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Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer le retour de Carlos Valdes à la seconde édition de la Super Heroes Con' qui aura lieu les 11 et 12 juin 2016 à Paris.
Carlos Valdes is an actor and musician with roots in the theatre. In addition to his work on Broadway and national touring companies, his recent portrayal of nerdtastic tech genius Cisco Ramon on the hit CW series The Flash has garnered much praise from fans. Carlos' television debut as Cisco has also crossed over onto other 'DC Universe' television shows like Arrow and the upcoming animated series Vixen. As a composer, arranger, vocalist, and instrumentalist, Carlos' music has included original musicals with viral sensation Starkid Productions, arrangements for Jesse L. Martin's upcoming Kickstarter-backed short film The Letter Carrier, and solo albums of original music under the moniker "Tha Los" (www.thalos.bandcamp.com; iTunes). Carlos is a University of Michigan graduate and lives in New York
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Govt funds 5,000 extra childcare spaces for school age children: Capital Funding increases 33% to €4m
Childcare awareness campaign 'It Starts Now' launched to inform parents of €19m in Extra Supports for families
Joint Statement by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar TD and Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Dr Katherine Zappone
Government funding of €4m is being provided to improve childcare services for children of school going age and make life easier for parents and families.
The announcement comes as the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar TD, and Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Dr Katherine Zappone, launch the latest phase of a national awareness campaign to make families aware of increased supports starting next month (Sept).
The first two strands of this funding announced today will help create over 5,000 extra childcare places in 225 school age childcare services. A third strand will be announced in the coming weeks.
The extra spaces will further increase capacity ahead of new childcare supports which will benefit up to 70,000 children from September.
The next phase of a national awareness campaign will encourage parents to check out their children's entitlements under the banner 'It Starts Now'. This is part of ongoing efforts across Government to support parents and families through a range of policies.
Families are being encouraged to visit a special website www.affordablechildcare.ie which has already recorded more than quarter of a million visits.
At the launch of the campaign the Taoiseach said:
"In just three weeks' time, up to 70,000 children will be able to register for a range of childcare subsidies put in place by the Government of Ireland to honour our commitment to make childcare more affordable for families. For the first time, a universal, non-means tested childcare subsidy will be available for children aged six months to three years. This amounts to a maximum of €1,040 per year, for some the cost of one month of childcare. We will also be providing extra support for parents on lower incomes going back to work or education, providing as much as €145 per week towards the cost of their childcare.
"In a Republic of Opportunity everyone should have the chance to access employment and education. Childcare can often be a barrier to this, whereas it should be a bridge to opportunity for parents, their children and our economy. These new subsidies will create greater parental choice and financial support for families so they can achieve their full potential. I'm delighted that investment made this year will help families begin to feel a difference in their pockets from September. I urge everyone with children in childcare to visit affordablechildcare.ie to see the supports available to their family."
Minister Zappone added
"The first big step is being taken to accessible affordable quality childcare. Through our awareness campaign we are reaching out to parents and telling them how they can benefit from the extra €19m in family supports now just four weeks away.
There are two ways in which supports will be delivered. A universal support to every child aged 6-months to 3-years-old and then targeted supports for those families which need it most – this second category covers children up to 15-years of age.
Ensuring capacity for school age children is important to reach our goals in terms of accessibility and quality. The funding of €4m announced today will help us to get there.
I am delighted that 225 projects have been identified in the first two rounds of this funding, with the remainder to be announced shortly.
Our childcare goals are ambitious. They have to be. I remain fully committed to work with parents and providers so we can finally turn one of the most expensive childcare systems in the world into the best."
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• Strand B: Expansion of existing SAC services (€1m maximum €10k per grant): 112 projects to be funded.
• Strand C: Improvement of existing SAC services (€1.3m, maximum €5k per grant): Appraisals to be finalised in early August.
The services approved for funding in today's announcement relate to Strands A and B, comprising 225 individual projects, which should see the creation of over 5000 additional School Age Childcare places. Appraisals relating to Strand C will be finalised in early August and the applicants will be notified accordingly.


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While in Georgia working in a vineyard, I met a young French lady biking all over the world. Her bike looked like a moving van and I befriended her. She connected me with friends of hers on the Big Island. They invited me to cook a dinner for their New Year's Eve party.
Dinner with FiTC (Friends in the City)
If you have been trying to read me, I had not really disappeared. I am back!
LuLu LoLo – December 2015
How did I discover LuLu LoLo? I am an avid reader of the New Yorker and the New York Times and I discovered LuLu LoLo there dressed as Joan of Arc defending the King of France, holding the French flag. I was very set to meet her so I found her on Facebook, of course, and she was thrilled to know that I wanted to see her. The rest is history. She's an actress and she defends women's rights. She has helped the putting up of the plaque in the Lower East Side where a factory of women workers burned to the ground because of bad working conditions.
There are only five monuments in New York that honor women. Do we need monuments? Not really, but do we need to further help the cause of women!!!
Here is the New York Times story: A Street-Level Search for Women to Put on a Manhattan Pedestal
An Extraordinary Day
First upon arriving in West Chester, I found a parking spot near La Baguette. I had an excellent coffee and a brioche and a quiche. Catherine la Boulangere came over and we talked as we were leading double lives, as if there was an echo in our stories so much alike they were! We parted, promising to meet again.
I walked over to the Acorn Cottage, an elegant shop recommended to me by a friend of mine. I walked into the world of my grandfather's furniture and the eclectic taste of my apartment. I met a beautiful charming lady called Zena from Lithuania and we were transported through our similar experiences in a magic world of sharing and feeling close. She has beautiful slippers like tapestry samplers from the Chateaux of the Loire Valley, as if La Princesse de Cleves had walked in the night into her store and dropped her slippers as well her Dames de Companie.
