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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
New Start
Last night, I tried to revamp this blog. I was attempting to place a different header up top, but I received a message that said I had no more room for photos. WHAT?! I had never heard of this before.
Well...the photos that you find on this blog are linked from Picasa web albums, and I guess I have too many. In order to keep going on blogger, I have to eliminate some of those photos which will then, in turn, remove them from my blog posts. I'm not sure that I'm willing to do that yet.
I tried to create a new blog, but duh! It still links to the same account and therefore draws from the same Picasa account. That just wasn't going to work.
So, for now, I am working on creating a WordPress account. So far I don't love it. You can't do all the cute things you can with Blogger, so I'm trying to work through all the ins and outs of that. It will definitely be a learning process, and it's also certain to take quite a bit of time that I don't really have right now with school going on. I hope you'll be patient with me.
Here is the address to the new blog: http://hessesmadhouse.wordpress.com/. If you have any advice or comments for me, I'd love to hear them. Thanks for being patient in this.
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Monday, October 31, 2011
Morgan's Grandmother's Update - Monday
"Morgan had a fairly quiet day. The PEDS had a day of reverse trick or treating today. The hospital volunteers and staff dressed in costumes and brought treats to all of the children. Sponge Bob and friends came by; but the best was the ORANGE, three/ legged, poodle with a GREEN tail, that did cool tricks for BT.
"I am spending the night with Morgan so [Morgan's parents] and BT can spend a night at home. Tomorrow at 11:30 Morgan will be moved to...the hospice facility on the...Medical Center campus. It is a beautiful setting, with medical, emotional, and physical support. Morgan will have access to the same level of care as he is receiving at this point in PICU. (The biggest change will be not having to use a public restroom 40 feet down the hall and past the security doors.)
"We are all grateful for each day with Morgan - he is a strong child. Thank you for your letters of encouragement and Victory Morgan cheers!"
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Basic Cream Soup Recipe
We had a special guest for dinner last night. It was just something I felt I should do knowing that his wife was out of town and he was living the bachelor's life for awhile, Saturday, we invited him to join us for Sunday dinner. When I invited him, I didn't know what I was going to make for dinner, and I didn't know that Sunday was his BIRTHDAY. I found that out bright and early Sunday morning on facebook (good ol' facebook).
We started in on the birthday cake. That was easy. It was the figuring out what to make for dinner that was a little more tricky.
I decided that I'd make the bread bowls and a soup. I found a recipe online, but didn't have all that it asked for, so I did my own thing. As I made it, I realized that the base of this soup can really be used with any ingredients, so here's what I did, but you can throw in anything you want.
Basic Soup
Throw the following into a crockpot:
1 large bag frozen vegetables--I used a Tuscan mix--peppers, broccoli, mushrooms, etc.
You can use fresh veggies too, but if you do, saute them in a pan first until they're tender, but not soggy.
cooked meat--I used chicken that I chopped and shredded, but you could use browned ground beef, or probably some chopped up pork (I'm not sure about beef, but what do you have to lose? Give it a shot.)
spices--I used thyme and paprika
salt and pepper to taste
you could probably also throw in some onion or garlic for flavor
Now, for the yummy part:
Make a cream sauce with equal parts butter and flour--I used (for our large group) 1 C. of each, but a more practical amount would be 1/4 C. of each.
Gradually pour in chicken broth. I used four cans, and I threw in a can of cream of chicken soup to boot, but if you do 1/4 C. of butter and flour, use 1 C. chicken broth. The cream of chicken is completely optional.
Stir this sauce into the veggies and meat.
If you'd like, grate some cheese into it or do it before you serve it.
You can also throw in some pasta, but cook it slightly before you do, or throw cooked pasta in right before you serve it. I think the second option is the one I'd choose. I always seem to end up with soggy, nasty pasta if I cook it in my crockpot.
Let the soup cook on low for about three hours.
I highly recommend this soup served in the bread bowls. We served this with a Caesar salad. It seemed to be just right for a Sunday night. By the way, we have afternoon church, and we get out at 4pm, so I made the bread bowls around 12:30pm and let them rise while we were at church and set the soup to cook at that time too. It was all ready to go when we got home.
Hope you try it and hope you love it. If you try some good combinations, let me know. I'd like to try your creations too. Enjoy!
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
This past week was just a bit too insane.
Last night, I fell asleep watching a movie with #5. This is something I never do. It's been just one of those one thing after another after another after another kinds of weeks.
I woke at 5am and went upstairs. I checked the time and decided that while the house was quiet, I'd go through the power point to get things ready for tonight. It's amazing how quickly this whole exercise grabs my heart every time.
Kids started to wake up.
Next thing I knew, there was a phone call reminding me that I was supposed to be at a meeting. Ugh! Where had the time gone?
Well, I had fallen asleep in my jeans and hoodie the night before, so I was already dressed, I guess. I contemplated changing, but decided I was already late, so what the heck.
Now that #2's party is over and soccer season is done and there is only one more cross country meet and tonight's fireside is over, I think I can breathe again.
The delightful thing is now that all the Halloween costumes are taken care of, I don't think there's anything out of the ordinary this week. It'll be nice to have life back to normal.
