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Simple but extremely effective, the Fling Joystick for iPad is similar in concept to the Joystick-it controller we featured on Pocket-lint back in March. However, there's one important difference, rather than resemble an arcade joystick, the Fling capably apes a portable device thumbstick, which can therefore be better to use while holding the iPad aloft rather than laying it flat.
In addition, the majority of its plastic build is transparent, allowing you to see what's going on underneath. And as you can see the virtual thumbpad move on the screen below, you get a better feel for how it works.
Design-wise, the Fling is excellent. Two sucker pads hold it securely in place and if you've wiped your screen free of grease beforehand, it shouldn't move during play. The thumbstick part is made of anodised aluminium, and features a capacitive rubber tip underneath that interacts with the touchscreen. Its body is actually engineering-grade resin, so is remarkably flexible. Ten One Design has also crafted it into a coil, so that it moves easily in every direction that the on-screen thumbpad needs.
And while it is being marketed as an iPad accessory, we also tested it on a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, where it worked just as well. Indeed, we'd go as far as saying that it should work on any capacitive touchscreen - Android or otherwise. But be aware, that we can only vouch for the Tab.
The last thing that impresses us about the Fling is that, because of the light materials used, it's highly portable, and even comes with a little carry case that you can use to wipe the screen free of gunk before use. And not once have we noticed sucker marks afterwards.
Of course, the Fling's usability is purely restricted to games that require a thumbstick. And should a game need two simultaneous controls, you'll need two of them - not a cheap investment at around £20 each. But for those who want to use their iPad (or other compatible tablet) as a portable games console, this simple doo-hickey comes highly recommended.
The Fling Joystick for iPad is currently available in the UK from Firebox.com. There's also now a mini version for iPhone too.
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Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell II – Singles
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Daniel Páez Blanco is the defending champion.
Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell II – Singles
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Daniel Páez Blanco is the defending champion.
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Back in Barcelona for the prestigious PTA Tour 500 event where Daniel Páez Blanco is defending champion after beating Sanchez Emelio in the final last year one and one. Some big names who were present last year are missing here - Randy Smeltz (SF), Sven Oxenstierna (QF) and Davis Kennedy (QF) are notable omissions. Neverthless, while those players are gone the likes of Zoltán Varga, Rasmus Olesen and Henry Charles make their debut appearances.
Some good stuff for the CWLanders here. The only seeded player is Heath Davis though he has a tough run being drawn in Olesen's eighth. A possible showdown with Scotland Rivers in the second round awaits, but Rivers has to get past Ivan Genov who is the highest ranked unseeded competitor. Jarkko Maxum meanwhile gets a cruisy start against little known wildcard Juan Manuel Cortés, and a second round clash with CW Open finalist Oneil Stewart is very winnable - the Jamaican is an unknown quantity on clay.
Spas Delev gets a lucky break with the withdrawal of Sergio Joaquín and should have no problems making the third round. It gets a lot trickier there against Season I semi finalist Illya Altman. Finally Rob Bowenburg gets it real tough - finalist from last season Sanchez Emelio stands in his way and it is tough to see him winning.
A rematch of last year's final could be in the making by the quarterfinals, and Daniel Páez Blanco is rightly favourite to retain his crown despite losing in Monte Carlo last week. The best two players in the draw are in the same half and I imagine will meet in the semis again, so my prediction is Blando def. Z.Varga in the final.
Heef on Clay ---> Epic Fail. Expecting to be dumped out by Dorogan in Round 1. If not, then Rivers will have enough in the 2nd round.
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Also Supporting the All Time #1 Batsman of All Time Ever - Jacques Kallis and the much maligned Peter Siddle.
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Very Happy with the draw...cue 1st round bagel and bagel
gl Heef, Rivers, Bowenburg
once you think you're out they pull you back in
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Good Luck to all CW'ians.
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Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell II
PTA Tour 500 - 1st Round - Barcelona, Spain - Clay (Red)
- West CWLand's Rob Bowenburg has snared the biggest win of his clay career; upsetting Season I finalist Sanchez Emelio in the boilover of the first round at the Torneo Godó. A big outsider against the tenth seed, Bowenburg put himself in a great position early as he claimed the first set 6-3 with a late break of serve despite being largely written off by the local commentators. After a poor first set, Emelio ramped up the pressure in the second and in taking it 6-1 looked to have returned to business as usual. But Bowenburg stuck close in the third and capitalised on some key errors and poor serving as he brought up three match points on the Emelio serve. The Spaniard saved one with a great wide serve, but at 15-40 a poor second serve was easily run around by Bowenburg who cracked a winner with confidence to secure a 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 upset. He now plays former Roland Garros finalist Johan Ortiz who ousted fellow RG finalist Roberto Santos in three sets.
