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Tomato Puree is something which is required in almost every dish... Recipes like Pastas, Tomato Rice, Paneer u need tomato puree.. This can be very easily be made at home..
1 kg Fresh Tomatoes
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1 kg Fresh Tomatoes
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- Take a vessel, add in water.
- Keep it on stove, put in the washed tomatoes in the vessel.
- Let it boil, so that the skin starts coming out.
- when this happens, remove it from the stove.
- Now when it cools down, peel off the skin from the tomatoes.
- Blend the tomatoes in the food processor.
- the puree is ready
- Use it as and when required.
To Preserve:
- In case u need to preserve then, after it is blended boil the mixture with 1 tsp vinegar, 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp sugar.
- Pour it in the ice cube tray, freeze it in the freezer.
- When it is freezed, remove it and store it in the zip-pouch.
- Use it as and when required.
- Do not re-freeze the puree again once out of the freezer.

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Of course, as common with every newly introduced OS or upgrade made, there is, and always will be issues to grind.
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Although, I have not personally had any issues with the Windows 10, but I have received complaints that it does not work well with the iTunes which is what actually gave birth to this article.
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Serve these sandwiches with additional red wine vinaigrette on the side for a tasty dipping sauce.
How to Make It
Preheat a charcoal grill to medium, ash-covered coals or a gas grill to 300° to 350° (medium) heat. Toss bell pepper, mushrooms, and onion with 1 Tbsp. vinaigrette, 1/4 tsp. salt, and 1/4 tsp. pepper.
Grill steak and vegetables at the same time. Grill steak on a charcoal grill, without grill lid, 13 to 16 minutes, or on a gas grill, covered with grill lid, 8 to 13 minutes. Grill vegetables in a lightly greased grill basket, stirring occasionally, on a charcoal grill, without grill lid, 10 to 12 minutes or until tender, or on a gas grill, covered with grill lid, 8 to 10 minutes or until tender.
Remove steak and vegetables from grill. Sprinkle steak with remaining 1/2 tsp. salt and 1/2 tsp. pepper. Let steak stand 5 minutes. Carve steak into thin strips.
Toss spinach with remaining 1 Tbsp. vinaigrette. Divide spinach among 4 bread slices. Top with cheese, steak, vegetables, and remaining bread slices. (Sandwiches will be very full.)
Cook sandwiches, in batches, in preheated panini press 2 to 3 minutes or until light golden brown and grill marks appear.


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Sierra McCormick: DoSomething.org's Pics for Pets Campaign (Exclusive Photos!)
Sierra McCormick takes a photo of an adorable puppy while visiting the Best Friends Animal Society on Monday (July 29) in Mission Hills, Calif.
The 15-year-old actress is helping save sheltered pets by sharing their photos on social media, in partnership with DoSomething.org's Pics for Pets campaign.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Sierra McCormick
A few days earlier, Sierra and her BFF Joey King were spotted having a blast together at Variety's 2013 Power of Youth held at Universal Studios in Universal City.
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It brings me great pleasure to announce our winners for January's Contributor of the Month: Kindred and LoriandHubby!
Both Kindred and Lori are amazing contributors and we just didn't think it would be fair to put them up to a head to head vote when the criteria for voting is so subjective (i.e. based on your own interactions and perceptions). Congratulations to you both!!!
I nominate Kindred because since I have joined I have seen him all over the community. Everywhere I turn I see a review he submitted or reviewed, an article he reviewed, or a video he has posted. He does excellent work and goes above and beyond. He's very active to our community and one of my favorite members. He's super helpful and I think he deserves to be recognized for that.
I would like to nominate LoriandHubby for COTM for January. Lori is always very helpful and answers questions here in our community. She is very supportive of new members and the old ones too! She mentors new students and takes her job very seriously. She gives constructive suggestions and is a valuable part of this community. She also writes some awesome articles for SexIs and is willing to do some great quality videos, too.
I believe that this is her time and she deserves it!
I would like to nominate Loriandhubby for contributor of the month. I think Lori is really deserving because she writes a ton of educational, funny and sexy reviews, videos and Sexls articles. She is super friendly and always willing to answer any question I might have without making me feel bad at all for asking. Lori is devoted to learning more about all things related to the sex toy industry to help the Eden community, even though she already has a lot of knowledge. I have learned a ton from her. I hope to be just the sort of wonderful Eden contributor that she is someday.


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Draft Signing Update/
The MLB Draft and its new bonus pool restrictions are very relatable for the non-super rich baseball team-owning class. There is the initial thrill of buying something exorbitant and fancy, and days and weeks afterward spent trying to figure out how the hell to pay for it. What drastic cutbacks to other areas of life can be made to accommodate this indulgence?
Super rich baseball team owners ultimately don't have to sacrifice anything real, and should thus be as aggressive as possible, but it's still fun to watch them contort themselves. But so far into the draft signing period, the Sox aren't doing anything contorting besides what they're doing to expectations.
The White Sox drafted Carlos Rodon in the first round--as they should have--a Scott Boras client who thought he should have gone 1-1 in the draft and will likely look to console himself by getting paid like it, and reacted...accordingly.
They picked up blatant senior signs without leverage in the sixth and eighth rounds with Louis Lechich and John Ziznewski, and likely have below-slot candidates in fourth-round selection Brett Austin and fifth-round upside pick Zach Thompson.
But fears that the Sox draft would be light outside their expensive upper crust were eased when their throwaway 10th round pick of high schooler Jake Jarvis resulted in a top-100 prep prospect entering the system.
If it takes three to be a trend, then the Sox are one more high schooler being the team high school talents are willing to forsake long battles for over-slot bonuses for. Second-round pick Spencer Adams agreed in principle to a slot-valued contract, according to Dan Hayes, despite many first round grades on his talent and speculation that his slide was due to signability concerns.
It's a particularly loathsome path for fan analysis to start assessing whether players chose your favorite team because it's special. But it's more than a little apparent that the Sox are heavily emphasizing Don Cooper and the team's pitcher development track record to prospects as they decide what the best path for their professional careers are. More results like Adams' signing are only going to provide more assurance that it's working.
Meanwhile, in the case of the actual most important guy in the draft, Hahn is trying to downplay the expected trouble of dealing with Carlos Rodon's agent--pretty much the only baseball agent that's recognizable to the common fan--Scott Boras.
"Look, in reality, we have a history with Scott, a positive history with Scott," Hahn said. "He had Joe Crede, he's got [Dayan] Viciedo, [and] we had Andruw Jones here. A fair amount of this concern, or discussion on how this could be difficult, I think is unnecessary and really not significant to us determining what's going to happen here."
Somewhere along the line, the White Sox general wariness of dealing with a super-skilled agent was played up into it being impossible for the two to ever do business. Wariness and preferences also aren't particularly relevant here--this is a forced pairing. Rodon can certainly be convinced he can be a 1-1 pick, the past year should have informed plenty of how more innings at the college level does not equate to more regard.
Boras is not one to approve of his clients wasting leverage, so by all means expect to this to stretch until the final days of the signing on July 18. It's par for a very long, drawn-out and potentially irritating course.
Of note, while it's not a sexy second day pick, but the Sox have reportedly reached terms with 11th round pick Zachary Fish.
Named for the popular entree and hailing from the program that produced Josh Fields, Fish has been doing the heavy lifting for the Big 12 champion Oklahoma State lineup, hitting .314/.396/.525 with 11 bombs. He's mixed in some time behind the plate in the past, but he's primarily a beefy corner outfielder (5'11", 210 lbs) who just earned his second-straight all-conference honors.
The power production wasn't very steady until this year, and he's got a bit of a Dayan Viciedo build, but for a guy who slipped out of the first ten rounds, there's some production here. A 20% K-rate in college is probably not great news.