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In a move that had many lawmakers crying foul, the House Rules Committee in Concord on Thursday put a rule back in place banning guns on the State House floor and the gallery.
The change comes in the wake of the shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut that has also sparked a national debate about gun control.
Members of the committee noted that plans for the ban were in place before the shooting. The Democrat-supported ban was put back in place by a party-line vote of 6-4.
"Besides being the seat of our state government, it's also a classroom, and we have thousands of young people and fourth-graders studying New Hampshire history coming through, and I just don't believe it's an appropriate place -- around young children -- to have guns," said Rep. Steve Shurtleff, D-Concord.
Several Republican lawmakers argued that the ban would leave members of the House defenseless in case of some sort of attack.
"I have a constitutional right to protect myself and others if I feel they are in immediate danger or death," said Rep. Al Baldasaro, R-Londonderry. "It's not going to stop me."
Some are calling the ban nothing more than a feel-good rule because without metal detectors or searches, it would be difficult to enforce.
The ban had been in place for several decades before it was removed by the last Legislature, which was dominated by Republicans.

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GM Flips To California's Side In Pollution Fight With TrumpDETROIT (AP) — General Motors is switching sides in the legal fight against California's right to set its own clean-air standards, abandoning the Trump administration as the president's term nears its close. CEO Mary Barra said in a letter Monday to environmental groups that GM will no longer support the Trump administration in its defense against a lawsuit over its efforts against California's standards. And GM is urging other automakers to do the same. The move is a sign that GM and other automakers are anticipating big changes when President-elect Joe Biden takes office in January. Already at least one other large automaker, Toyota, said it may join GM in switching to California's team. In her letter, Barra wrote that the company agrees with Biden's plan to expand electric vehicle use. Last week, GM said it is testing a new battery chemistry that will bring down electric vehicle costs to those of gas-powered vehicles within five years. Barra sent the letter after a Monday morning conversation with Mary Nichols, head of California's Air Resources Board, the company said. The board is the state's air pollution regulator. "We believe the ambitious electrification goals of the President-elect, California, and General Motors are aligned, to address climate change by drastically reducing automobile emissions," the letter said. Nichols called GM's announcement good news. "I was pleased to be in communication with Mary Barra again," she said. "It's been a while since we had talked." The news, coupled with GM announcing it was recalling 7 million vehicles and avoiding a drawn-out legal fight, helped to push the automaker's shares up 4% Monday to close at $44.77. Earlier in the day, the stock hit $45.16, its highest level in more than two years. GM's stock has more than doubled in value since April. Dan Becker of the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the environmental groups Barra wrote to, said GM was wrong in trying to stop California from protecting its people from auto pollution. "Now the other automakers must follow GM and withdraw support for (President Donald) Trump's attack on clean cars," he said in an email. The White House did not respond to a request for comment, and the Environmental Protection Agency would say only that it is interesting to see the changing positions of U.S. companies. In a statement, Biden said GM's decision is encouraging for the economy, the planet and success of American auto workers. "GM's decision reinforces how shortsighted the Trump administration's efforts to erode American ingenuity and America's defenses against the climate threat truly are," the statement said, adding that the ripple effects will help the U.S. innovate and create good-paying union jobs. Last year General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Toyota and 10 smaller automakers sided with the Trump administration in a lawsuit over whether California has the right to set its own standards for greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy. The compa
Group Sues President Trump Over Voting Rights Violations In Detroit(CBS DETROIT) – A new legal battle is brewing in the federal courts. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is filing a lawsuit against President Donald trump on behalf of Black voters in Detroit. The Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and three Detroit residents are accusing the president of attempting to disenfranchise Black voters and repeating false claims of voter fraud in the city. Votes in Wayne county came into question following a split vote by the Wayne county board of canvassers. The body didn't initially agree to certify the election due to concerns of out-of-balance precincts in Detroit. "And the only reason that the allegations are sort of having any kind of resonance is because they are pressed on this very pernicious and very dangerous stereotype that somehow Black people are not full citizens and that their votes should not be fully counted in the process," said Samuel Spital, NAACP LDF Director Of Litigation. The lawsuit claims both the president and his campaign violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by pressuring local and state officials to not certify votes through intimidation. "The idea of voting is defined very broadly in the voting rights at so it's not just about casting a ballot it's about anything that's necessary for the ballot to be counted and so what we saw in Michigan was a concerted effort by president Trump, by the Trump campaign to engage in very irregular contacts that certainly appeared to be pressuring state and local officials not to certify votes in Detroit and Wayne County," said Spital. The lawsuit was filed days after two Republican Wayne County canvassers voted to not certify the election before reversing the decision then doubling down on it a day later. "The president of the United States who is also one of the candidates at issue is personally calling county canvassers and after that phone call they then provided affidavits to his campaign saying actually we want to go back on it. So, there was all of that and then the other aspect that was quite troubling was that president Trump summoned the leaders of the state legislature to meet with him personally in Washington in connection with all these events," said Spital. CW50 reached out to the Trump campaign for a response to the allegations made in the lawsuit and are still waiting to hear back. © 2020 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Microsoft's new Windows operating system, Windows Vista, won't immediately be the comfortable home for PC gaming that Microsoft is promising, Valve Software co-founder Gabe Newell has hinted.
