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[Added: Columbus Day, 2010. Because Herman Melville's great-grandson Paul Metcalf had associated Columbus with Captain Ahab, it occurred to me that what the "anti-imperialist" anti-expansionists feared most was discovery as such. Finding out new things–for instance that admired authorities have been lying to you, or painfully over time finding out new truths in science and medicine–can get you fired, not hired, thrown out of graduate school or your profession or worse, much worse. So let us celebrate today the risky process of discovery, and honor those of our ancestors and contemporaries who are making the Ahab-ish leap from light into darkness that few of us would imitate. This is such a big subject that I wrote a recent blog about it: https://clarespark.com/2013/02/21/discovery-anxiety/.]
I have linked the problem of "race" and "racism" to "modernity" because numerous scholars and other writers on the Left blame modernity for racism. For them, the modern world begins with, and is defined by, the gold and resource-driven Western expansion into Asia, the New World, and Africa. Hence the primary feature of expansionism (i.e., imperialism) is the subjugation and exploitation of non-Europeans. Racism was said to originate in the need to explain the contradiction between Christian ethics and the cruelty and degradation visited upon native peoples, for example in the notion of "the White Man's burden"—the moral imperative to uplift and rescue pagans through the superior religion of Christianity. But other voices would have preserved the pagans, either as primitivists or perhaps holding to the theory of polygenesis: the idea of separate creation. In that theory, humanity evolved separately in the different regions of the world—hence "races." For these racists, there was no original set of homo sapiens in Africa that wandered the earth, mutating and adapting to drastically different environments. There are some white supremacists today who probably adhere to this polygenesis view of human evolution, and I have come across some on Facebook who call themselves by evocative names including the word "renaissance" but their aim is not humanism or the unity of our species, but the secession of white people from a multiracial polity (they are also interested in the subordination of women). These latter men are impressed by such as Carleton Coon, and the specter of miscegenation must give them hives.
Although it is true that the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries A.D. witnessed European expansion, there is another way to define modernity, and when I use that term, I refer to the transition from feudalism or other pre-capitalist economics to market economies. That transition remains far from complete, as I have written here numerous times. The postmodernists/post-colonialists believe they have not only dredged up the "submerged" cultures of native peoples, but have transcended the modernity that spun nativism (WASP supremacy), bureaucratic rationality and hence the Holocaust, but have they? Was Nazism "the revolt of the masses" and the excrescence of modern Jacobins? Moreover, the Great Chain of Being or similar hierarchies of "interdependence" remain intact because the scientific revolution and the rise of industrialism and a burgeoning middle-class challenged former ruling aristocracies with a newly literate class that was educating not only itself, but the lower orders. Enter team playing, the lovable fatherly Leader, and hierarchies would be preserved against the threat posed by the too-curious literate masses, including women. (For a perfect example of a model hierarchy see https://clarespark.com/2009/10/15/the-christianization-of-ziva-david-ncis/.)
Don't scratch your head about the deficiencies in our public school education. There is no moral imperative for those who identify with aristocracies, new or old, to give students the analytic tools they need to judge their superiors or elected officials. If there was serious education in our country, all students would study the sciences, economics (including the basic elements of accounting), the history of every social movement in the U.S. and the conflicts that they addressed, the wily ways of those who have governed us, and how to decipher the propaganda that urges deference to corrupt authority—from pre-school on through graduate school! (And I am not exempting the scrutiny of both high and popular culture from this menu. See the Ibsen excerpt here: https://clarespark.com/2009/11/02/a-ride-through-the-culture-wars-in-academe/.
Modernity, then, is founded upon the invention of the printing press and the spread of mass literacy and numeracy. It is about the growth of competitive markets, and the hatred of the bourgeoisie expressed by aristocrats threatened by displacement. Many a New Left "cultural radical" was a would-be aristocrat, spurning the middle-class, and getting down with the lower orders (who were viewed as less uptight—indeed as the source of instinctual liberation). In came George Orwell, folklore and rock 'n roll, out went classical music and the bourgeois entertainments that were related.
Primitivism—a habit of mind in both the pre-war and post-Great War modernist movement in the arts—is a form of racism, though it is not the nasty kind that we associate with lynch mobs, institutional exclusion, segregation, and worse. Primitivism and irrationalism are overlapping categories: we let in what Freud called the Id forces to relax that persecuting, insomniac, maternal Hebraic puritan superego, just enough to keep us "balanced" and ecologically hip.
(See Freud's 1933 topography of Superego, Ego and Id: the Superego reaches down and connects to the Id.* Or see the sequence of Picasso drawings elsewhere on this website: https://clarespark.com/2009/11/02/picasso-drawings-dreamy-mother-and-son-to-entwined-peasants/.) But since primitivism is a release, not a way of life that takes up the challenge of modernity in order to improve everyone's material condition, it cannot help non-whites achieve the American Dream: rather primitivism idealizes the lives of "carefree" non-whites and helps recruit middle-class kids from authoritarian families (or subtly authoritarian) to support for "wars of national liberation." At least that was the 1960s-70s protocol. So when the elite universities and the national government instituted multiculturalism, accommodating and supposedly defusing militant cultural nationalist movements among minorities, the hipper white kids got on the bus, not bothering to look back upon the history of racial theory.
Had they done so, they would have quickly discovered the origin of "multiculturalism" and its associated moral relativism in the theories of J. G. von Herder and the German Romantics who followed. They would have discovered that there were two Enlightenments: one promoting the careful and exhaustive empirical study of this world; its competition—the pseudo-Enlightenment–reacting to the proto-jacobin "mechanical materialism" of the Enlightenment with corporatism and the notion of national or racial character, a "different" Enlightenment or Aufklärung that preserved hierarchies, favoring the Greek way also known as "socially responsible capitalism." There was nothing democratic or egalitarian in the rooted cosmopolitan thought of Herder, Goethe, Fichte, and the hordes of social theorists who followed. The omnipresent word "diversity" today refers to the mystical organicism of Herder, Goethe, and their neoclassical, "tolerant" successors (e.g., Saint-Simon as elucidated by Frank E. Manuel, in his The Prophets of Paris). As I have said before, multiculturalism is an elite strategy to micromanage group conflict with their version of reparations; MC has nothing to do with unifying our species or spreading the skills that will help all of us to survive the numerous looming emergencies that beset us. It is collectivist and pseudo-functionalist at its core, does not lift up non-whites (but demeans them with administrative pseudo-remedies like affirmative action that recognize "race" as something real in the world, not as a category that has been socially constructed and reconstructed), and will marginalize or destroy discovery, other innovations, and all dissent.
