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Annie Tora can really appreciate the peace and calm she finds in the nursery for the new baby. Only 3 more moths untill she can hold this new baby in her arms.
Dirk and Catherine's youngests are turning 1. Both of them are pretty happy they are done with babies, but now they can start all over with potty training and such.
Little Stephanie has her mother's eyes but you can see a lot from her dad as well.
Morgan and Lawrence, when they were his age.
- I really like Marie and Sya's new nursery. I really like that furniture, and the recolors some one made, and I couldn't wait to use it!
- I'm looking forward to both Sya and Marie's babies and Annie's baby. I don't have a gender preference, though I wouldn't mind if I got at least one girl, I'm getting a little bit tired of all the boys that are born lately.
- I think Stephanie looks a lot like her dad, while Nicholas really is a true Penninkmeijer. Just look at the shape of his face! It's Frederik all over!

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As most of you know, my mother spent close to 6 months of this year in Jaipur undergoing treatment for cancer. Not one to rest and laze around, she along with my aaji (maternal grandmother) and my mami (maternal uncle's wife) she made close to 10 sweaters to gift to the children of our friends and family. Here are some of my favourites.
Friday, October 21, 2011
3 comments:
- Leif Hagen said...
Such wonderful, beautifully knit sweaters! The top purple one reminds me of the purple cardigan sweater which I knit for our youngest daughter. My wife also knits and our daughters do too!
- October 21, 2011 at 6:41 PM
- ek koshish, ek aasha said...
gr8 yaar...
- October 24, 2011 at 4:57 PM
Thank u for the post.
- October 25, 2011 at 11:45 PM
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Next Episode of Accidentally on Purpose is
not planed. TV Show was canceled.
Accidentally on Purpose, based on the bestselling memoir by Mary F. Pols, is a comedy about a single woman, Billie, who finds herself "accidentally" pregnant after a one-night stand with a much younger guy, and decides to keep the baby...and the guy. A newspaper film critic, Billie is barely surviving a humiliating breakup with her charming boss, James, who's still trying to resume their relationship. Pregnant, after a brief fling with her "boy toy" Zack, Billie and Zack make an arrangement to live together platonically. Billie's party girl best friend Olivia, and Abby, her conventional, younger married sister, eagerly look forward to the new addition and offer their own brands of advice and encouragement. But when Zack and his freeloading friends, including Davis, start to turn her place into a frat house, Billie isn't sure if she's living with a boyfriend, a roommate, or if she just has another child to raise.
Billie becomes pregnant after a brief fling with Zack, and she asks him to temporarily move in with him because he has no place to stay.
When her boss raises the question of who Zack really is, it prompts Billie to go on a fact-finding mission as to the true identity of her baby's father.
Billie's pregnancy creates an attraction from members of the opposite sex, while Billie feels her own results of her hormonal changes, but she becomes really befuddled when Zack rebuffs her advances.
Billie declares that she and Zack are able to see other people, but it's Billie who finds the dating scene a little rougher than expected, and Zack finds a conscience when he tries the waters, too.
Billie tries to live vicariously through Zack and Davis by offering up dating advice to them. However, things take a turn, when the objects of the boys' affection reveal their true intentions.
Billie and Zack have their first big argument after Zack tries to surprise Billie by installing a low flow toilet.
Billie unintentionally causes Abby and Nick to break up when she asks them to be Godparents. However, after a fun night on the town with Davis goes too far, Billie must stop Abby before she does something she will regret.
When Billie starts dating a colleague from her newspaper, Zack is unable to hide his jealousy.
Billie is threatened when James hires another film critic at the paper and sets out to prove how valuable she is.
When Billie and Zack take instructional parenting classes separately due to their schedules, Billie goes with Olivia and Abby. However, the course quickly becomes a competition when Abby outshines Billie at all the tasks.
Worried that she'll ruin Christmas - as she has in previous years - Billie tries to hide from her parents the fact that Zack is living with her. Meanwhile, Abby's husband, Nick, tries to impress their father.
Abby and Nick have their respective significant others spend time with Billie and Zack to prevent them from finding out about the surprise shower they are planning. However, their plan backfires when both Billie and Zack dislike their new buddies.
While everyone feels the pressure of corporate cutbacks, Billie feels like she has to write the story of her life for a cover story and Zack & Davis go into business for themselves.
Not wanting to sound like a nag, Billie manipulates Zack into doing chores around the apartment; however, her plan backfires when Zack takes the initiative to "decorate" the nursery. Meanwhile, to earn extra cash, Davis gets a job at a gay bar.
Billie invites herself to Zack's high school reunion but worries that she can't compete with his hot, ex-girlfriend in her pregnant state. Meanwhile, Olivia helps Abby host a party where they try to sell Abby's miracle youth juice.
Zack is upset when Billie hires a baby nurse without consulting him. Meanwhile, Davis and Ryan are faced with a difficult choice when they learn surprising news about the nurse.
Billie pretends to go into labor to save Zack from getting a traffic ticket after they're pulled over for speeding. Meanwhile, Olivia and Davis go shopping for a baby gift.
After faking labor pains to get Zack out of a speeding ticket, Billie goes into labor - for real. Unfortunately, things take a turn when Zack gets busted by the officer they had initially lied to and is hauled off to the police station.
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Lunch for school kids is not always a joyous affair, with many cafeterias offering less-than-average food and plenty of options that are unhealthy. IDEO wants to change this with its new concept for cafeterias, featuring locally sourced food and learning sections for students.
Instead of thinking of the cafeteria as a one-stop shop for greasy food and unhealthy options, IDEO imagines this area to feature bean bag chairs where kids can hang out and relax. Moreover, for the food selection, the company hopes to promote healthy eating locally sourced items along with a community kitchen. The best part is that the cafeteria does not stop at lunch, but also offers dinner kits to students for anyone who is busy after class and doesn't have time to rush home. Photo Credits: designboom, ideo
Locally Supplied Cafeteria Concepts
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Edible Take-Out Boxes
Fresh Food Satchels
Picnic-Inspired Office Lunchrooms
Beachside Cavernous Dining
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IDEO Reimagines Lunch for School Kids
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That's the idea behind a cool tool on the federal government's Making Home Affordable website.
Answer 10 quick and relatively easy questions and the tool tells you which government programs might help you avoid foreclosure.
There are two hard questions:
1. Do you have a loan owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac?
2. Is the payment on your first mortgage (including principal, interest, taxes, insurance, and home owners association dues, if applicable) more than 31% of your current gross income?
Good thing the tool has the phone number to call to find out who guaranteed your mortgage and a calculator that figures out 31% of your gross income for you. Otherwise most of us would get stuck and move on to something easier like finding out what Arnold Schwarzenegger's out-of-wedlock son calls him. Dad? Uncle?
You can answer the rest of the questions off the top of your head, and if you can't, you can answer "don't know" to every question on the quiz — you'll still get your results in three seconds.
You need a pro, not just a website
Like all the advice you get from the federal government, your quiz results are set in Jello rather than concrete: "Your answers indicate that you may be eligible for the [such and such loan workout program]."
Nothing about the programs aimed at stopping foreclosure is certain except that they involve a long, complicated process. So get an experience mortgage counselor on your side right away.
The phone number (888-995-HOPE) for one of the best, Hope Now, is right there on the Making Home Affordable website, next to the calculator.
If the calculator says you're eligible for a government program, Hope Now's counselors can get you started on the process.
Have you called your lender or a mortgage foreclosure help line like Hope Now? Was it helpful?


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text: I've become a fan of white Riojas, whose purity of fruit and low cost fit perfectly at my dinner table. Viura is the main grape here along with 30% Malvasia and this version was partially barrel fermented and aged for 3 months in French oak. That makes this wine a bit different from the usual entry level white Riojas. The barrel treatment gives this wine wonderful toast and spice notes to go along with the pear and floral aromas. In the mouth, it's ripe and round with excellent concentration and good acidity. Here the wood and the fruit are in perfect balance with apple and spiced pear flavors. It finishes long with toast notes and an attractive mineral spine. Imported by perhaps the top importer of Spanish wine, Tempranillo and the broker Jorge Ordonez, this beauty cost me $13.99 at my local shop. Cheers.


