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A sore or white tongue isn't usually serious and is often easily treated. Most should only last a short time.
Things you can do yourself
- use a soft toothbrush to brush your teeth
- use a toothpaste that doesn't contain sodium lauryl sulphate
- brush your tongue or use a scraper to help improve a white tongue
- use a straw to drink cool drinks
- take painkillers
- do not eat hard, spicy, salty, acidic or hot food and drink that may irritate your tongue
- do not smoke
- do not drink alcohol
A pharmacist can help with a sore or white tongue
A pharmacist can look at your tongue and might be able to tell you:
- what's causing it
- if you can buy anything to help with any pain or irritation
- if you should see a dentist or GP
See a GP or dentist if you:
- have pain or itchiness that doesn't go away or gets worse
- have white patches on your tongue
Common causes of a sore or white tongue
Biting or burning your tongue with hot food or drink can cause pain and swelling. But this should last only a few days.
A white tongue can be a sign of a health condition.
Don't self-diagnose – see your GP if you're worried.
Lichen planus
Read about lichen planus ↗.
Read about leukoplakia ↗.
Geographic tongue
Read about geographic tongue ↗.
Mouth ulcer
Read about mouth ulcers ↗.
Oral thrush
Read about oral thrush ↗.


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6 yellow eggs
6 sponfuls of flour
35 ml of coñac or pisco (a licour from here)
1 tin condensed milk (boiled)
or dulce the leche
Beat the yellow in a bowl, add the licour (coñac or pisco) and mix the flour, place in the kitchen table and join all and roll to make the dough, very thin, add a few of flour if you think is so moist sometimes depends of the eggs.
Cut little rounds pastry with a little glass and prick them with a fork.
Preheat the oven (medium) and place the alfajores over a oven try with podwered flour,
place at the oven about 10 minutes (not more), when they will be golden are ready.
When are chilly you may join them with dulce de leche.
Dulce de leche: If you don't know how to do, boiled a tin inside a stewpot cover with water of if you have a pressure pot too, only have care not open the tin until are chilly, in normal pot is about hour and half in a pressure pot 1 hour.

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So - we're up in the Colerain area now and I'm a Meijer shopper - those two things combined mean that I've seen Firehouse Subs more than a few times...but haven't taken the time to stop in - until now!
We did wonder if it was started by firefighters or if it was just capitalizing on the "Yeah America" theme. It didn't really say on their site - but they do have a foundation - so I'll give them an A for effort.
Firehouse Subs also had the new Coca Cola Freestyle machine - I've seen this around a few places in Cincinnati. It's pretty cool - you pick your soda and then can add flavor to it and mix it all together and such. I went for a Cherry Sprite!
They did take the theme one step further to have their own "fiery" hot sauce!
And they offer a wide variety of other's hot sauces too!
Why Should You Go? Well if you like toasted subs and you're in the Colerain area - it's a good stop. I liked it - it's nothing amazing or ground breaking - but if you have a kid in the family that loves firefighters - they would likely get a kick out of it!


