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Could it possibly be Hotel California?
nah the bass comes in immediately on Hotel California
D'oh didn't even notice the picture was bass.
What ever it is those people in the picture really seem stoked.
Witt Witt Witt
Read Dead is a bad video game
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
It could still be a CCR pack because of "Green River".
I can tell you with 100% certainty it's not a CCR Pack...
Here are the choices we've narrowed it down to
Hotel California - The Eagles
Inna Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly
American Pie - Don McClean
Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf
Who Are You - The Who
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COUGAR, leading German PC case and power supply brand, officially announces their latest high-end PC gaming case, the COUGAR Challenger. The CHALLENGER mid-tower case is particularly targeting gamers demanding for huge upgradeability capacity, best airflow and optimized ventilation characteristics. COUGAR's specific black and orange color combination paired with the large metal-mesh front bezel lend it an aggressive yet stylish appearance. But the ultimate design high-light is to be found right on the top of the case: to power up your computer you first have to lift a cover lid just like a pilot unlocks the missile button to fire. A safety feature to prevent accidental touch, which at the same time makes you feel in gaming mode right away. To play even most advanced games, the COUGAR CHALLENGER offers sufficient space for powerful graphics cards of up to 410 mm length. Play as long as you want To play even most advanced games, the COUGAR CHALLANGER offers sufficient space for powerful graphics cards of up to 410 mm length. This is achieved by a unique 3-Mode drive cage concept. In standard mode there is 300 mm of space, by using a special HDD track mechanism you can relocate the drive cage to you gain another 30 mm, and when removing it entirely you get the maximum of 410 mm. Ventilation meets convenience It's already a given for COUGAR to provide for vented PCIe slots at the back, and have advanced ventilation options on the front bezel. But now the German brand goes one step further. Innovative air filters on the bottom PSU cover and the side panel prevent dust from entering the inside and piling up there, BUT on top of things, COUGAR made things much more effective and convenient. These filters are now attached on the outside with a magnetic mechanism, allowing for easiest assembly and disassembly. This way it is incredibly easy to take the dust filters off at any given time, without the need to open the case, and simply clean them under your water standpipe for a minute, dry them and put them back on. Deal done, and your ventilation has been re-optimized within minutes a not efforts at all. A large 20 cm intake LED-fan in the front and an 12 cm rear Turbine exhaust fan come pre-installed and therefore provide for excellent ventilation characteristics right out of the box. Easy and Tidy Upgrade As PC enthusiast and gamers are constantly working on improving and upgrading their systems, it is of utmost importance to always have easy and clean access to the entire system. Therefore the COUGAR Challenger comes with a huge cutout on the motherboard backplate, allowing for spacious room to install or exchange CPU coolers. In addition, the newly designed cable management keeps cables away from the setup and tunnels them in a way so users can easily keep track of their hardwares' lifelines and change them conveniently at will. As a matter of course, this also is precondition for optimized ventilation characteristics of the overall setup. Ready for the real liquid cooling As liquid cooling is strongly coming back these days, COUGAR is taking these needs fully in account, giving users the thumbs up for highly advanced cooling solutions. A total of three liquid cooling hose holes on the rear panel allows for a maximum of accessibility. By default, COUGAR implements rubber protection of these holes, so users don't need to worry about potentially sharp edges cutting into the hoses by un-careful handling.
WTF??? Ugly as hell. Cougar, what were you thinking. Fire your design team, and hire smarter people. Only good thing is the HDD cage design.
You guys see transformer, I see orangatan. Cougar does make good products. I have one of their fans and a cougar psu. Both fantastic. Why must their cases look utterly terrible. I'm not even a guy who cares much about looks either.
Hello Cougar, welcome to the year 2005, where the shape of cases from the outside matter to some weird people.
As I said in my previous post, I am not one for caring about case looks much. But if case looks do not matter... Why put so much glaring fluff. Why not just have a box with fan holes. Less time designing some silly orangatan face case.
No. This, is a pretty case in my and many others opinion: But this... http://www.techpowerup.com/img/12-08-01/cougar_challenger_01.jpg Just looks like a tryhard toy. Hence the orangatan
Indeed, I'm hoping and waiting for an updated version of the Cosmos II to come out and I'll buy it instantly if it does.
I was thinking a bull dog but...........Damn, bull dogs are cute. Too think, they actually paid some ding a ling to design this thing? Who in that development team thinks this is market worthy?
I think this is all for attention. They probably want name recognition. Any publicity is good sorta thing. I can not imagine anyone actually wanting this case.
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US Harper's Bazaar aren't the only ones releasing behind-the-scenes videos from their September issue cover shoot. Last week US Vogue released this video with Lady Gaga.
Granted, the video doesn't quite match up to Bazaar's sit down interview with Gwen Stefani. On the flip side, Vogue do offer up Marc Jacobs fluffy hats, elf shoes and Gaga doing her best Beyoncé hair-flicking impressions while her aptly titled new song 'Hair' plays. What more could you want?


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Posted: Jan 7, 2013 10:24 AM by MTN news
Updated: Jan 7, 2013 10:28 AM
SIDNEY - The case of the kidnapping and murder of Sidney, Montana school teacher Sherry Arnold will be back in the courtroom Monday, one year to the day she disappeared.
