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Srinagar: Three youth were arrested on Wednesday night in connection with the online abuses and threats to the all-girls rock band of Kashmir.
Tariq Khan was apprehended from Bijbehara, a town in South Kashmir, and Rameez Shah was arrested from Ganderbal in central Kashmir, police sources said. Later in the night, Irshad Ahmad Chara, resident of S D Colony, Batamaloo, was arrested. The police had been raiding different places to apprehend the third accused.
Jammu and Kashmir director general of police Ashok Prasad, who is closely monitoring the case, has directed stepping up of patrolling in the areas where two of the three girls of the band group reside.
Police have started tracking down the Internet Protocol addresses of the 26 users whose comments, out of the total 900 posts on the band's Facebook page, were found abusive, officials said.
They said the delay of three days in lodging the FIR was due to large number of posts on the Facebook page of Kashmir's all-girl band Pragaash, that took time to get scanned.
A case in the matter has been registered under Section 66A of IT Act and Section 506 RPC (criminal intimidation) in the Rajbagh police station here.
A member of the band had yesterday said they decided to call it quits as they respected the decree of Kashmir's grand mufti who found singing un-Islamic.
"We respect the Mufti sahib who said it (singing) is 'Haram'. We respect the opinion of people of Kashmir also.
That is why we quit," she said adding that the band was not disbanded because of online threats.
The DGP has requested all central agencies to extend support to apprehend all those who had hurled online abuses at the all-girls band.
Never give up your passion: Iranian all-woman band to Pragaash
This all-woman Sufi music troupe comes from a much conservative Muslim society of Iran but has never faced any 'fatwa' from clerics unlike the young girls' band of Kashmir which had to call it quits due to religious edicts.
'Ghazal', the young and refreshing band which is here to perform at a festival organised by ICCR, has a very strong but simple message for the Kashmiri girls -- never give up your passion in the face of opposition.
"We are so sorry to hear (about the Kashmir girls' band Pragaash). We are so happy to perform in India but why can't they," asks Sahar Lotfi, who leads the seven-member troupe formed in 2010.
Lotfi, whose troupe has performed in a number of concerts by propagating the Sufi tradition of their country with jubilation, says women in Iran, a much conservative society when compared to Kashmir, are free to decide what they want to do.
Women in Iran are "very cooperative" and "understanding" when it comes to the fair sex taking up singing, dancing and other activities.
"We are free to perform instrumental and whatever we want to. My family has also been very cooperative," she says.
Sympathising with the young Kashmiri girls, who called it quits on Monday after the Grand Mufti of Kashmir termed their singing un-Islamic, Lofti asked them not to run away in the face of a threat.
"They should go on. They should not stop. They should continue with propagating the message of peace and love. They should go on," she says.
Not only Lotfi, there is also another woman performer who had come from Azerbaijan.
Congress slams ban on girl band
The Congress, meanwhile, criticised the 'fatwa' against the state's all-girl rock band and supported the Jammu and Kashmir government's stand.
"The state government has taken correct steps," Congress spokesperson Rashid Alvi told reporters here.
Stating that the 'fatwa' against the girls' band was a "serious" issue, Alvi said, "There could be no restrictions on an individual's freedom of expression."
"India is a secular country. There is freedom to preach any religion but it cannot be imposed on anybody," said Alvi.
Grand Mufti Bashir-ud-din Ahmed, head of the Muslim clergy in Kashmir, issued a 'fatwa' (religious decree) Sunday asking the parents of the three girls who formed the rock band to impart religious education to their daughters. He labelled the girls' performance as "a shameful act".Kashmir rights group to file suit against Grand Mufti
Meanwhile, a civil society human rights group said they would file a case against Kashmir's Grand Mufti for issuing fatwas, which project the state in bad light internationally.
Pervez Imroze, patron of Jammu and Kashmir coalition for civil society told media persons: "He is a self-appointed religious leader who has been issuing fatwas, which project Kashmir and Kashmiris in bad light internationally."
Earlier he issued a fatwa against the Christians and now he has issued another one against these girls, he said.
"He is protected by the state government and has been trying to establish his own legal system. We have decided to move the court against his right to issue intimidating fatwas," said Imroze.

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text: David Vitter Senator Vitter Gets Judiciary Committee Seat By Associated Press • Dec 16, 2014 Republican Louisiana Senator David Vitter says he has been appointed to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The assignment sets him in the middle of what likely will become major disagreements in the next Congress. Those include fights over President Obama's nominee for the attorney general, and the president's immigration plan to help those living in the United States illegally. Complaint Filed Against Pro-Vitter Super PAC By Associated Press • Mar 24, 2014 United States Congress Two groups that advocate for campaign finance reform are raising questions about the operations of a super PAC formed by backers of Republican U.S. Senator David Vitter. The Advocate reports the groups — Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21, — have asked the Federal Elections Commission to look into the possible solicitation of illegal campaign contributions. Pro-Vitter PAC Challenges State Campaign Donor Limit By The Associated Press • Feb 18, 2014 A super PAC supporting Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter is asking a federal judge to throw out the state's donor limits to political action committees. The Fund for Louisiana's Future filed a lawsuit in New Orleans federal court Tuesday, challenging the limits as an unconstitutional limit on political speech. Louisiana currently caps contributions to PACs at $100,000 for each election cycle. Super PACs can raise and spend unlimited funds to help candidates at the federal level. Senator Vitter Announces Run For Governor's Office; Mary Landrieu Reacts By Eileen Fleming • Jan 22, 2014 Kevin Dietsch / UPI / Landov Listen Listening... / 1:02 Senator Mary Landrieu on the Louisiana governor's race. Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter has announced he'll be running for governor next year. He's telling supporters he can have a bigger impact in Baton Rouge than in Washington. Sen. Vitter Will Run For Governor In Louisiana By Mark Memmott • Jan 21, 2014 Louisiana Sen. David Vitter, who easily won re-election in 2010 after seeing his career put in jeopardy by a prostitution scandal just three years before, confirmed Tuesday that he will run for governor in his state in 2015. Vitter Enters Race for Louisiana Governor By editor • Jan 21, 2014 Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter will be a candidate in Louisiana's 2015 governor's race. Vitter announced his plans in an email to supporters on Tuesday, saying "I believe that as our next governor, I can have a bigger impact addressing the unique challenges and opportunities we face in Louisiana." The Associated Press obtained the announcement from Vitter's staff. Vitter's announcement ends months of speculation. His decision is expected to influence which other potential candidates enter the race. Gov. Bobby Jindal is term-limited. Vitter's New Clout Could Get Things Done By Kelly Connelly • Feb 5, 2013 The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee meets Thursday to discuss reforms to the Army Corps of Engineers. One of Louisiana's senators, David Vitter, now sits as the ranking minority member of the committee. Super PAC Could Help Vitter in Gubernatorial Bid By The Associated Press • Jan 28, 2013 A Washington fundraising heavyweight is helping to set up federal and state super PACs to support U.S. Sen. David Vitter, a move that heightens speculation that Vitter is eyeing a bid to run for governor. Lawyer Charlie Spies told The Associated Press that Vitter supporters filed paperwork Monday with federal and state agencies creating The Fund for Louisiana's Future, a pro-Vitter political action committee. The federal super PAC could support a Vitter re-election bid in 2016, while a state PAC could aid him if he decides to launch a gubernatorial campaign in 2015. Vitter Named Top Republican on Environment Committee By The Associated Press • Jan 4, 2013 U.S. Senator David Vitter has been named deputy Senate whip and will take over as the top ranking Republican on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The committee has jurisdiction over levees, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Environment Protection Agency, and two major bills coming up this year: the highway bill and the Water Resources Development Act. Vitter also remains on the Small Business, the Armed Services, the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs committees. Vitter cancels town hall meetings in north La. By The Associated Press • Aug 27, 2012 U.S. Sen. David Vitter says he's canceled Vitter two town hall meetings in north Louisiana because of Tropical Storm Isaac. The Louisiana Republican said meetings today in Lake Providence and on Tuesday in Winnsboro have been canceled. Pages1 2 next › last »