- The great run of form for Spas Delev looked to have continued after he claimed the first set against Jefferson Quezada, but his night out soon turned into a nightmare as he was beaten over three sets. Delev was awful in an error-laden second set as he failed to build on his recent momentum; the Chilean merely had to keep the ball in play as Delev routinely missed makeable shots. He tightened his game up considerably in the third set and at one point brought up a match point on the Quezada serve, but the unseeded Chilean held on to take it to a tiebreaker. There Delev got off to a poor start and was made to rue some bad backhands as Quezada pushed his way into the second round 4-6, 6-1, 7-6(4) having saved one match point.
- Jarkko Maxum looked good in victory as he ousted Juan Manuel Cortés of Spain in straight sets. Many expected Maxum to still be ironing out kinks in his game after a long absence, but in a 26-minute first set he showed few weaknesses as he thoroughly dominated the wildcard entrant. Maxum suffered at times last season due to a lack of power, but a lengthy strength and conditioning campaign with his good friend Bowenburg has seen him improve significantly. While Cortés played far better in the second set, he still was behind Maxum who broke three times in a difficult second set to win 6-0, 7-5.
- He doesn't like the clay, but Heath Davis is through to the second round in Barcelona after accounting for Roman Dorogan in straight sets. The sixteenth seed came from a break down in both sets as he secured a 6-4, 6-4 win as Dorogan failed to really produce good tennis under pressure. Davis offered just two break points all match in a largely solid serving display but found himself in trouble as Dorogan converted both of them. Despite struggling with his movement and the longer rallies, Davis looked fitter than at the same stage last season as he produced enough power and aggression to notch a rare clay win.
- He will play Bulgaria's Ivan Genov after he rallied from a set down to beat Scotland Rivers. Genov is a great mid-rank player and would have been a big scalp for the West CWLander, but Rivers isn't quite there yet on clay as Genov bossed the rallies. Rivers still produced some fine shots, but made too many errors and was outworked by the unseeded Bulgarian who eventually prevailed 4-6, 6-2, 6-4.
- Elsewhere, eleventh seed Zhijun Sun was beaten by Monte Carlo quarter finalist Viktor Vuriak and Almen Benaglio served José Navarro a double bagel.
- Seeded players out: Sanchez Emelio; Zhijun Sun.
Phew. Good to get a win on Clay. What's my Win/Loss record on Clay? Pretty poor I reckon. Am I defending any points for this week?
Great win from Bowenburg. Can't be far from being one of his biggest wins on tour.
Not defending points this week, but you've got 130 points to defend before and including Roland Garros.
Record on clay at PTA level is 3-4 including that win. You won Lugano at Challenger last year and I'm not sure if you've had Davis Cup matches on the stuff.
Might as well give up on clay.
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Scientists from the Center for Astrophysics have found evidence of gravitational waves created mere moments after the dawn of the universe. These waves were created in a period of rapid expansion called cosmic inflation. This new evidence could prove the definitive confirmation of the inflation theory. It seems that finally, scientists can claim to understand the goings on at the beginning of everything. A Nature Video production.


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- 1/2 tsp 1/2 tsp 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp 1/2 tsp 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 cup 1/2 cup 1/2 cup Organic [*Spectrum Brand, sustainably sourced] Palm Oil Shortening
- 2 Tbsp 2 Tbsp 2 Tbsp Pure Maple Syrup
- 1 tsp 1 tsp 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
- Preheat oven to 325°F.
- In a medium sized bowl, combine dry ingredients.
- In a small bowl, combine wet ingredients (make sure to melt the palm shortening before mixing it into the batter, about 40 seconds in the microwave does the trick).
- Stir wet ingredients into dry.
- Pat the dough into a 9-inch glass pie dish, and bake for 10–15 minutes, or until golden.
- Remove from oven to cool.
Shaping the pie crust takes a little finesse. It takes about 10 minutes to smooth out the perfect pie crust; you want to create an even, thin layer. We will often use freshly ground pecans in place of almond for our pies. The warm flavor of a pecan pie crust is the perfect complement to a pumpkin pie. For this, substitute pecan meal for almond meal in equal amounts.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting "How Global Entry Saved My Travel Day, Though Not Right Away and Not All the Time," a Trusted Traveler saga of trials and triumphs of surviving airport security screenings, told in three parts.
Take One
The scene: John Wayne Airport, midmorning on a Saturday.
The scenario: Southwest flight from Orange County to Denver.
I clutch my boarding pass in one hand and my coveted Global Entry Card in the other. After seven months, $100, a federal background check and having my fingerprints and retina scanned, I had finally received my Global Entry Card. The card has an intentionally distorted face shot that makes me look like Moe Howard from the Three Stooges if half his face swelled up from a spider bite.
This is a domestic flight, but one of the perks of having the Global Entry Card is you automatically can go to Pre-Check, the security entrance that lets select passengers skip the long lines, the dressing and undressing, the fumbling with laptops and shoving liquids into a little Ziploc bag.
