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This year Bonzai celebrates it's 20 years existence as a record label. However this week we're also broadcasting episode 100 of our weekly Bonzai Basik Beats radioshow. Both celebrations into one demanded for something special.
Label founder Fly took his best DJ skills & brought together some of our finest current and upcoming releases in an amazing 60 minute DJ mix, which we are exceptionally making available for free via our Soundcloud account.
Spread the music, spread the love, spread Bonzai all over the world.
Tracklisting – Episode 100 – mixed by Fly:
1° Frank Le Fever – Deep Within (Ewan Pearson Remix)
2° Crocy – Natura
3° Mindgamers – Chasing the Sun (Matan Caspi Remix)
4° Mindgamers – Hold You (Fab Code Remix)
5° The Idem – 12 ChicMaster (Mindgamers remix)
6° Ecco – El Carnaval
7° Fab Code – Soulfood (Metodi Hristov Remix)
8° Loquai – We Love The Night (Diego Alvez Remix)
9° Active Line Six – Requiem (Dub Mix)
10° Goksel Vancin – Veni Vidi Vici
11° Oz Romita – Sputnik
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Belarus teenagers take part in a rehearsal of the Independence Day parade in Minsk, on Tuesday. Belarus celebrates Independence Day on Wednesday, an official holiday marking the day in 1944 when the Red Army liberated Minsk from Nazi troops during the second world war.
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PRE-Symptomatic Studies in ALS (PRESS-ALS)
This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified June 2017 by Michael Benatar, University of Miami
University of Miami
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: January 9, 2012
Last updated: June 8, 2017
Last verified: June 2017
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The goal of PRESS-ALS is to study the earliest manifestations of disease in people with early ALS in whom some areas of the body are not yet affected.
|Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|PRE-Symptomatic Studies in ALS
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: amyotrophic lateral sclerosisU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Michael Benatar, University of Miami:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Phenoconversion [ Time Frame: Every three months over the course of one year ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|November 2013
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2027
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2027 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Healthy individuals (controls)
|Individuals affected with ALS (sporadic or familial)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
People affected with ALS (either familial or sporadic) and healthy controls
Inclusion Criteria
ALS group:
- Subject is a male or female, aged at least 18 years.
- Subject is affected with ALS (familial or sporadic).
- Subject has at least one limb in which there is no symptomatic upper and lower motor neuron dysfunction.
- Subject is willing and able to comply with all study procedures.
- Subject agrees to provide signed and dated informed consent form.
Control group:
- Subject is a male or female, aged at least 18 years.
- Subject is not affected with ALS or an ALS-related disorder.
- Subject does not have a family history (i.e., at least 2 biological relatives) of ALS or an ALS-related disorder.
- Subject is willing and able to comply with all study procedures.
- Subject agrees to provide signed and dated informed consent form.
Exclusion Criterion
• Any condition or situation which, in the PI's opinion, could confound the biomarker data or may interfere significantly with the individual's participation and compliance with the study protocol, including but not limited to neurological, psychological and/or medical conditions (e.g., multiple sclerosis, neuropathy, myelopathy).
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01508962
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Keywords provided by Michael Benatar, University of Miami:
Disease onset
Disease progression
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Motor Neuron Disease
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Neuromuscular Diseases
Spinal Cord Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
TDP-43 Proteinopathies
Proteostasis Deficiencies
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Motorola's pipeline didn't "wow" says Google's CFO
our own kind of work is actually quite promising." There is speculation that the next Motorola flagship model to be released later this year, the Motorola X, will be the first smartphone built with the Motorola name using input from Google. The phone is rumored to run on Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie and could be introduced at Google I/O in May. One rumor has Hugh Bradlow, Chief Technology Officer for Telstra, calling the device a "game-changer."
Additionally, Pichette added that talk of a feud between Google and Samsung is overblown. With Samsung taking a long look at releasing a Tizen powered smartphone sometime this year, there has been talk that the Korean based manufacturer is looking to put some space between it and Google to prove that it doesn't need to rely on the latter's open source OS. Samsung's two top handsets run on Android, the Samsung Galaxy S III and the Samsung GALAXY Note II.
source: TheVerge via Engadget
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1. InspectorGadget80 (unregistered)
Still excited too see the hand set and 5.0. But only bad thing is it will be only for VERIZON. I just want too see KEY LIME AND THE HUGE BATTERY LIFE they would put in it
2. D_Tech-tive (Posts: 104; Member since: 12 Feb 2012)
Can't wait to see what the Moto X has to offer!
18. _Bone_ (Posts: 2155; Member since: 29 Oct 2012)
Google is almost making excuses here just in case the X phone accidentally puts the entire field to shame. :)
I mean it sounds exactly like downplaying that they I mean Motorola made something so good that questions Google's promised impartiality, because badmouthing own product doesn't make sense otherwise.
3. mydi.maus (unregistered)
this MOTOROLA X might just kill the GS4 .WOW..
4. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
Wonder what the word wow means to these guys
5. maka.itu.gua.BENCI.BB (Posts: 3; Member since: 28 Feb 2013)
Seeing the google standard.... such as nexus 4,7 & 10
I think we all will be thrilled by it.
6. tech2 (Posts: 3487; Member since: 26 Oct 2012)
"calling the game changer" link doesnt work
7. snowgator (Posts: 3604; Member since: 19 Jan 2011)
Come on Google- Bring it. Wow me. I love Moto products, they just FEEL top notch. I am hoping KLP is the beat all/end all, and that Moto runs stock Android for those of us wanting that and choices besides the Nexus series.
I like the looks of some UI's running over Android, but usually not the long-term performance of them. The Nexus series are always good devices, but not since the original couple efforts have they been that "wow" factor they are reffering to.
Come on guys- you redefined Mobile. I am excited here....
10. 14545 (Posts: 1676; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
Only if it comes with an unlocked BL......
13. protozeloz (Posts: 5396; Member since: 16 Sep 2010)
I also wish for some wow... Google now and search there the only real wow, and the share shot feature on the galaxy (I wowed) oh and the shooting while filming got one of my eyebrows up high... But I could use some actual change... Maybe new navigation options (similar to Ubuntu and BB10) a gaming platform, a new way to interact with my message applications (/I would love a message center) but please give us something worth 5.0 update...
8. belovedson (Posts: 1052; Member since: 30 Nov 2010)
tizen can become a hit. they really need to concentrate on a lightweight os with app support. the blackberry os
9. techguy22 (Posts: 227; Member since: 09 Aug 2012)
i wonder the game thing too. motorota phones are well build. really good stuff. i dont buy them but i see business people here in NY with them. i dont know why google dont "wow" by the RAZR
11. BattleBrat (Posts: 1476; Member since: 26 Oct 2011)
I saw a naked RAZR at Radio Shack today, I forgot how sexy they are, mine is in an otter box...
12. Edmund (Posts: 656; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
But "going forward", does Motorola's line of RAZR phones have and "upgrade path" ? Will existing users that bought its 2012 flagship handsets be "left in the lurch" when Motorola decides to not push the key lime pie update due to differences in the kernel??
14. Ruckus (Posts: 286; Member since: 20 Oct 2011)
Motorola is so hit and miss. Their Razr HDs have had their issues but the DROID Razr M seems solid. Still at the end of the day id buy an HTC/Samsung/Nokia instead. Motorola let me down with my horrid Photon.
16. KingKurogiii (Posts: 5713; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
what kind of issues are you referring to? i'd say the HD is every bit as solid as the M and i have both of them. o:
15. Techboi (Posts: 84; Member since: 20 Sep 2012)
WOW its on more carriers. Wow me Google!
17. giri5555 (Posts: 4; Member since: 20 Feb 2013)
This is a slap on the faces of Motorola phone owners! Its like saying "You are fools to buy our phones"..
19. Reluctant_Human (Posts: 904; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
I appreciate the honesty but still want to see it for myself.
Also it looks like someone went on a thumbs down rampage in here.
20. bluescreen (Posts: 154; Member since: 22 Nov 2012)
i really want the note 3 although if motorola can build a phone with specs almost as good and fantasic cell reception i might go with them instead as im on the verge of coverage and need better reception....