*The (tentative) diagram may be seen in Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (Hogarth Press, 1967): Lecture 31, p.105. "You will observe how the super-ego goes down into the id; as the heir to the Oedipus complex it has, after all, intimate connections with the id" (p.104).


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The theatre is dark, the rules are announced, and the band breaks into America the Beautiful as a solitary figure in a blonde wig and cape approaches the stage. Waiting is the band and a drag king in leather jacket, denim, and do-rag, with the sad-downcast eyes of a domestic abuse victim. The figure approaches the mic and in a reveal reminiscent of FranknFurter in the Rocky Horror Show, the cloak is opened to reveal a facsimile of the Berlin wall, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch's title character breaks into the show's first song Tear Me Down.
Following a successful run in November 2018, In the Wings' Promotions' production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch was invited to be part of Montreal Pride's official programming. As director and the show's Yitzhak Noelle Hannibal put it:
"The show is so iconic in the community, that it's the perfect fit for Pride."
The venue has changed from Cabaret Mado to Café Cléopatre, but aside from a few enhancements, the show is every bit as riveting as during its first run.
For those of you unfamiliar with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, it is the brainchild of actor John Cameron Mitchell and musician Stephen Trask, who developed the off-Broadway show which then became a cult film and from there a Broadway show starring Neil Patrick Harris. The show is about a slip of a girly boy from communist East Berlin and is a blend of glam and punk rock, politics, and gender bending, with tunes so catchy even the biggest curmudgeon will be dancing in their seat.
Trask was a major part of the first Montreal run, sitting on dress rehearsals and answering Hannibal's texts as needed. The result is a show that's more than just pretty makeup, gender-reversals, and catchy tunes.
In my review of the show's first run, I noted that the relationship between Hedwig – played by New York based actor Andrew Morrissey, and Noelle Hannibal's Yitzhak was interpreted as one of domestic abuse. In this rendition that portrayal is enhanced with more passive aggression by Yitzhak – there are muttered curses, and spitting, and Yitzhak's eyes seethe with the hatred of the powerless for their oppressor.
Morrissey's Hedwig contains more deference for Yitzhak's talent, as if the abuse comes from the recognition that her talent is no match for Yitzhak's and she can only shine by putting him down. It provided more nuance to the characters from a script that by Hannibal's own admission, had very little to guide them.
Morrissey's Hedwig is much improved from the November run. Though his German accent is on and off and his voice is occasionally pitchy, you see more madness behind the makeup, more sincerity behind the line:
"I'll laugh because I'll cry if I don't."
With this more nuanced portrayal is all the sass and sex the part requires, and Morrissey pulls that off beautifully.
As important to the production as its stars are the band and costumes. Hedwig undergoes multiple costume changes during the show and designer Sig Moser clearly understood what the show is all about.
"He was very familiar with the show and the film version and brought in some fantastic ideas that would work with our extremely tight, indie budget. He can whip up a dress in an hour," said Hannibal, whose own costumes were tweaked to work better for this run.
The outfits are an amazing mix of showmanship, denim, leather, lace, and sequins, a true nod to music genres you'll live during the show.
The band, made up of Ian Baird, Kevin Bourne, Stephen Menold, and Sebastian Balk-Forcione, are not passive background musicians, but people who must actively interact with Hedwig and Yitzhak on stage. Though I wished the tempo of Tear Me Down was a bit quicker, the band did not disappoint. Decked out in punk rock pieces and colored hair, they are an amazing accompaniment to a show that features glam and punk rock in all its glory.
That said, the show is iconic for a reason, so come with an open mind. You won't be disappointed!
The current run of Hedwig and the Angry Inch finishes tonight. Tickets available through HedwigMontreal.com


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Alcohol 120% became a hit before my time but the name still resonates throughout the tech world. To put it simply, Alcohol 120% is a program that can read (mount) CD/DVD images with the added benefits of being able to backup CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD discs to an image format (it cannot bypass DRM protection), and burn images to discs. It can also do "traditional" burning, such as data and documents. Furthermore, Alcohol 120% supports .mds, .iso, .bwt, .b5t, .b6t, .ccd, .isz, .cue, .cdi, .pdi and .nrg image formats and can create up to 31 virtual drives at once.
Alcohol 120% and Dameon-Tools are the two big names that helped usher in the age of disc images, and to this day Alochol 120% remains an extremely popular piece of DVD burning/mounting software. While typically it would cost you €39.95, you can now get v5.5 for free! (This may be a limited time offer, I don't know, so be quick if you want it.)
Version being given out for free: v5.5
Special note: The German version of Alcohol 120% and the English version seem to have different number schemes, so don't let that confuse you. Furthermore, although this is a German promotion, the program itself will be in English.
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Supported OS: Windows XP/Vista
Special note: Windows 7 is not officially supported but this guide will show you how to install it on Windows 7
Download size: 12.1 MB
Note: Unless specifically stated otherwise in this article, Alcohol 120% has not been tested or reviewed by dotTech (aside from checking to make sure this promotion is valid). Please do not take this post as an endorsement/rejection or review of the program. This article is simply to inform about the availability of this program as a freebie; nothing more, nothing less.
The first thing you'll want to do is download the program. To do this Chip.de's promotion page and download it:
NOTE: This is a German promotion but the product will be in English.
Once the download has finished, extract it (the download is a ZIP file). Go the folder you extracted to and run Alcohol_5_Blu-Ray-CHIP.exe. Click on the "Internet" button:
Upon clicking the "Internet" button a website will load in your Internet browser requiring you to register:
Fill out your email address, your title (Herr for males, Frau for for female), your first and last names, and your country. I chose Schweiz since that's my favorite German-speaking country, but any of them is fine. Be sure to check the box – it signs you up for their newsletter and lets them process your information so you get the necessary license information. If you don't want the newsletter, you can either use a disposable email address or unsubscribe later.
Once you have filled out the whole form, click the "Weiter" button. If you do it properly you will get a confirmation message:
The message informs you that your email will arrive in less than 5 minutes, and to check your spam folder if it doesn't arrive in 5 minutes. It took ~30 minutes for the e-mail to arrive in my first account, and ~5 minutes to arrive in my second account so you may need to be a little patient.
The e-mail you need to look for in your inbox is from Franzis Registrierungsteam (email@example.com) with the subject of Registrierung: Alcohol 120% 5.0 Blu-ray – CHIP?. In the e-mail there is a click you have to click to confirm your e-mail address:
Once you click the link and confirm your e-mail address, you will get another e-mail from Franzis Registrierungsteam (email@example.com) with the subject of Registrierung: Alcohol 120% 5.0 Blu-ray – CHIP. This e-mail will contain the two codes you need to register Alcohol 120%:
Go back to the Alcohol 120% installer and enter the two codes you got via e-mail…
…and click "OK". After you click "OK" you will be asked if you want to run the Alcohol 120% installer; hit "Weiter":
Once the installer has been extracted, you will see this screen:
Once you are at this screen, what to do next depends on what Windows you are on.
