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Odd Thomas Movie, the Good and the Bad
I am a big fan of the Odd Thomas series, and I have been looking forward to the movie for a while now. Well today I found a leak trailer
It looks interesting…I personally think Stormy should be a little more gothy
Now for the bad news.
The producers are in a law suit, with some the backers of the movie, leaving the movie in legal and financial gridlock. In other words, it is assumed the movie will not come out. More info can be found here.
Sisters of Mercy – Nine While Nine
I am not sure what movie this is from, but it is a great band and song.
The Venture Bros Season 5 Sneak Peak
New Venture Bros. May 19th!
Rosemary's Baby Trailer
The Shinning Trailer
Return of the Living Dead
Dawn Of The Dead Trailer
Night of the Living Dead (Full Movie)
The Omen Trailer
This book gave me nightmares.


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Best ever beef goulash: 352 calories per serving
Best ever beef goulash is only 352 calories per serving
This is the perfect dish to make ahead and freeze.
Frozen in zip-seal bags, it should be reheated thoroughly after defrosting and can be ready to serve in less than 20 minutes.
Add extra vegetables or a small portion of rice and a spoonful of soured cream.
Serves 6
● 2lb chuck steak
● 1 tbsp sunflower oil
● 2 medium onions, each cut into 12 wedges
● 2 tsp hot, smoked paprika
● 1 tbsp paprika
● 1 beef stock cube
● 2 tbsp tomato purée
● 2 cans diced tomatoes
● 1 large red and 1 large yellow pepper, seeded and cut into roughly 1in chunks
● Flaked sea salt
● Ground black pepper
● Roughly chopped flat-leaf parsley, to garnish (optional)
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Trim any hard fat from the beef and cut the meat into roughly 1 inch chunks. Season well with salt and black pepper.
Heat the oil in a large flameproof casserole. Add the steak and fry over a high heat until lightly browned, turning every now and then. Tip the onions into the pan and cook with the beef for a few seconds.
Sprinkle both paprikas over the meat and crumble the beef stock cube on top. Add the tomatoes and tomato purée. Season with salt and pepper, stir well and bring to a simmer.
Cover with a tight-fitting lid and transfer to the oven. Cook for 1 hour. Carefully remove the casserole from the oven. Stir in the peppers, replace the lid and cook for a further hour or until the beef is tender. Garnish with the parsley before serving, if you choose.
You can freeze the cooled goulash in labelled zip-seal bags or freezer-proof containers for up to three months. Defrost in the fridge overnight and reheat thoroughly in a large, wide-based saucepan, stirring gently until piping hot.
Alternatively, reheat from frozen with an extra 1 cup of water over a low heat until thoroughly thawed. Bring to a simmer, stirring gently until piping hot.


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When my pal Scott and I finally released Bumpr last week, it was both a moment of pride and a great relief. As I mentioned in my launch post we had been working on it as a side project for years. It was the first collaboration he and I talked about after we sold our company Mixel way back in 2013. Mixel had been a big effort with big ambitions; we were both very proud of what we had done but its ultimate failure was exhausting. So we picked a tiny project just to get us back in the swing of things quickly. Cut to: four years later.
That's the nature of side projects, though. Somtimes they come together very quickly, sometimes they trundle along aimlessly for many moons until they die quiet, unnoted deaths, and sometimes they manage to drag themselves across the finish line.
In truth, Bumpr started as an idea well before Scott and I first talked about it. I've been using multiple browsers for almost as long as I've been on the web. This was mostly because I seem to have a curious habit of favoring browsers that are not the dominant market player—whether it was OmniWeb, Camino or even Firefox. So I've often needed to be able to switch back and forth between my browser of choice and whichever competitor has all of the most current compatibility advantages at a given time.
In the early Aughts I was using IC-Switch by Philippe Martin to solve this problem. It was little more than a utility that sat in your Mac's menu bar, where it provided a pull-down menu of the various web browsers, mail apps, FTP clients and even newsreaders (takes you back, right?) and RSS apps that you had installed. So if you came across a link that you wanted to open in a different browser that wasn't currently set as your default, you'd pull down IC-Switch's menu and change that setting. It was more convenient than digging into Mac OS X's preferences to accomplish the same thing, but it was still cumbersome.
Later in the decade Choosy came along, which was a great improvement. It provides very similar functionality to what we've delivered in Bumpr: click on a link and a menu of available browsers pops up instantly, right there. I actually thought Choosy was a good solution, but unfortunately there was a period of several years (almost six, actually) in which it sat still, with no updates or feature improvements.
This was about the time Scott and I started thinking that we should build our own solution. Though Google Chrome had already consolidated a lot of people's web activity into one browser, we still saw a real and persistent need for many people to use multiple browsers. Some of it was for cross-browser testing, but a lot of it, we noticed, started coming from users who had been drawn deeper and deeper into Google's ecosystem. As Google Apps (now G Suite) gained traction in the workplace, more and more people were contending with one Google account for work and one more (at least) for personal stuff. To switch between them, these users were dedicating one browser to one account and another to a second.
Given this belief, Scott coded a working prototype of the utility pretty quickly in the summer of 2013. For lack of a better name we dubbed it "Handler," and I started sketching out what the interface might look like. The very earliest riffs on the interface were quite similar to what we shipped, partly owing to the fact that the app is so simple. Here's a version that used a slightly different take on the automated color coding that Bumpr applies to the active browser.
The overlay at the bottom of that mockup shows an information bar that we considered revealing in the lower-third region of the screen whenever the app was invoked, to help make it clear to the user what was happening. We actually experimented with that in some early builds but found that in most cases users ignored it or didn't even notice it, so we stripped it out.
Having established the basic look of the pop-up menu interface, I started noodling around with the preferences menu. These old mockups show my early drafts as well as some of the functionality we were discussing at that stage: the ability to send a link directly to Instapaper or to IFTTT, two ideas not without their merits but which we decided to defer until we shipped a minimum viable product.
We were off to a decent start, in retrospect, but then the project hit the skids. I left the company that acquired Mixel, spent some time figuring out what I was going to do next, and then joined the startup Wildcard. I also undertook a number of other side projects including writing my book "How They Got There: Conversations With Digital Designers About Their Careers." And what really did in Handler was that Scott and I also teamed up with my friend Matt on Kidpost, a web service for family photo sharing. There was a lot going on, and that's not even mentioning raising three kids with my wife.
Handler was always there in the background though. Scott and I continued to use it every day; in fact, I had come to rely heavily on its ability to switch mail apps as well as browsers, as all those side projects had spawned multiple parallel email accounts. We periodically talked about finishing Handler "one day" but never committed to a timetable.
Then, in November 2015 I happened to mention Handler in a round-up of my favorite Mac utilities and was pleasantly surprised to find that it sparked the interest of a lot of readers. That spurred us to get a bit more serious about finishing it, and before too long we dusted it off again. By early last year, we'd gotten into a good cadence of turning out new builds regularly.
Coming back to the project after so long was productive in at least one way: I was able to appraise the look and feel of it with a fresh eye. I had always felt that my early designs were not very good, frankly, as they stuck too closely to the look and feel of Mac OS X apps of the time without doing anything particular worthwhile of its own. When I saw them anew, I cringed at their awkward marriage of my personal aesthetic and conventional Mac chrome.
Scott and I then had a discussion about how design could be a differentiator for this project. We knew that given our limited time to develop Handler, it would behoove us to ship as few features as we could but also as elegantly as we could, and so we decided to go back in and completely redesign the preferences interface. I took a lot of inspiration from Boom, an audio enhancement utility for Mac that has a particularly slick settings window, One of my first redesign mockups from that time shows the influence of Boom's look and feel:
That dark aesthetic seemed too strong for such a lightweight app though, and so we pared back. Before too long we had arrived at a design that more or less resembles what we launched last week, with a dark sidebar and neutral grays in the main settings area.
By then however, I was deep into my current full-time job at Adobe and seemed to have even less time than before. The project limped along as we continued to polish and tweak, distracted continually by life's other priorities. It took us until August of last year to finally be able to release a beta version to a small group of testers who were kind of enough to send frank feedback. That helped us identify and fix a lot of bugs and continue to polish the user experience. Meanwhile, we also started to finalize our branding, settling on the name "Handlr" and even registering the domain name gethandlr.com.
With that and a beta round under our belts we set our sights on launching the app before 2016 was out. Unsurprisingly though, the end of the year turned out to be a bad time to get anything done other than holiday stuff, to say nothing of long-neglected side projects.
However it was also at that time that we hit another snag: we'd settled on the name Handlr, but we did so without fully vetting it. We thought we were ready to submit to the App Store but our willful naiveté came to an abrupt end when a quick Google search revealed that there are several other products named Handlr out there already. That left us feeling a little dumb and dreading the prospect of rebranding. Anyone who's ever named a product or side project knows that finding the right moniker often consumes way more energy than you'd like, and we went back and forth for weeks trying to settle on a new one.
To be honest there was a moment there when I began to wonder not just if we were ever going to launch the app, but whether there was some other reason that it hadn't happened yet. When a project goes on this long, to some extent one has to wonder: "Am I the one who's really holding this up? Am I just making excuses for not finishing it?" Maybe there was some deep, hidden part of me that was procrastinating on its completion? There's a certain kind of perfection to an unlaunched product even if it remains unfinished, because in your mind you can picture so clearly all of its potential. Sometimes you can start to cherish too much just that Platonic ideal of the product, and you don't want to shatter it forever by releasing it to the world. I think maybe there was a part of me that had fallen into that trap.
Thankfully, Scott was bullish on just getting it out there. He reminded me that there's nothing less useful than an interface that never gets used or code that never gets run by real customers, regardless of how much effort you've put into developing and polishing it. So we somehow settled on the name Bumpr and then plowed through the remaining work of registering a new domain, rebranding the web site, creating new marketing images and submitting a new build to the Mac App Store. Most all of that happened in the last week or so leading up to launch. It was not a ton of work, but as I realized that we were getting close to the fourth anniversary of our first conversations about this project, it just proved to me the point that the effort that goes into building a product will take exactly as long as you let it, no shorter and no longer.
Looking back, I'm naturally somewhat embarrassed that we took so long to finally ship such a small product. Ultimately though I take pride in the fact that we did ship it—just pulling that trigger is meaningful. It's meaningful because there are people who have since found it valuable enough to pay for, of course—we're very grateful for that. But more than just the validation of having real customers, I think what's important is getting a thing that you've started done. A good friend once told me that when he gets down in the dumps, he takes solace in shipping something—it can be as small as a blog post or as substantial as a product. I've found that to be very true; there's a tremendous satisfaction in finishing, even if it took you way, way too long. Now, of course, we have to work on the next update.
Bumpr is available now on the Mac App Store. More information at getbumpr.com.+