My wife and children were traveling with me. I had briefed them: In the name of investigative journalism and serving you, the reader, I would leave them behind to endure the cattle call of the normal security lines while I scooted through and killed some time at the newsstand. I found an airport guide and asked which lane was for Pre-Check.
"There's no Pre-Check in Terminal C," she said. If I wanted to use Pre-Check, I would have to go to Terminal A, at the opposite end of the airport.
I joined my family in the regular line and started taking off my belt.
Take Two
The scene: Denver International Airport, a Sunday afternoon.
The scenario: Icelandair flight from Denver to Reykjavik, Iceland.
Denver is the airport big leagues. It has Pre-Check all over the place. I stepped up to the security agent and handed him my card. He tapped away for a second on his keyboard, then in a monotone announced, "You've been randomly chosen to go through enhanced security. Please join the line."
I knew one of the safeguards of Pre-Check and Global Entry was that you would be randomly asked to go through regular security. It makes sure no one goes rogue after being named a "trusted traveler."
But the first time? Come on!
By the time it was my turn in the conga line of bags, purses, laptops, carry-on rolling bags, I found my bored family sitting on a bench inside the terminal.
Take Three
The scene: Los Angeles International Airport, international arrivals, Terminal 2. A very late Wednesday night.
The scenario: Tired and disheveled from 11-hour, nonstop Air New Zealand flight from London.
I'm lugging my laptop, photo bag and a rolling bag full of books, magazines and newspapers I had accumulated on the trip but not yet read. My exhausted family lopes along with me.
We get to the immigration hall and there are thousands of people. Jumbo jets from Mexico, the Middle East and London had showed up at roughly the same time. My 19-year-old son heaves a big sigh.
I told my family I was going to give it another try. They went right toward the "U.S. Citizens" line, while I headed to the far left edge of the hall and saw two Global Entry kiosks, looking like fancy ATM machines, against a wall.
As instructed, I slid my passport under a scanner, pressed my right hand onto another small scanner that read my fingerprints, while an eye scanner checked out my retina. I answered some customs questions on a touch screen (the ones everybody else has to fill out on paper). Out spit a slip saying I was in.
That was it.
An agent confirmed I had the slip and directed me down a narrow aisle, past the huddled masses yearning to breathe the smog at LAX.
My elapsed time from entering the hall to baggage claim: Five minutes.
Additional time until my family made its way through security: 40 minutes.
Global Entry could save the travel day for me – this time.
One important note, though.
There's no global entry for bags. It was another 35 minutes before my two bags plummeted down the chute and onto the shiny stainless steel carousel.
I am a "trusted traveler," but the government still isn't so sure about my dirty laundry.


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Philosophy professor's book to be published by Oxford University Press
Dr. Jerry Falwell had a vision for Liberty University to become the Christian Evangelical equivalent to Notre Dame. This vision is quickly becoming a reality, thanks to philosophy professor Dr. David Baggett. Baggett and co-author Dr. Jerry Walls, a senior research fellow at Notre Dame, recently received news that their book, tentatively titled "Good God: The Theistic Foundations of Morality," will be published by Oxford University Press.
Being published by Oxford University Press means that the book will be available in every academic library in the world, giving much-needed credibility to the idea that intelligence and Christianity are not mutually exclusive.
Baggett announced the news in class on Friday, mentioning that he couldn't wait to tell Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. Unbeknownst to him, a student in his class quickly sent a text message to Falwell's wife, Becki. The Falwells were working out in the gym at the LaHaye Student Union and, upon receiving the message, decided to surprise Baggett in his class and congratulate him.
"That was a neat surprise. … That's one personable chancellor right there," Baggett said.
Baggett said the book, his seventh, is scheduled to be available summer 2011.
Although Baggett and Walls started writing the book this past summer, it has had a 20-year history. While studying at Asbury Seminary, Baggett was given an assignment by his then-professor Dr. Walls to write on the topic of God and ethics. The assignment gave rebirth to a previous question Baggett had on the Euthyphro Dilemma, which asks whether something is moral because God wills it, or vice versa. This theme turned out to be a burning passion for him for years to come.
The topic came up again when Baggett was graduating from Wayne State with his dissertation titled, "Theistic Activism and the Euthyphro Dilemma." It was then that Baggett approached his former professor Walls to consider turning the dissertation into a book.
The book not only addresses the question of God's existence, but his character.
"We argue that it's a good God who exists, a perfectly, recognizably, and necessarily good God," Baggett said.
The authors seek to prove that the moral argument for God's existence is powerful.
"The moral 'argument' is a set of interconnected arguments, the cumulative effect of which is that God doesn't just exist, but that a God of perfect love exists, a God who is holy, impeccable, perfect, a God of covenantal fidelity, and a God who can be trusted," Baggett said. "Nobody needs to sweat about being left out; God loves everyone and doesn't want anyone to perish. He's actively at work redeeming the entirety of the created order, and offers each of us the chance to enter into what he's doing."
