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Top 10 sights of Barcelona
Set on a plain rising gently from the sea to a range of wooded hills, Barcelona is the most cosmopolitan city in Spain, and one of the Mediterranean's busiest ports. Restaurants, bars and clubs are always packed, as is the seaside in summer.
Barcelona has been breaking ground in art, architecture and style since the late 19th century. From the marvels of Modernisme to the modern wonders of today, the racing heart of Barcelona has barely skipped a beat. The city's avant-garde chefs whip up a storm that has even the French reaching for superlatives. The city itself could keep you occupied for weeks, but just outside are sandy beaches, Sitges and the Montserrat mountain range. Here's a handful of things you should raise to the top of your to-do list.
1. Scaling the dizzy heights of La Sagrada Família
It is Spain's most visited sight – and it isn't even finished! For many, that is part of the attraction. If you have been to Barcelona before, you have probably already visited Antoni Gaudí's La Sagrada Família church. But that was last time, wasn't it? A work in progress, it is never quite the same. Lifts and stairs allow you to ascend a tower of each facade and look down over the splendid work below and the city around it, and perhaps feel a breath of the heavenly inspiration that touched Gaudí.
2. La Rambla
By day and night, multitudes stream along this tree-lined pedestrian boulevard (flanked by two clogged traffic lanes), a stage for street performers (from flamenco dancers to fire-eaters and more human statues than you could knock over in one go), pickpockets, three-cups-and-a-ball tricksters and more. Rip-off pavement cafes, Australian pubs and newsstands bursting with porn add to the local colour. As day turns to night, streetwalkers of all persuasions come out to play at the lower end of the boulevard, and many out-of-towners become more vocal as they revel into the wee hours.
3. Admiring Catalonia's artistic heritage in the Museu Nacional d'art de Catalunya (MNAC)
The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya is a one-stop immersion course on the world of (mostly) Catalan art, from medieval church frescoes to chairs designed by Gaudí. The highlight is the Romanesque art collection. In the 1920s, art historians combed hundreds of churches dotting the northern Catalan countryside. Inside they uncovered unprecedented treasures: remains of bright Romanesque frescoes, some dating back to the 11th and 12th centuries. To save them from further decay, many were removed to Barcelona, and today they can be admired in the re-created interiors of those churches.
4. Wandering the fragrant gardens of Montjuïc
Barcelona is one of the noisier cities in Europe, and there's no better antidote to the grinding decibel assault of traffic, road works, sirens and blaring music than a lazy day of strolling amid the beauty and serenity of soothing gardens, all the while gazing back on the urban madness below. A trip to Montjuïc is already a must for its many fine museums, but it's also worth coming here just for a wander to see the fantastic views over the wide blue sea from one of its several botanical gardens. There is no better spot in Barcelona for a snooze under a tree.
5. Marvelling at the many zany Modernista creations in L'Eixample
If there is a part of town where you should always keep an eye skyward, l'Eixample is it. As you wander the grid of streets, your eyes fall upon the splendid and whimsical facades of the countless buildings that Modernista architects raised in a few short decades around the turn of the 20th century. The closer you look at many of them, the more intriguing detail they reveal.
6. Peering at Picasso's precocious genius
Five hefty, stone, Gothic-baroque mansions in a row on medieval Carrer de Montcada are today occupied by Barcelona's Museu Picasso. This is a rare voyage of discovery. If any proof was needed that Picasso had all the technical ability to turn out whatever he wanted, from giant canvases to whimsical self-portraits, you have it in abundance here.
7. Meditating on times past in the Església De Santa Maria Del Mar
The grand Gothic church of Our Lady of the Sea was blessed in 1384. As you admire this splendid feat of medieval construction, imagine the religious devotion of the city's porters, who spent a day each week carrying on their backs the stone required to build the church, trudging all the way from the royal quarries in Montjuïc. Their very blood is etched into the church's walls, and their memory lives on in reliefs of them on the main doors and stone carvings elsewhere in the church.
8. Falling under a spell in Park Güell
What a fine flop! What started in 1900 as the dream of a Barcelonian magnate, Eusebi Güell, for an English-style 'garden city' for the hoity-toity ended up as an enchanting public space. Alice in Wonderland would feel at home, as you're greeted by two gingerbread houses of soft brown stone, topped by curvaceous, creamy-looking roofs decorated in trencadís (broken-up ceramics). The great pillared hall (Sala Hipóstila) would have housed the garden city's market. Its roof is a grand viewing platform across the city, lined by the Banc de Trencadís, a delightful bench that snakes around its perimeter and is clad with candy-coloured ceramics.
9. Sitting on the edge of your seat at a Barça match
For the sports-minded, little can match the glory and spectacle of a football match at FC Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium, one of the biggest and best in the world. The athletic genius of players in one of Europe's greatest clubs (founded in 1899) will have you sitting on the edge of your seat – along with 100,000 other spectators – when the stadium fills for big clashes, like the derby with arch-rivals Real Madrid.
10. Musing on epic seafaring at the Museu Marítim
Climb aboard the life-sized replica of Don Juan of Austria's elaborately adorned 16th-century galley, and imagine life aboard this warship. Hundreds of men chained to the giant oars drove this vessel at up to nine knots. The cracking of whips; the agony of this mix of slaves, prisoners and desperate volunteers. The sheer stench. These wretches ate, slept and went to the toilet where they sat. You could smell a medieval galley from miles away. Don Juan's galley was launched here, at the Reials Drassanes (Royal Shipyards). The site has been a museum since the 1940s and is one of the most fascinating in the city.


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SOURCE: bit.ly/1nzGac8 JAMA Pediatrics, online April 28, 2014.
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{{AUR|Anything-sync-daemon}} (asd) is a is a diminutive pseudo-daemon designed to manage target directories in tmpfs and to periodically sync them back to your physical disc (HDD/SSD). This is accomplished via a symlinking step and an innovative use of rsync to maintain back-up and synchronization between the two. One of the major design goals of asd is a completely transparent user experience.
== Asd or Psd? ==
== Asd or Psd? ==
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Anything-sync-daemonAUR (asd) is a is a diminutive pseudo-daemon designed to manage target directories in tmpfs and to periodically sync them back to your physical disc (HDD/SSD). This is accomplished via a symlinking step and an innovative use of rsync to maintain back-up and synchronization between the two. One of the major design goals of asd is a completely transparent user experience.
Asd or Psd?
