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The "ease" trend proves you can dress comfortably and still look stylish. Think insouciance, not shapelessness. Choose loosely cut pants suits or airy tunics with pleating, paired with leggings and worn without a belt. Dress up slouchy pajama-style pants with a smart heel. For inspiration, browse the spring collections of Stella McCartney, Saint Laurent or Rachel Zoe. The Finerie matches flowing nude-tone trousers with a green sequined jacket for effortless elegance.
This season, sheer materials and lacy layers abound. Designers are placing tone on tone, combining fabrics in pale or nude hues, often with contrasting textures. The trend isn't limited to lace dresses; Givenchy, for example, cultivates a modern feel with sheer fabric over solid opaque tops, while Dries Van Noten uses see-through fabrics in bold prints for his stylishly slouchy collection. Local designer Masha Osoianu offers knitted necklaces and lace-like knits like this creamy top, which Rebecca Luke pairs with white sequin shorts for a fun evening combo.
Leather can be tough, but this spring designers are reinterpreting this material with a distinctly feminine appeal. Alexander Wang turns leather into lace with elaborate cutouts, while others, like Alexia Admor, reinvent the little black dress in leather, with delicate touches like fringes. Short leather jackets work particularly well in the Pacific Northwest's chilly spring temperatures. Weather protect your jacket and re-treat it halfway through the season to keep the leather resilient, Luke advises. Splash out for a piece by local designer Carole McClellan, or hunt for a well-worn, second-hand gem.
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Spring fashions usually include bright colors, and this year they verge on neon. Yellows range from curry to sunshine, and reds from cayenne pepper to fire engine. Deep greens, also popular, create a stunning contrast with this season's neutrals. Burberry Prorsum Color luster trenches over neutrals offer one strategy for integrating color, said Luke. Tanya Friberg also suggests using vibrant color to liven up tweed, or layering bold accessories, like tinted crystal necklaces from Seattle jeweler Marilyn Berg. However, this season's most striking colors may be black and white, as seen in these gowns by Nell and local designer Madina Vadache.
The Asian-inspired obi belt is this spring's must-have accessory. In brilliant brocade, patterns or leather, this versatile sash can add color, design, texture and shape to any ensemble. Take that fluttery tunic you bought for the ease factor, and create an entirely different look with a sexy cinch.
Stylist, art director, marketing expert: Rebecca Luke wears many hats. The Seattle native splits her time between her home town and New York City, completing projects in both cities for les Egoistes/Rebecca Luke Style, the creative services and image-branding company she founded in 2000. She also co-founded the Sustainable Style Foundation, a non-profit seeking "to advocate and inspire sustainable choices at work, at home and at play." Among other pursuits, she is a costume designer for award-winning films such as "Safety Not Guaranteed" and "Eden."
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Since Tanya Friberg started The Finerie in 2006, she has poured her passion and energy into creating a one-of-a-kind boutique, focused on fine tailoring and distinctive touches, or "classics with a twist," as she puts it. This little gem near the Seattle Art Museum resembles a fashion wonderland, with chandeliers and silvery trees sprouting accessories. Friberg delights downtown shoppers with her unusual selection of local independent and European designers for both men and women.


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Easter, a man not shy about boasting, isn't so sure the fan is right.
"If it came down," he says to the fan, "it wasn't my longest."
True story or not, who's to say? Easter had more tall tales spread about his life than almost anyone else who earned a living playing hardball.
Perhaps that's what has long intrigued people about Easter, the late Negro League and Indians slugger. They seem unable to sift through the myth and decide what is the reality.
Now, no one has ever claimed that Easter was one of the all-time greats. His talents were too one-dimensional to merit such high acclaim. He was slow afoot, and he had a weak arm and no range on the field.
But under different circumstances, in a much different era, Luscious Luke Easter might well have combined those glaring shortcomings with his power to achieve a superstar's status.
Baseball, though, wasn't as open to men like Easter in the 1930s and 1940s. So he bounced between the California softball circuit, various minor leagues, the winter leagues in Latin America, the Negro Leagues and, finally, the big leagues for almost three decades. Everywhere Easter played he left behind stories about his awesome power.
He hit baseballs so far, the myth goes, that it might have been easier to measure them in miles than in feet.
"He hit the farthest ball anybody ever hit at Cleveland Stadium -- 477 feet, upper right-field deck," said Hal Lebovitz, a longtime Cleveland sportswriter who covered baseball during the Easter era. "I measured it."
If you believe other tales, the 240-pound Easter, a left-handed hitter who was in his mid-30s when he made it to the Majors in 1949, hit home runs farther than anybody else who ever swung a Louisville Slugger.
But his greatest achievement might simply have been being Luke Easter. That was, indeed, some accomplishment.
"Luke Easter was as fine a man as I ever met," said former Indians teammate Al Rosen. "He was the epitome of a good guy."
Few men touched people's lives the way Easter did. His size masked an easy-going manner. He had a big smile for anybody who crossed his path.
He loved people, and people loved Easter.
"He was a happy-go-lucky guy, always smiling," Lebovitz said. "People liked him, contrary to what you may have heard anywhere else. He was a lot of fun. I enjoyed his company."
Wanted somebody you could bank on, turn to Easter. Needed a helping hand, you could count on Easter for it. He was a teammate's teammate, no matter whom the man was.
Lebovitz can remember how Easter had bailed out two Indians teammates. On a train from Boston, pitchers Bob Lemon and Early Wynn found themselves in a card game with two cheats.
Having lost his stake, Wynn stood on the edge of the game and watched. He noticed that one of the two men was dealing from the bottom of the deck. Once caught, the men tried to flee, but Easter, a hard-core gambler, caught one of them.
He then challenged the man to a game of gin. With Lemon, Wynn and others watching, Easter won all the money. Easter then gave Lemon and Wynn back what they had lost, Lebovitz said.
"I said to him afterwards: 'Here's a guy who can deal from the bottom of the deck, how did you know you could beat him?'" Lebovitz recalled telling Easter. "He said, 'I can deal from the middle of the deck.' "
Vintage Easter -- just one more story that expands the myth of the man.
Somewhere myth and reality do merge, and what develops is a Technicolor vision of the charismatic Easter, a hulk of a man who lived an extraordinary life inside and outside of baseball.
However, Easter's life came to a tragic end.
Working for TRW Inc. in the Cleveland suburb of Euclid, he was returning to work March 29, 1979, after going to the bank to cash payroll checks for his co-workers.
Outside the bank, two men shot Easter with a sawed-off shotgun and a pistol. The gunmen then fled with about $11,000 in cash.
Easter, 63, lay dead in a pool of blood, another $30,000 in cash near his body.
"I remember the day he got shot and killed," Rosen said. "I broke down and cried."
He said Easter -- a husband, a father and people's friend -- had died the way he played: He had refused to give in.
Easter was a fighter, not a quitter -- even at the end.
"He had this bag of money for the people who worked his shift, and he was gonna get that money back to 'em," Rosen said. "He wasn't gonna give it up. He gave up his life."
Justice B. Hill is a senior writer with MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Jerry Mathers
Jerry Mathers is the granddaddy of all washed-up celebrities. For all intents and purposes, he was the "Dustin Diamond" of the 1950s, reaching the pinnacle of his life before he even hit age 15 when he starred as Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver on the hit TV show "Leave It To Beaver" from 1957-1963. Here are some early pictures of a young Mathers:
America loved the inquisitive young tyke on Leave It To Beaver. He was a cute and wholesome young boy growing up in a time of innocence. The sit-com followed the young Beaver as he experienced his adolescent years at school, the candy shop, and throughout his neighborhood.
Puberty, however, was extremely harsh to Mathers, as it gave him a good ass-kicking from which he never recovered. Mathers morphed from a cute wholesome kid into an ugly little troll as is painfully obvious in the pictures below:
Rather than accept his fate in life and attempt to move on to bigger and better things, Mathers has attempted to stay in the limelight long after his time has passed. He occasionally shows up in self-parody roles. I remember seeing him playing a washed-up loser (i.e., himself) on an episode of Married With Children in the early 1990s. He also maintains a website where he refers to himself as "An Entertainment Legend and American Icon" even though his only acting of any significance ended 43 years ago when he was a mere 15 years old. He also still makes guest appearances in an unsuccessful attempt to make him seem important and worthy of respect. All of this makes Mathers one washed-up celebrity!