Windows XP and Windows Vista
Click on installieren. The installer is actually displayed in English (for the most part) so begin installing the program like you would any other program. After accepting the Terms and Conditions, you should see two options – leave the default one checked:
Continue following the installer through; just make sure to leave everything checked and keep clicking next. You know you have successfully installed the program when you see the last and final screen:
After installation has finished and you run Alcohol 120%, you will be presented with another registration screen. Simply re-enter the user ID and registration code you received earlier via e-mail and click "OK". You should now have a fully functioning, registered, version of Alcohol 120%!
Windows 7
NOTE: Before you proceed please realize this particular version of Alcohol 120% is not officially supported on Windows 7. In fact, it won't even install on Windows 7 without a few tricks. That means that Alcohol 120% (v5.5) may not work properly on Windows 7 and could possibly cause harm to your computer. By installing Alcohol 120% (v5.5) on Windows 7 you are accepting all the risk onto yourself. Locutus, Ashraf, dotTech, anyone or anything else (besides yourself) is not responsible for any gain or loss you may incur.
When you get to the installieren screen shown previously, don't click anything. Go to C:/Users/your user name/AppData/local/temp. A quick easy way to get to that temp folder is pressing Win+R and typing in %TEMP% and hitting "OK".
Once that temp folder is open, do a search for Alcohol. You're looking for Alcohol120_de_retail_22.214.171.12419.exe:
Copy and paste it to the desktop and name it something like Blah.exe – don't rename it to anything that even remotely looks like the original name.
Download the latest version of SPTD from Duplex Secure. Make sure to download the one that's right for your architecture (i.e. 32-bit or 64-bit)! After the download has finished, install it:
After installation has finished, restart your computer.
After restarting, open up the Alcohol installer from your desktop (the one that you renamed). Click Next and then I Agree. (You'll notice that this installer is in two languages it's pulling some text from the OS and some from the installer itself.) Once you reach the "select components to install" screen make sure to select the first three options:
The first, grayed out box is the main program. The second is the multilingual language packs, which I'm guessing contain English. The third is a service required by Alcohol 120%. The fourth one is the offline help – I have no idea which language it would install, so it's not worth it unless you understand German. The fifth are desktop icons, but by the end of this article we will have changed the path of the EXE file so the desktop icons are worthless to us.
After selecting the proper components, click Next and accept the default install path:
Click Install and it will install:
Once you are at the final end screen of the installation, before you close the installer make sure to uncheck both of the two options:
(You don't want to autostart the program.)
Next, go to C:/Program Files/Alcohol Soft/Alcohol 120 (go to C:/Program Files (x86)/Alcohol Soft/Alcohol 120 if you are on a 64-bit machine). Rename alcohol.exe to program.exe:
Run Alcohol 120% and click the Register button. Find the second code you received via e-mail earlier (the longer one) and enter it. Once you click "OK", it'll take several minutes to "Apply Alcohol virtual device settings". Once the virtual device settings have been applied, go through the options and set everything the way you want it to – set up virtual drives (I like just the default one), set up filetype registrations, etc. Once you're done with this, restart your computer again. After reboot, Alcohol 120% will work!
Great software? Yes, personally I do feel it is. Here is an example of what one can do with it; I have mounted an ISO of the Avatar DVD I made with DVD Shrink:
*NOTE: That is a legal backup of the movie – I own it.
(In case you are wondering: The first disc drives is my annoying SD card reader, the second is my DVD drive, the third is a Virtual CloneDrive, and the fourth highlighted one is Alcohol 120%.)
Alcohol 120% is a great piece of burning/mounting software, and the fact that it's available for free is even better. Enjoy everyone!
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Kuldip Nayar, 89, the grand old lion of Indian journalism—former editor of the Statesman in Delhi, former managing editor of the United News of India news agency, former correspondent of the London Times, former media advisor to the late prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, former high commissioner of India to the United Kingdom, and above all a secular, liberal peace monger—has just published his memoirs.
Titled Beyond the Lines (Roli Books, Rs 495), the book brings home a man who can legitimately claim to have seen Mahatma Gandhi at prayer, quizzed Jawaharlal Nehru, watched Mohammed Ali Jinnah closely, worked with Shastri and Govind Ballabh Pant, all figures who are part of history books to whole generations.
The book also throws light on Nayar, the lionhearted journalist who opposed the Emergency and rubbed shoulders with generations of journalists and proprietors:
SHANTI PRASAD JAIN, The Times of India: T.T. Krishmachari was still in the cabinet when Shastri assigned to me the task of findings out from Shanti Prasad Jain whether he would be willing to sell Bennett Coleman, which published the Times of India, Nav Bharat Times and other publications. They were being run by a board that the government had appointed when TTK told Nehru that the owners had been found indulging in malpractices.
Shanti Prasad and his talented wife, Rama Jain, were known to me as we played bridge together. Shanti Prasad had told me to start a Hindi UNI service which he promised to subsidize. I was embarrassed to have to carry Shastri's message to him. He was upset. He told me that even if he had to sell all his business, including the house in which he was living, he would never sell the Times of India. Shastri returned Bennett Coleman to him.
C.R. IRANI, The Statesman: I was unhappy in the Statesman. Irani had reduced me to the position of consulting editor from resident editor. He then wanted me to vacate my room as well, and asked me to sit somewhere else. Subsequently, he withdrew my peon and telephone too.
What hurt me most was that a colleague and a friend S. Nihal Singh, tried to effect the changes. It was in fact he who conveyed Irani's decision to me. Nihal's attitude exuded authority which was humiliating. I could understand Irani's action but not those of Nihal who himself subsequently suffered at Irani's hands and had to leave the Statesman.
The only person who stood by me during those days was my secretary, G. Barret. She refused to work with Nihal and preferred to stay on with me. I was reduced to writing only my weekly column, 'Between the Lines'. Irani tried to stop that too but did not succeed because the editor N.J. Nanporia refused to permit that.
SHEKHAR GUPTA, The Indian Express: I hired many journalists but two of the recruits, Shekhar Gupta and Madhu Kishwar, became celebrities. Shekhar Gupta called me his 'guru' but showed no respect when he stopped my fortnightly column. By then he had become all in all in the Express, circumstances having helped him to occupy the position of editor-in-chief. He also became abnormally affluent as well as arrogant.
I liked him when he was a simple straightforward journalist at Chandigarh. Now, Shekhar Gupta was infatuated with himself. His personal views and other considerations shaped the Indian Express which was once India's most anti-establishment newspaper.