Benefits of Asd
Running this daemon is beneficial for two reasons:
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Since the target directories are relocated into tmpfs, the corresponding onslaught of I/O associated with system usage of them is also redirected from the physical disc to RAM, thus reducing wear to the physical disc and also improving speed and responsiveness. The access time of RAM is on the order of nanoseconds while the access time of physical discs is on the order of milliseconds. This is a difference of six orders of magnitude or 1,000,000 times faster.
Setup and Installation
Anything-sync-daemonAUR is available for download from the AUR. Build it and install like any other package.
Edit /etc/asd.conf
User managed settings are defined in
/etc/asd.conf which is included in the package. At a minimum, define the target directory/directories to be managed by asd.
WHATTOSYNC=('/var/lib/monitorix' '/srv/http' '/foo/bar')
Optionally redefine the location of your distro's tmpfs. Do this by uncommenting and redefining the VOLATILE variable. Note that for Arch Linux, the default value of "/dev/shm" should work just fine. Be sure to read the warning about using software such as bleachbit with asd since bleachbit likes to remove files stored in /tmp. This is why a value of /dev/shm is better.
Optionally redefine the permissions of the link in tmpfs. The default is 700 to protect privacy of users.
Using asd
Do not call /usr/bin/anything-sync-daemon directly (except to view debug mode). The initial synchronization will occur when the daemon starts. Additionally, cron (if running on your system) will call it to sync or update once per hour. Finally, asd will sync back a final time when it is called to stop.
The provided daemon file should be used to interact with asd (
# systemctl [option] asd.service
Available options:
start Turn on daemon; make symlinks and actively manage targets in tmpfs. stop Turn off daemon; remove symlinks and rotate tmpfs data back to disc. enable Autostart daemon when system comes up. disable Remove daemon from the list of autostart daemons.
Debug Mode
The debug option can be called to show users exactly what asd will do based on the /etc/asd.conf entered. Call it like so:
$ anything-sync-daemon debug
Sync at More Frequent Intervals (Optional)
Users wishing to have syncs occur more frequently can simply add a line to the root crontab to call the sync function of asd like so:
# crontab -e
Example syncing targets once every ten minutes:
*/10 * * * * /usr/bin/anything-sync-daemon resync &> /dev/null
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The following sample example demonstrates using the DbProviderFactories to get a provider-specific instance of DbProviderFactory, and then using it to create the necessary objects to perform database operations. I use the factory to create the connection object, and then create the command from the connection. It's a rudimentary example, but it will effectively demonstrate the topic.
The following settings are contained in the application's configuration file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><configuration xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0"> <appSettings> <add key="DbProvider" value="System.Data.SqlClient"/> <add key="ConnectionString" value="Server=localhost; Database=Northwind; Integrated Security=true;"/> </appSettings></configuration>
Here is the sample code:
IDataReader dbreader = null;DbProviderFactory dbfactory = DbProviderFactories.GetFactory( ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings.Get("DbProvider"));IDbConnection dbconn = dbfactory.CreateConnection();dbconn.ConnectionString = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings.Get("ConnectionString");try{ dbconn.Open(); IDbCommand dbcomm = dbconn.CreateCommand(); dbcomm.Connection = dbconn; dbcomm.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM Orders"; dbreader = dbcomm.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection); while (dbreader.Read()) { Console.WriteLine("Order ID:{0}", dbreader["OrderId"].ToString()); }}finally{ if( dbreader != null ) dbreader.Dispose();}
The use of ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings is going to be replaced by a ConfigurationManager object in .NET 2.0, but the build I use was lacking the ConfigurationManager. So, I used the existing object for reading from the configuration to demonstrate how everything can be dictated at runtime.
Switch Between DataReader and DataSet
In the first versions of ADO.NET, the debate regarding whether to use a DataReader or a DataSet raged. Each has its place based on the usage. However, it wasn't easy—or in some cases even possible—to start with one and switch to the other in your code. For example, if you had a DataReader, you had to manually build a DataSet from its contents. It wasn't possible to get a DataReader from a DataSet. ADO.NET 2.0 includes some functionality to simplify this. The DataSet now has a Load() method that accepts a DataReader as a parameter and will load the DataSet from the reader. The DataSet also has a GetDataReader method that returns a DataReader.
Switch Between DataReader and DataSet Sample Code
This section reuses the code from the previous provider factory example to demonstrate the switch. It's not a practical example, but it will suffice. It reads to a DataReader, moves to a DataSet, then moves back to another DataReader:
IDataReader dbreader = null;IDataReader dbreader2 = null;DbProviderFactory dbfactory = DbProviderFactories.GetFactory( ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings.Get("DbProvider"));IDbConnection dbconn = dbfactory.CreateConnection();dbconn.ConnectionString = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings.Get("ConnectionString");try{ dbconn.Open(); IDbCommand dbcomm = dbconn.CreateCommand(); dbcomm.Connection = dbconn; dbcomm.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM Orders"; dbreader = dbcomm.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection); DataSet ds = new DataSet(); ds.Load(dbreader, LoadOption.PreserveChanges, new string[] { "Orders" }); dbreader2 = ds.CreateDataReader(); while (dbreader2.Read()) { Console.WriteLine("Order ID:{0}", dbreader2["OrderId"].ToString()); }}finally{ if( dbreader != null ) dbreader.Dispose(); if( dbreader2 != null ) dbreader2.Dispose();}
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Green Chemicals and Greener Technology of ChemicalsActivity by Kuppusamy Uthaman | added on Apr 21, 2011 | Kuwait
Devising new specifications for oil field chemicals and move towards selection of greener chemicals and introduce greener technology.
A Poster session took place in Hilton Hotel Ball Room, Kuwait city on 19 & 20 April 2011 during a Knowledge sharing international conference, arranged by Kuwait Oil Company. Scholars and industrial experts from GCC countries visited the Poster room and our Green Chemicals theme attracted their attention. In order to encourage the women's role in Chemistry, a lady chemist was selected to present the Poster. She covered all topics successfully and other
Further activities will continue during chemical selection of less hazard in nature and environmenatal friendly chemicals for which field trials have to be conducted sothat their efficiency is not compromised in industry applications.
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Greener technology, in the form of bulk storage project, which includes handling and transporting all the chemicals in a closed environment reducing fumes to human exposure and prevent atmospheric pollution. A bulk handling chemicals storage facility with huge storage tanks and pumps will eliminate the current supply in small drums. Around 50000 drums will be eliminated annually which are hazardous waste due to left over chemicals. Also, road tankers will be used to transport chemicals to all production locations and filling the day tanks by filling connections. This is a huge leap forward in greener technology approach and will be be implemented in a years time in Kuwait Oil Company.,
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"So your blog is about resilience?"