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Life is precious so people must live it fully. When fun is there, then better go for it. If love is centered with such situation then it is tremendously great to be a part of it. Nothing can truly beat with what our minds wander of and what our hearts long to grasp. With our views of things, understanding will then be coincided with it.
It is thoroughly ideal for humans to find answers to problems in which suitable and helpful actions must be done. When it comes on self realization, understanding and vision are grasped so to let everyone find eternal happiness, inner peace, solutions to conflicts, smoother relationships, freedom from worries and fear, equanimity amid any circumstances, and experience of your true eternal self.
Strife and struggles are there and masses of people have tried living with it. Facing challenges is important for humans. Strength should be deeply connected within our cores. For fears and desires, these things should be taken out and should not be repeated meaninglessly as it can only make your life an empty one.
Everyone needs to have a good life. No one surely wants to sleep on the street or eat once a day only. Masses of people desire to have a lavish home, a brand new car, and millions in their accounts so to fully satisfy them. For them, those things might be the greatest way to content themselves yet they are actually wrong with that. It is important not to drive in life with those things as each will only vanish.
It is important to identify happiness. If you wish to have it then you must know your true self. Everything within yourself and of your heart must all be connected. If you will only skip in identifying it since you are not really ready to accept yourself then you will never experience true joy.
To find true happiness, your worldly obligations should be identified. As a person, jobs must be taken and your daily obligations should be performed appropriately. Your day to day functions speak about you. Responsibilities to your work and to your family must be faced. What you have imparted to your children will then be followed and it is always important to know that what you are sharing to them are all proper.
Adopting and cultivating positive practices must be done. Cleansing yourself should be experienced. What it means is you need to fix problems, especially those negative thoughts you have in mind, as these thoughts will only hinder yourself from facing various situations bravely. Maintaining equanimity should be faced responsibility to remain a peaceful and joyous life.
It is definitely ideal to face focus and concentration. If you are truly ready to change your life then you need to learn ways on how to evolve it. If you will only focus on momentary peeping or which is commonly known as accidental focus then it will never impact you. It is crucial to wash ego and a genuine discrimination to yourself should be developed so to highly emphasize and distinguish temporary pleasures and values to better develop your inner inquiry.
When you are done realizing yourself then you have to focus on your soul next. The human soul is pure and light and you can clearly be helped out with meditation. Empowering it through such activity can certainly help in vanishing pains and problems, but how intoxication supports us, eternal bliss will then be experienced.


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Calling all young Fox Valley area artists! The Fox Valley Rep Performing Arts Academy is looking for creative youth in the Fox Valley area to design its first annual GOT TALENT? Contest logo, taking place on the Pheasant Run Resort Mainstage on June 22, 2013.
The Fox Valley Repertory Performing Arts Academy is a non-profit organization and features some of the Chicago area's most respected teachers, directors, actors and musicians. It is home to over 1,000 local youth students and offers the most extensive curriculum in the Fox Valley area: classes, camps, workshops, youth ensemble productions, and internship programs. Since 2006, the Performing Arts Academy has had over 2,800 student enrollments, offered over 250 individual classes in a variety of disciplines and presented over 20 Youth Ensemble shows on the Pheasant Run Mainstage. This year will be the first year for the Talent Contest, a celebration of outstanding youth talent in the Fox Valley area.
Logo Design Contest Guidelines:
Fox Valley Rep is asking creative youth and teens in grades K-12 to compete to design the official logo of the GOT TALENT? Contest, sponsored by Delnor Express Care.
The winning logo may be used online, in print, on marketing materials and in other media. Entries will be on display at this year's Talent event on June 22, 2013 at the Pheasant Run Mainstage.
The logo design should be submitted as a scalable vector graphic in EPS format or as a JPEG. The design, which must contain the words "Got Talent?," should be flexible in size so that it may be used large or small. It must contain color.
The deadline for entries is April 26, 2013. Entries must be emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com with "Logo contest" in the subject line. Artists must include their name, school, grade, and contact information with their logo design. The winner will be announced May 1, 2013 and will be presented a Certificate at the Talent Show, accompanied with a family four-pack of tickets to an upcoming Fox Valley Rep performance. The Committee has the right to reject any and all entries.
For more information, visit www.foxvalleyrep.org/education/talentcontest.


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Human rights monitors call for two government social affairs centres to be shuttered, saying that they are covert detention and punishment facilities where abuse and violence are rampant
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"This is to mark that I lived in terror under oppression," reads this message scrawled by a detainee at Prey Speu.
LOCAL human rights group Licadho has for the second time demanded the closure of two "rehabilitation centres" on the city's outskirts, which the organisation says are being used as detention centers for street people removed as part of a government attempt to "beautify" the city.
In June, Licadho called for the immediate closure of the two centres - Prey Speu and Koh Kor - at which rights monitors observed the unlawful detention and abuse of detainees.
These included the alleged beating to death of at least three detainees and the gang rape of women detainees by guards at Prey Speu.
"Licadho deplores the government's continued failure to take proper action to investigate and punish systematic abuses committed at the Prey Speu and Koh Kor Social Affairs Centres, and to ensure that such abuses cannot occur again," the organisation said in a statement issued on Sunday.
Am Sam Ath, a monitoring supervisor at Licadho, said that the organisation was forced to again call for the closure of the centres after last week's statements from Ministry of Social Affairs officials, who said detainees at Prey Speu and Koh Kor - former street people - were living in them under a "volunteer policy".
"We still urge their closure and ask the government to create an independent body to investigate the accusations that these [centres are] likely used for detention, punishment and killing," he said.
Am Sam Ath added that Licadho staff were allowed to enter the Prey Speu facility in Phnom Penh's Dangkor district on Thursday after months of being denied access.
"We observed around 100 families staying voluntarily in Prey Speu on that day," he said.
He added, however, that rights investigators were allowed entry only after previous accusations of abuse were made public, and the government likely made improvements.
"They are not detained. They receive good care, but no vocational training class," he said. "We want the government to ensure that it is a real rehabilitation centre."
According to the statement, Licadho's visit to Prey Speu uncovered evidence that it was being used to keep people in detention.
"Rear windows were nailed shut, in which numerous former detainees have told Licadho they were confined," the statement said, adding that only the closure of Prey Speu and Koh Kor and the punishment of those responsible for committing crimes would ensure justice is done.
Say Siphonn, secretary of state in the Ministry of Social Affairs, said Sunday that he has not yet received the Licadho statement calling for the closure of the centres and declined to comment on what action the government has taken so far.
Say Siphonn told the Post Thursday that the facilities were "not detention centres".