(Update: On its website, Roli Books has issued this clarification: "The new edition of Kuldip Nayar's widely popular autobiography, Beyond the Lines, now comes with several changes including his remarks relating to Shekhar Gupta, Editor, the Express Group, and his reference to a former president of Sikh Student's Union, both of which he retracted and regretted for at the launch. All subsequent editions of the book come with these changes.")
RAMNATH GOENKA, The Indian Express: What shocked me was that RNG removed V.K. Narasimhan, who as editor-in-chief had kept the defiant stance of the Indian Express intact, a couple of days after Indira Gandhi lost power. His name was removed from the print line and substituted by S. Mulgaonkar's, without Narasimhan's knowledge.
He resigned to register his protest. The entire senior editorial staff signed a petition against Goenka's action. I was approached to sign it. I told them that I would not do so but after speaking to Goenka who was in the guest-house. I asked if the news about Narasimhan's removal was correct.
He said he had to restore Mulgaonkar to his position to correct the wrong done to him. 'Was it necessary to do so in the manner you have,' I asked. He said that he should have reverted Narasimha to his original position at the Financial Express and seemed regretful.
When I told him about the revolt in the office he said they should not forget what he has gone through during the Emergency. I could see repentance on his face. He wanted me to go to Narasimhan's house and bring him back. I went there and found him sitting in the floor having a cup of coffee his wife had prepared. I requested him to rejoin as editor of the Financial Express and assured him that RNG was apologetic.
For Narasimhan, the question of joining the Express group again did not arise. He asked me how long had I known RNG. Before I could reply, he said: 'Kuldeep, I have known him for 30 years. Goenka has not changed. He is as selfish as ever.'
How courageous and noble a man was Narasimhan, I thought. He had no job to go to and yet took a stand whenever there was attack on his dignity. I had close relations with the Deccan Herald family and got him posted as editor-in-chief of the newspaper.
AVEEK SARKAR, Ananda Bazaar Patrika: I resumed my syndicated weekly column, 'Between the Lines' after my return from the UK. Even within the brief period of a year when I was in London, Indian journalism had changed dramatically and become owner-driven.
For instance, Anand Bazar Patrika reflected Aveek Sarkar's views. His father, Asok Sarkar, was a friend of mine so I treated Aveek like a member of the family. He once told me that he was the second most important person in West Bengal after Jyoti Basu, who was then alive.
Much earlier the Rajasthan Patrika had stopped publishing my column. The owner, R.C. Kulish, was a personal friend but could not tolerate my criticism of the BJP position. 'I am not against Muslims and I have one servant from the community but they have to be kept in their place,' he told me once. Never did I suspect that he would go so far as to stop the publication of the column. I vainly tried to meet him in Jaipur. Once when in the city, I learnt he was critically ill, so I went to his house and waited to see him but he refused to meet me.
In the case of Dainik Bhaskar, I stopped my columns because it refused to publish my piece on 'paid news'. Although I did not name anyone the newspaper still refused to publish the column. I wrote a letter of protest to the owner and received no response.
N. RAM, The Hindu: My experience with N. Ram, the editor of the Hindu was disappointing. I used to write an opinion piece for the newspaper twice a week and a human rights column once a month. He stopped them because I was a friend of Malini Parthasarthy who, along with N. Ravi, was pushed out of editorial control when they were reduced to a minority in the public limited company that the Hindu is.
Ram joined G. Kasturi and a few others to constitute a majority. Ravi, modest and unassuming, and Malini, a talented journalist, suffered the most but stoically bore the humiliation. When newspapers turn themselves into companies and the majority begins to prevail, the newspaper becomes a purely commercial proposition like any corporate house.
SAMIR JAIN, The Times of India: Sham Lal once told me that he as the editor of the Times of India, was never rung up by Shanti Prasad Jain, the then owner of the newspaper, and that the latter did not even remotely suggest to him which line he should adopt on any particular subject. Throughout Shamlal's long tenure, Shanti Prasad never expressed his disapproval of anything the editor wrote.
By contrast, the attitude of his son, Ashok Jain, who inherited Bennett Coleman & Co, was quite different. He was committed to commercial success and would ensure that the newspaper did not come into conflict with his business interests or those he promoted.
Girilal Jain, the then editor of the Times of India, rang me up one day to ask whether I could speak to Ashokj Jain, whom I knew well, to get Samir Jain, his son, off his back. Giri said that Ashok Jain, whatever his preferences, treated him well but Samir's attitude was humiliating.
Inder Malhotra once recounted to me how senior journalists were made by Samir to sit on the floor in his room to write out the names of invitees on cards sent by the organization.
I flew to Bombay and spoke to Ashok who frankly said he would have no hesitation in supporting his son because the latter had increased the revenue tenfold, from Rs 8 lakhs to 80 lakhs. 'I can hire many Giri Lal Jains if I pay more but not a Samir,' said Ashok. I conveyed this to Giri who did not last long with the newspaper.
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Gmail for iPhone and iPad has been updated with a variety of new features including multiple account support and a new cleaner look. The new look is quite likely the work of the Sparrow team, which was acquired by Google earlier this year.
The new app supports multiple accounts for the first time, which is fantastic. The redesigned look mixes the new 'clean' Google aesthetic from its products like Now and more with Sparrow's mechanics.
The new app also features some improvements outside of the look. The new app also features auto-completed search predictions as you type them in the field. The inbox scrolls infinitely as you swipe through your inbox as well, which is a huge improvement on loading it screen by screen.
You can now also respond to Google Calendar invites within the app without jumping out to a web view, which is nice. If you get sent a Google+ post in your email inbox, you'll be able to interact with it, giving it a plus one or commenting, for instance.
The new 'welcome experience' gives you a guide to the new features of the app in a pleasantly animated swipeshow. The new design is clean, instantly recognizable as Google, but also infinitely better than the last version of the app. I've been playing with it for just a few minutes and I already like it a lot.
Whether Sparrow's team was actually involved with the new version is up for debate, but it's undeniable that certain portions of this app feel very Sparrow-influenced. Google did get all of the frameworks and elements of Sparrow with the deal, so it very well could have put them to use itself, regardless of how involved the team were.
However, the app's message view is still presented in a non-native web view. This makes many actions slower than they need to be. This, in turn, makes tapping around the app feel sluggish, especially if you're a power user who burns through a lot of email very quickly. This, unfortunately, eliminates Gmail for iOS for me as a primary email app. I'll have to stick to the aging Sparrow or Mail.app for now.
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When coffee professionals talk about the success or failure of a particular batch, you might hear them throwing around terms like "TDS" or "extraction percentage." What they're talking about is the necessary and related principles of how much coffee flavor is being drawn (or "extracted") from the coffee grounds, and then how concentrated that soluble coffee material is in the finished drink, which is also known as the beverage's "strength."
