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Even if you're a happy Windows user, you may have thought about trying Mac OS X. Maybe you'd like to test drive OS X before switching to a Mac or building a Hackintosh, or maybe you just want to run that one killer Mac app on your Windows machine. Whatever your reason, you can actually install and run OS X inside your existing Windows setup with a program called VirtualBox. Here's how.
Running OS X on your Windows desktop will take a bit of work, but it's relatively easy to do and the final product is awesome. To see what the whole setup will look like when you're done, check out the video above. Then, head to the instructions below to set it up for yourself.
What You'll Need
Before you start the installation process, you'll want to gather the following:
- A PC running 64-bit Windows with at least a dual-core processor and 4GB of RAM. Mountain Lion is 64-bit, and thus requires your copy of Windows to be 64-bit. If you're on a 32-bit version of Windows, you can install Snow Leopard instead. For more info, check out the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.
- VirtualBox and the VirtualBox Extension Pack: VirtualBox is our favourite virtualisation tool for Windows, and it's completely free. VirtualBox doesn't officially support OS X, but it's actually very easy to get up and running. You should download the main program and the Extension Pack, which will give you support for USB devices.
- A hacked Mountain Lion disc image. Sadly, this won't work with a vanilla Mountain Lion installer, so you'll have to find a compatible hacked version. The hacking group Olarila has put a great installation ISO together, and you can find it by searching Google. If that doesn't sit well with you, you can head over to the Mac App Store and buy a legit copy for yourself, so you can at least pirate with a clear conscience.
- The HackBoot 1 and HackBoot 2 ISO files. These will help you boot into the installation.
- MultiBeast 4, which will help you get audio and other things working correctly after installation. You'll need to register for a free account over at Tonymacx86.com to download this. Make sure to download MultiBeast 4 — it's labelled "Lion", but for our purposes the Lion version works better than the Mountain Lion version.
Step 1: Install and Set Up VirtualBox
Before we install OS X, we'll need to set up VirtualBox so the OS X install disc can boot correctly. Here's what you need to do:
- Start up VirtualBox and click the New button. Give your new virtual machine a name (I just called it "Mac OS X") and set the operating system to "Mac OS X Server (64-bit)".
- Click Next and choose how much RAM to give your virtual machine. This depends on how much RAM is in your system -- you can get away with 2GB, but if you have more, give it more. 4GB of RAM should be a good amount, though I gave mine 6GB since I had RAM to spare.
- Click Next again and choose "Create New Disk". Create your new disk in VDI format and with dynamically allocated storage. When you're done, VirtualBox should take you back to the main screen.
- From here, right-click on your OS X machine in the left sidebar and click Settings. Go to the "System" section and uncheck "Enable EFI".
- Click on the Storage section of the settings and click on the CD icon that says "Empty" under Storage Type. Then, click the CD icon next to the "CD/DVD Drive" dropdown, and select "Choose a Virtual CD/DVD Disk File". Choose the HackBoot 1 ISO and click OK.
Now your machine is ready to boot for the first time. Make sure you have your Mountain Lion ISO ready to go and proceed to the next step.
Step 2: Install OS X in VirtualBox
The next step involves actually installing OS X to your new virtual machine. When you're ready, start up VirtualBox and follow these instructions:
- Select your OS X machine in VirtualBox's left sidebar and click the Start button in the toolbar. It will bring you to the HackBoot boot screen, with one icon in the middle labelled HackBoot.
- Click on the CD icon at the bottom of the VirtualBox window and select "Choose a Virtual CD/DVD Disk File". This time, choose your hacked Mountain Lion ISO.
- Go back to the HackBoot boot screen and press F5. It should reload the boot menu, this time showing you an "OS X Install DVD". Select this option and press Enter. After a moment, it'll take you to the OS X Installation screen.
- After you choose your language and agree to the terms and conditions, you'll see that OS X doesn't detect any valid hard drives. To fix this problem, head up to the menu bar and go to Utilities > Disk Utility.
- Click on your VirtualBox hard drive in the left sidebar, then click the Erase tab in Disk Utility's main pane. Give your drive a name (like "Macintosh HD") and click "Erase".
- Once Disk Utility has finished formatting your drive, you should see it show up in the left sidebar. When you do, exit Disk Utility and continue with the OS X installation as normal.
The rest of the installation should be largely self-explanatory and should go off without a hitch. It took me about 20 minutes to install OS X. When it finishes, it will take you to a black screen with white text. At this point, you can click the "X" in the upper-right corner of the window to power off the virtual machine.
Step 3: Smooth Out the Rough Edges
You're almost there! You've installed OS X, but you'll still need to tweak a few things to get audio and graphics working properly. Here's what you need to do.
Fix Audio with MultiBeast
- Open up VirtualBox and right-click on your OS X virtual machine in the left sidebar. Head back to its Settings and go to the Storage section. Once again, click on the disc icon on the right side of the window, this time choosing the HackBoot 2 ISO.
- Click the Start button to reboot your virtual machine. You should see the HackBoot menu again, this time with an option to boot into your new virtual machine. Select that option and press Enter.
- After a minute, you should see the Mountain Lion desktop with the familiar galaxy wallpaper. Open up Safari, head to Tonymacx86.com, and download MultiBeast as described in the "What You'll Need" section.
- Open up System Preferences > Security. Click the lock in the bottom left-hand corner, enter your password, and set the "Allow Applications" preference to "Anywhere". This will let you run apps from untrusted developers, which includes Multibeast.
- Launch Multibeast. When you get to the Installation Type section, Choose the options pictured below.
Click continue and finish the Multibeast installation. It may take a few minutes.
Your audio won't work just yet, but we have a few other things we need to do before we restart.
Boot OS X Without HackBoot
In order to boot OS X without the HackBoot CD, we'll need to delete a problematic kext. You can do this with the following steps:
- Open up the Finder and select Go > Go to Folder from the menu bar. Type in
/System/Library/Extensionsand press Enter.
- In this folder, find the
AppleGraphicsControl.kextfile and delete it. This will allow your virtual machine to boot up without the HackBoot ISO.
- Click on the disc icon at the bottom of VirtualBox's window and uncheck the HackBoot 2 ISO, since you won't need it anymore.
Get Higher-Resolution Virtual Machine
Lastly, you may have noticed your VM is running at a pretty low resolution. That's totally lame, so we're going to make it run at the same resolution as our monitor with a few tweaks:
- Head back to Go > Go to Folder and go to
/Extra/. Double-click on the
org.Chameleon.boot.plistfile and add the following to the bottom of the file, above the
Graphics Mode 1920x1080x32
Save the file and close TextEdit. This allows OS X to start up with a higher resolution. Note that you can set whatever resolution you want; just replace
1920x1080with the resolution you want.
- If the resolution you picked is bigger than 1280x1024 and/or is widescreen, you'll need to do one last thing to get it working properly. Shut down your virtual machine and open Windows' Command Prompt. Type the following commands, hitting enter after each one:
cd "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox" vboxmanage setextradata "MyVirtualMachine" "CustomVideoMode1" "1920x1080x32"
Replace the first line with the path to your VirtualBox program folder. In the second line, replace
MyVirtualMachinewith the name of your machine (in our case, "Mac OS X"), and
1920x1080x32with the same resolution you added to your Chameleon plist.