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Hi there and thank you for considering me as your personal mentor in the world of digital artistry. A long time ago this world was just a hobby for me as well, and I hope to help you develop your skill set into something much more. I have over a decade of exposure to the rapidly-adapting professional photo and video world, with experience spanning from the smallest of freelance jobs all the way to mainstream feature film production and post. You can spend a lot of money in workshops or online training, but nothing comes close to the value of one-on-one personalized training. Because I enjoy teaching, I make an effort to keep rates affordable for the value of education given. If you're a photographer wanting to make your photos look like the pro photos you see online or a videographer looking to advance your work to the next level then welcome aboard!
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Justin King will on Monday underline Sainsbury's determination to become Britain's greenest grocer by submitting himself to a public grilling by sustainability experts as the supermarket announces initiatives including a £1m investment in British farming research.
With the chain lying third in a bruising sales battle between the big four supermarkets, some City investors are nervous that Sainsbury's is taking a risk by sticking its neck out on renewable energy and Fairtrade scheme, but King will insist it makes commercial as well as ethical sense.
"People are increasingly looking to businesses that give them value and values. We never believed that the credit crunch would lead to a values crunch – and we've been right," Sainsbury's chief executive will tell a group of 200 business and sustainability leaders at a Green Mondays event in the City of London .
"Values are now part of the value that people are looking for, right alongside price and quality and service. They're looking for businesses they trust to do the right thing, at the right price," he will say.
Sainsbury's has invested in new one-stop recycling facilities at its stores in recent months, established plans for geothermal heat pump technology at 100 outlets and installed 70,000 solar panels at 169 of its retail units.
It already claims to be the largest user of anaerobic digestion – or waste to energy – and has stopped sending food waste to landfill, as part of its 20 sustainability targets to be achieved by 2020.
On Wednesday, when Tesco will report its first fall in profits for nearly 20 years, King is expected to announce a 1.4% increase in second-quarter like-for-like sales at Sainsbury's.
He is convinced the credit crunch does not have to mean a race to the bottom on food prices. "The idea that people who've got less, care less, is out of touch with how people really feel and behave, and totally misjudges the British public. Our research shows similar attitudes across socio-economic groups. It's one reason why we have Marine Stewardship Council certification for our basics fishfingers as well as over 100 other product lines," he will say.
King already believes Sainsbury's has scored a significant victory this summer by highlighting its agreement with dairy farmers to pay a fair price of 30p per litre of milk as Morrisons, Asda and others faced protests for allegedly trying to drive their prices down to 24p .
On Monday, the group will give details of the £1m agriculture and development grant to underline its desire to work more closely with local producers.
Jim Woods, the founder of Green Mondays, has praised King for being willing to "go naked" and allow himself to be questioned on all aspects of the company's sustainability performance by a range of experts.
King is convinced he already has a proud record which includes a 9% reduction in carbon emissions over the last four years at a time when store space has increased by 25%.
King is also determined to fight claims that supermarkets are responsible for rundown high streets: "No one has done more to reinvigorate the high streets in the UK than supermarkets in the last five years and nobody more than us … As regularly as I get letters saying: 'Please don't open your shop in our town.' I get letters saying: 'Thank heavens you did. It has completely regenerated our town.'"
King cites an example of a new store for Barnes, South London. About 4,000 people including local MP Zac Goldsmith signed a petition against it.
"Something like 20,000 people a week visit that store and I think you will find a number of the local traders are now publicly saying they were misguided in their fears and actually it has been the making of their business or the saving of it ," he said. "Go and ask the people of Tottenham about the investment which we have already made … We have to get better at telling the story and hopefully you have to get better at reporting it," he said.
He also said it was "ludicrous" to claim that food prices were much higher than they used to be and that supermarket supply chains that involve trucking around the country were not efficient.
"Food is cheaper than it ever has been. Of course when you are sitting here today and the price has gone up compared to last week then that is real inflation and customers really feel the pinch in their weekly grocery shop. [But] the idea that food is expensive is ludicrous.
"Food and groceries more generally make up a smaller proportion of a household budget today than they have ever done in the history of this country and yet the food we are able to choose is more varied, more international, more healthy and safer than ever."
As for distribution, King said critics forget that if we all only ate food grown within 10 miles of where we lived we would not be eating a very varied or indeed healthy and safe diet.
He said: "The way our supply chains work is they are incredibly efficient in their consumption of resource in terms of ultimately connecting the end consumer with the production. We want to run our vehicles over as short a distance as possible because fuel, vehicles and driver time are incredibly expensive. So there is no disconnect between the economic imperative to run them efficiently and the society imperative of something which is sustainable in carbon and energy terms."
All the prejudices don't bear up to scrutiny. The reality is the supply chains we operate, particularly in the UK, are the most efficient on the planet."
Asked whether Mary Portas's mission for the government to mend the high street was moving in the right direction, King said: "The central thesis of Mary's which we have no problem with is that high streets will succeed if they are better, more vibrant places for people to go. Success breeds success. You are not going to save – if that is the right term – high streets by stopping, or trying to stop, other people from competing.
"The reasons for customers shopping in the shops they currently shop in is because many of the options they have are distinctly undesirable. So what will attract vibrant high streets is investment that make that attractive destinations. And of course it is a misrepresentation to suggest somehow supermarkets are not. We have around 600 supermarkets, around 200 are in what you or I would call a high street. Probably no one has done more to reinvigorate the high streets in the UK than supermarkets in the last five years and nobody more than us. Certainly every single one of our stores is reinvigorating the location it is in."
Although Portas's report, published last December, attacked the rapacious growth of the supermarkets,she said at the time she saw little scope to bring about change in this area: "I would stop it [supermarket expansion]. But to a certain extent the horse has bolted . We have let supermarkets do this and they have. The only way we can fight it is to create something different."
Portas said this weekend she was writing to David Cameron to urgently pursue her recommendations on reviving the high street, fearing government support for her programme had dried up.


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The W300 deploys a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 3x optical zoom lens, a 2.7-inches LCD screen, and an eye-level view finder -- among other features.
Keeping with the Sony Cyber-shot tradition, this camera too features Super SteadyShot optical image stabilization. Besides, it has a new extra high sensitivity mode (up to ISO 6400) to reduce blurriness in photographs while shooting in low-light conditions. Noise reduction is offered as a user-selectable option.
The other new Cyber-shot, the DSC-H50, offers a resolution of 9.1 mega pixels and boasts an advanced Sports Shooting Mode that allows for higher shutter speeds of up to 1/4000 of a second. The mode also helps combine higher shutter speeds with predictive continuous auto-focusing to capture fast-moving subjects with minimal shutter lag.
The DSC-H50 utilizes a Carl Zeiss 15x optical zoom lens, and a 3-inches tilting LCD screen making for greater creativity while shooting from high or low angles.
This camera also incorporates Super SteadyShot optical image stabilization, with noise reduction again a user-selectable option.
Both the W300 and the H50 feature the D-Range Optimizer (DRO) Plus that automatically applies image-correction algorithms when pictures are shot in high-contrast conditions. In effect, pictures retain overall exposure while bringing out the finer nuances of highlights and shadows.
Other features common to both cameras include: presence of Carl Zeiss lenses, face detection, smile shutter, and intelligent scene recognition. The USP of Carl Zeiss lenses is that they are manufactured from super low-dispersion glass, which helps them to produce very precise point-to-point correspondence between objects and their images.
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Check Your JMeter - Now Version 2.4
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Before we look at the new features, we'll first cover the changes in compatibility. JMeter 2.4 now requires at least Java 1.5. The Apache Avalon file format for JMX and JTL is no longer supported and the XPath Assertion and XPath Extractor elements no longer fetch external DTDs by default (but you can change that in the GUI). Also, JMSConfigGui has been renamed JMSSamplerGui, but this doesn't effect testing plans.
Here are the main new features in JMeter 2.4:
- HTTP Proxy can now record HTTPS sessions.
- JUnit sampler now supports JUnit4 annotations.
- Added JSR223 (javax.script) test elements.
- MailReader Sampler can now use any protocol supported by the underlying implementation.
- An SMTP Sampler has been added.
- JMeter now allows users to provide their own Thread Group implementations.
- View Results Tree now supports more display options, including search and Regex Testing.
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By Teri Johnson
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Doris Ortman isn't a person who takes life sitting down.
She directs a teen choir known as Living Miracles, and she's an example of one herself.
Ortman, a missionary with CBM Ministries, has multiple sclerosis and leads the choir from her wheelchair.
The choir gives teens the opportunity to share their faith through singing and testimony. It is an outgrowth of the leadership training program at Camp Joy-El near Williamson, Pa., the center for the activities of CBM Ministries.
She's starting her fifth year of guiding the choir, whose schedule this year included 14 concerts and a five-day tour. The choir's next performance is Sunday, Aug. 10, at Chambersburg Memorial Park in Chambersburg, Pa.


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Many people have become fans of Waiakea water, a very sustainable brand of bottled water. The growth of this volcanic water is tremendous, and the reason that it is popular has much to do with the novelty of this brand. Most people that are hearing about Waiakea water may have never heard of the porous rock volcanic water. This naturally sweet and purified water that is filtered through volcanic rock is certainly a hit in the United States. It originates from Hawaii, but the buzz about it has started to spread quite rapidly.
People are discovering that they can get this water if they order online. It has been deemed one of the best bottled water brands out there, and all the praise is giving Waiakea a chance to gain social media attention. When a bottled water company is trending this is a surefire sign up excellence brand awareness.
Waiakea is also a company that is partnering with Pump Aid to provide clean drinking water to other countries in need. These provisions are occurring with each purchase of Waiakea water that is made. This is something that prompts a lot of people to consider the benefits of buying Waiakea water. There are few bottled water companies that have made the promise to provide others with cleaning drinking water if customers make a purchase. This is something that has allowed more people to become a lot more excited about Waiakea water. People are getting excited about this company because it has executives in place that look for opportunities to minimize the carbon footprint that comes with bottled water distribution. This company is also in place to help people get access to clean drinking water in places where this is uncommon.
There is a great amount of sustainability for Waiakea because this company is doing things that many other bottled water companies have failed to do. It is the first company to present volcanic water, and this company is growing even more as the pioneer of this. Waiakea has piqued the interest of consumers, and rightfully so.


