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Gus Pugliese, the striking coach for Dan Henderson, doesn't appear to be a fan of the lineup for UFC 157.
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- 来自 David Hull,4 个月前评分 4 / 5I find the default Firefox behavior really annoying and this extension fixes it for me. I used to get this functionality as part of the Tab Mix Plus extension but unfortunately it doesn't work with newer versions of Firefox.
There seems to be a conflict with another extension that deals with tabs, the Unload Tabs extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unload-tabs/). With that extension enabled, this extension only works sporadically. If this extension doesn't work for you I would try disabling any other extensions that deal with tabs and see if that fixes the problem.
Original review: Doesn't work reliably under Firefox 77. Often the configured tab is briefly selected, then Firefox switches to the tab to the right of the closed tab. But I love the idea!
开发者回应发布于 4 个月前I've been investigating, but haven't reproduced this issue yet.
Please update the extension, set Operating mode to v4 and see if it improves.
- 来自 Firefox 用户 12193918,5 个月前评分 5 / 5Edit: a conflict with another extension caused unreliable behaviour. Once I disabled it, things are working as expected. Developer was very helpful in finding the root cause.
开发者回应发布于 4 个月前I've been investigating, but haven't reproduced this issue yet.
Please update the extension, set Operating mode to v4 and see if it improves.
Edit: Are you using the UnloadTabs extension? A conflict was found with its "prevent Firefox from loading unloaded Tabs" option.
- 来自 Mesqalito,7 个月前评分 5 / 5This is exactly what I was looking for. Although it has a lot of options - the crucial is "Last accessed tab" on close. And it comes preselected by default - no need to tune up anything. Neat!
P.S. Works well with Tree Style Tab.
- 来自 brass,7 个月前评分 5 / 5这是一个看似简单不起眼但实际上必不可少的的扩展之一!配合鼠标手势,加上自身合理的符合自己习惯的设定可以很大程度上减轻操作疲劳,增加效率浏览体验,虽然很多人不会理解因为它的作用并不那么直观但事实上它就是如此优秀
- 来自 Donald5FA,8 个月前评分 5 / 5An excellent add-on, works very well, believe it or not, this add-on just do what IE 11 browser's tab can do which I used a lot. With this add-on Firefox works more convenient.
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If you add some examples to the description, the configuration would be much easier, to understand.
With a better description I would have rated 5 stars.
- 来自 Serban Radu,1 年前评分 5 / 5A must have add-on! I don't know why this feature + "New tab" in the context menu + "open new tab" to the right of selected tab doesn't exist by default in Firefox! Thank you to the developer!


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Full feature coming up in Issue Four soon...
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
Black Pig
Full feature coming up in Issue Four soon...
Thursday, 23 June 2011
Hammer time!
My friend John W (who built the stunning Guzzi cafe' racer in Issue Two) came up from Bristol way yesterday to provide motivation and some tunes (Otis Taylor - 'Truth is not Fiction - what an album) for my Guzzi Le Mans 2 special.
Everything was going swimmingly until we discovered the front engine bolt is seized in. Solid. Luckily John had brought the special Guzzi tool no. 3865 for removing said seized bolts with him by strapping it on his back - so we cracked it out and got going. Hammer time! Suffice to say it didn't do the job, so we gave up, and like most frustrated Englishmen, decided the next best course of action was to retire to the local to discuss a course of action over a pint of fine ale. Then it was on to another local boozer which has regular bike nights. Only other Italian there was a 'chocolate' brown Jota. Royal Enfield Constellation was lovely, as were the two Indians, one of which (the blue Chief) I have ridden, and is a blast.
John then discovered he had no lights so a quick blast back before the sun came down and a last pint in my local before closing time. Thanks John for the help and a good time - hope you didn't get too wet on the way home......
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
FMB Telaimotor 'America'
Rare and Yankee market-inspired 'America' model from 1963, spotted at this year's Reggio Emilia mostra scambio.
FMB Telaimotor (literally 'framesmotor') was one of the myriad companies in and around Bologna through the '50s to the '80s that specialised in building their own chassis, and buying in motors to suit - FMB was based at 38 Via Fossolo, but sadly now there's a company building lab equipment instead.
The motors used would often be Minarelli 50cc strokers, but I reckon in this case it's a 125 Mondial four-stroke motor, and I'd expect to see 'Mondial' cast into the cases on the other side of the bike. Buckhorn bars, white grips, chrome tank and studded Roy Rogers-type saddle flaps vie for the attention of potential US customers. Wonder how many they sold in the States - anyone out there own one?
More bikes from Reggio Emilia coming up in Issue Four soon.
Monday, 20 June 2011
8 cylinder supercharged aural Alfa pleasure
More on this magnificent beast coming up in Issue Four soon...
Sunday, 19 June 2011
Comic nostalgia
Saw these issues of 'Commando' magazine today in my local newsagent and was pleased to see it was still running, 5oth anniversary this year. As a kid growing up in the 1970s, this was what we were into, tales from World Two, which wasn't so far away in those days - everyone knew someone who was involved. We all preferred the German uniforms, Tiger tanks, Stukas and BMW with sidecar and MG42 machine gun, though in play, the Brits always won. I couldn't afford to buy these small comic books new so would pick up piles of faded, dog-eared ones for pennies from local church jumble sales (sorry, not sure if you have/had jumble sales where you are - er, garage sale type thing.). Nice to see we haven't gone so PC in this country that we can't still have some decent WW2 stuff on the shelves for kids.