But the two men who are accused of killing her will not be. Michael Keith Spell and Lester Van Waters Jr. will be represented by attorneys at an omnibus hearing.
That hearing will take place in a district courtroom in Sidney in front of Judge Simonson. It is possible dates will be set for future court hearings, and that could include a time for a trial.
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To bring karmic balance after yesterday's bile-dripping 15 worst things to happen to the internet in 2013, here's a bumper crop of joy.
It's all very well looking forward to next year and seeing what technological advancements will improve our lives significantly in the future, but if we don't look back at what came before and collate them in an arbitrary order within the confines of a blog-post, then surely we are doomed to repeat our mistakes because we didn't spend long enough dwelling over our collective achievements
And if that's not a specious excuse for a list-based round-up of the year, then call me Alex Zane and give me a job of presenting mediocre YouTube videos on the telly at 2am.
Here are the best things to happen to the internet in 2013, in our award-winning content team's not-quite-so-humble opinion.
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by Christopher Ratcliff 19 December 2013 13:37pm 0 comments
Here is my 'expert' opinion are the best Vines created by brands in 2013.
Although seeing as Vine has only existed for approximately 11 months, here are the best branded examples from the entire existence of the service. That sounds far more impressive.
What makes a good branded Vine? Well, I'm glad you asked...
by Christopher Ratcliff 17 December 2013 13:46pm 0 comments
Oreo was the brand with the highest increase of 'buzz' in 2012, with a 49% higher online chatter than in the previous year.
How did Oreo achieve this and also continue to maintain this high level of engagement?
We've previously discussed on the blog about how Oreo is the king of agile marketing, and it's clear that Oreo has a marketing team that not only has a finger tightly on the pulse, but who can also react with whip-smart efficiency, humour and charm.
Recently I've discovered some more great examples of online marketing (agile and not-so-agile) throughout Oreo's social channels. Each one displaying a strong presence and a keen idea of what its followers expect from the brand. Let's take a look at each one in turn...
by Christopher Ratcliff 02 December 2013 13:08pm 6 comments
Happy Thanksgiving! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Thanksgivukkah! Uh... Happy Black Friday!?
Even with that opening salvo of well-wishing I feel like I'm still missing people. Hey, Happy ruddy Friday everyone!
Sit back, relax, pop on your work headphones (you're not sat on the back of a bus after all), and take a look at these 16 brilliant new Vines from brands, all collected during November 2013. Plus there's a Thanksgiving bonus at the end.
Then if that's not enough, check out October's 10 best new examples of branded Vines when you're done.
by Christopher Ratcliff 29 November 2013 11:33am 0 comments
Snapchat, the equally popular and controversial photo-sharing site, has edged out Facebook in being the most frequently used platform to upload photos.
Out of 809m daily photo uploads in November 2013 so far, Snapchat has a 49% share (accounting for approximately 400m daily uploads), with Facebook now at 43%.
This 400m figure has grown from the reported 350m in September 2013 and a previous figure of 200m in June 2013.
by Christopher Ratcliff 20 November 2013 11:01am 5 comments
If content is king, then social is definitely queen. With a fast growing digital society that loves to post and boast, social media has become a fundamental tool in a content marketer's kit.
And for the travel marketers, social has been a gift. Done well, a great campaign can far outreach any traditional marketing activity in terms of audience and influence.
Social, no longer seen as a bolt-on channel, has become an integral part of travel marketing, from PR, reputation management to customer engagement. And in many ways, it's also the voice of the brand.
Virgin Atlantic's director of brand & customer experience, Reuben Arnold says: 'Social media helps us demonstrate our personality and what we're about'.
by Juliet Stott 07 November 2013 15:01pm 3 comments
Vine has introduced a new 'sessions' feature, which means you can now save up to 10 Vines for editing or adding footage to at a later date.
You can also play around with the timeline of individual saved Vines by reordering separate shots, which means the user can fix any mistakes in the recording process.
An earlier update introduced ghost, which allowed the user to check the composition of the frame by faintly superimposing the previous shot over the screen.
These updates only serve to make Vine more user-friendly and professional. The upshot is we're likely to see much better quality Vines in the future, as users now have the ability to re-edit and polish their own work.
These improvements arrive shortly after Instagram added video functionality to its photography app. Some saw Instavid as having a major advantage over Vine – 15 second length, choice of cover photo, Instagram's own selection of filters – but with Vine amassing 40m users in just nine months, Vine is still a viable playground for brands to exploit.
Let's take a look at the most recent examples of branded Vines…
by Christopher Ratcliff 04 November 2013 16:40pm 2 comments
Disclaimer: I hate infographics!
If not the medium, the execution is so often poor, as is the chosen subject. But I feel differently when it comes to brands. I'm interested in learning about brands and their activity.
So, I've collected 10 stellar infographics here for your viewing pleasure. They're not all by brands themselves, but all include brands and their footprints.
They range from the mind-blowingly expansive (see the brands that own the brands) to the fruity and fun (see the Die Hard promotion).
Just click on each stub to enjoy the full infographic. Happy stat attack!
by Ben Davis 29 October 2013 13:20pm 2 comments
It has often been said in filmic terms that if a story can't be told in 90 minutes than it's not worth telling. Try telling that to The Godfather.
