches Rice Pudding will forever change your mind about what a good rice pudding is.
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Happy Healthy Eating,
Quatro Leches Rice Pudding
- 1 cup uncooked Arborio rice
- 1 fat free Sweetened condensed milk 14oz can
- 1 Fat free evaporated milk 12oz can
- 1 Lite coconut milk 13.5 oz can
- 1 cup coconut creamer or soy creamer original or vanilla
- 1 Vanilla bean or 1 tsp. vanilla extract
In a large saucepan, cook rice according to manufacturer's instructions.
In the same saucepan, add all the milk products. Split the vanilla bean in half and use the tip of a small knife to scrap the vanilla caviar out and put into the pot. Throw the pod in the saucepan too. If using vanilla extract, do not put it in yet.
Put saucepan over medium heat and bring to a boil. Reduce to a very low simmer and stir often. Simmer for about 20 minutes or until pudding is slightly thickened
Take off the heat and stir in the vanilla extract, if using.
Rice pudding will continue to thicken as it cools but it should not be stiff.
To store the rice pudding, pour into a bowl and lay plastic wrap right on top of the pudding.
Recipe Notes
I calculated 10 Weight Watcher Smartpoints.
Happy Healthy Eating,
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It has now been two months since I started this blog and a month since that post. Since it seemed to be well-received I thought I'd follow it up after another month.
Firstly though I want to stress something I said from the previous post: more than anything, these posts are a journal of my experiences and not any kind of expert opinion. Advice given is the sum of that knowledge, which may prove to be wrong. It just happens to be what my opinion is at that time.
It's been an interesting month. The vital statistics for the period June 12 to July 11 are:
- 23,661 visits;
- 20,1660 Absolute Unique Visitors;
- 28,224 Pageviews;
- My most read post Do Programmers Optimize... Life? received 13,338 views;
- Where last month, DZone accounted for 65% of my traffic, this month that number fell to 13%. This month the biggest source was by far reddit at 51% due mostly to the above post;
- Google search traffic was up to over 7%. Spring and Ibatis Tutorial, published in the previous month, received over 1,000 visits just from search engine traffic;
- According to Feedburner, RSS subscribers are up to 77;
- $5.61 in AdSense revenue. :-)
All in all, I'm incredibly pleased with the results. That being said, I have to consider the above to be an outlier due to the rather unexpected success of one post. So I fully expect next month's results to be lower. It takes time to build an audience.
It's the Title, Stupid
One conclusion I've reached is just how important the title of whatever you post is. This may seem shallow (and it is) but consider for a second how most people find and read things on the internet.
It's quite easy to completely deluged with information. Nowadays, there's not a lot I read that doesn't come from an RSS or Atom feed of some kind. The days of directly visiting sites are pretty much over for me. Google Reader is my tool of choice. The fact that I can use it from home and work (and an iphone if I had one, which I don't) beats any desktop app for that purpose.
In my Reader I have some sites, which themselves are aggregators, like Slashdot, DZone, programming.reddit.com and Hacker News. Between those and dozens of other feeds I probably get 400+ items each and every day. There are lots of duplicates and I could probably drop one of Hacker News and programming.reddit.com due to high incidence of duplication but I know what I've read and it takes no time to skim.
Of these 400+ items I ready maybe 20 on a good day (beyond any one paragraph blurb). You might say that's a low signal-to-noise ratio but you'd be wrong. The reason I do it is because if you skim 400+ articles and do that often you get a sense of developer mindshare. What are developers interested in? What are they talking about? What's hot? What's not?
That's incredibly useful information.
Anyway, in my estimation, the vast majority of programmers read very little online. I'd put myself in a more active minority. Within that minority, I'd say the above reading pattern is probably typical.
When skimming a large amount of material, the title is probably the most important deciding factor on whether you read that item or not.
Title also has a great deal to do with people finding your work via search engines.
So the title:
- must accurately reflect the contents of your post;
- peaks the interest of a reader within a large volume of material; and
- contain likely keywords that people will search for assuming that item will be of interest to someone searching for such things.
For example, I wrote The Monetization of Java Begins? The title is accurate but the word "monetization" and that's a somewhat esoteric word used primarily by people typically talking about ad revenues and commercial licensing. The question mark at the end is important because it accurately reflects the view that there is uncertainty over the answer (which was subsequently cleared up by Sun).
Now imagine if that post was called Sun to Start Charging for Java Features? It's a much better title that still fits all the above criteria.
I can imagine some people thinking to themselves at this point "Boy, that's a lot to write just about the title" or they may even accuse me of getting caught up in minutiae but if you want people to read what you've written, put careful thought into your title.
I'm certain the same purists who (mistakenly) believe that you can realistically write a blog these days by pushing out ASCII text files will jump up and down and say only the content matters. Now of course the content matters. The point of the title is to get that content read.
Anyway, that's just my opinion.
Search Engine Optimization
SEO is a bit of a strange topic. A lot has been written about it. Some people make their livings out of it. To me, in certain circles, SEO borders on being a religion. Not only due to the fervour of its followers but that many of its tenets seem based on blind faith rather than having any basis in fact.
Those making their living out of it just come across as the priests of this cooky cult.
That being said, I do believe in these principles (not just for blogging but for Web development in general):
- Title matters (see above);
- Put the title of your post or page as the first element of the HTML title; and
- The URL should match the title.
(2) is different to the default behaviour of Bloggger (I can't speak for Wordpress or any others) but just requires the following template change:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <title><data:blog.pageName/></title> <b:else/> <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> </b:if>
Alternatively put the blog title at the end of the HTML title:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <title><data:blog.pageName/></title> <b:else/> <title><data:blog.pageTitle/> ~ <data:blog.title/><</title> </b:if>
if you want your blog title at the end. Whatever the case, don't put it at the front.
Windows Live Writer
When I posted Starting a Programming Blog I had it suggested to me that I use Windows Live Writer to write posts instead of doing what I had been doing, which is hand-coding HTML because the Blogger editor is so awful. Now I have to admit I was sceptical.
It's not every day I'm surprised by Microsoft. What I've come to expect is vertical integration that is somewhere between truly invasive to just plain nauseating but I am stunned at just how good Live Writer is. It's not perfect but it has an extensible plug-in architecture, it integrates seamlessly with Blogger (and Wordpress, etc) and gives you a pretty darn good preview of what your site will look like.
Plus the HTML produced is pretty clean in exactly the way that Microsoft Word produced HTML isn't.
I really can't believe Microsoft produced this and give it away for free. It's so completely unlike what I've come to expect from Microsoft. Everything I write now uses it.
The Future
It's fair to say that this site had—and still has—a lot of JavaScript by virtue of widgets and social news site links. About half of those were removed recently as non-performing (defined as generating no or few referrals).