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1. The leavening bacterium Enterobacter cloacae GAO (hereafter referred to as GAO) produced H_2 and CO_2 gas when the GAO was cultured with G-medium which contained glucose and asparagine. The amount of gas increased adding at 0.1% casaminoacid for G-medium produced roughly 2.5-fold and H_2/CO_2 ratio was 0.60.2. The formation of H_2 gas was accounted for the GAO growth with 0.1% casaminoacid G-media supplemented with 0.5% citric acid, alhpa -ketoglutaric acid, succinic acid, fumaric acid, malic acid and pyruvic acid respectively. The GAO produced total gas, in order of its abundace, fumaric acid, pyruvic acid, alpha -ketoglutaric acid, citric acid, malic acid and succinic acid. The ratio of H_2 to total gas were showen that alpha -ketoglutaric aicd was 85.1%, citric acid was 82.1% and succinic acid was 81.5%.3. Two- beta -galactosidaese were purified from the cell extract of the GAO by ammonium sulfate fractionation, Sephacryl S-200 gel filtration, DEAE-Toyopearl column chromatography, affinity chromatography on 1-thio- beta -galactopyranoside-Agarose and mono-Q column chromatography. The enzuyme preparations homogeneous on polyacrylamide electrophresis. The enzyme was most active at pH 7.2 and 37^゚ C. The enzyme was stable between pH 6.0 to 7.0 at 30 min incubation at 37^゚ C. The molecular weights of the enzyme was estimated to be 220,000 by gel filtration on Sepharose CL-6B column, and 120,000 by SDS polyacrylamide gelelectrophoresis. This indicated that the enzymes might be of 2 subunits. The isoelectric point of the enzymes was pH 4.5. Bivalent metals with Mg, Zn, Mn, Co, Ni are strong activators when assayed at 1mM concentration. The beta -galactosidase from E. Cloacae GAO had high content of glycine and serine compared with Aerobacter cloacae.4. In an attempt to isolation from the starter prepared with potato filling, we obtained four isolates which were rod shape, oxydase positive and Gram negative bacteria.
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Until I started horse shopping this past spring I had never really heard of a roan horse. My world was pretty much sorrels, paints and appys. I accidently fell across an ad for a red roan, Rocky, and was intrigued. Not only did something about them catch my eye but also my heart. As I read more about the color pattern (a roan is a horse whose solid color is mixed with white hairs) I learned how that their coloring is really the history of their life, roans wear their story for everyone to see. Not only does the proportion of color to white change yearly, but every interaction they have also changes them. Anytime a roan horse is bumped, bitten or injured the area around the wound is changed. It grows back in solid instead of roan. These permanent reminders are call corn marks. They illustrate the battles a roan has fought and survived in their life.
I couldnt have been more estatic when my dream horse, B'sheret, turned out to be a red roan. He had great breeding, great training and he was mine. All that is here in the blog, I wont repeat it all. But what I didnt know 6 weeks ago when we brought him home was that it was me who was going to end up with the battle scars to carry the rest of my life. That I was the one about to change.
Unfortunately in the last week I have to make a heart breaking decision to return B'sheret to his previous owners. In the short time we had had him his stifle had locked twice and despite our serious attempt at conditioning him we didn't seem to be making progress, and I was not willing to go to the extremes of blistering or surgery, I didn't feel it was fair to him at his young age. So yesterday with the heaviest heart ever we sent him back home.
I have spent a lifetime facing disappointment and pain, I get it life isn't fair and comes with no guarantees, but for all I have been through in my life this feels like one of fate's cruelest twists. I have never worked as hard on anything in my life as I have learning to ride and show and getting to the point of having my own horse and I do feel robbed now of that. Yes there are other horses out there, yes everything happens for a reason, I have heard all the platitudes and at some point I will probably look back and see this as a good thing, will see the purpose, but at this moment I'm not there. I just feel lost in all this. I have built my life over the last few years around horses and riding and for the first time in over 2 years I woke up this morning with no horse in my life. I am not sure what to do with that. For something I never had most of my life I now feel this empty void and unending sadness.
A friend said the other day "this will leave a mark" when I told her I was returning B'sheret, she was right, this is my corn mark, a part of me I will always carry, the good and the bad, I am changed and B' will never be forgotten from the story of my life.
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Being Gifted and Talented means that the student has the ability to achieve higher levels of achievement that other pupils in the year group. They have a natural ability in more than one subject and could also show high levels of leadership, decision making and organisation skills. If students work hard to develop these natural abilities, they have the potential to excel both in school and in the future.
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AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (Reuters) – French utility EDF would not be part of the French government's plan to sell 10 billion euros ($11.40 billion) worth of state assets to finance projects geared toward innovation, a source close to EDF's management said on Saturday.
The French government owns 83.1 percent in the world's biggest operator of nuclear plants, which has an 18 billion pound ($23 billion) project to build two nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point, Britain and needs to spend 50 billion euros ($55.7 billion) on upgrading its ageing French nuclear plants.
"The signs that we are receiving are that we are not at all involved," the source said.
While campaigning for the presidency, Emmanuel Macron said he would set up a 10 billion euro fund to promote industrial and research projects. Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Thursday said the sale of state assets would start in September.
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I grew up going to the same Lutheran church every Sunday since the age of four, when my family moved from D.C. to Baltimore. I began attending Sunday School classes immediately. I remember loving it, just eating it up! And I was a little artist, so I loved the church, the stained glass, all the paintings of Jesus and the children and his flock. Over the altar was (and still is) a huge alcove to the rafters with a painting of Jesus standing in the clouds of heaven with his arms outspread, and love in his face. That was my image of Jesus. My father was the church adult choir director (and a public school music teacher). He got me into reading music at an early age, and by six, I was in the children's choir. My mother was a night nurse full-time, and by age seven I had three younger brothers, who also went to church.
I never tired of going, and loved every aspect of church and learning about Jesus! It was a kind environment. At least until I was fourteen… I'll get to that.
I remember when I was seven, my maternal gramma was visiting and sleeping in my bed, I slept on an army cot beside her. We stayed up late talking and I was able to ask her all the questions I could think of, and I don't remember what most were now, except that she told me that Jesus's love saves us and we shouldn't be afraid to die. (I guess I must have asked her if she was going to die? I did know death, an uncle whose farm I summered at raised and slaughtered beef cattle and chickens, and hunted, fished – I followed along – he let me see everything about farm life – and I knew animals died.) The windows in my bedroom, four of them, were tall and wide and I could see the sky at night if I didn't pull the blinds. I looked and looked in the stars for heaven every night after that, unafraid to die, knowing I would be with Jesus. This is how secure I was in Jesus as a little girl…
…Before other things started to take forefront in my life.
To capsulize it, I grew up in a physically, sexually, psychologically and emotionally sabotaging abusive home. Both parents were culprits who – despite the church front – fought often and violently, my father beating my mother. I was witness to so much trauma as a child. At ten, they divorced, and at age ten I became the "little mother" to my three brothers (seven, five and three) while my mother worked full-time at night, drank and did whatever during the day while we were in school, and when I came home from school, she would go to bed. I raised my brothers completely. The entire four-bedroom house and all needs including shopping, cooking, cleaning, laundry, homework, bath time, ironing (including her uniforms, which had to be perfectly starched).
I took it on. I had Jesus! I took my brothers to church on Sundays, walking us all the mile each way. I made sure they wore white shirts and their pants were ironed. (LOL and this is *capsulized, you are saying?) They played in nursery while I was in choir. I was confirmed at twelve, and became an acolyte, too. I was definitely embedded and felt at home in my church – and trusted it.
At the age of fourteen, I was "failed" from passing 9th grade Sunday School (and told I had to repeat the year) because I could only come every other Sunday due to a class one brother had on Sundays. I can attest that I was the most earnest and devoted girl in that Sunday school class. I knew for a fact that I was the ONLY one who had not done any drugs, drank, or lost my virginity. In short, I was a "good girl."
I was crushed! The pastor wouldn't change his mind – it was based on attendance. Oh my gosh, I reeled emotionally and spiritually from this. So I went to Young Life meetings here and there when I could get rides, and continued to be the little mother at home. My mother was a narcissistic working alcoholic who I now know is a misogynist and was sabotaging every element of me. I got no love at home.
However, I played guitar, teaching myself. By 1974 and in tenth grade, I was a fine artist, and did a drawing a day, or worked on a painting. I rode my bike from Catonsville to Ellicott City and back every night after I did the dinner dishes for exercise and for time to myself. I sewed my own clothes on my gramma's foot-pedal treadle sewing machine, and read the bible every day! But then I was invited to be in the pilot class for the Baltimore School for the Arts and my mother wouldn't let me go – another blow!
I spent every moment I could in Catonsville High School's art rooms, encouraged by the teachers to do whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. They and the administration were all frustrated with my mother's refusal to support me as an artist. (Little did anyone REALLY know the horrors we lived in at home – she was a Joan Crawford mom when awake.)