However this certainly rings true on some level, especially in advertising where you're engaging with a customer or selling a product rather than telling a sprawling, expansive story of gun violence and enemy disposal.
Who does benefit from the longer format? For a customer it's good to keep things brief, nobody needs to sit through another colossal Thomson marathon, but conversely six second Vines may seem too short for the purpose.
Six seconds may be the prime length for our fleeting attention spans, but for marketing, this truncated length can be too much of a handicap to get a brand message across.
Perhaps, for this reason, the 15 second Instagram video is a far more effective method and may explain why there was a dip in Vine usage during its launch period. Let's investigate…
by Christopher Ratcliff 02 October 2013 16:24pm 1 comment
Social customer care has been around for roughly five years and I'm wondering how much it has really moved on in that time, since the first Tweet was sent by Frank Eliason, #Twelpforce, giffgaff and United Breaks Guitar.
Does Amazon's Mayday and NatWest's use of Vine videos for customer service give us cause for optimism?
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The year was a memorable one – looking back at the unforgettable images over the past 12 months, you might think of apocalyptic-looking clouds over Manhattan during Hurricane Sandy, or Mitt Romney's children mistakenly standing in a line spelling out the word "MONEY", or even the winning US Powerball lottery ticket that became the most shared picture on Facebook. There's only one problem. All these images are fake.
It would be fine if we could dismiss these images as a fleeting joke, an amusing but harmless tidbit shared among our friends and followers, if it weren't for the fact that our minds appear to have a curious but fundamental glitch. People tend to think of their memories as a transcript, a rough history of events from some early age until the very moment they are experiencing. But human memory is far more like a desert mirage than a transcript – as we recall the past we are really just making meaning out of the flickering patterns of sights, smells and sounds we think we remember.
For decades, researchers have been exploring just how unreliable our own memories are. Not only is memory fickle when we access it, but it's also quite easily subverted and rewritten. Combine this susceptibility with modern image-editing software at our fingertips like Photoshop, and it's a recipe for disaster. In a world where we can witness news and world events as they unfold, fake images surround us, and our minds accept these pictures as real, and remember them later. These fake memories don't just distort how we see our past, they affect our current and future behaviour too – from what we eat, to how we protest and vote. The problem is there's virtually nothing we can do to stop it.
Old memories seem to be the easiest to manipulate. In one study, subjects were showed images from their childhood. Along with real images, researchers snuck in doctored photographs of the subject taking a hot-air balloon ride with his or her family. After seeing those images, 50% of subjects recalled some part of that hot air balloon ride – though the event was entirely made up.
In another experiment by Elizabeth Loftus, one of the pioneer researchers in the field of altered memories, researchers showed people advertising material for Disneyland that described one visitor shaking hands with Bugs Bunny. After reading the story, about a third of the participants said they remembered meeting or shaking hands with Bugs Bunny when they had visited Disneyland. But Bugs Bunny doesn't live in Disneyland – he's a Warner Brothers character. None of those people had ever met Bugs, but seeing images of him and reading the story made them remember something entirely fabricated.
Childhood memories may be the easiest to manipulate, but recent, adult memories are at risk too. In one experiment, researchers asked participants to take part in a gambling task alongside a partner. When they came back for the second part of the experiment, they were shown doctored footage of their partner cheating. Despite not actually having seen their partner cheat, 20% of participants were willing to sign a witness statement saying that they had. Even after being told that the footage was doctored, participants sometimes recalled the cheating that never happened. "They say things like 'I remember seeing it, I saw them taking too much money'," says Kimberly Wade, a memory researcher from the University of Warwick, who carried out the study.
Political trickery
Of course, people aren't walking around doctoring false images of your childhood or your recent past, but you've probably seen thousands of doctored photographs in your lifetime without you knowing it. From advertisements to political campaigns, altered and faked images surround us every day. Restaurants make their food look more appetising, magazines make their models skinnier and blemish free, colleges and politicians splice people into photographs to make their students and crowds look more diverse.
In political campaigns especially, faked images show up again and again. In one famous photograph that surfaced during the 2004 US election campaign, Senator John Kerry is sitting next to Jane Fonda, with the caption explaining that both Kerry and Fonda were at a Vietnam war protest. The New York Times cited the image, and many anti-Kerry blogs and sites displayed it prominently. The problem is, the photograph is a fake. John Kerry and Jane Fonda were never at any anti-war protest together – someone had combined two different photographs.


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So I won't. :-)
Seriously, though: the issue has to do with replacing machines. There are often cases where you *cannot* have two machines existing in the world with the same name; most of these have to do with commercial licensing and other related stupidities.
If you're in such a regime, then you have no other real choice: the machine's "true name" has to be something new, different, and arbitrary -- the last because we've already established that it *can't* be the same name as the box it's replacing, which would then have to already have the functional name.
If you're replacing one outbound FTP server with another already configured server, you drop in the replacement, test it, and then "swing" the DNS CNAME to point to it (as telco guys used to swing jumpers on switch frames at 2am on Sundays on Big Switch Cuts), and you're done.
No muss, no fuss.
