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As well all know, the free tickets for the Virgin Free Festival sold out within minutes, but if you weren't able to grab them, there are still $125 VIP tickets available. The Tickets give you access to the Pavillion along with the following treats:
• Early access to priority parking for the first hour.
• A Welcome Party in the pavilion with drink specials and complimentary snacks.
• VIP bar and lounge in the Pavilion
• VIP bar and viewing area at the second stage.
• Backstage Tour
• Event T-shirt and Poster
• Entry in a drawing for tickets to see Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros at 9:30 Club on 9/24 and a chance to buy tickets first if you don't win.
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It is now East meets West for cancer patients at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, which recently started offering acupuncture and other supplementary treatments through a new educational partnership.
Interns from Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine in Santa Monica started working in the Integrative Medicine Department at Saint Joseph's in early January as part of new partnership at the Roy and Patricia Disney Family Cancer Center.
The merging of Western medical technology, such as chemotherapy and radiation, and Eastern treatment practices, such as acupuncture, to treat patients is exactly where Christopher Ruth, one of only two interns chosen to work at the Burbank cancer center, said he wanted to be.
"When I first started out, I always knew I wanted to be somewhere with Western healing in addition to acupuncture," Ruth said.
If not in Saint Joseph's Integrative Medicine department, Ruth said he is hoping to work somewhere similar after he is certified in August.

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text: Pottapaug1938 2 Posted March 10, 2017 I joined Boy Scouts in November of 1964. As the son of a longtime Boy Scout and Scouter, and grandson of a Scouter, I am surprised that I didn't join Boy Scouts a year earlier when I turned 11; but Dad and Granddad wisely let me come to the BSA on my own rather than pushing me to join. Thanks to a superb troop program and nine weeks (3 summers) at Scout summer camp, I made Eagle in September 1967, and then switched over to Exploring where I remained until aging out. I became a member of the OA's Musketahquid Lodge in June of 1967; and I received the Vigil Honor 3 years later. College, law school and marriage meant that I started a hiatus from Scouting in the fall of 1977; and I did not come back in until 15 years later when my son became a Tiger Cub (he made it as far as Second Class, in Boy Scouts, before losing interest -- his interests were more like those of my wife than like mine). When my son left, I stayed in; and over the years I have helped over a dozen Eagles leave the nest. I have been a staffer on two Canadian jamborees (and would be staffing two others if circumstances had permitted/will permit. Currently, I am the chief woods tools instructor at the New England Base Camp near Boston; and after I retire from my current troop, next year, the Base Camp will be my main Scouting interest. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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A new batch of letters and photos sent to the Ministry of Defence regarding UFO sightings has been released, showing exactly why they gave up investigating flying saucers in 2009 -- everyone was taking the piss and letting their kids send joke letters.
The new batch of correspondence with the MoD released by the National Archives sees a Carlisle man claim to be living with an alien and a case of a man from Cardiff who claims a UFO took his dog, car and tent while he was out on a camping trip. We are no experts in such matters, but suspect premium strength lager may have been involved in the latter case.
In fact, alien abduction is actually a police matter anyway, as the MoD explained in one of its responses to the idiots: "In your answerphone message, you informed us that your dog and possessions were abducted. Abduction, kidnap and theft are criminal offences and therefore would be a matter for the civilian police, not the MoD." Oh, and if you fancy browsing the UFO archives yourself, there's even an app for that. [National Archives via Guardian]


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RAHWAY – Union County's mobile paper-shredding program for personal documents will be available on Thursday, June 9, at Rahway River Park off St. Georges Avenue in Rahway.
NEXCUT Shredding of Teaneck will be shredding documents at the site from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., rain or shine. The shredding event will end before 1 p.m. if the shredding truck reaches capacity.
All Union County residents are eligible to use the paper-shredding service. In an effort to accommodate all participants, there is a limit of four, 10-pound bags or boxes per person. Documents should not be bound. Please remove plastic binders and paperclips. Residents should continue to recycle non-confidential papers and magazines with their municipal recycling program.
Documents are put into 96-gallon containers provided by the shredding company. The items are then dumped onto a conveyor belt and put through the shredder. Participants are welcome to view the shredding process via a closed-circuit television. The shredded documents are then recycled, shipped to paper mills and used as pulp. The next shredding event will take place on Saturday, June 25, at the Union County Vo-Tech campus in Scotch Plains.
The mobile shredding program is paid for through New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Recycling Enhancement Act Grant Funds. For more information about future events or directions, call the Recycling Hotline at 1-908-654-9889 or visit at www.ucnj.org/recycle
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However, don't despair if a career in psychology is out of reach for you. The chances are you are using psychology in your job today – though you're not consciously aware of it. If you're not, we've developed some pointers to help you incorporate positive psychology into your workplace to build better relationships, increase motivation and drive performance.
Look at your leadership style
No-one sets out to be a poor leader and often it's a role that's thrust upon people when they're deemed to be ready, rather than something people train for. There are many different leadership styles, but the most successful leaders share the same qualities in the way they interact with their colleagues.
Try to practise some of the following and assess the impact it has on your own performance and that of your team:
- Offer clear guidance, but allow group members to voice opinions
- Talk about possible solutions to problems with members of the group
- Focus on stimulating ideas and be willing to reward creativity
Although some time ago now, a study of Fortune 1000 companies by Collins in 2001 found two further factors that lifted leaders from 'good to great':
- Modesty: the most effective leaders were incredibly modest and humble.
- Persistence: the leaders who transformed their organisations never stopped pushing towards their goals.
Promote a happy workplace
The driving force behind workplace positive psychology is the notion that happier employees are more productive. So, how do you make your employees happy? Our previous post focussed on stress-busting in the workplace and the same techniques used to ease stress can also help to create a calm and happy atmosphere at work. We're not talking about big changes here, sometimes a series of small initiatives aimed at helping colleagues feel more satisfied and happier in their work can often pay dividends. So instead of a staff-retreat and jolly, think more along the lines of an open door policy, increasing the frequency of 1-2-1s and introducing a staff suggestion scheme.
Be thankful
Employees are motivated by many different things, but we all appreciate being appreciated. In much the same way that we are taught to practise positive reinforcement at home with the kids, the same could also be said of how we treat our employees. So focus on the positives in your workplace, and encourage others to do the same. We're not talking about grand gestures of thanks, a subtle word of gratitude on the quiet will have much the same effect. Why not set yourself a target of emailing one colleague today outlining an aspect of their work that you're grateful for?
Don't manage, mentor
Establishing mentoring relationships within your team is one of the best ways to foster worker / employer camaraderie. The manager / employee relationship is one of superiority, the role of mentor is more about enablement, encouragement and nurturing. The mentor / employee relationship is one where honest feedback is welcomed, and a place where employees can get the psychological and social support they need to excel in their role.