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Laurent joined the Philharmonia Orchestra in 2005 and is also founder member of Ailleur5 in France with whom he has recorded two CDs for Cristal Records.
Laurent has played with different orchestras including the London Symphonic Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic of Manchester, Northern Sinfonia, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Orchestre National de France.
He is currently Professor of bass clarinet at the Royal Academy of Music, and Professor at the Ponte Cultura International Summer Academy in Corsica.
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Bot Shots Optimus Prime Toy Review
General Information:
Release Date: January 2012
fPrice Point: $5.99 (varies depending on retailer)
Retailer: General (Toys R Us, Target, Wal-Mart etc.)
Accessories: None
- On Card
- Scan of Card (Front)
- Scan of Card (Back)
- Packaging insert
- Vehicle Mode
- Vehicle Mode (Side)
- Vehicle Mode (Back)
- Vehicle Mode (Forward view)
- Vehicle Mode (Angle view)
- Robot Mode
- Robot Mode (Side)
- Robot Mode (Back)
- Robot Mode (Close up)
- Robot Mode (Blaster panel)
- Robot Mode (Fist panel)
- Robot Mode (Weapon panel)
Bot Shots are a new expression of the Transformers brand that focuses on interactive game play between figures. Previous attempts at this such as "Attacktix" had relied on missile firing mechanisms and point systems as the primary elements of the gaming system. Bot Shots are much more action oriented and factor the transformation of the toy into the play pattern (which Attacktix did not).
In general, all Bot Shots figures have a vehicle mode and robot mode. The transformation is triggered by "bashing" the front of the vehicle into another Bash Bot (or a wall, book...any solid surface really) causing a spring loaded feature to activate and transform the figure. This generally means revealing the robot head, arms angled out to the sides and feet along with robot mode details.
The key to the game system is a three sided hinged mechanism built into the chest. On each side is a sticker with one of three icons: a fist, a sword and a blaster - each representing a different type of combat. Presumably without your opponent seeing your selection, you turn the panel on the chest and then crash the two Bot Shots together and when the robot mode is revealed each player will know what "weapon" the other chose. The way the game works:
- Blaster beats fist
- Fist beats sword
- Sword beats blaster
In the case of two Bot Shots getting the same icon each icon has a number on it indicating that character's level of that skill. Whoever has the higher number wins. It's a simple and fun system clearly developed for kids who enjoy a game element to their action figures (such as lines like Bakugan).
Robot Mode:
Having a "Transformers" toy line without an Optimus Prime is a rarity nowadays. The character has been represented in many lines of Transformers figures (especially the Movie toys) and for the first wave of "Bot Shots", he has joined the fray in a new (and cute!) form. Like other figures in this line his Bot Shots form is inspired by the Movie version of the character but has elements adopted from the G1 iteration of the character. In robot mode, the details borrowed from the live action movie version are much more dominant than the G1 elements. These include:
- The chest design has the familiar "windows" but they're set apart with a grille like section under them on the torso.
- The knee armor looks like flat pieces that are thin and rise up above the knees slightly.
- Both feet have two segmented "toe" sections.
In terms of G1 elements, the head design appears much more based on the G1 version of the character with a thicker, bolder design on his helmet section and a face that doesn't have vents on the sides of the mouthplate. I like this combination of G1 and Movie elements creating a very familiar looking character to different generations of fans.
Optimus Prime is cast in silver and black plastic. The silver makes up most of the body with the black used for the wheels. His paint colors won't surprise you: metallic blue, red, silver and yellow. The blue is used on his legs and the helmet section of his head. The red is used on the chest section around the windows. His crest is painted silver and the eyes are yellow. The use of yellow for his eyes in particular is interesting since that color was used for the original Optimus Prime from G1 and not later incarnations. It's a nice deco on such a small figure.
There is no articulation to really discuss and Bot Shots don't come with any accessories. The main fun in this figure is in the "crashing" play pattern and seeing how many of your friends you can defeat! For those curious, Optimus' scores break down as follows:
- Blaster: 850
- Fist: 410
- Sword: 370
I really was surprised to see Prime's scores weren't higher. Not that 850 isn't a high score for the Blaster, but his Sword and Fist ratings are only on par with guys like Barricade and Bumblebee. I thought on each category he'd be at least a 500. My guess is that they didn't want to make Prime too super powered and make the game unfair, but he just seems a bit underpowered to me.
Transformation to Vehicle Mode:
- Swing the car hood on the back over the robot head, this will also cause the arms to swing in.
- Swing the robot feet up against the underside of the car.
Vehicle Mode:
It can be argued that Optimus' vehicle mode is entirely based on his appearance in "Dark of the Moon" but in fact the trailer used in "Dark of the Moon" was itself based on G1 Optimus Prime's. Let's look at the front cab section first. There he is a longnose truck, albeit one with a squat, wide front end. The grille in front has many of Movie Prime's features including the wide bumper plate in front, the small Autobot symbol right in the center and the dual headlights on either side. Towards the back the trailer has a strip that runs down the middle, angles up and then back - inspired by G1 Prime's design. However, the line details on the trailer are vertical rather than horizontal as they were on G1 Prime.
The colors here are what you'd expect. The front end is painted red and the wheel well sections on the sides are metallic blue. I kind of wished the stripe on the sides was painted but it isn't. Not a deal breaker by any means, it would have just been nice to have.
Optimus Prime can roll on four of the six wheels on the figure. His "crashing" mechanism works well and despite having a trailer, he's not significantly bulkier than the other Bot Shots in this wave, making the "crashing" play pattern work nicely.
Final Thoughts:
Optimus Prime is a cool Bot Shots figure. I like the sculpt and deco in robot mode a lot. The vehicle mode is cool, but it could have used a bit more deco in vehicle mode, but it's not bad at all. Recommended!


