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Chonburi, ThailandKirsty Turner
Chonburi is a province full of beautiful sandy beaches, enchanting tropical islands, abundant natural resources and delicious fresh seafood. This is a great place to get away from the hustle and bustle of the busy city for a while and relax on the beach. The capital town of Chonburi is the nearest seaside town to Bangkok. Located on the eastern coast of the Gulf of Thailand, Chonburi is just 80 kilometres from Bangkok and very popular with residents of Bangkok on weekends and holidays.
Chonburi province contains many places of interest for visitors. Particularly well known throughout the world is the seaside town of Pattaya, while the town Si Racha is famous throughout Thailand for its spicy chilli sauce.
Particularly of interest in the area is the picturesque island of Ko Si Chang, which was made popular when King Rama IV, Rama V and Rama VI visited the island for some much deserved rest and relaxation. King Rama V initiated the construction the first palace for royal home-stay in the summer, and the idea proved popular with subsequent rulers and people of note.
There are many beautiful beaches and other places of interest on Ko Si Chang. The meditation caves at the Tham Yai Phrik Vipassana Monastery are a good place to get in touch with nature while learning the art of meditation.
There are plenty of great places on the island to swim, such as the picturesque Hat Tham Phang (Fallen Cave Beach), Hat Sai Kaew and Hat Tha Wang Palace, which is a great picnic spot.
The San Jao Phaw Khao Yai Chinese Temple is located high on a cliff top overlooking the sea and offers spectacular views over the ocean, and the limestone cave of Tham Saowapha is definitely worth a visit, although don't forget to take a torch.
There are a number of small islands located around Ko Si Chang such as Ko Khaam Noi, Ko Ran Dok Mai and Koh Prong. A good way to explore them is to rent a sea kayak, go scuba diving or go on a snorkeling trip to the nearby Ko Khaang Khaow (Bat Island).
Koh Si Chang is a great place to sample the abundant local seafood, and what could be better than eating fresh barbecued seafood on the beach whilst you drink and cold beer and watch the sun slowly set.