The code snippet JavaScript plug-in generates attractive pretty code but it another hit in terms of JavaScript load and execution. I know when developing websites I am absolutely cutthroat when it comes to reducing the amount of JavaScript that needs to be loaded (either by caching of some kind or simply including only what you really need) and executed.
The current code plug-in has the advantage that I can use it on Blogger without hosting anything myself. Even though hosting PHP (for example) is cheap, you still get what you pay for. Shared hosting tends to have issues with unexpected downtime, sometimes for long period, as well as performance.
Also, once you host your own blog, you then have to worry about issues like being hacked, backup strategies and so on.
Ultimately though, I think I will move to a VPS based solution either when I have other the need of VPS hosting for some other reason or I believe the blog has gotten to the point where it is justified. It certainly isn't there yet despite greatly exceeding any expectations to date.
All of this however illustrates the importance of running a blog under your own domain from day one. Without that I wouldn't have the freedom to move without breaking any searches or links I've built up to this point.
I hope the above is of some use or interest to you. As always, there'll be another instalment as long as I feel I've got something to say.


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Photography is a wonderful art that can reduce any stress you may have. Photography allows you to capture special moments and the beauty of nature. You can say much more with a picture than you can with a long essay or story, sometimes.
A digital SLR camera will help you to advance your photography skills. This is the digital version of the venerable single-lens reflex instrument, the professional tool that shows you exactly what the camera sees as it takes a picture. Full-frame DSLRs are best because they have the largest image sensor, and create more detailed photos.
A good tip you can use when shooting photographs is to practice using digital techniques. With the right techniques, you can make your photos look like classic works of art. While there are several imaging software available, Adobe Photoshop is by far the most popular one to use. In many cases, you can turn your ordinary photo into an art piece simply by loading it into Photoshop and selecting the appropriate filter.
A very sunny day may seem perfect for photographs, but taking a picture in direct sunlight has many pitfalls. This can result in sun glare, distracting shadows, odd highlighting and squinting subjects. If you can, take your pictures in the early morning hours, or in the late evening if you are taking photos outside.
Decide what aspects of your subject you want to capture in your photograph. A great photo will be like you are looking at your object through a little window. Don't focus on too many different things. In fact, sometimes it's better altogether if you take multiple photos of a subject instead of struggling to get that one illusive shot of perfection. This works especially well when you're trying to capture the essence of something.
Start shooting pictures right away when you leave for a trip. Of course, you will have tons of great photo opportunities on the trip, but you can make a photo essay that starts right when you leave your home to chronicle the entire trip. Take pictures at different stages of your journey, for instance in airports.
Consider purchasing a dSLR in order to take professional style photos. The letters DSLR are an abbreviation for digital single lens reflex, and it is really the best type of camera to take professional quality shots. Full-frame DSLRs are best because they have the largest image sensor, and create more detailed photos.
Move and look at your subject from different angles. Try shooting the subject matter from above it, below it, to the right of it, to the left of it, etc.
You should create depth and perspective when photographing landscapes. By placing a person or familiar object in the foreground of your photo, you will provide the viewer with a sense of scale. Giving sharp focus to your photos can be as simple as changing your settings. Apertures less than f/8 for digital cameras, and f/16 for full framed SLR cameras, will give you the image you really want.
The majority of digital cameras now come with a feature that automatically uses the flash whenever the area you are photographing is too dim. This is fine for casual snapshots, but if you want more professional results, you need the wider lighting options you can get by using an external flash. If your camera will accept an external flash (look for a "hot shoe"), a photo shop can set you up with a model to sync with your camera.
Contrary to popular belief, gorgeous, sunny days are a photographer's worst nightmare. You can't take proper photographs if you or your subject is standing directly in the sun's path. One or both of you will be uncomfortable, and the sun's glare can make your subject difficult to see in the finished photograph. The sun will cast shadows and cause glaring. It will also make uneven highlights on your photos, and will make your subjects squint when looking in the camera. Early morning or twilight are much better choices for photo shoots.
Reverting to using a film camera can allow you to take photos that give a retro impression. If this is what you want, you may find a good film camera at a garage sale or thrift store. To achieve the most dramatic effect you should use black and white film that has a rating that is more than 200. The developed film can be printed on art or handmade papers, producing interesting artistic effects.
Try pre-focusing your camera and then moving so that your subject is not right in the middle of the lens. Centering photos is expected and not very unique. An off-centered shot is likely to appear more interesting in the eyes of the viewer.
There are three important factors you need to consider when the subject of your photograph is a landscape. They include the foreground, midground, and background. These fundamentals are used for all different types of art.
Inspire your own creative photographs by joining photography clubs or taking photos with another photographer. Others interested in this hobby can prove a valuable source of information and learning. It is important, however, to never allow their artistic style to affect how yours develops. Compare the pictures you took together to see how the same object can look different when seen by two people.
When you want to try something a little different for a photograph, adjust the focus of your camera to varying degrees. The smaller the f-stop number, or depth field, the more blurry your background will be. This technique is great for portraits or close ups. The larger your f-stop is it will give you more depth, and this simply means that your whole photograph will be clear and focused. This is perfect for landscape photos.
Whether you want to pursue photography as a profession or just want to take better amateur photos, you should learn everything there is to know about photo composition. Just like artwork in other media, a poorly-composed photograph will never reach its full potential. Study up and use what you learn about composition when you take pictures and you will get better in photography.
If you want to shoot good photos, make sure your subject is in focus at all times. There's plenty of room for creativity and personal expression in photographs, but you need to keep your subject in clear focus so that viewers know what they're looking at. The main thing to focus on starting out is centering your subject and being certain you are including the entire subject in the picture. Don't be particularly concerned about the background.
Learn composition and that less is much more with photographs. You can actually overshadow your intended subject when there is too much going on in the rest of the photograph. There is lots of beauty in the simplest of art forms, so make your shots simple!
Filters work as extensions of your lenses. They can do many different things and are easily screwed onto the lens. UV filters are the most popular type. This will prevent direct sunlight from damaging your lens. It also protects your lens against physical damage if you accidentally drop your camera.
If you are warming up for a wedding shoot, take pictures of simple, still subjects, such as a flower in the bouquet or the rings. This can be a great opportunity to get pictures.
You should know where sharpness appears in photos and how it works. Usually, the very center of the lens, and therefore, the very center of the picture, is where it is most sharp. The image then becomes progressively more blurry closer to the edges.
You can use creative methods to produce a silhouette image. Of course the classic silhouette uses the sunset as a backdrop; however, there are other ways to get the same effect. A silhouette will appear if the background is a lot brighter than the subject. You can make a silhouette by creating a flash from outside of the frame or also by directing the subject to stand before a brightly lit window. Remember, that this technique could show off an unflattering angle, so be careful in your setup.