Baggett has taught at Wayne State University, University of Michigan and King's College before coming to LU in 2006. He has been published in a number of scholarly articles and book reviews.


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More than 702 households were affected by flash flooding on 2 May 2012 in Gode zone (Somali region). The flooding caused significant damage, with numerous livestock deaths and damage to planted crops and stored food reported in the affected areas. Elsewhere in Somali Region, flooding was also reported in parts of Korahe zone in late April. (OCHA, 21 May 2012)
In August, nearly two weeks of heavy rains caused serious flooding and damaged livelihoods in Gewane woreda of Afar region. Approximately 5,000 people were affected by the flooding, having suffered loss of shelter and household items, crops and some livestock. In Amhara Region, prolonged heavy rainfall caused the overflow of rivers and lakes, and resulted in flash floods that affected 131,026 people, of whom 20,118 were displaced as of the end of August. (OCHA, 31 Aug 2012)


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Chicago Bulls and White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf was hospitalized Friday night after an "episode of light-headedness," the Chicago White Sox said in a statement.
Reinsdorf's "episode" required medical attention during his stay in Cooperstown, New York. He was taken to Bassett Medical Center where he will stay overnight "as a precautionary measure."
"All tests tonight indicate that he is fine," the team said in a statement. "He is coherent, is resting comfortably and is communicating with his doctors and medical staff."
He is expected to be released Saturday morning.
Reinsdorf is in New York to attend this weekend's Hall of Fame induction of former White Sox star Frank Thomas.


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Los Angeles, CA – May 20, 2017 – TriCoast Worldwide presents ROSENN, starring Rupert Everett and up-and-coming Belgian actress, Hande Kodja. Rosenn (Kodja) is an ingénue in the prime of her life who falls in love with Lewis Lafoly (Everett), a famous English writer in his fifties who has come to Paris to rest from his hectic and directionless life.
Lafoly wears a mask of seduction while hiding his deceptive intentions. Lafoly falls in love with Rosenn, but ultimately his true colors come to light when he leaves her, alone and pregnant. Through abandonment, hardships and war, Rosenn accepts her tragic destiny and bends to the tides of life with an almost mystical resignation. A stunning period piece, ROSENN is a beautifully shot emotional roller coaster. If renown English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy wrote in the tropics, ROSENN would be the treasure he would create.
ROSENN was nominated for the Magritte Award, Belgium's equivalent of the Academy Award. On the festival circuit, the film's cast walked the red carpet and closed the Chelsea International Film Festival, and opened the French section of the Molodist Film Festival Kiev (Ukraine).
Rupert Everett is best known as Julia Robert's gay best friend and confidant in My Best Friend's Wedding, and Christopher Marlowe in the Academy Award winning film, Shakespeare in Love. He also played the smug and smarmy villian Dr. Claw in Inspector Gadget, and the not-very-princely Prince Charming in Shrek 2. Hande Kodje credits include Marieke, Marieke, and Murderers, for which she was nominated for a Magritte Award.
ROSENN is directed by Yvan Le Moine, whose first feature, The Red Dwarf, was an official selection in Cannes Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs). Le Moine also directed Friday or Another Day, which won Best Actor Award at the Locarno Film Festival. Le Moine co-produced as well, along with Laurence Castermans, Viviane Vanfleteren, Amedeo Pagani and Igor Sekulic.
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The Association is committed to communicating our members' concerns to government and regulatory bodies, advocating for sound public policies that affect our industry, promoting professional standards that enhance the effectiveness of the medicolegal death investigation service to our communities, and providing excellence in training and education.
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Android's next operating system may be geared to souping up old Android phones so they can be sold in emerging markets.
The plan is to put the latest version of Android on smartphones less than $100, according to Quartz. The rumor that Android 5.0, also called Key Lime Pie, will be a slimmed down version is still unconfirmed, but it's possible that Google engineers might respond to the fragmentation accusations and help out older Android users as well.
Many older Android users have been left out in the cold in Android upgrades. Most of the Android phones in the world are using Gingerbread (2.3), while newer Android phones are using Ice Cream Sandwich (4.1) and Jelly Bean (4.2). That means that most Android users are using the same 2010 operating system because their phones are not advanced enough (or their manufacturer doesn't care to upgrade an old phone).
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WASHINGTON – With the WTOP Ticketbuster series chronicling stories of drivers running into red tape at the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles, District lawmakers have introduced a bill to address the issues.
"I think the WTOP stories, which have highlighted a number of instances where people clearly were not guilty of what the ticket was about, has just given further evidence of why this legislation is needed," said D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, a Democrat who introduced the bill along with Councilman Jim Graham, D-Ward 1.
The measure, known as the Traffic Adjudication Amendment Act of 2013, would allow drivers up to 24 months to file an appeal and present new evidence that could prove innocence. It also would allow the D.C. Office of Administrative Hearings, rather than the DMV Appeals Board, to hear the case and empower the group to overturn the original decision.