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With Oscars season approaching, we all know the famous silent film The Artist, and one of the things that makes it stand out is that it's not only silent, but in black and white.
Mark Bridges, Oscar-nominated costume designer, was the mastermind behind the costumes featured in The Artist. Because of the chance that the film might be seen in color at some point, Bridges had to be sure that the costumes were coordinated for the black-and-white screen and for color. Here are pictures of what they would have looked like in color!
Also check out our Oscars countdown here!
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Hawker 4000 set for major upgrade progra
Owners of Hawker 4000 super-midsize jets will receive compensation in the form of alternative lift while their jets undergo an extensive upgrade and enhancement program beginning early this year. The roughly 40 Hawker 4000s delivered thus far need to receive a fuel system modification to meet FAA Part 25 Amendment 102 standards, and Hawker Beechcraft (HBC) is combining that work with an upgrade and enhancement program to avionics, engines and systems. The FAA allowed the Hawker 4000 to fly under exemptions that expire in 2014, and HBC is taking care of customers' airplanes well before the deadline. The entire upgrade and enhancement program is expected to be finished next year.
Alternative lift is for the average number of Part 91 hours that owners would normally fly, but not for charter-revenue-generating trips lost as a result of the upgrade. The Hawker 4000 will be the first business jet to achieve Amendment 102 compliance, once the modifications are done. "In almost every case, [owners] are excited about this program," said Doug Davidson, Hawker 4000 director of product support. "They weren't expecting [the enhancements] as part of the 102 upgrade. Early adopters are taken care of, and customers will see improved value [for their 4000s]."
"While we have our customers' airplane in our hands," said Shawn Vick, HBC executive vice president, "the incremental effort is not that great to give them the benefits and features [of the upgrade and enhancement program]. It is costly for this enterprise, but we know it's the right thing to do."
The fuel system modifications require removal of the interior and fuel system wiring harness isolation, installation of a ground-fault interrupter (GFI) in fuel pump wiring, rivet replacement and skin modifications on portions of the wings and addition of Glyptol dielectric paint. Later model 4000s already have most of the fuel system modifications and will need only the GFI installed and hooked up to existing wiring.
The upgrade and enhancement program will take about three months per airplane and work will be done at HBC's Little Rock, Ark., service center. Some wing paint work may be done at HBC's San Antonio, Texas, service center. HBC is paying for the entire upgrade and enhancement program except for avionics upgrades that weren't part of the original purchase agreement.
The upgrade and enhancement program includes the fuel system mods and what HBC describes as a "significant upgrade" to the Honeywell Epic avionics, Fadec software upgrade for the engines, new unattended mode for the APU, new landing-gear control module and other systems upgrades and a higher capacity and improved toilet. Also part of the upgrade program is removal of yellow sheets–compensating procedures or restrictions on some systems–from the aircraft flight manual.
"There were some parts of the airplane that we had to put to sleep when we certified it," said Doug Davidson, Hawker 4000 director of product support. "The technology was either new to the FAA or we hadn't fully vetted it, so we're going to wake up some of that functionality."
An advantage of modern glass cockpits is that upgrades are simpler to install–in many cases just a software change adds greater functionality. But in the case of the Honeywell Primus Epic system in the Hawker 4000, hardware work is also needed. The Block Point Upgrade-A (including Load 20) mod of Primus Epic brings the Hawker 4000 avionics suite up to current standards and adds new features that pilots have been waiting for.
Hardware changes include replacing the Epic system's primary processor–an Intel Pentium II chip–with a much faster Pentium M, the Intel architecture design that preceded the more recent Core chip design. GPS receivers and a new GPS antenna are also included, as are upgrades to platform software, EGPWS and the communications management function radios. New graphics modules are being added, and wiring harnesses modified to add new functions.
It is on the screens of the FMSes, PFDs and MFDs that pilots will see major benefits of Load 20. Pilots will be able to view electronic charts on both MFDs, use the cursor control device for more system control functions and view graphical weather on the displays.
The FMS will be able to generate takeoff and landing data and it also features go-around transition to lateral navigation, automatic approach preview and GPS backup. Also part of the upgrade are Honeywell's Runway Awareness Advisory System, electronic checklists, wind-shear alerts and warnings upgrade to the EGPWS, GPS Waas with LPV approach guidance, RNP 0.3/0.1 navigation performance, vertical glidepath GPS approaches and Category II logic added to the autopilot and displays.
The Fadec-controlled Pratt & Whitney Canada PW308A engines are easily updated with a software change that adds climb performance. One-engine-out takeoff thrust is doubled to 10 minutes, which allows more favorable takeoff and climb performance calculations. The software change also improves reliability; caution and advisory system (CAS) messages now flag minor faults as short- (150-hour) and long-term (600-hour) limited dispatch messages; high-altitude ground starting, engine sync and engine fuel monitoring and recording are improved; and "removal of automatic dry spin reduces crew workload in case of aborted engine start," according to HBC.
Pilots will appreciate the ability to leave the cockpit with the APU running with the new APU-unattended mode. The APU generator load shed scheme is improved and the APU will be able to power all displays, avionics and pitch trim. The fire and overheat protection system test uses a single test for the entire system, and batteries are used to power smoke detectors. Fault reporting for landing-gear problems is more accurate, thanks to a new Eldec landing-gear control module. The earlier Eldec module was providing erroneous startup indications. Left and right transformer rectifier units now have segregated CAS messages.
For a jet that can fly more than 3,000 nm, the toilet tank was small, and the upgrade program replaces the toilet with a new one that doubles tank capacity to 7.5 from 3.75 gallons. The tank is angled three degrees at the bottom to "facilitate better waste removal," and depth is larger, too, five inches versus two inches. A traditional steel flapper valve is added to provide tank separation. The new toilet does not take up any extra interior space.
FAA certification regulations are the reason that early Hawker 4000s need to go back to HBC for the upgrade and enhancement program. The regulations are a result of the TWA 800 Boeing 747 explosion over Long Island in 1996 and are designed to help prevent explosions due to fuel system electrical problems.
A key fuel system modification is addition of ground-fault interrupters, basically extremely fast-acting circuit breakers, in the fuel pump wiring circuit. These are mounted on the secondary pressure bulkhead on the baggage compartment side. If an electrical short-circuit occurs in the fuel pump wiring, the interrupters quickly shut off power to the boost pumps.
The latest regulations require that fuel system wiring be routed through dedicated flexible red tubing to protect it from damage. Glyptol dielectric paint will be added underneath the newly protected fuel system wiring where it sits on center section skins, adding yet another layer of protective insulation.
On the first 25 Hawker 4000s, to further improve electrical grounding for lightning protection, an extra layer of glassfiber topped with a thin layer of aluminum will be bonded in place on the outboard four feet of the top and bottom of the wing. In the same lightning-protection vein, some hammered rivets on the inboard section of the wing are being replaced with Hi-Lok threaded fasteners. "The reason is that you can tell when a Hi-Lok is properly installed," said Nicolas Begley, Hawker 4000 upgrade and enhancement program manager. "And you can put seal caps on them and get this independent and redundant system protection." The new insulation will be difficult to spot. "Once it's blended and sanded," he said, "the only way you're going to tell [it's been done] is the wings are repainted. The rivet line you normally would have seen is no longer visible."
In-house Project
The Hawker 4000s needing the upgrade and enhancement have been scheduled for specific slots at HBC's Little Rock facility. HBC did consider doing the work at other factory-owned facilities, Begley explained. "We looked at that, but the reality is that we want to go down the learning curve and improve the cycle time and standardize the process in our own production environment.
"When we give the airplane back to its owner, we're going to go through the same exact process we do here [for new aircraft deliveries]. We spend over a week in delivery prep. Once the airplane goes through the modifications and everything's back and reinstalled and cosmetics are addressed as required, it's going to go through our customer advocate managers. They're going to inspect the aircraft. We're going to make sure the customer receives a delivery experience that's on par with what he should expect to receive as a new delivery."
"[The process] has been scheduled for the purposes of ensuring quality, consistency and repeatability," said Vick, "at one location with a team of people who understand this task. We're going to take the aircraft in based on sequential delivery. The rigor around the process is to ensure that all the customers are treated exactly the same in order of the delivery of the airplanes."
Customers will be able to follow the progress of their upgrades with a dedicated Web site. After the upgrades are finished, customer pilots will have time to conduct acceptance and familiarization flights.