A tripod is an invaluable photography tool. Anything less than a perfectly steady hand could affect your motion photography. A cheap tripod can eliminate any blur from your images. A decent tripod can make your pictures appear professional and eliminate unexpected shots.
Even though photography as a hobby isn't for everybody, most people can enjoy viewing a picture. By getting more involved in photographing, you will create memories that you might have missed. Photography is one of the most rewarding hobbies you can have. Capturing and sharing unique moments can be a very effective means of coping with stressful situations and finding the beauty in everyday life.
Remember that a camera is only a tool. If you want a depth of field that is shallow, your camera can help. It will blur the background and the subject will stand out.
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A Call to Corporate Faithfulness
in a Time of Climate Change
Epistle from the second
New England Climate Spring
November 22, 2015
To Friends everywhere,
We are New England Friends gathered at Woolman Hill, in Deerfield, Massachusetts. We have been drawn to spend time in worship, discernment, and mutual encouragement in our response to climate change. We feel compelled in love to write to you of our time together.
It is clear to us that our precious earth is facing enormous destruction as a result of human over-consumption of fossil fuels and other resources, particularly in our own country and other highly developed nations. The consequences of the earth's systemic response are already exacerbating issues with which Friends are concerned, including peace, justice, equality, and right use of resources. Climate change now permeates our societies, our politics, and our moral condition. The poor and marginalized are and will be the most deeply affected by the climatic and ecosystem changes under way, and the social instability and conflict which is resulting.
God is calling us to respond as a community of faith. Climate change is not just one concern among many to be carried by only some among us. We all live on this planet and are contributing to its destruction. It is incumbent upon every Friend and every Friends Meeting to seek actively to discover how God is leading us to do our part to reverse this great crime. Recognizing that we, gathered here, are shaped and limited by our economic and social position, nevertheless the divine Witness challenges us, in compassion and in love for our brothers and sisters, and for the beautiful earth, to pray, wait, and act with a focus and fearlessness appropriate to the urgency of the times. Truth requires it of us.
Friends gathered here have been led to many kinds of witness, from direct actions of nonviolent resistance, political organizing, education, and personal lifestyle changes, to offering emotional, spiritual, and financial support that makes more visible actions possible. We feel clearly, in the Light, how each such faithful response, however large or small, supports and makes possible the others.
As in past times of crisis, the strength and love of our community life will make it possible for Friends to see what they are called to and carry it out, faithfully whatever the cost. We must take time to hold these questions in our hearts. We can engage with each other tenderly and hold each other lovingly accountable to move from fear into courage in response to this great crisis. This is the manner in which Friends have always responded to great moral challenges of their own time.
We have been drawn to name some specific ways in which our community can offer this support and nurture the witnesses arising among us.
· Meetings need to offer frequent opportunities to wrestle with this concern and to help each other to discern how we are individually and corporately led. Each of us brings unique and necessary gifts to the struggle. Therefore, it is important to build the habit of seeking out these motions in each other. We can encourage each other to speak of them and make them visible in our prayer and community activities regularly, such as our meetings for business, forums, and newsletters.
· Friends are feeling led under religious concern to travel among us, to provide prophetic ministry around these concerns and to help meetings prayerfully reflect on climate change. We ask Friends to open their doors to such visitors and provide opportunities for them to share their witness amongst us and with our surrounding communities. To encourage these leadings to travel, meetings can provide minutes, elders, and financial support to such Friends.
· Growing numbers of Friends are led to engage in civil disobedience and other forms of prophetic witness against the destruction of the earth, such as voluntary carbon tax. When Friends act they are not alone. They act for the whole community. We can provide minutes of support and help with legal fees, fines, jail support, and support for the families of those carrying out such actions.
· Friends in countries such as the US, with high per-capita carbon emissions will only be able to make the major reductions in carbon footprint that are needed by working together to strengthen the ways we provide mutual support and nurture to each other. We can share food, vehicles, housing, technical knowledge, time, and joyful, carbon-free play and refreshment with each other.
It is hard to imagine the challenges coming. With God's help we are confident that we will be able to respond. Our traditions and community life offer rich resources for this work. Despite the gravity and uncertainty of the situation, we can attest that in these travails we see fresh opportunity to understand and live out God's will with joy.
In Love & Light we are your Friends,
Peter Blood-Patterson, Brian Drayton, Katherine Fisher, Will Taber, Helen Armstrong, Jay O'Hara, Karen Sargent, Jonathan Gorham, Darcy Drayton, Neil Blanchard, Emily Neumann, Alan Eccleston, Maurine Lanan, Rod Zwirner, Jay Smith, Alice Grendon, Samara Rosen, Frederick Martin, Pat Moyer, John Regan, Judy Hyde, Theo Talcott, Dunan Herman-Parks


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WMCA – the (almost) Wholly Male Combined Authority
It's been a lively summer for those interested in, or infuriated by, the under-representation of women in our elected sub-central government. Worth, I thought, a summary chronology, starting in the run-up to May's Combined Authority mayoral elections, writes Chris Game.
March – The Fawcett Society, the women's rights charity, publish an 'Evidence Document' on Women in Greater Manchester in conjunction with DivaManc, the Greater Manchester campaign group, formed to give women a greater say in the devolution debate.
"Women in the city region", it asserted, "are tired of pictures of all-male groups of leaders signing devolution deals (see below), and all-male panels at devolution conferences".
It asked all candidates, therefore, to respond to five Mayoral Pledges and Calls to Action, headed by "Gender-balanced leadership and representation across Greater Manchester".
All five pledges were radical with potentially far-reaching implications. Yet all candidates readily signed up, including odds-on favourite, Labour's Andy Burnham, as shown in the picture not of him, but of his signed pledge.
The Fawcett document outlined the hurdles involved in the "gender-balanced leadership and representation" pledge, the likelihood being "that only one of 11 official members of the Combined Authority will be a woman".
Chief reason was not uncertainty about the election outcome, but that the ten constituent councils had already chosen their leader/elected mayor as their single permitted member of the GMCA, and only one at the time was a woman (Oldham's Jean Stretton).
Having signed the pledge, therefore, the new Mayor should:
- Call for the Government to amend this policy, and require each council to send two elected members as members of the CA, one being a woman.
- If that failed, request that 50% of the councils nominate a senior woman councillor to attend in place of the leader/mayor; or ensure that all substitute members are women, that they attend on an equal rota, and have substantial roles and responsibilities.
- If a man, appoint a woman as Deputy Mayor.
March 17th – In the West Midlands, Conservative candidate Andy Street's 48-page, nearly 250-pledge Renewal Plan cum manifesto contains no reference to gender- or ethnic-balanced leadership and representation, or evidence of even passing concern with the rest of the Fawcett agenda.