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A multiple file upload component written in Flex that uses ColdFusion on the server side to handle the actual upload of the file. I have re written this entire application based on some great user feedback. CFMU is now a custom tag and no longer requires an XML settings file. There are many examples of how to customize the tag included in the download. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ping me.
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Pulp the awesome news a reader application available for both iPad and Mac systems, has this week received a new update, Acrylic Software announced the roll out of the new update via Twitter.
The new Pulp update brings with it support for Apple New MacBook Pro Retina screen, which is equipped with 2880 x 1800 pixels in it screen, providing high quality graphics and visuals.
As well as the new retina screen support Pulp is also now ready for the roll-out of the latest Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, which is expected to launch this month and be available to purchase for $19.99 from Apple for all your OS X systems.
OS X Mountain Lion will have a number of new features including iCloud support build it. For more information read our previous article detailing the announcement from Apple WWDC last month. The Pulp new reader can now be downloaded from the iTunes App Store for $9.99
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Two Carson School students receive television academy internships
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Two students from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film have received prestigious internships this summer from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation.
Ethan Seagren, of Elkhorn, Neb., will be working at Stargate Studios in Pasadena, Calif., in visual effects. Seagren graduated in May.
Stargate is a production company offering visual effects and production services to the film and television industry. Their credits include "The Walking Dead," "Heroes," "Mob City," "Pan Am" and "24."
Connor Huggett, of Overland Park, Kan., will be working at Tremendous! Entertainment in North Hollywood, Calif., in post-production. Huggett is a senior with dual degrees in theatre with an emphasis in film and new media and advertising in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications.
The production company Tremendous! Entertainment is behind "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern," "Epic," "Ghostland, Tennessee" and "Off Pitch."
The Academy's summer student internship program provides more than 40 industry-wide internships to college and graduate students from across the country and is considered one of the top 10 internships in the country. The program gives students in-depth exposure to professional television production during an eight-week period in Los Angeles.
Seagren is looking forward to the experience.
"For me, it's just an incredible opportunity to take the experience and education I've gained here in college and go and apply it in a professional environment," Seagren said. "Especially for myself to have the opportunity to work at a professional visual effects studio."
Huggett is looking forward to the networking opportunities.
"It's the best way to get your foot in the door, really," he said. "It's a really good program, and you meet lots of people."
Seagren began his interest in film and technology in high school.
"We didn't have any film classes, so I was just doing all the research I could online," he said. "I came across Video Co-Pilot, which has After Effects tutorials, so I just started doing that. Then, in college, I realized that visual effects allowed me to combine my passion for film and technology into the same thing."
While in the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, Seagren completed a UCARE research project with Assistant Professor of Film and New Media Steve Kolbe to build a large-scale texture library and develop a rendering farm for 3-D animation using the supercomputer cluster at the Holland Computing Center.
"It certainly helped my technical understanding, as far as visual effects goes," he said. "I've had a wealth of opportunities here with student films and the Carson Film Series films to do visual effects on those."
Seagren was also an intern at HuskerVision, where he directed women's basketball and operated instant replay for Husker football. He was also one of six featured students in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts 2013-2014 recruiting initiatives.
Huggett initially was interested in both engineering and film programs.
"Growing up, I was more science and math oriented," he said. "I actually got a couple of full-ride scholarships at engineering schools and an appointment to the Air Force Academy. I turned them all down to go to film school instead, and I don't regret it at all."
He says he got his first camera when he was six years old.
"Except it was plastic and didn't record anything," he said. "I just made videos with friends growing up. I taught myself how to edit. Once I realized I could spend hours and hours behind a computer putting something together and not even realize it, I knew that's what I needed to do."
Kolbe believes Seagren will succeed at Stargate this summer.
"I have every confidence that Ethan will impress everyone lucky enough to work with him," he said. "This prestigious Academy internship is the first of many accolades he will enjoy in his budding career. I couldn't be more happy for Ethan."
Associate Professor of Film Sharon Teo-Gooding said Huggett will also benefit from this experience.
"What an honor for Connor to be accepted into such a nationally competitive and prestigious internship program," Teo-Gooding said. "It has been a pleasure helping him fine tune his post-production skills in the classroom in a wide range of genres, from 'The Making of Digs' documentary to experimental and narrative editing projects. It is gratifying to see his hard work be so richly rewarded."


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Portland Police Separate Opposing Protest Groups
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Opposing political groups gathered for demonstrations near Portland City Hall on Sunday, June 4. A Trump Free Speech Rally gathered in Terry Schrunk Plaza while opposing groups demonstrated outside City Hall and in another nearby park. As many as 60 groups were included among the counter-protesters, according to a news report. Police arrested at least two. The protests come as the city was still recovering from a stabbing attack on a MAX light rail car. Two people were killed and a third was seriously injured after coming to the defense of a girl wearing a hijab who was being harassed.