When you're done, restart your OS X virtual machine and you should be greeted with a full-res desktop and working audio. You can now continue to install your favourite apps, set up your keyboard and mouse, and do anything else you like. You've got a fully working virtual Mac on your Windows desktop!


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I often use CLO2 (for example this product) to treat drinking water when I'm backpacking and boiling is not convenient. The instructions for the product say that the dose should be tripled if the presence of cryptosporidium is suspected.
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I'm Yusuke wrote:I thought Season one was kind of uninteresting, to be honest. Doakes pursuit of Dexter is what was really compelling me to watch. I wasn't into the whole mysterious killer thing going on in the first season.
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Magic has come to Storybrooke, and with it, a whole lot of consequences.
In the Season 1 finale of ABC's Once Upon a Time, the Evil Queen's (Lana Parrilla) curse upon our favorite fairy-tale characters was broken, but Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle) had another trick up his sleeve: release magic upon the real world. What does this mean for Storybrooke in Season 2? And why weren't the residents of Storybrooke transported back to fairy-tale land?
Once Upon a Time Finale: How will the show go on in Season 2?TVGuide.com caught up with Once bosses Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis to get the scoop on the big family reunion between Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin), Prince Charming (Josh Dallas) and their daughter Emma (Jennifer Morrison) now that they've regained their memories. Plus: The producers reveal Regina's secret origin story that was hiding in plain sight all along.Magic is coming to Storybrooke. Is next season about the battle for the most magic, especially between the Evil Queen and Rumpelstiltskin?
Edward Kitsis: [It's about] why you need it. So, I look at magic more of a currency than an object to fight over. It's why do you need money? Do you need money to buy a house? Do you need money to get something you want? I would say that magic, in a lot of ways, comes with a price. Why do you need and what price are you willing to pay for it? Adam Horowitz: Also, that was one of the themes of Season 1, which is magic has a price. In Season 2, it is, what does that price mean in our world?Because magic has a price, does this mean everyone is in danger now?
Kitsis: When you see the fairy-tale flashbacks, there is magic but there are people who don't use it. ... Not everyone is a practitioner of it, but everyone is used to living in it. But if I have just woken up after a 28-year sleep and I realize that magic's back, I would also start to worry. "Oh no, is the queen and Rumpel going to start doing it again? Are we going to be in the middle? What scores still need to be settled?"Will we be surprised by certain people who are able to wield magic, like maybe Emma?
Kitsis: That's an excellent question. I would respond with a question. The question is: Can anyone learn magic or does it have to be something inside you? Interesting. The curse was lifted in the finale and everyone remembered who they were from the fairy tales. How does the show go on in Season 2?
Horowitz: That was the goal. When we conceived the show and when we were lucky enough to get picked up to series, we knew internally we never wanted this to the "breaking the curse" show because we felt like if we did, that we ran the risk of really frustrating the audience. We have a lot of ideas for places we want to take the show, things we want to do with the characters and the mythology of the show. But we felt like breaking the curse at the end of Season 1 should hopefully send a message to whoever's watching to say that the show's not just about that. It's about something else.
Kitsis: Enjoy the ride.
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If Season 1 was about getting to the point of breaking the curse, Season 2 is...
Kitsis: I think that Season 2 is a lot about discovery. The curse breaks and everyone can remember what they lost and what they had and who they are. For some people, it might be a second chance. We'll see who repeats the same mistakes.
Is there a reason that when the curse broke, they weren't all transported back to fairy-tale land?
Horowitz: That question is one that is posed very early in Season 2. That is something that we want the audience to be asking.
Kitsis: The question is: Is there even anything to go back to? How do we know anything exists?
Horowitz: All we saw at the end of the pilot was this horrible curse wreaking havoc and then they woke up in Storybrooke. So, what happened? Is there anything left there?
Kitsis: Right. The person who designed the curse, maybe he never wanted to go back anyway.
How soon will Season 2 pick up?
Kitsis: I would be so f---ing pissed off at us if we picked up and it was three months later and Charming was mowing the lawn and Snow was coming home with Whole Foods and Emma was like, "Mom and Dad!" ... We are going to open up exactly where everyone wants it to open up. I think that there were a lot of loose threads last season — you know, a lot of those mysteries of like, what happens to August (Eion Bailey)? They will come. I would say be patient because it's all coming.
How will Emma and Snow's relationship be different now that they know they're mother and daughter?
Kitsis: Well, what's interesting is that Emma has always been the person that Mary Margaret went to. Emma was somebody who has walls up and two people got through to her last year, Henry and Mary Margaret. Mary Margaret truly is probably the only friend she's ever had. But if you notice, Emma is usually giving Mary Margaret advice. Mary Margaret very rarely gives Emma advice. So now, finding out that your mom is Snow White, after searching your entire life, and that she's actually quite a bad ass and she's not the meek, little teacher that you thought she was, that's like you're meeting a whole new person. I think that those complications are going to be a lot about the beginning of Season 2. But we're really, really excited because that relationship really develops in a fun way.
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Speaking of family, when Barbara Hershey was cast, there was an option for her to return in Season 2. Will we see her return? Especially considering magic is abound and she's more powerful than her daughter... or is she?
Kitsis: I mean, to not have Barbara Hershey come back would be such a travesty of Season 2. That is exactly the question. In the episode "Stable Boy," she talked about how she was the miller's daughter and she had to do a lot to keep Regina. If I remember correctly, the miller's daughter was given to a prince because she could spin straw into gold. Therefore, she owed Rumpelstiltskin a baby. The question is, is that baby Regina? ... When you get that Regina is the baby that's promised to Rumpel, then you're like, what did Cora do to get out of a deal with a man who usually kills people?
Horowitz: Right. So there's the connection between Cora, Rumpel, and Regina that we're quite excited to explore. It was meant to be subtle.
Kitsis: Everyone was like, why does the queen hate Snow? We were able to hide that. Now we're like, everyone go back and look!
Are you surprised by Regina's backstory or had you already figured it out? What are you excited to see in Season 2? Hit the comments with your thoughts and stay tuned for more Once Upon a Time scoop!
Once Upon a Time returns this fall on Sundays at 8/7c on ABC.


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western produced in an anime style with the enthusiastic support of the creator of the game. very violent, very well animated, and surprisingly funny. Also Dracula has a sympathetic motivation, the Church killed his human wife who had convinced him to abandon the whole prince of darkness thing.
Neo Yokio
what the fuck am I watching. Jaden Smith is part of anime new york's upper crust, his life is one of polo and high fashion; but unlike his idle rich friends he has to work for a living banishing demons. one episode has a Ranma1/2 reference I was surprised by.
Sabrina the Teen Aged Witch
I guess after making dark and sexy Archie this was the logical next step. Sally Draper from mad men is a half witch who has to balance her relationship with her mortal friends and her devotions to Satan. Absolutely going for the young adult crowd, which is what makes the outright satanism jarring. only in my wheelhouse because it's so clear they have zero fucks to give about offending anyone.


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DISCOVERY CHANNEL BEAT FOX IN KEY P18-49 and P25-54 DEMO IN FRIDAY PRIME TIME ON NOVEMBER 16
GOLD RUSH #1 Cable Program on Friday in Total Viewers and Persons, Men, and Women 25-54
Pushed by the compelling characters of both GOLD RUSH and JUNGLE GOLD, Discovery Channel beat FOX in the key demos of P18-49 and P-25-54 during Prime Time on Friday, Nov. 16. Discovery Channel also beat all Broadcast and Cable networks, including ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN, History, TNT and USA, among Men 25-54 and Men 18-49; both series are now in their fourth week of premieres.