I left feeling so rich in my heart and smiled. I came out of the door and a man noticed my earrings so I told him the story of my rickshaw earrings in honor of the children of Cambodia. He and his wife love food so we promised to meet again and off I went, quickly back to La Baguette Magique to buy a pear almond tart to have before I go to a champagne tasting, to satisfy my stomach.
I drove for about an hour to J. Maki Winery in Elverson, Pa. I had some difficulty finding the place but finally here I was in the tasting room when Janet, the owner, came up to me and started bringing different bottles of wine and Champagne. I enjoyed the Viognier 2008, I enjoyed very much the Blanc de Blancs 2003. Again we talked and talked about my change of career, though I very seldom use this word. I think more of a continuity and growth. We promised to meet again!
To show my gratitude for such an amazing rewarding day, I went to a fundraising party for a gentleman who used to do my hair many years ago, though I had not been there for years. He has terminal cancer and the bills are so enormous that his friends and customers put a big party together to raise money to help him out.
I heard about the party in a strange, sad, and indirect way. I was bothered by the fact that we were thinking of the French situation and the people in France but were not thinking of the people who lost their loved ones in Lebanon or Russia. I paid my respects to Russian friends of mine and I was trying to remember whom I knew who was Lebanese.
Suddenly I remembered my Lebanese hairdresser, who is not the one who is sick, but someone who worked with him. When I went to the hair salon, my Lebanese friend told me about the party for this sick gentleman (whom I will call R.)
So I finished my day at a party in South Philly with hundreds of people dancing and singing. R. was amazed and looking very different, smiled at me and was glad to see me. I ate macaroni salad and meatballs. I sat alone in a crowd of people I do not know. I felt good and sad but serene.
Thank you, my new friends.
Très sincerement
Fashion and Terrorist Act
The NYT was supposed to have their Luxury Conference in Versailles last Tuesday but it was postponed. Many glamorous events were postponed or canceled. Chanel did not cancel.
Of course we feel guilty in front of sorrow and think we should not splurge… but the NYT makes a strong point "gold chains and handbags represent jobs, heritage, taxes and national identity."
"In France 16,500 people work for the luxury industry."
"The French luxury sales in 2014 were 25 billion."
"The taxes on that can build many roads"
"The luxury items are sold in 6,500 stores around the world, making them ambassadors of French culture."
"The conference which was postponed was the site of the extraordinary meeting of both The House and the Senate, called by the president. It had not happen since 2009 at the time of the financial crisis."
"History, Luxury, Crisis, an ironic juxtaposition?"
"No, in this case, a meaningful one"
In addition we must not let the terrorist change our ways of life, our sitting at sidewalk cafés, our laughing in the streets hand in hand, our love of art, music and fashion. Of course it does not mean that we must forget security, safety, pain. We must share this traumatic experience and support each other, care for each other.
Path of Escape
An amazing article "Retracing a Mother's Path of Escape Along a Wintry Merrimack" about a trip taken by Jay Atkinson to relive the journey made by Mrs. Duston in 1697 after her village, Haverhill in Northern Mass., was destroyed and the people massacred by the Abenaki warriors, in service to the French.
She was made captive with a few others and her week old daughter. Her daughter had her head smashed against a tree later on. They were moved to an island near Concord Mass. called Tiny Sugar Ball Island where they would be transferred to Quebec to be sold as slaves to the French.
But Mrs. Dunston and her companions moved with tomahawks and knifes to the sleeping Abenaki and killed them and scalped their victims and escaped, in a stolen canoe, through treacherous waters, to the French settlements in Quebec.
"Mrs. Duston's ordeal is the story of the frontier: an incursion by European settlers, the forceful response by the original inhabitants and a solution perpetrated by the newcomers that led to the near eradication of the Indians."
This year, on the anniversary of Mrs. Duston's escape and journey, the author has taken this harrowing trip down the Merrimack River in freezing conditions and unforgiving nature very similar to the conditions in which Mrs. Duston traveled.
It is a very interesting story from a moral point view?
How to judge the massacre she inflicted?
We must go deeply in the circumstances and the historical context of the time, the religious wars and political conflicts between the English and the French, the Protestants and the Catholics.
I liked reading the article also because of the wording, the precision of the words of Mr. Atkinson. I love words.
The Merrimack roared along, and we shifted our weight back and forth, trying to remain afloat in crosscurrents that were pushing us every which way. Veering to port, we knifed through some wavelets until the river slowed again, and I could drink from my water bottle and scarf down an energy bar. It felt as though we were sliding forward on a gigantic swell when two reports erupted from the near bank, startling us.
"It's calving like a glacier," Chris said, indicating where a slab of ice had broken from the shore.
My Interview with Food Network and My Time in Hawaii
While in Hawaii where I'm cooking, I was interviewed over Skype to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner for Food Network. I fit the criteria since I'm a chef as well as a grandmother. They loved me, it went well! They want me to fly to LA to do the demonstration but I will be in France unfortunately. I cannot change it because I'll be with my mother. It's not officially over yet – they said they'll see what they can do!
I love it here in Hawaii. I prepared bouillabaisse on the beach for Slow Food in Honolulu.
We went to the Farmer's Market in Waialua. We live in Hauula by the sea but we will return to Honolulu on Monday.
I've prepared bisque, chocolate mousse, crepe, harissa and more. Tomorrow is the feast!!