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3CX and OpenIP partner to offer a best-of-breed Hosted PBX designed for the channel only
LONDON UK & PARIS, FR 10 DECEMBER 2015 – 3CX, developer of next generation software-based PBX, 3CX Phone System for Windows and OpenIP announce that OpenIP will offer 3CX as a Hosted PBX for 3CX Partners in France.
OpenIP are launching a service for 3CX Partners called MyCloud3CX from which 3CX Partners can obtain their complete Cloud package of 3CX Phone System. The SIP trunking services will be provided by OpenIP. Additionally, MyCloud3CX includes the following:
- Phone number creation or portability.
- Data Access delivered directly to the OpenIP infrastructure to ensure the quality of Voice Service.
- Access to Cloud instances that are compliant with all 3CX Phone System licences.
Hosted 3CX is a Game Changer
Hosted 3CX removes all the barriers that have been blocking the hosted PBX market with superior architecture and flexible delivery options. 3CX in the cloud is a fully virtualized instance, with its own set of dedicated PBX services, as well as completely separate data stores.
With 3CX in the cloud, customers will have a dedicated PBX separated from and unaffected by other tenants. In addition they will have access to all the features of the on-premise version such as web conferencing, instant chat, presence and so on. Furthermore, they can choose their preferred telecom vendor and retain the ability to move from hosted to on-premise whenever they wish.
Nick Galea, CEO 3CX, says:
«France is a fast growing market for 3CX. This new program with our long-term partner OpenIP will boost the business of our existing resellers by offering them a new way to sell our solution. 3CX hosted is not a multi-account system, each instance is completely virtualized, setting it apart from traditional hosted PBX solutions".
Laurent Silvestri , President of OpenIP says:
"We are excited to go even further with 3CX. MyCloud3CX will open new business opportunities to our resellers. 3CX Phone System for Windows matches exactly the needs of our resellers and their customers, especially when considering the ease of deployment and the large range of included features."
Developed With the Reseller in Mind
3CX Phone System v14 in combination with OpenIP's MyCloud3CX package, promises a more channel-friendly product by offering resellers new ways to benefit from the market:
- Leaves reseller in complete control of customer account.
- Offers reseller a fully validated SIP trunk.
- Offers reseller a real time billing and service dashboard.
- Ample scope for sales of add on services, hardware & integration.
- Ability to offer on-premise or hosted deployment as customer prefers.
- Obtain the best priced Hosted PBX solution in the market.
- Ability to choose from a large number of supported IP Phones.
- Ability to integrate mobile devices as alternative to IP Phones.
- Free training & support.
Resellers will also enjoy increased flexibility as they will have the option of buying virtual instances hosted by OpenIP, one by one, month by month until it's more profitable for a reseller to host their own. With 3CX Cloud PBX resellers can deploy up to 25 instances per server in a fully automated way. Partners will be able to support many customers, making it a much more scalable and therefore a much more profitable solution.
This partnership between 3CX and OpenIP opens doors for resellers who have felt that hosting 3CX themselves was not possible. They will now be able to offer their customers a virtual service which will give them and their customers maximum flexibility and high quality.
Additional Offerings
- In addition to the tools and training available from 3CX, OpenIP with MyCloud3CX also provides:
- The technical documentation required for installation and administration.
- Lead generation from the OpenIP website.
- Webinars dedicated to MyCloud3CX.
About 3CX (www.3cx.com)
3CX is a 100% channel company and is the developer of a software-based and open standards IP PBX which innovates communications and replaces proprietary PBXs. 3CX cuts telco costs and boosts company productivity and mobility.
With integrated WebRTC web conferencing, softphones for Mac and Windows and smartphone clients for Android, iOS and Windows phones, 3CX offers companies a complete Unified Communications package out of the box.
250,000 customers worldwide use 3CX including Boeing, McDonalds, Hugo Boss, Ramada Plaza Antwerp, Harley Davidson, Wilson Sporting Goods and Pepsi. Maintaining its global presence, 3CX has offices in the U.S., U.K., Germany, South Africa, Russia and Australia. Visit 3CX on Facebook, Twitter and on Google+.
About OpenIP
Created in June 2005, OpenIP is a Unified Communications provider that focuses on the SMB Market with a comprehensive Telecom and Cloud offer. OpenIP has its own Cloud infrastructure and is connected to main national telecom carriers. OpenIP has developed a unique SIP expertise and is certified with a dozen of IPBX manufacturers.
OpenIP achieved a turnover of € 7.1m in 2014 and expects a turnover of € 9 m in 2015.
Through its resellers Division, comprising nearly 500 integrators, OpenIP provides the SMB market with a complete offer combining local technical advice and a full range of communication services : IP Telephony (IPBX, IPCentrex, SIP Trunking, IPFax), broadband Internet access (xDSL and optical fiber) and Unified Communications solutions.
Through its operators Division, OpenIP offers an Infrastructure as a Service offering (IaaS) that allows operators or national integrators to build their own telecommunication solutions. For more information: www.openip.fr