GOLD RUSH at 9PM ET/PT was the #1 program on cable in total viewers P2+; Persons, Men, and Women 25-54; Persons and Men 18-49; and Persons 18-34 delivery, no exclusions. GOLD RUSH earned a 2.89 HH/2.35 P25-54 rating, and it was viewed by 4.01 million viewers P2+. It also beat every program on both broadcast and cable television in key male demos that included Men 25-54 and 18-49 delivery, no exclusions.
The 10PM ET/PT premiere of JUNGLE GOLD was second only to GOLD RUSH as #2 cable program, no exclusions, among Persons and Men 25-54, and Persons and Men 18-49 delivery on Friday night. The episode earned a 1.90 HH/1.46 P25-54 rating, and was viewed by 2.69 million viewers P2+. Jungle Gold also out-delivered most broadcast programs among Men on Friday evening, earning the #5 spot in ALL OF TELEVISION in M25-54/18-49 delivery.
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Apple's developer tools have received a complete overhaul in Panther. They even have a new name: Xcode. It would take an entire article at least this size to cover every feature of Xcode, but suffice it to say that Xcode improves upon its predecessor in every conceivable way. Even the icon is better, now conforming to Apple's icon design guidelines and providing a larger click target than its predecessor.
If you want to hear about the most important new features in Xcode, head over to Apple's web site. While things like predictive compiling and code completion are new to Xcode, they are not new features in the world of integrated development environments.
The most important aspect of Xcode as far as I'm concerned is that it signals Apple's intention to do for itself what others either haven't done, or have not done in a way that meets Apple's standards. Put another way, Xcode is Apple's way of saying to Metrowerks, "Someday, we won't need you anymore." That may sound harsh, but developer tools are an essential part of any platform. It is clearly in Apple's best interest to ensure that it has the best tools possible. Making the tools themselves is the best way to do this.
In some ways, it is analogous to the situation with Safari and Internet Explorer. Microsoft has discontinued IE for the Mac (and for Windows, as a matter of fact, as a separate product). A web browser is an important part of the modern computing experience, so it was in Apple's best interest to ensure that it had a good web browser. Thus, Safari was born.
Or was it the other way around? Did Apple simply not think Mac IE was good enough and set off to create its own browser? Did Microsoft get wind of Apple's web browser development efforts and then decided to discontinue IE for the Mac? Only a few people know the truth about this series of events, and I am not one of them.
But as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't really matter which was the cause and which was the effect. The hard truth is that Apple is better off having its own web browser. It would be even better off with a Mac version of IE as well, but given the choice, Safari alone is better than IE alone. It's not wise to depend too heavily on outside sources for important parts of your core strategy...and even less wise to depend on your primary competitor.
So while it's better to have both Xcode and Metrowerks CodeWarrior on the Mac, Xcode is an essential hedge against the (possible) day when Metrowerks drops Mac support entirely. While Metrowerks claims that they are "fully committed" to the Mac, I'm sure Microsoft said the same thing when Mac IE5 was first introduced.
Despite all the improvements, Xcode is clearly a 1.0 release. Bugs and gaps in functionality exist, and the feature set is not quite a match for the mighty Visual Studio from Microsoft. But the overall feeling is that of an IDE that's off to a good start. I expect great things from Xcode in the future.
Open/Save Dialogs
The open/save dialog box in earlier versions of Mac OS X is inefficient, confusing, and generally not worth dwelling on because it is mercifully gone in Panther. Here is the new open/save dialog box.
The new open/save dialog box
The first thing you'll notice is the sidebar. Yes, this is the very same sidebar that appears in the Finder. I'm not among those who think open/save dialogs should be eliminated entirely in favor of some sort of direct manipulation using the existing file manager, but it is nice to see some small amount of convergence with the Finder.
There are back and forward buttons which are especially useful for returning from whence you came after jumping to folders with keyboard shortcuts. There is no persistent history for the back and forward buttons, however, which is a shame. The pop-up menu now blessedly shows the file hierarchy from the current location upwards instead of the seemingly arbitrary list of locations found in previous versions of Mac OS X. Recently visited locations are also in the pop-up menu, below the path hierarchy. A separate menu-button containing recent places would be a lot more convenient.
List view is now an option, as shown in the screenshot above. I always found column view to be much too confusing in open/save dialogs. They are usually not big enough to show more than two columns, and therefore only a single higher level in the hierarchy. Scrolling through columns is perhaps the least efficient way to get handle on the current location anyway (the pop-up menu is the right tool for that job). I also don't like the uncertainty about exactly where the focus is and where the file will be saved when more than one column is visible. Usually, it's the right-most column, but sometimes that column is empty. It's an opportunity for confusion with no real benefit. I now use list view in all my open/save dialog boxes, and Panther as been pretty good about remembering my preferences. The state of disclosure triangles in list view is not retained, unfortunately, nor is the selection.
Keyboard support is cruelly incomplete. I am accustomed to navigating open/save dialog boxes using only the keyboard—particularly open dialog boxes. For nearly two decades, I have typed the first few letters of a file folder name, hit return, and repeated until I got to the file or folder I was looking for. With my fingers on keyboard and my eyes on the screen (to confirm that my typed prefix got me where I wanted to go, using the arrow keys to adjust if it didn't), this was a very efficient technique. Perhaps not surprisingly, this does not work in Panther. Typing a prefix will jump the selection around in the list view in an open/save dialog box, but hitting return will not open the selected folder. Argh!
Odds and Ends
My battle for sane icon placement in the Finder continues. The grid spacing is still unadjustable by any means other than changing the font size, and is hugely wasteful at any setting. My kingdom for a slider!
The scope of the view options palette still sometimes defaults to "All Windows", which is not what you want 99.999% of the time. You must carefully study and then possibly adjust this setting every single time you adjust the view settings for a window, or risk repeatedly and unintentionally modifying the default view settings for Finder windows. That scope setting shouldn't even be in that palette. It is very rare to want to adjust the default view settings. Most users will want to do it only once. The view settings palette is called up because the user wants to change the view settings for a particular window, not "all" windows.
The Finder now asks for authentication when performing a file manipulation task that requires administrator privileges. This will save me many trips to the command-line.
The Finder now mounts disk images without launching a separate application. The features of Disk Copy, the former owner of this task, have been rolled into the new, comprehensive Disk Utility application.
The Finder can also create and expand zip archives. Resource forks and Mac-specific metadata are handled through the same "dot-underscore" files used to support these features on UFS disks. Inside a zip archive created by the Finder, the resource fork (if any) and Mac-specific metadata for a file named "MyFile" are both stored in a separate file named "._MyFile", which is then stored in a directory named "__MACOSX". When the Finder unzips such an archive, the process is reversed and the parts of the file are rejoined.
The Mac OS X metadata situation has not improved. If Apple is working on a grand new vision for filesystem metadata, it is not present in Panther. The result of the three-year wait for Finder labels does not set a good precedent in this area, but I am still cautiously optimistic, if only because the issue is quickly become much too large to ignore. Microsoft is finally making its move in this area, and must be quite smug about Apple's decision to regress its metadata capabilities with Mac OS X. Apple's development of the Mac OS X metadata system has gotten it to a place that Microsoft has been working for years to get away from. Wake up, Apple.