Tours, May 2015
When I get to Tours, I always like to take my mother out for lunch in a place that will obviously please her, but also will be interesting. Somebody suggested the Chateau de L'Aubriere in a small village called La Membrolle. It rang a bell to me – it reminded me of trips I took with my grandfather in a cargo motorcycle (triporteur) on our way to the chateau of Madame Cousin. The chatelaine of le chateau de l'Aubriere. I called them up wanting to make reservations for lunch because it is more suitable for my mother, who is 94 years old. Unfortunately they only serve dinner and only to their guests since it has become a fancy hotel. I told the new chatelaine my story about my grandfather being a cabinet maker and antique dealer and selling and restoring beautiful pieces for the original owner of the chateau. The new owner replied, "In that case Madame, it would be an honor to have you and your mother for dinner." My mother was very moved when I told her the story and so we went by taxi with Madame Rose while she pushed my mother.
On a beautiful evening, we arrived in the park, walked around while I pushed my mother in the wheelchair. The waiters came and lifted up my mother to take her up the stairs leading to the terrace where we had aperitifs. We were led to the main dining room where we were the only guests. Not only did she make an exception for us, but she opened up just for us!
The meal was excellent and so was the service. Unfortunately there were no furniture of my grandfather's time but the feeling of the place was there with the tapestries, mirrors, and the old wainscots.
Treat yourself!!
Treat yourself at dinner time to Basque cuisine at Chez L'ami Jean. My favorites are the pork belly with oysters and rabbit rice pudding with salty caramel and a crunchy meringue.


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6.3 Where a product is faulty, damaged or materially mis-described we will refund the original delivery charge and the cost of posting the products back to us via your local postal office up to a maximum of 10.00 € per kg. We are not responsible for any damage or loss to products which are returned to us. We recommend that you use a recorded delivery service when returning products. We reserve the right to refuse to grant a refund in respect of any products which are returned to us in a damaged state or which do not reach us for any reason. A proof of return and any documentation including details of any taxes paid must be obtained. You must email Customer Services to arrange your refund before returning your products, please refer to our Returns & Refunds policy.
7. Guarantees
7.1 Debenhams is responsible for nonconformity defects pursuant to Article L211-4 et seq. of the French Consumer Code and for latent defects pursuant to Article 1641 et seq. of the French Civil Code.
7.2 Actions brought on the nonconformity defects ground can be brought within two years following the delivery of the product.
You will then be able to choose between repairing or replacing the good except if one or the other causes a manifestly disproportionate cost on Debenhams compared to the other. In that case, Debenhams reserves the right to choose the other.
7.3 You do not have to prove the nonconformity defect within six months of delivery.
7.4 The conformity guarantee applies irrespective of the commercial guarantee that may or may not have been awarded.
7.5 If you choose to bring an action on a latent defects ground, you can either elect to return the product and recover the price or keep the product and have a part of the price repaid pursuant to Article 1644 of the French Civil Code
8. General
8.1 Certain products are subject to age restrictions as indicated on the product page. By placing your order for any of these products, you confirm that you have reached the required age. Your entire order will be cancelled if we are unable to verify your age using the details you have submitted.
8.2 All measurements are approximate.
8.3 The reproduction of colours is as accurate as the photographic and production process will reasonably allow.
8.4 The reductions shown in outlet sections are reductions from the original price charged on the website. Occasionally these prices may have applied more than six months ago.
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8.10 If any one or more of the provisions of these terms should be held by any court to be unenforceable, such provision shall be validly restated to as nearly as possible approximate the intent of the clause and, if such clause cannot be restated for any reason, shall be severable from these terms and deleted.
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In the event of any dispute or claim arising out of such matters, the parties will attempt to settle such dispute or concern by negotiation. To this end, each party shall co-operate in good faith and use their respective best endeavours to negotiate with each other.
If the parties do not reach a settlement by negotiation within a period of one month after either party has made an offer to the other party, legal proceedings may be initiated before the competent French Court, which shall have exclusive jurisdiction.
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An optical filter array consisting of vertical narrow-band Fabry-Pérot (FP) resonators formed by two highly reflective high contrast subwavelength grating mirrors is reported. The filters are designed to cover a wide range of operation wavelengths (Δλ/λ = 5%) just by changing the in-plane grating parameters while the device thickness is maintained constant. Operation in the telecom band with transmission efficiencies greater than 40% and quality factors greater than 1,000 are measured experimentally for filters fabricated on the same substrate.
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How to add high res photos to Tumblr
By William Chinda | Published: November 13, 2011
It's time once again, to explore the deepest and darkest corners of Tumblr. This time around, I've got a question from rajvir92, who asks: I am an amateur photographer and i use tumblr to upload my photos. however whenever i post my photos tumblr shows it in small size not in its orginal size. how [...]
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Turn a Webcam into a Motion Sensing Security Camera
By William Chinda | Published: August 2, 2011
Thanks to the cheapness and ubiquity of the webcam, it's now both easy and affordable to roll your own surveillance system. In this video tutorial, I'll be demonstrating how to turn a cheap webcam into a motion-sensing surveillance camera. 0
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Customizing the new Facebook
By William Chinda | Published: December 29, 2010
Earlier this month Facebook rolled out a brand new, photo-intensive profile design that added a few interesting changes – most notably a bar across the top that contained the five photos you had most recently been tagged in. Led by French artist Alexandre Oudin, a community of creative people on the web learned to shape [...]
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There's a lot of different ways to get started blogging – the choices available to you are actually quite mindboggling. But if you're looking for an extremely simple way to start a blog, or if you're just interested in consolidating the content you post from other sources, Tumblr is an easy to use platform to [...]
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Hot on the heels of Apple's Fall announcements is the release of iOS 4.1. For most users, there's mainly incremental changes that fold in the new Ping and TV show rental features of iTunes 10. The biggest change (only for owners of the iPhone 4 and the newest iPod Touch) is the addition of the [...]