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Monday, 13 June 2011
Moto Guzzi do themselves no favours...as usual
So it's sad to read an article in the latest issue of Italy's most influential bike rag 'Motociclismo'. They carried out a massive and comprehensive 28 page mega-test in Sicily of the current enduro tourers on the market, including the MBW F800GS, BMW R1200, Honda Transalp 700, KTM 990 Adventure, Triumph Tiger 800XC, Yamaha Tenere 660 and the Yamaha ST 1200.
I started to read the spread (as posted above) assuming the Stelvio would be in there - after all, the test was in Italy, and these bikes are its main competition. Then I noted the small panel on the bottom left hand page, with the headline 'Guzzi Stelvio - Absent without Leave'. It continues (imagine terse, tight-lipped speaker) 'The Italian contender is missing from our comparison: we asked Moto Guzzi for the Stelvio, but the bike was delivered extremely late, when we were already well into our test in Sicily'.
Obviously I don't know the details of why Motociclismo didn't get the bike in time, but if five other manufacturers can get their bikes sorted, why can't Guzzi? Or is it Guzzi's masters Piaggio that don't care? It's sad because the Stelvio is easily as good as the BMW 1200 GS (I've ridden both) and probably better than some of the other bikes on test here, but now the readership of Italy's top bike mag aren't going to know that, and people who might have bought a Stelvio might now buy a Bimmer instead.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
Friday, 10 June 2011
The one that got away
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
One of the treasures spotted by us at Reggio Emilia mostra scambio (autojumble/swap meet) this year - much more coming up in Issue Four. Florio Monti used to drive truckfuls of these for Piaggio around Northern Italy in 1944, trying to avoid German SS patrols and partisan ambushes at the same time.
Read his amazing story as a bike racer in Issue Three
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
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Thanks again to Dorian who is the incredible source of all this information.
TECHNO UPDATE: Here's a great explanation as recommended by Oldtimerworkshop below - thanks man!!:
Monday, 6 June 2011
Mystery MV revealed - 175 Idrobad prototype
Your guesses as to what this rare MV Agusta 175 might be and why it's unusual were excellent, and most of you deduced that it is a motorcycle with some kind of automatic transmission, hence the obvious lack of any kind gear change pedal on the right side of the machine where you'd normally expect it to be.
This is what was officially named by MV a "Motoleggera MV 175cc 4 tempi, con cambio idraulico progressivo (Licenza Idrobad), but for short the 175 Idrobad. It features a hydraulic transmission unit, designed by Sig. Badalini, so has no gearbox (so no pedal). The infinitely variable hydraulic transmission is controlled by the left hand twistgrip, whose cables run down into the motor not unlike those of an MV Pullman - in fact the handlebar cable mechanism looks similar at a glance. This Idrodad features a small button also on the left hand twist grip that allows the bar to be pulled in, and kept in, as a sort of neutral, handy for sitting at traffic lights and so on. At its simplest (it's not simple, it's complicated!!) the Badalini transmission used a hydraulic pump and hydraulic motor, both of a swash plate type - a ring of pistons is actuated by an inclined disc to give the variable part of the drive - like a belt on a cone in a modern CVT system I guess.
A special prototype of a modified 175 CS Sport had appeared on MV's stand at the 1954 Milan Show, and there's a photo of this bike in Mick Walker's book on MV Agusta (see above). The bike in this photo looks exactly, and I mean exactly like the bike I rode last week, and photographed. Another strong link to this prototype show bike is that the bike I rode has a lacquered fuel tank - MV didn't lacquer their tanks on these models, so it was probable it was done for a special purpose, like putting the bike on show.
I think it's one and the same bike, which makes this rare bike even more special, especially as it is in superb, original and conserved and UNRESTORED condition, which is how it should be left.
Watch a small video we made here on You Tube which will help to explain how it works.
There'll be a full feature on this very special motorcycle in Issue FIVE of the magazine.
Thanks as always to Dorian for making this very special MV Agusta experience possible.
Saturday, 4 June 2011
Italian food interlude
I know this is the kind of junk people post on Twitter but had to leav ethe mystery MV scenario to go and take a break and make dinner, spaghetti bolognese - my wife is Italian, and from Tuscany, so I have to make it well otherwise I'm in trouble. Her parents are over from Italy next week, and I'm hoping they'll be stashing some good stuff (food stuffs that is) from Tuscany in their bags, mm mm..
Right, spaghetti's almost done, gotta rush..
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
World exclusive for ITALIAN MOTOR - but what's wrong with this bike??
Thanks again to my friend Dorian, I've managed to photograph, and in this case document for important reasons, a very rare MV Agusta.
In fact, in this case we're talking about a genuine world exclusive for various reasons, and I'm very honoured that ITALIAN MOTOR magazine will be the first magazine, on the whole planet no less, to run a full feature on this machine in the near future.
But what's strange about this bike?
NB: Photo is copyright JA BOLTON/ITALIANMOTORMAGAZINE 2011.