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METRO VANCOUVER — The ex-girlfriend of accused Surrey Six killer Cody Haevischer said Friday she didn't hide her face from a surveillance camera when she went to destroy evidence on Oct. 19, 2007 because "you don't think you are going to get caught."
The woman, who can only be identified as KM due to a publication ban, rejected a suggestion from Haevischer's lawyer Simon Buck that she hadn't seen her boyfriend write "people died" on a white board that day, as she testified this week.
He showed her video surveillance from the Stanley apartment building shortly after the murders of her with Haevischer's brother Justin carrying a laundry bag she said contained the evidence. Their faces were visible and Justin was smiling.
"If you had been taking a bag of things connected to a scene where people had died, you would have taken steps to conceal your identity, right?" Buck asked.
Replied KM: "I haven't been really part of killing somebody before and getting rid of evidence, so I wasn't really up to date on how to make sure I was hiding myself."
KM, who dated Haevischer from November 2003 until early 2009, began her cross-examination Friday morning explaining that she only agreed to cooperate with police when she realized her gang "family" was not loyal to her.
She testified that she was extremely reluctant to tell police what she knew about the Surrey Six murders when first interviewed on April 5, 2009.
But as the days went on, she began to provide more detail of the horrific gangland slaughter and other crimes she blamed on the Red Scorpion gang.
"I was starting to figure out that … I didn't have to be so loyal to my family anymore because they weren't loyal to me," KM testified in B.C. Supreme Court Friday. "I was thinking, 'Why am I going to jail for them when they wouldn't do the same thing for me?' "
Buck asked, referring to her gang brethren: "You thought they left you in the lurch?"
"Yeah, they kind of screwed me over," she said.
Earlier this week, KM testified that she helped Haevischer's co-accused Matt Johnston and a man who can be identified only as Person X clean two guns less than an hour before the Surrey Six murders.
She said she brought Windex and paper towels to the pair inside the Stanley apartment she shared with Haevischer at the time.
But she also said she had no idea what their plan was when the men left the Stanley just after 2 p.m.
Both the apartment, where police captured Person X and Johnston on surveillance video that day, and a BMW alleged to have been used by the killers were in KM's name.
She testified that Johnston and Haevischer returned to the Stanley after an hour in a frenzied state, with Johnston dumping out a bag full of cash, clothes and cellphones that she later took to destroy.
She said she twice saw Haevischer write notes to other Scorpions on dry eraser boards about people dying that day.
KM told Buck Friday that she was very wary of police even after she agreed to cooperate when Haevischer was arrested on April 4, 2009.
"On the 5th, I was still an emotional wreck. It was a really hard time. I don't think anyone can imagine what it feels like to have to go through this," she said. "I still didn't want to do it. I still didn't trust the cops."
She said she held back information about the Surrey Six until a police interview on April 16, 2009.
Even then, she didn't disclose information that she said was provided to her by Red Scorpion Jon Bacon, who was shot to death in Kelowna in August 2011.
"I am still nervous and don't want to do this today. But I'm doing it because it's the right thing," she said about testifying. "To be able to move on and start a new life, you kind of have to let everything go."
Haevischer and Johnston are charged with conspiring to kill rival drug dealer Corey Lal, as well as the first-degree murder of Lal, his brother Michael and associates Eddie Narong and Ryan Bartolomeo and bystanders Ed Schellenberg and Chris Mohan.
KM is expected to be cross-examined for another week before the trial breaks for the holidays.
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Something that I have been searching for a long time, finally some look inside the /proc got me what I wanted. Hope this will save someone's day. So far, the only option I could think of was to run conky which becomes a little heave on some of the very old laptops I have to use sometimes 🙁
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ANAHEIM – Visitors to Disneyland are used to spectacle, but tourists at the park's main entrance on Saturday saw something unusual: Protesters with signs criticizing the Anaheim Police Department.
The protesters, whose numbers grew to about 50 by late afternoon, came to take issue with the recent spate of fatal officer-involved shootings in Anaheim. City officials have called for state and federal investigations into the incidents.
Protesters carried signs, chanted anti-police slogans and engaged in conversations with any Disneyland Resort visitors curious enough to approach them.
Motorists driving by on Harbor Boulevard occasionally honked their horns and raised their fists in solidarity. Otherwise, it was a peaceful protest that had started out with members of the media who were covering the gathering nearly outnumbering the dozen or so protesters who had arrived around noon.
A silent "peace walk" is scheduled for noon Sunday, starting and ending at Anaheim City Hall. A posting on Facebook under the heading "WE are Anaheim, SOMOS Anaheim" asks those who come to wear white shirts and bring "positive signs" along with "a Positive and Pacifist mind-set."
Many of the protesters at Disneyland were from Los Angeles, and were part of Mexica Movement, an indigenous rights group that considers "Hispanic" and "Latino" as pejorative, "Eurocentric" labels.
Others came from Anaheim, Santa Ana, Costa Mesa and other parts of Orange County, and said they had participated in the protests earlier in the week that had turned ugly. Some of them brought their children and grandchildren.
Gabriela Hernandez of Costa Mesa, a 32-year-old social worker who counsels families, had witnessed the beginning of the violence Tuesday night near Anaheim City Hall. She left when things began to get out of hand. On Saturday, she stood with her two daughters, 11 and 12, holding signs as part of the protest outside Disneyland.
Hernandez said she wants people to know that the protesters include hard-working professionals like her who are not interested in violence but want to see justice done.
"This has been ongoing," Hernandez said of what she called police brutality allegations and "bad apples" in the Anaheim Police Department. "This is nothing recent."
Her older daughter, Angelina Alvarez, wore her green Girl Scout vest and held a sign that read "I'm a Girl Scout. Would you shoot me Anaheim PD?"
Other signs held by protesters addressed the police with such messages as "End police violence," "No more racist cops" and "Fire the Police Chief." Another depicted a character resembling Mickey Mouse giving a Nazi salute.
Tourists gave the protesters curious looks, some of them stopping to read the signs as they walked into the park, or even snapping photos of the protesters. Most tourists simply walked into the park.
In the early part of the day, more than 10 mounted police officers stood by watching about 100 yards south on Harbor Boulevard, and every few minutes an Anaheim police car cruised up the street.
"I think that they're here to intimidate the protesters," said Iris Thomas of Hemet, whose nephew Martin Angel Hernandez was shot and killed by Anaheim officers in March.
The protesters, who had all left by 4:30 p.m., did not impede any part of the sidewalk or Harbor Boulevard traffic.
Disneyland Resort spokeswoman Suzi Brown said the company would not comment on the protesters' presence.
Anaheim police officers who observed the Saturday protest said it had remained peaceful.
It was a different scene on Tuesday, when dozens of protesters denied entry to the Anaheim City Council meeting took to the streets. As the evening went on, the group grew to about 1,000 people and became unruly, pelting police with rocks, blocking traffic on major boulevards, smashing storefront windows, and setting fires. Anaheim authorities called in hundreds of police officers from around Southern California to help quell the crowd. All told, more than 20 people were arrested.
On Saturday, barricades stood in front of the Police Department's headquarters.
The protesters outside Disneyland had little positive to say about Anaheim police.
Olin Tezcatlipoca, Mexica Movement's director, called the shootings and the Police Department's reactions to them, "racist."
"If it had been blond-haired, blue-eyed kids, it never would have happened that way," he said.
Police and union officials have said it was the victims' actions that prompted the officers to shoot the men who later died from their wounds.
Marisol Briseño, 25, who was born and raised in Anaheim, has a different view from that of the protesters. Briseño was visiting Disneyland on Saturday and saw the Mexica Movement group.
"This is ridiculous," she said, adding that she was unhappy with the damage the protesters caused in downtown Anaheim earlier in the week.
"You choose to live your life a certain way," she said, adding that the protesters have focused their passions in the wrong directions.
Briseno said she believes the shooting victims were targeted not because they're Latino, but because they were suspected criminals: "You either get up and go to work, or you go out and steal a car."
Protester Patty Diaz, 23, of Anaheim said some of the Disneyland visitors stopped to find out why she and the others were there, while others "are upset because we're interrupting their nice vacation."
Diaz, wearing dark sunglasses and dressed in black, said she lives in the same neighborhood where Martin Angel Hernandez was killed and was a friend of his. She wants people to know how the officer-involved shootings are impacting her community.
"When a community member of color gets shot by the police, we don't get as much attention as when a white person in Anaheim Hills gets shot."
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Senior Evan Rhinesmith claimed an individual North Coast Athletic Conference championship for Wabash with a victory in the 100 breaststroke Friday evening at the 2011 NCAC Swimming and Diving Championships at the CT. Branin Natatorium in Canton, Ohio.
Rhinesmith (right) outtouched Denison's Jake Lewing to claim the conference crown with a winning time of 56.90, narrowly missing his season-best and school-record time of 56.47 set at the Calvin Invitational. Teammate Paul Buescher (below left) helped the Little Giants score a total of 54 points in the event by finishing eighth with a time of 59.36.
Wabash swimmer Colin Fahey tied for first place in the 100 breaststroke of the 2005 NCAC Championship meet. Rhinesmith's title is the first solo victory at the championship meet by a Little Giant swimmer.
Wabash opened the evening with a third-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay. Alex Beck, Rhinesmith, David Birrer, and Charles Williams earned All-NCAC honors by finishing in 1:34.63.
Adam Current just missed a spot on the All-NCAC team with his fourth-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 50.91. Birrer scored a sixth-place finish with a time of 51.27. Eric Vaughn (left) not only won his heat of the 100 fly to finish in ninth place, he posted an NCAA "B" cut qualifying time of 50.63 for the third-quickest time of the evening.
Williams added a 10th-place finish in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:44.52, his quickest time of the year by more than a second. Beck took 18th (1:48.85) with his fastest time of the year, while Chad Woods was 22nd with a time of 1:49.58.
Vaughn was 17th in the 100 backstroke (54.13), while Current took 21st place (56.40). Logan Rice took 15th place in the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 4:22.61, his fastest effort of the year. Adam Barnes grabbed 19th place with a season-quick time of 4:23.58. Brad Wise also produced his best time of the year by finishing in 4:29.73 to take 22nd place.
The Little Giants finished sixth in the 800-yard freestyle relay. The quartet of Rice, Barnes, Logan Falley, and David Phillips combined for a time of 7:11.70.
The Friday efforts moved the Little Giants into third place in the overall team standings with 493 points. Denison leads the team scoring with 1,171 points, followed by Kenyon in second place with 1,049 points. Wooster is fourth (489.5), followed by Wittenberg (432), Oberlin (426), Allegheny (396), Ohio Wesleyan (267), and Hiram (237.5). The final day of competition will begin Saturday morning with the prelims followed by the final round Saturday evening.