There was a twelfth grader, Will Wilson (who is a well-known painter now). I used to just sit next to him and work on my art and watch him paint. It was Will who knew I was searching for more meaning and that I was so crushed by what my church had done to me. He had been to a Forever Family meeting, but chose not to return. But for some reason, Will thought it would be good for me, so he and his brother Jeff took me to a meeting on Clay Street in Baltimore, in October of 1974, and I Got Saved. I cried with joy, it felt as if the love of Jesus I had felt as a child was restored – and more! And I became a serious little lamb, and was so into it that I bought into giving the church all my jewelry, bringing food I took from our home, giving them my allowance, denying my flesh by sleeping on my wood bedroom floor with no pillow and one blanket only. I read only the bible, stopped watching television and reading newspapers, books, magazines… I only read the Bible. I even stopped playing my guitar, which to this day I still have a neurological barrier with from the brainwashing, I am sure. Because I had been a pretty apt self-taught classical guitarist, and could also play chords and pick out and transcribe any song I chose to. BEFORE the FF/COBU.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The Final Drive
It happened yesterday. Drive was lounging on the sofa; it may have been a stroke. I can only imagine the sense of absolute hysteria and desperation Alisha must have felt. She tried to lift Drive and get him in the car to rush him to the vet. But, he was way too big and she was way too small to do it on her own. If love had been enough to move Drive, he would have been in that office the second it happened.
Her husband raced home and they sped to the vet's, but the damage was too complete.
For LOVE, Drive, she did. And that love showed in every act of care and kindness she freely gave him. She did a great deal, by first adopting him and then daily showering him with affection. Or as the Greyhound community likes to pun, a Greyt deal. Alisha would tell you that what Drive gave her in return is beyond measure.
In the end, Alisha did the only thing she could do for her beloved boy, they took him by stretcher outside into the bright autumn afternoon...she held him in her arms on the grass, in the sun while he left her. In the end, she did the best thing an owner can do for a pet; she was there with love. His Facebook page, today, is steeped in post after post of tributes and thoughts from all of us who came to see what Drive was up to and saying. It's heartwarming to see the out-pouring of feelings.
Quite the photographer, Miss A has taken some beautiful pictures of her houndies. She's also very witty and when she wrote in Drive's voice, you could hear his droll personality so clearly. She penned the now famous Drive line, "Whut I em duin' here is," as she captioned a photo of Drive in action. Many, many times these could make me laugh out loud. But mostly, they gave me a smile and a moment of quiet when I could just rest in the beauty of a love affair between a woman and her rescue dog.
On many levels, Alisha and I are unlikely 'friends'. Our points of view are vastly different. Our world views are miles apart, as are our politics, life experiences, and ideas of Spirit. But, what we do share is being writers, a keen sense of humor, a willingness to share the important things in our life for the enjoyment of others, a strength of character when facing life challenges, and our deep love for our animal kin. I think the things that we have in common are the more important things.
Especially our love for our animals. And how we struggle to gain our equilibrium in the emptiness that follows their leaving. Especially when one as special as Drive has gone. For reasons we can't even explain, some bonds are tighter and the loss is more heart-wrenching.
So, Whot I em doin' heer is sayin' how very sorry I am for your huge loss, Alisha. Thank you for sharing Drive with us and giving us so many greyt moments of laughs, smiles, and images to remember. And, until we meet again, Drive, run free and fast.
Namaste' Till Next Time,
Holly aka A Drive Fan
Images by Alisha Berry
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- Rocky Creek Scotties and Rocky Creek Ramblings said...
This cyber world has brought so many lovers together - and the things we love so passionately have united our souls. My heart goes out to Alisha for I know what it's like to hold a loving dog as it takes its final breath - and it takes your breath away.
- October 19, 2011 at 9:42 AM
- Eva Gallant said...
What a lovely tribute to your friend and her beloved dog. For most of us, pets are like members of the family and equally hard to lose.
- October 19, 2011 at 11:49 AM
So well done Holly. Alisha and Drive roomed with me at Buggerfest and I was able to see this lovely dog and the love that was shared between them. There is even a picture in my FB album. Thanks for your special tribute to them.
- October 19, 2011 at 12:25 PM
- Chester said...
Excellent post! For never having met Alisha or Drive, you did them both greyt justice.
Sometimes it's strange how we've come to love people and their dogs whom we've never met - yet also comforting to find others who share our love of canines even when we don't share the same points of view about other things.
Again, this was lovely,
Chester's Mom
- October 19, 2011 at 1:18 PM
Beautifully done, Holly.
- October 19, 2011 at 2:49 PM
- Kristin G. said...
It really is like losing a member of my extended family. Drive was so loved, by so many, and so many people feel the pain of his loss. I simply can't imagine the agony Alisha and family are feeling. I can only wish them comfort in the days ahead and in the happy memories they share of their beloved Drive.
Thanks for sharing your caring thoughts, Holly. Drive will always be a part of us.
Hugs to you, Rory and Fiona!!
- October 19, 2011 at 6:19 PM
- houndstooth said...
You summed it up so beautifully! Drive was a beautiful soul and he'll be greatly missed here. I still can't wrap my head around it, but I know his mama loved him with all her heart!
- October 19, 2011 at 11:50 PM
- Joanna Jenkins said...
Oh Holly, this is so beautiful. Your words made my heart go out to Alisha and her sad loss of Drive. Sending big hugs to all of you.
xoxoxo jj
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A cardiac device designed to help synchronize the ventricles of heart failure patients did not help those whose dyssynchrony was identified with echocardiography.
Typically, physicians rely on the ECG to identify heart failure patients with electrical dyssynchrony (a wide QRS complex above 130 msec) who will potentially benefit from cardiac resynchronization therapy with defibrillation (CRT-D).
The hypothesis for the current study was that those with mechanical dyssynchrony -- detected by echocardiography -- and with a narrow QRS (below 130 msec) would also benefit from CRT-D.
But that hypothesis has now been disproved in the Echocardiography Guided Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (EchoCRT) study -- the largest investigator-initiated, international, multicenter, prospective, randomized, double-blind, clinical trial of its kind, according to Johannes Holzmeister, MD, from University Hospital in Zurich, and colleagues.
A total of 29% and 25% of study participants (those with the device turned on) versus controls (those with the device turned off) reached the primary outcome of all-cause mortality or first hospitalization for worsening heart failure at a median of 20 months of follow-up (HR 1.20, 95% CI 0.92 to 1.57; P=0.15).
However, those in the intervention group were nearly twice as likely to die than were controls (HF 1.81, 95% CI 1.11-2.93, P=0.02), they reported online in the the New England Journal of Medicine.
Most of the deaths were from cardiovascular causes (37 versus 17, P=0.004).
The independent data and safety monitoring board recommended stopping enrollment in March 2013, 5 years after it began, "on the basis of futility with a potential for harm."
"Our results confirm current guidelines that do not recommend a CRT-D device for those with the narrow QRS complex," Holzmeister told MedPage Today during an interview.
He said that CRT devices are often implanted off label in patients with narrow QRS and that this "should no longer be used as an option regardless of mechanical dyssynchrony."
Smaller studies, single center studies, and subanalyses have suggested that echocardiographic dyssynchrony measurements might help identify patients with moderate or severe heart failure who would benefit from a CRT-D device.
"This trial serves as a reminder that in clinical medicine adequately powered definitive clinical outcome trials are needed before we expand the use of an apparently favorable therapy," said Holzmeister, who also presented the study at the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Amsterdam.
The median age of 809 patients randomized was 58 (plus or minus 13 years). Nearly three-quarters were men, most had NYHA class III heart failure, and the mean BMI was 31. There were no significant differences between study participants and controls.
The mean QRS duration for both study arms was 105.4 msec and was "independently measured at the electrocardiographic core laboratory and was repeated for crossover approval."
Slightly more than half of patients (52%) were hospitalized at least once, most of them for cardiovascular reasons, but there were no significant differences between the two study arms.
Overall mortality rates observed in the study groups were, in general, lower than mortality rates previously observed for this severe heart failure population.
A total of 89.6% of patients met the primary safety endpoint, which was freedom from CRT-D device complications at 6 months after implantation.
Significantly more patients in the CRT-D group had device or implantation complications, mostly driven by lead-related serious adverse events.
In addition, significantly more patients in the CRT-D group received inappropriate shocks (5% versus 1.7%, P=0.01). Holzmeister could not say whether the inappropriate shocks contributed to the worse outcomes among the CRT-D group.
Out of nine prespecified subgroup analyses, none showed any signal of benefit regarding the primary composite outcome of all-cause death or hospitalization for worsening heart failure.
However, researchers found a "nominally significant" signal suggestive of harm with CRT-D in patients less than 65.
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The trial was supported by Biotronik and GE Healthcare.
Ruschitzka reported relationships with Biotronik, Servier, Cardiorentis, and St. Jude Medical. His co-authors reported relationships with Biotronik, Medtronic, St. Jude Medical, GE Healthcare, Boston Scientific, Lantheus, Servier, Edwards Lifesciences, Cardiorentis, ARMGO, Novartis, Celladon, Sorin, RESMED, Toshiba, CardioInsight, Respicardia.
McMurry reported relationships with Guidant Europe, Cardiokinetix, while Yancy had nothing to disclose.
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New England Journal of MedicineSource Reference: Ruschitzka F, et al "Cardiac resynchronization therapy in heart failure with a narrow QRS complex" N Engl J Med 2013; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1306687.
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New England Journal of MedicineSource Reference: Yancy C, McMurray J "ECG -- Still the best for selecting patients for CRT" N Engl J Med 2013; DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1310406.