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Atmospheric skilled watercolor painting of Venice and the famous lagoon at dawn or sunset, signed at lower right by the artist, GUIDO AGOSTINI (1870-1898, different dates are shown in different reference sources). The painting, 11 3/4" by 15 3/4" inside the present mat, 18" by 22" in simple modern frame, shows the skill of its creator, with fine detail in the architecture, gondola, and figure, and the pink-orange light suffusing the scene. The artist worked evidently in oil and watercolor, his specialty landscapes of many parts of Italy. There seems to be little biographical information. The watercolor is in very good condition. The paper is laid down to a board (glued long ago) and presently this is loose in the frame so should be re-matted with acid free archival materials and so forth.
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Biola is a "biblically centered" school that integrates the bible into its 37 majors and 75 academic programs ranging from B.A. to Ph.D. Located on a 95-acre suburban campus in La Mirada, California, Biola has an enrollment of 6,250 students. It includes the School of Arts and Sciences, School of Business, School of Education, School of Intercultural Studies, Rosemead School of Psychology, and Talbot School of Theology, all of which focus on fostering spiritual life in its Christian campus community.
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Call the French inconsistent. They objected to their new president's perceived flaunting of his private life. But give him a picture-perfect trip to England, complete with horse-drawn carriage ride into Windsor next to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, gala evenings, a speech before the Houses of Parliament, and a new commitment to a French-British alliance equal to the French-German "axis" that for the past half-century has kept France in the leadership of Europe--and what do the French pick up on but the accolades bestowed by the British press on Sarkozy's new wife. "London falls for Carla--Carlamania seizes Britain!" goes the headline in Le Monde. "Carla steals the show," trumpets Libération. And that's only the supposedly "serious" (and usually anti-Sarkozy) left-wing press. It took a 36-hour visit, one night at Windsor Castle, and nine dress changes (all in demure but très chic Dior) for Sarko's poll numbers, which had dropped 30 points in three months, to finally inch back up, from 35 percent to 40 percent favorable, leaving him a bit of elbow-room to announce a series of cuts in welfare spending last Friday.
The week before last, everyone in France was dismissing Sarkozy as last year's wonder, a four-year lame-duck president who'd managed to squander a clear victory in record time. Worse, he'd managed to lose half a dozen large cities to the left in local elections on March 9 and 19--almost without help from the opposition Socialists. As France moves more and more into a two-party system (Sarkozy has destroyed Jean-Marie Le Pen's far-right National Front in a neat mirror-image of François Mitterrand's shrinking trick with the Communist party a quarter century ago), the Socialists still don't have a leader or a platform. Deciding on these--at their next national conference in November--promises a lively free-for-all, as former presidential candidate Ségolène Royal slugs it out with her archenemy, Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë.
Unlike their German Social Democratic or British Labour counterparts, the French Socialists still haven't formally abandoned Marxism. If they do, they fear losing the votes of France's three (count 'em!) small Trotskyite parties preaching class struggle and antiglobalization. As a result, the Socialists' message is often distorted by the tension between ideology and realism. Meanwhile, they look less modern, less diverse, and older than Sarkozy's troops, which helps explain his victory last year. (It took Sarko to appoint blacks and Muslims to major cabinet positions and to insist on strict equality between the sexes in appointments ranging from cabinet jobs to the Legion of Honor.)
As Sarkozy seemed intent on an own-goal ignominious free fall, his real enemies started coming out of his own party's woodwork. They are the self-proclaimed Gaullists, to whom the new president's pro-Americanism is anathema, and the keenest of them all is a lanky figure well-known in Washington, Dominique de Villepin, the former foreign minister and prime minister of anti-Iraq war fame.
Villepin and Sarkozy hate each other's guts. It's political--they have different views of the world, and Sarkozy despises in Villepin the career bureaucrat who never ran for elective office--but also personal. Villepin, who for a good while toyed with the idea of running for president himself in 2007, has been indicted in the Clearstream scandal, a smear campaign in which Sarkozy's name (and others') were faked on a computer list purporting to show holders of illegal Luxembourg bank accounts. Around 2004-05, Villepin and, in all likelihood, President Jacques Chirac, allegedly hired through intermediaries a computer expert to produce the list, in a dirty-tricks bid to prevent Sarkozy from running for president. The chief intermediary was an officer in the French intelligence service, General Philippe Rondot, who found the task distasteful enough that he kept detailed notes in his office safe, to be produced if any of this leaked. It did.
It should probably be noted here that even if Villepin is found guilty and sentenced (in all likelihood to a fine and a suspended prison sentence), this will be no hindrance to his pursuing a political career. The bright line in France is personal pecuniary gain. Another former prime minister, Bordeaux mayor Alain Juppé, was three years ago sentenced to a 14-month suspended prison term for financing the Gaullist party through City of Paris coffers. Since he did not help himself to a centime, he was reelected in Bordeaux in March with an even higher majority.
While Villepin is incensed that Sarko didn't lift a finger to slow down the judicial process against him (French judges are civil servants; it is not uncommon to convince them to slow a proceeding to a crawl), his official reason for opposing Sarkozy is that the president is betraying the "Gaullist legacy." One sure sign that Villepin intends to pursue an active political career, probably even run for president in 2012, is that he's recently registered with the Paris bar. He doesn't need the work--he is already getting both his prime minister's pension and an ambassador-at-large's salary from his civil service career--but as a lawyer, he can receive large fees from clients without having to disclose them. It is a known dodge in French political finance. Sarkozy himself was a barrister. So are Socialist chief François Hollande and his former partner Ségolène Royal, even though they're both (like Villepin, Chirac, and many more--but not Sarko) graduates of the illustrious Ecole Nationale d'Administration and therefore civil servants for life.
Until last week, Villepin and his bevy of anti-American, anti-EU, largely pro-Arab "historic Gaullists" were licking their chops at Sarko's fall from grace, punctuating the president's descent in the polls with snide attacks. "Europe has never had borders. . . . Europe made concrete commitments vis-à-vis Turkey some decades ago and [those commitments] need to be honored," Villepin told students (and the local great and good) at Galatasaray University in Istanbul, in open criticism of Sarkozy's well-known refusal to let Turkey into the EU. "France has no call to reintegrate NATO," he thundered in an interview with the radio station Europe 1, just as Sarkozy prepared to announce exactly that at the Bucharest NATO summit. "I might very well run for election in France," he confided to La Tribune de Genève. "The government's message isn't clear enough," he sniped on public radio France-Info. Even when selling his collection of Napoleon memorabilia and papers (tellingly, through the auction house owned by a longtime Mitterrand acolyte, Pierre Bergé), Villepin seized the occasion to express his grave doubts about France sending more troops to Afghanistan "in the absence of clearly defined goals by the United States and NATO."
Sarkozy's reaction was typical: Just as, after winning the election last year, he brought half a dozen leftwingers into his cabinet, throwing the defeated Socialists into further disarray, last week he had two Villepin associates appointed to leadership posts within the UMP, the Gaullist party, one of them as vice secretary in charge of defense. Sarko believes that while Villepin stays out in the cold, he can whittle some of his troops away from him. It's a daring strategy, undertaken even before the poll numbers started to improve, but Sarkozy, who at 53 is two years younger than Villepin, has been in politics for twenty years longer. Villepin has written several admiring books about his hero, Napoleon, but it's Sarkozy who's got the true Bonaparte style.
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Monday, April 14, 2008
How Sarko Got His Groove Back
A triumphant 36 hours in Britain.
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This is a popular design, and I posted 2 photo's of the same design, but 2 different weddings.
4-tier round cakes in first cake will be the design I will describe. Size tiers (6-8-10-14).
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for the base of the 2nd & 4th tiers, i put a 1/4- 1/2 inch polyester or satin ribbon.
then i piped on buttercream cornelius lace from ribbon to top edge of cake where it meets the next tier.
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Maples and Calder's London office acted as BVI counsel to Kuwait Energy plc on its $250 million high-yield bond offering. Kuwait Energy is an independent MENA oil and gas exploration and production company based in the Middle East, overseeing operations in various countries including Egypt, Iraq, Yemen and Oman. A portion of the proceeds of the bond will be used to refinance existing bank facilities, partially fund capital expenditures, and for general corporate purposes. London-based partner Matthew Gilbert led the Maples and Calder team, assisted by associate Joanna Dinning.