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Since St. Patty's Day is just around the corner I thought I'd bring back an oldie but a goodie. This cupcake has become quite the hit over the past year! Not just for St. Patrick's Day, but for weddings, birthdays and tuesday afternoons. I will never tire of this wonderfully delicious recipe. Impress your friends this year with this heavenly irish treat. Last year I used a chocolate box cake, but since I've removed processed foods from my home, I've got a home made recipe for you this year! You can always use the box cake if you want. Enjoy!
If you're using the cake mix here are some things I did to make it taste better. The cake mix called for 1 1/4 cups of water, plus oil and eggs. I swapped the water for the same amount of cold coffee. This isn't all that noticeable in the final cupcake but it adds a richness to what can sometimes be a flat flavour in box cakes. I also swapped the oil for melted butter.
I added 1/2 a cup of mini chocolate chips which made the cake more chocolatey and who doesn't like that? (You're a ding-dong if you're thinking either 1- "chocolatey isn't a word" or 2- "I don't like when cupcakes are more chocolatey")
If you don't want to use the Box Cake here's my home-made recipe. This is a dense cake, a slightly bittersweet cake. It has a very "Irish" flavor. If you don't care for that taste you could certainly substitute the Guinness for the same amount of milk, cream, or coffee.
Irish Coffee Cupcakes
Yields 24 Cupcakes.
¾ cup unsweetened cocoa
2 cups sugar
2 cups all purpose flour
1 t baking soda
Pinch of salt
1 cup of room temperature Guinness Beer (Or coffee if you don't want the beer)
1 stick of butter; melted
1 T vanilla extract
3 large eggs
¾ cup sour cream
Preheat oven to 350 and line two cupcake tins with paper liners.
In a large bowl or mixer, whisk together dry ingredients. In a separate bowl combine the room temperature Guinness, butter and vanilla extract, then beat in the eggs one at a time. If the Guinness is cold it will cause the melted butter to set up and your batter will be gritty. Mix in the sour cream until well incorporated. Beat in the dry ingredients a little at a time until well mixed. Be sure to scrape the bowl.
Using a ladle or a half cup measuring cup, fill the cupcake cups ¾ full. Bake for about 25 minutes or until the cupcakes are nicely risen, rounded, and a toothpick in one of the center cupcakes comes out clean. Set aside to cool before filling and frosting.
These cupcakes are filled with an amazing chocolate ganache that is ridiculously easy. Seriously, if you're all "I can't make that," I would genuinely ridicule you.
All you have to do is pour 1 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips (the very same that we've already added to our cupcakes) into a pyrex measuring cup. Gently simmer 2/3 cup heavy cream + 2 teaspoons of Bailey's Irish cream on the stove or in the microwave. Don't boil it or you will make the cream lumpy.
Now about the Bailey's… you simply MUST use Bailey's brand. I was once cheap and bought an off brand and I sorely regretted it. Bailey's is the only Irish Cream that tastes good. Moral of the story: Don't be cheap. P.S. Try drinking Bailey's from a shoe… I hear its amazing.
Once your cream is hot, pour it over the chocolate and add 2 tbsp of butter. Stir for a few minutes until its all melted and mixed in, then let it cool until it thickens enough to pipe into your cupcakes. You don't want it to be too liquidy or too hot. (I cheated and popped it in the fridge for a few minutes to cool it down and get it to a nice consistency.)
Here's a simple trick for filling your piping bag. Fold the bag over a glass, and just pour your ganache right in.
The glass is also a nice place to rest your piping bag so all your ganache stays toward the tip.
Cut out little holes in your cupcakes using a long piping tip as a punch. If you blow gently through the other side the cake will pop out of the tip. Trust me, you'll get annoyed trying to get that cake out of there afterward. These get thrown away anyway (or if you have an Adam, they will get eaten up!)
Now pump your cupcakes full of ganache!
For the buttercream I followed the Sprinkles recipe (which is my go-to buttercream recipe) but I doctored it up a little bit. I doubled it for 24 cupcakes and instead of milk I dissolved one individual sized packet of Nescafé instant coffee into 2 teaspoons of Bailey's Irish Cream + 2 teaspoons of vanilla (okay maybe I was a little heavy handed on the Bailey's ;)) and whipped it into my frosting. This not only gave my frosting the delicious irish coffee kick I was going for, but it also ended up being the exact shade of creamy beige I wanted. Feel free to up the instant coffee amount if you want a stronger coffee flavour. It would taste great with more coffee, but I didn't want to make it too strong for my guests. I would have used Starbucks Via, but its really PRICEY! It is tasty, but not for $10+ for 12 packets. I remember having Nescafé in Paris and being surprised at how delicious it was (imagine going all the way to france to find a good cup of instant coffee!), plus its only $1.50 for a box of 8.
I learned this nifty trick on pinterest for filling a piping bag with buttercream.
I've been wanting to try it, and it actually really works!
Start by blopping some frosting on a sheet of plastic wrap.
Then roll the plastic wrap around the frosting and twist up the ends.
Slide the whole thing into your piping bag and feed through the tip (with the coupler on but without the piping tip yet).
Then just snip off the excess plastic tie up the bottom and you're good to go.
When you're done you can just pull out the empty plastic wrap and toss it. So easy!
DISCLAIMER: Like many things on the internet, this looked extremely easy but I somehow found a way to muck it up the first time. Fear not.
If you've tried this and failed…
<– This fatty is an example of how NOT to do it.
I found out that you can't use too much frosting or it won't fit into your bag properly. I also learned that when you roll it up be sure to do this lengthwise. You'll need a nice long piece of twisted plastic wrap to feed through the coupler. This may have been obvious to you, but it was not to me, and when I started squeezing buttercream was shooting out of both ends.
Now for the piping. This part really was just as easy as it looks. I used a Wilton Star tip. I didn't bother to consider which number it was, so I'm sorry to say I don't know which one you should use. Maybe just use your heart, or common sense. Its the one that looks like it would be about the size of the one I used in this picture.
Start in the center of the cupcake, and pipe right over your ganache. Starting from the inside make a neat little swirl. Make the center swirl about an inch and a half in diameter.
Then continue making 1 inch swirls all around starting from the center of where you want it to land and working your way out. You should end up with about 7 swirls on a normal sized cupcake.
Double bonus, I got to use my sweet new Dollar Store cupcake stand 🙂


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2014 Teen Choice Awards Best Dressed [PHOTOS]by Maggie Malach | PopCrush
All our favorite stars showed up at the 2014 Teen Choice Awards and, man, did they work the red carpet!
Midriffs were all the rage, as Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian and Hilary Duff all dared to bare their stomachs. (And, by the way, they totally pulled off the trend.) Some celebs showed off gorgeous 'dos (we're looking at you, Bella Thorne!), while others proved that they deserve perennial spots on the best dressed lists.
Some of the best of the best looks of the night include Ariana Grande's white-hot minidress, Zendaya's form-fitting pink dress (and edgy, shaggy bob) and Kim K.'s surprisingly chic incorporation of zebra print. With trends like crop tops and menswear making appearances, there were tons of great fashion moments to be had!
So who made this year's 2014 Teen Choice Awards Best Dressed list? Check out the gallery below to find out! Did your favorite look of the night make the list?