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I intended to show you all some nice pictures of how to comb a goat, on which parts of the goat you can find the best cashmere and other practical things, as it is a lucrative business. However, the training I attended (and took part in by making the link to marketing options of the cashmere) was not as practical as hoped for, due to the short timeframe that was available. However, the process is still interesting and I hope you enjoy reading it!
Cashmere goats are reared in Mongolia for many years and they adapted very well to the changing climate: cold winter, delivering a kid in spring, fattening nicely in summer and enjoying the autumn. For this adaption, they grow a thick woolen 'fur' in between their hairs. That is called cashmere. Selection during all these years, especially during the Socialist time when knowledge about quality of this cashmere increased and breeding programs improved the quality even further. However, after Socialist times, other things were more important (keeping the animals alive, eating them to keep yourself alive, and so on), so the quality of the cashmere is decreasing year by year.
Breeding influences the thickness, the form and the colour of the cashmere. The best thickness is 12 to 15 microns (to compare this to human hairs, those are on average 100 microns, with the thinnest hairs 50 microns), the best form is as 'waved' as possible and the best colour at this moment is 'red'. At this moment, the Mongolian government is implementing a program 'Mongol Mal' to improve breeding again, which will lead to a better quality of cashmere again (hopefully).
However, breeding is not the only thing to improve cashmere quality. So the training of today, organized by the Mercy Corps, taught herders how to select the right cashmere from the goats to be able to sell it for a price as high as possible. First of all, the length of the cashmere is important; this should be as long as possible. Breeding can influence length, as well as using the right tools (good combs). Furthermore, the ball of cashmere wool that comes of the goat should not contain more than 20% of goat hairs in the ball. To achieve this number or lower, it is best to cut 1 cm of hair of the whole goat first, before combing. Another issue that is important in the field is that the hair of younger goats is often better and the hair of the forehand (breast/belly) is finer and therefore higher in quality. This should be separated from the other cashmere. One goat will give around 120-150 gram of cashmere per year, depending on age, weather, health and other factors.
Mongolian goats, especially those in Bat Ulzii, where the training was held, still have a very good quality of cashmere. Normally this cashmere is not selected at all by the herders and sold 'raw' to middlemen for the highest price they will give. The cashmere is still dirty, badly stored (e.g. in flower meal bags), mixed quality and often not well combed from the goat. Several projects are working with herders to improve the quality of the cashmere by selecting by colour (white, light and dark colours), cleaning it from bugs and dirt and selling it to the Mongolian cashmere factories for a good price directly. However, efforts up to now have not been successful (yet) due to multiple reasons. Hopefully this year we can make some changes by working all together! We will start with a fair to link up factories and herder groups on Friday the 22nd of April, again mainly organized by the Mercy Corps, but with input from VSO, their World Bank project and our project.


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Does it Work Wednesday
The Big Ox Canned Oxygen
By: Lauren Keith
The Big Ox Canned Oxygen
By: Lauren Keith
You see them in airports and in Las Vegas: oxygen bars. They're places where people breathe in the benefits of pure oxgyen. That's where some Misssouri businessmen got the idea for their product called, "The Big Ox." It's basically a can of oxygen that you inhale. It promises to give you energy and increase your stamina, after you take in a few breaths of it.
"Oh yeah," says Shawn Taylor of Cape Girardeau, as he pumps some iron.
As a personal trainer at Fitness Plus, Shawn Taylor practices what he preaches. He exercises daily, and also competes in amateur weightlighting shows.
"As far as oxygen is concerned, I take as much time as i need in between sets and breathe deeply," he says.
He's interested to see if the Big Ox will enhance his daily fitness routine.
"I see professional athletes all the time, go to the sidelines after some quick sprints, or several football downs, and they'll inhale oxygen," he notes.
So, let's see if the Big Ox has a similar effect on Shawn. He pops the cap and breathes it in. It sounds like he's blowing up a balloon, but Shawn's following the directions exactly. The Big Ox claims after inhaling this mint-flavored, 93 percent pure oxygen, he'll work harder and perform better. So, does Shawn have instant energy?
"I don't feel any difference at all," he says.
He'll do another set here, and we'll see if he can get through this one a bit better now that the Bix Ox pumps through his veins.
"I'm out of breath. I'm not feeing any difference. I'm just not sure at this point," he says.
Will he feel a difference as the day goes on? I leave the $12 can with Shawn, and head right to the Chemistry lab on the Southeast Missouri State University campus. You see, medicinal oxygen tanks are pretty heavy, but the Big Ox feels light as a feather, which has me wondering, what's really in this can? Dr. Marcus Bond performs a simple chemical test.
"We put a glowing ember into the beaker, we spray it with the Big Ox, and it should burst back into flame, if it is a high level of oxygen---and it does, a simple chemical test would show we do have a high of oxygen level in here," says Dr. Bond.
So apparently we do have some pure oxygen here, but what about the other claim? Could a few whiffs of this stuff really be better, say, than a cup of joe?
Dr. Brad Bittle, a pulmonologist at Saint Francis Medical Center, believes that's a stretch.
"I've seen so scientific evidence that something like this works. I think there will be people who say it does, but I would imagine any benefit is placebo-effect. I also think you can find the same amount of help just by simply slowing down, taking a few deep breaths and relaxing. That would be a lot cheaper than this," says Dr. Bittle.
Back to Shawn, after a day of breathing in the Big Ox, he, too, says he won't spend his 12 bucks on another can anytime soon.
"Personally, I'd give it a C minus. I felt something after awhile almost like a tingling in my fingers, but I did not notice a difference in my stamina. If I was going to spend 12 bucks, I'd rather buy water or some vitamin-enhanced drink, before I buy a can of oxygen," he says.
That said...I realize all supplements affect people differently, although the Big Ox did not work in this case. In fairness, I generously give it a C- on this Does it Work test.
I spoke with the company president by phone. He believes this is the next big health craze, just like bottled water. He says people with migraines and avid runners have had great success with this. He also notes people on the East and West coast living in highly-polluted areas are buying this by the case. I did not test the Big Ox on those who suffer migraines or avid runners, so that also explains my grade of C-.
You can find the Big Ox at any Rhodes or Jaspers gas stations, as well as Country Mart. The company president says he's currently working out a deal with WalMart to carry the Big Ox in their SuperCenters.


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This nightmare was where my dog commited suicide:
It was horrible – he commited suicide by jumping into the pool. I dove in and had to carry him out. I then had to try and get him alive. But he died, and his eyes were glazed over.