"Well, not exactly. I mean, it's about what lies behind resilience – about the nuts and bolts of resilience."
I had this conversation a number of times before launching Plan B Nation, my personal chronicle-cum-user's guide to life after the Great Recession. Yes, I was interested in the notion of bouncing back, but I wanted to unpack the idea. How do we stay optimistic in the face of repeated setbacks? How do we keep going when our best efforts fall short?
These questions lie at the heart of Rebounders: How Winners Pivot from Setback to Success, a new book by journalist Rick Newman – which is why I raced to get my hands on a copy as soon as I heard about it.
Like my own, Newman's exploration began with personal challenges – in his case, a divorce and custody battle, financial stress, and dislocation (both geographic and professional). "As I crested the age of forty, I was falling behind instead of getting ahead, with a set of options that seemed to be narrowing and a deepening disillusionment that wasn't supposed to afflict people like me," he writes in the book's introduction.
Ultimately, Newman opted to widen his gaze, to bring his reporting skills to bear on the issue of failure. How is it that some people – Newman calls them rebounders – are able to emerge from setbacks even stronger than before? What are the skills they draw on? And how can the rest of cultivate these adaptive behaviors?
Delving into these questions, Newman profiles a number of thriving survivors ranging from Thomas Edison to military pilot Tammy Duckworth, who lost her legs in Iraq – their highs as well as their lows – and concludes with a series of nine attributes he sees as common to rebounders.
1. They accept failure.
It's not that rebounders like failure, but they manage to "fail productively," framing failure as a learning opportunity.
2. They compartmentalize emotions.
While their emotions may run strong, rebounders nonetheless adopt a pragmatic stance and learn to maintain emotional equanimity in the face of disappointments.
3. They have a bias toward action.
Taking purposeful action – even if you aren't sure where it's taking you – can be a first step to moving forward. (Newman opposes action to rumination, which can easily lead to immobilizing worry.)
4. They change their minds sometimes.
They make the best decisions they can at the time based on the information they have. When that information changes, they're able to adjust their goals and thinking.
5. They prepare for things to go wrong.
For all the talk of optimism being linked to success, the rebounders Newman talked to tended to have a more measured perspective. "I'm cautiously optimistic," said one.
6. They're comfortable with discomfort.
For rebounders, success equals fulfillment, not comfort, and they willingly accept significant hardships and inconveniences en route to their goals.
7. They're willing to wait.
Rebounders are willing to work harder and wait longer than they expected. "Longcuts to success are more common than shortcuts," Newman writes.
8. They have heroes.
Mentors and role models are often important sources of inspiration for rebounders.
9. They have more than passion.
Rebounders have sustained drive as well as passion.
Having personally field-tested many of these strategies, I can vouch for them. At the same time, let's be clear: All adversity is not created equal. For all the talk about hardship making us stronger, research suggests that people who experience an undue number of stressful life events (definitely the case for many of us slogging through Plan B Nation) have a relatively high level of mental health problems, as Newman reports. In other words, some hardship is good, too much hardship is not. How much is the right amount? Researchers put the optimal number of adverse events at three.
In the same vein, all people are not created equal. For this reason, I would love to read more about resilience in the context of the so-called "Big Five" personality types identified by researchers as largely hardwired and enduring. It would make sense if those of us wired to be unusually sensitive to negative experiences have a harder time cultivating resilience than those of us who naturally trend to a positive outlook. Does research in fact bear this out? And if so, are there steps we can take to counteract or bolster our hardwired biases? (For those interested in such things, personality types are explored in depth in Daniel Nettle's highly readable Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are, which also includes a short version of the Newcastle Personality Assessor.)
Still, while resilience doubtless comes more easily to some of us than others, there are always steps we can take to maximize our own potential. For this, Newman offers a starting place – as well as excellent reminders.


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My Lenten fast from chanting
So the senior pastor and I decided not to chant the communion liturgy this year during Lent, thinking it would be simple and a bit austere—and that, like "Alleluia," we might miss it and long for its return. It's not a total fast, as we still chant the "Kyrie," although that's usually the choir, not me or the senior pastor. And of course, at the second service, which is more contemporary, we have less liturgy and we don't chant anything, although we've had some nice sung responses at the beginning of the service.
So, I'll confess: I do miss chanting. I miss chanting The Great Thanksgiving, with its back and forth echoes, but even more, I miss chanting the Preface, with its poetic words and phrases. I still speak the words, and there is something that makes me sort of pause, because I am speaking words I usually intone. For me, the chanter, the words sound richer, rounder, with layers underneath them, when I chant them.
I wonder, though, if anyone else is missing it the way I am. After all, chanting is sort of an unusual activity, something it's hard for us to relate to in our Ordinary Lives. You don't really have chanting in a worship service with a Praise Band, for example. For example, the Assemblies of God congregation, which meets in the middle school right behind our church, has a younger crowd at worship than we do, and no chanting, I'll bet.
I think though that a dislike (or at least puzzlement) for chanting is intergenerational. At least, one older member of our congregation once told me that though she prefers traditional worship, we could get rid of the chanting, and it wouldn't bother her one little bit.
Maybe we don't know what chanting is for; everything has to have a use, after all. I heard that priests began chanting the liturgy in the old cathedrals long ago because it was easier to understand a sung tone than a spoken one. But we don't need chanting for that reason any more.
Everything has to have a use, after all. Or does it?
On Easter morning, I will put on the gold chasuble, and I will chant the Great Thanksgiving, and the Easter Preface, and remind the congregation that when we sing God's great Alleluia, we will be singing with Peter and Mary Magdalene, with all the witnesses of the resurrection, with angels and archangels, and with the earth and all its creatures. And for me, it will be like indulging in a piece of expensive chocolate after a long fast, or like seeing a friend I love but haven't seen in a long time, or like looking into a package and discovering that there was another layer under the tissue paper, something you never saw was there before.
But, I wonder what everyone else will think. Will they be glad to welcome chanting back into worship?
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It's the salty kummelweck roll that makes this sandwich unique. Made only in the Buffalo-Rochester area, the kummelweck is basically a Kaiser roll topped with lots of pretzel salt and caraway seeds.
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8, 6-oz. portions thinly sliced rare roast beef
4 oz. prepared horseradish sauce or grated horseradish, or to taste
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Note: Kummelweck rolls are salted caraway rolls. If unavailable, brush a mixture of cornstarch and water on the tops of Kaiser rolls and sprinkle with equal amounts of pretzel salt and caraway seed. Heat in a 350°F oven until crisp, about 3 min.