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After my interview with Victoria, I spent a lot of time looking at the notes I'd taken, blogged about it to suss out my problems (and hopefully, imparted some useful information and advice in the process). Then I launched straight into rewrites. That would make this about the seventh or eighth draft since I banged out the original manuscript around March 2009 (maybe more--there were a lot of cuts and detours I'd removed.)
It's likely that when you start out, you might not get as detailed a rejection letter. You will likely not get the opportunity to speak with an editor at all. It's easy to give up and dismiss your work as a waste of time and energy. But I say, NO! It was not a waste of time! Do not give up. Even if you feel like you need to work on something else, go ahead, but come back! All is not lost!
If there's anything I've learned in general about writing in the years I've been doing it, it's that momentum has to be kept up or you end up dead in the water. Victoria's comments gave me lots of direction, and while I started at page one on polishing and tightening, it also got me into the story so I could make the major plot changes that would ramp up the romantic conflict--the thing that was really keeping me from being published.
This lesson reminded me of this:
That's right, when you hit a wall or you start to get grumpy, listen to the crazy blue fish.
Toward the end of our chat, I asked Victoria straight out where she thought I should go with my rejected MS. She asked me what my schedule was like, and I told her I would start revisions ASAP. Then she asked what else I was working on.
"Well, I've just finished the first draft of my fourth book, which is a sequel to this one about the wrestling coach, Kyle Peters, who is training a female MMA fighter who wants to go pro..."
Her eyes glazed over. I cut myself off.
"Er...I'm working on it. I need to sit on it and let it breathe."
Because a story can really breathe lodged under my ass, apparently.
See, after the enlightening discussion we'd just had, I realized where all my problems were and was therefore less enthusiastic about it than I should have been/was before my bubble burst.
And then my brain went into overdrive. I could fix things. I could work on the romantic conflict, the subtle characterizations, the minor details...and I could catch them all on the second draft. (And the third and the fourth...) I knew what some of the issues were, and would be. Of course I could make it better!
To borrow another of Disney's aha! moments:
Bottom line: Never give up! Never surrender! Keep on swimming! Keep moving forward! Keep working on that book!
I hope to have my revisions done before my wedding day...but until then, stay tuned for more on the writing journey!


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Meatballs are a staple in a variety of cusines , but the Italian version always springs to mind first , draped in a zesty tomato basil sauce and topped with freshly gated parmesan cheese . Cook up some pasta , and you are ready to eat . This is a homestyle , " sunday ' type dinner in our home , simple , rustic and so satisfying . These are baked and not fried as we like to keep fat to a minimum . Please remember buffalo meat is naturally very low in fat so do not overbake them or they will be dry.
Photograph by Rahul Mahtani
1 lb ground Bison ( Buffalo meat )
2 large eggs , beaten
1 cup fresh bread crumbs
1 small bunch fresh flat leaf parsley , finely chopped
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil leaves
1 small spanish onion , finely chopped
5 garlic cloves , minced
1 tbs heavy cream
1 cup freshly grated parmigiano reggiano cheese
salt and black pepper , to taste
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes ( optional )
Preheat oven to 350*F . Spray a foil lined baking tray with olive oil or Pam cooking spray .
Mix all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl . Do not squeeze , keep the mixture well mixed but not tight . Form teaspoonfuls of meat mixture into meatballs and place them on the prepared baking tray.
Bake till just cooked through , about 20 minutes .
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text: Well, AFAIK this hasn't been formally stated. Demolishor is seen getting his head cut off in the ShoWest footage. Credit goes to user 'scalan15' for suggesting it. Here's the proof. Here's a crop of the scene of Demolishor running through the overpass. Here's the mysterious 'exploding thing' scene from the ShoWest footage. The head is upside down, and the fireball is where Demolishor's neck would attach to it.


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March 15, 2016
By Murray Black, 15 MAR 2016
Presenting contemporary classical music is a continuing challenge for symphony orchestras. The fear of upsetting listeners and not making sales targets can lead to neglect or tokenism.
SSO chief conductor David Robertson is a noted champion of contemporary music. One of his responses to this challenge was to select Australian composer Brett Dean as an artist in residence and have him program concerts in a non-traditional venue.
From the evidence of the first instalment in the SSO at Carriageworks series, Robertson has hit on a winner. The sellout crowd was demographically diverse and cross-generational. Carriageworks' concreted, post-industrial surrounds proved an ideal setting for this stimulating selection of music.
According to Robertson, young Australian composer Lisa Illean was identified by Dean as one to watch. After listening to her new SSO commission, Land's End, I can hear why.
Inspired by the delicate seascape paintings of Latvian-American artist Vija Celmins, Illean has constructed a similarly subtle soundscape in Land's End. A series of wispy instrumental tendrils gradually unfolded and evolved, creating a compelling exercise in stillness and quietude that benefited from the SSO's well-sustained pianissimo playing.
The concert-opening Derive 1 (1984) by Pierre Boulez has been accurately described as a study in trills. Its textures and lines ceaselessly shift, merge, climb and plunge, yet never settle. The ensemble's polished, well-balanced account realised its mysterious character and sophisticated veneer.
Unlike Derive 1, there was an underlying sense of rhythmical drive and linear momentum in Brett Dean's Pastoral Symphony (2000). In contrast to the pastoral musical idylls of previous centuries, Dean's vision is a bleak, dystopian one of nature despoiled. Snatches of recorded birdsongs were melded into the orchestral textures. Poignant lyrical shards were ultimately drowned out by a ferocious fortissimo tutti climax that then splintered into silence. The controlled intensity of Robertson and the SSO's alert, tight-knit account evoked a strongly visceral response.
French composer Gerard Grisey's Four Songs for Crossing the Threshold (1998), scored for soprano and chamber orchestra-sized ensemble, was different again. Long slow passages floated along untethered before the music suddenly sped up, drove forward, exploded with forceful power, then subsided. Clashing dissonances, fragmentary hints of melody and intriguing textures were interwoven into a unique musical tapestry that sounded both ritualistically primeval and utterly contemporary.
Soprano Jessica Aszodi was an outstanding soloist, remaining focused and clear-voiced in both staccato yelps and softer, more smoothly phrased snatches. The SSO's instrumental ensemble captured Grisey's distinctively intricate and complex creation with precision and insight.
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Hi there! Nothing too exciting over this way…so I thought I would leave you with a short post! Three things:
1.) My new job is going FANTASTIC! Everyone is super friendly, and even though we were really busy last night–I feel like I am picking up on things quickly! 🙂
2.) The weather outside is amazing! It was crisp and cool this morning–and it is making me excited for Fall weather!
3.) The show Suits on USA is amazing…and there is some serious eye candy. Trust me–watch it.
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We have some brand new white One Direction heart sunglasses available for sale for $5 each, and they would be perfect to wear to the concert tonight here in Columbus. We don't have any tickets available, but we didn't know what other category to post these for sale. These sunglasses are officially licensed, and they are brand new with the manufacturer tags still attached.
We also have some One Direction red heart pendant necklaces available as well for $5 each. These necklaces are brand new, officially licensed, & still have the manufacturer's tags attached. We're located on Goodale Blvd. in Grandview.


text: I just got my droid, and am loving it so far, but one stupid, small concern: anyone notice that the camera, volume and lock/unlock buttons are fairly loose and wiggle around when you hit them.. I just want to know that all other droids do this, I didn't just get a bad one. It just seems to easy when holding the phone and using it to hit one of them and press it accidentally. Other than that, the build quality is amazing, and I have a lot to learn.. Also one other very stupid thing my obsessive compulsive self noticed when trying to put my screen protector one was there was a piece of dust under the screen that would not come off from the surface.. Sorry to sound like a crazy OCD guy, that had to mention these things, anyone else notice either, but especially the loose buttons? Happy Droid Day!!


