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Hi all i have dell xps15z i suffered from problem usb device was not recognized and couldn't solve it by any solutions i found on the internet then decided to format and reinstall the windows i installed all the updates and drivers for my usb ports and all the computer but now usb device was not recognized disappeared but nothing now appear, whenever i enter any usb no driver or anything installed for it no windows driver appear or anything like the driver isn't sensing the usb or the driver isn't installed or sth but the strane thing that when i put usb it lights two times then the light disappear i tried that in 2 usb ports not one and same with any usb what can i do i know that it isn't a hardware issue so please help me i can't do anything please help this is urgent
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Hi onoffonxhizors,
1. Please check the system BIOS to verify if the 'USB Ports' are 'enabled'. You may find the following steps useful:
- Power off the laptop > Power it back on and at 'Dell splash screen , repeatedly tap 'F2 key' > Use 'arrow keys' on the keyboard to navigate to the option 'Advanced' > Navigate to 'Miscellaneous Devices' > 'Enable USB' > Tap 'F10 key' to 'Save Settings' (Refer to the images below)
Alternatively, you may tap 'F9 key' to 'Load BIOS defaults' and 'F10 key' to 'Save Settings & Exit'
2. 'XPS 15z/L511z' has 2 'USB 3.0 ports' on the 'left side' (Numbered 4 in the image)
If the issue persists, it is likely that 'USB 3.0 Host Controller' is missing. Use the following link to install it and check if the ports work: Driver Details | Dell United States
Hope this helps. Do reply if you have any further questions. I would be glad to assist.
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Tao Heung Holdings Limited (Tao Heung) founded in 1991, is a restaurant and bakery group based in Hong Kong. The company's menu features a rich assortment of sushi dishes, entrees, appetizers, salads, soups, pasta, lamb and chicken dishes. Tao Heung also offers catering services for various corporate and private events. It operates a portfolio of 15 brands including Tao Heung, Tao Square, Pier 88, Cheers Restaurant, Hak Ka Hut, Chao Inn, Chung's Cuisine, Shanghai Inn, TCT, HITEA, One Roast, HIPOT, Joyous One, Cheers Palace and Tai Cheong Bakery.
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Macarons are everybody's darling at the moment and I wanted to make them too. I am so glad I did.
There are two different methods making them: French or Italian. The French method beats all the egg whites with the sugar until stiff peaks form. Then you combine it with almond meal and powdered sugar mixture. The Italian method is a lot more work. You add half the egg whites to the almond meal and powdered sugar mix. Then you cook the sugar to a syrup, beat the egg whites to soft peaks and add the syrup slowly. After that you beat it until stiff peaks form and combine it with the almond meal mix.
I have tried both methods, but had more success with the Italian method; by more success I mean no cracked shells. Here I used the recipe from the Bouchon Bakery book.
I have filled them with a dark chocolate ganache or Nutella in a pinch. I like the ganache better, because the slight bitterness of the chocolate offers a nice contrast to the sweetness of the Macaron.
Anyway, Macarons taste amazing. I love the crunchy texture with the soft centre. I highly recommend you give them a try.
Here you can find detailed instructions and the recipe for the Italian method.
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This time of year people in Germany celebrate carnival, also called Fasching depending on the region. It is where you dress in costumes, have parades, give more or less funny speeches, drink a lot and eat very greasy food. This is the big party before lent.
While I have never been a great fan of Fasching I love the deep fried jelly doughnuts that come with it. I don't eat them any other time, but once every year I make a batch of Berliner as they are called in Germany. A fresh doughnut, still warm from deep frying is absolutely delicious. This year I was especially successful because I made them smaller and used a top-notch thermometer.
Today we had our moment of Fasching, all of us at the dining table, eating the jam dripping Berliner and listening to a carnival speech on Youtube. I think that was it until next year.
Speaking of Berliner, many years ago I met an American student in Germany who asked me if John F. Kennedy really said he was a jelly doughnut when he came to West Berlin in 1963 and declared: "Ich bin ein Berliner." I was very astonished. That thought had never occurred to me and I assured her it was not true. Her relief was intense, so acute had been her embarrassment. You can read more about the historic event in this article.
If you want to celebrate as well, here is the recipe:
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500g flour
2 tsp instant yeast
30g sugar
20g vanilla sugar ( or 50g sugar and 1 tsp vanilla extract)
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 egg yolk
1/2 cup of milk
100g melted butter
1 egg white
1 cup jam or jelly
Makes about 18 small Berliner
Make a yeast dough with all the ingredients except the last three. Let it rise once, roll out the dough to about 1/2 cm (1/4 inch) thickness. Use a circular cookie cutter with a circumference of 7cm ( about 3 inches) and cut out the dough. Spread one circle with egg white and top it with another. Repeat until all the dough is used up. Let them rise in a warm place.
