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Note: For consistency, I use the term "pumpkin" throughout this article.
This magnificent orange ball is my favorite vegetable in the world, and I'm guilty of calling it squash or pumpkin, depending on what comes out of my mouth first.
Even the most erudite foodie would be hard-pressed to tell you the difference between a squash and a pumpkin. Both terms are applied inconsistently and used loosely to describe certain varieties of both these species. Pumpkins and squash are members of the gourd family, cousins to the watermelon. An internet search and a riff through my numerous food encyclopedias aren't much help. Some of the things I discover only end up confusing me even more:
"Generally speaking a pumpkin is something you carve, a squash is something you cook and a gourd is something you look at." (Uh, ok…)
"Orange color sometimes helps determine what is a pumpkin. (Winter) squash have a finer texture and milder flavor, pumpkins have a somewhat coarse, stronger flavor and are generally orange in color." (So does this mean that if it's orange, it's a pumpkin?)
See what I mean by muddling? And then there's the issue of winter and summer squash, a topic that I won't get into here because in the Philippines, we only have one type of pumpkin which is commonly called kalabasa, and it's categorized as a winter squash. Call it what you want.
I'm in love with pumpkins and how they look. So entranced was I once with some carnival squash (middle in above photo) at a Paris market that I was tempted to buy some and stow them in my carry-on so that I could look at them on the long flight back to Manila. My Bin told me I was out of my mind "" he's not at all fond of pumpkin. One of my favorite restaurants, Red, has a stupendous roasted pumpkin that's served as a side dish. So good is it that it's often reason enough for me to make a trip there.
With its looks and high marks in nutrition (a rich source of Vitamin A "" promotes vision and bone growth!) pumpkins inspire a savory cuisine: pinakbet (assorted vegetables in shrimp paste), guinataang kalabasa at sitaw (pumpkin and string beans in coconut milk), and sometimes in pochero (stewed beef with vegetables). If I can get away with putting it in, it's going in.
As a sweet, pumpkin is more than just an ingredient. It's evocative of autumn, but since there's none of that in Manila, I say that it reminds me of cooler air, feasts, and family. I know I certainly can't say the same about, say, ampalaya (bitter melon). When I make pumpkin pie "" which tastes like chai, don't you think? "" the kitchen is awash in waves of cinnamon and nutmeg and candied ginger along with its topping of brown sugar, butter, and roasted pecans.
This pumpkin rhapsody is brought on by a chef I've just met, who, learning about my passion for pumpkin during my interview of him, gifts me with this glorious variety from Australia (see above photo). Not knowing what kind of pumpkin it is, I do a search and discover that this "basketball" is called an ambercup pumpkin, a relative of the butternut squash. Weighing in at just over four pounds, I zip home and set about making pumpkin soup and pumpkin lasagna.
While there are several ways to cook a pumpkin, I prefer to roast it in the oven, which allows its sugars to sweeten and condense. After 45 minutes, I brush the now-tender chunks of pumpkin with a spread of butter and brown sugar to further caramelize the vegetable's sweetness.
For the soup, it's a simple put-together of chicken broth, carrots, onions, the pumpkin, pepper, and to intensify the color and add a dimension of flavor, I thrown in some native camote (sweet potato), the one with ivory-colored skin. The soup is finished with a dollop of heavy cream for a velvety feel.
As for the lasagna, I wanted to use whole-wheat lasagna noodles that I found in the supermarket. But since I'm the only one in the household that eats whole-wheat products, I stick with standard semolina flour (white) noodles. There are three layers here in my "orange" lasagna: the bottom of the pan is spread with some cream so that the noodles won't stick to the glass. On goes a layer of lasagna noodles followed by a cottage cheese-Parmesan cheese mixture. On top of that goes some strips of kesong puti (native white cheese) followed by even more noodles. The last layer is a blend of ricotta cheese that I mix with some fresh spinach that's been blanched and seasoned with pepper. The remainder of the kesong puti finishes the dish. Bake at 400°F for 20 minutes until heated through and there I have it! Pumpkin has an affinity for nutmeg, its warm heat gives a remarkable depth of flavor, so both dishes are given healthy dashes of it.
I only cook at home when I'm thoroughly inspired, and this is one of those times. Unfortunately, Boo refuses to try what I've made — she's alarmed at the vibrancy of the dishes, and she knows lasagna, one of her favorite foods, to be red and not orange. My Bin, on the other hand, doesn't share my preference for pumpkin. He likes the soup which is chowder-thick and sweet, even polishing off a bowl with a slice of crusty bread. But the lasagna: "It tastes so… so… vegetarian, Lor." I burst out laughing. My meat-and-potatoes man, that's my husband.
As for me, my spirits are through the roof and over the moon at the success of my dishes. The soup is just wonderful, and the lasagna is a mélange of orange and green, creamy and soft, with that indefinable but fine whisper of nutmeg.
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GRAND JUNCTION — Sen. Steve King reveled in a political event in his own back yard as elected officials and community leaders from across the state tonight feasted on steak and roasted corn at Club 20's annual steak fry.
The Grand Junction Republican said it's nice not to have to run for office this year — he's in the middle of his four-year term — but plenty of other candidates were on hand to hobnob. Several of them will debate tomorrow at Club 20's fall meeting.
But the highlight of King's night had to be when Samantha Worley, a 16-year-old with the Cedaredge FFA team helping with the steak fry at the Cross Orchards Historic Site, asked for his autograph. King, a Grand Junction Republican, signed one of his business cards for her.
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JOHNSON CITY (Oct. 2, 2012) – The ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics announced Tuesday, TruPoint Bank will sponsor the annual Buccaneer breast cancer awareness games this season, which begins Friday night with volleyball and men's soccer.
Fans are encouraged to wear pink to both the ETSU volleyball and men's soccer games Friday night at 7 p.m. The volleyball team hosts Atlantic Sun Conference newcomer Northern Kentucky in Brooks Gym and men's soccer takes on North Florida at Summers-Taylor Stadium.
Members of the ETSU marketing and ticket staff will be taking donations at both games that night, as well as selling specially designed ETSU breast cancer awareness T-shirts for $10. Those who either purchase a T-shirt or make a donation will be eligible to win an autographed Coaches vs. Cancer ETSU men's soccer jersey, while one lucky fan at volleyball will win a signed pink volleyball by the entire team.
Meanwhile, next Friday, Oct. 12, when the ETSU women's soccer team hosts Northern Kentucky at 7 p.m., fans who make donations or purchase a T-shirt will be eligible to win an autographed pink soccer jersey and a signed practice ball.
On gameday, both venues will be decorated in pink, while the volleyball team will be sporting pink warm-up shirts and the men's soccer team will be wearing pink sweat bands. Next Friday, the women's soccer team will wear specially designed pink Nike game jerseys.
BucWild members will also receive bonus points if they attend the games and wear pink. For regular games, BucWild members receive three points for attedning a men's or women's soccer game, while picking up four points for going to a volleyball game. Students wanting to learn more about BucWild and get one step closer to receiving prizes such as free Mellow Mushroom pizza for a year or an IPad2 can click here.
Leading up to the games, student-athletes from all three teams have been selling pink paper volleyballs and soccer balls for a $1 to recognize those who have been affected by the disease. In addition, this Thursday morning starting at 8:45 a.m., members from the men's soccer and volleyball teams, as well as the marketing staff will be passing out free pink donuts courtesy of Dunkin' Donuts, located by the safety crosswalk connecting from the parking lot to the intramural fields on Jack Vest Drive.
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A digital rectal exam will be done to assess the size of your prostate and check for any abnormalities, such as inflammation or masses. For this exam, your doctor inserts a gloved finger into the rectum. From here, the surface of the prostate can be felt.
Further testing may include the following:
General tests —These may include renal function tests with measuring of blood creatinine and a urinalysis, which is usually done with a dipstick.
Prostate specific antigen (PSA) —PSA is a protein made by the prostate gland. PSA levels may increase when prostate cancer is present, but other noncancerous conditions like BPH can also cause an increase in PSA. These tests may be used in conjunction with other tests to determine if your symptoms are caused by a cancer or BPH.
Residual urine determination —This is a means of measuring the amount of urine left in your bladder after you have urinated. The amount of urine you cannot pass is important because it can lead to an infection or other kidney problems. For this test, an abdominal ultrasound will determine the volume of remaining urine in your bladder. Alternatively, if a precise determination of the volume is indicated for clinical reasons, a tube called a catheter may need to be inserted into your bladder after you have urinated.
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After scoring his fifth goal of the season, a shorthanded tally in a tie game, Rangers center Artem Anisimov lowered the sights, pumped his stick, and let fly with one of the more demonstrative celebrations of the year. The Lightning took offense and swarmed Anisimov, setting off a penalty bonanza and setting the tone for a chippy rest of the game.