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What I want is a clone of the google search engine made in .net, I want all the features to be able to crawl the internet, narrow the search by type of file ej. images, mp3, news etc.
and also want the ad system google use like adsense.
I mean a complete clone made in . net I dont have to telkl more details because what I want is a complete clone of google you will have to explain in detail what you will do.
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Twitter is now blocked in Turkey and both YouTube and Facebook are next after the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that he will "eradicate" the social media platform possibly prior to the elections that are set to take place on March 30. The decision to shut down the microblogging service comes after audio recordings demonstrate that the PM may have been involved in a major corruption scandal which leaked all over the internet. YouTube already has a history of restrictions in Turkey after the government considered that some videos posted on the platform insulted the country's founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Turkey blocked Twitter late Thursday, a few hours after Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan threatened to "eradicate" this social media platform and suggested that YouTube and Facebook are next. During a campaign rally in the northwestern city of Bursa on Thursday, the Prime Minister told the crowd that the authorities now have a court order which enables them to "wipe out" the microblogging service which exploded with critics about a possible major corruption scandal in which Erdogan plays the leading role. At the same time, the Turkish Prime Minister stated that he does not care "what the international community says" and implied that the Turkish Republic is strong and the world will see its power. Soon after the declaration, Twitter went dark and the only way to use the service happened by means of mobile telephone text services, a solution offered by the social media company's public policy team.
Controversial Law Seen as Censorship
Last month, Turkey passed a controversial law which allowed the authorities to tighten control over the internet and block access to web pages without a court order within hours. Moreover, the Communication Technologies Institution (BTK) mentioned that there are currently four court rulings which explain the latest block. Hurriyet Daily reported about the fact that Twitter did not change its attitude and continued to ignore court ruling, which determined Turkey to block the social media service and hinted at the fact that YouTube and Facebook are next in line to be silenced, "if necessary."
The EU commissioner for digital agenda, Neelie Kroes reacted strongly with regard to the situation in Turkey and defined these actions as "groundless, pointless, cowardly." She also tweeted that the "Turkish people and international community will see this as a censorship," but she did not shy away from stating that what Turkey is doing to Twitter is, indeed, censorship.
Reuters stated that the social media service is currently looking into the problem.
The decision of the Prime Minister came after multiple recordings emerged on all social media platforms, including YouTube and Facebook in which Erdogan was meddling legal, political business and media affairs outside the law. In some recordings, he is caught while teaching his son how to hide millions of euros in the house and in others, he criticizes an editor of a major newspaper for presenting him in a negative light. Ten million Turkish users were blocked from the social media service and could only tweet via telephone text messages. After Twitter was blocked in Turkey late Thursday, the Turkish Prime Minister added that YouTube and Facebook are next, "if necessary."
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TheGoyWonder wrote:Brass band has much bigger problems:
1. Finding competent percussionists. Usually they still need to be spoonfed every single thing. And even then, will routinely overplay and overpower the band, or set a high "noise floor" of unmuffled miscellaneous arrhythmic ringing that ruins all nuance.
2. Lameduck sound of tenor horn vs french horn, and to a lesser extent cornet vs trumpet.
3. monodynamics: in concert band, at least instruments come in and out and dynamics can be fairly automatic. But brass band is kitchen-sink most of the time. and the arrangements don't help, often saying "ff" forever...which might even be okay if the music had obvious peaks but it tends to be either stubbornly rigid or rambling in form, not flowing.
4. Goofy euro arrangements...better or worse, they just aren't in the language of American wind playing. weird foreign feel.
5. Composers...there's not really an answer to Reed, McBeth, Tichelli, Hazo ect.
I feel that your perspective on banding is with a single perspective or misguided. I could say the same for some of the community orchestras I have played in but just like orchestras, brass bands vary by level of musicality and the execution of playing by the players. There are great arrangements and composers in every genre. Great brass bands are on par with any professional music organization around the world. It sounds like your experience was not positive.