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Page last reviewed: 13/07/2011
Food poisoning is an illness caused by eating contaminated food. Most people will get better without the need for treatment.
In most cases, the food that causes the illness has been contaminated by bacteria, such as salmonella, or a virus, such as the norovirus.
The symptoms of food poisoning usually begin one to three days after eating contaminated food. They include:
- feeling sick
- vomiting
- diarrhoea
- stomach cramps
Foods that are particularly vulnerable to contamination if they are not handled, stored or cooked properly include:
- meat
- 'ready to eat' food, such as pre-packed sandwiches
- dairy products, such as eggs and milk
How common is food poisoning?
A North/South study showed that in 2010 there were 4,500 reported cases of food poisoning in the island of Ireland. However, the actual figure may be considerably higher than this because many people with mild symptoms do not report them.
Most people with food poisoning will get better without the need for treatment. In the meantime, you can relieve the symptoms of food poisoning by:
- drinking plenty of fluids
- eating easily digested food, such as toast, until you feel better
- resting
Read more about treating food poisoning.
Occasionally, food poisoning can have more serious effects on a person's health, particularly if they are vulnerable to the effects of an infection. For example, being older than 65 or having a condition that weakens the immune system, such as HIV, can increase a person's chances of having a more severe reaction.
Signs that you may have a more serious case of food poisoning that requires medical attention include:
- vomiting that lasts for more than two days
- not being able to keep liquids down for more than a day
- diarrhoea that lasts for more than three days
Read about the symptoms of food poisoning for more information on when to seek medical advice.
- Bacteria
- Bacteria are tiny, single-celled organisms that live in the body. Some can cause illness and disease and some others are good for you.
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The time it takes for symptoms to develop after eating contaminated food ranges from one hour to 90 days.
Usually, symptoms of food poisoning develop after one to three days.
The most common symptoms are:
- nausea
- vomiting
- diarrhoea
Other symptoms of food poisoning include:
- stomach cramps
- abdominal pain
- loss of appetite
- a high temperature of 38C (100.4F) or above
- muscle pain
- chills
When to seek medical advice
Most cases of food poisoning do not require medical attention. But contact your GP if you have any of the following:
- vomiting that lasts for more than two days
- you cannot keep liquids down for more than a day
- diarrhoea that lasts for more than three days
- blood in your vomit
- blood in your stools
- seizures (fits)
- changes in mental state, such as confusion
- double vision
- slurred speech
- signs that you may be severely dehydrated, such as a dry mouth, sunken eyes, and being unable to pass urine
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Reporting cases of food poisoning
If you think your food poisoning has been caused by a restaurant or other food-related business, report it to your local environmental health department.
Environmental health officers will carry out an investigation and, if necessary, ensure that the business involved improves its standards of hygiene to prevent it happening ag
Always contact your GP if you develop food poisoning during pregnancy. Extra precautions may be needed to ensure the safety of both you and your baby.
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Food can become contaminated at any stage during its production, processing or cooking.
For example, food poisoning can be caused by:
- not cooking food at the right temperature and/or for the right length of time
- not chilling food at the correct temperature
- someone with unclean hands touching the food
- eating the food after it has passed its 'use by' date
- cross-contamination
Cross-contamination is a cause of food poisoning that is often overlooked. It occurs when harmful bacteria are spread between food, surfaces and equipment.
For example, if you prepare raw chicken on a chopping board and do not wash the board before preparing a ready-to-eat meal such as a salad, harmful bacteria can be spread from the chopping board to the salad.
Cross-contamination can also occur if you store raw meat above ready-to-eat meals. The meat juices can drip on to the meals and contaminate them.
Sources of contamination
Food contamination is usually caused by bacteria. Some common types are described below as are viruses and toxins.
Campylobacter is the most common cause of food poisoning in Ireland. Campylobacter bacteria are usually found in raw meat and poultry, unpasteurised milk and untreated water.
Salmonella bacteria are often found in raw meat and poultry. They can also be passed into dairy products such as eggs and unpasteurised milk.
Listeria bacteria may be found in a range of chilled ready-to-eat food including:
- pre-packed sandwiches
- pâté
- butter
- soft cheeses, such as brie, camembert or others with a similar rind
- soft blue cheese
- cooked sliced meats
- smoked salmon
Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli, known as E. coli, are bacteria found in the digestive system of many animals, including humans. Most strains are harmless but some strains can cause serious illness.
Some cases of E. coli food poisoning occur after eating undercooked beef or drinking unpasteurised milk.
Two viruses that commonly cause food poisoning are the rotavirus and the norovirus.
The rotavirus is more common in children than adults because most adults develop immunity (resistance) to it. Noroviruses can affect people of any age.
People infected with either virus can contaminate food if they do not wash their hands properly after going to the toilet and then handle food.
In Ireland, food poisoning from parasites is rare. It is much more common in the developing world.
Toxoplasmosis is the most likely cause of parasitical food poisoning in Ireland. It is caused by a parasite that is found in the digestive systems of many animals, particularly cats.
People can develop toxoplasmosis by consuming undercooked contaminated meat, or food or water contaminated with the faeces of infected cats.
There is a small risk that oily fish could be contaminated by toxins such as a chemical called polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
The levels of toxins in contaminated fish are thought to be very low, but they could still pose a risk to unborn babies. Therefore pregnant women are advised not to eat more than two portions of oily fish a week.
Examples of oily fish include:
- fresh tuna (not canned tuna, which does not count as oily fish)
- mackerel
- sardines
- trout
- salmon
Some fish contain a high level of mercury, which can also damage an unborn baby's nervous system. Therefore, pregnant women should avoid eating:
- shark
- swordfish
- marlin
- more than two tuna steaks a week (or four medium cans of tuna a week)
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Most people with food poisoning will not need to see their GP.
Most cases of food poisoning do not require medical attention. But contact your GP if you have any of the following:
- vomiting that lasts for more than two days
- you cannot keep liquids down for more than a day
- diarrhoea that lasts for more than three days
- blood in your vomit
- blood in your stools
- seizures (fits)
- changes in mental state, such as confusion
- double vision
- slurred speech
- signs that you may be severely dehydrated, such as a dry mouth, sunken eyes, and being unable to pass urine
Usually, you only need to see your GP for a diagnosis if:
- your symptoms are severe and are not getting better
- you have symptoms of severe dehydration, such as sunken eyes and not being able to urinate
- there has been an outbreak of similar cases of food poisoning linked to a possible source of contamination
Your GP will ask you about your symptoms and how you think you could have come into contact with contaminated food or liquid.
They will refer you for blood tests to check for infection. You may be asked to give a sample of your stools to test for bacteria or parasites.
Further testing is usually only required if you have symptoms that suggest the infection has spread from your digestive system to other parts of your body, such as your nervous system.
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In most cases of food poisoning, you can relieve your symptoms at home without needing to see a doctor.
The most important thing is to make sure you don't become dehydrated, as this will make you feel worse and slow your recovery time.
Dehydration is a risk because fluid is lost through vomiting and diarrhoea.
Aim to drink at least two litres (3.5 pints) of water a day, as well as 200ml (one-third of a pint) of water every time you pass diarrhoea.
If you are more vulnerable to the effects of dehydration (for example, if you are elderly or already have a health condition), oral rehydration salts are recommended.
They are available in sachets from pharmacies. You dissolve them in water to drink and they help to replace salt, glucose and other important minerals that your body loses through dehydration.
If you have a kidney condition, some types of oral rehydration salts may not be suitable for you. Ask your pharmacist or GP for advice about this.
Here are some further ways to cope with your symptoms and speed up your recovery time:
- eating smaller, more frequent meals is easier than trying to eat three large meals
- stick to easily digested foods, such as toast, crackers, bananas and rice until you begin to feel better
- avoid alcohol, cigarettes, caffeine and spicy and fatty foods because these will make you feel worse
- rest
When to see your GP
If you are showing signs of severe dehydration, such as sunken eyes and being unable to urinate, see your GP. They may admit you to hospital, so you can be given fluids and nutrients intravenously (through a tube placed directly into your vein). Read more information about treating dehydration.
Antibiotics can be prescribed if testing shows that the source of the food poisoning was bacterial and your symptoms are severe or last longer than three to four days.
Antibiotics tablets are usually used, although you may be given antibiotics injections if your symptoms are particularly severe or it is felt you would have problems keeping tablets down.
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A useful way of preventing food poisoning is to remember the four Cs:
- cleaning
- cooking
- chilling
- cross-contamination
You can prevent the spread of harmful bacteria and viruses by having good personal hygiene and keeping all your work surfaces and utensils clean.
Wash your hands frequently with soap and warm water, particularly:
- after going to the toilet
- after handling raw food
- before preparing food
Remember never to:
- handle food when you are ill with stomach problems, such as diarrhoea or vomiting
- touch food if you have sores and cuts (unless they are covered with a waterproof dressing)
It is always important to cook food thoroughly, particularly meat, as this will kill any harmful bacteria such as listeria and salmonella.
Make sure the food is cooked thoroughly and is piping hot in the middle. You can check that the meat is cooked by inserting a knife: if the juices that come out are clear and there is no pink/red meat left, it is fully cooked. Some meat, such as steaks and joints of beef or lamb, can be served rare (not cooked in the middle) as long as the outside has been cooked properly.
If you are reheating food, make sure it is piping hot all the way through. Do not reheat food more than once.
It is important to keep certain foods at the correct temperature to prevent harmful bacteria from growing and multiplying. Always check the label on the packaging.
If food has to be refrigerated, set your fridge to between zero and 5°C (32 and 41°F).
If food that needs to be chilled is left standing at room temperature, bacteria can grow and multiply to dangerous levels.
Cooked leftovers should be cooled quickly, ideally within one to two hours, and then put in your fridge or freezer. Putting food in shallow containers and dividing it into smaller amounts will speed up the cooling process.
Cross-contamination occurs when bacteria are transferred from foods (usually raw foods) to other foods. Contamination can be:
- direct, where one food touches or drips onto another food
- indirect, where bacteria on your hands, equipment, work surfaces or utensils are spread to food
To prevent cross-contamination:
- Always wash your hands after handling raw food.
- Keep raw and ready-to-eat foods separate.
- Store raw meat in sealable containers at the bottom of your fridge, so that it cannot drip onto other foods.
- Use a different chopping board for raw food and ready-to-eat food, or wash it well in between preparing different foods.
- Clean knives and other utensils thoroughly after they have been used with raw food.
- Never wash raw meat because this could splash harmful bacteria around the kitchen.
- Bacteria
- Bacteria are tiny, single-celled organisms that live in the body. Some can cause illness and disease and some others are good for you.
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Content provided by NHS Choices www.nhs.uk and adapted for Ireland by the Health A-Z.

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Segways, scooters 'the future of Canberra's commute'
The ACT government should drop its dreams of a cycling city and look instead to get Canberrans commuting to work on vehicles like Segways and electric scooters, the Planning Institute of Australia has said.
The institute wants the city's cycling lanes upgraded into mini-highways for ''personal mobility devices'' and traffic laws changed to allow the use of such vehicles.
The territory's strategy to get people out of cars and increase the use of Canberra's cycling network was ''fundamentally flawed'' and would not produce the desired outcome, the institute's ACT president, Vivian Straw, said.
The draft strategic cycle network plan was innovative and comprehensive but it was flawed and would not be the transport mode-changing plan Canberra needed, he said.
He said riding a bicycle to work in Canberra would remain the choice only of Lycra-clad cycling enthusiasts. For most people it was too sweaty a pursuit and held little appeal as a means of transport.
''We don't live in a compact city,'' Mr Straw said.
''Asking people to leave the car at home, put on the gear, cycle 20 kilometres and then shower and change for work will only suit certain people,'' he said.
''The new cycle network plan has merit and will deliver for cyclists but it certainly won't do what the government wants it to do.''
Mr Straw said he had a better idea: convert the city's extensive network of bicycle lanes into byways for Segways, foldaway electric bicycles and electric scooters.
''In some Australian cities, the change would possibly require a protected lane that could separate the personal mobility device from traffic and pedestrians,'' Mr Straw said. ''In many places this means taking out quite a bit of road.
''In Canberra it already exists. There is already a significant off-road cycle network that would need a little widening and improvement at traffic lights to make a big improvement for a relatively small cost.''
Mr Straw said that Canberra's cycle infrastructure had not made cycling as popular among its citizens as had been hoped.
''Canberra has the best cycling network of any Australian capital city but it also has the lowest participation rate,'' the planning institute's president said.
''That situation is unlikely to change unless we take more bold and well thought-out decisions.''
The institute said there were a number of personal mobility devices being embraced by commuters in countries all over the world but their use here is constrained by rules on what constitutes a vehicle that is allowed to be used on public roads.
Personal vehicles such as Segways, YikeBikes, electric scooters, mobility scooters, mopeds, electric scooters, RoboScooters, and electric tricycles offer realistic, perspiration-free safe alternatives to a standard bicycle, but their use is generally illegal.
There are alternatives that can provide safe, perspiration-free transport but the new plan does not address this issue.
Mr Straw said bold decisions on making relatively small changes to road and cycling networks to permit the use of a range of personal mobility devices was what was needed, even if the political cost of change was seen to be high.
''Good planning is about taking those visionary steps for more workable communities in the future,'' Mr Straw said.
Noel Towell is State Political Editor for The Age