In the meantime heat frying oil to 170 to 190 C ( 340 to 375 F). Take a baking sheet, set a cooling rack over it and top it with paper towels. Use this to drain the fat off the Berliner when they are done frying. Attach a 1/4 tip to a piping bag, fill bag with the jelly. Pour some sugar onto a plate, set aside.
Deep fry the Berliner in small batches, until they are golden brown on both sides. Drain and let them cool down a bit, fill each with about 1 Tbsp of jelly and dip them in the sugar.
Catching ButterfliesPublished November 4, 2013 Knitting 1 Comment
Tags: catching butterflies pattern, fingerless gloves, Glove, handknit gloves, Knitting, TinyOwlKnits
This morning there was frost on the grass and I felt pretty good about myself. Why? Not only was I prepared with a new warm coat and a pair of boots for my daughter, but incredibly enough I have knit her a pair of fingerless gloves and I finished them just in time! Shocking, right? I have been spending a lot of time sitting around waiting lately and making lemonade out of lemons I have put the time to good use and have been knitting.
Knitting these gloves was quite a journey. Choosing the yarn was easy. I knew I wanted to use the Merino Cashmere blend yarn and she liked it right away, but which colour? My youngest daughter knows her mind and on the third (!) try I finally go the colour she wanted. Picking the pattern was easy too. When I showed her the pattern by Tiny Owl she was hooked.
Knitting the pattern was not so straight forward. The yarn I used is very similar to the one in the pattern so I cast-on with my usual long-tail cast-on and knit away. I knew fairly soon that I was in trouble, but she was in school and I had time to knit. The thing is, these gloves are tiny. So I suggest you knit them for someone with slender arms and small hands, knit it with a DK weight yarn or cast on more stitches.
When my 13 y/o daughter tried the first glove on it did fit, but the cast-on was uncomfortably tight. She bravely told me she could manage it. At that point I was well into the glove and did not want to start over, so I soldiered on. As a bind-off I used the sewn bind off for more elasticity. I left the thumbs for last and started on the second glove, for which I used the backwards-loop cast-on. Much better!
While I was knitting the second glove I was thinking about how I could fix the too tight cast-on and after finding this video I decided to cut off the whole cuff and re-knit it again this time in the other direction. It was fairly easy and worked really well. I finished the the gloves and gave them to my daughter to try them on. She was very pleased about the cuff, but now we had a new problem: In one glove she could not get her thumb into it and on the other one the thumb turned bright red right away. It was cutting off her circulation! At that point we both started laughing.
I unraveled the thumbs, re-knit them with added stitches and started on the butterflies. It turns out that it is quite difficult to get even tension on mohair boucle yarn, so that the butterflies looked a bit lopsided. Still, being so close to the finish line I attached them and proudly handed the gloves to my daughter. I was happy until I saw her face. She said that the butterflies did not look like butterflies and the "bodies" looked weird. She'd rather have no butterflies than these. Ouch!
OK, I wanted her to have butterflies on her gloves, so I re-knit one butterfly, embroidered the body with a running stitch and discovered I could improve the other butterflies' shapes by running a thread through them and tightening it a bit without it being noticeable. Finally success!
The pattern for the Catching Butterflies gloves by Tiny Owl Knits can also be found on Ravelry.


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All I know about the FN is the grip is a lot thicker. The XDm is a very good gun. Never shot the XD, only the XDm. I used to own one.
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They are both good handguns but I would prob go for the XDM over the regular XD if you were gonna go that route, but I do like the FNH too
I've shot the FNHP40 but not the 9mm and really liked the way the 40 shot and was impressed on how good it felt and in the quality of it
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
-Theodore Roosevelt
XD or XDM are both great guns in my opinion. They have the potential to have an amazing trigger since the internals are a true "single action" compared to many other striker fired guns.
I personally have the 45 compact. I like the gun, but its to damn thick for a carry gun for me.
Top of the line FN w RMR sight is quite weapon ! I own an XDM w 4.5" and wish it had the sights of the 5.25" from SA. XDs are good, reliable guns but the platform has been improved w XDM line so unless it's a price you can't refuse, why XD ?
If you go XDM route, make sure you get some snap caps. If I had to do it again, I'd take another look at SW M&P line vs SA 5.25.