The Half-Life developer is currently "focused on how painful Vista is for [its] customers," Newell told Edge magazine. He explains that SLI (Scalable Link Interface), an nVidia-developed design for linking more than one video card into a single output, "is not [currently] supported" and existing DirectX 10 hardware "doesn't have drivers for it yet".
DX10 and SLI technology are some of the fundamental advances in recent gaming hardware - Crysis' sublime visuals and eye-popping physics are only fully realised in DX10, while SLI's ability to run multiple video cards in parallel means your PC won't crumble under the stress of displaying insanely complex graphics and effects.
Newell is positive about Vista's future, though: "It seems that in some ways Vista is very much a work in progress," he says. But he's disappointed with Vista's current form, explaining that "it really puts a drag on Microsoft's attempts to position Vista as a great gaming platform when there are so many nuts-and-bolts issues that it fails on in comparison to XP".
Elsewhere, Edge quizzes Newell on Valve's episodic plans, asking if the episode-style development could be a model Valve would choose as its basic approach to future titles, should the Half-Life 2 trilogy prove successful. Newell concisely replied: "Yep".
For the full interview, including Newell's view on the future of Steam, Valve's position as developer, publisher and tool-builder, and the potential of PC gaming as a whole, pick up the February 2007 issue of Edge magazine, in shops from today.


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For those who are unable to commit to our 8 or 10-week classes or who would like to experience a new instructor, we offer reserved drop-in classes at the Van Nuys and Santa Monica locations. Students will need to call us directly at 818-708-9232 24-hours in advance of the class to reserve a spot. Only select classes and limited spots are available for drop-in day-rates starting from $65.00.
We would like to congratulate LAAFA graduate, Eric Pedersen, who is currently an instructor at LAAFA for being selected in American Artist Magazine as one of their 25 Artists Of Tomorrow! In addition, we would also like to give a big shout out to Sean Cheetham who is also named in this article. We are certainly proud of them and all our instructors' achievements! You may buy a digital copy online or at Barnes and Noble Bookstores.


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Seven Gables and Woodmont Place honored at Best of Living Awards!
Oct 15, 2012
The Apartment Association of Central PA held its annual Best of Living Awards on September 27, 2012. At this year's ceremony, The Residences at Seven Gables and Woodmont Place at Palmer were honored with several awards:
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Microwave, covered on high 13-16 minutes or until tender, stirring twice; drain and set aside. Meanwhile, heat a grilling pan over medium heat for 5 minutes. Rub chicken with 1 T. of the rub. Spray pan with olive oil. Cook chicken 7-9 minutes or until meat thermometer reads 165° and juices run clear, turning once. Remove from pan, set aside and keep warm.
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DALC's 3rd Annual Excellence Awards: Winners Announced - Now in their third year, DALC's Excellence Awards also moved 'online' at the AGM, and winners were as follows: BHIB Council of the Year – Ripley Town Council; Highly Commended – Hartshorne PC.… bit.ly/2IasoiQ
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A year ago I invested, along with Dana Settle at Greycroft Partners, in a startup company called Maker Studios.
What excited me was that they had an immensely talented team that understood how to produce & distribute low-cost videos, initially via YouTube. It was founded by Danny Zappin, Lisa Donovan & Ben Donovan.
They know this model of YouTube production & distribution better than anybody else that I've met in my 5 years in Los Angeles.
And anybody who follows this blog knows that I believe television disruption has already begun and it is more likely to resemble Internet content than streaming long-form content to our living rooms.
As I talked about this model with several friends in Silicon Valley I always heard the same refrain, "we don't invest in content business – they are 'hits driven'."
I had to laugh a bit at at the irony of this. For one, the consumer-driven startup world has become immensely hits driven. You need star power of entrepreneurs surrounded by star power angels & VCs who in turn get tons of press from adoring journalists who are insiders amongst this crowd of tech cognoscenti.
And this is at the same time that content has become more predictable. Sure, you need to start with talent. But when you produce on Internet you can test your content in the same way that Silicon Valley firms test early versions of their software.
You can get feedback from your audience and adjust based on their feedback. You can get subscribers who receive every version of your content that you release. You can monetize via Google Ad Sales before you have enough revenue to build your own sales team.
Sound familiar?
Maker Studios is the ultimate "lean startup."
And then you can build email lists and market video content to your fans in the same way Gilt Groupe markets its clothes to its end consumers, making it an insanely scalable business.
In the era of the Internet video is not a one-way medium. Content producers can have direct relationships with end viewers that serve as feedback loops & direct marketing vehicles.
And nobody knows how to do this better on the Internet than Maker Studios. They are now the largest independent network who produce in-house videos and distribute them.
Maker Studios is dedicated to working with "talent" in the same way that Silicon Valley is dedicated to working with engineers. Our talent includes writers, directors, actors, singers, post-production professionals, costume designers, lighting professionals, sound mixers, show runners and so on.
This kind of business will not easily be replicated in Silicon Valley precisely because the skills are different.
We are now attracting serious management talent, having recently brought in the venerable Courtney Holt as the COO. And I'm excited to say that we've poached a major technologist from Silicon Valley who will move down to Los Angeles join as CTO in January. More on this soon.