Many utility applications have been updated. In particular, the new Activity Monitor and Console applications are greatly expanded. Activity Monitor now measures nearly every remotely interesting aspect of the system: CPU usage, running processes, disk activity, memory usage, network traffic, etc. Both current and historical values are shown in a collection of small graphs and floating windows. You can inspect individual processes and list their open files, memory statistics, and even esoteric information like the number of context switches, mach messaging calls, and page faults. it is impressive. The Console application now provides access to nearly every log file in the system. It even reads the gzipped archives of old logs, and provides live searching. It's nice to see these less flashy applications also receiving substantial upgrades.
Panther includes an application for managing fonts: Font Book. It provides more than enough features for the average user to manage his fonts, but professional designers may still want more. Fonts can now be installed by simply double-clicking them in the Finder.
Have you noticed how Mac OS X reviews rarely talk about stability anymore? That is as it should be. The stability of the OS is almost a nonissue at this point. Application stability is still somewhat suspect, especially (you guessed it) in the Finder, which crashes for me at least a few times a week. I had about five kernel panics in Jaguar across three Macs in over a year of use. I have not yet had a kernel panic in Panther. (I also have not logged out, or even quit any applications, since I started writing this article weeks ago. Let's hear it for Fast User Switching!)
Panther includes the ability to encrypt your entire home directory. I am much too scared to try this feature, and from what I have read on the web, my caution is well-founded. It sounds like a useful feature for certain types of users, but I am more than happy to let others work out the bugs before I try it.
The Keyboard preference pane now includes the ability to assign keyboard shortcuts to any menu item in any application. The first thing I tried to do is assign command-n to the Finder's "New Folder" menu item, as God intended. But I was thwarted again by Mac OS X's apparent knowledge of my secret desires and bottomless urge to thwart them. My system refuses to let me set single-letter keyboard shortcuts like command-n using this preference pane, although others have reported success.


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Cats might've been the longest running show in Broadway history, but it notably didn't feature even ONE actual cat. Disgusting!
Luckily, Breakfast at Tiffany's is back on Broadway, and in search of a male lead of the feline persuasion. The auditions are down to two superstar cats with a passion to perform. Or, er, with no passion to perform.
Don't you think they'd have better luck just zipping a cat costume onto a dog? Because, for real, good luck getting a cat to do anything a cat doesn't want to do. In front of an audience, no less! Everyone knows cats don't enjoy having their skills paraded about town like they're some sort of pet monkey. This cannot end well.
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Depending on the weather each year, the Magnolia tree starts to bud.
At that time, you can cut these buds to display at your holiday table.
The branch is very thick, so be careful and make sure you have good cutters. If it has flowered, than it is too late to cut it!
1-Place the branch when it is just a BUD in warm water.
Not a vase just yet!
2-In approximately one week it will bloom indoors.
3-Wow! You will love the results. Float them in a bowl or a heavy vase.This heavy branch may tip so use rocks at the base.
If its not your tree, please ask permission. I'm not responsible for any arrests made!
By the way, my tree is off limits! Enjoy. Happy Holiday.
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Related Magnolia articles
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"By overlooking seller financing, assessors inflate taxable values..."
It's no secret that commercial real estate sales volume is down. Sales transactions of U.S. commercial real estate valued at $5 million or more totaled 3,336 for all of 2009, down 60% from the previous year, according to Real Capital Analytics (RCA).
Despite more stringent underwriting and a growing reluctance by lenders to make commercial real estate loans, buyers and sellers closed a few select deals. Today, tax assessors are using those sales as a basis to value property for 2010.
Improper conclusions by tax assessors based on these imperfect sales could result in excessive values on which property tax assessments will be based.
Only 15% of U.S. property transactions last year represented a distressed situation, but the year's deals typically reflected a decline in value from highs of the preceding five years.
Due to the scarcity of credit available for real estate purchases, assumable mortgages and seller financing emerged as the dominant means of closing transactions in 2009, according to RCA. That means that many of the past year's deals closed without the use of market-rate loans that would have pushed down closing prices.
True market value?
The prevalence of those significant price reductions, mortgage assumptions and seller financing in 2009 sales data poses a challenge for appraisers and tax assessors, and a threat to taxpayers.
If not properly adjusted for in a sales comparison approach to valuing property, these same three factors that sellers used to bolster sales may understate how far actual market values have declined.
Special financing or sales concessions often characterize transactions in depressed markets. Understanding the details behind each transaction is important for establishing a credible sales comparison approach to value at any time, but it becomes absolutely critical during volatile periods with few sales.
Suppose an assessor valuing office buildings for his tax district believes that most property values have declined, but he has a limited number of transactions to determine market value. In a review of recent sales, he sees that a 100,000 sq. ft. office building has sold for a reported $10 million, or $100 per sq. ft.
The same property sold five years ago for $12 million, or $120 per sq. ft. With no further investigation of the transaction details, the assessor concludes that office building values in the neighborhood have declined 17% in five years and are now trading at $100 per sq. ft.
The devil is in the details
On its face, the assessor's conclusion appears reasonable, but with depressed markets we must dig deeper into the details of every transaction. In this example, the use of seller financing reveals a market value that is significantly lower than the $10 million transaction price would lead us to believe.
Assume the seller provides a higher loan-to-value ratio and lower interest rate than what the market offers. This props up the sale price by $1 million.
Adjusting the sale price for below-market financing, you arrive at a market value of $9 million, or $90 per sq. ft. That represents a 25% decline, as opposed to the assessor's 17% calculation.
As RCA reported, seller financing has become one of the primary alternatives to new loans, and it usually provides below-market financing terms for the buyer. Additionally, it provides the seller with a continued investment in real estate and avoids the need for a redeployment of capital into alternative investments.
Assessors are bound by the Uniform Standards of Appraisal Practice, which require an appraiser to address whether financing terms are at, below, or above market interest rates. The assessor also must determine whether a sale reflects unusual conditions, terms, or incentives.
Most sales closed today have a story behind the deal. By uncovering the details of each transaction, you might find that an adjustment is necessary to arrive at a true market value, and those details will give you a stronger case to present to the assessor in seeking a reassessment.
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Some people might say that listening an speaking are the most important but if you don't know grammar ... no one will understand what is someone trying to say... Back to top Y.KONANJoined: 06 Jul 2013Posts: 11Location: Indianapolis Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:33 pm Post subject: All of them are very important when you learn English. Back to top AfraJoined: 10 Jul 2013Posts: 131 Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 1:18 am Post subject: Things to learn english... Hi, I think learning grammar and vocabulary are both equally important, but conversation and practical use is just as important too. I suggest reading English novels, comic books, watch movies and tv shows, and work or volunteer at places where there are a lot of English speakers. Also, going online, like this, is another good way to practice. There's a benefit to reading/writing, and speaking/listening another language. Thanks. 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Major stock indexes are flat to start 2014. Small, by contrast, looks beautiful at the moment. But that story is about more than size.
The Russell Micro Cap Index, whose members' median market value is $221 million, enters Monday's trading with a 2.5% gain for the year, beating the other major stock indexes.
The Russell 2000 small-cap index, with its median $699 million, is ahead by 0.1%. The same index makers' large-stock benchmark, the Russell 1000 (with a $7.4 billion median), is down 0.1%.
Only the Nasdaq Composite (2.1%) and Nasdaq 100 (2%) are close.