Vinny Lecavalier said it was "disrespectful," thinking the shotgun blast was aimed at goalie Mathieu Garon. Rangers coach John Tortorella called it outright "wrong." Anisimov apologized to everyone. Everyone agrees it was a bad, bad thing, maybe the worst thing to ever happen involving a Ranger.
The celebration itself was Teemu Selanne's "machine gun" with better grouping. But Anisimov said after the game he got the idea from a Russian teammate:
The colorful display was not meant to "show up" the Lightning, Anisimov said. He first saw the creative celebration when his teammate in Yarolsavl, Lokomotiv defenseman Ilya Gorokhov, used it as his own personal flourish while playing in Russia's Kontinental Hockey league.
"When he scored a goal, every goal he celebrated like this," said Anisimov, whose first language is Russian. "I watched him and I liked it and I told myself when I play NHL and I score I want to do the same thing."
The Lightning's anger may have had more to do with their five-game losing streak than anything else, and Puck Daddy points out the difference between Selanne setting a rookie scoring record and Anisimov putting home a wide open finish. But naturally the talk is already focused on the whole concept of goal celebrations in hockey. I would say let 'em celebrate, and I'd say it for every sport. No one ever turned off the TV because a player showed his excitement. And hockey alone possesses the opportunity for settling the score in-game: if you don't like what Anisimov does, you can run him when play starts up again.
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The Sri Guroo Granth Sahib (SGGS) is a Giaan-Guroo. With this Giaan (Wisdom), we all can inquire (Spiritual Inquiry) into "Who, or what, am I?"; turn our awareness directly toward our Mool (Source, Jot…) within; annihilate our conditioned mind; and be established in the infinity of the present moment (Now).
This Divine Wisdom is readily available to all of us, here and now!
Those who are sincere in their inquiry turn the mind within upon itself and become tuned to their True Nature (Jot-Saroop…), within.
However, the Gurbani indicates that in the case of the majority our condition is similar to that of a grieving and agonizing king who saw himself become a beggar in his dream!
- ਨਰਪਤਿ ਏਕੁ ਸਿੰਘਾਸਨਿ ਸੋਇਆ ਸੁਪਨੇ ਭਇਆ ਭਿਖਾਰੀ ॥ ਅਛਤ ਰਾਜ ਬਿਛੁਰਤ ਦੁਖੁ ਪਾਇਆ ਸੋ ਗਤਿ ਭਈ ਹਮਾਰੀ ॥੨॥: It is like a king, who falls asleep upon his throne, and dreams (that he has become a) beggar. (Although) his kingdom is intact, but separated from it (in his dream), he suffers pain. Such is our condition. ||2|| (sggs 657).
The Gurbani reminds us that owing to our own ignorance of our Spiritual Nature, we identify ourselves wrongly with the body-mind-intellect apparatus and see the world outside, as a result its suffering becomes apparent to us.
However, instead, the Gurbani urges us to identify with the Ageless soul (Aatmaa). Because, we are not the body-mind-intellect personality but Aatmaa, which lies within at the very core of our being and beyond our brain-consciousness (Trikuti).
In essence Aatmaa is said to be the Spiritual Center within, Spiritual Spark, Spiritual Power, Spiritual Energy, the real Self, Center of Spiritual Wisdom, Treasure of Virtues, Treasure of the Divine Knowledge, Primeval, Eternal, Jot, and so on.
- ਕਹੁ ਕਬੀਰ ਇਹੁ ਰਾਮ ਕੀ ਅੰਸੁ ॥ ਜਸ ਕਾਗਦ ਪਰ ਮਿਟੈ ਨ ਮੰਸੁ ॥੪॥੨॥੫॥: Says Kabeer! This (i.e., soul that dwells within) is Raam's Ansh (part…). It is like the ink on the paper which cannot be annulled or expunged (i.e., both the soul and Parmeshar are linked to each other as the paper and the ink on it). ||4||2||5|| (sggs 871).
Beyond birth and death (i.e., Immortal or Amar), this Divine Dynamic Energy is One (Unity). Because it's the part-and-parcel of the same Immortal, Supreme Essence.
- ਮਰਣਹਾਰੁ ਇਹੁ ਜੀਅਰਾ ਨਾਹੀ ॥੩॥: This soul is not perishable (sggs 188).
The Gurbani indicates that the only fact we can be sure of is that we are Jot Saroop (true Image of the Divine). Therefore, the Gurbani wants us to hold on to this Reality. For we are That!
- ਇਉ ਕਹੈ ਨਾਨਕੁ ਮਨ ਤੂੰ ਜੋਤਿ ਸਰੂਪੁ ਹੈ ਅਪਣਾ ਮੂਲੁ ਪਛਾਣੁ ॥੫॥: Thus says Nanak – O mind! You are "Joti Saroop(u)" (Pure Light or Consciousness, Pure Nature, Original or Real Nature …)! Recognize your Mool (Source, Origin, Base, Reality, Divine Nature…) ||5|| (sggs 441).
From a practical standpoint, if Permeshar (the Divine…) gave the man His true image what it means is that He has given man his Divine Qualities — truth, harmony, fearlessness, Immortality, patience, forgiveness, purity, selflessness, love, goodwill, compassion, kindness, contentment, knowledge, mercy, humility, peace, joy, discerning intellect (Bibek-Budhi), and so on. But our Jot-Saroop, the Original state of our True Being, is not clearly seen all the times. It is not clearly seen when we let the wall of our false ego stand in the way. The Gurbani reveals to us that when we overcome this false ego-sense, we become one with ourJot-Saroop again.
However, instead, the Gurbani says the man thinks himself as ego-center (Haumai). That is, the majority of us mistakenly confound our Mool with the body-mind-intellect personality. The fire of this ego-center (lust, anger, greed, attachment, pride, stubbornness, enviousness, etc.) burns within and keeps our doubt-ridden and Maya-driven mind separated from its Mool (Source, Jot…).
- ਕਬੀਰ ਪਰਦੇਸੀ ਕੈ ਘਾਘਰੈ ਚਹੁ ਦਿਸਿ ਲਾਗੀ ਆਗਿ ॥: O Kabeer! The kilt (of sense-organs) of this alien (i.e., mind-"ਮਨੁ ਪਰਦੇਸੀ") has caught fire on all four sides (i.e., fire of Bikaar – lust, anger, greed, etc.). (sggs 1366).
- ਮੂਲੁ ਨ ਬੂਝੈ ਆਪੁ ਨ ਸੂਝੈ ਭਰਮਿ ਬਿਆਪੀ ਅਹੰ ਮਨੀ ॥੧॥:Engrossed in doubt and egotism, (the mortal does) not know the Mool; he does not understand his ownself. ||1|| (sggs 1186).
Clearly, the Gurbani wants us to bring about complete transformation in our outlook or thinking (ਸੋਚ). When we think we are the embodiment of the Divine Light and live as such, our thinking (ਸੋਚ) gets transformed from body-consciousness to the Soul-Consciousness (Divine Wisdom, Divine Virtues, Naam-consciousness, Gurmukh Lifestyle…). Then, we start seeing the same One Spiritual Factor in everybody.
- ਜੇਹੀ ਸੁਰਤਿ ਤੇਹਾ ਤਿਨ ਰਾਹੁ ॥: As is (beings') awareness, so is (their) way (sggs 25).
Without such real shift in thinking (ਸੋਚ), and without truly aiming at Mool-realization, the Gurbani indicates all religious acts are Pakhand (pretending, show, Karamkaand, fraud…).
- ਮੂਲੁ ਨ ਬੂਝਹਿ ਆਪਣਾ ਸੇ ਪਸੂਆ ਸੇ ਢੋਰ ਜੀਉ ॥: Those who do not understand their own Mool (Source, Origin, Jot…); they are beasts and they are cattle (i.e., great fools of animal intellect-ਡੰਗਰ ਬੁਧੀ ਵਾਲੇ ਮਹਾਂ ਮੂਰਖ)! (sggs 751).
With real shift in thinking (ਸੋਚ), all Pakhand cease to be. We are then saved from Spiritual death (ਆਤਮਕ ਮੌਤ-death of spiritual life). And, we are saved from our exploitation in the name of the Gurbani and Dharma by the Pujaaree-Group (Bhais, Ragi, so called sant, etc.).
In nutshell, the Gurbani of uncompromising Truth urges us to go within. Since our Joti-Saroop is ever present within, we are never apart from it.
The Gurbani tells us that the mean to accomplish this task is the Shabad-Vichaar (Reflections on the Shabad).
- ਆਤਮ ਰਾਮੁ ਰਾਮੁ ਹੈ ਆਤਮ ਹਰਿ ਪਾਈਐ ਸਬਦਿ ਵੀਚਾਰਾ ਹੇ ॥੭॥: By engaging in the Shabad Vichaar, one obtains this understanding that) the soul and "Raam" are one and the same (ਇਕ-ਰੂਪ). ||7|| (sggs 1030).