But I really couldn't do an overview of Maker Studios justice. I'll leave that to Carson Daly who interviews Danny, Lise & Ben for Last Call in this great piece that describes what they do and why I'm privileged to watch them continue to build out their vision.
And if you happen to be "talent" (including tech engineers!) make sure to reach out to team Maker. There isn't a more talent-friendly Internet video network out there.
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Teachers! Come Join Us at YWSI -- Young Women's Summer Institute!
YWSI is a week-long program sponsored by Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) for Ohio middle-school girls. YWSI is designed to helps girls develop an interest in computers, math, science and engineering by providing the opportunity to work on a practical, yet exciting scientific problem using the latest computer technologies.
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text: Driving through Connemara's mountains, County Galway For anyone planning to travel around Ireland by road, it is essential to be prepared. The information contained here will provide a broad background to road laws in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (the island of Ireland). It also contains several useful links to official bodies where further information can be sourced. Roads in Ireland Roads in Ireland are generally of a high standard. They range from motorways and dual carriageways to secondary roads with two-way traffic and winding country lanes. In the Republic of Ireland, motorways are prefixed with an "M" (for example M50). National roads are prefixed with an "N" (for example N18). Secondary roads may also be dual-carriageways or have two way traffic. Roads in Northern Ireland are prefixed with an "M" for motorway; an "A" and a "B" for primary and non-primary roads. 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The new year's spirit already spread all over us, well it's time for me to choose my top ten favorite books. It turned out that it is a bit difficult to choose only the best 10 books since this year I read many good books.
The show must go on, finally here are my top ten favorite books in 2008, enjoy….
1. "Three Cups of Tea", Greg Mortenson
2. "Eat, Pray, Love", Elizabeth Gilbert
3. "The Witch of Portobello", Paulo Coelho
4. "Kafka on the Shore", Haruki Murakami
5. "Honeymoon with My Brother", Franz Wisner
6. "Unaccustomed Earth", Jhumpa Lahiri
7. "Q & A", Vikas Swarup
8. "The Curious Incident in the Night Time", Mark Haddon
9. "Maryamah Karpov", Andrea Hirata
10. "Recto Verso", Dewi 'Dee' Lestari
Top Ten Favorite Books in 2008
The new year's spirit already spread all over us, well it's time for me to choose my top ten favorite books. It turned out that it is a bit difficult to choose only the best 10 books since this year I read many good books.
Honeymoon with My Brother
What will you do if your fiancee dump you in the altar? The wedding party's already been settled, all invitations have already been sent and half of the guests are already on their way to the wedding place?
This is a memoir of Franz Wisner. His life seemed to get broken down at the time his fiancee, who already been together for the past 10 years dumped him just one week before their wedding day. Having ready for wedding party and honeymoon; there were two options for him: cancel all programs or proceed it without the bride. Supported by his younger brother, Kurt Wisner and all his best friends, Franz who was in despair took second option.
The honeymoon turned out to be a great experience for both of them. Franz and Kurt who were been apart and felt allied with each other, finally found their sense of brotherhood. Eventually, Franz and Kurt decided to continue their journey. They quit their jobs, sold their houses, threw out their cell phones into trash and went together around the globe.
After two years on the road, visiting more than 53 countries, including Indonesia, they became closer to each other and found a new meaning of life. The journey changed their way of enjoying life. From Central America to North Europe and Middle East, from Africa to South East Asia, including Australia and New Zealand, every new adventure took them to unique and interesting place and turned out to be great experiences.
Funny, touching and entertaining. This book will inspire you to start your own journey. Following the Wisners' step to leave our routine activities behind and live as free as a bird.
This great book will be adapted into a movie very soon and the Wisners now is trying to prepare the sequel of this successful book.
The Valkyries
Valkyries: The nymphs at Wotan's palace. Messengers of the Gods, they led heroes to their death - and then to paradise.
This time Paulo Coelho brings us on a forty-day quest into the starkly beautiful and sometimes dangerous Mojave Desert, Paulo and his wife, Cristina encounter the Valkyries, strange warrior women who travel the desert on motorcycles.
In this book, Paulo reveals details from his personal life. Paulo tells in a poignant way how his wife, Cristina, facing him as a husband. It tells here that Paulo like to quit working (a mania for leaving everything behind), busy with his own thoughts and Cristina had never gotten used to his life, taking off suddenly, looking for sacred pathways, swords, conversing with angels, doing everything possible to move further along the path to magic ("I should have married an engineer instead", she said to herself). Never thought it could be quite difficult to marry Coelho.
As usual, Coelho's writing is so rich. Wise word spread all over this book. Make me hold my breath for a while, so stunning with the power of his words.
I excerpt some quotes here:
"God is love, generosity and forgiveness; if we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyze us."
"We are not alone. The world is changing and we are a part of the transformation. The angels guide us and protect us. Despite all the injustice in the world and despite the things that happen to us that we feel we don't deserve and despite the fact that we sometimes feel incapable of changing what is wrong with people and with the world, love is even stronger and it will help us to grow. Only then will we be able to understand the stars and miracles."