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A Amish Horse and Buggy heading down the road.
A Amish Horse and Buggy
A young Amish girl waiting in the buggy.
A concerned young Amish girl in her buggy watching a man pulling along his dog.
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The Madness of Revenge and Violence
It's been such an unbelievably sad and tragic couple of weeks in the news. The complete evilness of some people and their ability to inflict their twisted sickness on others staggers the mind and the ability to cope with it. The sick person who chose girls out of a school in Colorado, with his plan to torture, assault and kill them who managed to kill one before the police came in. The sick creature who took out his rage against the most helpless people he could find in a one room Amish schoolhouse. A rambling, mentally ill creature who somehow rationalized his unspeakably evil plans by apparently saying he'd been tortured by things in his past. Both of these beasts had sent suicide notes to family members which boggles the mind, that they on one level cared about other people but still could plot and plan such evil. But the madness doesn't stop there, the so called church that pickets the funerals of young dead soldiers with their signs saying 'thank god for ied's' and 'god hates fags' and the like, unspeakably evil in their lack of care or concern for others and the feelings of others. Those beasts were going to picket the funerals of the young dead Amish girls and who have been seen on tv smiling and saying that those little girls are in hell and it's a good thing they died young because it saved them a longer stay in hell. It's as if madness has finally descended.
Not even considering the madness and evil violence that is islam. The suicide bombers in service of their vision of a coming apocalypse. The madness of violence against people who say only the truth when they say the 'religion of peace' is anything but. Madness, madness everywhere.
I think about the people who have a desire for revenge against the world in general and who take their madness to innocents. You know, many of the movies and a lot of the popular culture that is promoted and viewed as entertainment contains a lot of themes of violence and horror. Madmen killing terrorized teens and women are made into cult heros and are the stars of their own series of movies. The purveyors of this blood and death porn hide behind misinterpreted versions of freedom of expression and their manufactured and celebratory movies of violence provide the mastubatory release and how to tutorials for those who aspire to Columbine/Bailey or Lancaster Pennsylvania activities of their own. The violence doesn't only manifest in such large and visable displays of course. Less prominant news flies across the airwaves and newspapers every single day. Someone who kills their family, kills their wife who tries to leave them, kills their girlfriends who try to leave them. It's every single day in every single area of the country. Violence as an answer to grievances, violence and death and guns and death.
I see and the world sees the way that the Amish react to this senseless death and violence. Amazed news people interview an Amish grandfather who was there to see two of his family members die and he has no hate and says he has forgiveness for the shooter and the Amish themselves, who have received some 500 thousand dollars from around the country have insisted in putting part of that money for the family of the man who committed this violence. Such compassion and unwavering forgiveness frankly stuns and amazes everyone who hears it. The reporter asked the grandfather how it was possible for him to forgive, and he said without hesitation at all that he forgives with the help of God.
My eyes welled up and the tears flowed from me. Seeing the funeral procession of Amish in their buggies made me cry and I still am emotional every time I see or thing about all of this. Wherever the Amish live in our country they are treated like treasures, and indeed they are all the goodness and faith and steadfastness that we all wish we possessed. You could see it in the police who shut off the public roads and protected the Amish in their privacy and in their grief. The media circus was for once greatly curtailed and a people who carry all the good we aspire to be were spared from us for a moment.
Beyond Good and Evil
Every once in a while you wake up and you learn something that you didn't know before. A bit of information that gives you pause. Someone you know dies. A shock, a tragedy, something not expected. You feel bad, shaken and upset. What if somebody dies that you don't like. Do you cheer? If you are religious do you think about the will of god or the workings of karma? Would you feel smug about it as the death of someone you don't like confirms your vast and secure theories of the universe? That would certainly be arrogant and self delusional of you to think. What if that person who dies is someone you wished was dead. What if the level of dislike and distaste you have for the person is as high as can be, would you feel happy, vindicated, triumphant over the death of the person you despise? What kind of a person would that make you then? Would that make you an evil person? If you felt your life had been destroyed by that person, now dead, would you be an evil person if you felt happy with the knowledge of their death? What is the level of harm that one person can do to you that makes you alright with being happy they are dead? What if you believed that the dead person wished you dead? An eye of the beholder sort of determination? What if you knew all of that and had fleeting feelings of happiness or whatever you might want to call it and then seeing yourself in that instant, felt remorse and afterwards felt bad for feeling good. Perhaps you could then detatch yourself from any feelings and you went beyond good and evil over it. How on earth would that even be possible? Is it possible to feel enough Buddhist detatchment over the whole thing that you could remove yourself from judgment over it?
From My Blog
A good friend lost
As happens once in a while, a friend from a few years back contacts me to catch up, touch base, say hello. My website and my listing in the alumni page at the University of Dayton School of Law leave a trail there for anyone who might care to find me and speak with me. Careful planning makes it so, unfortunately and for a number of reasons I don't often try to find old friends and old classmates. A LexisNexis search, a run through Google or a look through the alumni directory would be sufficient for me to find anyone I would desire to find but I don't do it. There is always time. Time sometime later to make that small effort. So as a result I don't look up people. There is always time right? Yah. Well a friend of mine, Marc did take the time to look me up and it was good to hear from him. In our emails back and forth he mentions a fellow classmate, Andy Johnson or as was the running joke for us "Andy's Johnson."
Andy was a tall, gangly fellow with the disposition of a puppy. We'd constantly make our "Andy's Johnson," clever remarks and he'd smile and never took offense and we never meant any. He was a fellow who seemed not to have a hostile bone in his body and it seemed to me that it would never occur to him to say a bad word about anyone. When he would talk it seemed like he was always laughing even when he wasn't. A smile on his face and he'd always be genuinely glad to see you. When he would tell a joke it was like he was a little kid saying something he knew that grownups would disapprove of so his jokes or something funny were told only after he looked around to make sure that someone who might take offense would be out of earshot.
At the end of a long hard week in class he'd come down to
the local watering hole that some of us had taken as our own. BW3's on
Friday after class was where we would grab some hot wings, some happy
hour beer and we'd pull some tables together, enough to accommodate however
many of us would show up. Andy would laugh with us and we'd talk about
what funny things happened in class. Sometimes he'd get a bit excited,
a beer or two down the evening and when he wanted to say something and
his words were tripping around on his tongue his eyes would sparkle and
the smile on his face would broaden as if to acknowledge that he thought
he was being a bit foolish or silly. But we would slap him on his back,
laugh at his jokes and generally do the things that friends would do with
each other as we recognize everyone who would want to be in the conversation
and who would likewise have a patience and joy with us.
There is no question in my mind that life is not fair. Evil people live and prosper, good people who struggle and fight to get ahead in life die in car accidents. Life is short and brutish and it's a sack full of misery, pain, horror and suffering. A person like Andy makes you almost believe that isn't true, his warm smile and good heart carved a bit of hope and kindness into the world and he will be missed.


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"We have hunted for big, simple neuropathological explanations for psychiatric disorders and have not found them. We have hunted for big, simple neurochemical explanations for psychiatric disorders and have not found them. We have hunted for big, simple genetic explanations for psychiatric disorders and have not found them…Our current knowledge, although incomplete, strongly suggests that all major psychiatric disorders are complex and multifactoral…In grieving for our loss of big explanations, we similarly have to give up our hope for simple, linear explanatory models."
"Understanding our lives in context does not mean ignoring the findings from genetic research and neuroscience that might shed light on any causes of emotional and mental distress. It does, however, become problematic when these factors are allowed to eclipse the relevance of clues within the circumstances and events of our lives.
I think the complex interplay between social, environmental, genetic and neurological factors is still little understood and it is certainly possible that research will in the future reveal as-yet-not-understood biological factors that impact upon aspects of our psychological well-being. Even so, formative factors such as: the family we grow up in; the schools we attend; the way we are treated; the level of social deprivation experienced; the trauma and distress we encounter; and the relationships we form, will still be key determinants and of primary significance in helping us to understand our lives."


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Richard L Gregory
Even Odder Perceptions
Gregory writes on a wide range of topics, but I would say that if you read this book then it should be for the essays where writes on his areas of expertise. Others may disagree, but I felt that the essays where he gets away from these areas tended to lack a central thread. There was also a bit of repetition between the essays - one of Gregory's favourite topics is arguing for the error of the Quantum=Mystery, Consciousness=Mystery ∴ Quantum=Consciousness claim.
But there are still plenty of essays where Gregory has something of interest to say. There is an essay on the experiences of those who have been blind since early childhood and has their vision restored - how they learn to see again. Those readers with an interest in the nature of the mind will get a lot out of the Mind in a Black Box chapter as well as several of the other essays. There is also a chapter on Exploratoria - Gregory did a lot towards the development of the one in Bristol. I would recommend in particular the last two chapters on the work of Adelbert Ames and the descriptions of illusions.