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The Regulatory Education for Industry (REdI) Conference is an FDA-led forum that brings together the regulatory educators from FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) to provide direct, relevant, and helpful information on the key aspects of drug and device regulations. The FDA holds these conferences only twice a year, which doesn't give medical device companies too much wiggle room when it comes to clearing their busy shedules to attend. So if you missed the conference, R&Q will fill you in!
What an action-packed three days MD&M East was this year! Our team is exhausted, but in the absolute best way possible. I'm not sure how anyone who attended the show could've escaped the exhaustion... as the exhibit floor was BIG. If you're reading this and attended, hopefullly you found the conference worthwhile. We certainly did.
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Johnson Publishing Company (JPC), the world's largest African American owned and operated publishing company, granted 2.5 million dollars to the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California to establish the Johnson Communication Leadership Center.
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The center will feature a new undergraduate scholarship program — the first at the school to focus on the specific interests of the African-American community. Recipients of Johnson Scholarships will be selected for the program based on academic excellence, demonstrated leadership, and a strong interest and involvement in issues related to African Americans in the world of journalism and communications.
In addition to scholarships, students will be exposed to leaders who influence the fields of journalism and communication, receive mentorships, participate in research projects and scholarly activities such as internships, including the opportunity to work for leading media entities.
Linda Johnson Rice, who is JPC CEO and President, as well as an USC trustee and alumna, stated:
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Cast This: Wonder Woman for Batman vs. Superman
Ready to give Wonder Woman another go for this edition of Cast This?
We've been here before. Trying to find a lovely tough as nails lady to pilot the invisible jet. We started with television then moved on to ensemble territory for JUSTICE LEAGUE. Diana of Themyscira is set to possibly appear in BATMAN VS SUPERMAN, but not yet as Wonder Woman. The leading lady character has been said to serve as the main love interest to Batman. Diana and Bruce have dated before though it wasn't for long. But then again, who hasn't Bruce dated? If this is the route the decide to go (with the romance aspect) I can't say I necessarily agree for several reasons. Recently she was linked with Superman so let's hope there's not some kind of dumb love triangle. I highly doubt that idea will play out. The love interest and Diana could be separate characters.
All that aside, we've been waiting to see Wonder Woman in any capacity on any screen whether it be big or small. The actress chosen for the part will potentially go on to JUSTICE LEAGUE as well as her own solo film. So casting this part is kind of important. In the past, schmoes chose Gina Carano as their top choice for Wonder Woman for TV and the JUSTICE LEAGUE film. Runners-up for both included: Jaimie Alexander, Evangeline Lilly, Lynn Collins, and Odette Annable (formerly Odette Yustman).
Right now the rumored contenders for the role are Jaimie Alexander, Olga Kurylenko, Gal Gadot, and Elodie Yung. Do you think any of those ladies would make the role a great one? Is there someone else you have in mind? While I'm typing this Lena Heady comes to mind. The age range the studio seems to be shooting for is somewhere between early 20s to early 30s. Heady just turned 40 in October. While Wonder Woman must have some muscle behind her, I think that her personality is just as important to her success.
That said, cast away!
RESULTS FROM PREVIOUS 'CAST THIS': John Constantine
1. Paul Bettany 2. Guy Pearce 3. Neil Patrick Harris
So that pic of Paul Bettany offered up by rodolforever makes it hard for me to see anyone else playing the part now. It's perfect. Plus the guy is a great actor However-- and this is a big however-- Bettany has confessed that he isn't a fan of the comic book flicks so this probably also includes television. Dude, it's gotta be better than being in PRIEST. I think that Constantine would be a great character to play. I gotta say, I love the idea of Neil Patrick Harris but does he want to take on another series after HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER? I didn't forget about JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK, by the way. But we were going by the news of the television show and the movie doesn't seem like it's a plan any time soon which sucks.
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"The United Nations Economic Commission Europe has declared that the UK flouted Article 7 of the Aarhus Convention, which requires full and effective public participation on all environmental issues and demands that citizens are given the right to participate in the process."
The Aarhus Convention (in full here in English, in full here in many other languages) aims in its 22 Articles
"...to contribute to the protection of the right of every person of present and future generations to live in an environment adequate to his or her health and well-being, each Party shall guarantee the rights of access to information, public participation in decision-making, and access to justice in environmental matters in accordance with the provisions of this Convention."
It is becoming clear that the UK government has not ensured that every person has been given access to information about wind farms or been able to partcipate in the decision-making process from an environmental point of view. We will see what impact the ruling has.
The big question is whether the Aarhus Convention applies to other current environmental issues.
Shale gas
The Convention does not explicitly cover the production of oil or gas (See Annex 1 of The Convention), which is too much of an oversight to be other than deliberate. It does, however cover oil and gas refineries and installations for gasification and liquefaction. It may cover those plants which gather shale gas together before pushing into a gas pipe network.
However, The Convention does cover groundwater abstraction where the annual volume of water abstracted is equivalent to or exceeds 10 million cubic metres and also covers pipelines for the transport of gas, oil or chemicals with a diameter of more than 800 mm and a length of more than 40 km.
Moreover, The Convention does state (Annex 1, Paragraph 20) that any activity not covered by paragraphs those activities that are mentioned explicitly in Annex 1, but where public participation is provided for under an environmental impact assessment procedure in accordance with national legislation, fall also under the Aarhus Convention.
The Convention covers explicitly "Construction of lines for long-distance railway traffic".
Unfortunately for badgers, not only has The Convention nothing to say about the management of wildlife, it contains an exclusion for short-term research and development under which current badger culling would probably fall.
In summary, we have a UN Convention, to which the UK is fully signed-up, that guarantees "rights of access to information, public participation in decision-making, and access to justice in environmental matters".
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WASHINGTON — The Defense Department announced Saturday it had canceled ongoing military exercises with Thailand as a result of the military coup in the Southeast Asian country.
"While we have enjoyed a long and productive military-to-military relationship with Thailand, our own democratic principles and U.S. law require us to reconsider U.S. military assistance and engagements," said Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby.
There were 700 U.S. troops participating in the annual naval exercises, which include sailors, marines, ships and aircraft.
Kirby said the Pentagon also was canceling the June visit of U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Harry Harris to Thailand and is withdrawing the invitation to the commander general of the Royal Thai Armed Forces to visit U.S. Pacific Command in June.
He said the U.S. urged Thailand's armed forces "to act in the best interests of their fellow citizens by ending this coup and restoring the rule of law and the freedoms assured those citizens through democratic principles."
The State Department said it scrubbed a U.S.-sponsored firearms training program in Thailand for the Royal Thai Police that was to begin Monday.
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Children get angry and sad very quickly. But then they get happy and laugh as quickly too. I think parents need to be teaching their children emotions. That it's ok to feel angry or sad, and how to act when we get those feelings. How do you practice different emotions with children? There are many different ways, but here is one idea that I did with my friends kids.
Use paint to get your fingerprints on paper, let it dry and then just start drawing. First we drew different emotions and then we started drawing different characters and funny people. It's amazing how much children can do. Then they started to look at the colours and thinking what sort of person is a red one and what about a blue one. Children have so much potential, and learning can be fun if we only make it and let it be fun.
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If you want them to stay looking good, they'll need regular feeding and trimming. Tidying starts right at planting time when it's recommended to remove tatty old leaves and trim straggly roots. Packaged strawberries, which are certified free of virus disease, are usually available in winter. Otherwise, you can cadge some healthy, rooted runners off friends. Runners are the sideway-growing shoots that the plants produce. In the early years, remove runners as soon as they appear because they take a lot of energy away from the plants. When planting, don't bury strawberries too deeply. The crown of the plant – the junction of the roots and the leaves – should be at ground level. Strawberries are named after the straw that was used to mulch them in earlier times. You don't have to use straw these days (although there's no reason why you shouldn't) but they do appreciate some type of mulch. You can also use other mulches like leaf mould, dry grass clippings or weed mat.
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Violence in the media and politics in the Senate
I really, really didn't want the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut to touch Pixels or Death. We write rather silly, sometimes angry, and hopefully insightful commentary about video games here. This isn't the place for a serious discussion about gun control laws, mental healthcare issues, or gender politics without somehow relating it back to our digital pastime.
School shootings should have nothing to do with us, but we keep getting dragged kicking and screaming into the debate over the cause of these tragedies.
This time, it's the U.S. Senate that has raised the call once again to deflect discussions away from areas where real social progress can be made and instead focus on media violence long after most researchers have exhausted the topic. As reported by the Huffington Post, Senator Jay Rockefeller from West Virginia introduced a bill this week that would have the National Academy of Sciences investigate the impact of violence media with a specific interest in video games. Study would be done in cooperation with the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission. Both senators from Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal and Joe Lieberman, have come out in support of the bill.
This is all because, according to reports from people close with the shooter, he apparently played Call of Duty and Starcraft. Well, at least it wasn't Manhunt for once.
This is exhausting. How many times do we have to go through this? Since the days of the first Mortal Kombat and then later Columbine, video games have been the first scapegoat people jump to when looking for someone to point fingers at and claim that society is crumbling (despite violent crime overall falling consistently year over year while video game sales continue to rise). So what can we do?
Let them study it again. Go ahead, do it. I say we put up zero argument and let this bill slide through.
What have we got to lose? We already know what the findings will be, they've been found dozens of times before through the last fifteen years. Maybe once we get this out of the way, we can start focusing on real issues. Plus, forcing the National Academy of Sciences to perform a study of their own will just make the people who came out with the idea that violent games are to blame look even more out of touch.
Yes, the Senator that proposed the bill may seem biased in his approach to the research, saying:
"Recent court decisions demonstrate that some people still do not get it. They believe that violent videogames are no more dangerous to young minds than classic literature or Saturday morning cartoon…Parents, pediatricians, and psychologists know better. These court decisions show we need to do more and explore ways Congress can lay additional groundwork on this issue."
But remember that Rockefeller isn't the one doing the research; it's the National Academy of Sciences. Every study begins with an observation and hypothesis. Bias comes in while looking at the results, and for some reason I trust the NAS to at least try to approach the study with objectivity. It is literally their job.
Plus, as was referenced in that quote, the Supreme Court has already extended First Amendment rights to cover video games back in June 2011.
So whatever. Push the bill through and let's get back to actual issues in Congress. That way, we here at Pixels or Death can finally get back to telling you how fond we are of Shaq Fu.
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To burnout, engage both the brake and gas pedals in your car at the same time. Balance pressure on the brakes to allow the rear tires to spin while holding the front tires in place.
- Ensure the car is rear-wheel drive
Attempting burnouts in a car with front-wheel drive can cause damage to your drivetrain. Only attempt burnouts with rear-wheel drive cars.
- Shift your car into first gear
Push your clutch in all the way, and shift the car into first gear. Keep the clutch depressed, and use the gas pedal to rev the engine to high RPMs while the car remains stationary.
- Engage the brakes and release the clutch
Pull the car's handbrake, or put your foot on the floor brake. Remove your foot from the clutch quickly, and press down on the gas pedal. The car remains stationary while the back wheels spin at high speeds. Release the brake to "peel out" of your burnout.
- Install a line lock
To make burnouts easier, you can install a device called a line lock. Line locks allow you to keep pressure on one set of brakes at a time. With them, you can keep the front brakes activated while disengaging the rear brakes, letting the rear wheels spin for a burnout.


