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January 27, 2012, 1:03 am
Dominic Ballie & P.O.D.'s Sonny Sandoval
Came across Dominic Balli this weekend. Reggae meets Calie Rock — surfer, skater music with a rasta flair. This video features P.O.D.'s Sonny Sandoval.
This song "American Dream," was written after Ballie found success and bought a house. He said he became wrapped up in living the American dream — striving for the big house, more stuff to fill the house, etc. and realized that that is not what life is about. Enjoy


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Beconase Hayfever contains the drug Beclomethasone dipropionate and is used for the treatment and prevention of seasonal allergic rhinitis (nasal inflammation), including hayfever. It works by reducing swelling and inflammation in the nose.
Beconase Hayfever can be used throughout the hayfever season to treat the common symptoms of hayfever such as sneezing and a runny, itchy or blocked-up nose. When your nose is cleared the pressure and pain around your nose and eyes is also reduced.
The recommended dose in Adults and children over 12 years is two sprays in each nostril every morning and evening.
Beconase Hayfever starts to work immediately, but may take a few days to build up to its maximum protective effect. It is important that it is used regularly even when you do not have symptoms.
Beconase Hayfever will not cause drowsiness. There are no known interactions or problems when taken with other medicines or alcohol.
It is important to consider the following before using Beconase Hayfever:
Possible side effects:
Severe ongoing headache, taste or smell problems if worrying, nosebleeds (for prompt investigation), eyesight problems (for treatment immediately), itching of nose/throat/ears if severe and ongoing.
General Product Information
Beconase (or Beclomethasone Nasal) is a drug used for the treatment of numerous allergies, including those to dust, pets, hay fever (an allergy to pollen or dust) and other airborne allergies.
It is advisable to take Beconase only with a pharmacist's or doctor's counsel. Before starting the use of this drug, it is important to provide the doctor with complete information about one's medical history, particularly, the following:
any kind of bacterial, viral or fungal infection that one is suffering from at present or has had previously. Provide details of medication taken for the treatment. Using Beconase may reduce the body's immune responses and thus it may not be advisable to take the drug in case of any existing infection unless prescribed by the doctor.
any medicines that one is currently using (mention any over the counter drugs or herbal products as well).
exposure to diseases like chicken pox, measles in the recent past.
pregnancy or plans to conceive in the near future.
if one is a nursing mother.
any kind of nasal infection
any recent steroidal treatment
any past record of allergy to Beconase.
Beclomethasone Nasal is not to be used by children below 6 years of age. The drug must strictly be used as advised by your pharmacist or doctor. Read the label on the product carefully (something most people invariably ignore) and strictly adhere to the instructions. In case of any doubt, one must immediately consult the medical practitioner.
Beclomethasone Nasal has to be used regularly for effective and quick results. While using the medicine, one must stay away from known -triggering agents.
While using the Beclomethasone Nasal spray, one must shake it well before administering the prescribed dose. Another seeming obvious tip: remove the safety clip and the dust cap before using the nasal spray.
If in any case a dose is missed, it may be taken immediately upon remembering. However, if it is time for the next regular dose, skip the missed dose and take the regular dose instead. Do not take a double dose of this medicine under any circumstances.
A few weeks are required for the medicine to take effect. Any overuse or deviance from the instructions may lead to serious complications. In case symptoms worsen or there is no relief from the existing condition, the doctor should be informed immediately without fail.
Beconase is seen to be less effective when cold. Therefore, it must not be stored in a refrigerator but instead at room temperature, away from moisture and heat. Do not use any other nasal drugs along with Beconase unless otherwise prescribed by a doctor. It must be kept away from the reach of children and pets at all times.
Side effects of using Beconase
Use of Beconase is not known to have any serious side effects, but in case one has any of the below mentioned symptoms, stop its use immediately and consult a doctor:
Tightness of the chest
Difficulty in breathing
Swelling of the tongue/face or lips
Choking in the throat
There are other less serious symptoms that may be seen, in which case one can continue using the drug while seeking medical advice. These signs include:
Continuous sneezing after use
Burning sensation in the nose
Bleeding of the nose
Nausea and vomiting
Feeling of unpleasantness or loss of smell or taste
Yeast infection in the throat or nose
A noticeable decrease in the growth rate in children who have been on long term use
Running nose or nasal congestion
Perforated septum(cartilage in between the nose)
|Brand Pack Sizes
|200 Sprays
|600 Sprays
|1200 Sprays
Medicines have benefits and some have risks. Always read the label and use only as directed. If symptoms persist or you have side effects see your health professional.


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Memory Lane: McEnroe-Connors dust-up
Memory Lane is a recurring feature in which we dig through photo and video archives for classic moments.
On Jan. 10, 1982, top-ranked John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors, then No. 3, almost came to blows during the final of the Michelob Light Challenge in Rosemont, Ill. The match had everything fans had come to expect from the Connors-McEnroe rivalry. It turned into a tense five-set affair full of code violations, point penalties and more arguments than you'd see at the Supreme Court.
In the fifth set, Connors grew tired of McEnroe's delay tactics and crossed over the net to give him a piece of his mind. And to stick a finger in his face, which McEnroe swatted away before officials finally stepped in to separate the two.
Rewatching that clip, what strikes me most is how nonchalant the announcers are about the confrontation. Nowadays, Serena Williams yells at a linesperson from 15 feet away, and it's front-page news. Marcos Baghdatis smacks four rackets into the ground and the Internet is all "Oh, my gosh! Can you believe what this crazy guy just did???" Here, Connors crosses the net, verbally abuses McEnroe, the two get physical and the commentators sound like they're bored. Oh, how times have changed.
Connors won the exhibition match -- yes, it was an exhibition -- 6-7, 7-5, 6-7, 7-5, 6-4. Here's what Connors said afterward, as quoted in Randy Walker's book, On This Day in Tennis History: "I think we both have the same attitudes. He's aggressive, I'm aggressive. We both stick up for our rights. But I stick up for my rights in a different way. If I feel like I'm in the right, I'll step up. I want some respect, not sloughing off. But there are certain limits."