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FIREFLY: Give me a number from 1 to 10.Viking survivors who escaped an Anglo-Saxon victory were daroþa laf "the leavings of spears," while hamora laf "the leavings of hammers" was an Old English kenning for "swords" (both from "The Battle of Brunanburgh"). Twelve reflects the same formation. Outside Germanic the only instance of this formation is in Lithuanian, which uses -lika "left over" and continues the series to 19 (vienio-lika "eleven," dvy-lika "twelve," try-lika "thirteen," keturio-lika "fourteen," etc.). Meaning "a team or side" in cricket or football is from 1743.
CHICOLINI: eleven!
FIREFLY: Right!
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John Knox, one of the exiles for religion in Switzerland, publiſhed his "Firſt Blaſt of the Trumpet againſt the Government of Women," in this reign [of Elizabeth]. It was lucky for him that he was out of the queen's reach when he ſounded the trumpet. [The Rev. Mr. James Granger, "A Biographical History of England," 1769]
Whereas shee tooke an inche of liberty before, tooke an ell afterwardes [Humfrey Gifford, "A Posie of Gilloflowers," 1580].


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How to Fix a Hyundai Accent Clutchby Shayrgo Barazi
The manual transmission in your Hyundai Accent uses a clutch to engage and disengage the power from the engine to the transmission. The clutch disc is sandwiched between the engine flywheel and the transmission pressure plate. When you switch gears and let off the clutch pedal, there is a short period during which the clutch is slipping to transmit the power in a controlled way. This causes wear on the clutch; over time it will require replacement.
Jack the Hyundai Accent and place on jack stands.
Drain the transmission gear oil into a catch pan. To drain the gear oil, loosen the drain bolt with a ratchet. Before the drain bolt unscrews completely, use your hand to unscrew it so that it doesn't fall into the drain pan.
Disconnect both drive axles (half shafts) from the transmission. To do this, use a ratchet to remove the two bolts that hold the steering knuckle to the strut. Once those are out, you can easily pull the axles out of the transmission. The steering knuckle is the component that the wheel and strut attach to. You can locate the two bolts that you are to remove by following the strut down from where it's bolted in the engine bay. Removing those two bolts allows you to pull the steering knuckle outward so you can pull the drive axle out of the transmission.
Remove the exhaust downpipe from the rest of the exhaust. It will be held on with two bolts at both ends and can be removed with a ratchet. Removing this piece is necessary to gain access to the transmission.
Disconnect any wiring connected to the transmission and remember where all the wires go.
Disconnect the shifter cables connected to the transmission. Use a ratchet to remove each shifter cable and its housing.
Remove the bolts holding the transmission to the engine block (there will be about seven or eight bolts). Place a transmission lift underneath the transmission to hold the transmission and lower it down. If you don't have a transmission lift, you can use a transmission attachment for your jack.
Shift the transmission back and forth until it drops onto the jack. Pull the transmission straight back, ensuring that no pressure is put on the input shaft, and lower the transmission to the ground.
Remove the pressure plate and clutch disc from the flywheel with a ratchet tool. Then remove the flywheel with a ratchet tool and replace it with a new flywheel. Alternatively, have your flywheel professionally machined at a machine shop, and then replace it in your car. Torque the flywheel down to the manufacturer's specification.
Place the clutch disc on the clutch disc alignment tool and insert the tool in the flywheel input shaft hole. Connect the new pressure plate to the flywheel and torque the bolts. Once the pressure plate is torqued down, then remove the clutch alignment tool.
Grease the new throw-out bearing and place it on the input shaft of the transmission. Once the transmission is installed, it will push against the pressure plate.
Jack the transmission back into place, push the input shaft straight into the flywheel hole, push the transmission into place and bolt it down to specification.
Reinstall the drive axles by pushing them into the transmission, and reconnect the steering knuckle to the strut, tightening the two bolts that were removed previously.
With a ratchet, reconnect the shifter cables to the transmission.
Reconnect the exhaust downpipe and wiring.
Add transmission gear oil to the transmission through the transmission fill plug until the fill plug begins to drip. Wait until the oil stops leaking out, then tighten the plug.
Lower the Hyundai Accent to the ground.
- Removing the flywheel may prove difficult because as you turn the bolts on the flywheel, it turns. To stop it from turning, have a helper hold the crank bolt with a ratchet and large socket while you loosen the flywheel bolts.
- The transmission is very heavy (150 pounds) and could inflict injury if you are not careful handling it. If you aren't in good shape physically, this job is better left to the pros.
- Wear safety goggles to protect yourself from injury.
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Any translator of any text can tell you that picking an appropriate English word for a word from another language can be a nightmare. It is usually the case that more than one English word can share some connotations with a particular word from another language. Specifically, that is the case when rendering Biblical Hebrew and Greek into English.
The English Revised Version attempted to solve that problem by always rendering a particular Hebrew/Greek word by the same English word. Anyone who has read that version knows that that is not really a solution. On the other hand, rendering for the sense can cause problems as well. For example, in Genesis 4:1, the KJV reads, "And Adam knew Eve his wife." The New American Standard reads, "Now the man had relations with his wife." Both of these renderings are accurate. But the NAS obscures something in the original that the KJV retains. In the opening chapters of Genesis, the word "know" (Hebrew yada') and its variants are important, and each of its occurrences are rendered by some form of the word "know" in the KJV. However, the NAS loses that by rendering the verb yada' by "had relations." Technically, it is accurate, but something is nonetheless lost.
Such losses become more significant when the English rendering is not even technically accurate. On Genesis 43:3, Robert Alter comments, "'The man' refers elliptically to the phrase the brothers previously used in their report to their father . . . Their repeated use of this designation aptly dramatizes their ignorance of Joseph's identity. In the second half of this chapter, there is pointed interplay between the references to the brothers as 'the men' . . . and to Joseph's majordomo as 'the man.'"
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Digital Point Forums Winamp Music Reporter
Since the last year I have been pretty interested in Internet marketing and one day my friend Ruslan Abuzant suggested to register at one of the biggest Internet marketing forums - the digital point forums.
Later the same day he said that there was this special cool feature that displayed the current music (current track) you were listening to. He said that WinAmp was not supported and it would be a pretty interesting thing to write for DPF. So I got the Winamp SDK, played with examples a little and after a few days had the plugin running. At first I thought I'd sell a copy for $5 each but now I decided to give it away for free and even opensource it under GNU GPL license.
Here is how the current track being listened to is displayed on DPF:
Notice the "Listening to:" label.
How To Install The Plugin?
First download the plugin: dpf forums winamp music reporter (.dll). It's a DLL file and it's called "gen_digitalpoint.dll". ("Gen" stands for "general purpose plugin.")
Next, put the plugin in C:\Program Files\Winamp\Plugins directory.
Next, restart Winamp and navigate to general purpose plugin preferences. Take these steps to get to the preferences:
- 1. Right click on Winamp.
- 2. Select Options -> Preferences.
- 3. Find Plug-ins section.
- 4. Click on General Purpose label.
See this screenshot if you're getting lost, it's after step 2:
You will see all the installed general purpose plugins. Notice our new plugin "Winamp DPF Music Reporter v1.0". Now double click it! The configuration dialog will apear:
Enter your DPF username and the special authentication hash that can be found in your "Edit Profile" link on DPF.
You can also specify the format of how the track will be displayed. The default format is "%A - %T" which stands for "Artist - Track".
Here is how the About screen looks like:
If you wish to compile the plugin from source, get the whole source tree as a zip file here:
See the compile.txt file in the source tree for all the details on how to compile it!
Download "DPF Winamp Music Reporter":
Download: gen_digitalpoint.dll (just the plugin)
Downloaded: 8219 times.
Download url: http://www.catonmat.net/download/gen_digitalpoint.dll
Download: winamp-plugin-digitalpoint-music-reporter.zip (whole source tree)
Downloaded: 806 times.
Download url: http://www.catonmat.net/download/winamp-plugin-digitalpoint-music-reporter.zip
Have the best time on DPF, and don't forget to give me some good reputation! ;)
Hey dude,
Congratulations on putting this and other cool stuff online finally. I know how hard was it with the university those days, so well done on finally releasing it.
A cool design by the way, *GOTMAIL.WAV :D
Good luck..
Ruslan, thanks, my friend. YOU-GOT-MAIL-TOO.WAV :)
Looks really good, where's the download link? (Or am I just completely missing it? :) )
I have actually not yet published it. It's compiled and works but not yet put on the site. I coded it more than a year ago and have forgotten some stuff, so I need to find time to refresh my memory and finish the whole article.
Hey. Are you still working on this. If not I would like to toy with your code if you dont mind. Please email me a sample.
Hey dubayou! It's completely finished and working :)
I just haven't had time to zip up the sources and put it online.
I think I will be able to do it only after I graduate, that is after June 26th.
haha that's my mix!
cool plugin mate.
Tom (aulday)
Have you finished coding the plugin yet?
May I get a sample at my email please?
is this plugin completed :) ?
Many Thanks man..
And, really a nice piece of plugin. Working 100%.
Just started learning plug-in development with Winamp and got a link to this site. I have just download the source code and will be poking around this weekend.
Thanks for putting the code out.
Ya said it could be modified to be used with Facebook. Since I have no clue how to do this stuff, can't ya make a plugin that works with Facebook ? That had been real sweet. :o)
I ask the same as JanneN, want to use this for Facebook.
JanneN and Soma - thanks for idea, I'll see if I can do it.