Taxi Driver
Rain fell all night long and it's still drizzling until this morning. A perfect moment to stay in bed and forget about office stuff. But my mind still worked well and suddenly instructed me to get up, it's not holiday yet, in fact it's Tuesday and a lot of works was waiting for me. Okay…I reluctantly left my comfortable zone. At first, I planned to take train to the office, but seeing the non-stop raining really made me losing my good mood #excuse#. Finally, I decided to ring Blue Bird pool and ordered a taxi.
At 6 a.m. sharp, the taxi arrived, at the moment I opened the taxi door, I was a bit shocked to see the taxi driver, she was a middle-aged woman who welcomed me with her friendly big smile. Later on, I found out that there are actually 5 women taxi driver in her pool.
So this morning I had different experiences. Despite feeling stressful with terrible traffic jam, we had a long and nice chit-chat. Ms. Wuri, the driver, is a mother of two. She used to be a house wive but since her hubby was cheated by his business partner and felt depressed, she decided to find a job and forget their misfortune. She said that at first her children objected her choice to be the taxi driver, they were afraid that their mom would be murdered. Ms. Wuri said that their children watched Buser too often.
She's very polite and a skillful driver as well (she was an instructor for a driving course many years a go and she loves driving very much).
I admire her. She's a good example for all of us. Her spirit really influenced me. We could learn a lot from her. Thanks to Ms. Wuri who already brighten my day and give me a nice thing to ponder today, thank you.
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"God sends children to enlarge our hearts and make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections" (Mary Howitt)
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In the Miso Soup
After reading several books written by Japanese authors, e.g. Haruki Murakami ("Norwegian Wood", "Kafka on the Shore"), Natsuo Kirino ("Out") and now Ryu Murakami ("69"), I come to a conclusion that their stories are so…..bizarre, eerie and beyond my imagination. Well, Japanese always amaze me.
This book is 'very dark'. Ryu Murakami, the author succeeds in presenting this most sadistic thriller. The story is about 3 days journey of Kenji a 20-year-old-guy and Frank, a middle-aged-American-guy. Frank agrees to hire Kenji for three days. He wants to explore night life in Tokyo.
Since the first day of their journey, Kenji feels that something wrong about Frank. He doesn't know what but his queer attitude put Kenji in a prejudice that his client could be a cruel murderer that recently wandering and terrorizing the town.
Beside the sadistic stories, this novel also elaborate many touching things, such as: the alienation, the identity lost, culture and moral corruption that spread all over Japanese people.
If you are a thriller freak, this book is really a good choice to grab.
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The book that I've been waiting for impatiently. Finally, it's here. Yup, it's the fourth and the last book of Laskar Pelangi. At the time I received it, I directly read it and not able to stop it. The story is still the same. Fascinating, as always.
The story is about Ikal's experiences when he goes back to his hometown in Belitong after finishing his master degree in France. He meets his old friends, Laskar Pelangi members and begins his journey to find his dream lady, A Ling.
As the final book, it wraps up all. All important characters from the previous books appear and take part here. A lot of hilarious stories of Belitong people are told in detail. Andrea Hirata and his magic words still fascinate me. Make me speechless and at last feel sad since I have to say farewell to this great stories. I feel like losing a good friend. That's the magic of a great book.
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Davey says Nationals not looking to retaliate
WASHINGTON -- Less than 24 hours after Braves starter Julio Teheran hit Bryce Harper with a fastball, emptying both benches and bullpens in a near fracas, Nationals manager Davey Johnson said that he didn't expect his team to retaliate in Wednesday's series finale.
"No," Johnson said, "it's just baseball as usual."
Harper hit a home run in the third inning before being hit by Teheran's pitch in the fifth. The ball hit Harper in the side of the right thigh, prompting the 20-year-old to yell and point at Teheran while walking to first base. Braves catcher Brian McCann, who had to be restrained by home-plate umpire Joe West, said that Harper circled the bases too slowly after his homer.
"He's got a bad leg," Johnson joked on Wednesday.
The Nationals' skipper said that he could feel a heightened intensity in the dugout after the ordeal and attributed it, in part, to the rivalry between the two teams and the Braves' 11-game win streak at the time. The teams' official Twitter accounts even got involved, though Johnson said that he didn't pay attention to their exchange.
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This should do it. Those lovable scamps at the Bleacher Report have written the most Fake Bleacher Report-style story on this whole ordeal. The third item, published this afternoon, titled "Jenn Sterger: Sterger Releases Brett Favre Photos to Deadspin."
In case it's removed, here's the item:
Former New York Jets hostess Jenn Sterger's crusade against Brett Favre doesn't appear to be slowing down.
Sterger, who asked the NFL to suspend Favre for sending explicit text messages and photos to her, has recently released some of the pictures to Deadspin.com and according to some reports even asked $12,000 for them.
You've got to wonder if this is simply a chance for Sterger to grab the spotlight as long as she can, as some of her decisions throughout this whole process have been questionable.
The "victim" thing doesn't apply when you tried to capitalize on it.
Curious on what some of your thoughts are out here in cyberspace.
Feel to comment on the matter.
We couldn't have said it better.
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I know people are asking... but can someone possibly offer some type of idea as the WHEN? I was geeked about the new console... and pre-ordered two years ago. Unfortunately... I'm still sitting here waiting for these two items to be incorporated so I can THINK about using it in my studio... Still great for line... but I need the STUDIO part too!