May 5th – All six CA elected mayors are men – unsurprisingly, since 32 or the 39 candidates were.
May 6th – New Mayor Andy Burnham appoints two deputies, one being Baroness Beverley Hughes – former Leader of Trafford Council, Labour MP and Minister – as Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, making 11 cabinet portfolio holders, two of whom are women.
Hughes is the only salaried deputy, her 'mandarin appointment' enabled by the previous holder of her portfolio (as GM Police & Crime Commissioner) being interim mayor Tony Lloyd – whose own multi-ethnic selection of 6 men and 14 women deputies had, even if temporarily, presented a strikingly un-stale-pale-male picture.
May 12th – New WM Mayor, Andy Street, appears to acknowledge the WMCA's socio-economic unrepresentativeness – an issue that "had been referenced many times on the campaign trail [and] would need to be addressed in the weeks and months ahead".
Obviously not yet, though, as, rather than follow the Fawcett/Burnham route, he appoints fellow Conservative, Solihull Council leader, and former CA Chairman Bob Sleigh as his Deputy.
Subsequent appointments include the assignment of the Finance & Investments portfolio to Councillor Izzy Seccombe, Leader of Warwickshire County Council, the WMCA's non-constituent authority, increasing women's representation on the CA's roughly 32-member governing body from 0 to 1.
I'll repeat that, lest there be any misunderstanding. The WMCA Board comprises 1 Chairman (male), 1 Vice-Chairman (m), 13 Constituent Members (all m), 13 Non-constituent Members (12m, 1f), and 4 Observers (all m).
As noted in these columns, the Mayor was apparently "privately surprised" by his own election victory, and had no implementation plan 'ready to go'. But inclusion, equality and diversity are part of everyday discussion and practice in today's local government, and this Mayor's apparent unawareness – or, worse, carelessness – of their importance and sensitivity seems at minimum a reflection of political naivety, in no way reduced by some commendable appointments of exceptional women as senior officers.
May 17th – Newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron, like his predecessor, François Hollande, appoints a gender-parity cabinet – following similar practices in Germany (2002), Spain (2004), Chile (2006), and most recently Canada (2015).
May 26th – Liverpool City Region (LCR) Mayor, Steve Rotheram, announces his 7-member, all-male cabinet, plus three co-opted, non-voting members (also all male) – to considerable local protest.
Rotheram claims he "attempted to bring two women into his cabinet, but was blocked by other members". One – Merseyside Police & Crime Commissioner Jane Kennedy – has since become a non-voting co-optee, and the Mayor has also appointed 7 specialist Advisors, 6 of whom are women.
Liverpool City Council Mayor Joe Anderson has also nominated Councillor and former Merseyside Police Commissioner Ann O'Byrne to represent him on the LCR cabinet, making her the only woman with voting rights.
June 30th – Greater Manchester CA's constitution is amended to require appointed portfolio holders to nominate assistant leads of a different gender to ensure balanced representation in meetings and decision-making. Committees, panels and boards that advise the Mayor will also be gender-balanced wherever possible.
August 28th – The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), in a broadly similar analysis to the Fawcett Society's above, proposes "radical reforms" designed specifically "to correct the absence of women at the top of Combined Authorities".
These include that: (i) the two top positions on CA Boards – Mayor and Deputy – should be of different genders, with the requirement written into the CA's constitution; (ii) CA boards should voluntarily sign up to a commitment that within 8 years no gender should be represented by less than 45% of members with full voting rights.
Sept. 10th – Liverpool Women's Leadership Group, in an open letter referring to Greater Manchester's example, express themselves "appalled that the new LCR cabinet is made up entirely of men".
They call on all cabinet members with voting rights "to demonstrate their commitment to redress the enduring gender imbalance by nominating a woman from your cabinet to take your place".
In conclusion: I fully recognise that some, women undoubtedly included, will argue that women's inclusion and representation by themselves say little about the prestige or power of the posts to which they're actually appointed, and even less about the political status or equality of women in the political system.
And they're absolutely right – though there is evidence that increasing the proportions of women in prominent cabinets, parliaments and assemblies does produce an increase in women's participation and activism more generally.
My simpler point is that exclusion and non-representation DO say something – something rather important.
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I just finished 10 monthly classes at National University.
National is one of those for-profit private universities aimed at working adults. I'm in a graduate program for my teaching credential, and took all my classes online.
On the one hand, being able to get the classes out of the way quickly was very cool.
On the other, I'm so burned out. Burned out on school. I'm prickly and pissed off all the time. I don't want to be around people. My grades were ok, but the classes were frustrating.
There have been times when the school did not help me very much, like finding classes to observe, or receiving guidelines for those observations.
Now, I'm supposed to do student teaching in the Fall, but I haven't heard anything from the school. I'm pretty sure there are a few other things I need to do before I can do the student teaching, and it's not done yet, so once again, I sabotage myself with paper work.
One of the things is Teaching Performance Assessments. I have to fill two of these out and pass them before I can student teach. I totally don't know how to do them, and the school has been no help at all. So, I've blown them off until now. Now, I must finish them in a couple of weeks.
I need to make an appointment to see my counselor, because they are changing something about the student teaching classes.
I also need to get my waiver letter that shows I'm qualified to teach math. I should have done that months ago. I actually called and talked to the department head about it in January, but I never went to the school to pick it up.
I have not seen my best friend in months, and I could not see her the last time she called. She has barely communicated with me since. I know it's my fault for not being available or making time for her, but I just haven't been able to make the first move.
I'm tired, and I shouldn't be. I'm not working full time now, and I only have a couple of tutoring clients. I did a lot of cleaning on Monday, and that felt good, but then I didn't follow through the rest of the week.
I've been erratic about taking my medication, which is part of the problem. I'm back to filling a weekly pill box so I can tell at a glance if I've taken them or not, instead of relying on my (spotty) memory.