Drivers have come to WTOP to complain that the DMV is unfair, uneven and unfriendly to those fighting tickets. Mendelson acknowledged that while the DMV is supposed to provide justice, that's not always what happens.
"There are instances where individuals get hung up in the adjudication process and even though they're innocent of the ticket infraction, they still have to pay. Sometimes they have to pay double. It's just fundamentally unfair," he said.
Specifically, Mendelson referred to two WTOP cases that he believes demonstrate the problem.
First, there is the John Stanton case. In that story, Stanton, a federal employee, received a ticket for an infraction that allegedly occurred in Northeast D.C., even though his car was at Dulles International Airport. Stanton was overseas at the time on official government business for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The DMV ruled that Stanton did not qualify for a hearing because he responded 66 days later, instead of within the required 60 days. The DMV also asserted his receipts from the garage, airport and hotel were insufficient to prove his innocence.
In April 2013, Stanton found photographic evidence showing his car at Dulles during the date in question, but the DMV said it wouldn't reverse its decision.
"If your car is parked at the Dulles garage and you receive a ticket, which is impossible, you ought to get that ticket dismissed. The fact that you missed a deadline, just telling the story annoys me," Mendelson said.
Mendelson also is troubled about the Christopher Daignault case, in which a D.C. ticket writer himself received a ticket in November 2012 on plates he reported missing in September 2010.
He didn't get the police report, but presented other evidence. The DMV ruled him liable after a 20-day continuance, then told WTOP the ruling would not be reversed after it turned over the report 67 days later.
"When he finds the police report, or some other evidence to show he didn't have the tags, the ticket should be dismissed, even if it's after 60 days," Mendelson said.
D.C. Councilwoman Mary Cheh, who was initially reluctant to acknowledge a larger problem, now tells WTOP that there are issues the Ticketbuster series has identified.
"I think the issue is even broader. We have a number of instances where I think the hearing examiners are being inflexible to the point of unfairness of how they approach things," said Cheh, D-Ward 3.
Cheh chairs the council's Committee on Transportation and the Environment, which oversees the DMV and several ticket-writing agencies.
"The solution may not be legislative, it could be more oversight," she said. "We need to find out what the protocols are there [at the DMV], how these (hearing examiners) are trained, what are their marching orders. Is their marching order, 'Defeat any claim at all costs'?"
Cheh admitted the Ticketbuster series has identified cases where the improper outcome may have been reached.
"Perhaps we need a safety valve for the unusual cases, maybe that'll be enough. I don't know what the answer is. But there are cases where that safety valve may have been the thing to take us out of what is perceived to be, by the driver involved and the public itself, as being inherently unfair," she said.
Cheh wouldn't comment specifically on Mendelson's bill, but agreed that fixing problems with ticket adjudication in D.C. is necessary.
She plans to hold committee hearings on the proposal in late September or early October.
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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...The coronation of Willem-Alexander, started me thinking about Dutch food. Save for cheese, not much of it has made its way across the ocean, and many of the dishes that we attribute to the Dutch, are actually German and come from Pennsylvania Dutch country. I suspect its crackly sugar topping is what gave this delicious loaf its Dutch descriptor. It's jam packed with apples and walnuts, and that remarkable crackly topping gives it flavor that more than makes up for its plain appearance. This cake is fit to set before the king. Just ask the Silver Fox, who counts this simple peasant loaf among his favorite desserts. The recipe is straightforward and the cake is easy to make. Do, however, line the pan and grease it well, because this cake wants to stick. It keeps well should you have leftovers. I hope you'll give this cake a try. It is delicious and one bite set my sox in motion. It's been a while since that happened. Here's how the cake is made.
Dutch Apple Loaf...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Taste of Home magazine
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups diced peeled tart apples
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 cup cold butter, cubed
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan. Line bottom with parchment paper, then grease paper.
2) Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in buttermilk and vanilla.
3) Combine flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture. Fold in apples and walnuts. Scrape into prepared pan.
4) To make topping: Combine sugar, flour and cinnamon. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over batter.
5) Bake for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near center of loaf comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Yield: 1 loaf (16 slices).