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Confession Tuesday - The AWP Edition #AWP13
|With Susan Rich, Me, and January O'Neil
Dear Reader,
I confess I am not going to AWP in Boston this year. Not because I don't want to, but mostly because I just have a lot going on this month.
My last AWP was in 2011 in Washington DC.
How Taking Taxis & Staying at Nice Hotel Makes You Feel as if You Are Richer Than You Are:
I confess I didn't stay at the conference hotel, but about a block from the White House at The Willard (which was surprisingly just about $60 more a night and without bedbugs). I took a taxi to the AWP every morning. I felt like Jackie Onassis.
Things Not to Do at AWP:
I confess on my second day of AWP I looked as if I slept in my clothes. Here's what happened--I was SO tired and yes, overwhelmed from the first full day, I went casual--not a lot of make-up, hair hardly combed and an Aeropostale t-shirt (seriously, how old am I?) While I felt great leaving the hotel (hey, it only took me 15 minutes to get ready) I regretted the decisions once people started taking photos to "capture" the moment.
So for my first suggestion for AWP--realize, you may wind up on someone's Facebook page, so do not wear your worst clothes feeling you are above it, or you're tired, or you don't care. I know, I cared when I saw the photos of me looking like I had been out for a run in the fog (I hadn't).
So here are my top picks for AWP:
1) Do not think you'll avoid photos, you will not.
2) When you need a break from readings, go to the bookfair.
3) When you need a break from the bookfair, go to panel discussions.
4) Do not look at people's nametags while you are talking to someone else.
5) Try to stay focused--- it's hard especially if you're like me and distracted by shiny objects (aka poets and writers and books)
6) Have at least 2 meaningful conversations in the day (one morning, one evening)
7) Introduce yourself to someone you admire, someone you know from Facebook, someone who impressed you--either there or pre-AWP
8) Understand, there may be a time when you hate AWP, all the writers who are there, all the commotion, and feel completely out of place. I recommend a nap at this time, or a quick jaunt to your room for some tea, a bath, a glass of wine, or just to rest.
9) Some poets and writers are jerks and have egos the size of the conference. And some editors of journals are jerks. They will stand out in your mind after you meet them--but remember, most of the people there are pretty dang nice.
10) If someone acts odd to you or you're wondering why they said something in a strange way or ran off or seemed peculiar, remember, many of us are introverts and our best conversations happen on the page. Once we know you, we'll have more interesting things to say and talk about.
The Beauty of Being Overwhelmed:
I confess the word I most hear from writers, especially introverted writers is feeling overwhelmed.
I confess I'm overwhelmed if I'm in a conversation with more than 3 other people.
What you need to realize is the beauty of this conference is that it's overwhelming. Everyone is talking about books and writing. Everyone is mentioning names of writers they love. It's a fairytale for anyone who tells someone their favorite author or poet and they say, "Who?"
But with all fairytales comes the evil witch or villain. In the case of AWP that witch is having to make a lot of choices, having to interact with a lot of people, not being able to go to a reading or panel you wanted to and being okay with that--mostly, good things disguised as villains, but what problems to have--too many poets, too many writers, too many talks on literary topics, too many books.
When you find yourself overwhelmed, find a quiet place to sit for a moment. Then when you feel better, walk back into the bookfair and have a conversation with one person where you make direct eye-contact and aren't looking at the nametags of people passing behind you.
Virtual Friends Become Real Friends & Having a Table at the Bookfair--
I confess I did get to meet some people I had been wanting to meet in person for a long time-- Deb Ager, January O'Neil, Eduardo Corral, Nin Andrews, Bernadette Geyer, Sandra Beasley... and there were others.
And it was so wonderful to find that their online personalities were just as kind and cool as their real life personalities.
Make a list of online friends you want to connect with and email them before you go. If you run into them, it will probably be the bookfair, which is a great place to meet up as there's always something to talk about--um, books and writers are everywhere.
I had two really great meals--one with January and one with Deb A. That was nice to just sit down and talk. I wanted to have lunch or a snack with Nin A, but I remember having to run off. Oh yeah, I hadn't mentioned Crab Creek Review had a table at the AWP, bookfair and that was a whole other thing.
The good part of having a table was people knew where to find me and would come up and say hi. Also, I always had a place to store my things and my big heavy coat. Plus snacks. I had a small cafeteria under my table.
The bad part of having a table is if you don't have anyone else to watch it (thankfully, a couple other CCR people were there and I was sharing a table with another lit journal) was that you had to think about getting back to it instead of just being able to enjoy your time.
Don't Mistake My Awkwardness for Flirting:
I confess I had awkward interactions at AWP. When I met Bob Hicok, I had trouble finding the words to ask him to sign my book. I said, "Will you sign my book, your book." I said nothing else except "Thanks."
At AWP Vancouver (and this was just at the early BOOM of AWP before they morphed into some super-sized literary bonanza), Nick Flynn got on the elevator with me and three women behind me almost passed out.
Kay Ryan, who I also saw on an elevator, giggled. I know it had something to do with feeling overwhelmed, but I don't remember exactly what she said, but I remember liking her energy and wanting to say hi...of course, I didn't.
In DC, I didn't say hi or introduce myself to David Kirby (who I love), Barbara Hamby (who I also love), Mark Doty, Charles Wright, Amy Hempel, Stephen Dunn, Kay Ryan (again), and the list is long and incomplete.
What I recommend--Life is short. Say hi. Introduce yourself. Tell them you love their work or a favorite book or a favorite poem.
Honestly, no one can mistake my awkwardness for flirting as mostly I'm standing in the coat closet with a sack over my head.
Stick with your Buddy--
I confess there was one evening I felt really alone. Martha Silano was having dinner with her publisher, Susan Rich was leaving to go home, and the friends I normally fall back upon were missing.
I felt as if we were on a preschool field trip and I had lost my buddy.
I wandered through the hotel bar where tons of writers were but I recognized no one. I felt so out of place--who were these people and what was I doing here? I decided like a full-grown adult I'd go to the bar and order a glass of wine and hope/pray someone nice would sit by me, or a friend would see me and come over, or someone would make eye contact with me and start a conversation.
I sat there uncomfortable for a for what felt like a small eternity then someone I knew wandered by, she, along with a couple people I knew, sat down next to me and (thank gawd) we had a conversation. At some point, I spilled my wine being the party-foul gal I am. But mostly, I wasn't alone.
On my next AWP, I'm going to get cellphone numbers, so if I'm ever in a situation where I've lost my buddy, I can at least see if I can find someone to hangout with. I'm going to have back-up buddies. And having been in that weird situation of feeling alone, I'm happy to be your back-up buddy if you need one.
That is, if you're kind and not a prevert (misspelling of pervert is intentional for my own personal amusement).
Amen. See you at Seattle 2014! It will be fantastic!
~ Kells
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Humanity Books, 1999 - Science - 383 pages
As we survey the effects of modernism—environmental destruction, the net consumption of irreplaceable natural resources, the ever-widening gulf between first and third worlds—we are forced to grapple with the consequences of the domination of nature by human beings. The readings gathered here join these issues with critical theory to examine the ongoing struggle to rediscover the nature within human beings and to reconnect it with external nature.
Starting with an examination of the use of modernist thought as legitimation for the domination of nature, the collection progresses on a broad front: It examines how first-world economies create third-world dependency; the connections between poverty and population; how basic needs could be fulfilled in a green sustainable economy; the debate among deep, social, and socialist ecologists over the new ecological worldview; ecofeminism and the liberation of both women and nature; environmental justice for minorities and third-world peoples; the need for new spiritual relations between people and nature; and a new postmodern science that offers people a partnership with nature. The conclusion presents the "Principles of Environmental Justice," adopted by the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit.
Each essay stands on its own as a contribution to the ecological debate, but the cumulative effect is clearly to ask how critical theorists, current environmental philosophers, and scientists propose to liberate both human beings and nature.
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I grew up living in the country and all of my friends lived in town. I remember always being jealous of the folks in town because they could have Pizza Hut delivered to their homes. We lived too far out, so if we wanted pizza, we either had to go all the way into town to eat at the Pizza Hut restaurant, have dad bring some home after work, or make our own at home.
One of the silly big thrills for me when I left home for college was living in a town where you could have food delivered straight to your door! Pizza, Chinese, Sub Sandwiches… a whole new world of delivery options were available to me. It was quite an exciting thing for this small town country girl!
I now live in a Kansas City suburb, and we really don't have many delivery options besides pizza. With the delivery options available, my family prefers Pizza Hut.
The other day, a representative from Pizza Hut contacted me about trying out their new Tuscani Pasta. She wanted to have some delivered to my family for dinner and also wanted to give three of my readers the opportunity to win gift certificates of their own to give the new Tuscani Pasta a try. I haven't been feeling well at all the last couple of weeks (hence my lack of blogging…sorry!) and my husband has been traveling. The thought of having something delivered to my house besides pizza thrilled me, and I readily accepted.
Pizza Hut delivered their Premium Bacon Mac 'n Cheese Tuscani Pasta to my house this past Friday along with an order of their garlic breadsticks. I half expected the pasta to be dry, but the Pizza Hut Premium Bacon Mac 'n Cheese arrived and it was creamy, cheesey and full of flavor. The serving was extremely generous… we were able to have 2 1/2 meals out of this one order of pasta! The whole family loved it and it was such a welcome change from our normal delivery options.
Pizza Hut would like to offer three of my readers gift certificates for their own order of Tuscani Pasta and breadsticks. To be considered, please leave a comment after this post telling me what your favorite delivery food is. Earn an extra chance to win by making a comment with a link back to this post on Twitter and leave an additional comment on this post notifying me of your Tweet. For another extra chance to win, post about this giveaway on your blog, then leave an additional comment on this post linking back to your post. The giveaway will end on Monday, October 20th at 11pm CST, the random drawing will take place and winners will be announced on Tuesday. Thanks and good luck!