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text: Cooking by the Book in New EnglandA lively introduction to New England cooks, cookbooks, and recipesKeith Stavely and Kathleen FitzgeraldDetailsDescriptionIf you think traditional New England cooking is little more than baked beans and clam chowder, think again. In this enticing anthology of almost 400 historic New England recipes from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, you will be treated to such dishes as wine-soaked bass served with oysters and cranberries, roast shoulder of lamb seasoned with sweet herbs, almond cheesecake infused with rosewater, robust Connecticut brown bread, zesty ginger nuts, and high-peaked White Mountain cake.Beginning with four chapters placing the region's best-known cookbook authors and their works in nuanced historical context, Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald then proceed to offer a ten-chapter cornucopia of culinary temptation. Readers can sample regional offerings grouped into the categories of the liquid one-pot meal, fish, fowl, meat and game, pie, pudding, bread, and cake. Recipes are presented in their original textual forms and are accompanied by commentaries designed to make them more accessible to the modern reader. Each chapter, and each section within each chapter, is also prefaced by a brief introductory essay. From pottage to pie crust, from caudle to calf's head, historic methods and obscure meanings are thoroughly—sometimes humorously—explained. Going beyond reprints of single cookbooks and bland adaptations of historic recipes, this richly contextualized critical anthology puts the New England cooking tradition on display in all its unexpected--and delicious--complexity. Northern Hospitality will equip readers with all the tools they need for both historical understanding and kitchen adventure. Reviews"This is an elegantly written, well conceived, and compelling work . . . a delight to read."—Robert S. Cox, author of Body and Soul: A Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism"In this unexpected gem in the ocean of works on food, librarians Stavely and Fitzgerald have crafted a 'richly contextualized critical anthology' of New England's food heritage. The first section is a short social history of food in America, which provides helpful context for the historical recipes. The heart of the book is the recipes, from the original cookbooks ranging from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, complete with original wording, spelling, and grammar and 'commentaries to aid in historical understanding.' Reading the original cook's recipe and the authors' explanation of it adds much to readers' understanding and appreciation of the topic. The authors also do an excellent job at portraying the depth and variety of New England food history, which is much richer than one would expect. With a few illustrations and a handy index, the work is well documented with endnotes and a lengthy bibliography. Verdict: Well done and highly recommended for foodies and historians."—Library Journal"Northern Hospitality is a big book . . . filled with information and recipes that will enlighten and enthrall anyone interested in food, cooking, or social history."—ForeWord"Stavely and Fitzgerald have provided a lively, well-researched follow up to their classic tome on New England cuisine, America's Founding Food. . . . A must have for New England public and academic libraries and large libraries with substantial American history and culinary collections. . . . Highly recommended."—Choice"Our favorite book of the year may be Northern Hospitality: Cooking by the Book in New England. In it Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald address 'the complex, colorful, sometimes controversial story of New England cooking' through an unorthodox approach. Northern Hospitality profiles most of the more influential Yankee cookbook authors from the first three centuries of European settlement, then the remaining two thirds of the book reproduces their recipes with trenchant and often amused commentary. Our brief description here cannot convey the startling clarity of the prose. If you give away only one book this year, make it this one and hope that somebody returns the favor."—British Food in America"In this innovative study, part recipe anthology and part analytical investigation, Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald attempt to unravel the process by which New England domestic cooks developed a distinctive and varied cuisine out of the initial encounter between cookery books brought from the old country and the ingredients found on the North Eastern coast of America."—The London Times Literary Supplement"This book serves up a fascinating main course in pre- and post-colonial history with an equally intriguing side dish of archaic recipes, and modern day adaptations with step-by-step instructions."—Cambridge Cooks"Northern Hospitality: Cooking by the Book in New England digs into the antecedents of what we think of as traditional New England cookery, and what they uncover may come as a surprise to those who think of the region's classic dishes as bland and uninspired."—The Boston Globe"While it can function as a cookbook, Northern Hospitality also would make an excellent textbook in food studies and American Studies classrooms. More importantly, it is significant beyond New England cultural history in that it shows how a regional food culture develops over time and in relationship to wider national history."—Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture"This book collects almost 400 New England recipes from the 17th to early 20th century, but this big book by the husband-wife team of Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald is also rich in regional food history and humorously explained cooking lore."—CBS Boston"Looking back through the recipes and techniques recounted in these cookbooks reminds us that history does record progress that may not be so dramatic as space flights and social networks but accounts for real and welcome change nontheless."—Portland Press Herald AuthorKeith Stavely served as director of the Fall River Public Library. Kathleen Fitzgerald is a librarian at the Newport Public Library. Their previous book, America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking, was published in 2004 to widespread acclaim. Visit their website at: http://www.stavelyandfitzgerald.com. TOCList of Illustrations . . . ixPreface . . . xiAcknowledgments . . . xiiiIntroduction . . . 1Part 1.Cooks and Cookbooks . . . 5chapter one.Culinarily ColonizedCookbooks in Colonial New England . . . 7chapter two.The Young RepublicAmelia Simmons, Lydia Maria Child, Mrs. Lee . . . 34chapter three.Cuisine and Culture at MidcenturySarah Josepha Hale and Catharine Beecher . . . 65chapter four.The Civil War and AfterCommunity Cookbooks, Colonial Revival, Domestic Science . . . 93Part 2.Recipes and Commentaries . . . 111chapter five.Pottages, Chowders, Soups, and Stews . . . 113chapter six.Fish and Shellfish . . . 141chapter seven.Fowl, Wild and Tame . . . 175chapter eight.Game and Meat . . . 206chapter nine.Pie Crusts . . . 244chapter ten.Pies—Mixed, Meat, Minced . . . 255chapter eleven.Pies—Fowl, Fish . . . 282chapter twelve.Pies—Vegetable, Fruit, Custard . . . 299chapter thirteen.Puddings . . . 325chapter fourteen.Breads and Cakes . . . 348Notes to Part 1 . . . 389Sources for Part 2 . . . 409Bibliography . . . 433Art Credits for Part 2 . . . 451Index . . . 453 ExcerptBaked BeansThis dish, eventually to be esteemed a New England classic, got its start in the pottage kettle or stewpot, as peas or beans and bacon, which one historian says was among the oldest of English dishes. In medieval times, the legumes were softened in water, drained, and stewed gently in bacon broth. A piece of bacon would be put in the pot when the peas were almost done. By the time of the settlement of New England, there had developed in the Midlands county of Staffordshire a baked version of beans and bacon, called "blanks & prises." The beans were soaked overnight, then baked, along with onions, leeks, and honey-and-mustard-cured ham. "Staffordshire was also famous for its brown earthenware pottery, and in all probability its recipe for baked beans diffused with the special narrow necked pot employed in their preparation," writes Jay Allan Anderson. Sound familiar? The Staffordshire pot certainly sounds like the famous Boston Bean Pot.13. TO DRESS BEANS AND BACONWhen you dress Beans and Bacon, boil the Bacon by itself and the Beans by themselves, for the Bacon will spoil the Colour of the Beans. Always throw some Salt into the Water, and some Parsley nicely pick'd. When the Beans are enough (which you will know by their being tender) throw them into a Cullender to drain: Take up the Bacon and skin it; throw some Raspings of Bread over the Top, and if you have an Iron make it red-hot and hold over it, to brown the Top of the Bacon: If you have not one, set it before the Fire to brown. Lay the Beans in the Dish, and the Bacon in the Middle on the Top, and send them to Table, with Butter in a Bason.