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KINSTON � As of Friday, summer has officially arrived. With the hot weather, shorts, sundresses and bikinis are near certainties to be seen, along with an assortment of flip-flops.
KINSTON � As of Friday, summer has officially arrived. With the hot weather, shorts, sundresses and bikinis are near certainties to be seen, along with an assortment of flip-flops.
Flip-flops have become as much of a staple to American fashion as almost anything else. They are a $2 billion industry in the U.S. with 23 million sold annually � mainly because of the fit and feel.
�They�re very comfortable, easy to put on, I don�t get blisters like I would have with tennis shoes and they�re lightweight,� Penny Manning said. �I have at least 15 to 20 pairs of flip-flops.�
As temperatures rise, flip-flops give people an alternative to casual footwear like sneakers, which can become less desirable to some.
�Tennis shoes are too hot in the summer to me,� Skylar Manning said. �Plus, I like showing off my nail polish.�
Not everyone is a fan of flip-flops. The strap between the toes can be irritating to some and have been known to cause blisters.
�I don�t like the way they feel between my toes,� Tonya Taylor said. �I would rather wear sneakers.�
There are other dangers in wearing flip-flops. Medical expert John Whyte posted a story in The Huffington Post in 2011, saying �A � study found that flip-flop wearers tend to grip the footwear with their toes, causing shorter stride length and improper force when their feet hit the ground.
What does this mean? Basically, a powerful force is transferred up our legs, putting additional stress on our lower body.�
Whyte also wrote about the lack of arch support in flip-flops, which could cause plantar fasciitis � a painful inflammation of connective tissues on the sole of the foot � with prolonged use. Also, poorly made flip-flops could leave the user with flat feet.
Even the best quality flip-flops can�t defend against the more obvious risks of exposed feet. Stubbed toes, cuts, bruises and bug bites are amongst the problems that can be faced with flip-flops. Flip-flops made of flimsy material � such as foam � usually don�t provide much traction and can lead to sprained ankles.
Dr. Tim Rosenthal, who works at Eastern Carolina Foot & Ankle Specialists in Greenville, said people are better off with running shoes, but he gave tips on how to prevent foot pain with flip flops.
�Make sure they fit properly and make sure they have good arch support,� Rosenthal said. �I�m more of a fan of shoes with at least two or three straps on them. They help bind your arch and also give cushioning. Those shoes may be more expensive and most people won�t get them because of the price, but you get what you pay for.�
Rosenthal also advised against people wearing flip-flops if they have to travel a long distance in them or stand for long periods of time.
�I definitely wouldn�t run or jog in them because of the risk of twisting ankles, getting blisters or tearing toenails back,� Rosenthal said.
Despite the causes for concern, there will be a great deal of people who will still wear flip-flops this season.
�In the summer, your feet get sweaty,� Stacy Acevedo said. �I�ll take flip-flops over sneakers.�
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So long, Bobby!
It's the end of an era: For nearly five decades the Boeing 737 – affectionately known as Bobby – flew for Lufthansa. Now, this sturdy, dependable city hopper is being retired.
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The 737 jets have flown around 2.3 billion kilometers for Lufthansa – roughly 300 trips from the earth to the moon and back.
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Some 250 million Lufthansa passengers have flown on board a Boeing 737.
The furthest flight was 3200 kilometers, from Frankfurt to Las Palmas, Canary Islands.
In 1965, Lufthansa was the first airline to order a Boeing 737-100 jet – 21 in fact – and help establish the 737. Since their delivery in 1968, 148 jets from this series, 737-100s, 737-200s, 737–300s, 737-400s and 737-500s, have flown for Lufthansa.
The first Lufthansa flight to West Berlin was with a 737: On October 2, 1990, the Sindelfingen flew parliamentarians from Cologne/Bonn to Berlin-Tegel for the German reunification celebrations.
Heaven's airplane. In 1996, Pope John Paul II traveled on board the Bad Homburg from Paderborn to Tegel Airport in Berlin and then on to Rome.
Why Bobby? The kids' book Bobby Boeing Earns His Wings was published in 1969. In it the Boeing 707 was the dad, the 727 the mom, and the 737 was the baby – called Bobby. The crews started using the name, and it stuck.


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The Movies.com Review: 'The Internship' Doesn't Get the Job Done
In the future, when the minimum wage has been abolished and the remaining jobs are dispensed via lottery and people fight over moldy crumbs of Soylent Green in the street, the furious, gnawing population of Post-America may look back at The Internship and think of it as relevant, a beacon of hope, full of comforting but somehow still indecipherable messages about courage and dreams (that's a line in the film, by the way, "Have the courage to dream." SO TRUE! YOU SHOULD!) But for now it's just stupid nonsense.
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson play middle-aged salesmen whose company folds. Unable to find new jobs, they wind up applying for Google's summer internship program and, because they've got spunk, moxie, get-up-and-go, pep and double the can-do attitude, somehow beat out the other 39,000 young people with actual qualifications. Once there, they mentor a group of nerdy misfits through a series of Big Brother-style Googling challenges. All of these kids want a shot at full-time Google employment but they lack the interpersonal skills and hands-on experiences of the old guys, so it's time they went to Vince and Owen's University of Real Living. What's so hard about learning to program code, anyway? You can pick that up overnight. Wilson does with just a little oomph and pluck and try-harding and so does Vaughn -- oh, wait, sorry, Vaughn never does, but still fully succeeds. This is because he has the courage to dream.
Google is depicted, and maybe rightfully so, as a gumdrop palace of a workplace (the whole cooperating with oppressive governments to censor the Internet thing isn't mentioned). There are big slides because stairs are for the olds. There's free food and multi-colored bikes. There are sleepytime nap pods. Someone's always making you play volleyball, apparently whether you want to or not. Everyone's extremely happy and UP UP UP and holy crap prison never felt this much like a bouncy-house.
At one point in this unfunny, never-ending lap dance for its cooperating company -- two full hours, y'all -- the cast goes on a field trip to an elaborate strip club where the dancers wear bras. This sequence goes on for an extremely long time and mostly involves the old dudes showing the kids how to truly party instead of always just looking at their iPhones and pretending to be unimpressed by the sights of almost-naked ladies gyrating right in front of them. The evening includes a lesson in hitting on a stripper you really, really, really like. Wisdom: "Sometimes the most radical move is just to be yourself!" Totally.
There's a story to be told about middle-aged men encountering the rapidly changing economic landscape of 2013, one where sudden unemployment and, worse, the culture's cruel embrace of a Logan's Run worldview that considers people irrelevant after an arbitrary age makes finding new work the moral equivalent of climbing a life-threatening cliff. There's also a film to made about the shatteringly ugly New Economy where young people are doomed before they start and unpaid internships are the new entry level. There's even a comedy to be made about these things. This isn't it, of course, but someone should do that.
Unless this is meant to be a kind of half-assed remake of 1987's Summer School; honestly, right now I just don't know. But if it is then it's kind of almost a complete near success.
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There was only one awkward part of my Daily Chronicle columnist interview.
Former Editor Jason Schaumburg noted that sometimes my primary employer, Northern Illinois University, is the subject of news stories. Since I would be writing about issues of concern to Daily Chronicle readers, how would I navigate this potential conflict?
I told him the same thing I'm telling you: I love NIU, and I love and need my NIU job. So, I won't intentionally investigate or sensationalize news originating from NIU. Also, I can barely see the loop from where I work. I'm certainly not in it.
On the other hand, I'm a journalist and a journalism educator, and I hate cowards, so it's unacceptable to duck commentary on bad news if such commentary is legitimate. If I did that, I should be fired anyway.
It's a fine line.
I urge the Daily Chronicle to vigorously pursue 1) last week's revelations of a "coffee fund" (aka slush fund) paid for by selling NIU scrap metal to a local merchant, and 2) the substantial hierarchical reorganization of NIU senior leadership.
Meanwhile, I applaud NIU officials in saying they're taking the coffee fund investigation seriously. I hope they follow the advice of every worthwhile public relations book ever written: get in front of the storm and tell the unvarnished truth, though there likely will be negative consequences.
Alas, universities often avoid this path until disclosure is forced. Look no further than Penn State. Notable exception: NIU won a national PR award for its handling of the shootings in 2008.
What I recommend is irrelevant anyway. Thousands of NIU employees and area residents already seem to think there's more to the story, and they're suspicious.
One Chronicle reader posted an online comment that, I think, captures the mood best:
"Thank you DC [Daily Chronicle] for reporting on this. I hope you will keep probing and stay with any law enforcement agency involved in this issue. Please give us the facts. Don't hold back. The success of the town and university relies on honesty and transparency."
Answering the demand for honesty and transparency is likely going to cause short-term damage. There's a notion in public relations that for every negative mention an organization receives in the news media, the organization must achieve three dozen positive mentions to overcome it.
If the investigation proves to be lengthy and/or sensational, you can do the math. It's not just an NIU phenomenon. The luster of higher education in America is wearing off. Fast.
Just over a year ago, the Pew Research Center conducted national surveys of the public's attitude toward higher education in America. The results are depressing:
• 57 percent of Americans say the U.S. higher education system fails to provide students with good value for the money they and their families spend.
• 75 percent say college is too expensive for most Americans to afford.
• 42 percent say a college education is required to succeed in the world.
• 38 percent of college presidents say academe is headed in the wrong direction.
So NIU needed last week's news, which inevitably will continue as the stories unfold, like a hole in the head. What we really need is to achieve several consecutive crisis-free years.
• Jason Akst teaches journalism and public relations at Northern Illinois University. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The best-known 'recordings' of Motley Crue's Tommy Lee might well be the 'home videos' he made with ex-wife Pamela Anderson.
But the drummer has now opened his own recording studio – for music, dummies!
The Atrium is located on the entire lower floor of Lee's Calabasas, California residence. Lee says: "the studio was created specifically to provide an environment that inspires creativity and offer a vibey alternative to traditional, commercial recording studios."
The Atrium's equipment list is impressively extensive and, as you can see below, it's none too shabby an environment.
So what does the guy who has had eveything put in his studio……? Lets take a look shall we!
Control Room: 22′x 22′x9′
Live Room 1: 29′x 19′x 10′
Live Room 2: 18′x 12′x 10′
Iso-Room: 8′x 5′x 8′
Solid State Logic SL4056G+ w/Ultimation
Genelec 1038B w/sub
Genelec 8050A w/sub
Apple G5 w/SNS Fibrechannel Hard drive system
Digidesign HD5 Pro Tools (64in/72out)
Alesis Masterlink w/Lavry Blue AD/DA converters
Manley Vox Box (x2)
Drawmer 1960
Chandler TG Channel (x2)
Helios 1r Type 69
Aphex 230 (x2)
Vintech X81 (x2)
Vintech X73 (x2)
Vintech 473 (x2)
Focusrite ISA 828
Universal Audio 2-610 (x4)
Mercury EQ-P (x2)
Mercury EQ-H (x2)
Manley Massive Passive
Api 550b (x4)
Manley Vari-Mu
Empirical Labs Distressor (x2)
Empirical Labs Fatso Jr.
SPL Transient Designer 4 (x2)
Urei 1176 Silver Face (x2)
Universal Audio 1176LN (x4)
Aphex 622 (x2)
Lexicon 960L
Eventide H3000SE
Lexicon PCM 90
Yamaha SPX90 (x2)
Lexicon Prime Time (x2)
Yamaha REV5
AKG C414 (x2)
Audio Technica AE3000 (x5)
Audio Technica AT4047 (x4)
Audio Technica AT4051 (x2)
B&K 4011 (x2)
Earthworks SR25 (x3)
Electro Voice RE20 (x1)
Heil PR20 (x1)
Heil PR30 (x4)
Heil PR40 (x1)
Peluso 2247 (x1)
Rode K2 (x2)
Sennheiser MD421 (x10)
Shure SM57 (x8)
Coles 4038 (x1)
Diezel VH-4
Naylor Super-Drive Sixty
Marshall 2250
Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier
Aguilar DB359
Vox AC30
Matchless DC30
Supro Thunderbolt
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In the editor of our new app you can add people to the project and assign them (editors/reviewers). When adding them to the project you can filter all users on the account by predefined user-groups (design, development etc..)
So far so good.
The only system generated list item (and that's the one we are searching for an appropriate wording) is the one shown on default (Screenshot 1) that will display a list of all users added to the account below the dropdown, whereas the other list items displays all members of a predefined user group a customer has set up (Screenshot2: list item 1&2 user generated). We decided on that because it makes it easier for users who haven't created groups or added all co-workers to different groups.
We've tried different microcopy variations: "No group", "General", "All people" and we also tried leaving it empty Not really satisfied with our results here so maybe you've got some ideas that help us out?