How about it?
There was the same question asked in "Answers" a few days ago: "Studiolive III - When will the 44.1khz an the DAW (HUI/MCU) support come?" (https://answers.presonus.com/36229/stud ... pport-come) and the answer of a representative of PreSonus was: "Both of these requests are currently in private Beta, there is no time frame to give you for their release."
As we all know, "currently" and "soon" are very special terms in the PreSonus sphere.
You can now find the "Series III DAW Mode / 44.1kHz Sample Rate Beta" here:
103 downloads of the beta firmware for all six mixer models within six days seems to be a figure which can be improved, so I bump this post up. If you are interested in giving feedback to PreSonus, you need to join the FaceBook group created for this purpose.
For the ones who can't wait… Here are videos about the extended DAW mode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSp0ijYOHvY (Logic Pro)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46gsG96sYvI (ProTools)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxfl9j7LdfM (Studio One)
Version 2 of most of the betas are now online. The new address is viewforum.php?f=398. You need to be logged in for access.
The two manuals are online now in the public download area of the Series III consoles, so all we are waiting for now is Apple and the release of the new version of UC Surface. I guess we will see the official release in the "NAMM week".
As it was easy to foresee, PreSonus has released UC 2.10 with the start of NAMM 2019, meaning that MCU/HUI support for Series III Consoles and 44.1kHz support for all Series III mixers is now available. The Series III mixers were introduced on January 19, 2017, DAW mode for Studio One was released in January 2018. In addition to the "Milestone" release notes, PreSonus has published some more information in the blog of their web site: http://blog.presonus.com/index.php/2019 ... ilable-now. Three bug fixes are worth mentioning, especially the solution for Android users of UC Surface and QMix-UC.
I updated my Studio live mixer to the latest firmware, this to put all the input gains from the mixer scenes to 0db. It is not necessarily serious, but I had spent a lot of time to adjust everything correctly and now I have to start all over again! Was it the same thing for you? (I hope my message is quite clear because I am French and I use an automatic translation).
The new firmware has not changed anything related to gains and scenes can be recalled as they were stored. But you should check if gains are selected to be recalled when loading a scene.
If this does not bring back your settings, you should check if loading of scenes works at all. Load the Zero Out scene, change a few gains and store this as a new scene. Then load Zero Out again (with all buttons selected, maybe except +48V) and check if the gains are back to zero. Then load the new scene you have stored and check if it shows the gains you have set.
Another way of testing would be to ONLY recall/load the gains of a scene.
Which mixer are you using?
Bonjour, thank you for your help.
The new firmware has not changed anything related to gains and scenes can be recalled as they were stored. But you should check if gains are selected to be recalled when loading a scene.
My scenes are well loaded in the state where I stored them, except the gains that are at 0dB.
Then load Zero Out again (with all buttons selected, maybe except +48V) and check if the gains are back to zero. Then load the new scene you have stored and check if it shows the gains you have set.
I did everything you say and everything works perfectly.
Which mixer are you using?
It's a StudioLive 16 Series III
Thanks for your response. Maybe this can help further: Gains also depend on the selected input source. By default "Pre" (Gain) is set to 0 dB, when "Analog" is selected as input source for that particular channel. If "Network" is selected, you see "(Dig.) Gain" set at 12 o'clock and 0.0 dB. This is because in a network you have to decide which mixer or stagebox will control the preamps. Gain can become "Gain Compensation" then.
If I understand you right, the mixer works normal and you can save and recall gain settings. If your old scenes show up with gains set to 0 dB (the know fully turned to trhe left), they must have been stored with this setting. I can think of no other explanation. It is not possible to store individual settings. When you save a scene, EVERYTHING is stored, but you have the choice to recall/load individual settings.
It looks like you have to save your scenes with newly adjusted gains again. A good chance to think which scenes to keep and which ones to delete...
wahlerstudios wroteIt looks like you have to save your scenes with newly adjusted gains again. A good chance to think which scenes to keep and which ones to delete...
Yes you are right, that's what I'm going to do.
I have another question: now we can choose the sampling rate at 44.1 or 48khz, OK.
But what is the advantage or for which precise use choose 44.1 or 48khz?
Thank you for your help.
Soundwise it should be hard to hear any difference between 44k1 and 48k.
If your audio will end up in video or similar multimedia then you should go with 48k since this the native audio format for video.
Avoid projects with different sample rates as this can bite you over time, so settle for one format if you can. I have settled for 48k nowadays.
fernandogaspar wroteI have another question: now we can choose the sampling rate at 44.1 or 48khz, OK.
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44.1 and 48 kHz also affect the "resolution" of your mixer's processing, so 48 kHz is the better choice and 96 kHz would be even better. For recording this looks different. Only young people are able to really hear the difference..
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A staff member at Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc. has filed a lawsuit against the private clinic in Southwest Baltimore, alleging that officials there "diverted and stole" thousands of dollars from employees by failing to deposit payroll deductions into their retirement and disability plans.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, claims that more than 100 employees "suffered substantial financial losses in both 2009 and 2010 as a result of the diversion and theft of employee contributions that should have been placed in the Retirement and Disability Plans."