"Luckily, as nerds of the modern age, we're also equipped with some tools to do the hard math for us."
Extraction and strength are the two most important physical properties of a finished coffee drink as far as a barista is concerned. Sure, as taste-obsessed professionals, any coffee-making craftsperson needs to be able to detect extraction or strength mishaps using their palates, but luckily, as nerds of the modern age, we're also equipped with some tools to do the hard math for us, as well.
TDS, as mentioned above, stands for "total dissolved solids," and in coffee brewing this term refers to the amount of the soluble flavor material from the coffee bean that is extracted as a part of the brewing process. While coffee beans (and, therefore, coffee grounds) are comprised of about 70% nonsoluble material—essentially the cell material that makes the beans solid in the first place—there remains about 30% of compounds that do dissolve in water. These are not only the things that make your coffee taste like, well, coffee, but they're also what makes the brewing water turn from clear to brown—and from nonstimulating to caffeinated.
Unfortunately for everyone, not all of what can be dissolved from coffee grounds necessarily should be: A lot of it doesn't taste very good, and can overwhelm the finished product with bitter flavors. Conversely, extracting too little of what the coffee has to offer leaves a sour taste and a cup devoid of sweetness. Hitting the sweet spot, which is typically considered anywhere from 18% to 22% is what makes the act of brewing coffee so darned hard: It's much too easy to over- or underextract this stuff.
Once the desired amount of solubles have been dissolved in water, there needs to be a balance of that coffee flavor to the liquid that completes the drink. Coffee is an incredibly strong-tasting substance, and so it needs to be pretty heavily diluted in most instances in order to be drinkable. (Espresso is a notable exception: Its concentration is part of what makes it so appealing.) In most nonconcentrated instances, the cup you sip will ideally be less than 2% coffee solubles, and more than 98% clean hot water. Too much water to coffee in your mug makes a weak, papery-tasting brew; too little water can make coffee taste terribly intense, almost ashy.
Tasting is a great way to diagnose and troubleshoot when either strength or extraction—or both!—has gone haywire, but it can also be a pretty subjective or impressionable skill for a barista. (Palate fatigue, people: It's a real thing.)
Enter the dynamic duo of a refractometer and the ExtractMoJo program, courtesy of the tech company VST.
Refractometers are used for myriad things, from testing urine samples for medical purposes to reading the relative salinity of water in an aquarium, and even to determining the potential conversion of sugars in alcohol before the process of fermentation. The tool is used by measuring the refraction of light shone into a substance as it sits on a lens. A few years ago, VST developed a universal beverage refractometer, which can be used to measure the concentration of coffee solubles in both brewed coffee and espresso. In the case of coffee, the refraction can tell us pretty precisely how much soluble coffee material a sample of the liquid contains, and the tool then displays a TDS reading on its LED screen.
Plugging in that TDS percentage to VST's complementary ExtractMoJo software, along with data regarding the coffee dose and brewing-water weight, will yield the percentage of the extraction which was achieved during the brewing process. (Note: While ExtractMoJo can be used without a refractometer, the two together make a super user-friendly (if really expensive) combination.)
Of course, the tools can only tell us what percentage of the material was dissolved, not what type: Even when the extraction shows smack dab in the perfect 18–22%, some of what makes up that tally might not taste especially good. This is part of the reason that this kind of geekery is best left to the labs and training rooms of coffee professionals.
I'll grant you that this all sounds like a head-scratchingly complex way of brewing a simple cup of coffee, and wouldn't be surprised if some readers wonder why the fuss. The tools are hecka useful, however, not just for training and quality control purposes at a café or for a coffee roaster, but they're also functional for calculating things like the least amount of coffee necessary in order to achieve a good-tasting coffee (which can help manage a company's bottom line), and to track preferences among groups of customers or potential customers along the way.
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I am happy.
It feels so good to say that. I am happy and that makes me happy.
After a year of ups and downs, worrying, frets and stress it feels so good to be able to say that I really am happy.
Our summer, so far, has been one of intentional happiness. I purposely didn't sign my kids up for camps, activities, VBS, etc. this year because I wanted everything we were doing to be exactly what we wanted to do. I didn't want to be running around, car pooling, feeling regrets because we didn't have time to do what we wanted to do. We wake up each morning and everything on our agenda is things we want to do, not have to do. I feel kind of selfish, having a carefree summer, but it has been so nice.
I need to start doing my Happiness Reports again, because there are so many things making me happy right now. So many little things I'm taking notice of that bring me joy.
A hot cup of coffee, made for me by my husband…a thoughtful gesture not unnoticed.
A string of white lights, hung in the trees.
Taking pictures, even if it's of nothing "special"… just getting out my camera and capturing what my life is full of.
Summer breeze, time to read, lazy mornings.
All of these things, and so much more, bring a smile to my face. Just like a bowl of cherries.
Turning those cherries into a favorite coffee cake for my husband makes me happy too. He's never been a quick bread or coffee cake kind of guy, until I made this recipe from Cheryl's blog a few months back. He took it to work to share and came back raving about how delicious it was. For Father's Day, I wanted to make it again, but this time using some of the fresh cherries of summer. You can certainly used canned pie filling, but when cherries are abundant it's hard to justify not taking advantage of the summer harvest.
What's making you happy these days? Whether it is a new haircut, a summer vacation, success at work… I hope you'll share your recent moments of joy in the comments section.
Life is good… like a bowl full of cherries!
Cherry Cream Coffee Cake
- 3/4 cup butter softened
- 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup brown sugar packed
- 1 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2-1/4 tsp baking powder
- 4 cups pitted red cherries
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup cornstarch
- 1 Tablespoon butter melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
- 3-5 Tablespoons heavy whipping cream
- Preheat oven to 350°
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, brown sugar and cinnamon.
- Using a fork or pastry blender, cut softened butter into the flour mixture (will be crumbly). Reserve one cup of this mixture to save for topping.
- Mix eggs and cream. Slowly add to the flour mixture and blend until well incorporated. Add salt and baking powder and mix until smooth.
- Pour batter into greased springform pan.
- Meanwhile, place cherries and lemon juice into a saucepan over medium heat. Cover and heat cherries until they release their juice and come to a simmer, 10 to 15 minutes. Stir often.
- In a small bowl, whisk granulated sugar with cornstarch; pour the mixture into the hot cherries and juice, and thoroughly combine. Return to low heat, bring to a simmer, and cook until the filling is thick and bubbly, about 2 minutes; remove from heat.
- Pour cherry pie filling over batter in the springform pan.
- Top pie filling with the 1 cup of reserved flour mixture, spreading evenly to cover.