UPDATE: Ok, here's another photo - you're all very close, I'll be posting up a small video soon that shows all.....
UPDATE number 2: Here's another!!
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Cassar-Daley in concert
COUNTRY music star Troy Cassar-Daley will relive Maryborough memories with his old bandmates when he plays the city for the first time in four years this May.
In a visit to the city earlier this week to promote his album, the star reminisced on the two years he lived in Maryborough from 1992-93.
Cassar-Daley will perform at the Maryborough Sports Club on May 9, almost a decade after first playing the venue with the Blue Heeler Band.
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Cassar-Daley chose his old haunt over bigger places such as the Brolga Theatre and Bundaberg venues for his tour because of the memories.
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Cassar-Daley will go on tour in March to coincide with the release of his new album Home.
He spent three months recording the album in Nashville last year, including singles Home, The River Runs and Country Is.
He chose his favourite song Home, as the title track after the album had been recorded.
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Cassar-Daley wrote the song after his Grafton farm was hit by the January 2011 floods.
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Regional crowds such as Maryborough loved the album's first single, Country Is, he said.
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Visit www.troycassardaley.com.au or phone the Maryborough Sports Club on 4123 1499 to buy tickets for the show.
Troy Cassar-Daley's album Home will be released on March 2.


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Choosing the perfect foolproof gift for your partner may always be a dilemma, but if you try to consider his own preferences you can surprise him with a nice and useful gift. As such, in the following lines, we will present you several foolproof gift ideas for your partner.
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City Museum Founder Bob Cassilly Killed in Bulldozer Accident
If you've ever visit St. Louis and not gone to spend an afternoon at The City Museum, you've missed an opportunity to visit one of the strangest, most interesting destinations on the planet. Less a museum than just a strange collection of miscellaneous things, usually made of metal, patched together across multiple-stories, it's a fascinating and utterly bewildering place to spend time in. Unfortunately some sad news this week about its founder, Bob Cassilly. The artist was killed on Monday in an apparent accident involving a bulldozer on his follow-up to the City Museum, a much larger public art project re-purposing a former cement factory called Cementland. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has more details about the accident and his work on both projects. Here's a bit about what investigators have released thus far:
Bruce Gerrie, curator of architecture at the City Museum and Cassilly's friend for more than four decades, arrived at the accident scene after Cassilly's death. Gerrie said it appeared the bulldozer had slid off a rocky hill and flipped a few times before landing upright.
"He's lived on the edge," Gerrie said. "Bob lived a life of excitement and I'm glad that he didn't have to suffer from anything. He went out as he was."


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The same is true of Tommy V. He may not win the Tour this year, but my god he's surely put forward a good case for his name being added to the list of legends if only for the impressive amount of suffering he's put himself through during the past ten days. Can he hold on over the hairpins of Alpe d'Huez today? Can he time-trial himself to a podium tomorrow? The excitement is finally enough to make me forget my end of term exhaustion.


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Beauty Review: Huda Beauty Lip Contour SetWednesday, October 04, 2017
I'm so, so excited to be sharing this review right here on my blog today 'coz I've been recently following Huda Beauty on Instagram and I love this woman! A blogger turned entrepreneur, she s definitely super talented, and I love the looks she often shares on her Instagram!
Apparently, she has her own makeup line and uses them quite often in her makeup tutorial - and since I'm in the Middle East, why not grab some of her cosmetics from her makeup line?
Headed straight to Sephora at Villagio Mall and unfortunately, most of the items were not instock. Especially her eyeshadow palette - Rose Gold Edition, that seems to be out of stock EVERYWHERE here in Qatar.
I went to a few Sephora outlets in Qatar, but ALL of them do not have the eyeshadow palette in stock :'(
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I mentioned a while back that Mauri's at the coast again, where he's been every January for the past ten. It's a blessing for him to change up his location and routine for these weeks while I do taxes and other projects at home after work. I'm happy to report that the dog is still alive.
Here are a couple of pictures Mauri shared with me. He didn't say I couldn't post them, which is as good as permission in my book.
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Swine flu pediatric deaths in US rise to 95
(AP) -- The government's latest figures show swine flu is widespread across the country and increasing in almost every state. It's now caused at least 95 children's deaths since April.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the new tally Friday morning.
Forty-six states now have widespread flu activity. The only states without widespread flu are Connecticut, Hawaii, New Jersey and South Carolina.
There are at least two different types of flu causing illnesses now. Testing from about 5,000 patients suggests that nearly all of the flu cases are swine flu.
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This 1969 Volkswagen Beetle for sale in California is one of those cars from my youth. For the first few years of my life, my father drove a 1967 Beetle in this same shade of Java Green. It wasn't in particularly good shape or all that exciting, but it was certainly more reliable than the Fiat 131 2-door that shared the garage at the time. That was a car which drove my parents into the arms of reliable Hondas for almost two decades. The 1967 Beetle which my father drove was one of the last classic Beetles, albeit upgraded with a 12 volt electrical system and larger 1.5 liter engine along with safety items such as reversing lamps and sealed beam headlights. The following year would transform the Beetle closer to its final form from the 1970s era. For 1968, there were many improvements, such as an electronic fuel gauge, ventilation system and improved shifter, along with new safety features such as larger bumpers and integrated front seat head restraints. This 1968 Beetle for sale in California is coming off a fresh restoration.