Here's video of match point. After all that drama, how do the producers justify cutting away from the postmatch handshake?


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GFS forecasts
|Last update: Jul. 2017
The Global Forecast System (GFS) forecasts Web service, available worldwide, delivers time series of Temperature (at 2 m), Relative Humidity (at 2 m), Pressure (at 2 m), Wind speed and direction (at 10 m), Rainfall, Snowfall, Snow depth, and Short-wave irradiation (GHI). Time steps range from 1 min up to 1 month (original data are every 3 hours). The spatial resolution is 0.25° (approx. 28 km). Data are available from 1 month ago up to day+3.
GFS is a weather forecast model produced by the National Centers of Environmental Prediction (NCEP). More information at ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data/model-datasets/global-forcast-system-gfs


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Checking To See If CFFlush Has Already Been Executed
I just posted this on the House of Fusion CF-Talk list, but I thought I would posted up here. Someone has asked if there was a way to determine if the CFFlush tag had already been executed. I am sure there is a way to get this by digging around in the GetPageContext() family of objects, but you can perform this simply by trying to set a header value:
- <cftry>
- <!--- Try set a status code. --->
- <cfheader
- statuscode="200"
- statustext="OK"
- />
- <!---
- We set the status code, flush has
- not been called.
- --->
- <cfset REQUEST.FlushInitiated = false />
- <cfcatch>
- <!---
- The CFHeader tag has thrown an error. CFFlush
- has already been executed.
- --->
- <cfset REQUEST.FlushInitiated = true />
- </cfcatch>
- </cftry>
CFHeader tags can only be executes prior to content being sent to the browser since header information is the first thing that is sent. If content has already been flushed to the browser, then CFHeader will throw an error upon execution. In this example, we CFTry to execute a CFHeader tag. If it works, then no content has been sent to the browser, and we set our flag (REQUEST.FlushInitiated) accordingly. If an error is thrown by the CFHeader tag, then we know CFFlush has been executed and we set our flag accordingly.
If you want to do this with out having to set a variable, the easy solution would be to just wrap it in a ColdFusion user defined function (UDF):
- <cffunction
- name="IsFlushInitiated"
- access="public"
- returntype="boolean"
- output="false"
- hint="Determines if a CFFlush tag has been executed yet.">
- <cftry>
- <!--- Try set a status code. --->
- <cfheader
- statuscode="200"
- statustext="OK"
- />
- <!---
- We set the status code, flush has not
- been called.
- --->
- <cfreturn false />
- <cfcatch>
- <!---
- The CFHeader tag has thrown an error. CFFlush
- has already been executed.
- --->
- <cfreturn true />
- </cfcatch>
- </cftry>
- </cffunction>
Then you can just call this like:
- <!--- Check to see if CFFlush has been called. --->
- <cfif IsFlushInitiated()>
- ....
- </cfif>
Reader Comments
Just added this to ColdFire. Thanks!
Cool :)
Throwing an exception as regular program flow is far from best practice and can also be quite expensive in some situations. This method also has the unintended side effect that checking if the buffer has been flushed resets the response code to 200 which may be undesirable if a different part of the application had explicitly set the response code to something else previously.
You're right though, there is a PageContext method! :)
ref: http://java.sun.com/j2ee/sdk_1.3/techdocs/api/javax/servlet/ServletResponse.html#isCommitted()
On a side note. If for some reason you *cannot* use getPageContext(), for instance if you're on CF5, an alternative method would be:
<cfheader name="CFFlushInited" value="false">
which will throw an exception just like your code, but won't overwrite potentially valuable response information.
Good point; throwing exceptions is not a good practice. But to be fair, checking to see if CFFlush has been executed is probably not a best practice either :)
Thanks for pointing out a better way to perform this task. I think I saw something like this in FireBug or something (Ray Camden).
As far as an alternate method for CF5... what is CF5? ;)
Silly people still using CF5....


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Kelly Macdonald: Strong Woman On The 'Boardwalk'
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The HBO series "Boardwalk Empire" premiered its third season Sunday. Our guest, Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald, plays Margaret, a young Irish immigrant mother of two who becomes involved with Steve Buscemi's character, Nucky Thompson, a bootlegging gangster and corrupt politician in Prohibition-era Atlantic City. They married last season and when the season ended, she was defying him. Her defiance continues into this season.
Here's a scene from the next episode in which she's talking with her maid.
KELLY MACDONALD: (as Margaret) Prudence?
UNIDENTIFIED: (as Prudence) Yes, ma'am?
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) Mr. Thompson has a morning suit, the striped trousers and cutaway jacket. Do you know where it is?
UNIDENTIFIED: (as Prudence) No. But I'm sure I can find it.
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) Check that it's sound and have it cleaned. He's going to need it when he meets the bishop.
UNIDENTIFIED: (as Prudence) Oh, did you not get the message, ma'am?
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) What message?
UNIDENTIFIED: (as Prudence) Mr. Thompson. He left word that he won't be attending the ceremony.
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) Clean the suit anyway. I'm afraid he's mistaken.
GROSS: Kelly Macdonald got a role in the Danny Boyle film "Trainspotting" at the age of 19 with virtually no acting experience and launched a successful career in television and movies. She's appeared in the films "Gosford Park," "The Girl in the Cafe," and "No Country for Old Men," as well as the hit British TV miniseries "State of Play," and this summer's Pixar animated film "Brave."
She spoke with FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies. They began with a scene from the first episode of "Boardwalk Empire"'s first season. Macdonald's character Margaret was then married to an alcoholic. She's heard Nucky Thompson give a speech about temperance and she's meeting with him to seek help for struggling family.
STEVE BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) Does your husband work?
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) He's a baker's helper. But till tourist season and with winter and the children without boots, I - your story moved me so. If you could see your way to give them a job, sir.
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) As you say, until tourist season. However, this should see you through winter.