- Bake for 55 minutes or until brown and toothpick in the center comes out clean.
- Allow to cool for 5 minutes then remove cake from the springform.
- *For the Icing:*Mix together melted butter and vanilla. Slowly stir in powdered sugar and cinnamon.
- Add 3 tablespoons of heavy whipping cream. Stir until creamy and smooth.
- Add more cream 1 tablespoon at a time until desired consistency.
- Drizzle over coffee cake and serve. Enjoy!


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Where did Opportunity land? Meridiani Planum!
Two robot rovers landed on Mars in January 2004. They are called the Mars Exploration Rover mission. One rover is named Spirit. The other is called Opportunity. Opportunity landed at a place called Meridiani Planum.
Meridiani Planum is a very flat plain. "Planum" means "plain". Even though the plain is mostly flat, Opportunity ended up inside a crater! Don't worry - the crater is very small and the rover should be able to drive out of it.
Some minerals on Earth form in wet places. One of those minerals is called hematite. Scientists think there is hematite at Meridiani Planum. Opportunity is searching for hematite. If it finds some, that might mean that the plain used to be wet.
Opportunity has a twin. Its twin is named Spirit. Spirit landed at a different place on Mars. Spirit landed at a place called Gusev Crater.


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This article arises from Future Tense, a collaboration among Arizona State University, the New America Foundation, and Slate. On Feb. 29, Future Tense will host an event on the Make movement and do-it-yourself innovation in Washington, D.C. For more information and to sign up for the event, please visit the NAF website.)
In the early half of the 20th century, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold tens of thousands of self-assembly homes to customers across the United States by mail order. A "Sears Modern Home" came in a railroad-delivered kit complete with more than 30,000 component parts, along with nails, paints, and fittings, and a weighty leather-bound instruction manual to help you put together the designs yourself. The plans were designed to be simple enough to be assembled without help from architects, carpenters, or any specialist contractors—in most cases, Sears homes were assembled solely by the buyer, with the help of friends, family, and neighbors, in communal, barn-raising fashion.
As it was the advent of mass-manufacturing and the birth of American DIY spirit that gave way to the then-popularity of the Sears precut home (Sears wasn't the first, nor the only company in the business), so it is that an Internet reaching maturity, with open-source spirit, brings us the Sears home of our own age: the WikiHouse.
WikiHouse is an "open-source construction set" that allows you to build your own house from slot-together pieces that you mill yourself, from crowd-sourced, open-source designs that you download free from the Web. The idea is to make it easy for anyone to build a house from scratch, without power tools or specialized knowledge, and for the price of raw materials alone. Choose your design, print and cut the parts, grab some friends, and get barn-raising. Et voilà, you have yourself a WikiHouse.
Houses are assembled from plywood components, cut from internationally standard 8-by-4-foot, 18mm-deep sheets. Of the handful of prototypes built so far, WikiHouses have been square, single-story structures with sloped roofs and small—approximately 175 square feet—foundations. Building takes hours rather than weeks, and the end product is a bare, untreated wooden structure, ready for wiring, insulating, plumbing, and cladding.
The WikiHouse project is still in its infancy. These early, pitched-roof designs are more like sheds than houses (WikiHouse's creators have and use one as a meeting room), and an actual, full-scale house, of Sears complexity, is some time away—if that's even the ambition. It remains an optimistic, experimental side-project, as much proof-of-concept as statement of intent: As a collaborative platform for low-cost, resource-light, sustainable housing, it just may have the potential to turn the principles of traditional architectural economics on their head.
Behind the project is London-based design agency 00:/, a self-consciously experimental group of architects and creatives, experimenting about the social implications of design and design choices, proudly de-emphasizing bricks and mortar, and rejecting any notion that a designer's job is to ship a product. WikiHouse is one such experiment: exploring what lowering the threshold to building houses, and opening up architectural design to global collaboration, might enable.
This is open-hardware on a building scale. "It is, effectively, taking the same principle of the design standards that make code sharable in the software sense—and literally applying it around hardware and CNC-cut timber," explains Alastair Parvin, a 00:/ architect working on the project. The result: The knowledge of how to design and build your own house—including, eventually, its inner workings, its heat exchange design, and so on—becomes public knowledge. The ambition, says Parvin, is "to put those capabilities into the public domain, where anyone can use them—and collectively, we can improve on them."
WikiHouse's framework consists of a plug-in for Google Sketchup—a popular, free program for 3-D design—that takes the design you download from WikiHouse's website library and lays the component parts onto sheets for milling. Granted, you'll need a computer numerical-control milling machine to cut your timber—but your local town or school probably has one that you can borrow or rent. (And if you're really kicking the DIY spirit, why not build one yourself?)
However cheeky, experimental, or small-scale WikiHouse appears to be, its open-hardware underpinnings are serious, its principles interesting and potentially important. In the context of a revolution in tools enabling decentralized DIY living, its ideas offer a route to low-economy sustainable development in a new industrial revolution, overturning architectural convention along the way.
As much as it is about crowdsourced, freely distributed designs, WikiHouse is also about the democratization of the build itself. Early designs have required metal bolts to join their jigsaw parts, but the aim is to make future designs entirely bolt-free—ensuring that the building requirements are as straightforward as possible. Even the mallet used to hammer in pieces is CNC-milled as part of each design—a "poem" to the way WikiHouse want to take things, Parvin says. More poetic than an IKEA hex key, certainly.
These are not the building blocks for complex, robust, modern homes. So what use is a WikiHouse?
With resources and necessary tools few and cheap, as well as being largely material-agnostic (so long as it's wood, its parts can be local and to suit any budget), there could be many. One thing several commentators have picked up on is how the WikiHouse model could be used in natural disaster zones: cheap, sustainable housing that can be erected in days—if not hours. It's not ideal for providing emergency shelter in the immediate aftermath of catastrophe, but in medium-term, post-disaster relief and recovery it could prove very valuable indeed. Deliver a CNC mill and a pile of timber panels to a power source anywhere in the world, and build yourself a WikiVillage. A cheap, sustainable solution that fills the gap before the concrete aid arrives.
The exciting thing is that what becomes of WikiHouse is up to us, and our collective imagination. We're not limited to Sears catalog designs. Fix a structural defect, introduce an extension, improve the ease of the build, and you can share the design, collaborating on iterative improvements. Architecture—a closed, deeply individualistic field in which buildings are identified by their architects before anything else—is a field ripe for this kind of mass collaborative innovation.
This is less about customization and economies of scale than about what collaboration can bring to architecture, big and small, as we share, collaborate, and improve on the knowledge of making buildings. And putting WikiHouse's philosophy in the context of low-cost, medium-term sustainable housing solutions: The result is much smarter design that could bring with it enormous social benefits, as much in the United States as in the developing world.