Simply put: If there is hunger for understanding the Divine Wisdom (Aatam-Giaan) of the Gurbani through the Gurbani-Vicchar, then Aatam-Giaan will awaken, within; leading to Spiritual Awakening or Realization of one's Mool, within. Sipmly put: Shabad-Vichaar is finding out who am I?.
- ਬਿਨੁ ਬੂਝੇ ਸਭ ਹੋਇ ਖੁਆਰ ॥: Without understanding, ALL are troubled (afflicted, distressed, perplexed…). (sggs 791).
- ਭਗਤਿ ਭਾਇ ਆਤਮ ਪਰਗਾਸ ॥: Bhagti bhaai Aatam Pargaas (sggs 288).
Now, the question is: What does happen upon becoming Mool-realized or Spiritually Awakened (a person of higher consciousness, the Gurmukh…)? Does it mean one's problems and strives will disappear? Does it mean that one retires from all activities of life and meditate twenty-four hours? No!
Upon experiencing Spiritual Awakening (Enlightenment…), one's problems still will be there, one's duties still will be there, life's strife and situations still will be there, body's diseases and sickness and death still will be there. What changes is the perception or angle of vision of approaching life. One simply becomes witness to his life, without any trace of emotional attachment. According to the Gurbani, he accepts everything he undergoes as the Divine Hukam (Bhaanaa, Divine Will…) with equanimity of the mind. He is like the water drops which do not adhere to the lotus leaf! His mind becomes open to everything, but remains detached from everything!


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Bacolod is where my Philippine sugar dreams come to life.
It would be irresponsible of me to leave Bacolod without having coffee at Kuppa, so it's where we have breakfast on my last day. The coffee doesn't disappoint. We try the House Blend, a mixture of imported and local beans (bright, low acidity) and the Charcoal-Roasted Coffee (slightly earthy, very mild). The food, however, is dismal. There are only three dishes on the breakfast menu and we get one of each since we're a party of three. My Continental breakfast which consists of a "giant" (as per the menu) pandesal, has been sliced into three so I'm not able to appreciate its supposedly daunting size. The cinnamon roll that is part of my turbo-charged carb breakfast is tough, evidence of its return trips to the microwave. The salmon-egg special isn't an augur of good mornings either.
I'm thrilled to be able to visit a piaya-making factory, albeit one that veers from tradition (the piaya, not the factory). In her Casa Carmela Kitchen, Negrense Millie Kilayko imbues new life into this age-old treat. The thick and flaky piaya becomes thin and crispy kicked up with various flavors (mango, ube, and mint among others) and, as a nod to today's healthy observances, less salt and less sugar varieties are available. There are also piaya "tuiles," lean piayas wrapped around metal cylinders resulting in a piaya-barquillo spawn "" piaquillos.
The vintage piaya has a muscovado filling but regardless of flavor the process is relatively the same. A lean dough made from just water, flour, and shortening is prepared then shaped into nuggets. The desired filling, usually a mass or paste, is pinched or spooned onto the center of each nugget, re-shaped, and flattened with a rolling pin. Commercially produced piaya are baked on large griddles but for these newfangled creations, which bake up in just five minutes, traditional enclosed ovens will do.
It's well-nigh impossible to leave Bacolod without having eaten one's way through bags of caramel tarts, mango empanaditas, butterscotch squares, and barquillos (big and small in all the colors of the rainbow). This, in addition to brushing off trails of flaky pastry from my shirt, evidence of the excess consumption of those irresistible Napoleones. There are as many purveyors of these sticky sweets as there are ardent disciples of the power players "" Virgie's, Bong Bong's, et al. My friend and tour guide, Bubbles, is a member of the former, so we're at the original Virgie's on San Sebastian Street.
Meticulously arranged packs of sweets peeking through their transparent packages beckon with their colors, shapes, and glazes. I'm quite decisive about what to bring home but what I really want is to plop myself in a corner of the store and rip through bags of each type of sweet and nibble away into oblivion. Of course that's not possible and despite my apparent self-control, I end up paying a thousand pesos for my stash (above). Turns out Bubbles has been grabbing sweets she thinks I must try and then sneakily tosses them into my cart!
Women don't live on sweets alone, although I most certainly can. Still, we take a break from the sweets to have batchoy at "21," so named because it's located on 21st Lacson Street. I'm bowled over by the cool, sleek interiors, definitely not the kind of ambience I'm expecting to find in Bacolod. I'm even more astonished when I'm handed the menu and the prices that stare back at me aren't even commensurate to the lush interiors. I'm told that the owners intend for 21 to have the "hotel look" sans the hotel prices. I say they strike that balance outstandingly. 21 has been through a few incarnations from simple food stand to bar to family restaurant but it hasn't moved from its current location since its inception more than twenty years ago.
Batchoy (from the Chinese ba chui, ["meat water"]), has its origins in Iloilo, a screamingly decadent broth, the result of simmering bones – pork and beef along with the animals' various innards. Other seasonings are added (guinamos? [Visayan fermented fish paste], sahog? [that secret something-or-other] and then into this intoxicating miasma is plunged snips of (miki) noodles. It's the pedestal on which to raise a motley of ingredients dedicated solely to knee-weakening pleasure: pork liver, chicharon (pork cracklings), fried garlic, chopped scallions, a (raw) egg, and something I've never seen before in batchoy, bone marrow, still retaining its cylindrical shape.
Now, batchoy is an exemplar of food for the soul "" revivifying, stick-to-the-ribs sustenance, the aroma of which inspires growls in stomachs and sets mouths a-watering. But such edible virtue doesn't come cheap "" this is a calorie-bomb-in-a-bowl teeming with all the murderous things that make cholesterol levels skyrocket, and sends men, I'm told, scrambling for their "out with gout" meds. It's an "unwholesome," X-rated dish but like all things that are bad for me, titillatingly toothsome to the hilt. So taken am I by my bowl of batchoy that I can hardly speak coherently when 21 co-owners Rica and Mitos Gamboa (siblings) and Ricky Trinidad (Managing Director) pass by Bubbles' and my table to ask us how we're loving our batchoy. I say that's a rhetorical question.
Once we're sufficiently shot up with soup and can feel the marrow circulating in our veins, it's time to push on to dessert. This is a pig-out pilgrimage and we must soldier on, this time to the temple of sugar that too many people tell me about: Calea.
Upon entry, I'm confronted with embodiments from my sweetest dreams: rows of cakes high and whole, cookie jars filled to the brim, baskets of bar cookies, streusel-topped cakes lording it over on their stands, and what seem like miles of pies and ice cream creations. Like a little kid, I run to the displays and shove my face as close as I can get to the glass without flattening my already-flat nose. Already, my heart is beating fast and it has nothing to do with the cholesterol bomb I mainlined barely thirty minutes ago.
I ask for a slice each of the white chocolate cheesecake, pecan pie (a la mode, please), mud pie, and imported chocolate cake (Calea's undisputed bestseller). I turn to Bubbles and three other friends who've come along and ask, "And what will you guys have?" I ignore their jaws dropping to the floor at my question. I'm in my element and all is sweet in my world. To my order, they add a mango royale, an icebox cake crowned with a mango "aspic", cream puffs, and the French chocolate cake. Surprisingly, the server doesn't bat an eye at the seven desserts ordered for five people.
Truth be told, I'm afraid that all the hype I hear about Calea will not live up to expectations. I'm only too glad to be proven wrong as I alternate bites of each dessert. My favorites are the cheesecake (dense and creamy), the pecan pie (I'm grateful to places that put a premium on pie), and the mud pie ("Sobrang sarap "˜to, Ma'm, promise!" says the server. I'm glad I listen). I don't even bother to join in the table conversation, and while I hold up half-eaten desserts for them to try, I'm secretly pleased as one by one, they admit surrender to the sweets and me, the diva of dessert. Hee. When I finally come up for air, it's to bewail the absence of a similar place in Manila that's as sugar-centric as Calea. "So why don't you buy one of the cakes and handcarry it home?" Asks Bubbles. "Because I'll probably eat it all on the plane!" I whine, my brat-mode now in high gear.
Pendy's is another place that I'm exhorted to go to. "They have the most eclectic menu I've ever seen," Goey tells me. Indeed, pad thai cavorts with steak, spareribs, and osso buco, a diversity that's as incongruous as its interiors, reminiscent of an old, elegant sala with a large pasalubong center at the back to boot. As unsettling as Pendy's interiors is the halfmoon cake, a crescent-shaped sponge cake slathered with custard, similar to that in a brazo de Mercedes. It's a gummy confection edible only because of its yolk glaze. Bubbles is surprised that it already costs P35.