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Here in this post I like to show my opinion why to process annotations at runtime.
Runtime Annotations kills DS lazyness?
Peter says at twitter "One of the best things about DS is its lazyness, we do not want to kill this".
My option is that with runtime annotations we do not kill the DS lazyness.
I think we do not need to scan the bundles classes and load them all, to find the DS components in the system. The simplest solution is to have the components with the full qualified class name in the bundle MANIFEST.MF here a sample code snippet:
The next thing is we need a way to read the annotations without loading the class into the class loader to support bundles e.g. with "Bundle-ActivationPolicy: lazy". All information for the DS model is in the system in the byte code (when we use runtime annotations). Because of that, we can read the information for the DS components from the bytecode. Reading annotations from the bytecode is a simple way to provide all the lazyness we have with the XML model. To show this I create a very simple prototype which use the javassist library to process the annotation at runtime in a OSGi framework see https://github.com/tux2323/annotation.processing.osgi/.
Reading Annotations at Runtime is a Performance Issue?
Peter says: "So byte code scanning does not take any time?"
XML reading at runtime does also take time; do you think reading XML can be done faster than reading byte code? All information are in the byte code is reading the byte code really a performance issue? I believe we could make reading the information for the DS components from the byte code almost as fast as reading it from the XML files.
Detect errors early?
Another statement from Peter pro XML model for DS is "Detect errors early".
Yes when the annotation is process at runtime, we won't also have a static testing tool like bnd which checks at compile time, if everything is okay with the model and shows the problems in the IDE. Why do we need the XML model for doing this?
Why runtime Annotation?
Neil asked me on Twitter "Why would you do at runtime what you can do better at build time?".
My statement is: I would like to process the annotations at runtime, because I don't like to have information in two places in my system, only when there are technical reasons, for doing this. Because of that I think it would be nice to have runtime annotations.
When we have runtime annotations then the SCR Implementation can also decide to support them at runtime or generate at build time the XML Model e.g. via bnd. The most Java frameworks (EJB3, JAXB, JAX-RS...) use runtime annotations for their components, why do OSGi like to go a different way?"
XML and Annotations
Neil asks me on twitter "Sorry I don't understand. You want the runtime to look at both the annotations *and* the XML?"
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: When we support runtime annotations to describe DS components, which should be process at runtime, we must also support the old XML way to be backward compatible. So I like to have both XML and annotations like in the Spring framework. In Spring you could describe a bean via XML and if you like you can describe the spring bean by annotations.
Thanks at Neil and Peter for the great discussion. At this point again I would like to say when you use at the moment DS you should use the cool annotations from BND. This is at the moment the best way to develop DS components, I think.
- RFC-0172 Declarative Services Annotations - http://www.osgi.org/download/osgi-early-draft-2011-09.pdf
- Neil Bartlett @twitter - http://twitter.com/#!/njbartlett
- Peter Kriens @twitter - http://twitter.com/#!/pkriens
- javassist - http://www.jboss.org/javassist
- BND - http://www.aqute.biz/Bnd/Bnd
- Simple OSGi Annotation Processing Prototype - https://github.com/tux2323/annotation.processing.osgi/tree/master/annotation.processing.osgi


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Where did the time go?! I cannot believe it has been one year since my daughter was born. I'm going to do her monthly update like in the past sometime in the next week or so, but today I just want to reflect on her first year of life.
At this time (1.16 pm) last year, I was laying in a hospital bed, with an oxygen mask, having the most powerful contractions my doctor had ever seen. The night before he had called and said I would be induced the next morning. I was 42.5 weeks pregnant. I was sick of being pregnant, he was sick of me being pregnant, my kidneys were tired of being pregnant. The only one who was content with my still being pregnant was my little diva, Charlotte. She was totally fine with just hanging out in there til she was 16 or so.
My mom drove down the night before my induction. She got there about dinner time, and she, Joe, and I went out for Mexican for dinner. I was totally calm. I knew I was checking into the hospital that night, but it was still no big deal to me. I knew I was having a baby. That I was going to become a mom sometime in the next 24 hours. I was ready. Everybody kept asking me if I was nervous, or if I was ready, or a whole mess of other questions. The truth was, I wasn't nervous or scared. I never had that "OMG I'm having a freaking baby!" moment. I was ready from the start.
When people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always said "A mommy". My whole life, I've always known that that was what I was destined to be, to do. My professors in college didn't always like or appreciate my answers, and neither did some of my classmates, but it was ok. I knew what I wanted for myself. Whatever degree I obtained, or career I started, would never be my ultimate life goal. Some moms need to work to feel satisfied with their lives. That's totally fine, but I'm not one of them. I'm fortunate that my husband is willing and able to be the sole provider for our family so I can be home with our daughter. I will be eternally grateful for that.
The fear that everyone kept asking me about came after she was born. And it was a direct result of having to have an emergency c-section. She got stuck at 8 1/2 cm. I never even got to try to push. My recovery was awful. I literally could not move for days, and could not lift anything, couldn't take care of my baby for weeks. Had it not been Holiday Block Leave when she was born, I don't know what I would have done. I will never understand women who have elective c-sections. Not judging, I just don't understand.
I love having a daughter. When people asked what we wanted, I never hesitated to say "a girl". I know everyone says "I don't care as long as they're healthy"and that's all well and good, but I cared. Of course I wanted to have a healthy baby, but I wanted a girl. I wanted to be a girl mom. Had she been a boy? I would love her just as fiercely and still be just as happy. But I will always be honest on this blog, and so I cared. We went for our gender reveal appointment (which bugs me btw. it's a sex reveal, not gender. but that's another post for another day) and I get up on the table, Heather and Joe were there, obviously. The tech waved the little wand over my belly, she had to poke and dig around to get Charlotte in the right position, but when she did and she said "It's a girl!" and screamed "yes!" and my hands shot up over my head. I was thrilled!
She's always been a good baby. She has her days when she's in a foul mood, and just acting pissy for no reason, but overall she is amazing. People tell me all the time what a good baby she is. There's no better compliment to a mom than when a total stranger comes up to you and says how well behaved your child is. I hope she stays my good natured, polite little girl.
Being Charlotte's mom is the best thing that has ever happened to me. And I truly believe that she chose us. We're so blessed, and in love with her. Coming up is the birthday party, and birthday recap :)
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Squeeze those creative juices
We are always looking for more alternatives to spread the love of crafts and screen printing through our workshop series. Creative craft lovers can look forward to an experiential learning with silkscreen printing, tote bag making, character illustration classes and many more. We teach the basics as well as progressing on to more advanced techniques. If you are no Pollock or Martha Stewart, fret not, you will leave the workshop with an extra skill set that you can apply confidently into your craft style. There is always somebody out there who craves to learn arts and crafts and we will be there to guide you.
Neblostudio recommends our workshop series to schools, businesses and even youth organisations who just want to do something enriching, fun, lighthearted and be able to have a memorable takeaway.
Super-Pack Screen-Print
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This is what we do best. And we want you to learn a trick or two about screen-printing. You might just want to create your own t-shirt print after that.
Crafty Needles
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Sounds like it's for the ladies, but hey, guys are welcome too in this class. Learn the simple techniques of crafting and sewing fabrics into pouches and cases!
Basics of Illustration
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Everyone is able to draw. People just think they can't but don't worry, we'll make sure that you'd be able to design your own character by the end of the class.


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48 Hours also reports on how more and more people are going to extremes to physically improve their appearance and achieve an edge in life in "Going to Extremes," Friday, Aug. 6, at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
More than one million young people are taking steroids illegally, and for some, it has led to disastrous results, including violent mood swings and suicide.
Some teens have been getting a message that bigger, faster and stronger is better. Correspondent Troy Roberts speaks to Chris Wash of West Plano, Texas, who started taking illegal anabolic steroids because of vanity, while others, including Taylor Hooton, also of West Plano, and Rob Garibaldi of Petaluma, Calif., took them because sports coaches told them they needed to be "bigger."
All of these young men experienced extreme mood swings that included depression, and in the case of Hooton and Garibaldi, suicide.
Also, in an extreme effort to achieve physical improvement, some people are having plastic surgery as part of a vacation package-deal on an African safari. But is it safe?
Colleen Hiltbrunner of Colorado Springs, Colo., researched a plastic surgery package deal that cost thousands of dollars less than in the United States. Hiltbrunner and her husband flew to Johannesburg, South Africa, where they met "Surgeon and Safari" founder Lorraine Melvill, whose five-year-old company has evolved into a multi-million dollar business that's a boon to the struggling South African economy.
Upon arrival, the Hiltbrunners were taken to a five-star hotel and went on safari for two days before the surgery. Although the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery warns it is difficult to check the credentials of foreign doctors, Melvill insists her surgeons are a bargain, only because of the weak currency in South Africa. Correspondent Troy Roberts reports.
And, how far will a young nanny, who lost 60 pounds, go to fulfill her dream of becoming a supermodel? Contributor Maureen Maher speaks to Yoanna House, who as a child, wanted to becoming a model. She developed a regimen that helped her lose 60 pounds in two years. Next, House tried out for UPN television's reality show "America's Next Top Model," and was one of 12 women chosen from 8,000 applicants to participate in the series. Does House have what it takes to be the top model? UPN is also owned by Viacom, CBS's parent company.