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Provencal Tomato Tart
This Tomato Tart is a popular dish served as a first course, or with a green salad for a simple lunch. It's delicious and sophisticated, yet takes very little time and few ingredients. Best of all, it's very easy to improvise according to taste and what you have available in the kitchen.
1 frozen puff pastry (2 sheets), thawed (we used Pepperidge Farms, which comes with 2 rectangles of dough)
4 medium to large ripe tomatoes, or 10 Roma tomatoes
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
1½ to 2 cups shredded Gruyere or Emmental cheese
Sea salt and pepper, to taste
4 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme leaves (or tarragon, chives, marjoram, torn basil, or a mix)
18 to 20 small black oil-cured olives or Nicoise olives, pitted (less if using larger Kalamata olives, which are best if pitted and coarsely chopped)
1 small garlic clove, finely minced (optional)
½ cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese (or Romano, Pecorino, or Asiago)
1. Preheat the oven to 400°F.
2. Cover 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper (this will save you cleaning the pans later).
3. Thaw the dough according to package instructions. Cover a cutting board with one of the two parchment papers. Place 1 rectangle of dough on it, floured side down (if neither side is already floured, lightly flour the parchment). Using a rolling pin, gently roll the rectangle from the center out, so it is about an inch wider on all four sides.
4. Fold or roll up about half an inch of the edges of all sides.
5. Carefully transfer the parchment and dough to one of the baking sheets.
6. Repeat with the second piece of dough.
7. Thinly slice the tomatoes. If not using Roma tomatoes, drain the excess juice from the cutting board.
8. Using the back of a spoon, spread 1 tablespoon of mustard on each puff pastry to the folded or rolled edge. Divide the Gruyere in half and sprinkle on top of the mustard, covering evenly.
9. Lay the tomatoes on the tarts in rows, either flat or slightly overlapping if needed. Season with sea salt and coarse ground pepper. Sprinkle with the herbs, olives, garlic (if using), and Parmigiano.
10. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the edges of the crust are golden brown.


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Little Tikes Cookin' Fun Interactive Kitchen
My niece has one of these and I can't tell you how much fun she has! Every time I visit I have my usual pretend eggs, tea, and ice cream! Little Tikes Cooking Fun Interactive Kitchen will give your child the perfect opportunity to play house with all the amenities!


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Hotel Christine Classy B and B Amsterdam, This bed and breakfast is located on the edge of park Amsterdamse Bos and Christine Classy B&B offers a well-equipped room with free Wi-Fi. Public transport stop A.J. Ernststraat is a 15-minute walk. The room has several pictures and a large mirror opposite of the bed. It features a flat-screen TV as well. A shower is fitted in the shared bathroom which also has a washing machine and clothes dryer. Breakfast is served in the breakfast room with a view on the garden. There are several cafes and restaurants within 20 minutes by foot from Christine Classy B&Bの. アムステルダムRAIです 3 ㎞. From A.J. Ernststraat you have direct links to Museumplein, Leidseplein, Dam Square and Central and South Stations. Schiphol Airport is a 12-minutes' drive. (Hotel Christine Classy B and B Amsterdam hotels 予約).


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Michael T. Owen & Associates Inc. was established with a view to bringing a total solutions concept to the employee benefits needs of the business community. Our philosophy is customer centered. We place our customers and their needs first. Our mission is to:
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- understand the interrelationships that exist between the clients insurance programs and how changes in one area impact others.
We focus on developing solutions with our clients through a consultative process. As we act on behalf of our clients, our advice is independent and objective. We are not affiliated with any insurance company or benefit provider. We are solely accountable to our clients.


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Call 13 88 69 to book a tow in Mambray Creek now, 24/7
Tow.com.au provides 24/7 towing services in Mambray Creek, SA.
Our Mambray Creek tow truck fleet
Tow.com.au operates a fleet of 2 tow trucks within km's of the centre of Mambray Creek. The oldest tow truck in operation in and around Mambray Creek was manufactured in 1994 and the newest was manufactured in 1998.
This fleet is capable of towing vehicles and equipment up to 22 tonne in size.
About Mambray Creek
Mambray Creek belongs to the District Council of Mount Remarkable.
Towing Services
Throughout Mambray Creek we offer the following towing services.
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A Delicious Double Dose…
Today's Tuesdays with Dorie recipe for Blueberry Crumb Cake was chosen by Sihan of I look forward to this wonderful cake for breakfast tomorrow! This cake ranks high on my TwD list and I will definitely make this again in the very near furture!
Thanks, Sihan for a delicious pick! For the recipe, head over Sihan's blog or flip to pages 192-193 in Oh and let me not forget last week's recipe for Dorie's French Yogurt Cake. This dessert was chosen by Liliana of My Cookbook Addiction. I did not post last week due to St. Patrick's Day recipes, so I thought I would give ya a double dose of Dorie today. I baked this cake in a large brioche pan I purchased from Williams Sonoma and topped it with a cream cheese icing. This cake was really tasty and is a definite must try! Click here for the recipe.
Thanks for stopping by and I hope one of these recipes makes your day deliciously addictive!
21 Responses to "A Delicious Double Dose…"
Mmm, two treats for the price of one! I'm all for it! The blueberry cake looks totally fabulous. I'm such a sucker for crumb topping. And of course, the yogurt cake looks excellent, too. Is it too gluttonous to wish for a slice of both?
blueberry cake loosk fantabulous. and chai tea as accompaniment. perfect! I'm so glad you loved the recipe!
Both cakes look delicious!
MMMM, they both look so good. You made me want to eat breakfast now. I am not usually a breakfast eater.
I am loving the WS brioche pan cake! May have to add that pan to my collection.
Thanks for the blueberry recipe. It sounds fabulous. And the real bonus is the two for one today :)
I loved the blueberry cake, too, and liked that the lemon flavor was very subtle.
Two lovely desserts, what a great post! I love the blueberry photos!
Yay, happy to hear you really liked it. Your yogurt cake baked up so pretty in the brioche pan and I loved how you kicked it up with that lovely cream cheese glaze.
Like you I don't do mushy fruits (food). Eww! Which is why I don't really bake with fruit (outside of bananas) and won't touch the frozen stuff except to toss into my smoothie maker.
Looks Lovely! Well done. :)
Oh my gosh – great pictures! I love that first one!! The cake looks great!!
True… a cake you don't feel toooo guilty by eating it for breakfast! LOL can't say that about many of the past TWD recipes, huh!? LOL LOL
Great results, as usual Jamie!
Both cakes are lovely.
Both cakes look fantastic!
Your cake looks fantastic and your photography is just beautiful!
Then french yoghurt cakes looks beautiful!!!! lovely photo too! I will try that. I find that cakes with yoghurt are more moist, dont you? btw thanx 4 visiting my blog n the nice comment!
Two beautiful cakes! Love your blueberry cake picures. I loved the crumb topping!
Both desserts look great. I will take one of each!
I absolutely love cake for breakfast :) thanks for this double dose of goodness. They both lok great.
I love that you put both cakes up! I really enjoyed the blueberry coffee cake, so I had to share it. Too dangerous. The french yogurt cake looks FAB with the cream cheese frosting. I still have some in the freezer, and now I think I have an idea of how to finish eating it!
Both cakes look so great! I love the blueberry cake – the topping looks absolutely perfect! Great job on both of them. :)
Oh, the glaze. On the yogurt cake. *swoon* Not that your crumb cake isn't drop-dead gorgeous, but I'm a sucker for drips of glaze on cakes :)