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Cell phones and cameras go together naturally, and when paired with social media services like Twitter, it's become incredibly easy for us to share our lives with our loved ones. The problem comes when we unknowingly share more than we're aware of. Nearly all digital photos contain metadata, which is information about the photo. Usually, [...]
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Date: Sat 04 March
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Join us for the launch of gotta get a message to you, Frank Golden's new collection of poetry, published by Clare-based publisher Salmon Poetry. Frank is a poet, novelist and visual artist. His work has been described by The Irish Times as 'ambitious and courageous'. He is Head of Creative Writing at the Burren College of Art. The launch of Frank Golden's new book will be followed by an Open Mic poetry session hosted by Mike Douse and the Clare Poetry Collective. The Clare Poetry Collective aims to promote the work of its members, in particular, and of poetry in general. This is done through regular readings in County Clare and elsewhere, the encouragement of book and soft publication, and a weekly section in The Clare Champion.


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- A veteran Chicago cop has been fired, after a run-in with a cab driver five years ago.
Karl Clermont recalls the booze-fueled encounter he had with an off-duty Chicago police detective in April 2009. He drove the man he says was obviously drunk to Armitage and Damen.
The passenger left the cab and refused to pay the eight dollar fare.
"So he goes like he's going in his pocket and I think now he's going to pay me," Clermont says. "He pulls out a weapon and draws it at me directly and says to me, 'You choose. Either I don't owe you (expletive) or you get out of the car and see what happens."
- Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said Friday Grand Crossing residents want him to reinstate their indicted former district Cmdr. Glenn Evans and he would consider it if Evans is exonerated.
One day after Evans was formally indicted on aggravated battery and official misconduct charges, McCarthy talked about the impressive show of support that one of his most trusted commanders received at Thursday night's Police Board hearing.
"There was 20 or 30 people who came. They presented a petition in support of Commander Evans while at the same time saying, 'Look, we're not even addressing the allegation. We're just talking to you about the character' " of the man, the superintendent said during a taping of, "Connected to Chicago," to be broadcast at 2 p.m. Saturday on WLS-AM Radio (890).
"That was really telling because it's the same group of people that, when I moved him from the 3rd District to the 11th District, came out to the Police Board meeting and protested….I complimented them. It's easy for people to come and complain. When people come in support of somebody, it's really telling. Commander Evans does have widespread support in the community because he's one of the hardest-working people we have."
- McCarthy stressed that, if true, the charges against Evans are "obviously reprehensible and intolerable in a police agency." But he also condemned the rush to judgment by the news media.
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Blind Carbon Copy ♦ 2017 AkademieGalerie
In a collaboration between munich artist Kalas Liebfried and Paul Valentin, the exhibition "blind carbon copy" took place in the AkademieGalerie at the university subwaystation munich. The result is a video & soundinstallation, that constitutes the centre of the exhibition about the question of verity and deception. On the musical level you can hear the voice of soprano singer Annabelle von Arnim that reinterprete the recordings from 1960s parapsychologist Konstantīn Raudive (eletronic voice phenomena). The images of the video try to follow the occurence of a mysterious flying fabric that emerges inside and outside the visible world, like a strange jellyfish fisch that scratsches the surface of our perception.
Video HD / CGI Animation / Stereo / 8:34 min
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein München
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Derrick Franche remembers the exact second when his palate changed. An instance he describes as a "eureka moment."
"It happened back in Alberta in the early 90s when I was drinking a regular six pack of North American lager," he recalls, nursing a pint of a raspberry witbier — his own creation.
"My girlfriend at the time, her dad gave me a bottle of Traditional Ale by Bigrock (a craft brewery in Calgary). It clicked in me that day. I never went back to drinking an insipid lager after that, it was all about the flavour."
He hovers his nose over his glass before taking another sip. He's pleased with this batch.
Franche is the brewmaster at Whistler's Brewhouse, where he alone develops his recipes and chooses his ingredients. The beer made in the tanks upstairs flows nowhere but into the pint glasses of customers downstairs, there's no kegging or off-site sales. Unlike a lot of the larger craft breweries, Franche doesn't need to justify his methods as being as cost effective. This gives him absolute creative control over the beer that flows through the taps in this building.
"This batch had $400 worth of fresh Squamish raspberries added to it," he says, pointing to the glass in front of him. The colour is deceptively light for the fruity aroma it exudes.
"I could have cut the corner with syrup or frozen berries, but $400 over 1,600 litres is really not that bad. It works out to like five cents (extra) per pint. For a bigger brewery that may eat into their margins. But this is craft beer and people are willing to pay a wee bit more for it."
At this weekend's inaugural Whistler Village Beer Festival (WVBF) Franche will be showcasing his award winning 5 Rings IPA (India Pale Ale for those not versed in beer jargon) at the High Mountain Brewing Company booth. Last year his beer caused a bit of upset at the B.C. Beer Awards when Franche managed to edge out both Driftwood's Fat Tug IPA and Central City Brewing's Red Racer IPA through a blind tasting by an expert panel.
"IPAs are all about balance," he says, the enthusiasm in his voice picks up now that we're back on the technical subject of brewing beer.
"Balancing out residual sweetness with a big schwack of hops. A lot of the best IPAs are nice big, strong beers. You want a big punch of hops upfront, you really need a fair amount of residual sweetness left and you can't get that when you make a light alcohol beer."
Franche's 5 Rings IPA weighs in at seven per cent Alcohol by Volume (ABV), considered to be a double IPA by most brewers' standards. The hoppiness of this brew hits you like a punch to the guts, and it takes an acquired palate to make your way through an entire pint. It's a beer for true IPA aficionados, but not one that Franche expects to win the WVBF attendee judged "Best in Fest." There are 104 other beers that folks can sample, and many of them will be considerably "easier" to drink.