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CAPE ELIZABETH — Town councilors heard two hours of spirited public comment Monday night about a proposed agreement between the town and a group of waterfront residents over access to an undeveloped section of Surf Side Avenue.
As part of a mediated court settlement announced last month, the town would agree to release "any right, title or interest it may have in Surf Side Avenue," or the strip of land along the shore, thereby blocking it from any future development.
In exchange, the plaintiffs – Imad and Hulda Khalidi, David and Kara Leopold, Andrew Sommer and Susan Ross, Stewart and Julie Wooden, and Pilot Point LLC – would drop all legal action and pay the town $500,000. That money would be deposited in the town's land acquisition fund to be used to purchase and preserve public land in the future.
The council is expected to hold a special meeting next week to vote on the agreement.
Durward Parkinson, an attorney for the town, said Monday he understands that not everyone will be happy, but he stressed that it is the best deal for the town.
"We believe … well, it's an imperfect world … but this does a lot to bring closure," he said.
Some residents urged the council to accept the agreement and put the long, contentious battle to rest.
Many others who spoke at Monday's council meeting, though, pledged to continue fighting and worried that the deal effectively means the town can be bought.
"If we have to sue, we will sue," warned Paul Moson, speaking on behalf of the hundreds of people who have signed a petition to preserve the land as a public way. The group includes several non-waterfront residents of the 115-home Shores Acres subdivision.
Some urged the council to hold off on signing the agreement pending a townwide referendum on the issue.
The plaintiffs, who own multimillion-dollar homes overlooking Broad Cove, had sued the town in January, claiming that they – not the town – collectively owned the so-called paper street, an undeveloped 800-foot portion of Surf Side Avenue that runs along the edge of Shore Acres. Under the proposed agreement, the property owners would own the land and be required to pay taxes on it.
Mary Ann Lynch, a former councilor, disagreed with Parkinson that the agreement was a good deal and said the town should defend the lawsuit.
"As a taxpayer, some things are worth fighting for," she said, adding that the deal could create a bad precedent that might encourage others to sue the town.
Jan Trundy said the town was "being held hostage by five wealthy landowners."
"Why are their interests more important than the rest of the town?" she asked.
Others who spoke Monday, though, urged the council to accept the deal and end the long fight.
"Owners have worked with you to resolve this problem. Now work with them," Heather Pounds said.
The agreement does not affect existing public access on Surf Side Avenue, only to the paper street.
Inland residents of Shore Acres had for decades enjoyed the deeded right to hike along Broad Cove. However, some newer residents with waterfront property have indicated in recent years that they want to stop the town from extending that right to the general public. The dispute has been simmering since the town's Conservation Committee identified Surf Side Avenue as a potential trail in the town's 2013 Greenbelt Plan.
In October 2016, the council decided to extend the town's right to accept its paper streets for an additional 20 years, but the abutters and some of their neighbors wanted the council to take immediate action.
At a packed meeting in November, the council was scheduled to either vacate, accept or continue to extend the town's right to accept the paper streets. Councilors heard lengthy testimony from residents and tossed around several options, such as holding a nonbinding referendum and seeking an easement from the abutters before vacating the paper streets.
Finally, the council voted unanimously to extend the town's right to accept paper streets until 2036 and hire a facilitator to help the neighborhood work through its concerns and inform future council actions.
However, the landowners did not express a willingness to participate in that discussion and opted to sue instead and let a judge decide.
David Soley, a Portland attorney representing one of the plaintiffs, said Monday that the town council has shown "tremendous professionalism" throughout the process.
"It's a fair deal," he said. "Nobody was in love with the deal. It was, in fact, a compromise."
Jamie Wagner, a resident with many friends on both sides of the issue and also an attorney who said he reviewed the agreement closely, called it a win-win.
"It might not feel that way to some, but if this case stays in court, it will drag on for several years," he said.
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I was writing this at work because I was sooooooo bored that I was actually nodding off. I wasn't even up late. I had a good 8 hours sleep (yeah that's why I was late) I had been surfing Amazon.co.uk for the past couple of hours and even that got boring. I filled my basket with waaay more than I planned to buy in the next few years, unless I get really rich. In that case I'll buy the whole basket in one go.
I need to keep off Amazon. I have 2 hundred and something items in my basket. It would probably be more if all my items didn't vanish a few months ago. T'was a day I remember vividly! I came into work, logged in, went through to "my basket" and NOTHING was in it. I thought it was some sort of mistake and spent the next hour or so logging in and out before realising that maybe they were gone FOREVER!
Amazon says that items only stay in the basket for 30 days until they are gotten rid of. I could accept that if that were the case and they stuck to it. However I had some of these items in there for over a year. That 30 day stuff is just nonsense. Do you know how much attachment can build up in a year? I guess those dear folks at Amazon had enough of me and my "window shopping". They could have warned me first though. What they did to me was tantamount to robbery. I felt violated.