By this time, Bubbles and I have clocked in almost 12 hours together, a majority of which we "" er, I "" have spent eating. I'm about to plead satiety in order to keep my sanity but she tells me, "Quit playing hard to get, Lori. You can't miss Felicia's!" Well! Who am I to give up more dessert opportunities? After all, I believe wasting food is even more immoral than eating too much of it.
Felicia's turns out to be the best part of my day and that's saying A LOT considering the day I've already had. Less than a year old, it's a pastry café (as it's written on their business card) that reminds me of Bizu, miniature creations as whimsical as they are artful. There's a banana-Nutella cake that catches my fancy as well as the sticky toffee pudding and red velvet. Our first order is for the yema torte, a multi-layered dacquoise (meringue discs) "glued" together with yema custard. Impressive it is but it's akin to munching on popcorn "" all crunch, no flavor. To make amends, we ask for a slice of sans rival (see cover photo) which, on first bite, has us falling to our knees in devotion. Meringue-nut discs ensconce a buttercream so delicate that it flits on the tongue before dissolving in a cascade of crispness, like a clapping by the mouth instead of the hands. Phenomenal sansrival, I daresay better even than Jill Sandique's.
And for the love of all that's sweet and holy, I must say that Felicia's macaroons have replaced, in my mind, those from Lenôtre and Ladurée. Larger than usual, in fewer flavors than usual — mint chocolate, blueberry, strawberry, and mocha "" the flavors are vibrant and true, the fillings subtle as they are memorable. Try them and experience your own epiphany.
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It's the time of year when many students are dreading their approaching finals while longing for the days of Spring Break. For director Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers, every day is a party. We previously brought you set photos of the cast in their beach attire. You'll probably be happy to know that Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine continued to prance around St. Petersburg, FL in their bikinis under the guise of filming a Spring Break movie. (The presence of James Franco is probably a red-herring.) Either way, we have a new video interview for you to check out which features some of the cast and a good deal of behind-the-scenes footage. Additionally, I've pain-stakingly put together a gallery of some Spring Breakers images that I think you will find enjoyable. The things I do for you people.
Hit the jump to check out the new footage in the video interview and a slew of set photos from Spring Breakers.
Be sure to check out the images (via WWTDD) after watching this video interview with Gomez, Hudgens and Benson (via ET):


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As you may already know, we've released an update to Elcomsoft System Recovery, a tool allowing to reset or recover Windows and Microsoft Account passwords by booting from an external USB drive. The new build allows creating bootable USB drives for devices exclusively relying on UEFI bootloaders. Why was this change needed? Read below for an answer!
If you need access to Windows protected files (and files containing password hashes are always protected), you will either require administrative privileges or must boot a separate copy of Windows from a separate boot media. Elcomsoft System Recovery has always come with the ability to create such bootable media.
As computers evolved, industry moved to 64-bit computations. During the last decade, CPU manufacturers migrated completely to 64-bit architecture. Some years later, it became obvious that legacy BIOS was no longer relevant in the new age. BIOS was superseded with UEFI.
To maintain compatibility with legacy operating systems, most systems of that time period came with support for legacy boot mode (BIOS emulation, "compatibility mode") enabled out of the box. As operating systems evolved, manufacturers started gradually phasing out legacy support. Today we have reached the point where many new devices (2013 and newer) come without any sort of BIOS emulation at all.
Elcomsoft System Recovery comes with a customized bootable Windows PE environment. By booting from this media, customers can gain access to existing Windows installations even if they don't know the correct password. For a long time, Elcomsoft System Recovery was relying on legacy compatibility mode to boot. This is no longer an option. The increased share of devices shipping without BIOS emulation or legacy boot support required us to adapt.


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Jay M. Legett (9 August 1963 – 23 November 2013; age 50) was the actor, improvisational comedian and filmmaker who played the Hierarchy member Phlox in the Star Trek: Voyager sixth season episode "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy".
Leggett was best known for performing on the sketch comedy series in Living Color during the 1993-1994 TV season. He also made guest appearances on such series as ER, Ally McBeal, The Drew Carey Show and NYPD Blue. His film credits include co-writing the 2004 comedies Without a Paddle and Employee of the Month, the latter of which he also co-produced. He had a supporting role in Employee of the Month, as well, as did Star Trek: Deep Space Nine guest star Paul Dooley.
Leggett collapsed and died while deer hunting in Tomahawk, Wisconsin, on 23 November 2013. He was 50.[1]


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EPA Proposes Cleanup Plan for Toxic Site in Newfield, New Jersey; Heavy metals and hexavalent chromium to be Addressed
Release Date: 06/27/2014
Contact Information: Elias Rodriguez, (212) 637-3664, email@example.com
- (New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a plan to address soil, sediment and surface water that is contaminated with hexavalent chromium and heavy metals by past industrial operations at the Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corp. site in Newfield and Vineland, New Jersey. The proposed plan calls for a combination of cleanup measures at portions of the site including capping of the soil, excavating and removing contaminated sediment and prohibiting future residential use of the facility.
Hexavalent chromium and heavy metals can have serious health impacts, including nervous system damage and cancer.
Wells in the area are not used for drinking water and residents have been connected to a municipal water supply that provides a secure source of drinking water.
EPA will hold a public meeting to explain the proposed plan and receive comments until July 26, 2014. The public meeting will be held on July 9, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. at the Newfield Borough Hall, 8 Catawba Avenue, Newfield, NJ.
The site includes a 67-acre area where the Shieldalloy facility was located, as well as the Hudson Branch of the Maurice River. The company processed ores and minerals to produce metals and alloys at the site from 1955 to 2006. The company discharged industrial wastewater directly to unlined lagoons and to surface water. Contaminated areas of the facility itself, including a by-products area, nine waste water lagoons, and storage tanks have been addressed by previous actions. Processing operations have ceased, but the site is still utilized today as office space and for warehousing. The site was listed on the EPA's Superfund list in 1984.
Because of the nature and complexity of the contamination at the site, the investigations and cleanup of the site has been conducted in stages by the EPA, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the parties responsible for the site.
Work overseen by the NJDEP in the 1970's addressed immediate risks to the surrounding community. Beginning in 1979, parties responsible for the site began operating a system to pump and treat the contaminated ground water. In 1986, the state of New Jersey restricted the use of wells in the area and required mandatory connection with the public water system to protect people's health. At NJDEP's direction, the company excavated the lagoons, removed 40 buried drums and the storage tanks, and capped several industrial areas of the site. In 1996, the ground water treatment system was subsequently enhanced to remove metals. Additionally, an air stripper was added, which forces air through polluted ground water to remove harmful chemicals.
Slag and waste generated by the facility contaminated areas of the site with uranium and thorium. The slag piles and radioactive waste at the site are not part of the federal Superfund site and are being addressed by NJDEP and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In 2006, Shieldalloy submitted a proposal to NRC to decommission the slag pile by capping the radioactive material at the site. The decommissioning proposal is pending.
The site is also contaminated with perchlorate. Perchlorate is both a naturally occurring and man-made chemical that is used to produce rocket fuel, fireworks, flares and explosives. Under a legal agreement between EPA and the parties responsible for the site, perchlorate contamination will be addressed in a separate phase of the cleanup. A study of the nature and extent of the perchlorate is ongoing.
In 2010, the EPA assumed oversight responsibility for the site from the NJDEP. The EPA conducted an in-depth investigation of the extent of the contamination in surface water, sediment and soils in order to determine how best to clean it up over the long term. The proposal announced this week addresses portions of the Shieldalloy site that are distinct from the radioactive contamination and the perchlorate contamination.
The EPA is proposing to place a one to two foot cap over soil in a 1.3 acre area of the facility to reduce potential exposure. Future on-site construction will be restricted to commercial use. The EPA is proposing to restrict other construction activities that could disturb the area. The plan includes removing of 9,800 cubic yards of sediment that is contaminated with metals from the Hudson Branch. Water will be removed from the sediment and it will be taken to a facility licensed to receive the waste. The stream will be restored after the excavation. Surface water will be monitored until water quality standards are met. Other protective measures such as fencing will be maintained. The EPA will conduct a review every five years to ensure the effectiveness of the cleanup.
The Superfund program operates on the principle that polluters should pay for the cleanups, rather than passing the costs to taxpayers. The EPA searches for parties legally responsible for the contamination at sites that are placed on the Superfund list and it seeks to hold those parties accountable for the costs of investigations and cleanups. The cleanup of the Shieldalloy site is being conducted and paid for by the responsible parties with oversight by the EPA. The proposed cleanup of the Shieldalloy site under the EPA's plan is expected to cost $5.3 million.
Written comments may be mailed or emailed to:
Sherrel Henry, Remedial Project Manager
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
290 Broadway, 20th Floor
New York, NY 10007
(212) 637-4273
To view the EPA's record of decision for the Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corp. site, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/region02/superfund/npl/shieldalloy.