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Dr Oz: Carla Hall Cauliflower "Risotto"
Carla Hall literally skipped her way onto Dr Oz's set to share some of her favorite quick-cooking techniques. It doesn't have to take hours to put a delicious meal together. Carla first explained that a secret to quick and healthy cooking, is to use vegetables instead of a grain. For example, her Cauliflower "Risotto" comes together a lot faster than traditional risotto would. She also made a point to say, because this recipe calls for pine nuts, when cooking nuts, they roast in three stages: not done, not done, burnt. So be sure to keep an eye on them!
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Heaven's Hope
A heavenly point and click adventure.
Angels crop up quite often in popular culture. From Clarence in It's a Wonderful Life, and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's characters in Dogma, to the TV show Supernatural's Castiel (guilty pleasure, sorry), they turn up in a variety of different roles and different imaginings. Mosaic Mask Studios are the latest to drop some angelic influence on the world with their point and click adventure Heaven's Hope.
Players are cast in the role of Talorel, an angel who finds himself having fallen from Heaven and is stranded on Earth. Specifically, he finds himself stuck in the small 19th Century town of Heaven's Hope – very fortunate considering the fact that Talorel must work out how to return to Heaven. But getting back through the pearly gates will be no easy task, as Talorel has lost his halo and wings, and has very little knowledge of how 19th Century Humans go about their lives. To make matters worse, the town of Heaven's Hope is going through a second instance of the Inquisition under the rule of the fanatical Greta.
Heaven's Hope has a pretty good set up and the potential to be a rip roaring adventure. However, as far as the story goes, it never really lives up to that potential. There are a lot of interesting and notable characters in the game, but Heaven's Hope seems to shy away from making the most of them, leaving the vast majority either underdeveloped or underused. Popular point and click adventures manage to build a cast of memorable characters that will stay with the player long after the adventure has been completed, but sadly Heaven's Hope's characters are largely forgettable. And the worst offender is the main character Talorel, who does come across as rather dull. He is not unlikable in any way, just uninteresting, and while his situation could presumably lead to all manner of hilarious hijinx, the game is played with a serious undertone. There are occasional humorous moments, but they tend to just inspire a small smile rather than any chuckles.
When it comes to the gameplay, it is pretty standard fare for a point and click adventure. This is no bad thing as many new games in this genre, a genre that seems to have been revitalized in recent years, spoil things with new mechanics that just don't work. That is not the case here, as everything plays very smoothly. Clicking somewhere on the screen will have Talorel wander over to that point, and if there is anything to interact with, a simple mouse click will make that happen. Being in a small town, there are not a massive number of different locations to explore, and players will find themselves revisiting the same locations from time to time, but the player will have relative freedom to go where they want. This can lead to some confusion as to where they need to go to progress the story, but there are a few systems in place to help with that. As is customary in many modern point and click games, players can press the space bar on the keyboard to reveal any interactive items, saving on the pixel hunting from games gone past. There is also an incredibly useful journal that keeps track of the players objectives, and a map that allows fast travel to different areas. Then there are Talorel's two Angel friends back in Heaven, who can be called upon to give advice, although their advice often leans more towards the vague or stating the obvious.
For the most part, players will find themselves having to talk to everyone and gather various items, which will then be used to solve simple environmental puzzles. Sometimes players may have to stretch their imaginations to find solutions, but there is nothing too taxing here. For the more traditional puzzles, the game tends to use well known puzzle templates that, again, won't cause the majority of players any problems.
The visuals are a real stand out feature of Heaven's Hope. Beautiful, hand drawn backdrops really set the scene, feeling both atmospheric and enticing. The game may have a small playing area that frequently reuses destinations, but the stunning looks of those destinations ensure that the player will never get bored of them. The character models are also similarly well done and nicely detailed, with some really interesting looking characters that I would love to see again. The animation is mostly successful, although there are a few issues here that somewhat break the illusion. The voicework, which is often a problem with this genre, fits nicely with the characters and is pretty good.
Heaven's Hope is a solid point and click adventure game. The story is interesting, but doesn't live up to its potential. The characters also lack depth and could have been expanded in more interesting ways. But Heaven's Hope is such a beautiful game, and the mechanics are all good, making for an enjoyable experience for any point and click fans. Personally, I am left looking forward to seeing what the developers Mosaic Mask Studios come up with next.