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DESTINation Watersports!
Summer is coming up and many families are making plans for their summer vacation. If you are looking for a beach within driving distance, a top rated favorite place to go is Destin, Florida, which is almost exactly 500 miles away from Clarksville, TN! Locals call it the Emerald Coast because the water is crystal clear…… Continue reading DESTINation Watersports!


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Chapter 3
Vibhoothi Paadha
thathra prathyaya
ekathaanathaa dhyanam
Ø thathra = therein (the object on which Dharana or concentration is occurring)
Ø prathyaya = if the causative principle is
Ø ekathahnathaa = uninterrupted flow of attention
Ø dhyanam = (is) meditation
We examined Dharana or concentration in the previous Post.
Sadhaka must concentrate his total attention (in his chittha) on one object, one idea, or one place. All other thoughts must be totally dropped. The previous five limbs of Yoga make this possible for the Sadhaka.
This power of concentrating one's attention on a single object is a Great, new found Power for the Sadhaka.
The important point is – Sadhaka can direct the Chittha now – to focus attention on a single thought, or object, or place, or person – to the total exclusion of all other things.
Dhyanam is a continuation of Dharana, a continuous flow of it, on the same object.
Once the attention is Fixed on a particular object – Sadhaka must ensure that the attention remains on the same object continuously. This is dhyanam.
It is true – that Dharana on the same object will not be uninterrupted for the neophyte Sadhakas. It takes time – to gain the ability to fix this attention on one object for a continuous duration. But, success comes; and grows for the Devoted Sadhaka.
While performing Dharana on a single object, the Sadhaka must preferably not have any attachment to it. He must remain a non-judgmental witness to it.
Lord Krishna stresses this in vs.4. of Dhyana Yoga in Gita. Certain enabling conditions are also mentioned by Lord Krishna. He advocates moderation in food, sleep, recreation etc – and not swinging to either extreme in these matters.
One who has eaten too much or too little, can do neither Dharana nor Dhyanam. Likewise, one who sleeps too much or abstains from sleep too much – will be incapable of performing Dharana and Dhyanam.
One who is attached to (or hates) particular objects, ideals, persons etc also will be incapable. Non-attachment – neither like nor dislike – is the key to success in Dharana and Dhyanam. All desires born of Sankalpa, must be abandoned – else, our senses will start their outward journeys again.
Is your Dhyanam getting interrupted by distracting thoughts? Do not worry. It happens to all. When Dhyanam remains uninterrupted for a long time – it turns into Samadhi automatically. When it is periodically interrupted, it continued in Dhyanam stage. Continue Dhyanam – with all the interrupting thoughts. That is the purpose, process and technique of dhyanam.
Dhyanam will be so – until interruptions cease at some point of time time – we do not know when – and the Dhyanam turns into the blissful Samadhi.
Dharana is a short period concentration. But, Dhyanam or Meditation is continuous Dharana – but will have interruptions in it. Samadhi, is Dharana continued for a long time , which means it has become Dhyanam, which continues with interruptions for some time, and at some point of time, the interruptions will lose all their power and cease – ensuring uninterrupted meditation, which is Samadhi.
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One activity we did yesterday afternoon was a color hunt around the house. This was nice because the kids worked together instead of, you know, trying to kill each other and driving me insane in the process. Ah, reprieve! I gave them the muffin tin that I had added colored inserts to for this color sorting activity and told them to find small toys and what-nots that would be lightweight enough to glue onto paper and that they wouldn't miss after the items were glued to the paper. (Note: This ended up being a great way to have them herd up all those things that I get sick of finding everywhere like plastic ring toppers from holiday cupcakes and little goodie bag items from birthday parties.) After they found all the little toys and other odds and ends from their bedrooms, I suggested we look at the craft bins where they found plenty of sequins, beads, buttons, pom poms, foam letters, bottle caps, and the Styrofoam tiles left over from this craft. By the time they had filled up the 6 cup muffin tin, I felt that we had enough colorful finds to create our color wheel, inspired by this blog (and found on Pinterest).
|{From Color Hunt...}
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Materials for Color Wheel:
- 1/2 piece of white poster board (with grid lines, if possible)
- pencil or pen
- black Sharpie (optional)
- large frying pan (or whatever you have that's big and round)
- ruler
- scissors
- acrylic paint (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple) OR markers
- something to hold paint (I used a Styrofoam tray.)
- foam paint brushes (1 per color)
- something to protect work surface (cereal box liner, vinyl table cloth, newspaper)
- hot glue gun
Directions for Color Wheel:
- Using a pen or pencil, trace a large round object (I used my biggest frying pan) onto a half piece of white poster board. Tip: If your poster board has grid lines, I recommend keeping them visible.
- Cut out the circle.
- Find the center of the circle and make a dot. I used black Sharpie for this. (This is very easy to do if your poster board has grid lines. If not, you will probably want to use your ruler to help.)
- Using a ruler, draw 3 lines across the circle. You should now have 6 pie wedges of approximately the same size. Tip: I first did this with a pencil, and then followed with a black Sharpie, correcting the placement as I went. It does not need to be perfect, but I was glad to have used pencil the first go round. I didn't bother erasing my stray pencil marks because I knew I would be painting on top of them anyway.
- Once my circle was divided into 6 segments, I used acrylic paints to fill them in. I started my primary colors: first red, then I skipped a wedge, filled in the next with yellow, skipped a wedge, and then filled in the final part with blue. I had hoped that this would dry fast enough that the paint wouldn't touch the next corresponding part of my color wheel. (This would have worked better, though, if I hadn't immediately started painting the rest of the segments.) I finished up with secondary colors: orange (in between red and yellow), green (in between yellow and blue), and purple (in between blue and red). Make sure paint is dry before continuing to the next step. This shouldn't take more than 20 minutes or so. Tip: Protect clothing and work surface before using acrylic paints. I wore an old shirt and covered my table with a cereal box liner, which I use in place of wax paper for craft projects. Tip: I only used one coat of paint, and I didn't worry about streaks or uneven coverage at all. I knew it would get covered well enough to not matter, so save yourself some time by not trying to make it perfect. Tip: If you would like your child to fill in the color wheel, I suggest using washable markers in place of acrylic paints.
- Using a pre-heated glue gun (adults only!) start adhering the colorful items to the corresponding sections of your color wheel until it is as full as you would like. You can have your child tell you where to place things, if desired. Tip: Self-adhesive craft foams shapes and letters will save you some glue, if those happen to be among the items your kids have scrounged up! Tip: Start with the largest items and work your way down to the smallest items, that way you can squeeze them in as needed. Tip: If you want to be sure things will fit, lay them out prior to gluing. Allow hot glue to dry completely before moving the color wheel.


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Bleaching, irradiation, dyeing, skinning, oiling and staining kinds of treatments are done on Pearls. These treatments are done to enhance the color and clarity of the gemstone to get desired quality/color. These treatments done on Pearl are explained below:
Bleaching on Pearl Stone
Bleaching is done to enhance the color of the Pearl or to get desired color/quality. Bleaching is an old method which applied to Natural Pearls. Japanese factories use a weak solution of hydrogen peroxide.
The bleaching process changes the color pigments contained in the organic substance. The time required is between seven to sixty days, and it is applied until the pearls have reached a uniform white color.
Buffing on Pearl Stone
After harvest, pearls are always processed in one way or another. It removes the organic residues which follow during harvest from the surface of Natural and Cultured Pearls.
Polishing on Pearl Stone
In order to increase the luster and quality, Polishing is used to remove some birthmark from the surface of Natural and Cultured Pearls.
Irradiation on Pearl Stone
When light color Pearls are assaulted with gamma rays, the irradiated Pearls will achieve an iridescent bluish or greenish gray color. This method works well only on Freshwater Pearls and can be used in dying.
Dyeing on Pearl Stone
Dyeing process requires experience and knowledge and there is never a guarantee of achieving the desired result. Different Pearls react differently to the same methods of treatment.
Any color caused artificially by the application of a dye to pearls can be call dying. Dyed pearls are not fakes, but people can get them much easier than pearls of natural color.
They fulfill people's desire of special fashion in different occasions while costing less.