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text: Jesse gets trapped in a room with a zombie October 31, 2016 I thought this was a simple game. I meet with your friends, enter a room full of clues and solve the puzzle. That was until we saw the zombie! You can check out Trapped in a Room with Zombie presented


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Trainers – Old Vans
Mustard socks – Penguin
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Welcome to the Seth Rogen Hey Girl Tee
Have you ever gone into Urban Outfitters and picked up those Ryan Gosling colouring books that have a cute little messages in speech bubbles on each page which somehow brighten up your day, just because it is Ryan's angelic face? Well I contemplated on this idea and thought why not have the face of the other types of hunks of Hollywood with cute messages, the ones that makes us laugh relentlessly and have a cute podgy stomach… This is how the Rogen Hey girl Tee came to life. I chose his face because he is one of the funniest actors I know (thought no one can top Steven Carrell), he has got the most distinctive laugh and quite an adorable teddy bear face.
The T-shirts will be available in the standard sizes (small, medium, large, x large) and will be printed as requested. The t-shirts are made of 100% polyester.
Until I get all the links up and ready to go, enjoy this little photoshoot I did with the help of my baby brother. He is only fourteen but takes the fashion business VERY serious.
T-Shirt – own design
Sunglasses – ASOS (old)


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Welcome to my mish mash. I will share my passions, recipes, tips, deals, and products I just love! What are my passions? Green & healthy living, cooking, working from home, my family, my faith, breastfeeding, homebirth, advocacy, my journey to better health, preparedness, sewing, gardening, and so much more!
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Teaching our children to find joy in every day work
My little girl is three, and she loves doing housework, and I let her. I think it is a perfect age to instill joy in keeping a home, and to try to perfect my attitude toward cleaning, cooking, and laundry. Too often, we as parents make so many mistakes that show up later in life in our children in their feelings toward work.
Our attitudes toward our daily tasks help mould how our children will feel about their lives later. If we dread mopping the floor, find laundry too trying, or grumble about going to work, you bet our children will as well. Instead, lets choose an attitude on joy, for we are not only serving our families, but the Lord as well. He put us here to nurture and strengthen our households, and these so-called mundane tasks are a part of a glorious calling from on high.
While they are young, and still enthusiastic, encourage them to do housework. Letting them help may take a little longer, but the benefits will show when they get older. My daughter loves housework, so I let her have joy in it and help me. It isn't always done perfectly. But, she finds happiness in it, is proud of her accomplishment, and she will gain independence and be more responsible.
Every child is different, but here is a list of things I let her do. This doesn't mean your child couldn't do more or less, it is just an idea. Note: I use only non toxic cleaners. I wouldn't let your child do some of these things if you use conventional cleaning products.
1. Wash dishes
2. Vacuum
3. Make the bed
4. Fold and put away small laundry (underwear, washcloths, etc)
5. Wash vegetables and put them into the cooking pot
6. Add ingredients from measuring cup to bowl or cooking pan
7. Wipe down the counters or table
8. Bring dishes to sink
9. Dust
10. Wipe down the bathroom
11. Load dryer or washer (I hand her items to put in)
12. Water plants
13. Pull weeds
14. Sweep
15. Put items in trash
16. Tidy room by throwing out garbage, putting toys away, etc.
17. Help stir food in the bowl (such as potato salad, cake, etc.)
What do you let your little ones do? Do they have any favorite jobs around the house?
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On Monday 14 April we heard the results of our second competition of the year, poetry. Our guest judge was prize-winning local poet, Kim Lasky.
Kim was very complimentary about our efforts, and gave
comprehensive feedback to everyone who had entered. She told us she was
looking for the use of a poetry form which complemented and supported
the subject matter, as well as the use of language and the rhythm of the
The eventual winners were: in joint fourth place, 'The Slip', Diana
Lock, and 'On the Hill, Marcia Woolf'. Roz Balp was in third place
with 'Overkill', Sara Young was second with 'Jack', and the deserved
winner was Jill Fricker with the moving 'Out of Niger'.
Sunday, 20 April 2014
Manuscript Evening - 31 March 2014
The group met on Monday 31 March for one of our regular Manuscript evenings, where members present extracts from their work in progress for discussion and constructive feedback. The meeting was chaired by Kate O'Hearn, fresh back from a trip to Hawaii, where she was doing research for her latest 'Pegasus' novel.
Four brave members presented their work: Paul Johnson with football inspired fantasy, Anne Spiring with a prospective Mills and Boon bodice-ripper, new member Corinne Graehame with chilling crime, and Lee Owen with science fiction. Needless to say, we found grappling with all the different genres quite challenging!
However, all the presenters appeared to find our feedback useful.
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Wednesday, 2 April 2014
Poetry Entries - 17 March 2014
On 17 March entries had to be submitted for our Poetry Competition. This year, with a number of new members taking part, we had a record number of entries for the competition. This is pleasing, as poetry has traditionally been a minority interest for HWG members.
Entrants read out their poems and presented a short 'back story' about what had inspired the piece.
Entrants read out their poems and presented a short 'back story' about what had inspired the piece.
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Results of Short Story Competition - 3 March 2014
On Monday 3 March a large group of members gathered to hear the results of our first competition for 2014 - producing a short story from a given first paragraph. The competition had also attracted a record number of entries, despite many members saying they found the task difficult.
Our judge was up-and-coming thriller writer James Carol, who had also set the paragraph we had to work from. He had been impressed with the quality of the entries, and interested to see that some had used the paragraph to write a 'big' story, about cataclysm and disaster, and others to produce a 'small' more domestic drama.
The eventual winners were, in joint fourth place, Stephanie Gaunt with 'The Choice', and Jill Fricker with 'Falling to Earth'. New member Linda Blackhall was third with 'We are the People', second was Mike Walsh with the 'Wasteland', and our winner was Roz Balp with the mesmerising 'The New Order'.We were also pleased to welcome two prospective members at the meeting.
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This is not a food blog! However, periodically, it could be a blog about food. Like today.
When the today grocery bill for 2 people is higher than the 4 people bill of 15 years ago, and the 2 people involved are gong to retire soon, I think it's time to be bold and start looking at different ways of cooking. The funny thing is that an awful lot of old becomes new again.
My hobbyhorse has become legumes and pulses. Legumes are the plants and pulses are.....the little bits that we eat. You thought I was going to go on about perfume points!
Pulses include peas, beans and lentils, and we have been eating them for 13,000 years! Isn't that exciting?
As a tidbit, the Lebanese introduced lentils to Canada around the time of the depression. While the drought was killing off our wheat, it was providing some very good growing conditions for this little nutritious powerhouse. As a result, Canada is now the world's leading exporter of lentils and Saskatchewan (the province that's so easy to draw and so hard to spell) is the leader of the pack.
I'm so surprised that the legume/pulse section of most grocery stores is so small. I'm also disappointed that there isn't a recipe section close by to teach people what to do with all that lusciousness lying around, practically free.
As an FYI, there's a website for lentils: lentils.ca which has all kinds of recipes, and some great blogs: onehotstove.blogspot.ca , for example.
We need to be bolder and take our tummies to places they have never gone before....vegetarian cooking, back to Lebanon and Asia. Actually, older German cookbooks have generous numbers of pea & bean recipes.
Not to forget homemade pork and beans and the recipe for that is on the back of the haricot bean package.
I don't deny that some of these recipes are a little bit fiddley but that's the beauty of retirement; we're supposed to have more time to spend on the important things. In my life, cooking is a fun activity, so it's not as challenging to seek new food worlds as it would be for someone who sees cooking as a chore. So, realigning chore↓ and cooking↓ to cooking↑ and fun↑ might be one of the first priorities of retirement.
Let's cook great things and share them with our friends and family and talk about people who have way too much spare time and spend it blogging.


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A toolbar helps a user save time by creating shortcuts to commonly used features of an application. A Windows toolbar can be created manually for any folder on a computer, and many applications install with a pre-designed toolbar. Toolbars are also one of the most common forms of malware, often bundled together with free software.


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Casey Donovan To Talk About Self Harm And Sex Addiction On Living Black
Casey Donovan is being interviewed on Living Black about her autobiography Big, Beautiful, Sexy. She will talking about self harm and sex addiction. She will also tell about her time being a victim of an internet hoax otherwise known as catfishing.
I hope she is in a good place at the moment as she is talking about topics that show that she was and is very vulnerable. However she is an articulated, talented individual so the interview should be interesting.
Full details below:
2004 Idol winner Casey Donovan took time out from her national tour, You Believed, this week to speak frankly to Karla Grant about her often turbulent past, how she is healing her present and her plans for the future. She opened up about her demons that plagued her growing up including self-harming and her recent sex addiction. She also talks about the pressure of Idol and her advice for others involved in reality programs and her complicated family relationships. She reveals her future hopes of making it in the United States.
Casey reveals some of the struggles behind penning her incredibly honest autobiography, Big, Beautiful and Sexy, and says it was very therapeutic and part of the healing process of the various ups and downs of her life's journey over the past 10 years, as well as it being a celebration of her achievements.
She gives intimate details of her six year relationship with a man she had never met and tells Living Black Conversations that since releasing her autobiography this year; as many as four other women have approached her telling her that they too have had similar experiences with "Olga".
Casey also details the sex addiction that followed the Olga/Campbell relationship and how she wanted to feel real again. And now as a result of these experiences, Casey is now helping to raise awareness of online dating scams and "cat-fishing" and shares the excitement for her role as an advocate for plus size women.
"I needed to get away, with every click of a button on a new profile it, it just got me further away from whether I was and I did kinda take it to extreme and just went hell to leather and rode the wave ….I needed the touch of a man I wanted to know how it felt it to be embraced and cuddled and kissed by a dude whether he had any intention of liking me whatsoever, it was just the fact that I wasn't playing this imaginary boyfriend in my head of what he'd be doing to me I was living the real thing." Casey said.
Living Black on Monday 9 June at 5pm on SBS ONE and Tuesday 10 June at 8pm on NITV


