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Nakd Mango Cheesecake Bars
Thank you Natural Balance for sponsoring this recipe!
As long-time readers of my blog will know by now, I regularly work with one of my favourite brands – Nakd bars! And they've had a few new products out recently, including their Cocoa Coconut bars and… oh my goodness. They're incredible. If you love Bounty bars, you need to try these.
I've used these tasty bars as the base for these sweet, creamy Mango Cheesecake Slices. Free from dairy, gluten, refined sugars and any nasties.
Nakd Mango Cheesecake Bars Print Prep time 30 mins Total time 30 mins Sweet, zesty and creamy cheesecake bars made from natural, wholefood ingredients! Serves: 8 Ingredients For the cheesecake: 4 Nakd Coco Coconut Bars ½ cup 75g cashew nuts, soaked overnight in water and drained Juice of 2 limes ¼ cup 60ml agave nectar or maple syrup ¼ cup 60ml coconut oil, melted 1 tsp vanilla extract For the topping: 1 cup / 200g chopped mango 1 tbsp arrowroot powder 1 tbsp agave nectar or maple syrup (optional) zest of 2 limes Instructions Line an 8inch / 21cm cake tin (preferably square shape) with greaseproof paper. Add the Nakd bars to a food processor or high-powered blender until they are broken up into small crumbs. Press into the bottom of the tin to create a firm, even base. Blend together the cashew nuts, lime juice, agave, coconut oil and vanilla until you have a smooth cheesecake mixture. Pour onto the N...
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We scored on some deliciously sweet pluots at the local farmer's market yesterday. What not a better way to use the pluots, than to make a pluot galette. I was so excited to bake this. I heart baking. It's so therapeutic. Okay, okay. It's a lie. I wish I could take credit for this, but I'm not a baker whatsoever. Not even close. It was my partner who baked this. She's an incredible baker. I just took the picture.
Butter Pie Crust (Pâte Brisée; from Simply Recipes)
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus extra for rolling
8 Tbsp (1 stick) unsalted butter, very-cold, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon sugar (increase to 1 1/2 teaspoons if for a sweet recipe)
4 to 6 Tbsp ice water, very cold
In a food processor, combine flour, salt, and sugar, pulse to mix. Add butter and pulse 6 to 8 times, until mixture resembles coarse meal, with pea size pieces of butter. Add water 1 tablespoon at a time, pulsing until mixture just begins to clump together. If you pinch some of the crumbly dough and it holds together, it's ready, if not, add a little more water and pulse again.
Remove dough from machine and place on a clean surface. Carefully shape into a disc. Do not over-knead the dough! You should still be able to see little bits of butter in the dough. These bits of butter are what will allow the result crust to be flaky. Sprinkle the dough with a little flour on all sides. Wrap the disc in plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 1 hour.
Remove the dough from the refrigerator. Let sit at room temperature for 5-10 minutes. Sprinkle some flour on top of the disk. Roll out with a rolling pin on a lightly floured surface to a 12 inch circle; about 1/8 of an inch thick. As you roll out the dough, use a metal spatula to check if the dough is sticking to the surface below. Add a few sprinkles of flour if necessary to keep the dough from sticking. Gently fold in half. Place on to a 9-inch pie plate, lining up the fold with the center of the pan. Gently unfold and press down to line the pie dish with the dough.
Pluot Galette
1 pate brisee
6 firm pluots, sliced
1/3 cup sugar
1 tablespoons cornstarch
1 tablespoon lemon juice
pinch salt
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 tablespoon sugar
Preheat oven to 375 F.
Toss the pluots in a bowl with the sugar, cornstarch and lemon juice. Stir thouroughly and set aside.
Pile the pluots on top of the chilled dough leaving a 2 inch border for the crust. Fold the sides up, creating the crust and pinch folds together to secure. Brush egg on top and sprinkle with turbinado sugar. Bake pie in the oven for 1 hour until the crust is golden and the filling is bubbling. Let cool on the counter and serve.


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Since this week, Nokia's first Windows Phone is officially available which the company announced late October during its Nokia World. Nokia's new flagship device, the Nokia Lumia 800, runs on Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7.5/Mango OS and is powered - quite typical for a Windows Phone - by a Qualcomm MSM8255 single core CPU at a 1.4 GHz. More Nokia-typical are the supported 2G and 3G frequencies and the Lumia 800 supports quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as quadband UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA at 850/900/1900/2100 MHz. This allows to use it virtually all around the world. Furthermore it comes with support for WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and aGPS.
Also on board are the Windows Phone-typical FM radio, the proximity sensor and a digital compass but no gyroscope sensor which is now supported by Windows Phone 7.5. The Gorilla Glass WVGA AMOLED ClearBlack and curved glass touchscreen measures 3.7" and integrates seamlessly into to the Lumia 800's unibody polycarbonat body. Bellow the multitouch touchscreen, the device features the backlight illuminated Windows Phone navigation keys. On the right side, the Lumia 800 features the volume rocker, the power on/off switch and the camera button which launches the camera as well as it acts as the shutter.
The 8 megapixel autofocus camera from Carl Zeiss comes with a supporting dual flash LED and allows to record the Windows Phone 7 typical 720p HD videos up to 30 fps. However, for some reasons the Lumia 800 lacks a front-facing camera which is also now supported by Windows Phone 7.5.