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) I'm not here looking for charity.
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) I insist.
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) I don't know what to say, how to thank you. I'd be honored to name my child after you.
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) Enoch? You couldn't possibly be so cruel.
Well, Kelly Macdonald, welcome to FRESH AIR. This, of course, is a scene from the first episode of "Boardwalk Empire," in which you play a young woman, an immigrant from Ireland, and the heart of the story, really, is your character, Margaret Schroeder's relationship with the - Nucky Thompson, the corrupt politician who rules Atlantic City, played by Steve Buscemi. And it's interesting - as this relationship develops, I mean we don't see a lot of on-screen passion.
I mean there's a difference in ages, right? And they're sort of a reserve, a kind of a formality in their interactions, which I imagine might be kind of hard to get emotionally right.
MACDONALD: It's a tricky relationship to sort of nail down, really. I think it's not a great romantic love that they've got but they've definitely, you know, they bring something to each other's lives, and it's like a gentleman's agreement almost. That doesn't sound very romantic at all. But, you know, they're good for each other and, you know, they respect each other and enjoy each other's company. Well, that's certainly what it was like in the first season.
MACDONALD: But that's the amazing thing about it, you know, it changes all the time so you kind of, it keeps you on your toes. The characters are constantly evolving, you know, the way that we do in real life, so you can't be sort of tied down to your idea of the character because I'm always surprised by things Margaret comes out with.
DAVIES: I wanted to hear another clip. And this is from late in the second season when your relationship has evolved quite a bit and Nucky Thompson - again, this corrupt Atlantic City politician, who your character, Mrs. Schroeder, has moved in with, is in trouble. His political and mob allies have turned on him. He's under investigation for many crimes - including murder - and your character's daughter has contracted polio. And your character, Margaret Schroeder, is at heart a religious person and believes that God is punishing her for the evil in her life. And she's been subpoenaed, perhaps to testify against Nucky Thompson in his case. And you and Steve Buscemi, the Nucky character, are talking about that. Let's listen.
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) We began in sin.
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) I do not want to hear about...
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) We began in sin. We'll end in it unless we change.
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) The beginning's over. The end hasn't come yet. All I care about is now.
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) Then look what's happening now.
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) What's happening now is you talking rubbish.
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) You're wrong. I've never been so sure of anything in my life.
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) Emily was stricken with a disease.
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) And I am culpable.
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) How?
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) I've stolen and cheated and deceived and now I'm being punished for those sins, as are the ones I love.
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) Who did you steal from?
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) My family. My employer. You.
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) Who did you deceive?
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) Anyone who thinks I'm good.
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) And who have you cheated on? Say it.
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) I have - I live with the man who had the father of my children murdered.
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) Really? When did I do that?
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) You said...
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) That he deserved it. And whatever you think I did...
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) You're lying to me and to yourself.
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) Whatever misguided martyrdom you're contemplating while I'm...
DAVIES: (as Margaret) I can go on pretending.
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) ...breaking my back providing.
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) I'm not being called to account.
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) Are you actually talking about testifying? Have you lost your mind?
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) Let go of me.
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) I will not. You listen. If you want to punish yourself because your daughter got sick, that's your business, but I will not permit you to sacrifice me.
MACDONALD: (as Margaret) Won't permit?
BUSCEMI: (as Nucky Thompson) And if you don't think I'm as good as my word, you don't know me at all.
DAVIES: And that's Steve Buscemi and our guest Kelly Macdonald from last season of "Boardwalk Empire." The new season premieres September 16th. This is quite a transition from where your character began. How much notice do you get of where your character is going as you do the series?
MACDONALD: Little to none. I mean, really.
I'm kind of fine with it. The first year was the trickiest. I kind of struggled a little bit like, you know, how quickly she seemed to recover from losing the baby. She had a plan from that moment. She was like, OK, this man can help me out of the situation. And in my head I was thinking, no, she would just take to her bed and be sobbing for weeks and not, you know - but it's, there's a lot of hidden strength and I think as the show is going on they're bringing it out more and more. And I'm really enjoying it because I get cast in certain films and I don't generally get to play the stronger characters. I get very lovely parts but they're quite quiet and thoughtful and watchful and that's all well and good but I kind of have been enjoying getting my teeth into something else.
DAVIES: You know, one of the things that I really like about the series is the period that it's set in. It's set in, you know, the early Prohibition era in Atlantic City and there's just this enormous attention to period detail. I mean I'm told that a lot of the clothes are actually vintage clothes, I mean not reproductions. And I wonder if, you know, being in that kind of world where there's all this attention paid to detail makes for a different kind of acting experience.
MACDONALD: I think it really does. I mean I don't do a huge amount of research and work before I actually arrive on set for jobs, generally, unless I have to learn how to do something, you know, like horse ride or, you know, something strange that I'm not familiar with. But I really find it helpful wearing the costumes and being in the surroundings. I had a small role in "Harry Potter" a few years ago and that was all green screen. And so, you know, I was in costume but it was in a big warehouse and I was on my own pretending to talk to Harry Potter and that's quite tricky. But - so it's definitely easier when you're in the right surroundings.
GROSS: We're listening to the interview FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies just recorded with Kelly Macdonald, who plays Margaret Thompson on HBO's "Boardwalk Empire."
More after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: Let's get back to the interview FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies recorded with Kelly Macdonald, who plays Margaret Thompson, as Nucky Thompson's wife on HBO's "Boardwalk Empire."
DAVIES: You have an interesting history as an actor. I mean your first roll was "Trainspotting," the film made by Danny Boyle, who directed "Slumdog Millionaire" and a lot of other great films. How did you get that role?
MACDONALD: I went to an open casting, which is sort of unlikely where I'm from - it was in Glasgow - and they were going to be shooting the film mainly in Glasgow, even though it's an Edinburgh-set story. They handed out flyers around Glasgow and Edinburgh. They were looking for an unknown to play the part of Diane.
DAVIES: Had you done any acting at all?