But AEleen, Evi, or Tom can probably explain this to you much better than I can. :-)
Posted Mar 8, 2010 17:37 UTC (Mon) by jeremiah (subscriber, #1221) [Link]
I have 40+ fibre channel LUNS, in most cases each LUN represents server/service. Each has a number and WWN associated with it. I can map a WWN to a NAME which is represents a target WWN. no DNS here. I also have FC switches which need mapping as well, zone names etc. I have 8 blades each of which has the ability to have 16 named LPARS. I also have wiki-documentation for each complete mapping (IP,name,MAC,LUN,LPAR,VLAN,etc). The only thing that is constant in this mess is the service that the machine is performing, and the IP address where it can be found. Perhaps this is where the issue arises, in that in everyone else's experience, the IP address and the Service are disconnected as well. When I bring a new replacement system online I either copy it from a hardened clean copy, or the currently running copy, and run that LUN on a different blade where I can test it etc. Then shut both the old and the new systems down, switch the LUN mapping, and bring the new one up. This takes 2 - 5 min tops, which in my environment, is fine. I don't have to change any DNS entries, logging, intrusion detection, etc. All I have to do is change one entry on a fibre-channel controller.
After reading what I have written, maybe I am 'slicing' and 'dicing' but at a different level, than CNAMES. Because my LUNS are just numbers that I can't really control. And If I could, they would become DNS-1,DNS-2,DNS-3. I will say though, that when trying to diagnose a problem, it helps immensely to have strict naming conventions on every piece and configuration.
Real machines vs. single-serving
Posted Mar 9, 2010 10:53 UTC (Tue) by dion (subscriber, #2764) [Link]
In the case of virtual machines that are created on demand and are sure to get nuked when they have served their purpose, I can certainly see a good reason for using function oriented names, because that name doesn't ever grow stale and once you have 17 similar servers doing pretty much the same thing then it becomes quite boring to come up with names and equally pointless.
I have no need to name single-use build slaves, so they are simply xp-1, xp-2, xp-3 and so on, no human typically interacts with the machines in their entire lifetime (about a day) before they are deleted and re-created from the master image.
For real, actual machines I still want an abstract name that have nothing at all to do with function and point function oriented CNAMEs at it as needed.
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there is a problem with my Midibox Sequencer V4 (LPC Core)
If i want to save a Track Event Preset, the sequencer stops working and shows the following error:
Hard Fault PC=0x0003199c
It creates a correct named preset but its empty (0 kb filesize)
But from time to time it saves it correctly.
I tried different sd-cards without success.
What couldt be the problem? I searched around the firmware files for this error code but it is not listed
and i dont really know how to debug it.
Thanks a lot for your help!
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Union members have failed to ratify a new contract with the Greater Richmond Transit System, and GRTC officials say, they are prepared to deal with a strike if it comes to that.
It would be the first strike in 34 years. Union members voted down the contract their leaders had recommended…which promised to spare jobs and benefits, but offered no raises.
Clary: We reached a tentative agreement with the union leadership and for the membership to vote that down, we are just very, very puzzled.
GRTC's Kathy Shaw Clary. But the President of Local 1220 of the Amalgamated Transit Union, said their lowest paid workers could not live on $11 an hour.
Coker: Well, I understand the economy's bad.
Deloris Coker
Coker: The $11 an hour, single mothers with dependents cannot really function basing it on that income.
Both sides say they will meet again with a federal mediator. GRTC says it has contingency plans should there be a strike, to take care of the 40,000 bus rides logged daily on the system.
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In 2004 some of the bravest filmmakers imaginable took on the task of visiting a Port Au Prince, Haiti suburb, called Cité Soleil, to record the lives of two young Haitian men, the Haitian 2Pac and his brother Bily. The two are the leaders of a gang, although the word "gang" is a rather simplistic description of the actual reality of the relationships between them and their friends as seen in documentary film "Ghosts of Cité Soleil."
Danish director Asger Leth, Serbian co-director and cinematographer Milos Loncarevic and their crew have made as genuinely gritty a film as possible, and one that is utterly revealing. 2Pac is tall and sinewy, and creates rap lyrics that he shares with his friend Wyclef Jean during a filmed phone call segment. He has some loosely conceived ideas as to what would help his people, the impoverished residents of Cité Soleil, but most of his time is spent trying to gain the respect of his peers while convincing them to do his bidding. This need for respect is echoed throughout the mean streets of America's urban areas as well, and I found the parallels to aspects of our own culture fascinating. It seems some of the worst elements of American culture are shared by other nations and I wonder whether or not it is something that flows down from America to the rest of the world, or is it just historically endemic to human culture that people behave in certain ways depending upon what type of stress is placed upon them.
The filmmakers follow the two, jumping from the immediate life of one to the other, and we see how they live amid absolute poverty and general squalor. They seem to reside in a series of places, and you're never quite sure where you are within the bunched together dwellings that comprise the various, numbered, districts that make up Cité Soleil. Food seems to be gathered by a combination of hand-outs and purchases from street market vendors, and there is no obvious industry present. People seem to just mill about all day, without much purpose and without any obvious goals in mind, and this mass lack of direction includes 2Pac and Bily. We are told by 2Pac that Aristide, who was President of Haiti during the filming, had enlisted him and his fellow "Chimères," the armed "gangs" who roam Cité Soleil, to help harass and terrorize people opposed to the president. We are shown no direct evidence that this is true, but these gangs have money and guns and it is coming from somewhere. There are no scenes depicting Bily or 2Pac either working or committing any crimes, so I have to be left with the idea it was true Aristide was funding these gangs in some fashion during his regime.