All together, the Lumia 800 looks pretty much like its "sister-phone", the Meego-powered Nokia N9 which nevertheless comes with a front-facing camera but lacks the navigation keys under the screen and the dedicated camera button. But these are the only obvious differences between both devices.
Including the non-removable 1450 mAh battery, the Lumia 800 measures 116.5 x 61.2 x 12.1 mm and weights 142 g. It comes with 512 MB RAM and 16 GB flash storage. The micro USB port, which is protected by a flap, is located on the top, next to the 3.5 mm stereo headset jack. Next to to the USB port is the micro SIM card slot located. On the bottom of the device, where you normally find the microphone, the Lumia 800 is sporting the loud speaker for media playback and hands-free phone calls.
The Nokia Lumia 800 comes with a silicon case which fits nicely and protects the body of the device. Other accessories are the 100 - 240 Volt USB power adapter, a standard USB to micro USB charging and synchronization cable and a stereo headset with microphone.
All together, the Nokia Lumia 800 feels rock-solid and this shouldn't be a surprise at all. Doesn't matter which operating systems a Nokia phone is running, the company has decades of experience to design and manufacture smartphones, even if the Lumia 800 isn't manufactured by Nokia itself.
For sure, the used operating system is something new and different to Nokia. As the company said during the Lumia launch event in Berlin, the cooperation between Nokia and Microsoft was announced back in February, the contract was only signed in April and the device was announced end of October. That's not too much time for Nokia's engineers to work on a brand new and totally different operating system. And inside the Lumia 800 you see that Nokia hadn't had too much time to integrate its services seamlessly!
First of all, the Lumia runs Windows Phone 7.5, code-named Mango, and therefore it features all the Microsoft goodies and services as well as Microsoft's unique Metro design. And since the device is running Mango, it also features the 500 "under the hood" changes and improvements, Microsoft was talking about when it unveiled Windows Phone 7.5. This includes - but not only - copy and paste, Microsoft's way of multitasking as well as tons of other enhancements like Bing search improvements and enhancements. However, being a Mango phone, the Nokia Lumia 800 also lacks some of the recent enhancements and the most dramatic one might be the absence of WiFi tethering. It's simply not there and therefore it's not possible to use the Lumia 800 as a 3G hotspot for Notebooks or other WiFi equipped accessories around.
Nevertheless, the Mango upgrade made Windows Phone 7 feature-complete and therefore it was the perfect decision to start with Windows Phone 7.5 instead of Windows Phone 7.
When Microsoft and Nokia announced its cooperation back in February, Microsoft also said that Nokia will have access to the operating system as no other partner, allowing Nokia to make changes of the OS (for the benefit of all manufacturers). However, the Lumia 800 isn't reflecting this at all. It lacks hardware components like a front facing-camera which for instance Samsung's new Omnia W already has. And the unique Nokia services are partly complementary to Microsoft Windows Phone services.
The Nokia Lumia 800 comes with Nokia Drive, Nokia Maps and Nokia Music. While Nokia Drive is a unique and Nokia-typical navigation solution, Nokia Maps is complementary to Bing Maps and Nokia Music is complementary to Microsoft Zune and Windows Phone Music+Video player. Sure, all services have different features and strengths but for the end user it's confusing to find a Windows Phone Maps and Nokia Maps next to each other as well as a Microsoft Marketplace/Music+Video application and a Nokia Music application in the Start menu. Effectively, all the applications are doing the same.
Anyway, Nokia's experience in services is well reflected in its own apps. While Nokia Drive is a pretty basic navigation software, it's free and has a couple of benefits. For instance it's using Nokia's own Navigon maps which are superior and covers more areas of the world than Microsoft's own Bing Maps. Furthermore, maps can be downloaded to the device which reduces the data usage dramatically; this is especially interesting while in international roaming situations.
However, the routing by itself is quite basic and simply guides the way from a to b. There's no indication of the estimated time of arrival but only how much kilometers are left. Also the settings are pretty basic and only differentiates between 2D and 3D maps as well as day-view and night-view.
Nevertheless, in the recent tests Nokia Maps worked pretty straight forward but had some weaknesses in recalculating routes.
If we are talking about Nokia Drive, we should also have a closer look to Nokia Maps since this is the base for Drive. As mentioned above, Nokia is using its own Navigon Maps. Unlike Bing Maps, which only covers parts of the world, Nokia Maps is pretty complete in terms of the worldwide coverage and the Nokia Maps application on the Lumia 800 isn't only giving a classic paper-maps kind of overview but also providing a satellite view and showing public transportation.
Furthermore it shows point of interests with detailed information like phone, opening hours, and a link to the website as well as photos and reviews. Plus Nokia Maps provides routing capabilities.
Unfortunately it's yet not possible to take over point of interests from Nokia Maps to Nokia Drive to not only get a routing but using the inbuilt navigation capabilities. This shows how stand-alone all the Nokia apps are working at the moment.