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Beyond Kony 2012
Longtime readers of this blog may note that I have showed uncharacteristic restraint in responding to Kony 2012 by, well, actually not posting on it at all. One reason for this is that the third year of the tenure track oh my word it is hectic and I have several actual scholarly articles coming out to prove it.
Another, better reason though is that thanks to the forward-thinking optimism of Wronging Rights' Amanda Taub, I wrote a chapter for a new ebook. Beyond Kony 2012, edited by Taub, is an attempt to educate journalists, educators, and anyone else wanting to learn more about the LRA crisis and how to effectively respond. There are several contributors from all over the world including many TIA favorites like TMS Ruge, Rebecca Hamilton, Adam Branch, Alanna Shaikh, and Daniel Kalinaki. All the contributors wrote with a critical eye (hint: none of us are big fans of the Invisible Children approach), but also with an eye to responding more effectively and understanding why previous efforts to stop Joseph Kony have failed.
My chapter in the book is entitled, "Avoiding Badvocacy: how to do no harm while doing good." I focus on the importance of listening to local voices, empowering communities to solve their own problem, and avoiding the temptation of making ourselves the saviors of African communities. I'd love to hear your feedbook on the chapter.
The suggested price to download Beyond Kony 2012 is $2.99, but if that's too much for your budget, you can download it for free with absolutely no guilt. It's available formatted as a PDF, MOBI (for Kindle), and as an ePub. I hope you'll take a look.


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University of California President Janet Napolitano deported thousands of undocumented citizens in her time as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Now, UC Hastings College of Law students want Napolitano deported from their graduation ceremony.
Current and past UC Hastings students launched a petition protesting an upcoming graduation commencement speech from Napolitano, who oversaw what some say are record deportations in the United States.
The Change.Org petition against the speech minces no words in denouncing her role in seperating families from their homes, and from each other.
"As Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Ms. Napolitano spearheaded inhumane policies, including wide implementation of so-called 'Secure Communities,' a deportation program notorious for its conflation of the criminal and immigration systems," the petition states. "Her actions have caused profound tragedy to members of the Class of 2014, their families, and members of the Hastings community at large."
Napolitano was hired on as president of the University of California system last year, sparking protests from undocumented student rights groups up and down the state, which we've covered previously ["Undocumented and Unafraid", 11/13]. Two student groups, Hastings Students for Immigrants' Rights and Hastings La Raza Law Association, initially voiced concern over the choice of Napolitano as commencement speaker. When their outcry fell on the school adminstration's deaf ears, the students reached out to Hastings alumni for help.
"I was immediately concerned," Noemi Gallardo, a 2012 Hastings alum told the Guardian. "Students are investing a lot of money in their schooling, and graduation is a celebrant time," she said, except now families who are immigrants, or children of immigrants, will have their commencement given by one of the most controversial figures in their community.
"Bringing Napolitano celebrates scare tactics and harmful policies," Gallardo said.
Gallardo and a group of alumni launched the petition and an open letter to Chancellor and Dean Frank H. Wu, which was signed by 15 Hastings student organizations, including the Hastings chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. The petition garnered more than 300 individual supporters in its first few days.
Napolitano speaking to these students makes about as much sense as asking asking Mitt Romney to give a speech to Occupy Wall Streeters. Maybe that's why Gallardo's inbox was overflowing with students asking for help in stopping Napolitano from giving the speech.
"I've received phone calls, emails, Facebook messages," Gallardo said. She and a group of fellow Hastings alum sat down for a meeting on Napolitano with Frank H. Wu, chancellor and dean of UC Hastings.
Gallardo and alum hoped Wu would back down on the decision, but instead he's doubled down. Wu issued a statement to students and posted it publicly on the UC Hastings website.
"I would like to acknowledge those from the UC Hastings community who have raised this issue—some of whom have had loved ones deported," Wu wrote. "As the child of immigrants myself, I have experienced the effects of restrictive policies for determining who may become a citizen….as Chancellor and Dean of this law school, I want to be unequivocal: I am proud that we have trained advocates for a cause who wish to stand up and speak out. We will do our utmost to protect the free speech rights of those who wish to share their opinions, while ensuring that the dignity of the Commencement ceremony is maintained."
But caveats aside, Wu ended the letter by reasserting his commitment to Napolitano as commencement speaker. "We do not shy away from the controversy that is integral to the progress of the law," he wrote. "In this spirit, I look forward to welcoming University of California President Janet Napolitano to the stage for Commencement on May 10."
For Gallardo, denouncing Napolitano as commencement speaker is not just political, it's personal.
She's a first generation American, and her parents are both from Mexico. "We lived very humbly," she said. She's worked in the immigrant community for close to a decade, from legal work to translations. She now runs a policy consulting group that works closely with nonprofits, adressing language access, legislation and education issues affecting minority communities.
"This," she said, "hit close to home."
Students, alumni and their supporters also spoke out against Napolitano's speech via Twitter using the commencement hashtag #UCHastings2014
Ashamed and disappointed in Hastings' choice of Napolitano as this year's commencement speaker! #UCHastings2014
— Leah Price (@leahchenprice) April 25, 2014
@frankhwu Very disappointed at your response re: choice of deportation queen Janet Napolitano for commencement speaker. #uchastings2014
— María D. Domínguez (@mariaddominguez) April 24, 2014
@uchastingslaw I already have zero hastings pride. Let's not get into negative territory. #UCHastings2014 http://t.co/ALSJqHxZsX
— Marie Marie (@Villavlcek) April 24, 2014
Was hoping for a chance to be proud & joyful with my community. We get a twisted object lesson in "academic freedom" instead #uchastings2014
— E Hamilton (@CanIHaveYrShoes) April 24, 2014
Glad to see student outcry over @uchastingslaw grad speaker Napolitano http://t.co/2bRVXeWErz #UCHastings2014
— Sarah Fielding (@fielding_sarah_) April 24, 2014