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Ripple Labs Receives the NY BitLicense
The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has approved Ripple Labs' BitLicense application. Granted today, the approval will grant Ripple the license to sell and obtain XRP – the native digital asset of the Ripple Consensus Ledger, a platform used by financial institutions including banks as well as companies.
Ripple's operations consist of financial services and it's native currency XRP which is focused on working with legacy financial institutions, banks, and settlement clearinghouses. Just recently Ripple announced a pilot program with the Expertus Payment Platform.
The program is to enable financial institutions the testing grounds for using blockchain technology and eventually apply it to the bank's or financial management service's current architecture. Steve Mollenkamp, Head of Channel Sales at Ripple said, "Joining forces with partners like Expertus allows us to make it even easier for banks and their customers to realize the benefits of distributed financial technology. The newly launched pilot program will contribute to the growth of the Ripple network, enabling even more financial institutions to improve their cross-border payments."
Designed to improve currency liquidity while lowering the significant capital costs of cross-border payments, XRP enables banks to use one XRP account held in their control. The measure circumvents the need to withhold local currencies in nostro accounts in different countries around the world. It is estimated that banks using XRP and Ripple can save up to 42 percent on costs as things stand.


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- ITV Report
Peters Bakery goes into administration
The jobs of 400 people employed by family firm Peters Bakery are at risk after the company went into administration.
Peters Cathedral Bakers, which trades as Peters Bakery, owns 58 retail outlets across the north east of England, a 50,000 sq ft factory and a direct mobile sales operation, all face closure if a new buyer is not found.
The 46 year-old business has been hit by rising costs of raw materials, energy prices and an increasingly tough retail environment, administrators KPMG said.
The administrators will continue to trade the Durham-based company while they seek a buyer but warned redundancies were expected.


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There are times when you wish to manipulate light sources but don't always have the luxury of having an assistant to position and hold a reflector. The Impact 42″ 5-in-1 Reflector with Lightstand and Holder Kit comes in handy during such situations, as it allows you to tinker with different lighting angles, position the reflector, lock it in place, and carry on with your shoot. It is like having an assistant when one is not available (albeit a rather silent one!). It also comes in handy when it is not convenient to take multiple lights with you on a photo shoot. The reflector kit can act as a "second light" by maximizing the effects of a single light.
1) Initial Thoughts
Once again, Impact has done a good job of combining a few of their quality products into a useful kit at a value-based price.
2) Product Specifications
Impact 5-in-1 Collapsible Circular Reflector Disc – 42″
Shape: Round
Size Open: 42″ (106cm)
Size Closed: 14″ (36cm)
Surfaces: Translucent, Silver, Gold, Silver-Gold, White
Impact Multiboom Light Stand and Reflector Holder – 13′ (4m)
Number: 2
Minimum Height: 40″ (102 cm)
Maximum Height: 13′ (4 m) as light stand
9 ft (2.7 M) as boom stand
Closed Length: 40″ (102 cm)
Footprint Diameter: 36″ (91 cm)
Leg Tip: 20mm
Weight : 6 lbs (2.7 kg)
Maximum Load: 5 lbs (2.3 kg) as light stand
3 lbs (1.4 kg) as boom stand
Attachment Size: 5/8 in stud with 1/4″-20 in threaded tip
Clamps: 2 (hold reflector or other light modifiers)
Accepts Wheels: Yes
Air Cushioned: No
Finish: Matte black
2) Features And Construction
John Bosley reviewed the reflector's larger 52″ brother some time ago. The reflector in this kit is 10 inches smaller but includes 2 additional surfaces – a gold and gold-silver combination. This Impact 42″ reflector appears to be built as solidly as the others I have from Wescott and Lastolite. The core translucent base and frame are well made. The seams are solidly constructed. The zippers open and close smoothly without any catches.
Nasim also reviewed this lightstand as a stand-alone item. Like all Impact lightstand offerings, it is solidly built. It is much smaller and lighter than my other multiboom stands, some of which weigh upwards of 23 lbs. Multiboom stands are incredibly flexible, but due to their size and weight of many of them, most are not very practical for trips outside the studio. This Impact stand, however, is far more attractive option if you need to transport your gear. The Impact stand multiboom arm retracts into the center of the stand so as to help minimize its size. It is a slick design that gives you all the advantages of a normal lightstand, plus the added flexibility of a boom arm.
3) Operations
This multi-surface reflector operates as most others. Pop it open, select the colored sleeve you want to use, slide it over, and zip it up. Despite reading Nasim's review, I wondered how well this lightweight stand would perform holding the huge 42″ reflector, particularly with the arm extended and positioned at a 45 degree angle. I extended the stand to approximately 9 feet (I had to tilt it sideways since our ceilings are only 7 feet), angled it at a 45 degree angle, and attached the reflector. I half expected it to topple over, but it didn't. I was pleasantly surprised at how well this little stand supported a load so far from its base. As long as you position one leg parallel to the boom arm, this stand will easily support the weight of this reflector. If I were to extend the arm any further than 9 feet, I would likely add a 10-15 lb sand bag for additional security. I consider it good practice to add sandbags even when I am comfortably within the weight limits for multiboom arms since it makes little sense to take a risk with either your lighting equipment – or your customers! This lightstand could easily serve double-duty by holding a speedlight for portraits as well.
One of my favorite tricks with reflectors is to position a flash, such as the SB-900 on the floor or a small table and aim it into the reflector to create a sunrise/sunset or moonglow effect.Since John and Nasim already showcased some beautiful portraits taken with similar reflectors and stands, I thought I would try something a bit different, using one of my not-so-regular models. As you can see below, this kit did a good job of helping me with my "Gargoyle In The Moonlight" shots! ;)
4) What's In The Box?
– Impact Multiboom Light Stand and Reflector Holder – 13′ (4m)
– Impact 42″ 5-in-1 Reflector with Lightstand and Holder Kit
5) Quality and Value
This reflector and stand are as well-built as those from the brand name manufacturers. At $114.50, this kit is attractively priced. Similar kits from competitors such as Interfit and Wescott range from ~$75 to $210. While you can pay slightly less, you will find that the associated light stands only extend to ~8′ – a good 5′ less than the Impact's 13′ height. I would opt for this kit because of the additional height offered by the stand. Additional flexibility usually comes in handy. If taken care of, this kit should last you a lifetime.
6) Suggested Improvements
I normally find something worth suggesting in my equipment reviews, but I struggled to find anything worth noting with this kit.
7) Conclusion
If you are getting into product photography and want to do so without busting your photography budget, this Impact kit is an excellent choice. The kit offers a very solid value compared to offerings from Lastolite, Wescott, Interfit, and others. In particular, the 5′ of additional stand height tip the balance (no pun intended!) in favor of this kit.
8) Where To Buy
You can find the Impact 42″ 5-in-1 Reflector with Lightstand and Holder Kit at B&H Photo.
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Kosher Sushi
Meat and Eat
First Station, Hatahana Harishona, 4 David Remez St. Jerusalem.
Tel: 1-599-500505
Handicapped friendly
Kashrut: Rabbanut Yerushalayim and Rav Machpud Mehadrin. Full time mashgiach.
As its name suggests, the bread is one of the calling cards of this restaurant. All the breads are baked in the on-site taboun oven located in a glass-enclosed section of the dining room which is part of the decor.
How could we not try their signature food? So we started our dinner with focaccia and dips. The focaccia on the menu is actually a meat dish but the chef prepared a non-meaty version of this dish just for us.
The starters range from quinoa, chicken salads, stuffed pastries, meat carpaccio, and fish ceviche. We chose the grilled eggplant and zucchini stuffed with lamb. It is curious to see the chef's interpretation of grilled eggplant. At Meat and Eat it was served with roasted tomatoes, techina, and pomegranate sauce, a very delicious combination. Zucchini stuffed with lamb is unique to Meat and Eat and an excellent choice for a meaty starter. My companion really likes lamb; ever since he was a kid his favorite meal was grilled lamb chops. The starter didnt disappoint, except that he would have liked more. The small dish had two pieces of lightly cooked zucchini stuffed with a mixture of ground lamb and eggplant, with the lamb, the dominant flavor. One of the things that he liked about the dish besides the lamb was that the zucchini was firm, not raw and not squishy.
There are so many attractive alternatives for the main course that it took us a while to decide. There is a good selection of steaks, burgers and different types of meat and chicken. Meat dishes range from a low NIS 80 for a burger to well over NIS 100. My companion chose the Entrecote steak.
I went for the salmon with grilled vegetables.
After some consideration my companion chose the 250 gram steak (rather than the 350 gr) medium well done. The portion was surprising it was very large. A larger steak would have been too much. Next time though he will order the steak medium-rare. This is always a tricky thing to get right the first time you order steak in a restaurant. The steak was very tasty, not hard and not fatty. I would definitely order this again.
The steak was served with juicy grilled tomato and grilled onlion, with the black scoring of the grill on them. This was served with a small boat of chimichurri. The tomato was an excellent choice to accompany the steak. The chimichurri was nice, but was not really needed for the steak, which was well seasoned and aged.
My choice of salmon was so tasty and so well prepared that I had to ask how they do it. Turns out that the fish is first grilled and then pan seared, The grilled string beans and tomatoes were a perfect match for the fish. With our meals we got a separate bowl of rice gently flavored with herbs.
What goes better with a full meal than a bottle of wine. Meat and Eat has a great selection of wines displayed on the walls. Every month the restaurant focuses on a different wine that you are invited to enjoy by the glass. Speaking of alcohol the restaurant has a full bar. If ever there was a restaurant that invites a cocktail, this is it.
Whoa - it is not only about meat and bread. Desserts at Meat and Eat are a specialty. The restaurant has its own dessert chef who creates desserts at the restaurant every morning. Desserts range from apple crumble, malabi, kadaif, chocolate mousse, chocolate Souffle.
Count me in. We had the Cookielida, which looked like an outsized chocolate Oreo cookie with cream in the center. The "cookie" was filled with fudge chocolate. This was sinful but a nice way to end a great meal.
Meat and Eat has two distinct dining spaces: the large dining area with tables for 2 and 4 and bar seating. In addition there is a smaller space in the rear of the restaurant, cordoned off from the rest of the space, with a large table and some smaller tables. As it is, this space is ideal for groups of 8 - 10 diners who want to have some privacy away from the large room. It can also be rearranged for private parties of up to 25 guests. The large dining area can accommodate up to 60 guests.
Let me also mention that Meat and Eat is a fully handicapped accessible restaurant. There is a ramp into the restaurant from street level, and the washing station and bathrooms are on the same level.
Grilled eggplant starter: NIS 38. Lamb zucchini starter: NIS 58. Spring Chicken Salad: NIS 64, Entrecote Steak (250/350/450 gr.): NIS 120/140/160, Sea Fish Fillet: NIS 128.
Dessert: NIS 42
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Submitted by Avraham and D'vora Grossbaum. Date: December 17 2014.
Description: We had a delicious supper in Meat and Eat (Lekhem Basar in Hebrew). The restaurant is located in the First Station, the old Jerusalem train station that has been reincarnated as an entertainment venue. The furnishings are nice, but the high ceiling and resultant acoustics contributed to a noise level that was not conducive for intimacy.
We had the house bread, stuffed pepper and cabbage (a special) and lamb zucchini for starters. The pepper was stuffed with chopped beef, the zucchini with lamb (as the name implies), but we are not sure what was in the cabbage. They were delicious, with a nice variety of flavors.
We chose the entrecote 450 grams medium-rare and lamb siniya for main courses. The entrecote was fantastic, juicy and flavorful. The lamb siniya was tasty, but not to rave about.
The desserts described in the menu sounded good and looked nice on other tables (but not on our waistlines).
The portions were ample. The service was very pleasant. There was a delay in the arrival of our orders, for which the waiter apologized even though we did not comment on it. All in all, we had a very enjoyable evening.
The entrecote is one of the more expensive entrees at NIS 179, while the siniya (NIS 88) is at the other end of the scale. We shared a glass of wine for NIS 56 (there was also a NIS 38 shekel option). The lamb zucchini cost NIS 58 and the stuffed vegetable NIS 45.