Last but not least we have Nokia Music which is a media player and therefore stands in conflict with Microsoft's Music+Video Zune player. However, Nokia Music isn't a media player only but also allows to shop for music and is therefore in another conflict with Microsoft's Marketplace. To complete the confusion, Nokia Music requires its own user account which is - for sure - provided by Nokia. Microsoft's Windows Live ID isn't working for Nokia Music.
On the first sight, Nokia Music looks pretty much the same like Microsoft's Music+Video, offering access to the music library, the mp3 store and a link to gigs.
While the music library seems to run in Nokia Music, it uses the Music+Video player as the underlying application and shows artists, albums, songs, genres and playlists in the Windows Phone typical Metro-style. Furthermore it's also running under the lock-screen as well as currently tracks can be controlled from Windows Phone's Music+Video player.
The mp3 store is - as said - Nokia's own music store which allows to pre-listen and purchase MP3 songs. The price for a typical song is 0.99 Euro which seems to be today's standard price for MP3s.
Quite unique is Nokia Music's gigs which lists live concerts around the current inhabitancy.
While this is pretty neat it unveils again that all the Nokia apps are not linked to each other. For instance does it shows the location of a concert but this location can neither be opened in Nokia Maps nor in Nokia Drive.
The three examples shows two things: Nokia takes the Windows Phone cooperation pretty serious and has brought the best of its own services to the new platform. However, it also seems that there wasn't enough time to link everything smooth to each other and as a product manager confirmed at the Nokia Lumia launch event in Berlin, it can be expected that services might be merged, especially because Nokia seems to have the power and Microsoft backup to do so.
Final Conclusion
The new Nokia Lumia 800 is a pretty decent Windows Phone but I wouldn't go that far to say it's the best Windows Phone money can buy today! I really like it for its design, used materials and Nokia services! In these three categories I would even go so far to say that I love it! Especially the AMOLED screen looks so gorgeous and the curved screen fits so nicely into the overall device design, it's just a masterpiece of design, Also I was impressed by the quality of the inbuilt Bluetooth stack! No other Windows Phone connected that fast to my Audi Bluetooth car-kit! Too bad I haven't managed it to get Nokia Drive working thorugh my Bluetooth car-kit but instead it is using the inbuilt device speaker for navigation commands. Nevertheless, as good as the device is, I simply don't like it that a brand new Mango phone lacks features like gyroscope, front-facing camera and WiFi tethering! The gyroscope might be a gimmick today but with Microsoft's recent takeover of Skype, it's clear that Skype will - sooner or later - also hit Windows Phone. And a missing front-facing camera means that video telephony will be virtually impossible in the future. Not to mention that the first video telephony apps like "Tango" already made it to Microsoft's Marketplace and are available today. WiFi tethering is another thing I'm heavily missing. The good news is that it's said to follow with a later software update. However, in the meantime Notebooks and other WiFi enabled gear has to stay disconnected in the corner.Last but not least, the Lumia 800 lacks some of the other standard features, high-end phones typically support nowadays. Let's mention wireless DLNA here which allows to stream photos, music and videos to DLNA enabled TVs and PCs. DLNA is a pretty typical feature and for high-end phones like the Lumia 800, which in this case even comes with two music stores and therefore it would makes a lot of sense too! I wouldn't expect HDMI since this isn't supported by Microsoft today, but at least DLNA.
But now to the very positive sides too. The Nokia Lumia 800 is super fast and maybe one of the most fluid Windows Phones I've used so far. There's no jerking or anything but everything runs smooth over the screen. And Nokia Maps and Nokia Drive simply rocks. While Nokia Drive is quite basic, maybe a little bit too basic, it's doing the job by bringing you from a to b. And having the maps stored locally on the device is a unique feature other smartphone systems don't offer out of the box. And while we are talking about the maps, the quality of Nokia's maps is fantastic! For instance it even knows massive street changes in my neighborhood, neither Google nor Microsoft Bing Maps seems to have heard about so far. Also the more or less worldwide coverage makes the Lumia 800 a handy companion for international travelers!Somewhat disappointing is the way the Nokia apps are not working with each other today. Here's a lot of potential to improve the overall user experience but I'm quite sure this is the price Nokia and Microsoft had to pay for the tough timing.Nokia Music - on the other hand - left me a little bit confused. I see and understand that Nokia also wants its share from music sales but having two different music players on one device and even worse, two different music shops, isn't that kind of user experience Microsoft promised and talked about when it unveiled Windows Phone back in 2010. Even worse, it's going a new way of fragmentation we haven't expected. That's definitely something Microsoft has to fix with its partners as soon as possible. Either by linking partner shops into the Zune Marketplace experience or by removing the Zune Marketplace which nevertheless wouldn't make too much sense.
So what's my final thoughts? Well, I like the Lumia 800, I like the work Nokia has done and and I like Windows Phone 7.5 since it makes Windows Phone 7 feature complete. And I'm confident it will become even better during the next weeks and months. However, the work is definitely not yet done. Nevertheless, I wouldn't go that far to say that the Lumia 800 is an unfinished product. Maybe but only in terms of user experience but for sure not in terms of stability. In that terms the Nokia Lumia 800 is a rock-solid Windows Phone and worth to consider, doesn't matter if you are looking for a smartphone in general or a Windows Phone in particular!