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Mike O'Malley Plans on Coming Back to Glee to Shoot the Finn Tribute Episode
Mike O'Malley is well known on primetime as Burt Hummel on Glee, and though the actor has a new sitcom, Welcome to the Family, which he was at NBC's TCA press day to promote, he couldn't escape talking about Glee. While O'Malley had lovely things to say about Cory Monteith, he also addressed whether he'll be coming back for the Glee episode that will address Finn's death. Read on to find out what O'Malley said, along with a tidbit about what Glee and his new show Welcome to the Family have in common.
- On returning to Glee for Finn's tribute episode: "I hope to. I'm here doing Welcome to the Family, and we shoot one episode five days a week, but Burt is a very, very important role to me. It's been a great part, and I've said to all those guys, 'I'll work early in the morning, late at night, Saturdays, Sundays, whatever I need to do to participate, not only continuing to be on that show, but honoring Cory and his passing and that character.' He is on that show, my stepson, so I certainly plan on being there. I actually think they may be possibly shooting that show at a time when I'm on hiatus."
- On the Welcome to the Family/Glee connection: On Welcome to the Family, O'Malley plays a father whose daughter (Ella Rae Peck) gets pregnant by her boyfriend, played by Joseph Haro. Haro and O'Malley have Glee in common, since Haro guested on Glee as "Warbler Number One" for four episodes in season three. Though Haro said that he and O'Malley never met each other on the set (O'Malley cracked, "I don't get to go to any of the fun stuff. I'm usually in the basement, [and] someone's crying"), Haro asserted that O'Malley's casting on Welcome to the Family was a "major draw" to working on the show.


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How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
My website (a soccer portal, containing Joomla and SMF) in the last months has grown so much that the shared-hosting service I bought about three months ago has decided to rescind our contract and pay the remaining nine months (since the contract is for one-year).
I already searched on the net and on stackexchange too, of course, but I didn't find a solution to this problem.
The website's load is about 280'000-300'000 hits/month. That's about 10'000 hits/day. This is the main reason they rescinded the contract: we exceeded the number of processes allowed: no other reason exists.
On the web, I read they all say that "if you use a lot of resources, you need a dedicated/virtual server" (something like a VPS). Ok, so I've searched for a VPS, but I've found they are all too expensive! The cheapest I've found (on this Q&A board) is Linode, that's about 20$/month. That could be a very good solution, but I've still some doubts.
My question is: granted that some friends of mine are system analysts, so I wouldn't spend any money to administrate the server, can you suggest the cheapest and most basic hosting/server solution (I mean VPS, dedicated-hosting, shared-hosting, cloud...) for my problem?
As I've already said, our website uses two technologies: Joomla and SMF, so we need the most basic solutions. We don't offer emails to our users, we don't need subdomains, we don't need special technologies as Zope, Tomcat and so on. The most basic: PHP/MySQL. And if exists CPanel, just for ease. Linode is the best I've found, but do other solutions - according to my parameters - exist?
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We had home baked cookies and breads and pies so it was a munch type night which we usually had sandwiches and ate some of the baked goodies and hot chocolate and we also had sodas as christmas day was the big meal.
We had home baked cookies and breads and pies so it was a munch type night which we usually had sandwiches and ate some of the baked goodies and hot chocolate and we also had sodas as christmas day was the big meal.
Nothing special this year, unless I ride with my sister to see her dad and step mother. Then it will most likely be finger foods. Simple yet, Just as yummy.
Do you make your own crust? If so, would you be willing to share the recipe? I have yet to find a great pizza dough recipe! :(
We have almost everything described on this page: http://www.wonderful-denmark.com/dan...as-dinner.html
i guess pretty much a lot of desserts.. weeeee.. can't wait...
Christmas Costumes - http://www.shopcomparecostumes.com/categories/545/Christmas-Costumes.html
planning my appetizers fingerfoods recipes list for this years xmas eve ,
perhaps doing mostly red/green foods theme for the appetizers
You should try my spinach balls (green) and stuffed cherry tomatoes (red). If interested, let me know and I'll post the recipes!
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
recipes always welcome , the mini red tomatos I fill with herbal cream cheese
I was just browsing the BHG site for appetizer ideas and this weekend I will be looking through my old xmas magazines from previous years like Womans Day and Good Housekeeping both the UK and USA magazine for appetizers
The stuffed cherry tomatoes are stuffed with bacon, scallions and mayonaisse. I always get TONS of compliments on them!
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
Someone was talking about Pizza dough (about a year back) and I doubt its still relevant but there is really nothing to making Pizza dough-- I've been doing it since I was 10. 1 package of active yeast from the supermarket, about a cup and a half of warm water, 3.5 to 4 cups of all purp flour, 2 shots of olive oil, and some salt -- mix it up and then let it do its thing for an hour-- bing bang boom -- pizza dough ready to boogie.
"I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys." ~Charles Dickens


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3 Irish Red Ales You Need to Try This St. Patrick's Day
Seeking out the best in malty, hoppy refreshment.
Irish Red Ales have become more popular in the United States than in their home country, where stouts and porters reign supreme. But the style didn't gain traction in the US until the mid-80s, when Coors bought the brand name Killian's Irish Red and began marketing it in the States. Of course, craft brewers have taken the style a long way since then, so you shouldn't judge the category by those "fond" memories of drinking Killian's on a porch in college when the thought of Natural Light made you sick (was it just me?)
Today's Irish Red Ales can be amber or dark red, with a light malt aroma, medium-rich body, and flavors of roasted barley and caramel. Hops additions are traditionally light-handed in these brews, offering just enough to complement the carmel sweetness from the malt bill, though of course some hop-loving brewers play with amplifying the hop flavors. Creating a balanced Irish Red is a true test for brewers: mistakes have little room to hide. These ales would be a great addition to any St. Patty's Day party—just don't try to add green food coloring.
Boulevard Irish Ale
This Kansas City, Missouri-made ale pours a beautiful dark red with a thick off-white head. Unlike many Irish reds on the market, Boulevard chose to bottle condition this brew, allowing for pleasing carbonation and further flavor maturation from bottling date to time of consumption. The scent is mellow, with hints of biscuity malt and floral hops. This beer is incredibly balanced, starting sweet with caramel malt and a light bitterness from another wave of floral hops. The true beauty of this beer is how unified its flavors are, even though six pale and roasted malts and five hop varieties that have to play nice. The finish is dry with lingering pale malt flavors. A truly well-made red ale worth seeking out.
Lone Tree Acres O' Green Irish Red
Lone Tree Brewing Company in Lone Tree, Colorado just began bottling their core lineup of beers a few months back and we're pleased that this was one of them. Dark amber and medium-bodied Acres O' Green offers an aroma rich in caramel, cereal grains, and a subtle peaty smokiness. The flavor swirls with coffee and toffee, with hints of spicy yeast and earthy hops. Though this beer finishes a little sweet, we quickly polished off the bomber of this 6.0% ABV ale.
Casco Bay Riptide Red
We'd heard great things about this Maine-brewed Irish Red, and were excited to give this beer a try. It pours a stunning dark red with a thick, tight white head. The aroma was a bit more pronounced than the other beers we sampled, all roasted grain and citrusy hops. The beer is malt forward with lots of caramel and toffee and a light earthy bitterness. The hops showed their face again in the finish, as each sip of Riptide concludes with a dry hoppiness. After trying Riptide Red Ale, it's easy to see why this is Casco Bay's flagship beer!
Of course, there are many other great examples of the style, including Three Floyds Brian Boru, Great Lakes Conway's Irish Ale, Alpine McIlhenney's Irish Red, and Goose Island Kilgubbin Red Ale. Do you have a favorite you'll be drinking this weekend? Let us know in the comments!
Samples were provided for review consideration from Boulevard Brewing Company and Casco Bay Brewing Company.
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Maternal-newborn nursing is multi-faceted, challenging and rewarding. It provides multiple opportunities to touch lives and make a difference. In the new edition, those facets and their impact on maternal-newborn nursing is evident, while emphasizing that family members are co-particpants in care.
Because of the varied and rich opportunities for nurses, the theme emphasized in this edition are the many facets of maternal-newborn nursing. This thread is subtly woven throughout the book.
New To This Edition
-New Chapter! Childbirth at Risk: Pre-Labor Complications(Chapter 21), which focuses on content that impacts both pregnancy and labor and birth
-NEW - Evidence in Action boxes provide a quick "clinical pearl" for effective nursing practice
-NEW - Client-Family Teaching Cards in the center of the text are handy tools for students to use while studying or as a quick reference in the clinical setting
-NEW - Fetal Development Chart is full-color foldout which depicts maternal and fetal development by month and provides specific teaching guidelines for each stage of pregnancy.
-UPDATED - Critical Thinking Case Studies ask students to consider a brief scenario and to determine the appropriate response in that situation.
-Updated references throughout the textbook