Besides me being bored bored bored! Yesterday was a bad bad day for three other reasons, which I am going to list below:
1) My boss is a rude bitch:
I always knew this but I am becoming more and more disgusted by the disrespect that she shows to myself and others. She will walk into a room where you are and instead of coming up to you and asking if she can speak to you, will stand by the door and beckon you with her index finger. Now what kind of shit is that? Not even a word! It's only if you hesitate that she will cock her head and say, "In my office" or "Can I have a word?" (The latter only if she is being super polite.) It is so rude and belittling. I doubt she tries that mess with her superiors though!
2) My jeans were soaking wet allllll day:
A bus drove super fast through a puddle in the morning and completely soaked one side of my lower half. My jeans were dripping wet. That pissed me off because I have to sit in the smelly dim office in wet clothes, occasionally rising to rub my ass on the radiator. Then while I am in this pissed state nutcases wanna come and get fresh with me.
3) The realisation dawned on me that I am too fat to fit into my Brazil clothes:
I have five weeks exactly before I leave and my clothes don't fit. What the hell am I gonna do? I thought that buying everything too small would give me the incentive to get into them. Looks like I'm going to be going halfway across the world with an empty suitcase. I think the only hope now is starvation, but temptation is all around me. To top it all of I went boozing. It's not my fault! It's all in an effort to be social. The only other thing I could think of that might help (apart from a gruelling exercise regime and starvation) is colonic irrigation/hydrotherapy. So I booked myself in to get it done after work TODAY. If this doesn't at least flatten my stomach I'm DOOMED!
Following on from number 3… Has anyone had this done? I have three (looks like 3 is my number today!) fears regarding this procedure:
1) The size of the tube:
I don't want my asshole ripped apart. I don't do pain well. My friend told me that its huuuuuuuuuge! In saying that this particular friend has a tendency to exaggerate or in certain instances straight out lie! This is the chick that told one of our other friends to dry her panties in the microwave. She is also the chick that inspired my first ever blog, when she told me that she couldn't pick her nose because her nostrils were too small, only to find her digging out her nose another day! Because of this I have to take what she says with a pinch of salt. Other sources have said that it is pencil size, but if it is that small how does all the stuff pass through?
2) My intestines bursting:
They pump about 15 litres in, so there is that risk. . . I think!
3) Shitting myself:
Between the treatment place and home is an hour's journey. . . Anything could happen. Maybe I need to invest in a but plug!
A little bit about Colonic Irrigation for those that don't know:
Also known as Colonic Hydrotherapy, Colonic Irrigation or Colon Therapy, this practice was reputedly used in Ancient Egypt, China and India. However, the method common in the West today has its origins in 19th Century European spas.
A treatment will begin with a detailed case study, and an explanation of the procedure. The client is then asked to remove all clothing and wear a gown provided by the therapist. The client then lies down on a treatment table and warm, purified water is introduced into the colon via the rectum, the therapist will use special massage techniques during the procedure to stimulate the release of stored faecal matter. The colonic will take between 30-45 minutes. Herbal and probiotic implants may be used and advice will also be given on dietary changes to enhance the treatment. Advice will also be given on how many sessions will be necessary, and a colon cleansing programme may be recommended to support the treatment.
This is a really good website that answers questions that you may have:


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I have been asking myself what I am all about lately.
I mean the really thought-provoking, deep and interpersonal look-inside-your soul kind of "about."
I had a friend on Facebook throw out the question this past week, "What did you learn in 2013?"
I am sad to say that I have yet to come up with an answer.
I know I learned "stuff," like how to write a blog post and post html-affiliate links, etc., but I haven't come up with the deep, meaningful, life-changing new learned thing. I know it doesn't have to be that. I KNOW. But it's there. I HAD TO LEARN SOMETHING LAST YEAR, right?
Explore. Dream. Discover.
There's a page on this blog called "About Me." It gives an overview of me, and asks that if you want to know more, check out my first post. Ya, ya, ya, but what I am about? Really?
I know what I wish I was about. I know what I dream I could be about.
When I thought of writing this post, it started out being about dreaming about the future. Looking up a "dream quote" on the internet, I chose one that was highly rated and meant something to me. The photo attached to the quote is a picture I took of a ground squirrel, who literally looked like he was day-dreaming while sitting on a post on a heavily used walkway overlooking a piece of the California coast. He was sitting there, not afraid, not making any noises, not trying to be noticed in any way. It seems silly, but it was like the squirrel was dreaming. (I know you might be smiling right about now, but go with me on it.)
I AM sitting at a computer staring at a photo of a squirrel on a post overlooking the coast, not trying to be noticed, not afraid, not making any noises (except the obvious typing,) trying to explore my inner self. Dreaming of what this blog could be and what I can do next. I need to discover my priorities, even now!
Seriously, the analogies could be endless.
That's what I'm thinking right now. I hope it got you thinking too.


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Caramelized Apples Recipe
Caramelized Apples and Reims N.39 "a la Mode"
Caramelized Apples and Reims N.39 "a la Mode"
From Lior Lev Sercarz of La Boîte á Epice
For an element of crunch, try adding toasted, chopped pistachios or crushed meringue cookies to the Reims yogurt.
- 1 cup Greek yogurt or labneh
1 tablespoon La Boîte Reims N.39 spice blend, divided
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, diced
3 Fuji or Honeycrisp apples, peeled, cored, and cut into 8 wedges each
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 cup ruby port
Zest of an orange
- In a small bowl, whisk together the yogurt and 1 teaspoon Reims N.39 spice blend. Refrigerate.