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Tomorrow is the 150th anniversary of the original delivery of the Gettysburg Address. This morning's New York Times Op-Ed section has a couple items on that speech. An editorial (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/opini ... ef=opinion) cites a former classicist, Gary Wills, "all modern political prose descends from the Gettysburg Address" noting the double sense of "descends" as a judgment of relative merit. In another (http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/20 ... ef=opinion) Allen C. Guelzo notes a comparison of Lincoln's speech with the epgram of Simonides on the Spartan dead at Thermopylae:
I've been thinking about both of these remarks repeatedly throughout the day, and also of something a visiting British professor of history said to an undergraduate class I attended more than half a century ago to the effect that there are only two great political speeches in history: Pericles' oration over the Athenian dead of the first year of the Peloponnesian War and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.ὦ ξεῖν, ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
κείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.
Guelzo refers to a volume of translation of the Gettysburg address into several languages but doesn't cite it; I'll check it out. But the idea of translating the Gettysburg Address into Greek strikes me as an interesting exercise.
In one of my last years before retiring I taught a class in Latin Prose Composition in which I assigned sections of several political speeches including Lincoln's Second Inaugural, FDR's First Inaugural, and JFK's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech for conversion into Ciceronian Latin. I picked the Second Inaugural rather than the Gettysburg Address because of the marvelous rhetorical wrestling with the question of theodicy in Biblical passages cited there.
I'm not seriously proposing a common effort to convert the Gettysburg Address into Greek. I don't doubt that it has been done before and probably done well. I'd like to see what's been done and I might like to give it a shot myself.


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In short, I want to start a game company. I do not have much coding experience (just basic understanding and ability to write basic programs), any graphics design experience, any audio mixing experience, or whatever else technical. However, I do have a lot of ideas, great analytical skills and a very logical approach to life. I do not have any friends who are even remotely technical (or creative in regards to games for that matter).
So now that we've cleared that up, my question is this: how much, minimally, would it cost me to start such a company? I know that a game could be developed in under half a year, which means it would have to operate for half a year prior, and that's assuming that the people working on the first project do their jobs good, don't leave game breaking bugs, a bunch of minor bugs, etc.. So how much would it cost me, and what would be the likely profit in half a year? I'm looking at minimal costs here, as to do it, I would have to sell my current apartment and buy a new, smaller one, pay taxes, and likely move to US/CA/UK to be closer to technologically advanced people (and be able to speak the language of course).
EDIT: I'm looking at a small project for starters, not a huge AAA title.


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With news of the BP oil spill in the Gulf making headlines on a daily basis, oil is on everyone's minds. What may not be on your mind is an oil change for your car. Every 3,000 miles you dutifully go to the local service center and get your oil changed — but what if you never had to change your oil again? That would be nice.
What if you could skip future oil changes and increase your fuel economy? That would be even better. A product called the Electro-Lube Oil Refiner may help you eliminate oil changes forever and improve your vehicle's fuel efficiency at the same time.
Although you may have never heard of the Electro-Lube Oil Refiner, it has been used for decades. The product was launched in the 1970s and has been used in tugboats and merchant marine ships for years. However, the product can be used in commercial vehicles, cars, delivery vans, and just about anything else that uses oil.
The product is attached to the engine where it then cleans the oil for continual use. The refiner removes solid particles, prevents the accumulation of water in the oil, and neutralizes acid. This leads to a longer engine life and increased fuel efficiency, with autos utilizing the refiner realizing a 3 to 4 percent improvement in fuel economy.
Although this product can help consumers save money, it can have an even more noticeable impact when integrated into a corporate fleet. The reduction in fuel consumption, oil consumption, and used motor oil waste can be significant over the life of the vehicle. When you compound these reductions by the number of vehicles in a fleet, the savings can be significant.


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Can Supplementing with Chlorella Improve Immunity?
By Michael A. Smith, MDseaweed. They're a very large and diverse group of simple organisms. They can be as small as a single cell or as large as the giant kelps that grow to 65 meters in length in temperate oceans.
Most algae, including chlorella, act like plants by creating energy from sunlight — a process called photosynthesis. But they're still considered "simple" because their cells and tissues are not organized into the many distinct internal organs.
Naturally growing algae are an important source of food, especially in Asia. They provide many vitamins, including vitamin E,folate and vitamin C, and are also rich in iodine, potassium, iron, magnesium and calcium.
Some species are also a rich source of beta-carotene and B vitamins.1,2
Chlorella - An "Underground" SupplementChlorella was one of the first algae to be cultivated as food and formulated into supplements. Industrial production of chlorella products began in Korea and Japan following the Second World War.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, researchers were able to isolate many nutrients from chlorella, including amino acids, protein, minerals, vitamins and antioxidants.
It's been somewhat of an "underground" supplement for nutritional enthusiasts, as it's taken several decades to gain the attention of mainstream supplement users.
These days, it's finally growing in popularity as an important immune booster.
Chlorella Improves Immune ParametersResearchers from Yonsei Univeristy in Korea studied chlorella's immune properties.
They recently completed a short-term study measuring changes in specific immune parameters during chlorella supplementation.3
The researchers recruited 51 healthy Koreans for their 8 week study. All participants were randomized into either a group receiving 5 grams a day of chlorella or a placebo group. The results were quite impressive. Here's what they found:3
- The activity of Natural Killer Cells, a type of immune cell, significantly increased in the chlorella group.
- Two immune proteins involved in fighting viruses and bacteria, interferon-gamma and interleukin-1 beta, increased significantly in the chlorella group.
This can only be answered through additional research, which we look forward to.
Chlorella Boosts Your Built-in Cancer and Infection Fighting SystemSupporting a robust immune system is really one of the key steps to living a longer life. Your immune system is responsible for fighting and destroying anything that is foreign to your own cells and tissues. That includes not only bacteria and viruses and yeast, but also cancer cells.
As such, consider adding chlorella to your list of immune boosters. Many of us already take vitamins C and D and other immune nutrients, like selenium and bitter herbs.
Adding chlorella to this list may very well be a good idea if strengthening immunity is important to you!
- J Agric Food Chem. 2007 Dec 12;55(25):10470-5. Epub 2007 Nov 10.
- Arch Microbiol. 1977 Feb 4;112(1):57-9.
- Nutrition Journal 2012, 11:53 doi:10.1186/1475-2891-11-53 (http://www.nutritionj.com/content/11/1/53/abstract)