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It's the Blue Ivy Carter and her mother Beyonce in New York today. Look at Blue's hair! All of that hair! And it's her own hair. For now. Blue's ma, as you know, hasn't been seen with her own hair in many, many years. (Ever?)
Right now, as you can see, Beyonce's working a new braided weave. A lot of it too. And it looks long. Me I'm not a fan of this particular hairstyle. I feel like it could be used as a weapon. That sh-t hurts when it's being whipped around and it slaps you in the eye. This has happened to me on the subway.
In other Beyonce news...
Kanye West's girlfriend's ex-husband has just signed a 2 year $24 million contract with the Brooklyn Nets. Jay-Z is one of the owners. You'll recall, Kanye dissed his girlfriend's ex-husband in his song Cold:
"Lucky I ain't have Jay drop him from the team."
In business and basketball, there is no loyalty. And besides, how loyal are Beyonce and Jay-Z, really, to Kanye West's girlfriend?


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In Cherry Hill NJ engineered oak flooring can add a touch of tradition to any room of the home. Oak wood has a straight grain or a varied pattern of rays and flecks, depending on what sawing technique was used in the manufacturing process. Some distributors carry a "wormy grade" of oak flooring that has knots and worm holes scattered across the wood's surface.
Unlike Solid oak hardwood, engineered oak has a thin top layer of oak with a layer of plywood underneath. It is important to remember, as with all engineered wood, these are still "real hardwood" flooring options and not to be confused with a laminate which would not be considered a "real" hardwood flooring solution. With engineered hardwood flooring, the top layer can be lightly sanded once or twice over the course of its lifetime to remove surface scratches and scrapes. This makes engineered oak a practical choice for living rooms, bedrooms and other areas that get lots of traffic. Engineered oak flooring can be installed using a nail-down, glue-down or floating technique, this flexibility makes it a a practical choice for homes in Cherry Hill NJ.
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Parispâr´ĭs, Fr. pärē´ [key], city (1999 pop. 2,115,757; metropolitan area est. pop. 11,000,000), N central France, capital of the country, on the Seine River. It is the commercial and industrial focus of France and a cultural and intellectual center of international renown. The city possesses an indefinable unity of atmosphere that has fascinated writers, poets, and painters for centuries. Paris is sometimes called the City of Light in tribute to its intellectual preeminence as well as to its beautiful appearance.
Paris is the center of many major newspapers and periodicals, as well as all the major French radio and television stations. Elegant stores and hotels, lavish nightclubs, theaters, and gourmet restaurants help make tourism the biggest industry in Paris. Other leading industries manufacture luxury articles, high-fashion clothing, perfume, and jewelry. Heavy industry, notably automobile manufacture, is located in the suburbs. About one quarter of the French labor force is concentrated in the Paris area.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- Transportation Facilities
- Points of Interest
- Government and People
- History
- Bibliography
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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States Consider Drug Testing Lawmakers
In connection to the ongoing debate about drug-testing welfare recipients, lawmakers in Minnesota, Alabama, Illinois and Texas are considering requiring it of state legislators too.
By Jennifer Brooks
Drug tests for politicians? Minnesota lawmakers don't mind if they do.
"It's good accountability. Quite frankly, if someone's going out on weekends and using meth, I don't know that I want them making policy," said Sen. Sean Nienow, R-Cambridge, who plans to introduce an amendment to the Senate Health and Human Services budget bill this week that would require drug tests for welfare recipients and state lawmakers alike.
"Bring on the cup!" Republican Sen. Duane Quam of Byron declared Monday night, as a similar amendment passed the House by a landslide. "I have nothing to fear!"
The idea of drug testing state lawmakers was introduced as an ironic jab at a proposal to test Minnesotans on welfare for drug use. But House Democrats and Republicans alike embraced the idea, to the chagrin of some.
"It was disappointing," said Rep. Tina Liebling, DFL-Rochester, who had hoped to shame lawmakers for promoting stereotypes about welfare recipients. But, she said, if lawmakers really want to sign up for drug tests, "certainly we could drug-test legislators without drug-testing [welfare] recipients. We could do it voluntarily. As we know, there have been people serving in this body who have been known to have problems."
The provision the Minnesota House approved -- late in the evening, after long hours of budget debates -- states that Minnesota lawmakers "may" be required to undergo random drug screening for both drugs and alcohol at their own expense. Lawmakers who test positive for drugs or alcohol would be barred from receiving a paycheck until their test results were clean. It remains to be seen whether legislative drug tests will survive the conference committee and get signed into law.
But Minnesota's isn't the only Legislature lining up for drug tests.
The National Conference of State Legislatures reports that Alabama, Illinois and Texas are debating drug testing for lawmakers and welfare recipients alike. Kansas added lawmakers to the list of welfare and unemployment recipients, who are subject to random drug tests if they were suspected of drug abuse. That bill passed this month.
During debate Monday, Liebling said lawmakers should be ashamed to perpetuate the stereotype that poor Americans are more likely to abuse drugs than anyone else, including elected representatives.
"There is no evidence that people who apply for [welfare in Minnesota] use drugs at any higher rate than anybody else," she said. "Legislators should be tested. After all, we're giving public money and the public has an interest in making sure we're drug-free and alcohol-free."
Drug screenings for welfare recipients has been controversial for years. Florida, the first state to institute drug screenings, ended up spending far more money than it saved, and found positive drug test results in only 2 percent of those tested. Nienow sees the idea as an issue of personal responsibility and a way to identify people struggling with substance abuse.
The Senate is expected to take up its Health and Human Services bill later this week.
(c)2013 Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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Super Mario 3D World Trailer: Suit Up
The latest Super Mario 3D World video showcases the many suits and power-ups that Mario and the gang can use in the Sprixie Kingdom.
The six-minute video offers a nice guided tour watching Mario, Luigi, Peach and the blue Toad do their thing onscreen. You should recognize a lot of the suits that are shown, such as the new Cat Suit and the old Tanooki Suit, but there are plenty of new powers to behold.
Some of these new power-ups include Light Blocks that gets rid of Boos, a Piranha Plant you can tote around to eat baddies, Propeller Blocks, Coin Blocks that net you coins as you move and Cannonball Blocks that shoot out cannonballs at enemies.
A bit of Super Mario 3D World's multiplayer aspects are shown as well, giving us a peek at how you can use your Mii to run around the game world with Mario and company. When not playing the game, you can jump in the Miiverse and discuss it with others or share your Mario-themed creations.
Check out the trailer above for more action from the Sprixie Kingdom. And look out for Super Mario 3D World when it's released on Nov. 22 for Wii U.