But brewer's bravado aside, Franche couldn't be happier with Whistler's first craft beer festival taking place just metres from his workplace at the Brewhouse.
"Since we're playing on our home field here I'm pretty excited to see the attendance that we are going to have. Younger Whistler people are definitely interested in drinking, but we're here to showcase that it doesn't have to be all about quantity, it can be about quality as well. They don't have to be mutually exclusive."
Taste over consumption. A phase shift in the culture of beer drinking indeed.
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15 January 2014
when you visit your sister-in-law, she makes you donuts
well friends, it's barely mid-january, and i think my sister-in-law has officially won my favorite-person-of-the-year award with these homemade donuts. i dare anyone to challenge her title, but it'd be a hard-won battle. i tip my hat to you, stephanie. i tip my oversized sunhat to you, and ask you to please fill it to the brim with donuts.
the best part about these goodies is how they taste, duh. but the second best part is that, though a tiny bit time consuming, they look quite easy to make. stephanie followed this recipe glazed donut from pioneer woman (and improvised with some powdered sugar / brown sugar-cinnamon fixings, too).
so, go now & do me proud! and be sure to send me a box.
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ah, lovely!ReplyDelete
(please upload your pictures to flickr!)
I don't even like donuts, and you are making me want one! This is great. :) I need to learn to bake ASAP lolReplyDelete
Ummm....those look INCREDIBLE! I need to try that recipe, for sure.ReplyDeleteReplies
you really ought to…they're so yummy. and then, you can make them for your future friends at FREE PEOPLE! i saw your instagram, lady. ; ) so excited for you!Delete
I wish I had someone to make me these donuts. They'd be my favorite person too! (;ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh, those look absolutely scrumptious!ReplyDelete
um yah I would kill for these right now! You've just made a pregnant woman have the biggest donut craving ever ;)ReplyDelete
I love the fact that there are not only donuts but also that sweet, childlish pleasure of making decision which one to choose between different ones,-)ReplyDeleteReplies
totally agree. my favorite were the glazed…but everyone at the table had a different opinion from everyone else. kind of a fun way to eat. : )Delete
these look absolutely delicious! i'm partial to plain/glazed doughnuts. but those cinnamon ones are mouth watering!ReplyDelete
Mannn now I want donuts!ReplyDelete
mmm yum those look so good, beautiful pictures!ReplyDelete
oh my ! doughnuts are my weakness!!ReplyDelete
Great bumping into your blog !
- AnonymousJanuary 17, 2014 at 3:41 PM
Yum! I have been wanting to try and make my own donuts for a while now, but am a bit daunted by this task. Honestly donuts are my kryptonite. Seriously. If someone asked me to never eat a donut again otherwise the entire world would explode, I would start saying my goodbyes, cause you will all die. I just love them a bit too much, I would say.ReplyDelete
P.S. Loving the new header!!Replies
well, good news then, because these really aren't too tough! give 'em a try, for sure. and thanks so much -- i'm really enjoying the new, clean layout as well.Delete
wow these look amazing!!ReplyDelete
stop it. i'm drooling and it's your fault. you like food and i like food, so obviously yes. we were indeed made to be friends.ReplyDeleteReplies
haha! sounds like a solid friendship foundation to me. ; )Delete


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Washington (CNN) - Sarah Palin's spokeswoman Meg Stapleton, a close adviser to the former Alaska governor who developed a rocky relationship with other Republicans and members of the media, has resigned, two sources close to Palin confirmed Wednesday to CNN.
Stapleton, a spokesperson for the former governor since 2006, cited the need to spend more time with her husband and young daughter. In a statement first reported by Politico, Stapleton explained that serving Palin "has been an honor" but said it is time to "refocus my priorities."
But ever since Palin was suddenly elevated to the national stage in August 2008, Palin insiders, members of Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign and other Republicans sympathetic to the former governor have grumbled privately about Stapleton's ability to handle the increasingly monumental task of advising Palin, a global political celebrity whose every word is dissected and analyzed by pundits, celebrity magazines and the blogosphere.
Members of the political press corps have also long been frustrated with Stapleton, who was the primary conduit between Palin and members of the media since the end of the 2008 presidential race, but rarely responded to phone calls or e-mails. When Stapleton did, they were often terse or combative.
She and Palin had previously spoken about resigning, but Stapleton informed SarahPAC staffers of her decision by e-mail last week.
"Earlier this week, I handed Governor Palin my resignation, effective the end of this month," the e-mail said. "While I had hoped to work together on so many more projects, time with my precious 2-year-old has been further minimized with the whirlwind commitments of all things Palin. I have done my best to scale back, but Isabella is now resorting to hiding my BlackBerry, and she shouldn't grow up begging for a mother to start acting like a mother."
There are no immediate plans to hire a replacement for Stapleton, a source close to the Palin family told CNN. The source noted that the family, which takes pride in their Alaskan identity, are comfortable speaking in their own voice.
UPDATE: Fred Malek, an influential GOP fundraiser and adviser to Palin, e-mailed to compliment Stapleton on her service.
"Any professional has to be judged by success, and by any measure, Team Palin has been an enormous success," Malek told CNN. "As Governor Palin's principle aide during this awesome rise, she has been a one woman band and deserves much credit and admiration."
Ok, fair enough...no need for political bashing on this one...just let her go, no matter what you thought of her. Give her a pass to the exit.
Let Sarah speak with her own voice.
After all – why just have everyone just think you are a fool –
when you can open your mouth and erase all doubt.
Say it ain't so!
Who will translate "Palinese" for us now?