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Customers that are looking for a vehicle with a great track record will love the 2014 Ford Taurus. The Taurus has won many awards that will come of no surprise to many customers. Kelley Blue Book named the 2010 Ford … Continue reading
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By KERRY LYNN FRALEY
Staff Writer
A Waynesboro, Pa., woman who had a heart and lung transplant Tuesday at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is breathing on her own and was able to get out of bed Sunday, according to her cardiologist.
Sara Henke, 20, was "doing very well" without any mechanical assistance, said Dr. Nancy Bridges, medical director of the hospital's thoracic organ transplant program and one of the surgeons for the operation.
Dr. Thomas Spray, director of the hospital's thoracic organ transplant program, was the lead surgeon, she said.
Henke received a heart and right lung from a donor near her age, which is good, Bridges said.
She had been waiting for the transplant in the intensive care unit of the hospital - where she was receiving continuous intravenous medication to support her heart - for about six months, she said.


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1969 Lamborghini Miura P400 S
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The 1969 Lamborghini Miura finished in orange was offered for sale at the 2006 Russo And Steele auction in Monterey, CA where it found a new home for the price of $206,800. The Miura P400 was the first of three generations of the model followed by the S and final production version dubbed the SV. The Miura was introduced at the Geneva Motor Show with the production version following soon thereafter. It was designed by Marcello Gandini with inspiration stemming from work done by Giorgietto Giugiaro, the head of Bertone.The Miura was first show to the public at the November 1965 Turin Auto Show. At the time, it did not have a body. It was just a rolling-chassis. The design was mid-engined, very revolutionary at the time. Bertone was chosen to body the vehicle. Nuccio Bertone gave the project to Marcello Gandini. In early 1966 the Bertone body and the chassis designed by Giampaolo Dallara were assembled into one unit. In completed form, it was show to the public at the 1966 Geneva Auto Show and dubbed the Miura. The name coming from a breed of Spanish fighting bulls. The vehicle was instantly popular with demand overshadowing the supply. Ferrucio Lamborghini had originally planned the Miura to be a low production, flagship vehicle with production set to around 30 models. The demand for the vehicle eventually changed the plan for the vehicle and throughout its lifespan, three series of the Miura were produced, the P400, S, and the SV. Each series brought with it mechanical and aesthetical changes through either fixed problems from the prior series or brought about new developmental improvements. The P400 was the first series, the 'P' stood for Posteriore, the location of the engine. The 400 represented the engine size, or 4.0 liters. The four-liter engine was capable of producing 350 horsepower to the rear wheels. The spot-welded chassis was made from steel and the steering was a rack-and-pinion unit built and designed by Lamborghini. The front and rear hoods were both 'clamshell' design. There were two small compartments in the rear allowing a small amount of luggage or storage space. Since the vehicle had been initially intended to be a temporary vehicle, it was poorly assembled and lacked quality. Another major problem was the lack of materials available. The builders of the vehicle rarely had the parts and resources they needed to keep up with demand. As time progressed, so did the quality. Production began in March of 1967 and offered at a price of nearly $20,000 US dollars with 108 units being constructed. The Miura S series appeared in December of 1968. It was debuted to the public at the 1968 Turin Auto Show. The 'S' stood for 'Spinto' meaning 'Pushed' or 'Tuned'. Horsepower had been increased to 370, thanks in part through the use of a new combustion chamber and larger intakes. The later 'S' series models were given ventilated disc brakes and a modified rear suspension. Air conditioning was available for an extra cost. In March of 1971, the final version of the Miura, the SV, was displayed at the Geneva Auto Show. The SV was the pinnacle of performance in regards to the Miura series. The rear suspension received modifications including a wider track. Wider tires were placed increasing the performance and handling. The headlights, turn signals, bumper and tail lights received changes. A carburetor change and larger intakes brought the horsepower rating to 385. During its production lifespan only 142 examples of the Miura SV were created. The acronym 'SV' represented 'Sprint Veloce'. 750 examples of the Miuras were built, the last being constructed on October 12, 1973. Production would have continued but Lamborghini was preparing to introduce its successor, the Countach. Since Lamborghini was a small shop, it could only handle the production of one model.
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When I started this blog I told myself I would not be writing about my home decor projects. Mostly because at the time I didn't have any home decor projects and there are so many out there that I didn't feel the need to. However, despite my resistance, I have caught the DIY bug... I think it is a young wife thing. Well, obviously not all young wives catch this bug, but pretty much every DIY person I have found is a wife and many of them are newly married. So I was doomed. Okay, I don't want to sound all anti-DIY or home decor, I actually really really love it. You could even say I've become obsessed with it. So let me tell you about our latest project...
I had already done some small projects around the house, but this week Alex and I started on our first BIG project. Okay, it wasn't really that big, but we are young and inexperienced at this whole thing so it was big for us. Lots of lessons to be learned. We made.... A TABLE! A pretty nice table, if I do say so myself.
After browsing around my new favorite blog, Remodelaholic, I found this amazing table. That is where it all started. I decided, "Hey! If someone else can make their own table why can't I?" Plus it looked pretty simple. Alex and I had been looking for a new table for months. I bought our current table at a garage sale for about 20 bucks. It was pretty ugly when we got it, but we spray painted it black and it was pretty cute... for a while. That was until the paint started chipping off and for the life of me I couldn't make that table look clean. Anyways, like this person did, we saved the legs of our table and just made a new table top.
So, after we did some measurements and calculations we headed off to Rick's Bargain Bin for some cheap 2x4's. The first lesson to be learned, 2 x 4's are not actually 2 inches by 4 inches. What? they are more like 1.5" x 3.5". So after we bought our
1.5 x 3.5's 2 x 4's we had to redo all of our measurements.
This is our first furniture making project so you could probably guess that there were a few snags along the way. Obstacle #1: We live in a small apartment so our first question to ourselves was, "Where the heck are we going to build a table?!" We are also on the second floor so as far as outdoor spaces goes, all we have is a tiny deck. Obstacle #2: After building our table on our tiny deck, trying to fit the table through our sliding glass doors after we built it. Obstacle #3 Apparently stain has a much stronger smell than paint, so staining inside the house was probably not my brightest idea (I feel like a bit of an idiot for attempting that one). Obstacle #4 Wobbly legs... So our table would have been finished by now if it weren't for the fact that we have never built a table (or any other piece of furniture that didn't come in a box). So right now we are figuring out a remedy for the legs being so wobbly, oh and that we now have quarter inch gaps between our boards on the table top... sigh. We have completely deconstructed the table and are in the process of rebuilding. Oh well, It is an adventure and we are learning a lot about how to actually build furniture.
Well I have some pictures of our progress thus far.
This is the before
picture, notice
the chairs don't push
in all the way.
(Ignore the cat on the table)
This is in progress
building on
the deck...
My handsome Husband helping me :)
Tada! All the chairs push in! (we didn't plan that).


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Surprised myself & surpassed days 1 & 2 with Harry the school bear. Today, dear readers, Harry went to the Olympics. Well, admittedly not The Olympics. But The Olympic Park.
Sure, he didn't get to see Chris Hoy win gold nor Tom Daly get a medal but he did hang upside down outside the velodrome and go into the Aquatics centre (without getting wet - learnt a lesson from you, The Reluctant Lauderer).
Here he is enjoying his day out plus some scenic pics of the park.


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The Transpersonal Relationship in Psychotherapy
The Transpersonal Relationship in Psychotherapy
ISBN: 978-1-861-56249-4 February 2002 356 Pages
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DescriptionThis book is written with the sap of three disciplines- philosophy, psychology and physical science: the study of thinking, the study of the psyche and the study of nature. It comes from a lifelong engagement with the meaning of life, death and transformation for the author and for others, which has included a dedication to the mystic traditions in several religions. Professor Clarkson examines the transpersonal relationship, which permeates the work of creativity, healing, growth and dying - particularly in all the healing relationships of psychotherapy. This book is for psychotherapists and all others involved in the healing professions.
Preface Acknowledgements.
1 What is Transpersonal?.
2 Overview of The transpersonal Relationship Dimension in all Psychotherapies.
3 Transpersonal psychotherapy.
4 Prima Materia- The Opening of Work.
5 Nigredo- Disillusionment in The Theraputic Relationship and in Life.
6 Albedo- Getting Better- The reparative or Developmentally Needed Relationship.
7 Citrinitas- The Existensial person-to-person Relationship.
8 Rubedo- Death and Rebirth, The Transpersonal relationship.
9 The Continuation of The Work- Eternal Return.
10 Transpersonal training, Supervision and Continuing Education.