MACDONALD: I had not, you know, no - I mean I had, I was in an amateur dramatics kind of class for a few weeks and but I don't think that really counts.
DAVIES: What was the audition like?
MACDONALD: It was kind of a casting call where I think they were first of all looking for a face, and so I went along to - I think it was Strathclyde University in Glasgow, and I was in a big hall full of all of these other girls of the same sort of age, and we just were called forward one by one to sit in front of the director and his casting director. And then the second time I got called back, I read with Ewan McGregor and I hid behind - I actually, he says this, I don't remember, it was just like I was in a blind panic. But he said that I held the script in front of my face the whole time. He had no idea what I looked like.
MACDONALD: And then the third callback was the screen test and at that point I had been told to learn the scenes and we had to be up and moving around. And so that was the more challenging audition of all. The most challenging, rather.
DAVIES: Did you practice in your apartment beforehand? I mean how did you...
MACDONALD: All I could think of was sitting in the front garden with my mom, learning the scene. And then so my mom was reading the Renton part and being really annoying, because she was really super-acting and I had to keep stopping and saying, just read it, just read the words.
MACDONALD: And she was - and weirdly, I got the same, you know, direction from Danny Boyle at my screen test. For some reason at the screen test I decided I was going to do - this was it. I was going to do super-acting, kind of like my mom. And as soon as I started doing it it was all wrong. And Danny stopped me and said, you know, just, you know, John Hodge has written a very good script and the words are all there and you don't have to put gaps in. Just read it. Just, you know, just say the words. And that's advice that I've kept with me.
DAVIES: Let's listen to a scene from the film here. This is, you played Diane who is a very young and precocious teenager who is very much at home in the nightclub scene. And in this moment she's just come out of a club and one of the film's stars, Renton, played by Ewan McGregor, has followed you outside the club and introduces himself and makes a play. Let's listen.
DAVIES: And that's our guest, Kelly Macdonald, and Ewan McGregor in Kelly's first film role, in "Trainspotting."
Was it hard to pull this off? I mean do you think your inexperience as an actress help you relax and just do it?
MACDONALD: I don't remember being very relaxed. It was a really fun shoot. It was really, you know, all these amazing young British actors just being very charismatic and fun. And I don't think I spoke very much. I was very, very shy and I kind of hid in the toilets most of the time when we weren't, you know, required on set. But it's just...
DAVIES: Really?
MACDONALD: Yeah. I mean I was - yeah. The A.D.'s would come and find me in the toilets.
DAVIES: You were just hiding?
MACDONALD: Yeah. Like, I kind of was like that at school as well. I don't know if that - that's a kind of a strange thing, but, yeah, I kind of would dilly-dally around the toilets until I was needed.
DAVIES: You know, it's interesting, because you said you do play a lot of roles in which you're quiet and sometimes deferential, but the character here is anything but. I mean, she is - she's got a lot of brass.
MACDONALD: Oh, yeah. And I think that between "Trainspotting" and the next time I played a ballsy character, it was quite a huge...
MACDONALD: ...space of time, which is good, because I wasn't typecast any way.
DAVIES: Well, you just go in, and then you do it and it works. One other thing about the "Trainspotting" role, I mean, there's some pretty explicit nudity in that performance. Did that make you uncomfortable at all?
MACDONALD: Oh, yeah.
DAVIES: Yeah?
MACDONALD: I was in denial, head in the sand about that day's work, so much so that I (technical difficulties) spoken to me from the very beginning. Danny Boyle had said, you know, there is this scene, and it's necessary, the nudity, and explained why. And I just, you know, would nod my head and agree and go along with it, and I kind of - I thought, well, that will never happen. We'll never get to that day.
MACDONALD: And then - and we did, and it happened to be the day that I had invited my family to come and visit the set, which is just completely unthinking and...
DAVIES: Oh, my heavens.
MACDONALD: ...shows how young and daft I was. So my mum and brother had to just sit in the catering bus the whole day, and they didn't get to see any. Well, luckily, they didn't get to see me working that day. They saw it in the end, though.
DAVIES: And how did they react?
MACDONALD: My mum's amazing. She, you know, I think now that I'm a mother, I think I would feel very differently. But she was completely positive and behind it. I think my brother got a bit embarrassed, but I think that's completely normal.
DAVIES: Would you feel differently about taking on a scene like that now?
MACDONALD: Oh, yeah. Nudity's out. It's out. You won't even get me in a bikini on set, frankly. Yeah. I was 19. It was a different body, a different life.
DAVIES: We have to talk about the Coen brothers film "No Country for Old Men," where you play the wife of a west Texas welder, who's played by Josh Brolin. You're Carla Jean Moss, and for folks who haven't seen it, I mean, your husband finds this satchel full of drug money, ends up being pursued by a psychopathic killer who's played by Javier Bardem.
The scene we're going to hear is one late in the film, where this killer Javier Bardem plays, Anton Chigurh, has already killed your husband, but before, he had warned him that if he didn't hand over the drug money, that he would kill you. It's late in the film. Your husband is now dead. You come home to your house, and you find this killer played by Javier Bardem waiting for you. Let's listen.
DAVIES: And that really is Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald there...
DAVIES: ...with one of the scariest people ever in a movie, Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh.
MACDONALD: Oh, I know.
DAVIES: Was he scary to be in a room with?
MACDONALD: Oh, not in any way, out of character. Javier is the most fun person on a set, I think. And I remember that day, as well, because it was a very intense, important scene, and I just remember lots of laughter. But as soon as he put on his Anton hat, or whatever you want to call it, he was pretty terrifying. I think it was the haircut, actually. He put on his Anton hair.
DAVIES: Right. It was that weird, kind of, long hair. Right. Right.
MACDONALD: Bowl cut. Yeah.
DAVIES: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. You know, we hear you doing a West Texas accent here, and I will tell you, I grew up in Texas, and I have a lot of folks still in that part of the country.
MACDONALD: Oh?