Who, will make all those interview "scheduling conflicts"?
Bristol will be promoted from Facebook liar to Boldface liar!
I don't know what the real reason is but i do know that spending more time with her family is a lie. That's the generic excuse for something else.
That Palin and her trite, shallow observations can even be described as a global political celebrity should tell you much about the sad the state of today's global political celebrity-dom.
Why did a FoxEtertainment Spokes Model need a Political Aide? Palin has been out off office for months after all.
Now who's gonna write the crib notes on her palm?! Or put ideas into her brain?
Palin Should Hire Andrew Brietbart, Malkin or Dick morris.
Wow...she finally got it...time to distance yourself from Sister Sarah........and the typical exit response...need to spend more time with my family...sure
I love how all these type of people leave to take care of their family, blah blah blah. What a crock of alligator lies. And we're expected to believe any of these idiotic politicians?
Meg probably got tired of Newt Gingrich always writing sara's hate and fear words.
"Palin, a global political celebrity whose every word is dissected and analyzed by pundits".
I am so glad I was not drinking anything at the time I read this cause it made me laugh so hard. Global political celebrity indeed. Not someone you could actually vote for to represent you in any meaningful way. Her adviser finally saw what the rest of the globe has already seen, Sarah is a phoney gold digging dingbat.
"The source noted that the family, which takes pride in their Alaskan identity, are comfortable speaking in their own voice." Right. Good luck with that.
"Isabella is now resorting to hiding my BlackBerry, and she shouldn't grow up begging for a mother to start acting like a mother."
Choose the correct observation below implicit in this statement.
1. Stapleton does not want Isabella to grow up to be a Bristol and desires her own grandchildren to be legitimate.
2 Stapleton just slammed Bailin' Palin's lack of maternal skills.
3. All of the above.
Now Sarah Pain will have to go out and hire someone who will help her look smart. A task near impossible due to her complete ignorance. How can you be critical of Meg leaving? As the old saying goes you can't make a silk purse out of a pigs ear. Meg is frustrated with the stupid things Sarah Pain says and does and I doubt it will ever change no matter who the Pain hires to replace her.
Just like Palin, QUITER!
But then do you blame her? The thought of having to hear Palins dumb uneducated voice would make me want to quite too!
So a bad mother pends all her time on her Blackberry and not enough with her child ?
Is she trying to tell Mrs Paylin something?
Stapleton probably got tired of LYING for SARAH!!! Too many lies to keep up with the questions!!!
If you can't stand the lies...get out of the kitchen....and she did.
go away, please
What I can't figure out is, why the hell would a private citizen (Sarah Palin) need a spokesperson? This should have happened around June 30, 2009, when she quit as governeor. It must be extremely taxing to put together coherent Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace posts on your own, but holy smokes!!!
Cut and run while you can-surely Sarah will start blaming those around her for her failure to be considerd the top GOP candidate for 2012. It is increasingly obvious that she can't be anything more than a devisive, uninformed, hippocritical , too far to the right wannabe candidate for anything that keeps her front and center. Does anybody out there really think she writes her own twitter/facebook comments?? I sincerely doubt it.
Ya' couldn't handle it, could ya' ?
Ahhh, the irony. Didn't Former Gov. Palin herself resign to spend more time with her family (and amidst those pesky ethics investigations)?
I'm sorry, I don't mean to add to the current political snarkiness. I really don't. But this was just too good to pass up.
Blame it on McCain's campaign staff, blame it on the media, now blame it on Stapleton who hogged tied Palin down and wrote the notes in her hand while somebody else pulled the puppet strings each time Palin opens her mouth. But each time the finger keeps pointing back at Palin, she's passed around enough blame and lies for every person in America.
Come on Meg...Only your BOSS gets to quit.................


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I seriously love brunch – ask me what I'm doing on the weekend and I can guarantee you I can be found in a café or restaurant eating eggs benedict or avocado toast, sipping on a cappuccino (or a glass of prosecco).
This was a hard post to put together and I've been planning something like this for months. I've spilt the post up into areas to help make scouting out the top brunch places in London a little easier.
Central London
Ever since Scott took me to Roka for my birthday, I've been dying to head back to try their brunch menu. Now, don't be expecting traditional brunch dishes and the menu is generally considered rather expensive. But their bottomless brunch is mad good value for money at £39 for 12 courses or £55 for unlimited Proesecco. It also runs until 8pm on the weekend so it's not even strictly brunch….
Finding decent pancakes in London is difficult – i'm not talking about crepes, I'm talking about delicious mounds of buttermilk covered in maple syrup. Luckily, Granger and Co nail it. They're not called pancakes, but referred to as hotcakes (but they're basically the same thing). They're fluffy and light, and served with ricotta which undercuts the sugaryness of maple syrup and honeycomb butter. Sod your waistline and order yourself a plate of these.
I've only recently found out at Ping Pong's Lazy Sunday Brunches and it's only £25 for unlimited dim sum and bottomless bellinis. For me, the best dish on the menu is the char sui bun which are soft, fluffy buns filled with a sticky honey barbecued pork.
North London
As a North Londoner narrowing down this section has been seriously difficult. There's so many good places to choose from. I'm going to start this part by mentioning Fink's Salt and Sweet. It's a little bit out of the way for your average punter, a 10 minute stroll from Finsbury Park station, but I promise you, it's worth it. Their avocado toast is some of the best I've had and it's such good value for money.
Now, you can't write a best brunch post without mentioning Caravan. There are no reservations and if this were any other restaurant, I wouldn't bother, but for this quality of coffee and food, I'll definitely wait. On my last visit I opted for the sweet potato and cumin waffle. The cucumber raita was brilliantly whipped and the mango and coconut added that desired sweetness.