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ELLIS ISLAND in 1907 represented a cross section of all the races in the world. Five thousand persons disembarked on that October day when my mother, my stepfather, and we four children landed there from the General Putnam.
We took our places in the long line and went submissively through the routine of answering interpreters' questions and receiving medical examinations. We were in line early and were told that our case would be considered in a few hours, so we avoided the necessity of staying overnight, an ordeal which my mother had long been dreading. Soon we were permitted to pass through America's Gateway.
My stepfather's brother was waiting for us. It was from him that the alluring accounts of opportunities in the United States had come to our family in Italy, and we looked to him for guidance.
Crossing the harbor on the ferry, I was first struck by the fact that American men did not wear beards. In contrast with my own fellowcountrymen I thought they looked almost like women. I felt that we were superior to them. Also on this boat I saw my first negro. But these wonders melted into insignificance when we arrived at the Battery and our first elevated trains appeared on the scene. There could be nothing in America superior to these!
Carrying our baggage, we walked across lower Manhattan and then climbed the steps leading to one of these marvellous trains. We


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Nigerian striker Victor Anichebe says he is not worried about his future at relegation threatened Sunderland and admitted that injury has derailed a good season for him personally.
Anichebe alongside the likes of Sunderland captain John O'Shea, Seb Larsson are among a number of players whose contracts expire in the summer.
"I'm not thinking about it at the moment, I just need to stay fit and help us get some wins, for the fans here and our ourselves," Anichebe told the Sunderland Echo.
Anichebe went on to state that he returned from his latest injury ahead of schedule to aid the relegation fight.
"I love it here, before I got injured I felt great, performances were good, someone was saying that outside Hazard I was one of the highest ranked attackers in the league, so I've enjoyed it," he added.
"The fans have been great to me, it is a really great club, so whenever I go out there I try as hard as I can. This injury was meant to keep me out for 12/13 weeks but I came back after nine, because I wanted to help the team because I know I can with the different style I bring.
"It's a great club, great stadium, great training facilities, great fanbase, it's a shame we are where we are."


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All American Rejects "Kids In The Streets" Reviewed
Wow, looks who's back. All American Rejects are back with their poppy good fun. Although sporting a weird accent the song is contagious and twittery.
Kids in the Street' , is the new album due out on March 27 but you can here the title single off their sound cloud and its quite delightful.
Fluffy sounding none intrusive fun from a band who gave us the best break up rally cry of the decade "Gives You Hell". That has to be one of the greatest tunes ever and then poof they were gone,
Tyson Ritter and his leading man looks never really cracked it. There had to be some sort of stumbling block that halted their rise to fame. They had the talent- they had the tune but they never followed it up.
"Kids in The Streets" could well be their second chance. The first tease "Beekeeper" was a bit too Maroon 5ish for me- this latest tune is more promising. I really like the simplicity and the chorus can be sung loud and clear at their soon to be sold out gigs.
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Friday was yet another autism vs. Neesha battle, and it stained a beautiful day like grape juice on a white T-shirt. My poor sweet child. He didn't ask to be this way. I love him. Sooo very, very much. I tear up as I write this. My handsome 13-year-old young man. He has a smile that could out outshine the sun and a laugh that's more contagious than chicken pox.
His Friday night episode happened just before midnight. I guess I semi-blame myself because I should have put him to bed at his normal time instead of trying to be "cool mommy" and let him stay up late to celebrate the glorious weekend and no school. *sigh*
This meltdown gave a new meaning to the phrase "hole in the wall," which normally describes a trashy venue. Now it literally means "hole in the wall" of his bedroom as he flailed his legs and kicked a heel-sized hole in the wall while simultaneously doing some supersonic screaming that threatened to pop my eardrums. It all started after I said these horrifying words - "Hey pumpkin, time to brush your teeth and get ready for bed." I won't give you all the gory details, but the whole thing lasted about an hour-and-a-half. This time, I was saved by his dad coming and taking him for a drive.
When I was a kiddo, I was a mega fan of The Incredible Hulk series. I was fascinated at how one little thing triggered this nice man's transformation into a destructive monster! If you're familiar with this show, then understand that this is how it happens with my kiddo. ONE simple thing will piss him off, and sometimes you don't even know what that thing was! And then it's a path of destruction until the Hulk's rage eases off slowly and he finds himself sitting in silence, remorseful about what just occurred and sorrowful that he cannot control it.
I think the terrifying fiasco even scared Optimus Prime, who also resides in his room. Optimus looked a bit shaken. But I assured him everything would be OK as soon as the Hulk's tantrum blew over.
He's now getting some help from a professional behavior analyst, and we're trying out new strategies in dealing with him that will hopefully help him feel better and have a more structured existence.
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Mason, George; 1725-1792; judge and statesman; member Va. legislature, 1759 and a leader in the cause of American rights in opposition to British tyranny; author "Fairfax Resolves," 1774;
member Va. Convention, 1775 and 1776– when he drafted Va. Declaration of Rights and a good part of Va. "Constitution;" in Va. legislature 1776-1780 and later; active in work leading up to 1787 Convention which framed U.S. Constitution, also as a member; did not sign Constitution and opposed ratification due to fear of inadequate limits on Federal power to prevent its becoming tyrannical; urged addition of "Bill of Rights;" was one of principal slave-owners (including Washington and Jefferson) who deplored existence of slavery and favored abolition, with compensation by government to owners of freed slaves.


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Graphics Bottlenecks
Creating a responsive user interface is one of the most important considerations for a mobile developer, and the smooth scrolling and quick responsiveness of iOS has been one of its hallmarks since day 1. — I've gotta be honest here; I still find myself every now and then finding great amusement in just flicking around a simple web view or scrolling some text on my phone. It just feels so right! — Keeping a smooth flow and one to one correspondence between user touch and visual display is crucial for maintaining the illusion and feeling that one is directly interacting with the objects on the screen. One key consideration to make this happen is do not block the main thread. If you are doing anything that might take a significant amount of time, you must do this on a background thread.
With iOS 4.0 and the introduction of blocks and Grand Central Dispatch, it became much easier to complete tasks in the background asynchronously without having to dive into the implementation details of threads and such. If you haven't yet tried out GCD, take a look at the docs, or check out this tutorial to get you up and running quickly. It's great for parsing data, downloading from the network, etc. off the main thread, and GCD makes it very easy to write code that will call back into the main thread once the background process completes. What it doesn't work well for is anything to do with UIKit or the user interface. All drawing and touch interaction takes place, by design, on the main thread. So, what do you do if your drawing itself is taking too long and blocking the main thread? I'm sure there were people much cleverer than me who found some ways to get around it and do some drawing in the background, but basically up until iOS 4, UIKit was not thread-safe at all. If your drawing is too complicated and blocks, then you need to optimize it or simplify it. However, the release notes for iOS 4.0 contain the following short section:
Drawing to a graphics context in UIKit is now thread-safe. Specifically:
- The routines used to access and manipulate the graphics context can now correctly handle contexts residing on different threads.
- String and image drawing is now thread-safe.
- Using color and font objects in multiple threads is now safe to do.
This was not something I had really been interested in or concerned myself with until I ran into just such a problem recently. I created a custom subclass of UILabel which adds a colored, blurred shadow to the label to give it a glow effect. But, this drawing took drastically longer than the regular string drawing. For example, for the drawing that happens at app startup, using regular UILabels takes 104 milliseconds total in drawRect:. To draw the exact same strings with shadows takes 1297 milliseconds! So, you can imagine what this does to frame rates when there are multiple labels being updated rapidly during an already CPU intensive section of the code.
Multi is fun threading!
Since I already know ahead of time exactly what strings I need to display during this particular bottleneck, it would be nice to be able to draw all the labels at once in the background and cache them for later. My first approach was, Continue reading "UIKit and GCD"