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They headed to New Zealand having won the RBS 6 Nations earlier in the year and all their group games in the Land of the Long White Cloud but came unstuck against Les Bleus.
Johnson's contract as head coach is due to expire in November but RFU operations director Andrew admitted it will take nearly two months to settle on what to do next.
"It is very disappointing that it has happened. The key thing is that we take the next four to six weeks with Martin and review what has gone on," said Andrew.
"Martin will reflect on what has happened and why we have gone out in the quarter-final of a World Cup. The important thing now is to take stock.
"We said right from the start that we would take this right through to this World Cup with Martin in charge. We have done that and now we will sit down with Martin and look at what has happened.
"It is my job to look at the review and take it forward and at some point in the next few weeks reflect and then make a decision. We will do that as quickly and as openly possible as we can."


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I've set my musical camp around rock. Sometimes go harder, sometimes softer, but it is near some form of rock. And this guitar handles it nicely. It pushes me towards it's roots - blues-rock, because it sounds amazing clean. Sometimes even get myself flirting with jazz. Nevertheless it gets beautiful with some grit on. But beware: to much gain and it becomes wailing whale in Your hands (feedback it is). All hollow-body (especially full ones) are prone to this. But if You take attention to volume, gain and amp position it becomes interesting and nice to play with feedback and incorporate it to playing. Just takes time to tame feedback beast, but then You do that only glorious moments waits ahead. No other noises if you don't want it: humbuckers justify their name. Tonal variety goes from really muddy in neck pickup with tone down to sharp bell-like in bridge with tone all way up. And there is Bigsby if You want some wacky surf rock or rockabilly stuff. At first I wanted guitar without tremolo/vibrato in bridge, but with Bigsby I don't have to retune each string after tuning neighbor one and it gives me some additional weaponry. With this guitar You can go here and there. Can't go metal or heavy grunge. I don't, so this guitar fills the bill and keeps my ears happy. And here is my setup: Cort Yorktown-BV -> Marshall Jachammer (superb overdrive, not so distortion) -> Behringer Vintage Phaser (mostly stays idle) -> Boss Power Driver (fuzz/distortion) -> Marshall Echohead (cheap, but good delay unit) -> Orange Crush 20L (20w nice solid state practice amp). And You can her it unplugged - that's nice bonus folks.
Overall Impression — 9
For closet Rocker like me it is more than enough. It has looks, it has sound, it has attitude and Bigsby vibrato... I tested quite a few guitars before choosing this and I have no regrets picking this up. Sure it is not Gibson or Gretsch, but it is way cheaper and still inspires me to play. Been playing with guitar (acoustic, electric, bass) for almost 10 year. Still no Clapton or Hendrix, but I like making some music. And my Cort Yorktown-BV helps me to discover new melodies. P.S.: Sorry for my bad grammar and stuff (English not my native language). I just decided to post some info about this guitar, because when I searched there was none. Hopes this helps.
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The preview guitar in shop had loose volume knob and it buzzed a lot - this may be warning. But mine is tight (fingers crossed). I have it for four months and happy with it. Bought plastic strap lockers to keep it firmly on my shoulders. Had few minor collisions with furniture and no dents - that's good. You know it's Cort: sh|t might happen, but so far it's good. Sh|t can happen and with other brands also... Would I play with it live? Yes, of course. I think it would do just fine. For my purposes it's reliable enough.
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Actually I was sold on its looks. Usually I hate golden elements on guitar, but this looks truly amazing (I saw photos with nickel, but golden looks so much better). And that vibrant Orange color makes me pick it up and play something cheerful. When I bought it, it was adjusted in store to have good action etc. And action feels good. Tuning pegs keeps tuning in place. The ends of frets are bit sharp, but I accepted that annoyance. Neck is fat and I like it. Others might not. This guitar is not for shredders. It's for chorders who strum and like to listen what they hear. If You playing a lot above 12th fret - forget it. In high register it is hard and uncomfortable. Possible (has cut in), but no fun in highs. Stay low, stay happy, play something - that's my philosophy.
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Some copy-paste info: - CONSTRUCTION: Set-in - BODY: Spruce Top with Maple Back & Sides - NECK: Canadian Maple - BINDING: Red Ivory - FRETBOARD: Rosewood, 12" Radius(305mm) - FRETS: 20 / Large (2.7mm) - SCALE: 24 3/4" (629mm) - INLAY: Rectangular White Pearl - TUNERS: Vintage - BRIDGE: T.O.M Bridge & Bigsby Lic. B60 Vibrato - PICKUPS: ClassicRocker-II CR2NS-F & CR2NS-R (H-H) - ELECTRONICS: 2vol, 2tone, 3way toggle - HARDWARE: NI (Nickel) - STRINGS: D'Addario EXL110 (046-010) - COLORS: Yorktown-BV TO - Trans. Orange Not much to say, just full hollow-body electric guitar with 2 Cort pick-ups, 4 knob tone/volume control, Tune-O-Matic bridge with Bigsby Vibrato and helluva looks.