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The Mystery of Life
Science and the Bible agree on fundamental aspects of what makes life possible. Uncovering its origin and purpose by scientific means has proven more challenging.
Is Your Time Running Out?
Must a person be converted to Christianity in this life or suffer eternal punishment in the next? Not according to the Bible.
Healing the Violent Heart
Regardless of the ideals set forth by leaders, humanity has never yet succeeded in preventing violence and war. Is there any solution?
David, King of Israel
As David takes Saul's place on the throne of Israel, he shows himself to be a man of great strength but also of serious weaknesses.
A Man of Contradictions?
King David's character was multifaceted. How is it that for all his weaknesses, God could still call him "a man after his own heart"?
God: A Trinity?
The Trinity dogma is described as "the central doctrine of the Christian religion" yet "enveloped . . . by a kind of darkness." How can that be?
Mussolini's Message
It's no secret that Benito Mussolini saw himself as a 20th-century Roman emperor. But new evidence confirms that he also thought of himself as the savior—the Christlike messiah—of the Italian people.
Mistakes Were Made
Science has given us answers to many questions, but what gives us confidence in those answers? Can what we come to believe actually bring about our demise?
What Makes Us Human?
What makes us human and sets us apart from other species? Is it self-awareness or free moral agency, conscience, or the capacity to imagine? It's more than you might think.
Violence: Is Religion the Problem?
Vision reviews three books addressing the increasingly insistent claim that without religion, there would be much less war and violence in the world.


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Do you enjoy sending holiday cards with a local flavor? Check out the Cleveland Sight Center's website for their 2009 Holiday Greeting Card offerings.
This year I was fortunate to have "Arch Reflections" selected as one of six cards being offered by local artists. Showing the Main Avenue Bridge in the foreground, the picture was shot last January with the temperature hovering near zero. I was standing on the East Bank of the Flats. Nearby, Saturday night crowds used to throng to Fagans and D'Poos, crossing the river to Shooters using the now vacant water taxi.The Defunct Flats Water Taxi
All proceeds benefit the Cleveland Sight Center. The profits help them provide programs and services for individuals who are blind or visually impaired. If you order 100 or more of the same card, you can have a one-line imprint of your name or company added on the inside.
Other cards offered this year feature the artwork of Andrew Morrell, Jay Patel, Richard Tuschman, Thomas Roese, and Bradley Hart.


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6 Inch Round Mini Cake
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This is our 6 Inch Round Mini Cake that is ever so popular for events such as birthdays, a random thank you, or even a simple I love you. With our fresh baked, hand-made to order cakes you can have them decorated however you see fit. Each cake is made only after you order it and made totally from scratch using basic ingredients such as flower and sugar. Sometimes (depending on the cake) you might receive it warm out of our ovens. You never have to worry about sending a loved one an old cake that has been sitting around on a shelf for a day or more. Each cake is delivered the day that it is made.
No matter what type of event you are hosting, going to, or wanting to have delivered this cake will allow you to bring the party to life and show how much you care. So make sure that you let us know if you have any special requests, if you want to do something more custom than the options on this site please give us a call at the phone number at the top of this site. We would love to work with you to make your gift truly unique.
We can deliver this cake to your house or if you are having a party in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area, even over to Belleville, Illinois. If you are having a corporate or business party, we can even deliver it to your event or business before the event.
Each order comes with one (1) mini cake that feeds 4-6 people.


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Twitter suspends account of Melania Trump speechwriter Meredith McIver, who probably isn't a real person
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DAYS AFTER MELANIA TRUMP gave a Republican National Convention speech which was plagiarized from an eight year old Michelle Obama speech, the Trump Organization laid the blame on her longtime speechwriter Meredith McIver. The trouble: no such person appeared to exist. Various pages depicting her life were discovered to have only been created after she was assigned the blame for the plagiarism, including a Twitter account which she primarily used to keep insisting that she was in fact a real person. But it appears that Twitter's management has ultimately reached the opposite conclusion, suspending the account in question.
The controversy began when MSNBC personality Joy-Ann Reid pointed out that there was almost no evidence to suggest that Meredith McIver was even a real person.
This had come after Donald Trump had already been caught earlier in the election cycle having invented the fake personas of John Miller and John Barron, so the issue was a plausible one. Others dug deeper and learned that Donald Trump had credited McIver as a ghostwriter of some of his previous books while giving a legal deposition years earlier. But in each instance, McIver only seemed to exist in the words of Donald Trump. Sure enough, Trump had his campaign release a statement supposedly from McIver in which she took the blame for the plagiarism incident, yet she never did surface of her own accord.
To this day, tabloid journalist and close Donald Trump confidant Piers Morgan is the only member of the media who claims to have ever had contact with her. Morgan's tweets in her direction indicated that the @immeredithmciver account was indeed her. And yet that account has now been suspended by Twitter.
There are only two circumstances under which a Twitter account can be publicly labeled as "suspended." One is if the user is engaging in harassing behavior, which seems unlikely considering the polite and carefully scripted nature of the tweets coming out of that account. The other is if Twitter determines that the account is a fake one. In other words, the supposed best evidence of Meredith McIver's existence has just been officially branded a fake.
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Spark Racing Technology has once again won the tender to develop the chassis for Formula E cars.
Somewhere between a Formula One and Le Mans car, SRT's concept for the second generation of electric racers is more striking than either.
But the cars don't just look good; they also have a significant advantage over their predecessors.
Drivers currently have to switch car halfway through each race as battery power dwindles, but the new cars are set to boast a much longer range, the Verge reported.
An SRT statement said: "We will design a new chassis including a new battery tech that will be heavier. In order to gain 10% weight, we are working on new innovating solutions using new materials so the cars can be more efficient and we also have to focus on new developments to keep the drivers safe."
The new vehicles will be rolled out in the 2018-19 season. BMW, Faraday Future, Mercedez-Benz are all lined up to take part.


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Each year I give myself reading challenges. Beyond the fact that I love listing things, reading challenges remind me (when I get lost in the haze of writing) that I need to take time out to read. If you want to see what I've read and where I'm at with my challenges, you can see all of it here.
These organized lists also help me keep track so that I can look back over the year and see which books stood out the most. So today I'm going to list my faves of the year.
THEN it's going to be your turn. Last year I did the Fiction Groupie Readers' Choice Awards and featured your recommendations. I'd like to do that again, so in the comments tell me what was your favorite book of the year (it doesn't have to be a book released this year just one you read this year.) And then I'll feature the list next week.
All right, so on to my picks for this year...
Favorite YA:
Harmonic Feedback by Tara Kelly
A fabulous story about a girl with a "touch of Asperger's" finding her way through friendship and first love. Amazingly good.
Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
The title may make this sound like a fun YA beach read, but, man, it is so much more than that. Beautiful book.
Haunting Beauty (A Mists of Ireland Novel) by Erin Quinn
A time-travel Irish romance that had me guessing at every turn. Awesome.
Erotic Romance:
Pleasure's Edge by Eve Berlin
A BDSM romance -This was one of those that I knew from the very first chapter that I wouldn't be able to put it down.
Corralled: A Blacktop Cowboys Novel by Lorelei James
One woman and two hunky bull riders. The author did such a great job of world-building that she made me want to go to a rodeo--and believe me, that's saying something for me, lol.
Finding Eden by Kele Moon
A male/male BDSM romance. This is a prequel to Beyond Eden. You don't have to have read one to understand the other, but I definitely recommend both. Disclaimer: This one is considered "darker" or heavier BDSM. So if you've never read the genre, you may need to work up to this one. :) )
Romantic Suspense:
Smash Cut by Sandra Brown
A serial killer who imitates famous movie scenes in his killings. How's that for high concept?
Writing Books:
Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
Changed my life. That is all.
Are You There Blog? It's Me, Writer? by Kristen Lamb
I'm sure most of you already follow Kristen, but here's where you can get all her blogging tips in a nice, neat package.
Books by Author Friends Which I Loved:
Tempest by Julie Cross
Time-Travel YA - I technically read this one last year because I was a beta reader. BUT, it comes out Jan. 17 and is fabulous. Go buy it.
Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally
A girl quarterback, a love triangle, and a whole lot of fun.
Okay, so those are my picks. Now it's your turn. In the comments, tell me what was your favorite book of the year. I'll feature the books (and link to the person who recommended it) in a future post.