Eventually, sales of Sears homes began to slow as the complexity of the modern home increased, coming abruptly to a stop at the onset of the Great Depression. A DIY construction kit simply wasn't practical for Sears or its customers any longer. For the same reasons, suburban cul de sacs are unlikely to be populated with full-scale, fully complex WikiHouses anytime soon. But neither, I expect, will the project be limited to hobbyist tree houses and garden sheds.


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Daniel Ellsberg thanks Snowden
The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers is praising Edward Snowden, saying he's "impressed" by the man who says he revealed secret National Security Agency surveillance programs.
"I'm very impressed by what I've heard in the last couple of hours including Snowden's own video here. I think he's done an enormous service, incalculable service," Daniel Ellsberg said Sunday night on CNN. "It can't be overestimated to this democracy. It gives us a chance, I think, from drawing back from the total surveillance state that we could say we're in process of becoming, I'm afraid we have become. That's what he's revealed."
Ellsberg said that despite a "clear law" outlawing such leaks, if he had been in Snowden's position he would have done the same thing.
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"If I had known that the NSA, the National Security Agency, as I say, to which I had access, if I had known that they were spying on every American multiple times, different phone lines, bank data, credit cards, GPS, everything else, if I had known that, I would have done just what he's done. I would have broken that law of civil disobedience," he said.
In 1971, Ellsberg gave The New York Times and The Washington Post classified documents about the conduct of the Vietnam War and became the first person prosecuted under the 1917 Espionage Act. The case was later thrown out after it was revealed the government had illegally wiretapped Ellsberg.
( PHOTOS: 10 famous whistleblowers)
Ellsberg said he has waited "decades" for someone like Snowden. "Decades in a sense that of seeing somebody who really was prepared to risk his life for his country as a civilian. To show the kind of courage that we expect of people on the battlefield," he said on CNN.
Ellsberg said he fully expects Snowden to be prosecuted, a case which he said will bring up the constitutionality of the government's surveillance practice.
"I have no doubt that this violates the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution and probably other parts of the Bill of Rights and should have been exposed," Ellsberg said. "Can it really be a crime to expose crime? Or that's never been judged by any court. Including the Supreme Court. I think this is a good time to look at it."


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Was Scott Brown drunk last month when he tweeted "bqhatevwr"? Whatever, the former Massachusetts senator says. It was just a classic case of a butt tweet. Really Scott Brown? We beg to differ.
For those unfamiliar with the tweet in question, it's long since been deleted. Fortunately, though, our friends at Gawker were able to get a screengrab before it disappeared:
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So. Was bqhatevwr the work of drunken fingers or, as Brown claims, accidental butt communication? Before you make up your mind, here are the exact conditions that would have had to coalesce that night for Brown to be telling the truth:
- The Twitter app was open when Scott Brown put his phone in his pocket.
- A new tweet was open when Scott Brown put his phone in his pocket, or his butt opened a new tweet.
- Scott Brown had a serious case of swamp ass, giving him a capacitive butt.
- Scott Brown has a very bony butt.
- Scott Brown was fidgety, allowing his wet bony butt to hit letter keys on his open tweet.
- Like, very fidgety, so fidgety that his butt can almost spell the same word he had just intentionally tweeted a few times, but not quite that word. Like a drunk version of that word.
Decide for yourself! For reference, I sat on my iPhone with Twitter open and wiggled for several minutes and no tweets were sent. [Politico]


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MOSCOW, March 19 (UPI) -- The decision by Texas prosecutors not to charge the adoptive parents of a dead Russian toddler met with criticism Tuesday from Russia's child rights advocate.
Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov tweeted that U.S. prosecutors failed to scrutinize the circumstances of 3-year-old Maxim Kuzmin's death, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported.
Kuzmin, who is known in the United States by his adoptive name of Max Shatto, died on January 21 nearly three months after he and his younger brother were adopted from a Russian orphanage.
Medical officials in Texas said Max had a history of "self-injury."
The Ector County district attorney told RIA Novosti that Texas Child Protective Services is still investigating the toddler's death.
Russia's Investigative Committee is also looking into the death.


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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The only similarity in the rematch of a tightly played seven-game series between Los Angeles and San Jose is that the home team keeps winning.
What's drastically different is that Jonathan Quick and the normally air-tight Kings defense is giving up goals at a staggering pace.
Fourth-liners Mike Brown and Raffi Torres scored second-period goals to erase an early two-goal deficit and the Sharks shredded Quick for a second straight game, beating the Kings 7-2 Sunday night to take a 2-0 lead in their first-round series.
"I don't think that this series is going to play out in blowouts like this, night after night," Sharks coach Todd McLellan said. "They're a very good hockey club. They'll find their game and they are going to push us. We have to be prepared for that."
Justin Braun, Patrick Marleau, Joe Pavelski, Logan Couture and Joe Thornton also scored for the Sharks, who overcame a two-goal deficit after the first period of a playoff game for just the third time in 26 tries in franchise history. Antti Niemi made 24 saves.
The Sharks matched a franchise playoff record with seven goals in a game and have 13 goals through two games after managing just 10 in a seven-game loss to Quick and the Kings last year.
"He's probably the best goalie in the league, so to do that two games in a row, it's an oddity," Thornton said. "We've been working hard for our goals and the fourth line got this game back in our grip for us, but scoring seven ... just a weird night."
Jake Muzzin and Trevor Lewis scored first-period goals before Quick allowed seven goals in the final two periods. Los Angeles heads home for Game 3 on Tuesday looking to get back into this series.
The Kings can take comfort in the fact that the home team has won 18 of the previous 19 games between these teams, including nine straight in the playoffs.
Los Angeles also overcame a 2-0 deficit in the first round against St. Louis last year, but those were one-goal games, not blowouts.
"If we're not playing the way we're supposed to, having the coverage we're supposed to then those types of things are going to happen," defenseman Robyn Regehr said. "We've really got to clean that up in a hurry."
The Kings appeared poised to steal home-ice advantage when they scored twice in the first period and Quick responded after allowing five goals in two periods of a 6-3 loss in Game 1 on Thursday.
But the Sharks seized momentum in the second period thanks to a decision to drop Pavelski to the third line and a spark from the fourth line.
Known for the ability to deliver hard hits and get into fights, the line of Andrew Desjardins, Torres and Brown has set the tone for the Sharks this series.
Brown pushed Slava Voynov into Quick early in Game 1 and Torres added a goal in that contest. They came through even more in Game 2 with Brown scoring his first career playoff goal on a quick shot from the slot after a turnover by Kyle Clifford to get the Sharks on the board early in the second.