BBH officials declined to comment.
The suit's filing comes amid a series of challenges for BBH, long one of the city's largest providers of drug treatment at its sprawling outpatient mental health clinic on West Pratt Street.
BBH is a defendant in a separate lawsuit filed in April by Bank of America claiming that the clinic is in default on loans of up to $2.5 million and has refused to give the bank "critical financial information."
In addition, the U.S. Department of Labor has been conducting an inquiry into BBH's employee retirement plan, following claims by former employees that money deducted from their paychecks never reached their retirement accounts as required.
The federal suit was filed July 14 by Gail Mink, the clinic's admissions director, on behalf of herself and all other participants in the clinic's employee retirement plans. BBH is named as a defendant along with William "Kris" Hathaway, its chief executive.
The suit does not estimate total alleged losses. Mink claims that she is owed at least $5,000. The suit demands repayment with interest, and also seeks damages equal to triple the employee contributions that allegedly were not deposited.
Hathaway did not return a call Wednesday seeking comment. Nor did Morris A. Hill and Sandra K. Hill, two other BBH officials accused in the suit of having participated in decisions not to pay back employee contributions.
A nonprofit company founded in 1997, BBH has received more than $65 million in government payments over the past five years. It specializes in treating patients with both mental illness and drug addiction, largely billing the Medicaid program for the poor and disabled. In May it said it was treating 150 people a day, down from 225 a year earlier.
The clinic was the subject of a Baltimore Sun investigation last year that revealed unusually high Medicaid billings and detailed the nonprofit organization's control by Hathaway and several family members who earned six-figure salaries.
Its revenue has fallen sharply since late 2009, when state mental health officials curtailed its ability to bill for high-cost treatment, resulting in layoffs and prompting the clinic to seek a buyer for its campus.
Mink's suit claims that from early 2009 until May 2010, BBH "placed few if any of the required contributions" made by employees through paycheck contributions into the retirement and disability plans. Clinic management also failed to match employee contributions as promised, the suit alleges.
The suit accuses BBH and Hathaway of "a pattern of racketeering" and asks a judge to grant employee participants class-action status.


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In that article I posted a couple of very important charts that reinforce the concept of Macroeconomic Debt Saturation. While I have provided much evidence that debt saturation has occurred, it's such an important topic that we need to keep examining it until it is embedded into the psyche of the world – it puts the lie to the current economic disinformation propagated by those who are willing to prop up the flawed central banker box at any cost. Those closest to the production of money profit, and thus the incentives to keep false constructs alive are strongest the closer you get to that money production. Humanity, however, is working to unravel their misdeeds and set in place a proper rule-of-law.
The concept Diminishing Returns of Debt goes side-by-side the concept of Debt Saturation. Together, these are the most important economic concepts of the past century as they unravel a century's worth of disinformation designed to keep humanity working (and dying) on behalf of those who possess the money creation power. I wrote about Diminishing Productivity of Debt in my articles THE Most Important Chart of the Century, and it's follow-on Guest Post and More on THE Most Important Chart of the Century.
Let's connect definitions to those terms:
DEBT SATURATION - Occurs when collective income can no longer service more principal and interest under current credit terms & conditions. Debt saturation can occur for you personally, for your family, and it can occur for the people collectively. It can also occur, and has occurred, for local municipalities, city, state, and Federal governments, as well as corporations (financials in particular). Because the same income earners ultimately are responsible for all these debt (a key concept), there is a point that occurs overall, that point I call Macroeconomic Debt Saturation. Debt saturation can occur and then recur as credit terms are changed - for example, the lowering of interest rates moves the allowable amount of debt prior to reaching saturation up.
DIMINISHING PRODUCTIVITY OF DEBT - Is the phenomena of decreasing real productivity gains for a given amount of debt creation. In a non-saturated economy, the introduction of credit does work to increase productivity. However, approaching the Macroeconomic Debt Saturation point, the productivity gain begins to decrease, and at the saturation point is zero, turning negative as we get beyond the Debt Saturation point.
For example, in the year 1920 (only seven years post "Fed" creation), one dollar of credit may have produced three dollars or more worth of gains in productivity. China is a part of the world that until recently was unsaturated, but then got fast and easy gains in productivity through massive credit growth, and are probably already debt saturated themselves. In the U.S., we added layer upon layer of credit and other forms of leverage and are now far beyond the debt saturated level where the addition of debt actually subtracts from real economic activity.
This can be seen in the Diminishing Marginal Productivity of Debt chart, whereby the beginning of 2010 each dollar of debt added to our economy was subtracting 45 cents worth of productivity!
Any economist worth their salt should have seen this diminishing return and debt saturation problem coming – very few did, and none properly verbalized it. Mechanically what is happening is that because the vast majority of our money is debt, when new debt (money) is introduced beyond the saturation point, instead of going to create new factories, infrastructure, etc., that new money/ debt is instead needed to service prior existing debt. Thus money no longer circulates (falling velocity), and instead simply circles right back around to the bank to service existing principal and interest.
Currently the mainstream has completely misdiagnosed this, and like beating their heads against an immovable wall, keep trying to add more debt into the debt saturated condition. Yes, that used to work to "stimulate" the economy, but that was on the front side of the "Debt Curve," before reaching the Debt Saturation Point. We are now well past saturation, still climbing the front side of the "Debt Curve," awaiting the plummet off the back.