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Wow. I feel like I've missed so much. The last month has been hell at work. I've worked the last 3 weekends in a row (Note: I do not get paid overtime, comp time, or any other form of compensation for overtime) because our product is so behind schedule. That combined with the absolute worst spring weather I've ever seen has kept me from any physical activity. That really showed at the company sponsored 'Know Your Numbers' event where they weigh you, test your cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure, etc. Compared to last year at this same time I have gained 5 lbs and my blood pressure has gone from normal to nearing hypertension. That was quite the wake-up call. Note to any higher level management people, if you think forced overtime (whether it's paid or not) doesn't have a direct effect, this shows it certainly does.
So I gained 5 lbs since last May, but really I've gained 9 lbs since November when I was at my peak of running and other physical activity. That's a lot for such a short time frame. Nothing fits anymore and I've lost all confidence in my physical appearance and ability. I am not happy. What's worse is this product isn't going to be released until the end of June so there are nearly two more months of foreseeable overtime. I need to find time for me.
I either need to get up and run in the morning before anything can even happen at work or find a way to leave at an appropriate time regardless of what piece of our product is currently under severe scrutiny. The former sounds more promising so that's what I'm going to go for. I haven't been a morning person since high school swim team required it, but I think the outcome should be worth it.
Many races I signed up for months ago are now appearing on the horizon and I am getting nervous. I have a 5k this weekend and even though my 5k PR is old and slow I fear I may be incapable of breaking it. Next is a sprint tri at the beginning of June, followed closely by a second 2 weeks later. There is no time left to mess around. Good news is I will definitely weigh more than the 145 pound weight requirement for the Athena class that I was nervous about putting myself in 5 months ago… if that really could be considered good news. At 5'10" it's not hard to meet that requirement but I now beat it by more than I'd care to admit.
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Motorola XOOM 4G LTE is one step closer to reality as employee beta tests wrap up
0. phoneArena posted on 30 Aug 2011, 11:21
one of our reliable tipsters informed us that Big Red is just about wrapping up their employee 4G LTE upgrade pilot, which allowed certain employees to partake in the beta test. Specifically, we're told that the entire process took exactly 3 business days...
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1. gotti88 (Posts: 101; Member since: 06 Jul 2011)
5. bolaG (Posts: 468; Member since: 15 Aug 2011)
wow. can anyone say this comment is a little ignorant.
7. gotti88 (Posts: 101; Member since: 06 Jul 2011)
holy crap it was a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
13. OriginalSIM (Posts: 14; Member since: 29 Aug 2011)
why is it that everytime I read a post on here is someone calling someone else stupid....lol
10. ncvzw (Posts: 6; Member since: 18 Dec 2009)
late, verizon is leading the way with LTE. Verizon has half of the country's population covered in 4G, that is why at&t and Sprint have announced that they will follow Big Red's lead and go to LTE.
2. Mr.Mr.Upgrade (Posts: 474; Member since: 30 Aug 2011)
Hspa and wimax suck do Ur homework, why u think sprint and ATT changing to lte get real sucker
3. chack_fu (Posts: 46; Member since: 19 Jan 2009)
Sprint isnt late they just never show up (clearwire/ lightsquared, get real)!!
AT&T LTE just started testing pilot markets and you think VZW is late to everything?
4. gotti88 (Posts: 101; Member since: 06 Jul 2011)
aww look people are upset at my personal opinion lol!!!! check this out im a tech in a few of those departments people i know what im talking about and it was just a joke darn lol!!! i was trying to get the miz to actually say something totally stupid so i could argue with him... nuthing of what was said was true at all darn lol!!!! u cant even joke with people these days they be going crazy and getting mad. i get paid to write the things u think u know about but have no idea about lol!!!
6. bolaG (Posts: 468; Member since: 15 Aug 2011)
How do you expect us to know your joking or serious when you write everything in caps with no smilies? When I joke I at least throw a smily.
i.e Iphone sucks!! :p
8. gotti88 (Posts: 101; Member since: 06 Jul 2011)
ok lol!!!! lmao!! lmfao!!!!! better lol!!!
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The name is too damn long...
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just got mine back and it flies! love the 4G in my xoom
14. CRICKETownz (Posts: 980; Member since: 24 Oct 2009)
Android tablets...meh. Not impressed with any of them. XOOM, 10.1, 8.9 and all of the other irrelevant Android tablets out there. Haven't played with one Android tablet that I didn't view as a knock off. The Playbook (besides the iPad) is the only tablet that seems to have a taste of originality/quality to it. Even though Android does all they can to pack all of these features into their tablets to rate high on the specs chart...there is still a generic characteristic to them. Maybe b/c a new Android tablet is born every minute. I wish they would stop worrying about over-saturation and just focus all of their resources into one Android tablet available to everyone.
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STAGE TUBE: Andrew Prashad Taps to ONCE Tune 'Falling Slowly' in Toronto
Andrew Prashad choreographed a tap routine to "Falling Slowly" from the musical Once and you can check it out below!
The combo was created for an advanced tap class Prashad taught with the Toronto Rhythm Initiative. The Toronto Rhythm Initiative consists of a collective of local dancers, musicians, visual artists, singers, and actors who have been brought together to explore the music of globally recognized bands through a collaboration specifically with tap dance.
Winner of eight 2012 Tony Awards including Best Musical, ONCE is a truly original Broadway experience. Featuring an impressive ensemble of actor/musicians who play their own instruments onstage, ONCE tells the enchanting tale of a Dublin street musician who's about to give up on his dream when a beautiful young woman takes a sudden interest in his haunting love songs. As the chemistry between them grows, his music soars to powerful new heights... but their unlikely connection turns out to be deeper and more complex than your everyday romance. Emotionally captivating and theatrically breathtaking, Once draws you in from the very first note and never lets go. It's an unforgettable story about going for your dreams... not living in fear... and the power of music to connect all of us.
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Once again, the Food and Drug Administration is overwhelmed by an outbreak of contaminated food. Eight people have died and 575 people in 43 states have been sickened by an outbreak of salmonella that federal officials trace to peanut butter products made by the Peanut Corp. of America. The federal agency responsible for protecting the nation's food supply looks as if it learned nothing from grappling with similar outbreaks of tainted spinach and peppers. The FDA lacks the authority and resources to do its job. President Obama cannot allow this dereliction to continue.
The FDA says the Peanut Corp. of America shipped tainted products even after tests confirmed the presence of salmonella. The company is now under criminal investigation. The peanut butter and paste is not sold directly to consumers, but in bulk to processors who use the ingredient to make hundreds of different products, from cookies and crackers to cereal and candy.
Given how widely the product is used, and that peanut butter is a staple in the diet of American children, one would expect the FDA to have moved quickly to contain the health threat. But the limited recalls announced by the company in mid-January came as much as a week after public health officials targeted the Blakely, Ga., plant. The FDA took 16 days to fully inspect the plant, and faulted it for exposing food to contamination. Still, the total recall the following day, Jan. 28, was voluntary. And as the New York Times reported last week, the FDA, under its current rules, needed the company's approval before announcing the recall. The agency can seize products or go to court, if necessary, but in protecting the food supply, it usually relies on the cooperation of the very foodmakers who are under suspicion.
The agency plays a mop-up role, not a policing one. One reason is a lack of money. In two reports last year, the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, chronicled how food safety was starved under the Bush administration. The FDA's total spending on food safety dropped between 2003 and 2007. Staffing levels fell 17 percent over those four fiscal years; the level in 2007 was lower than in 2002.
Meanwhile, the agency failed to incorporate recommendations on how to maximize its efforts. The GAO warned for 10 years that the FDA needed to better focus its resources. Yet as of May, it had implemented only seven of the 34 recommendations the GAO had made for improving food safety. "A decade later," the GAO wrote in June, "the story remains the same."
What hasn't remained the same is the agency's workload. The number of domestic firms regulated by the FDA increased from about 51,000 in 2001 to more than 65,500 in 2007. Yet the number of firms inspected decreased during that same time, to 14,566 from 14,721. That alone tells the government it needs to focus its food safety efforts. The FDA has been working to do just that since November 2007, but, as the peanut butter outbreak shows, it needs a shot in the arm (and one across the bow) from the White House.