- In a large sauté pan, melt the butter over medium heat; add apple wedges and sugar. Cook over medium-high heat, flipping the apple wedges, until caramelized, about 4 minutes. Add the ruby port and orange zest, and continue cooking for another 4 minutes.
- Divide the cooked apples among 4 serving bowls, and drizzle with the port cooking syrup. Top each bowl with a dollop of the Reims yogurt cream. Serve immediately.
Serves 4.
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University Senate
Proposed: December 8, 2000
Adopted: December 8, 2000
President George Rupp, the chairman, called the Senate to order shortly after 1:15 p.m. in 301 Uris. Fifty-two of 88 senators were present during the meeting.
Minutes and agenda: The minutes of October 27, 2000, and the agenda were adopted as proposed.
President's report:
--The following Columbians received important awards in the past week: Leon Lederman and
Henry Mischel both received the Engineering School's Pupin Medal for Service to the Nation; Vittorio Castelli received the Egleston Prize for Distinguished Engineering Achievement; Bill Campbell '62 received Columbia College's Hamilton Award.
--The Columbia varsity field hockey team, playing in only its third season, has won the ECAC title. The men's soccer team, winning some big games at the end of the season, narrowly missed an NCAA bid. The women's cross-country team has earned a berth in the NCAA championships.
--Two other Columbians, Jacques Barzun and Kenneth Koch, have won National Book Awards.
--The Provost has announced the search committee for the next University Librarian. The chair will be Prof. Richard Bushman; the other members are Jean Ashton, Hilary Ballon, Peter Bearman, Walter Bourne, Caroline Bynum, Bradford Garton, Paul Glosterman, Curtis Kendrick, John Masten, Henry Pinkham, Stephen Rittenberg, Edward Shortliffe, Nicholas Turro, Jeremy Waldron, and Kate Wittenberg. The goal is to have a new University Librarian by the time Elaine Sloan retires next summer.
--In response to a question from Sen. Fran Pritchett (Ten., A&S) at the previous meeting, the President asked Kenneth Knuckles, Vice President for Support Services, to report on the Columbia Housing Assistance Program (CHAP).
Mr. Knuckles said CHAP is an attempt to aid community development by encouraging home ownership for Columbia employees in the upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, which the University helped to create in 1993 and where more than 2000 housing units are slated for development in the next few years. Full-time employees are eligible for a forgivable loan of $10,000 or 5 percent of the purchase price of the home, whichever is smaller. The loan is forgiven at the rate of 20 percent a year. For homes in central Harlem the benefit is enhanced to the lesser of $15,000 or 7 percent of the price. The buyer must occupy the home, which may be a condo, a coop, or a private house accommodating up to four families. After a slow start, the program has loaned some $80,000 (of a total of $300,000 budgeted for this purpose) to six Columbia employees for home purchases. Special provision has been made for limited-equity coops, an arrangement-¾common in New York since the late 1950s¾in which the owner has to share the proceeds of any sale with the cooperative. For these units, whose prices are significantly below market, the loan will be $10,000, or 50 percent of the price, whichever is less (for units in central Harlem, the loan limit is $15,000 or 50 percent of the price). A recent marketing forum on campus for a limited-equity coop now under construction on 116th Street and Lenox Avenue drew 250 people. Several Columbia employees have applied for units in the recently completed Morningside Park Condominiums on Morningside Avenue. Mr. Knuckles said the program has been a success and will continue to grow.
Sen. Eugene Litwak (Ten., A&S) commended the program, but wondered if it might be misunderstood as an attempt to gentrify Harlem. Mr. Knuckles agreed that fear of gentrification is an old angst in Harlem, which has surfaced again with the current construction boom. But the CHAP program grew from a finding that some 1500 employees, with annual incomes between $20,000 and $70,000, live in upper Manhattan, and many of them want to live closer to work.
He said the program has been well received by key officials, including Congressman Charles Rangel and Borough President Virginia Fields.
Sen. Lars Tragardh (Fac., Barnard) asked if Barnard and Teachers College employees are eligible for CHAP. The President said it was not, but the program could be expanded to include Barnard and TC if their leaders committed their own funds.
The President acknowledged the unease of Harlem residents about gentrification, but stressed that CHAP has been developed with strong support from people in Harlem, and is one of the few benefits targeted specifically for lower-income employees. He said he thought the addition of limited-equity coops would provide a vital boost for the program, enabling people to own homes for much less. Mr. Knuckles added that the prices of units in the Lenox Avenue development will range from $4,500 to $15,000.
Sen. Pritchett asked if there are safeguards to assure that affluent employees could not take advantage of the program. The President replied that no policy of this kind can exclude a class of people. But the scale of the incentives offered will do little good to anyone hoping to turn a major profit and a lot of good to someone buying at the low end of the housing market.
Sen. Litwak called for wide publicity for CHAP and the differences between it and the kind of gentrification that is so worrisome to Harlem residents.
Sen. Phyllis Garland (Ten., Journ.) asked what efforts are being made to notify employees about the program. Mr. Knuckles said a CHAP coordinator is available in Human Resources several hours a week, a mass mailing went to employees 18 months ago, and information about the program is available at the Human Resources website.