A French relief worker named Lele figures prominently in the film, as she falls in love with 2Pac and helps him in various ways. There are no scenes featuring her actually providing much in the way of "relief" to anyone, so I'm not sure that her participation was in any way a positive one. I believe that director Leth probably didn't consider her presence as central to the concept behind his film, but to me she was a major force in the life of 2Pac, one that wasn't really helping him.
I greatly admire the makers of "Ghosts of Cité Soleil," but wonder what we don't see in the film. They put their lives on the line to get this story out to the world, but in the end I felt that showing us first hand and unflinchingly what is going on in this Hatian ghetto might create a feeling among some that is unintended. I, myself, have to question the fact that 2Pac, Bily, and the other young men of Cité Soleil don't seem to be making any sort of positive difference in the lives of their constituents. They aren't helping to actualize the dreams they have for their people or themselves. Rather than feeling sympathy I feel anger and frustration over the fact that these people aren't doing more to help themselves. Waiting around for some external agent such as a government to help you gets you nothing. One has to reach for what one wants, and one has to be willing to put forth the effort needed to realize a goal. I don't see that happening if the situation now, in 2007, is no different than it was in 2004. At some point the people themselves have to take direct control over their own lives if they expect anything to change for them.
There is no question that "Ghosts of Cité Soleil" is an important film, and I urge people to see it when they can. It is hard to watch at times, and it is absolutely honest, but it is utterly revealing of the truth that is the lives of the people in Cité Soleil, and the people of Haiti in general. The best way we can help these people is to give them the same attention we give to other parts of the world. What we can do for them, specifically, is the subject of many discussions, but we really do need to start taking care of business closer to our own American shores. Haiti needs our attention, and it needs it fast. If we neglect the people there, eventually we will regret that we didn't pay more attention to them while we had the chance.
Ghosts of Cité Soleil opens in New York City on June 27th, and in Los Angeles on July 13th.
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LONDON -- Ithaca native Alex Mayer finished in 10th place today in the 10K open-water swim at the London Olympics.
Ous Mellouli, of Tunisia, seemed to set the pace from the beginning, taking the gold with a time of 1 hour, 49 minutes and 55.1 seconds.
Meyer finished with a time of 1:50:48.2, and told ESPN that he was recovering from the early pace established by Mellouli and the other leaders.
"I don't think I ever really recovered,'' Meyer said. "Probably could have done a better job of keeping my head up going into that one, not running into people and getting to my feet quicker. It was an emotional race for Mayer, who was swimming in honor Fran Crippen, his friend and teammate who lost his life in the waters almost two years ago.


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Rachel Welte is the Weekend News Anchor and a General Assignment Reporter.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- Colorado Springs Police are looking for several people involved in an early morning shooting on the west side of town.
Authorities said a fight, involving two vehicles, started on 8th Street at Motor City Drive, and ended with shots fired at Lower Gold Camp Road.
One man was hit, but is expected to be ok.
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The world is often unkind to new talent, new creations. Last night, I experienced something new, an extraordinary meal from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the meal and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine cooking is a gross understatement. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for Chef Gusteau's famous motto: Anyone can cook. But I realize, only now do I truly understand what he meant. Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.
- Ratatouille (2007)
There are three things I distinctly remember about watching this movie five years ago. The first was that when it came out, no one could pronounce "Ratatouille" right (Pixar had to spell its pronunciation out on the movie posters), let alone know what it was or what it tasted like. Two, that I could not stop giggling for most of the movie, and that I was laughing harder and louder than any kid in the audience. I might even have been shushed.
But most of all I remember the feeling of possibility it gave me, a then 18-year-old who'd barely touched a stove most of her life, a consequence of growing up with a nanny who cooked everything and living in a country where you can a good meal out for $2. I could feel the buzz and itch in my fingers. I cooked my first proper dish that week – cream of broccoli. There was waaaay too much salt (the concept of "season to taste" had not occurred to me yet), but still! "Anyone can cook!"
It's only fitting then, that my first recipe post on this blog will be as simple as simple can get. You don't need terrifyingly fast knife skills. You don't need to cut all your pieces in a uniform size. You can screw up the recipe halfway, but still fix it later.
And at the end of it, you'll still have a damn fine dinner to serve your family on a cold winter night.
Spiced Pumpkin & Sweet Potato Soup
1 butternut pumpkin, peeled & deseeded
1 medium orange sweet potato, peeled
3 carrots, sliced
2 medium onions, sliced
3 garlic cloves, smashed
Coriander, Cumin, and Curry powder
Vegetable stock (homemade = always better)
Heavy cream or full-cream milk
Preheat oven to 220 degrees C.
Cut pumpkin and sweet potato into large cubes. Toss with carrots, onions, garlic and as much olive oil as you see fit in a baking tray. Season with salt, pepper, and the trio of powders – you can vary each according to how you'd like the final result to taste.