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VSC Training Course: Parallelization with MPI, May 15-17, 2018
On clusters and distributed memory architectures, parallel programming with the Message Passing Interface (MPI) is the dominating programming model. This 3 days course teaches parallel programming with MPI starting from a beginners level. Hands-on sessions (in C and Fortran) will allow users to immediately test and understand the basic constructs of the Message Passing Interface (MPI).
This course has been originally developed by Rolf Rabenseifner from the High-Performance Computing-Center Stuttgart (HLRS) and is organized in cooperation with HLRS. (Content Level: 70% for beginners, 30% advanced)
Here is the preliminary course outline.
Unix and C or Fortran
Claudia Blaas-Schenner and Irene Reichl (VSC Team, TU Wien)
Date, Time, and Location:
15. - 17.05.2018, 09:00 - 16:30 (17.05. until 16:00),
FH Internet-Raum FH1 (TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, ground floor, red area)
Registration for this course is closed.
Registration deadline is Monday, April 16, 2018, with priority rules. Acceptance will be approved on April 17, 2018. As long as seats are available there will be an extended registration period without priority rules.
Priority for acceptance: first - active users of the VSC systems, second - students and members of Austrian universities and public research institutes, third - other applicants.
VSC users: none
Students and members of Austrian universities and public research institutes: none
Students and members of other universities and public research institutes: 180 €
Others: 600 €
Information about payment will be provided with the confirmation email.
The course fee includes also a copy of the handouts and coffee breaks (lunch is not included).
Handouts / Slides:
Each participant will get a printout of all slides.
If you want, you may also buy the MPI-3.1 Standard (hardcover, 17 Euro, cash only).
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3 commencements for UW-Madison triplets
Receiving undergraduate degrees in separate fields
MADISON, Wis. — It will be one busy weekend for a northeastern Wisconsin family.
Triplets Stephanie, Kyle and Ashley Verhasselt, of Freedom, will receive their undergraduate degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in three separate commencement ceremonies.
The triplets and their younger brother, Adam, are all first-generation college students at Madison. The triplets say they made a conscious decision to end their college careers together, but they've followed their own distinctive paths.
Kyle majored in business and will head for a job at G.E. Capital. Ashley is a biology major and will attend the Medical College of Wisconsin this fall. Stephanie will graduate with a social work degree.
The siblings said they've enjoyed weekly meals together and tailgating during the football season at Madison. Stephanie said their parents have lived for any excuse to travel to Madison.3 commencements for UW-Madison triplets


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Aug. 15. 7900 block St. Martin's Lane. Complainant states she left her bike locked and chained, and when she returned four days later the 10-speed bike was gone.
Aug. 15. 9600 block Germantown Ave. Complainant states that between 3:30 p.m. on Aug. 12 and 6:45 a.m. on Aug. 15, an unknown person gained entry through maintenance shop and stole a safe containing money, large amounts of copper pipes, couplings, adapters, other copper items and a hand truck.
Aug. 15. 8800 block Crefeld Street. Complainant states that she left her vehicle unlocked and someone stole an iPod. Reported at 7 p.m.
Aug. 15. 100 block Highland Ave. Complainant states that he contacted ComputerQuest.com to service his laptop. On Friday, Aug. 12, a white male by the name of Rob came to see computer but said he would have to come back at another time. On Aug. 15, front door left unlocked and computer was missing.
Aug. 16. Complainant states she was working at hospital and she placed her red wallet in her purse behind counter. She checked her purse at 3 p.m. and found her wallet was missing. Complainant states that a charge was made with credit card from wallet.
Aug. 18. 200 block E. Willow Grove Ave. Complainant states that an unknown black male vaginally raped her inside his car. Male, 31–35 years old, 6'1" tall, heavy build, brown complexion, short haircut.
Aug. 18. 8000 block Germantown Ave. Complainant states that offender came into store and pointed a black and gray semiautomatic handgun and began demanding money. When complainant told offender to "go check out register" offender refused and was hesitant to approach counter. Offender then decided to leave and fled southbound on Germantown Ave. towards Willow Grove Ave. Nothing was taken.
Aug. 20. 600 block W. Hartwell Lane. Complainant states that offenders took her bike from shed and then posted a picture on Facebook showing them riding bike. Names of offenders withheld because of age.
Aug. 29. 7700 block Germantown Ave. Between 12:50 and 2:12 p.m., an unknown person broke right front window to a black 1993 Toyota Camry and stole some paperwork from glove box and some change.
Aug. 20. 7700 block Stenton Ave. Complainant states that an unknown person stole a blue Honda Civic, Pennsylvania tag GBC5737.
Summary — Ten crimes for week: one rape, one robbery, two burglaries, one stolen vehicle, three thefts and two thefts from vehicles.
Town Watch.
If you have been the victim of a crime and would like information, service or support, call Northwest Victims Service, 6301 Germantown Ave., Second Floor, Suite One, 215-438-4410. The service is free.