The Nokia Lumia 800 is now or soon available for around for 499 Euro in selected markets in Europe and comes in three vivid colors: cyan, magenta and black.
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It would be the first of many occasions when the former ambassador and secretary of state would use her beloved pin collection as a diplomatic device to express her feelings about particular world affairs.
"It's a very good tool," said Albright, who led a tour at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College (her alma mater) Tuesday to celebrate the opening of her "Read My Pins" exhibition. "The whole point of the collection isn't to show I'm inquisitive, but also to be able to talk about foreign policy."
There are about a dozen display cases that make up "Read My Pins," each filled with several pins and accompanying photographs of Albright, wearing the jewelry, at meetings with world leaders. A yellow enamel costume bee pin sits alongside a photograph of Albright leaning toward former Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat. The flying insect pin is on the shoulder of her yellow suit jacket.
"He was so slow [in moving the peace process along] that I made it very clear there'd be a sting if there wasn't movement," Albright said.
The "Read My Pins" exhibition has become something of a retirement gig for the former diplomat, now 77. Its debut in September 2009 at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York coincided with the release of a book with the same title.
"In many ways, I wasn't sure I wanted to do this. I wanted to be taken seriously," she said, adding that she wrote two memoirs before agreeing to share the story of her jewelry. "I'm delighted how popular the show is."
Its arrival at Wellesley dovetailed with her 55th reunion — and several pins from her college years including the school's alumnae leaf pin and the fraternity pin she got from her future husband, Joe.
"I was in heaven — but also in trouble, because I had another boyfriend, who knew nothing about Joe," she wrote in the book. "Until I summoned the courage to break old ties, I kept Joe's pin out of sight, wearing it on my bra instead of my blouse."
Albright's affection for the pins endures, and she stopped Tuesday to point out her favorite, a handcrafted ceramic heart one of her daughters made for Valentine's Day.
Many of the more than 200 pins on display are costume pieces with as much sentimental value as intrinsic value. Albright walked the room briskly, recalling the story of each pin as a mother would her child's milestones. She pointed to an eagle pin that she bought at Tiny Jewel Box in Washington, D.C., to wear for her 1997 swearing-in ceremony as America's first female secretary of state.
"It had a complicated clasp," she said, remembering the pin's failure to stay closed. "I had one hand on the Bible and I looked down and I see the pin flapping there."
She also recalled her foreign policy pin faux pas when she wore a three-monkey "Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil" set to a summer summit with Vladimir Putin. When the Russian leader inquired about the monkeys, Albright forcefully told him: "I think your policy in Chechnya is evil."
"That was a time when I thought I'd made a mistake with my pin," she said.
"Read My Pins" runs through July 20 before moving to its next stop. Booked through 2018, the "Read My Pins" exhibition schedule rivals a One Direction concert tour, and Albright attends most of the exhibition openings.
"As I go around, I reacquaint myself with my pins. I'm sorry some are gone," she said.
But she takes comfort from friends and strangers who have replenished her collection. And Albright, who only goes pinless when she's exercising or on a plane, still seeks out new ones at flea markets and odds-and-ends shops.
"This makes me sounds like a nut," she said. "It's a lot of snooping and spying."
The pins have taken their toll — mainly on her wardrobe, which, these days, is primarily made up of black suits with holes where the pins stuck.
"It's become a monster," Albright said, referring to the exhibition as well as to the pressure to always have a great pin and even greater story. "Deciding which pin to wear can take nearly as much effort as reading a policy brief."
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I am a sucker for gwen
I can do without gavin
but... when he says breath in breath out I do not change the radio station
gwen on youtube
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I could lose an hour at that site!
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I like Depeche Mode
that is a better place to start
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I'm having a similar experience. When I click the Update button the widget flips over and asks me to log in. I do and it just sits there. I have to click Cancel and the widget flips back over. Then I update and it downloads and then sits on Installing... for a long time (i.e. > 4hrs).
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Certainly grounds to demand a "do over".
"The court saw it as a breach of copyright law arguing that divine inspiration is legally attributable to their human recipient."
Then let Jesus come to court and sue for His rights.
Gema to the courts: Youtube is the one choosing to take down the videos, not us.
Youtube to Gema: Since you have argued in court that it is "our choice", we have chosen to stop taking the videos down.
Gema to Youtube: But ... but ...
The reason that they can not estimate the "cost to the economy" is because the net is $0.
Even if consumers spent the reported $100B on counterfeit goods, that is still what the consumers spent. That went into the economy.
Now, if consumers spent less than $100B, including down to $0, they still would have spent that on something else.
No net difference TO THE ECONOMY.
I'm going to patent "having sex with my wife to produce offspring with brown hair".
(We both have brown hair, and so do our kids, so it's a working method and product, right?)
Of course, then I'll get challenged on similar grounds, back off the "method", and hopefully get the patent for just brown hair itself.
If I can get this to fly (and I'm pretty sure I can, the way patents get approved these days) I figure I can squeeze the world for a cool couple billion.
It's not about censorship. It's about ... ... chocolate chips! ... (Yeah, I like that.) ... It's about chocolate chips and cookies and candies! Who doesn't love that?
Please ... PLEASE ... tell me that was a joke...
Is it time to send them a fruit basket and a "get well soon" card?