Roast for 20-30 minutes until soft and slightly caramelised.
Remove from baking tray and transfer to large saucepan. Add several cups vegetable stock. I added just enough to cover the roasted vegetables in the pot. Bring to the boil, then let simmer for a few minutes.
Use an immersion blender to puree the mix, or if you don't have one, ladle into a stand blender and whizz it up in batches.
Add more cream or milk till it reaches your desired consistency.
Spoon into bowls, top with some toasted pepitas, or if you have the time, homemade garlic sourdough croutons.


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Deputy commissioner Bill Daly tells The Canadian Press on Monday it's looking "more and more" that 48 will be the maximum number of games. There had been some hope when the tentative deal was reached Sunday morning that a 50-game season might be possible.
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Here's the thing about garage gyms: Floor space is a premium! We're only working with roughly 400 sq ft of space (we're lucky to have a 2-car garage) so it begs the question: What deserves this space, the car or the barbell? (That's a rhetorical question since everyone knows the barbell gets dibs.) I so WISH I could be one of those keep-cool-my-babies folks that can workout in a flurry of garage clutter but I just… can't… do… it. Clutter, and I'm being very literal here, makes me tense and I about had a seizure when one corner of the garage started to look like a tornado ripped through it because, "HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DO A KETTLEBELL SWING WITH A CHRISTMAS TREE IN THE WAY?!" <– Totally cyber screaming while I seize up just typing this.
In less than a day, our garage underwent this makeover all in the name of making breathing room for barbells:
(Not gonna lie, I'm a little embarrassed with that "before" image! I feel like I'm hoarding.) It's so easy to make sure the pretty gym equipment stays organized but it's all the other stuff, the automotive cleaning stuff, the tools, the christmas decorations, that takes up valuable workout space. But it's actually pretty easy to get it all organized and off the floor… honestly, it took us about 4 steps.
Step 1: Remove everything from the space needing to get organized. This will seem to make an even bigger eye sore since you're essentially just moving the mess but, trust me, it's for the best. This is also the step where I would paint the walls a nice sterile white shade but we're just renting this home for the time being so that was out of the question. Unfinished garages… I just don't get it.
We had to move all the junk over to the bumper plates and power rack side of the garage:
Step 2: Break up that big pile of stuff into small categorized groups of like-items. For us, all the mountain bike maintenance tools went in one pile, the snowboard tuning stuff in another, lawn & garden junk in a separate pile, etc etc.
Step 3 is all about containing the categorized piles. Visually, you can see how big of a bin will be needed for the stuff just by glancing at the piles in Step 2. You can find containers almost anywhere these days: Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe's, The Container Store… it's all good.
Step 4: Making room for gym equipment means utilizing as much wall space as possible so set up some shelving units and get those bins all up on 'em! We found this workbench rigged with a power outlet and lights at Harbor Freight Tools and it cost less than a Reebok|CrossFit hoodie. The 4-tiered shelves we got at Walmart. Between all the containers, the workbench, and the shelf, we spent less than $200! Totally worth it for more space to do box jumps and double unders, if you ask me.
Step 5 is really optional and only "necessary" if you're an organizational freak like me. My idea of "heaven" is getting locked in a room with a label maker and things needing to get organized. Step 5 is all about putting labels on the bins (aka putting the cherry on the sundae. Insert the voices of sweet angels singing here.)
Other ways we've maximized workout space by using walls include hanging the bikes vertically:
We got some yellow hooks at Home Depot and we just hang a tire off them:
We also stole our office's decorative wall shelves and now use it to store our shoes:
Even the shop lights have found a home up on the wall with a makeshift shelf comprised of a board and a couple of L-brackets:
So now all that sits on the floor of the gym are the plyo boxes, the DIY weight tree, the bumper plates, power rack, and the workbench/shelf. Aside from that, all other floor space is fair game for foam rolling and burpees. Lucky me.


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How Much UX have You Put into Your UX Portfolio?
This isn't news that will surprise you: the UX job market is hot right now. New opportunities are popping up in every major (and minor) market.
No matter what your UX stripe, you are most likely getting contacted nearly every week with some new enticing role.
And, although the demand for UX talent far exceeds the supply, the competition for top roles at the most interesting companies is pretty fierce.
Hiring managers have high standards, and in order to respond quickly and effectively to the dream roles that cross your path, its critical to maintain a solid portfolio that you can share at a moment's notice.
As someone working every day with UX folks who are looking for a new opportunity, I am continuously surprised by the number of bad portfolios that cross my desk. I understand you work on UX all day, and the last thing you want to do when you get home is even more of it, but if you want to take your career to the next level, it's a necessity. Just as the cobbler's kids have no shoes, UX designers don't always design their portfolios for their users.
How many UX directors do I know who want to wade through a pile of attachments or dropbox links? Grand total: none.
So, What Makes For A Solid Portfolio?
Your portfolio should ably demonstrate the relationship between your process and your deliverables. To showcase only the final deliverables tells only a fraction of the story. Today's UX hiring managers want to know how you work through a design process—often more than they even want to see the end result.