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Heather from Dollar Store crafts is participating in a Make Something Cool Everyday challenge through Dabbled. I'm decided to also participate, in a part time way. I don't think I have time to do something everyday but most days. I think the hardest part will be to post about them, I'll try my best. Also finding time between sewing 7 bridesmaid dresses, which are starting to come together but still have 2 not started. Just be warned that finishing one of the dresses might be the cool thing I make that day.
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- n. The process of calcining - heating a substance to a high temperature, but below its melting point, to bring about thermal decomposition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.
- n. The act or process of reducing a metal to an oxide or metallic calx; oxidation.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or operation of calcining, or expelling from a substance by heat some volatile matter with which it is combined, or which is the cementing principle, and thus reducing it to a friable state.
- n. In metallurgy: The operation of reducing a metal to an oxid or metallic calx: now called oxidation.
- n. The process of being calcined, or heated with access of air: nearly equivalent to roasting.
- n. The process of treating certain ores, especially of iron, for the purpose of making them more manageable in the furnace, nothing being taken from or added to the material thus treated. This is done with some Swedish iron ores.
- n. The reduction to ashes of combustible substances by burning; a turning into ashes by combustion.
- n. A calcined state or condition.
- n. A product of calcination, a calcinate.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the conversion of metals into their oxides as a result of heating to a high temperature
Sorry, no etymologies found.
The residue may remain as a powdery substance (a calx), in which case the process of roasting is termed calcination; or it may be a pasty mass or liquid.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
But about half of the CO2 from cement cannot be eliminated - it is produced in the reaction, called calcination, that occurs as the limestone (which consists of calcium carbonate) is being burned.
A calcination facility there would help the company to be closer to suppliers and get customers in the Chinese market.
When measuring the carbon footprint of imported cement, regulators say they would count every part of the process, from mining to calcination to shipping.
Priestley interpreted them in terms of phlogiston — the hypothetical principle of flammability that was thought to give metals their luster and ductility and was widely used in the early eighteenth century to explain combustion, calcination, smelting, respiration, and other chemical processes.
Some are productions of the animal, others of the vegetable kingdom; fossils afford some, minerals others; some are useless without calcination, others will not bear the fire; some remain constant in their colors, and retain their proper hues; others, though brilliant at first, become after a while totally corrupted, and by their corruption injure or destroy their companions, which might otherwise have stood well.
Experiment 98 suggests a mechanism for the formation of color based in part on affinity and calcination.
An allied species is common on the coast of China, where the pearls are collected for export to India, to be reduced to lime by calcination for the use of luxurious betel-nut chewers.
After I have heard you myself, when the whole of my right side has been benumbed, going on with your master about combustion, and calcination, and calorification, and I may say every kind of ation that could drive a poor invalid distracted, to hear you talking in this absurd way about sparks and ashes!
In combustion the fatty earth (terra pinguis) burns away, and in calcination it is driven off by the action of fire.
A copper mask for protection in calcination experiments. Hard to believe that the gentleman with the candles under the glass bell actually wore that thing that looks like a sewer rat's head or a space invader's helmet, just to avoid irritating his eyes.
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 13-14.