Most of the places I've featured so far have mentioned high calorie dishes. If you're wanting something a bit lighter then The Grain Store needs to be on your hit list. It's mainly a vegetarian restaurant and has some vegan options too.
East London
Broadgate Circle has now turned into a hub for foodies and if you're looking for a very special brunch, try Beany Green. They showcase bold, healthy food. Think: coconut, quinoa, chia and flaxseed porridge served with fresh berries and gluten-free broccoli and corn fritters served with avocado, eggs and and home-made chilli pesto. My favourite is the avocado toast served on fermented activated charcoal sourdough.
For an Indian inspired brunch, try Dishoom. Get the egg naan roll, where the naan comes wrapped around two fired eggs, chilli jam, cream cheese and spicy green herbs. Plus, their chai tea is bottomless!
The city can be eerily quiet on the weekend, but at The Modern Pantry it's a different story. The brunch menu includes dishes like a coconut and cassava waffle served with a rhubarb & lemongrass compote. You won't regret ordering the tea smoked salmon with two poached eggs, english muffins, yuzu hollandaise and hazelnut and macadamia dukkah.
South London
My knowledge of anything south of the river is a little rusty but after a few taste tests, I think I've managed to come up with a good selection. Now, a disused carpark might not sound the most glamorous place to go for brunch, but the Bermondsey Yard Cafe is the perfect spot for Sunday brunch. I can't resist ordering their avocado and teriyaki salmon with picked chilli on sourdough.
Brickwood in Clapham offers a brunch menu with refreshing tweaks to old classics. Their corn fitters are served with a beetroot creme fraiche and roasted vegetables. If you're wanting to indulge try their warm, homemade banana bread topped with a whipped espresso. butter.
Foxlow holds its own among Balham's many brunch spot. It's the sister restaurant of Hawksmoor so it's unsurprising that brunch here is comforting and meaty. Get the fried chicken which for brunch it's served with an egg and croissant waffle.
West London
Since Scott moved to West London, I've been dying to check out The Parlour in Kensal Green. We're finally heading there for dinner this week, and it's decorated in what I can only describe it as 'homely-industrial' furnishings. You get free reign on yesterdays bread station so I can guarantee you that you'll walk out of here happy.
The Good Life Eatery is exactly was it says on the tin. Think: Acai bowls and poached eggs served with quinoa, kale, sweet potatoes and cashew cream. This place proves that eating healthy can actually be damn tasty too.
Farm Girl is a all-day breakfast cafe on Portobello Road. I've been following them on Instagram for a while now, and their berry pancakes and rose lattes look good enough to make anyone drool.
I hope this post has introduced you to or helped you plan any future brunch visits to London. There's a lot of choice so sadly I couldn't squeeze them all in (in fear of making it too jam packed), but please so pop your suggestions down below.


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10. 21. 2010
We're back!! And where we've been...
Hello! It's been a while, and I'm so happy to say, we are going to be back and better than ever. We will be changing just a little bit- bringing you more frequently updated content, in a somewhat abbreviated format- more than 140 characters, but usually not more than 140 words. We will still have longer reviews, which we will be structuring into comprehensive buying guides. We will have new voices, as well as some familiar ones, and lots of great giveaways.
Where have we been? In a nutshell, I had a baby, and I thought I'd be able to keep running Popgadget with a newborn and I was so very very very wrong.
When I think about being unprepared, I always remember a final exam I had to take in Classical Mythology during my first semester of college. Somehow, it wasn't until the day before the exam that I finally realized that reading and re-reading Bullfinch's Mythology as a kid does not exactly make you a Classics professor. Instead of giving up, I spent just under 24 hours reading The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid. Somehow, fueled by hubris, several gallons of espresso, and perhaps the hallucinatory voices of Homer and Virgil in my head, I actually aced the exam. I vowed never to be so reckless again. That's why I read every book about pregnancy and raising a baby. Hahaha. Baby-rearing books aren't just the Bullfinch's Mythology of parenthood, they're like the Cliff Notes of the Peloponnesian War. Until you have the baby in your arms, you have no idea what it's going to be like.
I thought, for instance, that newborns slept all the time. Mine didn't. He slept about eight hours a day, in four separate chunks. I knew I wouldn't have much of a social life for a while, but I just had no idea that every minute of every day would be occupied with keeping my little one fed and (at least a little bit) rested. I live to groom, but for the first time in my life, since the 7th grade, I left the house without wearing makeup, and feeling quite lucky if I managed to shower. I did not ace "Parenting the Newborn" and I no longer believe anyone does. I have the greatest husband, parents, sister, and niece any mother could have, and they all go above and beyond the call of duty taking care of Finn, and yet somehow in 7 1/2 months, I could not find the time to write a few sentences explaining that Popgadget was on maternity leave.
Hoyun, my sister and Popgadget partner had been doing legal work for a startup, and after Finn was born, she went to work full-time as their General Counsel. Several of our longest-standing writers went back to full-time jobs that left no time for blogging. Somehow, this blog, which has been so vital to me, since I started it in April 2004, was seemingly abandoned. I got emails every day asking what happened. That meant more to me than I can possibly say. I hope to see you all here again. We'll be updating more frequently now, with a full re-launch before the Holiday season.
Thanks so much, everyone. Can't wait to get started again.
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Glad to have you back - but even more glad to see that wonderful picture of you and Finn. Best wishes on the continuing parenting journey!
welcome back !
So glad you are back! I have a 8 1/2 month old, and just realized you hadn't posted anything in awhile. I feel your pain... and your joy. Congrats!