1. Toast rolls lightly and place 6 oz. roast beef on the bottom of each. Spread beef with horseradish sauce or horseradish.
2. Brush top half of each roll generously with au jus and serve immediately, with additional au jus on the side.


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ALBUQUERQUE Students at the University of New Mexico may soon be required to take at least one class on diversity.
The Albuquerque Journal reports that a draft proposal by the Provosts Diversity Council calls for a three-credit diversity requirement that could go into effect in fall 2014. The class would be required for all students before graduation under the proposal.
The council will seek approval from the Faculty Senate and other entities within the next few months. The Diversity Council, formed a year ago and made up of 22 students, faculty and staff members, has been examining a potential three-credit course requirement for several months.
President Bob Frank and Provost Chaouki Abdallah say they are on board with the proposal.
New Mexicos richness is predicated on our cultural and social diversity, Frank wrote in a letter backing the requirement. As a majority-minority state, we have a unique responsibility to ensure that our curriculum reflects our values in the areas of diversity and inclusion.
Students at many Southwestern universities already have such a requirement.
The diversity credit could be fulfilled through new courses, existing ones or modification of existing ones, according to the draft. To qualify as a diversity credit, a courses content would have to be at least 50 percent focused on understanding subjects such as race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion and disability, and it could do so in a U.S. or global context.
It is a well-documented fact that undergraduates who have more frequent experiences with diversity tend to be more engaged, and are more likely to persist and graduate than their counterparts who lack such experiences, the council wrote in a draft of the proposal.
UNM is a Hispanic Serving Institution, which means it gets special federal funding for serving a minimum 25 percent Hispanic population. The schools Latino population is actually 37 percent, while whites make up 38 percent of the student body and American Indians make up 11 percent.
Asian Americans and blacks make up 3 and 2 percent respectively. In total, more than half of undergraduate students come from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.
This is not the first time UNM has tried introducing a mandatory diversity requirement. An attempt in 2007 would have added required credits to existing degree programs, which the new plan would not.
The earlier version also included graduate students, while the new proposal would be strictly for undergraduates.


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Almost from the beginning of Kenya's military operation in Somalia, Islamist militants have threatened to bring the war home to Kenyans.
For nine months, those threats have been fairly empty, comprised of a few lone-wolf grenade attacks on Nairobi bars. But with the July 1 attacks on Christian churches in the northeastern Kenyan town of Garissa, close to the Somali border, militants seem to be borrowing a page from Boko Haram, Al Qaeda-linked militants from Nigeria. Like the Boko Haram attacks, which have killed at least 1,000 people since July 2009, attacks on Christian churches have the potential to stir up sectarian conflict in a religiously diverse country like Kenya, where 83 percent of the population is Christian and 11 percent are Muslim.
On paper, Kenya is the stronger country, with a much more powerful economy, a professional Army, and a relatively tolerant and peaceful society that has avoided the self-destructive civil wars of other African countries. But Kenya's very openness – and its porous borders – could be its greatest weakness in a low-intensity conflict with Somali militants, analysts say, and religion could be the spark that ignites a Kenyan conflict within itself.
"There is a religious angle to Kenya's war with Al Shabab," says Dr. Godffrey Ngumi who teaches Religion and Philosophy at Kenyatta University. "The extremists feel they are cornered by an army from a Christian country. Their response is to attack the churches, which for them are weak points. They have not attacked Hindus or Buddhists. When they attack churches, the impact is bigger."
On July 1, suspected Islamists attacked two churches in Garissa, killing 17 and injuring more than 66 people in a style similar to that used by the Nigerian militants. One group shot dead two policemen guarding the Africa Inland Church (AIC), an Evangelical denomination, as another lobbed grenades at Our Lady of Consolata Roman Catholic Church. Islamists then proceeded to indiscriminately shoot the worshipers at AIC using the dead police officers' weapons.
This attack was the biggest so far in the region where the denominations have been targeted since mid-October 2011, when Kenyan troops rolled into Somalia to pursue Al Shabab. As justification for its Operation Linda Nchi (Operation Protect the Country), Kenya accused the Islamic militants of killing and abducting its nationals, foreign aid workers, and tourists.
Last November, two people were killed and five others seriously injured in grenade attack on the Garissa Pentecostal Church. in the same month, six people died and 13 others were injured in two grenade attacks on a local restaurant.
"The Muslim world is 'jittery,' following revolution inside itself," says Dr. Ngumi, referring to the Arab uprisings that toppled North African governments in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, and that continue to challenge the governments of Yemen, Syria, and Sudan. "Somalia is no exception, and we are going see more of these attacks as we continue with the war. This is a case to learn from northern Nigeria where similar [sectarian attack] cases involving Boko Haram have been occurring."
Kenya had anticipated the attacks as it went to war and knew there would be such reactions, according to Mutea Iringo, Kenya's acting internal security permanent secretary.
"There was no option other than entering Somalia," Mr. Iringo said. "If we had not gone there, the attacks would have continued beyond Kenya to the whole of the Horn of Africa."
For Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu, while condemning terrorist activities in all its forms, it is essential to recognize that these actions are energized by vast numbers of young people who work as "foot soldiers" and have reached a point where they feel there are no alternatives to violence.
"They are willing to risk their lives and 'ostracization' from broader society to exercise the only form of voice that they feel is available to them," Archbishop Tutu told a youth leadership forum via a pre-recorded link in Nairobi on June 27. "We must ask why so many young people are willing to ply such a dangerous path."
With northern Kenya facing serious underdevelopment and chronic unemployment, AlShabab has lured Muslim youths into joining it by promising a better income and more benefits for defending their faith.
Muslims aren't the only ones who have unemployed young people with violent potential. It was unemployed youths among the mainly Christian Kalenjin, Kikuyus, and Luos who used mob violence against rival communities following the flawed Dec. 27, 2007 elections. Post-election violence, much of it driven by jobless youths protesting the supposed election rigging of other ethnic groups, killed an estimated 1,300 people, and displaced 600,000 more from their homes.
One of the great dangers of sectarian conflict such as the Garissa church attacks is that they may succeed, and push members of the Christian community to retaliate against their Muslim neighbors.


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VIDEO: The Heat get back on track against the Wizards
HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — This is a high-stakes game of NBA possum that the Miami Heat will never win, not at this juncture of their title-winning ways.
Four games into their second straight season trying to defend their title, there are rumblings of chemistry issues with this group. Seriously, Heat players are using strange analogies to describe the current state of affairs for a team that still has headliners like LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to cover up any deficiencies.