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A Northern Irish couple is planning Ireland's first graveyard wedding. The request has been made to hold the service in the Ballyclare cemetery in Antrim so they can exchange vows near a recently deceased relative.
The local Newtownabbey Borough Council is still considering the request
"A request has been made to the council for approval for a marriage ceremony to take place in Ballyclare Cemetery.
"The council can make a decision on the request after the 21 days," the local authority said.
Ulster Unionist councilor Vera McWilliam said she had "no problem whatsoever" with the request.
"I would have no hesitation in allowing this to go ahead and I would wish the couple many happy returns," she said.
"OK, so it's unusual, but people these days are getting married in the sky and under water, and I can't see the harm in it.
"Good luck to them. I certainly won't be voting against this request. Who knows what the couple's reasons are – maybe they want to be close to some of their relatives who have been laid to rest in the cemetery."
DUP councilor Victor Robinson said he could understand the opposition
"Personally I would not have any objections, but I would understand if relatives of those deceased who are buried in the cemetery would have some concerns," said Robinson.
"It's a strange one, but then again, we are living in strange times. As long as there isn't a big crowd and the cemetery is not demeaned in any way, then I cannot see why this wedding cannot go ahead," he added.
Sam Milligan the wedding planners, says he "could not see any problems" with a graveyard wedding.
"I don't really care where couples want to hold their wedding, my job is just to organize it," he said.
"I've never had a graveyard wedding before, but I did organize a Halloween wedding at Ballygally Castle, which is supposed to be haunted. The bride even had fangs fitted beforehand."


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Sleeping in 'til noon on a monday, in the greyness of the morning with nothing but soothing wind sounds surrounding you...... Omg i dont deserve it! haha.
I think we all deserve it, even more on a Monday, it's the worst day haha that way last less and sleep more! ahaha have a good week


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Chairman of Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), Dr. Ngozi Olejeme has described President Goodluck Jonathan as an epitome of development, saying the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate will continue to be accountable, accessible and approachable.
Olejeme, who is also Deputy Chairman of the Finance Committee, Presidential Campaign Organisation, advised the electorate to lay emphasis on his achievements.
Speaking in Abuja, Olejeme said President Jonathan, through his people-oriented programmes and policies has rekindled the people's confidence in civil rule and a better and prosperous future.
She praised Jonathan for putting the people at the centre of the formulation of government policies, providing facilities, encouraging women to participate in socio-economic and political activities, promoting foreign investments, providing ample incentives and giving exemplary leadership.
The PDP chieftain also extolled him for confronting the country's problems, diversifying the economy, reducing retail prices of petroleum products to reflect the downscaling in global oil prices, establishing 12 conventional and two specialized universities and cleaning up the electoral process.
Olejeme said: "The volumes of government programmes and projects are creating wealth and job opportunities, reviving collapsed business enterprises, stimulating agriculture and local food production"


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Overwritten VHD file
can anyone help me?
i installed XP Mode in my win7 Pro, after installation i installed some programs into it. after few months my friend gave me a copy of Windows XP Mode.vhd his vhd file already installed a lot of software which I need. After he passed me the vhd file I overwrite my old vhd file and now im using his XP mode on my laptop. but now I want to change back to my own vhd file which I overwrite the last time.
is there any chance of getting back my old vhd even though I already overwritten the vhd?
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Hello, Shrek, welcome to the Seven Forums.
You could try some file recovery tools, but I doubt it would work.
Your options are reinstalling XP Mode or work with the one you have. If you want reinstall, you can rename the existing vhd first, then after reinstall create a new vm using that vhd, to have two XP Modes.
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YORK, PA – The York College men's soccer team celebrated their 2013 senior day in impressive fashion as the Spartans blanked Southern Virginia 5-0 in non-conference action on a sunny but breezy Saturday in York.
The Spartans, who are ranked 8th in the d3soccer.com poll and 20th in the NSCAA poll, improve to 15-2 overall. The Knights fall to 1-15-1 with the loss.
The Green and White wasted little in getting on the board as they earned a corner kick in the 5th minute. The kick was served into the box and pinged around until it was cleared out to freshman Charlie Versen (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y./The Masters) at the top of the box. Versen collected the loose ball and ripped an absolute bullet inside the right post for the opening goal. The tally was Versen's first career goal.
The Spartans had a load of opportunities in the first half but SVU's Scott Zaring kept the Green and White off the board over the remaining 39 minutes of the half. York fired off 20 first half shots as they spent a majority of the half in the Knights' defensive third.
The second half scoring opened just 1:18 into the half as Taylor Brummitt (Annapolis, Md./Annapolis) ripped a centering pass into the box. The ball hit off a Southern Virginia defender and caromed into the back of the net for an own goal as the York led grew to 2-0.
York put the game out of reach in the 72nd minute when senior Jake Hower (Lake Forest, Calif./El Toro) collected a loose ball on the left flank and delivered a beautiful centering pass to sophomore Peter Lundgaard (Greenville, Del./Salesianum). Lundgaard redirected the pass into the net for his first goal of the season.
Hower had an almost identical play just a minute and a half later as he delivered another pass, this one to Brendan Saberton (Wilmington, Del./Salesianum), as Saberton finished the assist with York's fourth goal.
Senior Aaron Beale (Baltimore, Md./Archbishop Curley) capped the scoring in the 83rd minute. Hower drilled the corner kick to Tobi Iguade (Bowie, Md./DeMatha Catholic) who fed Beale with a pass that Beale finished for his second goal of the year.
York finished the game with a 37-3 edge in total shots including a 17-3 margin in shots on goal. The Spartans also had a 6-0 advantage in corner kicks.
Freshman Charlie Johnson (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin) earned his first collegiate start and picked up the win as he played 65:31 of shutout soccer. Johnson earned three saves in the victory. Senior Tanner Good (Navron, Pa./Pequea Valley) chipped in on the clean sheet as he played a flawless 24:29 in net.
Zaring suffered the loss as he allowed five goals in his 90 minutes in cage. Zaring recorded 12 saves for the Knights.
The Spartans also got good news earlier in the day as they locked up a first round bye in the upcoming Capital Athletic Conference tournament by the result of other conference action on Saturday. The Green and White will receive an opening round bye and host a conference tournament semifinal game on Wednesday, November 6.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
WDW Magic Kingdom Dumbo "Interactive" Queue Video
Disney Parks just released a short video showing the supposed interactive queue of the new Dumbo attraction at WDW Magic Kingdom Storybook Circus. Interactive? Did i missed something? As you will see in the video below it looks more like a kids playground under a circus tent, with a great theming based on Dumbo final scene, i agree, but still, where are the interactivity elements in all this?
Sure, this indoor "interactive queue" - read: playground - will allow parents to sit on benches in air conditioning while kids " will burn off energy climbing through ropes, jumping, and running around", and considering how long a queue at Dumbo can be it's very welcome, but so far the only interactive element i noticed is a pager which will "bip" when it will be the "time to ride". Again, it's a very good idea which should help to make the Dumbo wait more agreable, but just don't call it "interactive" - or let me know where the interactivity is.
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It looks like the kind of "attractions" we used to have here in São Paulo that I went sometimes when I was a kid, in a small park inside a shopping mall.
That MK expansion never stops to disappoint me...
- June 6, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Nevertheless, I think that improving the "queues experiences" is a great effort and something vital to the future of theme parks.
For me, and most people I know, the only things that can spoil a day in a Disney park are long queues and overcrowding...
- June 6, 2012 at 7:47 PM
- Stefan said...
"Interactive" doesn't have to mean technology, though that seems to be how it's used most often these days. Interactive means that they have something to play with and honestly, I think kids will have a better time being able to run, jump and play than having a bunch of gew-gaws and monitors to quickly become bored of.
- June 9, 2012 at 9:27 PM