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External seals
Non-contact seals are almost always used in high-speed precision applications. Their effectiveness depends, in principle, on the sealing action of the narrow gap between the shaft and housing. Because there is no contact, these seals generate almost no friction and do not, in practice, limit speeds, making them an excellent solution for machine tool applications.
Seal variants range from simple gap-type seals to multi-stage labyrinth seals (fig. 1). Compared to gap-type seals, multi-stage labyrinth seals are considerably more effective as their series of axially and radially intersecting components make it more difficult for contaminants and cutting fluid to enter the bearing.
In highly contaminated environments, a complex labyrinth seal design is often required. Labyrinth seals can have three or more stages to keep lubricant in and contaminants out of the bearing arrangement. The principle of a highly effective labyrinth seal, outlined in (fig. 3), consists of three stages:
- the primary stage
- the secondary stage
- the final stage
This design, with drainage chambers and collecting provisions, is derived from studies done by the Technical University of Stuttgart, Germany.
The primary stage consists of a splash guard (1), a housing cover (2) and the shaft to form a labyrinth. The splash guard uses centrifugal force to direct contaminants away from the cover, while the housing cover prevents contaminants from entering the labyrinth directly. A radial gap (3) between the housing cover and the shaft should be between 0,1 and 0,2 mm.
The secondary stage is designed to collect any fluid that manages to pass the primary barrier and drain it away. Starting with annular groove(s) in the shaft (4), the main design features of this stage include a large drainage chamber (5) and an outlet hole (6). Annular groove(s) deter fluid from travelling along the shaft under non-rotating conditions, causing it to drip into the drainage chamber instead. When the shaft is rotating, fluid is flung from it and collected in the drainage chamber and drained through the outlet hole. Large drainage holes (~ 250 mm2) in the collection area limit the amount of fluid that collects in the chamber.
Features used in the previous stages are incorporated again in the final stage. This section consists of labyrinth rings (7) with radial gaps between 0,2 and 0,3 mm, a fluid retardation chamber (8), a collector (9) to guide the fluid toward the drainage area and an outlet hole (10) with a drainage area of ~ 150 mm2. An additional chamber, collector and a ~ 50 mm2 drainage hole (11) can be incorporated if space permits. A final radial labyrinth gap (12) of ~ 1 mm avoids capillary action.
When designing these types of sealing arrangements, the following should be taken into consideration:
- In order to avoid inward pumping effects, the labyrinth components should progressively decrease in diameter from the outside.
- Machine lead on rotating components can move fluids in either axial direction very effectively depending on the hand of the lead and the direction of rotation. This can, in uni-directional applications, be exploited to reinforce the effectiveness of gap or labyrinth seals if carefully incorporated into the design. Machine lead on rotating components of gap and labyrinth seals should be avoided when the application rotates in both directions or for uni-directional applications where its action would work against the effectiveness of the seal.
- Under severe operating conditions, an air barrier can be created by applying air, under pressure, between the labyrinth gaps or inside the spindle itself. The air flow must however be balanced so that the dominant flow is always outward.
- A sealing arrangement that takes up considerable axial space is favourable, as this enables large drainage areas and collectors to be incorporated. In these cases, however, the spindle is less rigid as a result of the long overhang from the front bearings (and cutting force position).
Contact seals (fig. 4) are generally very reliable. Their effectiveness, however, depends on a number of factors including:
- the seal design the seal material
- the contact pressure
- the surface finish of the seal counterface
- the condition of the seal lip
the presence of lubricant between the seal lip and counterface
Friction between the seal lip and counterface can generate a significant amount of heat at higher speeds (A ≥ 200 000 mm/min). As a result, these seals can only be used in lower speed spindles and/or in applications where the additional heat does not significantly affect spindle performance.


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Only one day after Beyonce was named Bing's most searched person of 2013, Miley Cyrus has topped the charts at Yahoo.
21-year-old Cyrus went from Disney teen idol to full-fledged pop music star this year and in the process became the most searched term overall on Yahoo. And if you think Cyrus' tongue-wagging and twerking on the MTV Video Music Awards had anything to do with it, you'd be correct.
The most popular question on Yahoo starting with "What" happened to be "What is twerking?" reports NBC News.
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With one crown apiece, camp Beyonce and camp Cyrus will have to wait until Google - the country's most popular search engine according to comScore - releases its most-searched findings before the ultimate winner of 2013 can be named.
Holding firm at the number two spot on both Yahoo and Bing was reality TV star Kim Kardashian. And though Kardashian appeared to be a constant online presence due to her divorce from Kris Humphries, the birth of her daughter North with Kanye West and subsequent engagement to the rapper, her popularity wasn't enough to compete with the antics of Cyrus. In Yahoo's third spot was Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover model Kate Upton.
Surprisingly, Bing users interest in Cyrus was only enough to place the "Wrecking Ball" singer in the ninth spot on their list. Bing, the second most used search engine in the U.S. ranked Rihanna to the third tier behind Beyonce and Kardashian, followed by Taylor Swift, Madonna, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj and Amanda Bynes. Rounding out the top ten was Barack Obama.
For all his reported bad boy antics, Bieber only managed to scrape into the Yahoo top ten in the final birth, behind even his ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez who occupies fifth position.
But it wasn't only pop stars and reality TV sensations that held America's interest in 2013. Obamacare was Yahoo's No. 6 most-searched term, as well as the second most-searched news story, trailing the Jodi Arias trial.
Will Beyonce's "Mrs Carter World Show" Tour, Destiny's Child reunion at the Super Bowl XLVII Halftime Show, HBO documentary, Cuba trip with husband Jay Z and ads for L'Oreal and H&M generate enough interest to propel the "Grown Woman" singer to become the most searched celebrity in 2013? Or will Cyrus' ever-present tongue and risque stage costumes be enough to make her No. 1? And don't rule out Kardashian, who, with enough clicks could rise above her current second placings to ultimately claim the crown.
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Prof. Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa Co-edits Architecture In Formation (Routledge)
POSTED ON: October 9, 2013
Architecture In Formation: On The Nature of Information in Digital Architecture
Edited by Associate Professor Adjunct Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa and Aaron Sprecher, Routledge, New York 2013
Architecture in Formation is the first digital architecture manual that bridges multiple relationships between theory and practice, proposing a vital resource to structure the upcoming second digital revolution. Sixteen essays from practitioners, historians and theorists look at how information processing informs and is informed by architecture. Twenty-nine experimental projects propose radical means to inform the new upcoming digital architecture.
"We grew accustomed to live together with machines, which provide us endless access to information. Our computational companions, now in our pockets, have had also a profound impact on how we foresee future scenarios of transformation and change. Now is the moment that we reconsider critically the emergence of new paradigms and protocols that computation has determined within architecture, and this collection of essays establishes a potent cornerstone of a much needed history of that recent past."
- Fabrizio Gallanti, Associate Director, Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Featuring essays by: Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Aaron Sprecher, Georges Teyssot, Mario Carpo, Patrik Schumacher, Bernard Cache, Mark Linder, David Theodore, Evan Douglis (AR '83), Ingeborg Rocker and Christian Lange, Antoine Picon, Michael Wen-Sen Su (AR '02), Chris Perry, Alexis Meier, Achim Menges and Martin Bressani.
Interviews with: George Legendre, Alessandra Ponte, Karl Chu, CiroNajle, and Greg Lynn
Projects by: Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Elizabeth Diller, AR '79; Diller Scofidio, AR '55); Mark Burry; Yehuda Kalay; Omar Khan; Jason Kelly Johnson, Future Cities Lab; Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Maider Llaguno Munitxa; Anna Dyson / Bess Krietemeyer, Peter Stark, Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE); Philippe Rahm; Lydia Kallipoliti and Alexandros Tsamis; Neeraj Bhatia, Infranet Lab; Jenny Sabin, Lab Studio; Luc Courschene, Society for Arts and Technology (SAT); Eisenman Architects; Preston Scott Cohen; Eiroa Architects; Michael Hansmeyer; Open Source Architecture; Andrew Saunders; Nader Tehrani, Office dA; Satoru Sugihara, ATLV and Thom Mayne, Morphosis; Reiser + Umemoto (Jessie Reiser, AR '81; Nanako Umemoto, AR '83); Roland Snooks, Kokkugia; Philip Beesley; Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger SPAN; Michael Young; Eric Goldemberg, Monad Studio; Francois Roche; Ruy Klein; Chandler Ahrens and John Carpenter.
Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa is an associate professor adjunct at The School of Architecture of The Cooper Union and director of the Digital Representation and Fabrication Program. He is the design principal of Eiroa Architects.
Aaron Sprecher is an assistant professor and research director of LIPHE at McGill University School of Architecture. He is co-founder of Open Source Architecture (O-S-A) and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural Education.