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I am delighted to see such attention in the community - because OSGi's principles are first class! I somehow got addicted about Peter Kriens and Oleg Zhurakousky's comments about "silver bundles". The world of the enterprise Java developer is a world of almost extreme diversity - When I start up a greenfield enterprise Java application, I have to decide from a huge variety of components. Most of us decide on an open-source stack - and there we hit the point - no "silver bundles" in our stack.
In this article I'll illustrate how to employ OSGi's modularity principles without using OSGi as the runtime platform - and therefore restore many existing library's "silver bundle" status. Needless to note that we will miss some benefits of OSGi. However, there's a good chance that you don't need these features (e.g. version conflict resolution or dynamic bundle installation
during runtime). Oleg noted that he does not think that "anyone in the right state of mind would deny OSGi" - and he's right - Therefore I do take special care that an application that follows these principles can be run within an OSGi runtime pretty easy once there is a need to turn over!
Everything's mentioned in this article is available as source code! I don't know how to deal with the sources yet. I would really like to contribute the stuff to SpringSource because I am convinced it's highly valuable for all Spring users - but they want to sell DM server - so it may not be their primary wish to promote such things in Spring core. If you find these things useful and if you think this would be a win for Spring core please leave a comment on this post! A comment to my last post noted another open source project (http://code.google.com/p/impala) that seems to have similiar objectives - maybe I will join Impala and contribute the stuff there. I'd be happy about any suggestions! In the meantime you can download the source code here:
Before I get started let me take two assumptions:
Assumption #1: Most applications do not need the high dynamics of OSGi. These applications may be redeployed in case new modules are available.
Assumption #2: Most applications do know the set of services they intend to use. They also know that they can or cannot operate if a service is not available in our current deployment scenario (e.g. the module containing the service is not deployed in this installation). In OOP terms: You either get an object connecting you to the service or you don't get such an object. You don't have to care about service objects suddenly vanishing at runtime.
These assumptions build the boundaries. If you have an application that needs to heavily load and unload modules at runtime and if you cannot predict who will contribute to your application (versioning conflicts, security, etc.) you will probably be perfectly happy with OSGi and you can stop reading. Eclipse is a perfect example. Please leave a comment if you know server-side applications with such requirements!
Enough of introduction ... Let's get started with the basic principles:
- An application is made out of a set of modules. A module is much like an OSGi bundle.
- A module provides services (described through Java interfaces) to others. The services ar instantiated by the module itself. Services are very much like OSGi services.
- A loader discovers modules (by convention or through rules in special deployment situations) and starts the modules.
- Constraints (e.g. published vs. private packages) are checked at build time.
<!-- module internal stuff -->
<bean id="myService" class="com.blogspot.peterrietzler.internal.MyServiceImpl"/>
<!-- service export. supports a feature set comparable to Spring DM -->
<modules:service ref="myService" interface="com.blogspot.peterrietzler.MyService">
<prop key="someQoS">true</prop>
Any other module may now reference our service. Here is an example using a plain reference matching any service and a reference matching only a service with a required quality of service (filters are RFC1960 - same as in OSGi):
<modules:reference id="myService" interface="com.blogspot.peterrietzler.MyService" filter="(someQoS=true)"/>
You can also reference lists of services:
<modules:list id="myServices" interface="com.blogspot.peterrietzler.MyService" filter="(someQoS=true)"/>
Modules are loaded independent of each other. Each module has it's own IOC container. This is important because this will allow aspects to be applied on a module scope (self-containment!). If a service is not available, e.g. because the module is not available in the current deployment, application startup fails. If your module can start without a specific service being available, then just mark it as optional and a null value or an empty list will be injected if the service is not available in your deployment:
<modules:list id="myServices" interface="com.blogspot.peterrietzler.MyService" optional="true"/>
When working with Spring DM you need to be careful with some parts of Spring, e.g. because Spring DM creates a proxy object for each bundle and other Spring components use the object's identities as keys in hashmaps. The Hibernate session manager is a pretty good example and
I leave it up to your own imagination what can happen if you have a Hibernate session manager exported as a Spring DM service :o). Additionally, Spring prototype beans are not supported to be exported as a service. To reduce these hard to recognize pitfalls there is some special support
for these two issues (note that this is not OSGi compliant and needs to be refactored to other design patterns in case of a turn over to OSGi).
- You can export a prototype scoped bean as a service. Each reference will be backed by one instance (behaves like in standard Spring).
- Each exported singleton service will be represented by the same object within all modules (behaves like in standard Spring).
there are some very subtle differences. You can e.g. run into situations where your application seems to work but behind the scenes it just seem work because it falls back to some (in this case unwanted) default strategies (such as creating a new Hibernate session and database transaction for each method call in your data access layer).
Last thing is module loading. I follow the Spring DM conventions: By default all XML files in the META-INF/spring directory are loaded in the modules IOC container. In order to mark something as a module you put a module-info.properties file into the META-INF/spring directory. This file is in it's most basic form just a marker file that tells the module loader that this is a module to be loaded (much like hte OSGi manifest). In more sophisticated scenarios the module.properties file can specify strategies how a module should be instantiated. The minimal module.properties file just contains an artifical module name:
Name: MyModule
Application startup is easy:
new ModuleApplicationContextLoader(new ClasspathModuleLoader(), new DefaultServiceRegistry()).loadApplicationContexts();
To include a module in your startup process just put in on the classpath. This greatly simplifies integration testing. If you are using Maven you don't have to do any special setup since everything will already be on your classpath! For special situations and deployments you can either implement your own module loader or you use module loading rules. Here is an example for a module loading rule file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <modules xmlns="http://www.rietzler.com/schema/spring/modules/loader/resolver" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:resolver="http://www.rietzler.com/schema/spring/modules/loader/resolver" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.rietzler.com/schema/spring/modules/loader/resolver http://www.rietzler.com/schema/spring/modules/loader/resolver.xsd" includeByDefault="false">
<!-- include only modules with matching names. evaluated against module.properties file -->
<include name=".*Include.*"/>
<!-- include only modules matching the given RFC1960 filter. evaluated against the module.properties file -->
<include filter="(moduleQoS=xxx)"/>
<!-- provide your own rules -->
<rule class="com.rietzler.spring.modules.loader.XmlModuleResolverBuilderTest$IncludeByNameRule" parameters="MyModule" />
Build-time constraint checks are currently out of scope of the source code. However, I use Classycle (http://classycle.sourceforge.net) to enfore similiar constraints that OSGi does at runtime. With Classycle it would be a pretty easy task to write a tool that understands OSGi exported packages and checks against OSGi bundles.
For further details you can have a look at the source code. It's not final production quality, but it already contains source code documenation and you can inspect the tests and test resources for getting further information.