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THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minnesota, USA - October 26, 2011
Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation, recognized by design engineers as having the industry's broadest selection of electronic components available for immediate shipment, today announced the addition of Emerson Connectivity Solutions' Trompeter product line to its expansive line card.
"Digi-Key is pleased to expand this distribution agreement with the addition of the Trompeter products," said Jeff Shafer, Digi-Key's vice president of global interconnect, passives, and electromechanical product. "With Trompeter, we are now able to provide a broad range of cutting-edge RF interconnect solutions to engineers and procurement professionals around the world."
"We are thrilled to expand the Emerson Connectivity Solutions offering at Digi-Key, to now include the Trompeter product line. Digi-Key's proven track record over the years will help assure the success of Emerson Connectivity Solution's intent to transition the Trompeter line from a primarily direct served model to one that is largely focused on service through the channel," said Doug Pennington, Emerson Connectivity Solutions Vice President of Sales.
Trompeter brand products produce RF interconnect end products, cross-connects, and related tools for the telecom, central office, broadcast, military aerospace, and instrumentation markets worldwide. Trumpeter offers a broad line of patch panel insertion-controlled interconnect modules and rapid response RF cable assembly business.
Trompeter products are available for purchase now on Digi-Key's global websites.
About Trompeter
The Trompeter line of interconnect manufactured by Emerson Network Power Connectivity Solutions is recognized as a global leader in delivering best in class RF connectivity. The Trompeter line of patch jacks, RF connectors, cable assemblies, HDTV digital technology, and DS3 connectivity solutions is unrivalled. Trompeter is committed to innovation, product quality, and world-class customer service, and offers an extensive line of cost-effective products are rigorously designed and tested to provide the critically engineered solutions necessary to enhance the end-user's overall experience.
About Digi-Key Corporation
Digi-Key Corporation, based in Thief River Falls, Minn., is a global, full-service provider of both prototype/design and production quantities of electronic components, offering more than three million products from over 650 quality name-brand manufacturers. With over one million products in stock and an impressive selection of online resources, Digi-Key is committed to stocking the broadest range of electronic components in the industry and providing the best service possible to its customers. Additional information and access to Digi-Key's broad product offering is available on the Digi-Key website.
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1967: The Summer of Love [VIDEO]
The '60's were an interesting decade but If I had to pick one year from that era it would be 1967 where flower power and psychedelia ruled. The summer of love found generation gap divided by those over 30 and the hippie movement. The year also found social and cultural disruption.
The music was a great definition of that year, songs that covered everything from drug experiments to the Vietnam War even the civil rights movement.
The music was busy in 1967. The West coast flower power movement was huge especially in Haight - Ashbury, San Francisco and Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. A very unique group of people in those enclaves. Both L.A. and San Fran had their own bands that defined the two rock scenes respectively, In L.A. you had the Byrds, The Turtles,and Frank Zappa. In San Fran you had the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and Jefferson Airplane.
The Doors made an impact with their debut album (self-titled), The Who emerged, and The Beatles made a shift change with their music from pop to a more album oriented sound.
The big major festival that year was The Monterrey Internatiional Pop Festival, first major concert/gig for both Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Our first look at The Who.
Music of the Summer of 1067:
- The Byrds - Byrds Greatest Hits
- Moby Grape - Moby Grape
- Mothers of Invention - Absolutely Free
- Yardbirds - Little Games
- Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
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Thursday, April 2, 2015
Signs of Spring
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Seeing your art here is like having a lovely moment to stop and really take in the world, the season around us. Lovely.ReplyDelete
I love these bird photos! We have some blue jays and a family of cardinals that are always around in the spring. Hope you are well!ReplyDelete
Your robins and jays look so different to the ones I'm familiar with at home! That last pic of the dove(?) is especially lovely.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you! After your comment I started looking up European species - there sure is a big difference! I believe the last photo is a mourning dove and the gray bird in the eighth photo is perhaps a dark-eyed junco. But I am brand-new at identifying birds.Delete
All these bird photographs make me want to go bird-hunting! (I mean, just in photographic term, not actual gun-shooting term!) Such beautiful shots!ReplyDelete


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In previous reviews, we have been impressed with the Stokke brand and the quality and innovation they have produced. So it was a little disappointing to find a Stokke stroller that did not perform well in our tests. This stroller came in 16th out of 18 strollers. The test results for the Scoot were lower than expected and it only scored above average in a few metrics. In short, the disappointing lack of features and poor performance in our tests, combined with the higher price, make the Scoot a stroller we do not recommend.
Stokke Scoot Review
Pros: Stylish looks, unique design
Cons: Hard to maneuver and use, heavy and difficult to carry
Manufacturer: Stokke
The Skinny
Compare to Similar Products
Our Analysis and Test Results
The Stokke Scoot claims to be a compact city stroller for use with newborns up to 35 pounds. This stroller has lockable swivel front wheels and a canopy that is UPF 50+ and offers ventilation from the top and sides. It sports an adjustable rotation handlebar. The seat works two ways with 3 positions including flat for napping and it has an adjustable footrest. The tires on the Scoot are large foam filled rubber with built in suspension. It comes with a shopping basket that can be accessed from all sides. It can be used as part of the Stokke travel system with the Nuna Pipa without additional adapters. Adapters can be purchased to use with car seats made by Chicco, Peg Perego, Maxi-Cosi®, Nuna®, and Cybex.
Performance Comparison
This chart lists each stroller included in the review and shows their overall scores. The Stokke Scoot is shown in blue.
The sections below contain information on the Stokke's performance during testing for each metric. The score from each individual metric influences the overall score. Extra emphasis is placed on ease of use and maneuverability for this category.
Ease of Use
The Scoot scored a 6 of 10 for ease of use, which is higher than average, and 2 points lower than the top score of 8 earned by the UPPAbaby Vista and UPPAbaby Cruz.
The Scoot has a large under seat storage basket that accommodated our extra large diaper bag during testing. It is accessible from all sides and is easy to use. The downside is it has a maximum allowable weight of 4.4 pounds, which makes it sort of useless given that most packed diaper bags weigh more than this. In addition, if you were planning on running errands that require the transport of additional goods, then the Indie isn't the product for you. This stroller does not offer additional storage.
The Scoot is shown above with the canopy closed and open.The Scoot has a medium sized sunshade compared to the competition with an SPF 50 rating. It offers extra ventilation by way of a zippered opening that extends the shade and allows ventilation. This works as a peek-a-boo window if necessary, but is not the traditional window with a moveable flap.
This stroller does not have a parent console, child tray or additional storage. This is more of a bummer than it is with some of the competition because the storage bin can only hold 4.4 pounds.
The Scoot does not have an adjustable leg rest, but the foot rest is large and very wide. It is made of plastic and is adjustable with the seat facing the rear with only one position when the seat faces forward. This limits the ability to create a comfortable ride for all passengers.
The Stokke comes standard with a mosquito net and a rain cover.
The Stokke earned a 4 of 10 for maneuverability; only 2 strollers came in lower. The high for this group is 9 for the BOB Revolution Flex.
This stroller is one of the hardest to maneuver. Any adjustment, no matter how slight, requires two hands to operate and even with two hands it is difficult to move around. We managed to move through tight spaces, but it is difficult to make finer adjustments. Pushing it on carpet is also difficult with significantly slower turning.
This stroller did better than expected on rougher terrain, especially given its lackluster performance on hard surfaces. It even managed to negotiate curbs fairly well with only one wheel catching during testing.
The Stokke earned a 6 of 10 for quality which is above average in our tests. The high score of the group is an 8. Both the UPPAbaby Vista and BOB Revolution Flex recieved this score.
The fabric on the Scoot seat and canopy are made of a smooth canvas that wipes clean easily, but feels rough to the touch. The fabric is nice looking and has a sophisticated flair that is not commonly found in baby products. The peek-a-boo window on the sunshade is a medium woven mesh that did not snag in our tests. The basket is strong and rubber coated mesh that is easy to clean.
The frame is nicer than the fabric and it lines up well with almost no play when it is pushed or moved side to side. The wheels are foam filled rubber which combines what we love about rubber without the potential for a flat. While air filled tires still seem to perform better in most tests, this is a nice compromise to avoid being stranded. The overall fit and finish of the Stokke is not as nice as other Stokkes we have reviewed. While the design is simple and clean, the fabric doesn't fit well on the frame.
The Stokke has rear suspension, but it is not adjustable. The seat has nice padding, but it jiggles a little. The larger tires may add some comfort to the ride for the passenger. Overall the comfort is about average compared to the competition.
The Scoot earned a 6 of 10 in our tests for safety. The top scoring product for safety is the Baby Jogger City Select with a score of 8.
The Stokke has single action brakes that are not sandal friendly, though they are easy to use. The play in the brakes is about 0.75 inches which is more than we like, but it has relatively good sliding resistance compared to the competition.
The Scoot has a 5-point harness that scored well in our tests for ease of putting on and taking off, but it is hard to adjust to size. Each side of the fittings pops as they go in the buckle, and spring out when released. The buckle is stiff and harder to use than some of the others.
Weight and Folded Size
The Scoot weighs 28 pounds and 4 ounces, which is heavier than average. The lightest in the group is a tie between the Britax B-Agile 3 and the Baby Jogger City Mini with a weight of 17.5 pounds each. It measures 22"W x 16.5"H x 28.6"L and is 10,382 cubic inches when folded. This makes it average for the group in volume and slightly heavier for weight.
The Stokke has a one handed fold that auto locks, self-stands, and has a carry strap. This process is anywhere between 3-5 steps depending on how you do it. The folding process is about average, the release is kind of hard to work, and it does work well if the seat is rear facing. Unfolding the stroller is difficult and requires 2 hands. It takes 3-5 steps, and we fumbled with it no matter how many times we practiced.
Ease of Setup
This stroller is not the easiest to setup. It took us almost 9 minutes from start to finish. The documentation is good with lots of information and details and the illustrations are good. Some of the competition takes less than 5 minutes and is far easier.
Car Seat Compatibility
The Stoke comes compatible with the Stokke PIPA by Nuna Infant Car Seat and Stokke iZi Go; not to be confused with the Nuna PIPA which is not the same and is not compatible unless you purchase one of 3 accessory adapter bars. The accessory adapter multi bar works with the Maxi-Cosi Pebble, Maxi-Cosi Pebble Plus, Maxi-Cosi Cabrio Fix, Maxi-Cosi Mico AP, Maxi-Cosi Mico Nxt, Maxi-Cosi Prezi, Nuna Pipa, Cybex Aton Q; the Chicco bar works with the Chicco Keyfit and Chicco Keyfit 30; and a Peg adaptor for the Primo Viaggio SIP 30/30.
Best Applications
The Stokke has traditionally been a high end, sophisticated stroller that offered some features not found on other products. However, this stroller doesn't meet the expectations that its predecessors set forth. With average performance scores in most tests, a bare bones approach to features, and a small allowable weight in the storage compartment there is probably not a best application for this average stroller.
Unfortunately for the Stokke and other strollers in this review, almost all of our award winners were less than $500. The award winner that costs more is the top scoring product in the group and seems to merit a higher price tag for the performance and features it brings to the table. The Stokke unfortunately did not perform that well in most of our tests, so even though we could accept the price tag in theory, it doesn't merit it given the results of tests and therefore is not a great value.
The seat on the Stokke can face toward the world or back at mom and dad.
The Stokke Scoot is a nice looking stroller that used to impress us. Unfortunately, this version did not perform well in our tests compared to the competition or its previous version. This stroller has limited storage, is hard to maneuver, and is heavier and larger than many of the higher ranking products. With only 2 metrics with scores higher than the average, this is not the best stroller in the group or a stroller we recommend.
Other Versions and Accessories
The Stokke makes three other strollers similar to the Scoot. We did not review any of the other products they offer so it is difficult for us to say how they measure up to this one or the award winners in this review.
Accessories available for purchase for the Scoot are a Changing Bag, Parasol, Blanket, Cup Holder, Softbag, Style Kit, Multi Car Seat Adaptor, Chicco Car Seat Adaptor, Sheepskin Lining, Peg Perego Car Seat Adaptor, Pram Pack.
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Look at what Being Brook did in her laundry room! Is that a dream or what? I would love to have something like this in my kids' toy room and in the mudroom (especially during the winter to keep track and organize gloves, boots, hats, etc.) I love the colors too!
See the laundry basket dresser.