Here's the thing: If small size is driving this year's returns, we'd expect the Russell 2000 to benefit, too. It isn't. Meanwhile, if large size is lagging, we wouldn't expect the Nasdaq 100 and the accompanying ETF PowerShares QQQ (QQQ), a tech-heavy group of large stocks, to be so close to the lead.
The micro-cap dominance could instead be about technology. Specifically, biotechnology. The chart to the right is a visual of iShares Micro-Cap ETF's (IWC) 2014 components by performance. See the blueish circle high to the left? That's Intercept Pharmaceuticals (ICPT), which is up 447% YTD.
In the mid-graph cluster of high performers are Ligand Pharmaceuticals (LGND), up 44%, Keryx Biopharmaceuticals (KERX), 28%, and Sangamo Biosciences (SGMO), 45%.
Citigroup's Scott T. Chronert and Louis L. Odette ran some relevant numbers. Intercept alone turns out to account for about a quarter of the micro-cap index's performance during 2014.
So this looks like a case where micro-cap outperformance is really the outperformance of stocks which happen to be microcaps.
In which case, a biotech fund, such as SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI) or iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (IBB), would be the thing you're really seeking.


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I've been on a bit of a blogging break recently because of a host of new food and health issues that have left me scrambling to come up with basic meals for my family... Eliminating nightshades and eggs has been the most challenging changes, especially because grain free and egg free rarely go together!
Breakfast of course has always been a challenge, but recently especially because I've been relying on eggs so much. I saw a few pins recently on pinterest for cinnamon rolls (with eggs) and it's been a while since I've made them, so I thought I would give it a shot! So this recipe is dedicated to all those folks like me who need to be grain and egg free and finding it to be a bit tough :)
I shared this on my facebook page, but I highly recommend Benefit Your Life Almond Flour - I thought I was becoming intolerant to almond flour as well, but turns out it is only the pesticide-treated flours that I have difficulty with. The Benefit Your Life flour is similar to other blanched flours like Honeyville but without the added spraying of pesticide during the drying process.
Egg & Grain Free Cinnamon Rolls
(grain free/gluten free, egg free, soy free, dairy free, refined sugar free, vegan, paleo)
Dry Ingredients
2 cups Organic Blanched Almond Flour
1/4 cup Organic Coconut Flour
1/4 cup Tapioca or Arrowroot Starch
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1/4 tsp Cinnamon
1/8 tsp Sea Salt
Wet Ingredients
1/4 cup ground Chia Seeds mixed in 1 cup Water
1/4 cup melted Coconut Oil
1 tsp Vanilla or 1/2 tsp Powdered Vanilla
2 Tbsp Honey
1/4 cup Honey (1/2 cup if you like it more sweet)
1.5 Tbsp Cinnamon
3 Tbsp melted Coconut Oil
1/2 cup chopped Pecans (or other nut of your choice)
(raisins or chopped dates optional)
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees farenheit.
In medium bowl, add chia seeds and water and whisk with a fork until starts to gel. Set aside.
Add dry ingredients to your mixing bowl and whisk/blend until well incorporated.
Add the rest of your wet ingredients to the chia mixture and mix.
Add the wet into the dry and beat with mixture until all the dough comes together.
On a Silicone Baking Liner/Silpat or parchment paper-lined jelly roll pan, roll out your dough until thin. If it sticks to your rolling pin, you can place another piece of parchment paper over it to roll, but I didn't have any problems with it. Or, your dough could be too warm and you could chill it a bit as well.
Mix the first three filling ingredients in a small bowl and spread over the dough. You don't need to be a perfectionist with this since it will be rolled. Sprinkle the pecans over the dough.
You can roll this two ways:
For smaller and more rolls, roll from the long side of the pan. This is what I did and prefer. Lift the edge of the silpat and gently pry the dough off to roll it. Continue to roll gently until you have reached the end. Then slice with a sharp knife into approximately 1" slices. If it sticks to the knife, wet it a little bit. Place flat side down on pan, evenly spaced. I had 16 rolls this way.
For larger rolls, roll from the short side of the pan. I have not tested this so I'm not sure how long it will take to bake.
Place in oven and bake approximately 15-20 minutes. Mine baked well at 18, but watch it carefully as the size of your rolls will change baking time. You want it slightly crispy on the top but not hard or dry.
Remove from oven when cooked and cool on baking rack for about 10 minutes until cooled and firmed some, but still warm and gooey.
These are not overly sweet, so if you like, sprinkle some maple syrup over the tops, or I blended some coconut oil and maple syrup or coconut butter and maple, refrigerated it and made a bit of a frosting to put on top of some as well. I loved it as it is though, so if you have a sweet tooth, maple or more honey is fine to add either on top or inside.
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Horribly late posting this week, but honestly, it was the most fantabulous day today. Warm, sunny - a sit-in-the garden-for-the-very first-time-this-year kind of day. I acquired a new toy and have been playing with it all afternoon - an old Hasselblad film camera. Ah! The agony of having to wait to get film developed. I have been working on my granny squares outside and my plants are starting to show. I love when mother nature obeys my commands :) Tencents sat outside with me and was in alert mode at every chirp from the birds - of course I don't actually think she would know what to do with a bird if it got near her. She is a bit scared of them!
I am savoring every second of this moment in the garden because here in our part of the world, it could very well dump snow next week and fall below zero.
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Two Michigan Tech Students Granted DOE Graduate Fellowships
The US Department of Energy Office of Science has awarded graduate fellowships to two Michigan Technological University students.
Colin Gurganus, a PhD student in atmospheric science, and Carley Kratz, who is earning her doctorate in forest science, are among the 150 fellows nationwide selected by the DOE from among 3,300 applicants. They will each receive $50,500 per year for up to three years to support tuition, living expenses, research materials and travel to conferences or to DOE scientific facilities.
"Competition for the DOE fellowships is intense; applicants are drawn from the nation's finest universities," said David Reed, vice president for research. "The fact that two of our students were selected speaks both to the excellence of Michigan Tech's research program and to the students' outstanding qualifications, as well as their dedication and enthusiasm. I congratulate them both."
Gurganus is studying cloud microphysics with his advisor, Physics Professor Raymond Shaw. He aims to better understand the mechanisms that govern the processes inside clouds. Gurganus earned a bachelor's degree in engineering physics from Eastern Michigan University and is also completing an MS in Physics at Michigan Tech, where he was the lead teaching assistant for the department's upper-division teaching labs. In addition to his research, he is also interested in high-energy particle physics and history and enjoys cycling, soccer, volleyball, broomball and travel.
Kratz is researching the impact of climate change on soil microbial communities with her advisors, Associate Professor Andrew Burton and Adjunct Professor Erik Lilleskov of the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science. In particular, she is interested in how microbial communities respond to changes in carbon and nutrient cycling in the soil. She is involved in studies at Michigan Tech's Ford Center and at the Harvard Forest in Massachusetts. Kratz earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan, where she helped to conduct research on climate change and mycorrhizal fungi. Among her other interests, Kratz enjoys hiking and identifying plants and fungi.
The new DOE fellowship program is designed to strengthen the nation's scientific workforce by supporting young students during the formative years of their research.
"The exceptionally talented students selected as graduate fellows are part of our nation's next generation of scientific and technical leaders," said Energy Secretary Steven Chu. "This investment in the training of scientists and engineers is part of the Obama administration's continued effort to ensure that America has the scientific and engineering workforce we need to secure our energy future and our continued economic competitiveness."