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Sunday, March 6, 2016
Sunday Scrap Page: Mint Tea
Happy Sunday to you all.
My scrappage today is inspired by the
sketch on the
I thought (even though I already made a card)
I would give this sketch a go for my
weekly scrapbook page as well.
I had lunch with my youngest daughter last week
and made a beautiful picture of her while drinking
mint tea. So I had the idea of making a border with
Michael Strong's leaves stamps.
All papers are by Club Scrap.
I stamped the leaves with the new distress crayons.
For this I spritz alittle water on the stamp and then the crayon
and stamp a few times.
As i was not totally satisfied with the image I took some
light grey ink and stamped the same stamp on the green
background. This way you see a little more of the lines.
I arranged the lives as border beind the picture adding
a ew dots that I still have from one of the Club Scrap kits.
The sentiment is from My Favourite Things stamps.
The doily is from my stash.
You might wonder about the background paper.
This I made long before and was from my stash too
ready to use. It is stenciling, spraying and stamping.
Thank you for looking.
Have a creative day!
Geplaatst door Hetty op 1:14 PM
Labels: Club Srap, doily, Michael Strong, scrap page, scrapbooking, sketch
6 comments:
- Daffodil Cards said...
Oh! how gorgeous, love your leaves, perfect for her photo. Amazing background.
- Sunday, 06 March, 2016
- Laura said...
Your daughter is beautiful!!! What a gorgeous scrap page!!! Way cool use of Mike's leaves and smart to add the grey ink so the cloisonne pattern shows better! Thanks for the tip! I didn't know about Tim's distress crayons! Yikes, another product to temp me, haha! Thanks for sharing!!!
- Sunday, 06 March, 2016
- Maxine D said...
What a wonderful page Hetty - love the pink behind the leaves, and that leaf border is incredible!!
- Monday, 07 March, 2016
- Karren said...
Fabulous scrapbook page! The Distress Crayon leaves are wonderful! Thanks so much for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches.
- Monday, 07 March, 2016
- Lisa said...
This is a beautiful Layout! love the colors and the layers ... so beautiful!
- Monday, 07 March, 2016
- KT Fit Kitty said...
Wonderful page! Such a nice idea! I love those leaves!
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Warning: This post contains spoilers from the newest episode of Teen Wolf.
Let's take a look at the top ten moments from "Alpha Pact"!
1. Argents, Armed
The Argents head back to their suite, along with Stiles, and make a game plan. Figuring Jennifer is going to be sacrificing someone at the bank vault, they arm themselves and decide to find out if their theory is right. In the process, Stiles tells Papa Argent about Lydia's abilities.
2. Shifting Allegiances
After everything that went down at the hospital, Isaac is finally pissed off at Derek enough to go off on him, piling on the guilt for turning a bunch of teenagers into werewolves in the first place. Isaac storms off, and Peter claims Isaac is only using anger to justify his switching allegiances.
While the popular theory was that he'd go straight to Scott, he actually ends up siding with The Argents.
3. Peter Hale, You Bastard
Shifty ass Uncle Peter convinces Derek to use the extra oomph of his alpha powers to fully heal Cora. However, dear uncle is tossing around some sideways glances and smirks as he waxes poetic about poor sweet Cora and how Derek is the only one who can save her – he's obviously got something nefarious up his sleeve.
4. At the Vault
Isaac, Allison, and Papa Argent head for the vault while Stiles hunts down Lydia. When the trio get there, Allison's dad incapacitates the kids and offers himself up to Jennifer as a "true" sacrifice. Allison is understandably heartbroken that her father has been taken like the other parents.
She doesn't have to worry alone, because Isaac quickly (perhaps too quickly) moves in to console her.
5. Peter Hale, You Bastard Pt. 2
After telling Derek what to do, Peter goes into defense mode. He explains that saving Cora will mean Derek losing his Alpha status. He fears that this is what Jennifer wanted all along (for Derek to need her to help him in the upcoming Alpha battle), but Derek now gives zero shits about power and just wants his sister healed.
6. Lydia, the Make Out Savior
Stiles has found Lydia and they're walked down the hallways when he gets a text saying Papa Argent has gone missing. Cue panic attack.
Lydia drags him into the locker room (all the big shit goes down in there, doesn't it?) and lays one on him to calm him down. "Something something, to make you hold your breath," she justifies – but I think the audience is well aware what's really going on.
7. The Counselor's Office
Fresh off their kissing session, Lydia and Stiles head for Ms. Morrell's office. She's not there (but her hilarious three 'o clock appointment is). Stiles and Lydia rifle through Lydia's file and find one of her tree drawings, and Stiles somehow realizes it isn't the top of a tree, but the roots of one.
Stile sends Lydia to Derek with the info that the parents are in the root cellar of the Celtic tree, while he fends off questions from the FBI guy who has just sauntered into town.
8. Ms. Morrell and Scott in the Forest
Scott and Deucalion join up with the rest of the Alpha Pack, who is hunting Ms. Morrell (to find out what she knows about Jennifer). When they catch up to her, she reveals that Deucalion purposefully killed Ennis in order to gain more power. This gets her a spear wound to the shoulder, and aid from Scott – who won't let anyone kill her.
9. The Sheriff's Story
While trapped in the root cellar, Papa Stilinski tells the others about the night his wife died: he came on scene to a car crash and, knowing the woman would die before the ambulance arrived, held her hand to comfort her. The woman ended up having a vision of sorts and told him to go be with his wife.
But because he figured she couldn't possibly have any kind of supernatural powers or knowledge like that, he ignored her warning. It was only after that that he learned his wife, Claudia, had died, and only Stiles was there with her.
10. Rituals Galore
Derek goes through with his plan to save Cora, while Scott, Stiles, and Allison decide to do a ritual of their own, under the supervision of the vet. They will be submerged in an ice bath and held under until they die. This will connect them to their parents and reveal the location of the root cellar to them.
Then, Lydia, the vet, and Isaac will "bring them back" from the dead. Before they go under, Stiles drops a bombshell: Scott's dad is in town – he's the FBI guy who grilled Stiles before!
Okay, I was starting to worry about this show. However, this episode got things back on track in a great way. The Alpha Pack and Darach story lines are still incredibly weak, but this week's focus on the emotional side of things going into next week's finale was a great choice.
Plus, any cracks in the main plot were easily ignored this week, since everything is winding down and the tension is being built nicely.
Rating: A-
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David Wild's review of Phaidon's book on Álvaro Siza (AJ 22.3.01) reminded me of a lovely little essay in Spanish, by Oscar Tusquets Blanca in his book Todo es Comparable, written in the form of a letter addressed to Siza. Having visited Portugal 30 years ago for an architects' congress, he had been enchanted and enthused by the discovery of this young gun Siza.
On visiting various projects Tusquets Blanca remarked on the poor quality of construction and detailing, which Siza attributed to the technological backwardness of Portugal. Siza said that he would work to correct this situation.
Thirty years on, on visiting Siza's museum in Santiago de Compostela, Tusquets Blanca was horrified at the black streaking of the stone cladding. The simple use of a coping stone would have resolved the problem as it had for centuries in the surrounding buildings. Tusquets Blanca suggests that after 30 years Siza could still not detail.
My view is that he is not too concerned with it. In fact if you visit any Siza building you will find heartstoppingly bad detail and a total lack of concern for public safety - flimsy balustrades or no balustrades at all, fragile door handles (his own) on 2.5m high metal and glass doors, also applied to standard toilet doors, hidden or almost hidden security equipment, etc.
So where is this 'close attention to detail and dialogue with craftsmen' that Wild mentions?
Tusquets Blanca suggests that if Siza was primarily concerned with details he would not be the great architect he is. I can't accept this. Excellence should also be in the detail. Siza's buildings require constant care and maintenance. I am just concerned about the time when patrons tire of of this and give up. Will it all be reduced to the awful condition of the Malagueira housing complex in Evora? I hope not.
Mario Sua Kay, Lisbon, Portugal
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Did you know that Olivia's Transformation Tuesday post was seen on Facebook by more than 22,000 people, and the blog was read by over a thousand? It was a pretty amazing transformation, and we're happy that so many were inspired and encouraged by hearing her story and seeing the progression of pictures.
Not all of our transformations are that dramatic though. Sometimes today doesn't look that different from the arrival pictures, and there is no edge-of-your-seat surgery story.
Elliot was abandoned at the baby hatch of his local orphanage, a 'safe place' for families to anonymously leave children. He was three months old. The note left with him said that his family was unable to provide treatment for his heart disease. The picture above was sent to us by his orphanage, and taken around the time that he first came into their care, while the first picture (with the pink hat!) was from the day that he arrived here at New Day.
Elliot remained at the orphanage for seven months, before coming to New Day Foster Home at the end of last year. Less than a month after he arrived, he was able to have his heart surgery and then move out to live with a local foster family. His foster-parents love and care for him excellently, and he has Hope for a foster-sister.
We're so glad that Elliot was able to have the surgery that he needed. That his birth-parents had to leave him in a baby hatch for him to be able to get it is a heart-breaking tragedy, but that tragedy is in the process of being transformed into something beautiful. Elliot is matched with his forever family, and he will be meeting them soon!