You need to turn your user-centered design lens on your own portfolio
Not only that, to truly convey your design process to your viewer/user, you need to include narrative in your portfolio. Take it back to basics: a little show and tell. Show me your work while you tell me about your process. You shouldn't have one without the other.
Get All UX on Your Portfolio
I know, UX is not a verb, but you need to turn your user-centered design lens on your own portfolio. Before compiling your work, first ask yourself who will actually be looking at this portfolio (who are your users)? What is the goal of the portfolio (what do the users want)? What's the easiest way to get that result to them (design for use)?
There are typically four key pillars for a well-built portfolio:
1. Breadth and Depth
Give an indication of the breadth and depth of your design experience: Have you worked on web/mobile/desktop/tangible products? Do you specialize in native apps or multi-channel experiences that span internal applications, consumer-facing web portals, and e-comm? If you've worked on a variety of platforms you'll want to select a variety of projects to showcase that will give your user an indication of your knowledge and experience.
2. Curating
Display your ability to curate your work. This demonstrates your understanding of what the essence of a project was. You should include 4-9 visuals that showcase the main steps/milestones of the design process for each project. I don't need to see all thirty wireframes for the added search bar. I just want the highlights.
It's not the user's job to sort through your pile of screenshots and glean that you are master of your domain. If you make the user work to look at your portfolio they are going to wonder if its an indication of chaos or carelessness in your work process.
Bottom line: do not annoy the hiring manager. You typically get only a few minutes of a hiring manager's attention (if you're lucky) before they decide whether to set up an initial conversation or not—if the first two minutes are spent opening dropbox and downloading links before they can even start to review your work, you're probably screwed.
3. Narrative
Your portfolio should be an experience in and of itself. What's your story as a designer? Explain to me—using words, not just screen shots—what it was you were tasked with and how you got to your solution. As with any narrative, there needs to be a flow: introduction, main body of work, conclusion.
4. Process Work
This is the meat and potatoes of what you do, so showcase it. Do you have photos of white boards with rainbows of post-its across them? Sketches of initial wires? Personas you've created? Annotated wireframes? Show them to me! The value you add as a UX designer is how you work through problems, so be sure to show that process in your portfolio.
Shaping the Beast
When it comes to formats for your portfolio, you've got a few options. You can create your own website, compile your projects on Behance, or create a PDF. There are pros and cons with any format, but whatever one you do choose, be sure that you always orient it to create the best user experience. Here are some suggestions:
- Lead with a visually engaging graphic or color with the goal of whetting the users appetite. This gets them primed for a visual experience and also introduces them to who you are as a designer.
- Introduce yourself. Whether it's the landing page of your website or the leading page in a PDF, welcome the user and give a synopsis of who you are. This also primes the user as to what they are going to learn about you. Again, bring it back to the user: What are three things a hiring manager would want to know about you? How long have you been working in UX? What platforms or types of products have you designed for? What are your strengths as a designer? Do you derive great insight from research? Are you an IA genius? Are you able to code the front-end aspects of what you design?
Meat And Potatoes
- Have at least three projects to showcase. If you are doing a PDF portfolio shoot for between three and five projects. If you have more than five projects that you want to share then you'll want to go for a website format.
- There was a process you took to get from the project brief to the final deliverable: it should be summarized in your portfolio. Have at least 4-9 steps of each process represented. Perhaps you lead with the original design you were asked to improve or give an overview of the question you were trying to answer while sharing a picture from whiteboard post-discovery session with the client or team.
- Hiring managers want to see your process work. Show initial sketches from your design book. Show your first iteration of wireframes or process flows. Was detailed information architecture part of your process? Show that too.
- It's very complementary to have a visual with a narrative box. Show me a picture of an annotated wireframe and explain what you were expecting the user to do.
- As you guide the user through your process, talk about the challenges, hiccups, and speed bumps that popped up along the way. These random curve balls are often the elements that are harnessed to make a good project great.
- Close with an image of the final deliverable (if possible). Be sure to note who did the visual design/coding if that wasn't you.
Wrap it Up
- Thank the user for taking the time to review your portfolio.
- Reiterate your personal statement.
In today's frenzied UX design market, you need a concise, narrative-focused portfolio to open the door to new design opportunities. Having a beautiful, well-presented compilation of your work not only sings to your skills and experiences as a designer, it shows a potential hiring manager that you take your craft seriously, and would therefore take your role on their team seriously.
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Most patients with AF feel fine once their heart rate is controlled. But their well-being is deceptive, since they are still at risk for stroke. The risk is particularly high in older patients, in patients with hypertension, and especially in patients with previous strokes or heart valve disease, particularly an artificial valve or narrowing of the mitral valve (mitral stenosis).
Fortunately, anticoagulants ("blood thinners") can help protect AF patients from stroke. Three choices are currently available.
Aspirin is the simplest, safest, and least expensive, but it is also the least effective, reducing the risk of stroke by about 20%.
Warfarin (Coumadin) reduces the risk of stroke by about 60%. It has been the mainstay of therapy for decades, but it requires careful attention to medications and dietary factors that affect therapy as well as frequent adjustments in dose, based on the results of blood tests performed every two or three weeks.