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text: Aanchir Posted November 24, 2012 (edited) It does mean that Lego arent calling it dead completelyWell, yes, but we never had any reason to doubt that. If they were considering it completely dead they would have simply told us that, unless of course they wanted to mislead us, but if that were the case they could just as easily be misleading us now. Basically this is the same sort of generic PR response we've gotten to every question about BIONICLE returning, albeit with the original question phrased differently. Specifically, the phrasing "Can you confirm that BIONICLE is never coming back?" makes the question impossible to answer with a "yes" since it requires certainty of TLG's plans from now until the end of time, so it is an even less meaningful answer than some of the previous answers we've gotten, and the same answer that you'd probably get if you asked the same question about Fabuland or the LEGO monorail system.Meh. Im not to fussed if it doesnt come back. The story however I want to keep goingThe story's a lot more likely to come back if the toy line does. Even with difficulties in his personal life, Greg Farshtey still has time to write, but so far a lot of that writing has gone towards work he's actually getting paid for, like the Ninjago, Hero Factory, and Chima books.As much as a lot of people like the story of BIONICLE more than the sets, the story would never have existed if not for the sets, and the sets were always the main factor moving it forward. Part of why I haven't taken an interest in post-Journey's End plotlines from the serials, other than that all the plotlines I really cared about have already been wrapped up, is that without the sets guiding the story it ends up feeling somewhat aimless. So for me, it might very easily take a full return of the theme to get me interested again. Edited November 24, 2012 by Aanchir: Rachira of Time Latest MOC: PAIGE (Prototype Artificial Intelligence, Gynoid Expression) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Cozy Groupings
I love this time of year. It's as if the chilly weather gives us permission to stay home in the evening, forgoing social engagements for the comfort and coziness of our homes. Comfort food, warming libations, wool throws (no snuggies please), and engaging books are the ingredients for a winter evening well-spent. And I know that others feel the same way, too. Take this 1935 issue of House & Garden in which the pleasures of cozy are touted through "groups that suggest some pleasant interludes in winter evenings."
There is the "Reading Group", above, with its reproduction Duncan Phyfe table and comfortable chair upholstered in green and white striped cotton. My ideal reading group would be accompanied by a fireplace, and that too was shown in this article, below, in the "Nightcap" grouping which included preparations for mulled wine prepared over the fire. But really, you could enjoy any hot beverage like Swiss Strawberry Tea, a Tom and Jerry, or a Caudle Cup, each drink's preparation detailed in this same issue. (Whatever happened to Hot Buttered Rum?)
There is the "Card Group", appropriate for an era when many civilized people played bridge and such. I don't play cards nor do many of my friends. A shame, really. But I do know if my friends and I did play cards, the cards would be accompanied by cocktails and food. Not a lot of food, just a few nibbles. And then there is my favorite grouping of all, "And So To Bed". This is where I do most of my reading considering that I don't have a fireplace to cozy up next to. The bedroom seen here included Amodec furniture made of maple and a candlewick bedspread, very popular at that time. I would forgo the candlewick spread for a satin quilt, but that's just me. I have visions of Hollywood grandeur running through my head.
And so, after all of this, I'm off to bed!
As I mentioned, I don't play cards, but if I did,
I would serve Mamie's Tuscan Wafers which have a little more zing than the original Cheese Wafers but are just as good. The perfect snack for a game of cards, especially with drinks served in glassware like this:
High Ball glasses by James Mont, available through BG Galleries
To create my Nightcap group, I would first need some kind of electric fireplace.
This is the best looking one I have found. Not bad, but do you know of any that actually look kind of chic?
At the end of the day, though, my favorite cold weather retreat is my bed, especially if I ever take the plunge and buy one of Leontine Linen's satin quilts and bed jackets.
Both would help to ward off chills while reading juicy books like these:
American Lady: The Life of Susan Mary Alsop by Caroline de Margerie
Inventing Elsa Maxwell: How an Irrepressible Nobody Conquered High Society, Hollywood, the Press, and the World by Sam Staggs
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This is great. I would add a dog or cat to the mix and some cashmere to make it perfect. thanks.ReplyDelete
Love this...cashmere would be grand + dog or cat. xxpeggybraswelldesign.comReplyDelete
The bridge table and cockpen chairs remind of that amusing scene in Whit Stillman's "Metropolitan": "You don't think that I actually play bridge for the enjoyment, do you? I like the fact that it's one of the great bourgeois clichés of life" ...or something like that. Oh, how I loved that film!ReplyDelete
Just off to order the Susan Mary Alsop book not heard of till your post above ....thank you!ReplyDelete
Have you read 'To Marietta From Paris' the letters between Sarah Mary Alsop and Marietta Tree.....it is wonderful with all our favourite people Diana Cooper Nancy Mitford Louise Vilmoran and lots of snippets of post war Paris
I'm in full support of bringing hot buttered rum back into cocktail fashion. And, while we're at it, hot totties! What a fabulously rhetro fantasy evening. I may have to borrow the idea and invite friends over for a round of gin (the card game or the liquor).ReplyDelete
Hmm...I've mentioned 3 alcoholic drinks in the span of 4 sentences. I think I should quickly end my comment quickly before the world discovers I'm a lush!
Jennifer, You've inspired my fireplace search - I'm dying for one in my NYC rental. Check out Planika Fires - they're great looking and supposedly safe...ReplyDelete
Just got the Elsa Maxwell in the mail and I am sneaking home to make a pot of tea (or perhaps a bourbon) and reading the afternoon away!ReplyDelete
Obsessed with the bed jacket!ReplyDelete


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Teach your students about Christopher Columbus and his historic journey with these articles, quizzes, printables, research ideas, and more.