Senshikaze, I completely agree with you. The distinction is between inventor and non-inventor, not independant inventors.
During a development project, I ran across no less than a dozen real grossly questionable patents. Of them, only two had ever been reduced to an actual working invention; all the rest were concepts and drawings only.
What the quotes tell me is that I could challenge my standing against the ten that were pipe dreams, because I was an actual "inventor". The other two, that had acutally been reduced to a working invention by real inventors would still be in my way.
Senshikaze, I completely agree with you. The distinction is between inventor and non-inventor, not independant inventors.
During a development project, I ran across no less than a dozen real grossly questionable patents. Of them, only two had ever been reduced to an actual working invention; all the rest were concepts and drawings only.
What the quotes tell me is that I could challenge my standing against the ten that were pipe dreams, because I was an actual "inventor". The other two, that had acutally been reduced to a working invention by real inventors would still be in my way,
It doesn't matter. It's a brief segment used to frame the question. Perfectly fair.
What I want to know is how you can get an Oscar nomination for blatantly lying.
It goes from God to Jesus to Steve.
By divine right, Steve can do and say what he wants, and we all have to go along with it.
"Imagine, though, how much bigger that contribution might be had the Patent Office been able to process the applications that it has still not even looked at. There are more than 700,000 of these."
Imagine it?!? I can't wait!!! $2000 to replace my $500 smart phone. The inability to innovate. Time frozen at the current state of technology because nobody can navigate the thicket.
I'll never have to upgrade! I'll have to waste time learning new features! What an awesome world!
True or not, he might as well argue that the lightbulb is destroying the candle-making industry.
There have been cases mentioned on this site about private companies getting patents on Federal research, so it could be a good thing that the Federal Government pre-empts the private sector in this way...
... Presuming of course that those patents remain free to the public in perpetuity ...
... Which of course they won't ...
I'm not so sure that you can "guarantee" that.
From the wikipedia page:
"Until the Federal Circuit's Mallinckrodt decision, an unbroken line of Supreme Court and lower court precedents held that the patentee's patent right over a product that the patentee sold (or that a licensee authorised to make a sale sold) ended at the point of sale."
"The Federal Circuit's Mallinckrodt doctrine has not avoided criticism as allegedly stating legal rules that contradict Supreme Court decisions. Thus in 2007, the United States Solicitor General filed an amicus curiae brief in Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc.,[8], stating, as to the first prong, "The test adopted by the Federal Circuit in Mallinckrodt thus reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the role and scope of the patent-exhaustion doctrine. ... The court of appeals' approach cannot be reconciled with those [Supreme Court] precedents,"[9] and more generally that the Federal Circuit's Quanta opinion based on Mallinckrodt "rests on the same erroneous understanding of patent exhaustion that infuses the Federal Circuit's approach to this area of the law."
Long story short, that single ruling in Mallinckrodt v. Medipart is in direct conflict with an unbroken line of prior precedents set as high as the Supreme Court.
I say defendant has a case.
... or to tell the truth if they do understand.
Good point. Since the 944 were initially lumped into two suits before being split out, they may have a leg in court to roll it back into the two lump classes.
944 defendants can share the expenses, thus allowing them to hire top attorneys at a fraction of the individual cost. Given these kinds of cost/benefit, the 944 can stand and fight like an army. They might even be able to counter with a class action lawsuit.
1 defendant, on the other hand, is in way over his head and is more likely to settle.
Ah the dichotomy between sports and science.
- Football and the challenge of the fight stokes the fire in spirit of the many.
- Science serves the many, but truly only inspires the few.
Which will win when the popular vote is tallied?


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For this particular instance, I favored Repko over Denard. Certainly with the Rangers starting the left-handed killing machine in CJ Wilson combined with Span's need to readjust his approach, today merits the opportunity to give the starting center fielder a night off.
However, there is a contingent of voices in Twins Territory that are crying for a more permanent switch. Because of Repko's defensive prowess and sudden offensive surge in his limited capacity, there has been rumblings to bench Span in favor of Repko altogether. This, of course, is absurd.
Admittedly, Span is in need of some respite, as he has been flummoxed by opponents who have altered their approach by firing strikes early in the count when data/scouting showed Span didn't swing. Repko, while playing effectively in small doses, does not have nearly the same skill set that an effective Denard Span has when it comes to leading off. The right-hander manages to strike out in over 25% of his big league plate appearances leading to a .300 OBP in his career. That just won't cut it in the lead off spot. The Twins need Span's presence at the top of the order and they need him to make adjustments quickly.
- Over at DiamondCentric, we are currently weighing options for the next shirt honoring Carl Pavano. Take a look at the potential styles at my Twitter account and please provide us with some feedback.
- Seth Stohs looks at last night's game and raises plenty of discussion points.
- Likewise, Andrew at Off The Mark takes a closer look at the decisions made late in last night's game.
- Nick Nelson examines the favorable atmosphere of home field advantage in the playoffs -- with a foregone conclusion that the Twins will be a part of that mix.
- More on Jesse Crain's improvements via Pioneer Press.