—Glasse, Art of Cookery (1747), p. 12The way this stewed dish was served up turned it into something not all that different from what we know as baked beans. Whereas one medieval recipe recommends taking steps to prevent the legumes spoiling the appearance of the bacon, Glasse's beans-and-bacon aesthetics are reversed— the bacon must not be allowed to disfigure the beans.14. BEANS AND PEASBaked beans are a very simple dish, yet few cook them well. They should be put in cold water, and hung over the fire, the night before they are baked. In the morning, they should be put in a colander, and rinsed two or three times; then again placed in a kettle, with the pork you intend to bake, covered with water, and kept scalding hot, an hour or more. A pound of pork is quite enough for a quart of beans, and that is a large dinner for a common family. The rind of the pork should be slashed. Pieces of pork alternately fat and lean, are the most suitable; the cheeks are the best. A little pepper sprinkled among the beans, when they are placed in the bean-pot, will render them less unhealthy. They should be just covered with water, when put into the oven; and the pork should be sunk a little below the surface of the beans. Bake three or four hours. Stewed beans are prepared the same way. The only difference is, they are not taken out of the scalding water, but are allowed to stew in more water, with a piece of pork and a little pepper, three hours or more.—Child, American Frugal Housewife (1833), p. 51For quite a long time, colonial New Englanders ate what one historian has called "daily pottage fare" as their basic diet, probably more often than not the sort of hybrid of succotash and beans and bacon that we described, under the name "bean porridge," in the section on New England succotash earlier in the chapter. It was in the eighteenth century, as bake ovens came to be installed in many households (and taverns), that stewed beans and bacon evolved into baked beans. But as Child's recipe indicates, stewed beans and bacon didn't disappear altogether.15. BAKED BEANSThe species of beans used for baking is called the white field bean. There are two varieties,—the large and the small, or pea-bean,—the last is considered the best.Soak one quart in cold, soft water, over night; the next morning remove the water in which the beans have soaked, and wash the beans in fresh water; then put them into a pot with two quarts of cold water, set the pot over a slow fire, and let simmer two hours, then score one and a half pounds of fat salt pork, and put it into the pot, concealing it, except the rind, in the middle of the beans; pour in a tea-spoonful of salt, and water enough to cover the pork and beans, set the pot in a hot oven and bake six hours; if the water wastes so that the beans become too dry, add a little more.Baked beans, after having stood a day or two, are very good warmed over. In some parts of New England they are considered indispensable at a Sunday breakfast.Lima and kidney beans, and other varieties, are sometimes dried and baked as above; they cook in a shorter time than the white field bean.—Bliss, Practical Cook Book (1850), p. 90This recipe illustrates the standard mid-nineteenth-century practice— both in using the white field bean and in minimal seasoning, in this case with salt only. Beecher felt that "all the garden beans are better for baking" than "the common field bean." Her opinion gained few adherents however. One writer recommended adding saleratus, an early form of baking soda, to the dish just before it was baked.16. BAKED BEANS, (WITHOUT PORK.)Take one quart of clean, plump white beans, put them in a pan with sufficient water to keep them covered while soaking over night, (10 or 12 hours); pour off the water and put them in an iron kettle, to boil a half an hour, or until they can be crushed by a squeeze of the thumb and finger, and they are then ready to be poured into the baking pan, when a little brown sugar and salt may be added; pour sufficient water in the pan to keep them from burning at the bottom, and if the pan is covered it will prevent the beans at the top from being scorched. Bake from 3 to 4 hours.—Hunt, Good Bread (1858), p. 17The most important development in the subsequent history of New England baked beans was the addition of a sweetener to the beans (in this instance baked in a pan rather than a pot). It is ironic that one of the earliest occurrences of this innovation appears in this cookbook, which is otherwise notable for its austerity and proclaimed adherence to tradition.17. NEW ENGLAND BAKED BEANS Pick over and wash one quart of white beans and soak them over night in cold water; turn off the water, renew it with fresh, and boil steadily, keeping them covered with water until they begin to crack; drain and put them in the baking pot with not over half a pound of salt pork; cut the pork rind through across several times and have it a little above the beans; add two teaspoons of salt and one tablespoon of molasses; cover with water and bake slowly, all night is better; if cooked in a quick oven the water will dry away faster; keep sufficient water on them until done.—Aunt Mary's New England Cook Book (1881), p. 20Since the middle of the nineteenth century, molasses has been the sweetener of choice, as in this recipe. 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One of the arguments against Barack Obama's candidacy for the U.S. presidency is that he doesn't have any foreign-policy experience. A president, argues Hillary Clinton, has to be "ready on Day 1." As in ready to respond to terrorism or a major international crisis.
Well, it's true Obama has no foreign-policy experience in government. Which isn't to say he doesn't have any experience, or any ideas about America's leadership role in the world.
In any event, it doesn't really matter. And it's certainly not a ballot question in the primary season that began yesterday in New Hampshire and will roll on to more than 20 states on Super Tuesday in early February. If voters in New Hampshire and Iowa were concerned about his inexperience, they would have moved to Clinton in the days following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, with all its ominous implications for further destablizing a state with nuclear weapons. Instead, Obama broke both races open.
As to why it doesn't matter, just look at the presidents elected since Franklin Roosevelt. Many of them were state governors, with no experience of foreign policy. None. FDR, a former governor of New York, went on with Winston Churchill to forge the great alliance that won the Second World War. Jimmy Carter, a former governor of Georgia, won the White House in the backwash of Watergate by promising a government "as good as the American people." Ronald Reagan, a former governor of California, went on to win the Cold War against the Soviet Union. Bill Clinton, who calls Obama's candidacy "a roll of the dice" on foreign policy, was a governor of Arkansas who ran entirely on domestic issues.
And George W. Bush was the governor of Texas, totally untested on foreign policy. Bush could be the exception that proves the point. But Roosevelt, Reagan and Clinton were among the most successful presidents on foreign policy in the 20th century. So far, the 21st century hasn't been so hot. But none of those four had any foreign-policy experience.
Obama, at least, has three years of experience on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a seat that provides both a view of the world and a sense of America's role in it. He has worked across the aisle with the former chairperson and ranking Republican, Richard Lugar, the Senate's leading authority on nuclear non-proliferation. He's travelled extensively in Africa - from South Africa, where he urged the local government to end its state of denial on the AIDS epidemic, to his father's native Kenya, where he and his wife gave a good example for the public by taking the HIV test. He grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia, which also provides a broader view of the world.
Even in the Illinois state senate back in 2002, he spoke out against the imminent invasion of Iraq as a very bad idea, that would take the United States' eye off the ball in Afghanistan and western Pakistan, where the Taliban were resurgent and Osama bin Laden and the bad guys were hiding out. In the Democratic candidates' debate last Saturday, he said he'd withdraw from Iraq within 16 months of taking office, and reinforce the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. That's very welcome news for NATO forces, including Canada's, which would presumably benefit from a stepped-up U.S. presence beyond the 20,000-odd troops they have there now. "When we send our men off to war," he said in his 2004 campaign for the U.S. Senate, "we need to make sure we are sending them off to the right war."