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Why do some companies outperform others? This is arguably the most important question in strategic management theory and one you will be invited to discuss as part of the Theories of Strategy course. To find its possible answers you will study and reflect upon leading publications that shape current thinking on the subject of competitive strategy. You will subsequently be asked to apply the insights you have gained to evaluate recent cases of high-impact strategic decisions by leading companies.
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Thanks to the SQL work that rob05c has done for us, Hubski is now running on a server that costs us half as much as the previous.
Everything seems to be going well, so we are halving our annual funding goal from $2400 to $1200. We are already 42% of the way there!
Thanks everyone for the donations thus far. Dare I say, we might just be sustainable.
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The Center is hosting groups throughout the summer to help with Tornado relief in our area.
If your group is interested contact us at (405)964-2606
We are also actively working to assist families damage by the storms. Any donations to support this work are greatly appreciated.
Kickapoo Friends Center plans to begin its new Work Training Program in January 2015 in our new maintenance building. The goal is to teach youth ages 11-16 basic work skills in several different areas and to help the young person become a productive employee when they begin their work career. The program will offer class time and hands on training in carpentry/woodworking, auto maintenance and welding/metal work. We also hope to cover basic electrical and plumbing.
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Not long now until the UK release of V/H/S in cinemas (18th January) and on DVD and Blu-ray (28th January). To whet your appetite for this horror anthology treat, distributor Momentum Pictures has given us this exclusive clip from Glenn McQuaid's section of the film, Tuesday the 17th.
A small group of misfit friends and petty crooks are hired by a mysterious man to break into a derelict suburban house with the sole purpose of finding and stealing a rare videotape. Their only clue to identifying the tape in question is, "You'll know it when you see it."
However, on arrival at the house they soon realize the job isn't as straightforward as they imagined. In one room they discover the lifeless body of a middle-aged man sitting in an armchair, facing a wall of television sets and a stack of VHS cassettes. A similar bounty of tapes is found in the basement, none of which bears any obvious markings to suggest it is the prize they are seeking. As they search through the tapes, playing them in turn, they are treated to a succession of graphic and apparently genuine video recordings, each one more shocking and bizarre than the last.
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Hello Friends,
Hope everyone had an excellent weekend! I know the title is kinda catchy....LOL
Today I'm going to share with you some cards I made using the new "Postage Collection" which is in the new 2013-2014 Stampin' Up! catalogue. To boot, it's a Hostess set….. ooooohhhhh……You can start ordering in the new catalogue starting June 1.
Anyways, here is a special card I made for my dad. He is one of the very special people in my life and I wanted to tell him how appreciated he is and how much he's loved by his family.
Here is a similar card using the same set but this one is for dear friends of ours who just had an anniversary.
This one is for another special lady who loves pink and blue……I hope she liked this birthday card!
Until next time….keep smiling and blessings upon you and yours!
Thanks for stopping by!
Smiles & Blessings,
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Near Field Communication (NFC) is an emerging, short range wireless technology. With a precise range of 2 cm, people can physically tap devices together to send/receive content. Tapping lets you select something (or someone) quickly. Not only is it quick, it's also easy to understand. Once you see it, you get it; there's no manual needed.
For example, imagine you are looking at some photos with a friend and she wants your pictures; with NFC, you can simply tap your device against her PC to send the photos. Over simplifying? Maybe, but the main idea is that it's simple to share content between devices.
Figure 1: This image shows the Nokia 360 speaker sharing its Bluetooth
pairing information with a Windows Phone
Similar to Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, NFC is a standard wireless protocol defined by the NFC Forum. Your PC needs an NFC radio. There are lots of Windows 8 PCs that have NFC radios integrated directly into them. If NFC isn't already part of your PC, you can buy NFC dongles to plug into your PC.
NFC offers some cool capabilities. People can tap and send photos, tap a menu and order a meal at a restaurant, or even tap to pair a Bluetooth device. These scenarios are pretty different from each other, but the thing they have in common is the 'tap' to initiate the experience. NFC is used in variety of devices, such as PCs, phones, speakers, headsets, wireless displays, etc..., to make connecting devices together a really intuitive experience. Also, NFC uses RFID tags; these are really cheap, lightweight passive antennas that can hold a sizable amount of data and can be stuck on virtually anything, most commonly posters. For example, buying a movie ticket could be as simple as tapping the movie poster! These are called NFC tags. We'll walk through a basic example of tapping an NFC tag to demonstrate some key concepts of the NFC API.
But first, let's take a closer look at what it means to tap devices together.
Defining a 'Tap'
Whether you're tapping to pair a Bluetooth mouse or tapping to share photos, it's important for users to tap devices together the same way. And while tapping is a well understood concept, tapping your PC against another device is new to most people. Here are some guidelines for tapping that let users know:
Where to tap devices together – by using a touchmark, also known as the 'Tap and Do' visual mark, indicating where the NFC antenna is located. Depending on the PC model, you tap different parts of the PC. For example, you may tap on the back on a tablet but on the front an all-in-one. Here's what the mark looks like on any NFC enabled, Windows 8 PC:
Figure 2: Tap and Do visual mark
- Devices are communicating with each other - During the tap, users should have confidence that something is going on; even if they can't see the data being transferred. Therefore, Windows plays a sound when devices are in-range and communicating with each other.
Windows does these things automatically, so you won't need to worry about them. For more info on these user experience elements, see the Windows 8 Near Field Proximity Implementation Specification. With that in mind, let's check out some of the cool scenarios you can experience with NFC.
When to use NFC
Use NFC when a user needs to select something, or someone, in your app. NFC gives you an intuitive way to select; and it's often faster (and cooler!) than manually searching. The tap is a trigger to initiate an experience; and depending on your app, the experience can range from receiving a photo to starting a playlist. It's really up to your app to decide what happens after the tap. So, to keep it simple, we classify this range of experiences as 'Tap and Do' experiences.
Below are a few examples of using NFC to select something in an app. You could Tap and…
- Get information from a poster: NFC tags are light, cheap RFID tags; they cost between $0.15 - $1.00 (price varies on printing cost). These are comparable to QR codes, but are easier and faster to use. Tapping a tag feels more comfortable than taking a picture of the bar code (and hoping the camera got the right angle). Manufacturers are increasingly embedding tags into posters in high traffic areas like airports, metro stations, and bus stops. They can hold between 48 B – 4 KB of data. You can program a tag to launch your app to a specific page.
- Exchange contact information: instead of spelling out your contact information to a friend, and hoping he didn't misspell anything, tap devices together to exchange contact information. Similar to above, you can program your information to an NFC-business card/tag; or you could directly exchange information via an app.
- Play your favorite music station: whether you're about to go work out, hopping into your car or just lounging at home – use an NFC tag to start a radio station. You can even have different music stations programmed on different tags; for example, one tag for the gym, one for lounging, and one for sleep.
- Order dinner at a busy restaurant: a popular restaurant at dinner time means you might be waiting a long time just to place an order. Instead, tap a tag at your table to order your food.
- Play a multiplayer game with a friend: you can easily connect a multiplayer game like Battleship, Chess, or Scrabble with a friend by tapping devices together. After the tap, the connection persists over an out-of-band transport with a bigger range and higher throughput, such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi Direct.
By now, we've got a pretty good idea of when to use NFC; now for fun stuff – building an app that uses our Windows 8 Proximity (NFC) APIs.
How to implement NFC
As you can see NFC makes lots of everyday tasks easier for end-users. Take setting an alarm for example. I'm sure just about everyone has had a few experiences where they mistakenly set their alarm for the wrong time in the morning. When its late and you just want to get to sleep, you're not always thinking at your best. NFC makes this easier by letting you just tap a preset tag, confirm, and then go to sleep worry free. So to help users with this everyday task let's imagine you wrote a basic alarm app that let users set an alarm using an NFC tag. This breaks into two scenarios
- Setting an alarm on the tag: NFC tags can be reusable, so the app should have a way for users to program an alarm. For example, a user may want to program different alarms – one for the week, another for the weekend. This is known as publishing data to a tag.
- Setting an alarm from the tag: After a user taps a tag, the app should launch to confirm setting an alarm. This means the app can be launched with context, or arguments.
The NFC API allows for several ways to achieve the same thing, but I'll go over the simplest way to implement this scenario.
Let's walk through a flow to set an alarm on an NFC tag:
- Mario launches the alarm app and sets a time, say 7.00 AM. Normal alarm stuff, nothing with NFC yet.
- Mario selects an option to 'Set alarm on an NFC tag'. At this time, the app calls the NFC APIs to publish information to the NFC radio, specifically an app identifier string & 07:00. NFC tags use a standardized message format called NDEF, NFC Defined Exchange Format. Your app does not need to worry about formatting data into an NDEF message; Windows does this for you! Now, the user can tap the NFC tag.
- Mario taps the tag against the PC and the app confirms programming the tag. After the tag is tapped, it's important to let users know that your app successfully programmed the tag. As we discussed earlier – tapping your PC is a new concept for most people, so the confirmation gives users confidence that what they just did worked. The app knows a message was successfully transmitted by registering for a message transmitted handler.
The NFC APIs are located in the Windows.Networking.Proximity namespace. They come into play at step 2 – after the user selects the option to 'Set alarm on NFC tag.' First, the app initializes a proximity object. The proximity object is used to tell when a tag (or device) is in/out of range. Next, we'll add the DeviceArrival event handler. The handler recognizes when the tag has been tapped, which means we can start writing information to the tag. It's useful to let users know when you're writing to a tag, so they don't move it out of range. You can use the same event to recognize when any proximity device has been tapped.
The next code snippet shows how to initialize and add a DeviceArrival event handler.
var proximityDevice;
function initializeProximityDevice() {
proximityDevice = Windows.Networking.Proximity.ProximityDevice.getDefault();
if (proximityDevice) {
proximityDevice.addEventListener("devicearrived", proximityDeviceArrived);
else {
// No NFC radio on the PC, display an error message
function proximityDeviceArrived(device) {
// Let the user know we're 'Writing to Tag'
private void InitializeProximityDevice()
Windows.Networking.Proximity.ProximityDevice proximityDevice;
proximityDevice = Windows.Networking.Proximity.ProximityDevice.GetDefault();
if (proximityDevice != null) {
proximityDevice.DeviceArrived += ProximityDeviceArrived;
// No NFC radio on the PC, display an error message
private void ProximityDeviceArrived(Windows.Networking.Proximity.ProximityDevice device)
// Let the user know we're 'Writing to Tag'
Next, we publish information to the tag. The app publishes two things: an app identifier string, which consists of an app ID and app platform, and launch arguments. For Windows 8, the app Id is <package family name>!<app Id> and the app platform is 'Windows.' You must copy the app ID value from the ID attribute of the Application element in the package manifest for your app. The launch argument is '07:00' – the alarm set by the user. Let's call this the message.
If the app works across platforms, Windows lets you publish alternate app ID(s) and app platform(s); which means you can tap the same tag on a different device which support NFC, like Windows Phone 8! You can find more information about Alternate IDs on MSDN.
The app publishes the data to the tag using a method called publishBinaryMessage. The method takes three parameters – messageType, message, and a messageTransmittedHandler function. We'll set messageType to 'LaunchApp:WriteTag', which lets Windows know that your app wants to write information to an NFC tag. The message is just the message we defined earlier (app identified string and launch arguments); we'll need to store the message as a binary message in a buffer. The messageTransmittedHandler function registers for callbacks. This lets your app know that the message has successfully been written to the tag. We'll use this to tell the user two things: we've successfully written a message to the tag and the tag no longer needs to be in range.
Messages continue to be published until we call the StopPublishingMessage function or the ProximityDevice object is released. In this example, we'll use the stop function. PublishBinaryMessage returns a publication ID; we'll use this same publication ID to stop publishing the message onto the NFC Radio.
The next code snippet shows how to write data to an NFC tag:
var proximityDevice;
function getAlarmTime(){
// Grab time set by the user, call this variable 'Alarm'
return Alarm;
function publishLaunchApp() {
proximityDevice = Windows.Networking.Proximity.ProximityDevice.GetDefault();
if (proximityDevice) {
// The format of the app launch string is: "<args>\tWindows\t<AppName>".
// The string is tab or null delimited.
// The <args> string can be an empty string ("").
var launchArgs = getAlarmTime();
// The format of the AppName is: PackageFamilyName!PRAID.
var praid = "AlarmApp"; // The Application Id value from your package.appxmanifest.
var appName = Windows.ApplicationModel.Package.current.id.familyName + "!" + praid;
var launchAppMessage = launchArgs + "\tWindows\t" + appName;
var dataWriter = new Windows.Storage.Streams.DataWriter();
dataWriter.unicodeEncoding = Windows.Storage.Streams.UnicodeEncoding.utf16LE;
var launchAppPubId =
if (launchAppPubId != -1) {
// Stop publishing the message on NFC radio
function proximityWriteTagLaunchAppMessageTransmitCallback() {
// Inform the user that: the message has been successfully written to a tag & the tag no longer needs to be in range
Windows.Networking.Proximity.ProximityDevice proximityDevice;
private string GetAlarmTime(){
// Grab time set by the user, call this variable 'Alarm'
return Alarm;
private void PublishLaunchApp()
proximityDevice = Windows.Networking.Proximity.ProximityDevice.GetDefault();
if (proximityDevice != null)
// The format of the app launch string is: "<args>\tWindows\t<AppName>".
// The string is tab or null delimited.
// The <args> string can be an empty string ("").
string launchArgs = getAlarmTime();
// The format of the AppName is: PackageFamilyName!PRAID.
string praid = "MyAppId"; // The Application Id value from your package.appxmanifest.
string appName = Windows.ApplicationModel.Package.Current.Id.FamilyName + "!" + praid;
string launchAppMessage = launchArgs + "\tWindows\t" + appName;
var dataWriter = new Windows.Storage.Streams.DataWriter();
dataWriter.UnicodeEncoding = Windows.Storage.Streams.UnicodeEncoding.Utf16LE;
var launchAppPubId =
"LaunchApp:WriteTag", dataWriter.DetachBuffer(),
if (launchAppPubId!= -1)
// Stop publishing the message on NFC radio
private void proximityWriteTagLaunchAppMessageTransmitCallback(
Windows.Networking.Proximity.ProximityDevice sender,
long messageId)
// Inform the user that: the message has been successfully written to a tag & the tag no longer needs to be in range
That's it! Now you know how to write to an NFC tag from a Windows Store app. Simple enough; so, let's move onto the next scenario - setting an alarm from the tag. Let's walk through a flow to read an alarm from an NFC tag:
- Mario is reading his home screen/writing an email/playing a game/using Windows and he realizes he needs to set an alarm for Monday morning. He grabs his 'Weekday alarm' tag and taps it on his PC. He gets a toast inviting him to launch your Alarm app. Windows takes care of everything up until this point; your app doesn't do a thing.
- Mario accepts and your app launches to a 'Confirm Alarm?' screen with a time of 7:00 AM. After Mario accepts the toast, Windows passes the launch arguments (same as above) to your app during activation. This is called contextual launching, which is the same thing as launching your app to specific page.
- Mario sets the alarm. Normal alarm stuff, no NFC.
It's easy enough to get the launch arguments from the NFC tag. The app needs to handle contextual launching from an NFC tag. Contextual launching is the synonymous with launching your app to a specific page. Our launch arguments specify an alarm, 7.00 AM, which your app uses to display a proposed alarm. Also, in case your app isn't installed on the PC, Windows invites Mario to install your app from the Windows store – automatically!
The following code snippet shows how to implement contextual launching.
app.onactivated = function (args) {
if (args.detail.kind === activation.ActivationKind.launch) {
if (args.detail.arguments == "Windows.Networking.Proximity.PeerFinder:StreamSocket") {
//do nothing here.
else {
// Use args.detail.arguments to parse out '07.00' string, and display to the user
async protected override void OnLaunched(LaunchActivatedEventArgs args)
if (args.Arguments == "Windows.Networking.Proximity.PeerFinder:StreamSocket")
_isLaunchedByTap = true;
// Use args.Arguments to parse out '07.00' string, and display to the user
That's all your app has to do to support reading and writing to an NFC tag; pretty simple for a cutting edge scenario. Before I wrap up, let's go over some good hygiene stuff – error handling.
Error Handling
There are a few common errors your app may run into.
- The tapped tag is not NDEF formatted. Windows 8 doesn't support automatically reformatting a tag to NDEF, so you'll need to download and install an NDEF formatter.
- The tapped tag is read-only. Some NFC tags can be locked to read-only (similar to old school VHS tapes).
- The tapped tag is too small and cannot hold all the data.
- A users PC doesn't have NFC. As I mentioned from the start, NFC is an emerging technology; widespread adoption is still growing. To check whether a PC supports proximity, use the ProximityDevice.getDefault() method; the method returns NULL if no NFC radios are installed.
It's fun and intuitive!
NFC is finally here, ready for mainstream consumers – Windows has the ecosystem and a well-designed end-to-end UX. The technology has a lot of potential to make apps and device experiences incredibly interactive. It's fun and intuitive.
NFC is a big area, so stay tuned for more blog posts on other cool Windows 8 NFC developer experiences.
For more info about NFC and proximity, check out the resources below.
Priya Dandawate
Program Manager, Devices and Networking
Contributions by: Max Morris, Marzena Makuta, Mike Loholt, Jake Sabulsky, and Vishal Mhatre