- Carlos Gomez is up to his old tricks in Milwaukee. In spite of a lowly .228/.285/.348 batting line as the recently added Lorenzo Cain, who has hit .314/.368/.431 in fewer than 60 plate appearances, Gomez still brazenly admits that he is "the man" for the Brewers. The money line? "At this point, Gomez appears to be really good at only two things -- running, and running his mouth."
- Former Twins pitcher Matt Kinney was recently suspended for 50-games after testing positive for amphetamines. The 33-year-old Kinney was pitching for the Giants' AAA-affiliate in Fresno.
- Branden Harris, who was sent down to Rochester in late June, has been flustered in his demotion, saying "I can't believe where I am. I don't have that sense of entitlement, I just can't believe how things went south so quickly. From signing the two-year deal, to having a good spring training, to here."
- Ken Lipshez of the New Britain Herald informs us that Bill Smith is still very much counting on Terry Ryan's seal of approval when concocting deals.


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Young adults from the area gathered at the Coutts Museum of Art Thursday evening for their first meeting of what is planned to become a monthly occurrence.
Young adults from the area gathered at the Coutts Museum of Art Thursday evening for their first meeting of what is planned to become a monthly occurrence.
The goal was to bring together people who have chosen to live in El Dorado and love the community to get them involved and share ideas.
Chase Locke, who helped come up with the idea for the group to meet, welcomed everyone to the Coutts after they had refreshments and time to socialize.
He said he has grown up in El Dorado and although he has worked outside the community, he loves the community.
"I agree it is a wonderful place to have a family and grow up," he said. "I just want to thank you all for coming down."
He wanted the group to meet so they could get to know one another and then start to brainstorm.
Some of the things they were asked was what events would they like to see in El Dorado and the top three things they would like to see changed in El Dorado.
From those ideas, they will have some discussion items for the next meeting.
"I think we have so much to offer already and this is just to improve that and add some new things," Locke said.
Lindsay Mills, Main Street director, said she felt it was important because she talks to the same people over and over and doesn't always hear new ideas. This gives her the opportunity to meet new people and hear some new ideas.
"We are the future of this community," she said. "We want to make sure everyone is heard."
Locke also pointed out this was not a Main Street group and it is open to anyone in the community. He encouraged everyone to bring one other person next time so the group could continue to grow.
"This is a way to make more connections," he said.
Rod Seel, Coutts director, also spoke briefly to the group.
He said he had worked with a similar group in Topeka and that group grew into something good and he thought they had the same potential.
He also invited them to use the space at the Coutts any time they needed it.
Locke went on to tell those present this was not something they were committing too, rather they wanted to get some ideas.
"I think there's a lot of possibilities in El Dorado and I'm excited about it," he said.


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As each year passes, I can see the evolution of the fitness manager position in the industry. Once seen as a glorified class coordinator and/or top trainer, the fitness manager of 2010 has grown to be a true retention manager, directing members towards numerous services now offered within the walls of the facilities while mentoring a group of hybrid professionals, determined to do what it takes to find solutions for members.
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Wow you go ice climbing to get to your kiting spot. Thats extreme! WAY more extreme than wyoming. Do you kite with crampons on and ice axe or just ice axe? You don't need a sled anymore once you get to treeline. Thats where you start kiting. Kudos for doing all your adventures solo! Takes alot more drive to do it that way! I am going to start working on my ice climbing skills so I can hope to come out east and kite with the big boy.crabnebula wrote:HEY HOOOO
Ive been out on Moutn Washington and all the presidential peaks in NH for the last whole bunch of years.....I must say that back country kiting has a new definition then anything Ive seen out west...as we have NO snowmobiles allowed by law above tree line. The wind is typically over 80mph. Ice and snow climbing skills as well as general mountaineering skills and navigations skills in white out terrain is mandatory.
Ya hoo! All to myself so far!
Talk to you later!
I never said it was a joke chaz! Just thought it was funny that out east you need a different skill set to kite. like ice climbing, mountaineering, and whiteout navigation skills. None of those come into play out in the west where we just snowmobile right up to every spot and kite.kite_wyoming wrote:Whoa.
If I am not mistaken, Crabnebula is a professional mountain guide.Wayne, you and I kited with him back in 2005. I grew up back east and have climbed on Cannon cliff, Cathedral ledge and the Presidential range, including Mt. Washington. I can tell you that it is no joke, people die there all the time and the reason he kites by himself is that no one else is far enough out there to follow him.
Although, it seems like it would be fun!
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I'm tickled by the nearness of last names in the paired artist, Saana Wang, whose bed you see here, and window below. I paired them when I saw the photo of the little girl with white "doll" face; it strikes with and against "Hinamatsuri (The Doll's Festival)" like a sad gong.
Yesterday my husband pulled into the driveway, had a quick lunch, and was headed back to work when he saw the flat tire. Jacked up the car to relieve the burden on the wheel, took my car back to work, and attempted the repair later. Tire was shot. We were so lucky it didn't blow on the road to or from Chicago! So lucky it didn't spoil the day of college-campus and zoo visits! So lucky it didn't make us late for the surprise party! So lucky it didn't inconvenience the friends with whom we were staying. So lucky!
So on this hump of the week, we'll get a new tire.
My doctor will probably look at it and say, "You do realize that coffee and wine don't really have that much nutritional value?"