So he didn't know Canada has a prime minister rather than a president. First, nobody in the United States cares. Second, he won't make that mistake again. His foreign-policy team is led by former Clinton national-security adviser Tony Lake, and includes a rising star of the NSC from the Clinton years named Susan Rice (no relation to Condi), who knows Canada well from her marriage to a Canadian television producer. They have things called briefing books for leading presidential candidates. It would be very surprising, as a senator from a northern Midwest state, if he didn't appreciate how important trade with the United States is for Canada.
The first responsibility of the next U.S. president will be restore U.S. claims of moral leadership in the world. In a 2006 visit to Africa, Obama had some thoughts on that, quoted in a new biography (Obama: From Promise to Power by Chicago Tribune journalist David Mendell):
"You hear a lot of discussion that the United States dictates its foreign policy as opposed to co-operating with other nations. So I think there is a lot of work that we're going to have to do in the coming years to recover the legitimacy that I think we had."
Friends of the United States, including Canada, would find that a refreshing change after the presidency of the second George Bush.


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In our last post we offered some advice on what you might need for a new puppy. In this post we're taking a look at what to expect when welcoming a new kitten into your home and a must-have shopping list of all the essentials to make your home purr-fect.
Hello Kitty
Kittens are cute, loveable and playful pets, but aside from their soft fur and gentle soothing purr, are you ready to welcome them home (and do you really know what to expect?) We've put our thinking caps (cats?!) on to come up with a short list of what you might need to settle them in and we've asked some experienced cat owners on Facebook the following question and got some great answers which we'll share throughout the blog:
Cat-proofing your home
Your little kitty is a curious animal; devoted to investigating every nook, cranny and empty space they can find! As they love to snoop, make sure you remove anything that might harm them such as cords on blinds, electrical cords and toxic plants that they could nibble on or get caught up in.
Kittens and cats love to use their claws to climb up curtains and furniture, so invest in some throws for your sofa and make sure you have some scratch posts to satisfy their urge to scratch. Our facebook fans Nicol and Charlotte both agree that a scratch post is a must-have:
Don't wait until you've brought your new kitten home to discover you forgot to buy a litter tray and litter! Our Facebook fan Christina agrees that along with food and water (and plenty of TLC), a litter tray is a must:
For a healthy and happy kitten, you'll want to keep them indoors for the first few months (even if you're planning to let them outside when they're older). Therefore, a litter tray is a must-have. We recommend the Sharples N Grant Litter Tray, which comes in a variety of colours to match yours – and your kitty's – personality! Cat litter tray liners also come in handy, for easy emptying and better hygiene, but you could also try the PetSafe ScoopFree Ultra Self-cleaning Litter Box which does the job for you!
Feeding & Drinking
Nutrition is key for your kitty, because at this stage in their development, they need to eat food rich in vitamins and nutrients that support their bone development, teeth and immune system. So choosing food that has a specific 'Kitten' or 'Growth' focus for their life stage, is important. We recommend Royal Canin Kitten Food which is richly formulated for kittens up to 12 months old, and helps to support their digestive system. As well as the right food, make sure you use the right feeding equipment. The Beco Bowl Eco Friendly Cat Feeding Bowl has a low rim which is perfect for small kittens. Make sure you feed your furry friend at regular intervals (just like a baby!). A kitten should be fed approximately 4 small meals daily in the first 12 weeks; 3 meals daily up to 6 months, and 2 larger meals when they are aged over 6 months.
Kittens also need plenty of fresh drinking water, and the Catit Flower Fountain keeps water cool and oxygenated throughout the day to ensure your kitty is drinking lots of fresh H2O!
Rewarding your kitty will go down a 'treat' with her, so try kitten-friendly treats such as Nature's Menu Cat & Kitten Treats which are great for your growing kitty and tasty too!
Grooming & Accessories
Keeping her coat groomed is important to reduce furballs and keep help her coat shiny. We recommend the KONG Cat Zoom Groom, it massages her skin and grooms at the same time. It's also said that massage can help to reduce stress if your kitty is scared or anxious and is a great bonding experience.
A collar is essential for your new kitten, with an ID tag for safety. We recommend starting early so she gets used to having something around her neck. The Ancol Softweave Elasticated Kitten Collar is a great way to get your kitty used to wearing a collar because it not only looks great, but it's safe and durable too. Our Facebook fan Hannah said she even tried a lead with her kitty!
Playtime & Toys
Kittens love to play. Whether chasing a ball or tugging on toy covered in catnip, they are curious and playful little creatures. Make sure you set aside time each day to play with your kitten, using toys that encourage action such as the KONG Kitten Kickeroo which appeals to her instinctive desire to stalk and capture prey, and promotes action and movement such as wrestling and hind paw kicking. A Cat 'N' Caboodle Woollen Play Ball is also a great attraction for playful kitties!
Aside from chewing on your slippers, your kitty will need plenty of toys to chew and gnaw at. She'll have a complete set of teeth within a few weeks, and these baby teeth start falling out between 3 to 6 months in age. At this point she'll want to chew on anything and everything. To satisfy her urge to bite and chew, try specialist kitty teething toys such as the Spot Catnip Dental Ball which not only is great for teething, but it also strengthens her jaw muscles and cleans her teeth too!
Let's Chat Kittens!
Remember, cats don't have owners, they have staff – so be prepared for your adorable little kitty to rule the roost! We'd love to hear your top kitten tips and what products you simply couldn't live without for your cute kitty. You can share your tips and pics on our Facebook and Twitter pages and in the comments below.


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After enough struggling, I have learned enough to get Windows XP working within XenDesktop.
After much wrestling,
there is much rejoicing.
Here are the steps I've taken and the errors I've faced as well as the solutions to those errors:
- Build a Master image of XP
- Make sure it has enough disk on C:
- Join the domain
- Sometimes you have to move it to a workgroup, then back to the domain, before the VM will acknowledge that it belongs to a domain.
- Install WinRM 2.0 which you can download from Microsoft.
- Install the Virtual Desktop Agent
- If you don't, you will receive this error: "a duplicate name exists on the network" after running Machine Creation Services and viewing the console the created desktops in XenCenter.
- Make sure the storage your master image is on has enough room to be snapshot. Otherwise you will receive this misleading error:
- "The Catalog could not be loaded due to the following errors:
There are no master images associated with this Catalog"
- To move the master image
- Use XenCenter to move your VM
- Select your VM
- Right click > Move VM
- Select a storage repository that has enough room.
- Use Desktop Studio to create new Catalogs and Assignments.