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From November 15th of 2006 until January of 2007, visitors to AOL Cityguide had the opportunity to name Chicago's Best for 2007 in a number of categories. Voters could only vote once over the entire course of the contest, so being named as the winner is a real testament to your fan base.
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Apparently, he wasn't ready for Beyonce's jelly.
A male fan of the music legend became a bit too zealous during Bey's Monday concert in Copenhagen, Denmark, and proceeded to slap the singer's butt during her performance of "Irresistible."
Queen B walked down to the front of the stage to interact with fans, and as she turned around, the cheeky Beyonce admirer tapped her famous bootylicious backside (which was, of course, bedazzled in a blue bodysuit).
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"I will have you escorted out right now, all right?" the superstar warns as she continues on with her performance.
Luckily, Jay-Z wasn't in the audience.
Beyonce is currently midway through her Mrs. Carter Show World Tour. She's set to perform in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday night.


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PM's Lanka decision proves he is no longer India's sole arbiter on foreign relations
The broth of diplomacy could turn out to be a noxious concoction made of "scale of dragon; tooth of wolf; witches' mummy; and maw and gulf" if the pot is stirred sans care and caution. Throw in a dose of dilemma, and diplomacy is certain to cause undiplomatic trauma—the current mot juste for the Indian diplomatic community's state of mind. For the past few weeks, PM Manmohan Singh is under tremendous pressure to choose between pleasant pastures of international diplomacy and the quirky quicksands of domestic politics. He has now discovered that good diplomacy could be 'Adder's fork, and blind worm's sting' for the Congress' political interests. His indecisiveness on participation in the CHOGM to be held in Colombo next week reflected his vulnerability. Diplomats have always deplored the influence of domestic or regional politics on international relations and the PM has been a fellow traveller. But as the countdown to general elections begins, he is more concerned about winning the election than maintaining consistent faith in traditional diplomacy. The current contours of Indian diplomacy are being defined by those expected to be the kingmakers after 2014. The magic number of 40 (including Puducherry) Lok Sabha seats from Tamil Nadu is defining the UPA's foreign policy. The PM's conciliatory contortions to soothe Tamil anger over his Sri Lanka visit was quite droll, though he was bold enough to defy the BJP which demanded suspension of the Indo-Pak dialogue because of cross-border terrorism, since they are as unlikely to form a coalition in 2014 as Macbeth's witches would brew elixir. The Indian PM has always dictated foreign policy from the days of Jawaharlal Nehru, one of those who midwifed the CHOGM—a result of Nehruvian romance with international diplomacy. In the age of coalition politics, even diplomacy has become an effective instrument of votebank politics. Currently, dialogue with Pakistan is a sign of secularism, which pays rich political dividends. Boycotting CHOGM is a regional weapon to capture votes and power. Even liberal Congress ministers who otherwise would have nudged the PM to defy regional parties advised him against any adventurism fearing worse electoral humiliation in Tamil Nadu. Even the BJP, ideologically in simpatico with Sri Lanka's ruling establishment, prefers to beat around the bush because it, too, expects one of the Tamil parties to support its PM candidate.
CHOGM wasn't an important noting on Manmohan's diplomatic diary in 2011. He had requested Vice-President Hamid Ansari to represent India. Though CHOGM can hardly influence international diplomacy, it has become an instrument for India to dominate dialogue; at least among smaller nations. With over a dozen other multi-nation platforms including ASEAN, G-20, BRICS and SAARC being prima donnas of South Asian diplomatic savoir-faire, CHOGM has lost its sheen and relevance since the same subjects are discussed at its venues too. Those opposed to Manmohan's Sri Lanka visit had argued that CHOGM failed to guarantee that Sri Lanka adhered to principles when it blatantly flouted the 14-point 1971 Singapore Resolution which mandates members to ensure human rights protection. In the past, CHOGM had suspended Pakistan, Nigeria, Fiji and Zimbabwe for human rights violations. Unfortunately, none of its rich and powerful members have attacked Sri Lanka for the Tamil genocide. Most members take divergent positions at various forums, and no important multilateral issue has been resolved because of differing loyalties. Sri Lanka has been wooing the Chinese for the past few years by granting increasing access to its ports and markets. It is not merit but pure politics, which is forcing Manmohan to surrender his only fief in the government. He attended three of the last four CHOGMs. Though not officially announced yet but with all indications implying the same, by deciding to miss the last one of his tenure, he would prove he is no longer India's sole arbiter on foreign relations.
Come November, New Delhi becomes the salubrious rendezvous point for international meetings and seminars. Post recession, New Delhi has lost its global corporate clientele. Instead, it is now hosting diplomats from countries experiencing bad weather. Foreign secretary Sujatha Singh decided to invite 140 heads of Indian Missions for a four-day brainstorming session. Prime Minister, the Commerce Minister and the National Security Advisor addressed the jamboree. Unlike in the past, the meeting was more interactive. A short 450-word summary explaining the salient features of the PM's speech was uploaded on the MEA's website. As usual, the PM's address was very high on principles and low on count. Most of those who participated found serious contradictions between what he meant by effective diplomacy to protect national interests and what the Congress was pursuing on ground. At the end, they were left wondering what their job would be—selling the ruling party's line or that of their ministry and the PM's. But their major grouse was that though they were flown first class to India, they were handed just Rs 5,000 a day to find accommodation.
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Marion Cotillard and Guillaume Canet were at Roy Thomson Hall last night for the premiere of Blood Ties. And I missed them!
Etalk assigned me to cover Scarlett Johansson's carpet instead, which we'll get to later, but I felt this, I did. I adore them, I do. You know who else adores them? Or her? It's Dylan, who shoots every live broadcast we feed into the theatre and would have been shooting Marion last night and thoroughly enjoying every moment, even though her dress is less than. I mean on someone else it would have been a complete disaster but this, this is beneath her.
Fortunately, they posed together on the carpet, which makes it all better.
Here's the trailer for Blood Ties. I love how Marion says "sh-t". I love Matthias Schoenaerts. I love the styling. But I'm not sure I haven't seen this movie before.