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Induction treatment of ANCA-associated vasculitis with a single dose of rituximab
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Citation:Turner-Stokes,Tabitha T., Sandhu,Eleanor E., Pepper,Ruth J. R.J., Stolagiewicz,Natalie E. N.E., Ashley,Caroline C., Dinneen,Deirdre D., Howie,Alexander J. A.J., Salama,Alan D. A.D., Burns,Ã ine P. A.P., Little,Mark Alan M.A., Induction treatment of ANCA-associated vasculitis with a single dose of rituximab, Rheumatology (United Kingdom), 53, 8, 2014, 1397-1403
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Rituximab is effective in inducing remission in ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV), with randomized evidence to support its use as four infusions of 375 mg/m(2) (the conventional lymphoma dosing schedule). As B cell depletion (BCD) appears to occur very rapidly after the first dose, we questioned the need for repeat dosing and adopted a standard single-dose protocol of 375 mg/m(2) to treat active AAV. METHODS: All consecutive cases with newly diagnosed or relapsing AAV for whom conventional immunosuppression was contraindicated or ineffective were enrolled. All were rituximab naive. Circulating CD19(+) B cells and clinical and serological markers of disease activity were recorded at regular intervals. Complete remission (CR) was defined as the absence of clinical features of AAV with a prednisolone dose <10 mg/day. RESULTS: Nineteen patients were included, 17 (89%) with generalized disease and 2 (11%) with severe disease (creatinine level >500 μM). Eight (42%) were on additional immunosuppression at the time of rituximab treatment. Satisfactory BCD (<0.005 cells/μl) was achieved in 89% of patients after a median of 13 days. Three-month BCD probability was 89%. Median time to CR following a single dose of rituximab was 38 days and the 3-month probability of CR was 80%. Median time to B cell repopulation was 9.2 months and to disease relapse/redose was 27 months. Use of this single-dose protocol saved an estimated £4533/patient (US$7103; €5276) compared with a 4 × 375 mg/m(2) dosing schedule. CONCLUSION: Our single-centre experience suggests that a single dose of rituximab of 375 mg/m(2) is a reasonable and more cost-effective therapy for inducing remission in patients with AAV.
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Author: LITTLE, MARK
Type of material:Journal Article
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Keywords:vasculitis, rituximab, monoclonal antibody, lupus nephritis, anti-CD20, ANCA