DAVIES: And you really nail this. Is this something you had to work hard on?
MACDONALD: I do work - although I was saying I don't have a method or I don't, you know, I don't do a huge amount of preparation before I land on set, I do - if there's an accent involved, I do work quite hard. And some accents come easier than others. And for some reason that one, I mean, I pretty much got that one overnight, because I had very short notice for the audition. And so I phoned a friend and got her to help me. And then, yeah, it kind of clicked in for me quite quickly.
GROSS: We're listening to the interview FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies just recorded with Kelly Macdonald, who plays Margaret Thompson on HBO's "Boardwalk Empire." More after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: Let's get back to the interview FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies recorded with Kelly Macdonald, who plays Margaret Thompson, Nucky Thompson's wife, on HBO's "Boardwalk Empire."
DAVIES: Well, I wanted to talk about "Brave." This is the new Pixar animated film, which is the first female protagonist of their films, and that is you as a Scottish princess whose mother wants her to wear dresses and submit to an arranged marriage. But she is, in fact, a young, fiercely independent kid who wants to ride horses at breakneck speed and shoot arrows.
And we're going to hear a scene here. This is where your father - you as the princess - your father, who is the king, played by Billy Connolly, is telling his sons one of his favorite stories about a battle he had with a ferocious bear, and then your character, Merida, interrupts. Let's listen.
DAVIES: That's our guest, Kelly Macdonald, playing Merida in the movie "Brave." Also in that scene, Billy Connolly, and at the end, Emma Thompson. You know, a lot of your performances are sort of quietly powerful. Nothing subtle about the kid you play here. I mean...
MACDONALD: No.
DAVIES: ...was it a challenge to put all of this into your voice?
MACDONALD: Oh, my goodness, yes. It really, really was. Doing an animation, you just - everything's huge. You have to - everything - like, even listening to that clip, you hear all the footsteps and, you know, you hear so many more sounds than you can believe. And the voices just have to be, you know, you have to multiply everything by a hundred. And that was - that just goes against everything that I know. And so I had to really - it was a real challenge. But I loved it. I really, really loved it.
DAVIES: And, of course, in the finished product, it's not your face. It's someone who's completely different, this young kid with this flaming red hair.
MACDONALD: Mm-hmm.
DAVIES: Is it kind of an out-of-body experience to see it and hear your voice?
MACDONALD: It's an odd experience, because when I first saw it - I saw it a few times, but the very first time, I kept thinking, wow. She looks like my son. She really looks like my son. And, you know, when you're doing an animation for Pixar, they film the actors at work so, you know, they'll film you at the microphone doing your thing.
And then the animators will use that footage, you know, as a tool, you know, because everybody's mouths move in different ways when they say different words and, you know, they would use certain expressions that we all had. And so they had been doing that. And when I'm looking at it, I see my son, but actually, it's me.
DAVIES: Wow.
MACDONALD: Because, you know, he makes - my husband says that, you know, because he's - my son's blond and blue-eyed and doesn't look very much like me, but my husband always says he's got, you know, his father's face, but his mother's using it...
MACDONALD: ...which is very true. He's got a very elastic face. He's always pulling.
DAVIES: You grew up in Glasgow, and you've moved to London. Is that right?
MACDONALD: I lived in London for years, but we now - we sort of jump between Glasgow and New York.
DAVIES: Have you gotten used to celebrity, to having fans who adore you?
MACDONALD: I don't know if it's celebrity. I do get - you know, people shout Mrs. Schroeder at me in the street. But I don't get it anywhere near as, you know, Steve is definitely Nucky, you know, everywhere he goes. But I think I managed to fly under the radar a little bit, which suits me fine.
DAVIES: Well, Kelly Macdonald, it's been great. Thanks so much for spending some time with us.
MACDONALD: Thank you for having me.
GROSS: Kelly Macdonald spoke with FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies. She plays Margaret Thompson on the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire." Episode two of season three is coming up Sunday.
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Mental health and illness have never been the exclusive domain of medicine. The very idea of 'mental illness' raises many broad questions. What behaviour is 'normal'? What is being 'rational'? Opinions have always differed about the best way to define and treat mental health.
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Many people today, including expert patients, view mental health as a biomedical issue. They choose to consult medical experts such as psychiatrists. Others see mental health problems as personal or interpersonal matters that should be 'talked through' in regular psychotherapy sessions. This may take the form of psychoanalysis, cognitive-behavioural therapy, group therapy or other methods. Some seek explanations beyond medicine. These include spirit possession, sin, and social injustice such as the legacy of genocide, enslavement or oppression. As a result, people may seek help through prayer, confession, spiritual guidance, exorcism, political activism, social change and creative expression.
These approaches are not separate and opposed. Few people are purists when confronted with a mental health problem. We mix and match approaches to make sense of what has happened to ourselves or a loved one. History shows people have always done this.
The term 'mental health' was popularised in the early 1900s by physicians, social reformers and former asylum patients. They wanted to reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness, and said 'illness' reinforced prejudices against asylum patients because it implied segregation between the sick and the well. Focusing on health countered a persistent misconception that only some people are prone to psychiatric problems.
Fighting stigma has gained an unexpected ally in recent decades: 'Big Pharma'. Critics say large multinational pharmaceutical firms profit from expansion of the market for psychiatric drugs. Therefore any reduction of stigma leads to new customers. In response, some expert patients and psychiatrists argue the term 'mental health' is biased toward biomedicine and drug treatment. They prefer 'mental distress' instead.
There are good reasons to avoid outdated and stigmatised words such as 'madness'. However, avoiding such terms in a historical account ignores the ways language changes. Labels also shape the experience of illness. 'Madness', 'lunacy' and 'insanity' were accepted medical usage even into the early 1900s. They were gradually displaced by 'mental illness', a term which first appeared in the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. Other diagnostic terms such as hysteria, nervous breakdown, schizophrenia and depression slipped back and forth between medical and popular use. This again expresses the lesson that mental health and illness are not just in medicine's domain. To completely avoid stigmatising terms would obscure this important point.