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I'm Jasmin and I love dogs. I was born and raised in Jerusalem, where I spent my time either in school, at the beach in Herzliya, or playing tennis. I left to the United States when I was 16, where I attended the United World College in New Mexico (UWC-USA) and had the time of my life. I had never imagined a place with such beautiful skies. I then went to the University of Pennsylvania, where I studied chemical engineering, fell in love with Parc's bread, and experienced the painful joy of an 'all-nighter'. In my last year at Penn, I worked with Prof. Gorte and his graduate student at the time, Kevin Bakhmutsky. It was a very rewarding research experience under great mentorship, so I applied for graduate school. I've been at Princeton since 2012, still under great mentorship in the Shvartsman Lab.
I am currently working on the Drosophila egg chamber, which is a multicellular structure, and a precursor to the oocyte. It's a great system for understanding a lot of basic biological phenomena, but I'm mainly interested in understanding collective and emergent behaviors that arise in small multicellular systems. Specifically, I'm looking into the dynamics of collective growth on a small lineage tree and the diversity of 3D configurations thereof.
On Growth
On Packing
Packing problems are pervasive, from the stacking of oranges at the grocer's and Guinness casks on a ship, to the formation of honeycombs, and self assembly of viral protein coats. Since Kepler, people have been interested in coming up with principles that account for the observed packing configurations of infinite and finite collections of spherical and non-spherical objects. Similarly, we're interested in describing and understanding the packing configurations of the 16 cells comprising the Drosophila egg chamber, and in coming up with 'packing principles' that explain our observations. Using both experimental and computational approaches, we've enumerated and characterized the complete set of permissible packing configurations, and their relative frequency. To do so, we relied on z-stacks of labelled egg chambers, and uniquely mapped their 3D structure onto the various configurations of the ring canal tree. In doing so, we reduced high dimensional data to a 1D descriptor that captures most of the cells' spatial organization. This study emphasizes the indispensability of insightful visualization and abstraction techniques to pattern extraction.
This idea of using low dimensional representation of multidimensional data to extract patterns was featured in a Nature news and views showcasing transformative techniques and toolboxes for visualizing biology.
I also had the opportunity to present at a conference / workshop on visualization biological data (VIZBI) in Heidelberg this year, where participants were invited to submit an artistically inspired picture related to their work. Stas, my advisor, had earlier sent me an image of Picasso's series of lithographies, titled Bull, depicting .... a bull at various stages of abstraction. The first image was of a 'meaty' bull, and the last, was just a collection of lines that were still unmistakably a bull. The analogy with our work was unavoidable: despite reducing the 3D image of an egg chamber to collection of nodes and edges, the resulting tree captured the essence of that egg chamber's spatial organization, i.e. the 'spirit of the beast'. I therefore created this montage showing a few of Picasso's sequential reductionist lithographs, and our own series of images. The idea was not draw direct comparisons, but to use well known pieces of art to make it easier to convey our approach and our message to those unfamiliar with our work, and I think it worked. People seemed to like it, and the image was awarded the Autodesk Art and Biology Award.
All of the above work is done in collaboration with Paul Villoutreix, a postdoc at our lab, Norbert Stoop from math at MIT, Adam Finkelstein and Jacob Edelman from Computer Science at Princeton, Caroline Doherty, a graduate student in our lab, and two of our summer students: Alice Teng and Elin Ahlstrand. Not to mention, unwavering gratitude to my advisor, Stas Shvartsman and members of my committee, Yannis Kevrekidis, Celeste Nelson, and Clifford Brangwynne from CBE.
Hindgut Organoids
Organoids are cell aggregates that arise in vitro with 3D structure, which more closely mimics the in vivo tissue than 2D models. Given the proper environment and growth factors, pluripotent stem cells will differentiate into organoids of several tissues including brain, liver and intestine. A mechanistic understanding of early organoid formation is essential for transitioning these technologies into robust, high-throughput methods suitable for commercial and therapeutic applications. Unfortunately, current organoid differentiation methods are inefficient in that they generally create heterogeneous cultures. In the past two years, I've been involved in an EBICS project that aims to understand the mechanisms regulating the emergence of intestinal organoids from hiPSCs derived hindgut cultures, and to design systems that sort for organoids predicted to mature successfully. This work is central to translating this technology into high-throughput models for drug discovery and development.
This work is being done in collaboration with the Kamm (MIT), Griffith (MIT) and Asada (MIT) labs, specifically with Natasha Arora and Jacob Guggenheim. A manuscript reporting these studies, titled "A process engineering approach to increase organoid yield" in Development can be found here.
Art & Communicating Science
In addition to being a great model system, the egg chamber is also a beautiful structure. Most of my work requires 3D images, or z-stacks, or egg chambers with multiples structures labeled simultaneously. The images and the colors are fantastic and make it easy to get others excited about one's work, and about science in general. I realized this very early on and got involved in the Art of Science exhibit, held (almost) annually here at Princeton, initially as a participant, now as an organizer. It's an exhibit showcasing some of the unintentionally beautiful images and videos captured in the process of 'doing' science, and is a great opportunity to engage the public in research seemingly going on behind closed doors.
We're currently organizing the exhibit for 2017 so stay tuned !
I also come from an artistically inspired family. My mother, Ursula, and younger sister, Besan, have a taken on a mammoth project of putting together an art exhibit of their works. It is still a work in progress, but if you're interested, you can visit their website that hosts pictures of their pieces, or even contact them !
Education at a Glance
- 2012-Present | Princeton University
PhD Candidate in Chemical & Biological Engineering
- 2007-12 | University of Pennsylvania
MSE & BSE in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Minor in Mathematics and Materials Science & Engineering
Concentration in Environmental Engineering
- 2005-07 | United World College (UWC-USA, NM)
International Baccalaureate (IB), hot springs and the worldliest of places
- 1993-05 | Schmidt's Girls' College, Jerusalem
Typing lessons. Mathematics in Arabic and in English.
Please contact me for a complete resume or with any questions in general :)
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Papa Smurf, Papa Smurf
|Un Grand Schtroumpf de trop
|Dos Papás Pitufo
|Papa Schlümpf, Papa Schlümpf
|Di Grande Puffo ce n'è uno solo
|Grote Smurf, Grote Smurf
"Papa Smurf, Papa Smurf" is a Season 6 episode from the Smurfs cartoon show.
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In Papa Smurf's laboratory, Grandpa Smurf chastises the village leader, saying that he looks rather worn out. Papa Smurf admits that he's been up since morning working on Farmer's double-growth formula, saying he will be able to grow twice as many smurfberries from the same bud. Grandpa Smurf invites Papa Smurf to go out with him into the forest to take a break, but Papa Smurf says he needs to look over Handy's blueprint, which makes the older Smurf concerned for the village leader. Then Poet comes into Papa Smurf's laboratory, saying that he needs help on his "Ode To Fruit", followed by Painter wanting him to look at sketches for a mural, Handy demanding Papa Smurf to look at his blueprints, Smurfette wanting some help with a wilted flower, and Snappy and Sassette having a fight with each other. Grandpa Smurf blows the whistle on all these demands for Papa Smurf's attention, telling the grand-Smurfs that they're asking too much of him. Brainy tries to dismiss the crowd by saying Papa Smurf's going to need all his free time to write an introduction to Brainy's latest Quotations book. However, all these distractions have caused Papa Smurf's formula work to bubble over until it explodes, which results in the village leader now being beside himself...quite literally!