Lesson Plan
Navigating the Atlantic in 1492: Activities Based on Christopher Columbus's Journey
After reading about Christopher Columbus, students can complete these activities to learn more about how Columbus's crew packed for the trip, lived in close quarters, and measured time and distance.
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Make Room for Columbus
No one knows for sure what the Niña, the Pinta, or the Santa Maria looked like. But experts do know that the Santa Maria, Columbus's flagship, was the largest of the three vessels. It was probably about 80 feet long and 23 feet wide, and it carried a crew of 40, including Columbus. The Niña, Columbus's favorite of the three vessels, held 24 sailors, and the Pinta held the remaining 26 men.
To give kids a sense of the size of the Santa Maria, and of how crowded it would have been, work as a class to measure out a distance 80 feet long and 23 feet wide on your school playground. Mark the area with chalk, tape, or rope, and then ask 40 kids to stand in this space. Remind the class that the deck of the ship was also used to carry food, beverages, the crew's personal belongings, and other supplies. Since there was no room on board ship for beds, the men had to sleep anywhere on deck that they could!
Time to Make a Timer!
How did crewmen aboard the Niña, the Pinta, or the Santa Maria know when it was time to do their chores? They depended on a half-hour sand glass, and the ship's boys who called out the time. "One glass is gone and now the second floweth," the boy on duty would shout. After eight glasses, or four hours, a new boy would come on deck to call out the time. Invite students to make their own sand timers using two plastic soda bottles, salt or sand, masking tape, plastic wrap, and a pin or pen. Have students pour some salt into one of their two bottles, seal the mouth of that bottle by covering it with plastic wrap and attaching the wrap with tape. Then use the pin or pen to puncture a small hole into the plastic wrap. Next, students should firmly tape the mouth of the second bottle over the first one. Students can then turn the bottles over and see how much time it takes for all the salt to run from one bottle into the other. If you like, turn this activity into a "timely" contest by awarding a prize to the child whose sand timer comes closest to measuring exactly 30 seconds or another predetermined amount of time.
What Would You Take On Board?
Personal belongings on Columbus's ships were carried in chests that were about five palms long, three palms wide, and three palms high. (A palm was the measure of length from the thumb to the end of the little finger when the fingers are stretched out.) Have students find or make a box that is approximately this size. Then tell the class to imagine that they are packing as members of Columbus's crew. Ask students to list the items that they would have wanted to take on the voyage. Next, have students estimate whether their belongings would fit in one of these boxes. If not, students will have to cut their lists down even more. Finally, have students share — and compare — their lists with a classmate. What types of items did everyone pack?
Accuracy Not Required
Emphasize to students that many of the measurement tools that Columbus used — from the sand timer and compass to the quadrant and his method of dead reckoning — were imprecise, yet they still helped him to navigate the ocean. Assign a team of students to find out more about each of these tools and/or others. When they're ready, select a spokesperson from each team to explain to the class the tool's purpose, how Columbus used it, and how accurate it tended to be. The group should also be prepared to share the names of tools that are used today to serve the same, or a similar function, and to talk about whether the accuracy of these tools has improved.
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Traditionally, Columbus Day is celebrated on October 12, the day that he and his crew supposedly reached land. But that's the date they reached on the old Julian calendar! If you adjust the date to suit the Gregorian calendar that we use today, Columbus actually landed in the Americas on October 21, 1492.


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Corporate Personhood Redux
Among the fourteen cases the Supreme Court added to its docket today, FCC v. AT&T most caught my attention. The case asks whether corporations can claim personhood so to qualify for the Freedom of Information Act's Exemption 7(C), which exempts from mandatory disclosure records collected for law enforcement purposes when such disclosure could "reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy."
The Third Circuit ruled that because the statute defined "person" as an "individual, partnership, corporation, association, or public or private organization other than an agency," then corporations were entitled to 7(C)'s "personal privacy" exemption. The FCC's petition for certiorari, signed by then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan–who will be recused for this case–argued that the Third Circuit's ruling upset a thirty-five year understanding that the "personal privacy" exemption only applied to individuals.
To bolster their case, the FCC cited then-Professor Scalia's 1981 testimony before Congress that Exemption 7 did not protect "associational or institutional" privacy from mandatory disclosure upon request.
Although this case will ultimately turn on statutory construction, it still hearkens back to last year's Citizens United, which established that corporations are legal persons whose independent campaign expenditures cannot be limited under the First Amendment's free speech protections.
What makes this case even more interesting is that next Tuesday, the Court will hear argument in NASA v. Nelson, which asks whether a government employee has a right to "informational privacy" that allows him to withhold information in government background checks. Specifically at issue is whether an employee, once established he has done drugs, may then refuse to disclose if he has obtained treatment for the drug use. Justice Kagan will also recuse herself in this case.