The goal of the fellowship program is to encourage students to pursue graduate degrees in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, engineering, and environmental and computer science fields that will prepare students for careers that can make significant contributions in discovery-driven science and science for national needs in energy and the environment."
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Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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Challah with a Mission
By Rachel Ornstein Packer
When my son was diagnosed with severe food allergies, (eggs, nuts and citrus), I realized that I, along with so many others, was now faced with a mission…to keep my son safe, and educate others in the process. Food allergies are terrifying and daunting, and for the first few months, I was a deer in the headlights. Slowly, I started to get a handle on things as I researched, experimented, failed and succeeded.
It took a while for a virtual non-baker like me to get the hang of baking without eggs, but I did. One of my first projects was to learn how to bake challah because I wanted my son to continue to enjoy his favorite Friday night ritual, safely. I found that it was easier, safer and tastier to make it myself, rather, than to relentlessly ask questions at the bakery which only yielded non-chalant responses that could result in a potentially life threatening episode.
Often, my guests ask me for this kosher recipe and as part of my mission, I now pass it on to you. Another benefit of this challah (aside from the fact that it is ridiculously simple) is that it is cholesterol free for those family members or guests who are on restricted diets. Enjoy!
Kosher Recipe : Challah with a Mission
Ingredients for this Kosher Recipe
- 1-cup warm water (approx. 105-115 degrees)
- 4 ¼ cups flour (I use 3 cups unbleached flour and 1 ¼ whole-wheat pastry flour
- 2 ½ tsp. rapid rise yeast
- 1/3- cup sugar (I use Florida Crystals because they are less processed)
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 TBSP. canola oil
Egg Replacer-Whisk these together briskly with a whisk or fork
(These three recipe ingredients work as a binding agent. The "fizzing" that occurs when whisked together provides the "lift" to the finished product). Make sure you add the egg replacer right before the flour-see Notes for Great Challah below).
- 3 TBSP canola oil
- 3 TBSP warm water
- 2 tsp. baking powder
Kosher Recipe Directions
- Pour yeast into warm water along with a pinch of sugar in a large bowl and mix until combined.
- Let the mixture to rest for 5 minutes or so until bubbly and creamy (I usually measure out the flour while waiting for the yeast)
- Add the sugar, salt, and additional 2 TBSP. of canola oil and mix.
- Beat the egg replacer with a whisk (it will fizz) and pour into the yeast mixture.
- Add the flour, a cup at a time until it is difficult to stir the mixture.
- Transfer the dough to a lightly floured surface and knead it until it is smooth and elastic (approximately 7-10 minutes). It should be springy.
- Transfer dough to a lightly oiled bowl. Cover with a slightly damp cloth or plastic wrap and set in a warm place for 90 minutes. It should double in size.
- Transfer to a lightly floured surface and cut dough into two equal halves.
- Divide each piece into three pieces and roll out into 10-12 inch ropes.
- Pinch the ends together and proceed to braid the dough.
- Place on parchment lined baking sheet and let rise for additional 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Bake for approximately 25-30 minutes depending on your oven.
Notes for Great Challah:
- Add the egg replacer right before adding the flour. The reaction between the ingredients is what will give your challah lift (in lieu of eggs). If you put it in first, you will not have as much of a reaction when you add the flour.
- If you are looking for a healthier option, try using a cup or two (I use 1¼ cup) of Whole Wheat Pastry Flour. It has all the nutrition of its whole-wheat flour counterpart, (4 grams of fiber, and 3 grams of protein per ¼ cup) though because it is ground from the wheat berry, it yields a far more delicate consistency.
- Make sure you preheat your oven.
- Baking powder needs to be relatively fresh. Old baking powder will yield a hard, flat challah.
- If you put the dough in the oven to rise, make sure the oven isn't hot. Turn it to 200 degrees for 20 seconds and then turn it off, otherwise it will bake the dough prematurely and it won't rise well.
- You can shape these challahs into rounds or rolls.
- You can also add raisins, chocolate chips. Use your creativity. My kids love it when I brush a little oil to the top of the challah and then sprinkle with a dusting of Florida Crystal sugar before baking.
More Kosher Recipes
- Esther's Chocolate Almond Biscotti (thejewishhostess.com)
- How to Make Authentic Italian Potato Gnocchi (thejewishhostess.com)


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The Arizona Diamondbacks had the worst ERA of any starting rotation through mid-May and were searching for someone to provide a spark when they promoted Chase Anderson from the minors.
It may only be a coincidence that the staff has improved greatly since his call-up, but Anderson has continued to impress.
The right-hander takes the mound Wednesday night as Arizona looks to deal the visiting Cleveland Indians a fifth straight defeat.
Diamondbacks' starters had a 5.57 ERA through May 10, one day before Anderson (5-2, 3.18 ERA) made his major league debut. The rotation has a respectable 4.12 ERA since, in part because of Anderson's efforts.
The rookie has taken the loss in his last two starts, but he pitched nearly as well as he did while winning the first five of his career. He gave up two runs in five innings of a 4-3 defeat to the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 13 before allowing three runs - two earned - in six innings of Thursday's 4-1 loss to Milwaukee.
Anderson has allowed two or fewer earned runs six times.
''(Thursday) was one of the better days I've felt out there,'' Anderson said. ''It's frustrating because I try to go out there and not give up any runs. You have to go out and just keep it at the minimum."
Anderson will be looking for another solid outing against the Indians (37-40), who will counter with Corey Kluber as he looks to build off a solid outing.
Kluber (6-5, 3.30) went 0-1 with a 4.86 ERA over his previous three starts before allowing two runs in seven innings of Friday's 6-4 loss to Detroit. He received no run support and has gotten just one run from his offense in 17 1-3 innings over his last three outings, though he blames himself for a costly pitch that resulted in a two-run homer against the Tigers.
"For the most part, I was able to pound the strike zone and work ahead of guys," Kluber said. "Unfortunately, the mistake I made to Victor (Martinez) ended up being a big one."
The right-hander was forced to pinch-hit in Tuesday's series opener that needed 19 pitchers to complete a marathon of over five hours that Arizona finally won 9-8 in 14 innings.
''It felt like seven (hours),'' Arizona's Miguel Montero said. ''The game was slow anyway. Through seven it was like a three-hour game already. We had to play the extra innings and that made it longer. If we have to play 10 hours just to get the win, we will take it.''
Aaron Hill singled over the drawn-in outfield in his eighth at-bat of the night to drive in Gerardo Parra, who went 5 for 7 after going 4 for 33 over his previous eight.
The Diamondbacks (33-47), who went 7 for 24 with runners in scoring position, have gone just 3-5 on their homestand that ends with this contest. Their 15 home wins are the fewest in the majors.
"Guys just kept battling," Hill said. "It's a complete team effort and it's fun to come out on top in this one."
Cleveland had plenty of chances to pick up a victory in the opener of an eight-game road trip. It led 4-1 in the second inning and took the lead back in the 11th on Carlos Santana's two-run homer.
The Indians also got the leadoff hitter on base in the 12th and 14th.
Cleveland has been outscored 41-25 while dropping five of its last seven on the road.


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January 18, 2017
New research suggests that our trusty companion may not have been the Earth's first, but formed from several smaller moonlets.