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Forum Post: How would you structure the government and/or economy?
Posted 6 years ago on June 22, 2013, 7:37 p.m. EST by Kavatz
from Edmonton, AB
This content is user submitted and not an official statement
I asked one person, then realized I wanted to ask a few more people, then decided to put it out to everyone, because I can't recall all the people I've connected with since I started.
Do you have something you could link me to that is defined without facts and opinions (concise as possible)?
Not trying to be rude. I just think we have a lot in common, and if you have plans/ideas, I would like to see them.
I would also like your thoughts and criticism on the 99% Conglomerate, and Departmental Governance & Responsible Capitalism (DG&RC), which I can explain over conversation. I'd also like to know what you think about The Venus Project, and debate that. Orchestrating these four things properly (IMO), is the best, quickest solution.
If you have a real vision, I would like to contribute what I can to it. I would also like to draw ideas from you. Think of this as an exercise in unity.
Back to Topic References: http://occupywallst.org/forum/conglomerate-and-dgrc-topic-references/


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Support grows for cloud seeding
5 Mar 20 - New research supports cloud seeding efforts to bolster water supplies in drying regions, but some scientists question its effectiveness in addressing climate change.
HOT TIMES: This year could be our warmest ever recorded
5 Dec 19 - A hot December could see 2019 become New Zealands warmest year on record.
Crisis might have triggered faster wind speeds
20 Nov 19 - The global climate crisis could lead to more renewable electricity being generated by spurring faster wind speeds for the growing number of windfarms.
Jet stream battle raging above our heads
18 Nov 19 - When prolonged periods of severe weather strike, two things often get the blame these days: climate change and the jet stream.
Bigger hurricanes are now more damaging
14 Nov 19 - The biggest and most damaging hurricanes are now three times more frequent than they were 100 years ago, say researchers.
4 Nov 19 - Ten years ago, British farmers were in revolt over a suggestion by economist Professor Lord Nicholas Stern that people should turn vegetarian to save the climate.
Scientists see stark future for oceans
26 Sep 19 - Extreme sea level events that used to occur once a century will strike every year on many coasts by 2050, according to a landmark report.
Climate models predict bigger heat rise ahead
20 Sep 19 - Scientists using new climate models say a bigger heat rise than expected is possible by the end of the century.
Economists launch study of droughts
4 Sep 19 - The impacts of climate change-induced droughts on New Zealands rural communities is under investigation.
Nationwide, it was an unusually warm July
6 Aug 19 - When it comes to temperature, New Zealand hasnt had a below-average month for two-and-a-half years.
July shapes up as hottest month on record
17 Jul 19 - Record temperatures across much of the world over the past two weeks could make July the hottest month ever measured on Earth, according to climate scientists.
Grab your brolly, there's going to be a lot of heavy rain about
21 Jun 19 - Here is the long-term forecast: Rain will become more torrential, flash floods more frequent. Very heavy rain is a simple response to global temperatures.
Compound heat waves mean double trouble
6 Jun 19 - The risk of economically devastating, physically debilitating and potentially lethal extremes of heat will multiply, and in unexpected ways, according to US scientists.
April was second-hottest on record
21 May 19 - Last month was the second-hottest April since records began in 1891, rivaled only by April 2016.
El Nino becomes stronger and stranger
8 May 19 - The pattern of El Niño has changed dramatically in recent years, according to the first seasonal record distinguishing different types of El Niño events over the past 400 years.
NO DROUGHT ABOUT IT: The science says we are to blame
3 May 19 - Scientists have found evidence that humans are causing droughts.
How will climate warming patterns look in future?
26 Apr 19 - Regions such as the Arctic and most land areas have warmed more quickly than the global average, while many ocean regions have warmed only a little.
There's nowhere to hide, say weather experts
29 Mar 19 - New Zealand is not insulated from the accelerating climate change outlined in report out today.
Global climate impacts accelerating, says WMO
29 Mar 19 - The physical and financial impacts of global warming are accelerating, says the World Meteorological Organisation.
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Item Level Upgrades is a feature introduced in Patch 5.1 to upgrade the item level (along with attributes and bonuses according to Blizzard's secret formula) with [Valor Points], [Conquest Points], [Justice Points], and [Honor Points]. Upgrade state will be reflected in tooltips. Some items will not be upgradeable.
In Legion EditThis section concerns content exclusive to Legion.
In Warlords of Draenor EditThis section concerns content exclusive to Warlords of Draenor.
No items for gearing above level 90 were given for item level upgrade via the <Item Upgrade> NPCs with the expansion release through at least Patch 6.2.2. Items from Pandaria are still upgradeable.
Patch 6.2.3 Edit
Patch 5.1 Edit
- Players can now use PvE and PvP currencies to directly upgrade equipment by visiting Ethereal merchants in their respective Pandaria faction capitals.
- Weapons and armor of item level 458 or higher can be improved by up to 8 item levels each.
- Rare quality PvE gear costs 750 Justice Points to upgrade once for 8 item levels, while Epic quality PvE gear costs 250 Valor Points for 4 item levels and can be upgraded 4 Times.
- Rare quality PvP gear costs 1500 Honor Points to upgrade once for 8 item levels, while Epic quality PvP gear costs 750 Conquest Points for 4 item levels and can be upgraded 4 Times.
- Be aware that items that have received item level enhancements cannot be placed into Void Storage.
Item Upgrade pointers:
In Patch 5.2 Edit
The ability to upgrade item levels was temporarily suspended for Patch 5.2 due to re-thinking itemization based on new raid content. It returned in Patch 5.3.[2]
In Patch 5.3 Edit
The return of item upgrades with the addition of PvP item upgrade capability has been confirmed for Patch 5.3.[3]
Upgrade level Edit
So far the maximum number of times an item can be upgraded is twice. Items upgraded once are sometimes cof 5.4.8 the maximum number of times an item can be upgraded is four.
Upgrade NPCs Edit
They will be temporarily removed in Patch 5.2 to return in Patch 5.3.[4]
As of Patch 5.1.0A, there are only 4 Voidbinder NPCs with the title <Item Upgrade>:
- Voidbinder Lunshur <Item Upgrade> in Shrine of Seven Stars, Vale of Eternal Blossoms
- Voidbinder Shadzor <Item Upgrade> in Shrine of Two Moons, Vale of Eternal Blossoms
- Voidbinder Sturzah <Item Upgrade> in Stormwind City, Elwynn Forest
- Voidbinder Zorlan <Item Upgrade> in Orgrimmar, Durotar
Details Edit
Upgrade UI Edit
References Edit
- ^ Daxxarri 2012-11-27. 5.1: Landfall Patch Notes. Official World of Warcraft Community site (US).
- ^ Olivia Grace 2013-01-14. Blizzard clarifies patch 5.2 item upgrade changes, upgrade NPC gone. WoW Insider.
- ^ Blizzard Entertainment 2013-03-22. Item Upgrades in 5.3. Official World of Warcraft Community site (US).
Blizzard Entertainment 2013-03-22. Item Upgrades in 5.3. Official World of Warcraft Community site (EU).
- ^ Bashiok 2013-01-14. #1 - Voidbinders Taking a Break in 5.2. Official Community > General Discussion forum (US).
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I was going through my make up DVDs (I have about 27!) because I will be a proud owner of the new iPod touch – so I want to get my videos together, ready to add!
Anyway one of the make up artists used two mascaras to create volume and length – and according to her using a waterproof mascara first then a volumizing one on top helps to hold curl. She also used Max Factor so I basically copied!
2000 Calorie has been round forever – my aunt always used it she has done since I was 13! Aqua lash is also one of their long standing mascara's (although they have loads of newer mascaras with the rubbery brushes).
The brushes are both bristles and the Aqua lash is longer than the 2000 Calorie Brush.
I lurve this combo. It works pretty well on my, on naturally longer lashes with some curl already, this would be super hot. My lashes always need a bit more work than most but even so, I did find that the Aqua lash did quite well with curl, and 2000 Calorie fattened them up…
I don't personally think that ALL waterproof mascara's hold curl but this combo does work very well together.
Also I think it was Bobbi Brown who recommended using two mascaras together, one for length and one for volume. Makes sense really!
Do you have any odd mascara combinations?!


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Four years ago, Barack Obama said building a coal-powered plant will bankrupt you. Now, 22 Pennsylvania coal facilities will close or convert. Mitt Romney will support coal and get North America energy independent.
DAYTON, OH — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney will launch ads in Pennsylvania before the election to bolster what the GOP calls an effort to build upon momentum in the Democratic-leaning state.
NBC News ad-tracking sources report the Romney campaign has bought only $120,000 in ad time, which the Republican National Committee said covers only Nov 5-6 — next Monday and Election Day itself. But the new effort is Romney's first foray into Pennsylvania since GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan held an airport rally near Pittsburgh on Oct. 20. Romney last campaigned in Pennsylvania in late Sept.