Dabigatran (Pradaxa) , a major new option, was approved for use in the U.S. in October 2010. Dabigatran is at least as effective and safe as warfarin, and it does not require the dietary restrictions and frequent blood tests that make warfarin therapy tricky and inconvenient. On the downside, dabigatran therapy requires two pills a day, and because it is new, long-term results are not known. Dabigatran is also much more expensive than warfarin and, unlike warfarin (which can be reversed by vitamin K), there is no way to rapidly counter its anticoagulant effect. Patients with severe liver or kidney disease, recent strokes, or artificial or severely diseased heart valves should not use dabigatran.
Rivaroxaban (Xarelto) is similar to dabigatran; it has already been approved in the U.S. to prevent blood clots after hip and knee surgery, and, based on successful trials, is up for FDA approval to prevent strokes due to AF. Apixaban (Eliquis) is an even newer member of the same drug class. It has been approved in Europe, and a major 2011 American trial reported that it was safer and better than warfarin for preventing strokes in patients with AF.
Which program is best for a patient with AF? The so-called CHADS2 score can help estimate the risk of stroke and guide the choice (see chart).
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Patients with a CHADS2 score of 0 do not need anticoagulants; those with a score of 1 may take aspirin, warfarin, or dabigatran (or rivaroxaban or apixaban once approved); and those with a score of 2 or higher should take warfarin or dabigatran (or rivaroxaban or apixaban), as should patients with AF and mitral stenosis or artificial heart valves.
The best aspirin dose has not been determined, but most doctors recommend 81 to 325 milligrams (mg) a day. The dose of warfarin should be adjusted to maintain an INR (international normalized ratio) result of 2.0 to 3.0. The standard dose of dabigatran is 150 mg twice a day.
Researchers are working hard to improve the management of AF. But for now, the tried and true will serve most patients well: slow the racing heart, consider restoring normal rhythm if symptoms persist, and reduce the risk of stroke by preventing clots.
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England were placed at 277 for seven in their first innings at lunch on second day of the fourth and last cricket Test at Nagpur on Friday. The smart use of tweakers and pacers has certainly helped India in getting early breakthrough on day two of the fourth and last cricket Test at Nagpur on Friday.
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India's key turner R Ashwin scalped the in-form Matt Prior soon after the English wicketkeeper completed his 23rd Test fifty. Prior faced 142 balls and smashed six boundaries before being clean bowled by Ashwin.
Tim Bresnan replaced Prior but he too was sent back to pavilion without adding a single run to the English scoreboard. Bresnan was caught in front of wicket on an in-swinger from Sharma.
English wicketkeeper Matt Prior and debutant Joe Root completed their half-century back to back early on day two.
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Recent alumni of colleges and graduate schools—a segment of the U.S. population that is supposedly shipwrecked, rather than effectively weathering a tough economic storm—are taking home large paychecks. At least that's the implication of the September 2012 Salary Survey, released by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
The undergraduate class of 2012 earned an average starting salary of $44,259—a 1.7 percent increase above the average commanded last year by the class of 2011, $43,521. That's according to data from 400,000 employers analyzed by NACE, a nonprofit in Bethlehem, Pa., in July. The study, which examines starting salaries rather than initial job offers in 90 undergraduate disciplines and 20 graduate areas, found that recent graduate alumni received "significantly higher starting salaries than their counterparts who hold bachelor's degrees," according to a NACE release.
Average starting salaries of graduate alumni in the areas of elementary education, computer science, and political science were $48,900, $80,400, and $57,700, respectively, compared to $37,600, $62,000, and $40,400, respectively, for bachelor's degree holders in those fields. The gap in starting salaries in political science was the highest, according to the study, with grad alumni earning nearly 43 percent more than college grads.
While it makes sense that graduate degrees ought to yield higher salaries, experts caution applicants and students to approach the NACE results with a good deal of skepticism.
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Not only would the survey findings be different if NACE took part-time jobs—which come with lower salaries—into account, but salaries for alumni of professionally oriented master's programs, such as accounting, finance, and law, which are included in the data, may also skew the averages artificially high, according to Cohen.
"Graduates of these programs will always be paid more for two simple reasons: They often enter the program with significant and relevant work experience, and the industries represented tend to pay higher salaries," he says.
Mimi Collins, a spokeswoman for NACE, declined to make a copy of the full study available. And Andrea Koncz, NACE's employment information manager, clarified that the study, which is "simply a compilation of several sources of government data, based upon an approximate number of employers who report data to the government," doesn't feature 400,000 individual responses to survey questions. The survey only includes base salaries from full-time employment, Koncz adds.
"Since we don't have an exact number of raw data points, there is no way to tell what percentage of the 2012 graduating class this represents," she says. "The total projected number of students who graduated in 2012 is about 1.6 million, but there is no way to report exactly how many or the percentage the report covers."


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Having proven to be the team to beat on a Saturday afternoon with their one-lap pace, Mercedes finally hit the front on a Sunday as well when Nico Rosberg claimed the victory in Monaco.
The German and his team-mate Lewis Hamilton each secured another grand prix win to bring Merc's tally to three wins in five races ahead of the summer break.
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"There's some good things coming on the car in the next few races that I think are going to be a reasonable step. We've got the two low-drag races coming up and our low-drag package looks pretty respectable," Brawn said in an interview with Autosport.
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