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Good morning! I've got a beautiful project to share with you on this lovely Sunday morning.
Lisa Novogrodski pulled out our September Tanya's Industrial Odyssey kit and sat down to work her magic with it:
Here's what Lisa says about her project, along with some gorgeous close up photos:
This beautiful kit is filled with Marion Smith and Kaisercraft!
Both favorites of mine. :)
I was inspired by a tutorial Steph Miller did you can find it on youtube.
I used her guide for creating the bags! You can tuck things into the top of the bag and I also created a little pocket at the bottom for more treasures!
My front and back covers are 4 x 6 chipboard that I coated in black gesso. This is different than my other tag mini's where I usually use a tag for the front and back.
I used both the Marion Smith Time Keeper Collection and Kaisercraft Time Machine Collection for my papers. We also get a gorgeous selection of cardstock to match in our kits and I've used that as my base on some of the pages. The florals are found in the kit and Floral Add On - Prima Debutante, Archivist and Sunrise/Sunset. I used the Prima Finnabair Mechanicals from the main kit as well, and painted them with the Ranger Vintaj Patinas found in last months kit. I also embossed them with Lindys - Scotch Broom Yellow and Midnight Bronze from the Color Add On.
We received these super fun stamps called
"Steampunk Selfie" by Brett Weldele.
You can find the CREATIVITY ADD ON ------- HERE
This is found in the Creativity Add On of the kit. I used Lindys Midnight Bronze embossing powder found in the Color Add On on the image and painted it with the gelatos found in the Creativity. I used the gold for painting the image and then used both the gold and black gelatos to splatter all my pages.
This is one of the bags. I love how the top folds down. I like to use die cuts on my albums. I'm not a big fan of square pieces. I just can't keep it simple!
I also like to dry emboss my die cuts to make them more interesting and, well, pretty! I added in some sentiments that were part of the Kaisercraft collection. These can be used for journaling or as photo mats. I leave them without photos because I sell most of my creations in my etsy shop. :)
I've been on a mission to include things from my stash in my projects. My stash is vast! This vintage image is something I had on hand and thought it would lend a nice touch to the album.
More tags alternating with kraft tags found in the main kit, with my stamped images! I love it!
The possibilities for the Brett Weldele stamps are endless. From vintage to art journaling. I would love to see what you come up with for ideas!
The Prima Timeless Memories chipboard was also in the kit. I used it to frame an image found in the Time Keeper collection. The random stamping was done with the Kaisercraft Flutter stamp found in the main kit.
My back cover is chipboard coated in gesso then embellished with Prima florals and a Dusty Attic Clock. The gold ribbon peeking out was also in the kit and is May Arts Gold Metallic Crochet Ribbon.
Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed seeing Lisa's project, and I hope the rest of your day is beautiful...


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Artist: Sweet Session
Song: Sonnet 116 [words by William Shakespeare]
Recorded at Ratio, October 28, 2015.Sweet Session - Sonnet 116
This project sees bassist Rob Clutton showing off his banjo skills and performing alongside Randi Helmers, singing musical arrangements of Shakespeare's sonnets. The banjo stylings sometimes hint at Appalachian ballads, but can also become stirringly minimal settings for Helmers' vocals, such as on a presentation of the 29th sonnet that added only plucked string-drones. The set also included a re-interpretation of one of Clutton's own pieces for his Cluttertones group. Quietly stirring back-porch music — lean in and close your eyes.


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The "public option" is the key part of President Obama's proposed health care reform. In fact, without the public option I don't think it can really be considered true reform. It is that essential.
Basically what this option would allow people to do is to decide for themselves whether they want to stick with their current health insurance plan or whether they want to switch to a government health care plan.
It's important to understand the key point, the "public option" entirely optional (as it's name makes clear.) If you are happy with your current insurance plan then you don't need to change to the new plan.
So why are the insurance companies so dead set against it? Because they know that it will be far less expensive, far better plan. Basically it comes down to this: They don't want the competition!
Why should you care about what the insurance companies want? You shouldn't. And you should realize that their impending anti public option commercials are nothing but propaganda designed to scare you away from supporting health care reform. Their end goal is to keep the system how it is so they can continue to make huge profits at your expense.
This is the choice: Do you care more about your health care and the health care of the rest of the people in America or do you care more about the insurance companies making huge profits? For me the choice is obvious. We need health care reform. We need to catch up with the rest of the world in this most basic area.
This time please do not be fooled by the insurance companies. They fooled the American people into being against the Clinton health care reform plan in the '90s and they plan on doing the same today to derail Obama's plan.
We need a public option for health care so that all Americans can be covered and we can all save money and help save the economy. The outlanding profits of the insurance companies have a lot to do with the recession too. This is a "no-brainer." Destroy the health insurance industry and save the rest of the country. That's definitely a good trade off for almost all of us. It's time to make it happen.


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I love to travel. I love the reward of seeing things I've never seen. It's great to experience different types of people and try new foods and activities.
But seriously, almost as much I love to plan a trip. Planning a trip for me is one of the best parts of getting to go somewhere. I love to research my location. Doing simple (some might disagree with this word choice) research has saved me money on trips and far more importantly, during any trip, time. Last summer in Italy and France, I couldn't believe the people who were wandering around with no clue. People who didn't realize they couldn't bring their bags into museums. People who didn't know that you could buy your Coliseum tickets in advance and skip the two to three hour long line.
People who were paying 4 euro to buy water, when they could have filled a bottle up for free.
Well you get the picture.
Here are few things that I really love to use in my travel planning:
- First if you're going to Europe, you have to go with Rick Steves. I adore his books, and I will never travel to Europe without one. Rick gives you tons of hotel and restaurant suggestions, but also gives you the courage to strike out on your own. His books give a plethora of short cuts like ordering tickets online or simply using a different entrance. In addition to all of his great advice, he gives you background on what you're seeing and always throws in a corny joke.
- Second, for any sort of travel but specifically in the states, is being a member of AAA. While I haven't found many hotel savings with them, they are a great barometer for what you are getting. Also, once you are a member you can order travel info (maps, books, etc.) for free on their website.
- Last, but not least, are my favorite websites. How people traveled before the web is beyond me. I can't imagine having to pay someone to organize a trip for me and book my plane tickets. With the web, you get the power of the personal review. While there are always outliers (please ignore the person who complains about the dirt they found in the 2o euro a night hostel), lots of people are reasonable and put in time to help make your trip better.
- TripAdvisor.com
- Expedia.com (General bookings)
- Hotwire.com (Great for car rentals and last minute/four star hotels)
- Bing.com/travel (Watching the trending price of flights)
Hopefully, these planning tips will help make your travel easier. I'm in the process of planning a trip to Denver with two of my friends. We are going to have a rock(ies) awesome time.


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Wow! Rich's has a crazy big clearance blowout going on today through Sunday, October 4.
Save up to 70% off fire pits and patio furniture. Choose from among the following brands:
- Tropitone
- Ebel
- O.W. Lee
- …and more!
Save up to 1/3 off fireplaces, inserts, and stoves. Choose from:
- gas
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Save up to 1/2 off hot tubs. Check out Rich's:
- swim spas
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- closeouts
Ask us about 0% financing on approved credit for all of the above clearance items. (See stores for details.)
Rich's has the Northwest's largest selection of outdoor furniture, spas, and hearth products. For best selection, hurry in to one of Rich's five Puget Sound showrooms in Lynnwood, Bellevue, Tacoma, Tukwila, and Silverdale.
Sale ends Sunday, October 4, 2015.


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Hi. I have Vueminder Pro and USB and have been using the USB version for a while so I can sync between PCs. I've been using it on Onedrive which has it's own problems with sync speed and I was thinking of putting it all on Dropbox instead.
However, having looked at a number of posts online, I've been wondering whether I'd be better reverting to Pro installed on all PCs and using calendar sharing using Dropbox.
Slightly confused so some pointers would be appreciated.


text: Will it be new residents or demolition for the lonely old house? A "For Sale" sign has stood out front so long that the windows droop unhappily. Passersby muse that it needs to be knocked down. But a family of five stops by and seems interested. Hope is rekindled. The squirrels and birds and the big leafy tree advise the old house to stand up straight and twinkle its windows. The family lingers, with the boy imagining a tire swing hanging from the tree and the girl clearing the tall grass that blocks the flowers. Still, Dad's final words are, "It needs a lot of work." Early the next morning, the old house is distressed to hear a bulldozer in the distance. But no! It's the family in their big rented truck. In no time, TLC creates a happy home. Cole's watercolors, which humanize the house and tree, add a playful element. Offbeat and appealing. (Picture book. 4-7)