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My SCY season consisted of 8 meets including Nats. Of those were two state championships (Iowa and Illinois) and several smaller (yet equally exciting!) meets.
I'd really like to explicitly look at my 500 free times from the start til the end of the season:
My first 500 of 2011: 1/15/2011 Danville
Time: 7:18.93
Splits: N/A (Avg: 43.9)
After a lot of coaching and learning, I managed to pull this off at the Illinois State Meet.
Best 500 of 2011: 4/7/2011 (ILMSA Champs)
Time: 6:46.42
Splits: 34.70, 40.11, 41.99, 41.26, 40.79, 41.49, 42.07, 41.89, 42.14, 39.98
So I'm pretty happy with how my swimming has turned out! I'm not really sure how it all happened - but like magic I managed to start swimming way faster over these past couple months.
I also swam the same race during nats... I did not swim it nearly as well, mostly due to fatigue and frustration from the days before. (We'll talk about that in a minute)
Nats Time: 6:52.88
Splits: 35.01, 40.18, 42.26, 43.04, 42.03, 43.28, 41.78, 42.57, 41.95, 40.78
Not a terrible job, but I could do SIGNIFICANTLY better in the future.
So I've also had an attitude adjustment in my swimming and in my training. My first adjustment came after my 200 free at nationals. Due to the fact that I was not swimming smart (lets just put it that way) I missed my wall at the 75 and killed my momentum for the race. It was a bad race for me and one that I wanted to do especially well in. Well - long story short, I can't go back and swim it again. That's just how it is. So instead, I'll just make it up with a vengeance the next time I swim it in a meet.
In terms of training, I had the time to look at this article. Mr. Crippen's philosophy on his training and his mindset on pushing oneself to the absolute brink is not something I've never thought about before. However I've never truly been inspired to put myself up to it until after reading this. I don't ever plan or even want to be compared to Fran, but perhaps - just perhaps I can teach myself to become even a millionth of the athlete that he was.
Thanks for reading! Hopefully I'll be able to post more this summer! I have quite the line up planned:
2 Open Water Swims (Swim Across America and Big Shoulders)
2 Triathlons (Wauconda Sprint Triathlon and the Bangs Lake Triathlon)
2 Long Course Meets (Badger State Games and Indy SwimFit Firecracker)
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First, let me say that it baffles me that the debate over global warming is being waged by utilizing statistical climate analyses. True or not, they're never going to convince anyone because the error bars are generally too large. What people ought to be trying to get across is the fact that this is a well-understood and mathematically proven process. Specifically, carbon dioxide and water vapor absorb infrared radiation while oxygen and nitrogen do not. Carbon dioxide and water vapor are products of any chemical reaction involving the burning of fossil fuels. There's more burning of fossil fuels than ever before in Earth's history so, hmmm….
Anyway, it turns out that while the process I described above is essentially quantum mechanical, there is a classical twist to it. Apparently when the molecules are in motion and are involved in collisions with other molecules, the absorption can, in fact, be explained classically! In essence, the collisions modify the absorption spectra of the molecules involved in those collisions. The latest paper provides a precise mathematical derivation of this phenomenon. This will ultimately be a huge boon to climatologists in their attempts to better model global warming and ultimately raises the question again of why there is even a debate about global warming. It's a cold, hard mathematical fact. Somehow, however, a certain contingency has managed to turn the debate into a liberal v. conservative debate when it shouldn't be. Science isn't subjective or political and science doesn't give a rat's ass whether you're a liberal or a conservative.


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Thoughts on Diablo III
I'm not sure how I feel about either. Certainly online enabled characters should be hosted on Blizzard's servers, not locally. Otherwise you get fiascoes like Phantasy Star Online back in the Dreamcast days, where everyone you met online was running around with ultra rare weapons that were best-in-slot. However, not providing some option for players to create locally hosted strictly-solo characters that are unable to interact with any of the online elements at all (multiplayer, the auction house, ect.) seems like a pretty baldfaced way of forcing players to come into contact with the new RMT auction house.
I expect both Blizzard and players with too much spare time are going to make a lot of money on this new system. I personally don't think legitimizing the sale of items for cash bodes well for the genre. This is very much going to be a pay-to-win system. Of course in any game as big as DIII is bound to be, there will be a market for items; if not legit then black. It will be a lot easier for Blizzard to control a legitimate market than one trying to stay off their radar. Everquest II has also been doing something similar for years with Station Exchange, and it has yet to trigger the apocalypse.
Regardless, I can't help but think the RMT AH is primarily motivated by profit. If you can release a product and make a-hell-of-a-lot-of-money, or a-hell-of-a-lot-of-money x3 ...what do you do? I also think that, for better or worse, Heartlessgamer has the right of it on this issue for most potential customers.
Another less commented on tidbit comes from Eurogamer, which has a glowing preview of the beta up. One item that really stuck out to me when I read it:
"Each character now has just six active skill slots (and three powerful passives, replacing the more complex traits from last year). Skills simply unlock as you level up, as do the slots - you start with two. Skill points and character respecs have followed attribute points into the bin, and skills can be swapped in and out of slots completely at will."