I almost fell over this morning when I saw my PopGadget feed was populated! Glad to have you back! Don't push yourself - taking on too much responsibility is a hallmark of mothers everywhere. Welcome to the club! lol
Seriously, though - glad you're back. You may have to change the format of PopGadget, though, to include updates on little Finn - is he sleeping through the night now? It does get easier, I promise. Until they're teenagers. Which is why I recommend that you start lining up boarding schools now. lol
Looking forward to your updates. Again, welcome back.
All the best,
Houston, TX
Welcome back,
We missed you. Congrats on the little guy.
Thanks for coming back to PopGadget, tho I can imagine leaving your child for even a few minutes is a challenge.
Glad to see you back! I suspected perhaps a family situation.. isn't motherhood grand?! :)
Congratulations on your beautiful child! Looking forward to reading your blog again!


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Album Review
Published for The Colour of Vinyl
Start the Virago was formed back in 2007 as a solo project for West Yorkshire guitarist James Brickles. The band's demo 'Start the Virago', released in 2008, got a revised launch on June 12th 2014, featuring the eleven primary tracks along with new addition 'Time is a Great Healer', not featured on the original demo. Titled 'Re-Start the Virago', the digital download also provides a bonus song titled 'Monster'.
The album explores a vast total of genre, covering instances of punk rock to grunge, primarily emphasising on alternative roots. Starting with 'Giving Me', which demonstrates fast choruses full of energy and excitement. 'Life is a 5 Letter Word' brings forth a riff that takes influence from the grunge years from the early 90's. The opening thirty seconds brings back fond memories from the likes of Nirvana and Alice in Chains, which then evolves into a regular balance of punk and alternative rock that seems to be evident throughout the duration of the album.
The aggression picks up when it comes round to 'I Hate You', a track that calls out a likeness to 90's Green Day. This aggression is then continued into the following song titled 'Bad Friend' which initiates with a steady opening that detects similarities to AFI guitars and vocals. The song then rapidly ascends back into the familiar rage that was evident in the previous track, with lyrics such as "You're in my face, do you know how stupid you are? You always take things too far."
Songs like 'Reincarnate' or 'Who You Really Are' slows down the pace of the album, with steady chord progressions and softer vocals. 'Reincarnate' incorporates a clean guitar riff collaborating with acoustic sounds that echoes the vocals. These tracks even summon a resemblance to some slow paced R.E.M. tracks, with a melancholic tone.
It's clear this solo project has a lot of influences spanning across various genres, particularly from the 90's and it's interesting to see these themes incorporated into the diverse album. There's a lot of potential for growth here, the album itself easily becomes more and more engrossing with further listens. It'll be exciting to see where the band will go in the future.
Stream/purchase the album here on bandcamp.


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In a comic book world of over-hyped relaunches, reboots, and non-reboot reboots, it's refreshing to see a book like Doctor Atlantis—a steam-powered swashbuckling adventure tale from Rare Earth Comics, an up-and-coming publisher from Connecticut–rise above the madness by living under the radar. But it won't be living there much longer, especially if the creators, Ian Ally-Seals and Carl Mefferd, maintain the high standard they've set with this fanciful throwback that's not entirely unlike a popular Disney franchise or a Spielbergian spectacle.
Vol. 2 of this action-packed high-seas romp–the further exploits of Dr. Julius Fowler and Chosot (think Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Friday if you haven't already)–is loaded to the gills with the same twists and tacks that made Vol. 1 such a pleasure to read. The tide is high from the get-go, with wave after relentless wave of monsters: those from the depths of the ocean and those who ride upon it in cannon-laden crafts ironically emblazoned with the Crown of Civilization. Fowler and friends–including the loyal Edward, a salty dog, indeed, who'll chew his way into your heart–fight off the fiends and break out a bit o' the old Bond–James Bond–in order to do so. But even before the good ship Atlantis converts–"wrrrrr," "crank," "clang"–into a submarine and dives in a dazzling defensive maneuver, the creators dive into the doctor's backstory, driving home with the subtlety of a cyclone the brutality of the British Empire as it necessarily expanded its reach in order to score precious resources enough to keep calm and carry on–even as Fowler himself has sailed as far from home as humanly possible.
The splashes are humbly epic, the tempered tone just an illusion perpetuated by Mefferd's black and white art, which doesn't need the rainbow to render effervescently Fowler's colorful personality. The doctor's over-the-top delivery, which I enjoyed reading out loud to my wife, adds a remarkable element to the character, one that will keep him in mind until the next eagerly anticipated volume.
Ally-Seals–also the editor-in-chief of Rare Earth Comics–has a uncanny knack for lulling his reader into the comfort of a cliche and then disrupting that complacency with something wholly unexpected. And the surprises are real "Whoa!" moments–more, they're whoaments!–well worth the price of admission.
You may be wondering: does one need to read Vol. 1 to enjoy Vol. 2? No. But I'd recommend it–especially considering how the former finishes off. Either way, do yourself a favor and check out Doctor Atlantis. Fowler, Chosot and their creators "have a world to explore" and you do not want to be left behind.


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Handball is probably more well-known in Australia as a lunch-time game played by school children, but there is something entertaining in the simplicity of the actual sport.
Take ball. Run ball up court. Throw ball in goal.
Played on a 40-metre by 20-metre court, players have to score without carrying the ball into the goal circle.
They are allowed to leap through the air to get closer as long as they release the ball before their feet touch the painted area inside the 'D'.
Players can take three steps before they have to bounce the ball and a three-second rule ensures players cannot dwell on the ball.
There is no basketball-style shot clock, but if a referee (there are two) rules a team is not trying to score, he/she can award possession to the opposition.
Handball made its Olympic debut in Berlin in 1936 before disappearing and returning 36 years later in a new format.