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Together with the representative offices of Nuffic, the Netherlands Education Support offices (Nesos), Nuffic provides you with all sorts of information about studying in Holland. This ranges from information about the Dutch higher education system, to a complete and transparent database with all international study programmes and from a checklist with all the steps you need to take, to extensive information about available scholarships.
On the main website www.studyinholland.nl, you can find information about:
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2016 Tim Kaine / Mike Pence Vice Presidential Debate Drinking Game
The Rules Are Simple
Each candidate will have a few words unique to him/her. In addition, each debate will have a few 'community' words.
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Listen for the Words on the List
Listen for YOUR candidate to say his/her specific words and listen for every candidate to say a community word. If ANY CANDIDATE says a community word, EVERYONE drinks
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Because this may be a high scoring game, we define a drink as a gulp of beer or sip of wine or liquor. Know your limits and please drink responsibly.
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- Tim Kaine — Virginia, Guns, *Anything in Spanish*, Middle Class, Military, Together
- Mike Pence — Indiana, Second Amendment, Constitution, Budget, Religion, Shoulders
- Community Words — Governor, TPP, Reagan (any candidates say one - everybody drinks)
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Final Fantasy XV Over Half Way To Sales Target
Final Fantasy XV is well on it's way to the ten million sales target set by director Hajima Tabata.
After reports that the long awaited installment in the Final Fantasy series shipped over five million at launch, that tally has now surpassed six million copies. In a press release, it was confirmed that this includes digital sales alongside physical copies. But this does not mean that the amounts given have been sold to consumers, but that they have sold to retailers.
Tabata stated that the game would need to sell ten million copies to be a 'success'. However this comment was later clarified as a personal goal of the studio, and not that they would need to sell such a vast amount to turn a profit.
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Cheltenham defender Harry Hooman will move to Inverness when his contract with the Robins expires.
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Show Off Winners Announced
Thanks to everyone who came out to Show Off last night. We had some great entries, and we hope everyone enjoyed the limited edition t-shirts. We showed off 16 videos and after tallying the votes, we have three audience favorites.
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Born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin in 1951, Kenn Backhaus spent much of his childhood on the family farm near Burnett, Wisconsin. His fondness for nature became the catalyst for his art. Backhaus's parents encouraged his artistic education and following high school, he attended Layton School of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Upon graduation, he embarked on his professional career in design and illustration receiving many awards at both local and national levels, which included acceptance in the Annual Society of Illustrators Show in New York. Although Backhaus took pride in his commercial successes, his heart always belonged to the fine art of outdoor painting. With developing interest in the historic Plein Air style of painting, he decided in 1984, to devote more time to his passion for painting and the love of the outdoors. He found that capturing true color, value and the mood of a subject was best done on location or through direct observation. His passion for painting has broadened his subject matter to include not only landscape, but also figurative, portrait, still life and wildlife.
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I have had the LightSleeper for sometime and while I have found it helpful, for me anyway it is not a total solution. That is why I have persevered and I also wanted the chance to try its effectiveness during the longer summer days where it still seems to do what is expected provided the room is still somewhat dim, it does not need total darkness.
It is 11cm across the circular base which is rather like a saucer. The height is 11.5cm; the circular top is a maximum of 7cm across. This rotates (anti clockwise) around the base however it is fitted towards one side of the saucer not in the centre. The pattern the projector projects is never going to be a perfect circle on the ceiling.
You place it near to your bed, a table is best but it only needs space for the base as the projector never moves outside the base area. There is a 2cm glass in the top and the lens is around a centimetre inside this the light comes from an LED source mounted inside the unit and is projected through the lens and the glass onto your ceiling.
The side of the saucer has a push button with a row of six LED pin hole lights to its right. Each press on the button will light another of the pin holes and each of these control the intensity of the light. In a darkened room even with a 9 foot ceiling I found setting two sufficient to give a good light. On lighter evenings you may need more.
The rear of the unit has the on/off switch and beside this the DC input that allows you to charge the 4x'AA' batteries that are inserted under the base of the saucer. I could find no indication of charge taking place or having reached a full charge. However if you charge it in the morning and take it off charge in the evening you should have enough power to use it for several weeks. This of course depends on the length of time you use it each day.
The principle behind the unit is that looking at the circular pattern of light rotating on your ceiling helps you empty your mind and thus prepares you for sleep. Ideas, worries and problems racing around your head are one of the main causes of people having difficulty sleeping.
While for a few minutes I found watching the light helped after that I found I kept thinking why if the projector goes anti clockwise is the light rotating clockwise, an illogical thought as I know the science but still….
Just because it does not help me does not mean that it would not help you, I can see the idea, its just that for me (at my advanced age) it is not a help.
In case you're wondering what happens if I drift off to sleep, will the light keep going all night the answer is no. It turns off automatically after 30 minutes. According to the eight sides of User Guide a tap on the projector will allow another 30 minutes (should you wish it) but I never managed to get this function to work. I had to turn it off and on again to allow it to go through another 30 minute cycle. You can of course use the on/off button at any time.
Doing my Internet searches found the Light Sleeper at a best price of £125 from the first link below. This includes not only free delivery but also a money back 14 day guarantee should it not be able to help you sleep.
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The Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd. ("APRIL") is one of the world's leading pulp and paper companies.
The company is headquartered in Singapore and has its main production operations in Indonesia and China.
APRIL Indonesia situated on a 1,750 hectare site at Pangkalan Kerinci, near Pekanbaru in Riau Province, Sumatra.
APRIL operations include pulp and paper mills, an integrated chemical plant, and a power plant that generates all the energy for the complex, mostly from bio-fuel.
The Kraft pulp mill is the biggest single-site pulp mill in the world with a capacity of 2 million tons per year. The paper mill has one of the world's fastest fine paper machines, with a designed maximum speed of 1,500 meters per minute, with a capacity 350,000 tons per year.
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Plexus Freight is the UK's leading International Freight & Express Freight Services Company. Operating from the heart of the South West, we work with businesses and individuals throughout Europe providing first class freight services.
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Introducing Open Arms Childbirth Educations new 6 weeks faith based class series. This new and improved class series includes all the nuts and bolts of the old series, but with an emphasis on centering your pregnancy and childbirth around faith in Christ.
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Another change we have made to the class is the price. We are no longer have a set price for the series, but instead are accepting donations for your participation. The suggested donation is $180 per couple, but we want all couples to be able to attend, no matter what their financial situation is, so if you can't afford much, donate what you can (there is no minimum).
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If you're working towards a career as an IT security specialist working with Microsoft Windows servers and network operating systems, the MTA Security Fundamentals course from Pitman Training is the perfect choice.Quick Enquiry
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Nestled in the beautiful city of Pleasanton, Rancho Grande Taqueria offers traditional dishes from Mexico.
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