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Over the weekend, DC Comics decided that dominating one subcategory of comic book news wasn't enough. In addition to making every single breathing human weigh in on "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," DC also revealed the creative teams behind Rebirth, their line-wide relaunch. The continuity of the New 52 still stands, but every series will get a new start that both acknowledges more of the publisher's past while also providing a (hopefully) convenient jumping-on point for new readers.
Between comics and movies, DC got all the attention -- and I'm trying to figure out my reaction, because reactions are what I jam in your face via this column. And I'm specifically trying to figure out my reaction to Rebirth, because my gut reaction to "BvS" was hammered into my head for two and a half hours last Thursday night. Those movies aren't for me. But the comics, the comics should be, or at least could be, and all the Rebirth hullabaloo has made me really analyze my lengthy non-relationship with the other big superhero comic publisher.
RELATED: DC's DiDio & Lee Explain Exactly How Rebirth Differs From The New 52
I'll start by saying that I think all talk of Marvel vs. DC is infuriatingly boring. This is a surface-level fluffy debate that's usually based on personal biases/preferences. They're both superhero publishers, they both do good work, they both have great characters and hire amazing talent. I think their relationship with each other and how they react to and relate to each other is vastly more interesting than discussions based around "Wolverine would annihilate Batman, man" and "DC is just inherently better -- that's an objective fact!" Both companies are constantly evolving and how they're viewed in public opinion is cyclical; they fall in and out of fashion on a near monthly basis. I say all this to point out that none of what I say should be interpreted as me thinking one of these publishers is inherently better than the other one. That's simplistic.
I'm trying to untangle my complex emotion-thoughts about DC and why I have a hard time really caring about the company's superhero universe. Obviously I care about it in the larger sense -- in the sense that the more great, successful, progressive high-profile comics there are out there the better the entire industry is. But that's the Comic Professional in me, and IN YOUR FACE JAM is where I sometimes let my full-heart/all-guts comic id loose. As a comic reader and comic fan, I'm ashamed to admit that it's hard for me to dive into the deep end of DC and not end up struggling to even tread water.
I reiterate that this isn't a sweeping statement about one publisher being objectively better than the other (remember, that's simple-brain talk). I know DC does great work, but I'm now aware that I have a lot of Marvel-exclusive comic buying/reading habits that became ingrained in my brain as a kid. Yes, I'm a "Marvel guy," which I admit while swatting away all the negative, immature connotations that come with declaring yourself "loyal" to one publisher over the other. Back, assumptions! Back!
What I mean by that is, I read nothing but Marvel comics from 1992 (when I first realized "G.I. Joe" was also a comic) to 2003 (when those X-Men creators I liked, Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee, started a popular "Batman" story). The first ten years of my comic buying and reading life was defined by Marvel, because it was exclusively Marvel. I really didn't even branch out from the X-Men for the first half of that decade either. I was a very picky elementary/middle/high schooler. I became so used to Marvel and the way they produced comics that their superhero universe became my native tongue. I expected superheroes to interact with real locations, like New York City, and I devoted so much time to mapping out the history of X-Men on my own in the pre-Wikipedia age. Visiting Gotham felt, comparatively, more like reading fiction -- which is an insane thing to say considering '90s Marvel's New York City rarely featured more details than "street," "alley" and "sporadic tree." But still, I lived in Marvel and DC felt like a foreign country.
Not only did I become accustomed to the Marvel superheroes, my eyes 'n' brain also became used to the way Marvel produced comics. The subtle changes in lettering and coloring between the two publishers always threw me off, and this extended to any Dark Horse or Image comics I would run across as well. If I'd been exposed to a smorgasbord of comics from multiple publishers at a young age, maybe I never would have pigeonholed comics as looking like the way Steve Buccellato, Glynis Oliver, Joe Rosas, Richard Starkings and Chris Eliopoulos made them. Those subtle things stuck with me -- and middle school me laughed at DC because their books weren't colored by Liquid! I was a simple brat, back then.
So Marvel became my default, and the fact that not a month has gone by in almost 25 years that I haven't bought and read a new Marvel comic only makes my predicament more... thorough. I've branched out a lot for sure; more often than not, the creators on a certain book -- not the characters or publisher -- determine whether or not I'll buy it. Those things are also related; my love for Jeff Parker's "Thunderbolts" run led me to buy both Dynamite's "Flash Gordon" and DC's "Aquaman." Loving Gabriel Hardman's run on "Secret Avengers" led me to track down the stellar "Planet of the Apes" books he did with Corinna Bechko for BOOM! Studios, and now I read everything they do (Image's "Invisible Republic" is my jam). Loving Kelly Sue DeConnick's "Captain Marvel" got me to "Bitch Planet," loving Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire's teamwork got me to "Injection," loving Ming Doyle's art got me to "Mara," rave reviews led me to Brennan Lee Mulligan and Molly Ostertag's "Strong Female Protagonist" -- my comic book life is vastly better than it was in the '90s when every book I read starred pouch-wearing mutants (and I say that as someone that loves pouch-wearing mutants).
But I do feel different with DC, perhaps because it's the other shared superhero universe. Casual observers can't tell the difference between the two, and I do see why; there are nuanced and fundamental tonal differences between the two that I feel in my vibe-receptors every time I read a book from either universe, but they're both superhero universes made up of secret identities and action and world-saving and retcons and teamwork and etc. I think that for the past decade of my more inclusive habits, I've been trying to play catch-up with DC, trying to make myself feel as attached to it as I do to Marvel -- and then feeling pretty darn guilty when I can't (brains are weird).
There are runs I love. The Keith Giffen/J.M. DeMatteis/Kevin Maguire "Justice League International" is fantastic. "Doom Patrol" and "Animal Man" are my favorite Grant Morrison works. Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams' Batwoman arc of "Detective Comics" made me extremely emotional. Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark's "Gotham Central" is one of the greatest series I've ever read, ever. And the New 52, which brought me deeper into DC waters than ever before before I got out, gave me Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's "Batman," Greg Pak and Aaron Kuder's "Action Comics," and Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman's "Animal Man." I've read a lot more DC, more consistently, since the New 52 launched than ever before.
But I always, eventually, fall off the DC books, no matter how great they are. Why?
No matter how many thousands of DC superhero comics I've read over the past decade, I still haven't been able to forge that deep, all-in connection that I have with Marvel -- and that makes sense, considering that relationship goes back to the heyday of grunge. I don't think it's shameful to admit that there are Marvel characters that I will try out, regardless of who's on the creative team. It sometimes feels like that level of dedication to a fictional character is scorned, treated like fanboy-blindness. I get that, but I only think it's detrimental if that's the sole way you seek out comics -- which is what I did for the first 10 years of my secluded fandom. My devotion to the X-Men, which means I will give every book with "X-Men" in the title a shot no matter what for forever, introduced me to Ed Brubaker and Kieron Gillen among many others -- and I've followed their careers ever since then, regardless of character or company. If Marvel puts out a Daredevil or She-Hulk or Black Widow or Captain Marvel book, I'm there, no questions asked. I've been waiting for that with DC, but... I haven't found that specific type of attachment to any of their characters yet. And maybe it's time I stop expecting fervent devotion to DC characters to form and just start enjoying good comics for being good comics.
With another big ol' jumping-on point coming in Rebirth, I'm ready to accept this relationship difference that I have with Marvel and DC and move forward. I don't think it's fair for me to expect to be able to force a specific style of attachment (one that I now realize was formed because I was this many [holds up eight fingers] years old) on DC. The kind of attachment I have with Marvel is equal parts personal continuity stretching back decades as well as the stories they tell. Unless I get a time machine, I'm not going to be able to make third-grade-me become a big fan of Mark Waid's "Flash" run. All I can really do going forward is keep an open mind and active interest in what all publishers are doing -- and then read what piques my interest.
So in addition to relaunching the DC line, Rebirth will give me another shot at getting in on the beginning of a bunch of new books, ones with creators and/or concepts that I find intriguing. And, this time around, I'm going to enjoy them for what they are and ditch all my old mental hang-ups of how I should feel.
Brett White is a writer and comedian living in New York City. He made videos for the Upright Citizens Brigade as a member of UCB1 and writes for the podcast Left Handed Radio. His opinions can be consumed in bite-sized morsels on Twitter (@brettwhite).


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I use masking tape a lot to label stuff, tack stuff in place mark a spot when measuring. And of course for masking.
Category: Made by me
Plier jaw protectors
I was tuning up a pair of scicssors and had to tweak the bend in one of the blades slightly. I have jaw protectors for my bench vise, but needed something to hold the other side without marring the metal. So, I made jaw protectors for some slip joint pliers out of a thick sheet of brass left over from an earlier project.
Rowing Umpire Kit
I have been working with Sandi Kirby on a table-top training kit for rowing umpires. We came up with a mat that represents a race course, and a set of boats, course markers and other kit that can be moved around the course to facilitate the discussion of various training scenarios.
We are releasing the design into the public domain so others can make their own. Your local sign shop should be able to print the mat, and a laser cutting service like Ponoko could cut the parts for you.
If you are going to make one of these, drop us a note in the comments, it would be neat to hear if someone finds this useful.


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Filmmaker Colin Trevorrow has shot down one rumor regarding "Jurassic World," the fourth film in the series and the first one he is directing.
That rumor? That the project isn't a sequel but rather a reboot. Turns out, that's not exactly accurate. In a tweet, Trevorrow says:
"Reboot is a strong word. This is a new sci-fi terror adventure set 22 years after the horrific events of Jurassic Park".
That confirms the film will be set in contemporary times as the film is opening in 2015, twenty-two years after the 1993 release of the first film.