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Jordin Sparks Dropping Jason Derulo Collaboration 'Before It Breaks' on August 1by Amy Sciarretto | PopCrush
The couple that plays together, stays together! Jordin Sparks and her BF Jason Derulo have teamed up on the new track 'Before It Breaks,' which will land on Aug. 1.
We hope that title name never applies to their relationship, since they are one of our favorite couples, and are not only adorable but they fly under the radar! No Jelena paparazzi hounding here!
While Derulo is riding high on his new single, 'The Other Side,' and visiting the White House to discuss Obamacare, Sparks, who won Season 6 of 'American Idol,' has been garnering more press coverage for her weight loss — she has slimmed down and is as stunning as ever — than for her music in the past year. Well, she's back to making musical magic and ready to roar like the diva she is. Bring it, girl! We predict that the couple's personal chemistry will spill over into the professional realm.
Sparks posted a Vine video, which boasted a snippet of the song. It's short, but it's certainly got us excited to hear the whole thing, which was produced by Harmony 'H-Money' Samuels.
A Sparks and Derulo collabo is certainly something to get excited about.
Listen to Snippet of Jordin Sparks + Jason Derulo Collabo 'Before It Breaks'


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Let $G$ be a real connected semi-simple Lie group. Let $M$ be a finite dimensional representation of it. Are there general criteria when the continuous cohomology groups $H_{cont}^q(G,M)$ vanish?
A situation of particular interest for me is $G=SO^+(n-1,1)$, namely the connected Lorentz group, and $M$ is the standard representation of it. Is it true that the first continuous cohomology $H^1_{cont}(G,M)=0$ ?


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ANDERSON, Ind.-May 29, 2014 - Rose Run Parker turned in a gritty performance to find the winner's circle Thursday night at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino in the opening round of the $20,000 Indiana Sires Stakes action for three-year-old trotting colts and geldings, and extended his win streak to seven in the process. Reaching the wire in 1:54.1, Ron Burke's Rose Run Parker established a new lifetime mark and remains undefeated in his sophomore season.
After setting the track record at Hoosier Park for two-year-old trotting geldings with a 1:57 effort in stakes action last year, Rose Run Parker's 1:54.1 effort equaled the track record for three-year-old trotting geldings in just his second start of the season.
Gloire Dream, driven by Lewayne Miller, showed early speed off the gate from post seven in the field of ten, clocking a :27.3 opening panel. Unable to find a spot along the rail from post nine, Rose Run Parker pressed on to the front but would yield the lead to the slight betting favorite, Sandy Z Tam and Tyler Smith at the half in :57.4. Sandy Z Tam led the field to the third station in 1:27 and the stage was set for another Hoosier Park stretch battle.
Tipping from the pocket around the final turn, Rose Run Parker was able to reach the leader's wheel and the top two began to put their talent on display as they trotted away from the rest of the field. Sandy Z Tam was game on the inside but Rose Run Parker wasn't finished.
Using a :26.4 final quarter, Rose Run Parker was able to put a nose in front of Sandy Z Tam to score his seventh consecutive win. Back N The Slammer and Trace Tetrick finished seven lengths behind the top pair to round out the trifecta. As the publics' second choice, Rose Run Parker returned $5.00 to his backers at the window.
"I think he is the best young horse we've had since Go On BB," Ron Burke's assistant trainer, Jamie Rucker noted. "He typically likes to chase horses down, but tonight he showed some serious heart by fighting horses off after a tough trip."
"That was a nice group of horses and I wasn't sure what to expect with post nine," she continued. "He has never let us down though, he raced great again tonight."
The 11-time career winner has now amassed $247,375 for his connections of Burke Racing Stable, Weaver Bruscemi, and W. Haas Jr. Rose Run Parker's seven race win streak includes wins in the $200,000 Indiana Sires Stakes Final for two-year-old trotting colts and the $45,250 Madison County Stakes. With the win, the son of Jailhouse Jesse-Centergy has earned his spot in the first of five $75,000 Indiana Sires Stakes final slated for June 7 at Hoosier Park.
Indiana Sires Stakes action continues at Hoosier Park Racing & Casino on Friday, May 30 with four divisions of $20,000 Indiana Sires Stakes for three-year-old pacing fillies. The live racing schedule at Hoosier Park will follow a Tuesday through Saturday schedule with a daily post time of 5:15 p.m.
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Getting Started with RFID by Tom Igoe; O'Reilly Media
Getting Started with RFID1 is a very short "book" on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), a way to tag and identify objects over varying ranges, and how to use Arduino to create a few interesting RFID projects. The book assumes that you have some experience with Arduino and micro-controllers (i.e., do you know what a breadboard, jumper wires, and circuits are?).
We start with a very brief introduction to RFID, follow up with two introductory technical tutorials on Arduino, and end with a fairly simple home automation project:
Between my officemate and me, we have dozens of devices drawing power in our office: two laptops, two monitors, four or five lamps, a few hard drives, a soldering iron, Ethernet hubs, speakers, and so forth. Even when we're not here, the room is drawing a lot of power. What devices are turned on at any given time depends largely on which of us is here, and what we're doing. This project is a system to reduce our power consumption, particularly when we're not there.
When either of us comes into the room, all we have to do is tap our key fobs on a reader mounted by the door, and the room turns on or off what we normally use. Each of us has a keyring with an RFID-tag key fob. The reader by the door reads the presence or absence of the tags.
The book is only 28 pages, so it's more of a long tutorial than a book, but it still acts as a good introduction to RFID.
Disclaimer: I received this book for free through the O'Reilly Blogger program.