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It's been over two years now since we first heard that AMD was planning a new CPU microarchitecture, and the time has finally come to unveil Ryzen. If you haven't already seen the leaks of today's slides yet, or found any of the super-early, possibly slightly buggy reviews, then this is exactly the article to be reading right now. Today we'll talk about Ryzen, about how parts of its architecture work (although a detailed discussion on its boosting mode will be available separately), as well as a third article about cooling and motherboard choices, because this has just gotten a little trickier for system builders – but only if you don't read today's articles. Follow me!
Other Ryzen articles popping up this week:
- AMD Precision Boost versus Intel Turbo Boost: Which one is better?
- Ryzen motherboards and coolers: Which ones should you be aiming for?
Here are some links to my previous work on AMD's new microarchitecture:
- AMD reveals Zen architecture and performance for the first time
- AMD announces Ryzen and the X300 series chipset
- Here are the important parts of AMD's recent Zen architecture reveal
- AMD and partners detail motherboards in the lead-up to Ryzen launch
- More AMD Ryzen details and a local CPU price roundup
- Do we owe AMD anything if they do end up bringing the heat to Intel?
- AMD AM4 Motherboard price roundup!
Also, please excuse the use of the placeholder slides I received from AMD, rather than the originals that should have been sent to reviewers earlier. This is a measure AMD took to reduce the possibility of slides leaking out early, although by the looks of things that happened anyway. If I receive the cleaned up ones on time, I might switch them out.
A quick recap on Ryzen
Let's have a quick refresher on Zen and Ryzen. It is a clean sheet design created by Jim Keller and his former team inside AMD's engineering department. It does away with the Bulldozer design completely, and implements only the bare minimum of shared design elements. One Zen quad-core module is called a CPU Core Complex, or CCX for short. Each CCX carries four cores with their requisite L2 and L3 cache levels, along with the logic needed for enabling SMT, or simultaneous threading.
AMD can weave up to four of these together into what will eventually be their Naples server platform, which boasts up to 32 cores and 64 threads (16 cores on each chip in a dual-socket system), which is quite impressive.
Looking at a Summit Ridge die shot, composed of two CCX modules, you can also see some other interesting parts that are separate to each CCX, as well as what is shared. To the top left are the two memory controllers, which are linked to each CCX. On the top right and bottom left are what is currently assumed to be the Infinity Fabric logic that links everything together, allowing for transparent communication between each CCX. For a single CCX design, we might see that this die gets effectively cut in half.
The rest is all Greek to me – where the chipset logic, SATA controllers, and on-die USB 3.1 Gen 2 support go is a mystery, It will be great to see someone eventually create a labelled die shot from this work of art so that I can appreciate it more.
Zen is designed to hold back the flow of data as little as possible. Its branch predictor has been upgraded with neural branch prediction, improving how accurately the CPU logic can look at instructions it needs to run in the future and guess their outcome using historical data. It has a large op cache, which acts as a temporary store for instructions that it'll have to do commonly when running a particular workload. It can schedule more instructions for each core, it retires old instructions faster (which is basically pushing them into L2 cache), and it has a beefed up floating point unit composed of two 128-bit units, although the way it works is a bit nuanced. For every clock cycle, a Zen core has to break down one 256-bit floating point instruction into two 128-bit commands, then complete one 128-bit instruction in the same cycle, and run the second 128-bit instruction in the following cycle.
This is done to reduce the complexity of the design and save on power, because if you don't need to issue a 256-bit instruction to the FPU, you only need to put one of the FPU units to work. By contrast, Intel's FPU can perform one 256-bit instruction in a single clock cycle, which means that in two cycles it is twice as fast as a Zen FPU. It will be interesting to see how Ryzen handles floating point workloads like AVX 2.0 instructions, but my gut feeling tells me they've figured out how to match Intel's design by using more separate FPUs on other cores.
Zen is also no longer plagued by poor cache design, and it uses its cache less aggressively than Bulldozer did (necessary because Bulldozer's cache was slow). This will help tremendously for workloads which reside in the cache system and not main memory. The microarchitecture is designed for low power operation, and it can power-gate and turn off almost every non-critical part of the system to save on power. You'll see later on that this is to AMD's benefit – they are more efficient clock-for-clock and core-for-core than Intel's Broadwell-E platform.
Finally, Zen exceeds every expectation AMD had of it on paper, which is surprising to me. They clearly had everything riding on this architecture working well, and it does to the tune of being 52% faster clock-for-clock than Excavator, their previous architecture. Considering that Excavator was already 30% faster than Bulldozer in IPC improvements, this puts AMD close to a 100% improvement over Bulldozer in its initial design, and close, if not equal, to Intel's Broadwell-E architecture.
Let me put this into perspective for you. Skylake is only 5% faster than Broadwell when it comes to IPC improvements, and Kaby Lake has no IPC improvement over Skylake. Both get most of their performance boosts from running higher clock speeds. Zen is basically less than 10% away from matching Skylake in single-core workloads at the same clock speed. We have an unofficial saying in the industry for moments like these: "That is some good shit right there!"
Ryzen in the market
AMD briefly told me how things were going to work out for Ryzen in various market segments, and it's clear that they're aiming to be aggressive in every possible way. There will be three segments to the Ryzen family: R7, R5, and R3, which cover the enthusiast, high performance, and mainstream markets. Inside these segments will be individual chips with denominators in their name which tell you which performance level it sits on – 7 and 8 for enthusiasts, 4 to 6 for high performance parts, and 3 and below for mainstream processors, which still have to be detailed. The other two numbers are used for indicating speed bumps or a different SKU in the future, but as we see with Polaris' naming scheme, AMD never really ended up using these.
The power suffixes AMD provided are interesting, though a bit confusing. The "X" suffix is presumably for Ryzen CPUs with AMD's new extended frequency range (XFR) turbo boost range, but we later learned that XFR is enabled on all Ryzen processors. The "X" suffix indicates a larger XFR window than normal, and on non-X chips this window is 50MHz above the top boost clock. "G" and "S" is a deskop Ryzen chip with a GCN graphics core attached, which will be used for Raven Ridge APUs. AMD is also shoving Ryzen into laptops as we speak, readying the platform for a mobile launch at CES 2017 later this year. "H", "U" and "M" are reserved for those parts.
XFR and Precision Boost
This was, by far, the slide that AMD spent the most time on in the presentation, and it includes a lot of hidden gems that people might not be aware of. Let's start off with the base clock, the brown line at 3.6GHz. In a R7 1800X, this is the default clock speed for all cores when not thermally throttled, which is quite good – this is on par with the default clock speed of the Intel Core i7-6900K. If your chip is thermally throttled for whatever reason, be it the workload or the cooling capacity, it will automatically downclock itself to 3.2GHz, a 12% reduction in clock speed. If you see benchmarks today where the single-core workload is around 12% lower than other reviews using better coolers, this is why.
Above the base clock speed is the all-core boost clock of 3.7GHz. This is how the R7 1800X gains its place right next to Broadwell-E, and why it closes the performance gap in AMD's early benchmarks – it was running approximately 2.7% faster than the base clock speed of a Core i7-6900K. From there, if you have a workload that uses two cores, or less, the chip activates its boost speed of 4.0GHz for both cores and the associated threads with that core, effectively creating a 4.0GHz dual-core, four-threaded processor. This is how the R7 1800X is going to maintain its performance parity in lightly threaded games with Intel's Skylake processors, by beating the average clock speed of the Core i5-6600K.
Above the regular turbo boost is the XFR range, which nets you an extra 100MHz of clock speed so long as you have a good cooler. XFR boost is, again, only with two or less active cores, and so reaching it with all four cores, even on a 1800X, will be a lofty goal. This is why the 1800X is still behind a Core i7-7700K in single-core benchmarks, but not by much – the jump from 4.1GHz to 4.5GHz is an 8.9% increase in clock speed, and in real-world terms, Kaby Lake is 7% ahead in benchmarks using a single core.
There is more to this discussion than I can add in this article, and an extended look at Precision Boost, along with AMD's frequencies is available in a separate article today. The reason why I've written that article is because all the pieces of the puzzle seem to fit, but one in particular doesn't, and that is the stock performance of the R7 1700 against the Core i7-7700K.
One last thing before we move on – XFR is not limited to just the X-series chips, and it is not limited to just the X370 family of motherboards. It works on all processors and all motherboards, and the boost clocks are the same on an A320 motherboard as they are on an X370 full-ATX behemoth.
A whole new ecosystem of motherboards and chipsets
While I've revealed and discussed some of the chipset features and functions before, the latest press briefing revealed some new details we weren't aware of until now. To recap, at launch we will see motherboards with the X370, B350, and A320 chipsets from AMD on socket AM4. The table above details the chipset options that you get by default from the processor itself, and anything extra on the motherboard will come from add-on third-party manufacturers. However, the line between where chipset features from the CPU, and those from the third-party chipset come from, is very blurred, and thus motherboard choice is equally important if you want to get the most out of the new platform. The chipsets that will commonly govern extra USB 3.1 and SATA connectivity will typically come from ASMedia, although as time passes other solutions, possibly better ones, will be available.
Of note is that no motherboard on launch will support NVMe RAID through the M.2 slots. There just isn't the required logic to make this work, plain and simple. It is possible that a third-party chipset might be able to handle two x4 PCIe NVMe drives in RAID, but not only is that going to be expensive, that chipset would also have to be very, very well architected.
The new information that I was talking about earlier is the full specification of the X300 and A300 motherboard chipsets. These are primarily designed for small-form-factor products like mini-ITX, although AMD told me that nothing technically prevents motherboard manufacturers from putting this chipset on, say, a mATX or ATX motherboard. This presents some interesting possibilities. A vendor like ASRock might decide to build a budget mATX board based on the X370 chipset and price it among Intel's cheaper mATX Z270 motherboards. However, if they want to be super-aggressive with taking over the mainstream market, they could alternatively build a mATX/mini-ITX/FlexATX X300 chipset motherboard, priced similarly to cheap A320 motherboards, with the option to overclock any socket AM4 processor.
It's easy to predict how it would be laid out as well. An mATX X300 series motherboard would have one PCIe 3.0 x16 slot at the top, with two SATA 3.0 ports from the CPU, one PCIe 3.0 x2 M.2 slot for solid state drives, no SATA express port, and a second PCIe 3.0 x4 slot for a second graphics card or a PCIe NVMe solid state drive. Compared to a similar board with the A320 chipset, you lose USB 3.1 Gen 2 support, two SATA ports, and the ability to use RAID 10. That is a compromise I'm sure many budget-minded enthusiasts would be happy to live with.
With that in mind, the slide above now gets way more interesting than AMD presented it during the press call. X300 is intended for smaller or cheaper motherboards without a lot of space for routing traces, and it's cheaper to implement than the regular X370 chipset. Intel cannot compete with a fully unlocked product stack on both the processor and motherboard side.
AMD also noted how memory support would work by default on their platform, and this is why pre-ordering those motherboards on 25 February was a risky proposition. If you're filling up all four DIMM slots, you're limited to either 2133MHz or 1866MHz frequencies, depending on whether your RAM has chips on one side of the PCB, or both sides. The same goes for filling two DIMM slots, with slightly higher frequencies on offer. Keep in mind that this will change as AMD works on improving the performance of their integrated memory controller, and this is also highly motherboard dependent.
Vendors like ASUS and Gigabyte are already working on DDR4-3400 support on their X370 and B350 motherboards, and other vendors are putting in the work required to increase the baseline frequencies advertised by AMD here. It's not a train smash by any means because Intel's B250 and H270 Kaby Lake motherboards are limited to DDR4-2400 support.
Finally, gaming performance
While Neo's review of Ryzen and an X370 motherboard is delayed somewhat by early teething issues, you can take a look at the kind of performance AMD expects will be on offer with the R7 1800X, 1700X, and the R7 1700, taken with salt because the Intel results are run with the separately available stock cooler. For 4K gaming, AMD pitted the R7 1800X against the Intel Core i7-6900K, with both systems running an NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan XP, and you can see that in some games they are neck-and-neck with each other, with the Ryzen system eking out some small wins over Broadwell-E. In the 99th percentile frames, which is the minimum framerate you're going to see from such a system 99% of the time, the R7 1800X does have a small lead in four of the games tested, while the average results show Broadwell-E only leading in one benchmark.
At 1440p running a GeForce GTX 1080, the R7 1700X squares off with the Core i7-6800K quite well, but has less of an even footing than the 1800X does against its rival. The lead Intel has in these benchmarks is small, and perhaps easily overcome with a slight overclock on the R7 1700X. What is very interesting is the results on the R7 1700 compared to the Core i7-7700K, which is very, very close in the GPU-reliant benchmarks, and only trails significantly in GTA V, a CPU-intensive game. The low clock speed of the R7 1700 is a detriment in this area, but the rest of the results bode well for it – in GPU-limited scenarios, there's no reason to consider the Kaby Lake processor over the Ryzen chip, and vice versa. They're both largely going to be on an equal footing.
Bringing this brief and recap to a close, this chart just about sums it up in one image. In one generation, AMD has managed to massively improve their standing in the market, and when it comes to multi-threaded performance, the price is quite scary. For the same amount of money, AMD offers up to 60% more performance than competing Intel processors, and it invalidates the Core i7-6900K by a significant margin for gamers and professionals who don't need all that PCIe connectivity or massive amounts of memory bandwidth. The Ryzen 7 family is good value for money, and it's going to be difficult to counter this by price drops alone, because the X99 and Z270 platforms are not cheap by any means. AMD can get away with using cheaper motherboards based on, say, the B350 chipset, and still offer the same performance with a greatly reduced platform cost.
That leaves one wondering what Intel will do next. The last time this happened, Intel ceded market share to AMD for a year and kept their Pentium Extreme Edition processor at its default price point – people still bought it despite AMD's Athlon 3200+ offering identical performance for less money. That may turn out to be the case here as well, but Intel is in a precarious position at the moment. They have no new architecture to debut next year for the consumer market, because Cannon Lake was intended for consumer sockets, and no 10nm process to boast about either, because that has been delayed and will come to datacenter and enterprise products first.
Regardless of the rumours about "Xeon Gold" processors, or a fabled X299 chipset coming in the second half of this year, the reality is that AMD has caught Intel by surprise, and there is very little they can do now to stop AMD regaining their market share.