The Romney campaign said Tuesday that this effort marked an expanded capacity for the former Massachusetts governor to win a more reliably blue state. But the buy, for now, is only for Johnstown-Altoona (central PA) and Philadelphia, which is a small buy given the expensive Philly TV market.
Romney joins Restore Our Future, a supportive super PAC, in advertising in Pennsylvania. The super PAC's move prompted President Barack Obama's campaign to make its own ad buy in the state, spending at least $1.3 million on broadcast and cable in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh from Wednesday through Election Day. The size of that ad buy could expand.
The Romney campaign released a copy of a new ad, entitled "Crushed by your policies," which focuses on coal miners in western Pennsylvania. That spot could have crossover appeal into swing territory in eastern Ohio, where the economy also relies on coal.
The Romney campaign's released a memo accompanying news of its ad buy, arguing that the new ad was evidence that Romney would be going on offense in the Keystone State, which last voted for a Republican in 1988.
"With one week to go, and 96 percent of the vote on the table on Election Day in Pennsylvania, this expansion of the electoral map demonstrates that Governor Romney's momentum has jumped containment from the usual target states and has spread to deeper blue states that Chicago never anticipated defending," Romney campaign political director Rich Beeson wrote in the memo.
The Obama campaign quickly fired back with a memo of their own, and arguing that the late game effort by the Romney campaign to compete in traditionally blue states indicated fear in Boston that Romney would lose Ohio, a state he's campaigned in more than any other, and in which many independent analysts agree his political fortunes may yet rest.
"Three things are now absolutely clear in this race – we have a significant early vote advantage in states from North Carolina to Nevada, there is no Romney momentum in the battleground states, and the Romney campaign has found itself with a tremendously narrow and improbable path to 270 electoral votes," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina wrote. "Now, like Republicans did in 2008, they are throwing money at states where they never built an organization and have been losing for two years. Let's be very clear, the Romney campaign and its allies decision to go up with advertising in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Minnesota is a decision made out of weakness, not strength."
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After arriving in Nacrene City and discovering that the Nacrene Gym is inside the city museum, our heroes meet a very scared man. His name is Hawes, and it turns out that he's soon to become co-curator of the museum. He claims to have seen ghostlike apparitions recently, just as the museum is about to launch what is called the Secret Artifact Exhibition. The gang listens to the details of what has been happening, and Iris decides that an "angry spirit" is putting a curse on the museum. Cilan disagrees—he says that there must be a scientific explanation for everything.
While spending the night at the museum to investigate, our heroes and Hawes discover that a Yamask mask, which Hawes had mistakenly thought was a replica, was actually a real Pokémon! It was this Yamask that was appearing to haunt the museum, when really all it was trying to do was get its mask back! The Yamask was after Hawes for unwittingly taking the mask away, but the Pokémon forgives him and happily exits with its mask.
Then Hawes' wife Lenora shows up. She's the Nacrene City Gym Leader; Ash challenges Lenora to a Gym Battle, and she accepts! So now Ash's second Unova region Gym Battle begins—hopefully it will lead to his second Unova Gym Badge!


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If Oscar Wilde had gone on to write in the 1970s, his dialogue might have sounded a lot like Sir Alan Ayckbourn's, with a similar focus on sexual mores and social satire as a way to take a peek into the human heart. In this truly fine ensemble performance the action begins in a dining room with three couples during a family retreat. The incomparable Martin Jarvis (who has an MBE to his name) plays Norman, the husband of one sister and a potential seducer of her sister and of her sister-in-law. With wit and a finely honed sense of vulnerability, the equally incomparable Rosalind Ayres (who is married to Jarvis in real life) plays Sarah, the focus of so much of Norman's attention.
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England's famous seducer of other men's wives lays siege to his sister-in-law in the first "battle" of Ayckbourn's celebrated trilogy The Norman Conquests. In Table Manners, the action occurs in the dining room of Mother's house, where a conventional middle-class family is attempting to have a pleasant country weekend. But they are no match for Norman, the bane of the family, who horrifies everyone by doing exactly as he likes.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Rosalind Ayres as Sarah, Kenneth Danziger as Reg, Martin Jarvis as Norman, Jane Leeves as Annie, Christopher Neame as Tom, and Carolyn Seymour as Ruth.
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A sum of money paid for the right to use a road, highway, or bridge. To postpone or suspend. For example, to toll a Statute of Limitations means to postpone the running of the time period it specifies.
v. 1) to delay, suspend or hold off the effect of a statute. Examples: a minor is injured in an accident when he is 14 years old, and the state law (statute of limitations) allows a person hurt by negligence two years to file suit for damages. But for a minor the statute is "tolled" until he/she becomes 18 and decides whether or not to sue. Thus the minor has two years after 18 to file suit. State law allows 10 years to collect a judgment, but if the judgment debtor (party who owes the judgment amount) leaves the state the time is "tolled," so the judgment creditor (party to whom judgment is owed) will have extra time to enforce the judgment equal to the time the debtor was out of state. 2) a charge to pass over land, use a toll road or turnpike, cross a bridge, or take passage on a ferry.
toll(Effect), noun casualties, consequence, cost, damage, distress, effect, exaction, forfeit, grievous price, loss, payment, result, ruinous price, setback, suffering
toll(Tax), noun assessment, charge, exaction, excise, fare, fee, impost, levy, payment, portorium, tithe, vectigal
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toll(Exact payment), verb collect payment, exact tribute, extort, levy, raise taxes, tax
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TOLL, contracts. A sum of money for the use of something, generally applied
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The websites listed are not the only websites available for international business information. For a complete list of websites recommended by the business librarian, please refer to the master list found in the Internationl Business Recommended Websites section of our business and public management webpages.
The U.S. Government Export Portal links to information regarding the following subjects: Export Basics, Market Research, Partners and Trade Leads, Pricing, Quotes, Negotiations, Shipping and Documentation, Export Finance, Trade Shows and Events, Counseling and Advocacy, and Help with Trade Problems. Only members may have full access to this site.
ITA (International Trade Administration)
Hosted by the Department of Commerce, this site includes trade data at the national and state levels, necessary forms to engage in international trade, country information, explanations of relevant taxes and tariffs, and current information on the role of trade in foreign policy and the economy.
International Travel Information
The Department of State provides on this site travel warnings, public announcements, and consular information sheets through a searchable list of countries.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection site is divided into the following sections: newsroom, import, export, travel, career, and enforcement. From this site relevant articles and statistics may be found. Within each section a "quick links" toolbar can be found on the right side for easy access to frequently requested information.
The following list of titles may be found in the Business Reference Department of the Spencer Road Branch Library. To locate other print resources on international business, please search the library's catalog.
Principal International Businesses: The World Marketing Directory
BR 380.1025 Principal
50,000 international companies are included in this book. They are listed alphabetically, by Standard Industry Code (SIC), and geographically by country. Address, contact information, sales numbers, ownership, chief executive name, are all given in this monograph.
The library district subscribes to several online databases that may help you with your research. Those with a "Remote Access" button can be used from your home computer with a valid library card.
Following the link to the electronic databases will take you out of the Business & Public Management web pages and into the main library pages.
For information regarding international business, you may want to try Reference USA.
Reference USA has an international component. Select either "Canadian Businesses" or "International Businesses" and you can find information like the address, phone number, and list of executives for companies all over the world.
These are not the only databases available to assist you, please check out the entire list of databases to see if there is something that better meets your needs.
When searching the catalog for books on international business you may want to do a subject or title keyword search using the following terms:
Following the link to the library's catalog will take you out of the Business & Public Management web pages and into the main library pages.


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May 13, 2002, Section C, Page 2Buy Reprints
Two University of Cambridge computer security researchers plan to describe on Monday an ingenious and inexpensive attack that employs a $30 camera flashgun and a microscope to extract secret information contained in widely used smart cards.
The newly discovered vulnerability is reason for alarm, the researchers said, because it could make it cost-effective for a criminal to steal information from the cards.
Smart cards are used for dozens of different applications, including electronic identity protection, credit and debit cards and cellular phone payment and identity systems.
The Cambridge researchers said they had discussed their discovery with a number of card manufacturers, and several had acknowledged the vulnerability. One company reported that its security testing teams had already considered types of attacks similar to the one mounted by the Cambridge team and that they believed their products were not vulnerable.
The researchers said they had also proposed a potential design change to the companies that would protect against the attack.
''This vulnerability may pose a big problem for the industry,'' they wrote in their paper, ''Optical Fault Induction Attacks.'' The researchers argued the industry would need to add countermeasures to the cards to increase their security.
The Cambridge group's discovery is one of two new smart card attacks that will be introduced Monday evening in Oakland, Calif., at an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers symposium on security and privacy.