They have earned the right to start a season a bit shaky because we know how they'll finish the season, if the opportunity presents itself. Dealing a with a few "minor" chemistry issues should not be cause for this sort of alarm. Then you listen to the words coming out of the mouths of players in that Heat locker room and it makes you pause for a second.
You hear Wade say these sorts of things to Mike Wallace of ESPN.com and you wonder if we're missing something bigger going on:
"Let me give you an example," Wade said prior to Sunday's game, which the Heat won 103-93 to even their record at 2-2. "If you're in a relationship with a woman for a long time, you start getting comfortable. You stop doing the little things that you should do, that you did in the beginning. It's just like a relationship. We got a little comfortable. Now we have to get back on that edge a little bit."
Your first instinct is to look across the Heat locker room at James and examine his words and maybe his reaction to what Wade said, which will undoubtedly be relayed to the Heat's other alpha male. When James mentioned minor chemistry issues and Wade responds the way he did, it becomes painfully obvious that whatever issues exist must be worked out by the two most important men in the room (no offense to Heat boss Pat Riley or coach Erik Spoelstra, but everyone knows that the James/Wade show is what drives the Heat).
"It's just getting back into it — not taking what we have for granted," James said moments later when told of Wade's comments. "We've been together so long, you start to think we can go out and make it happen instead of talking through it. We lacked that the last few games. We got a handle on it today, and we know what the issue is."
We'll give it a few more games here at the hideout before we go hunting for that Chemistry For Dummies book to figure out the problem. Whatever issues the Heat have right now pale in comparison to what will go on if they continue to play .500 basketball into December and early January.
Based on their recent history, of course, there is little chance of that happening. So 82-0 is already out of the picture. Big deal.
After exhausting themselves last season in a quest to chase basketball immortality, the Heat should know better than anyone that this is a marathon and not a sprint. There is no need to stress a little early season scuffling when all will be forgotten the minute the Heat pile up four or five straight wins.
And save the possum for someone gullible enough to believe these minor issues are anything more than a temporary annoyance for a team that has managed to overcome all obstacles in each of the past two seasons.


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10.4 You agree that you shall not remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary rights notices (including copyright and trade mark notices) which may be affixed to or contained within the Services.
10.5 Unless you have been expressly authorized to do so in writing by Samsung, you agree that in using the Services, you will not use any trade mark, service mark, trade name, logo of any company or organization in a way that is likely or intended to cause confusion about the owner or authorized user of such marks, names or logos.
11. Software updates and availability of Services
11.1 The software which you use during the Services may automatically download and install updates from time to time from Samsung. These updates are designed to improve, enhance and further develop the Services and may take the form of bug fixes, enhanced functions, new software modules and completely new versions. You agree to receive such updates (and permit Samsung to deliver these to you) as part of your use of the Services.
11.2 Samsung reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change, improve and correct the Services. The Services may not be available during maintenance breaks and other times. Samsung may also decide to discontinue the Services or any part thereof in its sole discretion. In such case, you will be provided with prior notification.
11.3 Samsung may send push notifications to your mobile device that is capable of receiving them. You agree to receive such push notifications (and permit Samsung to deliver these to you) as part of your use of the Service. Push notifications can be turned off by you.
12. Ending your relationship with Samsung
12.1 This Agreement will continue to apply until terminated by either you or Samsung as set out below.
12.2 You can terminate this Agreement at any time by visiting https://account.samsung.com/account/legalSignOff.do or alternatively by closing your User account for the Services which Samsung made, as an option, available to you. You will be required to settle (or we will settle) any outstanding sum by the next immediate payment/settlement date following the date of closure of your account. Termination of your relationship with Samsung as buyer will not affect your use of our Services as seller.
12.3 Samsung may terminate this Agreement at any time by providing a 30 days prior written notice of cancellation to the email address provided to Samsung as part of your Registration Data or by any other suitable means which ensure that you will be able to take notice of the cancellation. You will be required to settle (or we will settle) any outstanding sum by the next immediate payment/settlement date following the date of closure of your account. Termination of your relationship with Samsung as buyer will not affect your use of our Services as seller.
13. Liability
13.1 Nothing in these Terms and Conditions excludes our liability (if any) to you for:
• personal injury or death resulting from our negligence;
• fraud;
• any matter for which it would be illegal for us to exclude or to attempt to exclude our liability.
We do not warrant or guarantee that the Services or Applications will be:
(a) compatible with all or any hardware and software which you may use;
(b) available all the time or at any specific time, uninterrupted, secure or error free;
(c) suitable for your requirements or meet any specific level of performance or functionality; or
(d) free from viruses, interference, hacking, corruption or other security intrusions.
We reserve the right to withdraw or modify the Services at any time.
We are only liable to you for direct losses which you suffer as a result of a breach of these terms and conditions by us. We are not responsible to you for any losses which you may incur which were not a foreseeable consequence of us breaching these Terms and Conditions, for example if you and we could not have contemplated those losses before or when you access the Services. Our liability to you shall not in any circumstances include any business losses that you may incur, including but not limited to lost data, lost profits or business interruption. In any event, our liability to you for any breach of this Agreement, negligence or other default shall not exceed the price of the Application in question.
By using the Services, you agree to indemnify Samsung and other companies and corporations in the Samsung group against any costs, damage, claims, liabilities and expenses incurred as a result of your breach of these Terms and Conditions, the privacy policy and/or any other applicable terms.
The information, documents, software and other materials contained on the STORE website are provided "as is". We try and ensure that such materials are accurate and up to date, but we cannot be responsible for any errors, faults or inaccuracies. Our liability to you as explained above remains unaffected by this.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we expressly exclude all representations, conditions, warranties or other terms which apply to the Services and associated content/information including any implied warranties of satisfactory quality, merchantability, fitness for a particular or any purpose or non-infringement which might otherwise apply but for this clause.
Unless otherwise expressly agreed, the Application is provided "as is" with no representation, guarantee or warranty of any kind as to its functionality or that it does not and will not infringe any third party rights (including intellectual property rights). Samsung has no obligation under this Agreement to provide technical or other support to you.
If in a relevant jurisdiction, these limitations and exclusions are not permitted then our liability shall be limited and excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall affect your statutory rights as a consumer.
14. Copyright and trade mark policies
14.1 It is Samsung's policy to respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable international intellectual property law and to terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.
15. Advertisements
15.1 Some of the Services are supported by advertising revenue and may display advertisements and promotions. These advertisements may be targeted to the content of information stored on the Services, queries made through the Services or other information.