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Details have emerged of an extraordinary attack in which millions of DSL broadband routers in Brazil were hit by a serious software flaw that allowed criminals to gain complete control of all web traffic running through them.
First noticed in 2011, it is only since a presentation by Kaspersky Lab researcher Fabio Assolini, that the severity of the attack, which left 4.5 million routers defenceless, has become clear.
The large unnoticed flaw was a Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) affecting six different and aging broadband router brands handed out by large ISPs in the country.
Ironically, the vulnerability turned out to be caused by the Broadcom chipset used in all of the routers although it seemed to vary by model and firmware version.
The flaw gave remote attackers the ability to bypass login security, taking control of the device and changing consumers' DNS settings to resolve all web addresses through a network of 40 malicious servers.
Armed with knowledge of the flaw, criminals scoured the Internet looking for exposed devices which were then hit with an exploit using an automated script. Users were then locked out of the hardware by changing the passwords.
Cleverly, the attackers left the secondary ISP-defined DNS server untouched, which allowed them to launch attacks using the rogue primary DNS for a only short periods in a day as a way of avoiding drawing attention to what was going on.
The result? The attackers were able to install malware, intercept online bank logins, or simply redirect users to bogus Facebook, Google and Orkut phishing pages. A single log on one of the malicious DNS server examined after the attack was rumbled showed 14,000 victims.
The attack is a reminder that although most criminals attempt to compromise the PC, routers can also be prone to serious vulnerabilities.
Kaspersky is scathing about the complacent reaction of the hardware vendors concerned.
"Some manufacturers neglect to act even after being alerted to these problems. This leaves users exposed to attacks as companies are slow to release the necessary firmware upgrades to solve the problem," said Assolini in a blog that summarised the attack.
The old-fashioned hardware had been approved by the Brazilian Government but without any security assessments having been carried out.
"The negligence of the manufacturers, the neglect of the ISPs and ignorance of official government agencies create a "perfect storm", enabling cyber criminals to attack at will."
Using home routers to compromise web security is audacious and unusual; a more conventional form of the same idea was the DNSChanger malware that successfully infected large numbers of PCs before being disrupted by the FBI.


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Tylor Ring could only smile at first.
Tylor Ring could only smile at first.
And then the Swansboro High rising sophomore said it would be �insane� when asked what it would mean if she was named most valuable player in a soccer championship match for the second time in two months.
�Yeah, it would be insanely shocking,� Ring said. �Once is incredible, but twice would just be insane.�
In late May, Ring was named MVP of Swansboro�s 3-0 win over South Iredell in the NCHSAA 2-A final in Raleigh.
Ring, a forward, certainly has fond memories of helping the Pirates capture the fourth state crown in program history. Yet her focus these days is on helping her �97 Jacksonville Area Soccer Association (JASA) Coastal Surge club team win a national tournament.
The Surge will play in the six-team U.S. Club Soccer National Cup in Aurora, Colo., from Thursday through Sunday.
�I think that once you get there (being a champion and MVP), you just have to try training harder and harder,� said Ring, a midfielder for the Surge. �It�s easier to get there than it is to remain there. So I have to keep trying to improve myself.�
Ask those associated with the �97 Surge, and they will tell you Ring has kept her high level of play on the pitch.
�Tylor has always been hungry and her play hasn�t gone down,� said defender Abby Taylor, a rising sophomore who was also on Swansboro�s title team. �But her confidence has gotten up more, although she�s never had bad confidence and she�s always been a great player.�
And that includes during practice and in games, Surge coach Becky Morton said.
�Tylor gives 100 percent every practice and every game and when she steps on the field, I know exactly what is going to happen. She never lets up,� Morton said. �It did not surprise me that she was MVP because she came into her own in the middle of the season and stepped it up assisting on goals and then starting to find the back of the net herself. She�s just an all-around team player.�
Ring is one of five Surge players from Swansboro High.
Along with Taylor, the other Pirates are Tianna Boeckman, Kaitlin Plienis and Jessica Edwards, all rising sophomores. Boeckman is midfielder, Plienis is a forward and Edwards a defender.
These players know what�s it like to win a championship and Morton hopes to use their experience to help the JASA club win a title.
�I definitely think it will help us in the end,� Morton said. �It will help with them just being leaders and, when it comes down to it, they are going to get the job done.�
Both Taylor and Ring agreed that playing in a high school state final will help, but they both added club soccer is a different entity and that makes playing in the National Cup a different experience.
�It (experience) kind of helps a little bit, but it is a totally different team and different aspect,� Ring said. �It helps with how I am, but it�s still going to be exciting and nerve-racking.�
And as for Taylor?
�It (the state title) really boosted our confidence a lot, but I try to keep it out of my mind and try to focus on this right now,� she said. �I don�t like looking in the past.�
Instead, Taylor and Ring are enjoying their time together with the other players from Swansboro as well as with their JASA teammates.
Taylor said having four other high school teammates on her club team is a plus.
�We are all best friends and we love each other and that just helps with soccer,� she said. �We can communicate with each other just with eyesight and not having to talk. That helps not leading the other team to what we are doing.�
Added Ring: �We are around each other all of the time. We can just read each other. We know where we are going to be and how we are going to play.�
Swansboro, though, isn�t the only local high school represented on the 18-player Surge squad.
Christina Cole is a rising junior at White Oak and was on the Vikings� state 3-A title team in 2012. Samantha Provencal and Kayla Boudreau are both rising sophomores at Northside, Tessa Friesen is a rising sophomore at Jacksonville and Isabella Nunu is a rising sophomore at Richlands.
Additionally, there is a trio of rising freshman: Brianna Kropinack (Swansboro), Abigail Rademacher (Dixon) and Tyler Glynn (Croatan).
While there are players from a variety of schools, Taylor said the players all get along well.
�Half of the team actually came to the state championship game,� she said. �They were really proud of us. We all play hard against each other, but after the game we come to each other, hug each other and laugh.�


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/ Friday, October 28, 2011 / 13 Comments / Appetizers and Snacks , Condiments and Sauces , Middle Eastern
Ajvar is a yummy spread made from roasted peppers and eggplants. It's an Eastern European specialty and is also known as Croatian/Serbian red pepper ketchup. The consistency of the spread can be chunky or mashed, depends on your liking. Simply serve with flatbread as an appetizer or alongside any grilled meat. Delightful!
5 to 6 Bell Peppers (medium sized, about 780 g)
2 Eggplants (about 700 g)
2 Cloves Garlic, mashed to paste
3 Tbsp Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
¼ tsp Cayenne Pepper
Lemon Juice
Sea Salt
Flat Leaf Parsley, finely chopped
Preheat the oven to 450˚F.
Place the peppers and eggplants in a large baking tray, and roast for about 40 minutes or until soft. Remove the stems, skins, and seeds from the peppers, and finely chop the flesh. Remove the stem and skin from the eggplant, and finely chop the flesh.
Combine the chopped peppers, eggplants, garlic, olive oil, cayenne pepper, and season with lemon juice and sea salt. Sprinkle some finely chop parsley before serving.
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- AnonymousOctober 28, 2011 at 5:57 PM
DeeeeeLicious! Love Avjar!!ReplyDelete
I've never heard of this spread, but it sounds absolutely delicious!ReplyDelete
wow I too have never heard of this spread but it sure sounds delicious - especially with roasted red peppers! should i use just the red peppers or will any color do?ReplyDelete
Gosh this looks and sounds appealing. Never heard of it.ReplyDelete
In my country (Slovenia) and I'm sure that in Croatia and Serbia as well, it is called "ajvar" and not "avjar". And for it to be called a Serbian ketchup sounds like such an underestimate, but maybe this comes only from my aversion to ketchup in general. I hope you get a chance to try this spread with a real Serbian barbecue, because it is the best barbecue and the best spread in the world and I miss it dearly when I am abroad. I love to see food that I love from this region to finally reach out to people and get some recognition in the world, so thank you and please keep up the good work:)ReplyDelete
Our daughter-in-law's family is from Croatia. Our son and his wife went there for a wedding and brought back Avjar, olive oil and other tasty treats. Thank you for the recipe. I wanted more Avjar as soon as I finished the last morsel in the jar.ReplyDelete
Interesting recipe. Beautiful shots.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 29, 2011 at 10:35 AM
In my country (Slovenia) and I am sure that in Croatia and Serbia as well this spread is called "ajvar" and not "avjar" . to call it Serbian ketchup, to me sounds as a horrible underestimate, though that might just be coming from my aversion to ketchup in general. I hope you are or will be able to try this out with a real Serbian barbecue, which is the world's best barbecue with the best quality spreads as well. I am really happy that the food from this region, and that I love as well and miss when I'm living abroad is finally getting some recognition in the world. Thank you for sharing it:)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 29, 2011 at 11:55 AM
Mmm this sounds lovely!ReplyDelete
Wonderful presentation.ReplyDelete
@majathecactus: Thanks. There was a typo on the title, and I have rectified it.ReplyDelete
Traditionaly, ajvar is made of only red peppers, not eggplant. And, it's never a red pepper ketchup and never will be. There is no garlic, lemon juice or cayenne pepper in the traditional recipe. I am from Macedonia, where we prepare ajvar for every single winter. Over all, looks good.ReplyDelete
I've never heard of avjar before, but I love the sound of it based on the ingredients. I love hearing about new dishes. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete


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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – On a day when the Mormon church announced its membership has hit 15 million _ a three-fold increase from three decades ago _ the ongoing debate about the role of women within the faith raged on.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' president Thomas S. Monson kicked off the two-day conference that brings 100,000 members to Salt Lake City by announcing the latest membership milestone from one of the fastest-growing churches in the world.
"The church continues to grow steadily and to change the lives of more and more people every year," Monson told about 20,000 members seated in a three-story auditorium in Salt Lake City. "It is spreading across the Earth as our missionary force seeks out those who are searching for the truth."
Monson said the church was founded with 30 members in 1830, and that it took more than a century to hit 1 million. Church membership has tripled since 1982 when there were 5 million members, said Matt Martinich, a member of the LDS church who analyzes membership numbers with the nonprofit Cumorah Foundation.
More than half of all Latter-day Saints live outside of the U.S., church figures show.
Mormons are still vastly outnumbered by other religious denominations such as Catholics, 1.2 billion worldwide, and Muslims, 1.6 billion, according to data from the Pew Research Center. But the Mormon faith is also much younger than those churches, having been founded in 1830, and is among the fastest-growing churches in the world. In fact, the new Mormon membership figures suggest the religion has more members than Jews, who count about nearly 14 million members worldwide, Pew Research Center shows.
Monson, considered the prophet of the church, said Saturday that there are now 80,000 missionaries around the world _ up from 58,500 a year ago. The historic growth was triggered by the church's decision to lower the minimum age for missionaries, which Monson announced during this same conference a year ago.
By allowing men to go at 18, instead of 19, and women at 19, instead of 21, a wave of new, younger missionaries have joined older ones that were already planning to go.
The reaction from young Mormon women has been especially enthusiastic. The number of female missionaries has more than doubled in the last year to 19,000 currently, church figures show.
The biannual general conference brings members together to hear inspirational words from church leaders and to hear church announcements. In addition to the people in Salt Lake City, the conference is also watched by millions more around the world on TV, radio and the Internet. The conference is widely followed and analyzed on social media, with many using the Twitter hash tag, "(hash)LDSconf."
Many of the speeches come from the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, which is the second-highest governing body of the church. Modeled after Jesus Christ's apostles, the twelve men serve under the church president and his two counselors.
Quorum member David A. Bednar implored Mormons who don't tithe 10 percent of their income to the church to seek forgiveness. "Please do not procrastinate the day of your repentance," he said. Quorum member Robert D. Hales told church members Saturday that the "world is moving away from the Lord faster than ever" and instructed members to take the words of church leaders to heart.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf, one of Monson's two counselors, said wrestling with serious or sensitive questions about the faith is normal. But he said, "please first doubt your doubts, before you doubt your faith." Speaking to those who have left the church, he invited them back in, saying there is always room for them.
An afternoon speech by D. Todd Christofferson of the Quorum put the spotlight on the role of women in the faith a mere hours before a feminist women group called Ordain Women would ask to be let in an all-male priesthood meeting to highlight what they perceive as gender inequality.
Christofferson said having women at home remains an essential part of society and cautioned against blurring feminine and masculine differences. He encouraged women to dress modestly, and be good and virtuous. "We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith," he said repeating what a former high-ranking woman in the church said.
"Some feminist thinkers view homemaking with outright contempt, arguing it demeans women, and that the relentless demands of raising children are a form of exploitation," said D. Todd Christofferson, a member of the church's Quorum of the Twelve. "They ridicule what they call the "mommy track" as a career. That is not fair or right."
Earlier in the day, Carole M. Stephens, first counselor in the General Relief Society presidency, said both men and women are given "priesthood power" when they go to Mormon temples, but that the two genders have different gifts and strengths. Citing a bible verse, Stephens said the Lord's plan emphasizes that men and women fulfill their responsibilities so that all may benefit.
About 200 people joined the Ordain Women demonstration Saturday afternoon, marching from a nearby park to a standby line outside an all-male priesthood meeting only to be told again they wouldn't be allowed in. Church spokeswoman Ruth Todd greeted the women and then delivered the bad news. She told them a similar meeting for women was held last weekend, and that the Saturday evening session was about "strengthening the men of our church." The group had previously been denied their request for tickets.
The church issued a statement, saying: "Millions of women in this church do not share the views of this small group who organized today's protest, and most church members would see such efforts as divisive. Even so, these are our sisters and we want them to among us, and hope they will find peace and joy we all seek in the gospel of Jesus Christ."
The women still stood in line with the hope that church leaders will recognize their commitment to the cause and pray for a revelation that would allow women in the church's lay clergy.
Women can hold many leadership positions in the LDS church, but they can't be bishops of congregations or presidents of stakes, which include a dozen congregations.
The all-male meeting was broadcast live around the world for all to see for the first time ever. Kate Kelly, the group's founder, said that's a good first step but not enough. Julia Murphy traveled from Germany to stand alongside the women. Even though they didn't get in, she said it was another step in the movement.
"We've raised awareness, people are talking," said Murphy, who has two daughters. "It was worth the trip."
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Peanut Butter Marshmallow Whoopie Pies
1 package white cake mix
2/3 cup Jif® Creamy Peanut Butter
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup Crisco® Pure Vegetable Oil
1/3 cup water
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1/4 cup finely chopped cocktail peanuts
1 cup Jif® Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter
14 regular marshmallows
- HEAT oven to 350°F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- BEAT cake mix, 2/3 cup creamy peanut butter, brown sugar, oil, water, eggs, vanilla and almond extract in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until blended.
- DROP batter onto prepared baking sheets, 2 inches apart, using a medium scoop (2 tablespoons) to create 28 mounds. Sprinkle evenly with peanuts. Bake 11 to 13 minutes or until centers are set. Cool 1 minute. Remove cookies to wire rack to cool completely.
- SPREAD flat side of 1 cookie with a scant tablespoon crunchy peanut butter; set aside. Place another cookie on microwave-safe plate, flat side up. Top with 1 marshmallow, flat, circular side down. Microwave on HIGH about 10 seconds, watching carefully, and stopping microwave as soon as marshmallow begins to puff. Remove from microwave. Top with peanut butter coated cookie to make the whoopie pie, peanut butter side down, pressing gently to spread marshmallow. Repeat to assemble remaining whoopie pies, one at a time, when ready to eat.
Serving Size (1 pie of 14), Calories 480 (Calories from Fat 250), Total Fat 29g (Saturated Fat 6g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 40mg, Sodium 580mg, Total Carbohydrate 50g (Dietary Fiber 3g, Sugars 32g), Protein 11g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 2%, Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 4%, Iron 8%.