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Douglas E. Phillips is author of The Software License Unveiled: How Legislation by License Controls Software Access, which reframes the debate between proprietary and free software to ask whether "legislation by license" should control either kind of software access. In the article below he looks at Google's new Chrome operating system.
Google recently announced plans for a new PC operating system, the Chrome OS. Within minutes, the media reported an OS war and began telling us who loses and who wins. The Chrome OS will smash Windows! Or else Chrome is actually good for Microsoft and (despite running on a Linux kernel) threatens Linux! Who knows? We might actually have to wait until the new OS comes out, which Google says won't happen for another year.
Whatever becomes of the Chrome OS, though, Google's decision about how to license it tells us something about where the software license itself is going. And that's worth looking at now, given that how software is licensed shapes how it's created and used.
Google promises open source licensing, which points to an approach the company already uses for the Chrome browser. This approach combines a royalty-free source code license to developers with proprietary end user terms. Expect to see more of this hybrid model across the software industry in the years to come.
Source code for the browser is available under the BSD license, which is short, sweet, and (in licensing jargon) permissive. You can use BSD-licensed code in a new work and distribute the new work any way you choose.
The separate terms of service for the browser's executable version don't impose a fee, but they do authorize Google to deliver targeted advertising when you use it. So the browser – and most of Google's other services – are free, but only in the sense that broadcast television is free (or was free, before cable and satellite found a way to charge for it). You pay (some would say dearly) for broadcast TV, not by sending money to ABC, CBS, NBC, or Fox, but by tolerating a high-fat diet of ads we hate.
You pay Google in more or less the same way, except that the advertisements usually tend to be more relevant. In return, you get access to content that compares to network TV, in scope and depth, as the Pacific Ocean compares to a puddle (taking into account that the Pacific Ocean also has its shallow parts and sharks). Most people seem to like this bargain. It works, however, only if you agree to let Google keep track of what you're looking for online and serve ads in response. Without this proprietary element, there would be no Google as we know it and, among other things, no Chrome browser or Chrome OS. The hybrid license lets all this happen.
The main objection to permissive and hybrid licensing comes not from the Microsofts of the world, but from advocates of the GNU General Public License. You can borrow source code from a GPL-licensed work and include the code, royalty-free, in a new work. But if you want to share the new work with others, then the GPL requires that you also license the new work – including the parts that weren't borrowed – under the GPL. In the GPL philosophy, protecting software freedom means denying the freedom to mix free code with any code that is subject to proprietary licensing terms.
According to Google, the Chrome OS will consist of the Chrome browser "running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel." Because the Linux kernel is GPL-licensed, Google will have to provide that part under the GPL. The GPL's "copyleft" condition applies, however, only if the new work is a "derivative work" as a matter of copyright law. The Chrome browser clearly is a separate work, and the new windowing system apparently will be as well (as is the existing X11 windowing system, which is often used with Linux but not licensed under the GPL).
Google's not likely to license the non-Linux parts of the Chrome OS under the GPL, and for good reason. Consider the Web itself. Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Web, at first wanted the Web software to be licensed under the GPL. He changed his mind after people told him that the strings attached by the GPL could severely limit the Web's reach. So he arranged instead to have the Web software dedicated to the public domain. The Mosaic graphical browser included parts of the original Web software, which meant that avoiding the GPL was key to making Mosaic something on which for-profit companies could build. Without the freedom to monetize Web technologies, the private investment that helped the World Wide Web live up to its name almost certainly never would have occurred. That's why a combined open source and proprietary licensing model probably makes sense for the Chrome OS. It's also why your next software license, like your next car, may well be a hybrid.


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Separating two liquids
When an application has to keep two liquids from coming into contact with each other, there are two suitable solutions. These solutions, which depend on the availability of space and required efficiency, include:
In both alternatives, the sealing lips must be spring-loaded. When using an HDSD seal, it is very important to provide a means to lubricate the sealing lips, i.e. the cavity between the sealing lips must be filled with grease prior to installation or during operation via lubrication holes drilled through the metal case into the cavity.


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Jung, Carl Gustav
Carl Gustav Jung (kärl gŏŏs´täf yŏŏng), 1875–1961, Swiss psychiatrist, founder of analytical psychology. The son of a country pastor, he studied at Basel (1895–1900) and Zürich (M.D., 1902). After a stint at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Zürich, Jung worked (1902) under Eugen Bleuler at the Burgholzli Clinic. He wrote valuable papers, but more important was his book on the psychology of dementia praecox (1906), which led to a meeting (1907) with Sigmund Freud. Finding that their theoretical positions had much in common, the two formed a close relationship for a number of years: Jung edited the Jahrbuch für psychologische und psychopathologische Forschungen and was made (1911) president of the International Psychoanalytic Society. However, a formal break with Freud came with the publication of Jung's revolutionary work The Psychology of the Unconscious (1912), which disagreed with the Freudian emphasis on sexual trauma as the basis for all neurosis and with the literal interpretation of the Oedipus complex.
Prior to World War II, Jung became president of the Nazi-dominated International General Medical Society for Psychotherapy. As the Nazis forced their Aryan ideology on the association, Jung became increasingly uncomfortable and resigned. In addition, in 1943 he aided the Office of Strategic Services by analyzing Nazi leaders for the United States. Questions have arisen, however, regarding his alleged racial theories of the unconscious. While Jung's work is of little importance in contemporary psychoanalytic practice, it remains widely influential in such fields as religious studies and literary criticism.
Jungian psychology is based on psychic totality and psychic energism. He postulated two dimensions in the unconscious—the personal (repressed or forgotten content of an individual's mental and material life) and the archetypes (images, patterns, and symbols that are often seen in dreams and fantasies and appear as themes in mythology and religion) of a collective unconscious (those acts and mental patterns shared by members of a culture or universally by all human beings). In Psychological Types (1921) Jung elucidated the concepts of extroversion and introversion for the study of personality types. He also developed the theory of synchronicity, the coincidence of causally unrelated events having identical or similar meaning. Additionally, he was the first person to introduce into the language such terms and concepts as "anima" and "New Age." For Jung the most important and lifelong task imposed upon any person is fulfillment through the process of individuation, the achievement of harmony of conscious and unconscious, which makes a person one and whole. Jung's many works are compiled in H. Read, M. Fordham, and G. Adler, ed., Collected Works of C. G. Jung (20 vol., 1953–79). Long withheld from publication, his mystical and visionary illustrated work The Red Book (Liber Novus) (1914–30) was released in a translated facsimile edition, ed. by S. Shamdasani, in 2009.
See his autobiographical Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963, repr. 1989); his letters, selected and ed. by G. Adler (2 vol., 1973–75), and The Freud-Jung Letters (ed. by W. McGuire, tr. by R. F. C. Hull and R. Manheim, 1974; abr. ed. 1994); biographies by F. McLynn (1997), R. Hayman (2001), and D. Bair (2003); studies by J. Jacobi (rev. ed. 1973), M. A. Mattoon (1985), A. Samuels (1986), M. Pauson (1989), and J. Kerr (1993); M. Stein, ed., Jungian Analysis (1982); R. Noll, The Jung Cult (1994) and The Aryan Christ (1997).