All I can say is "Thank goodness!" One of my major gripes with Diablo II was that it was far too easy to gimp yourself. You pretty much had to max out a skill to see whether it bit or not, and all too often the answer was "Yes, yes absolutely this skill sucks no mater how much you invest." Having skills do what they are supposed to from the get go and making them swappable on the fly sounds like a lot of fun. I also think it's interesting that Borderlands is mentioned in the article by one of the developers as an influence. Borderlands is probably my favorite Rogue-like of the modern generation.
I will almost certainly not be playing DIII on launch day. I'm not going to pay $60 for a game that jams RMT down my throat when there are similar, and less expensive, products that don't available. However, it does look like it's going to be a lot of fun, and I will likely get it whenever the price gets down to the $30-$40 range.
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I will some day play Diablo III. It may be at launch or it may be long after. I'm going to play it solo, so the RMT should not have an effect on me. And I do like what I'm reading about how the game has been changed up.ReplyDelete
But if there is a schedule conflict between Diablo III and Torchlight II, I will absolutely be playing Runic's game first.
The cash shop does not surprise me one bit. There have been numerous websites that sell in-game items for Diablo II so I don't begrudge Blizz for trying to get in on some of that action.ReplyDelete
The constant onlinconnectivityty is something that Blizz did for Starcraft 2 so again not a surprise.
I suspect I'll be buying it on launch day, powering up and selling items just to see how well I can do.ReplyDelete
It's kind of my turbo turbine points barb strategy from 2 years ago in reverse.
@Anjin: I have to say the game mechanics that I'm reading about sound like a lot of fun. I never really got very far with DII (though I loved the original Diablo), but I'm fairly excited about DIII.ReplyDelete
@Jaydub: In retrospect neither is very surprising. I don't begrudge Blizzard taking a fair cut and trying to control the market a bit. The lack of any ability to play offline does irk me for a number of reasons, however.
@Stabs: I'll be looking forward to see how well it pans out for you. I suspect that you could make some decent money in the first week if you power level and get out in front of the bell curve. Items that are merely uncommon at level X+Y might be tempting purchases at level X.
I can see bot clients coming out for this very, very quickly.ReplyDelete
@Anton: honestly, I'll be amazed if it doesn't come to pass in some form.ReplyDelete


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His next stop in customization was a venture into the Euro scene, when he purchased a Honda that he nicknamed Blubonic Chronic. The car was a contender for the Euro Sweepstakes. He brought the Honda to a custom shop with the hope of taking it to the next level when tragedy struck. The shop had taken his money, ripped up the Honda, and closed its doors. The unfortunate event left Jayson with a shell of car that he unloaded for a measly $150. For the next two years, he was dejected until he saw an advertisement for a '79 Oldsmobile Cutlass. He drove two hours to purchase the new project.
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Jayson's friend, Mike Cordova from Denver, got his hands dirty installing a two-pump, four-dump Showtime hydraulic setup to rest the G-body down low when parked, while giving it the option for a high clearance to avoid the Rocky Mountain snowfall. Mike then set his sights on the stereo, adding a Panasonic head unit with Pioneer components and Power Bass subwoofers that give enough bump to be heard from blocks away. Jayson brought Suspicious Mindz to Seat Treat in Denver, where Jon added fresh upholstery. The dashboard was wrapped in tweed, as well as the seats, headliner, and trunk panels. The final step was adding 100-spoke painted and twisted 13-inch wire wheels.
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A look at 2 recent high-profile traffic crashes in Jacksonville area
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – One dead, two severely wounded and one in jail -- that's what the result has been for two recent high-profile traffic crashes in the Jacksonville area. And the victims are all teens.
The issue of teenagers behind the wheel is coming up once again after the two cases in St. Johns and Clay counties.
Channel 4 has been looking into the issue of teens behind the wheel and found that there are all sorts of distractions in cars that keep drivers' eyes off the road.
This weekend, Austin Clark Norman was killed and his brother was injured in a Clay County crash when they struck a tree. The teens' grandmother, Marsha Norman, said Austin's brother could have easily been killed too.
"They'll do surgery. He has a broken femur and broken ankle," Norman said. "They'll do surgery on his leg this morning and they may have to wait on his ankle because of the swelling. He's got a cracked sternum."
Just two days prior to the Norman brothers' accident, another teenage driver in St. Johns County was charged for a crash from last year where Bartram Trail High School student Aubrey Thompson was critically injured.
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Channel 4 met with Sgt. Dylan Bryan of the Florida Highway Patrol, who teaches courses to teenagers about driving dangers. Bryan said it goes beyond texting and that it can be pervasive among young drivers.
"Primarily what we see are a lot of distractions, whether it's passengers in vehicles, texting, cellphone, eating, drinking, radio, listening to music," Bryan said.
Bryan said the FHP applauds the state Legislature for criminalizing texting while driving last year, even though it's only a secondary offense, meaning you have to be pulled over for something else to be ticketed for it.
Bryan said when he pulls up on a teenage crash he notices a different response than with a person who's been driving for closer to 20 years.
"That goes with experience," Bryan said. "The older drivers tend to recognize what could've been a hazardous situation. With the younger drivers, we don't have that light bulb effect with how severe that could've been."
Investigators said in the Clay County crash neither teen was wearing a seat belt, something investigators said they believe could have saved a life.
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