15.2 The manner, mode and extent of advertising by Samsung on the Services are subject to change without specific notice to you.
15.3 In consideration of Samsung granting you access to and use of the Services, you agree that Samsung may place such advertising on the Services.
16. Other content
16.1 The Services may include hyperlinks to other web sites or content or resources. Samsung may have no control over any web sites or resources which are provided by companies or persons other than Samsung.
16.2 You acknowledge and agree that Samsung is not responsible for the availability of any such external sites or resources, and does not endorse any advertising, products or other materials on or available from such web sites or resources.
16.3 You acknowledge and agree that Samsung is not liable for any loss or damage which may be incurred by you as a result of the availability of those external sites or resources, or as a result of any reliance placed by you on the completeness, accuracy or existence of any advertising, products or other materials on, or available from, such web sites or resources.
17. Changes to the Terms and Conditions
17.1 Samsung may make changes to the Terms and Conditions from time to time. When these changes are made, Samsung will make a new copy of the Terms and Conditions available at the STORE and any new additional terms will be made available to you from within, or through, the affected Services.
17.2 You understand and agree that if you use the Services after the date on which the Terms and Conditions changed, Samsung will treat your use as acceptance of the updated Terms and Conditions.
18. General legal terms
18.1 Sometimes when you use the Services, you may (as a result of, or through your use of the Services) use a service or download a piece of software, or purchase goods, which are provided by another person or company. Your use of these other services, software or goods may be subject to separate terms between you and the company or person concerned. If so, the Terms and Conditions do not affect your legal relationship with these other companies or individuals.
18.2 The Terms and Conditions and the other documents referred to within the Terms and Conditions constitute the whole legal agreement between you and Samsung and govern your use of the Services (but excluding any services which Samsung may provide to you under a separate written agreement), and completely replace any prior agreements between you and Samsung in relation to the Services.
18.3 You agree that Samsung may provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to the Terms and Conditions, by email, regular mail, or postings on the Services.
18.4 You agree that if Samsung does not exercise or enforce any legal right or remedy which is contained in the Terms and Conditions (or which Samsung has the benefit of under any applicable law), this will not be taken to be a waiver of Samsung's rights and that those rights or remedies will still be available to Samsung.
18.5 If any court of law, having the jurisdiction to decide on this matter, rules that any provision of these Terms and Conditions is invalid, then that provision will be removed from the Terms and Conditions without affecting the rest of the Terms and Conditions. The remaining provisions of the Terms and Conditions will continue to be valid and enforceable.
18.6 You acknowledge and agree that each Samsung affiliated company shall be third party beneficiaries to the Terms and Conditions and shall be entitled to directly enforce, and rely upon, any provision of the Terms and Conditions which confers a benefit on (or rights in favor of) it. Other than this, no other person or company shall be third party beneficiaries to the Terms and Conditions. For the purposes of this Agreement, an affiliated company of Samsung is any company, corporation, firm, partnership or other entity that controls Samsung, is controlled by Samsung or is under common control with Samsung; the term controls and controlled meaning the ability to direct the management of the relevant entity.
18.7 You may not transfer, assign, charge or otherwise dispose of this Agreement, or any of your rights or obligations arising under it, without our prior written consent. We may transfer, assign, charge, sub-contract or otherwise dispose of this Agreement, or any of our rights or obligations arising under it, at any time during its term. We specifically reserve the right to transfer this Agreement and operation of the STORE to a third party, provided that we will ensure such third party successor to this Agreement and for the operation the STORE is capable of operating the STORE and fulfilling its obligations under this Agreement.
18.8 We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations under this Agreement that is caused by events outside our reasonable control ("Force Majeure Event"). A Force Majeure Event includes any act, event, non-happening, omission or accident beyond our reasonable control and includes in particular (without limitation) strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action, civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war, fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster, impossibility of the use of railways, shipping, aircraft, motor transport or other means of public or private transport, impossibility of the use of public or private telecommunications networks, the acts, decrees, legislation, regulations or restrictions of any government. Our performance under the Agreement is deemed to be suspended for the period that the Force Majeure Event continues, and we will have an extension of time for performance for the duration of that period. We will use our reasonable endeavours to bring the Force Majeure Event to a close or to find a solution by which our obligations under the Contract may be performed despite the Force Majeure Event.
18.9 The Terms, and your relationship with Samsung under the Terms, shall be governed by the laws of [the Republic of Korea] without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. You and Samsung agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts in [Seoul, Korea] to resolve any legal matter arising out of or connected to these Terms and Conditions (including non-contractual matters). Notwithstanding this, you agree that Samsung shall still be allowed to apply for injunctive remedies (or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief) in any jurisdiction.


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January Daring Bakers Challenge
Nanaimo Bars are a classic Canadian dessert created in none other than Nanaimo, British Colombia. In case you were wondering, it's pronounced Nah-nye-Moh. These bars have 3 layers: a base containing graham crackers, cocoa, coconut and nuts, a middle custard layer, and a topping of chocolate. They are extremely rich and available almost everywhere across the country.
Our Daring Baker Challenge this month also celebrates that the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver begin next month. The Nanaimo Bar recipe is a tasty way to welcome everyone to Canada!
The January 2010 Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren chose Gluten-Free Graham Wafers and Nanaimo Bars as the challenge for the month. The sources she based her recipe on are 101 Cookbooks and http://www.nanaimo.ca/.
This month the challenge was a bit more difficult from the supply perspective. I usually don't have any trouble living north of New York City finding just about anything I need. However, for this challenge I'm living in central Michigan where my husband is working on a contract. There aren't any Asian groceries, so I couldn't find any sweet rice flour. The local mega box store, Meijer, does have a small gluten free section with a nice basic selection of flours. Then I found a fantastic Co-op about 30 miles away in Mt. Pleasant, the Greentree, that has a wonderful array of organic and local foods.
Next, I went searching for Bird's custard powder. We began our search at the Eastman Party Store, as they said they carried a large selection of foreign foods. My husband and I imagined that it was a gourmet food store given their name, until we walked in the door. When we saw the numerous aisles of wine, beer and other alcoholic beverages, we understood the reason for the "Party Store" name. Wandering around, we found a variety of foods from around the world, including a jar of Bird's custard powder.
Now all I needed was a bag of sorghum flour. Since I also needed other gluten free flours that aren't easily found locally, I placed an order to a vendor I like to order from. After carefully filling out the form and double checking the Michigan shipping address, I clicked send. When I got the tracking notification for my box, I realized that my box was headed for New York and not Michigan. That meant a little juggling with the flours I had with me to make the Nanaimo bars.