A team of researchers from I.B.M.'s Thomas J. Watson Laboratory in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., said they would present a report at the conference based on their discovery of a different vulnerability in subscriber identification module, or S.I.M., cards. These are used in the type of digital cellphone known as G.S.M., widely used in Europe and to a lesser extent here.
The vulnerability would make it possible for a criminal to find the secret information stored in the card, steal the user's cellphone identity and make free phone calls.
Smart cards are credit-card-like devices containing a microprocessor chip and a small amount of computer memory for storing bits of electronic data that represent money or other information that can be used to ensure identity, like a code or a digitized retina scan or fingerprint.
More widely used in Europe than in the United States, the cards have long been promoted as the key to a cashless society as well as for identity and authorization applications. Some countries have begun using them for national identity cards, and they have recently been discussed as a way of confirming travelers' identities to speed airport security.
The Pentagon has armed soldiers with smart cards for online identity and physical access, and the cards are in use in the United States in commercial services like the American Express Blue credit card and the Providian Smart Visa Card. Both cards are offered by their providers as a convenient and safe way to make Internet purchases, although their actual use for those purposes so far has been limited.
Some of the information stored in the card is in the form of a number composed of ones and zeros that cryptographers refer to as a ''private key.'' That key is part of a two-key system that is used to encode and decode information. The security of such systems is compromised if the private key is revealed.
Typically, after the card holder authenticates the card by supplying a pin number, the private key will then be used to encrypt any sort of transaction using the card. For example, the card might be used to authorize a purchase or a transfer of funds, make an e-mail message private, log on to a computer network or enter a building.
The researchers from Britain, Sergei Skorobogatov and Ross Anderson, who are based at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, discovered the flaw after Mr. Skorobogatov found that he could interrupt the operation of the smart card's microprocessor simply by exposing it to an electronic camera flashbulb.
They were able to expose the circuit to the light by scraping most of the protective coating from the surface of the microprocessor circuit that is embedded in each smart card.
With more study, the researchers were able to focus the flash on individual transistors within the chip by beaming the flash through a standard laboratory microscope.
''We used duct tape to fix the photoflash lamp on the video port of a Wentworth Labs MP-901 manual probing station,'' they wrote in their paper.
By sequentially changing the values of the transistors used to store information, they were able to ''reverse engineer'' the memory address map, allowing them to extract the secret information contained in the smart card.
Mr. Skorobogatov is a Russian emigrant who was once employed in the former Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program, where his job was to maintain bombs.
Mr. Anderson is a well-known computer security researcher whose work in both computer security and cryptography is widely recognized.
The researchers said they had discussed their findings with a number of companies that had acknowledged the vulnerability. However, at least one manufacturer who had read the paper said it believed its products were not vulnerable to the attack.
''This is a paper for an academic conference,'' said Alex Giakoumis, director of product lines for the Atmel Corporation, a San Jose, Calif.-based maker of smart cards. ''We've already looked at this area.''
He said his company had built defensive measures into its products that would make them invulnerable to such an attack. However, he said he was unwilling to be specific about the nature of the security system, because such information would be valuable to someone who was attempting to break the security of the Atmel smart cards.
The I.B.M. paper, which is titled ''Partitioning Attacks: Or How to Rapidly Clone Some G.S.M. Cards,'' was prepared by Josyula R. Rao, Pankaj Rohatgi, Helmut Scherzer and Stefan Tinguely.
The researchers reported that they had dramatically shortened the time needed to steal secret information from today's G.S.M. cellphones.
Their new approach can seize the information within minutes, they said, making it a much more useful method than either breaking the cryptographic algorithms used by the card or by intrusive attacks such as the Cambridge approach. The I.B.M. researchers' report also offers advice to the smart card industry on how to protect against vulnerabilities.


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Some recipes are worth repeating.
I made these as cookie dough pops a while ago and they are still an all time favorite of my friends. I made these to go along with the adorable sugar cookies I posted a couple weeks ago. They are so delicious that I definitely think they are worth re-posting. If you have not made them yet, you definitely should. Just about everybody loves eating raw cookie dough!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pops
recipe from Baked Perfection
1 cup all purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
dash of cinnamon
1 stick butter, softened (it is even okay if it is melting a little)
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 cups mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 - 2 tablespoons water
Assorted candy melts
In a medium bowl combine the flour, salt, and dash of cinnamon. In a second larger bowl, beat together the butter, sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract until creamy. Slowly beat in the flour mixture until smooth. Stir in the chocolate chips. Add water if mixture is too dry to form into balls. Roll the mixture into quarter size balls and lay on cookie sheet lined with wax paper (Should make approximately 20). Chill for several hours or freeze for 15-20 minutes until firm.
Melt candy melts in the microwave per directions on package (30 sec intervals, stirring in between). Gently dip the cookie dough ball into the candy coating. Once covered remove and let the excess chocolate fall off. Place back on wax paper to dry.
To decorate with drizzled chocolate, place melted chocolate in a plastic sandwich bag. Using scissors, cut the very tip off the sandwich bag. The smaller your cut, the smaller the drizzle. Use the sandwich bag to pipe the chocolate back and forth over the cookie dough truffle until you reach the desired look.
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Cookie Dough Truffles
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Spring 2020 classes have resumed online.Please visit
dcccd.edu/coronavirus for additional information and to
learn how to prepare for online classes.
This article appeared in an April 2017 issue of the student
By Beth Langton
Eastfield College's student media team from The Et Cetera and The Alternative won 31 awards at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association convention in Dallas. Eleven students attended workshops and competed in live journalism contests.
Three students placed in the live contests, in which they competed against student journalists from two-year and four-year schools across the state. The other awards are for work published in 2016.
If you know these students, please congratulate them. They work incredibly hard! Their awards continue to grow, as does the team. Students interested in writing, artwork, photography or design, can visit The Et Cetera office, N-240.


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Be a part of a unique online community that connects post production professionals and film academics worldwide.
You'll have access to personalize your news feed, access to Live Post Talks and much more. Contribute to the community by posting interesting post production content.
April 11, 2011, 4:13 pm
Las Vegas, NV, NAB Conference, Booth SL4420 (April 11, 2011) — AJA Video Systems, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, today announced the new 4K Mode for the KONA 3G capture card.
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What happens when you get a kid from Brooklyn, a radioactive spider, and some leitmotifs and mix them all together?
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Concerns such as: "I don't know Cinema 4D," "3D is hard," and "Yeah, Blender is free, but I don't know 3D," shouldn't prevent you from pursuing an animation idea.
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With the NAB show officially canceled for April, many traditional NAB vendors are taking their shows online. Blackmagic Design is the latest to announce their plans. Depending on where you are in the world set your clocks for April 3 or 4.
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Let's face it, there are a lot of great NLE's out there. We all have our favorites and many of us use more than one. If Final Cut Pro X is not one of them, now is the perfect time to learn. If you're stuck working from home with time on your hands, head over to the Apple FCPX web page and download a 90 day trial.
April 1, 2020, 12:58 pm
Red Giant has just announced they are offering Red Giant Complete free to students and faculty members of universities, colleges and high schools. The platform provides access to their VFX, filmmaking and motion graphics software suites with the most up-to-date versions of all tools including: Trapcode Suite, Magic Bullet Suite, Universe, VFX Suite and Shooter Suite.
March 31, 2020, 6:13 pm
Avid has released Pro Tools 2020.3 today with the long-awaited Folder Tracks, but also a new updated Avid Video Engine, enabling you to be able to import non-MXF formatted videos into the latest macOS Catalina supported version of Pro Tools.
March 31, 2020, 6:13 pm
As well as introducing Folder Tracks and an updated Avid Video Engine, Avid have announced the squashing of more bugs with the release of Pro Tools 2020.3. In this article, we have the full list.
March 31, 2020, 6:13 pm
Avid is pleased to announce support for the new 2019 Mac Pro 7,1 for Pro Tools Native and HDX (up to 3 cards) but with some caveats with the 24-core and 28-core machines.
March 31, 2020, 6:13 pm
Thanks to the creative carte-blanche of its villain, the original A Nightmare on Elm Street is full of surreal practical effects. When you're a demonic wise-guy who hunts victims in their dreams, you're able to pull some freaky, nightmarish shit. From body bags erupting with eels to clawed hands emerging from bathtubs and stairs turning to mush, when it comes to terrorizing teens, Freddy Krueger likes to dream big.
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The filmmakeru.com team explores the history of color in film in our series Birth of an Art. From coloring in single frames ...
Gordon sits down with Ivan Victor to discuss his work editing 68 Whiskey.
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We're looking to run an event at Hampshire Record Office, Winchester, to celebrate 70 years of the NHS. We're be displaying documents including old medicinal cures and letters by Florence Nightingale, alongside a lecture. It would be great to have somebody bring to life the history of medicine, such as an apothecary. Are there any re-enactors who do this or cover medicine/health?