Hickock45 had a ball w it. The suppressor took him by surprise as well but it didn't seem to shift point of impact & He shot w/o hearing protection.
I have HK USP so I am comfortable w Lg Polymer frame.


text: Feb15 musicfeaturesfall out boypete wentzpatrick stump Why The Fall Out Boy Reunion Can Go Die In A Fire It's been almost two weeks since Fall Out Boy announced they would be getting back together and for whatever the fuck reason, we are still hearing about it. But in the grand scheme of music news, this should've been filed at the very top of the who-gives-a-fuck pile. Here's why. 1. Three Years Isn't A Hiatus Fall Out Boy announced they were going on hiatus in November 2009. That's barely over three years ago. Three years isn't a hiatus. There are currently active bands better than Fall Out Boy who haven't put out material in longer than that. Dillinger Four hasn't released new material since 2008. Or how about this: My Bloody Valentine put out an album this year which was their first in 22 years. Can you comprehend how long 22 years is, Fall Out Boy fans? It's longer than Fall Out Boy's manager wants you to believe Pete Wentz has been alive. Pete is actually 33 fucking years old and still tweets shit like this: when girls aren't listening to you they say things like "aw" when you're done talking. guys just look at their phones. we need our "aw" word — Pete Wentz(@petewentz) July 6, 2012 2. Grow The Fuck Up Three years isn't a long time in the music world, but it's a long time in teenage years. So if you were one of Fall Out Boy's millions of idiot screaming teen fans, fine. But it's been three years. Grow the fuck up. Three years should've been plenty of time for you to take a good hard look at yourself and your eyeliner in the mirror. Even if you were 15 when Fall Out Boy broke up, you are 18 now. You are a full grown fucking adult who can drive a car and buy porn and be convicted of murder and, god help us all, vote. If you're a full grown person still following Fall Out Boy, you should not be allowed to vote. 3. They Were Total Dicks About It Fall Out Boy and their management were relentless about denying any rumors that the band was reuniting. They even went so far as to make people remove tweets about it and in general, tried to make people look like total asshole liars for reporting anything about the rumors, even though they were ultimately (and unfortunately) true. 4. The Media Onslaught Was Obnoxious When Fall Out Boy finally did get around to deeming the world worthy of their reunion news, they opened the world's throat, and literally crammed it the fuck down there. If you read any music blogs, follow music news, or just have Internet access in general, you couldn't escape the bombardment of non-stories: 'Fall Out Boy Have A Big Announcement Tomorrow,' 'Fall Out Boy Announce They Have An Album Coming Out,' 'Fall Out Boy Have Another Announcement Tomorrow,' 'Fall Out Boy Announce They Are Happy With Yesterday's Announcement,' 'Fall Out Boy Have New Video,' 'Fall Out Boy YouTube Upload Went Smoothly,' 'Fall Out Boy Starting Tour,' 'Fall Out Boy Can't Find Their Keys, Delay Tour By Five Minutes,' 'Fall Out Boy Really Like Music!' For fuck's sake, print the only necessary headline: 'Group of Rich Nerds Who Hate Each Other Get Over Themselves Long Enough To Milk Their Careers For A Few More Million Dollars.' 5. What The Fuck Happened To This Guy? It figures that the only semi-interesting thing about Fall Out Boy reuniting is the only thing not getting any coverage, namely, what the fuck happened to the singer? He used to be some balding pudgy dork who the management put a hat on and stuck in the back somewhere behind Pete Wentz. And now it looks like they got an image consultant to Clay Aiken him up. Is this even the same guy? 6. This Shit is Terrible This one should go without saying but this new song makes Fall Out Boy's pre-hiatus music sound like fucking Motorhead. The video they released features a bunch of leather-clad ladies tossing Fall Out Boy records into a fire and then 2 Chainz torching them with a giant flame thrower and they somehow even managed to make that lame. posted by Dan Ozzi Permalink


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This quilted cotton maternity jacket is part of three matching pieces in the Colonial Williamsburg collection. It dates from between 1780 and 1795, and is the only maternity related fashion currently held in the collection.
Russian noblewoman Alexandra Branicka was painted by Leontiy Miropolskiy during her pregnancy in the 1780s wearing a simple, flowing house robe.
This loose-fitting, quilted morning gown from 1778 would have been ideal maternity wear for a stylish 18th century woman late in pregnancy.
I love the sunny yellow color!
Waistcoats and riding jackets were popular maternity wear for women in the 18th century. Grand Duchess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia, shown in this 1776 portrait by Alexander Roslin, wears a fashionably altered waistcoat and open gown to accommodate her pregnancy.