Possession and exorcism
Religion and humoral medicine in the European Middle Ages provided two contrasting but complementary understandings of 'madness'. Christians believed people were occasionally possessed by demonic forces, which needed to be ritually exorcised by priests. Some deeply embedded demons, often in elderly or eccentric women, could only be driven out by torture or death.
The medical perspective viewed some cases of possession as naturally caused. The writing of ancient Greek physicians such as Galen and Arabic physicians such as Ibn Sina influenced medieval physicians. They argued excess bodily fluids such as black bile or choler were revealed in symptoms of hysteria, melancholia or mania. Medicine could not do much - nature and God's will had to take its course.
The rise and fall of moral treatment
Christianity's influence on mental health care remained dominant for centuries. For example, clergyman Francis Willis famously treated King George III. The York Retreat, founded by Quakers in the 1790s, was the most influential asylum of its time. It was one of the first private asylums to shun physical restraint and coercion. Its new methods, grounded more in religion than medicine, were called 'moral treatment', in deliberate contrast to 'medical treatment'.
Asylums multiplied throughout Europe and North America in the 1800s and psychiatry became a recognised medical speciality. Scientific understanding of what physicians still called 'lunacy' had increased little since the 1600s, but medical men used the asylum boom to gain practical experience with patients. They drew on the increasing prestige of science and established themselves as publicly recognised experts on mental illness and its treatment. Critics argued asylum cure rates were exaggerated.
Many asylums were crowded, hopeless places by the early 1900s, increasingly separated from the outside world. These isolated institutions became testing grounds for controversial and dangerous treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and lobotomy. Such treatments helped some patients, but they reinforced the idea that asylums were places no-one wanted to end up. Asylums did not survive criticism in the 1970s from ex-patients, feminists and the antipsychiatry movement. Psychiatry's focus has since moved from asylums to pharmaceuticals.
Optimists in the 1980s and 1990s hailed new technologies. These included specially targeted drugs like SSRIs, brain scanning techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and more consistent disease definitions in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). They were evidence to some that psychiatry had finally become based in hard, objective science. Critics argued such developments reflected the growing power of American psychiatry and Big Pharma, not scientific progress. Today public debates continue about the over-prescription of antidepressants such as Prozac and drugs to treat ADHD.
Unanswered questions
For those seeking biomedical solutions to mental distress, public debates surrounding psychiatry reflect its modest progression since the days of black bile. Rather than fuel debates about 'progress', this site offers a different interpretation. The story of psychiatry sketched here is of repeated but never quite successful campaigns to treat patterns of thinking and behaviour as medical problems. These repeated attempts raise important questions whose answers change over time. Who decides what counts as 'troubling' thinking? Where is the line between 'normal' behaviour and illness? What is meant by 'medical'?
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The name given to the medical practice that is based on the sciences of the body, such as physiology (the functioning of the body).
A mental disorder that has symptoms of delusions, hallucinations and a loss of a sense of self and relationship to the external world that lasts over a long period of time (more than six months).
A mental state associated with acute sadness. Activity can be decreased, especially interaction with others, and sleep, appetite, and concentration can also be disturbed.
Another word for yellow bile, one of the four humours - the fluids of the body whose balance was believed to be essential to well-being.
A category of mental illness from the Middle Ages to the 1800s. Melancholia expressed itself as dejection, anguish, sensations of mistrust, anxiety and trepidation with some hallucinations.
A category of mental illness from the Middle Ages to the 1800s. Those with mania experienced uncontrollability, euphoric highs and bouts of excessive energy.
A controversial surgical treatment to severe the nerves to the frontal lobe of the brain (responsible for attention, short-term memory and activities requiring planning and organization). It was used to treat severe mental illnesses but is now no longer used.
A behavioural disorder which begins in childhood. Symptoms include short attention span and impulsive tendencies, commonly but not always combined with hyperactivity.


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Living with hearing difficulties can cause a decrease in independence, regardless of whether the individual lives alone or not. By installing around the home such transmitter and receivers as those included with this Bellman Visit pack, individuals with hearing impairments will be able to receive audial and visual prompts of an improved quality, reducing their dependence on others.
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The Baby Cry Transmitter is ideal for parents and guardians who are hard of hearing. The level of sound sensitivity can be altered to best suit the individual, helping to ensure that it won't be triggered unnecessarily.
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Friday, March 3rd 2017, 9:08pm
Hello Commanders!
I am opening this thread so you can get to know me a bit. Please keep it pleasant (i.e. no flaming, obscenities, lewdness, being gross, cooties or overly personal questions).
Please note that staff privacy is of utmost importance to gamigo, so please keep that in mind when asking your questions.
So...let's start the 20 questions!
Date of registration: Dec 23rd 2015
Location: United Kingdom
Friday, March 3rd 2017, 9:34pm
Hello Vilya,
Well come to EN Server.
Friday, March 3rd 2017, 9:39pm
Thank you ever so muchly!
Date of registration: Dec 16th 2015
Location: In a house usually, a tent when fishing/drinking on beach
Occupation: fishing and drinking
Saturday, March 4th 2017, 12:58am
Saturday, March 4th 2017, 2:06am
Oh my gosh! Cute Furby avatar!!!
Date of registration: Dec 17th 2015
Location: Provence
Saturday, March 4th 2017, 9:48am
Hi, what is your fonction in war2glory community? Can you for example fix the differents bugs who are in game since many years, or are you only here to substitute lilpwnd?
Date of registration: Aug 16th 2016
Saturday, March 4th 2017, 11:01am
So you know all the triks we players as using ?
Saturday, March 4th 2017, 4:51pm
I am a community manager, same as LilPwnD. I am not a developer, which is the person who would be able to fix bugs.Hi, what is your fonction in war2glory community? Can you for example fix the differents bugs who are in game since many years, or are you only here to substitute lilpwnd?
I have heard of many, and I am sure I will hear of many more.So you know all the triks we players as using ?