Midway through the period, Desjardins dropped a perfect pass to Torres, who beat Quick up high for the equalizer. Torres missed the final six games of last year's series for a hit to the head of Jarret Stoll, but has made his impact felt so far in the rematch.
"If their fourth line can have that big an impact on a game, we have to have a response," Kings captain Dustin Brown said. "And we didn't have a response from anybody, really."
The Sharks took the lead late in the period when Braun beat Quick with a shot from the point through a screen by Tommy Wingels.
Marleau, Pavelski and Couture turned it into a blowout with goals off odd-man rushes in the third before Thornton scored a power-play goal.
"They were kind of running around out of position and it opened up holes for us," Couture said. "Some bad changes by them again. That's so uncharacteristic of their team. We know they're going to be a lot better in their building. It's going to be a tougher challenge going forward."
NOTES: San Jose's only other playoff comebacks from two goals down after the first period were on April 23, 1994, against Detroit, and April 19, 2011, against Los Angeles. ... The Kings scratched F Jordan Nolan in place of a seventh defenseman, Matt Greene, who was on the ice for four San Jose goals.


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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Received: Bought
Publication Date: January 10th 2012
Publisher: Dutton Books
Point of View: 1st Person & Feminine
Recommended Age: 13+
Genres & Themes: Young Adult, Contemporary, Summer, Cancer, Ilness, Romance, Friendship, Family, Life, Dreams
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
I'm just going to sit here, write my review and pretend there aren't already 100 179 reviews for The Fault in Our Stars posted on this incredible online community (Goodreads).
Let's start, shall we?
First of all, I didn't cry. I know many of you did, and I can understand why, I really can. But, the thing is… this book has a balanced atmosphere. It's both sad and full of life. During my reading, I concentrated on the joyful parts and the humour. Maybe that's why I didn't feel crushed by the 'cancer' part.
The number of times I laughed out loud or giggled are uncountable.
Of course, there were some times when I felt my eyes burn because what happens in this book is not fair. Then again, is life ALWAYS fair for any of us? Hint: no.
Hazel is such an honest main character. At first, I thought it was impossible she had cancer. Sometimes, I even forgot she had cancer! She accepts it and I began to accept it as well. I rarely read books with diseases or heavy subjects in fact, so loving this book wasn't in my pre-read expectations.
Will I re-read this book?
I'm not the queen of re-readings, I know a queen of re-readings and it's definitely not me. I'm way too excited about newly released books or ones I'm dying to read and haven't to take the time to re-read books. In fact, I think I only re-read 12 books in my entire life. And that was when I was younger and didn't know Goodreads existed, hehe.
However, I know that, when I'm going to re-read The Fault in Our Stars, I'll appreciate it even more than I do now, fall harder in love with Augustus and feel an even greater connection to Hazel.
The originality of this book is beyond amazing. I kept thinking, "how did John Green manage to invent all of that?" He's a fantastic author with an impressive writing style and choice of words. I'm so eager to read his other novels, in occurrence Looking for Alaska of which I heard only great things; it has a big amount of raving reviews.
Hazel's family is adorable and full of love. She's so lucky to grow up surrounded by such comfortable and loving parents. I rarely see similar families in real life but they do exist so, yes, the story is also a believable one. Even the 'author' inside it feels real.
In conclusion to this 100 180th review of The Fault in Our Stars, I recommend this novel to you with all my heart. I hope you'll love it as much as I did and find it inspiring and beautiful as well.
Note: I read and reviewed this book two years ago. However, since it was one of the first books I had ever reviewed, I decided to take a look at it and update it – properly organize my thoughts.
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|Sour Cream Biscuits
Here is a butterific Sour Cream Biscuit that will pare up perfect with a late summer fruit preserves or jam. Still some plums, peaches, blackberries, apples & more out there in the fields that take only a quick tour of the kitchen to make into a magical concoction of lip smackn' goodness. I am going to sample these bad boys with a rustic spiked (yeah baby ~ breakfast of champions always starts with a little kick) fig jam from Kiss My Spatula.
This quick, simple & devilishly sinful recipe + pix are from Eleanor Roper all the way from Long Island. Aren't they the cutest little morsels of butterness you ever saw!?! Be still my heart.
Sour Cream Biscuits
2 1/2 C self rising flour
1 1/4 C sour cream or creme fraiche
softened butter for brushing when done.
Butter up a cake pan. Preheat oven 450 degrees for 10 -12 min. Sift or whisk 2 cup of flour in wide bowl..make a deep hollow and put a cup of the sour cream into it...stir with rubber spatula and mix it well.(I added a little heavy cream too, not much.)
Sprinkle, lightly, flour on board..turn dough once, sprinkle with a tad of flour, fold the dough in half and pat into a 1/3 round. Cut with 2" biscuit cutter...add more flour if needed as you re purpose the left over scraps for more biscuits. Bake ~ After 4 min. of baking, rotate the pan and finish baking. When done, remove from pan and brush with BUTTER! Yum!!!
|Sweet Eleanor Roper
THX Eleanor! She is busy working on some kick ass tomato pies & pickling some hot chili peppers. You can take the girl outta' the South but you can't take the South outta' the Gal! Maybe we can get her to share her recipes.... SO pretty & talented!
|Pickled Hot Chili Peppers
Butter get going; later!


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Nokia's health division, which is the result of the Withings acquisition, is announcing some new stuff at CES in Las Vegas. First, there's a new sleep sensor called Nokia Sleep. In addition to monitoring your sleep, the device can help you trigger actions using IFTTT when you get in and out of bed.
Withings already had a sleep-focused device called the Withings Aura. It was a package with both a sleep sensor and a bedside unit with an alarm and a speaker. Nokia is dropping the bedside unit and the price tag of its new device.
The new sensor works using Wi-Fi instead of Bluetooth LE and is going to ship at some point during the first quarter of 2018 for $100.
After putting the device under your mattress, you can look at your sleep cycles in the Nokia Health Mate app, such as light sleep, deep sleep and rapid-eye-movements phases. The Nokia Sleep can also track your snoring.
But the best feature is that the device works with IFTTT. You can pair the Nokia Sleep with other devices in case you're really into automation. For instance, when you get out of bed in the morning, the Nokia Sleep could tell IFTTT to switch on the lights, raise the temperature, open the blinds and more.
In addition to this new device, Nokia is shipping an update to the Nokia Health Mate app. It now integrates with Alexa, which means that you can ask your Amazon Echo about your sleep or your weight. The Alexa skill is now available in beta.
Nokia is also releasing a rose gold version of the Nokia Steel HR smartwatch. It will cost between $180 and $250 with a silicone or leather band and it's going to be available next month.