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That evening, as the two Papa Smurfs prepare for bed, commenting that it's like having a special guest in their house, they tell Grandpa Smurf that he should dump the double-growth formula into the Great Stone Canyon to make sure they don't have anymore duplicating accidents in the village. Grandpa Smurf agrees, saying that he wouldn't want two Brainys around. However, after Grandpa Smurf leaves, the two Papa Smurfs end up fighting over who's going to sleep in Papa Smurf's bed, with each of them willing to offer the other his place in it but instead they settle down elsewhere in the bedroom, hoping that one of them will eventually take the bed. They both go to sleep, muttering that the other Papa Smurf is certainly stubborn.
Out in the bottom of the Great Stone Canyon at night, Gargamel is chipping away at the rock wall until he comes across the very thing he is looking for -- the Blue Nade Stone, which is what he needs to make the needle in his Smurf compass. He soon hears a Smurf singing the Smurf song as he approaches the canyon, so the wizard hides himself behind the other rock wall to keep that Smurf from noticing him. However, Grandpa Smurf appears right above Gargamel, dumping the double-growth formula right onto him, which ends up duplicating both the wizard and the rock he is holding. This scares Azrael and makes the two Gargamels wonder who each other really is.
Back in the village, the Smurfs wake up to a breakfast of Greedy's muffins. Smurfette tells her fellow Smurfs to save enough muffins for the two Papa Smurfs, whom the other Smurfs see coming looking like they had a hard time sleeping. Smurfette shows them the seats she has saved for them, but the two Papa Smurfs end up sitting apart from each other. Handy asks if either of them had the chance to look at his blueprints, and one Papa Smurf says he will get on it right after breakfast, but the other Papa Smurf says that's what he was planning to do, and they both end up fighting with each other over who's going to do what. It gets no better as they both try to direct Handy in building a wall, with one saying the Smurfs should build the north wall first and the other saying they should build the south wall first. Handy tries to mediate by saying they are both correct, but both Papa Smurfs tell Handy to stay out of their argument. Smurfette could see that having two Papa Smurfs run a single village was not the best idea.
Meanwhile, Scruple and Azrael witness the two Gargamels squabbling over whose house really belongs to them, which ends up in violence. Scruple bangs on a pot to get the two wizards' attentions, then tells them that they should have a contest to decide which of them will stay and which one will leave. One Gargamel decides that they should have a Smurf-catching contest, with the other saying that the one who catches the most Smurfs will be the winner. As the two Gargamels shake in agreement to the contest rules, Scruple shakes his head saying that such a contest will last a lifetime.
Back in the village, Grandpa Smurf tells Sassette why two Papa Smurfs can't get along with each other when Painter approaches them, saying that the two village leaders are now fighting over his sketches. They play tug-of-war with one of the sketches until it rips, causing Painter to get upset. Grandpa Smurf says that having two Papa Smurfs is becoming too much and that they should now be working on a counter-formula to bring them both back together. The two Papa Smurfs agree on that idea and head into the laboratory to start working on it. As they bump into each other trying to enter the same place at the same time, Sassette hopes that they would come up with the formula and fast.
In Gargamel's castle, the duplicated wizards are now arguing with each other over who caused the most injuries on the other when Scruple paints a line in the middle of the room, saying that they can choose which side each of them will stay on. However, neither of them can agree over which one will make the decisions, which results in the two Gargamels fighting again. Scruple says that at this rate he's going to run out of bandages.
In Papa Smurf's laboratory, the two Papa Smurfs are fighting over the ingredients they were adding to the counter-formula, with the other Smurfs watching the lack of progress from outside. Eventually the fighting causes their work to explode in the laboratory, which makes the two Papa Smurfs realize that one of them has got to go. Grandpa Smurf has them picking straws to see which of the two will leave the village, and as it turns out the green-feathered Papa Smurf picks the short one, marking him as the one who must leave. This makes the other Smurfs as well as the orange-feathered Papa Smurf sad to see the other Papa Smurf leave, but the green-feathered Papa Smurf says that by working separately one of them might find the solution to bring them both together. Yet it still leaves some of the Smurfs wondering what they're going to do with one Papa Smurf left to his lonesome.
In the north clearing out in the forest, the green-feathered Papa Smurf makes for himself a house that he could live and do his work in when Brainy comes along delivering lumber for building a whole new village. He is followed by several other Smurfs, with Smurfette saying that they also have picked straws and now half of them will come to live with the exiled Papa Smurf. This makes this Papa Smurf feel very happy, though it makes those Smurfs realize that they are now without the skills that the Smurfs left in the original Smurf Village still possess. The green-feathered Papa Smurf says that they will have to pull together and do the work that the other Smurfs once did for them.
In Gargamel's castle, Scruple is busy doing double-duty cooking for two Gargamels who are demanding for their supper. He goes over to one of the Gargamels, who tells his apprentice that he is secretly working on a Smurf compass that will let him catch lots of Smurfs so he can get the edge over his "impostor". As he delivers the other Gargamel his supper, Scruple easily guesses that the duplicate is also working on a Smurf compass, which makes him wonder how his apprentice could even know what he is secretly working on.
Back in the original village, the Smurfs left behind in it are also facing trouble doing tasks that those who left the village once did for them, while the orange-feathered Papa Smurf is facing a dilemma of his own: he can only come up with half the solution to reversing the duplication. Grandpa Smurf suggests that this Papa Smurf should meet with his other self to figure out the rest. Papa Smurf decides to write to his duplicate in the other village to meet him halfway at the Great Oak Tree, having Hefty deliver the message. He also allows Grandpa Smurf to come along, saying that he will need a level-headed Smurf to attend this meeting. In the other village, the green-feathered Papa Smurf is also facing the same problem of only coming up with half of the solution and also comes up with the solution of meeting his counterpart halfway at the Greak Oak Tree, having Smurfette deliver the message to the Papa Smurf in the main village.
Soon the Smurf-catching contest between the two Gargamels starts, and as they both go into the forest with their Smurf compasses, one of them finds Hefty going off in one direction and the other finds Smurfette going off in another direction. They both follow those Smurfs to the villages they were heading toward with their Smurf compasses and they both end up capturing the Smurfs that were in it. At the Great Oak Tree, both Papa Smurfs as well as Grandpa Smurf are astounded to discover that the duplicates have found half of the solution that the other was looking for, and that the solution was just simply spring water. But then they hear the two Gargamels approaching, both carrying sacks that contain their little Smurfs in them. They realize that the double-growth formula had accidentally duplicated Gargamel and that they must save their little Smurfs.
In Gargamel's castle, both duplicates are frustrated to find out from their apprentice that their contest ended in a tie and that they both caught the equal number of Smurfs. Then the orange-feathered Papa Smurf shows up at their doorstep to tell them that they need a tie-breaker. As he runs off, the two Gargamels give chase, only to go after the other Papa Smurf who shows up in another place. The two Papa Smurfs continue to lead the two Gargamels on a wild-goose chase, making it appear that there is only one Papa Smurf, causing Scruple and Azrael to be distracted long enough for Grandpa Smurf to let loose the captured Smurfs. Eventually both Gargamels end up in a brook and, having lost one of the Papa Smurfs, they both fight with each other until they merge back into one Gargamel, with the merged wizard saying that the Smurfs are now all his.
Grandpa Smurf and the other Smurfs show up with "two souvenirs", the Smurf compasses that the Gargamels have made. The two Papa Smurfs admit to each other that they were glad they could finally work together. Then they both jump into the brook at the same time and merge back into one Papa Smurf with two feathers in his cap. This makes the other Smurfs glad to have one Papa Smurf back so they can live in the same village. And after hearing Gargamel ranting about the Smurfs that are now missing along with his Smurf compasses, Papa Smurf suggests that they should return to the village right away.
- The European comic book story "The Smurf Menace" has Papa Smurf creating evil duplicates of himself and the entire village in order to get his little Smurfs to stop fighting each other.