Date of registration: Dec 20th 2016
Saturday, March 4th 2017, 5:03pm
Saturday, March 4th 2017, 5:26pm
Hi badass,
This is the case with many online games. Any programmer can tell you, in coding for games (or even some bigger software), you change one thing and 3 others get broken or changed. All it takes it one tinyyyyyyyyy little change.
What I can promise to do is take all reports seriously and check into them and pass them on to those who can change or fix them. As long as I can be provided the most detail report about the issue so it's easy to reproduce and check we can do this. If you have to write me a novel to explain all the items you have in play during the issue then so be it...I will read it all.
Bug reports are best either sent via ticketing, or in cases of serious issues directly to a staff member so we can look into it as soon as possible. Keep in mind, we do not change things ourselves, that is solely up to the developers.
Thanks for your post. Happy gaming.
Saturday, March 4th 2017, 6:06pm
hi welcome to this barmy game
Saturday, March 4th 2017, 6:08pm
also sorry you say best ways to report things are putting a ticket in!! only problem with that support dont answer so many tickets...thats my moan
Saturday, March 4th 2017, 6:31pm
I am aware of the current situation with ticketing system, but we recently got a Support Crew who is sorting through everything and answering tickets as soon as they can. Please note, they are taking care of the backlog mostly at this time, although serious issues will come first.
All I ask is you all give us a chance and see what we can do, both myself and the support team. Fair?
Saturday, March 4th 2017, 8:10pm
totally fair vilya, lets take this great game forward
Saturday, March 4th 2017, 10:02pm
DEAL! Sounds like a plan.
Date of registration: Dec 20th 2016
Sunday, March 5th 2017, 5:04am
i really like you upbeat towards the game
alot would say its to little to late alot of the old players that have played this game for years have quit just go onto elite server and check the ranks you will see
Date of registration: Sep 19th 2016
Tuesday, March 14th 2017, 1:31pm
So CM Vilya have you ever played our game?
Tuesday, March 14th 2017, 2:12pm
Indeed I have, but I will not claim to be a veteran of it. I am still learning some of the nuances and strategies. Which is why I said in my intro that I look forward to the help of the players to learn more about it.
QuotedWhile I have only been playing this awesome game for a short time and understand the basics, I am a hard worker and willing to learn. I have no doubt that you guys (and dolls) will be able to teach me things I could only learn in books, and I truly look forward to your wisdom and advice.
Date of registration: Feb 1st 2017
Tuesday, March 14th 2017, 3:54pm
Good i think The CMS and the game developers should play the game so they actually know how the game works for the players and not just there pocket books
Tuesday, March 14th 2017, 4:15pm
I completely agree!


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Moonlight staging has capable cast, but play is feeling frayed
Garson Kanin's play "Born Yesterday" was born quite a few yesterdays ago. Compared with other works of similar mid-20th-century vintage, it hasn't aged so well.
That lamentable fact is demonstrated by the polished and well-cast but ultimately disappointing Moonlight Stage Productions revival that just opened at Vista's AVO Playhouse.
The show has its moments, but the play's sudden bursts of sanctimony and its dated, sometimes jokey mode of dealing with such subjects as domestic violence (while that's a minor part of the saga) can make it uncomfortable as comedy and unconvincing as drama.
The issue begins right at the play's center, with the impossibly ditsy Billie Dawn, the former chorus girl and current arm candy whose Eliza Doolittle-lite intellectual awakening drives the story.
Billie (Jessica John) somehow has become an adult without learning that London is in England and that there's something called a Supreme Court. When Harry Brock (David Cochran Heath), her rich clod of a boyfriend, hires a writer named Paul Verrall (Brian Mackey) to culture her so as to grease his shady D.C. dealings, the pair find common ground in standing up for the common people.
If you've never seen the 1946 play (or the 1950 movie adaptation starring Judy Holliday), you'll realize soon enough – maybe with a fidgeting sense of dismay – that yes, this will be the story of a simple soul who ultimately teaches the smart people a thing or two about what's really important.
Thanks, of course, to The Love of a Good Man.
If the characterization of Billie as a sexy simpleton – "I'm stupid, and I like it," she says near the top of the show – carries a whiff of the chauvinistic (at least by today's standards), John still plays her with an expert comic blend of the abrasive and the appealing.
Even when she's silently mouthing the numbers she counts off during a game of gin rummy, you can just about read the shapes of those hard New Yawk vowels ("eight, noyne ...").
Heath, an accomplished veteran of decades' worth of shows at Lambs Players Theatre, makes a welcome return to the stage with "Born Yesterday." Yet the role of the boorish, vulgar and at times violent Harry can feel like a naggingly ill fit for the actor, who seems in his wheelhouse with more refined (or at least benign) characters.
"He has always lived at the top of his voice," the melancholy lawyer Ed Devery (an effective Jim Chovick) says of Harry, and in this case the sentiment is a bit too true: It's as if Heath is trying to force a sense of coarseness through sheer volume.
Director Jason Heil's tentative-feeling production (with a richly detailed hotel-suite set by North Coast Rep's Marty Burnett) certainly doesn't lack for talent. There's solid work from Mackey (who still comes off as a bit callow for the part), Danny Campbell as an ethically pliable senator, Paul Morgavo as Harry's put-upon cousin and guy Friday, and others.
But this story of finding enlightenment seems to have lost some of its own luster.
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Last year I recycled some Valentine candy boxes and made cute Halloween shadow boxes out of them:
I got many compliments and comments on them (thank you!), so this year I'm doing more of them for Valentines Day and I'll show you how I did it. First, here's a couple of before & after pics:
Here are the supplies I used for this project (not counting the various embellishments used for decorating the finished boxes):
First, I peeled open the box on both ends and emptied out the candy:
Now you want to look inside the box and find the seam holding the box together, and carefully peel it apart.
Look closely inside for the seam (see it at top?):
Now you're box should look like this:
Don't forget to periodically treat yourself while you're working hard...