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Am currently reading The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane, and came across the story below (one that first requires understanding of something marine biological).
It is now understood that marine phosphorescence is a consequence of the build-up in the water of minute bioluminescent organisms: dinoflagellate algae and plankton. By processes not entirely understood, these simple creatures ignite into light when jostled. They convert the energy of movement into the energy of radiance.
There have been few sightings of marine phosphorescence, and here's a story of one of those sightings.
In 2004, a father and son were sailing in the Gulf of Mexico when their yacht was capsized by a gust of wind, sixty miles offshore. They clung to the hull, as it was carried on the powerful currents of the Gulf. After night fell, the water became rich with phosphorescence, and the air was filled with a high discordant music, made of many different notes: the siren song of dolphins. The drifting pair also saw that they were at the centre of two rough circles of phosphorescence, one turning within the other. The inner circle of light, they realised, was a ring of dolphins, swimming round the upturned boat, and the outer circle was a ring of sharks, swimming around the dolphins. The dolphins were protecting the father and his son, keeping the sharks from them.
– both quotes from Robert Macfarlane's The Wild Places (pp.41-2)


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Do you like your sweet with some salty? I do, too. Candy corn and peanuts, butter mints and peanuts, buttered popcorn and plain M&Ms … I could be the Bubba of sweet and salty mixes but I won't.
Today, I am writing to you about what your Superbowl party needs – no WANTS! The combo of cheese popcorn and caramel popcorn. Have you seen this? I have been seeing this mixture on my grocers' shelves as of late yet I resisted. What if I didn't like it? That's four plus dollars down the drain. Renokulous, RE-DONK-U-LOUS. Yet, I wanted to try it and on my own terms.
Have you ever heard of Oogie's Gourmet Popcorn? Their White Cheddar Popcorn is "Oh Em Gee" good! If it was a man, I would marry it …maybe a long term boyfriend. Over the holiday's I won a box of Oogie's Gourmet Popcorn (more on that in another post coming soon). It has the right amount of tang from the cheese and does not make you feel like you need to go work some calories off at the gym after eating. It's all natural, too, so no words you can't pronounce on the ingredients list.
What to use for the caramel corn? I could always buy it and be done with it … no fuss, no muss. That's just not me, I have the need to dabble in the kitchen and make messes in said kitchen. My catering teacher in high school told me I was a messy cook and I thought to myself, "duh." Creativity can be messy, embrace it and then make sure you have cleaning supplies nearby or better yet a maid. Sadly, I don't have the latter.
Luckily, a week ago my mail carrier delivered a new cookbook to me. It's entitled Sweet Confections: Beautiful Candy to Make at Home by Nina Wanat. GET THIS BOOK!
It's beautifully illustrated; the way it is written and recipes are explained you will be a confident confectioner in no time. If you are looking for a gift for that "sweetie" in your life that loves to bake then get them "Sweet Confections". You want to razzle dazzle a special man/lady in your life on Valentine's Day with some homemade goodness … get this book! Toffee, Truffles, Fudge, Alcoholic Lollies …GET THIS BOOK!
When you combine Oogie's White Cheddar popcorn and the buttery sweetness of Nina's Caramel popcorn together, you have Winner Winner Chicken Dinner. I combined equal parts of each popcorn into a rather large bowl and then gave it a good "Superbowl Shuffle" and serve. That's all I have to say about that (I love the movie, "Forrest Gump").
A very special thank you to Nina Wanat and her publisher, LARK, for allowing me to re-print the recipe for Caramel Corn.
Until Next Time,
Caramel Corn
by Nina Wanat, Sweet Confections: Beautiful Candy to Make at Home, reprinted with permission
10 cups popped popcorn, unsalted and unbuttered
1 cup roasted nuts, such as peanuts or almonds (optional)
1/2 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar, granulated
2 Tablespoons water
6 Tablespoons unsalted butter
2 Tablespoons corn syrup
1 Tablespoon molasses
1/2 Teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
Preheat oven to 225F. Pour popcorn and roasted nuts (I optioned out for nuts), if using, into a roasting pan.
Combine sugars, water, butter, cream, corn syrup, molasses, and salt in a 2-quart saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally with a heatproof silicone spatula, until the mixture reaches 250F.
Remove from heat. Stir in the baking soda, and mix thoroughly ti incorporate.
Pour the syrup over the popcorn, and stir until popcorn is coated. Bake for 45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes. The caramel corn is done when it's dry and crispy when cool. Store in an airtight container.