--The President said he had decided to declare a pause in the construction of a second Social Work School building on the north side of 113th Street, in order to allow an intense and collaborative review of a whole range of options, both for the design of that building and for alternative sites for a Social Work building. The process will be quick, involving consultations with community members and political officials, and resulting in a decision in about six weeks.
--The current capital campaign is coming to an end, and a celebration is planned for major donors in conjunction with the Trustee meetings on December 1 and 2. The campaign has been an extraordinary success, having surpassed its $2.2 billion goal to reach $2.74 billion with six weeks to go.
Sen. Allison McDermott (Stu., SW) said many fellow students at Social Work had spoken to her about the pause in construction of the school's new building. She asked if her constituents would have a chance to voice their concerns. The President said he was working with Dean Feldman of Social Work to find ways for school representatives to become involved in the intense deliberative process to take place in the next few weeks.
Sen. Barry Allen (Research Staff, HS) asked if the present consultations will have ramifications for future projects at other sites. The President said Columbia has been successful in recent years in collaborating with the community on its building projects. The prime example is the Broadway Residence Hall, which included such changes to accommodate community concerns as a public library on the first floor and the preservation of townhouse facades on 114th Street. He said some of the trouble with the 113th Street site may have resulted from community frustrations with the tall building the Manhattan School of Music decided to build on 122nd Street. The President said Columbia, which must proceed with other projects after the present one, must do what it can to keep community frustrations from growing further.
Sen. Sharyn O'Halloran (Ten., A&S), a member of Physical Development, said the committee has not been regularly apprised of important impending decisions on capital projects, and has therefore been handicapped in playing its advisory role on physical development issues.
The President replied that Peter Marcuse, the chairman of Physical Development, has been getting updates from Vice President Emily Lloyd on the issues in the current pause, which was initiated on November 13. Sen. O'Halloran agreed, but noted that the committee was not previously kept abreast of significant initiatives, including the decision last summer to renovate 130 Morningside Drive, the partly occupied building on the "Pharmacy" site, near Amsterdam and 122nd Street.
The President said many constituencies want an uninterrupted dialogue on University policies, but there are only a few people to conduct that dialogue with them. He said he took Sen. O'Halloran's point, but repeated that Prof. Marcuse has been kept informed on recent issues.
Report of the Executive Committee chairman: Sen. Paul Duby (Ten., SEAS), the chairman, reviewed topics discussed by the committee on November 14 that were also on the present agenda. He added the following points:
--The Senate staff has started discussion listservs for faculty and for officers of research.
--The Executive Committee decided to wait before deciding whether to establish a formal mandate for the ad hoc Senate group that is now learning about Fathom.com. Later, it may be appropriate to begin a broader inquiry into Columbia's online learning initiatives. There will likely be Senate discussion of these issues in December.
--A new draft policy on e-mail privacy may be available soon, for the Executive Committee (and possibly other committees) to review.
--Sen. Duby had asked Sen. Debra Livingston (Ten., Law) to be standby chair of the Rules Committee, which maintains and revises the rules governing rallies and demonstrations. The committee has not met for several years. He also requested and received Senate approval for a list of changes in committee assignments that had been distributed at the door.
New business:
--Report from Honors and Prizes: Sen. Debra Wolgemuth (Ten., HS), chair of the committee,
summarized its mission, and reported on efforts to improve the selection process for the honorary degrees given at Commencement. The main innovation will be to start deliberations much earlier, in the spring term, more than a year before the degrees are awarded. The current process, lasting only a few weeks in the fall term, has hampered the collaborative efforts of the Senate and Trustee nominating committees. Sen. Wolgemuth also said the Columbia faculty is uniquely qualified to recommend the very best candidates for honorary degrees in the academic disciplines, and she appealed to colleagues to submit nominations.
--Discussion of the Provost's annual letter to the Senate: The letter had been available at
the door for the October meeting and had since been distributed to all senators.
Sen. Richard Bulliet (Ten., A&S) said the faculty caucuses, which he chairs, have expressed concerns about salary issues, and asked how they could communicate with the Provost's Committee on Salary Equity, which has reconvened this fall. If there are no senators on the committee, would the Provost be willing to appoint some? The Provost said he wasn't sure whether there are now any senators on the committee, but he had no objection in principle to including senators.
Sen. McDermott asked how Social Work students could participate in the search for a new dean of that school. The Provost said there is a student on the search committee, and an open letter will solicit suggestions for candidates for the position. The search committee will also meet with faculty from the School, and perhaps with students as well.
Sen. Bulliet asked for details about plans to provide high-speed internet access to IRE apartment buildings. The Provost said that the program is now limited to buildings on Claremont Avenue and Riverside Drive, where individual tenants can choose to pay for the services. One purpose of the experiment is to reduce congestion in Columbia's dial-up modem pool. The University has sought competitive bids for the service.
Howard Jacobson, the Parliamentarian, said Time-Warner, the cable company, is now upgrading its wiring system in the neighborhoods that it serves to allow for high-speed internet connections. Another company, RCN, is providing some competition.