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An extraordinarily ambitious big American novel about a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mid-1970s - by turns underground, elite, dangerous
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Reno mounts her motorcycle and sets a collision course for New York.
In 1977 the city is alive with art, sensuality and danger. She falls in with a bohemian clique colonising downtown and the lines between reality and performance begin to bleed.
A passionate affair with the scion of an Italian tyre empire carries Reno to Milan, where she is swept along by the radical left and drawn into a spiral of violence and betrayal.
The Flamethrowers is an audacious novel that explores the perplexing allure of femininity, fakery and fear. In Reno we encounter a heroine like no other.
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Rachel Kushner's debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the California Book Award, and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, Artforum, Bookforum, Fence, Bomb, Cabinet, and Grand Street. She lives in Los Angeles.


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The University of Hawai`i John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) has begun a search for a senior faculty position within the Department of Surgery. The medical school's hope is that this recruitment may lead to an appointment as Department Chair. The desired appointee will provide leadership and mentorship to the Department of Surgery faculty and staff while building a network of relationships at the School of Medicine, University Clinics and community practitioners.
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A Plague in Time for Passover
Haaretz's Akiva Eldar has seized upon the holiday to suggest a biblical metaphor: "For 43 years, the Israeli public — schoolchildren, TV viewers, Knesset members and Supreme Court judges — have been living in the darkness of the occupation."
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It is true that for many years, we have managed to grope our way through the dark and keep the pressure at bay. We did so with the assistance of our neighbors, who were afflicted with the same shortsightedness. On Sunday, however, the Arab League marked the eighth anniversary of its peace proposals, which offer Israel normalization in exchange for an end to the occupation and an agreed solution to the refugee problem, in accordance with UN Resolution 194. But Israel behaves as if it had never heard of this historic initiative. For the last year, it was too busy realizing its dubious right to establish an illegal settlement in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, turning a blind eye to reality, has tried to persuade the world that what applies to Tel Aviv also applies to Sheikh Jarrah. He simply refuses to see that the world is sick of us. It's easier for him to focus on his similarly nearsighted followers in AIPAC. Tonight they'll all swear "Next year in rebuilt Jerusalem" – including the construction in Ramat Shlomo, of course.
Hillary Clinton is not Jewish, but it was she who had to remind the AIPAC Jews what demography will do to their favorite Jewish democracy in the Middle East. A few days earlier, she had come back from Moscow, where she took part in one of the Quartet's most important meetings. Israeli politicians and media were too busy with the cold reception awaiting Netanyahu at the White House. They never gave any thought to the decision by the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations to turn Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's state-building plan from a unilateral initiative into an international project.


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Trichy Customs and Central Excise Collectorate came into existence with effect from June 01, 1983 with the jurisdiction formed out of erstwhile Madurai and Madras Collectorate. Subsequent re-organisations took place with effect from May 01, 1987 and June 01, 1991, as a consequence of which Trichy Central Excise Collectorate had 3 Divisions
Trichy Central Excise Division was further bifurcated into two Divisions namely Trichy I Central Excise Division and Trichy II Central Excise Division w.e.f August 01, 1997. With effect from October 01, 1997, a new Division namely Cuddalore Central Excise Division was carved out of the jurisdiction of Pondicherry Division.
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The Oscar nominations were released on Jan. 16. When the ceremony airs on March 2, I'll be looking at the winners, all happy and shiny and standing next to George Clooney. But my heart will be with Llewyn Davis, the loser protagonist of the latest Coen brothers film, as he walks down a grey winter street in a thin coat, holding a cat he doesn't even like.
Inside Llewyn Davis, which follows a musician's dismal week in the 1961 Greenwich Village folk scene, is a masterpiece of melancholy, a beautifully crafted anatomy of failure.
Unfortunately, failure -- no matter how well wrought -- makes Academy members jumpy. They seem to think it's contagious.
Inside Llewyn Davis rated just two Oscar nominations, for cinematography and sound mixing. It was shut out of the prestige prizes, and when it comes to the Best Picture category, the Academy can't even do that insincere Hollywood thing and say, "We would have loved to nominate you and your sad little cat, but we just couldn't squeeze you in." Despite having room for 10 Best Picture nominations, the Academy slated only nine films this year, which seems like a bit of a slap.
Add in the way that T Bone Burnett's rootsy music for the film has been overlooked -- really, how can you hear that soundtrack and not be harmonizing to Five Hundred Miles right now? -- and the anti-Llewyn vibe starts to feel positively punitive.
I could get all het up about this. But like many Llewyn lovers, I wouldn't actually want the film to win a big Academy Award. Inside Llewyn Davis shouldn't succeed, at least not in that flashy, gold-plated Oscar way, because it's basically a deeply suspicious take on success, or at least success as it's defined in modern America.
Despite being fairly winning themselves, the Coens are fascinated by failure. They've created a rich and varied loser-centric oeuvre, from Barton Fink to O Brother, Where Art Thou? to A Serious Man. The Big Lebowski is like a loser manifesto.
Llewyn Davis is possibly their loser-est loser, his failure being not just a byproduct of some other crazy character flaw but his defining feature. In the course of the film, he is rejected, passed over, moved along and abandoned by the side of the road. He is sucker-punched and sworn at. His shoes always seem to be wet.
Despite all Llewyn's misery, Oscar Isaac's restrained performance never milks the melancholy. The Coens are similarly strict. This is no romanticized tale of a scorned outsider, no edgy expression of fashionable nihilism. Inside Llewyn Davis is curiously careful study of mopeyness.
Llewyn is not a sacrificial loser, punished for the purity of his vision. It's true that he finds everyone else's folk music to be too cheerful, too clean or too catchy. When he plays back-up for Please Mr. Kennedy, an adorably cheesy novelty song that is clearly destined for radio play, his face is a comic study. But his stubborn anti-commercialism is presented not so much as artistic virtue but as sheer inborn contrariness.
And Llewyn is not a lovable loser, sweet in adversity. He's abrasive and self-sabotaging, perpetually exasperating friends, annoying former lovers, alienating fellow dinner party guests. He's a jerk, basically, as well as several things that Carey Mulligan calls him that can't be printed.
It's true that circumstances are never favourable for Llewyn, and he has bouts of freakish bad luck. The weather is against him, as the folksingers like to say, and the wind blows hard. But his biggest obstacle is his own damn self. He's a loser who seems perversely unable to change, which is another thing the Academy can't stick. Trouble does not strengthen him. There is no epiphany, no redemption, no life lesson. There is no character arc, just a sublimely depressing character circle.
I have to admit that as I was writing all this down, I had to stop for a moment and remember why I liked the film so much, given that it all sounds so incredibly sad. Partly it's because Inside Llewyn Davis offers not life sadness but movie sadness, the kind that fills you up rather than emptying you out. Partly it's because the film is sad but also very funny. And finally, it's because sometimes failure deserves a story, too (no matter what the Academy thinks). By giving failure such bleakly beautiful feel-bad form, Inside Llewyn Davis becomes a strange success.


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MDA 'Show of Strength' Replaces Annual Telethon
The Muscular Dystrophy Association has long been known for their annual Labor Day telethon hosted by longtime spokesman Jerry Lewis. But that's not the case this year. The telethon is being replaced by the "Show of Strength" program.
The "Show of Strength" is the MDA's new three-hour, prime-time Labor Day weekend entertainment special. It will air this Sunday, September 2nd at 7pm on stations all over the country, including channel 14 WFIE here in the Tri-State.
The show will feature a wide musical performances, a variety of celebrity appearances, as well as inspiring and moving stories from MDA patients and their families. And even though this isn't exactly a telethon, it is still definitely a fundraiser…one that the MDA depends on. And there will still be opportunities for you to make a donation.


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