The following excerpt, from a 1735 letter Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough wrote to her granddaughter, describes the struggle of an 18th century woman to find suitable clothing for late pregnancy…
I remember when I was within three months of my reckoning I could never endure any bodice [corset] at all; but wore a warm waistcoat wrapped around me like a man's and tied my petticoats on top of it. And from that time never went abroad but with a long black scarf to hide me I was so prodigeous big.
Women of the 18th century continued to wear stays (corsets) throughout the majority of pregnancy.
This may seem impractical and rather extreme our modern sensibilities, but stays were considered a basic and essential undergarment and part of everyday life. The suggestion of eliminating the use of stays during pregnancy would likely make no more sense to an 18th century woman than the suggestion of eliminating bras during pregnancy would to a 21st century woman.
Tailleur d'habits et tailleur de corps, a fascinating 1771 on tailoring (which can be viewed in its entirety here if you're interested) has a design for a pair of stays patterned especially for pregnancy. These stays (shown above left) lace up the sides in addition to the traditional lacing up the back, allowing them to expand with a pregnant woman's growing stomach.
The photo on the right shows what these stays would look like constructed.
Despite their apparently rigid construction, 18th century bodices were actually fairly malleable when it came to accommodating pregnancy. The use of stomachers left the front of the bodice open allowing pregnant women to either use larger stomachers or forgo them entirely and fasten to bodice with ties.
You can see with this quilted robe à la française from circa 1750, how widely the bodice could be expanded with the use of ties.
The early 18th century arrival of the loose-fitting robe volante into mainstream formal fashion (it had previously been worn only as very informal wear or negligee) must have been a boon to women seeking fashionable maternity wear.
This gorgeous extant example is from the Kyoto Costume Institute and dates to circa 1720.
An 18th century themed masquerade costume based on the opera Manon, from Le Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1914.
Venetian themed masquerades were also very popular in the early 1910s. This 1913 fashion plate from Le Journal des Dames et des Modes shows a couple in Venetian costumes based on the work of 18th century artist Pietro Longhi.


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Everyone is living on a budget these days. The cost of living is high because of steadily growing gas and food prices. Although it's hard to do anything about gas prices, you can do something to save on your grocery bills. Studies show that Americans throw away nearly half the food they buy. WOW! So before you go grocery shopping, take a look in the cupboards and find items ready to expire. Try to build your menu around these items to prevent waste and save you some money on items you would have to buy to replace them. Saving money at the store is just half the battle. A lot of our food gets thrown away after preparation. Now I know that not everyone likes leftovers, but here are a few ways to turn your leftovers into new dishes.
- Save even the smallest amount of leftover veggies for soups, omelets or shepherds pie.
- Save all of your meat juices. Store them in ice cube trays or Ziploc bags in the freezer and you have a great stock for later.
- If you have leftover bread or rolls, freeze it!!! A few leftover nights will create enough rolls for a new meal. Warm and display with oil and balsamic for a great restaurant breadbasket feel.
- Slice and save leftover chicken and steak in the freezer. Make fajitas once you have enough for the family. (Quesadillas will also work)
- Save leftover rice. You can add and egg and soy sauce for fried rice. The rice can also be used on soup and shepherds pie
You can also visit our previous blog about making a restaurant style dinner out of leftover dishes!
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By William Kissane, Staff Writer
Last month, a group comprised of Warren Wilson College students and staff working with the Fiber Arts crew completed the community quilt project after over a month of work. The idea for making the quilt was introduced last fall semester as an idea for a community art project, the goal being to create something that would bring together and represent individual students in the Wilson community. Creating this sort of collaboration is a common role of traditional quilts. The project was also an educational undertaking, serving as an attempt to teach students the process of embroidery. The quilt was shown at the Fiber Arts crew open house on February 26th and will soon be displayed in Cowpie Cafe.
"The community quilt was a way to teach the Warren Wilson community more about fiber arts, as well as teaching embroidery, which many of them were doing for the first time with us," junior Fiber Arts crew member, Morgan Vessel, said. "The purpose was to bring the community together to learn and enjoy each other's company, while making a quilt that would represent the community itself."
Vessel helped to come up with the idea for the project and the process of creating it. She also joined members of the Fiber Arts crew to teach people to embroider at a table outside Gladfelter Dining Hall and was involved in the sewing and quilting of the actual quilt. Students hand embroidered words that represented what Wilson meant to them on pieces of fabric that were then sewed together into the quilt to create a unique and beautiful piece of art. For the past month, members of the crew had a table set up at Cowpie during lunch with the embroidery supplies for students to sit down and learn how to embroider their own patches for the quilt.