Sen. John Broughton (Fac., TC) asked if there had been any inquiry into the safety of such cable installations, which he understood are not subject to regular fire regulations. A recent underground fire on Morningside Drive near 120th Street had spread into apartment buildings through the cable system. The Provost said administrators overseeing Columbia's own high-speed wiring project would be better prepared to answer this question than he.
Sen. Avery Katz (Ten., Law) asked the Provost to elaborate on plans for a new Columbia K-8 school to be built on Broadway just below 110th Street, particularly the work of the proposed faculty and external advisory committees and the goal of establishing links with public schools.
The Provost said the first town meeting about the school unexpectedly attracted some 300 people, and 150 volunteered to help. The external advisory group will consist of experts in education from Columbia and around the nation. The faculty group will offer advice on curriculum, architectural plans, and tuition reduction models for affiliates. The Provost also said Columbia is trying to join forces with neighboring public school districts, particularly in the Manhattan Valley area to the east. The Columbia school will offer programs to help with teacher certification, with technology applications, and with summer programs. He said half of the students will not be Columbia affiliates, and at least 10 percent will have full financial aid.
Sen. Joan Ferrante (Ten., A&S) urged school planners to consult with leaders of other private schools, which are so oversubscribed now that they will not see the Columbia initiative as a threat. The Provost said Gardner Dunnan, who is leading the school initiative, was headmaster of the Dalton School for more than two decades, is in touch with other New York private school directors, and is also looking at other private schools around the country.
Sen. Luciano Rebay (Ten., A&S) called attention to the distinction at the start of the Provost's letter between significant issues that deserve mention to the Senate and routine matters that do not. He said the Provost had never informed the Senate in 1989 about the decision to sell the Casa Italiana to the Italian government. Was this because he didn't think the matter was significant enough to mention?
The Provost said he did not remember whether he had written to the Senate in 1989, but if he had he would certainly have mentioned this transaction prominently. He said his current letter was already long, and without an attempt to exclude routine issues, it would have been of little use. He said that if significant new issues emerge in coming months, he will announce them.
The President made a point of order that issues bearing on the Provost's current letter are relevant to the present discussion; the question of what the Provost told the Senate 11 years ago is not.
--Report from Research Staff senators Barry Allen and Stephanie Neuman: Sen. Neuman,
who represents officers of research at Morningside and Lamont, announced that she and Sen. Allen, who represents colleagues at Health Sciences, have made a preliminary attempt to communicate with the research community across the University. At an information-gathering luncheon meeting on November 15, 18 colleagues discussed a preliminary agenda that included the following issues:
· The possibility of establishing a Senate committee focusing on the interests of research personnel. Roughly 1,000 Columbia employees belong to the Senate research staff constituency, which has two voting representatives in the University Senate; some 900 tenured faculty, by contrast, have 42 voting seats. There are also 15 nontenured faculty seats, and 22 student seats.
· Uniform criteria for research appointments and salaries.
· Appropriate titles for research personnel.
· Sufficient computer access for officers of research.
· The possibility of expanding Senate representation for officers of research.
Sen. Neuman mentioned three results of the meeting: a discussion listserv will be established soon for researchers, which may be a useful way to bring this highly dispersed group together; she and Sen. Allen will propose an hoc committee on research affairs (analogous to a now defunct committee on administrative staff affairs), which might become a standing committee later on; and a small committee of researchers is studying how researchers at peer institutions are appointed and promoted. Finally, Sen. Neuman expressed satisfaction at the supportive response of colleagues.
Sen. Allen elaborated on two issues raised at the meeting:
· There was serious concern about whether Columbia research titles¾associate research scientist, research scientist, and senior research scientist¾have parity in the eyes of NSF, NIH and other granting institutions with titles of competitors for research dollars.
· Another lively issue concerned promotion procedures for researchers: whereas researchers based in academic departments are supposed to go though promotion procedures analogous to those of faculty, researchers based in centers or institutes have no standard promotion protocols.
Sen. Allen said one question for an ad hoc committee to consider is whether researchers should have their own committee to address issues like grievances of constituents, or whether standing committees, like Faculty Affairs, should expand their mandate to include such issues.
Sen. Letty Moss-Salentijn (Ten., SDOS) expressed unease about the term research community, which she said includes faculty as well as officers of research. But she agreed that Columbia research titles need to be reviewed and clarified for the outside world, and suggested a series of titles analogous to professorial titles¾like assistant research professor, associate research professor, and so on. Sen. Moss-Salentijn said her rough notion has always been that researchers are nontenured professors, whose redress for grievances should be in Faculty Affairs.
Sen. Allen replied that research officers are excluded from Faculty Affairs. He added that the question of status can be particularly complex for people like himself, who was affiliated with the Biology Dept. at Morningside some years ago, then migrated to Health Sciences. Like a number of other research officers, he serves in a faculty role on a Ph.D. committee based at Health Sciences, but is not considered faculty at Health Sciences, since he doesn't teach in the medical school. Sen. Allen hoped that an ad hoc committee could sort out these tangled issues.
--Resolution to establish a new institute at Reid Hall: Sen. Moss-Salentijn, chair of Education,
moved the resolution. She accepted an amendment, offered by the Parliamentarian, to include the Statutory provision that the establishment of an institute must be authorized by the President. The Senate adopted the resolution without discussion or dissent.
The chairman adjourned the meeting at around 2:35 p.m.