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A lot of famous – and not so famous – key figures have leaved in London before us. The plates adorning the walls of London are a daily reminder of the city's great past. Until you have a plate with your name engraved on it somewhere in London, keeping one's eyes open on them may lead you to interesting – or funny – discoveries.
London has indeed been host to men (and women) of many different backgrounds and professions, including a lot of writers, such as Melville
H.G. Wells
Several politicians also lived here, including Benjamin Franklin (who could also fit in a "scientist" list) one of the founding fathers of the USA:
or Ho Chi Minh, even though the plate, located on Haymarket, does not precise the nature of the work he was doing at the Carlton or even why it was relevant to his being the "founder of modern Vietnam"
The city has also welcomed philosophers, such as the likes of Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, the philosophy of "the greatest good for the greatest number of people" according to which the morality of an action depends solely on its utility to create happiness for the greatest number of people:
Finally, a watchful eye may also notice some more unlikely plates, such as the one of the fiction character Sherlock Holmes!


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15 February 2019
Morden Cluster Tag Rugby Tournament 2019
The Morden Cluster Tag Rugby Tournament took place on 14th February 2019.Read more
08 February 2019
MSSP Year 3/4 Key Steps 2 Gymnastics 2018/19
The Merton School Sport Partnership held its annual Key Steps 2 Year 3/4 Gymnastics Competition on Friday 8th February 2019 at Canons Leisure Centre. Nineteen primary schools from across Merton took part in the event.Read more
01 February 2019
MSSP Year 5/6 Key Steps 3 Gymnastics 2018/19
The MSSP Key Steps 3 Year 5/6 Gymnastics Competition took place on Friday 1st February 2019 at Canons Leisure Centre.Read more
25 January 2019
MSSP KS2 Inclusive Boccia Championships 2019
The Merton School Sport Partnership held the annual Borough Boccia Competition on Friday 25th January 2019 at Canons Leisure Centre. This year, a record 30 teams took part eclipsing last year's 24.Read more
21 January 2019
MSSP Year 5/6 Sportshall Athletics 2018-19
MSSP hosted the Sportshall Athletics at Canons Leisure Centre on Friday 18th January 2019. Both heats consisted of twelve schools with every team arriving with eighteen athletes (nine boys and nine girls).Read more
10 December 2018
MSSP Year 5/6 Best Team Football 2018-19
On Friday 7th December sixteen schools from across Merton competed in the Year 5/6 Best Team Football Competition held at Tooting and Mitcham FC. The schools had all qualified from their cluster round by finishing in the top four.Read more
26 November 2018
Wimbledon Cluster Year 5/6 Best Team Football
n Monday 26 November at Wimbledon Chase Primary School the Best Team Football Wimbledon Cluster competition took place.Read more
23 November 2018
MSSP Year 5/6 Girls Football Finals 2018/19
Today saw the top four Year 5/6 girls teams from each cluster battle it out at the Borough finals. From the outset it was clear that the teams were well prepared, organised on the pitch and confident.Read more
21 November 2018
Morden Cluster Best Team Football 2018
The Morden Cluster Best Team Football Tournament defied the weather to go ahead on Wednesday 21st November 2018.Read more
15 November 2018
Wimbledon Cluster Year 5/6 Girls Football 2018-19
The Wimbledon Cluster Year 5/6 Girls Football competition took place today with ten schools from the Wimbledon Cluster arriving inRead more
09 November 2018
Four Seasons in One Day at Netball Finals
The sun, rain, wind and finally the sun again didn't deter our seasoned High 5 Netballers at this year's Borough Finals. The top four teams from each cluster worked hard in the changing weather conditions throughout the borough finals.Read more
08 November 2018
Morden Cluster Girls Football Competition 2018
The Morden Cluster Girls Football Tournament took place on Thursday 8th November 2018 at the welcoming faciliRead more
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Miniature Schnauzers are alert, active, affectionate companions who double as watchdogs – a well bred, trained Miniature Schnauzer barks to warn, but not for recreation. They are house dogs who love the outdoors. Schnauzers need to be part of the family, and are usually found at your feet unless your lap is available. They have a lively intelligence, and a streak of curiosity that could be called just plain "nosy"! They don't shed, don't have a 'doggy' odor, but do need regular brushing and grooming.
Miniature Schnauzers and several other breeds of dog may be described as 'hypo-allergenic'. Because they don't leave hair all over the furniture and carpet, they may cause less problem for some people with allergies or asthma. MS are easy to keep clean, and may have a weekly bath. But they are living creatures, they will carry in dust, grass, or pollen from the back yard, and they love to be close to you. Some people simply will not be able to tolerate the dog itself or whatever gathers on their feet and hair. Min Schnauzers are a house and people dog, and leaving him outdoors is *not* the solution.
A Miniature Schnauzer won't be as mellow as a Basset Hound, and they'll have a lot more pep than a Saint Bernard. He'll greet strange animals with an initial feisty bluff, but gets along well with his friends. Miniature Schnauzers can be great with well behaved children, but they aren't willing to be hurt by rough handling, child or adult.


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Apple posted better than expected earnings and revenue for its fourth-quarter on Monday.
The tech giant posted $8.26 a share on $37.5 billion in revenue. The street estimated the company would post $7.96 a share on revenue of $36.93 billion. But investors were disappointed with guidance for gross margins.
During the current quarter, the company expects gross margins of 36.5 percent to 37.5 percent, which missed forecasts of 37.9 percent.


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Muslim Taxi Driver Sexually Assaults Female Passenger – Then Brings Flowers to Her Home
Jim Hoft
Mar 26th, 2017
A Las Vegas taxi driver sexually assaulted a drunk female passengers.
Then he brought her flowers to her home.
ABC News reported:
"Police say a Las Vegas cabdriver went back to the customer he'd been accused of sexually assaulting while she was passed out and offered her money, flowers and apologies after surveillance video footage of the incident surfaced.
The driver, 25-year-old Abdul Based, was arrested Friday. He has declined media interviews, and his attorney, Benjamin Durham, didn't immediately respond to messages.
The incident happened March 6, but it wasn't known until the woman called Lucky Cab Company two days later looking for her cellphone.
The taxi company in its search tracked down which cab she had been in through her credit card charge. When Lucky Cab checked that car's video surveillance footage, they saw the woman sitting in the front, dozing off, and the driver repeatedly reaching over to touch her genitals, according to a police report made public Thursday.
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