Next, lie the box flat and using a ruler, mark the outline of the box on your scrapbook paper (you don't have to trace around every little divet). Just make sure your scrapbook paper will cover the tallest and widest points.
Now you want to glue (I used a Paper Studio glue stick) your scrapbook paper to the outside of the box. This means your paper is covering the labels on the outside of the box. Trim any extra paper around the box.
The outside of your box should now look like this:
And the inside should look like this:
Next you want to cut a contrasting scrapbook paper for the inside of the box and glue it in place. The good news is, you don't have to cover all of the inside, just the "back wall", aka the part that is going to show through the shadow box opening.
Now you need to cut a hole in the front of the box to create your shadow box opening. For this step, use a ruler and pencil and mark on the inside of the box where you want to cut. (Note: Don't make the opening too big because you'll want some area around the opening to decorate later.)
For this next step, I used my small scissors and poked a hole in the middle of the marked off area:
Then I cut around the marked area until I'm left with this:
Almost done! Now you just need to fold the box back into its original shape and glue the edges back together. I used tiny clothespins when I could to help hold everything in place until the glue dried. (Clear tape works well on the top and bottom flaps where there is no place to "clip" the flaps down until glue dries.)
Now the basic part of your shadow box is complete and should look somethin' like these:
Next is the FUN part where you get to decorate and embellish the boxes any which way you please.
Here's a few of my finished boxes:
Great job and now it's time to reward ourselves again! So let's dig in...
This project would look great for any holiday. They make one-of-a-kind decorations. They can also be strung together and used as a banner, or glue a loop of ribbon on the back and use an ornaments.
Try experimenting with different size boxes just for fun...
Let me know if you try it! I'd love to see your finished projects.
I'm linking up to Thrifty Decor Chick's Before & After party! Check it out for more great ideas!
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/ Wednesday, August 12, 2009 / 18 Comments / Appetizers and Snacks , Dessert , Malaysian , Rice and Beans
Kuih Serimuka-Glutinous Rice With Pandan Custard Layer
Glutinous Rice with Pandan Custard Layer or better known as Kuih Serimuka is one of the popular kuih or cakes in Malaysia. The bottom layer of the cake is made from glutinous rice that has been steamed with coconut milk. The top layer of the cake is a custard base, made from eggs, coconut milk, flours, and most importantly the fresh Pandan juice. The cakes are delicious and have just the right sweetness level. If you have a sweet tooth, then I would suggest increasing the sugar to about 20 grams. Well, do try my recipe and enjoy!
Kuih Serimuka-Glutinous Rice With Pandan Custard Layer
Glutinous Rice Layer
400 g Glutinous Rice, washed and soaked overnight
150 ml Coconut Milk
100 ml Water
1 tsp Sea Salt
3 Pandan Leaves, cleaned and tied into a knot
Pandan Custard Layer
150 ml Pandan Juice
5 Tbsp Corn Flour
3 Tbsp All-Purpose Flour
3 Large Eggs
200 ml Coconut Milk
140 g Sugar
9 inches round tray
A piece of Banana leaf or an aluminum foil
To make the glutinous rice layer: Mix rice, coconut milk, water, salt and Pandan leaves in a baking tray.
Steam the rice mixture over a high heat for 25 minutes until cooked. Remove from the steamer and discard the Pandan leaves. Fluff the rice with a fork and use a banana leaf to press and compact the rice layer.
Return the rice layer to the steamer. Continue to steam for another 10 minutes.
To make the Pandan custard layer: Combine Pandan juice and all the flours and mix well. In another bowl, whisk eggs, coconut milk and sugar together and add in the Pandan mixture. Mix well and strain the mixture into a clean medium size bowl.
Prepare a water bath and stir continuously until the custard mixture begins to thicken. (About 15 minutes) Pour the mixture into the rice layer and continue to steam over a low heat for about 25 to 30 minutes.
Allow the kuih to cool completely and slice to serve.
Note: To make the Pandan Juice. Blend 10 Pandan leaves with 200 ml water.
18 comments:
These are so beautiful! Looks like something I would like to try :)ReplyDelete
Looks delicious. As always your photos are a credit.ReplyDelete
love it.yummy!ReplyDelete
omg!!! i lovelovelove this!!! now i can make it on my own! HEART!!ReplyDelete
One of my fav Malaysian kuih and I especially love the custardy topping.ReplyDelete
Wow this is one of my favourite!! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 2, 2010 at 12:22 PM
Is the water in the glutinous rice layer ml or grams??ReplyDelete
@Anonymous: The water is in ml. I have just amended the recipe. Thanks :)ReplyDelete
Hi Angie!Your blog is beautiful!I'm so happy to see so many Malay recipes!!I tried this cake for the first time last weekend and it was lovely! :DReplyDelete
@Maria: Glad you like the cake and thanks for the compliments.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 12, 2010 at 6:54 AM
Hi Angie,ReplyDelete
Yummy looking kuih. I love to try the recipe. Unfortunately I cannot get pandan leaves here. A friend gave me a bottle of pandan essence. I wonder if I can substitute the pandna juice with the essence. If so, how much so I use? Any idea?
Appreciate any input.
@LF: I have never use pandan essence in my cooking. Perhaps you can try adding 1 tsp and replace the 150 ml pandan juice with water. If the color is not green enough then add some green coloring, one drop at time before the custard mixture thicken.ReplyDelete
Love this love this love this!ReplyDelete
I miss all those kuih in Malaysia so much! :)
I've just made this today and it turned out ok despite the fact that I haven't steamed stuff before! Thanks for sharing this beautiful recipe!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for sharing this recipe, coz it really is the way i like it. I've searched and tried so many recipes from the net but some are just not good. Yours has the right amt of sweetness, so i didn't hv to tweak it. I'm going thru my Msian kuih craving stage now. Been away for too long already. Next in the list is Kuih rengas and kuih lapis. :)ReplyDelete
What type of water bath is it and how do you use?ReplyDelete


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