Informational privacy is hardly a deeply established fundamental right. Even if it were, and if the Court's conservative bloc embraced it, drug-tinged cases tend to soften the justices' principles. In Gonzales v. Raich, Justice Scalia voted to approve Congress's Commerce Clause power to ban the personal cultivation of medical marijuana, despite his earlier votes to restrict the Commerce Clause's scope and later votes to cabin the power of the Necessary and Proper Clause. And in Morse v. Frederick, Chief Justice Roberts, who takes a largely robust view of the First Amendment, found a high school student's unfurled banner reading "BONG HiTS 4 JESUS" to be unprotected pro-drug speech under the Court's First Amendment-for-students doctrines.
In contrast to AT&T, the issue in NASA is not statutory, but constitutional. Further, it is grounded in an individual's Fifth Amendment Due Process rights, not in one's First Amendment rights, which was the flashpoint of last year's corporate personhood contest. Still, if the Court rejects an individual's right to informational privacy, but embraces a corporation's ability to withhold information under the personal privacy exemption, expect some commentators' heads to explode.
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I think important to maintain the distinction that corps aren't persons but they can be thought of as persons when evaluating rights.
Corporations aren't real people but they are comprised of real people and those people are deemed to have certain rights even when exercised via their corporation.
off topic, I hope to hear you .02 on the new audio tape policy which an impressive advancement.
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Joy fizzles: The strange, sad case of Jefferson Ward
The Hook's November 27 profile of Jefferson Ward, a young man battling a rare and deadly throat and tongue cancer, inspired several phone calls.
Those calls came from relatives who say that Ward had never played football at UVA as reported in the article, nor had he ever been enrolled at the university. A check with the university registrar's office and athletic department confirmed that Ward's alleged career as a UVA football player was a fabrication.
"I was not a star player," Ward initially responded when asked about the discrepancy. "I never played in a game, but I worked out with the team." He seemed surprised that the athletic department had never heard of him, and had no record of him on the football team roster for 1991, one of the years Ward claimed he was there. "That's kind of strange," he said.
"I did enroll at the university in the spring of 1988," Ward maintained. Then why did the university have no record of him? "Maybe because I never attended a class," he replied.
Ward admits that he did indeed claim to be a former athlete who played with UVA. "It's always been my dream to play for them" is his explanation.
He also says he didn't want the original article to include the UVA football information because he didn't want it to be about an athlete, but about a man who has struggled with cancer, whose story might inspire others.
And one of the calls The Hook received was from Joanne Pruden in Washington, who describes Ward as "very caring, very giving, a very warm-hearted person."
Another fact questioned in the article was Ward's age, which he claims is 34. His cousin, Kathy Mallory-Chavers, a teacher at Hollymead Elementary School, says Ward is more like 45, the same age as her brother.
Ward insists his birthday is April 19, 1968, and he promised to produce proof of his age. He appeared at The Hook with copies of his medical records, but no driver's license. "I misplaced my wallet," was his explanation.
Ward says his mother, who lives in Washington, can verify his age but he declined to give her phone number. "She doesn't like me giving out her number," he explained.
When asked if he has any official documentation of his birth date, Ward produced a summons to appear in court December 9– regarding allegations of writing bad checks.
His mother, Lucy Ward, called to confirm that her son's real name is Jeffrey and that he was born April 19. But, she says, the year was 1958.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 14 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
Rosen Law Firm
We are a firm in Raleigh, NC practicing only family law. Our goal is to change divorce from a damaging process to a healing transformation. Our site is more of a resource for information on North Carolina divorce law than an advertisement for the firm.
A fairly general market, but our data indicates most visitors are middle to upper-middle income and 30+ in age range
We're interested in revising the design for two pages on our website, the homepage:
and a very similar divorce "center" page:
There are a lot of resources on both he home page and the "center" page. Our main objective is making sure the user has clear access to whatever it is he or she is after. Be creative, this doesn't have to be a stuffy-looking legal site - we're open to new ideas and would like to stay away from overly "legal" imagery (gavels, courthouses, etc.).
As you can see, the designs of both pages are currently very similar, so yours can be as well (although it certainly doesn't have to be).
Try to keep everything that's currently there, but feel free to re-arrange, resize, or change the number of items displayed (5 articles instead of 10, etc.). One exception is the left column on the home page (containing the color-coded links for Divorce, Child Custody, Child Support ...) which contains the same links as the navigation menu, so feel free to remove that if you choose.
- Final design should be delivered as a layered PSD file
- This should be geared toward a 1024x768 resolution
Included below is a link to the logo used in the header. Feel free to recreate if necessary.
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Browsing through reviews I notice a lot of guys are DATY with their SPs.
As I am in a long-term relationship and paranoid about contracting an STI that would be noticed by my misses, isn't DATY the most risky thing one could be doing with an SP (other than bb sex, obviously)?
For those that partake in this, does it not worry you? Or are the chances of contracting something in your mouth from DATY much lower than we've been made to believe?


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