When I worked on the recipe, I made an adjustment to the amount of sweet potato flour as the overall dough was basically honey flavored goo. The extra 1/2 cup sweet potato flour, fixed the goo issue and also kept the honey flavor from being over powering in the graham crackers. The final cracker was lightly honeyed and beautifully crisp.
The Nanaimo bars are fabulously rich and decadent. My family liked them cut into small squares for just a bit of sweetness.
Preparation time:
• Graham Wafers: 30 to 45 minutes total active prep, 2 ½ hours to overnight and 45 minutes inactive prep.
• Nanaimo Bars: 30 minutes.
Equipment required:
• Food Processor
• Bowls
• Parchment paper or silpats
• Cookie sheets
• Double boiler or pot and heatproof bowl
• 8 by 8 inch square pan
• Hand mixer or stand mixer (You may use a wooden spoon, but this makes it much easier!)
• Saucepan
Gluten-Free Graham Wafers Recipe
1 cup (138 g) (4.9 ounces) Sweet Potato Flour
3/4 cup (100 g) (3.5 ounces) Arrowroot Starch
1/2 cup (65 g) (2.3 ounces) Buckwheat Flour
1/4 cup (56 g) (2 ounces) Brown Rice Flour
1/4 cup (56 g) (2 ounces) Almond Meal
1 cup (200 g) (7.1 ounces) Dark Brown Sugar, Lightly packed
2 teaspoons (10 mL) Chia Seed Meal
1 teaspoon (5 mL) Baking soda
3/4 teaspoon (4 mL ) Kosher Salt
7 tablespoons (100 g) (3 ½ ounces) Unsalted Butter (Cut into 1-inch cubes and frozen)
1/3 cup (80 mL) Honey, Mild-flavoured such as clover
5 tablespoons (75 mL) Whole Milk
2 tablespoons (30 mL) Pure Vanilla Extract
1. In the bowl of a food processor fitted with a steel blade, combine the flours, brown sugar, baking soda, and salt. Pulse on low to incorporate. Add the butter and pulse on and off, until the mixture is the consistency of a coarse meal. If making by hand, combine aforementioned dry ingredients with a whisk, then cut in butter until you have a coarse meal. No chunks of butter should be visible.
2. In a small bowl or liquid measuring cup, whisk together the honey, milk and vanilla. Add to the flour mixture until the dough barely comes together. It will be very soft and sticky.
3. Turn the dough onto a surface well-floured with sweet rice flour and pat the dough into a rectangle about 1 inch thick. Wrap in plastic and chill until firm, about 2 hours, or overnight.
4. Divide the dough in half and return one half to the refrigerator. Sift an even layer of sweet rice flour onto the work surface and roll the dough into a long rectangle, about 1/8 inch thick. The dough will be quite sticky, so flour as necessary. Cut into 4 by 4 inch squares. Gather the scraps together and set aside. Place wafers on one or two parchment-lined baking sheets. Chill until firm, about 30 to 45 minutes. Repeat with the second batch of dough.
5. Adjust the rack to the upper and lower positions and preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 degrees Celsius).
6. Gather the scraps together into a ball, chill until firm, and reroll. Dust the surface with more sweet rice flour and roll out the dough to get a couple more wafers.
7. Prick the wafers with toothpick or fork, not all the way through, in two or more rows.
8. Bake for 25 minutes, until browned and slightly firm to the touch, rotating sheets halfway through to ensure even baking. Might take less, and the starting location of each sheet may determine its required time. The ones that started on the bottom browned faster.
9. When cooled completely, place enough wafers in food processor to make 1 ¼ cups (300 mL) of crumbs. Another way to do this is to place in a large ziplock bag, force all air out and smash with a rolling pin until wafers are crumbs.
Nanaimo Bars Recipe
For Nanaimo Bars — Bottom Layer:
1/2 cup (115 g) (4 ounces) Unsalted Butter
1/4 cup (50 g) (1.8 ounces) Granulated Sugar
5 tablespoons (75 mL) Unsweetened Cocoa
1 Large Egg, Beaten
1 1/4 cups (300 mL) (160 g) (5.6 ounces) Gluten Free Graham Wafer Crumbs (See previous recipe)
1/2 cup (55 g) (1.9 ounces) Almonds (Any type, Finely chopped)
1 cup (130 g) (4.5 ounces) Coconut (Shredded, sweetened or unsweetened) or Smashed Corn Flakes
For Nanaimo Bars — Middle Layer:
1/2 cup (115 g) (4 ounces) Unsalted Butter
1/4 cup (60 mL) Heavy Cream
2 tablespoons (30 mL) Vanilla Custard Powder (Such as Bird's. Vanilla pudding mix may be substituted.)
2 teaspoons (10 mL) Vanilla Extract
2 cups (254 g) (8.9 ounces) Icing Sugar
For Nanaimo Bars — Top Layer:
4 ounces (115 g) Semi-sweet chocolate
2 tablespoons (28 g) (1 ounce) Unsalted Butter
1. For bottom Layer: Melt unsalted butter, sugar and cocoa in top of a double boiler. Add egg and stir to cook and thicken. Remove from heat. Stir in crumbs, nuts and coconut. Press firmly into an ungreased 8 by 8 inch pan.
2. For Middle Layer: Cream butter, cream, custard powder, and icing sugar together well. Beat until light in colour. Spread over bottom layer.
3. For Top Layer: Melt chocolate and unsalted butter over low heat. Cool. Once cool, pour over middle layer and chill.
Additional Information:
1. These bars freeze very well, so don't be afraid to pop some into the freezer.
2. The graham wafers may be kept in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks.


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Thursday, May 09, 2013English Conversation Club
Time07:00 PM
LocationMain Library
301 York Street
Louisville, KY 40203
DescriptionEnglish Conversation Club allows non-native speakers to practice English in a relaxed, informal setting with others. If you are learning the English language, or would like to practice conversing in English, come join us at the Conversation Club. Participants should have some basic knowledge of the English language before joining. For English as a Second Language (ESL) students, this is a great way to use what you have learned in ESL classes. For more information or to volunteer call Kelly at 574-1611.