"So many students put their limited lunch time into making a patch, which we were not sure was going to work out at first," said Vessel. "Also, Richard Caro, a really great quilter in town, helped us weekly to arrange the patches and sew and quilt them together. He was there for every step of the process to help us figure out how to make it work."
Many members of the Wilson community were involved in the creation of the quilt in addition to the members of Fiber Arts crew. The project was immensely successful in achieving its goal to bring together the community, and this success will hopefully give way to many more community-oriented art projects.


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In Chip Kelly's new, fast-paced system, it is even more crucial to keep quarterback Michael Vick upright, and left tackle Jason Peters is charged with that task. It's important to note that because Vick is left-handed, Peters isn't the "blind side" tackle, but the massive former Arkansas Razorback (can you imagine him playing tight end in college?!) is needed for his protection nonetheless.
With that said, Peters stated publicly on Tuesday that he has been affected by a dislocated finger, and even told Tim McManus of PhillyMag.com that he had to "adjust hand placement" and that he "couldn't really grab" opposing defenders with his affected hand.
In the same piece from McManus, Peters is quick to note that he won't be missing any time due to the injury, but it is impossible to ignore this type of setback for a crucial offensive piece. Multiple reports had Peters with his fingers taped up at practice on Tuesday, and without rest, it's apparent that the injury won't be healing on its own due to the normal wear and tear of an NFL campaign.
What does it all mean? Well, in the grand scheme, the swings of impact could be quite large. If Peters can manage the pain and play at the same level that Philly is accustomed to, then it will be a non-issue. However, if his play slips, it could mean less "room" for Vick and the offense to operate in. This is certainly something to monitor moving forward.


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--Front-month gas futures at highest level since May 24
--Freeze causes short-term production snags
--Cold weather to linger for six to 10 days in Midwest, East
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By David Bird
NEW YORK--Natural-gas futures climbed 2.9% Monday on expectations of continued strong demand for gas-fired heat as below-normal temperatures are expected to linger in the Midwest and much of the East Coast.
Front-month gas on the New York Mercantile Exchange ended at the highest level in six and a half months, propelled by signs that commodity funds have turned bullish on gas for the first time since October.
The same freeze that is driving up demand to warm homes also played havoc with production facilities in several parts of the country. Anne Swedberg, a senior energy analyst at Bentek Energy in Denver, said frozen equipment at wells could temporarily limit output by 1.7 billion cubic feet per day this week. Gas output Monday, estimated at 64.9 bcf/day, is down 0.9 bcf/day from the average so far this month.
"Once temperatures return to normal or above freezing, we expect production flows to return," she said.
January-delivery gas futures on Nymex settled 2.9%, or 11.8 cents, higher at $4.232 per million British thermal units. That is the highest price since May 24.
Forecasters call for below-normal temperatures to linger in the key Midwest and Northeast regions for the next six to 10 days.
The National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center projects that cold weather this week will raise heating demand in the areas most reliant on gas heat by about 38% from a year earlier.
About half of the homes in the nation rely on gas heating and the Midwest has the largest concentration of residential gas users, government data show.
Analysts said the lingering cold will likely cause gas companies to pull more supply from storage to meet rising demand.
Frigid temperatures stretching from the Midwest to the East Coast forced power utilities to burn more gas to meet demand during Thanksgiving week. The Energy Information Administration said gas suppliers pulled 162 bcf of natural gas from underground storage facilities in the Nov. 29 week, far more than analysts' expectations for a 144-bcf withdrawal, the biggest drop since February and left stocks at their lowest end-November level in five years. Inventories fell below the five-year average level for the first time since July, data from the Energy Information Administration show.
Meantime, commitments of traders reports released Friday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission show fund managers last week sharply reduced their bets on lower gas futures prices, returning to the bull camp for the first time in six weeks. The funds held a net long position in gas futures and options of 25,594 contracts as of Dec. 3, compared with a net short position of 16,415 contracts a week earlier. The switch came as front-month gas climbed 4.1%, or 15.8 cents, during the reporting period.
Aaron Calder, senior energy analyst at Gelber & Associates in Houston, said continued cold temperatures may continue to support prices, and create a potential runup to the $4.40/mmBtu. Prices last hit that level--the highest since July 2011--on April 19. Mr. Calder cautioned, though, that further gains in gas prices raise a great risk that utilities will switch to burning lower-priced coal.
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