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These past couple of weeks have been hard ones for our family. My grandfather had an accidental fall down the stairs. As a result, he experienced brain swelling that led to a coma. He passed away last Wednesday morning.
The family has spent many hours these past couple of weeks by his bedside. I don't think Grandpa would have wanted it any other way. It has been such a comfort to me to see everyone and have them share in our grief. It helps me feel so much better knowing that I have a family that knows how to pull together after a tragedy.
I never had the relationship with Grandpa that I would have liked, but I loved him and I will miss him dearly.
Grandma and Grandpa had a terrific marriage and they will always be an inspiration to me in my own.
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In an increasingly connected world, we tend to do more activities with friends who share similar interests. Music and arts festivals, sports, and conferences provide communities these shared experiences. Eventster makes discovering ideal events easier, but the logistics behind attending them with friends can be daunting. For those different social circles, coordinating a group (or multiple groups) can be a tedious and frustrating effort. Here are some strategies to ensure everyone has the best time possible:
1. Tell people where you're going, not where you're at.
With so many things going on at large events, time moves too fast to justify waiting for others to catch up. It's a slim chance that your friends will get your message and can actually find you in time, and you risk missing out the longer you stay. Also, if you leave early, your friends may be stuck there instead. Avoid picking a remote location for a meet up spot–plan to meet where something is happening. If it doesn't work out, at least you'll be where you want to be. If everyone still can't find you, then at least they won't miss out either.
2. Communicate efficiently.
Large crowds accessing data networks at the same time can overload cell phone towers. Texts may get delayed or might not send at all. With limited to no communication, you have to make each message count. Include, at the very least, your question, current status and location, future plans, and the time the message was sent, all in the same text.
3. Big groups don't have to do everything together.
Your group is guaranteed to have different preferences for what each individual wants to do. If everyone follows the majority, then everyone will have an average time at best. The few people who make personal sacrifices may live with regret and resentment. Given all the effort and money spent to make this event possible, you want to make sure get the best value for your investment. Big groups are also hard to relocate since they can only move as fast as the slowest person. Plan your ideal itinerary before the event and share it with your friends. Agree on a couple points where everyone can meet, like meals or the grand finale, then partner with those who have overlapping interests. Everyone will have a chance to do more and will have a better time overall.
These events are stressful in nature, but that shouldn't distract you from the reason why you're there: to have fun. Understand that you can't meet everybody, you can't do everything, and you might not have a perfect experience. The important thing is to make the most of your time and appreciate the people whom you are already with. You'll learn a lot about your friends, and you might realize something about yourself!