This Debt Curve I drew is not just hypothetical, below is a chart showing total government debt versus GDP. Keep in mind that the government is VASTLY understating its debt, and is VASTLY overstating "productivity."
Government Debt Vs. GDP:
If you make GDP on that chart really "real," that is you adjust for true inflation, then you will find that productivity peaked a long time ago and is continuing to fall today – more like the chart I drew. False statistics are a part of the problem, they mask reality and make it difficult to pinpoint problems, and thus create meaningful solutions (remove those who produce money to their benefit).
When examining debt, it is wise to always consider the income that is there to support that debt. Unfortunately, debt has been allowed to far outstrip income. An important concept is that Debt Saturation actual works to cap income - this is because the weight of carrying more and more principal and interest stifles real economic activity! And this is why increasing debt into a debt saturated condition actually causes unemployment to worsen. Note in the chart below how Federal Receipts have stagnated in relation to Federal Debt, that is a debt saturated condition:
Index of Federal Receipts Vs. Federal Debt:
Note in the chart above that these values have been indexed in order to get them on the same scale - in reality income is much smaller as a percentage of debt with Federal Receipts only $2.5 Trillion.
Today, we know that our advertised current account deficit is pushing $15 Trillion. However, that fails to count the off balance sheet trillions held on our behalf at the Freddie and Fannie dumping grounds, and also the unfunded liabilities that also are neglected on .gov books, but are most definitely required to be reported on your business's books. If we take the advertised figures for GDP and divide it by the total government debt, you also get a downward slopping curve that shows basically the same effect as the Diminishing Productivity of Debt chart above:
GDP Divided by Government Debt:
Note that this figure is nearing zero – that is the point were total confessed debt equals the trumped up GDP – said another way, debt to GDP is approaching 100%. First of all, it's not true, real debt passed real GDP a long time ago, but more importantly why is this dangerous? It's dangerous because the cost to carry that debt gets exponentially heavier. In fact, today I can summarily state that our nation's interest expenses exceed our nation's income via taxes! That's right, more than 100% of our nation's income goes to pay interest – not the trumped up $400 billion advertised by .gov and the "Fed," but because we spend trillions to artificially buy down interest rates, that money in reality is an interest expense, and it equals more in total than the U.S. takes in via taxes.
Even if you take the advertised Federal Expenditures and subtract them from Federal Receipts, it's quite easy to see that you're looking at a government in failure mode:
Federal Receipts Minus Federal Expenditures:
It's really important at this point to again point out that lying is a cooperative act – it takes two people to make a lie, one who dishes it out, and one to believe it. That chart above is much worse than that in reality, it's far more negative. It's time for everyone to stop being a willing party to the lies!
In the diminishing productivity charts above, we had divided GDP (supposed productivity) by debt. But funny thing, since all our money is debt, what do you suppose happens when we divide GDP by our money? Why we get the same exact diminishing returns effect, thus it's not just diminishing returns for debt, but it's also diminishing returns for our money!
GDP Divided by Base Money:
GDP Divided by MZM:
And going further back in time;
GDP Divided by what was M3:
This highlights the problem with money as debt, you cannot pay down the debt without getting rid of money! Thus once you are saturated with debt, it is impossible inside of the debt is money paradigm to unsaturated yourself! Just look at Japan! Again, what's important is WHO controls and benefits from the production of money – that's where the real root of the problem lies. The only way out, is to get outside of the central banker box, and that means producing money that is not backed by debt that benefits only a few.
A portion, at least, of that sovereign money, then, must be used to swap out the debt saturated condition. This CAN be accomplished in such a way as to make the purveyors of fraud take their pain, and simultaneously freeing the rest of society from the shackles that is macroeconomic debt saturation. In my next article I will once again explain how, by summarizing and updating the main points in Freedom's Vision.
Next time you are confronted with an economist, politician, or mainstream media person who doesn't get it, ask them to explain Macroeconomic Debt Saturation and the associated Diminishing Returns of Debt – I'll wager you get blank stares, point them to this article!


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Clive Thompson (8/15/07, Wired magazine, "Desktop Orbs Could Reform Energy Hogs") suggests that we could effectively reduce energy consumption if our daily energy consumption was apparent to all of our friends on a site like MySpace or Facebook or sent it to our friends through an RSS feed.
Friends might compete to be more eco-friendly.
Thompson notes that such of eco-feedback mechanisms already work: hybrid-car owners try to maximize their energy efficiency through on-board real time dashboard displays showing instantanteous gas mileage. Electricity company NStar notes that when customers have monitors that display real time energy use across their appliances, they change their behaviors and average 15-25% less energy consumption.
This suggested approach marries the use of feedback mechanisms with the power of social norms, and threatens to ostracize people who drive hummers or fail to replace their incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent ones.
Thompson writes: "it could spawn a cascade of conservation. It's fun seeing your personal energy tab go down by kilowatts — but just imagine watching the world's usage plunge by terawatts or petawatts. It would be like a global Prius, with millions worldwide tweaking the Earth for maximum mileage. Now that's fun."