December 22, 2016
The self-taught genius would have turned 129 in December.
December 21, 2016
If you want to climb vertical walls you need very large feet — or be as small as a gecko.
December 13, 2016
The twelve sides of the new £1 coin make it trickier than other coins.
November 23, 2016
Mathematicians have proved a new result in the field of combinatorics.
November 22, 2016
Music, cakes and mathematical horses...Alison Kiddle reports on this year's MathsJam.
November 11, 2016
A new institute on the maths of information has just been launched at the Faculty of Mathematics in Cambridge.
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Clever geometry produces materials that shrink when heated.


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With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
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Has won at this level; had St. John's on the verge of being a national powerhouse, building a team that Mike Jarvis took to the Elite Eight.
Provides the kind of name recognition and front-man star power Pernetti is known to favor as he looks to awaken the fan base and renovate the RAC.
Regarded as a tireless worker and superb recruiter of top metropolitan-area talent.
St. John's just went a similar road in pulling ex-coach Steve Lavin from the broadcast booth and the early returns are looking good. Lavin has assembled a superb staff and has garnered a ton of positive publicity.
You just ousted a coach for conduct issues and Fraschilla has been ousted from two jobs largely because of conduct issues.
His recruiting pipelines could be rusty after so much time away from coaching.
How badly does he really want the job?
Will he come at a reasonable price?
Has the strong backing of New Jersey's grass-roots power brokers.
Is a promising coach "on the way up," to paraphrase Bob Hurley.
In addition to his sterling record at Robert Morris, he's regarded as a tireless worker with strong recruiting connections in the metro area.
Salary would not be an obstacle. Rice wants the job.
Just about nobody makes the leap from the low-major Northeast Conference to the Big East (see: Kevin Bannon).
New Jersey's grass-roots power brokers also fervently backed Fred Hill.
Is not a big name. Outside of local basketball junkies, his hiring would not make much of a splash.
Seton Hall passed on him because of concerns about his temperament and his team's nine technical fouls this past season.


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Kelly falters as Cards drop into tie atop NL Central
Righty's eight-game winning streak ends in sloppy five-frame start
ST. LOUIS -- It had been 47 days since the Cardinals last lost with Joe Kelly on the mound. During that near seven-week stretch, he had been the rotation's best, pitching the team out of its three longest losing streaks of the second half and stabilizing a staff that, at times, looked to be coming unglued.
On Thursday, however, a sloppy start in front of 43,866 at Busch Stadium did Kelly in.
A wild pitch and Kelly's own pair of throwing errors aided the Brewers early in what would settle as a 5-3 win over the Cardinals. There would be no series sweep for St. Louis, but rather an end to the team's five-game winning streak and to Kelly's league-best active winning streak of eight.
The division also got a bit more crowded by night's end, as the loss opened the door for Pittsburgh to slide back into a first-place tie. The Reds, idle on Thursday, loom 2 1/2 games back in the National League Central.
"This game just came down to we made too many mistakes," manager Mike Matheny said. "You make too many mistakes and can't get your offense going, it doesn't always turn out well."
The mistakes weren't solely on Kelly, though that's where they started. The right-hander had all sorts of issues in the first two innings, though few of them had to do with anything the Brewers initiated. A wild pitch in the first advanced a pair of runners, one of whom then scored on a one-out groundout.
A pair of errant throws in the field cost Kelly another run in the second. There was a muffed pickoff attempt first, allowing Logan Schafer to move from first to third. Schafer scored on a grounder that shortstop Pete Kozma couldn't stop, and two batters later, Kelly cost himself an out when Milwaukee tried to hand him one with a sacrifice bunt.
A double play helped Kelly escape the inning without further damage, but his pitch count (then at 40) had already suffered. The Cardinals would never climb out of the hole, either, as they lost to the Brewers for just the fourth time in 16 games.
"It wasn't too good all around," Kelly said. "Early in the game, they were swinging early at the fastball and getting some hits. I could have made some better pitches. … Throwing away a couple balls was a deciding factor. Take away those two runs and it's tied."
Brewers first baseman Sean Halton further cut into the Cardinals' hopes of another comeback win when he drilled the fourth pitch of his fourth-inning at-bat over for a two-run homer. Halton, who finished with three RBIs, has driven in nine runs this season; seven have come against the Cardinals.
"It was nice to be a factor tonight," Halton said. "A guy like me, being called up for September, that's all you can really ask for is to be a factor."
For Kelly, the four runs (three earned) allowed tied his season high. He had given up just five in his previous five starts (30 innings) combined. The five-inning start was also his shortest since permanently moving into the rotation in early July.
"Joe has been so good for us and really battled to stay in there," Matheny said. "You look at how he did limit the damage, kept us in that game. I think it really could have gotten out of control. [He] looked pretty close to what we've seen, but once again the mistakes got him."
Outdueling Kelly was Tyler Thornburg, who was rewarded with his first career win as a starter. Jon Jay and Matt Holliday gave him trouble throughout the night, but Thornburg was able to silence the rest of a Cardinals starting lineup sans Yadier Molina for a second straight night.
The Cardinals provided some undesired assistance, too.
There was an unsuccessful sacrifice attempt by Kelly in the third -- he struck out with one out and one on -- and twice runners were erased on the bases. Jay was caught stealing in the opening frame; Matt Carpenter was caught straying too far from first on a line drive-turned-double play in the eighth.
"We just couldn't do anything against him," Beltran said. "Right now, we're not finding a way to score early. We need to change that."
The Cardinals cracked Thornburg in the fourth to halve the four-run deficit. Jay singled and scored on a double by Holliday. A pair of deep flyball outs brought Holliday home, too. Jay and Holliday both reached again in the sixth, but Thornburg stranded the potential tying runs by retiring Beltran and David Freese.
The Cardinals wouldn't score again until the ninth, when Matt Adams connected for his 13th home run.
Thornburg, now 1-0 with a 1.50 ERA in his five Major League starts, has found success at this level after starting his season 0-9 with a 5.79 ERA in 15 Triple-A starts. He smiled afterward when asked about playing the role of spoiler.
"I know [former Cardinal] Kyle Lohse wanted to throw so he could do that," Thornburg added. "He wanted to be the guy that makes [the Cardinals] go to that Wild Card game or whatever. I know he wanted that, so I was trying to do the best I could to help him out there."
Lohse would have pitched on Thursday had the Brewers not shifted to a six-man rotation beginning this week. As it is, he'll miss them again, too, when the Cardinals make their final visit to Miller Park later this month.
Those will be three of the 16 games the Cardinals have left as they try to create some division separation. For the last 27 days, the Cardinals and Pirates have been no further than two games apart in the division standings.
"Those guys are playing good baseball. We're playing good baseball," Kelly said. It's going to be a fun run toward the end."


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UN warns of possible delay in Guinea-Bissau poll
The United Nations special representative to Guinea-Bissau says the country's planned November presidential election may need to be delayed.
According to the U.N. News Center, Nobel Prize winner Jose Ramos Horta, who was president of East Timor before becoming the head of the U.N. peace-building office in Guinea-Bissau this year, spoke after briefing the Security Council Thursday.
Soldiers overthrew the government of Guinea-Bissau in April 2012, one of several coups weathered by the former Portuguese colony in West Africa. Presidential elections are scheduled for Nov. 24.