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The first ever Small & Special conference happened on June 30, 2009. The afternoon was spent listening to a series of talks from the passionate founders of successful small businesses. Over 200 attendees came to learn something, meet people who share their dreams, and to be inspired. Now you can be inspired by watching the entire event on the videos below. You can stay connected with attendees, fans, and the organizers by following @smallandspecial and becoming a fan of Small & Special on Facebook.
Small & Special Talks
Eric LeVine
Eric LeVine's CellarTracker has an army of wine tasters uploading more than a thousand tasting notes a day into what's now the largest wine inventory database on the web. Eric is still the only employee.
Nisha Kelen
Nisha started her floral design business out of a one car garage and her passion continues to thrive after 12 years. It mostly took her mom's sincere push with 4 words... "just go for it" and so she did! Fleurish was the outcome of believing in her creativity and a dedicated work ethic.
Joe Mansfield
Joe Mansfield and his custom engraving company, Engrave Your Tech, harness laser power to help artists and designers create artwork with a high tech twist.
Rachel Venning
After noticing how unfriendly sex shops were to women, Rachel Venning and her partner founded Babeland. Now they have 4 locations.
Oliver Chin
Oliver Chin became a dad and realized the world needed new books for 21st century children and their parents. In 2005, he founded Immedium to create wonderfully illustrated tales that appeal worldwide to kids of all ages.
Jon Rimmerman
Jon Rimmerman started Garagiste with $500, a passion for wine, and a knack for weaving a great story. Today Garagiste garners national recognition for selling more (and more diverse) wines, than any other independent retailer in the Northwest.
Andrew Bennett
Andrew started Deneki Outdoors to combine his love of the outdoors with a great opportunity to build a business. Deneki Outdoors operates fly fishing lodges in Alaska, BC, the Bahamas and Chile.
Steven Bristol
Steven's Less Accounting service is challenging mainstay QuickBooks with an online accounting package that has, well, less. New customers are signing up in droves.


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Will Twitter's Uncanny Luck Ever Run Out?
This past week I heard two rational arguments on the fate of Twitter from two smart investors.
One was an argument that it'll likely fail in its bid to become a public company. The logic went like this: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga have proven the private markets are fundamentally horrible at valuing companies. In the early stages, that doesn't particularly matter. But when you get into pre-IPO secondary shares being bought and sold, it does. Just ask the people who bought pre-IPO shares of all three of those companies.
Twitter -- with its relative lack of a business -- was always a more dubious growth bet than those other three, buoyed by the sheer strength of its product. And now, there's just no way it's worth anything close to the $8 billion it was valued at at the last round, this person argued. If Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga have all had a greater than 50 percent haircut -- Twitter can't even dream of going public now.
This doesn't mean Twitter is going under. The company has enough cash to grind it out and it could always raise more money -- albeit a larger valuation might prove a challenge until some of the questions around its business model are answered. But odds are, this person argued, in this new public market reality, with Twitter's business still very much TBD, the company will sell for less than its last valuation to a Google or a Microsoft.
The other argument was for why Twitter is in a far better position than Facebook. This had to do less with its current revenues or valuations, and more with future prospects. Twitter's ads -- while nascent -- just work better, this person argued. Twitter is a simpler product (or will be, now that it's asserting more control over how users interact with it), and when inserted in a stream responsibly, people don't tune their ads out the way they do on Facebook. Also, unlike Facebook, its audience transitioning from Web-to-mobile isn't a problem for its business. Twitter has always been heavily mobile. Its ad products can work equally well on either.
Neither of these investors had a clear agenda. One of these arguments was made by someone invested in both Twitter and Facebook, one was argued by someone invested in neither. Taken together, the conversations demonstrate something weird going on: Unlike the cases of Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga, Silicon Valley people in the know have no fucking clue what to make of Twitter. What's more, they haven't for years. Because no company has ever defied the odds quite like this.
Developers feel just as torn: While Twitter keeps smacking them in the face with potentially company-ending moves, there's still no other platform quite like it. Even some of Twitter's biggest fans feel split on what the product has become.
Part of that is circumstantial: The fortunes of the three horsemen of the IPO apocalypse have been so shockingly bad, after years of pent up enthusiasm. That hits everyone. Or put a better way: They have been shockingly bad relative to what everyone expected.
Had the private markets valued them more rationally, we'd be marveling at the size of Facebook's market cap -- even 50 percent lower than at its debut. We'd be stunned that something as seemingly frivolous as the many iterations of Farmville was worth anything close to the market cap of EA. And the fact that anyone in the hard to win local space had created any company worth $2 billion in just a few years would be impressive. These three would be successes, not failures.
But expectations matter. And like it or not, these companies are all considered goats now, which has to trickle down to other companies priced in that same mania.
But the uncertainty over what to make of Twitter goes well beyond recent macro events. Twitter has long defied all start up reason.
When this era of Silicon Valley history comes to a close, the most fascinating book will be written about Twitter -- not Facebook. If I didn't have a company to build and a baby to raise, I'd be tempted to spend the next year or so of my life trying to best Nick Bilton at this.
Facebook was always an outlier -- a once in a decade success story by a young kid who came out of nowhere and built something huge. But while rare, we've seen those sorts of outliers before. Twitter is something even more uncommon: A company that has violated nearly every spoken or unspoken rule for how you build a successful company in the Valley. You hear it muttered everywhere in startup circles these days: This company should never have made it this far. And yet, here it is. Recent haters aside, it's still the most significant private company to watch in the consumer Internet space.
A short list of said violations:
- Twitter shouldn't have even been started to begin with. It grew out of the failed podcasting company Odeo. Being spawned out of failure isn't so uncommon, but the way Odeo ceased doing business was. Founder Evan Williams just accepted this company wasn't going anywhere and bought out his investors. It was a rare "let's call a spade a spade" admission of failure in a Valley that has become obsessed with finding soft landings. Had Odeo followed, say, the Digg playbook, its staff and assets could have wound up a part of a lame company like Yahoo, where any ideas would have withered, and staff would have bided its time until they could leave. That would have included an unknown engineer named Jack Dorsey and a fledgling idea called Twittr. And when Williams did the uncommon nice guy move of buying out his investors at a far more generous price than what Odeo was worth, he managed to keep investors happy and keep Twitter from starting life with a totally screwed up cap table.
- Revolving door of CEOs. If one thing has characterized this wave of Web 2.0 and social media companies, it has been slavishly holding to the belief that founder CEOs should never be ousted. Twitter has ousted not one but two. That's also led to a revolving door in senior management and a few waves of ousting and reconfiguring the board. People in the Valley like to believe that teams -- not products -- matter, or that it's all about execution, not the idea. But Twitter is proving the opposite. The product has been compelling enough to survive three teams. It's hard to come up with another example of a company that has not only survived that, but gone on to thrive.
- Almost no product innovation. At all. The Web version of Twitter has changed remarkably little since its inception. Most of the innovation, has come from the developer ecosystem. Indeed most of the features like @s, #s, and the like came from the community, not Twitter. Most companies that survive on the strength of their product actually have product innovation from time to time or get passed by a competitor. Not the case with Twitter, so far.
- Twitter's product visionary is the CEO...of another company. Okay, Twitter apologists say, so there's a revolving door at the CEO and board level. But Dorsey is still the chief product guy, and he was the founder. That'd be an important caveat in Twitter's favor, were Dorsey not also running the hugely ambitious Square. Plenty of smart investors have passed up on investing in both Square and Twitter because of concerns about Dorsey splitting his time. But so far there seems very little outward evidence that this is the disaster that it should be. The only model for someone doing this effectively is Steve Jobs, who was running Pixar and Apple for a time. But his focus and heart was clearly with Apple. And, that was Steve Jobs. If your entire company is being bolstered by its product, and you are expecting your product guru to be Steve Jobs, well, good luck to you.
- Biting the hands developing for you. Every startup wants to be a platform these days, and every platform needs an army of developers. Twitter has it and is continually pissing it off. I totally get the business reasons for why. But the problem Twitter has is consistency. Early on, it was one of the most developer-friendly applications, flinging the doors wide open for development in ways most other platforms didn't. But that's what happens when you change CEOs three times. The entire company changes.
The Facebooks and Googles are rare. But if Twitter can actually turn this legacy into a successful, lasting public company, if it doesn't flame out and become the tale of what could have been, we will have witnessed a singular event in the history of Silicon Valley.
Either Dick Costolo has sold his soul to the devil, or he will be considered a turnaround god.