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Only just seen this! I do a Victorian Quack Doctor (can be Georgian) if you were still interested?
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When is this? I do a Georgian Apothecary and a Barber Surgeon. visit www.selectsociety.co.uk
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Purchasing Process & Policies
Governing Bodies of the Purchasing System
All public contracting in the State of Oregon is based by Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 279, which states in part that it is the policy of the State of Oregon to encourage open and fair competition in public contracting to the maximum extent possible. To bid on State of Oregon contracts please go to http://orpin.oregon.gov/open.dll/welcome
Other laws, rules and policies governing UCC's acquisitions include the Umpqua Community College's Administrative Procedures AP601 related to Board Policy 601 and the current Community College Rules of Procurement.
These rules and procedures are intended to provide fair and equitable treatment to all persons involved in public purchasing by UCC, to maximize the purchasing value to the public and to provide safeguards for maintaining a procurement system of quality and integrity.
Bidding and Other Requirements
Unless otherwise exempted College acquisitions are based on the following solicitation methods:
Purchases under $10,000 may be completed by the individual departments selecting the vendor and placing a purchase order to go to the approval process, without the requirement of obtaining competitive quotes.
Purchases of $10,000 - $100,000 require three competitive written quotes to be forwarded to the Purchasing department prior to creating a purchase order and completing the order. Exceptions would be for personal service contracts or public improvement projects.
Informal Bids and Quotes
Whenever feasible competitive quotes are encouraged at all levels of purchasing. However: purchases of $10,000 and over require written competitive quotes.
Formal Solicitations
With limited exceptions purchases and public works projects that exceed $100,000 require a formal sealed bid procedure and will be processed by the purchasing department. For public improvement projects that exceed $50,000, prevailing wage rates must apply. Formal solicitations are normally advertised in the Daily Journal of Commerce and the UCC Purchasing web page.
Community College Rules of Procurement, Version 1.8, Adopted 11/13/2019
Purchasing Process Flow Chart - Updated 7/24/2018
General Terms and Conditions For the Purchase of Supplies and Services
Public Records Forms and Procedures
Surplus Property Disposition Form
AP-601.1 - Credit Card Procedure


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Laurie Ochoa, editor of the much-talked-about new L.A. literary quarterly Slake, grew up in Whittier, close enough to Pasadena to decorate floats with high school friends and camp on Colorado Boulevard to see the parade. She was drawn to words as a student, and set out on the path to being an editor right out of school—first as an intern for the L.A. Weekly, then working her way up to being a writer and editor. Then the Los Angeles Times lured her away to be an editor and reporter for more than a decade, including a five-year stint as the food editor. Next came a high-profile job as executive editor of Gourmet, which entailed moving to the West Village with her husband, Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold, and their daughter Isabel. But they missed Southern California, so they returned when the L.A. Weekly came calling, and Laurie served as editor-in-chief there for eight years.
Today Laurie and her family, which now includes son Leon, live in the Historic Highlands neighborhood of Pasadena. We had a long chat about print media, writing and life in Pasadena.
Editor's note: For more on Slake, listen to the podcast by our friends at KPCC's Off-Ramp.
You've always worked for others. What inspired this bold act of entrepreneurship?
As soon as I left the Weekly, Joe Donnelly started talking to me about joining up with him to start some kind of Los Angeles publication. We thought about a monthly and a biweekly, and began having meetings with potential investors, but it quickly became clear that we needed to show people what we wanted to do. Too many people wanted to push us into an online-only sort of venture, but we aren't ready to give up on print.
"Slake" implies quenching a thirst. What thirst are you quenching?
We're trying to preserve the endangered art of storytelling. Specifically, well-polished and well-crafted narratives that are carefully edited. We're in the middle of this huge and exciting shift in how we get information — we can share a joke with all of our friends at the same time on Facebook, with the world on Twitter, and we can get breaking news on our phones in the middle of dinner — but faster isn't always better. Some important voices have emerged thanks to the openness of the web, but others have been lost. And once in awhile you need a break from the sloppy writing and barely considered opinions that too often pop up. That's why Joe and I started Slake. We think there's a desire for the kind of deeply reported journalism, thought-out essays and skillful fiction and memoir writing that you only get when you don't have to rush to publish a story or worry about search engine optimization.
You left print media when you left the L.A. Weekly, and we all know the struggles of print media now. And yet you and Joe have started a print publication. Does this mean you have faith in the survival of the printed page?
There will still be books and magazines in 50 years. Radio didn't go away when TV was invented — it changed. You could make the case with This American Life, or the brilliant reporting on Planet Money, or the way John Rabe searches out cool Southern California subcultures on KPCC's Off-Ramp, that radio storytelling is more interesting than ever. Certainly, print media has to adjust, and that's what we are doing with Slake. Instead of trying to start a mainstream Los Angeles monthly and trying to compete with everybody else for celebrity covers, Joe and I decided to go with a more unconventional model for a city magazine. Closer to a book than a magazine in feel, Slake is perfect-bound like a quality paperback, designed with a beautiful, hand-crafted feel and edited with the intention that people will hold on to each issue and return to reread our stories about and from Southern California years from now.
Are there qualities that define L.A.'s literary and visual-arts culture, and if so, what are they?
What I love about Los Angeles is that it is so hard to define. The movie industry has an obvious effect on our cultural life, but there are so many other literary and visual-arts cultures here — niche and mainstream, high and low, some hidden and some so out in the open that we sometimes take them for granted. The point is that there's always something interesting to write about, something new to discover. That's one of the reasons Joe and I decided to keep Slake's focus on Los Angeles. There are too many good stories out there that aren't being told.
How about Pasadena's culture?
People sometimes forget that money isn't the only reason Pasadena has such a strong base of cultural institutions. Artists and writers and scientists who change the way we see the world have always been drawn to Pasadena. I love that we have the Norton Simon, the Huntington, the Armory, the Pacific Asia Museum and the Pasadena Museum of California Art all within a ten-minute drive. And we're lucky to have one of the country's greatest independent bookstores here in Vroman's. But these institutions wouldn't survive without a curious and engaged population to staff and patronize them.
What brought you to Pasadena, and why do you stay?
I suppose it was Frederick Roehrig's doing. Jonathan and I were doing a bit of architectural tourism when we spotted a rental ad for an apartment inside a Roehrig-designed home on Grace Terrace. We figured we'd get to look at a cool house and then go back to our apartment in Koreatown. But there was something magic about the Grace Terrace house. The apartment we ended up renting was essentially the three front parlor rooms of the house, each with its own fireplace, separated by sliding pocket doors and filled with built-ins and beautiful wainscoting. We knew right away that we had to live there. Our bedroom was once the home's music room, with a stage and stained-glass windows along the alcove where we put the bed. We eventually needed more space after we had our first child and found another great old house in Pasadena. We stay because we've made a home here with good schools for the kids and good friends nearby.
What's your perfect Pasadena day?
I love waking up early on a Saturday to the nudges of my son, Leon, who usually wants to snuggle in bed and have me read one more chapter of Harry Potter — we've just started Book 6. Then I might meet my friend Michelle Huneven for a morning walk with her dog Piper, either up Chaney Trail or along the Arroyo if it's too hot. Michelle usually brings tea and fruit and sometimes little sandwiches, which we eat midway through the hike, looking out across the L.A. basin while we talk about writing and marriage. By the time I get back, Jonathan's often taken Leon to the farmers' market at Pasadena High, and my daughter, Isabel, will be getting in some last-minute cello practice before her weekly lesson. This not only gives me time alone to read or do some editing, it gives me an excellent Saturday-morning soundtrack. Lunch is typically a review meal with the kids, but we also like staying in Pasadena and treating Izzy and Leon to Pie 'n' Burger or else getting my favorite egg salad sandwich at Euro Pane.
If we're feeling ambitious, we might wander around the Norton Simon or the gardens at the Huntington, but usually we'll just do a little shopping on Lake or in Old Town, and then hang around the house until it's time for dinner. A lot of the time Jonathan will cook, but one of my favorite things to do on a hot Saturday night is to head up to Bulgarini, the gelato place in Altadena. Jonathan loves to grumble with Leo, the owner, about the troubles with their favorite Italian soccer team, Roma, and during the last half of the summer Leo screens Italian movies outside the shop and serves a basic pasta dinner for the crowd. It feels a lot like the countryside festas we've been to in Italy. It doesn't get a lot better than watching La Dolce Vita under the stars, in the shadow of the San Gabriels, with a cup of perfect pistachio gelato.
Editor's note: Laurie and several Slake writers with Pasadena/Altadena roots, including Michelle Huneven, Jonathan Gold, Erica Zora Wrightson and Jervy Tervalon, will be speaking and reading at Vroman's on Friday, August 13th.