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So I'm a high school student on my last semester of my last year, it wasn't until NOW that I found I have a deep affinity towards physics. I have just barely an Algebra 2 education thanks to being lazy all those years because I never felt needed to do math. I really need to learn more math all the way to Calculus in order to properly do Physics.
What do I do? I can't take any classes at my school. Should I go get books and learn from them? Find tutors? If so could someone point me towards certain books or learning programs to help me get started? Thank you very much!
Or should I just take the classes in college?


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Southern Cross Healthcare, Britain's largest operator of care homes for the elderly, has been forced into emergency talks with its banks after yesterday failing to meet a £46m loan repayment deadline, busting through a significant debt covenant.
The heavily indebted group has been unable to sell a number of property assets to repay costly bridging loans used to fund a rush of care home purchases in recent months.
The debt-fuelled acquisition programme was pursued despite turmoil in the credit and commercial property markets. Meanwhile, on December 13 members of Southern Cross management team shared personal windfalls totalling £36.6m from share sales at 550p a share. The biggest beneficiaries were then chief executive Philip Scott and then finance director Graham Sizer, both of whom left the company weeks later.
Yesterday the shares fell 183p, or 58%, to 130p as chief executive Bill Colvin conceded it was likely the properties would now remain within the company, possibly for about two years. "I don't want to hold these assets on my balance sheet but the current state of the market means I might have to," he said. Such a move will need approval from holders of the bridging debt, syndicated by Barclays.
The company said Jason Lock, who replaced Sizer as finance director in January, had left "with immediate effect". His successor, Richard Midmer, a former colleague of Colvin, was last night beginning intense negotiations with the banks, which have agreed to waive the relevant loan covenant until the end of this month while all options are explored.
Active Care, a division operating homes for those with learning difficulties, has in effect been put up for sale in the hope of raising funds to ease the debt crisis.
Separately, Southern Cross issued a profits warning, blaming tighter local authority spending for a period of disappointing occupancy rates. High fixed costs and disappointing occupancy rates meant Active Care in particular was performing "significantly below forecasts". The company also said occupancy levels had been hit by several unexpected deaths of residents in its homes for the elderly.
As a result, top-line operating profit for the year to September 30 is "unlikely to exceed £80m", against previous City expectations of £88m.
The acquisitive group borrowed £82m to fund a string of acquisitions between September last year and March. It planned to repay the debt - as it had done on scores of previous acquisitions - by selling and leasing back the underlying property assets. The group had net debt of £124m at the end of March compared with £45m 12 months earlier.
"We have been caught by the credit market situation and the commercial property market situation," said Colvin. He insisted the group's acquisition programme had been scaled back in anticipation of difficulties, but not far enough. "Yes, I made a mistake by buying Portland [a £42m acquisition of seven homes in the north-east of England] earlier this year."
Colvin, who had been the group's non-executive chairman, took over the day-to-day running of Southern Cross at the start of the year after the departure of Scott and Sizer. A month earlier all three men had sold more than 4.6m shares at 550p citing imminent changes to capital gains tax.
Scott, a qualified nurse, enjoyed a personal windfall of £11.1m from the share sales. Sizer and Colvin made £7.9m and £6.6m, respectively. The latter two said they would reinvest a portion of their windfalls. At the end of January Colvin spent £1.9m on 500,000 shares.
Two days earlier Sizer announced he was leaving the company and did not reinvest. Scott, who left at end of the year, is now chief executive of Priory Group, the private provider of mental health care.
Asked if he felt investors and lenders were entitled to feel frustrated at Southern Cross's appetite for bridging loans and management team's share sales against a backdrop of credit and commercial property market turmoil, Colvin said: "I agree with that ... I don't feel good about that. I didn't know back in December what I know now." The Southern Cross boss said he had "struggled" to run the company after the departure of Scott and Sizer who had been the architects of the group's aggressive acquisition strategy. He said he had not wanted the two men to leave. Asked if they had called the top of the market, he said: "I suspect, with hindsight, you are probably right."


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ELYRIA, OH (WOIO) - Invacare Corporation (NYSE: IVC) announced Thursday that due to a decline in production, the Company has initiated an immediate workforce reduction at its Taylor Street manufacturing facility in Elyria.
The expected decline in production results principally from the Company's previously announced consent decree of injunction with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which was approved late last week by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Invacare currently employs 365 hourly manufacturing associates at its Taylor Street facility in Elyria. As a result of the workforce realignment, 222 associates will remain in their current roles or be reassigned to other roles across the Elyria campus.
The remaining 143 associates will be laid off. For those associates who have been laid off, Invacare will offer 60 days continuance of pay and benefits.
Due to the realignment, the Company expects to incur one-time restructuring charges not to exceed $1.25 million on a pre-tax basis.
"While we regret having to take this step, we recognize the need to align our workforce with our production volume,'' said Gerry Blouch, Invacare president and chief executive officer. "We value and respect the hard work that our associates demonstrate on a day-to-day basis and we will provide assistance to those affected to help them with the transition. We remain committed to achieving full regulatory compliance and to resuming full operations at Taylor Street as quickly as possible. Over the past year, we have made significant investments of time, people and resources to achieve regulatory compliance and make Invacare's Taylor Street manufacturing facility an even stronger operation.''
After the reduction, Invacare will continue to employ approximately 1,050 associates in Northeastern Ohio and approximately 6,050 associates worldwide.
Invacare Corporation (NYSE:IVC), headquartered in Elyria, Ohio, is the global leader in the manufacture and distribution of innovative home and long-term care medical products that promote recovery and active lifestyles. The Company has approximately 6,050 associates and markets its products in approximately 80 countries around the world.
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