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If you've ever had currant buns, or any other baked product with "currants" in them, you, like 99.9% of the public, thought the "currants" were the little red fruits that grow on bushes. Nope.
The dried "currants" used in baking are actually a true raisin, a dried grape. Called "currants" because one of the names of the grape they come FROM is "Zante Currant" also known as Black Corinth, and many other names, THIS is the variety dried INTO "currants" that are used in baking.
Black Corinth is the name you will usually find it under in America, though in recent years it has become known as "the Champagne grape" due to advertising by a produce dealer who specializes in it. Ironically, there is an old American grape called "Champagne" that is a very coarse, rough tasting labrusca grape of low quality, about as far FROM Champagne as you could get.
Black Corinth is a very odd grape in many ways. In it's natural state, the clusters have very few berries and they are hardly bigger than pinheads. In wild grapes, the sexes are in separate vines, male flowers on one, female flowers on another. This is true even in wild Vitis vinifera, the classic grape of commerce. Black Corinth is an "almost male" in that the flowers have well developed anthers, and very tiny ovaries, probably representing a first step towards evolution of a perfect flowered grape. Hence, when it does set fruit, there are only a few per cluster and the berries are tiny and seedless. However, the variety was doubtless kept as a source of pollen so that the female flowered varieties would set full crops.
How did Black Corinth come to be used at all, if the berries are so few and tiny?
It's a very old variety, probably Greek, and the story goes that a donkey was tied to a vine of it and the animal started going around the vine until the halter rope rubbed the bark off. Instead of dying, the vine healed the wound and the grapes, which were minuscule in other years, were large enough to eat after the vine was girdled. There is certainly a grain of truth in the fable as girdling was a standard practice in increasing the set and size of seedless grapes until the discovery of the plant hormone gibberellic acid and it's ability to do the same thing with less labor.
Girdling, or hormone treatment, causes the clusters to set full crops, though the berries are still tiny. Because the stems also remain tiny, the berries can be eaten with the stems on. This makes the variety seem very dainty and rather glamorous (thanks especially to articles showing frosted clusters of them with glasses of champagne – hence the "champagne" grape) and home growers who have seen this decide that Black Corinth would be fun to grow., which is too bad because it's NOT a home grower's grape.
First, of over 200 varieties in my collection, it is the most susceptible to powdery mildew. As pure Vitis vinifera, it is also completely susceptible to all the other diseases of grapes – downy mildew, black rot, etc. And since it comes FROM such a mild country, it can't be counted on as being hardy to much more than 0°F. But more than anything else, unless the vine is treated with hormone at bloom time, or girdled, the berries are minuscule and the clusters are straggly. So while it looked romantic in the magazine, it's NOT worth the work for most homeowners. Buy the fruit in the store, if you must, but don't bother trying to grow it.
Black Corinth – the grape that's a Currant (Zante) that's a grape.


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A device being developed by the NYPD uses infrared rays to scan a suspect's body to determine if they're carrying a weapon. The implementation of the device would mean cops could do away with having to frisk a suspect, a risky action in itself due to the close proximity of the suspect.
NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly explained that the infrared rays scan a "form of radiation emitted from the body." Because the infrared rays cannot penetrate metal, the cops would be able to see a digital outline of a weapon such as a gun or a knife, making it possible to pinpoint its precise location.
The scanner would be mounted on a police van and currently works at a range of about four feet, though engineers are hoping to extend that to around 80 feet.
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If I have one favorite classic cocktail, it's the Negroni—refreshingly bitter, just sweet enough to round out the edges, with complex botanicals and a bright burst of orange oil to set it off.
I could happily sip them all year long, but there's room for experimentation, right? Classics aren't meant to exist in a vaccum; they're building blocks for bartenders to work from. Some versions of the Negroni have become established cocktails in their own right: The Boulevardier swaps gin out for bourbon; the Negroni sbagliato ("mistaken Negroni") uses vermouth and Campari, but sparkling wine rather than gin.
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Cooling down by surrounding yourself with green is a perfect summer antidote. Fresh, reviving Moroccan mint tea can be prepared to drink throughout the day, and tastes just swell over ice. And though many tea purveyors actually sell pre-blended "Moroccan Mint", nothing beats the taste of fresh-picked mint and decent tea that you made yourself (or can get someone to make for you.)
Tea reached Moroccan shores via European traders in the 18th century, where it gained a foothold specifically in the form of Gunpowder Green tea from China, an assertive-tasting green that holds up well against even the strong flavors of mint.
The minted-and-sweetened preparation became a national emblem: as both a drink of ritual and hospitality, Moroccan mint tea is truly part of the Moroccan everyday. (Guides will even warn you repeatedly that it is considered offensive to your host to accept any fewer than two cups.)
Though preparation is not difficult, it has its ritual nuance. A skilled pouring technique is emphasized (and can be enhanced by use of Moroccan tea kettles and practice at pouring from a height) in order to promote the tea's characteristic foaminess. The sweetener used can be honey or a simple syrup, can be adjusted to the brewer's taste. Get started—it won't take but a minute.
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Water: Bring two cups good quality water (filtered, but not distilled) to a boil. You'll be filtering the leaves out later, so a sauce pot will be fine and will help allow your tea plenty of room to unfurl. Cut the heat and allow water to simmer.
Tea: Rinse 1 tablespoon of Gunpowder Green tea pellets and add to simmering water.
Mint: Add a handful of freshly picked mint leaves. Spearmint works well!
Sweetener: The least precise and most taste-based of the constituent ingredients. Start with 2 tablespoons of sugar.
Simmer the tea, mint leaf, and sugar mixture for 5 minutes, or to preferred strength. Pour mixture through a fine-meshed strainer or sieve to remove the biggest leaves, and make sure the sweetness level is to your liking.
Serve by pouring into preheated cups from a high distance—try a foot—to create that characteristic frothy top Moroccan Mint tea is known for. (To create a foamier tea experience, you may also pour the water in and out of the pot a few times before serving to your guests.) Feel free to get in the mood and go ornate with your teaware, but keep in mind Moroccan teacups are traditionally small, necessitating repeated servings and prolonging the social aspect of the tea tradition.
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