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Park Sessions 2013 Woodward Tahoe at Boreal: Teaser
PHOTOS: Ben Birk
So you looked at the preview photos, you read the words, and now you're ready to see the moving images. Well we got you covered. Have a look at our Boreal Park Sessions teaser. It features riding from Nial Romanek, Erik Leon, Sammy Spiteri, Riley Nickerson, Will Bateman, Brendan Gerard, John Lazzareschi, plus a bunch of the dudes from Strange Brew. And remember all the parks from our Park Sessions are the same parks that are open to the public. This isn't some exclusive, VIP bullshit. These are just snowboard parks that you, and your friends can ride too.
Stay tuned for the full Park Sessions edits dropping this fall, only on TWSNOW.COM


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Since Southern Chile's Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano complex erupted on June 4, its ash cloud has accomplished a feat many travelers daydream about: Circling the globe. And it didn't even have to buy a round-the-world ticket.
On its leisurely cruise around the Earth, the cloud first grounded flights in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. It blanketed Bariloche with ash and cinder, and closed the Cardenal Samoré border crossing. After drifting over the Atlantic Ocean, South Africa and other countries on that continent were affected. Across the Indian Ocean, then, to cause Qantas and other airlines to cancel flights in Australia and New Zealand last week.
Within two weeks, Puyehue-Cordón Caulle's ash cloud made full circle, re-entering South America near Coyhaique, Chile. Once again, South American air traffic was affected.
As if never ceasing on its enviable journey, the ashes arrived once again to Africa and Asia, causing the full moon to appear blood red during the June 15 lunar eclipse.
This past Monday, Virgin Australia, Qantas and other air lines once more canceled over 200 flights, affecting the travel plans of more than 40,000 passengers.
According to Australia's Volcanic Ash Advisory Center, the ash cloud is traveling some 4,000 kilometers (2,400 mi) per 24 hours, pushed on by strong winds. Satellite images still clearly show the plume, and pilots have reported seeing it.
In the meantime, Puyehue Volcano's eruption continued to pump out more smoke. Yesterday morning, fine ash fell upon Villarrica, Pucón and the Ranco Lake area. Northwesternly winds pushed the cloud towards Valdivia.
It appears, though, that Puyehue-Cordón Caulle's cloud will be running its course soon. Chile's Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería (Sernageomin) announced yesterday that the volcano has had a significant lava flow, which should stop the volcano from pumping out more ash. Nonetheless, the Puyehue and Ranco Lake districts are still under red alert.
Hopefully as Puyehue-Cordón Caulle settles down and unpacks its bags, human travelers will be able to get one with their journeys around the globe.


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In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz shows you how you can Tag your files in Windows 7 using tools built into Windows Explorer.
In a recent Windows Desktop Report, "Take Advantage of Search Filters in Windows Explorer," I showed you how to use and take advantage of the Search filters built in to Windows Explorer's Search box in Windows 7. As I told you in that blog post, as soon as you begin typing text in the Search box, Windows immediately begins sifting through the search index for that text in folder names, file names, the contents of the file, and file properties, such as Tags. I also showed you how you can narrow your search by creating your own filters based on file properties such as Tags.
In my example, I showed you that if you wanted to find files that have Invoice in the Tag, you can use the Tag: filter by typing the following in the Search box:
Since that blog was posted, I have received several emails from readers asking how you go about tagging files so that you can search on Tags.
In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, I'll show you how you can Tag your files.This blog post is also available in PDF format in a TechRepublic download.
What are Tags?
As you probably know, every file on your system has a set of attributes called file properties that includes such things as the name of the author or the date that the file was last modified. Tags are another type of file property, designed to be customized by the user. Tags are great for making searching easier because you can use words or even phrases that make sense to you. You can think of Tags as keywords.
While you can add Tags to many different types of files, you can't add them to all file types. For example, you can add Tags to Microsoft Office documents and most picture files, but you can't add Tags to text files or bitmap files.
Tagging files as you save them
When you save files from within certain applications, you'll have the opportunity to Tag your files. For example, Word 2007's Save As dialog box provides you with the ability to Tag a file. In fact, all Microsoft Office 2007 applications will allow you to add Tags from the Save As dialog box.As you can see in Figure A, right below the Save As Type drop-down menu is the Tags feature. Just click Add a Tag and a text box will appear where you can type your custom keyword or phrase.
Figure A
The Save As dialog box in Word 2007 allows you to Tag files as you are saving them.
You'll notice that as soon as you start typing, a semicolon appears at the end of your Tag. This indicates that you can add a second Tag if you wish. To do so, just click the Tags text box again and you'll be prompted to add a second Tag. You can add multiple Tags if you wish.As a time-saver, Word 2007 will monitor what you are typing and will display a list of recently used Tags, as shown in Figure B, that match what you are typing. Just select the adjacent check box, and the Tags you select will be instantly added.
Figure B
Word 2007 will display a list of recently used Tags that match what you are typing.
Tagging files from the Properties dialog box
You can Tag a file from within its Properties dialog box. Again, keep in mind that not all file types can be tagged.To do so, just right-click on the file and select the Properties command. When the Properties dialog box appears, select the Details tab. If the file type can be tagged, you'll find the Tags property. When you click just to the right of the Tags label, a text box will appear, as shown in Figure C, and you can type your Tag.
Figure C
You can add Tags from within the Properties dialog box.
Just like in the previous example, you can add multiple Tags if you wish. You'll also discover that Windows 7 will monitor what you are typing and will display a list of recently used Tags.
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Tagging files from within Windows Explorer
You can also tag a file from within Windows Explorer. Again, keep in mind that not all file types can be tagged.When you select a file that can be tagged, you'll see the Tags property in the Details pane at the bottom of the folder window, as shown in Figure D. You'll discover that you can add multiple Tags if you wish and you can see a list of recently used Tags.
Figure D
You can find the Tags property in the Details pane of Windows Explorer.
You may have to enlarge the Details pane in order to see the Tags property. If the Details pane isn't displayed, access the Organize menu on the Command bar, select Layout, and choose Details pane.
When tagging files from within Windows Explorer, you can tag multiple files with the same keyword at the same time. Just press and hold down the [Ctrl] key and then select the files you want to tag at the same time.
Using Tags
While I started this article by touting Tags as a way to make searches easier, they can also come in handy when you use the Arrange By, Group By, and Filter features that I covered in my recent blogs posts:
- "Weed through Your Files with the Windows Explorer Arrange By Feature"
- "Weed through Your Files Part Two: Windows 7 Group By and Filter Features"
What's your take?
Are you currently using Tags? If so, do you find that they allow you to keep your files better organized? If you are not yet using Tags, will you begin to do so? As always, if you have comments or information to share about this topic, please take a moment to drop by the TechRepublic Community Forums and let us hear from you.