Horta said that due to financial and logistical reasons the poll may be delayed. He cautioned that a short delay would not create new challenges, though a more significant postponement could "destabilize the political situation, undermining the efforts we have achieved so far."


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Rapper runs to neighboring business to get help
Kansas City police are investigating a deadly double shooting on the city's south side.
Police were called to a recording studio in the 8100 block of Hickman Mills Drive about 12:35 p.m.
Two men were found shot to death, police said.
Investigators said a rapper who was inside the building told them he was preparing for a recording session with another man when he heard something on the opposite side of a wall. The rapper said the man who was recording with him got shot in the chest, and then he saw the gunman coming after him.
Police said the rapper ran out of the building and to a neighboring business to get help. The rapper said he didn't recognize the shooter and didn't know the identity of the second man who was shot.
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Enjoy 5% savings automatically over the single pouch price when you purchase our best-selling vanilla caramel granola in a case of 6 pouches. With whole grain gluten free oat flakes and crunchy crisp rice we've create an allergy friendly, dairy free unbaked delectable granola that you'll want to have stocked up in your pantry.
Ingredients: whole grain gluten free rolled oats, whole grain brown crisp rice, brown rice syrup, *cane sugar, sunflower oil, natural vanilla flavour, sea salt. *certified organic
Ingrédients: flocons d'avoine entiers sans gluten, riz brun croquant à grains entiers, sirop de riz brun, *sucre de canne, huile de tournesol, arôme naturel de vanille, extrait de son de riz, sel de mer. *certifié biologique
Granola: Vanilla Caramel
|Per 1/2 cup (50 g) Par 1/2 tasse (50 g)
|% Daily Value*
|Calories 200
|5 g
|0.5 g
|0 g
|Cholesterol/ Cholestérol
|0 mg
|Sodium/ Sodium
|25 mg
|Carbohydrate/ Glucides
|34 g
|3 g
|8 g
|5 g
|Vitamin A/ Vitamine A
|Vitamin C/ Vitamine C
|Calcium/ Calcium
|*Percent daily values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet./
Pourcentage de la valeur quotidienne selon un régimealimentaire de 2000 calories
Libre Naturals Inc. was created by the parents of a food allergic child. As such, we strive to be clear about the ingredients and protocols we use.
We want you to feel comfortable about choosing any Libre Naturals product. If you have any questions about our lines or allergens, please feel free to contact us toll free at 1-866-714-5411 or by email
You can also see our products and their allergen declarations at the SnackSafely.com Product Portal:
While no reputable manufacturer can 100% guarantee a level of zero risk, we have created strict allergen protocols to offer you products you can trust:
No ingredients containing dairy are used in the Libre Naturals facility. This includes all derivatives such as casein or whey. Cocoa butter is not dairy but is the fat of the cocoa bean.
No ingredients containing egg are used in the Libre Naturals facility.
No ingredients containing fish are used in the Libre Naturals facility.
No ingredients containing gluten are used in the Libre Naturals facility. All of our products are certified Gluten Free by the Gluten Free Certification Organization (GFCO) which has a standard of 10 parts per million (ppm), more stringent than the national standard of 20 ppm.
No ingredients containing mustard are used in the Libre Naturals facility.
No ingredients containing peanut are used in the Libre Naturals facility.
No ingredients containing sesame are used in the Libre Naturals facility.
No ingredients containing shellfish (including crustaceans or molluscs) are used in the Libre Naturals facility.
No ingredients containing soy or its derivatives (i.e. soy lecithin) are used in the Libre Naturals facility.
No ingredients containing sulphite preservatives are used in the Libre Naturals facility.
No ingredients containing tree nuts i.e. almonds, cashews, pecans)are used in the Libre Naturals facility. Canada, where our manufacturing facility is located, does not list coconut as a tree nut but the USA does. In any case, we treat coconut as a tree nut declaration with all of our suppliers.
No ingredients containing wheat are used in the Libre Naturals facility.
No latex gloves are used on any Libre Naturals production line. We use only medical grade, powder-free nitrile gloves.
All Libre Naturals granolas have flavours added to them that are indicated on the ingredient list as "natural flavour". Please note that we do not add any additional flavours that are not already indicated in the name of the product. The kinds of flavours used are as follows:
Vanilla Caramel Granola: Vanilla
Blueberry Maple Granola: Maple
Additionally, we closely adhere to all food allergen labeling regulations and would declare any of the top 11 allergens or gluten as an allergen warning if the flavours were to contain a top food allergen or gluten.
The Libre Naturals facility is organized into two separate lines that are not separated by walls. Manufacturing schedules are set up to minimize cross contamination between different products and/or varieties but it may not be completely avoided. If you would like to review what ingredients we use in our facility, please check out our Ingredients page.
This declaration is accurate as of its last update on November, 2019, but may change without further notice. Please read ingredient labels and online declarations every time you purchase.
Once you've determined that our product is safe for your special dietary needs, you can take pleasure in great taste but don't forget your overall health. Here are some healthy reasons why you'll want to enjoy this yummy granola:
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With Fedex Air, if you require the shipment address to be changed once an order has been shipped, you will be charged a redirection fee. This fee is what Fedex charges us and ranges from $15 to $50 depending on your location and is payable by credit card when the change is requested.
Please ensure that you type in the correct shipping address upon checkout. However, if the change of shipping is required due to our mistake, you will have your order redirected or resent to you at no charge.
For the safety of all Libre Naturals' customers we do not return food items, regardless of their condition, therefore all sales at Libre Naturals are final.
Ingredients, nutrition and allergens for all Libre Naturals' products are posted on each product's page, and it is a customer's responsibility to read and understand them, contact us to ask questions if necessary, and to select only those items that are safe for their specific diet.
When your order is shipped from our Duncan, BC, Canada warehouse our shipping system will send you an email to confirm your shipment - this email will include a tracking number and link to enable you to track your package.
When shipping chocolate items, there is a risk of product damage during warm weather or when shipping to warmer climates. If you choose to ship any products that have chocolate in them, you assume the risk of this possibility when you place an order for those items with Libre Naturals Inc.
If granola bars do get overheated, the granola bars and chocolate should resume their shape if left to return to room temperature without being handled. The heat will not affect the taste or quality of the bars although long term shelf life may be compromised.
Any chocolate that has been heated and then cooled may get "bloom", a gray surface on the chocolate. Bloom is not harmful and does not change the quality of the chocolate; it's simply the cocoa fat coming to the surface of the chocolate.
With the exception of melted chocolate, if any package arrives obviously damaged, refuse the package and contact us via the directions below. If you receive a package and don't realize there is damage until you open it or it was left damaged on your doorstep, we require pictures and a description of the type and number of damaged items. This is necessary for us to make the damage claim with the carrier.
Please notify us of your damaged shipment claim and all photo documentation within 24 hours of the receipt of shipment with our customer care team at 1-866-714-5411 or at email@example.com.
We will then begin the claims process with Canada Post or Fedex and advise you on how we'll replace your damaged products and what to do with your damaged order.
Please allow the full shipping time indicated above to elapse before contacting us about a missing shipment unless you see by your tracking link that the carrier has indicated a problem. We can then work with the carrier to track down your shipment.
If you have given permission for the driver to leave the shipment, either on the order or by a previous "no contact" agreement, Libre Naturals is not responsible for the missing shipment. We strongly suggest that you provide a shipping address where you know someone will be present to receive shipments. Many people choose to ship to their work address for this reason.


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