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Yesterday I did to 12k runs to the office and back home again. Tuesday is usually our interval day. I have a love-hate relationship with interval training. I live the results, but they don't come right away, and it hurts to get your heart rate up that high. On the other hand, sometimes I get into the zone and feel the "flow", at least that's the term Virginie learned in University to describe that feeling of euphoria and connectedness with ones body that happens, but sometime not so frequently for me. On my way to work, I ran to work to get there. I tried to keep an aggressive pace, but found myself often stopping to catch my breath. I did not time myself either. Lately, I've not been timing myself at all. For one thing, I have the GPS watch to Virginie. I miss is a little bit, but not that much. The way I see it, the watch can tell you when you need to pick up the pace, but can also tell you when you are going to fast. If I have no running watch with me, I am forced to run by feel. I find this helps me. I tend to run faster than I think I am. Still, this morning in particular, I was struggling for breath. In contrast on the way home I felt great. There was definitely some "flow" felt then. I was light on my feet, moving fast, and even though out of breath, able to sustain the pace for substantially longer.
I'll be doing some strength training tonight and 15k tomorrow morning. Best pace as possible. When I cannot hold the pace any longer, I'll take two minutes to recuperate, and then try to match the pace again for as long as possible. This type of training helps with the lactate threshold. As I understand it, it's that area between aerobic and anaerobic activity. The higher the anaerobic threshold, the faster I can run on just fat metabolism. This is a pretty basic way of looking at it, but it's worked for me.
Likely 10k on Friday night and 45 to 50 on Saturday morning. I think we'll be well prepared. Well do the Sinister Seven training camp in early July, and two weeks later River Valley Revenge 100k. Two weeks later, race day!
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I wasn't born a baker. Nope. I'm sorry kids, when you read this, but birthday cakes are something I dread having to make the most. Just know that I do it, and try hard to do it right, because I love you. The pressure of coming up with a new idea, topping last year's cake, or just meeting the expectation of your birthday cake hopes and dreams is stressful! Oh how I've longed to be one of those Mom's who just order from the grocery store bakery. Don't get me wrong. I know plenty of Mom's who bake birthday cakes because they want to, but I am not one of them. I've had so many cakes fall apart, only to be patched back together with icing, crumbs peaking out here, there, and everywhere. Challenges aside, I can proudly say I don't think I've ever disappointed them. In fact, just today, I was given a high five to "Mom Power" and told that no matter what, they would like it… unless it was disgusting. (LOL) So with that awesome accolade, I will share with you a compilation of my past cakes, as well as this year's Minecraft Creeper cake adventure.
For my first child's first birthday, I tried to make a cake from scratch, using a baking powder version of an egg substitute. The end result…was only slightly taller than a pancake. Fail. But hey, she was 1, she only wanted to squash it anyway!
Then I discovered the amazing miracle of Cherrybrook Kitchen boxed cake mixes. I love, love, LOVE Cherrybrook Kitchen products! I am so grateful for the food allergy pioneers that came before me who decided to share their fabulous creations with the world.
If you don't have any Cherrybrook Kitchen mix on hand, you can also try making Wacky cake or a Divvies recipe based cake.
Learn from my mistakes. (please!) Here are some tips I've had to learn the hard way over the years.
- Always (always) grease AND flour your pan to prevent your cake from getting stuck in the pan. I use Crisco brand shortening.
- Crumb coats are your friend. I'm not the one to teach you what a crumb coat is, but Google can. 🙂
- Invest in some good tools. I am the cheapest person I know, and I try to get by without making extra purchases. But I will tell you, my KitchenAid standmixer and my various Wilton cake tools are lifesavers.
- Make your life easy and do cupcakes once in a while. Let's face it, they're easier and you can even buy little plastic pegs to decorate them with your favorite characters. Jazz it up with a cupcake stand display if you want to be fancy.
- Plan ahead for unexpected birthdays by always having pre-baked frozen cupcakes available. I freeze mine without the icing and then freeze separate single-serving sandwich baggies of icing so I can just cut the corner off, pipe it on, and go.
- Give yourself plenty of time to bake, cool, frost, and decorate. I always seem to end up rushing out of the house on party day, having just put the finishing touches on the cake… and still wearing some of it.
For icing, I use Pillsbury brand Chocolate Fudge and Vanilla flavors. I've also made it from scratch using a mixture of shortening, dairy-free butter and powdered sugar, although the kids prefer Pillsbury's product over homemade. (Can't win 'em all!)
This year I'm trying marshmallow fondant, because I don't think icing will create the perfect squared-off Minecraft Creeper features I'm going for. In the past, I've used storebought fondant, although I had a really hard time with it and that particular brand's labeling no longer reads safe for us. There are lots of marshmallow fondant recipes out there. Mine is based on trial and error. I mixed about a bag and a half , or about 16 ounces, of melted mini marshmallows (we use Kraft or Publix brand) with enough (about 3/4) of a 2 pound bag of powdered sugar until I liked the consistency. I added 2 Tbsp water, 2 Tsp vanilla, and some gel coloring to the melted marshmallows *before* I started adding in the powdered sugar . I used my KitchenAid dough hook (grease bowl and hook well) to save myself some elbow grease and then I hand-kneaded the finished product with Crisco and powdered sugar on my hands and the counter to keep things from getting too sticky.
I used Americolor brand gel to make my "creeper" cake green. I used to use Wilton, but was sad to see their labels now say there is a risk of cross-contamination with our allergens. Bye-bye Wilton.
I hope you've enjoyed my run through birthday cake memory lane as much as I have. Now, go celebrate!


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East Knoyle
This tastefully converted farm building sits amongst beautiful rural countryside in the south west of Wiltshire. Perfect for keen walkers, enjoy the location, with free range hens in the farm yard outside and pheasants across the fields. 7 miles from Shaftesbury.
East Knoyle
Enjoy the experience of staying right in the heart of a wonderfully rural working beef farm. Sublime scenery, glorious night skies, quiet rural lanes and only 7 miles from Shaftesbury


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Stream Official, the newest drop from Billy Blue which features Bobby V. The cut was released on Thursday, March 25th, 2010. Billy Blue continues to impress with each new leak, and Official is no exception. It's strengthens Billy Blue's already impressive body of work, which has seen positive change over the years. We're most definitely anticipating Billy Blue's next offering.
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