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Music Department Events
Jun 4
Organ, Recorder, and Harpsichord Studio Recital
Students of Janean Hall and Mark Krusemeyer
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
5:00 – 6:00 pm / Weitz Music 31
The recital begins in M31 for the harpsichord students, beginner organ students, and recorder students. The recital will then conclude at Skinner Chapel with advanced organ students.
Sponsored by Music. Contact: Holly Streekstra, Music, x4475
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Some media outlets were given Macs pre-loaded with OS X Mavericks for review, and some of them have started sharing some thoughts. Since Mavericks is more of an iterative update -- especially compared to the highly visually differentiated iOS 7 -- it should come as no surprise that those who liked OS X Mountain Lion tend to like Mavericks, and tend to really like the under-the-hood improvements, and the power-user features. Here's a sampling of the thoughts shared so far.
Jim Dalrymple of The Loop:
The real shining point of Mavericks is the continued integration between OS X and iOS. Whether it's Maps directions shared to your mobile device or passwords being synced from your iPhone to your Mac, Apple is making their entire ecosystem work for the user.
Brian Heater of Engadget:
All told, Apple's promised 200 features with this release. As ever, that number includes large and minuscule additions alike. It's a list that includes some really nice additions like tabs and tagging. Again, there's nothing that's likely to lure in anyone who hasn't already made the jump from Windows. For the foreseeable future, OS X's growth will continue to be gradual. But there are certainly enough additions in here to make upgrading a no-brainer for Mac users when the final version hits in the fall. And in the meantime, hopefully Apple will reveal even more reasons to give it a try.
David Pierce of The Verge:
These are still early days for OS X 10.9, and Mavericks will likely change and shift much more before it's released this fall. It's clearly not going to be the total aesthetic overhaul iOS 7 is, though, and that's okay. It's a simple, familiar operating system, even less of a change than Mountain Lion, just with nips and tucks and a whole lot fewer sheets of weirdly torn paper.
Vincent Nguyen of SlashGear:
Apple saved the revolution for iOS 7 this year. The smartphone and tablet platform was overdue a refresh, and that's just what Apple has delivered. In contrast, the changes in OS X Mavericks feel solidly evolutionary, and while that has often come to be interpreted as a criticism, in fact it's exactly what the Mac needs. Apple is poised between its existing users and those fresh to OS X, with iOS often the point of entry. In that sense, Mavericks' drawing together of the ties between desktop and mobile makes perfect sense.
We'll update as more previews go live (or as we find more of them). Mavericks won't ship until the fall, so things can and will change. In the meantime, let me know what you think of the press coverage so far.
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In the second and best installment of "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour," the follow-up to "I Love Lucy," the guest star is Tallulah Bankhead, playing herself as a new neighbor of the Ricardos and Mertzes.
During a clash of temperaments, Lucy mockingly imitates Tallulah's famed basso voice and "dahling"-peppered phrases, leading to this exchange:
Tallulah: "You do a revolting impression of me."
Lucy: "So do you."
There was a lot of truth in that funny scene, and it finds a telling echo in Matthew Lombardo's entertaining play about Bankhead, "Looped," currently onstage at the Hippodrome starring a persuasive Stefanie Powers.
Bankhead, a brilliant, if self-destructive, talent, gradually became something of a caricature of herself, a fate not uncommon among some other unusually distinctive actresses of her day. And that's how she first enters in "Looped," like a bad impersonation.
The play was inspired by a true incident in 1965 during the post-production phase of Bankhead's last movie, "Die! Die! My Darling!" The action is confined to a sound studio where the star is supposed to record a line of dialogue that must be matched to a scene on film — the process is called "looping."
In between endless, aborted takes, Tallulah revels in demonstrating her bad habits. "We all have vices," she says. "Mine just all come out to play at the same time."
She's certainly fabulous company, especially if you like witty (and often unabashedly vulgar) one-liners. And Bankhead gets plenty of them here, almost all with an authentic ring.
Bit by bit, though, the cynical veneer is gradually peeled away from this "deliciously disgraceful" woman, as she describes herself to Danny (Brian Hutchinson), an exacerbated film editor in the room.
Beneath the mannerisms and idiosyncrasies, the tendency to play to the camera (even when there isn't one), the booze and drugs, the flippancy about sex, you sense there is plenty of the real deal left. Not just the star quality, but the human. As Danny discovers, Tallulah is someone well worth getting to know better.
"Looped" originated with Valerie Harper in mind. She earned a Tony Award nomination after the play's short stint on Broadway in 2010, and was to have reprised the role in the national tour that has brought the play to Baltimore.
Harper withdrew in January to take what was vaguely labeled "medical leave." This week, the popular actress revealed she has terminal brain cancer.
I enjoyed Harper's vivacious performance as Bankhead when Washington's Arena Stage presented "Looped" in 2009. And, in light of what has happened, I've been thinking about one of the best lines from the work, which Harper delivered wonderfully: "There is always going to be pain in life. But suffering? That one is optional."
It could not have been easy for Powers to step into the show on short notice under these circumstances, especially since she and Harper are friends who both made it through bouts with lung cancer.
Powers succeeds in creating a physically convincing version of Tallulah (OK, maybe a head-thrust-back pose is overdone). And although she occasionally slips into a voice closer to Katharine Hepburn than the "Alabama Foghorn," as Bankhead was dubbed, Powers leaves an impressive vocal mark nonetheless.
Above all, she convincingly conjures up the combination of tough and tender, snarky and wise. This Tallulah is clearly a woman who has seen it all, done it all and can't quite understand why it's not as much fun as it once was.
Powers brings a remarkable personal connection to this play, having been Bankhead's costar in "Die! Die! My Darling!" The two shared the brief scene in the movie that contains the terribly written line that Tallulah had such difficulty looping.
Maybe that direct link helps to explain the extra layer of sensitivity and nuance in Powers' performance. She is especially effective handling the play's most revelatory moments.
When Tallulah, in typically cynical form, says she once had an imaginary friend who didn't like her very much, Powers makes it more than just another throw-away aside. A touch of vulnerability slips in.
A key point of the play has to do with Tallulah admitting that she could never have children. Later on, Danny is in dire need of some mothering (this character's crisis feels contrived, but does the job). At that moment, Powers not only shows just how ill-prepared, but also how genuinely eager, Tallullah is to provide it.
In the first act, Danny taunts Tallulah about her infamously campy 1956 performance in Miami of "A Streetcar Named Desire." The subject returns in Act 2, leading to a challenge from Danny that Tallulah can't resist. What follows could easily turn sticky or awkward, but Powers makes the most of the scene to give her portrayal of this faded, but hardly extinguished, star another telling layer.
Hutchinson does winning work as the tense Danny. Matthew Montelongo is fine as Steve, the engineer who emits terse, wry lines at well-timed moments from the sound booth. Director Rob Ruggiero nimbly guides the production, which features a nicely atmospheric set by Adrian W. Jones.
"Looped" doesn't turn serious often, and never for long, but it's still not exactly a "madcap comedy," as the ads describe it. (It's a little odd to see a very youthful, perky-looking picture of Powers in those ads, giving no clue what the play is about.)
There are some clunky and padded passages, maybe too much effort to psychoanalyze. And it's hard to understand why Lombardo insists on tossing a gratuitous slap at Joan Crawford into the script (the "Mommie Dearest" nonsense has long been refuted). The playwright shows too much appreciation for show business legendry in "Looped" to stoop to that.
But, ultimately, this amusing and fundamentally affectionate look at the one and only Tallulah, brought so delectably to life by Powers, delivers a crackling night of theater.


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From myth to reality
Legend has it that Romulus and Remus, the twin founders of Rome, were abandoned as children and had to be suckled by a wolf until they were discovered by a wandering shepherd. Eventually they founded the great city on Palatine Hill, the very place where they had been cared for by the wolf. This is likely just a myth, but history abounds with real stories of children who really were raised by animals.
Although reality for these feral children is rarely so romanticized as it was for Romulus and Remus (feral children are often hampered with cognitive and behavioral disabilities), occasionally their stories can also be a testament to the human will to survive, and of the tender maternal instinct of other animals. (Text: Bryan Nelson)


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